New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 21, 1921, Page 15

10 TEACH CHILDREN THE WORLD 15 FLAT New Theories to Be‘ Adopted in Zion Schools Zion, IlL., Oct. 21.—Zion schools, of which Wilbur, Glenn Voliva, the overseer of the colony, is' president; have adopted his new theories of a flat world and the. absence of gravi- tation, and the 1,000 grade and High school pupils believe them implicit- ly, according to their teachers. The public schHool maintained by the state board of education and at- tended by the children of non-mem- bers of Voliva's Christian-Catholic Apostolic church _still teaches, how- ever that the world is a globe moving through limitless space and that . it was the ‘attraction of gravity which caused the apple to fall on Issac New- ton’s head. At the Zion schools the new course of study.teaches that: The earth is a flat circular world, with a north pole in the exact center, + south pole, and surrounded by a wall of ice which keeps venturesome mariners from falling off the rim, That th> earth has no motion, Jbut remains stationary in space. That the sun is nét millions of! miles in dlameter and 91,000,000 miles away, but is really a little orb 32 miles across and only 3,000 miles from tha earth. That the law of gravitation is ,a tallacy gnd when objects are thrown into thefair they continue to rise until the. force which propelled them is expended, and then fall back to earth because they are heavier than air. A standard map of the world, on Christophe.’s projection, is used in the schopls to demonstrate the flat world theory. This map, which is used by pavigators and scientists in moking time and longitude calcula- tions, differs from the usual Merca- tor's projection famillar in other schools, in that Itu&huwl the earth as it would look to ah observer direct- Iy above the north pole, with the con- NEW BRFTAIN DAILY HERALD. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, “AT REST” Breitbart, champion strong man of Germany, is shown taking a little “‘rest” after a light lunch of six pounds of raw meat. and place his parlor light in Ken- osha, Wis.” Miss Thompson, principal of the schools, says the children prefer their new flat world ¥to the old-fashioned round one in which Columbus be- jnents and seas projected on a flat| : plane. As a result the north pole is ih the center, and instead of a south pole the Antarctic regions are indi- cated by a white ring about the outer circumference of the circle. This ring, according to Voliva, is the ice bar- rier which keeps mariners from fall- ing off ths edge of his flat world. | The Christopher projection was made 30 y-ars ago, prior to the dis- covery of the south pole and before much was known about the Antarctic regions, so only a bare outline of por- tios of the southern ice land s shown. Miss Mary Thompson, prhvlpal of the Zion school system, and an ar- dent believer in the Voliva theorles, has propounded a question which she believes will trip scient and navi- gators. Showing on her flat rgp that the tropig’of Cancer, 43 from the nortjy pole, was a, imaller circle thHan the tropic of Capricorn, 47 degrees farther away, Miss Thomp- son says: “Navigd ors on a globular earth would find if ‘they were to sall com- pletely around eithefr of .these tropics tal&t they would be identically 'the same length. . On a flat earth, how- ever, the trople of Capricorn. would be much' larger than the tropic of. Cancer, and would take much longer to sail around, because on'u flat earth Cancer would be nearer the center, or north pole. Why don’t some of the globular earth believers fry sall- ing around the two.tropics gnd “#md out whether they or we.are correct? The globular people certainly’ can’t #prove curveture of the earti /" Miss Eva Baker, teacher of geogra- | phy, demonstrdtes to her classes that the sun is only a tiny orb a few thousand miles away, instead of an orb millions miles in diameter and 91,000,000 miles from the eartm If the sun was so large, she says, it would light up all the world, instead of confining its hottest rays to a 3,- ofi Wrriting Paper October 22nd to 29th inclusive 48 SHEETS & 48 ENVELOPES Pontex Linen 49c 1 POUND PAPER (about 90 shcets) 50 ENVELOPES Cascade Linen SPECIAL . Regularly $1.05. 69c Paper 000 mile wide belt between the two tropics. Voliva himself, in a recent sermon at Shiloh Tabernacle, said God certainly would not have made a sun to light the world and then placed it 'so far away. “A man would be a fool,” the over- - +39c¢ - Peter’s Original Milk lieved. “The students in Zion schools,” she says, ‘‘grasp the theory of the flat earth readily because their minds-are not full of globular earth teaching such as older flolks.have had drilled Drug Form erly Riker-Hegeinan Family Reipedies at very low CUT PRICES 00 Scott’s Emulsion .. . . 69c 00 50 Bromo Gude’s 1.00 Pinkham’s Veg. Comp. .60 Sal Hepatica . . . . 50 SHEETS & 24 ENVELOPES Lord Baltimore Linen in Portfolio 45¢ 24 SHEETS & 24 ENVELOPES Lord Baltimore Box . For Reduced from 60¢ Liggett’s Special Hot Water Bag 2 Quart. Guaranteed 1 year. 25 Father John’s Medicine . 89c go Wampole’s C. L, Oil Extract 64c 50 tzer . Doan’s Kidney Pills . Fletcher’s Castoria . . Pepto Mangan . 16ok. Horlick’s Malted Milk ' 1.00. Listerine, 14 ounces .75 Mellin’s Food . . into them. Therefore, they accept the flat earth teaching without ques- tioning, not because thgy have to, but because it appeals to them as rational. I don’t believe there is one student in the grades who has ques- tioned it. The flat earth seems more reasonable to them. The globular, unreal.” Wilbur Glenn, Voliva, who succeed- ed John Alexander Dowie as ever- seer of Zion on the latter's death in March, 1977, was born near Newton, Ind., March 10, 1870. .In 1897 he re- ceived his B. A. from Hiram college, Oio, and in the same year a’ degree from Union Christian college at Me- rom, Ind. In 1889 he has been or- dained a minister in the Christian church at the age of 19, and held a pastorats at Linden, Tnd., from 1889 to 1892; Urbhna, I1L, 1892-93; studied theology at Stanfordville, N. Y., 1893~ 94 and supplied the pulpit of Chest- nut street Christian church at Al- bany, N. ¥; filled a pulpit at York Harbor,” Me., the following year; and was pastor of the Christian church at Washington, C. H., in Ohio, in 1897-99. In 1899, Voliva joined Dowie's church and was ordained an elder and placed in charge of the Zion taber- nacle in Chicago. In 1900 and 1901 he represented Dowie at Cincinnati; and then was-sent to Australia as overseer of the Dowie settlement of Ziory there. He returned to Zion, IIL, in 1906 .as assistant to Dowie. CASTORIA For Infants and Children InUse ForOver30 Years Always pears T the | Nignature of 69¢c 0 Cuticura Oin (e hinley Mentholatum Ointment . .60 Musterole Ointment . . 25 Beecham’s Li Icr':lrlter;.: ?nle li;ver Pills ows” Syrup Hypo . Vinol 35 Jatlas Pills . . Chilly Nights ROXBURY Hot Water Bag, A one pfice bottle moulded in our own factory. 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