I'
41.
4,/
1..Allre
Consult
"Taste
['HOU &[IliOtt
Tells"
If I Johnston's
04:
,
1)
16.
SAUSAGES
and FRANKFURTS PERTH, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1943.
NO. 3,082.
Opticians FOR
Your Eyes ! Piccadilly Arcade,
Perth
Tel. B7988 SEVENTIETH YEAR.
PRICE THREEPENCE.
Bow English Catholics Reacted to the Criticism of Unnecessary State Control Over Lives of Individuals .
.
.
Beveridge Plan
Step Towards Servile State Where Personal Rights Yield to State Paternalism Real Problem of Reconstruction is to Remove Causes of Insecurity Rather Than Remedy Effects The Beveridge Plan has had a mixed It has been welcomed by reception. the Capitalist world, which sees in it the assumption by the State of the amelioration of the evils which Capitalists have themselves created, yet without the State calling on them to Labour welcomes the plan reform. as an indication of "something better," but considers it not radical enough and too expensive in proportion to its bene-
at the same time they must realise the unlikelihood of any such development in this country, "where political and
social evolution has taken quite a dif"Under these condiferent turn." tions," the editor says, "one has to judge of a reform, not so much in the light of an ideal but in the light of
immediately practical alternatives. In the light of these practical alternatives in this particular country there is a very great deal indeed to be said for fits. the Beveridge Plan with its opposition Discerning people appreciate it as a to doles, its insistence on the economic recognition of existing evils, but con- priority of the family and the children, demn it in principle in that it is a step and its strict adherence to its terms of towards that Servile State wherein reference. While criticism of details man would surrender his claim to natu- is useful and necessary, Catholics must ral rights in order to secure the benenot imagine that opposition to the fits of State paternalism. Plan will bring the Christian State opinCatholic solid While there is no nearer; it may rather put its realisaproBeveridge the against or for ion tion still further back." posals in their entirety, a survey of ediThe "Tablet" gaves a somewhat chiltorial views expressed in Catholic newssays papers in England shows that there ly greeting to the proposals. It bad for exists, among Catholics, a genuine de- that it would be particularly if Catholics outlook their own future sire for social reform on Christian lines, great and that there would be criticism of should imagine that the one of a highway towards the realisation State of any unnecessary extension just and humane society is to denude control over the lives of individuals. of The "Catholic Herald" criticises the men of responsibility and freedom is libBeveridge Report on two grounds of choice because wherever there society if principle: first, that it extends the in- erty there are abuses; or, being a State and fluence of the State "and fails to imple- were narrowed into number of or a ment Papal leanings towards corporat- nothing but a State, States. ism and vocational groups," and sec"The Catholic Times" dealt with the ondly that it may diminish individual report in a consideration of the Holy responsibility. The The editor says that Catholics are Father's Christmas broadcast. that right to press for a Christian -grounded editor said: "It is highly unlikely the State, that is, one consonant with the the majority of those who regard But Beveridge Plan as a certain guarantee Papal directions about society.
For Value and Service
points out that Catholic social doctrine disagrees entirely with the assumption that social security can be whether obtained, or should even be sought, by desirable, ployment is socially a vast extension of State control. it creates a stable and democratic soNevertheless the paper sees in the The paper contrasts the ciety." Pope's declaration that the worker Beveridge Plan a substantial measure econoof protection against the results of unto an must not be condemned But to mic dependence or slavery which is ir- employment and insecurity. remove the causes of basic insecurity reconcilable with his rights as a perresults is its rather than to alleviate son, with the "canalisation of savings the real problem, which the report in State insurance" which modern scarcely touches. Yet in so far as it economic plans envisage. "The Universe" sees "a most impres- awakens the public conscience to the need for security and for a better dissive consensus of support for the thesis that society security must be the main tribution of wealth and for a pooling object of reconstruction after the war, of losses and hardships, it strengthens and that very large concessions must the attack upon an unjust system while proposing temporary remedies be made by all sorts of vested interBut the paper to meet its evil effects. ests to attain it."
of employment or of subsistence in place of employment, ever stop to wonder whether universal wage em-
W. H. BRANCH
STONEHAM STREET, OSBORNE PARK.
ESTIMATES GIVEN FOR ALL KINDS OF ELLCTRICAL WORK BREAKDOWNS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
Tel. B9681
Australasian Catholic Assurance Co. Ltd.
THE "A.C.A A.C.A. BUILDINGS, KING SI., SYDNEY. ASSETS EXCEED £1,750,000. ALL CLASSES OF LIFE AND ENDOWMENT ASSURANCE POLICIES TRANSACTED.
SAFEGUARD THE FUTURE BRANCH OFFICES IN ALL STATES. W.A. Office: "WAltWICK HOUSE," ST. GEGRGE'S TERRACE, PERTH P. ENGELBRECHT, Resident Secretary.
Guiltoyle's Hotel Australia 4rs Est
Registered at the G.P.O., Perth, for transmission by post as a newspaper.
Murray,e5
year,t