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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
LEXINGTON, KY

VOL. XVI

No.

SEPTEMBER 25, 1925

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APPROXIMATELY 2,100 ENROLL AT U. K.
Don't Miss It

IMPROVEMENTS
ON U.K. CAMPUS
MANY IN NUMBER

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Press Box In

Journalists To See Educational
Newspaper Film on Campus

Stadium Will
Be Protected

The Picture Service Corporation of
New York City hat offered its splendid film depicting the making of a
newspaper and setting out in detail
the days work in a metropolitan
newspaper office to the department of
journalism free. The offer has been
accepted and the picture will be given
at a convenient time in later October
or early November in Dicker Hall,
using the movie device which belongs
to the Engineering College. Students
in journalism, local newspaper men
and others interested will be invited
to witness the film. This service is
being given to the students without

Several New Buildings, Roads
Widened and Curbed Mark
Work of Maury Crutcher
During Summer

Asks Aid of Students
New Addition to Patterson Hall,
Girls Dormitory, Nearly
Completed

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LEADS WILDCATS

When the game starts Saturday the
press box will have a top over it.
Heretofore sport reporters have been
forced to face the elements while

they recorded the games; but, through
the solicitation of tho SuKy Circle,
they will have the protection they deserve this season.
The Louisville Courier Journal and
Times, Lexington Herald, Lexington
Leader, and the Kernel donated funds
for the new top to supplement the
SuKy Circle's money. S. A. ((Daddy)
Boles, university athletic director,
says that the work is being done by
the Southern Tent and Awning Company and wants to assure reporters
that "they have gone unprotected for
the last time in the Stoll Field stadium."

While 'the numerous students have cost.
h been spending their vacations at hme
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traveling aruumii ii. ' Maurice J. Crutcher, superintendent of
buildings and grounds, lias been veiy

busy during the entire summer, cleaning and rennovating the cacmpus and
buildings for the opening of the fall
term. Many new changes have been
made and all to the advantage of the
student and serve to make Kentucky
a better university.
With the campus and buildings of
this university in such excellent condition as they are at the present, every
student should consider it his duty to
assist in keeping it so and making it
one of the most attractive in the country. As our university is located in
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the heart of the Blue Grass region,
the "Garden Spot" of the world, and
with the topographical, features in our
mterest of all alumni of the Univer-favowhy should this not be the
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At the close of school, work immediately started and we now posses one
of the most beautiful universities in
the country. The main entrance to
the university has been widened from
the small width of 12 feet to 26. The
large stone piers, which mark each
side of the gate entrance have been
reset and made considerably taller.
On each side of the main driveways
2,500 feet of curbing has been built.
Some changes in the system of driveways, parking and the like has been

SORORITIES GIVEN
RUSHING RULE1
Women's Pan Hellenic Associa
tion Lays Down Pledging of
Frshmen Regulations in
"Advice to New Girls"

Include 12 Societies
Rules governing sororities as to the
rushing and pledging of freshman
girls have been announced by the
Women's
Pan Hellenic Association
in its "Advice to New Girls." The
purpose of this is to bring about a bet
ter understanding between the new
girls and sorority women.
There are nine national and three
local Greek letter fraternities on the
campus of the University of Ken
tucky.
They are as follows:
Alpha Delta Theta.
Alpha Gamma Delta.
Alpha Xi Delta

(Continued on Page Three)

COOPER ASSUMES
NATIONAL DUTIES
Dean of College of Agriculture
Begins Work in Washington
As Chief of U. S. Bureau
Agricultural Economics

Return Each Month
Thomas P. Cooper, dean of the College of Agriculture, left last Wednesday for Washington actively to assume his new position as chief of the
United States bureau of agricultural
Dean Cooper was granteconomics.
ed leave of absence by the board of
trustees not to exceed nine months,
during which time he will return to
the University of Kentucky once a
month to spend a few days at his office in the Experiment Station and to
direct the affairs of the College of Agriculture.
Dean Cooper was appointed to the
nffinn of chief of the bureau of agri
cultural economics by Secretary of
Agriculture Jardine following the secretary's request that Dr. H. C. Taylor
resign. This bureau is considered one
of the most important in the department pmnlnvinc 2.000 nersons. includ
ing a field force scattered throughout
the United States. This will not be
Dean Cooper's first experience with
the department of agriculture as he
vfnrmorlv wns an aeent in the bureau
of' statistics and was director of the
North Dakota Agricultural Expen
ment Station.
Dunne Dean Cooper's absence T.
It, Bryant, now assistant director in
the extension department, will handle
much of the Experiment Station work
and Prof. George Roberts, now as
sistant dean of the College of Agri
culture, will act as head of the insti
tution.

Back the Kernel
Students Should Mention Paper
to Merchants When Shopping

The business manager of the Ker
nel wishes to make an appeal to the
of Ken- cttwlnn a nf Vm TTnivprSltV
tucky to support the Kernel and its
program of development by their patronage of the business firms whose
ndvorfisiiiL' nnnears in the columns of
this paper. It is only through tho
medium of advertising that tho Kernel has been able to achieve the place
it now holds among tho college papers
Tho Lexington merof the South.
chants aro expressing faith in tho
pnliimns of tho Kernel and are the fi
nancial backers of tho paper. When
vnn buv. mention the Kernel, and you
wllli.be taking a part iri the growth

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Capt. "Ab" Kirwan

Wildcat Special of 15 Coaches Will
Carry Rooters to Chicago Game and
Back for Only $13.66 on October 3

Hey! Want to go to go to Chicago
with the Wildcats, October 3? All
you need is $13.66 The Southern is
going to run a "Wildcat Special" for
the benefit of the students who wish
to accompany the team and if you
haven't got thiB small amount, bor
row it and let s go.
Chi Omega
The announcement in regard to the
Delta Delta Delta
"WildcatSpecial" was made by H. C.
Delta Zeta
King, district passenger agent of the
Kappa Delta
Southern Railway System.which will
Kappa Kappa Gamma
operate the train from Lexington tc
Zeta Tau Alpha
the Windy City. The train, which
Locals:
will be composed of 15 coaches, includ
Omega Rho
ing two compartment sleeping ears,
Upsilon
Sigma Beta
ten standard pullmans, two day
Theta Sigma Xi
coaches and a baggage car, will leave
These fraternities are governed by Lexington Friday, Oct. 2, at 6:45 p.
Council composed of m.
a
and arrive in Chicago Oct. 3, at
two representatives from each frater 7 a. m. Returning, the special will
nity.
leave Chicago Oct. 3, at 11::4:0 p. .
Rules Enumerated
and arrive in Lexington Oct. 4, at
1. No girl shall be bid to a fra about 9 a. m. Many fans are planning
ternity unless she has fulfilled entrance requirements.
2. She shall be matriculated in the
university as a regular student.
3. She shall be taking work equiv
alent to or more than 14 credit hours.
Bid day is the second Thursday

to make the trip and the best equipment everprovided for a football special from Kentucky has been secured.
The special will go to the Twelfth
street station at Chicago but a stop
will be made at Sixty-thir- d
street,
only a few blocks from Stagg field,
to allow fans to go direct to the stadium of University campus. A special
round trip rate of $13.66 has been secured for the trip. According to present indications one of ,the..largast
crowds evar o leawe, . Lpjcingtcin i or"
an event jatj uch'.a distance will be
on board the "Wildcat Special." .Ar.
you going. to b.omio'therii7
It is. expected". that 'the university
band, which was proclaimed idicbest
college band in ttoesc"uth.Myheti it 'Accompanied the 'football team 'to Knbx-vill- e
and Atlanta will go to Chicago
and many celebrations are planned
for the morning and evening in the
Windy City in addition to the big
battle in the afternoon

U.0FK. GRANTED

PHI BETA KAPPA

after school opens.
The two days of registration, Mon- (Continued on Page Three)

Prof.

G. C. Knight'
Edits New Book

Instructor in English at U. of K.
To Publish "Readings From
The American Mercury"

Another book to bear upon its title
page the name of a professor in the
University of Kentucky will soon appear in Readings from the American
Mercury, edited by Grant C. Knight.
The volume, published by Knopf, is
to be a collection of representative
essays culled from the files of the
American Mercury and meant to
serve as collateral material for
courses in advanced composition and
essay writing.
The choosing of Professor Knight
for this work indicates that our English department, recognized as among
the best in the South, has attracted
the attention of H. L. Mencken who,
as everyone knows, is not overly
friendly to pedagogues.
This will be Professor Knight's
second book to appear in 1925; the
first, Superlatives, also published by
Knopf, has been widely read, and re
viewed in the Book Reviews of the
New York Times, The New York Sun,
The Saturday Review The Chicago
Tribune, The Boston Transcript, The
Christian Science Monitor, and other
papers of critical authority.
WILDCATS'

National Fraternity on Scholar
ship Established on Campus;
Is First Chapter Granted
in Kentucky

U. of K. Band Will
Step Out Tomorrow
35 Members Have Been Practicing Since Sptember 14,

Be Enleraained by Kentucky Societyxof Chicago
After Game

The University of Kentucky Band
will be as fit tomorrow to take its
place on Stoll Field as will Captain
Thirty-fiv- e
Kirwan's Wildcats.
of

McVey Is Member
The University of Kentucky was
granted a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa,
the national fraternity on scholarship,
at the triennial meeting of the na
tional organization held in New York
on September 8. A local association
has been in existence at the univerf
sity for the past three years, and
this association petitioned the nai
tional senate, known as the United
Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa.
This is the first chapter to be.
granted in Kentucky, although there
are five other chapters in the south,
including Texas, Vanderbilt, Virginia
and Alabama.
vt. uianviue xerriu was roe Kentucky representative at the meeting
held in ew York, and it was through
him that word was received in tae
president's office that Kentucky was
the sixth college in the southern dis
trict to receive this honor.
(Continued on Page 14)

"Big'" Dinner Planned

The Kentucky Society of Chicago,
composed of graduates of the University of Kentucky and former residents of Kentucky, is planning to give
an unprecedented welcome to the
Kentucky Wildcats and their specia
train of rooters when they pull into
the Windy City for the game with
Coach A. A. Stagg's Maroons on October 3.
The following letter has been re
ceived from T. W. Vinson, secretary
of tho society, which is a good reason
why every loyal Blue and White follower should make his arrangements
to hit the rattler for Chicago "on the

This issue of the Kernel, which
September 2 Maryville at Lexconsists of 16 pages, and whkh was
put out mostly by the work of oaly
ington.
3 ChUaf o at Chicago.
October
five students, was made posalblt only
October 10 CUmtea.at Lexingthrough the many improvements
which were made in the mechaaloal,
ton.
aad Lee
October 17 WnMwgt
editorial and business department- '
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the paper during the summer ninths.
at Lexington.
October 24 Sewaaef at LexingThe paper row owns a complete printing plant and in the future, will be
ton.
October 31 Ceatre at Danville.
published oa the campus.
7 Alabama at
November
the first time, the
Last year,
Kernel was set oa its own linotype
14 V.
If. I. , at machiM but was printed at a Weal
November
Charleston.
MtablUhMent dowjjawn
printing
November W Teiaessee at Lexvery Thursday Bight. The Uttoua- ' tlen of a'tywtyp
ington (homecomiaf ).
jaaehlae Mirfced ft

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and Attend Football
Games En Masse

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Know Yells, Songs
On Wednesday morning along with
the opening of school, all freshmen
rules went into effect. Since that
time the university campus has been
liberally sprinkled with blue and white
caps, freshmen have abandoned their
seats at the head of boarding house
tables to upper classmen and have
assumed an attitude of courtesy toward upper classmen befitting their
rank.
Tn order that freshmen may know
wli.it rules thov must abide by. the
Student Council has published n list of
such rules which are as lolows:
(1). Freshmen must at all times
wpnr the adonted can.
f 2. Freshmen must attend all foot
ball games en masse without dates,
and attend all pep meetings.
(3). Freshmen must know school
snrifs mid veils for hrst trnme.
(4) . All freshmen must take part

(8). Freshmen must not cut classea
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plete printing plant online, ca'inm'is,'!
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October a Eastern Stttto
av we ena ox wie lust session, vuu
School for Teachers at
business department, with tliavi'ui of
Prof. Enoch Grehan, under .'whqso f
.'Octobor 30 Georgetown College
guidance me paper nan progrcsseu so
rapidly, decided that the Kernel was
Freshmen at Georgetown.
in such financial condition as to warCollege
14 Butler
November
rant the purchasing of a press, with Freshmen at Loxington.
other equipment necessary to comUniversity of
21
November
plete a mechanical department. After
Tennessee Freshmen at Knoxvillo.
du consideration, it was decided to
28 Centre College
November
buy the press which was installed in
the basement of the Science building, Freshmen at Loxington.
By ruling of tho Southern Con
In the
ame room whero the linoferenco the Freshmen aro only al
type machine is situated, about the
lowed to play five games in ono sea
first of September. Along with tho

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Board of Trustees
Hold First Meeting
John Skain Elected Treasurer of
University to Take Place of
W. A. McDowell, Deceased
The board of trustees of the Uni-ersiof Kentucky met in regular
quarterly session Wednesday at noon
in the president's oft ice at the uni

versity.
The followiner members were pres
ent: Judge Stoll, Messrs. Rhoads, Gor
don, Bassett, Lebus, Ingels, benator
Froman, Hillenmeyer, Turner, Grady
and McKee.
Amonir the important matters of
business transacted the following day
be noted: John Skain, a member of
the executive committee of the Phoenix and Third National Bank, was
elected treasurer of tho university to
like the place of W. A. McDowell,
deceased.
A committee consisting of Messrs.
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on Page 14)

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these men reported to Sergeant Kennedy on September 14, and for the
past two 5 weeks they have been rehearsing morning and afternoon. The
boys are showing great enthusiasm
and interest in the band this year and
Sergeant Kennedy is quite gratified at
the result of the past two weeks
work.
The band room, on the third floor
of the armory, has been
this summer by the boys who were in
Lexington under the supervision of
Sergeant Kennedy. New lockers have
been installed and each man will
have his own locker for his instru
ment and music. The walls have been
tinted cream with harmonizing cur
tains, and the cheery atmosphere has
been an added source of inspiration
in tho
to the musicians.
(5) . Freshmen aro not allowed to
Saturday when the bugle is sounded
when an
for the first battle of the season on sit at. the head of any table
nvPKf'llt.
Stoll Field, the Kentucky, Wildcats iikimii nlnaemnn is can carry canes,
fn. Onlv seniors
will be led by the South's best band.
wear corduroy trousers, "derby hats,
V
nr irow moustaches.
(7). No ono is permitted' to wear a
high school letter or similar ensignia
University of
whiln iittendinc tho

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2,106 students

lar registration period Tuesday night
the University of Kentucky opened
probably the greatest year in its his- ory Wednesday morning.
For tho nast week virtually every
passenger train or bus which has
nnllpfl into Lexintrton
hns carried
young men and women from every sec
tion of the state, coming to enter the
fall term.
Advntipo recistration was held on
last Thursday, Friday and Saturday
in an effort to eliminate the rush
which usually occurs durinir the two
regular registration days and to aid
third:
the professors in having a full at"The Kentucky Society of Chicago tendance on the first day of their
is composed of a group of very ag- classes which heretofore has been only
gressive business men who formerly partial because all of the students
resided in Kentucky. We have a num- were not able to classify in the two
ber of meetings each year to try to days.
keep alive the old Kentucky fraternal
The first two days of tho advance
spirit.
Ithas been of tremendous registration on Thursday, which was
value to us from a business, as well held primarily for the football men,
as a fraternal, standpoint.
members of the University It. O. T.
"The Kentucky State University C. "band and students living in Lex
football team is to play Chicago Uni- ington, brought 375 students through
versity on Octobr 3, and the Ken- the
line. On Friday aft- tucky Society of Chicago proposes to prnnon H70 more students registered.
organize and do everything possible The total registration at the close of
We the third day s registration was
to help Kentucky lick Chicago.
have reserved a block of twelve hunThe retrular registration at the
Kentucky friends university began Monday morning in
dred seats for our
may wish to attend the game the lower hall of the Administration
who
and for all former Kentuckians who building and continued all day. Six
.now live in, Chicago.
were registered
hundred and fifty-fiv- e
"We are also to give our big An- on Monday and on Tuesday 550 more
igned the book oi the registrar.
nual Dinner, with appropriate enterLargest Enrollment in History
tainment on the evening of October 3,
This, is the lnreest enrollment in
fo'iowing the football game, to which
our Kentucky visitors will be invited the history of the university and the
as our guests. We are anxious to problem of housing all of the stuhave every former Kentuckian who dents is becoming a serious one. In
spite of the fact that extra workmen
were employed to help rush the com(Continued on Page 14)
pletion of the new girls' dormitory
Hall, students
ml minim? Patterson
will not be able to move into the new
building just at present. They will
will be made for them at Smith and
wil be made for them at Smith and
Patterson halls until the new dormitory is completed, which will not be
First Year Men Must Wear later than several days.
Adopted Caps at All Times
Miss Virginia Franke, of New

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Classes Are Started

tion Period of Five Days

Housing Students
Contest Will Be Broadcasted by Problem of
Becomes Serious ; New DormiRadio From Three Illinois
tory for Girls Uncompleted
Stations

Kentucky Kernel Installs New Pressfy,
Now Has Its Complete Printing

Fhst

Greatest Year in History of
Institution After Registra-

Band Room Redecorated

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ROYAL WELCOME NUMBER BREAKS
IS PLANNED FOR ALL RECORDS OF
KENTUCKY 'GANG' 0RMER SESSIONS
University Opens Probably
Fnns Who Go to Chicago WiP

M. C. A. Publishes 1800
Copies of 1925 Handbook

On Monday tho Y. M. and Y. W.
more popjilarly
A. handbooks,
Bibles" jiiade
known as "Freshman
npponranco on tho campus1 and
their
distributed to the student body
were
of the university. Eighteen hundred
handbooks were printed and distrib-

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uted this year.
Frank K. Hoover is the editor and
Johiv Owon the business manager of
this year's "Bible," which contains in
articles by
addition to welcoming
Prosidont McVey and the "V" presidents, suggestions for freshmen, university songs and facts, and a complete diary for the scholastic yoa'
One hundred and ilft
four pages in all comprise the book.
This was the first year that the
handbook was printed in Lexingtui,
J. M. Burns being the printer. It' is
also a noteworthy fact that this year
the handbooks wero out on time.
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KENTUCKY

ALUMNI NEWS
WHO KNOWS?
Wo lmvo reached the
"
of
n senson during which many
superstitions nro rnmpnnt nnd especially n time when there is no disposition on the part of the writer to exert himself where ho may avoid doing
so; not to get unduly "hot up." Wo fancy this also would he the general disposition down in Dayton, especially around the middle of July, for wc Imp- jif ii iu kiiuw suniuuiuig ui summer temperatures in mat section 01 mc
country. Yet wc venture n guess that never heforc were the good folk
of Dayton and Tennessee so "hot up;" never before did they perspire so much;
never before did they exert themselves so much as during the trinl of
the schoolmaster, Scopes. And all for what? Why the heating and sweat- ing and exerting? Why the columns daily coming out of Dayton and being
printed in the newspapers of the world? As one on the sidelines some
distance awny we have been trying to find rational answers to these questions.
Judged By a Sense of Humor
The cause at issue, as the lawyers would say, was a very simple one.
The legislature of Tennessee, presumably though some organized group influence, had passed a law forbidding the teaching of any theory of the creation of man "that denies the story of tho divine creation of man ns taught
in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower
order of animals." Scopes was charged with having violnted that statute.
He admitted that he had violated it. His conviction on that charge was
n foregone conclusion, nfter a jury composed almost entirely of "fundamentalists" had been selected.
But both the prosecution and, tho defense seemed to think a great deal
more than this simple violntion of a state law on trinl. To get the right
perspective, to view the whole proceeding calmly and rationally, it should be
judged by a sense of humor. As every one down in Dayton, and especially
those on the side of the prosecution, took themselves with deadly seriousness, none of them is competent to tell us really and simply what it was nil
obout. Perhaps u tolerant sense of humor may aid us in getting nt the solution of the whole matter.
From this viewpoint, ns we see it and we are not speaking irreverently
it was not a state statute, or the schoolmaster Scopes, or the Bible that was
on trial in Dayton. Though no one said so, perhaps no one there thought so.
consciously, a lot of puny creatures, some of them ranging high in the scale
of human experience and intelligence, had placed God or rather n conception of God on trinl. There was the conception of God ns interpreted
literally from the Bible by uncompromising fundamentalists. There was the
conception of God as held variously by those who believe in the evolutionary
theory of creation which is not of necessity at variance with anything in
Genesis. This is what was on trial down in Dayton in tho dog days of July
in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty five. And
this is what makes the trial humorous and warrants our judging of it by a
sense of humor.
Intolerance Also on Trial
From a serious point of view there was one other issue on trial, and that
issue was Intolerance. For is there had been no intolerance on either side
there would have been no such statute for Scopes to violate, no such trial,
no such bitterness in speech and action, no such scenes to stir the humor
of both gods and men. With this brief reference to the one really serious
phase of the trial the one phase, that is, that might be handled and
remedied solely through human agencies let us return to the considerations
that come to us through the exercise of a tolerant sense of humor.
As God or human conception of God was on trial, let us see what prospect there was of the matter being settled before a court of law and twelve
jurymen. The Bible tells us that God is a spirit. It also says that man
was created in His image. As no two human minds have exactly the same
conception of what a spirit is like or what a spirit is, and as no two human
beings are either mentally or physically exactly alike in every particular, or
in any one particular, it must be obvious that no body of men can tell us
definitely just what God is or what He is like. Each one has his own conception of God, therefore the most and the best we may hope to do is
to draw a line and an extremely indefinite line at that between those
who believe there is a Supreme Intelligence who, "in the beginning created;!'
and those who deny the existence of such Intelligence.
The Bible and Science
Even the Bible gives us no exact description or definition of God. .As
various men at widely various times set down what we now accept: as
the Bible it is natural to find in that book varying conceptions and definitions
of God. And this indefiniteness and variation apply as well to the biblical
story of the creation, including that of man.
There are two accounts of the creation of man in the book of Genesis,
and either one may be used to support the fundamentalist conception of a
special, immediate, fiat creation of man, or the development of man, physically, mentally, and spiritually through the process of evolution, or gradual
unfolding and progression. Scientific evolution, embracing the evolution
of man as well as of all other created things, is in no sense in conflict with
the Bible to one who keeps alive a sense of humor and uses such intelligence as he may have developed.
The fundamentalist who quotes the twenty-thir- d
Psalm, and finds
in it the best of food for his belief in God, should not be unmindful of the
who wrote, "The Lord is my shepherd, 1
fact that the same philospher-poe- t
shall not want," also wrote:
"My substance was not hid from Thee, when I was made in secret
and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see
my substance, yet being imperfect; and in Thy book all my members were
written wheh in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of
them."
Was David inspired when he wrote the twenty-thir- d
Psalm, and unin
spired when he wrote the 139th? Could we have a better definition of scien
tific evolution than that just given? Stripped of its poetic form, that quo
tation from the 139th Psalm is as complete and "inspired" biblical authority
for the truth of scientific evolution as "And the Lord God formed
man of the dust of the ground," is biblical authority that man was created
instantly and specially as we now see him, and never was or never will be
subject to the unfolding processes by which every other created thing was
brought into existence.
One Historical Parallel
To bring out more strongly the humorous viewpoint in such matters
as that under observation, let us drop back about a century to the town
of Lancaster, Ohio, for something parallel to the Dayton trial and the Tenn
essee statute. The school board of Lancaster had refused to allow certain
"liberals" to use the school house, and an ancient document gives the .rea
son as follows:
"You are welcome to use tho schoolhouse to debate all proper questions
in, but such things as railroads and telegraphs are impossibilties and rank
infidelity. There is nothing in the word of God about them. If God had
designed that His intelligent creatures should travel at the frightful speed
JHUI.-U1
uii uuur uy Biuum, nc woum nave clearly foretold it by His
noiy propnets. u is a uevice oi satan to lead immortal souls down to hell."
v,un you see a resemoiance uetween the foregoing and some
of the re
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is me one any
r,l
funnier than the other? A century k"r progress, if"!.'
of
of evolution, of public
school development, of world-wid- e
use of both the railroad and the telegraph, was not enough to prevent the Scopes' case.
Six tablets, stenciled in clay and dug up in the valley of the Euphrates
not far from where the Garden of Eden was supposed to have been by
the way tell us that some four thousand years ago tho inhabitants of thnt
vuuey nuu somewnut me same scientinc-religou- s
controversy ns that now
vmunuig puunc uuenuon in mis country.
The result of that conflict was a compromise a hint for the present-da- y
conversationalists? It was agreed that man first existed as un animal
that walked on all fours and ate grass. Then the gods stepped in and created
two patrons one of cereals and one of flocks. And through these two
man
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example for us nearly two thousand years ago and which some of our religionists nre doing their best to bury under n lond of bigotry, intolerance,
and ignorance.
The Few Needed Things
As far as fundamentalism and modernism nre concerned nil that wo need
to know, nnd to accept, is this: "In the beginning, God created." How or
when He created or by what processes He is developing His plan and purpose need not concern us overmuch.
Whether man has come through evolution from n single cell or n single
electron, cither one endowed by tho Creator with nil tho necessary powers
and laws for His purpose; or whether ho wns created spectacularly nnd instantly ns n specini and separate creation, makes not nn atom of difference.
It is what he does with what ho hos thnt counts.
In our efforts to foster education of our youth In itself n process
of evolution, or unfolding, or drawing out the main thing is not to bar
nny source of truth or possible truth nnd to fit tho young to tnko care of
themselves nnd to live in harmony with their fellows everywhere.
What the world needs most is kindness, broad tolerance, unfailing
frnnkness, nnd light abundance of light. And these arc the things
to be taught in our schools, to bo preached in our churches, to be lived
in our daily contact one with another.
A
sense of humor thnt will keep us from taking ourselves too seriously; that will look charitably on the differing views of others
nnd not too earnestly on our own, would be about the most valuable thing
thnt could be recommended ns a univorsnl pnnnccn for n universal disease.
"Who knows but what I make my cat more sport than she makes me?"
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