The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-10-27
Mentions KenOsha in PROFOUND
ing Some Of His Theories
and Observations.


church still teaches, however, that the
world is globe moving through limit
less space and that it was the attrac-
ton of gravity which caused the ap-
pie to fall on Isaac Newton's head.
At the Zion schools the new course
of study teaches that:
The earth is flat circular world,
with north pole in the exact center,
no south pole, and surrounded by
wall of ice which keeps venturesome
mariners from falling off the rim.
That the earth has no motion, but
remains stationary in space.
That the sun is not millions of miles
in diameter and 100000 miles away
but is really little orb so miles across
and only 5000 miles from the earth
That the law of gravitation is fall
lacy and when objects are thrown into
the air they continue to rise until the
force which propelled them is expend-
ed and then fall back to earth because
they are heavier than air.
No Globes in Schools.
A standard map of the world, on
Christopher's projectio is used in the
schools to demonstrate the flat world
theory. This map, which is used by
navigators and scientists in making
time and longitude calculations, differs
from the usual Mercator's projection
familiar in other schools, in that it
shows the earth as it would look to
an observer directly above the north
pole, with the continents and seas pro-
jected on flat plane. AS result the
north pole is in the center, and in
stead of a south pole, the Antarctic
regions are indicated by white ring
about the outer circumference of the
circle. This ring, according to Voliva,
is the ice barrier which keeps ma
rines from falling off the edge OF his
flat world.
The Christopher projection was
made thirty years ago, prior to the
discovery of the south pole and before
much was known about the Antarctic
regions, so only bare outline of por-
lions of the southern ice land is shown.
Principal Believes Theory.
Miss Mary Thompson, principal of
the Zion school system, and an ardent
believer in the Voliva theories, has
propounded a question which she be-
lieves will trip scientists and naviga-
tors. Showing on her flat map that
the tropic of Cancer, As degrees from
the north pole, was much smaller
circle than the tropic of Capricorn,
At degrees farther away, Miss Thomp-
son says:
"Navigators on a globular earth
would find they were to sail complete
ly around either of these tropics that
they would be identically the same
length. On a flat earth, however, the
tropic of Capricorn would be much
larger than the tropic of Cancer, and
would take much longer to sail around,
because on a flat earth Cancer would
be nearer the center, or north pole.
Why don't some of the globular earth
believers try sailing around the two
tropics and find out whether they or
we are correct. The globular people
certainly can't prove curveture of
the earth"
"Sun a Small Orb"
Miss Eva Baker, teacher of geograa
ply, demonstrates to her classes that
the sun is only tiny orb few thous-
and miles away, instead of an orb mil
lions Of miles in diameter and 91,OOO,-
900 miles from the earth. If the sun,
was so large, she says, it would tighten
up all the world, instead of combining
it's hottest rays to a 5000 mile wide
belt between the two tropics. Voliva
himself, in recent sermon at Shiloh
said God certainly would
not have made sun to light the world
and then placed it so far away.
"a man would be fool" the over
seer added, "to build house in Zion
and place his parlor light in Kenosha."
Children Like Flat Earth.
Miss Thompson, principal of the
schools, says the children prefer their
new flat world to the old fashioned
round one in which Columbus believed.
"The students in Zion schools" she
says, grasp the CneOFy OIL the IlaG
earth readily because their minds are
not full Of globular earth teaching such
as older folks have had drilled into
them. Therefore, they accept the flat
earth teaching without questioning,
not because they have to, but because
it appeals to them as rational. don't
believe there is one student in the
grades who has questioned it. The
flat earth seems more reasonable to
them. The globular, unreal"
History of VoIiva.
Wilbur Glenn Voliva, who succeeded
John Alexander Dowie as overseer of
Zion on the latter's death in March,
1907, was born near Newton. Ind,
March 10, 1870. In 1897 he received
his B. A. from Hiram College, Ohio,
and in the same year degree from
Union Christian College at Merom,
Ind. In 1889 he was been ordained
minister in the Christian church at
the age of nineteen, and held pastor
ate at Linden, Ind, from 1889 to 1892: