Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-01-24
Dawes Heads United
States Probe Delegation
"HELL AND MARIE DAWES" WILL
ATTEMPT TO SOLVE THE
EUROPEAN MIDDLE

Five years after she end of the
World War we are witnessing a con-
dition in international affairs more
unsettled than on the day the Armis-
tice was signed. Diplomats from all ma
tions have had full sway during this
period but their best efforts seem to
have only complicated matters, unset
tied monetary conditions all over Eur
ope. created unemployment and star
walton conditions in many countries
and again brought several nations to
the verge of war What state of at
fairs compared to the hope of HUMANE
ty for world peace when the last gun
was fired in 1918.
Like a lighthouse on a rocky coast
we now see a movement started that
bids fair to lead hundreds Of millions
of troubled people along a path that
is sane and practical and by the very
weight of public opinion that will
back it. force European politicians
and so-called diplomats to recognize
the necessity and advantage of final
ly establishing stabilized conditions
The Allied Preparations Commission
is to make start by investigating
German finances. The members chos-
en- to represent the United States on
this commission are Charles G. Dawes
and owen d. Young. This committee
of experts is unofficial. 1t has no pow
er to command 1t is legally helpless
The eyes of the world, however, will
be on these unofficial" men in Ber-
lin
Never before has an industrial CIV
ilization collapsed as has that in Ger
many
Too much politics has made dis
NAL failure of world reorganization
and world peace. If these plain every
day business men who have helped
manage great Industrial undertakings,
can evolve a plan for stabilizing the
German financial and industrial under
takings, can evolve plan for STABILIZE
ing the German financial and indus
trial situation, even though their acts
are unofficial, public sentiment will
back them so heartily that political
powers will not dare trifle with the
situation.
General Dawes is familiar to Europe
as well as to America. He is known
on the other side of the Atlantic as
General Purchasing Agent of the
American Exepditionary Forces, as a
member of the Allied Purchasing
Board and as a member of the Liquid
alton Commission OF the Allies Here
IN America we know and love him
best for his work as director of the
Federal Budget System. 1t was he
who woke the sleeping departments
from their costly dreams and with a
touch that was sometimes as rough
as it was patriotic, drove home the
end for reducing expenses.
When General Dawes is abrupt or
emphatic, or even cries Hell and
Maria" it is only because of his en-
thusiasm for the work before him. If
he can get with six words what the
ordinary diplomat would seek with
six hundred, why should not Europe,
which needs helping in hurry, well
come his method?
Owen D. Young is, not so well
known as General Dawes. He is how
ever, a typical American who started
life in small town in New York in
1874 Like many other Americans he
left the farm where he was born and,
regardless of financial difficulty, Sc
cured an education and was gradual
ed as a lawyer. He worked his way
to his present position, Chairman of
the Board of the General Electric
Company, which duty he assumed in
1922 upon the retirement of Chas A.
Coffin, former Chairman
Mr.. Young is also actively engaged
in many philanthropdc, economic and
educational undertakings He was a
memebr of President Wilson's Indus
trial Conference Board, Chairman of
Secretary Hoover's Committee on
Business Cycles and Unemployment
and has always been a great advocate
of arbitration as distinguished from
litigation. In addition, he is actively
connected with numerous industrial
enterprises.
Those who know Mr.. Young have
likened him to Abraham Lincoln in his
kindness toward others and under
standing of their problems. AS the
father of five children, he fully realiz-
es the needs of the wage Garner in
Europe.
With two SUCH typical Americans on
the committee of experts, men whose
heads cannot be turned by the tinsel
of European officiaIdom, men who
understand the business of govern
ment and the problems of industry
and employment, men who have made
a success in their own country and
whose greatest ambition is now to
help solve these world problems, it