Saint Ursula Academy - Scroll Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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number one he QSJCRQLL December I944 CO-EDITORS: Alssociate Editors : Bit O' Leisure S.S.C.: Chronizrle: Classy Chatter: Art and Hlahe-up .' Photography: Alumnae : Business fllgrs Assistants: Circulation lllgr. .' xl ssistan ts : Feature Reporters: Typists : Patrieia lflanlon-Sally O'Connell lllargaret dffolter, Gerry Baker, Ruth Hillehranrl, Patrifia King, Lois lllur- phy, Patricia Stalder, fllolly Whalerz. fllary Dolan, Vera Hlorrison, Tess Burnor, Patricia Beehtel, Carol Die- thelzn fanet Sheperd, Rosemary llffoburg, Peggy Gorman Beverly lloppe, Carol l'laf'l'ett, Joanne Srhlageter, Gerry Zellers Jlary L.. Gieringer, Suzanne lleatley, Patty Roller, Patrieia St. Arnaud, Suzanne Harry Jlyfe lJ'aunzgartner, Jean Quigley. .loan Spillane, Betty D, Clark, Kath- leen Renseh Ann Udoshi, Patriria Fritter, Sue Car- roll, tUargaret Fisehhaeh SueStrauh, lllargaret Korhulnel, llfary Pat Gerhen, Rosemarie Blanchard flfary Pat Agdfllllflllfk, Kathleen Ille- Corznieh Carolyn Frueh, llfary Davies, dngela Guerin Virginia Sarno Sue Kessler, fllary J. Rieallinger, lean Wfasserznan feanetfe Tremblay, Pauline Williarfls, Phyllis Norton, Ann llfagner, Dorothy Dujffin, Rosemary fllenard, Phyllis Ronan, Patricia Kennezly Lezcan- Befverly Uyarner, Rosemary do-zvsii, Patrieia Carstenson, Evelyn Burroughs

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supply stores, hospitals, medical and burial associations, General Principles Nlost co-operatives today are organ- ized and function along eral principles as those the Rockdale Equitable ciety. These, in brief, marized: the society is controlledg membership the same gen- established by Pioneers' So- may be sum- democratically is voluntary through purchase of stockg business transactions are handled in cashg a good- ly portion of the profits are spent for educational purposesg goods and services are sold at prevailing market prices and dividends are distributed to patrons ac- cording to purchases. Have all cooperative activities been of the same type? Assuredly not. They have been developed to fit the whole gamut of economic life, hence we have the consumersb, the producers' and the credit co-operatives. Of the three gen- eral types the consumers' co-op is the most successful and most widespread. In this the members arrange to care for their own needs instead of buying from a retailer. It is truly democratic as it is conducted by and for member con- sumers. Producers' co-operatives, are, on the other hand, organizations in which the workers themselves own and control a productive enterprise. By merging profits with wages this system obviates the abuses of unjust wages. For the most part, this type has not been too success- ful in indutry, but has assured its great- est sudies in the field of agriculture. Credit co-operatives are something like small banks. lVIembers pool their funds to lend to members at a low rate of interest. The fundamental purpose of this group seems to be to hurt the loan-shark. Usually the credit co-op functions well in groups united by oc- cupational, professional, territoral or religious interests. The parish credit unions, numbering several hundred in the United States alone, are doing excellent work. In connection with this phase of co-opera- tive, the services of the Parish Credit Union National Committee or the Social Action Department of the N.C.C.VV.C. are always at the disposal of those seek- ing information. A Catholic Action So far there has been no explicit Papal pronouncement upon the co-opera- tives movement as a whole, but certain- ly Pope Pius XI in his encyclical, Re- constructing the Social Orderw, im- plicitly advocated the founding of such groups. Currently, in the October 13 issue of Amerira, we have presented several illustrations of functionary groups with a Catholic background. Among those cited is the little town of Westphalia, Iowa. There the guests of the Catholic Co-operative Committee picked apples, milked cows, and did the usual farm chores-together. They even carried over the idea of co-operation to their religious activities and the social side of parish life at St. Boniface's Church. At work, at play and at prayer whole families become vital parts of the co- operative ideal. Thus are the younger folks absorbed into the movement. For Catholics the co-operatives are not merely experiments, but something we have had for century upon century. For doesn't love of neighbor go hand in hand with love of God in Christ's pat- tern of life? Come In A while jmneled door H knob nzade of brass if bouquet in the windozt' :I smile from the lady Inside-as you pass. --SUZANNE STRAUB '45 THE SCROLL 29

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fdifor 'alan . . Let There Be Peace HERE is nothing lovelier in all world literature than the epic of Christmas, for it is the Usweetest, saddest love story ever toldf' Listen to St. Luke's simple account: 'lAnd Joseph also went from Galilee . . . the town of David, which is called Bethlehem . . , to register, together with hiary, his espoused wife, who was with child. And it came to pass while they were there, that the days for her to be delivered were fulfilled. And she brought forth her firstborn Son and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. The world today, even as then, needs the lessons of Bethlehem-peace, love, trust, sacrifice, and poverty. Both the war-mad battle fronts and the pleasure-mad home fronts demand the powerful lessons of the God-man, who chose to come into the world He created, unheralded and unnoticed. The Divine Babe by assuming human nature elevated mankind to the dignity of children of God. How, then, can brothers of Christ and members of the Divine Family be immaterial cogs in the machine of purely human living? The tragedy of the modern world is what man has done to man! With all the supposed advance in our socialized and mechanized way of life, we are still woefully lacking in estimating real values. Else why two major world conflicts in the span of a single generation? Qur eyes are so blinded by the dazzle of our own reflected glare that we fail to see the Star of Bethlehem, our ears are so pounded with the discordant blasts of everyday living that we miss completely the soft mellow chorusing of the Angel voices, K'Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, to men of good will. The failure of nations and individuals to carry out the law of God is at the root of all the evils in the world, for the principles of Christianity must be the foundation of our n oli Y of all our social life. The present chaos will not be solved by military alliances, by ocean or desert meetings, or by endless conferences. It is history to admit that these have been found wanting. What then? By harking back to the message of peace that the angels sang which is, as St. Thomas says, the fruit of charity. This message of peace has reached its twentieth century reinterpretation in the Papal Peace Program enunciated by Pope Pius XII on Christmas Eve, 1939. His famous five point Program was formulated against a background of principles of the sovereignty of God over nations as well as over individuals, of the essential demands of the moral law in social life, of the dignity of man, and of the essential unity of the human race. The arms of the tiny Christ Child are outstretched to receive those who heed the words of His Vicar on earth. Let us be as the humble shepherds and hasten to Bethlehem. Venite adoremusl -PATRICIA HANLON '45 'A A C 1 :vs A QXQQM Sfllpllly, Qin. Member Q , ' 251.1921 1:5 ef,-we 43, ,ms ,M -tg, , 554559995 -,.,ss+:wL A THE SCROLL 31