oc-plain-dealer 1923-01-26

BRYAN AND THE PROFESSORS A few days ago I noticed a report of a speech in Chicago ranting about evolution and the professors who uphold the doctrine. I have a good deal of sympathy for the person who honestly falls to understand the content of the idea of evolution, but I can scarcely avoid contempt for the fanatic who strenuously insists that people are all wrong and maliciously wrong merely because they dare to believe differently from what he does. So far as my own attitude toward the church is concerned, the Bryan type of member has done more than any other one thing to make it disagreeable to me and to drive me from it. So far as my religious views are concerned I may also say that the same kind of people have given me more difficulty than any other influence. I am sure that many other people have been affected the same way. The religious views which I have finally developed are worth as much to me as Bryan's are to him and it is altogether probable that I would make more personal sacrifice in following them than he would even think of doing for his. One of the most enthusiastic supporters of evolution whom I have ever seen was one of the most honestly and profoundly religious persons whom I have ever known. I have seen many of the frothy type. He was as different as the deep river is different from the shallow torrent. He talked religion a great deal because he was living it and the talk was as natural as his walking. He was a college professor drawing the meager salary of six hundred dollars per year and he was a "little dried up man" such as Bryan sneeringly mentions, but he always appeared calm, always smiling and always trying to be helpful. He spent much of his life collecting specimens from all over the world and in building up a magnificent little museum which gave to the college and for which he never received any appreciable remuneration. He was not even able to provide for his family at his death. In the days of Job and Jere-miah the people were troubled by self-righteous individuals who sneered at poverty and spread the ideas that a poor man was in poverty because he was forsaken of God. Nor does he give heed to Christ's admonition to the young man (or ruler) who asked the way to Eternal Life and was told to sell all he had and give it away. I have never heard of Bryan doing anything but get. I have never heard of his giving. Furthermore, if he knows anything about the third chapter of James he gives no evidence of that knowledge. If he can ignore parts of the Bible which are not to his liking why cannot a college professor or a high school teacher do likewise? He should not be so sure that the scientist may not be able to find in the Bible itself a better God than he has shown to be there. Contrary to ample evidence, Bryan persists in saying that evolution is on a guess. That is pure misrepresentation. I have not space to discuss it except the mention one point connected with his pet aversion, the monkey. As has been said over and over again, no scientist claims that man is descended from monkeys (what harm if he were) but that both monkeys (and apes) and men are descended from the same ancestors. Darwin did not know and the devout professor whom I mentioned did not know what seems to me the most convincing proof imaginable that man and monkeys are akin. That is that their blood, body fluids and tissues are so nearly alike that they are very little poisonous to each other, perhaps no more in some cases than those of different types of men. It is only in recent years that scientists have shown conclusively that ape blood is so nearly like human blood that some of it can be introduced into human veins without serious injury, that monkey blood is a little more different and a little more injurious and that lower animals show more and more evil effects on mixture of bloods the fartler they are from kinship to man. In the last year or two the newspapers have made it well known that some... because he was living it and the talk was as natural as his walking. He was a college professor drawing the meager salary of six hundred dollars per year and he was a "little dried up man" such as Bryan sneeringly mentions, but he always appeared calm, always smiling and always trying to be helpful. He spent much of his life collecting specimens from all over the world and in building up a magnificent little museum which gave to the college and for which he never received any appreciable remuneration. He was not even able to provide for his family at his death. I would not exchange his influence in and through the lives of his pupils for that of a thousand Bryans. Like most other bigots who attempt to discuss this question Bryan abuses Darwin. A more mild mannered, inoffensive and painfully careful man than Darwin never lived. He was so careful in gathering material and in forming conclusions that he could and did state objections to his own suggestions more accurately than his opponents could do. But he was a seeker for truth and he followed truth as he saw it after sifting evidence as no other man ever did. Darwin was largely a compiler of information received from all over the world. He did not originate the idea of evolution which is as old as authentic history. He simply took the fists bearing on it and put them into a meaningful order. The outstanding characteristic of Darwin as a man was his love for truth. Bryan makes a blanket statement that evolutionists or scientists are atheists. The most charitable view to take of this is that he assumes that he is the only one who has a correct idea of God and that those who have a different view are atheists because they deny the only God which he can understand. By any view he stands convicted of蓄慝 falsehood. But Bryan's God is a little, plea-yune-god, afraid of truth, afraid of the light, too weak to protect himself and his cause and therefore dependent upon the forensic thunders of the oratorical champion. The scientist, who has been taught to think, he has been taught regard for truth and who has seen something of the operation of the awful forces of nature is not satisfied with any such god as that. He must believe in a God who becomes Revelation (who points the way to truth, who sways the universe in faultless rhythm and who beckons man to harmonious participation in infinite progressions. Bryan talks gibly about the Bible but there is little indication that he follows it any more listerially than the scientists whom he so rabily villifies. If he knew much about the Old Testament he would know that Final Clean-Up Final Clean-Up of WINTER COATS 1/2 PRICE Big reduction on Silk and Wool Dresses. New Spring Merchandise Arriving Daily Style Shop 105 W. Center St. Anaheim Don't get discouraged if you take a tumble now and then. Remember, an angle-worm is about the only creature that 'can't' fall down."—Select-ed. HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT BILL I The United States country. If that there are less than 1,309,000 a year, and the roasters and do about $180,000 amount taken each year to porters for the lows as an average U.S. not fee per annum. These figures but are close to estimate of the city of the United GETTING There is a who has the r nearest fence-fession, a ma xious to concl A measure marked divis about to come "Will the bill if it com member, almil gressman in The latter let the house to answered: "I will—" Immediately into a storm of the member heard, he con "—not—" The other roar and the "Answer th LATEST PARIS FASHION GLAND COCKTAIL LATEST DELICACY LONDON, Jan. 22. — Monkey glands in a cocktail! That is the latest contribution of a London bartender to the science of restoring youth. Romanos, fashionable American bar, is advertising a "Monkey Gland" cocktail, guaranteed to renew the springtime-youthman complex. The head shaker is reticent as to the ingredients of the concoction, but it is understood that the ethereal essence of glandular rejuvenation is surrounded with Italian vermouth and dry gin. The whole is poured into an ordinary cocktail shaker and with a few deft motions and the repetition of three mystic words the pepotion is ready. Grandpops and rheumatic oldsters have been seen emerging from the bar with unaccustomed light in their eyes and striking vigor in their walk. A marble stairway leads to the place where these wonderful restorers may be had. Men who spend a whole minute painfully making their way to the lower level accomplish the ascent in one leap. BRITISH BREWERS BRIGHTEN “BARS” LONDON, Jan. 22. — Rev. Billy Sunday never intended his song, "Brighten the Corner Where You Are," to become the slogan for brewers, but British brewers have taken his advice. There is a campaign on foot to brighten up the British public houses. The brewers are going to make the "pub" more home-like and most respectable. "The idea is," said Maj. Charles Perkins, director of Messra. Barlay & Perkins, "to erect in conjunction with the usual hotel amenities, a place where a man can sit with his wife and children in decent surroundings, and where the bar will not occupy the dominant place it does today." "It will be possible for women or children to have tea or milk as they wish, and to peruse the magazines. We hope to have garments and perhaps roof gardens." "A new feature is the supplying of food, where the wife of a workingman will be able upon a busy day to send for her family's dinner at midday, only heating in the gas stove." Oil Field News In the Bandini district there seems to be some real difficulty experienced in the matter of shutting off water. The Fullerton Oil Co. has tried seven times to effect a water shut off on the Brick-yard well and each attempt failed. The department of oil and gas has consented to allow the Fullerton Oil Co. to proceed with drilling, and the work is going ahead nicely at 3600 feet. Drilling on the Pomona Oil Co.'s wildcat well south of Pomona has reached 5025, the showings are not extra encouraging. A lot of formation has been passed thru that is not foreign to oil, but seemingly does not carry any oil. The Pomona Oil Co. has made every effort to get production and have reached a point where it is hard to decide whether to go ahead or abandon. WORLD'S LARGEST CHAIN DEPARTMENT STORE ORGANIZATION This Is Our AMERICAN BELLS RINGING IN FRANCE PARIS, Jan. 25.—The chimes of American bells are heard these day-in devastated regions of northern France. They were given by the "Angelus Funi" in memory of Americans and wellknown Frenchmen who lost their lives in the late war and replace the old bells taken by the Germans to be melted into cannon. For several years hundreds of villages have been without bells which play a very important part in the community life of France. They ring for new babies and they ring when they marry and again when they die. Of all the material losses sustained by the French peasants, probably not one was felt more acute than the disappearance of the bells. NOT WHAT YOU HAVE, BUT WHAT YOU DO NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—Henry A. Dix, 73-year-old enlightened employer, who cut his own salary from $45,00 to 50 cents and turned over his $1,000,000-a year business to his employees, hopes that other employers will follow his lead. His sacrifice entailed the passing up of his son's birthright to the prospering dress factory. But Mark Dix, 42 was willing. "Happiness," he says, "is not what you have, but what you do." So father and son worked out all the details of the transfer of the business which was 30 years in developing. Now it is in the hands of their several hundred employees, who will pay for their stock out of the profits of the company. MIGHT HAVE WON HAD SHE TOLD TRUTH They finished up their wedding tour at Monte Carlo, and, of course, paid a visit to the Casino. For some time they stood hesitating before one of the tables, and at last the temptation to try her luck proved too strong for the lady. "I must risk one $5 bill, dear," she said to her husband. "Do give me one, and I will put it on the number of my age." "Hubby" was inclined to be skeptical, but after much grumbling he handed over the note, which was duly deposited on No. 24. Alas, No. 29 proved to be the win- STORE ORGANIZATION This Is Our White Goo Linen, Domestics, Save Money This Week! We Now Fe An Enormous Pr A N early o Damash was at At This is an of dependable present and th to which we h early White Go BLEACHED HONOR MUSLIN (J. C. Penney Co. Brand) After months of earnest effort to produce grade and finish of "bleached" muslin which would permit affixing the J. C. Penney Company label, our buyers have been extremely successful. In offering our own branded HONOR Muslin it is with our full recommendation. We are confident you will agree with us that its excellent quality makes it the best muslin on the market at the price. Be sure to ask for J. C. Penney Co. HONOR Muslin, ak, per yard HUGE ANNUAL COFFEE BILL FOR AMERICA The United States is a coffee drinking country. It is roughly estimated that there are imported into the U.S. about 1,309,000,000 pounds of coffee a year, and that wholesale dealers, roasters and distributors pay for it about $180,000,000, which is the amount taken out of this country each year to pay growers and importers for the coffee we use. This allows as an average to each person in the U.S. not quite 12 pounds of coffee per annum. These figures are necessarily crude but are close enough to give us an estimate of the coffee drinking capacity of the United States. GETTING BOTH SIDES There is a certain congressman who has the reputation of being the neatest fence-straddler in the profession, a man who is always anxious to concoctate everybody. A measure, on which there was a marked division of opinions, was about to come up. "Will the gentleman vote for this bill if it comes up?" demanded a member, aiming a finger at the congressman in question. The latter looked from one side of the house to the other and slowly answered: "I will—" Immediately the opposition broke into a storm of booing. As soon as the member could make himself heard, he continued: ""not—" The other side was now in uproar and the speaker added hastily: "Answer that question." BLEACHED HONOR MUSLIN (J. C. Penney Co. Brand) After months of earnest effort to produce grade and finish of "bleached" muslin which would permit affixing the J. C. Penney Company label, our buyers have been extremely successful. In offering our own branded HONOR Muslin it is with our full recommendation. We are confident you will agree with us that its excellent quality makes it the best muslin on the market at the price. Be sure to ask for J. C. Penney Co. 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Billy ded his song, er Where You the slogan for brewers have sign on foot to British public are going to home-like and Id Maj. Charles Messrs. Baro erect in conual hotel amena man can sit children in decent here the bar will minant place it for women or or milk as they the magazines a lens and pers is the supplying wife of a workupon a busy day family's dinner at in the gas stove BEAR IS GAME, NOT A MENACE DENVER, Jan. 26.—The bear will soon be classified as a game animal rather than as a carnivorous destructive beast, if the efforts of J. A. McGuire, editor of Outdoor Life, are successful. Mr. McGuire, through the medium of the magazine, has started an intensive fight this winter to have laws passed protecting the bear. The fight is the culmination of 20 years of effort by the editor to educate the sportmen of the country to the fact that the bear is in reality a game animal. TALKING TO THE SOAP Mrs. Davis—"I heard you talking to yourself while you were taking your bath, John. That's a bad custom." Mr. Davis—"I wasn't talking to myself; I was talking to the soap. I slipped on it and fell."—Exchange. or oven being necessary before it is ready for the table. "What we want to do is to give the public a better class of refreshment room." DEAD CHINAMEN OF SMALL VALUE LONDON, Jan. 26.—A dead Chinaman is worth $140 in the eyes of British insurance appraisers. Mandarins come higher, $235, being the current quotation in the London insurance market. Lloyds, the famous English insurance house which issues policies against almost everything from rain to twins, recently effected insurance at the above-quoted rates on a consignment of dead Chinamen in tinned cases from Boston to Hong Kong. The deceased orientals were covered against total loss only. Diner—"Bill, please?" Walter—"What did you have?" Diner—"Goodness knows! I orderer hashed beef."—Exchange. Old Scot—"Dinna cry, ma wee ladie! If ye dinna find yer penny after dark, here's match!"—Wayside Tales. 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