Two Lawyers

John Barton Payne is a man with a thoroughly American history--from Pruntytown (Va.) poverty to Chicago power, by way of labor and the Law.

He began at $50 per year at Mr. Ullman's country store, and before he was 20 had been post-office manager, express and freight agent and During his thirties he took up the practice of law in Chicago, and in 1893, when all other Democrats were defeated, he was elected Judge of the Superior Court.

Twenty-five years later he emerged from the distinguished law firm of Winston, Payne, Strawn & Shaw, and at the call of Woodrow Wilson, became in rapid succession: General Counsel to the Emergency Fleet Corporation and to the Director General of Railroads, Chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, Secretary of the Interior.

President Harding made him active head of the Red Cross, and it is the work of that organization to which Mr. Payne is determined to give his chief interest--serving without pay.

Mr. Warren, as well as Mr. Payne, is noted for his legal capacity. He served in two great historic cases-- the Behring Sea claim and the North Atlantic Fisheries arbitration with Great Britain.

Charles Beecher Warren has always lived in Detroit, where he learned and practiced law. President Harding sent him to Tokyo charged with the responsibility of ambassador, of preparing the way for the Washington conference and of " follow-up " work. When he had performed this service Mr. Warren returned just in time to undertake the task of establishing happier relations with our more immediate neighbor, Mexico.