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Page two WEEK MOMENTS Today 5:15 p.m., Red Cross Operating committee meeting. Tuesday 1 :00 p.m., Freshmen, Sopho mores Lecture on Marriage, Father Clark. 3 :00-5 :00 Las Teresianitas Splash par W ednesday 4:00 p.m. I lome F.conomics Spring Surprise party. Thursday 1 :00 p.m. S.A.C. Nominations for President, Secretary. Friday 3:00-5:00 University of Chicago Swimming meet. 8:15 OUR TOWN, Drama department What Qoes On . . . Primary elections are a gamble. Their success depends on three factors: 1. Large, qualified slate of candidates for each office 2. Intelligent, discriminating voters 3. I irge turnout at the polls. Why does so much depend on the suc cess of the primary system of elections? Student government next year and in the years to come will depend for its drive on the initiative, farsightedness, courage, and capability of the students holding po sitions of authority. Because we do not know the majority of girls who are candidates, we, naturally, cast our votes for the few we do know. In the past we have been content to choose officers from a small group of three or four candidates. We, also, because of our lack of knowledge of various girls' abili ties, tend to re-elect girls already hold ing offices without genuinely considering the possibility that other students could fill the positions as capably. We adopted the new elective system to correct these deficiencies ... to bring a large number of qualified candidates be fore the student body and to insure the voters that their choice will truly be se lected according to the will of the majority of students. Thursday you will nominate your can didates for the offices of SAC president and secretary, two of the highest offices at Mundelein. While the nominations fdr the presidency are restricted by the pro vision that requires a year's previous ser vice on the Council, the nominations for secretary are open to the entire sophomore class. Later election dates are provided for the offices of SAC vice-president and treasurer, elected from the junior and freshman classes. If we are sincere in taking the first de cisive step towards a realistic student gov ernment, we will embark on a publicizing program, calculated to inform the voters of the qualities (integrity, reliability, fair ness), and abilities (poise as a speaker, manner in dealing with people, particular aptitude for a certain office) of each can didate nominated. production Saturday 2:00 Mathematics Tourna ment for High Schools. Sunday 3:00 Chemistrv Alumnae meeting 8:15 OUR TOWN Tuesday Apr. 20 1:00 Alumnae Forum on Marriage. 3:00 Freshman Square dance. Thursday- 1:00 Dr. Seaborg, Lecture on Atomic Energy. Friday 8:15 S. A. C. Card Party, Stevens Hotel. Saturday All Day English and Journal ism Conference, N.S.A. SKYSCRAPER Pax Americana The 21 nations of the Western Hemis phere, meeting this week in Bogota, Co lombia, at the ninth Conference of the Pan- American States, provide evidence to a world in need of such proof that inter national cooperation on a large scale is not an impractical ideal but a practical reality. Delegates to the conference will ratify actions taken at special meetings held since the last plenary session at Lima. Peru, in 1938. The war which occupied the intervening years brought unsurpassed unity to the nations, as they cooperated in economic, political and military fields to defeat the enemy. And with the ending of hostilities, the wartime alliance of the American nations formed the basis for greater good will and solidarity as the governments planned for postwar peace and prosperity.. Such cooperation is not entirely the re sult of the wartime alliance. It is not a unity based on similarity of governments or institutions; politically the nations in clude leftist Costa Rica and rightist Ar gentina and most other shades of the politi cal rainbow. The union is based on a com mon concept of the dignity of the indi vidual and has been developed, over a period of 60 years, by a slow but steady- process of trial and error, in a spirit com pounded of good will, mutual interest, and compromise. Cooperation and patience have brought a great measure of unity to the Western Hemisphere. Wedded to a firm application of the principles underlying Western civi lization, they can secure a peaceful settle ment of current world conflicts. In Six Days Italy Decides In six days Italy will decide in favor of the Christian or the Com munist. The count at the election polls will show either the victory of Christian thought or the acceptance of Communism in the guise of a po litical party. It is behind this guise that the Communists have campaigned, promising that only under the Red flag can Italy find economic recovery. This explains why Italian Catholics might vote for the Communists. They see, not a destructive force against Christian culture, but a group bent upon the betterment of Italy. It is apparent that the Red Army is not preparing to march, but the advance guard of propagandists is attempting to gain the people's confidence in the economic expediency of Communism. Its godless philosophy is waiting in the wings, ready to take the stage if the Reds gain political control. Communism, divorced from the dictatorial dominance of Stalin, might well blend into the materialism of America today. If Russia lost all military power, would Communism be feared in America? Only those who think contrary to the doctrines inherent in Communistic teachings would fear it and fight it. We must be ready to combat, not so much Red bombers over head, as the treachery of Communism underground. Feverish Spring Brings Epidemic Of Convention Most of us have meditated on siastically at all guests, proudly Cholera the merits and demerits of Moody Mondays, Terrible Tues days, Wild Wednesdays, and other equally uplifting topics. Rut seldom do we find anything as- inspiring as Stylish Saturday the time when pink-flowered hats, navy stockings, and taffeta petticoats go to a Seminar. Whether your true loves in volve zomotherapy, general ha- hitats of rare unicorns, or Um brellas I Have Known there is a student convention for YOU. And more than likely it is meeting at Mundelein. First person you encounter as you enter the building at 9:30 a.m. on SATURDAY is the per ennial hostess. Week after week she opens doors; smiles cnthu- displaying a badge with gold letters. She will hand you a program which is a combination compass, welcome mat, encyclopedia, and Emily Post handbook. Follow ing directions printed thereon which pretend to lead you to Granville, Broadway, and cor ner drug stores you will eat your box lunch in the middle of Lake Michigan. Thinking they are getting an inside view of what goes on be hind the iron curtain, guests de light in touring the building and in getting lost. They wander to the swimming pool, in search of the library; confuse the Fol lies crew with manual training students; conclude that people doing term papers in the library arc in love with their work. Departing guests arc more than generous with their grati tude. Repeatedly they chant thank you's for a rescue from a temperamental elevator, for getting them to the right panel or debate, for sorting out the correct scarf and umbrella in the check room, and they say- never a word about the photo grapher who insisted on posing committee members instead of chairmen. We could go on for days on the pleasures of student meetings, on the joys of writ ing the agenda two weeks in ad vance. Maybe we will someday. Right now. it's time to go to a Saturday seminar. Sec you . . . New England Novel Presents Saga Of Three Qenerations In these housing-shortage days it is a to forget that a house can often be a itL drance as well as a sought-for sheltetl true meaning can deteriorate, and its cupants eventually may look upon it aj enemy. Ralph (iarretson did. The Carretson Chronicle, by Gefl Warner Brace, is a novel of New' Ktiglat Its theme is the perilous hold whicH older generation's way of life has younger people. Told by the grandssl Ralph, the story is of three generation the same family who have settled clotvij a fine, classically traditional New luigbj village and in a beautiful old house of tiriguished simplicity. The powerful patriarch-grandfather set a pattern dangerously strong. Rand his son. literally cannot take into his mi a good and moderately gifted mind, i conception of life anywhere else than two1 tall swaying elms in the house where I much-admired father has lived. Ilis and family are helpless before this obs sion. Only Ralph makes a violent and s cessful effort to live his own life, to his way to maturity of personality. Ralph narrates the history of the faa and his own struggles in a quiet, unobt sive way. a map of New England imfol Mr. Brace in writing about a leisurely I actually induces his reader into melj contemplation. Deceptively simple, this is a richly ha orous adventure which is provocative: engrossing. It is a man's life from bi until marriage, with the necessary oi tones of his family and surroundings. h MUNDELEIN COLLEG1 Chicago, 40, Illinois Under the Direction d THE SISTERS OF CHARITY, B.V.M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, II at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to li inclusive by the students of Mundelein Collt) 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. Vol. XVIII April 12. 1948 No. In All Catholic Honors All-American Honors s Telephone: Sheldrake 9620 )i i Co-Editors-in-Chief Marilyn Tambuni Frances Wi Associates Katherine Bun Jeri Mangold, Ellcnmae Quan, Mary Dwyer. Jane O'Neill. Feature Editors Rita Bntksfc Patricia Dannehy.Barbara Fallon, Cjl Knight, Mary Leona Merrick. Awociates Mary Louise Ftrsi Mary Margaret LaVaque, Patricia dcau, Patricia Nealin. Copy Editors Dorothy Die Eileen Dolan, Geraldine Grace, Beit Goldrick, Peggy Roach, Ruth Ward. Associates Jean Jik Janet McGinn, Rita Szacik. News Editors Joan MeruF Patricia O'H Associates Mary ft Jeanine Pos Sports Claire Job Jewel Cn Art Editor Margaret Mary Camp Exchanges Lileen Dan Circulation Maribeth Cs Noreen Ti Reporters Marijo Coles Dorothy Campbell, Mary Kay Gill, Ri mary Simec, Rosemary Anderson. lq Ann Gibson, Elaine Ivory, Patricia Kl an. Lauretta Bombe. Rita McMu Therese Mcony, Mary Kay Waggei Rosemary Wright, Patricia Hanson, li Adams, Peggy Butler, Betty Byrne. In
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1948-04-12 (2)
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