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Page Two SKYSCRAPER 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, 1897, 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol. XIV Friday, Nov. 19, 1943 No. 4 Member ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS Telephone: Ambassador 9011 Co-Editors-in-Chief Mary Kay Jones, Marie Nordby Associates Helen Nicholson Frances Wilkinson Feature Editors Jayne King. Jerry Stutz, Mary C. Tuomey Associates Mary Beecher, Mary C. Burns, Alyce Jeanne Kiley, Gene vieve Urbain Copy Editor Mary Grace Carney News Editors Eleanor Arends, Patricia Hollahan, Joan Templeman Associates Patricia Curran, Sheila Finney, Dolores Hartigan, Dellamae Laughlin, Julia Woodford Sports Editor Jeanne Kiley Art Editor Dorothy Schaar i Business Manager Madeleine Courtney Reporters: Viola Brennan, Vivian Brust, Mary Martha Cooper, Mary Louise Gulick, Lois Hintze, Patricia Lee, Audrey McDonnell, Mary Lou Walter, June Park, Carol Reid, Charlotte Schnitzer, Regina Bess, Anne Hcckenhaur, Mary Louise Hector, Kathleen Egan, Dolores Toniatti, Alice Marie Horen, Nancy Enzwtiler, Betty Moloney, Marianne Small, Veronice McGreal, Helen June Ma loney, Gladys Sullivan, Bette McKeon, Mar garet Green, Margaret Mary Trendell. Symbolism Returns As Christmas Card Theme If Christmas card counters are any cri terion of people's tastes, or any evidence of war shortages, the lush, lucrative, spangled greeting card is on its way out. The true spirit of Christmas, however, never lived in the artificial, gaudy, Merry- Xmas-cards which crowded the December mails; yet, for many years, the cards which carried the simplicity of windswept, snow- clad hills, with grazing flocks and one dazzling star pointing the way to the Birth place of Peace, have been left on the counter and people have taken instead the red and silver metallic designs, which looked glam orous, but signified nothing of the spirit of Christmas. On the many people who did prefer the quiet scenes of Bethlehem, of the Madonna, and of snow-covered roofs in the peaceful night, the dwindling supply of the point less Christmas card has no effect. But those who have lost the real con cept of Christmas through concentration on opulent gift-buying and jovial celebration may think twice when they discover the dearth of the gaudy symbol and the pre valence of the new type Christmas card, which, after all, is the oldest in the world. This year, we will buy the holy Christmas greetings with realization of their new sig nificance with a realization that our peo ple are turning to God in time of war. And our fighting men all over the world will be inspired to even more heroic action by beautiful Christmas wishes, symbols of the peace for which they and we are striving. Thanksgiving Wartime Kaleidoscope Sleepy soldiers stumble into the mess hall. A bright shining moon, a bomber's ig p w moon, is making its way /-in MP a across the darkening UUIINtA sky in iess tnan an hour, this same moon will be too bright for safety. Last night, in its brilliance, the Sons of Heaven had dropped bombs, and American fighters had written the stuff of headlines in the sky near their base. Then it was over until another time, and the after-battle quiet had gathered around the tired heroes. But now the soldiers cluster around the table, stuffing into their pockets letters from home letters, many of them weeks old, but alive, still, with memories of dear ones who live in the soldiers' hearts. The chaplain's short prayer of thanksgiving for the protection they have enjoyed thus far ends with the murmured amen's of his boys. And then, like American boys all over the world, they are laughing, and singing, and talking of home. A German mother sinks slowly into a chair and begins rocking to and fro. In a few minutes, the Fueh- CERMANY rer will talk on the wire less and she must go to the public square to hear her leader's voice; but now she wants to think. Today is the Thanksgiving Day in America. Curt used to write to her about it about how the Americans gave thanks the last Thurs day of each November for all the blessings of the year. She had been proud of her suc cessful son in America, and she had showed his letters to all her neighbors. Now, of course, there were, no letters,.;and. one did not talk about a son in America... Neither did one talk about Ofto and Carl,' who had not come back from the Polish front, nor about Mark, whose grave lay somewhere on the road to Stalingrad. No,: a mother could not speak now, but she could think of Curt, of America, of Thanksgiving, and of having, once more, something for which to be-thankful. An Italian housewife shakes :her. pat-, terned apron at some imaginary dust on a dining room chair. ITALY She glances with pleasure at the ta ble, more heavily laden now than her pre war table had been. When the three American soldiers had first come, asking if they might eat their Thanksgiving din ner at her house, she had been cool and suspicious. She was not prepared to feed another army an army that was, oddly, both a conqueror and an ally. But these dinner guests had brought their own food, and flowers for her, and presents for the bambinos. Even now, the three soldiers were building for the little ones a tent, out of a few army jackets and much imag ination. She glanced with pride at the white bread. The Americans had not brought this. The bread was her own con tribution, because now it is her Thanks giving Day, too her day to thank God that Italians are no longer dying for a cause in which they have no faith. Cheerful people gather around the ta- table, well filled in spite of rationing. The group is smaller this U. S. A. year. Aunt Catherine and Uncle Bill could not make it because of gas rationing, and, at the last minute, Grandfather gave up his train reservation to a soldier coming home on furlough. It is smaller, too, be cause Jim and Bill and Tommy are hav ing their dinner with the army overseas somewhere. The three strange boys in khaki taking their places are welcome guests from a near-by camp. Cheerfulness and laughter prevail. If there is a note of sadness, it is well concealed. Before they are seated, they bow their heads rever ently, offering thanks for America's bomb- spared cities; for her recent victories in Europe; for well-filled tables; and for the conviction that they are fighting a war for right and justice- gt;-a conviction that will carry them through to victory. Then, they offer another prayer for the Jims and Bills and Toms ah over the world whose valor will make Thanksgiv ing Day endure. November 19, 1863 . . . November 19, 1943 Eighty years ago today, a tall, gaunt man spoke a few words to a solemn crowd gath ered to dedicate the ground where sons and brothers had died. The ground was the battlefield of Gettysburg; the man was Abraham Lincoln, and the words he spoke will be cherished and remembered forever. Lincoln must have seen far into the fu ture when he said, It is for us, the living ... to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. Instead of consecrating the ground on which Amer ica's sons had died to conserve a nation of free people, Lincoln dedicated those people to fight for the freedom of the world that these dead shall not have died in vain. In eighty years this nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, has thrice gone to battle to protect those ideals which Lincoln so well expressed. Today there are scattered over the earth countless battlegrounds where Lincoln's im mortal words could be spoken. If we would know why our nation has been plunged into battle, why our peaceful, everyday lives have been disrupted, if we would know why our sons and brothers are fighting, bleeding, and dying, we can find the answer in those few paragraphs, which begin, Fourscore and seven years ago Ticker Tape Read and See . . . For details about a ride on one of the Princesses of the Seas, the new born-of- the-war escort carriers, read Cruise on an Escort Carrier, by Melville Grosvenor, in the, November issue of the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE. The pride of the navy, although step-children of it, these ships started out in life as tankers and merchant ships but were pressed into duty as undersized carriers, doing one of the biggest and toughest jobs the war offers. A complete picture of the men. their life on board ship, their work, and many other interesting sidelights of the war are found here, with a series of nat ural color pictures of the Pacific area. For a picture of the man who has done much to help Americans to understand the immigrants, read Louis Adamic, a Por trait, by Joseph Remenyi, in COLLEGE ENGLISH for November. Mr. Adamic, au thor of such books as THE NATIVE'S RETURN and LUCAS, KING OF THE I'.ALUCAS, writes with authenticity of background and spontaneity of style and presents the humaneness, good fellowship, and industry of the newcomers to Amer ica. For the peace plan of the Knights of Co lumbus, read Peace Program, in the CATH OLIC WORLD, for October. Believed by many to be the most comprehensive and intelligent peace plan submitted as yet by any American or group of Americans, it outlines the Catholic attitude toward all debatable points, stated in a way that clears up all confusion. It has the added distinction of being written with profound sincerity. For a graphic idea of educational ten dencies in the United States, read Educa tion and the Press, by the Reverend Charles O'Hara, S.J., in the CATHOLIC SCHOOL EDITOR for November, Fa ther O'Hara, who is regent of the depart ment of education at St. Louis university, fears that in the future education will lose sight of the fact that it is an integrating process whereby the student assimilates . what he acquires in training activities, and that both acquisition and assimilation are important. Father O'Hara also describes the part that the Catholic press should play in the future. Once again the name of France hit :''l international front page as Genral Charles de Gaulle voiced the hurt feeliJ of his country, ignored in the Moscow Col ference . . . The natives of Arab state III banon rioted at declaration of martial m by the controlling French committee national liberation . . . Authorities 4) dared cause of the edict was a against France. Nazi press releases blamed the BritiJ . . . England reiterated the oft-repealJ prophecy that the Germans had carnal flaged their attack by using captured snT fires . . . Whatever the facts, for the H time in history, bombs fell on the Vatiu traditional abode of the Vicar of Qui on Earth. Allied forces found the road to Ro rocky one, but inched forward Bearing down on the last of thefl Solomon bases, the Marines wrote mJ history as they battled on land and in III air for Bougainville, stepping stone to Ne Guinea and Rabaul . . . Kiev captured, Russian General VaBnB eyed Western Russia, still under shag. German control . . . More and more the Moscow Confers* seems the master stroke of the United iH tions' bid for victory . . . Concise and *B cise spade-calling won approval from pfl pies, leaders, and governments alike..F American example Number 1 is the aifl tion of the Moscow-made pact to Te Senator Tom Connally's international olution, which passed the Senate with five dissenting votes ... Politics took over the spotlight in gun natorial and mayorial elections last vi . . . and the results showed a RepubwB rebirth that set the Democrats, 11 yof in power, teetering back on their prised heels . . . The G.O.P. snagged i tually every important post on the fll ter, including those in the Solid Suf borderline states . . . All of which cadi lifted eyebrows and shrugged shoulders the subject of the fourth term Senator Johnson, Democrat from Qi rado, spoke up for the nomination of eral Marshall , . . from another qu came again the name of Douglas thur . . . Mr. Roosevelt remained un turbed, disinterested, silent. The UNRRA took its place in the of alphabet organizations, as Hei Lehman, director of the American office1 foreign relief, was elected head of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitate Administration by a council of Ui Nations representatives . . . The UK task is to help governments restore placed citizens to peace-time life in post-war period . . . In Washington, on Armistice Day, retary of War Henry L. Stimson a bered casualties in the Italian cam at 8,556 . . . Untied and undefeated, Notre Daa well on its way to the National Coll Football championship, with two yet to play . . . We Recommend . . . c von an action-filled mvstj JLJS? *d THE SPANlf ENJOY LADY, by Maurt Walsh, and learn the fascinating story o heroine who discovers herself hopelessB entangled in a web of incriminating d cumstances. Suspense underlines the of this romantic novel, colored with zest of the Scottish highlander?, and vm the generosity of Big Ellen, who derit her greatest pleasure from being helpful others. ie YOU to the tang of a Spani RESPOND romance against a nLjii/nu tIng. 0f majestic moi tains and of lochs that reflect the blue, Scotland's skies, read this tale, and fei the sweep of history in the background the pages. C YOU t0 STaphic character . u tions, adventure-padJ REACT narrative, coupled will pictures of mountains, glens, and heat that remain indelible in your memory, ;:Iir will find the Spanish lady and Don DieAl gallant, exciting, and wonderfully weSg worth knowing.
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1943-11-19 (2)
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