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Battalion Editorials Page 2 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13,1951 Britisher Says LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Middle East Always Editor, The Battalion: Please refer to letter of Joe A. Riddle and Bob Pankorien publish ed in your paper on Dec. 10. City’s Part Bone jC'IOHTY-SEVEN per cent of The houses in College Station ^ have erected or intend to erect mail boxes, a recent sur vey conducted by the senior class of A&M Consolidated High School, showed. The survey uncovered the following facts: (Editor’s Note — This is the first part of the speech made by Consul General James T. Hender son. It was made Wednesday night as a rebuttal to the argu ments of the Egyptian govern ment. The Middle East has always been one of the most,’ if not the most} important, traffic intersections, in tlie world. It is, in fact, the cross- 353 houses, roads of 3 continents. You can ap- grees from one to another. | I If by dissentions your readers! mean oppositions, no government! can be called progressive or demo-| cratic if it does not have a healthy! and effective opposition. Let us not! forget that British administration! The gentlemen do not seem to teac j ieg (1( jj v j de and J acter, although the Arabs would Different sections of the Fertile themselves by doing any kind of relish the anomoly between the ^ j dissention Is it unknown' like us to think so, for the Egypt- Cresent which the Romans taught manual work. American War of Independence and j n ^ 0 y controversy with ians are not really Arabs. Their to regard itself as the farm of the They are therefore an easy prey the Egyptian struggle for exist- j ran ^ ] 1;ive sjM-cd no! lower class, the Fellaheen, are the Mediterranean are now encouraged to agitators of all kinds. You will enee. I wonder and am at a loss j n g overthrow the Mossadegh' original inhabitants of the coun- to think of themselves as separate have noticed how recently most of to understand as to how the na- government by economic shape-up try, their tiny middle class are countries. the riots in Cairo were organized tional urge in people in one hemi- j n( j uc j n g intrigues and refusing ne-i largely Copts and their upper-class Iraq has a king, Syria has a and carried out by students and the sphere was for progress whereas are mostly of Turkish descent. president, who seems to leave of- same was the case in Beyrout a the same in the other hemisphere Varied Back round ^ ce a m01e 01 ' ( l ei 'ly fashion, Is- year or two ago. is against it. To me it is an in- 1 ^ 0 j-ael has a president, Jordan has a Not all of these students are fected philosophy. Colonialism is They all speak a type of Arabic, king and Egypt has Farouk. captured for Communism. There is bad, but the British colonialism however. The people of Mesopotam- So, Nationalism is a force to be a very strong religious influence is worse. Memories often fail, ia are descended from the old Su- reckoned with. Then there, is Com- among them and many of them I do not know the conditions in have mail boxes properly installed, 65 have purchased, but I )roach [t by water from the north marians and Chaldeans as well as rnunism which is slowly permeating belong to an organization eallled Egypt. It is stated that Egypt is •nnt iWnllwI 989 nlon tn miroWp Qd r pfii«P tn rnmipratn ° ver the Black S ’ ea ’ from the west froto the Al ' abs who came 111 from the Middle East in different ways, the Moslem Brotherhood, where the plagued with dissentions and cor nel installed, plan to purenase, M leiuse to cooperate, through the Mediterranean, from the desert, and farther north they One of the mistakes of small coun- Ulema (the priests) use their re- ruptions. In my opinion even if so, there are three vacancies, 11 families are in process Of mov- the south by the Red Sea and have a,strong Kurdish, Turkish and tries, such as those which have ligious fervour to carry out their this alone can not serve as a cause gotiations? I am not aware of communistic; activities of the status of commuiil ist party in Egypt. I might men-)! tion that Islam and Communism grow in opposite camps. One is in-!, imical to the other. Freedom is the, birthright of every individual and (See LETTERS, Page 3) ing, and 77 are incomplete. Gulf of .Aquaba and from the East Armenian influence. Persia has 16 been sent up, is an over-production • up to the Persian Gulf. languages and seven religions. The high percentage of mail boxes installed was boosted You can approach it by land Syria contains two sects of Mos- about 10 per cent by the college’s installation of boxes in all from the north through Turkey lems, Shias and Sunnies, a number Proiect houses and the Rowanduz Pass,, from the of people of indeterminate reli- ^ J east across Persia, from the south gian who pose alternately as Mos- In October, a survey was conducted by the College sta- over the deserts of Arabia or up lems and Christians, calling them- tion Kiwanis Club revealing that over 80 per cent of the the coast road from the Yameh selves Druezes, various types of houses were numbered correctly, but only 25 per cent had the Suez “5 installed mail boxes. .. s tion a sprinkling of various kinds The campaign to initiate house-to-house mail delivery n A u om 0 f Protestants. wnalflunohod dnrino-fhP sirririo- Since-ColWo StaW<* nnn 1 he tides of conquest have flow- There are of course Orthodox was launenea during me spring, bmee College fetation S pop- ed back atld f orward across this and less-Orthodox Jews. In the Le- ulation numbered over 5,000, the city was entitled to the region and it has only for very banon the Christians have better service if the citizens desired it and certain requirements brief periods in; h^tory been inde- representation but are divided tvere met ■ j , pendent. As .early as 1500 years amongst themselves. Racially, the before Christ, Hammurabi develop- Lebanon is perhaps the most mixed Post cards were sent to all utility subscribers ill the city ed a Sumarian Empire which country of all with remnants of inquiring whether the service was desired. Approximately stretched across to Canaan and many of the most intelligent peo- 75 tier cent who returned their cards voted in favor of the through which Ab t: aham was able pies of antiquity, such as the to per cent wno returned men cards voted in tavor oi me to trayel in peace . Phoenicians, the Hittites and the action. Much later, during the reign of Greeks. Among the requirements for the service to begin was Solomon there appears to have M vstei v . , , , i -,1 j a , ^ been both peace and independence Lancl ot the election ot street markers, mail boxes, and house in the district, but it was doubtless Israel, you probably know too bers. The city completed the job of erecting street markers because of the military superior- much about for me to describe last week. ■ ity of Israel at that timM Then it to you. Jordan is a country in a m. t> 4.4. r i ui ~ a u j u came the Assyrian Empire and constant state of conflict between The Battalion along with many ot its readers who were oj . her empires supplanted one an- the desert and the Sown and Saudi- prodded into erecting house numbers and mail boxes are Other as the centuries rolled on, Arabia is an ancient land full of wondering when the service will begin Egypt) Babylon, Assyria, Persia, mysterious remains of civilizations, Dr. f. O. Walton, College Station postmaster, said he “j"**"*' Rome ' rffchaSng cllnSf *• could not even hazard a guess as to when the service will The Arabs and the Turks, and I have told you enough to show begin. He said the federal postal authorities are sometimes finally, Great Britain, in their turn you how full of complications, of s ] ow conquered . and ruled either the romance, of half-forgotten ideas *' whole or <x Icirg'G purt of the Mid- and of the chests of ancient crand- Another person in the. College Station Post Office, Who die East. The Middle East has not e ur is this S part-of the world, refused to be quoted, said he suspected April as the prob- on iy been a meeting-place of ar mies, but a meeting place of ideas — the battleground of different ways of life. able date when the service would begin. Birthplace of Religions It is an extremely fascinatin, region and one of which I have had a good deal of experience. I worked for two years in the Eastern Department of the Foreign Scientists, as a rule,- do not talk through their hats, which is more than one can say for many speakers. From it have come 4 of The greftY; °f fice > when 1 first joined the Ser- religions of. the world—the I then went to Persia, late* :rew_ religion,..Zorastrianism, Christ'- ^ Greece, which is almost a Middle ianity and Islam. Eastern country, and spent my Owing to the multiplicity of leave in Syria and Palestine, drawn dieties brought into the area by the RAW RECRUIT there by the lure of the Bible and archaeology. I went back to the Middle East Department for two years in 1944 and it was very in teresting to see how that part of the world had developed between 1930 and 1944. Nationalistic Idea The present situation in the Mid- mentioned are Monotheistic and d i e E ast is determined largely by there was ot course, in addition, a number of forces—not military the attempt by Akhnatan to intro- f())' Ces but ideas. First, there is the duce Monophysism into Egypt. It fashionable modern idea of Na- was however defeated by the tionalism fomented to some extent, various conquering armies at dif- . ferent periods, there came about a feeling of being over-crowded with gods and goddesses, which led to a type of disrespect for all these seeming human dieties, which in its turn led to Monophysism. All the religions which I have priestly lobby who had him mur dered and'his better known broth er, Tutankhamen placed on the throne to assure a return to sound old conservative ways. From this you will see that the Middle 1 East became a most complicated scrap- heap of historical remains. Mixed Belief I must admit, by Great Britain. Correct Pasture Mixtures Discussed The importance of using correct pasture mixtures in establishing a In it can be found traces of al- permanent pasture was stressed by most all the well known peoples A. W. Crain, state pasture spec- of antiquity, of their religions, ialist, in his speech to the Agro- their superstitions, their ways and nomy 417 laboratory class recently, habits of life and, owing to this pj e ^ ave scvera [ examples qf tremendous mixture and also to bo ^j 1 correc t alld incorrect mixtures the recent fluctuation of frontiers, and eX pi a j ned w hat comprised each it is not really possible to believe very firmly in the nationalistic propaganda which is being put out by some of these States at the present time sample. Crain also emphasized the need for heavy applications of com plete fertilizers and the necessity The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” Egypt has perhaps always been of renovatinff P ei ' iodicall y- regarded as having a certain char acter of its own but Iraq, Syria, The Lebanon, Jordan and Saudi Arabia are pretty new ideas to the people who live there. Even since the invention of the postage stamp Syria and the Le : banon have amalgamated and sep arated two or three times and with The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texes, is published by students five times a week during the regular school year. Q • frnntiprs During the summer terms. The Battalion is published four times a week, and during ' al y ul n 11 examination and vacation periods, twice a week. Days of publication are Monday through Friday for the regular school year, Tuesday through Friday during the summer terms, and Tuesday and Thursday during vacation and examination periods. Subscrip tion rates $6.00 per year or $.60 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request, But the region as a region has a character. It is not Arab char- Entered as second-class natter at Post Office at College Staton, Texas, under the Act of Con< tress of March 8, 1870. 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They imagine that because they have been to college, which used to be the prerogative of the ruling class, that they cannot bemean own political designs. for supporting occupation, but on At present the priests are .op- the other hand, speaks highly posed to Western influence because against it so as to permit free they fear that it will cause a wea- growth of a nation. In absolute kening of religion and therefore terms no country big or small can these young men are harnessed to boast of being free of either. There Nationalism. might be just a difference of de- “I’D CLIMB THE HIGHE§ MOUNTAIN’’ “COME TO THE STABLE" Stud ent Direc 1 For 1951-1952 Are Here!! If you know his name, you can find out who he is and where he lives by using the handy STUDENT DIRECTORY. Get your copy right away. The STUDENT DIRECTORY contains a listing of the faculty, officers, and employes of F the college, and a listing of students. PEE COPY, by cash, check, money order or inter departmental order. 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