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Pafte Two SKYSCRAPER Letter from A Bombardier We have reveille at 5 a.m., which means getting dressed and putting the barracks in order for inspection. (And when my alarm rings at 7 a.m., I wait a while anil take a chance on catching the 8:15 train or missing it and coming late for my first elass.) Orders from the Bomber Command Headquarters call the crews together dressed in high altitude flying suits and ready for enemy bombing instructions. (And too often I don't even collect my thoughts until my first class is almost over, and I count on smoothing my coiffure and repairing my make-up at intervals during the day.) We have to listen attentively while the Target Commanding officer briefs the spe cific objectives that lie within our target area. (And I find it hard to remember assign ments, to get required reading done, even to be quiet during lectures, assemblies. Sometimes I whisper annoyingly and dis tract others who, like the bombardier, are trying to listen attentively.) Our uniforms are really good looking. We have to be neat and really for a general inspection at any time. (As a matter of fact, I'm really on dress parade all day coining to school, in the lounge, in classes and labs., at lunch, in the corridors. There are plenty of times when I wouldn't rate an A on posture and appear ance.) Write to me often. Letters mean every thing out here. Rut don't misunderstand me, I'm proud to be here. I know that what I'm doing is worth all the efforts all the best efforts I can put into it. (.hid I'm proud to be in college, to have a chance to prepare myself for the special service my country is going to need from me later on. Perhaps if I can remember that he is at attention and under inspection all day every day, I'll be a little more con sistent in keeping at attention and on parade, for the duration. Make Catholic Cheer Your Christmas Card Keynote Just dreaming of a white Christmas. 1942, will be the courageous American fighting soldiers WJJOj will spend the holidays in trenches along the second-front lines; the marines, re'metiibcriiig holly and pine cones on their far flung Pacific islands; the sailors, pausing briefly on the decks of their battleships and in close compartments of their submarines, to honor the birthday of Christ. In the air, Christmas will come to pilots and their crews as planes roar away on battle missions. The blessedness of Christ mas will penetrate everywhere. It comforts us to know thai the roar of cannon and the rumble of tanks can never dim the spirit of the holy season. But will your greeting card bring this true spirit of Christmas to your friend in the Combat Zone? Will it be significant of this truly holy occasion? Religious cards arc too often thought of as stilted, cold, and unfriendly. On the contrary, many cards on the market arc delightfully warm, joyous, and yet holy. To a young man in the service, far from home and the comforts of family and lire- side, religion means a great deal. Religion is one of the four freedoms for which the American soldiers arc lighting; they real ize, as do wc. that we cannot exist in a strictly material world dominated by ma terialistic tyrants who promulgate heresies against Christian ideals and beliefs; her esies against the teachings of Christ. Why, then, send Christmas cards which ignore the grandeur and nobility of Christ's birth? Why not select a card which will brighten the spark of memories of other happy Christmases? Why not make your card one that will be lingered over and remembered? Only a truly religious card can convey the sincerity of Christmas wishes. THE SKYSCRAPER You're the Critic... Official Semi-Monthly Newspaper of MUNDELEIN COLLEGE 6363 Sheridan Road Chicago.lllinois Mundelein Chicago's College For Women Under the Direction ok the Sisters ok 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 irom October to May- inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol. Xll Friday, Nov. 20, 1942 No. 4 Member ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS YQM MEET ME IK ST. LOUIS, by . Sally Benson, author of the popu- KtAl/ lar Junior Miss stories and play. YQM The Smiths ranging from Father, who yearns for the days of bis Met I courtship, to Tootie, aged six, who just yearns for everything in sight. There's Lou. who's at Princeton. Rose, the Queen, Esther, mad about West Point cadets, and Agnes, tall, slim, and sensitive. YOU The charming account of life in .,. v St. Louis in the year that pre- ENjOY ce(lcs the World's' Fair of 1904, when a long-distance call from a boy was as good as a proposal, when people rode in backs, women wore shirt-waists and Pompadours, and the Nut Brown Maiden was the song of the day. MEET MP IN ST. LOUIS is a welcome relief from the war-laden pages of today's newspapers. THE PHILIPPINES: A STUDY IN NATIONAL DEVELOP- YOU READ MENT, written by Joseph Ral- Telephone: Ambassador 9011 Co-Editors-in-Chief 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 Michelsen Staff Artist Anita Caparros Reporters: Eleanor Arcnds, Jean Bemis Mary Grace Carney, Madeleine Courtney, Eileen Coyne, Constance Cross, Patricia Curran, Ellen Patricia Ehle, Sheila Finney, Mar gery Kane. Alyce Jeanne Kiley, Kathleen McNulty. Helen Nicholson, Jeanne O'Con nor, LaVergnc Schroeder. Betty Seguin, Margaret Simon, Joan Temple-man, Gerald ine Thorpe, Mary Catherine Tuomey, Lillian Turner. Dorothy Welch. Frances Wilkinson. stem. Ph.D., LL.D. YOI J The Filipino people; you are sur- prised to discover that they nuiii- MEE1 ber 17 million and arc further astonished to discover the many economic and cultural improvements which have taken place in the islands during the past 40 years. Dr. Hayden shows not only the Filipinos, themselves, but also the Americans who have contributed to the national development of the Philippine commonwealth. YOU 'ie ti'uelessness of such an in- CMIOY f nnat've hook and you wonder ENjUT jf jt js destined for timelessness as an uncolored, yet colorful, story of the men who worked and died that the Philippine people might live. You admire the logical division of the book. Of special interest at present are such topics as the relations of Church and State, the problems of the commonwealth, and the external relations of the Philip pines not only with the United States, but also with China and Japan. 5 0-R4 gt;, J. Thanksgiving, 1942 We are about to celebrate a peculiarly American holiday, a holiday born of a deep-seated feeling of thankfulness. Cur pilgrim fathers gave thanks for their very existence, and so must we. We thank (iod for food; because they lack a few crumbs of black bread, whole nations of another' hemisphere die out. We thank (iod for warm clothing, for shelter: the winter of Europe is cold, and bomb-shattered walls arc scant protection. For these things we are thankful, but we thank God, too, for the food, the clothing, and the shelter offered to our hearts the food of truth, of high ideals; the clothing of humble conlidcnce and belief in the Christian, democratic way; the shelter of compassion and piety and love. The hearts of many men. nourished by hall-truths and lies, mocked by clay-footed idols, are shrunken and embittered. Doubt and double-dealing methods have stripped tlic armor of faith from once prool hearts. Ruthlessness and hatred haJ sapped the walls of individual and nation integrity; the hearts of men and of natfl stand weak and unprotected before storm they brought upon themselves. But we are not citizens only, with thq tilings to be thankful for; we are, ma over, students in a Catholic college college, when the great schools of mother-continent have been stifled bigotry and tyranny, when fellow stiulei in Europe have been denied the truth men seek and a Catholic college, rhl our faith is elsewhere considered as E canker to be beaten and burned and tin lured out of the very bodies of its believe* For material comforts and spiritual com forts, for freedom of speech and press J thought, for freedom to raise our void in prayer, we offer thanks on this Thank* giving day. Mixers of Music and Politics Beliefs in the unity of mankind and in the brotherhood of man were inspiration .for the lasting classical melodies from the pens of Germany's three greatest com posers . . . Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven . . . men who would be heartbroken to see the beauties of their great art, and the appreciation of it, crushed under the politi cal war-boot of the new regime. For a parallel between (lernian musicians and politics, past and present, read what Max Graf .says on the pages of COMMON WEAL, Nov. 6. For a candid glimpse into . . . and a lively criticism of . . . Archibald Hender son's Bernard Shaw Playboy and Proi'mkt. oi Henderson's attempts lo Bos- wellize OILS., of bis descriptions of all the Shaws that are . . . the Shaw born a downstart not an upstart, the Shaw years of maternal dependency, Shaw, the art. music, and drama critic, the champion of Wagner and Ibsen, Shaw the novelist and the playwright . . . for these brisk comments turn to olm Mason Brown in THE SATURDAY RFYIEW OF LITER ATURE, for Oct. 24. oi Reminiscent of our high school daysaB the words Four score and seven yen ago... the words that Lincoln, a consul mate master of thought and languagl uttered on a platform at (Iettysburg f gt; November. 1863. Lincoln's words will lrm as long as men bate tyranny and love lrA( dom. Paul L. Blakely tells again the stofl of Lincoln's wisdom, power, and heal piercing tenderness at (iettysburg, I AMERICA, Nov. 14. I )ecembe warfare by the United States with thl allies against the Axis nations a ytw ending with great advances on the parti the Ailies a year ending with the AtB showing, the Axis countries that Ameril has the power, the industry, and I* spirit to beat them. College girls, keen ing abreast of the activities in the col bat zone, might turn to the clear, ecl cise reports on The World Today and T Pacific War appearing in the Novemtl issue of THE ATLANTIC MONTHLf A Nov. 14. ier 7 will make a year of acta - Ticker Tape . . The Gremlins will get you if you don't watch out so say the pilots. And every pilot knows that the Gremlins are the Little People who tamper with motors, and tinker with propellors, and drill holes in the fuselage. You musn't laugh, or the Gremlins, and the Fifinellas too, will be after you. Recently, the (iremlius played tricks on the Nazis and Italians as we opened up the long-awaited Second Front in Africa, and swept to an immediate success. All the information previously known by the army was acquired by a quiet, determined major general of the LL S. forces, who, with a few trusted 'men, got into Africa before the invasion aiul contacted a Free French representative. Soviet Russia celebrated its twenty- fifth anniversary the same as il did the first, with enemies on Russian soil. They say one member of the Russian Air Force destroyed 78 German trucks, 67 tanks, 63 anti-aircraft guns. 36 railroad cars. 20 mer chantmen and warships, 19 mortars. 13 fuel tankers.-. 12 armored cars. 7 long-range guns. 5 ammunition dumps, and 5 bridges. Incidentally, he was officially made a Hero of the Soviet Union. Americans found a new name to linger over- Eisenhower. George M. Cob*, song and dance man. died. And ancilhjj Catholic. Commander John Joseph SmL late of the U. S. naval air force, in his 1* letter to his 5-year-old son, said. In -J meantime take good care of mother, be good boy and grow up to be a good yota man. Study bard when you go to schoff Be a leader in everything good in life, f a good Catholic and you can't help being good American. I'lay fair always. StnW to win but if you must lose, lose like gentleman and a good sportsman. Die-bard Republicans are clapping haul this election season, for the G.O.P. elepta is flinging his trunk around many congfl sional seats. Names familiar in fields o* side of politics will turn up in the Hoi of Representatives next January; for il stance. Clare Booth Luce, and Will Roge, , Jr- T Experiments at the University of Ql cago's Billings hospital are fast realizil, a new germicidal vapor to sterilize air;a other scientists have found the way to mup idium, valuable metal. g It's no use worrying about tires aitf more, for four gallons of gasoline a wef1 won't wear out tires very fast.
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1942-11-20 (2)
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