The Yale expositor., 1918-11-07
LOCAL LAWYER
CROWDER AIDE
COLONEL CHARLES 3. WARREN
OF DETROIT. WROTE MOST OF
DRAFT REGULATIONS.
fATHERED coNscRIPTIoN LAWS
Once Served With Lansing in Ad-
justment Of Fisheries TangIe
With Canada.

Neutrality-suspicious. great IaCtOr III
Provost Marshal General Crowder's
success in administering the draft
has been the type of men he selected
to assist him. General Crowder has
distinguished lawyers, and he has
them in quantities now. They are
not advisers or consultants. but have
been taken from lucrative private
practices, thrust into uniform and set
to work actually as aids apd staff
members to help run the machine.
Some of the legal luminaries SO cap
tured are men of more than national
note in their profession.
The first man General Crowder
called in from civil life was Charles
b. Warren, of Detroit, now colonel
and senior officer on his staff. Col
onel Warren has written most of the
selective service regulations, and
primarily responsible for the formu-
lation of the regulations for the first
draft. Incidentally, Colonel Warren
has written many of the congress
sional statutes which have been en-
acted into law in connection with the
draft.
Served With Lansing.
Colonel Warren was on two occa-
sions before becoming an aid to Gen.
eral Crowder, attorney for the United
States in international arbitrations
Once during the fisheries dispute
with Canada he held the attention Of
The Hague tribunal with an argu-
ment six days long. At an earlier
date he was one of the lawyers alp.
pointed by the president to argue
the case of the United States before
the Joint high tribunal created to adj
judicate claims of Great Britain
against the United States arising out
of the Boring sea seal fisheries con-
troversy. Robert Lansing, now Sec
rotary of state, was also of counsel
in that matter
Colonel j. II. Wigmore--most law
yers will instantly think of wig
more on Evidence" in this connec-
tion--was dean of Northwestern uni
versity law school and author Of sew
eral recognized volumes on legal lore
when the draft organization took him.
Colonel ]. S. Easby-Smith, a Wash
ington attorney with a supreme court
practice, came to the staff because
of his successful work at the head of
the District of Columbia draft board.
He exemplifies another practice Gen.
eral Crowder has developed, that of
picking up an executive who has been
particularly successful with the draft
in his own locality, and bringing him
to headquarters.
The exhaustive medical provisions
of the draft are now under the direc-
ton of Colonel F. r. Keefer, reg
ular army officer, who heads the
medical division.
Lieutenant Colonel Roscoe S. Conk-
ling, a relative OF the famed New
York senator and political leader, Is
particularly charged with classified
ton questions for the whole of the
draft within the United States. be-
cause he proved particularly success
full in getting through emergency or
ganization in New York city.
Endless tables of figures and sta
tistics have to be marshaled to keep
the stream of men flowing into can
comments, and for this work General
Crowder imported Major H. E. Steph.
enson. efficiency expert with the
Pennsylvania railroad. For his per-
sonal military aid, General Crowder
has Major ]. Barry King of Oklahoma.