East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-07-11
Man Who is Known as Father
of Draft Law is to Fill
Critical Post in Japan.

WASHINGTON, July 1l.--(By
George h. Holmes, l, N, S. Staff Cor
Ilrespondent lit is seldom the good
fortune Of President Harding to make
an appointment--be it n fifth assist
lane groundkeeper at the White House
or be 1t member of his cabinet-but
what somebody 'squawks."
The scramble for public office has
been so mad, and the competition
for places on the federal payroll so
keen since the republicans moved into
Washington four months ago that the
president has scarcely been able to
make "a single appointment without
treading on the toes OF some "staunch
supporter and loyal party man." who
liz not candidate himself, had Il
friend who was.
A number of these appointments
have aroused so much opposition that
they have been bitterly fought by
Z some of President Harding's erstwhile
colleagues in the United States SEN
ate Some pretty political rows have
without so much as a peep arisini
and no little ill-feeling has been en-
4 gendered,
No Friction Over Post.
But the president is congratulating
himself today on the filling of what is
4 generally conceded ~ be the hardest
and most delicate place at his disposal
4 without so much as peep arising
\ from the job hunters. rhat is the post
] of American Ambassador TO Japan, 20
y (which he named Charles Beecher
Warren of Detroit, a few days ago.
4 The appointment OF the Detroit law
\ yer has been greeted in and out Of
! congress and in and out of political
1 quarters as a good stroke of business.
j Paradoxital as it may seem, Colon
4 ell Warren, or Charley as his inti-
A mates know him, is one of the most
4 widely known and at the same time
4 the least known of any of the distin-
! guished men who have been named to
fill diplomatic posts abroad. To the
general news-reading public he Is
scarcely known at all, but to the in
ner circles" OF the G. o. r. he and his
4 works have been long known and
recognized
n He has attended and taken a promi-
ren although inconspicuous part in
every republican national convention
since 1908, when he first went to Chi
cago as a delegate from Michigan.
I Many of the delegates at the 1920 con-
vention wondered about the identity
of the short, quiet, grayish- haired man
who stood always on the platform
close to the elbow OF Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge. the chairman, observ-
ing, suggesting and, in several in
4 stances, deciding, the course of parlia-
mentary procedure of the convention
4 1t was Charley Warren.
Adviser-in-C Chief to Hays.
Colonel Warren has long been rec
4 ognized as the most astute lawyers
i land political expert in the councils
of the national committee, of which
he was for ten years Il member. Dur
ing the delegate contests before the
committee he always sat at the elbow
of Chairman VIII H. Hays and direct
ed the course of procedure through
whispered instructions to the chair
man.
Occasionally some negro from one
of the southern states, aspiring to q
seat in the convention to which his
title was dubious. would be embar-
irassed by some question suddenly shot
out by Colonel Warren. 1t alwav
seemed to hit the nail on the head,
land not infrequently it caused the in
tantaneous collapse of the contest
lants claim.
Colonel Warren was one of the
lstrategists of the Harding campaign
All summer long he slipped in and out
of Marion. always quietly and unos-
centatiousy. with suggestions, advice
and observations. President Harding
considered his services invaluable and
so stated many times Consequent
while the appointment of Colonel
Warren to Toxic came rs a surprise
70 the public, it was not altogether Sc
o those who knew the services which
he Detroit lawyer rendered the G.
,. p. cause during the campaign.
Father Of the Draft Law"
Probably Colonel Warren's most
conspicuous public service is but least
known-his work in planning and
/. CARRYING through to successful com
pletion the operation of the draft law
Turing the war He was a Lieutenant
Colonel in the Judge Advocate Gen
erals office and as such was the chief
assistant to Major General Enoch II.
Crowder. In many quarters Colone'
Warren is termed the father Of the
draft law"
| Colonel Warren will find a long and
| IMPOSING and extremely delicate list
If problems confronting him in his
new post at Toxic. The Yap contro.
versy, the California anti-alien land
problem, disarmament, the japanese
ambitions in the Far East-these are
but few OF the questions which will
have to be met and disposed Of within
the next four years If the relations be-
tween the United States and the Jan
anese empire are to continue in |