Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-11
i. ). Can Beat World
In Using War Tools,
BerIe Says atC. U.
Commencement Speaker
Ranks America First
In Mechanical Progress

Assistant Secretary of State A. A.
Berle, jr, predicted today that
America, if called on to do so, can
use the mechanical implements of
war better than any nation in the
world"
He spoke to more than 1000 per-
sons attending the graduation ex-
ercises at Catholic University in
the university gymnasium. The $50
graduates included approximately
$50 from the District and nearby.
Charging that Nazi claims to
position in the world are based on
ability to use and organize modern
technical force in the form of air.
planes, submarines and tanks, Mr.
Berle said most of these mechanical
improvements originated in this
country but were intended for peace
full purposes. Airplanes, he said,
first flew in American skies and
submarines and other motor ships
were first sailed in American waters.
Peaceful Use Was L. S. Aim.
Americans looked on these "as
kindly developments" he said. The
radio was to widen communications
and not a propaganda instrument,
and the tank mechanism was de-
signed to serve labor and till the
soil he continued.
"A nation which has no hatredS
Is slow to turn these things into
implements of war" he said. But
by that very token, if it is ever re-
quired to do so, 1t can use these
implements better than any nation
in the world; and use them with
more assurance, since it has no fear
The Assistant Secretary said the
conflict today is between two camps
wrestling with the same problem
not how to get what man needs, but
to decide by what rules of life men
will make use of what they have.
This represents a world wide revo-
luton brought about by scientific
improvements and developments, he
said, with the kindly revolution"
pitted against the revolution of
cruelty"
Bishop COrrigan Speaks.
The interest of Pope Plus XII in
bringing about peace was reviewed |
by Bishop Joseph M. Corllgan rec
tor of the university. He asked |
Archbishop Amleto G. Cicognani, the /
apostolic delegate to the United |
States, who presented the degrees, TO .
convey to the Pope the uniVerSity'S .
pledge of answering loyalty and .
willingness to help alleviate the .
frightful conditions brought about .
by the war.
The honorary degrees of doctor .
OF laws were conferred in the ad- |
sence Of the recipients. They went |
to Julio Tobar Donoso. Minister of .
Foreign Affairs of Ecuador. and .
jefferson Gallery, United States
Ambassador to Brazil The citations
for the degrees were read in aLtin by
Msgr. P. j. Mccormick, vice rector of
the university.
Music was by the university band
and choir.
Urges Periodic Vacations.
At class day exercises yesterday
Dr.. Joseph P. Derby, an alumnus
of the university, urged the lay
seniors to start the practice of
planning periodic vacations.
Don't fool yourselves into be-
fieving it is not necessary when you
are young and possess an unlimited
amount Of reserve energy" said DR..
Derby, a graduate of the class of
1915, 'or convince yourselves that
you cannot afford the time and
money. To the contrary, you can
not afford to do otherwise"
He said he believed the statement
that a man can do more and better
work in 10 months than he can in
q wear was substantially correct.
Valedictorian Leo Brady told the
group lit is ours to decide whether
We will leave behind us here the
scale of values we have learned or
whether we shall always remain the
class of 1941 in belief and action,
no matter how many worldly miles
separate us or how many crises, ma
terial or spiritual. assail us"
List of Award Winners.
Award winners announced at the
exercises and the awards were:
Twenty-Five dollars from an
anonymous donor for the outstand-
ing senior in the college of arts
and sciences to James D. Collins
OF Holyoke, Mass.
Plaque presented by the En-
eineers' Club of the Catholic Uni
versity for high scholastic average
and oratorical ability to Bernard
J. OKeefe of Providence. r. 1.
A Junior membership in the
American Society of Civil Engineers
awarded by the District of Column
bia section of the society to Arigo
p. Martini of Niagara Falls, N. VI
Medal and Junior membership in
the American Institute of Chem
lists to Donald w. Collier, ass Park
road NV.
Junior membership in the Amer
lean Society of Mechanical Engi-
neers awarded by the District of
Columbia section of the society to
Leland S. Brown, jr., Is Bryant
street NV.
Volume GEOGRAPHY of James
Hartness'0 awarded by the District
OF Columbia section of the Amer
lean Society of Mechanical Enei-
neers to William J. Durkin, 14o U
street NE.
Phi Beta Kappa keys awarded to
Leo Brady, 1903 Thirteenth street:
Leo A. Wall, 1416 Otis estreet NV:
Bernard A. Fitzgerald. GOT I street
NE; James D. Collins. Holyoke,
Mass; John J. Hart, Little Falls,
N. Y. and Brothers Alouin Laird. NJ