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THE CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL AND DIXIE FARM NEW8 Published weekly at Charlotte, N. C. OLDEST LABOR PUBLICATION IN THE TWO CAROLINAS H. A. Stalls, Editor and Publisher W. M. Witter, Associate Editor .^Entered as second-class mail matter September 11, 1981, at the Peat Office at Charlotte, N. C, under the Act of Congress of March », 1879. Endorsed >y Charlotte Typographical Union, Number 338. An Af ffliate of Charlotte Central Labor Union and the North Carolina Fed eration of Labor. • TWO GREAT DOCUMENTS The editorial below appeared in the May issue of The Sign, the widely-known national Catholic magazine published by the Pas aionist Fathers. It was signed by Father Ralph Gorman, CJ*. It follows: t Near the middle of the nine teenth century two men, unknown to each other, spent several years •t Brussels in Belgium. Both were passionately interested in social questions and both observed at first hand the terrible evils of laissecfaire capitalism in that small but highly industrialized country. One was Karl Marx. His pro gram of reform was embodied in the Communist Manifesto and in Das Kapital. The other became pope under the name of Leo XIII. His program was proclaimed to the world on May 15, 1891, in an en cyclical called “The Condition of Labor.” Pope Pius XI restated and elaborated the Leonine teach ing in an encyclical issued on May 15, 1931, entitled “Recon structing the Social Order.” On May 16, we celebrate the sixtieth and twentieth anniversaries of these two great documents. The reception afforded the widely divergent social doctrines of Marx and of Leo is a sad commentary on human nature and the faith of Catholics. The teach ings of Marx have been adopted as the Communist bible; they have been studied, analyzed, and applied; they have been spread1 over the earth with a fanatical! and violent zeal. The teachings of Leo and Pius have had a mixed reception. They are little known outside the Church. An elite few among Catholics have received them with enthusiasm and have tried to ap ply their principles to the solu tion of the pressing problems of our modern industrial society. Some Catholics have opposed them as the unauthoritative pro aouncements of ecclesiastics who know little about the economic laws that rule our industrial world. The average Catholic, if he heard of them at all, has only the faintest idea of what they are about. Many Catholics were scandal ized at the bold teachings of Leo XIII. After sixty years and added papal pronouncements on social questions, a large percent age of Catholics are as reaction ary as their grand-parents in 1891. They feel that in her so cial teachings the Church is leav ing her altars to descend into the market place, that she is involv ing herself in matters that are not her concern. The fact is, of course, that the Church is entirely within her sphere in interesting herself in the moral aspects of our indus trial problems. She cannot' admit a divorce between business and morality; she does not teach a religion restricted to Sundays or by the four walls of the church; she does not propound a code of morality that affects a man’s pri vate life but overlooks his busi ness and public life. The Church has a place—-and by divine right —wherever human beings think and live and act. And the Church has an interest too in worldly goods. She recom mends detachment, but she is an enemy of poverty—at least of a poverty so great that it forces a man to neglecl the spiritual in order to concentrate all his ef forts on obtaining the bare neces sities of life. She is an enemy of the poverty that creates slums, that forces women and. children into factories, that contracts the whole horizon of life to the absolute essentials of food, clothing, and shelter. The Church knows that people ground down by such poverty too often turn a deaf ear to her spiritual message while they listen to the siren vices of false saviors. In the areas of social justice and social charity there are grave deficiencies in our American in dustrial life. The encyclicals pro vide the remenides—but they do not provide them ready-made. They offer a guide, a set of prin ciples, a beacon light, a philoso phy rather than a detailed, con crete program. Application of these principls to our particular problems here and now requires study, intelligence, prudence, and a never flagging enthusiasm. Perhaps it would not be invid ious to recommend that for the anniversary of the two great pa pal documents we resolve to learn a lesson of zeal from the fol lowers of Marx. TAFTI8M “The emergency is more threat ening than real," Sen. Robert Taft (R., Ohio) told Washington reporters, June 7. "It is on our backs." Joe Stalin is just a mirage, eh, Senator ? SOLUTION? What should you do when prices reach for the sky? “The answer is . . , simple," said Clare Hoffman (R., Mich.) In the House June 4. "It is—do without, buy less. ..." POLIO PRECAUTIONS « .*' KCOMMENDEOlT >-*»-• THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS AVOID NEW GROUPS DON T GET OVERTIRED ' ». v:» " ,;-vr KEEP flEAN WHEN POLIO IS AROUND, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis recommend* these simple precautions: Keep children with their own friends and away from people they have not been with right along. Don't become exhausted through work or hard play. Don’t stay too long cold water or sit around in wet clothes. And always wash hands before eating. Watch for feverishness, sore throat, headache, upset stomach or sore muscles. They may—or may not— mean polio Call your doctor and then, if help is needed contact the National Foundation Chapter in your area. GOVERNMENT CAN’T KEEP TRACK OP HANDOUTS The Government is handing tax benefits to business so fast it can’t keep track of them. “Exactly how much expansion DPA (Defense Production Admin istration) has underwritten in this' manner to date seems to be a moot question, says the June 5 issue of The Wall Street Journal. “At a late hour yesterday DPA officials were batting around some three sets of figures. Two press releases issued yesterday, written by different publie infor mation people in the agency, con tained conflicting sets of figures which each claimed were correct.” Under the tax-handout program the government let big business write off the cost of new plants in 5, instead of the usual 20 to 25 years. This means lower taxes for business and higher taxes for you. LABOR AND CONTROL8 “Organised labor is the only major group working for extend sion and strengthening of the De fense Production Act. No busi ness group is working for that ob jective, to my knowledge.”—Ec onomic Stabiliser Eric Johnston in talk to labor editors. Union people owe a debt of | co-operation aad helpfulness to ; their brothers. If it were no( I for the other fellows in the Un ion, each man would stand alone. , Then where would he be ? Election day this year in sev eral states and cities will be November 6. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Having qualified as administra trix of the estate of John L. Foster, late of Mecklenburg Coun ty, North Sarolina, this is to noti fy all persons having claims against said estate to present them, duly verified, to the under signed at her residence. 2633 Ringwood street, North .Charlotte, North Carolina, on or before the 21st day of June, 1952, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. AH persons indebted to said estate will please make immedi ate settlement with the under signed. This the 21st day of June, 1951. LAURA II. FOSTER, Administratrix. (6-21, 28; 7-5, 12, 19, 26-C). State of North Carolina, Mecklenburg County. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT Betty Lou Beede, Plaintiff, vs. Leon Leroy Beede, Defendant. SERVICE OP SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION The defendant above named will take notice that an action en titled above has been commenced in the Superior Court of Meck lenburg County, North Carolina, for the purpose of obtaining an absolute divorce from the defend ant on the grounds of separation for two years or more. And the defendant will further take notice that he is required to appear before the Clerk of the Superior Court of Mecklenburg County within twenty days (20) from the 20th day of July, 1051, and answer or demur to the com plaint Sled in this action, or the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in said complaint. This the 28th day of June, 1951. 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