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Page Two SKYSCRAPER 'Open Your Golden Gates . . . ' In the little city of Yalta, which im pressed Mark Twain with its great parks, its palaces and gardens, the Big Three of world politics gathered for their second meeting. In the shadow of the summer estate of the late Tsar Alexander II, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, leading characters at the history-making Crimean conference, drafted plans for the peace which will fol low World War II, a peace which many hope will include a United Nations organi zation to insure it. On April 25, the spotlight which turned on the old world city on the famed Black Sea will shift to a new world city near the Golden Gate. In April, the city of San Francisco will witness the gathering of United Nations chiefs to prepare a charter for a world security organization. The choice of this city, named for Fran cis of Assisi, saint of unselfishness and hrotherly love, may be a symbol and a challenge to the peacemakers. Founded in 1776, a date significant not only to the United States but, because of the events it recalls, memorable also to the rest of the world, San Francisco de Avis was originally a mission under the direction of the Franciscans. As a result of their devotion, it pros pered, together with other mission settle ments in the same area, and was governed by the principle of the brotherhood of men under the guidance and care of Al mighty God, in whose Name its founders labored. After the discovery of gold in the area in 1848, San Francisco rocketed to fame, and, overnight, became one of the leading cities in the United States. Undaunted by the disastrous fire ot 1906, its inhabitants kept their spirits high and restored their devastated city to even greater splendor, building again on the foundation laid by the Franciscans and retaining the color and the friendliness and the zeal of the little mission settlement. Much is expected of the San Francisco Conference. Americans, and, doubtless, citizens of all the Allied Nations look for ward to the Conference with faith and hope. As students in a Catholic college, we can have faith in the answer to our prayer, that the silvery peal of the mission bells will reverberate through the halls of a conference dominated by the spirit of brotherly love and fair cooperation. For Your Lenten Reading The attitude of doing right is merely a phrase from a popular song to many Amer ican people ... 68 million, according to AMEN EnsJgn S. A. Constantino's cal- AMPN cu'at'ons m ms streamlined pil- ArVlclN grim's progress, Amen, Amen. Harper and Brothers liked his logic, his frankness, his skillful handling of those not-very-salable themes, morals and eth ics. So, they published the book. We liked the young author's Catholic .convictions, his sincerity, his informal style, his word-illustrations, as modern and familiar as coca-cola or a ride in a jeep. So, we read the book. And we hope you will read it, too . . . and your family and friends . . . and those 68-million people who don't go to church. In a slender volume, The Church Before Pilate, the Reverend Edward Leen, C.S.Sp, compares the world's rejection of the THE CHURCH Church today with rbmamb * gt; the world's hatred BEFORE PILATE of its Founder during His lifetime. Because the Catholic Church is the fulfillment of that Founder's plan, Father Leen observes, it must ac cept the bitterness accorded its Head. Logically, Father Leen explains that all revolts against the Church are rooted in the Christian paradox that the way to happi ness lies through suffering. Tracing the growth of general hostility of the world toward the Church, the author states that the cause for this attitude is the world's refusal to accept the doctrine of original sin. MUNDELEIN COLLEGE Chicago, 40, Illinois Laetare, Promise of The Future Next Sunday, rose-colored vestments will provide a welcome note of color in the otherwise somber atmosphere of a sorrowing Church. Wise Mother Church grants her children a respite in order to give them the added impetus they need to complete a success ful, holy Lenten season. The glorious brilliance of an Easter morn is not far away. When this morning dawns in its white and gold splendor, even the rose glow of Laetare will fade. For those who persevere, the gladness of Easter rejoicing with the risen Sa viour will erase any sacrifice occasioned by Lent. Student, Qraduate Have Similar Responsibilities With the memory of senior comprehen- sives fading into obscurity, seniors are looking forward to June and Commence ment. On that momentous day when a graduate changes the tassel of her cap from the right to the left side, her college career is at an end, and her life as a grad uate begins. Just before graduation, she will take a pledge of loyalty to her College a pledge that is applicable to all students, fresh men, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, as well as to graduates. I PLEDGE MYSELF TO HOLD MY DEGREE AS A SACRED TRUST. Now as never before education with stress on Christian principles is needed in the world. Not everyone has had the advantage of a Catholic education, and, of those who have received much, much is expected. One year, two, three, or four years of Catholic education places added responsibi lity on the recipient responsibility to pro mote the principles of justice and tolerance for which the oppressed peoples of the world are pleading today, responsibility to spread knowledge of the truth and of the beauty of life lived in accordance with the ideals of true brotherhood, free of all prej udice and grounded in respect for human dignity and aspiration. I PLEDGE MYSELF TO SERVE GOD AND TO KEEP MY HONOR UN TARNISHED. In a mechanistic age, when thought is geared to the breathless acti vities of a materialistic world, there is urgent need for young people equipped with a right sense of values, aware of their responsibility to God and to their fel- lowmen, and strong in their personal reso lution to live in accordance with the pre cepts of religion. The Catholic college student who realizes that God is a Person, not just a vague Name to Which one pays homage on Sun days, and who sees in the precepts of re ligion the pattern for right living, will keep her honor untarnished, and will inevitably serve both God and her fellow man equit ably. I PLEDGE MYSELF TO BE LOYAL TO MY COUNTRY AND TO MY FLAG. With the world in chaos, loyalty to country and to flag have concrete meanings for the college student. Patriotism can take two forms the lip service of fair-weather pa triots who talk much of their sacrifices for the war, and the active service of those who say little but do much. The one congratulates herself that she is not pa tronizing the black market; the other in vests as much as possible of her allowance in War Bonds and gives as much time as possible to war work, time she can spare from her studies. Few of us can make the magnanimous gestures that warrant headlines, but all of us can perform the everyday little tasks, the trifles that add up to the perfection of patriotism. Uncle Sam is offering three dollars for every two invested in our country; the Red Cross is pleading for contributions of money and service; industry has need of our part-time aid; servicemen beg for newsy, chatty letters from home; ev eryone involved in the War needs our prayers. The world is suffering for the active, constructive patriotism the college girl is able to give and an important part of that patriotism consists in doing the daily round of academic tasks as thoroughly as possible. The world will be a better place to live in, and a more secure place for generations to come if the college girl gives freely and generously of her patriotic service. I PLEDGE MYSELF TO BE FAITH FUL TO MY ALMA MATER UNTIL DEATH. Loyalty to a college is not a cloak that descends upon the sweet girl graduate when she receives her degree. Rather, it is a gradual accumulation of respect, gratitude, and love for her college that grows through the years. A loyal student supports each college activity to the best of her ability. She works, not alone for what she will receive from a cer tain community effort, but also, for what she can contribute to the general good. She is loyal unswervingly to the prin ciples for which her college stands, and never, in word or in action, does she reflect discredit upon her school. She takes eager ly all that her college has to offer, and uses wisely all its resources for intellectual, social, and moral development. Her loy alty, fresh and untested when she enrolls in college, grows strong through the years, shines with a special lustre on Commence ment day, and develops through the years thereafter a patina of sound beauty, grounded in faith and gratitude. Chicago's College For Women Under the Di ection of the Sisters of Charity, B.V.M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1934 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. XV March 5, 1945 No. All-Catholic Honors Ail-American Honors Telephone: Ambassador 9011 Co-Editors-in-Chief Mary Grace Career, Jayne King Associates Mary Burns, Jerry StuU. Mary Catherine Tuomey Copy Editors Eleanor Arends, Joan Templeman Associates Viola Brerman,' Mary Martha Cooper, Dolores Hartigan, Lois Hintze, Patricia Hollahan. Feature Editors Mary licecherJ Patricia Curran, Sheila Finney. Alice Marie Horen, Genevieve Urbain News Editors Regina Bess. Florence Jankowski Associates '. Patricia Lee, Dolores Toniatti, Gladys Sullivan Sports Mary Cannon, Dolores Cervenh, Colleen Rettig Art Editor Mary Jane Smith Reporters: Mary Ann Anderson, Ruth Casey, Adelaide Costello, Stacy Diacou, Joyce Evans, Lorraine Gross, Muriel Hasten, Rose- mary Kelly, Maureen Horan, Patricia Hay den, Jeanne McNulty, Patricia Harmon, Re-1 gina Milligan, Katherine Burwitz, Rosemary Templeman, Marian Patton, Adeline Laschi- azza, Margaret Monckton, Rosemary O'Coa- nor, Jeanne Ondesco, Mary Catherine Quinn, Jean Roche, Geraldine Stack, Mildred Stan ek, Dorothy Watters. They're Talking About... A CRUSADE of Prayer is being offered 1 by the Archconfraternity of Christian Doctrine for the beatification of Pope Pius X, the Pope of Little Children. Author of several encyclicals and sometimes call' the Pope of the Eucharist, he issued at., cree in 1906 encouraging frequent recep tion of Holy Communion. * * * pROM Vatican City comes the news that Chief Rabbi Israel Zolli of Rome, to gether with his wife and daughter have en tered the Catholic Church. Rabbi Zolli, who in Baptism took the name Eugenio Maria in honor of Pope Pius XII, publicly thanked the Vatican last July for helping the Jew ish people during the Fascist-Nazi regime. Another recent convert to Catholicism is French novelist Romaine Rolland, who came into the Church just before his death in Paris. * * * DIN-UP girls are being displaced in Army quarters all over the world bj pictures of the Madonna of the Blossoms, copies of which have been sent to the four corners of the earth as a means of promot ing devotion to the Mother of God. This picture, which portrays the smiling Ma donna and Child in a flowering orchard, will be a consolation to the wounded in base hospitals, according to Catholic chap lains. * * * D EPRESENTATIVE Louis Ludlow, of * Indiana, has suggested a conference of religious leaders in this country to arrive at certain bases of common agreement and to prepare definite recommendations on which all denominations stand.
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1945-03-05 (2)
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