Show whoa 0 AA A A WHO D adma dma ROOT INFORMS ROOSEVELT elihu root former secretary of state now united states senator from new york has in formed colonel roosevelt of all that has been going gong ion on in america since the mighty lion hunter went away they met in london a few days ago and to use a homely expression mr air roosevelt got an earful roosevelt had heard from gifford Gif fiord pinchot and the correspondents of the big newspapers ers in whom he had confidence many things but he might have had some doubts until he met senator root at dorchester house the london home of ambassador reid the in movement the ballinger hearing the fight on cannon and what tatt taft has been doing no do abt are now an open book to the former president if there Is one man in the united states in whom poosevelt roosevelt has confidence ft it Is I 1 athu root U hen he was president roosevelt listened more closely to the addic of root thin to any other man had root been free of former begil connections with the big corporations it la Is believed in many places that roosevelt would have stood for root instead of taft for his successor to the presidency senator root has gone to the hague to present the argument of ameri amerl can fishermen who claim the right under the treaty of 1818 to take fish and bait within the territorial waters of newfoundland the case is really of much greater international importance than at first appears what really Is involved Is the right of a british colony to curtail the rights conferred upon aliens by treaty it might easily follow that if the hague tribunal 1 sustain the right 9 pf neffo indland ingland to restrict rights conferred by treaty upon americans then the various american states and foreign nations might do likewise involving the parent government in merlou complications with the powers with which it ha treaty relations I 1 MILLIKAN IS NEW WIZARD robert A professor of physics at the university of chicago Is a new wizard of the electrical world professor millikan broke into the edison and marconi class when he cap aured a single ion what Is an ion iona you ask well you t be ashamed to ask the ques tion for professor millikan found it necessary fiat to explain i it to the sigma chi society of the hersity before which he was lecturing here s the definition an ion Is an atom or a piece of an atom a molecule or a group of molecules which carries the electrical charge now you know what an ion Is but listen by capturing a single ion and putting a tag on it professor millikan has swept away much 1 of the mystery surrounding the nature of the electrical charge since the discovery of electric c ity besides capturing an individual ion the long misunderstood carrier of electricity he has viewed in his laboratory peppery specks ot of electricity on charged bodies disproving the theory that electricity Is 1 an imponderable fluid and upholding the indefinite ionic hypothesis of faraday who gave his ilia theory to the world in 1830 also he has proved the kinetic theory that molecules of air are in rapid motion and has measured the energy of agitation of these molecules that the university professor has isolated and toyed with one of the elementary units out of which all matter Is made Is a conclusion to be drawn from the experiments in pursuance the recent trend of science according to the university of chicago chicag hormes aut ii I 1 es fhe actual catching of the single ions was accomplished by the introduce Intro duc tion of a droplet of oil between the plates of a horizontal air condenser the presence of the ions became apparent owing to the action of the oil particles just like catching a bli blid d by putting salt on its tall isn t it if WILSON DISASTER if she lo 10 es her self pos america WAI stagger like france through fields of blood before she again finds peace and prosperity under the leadership of man u who understand her needs the foregoing Is one of the fiery sentences in a hot speech recently delivered by dr woodrow wilson pre predent of princeton university to the sons of old nassau it it a banquet in pittsburg then turning to the subject of churches dr wilson went on to say I 1 trust I 1 may be thou thought ht among the last to blame the churches vet et I 1 feel it my duty to say that they at least the protestant churches are serian serving the classes and not the masses of the eople they have more regard tor for pew rents tl an or the men s souls they are depressing the level of christian endeavor it Is the same with the universities we toot 1001 for the support of the wealthy and neglect our opportunities to serve the people it is for this reason the state university is held in popular approval while the privately 1 to which we belong is coming to suffer a corresponding loss of estoe n while attending a recent lincoln cele celebration brition I 1 askel aske I 1 ms self if lincoln would have been as serviceable to tl e ie of thia country had he been a college man and I 1 was obliged to say ay to myself tl ti at he would not the processes to which the college nan Iso subjected do not ren ler bin hirl serviceable to the country as i whole it is for this reason that I 1 have ledl bated every power in ire to a d n socratic regeneration the american rol col lege m become saturated in the same sympathies as the common people the colleges of this country must be recon reconstructed from the top to the bot torn tom the american people will tolerate nothing that savors of exclusiveness their political parties are going to pieces they are busy with their moral regeneration and they want leadem s alo wl can help them to accomplish acco it pretty hot talk that for th the i resident of a b g educational institution like princeton 1 1 L L I 1 NOIS BRIBE CASE CASE JUDGE judge W H Me Surely of the cook county circuit court the jurist selected to try the first of the III abrib i ly y cases Is Is a former member of the legislature and therefore better qualified than most judge would be to decide the issues the ji ige I 1 inoes novas the usages of the illinois legis N lature and things that others might not under sta ta 11 i I 1 will be plain to him wl wt hout explanations ba b counsel or witnesses learnt d counsel for lee onell browne sought to have judge quash the indict ment against the accused representative the lawyers awyers spoke for two days against the true bill 11 and mail f lined that even if it goo I 1 the court had no jurisdiction tor for it was maln maint taine alne I 1 it if a crime was at all it waa comma ted in sangamon Ean gamon not cool 1 then there was raised the novel plea that there is no law which makes it illegal to reward a member of tl e lagi lature after he has voted tor for a man for un ted states senator it didn dian t take judge long to smash this sort of argument on the head in summing up his dec slon judge Me Surely said it seems clear from the reading of the statute that to give money cor to a legislator in consideration that he has previously voted with rith partiality or favor or otherwise contrary to law is bribery and whenever that crime Is committed in that way that is wherever the money is given there ocre lies the venue the order of the court Is that tl it e motion of the defendant to quash the indictment and each count thereof Is denied the importance ol 01 0 the case the first to be tried since the lorimer charges were mide has att rated al attention to judge Me Surely and his and rulings as the trial proceeds will be watch with interest not only by the bar but by citizens genera generally ltv |