THEORY OF EVOLUTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15, 19 January 1926, Page 7

THEORY OF EVOLUTION.

IMPERIAL WIZARD ACTIVE. AN OPPOSING ORGANISATION. NEW YORK, January IS. An international organisation to combat the teaching of the theory of evolution in the schools has been found at Atlanta. •> Mr. Edward Y. Clarke, formerly Imperial Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan, will direct the organisation. He said yesterday that he expected by August bureaux would have beea established in England, Australia, and Canada. All would be under the jurisdiction of the Atlanta Association, and neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Klan. Mr. Clarke said: "We are formulating plans which will be definitely announced shortly. They will include the banishment from every Grammar school, high school, and university in the world of any teacher who expounds the Darwinian theory. "We are proceeding on our knowledge that the doctrine is an experimental theory which is not proved by hypothesis. To teach such a doctrine as a proven fact is, we consider, the acme of dangerous teaching." ■It is proposed to establish local organisations in every town and city in the United States.

Mr. Clarke and his followers decry the rapid drift of the masses away from the old-time religion, and all laud thee memory of the late Mr. W. J. Bryan. The organisation intends to erect headquarters at Atlanta at a cost of £100.000. and to instal a powerful wireless station for th dishsemination of its ideas.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)