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Show CROWDER CALLS HANYLAWYEEtS Has Large Quantities of Legal Luminaries of National Reputation Rep-utation in Uniform. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. One great factor in Provost Marshal General Crowder's success In administering the draft has been the type of men he selected to assist him. General Crow-der Crow-der has a "weakness" for lawyers, especially es-pecially distinguished lawyers, and he has them in quantities now. They are not advisers or consultants, but have been taken away from lucrative private pri-vate practices, thrust into uniform, and set to work actually as aides and staff members, to help run the machine. ma-chine. Some of the legal luminaries so captured are men of more than national na-tional note In their profession. The first man whom General Crow-dor Crow-dor called in from civil life was Charles B. Warren of Detroit, now col- onel and senior officer on his staff. Colonel Warren has written most of the selective service regulations, and was primarily responsible for the formulation for-mulation of tho regulations- for the first draft. Incidentally Colonel Warren War-ren has written many of the congressional congres-sional statutes which have been enacted enact-ed Into law in connection with the draft Colonel Warren was on two occasions before becoming an aide to General Crowder attorney for the United States in international arbitrations. arbitra-tions. Once, during the fisheries dispute dis-pute with Canada, he held the attention atten-tion of Tho Hague tribunal with an argument six tiays long. At an earlier date he was one of the lawyers appointed ap-pointed by the president to argue the case of the United States before the joint high tribunal created to adjudicate adjudi-cate claims of Great Britain against thr TTnitrri States arisinc OUt Of the (Bering sea seal fisheries controversy. Robert Lansing, now secretary of state, was also of counsel in that matter. mat-ter. In addition to his career in the field of international law, Colonel Warren has developed a financial career. ca-reer. He is, heavily interested in large industrial enterprises and banks in Detroit, De-troit, his home city, and had found time to bo president of the Detroit chamber of commerce before he dropped drop-ped his private activities to join General Gen-eral Crowder's machine for downing tho Hun. His varied experience in law, business and finance, has naturally been an invaluable asset in laying out and administering, the draft. Colonel J. H. WIgmore mdst lawyers law-yers will instantly think of "Wigmoro on Evidence" in this connection was dean of Northwestern university law school and author of several recognized recog-nized volumes on legal lore when the draft organization took him. Colonel J. S. Easby-Smlth, a Washington attorney attor-ney with a supreme court practice, came to the staff because of his successful suc-cessful work at the head of the District Dis-trict of Columbia draft board. He exemplifies ex-emplifies another practice General Crowder has developed, that of picking up an executive who has been particularly particu-larly successful with the draft in his own locality, and bringing him In to headquarters. Major J. R. Cjark, also of Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, formerly solicitor for the state department, lias been newly added add-ed to tho department, as office adjutant. adju-tant. The exhaustive medical provisions provi-sions of the draft aro now under the direction of Colonel F. R. Keefcr, a regular army officer, who heads tho medical division. Lieutenant Colonel Grant Trent, who sat on the Philippine islands supreme bench several years, and Lieutenant Colonel Joseph F. Fairbanks, a New England attorney, give special attention atten-tion to the digest of draft cases appealed ap-pealed to the president. Lieutenant Colonel Roscoe S. Conklin, a relative of the famous New York senator and political leader, is new particularly charged with classification questions for the whole of the draft within the United States, because he proved particularly par-ticularly successful in getting through emergency organization in New York City. Lieutenant Colonel IT. C. Cramer, Cra-mer, now heading an inspection division, divi-sion, came in after making a success in New Jersey, as agent for the adjutant adju-tant general of that-state, in similar duty. Endless tables of figures and statistics statis-tics have to be marshalled to keep the stream of men flowing Into cantonments, can-tonments, and for thiswork General Crowder imported Major II. E. Stephenson, Steph-enson, late efficiency expert with the Pennsylvania railroad. For his personal per-sonal military aide, General Crowder has Major J. Barry King of Oklahoma. |
