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What goes to illake a good Australiart? Archbishop Beovich's striking National Broadcast cline in agriculture. Within one week's flying time of Australia there are 1,000 million Asiatics. We have only seven million people. The position is aggravated by an unwillingness to bear children in which selfish unChristian motives predominate. There is also an insular dislike to foreign immigration which is sometimes so strong that it would seem many people would rather
Patriotism divorced from Christianity may become a principle of hatred and destruction . . .
let Asiatics conquer the country.
The first of a series of national broadcasts on Australia was given by the Archbishop of Adelaide on Sunday, September 12, under the. auspices of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Dr. Beovich spoke of the need of Christianity as a basis of good citizenship, and contrasted true patriotism with the idolatrous forms of nationalism current to-day.
"In discussing the various attributes that, in my opinion, go to the making of a good Australian," said his Grace, "we can first of all state an obvious fact: of the four existing civilisations in the world-European, Islamic, In-
dian and Chinese-we belong to that civilisation called European. Its basis and traditions are Christian, so we are heirs to a civilisation built up laboriously through the centuries of the Church which Christ founded on earth. We must emphasise our heritage, because in this century several factors in our national life, not the least being State systems of secular education, not only are not helpful in maintaining our Christian traditions, but they have the contrary effect. The "Times" Warning, "Do you remember that much -quoted 'leader' in the 'London Times' newspaper of three years ago which warned England that in a country professedly Christian, they had a system of national education which allowed the citizens of the future to have a purely heathen upbringing? I do not know what effect the warning had in England, but our position in Australia is no better, if anything it is worse, and though generations of people may continue to be influenced by Christian traditions, those traditions become atrophied through inaction, so that by degrees more and more Australians will fail to realise that civilisation without any unifying spiritual force will tend to fall back into social anarchy. Then men will work and think and agitate for a remodelling of society according to some ideal of social perfection. But it is retrograde and fatal indeed to regard a secular civilisation as man's It is no more possible final destiny. for society to live by bread alone than it is for the individual.
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Patriotism and Nationalism. "Patriotism is a duty and a Christian virtue which inclines a man to love and serve the country to which he belongs. It differs essentially from exaggerated nationalism. In Christian teaching duties of patriotism come after religious obligations, and are, be sides, subject to the principles of justice and charity: for by the Christian law all men are brothers in Our Divine Saviour. In the non-Christian concept of patriotism there is a tendency to regard the State or the nation as the highest object of -devotion, as if it were an end in itself and not an institution arranged by Providence to assist its members towards their temporal and eternal happiness. Loyalty to Christ. "Granting the fact I have mentioned would say that the first quality necessary in the making of a good Australian is a fidelity in life and action to our Christian Faith and heritage, A good Australian will be loyal in word and deed to Christ Who is God, and to His teaching. He will be animated by the virtues of faith, hope and charity, of justice and patriotism. He will desire the welfare of the Australian community before his own selfish interest, and be ready to take a personal part in helping its welfare. He will be one, I hope, who is ready, no matter what the sacrifice, to take a real lead in public matters in his own circle, so that leadership will not be left to men with no principles or with bad I
principles. "He will realise that class conflict within the community-whether waged openly by Marxists or silently by upholders of "laissez faire"-is destructive of the national life; and that collaboration on right principles in all sections of civil life is essential for the
MOST REV. DR. M. BEOVICH, Archbishop of Adelaide.
common good. Such an Australian will place God first and then his country. Ile will be loyal to the King and to all legitimate authority. While strong bonds of kinship and loyalty will unite him closely to Britain and the British Commonwealth, he will also admit he has moral and communal obligations to the other nations of the world. Our Population Problem. "If we consider some of the serious social problems confronting us in Australia, we shall have an opportunity to illustrate and apply the qualities I have mentioned. First of all, the war must be won, We are assured of final victory. We pray that the peace will he based on justice and charity. Since charity begins at home-though admittedly it should not stay there-there is no doubt our leaders will do what is possible in justice to prevent another menace to our national existence. But if we Australians who hold a continent with seven million people are then content to remain as we are and continue according to the status quo, we shall have a rude awakening. Let us take our more urgent problems. They are: a declining population; a dangerous class conflict in industry, and a de-
The Class War, "There is a dangerous class conflict in industry. There are faults on both sides, but the conflict is mainly due to the selfishness of many-though not all-financial interests in refusing, in the present as well as in the past, to secure a living family wage for their employees. This refusal has caused great hardship to thousands of families. Again, workers have little hope of obtaining a share in the control of policies or production when industrial magnates wish, at all costs, to retain all the privileges of the era of 'laissez faire' The position has again been aggravated by the fact that the fight for social justice within the factory is too often left to men animated only by hatred and destruction. The decline of agriculture is due in great part to the dominance of commercial motives in which the desire for wealth comes before the appreciation of rural stability as a vocation or way of life. "The class conflict and the decline in agriculture are also connected with the population problem. On the one hand, economic security would undoubtedly increase the number of our best immigrants, our own Australians, and on the other hand, of all sectors of the community: people on the land away from the big cities, alone provide a population which reproduces itself. No Racial Hates. "With the attributes I postulated an Australian will face these serious problems by recognising that there is greater happiness and security in large families, in spite of the sacrifices involved. He will not dislike foreigners, but strive to understand them. He opposes racial hatred in Hitler, he will not countenance it in ourselves. He will do everything practical to welcome the immigrant, helping him to become acclimatised and absorbed into the social life of the country. He will realise that workers have a right to co-operate and share in the control of industrial policy and to be treated as men and not as mechanical units or cogs in a machine. In striving for social justice and co-operation he will (Continued on Back Cover.)
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