A Young Man Asks

A young sailor home from two years of active service sat listening in the gallery. All day long, like steam from a kettle, coils of debate had risen endlessly from the floor of the House of Representatives. The House was now preparing to vote on the same anti-poll tax bill that had been filibustered to death by a group of Southern Senators at the close of the 77th Congress (TIME, Nov. 30).

Once again all the old weary arguments, the passionate pros and cantankerous cons, were being voiced. The young sailor squirmed and fidgeted.

> Said Georgia's labor-hating, liberal-hating,...

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