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Page Two SKYSCRAPER Brotherhood of Man Is Based on Fatherhood of God When President Roosevelt inaugurated Brotherhood Week this year the week of Washington's birthday dedicated annually to the cause of tolerance and Christian charity he was voicing the hope of thou sands of the Allies that this war's end would mark the beginning of a vigorous world organization based on common brotherhood and incorporating the Four Freedoms. But all thinking people realize that world organization alone cannot produce brotherhood: rather, world brotherhood, alone, can produce world organization. An international police force will not insure order if nations fail to trust and to respect one another, if they are not worthy of the trust and respect of one another. The Allied Nations must stamp out pre judice and intolerance within their own borders, and must spare no effort to give to enemy nations the example of Christian charity based on deeds of justice and mercy. We read of conferences and agreements, of projects and plans to promote harmony and unity among men. But this harmony, this unity must begin in our own lives, and must permeate our own daily living, else, though we speak with the tongues of men and of angels ... we are as sounding brass or a tinkling symbol. As college students, we have opportuni ty to learn much about the people of other countries, to study plans for peace, and to become familiar with the Holy Father's pleas for tolerance and international un derstanding. Let us remember that we can do much to promote respect for the rights of others, both nationally and internationally, and let us remember that, when such respect is accomplished, a workable world organiza tion can be instituted. This war, then, should mark the end of strife, and it should be followed by a world brotherhood among men, based irrevoca bly on the Fatherhood of God. Your Red Cross Is at His Side When the first tramping feet crossed the eastern borders of Poland to plunge the world into the present conflagration, the Red Cross once again geared its activities to the tempo of war. When the last shot is fired and the last taps played, the Red Cross will devote all of its attention to peacetime activities of succor for distressed people everywhere. In war and in peace, the Red Cross on the white background spells relief and aid in a universal language. Ask any serviceman and he will tell you what the Red Cross means to the man in uniform. Ask any war-weary civilian in a recent ly liberated country what life-sustaining food and medical attention meant to him and to his family. Ask any prisoner of war how important amusements and medical aid are to the men behind barbed-wire fences. Then, ask yourself what share you have had in furnishing these necessities of life to men who are fighting for you. All the activities of the Red Cross are made possible solely through the contri butions of individuals bankers, office boys, truck drivers, executives, first grad ers, and octogenarians. Without the help of all of these, the Red Cross would be unable to carry on its humanitarian work. Tomorrow the War Fund drive will open here, marking the only time in the year when the College unit of the Red Cross will make an appeal to you. If you want to see the crooked Nazi swastika and the double cross of the im perial Japanese government crushed, with as little suffering as possible, if you want to see them supplanted by the Christian Cross in record time, give to the Red Cross, and give generously. First in War, First in Peace, Washington Is Often Misquoted Almost two hundred years ago a man named Washington, whose birthday the nation will honor in two days, gave a fare well address to the people of the United States on the occasion of his retirement from the presidency. Since then, histori ans, writers, politicians, and journalists have ignored most of that speech except the conclusion, which they have grossly misinterpreted. To this speech is attributed the frequent ly quoted phrase, entangling alliances, which has been used as an excuse for al most complete isolationism from foreign nations, no matter what need might arise to sanction an alliance. Washington's exact words on the oc casion were: It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far . . . as we are now at liberty to do it . . . Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable es tablishment, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to tem porary alliances for extraordinary emer gencies . . . . It is because of such sound advice and timely guidance that Washington earned the distinction of being first in war, first in peace. His final official words to the people of the nation were not intended as a license to set his country apart from others, but arose from a realization that Europe had at that time a set of primary interests which had only a remote relation to us, and which naturally would be the causes of frequent controversies, utterly removed from our sphere of interest. Certain types of alliances with European nations would have been. then, only arti ficial ties and would have embroiled us in the toils of foreign ambition and interest. A world organization of Allied Nations, however, was obviously not the target of his admonition. The situation is rather a proof of the maxim that men accept what they think fits in with their plans, for the rest of the text of the farewell address has largely been ignored. Washington outlined the steps leading to political prosperity, citing religion and morality as indispensable supports. But how many people have ever heard of this? In speaking of political parties and their methods of gaining their individual ends he says that the jealousies which spring from political misrepresentations tend to make alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affec tion. But how many campaigners con sider these words? Washington had the foresight and depth of understanding the Revolutionary years had given. He had seen war at its worst and had learned its lesson. It is incongru ous to say that the man who led the 13 colonies to freedom from t/yranny would fail to see the need for American action in the present world crisis, and equally- incongruous to insist that he would today oppose world cooperation to insure perma nent peace, regardless of his colonial views on entangling alliances. View the News From All Angles Injected into our national and world news reports are, inevitably, the varying philosophies of the writers and editors of the secular press, some sound, some spe cious. To supplement the former, and to coun teract the latter, intelligent Catholics rely on the editorial columns and the news pages of the Catholic press. Intelligent Catholics, furthermore, rely upon Catholic periodicals and books for religious viewpoints on the coming peace, on labor problems, on social legislation, on foreign affairs. And intelligent college students read the book and drama and motion picture re views in Catholic journals, eager to know the aesthetic evaluations of critics, who, in the words of a contemporary Catholic writer and recent lecturer at the college, speak their language, religiously. Novel Offers Novelty In Story of Pioneer attiaki Margaret Brent, heroine of ACTION Dorothy Fremont Grant's nov el, Margaret Brent: Adventurer, is the daughter of a Catholic peer in England, who leaves the mother country with her sister and two brothers and sails for the colony of Maryland in America, experienc ing many adventures on her long voyage to the New World. There is a storm at sea and one of her servants is hanged on board ship as a witch. Arriving in Maryland at St. Maries, Margaret obtains a grant of land, builds her home, raises corn and to bacco, starts a school for the children of the settlement, and educates a little Indian girl whom she adopts. Maryland, as a colony of religious tolerance, offers a ha- *cn of peace and promise to Margaret, but her new-found happiness is short-lived. Religious freedom, her most valued pos session, is threatened. There are rapid changes in government, burning and pil laging of the town, immeasurable hard ships, and the struggle to return to law and order is not an easy one. The roman tic element is not lacking in this historical novel of pioneer peace-loving people who hope to find and establish religious free dom in the New World, for Margaret finds romance as well as adventure in her new home. frifuniH The period is the time of SUSPENSE Charles I and Cromwell, an era of religious persecution. The treachery of certain enemies of the Catholics plays a prominent role in the story. In an effort to thwart the schemes of her antagonists, Margaret dons the attire of her manservant and attends a mass meeting of the con spirators after a perilous ride in the bitter cold to help, with patriotic good will, her adopted community. Through the treach ery of Richard Ingle, the town, including Margaret's new manor, is burned. The routing of the unlawful occupants of the settlement by the Lieutenant Governor's army and the rescue of the town provide action, suspense, and adventure in abun dance. AIWEKITIIDC MarSaret Brent demon- ADVENTUKE strates her pioneer pa triotism and her spirit of independence when she unflinchly faces an unjustified reprimand from Lord Calvert in England. She once more becomes Margaret the Ad venturer when she decides to leave Mary land and to settle in another colony, hop ing to find more spiritual freedom than in St. Maries. There is evidence of painstaking re search on the part of the author, Dorothy Fremont Grant. Her descriptions of the early manor houses, customs, and methods of travel are graphic and informative. There is warmth in the quiet devotion of the priests who give encouragement and assistance to the new colonists, and in Mar garet's unselfish love for her two nieces. Margaret Brent is a real and convincing person from the beginning of the story to the end. A courageous woman of her per iod, she even bobbed her hair MUNDELEIN COLLEGE Chicago, 40, Illinois Chicago's College For Women Under the Direction of the Sisters of Charitv, B.V.M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, M, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under Hi Act of March 3, 1897, 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to Mif inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol. XV February 19, 1945 All-Catholic Honors All-American Honors Xo.7 if Telephone: Ambassador 9011 Co-Editors-in-Chief Mary Grace Ciratj, Jayne King Associates Mary Burns, Jerry Stufcj Mary Catherine Tuomey Copy Editors Eleanor ArenW Joan Templeman Associates Viola Brtnnnj Mary Martha Cooper, Dolores Hartigal Lois Hintze. Patricia Hollahan, Audrey l(c- Donnell Feature Editors Mary Betcha; Patricia Curran, Sheila Finney, Alice Marie Horen, Genevieve Urbain News Editors Regina Be Florence Jankowski Associates Patricia Led Dolores Toniatti, Gladys Sullivan. Sports Mary Cannon, Dolores Cervenl l Colleen Rettig Art Editor Mary Jane SmitkJ Reporters: Mary Ann Anderson, Ruth Castj, Adelaide Costello, Stacy Diacou, Joyce Evans, Lorraine Gross, Muriel Hasten, Jmi Klcne, Donna Mooney, Patricia Harmon, Rc gina Milligan, Katherine Burowitz, Rosenwj Templeman. Marian Patton, Adeline Lasdi azza, Margaret Monckton, Virginia . 'tt Rosemary O'Connor, Jeanne Ondesco, Ma.7 Catherine Quinn, Jean Roche, Geraldine Stack. Mildred Stanek, Dorothy Wattail h on Kl Jl - tin, ri They're Talking About .. .1 W/ITH our entrance into Manila, Amain can hearts quickened to see a prims symbol of Japanese dominance begin to fall. Conspicuous by its absence was tbd lack of hilarity in the American celebraJ tion of the advance, as people observed thej event with hope and prayer, instead of will whistle-blasting and flag-waving. I7ROM Rome comes the announcemoitj that Jacques Maritain, distinguished Catholic philosopher, has been accepted at the Vatican as General de Gaulle's ambas- sador to the Holy See. The famed French; writer, whose books are required reading in Catholic college philosophy classes, hail been in the United States for the past fouq years. ASSOCIATE Justice Frank Murphy of the U. S. Supreme Court, has received the 1944 medal for fostering better under standing between Christians and Jews in America. The award is given annually by the American Hebrew magazine. Justice Murphy is the author of In Defense ofi Democracy, one of the selections in the prose reading text used in Freshman Eng lish classes. pOMFORTING to shivering collegians waiting at the Edgewater Beach and as sorted bus stops these February mornings is the news that two of the brightest lights in the entertainment world are voluntarily facing the European winds in their tours of American camps. To take the sting out of the air in draughty theatres, actress Katharine Cornell has tiny oil burners hid den at propitious spots on the stage, while cinemactress Marlene Dietrich backs a few feet from the microphone so that the chattering of her teeth will not be audible. ti: c lb Kit lei t t
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1945-02-19 (2)
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