Evening star., 1946-02-06
Social Changes Giving
|AnLiving Wage Urged
|At Catholic ParIey

RecOnStruct1On OF the social order
to insure a living wage for all classes
is the solution of the size of families
rather than other means, the Rev
Wilfred Parsons, professor of poll
tics at Catholic University, told to.
days session of the 14th Annual Ma
tional Catholic Conference on Fam
lily Life at Catholic University.
Mrs. Carolyn B Manning, ma
tional regent, National Circle
Daughters of Isabella, presided al
the meeting.
The conference. sponsored by the
Family Life Bureau of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference, will
continue through the Friday after
noon meeting. Sessions are held
daily at 10 am. and 2 and 8 pm.
Benefits Not Helpful.
Father Parsons denounced such
devices as family allowances for ex-
ira children, tax exemptions for
large families and cash bonuses for
the same reason. When given for
purely political and economic rea-
sons, he said, they distort the end
and purpose Of the family by revers-
ing the natural order, which Is to
give privacy to the family as a unit
and secondary Importance to other
factors.
The total agricultural output in
the United States has increased far
more rapidly than even the upturn
in births, the past few years, Robert
j. McFall, research staff, American
Marketing Service, said at the meet
ing.
Mr.. McFall asserted that mans
resources have been increasing on a
geometric basis while population
growth has been augmented at an
arithmetical rate. He declared that
it is now definite that food is not the
real limiting factor in population
growth and human progress"
Constantine MCGUIRE, consulting
economist of Washington, outlined
the relationship of the country's
growth in wealth and its growth in
population.
Murray Raps Congress.
Philip Murray, CIO president,
attacked industrialists and "timid
members of Congress" for advo-
eating high level instead of full
employment and declared this atti-
tude is a deliberate disregard of
family security that endangers our
whole social structure" in a message
read last night to the convention.
The CIO president asserted that
job insecurity has resulted in the
postponement of marriage by many
young couples, with the result that
when the parties do feel suffi-
GENTLY secure to marry, one or both
OF them have acquired fixed and
selfish habits that have made them
less fit for marriage"
Mr.. Murray's message was read
by Harry Reed, assistant to CIO
Secretary James Carey.
Brooke Claxton, Canadian Minis
ter of National Health and Welfare,
discussed the workings of the Fam
lily Allowances Act passed by the
Canadian Parliament in 1914. He
said the Canadian government is
now paying out close to $3.50, 900 900
a year to 1865, 900 families.
Msgr. Sheen Talks Tonight.
The Right Rev. Fulton j. Sheen,
professor of philosophy at Catho-
lie University, will address the meet
ing tonight. Also on the program
will be the Rev. Godfrey Diekman
OF Collegeville, Mimi. and Judge
Michael F. Walsh of the New York
Supreme Court.
John r. Mannix of Chicago. Err
nest j. Bohn. director of the Cleve-
land tOhio) Metropolitan Housing
Authority. and the Right Rev. Al
bert j. Murphy, Board of Catholic
Charities director in Cleveland,
were to speak at this afternoons
gathering. ....