THE i\KV^/ iOKK HERALD, WrEJDNKSl)AY, OCTOBER 19, 1921.
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ZION PUPILS LEARN :
OUR WORLD IS FLAT Dr. P. A. Dudley, Consultii
Voliva's Belief on 'Saucer
With Bim of Ice' Fed
to Children.
TEACHERS SUPPORT IT
Sun Smaller Than Earth
and \Tf»ar nt, TT.mil Ta
liLOBE
Holding.
IDEA DISLIKED
Plane Theory More Valuable
to Students.Test Proposed
for 'Doubters.'
ZioXj 111., Oct. 18..Zion schools of
which Wilbur Glenn Voliva, overseer
of the colony, is president, nave
adopted his new theories of a flat
world and the absence of gravitation.
The 1,000 grade and high school pupils
believe them implicitly, according to
their teachers.
The public school maintained by the
State Board of Education and attended
by the children of non-members of
Voliva's Christian-Catholic Apostolic
Church still teaches, however, that the
world is a globe moving through
space and that it was the
of gravity which caused the
apple to fall on Isaac Norton's head.
At the Zion schools the new course
of study insists that:
The earth is a flat circular world,
with a north pole in the exact centre.
Trail of Ice which keeps venturesome
mariners from fall ling off the rim.
That the earth has no motion, but
remains stationary in space.
That the sun is not millions of
miles in diameter and 91,000,000
miles away, but Is really a little orb
32 miles across and only 3,000 miles
from the earth.
That the law of gravitation is a
fallacy and when objects arc thrown
Into the air they continue to rise
until the force which propelled them
is expended, and then fall back to
earth because they are heavier than
air.
A standard map of the world, on
Christopher's projection, is used in the
schools to demonstrate the flat world
theory. This map, which is by
and scientists in making time
and longitude calculations, differs from
the usual Mcrcator's projection familiai
in other schools, in that it shows the
earth as it would look to an observer
directly above the North Pole, with the
continents and seas projected on a flat
plane.
As a result the north polo is in the
centre, and Instead of ft south polo the
Antarctic regions are indicated by a
white ring about the outer circumference
of the circle. This ring, according to
Voliva, Is the ice barrier which keeps
mariners from falling off the edge of
his flat world.
The Christopher projection was made
thirty years ago, prior to the discovery
of the south pole and before much was
known about the Antarctic regions, so
only a bare outline of portions of the
* southern ice land is shown.
Miss Marv Thompson, principal of the
Zion school system, and an ardent
Jn the Vftllva theories, has
a question which she believes
will trip scientists and navigators.
Showing on her tint map that tho tropic
of Cancer, 43 degrees from the north
polo, was a much smaller circle than
tho tropic of Capricorn, 47 degrees
farther away, Miss Thompson says:
"Navigators on a globular earth
would find if they were to sail
around either of these tropics
that they would be Identically the same
length. On a flat earth, however, the
tropic of Capricorn would be much
larger than tho tropic of Cancer, and
would take much longer to sail around,
because on a flat earth Cancer would
be nearer the centre, or north pole.
Why don't some of the globular earth
believers try sailing around the two
tropics and find out whether they or we
are correct? The globular people
earth."
can't prove curvature of the
Miss Eva Baker, teacher of geography,
demonstrates to her classes that the
sun Is only a tiny orb a few thousand
miles away. Instead of an orb millions
of miles In diameter and 01,000,000 miles
from the earth.
If the sun were so large, she says. It
would light up all the world, Instead
of confining Its hottest rays to a 3,000
Vollva, himself, In n recent sermon at
Shlloh Tabelnacle, said Qod certainly
would not have made a sun to light
the world and then placed it so far
away.
"A man would be a fool." the overseer
added, "to build a house In Zion and
place his parlor light In Kenosha, Wis."
Miss Thompson, principal of the
schools, says the children prefer their
new flat world to Iho old fashioned
round one In which Columbus believed.
"The students oln Zion schools," she'
says, "grasp tho theory of the flat earth
readily because their minds are not full
of globular earth teaching such as older
folks have had drilled into them.
they accept the flat earth teaching Therefore
without questioning, not because they
have to, bqt because it appeals to them
as rational. I don't believe there is one
student in the grades who has questioned
It. The flat earth seems more
to them. The globular seems
Wilbur Glenn Voliva, who succeeded
John Alexander Dowla as overseer of
Zion on the lattcr's death In March, 1907,
was born near Newton. Ind., March la,
3 870. In 1897 he received Ids B. A.
from Hiram College. Ohio, and In the
same year a degree from Union
College at Merom, Ind. In 1S89 he
had been ord;»fned a minister In th«
Christian Church at the age of 19. and
held a pastorate at lJnden. Ind., from
J 889 to 1892: Urbana. HI.. 1892-91:
theology at Stanfordvlllo, N. V.,
1893-94 and supplied the pulpit of
Street Chrlstlnn Church at Albany, Chestnut
N. Y.: filled a pulpit at York Harbor.
Me., the following year, and was pastor
of the Christian Church at Washington
Court House, Ohio, in 1S07-99.
Jn 3 899 Vollva Joined Dowle's church
and was ordained an elder and placed
In charge of tho ZIon Tabernacle In
EX-BALLPLAYER ACCUSED.
ThtovrDieNc*, Oct. 18..William (Wild
Bill) Glennofi, fifteen years ago
ahortgtop
on the Boston Bed Sox baseball
team, was in the hhiperior Court, hare
to-day to plead to two Grand Jury
Indictments
charging Mm with breaking
and entering and conspiracy to rob. He
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broken
with
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last
others Is
Glengarry
tilul
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alleged
Mills at
June and to have etolcn
valuable cloth.
Ostol>er
to have
Kurrlltvllle
WINTER WILL BE COLD,
RAIL EXPiERT PREDICTS
Engineer of New York
Central, Bases Belief on T'endency of Temperature
to Equalize Itself on the Average.
Dr. T*. IX. Dudley, consulting engineer
to that department of the New York
Central Railroad which is responsible for
rails, tires ofand
heat and cold as
steel structure
an
generally.all
which is as responsive to
teollan harp Is to
wind.made up his forecast for the
winter yesterday and predicted that It
would bo cold.
He has served the railroad In this
fashion for the last dozen years and
has called the turn so far In his
prognostications.
When weather Is freezing
rails are affected greatly, and when rails
are affected so is the whole railroad
In his report yesterday Dr.
system.
Dudley
set forth that It wah almost certain to
be cold, because last winter and all of
this year so far has been away above
normal in temperature, and figures for
forty years, on which Dr. Dudley relies
for this and other years to come, hear
out the theory that when temperature is
either above or below what It should be
for any length of time equalization Is
bound to set in.
"Tho accumulated excess of
temperatures
above the monthly normal for tho
nine months of 1921," he said, "are the
highest of any period In ten years. So
far the records show an excess of about
1,300 degrees, or about four degrees
FUSION ASKS FUNDS
TO'SAVE NEW YORK'
limitlessCoalition Campaign 'Broke'
attractionand With Expenses Piling
Up Each Pay.
An appeal for funds for the coalition
campaign was sent out yesterday over
tho names of Representative Ogden R.
Mills, chairman of tho finance
committee,
and H. B. Rosen, vice-president of
the Harrlman National Bank, treasurer.
"The truth is," said Mr. Mills, "we
are broke. Wc haven't got a cent,
while expenses are piling un all the
time. We want to start what I would
call a 'save New York fund.' Wc are
not going to try to raise a big fund.
We have no expectation of raising any
such fund as appears to be available
for the Hylan ticket. Most business
men have suffered large losses in the
last year and arc hard up, but if Police
Commissioner Enright and former
Hughes are a few samples of
the prosperity enjoyed by the appointees
and associates of the present 'business'
navigatorsadministration in the City Hall Mr.
promotion fund should be ample."
President Curran said yesterday he
Hylan'snight. Assembly
had received no answer from Mayor
Hylan to his offer to debate the issues WESTCHESTER WANTS RISE.
with him. He was enthusiastic over his Leverett S. Miller, receiver for the
reception in The Bronx on Monday night,
Westchester Street Railroad Company,
when lie first started his sledge hammer
drives against Hylan. Asked what he
thought of the testimony regarding the
bank accounts of Commissioner Enright
applied to the Public Service
the zone fare rates which were increased
before the Meyer committee on Monday, last July. He stated that the company
Mr. Curran replied: "He may be has only $300 In bank, owes $10,000, and as he broke Sulzer.
speculating in corner lots in Japan," has issued receiver's certificates
to the testimony of the late
Inspector Alec Williams before tho November 7.
~FLO4ING
believer
propounded
(Of.London, Eng^)
completely
Ann ounce a V
Extriaordinary Sale
certainly of Wooldon brand, London made, ready-tc)-wear and
built Ulsters, Top C oats, Business Suits, Goli and Sport Suits
the following remarltable prices:
WONDERFUL ENGLISH
ULSTERS R Sd *3to
TOP COATS cheLANS. WESTBURYS,
STERFIELDS, ETC. $Qf)
J U tO'JU
An Overcoat <collection that is
without doubt t:he finest in the city
Also of Marked Imptortance is our offering of 2.500
sack and sport suits in fine Donegals, Tweeds, Homespuns
and Worsteds.
Golf and Sport Suits, 1\ pes. (Reg. $65 to $85)
Golf and Sport Suits, :J fR
Sack Suits, 3 and 4 b utton (Reg. $49 to $75)
reasonable
unreal."
lis
Christian
studied
jl^' pi 2 Joh
Chicago.
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GILROYPIHS SCHOOL I supported htm. I was deluded by his lines almost everywhere In the city.
promises. He has broken every pledge To-day the transfer points have been
he made and has surrendered himself largely discontinued. Were they
dlscon''
FAILURES ON HYLAI(Murphy.
completely to the dominating Influence of tlnued by 'Wall Street' or the 'interest'
Hylan's list of commtslsoncrs Mayor H.vlan complains of? .No, by
Harriman National Bank
ig
is dominated by Tammany leaders who order of Lewis Nixon, the Tammany
cringlngly acknowledge the leadership head of the Public Service Commission,
of Murphy. They are nothing more than and Hyl&n never made a move to chec k Fifth Avenue and 44th Street
Present System Worse Thai
Garyizcd, He Says, as
.
his office boys.
"Mayor Hylan's own Police
him. I charge him now with had faith
iu the transit issue. Instead of acting,
Commissioner
has managed to save $100,0(10 in he was talking."
four years on a salary of $7,500 a year, Mr. Oilroy quoted Comptroller Craig
New York j
I would like to know how to do thle as saying the city had put $1'5.000,000
Parents Cheer. myself. Possibly Commissioner
received advice from Gen. T. Enright
into equipment for the transit lines and
Coleman
that they were already in default on
The Unemployed
every day for the period above what du Pont, head of the powder trust, terms of the contract.
and Allan Ryan, who gives out such
The fixed idea of obtaining something for nothing
"Jf the city is protected by these
coni I
normal temperature should be. It has
never been pronounced aa a law of
nature by any scientist that
Is Inevitable, but in forty years the
averages have varied so little that for
equalization
"Four years ago Mayor Hylan wen
about warning the people of this cit y
what an evil tiling it wouia De to hudjgc
their children to education under th 0
Gary system," cried Vincent Cilroj'<
good tips on the market, both of them tracts and the railways aro in default,
Deputy Police Commissioners. The
Comf
why has Hyian not foreclosed and taken
missloner is evidently more devoted tc> them over?" he asked. "I suspect it Is
the stock ticker than to the detection because Murphy, swayed by the sinister
of crime, as Us rate of increase here Influence of Wall Street, is making his
I
has always prevailed in the world. There is an
ment with us, and there was before Micawber's day,
that is waiting for something to turn up. P. T.
num's famous expression correctly stated the case; his
ele|
Barl
the purposes of a railroad we may
conalder coalition candidate for President of th ° shows.
| idea was right, although he may have erred on the
the fact established.
"It may very well happen that the
cold which is to balance all the warm
Board of Aldermen, in two speeches las'*
night.
"He declared that the Gary systein
puppet cry 'Ave cent fare" while the
"Four years ago New Yorkers ooulc1 public is not receiving the benefit
travel through transfers on surface> five cent fare." of a servative side in his mathematics.
We have many men roaming around to-day looking
conf
days may not arrive all in one winter, was the tool of the capitalist class t
but may be extended over two. This "
for work, as the phrase goes. They are not afraid of
is to be hoped for, particularly by a
railroad, because zero temperatures are
very severe on steel. On the past per-
Aurmancea
«eem more
or years, nuwevcr, it
probable that the change
wuuiu
breed generations of mill and factor y
workers: that It was undemocratic dn <1
that it deprived the youth of Americ a
of his chance to rise above his enviror
ment. I helped Hylan fight the Gar
system.
^li work. They will go to sleep right alongside of it. The
wake of a big war always emphasizes the existence of
a r.on-laboring element. Perhaps we incline to pay too
should be rapid rather than moderate "Yet to-day this same Hylan ha
much attention to the existence of such conditions.
and we will assume so with sufficient brought the affairs of this city to The Harriman National Bank months ago expressed
confidence to be fully prepared for it." pass where our school Bystem is inf doubt as to the non-employment figures of 5,750,000 in
James H. Scarr, head of the Weather nltely worso off than though it wet round numbers, now officially reduced to 1,000,000.
Bureau, said after Dr. Dudley's
was told to him that It was not forscast Gar.vized. One-third of our children ai
getting either no education at all or There are specialists among the "sons of rest" as
scientifically acceptable, as Dr.
said it was not, but that Dr. Dudley
was availing himself of a practical law
Dudley makeshift education that is aboi
equiltalent to none. These unfortunat
children arc not educated to go into tli
there are among the honest sons of toil. The parks are
filled with men who might work, but would pick and
of probabilities which has been found mill, the factory or anywhere else. The
useful and fairly reliable for many
years.
"There Is no law of nature requiring
are being left in the utter dark.
"And this because of the inefflclenc
of a man who promised a seat in seho<
choose the kind they will accept. Most of them
manual labor or labor that would take them out
of the city's activities and attractions.free food, free
disdain
excess heat to be balanced by excess for every child.
cold, but experience shows that nature "He will not admit these condition s.
MADE I beds, free entertainment.
generally works that way." I have been told that in the schoo 13 How to separate the wheat from the chaff is the
where the conditions are worst.whei
the children are crowded unto suffocr
Announce a new list c>f prices on Model 501. problem. After sifting, each case should be tested and
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Lcxow committee nearly thirty years
ago.
Contrary to report that the flattery of
William Randolph Hearst, and Mayor
tion and where they are forced to sit i
unsanitary rooms.the teachers ha\
been called together and instructed thta
they help Mayor Hylan cover u p
Touring (Standard]
Touring (De Luxe)
Sedan (Standard)
$1995
2575
2495
recorded, but there should be no doling. England has
exemnlified that
a
curse. Eesides.
modified way.with our public employees.
we alreadv havr
Hylan had won President P. H. La
Guardia of the Board of Aldermen
away from the advocacy of President
Curran, Mr. La Guardia declared the
must
this ghastly state of affairs. How?
"They have been told that every vis
tors day they are to Lake so many chi l-
Sedan (De Luxe)
Roadster (2 passengtsr) ....
3273
2195
..«. * Is it not paradoxical that a convention to <
unemployment should be held at one end of Pen
he was restive to get into yesterday dren out into the streets and lead thei
on long walks, leaving behind in tli
Roadster (4 passengcsr) 2575 .... vania Avenue, while at the other end nothing is
campaign. Before going away for a
week to recuperate from a recent
he said : operation class rooms only the normal number c
cniiaren. yvnu hum, hiuivutu » »
Also Broughams, Landaulets, Sedans,
mounted on M<Ddels 505 and 510.
to end the legislative lethargy that is largely the -use
of the trouble which the convention was called to
"Iam heart and soul for the election tors lcnow that tho schools arc ovei correct? «
of Henry H. Curran, Senator Charles crowded, they do not actually sec th
Locltwood and their associates on the overcrowding. Mayor Hylan hopes the
will bo away from these schools thinkln T clephonc F 8 g^T Sales Dept.
Republican ticket, and expect upon my that after all conditions must have bee JF
return to the city to begin an intensive
campaign to help elect them. I think exaggerated by the newspapers and
investigators, inasmuch as they saw n
th c Circle 7700
gJ g | 150 W. 57th St. BANKING HOURS FROM 8 O'CLOCK A. M. TO 8 O'CLOCK P. M.
SAFE DEPOSIT VA'JLTS OPEN FROM 8 A. M. TO MIDNIGHT
the citizens of New York will, on
day, agree with me that in the
interests of good government, a change
election such sardine box situation."
Mr. Gllroy spoke at a huge open ai
should be made, and I will do all I can meeting at 137th street and Broadwa;y
and in the Flatbush Qongregationall
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to try to bring about this result. My
services will be'ut the disposal of the Church, Eighteenth street and DorchesI- _____
ter road, Brooklyn. In both places li e
Republican manager of the campaign." received enthusiastic applause. In th e
. Jacob A. Livingston, who was recently
deposed as Republican leader in
has apparently thrown himself
whole heartedly into the campaign.
"We have the candidates and we have
Brooklyn, afternoon he addressed a meeting a t
the Young Republican Club. 882 Broad
way and at the Colony Club. At th e
latter place h» warned the wom'n wh o
j
the issue," he said yesterday. "There will be watchers at tho polls to bewar c
of the sundry efforts of certain clement s
is no reason why our candidates should
rot be successful. We can make this to perpetrate frauds.
the best governed city in the United At all his meetings he continued hi 3
States." attacks on Charles F. Murphy. Th 0
Inspector ma
Livingston said Supreme Court
Mr.
111 al
Cropsey
Justice James C.
irjj^caiaii^c in inu
would make
i-aiii^aib1' *»
present Democratic organization in till 3
city, ho said, is not a part of the nu
tional Democratic party. Rather, h
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"Murphy rules it Just as the Cza
the charm of this tastefully-fu
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ruled the millions in Russia before th
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revolution," he went on. "It is up t o porch adjoining.
the voters to destroy tho desperate an
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sinister influence that has wrecked th
Democratic party here. Hylan has bu
yesterday for a further increase in
Commission one office himself und Murphy place
him in it. Murphy dictates all of th
administration appointments, and if h '
chose ho could to-morrow break Hyla
"Four years ago I believed Hylan wa
referring
amounting
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ho said in his campaign speeches, an d Look for the
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