One hot day last week in Dayton, Tenn., in the same court room where John Thomas Scopes was tried six summers ago for teaching Evolution, one of his prosecutors was fighting to keep from being ousted: Walter White,† superintendent of Rhea County Schools. Nervously Walter White snapped his red suspenders, jerked at his white wash tiesame kind he wore during the "Monkey Trial."
Whip-wielder for many a year in local politics, onetime State Representative and Senator, Superintendent White had held his office for twelve years. In 1926 he was Republican nominee for Governor, was beaten by the late Governor Austin Peay. He...
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