BETTER SYSTEM FOR SPREADING WEALTH NEEDED

...BETTER SYSTEM FOR SPREADING WEALTH NEEDED Clerics Discuss Effect of Machine System On Social Life of Country NEW YORK—"The machine has created wealth, but it has given no answer- to *the problem of this wealth's distribution," says the Commission on the Church and Social Service, in its Labor Sunday message...

...No mere serious charge can be made against our generation than that it has been socially so blind and morally so callous that it has been unwilling to divert sufficient profits of modern industry to store tip reserves for the protection of the unemployed and the security of the aged...

...Relig'ioh today faces no more fundamental problem than that of expressing...

...It is still an open question," the statement continues, "whether our generation will develop the moral sensitivity and the social insight to operate the system we have created so that it will bless and not curse us...

...The commission is a unit of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ...

...These clergymen declare that machine wealth flows in undue proportion into the hands of those who' own the machine...

...The clergymen also declare that society is mistaken in its belief that the machine would benefit equitably all portions of society...

...its faith and life, its ideals and its ethical principles In terms relevant to a society dominated by the machine...

...As a result millions who have a just claim upon industry have been forced to accept the bread of charity and multitudes have been thrown as public charges upon the resources of municipalities and states Every year England loses by erosion a tract of land the size of Gibraltar...

...It has insisted on the rights of property to dividends but has concerned Itself too little with the rights of workers to security of employment and to protection In old age...

...Our modes of thought and our ethical ideas have not kept pace...

...Our industrial civilization has developed with tremendous rapidity...