Evening Star Newspaper, June 13, 1924, Page 5

" know how to issue orde .GONVENTION SPURNED '3 COOLIDGE CHOICES yon, Burton and Hoover All Urged for Vice Presidency } i { by Batler. DAWES ALWAYS FAVORED | R e *ellon Emerges as Potent Figure \ R 2 H in Party Councils. i FA S 4 BY DAVID LAWRENCE. {CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 13.—Out of the scries of tactical errors. ama- teur management and confusio in the Republican national convention several things stand out as inescap- able and significant | First, despite the fact that William ;; Butler. persons “President Coolidge, the choice of presidential can- didate, the convention three times turned him déwn, rejecting Kenyon. Burton and Hoover. Second, the selection of Charles G Dawes as Vice I'resident means an attack by the Democrats on his labor record, for he is an avowed champion of {he “open” shop, und th ad of the “minute men of Americs were organized 1o fighi union labor Third. apart from his labor record and his bunking connect Charles G. Dawes for he s ¥ t dramatic. sp ne the-shouider manager for tried to dictate a viee oseveltian in peram 4nd capable. . Dawes Was Favored. “ourth. Charles . Dawes fraourth, Charles G Daw in many cases his lubor record was asset to him. Indeed, with Lowden tor fusing to run, Dawes was the type of pan the delegates wanted all “along, ut the White House spokesmen insisted etemndidate who would appeal to the witern farmers, some one identified the progressive movement, and for that reason every oue supposed the Wishes of the President would prevail and no one of the Dawes scheol of thought could be or would be nominated. th, although there wa was ths tacties of ‘whom fhf'“v denounced as i::fiah—urx and blundering, there was a far groater significance in the action of the dele- gsates in turning down Hoover and Ken Yon. The truth of the matter is, the majority of the delegates to the Repub- lican convention and the old guard leaq. €rs are convinced that it is a mistake 19 cater to the radicals hy trying to give them any one approaching their type, and that it is beiter to stand pat on a tonservative man and even take a de f_anl rather than compromise on fl\fll(‘.‘g‘;!;i?l:l Wwas noticeable through- o il have a gut jand il have an important bearing Mellon in Control. « xth. President Coolidge could have had any one he wanted for Vice President had managers played their cards They did not and at the same time avoid the resentment that comes from being given a command. They did not gather the various sthte chairmen together soon enough. though there was plenty of time all week to do so. They did not really contrel the situation at any time after the bailoting started. and the convention did as it ploased. with Ardrew W. Mellon of Pennsyivania, Secretary of the Treasury. a potent figure in the diseussions of the east- ern delegates and perhaps the most important factor in the temporary c\'eflhro\\' of Mr. Butler, for if & etary Mellon refused’ to accept Kenyon. the other leaders felt free 10 do the same. as cvers one knba Mellon's influence and power in cabinet. The silent man from P who has been heralded never engages actively found. perhaps to his own that the conservati clamored for his leadership, and he stepped into the breach and asserted his influence with all the determina- m of a Penrose of a Quay If he had any doubt before he came Cleveland that the Republican party 100ks to eider statesmen for guidance surprise, the east it was removed when he was given a | thundering ovati of the conventio mitted to come duce a resolutiol on_on the first day , when he was per the stage 1o intrc appointing one of the numerous committees on the con- | vention's routine program. Bafler Arouses Amnimosity. When Mr. Butler appealed to the )“r\ld guard” to akandon Dawes be- cause of the attacks made on him by the Tllinois Federation of Labor and the nossibility of controversy on the ubject. tegether with the ne Ty, as he saw it. of making a direct ap- peal to the farm states. all the p up feeling against the Massac tis man. which began to accumulate when the delegates first ot here and found that he had anpointed committ. ahead of time. simply was exploded and nothing short of a direct and public statement from Mr. Coolid himself could have chan the situn- tion. This. the Pres refused to do, for while he w lling to in- dicate vrivately in answer lo ques tions just what his preferences were he did not care to anprar pub! - a3 the dictator or boss of the wvention which nominated him There is alw: disappointment in who | aight-from- | ship 1 i svery convention when there is a con- | test. Much of it will remain and w crop out during the campaign unl thé “old guard” is given more of say now than it had from the days before the conven balloting. But the old are always loyal, and the Democrats need noi count too much on the ¢ of these men. a Follette Group Pleased. On the whole, the biggest asset the opposition to the Republican ticiet will have will be the fact that the national convention turned down a an like Judge Kenyon, and another fke Herbert Hoover, Ignored the de- mand of the farm states. and selected for Vice President a Chicago banker. The La Follette group went home to- day fully satisfied with what had happened. as the thirty-four delegates who were hissed and jeered for their refusal to make the nomination of Coolidge unanimous and to support (the platform are more than ever con- Avinced that a third party ticket must be put into the field. The Democrats, including McAdoo's manager, Judge David Ladd Rockwell, who was here during the convention, are sure the New York convention must nominate a progTessive and even a radical, and gome one who is friendlier to labor than the Coolidge-Dawes ticket. (Copyrizht, 1924.) KENYON GLAD FOR DEFEAT Satisfied With Present Work—Si- lent on Dawes Victory. * BT. PAUL, Minn, June 13—Federal W. S. Kenyon. Jwhose n: '::’efrfg those presented for the Repub- Jican vice presidential nomination, had »o statement to make last night on the nomination of Gen. Dawes. “I'm glad 1 ‘was not nominated.” was Judge Kenyon's T am very happy in my $5,000,000 REALTY DEAL. Cathedral Mansions, Jewett Man- stons and Klingle Mansions, located on the west side of Connecticut ave- nue, south of the Klingle Ford bridge, haye been purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Carleton B. Hazard from the Ward- man Construction Company for $5,000,000, it was announced today. "The deal. it was sald, was com- pleted today through the office of Thomas J. Fisher & Co. The names are to be changed. They will be nown as Cathedral Mansions, North, South and Center. Harry L. Wrenn will _manage ' the properties. The gZroup has 492 apartments, ranging from one to sevén rooms and batl The bulldings cover eight acres of ground. “Hell and Maria” Dawes Achieved Success ’ by Hard-Hitting Methods General’s Career Proves He Is Intensely Human In- dividual—Graduated, He Says, as “Fair Second-Rate Engineer.” Banker, civil engineer, musician, controller of the currency, general purchasing agent for the A. E. F., member of the military board of al- lied supply, first director of the bu- reau of the budget, head of the in- ternational committee of experts known as the Dawes committee for the solution of the snarl of German reparations—this vivid, hard-hitting, but intensely human individual, fifty- nine vears of age, is the Republican candidate for Vice President. Charl Dawes of 1 last night by a wide margin at Cleveland by the Republican na- ticnal convent has had a career of kaleidoscoy brilliance, beginning August , 1865, a modest home in Marietta, Ohio. He thus “carries on” from puritan afid patriotc ancestry. His father, Rifus C. Dawes, was bre- brigadier general after four of fighting with the “Iron Bri- in the civil war, and one of his ferebears it is related. accompanied Paul Revere on that historic ride be- fore the battle of Lexington. “Hell and Maria” Dawes. widely heralded as and the man who rmans by smoking ¢ ‘down.” did not wor- the altar of ancestry to gain from it his qualities of work and brilliant application. For he branched out into a character so distinetiv s0 sharply his own. G. astounded his pipe ™ tha of the entire convention, and | that his reputation has been builded | not alone upon the merit of his achievements, sound and common- sense as they are, but also upon the originality of his methods and the breeziness with which he has sailed through what to others at times have seemed insurmountable obstacles. The anecdotes on “Hell and Maria™ are le- gion. In many habits of mind and dispo- sition ( Dawes is the foil to his chief running mate on the Republi- can ticket, Calvin Coolidge, each set- ting off the other to advantage. - cial, lively, full of good humor and funny stories, Dawes of Chicago con- trasts with the “silent” man in the White House. Graduated at Marietta. harler” Dawes went to school at Marietta, Ohio. until he had graduated from Marietta College as a civil en- gineer, or as he described himself, “a fair second-rate civil engineer.” It was not his ultimate dream to follow that profession, but his experience with it helped put him through Cincinnati Law School, where at twenty-one he took his LL. B. in 1886. During those early gained valuable experience, and funds as well. from a little railroad. now a part of the Toledo and Ohio Central, for which his uncle was receiver. The engineering experience came in well a few years later, one biographer relates, when he estabiished himself in Lincoln, Neb., a newly fledged lawyer without influence and Wwith a very few clients. Lacked Profesxional Prestige. At this time, it is said, “a brother of his father had been Governor of Nebraska. but this gave him more social than profs prestige. Odd jobs of engin the intery of law prac him a living, that is. including board at the palatial 15-cent lunch counter run by one Don Cameron for the benefit of uni- ty students and struggling young < and professional men “A good many men of substance and renown remember that lunch college years he | University. Chicago, | counter of Don Cameron. where food of excéllence and abundance unbe- lievable in these days was dispensed. Two of the greatest of these men are Charles G. Dawes and Gen. John J. Pershing, who likewise began his career in’ Lincoln, having gone there on his first detail from West Point to drill cadets of the Nebraska State The ‘lifelong _intimate friendskip between the two began in the Don Cameron lunch, and Dawes never let Perching forget it. In his “Journal of the Great War, Dawes rds his first meeting with the mmander-in-chief of the A. E. F. in the beautiful house lent Pershing for a Paris residence by Ogden Mills. Spoofs Gen. Pershing. ““John,' said Dawes solemnly, roll- ing his eyes around the stately draw- ing room in which they sat, ‘when I contrast these barren surroundings with the luxuriousness of our early life in Lincoln, Neb., it does seem that a good man has no real chance in the world’ And Pershing replied char- acteristically: ‘Don’t it beat hell? “The commander-in-chief was more at a loss for a reply on another occa- »u_when he was host at a dinner party in the Paris residence. Dawes leaned - across the table and begged him to give the lady on his right, a personage in Paris society, some rem- iniscenses of the ‘splendid old Span- ish grandee. Don Cameron,’ with whom in their early days they had s0 often dined. Launched Leznl Career. At Lincoln, however, Dawes launched successfully into his legal career, leaving the Don Cameron lunchroom days behind, and becom- ing, as a partner in the law firm of Dawes, Coffroth & Cunningham, a leader among public utility counselors in the state. He later acquired in- terests in gas plants throughout the west, developing large holdings in several states, Dawes was personally popular in Lincoln, although he hotly opposed the town's idol, William Jennings Bryan. then at the apex of his fame as “boy orator” of the Platte and apostle of the free-silver movement. These two men debated publicly on the free-silver question, and out of the debates grew the earliest of Dawes' boo The Banking System of the Unite Moved to Wisconsin. Moving to Wisconsin in 1894, he be- came president of the La Crosse Gas Light Company. and later a move to the south brought him to the presis dency of the Northwestern Gas, Light and Coke Company of Evanston, IIL. which_eventually was merged into the People’s Gas Light and Coke Company, supplying Chicago. Following his activity on behalf of President McKinley in Illinois during the campaign of 1896, and partly on uccount of that activity and his book on the “Banking System of the United States,” Dawes was named controller of the currency, which post he held from 1S58 to 1801, after which (in 1902) he organized the Central Trust Company of Illinois. He was the ac- tive head of this enterprise until Jan- uary, 1921, when he accepted the chairmanship of the board of direc- tors. relinquishing personal direction of affairs to a new chief executive. in France, 1917-1919. 1917-1919 he served in France. f the time as chairman of the asing board, which han- s<upplies for the American In 1821-22 he served as the first director of the budget in the administration of President Harding. In the two latter posts his battle cry was co-ordination. and in both _—_———————————— '(-)'onL_ the AVENU E o NINTH-= e A Sale of 1,200 Vassar Union Suits 95¢ Made by Vassar to Sell for $1.50 The success of any sale depends not so much on the heading as on the signature. When Parker-Bridget sign their name to an announcement of this sort you know what to expect—an event that emphasizes P. B. quality and illustrates P. B. Service. When you see these suits you won't stop at buying less than three—they’re the athletic style with single-back button —roomy, vet made to fit exceedingly well. seams. (arments Taped armholes and .reinforced that Vassar was préud to label and we are glad to sell at such a low price. \ Starting Tomorrow, Saturday, Morning at 8:30 0’Clock he carried the day—in France with a unified system of supply for the allied armies, and in America with a central bureau of control for gov- ernmental expenditares. In 1920, his “Journal of the Great War” was published. followed some two years later by “The First Year of the Budget in the United States.” Gen. Dawes went to France in Au- gust, 1917, as a colonel in the 17th Engineers. He was for a time as- sociated with Gen. Atterbury in transportation work. and then station- ed at general headquarters as a mem- ber of Gen. Pershing’s administra- tive staff. His next advance was to the place of general purchasing agent for the American forces, with the rank of brigudier general and membership on the military board of allied supply. After the armis- tice he acted on the United States liquidation commission for several months., returning to Chicage Au- gust 3. 1919, after an absence of twenty-six months. He was awarded the distinguished service medal of DAWES. the United States, named a command- er of the Legion of Honor of France, and decorated by Marshal Foch in Parls with the French war crosa The honorary degree of doctor of civil law was conferred on him by Marietta College in 1921. Renowned ax “Rookie.” Gen. Dawes' conduct as a “rookie” soldier won him renown among his friends. The story of the general's complaint with his leather puttees is a classic in the circle of intimates of the sub- Jject. After enduring the pain of his new puttees as long as possible he whispered his trouble to a fellow of- ficer. An examination revealed that the banker wore a pair of garters be- neath the leathers. Gen. Dawes Is widely remembered for his appearance in February, 1921, before a committee of the House of Representatives investigating the con- duct of the war. Puncturing his re- marks In spots with the emphasis of a teamster, and with little effort to Going Camping, Boys? Of course, you're going to have a good time. But don’t make the mistake of going to the right camp in the wrong clothes. The P. B. Boys’ Shop is the place to get every- thing—from advice to bathing suits. Palm Beach Suits—2 pairs of trousers. Khaki Norfolk Suits.. Khaki Flapper Suits, with knickegs. . (Like the sketch.) Khaki Flapper Suits, plain trousers. Black Rubber Rain Coats.. Rain Hats Ponchos ....... Khaki Knickers ... Khaki Shirts .. Khaki Blouses .. Woolen Blouses Woolen Shirts . Worsted Sweaters ...... Bath Robes . Pajamas . Teck Jr. Boy’s Shoes. Keds Canvas Sport Shoes. ...$10.75 : 7.50 3.50 3.00 4.25 1.00 3.75 2.50 2.00 1.50 2.50 oeis 3.50 ...$3.95 to 10.00 ...$3.95 to 7.50 . sese L3S 4.00 2.75 Boys’ Coaster Wagon, $4.85 Made to Sell for $10.00 The P. B. Coaster is built for just the sort of service it is bound to get. Simply constructed, as well as sturdily made. 32-inch size, 10-inch steel, rubber-tired, ball-bearing wheeis. Roller Brake, Ball Bearing ; Stir bolts Sets it up. Steel Gears, Hold-fast Hub Caps, White Ash Bed. Official Headquarters for Boy Scout Equipment. And a Barber,_Bill Shop—twhere kiddies Enjoy d Haircut. temper the vehemence of his feelings, he scored the inquiry with blunt verbal broadsides which virtually terminated the activities of the inves- tigators. The committee, the witnédss said, was “looking for flaws in the brilliant rec- ord of the Army.” “There are 00 many pinheads throw- ing mud” he exclaimed at another point. Then he added: “If you men would spend more time trying to stem the millions of waste BOIDE on under your noses, we would :l‘e‘;lel."- hell of "a lot better govern- “Bawled Out” Member, “Don't call me general!” he once shouted to a committee member who had addressed him by his military “Hell Maria,” an expletive several times repeated during his testimony, long was associated with the gen- eral's name, and for many years he was referred to by his friends as “Hell Maria Dawes." g ien. Dawes first became nationally in politics in 1896, when he succeeded in a campaign 1o have the 1llinols delegation to the Republican national convention instructed for McKinley. He took his fight to the floor of the state convention at Springfield and carried the day for his candidate. As Illinois was some- thing of a pivotal state in the cam- paign of 95, the swinging of the dele- gation to the side of McKinley and “gold” brought wide recognition to the campaign manager. _After the national convention Mr. Dawes was appointed a member of the nationai executive committee of the Republi- can national committee, of which Mark Hanna was chairman. In 1900 he was elected chalrman of the Re- publican state convention of Illinoi and in 1903 was appointed to the Mc- Kinley Memorial Commission. Opponed Sherman Law. -06-07 he vigorously opposed ment of the Sherman anti- w. becoming a leader in the tight against the measure. His pa- per on “The Defects of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law and a Defense ¢ the American Business Man,” in 1907 was regarded as one of the most compre- hensive ever published on the sub- ject. His opposition to the law was based on the fact that it did not dis- tinguish between conspiracy to re- strain trade and co-operation in the public interest within a trade. There were some agreements in restraint of trade, he declardd, which were in the public interest In 1919, following his return from France, he urged ratification of the treaty of Versailles and American ac- ceptance of the league of nations The following year he launched a campaign in 1llinois for a national budget bureau. He_was prominently mentioned for the Illinois senatorial candidacy in 1920, but refused to enter the race. He ‘was understood, also. to have been considered for a post in the Harding cabinet the same year, which he also refused. Named Budget Director. In June, 1921. following the enact- ment of the McCormick budget bill, Gen. Dawes was named first director of the budget, in charge of all regu- lar appropriation bills for the opera- tion of the government. He accepted the place with the understanding that he would resign in one vear. An ac- count of the period from the general's book, “The First Year of the Budget trust Thrilling Finale In Naming Dawes Is Seen by Few! By the Amociated Press. CLEVELAND, June 13. — The -thrilling last act of the Republican national convention was enacted last night before many empty seats, A number of the spectators, who had crowded even the aisles of the vast balcony of the auditorium, left after thé nomination of Frank O. Lowden. thinking the show was over, and missed the surprise end- ing brought about by his refusal to accept and the subsequent nomi- nation of Charles G. Dawes. Some, who had been listening for hours during the day to the pro- ceedings carried to them outside the building through amplifiers, slipped into the hall while the doors were unguarded. but their number was not great enough to fill the vacant seats. in the United States,” shows a reduc tion in expense $1,600,000,000 in 1922 with the previous year. of the routine business of the govern ment was shown to have cost $90 500,000 less and a_saving of between $260,000,00 and $300,000,000 was credited to th operation of the budget bufeau. One of the director’s first acts in hi. new post was to assemble about G0 department heads and bureau chief in the Capital and ask-them g0 rais their hands and pledg their jurisdictions during fiscal year. Some months the later, h took several of the number to task publicly for their “slack co-opera tion” in behalf of economy in govern ment. on a business basis.” Attained Great Fame. Gen. Dawes attained his greates: fame through his activity in connec- tion with the Dawes committee o experts, appointed by the reparation bring about a settlement of the German commission to endeavor to reparation question suitable to al. the countries interested. Leaving for Paris in December, Gen. about ac- This he did Dawes immediately, set complishing this task with his customary quietness, work ing long hours day and night unti it was time te delve deeply into the subject-matter by means of technical investigations. At the opening of the experts’ con ference on January 14 in Paris Ge Dawes delivered a straightforward, hard-hitting speech. He pointed ou that he could not speak cither fo the government of the United States or the American people, but only as an individual. He said he had ac cepted the invitation of the repara. tion commission. which is charged the Versailles peace treaty with the task of seeing that Germany meet her war obligations to the allies, to investigate of approximately as compared The conducf due to the discharge of war-time personnel in all departments, a reduction in new His aim in the budget bureau, he said, was to “put the government Germany’'s financial and economic position. This he would do to the best of his ability. In his address Gen. Dawes, after reviewing the situation from the standpoint of an American business man, made an carnest plea for the use ‘of common senxe and for prac- tical co-operation ong the nations, 80 that rmany’s productiveness might be restored to her in order that she might meet her obligations. . With characteristic _forcefulness Gen. Dawes denounced “the incessant misrepresentations nd intolerable in- terjections of those foul ind carvion- loving vultures—the nationalistic ld?muxox\leu of would exploit their pitiful perse | ities out of a common misfortu; | American Plan Outlined. ! The American plan, as briefly out- jlined by Gen. Dawes, consisted of stabilization of German currency and the balancing of the German budget. He declared that “as the econom processes of Germany under a stable currency and with balanced bud- Bet are revived there will be demon- strated the capacity of (iermany to pa let us first help Germany well” Gen. Dawes added The committe ded Dawe: held Paris and Berlin, at financial economic experts of the ue of n to get by Gen esident of the German 4s umong the prominent t| Germans who several times appea - [ before the committee, hoth in F -land in Berlin, to give his viewpoi on the situation. After long 1 the report of th laborious efforts, experts’ committe wus drafted and submitted to the reparation commission. which ac cepted it as the basis for settlement of the long-standing trouble between < and CGermany reparation o e s 9 n s commission the report, the allied likewise guve their sanc rance in principle. The German government also accepted it but for some time the reichstag de clined to acquiesce. Chancellor Marx declared the report presented the only method ¢ lvation for Ger Man Ye ter acrimonious debate: Reichtag on June 10 183. approved the position ¢ | Bovernment in favor of the report, Henry M. Dawes. contr currency, is a brother of ¢ £|both having had extensive in banking in Chicago Gen Dawes' reputation as a com- poser was gained principally through his “Melody in A Major” which wi a “best selier” in phonograph recors for a time following the war. It is still popular among musicians. The vas published, mot by but by a friend in whom 1 1 Dawes ancestry runs back to Willium Dawes who came to America in 1628 with the first body of Puritans to Boston and Salem, Mass. Another William Dawes. born in 1745 known as “William Da Patriot” and is recorded a ; fiamon of Paul Reve the com- n the latter's storic ride in the revolution. Hotels for unfortunates. where bath, bed and breakfast” was pro- - | vided for 10 cents, were established in Chicago by Gen. Dawes as a me- morial to his father. During one period of two months in 1813 27,6 men were cared for at the hotel similar institution for women founded later. was and golf knickers. \Lk stripes—everything. shorts and long fellows. *NATIONALLY (¥ % Mostly Cheviots, in grays and rich tones of brown. Tropical Worsted and Flafinel Suits, $35 Three-piece suits of Foreign and domestic fabrics. Single and D. B. Plain blue suits, checks, plaids, single stripes, double . Sizes fornormally built men, stouts, The Avenue at Ninth 55 ~_ Cown and Country UWear Plain English sack coats follow con- ventional lines. New wide, long trousers Parker—Brjdget Two-piece Tropical Suits are Priced Twenty-five, Thirty and Thirty-five Dollars ~ Ay