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Page Two SKYSCRAPER Thank You, America For Security, Freedom, Hope Thoughts of Thanksgiving bring forth a mental tally of person al blessings, gratitudes, consolations. These mental musings move along the traditional lines of family, home, health, friends, education. Do they always, we wonder, include gratitude for our national heritage? The Statue of Liberty, symbolic Mother of Exiles, had a mes sage for our ancestors: From her beacon hand glows world-wide wel come. Since 1886, the Statute has stood in the New York harbor, but for two centuries before then the message she symbolizes had been heard all over Europe. The freedom-full voice of the New World sought our ancestors in toil-worn fields, in ancient villages, down narrow history-haunted city streets. She called to the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. They came. They continue to come, to seek the glow of the lamp beside the golden door. All over Europe today thousands of tired and poor, of persecuted and homeless, dream of a new life in a new land. That life is ours. That land is ours. After we have rendered to God the due that is His, there remains the tribute to be paid to our country, to America. We put aside party differences and express gratitude for the right of opinion and choice. We throw off political disagreement and thank Cod and our country, for democracy. We forget the distaste of hard work and rejoice that we have op portunity for improvement. We balance the responsibility of citizen ship with the blessings of security and freedom. America, then, deserves her thank you after we acknowledge the benevolence of Cod and before we rejoice in material grants. Observance Of Advent . . . Anticipation Intensifies Reality Of Christmas Anticipation is delicious. Often it sur passes the cold concrctcness of reality. What child would rank even Thanksgiving dinner above the spicy pungent hours spent assisting in the kitchen, or rate the New Year's costume party as complete zvithout the exciting suspense-filled hours of prepa ration ? There is one draw-back to anticipation; it is usually too short, and it sometimes leads to a let-down. Christmas, however, is different. The re demption of men could never be a let-down. The cold reality oj this phenomenon is its most awesome attribute. The wonderment and beauty of Christmas are anticipated with holy expectancy every year during Advent. It is the joyous season; a. season of preparation. There is great activity in the minds and hearts of men. Individually and collectively the arrangements are made; the feast is prepared. Excitement runs high, and the world over there is a breathless expectancy. And then on Christmas morn, reality sur passes anticipation, and a Child is reborn in the hearts of men. Trial By Terror Judged Quilty Of Interest, Suspense What makes a man turn traitor to him self, his friends, his country? What makes a man perjure himself to the detri ment of his country? In Trial by Terror, Paul Gallico presents in fictional form a story that could well approximate the ex periences of any men trapped behind the iron curtain. Since the facts are not available, Gal lico relies upon supposition. He paints a picture of internment in a Hungarian Red prison that chills and shocks the reader. Torture is elevated to a science, while man is reduced to an animal. He is made a guinea-pig for grotesque experiments. The story revolves around the Paris branch of an American newspaper, more specifically, around one James Race. This reporter's imprisonment while investigat ing communist activities sets off a tale of mystery and international intrigue. The reader sees the precarious position of a free press in Europe. Printing the truth, yet retaining a license to print, are often mutually exclusive achievements in the more controversial areas of the con tinent. The story also presents vivid highlights of Paris life and insights into the person alities of the characters involved. One theme, however, dominates the book. That theme is the relentless, systematic destruc tion of the mind and spirit of James Race. Gradually, and with great care, he is com pletely robbed of his perceptions and con victions, and eventually of his manhood. He is left an empty shell, without prin ciples or personality, and becomes an easy tool in the hands of his captors. When he is returned to free Budapest, his con dition is summed up in the words, They have sent us back his body his mind is gone. Several things make this book impossi ble to put down its tantalizing suspense, its continental atmosphere, and perhaps ntost thought-provoking, the element of truth that lurks within the fictional epi sodes. We comfort ourselves that the story is not fact; yet we close the book wondering how close Gallico comes to reality. Student View . . . Of A Few Peaceful Patches On The Chaotic Globe Last Christmas in this column, we spun the globe around, finding a surprising amount of Peace in a world often regarded as entirely chaotic and greedy. Now, in this season of Thanksgiving, let's whirl the ball again, seeking inter national reasons for giving thanks. Working on the maxim strike the shep- hard and the sheep will be scattered, com munists of North Korea have added the name of Bishop Patrick Byrne to the bulg ing list of 123,395 UN casualties. Despite his death, we can be thankful that the maxim will not be fulfilled. On Jhe ki f Scraper 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. Vol. XXIII December 1, 1952 No. 5 Co-Editors : Arlene Gorgol, Marion Whelan Student View Donna Merwick SAC Speaks Up Catherine Lamb, Patricia O'Brien Divertissements Marjorie Duffy, Sybil Lillie What Goes On Rosemary Burns Sports Mary Alice Winn Skyscrapings Clare Hillyard Jane Roach, Gloria Valentine Assignment Editors Mary Lou Rohlfing, Peggy Wins low Reporters Barbara Brennan, Mary Carey, Dorothy Chiropolos, Rosemary Daly, Jo Anne Hickey, Dolores Kisting, L'ois Kolar, Catherine Lamb, Ruth McHugh, Patricia O'Brien, Grace Pertell, Jane Pur- telle, Dorothy Schneider, Loretta Casey, Bar bara Gaul, Jean Kielty, Lorraine Quinn. the contrary, his work will be continued just as the work of the late Chian Weiz- mann, the shepherd of Zionism, will be furthered by the adherents of Jewish self- rule in Israel. So too, we can be thankful that the ef forts of Philip Murray, a foremost shep herd of labor cooperation, will be expand ed by future officers of the CIO. In England, political stability was re flected in Queen Elizabeth's official open ing of parliament. The beginnings of economic stability were reflected in the production statistics issued by the Bonn government of West Germany. These facts are portents of the growth of Western power for which the free nations have been praying since the end of the war. In the United States, we can thank God that from the disunifying pre-election months we emerged as a people aroused and excited to unity. As Catholics, we can thank God that such movies as The Mira cle of Fatima regardless of its technical merits still appear, that Conant can be challenged, that Blanchard can be defeat ed. . Thanksgiving is a universal American holiday, celebrated by all religious groups. We as Catholics can make it a really sig nificant celebration by emphasizing not only the points for which to extend thanks but, most important, the One to whom all thanks, international and personal, are due. Week Moments Tuesday, Nov. 25, all day, Senior Day 4 p.m., auditorium, Organ Concert Wednesday, Nov. 26, 6 p.m., Volleyball with De Paul university Thursday and Friday, Nov. 27, 28, Thanks giving Recess, no classes Tuesday, Dec. 2, 1 p.m. Sodality-sponsored lecture anticipating Dec. 8 Thursday, Dec. 4, 1 p.m., SAC assembly, Hanging of Advent Wreath Friday, Dec. 5, 7 p.m. French cinema, Monsieur Vincent Monday, Dec. 8, Feast of the Immaculate Conception, no classes. Caution Lions And Tigers May Lurk Within Starting about Dec. 10 every year, the people of the United States become in tensely occupied with the U.S. Postal Sys tem. The quaint importing and exporting of plain white envelopes, is, of course, the Christmas Card custom. However, the little innocent envelopes are often the ruse of a villain. They are harmless looking in themselves, but once you open them you should be prepared for even the most fantastic spectacle. Why, you are liable to be face to face with a picture of a growling lion But these are Christmas Cards, did you for get? you might say. Of course they are. The lion is standing under a piece of mis tletoe and has a holly leaf inserted behind his left ear. Even if the face of the card is fairly gentle (but insipid), be careful when you open it, for one never knows when a spring, rubberband, or miscellaneous other piece of hardware may spring out and perhaps cause an eye injury. But why should we continue to precau tion ourselves, when we realize that this custom began as a simple, genuine, beau tiful message? Often customs undergo a bit of modifi cation or modernization, but our present state of wandering from the subject has become intolerable. The Christ Child is not only an integral, indispensable part of Christmas; He is Christmas. How so many people can for get so intrinsic a fact is mystifying, yet action-provoking. We at least can tell all the lions, giraffes, reindeers, and other members of the men agerie to remove the mistletoe from their ears and to return to their cages, for they are being evicted from the face of a Christ mas Card, and the Christ-Child is the new but legal occupant. What Qoes On . . . After The Opera, After Recollection, Before Christmas POSTERS, SIGNS, AND MANNE QUINS PROCLAIMING THE OPERA benefit have gone the way of all utilitar ian things, which, having served their pur pose, are. quickly relegated to the obscur ity of the sweeper's basket. The bulletin boards in the lounge are convalescing after being punctured by thumbtacked promotions. Wearily they proj) up their battered sides again, and ready themselves for the next barrage ofl enthusiastic support for some event or I other. j INVIGORATED BY THE SUCCESS OF THE BENEFIT AND INSPIRED by Father Edward Wyatrak's doctrine ofl love, we begin a new quarter, a clean slate. I Respective exultation and disappoint-l ment over report cards will, in many cases, resolve itself into determination to accom-l plish greater things for the remainder ofl the semester. Our day of recollection theme, love, pre-l sents limitless possibilities. Equipped with the novel concept of the worldwide hunger for love, we are struck by a new, barely tapped reservoir of compatibility and com- panionship. Obvious is the conviction that love, like charity, begins at home. LOVE IS A MOST FORCEFUL LIB-I ERATOR FROM THE PRISON OF self-concern and ' self-pity, indulgences which breed unhappiness, friendlessnessl and discontent. Love nurtures comrad-J ship, in the Union, in the classroom, or atl Wagtayles. . To have friends, one must be a friend: it follows that to be loved, one must first love. Just as the keys of a typewriter operate smoothly under trained fingers, and be-l come entangled under the hand of a novic f so the outpouring of love is best and most, smoothly guided by the experience ofl Christian teaching. All of us have here at Mundelein oppor-j tunity to grow in charity. Such growthf might well be the keynote of our advents preparation. ( i
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1952-12-01 (2)
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