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Back in the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, we were taught that it is not good newspaper style to make a title of an occupation. Yet in TIME, May 18, Page 16, column 3, I read: "Teacher Scopes," "Evolutionist Scopes." Were Professor Silas Bent, now on the staff of The New York Times Sunday magazine section, and Professor Charles G. Ross, now chief Washington correspondent for The Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, wrong when they gave us fledgling journalists such advice...
...high-school professor is arraigned under that state's new anti-evolution law for having "taught evolution" from a biologic text-book previously approved by the state authorities (TIME, May 18), the forces of light and darkness ranged themselves for conflict. George W. Rappelyea, Dayton coal man and evolutionist, who preferred charges against Prof. Scopes to test the law's constitutionality, marshaled funds for the defense, announced that, in addition to many eminent scientists who had offered assistance and testimony, the services of Herbert George Wells, British outliner of history, would be sought. Counsel for Prof. Scopes accepted...
...Evolutionist Scopes was arrested, held for the grand jury. His counsel, led by Dr. John R. Neal, lately deposed evolutionist Dean of the Law School at Tennessee University, gave notice that they would fight the law's constitutionality. It was understood that the defense would be supported, even unto the Supreme Court, by the American Civil Liberties Union...
...schools, many states will hire no teachers who believe in evolution, while not a few states require by law that the King James Bible with its account of the creation in the Book of Genesis shall be read an taught. Similarly appalling is the list of states where anti-evolutionist laws like that of Tennessee are pending. Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, West Virginia, Arkansas, California, lowa, Illiginia, North Dakota, Minnesota, Oregon, and Arizona...
William Jennings Bryan, well known politician and anti-evolutionist will come to the University on May 15 to speak on "Evolution...