Evening star., 1922-11-22

The Darwinian theory of the evolu-
ton of man has been attacked by an
organization in Kentucky. We re-
member reading in one Of DarwIn's
books about an interesting fish that
lives in a big cave in Kentucky. when
has become blind as a species through
failure to use it's eyes.
we don't know why we should
think Of this except that we
are the victim of habit of &sso-
ciating ideas. and the only other time
we ever saw Darwin and kentucky
associated was in connection with
this fish. We wish to go on record as
heartily in sympathy with the Ken
lucky organization, and we trust that
1t will abolish Darwin. who was
very wicked man, we have heard. and
could not possibly have been elected
President of the United States we're
he alive today. Darwin and his IDEAS
should have been abolished long ago
- indeed, weren't they abolished
long ago. and then didn't they come
cropping up again? No matter. lie
should be abolished again and again
and again. His theory about the blind
fish becoming blind through the con-
joint effects of heredity apd environ
mentor something like that-a1-
ways struck us as especially absurd
it is obvious that they were
created blind fish as special Gre
alton, because blind fish were needed
,n6 1ocirad N tho universe.
We are probably the most resoiutely
orthodox person writing in the pub
lie prints today. We are always
painstakingly careful to keep our rec
ord straight. Once. several years
ago, we said in print that there wasn't
any hell. We still remember the storm
that broke over US. 1t taught us
lesson, We never dared to do it
again. We became a friend Of hell
one of those people VINO
guarantee its perpetuity much as GER
4ain powers of Christendom have al
ways guaranteed the integrity of Tur-
key. In fact, We have made hell one
of the characters in our column, re-
ferring to 1t whimsically at times. but
respectfully, too. We may intimate
that it is harder to get into hell than
it used to be a couple OF hundred
years ago, but we no longer say that
it is absolutely hopeless to try.
There is another thing against
Darwin. 1t is more than likely that
he drank. Aunt Prudence Heckle-
hurry tells US that she has heard SO.
This column is printed simultane-
ously in a couple of dozen papers
scattered all the way from Califor-
mia to Massachusetts, and from Min
nesota to Georgia, and necessarily
it is written five or six days before
publication, The consciousness that
it will be nearly week before we
see in type what we have written
sometimes comes between us and a
fresh enthusiasm; we wonder IT we
shall feel five days hence just what
we feel today, and we become too
tame and cautious in the expression
of an opinion.
But we are at the present moment
in the CIOCCneS VI al ehlhoSioSAA lAoS
will endure. for We have seen great
beauty on the earth. the noblest of
dramatic poems greatly interpreted
we have just seen John Barrymore
in Hamlet" Barrymore has done
a wonderful thing-he has brought
out the poetry of Hamlet's nature;
he has shown him always the prince,
the aristocrat, and he has. in addi-
tion. made him a human being. a
fellow-creature with whose doubts
and despairs and sufferings we SYM
nathize. We have enjoyed the Ham
lets of other actors. but no other
Hamlet has ever stirred our pity
and our sympathy to such an extent.
We got a thing that we thought we
might never get again in the theater:
the sense of a person living his life,
,nstead Of the sense of an actor TAX
ing a part
II you can't do it any other way.
mortgage the property and go and
see this production.