TEACHING OF EVOLUTION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19691, 19 January 1926, Page 9

TEACHING OF EVOLUTION

SERBIA EXCITED. ORTHODOX CLERGY AROUSED. BELLICOSE FACTIONS AROUSED. (Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) BELGRADE, January 16. Serbia is becoming excited at the prospect of sharing with Dayton, Tennessee. the honour of holding a monkey affair which was started with a lecture by Professor Petronsivitch on the origin of man, based on scientific facts. The lecture aroused the orthodox clergy, and resulted in the formation of a village near Vranja of bellicose factions, one led by a schoolmaster named Karadjitch, the other by the priests. The latter brought an action claiming that the teaching of evolution Was an offence against religion, morality, and the State. M. Karadiitch declares that if he is convicted he will appeal to the Minister of Public Instruction. —Renter. ORGANISATION TO COMBAT. DARWINIAN THEORY BARRED. NEW YORK, January 18. (Received Jan. 18, at 9.30 p.m.) An international organisation to combat the teaching of the theory of evolution in schools has been founded in Atlanta. Mr Edward Young Clarke, formerly an Imperial Wizard of the Kn Klux Klan will direct the organisation, which as yet has not been named. Mr Clarke said he expected that by August bureaux will be established in England, Australia and Canada, all under the jurisdiction of the Atlanta Association. The movement is 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, hid school and university in the world of any teacher who expounds the Darwinian theory. We are proceeding on the knowledge that the doctrine is an experimental theory, and an unproved hypothesis. To teach such as a proven fact would be the acme of dangerous teaching.”—A. and N.Z. Cable. COMPREHENSIVE ORGANISATION. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN LANDED. NEW YORK, January 18. (Received Jan. 18, at 11.5 p.m.) The an! Revolutionists’ p’ans call for local organisation in every town and city of t'm United States. Mr Clarke’s follower? have decried a rapid drift of the masses away from the old time religion and all lauded the memory of Bryan and contemplate the erection of half a million dollar headquarters at Atlanta, -md the installing of a powerful radio staton for th© dissemination of their ideas.-—A. as-c N.Z. Cable.