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Page Two SKYSCRAPER Turn Your Pockets Inside Out for Red Cross On hand at the scene of every disaster is America's great relief society, the Ameri can Red Cross. Now, in this greatest of all destructive wars, the Red Cross has become a shadow of mercy hovering over the victims of totalitarianism, as the enemy has moved in a march of devastation across the countries of the world. Shadows of hope, of courage, and of sacrifice, the far-reaching hands of this organization seek to soothe the mental and physical sufferings wrought by the horrors of war. Woven into the purpose of this society are two of the freedoms for which the Allies are fighting Freedom from Want and Freedom from Fear. Its goal follows to release the shackles of anguish and oppression that grip people of all nations, races, and creeds. For Americans at home, the Red Cross overseas stations form a cable of com munication between them and the fighting men. Oftentimes, through Red Cross in vestigation, a father or son feared lost in battle on land or sea is found. The Red Cross moves cautiously, effectively, and sympathetically. As the Allied battle zones are extended to 65 global points from the Aleutians to North Africa, from Newfoundland to New Zealand, Red Cross flags dot the out'vino- nnsrs. inrlirnlino- that here nre assistance and comfort for the wounded, and recreational centers for all. (Into the decks and into the holds of the Red Cross ships pour food and cloth ing, supplies of blood plasma, surgical dressings, and vital medicines to save lives. To carry on its work and lo keep the ships sailing, the Red Cross needs our help. Enlisting our prayers for the Blessing of the Sacred Heart on the War Relief Societies is His Holiness Pope Pius XII, in designating the intention for March in the Apostleship of Prayer. Knlising our financial assistance is (he group of collegians directing the Red Cross War Fund drive at the College. We are urged to ration our usual number of ex penditures and to deliver the balance in si her to the Fund. We are urged to give up for Lent and to give to the Red Cross. We are re minded that a small sacrifice on the part of every college girl may mean many car tons of food and medical supplies for the hold of a Red Cross ship and comfort for our men overseas and for the oppressed peoples of Europe. Asia, and Africa. Let's have 600 Red Cross tags on 600 Mundelein students THE SKYSCRAPER' Official Semi-Monthly Newspaper of MUNDELEIN COLLEGE 6363 Sheridan Road Chicago, llinois Mundelein Chicago's College For Women Under the Direction of the Sisters of Charity, B.V.M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 19jJ at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, underll Act of March 3, 1897, 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to Mil inclusive by the students of Mundelein College Vol. XI11 Friday, April 2, 1943 No. I Member ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS Sheepskin Is Key To Career Success-* When the war wheels start to turn, when a war manpower board is set up, when farm and factory begin to call for workers and more workers, then the coun try's college students begin to worry. The question often present even in peace time is even more urgent in war: Shall I get my degree first or shall I take advantage of an opportunity for a job now? A striking answer to this question was provided at the recent Alumnae Forum, when Mundelein graduates came to tell future Mundelein stu dents what college education can mean. Again and again came the refrain: You will not realize until you are on the job how inestimably important are the tangible and in tangible benefits which a college stu dent receives from her higher educa tion. This refrain is no rarity. Women have gone out, with college diplomas in their hands, to every type of work. Each year they have returned to say thank you for the general and particular instruction they received. Mundelein graduates are in many types of war work, in many fields and profes sions, serving their country and building sure foundations for the future. When they tell of their careers, they pay eloquent tribute to the general and professional or pre-professional training they received at Mundelein, insisting that a college education is of immeasurable value to them now, and that it will have increased meaning in the competition of the post-war world. But a Catholic college education, they add, does more than fit one for economic success and service in some particular field. It provides the sound philosophy, the moral assurance one needs to solve the perplexing problems of everyday life. A graduate working in Washington, among the many people the war has uprooted, urges today's students to take full advantage of philosophy and religion classes. You must be prepared, she writes, to explain your faith, to defend it, to refute false ideas about it. You must be ready to give help to the honest question ers who suspect that the Catholic Church knows the answers and who only want you to confirm their hopeful suspicions. This is from a typical Mundelein gradu ate. She and her fellow-alumnae are splendid examples of bow to help win the war by doing the work for which college training fits you and how to help keep up morale and build for the peace which will require all the spiritual strength, knowledge, and effort of all American people. Qet Number-'Quard Same Ticker-Tane tt c .: i c .. : .. ii a,., r Have you a Social Security card? Are you looking forward to having one? In either case, resolve now to take care of it, as a patriotic duty. The card represents the worker's insur ance policy with the Federal Government, and is a key to the wage credits one earns in jobs coming under the terms of the Social Security act. These wage credits may, at a later date, entitle the worker to certain monthly benefits under the act. The Social Security board issued 1,861- 000 duplicate account cards during the past 12 months at a total cost of 550,000. This sum would purchase 833 machine guns or 555 jeeps. Every time an American worker loses, destroys, or mutilates his Social Security card, he is wasting as much money as it costs to provide 13 bullets to an American soldier. To guard against this waste, the Social Security board suggests two tips: 1. Carry cards with you only when it is absolutely necessary, and then guard them against wear by keeping them in a purse or bill fold. 2. Keep them in a safe place at home so that they may be found easily when needed. There used to be lots of vegetarians, but since the meat shortage everyone eals meat, as the week-end butcher-shop rush discloses. The Government is trying to see that no one goes hungry. The Farm Labor draft will probably soon be in effect, and the President has ordered that farm machinery be manufactured again. One hundred Hying fortresses smash bases in Sardinia while the Luftwaffe takes the worst beating of its campaign and the Allies drive ahead. The neatest trick of the week was the brain-child of the Allied Armies in Africa. General Montgomery of the British Eighth Army sent scouts and raiding parlies into the front lines, leading the Rommel rump us-makers to believe a big attack was on the way. Instead, the Americans surprised t hem from the rear. John L. Lewis stepped back into his blustering character to tell the Senate that coal miners will strike unless paid more, although they are now making 35 for a 5-day week. DeGaulle may move Free French head quarters to Algiers from London. This will improve relations even more between Telephone: Ambassador 9011 Co-Editors-in-Chief Rae Haefel, Joan Lai Associate Rosemary SlianaM Feature Editors.Mary Kay Jones, Marie Norm Associates Helen Ed Betty Jane McCambridge, Lorraine Sum Mary Elizabeth Wolfe. News Editors Jayne King. Jerry S Associates Mary C. BaJ Mary Grace Carney, Helen Nicholson, Bel Seguin, Mar.v Catherine Tuomey, Fraal Wilkinson. Sports Editor Geraldine HoffM Staff Artist Dorothy Sch Reporters: Eleanor Arcnds, Mary Martha Ox er, Madeleine Courtney, Constance Cm Patricia Cummings, Sheila Finney, Mildi Green, Margaret Kane, Mary Jane Ka Alyce Jean Kiley, Ann McManus, LaVtfl O'Toole, Margaret Simon, Geraldine Thoi the followers of DeGaulle and those i Giraud. Claude Wickard's headache pills been turned over to Chester C. Davis, succeeds Wickard as the new food ca Even the government knows that tl show must go one. .Circuses have given permission to use the counti railroads. Vital news is that of the renewal. the pact between Russia and Japan which Japan is given fishing rights, abling her to feed all her people. We Read: Books about the U.S. and about Japan As delightful as blackberry pie, as homely as hominy, AND GREEN GRASS GROWS ALL AROUND, by Mar guerite Lyon, is real Americana real Ozarkana, as a matter of fact. With her gift for story-telling, her wit, and her understanding of Ham and Jeb and Aunt Lizzie and Great-Uncle Abner, Miss Lyon makes her book take on the inimitable flavor of corncakes and gravy, or peanut butter and grape jam. Somehow, the sky is bluer, the grass is greener, down here, especially on wii h day or in the early morning when there is time to get in a mess of lettuce to go with the fried chicken and cherry cobbler for dinner. Somehow, the sky seems redder, the air clearer at twilight, when the herd of three comes into the barn. Some how, the stars seem nearer, the sky more like blue velvet, when the square dance on the school lawn is over and Aunt Lizzie is reciting her miseries. Down here, there is time for quilting 9 parties, but not time for nail polish; time jj for float trips down the river, and charivaris for the newly weds, time for courting and loafing, time for just abottt everything, providing there's no money- attached time to read the Mountain View Standard, a quite cosmopolitan newspaper, time to see old Grandma Oliver, and to dig for treasure on the Rymer's property time to raise lettuce and children time to live. When you've finished Miss Lyon's book, beware of want ads that read : For sale, small farm in Tennessee. THE THREE BAMBOOS, by Robert Standish, is dedicated to the gentle, self- effacing, and long-suffering mothers of the cruellest, most arrogant, and treach erous sons who walk this earth to the women of Japan . . . and is one of the most terrifying books of this generation. It is almost impossible to trace the gigantic, colossal plan of their treach ery, the details of their sublimation, the lengths to which these Japanese have gone and are prepared to go. This story of their pattern of life, of their subtlety, their courage, their cruelty, their vindictiveness, will leave you breathless. You will strain to the utmost to under stand their motives, or to explain their ideas; you cannot do it, and the effort is as futile as the waves that wash the scraggy, gray beaches of Japan. There is an ancient fable about the sturdy oak tree and the pliant bamboo, which was always berated for its supple ness and lack of strong rigidity . . . and then came the Great Typhoon, which swept the coast town of Hyuslut, where lived the oak and the bamboo- All the families of the village except one lashed themselves to the oak tn trusting their stability and strength. Ma bers of the Fureno family lashed the selves to three strong bamboos nearb and, the morning after the storm, Furenos rose, battered and bleeding, look upon the gaping holes where on the rigid oaks had stood. From time on the family crest was the signi the three pliant bamboos ... The attack upon Pearl Harbor wasp the culmination of all the desires of the family of the Three Bamboos. It was the highest point in their , arrogance, in their surety of divine L blood, in their contempt of the white de man, in their phenomenal ability to take the best of Western civilization ' and use it as a dread weapon; it was their return to their ancestors, to those ,ri ancients who first relied upon the Ch three bamboos. Read this book; it is not pleasarC? neither is it unduly realistic. It is d faithful record, based upon truth, of tV rise of Japan, told through the FuraH family. It will better acquaint you witJP the enemy than any other book writt to date; it reveals the very fibre, godless ness, ruthlessness of the Japanese peopk and their fanatical confidence of final vic tory. America has never lost a wai NEITHER HAS JAPAN. This book wif make you want to fight and PRAY.
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1943-04-02 (2)
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