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Page Two SKYSCRAPER 'Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room . . . The Babe of Bethlehem Asks for Love In Exchange for His Promise of Peace With the coming of the snow and holly season, sleigh bells are, at times, more inviting than church bells. There is a gaily-decorated Christmas tree in most homes, but only a small per centage of the homes have Christmas cribs. Holiday enthusiasts make all the parties, but attend Mass just on the days of obligation. Our pagan environment has extracted the Christ from our Christmas. We have Xmas programs on the radio, Xmas deco.ations for our gifts, and Xmas cards for our friends. Christ has become the missing element at His own birthday party. He is the Perfect Host; it is we who are the inconsiderate guests. Advent is the time for us to prepare ourselves lor the birth of our Redeemer. An . we can kneel with the shepherds at Christ's crib only if we don their cloaks of humility and simplicity. ()ui- offering to Ilitn need not be precious jewels or ointments. He wants our love. And whether we give ourselves completely to Him or not, Christ will come to us. Our spiritual renaissance elepends on our ability to accept Him. Standards of Decency Are The Responsibility of All Here is the eternal conundrum of higher learning: When a college student speaks his niind, just how many will listen? Perhaps we can count the audience off on our fingers; six or seven assorted relatives . . . three or four good friends. lt is more likely that our opinions reach an even larger group but, whatever its size, our own special section of more-than- politely-amused listeners is a private test ing ground in which we can learn to be leaders. Unless we can handle our own with them, we shoulel abandon as quixotic any plan to reform the entire world. During the fun-filled Christmas holidays we can begin to solo in the field of moral guidance. ... Our positive suggestions to family and friends can evoke a subtle boycott against immoral entertainments. When we are invited to a place of doubt ful standard, let's suggest a better one. When, inadvertantly, we discover such a place, we can quietly seek the exit. If we learn of something worth seeing, Jet's round up a party of friends and go The increase in box-office-take will encour age managers and producers to bring better things before the public. Before we begin our campaign, however, we must brief ourselves with play and floor-show reviews and advertisements. Then, when there is something excellent, we can tell its merits with authority. Our judgments must be fair and well-founded, too. Even gestures of thumbs-down must be made with care, for oftimes negative publicity is better than none in spreading the fame of the worthless. If we have confidence in what we know is right, our listeners will have confidence in us. And that is the core of true leader ship. Wa Each When Queen Victoria's court imitated the Ger man practice of using a Christmas tree, and England sent ornately-designed Christ mas cards, the spirit of rejoicing and fes tivity marked the holiday season as it does today. Many customs have been carried on and new ones have been introduced. The CHRISTMAS LOG, also known as the Yule Log, is still burned on Christmas in England; the favorite CHRISTMAS I'll': is mince-meat; and CHRISTMAS PUDDINGS are still rich, plummy, and delicate. Although the CHRISTMAS FLOWER is a species of Hellebore which has large white flowers, the poinsettia is the choice of people today. On Dec. 20, Mundelein students will begin the holiday season . . . and send Christmas cards, decorate their trees, eat pies and plum puddings ... as their fore fathers did, brightening in small ways the path to the day of Christ's birth. Jku 3, WU M em I remember Christmas at Mundelein . . . the reading of the prophecies ... the Speech Choir . . . And it came to pass . . . the christening of the Candle of Faith with fire ... the Glee club . . . parties . . . the gaiety . . . the dash to include everyone in the Christmas greet ings . . . and then . . . The lighting of the candles in the win dows . . . the caroling procession . . . the President's good wishes ... the placing of the wreaths upon the doors . . . With the Christmas partings over . . . but a glow still within ... the last linger ing look cast as a nine-story Cross of Truth lights the way to Christmas . . . Yes, I remember Christmas . . . and I remember Candlelighting . . . for this is Mundelein. 'Create in Us a Nexv Spirit' New Attitudes Must Come in The New Year King out, wild bells, to the wild sky ; . . Waken the lonely shadows with your warm spirit Sing out to the waiting world, trumpets of joy Bring us an all- tims peace the holy, humble peace we seem to find only at Christmas. Whistles scream, confetti falls like pastel snow, toasts abound but it is empty cheer that fills the hearts of those who delude themselves into thinking that this is a far, 'ar belter world as the beginning of the Vew Year beckons us. Merry-making is only an escape, not a solution for the problems at hand. The op portunities of finding solutions are put on the shelf along with withered mistletoe, limp holly, and gutted candles. Ring out the false, ring in the true ... The New Year offers us many things. A fuller existence is ours if we smother the feud of rich and poor . . . the false pride in place and blood . . . the civic slander . . . the narrowing lust of gold . . . the thousand wars of old ... Ring out the old, ring in the new ... Create within us a Richer and deeper love of Christ. Renew in us the love of truth and right, and a common longing for good and the eternal life. Hope and courage are needed to survive discomforts and shortcomings of the past year and to co-operate with the opportuni ties for a kindlier living in the New Year. The past years have brought enough strife. Let the peal of the bells precede an era less cold and selfish. Ring in the thousand years of peace .,. Cooperative Peace Action Demands Positive Force and Wholesome Interest Things are humming in the laboratory for student peace action. Each club has taken the formula for united leader ship and combined the first important ingredients sin cere enthusiasm and concrete ideas to evolve a new and selfless attitude in sharing the facts and principles its members study. But this new attitude is not enough until it is applied in a practical manner, until the first experimental steps are catalyzed to the point of immediate results, until the influence of the product is diffused throughout an ever- widening circle of co-leaders. Overall student interest in moral and intellectual ac tion cannot live if separate groups work only to benefit themselves. And mere announcement of a worthwhile forum or lecture, entertainment or ex hibit commands no audience No matter how small our circle of influence may be right now, our success in distributing the materials needed for strong and sound Catholic leadership depends on ingenious promotion, the same careful, serious press- agentry that an advertiser wraps around the product of his client. Whatever positive good we offer is our product. It deserves to be played up to its proper importance and treated as something big, something attractive, some thing desirable. We want it to be talked about We want it to inspire curiosity, to claim spontane ous attention We want others to be anx ious to buy our product. But we cannot ask the price of their time and interest with out investing the capital necessary to package a prod uct that will sell Latest Lake Book I Shows Creole Life Its history as highly flavored as its f tive shrimp, Creole and pompano, the h Pontchartrain region, which includes N- Orleans, makes a vibrant subject for j latest addition to the American Lakes S ies, LAKE PONTCHAKTKAJN, by' Adolphe Roberts. Strategically placed at the mouth of F Mississippi, the region cherishes chronio of eariy French and Spanish masters yt fought disease, hunger, and Indians to' taolish their gracious, utterly unique ml ner of living in the bustling port city. It these diverting chronicles thai give the be* and the area their character. The reader first sees the mud shacks, early New Orleans, and meets the men w transformed a New Orleans populated convicts and fortune hunters into the si' ring center of business, culture, and pis tire that it is today. These men included Count Bienville, i. first able governor; the exiled noble * fled France and built his own Versailles i ontchartrain's shore, and tne Spanisul eral engagingly named Alexander O'ReiJ Traintional Mardi Gras festivals I described; competently handled also are controversial elements of Creole life: , doo, the slavery question, and the so-cala easy living in New Orleans. The picture of ante-bellum New Qrlea0 gay society is no more colorful than startling Huey Long story that is also counted. ' Indian massacres, Andy Jackson's ba of New Orleans in which the British f* the bayous and disaster, the fabulous stf1 of the arch-pirate, Jean LaFitte these t' the spices which heighten interest in m story of what is, in several respects, AmtP ca's most interesting lake. MUNDELEIN COLI.Ei Chicago, 40, Illinois Unukk the Direction* gt; (II tub Sisteks ok E ClIAKITV. B.V.M. It Entered as Second Class Mattel Nov. .10. r at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3. IK97. 1.75 the jear. Published semi monthly from October to I , inclusive by the students of Mundelein Colling K Vol. XVII December 16, 1946 M All-Catholic Honors All-American Honors Telephone: Sheldrake 9620 Ic Co-Editors-in-Chief Florence Janko . Colleen R lt; l Associates Regina B Lucille Cook, Mary Em Harrigan, DolAl Toniatti. Feature Editors Katherine Bun,, he gt; lt; :lil Frances Wi Associates Cynthia Kn Jerianne Mangold, Mary Leona Men'. Jeane Ondesco. Copy Editors Ellenmae Qlg Marilyn Tamburtry Associates Rita Buck-ry Patricia Dann1sel News Editors Barbara FaP* . Jeanne Marie Hor/he Associates Dorothy Danijt , Eileen Dolan, Geraldine Grace, Jeai. 3 Jahrke, Patricia Nealin, Peggy Roach. jSs; Sports Editor Beatrice G( ldi.yC lt; Associates Claire JohriL. Joyce SaT Art Editor Margaret Mary Campfl Reporters: Rosemary Benigni, Isabel Cox, Cribari, Marguerite McDonnell, Janet iDtli Gum, Mary Catherine (J'Dwyer, Patuvci Runkle. Rita Szacik, Lis Willard. Ji B Kopal. Noreen Roche, lane O'Neill. LorrafcGo Stajdohar. Jo Ann Figueira. Margaret Mi M LaVaque. Rosemary Snyder,' Patricia Fi nl Joan Merrick, Dorothy Dcyle. ly((
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1946-12-16 (2)
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