The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-16
LACK OF YOUNG IRISH LEADER
 GIVES CONCERN
By s. D. HALES
United Press Staff Correspondent,

whose two tophight political leaders
 have not spoken to each other for
 nigh on to 20 years. numbers
 among its shortages today that of an outstanding younger statesman. Some are rising, but none is atop yet.
 As the general election votes were
 being counted and 1t became ap- parent that Prime Minister Ramon DeValera's Fianna Fail Party had failed to get a working majority in the Dali Sirann, one leader in the labor party said:
 This presents problem, for don't know who we could get to- gether on to head the government. We have been against MT. Cosgrave, but l guess we'd just have to fall back on him.
 One thoughtful Irish newspaper man, discussing politics, said that brilliant young men just don't go into politics-there is still too much asking of where were you in 1916?' and where were you in 1921?' and too much emphasis on having had a part in the struggle for indepen- dence.'
 1 Among the younger generation of | politically minded business men Wko have had this question thrown at them, although they were hardly more than schoolboys during the troubled years" are James Dillon merchant in County Monaghan, who had fight to be reelected to the Dali Eirann and William Dwyer, manufacturer at Cork, who was defeated in his race. Dwyer, though young, has built and heads large hosiery manufacturing business. Ad Sounds Like Speech In Dublin, l noticed in news | paper just before the election, an advertisement reproducing the re- marks of c. Dermot Findlater, l chairman of the board of Alex | Findlater & Co.,, to his stockholders in connection with his submission i of the annual accounts. "Findlater's is an important Dublin grocery, with IT branch stores. "Findlater's" remarks on politics and the pro grams of the two major parties were biting. He listed number Of iS- sues on which neither party had said what 1t would cd. He suggested | some solutions of hlS own. It sound ed like political speech. l went to see him.
 Findlater said he wasn't in poli- tics nor was he going to get into | politics. His opinion of the parties coincided pretty much with that of driver who had said "all these can didates want to do is to get into i office"
 What will businessmen who go into politics be asked when all those who were around in 1916 and in 1921 and 1922 have passed on?" l asked Findlater.
 Probably, Where was your father in 1916?'" Findlater said.
 Among the younger statesmen who were not themselves old enough to fight for freedom in 1916 or 1922 but whose fathers were, are Liam Cosgrove, son of w. T. or Mister Cosgrave," and James Larkin, Jr., son of the veteran labor leader. Liam Cosgrave, newly elected to the Dali, has just turned 21 and has been admitted to the bar recently Larkin, Jr., is in his forties, mature, deliberate, compelling speaker and an earnest advocate of improve ments to better labor's condition and increase prosperity generally. Larkin, Jr had close squeeze having even the full support of the getting into the Dali Eirann, not Dublin transport workers because of differences going back to the time when he was a transport workers | union executive. He was elected over another labor candidate, on | the second preference of voters, Who under the Free States proportional representative system of balloting, | had to rank in order Of their pre- | ference almost dozen candidates
 He will be thought-provokcr and catalyst for action, in any Dali where he sits, but the De Valera Fianna Fail party fought him as a communist" and it may be years, If ever, before he can be | considered as hear of government.
 Sean Lemass, Dublin, the De Valera minister of supply, who drew much criticism for shortages ol foods and commodities and gasoline and for the delayed start of ration ing of colthes and certain foods, was reelected to the Dali with such humping majority in his own diS- trict that he pulled into the Dall again with him, on his excess pre- ferences, other Fianna Fail candl- dates.
 "Devs' Approval Needed
 But the country over, much ol the loss of Fianna Fail strength al the polls could be laid to dissatlS- faction with the ministry of supply Additionally, LcmaGs and all other heads of ministries in the De Vaiera government are under the hMldl- cap. as prospective national lead CTS, that probably none oi then would feel free to take part m an administration replacing De Vale ra's without "DeyS' asquiScence' How "Dcy" feels about Flanna Fails failure to get the overall ma lority for which he asked, and Wiial his ideas are for solving the lm- pagsc have not been made clear He may call for another election ara try again to get his majority me slVnifcant thing about the rfcehl ,.t 4. tbot both oD1V' and