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NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Secretary of State Lansing Is Forced Out of the Cabinet by President Wilson. DISCORD OF VIEWS REVEALED Director General Hines Refuses to Raise Wages of Railway Employees and the Dispute Goes to President —Renewed Hope for Peace Treaty. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Forced out by Presdient Wilson on a pretext, Secretary of State Lansing* resigned from the Cabinet on Friday and his resignation was accepted at once.--Coincident with this announcement the state department gave out the correspondence on the subject between the president and the secretary —a series of letters that made plain the growing discord between the two men and revealed what looked like querulous irritability on the part of Jlr, Wilson. All the world knows of some of the disagreements, but the (president chose for the subject of complaint the fact that Mr. Lansing had been calling informal meetings of the cabinet duritag the illness of the chief executive. He wrote as though lhe had -just learned of this, and asserted that in doing it the secretary had usurped presidential prerogative. This has put the other members of the cabinet?’in an uncomfortable position, fdr the cabinet gatherings were - '‘called and held by their advice and .'Consent, Washington Is wondering ' ’’whether they, too, will be called on ■"’■•ltd resign. r Litnsing’s resignation is less surprising than the fact that he has so long remained in the cabinet. Though h.e. wa.s_i.Ue “preiiiier,” he, like the loThef'adviserb of the president, was (accorded mighty little freedom of action. Though more nearly a trained (diplomat than any other member of Jthe administration, and nominally in of foreign affairs, all important international matter's were han'dled not by him, but by President Wil. : Tson himself of by Colonel House. ‘Other cabinet members much inferior in ability and experience, like Baker, Burleson and Daniels, have been- taken into the confidence of the president much more than has Mr. Lansing. He has been a good deal of a “rubber (Stamp’’ through no fault of his own, >and his friends would have liked to ■see him get out of the cabinet long ago. A Director General Hines and the eads of the railway unions failed to Teach an agreement as to Wages, and (the whole matter was passed on to (President Wilson for his decision of (the final attitude of the government. *The possibility of a general railway (strike and consequent paralysis of industry loomed big, despite the assertion of the leaders of the four brother|hoods that no such move was being (considered yet. Mr. Hines, after many days Os con-, Iference with the labor chiefs, came Ito the conclusion that, though the may be entitled to more pay funder existing llvlhg conditions, it is 'economically impossible for the railxvay. administration to grant the increases in view of the fact that federal control comes to an end on March 1. It was believed in Washington What the president would sustain Sir. Hines and appeal to the railway uniions to submit their demands to the rwage adjustment boards provided sos in the pending railway legislation. <unions, however, do not seem to have any faith in such tribunals, and feel ithat they will have no chance after the roads have been returned tp private ownership. Everyone concerned in the mattes directly feels that the union chiefs have .been very courteous and havb chown t a. genuine desire to avoid serious trouble. It is to be expected that some strikes will follow if the president decides against the workers, bht

HAWAIIANS IN U. S. NAVY Islanders Said to Make Excellent Bluejackets and Take to the Service Enthusiastically. ' Seattle,., Wash. —When the battleship New York took- Secretary .Daniels to Honolululast summer it was short of ■< : tnon, as was every other ship in the navy... previously to that a few natiye * HaWtilians had enlisted in the navy but they were scattered among »nt skips afifl barely noticed? The bat-

there has been ro threat of a general strike. One such strike already has been, ordered. The tnalntenance of way employees and shop laborers have been directed-’to quit work on February 17. Their president, Allen C. Barker, said, that the submission of the. controversy to President Wilson might avert this, as it was at Mr. Wilson’s request that the strike plans made last August were held in abeyance while the government tried to lower the cost of lining. Since it mainly failed in this, said Mr. Barker, he felt Mr. Wilson would afford the men the relief they had asked. This inay be so, but official statistics do not bear out the claims of the maintenance of way workers. Since 1913 their wages have increased On the average 106 per cent, while the cost of living in the same time-has gone up 83,1 per cent. The congressional conference committee fixed up a clever compromise railway legislation bilk and its speedy acceptance was predicted. But formidable opposition developed. Representatives Barkley of Kentucky and Sims of Tennessee, both Democratic members of the conference refused to sign the report anfl announced they would fight the measure. Barkley objects to the provision for a 5% per cent return on earniflgs with an equal division of excess earnings over 6 per cent between the roads and a government fund for the benefit of the weaker lines. Sims makes his fight especially against the rate-making provision; but he is opposed to > the bill generally for he is an advocate of government ownership. The union labor leaders were waiting until they could study tlie compromise bill, but they were expected to join with the opposition to the measure. The sections dealing with wage adjustments do e not please them. Samuel Gompers, who several times lately has felt his throne tottering, ijas come out strongly against the organization of a political labor party and urges that organized labor devote its effort to the election of members Os congress who will be friendly to it. The third party plan is especially favored by the Plumb plan leaders, but Mr. Gompers warns that it would be fatal to the interests of organized labor. His attack on congress was decidedly bitter, and called forth several vigorous replies, particularly from Senator Sherman of Illinois and Representative Blantoq of Texas. The antagonism between union la|bor and the farmers was accentuated last week when representatives of the National grange, the American Farm Bureau federation, the Cotton States board, and the Association of State Farmers’ union presidents met in Washington and drew up a memorial to (congress denying that any group of organized workers possesses an inherent right to strike. Alluding especially to strikes of (transportation workers, thq memorial, says: “Those who believe that labor has an inherent right to. organize a strike believe that such organizations have a right to starve the people of the cities to death, on the one hand, and to destroy tlje property of the farmers on the other. “No such right had ever existed and no such right exists now. “No set of men has ever had the moral or legal right to destroy property or cause suffering by conspiring together. “What would be the verdict of the people if the farmers of the United States should suddenly decide to go on a strike and refuse to supply the wants and needs of those who are not in a position to produce food and clothing for themselves? They would be condemned from bne end of the country to the other and the fact would be pointed out that they, as the owners and tillers of the land, had no right, either moral or legal, to bring about such a calamity. “If the farmers have no such rights, those who handle their products have no such rights.” Hope springs eternal, and it is now the turn of the peace treaty compromisers to hope that their efforts will be c.rowned with success in the near future. President Wilson’s latest letter to Senator Hitchcock on the subject, apparently written before Vis-

tleship kept open house to the residents of the island and when an announcement was made that a limited number of enlistments would be received the youth of the island swarmed to the ship by hundreds. It wtfs a new venture in navy recruiting. The sea is the native element of the islanders and the navy appealed to them. Out' of the hundreds who applied 250 were enlisted. Experience since then has shown that the healthy young islandfers make excellent bluejackets. Practically all

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count Grey’s pronouncement but made public much later, was interpreted as showing a yielding spirit, and the maneuvering to reach an agreement was renewed. At this writing hope for early ratification rested largely on the report that the mild reservationists, Senator Lodge and a group of Democrats had agreed tentatively on a substitute for the Lodge reservation on article ten. This substitute declares the United States assumes no ’obligation to preserve the territorial integrity or political independence of any country, and Senator Hitchcock indignantly asserted it was no compromise and that its acceptance would be a complete surrender on the part of the supporters of the president. The council of the League of Nations opened its meeting in London on Wednesday, with Arthur J. Balfour in the chair. The nations represented were Belgium, Brazil, Great Britain France, Greece, Italy, Japan and Spain. Both Mr. Balfour and Leon Bourgeois of France expressed regret that the United States w r as not represented. To M. Bourgeois was intrusted the preparation of plans for the organization of the permanent court oi international justice, and other steps were taken toward carrying out ths purposes of the league. There was nothing new last week to indicate the course which the allies would pursue in the matter of the extradition of Germans accused of wai crimes, except an unofficial statemenl that they would insist on the execu tion of the treaty clause. The Berlin government insists that de livery of the culprits is a physical Impossibility apd also would be ar incredible violation of the nation’s honor. The latter point may be disregarded, but the former may have some weight. The British, it is said, are willing to show leniency, but not sc the French. The former crown prince got on the front page with an offer to the heads of the allied governments tc surrender himself in place of the 90C •whom the allies desire to put on trial—a spectacular play to the grand stand which will have np. results. Hungary’s representatives went tc Paris to present their country’s answer to the peace treaty. It was understood they would protest especially against the financial clauses, on the ground that it would be utterly iinpos sible for Hungary to make the payments demanded. As for Austria, starving and freezing, she is still begging some millionaires or wealthy nations to come to her rescue, offering to pledge all the royal palaces or the entire country, if necessary. The-latest successes reported by the soviet forces of Russia include the occupation of Odessa after bloody fight - ing. The bolsheviki also crossed the Sea of Azov from Taganrog and obtained a foothold on the southern coast between the Don and Yeya rivers. On their western borders the peage movement continues. The Letts have now signed an armistice with the Moscow government. At the opening of the British parliament the government made it plain that its policy would be to replace force by a commercial policy in guiding Russia back to sanity and that the “ring of fire” to crush bolshevism is a failure. At the same time Lloyd George and his colleagues said bolshevism was not democracy and civilized methods of government must be adopted before any nation will make peace with Russia. The Democratic members of congress, disregarding the wishes of President Wilson, formally decided in caucbs to oppose any legislation for universal military training. Mr. Wilson’st letter to the caucus not only urged that the matter be not made a party issue, at least until the national convention passed on it, but it clear that he heartily favored a project for moderate military training. The resolution against the training legislation was supported, of course, by such men as Kitchin of North Carolina and was passed by a vote of 106 to 17. Since the big majority of the lower house has adopted the same attitude there seems to be small hope for universal military training at present. Representative Kahn and others of its supporters, however, have not yet given up.

of them are in the deck force. They are strong physically, quick mentally and able to learn the complicated mechanical duties of a battleship. They also harmonize with the other men on the crew. For social purposes, the New York nor/ has a Hawaiian orchestra of ukuleles and steel guitars. Under the stimulus of the seductive strains, more than one wllloVy “gob” boasts that he has developed into a heavyfooted hula hula dancer, as part of his naval tralniD

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Washington Robert Lansing has resigned as secretary of state at Washington. Mr. Lansing left office because he was charged by President Wilson with assuming the prerogatives of the chief executive during the past four months in calling and presiding over meetings of the cabinet. His resignation, tendered in a letter under date of February 12 to the president, was accepted by the latter and became effective at once. Under Secretary of State Frank Polk is the ad interim head of the state department. 9 ♦ • • Recommendations that no action be taken toward preventing shipping board plans for the sale of 30 former German ships were made to the senate at Washington by the commerce committee. • * • No extension of time for filing income tax returns will be granted this year by the bureau of internal revenue, it is announced at Washington. * « « Announcing that the last remaining floating Indebtedness of the government would be redeemed in a few days. Secretary Houston said the position of the treasury was “very bright,” and that goverhftent officials at vVashington saw nothing in the present tinaricial situation which they would regard as extremely grave. John ißarton of Chicago will be President Wilson's new secretary Os the interior, succeeding Franklin K. Lane. Mr. Payne has served as chairman of the shipping board at Washington since last August. • * * Denying on behalf of the railroad administration the demands of the brotherhoods and other railway unions for wage advances ranging from 5 to 40 per cent, Director General Hines terminated the conference with the labor leaders at Washington and announced the reference, at the request of the union leaders, of the whole matter to the White House. » ♦ ♦ * Robert Underwood Johnson of New York, author and editor and one of the founders of the League to Enforce Peace, has been selected by President as ambassador to Rome, to succeed Thoujas Nelson Page of Virginia, who resigned several months ago. * * * Cincinnati was the first city to complete its fourteenth decennial census enumeration, it was announced in the census bureau at Washington. ♦ ♦ * Frederick William Hohenzollern, former crown prince of Germany, in a cablegram received by President Wilson at Washington, offers to surrender himself for trial by the allied governments in place of the approximately 900 Germans whose extradition has been demanded. • * * Foreign An express train on the Newfoundland railway, a narrow guage line, has arrived at St. Johns after being three weeks on the way across, the island from Port-au-Basques. The train was ■scheduled to make the 546-mile run in 29 hours. ♦ * ♦ An Ottawa (Can.) special says Canada has given Great Britain notice that it objects to any change in the covenant of the League of Nations that would prevent the Dominion’s being a full-fledged member of the league. ♦ * * News of the execution of Admiral Kolchak, former head of the all-Rus-sian governfnent, has been officially confirmed at London. He and one of his ministers. M. Popellaywv, were shot at Irkutsk February 7. A Warsaw dispatch says the Polish troops, standing on their native soil, dipped the national colors in the tidewater of the Baltic after the absence of Poland as a sea nation for 148 years. Several Sinn Feiners were arrested in a roundup by a military force at Dublin. A Copenhagen dispatch says Denmark won an overwhelming v.etory in the plebiscite held in the province of Schleswig. The final figures show that Danish adherents cast 75,023 votes, while the Germans polled but 25,087. The American steamship West Aleta is aground off Tershelling Island in the North sea, a wireless report received at London said. The West Aleta sailed from San Francisco January 6 for Hamburg. Thirty-one destroyers and four tenders, part of the Atlantic fleet of the American navy, arrived at Cristobal. Premier Lloyd George told the house of commons at London that he hppefl to introduce the Irish home-rule bill in the house ir a few days. There is a remarkable protest in the leading editorial in the London Daily Express against the recurring use of the word “my” in the king’s speech from the throne, such as “my army, my navy, my people, my possessions.” The Express says the w’ord is contrary to the democratic spirit of the age and ought to be dropped with the other archaisms which serve no useful purpose and only irritate. • • • The falling exchange rate with America threatens to cause a famine at Kingston. Jamaica.

Five men were drowned when the dam of the Abitibi Pulp and Papet company, at Iroquois Falls, Canada, broke. • • » The house of commons at London rejected, by a vote of 254 to 60, the motion of William James Thorne Labor member from West Ham, in favor of a revision of the peace treaty. « « * Raoul Peret was elected president of the chamber of deputies at Pabis by 372 of the 425 votes cast. M. Peret succeeds Paul Deschanel, who was recently elected president of ; the republic. • • • The municipality of Berlin has appropriated 1,000,000 marks for the purpose of lowering the price of milk-for needy families, nursing mothers and invalids. • • • The drink question was briefly discussed in both houses of parliament in London. Earl Curzon told the Jords that the bill on this subject to be introduced would contain provisions for shorter hours of sale. Two regiments of Italian soldiers, accompanied by several batteries of light artillery, have sailed ’ from Trieste, Istria, for Dalmatian ports. Their transports were convoyed by a flotilla of destroyers. * * * The declaration of an armistice between the Letts and the bolshevists is announced in a Riga dispatch. The war office; announces that the bolsheviki in southern Russia have crossed the Sea of Azov. • •('•*' Two hundred thousand men employed in chemical jfactories a. Milan, Italy, including 60,000 workmen in pharmaceutical plants, went on strike for higher wages and a Week’s annual vacation. , * • * X Calgary (Alberta) dispatch says Montana farmers are paying $3.25 a bushel for seed wheat in Alberta, said to be the highest price for any part of last year’s crop. Between 10P.0O0 and 150,000 bushels are being shipped. • * * America has sounded France on the subject of the tobacco monopoly for France being farmed out to the United States for 25 years, according to a report current on the bourse, says the Journal at Paris. * • • Serious consideration of economic conditions throughout the country was urged upon the house of commons at London by King George in his speech from the throne, which opened the session of parliament. • • • Domestic Four bandits entered the Blaine State bank at Blaine. Pottawatomie county, and took between $40,000 and $50,000 in Liberty bonds and $2,000 in cash, according to a report received at Topeka. Kan. ♦ • » Income taxes aggregating $9,000,000 have already been collected In the Chicago district, comprising 30 counties in northern Illinois, according to Acting Collector Harry W. Mager. » » * The first United States-Mexico trade conference in the history of the two republics is now in session at Mexico City, in the School of Mines. One hun-. dred and forty delegates are present from the United States. Announcement was made at Ironwood, Mich., of an increase in wages of approximately 10 per cent to mining employees of the Gogebic range. The increase will affect about 6,000 miners. • * * The 1,600 undergraduates of Wellesley college, at Wellesley, Mass., are under quarantine restrictions because of influenza. The girls may not go to their homes or leave the-town, but are attending classes as usual. *, * * Theft of the $30,000 pay roll of the Aguila Oil company at Tampico Mex., by robbers who killed the messenger carrying the money .was reported to the state department at Washington. « • • Lieut. Harry B. Smith and Harry Brokaw, both of the Ninety-fourth aero squadron, were Instantly killed when their machines collided 125 feet above the ground and at San Antonio, Tex. • « • Mrs. Uzell K. Ivy died at Memphis, Tenn., making the seventh fatality resulting from a luncheon al which ripe olives were served. A complete analysis of the olives showed the presence of botulinus germs. • ♦ • Charles Frederick Gunther, eightythree years old, world renowned art collector and founder of one of the biggest candy manufacturing concerns in the West, died of flu-pneumonia at Chicago. • * • Martial law was declared at Lexington, \Ky., following a riot which exacted a toll of five dead and fourteen wounded. The disorder started over an attempt ta lynch a negro who had confessed to the murder of a ten-year-old girl. * * • Twenty-two hundred barrels of 4 per cent beer, valued at $15,000, was emptied into the sewers leading to the Mississippi river at Winona, Minn. The beverage w-as the property of the Park Brewing company. * * * A flat Increase of SSOO over the 1918 salary schedule for teachers in the Chicago school system and the shortening of the promotional period required to reach the maximum, has been granted. * * * Beer containing 8 per cent alcohol is now being made by Bowler’s brewery at Amsterdam, N. Y., for consflmtion upon doctors’ prescriptions. • * • Military training has been made compulsory in the public schools of Cheyenne, Wyo.

LANSING RESIGNS JOBJIMBW Secretary of State Quits and President Accepts His Resignation. POLK IS AD INTERIM HEAD Wilson Charges Lansing With Assuming Prerogatives of the Chief Executive During the Past Four Months of President’s illness. Washington, Feb. 16. —Robert Lansing resigned on Friday night as secretary of state. Mr. Lansing left office because he was charged by President Wilson with assuming the prerogatives of the president; during the period of the latter’s Illness in the past four mouths by calling and presiding over meetings of the cabinet. g His resignation, tendered in a letter under date of February 12, was accepted by the president Friday and became effective at once. Under-Secre-tary of State Frank Polk is the ad interim head of the state department and may be, named as Mr. Lansing’s successor. The state department on Friday night issued a announcing the resignation of Secretary Lansing and giving the correspondence which passed between the president and his chief aid leading up to the breaking of relations. The correspondence follows: Wilson to Lansing. “The White House, Feb. 7. “My dear Mr. Secretary: Is It true, as I have been told, that during my illness you have frequently called the heads of the executive departments of the government into conference? If it is I feel it my duty to call your attention to considerations which I do not care to dwell upon untij I learn from yourself that this is the fact. Under our constitutional law and practice, as developed hitherto, no one but tne president has'the right to summon the heads of the executive departments into conference, and no one but the president and the congress has the right to ask their views or the view’s of any-one of them On any public question. “I take thlfe matter up with you because in the development of every constitutional system custom and precedent are of the most serious consequence. and I think we will all agree in desiring not to lead in any wrong direction. I have therefore taken the liberty of writing to ask' you this question. “Cordially and sincerely yours, “WOODROW WILSON.” Lansing to Wilson. “The Secretary of State, Washington, Feb. 9. ■ , “My Dear Mr. President: It is true that frequently during your illness I requested the heads of the executive departments of the government to meet for informal conference. “Shortly after you were taken ill in October certain members of the cabinet, of which I-was one, felt that, in view’ of the fact dhat we were denied communication W’ith you. it was wise for us to confer informally together on interdepartmental matters and matters as to which action could not be postponed until your medical advisers permitted you to pass upon them. “Accordingly I, as the ranking member, requested the members of the cabinet to assemble for such informal conference. and in view of the mutual benefit derived the practice was continued. “I can assure you that it never for a moment entered my mind that I was acting unconstitutionally or contrary to your wishes, and there certainly was no intention on my’ part to assume powers and exercise functions which under the constitution are exclusively confided to the president. “During these troublous times, when many difficult and vexatious questions have arisen and yrhen in the circumstances I have been deprived of your guidance and direction, it lifts been my constant endeavor to carry out your policies as I understood them and to 1 act in all matters as I believed you would wish me to act. If. how’ever, you think that I have failed Jn my loyalty to you and if you no longer have confidence in me and prefer to have another conduct our foreign affairs, I am, of course, ready, Mr. President, to relieve you of any embarrassment by placing my resignation in your hands. “I am, as always, faithfully yours, “ROBERT LANSING.” Wilson to Lansing: “The White House, Feb. 11, 1920. “My Dear Mr. Secretary: I am very much disappointed by your letter of Feb. 9 in reply to mine asking about the so-called cabinet meetings. “You kindly explain the motives of those meetings and I find nothing in

CONDENSATIONS Growers in the French Riviera, who ship millions of boxes of cut flowers annually, have learned that they keep fresh much longer if placed in cold storage a day or two before shipping. At the request of the French government three women and one man have gone overseas to teach the French people how to can and dry food. They will especially instruct the teachers of French agricultural schools. Important coal mines are located in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. According to official statistics. Nova Scotia is the largest coal-producing province in Canada, the annual output exceeding that of all the other provinces combined. The coal is bituminous and practically all of it is suitable for coking. When all efforts to get a life line aboard a steamship wrecked on the coast of Newfoundland had failed, the end of a line was given to a dog on the ship, who fought his way through the breakers to the shore and so was Instrumental in saving 92 lives.

your letter which justifies your a» sumption of presidential authority In such a matter. You say you ‘felt that; in view of the fact that you were de nied communication with me. it was wise to confer informally together or inter-departmental matters and mat ters as to which action could not b« postponed until my medical adviser? permitted me’ to be seen and consult ed, but I have to remind you, Mr. Sec retary, that no action could be taker without me by the cabinet, and there fore there could have been no disadvantage in awaiting actionwith re gard to matters concerning which action could not have been taken without me. “This affair. Mr. Secretary, only deepens a feeling that was growing upon me. While we were still in Paris I felt, and have felt increasingly ever since, that you accepted my guidance and direction on question with regard to which I had to instruct you only with increasing reluctance, and since my return to Washington I have been struck by the number of matters io which you have a apparently tried tc forestall my judgment, by formulating action and merely asking my approval when* it was impossible for me to form an independent judgment because T had not had an opportunity to examine the circumstances with any degree ot independence. “I. therefore, feel that I must frankly’ take advantage of your kind suggestion that if I should prefer tc have another conduct our. foreign affairs you are ready to relieve me of any, embarrassment by placing youi resignation in my hands, for I must say that It would relieve me of embarrassment, Mr. Secretary’, the eni\ barrassment of feeling your reluctance and divergence of judgment, if yot> would give your present office up. and' afford me an opportunity tb select, some one whose mind would more willingly go along with mine. “I need not tell you with what reluctance I take advantage of your suggestion, or that I do so with the kindliest feeling. In matters of transcendent importance like this tihe only’ wisecourse is a course of perfect candor, where personal feeling is as much as possible left out of the reckoning. Very sincerely yours. “WOODROW WILSON” Lansing to Wilson. “The secretary of state, February 12, 1920. “My. Dear Mr. President: I wish to thank you sincerely for your candid letter of the 11th, in which you state that my resignation would be acceptable to you. since it relieves me ot the responsibility for action which I have been contemplating and which I can now take without hesitatlqn, as it meets your wishes. “I have the honor, therefore, to tender you my resignation as secretary of state, the same to take effect at your convenience. “Ever since January, 1919, I have been conscious of the fact that you no longer were disposed to welcome my advice in matters pertaining to the negotiations in Paris, to out foreign service, or to international affairs in general. Holding the views, I would if I had consulted my personal inclination alone, have resigned as secretary of state and as a commissioner to negotiate peace. L “I felt, however, that such a step might have been misinteij>reted both at home and abroad, and that it Was my duty to cause you no embarrassment in carrying forward the great task in which you were then engaged. Possibly. I erred in this, but if I did it was with the best of motives. , “I think, Mr. President, in accordance with the frankness which has marked this correspondence ami for which I am grateful to you, that I cannot permit? to pass unchallenged the imputation that in cjilling’into informal conference the heads of the executive departments I sought to usurp your presidential authority. “I had no such intention, no such thought. I further believe that the conferences were proper and necessary in the circumstances, and thajt I would have been derelict in my duty if I had failed to act as I did. “I need hardly add that I leave the office of secretary of state with only good will toward you/Mr. President, ahd with gi sense of .profound relief. “Forgetting, our differences and remembering only your many kindnesses in the past, I have the honor to be, Mr. President, “ROBERT LANSING.” Wilson to Lansing. “The White House, Feb, 13, 1920. “My Dear Mr. Secretary: Allow me to acknowledge with appreciation your letter of February 12. It now being evident. Mr. Secretary, that we have both of us felt the embarrassment of our recent relations with each other, I feel it my duty to accept yous resignation, to take effect at once; at the same time adding that I hope that the future holds for you many successes of the most gratifying sort. My best wishes will always follow you, and it will be a matter of gratification -to me always to remember our delightful personal relations. “WOODROW WILSON.”

The legal maximum hours In Austrian factories are eleven a day. Work carried on in excels of eleven hours is regarded as overtime, and must be reported to the industrial authorities. Safety is the leading feature of a new motor omnibus which cannot be started while the entrance door is open, while the door cannot be opened* while the vehicle is in motion. Many additional sugar mills are be> ing erected in the Philippines, espe< cially in Negros, where the milling capacity will be practically doubled. Scientists have found that various kinds of tar, lacquer, paint that will stand high, temperatures and several other products can be obtained from the “blackboy” tree of western Australia. Said fi little girl in the Pittsfield (Mass.) library: “Mother liked ‘The* 1 Four Horses' and she says she wants the same author’s new book. It’s something about a Mare.” Under a new scale recently put into effect by the United States railway administration, thje women employed as coach cleaners are paid at a rate of 45 cents an hour