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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER April 8, 1957 Spring is Renewing, Restoring . . . Open Your Heart To Christ And His Easter Message The answer is simple. Why don't they see it they who speak of re armament and peace in the same breath they who dream of a great and complicated plan which will save the world, while the world sinks deeper in corruption and selfishness selfishness which precedes dis aster and chaos? Jesus Christ, eternally crucified, extends His arms and begs us to love him and, through loving Him, to love all others. He is ignored. People stay in the obstinancy of sin, hugging it to them like a soiled garment. They avert their eyes from the cross and search for a new an swer where none exists. We who know much, often love little. We forget our obligation the obligation of those faithful to Christ to bring others back to Him by prayer and penance. We must pray fervently for sinners. Only through their conversion, can peace be assured. New SAC Plan May Provide Spring Need: A Boy for the Arm Three cheers for the Student Coun cil Harking to the student's pleas for a more exciting social life, the SAC is starting a series of tea dances, the first to be Sunday, April 28, from 5 to 8 p.m. Room 405, decoration-brightened, will provide a casually gay atmos phere. A few hands of bridge, a bit of dancing, or a getting-to-know-you type chat are all in order for the day. .Jacqueline Doyle and .Mary O'Mal ley, co-chairmen of the post-lenten party, hope you can add an essential accessory to your Spring outfit, a boy for the arm. When daffodils begin to peer Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year. Shakespeare, Winter's Tale This year Spring means lilac, delicate lavender shirtwaist dresses flowery picture hats patent leath er. Spring means daydreams recol lections philosophizing. It is the season for so-called fever, for wafting breezes, buds on trees. Whitman's symbolic grass annually blushes green in Spring. Spring thrives on outward mani festations shimmering sun-showers and dew drops, hyacinth blossoms and tulips, petite bouquets of lily of the valley. Spring means bright mornings, pastel sunsets, twilight evenings. Spring's warm weather opens windows, welcomes robins, en courages baseball. Spring also means redecorating and housecleaning. It ushers in a lilting hope, for Spring implies fresh outlooks and decisions. The season evokes a new feeling, as the antici pation of summer matures in the springtime. Winter was a prelude to a bud ding, colorful, living poem. As Win ter dissolves, Spring blooms and enhances. Ultimately, Spring means Easter Christ's Resurrection along with His creations', God restores man's merit. Spring is renewing, restor ing a Iife-ful litany of aspirations. Spanish Film Wins Hearts and Acclaim Dark-eyed and bright souled, five- year-old Marcelino ivins the hearts of the audience just as he won the hearts of 12 monks when he was left at their doorstep as a baby. For some reason the brothers find it hard to dispose of the boy, despite Brother Bell Ringer's explanation to all prospective parents that the boy is just wonderful that is, he has a tremendous capacity for food and tears. These sales talks don't work, and the monks determine to keep him and raise him. Brothers Cookie and Sickly learn to scoop up and out of sight little paper boats that the tot is wont to sail on the waves of the holy water font. Instead of having their shoe laces tied together, they grew accus tomed to being joined at the cinc tures by a love knot tied by his truly. Until a Miracle for Marcelino fi nally allows him to see his mother, which he wants to do more than any thing else in the world, he keeps the village, monastary, and audience in somersaults. New Foreign Relations Plan Concerns YOU While heads of state caucus in Ber muda, Cairo, and Sydney, stretching taut the rope of international rela tions, America's John Q. Public is dealing out much needed slack. Authors headed by William Faulk ner, corporation executives, cartoon ists led by Al Capp, musicians, and other interested groups united un der the broad title of The People to People Foundation have set out to promote in their specific fields closer understanding and co-opera tion among the peoples of the world and between them and the people of the United States of America. President Eisenhower's plan in suggesting this formidable undertaking is that the Ameri can people may do something in dependent of the government to dispel the unfavorable impres sion held of them abroad. The President believes an exchange of ideas among nations on a citizen- to-citizen basis may be more condu cive to good will than impersonal govermiient-to-government econom ic aid and technical assistance. People to People is an organiza tion to watch. Though still mainly in the on paper stage of organi zation, the movement's pilot activi ties proved successful in Venezuela, West Germany, Italy, and France. If the present enthusiasm of its exponents survives the dampening effect of getting down to work, the United States may be taking a giant step toward better foreign relations. Think . . . Originality and Creativity Are More Amusing, Exciting Than Imitation and Parody In a famous American poem a man stands at the crossroads and tries to decide which will be the road for him and which will re main the road not taken. The college student very often stands at the crossroads which will she use, which will she pass by? One of the greenest and most uncluttered roads in college is that called, creativity. Parody, imitation, agreement are much eas ier Perhaps the lecture room stress on the great ideas and theor ies of the past stifles the modern student. One is awed by the achievements of others and rightly so, but, if one is awed into si lence, one of the main objectives of education is repressed. Whereas college might be viewed as a gigantic laboratory in which ideas and pet projects might be formulated and tested, it is sometimes regarded only as a place for rephrasing everyone else's work. Opportunities for originality confront us on every side, every day. Each program, skit, publication, and club activity cries out for originality. Yet the individual spark that makes a thing different, that makes it a real contribution, is often the very thing we refuse to give. It is much easier to paraphrase and to follow, we say, especi ally when we must devote much time to the study of other people's ideas. These studies are essential, but they should serve as a stimu lus, an inspiration. We should not relegate our own ideas to minor status or to oblivion just because we are only students. Our status as students is the greatest reason we have for or iginality, and, we might add, the most understandable excuse for failure, if there are some who are sensitive about failure. It is true that not everyone in college has the makings of great original thinking or artistry. But it is also true that too many college students do not even bother to prove or disprove the statement. Jhe hudcraper Vol. XXVII April 8, 1957 No. 11 Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1933, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, 91.75 per year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College, 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. Co-editors-in-chief Rita Caprini, Maribeth Naughton Assistants Geraldine Battista, Mary Gart, Margaret Nicholson, Mau reen Connerty, Jean Vetterick, Beatrice Hoang, Dolores Ferraro Pan American Day Mary Ellen O'Shea Spanish Film Marcella Brown Foreign Relations Mary Merlock When Daffodils Begin Marguerite Phillips Skyscrapings Judith Angone Reporters Maryvivian Cunnea, Gcrryann Foley, Barbara Hegan, Arlene Novak, Florence Theisen, Elizabeth Weinrich, Judith Witt, Marianne Witte, Nancy Butler, Marilyn Picchietti, Mari lyn Riha, Jean Towle, Frances Kotre, Roberta Dirzius, Mahilyn Jensen, Lynda Rousseau, Alice Raczack, Barbara Gu- derian, Patricia Delsing, Violet Wick v Pan American Day Commemorates 67 Years of Progress hi nr The shackles of Spanish mater- 01 ialisni had just fallen from the lit wrists of Latin America when, in fa 1826, Simon Bolivar called the first conference of American nations. This f ill-fated Congress of Panama was the j skeleton upon which James Blaine (j in 185)0 laid the foundation for the E organization which in 1910 became IJ known as the Pan American Union. W1 The name it carries today is the Gen- H eral Secretariate of the Organization ; 0 of American States (OAS). a In the 67 years since its founding, t the Union has moved from the posi- .- tion of a mere United States puppet to that of the vitalizing center of In- L tor-American cultural activities. No f longer a mere statistician, it now or- jp ganizes and supervises projects from gt;n Argentina to Canada. A training center in econom- fc ic and financial statistics in ie Chile, an inter-American hous- m ing center at Bogata, and an in- 1C lt; stitute of medical studies in * Brazil, all testify to its accom- ' plishments. J' st Through a policy of supplying help e where it is most needed, the OAS *' has raised the living standards in st the backward areas of the Americas, j - More important, however, it has instilled in the Inter-American com- ai munity a deep sense of unity. Such unity insures real international co operation on the gigantic problems ai of our day. Without this coopera- jM tion no nation, no matter how large *e or small, can be sure of survival. w as The Organization of American A States, therefore, as a means of co-1 operation for peace, security, and the * gt;j betterment of peoples, deserves our * complete moral support in its proj- .e', ects. rs On each April 14, Pan-American 3 day, we view with pride the growth, ? cooperation, and efficiency of the l. Union of 21 sovereign nations of the . Western hemisphere, the OAS. f ui e.
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1957-04-08 (2)
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