Jersey's Baird

Courtesies senatorial and gubernatorial last week followed President Hoover's nomination of Senator Walter Evans Edge of New Jersey as Ambassador to France. The Senate confirmed the Edge nomination instanter, while four senators voiced courtly eulogies of the new ambassador.

Promptly, New Jersey's Governor Morgan Foster Larson, also given a chance to perform a courtesy, appointed chunky, bald David Baird Jr. to the Senate. The appointment was a deferential gesture to Ambassador Edge who, while Governor of New Jersey in 1918, had named Mr. Baird's father to fill a similarly unexpired Senate term. The senior Baird had then obligingly stepped aside to allow Governor Edge to be elected to the Senate.

From his Irish immigrant father Senator-Designate Baird inherited Gaelic wit, a zest for politics, a thriving lumber business in Camden, N. J. He is a director of Camden's First National Bank and Trust Co. No collector of antiques or art, he golfs, drives his Packard and Cadillac in off hours. Assiduous attender of Republican political meetings, he marshals a potent battalion of votes in southern Jersey. He will serve until next autumn, when New Jersey votes again.