The Washington times., 1925-07-11
JURY IS
QUEER LOT

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Baptist and Christian churches and
the twelfth admits that he has
cheated a little on his Sunday
services.
AL! insist that they have opinions.
but enter the jury box with fre.s.
open and unprecedented minds
There aren't three men on that jury
who wouldn't die. fighting before
they would agree to q verdict Of
not guilty--aIid the entire counsel
for the defense knows it.
Hiekory-shirted, collarless, coat.
less. suspendered, tanned, raw
boneo men are these, all but Captain
J. K. Thompson, one of the richest
locals. a berry-growing plantation
owner, former United States
marshal. who wears q white goatee.
a blue serge coat and white flannel
trousers; he is the one who hash I
been to meetin' as he should. and
he is the. only man on that jury
VIII. didn't squirm, fence ami
struggle ia get on it.
Outwardly, of course, the courtesy
given the Scopes side, especially tho
visiting lawyers, is almost fulsonls.
All Have Honorary Titles.
The court addresses Darrow as
colonel" Dudley Field Malone IS
Judge" and John r. Neal as doc
tor" superintendent of Schools
White, the principal prosecutor,
shakes hands with Scopes every
time he enters the courtroom in
the presence of the more than 800
natives, which the area of the floor
space accommodates, besides the
visiting scribes and pharisees.
Thursday, Scopes was probably
the most famous individual On the
continent. Friday, sixteen venire-
men who live in this county. one
school teacher, in succession,
swore that they did not know him
at sight, were too fair-minded to
have any prejudice against MIN.
They also said they had heard
little discussion about evolution;
hadn't heard it mentioned in their
churches; had no sentiments about
il pro or con.
One minister of the gospel who
breaches in four churches, argued
that, though he was against evolu
ton and had openly delivered ser
give Scopes a fair hearing and de
eide the issue squarely on the law
and evidence as adduced in this
case. It took a peremptory to dis
miss him. The reverend doctor took
a hitch in his galluses and looked
disappointed and maligned.
Boasts Many Assets.
The teacher on the jury, who is
subject to the same law on which
this indictment rests and who farms
on the side and wears long grizzled
grey mustaches that look like
bicycle handlebars, is a Baptist, says
he has never violated house bill 1875,
has peered over Genesis as a Chris
tan and Origin of Species" as a
student, and has no set opinion on
the merits of this litigation. Though
he wore a coat, he was accepted,
making three coat.wearing dudes in
the dozen.
The grade of intelligence as re-
vealed by the attitudes and words
of the twelve indicates to this OBJ
server that at least nine of the
Scopes jurors had never used a
four syllable word in their lives
until the term evolution" was
crowded into the local vocabulary.
One. with a homemade haircut
and ears like a loving cup, said he
not only had no pass 'ons in the
matter but had never heard of
Scopes, the trial, evolution, the
Butler law or William Jennings
Rryan-he just hadn't ever heard
of anything. He hadn't even
hard of a peremptory challenge,
but he got one.
Scopes Old father stood outside
the courtroom as the jurors filed
out after being sworn i'm He was
burning. Young Scopes started to-