Off to the Woodshed

Ohio's solid, slow-moving Representative Clarence Brown did what some of his colleagues had been itching to do: he marched the Democrats' brash young Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. off to the woodshed. What got Brown's Republican dander up was Junior's charge that Brown had reneged on a pledge to support the controversial FEPC bill (TIME, Feb. 6). There had been no such pledge, said Brown, as Mr. Roosevelt might have known if he spent more time on the job and less time gallivanting around Manhattan.

Brown, getting out the razor strop, wanted his colleagues to know that it hurt him more than it did Roosevelt. He was simply expressing the "grave concern among many of the friends of this fine young man over the fact that he is not here as much as they would like to see him." But the fact was, said he, that Roosevelt had only answered 60 out of 129 roll calls since last June; out of 65 important measures he had voted on 30.

"I would like to say that after 35 years of experience in public office and a long term of service in this House, I am convinced no one can learn the rules of procedure for this House in any New York nightclub. I am also convinced . . . that no one can solve any of these great social and legislative problems which confront us through nocturnal meditations on 52nd Street. We can solve them only by staying on the job right here."

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