The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-02

this summer, one of the blt interesting in personalities
 Here the clash is more clean cut than in any state in the Union. And the clash of person. alities typifies the issues.
 Here Roosevelt is opposed by Senator Willard E. Tydings. who has voted almost as consistently against him as Senator Vanden- berg of Michigan, his leading Re- publican opponent.
 Here also, Roosevelt Is upheld in the Senate race by Congress man David John Lewis, who not only has voted religiously for him, but who thought of and fought for . New Deal before Roosevelt.
 It was 36 years ago that Lewis came out for unemployment in- surance, worknen's compensation, low tariffs, wages and hours legis- lation - all before Roosevelt was even elected to the New York Senate.
 No two candidates could be more directly opposite than Tyd- ings and Lewis not only on issues but in personality. Indeed, the Maryland campaign catchword is 'The Man from the Mines vs the Man from the Mansion" Willard ("Milord") Tydings is Sleek and slender, a gentleman of ease with 8 flare for fine dress ing. Davey Lewis is a little old man, with wizened face and gnarled hands, whose eyes blink as if he were still unaccustomed to the sunlight after early years underground.
 GnOme and Beau Brummel
 Tydings is 8 Beau Brummel. Lewis is a gnome. Lewis was 21 years old when Tydings was born Tydings was raised in ease in eastern Maryland, provided with a thorough schooling. Lewis went to work in the western mines at the age of g and got no schooling un- til & Sunday-school teacher taught him Latin after he was grown. Today, Lewis is a great student, spends his leisure hours in the Library of Congress. Tyd- ings, on the other hand, is to be seen at the horse races, Washing tons swankiest dinners, or aboard his mother-in- laws yacht.
 Lewis lives at an obscure boarding house just around the corner from the Capitol, where board and room cost him and his wife $120 . month. Tydings keeps a house in Washington and a palatial estate on the up- per Chesapeake, with 8 10-car garage and ten tenant houses.
 Even their wives are exact op- posites. Mrs. Lewis is an un- assuming little woman who has not changed the style of her hat for 20. years, while Mrs. Tydings, tall, young and beautiful, goes in for ermines and earrings. She is the daughter of Joe Davies, ambassador to Belgium, and step- daughter of the famous Marjorie Post Hutton Davies, thrice-mar- ried breakfast food heiress and aunt of Barbara Hutton.
 A Second George Norris
 Davey Lewis is the nearest coun- terpart to George Norris on Capi- tol Hill. He has been fighting for social reform for nearly four decades and has lived long enough to see many of his reforms come true.
 The seeds of reform were plant ed as far back as the 1870's, when his father, in the Welsh tradition, took his 9-year old son to the mines. The only difference be- tween the two workers, as Davey now recalls, was that father had a big pick and a big shovel, and I had a little pick and little shovel"
 Strikes were a great blessing to young Lewis in those days.
 "They used to worry father" LeW1S recaAS, because nc nau to provide food for the family. But I liked them because it was the only time I could get off to play"
 Lewis recalls only two strikes when he was boy, and on these two occasions he learned to play baseball.
 Although Lewis was born in the United States, his father was not. Many years later Lewis went back to Wales, where he visited the mine in which not only his father but his grandfather had worked 100 years before.
 But in Pennsylvania and Maryland today" adds Lewis, ''there Is not one mine where once worked that is still in operation"
 Lewis Vs. Coolidge
 By studying at night, and walk ing from the mines to the city