Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1925, Page 4

ANTLEVOLUTION SPREAD PREDICTED Georgia, Kentucky and In- diana to Follow Tennessee’s Lead, Is Belief. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. EVANSVILLE, Ind., July 24— Three weeks spent in the atmosphere of Dayton, Tenn., inclines one to the belief that his perspective on the im. portance of evolution might be com pletely out of line. But it is only necessary to step aboard a through train to find passengers from all sec- tions thoroughly gbsorbed in the sub- Ject, and one quickly gets the im- pression that the consensus of opin- on is to the effect that the United States as & whole is in for an anti- evolution bath. Other States are expected to follow Tennessee. ~ Georgia and Kentucky are slated to be among the first and then there is no reason why Indiana should not follow suit. The ban against evolution is expected to fol- low the political isothermal lines of prohibition—to spread from the South to the West and then gradually to in- gulf the North and East. Most people seem to think that prohibition was so easily swallowed that not even a wry face will be made at statutes which seek to compel a literal accep- tance of the Bible in all the public achools and State universities of the ocountry. Predicts Great Spread. Clarence Darrow has predicted that it will be but a short step from the oontrol of evolution in the public schools to similar control in the pri- vate institutions, with an attempt later to close up all museums or to rob them of any exhibits which pur- port to show the existence of the world prior to 4004 B.C. Books and newspapers eventually would be put under the ban if Mr. Darrow and his assoclates of the Scopes defense are to be believed. making it necessary to bootleg the sciences which deal with evolution and the descent of man. Lack of organization among the modernists and liberals is generally recognized as the factor which will permit the spread of laws akin to that which exists in Tennessee. Mr Bryan, on the other hand, contends there is a hydra-headed agnostic conspiracy against the Bible working under the guise of evolutlonary sci- ence. Curiously enough one finds a very general opinion that even the Su- preme Court of the United States is likely to uphold the constitutionality of the Tennessee act, despite the crudity of its wording. The bellef is that the court will go to the in- tent of the law rather than the care- less and perhaps faulty phraseology. Liberty Left to States. Tt 1s pointed out, furthermore, that contrary to accepted belef, the pro- tection of religious freedom 1s a State rather than a Federal affalr, the Supreme Court having once held in & New Orleans case that “The Constitution of the United States makes no provisions for protecting the citizena of the respective States in *heir religlous liberties; this is left to the Stats constitutions and laws.” It also has been repeatedly held by the Supreme Court that the individual has no “fundamental rights” against the severeignty of the State. In the final test the persor has no rights whatever against sovereignty. As to the fourteenth amendment to the Con- stitution it has been held that: “Neither the amendment, broad and comprehensive as it is, nor any other amendment, was designed to interfere with the power of the State to pre- scribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education and good order of the people.” Sunday Labor Ban Upheld. LA State may regulate health condl- |~ tions and may prescribe what a physi- cian may do and may not do. The Supreme Court has further held: “The fegt that Statutes are colored and m by the Christian religion does not render their prohibitions violative of religlous freedom if primarily they are civil regulations with a view to promoting the moral and physical wel- fare of the community, as in the case of statutes prohibiting Sunday labor.” _The' anti-evolutionists claim their sfatutes are directed to the morals of the epmmunity, for they believe that mdrals” depend upon ‘unquestionable acoeptance of the Bible. Some of one's fellow travelers see in Dayton a ray of hope for the lib- erals of the country as against the literalists. They say Dayton has brought the whole subject into the open. Dayton has been a_warning to 1219-1221 G Street Open Saturdays Until 3 P.M. ' DOWNSTAIRS STORE A Sensation! Cretonne (Coats A Wide Assortment of Patterns $ 4.95 Sizes 16 to 40 Comes the Cretonne Beach Coats into the vogue, and, as usual, our Downstairs Store ofters an unrivaled selection of many distinctive patterns and shades. Of fine quality cretonne. And these utility coats are worn with equal effectiveness either in town, at the beach, mountains or all vacation affairs. Try Sworsyn's First Here are some of the teachings in Hunter's “New Essentials of Bjology” and other science text books approved for the District public schools this year, involved in the suit filed in the local *“‘evolution™ battle. “Evolution of man: Undoubtedly there once lived upon the earth races of men who were much lower in their mental organization than the present inhabitants. If we follow the early history of man upon the earth we find that at first he must have been little better than one of the lower animals. He was a nomad, wander- ing from place to place, living upon whatever animals he could kill with his hands and whatever edible plants he found. Gradually he learned to use weapons. with which to kill his prey, first using rough stone imple- ments for this purpose.”"—Hunter's “New Essentials of Blology." “Although anatomically there is a greater difference between the lowest type of monkey and the highest type of ape than there is between the high- est type of ape and the lowest sav- age, yet there is an immense mental gap between the ape and man.’— Hunter's “New Essentials of Blology.” “Elements are substances which we may cause to enter into combination, but which we cannot transform into another.”—Bradbury's “A Firs* Book in Chemistry.” (The bric. uled in the court states: “Plaintiff avers that sald Hay teaches and said Ballou permits the teaching of principles of chemistry from the approved textbooks * * * that one elemental matter cannot be changed into another simple ele- mental matter, that something can- not be made out of nothing, whereas the Holy Bible teaches that God made full-grown man out of the dust of the ground In one day; that God made full-grown woman out of the rib of the same man the same day; that God made all the dust of Egypt turn into lice as a punishment for the hard- heartedness of the Egyptian king; that God turned every crop of the water in the Nile River, every bit of water in all Egypt, into blood to pun- ish the Egyptian king; that Jesus Christ turned water into wine; that God turned Lot's wife into a pillar of the modernists and should have put them on their One thing is definite and certain. One hears today more talk of the Bible than was ever heard in the smoking rooms of Pullman cars in all the years since the flood, or since smoking rooms of Pullman cars were invented. The issue is open and before the le. g (Copyright, 1925.) EVOLUTIONISTS WIN. California Blology Text Books Are Held to Be Acceptable. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 24 (P —Fundamentalists and evolution- ists clashed here yesterday over the question of teaching evolution in the public schools of California—and the evolutionists won. This in spite of throwing into the fray by the fundamentalists of re- serve forces from outside the State in the person of Dr. W. B. Riley of Min- neapolis, executive secretary of the World Christian Fundamentalist As- sociation. Of the three books on biology which opponents of the evolutionary theory sought to have excluded from the schools and around which the fight centered, two_were found acceptable by the State Board of Education and action on the third was deferred tem- porarily. Indications were that the third text book, “Biology and Humgn Welfare,” by Peabody & Hunt, also would be upon favorably. The books accepted were Gruenberg’s ‘“Biology and Human Life” and Atwood's “Prob- lems, Projects and Experiments in Biology.” =Open Satarday Till 4 P.MZ Creeron 614 Twelfth St. Between F and G Streets Around_the Cormer From High Prices Summer Hat Cleararce Trimmed Hats Reduced to $ 98 q, 5% o sgu White Sport Hats Felts, Straws, Peanits Reduced to 5°°, 3" 3‘” L] Sz.ll Untrimmed Hats Of Hair and Straw Formerly $3.98 to $8.95 S"R;l‘?: ‘;3.“ Daily Arrivals of Clever New Autumn Felts 33.“ o Ss.!l Small, Modium and Extre Large Headsizes Changing of Water Into Wine, Man’s Creation and Other Teachings of Bible Threatened by Books, Says Brief in “Evolution” Case. School salt for looking back: that God made all the earth out of nothing.”) “Universal gravitation: According to this law, every material thing in the universe attracts and is attracted by every other material thing"— Black & Davis' “Practical Physics.” (The brief st “‘Said Ballou per- mits the teaching of the principles of physics * * * (hat it is impossible for a living body on the earth o over- come the influen « of the gravity of the earth and a: 1d beyond the limit of vision, whereas the Holy Bible teaches that Elijah went up into heaven while he was still alive in & whirlwind, and that Jesus Christ ascended ‘into heaven after He arose from the dead, and that all the dead shall be resurrected alive and shall ascend bodily into heaven on the Judgment day.”) “The primates: This order, highest of all the mammals, includes monkeys, apes and man. There is a great range from the little squirrel-like marmoset to the massive gorilla, and from the horizontal-bodied, four-footed lemur to the erect biped, man. * * * As we approach man in the scale, the body becomes more erect. * * * Anato- mists do not agree as to which ls nearer man, the chimpanzee or the gorilla."—Colton’s *Zoology."” The text book “General Science,” by William H. Snyder, the latest adopted for school use and which purports to cover a wide general field in physics, chemistry, astronomy, blology and z00logy, evidently has been carefully prepared to guard against just such a contingency as has arisen. It does not mention the evolutionary theory. In regard to the origin of the world and life, however, it speaks as follows: “It is believed that the whole surface of the earth hardened from a molten condition, just as lava from a volcano. Such a surface could not support plant or animal life. Long ages must have elapsed, bringing slow but tremendous changes, before con- ditions became favorable for the sup- port of life. Heat, winds, oxygen, carbon dioxide and water erosion worked together to break down every thing at the surface into soil.” This might be interpreted as casting doubt on the literal words of Gensis that the world was created, life forms and all, in six days. Snyder also states that the stars are distant suns, that the earth is round, and that it moves in an orbit around the sun. PEEE I Eat Dr. Farweil's Whole-Wheat Bread. Phone Linc. 31.—Advertisement. 1009 E St. S.W. Two-story Brick Dwelling, with colonial porch. Contains six large rooms, tiled bath, hot- water heat, electricity. In ex- cellent condition. Built-in fire- place. An ideal home. Can be sold on easy terms. Shades and screens. ! " For further particulars con- sult Floyd E. Davis Company 733 12th St. N.W. 501 7th St. S.W. Main 352-353 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ELIJAH’S ASCENT HIT BY LAW . OF GRAVITY, SAYS D. C. SUIT UNITARIANS OFFER HELP TO DEFENSE Layman’s League Would Lend Lawyers to Aid Cause of Evolution. By the Assoclated Press. BOSTON, July 24-—~The Unitarian Laymen's League announced that it had offered the services of lawyers among its members to the defense in ‘Washington’s new evolution case. The offer of counsel was made to Frank superintenent of sckools, D. C., and W. e department of biology and chemistry in the Wash- ington high schools, whose salaries are jeopardized by injunction pro- ceedings brought in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia be- cause of their alleged teaching of dis- respect for the Holy Bible in viola- tion of the rider in the Washington, D. C. appropriation bill. In announcing the league’s action. Willilam L. Barnard, executive vice president of the league, said: “Unitarians welcome the results of sclentific research as foundation ma- terials for religion, feeling that it has no need to be afraid of modern science, for science is one of the ways in which God reveals himself to — Retired Postal Clerk Dies. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., July 24.—Arthur B. Carter, 66 years old, for many years chief clerk in the Annapolis post office, died early this morning of a heart attack. He went on the re- tired list about a year and a half ago. He is survived by a widow and four grown children. Bacillus Acidophilus Milk For intestinal disorders Ask your physician about it Prepared by the NATIONAL VACCINE AND ANTITOXIN INSTITUTE 1515 U St. N.W. $/1 .00 Special I = Lxcursions SUNDAYS JULY 26, AUGUST 9, 23 SEPTEMBER 20 SPECIAL THROUGH TRAIN Via Delaware River Bridge Fastern Standard Leaves Wanhington - 12.01 AM Reiurning. leaves S; C. Ave., 5:30 P Tickets on_sale two dars preceding each excursion_at City Ticket Office, Blde. 613 14th- St Pennsylvania 3 NW.. and Union Station. Pennsylvania Railroad The only all-rail route to the seashore Taylor Will Not Introduce Bill To Bar Evolution By the Associated Press. SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. July 24. —Representative Taylor, Repub- lican, of Tennessee, who was asked recently to introduce an anti-evo- lution bill in Congress, said today he would not do so, although he was a fundamentalist. “While I am a fundamentalist,” Mr Taylor said, “I feel that the introduction of a bill of this kind in Congress will do the church and Christianity more harm than good” Al Pt el Charged With Poisoning Husband. Special Dispatch to The Star. 4 LYNCHBURG, Va., July 2{—Annie Clark, colored, has m arrested on charge of poisoning her husband, Charles Clark, who died last week. Dr. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Soecialist is & prescription for Colds, Grippe, Flue, Dengue, Bihous Fever and Malaria. 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