Governor Peay of Tennessee can doubtless be awarded honorable mention, if not a prize, for his recent action, a not worthy bit of gubernatorial casuistry. Explaining in a statement to the Tennessee Legislature yesterday why he signed a bill to prohibit the teaching of evolution in the schools of the state, he linked an appeal for return to the old fashioned in the Bible with a citation of "one's right to worship according to the dictates of his conscience."

A peat thumb-nail sketch of His Excellency's Intellectual fibre, as well as the crude educational level of Tennessee, is drawn later by his own equivocal words--"After a careful examination, I can find nothing of consequence in the books now being taught in our schools which this bill would interfere with in the slightest manner. Therefore, it will not put our teachers in any jeopardy. Probably the law will never be applied. It may not be sufficiently definite to permit of any specific application or enforcement. Nobody believes that it is going to be an active statute."