The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
Human Welfare Urged
as MduSt1yS Chief End
Father Mcguire Issues New
Commandment to Settle
Economic Ills.
BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY
Human welfare and not profit

Human welfare and not profit
shall be the end of industry"
This new commandment for an
industrialized society comes not
from a red Communist nor a pink
Socialist, but from a Catholic priest,
who also is president Of college
the Rev. J. W. r. Mcguire.
Father Mcguire is here attending
the college presidents convention
of the Association of American
Colleges, and is trustee Of the di-
vision of liberal arts. He is presi-
dent of st. Viator's college, Kan
kakee, Ill.
Father Mcguire has Travelled far
and wide in the fight in America
for retention of civil liberties and
in the struggles Of the laboring
classes.
In Illinois passage of much Ia
Dor and welfare legislation rebounds
to his credit He has appeared be-
fore congress in the interest of such
causes and has fought the courts
with their use Of injunctions to
prevent the right of trial by jury.
Because of these things his fame
has spread among organized labor
throughout the land, and Father
Mcguire appears on their conven-
ton programs.
Retains His Faith
Yet, with all his fighting for well
fare and labor legislation, Father
Mcguire declared today that these
things are but palliatives" and 1.-The
system must be changed so the
workers own the industries and they
are operated with human welfare
and not mere profit-making in
mind"
by this I do not mean Socialism
or Communism for America" Fa-
Their Mcguire explained. But do
mean the distributive state, or gen.
uine industrial democracy.
Despite all the modern assaults
on political democracy, I still re-
tain my faith in it as a system that
preserves the liberties for the
masses. What I want to see is the
characterization of industry as
well.
Father Mcguire would have de-
mocratization brought about by CO.
operative ownership of the means
of production by workers in the va
rious industries and not by turning
the means of production over to the
state as the MARKHAM social philoso-
pliers seek to do.
civil liberties, history shows, is
based on the fact that governments
govern we'll in inverse proportion to
their power. just think of the ulti-
mate and all prevailing power
which would lie in a government
owning and operating all the means
of production.
Americans Vote Honestly
In boosting the cause of democ-
racy, Father Mcguire points out
that the vast majority of Amer
leans vote honestly, if not always
intelligently.
But there is a growing danger of
encroachment upon civil liberties in
our country at the present time, "
he asserted. What one should
think, say or believe should never
be matters of legislation.
THE recommendations of the
Fish committee to harass and de-
port Communists is both stupid and
vicious. If any fact stands out in
history it is that you can not sup
press ideas with machine guns. The
only ultimate solution is to meet
false ideas with true ones"
Tonight Father Maquire will visit
the Columbia Conserve Company
and address the employe-owners Of
that institution, which is Indianap-
oils first contribution to the I'm
dustriaI democracy which Father
Mcguire is preaching.