The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1921-02-05

@. Dawes, former head OF the army
supply procurement servicein France,
told one OF them to-day that the val
ne Of their work had been rendered
useless through injection of partisan
politics.
NOT A ONE-PARTY WAR
81 bitterly resent this effort to re-
feet upon the entire army because
some poor devil blundered in Swift
erland," he shouted. You cannot
put a blotch on the army. What the
hell did we 60 in for-to steal money?
1t was not a Republican or a Demo-
cratic war. 1t was an American war
and yet as a rule these committees
try to bring in partisan politics.
you could use your time investi-
eating to q better advantage right
here trying to solve d~isgraceful gov
eminent waste. You could ave more
money for the people. But as to
France. you haven't got evidence to
make a case II one existed and I don't
believe 1t does.
CAMP FOLLOWERS In FRANCE
81 am not here to make charges
that would blacken the name Of q
soldier who cannot come In to be
heard"
Asked about grafters who followed
the American army to France, Gen.
Dawes said:
Eyes they were there. some of the
most despicable characters on earth.
trying to help the army by selling 1t
things It needed at exorbitant figures.
There was n nan we caught and
deported. What's his name? Oh,
what's the use. l am not a muck
raker. He vas a traitor and l wish
we could have shot him."
There were many women at the
hearing, but 1t didn't Tease the gen.
eral. who swore constantly.
ARMY WAS AMERICAN
Long after this committee is dead
and gone, the achievements Of the
American army will stand as an ever
lasting blaze Of glory" he declared.
you have tried to make a noun
tain out of a molehill, but thank God
the army was American, not a Repub-
lican nor Democratic"
DEFENDS PERsHING
Asserting that the people were
tired of war talk and faultfinding.
General Dawes, banging the table,
said:
There's 40 news in 1t. II l was
mt here strutting around and swear
ing there would be no news in this"
Mr.. Dawes ripped out a streak of
oaths as he took up the attempt in
some quarters to criticise General
Pershfng.
1T will be twenty-five or fifty years
before Pershing's place in history is
he said. He could not have
won the war had he sought to put
above duty. And. let me
tell you-the doughboys now. com
planning will live to see the day when
they will be proud that they fought
under him."
PROMOTIONS IN ARMY
Declaring authority and RESPONSE
bility In the army should be central
lied in peace times as well as in war
Gen. Dawes said the American
army was "deteriorating again into a
bureaucracy which is bound to prove
inefficient"
Look at the pinhead politicians
who r raising hell about promotions
Tor men who earned them in France"
he exclaimed. They're doing it for
petty reasons. It's a dirty shame. l
wasn't in the regular army. but l can
be fair"
WHY AVIATION PLANS FAILED
The committee was told the next
VAR would break out overnight and
hat the army and navy probably
would get into a row as to which was
boss the affair.
Gen. Dawes declared the United
states aviation program had been "a
srrible failure" largely because Of
'over-confdence and inexperienced"
Even II we didn't have the planes.
We had the aviators-the best in the
he added.
NOBODY SATISFIED
Gen. Dawes said the question of