The Washington times., 1925-07-10
DAYTON G|GGLES
ON BIC DAY
Continued from First page)


after a long day in this overnight
golconda Of linotype fodder, / find
the popular impressions regarding
Dayton, Rhea county, Tennessee,
woefully erroneous.
Dayton is a placid, hospitable
friendly burg, even now, when its
normal blood pressure Is high
through the injection of so much
alien matter, and its heart is
pounding fast because of the
which has concentrated upon 1t the
glare Of a billion eyes.
But it is not primitive hamlet,
overrun with Holy Rollers and
religio-fanatics. Not one Indigenous
freak have encountered, and /
have met everybody in the town
yea, in the county. This is not
even essentially a typical Southern
city except that 1t is in the South.
It il very much like q New Eng.
land or Illinois community of the
better class, though agricultural
rather than Industrial.
Like Any Other Town.
There Is a billiard ball. there
are movie theaters. There are box
ing matches within thirty miles of
Main street and there would be
right in town If the town were big
enough to support them. The
streets are asphalt; the electric
lights work indoors and out.
Cars with name plates pass up
and down past Robinson's drug
store and the postoffice.
The girls are peaches and wear
flapper clothes.
The young fellows are stylish and
collegiate.
An airplane carrying newspapers
from Knoxville roars over the town
and no horses shy and no yokeis
stare. The train tears on the main
line between Chicago and Florida
and screams out on the main line
from New Orleans to Cincinnati
and the whole population doesn't
rush to see it.
The natives are indescribably
hospitable. They lend a stranger
an automobile and supply the gas
and oil: they let him talk as loudly
as he wants to, and as loosely on
any subject, including pro-evolution
and no one molests him or even
seems to dispute him.
They offer him their good corn
LIQUOR, OF which there seems to be
plenty, and send a colored boy with
lime and ice water to neutralize tile
birthstone.
They cash strangers checks, ana
when a letter comes to the post
office or a telegram to the wire OF
flee for a visiting reporter the post
master or the telegraph manager
will page him up and down the
town.
Prices Are Down.
AS for profiteering - shucks'
Roast beef, potatoes, salad, coffee
ana the most melting hot rolls--40
cents; breakfast, and to South
erner breakfast IL no small affair
20 cents. Rooms, 81 day single.
Who could get indignant?
Read along and note the person
alities of the local men principally
Identified with this famous, "evolu.
ton case" the men who have been
pictured as hysterical crusaders,
wild-eyed bigots, militant extrem-
lists.
The standardization Thomas
Scopes, twenty-four, slight. blond.
soft spoken, boyish, diffident; he
walks up and down the street, is
greeted in a neighborly way by
every one; no one glowers at him,
no one turns from him; he wears
no coat-no one wears a coat here
and he looks like anything but a
teacher. surely like anything but
the pivotal figure of the greatest
academic battle in the worlds his
tory.
The prosecutor-Walte White,
s superintendent of schools. author
Of the~ Tennessee Womans Suf-
frage Amendment. leader in State
candidate of thirteen
counties for Governor; he is dressed
in mail order clothes crowned with
Il four-bits straw fedora; he is a
poor man as men go here. the rich
est fruit growing section in the
world. having given his life to
causes he thinks just.
The judge-John r. Raulston,
circuit judge Of the Eighteenth judi
r:al circuit, known to every kid and
popular with everybody; rudy.
{ email. sunburnt, smooth shaVen:
e walks about in a white shirt
! unctuated by two exclamation
point bands of blue suGpenders
(gaIlusts. the real old SORT, and