Caricatures of evolution: the 1925 Scopes Trial
This part of the catalogue of Caricatures of evolution is provided separately because there are so many illustrations regarding this famous trial.
High school teacher John Scopes (1900-1970) had agreed to teach human evolution in his biology class in Dayton, Tennessee in defiance of the 1925 Butler Act. This was to test the legality of the new law banning the teaching of "the Evolution Theory" in public schools. Members of the local community saw it as an opportunity to put their town on the map. The Scopes Monkey Trial, as it is known, was held 10-21 July in Dayton. The ACLU and star lawyer Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) defended Scopes. Leading the prosecution was three-time Democrat presidential nominee and former secretary of state turned fundamentalist Christian, William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925).
This is the largest collection of caricatures about the Scopes Trial ever published though there are certainly many more yet to be uncovered. This public discussion of evolution, especially the polarisation of positions, would colour conversations and debates in some parts of the world for another century. Relevant cartoons from before the trial are also included. See also: Caricatures of Charles Darwin
Introduction by J. David Archibald and John van Wyhe
1924 "GET OFF YOUR PERCH!" San Francisco Chronicle. William Jennings Bryan denounces 'The Thinker' by Rodin.
1925 "They Ain't No Such Animal—" The paper held by the man refers to the Butler Act banning the teaching that humans evolved from lower life forms. Baltimore Sun (25 March).
1925 "Tennessee's St. Patrick". Los Angeles Times (27 March). Bryan wields a club "Evolution must not be taught in the schools of Tennessee" against scurrying apes and monkeys.
1925 [The world is progressing upwards with effort while anti-evolution Tennessee shouts "HEY, GO BACK". By Lute Pease. Newark News. (Library of Congress)
1925 "THE RED DAWN OF REVOLUTION | RADICALISM IS BORN IN THE JUNGLE WHEN A YOUNG INTELLECTUAL STANDS UP AND DECIDES TO BECOME A MAN." Life (May): 9.
1925 "THEY'VE TREED HIM UP A TREE IN TENNASSEE". Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.) (16 May).
1925 "GATHERING DATA FOR THE TENNESSEE TRAIL" "Bryan" takes notes on orangutans at a zoo. By Rollin Kirby. New York World (19 May).
1925 "THE OUTCAST [from] | BILL BRYAN'S ZOO" the monkey labelled "EVOLUTION". Chicago Tribune (19 May).
1925 "MAN IS NOT RELATED TO THE MONKEY" | "ALL THOSE IN FAVOR– | The Proposition Would Get a Lot of Support If the Monkeys Could Vote on it". By Carey Orr. Chicago Daily Tribune and Washington Post (20 May).
1925 "'ON WITH THE DANCE!'" Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.) (21 May).
1925 "THE BATTLE GROUND" Chicago Tribune (21 May) and Columbus Dispatch. Father time spins a windmill while a hillbilly says "Thar aint no sech thing!" and shoots at a monkey labelled "evolution".
1925 "A Brief History of Thought" with great moments in history up to the Tennessee Butler Act followed by a new amendment to the US constitution to prohibit thought. One monkey says to the other "Don't get mixed up with those fundamentalists and modernists, Oswald. We are above such things!" Life (May): 22.
1925 "HE PUT US ON THE MAP" a corncob pipe smoking hillbilly gestures to a monkey. Baltimore Sun (25 May).
1925 "HOW THEY ARE TEACHING EVOLUTION IN TENNESSEE". Chicago Tribune (27 May).
1925 "HE THINKS HE IS THE DEFENDANT ON TRIAL." Memphis Commercial Appeal (31 May). "He" refers to the monkey labelled "EVOLUTION" sitting in the "WITNESS CHAIR" in "SCOPES TRIAL".
1925 "When Shall We Three Meet Again?" On the left is William Jennings Bryan, on the right Clarence Darrow. The artist is Edmund Waller 'Ted' Gale possibly published in the Los Angeles Times, for which he worked at the time.
1925 "Listening In" Los Angeles Times (4 June). The devil gleefully listens to "evolution vs. creation!" and "fundamentalism vs. modernism" debates that he might have spawned or perhaps these are a distraction from his real evils.
1925 "The Rise and Fall of Man | Primate | Neanderthal man | Socrates | W.J. Bryan". New Yorker (6 June).
1925 "WOULD THEY DESTROY EACH OTHER?" Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.). (6 June) Equal disdain shown between "science" and "religion."
1925 "IT'S THE PRINCIPLE OF THING!" "SCOPES: 'They arrested me for bootlegging evolution!' | "THE EAST: For bootlegging?! I'll defend you to the last drop of my bottle—er- I mean blood!" This represents urban elites as devoted to principles of personal freedoms and alcohol and thereby defending the teaching of human evolution in schools as just another one of these preferences. This refers to prohibition which was still in effect in 1925 in the USA. By J. P. Alley. Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.) (11 June).
1925 "If Bryan Can't Help 'Em Nobody Can!" Los Angeles Times (12 June).
1925 "The Unofficial Observer". Washington Post (12 June). A bemused ape observes the Scopes Trial conflict in Dayton through a telescope.
1925 "The Only Light on the Case Thus Far" Light emanates from "PUBLICITY" and "MOVIES" while Scopes holds paper "EVOLUTION VS ANTI_EVOLUTION". Dallas News (13 June).
1925 "THE FAMILY TREE" Atlanta Constitution (15 June). The "Tennessee Legislature" cutting down the primate family tree.
1925 "A Closed Book in Tennessee". Man with sign reading "FUNDAMETALISTS ONLY WANTED AS TEACHERS" stands on the 'closed book' titled "KNOWLEDGE". Baltimore Sun (19 June).
1925 "No Wonder the Monkeys Are Worried." | "I say Genevieve in this evolution case — are they trying to class men with monkeys or monkeys with men?" Nashville Tennessean (29 June): 4. The two apes shocked by newspaper reports of humans' inhumanity, including "Motorist drives into crows of children".
1925 Two monkeys are embrace in distress in a tree. One asks "Joe, do you believe fiends like those are descendants of ours?" while the other exclaims "NO!" The monkeys are witnessing the lynching of an African American as a mob gathers to watch. Chicago Defender pt. 2 (20 June): 12, an African American newspaper.
1925 "Come to Dayton for the big show". By Fitzpatrick. St. Louis Dispatch.
1925 "Exploding the Darwin Theory!" Casper Daily Tribune (Casper, Wyo.) (21 June): 8. (Library of Congress).
1925 "We concede a few types to the evolutionists." Memphis Commercial Appeal (21 June). Satirizing what the newspaper saw as extreme views including an "uncompromising evolutionist" as an anthropomorphised tadpole.
1925 "GUILTY! | EVOLUTION | SPEAK NOT, HEAR NOT, SEE NOT" | "SCOPES TRIAL". San Francisco Examiner (22 June).
1925 "The Conflict of Theories". Dallas News (28 June). Two questions marks "evolution" and "theology" fight.
1925 "More Light on the Question!" From a "padded cell" of an asylum a voice cries "Let me out! I know all bout this evolution-vs-fundamentalism question!!" Dallas News (30 June).
1925 "The Modern Crusader". Plain Dealer (Cleveland). William Jennings Bryan dressed as a crusading knight off to slay evolution with banners behind reading suffrage, religion, and prohibition, his previous public causes.
1925 "THE THINKER" A monkey in the pose of the famous 1882 statue by Auguste Rodin watches the Dayton Tennessee Trial mayhem.
1925 "Inadmissible Evidence. | MAYBE DARWIN WAS WRONG — BUT THAT GUY ARGUES EXACTLY LIKE MY UNCLE JIM PANZY!" (source unidentified, republished in Mountain View Mirror (31 March 2016).
1925 "She couldn't pass". Outlook (1 July). "Mother Nature" is sent away from Tennessee "flunked in biology".
1925 "THEY OUGHT TO SUBMIT A FEW 'EXHIBITS' TO THE SUPREME COURT" Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.) (1 July). The vignette compares state and defence witnesses- but in this newspaper the "scientific witness" is only "formulating a good 'guess'".
1925 "WHEN THE NEWS OF THE TENNESSEE EVOLUTION TRIAL REACHES AFRICA". Philadelphia Inquirer (2 July). The monkeys appear to think they are now too good for their neighbours since they are related to man.
1925 "FUTURE EVOLUTION | NATURE IS SUPPOSED TO ADJUST TO OUR SURROUNDINGS AND FIT US FOR OUR NEEDS". Strap hanging by monkey' tail, a man's hand, and in the future a man's tail grasping a tram strap. Chicago Tribune (2 July). Strap hanging in public transport was a popular motif to invoke future human evolution.
1925 "HE'S ALWAYS SEEING THINGS". By Carey Orr. Chicago Daily Tribune (3 July): 1. "DON QUIXOTE BRYAN" rides his horse towards the windmill of "EVOLUTION" with a lance "TENNESSEE LAW". Chicago Daily Tribune (3 July): 1.
1925 "THE LIGHT WILL SHOW THROUGH". Chicago Tribune (3 July). The "x-ray of truth" shines through "anti-evolution laws" to reveal "the truth about evolution".
1925 "'MY REAL FIRST BATH. GEE! AINT IT GREAT!'" By Clifford Kennedy Berryman, Washington Evening Star. "Dayton" bathes in "publicity" while the beneficent Bryan shines above. (Library of Congress)
1925 "KIDNAPERS BEWARE!" Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.) (5 July). A man labelled "Dayton 'Home Guard'" sits on a caged monkey.
1925 "The Way Some People See it!" Atlanta Constitution (5 July).
1925 "Maybe They Aren't Related, but They Look Alike to The Man in the Moon". San Francisco Chronicle (8 July). "The viewpoint of science" sees these two primates as almost the same whereas Bryan insists they are not related.
1925 "Playing It for All It's Worth" Dallas News (8 July). "Dayton Tenn." is the organ grinder, the organ is the "Scopes Case", and the monkey is collecting money from the "publicity" generated by the trial.
1925 "A GENUINE PRE-BRYAN TEXTBOOK IS SMUGGLED INTO DAYTON, TENNESSEE. Life 86 (9 July): 4. The likely reference is to William Hunter's 1914 A civic biology, required by the state of Tennessee. It contained a section (pp. 194-6) on human evolution that Scopes was charged for teaching to students.
1925 "The Monkey Hasn't a Word to Say." Bryan's paper reads "Down with Darwin! No monkeying with my ancestors." By W. A. Rogers. Washington Post (9 July).
1925 "'Order in the Court!' Scopes trial". Los Angeles Times (9 July).
1925 "Resenting the Insult" Boston Globe (10 July).
1925 "THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH". Under the headline "Bryan monkey trial opens". Camden Post-Telegram (10 July): 1.
1925 "'THE GOOD OLD DAYS | —AIN'T WHAT THEY USED TO BE'". By Al Frueh for article by Marquis James. The New Yorker (11 July). The fairground farce of the Dayton fight is lampooned.
1925 "Evolution in the Spotlight". Los Angeles Times (11 July). A spotlight metamorphoses into William Jennings Bryan. By this time a very old motif of comic imagery.
1925 "EVOLUTION TRIAL" New York Times (12 July).
1925 "A CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK" Christian Tribune (12 July). "Bryan's mistakes" are repeated like the forbidden fruit of Adam in the painting.
1925 "USING THE MONK" Christian Tribune (13 July). Bryan uses the monkey trial for personal gain and publicity.
1925 "THE TORCH BEARER" William Jennings Bryan marching off with torch illuminating "PERSONAL PUBLICITY" while the smoke from the torch reads "ANTI-EVOLUTION". Behind him are strewn burned out torches of his past causes — "PROHIBITION, PACIFISM, BI-METALISM". San Francisco Chronicle (13 July). Bryan died 26 July 1925 soon after the Scopes Trial ended.
1925 "He's Not Wanted" Dallas News (13 July). William Jennings Bryan holds the door against "science" at the Scopes Trial.
1925 Banner reads "BATTLE OF THE AGES" showing Bryan boxing with an ape. Los Angeles Times (14 July). Two women or muses labelled "religion" and "science" walk arm-in-arm past the hysteria of the Scopes trial.
1925 "SCIENCE AND SHOWMANSHIP". New York World (14 July). The comparison is between a scientist and a shouting fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan- drowning out real scientific work.
1925 "EVOLUTON IN TENNESSEE". "Dayton" "FIVE MONTHS AGO" morphs into a fatter and wealthier person "THIS IS THE LIFE!" during the Scopes Trial. Library of Congress catalogue description: "A then & now cartoon. The first panel, labelled "Five Months Ago," shows a scruffy mountain man labelled "Dayton" asleep against the trunk of a mighty oak. The second panel, labelled "Today," shows the same man as grown plump, in a new suit and hat, speaking into an enormous microphone, saying "This is the life!" He is surrounded by photographers and reporters. The mighty oak has been reduced to a tiny tree." Washington Evening Star. (Library of Congress)
1925 "4-4 STUFF!" Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.) (14 July). Journalists find the "beer" [i.e. the substance] of the Scopes trial not up to scratch.
1925 "BETTER SEARCH 'EM FOR WEAPONS, TOO." Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.). This clearly refers to the courts not allowing the introduction of information relating to science and evolution.
1925 "Tweedledarrow and Tweedlebryan" Los Angeles Times (14 July). Darrow and Bryan crowd out little Dayton below.
1925 "FOLLOWING HIS LEADER". New York World (15 July). William Jennings Bryan holding the candle of "ignorance" leads a bare-foot farmer ("TENNESSEE".) in bib overalls.
1925 "THE GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE 'EVOLUTION NON EST' [evolution does not exist]" showing a cowboy with his boot on the neck of a monkey. Dallas News (15 July).
1925 "The Dayton War Cry | HELL in the HIGH SCHOOLS". Baltimore Sun (15 July).
1925 "HIS HANDIWORK" New York World (16 July). William Jennings Bryan has broken the dam and unleashed "HATRED", "BIGOTRY", and "INTOLERANCE".
1925 "NOT VERY DIGNIFIED FOR UNCLE". San Francisco Examiner (17 July). Uncle Sam grinds the organ of the "SCOPES TRIAL" as countries around the world look on in amusement at the disgraceful spectacle.
1925 "'THEY TELL THE SAME STORY'". New Orleans Times-Picayune (17 July). A "scientist" finds that "evolution" and the "Holy Bible Genesis" are compatible. This position was more common than caricatures usually represent.
1925 "PIN THE TAIL ON THE MONKEY: THE NEW GAME" Judge Evolution Number (18 July): front cover. Mocking William Jennings Bryan the conservative creationist figurehead who was about to prosecute the Scopes Monkey Trail.
1925 "THE UPSTART." Judge (18 July): 1.
1925 "We ain't even holding our own." [shouts the gorilla] By Paul Kelly? Judge Magazine (18 July): 2. A 'cake-eater' was 1920s American slang for a lady's man. Judge devoted this issue to the Scope's Trial. This cartoon is derived from the famous frontispiece to T. H. Huxley's Man's place in nature (1863):
Darwin's copy is in CUL-DAR.LIB.313.
1925 "SCIENTISTS—Why, there's the missing link we've been searching for all these years—" Judge 89, no. 2271 (18 July): 9. Scientist indicates that the person labelled as Bryan is the missing link though an ape stands next to him.
1925 "ANOTHER FAMILY ROW | Charles Smith Case | Anti-Evolution". Judge (18 July). It appears that Arkansas is trying to follow Tennessee in outlawing the teaching of evolution.
1925 "DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN EVOLUTION". Fashionable women are viewing the monkey house at the zoo while the monkeys look back. Judge 89, no. 2271 (18 July): 10. A pun on the organisation 'Daughters of the American Revolution'.
1925 One monkey saying to the other "I used to know him when—". By Paul Kelly. Judge 89, no. 2271 (18 July): 3. The reference is to a posing monkey wearing clothes in the distance.
1925 "In the good old days." Judge (18 July).
1925 "JUDGE'S SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT COVER THE SCOPES TRAIL". Judge (18 July).
1925 "Please, God, bless Daddy and Mummy and me—and if you're a pro-monkey, give a thought to Willie." Judge (18 July). Willie must be the little brother climbing on the girl's bed.
1925 "TOO BAD WE LOST OUR TAILS | How Handy They Would Be." Judge (18 July).
1925 "Why Dempsey and Wills?" Judge (18 July). Bryan sparing with an ape. In the 1920s heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey and the top contender Harry Wills famously never met in the ring. In other words, who cares about a boxing match between the top boxers in the world when we can watch Bryan vs. an ape?
1925 "DARWINISM" By Paul Kelly. Judge (18 July). Bryan as a nagging old woman telling the girl labelled "Tennessee" to "Hang your clothes on a hickory limb, and don't go near the water".
1925 "KEEPER–Would yez believe id, Mr. Bryan, there's people thot hold I'm related to the baste!" Judge (18 July). The keeper and the ape look shockingly alike.
1925 "Chorus of amæbæ singing, 'Where Do We Go from Here?'" By Paul Kelly. Judge (18 July). Implied answer is, we evolve into more complex forms.
1925 "GIVE THE OTHER ONE YOUR ATTENTION, DOC!" By Leslie Rogers. Chicago Defender (18 July) an African American newspaper. A doctor identified as "PUBLIC INTEREST" examines a boy labelled "THE QUESTION OF EVOLUTION" while behind him Uncle Sam says "SAY DOC!—YOU'RE JUST WASTING YOUR TIME ON THAT KID! HE NEVER GIVES ME A BIT OF TROUBLE ———— HERE'S THE BRAT THAT RAISES ALL THE CAIN!!" He gestures to a cradle labelled "THE SOUTH" with a baby screaming "LYNCHING, RACE HATRED, JIM-CROWISM, PEONAGE".
1925 "CLASSROOM IN PROPOSED BRYAN UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE". By cartoonist Rollin Kirby. New York World (18 July). Showing a bound, gagged and tinted-spectacles-wearing teacher pointing at a flat Earth with a picture of hell next to it. President Bryan's portrait is on the wall. Life imitated art, as a private Christian college named after Bryan was established in Dayton, Tennessee shortly after the Scopes Trial. Captioned elsewhere as "A BRYANITE".
1925 "AN ANTI-EVOLUTION AUTHORITY". Detroit News and Chicago Tribune (18 July). "Fake! That horse hair has been soakin' two week sand it ain't no snake yet". It was a traditional folk belief that a horsehair put in water in the summer would turn into a snake.
1925 "Let there Be Darkness". Baltimore Sun (19 July). Tennessee outlawing the teaching of human evolution is a candle snuffer to the light of "knowledge".
1925 "One of the Causes of the Scopes Trial". Los Angeles Times (19 July).
1925 "PUBLICITY | THE MISSING LINK!". Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.) (19 July).
1925 "Best Minds" Baltimore Sun (21 July). Bryan adds to the quote by Henry Ford 'History is bunk' with 'So is science'.
1925 "PAPA!" says a chimpanzee in a tree to "Darrow" marked with "SCIENCE OF EVOLUTION". By Thomas. Detroit News.
1925 "There Ain't No Santy Claus" By Ward. Judge. With Clarence Darrow lecturing William Jennings Bryan on imaginary things that don't exist. A reference to how Darrow seemed condescending to Bryan's naïve religious and scientific views when questioning him about the creation story in the Bible on the witness stand.
1925 "'WHAT WOULD THEIR VERDICT BE?'" Daily Star (Montreal).
1925 "NOT GUILTY (I HOPE!)" Source unidentified (Natural History Magazine, 2007.
1925 "The Verdict | Though Shalt Not Think". Baltimore Sun (22 July). A comment on the outcome of the trial, Scopes was guilty.
1925 "THE TOWER OF BABEL". New Orleans Times-Picayune (22 July). Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan stand arguing on a pile of books about evolution and creationism.
1925 "A Tennessee Boy Reads During A Thunder-Storm [the noise of Scopes trial] a copy of Darwin's "The Descent of Man". New York World (23 July).
1925 "'There ain't no such animal!'" Words attributed to Bryn under the "family tree" where an ape throws a coconut at him.
1925 "HER BODYGUARD?" Christian Tribune (20 July). A tiny figure in the USA with a sword labelled "ANTI-EVOLUTION" seems quite unnecessary to the great spirit of "RELIGION" and "TRUTH" above.
1925 "'GOSH!'" St. Louis Dispatch. Reprinted in the Christian Tribune (22 July). A hillbilly "Dayton Juror" is confronted with blast of scientific terms and ideas around evolution.
1925 "THE OAKS THAT BRAVED A THOUSAND STORMS" Literary Digest (25 July).
1925 "THE NET RESULTS". New York Evening Post. Reprinted in the Christian Tribune (28 July). "the law" and "science" lay broken while a monkey "Scopes case" jumps out the window.
1925 "THE JOY-RIDERS | PUBLICITY TENNESSEE LAW". Life (July): 15. Bryan plays on a see-saw with an orangutan.
1925 "THE WAR Against PROGRESS | The Evolution Inquisition in Tennessee". The Occult Digest (6 July).
1925 "THE PROBABLY RESULT!" Omaha World-Herald and Literary Digest (1 August). The vignette would seem to imply that when the teacher denies evolution the student will privately read about the forbidden topic of evolution.
1925 "THE BIG WORRY." Columbus Dispatch. Reprinted in the Literary Digest (1August). The big worry is that other US states may catch a case of "LEGISLATIVE MONKEYPHOBIA".
1925 "SPARKS AND TINDER!" Literary Digest (1 August). The Scopes case is likely to set off a fire of "religious strife".
1925 "The only thing left standing" New York World and Outlook (5 August). Like pollution, the Scopes case has generated "personalities", "bad manners", "bunk", and "ignorance".
1925 "A LIVING PROOF OF DARWINISM". Daily Worker (Chicago and New York) (15 August): [9]. Soviet take on Scopes trial. (Library of Congress) "From monkey to a lawmaker of the Tennessee type who prohibits the teaching of evolution in the schools (as seen by Komsomolskaya Pravda.)" This Russian tabloid newspaper was founded in 1925 as an organ of the Central Committee.
1925 "'What are you crying about?' | 'A brute just told me I'm descended from an American." Cartoon identifies Canard Enchainé, Paris as the original source. Living Age 326, no. 4235 (5 September): 519.
1925 Review of Reviews (September). Bryan had died in the interim.
1925 "THE MISSING LINK | THERE AINT NO SICH ANIMAL | A COMMISSION FOR BORGLUM IN TENNESSEE". By Tousey. Life (August): 28. John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum was an American sculptor best known for his work on Mount Rushmore.
1925 "PROGRESS OF EVOLUTION IN TENNESSEE." St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
1925 "Barnum Outdone" Atlanta Constitution. By cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay.
1925 "SO THIS IS EVOLUTION?" By Paul Burns. A harsh cartoon, showing a science teacher holding the "book of progress" crucified in Tennessee. (Religion in American History)
1925 Bryan as a cockroach who has trailed a blot of ink across the state. Post by Crow, John L. 2013. The Evolution Inquisition: An Occultist's Response to The Scopes Trial. (Religion in American History)
1925 "THE LITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSE IN TENNESEE. | NO EVOLUTION TAUT IN THIS CAVE." By Rowan Kirby. The New York World. Reprinted in Scientific Monthly, p. 224.
1925 "FOR I'M THE LORD HIGH EXECUTIONER" New York World.
1925 Puddle to Paradise, by B. H. Shadduck Illustrated by Alden. 2d ed. privately printed. A fundamentalist and anti-evolution booklet that was popular at the time of the Scopes Trial.
1925 The Toadstool Among The Tombs, by B. H. Shadduck, Illustrated by Alden. Jocko-Homo Publications. A fundamentalist and anti-evolution booklet that was popular at the time of the Scopes Trial.
1925 Jocko-Homo Heaven Bound, (Jocko-Homo= Monkey Man) by B. H. Shadduck, Jocko-Homo Publications. A fundamentalist and anti-evolution booklet that was popular at the time of the Scopes Trial.
1925 Sheet music cover "YOU CAN'T MAKE A MONKEY OUT OF ME". Music by Billy Rose and Clarence Gaskill.
1925 "HIT AGAIN". By Parrish. Banner (Nashville, Tenn). A monkey holding a book of "DARWIN" is hit by a brick "SUPREME COURT DECISION".
1925 Review of Reviews (July).
1925 Review of Reviews (August).
1925 Review of Reviews (September).
1925 Living Age (29 August). Reproducing two cartoons on the Scopes Trial, one from La Tribuna (Rome) and the other the Arbeiter Zeitung (Vienna).
1925 "Die Affenkomödie von Dayton | 'Na, das ist erfreulich — im Staate Tennessee will man um keinen Preis von uns abstammen!" (The ape comedy in Dayton | Well, that's good news - in the state of Tennessee they don't want to be descended from us at all!) Apes in zoo reading The Dayton Herald about Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee. By Thomas Theodor Heine. Simplicissimus 30(18): 262.
1925 "Bestrafte Ketzerei | 'Die glaubten nicht an Darwin'" (Punished heresy | 'They didn't believe in Darwin'). By Thomas Theodor Heine. Simplicissimus (12 October): 405.
1925 "Das Mittelalter" (The Middle Ages). Lachen links: das republikanische Witzblatt (Germany) 42(31): Front cover. ('Europe is getting too enlightened for me, I will go to Tennessee U.S.A!').
1925 "I tell you, Bryan I right: there is absolutely no similarity between man and animal." Whereas the man on the right resembles the camels behind them. Lachen links: das republikanische Witzblatt (Germany) 42(31): 373.
1925 [foreign caricatures on struggle against Darwinism]. Lachen links: das republikanische Witzblatt (Germany) 42(31): 375.
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