N. Aaron | The Nation

For the first time in several decades, educational policy is a vital issue in establishing the qualifications of a American presidential candidate. Thomas E. Dewey, the efficient governor, and Tom Dewey, the self-styled liberal benefactor heading the G.O.P. ticket, will both be embarrassed by responsibilities they have disowned in the matter of public education: the governor, last winter, grudgingly sponsored an increased appropriation of $30,000,000 to local schools. This was his substitute for the $103,000,000 worth of state aid to education contained in the Young-Milmoe bill, and the candidate's party is on record as having refused to approve a federal-aid-to-education bill in the Eightieth Congress.