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Battalion Editorials Page 2 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19,1952 GREAT TRICK IF HE CAN KEEP IT UP Unconstitutional fFHE STUDENT BODY recently decided to retain four of its members who were forced to move to another dormi tory at the beginning of the second semester. On the surface, this action may be well and good, but is it legal? The answer is definitely no! The Senate has no final power to say which of its members shall stay on the Senate. That body has to make its recommendations to a higher authority—the Student Life Committee and Academic Council. Nowhere in the articles of the constitution of the stu dent body of A&M is there a statement to the effect that the Senate has the power to declare any of its recommendations as being final, however, these recommendations should, and undoubtedly do carry weight when presented to the Student Life Committee for final endorsement. But, the strange thing is, the Senate has seen fit to over look bringing its recommendations before the Student Life Committee for discussion. Instead, the group of student senators has merely declared its actions as rules without re ferring them for study and discussion. The four men who were forced to move to another dorm itory at the beginning of the present semester should have been immediately disqualified from office, according to the constitution, because they no longer represented the dormi tories from which they were elected. Realizing that such was the rule, the Senate members, at a meeting a month in advance of the action to retain the four on the Senate, decided by amendment to its constitution, that should any of the members be forced to change dormi tories, those individuals would become senators-at-large and another election would be held to determine their successors as dormitory senators. The second part of this decision is justified, but the first Texan by Choice Boughton Fullfilled Of Hometown Ohio Faith Friends Racial Survival Dependent On Universal Understanding The good townsfolk of Defiance, at Ohio University in 1916. Boughton was named dean of Ohio, said of one of their young It looked for a while as if De- the school of veterinary medicine men in the 1890s that he was fiance folks would have to settle in September, 1948. bound to succeed in whatever pro- upon their favorite son as a great jjj g k now i ec jge of his profession fession he chose; they looked upon football coach. But it was the four- sought throughout the United tall, gangling, well built Ivan legged animals that the now in- stateg and other countries but he is Bertrand Boughton as a states- ternationally known authority in happy in his post at A&M. He and man in the making. veterinary medicine, chose as his j ! jr 1 . g> Boughton are as Texan as He did not fail them, but they subject and teaching young men t h e ’ na tiv e born. did not reckon with the State of the whys and wherefores of ani- m , . , . , ina j s Technical Author His progress was fast, he soon Dean Boughton is the author of was recognized as an authority in ma ny technical publications. He his profession. The army stepped holds memberships in several in and called him and he became learned and professional associa- an officer in the veterinary corps tions. stationed in France in World War TT , , „ ,, , . „ , I He has not forgotten his foot- 'At the end of the war Dr. ? T aU d ^ s > ^d neither has A&M. Boughton returned home and be- was named chairman of the . came successively an assistant, Athletic Council last year A son associate professor and professor A - 9: Boughton, played football in animal pathology at the Uni- at , Rice Institute last year. An- versity of Illinois. other son ’ Rlchard Bertrand, Haiti was his next job, where Boughton, is a graduate of A&M he served as chief, veterinary aa( l n ? w a lieutenant in the J|p science, Service Technique d’ Ag- gi nee ring Corps, US Army| ricuture, and then as director of daughter, Jocelyn, a graduate the experiment station, in that •1'SCW, is an instructor in English Texas and A&M in particular, be cause Doctor Boughton took one look at Texas and decided to be come a Texan. The dean of the school of veter inary medicine got his start in life soon after receiving a degree in veterinary medicine from Ohio State University. He earned his first dollar in college as line coach wj tWt Editors Note: The subject dis cussed in the following article presents an opinion of what the nations of the world must do in order to achieve lasting peace and final survival. More infor mation on the subject may be found in two books, “Prescrip tion for Living” by Rabbani and “Promise of All Ages” by Town send. Copies of these books are available in the college library. By CATHERINE GENT ecclesiastical authorities in Persia, true and others erroneous, Baha- land of its birth in 1844, and in the ’u’llah demonstrates that all es- country. Came to Texas A&M heard of him. He had be at the Las Cruces, New Mexico, high school. Dean Boughton’s greatest thrills Turkish Empire, where its found- tablished religions are divine in come a statesman in his chosen ‘ l , . s ^ er was exiled in its earliest days, origin, and have marked important profession. In January, 1932, he ! a S a , U( (11 s - ey But, like the pattern of all reli- stages in social evolution; adher- chose Texas as his home and was g j ona j knowled't' 0 ^ 18 ^ lo es " ? gious history, fanatical persecu- ents of all may therefore join named veterinarian at the Sonora ( ( ' j tion only fanned the flames bright- hands in a world faith embodying substation of the Agricultural Ex- "that’s my boy,” he says in rc- er, revealing in sharp relief the their highest ideals. Union of all periment Station, corruption and materialism of the peoples in a world faith with mu- day. tual respect for all previous Pro- Because it was a simple and pure P hets he considers essential to the message, majectic in its truth, and formation of an integrated world denounced without fear the false comrnum ty- r ^ /T , , values of the church-state in Per- Elimination of Prejudice . j.- i , j? i■ •ji i i i Jesus said (John 16:12: I have sia, public officials recognized section IS entirely out of line with the existing rules deter- yet many things to say unto you, with alarm the threat to their in- Complete elimination of racial mining student governing procedure. but ye cannot bear them now. How- terests. Twenty-thousand believers Prejudice, oneness of mankind, and ferring to his students, both un dergraduates and graduates. In addition to his other achieve ments, Dr. Boughton was recently selected as one of the six winners ToDiscussElection of the amual Battalion Awi,rd - City Council Meets City ordinances authorizing an election April 1 and selling a tax - - — - , — . . , rate for the fiscal year 1952-53 The Senate has no authority in such matters. They B eit) when He > the . s P irit of truth died in orgies of mass executions ^ structure ot world wil j be coris j dered at a C0U]lc ii make recommendations, or should make suggestions, to the 2^°™’ He WlH gmde y ° U int ° aU ^^diSout orthodoxy" ^ upon,'and will continue "to be^sus- Student Life Committee where the matter is given careful T ™ ^‘ . tained by, reward and punish- Jesus the Christ knew all things, Progressive Revelation m ent”) are a few of the basic re- The foundation stone Aggie Wives Club To Meet Thursday The Aggie Wives Bridge Club. and impartial consideration before the matter is finally de- f or He was a Manifestation of cided. And, final approval of an ammendment to the consti- God, the All-Knowing, and His r , . _ t , , tution rests with the Academic Council. knowledge was from God and not ,_ a __ essiv 1 e _ ^ e e _ a lon of men. In His wisdom He also is as if God conducts a So far, and in this instance particularly, the Senate has knew tbat the p eople of H is day school > sendin 8' His Teachers from not referred any of its recommendations to the Student Life could receive only that part of age , to agc : in accordance Wlth __ was uostoonea unm Lonnmt oe Committee or the Academic Council bodies, which are direct- Hi s knowledge which they were n^Jufiah'the lirsianmincTwlm can give t .°. world administration cause a' quorum was not obtain ........... mctnvo onono-r. r>ana mum, tne rersian pnnee wno - ,, t>.„ meeting tonight at 7 in City Hall. Other business to be taken up will meet Thursday at 7:30 p. m, includes the appointment of three i n the MSC Ballroom. of this quirements the Baha’i Faith "lists ? nem ] )ers ^ 0 7) the ta ^ equalization Mrs. LaVerne Vicari and Mrs. It for a formation of a world com- boai ' d > said Raymond Rogers, city Date Wilson won high score and great munity. manager. second high, respectively, last The monthly meeting of the city week. Mrs. Carol Bowman won the Perhaps the fundamental inspi- council, scheduled for last week, Booby prize. Mrs. Barbara Peuri- ration that Baha’i administration was postponed until tonight be- foy had high score in the begin- ly concerned with student affairs. mature enough to understand. But declared H ’ e is God >g Revelator for Instead, any action which has been desired by a majority turity, when the world would be thls . day and h J ed a .P nsonar lor of the senators has been voted upon, and if passed, proclaimed able to receive a fuller measure of ,, " lgs ’ that truth, and He promised that, sayS one levelat01 18 not t0 ner group. as a law. Movietime ‘Retreat Hell’, New Slant to Old Story when that day dawned, Another would come, His “return”, Who would in the glory of the Father, and Who would bring that further ,, , ,, ,. „ TT . , ,, , . , ,, ,, , , ,, world at the time ot His coming, truth, which the world would then , , . ,, ?’ 7 nnf rn n iTTPvmTPncj in rhmv be exalted over another. If One’s message and influence seems greater than Another’s, it is due to the spiritual capacity of the is the abolition of the conflict be- able to conducting business, Rog- Mrs. Darla Harlin and Mrs. (See NO PARTY, Page 4) ers said. Yvonne Vaughn were hostesses. be able to receive. Need For Universal Thinking not to any differences in their potential powers. Further interest is lent to the Phacdrus philosophized: You will soon if Lrea k tlie t ow keep it always stretclied Many believe that this is that story of the Baha’i Faith by the day, and that the impulses for fact that is has no clergy or priest- social reform and universal think- hood. The spread of its universal ing have come from the dawn of a teachings is accomplished by lay New Sun. And so it is that world members, many of whom travel to ground instead of the usual Phil- consciousness of the need for uni- far countries and establish them- ippine jungles or Italian country versa! thinking has grown by leaps selves in self-supporting jobs in side. Due to the manpower short- and bounds in the past decade, but order to share their new faith with age they have drafted the same now, modern thinkers agree that others. Every adherent of this be- familiar characters and put them “the wars, wars, and rumors of Ref, in whatever country he may back on the firing line to go wax’s” situation has made univer- be found, has wholeheartedly ac- through their usual routines. sality in all fields of human rela- cepted the principles of woi’ld gov- tions imperative for racial sur- eminent and world citizenship, eg ecte o one vival. j ust Qg j esus b r0U ght His beau- Completely neglected in Holly- The Univex’sity of Chicago, pion- tiful formula for individual discip- war pictures. Having scouted the wood’s xotation plan is the tough ee r in progressive education, pub- line, so Baha’u’llah now reaffii’ms terx-ain thoioughly with countless fearless colonel who valiantly ut- Hshes a monthly magazine, Com- those teachings and adds, for this mechanized battle epics, Holly- ters the title of the film, the overly m on Cause, A Journal of One day, the formula for social discip- wood seems to have decided that cautious reserve captain, who not World, in which questions and line. “Like the gi’eat religions of these films usually lead to box living up to usual Hollywood stan- problems of universal understand- the past, the Baha’i Faith upholds office victories. Some casualties dards, is afraid of dying, and the ing for woi’ld peace ai’e presented, a belief in God and sti’esses the who witness the movie may disap- trigger happy adolescent who in- The magazine gives space to reli- necessity of ethical and moral pei’- pi’ove of their tactics. sists on using a full clip in killing gious thought, old and new, in the sonal conduct; but unlike them, it With the pi’obable conception one man. These characters make certain knowledge that the bedi’ock goes beyond this to make its chief that a change in maneuvers would their respective appearances after of any unity of mankind is a com- immediate concern the creation be disastrous, the brothers War- the theatre is filled with a x’ousing mon faith in God, by whatever of a world government and a woi’ld ner have hashed up the same old rendition of “The Halls of Mon- Name a man may call his Creator, culture based on justice. Rather By JERRY BENNETT Battalion Staff Writer (“Retreat Hell!” starring Frank Lovejoy and Richard Carl son—Warner Bros.—Queen The atre) “Retreat Hell!” is Warner Brothers’ reprimand to those who would order production of fewer Recipe for relaxation—take the contents of one frosty bottle of Coca-Cola. Delicious, too. chow served with a Korean back- tezuma.” The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Tradition* "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newapaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College oi Teifffi, is published by students five times a week during the regular school year, During the summer terms. The Battalion is published four times a week, and during examination and vacation periods, twice a week. Days of publication are Mondaj through Friday for the regular school year, Tuesday through Friday during the summer u ,. „ , , terms, and Tuesday and Thursday during vacation and examination periods. 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Found An Exponent The magazine found an expon ent of both its pet project, world government, and “the almost un conscious but apparently funda mental need” for a renewed faith in God, in the Baha’i World Faith, Editor I n an article in September, 1950, - Associate Editor “The Baha’i Faith and World Gov- Managing Editor ernment,” this renewal of religion Sports Editor jg considered unique because in -City Editor little more than a century, it has JOHN WHITMORE Joel Austin Bill Streich Bob Selleck Frank Davis Peggy Maddox Women’s Editor gained active and loyal followers !T. H. Baker, H. R. Briggs, Benny Holub, Bryan Spencer, Ide Trotter „■ . • . r ., , , Edgar Watkins, Carl Possy, Gene Steed, Jerry Bennett, m every Continent ol the globe Bert Weller staff Writers and in every country where free- Bob Cullen, Jack Brandt Staff Cartoonist d f ,., > ij [r j m , q Hiefnsrinn is nor- Frank Scott Quarterback Club Director aom 01 leilgUOuS discussion IS pci pick Zeek staff Photographer mitted,” and because one of its Pat LeBlanc, Hugh Phillppus, Gus Becker, Joe Blanchette n • nllrooses j s flip establishment John Lancaster Chief Photo Engraver of a World commonwealth. Russell Hagens Advertising Manager j ft. „ji • rB lj 2 .i 011K ;t wa c Robert Haynie Advertising Representative dlJ 116 l&Uglong, m Mas Sam RecK circulation Manager severely suppressed by civil and | Toynbee, the historian, has stated than insisting that one religion is that the practical extinction of faith in Western society is “the supreme danger to the spiritual health and even to the material existence of the Western body soc ial, a deadlier danger, by far, than any of the hotly canvassed and loudly advertised political and eco-; nomic maladies.” And a biophysi cist, du Nbuy, in an effort to re vitalize our belief in God, has pro ven by mathematical equation even LI’L ABNER r Dishonesty Is The Best PoJicv By A1 Capp ('-"AM GOTTA FINISH UACQUFUNE DEMF’SEV, SO'S AH K/N STOP U'L ABNER'S VOODOO AH'LL USE MAH OLE PILE-DRIVER PUNCH. AIM HER FO' THET ROCKET-EF TH', FINISH HER - TH’ROCK W/LC F.''-)