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Page Two SKYSCRAPER Do You Deserve Holy Week? Holy Thursday . . . splendor of the Mass . . . sweet odor of incense as the Blessed Sacrament is carried in procession to the repository . . . Holy Hour before an altar banked with lilies and lighted by flickering candles . . . Holy Thursday in Italy ... air raid sirens . . . crumbling ruins of once beautiful shrines ... the heart of Christendom in suffering and siege . . . Good Friday . . . sad solemnity of the Mass of the Presanctified . . . majestic, in spiring Tre Ore ... the Way of the Cross in a still, hushed Cathedral . . . Good Friday on an obscure island lost in the South Pacific . . . scream of bombs overhead .. . absolution for a dying soldier . . . grim faces watching a sky as dark as that of Jerusalem . . . THE SKYSCRAPER MUNDELEIN COLLEGE Chicago,Illinois Mundelein Chicago's College For Women Under the Direction of the Sisters of Charity, B.V.M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, 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. XIV Friday, March 31, 1944 No. 10 Member ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS Telephone: Ambassador 9011 Co-Editors-in-Chief Mary Kay Jones, Marie Nordby Associates Helen Nicholson Frances Wilkinson Feature Editors Jayne King. Jerry Stutz, Mary C. Tuomcy Associates Mary Beecher, Mary C. Burns, Alyce Jeanne Kiley, Gene vieve Urbain Copy Editor Mary Grace Carney News Editors Eleanor Arends, Patricia Hollahan, Joan Tcmpleman Associates Patricia Curran, Sheila Finney, Dolores Hartigan, Dellamae Laughlin, Julia Woodford Sports Editor Jeanne Kiley Art Editor Dorothy Schaar Business Manager Madeleine Courtney Reporters: Viola Brennan, Mary Martha Cooper, Lois Hintze, Audrey McDonnell, June Park, Carol Reid, Regina Bess, Mary Louise Hec tor, Dolores Toniatti, Alice Marie Horen, Nancy Enzweiler, Helen June Maloney, Gladys Sullivan, Margaret. Mary Trendell. Papal Encyclicals Challenge All In an editorial two weeks ago, we spoke of the increasing evidence of unethical standards throughout the country stand ards which are condoned in the nation's press. There is, however, a determined effort on the part of some Americans and some editors to preserve and foster the ideal foundations of American society. THE UNITED STATES NEWS, edited by David Lawrence, devotes its editorial space in the issues of March 24 and 31 to reprints from, and comment upon a book, entitled BETTER MEN FOR BETTER TIMES, prepared by members of the Com- mision on American Citizenship, of the Catholic University of America. Mr. Lawrence has printed parts of the book because he feels that the work is a constructive attempt to apply Christian principles to cur governmental problems and hence will be of interest to all citizens, irrespective of creed. The authors do not hedge. They reach the crux of the situation within the first two paragraphs. They state that men are apt to forget that they were born with social as well as individual natures, that we achieve happiness according as we learn what it means to love one another and to bear one another's burdens. The text points out that America's Founding Fathers had faith in human na ture, and that, because of their faith, we now have the most ambitious form of free government the world knows. Citing the dark days which have con fronted our democracy, the selfishness and the injustice which have too often crept into our national life, the authors insist that these shadows only prove that de mocracy does not happen automatically, and they illustrate that it can be preserved only through individual intelligence and self-discipline. Its perpetuation is guaranteed, they tell us, only as understanding deepens and the principle of self-sacrifice is accepted. This is the application of Christian prin ciples in government. This is the way in which the American people can make de mocracy live up to its name. This is the way Americans must proceed if they are to fulfill their most vital task if they are to see to it that, what America stands for, she increasingly becomes. Successive chapters develop the work which Pope Pius XI assigned to the Amer ican hierarchy in 1939. when he suggested that, with the Papal Encyclicals of the past as the basis of study and research, the Catholic university . . . evolve a con structive program of social action, fitted in its details to local needs, which will command the admiration and acceptance of all right-thinking men. The Papal Encyclicals are required read ing for Mundelein students; the new book is available in the library. Its challenge is a challenge to all of us, to study, to pray, and to work that the Better Men it envi sions may bring the Better Times for which all Americans hope. Read and See . . . Entitled What They Want Is Fun, an article by Helen Buckler, in PARENTS' MAGAZINE, for March, considers the problem of juvenile delinquency as it has been attacked in various American cities. Paramount among the ideas which Miss Buckler presents is the one that the young people concerned wish to handle the prob lem themselves. They cheerfully accept guidance and financial aid, but they are eager to assume responsibility for various anti-delinquency projects, once these proj ects are launched. A picture of Free China from the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor and our sub sequent joining with her in the fight against Japan is well drawn by Josephine Brown in an article in the NATIONAL GEO GRAPHIC MAGAZINE for March. From the beginning of her trip, three months be fore pur entry into the war, until her de parture last September, Miss Brown trav eled through most of China. Her impres sions and some of her pictures are pre sented in a study entitled 6000 Miles Over the Roads of Free China. Next Year's Peace Prayers Replace This Year's Easter Parade Gay new suits, hats, dresses, blended in colorful panorama down Michigan Avenue dark patches contrastingly sober in proud escort, as the sun shone down on a world that was awakening anew under the in fluence of immortal Spring this was the Easter parade in remembered, carefree years. This year, the third of war, there will be no Easter parade; at least, not the osten tatious display of splurge-spending that characterized past Easter Sundays. This year, navy, khaki, and marine green will predominate in the crowds on Michigan Avenue the uniforms of the lucky men who can spend the greatest feast of the year with their families. These are the very small minority most of our fighting men will be celebrat ing Easter only in their hearts perhaps after attending Mass offered at an impro vised altar deep in a steaming jungle, or in a hut in the Aleutians, or in a ruined church in Italy. For them, there will be no leisurely breakfast after Holy Communion, no s down the Avenue-in company with then friends, no laughter, no lightheadedness For them, there will be only another weary day of fighting, or bumping along a ruttjj road to a new position, or flying high above the checkerboard countryside to drew bombs on cities wherein many people are also remembering this feast-day. This ii' the way of war. To the people back home, Easter this year will mean another milestone in tbi slow winning of the peace we hope wilj last. Easter to us at home will be offered1 to God for the safety of our boys and the victorious termination of this war The Easter parade will be missing but the Resurrection, with its promise of future joy, will bring a foretaste of peace to i world newly aware of the meaning of the Saviour's Easter greeting Peace be tH you. 'Of All Sad Words of Tongue or Pen The Saddest Are These: It Might Have Been9 don't walk to school; they skip. Lifeb lovely. According to Tennyson's Locksley Hall, in the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. No one, it seems, is interested in what happens to a young lady's fancy. Well, here is what happens to one girl's days. The wind no longer roars belligerently around the west door. Instead, it hums softly. Trees put on their brightest dresses of spring green. Billowy white clouds play tag across a sky blue background. Icy white caps desert the lake just as patches of snow leave the campus. The robin's call in the tree top changes from a timid chirp to a warbling song. It's spring again. Fur coats grow too warm; mittens too clumsy. Spring goes to the feet, as well as to the head. Snow-boots no longer clut ter the locker rooms. Instead, the shuffling of huaraches fills the corridors Students Poetry takes on a new meaning it is not silly and sentimental it is expressive and beautiful. This is the time for long walks in the country, for building net dreams to the tune of The Music Stopped or for reliving the old ones with I Get Along Without You Very Well. Philosophy, rhetoric, and what-have-yot term paper deadlines grow alarmingly near, yet the library reference room is less at tractive than the library campus. This is the season of the year when you sit don to write a serious editorial for the SKY SCRAPER and discover your pencil mot- ing of its own free will across the pap telling the joys of spring. Young lady, you have Spring Fever Ticker Tape Steel rain fell on Germany for a day and a half last week 76 tons of it in what was probably the all-time top in Allied air-raiding. . . . Five thousand American and British aircraft blasted half a dozen Naziland targets. A quick look at the battle situation gave the Allies an edge. . . . On the Cassino front, German strongholds quivered under heavy shelling. . . Only a few miles from the pre-war Rumanian border, the fingers of the Russian army stretched out into six sectors of the 700-mile Poland-Black Sea area and snatched another piece of stolen territory from the self-styled master race. The Navy sent Japanese submarines to the floor of the Pacific. . . . Yugoslavian anti-Nazi fireworks made good news. As the Army looked for manpower, de ferments were on the fire again . . . this time there was a demand for the up-to-26- year-olds in essential industries. . . . Man ufacturing big-wigs moaned, uttered dire prophecies of production shortage, urged the taking of 3-A fathers . . but the Army wanted her recruits young and unmarried. Leaving life as he had lived it, with eyebrow raised and tongue in cheek, Irvin S. Cobb, the pride of Paducah and long time ace of American humorists, be queathed to the world his philosophy in a posthumous letter the legacy, bantering skepticism. As Cassino lay in ruins, Pope Pius XII broadcast an appeal to belligerants to spare the Eternal City . . . Letter-writers discovered a change in the stamp situation . . . within-city postage went up to three cents, putting local mail on a country-wide standard . . . In La Crosse, the chair of the Bishop was empty . . . the Most Reverend William R. Griffin, D.D., was dead ... the Bishop visited Mundelein in 1936, conferred de grees upon members of the senior class . . . Editorials to the contrary, Spring wears a snowy coat, and April 1 is due to arrive in ear muffs, fur boots, and mittens. Pulitzer Prize Winner Scores Again READ JOHNNY TREMAIN by Esj ther Forbes, author of Pulitzer Prize winner, PAUL REVERE. MEET gay, clever, 14-year-old Johnny Tremain of Boston, who will take you through the two years of Ameri- can history that were to culminate in the Boston Tea Party and the Battle of Let ington. Apprenticed to a silversmith, Johnny loses the use of his right hand when a crucible of molten silver breaks and) seriously burns it. Unable to continue in his trade, he be-1 comes a dispatch rider for the Committee of Public Safety, a job that brings hiiij into contact with many of the Boston pat riots of the Revolutionary period. Later, Johnny sees someone very dear to him fa 1 under British fire, and, when on the battle field a doctor tells him he can cure his maimed hand so that he will some day l* able to return to his trade, Johnny resolves that his hand will hold a gun before itm ever again grasp a silversmith's iiiiplementj LEARN the drama behind this story of Boston in revolt. This thrilling story captures the spirit of the poorly clothed and inadequately equipped Minute Men of 1775, who come from the plow, the ship, and even the pulpit to stand td against the invincible British army, with its perfection of equipment and gaudy unrj forms. They were willing to fall in order that other men might stand. ENJOY the powerful but tender style oC the author her vivid manner of presentation and her use of minute details which make each scene live. Stirring, and) at times pathetic, this timely novel reveals the very core of American Patriotism.
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1944-03-31 (2)
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