New Britain herald., 1930-08-21
YOUTH VS. AGE ' i IN SENATE RACE
Louisiana Primaries Introduce
 COl0rful Character
BY RODNEY BUTCHER NEA Service Writer

most interesting possibilities in this years elections is that the United States senate will lose Senator Tom Heflln of Ala bama and his big white vest and gain the Honorable Huey P. Long of Louisiana and his green pajamas.
 The democratic primaries ill Louisiana will be held on September 8 and the noisy, turbulent Governor Long is after the seat held since 1913 by the venerable, bearded. dig nified and conservative Senator Jo- seph E. Ransdel.
 ! Governor Long is just 37, or only two years past the minimum age re- .qUirement of the senate. Therefore, if elected over his 72-year-o op- ponent, he will become one of the youngest senators in history.
 There is 8 very striking contrast between the governor and the sen- ator, Ransdell is a safe and sane old gentlemen who never gets into trouble and is seldom heard of. Long is, a. wild youth who is continually DESdhlHS inlO pTILI, LOT 4ilSL oHe reason and then another.
 Il was Long who, while wearing green pajamas, received an official appointment cau from the captain of a German warship during Mardl Gras season at New Orleans The consul had brought the captain along and there was considerable whoop- te-do about the incident, ending in an apology
 When Major General Frank Me Coy, |. s. A, made an official call a few weeks later Long didn't receive him in pajamas. The major arrived just as the governor was ready for the bathtub.
 Washington, which is used to all most anything else from members Of congress, awaits with intense in- terest some campaign promise from Governor Long as to whether he will appear at official occasions here with pajanlas or without. He is promls- ed plenty of publicity in either case, but he will have to wear the pajamas 5 if he expects to get his picture in the papers.
 There are many persons in Lou lslana who are sour on Governor Long. They tried to impeach him awhile ago for misfeasancc in of flee and failed. although the state house of epresentatives voted in favor of the impeachment. He was accused of various little things such as bribery and trying to get some one to murder a political opponent but apparently his enemies. couldn't make the charges stick, for the pro- ceedings were dropped.
 After Chat the governor was so angry at the newspapers that he tried to put through a state tax on newspaper advertising. The legisla- ture wouldn't stand for that, which was one of the most drastic things of the kind ever attempted. Possibly it goes to show the sort of thing Huey will do wien he gets his dand- CT up. There are some good things to be said for the governor, however. He iloo O 6iLI LOi publlI Sptdhll4S anu has some of the attributes of states manship, despite all the other things about him. In congress he probably would be a bit more riotous than Heflin or Cole Rlease of South Caro. lima. or Congressman Tom Blanton Of Texas, but those fellows have all done some good jobs in their day and Huey wouldn't be a total loss.
 Ransdell. now nearly 72Lears old, first came to congress as a member of the house in 1899. This means that he has been in congress longer than any other member Of the house except Henry Allen Cooper of Wis consin and Gilbert K, Haugen Of Iowa. He has been in the senate since 1913.
 He is protection democrat. thanks largely to the cane sugar ln- dustry of Louisiana, and an expert on flood control He knows all about cotton and has had much to do with cotton legislation. Remembering the old yellow fever days, he has always taken keen interest in health legis- lation. In the last congress he got through his bill for creation of a National health institute here, where aA types of disease will be studied eXhaustively in laboratory.
 But Senator Ransdell is not known to the country as well as is Huey Long He has been primarily inter ested in Louisiana rather than in na- tional affairs and althouhg he is supposed to wear a nightgovn fl isn't green and hardly anyone has ever seen him in it.
 Longs Career Colorful
 Long, who became governor at S5. has been one of the most color full figures in the states long and turbulent political history. Born on a tiny farm amid the red clay hills of North Louisiana, he had to work most of the time when other boys were in school. Later he became a travelling printer, then a. book agent and finally patent medicine salesman, selling his wares from a platform on which a negro minstre, performed to attract the crowds Then he sold flour from door 10 door and conducted cake-baking contests among the housewives.
 He worked his way through Uni versity of Oklahoma and later stud fed law at Tulane. His practice grew. He made his first political venture when he ran for thf state public sar,ica cnn1p,i cejoro and was elected