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Show DAWES SMS HE man mm ! MEN B ACK DOWN Ex-Budget Director Lets XsCrCde More Picturesque Expressions. NETW YORK. Oct 14 Charles O. I Dawes, former director general of the national budget, famed for hi-? "hell and Maria" utterances, when he was cutting down government expenses at : Washington, smoked his briar pipe In the Waldorf Astoria Friday night and I mnde characteristic remarks v. :.rn j bankers and business men gathered to do him honor at dinner. The dinner was tendered Mr. Dawes by the New York City committee of the national budget committee, an organization or-ganization which fought for the adoption adop-tion of the national budget bill John JC Pratt, chairman of the national j committee, nnd Jobc Hedges, receiver t tho New York street railways, tried to compliment Mr. Hawes on his work, but he told them, between pufffl 'on his pipe to "cut it out " Harry I BlggS, financial adviser to the government gov-ernment of Egypt, also spoke. but since he did not go Into Mr. Dawes' record he escaped interruptions. R S LIKU RATS "I've lost the art of moderate ex-presslon," ex-presslon," snld Mr. Dawes, nnd he1 went on to tell what he thought of some congressmen who run like rats when anyone shakes tho name of Un-American Un-American legion in their faces, as on the bonus question." He said the public was not aware j of the temper of the cabinet on tie-budget tie-budget policy, or how cabinet offi-j cers ''talked revolt" in respect to It. Citing an Instance of cabinet opposition, oppo-sition, he said that when he asked Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt Roose-velt to permit hlin to transfer d million mil-lion dollars worth of mine sweepers from the navy to the coast and geodetic geo-detic survey. Mr. Hooscvelt refused. ROOSEVfilT BACKS 1 . I "I called Hoosevclt to my office," j says Mr. Dawes, "and he came. ij 'asked him If be wanted to go to the i i mat with no- before the president. He I i withdrew the letter." Mr. Dawes Paid that when he I asked for some Information from the chief of naval operations, the officer ! replied that ho considered It bis duly to tho people to maintain the navy efficiently. "1 said to him, the hell you do." " Mr. Dawes remarked. "I told him It was the president who had that responsibility. I said either he or I would leave office. I got the Information and that little talk saved just $10,0011,000." Referring to a complaint General Harbord made. General Dawes said his on n replv was "Yours Is like the plaintive call of the pee-wee With its nest In the brush being cut down for some great public Improvement." llr, lao stmt be leeched no an-WWtr an-WWtr drom Otnorni Harbord - rr . |