Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-02
(By Herbert Temple.)

Special cable from the Internaton- al News Service.)
 London, June 1.-Wackford Squeers would turn in his grave if he knew that the schoolmasters of the United Kingdom met in solemn conclave at the Guildhall to discuss the question what schoolboy should be given to eat. The master of Dotheboys Hall imagined that he had answered the question once for all when he put at the end of his advertisement the words, mo extras, no vacations, and diet unparalleled" But the world has moved fast and far since Charles Dickens stood forth as the champion of the schoolboy. The problem is no longer on how little a boarder may be kept alive, but with what variety and abundance he may be fed without danger to his health Thus, at any rate, was the note of the conference at which the Lord Mayor presided. The deliberations revealed an indul- gence when he hears of the liberal and luxurious dietary recommended by pr. Dukes.
 ! But there is skeleton at every 1 feast Some of the speakers threw out dark hints that seem to threaten institutions dear to the schoolboy. TO hear the tuck shop denounced as place where the young appetite IS debauched must have shocked mem- ories of many delightful though un- authorized meal. And this was not the worst. What man is there of ma ture years who does not recall with a thrill of pleasure those secret and midnight orgies in which the viands were of his own choosing and his own preparation. These, too, are under the ban of modern dietetics. The healthy schoolboy may dismiss the conference with a short word Of his own. His appetite is the only test he need apply in these fortunate days when cold beef and rice buildings have ceased to be luxuries, and spot ted dog'' is no longer weekly pen nance.
 | Baron Marschall von Riebersteln comes, as German Ambassador to this country, with 'quietly advertised olive branch in his hand. In this new character, dramatically at variance with the past career of this fasclnat- ing and singularly able personality, England is delighted to welcome him. There is no party and no man in England who does not cordially desire real improvement in Anglo-German relations. But all the talk of inn provement will end where all pre- vious attempts have ended unless the facts are fairly faced. These facts are naval. Germany has made her self the second naval power in the world. although her military might is unauestioned and although the extent of her seaborne commerce and her colonial empire does not necessitate so imposing display of her naval strength In doing so Germany has challenged British supremacy at sea, and has, by implication, threatened British Imperial security. She can not succeed in wrestling from us the lead in naval power. No British gov ernment could dare to jeopardize the very basis of our national and imper- ial existence. We shall go on, what ever the cost, in the race for sea power which has been forced upon us and we shall remain supreme. If that were clearly recognized and if Ger many were content to abandon hope less rivalry, it would be possible tt adjust Anglo-German relations on 2 less panicky foundation. Meanwhile more power to the elbow of the new Ambassador in his new efforts. Mean while. too. let us keep our powder dry. We earnestly desire peace with Germany. But it must be peace which means relief from an embitter- ing strain which does not modify the friendships and engagements to which We are bound by honor and mutual interests. Germany began the naval race and the naval race would re- main the crux, in spite of one or five hundred von Rieberstein's
 Sobriety in England.
 After seven years absence in Can ada, Earl Grey, on his return to Eng land, is able to pay striking tribute to the sober habits which have grown up among the people of this country.
 At the jubilee celebration of the Church of England Temperance So- ciety, which was held under the presi- dency of the Archbishop of Canter- bury in the fine old library of Iam- beth Place where the organization had it's birth, his lordship said that when he came back from Canada he found that officers of His Majesty's guards had substituted ginger beer