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Page Two SKYSCRAPER . ruc Ortado uj- of SUBSTANCE? Mr. Marshall Has a Plan. . . Secretary of State George Marshall mapped out last summer a posi tive plan of action for European relief. Realizing realistically that whatever is required to set Europe back on its feet must be decided by the Europeans, he issued an invitation to all European nations to decide how far they can go in rebuilding them selves, and then to draw up a list of needs which they cannot supply. These needs, according to the plan, will then be met by grant or loan from the United States. i The Paris conference considered the proposal. In September a 16 nation report was published, citing the following objectives: 1. To restore the pre war level of agricultural production and to exceed it in coal, steel, and manufacturing industry generally. 2. To create internal financial stability in certain countries as a necessary condition for accomplishment of the programs; which stabi lization will, to a large extent, depend on supplementary external re sources. 3. To cooperate among themselves in making maximum use of the participating countries own raw materials and productive capacity. 4. To make their full contribution toward achieving a balanced trade by eeping the need for outside aid to a minimum. Thus the self-help' plan was outlined in western Europe. The signposts were placed on the road to recovery. Now, will the American people fulfill the second part of the Plan? Will the necessary economic aid be supplied? The present special Con gressional session called by President Truman last month will decide. Our representatives in Washington will vote on appropriating funds. It is estimated that, over a period of five years, a sum of twenty to thirty billion dollars in loans or grants will finance the Plan. The eco nomic reconstruction of Europe along democratic, rather than commu nistic, ideals depends on our investment in Europe. The war to win the peace is on. Will America win it economically or let Russia win it politically? . . .And I Made It Myself Did you ever make pen wipers out of socks? Would your Aunt Minnie thrill to a hand-cro cheted broom cover with her initials glittering in sequins on it? According to the slicks and the not-so-slicks made-at-home gifts of this sort will enhance the beauty of any Christmas tree. The approaching holiday is the magazines' call to arms the green light for the annual make something for nothing in 113 easy steps campaign. You cannot remain immune to clever captions, apparently costless materials, and colored photos for long. Since Mother is first on your shopping list, and she's been hinting about that black calf bag she saw last week, you can make her Christmas merry by supplying her with a reasonable facsimile it says here. You be gin with an oatmeal box cereal and top removed and punch holes in it. Run a lacquered clothesline through the box and fasten the rope with a gilt safe ty pin for decoration. Paint the box green and trim with gold stars, replace lid, and there it is ready to be worn with a dozen changes. For Father perhaps a cigar box covered with old soap wrappers and shellacked for durability. Your favorite monthly would call this gift functional and friendly espe cially if he doesn't smoke ci gars. Most magazines insist that college girls live from one shoe shine kit to another. So for your locker partner an empty orange crate, painted red and gold, of course, and trimmed with an organdy flounce, will hold her jars of polish, brush. rags, etc. And she'll never for get you. Needlework ideas usually be gin with knitting a John Fred erics original for your sister. Of course you must purchase the instruction*, needles in three sizes, and three skeins of yarn to complete the gift. But it's worth it they say. Suggestions to please both family and friends at Christmas are infinite. You can make greeting cards out of blotters or cancelled stamps; macaroni earrings will give the Newest Look possible; fur hanger cov ers are first on anybody's list. It's up to you just follow the ads. And if you've just read an article on children's gifts, and have already placed an order for 25 pounds of lumber, a saw, and 15 gallons of black paint don't stop now maybe it'll work this time. Thanksgiving Theme Needs Renewing Thanksgiving has evolved from a day of thanks he to God to a day of thanks to the butcher, the florist, the box office. Like too many other holidays, it has be come commercialized. The last Thursday of November has come to mean a four-day week-end, a field day for football fans, and the official open ing of the Santa Claus season. The traditional turkey dinner is about the only part of the Filgrim day of thanks which remains. The spiritual aspect of the day has been lost in materialism. A re-awakening to the Thanksgiving Spirit is needed. The Banquet of morning Mass gives meaning to the banquet at din ner. By renewing within ourselves the graces of prayer we can make a Thanks giving what it was really intended to be a Day of Thanks ... to God. Will Catholics Allow Amber to Continue? Did you know that black is white; that hot is cold; and that long is short; that immoral movies are not dangerous? If you've been believing anything else, the DECEIVERS tell you, you've been wrong. We may be questioning this widely-cur rent false statement, but what do we ac tually plan to do about it? Are we going to let it pass, since it is such a trivial mat ter? If someone tried to tell us that the blackness of sin was really the whiteness of virtue, would we sit back and take it, or would we prove ourselves to be the practical Catholics that we should be? Don't think that we'll be called upon to prove ourselves only in the distant future. Today, every Mundelein student has the opportunity to do Catholic action. His Eminence, Samuel Cardinal Stritch, has written an open letter to all Catholics tell ing them not to foster the success of a current motion picture. As Catholic college students, we should be anxiously support ing the Cardinal's proposal and actively influencing others to do so. Let's not increase the circulation of a salacious book, by attending the picture that advocates its philosophy. Black is not white; sin is not virtue; therefore, sugges tion of sin is not virtuous. Best Seller Trades On Author's Prestige In two or three months James Hilton's Nothing So Strange will probably be a contender for first place on the best seller parade. It might well be a must on every Christmas shopper's list. At present it is the Literary Guild's selection for No vember and naturally Hollywood is dick ering for the screen rights. But actually Mr. Hilton's latest work is hardly a con tribution to our permanent literature; in stead it is a first-class demonstration of how an author proficient at slick writing can make fictional use of the atomic bomb. Very simply, it is the story of a young American scientist who, just before the war, manages to throw the Germans off the track during the feverish experiments to develop the bomb. Three women in as many cities, London, Hollywood, and Vienna, strive for the cosmopolitan effect as they complicate our young hero's life. This machine-turned story ends with love conquering all as The Bomb falls on Hiro shima. Smoothly written, Nothing So Strange is unable to stand on its own merit. It rests rather on the firm foundation of Mr. Hilton's earlier and more impressive Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips. It has no heart. The reader just cruises along in the shallows, never reaching any depth. What Goes On. M WE PLANNED TO DO AN AMrV ing column this time. Thought write something gay and bright to o W the chill grey of November perhapsBt sprightly paragraph on the lads who coK out of the gymnasium walls to watch H coke dances. ,j( But before anything was concocted thK came an interlude in the candlelit Brolje Room where we stood silent and still, JL tinels observing those who came to kneeS the casket. As we watched the religious JL, lay people who filled the room, says' prayers for their friend, we realized tlB though Sister's grave would be maA with a simple stone, her memorial worn be a glorious one, an intangible moL, ment that all the world could know. K The Immaculata and Mundelein areflt in themselves memorials to her worn,; rather it is us, her dear students, mL are her link with the future. The worldJL know Sister Mary Justitia through H good that we can bring to it by striving fulfill her ideal of Catholic gentlewoi educated for service to both Church state. And it is this knowledge of our poj to render tribute through achievement will warm our hearts and enkindle bleak days of the winter now here. BE SELFISH AT LEAST ONCE week. Think only of yourself and dij your qualities of leadership inward, anal ing your life, mending the worn spots, recharging your spiritual batteries. Tlr what the weekly Sodality sessions are a spiritual prescription aimed at correct the diseases of the soul. For that hour, get the people around you and concent on yourself . . . it's smart to be self tered when God is at the center of i life. I mi. st :r. HIS de ise A irn ter St( nt; es lt;de lOd MUNDELEIN COLLEI E Chicago, 40, Illinois (1 on Under the Direction 0 THE SISTERS Op CHARITY, B.V.M. ce rs Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, underK Act of March 3, 1897, 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to inclusive by the students of Mundelein CoH VOL. XVIII November 17, 1947 All-Catholic Honors All-American Honors Telephone: Sheldrake 9620 Co-Editors-in-Chief Marilyn Tambui V Frances V e Associates , , Katherine Bill I Jeri Mangold, Ellcnmae Quan, Pal Runkle, Jean Ondesco, Blanche Schwq f Feature Editors Rita Bti w Patricia Dannchy, Barbara Fallon, Cji i Knight, Mary Leona Merrick, Patricia N B Associates Mary Louise Fai K JoAnn Figucira, June Kopal, Mary Man P LaVaque, Mary O'Dwyer, Jane O'Neill, p tricia Trudeau. Copy Editors Dorothy Da B Eileen Dolan, Geraldine Grace, Bej M Goldrick, Peggy Roach. He Associates Jean Ji B Ramona Marino, Janet McGinn, Lon p Stajdohar, Rita Szacik. gj News Editors Joan Mo B Patricia 0'*m Associates Mary N I Jeanine Powers, Ruth I Sports Claire Job I Jewel q I Art Editor Mary Margaret Caq I Reporters Maribeth C k Marijo Coleman, Eileen Damuth, Alice I Pern, Rosemary Simep, Rosemary Ai ft son, Maribeth Carey, Marilyn Kloss, R M Gibson, Patricia Hanson, Elaine I ft Patricia Keenan, Rita McManus, U m Millazo, Therese Mocny, Barbara JI son, Sheila Neary, Geraldine Fisher, I, Kay Waggeman, Rosemary Wright, I -I
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1947-11-17 (2)
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