Personal Judgment

The closing days of Maryland's sizzling primary fight between brusque, well-to-do Senator Millard E. Tydings and homespun little Representative David John Lewis brought Democrats something new to talk about almost hourly last week. Items:

P: A pamphlet deriding "The Life & Times of Milord Tydings," picturing his Chesapeake Bay estate (whence Washington clubs and hotels buy 1,000 hens' eggs a day) as a feudal manor and his rich New Deal in-laws, Ambassador & Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, as a royal family.

P: Declaration by the Senate Campaign Investigating Committee that two Federal job-holders--Collector of Internal Revenue H. Hampton Magruder at Baltimore, Postmistress Maude Toulson at Salisbury--had violated Federal laws in politicking for Candidate Lewis.

P: An order from PWAdministrator Ickes--acting at President Roosevelt's express bidding--telling a subordinate to give "prompt attention" and "right of way" to two new PWA bridges for Maryland.*

P: A cartoon by Jerry Doyle in the Philadelphia Record and New York Post twitting Senator Tydings for claiming he embraced the ''bone & sinew" of the New Deal (see cut).

But none of these excitements touched the heart of the issue, which remained what Franklin Roosevelt had made it: a specific judgment by Maryland on the past, present and future of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. In a memorably heavy vote, Maryland passed this judgment with relatively little disorder for a primary in which feelings had risen so high. Result: Millard E. Tydings unPurged by a ratio of 3 to 1.

* last week, just four days before the Georgia primary in which the President sought to beat Senator Walter George with Atlanta's District Attorney Lawrence S. Camp, WPA announced a $53,000,000 road-building program for Georgia's rural counties.

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