Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-11-24

ter A few months ago William
 J. Bryan resigned his position secretary of state in the cabinet of President Wilson. He was succeeded by Robert Lansing. These two statements of fact put together because it may be justified by the human inter- est which seems to exist in the fact that John w. Foster is the father-in-aw of Robert Lansing.
 It is probable that two more entirely different in temperament and in manifestations thereof existed than William J. Bryan and his successor in office, Robert Lansing. Mr. Bryan less inclined to be hail fe low well met with men. MT. Lansing has little of the hail fellow we'll met in him, but theless he is approachable, genial and almost without question the best listener that the state department has had for a great many years
 Now it is said frequently that the who is good listener is more apt to get results than the man who is shall not say a good, but great talker. Those who know the pres ent secretary of state say that there is chan nei connecting one of his ears with the other. This simply is their way of expressing the fact that nothing that goes into of MT. Lansing's ears finds exit from the other. He holds, fast sara @iater he acts on his knowl- edge refuses to act on it seems better to 1s understanding of the case.
 Ordinarily speaking, persons like to hear stories about in high positions. It is prob ably no exaggeration to say that there a thousand stories about MT. Bryan, about MT Knox, about MT. Root, and about other of the predecessors in office of the present incumbent to about the present incumbent himself When says stories, of course, he human interest and humorous stories. MT. Lansing does not lend himself readily to the ex- ploitaton of fun making. He is grave man. receptive and therefore not at all uberant His sense of humor, however is keen ard he enjoys good story well told and enjoys it with an evident, ii quiet, showing of appreciation
 kindO Of str thav ahO MT when story is demanded is in character thing like that of the man himself, grave and dignifed, and not possessing the qualities which make up the more less substantial story with a substratum of humor
 For instance not long ago two ambassadors representing foreign countries and high official of the United States government, ex- pressed desire for audience with Mr. Lan- sing a certain Thursday evening MT. Lan- sing said that he would be happy to the gentlemen at almost any other time, but Thursday evening I must go to church"
 Now, Robert Lansing is Presbyterian, and good one. It took real sincerity of purpose for a secretary of state, who is supposed to be ready at any hours of the day night to listen to the plenipotentiaries of foreign powers, to say tn effect, No, state matters must wait until after prayer meeting
 When MT Bryan was secretary of state he saw the newspaper men frequently and his inter- course with them rather of the free and easy sort because the Nebraska gentleman and is newspaper himself The core spond ants however, did not get any extraor- dinary amount of out of Mr Bryan despite his affability. MT Lansing has regular business meetings with the correspondents. There are few stories to fly back and forth few quips of humor and there is the usual reticence many subjects which marks diplomacy, but MT Lan- sing nevertheless, always gives up story, news item of minor greater importance, when if is for i'm fO To he is pretty keen judge of news values despite not know 4-em dash from linotype machine
 Some people say that MT. Lansing had several months training as secretary of state before he took office actually. These the people who think that he did most of Mir Bryans work. This probably is unjust to MT. Lansing's prede- cessor but it is known definitely that the pres ent secretary consulted constantly and sistently upon most of the matters relating to our foreign intercourse. which recently as everybody knows, has been in state not only delicate, but perious
 It is pretty definitely known that when MT Lansing was counselor for the state depaut- ment he aided the president materially in writing the note to Germany which was penned June g.. It was the tone of this note which MT. Bryan thought was too militant, and it this note in way which caused the Nebraskan to resign his position as chief of the presidents cabinet. When 1t is said that is grave. good listener and not overgiven to talking, the inn ression received is perhaps that he is lacking