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Piifce Two THE SKYSCRAPER Official Semi-Monthly Newspaper of MUNDELEIN COLLEGE 6363 Sheridan Road Chicago,lllinois Mundelein Chicago's College For Women Under the Direction of the Sisters uf 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. XIII Friday, January 22, 1943 No. 6 Member ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS 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 Michelscn Reporters: Eleanor Arcnds, Vivian Brust, Mary- Grace Carney, Madeleine Courtney, Con stance Cross, Patricia Curran, Ellen Patricia Ehle, Sheila Finney, Margaret Greene, Mar gery Kane, Gloria Ketchum, Alyce Jeanne Kiley, Helen Nicholson, Betty Seguin, Joan Templeman, Lillian Turner, Geraldine Thorpe, Genevieve Urbain, Mary Catherine Tuomey, Betty Wicrsema, Frances Wilkin son, Julia Woodford. Retreat Is Reflection And Benediction Annually legions of Catholic college students retreat from the regular routine of everyday activity to strengthen their spiritual life, just as our armed forces, scattered on far-flung fields, permit the soldiers to attend Mass whenever possible and give furloughs to men exhausted from front line-action. Annually, during our college days, we seclude our minds and hearts from all worldly occupation and spend three days in self-examination, meditation, and prayer. This year, in the defense of spirituality, we should exert a special effort to utilize every opportunity to make our retreat a holy one; to use this time to compensate for all the wrongs committed thus far during World War II; and to determine, by reflection, what we can do to strengthen that spiritual bond which should hold all men together as members of the Mystical Body of Christ. This year, we who have the opportunity to make a retreat have a double duty to ful fill. Not only should we build indestructi ble spiritual forts in our own hearts, but we should also pray for those who are fight ing against the forces dedicated to destroy ing the ideals of Christian peoples. We, who before, perhaps, merely dipped our fingers into the pool of God's grace, should immerse ourselves in that precious grace and absorb every drop of benefit therein by utilizing to the fullest extent this time of prayer and meditation. As Christian college women we have an obligation to build up within ourselves the courage to meet and overcome with poise and faith all the heartache and dis illusionment which will confront us during the war and after peace has been restored to the world. We must be strong enough spiritu ally to uphold the basic ideals of Chris tianity while the boys at the front lines are combatting the material forces which endanger our lives and our liberties. SKYSCRAPER Young people should be advised that it is their patriotic duty to continue the normal course of their education, unless and until they are called, so that they will be prepared for greatest usefidness. President Franklin D. Roosevelt Victory Through Aristotle On College Front For students who have been wondering how they might effectively tit constructive war work into study-crowded weeks comes an answer the Mundelein Victory Pro gram, which makes it possible, by giving ground work in specialized fields directly vital to Victory, for each student to make a contribution to the war effort. The restlessness that has invaded college campuses all over the nation is indicative of students' belief in their responsibility in wartime. They are reminded that their education is of greatest importance to L'ncle Sam, for it is the alert, intelligent, unbiased opinions of educated young men and women that must win and keep peace. On the other hand, students veering from Aristotle to aircraft skill, from trigo nometry to tank manufacture, may en danger their own appreciation of the value of the liberal arts education. The Victory program is wide in scope, sound in purpose. It urges that we con tinue our education, stylizing it for a strategic position of service upon gradua tion, or for part-time work during our college days. It recommends that we should supplement effectively our long-range specific training with short range Victory courses. The editors of FORTUNE magazine, in a current discussion of the college in war time, argue for the type of education needed to win the war and the peace. They insist that courses pertinent to war activity, be they areonautics, welding, home nursing, or map reading, supplementing but not re placing solid liberal arts subjects, will mold on the college assembly lines, competent, up-to-the-minute young Americans. Fortune states, in part . . . Surely every thoughtful man must shudder at the prospect of a generation of Americans trained solely in science and technology, with no leavening of liter ature and philosophy and history to quicken their minds and hearts and help them to understand the world they live in and the civilitzation that is their heritage. . . . And, firmly con cludes . . . 'At the root of Alex ander's victories one will always find Aristotle.' You're the Critic iwi i/-o Martha Murray, whose lnis- wnu- band has led her from the frontier of western Pennsylvania; Violet, her daughter, too tender made for the trials of the wilderness; Hugh, raised like a brother to Violet yet desperately in love with her, and the dauntless pioneers who suffered hardship and death to clear the borders for those to come. iwu at? tne story oi the Back Coun- wnMl. ry (llirjng the vears 0f the Revolution when the people were pressed by the English on the east and the Indians on the west, when there was constant fear of rattle snakes and panthers, when there was never quite enough salt and flour, and a flowered plate was a luxury. iwl y? n encouraging note in the struggle of today is the re minder that, as our forefathers worked to make our country free, so we must work to keep it that way. For an uplift of morale, plus a gripping narrative, read THK DAY MUST DAWN by Agnes Sligh Turnbull. ki/UQ? Peter Dickoe, of the fighting Dickoes, generations of sol diers and sailors who had fought loyally for His Majesty, Peter Dickoe, who studied for the ministry and decided instead to become a teacher only to have a Lieuten ancy thrust upon him by the death of his two older brothers; his friend Keith Tier- vach; Captain Neely, and the frigate Pegasus. iwijat? Dedicated to the officers and VV MI' men of the United States Coast Guard, it is the story of the men who guarded the Coasts of Britain in another century, of their trials, joys, and, above all. of their courage. ii/uv? F r the story of wartime in vvn,r another era read SOLDIER OF THE SEA by W. R. Daly. Let Freedom Ring Is American Cry Fanatic fighters for a new order have forced us to stop and think. Why. we ask. are we fighting this war? Among all the answers offered, the statement of the Four Freedoms, ennunciated by our President in 1940 and recalled in the report to Congress this month, has caught the at tention of many. It is a simple thing to say that we are fighting for Freedom of Speech, Free dom of Religion, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear. We want those freedoms, yes. But, are we willing to take the obligations that accompany them? It is perhaps significant that the first of the four Freedoms is Freedom of Speech. Since we possess some idea of the value of this right, we have a natural humanitarian desire to share the right, to see that others too may enjoy it. Yet, while we seek to gain that right for others and to protect it for ourselves, it is certainly not our place to abuse that right. He who has the right to free speech has also the obligation to honest, con sidered speech. The opinions we state must be backed by mature thought and by fact, not by prejudice or wishful thinking. The second of President Roosevelt's Four Freedoms, Freedom of Religion, is particularly close to the hearts of Munde lein students. For the Catholics of the world, the right to freedom of belief is of tremendous importance. Catholics have suffered persecution down the ages; they have been and still are among the first tar gets of intolerant, earthly-minded men, who seek to rule body and soul by brute force. We must never forget that religious free dom bought for us with the blood of the martyrs, is an old and hallowed and sacred right. Freedom from want, on the other hand, is almost a new right ... at least its expres sion in this manner is new. It is the direct result of an age of sociology, of scientific attempts to free all men from the paralyzing forces of poverty and hunger. Even for all America this freedom is only half-achieved. Freedom from Want is that one of the four which may unfor tunately become a mere phrase for the people of the United States. We who have come to early national maturity by means of our doctrine of rugged individualism must make a painful shift if we are to see that freedom active here. Just as the desire for Freedom from Want belongs in a particular way to our century, so the desire for Freedom from Fear has gained a new importance in this second World War. The nations, the ideas, against which we are fighting have made fear one of their strongest weapons. Our greatest responsibility for the last of the freedoms is yet to come, when the Allies are victorious. It is only in a post, war world, a world where we are strongest, that our belief in freedom from fear will be put to the test. Let us think of these freedoms and these responsibilities during our college days. Let us read our history in terms of their flourish or abuse. Let us map our future in terms of their obligations. Clarke Celebrates 100 Years of Service For one hundred years, Clarke colka Dubuque, Iowa, has been an outstandil Catholic school for girls, moulding aJ guiding the lives of its students tmvJ sound and gracious Catholic woiiianhcJ growing from a small academy to an J posing group of buildings nestled in sprueewood trees that surround DubuqJ The story of Clarke college is a storvl courage, ingenuity, and pioneer spirit. I For one hundred years. Clarke J trained the daughters of Middle WestJ families. Its first students, who consider themselves a part of the Far West, sent their daughters and their gral daughters to Clarke, until families a boast of membership for four general in the college alumnae. For one hundred years, the curricul at Clarke has been shaped to include wisest and most valuable courses in hijj education, but never once has its Fad lost sight of the true aim of the educal to inspire and guide the mind and ennoble the soul of the student. This year, the Sisters of Charity of; Blessed Virgin Mary are observing J centennial of the college, founded in li by Mother Mary Francis Clarke. Mel bers of the Faculty and students of MurJ lein congratulate Clarke on its centurjH service, honor it for its priceless en tribution to Catholic life and culture, pray that for centuries to come it m continue to guide young women of M great country toward its three fold Cathl ideal character, culture, and career. Ticker Tape . . The dying days of 1942 bring to a J a year which fastened America's noseB the grindstone in the biggest war effort all time. The WPA vanishes with most or i gasoline and butter, for at least the del tion. Russia's second winter finds 1 Nazis ever retreating. Jungle waim focuses on Buna, Japanese stronghold New Guinea. France's new-found lea* Edouard Herriot, is taken prisoner byl Nazis. Just before December fades into a ott and vital year. Americans learn that 1* Henderson has resigned as Director Civilian Supply and that he is precarioiB banging on to his job as head of Oil Certain foods canned milk, butter, nil lard, and flour- become more scarce, the outlook for a better distribution isol fair. William Phillips is sent as the Pri I dent's personal representative to India. The battle of Africa is heartening ne although there is a shortage of Ameii air power. And General McArthur con through with more flying colors in Pacific, snatching Buna from the ' Events in Africa Darlan is assassi and Giraud succeeds. The Japanese great losses in merchantmen, cruisers, destroyers. Buzz Wagner, most t about of this war's heroes and the yo Lieutenant-Colonel in the Air Force* missing is later found dead. The new year is ushered in with usual hubbub, but with even more mination to achieve victory on all fi, The 78th Congress opens session wil talk by the President on war-time al peace-time responsibilities. Roger TmL and his cohorts are clever v captured astute G-men under the personal direct*, of John Edgar Hoover. ' U. S. submarines exact a startling I of Axis sea craft. Rommel plays a J1 and-mouse game with the British 'in Afrit In Tunisia, U. S. forces wade in mudB muck in an effort to stop the meeting two Axis armies. Eastern cities in I United States are severely flooded as W cember snows thaw. j India continues to bicker. New shof ages include paper for newspapers * magazines, while the hoarders clean up grocery shelves that held canned fool Thinking Americans are beginning toll about the post-war world. c lt; Rommel takes the high road awayfrl Africa. Berlin and London become objl of reprisal bombings. Americans sun* one month of paying 5 victory tax. .* Chicago is buried under boot-high sr H that maroons cars and closes schools, vhf the mercury goes south for a few days ?
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1943-01-22 (2)
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