Judge — June 6, 1925 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Nesoeiat The Crusader & QUOTE from the New York World, issue of Tuesday, May 19: “William Jennings Bryan, on his way to the 137th annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, in Columbus, O., stopped in New York yesterday to de- liver four speeches, three on wholly religious subjects in one of which he d in evolution— nounced the modernists and believers and one, no less. stirring, prophesying a roseate future for investors in Florida real estat se a oe Mr. Bryan's enthusiasm for Florida real estate gives us a clew to his piety. We suspect that his lifelong effort to crowd heaven with Americans has had for its object the boosting of rez values there, and incidentally the value of the choice site near the throne he has picked out for himself. estate It also makes more intelligible his to the theory of evolution. If man is not fashioned in the imag: vd, but has evolved by slow stages from some pure imal form, then there can be no telling what God is like. He may not be a Presbyterian or even a Rotarian, and heaven, therefore, may not be the model city of suburban homes set in neat lawns with well curbed golden streets which Mr. Bryan has been boosting all these years. assionate objections * Even if heaven is such a pl Mr. Bryan, the Great Realtor, it Fy the theory of evolution prevents him from selling it to his fellow countrymen? ey * s what value is that to Be Prepared HEN the national prohibition of liquor became a of the Constitution it was freely predicted that other national prohibitions would follow, and specifically the national prohibition of tobacco. For people reasoned that the spirit of prohibition would grow by what it fed on and that tobacco, since it gave pleasure and might be classe] as mildly deleterious (that is, it might be cc sidered as interfering with the workingman’s efficien and as sidetracking a part of his purchasing power), formed an obvious target for the moralists. We say this was freely predicted, but not altogether seriously so. Despite the astounding fact of the Eight- eenth Amendment, people were still unable to believe that the psycholc revealed could exist in sufficient volume Editors, William Morris Houghton, William Edgar ber, Philip Rosa. Dramatic Editor to repeat the triumph. When they thought or spoke of the national prohibition of tobacco they did so hy derision, though it now had precedent, was really inconceivable. But what would they have dicted as much more imminent a na teaching of evolution? lution! Six short y fantastic for utteran Perhaps there are some among us who still consider it so. If ther terested in a national survey of the war on evolution con- tributed to a recent issue of The Nation by Miriam Allen DeFord, a California journalist. as if such an idivey, said if some nal t I. maybe —but 5 s ago that would have seemed loo we had pre- n on the Tobacco—w sare, they will be in- homa for n than two years (to quote Miss DeForc mpossible to teach the evolution theory in the put schools. ‘Tennessce has just passed a similar law. In Florida the legislature passed a resolution advising school boards or trustees not to employ any instructor who taught Darwinism, bill has been introduced making such instruction unlawful Board of Regents of the State University has or- » infidel, atheist or agnostic shall be employed in ity in the University of 1 ... No person who does not believe i as the Supreme Being and the Ruler of the Universe shall h ter be emple * Although there of course, many evolutionists wh heists, a teacher scientific evolution would have the inter- pretations of such a rule. In Kentucky and Texas the lower house of the legislature passed anti-evolution bills, but the upper house failed to carry the measure—in Kentucky by the perilous margin of one vote. The Baptists of Kentucky have voted to give no money to any school evolution. North Carolina board of education will teachers who believe in evolution. Bills are pending or about to be presented in Mississippi, Georgia, West Virginia, Arkansas, lowa, Illinois, North Dakota, Minnesota, Oregon and Arizona. Better lay in your library of evolution literature before you have to pay bootleg prices. Give Them Enough Rope WwW: Apviseé the reader not to froth at the mouth over the threat to our few remaining liberties contained in this on-rush of the anti-evolution hordes, but to hope that they put over their program. If they should manage to effect a national prohibition of the ching of evolu- tion, wouldn't that cause the whole prohibition fabric to break and crash of its own weight? The wise physician sometimes lets a fever reach its peak without hindrance in the expectation that it will then subside as quickly as it came. Social fevers often yield to this t ment. Look at Mah Jongg and crossword puzzles. So, cheer up! We may yet have the fundamentalists to thank for our | WooM. WW, comicbooks.com