Evening star., 1925-07-19
40 SEEK SCOPES
PLACE ON FACULTY
Applicants Look Intelligent,
Come From All Sections,
White Says.
By the Associated Press.

DAYTON, Tenn, July 1S.-What-
ever fate jury and judge may meas
ure out to John T. Scopes, the Day
ton High School will not lack a
science teacher for the coming sea-
son.
From many States applications for
the position held last session by the
young biology teacher on trial here
TO test the Tennessee anti-evolution
law. have been pouring in upon the
Rhea County school authorities, who
steadfastly hold to their announced
determination to take no action until
the suit has run its course in the
Dayton courtroom.
The candidates for the place, in
popular phraseology, have formed a
line to the right" to await the action
upon their petitions. Forty or more
teachers in a dozen States have asked
for Scopes place, Walter White,
county superintendent of schools,
said today Mr.. White is prosecuting
witness in the trial
Salary Not Important.
"Not one of the applicants who
have sought the position by mail
made any inquiry regarding the sal
airy of the Dayton science teacher"
the Rhea County school head de-
clared. II rather think that most
of them are lured by the prospect of
being connected with what is now
the most widely knov~l high school
in the United States. Scopes re-
ceived $3.50 month last year"
The defendant also is a formal ap-
plicant for his former work, but he
is said by friends to have little hope
of returning TO the Dayton school
I'm out of ii here" he is quoted as
saying, "and ! have not the slightest
idea what l shall do"
All the applicants for the place in
the local school hold scholastic de-
grees and from their recommends
tions have varied experience in the
teaching profession, according to
Prof. White, who receives all such
requests for presentation to the
school board
They write that they are in har-
mony with our fundamentals views
and would like to live and teach in
a community of this kind" Mr.
White reported.
They protest that they will set a
good example for our boys and girls"
Most Applicants Are Men.
A few women are among the appIi-
cants, but the larger part of them
are men. A number have sent their
photographs with applications.
BY their pictures they seem to be
intelligent, substantial people," the
superintendent said. They do not
look or write like cranks"
Montana, Indiana, Illinois, Virginia
Alabama and North Carolina are
among the States from which the let
ters of candidates have come. Mr..
White believes that the choice of a
science teacher will not be affected
by the geographical location of the
applicant. He pointed to the fact that
Mr.. Scopes came here from Kentucky.
The other high school biology teacher
In Rhea County. O. p. Armstrong. is
resident of Decatur, III.
Prof. Armstrong, in the faculty at
Spring City, has not been present at
any sessions of the Scopes trial He
is attending the Summer School of
the University of Tennessee He
used the same text book as the one
taught by Scopes, but the county SUI
perintendent said that Mr. Armstrong
avoided the instruction in the evolu-
tion theory after the enactment of
the legislative ban. He has been re-
elected for the coming year.
New Text Meets Law.
Our biology text. adopted by the
State Text Book Commission for the
next session. does not include the
teaching of the evolutionary hy-
pothesis," Mr.. White said. 1T con-
forms with the law. You won't find
any evolutionary tree in the new
book"
Two seekers for the Dayton teach
ing position - both Tennesseeans-
have applied in person. They are C.
o. Chisam of the Pikeville School and
j. T. Marlor, instructor in the Cleve-
land High School.
The County School Board will meet
to choose the Dayton science teacher
as soon as the Scopes trial is ended
here, Mr.. White said. The 48 gram
mar schools and junior high schools
in the county begin the next session
August 10. The two standard high
schools, Dayton and Spring City, open
their doors one week later. Cotton
picking delays public school opening
in other parts Of the South to a
much later date, but cotton is not an
important crop in Rhea County.