| Show IS OYSTER A FISH7POINT IN DISPUTE I Hot Discussion in Which Ihe Church and the Court Disagree With Science Chlogo HrrluJ Whpn I n lIh not n flah Whn It 011 oyter Whit kind of 11 nolee anno an 0 ter A noisy noise nnno an oter Thore arc the riddle on thoe nro he answers whIch Ih ppnll of Mor and nnd Virginian r hurllllg 1elc Id fth nt one nllother 0 the lJounullr IIn tht dlle the Iwo otllt In uecu thc 10110 who 111 olon th wtr front of the two rommomcnlth IInu nnu 1Ilr 1Ilng In hat lhe cnn pick Ollt or tho cn nre t wnr oer th quollon Is n ojste 0 010 la i law That li I tho quPOII < Witt folks who hae folloou the 1Iculon thoueh all the long rgllmcnt to whIch It has glen rl re 1P01 to eoncrl that un ojs tor m 1 a 1110 nlnIavv but hold t n n I I = nO 1 n nter n nnu thlog a nolo I 11 1110 Ilnd there I jut o mnh ulttcren I > etwn tho two n thre I hetwen the Ielhnnt IInu the kangor kangorMAHYLAND MAHYLAND VS VIRQIKIA So say the MarylanJcrs and Bo nlRo say the scientists VII clnlnn how eHr holrl the contrur Iew nd ont fhelr awe they thesupreme delh hCJnrl srr court of Ihe United States and the Catholic churrh The knowledge ot the faculty of the John Hopkins unl ernlty has been called Into the contro ersy nnd John Hopkins being n Ilaltlmore Institution wns probably glad to throw the weight of Us opinion In for ot Mirlands side I In the dispute I dont know what an oyster Is I legally or rellsiousl said the eminent blolorlst of that Institution hut sclen tlllcally he reitalnly U I not a nth A fish Is I a erlebrnte start with nnd nn ojster Is I not The ojster Is I a mollusk The difference between the two then Is I that one has a backbone while the other has not and In the nnlmat kingdom king-dom there I nothing thot put two rrentun fnrther < urt than that oue point Offish ronrse on oter I not n Of-fish The dlffreneo hotwn Ih oatr l111d tho fish Is the dltterenco bChHon the June lIug nnd thp 010 wn the re mnrlc of W V Loce > p < ofeor of I biology In Northwestern University With biologists ther Is no dispute oer this question I Ihe ulster Is not a fish I WI Is far down the line rI In I the list of softbodied animal while the fish belongs be-longs to the class haing n backbone If the people > ot Maryland nnd Virginia will postpone a settlement for a few million > ears peihaps the ojster will then hoe evoulted Into a great class of hlell tho lIh I now It memhcr Irrhp8 on i Cnrollnol Gibbons the I1ll1l claIOntlon I In oppoltlon to Mologl nnif the rhureh may regard ossters ana crnns ni nh In a IIher1 construction but ther Is I only one point of re mblancc ticy both lUe In w atcr Aglnt tho rontnUon of the Mry Jnnder In this matter thourh Is 1 the mlnnt Cnrollnt GllIlIon who speaks for tho ehurch ot Home OPINION OF Tim CHURCH The church has nlwnB regarded fish osstetfl and crabs as belonging to the same gvnus and therefore l > er mlsslblo as food on fast das a and In Lent They all 11c In the water and are all alike cold I blooded Indeed tho rhurch pernlIs th uo for ro1 of ne311 nil klnu of 1Ilng erenturea thot nr < tnkcn out of the wter In cludlng tcrrapln In 00010 ectlon the Inw I itched notably In New Or In hero 1 rcrtln kind or wotor towl I permlttd t 0 lI ntn on rdst un b < < allnc It M 11 nhy tot In addillon to thl the VIlnlnn In < u Inlm the onpport of the Unit 1 IIte Supremo rou t fOI their Iue of Ih lIrgumcnt nu tlleJr cOIIcnllon tint nn ojster li I n ilth or oumo onh r nlh lahl n hlnh olllclil of the slate That was decided hv the fiuprimc court In the case of Wlmrton a Marylander who as arrested for tilling oysters on til Virginia slilc of the Ioconioke bound The lompact of ITfcS under which Wharton was arrowed referred In terms only to fishing In the Potomac rlMr and Pocomoke cnunil The Supreme Su-preme court sa > s It is I conceded that the light of fishing when not qualified exlenu to the taklno of I > tll 1tlng nh nnu 1011 nh nnd III onolher Inrt ot tho courts opinion In speklng of tho powers of Virginia In Pocomoke ound It rf thlt the etnto h power pow-er to 1 nil oPrrry Iw fO the protection of fish Ihereln wheher floating or shell The court In thl opinion clearly put Otcrn In tha conns Hsh delgnUng the hn ipeclf n latlng and shell Ilsh ALWAYS IN DISPUTn This question about genus of th nrls with ev ltllnor 01 the legislatures of Mnrsland nnd Virginia It Is I nlwaa In dlputi and has been the occasion ot the shedding of blooil Connected Con-nected with It Is the boundary dispute which Involves valuable muter beds lithe li-the Pocomoke sound The question 1 kept perpetually op n by the man < onfllc18 1hen tho InrIOJ11 en nnu tho Ylrlnla t < r pollc fhp 011 comllet betwn Ihe ott UI In lib > Rna to the eople 0 h Btat tho light to tlc otcra In Ihc ntr i ot Iht other but olnc 1It tlmo Miglnli h 01 I torllid ding Maryland Ilf IK i men to floh In Vllglnln wntrrH To nolrl tIt the Mar > land r claim thnt ojstera ole not Hull and thus Kle rise to the dllt In which science takes one slit nd llnds urrnleil galnn U the Hupren rourt of the Tnlled Btates nu tho Catholic chlllth |
