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Show GRASSROOTS Gen. Charles Dawes Served Nation in Many Ways By Wright A. Patterson THE LATE GEN. CHARLES G. DAWES was an interesting . character, a man of many varied experiences. The general, and his brother, Rufus, were almost wholly . responsible for the holding In 1933 Chicago's Century of Progress, exposition. ex-position. A group of the city's wealthy men had proposed that such i an exposition be held at that time and then the depression broke. The proposers objected to financing fi-nancing an exposition at such a time. The two Dawes brothers broth-ers Insisted that, having been announced, the show must go on. During the days It was held I watched Gen. Dawes on many occasions stand In front of a numbering machine In the administration ad-ministration building as It checked eff the visitors, one by one, as they passed through the paid admission turnstiles. In the end, there were enough such admissions to enable the exposition ex-position to pay out. Under its charter It could not make a profit, but there was enough left after all bond holders were paid, plus interest, to rate all the buildings, and to beautifully landscape the five mile long lake front park through which rolls every day many thousands of automobiles from within and without the city. That is one of Chicago's beauty spots, and for it the people of the city can thank the Century of Progress. ,Gen. Dawes served his country. As a soldier, he was purchasing agent of the American army in France during the first World War. As a civilian he served as vice president, as ambassador to England, Eng-land, as first director of the budget and comptroller of the treasury. The Dawes bank. Central Trust of Illinois, was the first big $13 millionborrower mil-lionborrower of the Reconstruction Reconstruc-tion Finance Corporation, and every dollar, plus interest, was fully repaid. re-paid. Through the years he spent in Chicago he was a leader in the city's promotion. For many years a man of wealth, he died comparatively compara-tively poor. It Is broadly rumored in Washington Washing-ton that other heads than that of Douglas MacArthur are to fall under un-der the blows of President Truman's Tru-man's execution axe. Rumor has it that J. Edgar Hoover, director of the F.B.I, is included in the next list of victims. Hoover and the F.B.I, have been largely responsible for the conviction of such Russian spies as Alger Hiss. As political misadventure, the removal of the popular F.B.I, director would be second only to that or the now immortal MacArthur. It would be resented by the American people, and cause them to think. If not express, ex-press, their opinions as to which Ide of the iron curtain the President and his advisers, are standing. Politically, It would complete the job so definitely started t)y 4,1 e summary removal re-moval of MacArthur. It is possible the disasterous results re-sults of the MacArthur decapitation decapita-tion may result in staying the hand of the President in the case of J. Edgar Hoover. H:s party cannot afford another such result, especially especial-ly between now and the 1952 elections. elec-tions. Should the people receive another an-other slap in the face within the next few months at the institaga-tion institaga-tion of Dean Acheson, we might as well save the expense of the next election. The administration at Washington continuously insists we will offer nothing that can be considered as appeasement to Communism, but at the behest of England, the grand-daddy grand-daddy of all appeasers, and the insistence in-sistence of the socialistically inclined in-clined Dean Acheson, the President fired the one man more generally feared - by Stalin and his Red hordes than any one else. That was appeasement, and the American people gave ample evidence that they did not like it It would seem that it might be a good thing for President Truman that the recall system does not apply ap-ply to the presidency. The day will come when Dean Acheson will need a safe hiding place if he is to escape the presidential presi-dential hair su-usus. |