Ohio's Fourth

Hard to hold, apparently, iz the seat of the junior U. S. Senator from Ohio, once filled by Warren Gamaliel Harding. In three years Death & Defeat have cut down its last three occupants. Last week a fourth man stepped up to try his luck.

In 1926 Frank Bartlette Willis, who used to grease the inside of his throat with vaseline before making a campaign speech, was re-elected to the seat for a term expiring in 1933. He died in 1928. Appointed was Cyrus Locher. Ohio voters rejected him in 1928. He, too, is now dead. Mr. Locher's conqueror at the polls was Theodore Elijah Burton, buried last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week Governor Myers Cooper appointed Roscoe Conkling McCulloch to the seat. Next year Ohio voters will again have to select a man to finish out the term to which they originally chose Willis.

Aged 49, married, father of two, Senator McCulloch resides at Canton, is frequently likened by sentimentalists to President William McKinley, long a Canton resident and buried there. For six years (1915-21) Senator McCulloch served in the House. This year he has been chairman of the State Utilities Commission. Quiet in manner, personable in looks, regular in his Republicanism, Senator McCulloch was chosen on a pledge to support "Hoover policies" in the Senate.