AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1925, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

iAustralia *V N.X. (able Association.] BIBLK-LVSCHOOLS. I'.S.A. SEN’S At lON. NEW YOLK, July 8. A message from Dayton, Tennessee, states: —"The two thousand population of this rural town is expected to he augmented live-fold, temporarily, during the trial, beginning on Friday 10th. inst.. of John Scopes, a young teacher of biology, who w ill be charged that he taught the Darwinian theory of evolution in violation of the recent Tennessee Stale statute forbidding in-

struction on any matters contrary to the letter of the Bible on tbe subject of creation. Scopes voluntarily submitted himself to arrest, doing so, for the purpose of testing the validity of the statute. A number of eminent scientists arc expected to testify the truth of the theory of evolution. Scopes alleged that- the statute violates the Fourteenth Amendment of the American Constituion, forbidding any abridgement of the privleges and immunities, or the deprivation ol the liberty or of property of the citizens •> the United States by any individual states. 'There is an imposing array, of counsel, including Air Clarence Harrow, of Chicago, who defended the murderers, Leopold and Loch; and Air Bainbridge, the Secretary of State in Wilson’s cabinet, who contends that it is impossible for Scopes to include the theory of evolution tn the teaching of biology. There is also the contention that the prohibition of such teaching imperils Schopes’s livelihood. The prosecution is headed by Air William Jennings Bryan (the noted Democratic politician) in conjunction with prominent churchmen, who are working for legislation against the Darwinian theory in all the States.

TilK BUM FLEET. OBDEB FOB A BATTLE. NEW YOB K, July 7. A telegram from Swampskott, in Massachusetts, states; "President Coolidge lias ordered the- coast patrol to attack a, lleei of the rum runners that is plainly visible from the President’s summer residence here. General Andrews, the chief of flic prohibition enforcement forces, is cutteetitrat ing his guardsmen both alloat and ashore to prevent, ilte bootleggers’ sliip.s from supplying Boston and the manufacturing towns in Massachusetts. President Coniidgo t- expected ti. recommend a large appropriation for drv law enforcement in ihc event of the failure of this attack. Swampskott is a favourite haunt for the smugglers, due to the number of its hays and inlets. A three thousand-dullur liquor cache was recently discovered in an unoccupied house adjoining the President’s own, resulting in the arrest of tin’ Chief of Police at Swampskott.

WEALTH CoNSCBI I’TIUN. NEW YORK. -Ini;, 7. Mr Bernard Baruch, lormer’y t'baiiman of the War fmlu.-irms Board, has donated 2-10.000 dollars for research for a method to remove profits from war. through the conscription oi wealth. The fund is to he administered by Mr Walter Hines, of the Page School of International Delations, connected with the John Hopkins University. All- Baruch lias for a long time advocated the conscription of wealth and industry during war lime, as a deterrent to the jingoes in peace time. He believes such a measure would be a powerful agency in preventing war. The Page School, for the purpose of research into the causes of war, was founded in the memory of the United Stales War-time Ambassador in England.