Citizens Say

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 971, 14 May 1930, Page 8

Citizens Say

(To the Editor.)

THE FATHER OF EVOLUTION , Sir, — In reply to Mr. Herbert Mulvihill, I ! did not say that Herbert Spencer gave Evolution its “genesis.” I said he was the “father” of the theory of evolution generally, just as we say that Adam Smith was the father of political economy, though we know that there were various writers upon economics—including Aristotle—long before Adam Smith was born. I think H. Spencer was the first writer to trace Evolution from the creation of universes and planets to the evolution of the social organism. Of course. Swam- j merdam, Bonnet, Spallanzani, Haller,* and Curvie all maintained that the firs t-;crea ted individuals successively included one "within the other; and that generation is merely the act of unfolding. KIXG SOLOMON. BASEBALL IN AUCKLAND Sir,— I read an announcement in Satur- 1 day evening’s Sun in reference to start- ; ing baseball in Auckland. Baseball 1 is eminently a game to enchant those • who play it. It is so quick, so full of \ life and incident, and offers so many i opportunities for personal distinction ' and individual effort—as well in batting as in fielding, running, throwing and systematic activity—that the minds of players are engrossed in it to the exclusion of all things outside the 1

diamond. The player lives in a world limited to three bases, a home plate, and two foul lines, and for a couple of hours or so, finds relief from business cares, and snatches a holiday for his brain. At the same time, he is participating - in a grand exercise for muscle and brain; developing his ingenuity and his chest at one and the same moment. From the sportsman's point of view, baseball should stand far ahead of most manly games. Those knowing nothing of baseball are apt to look down upon it as a scientific expansion of rounders. It undoubtedly is so, but the fact is not to its discredit. There are many points calculated to fascinate a player, and baseball possesses them. The proficiency arrived at after a few games has been really astonishing to those who have applied \hemselves to its study. In the course of a few games they have emerged * as experts, and have actually defeated older players who had known and practised the game for years. These examples prove that baseball, though scientific to a high degree, is not a hard game nor a forbidding one. It is open to anybody to learn it and become speedily efficient, provided he is willing to concentrate all his energies on the task he undertakes. J. LYONS. Takapuna. CURE FOR INFLUENZA i Sir.- — The Sun’s account of the pathetic , death of a little child from influenzal l lung congestion must arouse sympathy |in all who read or hear of it. Unable | to secure medical aid, the feelings of its agonised parents can be imagined. • Here is a remedy that has saved my I lif* when I was t death's door wi ll influenza and had to depend on myself I alone. Cut an onion in half, prick it

with a fork and squeeze and rub in the raw juice on throat and chest. Then heat squeezed onions in fire and use 1 them for poultices on throat and chest. This strangely simple remedy has on three occasions saved me from death and has enabled me to save many others much suffering. I discovered it by accident some years ago and have never known it fail to give relief to either young or old and any sufferer* who try it can rest assured that if it , does them no good it will certainly do ■ them no harm. WILLIAM PJEHRY. j Great Barrier Island.