October, 1928 



EVOLUTION 



Page Thirteen 



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 ■vantage of the very favorable situation that 

 has arisen because of the fundamentalist 

 forcing of the anti-evolution law upon the 

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Contributions for this Fund to date 

 are: Michael A. Cohn $20; Martin Dewey 

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FOR ARKANSAS EDUCATION 

 The fact that it is now illegal to teach 

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Contributions from the following are 

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HONOR ROLL 



Many of your friends, who would not 

 take the issue raised by fundamentalism 

 seriously before, will sit up and take notice 

 mow that the fundamentalist fanatics have 

 captured their first State by popular ref- 

 erendum. They'll subscribe for Evolution 

 T.ow if you only ask them. Get them for a 

 ■full year if you can, but, if they will not 

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 ■Jrial subscription. Let's enlist you in this 

 Honor Roll. 



20 H. Van Voorst 5 M. Holzbauer 



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12 Fred Blossom 5 C. D. Foreman 



11 Mae Klavac 5 H. L. Clark 



M 11 Geo. H. Parker 4 Henry Rimbach 



8 L. Jaffe 4 Annie Edelstadt 



8 H. I. Margolies 4 J. W. Marshall 

 7 J. Swire 4 P. B. Cowdery 



7 Richard 'WTiite 3 Ben Blanford 



« Paul E. Hering 3 J. H. Kelly 



6 Chas. F. Clagg 3 Edith Gwin 

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5 H. R. Rentsch 3 F. Cassidy 



THIS PUZZLING PLANET, by Edwin 

 Tenney Brewster. Bobbs-Merrill Com- 

 pany, $4.00. 



Professor Brewster must be criticized for 

 the way he almost apologizes for his liter- 

 ary method, — the method that mixes field- 

 observation, history and biography, as if 

 there were something wrong with that. 

 Why it is this very method that makes his 

 telling so good. I rather suspect he was 

 not apologizing at all. 



The book tells the Earth's unfinished 

 story, how men have read it in the past and 

 how the wayfarer may read it today. It is 

 well and amply told, too, even though it 

 is relatively brief and popular. It gives all 

 the leading clues, so that each of us may 

 interpret for himself. As we are all sur- 

 rounded by "geology" in every rock and 

 hill and sand bank, that gives us unending 

 stories to read — once our eyes have been 

 taught the language. Thereafter there are 

 no tiresome journeys; one need only flatten 

 one's nose against the car window to attain 

 whole days of delight. 



This Puzzling Planet is a fit sequel to 

 the author's Creation; a History of Non- 

 Evolutionary Theories, that other delight- 

 ful book which deals largely with the story 

 of biology. There is no fundamentalist 

 comfort in either, for both tell the story of 

 persistent clerical errors, still paraded as 

 final truth by the ultra-orthodox — and 

 laughed at by any one who has studied 

 and knows. Both books are full of ammu- 

 nition for the militant. Ammunition he 

 certainly needs, for the holy absurdities do 

 not die just because they have been once 

 killed. They still persist, even amongst 

 our enlightened selves, as witness the fact 

 that a full half of our American people still 

 firmly hold to the geology of the Flood of 

 Noah. And of course, no issue of a Funda- 

 mentalist journal is quite complete these 

 days without its article upholding this last 

 hope of the theological stand-patters. Brew- 

 ster devotes a chapter to its history and 

 tribulations that will make the Fundamen- 

 talist tear his hair. A. S. B. 



LET FREEDOM RING, by Arthur Gar. 



field Hays, Boni & Livcright, $2.50. 



The adoption of the anti-evolution law 

 by the State of Arkansas on November 6th 

 emphasizes the timeliness of "Let Free- 

 dom Ring" by Arthur Garfield Hays, pub- 

 lished recently by Boni and Liveright. It 

 deals at length with the "Scopes Case", 

 that mid-summer farce that had the whole 

 world giggling three years ago. Mr. Hays 

 was one of the dramatis personae and tells 

 the story from behind the scenes, giving 

 many intimate glimpses of the actors. 



And he gives a picture of the folk in 

 Tennessee that is an essential part of 

 America, a part seldom seen by visitors to 

 our shores and seldom recognized by our 

 "cultured classes'', but which must be 

 taken into consideration in any serious 

 evaluation of the actions of America. 



One who has studied science, who has 

 the evolutionary concept, finds it hard to 

 appreciate the viewpoint of those whose 

 lives are ruled completely by dogmatic 



belief. This study of the Scopes case by 

 Mr. Hays will help to such an under- 

 standing. And this is essential to an in- 

 telligent handling of the issues raised by 

 militant fundamentalism, encouraged by 

 its victory in Arkansas to try for power. 



But to Mr. Hays this suppression of 

 the Freedom of Education is only one 

 manifestation of a quality in American 

 character that also finds expression in 

 other ways. These are indicated by the 

 chapter headings:- 2. Freedom of Speech 

 and Assemblage (Pennsylvania coal 

 mines) ; 3. Freedom of the Press (Ameri- 

 can Mercury) ; 4. Freedom of Residence 

 (Detroit Negro Segregation); 5. Freedom 

 of the Stage (Captive Case) ; 6. Freedom 

 of Opinion (Sacco-Vanzetti) . Each of these 

 cases depicts trials in which Mr. Hayes 

 was a personal participant as one of the 

 Champions of Freedom. 



The stories are interestingly told with a 

 wonderful sense of the dramatic. There is 

 no profound analysis of underlying causes, 

 no ultimate solution of problems, but a 

 frank facing of reality which is an essen- 

 tial prerequisite to such analysis and solu- 

 tion. Readers of Evolution will enjoy this 

 book and find it food for thought. L. E. K. 



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