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.THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1925
C api tal JlJour nal
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tion of, all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in
this paper and also local news published herein.
"Without or with offense to friends or foes
I sketch your world exactly as it goes." byron.
The New Issue
The issue of "Fundamentalism" to be launched on the
local political seas in the form of an initiative bill modelled
after the Tennessee anti-evolution statute by the Reverend
Billy Sunday and his cohorts next fall in his seven weeks
revival at Portland, and campaigned for by Bryan, "tinpot
pope of the Coco-Cola belt," will be hailed with dclijyht by
Oregon politicians who were at a loss for an issue to per
petuate themselves on the payroll.
The present administration landed in office through the
mixture of religion and politics and what more natural than
that it should be continued, now that the tax issue has been
sadly muddled, by another mixture of religion and politics?
Besides the Oregon school bill which did the work before.
does not differ in principle materially from the Tennessee
school bill.
If the anti-evolution fight really materializes, as threat
ened, we will venture the prediction that none of the candi
dates on either ticket, will go on record as opposing it, that
most of them will be secretly, if not publicly, pledged to it,
whether they believe it bunk or not, that three out of four of
the Portland newspapers and a great majority of the country
newspapers will bo either mildly for it editorially or silent,
and that few of Oregon's leading citizens will commit them
selves on the subject, that members of Oregon's congres
sional delegation will either endorse or gracefully straddle it
and that all the customary cowardice, hypocricy and double-
dealing that characterize public life will prevail.
If you do not believe this, just try and get those in public
office or with political ambitions to openly commit them
selves on the subject of evolution, or on Fundamentalism
You will find them all as silent as the Portland press. History
repeats itself the history of the Anti-Saloon League and the
Ku Klux Klan may be the history of a triumphant Funda
mentalism in a couragcless state.
Pierrot; her firat glance- told Cyn
thia why ha had chosen a Pl&rette
coat urn for her.
He removed her cape for her aa
they entered the ho two wbera the
ball was being given.
"You're wonderful!" he exclaim
ed, looking from her pretty little
feet to the crown of her golden
head. "You're too beautiful for
words, Cynthia. Oh, my dear"
"There's the music; do hurry
and leave my cape, so that we can
dance," urged Cynthia, turning
away. She did not want Noel to
make love to her, now or at any
other time. But It was pleasant
to know that he wanted to.
Louella was there, -dressed to
represent Queen Elizabeth, Stanley
was a courtier. He danced once
with Cynthia, and begged for more
dances later, but Noel Gardner had
scrawled his name on Cynthia's
card frequently, and there had
been a determined battle amonjj
her other male acquaintances -for
the few vacancies that he had left.
"I'm sorry, Stanley; I'd like to
lance again with you," 6ho told
him.
"You don't Include mo in your
Ii.sHke for the family?" ho asked.
"I'm glad of that."
"I don't dislike any of you, she
answered frankly. "But I don't un
derstand Louella, and she doesn't
understand me."
"You're very charitable," he re
plied. "If I were you I'd hate tlio
bunch of us. By the way, is it true
that you bought the stock in that
company of Gardner's that he
bought back from our reverend
mother-in-law? I've heard that you
did."
"What a wild rumor,' she replied
"I can't imagine how it could have
started. Stanley, have you and
Louella heard anything of Jim?"
Iler face was lovely in its wist ful
ness. Tomorrow Advice from Louella
Dayton Courtroom
Deserted; Bryan's
Mail Taxes Carrier
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Dayton, Tenn., July 22 (AP)
i ne itnea county courtroom was
piled today with a superfluity of
furniture of a kind which it may
have little use for. A score or more
of specially made press tables and
benches, used by reporters who
"covered" the Scopes case, were
left without the formality of trans
ferring title.
kjii ineir ruaeiy rinisnea sur
faces weer seen tho names of daily
newspapers in many parts of the
country and the Initials of widely
Known writers and news eerviccs.
1 liese win probably remain for
court attendants here to puzzle
over for years and as a reminder
or the stirring scenes when the
young biology teacher was tried
and found guilty of violating the
ami-evolution statute.
The daily mail receipts of Day
ton Increased twenty fold during
tne course of the evolution case.
The city mail carrier declared that
Mr. Bryan's daily mail aggregated
as much or more than his usual
dally burden in normal times. Mali
matter addressed to Mr. Darrow
was scarcely less, bulky.
Much of the advice and instruc
tion received by attorneys aroused
them to hilarious laughter while
over other inclosures they knit their
orows in vain error ts to discover
the purpose of the sender.
The Jury men by name and also
as "members of the Scope jury"
came under the postal bombard
ment. Tho published list of per
sons concerned with the trial seem
ed to have been seized upon as
"sucker lists" for many publicity
agencies. Frequently great bun
dles of form letters were received
addressed to every person whose
name had been mentioned In con
nection with the case. So over
whelming was the flood of letters
that some of the attorneys are days
behind schedule in opening their
malls.
Despite the repeated warnings
of the bailiff that "gentlemen and
others-, must cut out the smoking
in the courtroom" the janitor's
evidenco today testified that the
great crowds in the Rhea county
auditorium used tobacco freely.
Packs of cigarettes and cigars re
mains weer taken out and disposed
of.
For the convenience of tobacco
chewers, the court room was
strewn with cuspidors. One of the
unofficial noises of the trial
the loud ringing metallic tones
which reached through the Judicial
halls to announce that townsmen's
ahoes or mountaineer's boota had
encountered the loose fitting cover
of one of the under foot targets.
The 12 men who sat In the
Scopes case wore busy today in an
effort to find out what took place
during the eight days of the trial.
Perhaps no other twelve citizens of
Rhea county saw so little of the
proceedings. Two hours to hear
evidence and another hour to list
en to the judge's charge and at
torneys' brief statements, summed
up their time on duty. Unable to-.
go home and forbidden to listen to
the proceedings or to discuss the
case, the IS wandered around the
town and the vicinity of the court
room like victims of a social boycott.
B
RECORD IN PLEA
Dayton, Tenn., July 22 (AP)
Clarence Darrow, successful de
fender of the Loeb and Leopold
caso, probably appeared before a
jury yesterday for the first time In
his career and requested it to bring
in a verdict of guilty for his de
fendant, John T. Scopes.
"Gentlemen of the Jury," he said
"certain evidence which we had
hoped to place before you has boon
excluded from tho testimony. Un
der the evidence before I do not
see how wou can fail to find our
defendant guilty. Acquittal will
prevent our appealing to the su
perior courts. A verdict of guilty
returned by you will allow us to
do so."
He referred to the absence of
the jury from the courtroom dur
ing the greater part of the trial by
prefacing his remarks to them
with an expression of regret that
he had not an opportunity to be
come acquainted with them.
No Substitute for Courage
BRITISH GOAL STRIKE
NOW LOOMS LIKELY
London., July 22. (A. P.)
The possibility of a great British
coal strike was increased today
when miners refused to confer
with owners unless the latter first
withdrew proopsals tor wage de
creases.
(From the Baltimore Evening Sun)
The fundamentalists of Tennessee
may win because they deserve to
win. They have no case, but tney
have the courage, and there is no
substitute for courage.
The parallelism between the fun
damentalist outbreak and the early
days of the prohibition movement
is significant and sinister. Jiotn
movements grow out of the same
spirit. Both are propagated by the
same metiiods. Both aim at the
same mark. Who dare say that the
later movement will bo less sue
cessful than the earlier one-
Tile same spirit that Informs the
fundamentalist movement was be
hind the organization of the Anti-
Saloon League. It is the spirit of
those who are so sure of their own
goodness that they are willin
destroy liberty in order to cram
their ideas down the throats
other people. They style them
selves the moral forces of tiie com
munity, serenely unconscious of the
blistering satire on morality that
their course of action affords.
The same methods that carried
the Anti-Saloon League to success
are being employed by the funda
mentalists. They are the meth
ods of moral, if not physical,
swashbucklers; of a crew of buc
caneers come ashore and roaring
through the streets while honest
men cower at home. They do not
argue. They shoot and stab. The
Anti-Saloon League did not argue.
It browbeat. Its enemies were not
treated as men honestly mistaken.
They wero publicly branded either
as alcoholics or as paid dependents
of the liquor traffic. The funda
mentalists do not argue. They pub
licly brand their enemies as
atheists, infidels, enemies of God
md in league with the devil.
Men of intelligence cowered be
fore the blast of the Anti-Saloon
League. They are cowering in
Tennessee before the blast of the
fundamentlists. The president of
the University of Tennessee dived
into his hole like a scared rabbit
when the bill was introduced Into
tiie legislature, and he has never
emerged. It was difficult to get a
Tennessee lawyer to appear for
Scopes, and Neal. who did take
the case, is regarded as a reckless
daredevil. Men who realize the
asininity of the whole affair simply
cannot stand being referred to by
their less intelligent neighbors as
atheists and infidels. The spirit of
Huxley, who dared face anything
in defence of tiie truth, simply is
not in them.
If this moral flabbinoss prevades
;uiunig i(Uel!ig.-nt men in states
other than Tennessee, why should
the fundamentalists nut win? What
is to prevent their writing their
religion of darkness into the con
joint ion of the United States? If
they have a monopoly of courage,
indeed, are they not entitled to
win? No nation has a right to free
ijoni unless and until it is willing
to defend its freedom.
It is unjust to lay all the blame
the Holy Hollers. If the re
public is in danger of losing its
liberty, it in for l;u:k of men who
in defense of that liberty are well
ing to face the worst that ignor
ance, bigotry and fanaticism can
do. If the fundamentalist has all
the courage, the fundamentalist is
the better man nnil should rule,
for all the researches of modern
ncience have nevor discovered any
substitute for guts.
Hnther win honor than honors
rather have genius than wealth
rather make your name than iu-
herit It.
Blue Laws Live
Anti-evolution laws were not the only measures ccclesias-
ticism combattctl for before state legislatures this year. In
twenty slates there were determined attempts to re-enact
ancient blue laws preserving the sanctity of Sunday and in
still more efforts were made to compel bible-reading in public
schools. Anti-evolution bills failed in several states but
passed in Tennessee.
Ohio's legislature after a long bout with tho important
issue of whether a donkey should be driven past a cemetery
on Sunday faster than six miles an hour, decided negatively,
but passed a law forbidding Sunday (inuring at which more
than five couples were in attendance, legalizing the dance of
five couples but making it a crime for six couples to trip flic
light fantastic together. This is where sin consists in
numbers.
Pennsylvania's legislature decided thai it was still a crime
to go fishing cm Sunday in certain streams, while in other
streams it was legal. The Texas legislature repealed a law
forbidding the sale of gasoline and oil in certain cities on
Sunday, but prohibited it in others. Massachusetts refused
to repeal the law limiting the length of hat-pins but declined
to permit Sunday baseball.
Two compulsory Sunday observance bills failed in Indiana
and a bill for bible reading in public schools passed, but met
with a veto. Michigan salons killed a bill closing all stores
on Sunday, and a total of 20 slate legislatures, having before
them from one to four Sunday observance bills, refused
passage after stormy debates.
A full score of legislatures struggled with compulsory
bible reading bills and half a dozen others with part time
religious instruction measures. Oregon, Idaho, Arizona, nnd
California rejected these measures through Delaware and
some other states passed them.
All of which shows the persistence of those who would I
mix dogma, under the guise of religion, with politics.
One Wife on Approval
By VtoU'l Dare
Tin: vat and Tin; hki:
During the following weeks It
tuM-nwd t Cynthia that her lni.s
It.uid faded further nnd further
into unreality, Hlin bid no word
from Id in, no replies to her let
ters. She kepi telling herself thai
of couiMu Jim iti hived her, that
he could not have rham:ed no eotn
ptetely. Vet It was hud to Ixlieve
that he eared when lie treated her
o badly.
S(rum:!y eonti -itrd nit It his nei;
leet of her was Gardner's devotion
Noel alw.o'n on hand, l-'lowers
arrived fioiu hlr.i eaeh niertdtiK
pomeiiineH a pnvil f-h(if of ro.es
for tho v.i "os in her living room,
sometimes a hue hunch of pant
ies or violi'is or half a doen or
chids f(..- her ctiiN.'it'p.
Sho dined with him fi ipientlv,
went to the theater wit ii him, va.
escorted by hi in to the varton t
dance club. One rainy nimnina he
phoned her Immediately aficr
bre.Tkfant, nnd Ihey went for n long
walk through the park, tie vrm
a perfect comrade, nnd his kind
ness helped her to (iuhl off the
loneliness that Jim's nbsence had
caused.
Site had tried to continue to er
the friends of her husband'H fu hi
lly whom sho had niel through
Madame Iceland, hut their small
circle seemed duller thnn ever to
her now, nnd Although Cecil Mal
colm and her friends wont too fnr
to the other extreme, Cynthia i
found that she preferred them.
Then, too nmottfr her mother
In-law' friend she frequently
met LniieMn, her nWer-lii-Jnw.
And Louella made no secret of her
disapproval of Oynlhia.
i on 10 too hard on the poor
kid," rouolla'it IiiihIi and te-Id her
on one occasion, when who hud I
tinulled O i. thin otilenlatlously.
"Indeed, I'm not. She's m'thiK
abominably, running around with
Noel ;:irdncr and that Malcolm
woman. I'm ashamed of her. To
thinl, tint Mie s man ied to mv
brother!"
"If he doesn't treat her better
than lie has so far, she won't bp
inniTle.i to hint Ions." he retorted.
"And by Mnibblnn her you're not
Koliti; to in tke her mend her ways.
You'll jirt drive her Into Items
n m..ie Indisei eet."
Which wan exactly what hap
pen,-, i. t'vnthia had not intended
t;o;m: with ,,.,. tl, n fnncy drev
Mil that w:w tieim: riven for char
ity the following cwnlnij. but af
ter I.ouella'a rudcnes.i he decided
to (jo.
I don I care whether any of
.hee people like me or not!" she
told herself, n hunff up the
receher nftcr phoning Noel that
he had rhauned her mind. "They
don't like me when I died to suit
them, and they don't like mc now
why RhouM I en re.
She had not tMppued nny coju
lume. but Oiinlner told her that
be would Mend her one In time for
tbe i,ali. it came late In the nfter-
noon. Opening thp ho rvntMn
held her breath. For within lay
a fluffy n i,i .4 of rofto-rolnird tulle. I
wim tiny rw c.iscndlng down
over It.
Hhe wore an evening wrap over
it when Noel called for her that
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