The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus 130 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS Feb.-Mar., 1932 COMMENT THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS JAMES E. ABMSTEONG. *25, Editor Consider the phenomenon carefully. The ma;;azine is published monthly durinc the scholastic year by the Alumni This is the first serious curtailment Association of the University of Notre . Dame, Notre Dame. Indiana. The subscription price is 52.00 a year; the price of sinpcle copies is 25 cents. The of alumni activities in the history of annual alinnni dues of §5.00 include n year's subscription to THE ALUMNUS. Entered as second-class matter January 1. 1023. at the post ofhce at Notre Dame. Indiana, under the Art of March 3. • 1879. AH correspondence should the Association—the omission of a be addressed to The Notre Dame Alumnus. Box 81. Notre Dame. Indiana. regular issue of the ALUMNUS, dis­ guised as the combining of the Feb­ lilEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL ruary and March issues. MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC ALUMNI FEDERATION This action is on top of a saving of more than $1,000 effected by the THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Editor this year in cutting down the of the original schedule to nine issues in­ UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME stead of ten, and lowering the cost per issue by some §55. Alumni Headquarters, Main Floor Administration Bldg., Notre Dame, Indiana The curtailment of the ALUMNUS JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, General Secretary is the first of a series of retrench­ ments necessary if we are to live ALUMNI BOARD within our depressed income. Sal­ REV. JOHN A. MACXAMARA, '97 Honorary President aries, which never enjoyed the expe­ FRANCIS H. HAYES, '14 President rience of inflation, are threatened CLARENCE MANION, '22 - - Vice-President with what I am frank to say is an WALTER DUNCAN, '12 - Treasurer undesirable deflation regardless. Prog­ JAMES E. ARSISTRONG, '25 - Secretary ress on the recording of the non- M. HARRY MILLER, '10 - Director graduates in index form in the Office T. PAUL MCGANNON, '07 - - Director is threatened with cessation, which JOHN F. O'CONNELL, '13 Director means immediate reversion to the ROBERT E. LYNCH, '03 - - Director chaos in which they have existed to FRANK E. BERING, '98 - (ex officio) Director date. If we had asked you for large sums, we could understand this fail­ ure. If we had been extravagant, we LIST OP CLASS SECRET.ARIES could expect this cut. If we had y.ar .Vaiitr Adrfrcss reached a high point of achievement, Before ISSO To be selected 1SS0-S5 Prof. Robert Jl. Anderson Cireleville. Ohio we could expect a temporary dip. If 1886 ^lichael 0. Burns •iZ8 S. Second St.. Hamilton. Ohio we depended on a few, we could have 1SS7 Hon. Warren A. Cartier Ludininon. Michi^ran 188S John L. Heinetnan Connersville. Indiana anticipated this embarrassment. If 1883 To be selected you were an organization of laborers, ISOI-OS Louis P. Chute 7 University Ave., Minneapolis. Minnesota 1891 Hush A. O'Donnell The New York Times, Now York City we could understand the day-to-day 1895 Eustace Cullinan. Sr, S60 Phelan BWR.. San Francisco. Calif. 1896 William P. Bums 327 Willard Ave., Michisan City, Indiana fluctuation of your fortunes. 1897 Rev. John MacNamara St. Joseph's Sanitarium, Ml. Clemens, Mich, (temporary) 1898 F. Henr>* Wurzer Buhl Bide, Detroit, Michigan 1899 Dr. Joseph F. Duane -lis Jefferson Bide.. Peoria. Illinois But you are almost six thousand 1900 John W. Ecceman 1201 First National Bank Bids., Fort Wayne. Ind. college men, building an Association 1991 Joseph J. Sullivan 1300. 139 N. Clark St.. Chicajro. Illinois 1902 To be selected at a per capita cost below the average 1903 Francis P. Burke 004 Trust Company Bid;;., Milwaukee, Wisconsin minimum of other colleges, investing I90J Robert Proctor Monger Bldc„ Elkhart. Indiana 1903 Daniel J, O'C'-'nn'jr 10 S. LaSallc St.. Chicair^. Illinois in the mutual welfare of yourselves 1906 Thomas A. Lally 811-13 Paulsen Bld^r.. Spokane, Washington 19:>7 T. Paul McG-.nnon Bar Bids.. 3S W, 44th St., New York City and Notre Dame. That at least half lors Frank X. Cull Buckley Bids.. Cleveland. Ohio of you cannot continue this small 1909 E. P. Clearj- P. O. Box 356. Momence. Illinois 1910 Rev. M. L. Moriarty 527 Beall Ave.. Wooster. Ohio obligation even in these distressed 1911 Fred L. Steers 1635 First National Bank Bid?.. Chicaco. Illinois times is difficult to comprehend. 1912 Benjamin J. Kaiser 324 Fourth St.. Pittsburph. Pennsylvania 1913 James R. Devitt 921 Encineers Bids., Cleveland. Ohio 1914 Frank H. Hayes 1055 Granville Ave.. ChicaKO, Illinois Perhaps I speak for the three jobs 1915 James E. Sanford 8212 Kenwood Ave.. Chicago, Illinois 1916 Timothy P. Galvin 708 First Trust Bide-. Hammond. Indiana the Office holds. But more earnestly 1917 John U. Riley '244 Washington St., Boston. Massachusetts 1918 John A. Lemmer 1110-8th Ave.. S.. E^canaha. Michi^ran I speak for the one and only -Alumni 1919 Clarence Bader 650 Pierce St.. Gary, Indiana Association of the one and only Notre 1920 Leo B. Ward 1012 Black Bids., Los Anseles, California 1921 Alden J. Cusick 1 Park Ave.. New York City Dame, in your lives. Payment of the 1922 Gerald Ashe 1024 Monroe Ave., Rochester, New York outstanding dues, payment of half of 1923 P.iul Castner 2702 Miami St.. South Bend. Indiana 1924 James F. Hayes Fifth Avenue "Ass'n, Empire State Bldjr.. N. Y. City them, would relieve this critical situa­ 1923 John W. Scallan Pullman Co., 79 E. Adams St., Chicaso. III. 1926 Dr. Gerald W. Hayes 38 N. 12th St., Newark, New Jersey tion. 1927 Edmund DeClercq 8126 Drexel Blvd., Chicaco. Illinois 1928 Louis Buckley 718 E. Corby St., S-»uth Bend, Indiana Economic penalties for the Associa­ 1929 Joseph McNamara 231 Wisconsin'St., Indianapolis. Indiana 1930 Bernard AV. Conroy 1055 Park Ave., New York City tion ultimately penalize you. IC3I John E. Boland 3624 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. Pennsylvcnia THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS Vol. X. FEBRUARY- MARCH, 1932 Nos. 5-6 Some Economic Aspects of National Defense Extracts from a paper read before the Arts and Letters Lay Faculty Club by Captain Robert B. Riordan, '24, U. S. A. Reserve Officers Corps, Registrar of the University. ists, hence the following quotations In the past, even in the historical from a standard text should lend I shall cite a number of events in . past, there were times when human the weight of authority to what has American history to show how we beings individually provided them­ been presented so far: have fared in terms of dollars and selves with all the things they con­ "From the immemorial the human cents as well as in other values in the sumed, consequently they enjoyed but race has found it impossible to get on management, or more properly the a minute fraction of the goods that without conflict among its members, mismanagement of our on'n national go to make up the scale or standard either individually or by gx-oups. defense. of living of modern man. As times Fundamental to such group conflicts Our Revolutionary War was prose­ progressed men, grouping themselves is the perpetual struggle for existence, cuted by a provisional government into tribes and nations, discovered through which each group is impelled with little centralized authority. As that one man could produce better by the motives of self-preservation a result anything like an American shoes than his neighbor and that an­ and self-perpetuation to seek for i-egular army hardly appeared in that other could weave better cloth or itself the greatest possible shai-e of conflict. Each colonial government make better weapons. Thus began the limited products which nature furnished militia when, where, and offers to mankind. specialization and division of labor, a for as long or short a time as it system wherein each worker produced "Now this tendency to conflict nec­ willed. Washington and our other a surplus of better goods which he essarily leads to organization and leaders found themselves at all times traded for the surplus of other pro­ authority. Thus the first and with untrained, poorly equipped, and frequently half-starved men under ducers. The net result being that most important of the functions of government is defense, by which we their command, subject to withdrawal each group, tribe, or nation enjoyed a at any time by their several colonial greater total of all goods and of bet­ mean defense of the group against attack by outside foes. ... In the governors and who might find their ter quality. It was necessary, how­ enlistment expiring on the eve of ever, that each individual be relieved modern nation this function demands much of the activity of the general battle. One can readily understand of those duties in which he was least Washington's statement that, "The productive in order that he could de­ government and specifically calls for the services of army, navy, air de­ evils to be apprehended from a stand­ vote his time to those tasks in which fense, consular and diplomatic serv­ ing army are remote . but the he had gi-eatest skill or talent. The ices, etc. consequences of wanting (lacking) maker of shoes, producing a surplus one is certain and inevitable ruin." to trade for his other needs, lost some "The economic significance of this time from his special task by going function of government will be obvi­ First and last we had 400,000 men out to trade or sell his wares, thus ous as soon as it is regarded as an under arms as compared to the Brit­ reducing the number of shoes he could exemplification of the division of la­ ish forces which varied from 20,000 produce.