Evening star., 1929-06-10
A Gallant Company.

Two Americans will pass each other
, in Midatlantic this week-Charles G.
Dawes and owen D. Young-whose
! names will illumine a bright page in
the history of their day. Gen. Dawes
is en- route TO his. ambassadorial post at
London and Mr.. Young is on his way
home, laurel crowned, from the repara-
tions conference in Paris. Six years
ago Messrs. Dawes and Young collabo-
rated in laying the foundations Of the
reparations settlement. From 1t emerged
the Dawes plan. Last week the Dawes
plan, revised, gave way to the Young
plan.
1t is a gallant company, larger than
most of their compstriots realize. which
is headed by these two outstanding re-
constructors of wsr-maimed Europe.
Aloof from the specific maladies which
were bred by the armistice and the
Versailles treaty, it vet fell to disinter-
ested Americas lot to supply the physi-
clans who were to heal them. 1t is
hardly going too far to say that without
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and his colleagues rendered on the first
reparations commission in 1923, Europe
would never have worked out of the
chaos there menacing it. With Gen.
Dawes and Mr.. Young, on that occasion,
served. Henry M. Robinson of Los
Angeles and Leonard P. Ayres of Cleve-
land. They formed potent quartet.
During the recent conference of
creditor and debtor experts. under Mr..
YoungS Craftsmanship, three other pairs
of American shoulders were vsliantly
put to the wheel-those Of ]. P. Morgan,
Thomas w. Lamont and Thomas N.
Perkins. In the final stages of long
drawn -out negotiations, fourth Amer
lean played sn effective role, David
Sarnoff, the genius of the radio industry.
1t is reliably reported that his liaison
work between Mr.. Young and DR..
Schacht, the astute German Reichsbank
president, served in large measure to
save the day when it looked the darkest.
A couple of years ago jeremiah
Smith, jr., of Boston, functfoning on
behalf of the League of Nations, ac-
complished the financial reconstruction
of Hungary. II was herculean task
brilliantly performed. Since 1925 s.
Parker Gilbert, jr.. fresh from the
undersecretaryship of the United States
Treasury, has been agent general for
reparstions at Berlin. If the Dawes
plan operated smoothly till the moment
was ripe to supplant it with the Young
plan. Mr.. Gilbert is entitled to the lions
share of the credit
AT Warsaw, Charles s. Dewey OF
Chicago, also an alumnus of Mr.. Mel
Ions institution for the higher finance,
is now fruirfully engaged in putting
Polands national economies on a sound
basis. On the other side OF the globe.
Edwin w. Kemmerer of Princeton Uni
versity is helping the young government
of Nationalist China to put It's financial
house in order.
So it goes throughout the world. Who
shall say that 1t is a world from whose
concerns Uncle Sam has selhshly
isolated himself? With his sons render
ing the valiant service which these men
and their names by no means exhaust
the list-sre giving to peoples and gov
ernments which crave the constructive
American touch, it cannot be main
tanned that the United States is playing
a lone hand on Gods footstool It is.
on the contrary, playing a very busy
hand, and a hand distinguished for
efficient altruism.