Evening star., 1924-09-03
Ex-Treasury Officials SeIec-
ton Will Be Announced
Formally Today.
YOUNG GOING TO BERLIN;
SAYS GERMANY MUST PAY
Thousands of Americans Are Seek
ing Positions in New Repa-
rations Body.
By the Associated Press.

ker Gilbert, jr., former American un-
| der-secretary of the Treasury, has
accepted the post of agent-general
for reparations under the Dawes
plan. The post is being temporarily
filled by Owen d. Young of New
York. who aided Gen. Dawes and the
other experts in drawing up the plan
! Mr.. Gilbert's appointment will be
officially announced by the Repara-
tion Commission at a meeting this
afternoon. He is due to arrive in
Paris about the middle of the month
Mr.. Young will return on the 14th
from Berlin, where he is going today
He intends to meet the commission
for railway debentures here at that
time, to arrange the particulars Of
the payments to be made to the agent
general, and Mr.. Gilbert is expected
here in time to take part in this con-
ference.
Rufus Dawes at Berlin.
Rufus Dawes. who goes with Mr.
Young to Berlin. is to be placed by
him in charge of the Berlin office OF
| the organization carrying out the
Dawes plan.
Mr.. Young remarked before 1eav-
ing on his trip that Germany's pay
ment of twenty million gold marks
yesterday spoke more effectively than
any words Of his.
The temporary agent general is bor-
rowing a staff from the reparation
commission which will be adequate
for his work during the period OF
transition. the length of which de-
pends upon when the German loan is
f1oated.
Literally thousands of Americans
have applied for posts in the new
reparation organization, either
through the State Department, to the
reparation commission or to Mr.
Young, Mr.. Dawes and others con-
| nected with the execution of the plan
Seek Posts Gratis.
Several Americans of position al
home who happened to be in Europe
or who have come here for this pur-
pose have offered their services with
out either pay or expense allowances
George P. Aud and his staff of ac.
countants, who have been sent by Mr.
Young to the Ruhr to work out a
system of payments with the French
Belgian and Italian officials Of the
"Micum" organiza ton and the Ger
man industrialists, are arranging for
the first checks for deliveries in kind
to be paid by the agent gen / a
week hence. The banks are Offering
to cash any drafts on the agent gen.
erals office without formality.
Gilbert Of Wide Experience.
Seymour Parker Gilbert, jr., is but
81 years of age and unmarried. BY
profession a lawyer, he became in
terested in governmental financial
matters in 1918, when he was made
a member of the war loan staff in
the office of the Secretary of the
Treasury, acting as counsel in mat
ters pertaining to the raising of
funds for the prosecution of Ameri-
cas- part in the great war.
In June, 1920, he was nominated by
President Wilson for the post of
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
in charge of fiscal affairs. He was
reappointed in March. 1921. and
served until June of that year, fol-
lowing which he became Under
secretary of the Treasury, continuing
in that position until November OF
last year.
Mr.. Gilbert holds several degrees
from Rutgers College and is an
LII. B. Cum Laude of Harvard
University. He makes his home in
Bloomfield, N. j., the place of his
birth.
Mr.. Young, replying to a question
from Excelsior. whether it was true
that the German delegates at London
had protested to him that the cost
of fulfilling the Dawes plan was too
crushing. is quoted by the newspaper
as replying:
Young Makes Stand Clear.
'1 am loyal. If Germany's financial
iS nf ha her
powers is no less SO. 1 have not hid
from the Germans my firm intention to
make them pay up to. the breaking
point; on the other hand. / have as
sured them that l oppose that point
being exceeded.
LAS far as l am concerned, Germany
shall pay all she reasonably can, and
the powers interested in reparations
shall get all they can reasonably expect
nothing more or less
Asked as to the question Of arbitra-
ton being applied. to the decisions of
the transfer committee under the
Dawes plan, he said:
you may quote me as saying that
am extremely glad Of the London
conference decision in this respect.
Conscientious men can very well make
mistakes for lack of knowledge of the
facts, for it is human to err, and they
|
being submitted to impartial arbi-
tration."
Mr.. Dawes, arriving in Paris. ex-
pressed his pleasure that he was again
cola aborating on the experts plan after
having shared in its creation.
$1,000 Salary Likely.
Mr.. Gilbert has accepted the post
without any agreement as to salary
or allowances. This subject has not
been formally mentioned in the COM
mission, but it is probable that he
will have a salary equivalent to $1,000
a year, with rather generous addi-
tions for the expenses of his work.
which probably will require him to
spend three months out of four in
Berlin. ..-. .-..
James A Logan, jr., American OBJ
server with the reparation commits
tion, declared today: Now that
the reparation commission has an
nounced its appointment of Mr.. Gil
bert to the post of agent general for
reparation payments, 1 cannot refrain
from expressing my qualification that
the circumstances have been such as
to enable Mr.. Gilbert to accept. His
services to public finance with the
United States Treasury are known
quantities and his reputation as a
jurist is excellent"