BRYAN'S SUCCESSOR.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 113, 26 November 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

BRYAN'S SUCCESSOR.

ROBERT LANSINGS BRILLIANT

CAREER. " The man who never refits" would be a fair description of Mr. Robert Lansing, who succeeds "Silver-Tongucd Brvan as Secretary of State for America His secretaries and staff have never discovered what his real hours of work are. He will sometimes arrive at the office at seven in the morning in order to answer personal letters before affairs of .State claim his attention, and although he leaves for home between six and seven in the evening, he often arranges for the final draft of important papers to be sent to him to study after dinner.

WRITES PURE ENGLISH. There is one hour in the twentyfour, however, when Mr. Lansing, according to one who knows him, insists on alisolute privacy. This is between midnight and one o'clock in the mornin", when he amuses himself with the studv of the Engli.sh language. For it is said that his greatest ambition is to write the purest English that can flow from bis pen. Lansing was Bryan*s understudy—or rather right-hand man—before he attained his present office. "President Wilson discussed with Counsellor Lansing the latest Note from across the Atlantic," "Counsellor Lans ; ng to-day spent half an hour with President Wilson," were the regular announcements in the newspapers; and instead of the query, " Where is Bryan P" people began to say, "Who is Lansing-''' Tney found out when Bryan resigned im portfolio and Lansing stepped into 1 is place, thus awaking one morniv.j to find himself famous.

DABBLES IN ART. Like many other famous men who have drifted into politics and diplomacy, Lansing began life as a lawyer, and lie has carried through many delicate negotiations for the States. But he has other hobbies besides work. He loves to "drown worms on the end of a. line,'' and in his earlier days had a passion for baseball. "Now,'' he says, "my chief recreation seems to be that of smoking more than is good for me, spoiling canvas, and wasting paints" Lansing da hides in Art. and has even been accused of writing poetry. America's Secretary of State, however, is very domestic in hits tastes. He likes the theatre, and is not adverse to dining out or entertaining small parties tinder his own roof, while Sunday morning usually finds him in church.