The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-07
OUR WORLD LIVES
ON EXCITING DIET
Just One Thing After
Another Furnishes
Daily Thrill
By NORA COLE SKINNER.

not only for the individual but 10,
the nation.
We often hear tho expression
what will the papers have 10 talk
about when this question is settled gee
or. "Nhut would they have done
for news lf such aud uch u thing
had NOT lnppouDd?'
Don't worry II is always hap
poniur. with q billion md bnif
people milling around all over tho
earth something is happening every
minute. ana the main worry with
the papers is what to loavc out
Thrills aplcutV ana wc jump from
ono current To- another.
10 must have been n placid, rest
ful world In the long ago before
the advent Of the telegraph and the
telephone. our own ueighhorhood
furnished or daily Erist OF news
happenings of tho outside world
trioklod in 20 dnys later, and ihon
W. may Doe sure the news was Ersa;-
" abbreviated.
wonder what tho nerve special.
lists did for "A living in those dnyH2
Perhaps thcic were none. Ms uervc4
is a modern invention. being ono of
the conComlinuts ~ our mndly
rushing civilization.
And yet II IS an for tho best. Ex-
element is a stlmul1nt. II is con-
stHutly urging us forward, and max
ing M do things. Othor people are
doing things, We read about IL cV-
cry day In the papers. We see II on
the screen, and latent talent. sleep
inE ambition, idle dreams are
aroused by the accomplishment Of
others. and we. too, Join In the mad
rush. We can't tell what we can
do until We try. TO try ana fnll f.
no disgrace. but not TO try is ignom-
lnY
Tho world has been in an awful
stew for the last five or six years. but
unless all slRns fail IL viii emerge
n better world. Every nation and
everybody has been fighting for
his place in the sun. and at times
the future has been dark indeed, but
all this clashing OF steel against
steel has sharpcned the intellect OF
man. developed the race all the way
down the line, and out OF the seem
ing chaos we see emerging n now
era I'm scicncc, discoveries and in
vontions that Will eclipse any siml-
lar period In the history Of the world.
II had 10 come. There was too
much unrest ana energy unloosod
not to produce something moment
Gus.
But much Of the news OF the day
has no meaning, It excrts no lasting
or far-reaching influence. 1t fur
nishes excitement for the hour or
week, II causes talk. comment. but
IL is soon displaced by something
else. II doesn't affect our life or
tho life of the nation, II is all on
tho surface, Ike n storm Mt sen,
and we 30 about our daily tasks
undeterred. Thus passes In review
Fatty Arbuckle. Madelynne Obcn-
chain, William Desmond Taylor
Nargot Asquith. Newberry. Ford
and Muscle Shoals. Bryan and evo-
lntion. tho bonus, the Four-Powor
tseaty, and on, ad infinltum,
can't proceed futher without
peusing to say something more
about Bryan and evolution, In 1856
Bryan became n national figure
with his Grown OF Gold" speech
and received the democratic nomi-
nation for president at the Chicago
convention. He was defeated. as ne
was on the two later occasions, and
has never held public office since
that date except the few months he
was in President Wilson'S cabinet.
Yet throughout all this period OF 25
years he has been constantly before
the public IN one form or another,
and Is always good copy.
Now we are witnessing the spec
tacle OF him setting the church and
the educators by tho ears with his
Views on, or against, evolution,
Mr.. Bryan had been invited to nd
dress the International sunday
school convention to he held I'm
Kansas City in June. But 1t seems
that Mr.. Bryan does not believe I'm
tho Darwinian theory. and he never
has been known to be bdshful about
expressing his views ON all subjects
at all times, so he took issue with
some learned evolutionary professor
on the matter and proclaimed a
from the house tops; even wrote a
book.
Result No. /: His invitation To
speak at Kansas city was with
drawn by the managers of the con-
vcntion. thus proving said managers
to be believers In Darwin.
Result No 3: A division In the
church. some for Bryan, some
against, and the 81. Louis Preshy-
terians even going 80 far as 10 boy
colt the convention,
II all seems very purile and child
ish TO me. Tho evolutionary theory
has never worried my young life
and I'm glad It has not | heard n
distinguished bishop Of the church
state last week that II is an old
subject that was settled long ago
found to make no difference one
way or another, and forgotten, hut
that every once in while the dis
cussion is revived by somebody who
just heard about ~ ana he starts
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