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Aransas Pass Progress
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
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TEXANS GET GOOD LAUGH OUT OF “MONKEY TRIAL
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ican Civil Liberties Union
as defense counsel. William
Jennings Bryan, three-time
presidential candidate and an
outspoken
agreed to act as prosecutor
at the request of the Worlds
Christian Fundamental Asso-
ciation.
horde of reporters, true believ-
ers and curiosity seekers. The
Morning News in rival Dallas
pronounced the proceedings
“a spectacle for the delecta-
tion of the flippant and the
consternation of the saints,”
while the Austin American
called the proceedings “too ri-
diculous for words.” The cor-
respondent for the Houston
Post-Dispatch described the
surrealistic scene as a combi-
nation of “law, ballyhoo, reli-
gion and photography.”
The Galveston Daily News
joined small-town weeklies
in rallying around the belea-
guered Bryan, who came off
as a bewildered buffoon in
his battle with the razor-sharp
Darrow. The island paper also
expressed the opinion held by
many Texans that the north-
ern press and eastern intellec-
tuals were using the trial as a
convenient excuse to ridicule
all southerners as Bible Belt
bumpkins.
Religious leaders through-
out Texas were nearly unani-
mous in their opposition to
the Darwin doctrine. The
pastor of the First Meth-
odist Church in Austin at-
tacked evolution on scientific
grounds by contending that
its supporters would have to
“take a horse, lift it out of its
species and make it a cow,
bridging the gap between the
two species in development.”
The Catholic bishop of San
Antonio repeated the same
theme with his insistence that
evolution was not a fact but an
hypothesis.
A Baptist minister in Dal-
las warned that acquittal for
Scopes would produce “a gen-
eration of infidels” in 20 years.
“Evolution is a tool of the dev-
il spewed up from out of the
bottomless pit to destroy the
Bible and drag Gods people
down to destruction.”
J. Frank Norris, the fun-
damentalist firebrand from
Fort Worth expelled from the
Southern Baptist Convention
in 1924, pledged not to stand
idly by while the ungodly tried
to “ram down the throats of
Southern Baptists that hell-
born, Bible-destroying, deity-
of-Christ-denying,
rationalism known as evolu-
tion.”
Scopes was found guilty
and fined $100. His conviction
was reversed on a technicality,
but the Genesis law stayed on
the books until 1967.
Despite their announced
intention to strike while the
iron was hot, evolution foes
did not introduce a Tennes-
see-type bill in the Texas leg-
islature until 1929. The third
By Bar tee Haile
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In a July. 3, 1925 editorial
entitled “The Circus Comes
to Dayton,” the Temple Daily
Telegram criticized the carni-
val atmosphere surrounding
the Scopes “Monkey Trial”
and dismissed the emotion-
charged debate over evolution
as a “useless discussion.”
The new law that high
school biology teacher John
T. Scopes intentionally broke
made it “unlawful for any
teacher in any of the univer-
sities, normals and all other
public school schools of the
State of Tennessee to teach any
theory that denies the story of
the Divine Creation of man
as taught in the Bible, and to
teach instead that man has de-
scended from a lower order of
animals.”
The part-time legislator
and full-time farmer who
wrote the controversial stat-
ute explained his reasoning:
“The teaching of this theory of
evolution breaks the hearts of
fathers and mothers who give
their children the advantages
of higher education in which
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“If evolution wins, Chris-
tianity goes,” Bryan warned
ominously on the eve of the
trial. “They are as antagonis-
tic as light and darkness, as
antagonistic as good and evil.”
Darrow argued in his mo-
tion to dismiss the indict-
ment, “If today you can take a
thing like evolution and make
it a crime to teach it in pub-
lic schools, tomorrow you can
make it a crime to teach it in
the private schools, and next
year you can make it a crime
to teach it to the hustings or in
the church.”
Urban newspapers in Tex-
as had trouble taking the Ten-
nessee tempest seriously. The
Fort Worth Star-Telegram ran
a cartoon under the heading
“Playing It for All Its Worth”
that showed Dayton mer-
chants making a killing off the
Bartee Haile
time was not the charm, how-
ever, and the measure failed to
pass.
they lose their respect for
Christianity and become in-
fidels. The evolutionists deny
the immortality of the soul,
the virgin birth of Christ, the
resurrection of the body, and
that the Bible is the inspired
Word of God.”
If any case in the 1900’s
deserved to be called “The
Trial of the Century,” it was
the courtroom tug-of-war in
Dayton, Tennessee. And to
think the trial might have tak-
en place in Texas had legisla-
tors not rejected a similar law
in 1923 and again in February
1925!
But Darwins die-hard de-
tractors did not need a law to
achieve their objective. Three
months after the Scopes tri-
al, the Texas State Textbook
Commission voted to ban the
theory of evolution from ev-
ery classroom in the Lone Star
State. One zealous member
went so far as to call for the re-
moval of the word “evolution”
from the dictionary.
The censors merely fol-
lowed the governors lead.
“I’m a Christian mother,” Mir-
iam Ferguson declared, “and I
am not going to let that kind
of rot go into Texas textbooks.”
Clarence Darrow, the fore-
most criminal attorney in the
country and an avowed agnos-
tic, was retained by the Amer-
German
June recognized as Alzheimer’s Awareness Month
every 66 seconds. This month
is dedicated to educating our
nation on the affects, symp-
toms, and treatments this po-
tentially deadly disease has on
our citizens.
Dementia is a general
medical term used to diagnose
memory loss or other mental
abilities that is severe enough
to intrude on the individuals
daily life. Alzheimer’s disease
is the most common form of
dementia. The Alzheimer’s
disease accounts for 60-80%
of dementia cases that signifi-
cantly affect the person’s mem-
ory, thinking, and/or behavior.
People typically develop
Alzheimer’s around their
mid-60s. This disease is not a
normal part of aging, though.
Alzheimer’s disease is caused
by multiple factors including
age, genetics, environment,
lifestyle, and/or other medi-
cal conditions like high blood
pressure.
Symptoms of Alzheimer’s
Disease include a decrease in
cognitive functions like dif-
ficulty thinking and under-
standing, confusion, delusion,
disorientation, forgetfulness/
repetitive, inability to create
new memories, and/or the in-
ability to do simple math or
remember common things.
Behavioral and mood changes
like difficulty with self-care,
agitation, aggression, irritabil-
ity are common symptoms of
Alzheimer’s disease, as well.
This disease can also affect
physical mobility and control
of the individual in the later
stages of the disease.
There is no cure for Al-
zheimer’s disease, but treat-
ment options are available.
Treatment options include
medication and management
systems. Medication and
physical exercise programs
are aimed at improving men-
tal function by encouraging
better blood flow/lower blood
pressure and improving their
mood balance.
Specialists like Occupa-
tional Therapists, Geriatrician,
Neurologists, Psychiatrists,
etc. have developed programs
to treat the varying symptoms.
The Alzheimer’s disease is
developing more rapidly than
before. Educating ourselves on
prevention and early diagno-
ses of this disease can help us
improve the lives of family and
friends. For more information
on the Alzheimer’s disease,
please visit these websites:
https://www.dshs.texas.gov/al-
zheimers/default.shtm, http://
www.alz.org, and https://www.
nia.nih.gov/alzheimers.
By Todd Hunter
The month of June is Al-
zheimer’s Awareness month.
More than 5 million Ameri-
cans suffer from this disease.
About 360,000 of those who
are affected by this live in Tex-
as. The Department of Human
and Health Services recently
estimated that a new case of
Alzheimer’s disease develops
The upcoming Special Ses-
sion will give the Texas Legis-
lature the ability and time to
address the twenty distinc-
tive issues the Governor has
identified. Within those thirty
days, we will work diligently
to ensure the State is taken
care of and protected. If you
would like to stay informed
on what occurs during the
Special Session beginning July
18th, please visit: capitol.state.
tx.us.
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Special session will be brought to order
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will begin July 18 and the Gov-
ernor has given us a 20-item
agenda to work on.
Before we can begin work
on the agenda, the Governor
will require that we pass one
specific item first. The Legis-
lature will be required to pass
‘Sunset’ legislation before any
other item on the special ses-
sion agenda is considered.
This ‘Sunset’ legislation needs
to pass in order to prevent sev-
eral crucial state agencies from
closing their doors. One agen-
cy that falls under the ‘Sunset’
legislation is the Texas Medical
Board. It’s critical that the Leg-
islature work together to pass
this bill.
Some of the other agenda
items that the Governor listed
bans. We made progress on
many of these agenda items
during the regular session but
ultimately could not get these
pieces of legislation to the
Governor’s desk.
By State Rep. T.M. Lozano
Earlier this month, Gov-
ernor Greg Abbot used his
constitutional authority and
called for a special session. In
Texas, the Governor may call
a special session to respond to
any particular issues or crisis.
Each special session may last
no more than thirty days and
must focus on agenda items
specifically outlined by the
Governor. The special session
I’m looking forward to re-
suming the work we did this
past session and giving some
of these bills the chance to be-
come law. It is a privilege to
go back to Austin to serve you
during this special session.
are as follows: school finance
reform, property tax reform,
teacher pay raises, municipal
annexation reform, cracking
down on mail-in ballot fraud,
and
texting-while-driving
Legislators Forum Writers:
District 43 State Rep. J.M Lozano
Capitol Office 512-463-0463
District Phone - 361 -595-1550
Home country
what are these young people go-
ing to do in polite society when a
hostess passes around the horse
doovers? Are they going to pa-
laver proper, or just sit there on
their sacrolibriums and nod?
Are they going to be admitted to
the barn association, write them
writs of habeas porpoise, or just
sue each other out of court? Are
we really doing them a favor by
not enrichelating their talking
prior to a proper propulsion
into adultery? I say no!”
At this point, two ladies in
the audience quickly excused
themselves and dashed into the
“Mr. Wilson,” asked one of
the board members, “what is
it about the way our students
speak that you find objection-
able?”
By Slim Randles
District 21 State Senator Judith Zaffirini
Capitol Office 512-463-0121
District Phone - 956-722-2293
The closed-season school
board meeting was called to
order half an hour late by its
chairman, J. Buckdancer Alcott,
because the board members saw
Windy Wilson sitting in the au-
dience.
hallway.
“Instead of being instructed
in proper English, our stu-
dents today spend all their
time watching private defective
shows on television. So I think
“They say like all the time.
Instead of making a simple dec-
larational sentencing, they say,
‘Oh, I was like this and he was
like that, and she like ate dinner.’
Windy doesn’t even charge
for these lessons. They’re always,
like, free.-------
U.S. Rep. District 27 Blake Farenthold
(202) 225-7742
h ttp://farenthold.house.gov/con tact/email, h tm
Windy had no children, and
he sure as sugar wasn’t a teacher,
but he could talk. And he was
patiently biding his time. De-
spite the board’s foot dragging
through the agenda, Windy
didn’t give up and go home.
Finally, Alcott said it was
time for public feedback and
asked if anyone wanted to speak.
Windy raised his hand. Alcott
looked desperately around, but
Windy’s hand was the only one
raised. He nodded in Windy’s
direction.
“My name is Alphonse Wil-
son,” he said, standing, “and I live
here.” “We know who you are,
Windy,” said Alcott. “Thanks,
Buck. I feel it’s my duty to bring
to the board’s attention a strate-
gic dearth of learning with these
young people today. A paucity
of eddyflication. In short, their
vocabulary is seriously obfusti-
cated. We have to ask ourselves,
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teachers should work on getting
em more eloquenter than they
are now.”
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