The Irish standard., 1914-09-05
Social Service Bulletin

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| the divine law; not TO defeat the d.
vine law. AS the managers duty is
to arrange ways and means to carry
out his chiefs orders, not to defeat
them. If this property is yours,
then you are answerable for seeing
that it supplies the wants of men.
By natures law everything belongs
to everyone. This does not mean
that natural right requires every
thing to be owned publicly and moth
ing to be owned as private property;
but that the distinguishing between
different properties is not done by
the natural law. For if this field is
considered simply in itself, there is
nothing in it to make it belong to
this man rather than to that. But If
it be considered with regard to con-
venience of tilling it, and peaceful
using of it, in these respects it has
certain fitness to belong to one rath-
er than another. Now, to consider
a thing, taking into account what
follows from it, is the special work Of
reason, which dictates it. So private
ownership is not against natural
right, but a development added to
natural right by the working of hui
man reason"
Pope Leo XIII, speaking Of the
same subject, says: Man not only
can possess the fruits of the earth.
but also the very soil. The right to
possess private property is derived
from nature, not from man; and the
state has the right to control its use
in the interest of the public good
alone, but by no means to absorb
it altogether. The first and most
fundamental principle, therefore, If
one would undertake to alleviate the
condition of the masses must be the
inviolability of private property"
The late Pope Plus x says of the
holders of property that IAN obliga-
ton of charity rests on rich men
and holders of property to help the
poor and needy according to the gos-
cept; and so grave is this present pre-
cept that on the day of judgment,
according to Christ Himself, spe-
cial reckoning will be made of it's
fulfilment. Hence, the poor ought
not to be ashamed of their poverty,
or to disda;n the charity of the rich.
"The obligations of justice on
capitalists and masters are as fol-
lows: To pay fair wages to the work
people; not to injure their lawful
savings by force or fraud or usury,
whether open or masked; to give
them freedom to fulfil their religious
duties; not to expose them to moral
corruption and the danger of scan
dals; not to damage their family life
or their spirit of thrift; not to i'm
pose on them disproportionate to
their strength or unsuited to their
age or SEX"
The Progress of Negro Education.
South Carolina has enacted a law
prohibiting white people from
teaching in schools where negroes
are taught unless the consent of the
county board of education is first
obtained. Governor Cole Blease, in
championing the bill, sad: "Any
/ white man who will sit at the presi-
dency of a negro college in my opiA-
ion is about as low as it is possible
for any man with a white mother to
get and is unworthy of the associa-
ton of any decent gentleman"
The activity of the students at the
University of North Carolina indi-
cate that the spirit of this South
Carolina legislation does not charac-
terize the feeling of all white people
toward the negroes, for these stu
dents at Chapel Hill, N. c., have I'M
dertaken a campaign for the better
ment of the negroes of their COM
munity.
University student organizations
had long felt that their work should
not be confined altogether to the
campus. They recognized their duty
to cooperate in efforts for commun-
ity uplift. And they considered the
negro settlements as vital parts of
the community.
The entering wedge was series
of lectures on negro life in the South.
Imported speakers, members of the
university faculty and students took
up the various aspects of the prob
lem.
The investigators found health
conditions above the average Of ne
gro settlements in the South.
GROWTH OF DRUG HABIT.
Duluth, Mimi, Aug. S1.-Com-
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