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Army!— the Victory March by Joseph Petritz, '32 Armv Had Everything The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus f>p JftiS bo Oft ig ^^ *«'^en from th^Mb ' rary 2> • ^^ lutlltlttl c ^ iWerrj) Cfiristtmas; In All That It Means to the Men of Notre Dame 3a (Eleben ^0. Waxtt 1932 To Some Four Thousand of the Fold— Don't let the Editor's pitiable optimism fool you! Don't be scared out by lawsuits and foreclosures! Don't set absent-minded! Don't stall! Don't substitute! Don't ask your wife! Don't consult your banker! Don't go to a fortune teller! Don't think for a minute that this is funny, to us! If Your Dues Aren't Paid Yet SEND FIVE DOLLARS December 1932 THE NoTKE DAME ALUMNUS 67 COMMENT THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25, Editor ^ Organization, which was one of the The magazine is published monthly during the scholastic year by the Alumni many keys to the national wealth Association of the University of Notre Dame. Notre' Dame. Indiana. The when times were good, is suffering subscription price is S2,00 a year: the price of single copies is 25 cents. The annual alumni dues of $o.00 include a year's subscription to THB ALUMNUS. now that the bill for dues assumes Entered as second-class matter January 1. 1923. at the post office at Notre Dame. Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. All correspondence should the proportions of a night club check. be addressed to The Notre Dame Alumnus, Box 81, Notre Dame. Indiana. Or perhaps organization is not suffer­ ing, but, like many other institutions JIEJIBER OP THE ASIERICAN ALU.MNt COUNCIL , of prosperity, resuming rationality. JlEMBEK OP THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC ALUMNI FEDERATION The occasion for this outburst is the recent conference of the National THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Catholic Alumni Federation on social of the justice, held here at Notre Dame. (And a cold in the head that makes UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME me fee! very much like telling the Alumni Headquarters, Main Floor Administration Bldg., truth.) Notre Dame, Indiana JAMES E. ARJISTRONG, Secretanj-TreasuTer Almost every delegate to the Con­ ference had a different organization ALUMNI BOARD in mind that, properly supported by REV. JOHN CAVANAUGH, C.S.C, '90 Honorary President the Catholic alumnus, could effect the CLARENCE MANION, '22 President reforms proposed. TIMOTHY P. GALVIN, '16 - First Vice-President JAMES E. SANFORD, '15 - - - Second Vice-President The ALUMNUS does not question T. PAUL MCGANNON, '07 Director for a minute the merits of any of JOHN F. O'CONNELL, '13 Director these organizations. That is precisely ROBERT E. LYNCH, '03 - - - Director the trouble. HUGH A. O'DONNELL, '94 Director GEORGE HIGGINS, '32 - - - Director The Catholic alumnus takes his FRANK H. HAYES, '14 . - . (ex officio) Director place in a community. He imme­ diately becomes a member of a par­ ish, with all of its practical Cath­ lectually. If he were not the alumnus of their alumni associations, they olicity and the material support of a Catholic college, we might say could exercise fully those advantages which that implies. Then, he faces that his trouble is Pride. which the accident of education the Holy Name, the Knights of Co­ brings to them. lumbus, Society of St. Vincent de But whether it is actually one of Paul, and similar Catholic organiza­ the seven deadly sins or not, a mental So, with all due respect to existing tions in addition to the social and barrier does arise which keeps the organizations and recognizing the professional -affiliations which, in average young Catholic from answer­ laudable ambitions of those in the most communities, are practically ing even that simple requirement process of formation, the ALUMNUS essential to a successful career. which so baffles the older leaders in cannot but feel that more organiz.-i- these movements: Why won't they at tion in existing organizations is the There is Catholic literature. least say whether they are for or solution. There is his Community Chest, or against ? Let the existing societies adjust a similar civic philanthropy. If the Catholic Church could re­ themselves to attract and enlist those ceive the unified support of the laity logically in their scope who are not And, in the nature of Catholic now on their records. training, there is usually in short in temporal as well as in spiritual order a family to support. matters, most of the need for outside Let them make provision f-sr the societies would disappear. young men.' (The ALUMNUS is sent Equipped by education and desire to all our graduates, whether they for a position in the van of activities, If the laity would support those are able to pay their dues or not. The the youthful alumnus finds that the societies which already exist, and, as policy doesn't reek of efficiency, it is economic system has not made simi­ stated above, have unquestionable true, but if the young men of Notre lar provision. He is very naturally merit as demonstrated in their works, Dame fail us, it will not be because inclined to resent this artificial abyss there would be little need for further we have not tried.) between his capabilities and his machinery. abilities, an abyss seemingly bridged And if the alumni of Catholic col­ If you don't think the above holds more easily by those less gifted intel- leges would realize the potentialities true, or if you do, let me know. 68 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS December 19>2 BOARD OF LAY TRUSTEES So. Bmd TrUiiiiic Pholo Shown above are members of the Board of Lay Trustees of the University of Notre Dame together with the Ex Officio members, officers of the University and the Provincial of the Congregation of Holy Cross, as they appeared at the annual board meeting held Friday, Nov. 11. Seated (left to right): A. R. Erskine, South Bend; Reverend James A. Burns, C.S.C, Provincial; Edward N. Hurley, Chicago, 111.; James J. Phelan, Boston, Mass.; Warren Cartier, Ludington, Mich.; Eeverend Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C, pi-esident of the University. Standint) (left to right): Brother Ephrem, C.S.C, treasurer of the University; H. A. Smith, South Bend; F. W. Lloyd, University comptroller; George 5L Anson, Merrill, Wis.; C. Roy McCanna, Burlington, Wis.; Clement C Mitchell, Chicago, 111.; E. J. Doyle, Chicago, 111.; Byron V. Kanaley, Chicago, 111.; Frank C. Walker, New York City. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS Vol. XI. DECEMBER, 1932 No. 3. The Social Challenge (A Sermon by the Rev. Joseph Husslein, SJ., head of the department of Sociology of St. Louis University, general editor of the Science and Culture Series, books by outstanding Catholic authors on topics of vital Catholic import in the scietices and culture, himself an eminent author and scholar. The sermon ivas preached at the Mass opening the one-day conference on Social Justice in the Economic Crisis held at the University of Notre Dame, Sunday, Nov. 20, under the auspices of the Alumni Association as a part of a tiational concentration of Catholic college thought in this direction by the National Catholic Alumni Federation, of xvhich the Notre Dame Association is a member and of which the Editor of the ALUJINUS IS vice-president and director for the North Central Region.) More than two score years before to Him who had brought these ideals forms the same challenge comes to the momentous encyclical on the Con­ into the world and who alone had us. We read it in the despondent dition of Labor had issued from the most perfectly taught them by Hi.s eyes of the millions of the unem­ pen of Pope Leo XIII, a great Cath­ own example. ployed, we hear it in the jibes flung olic champion, Bishop William Em­ "I hear the cry to hold out a help­ at us by radical and infidel, we face manuel von Ketteler, had begun his ing hand to our poor suffering it in the honest questioners who sin­ impressive struggle for human rights brother," he exclaimed, "and who, if cerely ask of us: What are vre do­ in Germany. he has not plucked out both his eyes ing to solve the social problem? "If Like Hamlet he knew full well that can deny that his need is great, and the Church is powerless here," as the times wherein his lot was east who that has not torn the heart out Bishop Ketteler so rightly stated, "we were out of joint. Economic oppres­ of his bosom can fail to join with all must despair of ever arriving at a sion and radical upheavals were con- his soul in this cry for help ?—and I peaceful settlement," — indeed at any \Tilsing Europe. Around him he sav/ see avarice and covetousness increase, settlement that can be lasting and the misery of the masses, the corrup­ and pleasure-seeking grow more and satisfactory — of the social problem. tion of youth in factory life, and the more." But the Church, we know, is not restless agents of Socialism plying But if this was true of the rich powerless. The Church does possess their self-appointed task of sowing then, even there before him, as he the indubitable solution, and it is revolution and plucking the faith spoke those very words, yawned the clearly set forth before us in the two from the hearts of the working open graves of two representatives epoch-making Encyclicals on the classes. Godless radicalism was pre­ of the people brutally slain by a fu­ Labor question given to the world re­ paring to come to grips with the God­ rious mob for their free public utter­ spectively by Pope Leo XIII and Pope less liberalism which had begotten it.
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