Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-02-03

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OUT Nebraska the native of
the located county which bears the of Dawes
1t named many years for young who achieved
life he the city of Chicago where ne soon won national
prominence the financial world During his days Nebraska
young man he became close eno o s
cadet battalion That Chas G. Dawes who went to France
head of the Seventeenth Engineers recruited at Atlanta and
after reaching there virtually business of the Ame
expedition under General Pershns
YESTERDAY General shocked his hearers tesfng before
the investigating committee in Washington when he
denounced all the vhemence his command those who
now attempting to discredi the handling of the war
General Dawes a Republican, is General Pershing But
he first He has been prominently mentioned as the
in the next cabinet and in some selection
garded But General yesterday removed ms
from consideration because he dared partsanhp aside
for Amecan refused line with the bitter detraco OF
the General Dawes told the committee that he was
politics and that he would not be- the latter statement ne
appears eminenty correct
MO WONDER the Republicans Cen Dawes was called by
~ members of the committee to rebut testimony rela
ing and and particularly with TO
liquidation American France and sale surplus stocks
French Answering charges that tood and cloth
supplies might have brought than the Pa
by Gen Dawes turned sharply OF his quesuonef
Representative Bland Republican Indiana and shouted
that forced Great britain
to hold stock and drive hard bargain The stuff
there today rOng ou cannot discuss an expare question
5000 miles away There try and throw mud when you
were know conditions England lost billions dollars
bv of takenlng lot or people VINO
were afraid muckrakers home They raising the devil in
England because England did not sell its supplies when we
sold"
Gen Dawes of fact said ne thought FRANCE was
charged too much 49, ,.,
sold The War Department ordered the SALE he sugar
went lump lot with the junk Everything secondhand We
four hundred million dollars tor it. We every
and did because lot OF big men quit their Jobs and went
over help We cleaned the slate and Congress today still
claims dating back the Revolutionary 1t big job and
we proud In finding fault and hunting responsibility you
don't have far ershng the and his
shoulders big enough, thank God, to bear it
-,
MIR BLAND questioned Gen Dawes about excessive prices P
ava for equipment and material
Sure paid" he said We didn't to dicksE Why;
alive, had the 1t job. We would
have paid horse for sheep the sheep could have pulled
tIlery the front.
lated Great Britain Il ashamed stand here for
England than for the United States said Mr. Dawes jumping from
his 1T be fashionable American politics attack
England am not politics. and going to be- but thank
God that crisis like had there chickering's between En-
OF Pehg them FIVE divisions but had to be done
to the Allied line
COUNTRIES have been named for men less American and less
worthy than Chas. c. Dawes.
Would disarmament law rob the of the rolling
and custard piep
If the antobacco fans succeed youth with cornsk
cigarettes
Beneath assumed indifference battered
their posted the postOce wall the
yers.
York dudes all he because Chicagoans call dinner
Jacket tuxedo What diff does make what you call the thing?
They the dancing and chorus but Mr.
Harding will positively appear as the star in the inaugural piece
Church-dodgers welcome the of the Illinois preacher who
robbed the mail as a fresh alibi
Mrs Vanderbilt has sold her Fifth avenue palace; maybe
avoid the inroads of the climbing prohteers.