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Page Two SKYSCRAPER You Can Make Your Sun Shine To Affect The Quality of the Day ... That Is The Highest of Arts If all of us could grasp the essential meaning of Thoreau's phrase, we could grasp the immortality of the moment. To affect the quality of the day ... to start the day with a bright smile, a friendly greeting ... to go to class at peace with ourselves and the rest of the world. If we could, by the warmth of a smile or a friendly word, convey a feeling of inner peace and confidence, we might change for many the quality of their days . . . and, perhaps for more than a few, the quality of their lives. Each day can be a fresh and unique experience ... if we choose to make it so. Each new dawn finds us a day older, a day more mature ... a day closer to the fulness of womanhood. Deep in all of us, there is an inner spring bubbling with gaiety and joy, tenderness and sympathy, gentleness and love ... the essence of womanhood. There are some who have suffered disappointments, large and small . . . some who allow those disappointments to dry up their tal ents and blister their ideals . . . leaving nothing but a blank disinteres tedness. They allow their lives to become cavernously hollow, like great shells, with nothing but dim echoes. With just an extra thought, a little extra giving from that inner spring of ours ... we could become the highest of artists ... we could change for many the quality of the day . . . and perhaps, for more than a few, the quality of their lives. Justice and Charity Are Due To All Not Just to The Oppressed Some people claim that America is the most unprejudiced of nations the people of America are the most tolerant toward their fellow men. The statement, even if true, has some highly interesting implica tions for us as Catholic students and as Christians. What does it mean to be unprejudiced, to judge a person on his individual worth, and not because of his racial or religious background? This outlook entails both justice and charity the requirement of giving to each man his due, based on and permeated by a real love of the person. And the due which we must give to each person is respect for him, and love, respect, because he is created equal to ourselves; love, because in him we see Christ. When we establish this kind of relationship with those around us, we are really giving a part of ourselves our help, our joy, our security. Tolerance, therefore, is not enough. We must go out to others despite our emo tional reactions to them. This is easy enough to see in regard to those of other races and religions, but more difficult to put into practice in relation to those around us who have backgrounds similar to our own, who may even have gone to the same high school or lived in the same neighborhood. Concerning these fellow students, we must rise above dislike because She's a 'tech' or she doesn't wear 'sharp' clothes. We are the ones who must lead in true understanding of others, putting into action the love of Christ. We are those who must give meaning to the principles we believe so that they take on life. And this is nothing more than a part of the restoring of all things in Christ. The national observance of American Brotherhood Week in February is an at tempt to do this to remind all men of their essential equality. And we can echo St. Francis: Dear Lord, . . . where there is hatred let me sow love. Student View . . . Clutching Communism Reaches Out As Colonial Empire Disintegrates The great colonial empires of the seven teenth and eighteenth centuries are rapidly becoming legendary in the twentieth as Indo- China and Tunisia seek independence from their French overseers, as Egypt recedes from the grasp of Great Britain, and as Indonesia fights her Dutch governors. It is less than two years since Indonesia, the former Dutch East Indies, brought an end to three centuries of foreign sovereignty. The 1949 treaty created the United States of Indonesia as a federative state uniting the colonial islands of Sumatra, Java, Ma dura, Borneo, Celebes, the Moluccas, and the mother-country, Holland, into a coop erative Netherlands Union. But Europe was still too close, too dom ineering, too authoritative, and the past six months have witnessed repeated struggles for freedom in the Southeast Pacific. In a situation similar to the one created by the withdrawal of Great Britain from Iran, Indonesia is now bereft of technicians and skilled workers needed for the rebuild ing of a country badly trampled by war and occupational troops. The new republic is eager to change from a colonial economy of raw materials to a more highly industrial ized type and therefore a more independ ent one but lacks the advisers necessary for such conversion. Communist dominated labor unions fail to utilize Indonesia's rich rubber, petroleum, and quinine resources, and add to her econ omic desperation by strikes, riots, and shut downs. The question seems to be is complete freedom possible for Indonesia in her present torn state? The future of the island state is envisioned without hope, as widespread illiteracy and disease emcompass her youth. One section alone, Central Sumatra, has 11,000 children ready for school, yet can accommodate a mere 2,000. Would complete independence from the Dutch union alleviate this? The UN has extended some aid to In donesia, one of her smaller members, yet larger sums, as well as technicians, will be needed if the islanders succeed in severing all Dutch-Indonesian relations. The UN may refuse, and the Indonesian rubber and oil resources may find eager, clutching, as similating hands elsewhere. Communism rarely needs an invitation. Catholic Press Is Necessary Supplement To Secular Journals Today's newspapers and magazines are full of lies, crime, and scandal. With such an unfounded statement, many peo ple condemn the secular press and then, il- logically, do all their reading in it. Actually, of course, many newspapers and magazines are sincerely dedicated to the presentation of truth, as their writ ers can find and interpret it and it is not always easy to discern truth in the complex events of modern life. Secular periodicals, however, present a secular point of view. The Catholic press supplements this, highlighting the sig nificance of various stories, interpreting events in the light of religion and of Chris tian thought. Secular periodicals frequently give ex cellent reviews of books, plays, motion pictures. The Catholic periodical, how ever, views art from another angle, pro vides readers with a Catholic standard against which to measure the secular view point. Ideally, every Catholic home receives regularly its diocesan newspaper and at least one Catholic magazine, and intelli gent Catholics learn to respect and to re ly upon the social and political and artis tic views of those who write 'for the Cath olic press. Subscribing to them is not a matter of charity. It is a matter of justice to one's self, of honest effort to know and under stand the significance of events, the more- than-merely secular consequences of what happens, the moral and religious aspects of literature and the arts. Knowing the content of the Catholic press is important, since educated Cath olics are expected to explain to others the Catholic viewpoint. To explain it, they must first know it. What Goes On . . The month of February brings a new, permeating atmosphere to Mundelein; The high-pitched, harrassing days of semester examinations have passed. We are con fronted by a challenge, a new beginning the second semester. We are tolerating the last biting weeks of winter, while look ing hopefully to springtime and the rebirth of fresh, green nature. Amidst these mixed emotions rises the forty-day season of Lent. .Notwithstanding its penitential element, Lent carries with it a sense of peace, of doing for others, of solemn preparation for an awesome event. Signs of these times include an increase of between-class Chapel visitors, and a de crease in the number of cigarette stubs on the smoker floor. Many will take advant age of their privilege of attending daily Mass and receiving Holy Communion. Collegians from Mundelein, typical of women throughout the world, will embark upon shopping excursions for the undeniably important Easter bonnet and rotogravure- bait ensemble. There are colors and shades to be matched, materials to be selected, styles and patterns to be chosen, and the complete harmonious, costumes to be ad mired. This motley union of the spiritual and the fashionable lends to Lent an atmosphere found only in that season. These forty days comprise on exclusive time of the I year, a time of preparation, both spiritual and material. So make the most of it, for the next Ash Wednesday will not come to Mundelein for another 365 days. the k udcraper Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 per year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College, 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. JUNIOR ISSUE Vol. XXII February 18, 1952 No. 8 Divertissements . Chicago Offers A Party by Eliot In 1950 a party in New York City be-1 came the high spot of that great metropo lis' social life. This year, Chicago is hav ing the party, but has received the honor with less enthusiasm than its eastern com* petitor. The Cocktail Party by T. S. Eliot is an abstract and symbolic play which attempts to show how people in our modern hum drum world can work out their salvation The play is different; it has baffled criticsl since its introduction in London in 1949. j The poetry is in the vernacular, suggest rive of the mundane world which it tries toj portray. The characters are realistic, indil vidual, but insignificant enough to focus attention on the most import element-* the deep, philosophic meaning. The party begins with the gathering of a few discontented people resigned to livf out their lives in earthy misery. Three difl ferent ways of life are opened to the ultil mately confused characters by a seeminglm omniscent stranger. Edward and Lavinia, the estrange sponsors of the cocktail party, resolve tfl make the best of their situation in order ti secure their own happiness, while Petei Quilpe, the movie enthusiast, seeks peacl in the pursuit of his work. Celia, the other woman, realizes thai life often requires a denial of self and 'find satisfaction in dedication and sacrifice, f The plot of the Cocktail Party is neithi er simple nor superficial. It has a deptl that the author does not attempt to ex plain ; the viewer will interpret it accordr ing to her own philosophy of life. The play, as produced in Chicago, fall far short of Eliot's power as revealed' if the New York production. The charatl ters are so engrossed in the superficial of the party that they forget the real ism they are supposed to portray. Celtr attains none of the stature that should b hers. Even the expert humor of Julia an Alex and the sincerity of the stranger faf to carry the play to its desired end. A Discussion Series On Labor Problem The fourth annual John A. Ryan Fo l um, a discussion series sponsored by tljw Catholic Labor alliance, will get undt j.- way Feb. 28 at the Morrison Hotel. Prorc j. inent midwestern clergymen and a nun; j ber of noted authorities in the field Jfe labor will participate in the panel discus m sions which will continue until May 15.1 R ie A H An Exhibit By Artist Cezanne Since we live in Chicago or near it, have access to great exhibits which many the smaller college towns lack. Strangel. enough, nearness sometimes brings apath;,s' but science major to art student should ertr joy the Paul Cezanne exhibit which bega Feb. 7 and will extend until March 16 ;B the Art Institute. Although Cezanne is called the father o'el modern art, his pictures are translations cTl what he saw, not vague abstractions of wh ' he thought. Since his works contain this o M jectively, even the casual viewer may recei i,c great delight from them. ' The artist builds his pictures with findr strokes which reflect the great richne 8 and surprise of nature's colors, but hlar canvases do not neglect form. He ma paint apples and oranges angularly, atan tilt plates of fruit perilously, but 1P: achieves simplicity and forcefulness e line, and rhythmic integration. Hi Even Cezanne didn't realize his mastePe of art while he lived. He thought he dre - clumsily. But since his death in 1906 tl artist has been proclaimed. The exhibit ncN lt; at the Art Institute has been gathered frof museums and private collections of EAi ope and America. . *j n C Ti.
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