Norwich bulletin., 1922-03-02
EDUCATORS SEE MENACE IN
 LECTURES OF ". J. BRYAN

Chicago, March 1-Attenrpts to s1io- press by law the teaching of the doc Urine of evolution and other scientific theories in the public schools were wig orously opposed todty by speakers be- fore the annual meeting of the National Education association.
 Recent writings and lectures by w. J. Bryan urging & ''back to the Bible movement together with alleged efforts of legislators in Kentucky to pass 8 law against the teaching of Darwintsn were viewed by number of educators as representing an attempt to substitute methods of the dark ages for modern public schooling.
 opposition to the theory of evolution" |" declared Pforessor Edwin R. A. Seig- man, of Columbia university, expressed the Ideas of the childhood of society. Now, if we are going back to childhood, let's go all the way. Let's teach that the earth is flat and that the sun mover around it."
 He suggested as an effective way of evolution, the preparation of an exhibit containing the remains of extinct dino saur and other exhibits of animal life all showing proofs of evolution through the ages. Such an exhibition, he said, could be carried on a special brain "to the benignted sections of the country where It Is most needed" Mir. Bryan was characterized by the professor as being "stil q medievalist."
 'If those who are opposing the teach Ing of evolution want to see their move ment completely discredited." he de- caared, "all they had to do is to con tfnue the IF fight for suppression"
 '-The effort to support and defend the Bible through legislation" Dr. Frank E l Spaulding, head of the department o1 education of the gradute school of Yale university, declared, strongly suggests o wavering faith on the part of the ad vocates of such measures"
 Those who are sound In the faith, he asserted, know that the unhamper 1 ed effort to extend the knowledge oi | truth in every direction can only con l firm the truths of the Bible that hav' stood unshakable through the ages.
 'If we were to eliminate those studie! based on the doctrines of evolution from 1 our public school curricula. we would have left n science at all In the schools 1 I think Mfr. Bryan and certain stat legislators and their supporters in thi matter are taking the wrong course Such methods lead away from the tru spirit of the Bible"
 Every intelligent person, State Schoo Superintendent Will c. Wood, of Cali fornia, pointed out. should be fanilia with the first chapter of the book o Genesis and likewise. he added, with tn doctrine of evolution.
 | "Obviouslv" said Dr. George Strayer professor of educational administration Columbia university. "the public school must teach truth"
 Mrs Cora Stewart. of Louisville, Ky head of the national commission in I leratcy, expressed the hope that Ker lucky, where a bill for the suppressio of evolution teaching Is In the hands c the house rules committee, Twill not al terpt to turn the clock back"
 "In the words of the greatest teache of all" said Thomas E. Finegan, stat superintendent of public instruction Pennsylvania, 'fknow the truth ap< th truth shall make you free"
 At the afternoon session of the d. psrtment of superintende ents. resolution were adopted voicing unanimous disaE proval of federal supervision of edl1cs :, ton and declaring state supervision and inalienable states right.
 The resolution was aimed at certai sections of the Snith-Lever and tf
 Smith-Hughes bills now before col
 gress. Support of the Towner-Sterlin
 measure providing for a federal d.
 partment of education and representatio
 in the presidents cabinet, was ,reafirn ed, because 1t recognizes and en1bodit 3 the policy of the undivided respons . billtyS and authority of the state In u
 matter of education"