The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-22
DAWES IS HUMAN
 TO FINGER TIPS ANOTHER ASPECT
Works For Unemployed, Adopts Two Orphans
 And Writes Music

CHICAGO, June 21. - General Charles Gates Dawes, republican candi- date for vice president, is known to the reading public in this country and Europe as a highly successful banker, an organizer of unusual ability, hard worker and the owner of a peculiar pipe, which he smokes upsidedown. The public also knows he is capable of force ful language when occasion demands and that he has the gift of getting men associated with him to speed up and give their best efforts to whatever task is in hand.
 But there are other sides to this re- markable man. He has heart as we'll as a head. He is not given entirely to cold calculations which mean success in as citizen in his community and is easily touched by the human side of life.
 Son Drowned in 1912
 In 1912 his son, Rufus Fearing Dawes, 21, was drowned in Lake Gene va. The boy was a junior at Prince ton university and had been training himself to take up the work his father was engaged in. With that end in view he devoted his vacations to hard work, joining engineering camps in South Da- kota and elsewhere. In the Dakota camp every member except young Dawes was stricken with malignant typhoid and the boy did the cooking and nursing of all until he collapsed.
 From that summers earnings the boy saved $50 and spent $20 of it in Christ mas baskets for poor families which he delivered personally. For several years Seattle, another with a wholesale plumb ing firm at $60 a month. His last Vaca- young Dawes was active in the Y. NJ. c. A., teaching a Bible class. Another vacation he spent in a gas house at tion was spent in the laboratory of the Chicago Heights Gas company. Taking off the last two weeks for recreation he drowned in storm on Lake Geneva.
 Built Hotel For Unemployed
 It was in honor of the memory of this boy, a replica of himself and fol- lowing closely in his footsteps, that General Dawes erected and operated : the Rufus F. Dawes hotel for desti- tute men" on the west side of the city,. There is no charitable atmosphere around the splendid hotel-nothing to remind the inmates that they are de pendent on another's bounty. The hotel sprang into popularity the night it was opened, January 1, 1914, and is known from coast to coast. Clean, com fortable bed may be obtained for and 10 cents and excellent meals are served for less than cents each. It accom- modates 800 guests and was so success ful that General Dawes has built two others, one in Boston, and another in Chicago in memory of his mother.
 In these hotels no guest goes to bed without first taking a bath. In addi- tion free employment bureau is main tained where about 2,500 jobs are pro- cured annually for men who otherwise would be unable to get employment.
 Calls It An Investment"
 These are investments" as General Dawes chooses to call them-it is his idea of charity, his method of doing something for his less fortunate fellow men. General Dawes does not believe that a man who is down and outsi ma terially helped by an endowed library or theological college. but he does be- lieve that a comfortable bed, hearty meals, a sense of security and assist ance in getting work are req, benefit. He believes that his system is more practical and helpful than in merely signing a check and sending it to some organized charity.
 The idea of service which General Dawes so well typifies, runs back through his ancestry. It seems to have been a family principle dating from William Dawes, first American anceS- tor, who came from Sudbury, England, to America in 1928, and assisted in founding Boston and Salem. One of General Dawes ancestors, known as civilian Dawes, the patriot" born in 1745, rode as a companion of Paul Re were in the latter's famous ride to call the patriots to arms.
 Adopted Two Children
 The public is concerned now with the exact kind of man who has been nomi- hated for second place on the republic an ticket. One of the subjects about which he also does not talk for publi- cation is Dana and Virginia Dawes, two adopted children. They were taken into the Dawes home when less than two months old, after Rufus had been drowned. The boy is now IS years old and the girl somewhat younger. They have inherited the great love the par ents bore for their lost son.
 Nor does General Dawes say much about his musical ability, the writing of his Melody in A Major" about 10 years ago. It attracted the attention of Fritz Kreisler, famous violinist, who wrote an obbligato for it and played it frequently. It became so popular that it is now to be had in photograph rec ords and other forms.