Saint Marys College - Blue Mantle Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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CLASS OF 1935 Mary Patricia Walsh Republic, JV ashington. A.B. in Commerce. Diapason club ' 30, ' 31. Eucharistic League vice-president ' 3S. Catholic Action club vice-president ' 35. Glee Club ' 30, ' 31, ' 32. Choir ' 30, ' 31, ' 32. Orchestra ' 30, ' 35. French club ' 34, vice-president ' 35. Answers to Patsy or Pat . . . she ' s really from Republic . . . likes Minneapolis and Chi- cago ... a commerce student . . . collector of photographs . . . gets innumeraible letters . . . Patsy challenges the early to bed early to rise theory . . . rather sit around and talk, than sleep . . . the best sense of humor imaginable . . . combines brains, beauty and practical re- ligion. JiiDe, 1935

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ST. MARY ' S COLLEGE Kathleen Sharpe 131 E. Water Street Coaldale, Pennsylvmiia. A.B. in Mathematics. El Club Santa Teresa ' 32, ' 33, ' 34, president ' 35. Le Cercle Francais ' 32, ' 33, ' 34, ' 35. Basketball ' 32, ' 33. Dimples . . . she is interested in languages and speaks both French and Spanish fluently . . . musically inclined . . . has an appreciative ear for the classical . . . intends to spend next year attending as many concerts and operas as possible . . . slim, has a passion for Greta Garbo . . . likeable person. Frances Patricia Vodicka 335 Main Street Glen Ellyn, Illinois. A.B. in Education. W.A.A. Member ' 35. Hockey Team. Refreshment committee for Ball. Chicago Club. Fran came to St. Mary ' s after spending the first two and a half years at Eosary College . . . sports her chief enjoyment . . . particu- larly swimming and horseback riding . . . mem- ber of the W.A.A. and the hockey team . . . Her home is in Chicago . . . Her ambition is to teach . . . She was one senior who did practice teaching in South Bend this year and retained enthusiasm over the profession as a whole. June, 1935 145

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The Socialistic Ideal — Russian Fulfillment IDuEiNG THE YEAES which mark the latter half of the eighteenth century oc- curred that momentous social and eco- nomic upheaval known as the Industrial Revolution. Previous to this revolution the lahorer had worked under the guild system of tlie medieval ages and the do- mestic system which followed it. Under the guild and domestic systems the labor- er, living and working for the most part in rural cottages, was adequately protected; however, with the invention of machines the existence of domestic manufactures was doomed. Handmade goods in compe- tition with machine made goods were hopelessly defeated because of the higher cost of production. Factories arose which drew the worker from the rural home and set him down amid the squalor and vice of crowded factory tenements. And thus with the advent of the Industrial Revolu- tion came evils, all of which may be sum- med up as the virtual enslavement of the worker, for being separated from his tool he became but a cog in a vast machine. At the same time that the position of the laborer became weaker, the impor- tance of capital increased, for it was through capital that machinery and fac- tories were being built; and hence, it was capital placed in the hands of a favored few which controlled industry while a corresponding unimportance was attach- ed to the worker. At first glance it would seem that the evils of the capitalistic system were in- herent in the system itself, but on an ex- amination into philosophy which was con- ceived in the seventeenth century and de- veloped and popularized in the eighteenth century one finds that the evils of capital- ism are traceable to the materiahs tic and subjective thought of the time. The spir- ituality of man was denied and therefore, Harriet Kamm ' 35. the worth and dignity of the individual man, as man, was likewise denied. . . . In this unfavorable situation the mis- ery of the working class steadily in- creased. Wages were not set according to the standard of living labor should maintain, but according to the amount for which the capitalist in his superior po- sition could force labor to work. Hu- man life was cheap and there were always men and women and children who could be fed, willingly or not, into the hungry jaws of mills and factories. But one object was then, as it is yet today, in view and that object was to in- crease profits in order to grant a dispro- portionately large return to capital own- ers. The result was that in the tangle which is necessarily attendant upon un- planned production there was born merci- less competition, waste, political cor- ruption, glutted markets, starvation among plenty, fortunes spent in adver- tising wliich necessitated higher commod- ity prices to cover this expense and fin- ally a varying condition of scarcity and overproduction, all of which has its cul- mination in a crisis. . . . It is a sad and sorry picture, that of capitahsm. As early as 1800 Robert Owen, a philanthropic English factory owner, recognized the fact that the cause of labor needed a champion. . . . Later Marx (1818-1883) appeared. INIarx sounded a new note in Socialism; he saw the faults of the economic system, the conflict of the classes, but he did not plan a Utopia. Immediately he set to work attacking from the political angle. From Hegel lie learned that this evil sys- tem was not tlie product of men, but in- stead the product of evolution and so Marx proceeded to make clear the theory of Socialism and convincingly to show June, 1935 147