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Page t wo SKYSCRAPER Forseeing Martyrdom? Hungarian Prelate Asked for Prayers In Chicago Visit I come, not to beg or plead for charity, but to ask for your prayers. The clipped words sharp in the silence came from the emaciated man in the pulpit, Joseph Car dinal Mindszenty. In the summer of 1947, during his last visit to Chicago, the Cardinal spoke at Our Lady of Hungary church. Dorothy Tori, Mundelein junior. Was among those pre sent. His tanned face above Ihe worn red robes of a Prince of Ihe Church was tense, yet kindly. In his audience sat Protestants, Jews, and Catholics. The Hungarian consul occupied the first pew. Spotted through out the church were secret service men. Outside, chartered buses waited to take their passengers back lo distant suburbs. Through their ordeals, the Hungarian people look lo Ihe hill, the cardinal said, referring to the saints' statues on the hills surrounding Budapest. sifter Benediction, Ihe Cardinal ling ered, answering the questions of the crowd clustered about him. No, he was not afraid to go back lo Hungary he would return to his people. The 'Shepherd of Iisstergam' smiled, thinking perhaps of the future even to the shedding of thy blood, for the exal tation of the blessed faith. Literary Waves Whisper Warning: Sink or Swim-Now What are you reading? We dare to hope it's these words, this editorial, this page, this paper and not only the several columns and features. Bold as it may lie, we say stick with us and you'll be reading, and leading, the literary thought of the country. The best seller graphs, polls, and re ports in the metropolitan papers show that the reading public has jumped into the printed stream. Their stubborn vengeance in treading the fiction and non-fiction water has caused consternation among critics li ning the shore. The public has persisted in avoiding the sensual rapids and superficial shoals dam ming the current of honesty and beautv. THE BIG FISHERMAN inundated THE NAKED AND THE DEAD. CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY proved to he a big sandbar for RAINTREE COUN TY. WHEN THE MOUNTAIN FELL it drowned out the clamor of KNOCK ON ANY DOOR. The list is long and quietly significant. The people have chosen to keep their heads above the spectacular surface. The first faint moves into the deeper tide of ultimate principles and answers are becoming swift strokes. Some of the books mentioned above are not without blemish but thev are a purifying element. THE Bit; FISHERMAN, cur rently leading best seller lists, is inaccurate, sensational, and below even Lloyd Douglas' usual style. The im portant fact is that it nosed out Norman Mailer's purely naturalistic account of the recent war. The same analogy may he found in the rest of the list. It is imperative that you. and your fam ilies note this trend, and now is the time February, Catholic Press Month. It is the duty of the Catholic Press to point out the condition, your duty to increase its improvement, and make the water fine. WEEK MOMENTS Today 4:00, Movies: Provence, and Art through the Ages. French club, 607. Volleyball in gym. Tomorrow Washington's birthday. No classes. Wednesday-'-Senior comprehensives 4:00. Volleyball. Thursday H. G. Day, Senior comprehen sives. Friday 9:30 p.m., Junior Prom. Saddle and Cycle club. Minimum Essentials Equal C But What is Your Ultimate Qrade? Once the first shock is over, thoughts of last semester's grades are relegated to the mental limbo reserved for last year's World Series champions and last summer's hit songs. Our failures actual or re lative are forgot in a flurry of half-hearted resolutions. In a recent issue of the SKYSCRAPER, we discussed the answers of the Reverend James Keller to our questions, What can we do to save the world for Christ? He had told us that we should be preparing now, as students, to assume responsible, mind-molding jobs after graduation. We liked his answers. We enjoyed knowing that we were helping in the crisis of civilization. Yet many of us have begun the new se mester as firmly attached as ever to the reliable equation, Minimum essentials equal C. Granted, grades are not of primary importance. They serve to in dicate our ability to assimilate and to apply new knowledge. What is important is our approach to our work. We are often reminded that our position as students implies cer tain duties and responsibilities. Some of us leap to the comfortable conclusion that these duties consist in doing exactly what we have to do. Others are aware that our duties consist in doing everything we can do. Whether we're delving for knowledge or battling alien creeds, min imum essentials are not enough Minimum essentials won't .bring good grades; neither will they conquer the world for Christ. Read the ads hut You Can't Place a on Beauty Today's advertisements would lead you to believe that beauty is only skin deep. The woman of today has a lovelier complexion thanks to a particular facial soap, while a certain shampoo glorifies her hair. True, perhaps, but does this guarantee real beauty? In a recent issue of the READER'S DIGEST, a condensed article from the LADIES HOME JOURNAL questions, What do men notice about women? One of the replies reads: Often a woman will think that beauty shops and stylists can give her all she needs and she ends up as a rather attractively packaged commodity, but not much more. It takes more than that to be noticed as a woman. It takes a certain inner awareness. A woman who has this has poise and every thing about her radiates around this balance . . . the way she speaks, looks, dresses, moves; so that one is not aware of anything specific, like a handsome hat or a well-cut dress or a warm voice, but of every thing at once and especially that she is a woman and knows it fully. And you don't have to be engaged to be lovely. A well-groomed woman who has this poise and charm will radiate it to those about her. True beauty starts on the inside and works out. It is as deep as the soul, for beauty is goodness, is truth. Healthy? Wealthy? and Wise? Accent Wisdom in Quest for Health That gem of newspaper features, the inquiring reporter column, caught our eye during a recent run through our morning newspaper. The question was, How long do you want to live? Allowing for some difference in choice of words, the answers were uniform. Everyone wanted to live as long as he or she kept his or her good health. I don't want to be a burden on anyone, was one reply. Life isn't worth living if you can't get around under your own steam, said another. I can take almost anything, but I can't stand pain, an swered another. Of course, the question was purely academic. The people who were quizzed apparently are enjoying good health. Their, answers might have been different had they been lying ill in hospitals. There, they would probably be loath to abandon a grasp, however tenuous, on their own precious lives. All of the replies sidestepped the fundamental issue. Good health is a gift of God. Whether we enjoy it or not depends on His .Plan for us. Over-emphasis on the importance of good health might lead to a justification of euthanasia. Both viewpoints make the same mistake; they ignore the absolute rights of God over His creatures. To fight the proponents of euthanasia and to maintain mental bal ance in the face of life's trials, we must adjust our attitudes. We must realize that even without physical health we have resources of the mind that can make our lives meritorious and eminently satisfying. For, Man is a creature composed of body and soul. Wltat Qoe* Oi n FEBRUARY'S crop of books 9 brought with it two works striking i contrast. The first is H. Maynard's 8J worth of Anglicanism entitled HENRI Y1II AND THE REFORMATION'. M Smith, an Anglican canon emeritus, malts a dramatic hero of the king who burnt tfci 400-year-old bones of St. Thomas of Cat terbury the king who severed Englai from the Church for a woman. The second, GOD'S UNDERGROUNlJ is by an anonymous Father George. i told to convert Gretta Palmer. It is n thrilling tale of a secret Catholic mow ment in iron-bound Russia. Undoubted Canon Smith will reach a larger publkl than will his necessarily anonymous coJ temporary but the contrast is significaajj ***** ID you write your Senator when it m first asked of you ? The Thomas i versus the McMahon-Johnson Bill is stj a vital issue and, whether we are 4 enough to vote or not, America is still m country. But what is one letter, jH ask? It might be the deciding one, is tkfl reply: just as these bills are the deciding factors in the future of American Cathi education. MUNDELEIN COLLEGMj Chicago, 40, Illinois Under the Direction of THE SISTERS OF CHARITY, B.V.M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, Iffil at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under q Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to lid inclusive by the students of Mundelein Colltp 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. VOL. XIX Feb. 21, 1949 No.1 All-Catholic Honors Ail-American Honors SHeldrake 3-9620 Co-Edkors-in-Chief Mary'Leona MerridB Patty Ncjjfl Associates Patricia Danndjl Rita SinJ Managing Editors Juanita Giln Beatrice Goldrifl What Goes On Barbara FaU JoAnii Figueira KeatidJ Books Eileen Dol Peggy Roach, June StebbtB Features Rossie Ann Gibn Cynthia Knijl Skyline Rita BudJ Nancy Kelly, Patricia Hanson, Jd Edda Kopal, Ruth Ward, Rosemary WiU Scrapings Mary Lou Fan* Janet McGinn, Claire Johnson, Joan Jiff rick, Sheilya Neary, Patricia O'Mara, Ml K. Wagemann Pictures Elaine Ivorj Patricia Kcenan, Marguerite Kerger News Editors Leona Ada Maribeth Carey, Marjorie Coughlin, Um Kay Gill, Judy Langhenry, Mary Ell Ward Sports Peggy Barred Peggy Buthl Art Joan Blaktikl Reporters Joan Amberson, Rita BresnahJ Rosemary Hogan, Patricia Howe. Mary I Gechan, Barbara Morrison, Cera PattardJ Kathryn Quinn, Shirley Dusold, Rosenj Crumley. Mary Alma Sullivan.
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1949-02-21 (2)
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