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Tar Heel Manufacturer Suggests Reservation Monkey Mentalities Calls the Simian Conference Planned for His Own State by Bryan—Harrow et al a Travesty on Law MOCKERY OF RELIGION, BURLESQUE ON SCIENCE BY JOHN E. EDGERTON of Nashville, Tenn. President, National Association of Manufacturers Mr. Edgerton is a native Johnsto nian whose home was at Kenly. Ma ny of our readers will recall an arti cle which we republished from Suc cess Magazine sometime ago concern ing the success of Mr- Edgerton. His views concerning the Scopes trial are equally as interesting, and his home county folks will appreciate reading the article below. (Mr. Edgerton, president of the National Association of Manufactur ers, is one of the leading Methodist laymen of the country. For years he has been active in religious work, as well as in great business enterprises. His wolen mill i.n Tennessee is one of the very few industrial plants in this country where all the employees gather every morning for a brief session of prayer before beginning their work.—Editor Manufacturers Record.) Niashville, Tenn., June 28.—Charg ed with having been primarily re sponsible for the World War and for all the other crimes and misdemean ors committed through all the ages by his alleged offspring, the monkey goes on trial at the town of Dayton, Tennessee, in the alleged month of July of the year of our alleged Lord nineteen hundred and twenty-five He is to be prosecuted, defended and tried by his owln alleged children in the presence of an assembled throng of his self-confessed kinsmen who will be brought there either by their pride of ancestry or their evoluted snobbishness. To heighten the dra matic interest it is to be a masked affair and staged as “Science versus Religion.” Science is to be imperson ated by Clarence Darrow, who, it is alleged, was hand-picked by the Civil Liberties Union because it is claimed that he is possessed of the uncanny power to convince any judge or jury anywhere at any time of anything. He is to prosecute the monkey and is to be assisted by others of like men tal attitude. Religion is to be volun tarily impersonated by William Jen nings Bryan and other lesser lights who are to defend the monkey in his efforts to disprove kinship with the human species in its present degen erated state. It is further alleged that the only consideration for the services of the principals in the dra ma is a guarantee that their names shall appear on the front page of ev ery .newspaper in America in every issue from signing of contract until play is entirely over. The actual mon ey proceeds of the show are to be split, according to rumor, among the lemonade and popcorn venders of Dayton, the newspapers of (he nation and the alleged Union of those clam oring for freedom from the restraint of all law, civil and moral, except the unwritten laws of the forest, whence, they aver, they originally came. Would not this be a splendid oppor tunity for the government to estab lish a reservation for the segregation and treatment of its mental dere Met?? It will be perhaps a long time before so many of them will be caught together and identified again; for it now appears that many of the leaders in the school of erratic thought concerning our Constitution, our Bible and science will be in Day ton during the trial. Why not keep them there as public charges? Nobo dy would object to the necessary tax ation for the purpose. The Indians have never given us much reason for such colonization and treatment; for it is not as much of a crime to scalp men or otherwise torture them physically as it is to undermine the foundations of their faith in the infi nite power, love, and justice of their Creator, or to try to stop or deflect the processes of cultural development even though it be regarded as a mark of civilization, Yes. it is going to be a big show, it will be a great rally day for the free thinkers, loose thinkers, and non thinkers. The vocational fundamen talist and the professional modernist will be there. The political and reli gious half-breeds will be there. The walking delegates of agnosticism, atheism, communism, and bolshevism will be there. Everything will be represented except science and reli gion. The forecast is that no pre vious occasion in history will have ever drawn together at one time a more impressive managerie of hu man exhibits of the monkey’s prime / val waywardness. @ Yet, what a travesty upon law, a mockery of religion, and a burlesque on science it will be! How the spirits of both Moses and Darwin must be stinging with humiliation! Hell and the Soviet will both probably declare a holiday; and the flags in the Val halla of the immortals will be at half mast. The jungles of Africa and the pagan thickets of the unchristianized orient will no doubt await news of the verdict with anxiety on the one hand and amused interest on the other. Such a spectacle as turning an arena for publicity seekers with warped mentalities and a parade ground for freaks, fanatics and fools ought to be impossible in the coun try that gave John Marshall to im mortal fame. The so-called anti-evo lution act should never have been passed, and those who passed it did themselves and their constituencies poor credit. But having been passed, the man who deliberately violates it for whatever purpose, and those who defend his brazen defiance of the sta tute can have little or no quarrel with any other self-appointed choos ers of laws that they will or will not obey. No lexicographer: has yet de fined a good law-alfiding citizen as one who obeys only those laws which he sanctions. And herein, let it be emphasized, lies America’s greatest menace today—the popular contempt in which many of its laws and much of its constituted authority are held. It is not simply the fact of the con tempt itself that constitutes the menace, but the sympathetic and syn thetic apologies made for it by many people and journals occupying influ ential positions of leadership who preach directly or by implication the anarchistic doctrine that it is alt right to disregard those laws with which one may Ik* .in disagreement, as to their wisdom. In these days of distempered, ex treme thought, the most of which car ries keen edges and sharp points for all adversaries, the sane, level-headed good American occupies a difficult position. He is faced by those who apparently want no law and who coinstrue liberty as the unabridged and unrestrained right of every person to think and act as he pleases without reference to what anybody else may think, do or wish. He is bay onetted from the rear by those who think that all physical, mental moral and spiritual operations, habits and moods should be dictated by law and regulated and controlled by the gov ernment. He is flanked on one side by a group who stand transfixed by the theory that if they move forward a step from where they were left by their fathers they will plunge over a precipice to destruction, and an the other by a restless horde who believe that anything that is or has been is all wrong and that all things should be changed because nothing can be changed except with better results Hence, that person is safest .'now and most secure in his Americanism whc has no theory or opinion except those expressed by the silence of his tongue and the works of his hands, head and heart as they in unison turn the op portunities given him by his God and his country into the largest and most enduring values for both. When this talk fest and pubicity Clings to cylinder walls for hours or days or weeks, if need be. Whether your engine is run ning or not, a good oil must stay on the job ready to lubri cate at the first move of the motor. Here’s one that does. “STANDARD" MOTOR OILS ‘Based on over 50 years’ experience | stunt is over, the Bible will still live as the inspired word of God, and the truth will continue. And no one need be alarmed that any truth discovered by man, the creature, can overturn or undo that which is made manifest bj©his Creator. A science that con flicts with or denies the essential truths comprehended by Holy Writ and interpreted to man by the Author through the history of human expe rience is not true science, and any religion that denies the evolutionary principle in all life is not true reli gion. Let us sing with the poet: Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll, Leave the low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from Heaven with a dome more vast, Until thou, at length, art free, Leaving thine out-grown shell by life’s unresting sea. TUBERCULOSIS EDUCATION WORKER FOR NEGROES Sanatorium, July 2.—A colored wo man health worker, Florence C. Wil liams, of Raeligh, has been employee by the North Carolina Sanatorium a.nd the North Carolina Tuberculo sis Association to do tuberculosis ed ucational work among the colored people of North Carolina. Mrs. Williams has done health work in the South - for a num ber of years- For the past eighteen months she has been with the West Virginia State Board of Health. This summer she will teach tuberculosis and hygiene in the State and county summer schools for colored teachers After these schools close she wil work in cooperation with the colorec supervisors of schools, who are em ployed by the State Department oi Education. Dr. R. P. McCain, superintendent of the North Carolina Sanatorium speaking of the employment of the colored tuberculosis educational worker, said, “Negroes, for various reasons, delay treatment until the disease is too far gone to be cured. A health worker among the colored people to give information concern ing the disease and help detect ear ly cases and secure treatment for ;them, has been much needed in the State.” MRS. COOLIDGE HAS A NARROW ESCAPE Swampscott, Mass., July 3—Mrs. Coolidge barely escaped being run down by a motorcycle this morning during a walk about Swampscott, a leap to the side of the road saving her. , She was returning to White Court and had just turned into the private driveway when four members of the State constabulary on motorcycles turned into the lane behind her. Driv ing at a fast clip, according to wit nesses, the motorcycle officers were behind her almost before anyone was aware. The grinding brakes and a yell by James Haley, her secret ser vice man, gave Mrs- Coolidge her on ly warning and as she jumped to one j side of the riad the leading machine shot between her and Haley. The mo torcycle detachment, which was com ing to White Court to escort the President to Cambridge, proceeded to the summer White House without j stopping—Associated Press. Got His Money’s Worth After morning services the family dined, and churches and their proce sleep T o-nifht A good nights’ rest put you m shape for the days duties or pleasures. NervinE soothes irritated nerves and brings refreshing, restful sleep. Your money back if the first 'bottle falls to help ypvu dure came in for criticism. Father criticised the sermon. Mo ther disliked the blunders of the or ganist. The oldest daughter thought the choir’s singing whs atrocious. riut the subject had to be dropped when the small boy of the family ventured the remark. “Dad, I think it was a mighty good show for a nickel.” ARNOLD’S NOTES ON THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON for 1925 Just four copies left, now going at 50c per copy. THE HERALD BOOK STORE Smithfield, N. C. 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ATLAS I - PORTLAND CEMENT “ “The Standard by Which all other makes arc measured “Nash Leads the World in Motor Car Value” NASH enthusiasm is contagious JHE performance of NASH Cars, and the service ren dered by the NASH organization, are so satisfac tory to NASH owners that they experience keen delight in telling their friends to “Buy a Nash.” Every Nash Sells rrAnother Nash99 i Advanced Six, 5-passenger, $1540 delivered Nash Motor Davie & Blount Sts. Phone 2440 # Authorized Representative for Sales * Co. Raleigh, N. C. Johnston County •
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