The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-20

legal luminaries so captured are men
OF iAore than national note in their
profession.
The first man whom General Grow
der called in from civil life was Chas.
ID Warren Of Detroit, now colonel and
senior officer in his staff. Colonel
Warren has written most of the selec.
tive service regulations, and wa" -
marily responsible for the formula
ton OF the regulations for the first
draft. incidentally Colonel Warren
has written many Of the congressional
statutes which have been enacted
into law in connection with the draft.
Colonel Warren was on two occas-
ions before becoming an aide to Cen
eral Crowder attorney for the United
States in international arbitratlons.
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 ap-
POINTED by the President to argue the
case of the United States before the
Joint High Tribunal created adjudi-
cate claims of Great Britain against
the United States arising out of the
Berring Seal fisheries controversy.
Robert Lansing, now secretary OF
state, was also Of counsel in that
mater. In addition to his career in
the field of International law, Col
onel Warren has developed finan-
cial career. He is heavily interest
ed in large industrial enterprises and
banks in Detroit, his home city, and
had found time to be president OF the
Detroit Chamber of Commerce before
he dropped his private activities to
Join General Crowder's machine for
downing the Hun. His varied expe-
rience in law, business, and finance
has naturally been an invaluable as
set in laying out and administering
the draft.
Colonel ]. II. ,Wlgmore- most law
yers will instantly think of 'Wigmore
on Evidence in this connection--wa
dean of Northwestern University law
school and author Of several recog-
nized volumes on legal lore when the
draft organization took him. Colonel
j. S. Easily Smith, Washington at
torney with a Iupreme court prac-
tice, came to the' draft because OF his
successful work at the head Of the
District of Columbia draft board. He
exemplifies another practice General
Crowder has developed, that of pick
ing I'D an executive who has been par
ticularly successful with the draft in
his own locality, and bringing him
in to headquarters
Major ]. R. Clark, also of Washing
ton, d. C. formerly solicitor for the
state department, has been newly adj
ded to the department as officer ad
iutant The exhaustive medical pro-
visions of the draft are now under the
direction of Colonel F. r. Keefer, a
regular army officer, who heads the
medical division.
CAI
sat upon the PHILIPPINE islands SUI
preme bench for several years, and
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph F. Fair
banks, New England attorney, give
special attention to draft cases ap-
pealed to the President Lieutenant
Colonel Roscoe S. Conklin relative
of the famed New York senator and
political leader, is now particularly
charged with classification questions
for the whole of the draft within tn
United States, because he proved parti-
cularly successful in getting trough
emergency organization in New York
CITY. Lieutenant Colonel II. c. Kra-
mer, now heading an inspection divis-
ion came in after making a success
in New Jersey, as agent of the adiu'
tant general of that state, in similar
duty,
Endless tables of figures and Stats
tics have to be marshalled to keep
the stream of men flowing into can
tonments, and for this work General
Crowder imported Major H. e. Ste.
phenson, late efficiency expert with
the Pennsylvania railroad. For his
personal military aide, General Crow
der has Major Barry King of Okla
homa.