The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-10-06
VOLIVA RANTS
ALI'I'TLE MORE
Overseer Gives More Food
for Thought for Scien-
fists to Digest.
FLAT EARTH AGAIN

Zion, Ill.-The fact that you can sail
around the world and come back to
the place you started from is one of the
silliest proofs that can be brought for
ward as a proof that the earth is
globe, says Voliva. You can sail
around the cribs near Chicago, or
around Lake Michigan, and come back
to where you started from, but that
don't prove that Lake Michigan, or that
the water cribs are globes! Voliva has
his astronomical critics on the jump.
He will hire the Coliseum and debate
with any university or college profess
sor, and to boot he will offer one thous-
and dollars to the man who can bring
one positive proof that the earth is
sphere and has motion.
"They learn these things in the
schoolroom today" he said. "For in
stance, the teacher says, What is the
shape of the earth ? and Johnny Turn
ipseed says, "A sphere. What is the
teacher of Johnny.
" The disappearance of ships at sea-"
Just a Lot of Rot"
"What lot of rot!" exclaimed Vol
iva with disgust. "Yet it is taught in
every school and college in the United
States!
"Not one of these gentlemen ever
looked into the thing they just opened
their mouths like lot Of birds and
swallowed an astronomical worm-and
it's an Internal liel
Now, what is the second proof?'
"'You can sail around it,
Can Sail Around Cribs, Too.
"My! Sail around i'll I can sail
around one of the cribs down here at
Lake Michigan, where they have the
waterworks, but that does not prove it
is a globe. | can put a piepan on a
bucket of water and sail toyboat
around it, but that doesn't prove it is
sphere! Nobody but fool would
ever advocate such thing.
"And another great { y proof is that
if you start and travel due east you will
come back to where you started from
and I will guarantee that there aren't
two students in an astronomy class in
any college who can tell me what is
meant by the direction of east and
west, North is when you go in the
direction of the north pole, which is
supposed to be Immediately under the
north star. When you go away from
the north pole you travel south. East
is the point at right angles to north
and south. West is a point at left
angles, or strictly speaking, it is to
the left of your line north and south
| start to go east, go east, and come
right back to where I started from,
because east and west are points at
rights to north and south.
All the Devils Fault.
''The devil is the author of evolu-
ton, he is the author of higher criti-
cism, and he is the author of the Co
pernician system of astronomy.
"They ask some brilliant questions"
said Voliva, referring to his critics
zone gentleman in New York wants to
Know, if the earth is fiat, stationery
plane, why the oceans do not flow over
it. Simply because God Almighty pre-
scrihed the metes and bounds of the
ocean and said, Thus far you shall go,
and no further. And another brilliant
90 fellow says,
"'What is to hinder one from falling
over the edge?
you never reach the edge, and you
never will, for God Almighty's Word
says the earth is surrounded by wall
Of ice, and so it is"