Evening star., 1939-05-31

Controversy over questions lnvolV'
ing the National Labor Relations
Board, responsibilities of unions
third party interests and monopolles
was in store for law alumni OF
GEORGETOWN University this after
noon.
Opening two-day session in con-
nection with the sesquicentennla
celebration, the School of Law at
o'clock will present discussions Of
union responsibility by Lee Press
man, general counsel of the c. I. O.
and Senator Dennis Chevez, Demo
crat. of New Mexico. Employers
interests in the labor dispute Will
be the next discussion in order. the
leaders being William F. Kelly, loca
attorney, and the Right Rev. Francis
Joseph Haas. professor OF economies
Catholic University.
Senator Joseph c. OMahoney OF
wyoming. who was a classmate O1
Senator Chavez at the Georgetown,
Law School, will lead off in genera.
debate on legal problems involved
In monopolities. Other participants
will be Willis A. Ballinger, chlel
economist of the Federal Trade
Commission; John T. Flynn. econo-
mist and publicist; Seth w. Richard
son, former Assistant Attorney Cen
eral, and Wendell Berge, special as
sistant to the Attorney General.
The law school is the most active
of Georgetown's departments in
both local and national alumni
circles, having at least 1900 alumni
in the District. Sessions will be held
in the schools auditorium at Sixth
and E streets NV.
Hogan to Speak.
Tonight the law alumni will 60 to
CASTOR Hall on the Hilltop to hear
Frank j. Hogan. '02, president of the
American Bar Association, speak on
the contributions of the lawyer in
the development of the American
Government. Other speakers to-
night are DR.. James Brown Scott
professor of international law, and
Chief Justice Edmund w. Flynn of
the Rhode Island Supreme Court
The symposium will deal entirely
with the work of the bench and bar
over the $50 years of the American
Government. The Rev. Francis E
Lucey, S. j., regent of the law school
will preside.
DR.. Chamberlain Speaks.
The traditionally sharp differen-
tiation between monopoly and free
competition no longer holds true
in the present highly complicated
order of economic relations, DR.. E
H. Chamberlain, professor of eco
nomics at Harvard University, told
round-table session last night in
Copley Lounge.
DR.. Chamberlain declared: "It is
increasingly recognized in contem-
porary economic thought that COM
petition and monopoly are not
mutually exclusive at all, but are
on the contrary mixed and blended
in all degrees throughout the eco
nomic system 1t has become
necessary to admit into the mod
ern world whatever degree of
monopoly there may exist if We are
to explain what is happening to-
day in the economic world, he said
Arguing that the present order
is hybrid between monopoly and
competition, he brought out that
the railroads, long considered a
perfect monopoly" were now in
desperate straits under the intensi-
fed competition of other forms OF
transportation. Telephone, gas,
electricity and every other utility
he said, face new forms of competi-
ton in which monopoly competes
against monopoly.
1T has become commonplace,
Dr. Chamberlain declared, that
everything in some degree competeE
with everything else in the process
whereby we apportion out income:
among the varying avenues Of ex'
fS'AAeuiC OpCI1 W uo' 1llClC 10 AS
monopolist to be found who is moi
subject to competition In some de.
gree and most actual monopolist.
are subject to it in q degree o.
whose intensity they are keenly
aware"
"The public utility and the corner
grocery are different only in de.
gree" he maintained. Each is 6
monopolist selling a product distin.
guished in some measure from it.
nearest substitutes, and each i.
subject to the competition of these
substitutes"
Analyzing the phenomenon of the
vast sums expended for modern ad.
vertising, DR.. Chamberlain con.
Guided that this is a sign thai
monopoly is generally blended with
competition. He declared that ad.
vertising, long classed as competi.
tive waste, has always been con.
spicuously absent from competitive
theory.
The Rev. Moorhouse F. x. Miller
8. j., head of the department of DO.
htical science. Fordham University
the Rev. Wilfred Parsons, S. j., di.
rector OF libraries at Georgetown
and DR.. Richard J. Purcell, head O
the history department of Catholi,
University, also made addresses.