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from Chicago Tribune, Dec. 1. 



FORBIDDEN FRUIT 



From Cleveland Press. Nov. 1 5 



ENFORCE IT, BY ALL MEANS 



Some public officials in Arkansas are reported to 

 have let the idea get abroad that the newly adopted 

 anti-evolution law would be allowed to become a 

 "dead letter." Not so the Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction. He will enforce it up to the hilt. Which 

 moves one of our readers, Bob Lyie of Biloxi, to take 

 his pen in hand as follows: 



Biloxi, Miss., Nov. 16th, 1928. 

 Mr. J. P. Womack, State Supt., 



Little Rock, Ark. 

 Dear Sir: — 



I want to congratulate you on the manly stand that 

 you have taken, regarding the strict enforcement of 

 the recently passed Anti-Evolution law. 



These religious laws that Fundamentalists are hav- 

 ing enacted are making us a nation of bootleggers and 

 sneaks. An anti-evolution law makes Fundamentalism 

 the state religion, %vhich is unconstitutional. Not only 

 that, it is a personal insult to every teacher. 



Teachers spend years in preparing themselves for 

 their profession, just as the captain of an ocean liner 

 spends years in the study of navigation. Can you 

 imagine any ship captain who would meekly submit to 

 having his crew and steerage passengers put it to a 

 vote, then demand that he throw his compass and 

 charts overboard and steer his ship by the Bible? Then 

 why should people who are as unfitted to teach the 

 higher branches of knowledge as the average steerage 

 passenger is to navigate a ship, be allowed to say what 

 duly licensed teachers shall teach? 



I hope that you will stand by your guns and see 

 that this silly law is lived up to, to the very letter. 

 No teacher can take the proper pride in his profession 

 when obliged to stultify his reasoning powers, in order 

 to hold his job. And no teacher can command the re- 

 spect of his scholars when they know that he is hypo- 

 critically dodging the issue by calling evolution by 

 some other name. 



Yours sincerely, BOB LYLE. 





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IT AIN'T BOZO WE'RE SO SKEERED OF! 



From Commercial Appeal, Nov. 14. 



