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?afe lt; T*o SKYSCRAPER The Fork in the Road Is Our Challenge . . . The war has tended to focus all our attention upon the present. While whole heartedly bending our efforts towards the present emergency, many of us have forgot the life we must lead when this war is over. During our college years, the years in which we can best watch the rest of the world objectively, wc should decide what our way of life is to be. It is to remind us of this that we have annually a Vocation Week. We should, first of all, choose that vocation for which we are best fitted. It is useless to strive for something which is not within our reach or power. It is better to decide what we can do and what we want to do, and then to direct all our efforts toward achieving that end, and to let nothing deter us from our decision. Most of us will choose marriage. We must remember, however, that in wartime a married woman must be a versatile woman. If her husband has gone to war, she must be able to make her own living. If he does not come back, she must have the strength and the efficiency to provide for her children and to keep her life on an even keel. Some of us will turn to the religious life. Certainly there is a great need, both in wartime and in the peace to come, for the educational, religious, and missionary work of the Sisters and priests. Those who choose this life will find one of the best ways to serve (Iod and to benefit mankind. Those few who will select a professional career in preference to marriage or relig ious life will have a wide choice, for there are many fields open to women now which former v exclusively belonged to men. Here, as in all cases, we should pick the occupation for which we are suited, and which will be of greatest happiness to us and service to those around us. Remember, the time to decide is now. Once we have made up our minds, we should prepare ourselves fully. The war and other emergencies may delay our plans, but we should never lose sight of the future. The woman who plans her future thought fully and wisely according to her po tentialities and talents, and who car ries out her plans to the best of her ability, will find happiness in that niche of life for which she was des tined. Inhumanity of Euthanasia Is Wrapped in Cloak of Kindness Peace Will Be Resurrection Our life has become, of necessity, a physical Lent. In view of this, we, during this second penitential season of World War II, must recognize the duty and the privilege we have to rejuvenate our souls by accepting prayerfully the sacrifices we are compelled to make. Lent is like war. During the time we commemorate Christ's 40-day fast, we live frugally and reconstruct the spirit ual life within us which we have al lowed to become dull, and we mold that spiritual life into something sturdy and strong. Then we will be able to shoulder, unflinchingly, any physical and mental burdens our country may have to impose upon us. During the Lenten season we should pray not only for our personal betterment but also for the safety and success of the armed forces fighting to save our freedom. We should spend a specified time each day asking Cod to aid both spiritually and physically the boys in the army, navy, marines, and air corps, who have aban doned their homes to try to gain a just peace. We should, if possible, say the Rosary each day in the Chapel for the special war intention of the day. This readjustment of our daily life to suit the mood of the holy time of Lent will enable us to rejoice in the true 9pirit of the glorious Easter time. Lent is like war, and some day, in the near future we hope, men will enjoy again the peace which will be like the Resurrection of Christ on Easter Sunday. Kuthanasia lias made the headlines again. Those over-zealous humanists who are advocates of mercy-killing are taking advantage of the war. They are beginning to urge the easy way out for soldiers who will return hopelessly dis abled. The very word mercy-killing is mislead ing, for we cannot say that it is kindness to a man to relieve him of his opportunity to make his life worthwhile regardless of handicaps. Some of our most outstanding men and women have risen to prominence in spite of great physical disability, and many more, physically disabled, have made their lives holy, and happy, and useful. Perhaps these men have forgot, like wise, how much our doctors have learned from the seemingly hopelessly disabled men of our last great war. Perhaps they do not consider the sight of a maimed body an incentive to scientific study, as a spur in the search for new remedies. Would Dr. Banting and his co-workers have spent years searching for a diabetes cure if they could have closed a diabetic case by killing the sufferer? Just as sev eral years ago diabetes was considered in curable, so there were many injuries of the last war which were then considered ir remediable. Yet today our front line stories tell again and again of soldiers' lives saved by medical discoveries based Upon previous experience. Yet the mere fact that one man's injuries teach us how to save other men is not the real reason that euthanasia is a false doctrine. Whether we believe in euthanasia or not de pends upon man's concept of his reason for being on earth. It is our belief in man's future life, and our belief that what he does here decides that future life, which holds back our hands from euthanasia. Man's life is given him by (iod, and he holds that life in trust until it shall be recalled by the Giver. It is not for us to decide when that life is fulfilled; it is not for us to destroy that gift, whether that gift belongs to us or to one we love. There is a further point to consider in the matter of mercy-killing. To allow the killing of any man for any physical dis ability whatsoever is to open the door to any unscrupulous person who desires the death of another. The cloak of supposedly lofty motives, of misguided sympathy, can conceal the most dangerous types of vi- ciousness and egotism. In short, the ad vocates of mercy killing would have us legalize murder. Ticker - Tape People just won't stop talking about the weather, especially when they get a glimpse of spring at its best, as Chicagoans did recently. But the sudden change in tem perature seems to bear an ill wind to No. 10 Downing Street and to the White House, for Roosevelt and Churchill went under the weather almost simultaneously. The latest statistical conclusion is that 8,000,000 out of less than 16,000.000 Jews have been wiped out by the Nazis. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek has brought her gracious self to Washington again. Mayoral prim ary elections in Chicago pick Kelly and McKibbin as final candidates. His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, receives Archbishop Spellman of New York, who is visiting the Vatican. Those who know say that the potato crop is lagging. The food and canned goods rationing is the current favorite conversation. Some people are secretly happy over an involuntary diet, but others are sighing over visions of well-done steaks smothered in mushrooms. The most confused American is the corner grocer, who must be able to answer questions like. Will it take less points to buy two small cans of tomato juice or one large can? They're testing wooden tires on Tribune trucks these rubberless days. The Yanks have Rommel on the run again. Finland is still trying to wriggle out of the ropes that bind it to the Axis. Latest tragedy is the explosion of the Pan American Yankee Clipper near Lis bon toll of 24 dead or missing. The fighting front gives the home front a lift when the news comes of the sinking of the Jap armada by MacArthur's mighty men. Officials are applauding it as the greatest victory over naval forces by air forces. 50,000 farmers are being moved to the fertile lands of the Middle West to help the farm labor shortage. You're the Critic OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG AND (iAY, by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough. Between Cornelia, who came down with measles, among other things, and Emily, who attracts incident as blue serge at tracts lint, OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG AND GAY turns out to be as fresh as red gingham, as naive as white organdy, and as long-wearing as blue denim. Certain sundry incidents make the hi larity of the whole book stand out in plaid relief the case of the safety-pocket, for instance, which for many weeks humiliated Cornelia. The very certain case of the measles in which Cornelia indulged, or rather, was immersed, and the red hat with the white chenille veil in which she camou flaged herself and blithely spread measle germs to the receptive populace of Paris is also worth noting, she thinks. And shall we ever forget the afternoon when, in the midst of a most sedate tea in London, Emily's feet caught in the electric buzzer, and she attempted to land gracefully, all in one piece? Emily still chokes at the memory of what happened, also at a tea, when, unaccustomed to ter rific splendor, she began to swallow the pink baby ribbon which tied the sand wiches. The sun pouring through the rose win dow in Notre Dame, the blesse who was kind to them, the Champs Elysees at dawn and at twilight are the touches of purple and green and smoke gray which illuminate this summer print of Paris, turning her tragic story back to a past when her heart was young and gay. THEY WERE EXPENDABLE, by William L. White. That's all there was to it. You see. they were expendable. Out of the battle of the Philippines has come a flaming story, burning with the flame of young years and old experience of war, searing across America, making her proud, cutting a bright swath before the hoarders and the profiteers, blinding the wasters and the slackers. Just that. Expendable, like machine guns or TNT, bayonets or mines, but infinitely more effective and important. In a total war, it is that total, expendable effort of each man to forge ahead through days filled with snipers, nights filled with fears that decides the battle. They gave them selves to the limit for the cause in which we profess to believe. They proved it over there. Read this true story; it will make you think, at a time when real wartime think ing is what we need. Read this story; you will see and feel and hear, in a most graphic way, the beat of war and the dirge of defeat. It won't take you long to sense it, for the Navy crew through which the tale is told is a crosscut of America. You can feel her heartbeat in their blustering shyness and unconscious heroism, in their good humor and terrifying determination, and in their supreme faith. They are the heartbeat of America and, through them who were expendable, she will live. Bonds and Stamps Wil Rivet A New Chicagol Last September, Mundelein campaignt for a Jeep by Christmas through the sil of War Bonds and Stamps. At Christmn time, we had three jeeps. Now the jet family has grown to six, but a civic cris has arisen. All Chicago is determined replace the late cruiser, the U.S.S. ChicajJ with 40,000,000 worth of Bonds an Stamps. To aid this drive for a million dolli a day for 40 days, Mundelein will eanni :'ts own sale of Bonds and Stamps for tl cause. As soon as the new U.S.S. Chicjj hits the waves, the College will contina raising jeeps for doughboys. Philosophers in Print., European and American coopen from a psychological and cultural pci of view, as described by Jacques Maritai is America's Role in the New Europe, appeal for our trust and heroic friendslj The youth of fascist and nazi cotinlt will require a deep and lasting education education for freedom replacing educati for death. The experience Europeans hi acquired is a treasury of tears, and wenj learn from their sufferings. An arti on tlie common man's awareness of personal dignity, gazing toward an id of human brotherhood, is the one by Mi tain in the Feb. 26 issue of COMMO WEAL. The Innocence of G.K.C., by JohnB Kennedy, is a human interest story dral from vivid recollections of a great frieJ ship the answer to an editor's prayerB general appeal. Mr. Kennedy uses 1 ability as a commentator of note to pottfl the genius of a great man, his wit. 9 foibles, his largeness of soul, his simplkj -G.K.C. of the bizarre appearance, nl nificent diversity of talents, robust hum* and noble anger. See the February ii of SIGN. THE SKYSCRAPE1 Official Semi-Monthly Newspaper of I MUNDELEIN COLLEGE 6363 Sheridan Road Chicago.Illinois Mundelein Chicago's College For Women Under the Directum ok the Sisters or Charity, B.V.M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30,1 at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, undo Act of March 3, 1897, 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to inclusive by the students of Mundelein Colli Vol. XIII Friday, March 5, 1943 X Member ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS Telephone: Ambassador 9011 Co-Editors-in Chief Rae Haefel, Joan h Associate Rosemary Sham Feature Editors.Mary Kay Jones, Marie Nfl( Associates Helen I Betty Jane McCambridge, Lorraine Si Mary Elizabeth Wolfe. News Editors Jayne King, Jerry S Associates Mary C Mary Grace Carney, Helen Nicholson, Seguin, Mary Catherine Tuomey, Fra Wilkinson. Sports Editor Geraldine Hod Staff Artist Anita Caoi Reporters: Eleanor Arends, Mary MarthaCi er, Madeleine Courtney, Constance 0 1'atrcia Cummings, Sheila Finney, Mil Green, Margaret Kane, Mary Jane I Alyce Jean Kiley, LaVerne O'Toole, 1 garet Simon, Geraldine Thorpe.
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1943-03-05 (2)
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