It was a reductio ad absurdum that the chemist and coal man, George W. Rappelyea, of Dayton, Tenn., had in mind when he caused the arrest of his friend John T. Scopes, 24-year-old instructor in the Rhea High School (TIME, May 18, 25). It started in a drug-store conversation; Scopes told Rappelyea that he was still using a Biology text book containing an explanation of the theory of evolution which had once been approved by state authorities and not yet recalled, though Tennessee's anti-evolution act had been the law for a month. Rappelyea...
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