Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1917 — BROTHERS KNIT FOR BROTHER IN FRANCE [ARTICLE]

BROTHERS KNIT FOR BROTHER IN FRANCE

Columbus. O. Lieut. Col. Charles Gates Dawes, the Chicago banker who is serving with the United States engineers somewhere In France, is going to have a sweater and also a scarf provided his brothers do not drop to many stitches. For several weeks tales have been drifting around of a man seen knitting Industriously. In Pullman smoking compartments, on Atlantic City hotel verandas, In taxicabs, etc. In a train going out of Columbus one night recentl y he was Identified as former Congressman Beman Gates Dawes of Ohio, a brother of the Chicago banker. Beman knits and knits the while he discusses oil and electric railways, In which he is Interested, with his fellow passengers In the smoking compartment. “Darn it. there I’ve dropped another stitch,” . Beman exclaimed, as he pointed an argument on oil prices. “Well, brother Charley won’t mind another hole In this sweater. If I can keep out or arguments on the state of the union I reckon I ought to finish my knitting in about nine months.” Beman also contributed the Information that Rufus Dawes of Chicago Is knitting a scarf for brother Charley. “Mother taught all of us boys tn knit," Beman said, “and this is certainly the time for all good knitters to come to the aid of” their country.”