New-York tribune., 1921-02-21
Borglurn' Tells
Dawes He Gave
Crooks Solace
sculptor Lampoons General
for Comforting Proiteers
in Testimony al Probe
Of Aircraft Scandal
calls On Him for Facts
says Army Man Ridiculed
Most Wasteful Period
IN Our Nation 5 History

1 c,,zon Bo~ylum, the sculptor. whose
/ A.,ges d extravaganza in aircraft
ns,ruetion created 8 furore during
i. last days Of the war. made public
..terdsy an open letter he has writ
TO Bricadier General Charles C.
esees. Of Chicago, lampoonirg Gen
.,sl Dawes's recent rhetorically pictu-
.,-aue testimony at Washington before
\ IL House committed investigating
4 eaf expenditures.
Alter remarking that General Dawes's
.roearance before the committee 'tvied
4;.b the movies in holding public at
.rtion," Mr. Borglum adds that your
statements were SO grossly at variance
Mir what is right that secured a
+scord Of your testimony
The letter resumes:
avon appear to have said, address
i,r the committee following a suhi-
isn't amount Of hell To coufound the
tsaringl: If you men would spend Just
oae.cuarter of the time trying to see
tae waste that goes or right under your
poses By hundreds OF millions. instead
of trying TO put fyspecks on our army
record It would be hell Of q lot
better
Bullied His Questioners
again. For every mistake OF the
A E. F. in France you have made the
ame mistkes here for hundred
years
"To Congressman Floods query:
Don't you think it is our duty TO root
out the guilty and punish the wrong q
you shouted: This is an ATTEMPT to
bring partisan politics into purely
American enterprise
yet in reply to Chairman Johnson's
direct question you admit: There were
's lot OF vultures over there-some OF
the most despicable characters ever
zet-one man effected a combination
Of French manufacturers against us in
the purchase OF supplies. But when
ssaed who he was you replied:
He'll. I've forgotten! No, that's a
damned lie, OF course. But what's the
difference; what's the use? I'm not go
ing to throw mud at anybody. It's over
now And so, Tor pages, you either
bgllied or evaded the questioners.
'Mudthrowing,' 'muckraking,' gre
terms invented by people who were
caught wallowing in il.
DO you realize you eomforted every
government pronteer and crook wallow-
ing in his own mud by that statement >
That how German would have aided
and abetted such Americans. That's Just
uaat many OF them did, serving their,
not our, country"
Reasons for Landslide
Three years Of "unpunished irreeu-
arities' Of this sort, Mr.. Borg,um de-
cares, were chiefly responsible for the
Fepublican landslide last November.
Whom are you tSying to save?" Mr..
BorSlum goes on. ''1t would shock the
souDtry if I should tell you here. And
gn believe any administration can
Monstruct its party, much less a dis
g6ered nation, and accept those con-
e,tIons which the country condemned
50 'V-eepingly only q few months ago
81 hen you know how harmful is
YOUR example in Washington. and
- hat. # the public conscience accents
Ncor view, must happen to this land
"heu II can laugh as q. nation at such
gross administrative breach of trust.
DO YOU realize what administrative
sponslbility leads to? Do YOU
want America to understand that no
tne in government is responsible? 1t
Is incumbent upon the party in power
- account TO the fullest for the man
agement Of this nation during it's in
cumbency. 1t is safe to say that had
Mr.. Wilson cleaned his own house. it
would not now be given to others to do,
The election did not mean anything
else, and it went Republican only be-
cause there was no other receiver avail
able.
The last four years of misrule have
oeen OF such political and economic
consequence that unless the Republican
PARTY sqGarely and fearlessly charges
the incumbent administration with its
acts and finds those responsible,
whether they be of the party in power
OF the party assuming power and un-
less Mr.. Harding builds a Cabinet of
eeoples men capable of this, the con
'oence necessary to make the new Ad-
hlhissratlon q success will not even
set started, much less last six months.
note that you have been mentioned
q q q possible member of Mr. Harding's
Caoinet. ] pray your attitude toward
plonteers Is not the reason for your
fg,aiaohlty. II so, you will find at
@ .,as1 TWO confreres equally willing and
aHAlous to turn their attention to in
aieS1igatlng partisan Washington Of to-
nay, rather than your bipartisan
"aoAlhgtoh OF the war, when Repub-
w. ieS's were involved to the souls in
'ae e, Expenditures under inquiry.
aoq also know that if the govern
%eet d.aes mad used your meat axes and
- - a4ted the industries as it did those
SSnoaen for battle. there would have
,o oeeR no investigation of this kind. But
you know there is not body Of men
n. M america who have tho character or
4seve to draft the money, concerns.
,g Tough without protest every available
ssle Wa drafted. . . ''o '''
PIN closing let me say this, General:
try's r9nc is $ery &C has never in our coun,
NOR. more private and corporate opnor-
egnsfy, ci, 1t is humanly impossible to
fsie faI' m ths country what it voted for last
20 s', uoaer such circumstances. know,
peace peace is NOT necessari " lawless. as no
Is g'5,9ess sai can be permanent unless it
Why then, don't You help the peo-