Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-02-18 | Page 4 | Dawes' Stature Grows

j DAWES STATURE CROWS . GENERAL- CHARLES O. DAWES gained In stature in his Washington admission that his i Chicago bank had "violated tha principle of the ; j law" In loans to the collapsed Insull empire. 1 ! On many occasions th brusqu soldier-bank- : j a r -statesman has demonstrated intestinal forti- i j tude at no time to better advantage than when ; i he appeared Thursday before a senate committee i ; investigating the stock market. I j - "The retrospect of the average banker is a I I sad one," General Dawes remarked during th in-i in-i ' yestigation. Your average "big" man, when h gets In a ; tight place, "doesn't remember," or, as a high I official, he "relied on the Judgment, or facts, or Integrity," or something done by a "trusted subor- ! dinate. Dawes, aa head of his institution, how- ever, talks cold turkey and admits frankly just What 'happened. Vice President Curtis during the probe took ! occasion to remark that "soma mysterious influ- I ence seems to hsve been Interfering" with the in- . vestlgation. , There is nothing very mysterious usually In , these "influences." In the average case, it is ; j simply the fear of those who are in a tight place ; ! to be truthful. . General Dawes displays chsr- t actor which, if It permeated the business struc- I j ture of the country more generally, would en- I able congress and other investigating bodies to discover fact upon which to base remedies for I many of the problems that complicate affairs in ; the country.