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('age Two SKYSCRAPER Neighborliness Cannot Be Left: Hasta Manana An Easter Petition for Resurrection of Peace The clouds darkening the world around us may take the sparkle out of the Raster parade, but our spiritual glow, enhanced by our prayerful acceptance of the sacri fices the War has forced us to make, should have renewed luster. Raster, 1943, will find the crocuses bud ding in the parks, the Raster church goers chic in gay flower hats and pale pastel suits. Yes. the scene will be the same, but the spirit will be different. Families usually united on festival days will be separated, either by service in the Army or by service in defense plants. Many thousands of people will be un able'to pause long in their fight for free dom to sing the joyful Easter Allelulia. Hut the fruit of Lenten self denials will be manifest in our renewed courage and hope. This year we have, through Lent, coupled our striving for personal spiritual enrichment with a petition that (iod may bless our fighting forces and that He may forgive the sins committed during this War. We shall remember, during the solemn ceremonies of Holy Week, that the dark ness of Good Friday was followed by the Glory of the Resurrection, and we shall pray confidently on Raster Sunday that the dark days of War may be followed soon by a Resurrection of peace and jus tice, and that all nations may be bound to gether in harmony and good will. Ticker Tape . . . Every day in every week it's Rommel on the Run. And now, the British and American armies in Africa have met and united. ()ne can almost hear the Tommies and the Johnnies congratulating each other. ()ne American mother is treasuring the telegram she received from her soldier- son, which reads. Dear Mom. lots of fun. got a Hun, your loving son, Peter. Cbicagoans have re-elected Edward J. Kelly for mayor, and the Democrats prove they are strong still in Illinois. Naples, the Italian city once known for its peace and beauty, is now an example of what war and RAF bombings can do. Bolivia has entered the war scene. That makes one more Nazi enemy to help the Allies. Three problems arc upsetting the Wash ington war colony. If John L. Lewis suc ceeds in getting his mine workers two more dollars a day, the fanners will be very hurt. If high ration points on cer tain meats are not lowered, the butchers who have meat spoiling on their bands will be very sad. And if the supporters of General MacArthur for president can't nominate him in 1944 because of the re cent law against military men in politics, they will be very upset. While Washington worries about such things. President Roosevelt has frozen war jobs, so that no one can change his job just to get more money. Pan-Amcricansim is not a slogan of the hour, nor is it a new idea, this at tempt of the Americas to know and under stand each other and to reach friendly accord on all international questions for the welfare of the continent. It is a term whose meaning has been crystallized by the onset of war. with a common enemy endangering the democ racy of the two Americas, the one con tinent. It is Pan-Americanism that lias turned the industrial wheels of the United States southward in their search for vital war materials. On the strength of it. tech nical missions have hurried into the wealthy Spanish lands, where experts are stepping up production and metamorphos ing the peace-time banana republics into great industrial centers. War has inevitably given an artificial color to the friendship between the peo ples of the two Americas, but our national consciousness of our South American neighbors must rise above the superficial ity of mere good will. Raise impressions must be erased, by words of friendship, by a knowledge of the culture, the lan guage, the people themselves, not by the sign language of diplomacy, power, and supplies. Created and maintained by the 21 American republics is the Pan-American Union. More than half a century old, it is resolved to further peace, commerce, and amity among the republics by foster ing constructive cooperation among them. The Americas collaborate, through the Union, in the promotion of economic re lations, public health, social welfare, in tellectual assistance, international law, and political relatione. Simultaneously, through Pan-Americanism, the Northern and Southern republics have gained the habit of working together for the solu tion of problems affecting the general welfare of the continent. Americans are becoming increasingly aware of their part in this Union, as the whole of the South American continent, save one republic, has allied itself to our side in this conflict. In tin- symbiotic union we, as Catholic Americans, have a definite foundation upon which to build our neighborliness. ()ur southern allies are 90 Catholic, and our fraternity with them arises naturally from our union with them in the Mystical Body of Christ. Let us. then, never consider Pan-Ameri- canism merely as a whim that will be abandoned when the fortresses rule the skies. Let us never forget that it is folly to disregard a potential force that will in fluence our success in the war. will direct peace plans, and will play an important role in post-war reconstruction. Lei us never forget that it is folly to let disinterest loose the bonds that tie us to our fellow nations. These must be strengthened into permanency. Sea'Signed Charter Must Ride Rocky Waves to Goal The Atlantic Charter has been praised, has been condemned, has been labelled impractical and visionary, and has been called a ray of hope to the conquered peoples. It remained for the United States' Catholic orator-priest to see the Charter with the eyes of the past as well as with those of the future. In his radio address of March 28. Mon signor Fulton J. Sheen said that the At lantic Charter is a kind of political coun terpart of the Sermon on the Mount. lie warned that, like the Sermon on the Mount, it must be followed by a Gethse- maiie and a Golgotha. The United States and Great Britain, through their President and Prime Min ister, have pledged themselves in the At lantic Charter to seek no aggrandizement, to force no territorial changes, to impose no forms of government, but to return the rights of self-government to the enslaved peoples. This is world government as it should be, as it might have been before perverted theories and perverted thinkers led us astray into the mazes of national indi vidualism and national totalitarianism. In the calm waters of the North Atlan tic. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill set down the following economic policies of their respective governments: both coun tries will endeavor to give to all States, without exception, equal access to the vital raw materials of the earth; both countries desire full economic co-opera tion in order to improve, on a world-wide scale, labor, economic advancement, and the security of society. With this policy in force, we would reach a stage of growth in economic rela tions, in co-operation, which lias long been sought by our far-seeing economists and humanitarians. Such a policy would dis arm the octopus of monopoly and still the complaints of the have-not nations. (ireat Britain and the United States have gone on record in the Atlantic Char ter as considering disarmament a realistic and spiritual necessity in the post-war world. As we pointed out in these columns recently, on the disarmament point of the Pope's Peace Plan, once men and nations have been relieved of the weapon of force, they will come to use the natural means of co-operative action. The peace to which the Atlantic Charter looks is one hopeful of the establishment of national security, of freedom from fear, and of freedom from want. Nations are to be, not broken, but bolstered. Peo ple are to be nourished men, not starving animals. Having glimpsed the tremendous things these points necessitate for fulfillment, it is only too easy to foresee with Mon signor Sheen the agony, the dereliction, and the bitter disillusionment through which the world will pass before men live a political and economic existence guided by the Atlantic Charter. But just as the darkness of the Passion was lightened by the promise of the Ser mon on the Mount fulfilled, so will all trials to come be made bearable by the hope of the eventual fulfillment of the Atlantic Charter. A Mississippi Sweep . . From the silver mirror on the purple cover, to the last glowing page, CRRS- CENT CARNIVAL, by Frances Parking- ton Keyes, is as turbulent and powerful as the Mississippi, whose mighty torrents flow as life blood through this tale of the deep South. Ror over a century, the lives and for tunes of the Breckenridges had been wed to the history of the river. From father to son. a stream of fabulous wealth and prestige had flowed, engulfing the lives of New Orleans society people. Against the pulsing background of the gaiety that is Mardi Gras is etched the profile of the Crescent City, and of the family who wielded the Sceptre at the Carnival Balls. With the power to make tears and laughter and hate come alive from the world of fiction, Mrs. Keyes has told a talc of the Creole South destined to last as long as people love. War Relocation Authority Oversees Evacuation December 7. 1941, was a virtual Water loo for the Japanese minority iii this country. Rear of mass violence on the Japanese in the event of a west-coast attack, fear of espionage and sabotage, instigated the inland evacuation of these people by the United States government, under the Relocation Authority. An acute problem, the future of the 112.000 Jap anese- is the responsibility of the entire Union. ( gt;ur treatment of them now is a sure test of whether we can effectively direct alien communities when the War is over. Acquaint yourself with this im- Dortant task of the Relocation Authority. in The laoanese In lt; )ur Midst, by George I-.. Taylor , THE ATLANTIC, April. Garnishing the northwestern tip of South America are two colorful twin countries . . . French and Dutch Guiana. Side by side and unallied. these jungle lands are anything but insignificant and dull . . . both tiny lands, their ancierij culture dotted with evidences of the twen tieth century, are doing jobs important and interesting. Brush tip on your geog raphy, and for pleasant diversion take ;t trip to the Guianas with Nicol Smith in the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAG AZINE. April. Another college rises to the fore, wav ing a banner for a liberal arts education, believing it should be maintained and that an A.B. degree will adequately gear young women for responsible war activity and will, moreover, equip them for the war of peace. Declaring that skills and sciences are not enough to solve the problems of the world, Bryn Mawr educators add their reply to the question, Shall Liberal Arts be Jettisoned, in Bryn Mawr Raises Its Torch, PORTUNR. April. To help quell the storm of juvenile delinquency which has risen among Negro children during war-time, the N.Y.A. takes over with vocational guidance steered by competent Negro men. Learn of this social problem and its solution through John LaRargc, AMRRICA, April 3. : THE SKYSCRAPER Official Semi-Monthly Newspaper of MUNDELEIN COLLEGE 6363 Sheridan Road Chicago.Illinois Mundelein Chicago's College For Women p Under the Direction ok 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. XIII Thursday, April IS, 1943 No. II Member ASSOCIATED EX COLLEGIATE PRESS Telephone: Ambassador 9011 Co-Editors-in-Chief Rae Haefel, Joan Leach Associate Rosemary Shanahan Feature Editors.Mary Kay Jones, Marie Nordby Associates Helen Egan Betty Jane McCambridge, Lorraine Super, Mary Elizabeth Wolfe. News Editors Jayne King, Jerry Stutz Associates Mary C. Burns Mary Grace Carney, Helen Nicholson, Betty Seguin, Mary Catherine Tuomey, Frances Wilkinson. Sports Editor Geraldine Hoffman Staff Artist Dorothy Schaar Reporters: Eleanor Arends, Mary Martha Coop er, Madeleine Courtney, Constance Cross, Sheila Finney, Margaret Green, Margaret Kane, Alyce Jean Kiley, Ann McManus, La- Ycrnc O'Toole. Margaret Simon. Geraldine Thorpe r 111 (I : : ina 11: M.
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