Dignified Debate

As the voices of politicians grew loud in the land, crowding even swing off the air, radio listeners last week did not hear two opponents debating (but not broadcasting) with poise and dignity from one platform in Marietta, Ohio. Republican Robert Alphonso Taft and Democrat Robert Johns Bulkley had agreed, while fighting for the latter's Senate seat, to hold at least six debates in the good old Lincoln-Douglas tradition.

The question at Marietta: Resolved, That the New Deal has failed to solve the problems of Unemployment and Depression. Debater Taft asked voters, did they want an independent or a dominated Congress?, demanded protective tariffs on pottery, glassware, oil. Debater Bulkley indignantly denied that he was a Roosevelt rubber stamp, called Candidate Taft a belated New Dealer and, so far as his platform went, a copycat. Afterwards they shook hands. Next debate: at Dayton this week, Mr. Bulkley to frame the question.

> Wreathed in smiles but distressed at heart, Governor George Howard Earle of Pennsylvania (candidate for the Senate), Senator Joseph F. Guffey and all the principal Democratic candidates for State offices called on Franklin Roosevelt to be photographed with him for campaign purposes. They denied that they had begged him to go into Pennsylvania, make a speech, help them win. Pennsylvania's Supreme Court had put Earle on a spot by declaring unconstitutional two Earle acts in evasion of grave graft charges against his administration: 1) giving his heavily Democratic legislature priority over grand juries in such cases; 2) suspending a grand jury investigation. These decisions made it certain that the "scandal" issue against Mr. Earle & friends would stay alive & kicking till election day. With the Republican ticket headed by Senator James J.

Davis and Judge Arthur H. James (for Governor) capitalizing this issue, Chief Democrat Roosevelt's help was sorely needed to prevent a return of pivotal Pennsylvania to the Republican column.

But the very emergency which called for his aid made Franklin Roosevelt think it wiser to stay away.

> In Baltimore, White House Janizary Harold Ickes addressed a conclave of eastern Negroes, crying: ". . . Since the American Negro has declared his political independence to match his physical freedom, he has learned that many will promise but few will perform."

> In Detroit, delegates to the biennial convention of the 25-year-old National Woman's Party (Mrs. Stephen H. Pell of New York, national chairman) cheered a plan to raise $1,000,000, to campaign for an Equal Rights amendment to the Constitution. *The plan: to sell red, white & blue Lady Liberty stickers, with a man and a woman balanced evenly on scales held (instead of a lawbook) in Liberty's left hand.

> In Madison, Wis., a hurriedly called caucus of State Democratic leaders chose State Senator Harry Bolens of Port Washington, Wis. to be their candidate for Governor. Reason: their primary-chosen nominee, Robert K. Henry, withdrew last fortnight hoping to help his Republican rival beat Progressive Governor Philip La Follette, who has been elected twice in three-cornered races.

*Complete text of this proposed 23rd Amendment: Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.

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