Who knows but what that state may
drift into the class of the Virginia
cross-roads settlement where every
body assembled Saturday nights for a
free-for-all? The usual' weekly per- I
formance was witnessed by an Eng
i lishman who stopped over for the
event which he viewed from his posi
tion on a barrel. A belligerent came
down full force on his head with a
heavy brush. The Englishman pro
tested on the ground that he was not
a party to the social event, and wa3
only looking on. “Can’t help it,
stranger,” replied his assailant with
another smack, “you’ll have to take
one side or the other; we don’t ’low no
neutrals around here.”
EVOLUTION BOBS UP
The bill aimed at the teaching of
the theory of evolution is like a gun
aimed into the night. The legislators
haven’t the slightest idea what they
are shooting at, and are just as apt to
shoot a valuable ox in the corral a3
a bear entering the fold. Education
and study of the theory of evolution
is a searchlight turned upon the mys
teries of the universe. For those who
prefer ignorance and intellectual dark
ness instead of the light of truth as
based on facts and experiment, the
bill is all right; but for the great ma
jority of students who desire the free
and untrammeled right to pursue their
studies into every field of natural
science, the bill is a denial of every
man’s intellectual privilege to search
out and discover truth wherever it may
be hidden.
