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Pafte Two SKYSCRAPER Sandbags for Summer Say Them for Uncle Sam Are yim sharp with sandbags? How's sour ARP rating? Do you know what to do with a fine garden spray? Everyone does.' ll just doesn't pay to be ignorant in tiin.- of emergency. And this is emer gency. This is war. Preparation, vigi lance, are the watchwords now; we will remember Pearl Harbor But bow about mental sandbags in pre paration for another war. just as real and just as grim, a war against ignor ance? The one thing in all the world which can not be taken is man's mind ; J is his, God-given, for eternity. Rear and misinformation are the op- pressors' biggest weapons; knowledge and confidence are ours. Education is the oppressor's greatest obstacle; education is our greatest advantage. Knowing men cannot be slaves, for the truth shall make you free. Free minds may never be owned; nev ertheless, they may be warped or led as tray. Millions of youth are educated for : death. Will you swell the ranks of those whose ignorance may lose the war for truth and justice? American college education is educa tion for freedom; it cannot be twisted into a grist mill to turn out men and women on mass production lines blindly to .serve the state. America is no homogeneous mass; it is 130.000.000 individuals who believe in their country and realize it is the greatest in'the world. Vow war work is most important in the summer. Mundelein's influence can not reach out to guide you through these months. You're on your own. Build up your mental sandbags of knowledge through intelligent, whole hearted reading and conversation; use your fine spray of confidence to put out the incendiary fires of fear; and snap that VKI' band on your arm for the duration, until we win the war and the peace, until the Day of Victory. THE SKYSCRAPER ' Official Semi-Monthly Newspaper of MUNDELEIN COLLEGE 6363 Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois Mundelein Chicago's College For Women Under the 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, 1879, 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. VoTxiI Friday, May 1, 1942 No. 12 ALL-AMERICAN HONORS 1941 Member 1942 Associated Cblle6icrle Press ALL-CATHOLIC HONORS Telephone: Ambassador 9011 Editor-in-Chief Mary Elizabeth Wolfe Assistants ,. Rita Guinane, Jayne King News Editors Mary Coughlin, Patricia Newton Feature Editors Jerry Stutz, Mary Catherine Tuomey .Staff Writers , , Mary Burns, Viola Brennan. News .Staff Lenore Brockhaus. 'Betty Geary. Bernadette Jones, Adele-Ethel Kaczkowski, Shirley Kent, Audree Koppel, Nancy Lally, Eileen Maher, Betty Jane Mi-Cambridge, Jacqueline Michelson, Flor- ' ence Miller, Helen Walz, Jean Spatuzza, Charlotte Smith, Cecile Thomas. Staff Artists Ruthe Bransfield, .. Dorothy Clark Business Manager Mary Lou Pimsner Study the Roots Your Family Tr Every American, every liberty-loving American, should read Elizabeth Paige's great book, TREE OF LIBERTY, be cause it makes us appreciate a little more what a glorious experiment democracy is. Especially today, with the majority of the peoples of the world bewildered and lost and striking out blindly in the way they believe they will find happiness, any thing that can make us realize the strength and beauty of a people ruling themselves according to their own will and desire should be recognized and applauded. Elizabeth Paige writes with a sweeping yet penetrating pen. She tells it all, the whole magnificent story of the battle our forefathers waged against the crushing weight of a mighty empire, and against the strong opposition of many of their own people, to establish a free land. She tells this story through the eyes of the Howards, a family thrust apart and divided against itself by the conflict all around it. Only the courage and strength of the head of the family, Matthew Howard, keeps them from dis integrating entirely. Incidentally, at best, the movie, The Howards of Virginia, could be consid ered only an inadequate introduction to the book. TREE OF LIBERTY isn't a long- winded oration. It is a vivid, fast-moving ee story of the birth of America as a nation and of its ultimate victory over the tre mendous obstacles of prejudice and ridi cule. It tells the story of the Louisiana Pur chase and all its repercussions. It tells the story of the brave Lewis and Clark expedition. It thrills you with the telling of the settlement of Ohio by the strong frontiersmen and their courageous wives. And most of all, it tells the story of the American Revolution, its reason for be ing, and its lasting strength. It tells the story of many great men Thomas Jefferson whose determination and foresight contributed vastly to the American cause; fiery Patrick Henry, an eloquent patriot; daring and loyal Lafay ette, and George Washington, whose calm sure leadership weathered the storm of opposition to some of his policies. When you finish the book you will be filled with mingled emotions of pride and shame and renewed faith pride in the heritage of honesty and Godliness handed down to us by the magnificent founders of our country, shame if you have al lowed your conception of democracy to become confused with politics and gossip, faith that our nation built by such men and founded on such infallible principles, has only begun its glorious history. Tell It to the M Things to Come or Go? No hangers No men No bobby-pins No men No soap No men No rubber No men What No footnotes? * * * Life Begins at 90 The country has sent out a special call for men over 90. Why? The Treasury department has decreed them most val uable because of the silver in their hair, the gold in their teeth, and the lead in their feet. * * * One day I went into the lab Today I lie upon a slab I did just what the teacher said I Can't imagine why I'm dead. arines Neighborhood Movie Billing: Look Who's Laughing Johnny Eager * * * Six white mice are lying dead. A college diet they were fed. Their lingering deaths have caused a riot Now college's feature a mouse's diet. * * * Fair Fiction Oh, my hair always gets lighter in summer. * * * Freshman: Have you my FAITH AND REASON? * * * Cub' Sprig Cub' Sprig once a year Some cand see the flowers bloob. But I can'd see and I can'd hear 'Caus I godda coud in my airy room. This is war. The battered, blood; smeared heroes of Bataan know this. The silenced guns of Singapore give mute tesj limony to it Blazing Burma oil fieldj and smoking Spitfires illuminate the scene. Grim-eyed officers and tight-lipped men realize it. What about you? In the ten seconds that have passed since-you started to read this, 20,000 aspirations have been offered for our fighting men. In the next minute, 120,000 more will be said. Will yours be among them? 'I his is war. Red-eyed mothers and waiting wives, grown children and tiny tots eagerly watch the mails for news of their loved ones. Fingers slip from ro sary bead to rosary bead, lips move il prayer. They arc doing their part. Ho about you? Our men are fighting this war, fighting for all they hold dear. They cannot fight it alone. When victory is won it will be by the combined ef forts of every man, woman, and child. Women cannot shoulder guns, how ever much they might want to. But they can pray. This' is May. Surely no better protec tion for our boys and for our entire war effort could be found than by placing them both under the watchful care of our blessed Mother a Mother who must have an especial fondness for boys since the lime she first guided a pair of tiny feet along a thorny path. As Patroness of out country, under the title of the Immaculate Conception, she must hold our cause par ticularly dear. If each person in the United States would devote just one minute of each day to saying a prayer for our gal lant lads, 130 million minutes of prayer would ascend heavenward daily. Multiply this by the many ex tra minutes you could find here and there, and you have a fair idea of what just a few minutes can accom plish. Are you willing? This is war. This is a total, all-out. life- and-death struggle of two ideologies There can be no compromise. One musi be crushed to insure the life of the other, Our boys are employing their most power* ful weapons to defeat the enemy. Now : the time for us to join them in their battlt by bombarding heaven with our mod powerful weapon prayer. Only by t he combination of these two will we be able to write those longed-for words: THIS IS PEACE. We Must Be Vigilant Urging colleges to cooperate with the Victory Drive for old paper, Guy E, Snavely, president of the Association of American Colleges, has issued a warning against confusing old paper with valuable old documents and letters. In a recent letter to members of the Association, he suggests . . . That Presidents and Deans ask stu dents to look into the materials in their home towns in order to save important historical records, diaries, and letters. These could be given to local historical societies, or even to the college that they attend.
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1942-05-01 (2)
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Student newspaper for Mundelein College
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