The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-03
DAWES IS STUDIED FROM EVERY SIDE
 WHILE IN ACTION
We Deliver the Goods" Was His Motto While Serving Country During
 Period of War
By ELIZABETH KING STOKES Copyright, 1921, by The Age Herald)

Copyright. 1891. by The Age HeraId)
 Washington, July 2.-(Special )-- Washington now has had a week of Former Brig. Gen. Charles C. Dawes in action. The new director of the budget has been studied from every side as new personality at the capital. What impression has he made?
 We deliver the goods" was the banner under which he served during the war as chief purchasing agent of the A. F. F.
 Watching him at close range gives one outstanding picture-that of force and fresh viewpoint upon an old problem. Yet the rest of the flash is that of a whirlwind person. ality pursued by a camp follower by the name of Francis Kilkenny, who has left his business and come on to see that General Dawes gets all the help he ought to have in starting the budget bureau. Francis Kilkenny was an Irish boy in a Chicago club, so the story goes, when General Dawes took him and showed him how to turn his Irish wit into lucrative business and from that time on when MT. Dawes found himself pressed by responsibilities, the fresh face of Kilkenny appeared suddenly to help him out So he is around Washing ton today and if asked who he is, he will reply quickly, T am General Dawes representative"
 Times Are Sluggish
 General Dawes has come to the capital when 1t was somewhat slug gish with the dragging of the leg islative programme, 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 arrived surrounded oy an atmos- phere of expectancy and levity be- cause of his previous explosions be- fore the House committee investigat- ing war expenditures when he scored hit after 23 volumes of testimony had been completed with little pub lie notice. But the attitude of the capital has changed. The director of the budget at his desk here Is one of the most serious minded of the offi- cial fauily---and the capital is taking him seriously. It Is learning more about him.
 When he came back from the war and engaged in big banking busi- ness in Chicago, several of the sur rounding states deposited their state funds with him. That has consider able significance here now as an indication of the kind of confidence he draws President Mckinley sa- lected him as manager of his cam- paign. Later he acted as controller of tho currency. He has been men, tioned as a candidate for the United States Senate-and he comes from Ohio as well as from Illinois, and IS being counted at the capital as one of a new Ohio trio, General sawyer Walter Brown and General Dawes.
 Starts In UprOar.
 Notwithstanding the uproar with which General Dawes started h's budget crusade, the capital has found to it's astonishment that he Is qulet 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 wealth CT and the difficulties of getting the work under way. That he uses strong language only when he con siders 1t part of the necessary strategy several of his friends have intimated. But he has flashed fire on several occasions.
 q will know the reason why" he said with a snap of a determined jaw, if estimates of government expendi- lures for the next fiscal year are not in his hands by July IS. But he already has allied himself with the "humanizing" movement inaugurated in the cabinet by Will Hays, and his pet expression so far reiterated and pounded home with his fist, is that "to humanize Is to galvanize." He talks considerably to those around him about the submerged man" and of his sympathies with the bureau chiefs and subordinates in the de- partments who bear the brunt of the work of the routine government insignificant body of misunderstood men" he has called them. And as for the President of the United States he has said that he will be the "eyes and ears of the chief executive but not his fingers
 Stands Close to President.
 Standing close to the President, General Dawes contrasts so strongly with the quiet personality of the chief executive that fear is left lest some of the fist gestures close up in the face, which General Dawes uses for emphasis. may spoil everything by landing. President Harding smiles at General Dawes in his easy going manner. and the director of the bud get with solemn. earnest face only continues to lay down the law with the same independence and accept ance of responsibility attributed to Secretary Hoover when he took the cabinet post with the understanding that he was to have considerable rein.
 General Dawes is like political tion. however. the growers would