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Edifo rials . . . That Vocations May F lourish Recently, -Our Holy Father made an appeal to all praying Catholics to petition God that the present world distress might not hamper priestly vocations. This plea of the Sovereign Pontiff makes us appreciate more fully how important is the apostolic mission and how necessary it is that we make a daily memento in our prayers that God's Vineyard be renewed with young missionaries who will bind up the spiritual and moral wounds of humanity, in a world gone mad with the griefs and horrors of war. The cluestion that faces all thoughtful Catholics today is: Will there be enough priests to strengthen the faith of the people confused by the terrors of this terrible war and help to keep their faith and hope and charity strong and determined and tender? Apropos of the subject, we might compare the present conflict with the scourge of the Black Death which swept across Europe in the sixteenth century. It was because so many priests thus died untimely deaths that ordinations were accelerated, and some- times vocations not brought to maturity culminated in laxity on the part of the clergy f thus giving an impetus to the so-called Protestant Reformation, It is the duty of every loyal Catholic to keep this intention, so earnestly promulgated by the Vicar of Christ, in his daily prayers, so that history will not be tempted to repeat itself. There are many young Catholic boys in the armed service who might otherwise have answered the call to the priesthood but who felt it a patriotic duty to serve their country in her great hour of need. Will these young men, when, and if they return, retain their originaldesire to follow the call, or will they, perhaps, come home with an altered outlook and anxious for more worldly pursuits? After the war our broken world must be rehabilitatedg and how is this to be done without the religious guidance of God's ministers? Let us sincerely pray with all our heart in the words of our Holy liather the Pope: 'l'hat the present world distress may not hamper priestly vocations. Moi.i.v WHALIQN '-ii C 'T Ifmale T XWAS four months ago that we first practiced marching to the strains of the tradi- tional Melody in F . Now that the curtain is about to ascend and the orchestra is tuning up, we are more than a little expectant. Attired in our spotless uniforms and spectators, and bedecked with American Beauty roses, we are quite confident that the Class of 19,45 will be outdone by none. As our turns come one by one, we listen closely tc the music. Dafdum-da-dardum. da-da-dum, -dabda-tum'-the bass notes of the wind instruments take us back to our freshman days to the ups-and-downs of getting goingnff dark days to be sure but relieved by the happy sophomoric string idyll, after having been duly initiated into thc joys and sorrows of Latin, history, geometry, and home economics. Lovely, lovely melodymda-dum-dabdafthe beautiful rhythm insinuates itself into the very marrow of our memories and we see ourselves the efficient organizers of the junior-Senior Prom. At this point an unrehearsed sour note jolts us to the realistic :emembrance of the man-power shortage, which brought on the last resort of lullaby singing for a younger brother or two. Like time, the tune marches on. XVe find ourselves nearing the footlights. lt is the finale-Y the fourth and last measure. Fragments of wistful cadences bring us to visualize Scroll work, Class Play, Senior Retreat, and May Crowning. Mixed emotional chords fight for the mastery: but the regretful minor wins the contest as we make our final curtsy before this audience, which has assembled to witness the class of 1945 bid farewell to S,U.A. Gifiuiv Bakr-La '-ii THE SCROLL 23
Youth and the Press ET us suppose that we have just had a hard day at school. Numbers! Figures- both of the genre geometrical and poetical! Our mind is spinning with them. Dinner being not quite ready, we decide to saunter into the library and see if any of the current periodicals have found their way to our mailbox. Much to our delight, this week's Squizit is lying on the stand. Now just to sit down in our favorite chair and relax. After reading for some minutes, we throw the magazine down in disgust. A narrative that appeared to be good clean fun has once again turned out to be one of those cheap, sordid, triangle love affairs. How can we relax completely when there is such trash to excite our poor tired minds. It is when we are weary that we most enjoy readingg but it is then also that our minds have the least resistance to such temptations in black and white, which are found in too many newspapers and magazines. Public taste, it seems, has become so degenerate that it revels in such fiotsaml And it is all through such a powerful instrument as the press. The novels that are so highly recommended by the supposedly reliable Book-of-the-Month clubs simply reek of uncouthness and vulgarity. No wonder, then, that the youth of our proud nation cannot make our nation proud of them in return. They are taking their first steps toward adulthood and the most foreboding of stumbling blocks have been thrust into their paths-the stumbling blocks of the intellect. Fortunately we can turn to our Catholic Press which, armed with the Grace of God, has spent every effort to give us such invaluable aids as the Legion of Decency, the Roman Index, and well-informed Catholic critical agencies to be our guides and our protection. We should be grateful for the Catholic Press and help it by our cooperation. Let us hope that its influence will ever be felt until every vestige of salacious writing has been banished forever from the printing presses of the world. SALLY 0'CONNlEl.I. '45 Our South American Blunders OUTH of us exists a group of countries which every day are becoming more and more paramount in the interests of the United States. In our efforts to establish a friendly feeling between North and South America, misunderstandings have developed-blunders caused by the false conceptions that both countries entertain, the one of the other. It has been a general surmise that Latin Americans have been reared on the three R's of revolution, romance, and rumba. They in turn believe we are entirely a simple, methodical, mercenary people who are constantly in a hurry. It is hard to comprehend which idea is more erroneous. Until these misconceptions are rectified, we cannot become better friends. Whence, we ask, has come this false notion of us? Our government sends repre- sentatives who speak no Spanish and who know nothing of the rich historical, cultural, Catholic traditions of these neighbors to the South. Furthermore, the simple untraveled Latin Americans who outnumber the better educated one hundred to one, are taken in by the war psychology to spread false concepts of the United States, carried on so suc- cessfully by the Germans. Finally, our Hollywood productions do us untold injury in portraying us either as two-gun gangsters or habitues of cafe society. In our efforts to gain the friendship of the South American countries, we have spent, lent, and actually given to them over twice as much money as they spend out of their own treasuries on themselves. Being Latin America's Rich Uncle only makes them resent our patronizing attitude. The more suspicious of them say, Beware of North Americans bearing gifts. These existing barriers and past failures do not mean that we should scrap the Good Neighbor policy, it means rather that we should make it authentically good neighbor by being more sincere in our attitude and by dispatching more congenial representatives. RUTH HILLEBRAND '45 24 THE SCROLL
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