NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 3647, 2 December 1918, Page 2

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The Palmerston Seat

The political fate of Palmers ton is settled. A strong and representative deputation of business men offered it Ito Mr. J. A. Nash, and he accepted it. We like the prompt way in which the offer was accepted. Mr. Nash did not ask the deputation to call again. He agreed straightaway. This augurs well. It shows that at long last Mr. Nash has found himself politically. He has very wisely, also, attached himself to the National Party. He can declare for the Wardites or the Masseyites when sides are called after the turmoil of the war is over. Of course, there will be opposition to the Nash acceptance—Mr. Crabb is out, also (probably) Mr. Robertson, ex-M.P. ex-journalist, now a flaxmill worker — but the opposition will be in vain. Mayor Nash has done splendid war work and has spent himself in fighting the epidemic. Ho has served 11 years in the Mayoral chair, and fully deserves the call of the Palmerstonians to go up higher.

The German Professors

No section of the German nation more emphatically spelt culture with a k than the most learned members of the professional boards of Hunland. Time was when a professor out of Germany claimed and secured first consideration amongst the savants of the earth, of which they were the salt. But never agaiii I They have proved themselves the very Huns of the Huus, and have used their brains during the course of the war in devising devilish deeds, in working cunning intrigues, in pushing propaganda, and in defending or justifying the vile deeds of the Huns. To-day Germany is putting up her professors to whine for a mitigation of the penalties of her crimes.

Professor v. Archbishop

Take the case of Professor Adolf Deissmann, who appealed to the Archbishop of Canterbury against the terms of the armistice, claiming that they are unchristian, "and a sin against the new spirit which is passing through mankind." AVho created this new spirit? Not Adolf Deissmann, despite the fact that he is probably one of the greatest living authorities on the times of the Apostle Paul and a leading exponent of the Pauline Letters in the New Testament Scriptures. A very Christian—a very Hun, •for he bolstered uj> the case for tho Kaiser what time, "through the exigencies of war," the Hohenzolleins and the Junkers and the Professors of the Fatherland were ravaging Belgium and France, killing sisters of mercy, and enslaving prisoners of war. Thus did the one and only Adolf Deissmann, 52 years of age, whose record of achievements in Who's AVho occupied half a column (before tho war) who was degenerate and unchristian, although a minister of the Gospel of Love. Aptly did the English Archbishop reply to him: "Righteousness must be vindicated."