Evening star., 1924-06-13
''HeN and Maria' Da,Ues Achieved
Success by Hard-Hitting Methods
Generals Career PrOres He Is Intensely Human In
diUidual-Craduated, He Says, as "Fair
SecOnd-Rate Engireer.''

Banker, civil engineer, musician
controller of the currency general
purchasing agent for the A. L. F..
member of the military board of al
lied supply, first director of the bu-
reau of the budget, head of the in
ternational committee of experts
known as the Dawes committee for
the solution Of the snarl of German
reparations-this vivid, hard-hitting,
but intensely human individual, fifty
nine years of age, is the Republican
candidate for Vice President
Charles q. Dawes of Chicago,
chosen last night by a wide margin
at Cleveland by the Republican ma
uonal convention has had a career
OF Kaleidoscope briliance, beginning
August %, 1865, in a modest home in
Marietta, Ohio. He thus carries on"
from puritan and patriotic ancestry.
His father. Rufus c. Dawes. was bre
Vetted brigadier general after four
years of fighting with the Iron Bri-
gade' in the civil war, and one of his
forebears it is related. accompanied
Paul Revere on that historic ride be-
fore the battle of Lexington.
Hell md Maria" Dawes.
But Gen. Dawes. widely heralded as
Hell and Maria" and the man who
his pipe upside down." did not wor-
ship longer at the altar of ancestry
than to gain from it his qualities of
hard work and brilliant application.
For he branched out into a character
SO distinctively. so sharply his own,
that his reputation has been builded
not alone upon the merit of his
achievements. sound and common
sense as they are, but also upon the
originality of his methods and the
breeZiness with which he has sailed
through what to others at times have
seemed insurmountable obstacles. The
anecdotes on Hell and Maria" are le-
gion.
In many habits of mind and dispo-
sition Gen. Dawes is the foil to his
can ticket, Calvin Coolidge, each set
ting off the other to advantage. So
cial lively, full of good humor and
funny stories, Dawes of Chicago con-
traStS with the silent" man in the
White House.
Graduated at Marietta.
Charley" Dawes went to school at
Marietta. Ohio. until he had graduated
from Marietta College as a civil en-
sineer or as he described himself. "a
fair Second-rate civil engineer" 1t was
not his ultimate dream to follow that
profession. but his experience with it
helped put him through Cincinnati Law
school. where at twenty-one he took his
LII. B. in 1886.
During those early college years he
gained valuable experience. and funds
as well. from a little railroad. now a
part Of the Toledo and Ohio Central, for
which his uncle was receiver.
The engineering experience came in
well few years later. one biogra pher
relates, when he established himself in
Lincoln, Neb.. newly fiedged lawyer
without influence and with a very few
clients
Lacked Professional Prestige.
At this time, it is said, "a brother
of his father had been Governor of
Nebraska. but this gave him more
social than professional prestige Odd
jobs of engineering in the intervals
of law practice gave him a living.
that is. including board at the palatial
15-cent lunch counter run by one
Don Cameron for the benefit of uni
versity students and struggling young
business and professional men.
"A good many men of substance
and renown remember that lunch