Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-27
TWO PICTURESQUE FIGURES
TO REPRESENT AMERICA
AT PREPARATIONS FARLEY
Charles G, Dawes and Owen
D, Young Are of Different
Types, But Each Gets Re-
suits
BY CHARLES FORREST
(Lea>cd Wire Service to The Journal.)
tCOpyright 1925


NEW YORK, Dec. 24.--TWo pic
turesQue and ant.thetical figures arc
Charles G.. Dawes and Owen y.
Young, the men America will CON
tribute to the committee Of experts
named by the reparatiOns comm S
sion to seek some way out of the
PREPARATIONS imuddle.
Dawes Of Hell and Maria fame. >"
Pres dent Hardirg's first budget di-
rector, has filled so many columns
chat he scarcely needs an introduce
ton. Sturdy, spectacular, a man of
tireless energy, Dawes is an ener-
gctic dOer.
Young : just the opposite. Tall
almost to the point Of ganglnesS, 50
rct.cent that he has never gwen
more than one or two interviews in
his life time q man whose aversion
to physical eXertiOn made him de
termined early in bONhOOd on q
white collar" job, Young is almost
exclusively d thinker.
About the only thing he and
Dawes have in common IS that both
produce results. Dawes built up
one of the most powerful banking
Institutions IN Chicago. During the
war he served in France, mostly as
chairman of the general purchasing
board of the A. T.. +. As federal
budget director he was credited with
saving between $4,000 600 and
$500, 900, 900. Now for Young:
Born on Farm
FOrtNnine years ago there was
born to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Smith
Young, in the little hamlet of Van
IIornesville, Herkimer county, New
York, a languid boy child. He
worked Ike the dickens on the farm
but only because ne had to. And
it was with sensations of great re-
lief that ne finally got started of
with $1,000 that mis- father had Dor
roWed, 10 get an education. He
went through East Springfield acad-
envy, then st. Lawrence university
and finally through tle Boston Uni
Versity Law school.
He picked law, he says because
once with his father, he had visited
the county courthouse and had seen
what an easy time the judge and
lawyers seemed to be having. He
started pract!cing law in Boston and
soon became junior member of the
firm of Tyler & Young. corporation
lawyers. In 1913 Charles \. Coffin,
chairman Of the general electric
board, made him general counsel
and a vice pres dent.
In 1919. at the request of high
government officials, he formed the
Radio Corporation of America, 20
assume American development of
wireless communication. In 1922,
upon the retirement of Mr.. Coffin,
he took on the job of running Cen
eral Electric
Besides he IS a director Of the Fed
eraI Reserve Bank of New York,
tee of the New * Evening Post
companies.
Far from Asleep
When Young goes into q confer
lights his pipe and half closes has
eyes.
TO see him in conference
high off cial of General Electric told
the writer, you'd think he was
about to go to sleep. Then, finally,
when the other cOnferees have ar
gued themselves into an impasse, he
unfOlds himself and makes a brief
suggestion. It's always a sugges-
ton that everybody can agree on,
and a suggestion that produces re
suits.
"That's what We are hoping he
will do Oh the reparatiOns commits.
sion committee. lie 5 natural
born conc:liatOr-and If ever one
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