Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-08
Georgetown Alumni
Hear 0'Mahoney
AssaiI War Profits
Neither Labor Nor
Industry Has Such
Right, He Declares

Senator OMahoney of Wyoming
last night challenged the right Of
either labor or Industry to profit
unduly from the defense of Ameri.
can democracy
-. Addressing TOO Georgetown Uni
versity alumni and officials at 6
dinner at the MayfioWer Hotel ir
honor of Georgetown men in tbs
Army. Navy and Marine Corps, Sen
ator OMahoney warned there al
ready are manifestations of class
warfare and totalitarian doctrines
threatening this country.
The United States, because it is
seeking to defend itself, has incur
red already debt of $43 900 900 ,000,..
he warned. The manufacturer who
imagines he can make a profit in
the face of this debt is making as
great a mistake as the workman on
strike who thinks he can get some
thing more out of it.
There are men in this country
who fail to understand that the de-
tense of democracy in these days
Is not so much in the Army camps
as it is in the workshops.
TT is in the assembly plants of the
machine shops that democracy is to
be saved"
Training for Good Citizens.
The Very Rev. Arthur A. OLeary,
S. j., president of the university,
also declared in an address that
men are supposed to defend their
country, mot through any personal
motive but because they should
realize they have a duty placed on
them by God to serve, help and
obey their country"
When I am asked what George
town is doing in the defense pro-
gram" DR.. OLeary said, 81 reply,
what it has always done for $50
years-train men to be good cit
liens"
Senator OMahoney, who is 1920
alumnus of the law school, declared
there must be mo master class,
peasantry or proletarian class in
this country"
I'VE believe in the right of all the
people to defend all classes, all re-
hgion for the freedom of democracy
and christianity" he said
Senator OMahoney said it was
beyond comprehension that in the
middle of the goth century civili-
cation must resort to arms to defend
peace.
Warns on Capitalization
"As American citizens" he added,
there is one principle we must I'M
derstand-that no class, group or
individual has the right to impose
its or his will upon society" He
warned against the manifestations
and tendencies toward centraliza-
ton in government as the out
growth of the new economic era
which is ending the independence
of the individual and local COM
munities.
Man has the right to maintain
his economic freedom as well as
his political freedom" he declared.
Senator .OMahoney said it was
mistake to assume that the leaders
of totalitarian governments are
responsible for the change from
Individual freedom to highly CEN
tralized power.
Keech Toastmaster.
Corporation Counsel Richmond B.
Keech. %, chairman of the Wash
ington Alumni Council, was toast
master and introduced among the
alumni several "old grads" of the
class of 1891, celebrating their 5Oth
commencement. They included Col.
James S. Easby-Smith, James E.
Duross of New York, John A. Saul
and John j. Hamilton.
The alumni dinner combined the
varsity C. awards and Thomas A.
Cantrel, '08, one of the organizers
of the famous &c" dinners of an
other day, presented the awards to
the graduating members of George
town teams. There was an ovation
for Joseph T. McFadden, football
quarterback and a three letter"
man, who made patriotic response.
The Most Rev. Thomas A. En-
met, S. j., Bishop of Jamaica and
former athletic director at George
town, was one of the speakers.
'OIhe impression left on me by
Georgetown boys is that they surely
can take it, in either victory or de-
feat" he said.
Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith of
New York was to have attended the
dinner, but when the train bearing