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Page Two SKYSCRAPER What 1/ You Had To Write This Death Notice? It is March 5, 9:20 p.m., in Moscow. You are there to report the death of Josef Stalin, dictator of one-third of the world's population. You are one of 100 reporters who are told simply that the 77-year old leader died of heart failure four days after a brain hemorrhage. You are given the names of seven be numbed commissars who have moved out from behind the shadow of Stalin to ar range his funeral. You have to write an obituary you turn to the people of Mos cow. Surveying the grim and bewild ered foam of people now washed up to the thick Kremlin walls by the news of Stalin's death, you begin to wonder. You wonder why no one some up-start, some radical dares to break the univer sal atmosphere of tragedy. Then you re member this is communist Russia. You recall the words of ex-U.S. Ambas sador King, He makes it a habit to pat children's heads when he goes outside. They call him 'uncle,' a great term of en dearment not recognized as such in the United States. Some old Moscovites mumble of Stalin's exile to Siberia as a young revolutionary. Others can still paint for you the details of his duel with Trotsky to succeed Lenin as USSR dictator. The children tell you only of May Days and Stalin's birthdays, when he reviewed the Red army. You suddenly know that you are at the people's wake for Stalin - and they know nothing but grief. You know too that you can't write his obituary because you haven't a composite picture of the man. So you turn to world opinion. You read that Vishinsky says, Sta lin is immortal and you have to ad mit that history is constrained to in clude both the illustrious and the ne farious in its pages. You do some research. You find the Kremlin responsible 'for Masryk in Po land, Trotsky in Mexico, Mindszenty in Hungary Johnny Smith in Korea. But, you ask yourself, isn't the Krem lin identical with the man who rigidly ruled Russia in one of the longest dictatorships in history ? You've exhausted your sources of information now you still have an obituary to write. On March 5, at 9:20 Moscow-time, Jo sef Stalin died: loved by those who did not know him: feared by those who knew him from his cruel tactics; somehow un known even to those who surrounded him. He is survived by 219,000,000 commu nist-enslaved people. He is survived by a Christian world, fighting the seeds of world revolution and atheism which Marx planted and he nurtured. He is survived in Russia by less-skilled Marxists but equally astute politicians. What will his death mean? We dare not say we're only writing an obituary. And praying for the re pose of an immortal soul. Meet The Hostess . . The politics may be passe, such as the quips about Harry Truman, but the plot and the humor of Call Me Madam are up to date. The story, which is an obvious take-off on the career of Pearl Mesta, ambassador to Luxembourg, concerns a Sally Adams who is appointed ambassador to Lichten- bourg. The story must be taken at face value, but the parody on Washington social life and red tape, punctuated with extremely funny and pertinent remarks, makes the show a success. The play could be better classified as a satire, than a musical. Classified either way, it is charming. What Is Easter? . . . Is It A Hat, A Day, Or Is It . . ; Easter is the green season; it is green with the fertility of young sprouts pushing up through the earth, and fresh buds bursting into flower. Easter is hope. It is the clean slate, the new leaf; it is the rebirth of all mankind. The past is obliterated and the cycle starts again. Easter is our renaissance, the rebirth of grace, of fresh desire, of energy, of anticipation. Easter is a tease, bringing happiness so tantalizingly near to us in our day to day existence. All the world depends upon Easter for reassurance and for encour agement. Easter picks us up, dusts us off, and points us in the right direction again. Easter is love; Cod's incarnate Love rises to insure our future. Easter is Cod Himself, our eternal happiness. Easter is Christ's guarantee against despair; it is His answer to the recurring feeling of futility and loneliness. Most of all, Easter is hope ... is green. You can be one too ... No Matter How Far Removed From The Emerald Isle If your eighty-fifth great grandmother, twice removed, was Irish, you may claim the wearin' of the green on St. Patrick's day. March 17 sees men putting on loud kelly ties; the green hair ribbon achieves new fashion prominence; and the green carnation is envied by the red red rose. Now, Saint Patrick was not Irish. Some say he was French, some say German, and some even say he came from Iran. Perhaps that is why he is honored not by just the Callahans, and the O'Malleys, and the McCarthy's, but also by the rest of the world who hang on to the stem of the shamrock . . . even though they don't claim the countenance of a Maureen or a Sean. The world seems to stop for celebration on March 17. Even dogs with green ribbons walk with a spritlier step. .Lime is the right color for sherbert and the all day tuckers are wrapped in green cellophane. One wonders if chlorophyll gum will achieve new prominence this day. Yes, St. Patrick converted the Irish, and the spirit of the Irish on their Saint's day has inspired the rest of us to share as best we can in this great feast day. The Unheralded Saint . . . Joseph The Carpenter Can Build Your Hopes Ask Him Powerful personalities have a way of eclipsing those of the more retiring variety. No one could fail to notice St. Paul in the market place; St. Peter's well meant blunders could scarcely be ignored; but few of us notice the saints of every day life. Side by side, in the month of March, two Saints illustrate this point. Sons of Erin and daughters of the continent celebrate St. Pat rick's feast day on March 17. Two days later, however, the day of St. Joseph often passes unnoticed or as just another name listed for the Mass of the day. This indifference does not balance with God's estimation of Jo seph. For Him, Joseph was worthy of a two-fold trust the protection of Our Lady and the foster-parent-hood of the Holy Child. This indifference scarcely balances with Christ's estimation of Jo seph. It was Joseph's craft that He learned; it was his speech He im itated. He was known as the son of Joseph, the carpenter of Nazareth. St. Joseph presents an excellent example for those of us living in the world, working at menial tasks, making the roughness smooth, loving, remaining unheralded. Seven Swords Pierces Readers' Spiritual Smog The way to Golgotha lies through the narrow torrid, dusty streets of the city, notes Father Gerald Vann, O.P., in his latest publication, The Seven Swords. The analogy is apparent 'for Mundelein students who daily trudge through rain or snow mixed with urban grime. It is not always merely the physical muck that con taminates people. More frequently it is a spiritual smog. By drawing a comparison of the sor rows of Mary to our daily travails, Father Vann shows the human being, the sinner who comes to look much like a saint, fol lowing the example of a woman who sus tained her girlish innocence. He creates no disillusionment, insists al ways that the way is not easy for the sword is always there but so is the song. Reproductions from the paintings of El Greco are used throughout the book to illustrate Our Lady's life of joy mingled with affliction. The content of the book itself is a compilation of a Lenten lecture series given by Father Vann at the church of Our Lady of Pity, London. Perhaps this initial purpose gives The Seven Swords much of its intimate readability and per sonal charm. It is difficult to portray to the reader the interior joy and benefits derived from such a book, but a picture of Our Lady may suffice. At the centre of that splen dour and radiance and happiness there sits the Queen of the Seven Swords. What Qoes On . . . Want A Comprehensive A? Try Time-Tested Senior Success Recipe Pre-Comprehensive frowns have dis solved into post-comp smiles. Relieved sen iors have taken up finger exercises to relax cramped digits, tired from long hours of intense writing. Discussions over whether cramming does or does not pay off are commonly heard when more than two of the exalted ones gather. Speculations over the grades ex pected were a usual topic before the little white envelopes arrived at the homestead, but few were apprehen sive about them. Since the arrival of the alphabetical in dices, seniors have settled into the plea sant humdrum of college life with relief and expectation. We say relief because the most talked of ordeal of four years' time is past. We can now see the end of the long jour ney and the advent of challenging hori zons the green years are ahead Enough for the participants in this lit tle campus drama, and on to the gallery who cheered us. Sophomores, sympathet- ' ic because of the comprdhensives they were shortly to face, worried with us and about us. Juniors eyed us like hawks, calcu lating the average number of study hours put in by each girl. With pen cil in hand, they eagerly barraged seniors in their chosen departments with queries designed to give a thumb nail sketch of the six hour exams. Freshman, bitten by the comp-fever bug, were observed taking out library books preparatory to commencing their study 'for the senior comps. Indeed, they were the most concerned of all This column is about to stick its ver bal neck out by addressing advice to the aforementioned classes. Confidentially, the comprehensives are not as foreboding as idle gossips would have you believe. Our recipe for a sure A consists of one part study one part prayer one part sleep and one part (?) luck. Jne ku ctaper Vol. XXIII March 16, 1953 No. 10 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. 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, Ruth McHugh Skyscrapings Clare Hillyard Jane Roach, Gloria Valentine Assignment Editors Mary Lou Rohlfing, Peggy Winslow Reporters Barbara Brennan, Mary Carey, Dorothy Chiropolos, Rosemary Daly, Jo Anne Hickey, Lois Kolar, Cath erine Lamb, Patricia O'Brien, Grace Per- tell, Jane Purtelle, Dorothy Schneider, Lor etta Casey, Barbara Gaul, Patricia Ander son, Jean Kielty, Agnes McAuliffe, Rosemary Kelly, Joan Budecin. Lorraine Quinn.
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1953-03-16 (2)
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