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VOGUE AND VICTORY
Daily Kansan
The Voice for Victory
40TH YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3.1942
NUMBER 41
Wilkins Sings Title Role In Opera Debut
After just $26 \frac{1}{2}$ hours notice, Marie Wilkins, soprano, and wife of Joseph Wilkins, professor of voice at the University, made her debut on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York last night singing the title role of Delibe's "Lakme", and replacing the ailing Lily Pons.
She has, says Associated Press, "a lyric voice of good capacities. And Lakme' is one of the most difficult operas in existence." Jacques Gerard; French-Canadian tenor, also made his debut last night.
Mrs. Wilkins left for New York City Nov. 11. While she was there, she called on Wilfred Pellitier, who had heard her sing last year when he was scouting talent for the Metropolitan auditions of the air. He is now director of "Lakme" and when she called, he told her that he needed an understudy for Lily Pons.
It all came about this way:
Although she was unfamiliar with most of the opera she learned the score in exactly a week, and won the place as Miss Pons' understudy. When Miss Pons was taken ill with a cold. Mrs. Wilkins took her place at rehearsal Monday night. At 6 o'clock Tuesday evening she was told that she would sing the title role.
Mrs. Wilkins studied music in Paris and Milan, and appeared on the stage of Italian opera before the war. In this country she has sung in operetts with the St. Louis Opera company.
She recently sang the famous aria "The Bell Song," from "Lakme" in a recital here.
Cosmetic Drive ★★★ Can Compacts
"Lipstick for defense" is part of the scrap drive sponsored by Epsilon Sigma Alpha, Lawrence business women's sorority. Members have set up a box on the main desk in the Memorial Union building with a sign above reading, "Empty Your Purse Campaign."
In the box are the remnants of feminine beauty aids—lipstick tubes, to which traces of red still cling, dented and enamel chipped compacts, battered cigarette cases, and time-worn rouge boxes. A few scrappers took the caption seriously, and pencils and pennies were contributed.
New lipsticks are being encased in plastic and glass containers, and it has become almost unpatriotic to use a metal tube. Women now have a chance to throw out a litter of old make-up containers, and do it for the war effort. The motto of the drive might well be, "Caa that compact, and keep 'em shining."
Makes Met Debut
Marie Wilkins
Seven Are Initiated To Phi Beta Kappa
The seven newly elected members of Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic honor society, will be initiated at the annual fall meeting and initiation of the organization in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union at 5 o'clock this afternoon.
Those who will be initiated at that time are: Dorothy Burkhead, Wichita; Paul Gilles, Kansas City; Jack Kendall, Wichita; Arthur Nelson, Lawrence; Colleen Poorman, Wichita; Helen Maxine Pringle, Wichita; and Lloyd Woodburn, Cleburne.
The initiation service will be preceded by a tea in the English room at 4 o'clock for all old members of Phi Beta Kappa and for those who will be initiated this afternoon.
Following the initiation service, A. T. Walker, professor of Latin and Greek, will give a paper on "Lucietius."
Will Discuss Reconstruction
Air Corps Recruiter Here Tomorrow
"Post-war Reconstruction will be discussed on the University of Kansas Rountable from 9:30 to 10 o'clock tomorrow night over KFKU.
Loren Eisley and Miss Mabel A. Elliott, associate professors of sociology, and Marston McCluggage, assistant professor of sociology, will participate in the discussion.
Student Trial To Begin Monday In Green Hall
Capt. W. A. Barrett, of the U. S. Army Air Corps, who headed the enlistment board for recruits in the air corps on the campus last week, is expected to be at Watkins Hospital again Friday, to complete enlistments for those whose papers were not in order last week but have since completed the preliminary requirements. While no direct word has been received from Capt. Barrett since he was here, his plans were to return Friday, and Dr. Laurence Woodruff, registrar and coordinator for students of military information, assumes that he will be here tomorrow.
Mrs. Ara Bartholomew (Cot, an accident policy, which she cl indemnity for a 104 weeks illness as a result of being scalded by escaping steam from a locomotive in a railway accident which occurred between Eudora and De Soto and which resulted, finally, in his death. The deceased had taken out compensation insurance with the company.
Does Not Dispute Injury
One of the two trials docketed this year for the University School of Law will be held Monday afternoon in the courtroom of Green hall. Judge P. W. Viesselman will preside. The case is Ara Bartholomew vs. Continental Casualty Company. Curtis Burton and Robert Miller are attorneys for the plaintiff; and J.B. Malone and Charles Case represent the defendant.
Jay Janes And ISA Sell TB Seals
"Although all of the money collected for the tuberculosis drive has not been turned in, the amount now totals between $70 and $75," Evelyn Nielsen, College senior who is in charge of the drive, announced last night.
The ISA will sell the tuberculosis stamps from tables at its dance Wednesday night.
The amount of bonds or stamps bought by the houses will be received by mail by Miss Nielsen the latter part of the week. The money which the organizers of the drive have counted so far was turned in by the Jay Janes. Florence Harris. college junior, sold the most stamps, a total of 815.
Last Monday and Tuesday, Jay James sold penny stamps on the campus. Boxes for pennies were placed in the Union building. Letters were mailed to organized and semi-organized houses, and fraternities were contacted by a representative.
"The total, so far, is much less than I had expected. The Navy school also bought part of the stamps sold on the Campus. I had hoped to sell more stamps on the Hill, but undoubtedly there is a reason why the students didn't respond better," Evelyn Nielsen explained.
Mrs. Ara Bartholomew (Comora MacGregor) is suing under accident policy, which she claims entitled her husband to an 101 weeks ill-*
The defendant does not dispute the injury but claims that the engineer unnecessarily exposed him-
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Religion Is Basis For Peace-Palmer
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Dr. Albert Palmer
The 10th annual debate tournament with Texas will begin Sunday with Dick Royer. College sophomore, and Jim Gillie, business senior, representing the University, Prof E. C. Buehler, coach of the debaters announced todav.
"This trip is an annual affair of long standing. Texas is our main rival in debate. What Missouri is to us in football, Texas is to us in forensics," pointed out Professor Buehler.
KU To Take Part In Texas Debate
Gillie and Royer will participate in eight debates. The two students will debate Monday before a high school audience at Denison, Texas. The following day, they will debate before a junior college and high school assembly of approximately a thousand persons at Temple, Texas. From there Gillie and Royer will go to Austin, Texas and debate before students. A broadcast will be made the following afternoon, at San Antonio.
The debaters will return to Austin and debate four rounds in the tournament which will be held Friday and Saturday Dec. 11 and 12. The question to be debated is, "Resolved: That the Allied Nations should form a federation."
Among the colleges participating in the tournament are: Wichita University, Southern Methodist Bayton University, State College of Louisiana, Rice University, University of Texas, and Texas Christian College. Professor Buehler did not know definitely what other colleges would be represented.
"Our debate team is the only one to do debating outside of the tournament. Last year, we won seven out of eight debates, but two years ago Texas beat us. Over the 10 year period, we have been on the top side.
"We are nervous invalids on the shores of the great Vesuvius of world revolution." Dr. Alfred Palmer, president of Chicago Theological Seminary, told an all-University convocation this morning. Dr. Palmer's address was one of the highlights of this last day of Religious Emphasis week, which began Tuesday and is sponsored every year by the Student Christian Federation.
Under his topic, "What Can Religion Do for Us Today," Dr. Palmer offered four elements that religion can give to a world living in such difficulty and peril as this present one: faith, hope, love, and worship.
"Hatred Will Lose Peace"
That there is orderliness in the universe, that the eternal progress of the world goes on, and that humanity is also a part of that cosmic order is a fundamental belief of the Christian religion, Dr. Palmer asserted. He said that the trouble now is in international relations; "there, I have faith to believe that we will find our way out." Religion offers a stabilizing basis of great faith in the universe on which a man can build and receive courage to go on.
Describing the two kinds of tragedy—the tragedy of fatalism and the tragedy of character weakness—Dr. Palmer insisted that the latter tragedy as exemplified by Shakespeare's plays, the failure of a good man, is the tragedy of today. For, one can come from a Shakespearean tragedy with a strong resolution not to err as Pearl Harbeor $ ... $ ... $
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A "Pearl Harbor" anniversary class of college graduates will be enlisted in the V-7 naval program. it was announced here yesterday by Lt. W. P. Ewing of the naval recruiting enlistment board which was in Watkins Memorial hospital yesterday.
Only college or university graduates under 28 years old may enlist in the program, according to Lieutenant Ewing. They may be either married or unmarried. The place of enlistment is the Office of Naval Officer Procurement in the Finance building in Kansas City, Mo. The members of the class will go into training immediately Lieutenant Ewing said.
"Pearl Harbor"
V-7 Program
Taking Grads
He also said that the navy wanted chaplains and would accept any graduate of an accredited theological institute, between 24 and 50 years of age.