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Page Two SKYSCRAPER THE SKYSCRAPER SOS-The Red Cross Needs You Official Serai-Monthly Newspaper of MUNDELEIN COLLEGE 6363 Sheridan Road Chicago.Illinois Mundelein Chicago's College For Women Under tue 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. XIV Friday, Dec. 10, 1943 No. 5 Member ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS Telephone: Ambassador 9011 Co-Editors-in-Chief Mary Kay Jones, Marie Nordby Associates Helen Nicholson Frances Wilkinson Feature Editors Jaync King. Jerry Stutz, Mary C. Tuomey Associates Mary Beecher, Mary C. Burns, Alyce Jeanne Kiley, Gene vieve Urbain Copy Editor Mary Grace Carney News Editors Eleanor Arends, Patricia Hollahan, Joan Templcman Associates Patricia Curran, Sheila Finney, Dolores Hartigan, Dellamae Laughlin, Julia Woodford Sports Editor Jeanne Kiley Art Editor Dorothy Schaar Business Manager Madeleine Courtney Reporters: Viola Brennan, Mary Martha Coop er. Mary Louise Gulick, Lois Hintzc. Patricia Lee, Audrey McDonnell, Mary Lou Walter, June Park, Carol Rcid. Charlotte Schnitzer, Regina Hess. Mary Louise Hector. Kathleen Egan, Dolores Toniatti, Alice Marie Horen, Nancy F.nzweilcr. Betty Moloney, Marianne Small, Veronicc McGreal, Helen June Maloney, Gladys Sullivan, Margaret Mary Trendell. Gold, Frankincense And Myrrh To many people. Christmas is an en chanting story-hook chapter, illustrated with tinsel and toys, evergreen and holly. A big Christmas tree, splashed with gay ornaments and colored lights, hovers over tissue- papered presents tagged with a Merry Christmas. The lowest branches of the tree Frequently almost conceal the miniature crib. Yet this crib is all there is to remind us of the first Christmas. Certainly today, more than ever before, we should make our Christinas more sym bolic of the first. As the Magi, when they came to see their new-born King, offered Him their most precious gifts, we can pre sent equally precious gifts every day of the Christmas season to atone for all the bar barism, and brutality in this world. We can give the Christ Child the gift of prayer prayer for those in the service and now in battle; prayer for the leaders of countries now fighting for the principles God set forth; prayer for the unbelievers, for the souls in purgatory, for the weak in time of temptation. In offering the Christ Child the gift of good works, we will be putting into action a spirit of unselfishness. We can make a really big sacrifice in contributing to the Mundelein Christmas baskets, or in buying War Stamps and Bonds. Though we all must suffer as a result of the war. we can. besides offering to the Christ Child our own suffering, make a special effort to bring an aura of happines' into the lonely lives around us. Even in our homes we can help fill the empty place of soldier-son and brother. Every day of the Christmas vacation, we should offer to God our own gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, remembering in our words and deeds that first Christmas. The Christmas spirit is the spirit of giv ing. Generosity the kind that comes from the heart is the keynote of the true Chris tian holiday. This year, generosity is more important than ever, but it becomes more and more the giving of our services, com bined with material gifts. The near-miraculous work of the Ameri can Red Cross needs little explanation; it has become, in these times of war, one of the few organizations for humanity that the world can rely on to relieve its suffering. Its work with the armed forces, and its work of doing the seemingly impossible for prisoners of war, are only two of its widely distributed services. Hut an organization is made up of mem bers, and the Red Cross cannot carry on its awe-inspiring tasks alone, livery college girl can and should find her niche in the Red Cross services. Many of the tasks are so simple as to seem insignificant, but there is no insignificance about bandaging wounds under a blazing tropical sun with dressings made in Red Cross workrooms. Knitting and sewing two occupations that many of us indulge in for fun can be converted into the making of vital supplies for the armed forces. Xext semester, a special course will be given in home nursing. This concentrated Study will equip students with enough knowledge to enable them to cope with emergency illness in the home. With the shortage of doctors for civilians growing more and more alarming, every student should learn what to do in case of sudden illness. Services like Nurses' Aides are desir able, but may be impractical for the college girl with a full schedule because of the long hours and training required. 1 lome nursing, mi the other band, is not only desirable it is essential.for health on the borne front and for relief of our great dearth of doctors. We at Mundelein expect a capacity enroll ment in our home nursing course when it opens in February. Blood donors are just as urgently needed as ever. There is perhaps no more personal way in which we may do our bit for the war effort than by giving our blood so that others who are lighting for all we hold sacred may live. Xot everyone can cooperate in this service, but those who can may make a priceless contribution. For the rest of us, there are countless opportunities for giving. We will learn all about them at the general assembly on Dec. 14. Christinas is indeed the season of giving. .Along with our presents for the family and friends this year let us give our services lo a great body of workers that composite Angel of Mercy, the American Red Cross Read and See . . . TV ) BE better able to assist the Chinese missions after the war, read War's Chal lenge to China .Missions, by William West- boven, C.P., in the December issue of THE SIGN. Because the Catholic Church is the only church that can supply the spiritual needs of the Chinese mind and heart, wc must render to it all we can to make the China mission a success. This may be done in two ways first by training more native Chinese priests and nuns, and, before this can be done, by sending our own missionar ies and by deluging heaven with prayer for the people of China. Ft) BE better informed about an author * we all know and love, read Sheila Kaye- Smith of Sussex, An Appreciation, bv Mother Mary Agatha, O.S.U., in THE CATHOLIC LIBRARY WORLD for November. Under the main topic of dis cussion, Miss Kaye-Smitb's conversion to Catholicism, Mother Agatha shows that the author's style and elementary ideas were always essentially Catholic. Mother Agatha give's a very delightful glimpse of some of Miss Kaye-Smith's more outstanding books. TO BE a judge of good works of art, we must have, above all else, a mental aware ness of the artist's mind, and, before judg ing it. we must know and accept the media be has used in penetrating and interpreting the secrets of reality. This is the opinion of Jacques Maritain in an article in the CATHOLIC ART QUARTERLY for Michaelmas, called Artistic Judgment. He goes on to tell the artist bow to achieve integrity in his work and the public bow to demand that artistic judgments be really artistic. TH ) BE sure that your Christmas gift will be a perfect and lasting one. why not make it a subscription to one of the numer ous Catholic magazines? Ticker Tape With Cairo as the locale, the Big Three in the war against Nippon met to work out Allied strategy for a forced eclipse of the Rising Sun .... Result of the Roosevelt-Churchill-Chiang Kai-Shek par ley, according to official communiques, was an avowal to accept only total surren der from Japan and a promise that all Jap-held territories will be restored to pre war status .... Subsequent Roosevelt - Churchill - Stalin conference, plus Turkey's entrance into the war on the side, of the Allies, gave a new turn to war plans and speculations . . . The United States Marine Corps wrote in blood the record of their fiercest, proud est battle, the taking of Tarawa in the Gilberts .... more than 3,000 marines stormed the beach in a rain of enemy bul lets only a few hundred lived to push on to a new objective .... Night after night Allied bombers un loaded their high-explosive burdens over Berlin, laying waste an estimated one-third of the Reich capital and dealing a body blow to staggering German morale .... Not so cheering were the war depart ment's figures on casualties from Pearl Harbor to this vear, November 15 126,- 969 U. S. fighting men .... Nine games to the good, National Foot ball Champion Notre Dame bit a snag in attempt No. 10, and finished on the low end of a 19-14 final With a half-minute of playing time remaining. Great Lakes Naval Training Station scored the winning tal ly ... . Dear Santa Clans. It's been many Christmases since my k Idler to you. There was a lime in my lij when I almost forgot that you exist, J must be the war that has brought me bad Santa. It's done strange things, you knot If you keep files, you should get out Ik scrawled Utile letter oj mine and compart'. with ti'.is one. Last time I wauled a teddy bear; / ji it, too. large and soft and cuddly and Sim white. I want another one now, Sati Maybe il can bring back that light-hem joy the war has taken envay. 11 ;, /// ii something tangible, too, to cling lo. w my worries depress me far more compta than my childish problems did. Before. I wanted you lo bring my brother a toy train he wanted one much Nozv I want you to bring him ash, a long, large ship that will carry him soft over the seas of war, just as his train Inn ported him l0 the tropical isle he dream of and now possesses. He'd trade il inji anything today, if the ship would cam in home for Christmas. I didn't ask for this next request in last letter to you. I didn't want it then, I cause it was already mine. Bui today I Mil peace more than anything else. Santa. Dm bother with the teddy bear and the shif you can grant the lasi request. JI includes every desire I have and IL certain you'll get J30.000.000 more rcqut for it. Please try lo grant those requa Santa and please bring us the love a gratitude and understanding and which will keep us from losing il. aga ever. Happy Christmas, Santa. ' Mary Cm v If War Stamps Won't Do.. If your Christmas shopping problems1, still far from solution, and if War Stanj and Bonds simply will not do for every why not select a thoughtful gift of lad value a book ? You'll be a welcome Sai Claus and win an enthusiastic approval your choice, for you give hours of enj ment when you give a book. FOR DAI). who would gratefullv ac but probably never wear the gay yello red, purple, and orange muffler you'd sA for him, anyway: ORIGINS AND K C GROUND OF THE SECOND WORI WAR by Charles Haines; SEVEN (i()L FN CITIES bv Mabel Farntim; G CHESTERTON bv Masie Ward; Thl SHINING TRAIL by lola Fuller; TH MAN WAS IRELAND by Robert Fi ren; and Archbishop Francis SpellnJ ACTION THIS DAY. FOR MOTHER, who would find a bj a perfect companion for an hour of relai ?T PPLE TREE by Grace CJ bell; ML I GENTLY DAY bv Robert 8 than; WHAT OTHER ANSWER3 'rvl,,y,, rant; MUSIC LOYEJ HANDBOOK by Elie Siegmeister; or nlh- I unk-n s Till-. SHINING TREE. 1-OR SIS. who already has enough n TTM,8? a bIack markct: vnrDr,lEvcl gt;' Wise; CHILDRJ Vv7m VI,RISl,-vS-A,-t'--sl-'t-c-i lt;:.ssn WOMEN by Isabel Traves; WE FO Unnni '. KARTS ' HOLL OOD by Emily Kimbrougb; and Vina Starretf s AUTOLYCUS IN LIMBO, FOR JUNIOR, who has just stepped PYrriSrtKS a,,uI Iaid aside llis w * ' .- gt;' ' * - ; n DUST bi Mellamy IV ndge; MAN OF MOLOKAI bv Ann Roos;OLI OF TUE SILENT PLANE by (Jive Lewi.s; INSIDE THE FBI I John I-lobertv; OMNIBUS bv Uma Feeney; J HE LITTLE PRINCE bv A tome St. Exiipery; or. if be wants'to mibtary, THE CAPTAIN WEARS CROSS by Captain William McGuire. FOR HIM: whether he's in the An J Navy, or Marines, he'll find welcome smr Jnv'v-,1-1? ' BENCHLEY H IMA?S J'.,-R ' TI Bencl4 HAPPY STORIES JUST TO I.AUG1 ,-m'T , , '-ra **; BROTHERS IN JOLKNA INK. AMERICA bv D d ur , u KAISER WAKES Ti l)(H IORS by paui ne KriI f ()r j can t resist a mystery. LOOK YOUR I lt; by John Strange.
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1943-12-10 (2)
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