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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-13

and Mexico upon different occasions,
and ne is also the author OF number
Of books. among them American Dip
lomacy in the Orient" "A Century Of
American Diplomacy" diplomatic
Memoirs" "The Foreign Wars of the
United States" "Maximilian and the
Mexican Empire" and What the United
States Has Done for international Ar
bitration."
The person who jumps to the con-
clusion that, because his father-in-iaw
is peace advocate, Robert Lansing
must necessarily share his views is
mistaken. One glance at the deter
mined jaw and firm eyes of the man
who is guiding the State Department
through the troubled waters of interna-
tonal diplomacy should show that there
is a well-balanced mind directing all
the movements of the counsellor, and
that this mind is not accustomed to &C
cept blindfold the ideas of another.
John W. Fosters influence may have
had something to do with the placing
of Robert Lansing in the post of coun-
sellor Of the State Department-but 1t
is personal ability and unhagging atten-
ton to duty that has made his reputa-
ton.
One year ago, when Mr.. Lansing was
appointed to-succeed Mr.. Moore, official
Washington looked up its who's Who
to discover who the young man was.
Six months ago had you suggested that
the counsellor would succeed Mr..
BRYAN as Secretary OF State you would
have been laughed at To-day the
opinion of Washingtng has changed.
Lansing has proved what he can do and,
what is more, that he is willing and
ready to do 1t.
In the doing thereof he has added one
more name TO the roster Of sons OF
New York who have carved names for
themselves in the Hall OF Diplomatic
Fame. Mr.. Lansing is native of Wa
tertown, n. Y, where he was born on
October II, 1864, the son of an eminent
lawyer, descended from a fanny close
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-13

Bryan. He is, if anything, a little too
unassuming and quiet TO suit news
paper correspondents, whose positions
depend upon their obtaining news
quickly. He has a very annoying habit
Of making the interviewer talk great
deal, while he himself listens. He is
pleasant He is affable. But his in
scrutablity is almost Oriental.
Mr.. Lansing is we'll fitted to hold
position where one has to deal with
all manner Of men and all kinds Of dis
positions. Invariably in a good humor,
with a smile and a CHEEKY word for all,
the counsellor makes friend of every
one he meets. This accounts for the
fact that he succeeded whore his prede-
cessor, Mr.. Moore, failed, for he man
aged to get along famously with Secre-
tary Bryan.
But" as one friend of his remarked
not long ago. Lansing can get along
with any one" And this surely is one
Of the primary requisites of a diplomat
or a man who has to handle diplomats
To this talent, which must have been
his from the beginning, is added the
fact, as Mr.. Lansing himself calls IT,
that he married into diplomacy" The
successor to Mr.. Bryan is a son-in-law
cf John Watson Foster, Secretary of
State under President Harrison and
one of the shrewdest diplomatists and
politicians the United States has ever
produced "The old fox of American
diplomacy" was the nickname applied
to him by his former colleague, and
there is little doubt that the lndianian
has done much TO bring TO the atten-
ton Of the world the Importance and
dignity of American diplomatic rela-
tions.
John W. Foster is remarkable, not
only for the fact that he was very sue
cessful in his diplomatic endeavors,
but also because he was financially sue
cessful therein. One fee received
from China for his part in framing
the treaty of Shimonoseki, between
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-13

Japan and China in 1s95-is reputed
to have been we'll over 100000, and
his work in other channels has been als
most as lucrative.
The former Secretary Of State, who
will be eighty years old next year,
was born in Pike County, Ind, and
graduated at the University Of Indiana
in 1855 After graduating from the
Harvard Law School, he practised law
in Evansville, Ind, from 1857 to 1861.
When the Civil War broke out, Foster
enlisted as a major in the Twenty-ffth
Indiana Volunteers, and was promoted
to lieutenant colonel for gallantry
under fire at Fort Donelson. For
bravery at Shiloh he was promoted TO
colonel, and he was the first to enter
Knoxville, Tenn, at the head of the
Union forces on September 4, 1863. At
the close of the war he was made a
brigadier general and returned to
Evansville, where he conducted the
DAILY Journal" until he was ap-
pointed postmaster of Evansville in
1859.
His actual entry into politics was
made in 1872 when he was elected
chairman of the Indiana Republican
State Committee. and from that time
on political and diplomatic life claimed
him for its own. He was Minister to
Mexico for seven years, then Minister
TO. Russia and Minister to Spain. In
1892 he was made Secretary of State in
President Harrison's Cabinet and
served until the end of the Presidents
term.
In addition to his achievements in
the field Of diplomacy. Mr. Foster has
served with distinction on the Bering
Sea Commission, on the committee that
drew up the tripartite agreement be-
tween the United States, Russia and
Japan concerning sealing in Bering
Sea. on the Anglo Canadian Commits
sion and the Alaskan Boundary Com
mission. Between times he has found
opportunity to act officially for China
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-13
What Cam Poetry Do for Our RI

Edoar Lee Masters IS young prde-
fisino attorney of Chicago Illinois, tchose
Spoon Rirer Anthology first printed IN
Peedy's Mirror" has been hailed as the
most arrosting poetry Of the literary
decade bp such eminent critics as John
Cooper Poicps, 1cbo in lectures in this
co,,nt17, rcccntly declared Mr.. Masters to
be the greatest poet 'ce hare. Mr.. Mast
ers kindly consented TO tcrite for The
Tribune his conception Of the ralue OF
poetry in the gro,ctb Of this nation,
significant and Grresting article coming
from a man rho has Tired shoulder to
shoulder ,cith men, and not in the com
monty accepted atmosphere Of the pro-
fcssjoral poet.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-13
BY WILLIAM NELSON TAFT.
HON. ROBERT LANSING
Secretary of State OF III

lk"HE HON. ROBERT LANSING,
Secretary of State OF the
United States Of America"
= Despite the fact that President Will
son has not appointed him TO his Cab
met, and the simple legend Counsellor
of the State Department" still hangs
over the door, Robert Lansing, Of
WATERFOWL, y. Y, is for the moment
Mr.. Bryan's successor and Secretary Of
State. The President now faces the
problem Of appointing a successor not
10 Mr. Bryan but 20 Mr. Lansing, the
lookout man on the ship Of state and
the big power behind the work of the
State Department ever since he took
Office in April, 1914, the man who was
always there"
Now is not the time to recall
the lengths Of time Mr.. Bryan spent
away from the State Department, but
those who know their official Washing
ton know that the major portion of the
State Departments grist has been per-
formed by the two men, since March
4, 1913, who have held the Office Of
counsellor, John Bassett Moore, Of
Columbia, accounted the countrys
ablest international law expert, and
Robert Lansing
John Bassett Moore. whose day.
after all, held only twenty-four hours,
was practically First Assistant Secre-
tsry OF State. The counsellor's Office
was or a new plane Of responsibility.
The First Assistant Secretaryship, so
important a post when Huntington
Wilson held il under Philander Knox,
has since carried few of the burdens of
official matters. Robert Lansing, when
he succeeded Moore. found himself
pressed into service. Therefore the
duties Of acting secretary" are not
new 20 him. For at least a year he
has been doing the work.
There is nothing Of the notoriety-
seeker about the successor to Mr..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-13
WILLIAM GOODE

TN O all in the Village l seemed, no doubt,
To 60 this way and that way, almIeSsly'
But here by the river you can see at
twilight
The soft winged bats fly zizzag here and
there
They must fly so to catch their food.
And if you have ever lost your way at night
In the deep wood near Miller's Ford,
And lodged this way and now that,
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YIN SPEAKING OF poetry choose TO dis
regard questions OF prosody and OF form
in order TO concentrate attention upon
49, or.i;t,, oF aoDeal 70 the emotions and
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tics. our life as members of the nation, from
the concerns of the kitchen. where all is STRIFE,
TO the interests Of the library, the art gallery
and nature. 70 those interests in general where
that predominant good in human nature has
chance to express itself, and will express IT.
self. as of men out for holiday
The nation must attend to the business OF
the nations economics. But it is because we
are too much influenced by the mercantilsts
and by hedonistic materialism that the re-
public finds difficulty in freeing itself at all
from the worries OF the kitchen. And it has
been our shame that the strong will not see
that as the less efficient are treated with IN
Justice the whole state is corrupted and Its
destiny lowered; and that seeing it, as it seems
the strong must at times see 1t, still they re-
fuse to loose their grip upon decay that must
sooner or later poison them and poison US all.
To paraphrase the words Of one OF the great
est poets if we will seek first the kingdom OF
beauty these necessary things Of life will be
added to US 1t is the lust for riches and
power inspired by pride and rivalry, that
makes for our discontinue, and we have
failed 70 overcome it just because it has been
opposed chiefly, if not entirely, by material
istic wrangling and by spirit essentially bitter
and rebel.
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Wherever the light of the Milky Way shone
through,
Trying to find the path,
You should understand | sought the way
With earnest zeal, and all my wanderings
Were wanderings in the quest.
ALEXANDER
TKfROCMMORTON
TN Youth my wings were strong and tire
less,
But did not know the mountains.
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WILL AMERICA, LIKE GREECE, KEEP
HER EYES ON OLYMPUS?

What then can poetry do for the republic'
Poetry can unity and strengthen, as well as
multiply the enlightened souls so that they
shall be the governing force, supplanting those
nateralists who would continue to make OF
men commercial commodity, and who would
continue the republic as kitchen from which
TO serve them Even slavery could not cor
rupt Greece, because Greece kept her eyes
upon Olympus, and in Athens, Phidias sat IN
comradeship and in the joy OF creative work
side by side with artisans who were slaves
The future of American poetry is full OF the
greatest promise, and in this present day there
is achievement OF note and OF tructtying
power Perhaps no characters will be here
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Daughter" and "The Northern P,yr..,
preempt the whole field where Nr. Pros,
easel 20 paint the death Of the hired r..
Poetry has more readers to-day Sra
known in my lifetime, and attribute !, y
fact that there is in America, as we'll :.
where in the world, large audience vs,, ~
70 be stirred by reality Of expression. A..
lies hidden and torpid against son,.,,
simulate the emotions Of other artists 49,
which remotely suggest feelings Of NOR. :. ~ Z,
vague or anaemic quality. Poetry ia
prt when IL concerns :tself with life. ana ~ -
art demands that that concern shan l.
and intimate.
Lest be accused here and there Of a..
single and exclusive to free verse. 7 via.
that poetry takes all forms for her on, =
idea and the feeling can be best conv.,.,
willamette, then a willamette should he a.,
and so for the same reason should IN.
the lyric, the ode be the form as the
be, having in mind that snapests, dactyf. 80
and trochees and other feet should Be ~,
the surer expression Of the emotion.
But would sey to the critics who spss.-.
free verse that they are unconseiouslv a.
in the unlettered opinion as 70 poetry. WIZ.
notes it with a rhyme and with a dss-h,
cabularly and form. The old words /, =.
settings have not the magnetic power % A..
themselves the realities Of our time. AL,
the business Of the poet 10 interpret srS..
a local habitation and a name to the s,,.-
rising up among those that are disapoe,s.,
Wordsworth recognized the fact that n. -
before his day, as we'll as Of his day, did =.
the words common to the speech Of mes. Is, !,
set about to do that thing in his lyrical NJ
Coeridge wrote long essay to prov. IA. u
had failed. Yet Wordsworth was aiming :, :,
ism by words and By the simplicity OF ~, j
rangement; he understood that the uo.., u
would produce, the idealism he would s,,,|
rested with his Interpretation, to which a. n
Of the common speech Of men would r;r,r,
though primarily controlled BY th. subj.c, j
lected and the background given them. Rs-r
tcsts and idealists, as they arrogate thos. ,-
TO themselves, seem 20 forget that poetry M,
a purge, as well as many other things: In
the exercise Of high legitimacy il may ter |
ugliness, brutality, cruelty-sll the baser ,ar,-
as well as of beauty. tenderness, h.ro,r "A
all the high spiritual manifestations Of nr N,
can stand ugliness in Homer and Shsk.rar
ugliness in Dante, and no poet ever pcruv
more ugliness than Dante; but they came, "a,
it when It is embodied in language no. srs
tonally classic, but in modern langusg. vi
gives the picture true 10 the life Of to-d5 4
is to them but photography in the fac, n
fact that the poetical power must make N Il
lection and give its environment In tern 4
significance.
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MAsTERSS "SpOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY" =. =.

millions,
And the benefcent face Of a nation
Shining with justice and trust.
am Ann Rutedge who sleep beneath these
weeds,
Beloved in life of Abraham Lincoln,
Welded to him, not through union,
But through separation.
Bloom forever, o Republic,
From the dust of my BOSOM
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phenomena of human character. For one rea-
son human character reacts newly as environ
ment changes; for another reason we have be-
gun to see that there is large realm OF un-
explored spiritual intinacies which lends IT.
self to Interpretation. Therefore, as / see it,
the poetry that is yet to be written will probe
more realistically than hitherto into the secrets
of life, and will boldly bring them TO the light.
And there is mass of material indigenous to
America waiting for the right hands to take it
and fashion it for understanding.
regard Whitman as the poet who made
the commencement in the direction of a new
authenticity in poetry. His chant is of the re-
public, always of the republic. He speaks for
the goodness of life, its opportunity, its free
dom and it's beauty The world to him is
good, and the body is not inferior to the soul
in this sphere of our life. The New England
school cannot match him in vitality or in
vision. do not say that "Snowbound" is not
an enduring work, nor that "Keramos'
"Evangeline," "Hawatha," and many Of Long
fellows lyrics are not to be treasured; nor that
"The Problem" and "Brahma" and The Thren-
ody" of Emerson have been displaced OF their
old regard, or that something of Holmes and
a good deal of Poe, even though the latter
stressed the physical horror Of death, can be
obscured by any school of poetry present or
TO come.
A STANDARDIZED POETRY is SOMETHING
THAT CANNOT BE.
object to the criticism which selects these
poets and the classic poets Of England and other
tongues for exclusive admiration, with the pur-
pose of drawing all poetry to something or their
standard or method. For poetry is not definite
thing. like, for example, the waltz, which ceases
20 be the waltz when it becomes the fox-trot, but
is better compared to dancing, which is stlll
dancing whether it be the strophic or anti
strophc movement of Greek chorus. or the
stately grace of minuet. As new pictures have
been painted since Tennyson ceased to write, en-
visioned by eyes to whom meadows and noun
tains and faces took on a new light, so and even
in a greater degree poems have been written
since them and are being written now. THE Millers
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Continued on page seven. aaaa1
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-02-24
GAIN EXPORTS INCREASE.
Reports Show That Much Wheat and
Corn Have Been Exported.

Five times as much wheat and six
times as much corn were exported
from the United States in December
as in the same mon-h in 1918; foul
exports increas d more than IS pei
cent. for the same period; fresh bee.
increased more than twelVefold, and
generally the exports Of breadstufs.
which includes practically all the Sta
pie grains, increased five times.
Those figures were disclosed Thurs
day by the department Of commerce
in response to inquiries IS to what
extent foodstuffs were going abroad
with resulting abnormal prices al
home. The departments summary
says:
wheat exports in December ag-
gregate 2S,S75,217 bushels, or five
times the quantity in December, 1913.
The average export price last Decem-
Der was $1.25 per bushel, against SO
cents in December one year earlier
OF flour the mouths export move
ment as 6S 1-2 per cent. more than
in December, 1913, being 1,81S,311
barrels, compared ith 1,079,240 in
the same month a year ago and the
value thereof was s9,473,660, COM
pared with s4,903,223 in December,
1913. Oats showed larger total in
December than in the entire calendar
year 1913.
"CorR exports in December, 1914,
amounted t. 4,5s2,006 bushels, val
ued at s3,554,592, against 749,124
bushels, valued st s560,165, In Dec
ember, 1913"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-02-24
SLASHEs WIFE'S THROAT.
Anderson Mill Operative Stays Wo
man and Stabs Himself.

c. r. Alexander, aged 81, employ
ID in the weave shop Of Pelzer Mills,
was brought to the county Jail at
Anderson Tuesday afternoon. It Is
alleged that late Monday night he
cut his young wife's throat, infiicting
Injuries from which she died imme-
diately. He is then said to have
stabbed himself in the throat, caus-
ing much loss Of blood, and the
wound came near proving fatal.
Alexander says his wife admitted
that she had been unfaithful to him
when he accused her Of same. Alex
ander says his wife struck him with
a hair brush and that he became in
furiated and attacked her.
He says he has no recollection Of
having slashed her throat or having
stabbed himself. The mans S-year-
old son by his first wife was wit
ness and he declares Alexander made
the attacks. Alexander came from
Jackson county, n. c., one year ago
and married a second time shortly
after locating in PelZer.
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HOLDS TO WAR ZONE
CONTINUED from page one. }

sion-though naturally not so far as
mines are concerned-Gcrmany rec
ommends that the United States make
their ships which are conveying
peaceful cargoes through the British
war zone discernible by means of con-
voys.
Germany believes it may act on
the suppositicn that only such ships
would be conveyed as carried goods
not regarded as contrabaDd, accord
ing to the British Interpretation made
in the case of Germany.
How this method of convoy can
be carried out is a question concern
ing which Germany is ready to open
negotiations with the United States
as soon as possible. Germany would
be particularly grateful, however, If
the United States would urgently rec
ommend to its merchant vessels to
avoid the British naval war zone, in
any case until the settlement Of flag
question.
Germany is inclined to the conf.
dent hope that the United States will
be abe to appreciate in it's entire sig
niicance the heavy battle which Ger
many is waging for existence and that
from the foregoing explanations and
promises it will acquire full under
standing Of the motives and the aims
OF the measures announced by Ger
many.
II Law is Restored.
Germany repeats that it has now
resolved upon the projected meas
ures only under the strongest neces-
sity Of national self-defense, such
measures having been deferred out OF
consideration for peutrals. II the
United States, in view Of the weight
which it is justified in throwing and
able to throw, into the scales Of the
fate Of peoples, should succeed at the
last moment in removing the grounds
which make that procedure an obliga-
tory duty for Germany, and if the
American government in particular
should find way to make the decla-
ration Of London respected be-
half also Of those powers which are
fighting on Germany's side-ard
thereby make possible for Germany's
legitimate importation Of the neces-
saries Of life and industrial raw ma
terial, then the German government
could not too highly appreciate such
a service, rendered in the interests of
humanity, and would gladly draw
conclusions from the new situation"
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Another Neutral Needs Help.

The brief dispatches which come
from the Far East bring tidings of no
great good. China, according to a
peking dispatch, has been informed
by the japanese foreign minister,
Baron Takaki Kato, that Japan
must insist on the acceptance of the
total demands recently made on
China"
The absolute acceptance is very
much similar to the Austro-Hunga-
rian ultimatum to Servia, which
started the events which led to the
great war. But in this case there
will be no rush on the part of Euro
pean nations to help the neutral.
which refuses to acquisce in the de-
mands OF its powerful neighbor, for
they have little direct interest in the
slowly awakening empire.