Pace Eight 



EVOLUTION 



JULY. 1928 



EUOLUTION 



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NUMBER 6 



JULY, 1928 



A PERNICIOUS PRACTICE 



To curry favor with fundamentalist text 

 book commissions certain publishers print 

 special editions of their school ho<iks, 

 leaving out any mention of evolution. 



We can respect the fundamentalists. 

 Many of them act according to their lights. 

 They simply don't know any better. They 

 at least believe that they are acting in 

 the best interests of the growing genera, 

 tion, that they are safeguarding their chil- 

 dren from what they consider dangcrou.*^ 

 doctrine, when they ajvocaie and cnlorte 

 anti-evolution laws. 



But we can not respect publishers that 

 deliberately put out misleading texts lor 

 the sake of "business", nor pussy-footing 

 authors that are willing to cash in on 

 these deplorable prejudices by lending 

 their names to books that feed the grow- 

 ing mind on mere husks instead of the 

 solid grain of truth. 



Evolution is investigating this entire 

 situation, and expects to make a report 

 in an early issue that will jar the smug 

 complacency of those guilty of this per- 

 nicious practice. We invite our readers 

 to co-operate by bringing to our attention 

 any specific instances of which they may 

 be aware. 



THREE MARTYRS TO SCIENCE 

 In quick succession, three eminent 

 scientists of the Rockefeller Institute have 

 given their lives in defence of humanity 

 against the dread tropic disease, yellow 

 fever. They are Professor Adrian Stokef 

 oi London Universit)', the Japanese Doctor 

 Hideyo Noguchi and Doctor William Alex 

 ander Young who all died of the diseas< 

 they were fighting. Working at Accra, on 

 the African Gold Coast, they had already 

 isolated the germ of the disease and wen 

 on the verge of success in their search 

 for a cure. Records they have left ot 

 their discoveries and progress will permii 

 the completion of the work of these he 

 roes of science who gladly made the sup 

 reme sacrifice that mankind might be freed 

 from another great scourge. 



ITS IN THE POINT OF VIEW 



The Professor said to the protoplasm: 

 "Truly, there is a mighty chasm 

 Between the two of us, my friend. 

 You the beginning, I the end." 



The protoplasm made reply. 



Winking his non-existent eye, 



"Since I've been watching you. old man, 



Im rather sorrj I began.' 



Author Unknoun 



E\0LUT10N F'OR FARM ANIMALS 



In the March issue of Evolution, we 

 reprinted an abstract of the work done; 

 by Dr. H. J. Muller of the University of 

 Texas in speeding up variation in fruit 

 flies by exposing them to X-rays. Now 

 comes the announcement from Leo J. Bro- 

 semer of Chicago, nationally known au 

 thority on scientific stock breeding and for- 

 merly junior animal husbandryman in thf 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, that, 

 with the help of other scientists, he isi 

 beginning a series of experiments on the 

 application of the same method to the 

 large, slow breeding animals of the farm. 

 Sensational things are looked for when 

 the rays are applied to cattle, pigs, poul- 

 try, wheat and other farm subjects and 

 he hopes to do as much in three or foui 

 years as breeders have heretofore been 

 able to do in a century. 



IN ENLIGHTENED NEW ENGLAND 

 The press reports that in Manchester. 

 N. H.. the Board of Education bars books 

 mentioning evolution, for the reason that 

 "as long as we have to omit the teaching 

 of religion in the schools, there is no 

 reason why we should open the door to 

 this scientific theory." 



TEACHERS IN TROUBLE 

 Teachers who havl" difficulties because 

 of leaching about evolution are invited to 

 communicate the facts to this journal. 



HOW TO WORD A WILL 

 One of our friends writes: "1 do not 

 intend to die soon, but in case of acci 

 dent I should have a will made favoring 

 Evolution. Can you tell me the right 

 way to proceed?" 



Simply incorporate in your will the 

 following: "I give, devise and bequeath 

 dollars to the Evolution Pub- 

 lishing Corporation, a corporation organ 

 ized and existing under the laws of the 

 State of New York, or its successors." 



NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS 

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 May and June, all subscriptions will be 

 extended two months. The year will in- 

 clude twelve numbers;. 



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 And, of course, try to send us a few new 

 subscribers at the same time. 



AP^OTHER CHANCE 



FOR CRUSADERS 



By Joseph McCabe 

 TT is just about three centuries since one 

 of the most gifted of Englishmen, Lord 

 Francis Bacon, turned aside from his more 

 ponderous work to pen a little Utopian 

 sketch called "The New Atlantis." 



Bacons Utopia is unlike any of the 

 others. The general character of the others 

 was that they cut down the hours of labor 

 yet miraculously increased the production 

 of wealth. They always forgot to tell the 

 secret of the increased production. Bacon, 

 with magnificent foresight, saw that 

 science was going to prove this source 

 of enrichment. His main idea that each 

 State should have a wonderful central Col- 

 lege of Science, the various national col- 

 leges communicating freely with each 

 other, and wealth and progress would be 

 ensured. 



Science was extremely rudimentary in 

 his day. thanks to the philosophers and 

 theologians who uplift us with their 

 spiritual realities, yet Bacon's genius dimly 

 described the glorious promise of the fu- 

 ture in the rudimentary principles. Writers 

 who try to belittle Francis Bacon point 

 out how vague his language was. Nat- 

 urally. Let them try to tell what the 

 chemist or the electrician will be doing 

 three centuries from now. The fact is 

 that, with a necessary haziness, Bacon 

 foresaw the vast cold storage of modem 

 times, the vehicles that would run along 

 without horses, or would rise into the air 

 or travel below the surface of the sea, 

 and so on. 



People smiled, of course. Fantastic 

 idea. this, that you should look for the 

 higher welfare of the community to a 

 bunch of men who gazed at the stars 

 through "optic tubes', or "nosed around 

 the stinks of a laboratory" (as the Catho- 

 lic G. K. Chesterton elegantly puts it I 

 when there were so many brilliant states- 

 men, able merchant-adventurers and elo- 

 quent preachers to take care of it. Literary 

 men and artists turned up their fine. cut 

 nostrils and worked out neat little epi- 

 grams about science. Spiritual writers 

 assured the world that only neglect of the 

 higher and more precious things of life 

 would ensue from this materialistic trust 

 in .science. 



So the world had to wait two more cen- 

 turies for the partial redemption that we 

 have witnessed in modern times. Men of 

 science meantime worked on in silence 

 and under general disdain until the world 

 found that they could invent mach-nes to 

 do the work of a hundred horses and find 

 the power to run them. But when these 

 men of science went on to announce the 

 truth of evolution all the old bitterness 

 was revived. That is a familiar story. It 

 would sound like an episode of the New 

 Stone Age if there were not Rip van 

 Winkles amongst us who have just 

 awakened. 



The other day I conducted a Catholic 

 lady around Westminster Abbey, the great- 

 est of the old churches of England, the 



