The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-01-01


st. Marys Parish, announced last
week that arrangements have been
completed for a series of lectures
and open forums, to be held in the
ball room of the Hotel Alexander,
at $3.50 p. m. on the second Sunday
evenings of January, February,
March and April. The four speak
ers, all of them experts in their re-
spective fields, have had years of
experience in putting across their
ideas in lively and down o-earth
way.
The speakers will discuss four
vital issues on which all Americans
need to be well informed and the
subjects will cover a wide range of
controversial current questions.
Admission will be by ticket only
and reservations may be made now
by contracting the Rectory, on West
Washington Street. The price of
the tickets, which are good for the
entire series of four lectures, is $2.40.
Short biographical sketches of
each of the four speakers, and their
subjects, follow:
Sunday, January IL: DIR. ELIZA
BETH MORRISSY, PH.D. When DR..
Morrissy spoke here two years ago
at a Sodality Communion Breakfast
every one was impressed by her
personality and learning. For twen-
ty-eight years she has been professor
of economics at the College of No
| ire Dame of Maryland; for eleven
years visiting lecturer at the Nation
al School of Social Service in Wash
/ ington, D. c. She taught at the
summer school at st. Louis Univer-
sity and at Catholic University. She
has been a member of President
Roosevelt's first advisory committee
on social security and president
of the Catholic Conference on In
dustrial Problems. At present she
is also a member of the Consumers
Advisory Committee of the Presi-
dents Economic Advisors. With
her years of experience, she is well
equipped to discuss "THE PAPAL
SOLUTION TO THE LABOR
QUESTION"
Sunday, February 9Th: REV. DR.
WILFRID PARSONS, 81, was or
dained from Woodstock College
which awarded him his MA. PhD.
and STD. He also holds an Lit
D. from St. Joseph's College, Phila-
delphia He was editor of the week
1y magazine America" from 1925
till 1886; professor of political
science at Georgetown University
from 1886 till 1910, and dean of the
graduate school in 1889 and 1910
Since 1910 he has been professor OF
political science at Catholic Univer-
sity of America. He is a fellow OF
the American Geographic Society
member of the Academy of Political
Science, and the US. Catholic His
torical Society. From Washington
he now edits weekly news column
for America" and is the author OF
many books, among them-"Mexi-
can Martyrdom," (Which Way Dem
ocracy?", ''The Pope and Italy y
God and Government" He is es-
pecially qualified to discuss that
highly controversial subject, 1.-THE
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND
STATE IN A DEMOCRACY"
Sunday, March IA: DIR. VALEN-
TINE DEBALLA, a native of Hun
gary, graduated at the Military
Academy of Wienerneustadt, near
Vienna (the equivalent of West
Point of the Austro- Hungarian Mon
archy). In World War I he served
in the Cavalry Regiment of Empress
Zita. Graduated from the Paris
Law School with highest honors in
International Law, received his Doc
torate in Political Science at Johns
Hopkins University, where he taught
in 1931-1932. Travelled extensively
all over Europe, in Republican and
Franco Spain (also during the Span
ish Civil War;, in England, France,
Republican and Nazi Germany, Fas-
cist Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, the
Balkans and other countries. At the
outbreak of the war he was caught
in Hungary, and during the two
months seige of Budapest was with