The Alaska daily empire., 1918-10-23
SPORTS

WASHlNGION, Oct. Z3. - One great factor in Provost Marshal Gen
 eral Crowder's success in administer ing the draft has been the type of men he selected to help him. Gen eral Crowder has "a weakness" for
 lawyers, especially distinguished law yers, and he has them in quantities
 now. They are not advisers or con- sultants, but have been taken away from lucrative private practices, , thrust into uniform, and set to work | actually as aides and staff members, to help run the machine. Some of the legal luminaries so captured are
 men or more than national note in | their profession.
 The first man whom General Crow der called in from civil life was Charles B. Warren of Detroit, now Colonel and senior officer on the staff. Colonel Warren has written
 most of the selective service regu
 lations, and was primarily responsi ble for the formulation of the regu lations for the first draft. Incl dentally Colonel Warren has written many of the Congressional statutes which have been enacted in connec tion with the draft. Colonel Warren was on two occasions before becorn
 ing an aide to General Crowder at
 torney for the United States in in
 ternational arbitrations. Once, dur
 ing 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 by adjudicate 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 addition to his career in the field of international law, Colonel War ren has developed a financial career
 He is heavily interested in large in- dustrial enterprises and banks in
 Detroit, his home city, and had found time to be president of the
 Detroit Chamber of Commerce be
 fore he dropped his private activities to join General Crowder's machine
 for downing the Hun. His varied experience in law, business, and ii.
 nance, has, naturally been an inval
 uable asset in laying out and admin istering the draft.
 Colonel J. H. Wigmore-most law yers will instantly think of Wig
 more on Evidence in this connection was dean of Northwestern Univer- sity law school and author of sev- eral recognized volumes on legal lore when the draft organization took him. Colonel J. s. Easby-Smith, "a Washington attorney with a Supreme Court practice, came to the staff be- cause of his successful work at the head of the District of Columbia draft board. He exemphfies another practice General Crowder has de- veloped, that of picking up an exc Cutlfo WuO Hds Dceu pdTtlculdTiy successful with the draft in his own locality, and bringing him in to head quarters.
 Major J. R. Clark, also of Wash ington, D. C., formerly solicitor for the State Department. has been new ly added to the department, as of flee adjutant. The exhaustive medi- cal provisions 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, 1 who sat on the Philippine Islands Su- preme bench several years, and Lieu tenant Colonel Joseph F. Fairbanks, a New England attorney, give spec ial attention to the digest of draft | cases appealed to the President Lieutenant Colonel Roscoe S. Conk- lin. relative of the famed New York Senator ands> political leader. Is now particularly charged with questions for the whole of the draft within the United States. because he proved 2aYficularly sue Il