New Britain herald., 1921-10-21
ID TEACH CHILDREN
 THE WORLD IS FLAT
New Theories to Be Adopted in
 Zion Schools

Zion, H., Oct. 21.-Zion schools. of which Wilbur, Glenn Voliva, the overseer of the colony. is president, have adopted his new theories of a Hat world and the absence of gravi- tation, and the 1000 grade and High school, pupils believe them implicit ly, according to their teachers
 The public school maintained by the state board of education and at- tended by the children of non-mem- bers of Voliva's Christian-Catholic Apostolic church still teaches, how ever that the world is a globe moving through limitless space and that :, it was the attraction of gravity which caused the apple to fall on Issac New tons head.
 At the Zion schools the new course of study. teaches that:
 The earth is a flat circular world, with north pole in the exact center, ] south pole, and surrounded by a wall of ice which keeps venturesome mariners from falling off the rim.
 That tn, earth has no motion. .but remains stationary in space.
 That the sun is not millions of miles in diameter and 91,0OO, 900 miles away, but is really a little orb 32 miles across and only 5000 miles from the earth. Fl
 That the law of gravitation is "a fallacy and when objects are thrown into the air they continue to rise until the force which propelled them is expended. and then fall back to earth because they are heavier than air.
 A standard map of the world, on Christophe4's projection, is used in the schools to demonstrate the flat world theory. This map. which is used by navigators and scientists in moking time and longitude calcula- tions, differs from the usual Merca- tors projection familiar in other schools. in that it shows the earth as it would look to ah observer direct ly above the north pole, with the con. tinents and seas projected on fla plane. As result the north pole i! in the center. and instead of soutt pole the Antarctic regions are indi- cated by white ring about the outer circumference of the circle. This ring according to voliva, is the ice bar rier which keeps mariners from fall ing off the edge of his flat world. :. | ne 1HTiSlOplcI PTOJSCt1OH was made 30 y,ars ago. prior to the dis covery of the south pole and before much was known about the Antarctic regions, so only bare outline of DOT tiorfs of the southern ice land is shown.
 Miss Mary Thompson, principal O the Zion school system. and an ar dent believer in the Voliva theories vyh ah believes will trip scientists and navi gators Showing on her flat ESSp tha the tropic of Cancer. 43 ,6 from the north pole. was a. ISlDX Smaller circle than the tropic of Capricorn AT degrees farther away. Miss Thomp' son says..s
 "Naviga ors on a globulars eartf would find if they were. to sail com pletely around either of these tropics that they would be identically th' same length. On a flat earth,s how ever, the. tropic of Capricorn would be much larger than the tropic o1 Cancer, and would take much longer to sail around, because on a fiat eartf Cancer would be nearer the center or north pole. Why don't some Q the globular earth believers try sail ing around the two tropics and ant
 
 out whether they or we are correct The globular people certainly can aprove curveture of the earthls
 Miss Eva Baker, teacher of geogra phy, demonstrates to her classes tha the sun is only a tiny orb a fe' thousand miles away, instead of a orb millions miles in diameter an ef.O0o.00O miles from the earth the sun was so large, she says, would light up all the world, instea of confining it's hottest rays to a 5 900 mile wide belt between the tw tropics voliva himself. in receI sermon at Shiloh Tabernacle, sal God certainly would not have mad a sun to light the world and the placed it 80 far away.
 "A man would be a fool" the over seer added, "to build house in Zio