The scopes monkey trial was a no brainer for the locals who gave it to
B.Jennings and Christianity by a country mile,only old fox,Clarence Darrow
was on the ether,broadcasting to the broader audience."It's the technology
stupid."
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/DARROW.HTM
The early 1920's found social patterns in chaos. Traditionalists, the older
Victorians, worried that everything valuable was ending. Younger modernists
no longer asked whether society would approve of their behavior, only
whether their behavior met the approval of their intellect. Intellectual
experimentation flourished. Americans danced to the sound of the Jazz Age,
showed their contempt for alcoholic prohibition, debated abstract art and
Freudian theories. In a response to the new social patterns set in motion
by modernism, a wave of revivalism developed, becoming especially strong in
the American South.
Who would dominate American culture--the modernists or the traditionalists?
Journalists were looking for a showdown, and they found one in a Dayton,
Tennessee courtroom in the summer of 1925....[CONTINUED]
