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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1940)
Tho OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon Friday Morning, February 8, 1940 PACT SEVDf 'Guild System Catholic Idea Reorganizing of Economic Life for Moral Unity Prelates' Solution WASHINGTON. Feb. 8.-P-Sixteen prelates of the Catholic church in America called today - for the re-establishment of a "guild" system, "which will bind men together in society accordine to their respective occupations, thus creating moral unity." With this, they declared, "a reform of morals and a profound i renewal of the Christian spirit" will aid, the nation to effect social reconstruction. Under the "guild or corpora tive system," both employers and employes would.be organized (as Pope Pius XI "suggested) "not according to th position they occupy in the labor market, but according to the diverse func tions which they exercise in society." (Guilds governed the crafts men of Europe during the middle ages.) Rejecting both "extreme indi vidualism" and "collectivism" in government policy, the archbish ops and bishops who comprise the administrative board of the national Catholic welfare confer ence declared: "Our economic life must be reorganized not on the disinte grating principles of individual ism but on the constructive prin ciple of social and moral unity among the members of human society." In "The Church and the Social Order." a 34-page statement on conditions m the United States, the prelates presented what Cath olic sources considered their re sponse to the recent encyclical v hich Pope XII addressed to the church in the United States. The NCWC called it "the most important utterance made by the Catholic hierarchy since the bishops program of reconstruc tion of 1919." The prelates declared that: The state must regulate the social responsibility of property so that the burden of providing for the common good is equitably distributed. To protect its rights, labor must be free to bargain collec tively, but "the principle of force" Is equally wrong when used by labor or capital. "Security of the working man as against unemployment, old age, sickness, accident and death, must be frankly accepted as a social responsibility of Industry jointly with society." A living wage must provide decent support both for the work ing man and his family, and must make possible savings to meet unmployment, sickness, death and old age. While warning against "un fair" wages, the bishops also said that if skilled laborers, through monopoly control, raise their hourly wage rates too high, the poor help to pay the cost in the form of higher prices. They also branded as "palpably unjust" any idea that the net result of pro duction belongs to labor and that capital shall receive "only suf ficient to replace Itself." Surveying the entire field of economic life, the prelates said: It Is manifestly Impossible to expect good economic order if wages, prices, working conditions and the public are left to chance or to the haphazard methods of so-called free enterprise." Honeymoon -' ,;. . .; . M. A Honeymooning in Florida follow ing a Xayac, NY., wedding re cently were Xunnally Johnson, 42, top flight film writer, and Screen Starlett Doris I low don, 25, (above). They were mar ried at the estate of Helen Hayes and Charles MacArthnr. Johnson and his bride met while he wan adapting her first starring picture, "The Grapes of Wrath." UN photo. Big Flood Control Budget Advocated (Continued from Page 1) a series of seven dams on tribu taries of the Willamette river, was carried forward this year with an appropriation of $5,500,000. ASTORIA. Ore., Feb. 8 - (JP) -The United States bureau of fish eries is prepared to spend $250,000 to offset fish losses caused by dam construction in the Columbia river. Charles E. Jackson, fisheries Pelley Admits He Planned big Coup (Continued from Page 1.) that it had adopted a friendly at titude toward Pelley, despite branding his organization "fas cistic." These charges were based upon documents purchased from David Mayne, a former Pelley employe here, by Harold Weisberg, a for mer employe of the senate civil liberties cbmmittee, and by Gard ner Jackson of labor's non-partisan league. They were inserted in the congressional record by Rep. Hook (D-Mich), but were with drawn when Mayne and Pelley de clared they were forgeries. The documents purported to be letters from Pelley to Mayne. Weisberg and Jackson asked United States Attorney David Pine today to take criminal action against Mayne, and Hook ad dressed to Pine a letter demand ing "immediate action" on the Wei3bei g-Jackson request. William A. Roberts, attorney for Weisberg and Jackson, said that a complaint had been filed charging Mayne with defrauding Jackson who paid $105 for the letters. Pine declined to discuss the matter on the ground that policy prohibited disclosure of com plaints pending the issuance of warrants. Seek Subversives In Gotham Finest NEW YORK, Feb. S.-JJPy-Kew York City's 18.000-odd police were told in effect by Commis sioner Lewis J. Valentine today that they could not be members of the Christian Front or of any "subversive or communist organ ization, bund or fascist club" and remain on the force. "What we want is the truth," said Valentine, ordering an in vestigation by questionnaire of each man to determine whether he was a member of any such group.'' There is noth ing to prevent any member of the department from Joining any organization, but the police at all times are peace officers and must remain neutral. "If they are members of these organizations, then they cease to be neutral." Valentine's order met with im mediate resentment from some patrolmen. It was reported several refused to answer the questions, while others, although answering, ex pressed disapproval. commissioner, advised State Fish Commissioner M. R. Chessman to day that the bureau was prepared, pending outcome of further ex periments, to submit estimates. CHOICE CUT PORK LARD Limit 4 lbs. for 25 c SUGAR CURED Side Bacon Hic Smoked POBK SAUSAGE 190 Kampfer's "Hi Grade" Liver Sausage ft. 2,2ic CHICKENS PORK CHOPS Fresh Dressed fl Loin O L lb. ... JL3p Each -?P Small Tender Skin MffllB , as - - ' - - -.... 170 N. Commercial In Peerless Bakery Burglaries Here Thought Geared (Con tinned from Fag 1) Raymond Shirley home, T50 North Summer street. In a bur glary January SO. Three other radios, all of which had been sold, were recovered from Corvallis dealers. Patrolmen KIggins and Frank Reeves brought back the loot be lieved to have come from Salem yesterday. It Included: Fonr radios, a man's wrist watch, a man's pocket watch, a woven mat, nine automobile robes, one comforter, an overcoat, a ski Jacket, a sleeping bag, one new auto tire, a small Ivory clock, one Mixmaster, a portable type writer, a waffle Iron, an electric toaster, a lady's handbag, two small pocket bags, a box of as sorted canned food and jelly, and an electric raxor. Williams and Hathls are being held In the Benton county jail Cooke Stationery Company to Move (Con tinned from page 1) play apace and to permit expan sion of the firm's lines. The new on a charge of possession of stol en property and may be prose cuted on that eharge In Benton county. tor with a SI by ISO-foot floor space will have twice the room of the present on. The stationery business which Cook acquired from the Patton estate fir years ago has been In operation in Salem for more than CO years. Mr. Cook will Leave this morn ing by automobile with Mrs. Cooke and their daughter, Dorothy, for a week's trip to San Francisco. Bus iness In connection with the Im pending move will be transacted in bay district. Chamberlain Hits At "Murder Acts" LONDON, Feb. S.-A)-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain de clared scornfully today that "acts of murder" at sea by the German air force would not win the war, asserted the western conflict was going the way Great Britain want ed it and announced new allied aid "now is on its way" to Finland. The prim minister's state ments were made in one of bis periodic reviews of the war to th house of commons. Chamberlain's statement that "we have no reason to be dissat isfied with the opening phases of the war" coincided with disclos ure that a third contingent of Ca nadian troops had reached Eng land, In five transports. Th force had artillery and ambu lance units, technicians and a few fliers. 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