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Pafte Two Music for Everyone Is Here on Record John McCormack, who now is enter taining London civilians, has just record ed the Kashmiri Song and 'Til I Wake, from the well known Indian Love Lyrics by Hope-Woodforde Finden. McCor- mack's rendition of these selections was done in the London studios where he was accompanied by the pianist, Gerald Moore. The Boston Pops Orchestra, under Arthur Fiedler, has recorded Rossini's overture, La Gazza Cadia, from The Thieving Magpie. This gay and popular overture, one of Rossini's best, is an ideal selection for the Boston Orchestra which is known for its colorful performances of sparkling music. Two familiar Negro spirituals, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and Ev'ry Time I Feel De Spirit, have been recorded for the discs by Baritone John Charles Thomas. In recording Ravel's La Valse, a mu sically intense choreographic poem, Pierre Monteux and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra have brought to American listeners one of Ravel's great works. Accompanied by the Philadelphia Or chestra under Eugene Ormandy, Jascha Heifetz has recorded Brahm's Double Concerto in A Minor. This first modern recording of one of Brahm's greatest works is considered also as one of Heifetz's finest performances. The distinguished piano team, Vronsky and Babin, have set down on wax two of the most delightful favorites of duo pianists, Rachmaninoff's compositions, How Fair This Spot and Floods of Spring. Sanroma, the master pianist, has re corded the Magic Fire Music from Wag ner's Die Walkure. Sanroma's perform ance is surprisingly effective especially when it is known that the Magic Fire Music involves nearly every instrument in the orchestra. SKYSCRAPER Qather Your Pages While You May. N.C.W.C. Urges Adoption Of Five-Point Plan Urging adoption of the American Edu cation Week theme, Building Civilian Morale, the National Catholic Welfare Conference suggests a program built around the five points which our Holy Father, Pope Pius XII, lists as indispens able in the establishment of a new world order. They are: Triumph over hate, which is today a cause of division among peoples . . . Triumph over mistrust, which bears down as a depressing weight on interna tional law and renders impossible the realization of any sincere agreement . . . Triumph over the distressing princi ple that utility is a basis of law and right, and that might makes right . . . Triumph over those germs of con flict which consist in two-sided differ ences in the field of world economy . . . Triumph over the spirit of cold ego ism which, fearless in its might, easily leads to violation not only of the honor and sovereignty of states but of the righteous, wholesome, and disciplined liberty of citizens as well. Such a program, constructively carried out, should be of incalculable use in the creation of a strong, courageous, Chris tian morale among civilians everywhere. Book-conscious as we have become during the past seven days, through the efforts of the Faculty and of the Librarians and in cooperation with National Cath olic Book Week, we have undoubtedly coined many a sincere resolution to take advantage of the amply-filled library at our disposal, and not to let all literary ships sail out of our lives in a word, to read more. Unfortunately, knowledge of ourselves, gleaned over some years of experience, convinces us that this resolution, like many others, will melt before the with ering looks of omnipresent scholastic du ties and pressing social and extra-cur ricular engagements, which make our sturdy, library-turned steps falter, and leave us in the same not-too-literary rut. It isn't that we don't read at all. We accomplish the normal amount of col lateral reading for our classes at required intervals. But are we developing the habits of recreational and cultural read ings that we should be cultivating in col lege? Is our taste in books growing pro gressively more adult, more discriminat ing, more consciously critical? Most of us, in our optimistic freshman year, begin to list the books which we want to read, books which we read about, or hear others mention casually, books which we realize belong to that great her- Iitage of literature with which we, as edu cated women, should acquaint ourselves. But how many of them have we read? We can, if we really want to, take two or three hours out of every week and save them for our very own recreational reading. We can clutch these precious 180 minutes to our hearts, and stubborn ly use them for the books we have always wanted to read, come what may. Even tually we will find that this purloined time will fit graciously in with our sched ule. Once we have started the reading hab it, it will never leave us. And after all, when could we begin it better than now? We are busy, yes in fact we could use a few more seconds in every minute but we're not any more occupied now than we'll always be. The nine-to-five office day, the thousand little tasks in our own homes, will never give us any re spite. We will never again be as close to a library, and a more than adequate one at that, as we are now, this year, this minute. So let's gather our pages while we may, and make this year one of in tellectual literary development for our selves, through books. You're the Critic Points of View . . That we here highly resolve . . . that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom ... Spoken by an American on the occa sion of the dedication of an American cemetery for war dead, these words, de livered in November, 1863, contain a mes sage for the people of this nation, and of other nations, in November, 1941. The nations of the world would do well to consider the profound depth of the thought that, from a system which would recognize God as the Creator and first Ruler, a rebirth of freedom would ger minate. Coercion to obedience, or to subserv ience, and the violation of principles of justice would be eliminated were God and the Christian order accepted as the logical guides of government. * * * Next Tuesday, November 11, we shall celebrate America's most ironic national holiday. But it would be unfair to con sider only the irony of the failure of the Armistice. We must consider also the courage and the glory of the men who died, believing that their sacrifice would win enduring peace. We must consider the trust they placed in us, the responsibility they left for us to assume. Again, the Gettysburg Ad dress has the answer to a problem of 1941. It is for us, the living ... to be here dedicated to the great task remain ing before us that from these hon ored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. It is for us, the builders of tomorrow, to keep faith in our Christian way of life, to keep faith in our American heritage of liberty and democracy, and to learn, during our college days, the most effec tive means of making our freedom the heritage of all mankind. * * * And it oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live simply, and eat sparingly, and recover the use of our legs, and get up early enough to see the sun rise. However, it has needed one: which is about the severest criticism our civilization could have. Jan Struther in MRS. MINIVER. In making this reflection upon our civilization the author of MRS. MINI VER highlights the often unconscious selfishness, the egotism, and the narrow preoccupation with our own affairs which have, in too many cases, dulled our sym pathies for other people, and cut us off from their problems and aspirations. The idea that a war, or the peril of a war, terrible as it is, may bring us back to a more human, brotherly interest in our fellowmen that it may sound for us an alert signal calling for mutual inter est, support, and ultimate understanding and harmony is arresting and hearten ing. * * + From France comes the interesting news that a modernized city is to be erected on the charred ruins of a war- racked and bomb-blasted municipality. Plans are now in progress which will make the city of Jeanne d'Arc, Orleans, popular for centuries because of its rich historic and religious background, a mod ern city with well planned streets and streamlined, but hard stone, buildings. No attempt, apparently, is being made to recapture the romance and color of the 2000-year-old city. Plans include new schools and public buildings, tree-lined boulevards and up-to-date homes. In themselves, these plans are good. They will aid the citizenry of the community in rising from the physical suffering of the war. But we wonder what place the re ligious past of the city will have in the new plan and under the new order. How prominent a place will be occupied by the devotion-inspiring relics of the sainted Maid of Orleans? YOU READ be be Hostess of I Skyways by I Wilson, published by Lippincott. VOI I KACCT the girls of An* YOU MttT who are succeek( in the comparatively new and compkol fascinating field of hostessing on pj trains, and ships. VJU LtAKIN shapL. y0ur carej* this broad field if you can fulfill tlty . quirements of age, height, weight, training, and can lead an unusual, pletely enthralling, ever different life. YOU ENJOY LIIL S these careers is woven into a story o ,0 successes and failures of various girls* have aspired to positions as hostfi and you enjoy details of their advenB /r i i nr.An France on B * YOU READ time by T J Kernan, published by Dodd, MeadeH Company. p you meet :r;:ni c ;4 having its clocks turned ahead two H to the time of the conquering countryK /SM i irtnki f a darkened YOU LEARN of the foreign aganda that is everywhere, of the com censorship of press and radio and m and stage, of the social reform, of theP ant women of France who are.shH their strength and superiority, of theB and traitors, and lastly, of the auC concept of Catholic France. er you enjoy irf baggers in Paris, the inside story ofi cupied France. ' tr lt; THE SKYSCRAPER at Official Semi-Monthly Newspaper of MUNDELEIN COLLEGE 6363 Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois Mundelein D Chicago's CollhFM For Women B Ya Under the DirectS of the Sisters a t Charity, B.V:M.b - - Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 3fl at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, unfol Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 the year. B Published semi-monthly from October J inclusive by the students of Mundelein u*. Vol. XII Friday, November 7 jtr1 ALL-AMERICAN HONd*' an 1940 Member Vi Pbsociated GoUeffiatef ALL-CATHOLIC HOME D Telephone: Ambassador 901lC : B Co-Editors-in-Chief Dorothy Mel Joan * Associate Rosemary I* Feature Staff. Jean Bemis, Alice BreckiA; Patricia Gould, Rita Ann MulhernT mary Shanahan. Club Editor MarieL News Staff Helen Egan, Rae , Bernice Hones, Beatrice Johnson, I Kay Jones, Joan Leach, Marie Ni Helen O'Day, Margery RowbottontB Sports Editor Geraldine rlf Reporters Perle Braun, Jane KowalslB queline Michelson, Jerry Stutz, Let' Super, Mary Lou Pimsncr, Lec NTC Patricia Newton, Ilenc Maher, Rita f1 ane, Mary Elizabeth Wolfe, Vera Kit*8 Helen Walz, Maryanne Brockhaus, I ' King, Gerry Hallett, Jean Spatuzza.T Burns. ct
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1941-11-07 (2)
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