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NEED FOR A DIVINE ECLAT(A Poem)22William J.Gauchat  \nFIFTY MILLION CARS CAN'T BE WRONG 23John C.Hicks  \nGOD IN THE MACHINE 30Niall Brennan  \nBOOK REVIEWS 38  \nINTEGRITY IS PUBLISHED BY LAY CATHOLICSAND DEVOTED TO THE INTEGRATION OF RELIGIONAND LIFE FOR OUR TIMES.  \nPublished monthly by Integrity Publishing Co.,Inc.157 East 38th Street,New York 16,N.Y.,MU-5-8125.Edited by Dorothy Dohen.  \nRe-entered as Second Class Matter May 11,1950 at thePost Office in New York,N.Y.,under the Act of March 3,1879.All single copies 25g each;yearly subscription:Domestic $3.00,Canadian $3.50,Foreign $4.00.  \neditorial  \nAt Christmas in 1952 Pope Pius XII issued an address which had arather mystifying effect on Catholic social thinkers in America.Inhis address the Holy Father did`not withhold praise for the achieve-ments of technology,yet at the same time he roundly condemned thetechnological organization of society.Upholding as good those tech-nical advances which furthered the purposes of the Incarnation(thedrawing of all material things into harmonious use by human beings inthe service of God)he made strong strictures against the dehumanizing,depersonalizing patterns of social organization which found their genesisin the modern industrial set-up and imposed themselves then on thefamily,on charitable institutions,and gradually on the whole com-munity.  \nSome Catholic social thinkers who were carried along with theprevailing wind of praise for technology as it now exists were renderedspeechless by the Pope's strictures against it,while those who had per-ceived the evil nature of a technology encompassing the whole ofsociety found themselves with a deeper problem on their hands.Forto say technology is bad in itself makes the situation simple(at leastin theory);but to see that technology in itself is good while realiz-ing that the technological organization of society is bad poses a muchmore complex problem.How to keep the one and do away with theother?How to use well those technological advances which have suc-ceeded in providing food,clothing,medicine for human beings in away previously unattainable in human history,yet at the same time howto free human beings from slavery to technology?How to keep forthem their identity as free,creative persons with an eternal destinytranscending any system of efficient \"fullproduction\"?  \nTo these questions no one yet has come up with a conclusiveanswer.  \n## Automation-freedom or slavery?\n\nWithin the last year or so there has been much said in newspapersand popular magazines about “automation”—the normal developmentof technology.Hailed by some as an unparalleled gift to mankind it hasbeen viewed gloomily by others;for apparently more than ever it makesfor the technological organization of society.In one sense automationtakes the force out of the arguments of the anti-technologists who in-sisted that technology in its typical expression—the assembly line—  \nmade slaves of men.For automation does away with assembly lines,uses machines to run machines,and in its typical expression—the auto-matic factory—keeps no men in thrall.Yet in another sense the argu-ments of the anti-technologists have a greater import,for while auto-mation does away with the obvious visible physical slavery of theassembly line*it exposes men to the danger of another slavery,whichmay prove to be more vicious as it is more abstract.For of its natureautomation entails there being one center of power:the economicpower already centered in the hands of the few who control giganticindustrial enterprises,under automation becomes even more centralizedin the hands of a few managers who not only understand it and canmake it fulfill their purposes,but can wield this power without check.The resulting political power it gives them is likely to be power beyondthe scrutiny of the ordina","cbCaioWXMsbxWhM0","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioWXMsbxWhM0","pdf",1981991,52,"English","# Integrity\n## Automation-freedom or 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