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Dilworth's Helper. But despite such difficulties. Dilworth was the man Jack Kennedy wanted to see Governor—and Dilworth is the candidate Kennedy got. Last week the President invaded Pennsylvania on behalf of his choice. The Presi dent led a 21-car motorcade past the grey sheds of idle steel mills in Pennsylvania's southwestern Monongahela Valley. At Monessen. some 15.000 cheered as he shouted the theme: "Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!" At McKeesport. 35.000 people heard him cry: "Can you tell me one piece of progressive legislation the Republicans have sponsored in the last 30 years? If you can tell me one. I can tell you 100 that they opposed." Across the street, on a faded building, a sign indicated that some felt he had aided them already: "Thank you, Mr. President, for signing our pay bill—Postal Employees of Monessen."
Kennedy has been in the state before. He helped raise $1.300.000 for the campaign at a giant dinner in Harrisburg last month. He will be back again next month for a rally in Philadelphia. The Democratic hope is to pull every possible vote out of Philadelphia, thus overpower the rest of the state. Green is throwing his machine into the effort—despite his dislike for Dilworth, he needs those jobs the Governor passes out. The pivotal area could be Pittsburgh and the countryside that Kennedy stumped last week. It is normally Democratic, but miners and steelworkers are sullen about shorter work weeks and the closing of plants.
Scranton is doing everything he can to turn this discontent against the Democrats. He has barged boldly into some of the state's most Democratic, deeply depressed areas to push his slogan: "Build a better Pennsylvania." With good effect, he argues that Democrats have been in power in Harrisburg for eight years, in Washington for two, yet the workers' plight has grown worse, not better. He pledges to work to bring new industry to the state, as he did to the city of Scranton.
The campaigns of both men are well financed and well staffed. Scranton has been able to get all the Republican factions behind him. if only because they sense the possibility of victory. Scranton is candid about this. "Of course, there's still bitterness," he says. "And they are not all united. But they are working."
While such national figures as Kennedy and Eisenhower are in the thick of the campaign, the basic burden is upon the two candidates. Each tends to be some thing of a loner, and the personal clash is intense. Dilworth's argument boils down to the fact that he has proved his ability in Philadelphia. Scranton pleads only that the Democrats have had ample opportunity to get the state moving—and have failed miserably. He wants a chance to try.
* Now Mrs. Albert G. Isaacs Jr. of Dalton, Pa.; Mrs. Hendrik M. Rozendaal of Schenectady, N.Y.; and Mrs. James A. Linen of Greenwich, Conn., wife of the president of Time Inc.