E VOI.UTIO N 



April. 1929 



EUOLUTION 



A Journal of Nature 



To combat bigotry and huperstition and 



develop the open mind by popularizing 



natural science 



Published monthly by 



Evolution Publishing Corporation 



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



Tel.: Watkins 7587 



L. E. KATTERFELD, Managing Editor 



Allan Strong BROMS, Science Editor 



Subscription rate: One dollar per year 

 In lists of five or more, fifty cents. 

 Foreign subscriptions ten cents extra. 



Single copy 10c: 20 or more. 5c each. 



Entered as second class matter at the 

 Post Office at New York. N. Y.. January 

 7. 1928. under the Act of March 3. 1879. 



\ {JL.. 11. iNo. .) 



Ali^KlL. 1929 



IN DEFENSE OF HONESTY. 



Your fiinciamentalists claim all the 

 virtues and charge tli; scientists with 

 the most malevolent intentions. But 

 1 know many scientists and I find 

 them kindly of intention and mo^t 

 lionest in attitude. None that I know 

 liave dire designs on youth or ir.orals. 



But I have r-jcently read some Ixoks 

 of "fundamentalist science" and now 

 wonder at the nerve of these who pro- 

 claim their own virtues. F< r it is not 

 ordinary honesty to distort meanings and 

 argue jesuitically, even for the glory of 

 your god, and these things they do. it 

 is easy to quote from diffident and 

 honest Charles Darwin when he con- 

 siders the w-hole case, the douhts along- 

 side the proofs. It is easy to ignore 

 the overwhelming proofs and to magnify 

 the doubts most plausibly. You can 

 cleverly alter his plain meanings and so 

 force unmeant confessions from him. 

 But you cannot so win any respect for 

 your honesty. 



I prefer the scientific attitude, the at- 

 titude that seeks earnestly, without 

 thought of consequences, that makes no 

 pretence to knowing all, and modestly 

 talks not at all of its virtues, yet scorns 

 those who withhold or tamper with 

 actual evidence or who permit bias or 

 |)refereiice to color their utterance. For 

 honesty, giv-; me your scientist ; for 

 craven subversiance to prejudice, your 

 fundamentalist. A. S. B. 



RILEY SEEMS A LITTLE 

 RILED. 



The fact that the New York audience 

 vo;ed against him almost unanimously 

 alter his r.cent debate with Professor 

 Jo-eph McCabe seems to have riled our 

 Reverend Doctor Riley somewhat, judg- 

 ing from the tone of his remark regard- 

 ing the audience (which we reprint 

 ur.der ■'Funnymentals" where it belongs) 

 and the amount of space he again devotes 

 to the subject in the April number of 

 his magazine. 



He consoles himself with the vote of 

 tlie judges, but does not mention the fact 

 that of the sixteen judges placed on th-e 

 li-t by EVOLUTION only twelve were 

 present, all of whom seem to have voted 

 for Professor McCabe, and that inst-ead 

 (if limiting his own list of judges to an 

 cipial number, as agreed, seventeen of 

 I'is fundamentalist friends were seated 

 iK'cause the EVOLUTION committee- 

 man did not happen to be present at 

 the moment. Naturally his seventeen 

 friends voted for Riley, and he is wel- 

 come to whatever consolation this means 

 t ' him. 



We are printing the stenographic 

 r ■ ord of the debate in full in EVOLU- 

 TION. •'O that our readers can judge 

 both arguments for themselves. We of- 

 fered to let Dr. Riley have the record 

 for simply his share of the expense of 

 trau'^cribing it. He refused. We now 

 challenge him to print the entire steno- 

 graphic record of this debate in his 

 magazine, so that his readers also can 

 judge the arguments, instead of merely 

 bis biased reports of the matter. Let the 

 Reverend Doctor "put up or shut up.'" 



EXPIRED? 



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 renew right away, lest you forget. And 

 still better, send the subscriptions of at 

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 newal. Remember that in lists of five 

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 at fifty cents each. 



N. Y. EVOLUTION DINNER 

 FRIDAY, APRIL 26th. 



The Evolution Anniversary Dinner in 

 Xcw York has been postponed to Fri- 

 day, April 26th, and will take place in 

 the beautiful Pythian Temple, 135 West 

 7()th Street, beginning at seven o'clock. 



Miss Grace Potter will be Toast- 

 mistress. AiTiong the speakers will be 

 Chard Powers Smith, George Clyde 

 Fisher, Abraham Stone. Allan Strong 

 Broms, Frank .A. Sieverman, Moses 

 Oppenheimer and Arthur Garfield 

 Hays. 



At this Dinner plans will be an- 

 nounc-ed for a tremendous campaign for 

 the second year of EVOLUTION. 

 Every reader who can be in New York, 

 April 26th, should of course attend this 

 important celebration and bring some 

 friends. Many out of town readers are 

 expected to send suitable "birthday 

 greetings" to be presented at this New 

 York Dinner to EVOLUTION. 



The rate is three dollars, including the 

 Dinner. Tickets for the speaking only 

 may be had at one dollar. Reservation 

 should be made at once at the office of 

 EVOLUTION. 



WOMAN REARED BY APES 



The newspapers carry the following 

 story: 



".\n explorer invaded a colony of 

 apes in th* wilds of Africa. The apes 

 promptly took to the trees and disap- 

 peared, leaving behind one apparently 

 less nimble than the rest. This proved 

 not to be an ape at all, but a negro 

 woiTian, whose body, unlike those of the 

 rest of the negro population, was free 

 from tatoo marks. The explorer learned 

 that she had been stolen by the apes in 

 infancy and brought up among them." 



If the story proves true and this 

 woman learns to speak and so com- 

 municate her experiences, we should get 

 a most interestin.g pictnr? of the intimate 

 life of these jungle folk. 



HAIL STREET SPEAKERS. 



On these balmy spring evenings every 

 street speaker worthy of the name feels 

 the urge within him to make the welkin 

 ring with his message. EVOLUTION 

 sells like hot cakes at street m-eetings. 

 I'll stake you to a bundle of twenty so 

 you can try it out. Let me hear from 

 vou instanter. L. E. K., care EVOLU- 

 TION". 



BROMS LECTURES. 



The course of five illustrated lectures 

 on "EVOLUTION: FROM STAR- 

 DUST TO BRAIN-STUFF" that Mr. 

 Allan Strong Broms, science editor of 

 EVOLUTION, has just given in New 

 York proved such a great success from 

 an educational as well as financial stand- 

 point that arrangements will be made to 

 give similar lectures weekly throughout 

 the season, beginning in September. 



The subjects of the lectures already 

 given were: 1. Worlds in the Making: 

 2. The Earth's Coming of Age; 3. Ani- 

 mals of the Past ; 4. The Pedigree of 

 Man; S. Brains — How Come? A special 

 lecture is announced for Friday evening, 

 .A.pril I2th, on "The Royal Road to 

 Learning,'' at Union Auditorum, 229 W. 

 48th Street, New York City. 



Organizations in Eastern cities that 

 would like to avail themselves of Mr. 

 Broius services as science lecturer next 

 winter should make immediate applica- 

 tion. 



AN OPTIMIST 



"Evolution," quoth the monkey, 

 "Makes of all mankind our kin. 

 There's no doubt at all about it, 

 Heads — they lose, and tails — we win. 

 (Author not known.) 



LET'S SEND YOU A BUNDLE. 



The McCabe-Riley Debate, starting in 

 this issue, will be completed in three 

 numbers of EVOLUTION. For a dol- 

 lar bill we'll send you five copies of each 

 issue containing th« debate as it appears. 

 Let us send you a bundle and get your 

 friends to reading. That's the best way 

 to convince the doubting Thomases. 



