Arizona republican., 1921-02-03

d,dnt stop. to dicker. Why. man awe, We had to win. It was mans job. We would have maid horse prices Tor sheep. The man .Ike johnson there," he said, turn
 s to tne chairman, Twas standing az tne front to be shot at. We had to get him food and amnunit;on oh, ,t's all right now to sav we bought too much vinegar and too many cold chiseis, but we saved civilization.
 am no more ashamed to stand ep TOT England than for the United Hts.es' he said, jumping from his ensir and racing about.
 It seems to be fashionable in Amer ican politics to attack England. I am not in politics and I am not going to De- And I thank God that in a crisis ike we had there were no bickerings petween the English speaking people"
 Pink Tea Diplomats on "Pan" The diplomatic system of appoint Ing men with pink tea experience in war time he continued. was a rot ten failure Sharp was all right. but the rest of them were utter failures. It was all due to the appointment of society men pink tea fel- lows.
 Why. we couldn't get anywhere. We had George McFadden over there,
  diplomats could not do in three months.
 Let me illustrate. We needed 5000 artillery horses. They were in the fields. and it was harvest time in France It was my job to get them, and it was my argument that we could not get our men to the front without horses. Unless we got them, the Ger mans would break through. We didn't talk prices-we just pulled them out of the fields. Of course. that sort of stuff couldn't be printed.'
 What did you get for the horses when they were resold to France?" he was asked.
 T don't know" he replied, 'but the price was low. Of course. it was. The horses were taken from the fields. It's easy to find fault, easy to say we should have struck bigger bargain. But put yourselves over there. and l think your viewpoint would be diff ferent.'
 Everybody Pulled for Himself
 Before the supply service was CO., ordinated, everybody, Mir. Dawes said, was pulling ih different directions
 You have got the same trouble here he added. with 10 cabinet off cers each trying to get everything for himself. The president ought to stop it.
 Nh. Dawes said mistakes were made.
 But l am SiAu, ne cOntinueu, thal there is desire in some quarters to make a permanent and honorable rec ord of what our men did. There have been complaints that our surplus in France was sold. It would have kept 10000 men there trying to guard il while we peddled it in small lots. The men were brought home and the best bargain of the war was in the sale of that stuff to France.
 Now. here is how we sold it. Mem bers of our commission sat down at a table with the French. We laid our cards down. I told our friends that some of us had suggested different prices: that this bird Judge Parker was Q hard boiled egg and was stand ing out. for $450,000,0 900. I said l thought s4ooo0O,ooo was fair. and we traded.
 American Grafters Were There
 "Every precsution was made to
 prevent payment of extortionate
 prices for supplies in France"
 said Mir. Dawes. "Of course, there
 were thieves hanging around, some
 of them Arnericans who wanted to
 reAp . proHt out of every deed of a
 soIdier,- he said. "There were
 grafters who went to Frenchmen
 with the supplies we needed and
 said they could demand and obtain
 exorbitant prices They came