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Show A MAN SIZE JOB Charles G. Dawes, Owen D. Young and Henry M. Robinson, the American members of the committee appointed by the Allied Reparations Commission to investigate German finances, with a view to arriving at a settlement of ths- reparations tangle, are undoubtedly tackling the biggest job in the world today. Every citizen of the United States, after reading the opening statement of General Dawes in Paris as chairman of this committee, should be thankful that in these days of complicated political problems, prob-lems, a common, everyday American could stand up before a group of European diplomats and cut right to the root of the present trouble as Dawes did in his remarks. Mr. Dawes' opening statement should be read in every school house in the United States, so that the younger generation coulcl hear a bit of real, hard-boiled American reasoning that would be comparable to statements issued by our great national leaders who have made American history since the Revolution. It is well for the American people to keep in mind the fact that men like Dawes, Young and Robinson are characters who can develop de-velop only in a free country, unhampered by the rule of thumb laid down by too much aristocracy and official red tape. They are men who have come up from the ranks. They are men who have worked their own way. They are men to whom money, merely from the standpoint of representing wealth, means nothing. They are men who out of courtesy or deference to the royalty of Europe, might doff their hats, but so far as beim; awed or impressed by foreign for-eign diplomats or rulers with rows of decorations on their coats, all that means nothing to them. And as a Frenchman says about Dawes, "He is one whom you cannot do." |