Evening star., 1925-07-16
Not Descendant of Monkey.

They simply branched off from them.
Monkeys and men had some sort OF
common forbear. The monkeys took
one road and man the other. Which
was the high road and which the low
the scientists are still trying TO de-
eide.
Evolution changes one character
into a different charaCteS. An organ
ism characterized by certain Charac-
teristics becomes characterized by an
entirely different, in fact. hardly rec
ogniZable. set OF characteristics. All
this is true. according to the scientific
theory, and, as yet. one can say with
the scientists that we are just begin
ming to learn what we ought to know
about it.
We know. however. from what has
lust been revealed in the Rhea County
courtroom, that the sun is young. 1t
will be able to shine better and strong
er when it grows up. In fact, there
already is a cry in scientific circles for
stronger and better suns for every
body.
Clarence Darrow, skilled and sure
footed lawyer that he is, already has
fallen into one of his own scientific
traps. He asked a scientist something
about the years.
"Why. man." the scientist replied,
we don't speak of time in years, we
"Ah. go on" said Darrow; go on
and tell US how many years ago ii
was when Flora and Fauna first were
known upon the surface of the earth. "
900, 900 Years Is All.
We'll. let me see" says the
scientist, as he scratches a rather thin
thatCh of hair on his dome in deep
thought. Il should say probably 600,
600, 900 of years
Judge Raulston gasps and calls for
a big drink of water. The Bible which
the court swears by says that the
world was created a little less than
5000 years ago. SO one may easily
see why they contend on the street
corners of Dayton that it is difficult
to reconcile some of the ways of sci
ence with known ways of the Good
Book.
Returning to our scientific muttons,
il can be stated that plants and ami
mails sort of grew up together. Plants
had the same opportunities to pro-
gress and evolve as did the animals.
But the plants were lazy. They de-
Cided they would stand still and let
their food come to them. That is why
they still are plants and still are i'm
mobile. The animals decided to go
out and hustle for their living. That
is how, in the course of time, they
came to develop locomotor organs
legs and fins and all sorts of queer
propellerS. Because they stirred
around so much, it is easier to trace
the animals away back in the good
old paleoZoic days, when you were
a tadpole and l was a fish," than it is
to trace the plants. Both came from
the sea. 1t is possible to fix ths time
that animal life emerged from the
waters-that is to say, one can (fix it
within 5O,000,00O years or so; but it
seems the plants left no such index
behind them. They were lazy all
along the line.
Whales Once Pedestrians.
1t may not be a matter of common
knowledge, but Dayton now knows
that whales once walked abroad in
the verdant land. But one day the
whales got tired of the dry land. The
whales were naturally "wets." So
they suggested to their friends, the
seals. Let's go back and live in the
ocean"
Whales" replied the seals, you
said a mouthful."
And away they galloped back to the
sea and have been residing there ever
since. One of the whales, it seems,