Vol. 5.
50^ Quarterly,
Friday, July 24 th. , 1925. - - - -vk 1 No1;9^.
$2.00 Yearly.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A sharp earthquake was felt throughout the San Francisco Bay
region last Sunday forenoon. No damage is reported. The tremor
was plainly perceptible in San Francisco and Oakland and shook
buildings along the Peninsula south of San Francisco as far as San
Jose, fifty miles. Worshipers ran from the churches. The tremor
was also felt at Valejo, 30 miles north. Monday the tremors had
completely subsided although momentary alarm is occasioned.
Sunday forenoon an earthquake was felt in Great Falls and
Helena, Tontana, but beyond stopping clocks in business houses no
serious damage was reported. The tremor was not felt by pedestrians
but was plainly perceptible by those in buildings.
The "fundamental bedrock of liberty is tolerance", declared
Clarence Harrow, counsel for the defense in the Scopes trial at
Dayton, Tenn. , last week. He declared it is a trial for the Phas
er vat ion of tolerance rather than the theory of evorlution.
"Hothing”, he stated, "exemplifies intolerance more concisely
and clearly than the law under which Scopes is being tried".
William Jennings Bryan, in a statement declared, that the
Scopes evolution case uncovered a conspiracy against the Bible and
Christianity. He said multitudes have been deceived by the use of
the term evolution, that their eyes are now opening. Evolution as
taught by the scientists is an imaginary process wholly unproved,
that begins with life but it does not attempt to explain life. He
said that "if the evolutionary hypothesis is true, man has come up
through animals below him by a cruel law under which the strong
killed off the weak.
Kirtley F.Mather, Chairman of the Department of Geology, of
Harvard, said at the Scopes trial,"that the Bible is the text book
of religion, not biology, astronomy or geology. It is exactly the
biblical spiritual truth concerning God which rings clearly and un
mistakably through the theory or thesfic. Evolution with its mod
ern science is in perfect accord. The Bible does not state the
world was made 6,000 years ago. Concerning the length, the early
history of the Bible is absolutely silent. Science may conclude the
earth is 100,000 or 100,000,000 years old. Conclusion does not
affect the Bible."
United States Senator Charles Curtis, of Kansas, visited
President Coolidge at Swampscott, Liass. 9 last week for a three day
conference, and told the president he believed a tax reduction of
$300,000,000 was possible and further said taxes might be reduced
$500,000,000 if reorganization of government departments are brought
about to prevent duplication.
Senator Curtis gave an optimistic report on farm conditions
and asserted good prices and crops was giving satisfaction to far
mers generally. The President is vacationing at Swampscott.