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STATUS OF THE

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Independence Mission Con- ⚫sidering President's Reply.

Washington, June

23.--The

Philippine Independence missing is awaiting instruction from the gislature, sitting as the inde- pandance commission, in Manila. Meanwhile they are studying President Harding's reply.

The mission leaders see in the President's statement a forecast of the possible extension of auto- nomy to-the-Philippines. It is understood that there is a ques- Įtion ́ regarding the mission's powers with respet to petitioning Congress.

The members of the mission plan to leave Washington July 1 to be guests of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce in New [York, where they will spend sev-

eral days.

REPLY SENT TO GOVERNOR- GENERAL

Washington, Jane 22.—Presid. ent Harding's reply to the Filipino Independence Mission has been sent in full by U. S. Naval Radio to Governor-General Wood. In bis statement to the mission, the president, while observing that he

not get prepared to urge on Congress the desirability of Philippine independence, inti- mated that he was not unalter- jably opposed to autonomy, and| that the question of the future status of the islands was one which the progress of the Filipi- nos alone could decide.

President Harding commended.

government, but said:-

TUESDAY, JULY A 1922.

A DAINTY DRESS.

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"With every mindfulness of Foer aspirations, gratitude for your loyalty, and pride in your achievements, I reiterate the as-

surance that we mean to hold no 58,000 TONS OF SUNLIGHT. prople under the flag who do not rejoice in that relationship.

HAUPT

NOT KEADY YET.

Explaining The Einstein Theory.

Heoce Einstein predicted the beading of light near the sun, and) this was actually observed in the eclipse of May 1919. A third segumant in favour of Einstein'; theory is that it explains a slighti displacement of the planet Mercury's

orbit, which had pazzted astronomers.

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points out that the off mathema

ccepting the Entsein theory. DAW, SEN & CO'S MAJOR GREY or SWEET SLICED MANGO

I must say that though I am not yet ready to me in lepen-

M. Charles Nordmann, astron, ¡dence, I can imagine a continued

o.ne: to the Observatory of progress which will make the Paris, in bis brilliant book bonds between us, either easy to "Einstein and the Universe" o will rives them more published by Fisher Unwin, give- firmly because you will it to be 50. a clear account of the Einstei

We must await that develop theory of Relativity. The work ment. It is not for me to suggest is translated by Mr. J. McCabe.recently that day, distant or near.

Our

and Lord Haldane contributes a relation to your domestic affair+ is

preface. that of unselfish devotior, born out of faith in opening to you the w35

ties are

not yet dead. Quite the famous French thinker, M. Painlere, has sutkest ed a new formula which explains) the phenomena just as well as Einstein's.

the thought in this book render it

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The Einstein theory is difficut and complicated, but so far as of libens of which you dreamed." is possible, in this book it is s

Manuel Quezon and other simplified and so lucidly explained member of the independence that a careful reader can stamp mission, upon leaving the Whiteit was based on the Miche 400-packed with the newest ideas and House, declined to commert on Morley experiment, named after its explanations are always lucid President Harding's statement to the physicists who made it. They the independence memorial.

wished to ase-rrain whether light They said, however, that their travels slower when it in follow- course would be determined bying the spin of the earth tan instructions from Manila after when it is moving against that the President's reply had teeni

apin. In theory, light travel i studied.

the ether a medium which does not share the earth's mation.

"We know that the earth turns ga itself from west to cast, and

PLANS FOR ECONOMY.

THE EINSTEIN RIDDLE. Commecting upon Einstein's pity Mu in a recent issue says: wonderful theory of relativity the

The world is almost evenly

The publication by the Astron omer to the Paris Observatory of a popular work explaining the Einstein theory is something of a literary event. Not often does a great scientist condescend to] travels round the sun in the sam

WAY. Mr. Tung Kang Reducing

In the middle of the night treat a subject of immense scien- London will be displaced from tific interest and importance with Staffs.

Kensington

such lucidity and directness that to Woolwich at Peking, June 16.-A step in the a speed of about 20

it can be understood by any xi. mile,

tentive layman. right direction was taken yester a second. During the dari day when the Minister of Finance, it is precisely the opposite divided into those who will | Mr. Tung Kang, proposed a great | Let us suppose that at midnight

ly reduced budget, which, if car-a physiciet at Kensington sends accept a theory because it is new ried our, would materially cuts luminous signs!. A physicist and those who, for the same down the monthly operating ex-receiving this ray at Woolwich reason, will have no patience penses of the Government. This on measuring its velocity ought can be effected by a reduction in o find that the ray reaches him at the salaries of officials and in a less speed than it would if the stopping various leaks. Mr. Tung earth were stationary.” recommends the following month- Michelson showed that there is sum as the maximum to be was no difference in the speed allowed each Department of the with which te ray travelled, so Government: President's Office that it seemed to follow that the Inot including his salarri 8100, ether moved with the earth; 000: Cabinet Office $100,000 (to which everyone disbelieved and

with it. The famous French astronomer does not belong to] either of these classes. Ha dis- cusses the evidence: states it clearly; and does not suppress the fact that there are other ex- planations for the phenomena than Einstein's. At first sight. the theory or Relativity seems fantastic enough. But is it really

more fantastic than the elec

be apportioned between the font which contradicted other expentrical theory of matter, which divisions as follows:-Secretary's ments. Office $22,000, Printing Depart

WEIGHT OF LIGHT.

holds that the invisibly small ator of iron is like a tiny ment. $18,000,- Law. Tabulation Here Einstein-intervened with replica of the solar $40,000, Civil Appoitments $20-his theory that there is a differ- with a central mass of positive system, 600 a Statistics $30,000; Foreign ence in speed of movement, but electricity, sad electrons of De- Office $300.000 (including the exit is undetectable because the gative electricity rotating about penses of Chinese Legations in measuring apparatos appears to it, like planets? Or that the foreign countrie-); Ministry of shrink to tiny extent when theory that these electrons are Education $100.000; Ministry of moving agaist the current of the balee is ether," and nothing the Interior $10,000; Ministry of ether and fails to record the else? But these hypotheses are Finance $150,000; Ministry of difference. If the earth moved now the basis of chemistry, and Justice $:30,000: Ministry of not at 18 miles per second, but are accepted by the overwhelm- Agriculture and Commerce $30, at 180.000,-verything in the ethering weight of authority. 000; Ministry of ar $10,000; stream woul seem to be shortened Ministry of Navy $40 000, and the by one-half:

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THOUGHT. "These deformations would be neris $700.000

visible to a stationary spectator. and this much can be said of Thinge are not what they seem; SUGGESTED NEW BOND ISSUE but they would be imperceptible

Those in touch with the Minis to an observer who shares the Einstein's work, that in many try of Finance say that pressure maremo!. The measuring rods directions in physics independen is being brought to bar on the and instruments, sad even the

observations confirm it. It may Minister to consider the floating ye of the observer, would hitimately prove to be all wrong

J

It may be superseded by some

of 96 million dollars worth ofqually and simultaneously fresh theory. But whatever the

bonda. A new plan is to be tered."

adopted in which the Chinese and A second part of the Einstein foreign banks will be requested to theory is that mass depends on light has (state bow much they can advance speed, and that

and on this basis the final'amount) weight."

ead, M. Nordmand's words are. true that. Einstein is and will remain ope of the lighthouses of homse thought.**.

GOOD-BYE TO THE ARMY. Hundreds of time-expired mon

be floated will be datermined. "We can calculate that the This load is said to have been Hight receive from the sun by the announced by the Minister of earth is the space" of a year is Communications before Peking rather more than 58,000 tons.” As educational circles as a step it bas weight its trajectory (line|left Aldershot last month on re- necessary to tide over the present of passage through space) is very financial crisis,

slightly carved.”

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