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Man 3821 exceptionally dirt 5374 ANSFER AND STOR- | L located | SCOPES NOTAFTER PUBLITY E SYS {Only Object in Originating | Evolution Case Was to Test the Law. By the Associated Press. DAYTON, Tenn., { theater for the coming trial of John T. Scopes, appeared undisturbed to- day by the absence of the chief actor in Tennessee's evolution drama. The voung school teacher visited at his home, in Paducah, Ky., while prepara- tions continued for his trial on charges of teaching evolution in vio- !lation of the State law. Dr. George ‘W. Rappleyea. original prosecutor of Scopes, told the Asso- |clated Press yesterday that a pub- | lished report that he had instigated {the evolution charges for publicity | purposes was without foundation. | “While I originated the case and | served at first as prosecutor in the i matter, 1 did it’ with no ulterior mo- Itive. My only object was to bring ut a test of the evolution law.” July 1.—Dayton, a N ! The report characterized as errone- {ous :was net carried by the Associated | Press. Action by the American Federation of Teachers, convened in Chicago, was {expected on a resolution denouncing | the Tennessee evolution law. ! Teaching Held Menaced. |- The proposed resolution, in_ part, {said: “In certain States of the Union i teaching as a constructive social func { tlon has been menaced and may be imenaced again by misguiding legisla- tive authority that fears to trust the | Intelligence, the public spirit, and the {devotion to duty of the profession | whose desire it s to serve the people by training children for intelligent | citizenship. ““The rezctionary Lusk School laws | in the State of New York. abolished in 11923 after a t of two : the Greene law of California, proposed In 1921, and dealing with the matter of controlling the opinion of the teachers, as well as numerous bills in several States that have been de- signed to censor the writing and | the teaching of history in the schools { —all reflect the same unfortunate sus- picion and mistrust of educational in- telligence which the Tennessee anti- evolution law conveys.” | SCOPES BACKING ASKED. | Federation of Teachers Considers Resolution on Evolution. CHICAGO, July 1 (P).—The Amer- ican Federation of Teachers has been asked to back John T. Scopes in the forthcoming test of the Tennessee evolution law. In a resolution submitted to the rep- resentatives of 10,000 teachers, meet- | ing Here the federation “offers all en- | couragement to the American Civil | Liberties Union and all other organiza- tions and individuals who are engaged in defending John T. Scopes, the | teacher in Tennessee |P.0. ADMITS COURT . ORDER VIOLATION New Says Injunction Ruling Ob- | tained by Firm Was Broken by Mistake. Harry New, Postmaster General of the United States, today admitted | the charge that an injunction of the IDislri(‘t Supreme Court had been vio- |lated by the Post Offce Department, { but claimed it was unintentional. The | insertion of the name of the Tribond | Sales Corporation of New York in the | semi-monthly official report of the de- partment as having a fraud order " |against the company was a clerical |error, the cabinet member declared, {and in a subsequent issue attempt was made to correct the mistake. | Justice James Francis Smith de- | clined to discharge the rule against | Postmaster New and declared a. con- | tinuance would be granter, 5o that re- { course could be had to the rule in the event of any further publication by the department of notice of a fraud order. Injunction had been issued by the "{ court against the enforcement of the | fraud order, and when the name of the company appeared in the official | report of the department Attorneys Edward F. Colladay and Harry S. Barger, for the company, secured the rule in contempt against Postmaster General New. FEAR OF HUGE WAR | . LED TO OIL LEASE, DECLARES DOHENY (Continued from First Page.) ant Secretary of the Interior Finney, Secretary Denby and Admiral Robi- son. Mr. Doheny read the telegrams dur- ing the seven-hour interview. He said | they had been unearthed by his coun- isel in the office of the controller gen- eral, attached to bills for the telegraph tolls. { DECLINES TO COMMENT. Admiral Robinson Refuses to Divluge Oil Lease Facts. The interview in the New York |Times with Edward L. Doheny pur- | porting to give out national secrets {which were withheld in the court | proceedings involving the oil leases |develgped no comment when shown Rear Admiral Roblson, chief of the | Navy Bureau of Steam Engineering, | today. Admiral Robison said that he had described his conference with Doheny in all testimony before the Los Angeles court and in a deposition put in the record in the CMeyenne, Wyo., court. The interview which was referred to in the Times story said the con- ference between Doheny and Robi- son was in New York, but the ad- miral stated that it was his recol- lection that it was in his_office at the Navy Department in Washing- ton, and he thought he had stated this in his testimony betore the court. ‘He would not comment on the matter of the foreign relations as described in the interview, pointing out that such questions as were in- volved in the oil leases had been de- clared’ by Secretaries Hughes and {Kellogg 2nd Secretary of the Navy Wilbur as confidential. MRS. SELDOW FILES SUIT. NEW YORK, July 1_UP—Mrs. Mary Woodson Seldow, Washington girl whose mother found her secretly married here after a long search, to- day flled & petition in the Supreme Court in Brooklyn for annulment of her marriage with Jack Seldow. At the same time Mrs. Augusta Seldow, who was wedded to Seldow seven years ngo, filed a divorce suit. Seldow is serving a term in Sing Sing for bigamy as a regult of his marria; to the \\'ashlngwn girl. * Editor's Note—The inafn strect of Dayton reaches far out into the world and far down the centuries,” says Lemucl F. Parton, author of “What is FEvolution?” the firat chapter of which follows. i Mr. Parton belicves that this trial in the little' Tennessce court- room which witnesses again “the ape-old cleavage of humanity” will make its chief participants, Wil-_ liam Jennings Bryan and Clarence. Darrow, historical figures. So wide are the ramifications spreading from the discussion of the ques- tions involved in the evolution con- troversy that it has stirred men and cven nations from the time of the ancient Greeks. This scries is in no way contro- versial. It is a non-partisan, non- technical attempt to tell, clearly and briefly in simple language, just what evolution is and why its dis- cussion has played such an impor- tant part in the history of thought. The articles will appear daily until tie series is completed. T “Heaven and earth, center and cir- cumference, were made in the same Instance of time, and clouds full of water, and ‘man was created by the Trinity on the 26th of October, 4004 B. C., at 9 o'clock in the morning.” Thus did Dr. John Lightfoot, vice chancellor of Cambridge University, draw the metes and bounds of fundamentalist doctrine in 1654. His findings are given here, not as a fair summary of the Mosaic account of creation, but because they serve as a starting point jn man’s age-old effort to box the compass of human origin and destiny. The Two Extremes. The modern worker in the realm of chemical mechanics, reducing life and its origins, its significance and its destiny to chemical formulae, stands at the other extreme. At a third point is the man who sees no funda- mental conflict between religlon and sclence, and who finds for the bibli- cal story of creation a non-literal in- terpretation which brings it within the range of modern scientific find- ings. These three points roughly en- compass man’s greatest intellectual battleground, and the issues involved may be traced from their dim begin- nings, nearly 600 years before the Christian era, down to the little courtroom in Dayton, Tenn., where the giants of modern controversy will assall each other with arguments for and against the doctrine of evo- lution. Those who have maintained that man and the universe were created by the direct flat of God have been continuously opposed by speculative thinkers of one school or another, but it was not until the last century that the theories of the dissenters were given a scientific formulation. It was then that the theory of evo- ltion became the spearhead of those who challenged revelation. Issue Inevitable. It now seems 'Inevitable that the doc- trine of evolution should have flowered just when it did—at a time when a command of new energies was trans- forming life, a time of intellectual un- | rest, and a wider diffusion of knowl- edge among the people. The essence of the evolutionary theory is change, and its-first comprehensive statement, in the “Origin of Species,” by Charles Darwin, came at a time of the most weeping changes, profoundly affect- ing man's relation to his environment —in fact, these changes were creating a new environment, with the coming of the industrial age. For this reason, i the entire controversy assumed an in- terest and importance ranging far be- ~ond any merely.a ic discussion. There are those who maintain that ohilosophies merely trail facts—that man acts in accordance with immuta- ble laws, and then bulwarks his new position_with an - appropriate philos- ophy. Whether this be true or not, there is 1o escaping the fact that evo- lutlon was an effort to square life with a changed environment, and hence touched so many facets of life that it immediately challenged oppo- sition and aligned authoritarians and scientists in a battle to the death. | Three-quarters of a century has wit- nessed no decision in this encounter, nor will the edict of the court In Day- It is the age-old struggle between those who hoid to a revelation and those who exalt human faculties as the only approach to truth. Monkey Idea Wrong. Uninformed opinfon accepts vaguely the erroneous idea—which will be dis- cussed later in this series—that the essence of eyolution is that men de- scended from monkeys. This consid- eration has no doubt added an inter- esting turn to the discussion, but it is only one detail among many vastly more important phases of the sub- ject. It is the ethical, cultural and social derivatives of the evolutionary theory—as well as its challenge of revelation—which today make the Dayton trial almost as big a story as a presidential election. Herbert Spencer was the first to mold Darwin's_blological researches into a_philosophical matrix. He de- duced from them a new and pragmatic theory of good and evil, perhaps even more challenging to established re- ligion than Darwin's assault on the old cosmogony: he stated the dynamic, as opposed to the static concept of life, which is the very essence of the ultra- modernist ethic; he outlined the doc- trine of “laisser faire,” a profound ra- tionalization of British imperialism; he piaced on the boards the question of whether human soclety is an organ- ism—a. controversy which still con- tinues, and which is of great impor- A BETTER HOME e H.R. » A ton, Tenn., bring about an armistice. | tance, as those who apply the laws of | organic evolution to society are led' NEW NORTHWEST HOMES 5306 to 5314 Illinois Ave., Petworth $500 CASH $17.30 WEEKLY Built-in Refrigerators Cabinet Ironing Boards Hot-Water Heat . . .. Large Dining and Sleeping Porches FULLY SCREENED Take Ga. Ave. Car to Ingraham St. and Walk East 1 Square, or Phone Us for Auto s OWENSTEIN 131 H STREET NORTHWEST _ THE * EVENING 'STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WHAT- IS EVOLUTION? "By Lemuel F. Parton into a “biological determinism” which again assails the old ethics and the old revelations. \TIssues it Great War. Why is ali this important? does it affect the average man? Bismarck’s address to the German Relehstag of 1882, It reveals an in- teresting Instance of the continuous transmutation of philosophies into the Stuft of everyday life. Bismarck as- sails Spencer’s doctrine of the “lasser faire”—the individualistic conception of the organization of life and indus- try—and contemptuously scraps the British industrial system as outworn and useless in. the light of modern sclence. Then, on the basis of evolu- tionary teaching, he'lays the founda- tions of the later semi-socialized Ger- man state, and the exaltation of uight as the only biological justifica- tion. Windelband, Eucken and other German philosophers. supplied the phi- losophical buttresses to this theory of statehood; for three decades the con- troversy raged in seminars, in lecture halls, In text books and treatises—and then it.was echoed by the guns of Verdun. Profound Issues Involved. It is not the province of these arti- cles to draw the line between the |proved and the conjectural, or to as- sess: evolution with its perversion by the German pundits. The foregoing is cited merely in emphasis of the fact that the Dayton hearing is something more than a ‘“monkey trial”; that it| Involves {ssues of profound and search- ing importance; that it is the dramatic denouement ¢f a human drama which began when man first sought an an-| swer for the enlgma of life. | In the succeeding chapters ‘of this; {serles an effort will be made to state clearly " the general outlines of the| theory of evolution, without regard to the controversial issues involved or the fundamental truth or falsity of the theory. (Continued Tomorrow.) SYMINGTON DIVORCE THROWN FROM COURT “Would Not Believe Chambers Un- der Oath,”” Judge Declares in Discussing Suit. ! i How Read By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 1.-Supreme Court Justice Ford today threw out of court the divorce suit of Thomas H. Symington, wealthy manufacturer, against Mrs. Ida May Symi which he charged Infidelity the case was nearing its end. Justice Ford dismissed the action on the ground that the plaintiff had “not presented any evidence entitling him { to a divorce, except the testimony of Taibot W. Chambers,” one of the two men named as co-respondents. The justice sald he would not ‘belleve Chambers under oath.” Chambers is now under indictment | for adultery as the result of the tes-| timony which he gave at the trial. | Ten of the specifications of miscon- duct contained in the complaint had | been withdrawn by counsel before the | case was thrown out of court. These related to charges of.misconduct b Maurice Fatio, an architect, with | Mrs. Symington. Fatio could not be obtained to testify at the trial. | . iny Less than one-tenth of Ohio’s 35,000 coal miners are now working full | timd { SKILLED PRESCRIPTION OPTICIANS & “?fi’m"-'.'-'n"‘sf' W Fhoce Praskiln 171 2 U $hindton o C axvaon —is destined to echipse all suburban areas about our city Watch it! BETTER STILL—SEND FOR LITHOGRAPHED PRINT AND GO OVER GROUND YOURSELF. ) Hedges & Middleton, Inc. e S FOR LESS MONEY Electric Lights (] INCORPORATED -—One hundred youthful citizens, who "WEDNESDAY, ;JULY "1, 1925. $30 a Plate Dinner Climax of Outing of New York Waiters CITIZEN SOLDIERS INENGINEER CAMP, 100 “Second-Year Men” of 3d Corps Area Arrive at Humphreys for-Training. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, July 1.—Playing | the part of the kings, presidents and millionaires whom they had served In, the past vears, Z5 old- time walters of the Milllonaire Walters' Club have climaxed their second anpual outing with a $30-a- plate dinner. Each started the day about noon vesterday with a perfumed bath. Each found a limousine with a chauffeur at the door and motored through Long Island, visiting ex- clusive country clubs. The dinner started with caviar, proceeded through eight courses and ended with $1 cigars. Lesser servitors howed deferentiaily. The: had as guests the “mayors” of Db- lancy and Grand_ streets and 100 other prominent East Siders. After dinner they exchanged reminiscences of serving the late Theodore Roosevelt, Oscar Straus, the late Jacob H. Schiff, J. P. Mor. gan and other notables. FEAR OF “EN\E{ONMENT” HELD CAUSE OF SUICIDE Student, Found Dead, Leaves Note Saying the World Is “One Gigantic Fake.” | By the Associated Press Special Dispatch to The Star. FORT HUMPHREYS, Va., July 1. have decided they would like to be engineers in the event of another war, and who are willing to spend 30 days | of their Summer vacations preparing themselves for such service, arrived at Fort Humphreys today and will be given a month of intensive instruc- tion. “The first 15 days of trafning will be given by officers and mep of the 305th Reserve Regiment of Engineers, com- manded by Col. W. 1. Lee of Charles City, Va. With Col. Lee are Capt. O. B. Street, Capt. L. W. Jacobs, Lieut. | P. Eliott, Lieut. JI. C. Land and Lieut. P. J. B. Murphy, all of Vir. ginla. The last 15 days of training will be turned over to the 30ith Re. serve Regiment of Engineers Have Had Years' Training. All of the citizen soldiers assigned to Fort Humphreys are ‘“second vear men.” When a youth first signs up for the Citizens’ Military Training Camp,| NEW YORK, July The philos- he is sent to a large concentration |Ophy of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer camp for the first year and given a |Was too strong for Jack Greenwald, general training in all branches of mil- [ the police decided today, when fhe itary science and tactics. At the end |body of the student was found in the of that period he is obliged to elect | gas-filled bathroom of his home. one branch and specialize in it and | A note was found in his handwrit- the next year is assigned to a special | ing_which read: camp accordingly. “The world is a gigantic fake; if Artillery, Infantry and Cavalry re-|you have any genius but no money, cruits were sent to Camp Meade and | kill yourself at once, for your en- only those who chose the Engineer |vironment will kill you by degrees.” Corps were sent to Fort Humphreys,| It had been written, other evidence which has been equipped solely for the | indicated, while Greenwald had been important work of that branch of the | reading Nietzsche's “Genealogy of service. Col. Lee will be in command | Morals.” An open gas jet showed the | of the rookie company until the staff |avenue taken by the young student to | of the 304th Regiment arrives on July|escaped the feared “environment.” 15 and assumes its share of the bur-| den Ty Recruits arriving here today were| selected from all sections of the 3d| Just & Week Late. Corps Area. Those coming from the | From the London Passing Show. West and North were met in Washing-| Boarder—I wish I had come here a | ton and escorted to cars that brought | week ago. them to Alexandrfa. 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NEW YORK, Jul The former Mrs. Constance Schack Gracie, widow of Col. Archibald Gracle, who was the last man saved when the Titanic sank, has appealed to the Washington police to aid her in searching for her 32-year- old husband, Humberto Aguirree de Urbina, who disappeared after a party in their suite in the Hotel Nether- land two weeks ago. Urbina, who claimed to be a Chilean of ancient lineage, and a cierk in the Chilean embassy at Washington, is not a diplomat, her counsel said today, but a restaurant dish washer. A de. tective also is searching New York restaurants for him. Mrs. Urbina said she would prefer charges that her husband locked her up in thelr Washington home and choked her. They were married in this city in April, 1924. Mrs, Gracie gave her age as 41. Urbina gave his occupation as a “foreign translator.” 5 There are nine different grades of admirals in the British Navy. Open Till 9 P.M. 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