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EVOLUTION 



January, 1928 



EVOLUTION 



A Journal of Nature 



To combat bigotry and superstition and 



develop the open mind by popularizing 



natural science 



Published monthly by 



Evolution Publishing Corporation 



96 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. 



Telephone: Watkins 7587 



L- E. Katterfeld, 



Managing Editor 



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NUMBER 2 



JANUARY, 1928 



NEITHER HIGHBROW NOR 

 LOWBROW 



Evolution is not printed for the 

 edification of specialists in science. 

 Plenty of professional journals for 

 that purpose. 



Neither does it propose to "con- 

 vert" fundamentalists. It will not 

 appeal to those that base their opin- 

 ions upon faith instead of facts. 



Evolution is published for the 

 ordinary mortal that would like to 

 know "what it's all about." 



Heretofore most of our neighbors 

 haven't bothered their heads much 

 about natural science and evolution. 

 But the tremendous agitation to out- 

 law evolution that the fundamental- 

 ists are now starting will cause a 

 great many laymen to want to know 

 something about it. 



So Evolution will be Johnny-on- 

 the-spot, easy to read and easy to 

 understand. 



At the same time Evolution will 

 always be strict regarding facts and 

 will merit the respect and support 

 of the most eminent men of science. 



Straton or Aimee Semple McPher- 

 son. The people of Arkansas stack 

 up fairly well with the average in 

 our U. S. A. What happens there is 

 a pretty good indication of what will 

 happen all over the country unless 

 the facts about natural science are 

 carried direct to the people. 



Evolution offers itself for this 

 purpose. 



ARKANSAS NEXT? 



So there's to be a popular referen- 

 dum on evolution in Arkansas. Fun- 

 damentalists boast that they already 

 have over 9,000 of the 12,000 signa- 

 tures necessary to place the question 

 on the ballot. They'll quickly get 

 the rest. 



Now don't make the mistake of 

 cracking jokes of the "Slow Train 

 Through Arkansas" variety. Ar- 

 kansas is not the home of John Roach 



MAN'S BLOOD COUSIN— THE 

 GORILLA 



As we expected, the front cover of 

 our first issue, showing Man's Blood 

 Cousin — The Gorilla, caused com- 

 ment all over the continent. A few 

 who would have been glad to ignore 

 Evolution if we had published a 

 conventionally polite cover were 

 aroused to fury by its powerful chal- 

 lenge, but nearly all the comment 

 was very favorable. 



Perhaps the most thoughtful re- 

 mark was made by Arthur Brisbane 

 in his column in the New York 

 American. Said he: 



"Evolution, new magazine, has 

 on the front page a big gorilla la- 

 beled "Man's Blood Cousin" . . . 



"Nevertheless, the gorilla, although 

 his blood is marvelously like that of 

 human beings, is certainly not man's 

 cousin mentally. If he were, he 

 would eat other animals as man does 

 and kill his own kind for glory as 

 man does." 



DANGEROUS DOCTRINE 



"Why bother with the beliefs of 

 the morons? Evolution goes on just 

 the same." 



A comforting view of some pro- 

 fessors, seemingly secure behind 

 cloistered walls in their "passionless 

 pursuit of passionless knowledge." 

 But very dangerous doctrine. 



Even in the good old days it made 

 a difference what the morons be- 

 lieved, as many a "witch" could tes- 

 tify, gently roasting at the stake. 



And today said moron is a sover- 

 eign. He may not be able to stop 

 evolution, but he'll surely stop the 

 clock of the evolutionist unless men 

 of science come out of their monastic 

 seclusion and make it part of their 

 business to acquaint their neighbors 

 with what they have learned about 

 man and nature. 



The columns of Evolution are at 

 their service. 



HE KNOWS, BUT HE WON'T TELL 



By Edwin Tenney Brewster 



'T'HE Oracle again utters its voice — 



and, as usual, gets things pre- 

 cisely wrong. 



Somebody asks Reverend S. Parkes 

 Cadman, D. D., the quite reasonable 

 question, "If mankind developed 

 from monkeys, as the evolutionists 

 say ... at what point in the process 

 did the soul enter into man ... ?" 



Dr. Cadman knows, of course; he 

 just does not want to tell. So he 

 sidesteps with this: 



"Will you give me the name of 

 any reputable authority who fathers 

 the assertion that 'mankind developed 

 from monkeys'...? There is no 

 excuse for these misrepresentations 

 wherever a schoolboy's science 

 primer is handy. It is no wonder 

 that religion suffers the scorn of the 

 godless and of secular scholars when 

 its adherents advance such empty 

 rhetoric in its defense." 



One does not quite know what, 

 in the bright lexicon of syndicated 

 misinformation, counts as "a school- 

 boy's science primer," but if one 

 may cite school textbooks, there is 

 Dryer's "High School Geography" 

 (American Book Company, Part I, 

 Page 255). "His (man's) structure 

 indicates descent from ancestors of 

 apelike habits, living in trees, and on 

 fruits." 



Or if one tries the schoolboy of a 

 larger growth, there are the two big 

 volumes of "Human Origins," by 

 George Grant MacCurdy, Ph. D., of 

 Yale University (D. Appleton, 1924, 

 Page 299; Vol. 1). "The modification 

 of the human frame for the erect 

 posture could take place only after 

 an extended period of arboreal life 

 . . . The apes . . . have never com- 

 pletely gained erect posture; the 

 complete break with arboreal life 

 was successfully made only by the 

 human precursor ..." 



Hence we see, my children, that 

 we did not, as some ignorant per- 

 sons suppose, ever have a monkey 

 for an ancestor. He was, to be sure, 

 "a creature of apelike habits living 

 in trees"; and he had "an extended 

 period of arboreal life." But a mon- 

 key — certainly not! A whale, per- 

 haps; or an elephant? 



