Scribulus WINTER 1940 STANLEY JOHNSON, editor WALT PROTHERO, KEITH WILCOX, artists VA NYLE EVANS, GALE ROSE, GEORGE LONDON, freshman associates VON HOLT, business manager BOB PETERSON, photographer MILDRED WEST, SHIRLEY POULTON, JESSIE JENSEN, DONALD WEST, sophomore associates BARBARA ARNOLD, secretary DAVID R. TREVITHICK, advisor Contents PROSE REESE, by Reed Coray page three THE MERMAID AND THE PRINCE, by Stanley Johnson page four SOUP TO NUTS, ESPECIALLY NUTS, by Rolfe Peterson page five RUSSIAN DREAM, by D'air Marty page six OPEN SEASON ON MALES, by Clyde Miller page nine DO NOT BE LONELY, by Edna Miller page ten A ROMANCE IN PINK, by Mildred West page eleven YAQUI TOWN, by Helen Moore page fourteen MEDIOCRE MILLIONS, by Timothy Haye page fifteen AN IDEA FOR AN ESSAY OR SOMETHING, by Floyd Seager page seventeen THE AMERICAN MALE, by Rankin Mclntyre page twenty PLAYING NOTES AND THINKING, by Glen Wade page twenty-one IT COULD HAPPEN ANYWHERE, by Ira J. Markham page twenty-two ON WOMEN, by Eugene Allen page twenty-three REGARDING OURSELVES page twenty-four POETRY A BROKEN LIMB, by Berneice McEntire page eight THE READER, by Louise de Wit page twenty-two FEAST OF ASHES, by Norine Call page twenty-three ART By WALT PROTHERO pages three, five, ten, fourteen, seventeen By KEITH WILCOX pages six, seven By FARRELL COLLETT page eight PHOTOGRAPHY By BOB PETERSON pages two, twelve, thirteen, nineteen SCRIBULUS, magazine of contemporary art and letters, published quarterly by the associated students of Weber College, Ogden, Utah. Winter, 1940