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Arkansas follows Tennessee on the monkey-trial subject. Apparently a proposed anti-evolution teaching law is to be voted on there next month. But at Little Rock a day or so ago, Charles Smith, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, agitating against that law, was arrested for violating a city ordinance prohibiting the use of the name of the diety except in "veneration or worship". He was tried on the different charge of disturbing the peace, and fined for distributing printed material "calculated to provoke a breach of the peace". Rather than pay the fine...
...Switzerland, last week, there was a sudden muffled roar in the Arbedo Valley. The tip of Monte Arbino, 9,000 feet above the level of the sea, was seen to quiver. One rock, then another, bounced and skidded down the mountain's side. Finally the whole peak slid clumsily into the surrounding valley. A huge cloud of dust spouted upward, for several days hung heavily over the scene of the avalanche...
...University of California, Professor Charles Bernard Lipman, plant physiologist, took a chunk of pre-Cambrian rock. The piece came from Canada. Geologists considered it 100 to 200 million years old. Professor Lipman split the chunk and from the fractured surfaces scraped what he hoped were primeval microbes...
Within this region, on the Rock River estate of Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican nominee for Illinois Congress-man-at-large, her Holstein herd graze. Prof. George W. Cavanaugh of Cornell University secured permission to subject those Rock River cows to an experimental diet. Since July11 they have become epicures among cows, familiar with rare seasoning. Their ordinary feed has been powdered with seaweed rich in iodine...
...Lanier, is the Secretary and Treasurer of the Review of Reviews; the Laniers live in Greenwich, Conn. The Lanier girls began to ride horses as soon as they could walk; pictures of them jumping at the Stamford Show, standing beside their ponies at Westchester, watching the hunters at Piping Rock, began many years ago to appear in Rider and Driver, Town and Country, and the chatter supplements of Manhattan newsrags. Sally, two years younger than Becky, began to play polo before her sister, when organized polo for women was an absurd novelty. Becky started to play two years ago; both...