Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-05
BUSLNESSLLKE MEN OF
DAWES AROUSES CAPITAL
By Eh1zABETN KING STOKES
Oeased Wire Service to The Journal)
Downright, 1921

Gcased Wire Service to The Journal)
Copyright, 1921
WASHINGTON, July 2.-Wash-
ington now has had a week of form
or Brigadier General Charles G..
Dawes in action. The new director
of the budget has been studied from
every side as a new personality at
the capital. What impression has
he made? 1--WE deliver the goods"
was the banner under which he serV-
ed during the war, as chief purchas-
ing agent of the A. E. f.
Watching him at close range gives
one outstanding picture-that OF
force and a fresh viewpoint upon an
old problem. Yet the rest of the
flash is that of a Whirlwind person
atty pursued by camp follower by
the name of Francis Kilkenny, who
has left his business and come on
to see that General Dawes sets ali
the help he ought to have n start
ing the budget bureau. Francis Kill
kenny was an Irish boy in a Chicago
club, so the story goes, when Cen
eral Dawes took him and showed
him how to turn his Irish wit INTO
lucrative business and from that
time on when Mr.. Dawes found HIM
self pressed by responsibilities. the
fresh face of Kilkenny Appeared
suddenly to help him out. SO he is
around Washington today, ana II
asked who he is he will reply quick
ly 81 am General Dawes representa-
tive"
General Dawes has come to the
capital when it was somewhat slug
| gish with the dragging of the legls-
| lative program, and in the midst OF
an enervating heat spell, and walked
up the city from end to end with
his vigor and official zeal. He ar
rived surrounded by an atmosphere
of expectancy and leVity because OF
his previous explosions before the
house committee investigating war
| expenditures, when ne scored MT
after 23 volumes of testimony had
been completed with little public no
tice. But the attitude of the capital
has changed. The director OF the
budget at his desk here is one Of n
most serious minded of the official
family-and the capital is taking
him seriously. 1t is learning more
about him.
Started Banking Business
When he came back from the war
and engaged in big banking bust
ness in Chicago, several of the sur
rounding states deposited their state
funds with him. That has consider
able significance here now, as an in
dication of the kind of confidence
he draws. President Mckinley Sc
lected him as manager of his cam
paign. Later he acted as controller
| of the currency. He has been men
| toned as a candidate foI the United
States senateZand he comes from
Ohio, as we'll as from Illinois, and
| is being counted at the capital as
one of a new Ohio, trio, General
| Sawyer, Walter BroWr and General
| Dawes.
- I,ct 4 fl1n wit
which General Dawes started his
budget crusade, the capital has found
to it's establishment that he is a
quiet man. Those who have been
| around him this week say that he
has been abstemious in the use OF
profanity regardless of the state of
| the weather and the difficulties OF
getting the work under way. That
| he uses strong language only when
| he considers it part of the necessary
| strategy, several of his friends have
| intimated. But he has flashed nre
on several occasions.
"I will know the reason why he
said with a snap of determined
jaw, if estimates of government eX-
penditures for the next fiscal year
are not in his hands by July Is. But
he already has allied himself with
the "humanizing" movement inaugu-
rated in the cabinet by Will Hays,
and his pet expression, so far re1ter-
ated and pounded home with his
fist, is that "to humaniZe is to gal
vanize" He talks considerably tc
those around him about the sub
merged men," and of his sympathles
with the bureau chiefs and subordl-
mates in the departments who bear
the brunt of the work of routine gov
eminent magnificent body OF mis-
understood men," he has called them
And as for the president of the Unit
| ed States, he has said that he will
be the eyes and ears of the chief
executive, but not his fingers"
Presents Strong Contrast
| Standing close to the president,
| General Dawes contrasts so strong
ly with the quiet personality of the
chief executive that fear is felt lest
some of the fist gestures close up IN
the face, which General Dawes uses
for emphasis, may spoil everything
bv landing. President Harding
! smiles a General Dawes in his easy
going manner, and the director of the
| budget with a solemn, earnest face,
only continues to lay down the law,
with the same independence and &C
ceptance of responsibility attributed
| to Secretary Hoover when he took
the ca binet post with the understand
ling that he was TO nave ConSlueidpIe
rein.
General Dawes is like political
sparring partner, always on his toes,
wiry man with his fist clinched and
resting on his knee when he is in re
uose, his mouth tightly shut and his
eyes full front and piercing. There
are few soft. lines in his face. 1t is
characterized by grimness and long
nose that sets off a pair of large
ears, the type of face that belongs
| to a man bent upon an objective so
zealously that all legitimate means
are resorted to to carry it through. He
is determined, logged, and has an
eye for the psychology of crowds and
the effect of bombastic methods.
He is said to have talked about the
budget principle at the cabinet meet