Life — June 11, 1925 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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most of his deliverances were in New Haven, the words of Dr. Angell and Dr. Hadley fall all the gladder on the ear. Mr. Baldwin, the British premier, says of Trotsky, that he slowly and reluctantly discovering what Mr. idney Webb discovered two years ago—the inevitability of gradualness.” Slowly and reluctantly our prohibi- tionists are making the same discovery. HEN free speech dis- turbs the hearers of it, so much the better, for that makes for dis- cussion. Perhaps Mr. Bryan deserves credit for the noise he makes about the Modernists and the teaching of evolution. He is stirring up interest in the evolution theory be- yond anything that has existed before. People have got to get some idea of what Darwin thought in order to be intelligent critics of what Bryan says about it. That is all to the good. Darwin observed, re- corded facts, and reasoned from them the best he could. About his hypoth- eses and the theories of the evolutionists generally there is no certainty of conclusion; nothing as yet but discussion. Perhaps Mr. Bryan ought to get some more degrees for pro- moting it. The trouble about it is that he is not really for free speech, not for free anything, but goes up and down the land stirring up legislatures to invent new shackles for minds and new gags for voices as well as for throats. He is the enemy of liberty, that man, and certainly nowadays no friend of truth. But, after all, truth has usually more to fear from its friends than from its enemies. LIFE, ‘ HE choice of Glenn Frank, the Editor of the Century Magazine, to be President of the University of Wis- consin is very interesting and quite remarkable. Mr. Frank's line is, con- siderably, religion. He is young, bold and thoughtful, and willing and able to talk about what is going on. He too might well pick up a few honorary degrees at this commencement and doubtless he will, for as a prospective university president he is naturally a depositary for academic garlands. Special interest attaches to his trans- fer to a position of high influence in a State in which the dominant political 15 mind has long been that of La Follette. Frank, wi Mr, like Senator La Follette, is by y of being a radical, but he knows a good many things that La Follette seems not to be aware of, and they are things of moment, things of the spirit, fit to infuse a valuable reasonableness into Wisconsin politics. NDER the common law of Eng- land any object which was instru- mental in destroying human life became a deodand and was forfeited to the State. A revival of that law might make motorists more careful. EB. S. Martin “EVENTUALLY, WHY NoT Now?” comicbooks.com