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WHAT IS EVOLUTION?
By JOHN BLAKE
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r AIIWIN, who first called atten
Hon to the working of the prin
ciple of evolution, was widely honored
not only In England, but throughout
the civilized world.
A young man who taught Darwin's
ideas to his pupils was dismissed from
the school tn which he taught, and
was fined $100. :
But the Supreme court of, the state
In which this young man lived remit
ted the fine. '
That is progress.
It Is progress because It is a virtual
admission that the court which im
posed the fine was wrong. '
For if evolution is a denial of a re
ligion In which all men should be
lieve, It Is a crime to dispute it
As a matter of fact evolution is
merely another name for progress,
and it is progress which has made the
world.
There Is no denying the existence
of God in stating that His work was
done systematically and methodically
that He conceived a plan which the
forces He created would be certain to
carry out.
The visit of King Amanullab of Afghanistan to Germany was the first
formal visit of a crowned bead to that country since the founding of the
republic. The king Is shown with President Von Hlndenburg.
For Children's Story Hour
There is no sacrilege in tracing the
various steps by which this plan has
worked, bringing creatures up out of
the sea, and permitting them to de
velop according to laid-down laws un
til finally man with his God-given
brain came Into existence.
It is not denying God to show how
the world Itself was formed from
gases and the land was divided from
the seas.
To one seeking a belief in a Creator
evolution supplies abundance of evi
dence. No evolutionist would deny that
there Is mind behind all this great
work, or that there is mind behind
the great system of suns and planets
which surround us, a system so vast
that we cannot conceive It
Evolution Is merely the doctrine of
progress. '
It is in a tremendous way that the
development of the modern locomo
tive from James Watt's tea kettle has
been, what the progress of building
"W
E MIGHT as well make the
"Squeal, squeal, we might as well
make the best of it"
"What should we make the best
of?" asked Grandfather Porky Pig.
"Tell us, Miss Ham, grunt grunt;
tell us, Cousin Ham."
i "Tea, tell us, squeal, squeal; tell
ns, Miss Ham," said Brother Bacon
"Grunt, grunt tell us, Miss Ham,"
urged Sammy Sausage.
"Please tell us," said Sir Percival
Pork. "Grunt grunt, please tell us,
Miss Ham."
' "Yes, squeal, squeal, please tell us.
Mis Ham," said Sir Benjamin Bacon.
"We want to know, grunt grunt,
we want to know," said Mrs. Pink
Pig.
"Yes, and you must tell us, squeal,
squeal," said Mrs. Pinky Pig.
?You surely must, grunt grunt,"
said Pinky Pig's mother, and Pinky
Pig said: .;
"Squeal, squeal, we want to know."
"Well, grunt, grant," said Miss
Bam, "you don't give me a chance to
tell you. You grunt and squeal and
won't give me a moment in which to
tell you anything."
"Squeal, squeal," said Brother Ba-
In Our
Own Front Yard
By Douglas Malloch
A CHOKE-CHERRY grows in our
front yard,
And we've looked long, and we've
looked hard
For something beautiful we might see.
And never saw the choke-cherry tree.
Bight near the tree a honeysuckle
grows,
That no one notices, I suppose.
We look up town and we look down
- . street,
With a honeysuckle right at our feet
Always somewhere 'else all the won
ders are,
Or perhaps It's this that we look too
far. ,
We watch the walk where the velvets
And we never see our green grass.
We drive and we drive, for miles and
miles, 1 ,
While, out In front Mother Nature
smiles.
There's not a place that we haven't
known,
Excepting one, and that one's our own.
And so for once let ns stay right here
And see the things that are somewhere
near. ,
Let the wide world wait until after
ward, Till we take a look at our own front
yard.
((& 1921. by Douclu Malloch.)
con, "we will give you all the mo
ments you want, if you will only not
ask ns for food. I do not mind, how
ever, if yon ask the others for food,
but do not ask it of me.
"Ask me for moments if you will
and I will give you all the moments
you want"
"How absurd you are," said Grand
father Porky Pig. "Why, I would not
"I Will Show You That I Am Superior."
even bother to say that I didn't want
to be asked for food.
"She could ask me If she wished,
we've got to make the best of and
that Is that we've finished dinner and
That wouldn't mean that I'd have to
give it to ber.
"That wouldn't mean anything of
the sort."
"Oh, yes, I understand," said Miss
Ham. "But I must tell you what
can't find anything in the Pig Pen,
so that it looks as though we'd not
have anything more to eat until sup
per time."
"That's no news to us," said Grand
father Porky, "and to think that you
got us so excited about such a hor
rible thing that was not worth getting
excited about"
"Grandfather Porky Is right," the
other pigs grunted. "Grandfather
Porky Is right" "
"Oh, very well," said Miss Ham.
"But I was going to suggest that as
long as we couldn't eat and bad to
make the best of it we might make
up some poetry."
"What 1" grunted ajl the pigs in
amazement
"Yes," said Miss Ham. "Pigs' po
etry would be lively, I'm sure, and it
could go down to fame."
"We don't know about it going
down to fame," paid Sammy Sausage,
"but it would doubtless go down Into
the mud along with our snouts."
"Well," said Miss Ham, "as you're
all so foolish, I will show that I
am superior and I will make up a
poem. Here It Is:
I'm a pig.
I don't dance the Jig
I am not so neat.
But I do love to eat!
And food I will greet
And consider It sweet.
"Queer sort of poetry," grunted
Brother Bacon, "but It only goes to
show that pigs' poetry cannot amount
to much, so there isn't any use In try
ing to make poems."
"Correct," squealed the other pigs.
"Correct."
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Good Things to Eat
By NELLIE MAXWELL
THE planning of meals "is powerful
constant," and a few helpful sug
gestions are always welcomed.
Jewish Cheese Sandwiches.
Work a large-sized cream cheese
with one-fourth of a cupful of butter
until of creamy consistency. Then add
one teaspoonful of chopped capers, one
teaspoonful of paprika, two anchovies,
chopped fine, one shallot chopped fine,
one-half teaspoonful of caraway seed
and one-half teaspoonful of salt Mix
thoroughly and pack solidly In a small
brick-shaped mold. Let stand on fee
over night to ripen. Remove from the
mold, cut into thin slices and use on
rye bread spread lightly with butter
and made mustard, as sandwich filling.
Press edges together, trim and serve
with coffee.
Orange marmalade used as sand
wich filling for white buttered bread
makes a delicious sandwich for an aft
ernoon tea.
Creoles.
Beat three eggs until light, add grad
ually one cupful of soft brown sugar.
Mix and sift three-fourths of a cupful
By H. IRVING KING
THE HOWLING DOG
IT IS safe to say that the majority
men waking in the night to the
prolonged howling of a dog feel, min
gling with their desire to throw some
thing at the brute, a little twinge of
uncomfortable superstition. In the
first place a dog's howling is a mourn
ful thing to bear and then there Is
the age-long superstition that a howl
ing dog foretells a death in the fam
ily. Tennyson alludes to It In his
"May Queen" "I did not hear the do
howL mother, or the death-watch
beat"
It la very likely that a dog beloved
by his master, will howl for his com
panionship when illness deprives biro
of It In fact any serious illness In
the bouse would probably cause the
dog to be neglected by others to a
large extent and be would bowl for
his accustomed food or companion
ship. If the sick person recovers
nothing Is thought of the dog's howl
Ing. But if he dies one member of
the family looks with an awed ex
pression and asks : "Did you bear
the dog howl last night V "Yes." wlli
probably be the reply, "1 have heard
him for several nights now." And
each secretly believes; or half be
lie ves, that the dog's bowling was "a
warning." The character of a dug's
howl, suggestive of death and deso
lation, and the above facts are suf
Sclent to account for the superstition.
But Just think, gentle reader how
many, many times you have heard the
dog howl at night and nothing un
toward has happened.
. . a hy HcClart Newapapcr grndfatel '
of flour with one-half teaspoonful of
salt, and one-fourth of a teaspoonful
of ginger. Add to the first -mixture
and beat three minutes. Add one ami
one-half cupfuls of pecan meats. Fill
small fluted tins two-thirds full of the
batter and bake fifteen minutes.
Spread with maple frosting and deco
rate with half of a pecan meat
(. 12I. Western Newipaper Onion.) :
Peace
Cicero.
Peace Defined
Is liberty in tranquillity.
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had brought about In erecting St
Paul's cathedral or the Wool worth
building by using the ideas which re
sulted in the first hut of mud In
which primitive man sheltered him
self from the weather.
Evolution is working about us to
day, constantly.
A part of it is In the brain of man,
but man's brain is puny compared to
the mind which could devise a system
which could continue to go on and on,
as It has done since the crust of the
earth formed about the fiery interior.
Men of religion unless they, are
bigots have no quarrel with evolu
tion. The facts that it teaches supply the
most convincing of all possible proof
of the existence of God.
(Copyright
SAWS
By Viola Brothers Short
FOR THE GOOSE
IF1 TOD lose love, It often, ain't your
1
gen'rally always Is.
fault If you tose respect, U
Home Ownership Has
Influence on Child
Every child wants a pet and a sand
pile. And they are his inalienable
right They should be his; his very,
own to romp with and in as ha
pleases.
Most of all though he should have,
home which be knows his daddy
owns. It helps his self-reliance.
Living In an apartment Isn't the
just due of a future President or the
wlfe-to-be of a future President
The child should have his own play
ground just as he has own toys. It
means more to him than the careless,
unthinking parent Imagines.
An independent spirit does not flour
ish and grow strong under restraint
And more than ever, today, does the
boy need spirit
Give the youngster his chance. Get
him a home. Let him know that it is
his.
Pep tip his independence. Guard
bis spirit as you do his health.
Bring him up to look the world in
the eye, frankly and fearlessly. Soon
er or later he is going to have to
take a poke at it New York Herald
Tribune.
Silence might not be the best de
fense, but it certainly Is the most
aggravatln'.
Answerln insults with sarcasm is
tryin to clean off an ink spot with
a fountain pea
FOR THE GANDER
The world ewes every man a Uvin',
on'y he's gotta do bis own collect in'
When yon talk, talk soft
you bit hit bard.
But when
"Flappers are rather hard to de
fine," says Mature Matilda, "but they
might be defined as young ladles who
think Baton Rouge is a lipstick."
(Copyright. '
Cunning and breeding is alike tn
this way that the more you got 'em
the less you show 'em.
(Copyright
Will Insects Be Our Rivals?
By F. A. WALKER
MAETERLINCK, deep thinker and
able and entertaining writer, ad
vances a new idea. Discussing the
life of insects he advances the theory
that they may yet overrun the earth
and be "the rivals of our last hours
and perhaps our successors."
There have been a thousand and
one opinions of what would happen
to the human race in the ages to come
what would be the conditions on
this speck In the universe when the
last day should dawn. But this Is the
first time that the writer has ever
come across the theory that the In
sect life was likely to overpower all
the other forces of our planet and be
come Its masters.
The idea is, however, not so gro
tesque as it first appears. The ant
Is a thousand times more industrious
than man. The spider much more in
genious. The bee much braver. And
all the Insect world reproduces itself
with tremendous more frequency than
mankind.
To the student of nature there can
not be any doubt of the tremendous
power In the insect world. As far
back as Bible times the most dreaded
plagues were the plagues of Insects.
In modern days the records of de
struction made by the boll weevil, the
gypsy moth, the army worm, the lo
cust, the potato bug and scores of oth
er pests have mounted to millions on
millions. -
Except that the brain of man has
devised methods of extermination the
world would long ago have been over
run with destroying Insects.
Since every attack of Insects has
been met and conquered by human
Ingenunlty why should Maeterlinck
conclude that sometime or other the
Insects are to turn the tables on man
and become his conqueror?
A really greater danger than the in
fects lies in the rapid Increase and
wider spread of rodent life. The rat
nest of this country has reached tn
Its annual destructiveness the enor
mous annual total of $200,000,000.
Perhaps If Maeterlinck bad been as
well acquainted with the rat as with
the Insect he would bave made an
army of rodents our final conqueror In
stead of the creeping hosts which he
selected.
But we may be quite cure that
neither rats nor Insects will overcome
humanity. The brain that can build
the Panama canal, conquer the heights
of the air with airplanes and the
depths of the sea with under-water
ships; that can weigh the sun and
compute the forces of unseen stars;
certainly that brain will not be beaten
Into submission by Insects nor con
quered by any lower form of life.
If you want to supplement your nat
urnl courage a little turn to the sec
ond chapter of Genesis and read the
twenty-eighth verse and see what God
had to say regarding man and the rest
of creation. Even Maeterlinck might
find It worth while to reread his Bible
(Q by McClurt Ne wipe per Syndicate.)
Russian Training Ship After Collision
An alt view t the Russian truiniug ship making for port after 1U disastrous collision wltb the Italian Steauiei
Alcantara, in the English channel. The Italian steamer sank wltb all men aboard save one.
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Children Take Pride
in School Ground
The Young Citizens' league, which
under the leadership and direction of
E. 0. GIffen, of the Oklahoma state
educational department, has grown in
to an organization of about 75,000 of
the school children of the state, de
voted to the preservation and beauti
fying of school grounds, along with
their individual drilling in the funda
mentals of citizenship, is preparing
for two major events of the spring.
One of these is the laying out ot
local programs for Improving school
grounds and premises. The other ma
jor program is the annunl convention
at Pierre. The expense of attendance
is a matter of the pupils' own financ
ing through school entertainments.
The movement is attracting wttention
of educators of other states, and in
quiries are constantly being made as
to details of the organization.
Look to City'i Future
At the meeting in Dallas of the
American Society for Municipal Im
provements reports, have been made
of the plans of various cities through.
out the country to meet the needs oi
present growth and of future expan
sion. Jf any further evidence were
needed of the alertness of American
municipalities of the larger type it
was furnished through this occasion,
Men engaged in the planning or actual
carrying out of plans told of the pro
cedure that is being followed here
and there.
On certain fundamentals there
seemed to be absolute- agreement
First determine the needs, those that
are urgent and those that reasonably
may be expected to become urgent
in a very few years, Estimate the
costs carefully, relate any Improve
ment undertaken to a general city
plan, then prepare for a bond Issue
and go ahead, subordinating political
and every other interest to the wel
fare of the city and thus gaining
the public confidence and support re
quired to make the whole procedure
a success.
Patching Shingled Roof
To repair wooden shingled roofs, an
unusually simple and speedy method
Is to use slip patches cut from single
ply asphalt roofing. These are long
enough to reach from the butt of the
shingle up to the first row of nails.
Lift the shingle up' just far enough to
allow a slip to be pushed In place.
The sun melts the asphaltura suf
ficiently to stick the slip In place. No
nails are neded.
When a roof has to be patched, first
nnroll the roofing on a floor, and brush
It well on both sides to prepare the
surfaces so they will stick readily.
Then divide the roofing into rectangles
measuring 3 by 5 or 3 by 6 Inches. As
many as 2,500 of these slip shingles
can be obtained from three rolls of
one-ply roofing. Popular Science
Monthly.
Wider Highway $
i While dlHcusslng the construction of
about 80,000 miles of hard-surfuced
roads in the United States during the
present year, a writer calls attention
to the fact that nearly everywhere
road builders are planning to con
struct wider highways, particularly
where thene highways connect with
systems of paved streets In urban cen
ters. Wider roads are everywhere In
demand. Increased trafilc on our pub
lice highways make wider roads a
prime essential, and public oflMuls
who fall to take this vital fact Into
the reckoning make a mistake
Home and School
Somebody has said the home Is giv
ing way to the school as the dominat
ing Influence for . good cltlzennhlp.
Here is a case where neither one nor
the other snould "pass the buk."
Youth training should begin at home,
but It should certainly be continued
In the matter of character In school,
and there Is no place along the line
where the responsibility con be taken
off the shoulders of anybody. Grove
Patterson, In the Chicago Journal.