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Mr. Khan Tells a Tale Fable of Leaf Helps Solve Perplexing Riddle of Life By MAHAMED A. KHAN' (Editors Note: Mr. Khan is a graduate student from Pakis tan. In this article he tells a fable fo illustrate his feelings about the whence and whither of life.) dained. Every rise has a fall. Min lant, but they did not realize that takes birth, grows, and then dies, the same misfortune awaited them too. Likewise people grow, prosper and die out. The old order when it tends to decay, or fails to carry out the duties entrusted to it, is replaced by a new one. Look at me. Why and how I took birth, nobody knows; but the fact stands _„ D __ Chaos! distress! fear! seems to one fj ne morning I appeared beings, regardless of their religion, echo like a “blast of consterna- on the face of my mother (tree). tion. Why this trouble between jj er j 0 y knew no bounds. She everything in this universe has man to man, and nation to na- sari g anc i danced in accompaniment been subjected to the control of tion? Is this a struggle for ex- -with wind. Se fed me and at the man for the collective benefit of istence, peace or supremacy? Have sam e time taught me to earn, live the whole of mankind. Man is the we lost faith in the invincible, in- an d let live. I was happy and central point of the material uni- visible almighty God ? Have we complacent as if eternal peace had forgotten the golden principles CO me. “Do not forget, on my flesh and blood is destined to rise someone stronger, more vigor ous and prosperous. And the circle will repeat itself.’ Let us not forget that human’ that one fine morning I appeared L ‘blast of consterna- on the face of my mother (tree), caste or creed, are ail equal and MUSIC ! IS&r, w \V^ From Beginning to Present Vo -Jin to panese Course of U. S. Relations A Iways Dramatic §11 preached by the religious leaders? Can we still say with honesty that we yet respect and practice equal ity, social justice and peace as our cherished goal? While seeking a reply to these questions I went to study, but failed. Confused, with head heavy, I lay on my bed, but these ideas appeared to have taken a complete hold of my brain. Sleep seemed to evade me. I cursed myself in disgust I planned to take a walk. I walked through the trees, standing like sentinels on both sides of the road, in per fect calmness; still thoughtful, stray ideas hanging heavy over my heart. Soon a shedding leaf addressed me thus: “Be not grieved! It was so or- “But bad days were in store for me. I got aged and so did my earning capacity. “Not only this, my enemies (flowers) made a headway. They robbed me of most of what I had; under the garb of perpetuation of my kith and kin. Even among >them, fight ensued; only a few could survive. Mother (tree) grew more and more indifferent. Over looking equality and social justice, even my youngers, forgot their obligations to me. And I started starving. The more I thought of it, the more I fretted and fumed. I became emaciated and heart broken. All my energies faded verse, or simply stated, man is the sun around which the material uni verse revolves. The materials up on which human progress is based are the common heritage of the whole of mankind. If man keeps fresh the object of his life and proceeds apace with its achievement—his obli gations to God, his parents, re lations and neighbors, develops the spirit of service, self con- tenment and submission, and permits not greed to play its part in the distribution of the produce of human labor so as to secure a proper share to the in- dividual and community, all troubles will fade away. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS By ROBERT E. GEIGER AP Writer Japan joined the allies in World building up between the two na- War I, and the peace terms gave tions. it a mandate over the former Ger- In 1940 the U. S. began curtail- American - Japanese relations, man islands in the Pacific, north of mg its exports of aviation gasoline, born amid drama, have remained the equator. scrap iron and other products to dramatic through most of their In 1921 the United States invited Japan. Also there were a series of course. Japan and other powers to a naval notes protesting insults to Ameri- Japan in the early 19th Century conference. It resulted in an agree- cans. Interference with American wanted to remain aloof from all ment that for each five capital commerce and opportunities in the nations. Her emperors and shot- ships in the navy of the United Orient, guns (powers behind the throne) States Great Britain should have Crisis Deepened had forbidden the building of ves- five but Japan only three. . . sels capable of ocean navigation. The great (fecline in U. S. Japan- The crisis deepened when Japan The ships of foreigners had been ese relations was well under way permission from the Vichy fired upon. in 1934 when the Japanese repu- The United States Congress de- diated this naval agreement, cided to change all this. President In 1931 the Japanese had oc- Millard Fillmore sent Commodore cupied all Manchuria in a dis- French government in 1941 to use air bases in southern Indo-Ghina that were within striking distance of the British naval base of Sing- Matthew C. Perry to Uraga harbor pute with Russia over the south ‘Tore. The United States, the Brit in 1853, asking the Japanese for Manchurian railway., a treaty. The United States joined with When the Japanese failed to the League of Nations in protest- sign he told them he would return ing, but the Japanese set up a the next year. In February 1854 puppet state, Manchukuo. he returned to Uraga with a larger In 1937 fighting between Jap- force, which so impressed the Jap- anese and Chinese soldiers broke anese they agreed to a historic out near the Marco Polo bridge document of peace and friendship, outside Peking, China, touching off giving Americans access to two a full scale war. ports. Other nations were quick Japanese airplanes attacked and ® se a note demanding they Avith- to request similar privileges. sank the American gunboat “Pan- draw from Indo-Chma and China. Japan Comes Out if anchored in the Yangtze above Attack Was Reply Nanking that year. The Japanese m ,, , n i tt t. In the years that followed Japan apologized and agreed to' pay $2,- ^tack upon 1 earl Harbor British persuaded the Iranians to sit down began an industrialization and na- 250,000 damage, but the attack Jw 0- JVi!;= \^IT fiuain with British renresenta- VJ d program and started world- sharpened the feeling of ill will PT To this, although a loimal mes- agdin with British re T£™^ wide trade. Its annihilation of the sage, refusing to accept the Amer- British Remain Hostile In Iranian Oil Dispute ish Empire and the Netherlands In dies on July 25, 1941, stopped vir tually all trade with Japan. Prince Konoye, Japanese pre mier, suggested some of the trou bles might be solved in diplomatic discussion. A conference was held in November in Washington. Secretary of State Cordell Hull on Nov. 26 presented the Japan- Page 2 doom Prophetic London, Aug. 28—CP) „ , , , i . , , ^ . officials yesterday coldly brushed , , , , . .. The author feels deeply indebted 0 ff an idgg, to settle the Iranian tives—something of an , away slowly and steadily and fm- to the editorial staff for hospital- oil dispute by appointing an Amer- ment considering the high feel of Kussian fleet and the capture of ally here I am. Others felt jubi- ity of their columns. lean to manage the great Abadan the two nations at the time. refinery. Harriman, informants said, ex- The suggestion, contained in pressed som criticisms of ertain British news dispatches from aspects of the way the British Washington received some promin- have been realiiig with the Iran- ence here as presidential envoy W. ians. These were not disclosed al- Averell Harriman plunged into a though it is generally known that a t Portsmouth, N. H., and a treaty round of talks with British leaders Britain has been given, no Ameri- of peace was signed there on Aug. on the prospects of a British-Iran- can biassing for her plan to hold 29, 1905. ian settlement. onto Abadan, come what may, There was no evidence to sug gest, however, that the idea of Battalion Editorials TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1951 Port Arthur in 1904 demonstrated how quickly it had developed into a military power. The United States in 1905, of fered to mediate the Russian-Jap- anese War. A conference was held Cyanamid Firm Renews AES Grant ican terms, later was delivered in Washington. After virtually unconditional sur render in August, 1945, and after Gen. Douglas MacArthur set up occupation, the Japanese estab lished a democratic government. Hirohito remained as emperor, but The American Cynamid Com pany of New York has indicated a renewal of “the agreement with final authority was in the' hands of their company under which the General MacArthur as the repre sum of $1,600 is provided for our sentative of the Allied powers. Serious clouds arose over Jap- studies on defoliation of cotton as The United States and Great anese- American relationships, an aid to mechanical harvesting Britain in July 1951 announced the Moreover, because of Japanese im- and a reduction of trash in the draft of a peace treaty for Japan. The gloom that made silhouettes of sol diers and flapping flags Friday at the Fish Final Review may have been prophetic. For this class finished its freshman military course at a time when the world is in the most severe state of uneasiness since the last great American retreat last Fall. A Rebate, Yet! CTATE SEN. Harry Byrd Jr. of Virginia ^ (son of the United States senator ) boasts a distinction for the Old Dominion which, as far as he knows, no other state can claim. Virginia has a tax refund law, sponsored by the younger Mr. Byrd, under which the gov ernment hopes to reduce next December tax bills to the extent of a surplus paid in for this year. The way the new automatic tax reduc tion law works: In June, one month before the end of the fiscal year, the state comptrol ler estimates the total amount of state rev enues, and subtracts from it the amount of essential operating needs as determined by the Legislature, and gives the difference back to the taxpayers in the form of a reduc tion of their next tax bill. What happens if the anticipated excess fails to materialize? Well, naturally the taxpayers will have to pay accordingly next time. Virginia may be the only state with such an automatic tax reduction law, Texans know nothing about state tax reduction or refunds, automatic or otherwise. But they enjoy one slight advantage over the Byrd state. The latter has a state income tax for individuals and corporations, which produces half of the state’s revenues. And when Virginia income taxes are reduced 10 per cent they are still 90 per cent more than Texans have to pay of that kind of taxes. Texas has a constitutional law designed to restrict expenditures to the. amount of prospective revenue. It would be mighty nice to have also a reduction law like Vir ginia’s. It might not be very workable here, so complicated is our fiscal system; but get ting an actual discount in his tax bill would be a sweet experience for the embattled Tex as taxpayers. It might be a good vote-get ting device, too. —(The Houston Post). No Official Word suspended indefinitely. 2. The Reds, heavily reinforced during haKf^iaflrftomWash- t , * , ... - . . . . the lull while the peace talks were going on, fag*** #»***«*»* SfbothToXn a^d Tehrk’to ret riSbTandtacial SSSJK have again begun attacking U.N. positions .. A 5 v t ) c r, ‘ J J_ lax a little and try to accomodate mained as a thorn in American- gestion as a way out of the dead- in force. lock the British and Iranians have 3. “Caucasian” troops in the Red for- developed. ces could mean that Russian volunteers “Clearly it’s an American kite, are being added to those of the Chinese, with But it’s a kite which won’t fly.” the aim of strengthening Red to tees and in- j s ^. 0 ] iee p h er f 00 ^ j n ij- a nion troducing an extra scare element, that of, door. all-out globial war, into the Korean police action. Couple these three points with the fact that the Soviet Union is sending a delega- tion to the Japanese peace conference, for to Harriman, on his way to Wash ington from Tehran, gave Attlee’s leading colleagues his own assess ment of the Iranian situation. Britain, Iran Feelings High measure of warmth after he Texas Lass Has learning to Be Bullfighter Turnabout each other. Japanese relations. The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman’* Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, nnder he Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches cred ited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Joe Arnett Editor Pat Morley Women’s Editor no purpose other than to attempt to block signing of a U. S.-Japan treaty, and you have a combination of circumstances which may mean that the boys marching Friday in Final Review may soon be marching in a find showdown in the gloom of another night in another land. But these boys were born in a depres sion, and they have grown up in a world of change, when “normal” values no longer ap- pear normal and the old gives way to the pI .®'Sh new before the old has become old. ricia McCormick, wants to be a They’re tough. They can take is do " in their stride, and fight as well for peace ' On°a recent Sunday’ Miss Mc- as for war. And after the present emer- Cormick made her debut in the Plaza de Toros at Juarez, Mexico, gency, they Will fight for peace. just across the Rio Grande from Upon them, then, rest our hopes. Those here. hopes lie, we think, upon a sound base. Huera! ” C1 'j n e , d the Mexi can bullfight fans. That s roughly ^ equivalfent to “nice going, Blondie.” Her appearance was the climax of many hours of working with cape and sword in the hot summer sun. * But, in Pat’s words, “It’s the beginning of a career I’ve been T HE EIGHT GOP Senators who signed dreaming of for many years ... to their personal conclusions from the Mac- be a matarocia ’ a la(J y bullfighter.” ... . ,, , . And it looks like a successful Arthur investigations developed a serious care er is in store for the shapely document, but they could not refrain from young lady. Mexican fans, a^ hard one whack at the Achilles heel of the admin- to P 1 ®* 86 as tliey come, loved her. . . Pat was not required to kill a istration. Quoth the octet: bull Sunday. Her work consisted “Mismanagement and corruption in gov- £ f u P assil |ff t l le J bu J!. a , ca ? e - _ _ _ . , She was knocked off her feet twice ernment are not confined to the Orient. It by a bull which hooked at her ill behooves the Government of the United s s instead of following the cape. ri , , , . . , ., , , this served only to make her mad States to level charges of corruption and de- instead of frightened. Her trainer, cadence against any friendly nation. ‘People Alejandro del Hierro, made her , ,. . , , j. j.1 quit after the second spill be- who hve in glass houses should not throw cause he feared her anger woud stones.’ (Deep freeze, pastel mink, RFC and ma ke her too reckless. organized crime and dope would furnish am- “Afraid? No,” Pat said, “but it . , „ . .. , _ sure made me mad getting dumped pie material for a Chinese writer to discuss twice my first fight.” corruption in some other quarter.)” At present, Pat is an art major CTTiP nnllflQ Nfpw« I at Texas Western College at El (ine Danas News.) PaS0) TeAs _ The location of the school, directly across the Rio Grande fi’om Juarez, makes it handy for her to indulge in her passion for the fiesta of the brave bulls. Following graduation from Tex as Western next year, Pat plans to study the art of bullfighting at a ranch in the interior of Mexico. She hopes to gain enough exper ience there to enable her to be come a full-fledged killer of brave bulls. Commenting on the oddity of an American girl becoming a mata- dora, Pat said, “I’ve had the am bition ever since I saw my first bullfight in Mexico City at the age of seven.” “And,” she added, “I’m in dead earnest.” FREE DINNER Watch for Your Name in This Space. Each Week, The . . Pete Hardesty College Station 12th MAN INN Will give away a free dinner to the person whose name appears. • WATCH FOR YOUR NAME • Bring This By - - - - It’s Yours Free periment Station, said today. ratify the document. Disagree on Management having an American take charge I he immediate cause oi the migration, by 1906 there were harvested cotton,” Dr. R. D. Lewis, Fifty nations were asked to attend at Abadan came up during Harri- breakdown in the Tehran talks 60,000 Japanese in California who director, Texas Agricultural Ex- a conference at San Francisco and man’s conversations with Prime last week was the failure of the did not intend to become American Minister Attlee and his cabinet British and Iranians to agree on citizens but wanted only to make 1. The peace talks in Korea have been collea S ues - wl l 0 should manage the Abadan money and return to Japan. reiimy opiations. President Theodore Roosevelt ne- The United States feeling—at gotiated the “Gentlemen’s agree- least as officials reflect it pri- ment” by which Japan limited im- TH£iND OF THSUST! AND NO DATE! Don’t waste your time fret ting, young man. Send your clothes along to us and let us remedy your sad plight. 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