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   -  \nCHRISTIAN VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE  \n2  \nBy PETER MICHAELS -  \nPLAINT OF A TEACHING NUN(A Poem)  \n11  \nBy MARIE LAUCK  \nTHE RELIGIOUS VOCATION TODAY  \nBy JAMES MARK EGAN,O.P.12  \nVOCATIONAL ELBOW-GREASE  \n19  \nBy ED WILLOCK  \nTHE VOCATION OF SUFFERING  \n28  \nBy HELEN CALDWELL  \nTHE VOCATION OF A JOURNALIST  \nBy ROBERT HoYT -  \n31  \nTECHNOLOGY AND WORK  \nBy FRIEDRICH GEORG JUENGER -  \n38  \n-  \n-  \nBOOK REVIEWS -  \n44  \nINTEGRITY is published by lay Catholics anddedicated to the task of discovering the newsynthesis of RELIGION and LIFE for our times.  \nVol.4,No.1  \nOctober 1949  \nPublished Monthly by Integrity Publishing Co.,346 East 86th Street,NewYork 28,N.Y.,TR 9-5176.Edited by Edward Willock and CarolJackson.Entered as Second Class Matter October 14,1946 atthe Post Office at New York,N.Y.under the Act of March  \n3,1897.All single copies 25 cents each;yearly sub-scriptions:domestic $3.00,Canadian $3.50,Foreign $4.00.  \nINTEGRITY IS INDEXED IN THB CATHOLIC PERIODICAL INDEX,  \nE DI T O RIA L  \nUMAN society is not like a machine but like abody.Back of all the errors of modern socialorganization,from the assembly line to thebureaucratic state,exists one supreme error fromwhich all the other errors are derived.The erroris this:the attempted mechanization of anorganism,the effort to treat a living thing asthough it were a dead thing.  \nNow that the process is reaching its term,socialist politiciansare unconsciously trying to make all their citizens robots orcadavers,because the methods of socialism are mechanizedmethods,abstracted from the living context,and quite unable todeal with the irregularities of the human will.  \nThe socialists want a system of medicine or governmentwhich will work whether doctors are virtuous or vicious,whetherpoliticians have good will or bad will.Before them,and siringthem,were the capitalists who wanted production lines that wouldproduce independently of whether the workers loved the owners,loved God or each other;whether they liked their jobs or theydidn’t like them,whether or not they were happy or fulfilled.They desired,and for a while got,a sustained,spiritless responseto a weekly pay-envelope.  \nThe profit system will inevitably yield totally to the bureau-cratic state unless it reforms itself out of existence,unless it allowslife,spirit,morality,will and grace to re-animate the social order.The problem of re-Christianizing society is largely a problemof revitalizing society.  \nAs dead things have uniform,repetitive parts,so living thingshave functions.We must begin to think of society again as abody,in which some of us are eyes,some ears,some hands andsome hearts,all different and all necessary,giving and getting lifefrom the whole.  \nA functional society can be rebuilt best from the bottom(whereas a planned economy works from the top)by more andmore people discovering their functional places,their vocations.  \nThis issue of INTEGRITY is about vocations.We considerthe problem of vocation not only pressing,but central to the neworder which we must build.  \nTHE EDITORS  \nINTEGRITY -1  \n# Christian Vocational Guidance\n\nGod made men different from each other because they havedifferent things to do,different functional positions to fill in anorganic society.If we could read the mind of God we wouldknow in each generation what the work of the world is and whereeach man belongs(John herding sheep in Asia,Mary praying ina convent in Spain,James starting a paper in Africa and Georgerunning an elevator in Chicago).We could tell everyone whereto go and what to do,and everyone would be substantially con-tented because the round pegs would be in round holes and thesquare pegs would be in square holes,each man's work wouldcorrespond with his gifts and each man would see how necessaryhe was to the whole,the simple as well as the learned,the richas well as the strong,the feeble-minded child as well as thestatesman.  \n","cbCaieRM3MnXddpg","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieRM3MnXddpg","pdf",2029801,52,"English","# Editorial\n## Christian Vocational Guidance\n## God’s Plan for Our Generation\n## Plain of a Teaching Nun (A Poem)\n## The Religious Vocation Today\n## Vocational Elbow-Grease\n## The Vocation of Suffering\n## The Vocation of a Journalist\n## Technology and Work\n## Book Reviews","[{\"question\":\"Why does the editorial argue society should not be mechanized?\",\"answer\":\"It claims modern social errors stem from treating a living organism like a dead machine. 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