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Pa e Two SKYSCRAPER May His Work Endure . . Cardinal Mundelein, foremost prelate of the western world and loved Chan cellor of Mundelein College, is dead, but an enduring monument to his great name re mains in the many educational institutions whose work and growth he fostered. At his address following the Dedication of Mundelein College in 1931, he declared: I am absolutely convinced that the coining great conflict between Christ and the anti-Christ, between Christianity and infidelity, between religion and atheism will be fought on the battlefield of education. His life's work bears testimony to that conviction. Anticipating the wishes of His Holiness, Pope Pius XI, as expressed in the Encyclical on Christian Education of Youth, Cardinal Mundelein increased the number of parochial schools in Chicago from 250 to 390, and promoted the work of the central Catholic high schools. He planned and executed St. Mary-of-the-Lake Seminary, one of the four in stitutions in the world which have been granted the right to award Papal degrees. Through his efforts, the new College of Propaganda in Rome was made possible. And it was his inspiration, plus the courage and zeal of the Sisters of Chari ty of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which made possible the foundation of Mundelein College for Women. A little more than a decade ago, the Cardinal commissioned the Sisters of Charity to build a Catholic college for women on Chicago's north side. A skyscraper college, he directed. The modern woman lives in skyscraper apartments, pursues careers in skyscraper office buildings. Why should not the modern college girl be trained in a skyscraper college? Two years later, in 1931, he closed his Dedication address with these words: I regard it as a rare privilege of which I am intensely proud to have my name as sociated with this institution, this monumental institution of Catholic education. I hope that God will bless it, that He may prosper it in every way; that it may be the school and the home from which will go forth, in years to come, leaders among our Catholic women. This is the ideal which Cardinal Mundelein has left to our College and to all Chicago's Catholic schools the ideal of intelligent, courageous Catholic leadership. May we live up to his ideal. May his work endure. May he rest in peace. Dear I.arry: This morning I received your letter telling me that you have volunteered in the Canadian army. Of course you write that as a Canadian citizen you will be obliged to light; how ever, you show that rationalization has hidden you behind an emotional fog where war seems glorious, exciting, chiv alrous. As the girl who wore orchids when your allowance held out, and drank cokes when it didn't, I'm writing a few words before you sally forth to make the world safe for democracy. Last June when you received that hard- earned B.S. from an American university nothing could have forced you to become part of the imminent struggle across the Atlantic. If Europe wants to fight, let it, you told me, but why should the Western hemisphere become embroiled in the cataclysm? Proud of my statistics, I told you how much money and how many lives we lost in the last war. You spoke of the crowded veterans' hospitals, and we emoted suf ficiently on the horrors of war to satisfy a prep-school debate team. But now you're in the army, Larry, because you had no choice; but the fact that you're obviously intrigued with the iclea surprises me. You speak of vengeance for torpedoed boats. I realize the tragedy of these marine disasters, but I won't let propa ganda imperil a million lives to avenge a few thousand. You remind me of the atrocities on innocent persons and the wanton destruc tion of property; but while our entrance into the war might temporarily alleviate adverse conditions, have we any more as surance than we had after the last debacle that wc might do any lasting good? I hate the pictures of fleeing refugees and of bombed cities, but I am aware that their omnipresence is deliberately planned by agencies who would bring us into the conflict. Actually, Larry, I and a vast throng of Americans aren't lighting until there is an army at our borders, or until a U-boat sticks up a periscope in our har bors. We'll defend our country with all the patriotism we possess, but not in Eur ope's political and economic wars. Cokes won't be the same without you; as for the orchids . . . you were always my best bet. Come home soon and safe. Betty Read It and See You Read WlND, Sand, and Stars, by Antoine de Sainte Kxupery Reynal and Hitchcock. YOU Meet av'alors gt; - r a D s gt; Span iards, heroes and lighters, and, best of all, the author, a French flier. You Learn tnat men st' are anc c'0' battle the elements of wind and sand, the tortures of thirst and pain, and triumph. Ste. Kxupery dis solves the barriers of space, race, and creed to bring humanity to a common level of friendship. the the The Truth Shall Make You Free You Enjoy lhe lt;Tic * oi Frenchman's prose, breathless air of adventure, and the power ful descriptions of thirst in the desert and a cyclone in the air. * * * You Read The BlSH0P Jots It Down, by Francis Clem ent Kelley Harper's. You Meet *--anmia' Mundelein, Earn- on De Valera, G. K. Ches terton, Woodrow Wilson, William How ard Taft, and a host of equally interesting and varied characters. YOU Leam l'lc Church's viewpoint on many important world questions, and the active self-sacrificing part which the clergy play in these on be half of their flock. YOU EniOY 'S'10P Kelley's colorful narrative, with its genial, chatty style, and its shrewd, witty com mentary on prominent persons and affairs. * * * You Read TlIE Erandon's gt; y Mrs- .Angela Thirkell-Knopf. You Meet l'ie ram'ons a Mrs. Brandon, her two grown up children, and Miss Brandon, the weal thy aunt with a mania for attention. You Leam notmn? f world-shaking importance but . . . You Enjoy a featherweight, amusing story, centered around an English country-house, and abandon your worries to partake of tea and crumpets, a soothing atmosphere, and real English hu mor (it does exist). History will have crystallized neither the complete issues nor the final list of this war's dead when the Catholic School Press Association convenes here for its Regional Conference, Saturday, October 7. But before the first general assembly at 9:30 a. m., morning editions, carrying selected and interpreted war news, will have been in the street for several hours. The radio will have broadcast censored flashes. Even the migratory literati will have anchored themselves in public librar ies to prepare for their evening orations. Propaganda will have begun its day. War propaganda will be working as train-riding businessmen discuss that madman in Europe, a-s housewives pity the poor London children who had to flee to the country, as boys unconscious ly begin to whistle Over there we're coming over. Propaganda will be spread ing fast through individuals who have violated their neutrality of mind. The press, the motion pictures, the ra dio, lectures, forums may be agents for propaganda, both good and bad. They may sell, not only war, but a score of false ideas, such as the necessity for divorce, the prime importance of money, the ad venture of crime. But, they are effective only because individuals do not analyze reports, do not think things through to a conclusion, and do not maintain Christian values. They will cease to be effective when individuals learn to analyze reports, to think things through to a conclusion, and to maintain Christian values. The Press Conference, by educating its delegates to do these things, is taking logical action against subversive propa ganda. Next Saturday, authors, lecturers, newspaper men and women, in talks and round table discussions, will, in some measure, effect this education. It is their purpose to teach the delegates to recognize the truth, since, as the Conference theme states: THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE. 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 Charity, B.V.M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office of 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 X Thursday, October 5, 1939 No. 1 ALL-AMERICAN HONORS 1938 Member 1939 Plssocided CbHeeicfe Pi-ess ALL-CATHOLIC HONORS Telephone: Briarfcate 3800 Co-Editors Clare Anderson, Betty Vestal Feature Editors Frances Sayre. Marie Von DViska Assistants Mary Lou Bell, Dorothea Cwik, Mildred Mahoncy Club Editor Joan Kaspari Assistants Patricia Ellis, Mynva Lamont News Editors Helen Murphy, Ruth Mary Gamber Assistants Elaine Ilartman, Dorothy McCarthy, Evelyn Nelson Copy Editors Lavinia Cole. Anne Marie O'Rourke Reporters Frances Calgano, Isabel Molloy, Joan Morris, Audrey Joyce. Cultural Programs Offer Supplement To College StudJ In future editions this column m strive to review one outstanding stage pm (taction, concert, art exhibit, or related cdfl tural program each issue. At the moment, however, all major al terprises are in the near future and t kaleidoscopic cross-section of Chicago1 fine arts season will acquaint the reads with entertainment possibilities in general Two distinct departures from routine concern autumn stage openings. Kathar ine Cornell, whose previous Chicagoap- pearances have been divided between so-' ious dramas and historical plays, will oped at the Harris on Nov. 6, in a comedy roltd as the actress wife of a playwright inS.Nl Behrman's No Time For Comedy. 1 Ethel Waters, portly and pragma chanteuse, plays her first dramatic partq Ilagar in the melancholy Heyward Mamba's Daughters. The Hey wards have woven into M production the colorful background I Carolina negro life, and the action, whnj occurs on an island off Charleston, is rew iniscent of the memorable Pobgy. II show opens Oct. 2, at the Grand Open House. Carrying on his Shakespeare cydtj Maurice Evans brings his four-hour Raj ,let to Chicago in early November. IB will be the first uncut Hamlet to be pre sented here, and will possibly be provii with a dinner entr'acte after the manner of the Metropolitan's Parsifal perfor mances. In the field of concert music, the til major enterprises will, of course, be tbtj Chicago .Symphony season and the Norm western university series. The former oh fers 25 soloists, among whom are such box-office steadies as Horowitz, Milsldjj Kreisler, Menuhin, and Piatigorsky. Tbq .seldom-performed ninth Beethoven sjmj phony will be offered, together with Pre- kolieff's novelty, Peter and the Wolf. The Northwestern series presents tS I.ittlefield Ballet, Marian Anderson, the Platoff Don Cossack choir, a Rachmann- off concert, and further entertainment oi the same stellar quality. Tickets for tie1 entire series are practically sold out, bar single admissions will be available thioujl the season. The San Carlo Opera company, oper- ating as usual with budget prices, ope with Aida, at the Auditorium on Oct. The company offers a standard repertoiiel with such favorites as Butterfly, Facsj and Carmen. A brilliant name-list gives possibilities lo the Chicago City Opera, which plaji at the Civic for seven weeks, beginniuj Oct. 28. Flagstad, Swarthout, Pons, Kiej pura, Schipa, and Thomas head the rostetJ while the revivals and features of Fit staff, Louise, Jewels of the Madoxxj1 and the Damnation of Faust will novelty to the old standbys. ()ther items such as the Ancient Musitl festival and the Saidenburg symphonieti both at the Goodman, the Bertha Ott m Harry Zelzer concert cycles, and the Wom en's Symphony programs brighten the entertainment horizon and provide a di versely pleasant culture schedule for tbj coming months. All in all, the season looks intriguintjl at the moment; its fruition remains tobej seen.
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1939-10-05 (2)
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