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he Baily Bulletin
Vol. VII
College’ Station, Texas, Wednesday, April 16, 1924.
No. 163
DEBATERS WIN FROM
OKLAHOMA A. & I.
Dr. Summey Entertains Debaters
Coaches and Officials at Dinner
Preceding’ Debate.
The A. & M. College of Texas De-
bating team, composed of G. D. Hol-
land of Bryan and S. L. Fitzhugh of
Waco, defeated the Oklahoma A. &
M. team composed of George Benson
and John Murray on Monday night in
a lively tilt on the proposition that
the United States should join the
League cf Nations. The decision
was rendered by Professor Ellwood
Griscom, Jr., of the Department cf
Public Speaking at the University of
Texas. The chairman of the even-
ing was Dr. F. A. Buechel, who was
assisted by Cadet Lieutenant Colonel
J. F. Baker as timekeeper. Though
the attendance was disappointing,
there was a general feeling in the
audience that debating had made a
gocd start at the A. & M. College and
that interest in forensic work would
susbtantially increase as a result of
this debate.
The debate was promoted by the
A. & M. College Debating Society, 2
small but active organization which
is now headed by S. A. Debnam of
Lamesa. The other officers are A.
Bayless ¢f Hillsboro, Vice president,
and L. E. Hagan of Lancaster, Sec-
retary-Treasurer. The Debating So-
ciety and the debate team have been
coached this year by Dr. George Surn-
mey, Jr., head of the Department of
English, formerly debate coach at the
North Carolina State College of Ag-
riculture and Engineering.
After the debate the merits cf the
debate, including matter, order of
speakers, division of subject matter.
and delivery were discussed in a pri-
vate conference which was attended
only by the critic-judge, the dehate
teams, the coaches, the president of
the Debating Society and the chair
man of the evening.
In honor of the visitors and of ihe
A. & M. debate team, Dr. Summey ,
entertained the following at dinne
in the private dining room of Sbisa
Hall before the debate; Prifesso:
Harry H. Anderson, debate coach;
George Benson and John Murray, de
baters, Oklahoma Agricultural an
(Continuad on Col. 3, poge 4)
Colonel Todd Outlines Concept of Peace;
Force is Necessity for Human Progress
Presenting data from history, sci-| not good per se. It is fear of the
ence and the words of contemporar-|law which keeps at least a part if
ies to disprove the arguments of pa-| not the larger part of mankind good.
cifist theorists that civilization was a| Again we must consider tha® every
preventative of war, of economists |living thing exists by virtue of force
that war is uneconomical, of physio-|or energy exercised in some form.
logists that war is physical suicide} Scientists also tell us that these forces
and of moralists that morality is suf-|are in constant states of conflict with
ficient and omnipotent Colonel C. C.|each other, than when these conflicts
Todd presented to the Social Science | cease, inertia, decay and eventually
Seminar at its last meeting a concepc| destruction follow. If the human race
of peace based on law and force. |should ever reach that state of ¢
“That action which, in my judgmen |lization, morality and self satisfac-
is most likely to produce the great- | tion that all ambition, energy and for-
est degree of tranquility between na | ce should be removed then we know
tions are courts of international ar |that all progress would cease. [I be-
bitration,” he said. lieve this was amply proven during
By a review of history he show the Dark Ages of which the histo.
that those nations which have reach- | ian tells us:
ed the greatest progr in HR ‘The peace of Rome was a thing
tion are those who han RIE of the remote past, a dream cf the
greatest amount of HOLT sat jold days that were gone forever.
national life, those ndellbd t | It ° was Hin udshiph of fight or die ar?
the greatest proportion EE aL (Gite, rally péople preferred to
national life in war, od ys the | fight. EA i IRD 4
nation generally regarded as having | ‘During that dd. Sone torch of
practiced military oppression, and|learning and art which had illumi-
which compelled military service from | nated the world of the Egyptian Greek
its citizens was the most peaceful | and Roman was burning very low.
of nations during the period preced- Without the knights and their good
ing the World War. Between 1800 | friends, the Monks, civilization would
and 1900 there were 53.5 years o. have been extinguished entirely
war in England, 35 years (f war |the human race would have been
in France, 13.5 years of war in Aus- |forced to begin once more where the
caveman left off.
tria, and 13 years in Germany.
“May we not conclude from the “Thus we have exemplified as was
above quotations that many of us in| before and has been since that all
our great desire to see war abolished! true peace and progress depends upon
from the face of the earth overlook so-called moral influence being linked
the disagreeable facts with reference |up with, and based upon, the forces
to the steps necessary to bring about|of the world; that it is foolish for
a stabilized condition of peace and|moralists to tell us that morality
secure at least a minimum amoun | should be developed at the expense
of armed conflict?” Colonel Todd ask-| of all force.
ed. | Considering the argument that war
Answering th declaration of the | is economically unprofitable and for
pacifist that morality is a highe |this reascn can never be waged again
principle than brute force Colonel | Colonel Todd answered that “the fact
Tcdd said it was a basic principle | that Germany failed in her attempt
that morality is not a condition which'to expand her economic life by wag-
just happens but is the growth of | ing war was the strongest possible
time and subject to many conflicting | viroof that nations must always be
forces. “Powerful forces are re-! prepared to curb and control the
quired to establish these princirles | forces of any people, economic or
and yet more force is needed to main | otherwise, whenever they seek to pros-
tain them”, he said. “I believe it|per at the expense of cthers. KEcono-
will be admitted by all that man i (Con*inued on Col. 1, Page 4)