Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-24
arrangement, it falls to the level { animal impulse.
 Wider Social Relations

arrangement. it falls to the level of animal impulse.
 Wider Social Relations
 Social intercourse, i7 the usual sense, responds to demand of our human nature. It is an effectual means of drawing more closely the bonds of charity. And it often gives occasion for joint endeayor in further ance Of the common good.
 "TNo attain these worthy ends, social enjoyment must remain within reason able limits. When it interferes with the duties of home, it defeats it's own best purpose. When it becognes ex- travagant and develops a craze for pleasure. it is likely to pervert the whole meaning of life. A people that lives on excitement and sensation will soon lose it's moral fibre. The power of endurance is directly propertioned to the power-of self restraint. And this we surely need at the present time when America is passing through the graves crisis in it's history.
 ''In this matter we appeal with all possible earnestness to Catholic wo- men. We urge them especially to eounteract, with the force of example, those tendencies to excess whereby the prescriptions of plain deceney, and even the slightest restraints of con vention too often are disregarded. As every Catholic understands, society, no less than it's individual member. it's subject to Gods law. Neither cus- tom nor fashion can justify sin. If we are proTnBt to remove the causes of bodily disease. we should be least equally enerSetIc ill banishA1g moral contagion.l
 
 notoriety that unbalances certain minds. In others. fondness for dis play leads to lavish expenditure arouses the envy of the less fortunate classes, spurs them to foolish imita- tion, and eventually brings about con- flict between rich and poor.
 industrial Relations.
 ''The disturbances from which our 1 industries are suffering bring home to all the people in direct and practical form, the need of a thorough read justment. In part, the present situa- ton is due to the war; but it's real causes lie further back in our indus trial history. It is not merely that unWise poicies have been at least equally energetic in banIess assump- tions.
 l Tt is an error to assume that the issues involved are purely economic, They are.s at bottom. moral and re- 1 hgious. Their settlement calls for a ! clear perception of the obligations which justice and charity impose. 'In urging their respective claims, | the parties, apparently disregard the | fact that the people as whole have a I prior claim. The first step therefore, | toward correcting the evil is to insist 1 that the rights of the community shall | prevail, that law and order shall be ! preserved and that the public shall not be made to suffer while the contention goes on from one mistake to another. | f@The failure to reach an agreement ! is due in large measure, to the 'suppo- sition that class is naturally hostile to class. In truth, each needs the other | Capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital. This is obvious 1 but the more important point is that l capital and labor are bound by mutual l obligations. not simply by mutual needs or interests.
 l ''In this whole question, the mora, value of man and the dignity of hu- man labor are cardinal points. By 1 treating the 1aborer as a man, not as i a machine the employer will make him better worlxingman. By re- specting his own moral dignity as a man, the laborer win compel the w- spect of his employer and the com mutiny."