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but on the contrary bred to all ap-
pearances overcoming friction,
resulting in the World War. 1t was
for these reasons, the former diplo-
mat said, that after the war the
nations of Europe turned to the
newer system of collective security,
with the League of Nations as the
principal agent.
THE death blow to the system OF
collective security was the absenta-
ton of the United States" DR..
Prochnik declared.
In spite of all this, DR.. Prochnik
was not entirely hopeles of peace
under the resumption of the system
of balance of power.
1--WE hope" he said. that balance
OF power will delay outbreak of hos
tilities until such time as peace
full solution can be worked out"
Vice chairman Henry Grady of
the United States Tariff Commits
sion and former chairman of the
commission, Robert Lincoln O'Brien,
were taking part in the discussion
of world trade problems that fol-
lowed.
Meanwhile, there was a rush of
alumni for tickets to the reunion
dinner, at which Frank J. Hogan.
president of the American Bar As
sociation, will be the chief speaker
tomorrow night at the Mayfower
Hotel T. Gillespie Walsh, chair
man of the committee, was receiv-
ing reports of alumni arrivals from
many cities.
1000 Expected at Dinner.
An attendance of 1000 is expected
at the dinner. William E. Leahy
is to be POSTMASTER The Very Rev.
Arthur A. OLeary. S. j., president
of the university, will have as his
special guests at the dinner the II
men who are to receive honorary
degrees at tomorroW's convocation.
They include the Most Rev. John
M. Mcnamara, Auxiliary Bishop of
Baltimore; the Right Rev Msgr.
Joseph M. Corrigan, rector of Cath.
olic University; Speaker William B.
Bankhead, LII. B. '95; Gov. Herbert
R. O'Conor of Maryland: DR.. Irwin
Abel. past president of the Ameri-
can Medical Association, and Joseph
Scott of Los Angeles, who is to give
the sesquicentennial grafton.
Assisting Mr.. Gillespie in arrange
chairman of the Ticket Committee;
William J. Dempsey, reception: DR..
John r. Mcintyre, entertainment,
j. Burke Walsh. publicity Thomas
A. CantWell, program: Frederick
/ Stohlman. guests, and Frederick R.
Gibbs, seating.
A gay and care-free ball at the
Willard Hotel, attended by about
1000 students, alumni and their
families. brought yesterdays busy
session to an end in the early hours
of morning The alumni were the
| guests of the Washington Club, an
aggregation of students headed by
John T. Flynn, with DR.. James S.
Ruby, jr, alumni secretary, Coop
Grating.
The program closed with Paul
Kahn and his band leading a half
hour singing session which was
broadcast to alumni dances and
smokers in many cities.
Murphy and Parran Heard.
/ High lights yesterday were the ad-
dresses of Attorney General Frank
Murphy at the School of Law and
! Surg Gen. Thomas Parran of
the United States Public Health
/ Service at an earlier medical school
session. The Attorney General,
whose speech was broadcast over a
national hookup. said the Nations
economic problem must be solved"
and urged the legal profession to
participate in the solution. He sug-
gested mildly that they could assist
by refraining from opposing reform
and defending the status quo"
The cost of our failure so far to
solve this problem has been de-
moralizing misery and suffering for
millions of the least fortunate of
our people. demoralizing uncertainty
and fear for the rest" Mr.. Murphy
said
History suggests that the cost of
our continued failure to solve it may
be something far worse-the de-
struction of the peoples faith in the
ideal that has always been the
symbol of civilization-the ideal of
individual liberty. Beyond any ques-
ton, that faith is the most precious
thing that we possess or that any
people could possess"
IawverS TnSinr Ground
The same transition that has
revolutionized American economic
life, he declared, has affected the
legal profession with result, as
claimed by many, that the lawyers
are losing public confidence and in
fuence.
Such factors, he said, "specializa-
ton, the tendency to emphasize ma
terial satisfactions over public serv-
ice, and the slurring of spiritual and
cultural values-I believe are the
primary reasons for the legal pro-
fession's lowered estate"
Mr.. Murphy was introduced by
Father O'Leary.
Surg. Gen. Parran, 1915 alumnus,
appealed for cooperation on the
part of the medical profession in
the proposed national health pro-
gram. Such cooperation, he
sAid, would restore to the medical
profession the confidence and trust