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Page Two SKYSCRAPER Peace, The Common Qood Are N.C.W.C. Keynote Two words stand out strong and virile, a reaffirmation of Catholicism, in the Bish ops' peace statement issued last month by the Administrative Board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. In a paragraph that flatly and unflinch ingly states the view of the Church on the question of administrative policies in the individual countries of the post-war world organization, and the relation of these poli cies to a world-inclusive order, the hier archy asserts without reservation that the common good of every nation is insepara bly connected with the common good of the international community. That phrase common good is the sum and substance of the proposals offered in the seven-point statement. It envisions a world free from animosity and lust for power. It calls for willing submission to laws promulgated for the well-being of a universe brought at last to peace. It makes a rule of the subjugation of might to right. The common good has implications for the nation of strength. According to it, the strong must protect and succor the weak. Peace under the common good is a peace of mutual trust and international- scale charity. Individualism both among nations and among peoples is outlawed. Consideration, beyond the measure of just ice, looms as the greatest factor in the relations of men as mutual responsibility stands as the norm in the relationship of nation to nation. MUNDELEIN COLLEGE Chicago, 40, Illinois Mundelein Chicago's College For Women Under the Direction of the Sisters of Charity, B.V.M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1897, 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol. XV December 11, 1944 No. 5 Member ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE yy/ press ; : IRfiSiB Telephone: Ambassador 9011 Co-Editors-in-Chief Mary Grace Carney, Jayne King Associates Mary Burns, Jerry Stutz, Mary Catherine Tuomey Copy Editors Eleanor Arendi, Joan Templeman Associates Viola Brennan, Mary Martha Cooper, Dolores Hartigan, Lois Hintze. Patricia Hollahan, Audrey Mc Donnell Feature Editors Mary Beecher, Patricia Curran, Sheila Finney, Alice Marie Horen, Genevieve Urbain News Editors Regina Bess, Florence Jankowski Associates Celeste Boudreau, Patricia Lee, Dolores Toniatti, Gladys Sulli van Club Editor Dolores Toniatti Sports Mary Cannon, Dolores Cervenka, Colleen Rettig Art Editor Mary Jane Smith Reporters: Mary Ann Anderson, Ruth Casey, Adelaide Costello, Stacy Diacou, Joyce Evans, Lorraine Gross, Muriel Hasten, Lois Hayhurst, Maureen Honan, Rosemary Kelly, Mary Catherine Langdon, Adeline Lascbi- azza, Catherine McAneney, Marilyn Mc Grath, Margaret Monckton, Virginia Neff, Rosemary O'Connor, Jeanne Ondesco, Mary Catherine Quinn, Jean Roche, Geraldine Stack, Mildred Stanek, Dorothy Watters, Ruth Yegge. Dear Santa Claus They Do Not Serve Who Only Stand and Wait A few days ago, America noted sol emnly, for the fourth time in her history, that Dec. 7 is a significant date. In 1941 that date brought a rude awakening to millions of people who had settled back in comfort, had refused to become inter ested in alarming world trends, and had said, complacently, Itp can't happen here. Today, three years later, there are still a large number of people who are either still complacent, or newly assured as the result of American victories. Shocking to them, perhaps, was the an nouncement by General Eisenhower some days ago that he is sending 20 GJ.'s back from the front lines in Germany and France to tell the American people how it feels to face death and to know that am munition is rationed because Americans at home are not doing as much as they should. It is easy to insist that the large wage earners should do something about it more practical for everyone to say I shall do something about it. And it is not un reasonable to expect that college students should be more generous. One of the soldiers endangered because ammunition is rationed may be a big brother, or a boy who gave his fraternity pin away. Many students attended the Pacific the atre exhibit recently conducted in connec tion with the sixth war loan drive. They viewed the jungle outpost, pulled levers in the cockpit of the plane, played with the telegraphic set that shot a beam above the lights of Chicago, and came away enter tained, but, possibly, missing the point. Certainly not enough can be said in praise of letter-writing and gift-sending, of preferred aid in civilian activities. But the soldier needs protection when going into battle, just as vitally as he needs morale building. War Bonds and Stamps buy equipment and equipment protects the fighter. The cycle must be kept in motion. Exaggerated, you say ? Perhaps, a trifle, but often extremes prove the only impetus in situations where sacrifice is involved. And each of each can make a sacrifice this Christmas that the war may be speedily won. When I was six they told me you were a myth, but they were only children, too young to appreciate the ra diance of your laughter as a gift in itself. One year all I wanted was a little red horse. I took good care of him, too. I fed him his excelsior whenever he was hungry; I wheeled him around the living room All this seems a lifetime ago, yet I do not feel older. It is just that my Christmas list has changed a bit. Last year I asked that, as you rode that night across the world, you would pick up all the fighting men from all the fronts and pile them into your sleigh and bring them safely home. will Ik- happily, safely playj ing with its own prefer counterpart of my little r horse. And please. Santa, mail all the little children knoil the story of Bethlehem anil think, when they play witfal their toy horses, of thegeS tic little animals who share the Christ Child's stable and of the angels, and ;': lt; I also asked that my for exercise; and at night he brother have the opportu- shepherds, atnfthe gracioJ slept in a cardboard stall in nity to finish high school Mother of God. before going into service, and that you would bring my sister the suit she want ed so much. I ask much the same to- day, but I also pray that, got that last year, thaoi before many Christmases you. Now she wants an ' pass, each child in the world in history, please. my room. We were pals. I always knew he was wheel ing along behind me ; stand ing with me in a corner; hearing my excuses when 1 bit the ears off the pink sugar mice, or listening to me say my prayers. Forget-me-not, Sandy j P.S. It's not a suit fornnj little sister now, Santy. SI 'When the Lights Go On Again . . .' Christmas 1944 is the. sixth war-time Yuletide in which the birth of the Prince of Peace is celebrated in the turmoil of world conflagration. Five years ago, can- dlelighting at the College saw the Cross of shining light facing Chicago in strange contrast to the blacked out lights and in some cases blacked out hopes of London, Warsaw and Paris. The lights had gone out in nany parts of the world, and the bells proclaiming the joyous season of Christmas competed sharply with the noise and din of battle. Following Christmases saw the oppres sor's heel grind other cities, other coun tries into the apparent dust of obscurity. Like the black plague that swept Europe in the fourteenth century, the Nazi powers spread their ever-encircling tentacles over European lands, and, in the East, Japan slowly absorbed many smaller countries into her ever-increasing sphere of Japanese influence. Norway, Hong Kong Belgium, the Dutch East Indies surrendered de feated but unbowed to powers who con sider Christmas a legend to amuse children and old people. The light of the Christmas spirit was dimmed in many hearts, in many lands, but it was never extinguished. This Christmas the lights are slowly coming on again all over the world. Paris is once more breathing free air, untainted by German occupation. London lights are proclaiming new hope in the hearts of its people that the dav of final victory is not far off. This year when Mundelein celebrates Candlelighting it will be with the renewed hope that we, and all peoples of the world, are lighting the way to a lasting peace. There is the hope for the future when nations are free, when trust in each other reigns supreme, when once more the joy ous bells of Christmas ring all over the world the message echoing from a stable in Bethlehem Peace on earth to men of good will. They're Talking About AFTER an unusually warm November Old Man Winter finally got around to snow on the last day of the month.. Slight flurries had tantalized school children be fore that time but it was nothing definite. Direct result of the event was an increase in the demand for stadium boots by stu dents with a weather eye to more of the same. * * TIAMLET is now in the Army and sta- 1 * tioned at Hawaii. Major Maurice Evans, director of the performance with an entire G.I. cast, plays the title role. However, Shakespeare and his friends would hardly recognize the shortened, modernized version in which Hamlet de cides whether to be or not to be in a dinner jacket sporting lapels of silver brocade. The effect on the G.I.'s is tre mendous, with the exception of a few un- appreciative non-coms who order the main characters to such menial tasks as sweep ing the floor after the show. 'T'O cushion the shock to families receiv- A ing a telegram reporting a casualty, the Army has announced a system of fast follow-up letters from the front where the misfortune occurred. Military personnel will send frequent periodical reports of the progress of hospitalized patients and de tails as to their injuries. * * * MEWSWEEK reports that several Latin- American countries will not accept the proposed Dumbarton Oaks plan, and their ambassadors are giving advance notice so that at an official meeting there will be no unpleasant situation. The objection is that the plan gives too much influence to the big powers and too little to the smaller countries. * * * ' THEN there is the story of the Boston sergeant who, when shot down over Belgium when it was in Nazi hands, was clothed by the underground in turban and peasant skirt and helped to escape by a real Belgian girl. For Their Stockings* War bonds and stamps arc. of coursl the ideal gift, but if you would like tJ supplement your Christmas remembrance with something a little more personal, whj not give a book? You'll give hours i entertainment, excise tax free, and yoorl family and friends will appreciate t: thoughtfulness of your choice. FOR DAD, whose Christmas would I incomplete without the addition of a gt; book or two to his library: A World I Reconstruct, by Guido Gonella; Pionen Jesuits in Northern Mexico, by the Re j erend Peter' Masten ' Dunne; Listei Post, by Thomas D. Morgan; Ten Yea in Japan, by Joseph Grew; Labor Lawyer, by Louis Waldman; Your Kids and Mint by Joe E. Brown; George Washington Carver, by Rockham Holt; The Curl Rises, by Quentin Reynolds, or Ameria Character, by Denis Brogan. FOR MOTHER, who would find a boo a delightful means of relaxation at the close of a busy day of household and wartime activities: Golden Rose, I Pamela Hinkson; There Were Two of Li, by Vera Osborn; Margaret Brent, Advo turer, by Dorothy F. Grant; Perelandrt by Clive S. Lewis; Album of America History, edited by James Truslow Adam The World of Washington Irving, by Wyck Brooks; Adventures in Sympfo Music, by Edward Downes; and Aril bishop Francis Spellman's The Risen So dier. FOR SIS, who has taken a new intert in literature since gasoline rationing: mortal Wife, by Irving Stone; Drinkfi the Rock, the Catholic Poetry Society anthology: The Eucharist, by Franctd Mauriac; China to Me, by Emily Hahnj Journey among Warriors, by Eve Curie Children under Fire, by S. M. C.; Ronsantt by Dominic B. W. Lewis, and The Unreadj Heart, by Richard Sherman. FOR JUNIOR, whose collection jeeps, trains, bats, and balls is already jl menace to the household: Johnny Tremaaj by Esther Forbes; From Star to Star,lit Eric Kellv; Man from Rocco Sicca, : I Reginald M. Coffey; That Silver Foil Patrol, by Neil Boyton; First the Flower Then the Fruit, by Jeanette Lucas; Siofl for America, by Opal Wheeler; The LittleJ Prince, by Antoine Saint-Exupery, uM The Night before Christmas, by Meg Wohlberg. FOR HIM even if you can't give a a furlough for Christmas, you can hd, him spend his leisure time more enjoyabli with the companionship of a good bodj like The Dove Flies South, by James Hyland; It All Goes Together, by Erl Gill; Amen. Amen, by S. A. Constantino Bernard Baruch, by C. Field; Speaking How to Pray, by Mary Perkins; Paul Tarsus, by Josef Holzner; The Bone the Star, by Dorothy Donnelly; Mr. 6lne by Myles Connelly, and The Basic Hista of the United States, by Charles Austi Beard. a: I
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