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Show NATION IS TOO GREEDY, SAYS CARDINAL GIBBONS By Associated Pross. NEW YORK, Aug. fi. Cardinal Gibbons Gib-bons sat on the packnis veranda of a Long Jsland counterhouso this afternoon after-noon and watching tho automobiles flit down the road before litm in one unending un-ending stream moralized on the dangers dang-ers of sclf-indulgenco that have "beset all republics. "I think," he said, "we arc closely approaching tho ago of extravagance and inordinate pleasure, offered by Rome .iust beforo her fall. The cry of today is for more and more riches. "The rich man is greedy for more. Tt, is llio sumo with tho well-to-do. It is l ho same everywhere. "Truly we have many generous ones among tho rich, but 1 wculd wish more of them were considerate of the tin-fortunate. tin-fortunate. This great desire for riches is making people very selfish. "Then there is tho "desire for inordi-nato inordi-nato pleasures. " An automobile whirled by in a cloud of dust. The cardinal pointed nftcr it and continued: "You soo we have manv more channels chan-nels of pleasure Ihnn were known to the patricif ns of Augustus Caesar's time; vz t licit! is the desire for new plcnsmes :miu more pleasures. "1 believe the gospel of Christ will save the present situation. There was no Christ you remember, to save Koine." |