Citizens Say—

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 679, 3 June 1929, Page 8

Citizens Say —

(To the Editor.)

HEAVY TRAFFIC FEES Sir, — Lately it has been noticeable that the Automobile Association lias been organising and -working up opposition against the abolition of heavy traffic fees. Does it never strike these same motorists that, while they are running cars principally for luxury purposes, the people running heavy traffic vehicles are running them fpr their livelihood? ONE-TONNER. TO SEEK A RULING? Sir, — I, with other ratepayers. who attended the City Council meeting last Thursday evening, feel so much incensed with the manner in which the election of members to the Transport Board was conducted by the council, that it has been decided in the interest of the ratepayers of the whole transport area, to apply to the Supreme Court to give a ruling as to the validity of those proceedings. I would be glad if ratepayers sympathising with this attitude would communicate with me, GEO. WIGG. 60 Jervois Road, Ponsonby. SHOW N.Z. SPIRIT! Sir, — In all this hubbub about the Emden's visit, many citizens are as usual forgetful of certain facts. To begin with, thousands of Germans, Austrians, and even Turks hated the war just as much as we did. But, being ground down under the heel of the Junker, they simply had to endure and suffer until their hour struck. Then what happened? The German High Admiral led off by openly defying the Kaiser’s order to go out and light, because he knew it would be a useless sacrifice. His defiance produced the revolution in the German Navy, which then spread to the army. Thus, in spite of all the bitter memories of the war, it is well to remember in connection with the Emden’s visit that it was the German admiral who led the way to peace. It is also well to remember that the sufferings of the war have known neither nationality nor frontier, neither colour nor flag. It was all the product of a corrupt policy. And, since that policy was crushed by the Germans themselves. why should we be vindictive toward youths a great number of whom are probably war orphans, for ali we know. And many of them are doubtless Saxons, who were the cleanest and most chivalrous fighters in the whole of the German Army. They have doubtless been told what fine

fellows the New Zealanders were in France, and therefore are eagerly looking forward to their visit here, after the manner of all youths, as a great adventure. Their visit is indeed a great opportunity for us to show them that the fineness of the New Zealand spirit has not become cankered by miserable malice. Surely we are worth more than that. W AIM AN A No. 12. LUNATION Sir. — If your correspondent, who wrote under this heading in The Sun of May 30, wrote seriously, he implied that I am a believer in evolution. No observer of nature can help believing in evolution. We find it everywhere throughout creation, including every form of life upon this earth. Everything evolves or develops, and every organism must become modified by changes in the conditions in which it lives. But, it is equally evident that all such modifications have their limitations, and to my mind any theory that man is descended from the monkey, or that all species, whether animal or vegetable, have evolved from a common primary life cell, is contrary to Scripture, to common sense and to our knowledge of the past. In all the wider range of such a theory, not one particle of proof can be found. If the Divinity could produce one form of life, why not millions of different forms to suit the millions of different natural conditions merging one into the other? And what more inevitable than that in those millions of different forms we should find striking similarity of structure, more particularly in €heir embryonic stages? I can hardly find patience, still less time, to enter upon any lengthy discussion of this .subject. But, in some references to the past history of the earth, which I hope to submit to you soon, I shall incidentally mention one very important point which ultra-evolutionists seem to overlook. Thus, your correspondent and I are both opponents of this insidious attempt to introduce extraneous, pernicious and unsound teaching into our State schools. But he goes on to misquote me by transposing my words. I did not say that we must attribute most of our sorrow and crime to the lunation, but to deranged mentality, it is true that the mentality of every man fluctuates throughout the lunation. and that fluctuation should strengthen it. But mental derangement, though more noticeable at eertain periods of the lunation, etc., re®V lls / ror ß our ignorance and neglect Ure s law '“—God's laws. .So that wnnt I say is not in conflict with rh ° story nt Oenesis which, so far as I can test it. T find to be literally and wonderfully true. Th« discrepancies between Chapters i. and ii. are

apparent, not real. They arise t this brief creation story bavin*, culled from two separate which were ancient even at the of Moses. And they show that n crafty attempt was made to maae iu story more plausible. After quotins Darwin's words. •» is subject, like all mammals. h>re-_. beasts, and even insects, to_ that tn terious law which causes diseasesa vital functions to follow lunar pel io - I might have added that plants may be included in such a statem -■ for after arriving at certain ful ?° , mental conclusions respecting suen law, I first verified them by tests up the vegetable kingdom, then u P°h animal Mr. Terry is no doubt corr in what he says respecting the Chen cal composition of the a.uim a i’*K»t plant and the earth, and the part in- - sun plays. It is often my aim , improve health by augmenting in sun’s influence and using the boa> selective power in artificially Vttrat: ing to it what it needs from > earth. There is, and always will - much need for churches and P re^fv s ers. not to flaunt man-made doctrtw and ceremonials, but just to teach uGod's will. _ F. K. FIELD. NOTICE TO CORRESPONPENT “Sherlock Holmes.” —Tlip jury livered its verdict and It would better, at this stage, to refrain from further comment.—Ed., The Sun.