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Show Current Stock Break Doesn't Worry Dawes mi i LONDON, Oct. 1 General Charles O. Dawes, Chicago financier, finan-cier, expressed his opinion today (that the current break la the Wall HI reel market does not denote a rapidly approaching major deprea-aion. deprea-aion. Tbs performance of business In past depressions, General Dawes said, indicated a business recession should be expected, but that at should not last long. Ths formsr vie president based his predictions upon a study of conditions con-ditions between 1M and ltot, which he said mors or Usa paralleled paral-leled current trende. He recalled days at ths turn f the century when the stock market fell rapidly but general business did not follow ths downturn with ths earns degres of severity. The market mar-ket was jolted herd In 111 when Northern I'aclftc stork was cornered, cor-nered, he said, but ths jolt did not hit business so hard. General Dawes added that eoon-omurts eoon-omurts allll regard that period aa one of proapertty in general business. busi-ness. Many of the moat Important business busi-ness barometers In the United States, he declared, Indicate current prosperity while stock prlcaa are falling. Lower stock prices, he said, should 4 CHARLES O. DAWES Shouldn't laat long have been expected after th recent long rise. He refused, however, to predict th future trend of Wall Street |