Evening star., 1939-05-30


Flynn, Is, Chief Justice of
Rhode Island.
Exercises honoring the memory of
Georgetown University students
who died in the service of the coun-
try during the World War were con-
Quoted at the School of Law today
in the presence of the senior class
and alumni, many of whom had
come for the university's sesqui-
centennial celebration.
Because of Memorial Day, aca-
demic sessions connected with the
sesquicentennial were omitted this
morning but beginning at o'clock
the Graduate School will conduct
several round-table sessions. An
address by a Harvard University
economist, DR.. E. H. Chamberlain,
on Economic and Social Implica
tions of Monopolies in the Modern
World" will be the principal talk on
tonights program at 8:l5 o'clock
in Copley Lounge. Many economists
in the Government service will at
tend the session, which is open to
the public.
Brig. Gen. Lorenzo A. Gasser,
general staff, U. S. A., and James
Tracy Brady, '2l, solicitor of the
Veterans Administrator, as well as
departmental commander of the
American Legion, spoke at the me-
mortal exercises at the Law School.
Dean George E. Hamilton presided.
There were also addresses on behalf
of the seniors by William Price
Connally. jr., and jeremiah F.
Mahoney.
Wreath Is Placed.
A wreath was placed by a commit
tee of Army and Reserve officers on
the memorial plaque in the lab Ii
brary, which bears the names of the
schools roll of honor. The Rev.
Francis E. Lucey, S. j., regent, gave
the invocation.
This afternoons session at the
Hilltop will be devoted to economics
and Georgetowns historical back
ground. Alumni who are partici-
pating in the pageant. Sons of
Georgetown" were notified to at
tend a dress rehearsal tomorrow
evening at o'clock in the audi
torium at Central High School. The
pageant is scheduled for Friday eve
ming.
One Of the Nations leading So
biologists DR.. Pitirim A. Sorokin OF
Harvard University, told large au-
dience in CASTOR Hall last night
that every aspect of modern cul-
ture, from radio programs, amuse-
ment and art to the most pre-
tentious political and economic
plans, had failed to increase mans
happiness. Only by a recognition
in politics and In art. he said of
mans supersensory and absolute
value can modern culture and the
race itself be saved.
The more we tampered with eco
nomic conditions the worse they
become" he declared. The more
we outlawed war, the more disas-
trous it turned out to be- The more
social security we tried to establish,
the more insecurity we obtained
1T is high time to stop deluding
ourselves with these homeopathic
measures. They did not stop and
cannot stop the process of degra-
dation. The suggested remedy is
Infinitely more difficult, but it is the
only one that Is helpful"
Assails Modern Art.
DR.. Sorokin, who is head of Har-
wards department of sociology and
native Russian but now a natu-
falzed American citizen, spoke at
the concluding forum on scholastic
philosophy conducted by the College
OF Arts and Sciences. Officers and
members of the District of Colum-
bla Chapter, American Sociological
Society, attended his lecture. He
had been their dinner guest earlier
IN the evening at the college.
Asserting that even modern art
and modern amusement do not
make men happy, despite their vast
material advantages, he said:
Our contemporary art mortalizes
the immortals, covers them with
dirt, and exhibits mainly the medi-
ocre, prosaic and especially the de-
basing types of human beings anc
events. Even when it takes some.
thing, heroic, it debunks it to such
an extent that nothing noble i.
left in it. In addition, it is sexually
crazy and often sadistic."
Such songs as I'VE Kiss anc
Angles Sing" Heaven Can Wait
and other popular pieces of tn,
crooners' art, he said, are examples
contemporary art is largely {
museum of human pathology" DR.
Sorokin added. "It is centeree
around the police morgue, a Grim
inal's hideout, or sex; it lives anc
operates mainly in the region O
social sewers. To this extent it i
an art of mans debasement ant
vilification. Thus it debases itself
and prepares its own downfall a.
q great cultural value"
Twentieth Century Worst.
DR.. Sorokin ascribed all of tn,
material advances of the last few
centuries to concentration on tn
satisfaction of mans sensory needs
Upon this he based the subject o
his address, Tragic Dualism Of Con