Pocahontas star herald., 1927-01-20
INTERPRETATION of the scriptures. "

Interpretation of the scriptures
Hans Larsen now arises and SAYS
81 see that we cannot agree, and l do
not believe Wen ever be able to do so
till we have central head, with ~
thOritv to arbitrarily decide VIII rs
what, and make us take il whether we
like 1t or not. Therefore, l offer the
following rider TO the original resOlu-
ton: That the governor be empower
ed to appoint a committee, at an at
tractive salary, TO be known as the
Ecclesiastical Supreme Court, wh"e
duty ii shall be to rule upon all q1es-
tions arising from differences in inter
probation, and from whose decision
there shall be no appeal, said cours to
be considered infallible during term Of
office
Someone in the crowd now called
for Comp Jones. Tom Jones tries
to compromise every thing from a fam
lily reunion to a prize fight so we coll
him Comp" for short. Last summer
Comps wife and daughter raised n
patch of cotton, intending to buy n
piece of furniture for the house with
the proceeds. The crop yielded well,
in spite of the drought, and II was
duly gathered and hauled to the gin
and sold But when they got to the
furniture shop, the daughter took a
fancy to an over-stuffed davenport
while the mother had her mind set on
buffet II grew late in the afternoon
and they were still unable TO agree,
so they called Comp in consultation.
He says-"Now, If / decide in favor
of either one Of you, the other will al
ways feel bitter toward both of us, hut
| If l decide against each of you, IL Will
leave you both disappointed for awhile,
but you will become reconciled. So II
YOU want me to settle this, you must
make up your minds that you are
both willing to sacrifice something for
the good of us ALL" They agreed to
this and handed him the money. Comp
went out and bought coon hound and
sack of feed. The chair recognizes
Comp: "Mr. Chairman, the reason we
can't agree on this thing il that we
have too much religion mixed up in 1t.
believe we should have the Bible
entirely out of this fight, just as they
did in Arkansas. Now they are pass
ing a law over there that fills the bill
exactly. II has no Bible OF religion
| I'm ii and il satisfies those who want
il, without interfering very much with
those who don't. 1t will keep the legis-
lature busy when il might otherwise
be tinkering with highways, taxes,
swamps, the cotton situation and drop
ping things in the gears generally.
have seen my wife hand little Johnny
the alarm clock and the hammer and
say-'now run along the play, son,
mothers busy. Now this law says
that it shall be unlawful for any text
book or teacher TO instruct that man
descended or ascended from a lower
order of animals, j don't see anything
to keep them from teaching that all
forms of animal life, with the excep-
ton of man, developed from a single
cell-possibly a speck of green scum
on the pond or most anything you want
to lay it ontO--just as long as you
insert the exemption clause for man,
or leave him to the students imagiha-
tion so far as the law is concerned.
think 1t would be perfectly legal to
teach that man is, was and will con
tinue to he low order of animal,
Just so long as you didn't allow him to
ascend or decend. If he couldn't go
up or down, they naturally would nave
to teach that man is on the level, but
as that may be harder to prove than
evolution, do not apprehend any trou-
Bile from that source. OF course, there
are the mummies-Old King Tut, for
example. lie hasn't done any ascend
ing, descending nor side-stepping for
over 1000 years, and, If reports are
true, he is as good a man today as he
was 1000 years ago-but who wants
TO be a mummy
Here the committee broke in with
another resolution: Whereas, since
the world was a week old, man has
sbeen one continual source of trouble;
therefore, be it resolved that we stop
the propagation Of this everlasting
nuisance and give the world season
of rest and quietude."