The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-10-16
fBy Associated Press)


WASHINGTON. Oct. leone 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
Crowder has "a weakness" for law
yers, especially distinguished lawyers.
and he has them in quantities now.
They are not advisers or consultants.
but have been taken away from luc-
rative private practices, thrust into
uniform, and set to work actually as
aides and staff members, to help run
the machine. Some OF the legal
lumina ries so captured are men OF
more than national note in their pro-
fession.
The first man whom General Crowd
er called in from civil life was Charles
B. Warren, Of Detroit, now colonel and
senior officer on his staff. Colonel
Warren has written most of the Sc
lective service regulations, and was
primarily responsible for the formula
ton of the regulations for the first
draft. Incidentally Colonel Warren
has written many OF the congression-
al statutes which have been enacted
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.
Once, during the fisheries dispute with
Canada, he held the attention of the
Hague tribunal with an argument six
days long. At an earlier date he was
one of the lawyers appointed by the
president to argue the case of the
United States before the Joint High
Tribunal created to adjuciate claims
of Great Britain against the United
States arising out of the Boring Sea
seal fisheries controversy. Robert
Lansing, now secretary of state, was
also of counsel in that matter. In ad-
dition to his career in the field of in
ternational law, Colonel Warren has
developed a financial career. He is
heavily interested 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 pri-
vate activities to join General Crowd
er's machine for downing the Hun.
His varied experience in law. business,
and finance, has naturally been an in
valuab asset in laying out and adj
ministering the draft.
Colonel j. H. Wigmore-most law
yers will instantly think of 'Wigmore
on Evidence in this connection-was
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. EasbySmith, Washington at
torney with a supreme court practice,
came to the staff because of his sue
cessful work at the head of the Dis
tTict of Columbia draft board He ex-
emplifies another practice General
Crowder has developed. that of pick
ing up an executive who has been
particularly successful with the draft
in his own locality, and bringing him
in to headquarters
Major J. r. Clark, also of Washing
ton. D. c., formerly solicitor for the
state department, has been newly ad-
ded to the department, as Office ad-
jutant. 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.
Lieutenant Colonel Grant Trent,
who sat on the Philippine islands SUI
preme bench several years, and Lieut..
Colonel Joseph F. Fairbanks, New
England attorney, give special atten-
ton to the digest of draft cases ap-
pealled to the president. Lieutenant
Colonel Roscoe S. Conklin, relative