Evening star., 1941-06-02
Pope Asks Protection
For Individual Riqhts
In Worlds New Order
Pontiff Cautions Against
Excessive Interference
With Them by Stote

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BY the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY, June 2.-Pop,
Plus XII, outlining his views on how
the fundamental values" of socia
and economic life should share IL
that new order which the worlc
expects and hopes" will emerge from
the war, emphasized safeguarding
of the rights of the individual.
In a Sunday radio broadcast COM
memorating the 50th anniversary Of
Pope Leo Kills social encyclical
"Rerum Novarum," the Pontiff sale
he wished to give some further di.
rective moral principles" on the
three fundamental values: The use
of material goods, labor and the
family.
He cautioned against too extensive
state interference in the rights ano
duties of individuals and families
and upheld mans right to freedom
in his physical, spiritual, religious
and moral movements"
Unrestricted Trade Favored.
On the use of material goods, the
Holy Father said;
Undoubtedly the natural order
deriving from God demands
private property and the free recip-
rocal commerce of goods by inter-
change and gift as we'll as the func-
tioning of the state as control
over both these institutions. -
To safeguard the inviolable
sphere of the rights of the human
person and to facilitate the fulfill
ment of his duties should be the
essential Office of every public au-
thority. The care of such a
common good does not imply a pow.
er so extensive over the members
of the community that in virtue of it
the public authority can decide
on the beginning or the ending Of
human life. determine at will the
of his physical, spiritual, re-
Hgious and moral movements in
opposition to the personal duties
or rights of man and to this end
abolish or deprive of efficacy his
natural rights to material goods
Organization Of Labor.
On labor:
u" - The duty and the right to
organize the labor of the people
belongs, above all, to the people i'm
interested: The employ
ers and the workers.
"+ . Every legitimate and bene-
fcial interference of the state in the
field Of labor should be such as to
safeguard and respect its personal
character both in the broad outlines
and as far as possible in what con-
Germs its execution; and this will
happen if the norms of the state do
not abolish or render impossible the
exercise of other rights and duties
equally personal; such as the right
to give God his due worship; the
right to marry; the right of husband
and wife, of father and mother to
lead a married domestic life; the
right to reasonable liberty in the
choice of state of life and the full.
flllment of true vocation. -
Opening of New Lands Urged.
On the family:
A so-called civil progress would
- be unnatural Nl1ich-either
through the excessive burdens i'm
posed or through exaggerated di-
rect interference-were to render
private property void of significance,
practically taking from the family
and its head the freedom to follow
the scope set by God for the perfec-
ton Of family life"
Pope Plus also suggested the open.
Ing of "habitable regions and vital
spaces now abandoned to wild
natural vegetation and we'll suitec
to be cultivated by man" to immi-
grants from other lands as a means
of contributing both Ito the in
creased welfare of man and the
progress of human culture"
The Pope warned against the
"error" Of the belief that "the scope
Of man on earth is society"
Society is not an end in itself"
he asserted.
The right and duty to work is con-
sidered imposed upon man in the
first instance by nature, he said,
mot by society as if man were moth
ing more than a mere slave or Off
clal of the community"
Defends Church's Right.
The Pope defended the church's S
right to say whether any given
social system harmonized with the
Interchangeable order of God"
He defended private property as
the basis of the family, giving the
father "the healthy liberty he needs
to fulfill his duties as the head of
a family"
The pontiff called on the faithful
not to be upset by "the growing
of public life" nor to 'be
misled by the manufacturers of err
rors and unhealthy theories"
Shortly before the broadcast, the
Pope received congratulations from
the College of Cardinals on the occa-
sion of his saint day, which comes
tomorrow.
To them he also spoke sorrowfully
OF the war. Although Vatican City
has been spared wars horrors
thus far, he told the cardinals, he
feels daily and hourly the sufferings
of mankind.
The horizon is dark, he said, with
the possibility of darker times to
come, but "the sun of justice will
not cease to shine"
Translations Broadcast.
His broadcast was followed by
radioed translations to the world
in French. English, Spanish, Ger
man, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch and
Hungarian.
On the radio the Pope declared
"the indisputable competence of the
church" to decide where the social
order "needS tn epfer into oopt, ~