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THE SKYSCRAPER December 14, 1934 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 CnARiTY, B. V. M. Catholic Action Urges Youth To Counteract Communisim Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office at 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. VOL. V. DECEMBER 14. 1934. No. 5 ALL-CATHOLIC HONORS Telephone: Briargate 3800 STAFF Editor-in-Chief Ann Lally Associates: Irene Lavin, Virginia Meagher, Marion Mulligan Managing Editor Charlotte Wilcox Assistant ....Dorothy O'Donnell News Editors : .... Jean McKeever, Mary Catherine Rose Features Jane Spalding, Jane Malkemus Assistants: Gladys Henry, Genevieve DelBeccaro Alumnae Mary O'Brien Exchanges Virginia Meagher Athletics Irene Lavin Assistant Gertrude Rafferty Art Joan Limburg Business Manager Jane Spalding Reporters: Josephine Carton, Margaret Cleary, Isabclle Graham, Agnes Griffin, Mary Jane Griffin, Catherine Heerey, Elizabeth Higgins, Laetitia Kalisz, Nona Mae Linton, Elenor Loarie, Mary Rita Murphy, Catherine Ott, Dorothy Sigman. Sabina Slarzynska. Ann Ellen Smith. Sallie Agnes Smith, Mary Evan geline Turley, Mary Joyce Vail, Lillian Waseliewska. Adoption for a Day AVE you the Christmas spirit? We offer no apologies for asking the age- old question because, in spite of all the talk about the spirit, many people still believe that Christmas is a day of complete spiritual and material happiness for them selves. Many of them become so lost in the merry-go-round of tinsel and holly, of present receiving and present dispatching that they forget the countless people to whom Christmas is a season only a little less or more bleak than any other. The Babe of Bethlehem asked nothing for Himself. He came as a Christmas gift to man unfortunate man who groped his way through life in darkness. We pro pose that the students of Mundelein Col lege follow J lis example by bringing light into at least one life during the holidays by adopting an orphan child for a day. It is really much less trouble than we may imagine, since children have a happy faculty for making their own entertain ment, and they estimate far more accu rately than adults the true value of the small things of life. A trip downtown to a department-store fairyland, followed up by luncheon and a matinee, will carve a niche in any childish heart, where the memory of a fairy godmother will long remain enshrined. After such a trip there will be no doubt as to whether or not we have the true holi day spirit. We shall have acquired that in ner glow which no amount of Christmas gifts, carol singers, or well-wishing friends could ever have kindled there. We shall have given ourselves just as the ChristChild gave Himself to bring happiness to some one else, and. in doing so, we shall have set a candle glowing in the earth-engulfing darkness of a child's heart. THE communists feel that they have taken great strides. At a communist congress recently concluded in Paris, 1200 women delegates, 39 of them from Amer ica, exhausted themselves singing the Internationale, and fighting for pacifism, the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the establishment of atheistic Soviet republics throughout the world. A few days ago in Chicago, a parade of thousands of com munists marched through the downtown district. A communist school, located in the loop with branches in different parts of the city, openly admits its attempt to educate students to the idea of overthrow ing the existing form of government, rev olution being apparently the only means of curing present-day problems. As students of an institution which repudiates red principles, we face the challenge of communism, naziism, and fas cism with the conviction that the applica tion of Christian principles is the only rem edy for existing social evils. The Rever end Charles E. Coughlin adds an insistent note to the plea for social justice, in his recently inaugurated series of radio lec tures addressed to the young people of America. Among the numerous responses to this broadcast is a letter demanding why Catholics are doing nothing at all con structive about their counter program. But Catholics are doing a great deal more than denouncing the platform of the communists. They are introducing a strong counter-program as specified in the intention of the month by the League of the Sacred Heart. They are training their youth for Catholic Action. This does not imply only class room instruction, although principles of actioii must be taught before they can be carried out. It means that Catholic young men and women are trained to read, to create, and to distribute Catho lic literature. It means that they have formed organized catechetical groups to teach less fortunate members of their faith. It means that, as they grow older, they will know how to apply in everyday life the social principles behind the Papal En cyclicals and the philosophic principles em bodied in Catholic doctrine. The communist faction realizes that youth is the group most necessary to the furtherance of its plans. Harness the magnetism and fire of youth to the prin ciples of Marx and Lenin, they say, and their very enthusiasm will draw former parlor pinks into the ranks of deep-dyed reds. As Catholics, we cannot be weak. We cannot afford to take a vacillating stand on questions so intimately related to- the very foundation of our religion. We must train ourselves for Catholic Action, thus adding strength to the great Catholic International, the constant foe of red communism. A Book in the Christmas Stocking Will Meet With Approval From All IpHRISTMAS has caught up with you, and if you still have a few major gift problems on your mind, why not settle them at once by choosing a book, which is always an acceptable gift. Then too, the bookshops are the most attractive places around town these days, with their holly wreaths, bright-jacketed books, and armies of intelligent salespeople. If you are rich in funds, there are a number of exquisitely bound classics in the windows along the avenue. There are spe cial editions of Plato, Shakespeare, Pepys, Newman, Chesterton, Brooke, and a host of others which will delight the heart of any book lover. HP HE past year, however, has yielded up a wealth of exceptionally fine pop ular books. Now that the late war is far enough away, we imagine that your fathers might be interested in the latest volume of the War Memories of Lloyd George, which explains a number of things that were not obvious in 1917. If he doesn't like to think about the war, give him a copy of William Beebe's Half Mile Down. This is the interesting adventure of a man who took a round-trip to Davy Jones' locker last summer. Another thing which he would probably like is This Be wildered World, by Frazier Hunt, one man's kaleidoscopic view of the interna tional scene at present. C o Red the Rose, Stark Young's en chanting idyll of southern life during the time of the Civil War, is something which mothers who are interested in the art of gracious living will enjoy. Another they would undoubtedly welcome is Rene Bazin's King of the Archers, whose quiet, courageous characters are excellent ly portrayed. rPHE Phantom Crown, the story of ill-fated Maximilian of Mexico, is one of the current best sellers which will please even the most meticulous of sisters. Then there are always poems and plays. The latter classification immediately suggests Burns Mantle's selection of the year's best ten dramas, including Mary of Scot land, and Ah, Wilderness, which is now playing in Chicago. IC OR a doting brother, or a favorite beau, we suggest Hilaire Belloc's his torical analysis, Cromwell. Another book he is sure to like is Peter Fleming's narra tive travel tale of a trip to China, entitled One's Company. If he is interested in dogs and what young man is not? he will cherish Cecil Aldin's eighty-one sketches of all kinds of dogs in Just Among Friends. HTIIE 'teen age boy or girl will be thrilled by The Lost Pirate, by Louis Untermcyer, which we found in a bright corner in a loop shop. Booth Tarkington makes a perennial appeal to youth, and be is more humorous than ever in Little Orvie, which traces the hilarious career of a young boy who seems to have mischief thrust upon him. If you have any children on your list, introduce them to Humphrey. This is a stirring tale of the wayside adventures of a boxturtle, by Marjorie Flack. In con clusion, The Story Book of Things We Use explains the use of everyday things such as clothing, houses, transportation, etc., to the entire satisfaction and delight of youngsters, and has a multiude of large pictures which are especially inviting. in-nz gsKvmsiiz MASCULINE LAMENT (Apologies to E. A. Poe) Christmas conies. I need a cell Oh that belle What a world of troubled thought gifts and purchasing foretell. How I meditate and reckon On that all-essential thing. How I dash when sale-signs beckon, Half the time I find my neck on Sharp umbrellas. Hozv I sing Needing time, time, time, With my fives and a dime, Christmas season with its worry and its Flurry sounds a knell. First my blood does freeze and jell Tlxen it flaws and runs pell-mell What Fll get that lovely maiden is more than I can tell. Savage screechings 1 must quell For that belle Must never know how I have /ought and fell. I have nearly lost my sight Reading ails till late at night. Striving for some sort of notion What she wants. I am lost upon an ocean of bewilderment and chaos all in motion. How it haunts Oh I know it very well That that pussling, perplexing, lovely belle Known as Nell Will impel Me to go and dwell In a madhouse where Fll spell G-I-F-T-S for less And Fll strive in vain to sell Filings that I will others tell -Are suited well Fo the elegance, refinement, and beauty of their belle. A MODERN MARTYR, First editor: Is that Jane Malloy you're cutting up? Second editor: Yes. First ditto: Well, paste her together again and cut up Emer instead. ODE TO MY ALGEBRA TEXTBOOK Tell me not, in mournful numbers Why it is that x plus y Sometimes equals a plus b And some times berries in a pie. How a plus b plus n Is half the distance back again While hi plus n plus b phis a Is equal to the time of day. How p q r plus x Has caused so many nervous wrecks While r x plus b Is equal to tit'o cups of tea. And, Textbook, do you never fail In giving ansivcrs in detail? Arc you- sure yon don't combine us Mixtures queer of plus and minus? For brackets why have such a flare? Parentheses you have to spare. Yon never seem to realise That each one is a bridge of sighs. A can't get in, b can't get out, Unless they change their signs about. Why all these fences curled and straight About poor (x plus y plus 8) ? When you- subtract, why do you add A minus and a plus? 'Tis sad They knock each other out, it seems, But still haunt all my waking dreams. X is long and y is fleeting But the grave is not my goal. Until I've seen these queer equations Stilled, for my peace of soul.
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1934-12-14 (2)
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