The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-28
BY LOREN H. wIrrNER.
(speeIaI 70 The paIIy workerl

Especial to The Daily Worker)
WASHINGTON, July 26. II am
sighting for the freedom of religion,
education, speech and press as guar
anteed in the first amendment to the
constitution.
am not quarreling with the belief
Of the people. 1t is all right for them
to believe or not to believe in the
bible.
OF late years, however, there has
been decided tendency all over the
country for legislative bodies to in
terefere and restrict and confine edu.
cation within narrow limits. That was
exemplified in Tennessee in the pass
age of the anti-evolution law. 1t brot
about the Scopes trial.
Now congress has stepped in, and
with an heretofore unnoticed rider"
in the district APPROPRIATION bill has
decreed that nothing must be taught
in Washington schools which incul-
Gates "disrespect to the holy bible"
OStCuSC OOuhidOiShS DiulCs
What constitutes disrespect to the
holy bible?
Does it mean the teaching Of natur-
al science? Surely. it must for ma
tural science. contradicts the teach
ings of the bible. In short, it denies
the bible. What could be more dis
respectful?
To determine this question legally,
have brot suit to enjoin salaries Of
instructors who teach scientific doc
trines which are at variance with the
bible.
That is my motive.
Unless the question is decided upon
abstract technicalities, the court must
inform the country whether geology,
biology, chemistry, physics and all
sciences are disrespectful to the bible.
But the legal phase is not para
mount
There is another and a greater is
sue involved.
1t is this
Is congress to be allowed to con.
tinue its present course of setting up
the bible as the final authority on
scientific knowledge?
Unsteady crucbIe of RELIGION.
That must never be. If | do moth
ing else, | hope | have shown the
country thru this suit that congress
deliberately intends that all educa-
ton must be tested in the unsteady
crucible of religion: that, in fact, re-
ligion must come ahead of education
in our schools, or, there can be no
education. In strict sense, there
fore, congress has definitely linked
the state with religion.
If congress does not intend that.
then congress has been guilty of care
less legislation.
1t is time now that congress is
warned the country will not tolerate
religion in legislation. for it subverts
cardinal American principle.
If this continues, we shall be in
tellectual serfs bound in the ignor.
ance and intolerance of the darkest
ages.
Says Scopes Case Worth While.
OBERLIN. Ohio, July 26. - The
Scopes case was worth while because
sincere study of evolution is result
ing. especially in Tennessee, in the
opinion of Dr. Maynard NJ. Metcalf. of
Oberlin, only expert witness who test
flied before the Dayton. Tenn, court.
DR.. Metcalf today told some of his
impressions of the famous trial.
Il think the local educational effect
II the trial was considerable and
worth while" DR.. Metcalf said. "The
people in the region around Dayton
are Just like any other people In ma.
tural ability, unless indeed they are
more than Of average natural ability.
but they have had very limited con.
tact with the worlds thinking. and
they are decades behind the times in
thought. AS a result OF the trial
there are a good many persons who
are inquiring with open minds about
this matter Of opposition between re.
ligion and science"
New Ball Hearing for Stephenson
WORTHWHILE Ind Iulv Og Tho