Evening star., 1933-02-25
CHURCH. ANDMARX
IDEAS cONTRASTED
Dr.. Walsh Continues His Sc
rieS of Lectures on "Evolu-
re- tion of Communism"

The Technocrats of 1888, like the
Bolsheviks of Soviet Russia, have bOr-
rowed many of their so-called new"
ideas from the Utopian philosophers
of centuries ago, who advocated shorter
working days and the equitable distri-
button of wealth, according to DR.. Ed
mund A Walsh, S. j., vice president
of Georgetown University and regent
Of its School of Foreign Service.
Continuing his lectures on THE
Evolution of Communism" DR.. Walsh
last night pointed out also, the impor-
tant difference between the spiritual
communism" of the Catholic Church
and the communism of Karl Marx. The
choice of life in the religious orders
of the church is voluntary, he declared,
while the success of the other Is de-
pendent on the "bayonet and the fir
ing squad"
In Campanella's "City Of the Sun"
published by an ardent social philoSo
pher who died in 1889, Dr. Walsh found
what he termed was one of the cardi-
nal principles of the Technocrats of
1888. In his provisions for labor in
that ideal commonwealth. the speaker
said that Campanella provided that
each citizen should work only four
hours day as the energy thus ex-
pended out to be sufficient for the
needs of society. Sir Thomas More. in
his Utopia" he explained, advocated
a six-hour day.
Sources Are Remote.
''The Technocrats." concluded DR..
Walsh. mot only borrowed from Web
len, but from sources far more re-
mote than an American economist.
Similarly, the Bolsheviks invented
nothing new when they required tour
lists in their Utopia to spend a definite
sum of money each day during their
sojourn in Soviet territory
A similar practice, DR.. Walsh said
voyage to Icaria,' one of the ro-
mantle Utopias published IS years ago
In describing the ideal common
wealth, pictured by St. Augustine in
THE City of God" DR.. Walsh re-
marked: $50, we see how this eternal
social problem, the equitable distribu-
ton of wealth, confronted the thinkers
of the fifth century as sharply and
acutely as it faces the political lead
ers the philosophers and the econo-
mists of the twentieth century.
Then there were great thinkers;
now We are surrounded by great tink-
ers,' he added Augustine went to
the roots of social inequality in his
profound speculations on the destiny
OF the human race. We have Specula-
tors. too, but they sell the country
short
Contrasting the difference between
the religious orders of the Catholic
Church and the communism of Marx
the Georgetown priest said:
First and foremost, choice of such
way of life in the church Is volun-
tary, hence adapted only to the few
who endeavor to observe not only the
commandments of God but also the
counsels of God No compulsion ex-
lists, nor is it tolerated in the recruit
ing OF members, which distinguishes
this spiritual communism from the
ruthless and tyrannical dictatorship
essential to the success of the commu-
mist state erected by Lenin and gov
erned today by Joseph Stain.
Next Meeting Cancelled.
II have experienced both" DR.. Walsh
added-"one for nearly two years in
Russia and the other, in the Society
of Jesus, for over 80 years. When Mr..
Stains form has SubSisted for 399
years, as the other has, it will have
learned much, chiefly, suspect, in the
held OF applied psychology.
Loyalty that is based on conviction
Of intellect and consent of will fur
nishes a sounder basis for perpetuity
than do the clanking Of convict chains.
the display of bayonets and the noise
of firing squads that now fill the dis
patches from Russia. You may break
the back of opposition and enslave the
body of cowed men by brute force, but
unless you capture the heart and en-
list the free spirit of man to your
standard, you are but taking ruined
and an empty palace with vacant
throne" he concluded
Owing to the fact that Inauguration
day is Saturday, DR.. Walsh announced
last night that the weekly public lee
ture next Friday night is to be
omitted