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Page Two SKYSCRAPER i IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PEC.8 Formula: K'l, P-2 Well-knit Advent Knit-one, purl-two-time is here again Thumb-less mittens and soleless socks dan gle from clicking needles. Skeins of multi color yarn emerge as argyles for a favorite uncle. The I made it myself gift-givers are counting the stitches that warm more than the hearts of the receivers. Whether a devotee of the needle and yarn gift formula or not, your pattern for the all-important Christmas gift must be decided on now. The season of hope of Christ's coming reminds us that His gift must be ready, too. The directions are simple. Cast on daily rows of Mass and Communion; insert a chain of frequent self-denials; increase vis its to the Blessed Sacrament. Advent is the time to pick up the dropped stitches of our spiritual life. And on Christmas morning as you give your offering to the new-born Infant you can proudly say I made it myself. What Qoes On... LET'S CHECK THE LIST: 1. THE LIBERAL NATION, AN intellectual magazine which leans left of center and which rarely publishes a con structive article, has been publishing bi weekly attacks on the Catholic attitude to ward education, birth-control, and medicine. Employing cleverly constructed half-truths and distorted facts, the articles propose to let Protestants and well-meaning but ig norant Catholics in on what Catholicism is really like. Attention-getting title of the series is What the Catholic Church Is Up To. Alarming fact is that this magazine's smart skirmish is but a sample of the bigotry we will face. Now is the time to learn the philosophy and the facts with which to answer such insidious attacks. 2. IF YOU WANT MORE INTER- esting student assemblies, it's up to you to get them. Speak up when the floor is open to discussion. Student assemblies should be instruments for the expression of stu dent ideas. The Student Activities Council is intend ed to serve as a connecting link between the Faculty and the student body a link through which problems are discussed and decisions made. But if it IS to serve as a link if it IS to present student opinion to the Facul ty- it must know what student opinion IS. Students, therefore, must make their views known, either to individual members of the Council or at the student assemblies. Otherwise, the Council may have quite er roneous understanding of student wishes. It's Up to YOU to see that the SAC knows what YOU want. 3. IN THE TRANQUIL GLORY OF the Immaculate Conception feast on De cember 8, we can dedicate our hearts to the Mother of God that she may offer them as a gift to her Son. If we prepare now, in Advent, Christmas will mean much to our ready hearts. 4. NOW THAT THE WEDDING IS over, we'd better start working on our dates for the Skyscraper ball, 28 days away. WEEK MOMENTS Today, Bids for Skyscraper Ball go on sale, 11 a. m. Volleyball mixer, 4 p.m. Tomorrow, SAC Assembly, 1 p.m. Science Forum, 4 p.m. Lecture on Russia, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Volleyball mixer, 4 p.m. Thursday, Sodality reception, 1 p.m. Friday, First Friday Adoration, Benedic tion, 4 p.m. America's Ideal, Hollywood Style All hail the American public a law unto itself a hard-surfaced twentieth-century group whose most recent discovery is that sex is the most important thing in the world Several weeks ago the nation's most popular weekly exposed a strange theological phenomenon the cult of the love goddess whose human embodiment is found in a glamorized Hollywood star. Millions of Americans pay daily tribute to the sacred goddess through their purchase of theatre tickets. The ceremony itself is peculiarly American the happy-ending movie with its fallacious insistence that physical satisfaction and not God is man's ultimate goal, and that it leads to unending happiness. This, the magazine tells us, is repeated in ninety per cent of the movies that present-day Americans see. And this is American civilization product of a fortune in reli gious, scientific, literary, institutional, and aesthetic inheritances. It is human nature for man to look to an ideal someone after whom he may pattern his life. But it is not human nature for man to follow a false philosophy of physical obsession. On December 8 we will observe the feast of the Immaculate Con ception. We will honor Mary, the Mother of Cod, forever free from sin. Mary is the Patroness of America but 6000 Americans a week are busy writing poems and prayers to a movie star. Mary is the only Queen this land has ever acknowledged yet the armed forces of the most powerful nation on earth were carrying the enshrined image of the love goddess with them into war-battered cit ies, jungles, and typhoons. Cod's most richly endowed land would have no Queen but God's Mother. But its citizens pay to see another woman occupying the Queen's throne. And this is American civilization- and we are American college students. Are we going to make our own devotion to the Mother of God so strong that the force of our loyalty will attract others to her? The time is NOW. The Pause That Refreshes Of course you can You do it implicitly every day, whether you re alize it or not, when you dedicate your thoughts to God in your Morn ing Offering. Don't shy away, then, when we recommend mental pray er as a tonic to be taken in daily doses as a health-giving agency for one's 1947 college fevers. As the human body has its capacity for performing life activities daily, so the mind has its pinnacle of activity after which it becomes clogged and confused if not granted a period of relaxation, of rest. You NEED to stop and to think where you are going. You NEED to stop and to think whether all your bustle and excite ment and feverish activity is really accomplishing its goal if it has a goal. You NEED to stop and to think about yourself and God Stop now and consider, with Him, what you've done today. Get His point of view on the problem that's been bothering you. Ask His opin ion about it. Don't worry about formality; Cod is the easiest Person to talk to. The point is this just talk to Him that's mental prayer. And remember: He's always interested in you. It's your turn to stop and think about Him for five minutes at least each day. Civil War Novel I Strikes New Note Many tunes have been played on i Civil War theme, but The Scarlet Patch Bruce Lancaster is one that strikes a:. note. The book hits boldly at anti-foreign pi judice, at Negro and Jewish intoleran and gives an excellent example of a Ca l olic chaplain beloved by all. The dialogue is rugged without ba I offensively vulgar, and the love intei I romantic without being lushly sentiment I War episodes are handled with vigor, g I ing just criticism of all personnel. The Scarlet Patch is the story of Ji E de Merac, a young French baron who I' lievcs so strongly in the Union that ht I willing to volunteer as a private in I I Kochambeau Rifles. The scarlet patch blazing from a I kepis marks its members as a division I the Union Army made up of foreign-bo soldiers. Each man joins for his owni I sons. De Merac's was to preserve Union and democracy. pi He finally offers his heart to a yoi t American nurse, Gail Shortland. She lo 1 him heroically enough to get throughp F sonally to President Lincoln in order to I cure his release from prison. One of the most searing pictures 1 the book is that of Commander Keat I who had lost one arm in a previous bal I racing across the fighting scene on hot back with reins in his teeth, shooting I the Rebels with his good arm, and sho ing, Ride for it, de Merac I'm di I'm clear for good. MUNDELEIN COLLElj Chicago, 40, Illinois Under the Direction olj THE SISTERS OF CHARITY, B.V.M. nl P ti id Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, undtrf1 Act of March 3, 1897, 1.75 the year. lar Published semi-monthly from October ' lt; gt; inclusive by the students of Mundelein ColltW1 VOL. XVIII December 1, 1947 X All-Catholic Honors All-American Honors Telephone: Sheldrake 9620 Co-Editors-in-Chief Marilyn TambuJ Frances ffl Associates Katherine Bull Jeri Mangold, Ellenmae Quan, Jean 0-.F co, Mary O'Dwyer, Jane O'Neill. ft 1 Si r lai t Tt Pi Feature Editors Rita Budj Patricia Dannehy.Barbara Fallon, C;:J Knight, Mary Leona Merrick. Associates Mary Louise Fail JoAnn Figueira, June Kopal, Mary J garet LaYaque, Patricia Trudeau, Pal Nealin. Copy Editors Dorothy Eileen Dolan, Geraldine Grace, B Goklrick, Peggy Roach, Ruth Ward Associates Jean Jl Ramona Marino, Janet McGinn, Lor L Stajdohar, Rita Szacik. News Editors Joan Ma B Patricia 01 I Associates Mary N I Jeanine Pt I Sports Claire Jot Jewel Art Editor Margaret Mary Cat Reporters Maribeth Marijo Coleman, Eileen Damuth, Alice, Dern, Rosemary Simec, Rosemary son, Marilyn Kloss, Rossie Gibson, Pi Kecnan, Rita McManus, Lucille Therese Mocny, Barbara Morrison, Neary, Geraldine Fisher, Mary Kay geman. Rosemary Wright, Maryhelen rith, Marie Ekenberg, Mary Kai Norene Trapp.
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1947-12-01 (2)
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Student newspaper for Mundelein College
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