Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-31

less of the acts OF legislators. since
1t 10 a theory that intrigues re-
searchers. For that reason, il no
other. the fundamentalists them
serves should encourage the teaching
OF 1t in the public schools. How else
Will members of the coming genera
ton know enough about the theory
TO argue intelligently against IL?
TO oppose a set of ideas a man
should be acquainted with them"
| The Boston Transcript regrets that
the court avoids a Federal review
| by removing the fine assessed upon
scopes, but argues: las the leRs-
latlon upon this point not only OF
tennessee but of other States thraat-
ems TO abridge the liberties of citi-
zens OF the United States. il in very
desira bic that the tribunal which Is
the great agency of adjustment
between the States and the United
states shall have it's say on the
| subject"
tennessee will very likely he con-
tent to let its law limiting the free
dom of teaching lapse back into it's
doubtless large body of legislation
which, for the mental comfort of
some of its people. is permitted on
the statute books. hut which no one
thinks of trying to enforce" the Can
ton Daily News believes. This
| should end the farce for all time"
is the Judgment of the Norfolk
Ledger Dispatch. while the Newark
evening News concludes that ut is
clear that the State of Tennessee rs
heartily sick of the controversy and
would like to bury 1t i'm Oblivion"
The Chicago Daily News is convinced
that In view of the net result no
otner state should he tempted to fol-
low Tennessees unwise examine"
The New York Times advises that
there ought never to be another
case like It," and the Milwaukee
Journal says. That Tennessee
doesn't think so much of her law
VIII mean something in other
States"
The judgment that the decision
should be fairly satisfactory to both
SIDES, now that II 10 proba BILE nothing
more VIII be done about it," il ex-
pressed by the Arkansas Democrat
ana the pittsburgh Gazette Times
sees "a partial victory for the de.
Tense" The Detroit Free Press
AYERS that the row has hurt the
lunda menta lists far more than It
mas helped them" The New London
lay suggests that 1T might be we'll
To put halt to the dogmatic teach
ing or evolution as contradictory TO
thelstlc beliefs. but il In not well 10
stop the teaching of evolution while
the subject remains almost a funda
mental in a liberal religion" The
i)anVlile Register thinks "the whole
trouble In that science has been too
preoccupied with the road It has
Deen travelling to reduce itself to
the simplest possible terms for gen
eral understanding"
Doubtless 1t would be contempt OF
court TO say that the judges have
made monkey out of the law. but,
practically, It should be possible to
pronounce that truth with impunity."
This Is the comment of the Charles
ton Evening Post. The New York
Herald Tribune is impelled to say
that THE decision of the Tennessee
Supreme Court has much calm sense
and ar-sighted constitutional logic
to support IT.
On the parallel subject of q pro-
posed anti-evolution law in Ala
bama. the Birmingham News says
OF the author of the measure: TT
might be just as well for him to in
troduce bill to repeal the law of
gravitation. II would be an excellent
idea also to remedy the changing
seasons and pass law that 1t should
be springtime all the time. Also,
another measure providing against
that solar law which gives az short
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