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Page Two SKYSCRAPER 'Double, Double, Toil and Trouble; Fire Burn, and Cauldron Bubble' BANTERINGLY Caesar faced the Ides of March; Li'l Abner is facing Sadie Hawkins day; Mun delein students, with ever increasing- trem bling and terror, are facing quarterly ex aminations. If the weatherman is at all cooperative, Nov. 6 will be a blue Monday, in typical examination style. Cold blustering winds will blow a wet drizzle into worried faces. Buses will be more off schedule than ever. Fountain pens will leak. Minds will be as blank as the green books staring at you. Life will not be lovely. Maybe you will stay up the night before your first examination to study furiously in an attempt to learn one quarter's work in one night. If you do, you will discover you should have gone to bed. You will not be asked what you studied. If you do go to bed, you will discover you should have stayed up to study. Nothing in the test will be familiar to you. It is folly to study for an essay test. They're Talking About... A JAPANESE report reveals that the Nipponese are melting monuments to be converted into war material. Latest to go was a statue of a dog, a tribute to canine loyalty, which stood at the entrance to Shibuya Station in Tokyo. The statue, a representation of Hochiko, a dog who established some sort of record for seeing his master off at the train and meeting him at night, was given a soldier's send- off when sent away to battle. * * * A RECENT poll, conducted by the Navy ** among 226,050 reserve officers on the question Would you like to transfer to the regular Navy after the war? netted replies from 60 per cent of those ques tioned, 80 per cent of whom responded affirmatively. After this news was an nounced in the New York HERAI-P TRIBUNE, however, calls and letters be gan to pour in. A later noil directed by the HERALD TRIBUNF.'named approxi mately 3 out of 400 officers answering aye aye, sir to the question. N OT everyone has the prevalent idea of mercilessly annihilating defeated enemies when peace is declared. To a query as to how aggressor nations should be treated after the war, Pope Pius XII, to whom Archbishop Spellman referred in a recent letter calling him a reminder of the wounded Christ, declared that he would follow developments of post-war Germany with love and if necessary . . . give her . . . help. He spoke with char acteristic kindness of the German people, whom he had served many years as a dip lomatic representative of the Vatican. THERE is the story, of an Oklahoma * doctor who. hoping to save on red points and to avoid chasing chickens, used a .22 rifle to secure his Sunday dinner. Result: one bullet in each of three chickens and four in his automobile tire. LJOLLYWOOD and scenario writers often lose more sleep over the human interest elements in historical movies than they do over the story itself. Since the Dumbarton Oaks conference went on un der strict military guard, it looked for a while as if that event were lost to the cinema as future film fact. Several of the important characters have seen fit, how ever, to remedy the situation by surren dering to NEWSWEEK a few hints on how the principals spent their time when not convening. / NE of Hitler's latest exhortations to the German people is to save all burnt matches against the cold winter months to come so that, when five or more are col lected, they may build a short-lived but effective fire to warm at least their hands. Whenever you do, it turns out to be true and false. If you have done outside work, you won't get an opportunity to mention it in the exam. If you didn't do the extra work, half the examination will be cen tered around it. BUT SERIOUSLY One little streak of hope shines through this dark cloud of examination woes. Mid- semesters are significant largely as indi cators of your scholastic trend. They give you an opportunity to find out how you stand in a class, and, in most cases, they instill a firm resolve to do better at the semester. It may be hard to impress upon your parents the fact that quarterly grades are not recorded on your permanent record, but that, actually, one of their chief purposes is to indicate to you and to your parents the quality of your work. They are an indicator of semester marks and a measure of your achievement to date. As some wise sage has said, it is an ill wind that blows no good. Mid-semester examinations are not pleasant to antici pate, but. once finished, they will give you a glimpse of what semester examina tions will be. Like a straw vote, they indicate future results. Throw back your shoulders, then; take a. firm grip on your courage; study wisely, not frantically; do the best you can and you'll find you can live through them. Other people have. 'If Ye Break Faith With Us Who Die . . .' For nineteen hundred and seventeen years it was just another November day, rather bleak and pinching as early No vember days are. But November 11. 1918. saw- fighting men put aside their arms, heard bells chime and whistles shrill, brought what it thought was a lasting peace to the world. . . Hardly had the warriors put the horror of the combat from their minds when their children were called out to fight in another and even more terrible war. Popular but unconfirmed opinion seems to indicate that''' the second World War is drawing to a . close,.in Europe at least. Because of that fact, Armistice Day will,- in a certain sense, have a deeper sig nificance this year than it has had for some time. For many mothers, sisters, wives, and sweethearts, who have spent endless months in anxiety and apprehension, it may seem to be a prelude to the greatest happiness they have ever known. In it, they-may see a hope for the cessa tion of part of the struggle that has sad dened so many millions of lives, since Armistice Day 26 years ago saw the cessa tion of another dreadful war. But they must see we must see far . enough to realize that it is futile merely to end a war without having planned care fully for the peace and the reconstruction which must follow. To commemorate Armistice Day at all this year may seem, incongruous. To re member a peace which was brief but not lasting only a respite in a tragic world momentum may seem useless, since that day, in the light of history, marks a re gression from the ideal of peace. But may we not regard Armistice Day this year as a signal to us? May we not see in it a challenge to all of us to prepare for the peace problems our own V-Day will bring? Unquestionably, Nov. 11, 1918, presaged our forthcoming V-Day. And unquestion ably the failures of that earlier Armistice bring a burden and a responsibility to us. To us, to all people living today, belongs the duty of working and praying for a peace founded on justice and charity. Let the anniversary of that frustrated victory, then, be our keynote for the preparation of a lasting peace. The earlier V-Day failed. This one must not. The Wheat and the Chaff Since the time-dimmed age when the painstaking work of a life span might be the hand-lettering and illuminating of a single magnificent tome, Catholicism has fostered good literature and fought against the influence of the bad. Through her inherent standards of truth, beauty, and goodness, the Church has led her members to the wisdom, profit, and pleasure in good reading. By warnings and prohibitions, she has sought to protect them from books dangerous to souls and minds. The Index has been a bulwark and a forceful weapon. But the Index cannot reach the ever growing menace of vicious best-sellers. Publishers issue them each year by the dozen. Then are of passing interest classics today, antiques two months hence. Their worth is negligible, but their influence is. for the moment, tremendous. And their number is legion historical novels that are subtly or boldly salacious fiction in which sin is sprinkled with Stardust biography blatantly raising the banners of atheism and individualism philosophy that twists truth with insidious cleverness. Blurbs glorify their frank ness. Second, third, and fourth printings melt from book-sellers' shelves. More important, they are read. Some of the readers, to be sure, have the discrimi nation and maturity to evaluate and win now the chaff, but a staggering number are young and impressionable, ill-equipped to see well-disguised evil. Members of the first group are wasting their time. Those in the second .arc walking a dangerous road. In time, perhaps, we will have a Legion . of Decent Literature, emulating the motion , picture Legion. Until then, it is our duty, as a portion of the reading public with a background of religion and philosophy and of taste, to lead the way to a best seller list worthy of a high-minded nation. MUNDELEIN COLLEGE Ch:cago.Illinois Mundelein Chicago's College Foit Women L'n'uer the Direction of the Sisters of Charity, B.V.M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 193i at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1K97. 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to Mijj inclusive by the students of Mundelein Colli Vol. XV November 3, 1944 Member ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS Telephone: Ambassador 9011 Co-Editors-in-Chief Mary Grace Canity, Jayne King Associates Mary Burns, Jerry Stab; Mary Catherine Tuomey Copy Editors Eleanor Areods, Joan Templeman Associates Viola Brennn Mary Martha Cooper, Dolores Hartigad Lois Hintze. Patricia Hollahan, Audrey MoJ Donnell Feature Editors Mary Bcecher.l Patricia Curran. Sheila Finney, Alice Marie Horen, Genevieve Urbain News Editors Regina Ben, Florence Jankowski Associates Celeste Boudreaal Patricia Lee, Dolores Toniatti, Gladys Snlli-j van Sports Dolores Cervenka, Colleen Rettij Reporters: Mary Ann Anderson, Stacy DiaconJ Joyce Evans, Lorraine Gross, Roseau Kelly, Rosemary Kiley, Ramona MarindH Rosemary O'Connor, Virginia Ncff, Jew Ondesco, Geraldine Steck, Mary Catheriiej Quinn, Dorothy WattcTs, Regina MilligaM Rosemary Templeman Be Entertained, Be Enlightened In the popular English novel, PAS TORAL, by'Nevil Shute, you will meet interesting . . . CHARACTERS gt;eter J?arsha is a n w type of war hero. He is just a London office clerk with un exciting prospects, but, when war breaks, he becomes captain of a Wellington bomb er crew and conquers death in 58 bombing flights over the continent. Sergeant Phil-. lips is the rear gunner, who between raids teaches the crew the joys of fishing, and (iunnar Franck, an escaped Dane, is the sergeant pilot. Gervase Robertson is the WAAF signal officer who steals Peter Marshall's heart and transforms him, tem porarily, into an unpredictable bundle of . nerves. Not the . . . SETTING ')Ut :'le mo0 lt;* * tms (lu'et . romance is pastoral. Actually, the background swiftly shifts from placid English countrysides and and streams tol burning cities torn by combat. The... APT TON * t'ie story involves two dis-j U tinct plots; the charming ac count of a fresh and natural love story, and the narrative of a series of bombing mis- sions. The love story, timely and unsenti mental, is interwoven with the poignant tale of heroes of the sky who carry then cargoes of death when a wing is ripped from their ship and flames threaten to engulf them. The sky is their battlefield- an inferno of diving planes and bursting flak. The reader's . . . PTTAPTTrnvr 1S one of appreciation fori KiiALllUH thc author.s insight into thd psychology of youth, for the combination of humor, drama, and romance which he has woven into his story, and for his por trayal of the human side of the war. News of the Day Will China in the postwar era remain, in general, an exploited country with a low standard of living and an economy de pendent upon the initiative and capital of other lands, or will this great nation be come economically independent and self- supporting? For an answer to the prob lem, read China's Mineral Wealth, by Charles H. Behre, Jr., and Kung-Ping Wang, in the October issue of FOREIGN AFFAIRS. THE SIGN for September includes an article entitled Are the Reds Getting Re ligion, by N. S. Timasheff, who insists that Soviet leaders are today confronted with a conflict between their long-range aim of uprooting religion and their short- range aim of annexing without too much troubled the provinces they want. Thisl conflict, the author notes, has been con spicuously manifest in the contradictions between the recent attacks on Catholicism in the Soviet press and the friendly words of Stalin to Father Orlemanski. The out come, the author believes, will depend upon unpredictable military and diplomatic de velopments. Great piles of sawdust and sawmill waste will supply enormous quantities of a neij plastic, of acetic acid, and of industrial alcohol. This announcement follows sev-l eral years of experimental work carried lt; at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn THE SCIENCE NEWS LETTER foe Oct. 21 explains how the new plastic made from waste is similar to many other plas tics now on the market.
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