Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-08-30

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forgiveness for
"the things we ~ :. !l.l.... ~
have left undone" IliIIIi
as fervently as
for the things they did which didn't
sit too well with their consciences.
And now the voice of the vote
getter is heard in the land.
Radio and newspaper correspond
ents are being courted by both
political parties. For example, re-
Gently, crowd of radio folk was
given understandable look at the
vote-getting machinery behind the
Republican lines. Our hosts were
Republican Chairman Carroll B.
Reece at one end of the table, and
Republican Campaign Manager
Clarence Brown at the other. "a
similar jaunt into Democratic terri
tory will be reported in a future
column.)
Reece Quiet,
Popular Chief
Reece is slight, greying, quiet
voiced man whose Tennessee &C
cent reminds one occasionally of
Claude Pepper in one of Claude's
unoratorical moments if you can
catch him in one. personal confess
sion: like Pepper and Reece both
and so do lot of people who would
be the first to say, "the views of
these notables do not NECES-
SAR1LY agree with those of the
undersigned."D
1t is little presumptuous of me
to refer to Reece as "greying" be-
cause the year 1889 had to stretch
itself from January to December to
fill the time-gap between my birth
day and his. He has taught in almost
as many academic institutions as I
have casually attended. He was a
battalion commander in World War
whereas I never rose above the
exalted station of shavetail, and
among his five decorations are the
Distinguished Service Cross, the
Distinguished Service Medal and
the Purple Heart. He was cited for
bravery by marshal, three gen.
erals and a colonel
Perhaps the same qualities which
won Reece his decorations qualified
him for his present job. He GER
tainly doesn't lack assurance even
if he doesn't rattle sabers in ex-
pressing it.
But we are not talking about
Reece. We are talking about his
job. He is out on the hustings, al
though his trip, which will take him
as far west as Seattle and as far
south as Georgia, is mildly camou-
faged as vacation. Anyhow Mrs.
and Miss Reece are going along,
and part of the time will be spent
at resort in the Rockies.
Backstopping Reece here in the
capital where nobody votes, but
where a lot of writer's and takers
remain, will be Clarence Brown,
representative from the seventh dis
trict of Ohio, state which might
be called a latter-day mother of
presidents and which right now is
looking hopefully over the patterns
of maternity gowns.
Brown and Reece complement
each other very well. Reece is
slight, dignified, soft-spoken. Brown
is large, loud enough to be heard
in the back row without using the
PA system, and hail-fellow-well-
met. AS Campaign manager" he
is going to sweat it out (that is lit
eral with the rest of the Washing
tonians who don't vacate in the
summer.
I have a fellow feeling for Rep
resentative Brown, tinged perhaps
with the natural Difference a re-
porter always has for a publisher.
Brown publishes several country
newspapers CHATS the way he put
it himself in the congressional di-
rectory) whereas l merely write
for Several besides this one. Also
he has three more children than l
have. He and I once met on the
debating platform, and while
would naturally never admit that
I didn't present the best argument,
I will concede somewhat grudging-
ly that Browns Resembling oratory