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EVOLUTION 



From Our Readers 



"If some of you provincial ignoramuses 

 in New York would ever come out into 

 the middle west and meet a few red- 

 blooded, patriotic, straight-and clean- 

 thinking Americans, you would soon learn 

 that these same "ignoramuses of the bible 

 belt" are the backbone of America. And 

 that hundreds of men west of Pittsburgh 

 whose names glow in letters of fire in the 

 Pantheon of Science are also men who 

 revere an omnipotent God and confess His 

 Son as the One whose sublime sacrifice 

 on Calvary redeemed a world. 



"Certain scientists" have developed a 

 curious and laughable atheistic complex, 

 whereby the fruits of scientific research 

 have turned to wormwood and Dead Sea 

 apples in their mouths. A large propor- 

 tion of the criminality among the youth 

 of America today is directly chargeable 

 to vicious and irresponsible atheists in 

 American colleges who pervert the doctrine 

 of Evolution into a dogma of bestialism. 

 destroying in the student mind the sense 

 of accountability to a supreme Power." — 

 Donald P. Beard, Missouri. 



"Herewith find check for $50.00 for 

 broadcasting Evolution. Use it as you see 

 fit. But on bended kness I beg you, if you 

 can, do something for poor old Funda- 

 mentalist, Klan-ridden Indina. It is not 

 one jump ahead of Tennessee. The dark- 

 est of the northern states. 



"I live in a hick town where the bible 

 is taught in the schools and where the 

 superintendent of schools never missed a 

 meeting of the woman's weekday prayer 

 meeting. He would not allow Wells' Out- 

 line of History in the schools because it 

 taught evolution. He could name on his 

 fingers all the books he would not de- 

 stroy if he had the power. And he was 

 respected. Doctors "eat the flesh and drink 

 the blood" of a dead god and the only 

 laivyer teaches a Sunday school class. 



"What can one poor devil of an evolu- 

 tionist do? To poke your head above the 

 dead level is to get batted. I poked. I 

 know. 



"Best wishes for Evolution. Yours for 

 Humanity,"— M. Mark, Indiana. 



"I am delighted with this undertaking. 

 In conversation with Dr. Gregory two or 

 three years ago I stressed the importance 

 of such a step and pointed out the folly 

 of underestimating the strength and in- 

 fluence of Fundamentalists."- — J. Leon Wil- 

 liams, New York. 



"The magazine Evolution has just 

 reached me. I must congratulate you upon 

 its matter and get-up. Its timeliness should 

 ensure it a long and prosperous life." — 

 Hugh F. Munro, Pennsylvania. 



"Why wasn't such a magazine started 

 long ago? Send me 20 copies quick and 

 the crop returned to you will be abund- 

 ant."— Wm. George Henry, California. 



"Just received sample. It looks like the 

 stuff. Here's check for two dollars. More 

 power to you." — G. M. Morris, Ohio. 



"Please do not send me any more of 

 this disgusting literature." — B. S. L. Davis, 

 Maryland. 



"Judging by the sample copy you have 

 been good enough to send me, I am in 

 hopes the periodical will be of great as- 

 sistance both to laity as well as clergy." — 

 Leslie E. Goodwin, Maryland. 



"Good luck to you. More power to your 

 elbow." — Hutton Webster, Nebraska. 



"Here are some more — five one-year sub- 

 scriptions, $2.50. It's surprising the funda- 

 mentalists one meets in high places in our 

 ranks."— P. B. Cowdery, California. 



"Enclosed $2.00. Evolution is splendid. 

 This kind of work should have appeared 

 long ago. But I believe you still have the 

 opportunity to make it a great success." — 

 A. Guleserian, Illinois. 



"You are going strong. Look out for the 

 weak-kneed evolutionists." — ■ Frank Hart, 

 Pennsylvania. 



"Please send copy of Number 1 of 

 Evolution again. I gave it to a good 

 Christian and he never returned it. Wish 

 you great success." — Tobias Sigel, Mich. 



"It is high time that a magazine of this 

 kind is published and widely circulated. 

 May it prosper and become a formidable 

 factor in combatting ail the falsehood and 

 bigotry which infest the people. Here's 

 check for $2.50 for five." — John Krama- 

 rich, Minnesota. 



"Hope you get a few million more sub- 

 scribers. Good luck." — Paul L. Knorr, 

 Pennsylvania. 



"I am not alone in this feeling, for I 

 have received letters and telephone calls 

 asking whether I have read your publica- 

 tion and expressing delight with it. En- 

 close $4 for five subscriptions for your 

 needed magazine." — J. DeRose, New Y'ork. 



"Will do everyting in my power to help 

 spread this splendid mind developer." — 

 David J. Zimmerman, California. 



February, 1928 



"You are a dirty, black, hell-bound out- 

 fit. You'll cry for the Rocks and the 

 Mountains to fall on you so.ne day. The 

 devil have got you bound hand and foot.'" 

 Unsigned letter from Jamestown, No. Dak. 



"Received two issues. Read every word. 

 Like it well. Here's a dollar for broadcast- 

 ing." — Henry H. Gonor, Canada. 



"My heartiest congratulations on both 

 the December and January numbers of 

 Evolution. It is by far the clearest, to 

 say nothing of the most courageous, of all 

 the strictly scientific publications. Put us 

 on your list for 100 copies monthly until 

 further notice. 



"And don't let anybody persuade you to 

 stop 'making fun' of the fundamentalists, 

 but just keep it up. We have a real bat- 

 tle on in this evolution controversy and 

 all effective weapons must be used." — 

 Queen Silver, California. 



"I am very much interested in learning 

 the truth about ourselves. It appears to 

 me that our civilized people are under in- 

 fluence of false teaching. In other words. 

 Humbug Rules the World."— Vac J. Hlad- 

 ky. South Dakota. 



"The schools have failed to popularize 

 Evolution. Result: the multitudes in ig- 

 norance are being preyed upon by nar- 

 row, stupid fundamentalists. I enclose copy 

 of a lecture delivered here by Winrod, 

 who hails from Wichita. He promises to 

 have an anti-evolution bill in our next 

 Kansas legislature. His delivered lecture 

 was much worse than the printed. He 

 defied any one to find anything on earth 

 more than 6000 years old. He was in 

 church, and one had no chance to inter- 

 rupt or reply." — Andrew Shearer, Kansas. 



"Send us 20 copies, January number. Let 

 this be a standing order. The little new- 

 comer is catching on quite well here." — 

 Harper News Co., Arkansas. 



"It's great. Already passed through sev- 

 eral hands. If I knew how I would pray 

 for your success for we surely need such 

 publications." — N. H. Robinson, Oregon. 



Saator'a :?tui)y 

 JbDeton,3Ro6Bnrh«j»etl9 



Jan.ll,19?.8. 



evolution PubliGhing Corpn., 

 96 fifth Avenue, New york,IJ.Y. 



To the Editor of '"Evolution": 

 My dear air: 



I was rlBG to see your photograph and that of one of your 

 ancestors on the' front page of "Evolution" for January. Trie contents 

 of the paper are precisely what I should expect from those 

 photograpns. For dogmatic asi-ertion anc massed ignorance it would be 

 diffic-ilt to fi.nd anything that would surpass Evolution . I rea.lly 

 think you are to be congratulated on being able to pre:;ent sometnmg 

 "e"trely dlflerent" for I am quite sure neither on this nor tht 

 other Gidd of the water has anything thus far reen presented so 

 ent rely unique in its jungle wisdom as your paper, i wish ycu the 

 largest sucess, for I can coneeive of nothing whici^i.l so tnoroughlj 

 turn people away from organic evolution, as yoi>c n^er. 

 Very truly yours, — 



