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Page Two, THE SKYSCRAPER, Jan. 23, 1956 A Big Man Lends A Helping Hand . . . Ford Grant Leads The Way To Education Aid Once again the magical wand of Henry Ford has touched the little man and has made Dec. 12, 1955, an unforgettable day in the history of Amer ican education. Since Mr. Ford was a towering leader in giving the working man a help ing hand, it is fitting that a Foundation spending his money should give the working .student and teacher encouraging help. The Ford Foundation grants did wonders for the morale of Administra tors of privately owned liberal arts colleges recipients of the largest single philanthropic gift in history 550 million dollars. They will also, it is hoped, inspire other industries and foundations to continue their aid to education, and to increase it. Industry and private ed ucation, working together for the welfare of youth, can develop vast re sources of individual talent and initiative. White Snow Charms Oriental . . . If Winter Comes . . . Life Can Be So Sweet Try Fairy Tale After Test People differ by their likes. Some like fishing, listening to music, reading poetry or romance; others iike taking care of plants, collecting the stamps, the butterflies, or even just walking in a crowd or alone with nature. And in any of these hob bies, they find a certain amount of pleasure which makes them stop the worry about the realities of every day. They feel well to ward themselves and they move in a world where they can find the answer which completes their unconscious need. For me, I like reading the fairy tales yes, the fairy tales Many of so-called old people pretend fairy tales only good for jokes when they see an adult with this kind of book in bis hand. When I am tired or not satisfied with myself or when I get a hurt from someone or when it's rain ing outside, I sit down com fortably in my chair and take again Anderson's Tales or Grimm's Tales and read over Cinderella, The Blue Bird, Beauty Sleeping, or White Snow. I am transplanted to a world where the animals have a human language and are the most fidele friends of man; where the beauti ful fairy is always there to understand, console, and help; where the good are always rewarded, the bad punished'; where dreams can come true if you have enough Faith and Hope. And the sweet princess waiting for her Prince Charmant to come and bring with him love, hap piness, appears a kind of person you would like to be. So I say to myself: She can get this successful life because she is a right love ly lady. I also can seek it if I can become as nice, good, faithful as she. Therefore I go out from this magical land with a smile on my lips, a sparkle in my eyes, a Hope in my heart. It is a whole poetry of imagination for your tedi ous time. I am happy be fore I read and still happy after reading. So try, and you will see Mind on Matter . . . Writers Are Sculptors Be careful My pages, which you now grasp in your hands, are powerful weapons in the fight for men's minds. As tools help to form a statue, I help mold public opinion. Your mind is the clay; words are the tools, and authors are sculptors. Campus life is the essence of my stories, but their meaning is deeper than that. On my pages you can see the dreams of girls who are realizing their places in the world as Catholic women. I provide a testing ground for you who desire to write. I can give you the thrill of seeing a part of yourself, your ideas, in print. My copy-basket is, perhaps, the beginning of a career. I am all of this, but my scope is b roader. I bring to you a message, the message of truth. This is my purpose, and my words serve as the founda tion in this apostolate. I am your newspaper. About Textbooks . . What Was It Francis Bacon Said? Textbooks are annoying. They may be helpful, open, if set in large type, when a fast glance will provide an intel lectually convincing reply to an unexpected question. But they are rarely printed in large type. Sometimes one suspects that textbook manufacturers work hand in hand with spec tacle manufacturers. This partnership could be respon sible for the sleepy or cross eyed look often seen on the campus. The collegiate rage for hornrims, named, no doubt, in memory of the horn books, has done wonders in lifting sagging brows. In addition to being a fin ancial burden, books in them selves are heavy. We suspect another partnership between publishers and paper manu facturers, who favor books with 10,000 pages, one of which is given over to the title and the author's name and another to details about the publisher. A friend of ours, believing he experienced hallucinations when he saw a leaning tower moving down a street, con sulted a psychiatrist at 19.00 a visit; later dicovered that the base of the tower was a struggling student going home for the weekend. Statistics show that men prefer women without mus cles but the publishers and book manufacturers ignore such statistics. They seem ac tually to hope that college girls will develop muscles while carrying books. Picture the diligent young thing, glasses on nose, hold ing an Elevated strap in one hand and half a ton of books in the other. Note how grace fully she stoops when she drops them, and scatters a thousand note cards in the aisle. Yes, textbooks are annoy ing. But if anything happens to ours during the coming week examination week we'll be sorry. Meanwhile, following Bacon's dictum that books are to be chewed and digested, you may even see us devouring them in the next few days. Not so very long ago a song en titled Little Things Mean A Lot made the top of the hit parade. As is the case with most popular tunes, it came and went, but those few little words linger on. They can be the keynote to an extremely happy existence. Student View . . . Christianity Comes To Life Never has the figure of Christ risen higher or in more compelling majesty over the debris of human failure. Christmas, 1955, came and went leaving behind it many things, few more satisfying than the December 26 issue of Life Magazine. A gold background framing the Werden Crucifix formed the un usually beautiful cover that rose with compelling majesty over every news stand in the country. This special double-issue of the ma gazine focused its entire attention on Christianity a job of breath-taking proportions. From our reading chair, this issue of Life Magazine is entirely successful. The world of art, a sphere greatly influenced by Christianity, contributes paintings by 15 artists who span 14 centuries. Their combined efforts re sult in an artistic presentation of The Life of Christ. The Onward March of Christian Faith is a concise 11-page history of the belief ... that makes the most stupendous claims for the divinity of its Founder and the finality of its teaching. The author, Protestant Paul Hutchinson, is quick to recognize the pitfall yawning before the writer of such an article the influence of his own particular religious background. Mr. Hutchinson avoids the snare and instead produces an in telligent, historical, and unbiased picture of such subjects as: early Christianity, the Papacy, the Ref ormation, and what he terms the most important contribution of American churches to the de velopment of Christianity le gal status to the separation of church and state. Of special civic and religious in terest to us is the singling out of Chicago on the basis of its being '' The biggest U.S. Archdiocese where a huge organization helps Cardinal Stritch guide two million Catholics. The entire article upholds the au thor's statement, In the Roman Catholic Church, the largest in Chris tendom, the genius of organization has reached its fullest point. Doubtless, there were many subscribers who were more than slightly abashed when they re ceived their copies of Life during Christmas week. To them, we di rect the closing lines of Life's edi torial of December 26, 1955: No doubt most Americans are less religious than they should be. They then owe a vast and continuing debt to the saving remnant in their midst who do hunger and thirst after right eousness and walk humbly before their God. They do not do this for America's sake; but without them America would be little more than a geographical expression. Every student college or other wise is acquainted with the January .slump. The holidays are over, Christ mas trees and cribs are down, and candy jars are emptied. In short, the world looks pretty barren with only semester examinations to offer diver sion and what diversion That's where the little things come in like a snowfall, for instance. How many of us ever stop to look at snow not look down at it so that we see the slush, but up and out to see the stillness and beauty of it. Most of us know the story of the three men who were working on a foundation when a passerby stopped to question them about the nature of their work. The first man said he was pushing a wheelbarrow. The second told his inquirer that he was hauling stones. The third man replied, Why, I'm building a cathedral. The same job, and yet what a dif ference To the third man, the little thing he was doing did mean a lot. We can build our own cathe drals right here and now. If we were questioned similarly while bent over our textbooks, what would our answers be? How many of us would be cramming French verbs, and how many of us would be getting an educa tion ? There is another song on a related subject a little older perhaps, but every bit as good called On the Sun ny Side of the Street. We all have to travel down the same street, so we may as well choose the right side. And it's the little things that can keep it right and bright. It's pretty hard to see any thing sunny when you're walking into Room 405 to take a semester examination. But when it's over you're just one test closer to the final goal a Catholic education. See? It's just a matter of putting things in their proper perspec tives. *Uhe h f Scraper Vol. XXVI Jan. 23, 1956 No. 7 Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1931, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, nnder On Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 per year. Published semi-monthly from October to M y inclusive by the students of Mundelein College, 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. Co-editors-in-chief Jean Kielty, Marie Kobielus, Nancy Mamtnoser Associate Diane Letourneau Genevieve Teutsch, Maribeth Naughton, Marilyn Santini Student View Rita Caprini Skyscrapings Barbara Guderian The REPs Report Virginia Leidinger White Snow Beatrice Hoang About Textbooks Maureen Connerty Reporters Mary Lou Doherty, Geraldine Battista, Michaella Burton, Mar ilyn Devcreaux, Jeanine Dwyer, Dolores I Ferraro, Marilyn Jensen, Gloria Mrazek, Marguerite Phillips, Alice Raczak, Lynda Rousseau, Diane Scifres, Kathleen Slattery, Dorothy Strzechowski, Alma Sweaton, Ann Toland, Jean Vctterick, Marytherese Wals dorf, Joan Zander, Marcella Brown, Janice Zumwalt.
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1956-01-23 (2)
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