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Pa e Two SKYSCRAPER Christmas Blessings Envelope Global War Whether our ears are keyed to reports of land, sea, or sky advances in the war, with our eyes focused on a map of the world, or whether we are following a newspaper re port with an atlas beside us, we cannot help being aware of one thing . . . the magnitude of this war . this global, total war with front-line trenches dug into the earth of all lands, and armadas of many countries sail ing the seven seas. We, as college students, cannot grasp the significance of war tactics so far removed from our own land. Rut we, as Catholics, can realize the consoling magnitude of the Christmas story. Practically all of us have fathers or brothers or friends stationed in .American outposts many thousands of miles from our shores. Whether they are in Ice land. Tunisia, Sydney, or Midway, we know that the blessedness of the Christ Child, the I-'rince of Peace, will permeate their hearts and minds on Christmas day. The fervent meditations of these fighting men will be the greatest of tributes, but they know, as do we, that it will be many years before the principles of the Prince of Peace can supplant the havoc of war, the distrust and hatred between men and nations. As we kneel in adoration at Midnight Mass, let us prepare for the coming of the Christ Child a star-studded path to our own heart s. But let us not pray only for per sonal needs and for our loved ones. Let us pray that universality may truly describe the Kingdom of Christ on earth, and that, as on the first Christmas, men of different classes and beliefs drew silently toward the Star of Bethlehem and the Holy Manger, so may all men in our age draw closer to Christ's kingdom on earth by letting their deeds and actions be testimony of the Christ Child's ideals of justice and hu manity. Let us pray, too, that, as total war now envelopes the world. Christ's magnitude may. within our lifetime, cast a mantle of peace on the world, and that the trimphanf cry of the Angel chorus. Peace on earth to men of good will, may echo the last battle cry, the last cannon roar. 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 1'ost Office of Chicago, Illinois, under tin- Act of March 3, 1897, 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol. XIII Monday, December 14, 1942 No. 5 Member ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS Telephone: Ambassador 9011 Co-Editors-in-Chicf Rae Haefel, Joan Leach Associate Rosemary Shanahan Feature Editors.Mary Kay Jones, Marie Nordby Associates Helen Egan, Mary Coughlin, Betty Jane McCambridge, Lorraine Super. News Editors Jayne King, Jerry Stutz Sports Editor Geraldine Hoffman Associate Jacqueline Michclsen Staff Artist Anita Caparros Assistant Virginia Mehren Reporters: Rita Anderson, Eleanor Arcnds, Vivian Brust, Mary Grace Carney, Made leine Courtney, Patricia Curran, Ellen Patricia Ehle, Sheila Finney, Margaret Greene. F.s'clle Guest, Shirley Irwin, Mar gery Kant, Alyce Jeanne Kiley, Helen Nicholson, Betty Seguin, Margaret Shimon, Joan Templcman, Mary Catherine Tuomey, Betty Wiersema, Frances Wilkinson, Julia Woodford. You're the Critic . . . Is there a problem-person on your Christ mas list? Or is your problem time? Why not buy all your gifts in one place, put them all in one basket, and save energy, time, wear and tear on yourself. This Christmas give something lasting. Give books. Here is our list: For Father, because you never remember what size shirt be wears anyway, SUEZ TO SINGAPORE by Cecil Brown, Stan- lev lohnston's QUEEN OF THE FIAT- TOPS, and A TIME FOR GREATNESS by Herbert Hear. For Mother, who likes something enter taining and amusing, CARRY ME BACK by Rebecca Yancy Williams, FLYING GRANDMA or GOING LIKE SIXTY, by Maude Rufus, and Sigrid Undset's latest, HAPPY TIMES IN NORWAY. For Big Brother, who has too many ties as it is, Arthur McGratty's FACE TO THE SUN, FROM COPERNICUS TO EINSTEIN by Reichenback, and MEN Will) WALK ALONE by Burgess. For Sister, who will get more cologne than she can use, WOMEN IN DEFENSE by Margaret Culkin Banning, THE LIEU TENANT'S LADY, by Bess Streeter Aldrich, and Ethel Lleamant's DAYS OF OFELIA. For Junior, because he wishes be were old enough to wear them, ARMY AND NAVY INSIGNIA, or maybe BEBE THE BAKER'S HORSE by Anna Byrd Stew art, or, if he's a very small edition, THE TALL MOTHER GOOSE. For Him, whether he's in the Army, Navy or Marines, or whether he works in a de fense plant, he'll enjoy Haynes' THE CHEMICAL AGE, GET THEE BEHIND ME, by Hartzell Spence, or PUT OUT MORE FLAGS by Evelyn Watigh. For a Best Friend, a spirited gift supply ing hours of pleasant reading would be AND THE GREEN GRASS GROWS ALL AROUND, by Margaret Lyon, Agnes Turnbull's THE DAY MUST DAWN or, MEN OF ALBEMARLE by Inglis Fletcher. Ticker Tape . . JANUARY America unites, publicly voicing its unity at the Rio conference ... in the name of 20,000,000 Catholics in the United States, Bishops pledge cooperation to Pres ident Roosevelt . . . the AEF lands in Ireland, slipping quietly in on rubber heels. FEBRUARY The Japanese drive diabolically on. take Singapore . . . Mihailovich proves a stum bling block for the Nazis in Yugoslavia . . . Malta stands up under the worst pun ishment it has had to take in its long siege . . . the first attack on the U. S. main land comes off Santa Barbara, California . . . Fire capsizes the French liner. Nor- mandie . . . MARCH General Douglas MacArthur escapes from the foxholes at Bataan to the com parative quiet of Australia . . . oil- and rubber-rich Java and Sumatra succumb to greedy Japanese . . . APRIL Sir Stafford Cripps makes a dismal trip home after failing to persuade India to sec eye to eye with Great Britain . . . Roose velt picks Nelson, McNutt, Henderson, and Wallace for bis War Cabinet . . . The Catholic Association for International Peace meets at New York . . . Laval comes Under Fire at Sea- Informative and anything but dull is the story of convoy duty on treacherous seas ... a collection of notes made by Nicholas Monsarrat, English novelist and at present an officer of a British corvette. The fine spectacle of convoy vessels. valbabje cargo ships encircled by a steel ring of battleships and corvettes, is high lighted by its eyewitness accountant and makes fine reading for those who have navy men on such assignments and who arc won dering just bow their days are filled . . . Nicholas Monsarrat's account of his experi ences, in HARPER'S MAGAZINE, De cember. War work may soon be compulsary for thousands of American mothers, and there will automatically arise the vital problem of taring for war industry children, orphaned by the exodus of their mothers from the homes. The sad plight of youngsters, with keys tied to their wrists to prevent their loss, wandering aimlessly in the streets, is a new situation carefully analyzed by H. C. Me Ginnis in EXTENSION, December. We all wonder what men in battle think of as they move into the firing line- In a letter recently reaching newsprint, from a French Canadian who survived the raid of Dieppe, are sentiments of a fighting man. In the letter is a glimpse of battle prepara tions, quick Holy Communions administered by the Catholic chaplain, and the attack aftermath ... a human story in the CATH OLIC DIGEST, December. More South American data . . . this time of Colombia, our nearest South American neighbor ... a country rich in resources of land and spirit ... a country forging on to an era of vast progress and victory . . . These notes are in SIGN, December. 1942 To our Christinas gifts for friends and i datives, we students at Mundelein College have added, this year, a gift for the men in service, a gift for Uncle Sam. Compared to the unselfish generosity and the heroism of the thousands of men who have undergone rigorous training, said fare well to family and friends, and travelled far from home in the hazardous defense of their country, our gift is very small. Considered, however, in the light of our original pledge a jeep in War Bonds for Uncle Sam's Christmas our gift of more than two jeeps is satisfying. Underestimating the patriotism and the generosity of the student body, the goal of a jeep's-worth of Stamps was set up last October with no deadline stated. Within a month, it was evident that the jeep's-worth would be sold by Christmas. Taking a cue from the Henry J. Kaiser plants, we stepped up production until we bad one jeep by Thanksgiving and now an other for Christmas- This is the kind of giving that marks true Americans. This is the kind of giving that proves college students are alert to the na tional need and to their own part in the vic tory effort. This is the kind of achievement that mer its successive repetition until we have a procession of Mundelein jeeps rolling off to fight for Uncle Sam. Give Stamps and Bonds for Christmas and buy more Stamps and Bonds when the holidays are over. Keep the Mundelein jeep procession moving back into power in befuddled France.,1 the Labor unions say they'll make pea for the duration . . . MAY Americans learn about rationing ll first rationed commodity is sugar . . . Bii ish Tommies take over Madagascar .. Corregidor, last pathetic stronghold of tl lighting Filipinos, falls . . . the Navy com in for glory at the Battle of the Coral S . . and General Jimmy Doolittle brcal another record, this time being the first crash the gates of Tokyo . . . Pope PiusI asks the world to pray for a real pea solid and lasting, inspired by justice charity . . . the U.S.S. Lexington, old x revered flat-top, goes down . . . JUNE The U.S. audits the books and ta stock of the situation after six months war . . . the Navy evens the score n Japan at the Battle of Midway . . . Ri mel wins the second round of the destl battle as Tobruk falls . . . the Most Ri erend Joseph M. Corrigan, rector of Catholic University of America, dies. The WAACS are organized . . . Dutch HM bor bows under the attack of Japan bombers . . . Lidice, Polish village, vici of Nazi bate and revenge, becomes Spark that ignites determination to achit J victory . . . Winston Churchill drops of the skies into the White House for conference . . . America declares war Rumania, Hungary, and Bulgaria . .. Aleutian Islands become stepping stoal for the Japanese . . . 1 be Nazis Germanize Catholic Croi . . . eight saboteurs are taken by an alt FBI before damage is done . . . Army Navy command is united under the leadfl ship of Admiral William D. Leahy ... AUGUST The first U.S. offensive in World War is carried on by competent Marines in Solomon Islands . . . Commando forces their particular style of fighting in an on Dieppe . . . the WAVES, modish Mainbocher, go into action . . . SEPTEMBER It is England's turn to win in Egypt 150,000 Catholics of Chicago demolish their faith and patriotism in Holy Hon Soldiers Field . . . the fight for Staling begins . . . President Roosevelt Jan around the country inspecting produq and morale, says we're wide awake ... ()CTOBER Wendell Willkie strives to undersofl the problems of nations at war as he tnV els through the Allied world . . . wagesJ frozen . . . the nation's First Lady isff war-time England . . . The United Sul largest raid on western Europe devasum lb lt;- ' ' gt; f Lille . . the Japanese Heel k ' tows iii the Solomons to a dominating I'R Navy ... M NOVEMBER , The Second Front at last Surprise vasion of Africa by the U.S. sets the NaJL back on their heels . . . the Catholic hit archy of America clarifies the stand of :E Church in World War II, declares AnJ ica is fighting a righteous war in the fense of life and right . . . the m Eddie Rickenbacker is safe eel through the hearts of his countrymen. In Libya. British retrieve. Germans ret . . . the U. S. Coast Guard extends its tation to ladies- now the SPARS . . . StJ WC ica ingrad holds George M. Cohai Mi . . . Ration No. 2 appears coffee . . .if, Boston fire becomes the second vo ' casualty by flame to happen in the na w . . . Vichy and the United States no lonj hold hands across the ocean . . . DE.CEMBER One year at war . . . the teen-age bJ register for the draft . . . the Navy deciiK to draft its members . . . the third rabSr card hurts the most, this time it's gasolijer. ... No more enlistments, says Washing *, . . . the real story of Pearl Harbor is vealed 12 months to the day of the d that will live in infamy ... the marks December 8 as a day of prayer. Stalingrad's defenders carry on in win snow while American convoys pi through treacherous seas to deliver goods . . . WPB tightens up on cani goods output . . . MacArthur leads menij* Buna while R.A.F. gives Turin a blast .1 Americans all look to a joyous ChristraP' and a greater year on the offensive
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1942-12-14 (2)
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