‘ PAGE TEN THE EVENING ‘SENTINEL‘ SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1925. “APE” LAW’S AUTHOR CALLS EVOLUTION THEORY DANGEROUS John Washington Butler Writes Poem on'Bible -—Is Very Religious But Not Fanatic—Is a Companionable Fellow—Likes to Play at Sports—Is a Farmer By CLARK KISNAIRD. DAYTON. Tenn. July 11.—John Washington Butler. the author of Tennessee‘s “anti. evolution" law, is also something of a poet. The lines given here are his 'lhey reflect ex- It the Bible theory of creation Is set aside bv invrstigation And Evolution takes its place There" s no hope hit for Adam‘is race. in - n n u So by the Bible we will abide, And in its truths always con. tide; Being content with the “ old. old story" 01 divine creation and eternal glory. actly his. views regarding the issue being contested here. This evolution law of which he is the proud but humble father. is merely the expression of his belief in the law that governs his daily life. and it is a result of his early relig- ious training and his later religious life and work in the "primitive Baptist" church. John Butler carried this religion with him down to a seat in the house of representatives in Nashville and wrote it into a law. "I believe the evolution theory is dangerous," he says simply. “I be- lieve that it threatens the Christian life of our homes and has a tendency to lower the standards of morality. That is why I wanted a law passed O to prevent» such ideas being. taught our children in the schools. “The attack-on this bill is' only an effort to destroy the law." he says. “It looks to me like the spirit of infidelity and disrespect for the Bible is behind the attack. I can- not bellevo that it will succeed." All this may lead you to think John Butler is a. dour. austere. for- bidding man. He isn't. To him I Christian life must be full of the Joy of living and serving. and he is knnvvn among his friends as a good llliii.1‘-(l. companionable man. He has always liked outdoor sports and played baseball when he was a boy— but not on Sunday. He is content with his- lot in lite. which is that of a farmer whose years are alternately lean and fat, according to the weather. He and his three sons wrest meat and bread from seventy-tive' acres of corn and tobacco land three miles from afayette. which is about. ‘100 miles from here. To a little frame house built by his grandiather John Butler brought his bride. Magnolia. McDonald. 28 years ago. and in this house they still live with their three grown sons. Huber. Goldson and Kermit. John Butler doesn't believe in bio- logy’s teachings. Yet when Huber Butler enters the University of Tennessee to study medicine. it will be the realization of a dream his father once had for himself. And to be a doctor. Huber must study biology and accept its teach- ings. What if John Butler had real- ized his ambition? Now Don’t Blame All the Trouble 0n Mr. Darwin H e Didn’t Originate Evolution —— Ancient Greeks Started Dis- cussion By CLARK KINNAIRD. Only uninformed persons have the idea. that "evolution" is sortie theory hatched by Charles Darwin, and that evolution is founded on the belief that man is descended .from monkeys. Darwinism is not a term synony- mous with evolution. No scientist worthy of the name today believes that monkeys are an ancestor of man. Evolution goes much back t at Charles Darwin. Tha all living organisms have been derived by gradual evolution from simpler forms was an idea proposed by the ancient Greeks. In the thousands or years that have followed many have conjectured at the mechanism that might have produced this evolution. But. not until the later years of the eight- eenth century and the beginning at! the) nineteenth century did any thinkers base their explanations 01' evolution on actual observations. farther Among those early thinkers there stand out the names 0! Button. Erasmus Darwin. grandfather of Charles. Lamarek and Goethe, who was a great biologist as well as a great poet. Charles Darwin‘s name is asso- ciated with evolution more strong- ly than any other because he pop- ularized it. and because he was the center of an evolution controversy similar in some respects to the Scopes case. that was stirred up in England halt a. century ago. Since Darwin's time his ideas have been modified and much has been added to them. His greatness as a scientist remains unequalifled. As one scientist says: “Science al- ways is changing as new research- es are made. It is no more to be expected .that Darwin should have been entirely right than that the ancient Greeks should have been entirely right: nor is it to be ex- pected that modern science is en- tirely right." From Main Stein. Branches. Evolution does not teach and never has tatmht. the scientists say. that man was descended from a monkey. \V'hat it does teach is that man belongs to the order or the primates or highest forms or life which emerged about the dawn of a remote or the Eocene era; and that man. the various types of monkeys. apes and other of the higher animal forms are something like. remote cousins. In other words. all came from a common ancestor. Man no more descended from the monkey or the spa than the latter descended from man. says evolution. dug up Recently evidence was “ ayton’s Prettiest” to Watch Tri i 0 The City’ 3 “Other” Paved Street a; g. i; . i i 4“. ntrsi Press Photos and Market. ‘ WM 1‘1 Dayton, Tcnn.. locale of the Scope: evolution Mai u [and 0; ' air so: and oi its civic progress It bouts m p" ‘ I“, Photos show Min Amends Knight, left and Lola ”mini two of Demo's prettiest, uni o glimpse u streets, SCOPES’ FOR THE DEFENSE Pkossoaoas ‘ I 1 Members of the prosecution counsel in tho Scopes trial are shown: Above: (l. to 1-.) Judge J. G. McKenzie. Harry M. Lawrence, S. K. nicks. Below: (l. to r.) H. E. Hicks, William Jennings Bryan, W. C. Haggard. which tends to indicate that man preceded monkeys on the earth. From the main stem of the pri- mates there were various branches. First. the South American monk- eys, then the Old World monkeys. then ages later, from the main stem the small anthropoid apes. the gibbon and the siamang. Distinct- ly later there diverged the branch 0 flhe larger anthropoid apes—tho gorilla the chimpanzee and the orang.". That. it is explained. left "a gen- eralized humanoid stock separated on! froth all monkeys and apes. and including the immediate pre- cursors ot man." Here .at last. say the scientists. we are getting somewhere. safely away from the detested. degrading monkey. when nobody wants, and need have. for an ancestor. And the time of this definite separation is‘estimated at anything like 500.000 to 2,000,000 years ago. No danger of identi- fying ancestors there, by any- lengthening out of anybody's fam- ily tree. comfort the exponents of evolution. this separation. it is definitely believed. took place in Asia. and man began his own long ages of development. Evidence for scoffcrs. To those who question the prcoi‘ or evidences of evolution \1 it re- spect to liiilll .scientists give many answers. li‘rofessor Conklin of Princeton university declares that "everything which speaks of the evolution of plants and animals speaks plainly of the evolution of man. In the structure of the hu- man body there is scarcely a bone. muscle. nerve or other organ that does not "HO its counterpart in the higher primates, and especially the anllvropuid apes." And if We reject the natural ex- planation of herditary descent from a. common ancestor. we can only suppose that the Deity. in creating man. took the most scrup- ulous pains to make him in the image of the beast. A common demand of the doubt- ers is that evidence be filinished, “while they wait. " as to how evo- lution works. There are thought- less persons .says Joseph McCabe, who ask why we cannot turn a man- like ape into a. man. “They never ask." he says. "whether we could turn a negro or a red lndian Above: John R. Neal (left), Clarence Darrow. Bulnbridgo Colby, C. E. Thomas, Dudley Field )lalo11(-.\ (Mr. Colby quit this group Wednesday because of “pressing business." . Below (left to right), into a white European. Yet the white, black and red men had a common ancestor. probably less than 260,000 years ago. whereas it is certainly more than 1.000.000 years. probably 2,000,000 to 3.000,- oau years. since the common an- cestor of the ape and man lived." Millions Thrown Into the Sea. (Montreal Gazette.) The enormous losses sustained by \tho people of the United States through the operations of the Unit- ed Stain Shipping Loard are becom- lic discussion. criticism and protest. The venture into the field of State. owned merchant shipping is costing the American taxpayer approxi- mately fifty million dollars a your and is declared by the New York Evening Post to be “one of the most expensive and utter failures ever ex. perienced by any government at any time." The. statement is amply war- ranted in the. array of statistics pub- lished by the. Post. In nine years, it says. the. board has spent $3.523.- 000.000. and it still—seven years att- er the war—retains 1.20? out of the original 2.200 ships. and otit of this great flcct no fewer than 882' ships are idle. "chained together and rust- ing their heads off." The board's assets today do not exceed $300,000.- 000 and the net loss in nine years has exceeded 33.000.000.000, or enough to run the. Federal Government for it year. This money is gone beyond recovery and the Post thinks it is time to stop dreaming of a permit- neht merchant marine supported by congressional appropriations and subsidies. The 305 cargo ships in operation last year lost $37,303.824 and the fifteen passenger ships lost 34.4.0.850. the Leviathan alone. ac- eounting for more than a million in thirteen'voyages after being recondi- tioned at a cost of 88.000.000. There is. says the Post. no hope of better days; the country is tired of the whole business and so is the admin- istration; "the Government experi- ment in shipping has been a gigantic failure." The "floating junk" should be sold for what it will bring. and the Shipping Board. which the Post represents as a quarreling institu- tion. unworthy the room it has oc- cupied or the salt it has eaten. should go with the ships. HE STARTED 11' ALL ing more and more a subject of pub. I Tonnessee school teacher who has become because of Evolution Trial. ‘ I ACCUSED lN Resentful of Being DAYTON. Tenn.. July ll.——John Thomas Scopes is sick or it all. He wishes the 'trial was over. He is tired of the role of martyr. Each day adds to his discomfort. Repor- ters. often called stony hearted, are beginning to pity him. Sometimes Scopes must envy men on trial for murder. When court adjourns they have a nice. lonely cell to go back to. and solitude in which to bathe their souls and nerves. Scopes is free to go where he likes. But there is no place he can go for peace. He wanders in the streets. stared at or pursued. His temper is short. neys appear to be vexed with him at times. Naturally. all t is excite- ment has changed him in omo re- spects. He is accused of being "up stage." This is not true. in spite of these changes. he still is John Thomas Scopes. high school teahcer. uncomfortably playing a. role quite beyond his hlsironlc capabilities. Lives in Meagcr Quarters. He lives in the Bailey boarding house. in Market street. two blocks front the courthouse. He rented the room when he came to Dayton in late August. 1924. fresh front a uni- versity. it is on the second floor and its triple-framed window looks out through oak and maples at the courthouse tower. The room con- tains an iron bed. a \vashstand and his trunk. He keeps his clothes in a closet. The. closet is in disarray. There is no table in the. room. There was one. but he told his landlady that she could put it in another room. for someone else might need it more. He reads his now volum- inous mail sitting on the bed, which sinks down a foot or more with the weight of his body. and puts his body in an uncomfortable position. No books are in sight in the room. The bathroom is on the first floor. and likely as not. when he comes out after his ntornlng dous- ing. he. finds reporters barring his way to the. stairway. He objects to the intrusion. Later the same reporters meet him on the street and he speaks to them as pleasantly as he speaks to anyone else. is Popular in Town. John T. Scopes hasn't had a “regular girl" in Dayton. In the last two months he. has been scen frequently with Mildred Taylor. a pretty little. girl who isemployed in the W. A. Ault department store. All of the girls like him. In fact. everybody in town does. particularly his former students. They “swear by him." He is big and blonde. and 24 years old. He has abandoned his horn- rimmed spectacles since his pic- tures began to flash into the first pages of the country. . He came to Dayton as teacher in elemental sciences. lnclu'ding biol- ogy. in the Rhea (_‘ontral High school. He coached the football team last fall. and is given credit for its unparalleled success. Ali‘oot- ball is one of his loves. He was not a. gridiron star at the L'nivcr- sity of Kentucky. his alma mater. however. Scopes is putting Dayton on the map. But it is doubtful if Scopes will be a teacher in Dayton's high school next. year. He isn‘t in the list of teachers selected for the high school. although no successor has been named for his place. ,Su- periniendent of Schools. Walter White says there will never again be a school teacher in Rhea county who does not believe in every sin- CLOSE-UP OF JOHN T. SCORES -_-., ._ -...___... ~— Sick of It, Is Belief—~Tired of Limelight, Yeti “Regular Girl” in Dayton—Is Well Likedfi‘ By Townspeople—-—His Room His attor-d ANTI APE TRi f. Pushed Out—Has No“: COUSIN 0F OURSIT} sn- -_\_ gie word in the Bible literally. Scopes is weary of his role; yet. when it is all 0\ir.l1e will miss the spotlight. lit ven now he is a. little resentful of the leniency to push him in the background. The “'orkingmun's Reasons. James P. Holland, in the North American Review. The workingman needs no sump; tuary laws for his political or ml!- al s.il\:ttion. lie holds that sump». luary laws of any'kind have no place in the American theory of gov. ernment. And further. the workingman is aware that sumptuary laws—such u the prohibition amendment—are gen- (rally enacted for his particular bene. fit and to help him to lead 11 “mar. al" life. to protect him front thil, that and the other thing. He resents this patriarchal attitude of the lessees of all goodness and moralls ity. such as the Anti-Saloon league. and demands the liberty to shape his own standards of life, now an hereafter. He rejects the inferiority complex which is inistt'd upon him by "benevolent" employers with the aid of professional reformers... . . . . As an American citizen the work. ingman has another just as strenu- ous objection to the prohibition amendment. The. workingman insists _upon 1emainimr a citizen of the Liiited States of America. and re- fuse! to become a subject of the government, without his specific consent. ' COIiccl‘nlng Representatives (Bristol Press) So far as we have seen Miss More jury t‘heney. a representative from Manchester. is the only member 0 the 1925 Legislature to Join Bristol'. two represtlntativ es. Judge Epaphm‘ (little Peck and Arthur S. Barnes, in making a report to the voters. A any rate an excellent example it 2- been set xv these three. one tho might be followed generally to ad vantage. Certainly the voters do sire to know. and have a right t' know. how their representative. voted on ‘matters that conce H them. We congratulate Miss Che ney on her frank and complete 1' port. She was a highly use! .1 member of the General Assembly. i Mill“ Street, Dayton, Tenn, Becomes Main StreetU. S._.A. Belowls Sammie Dayton, 1th.. m 1,800. is the center or wide-world interest, during the first trial of A man for teaching that m L W from film colonel Above is Main Street, Burton‘s principal mt. ‘*!¢.“W....W, «9.! wm Bette-9m , . dbsbrother. Denies‘Sifier . 0? Scores “Job In‘H is Schools mu Lela Scope: . Muller and sister of John T. cipal figure in the Dayton, Team, evolution trial, soy: that L. J. Henifsu, Anus, hood of the Psduuh, Kr. odaools, hudchiod heroposlt'ln in the “schools th’crc because she refuses to renounce the MM: internationally famous :‘t SCOPES’ TRIAL JUDGE " Juan John T. Incl-lo- is the presiding Judge in the Scopes um- evolution“ “howdmnbumutymnmh
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