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CbwuntL and ClbouL Daily Nebr askan Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska LINCOLN, NEBRASKA,, Tl 1 UK SI) AY, MA V 20, 1937. V0JL 3 ?a No . t5Q By Saruh Louis Hey Student Council Posts Announced L., Hit : ' ,. ...' What Do You Do When You Can't Do a Thing? What does one write when there In nothing to say, when the fount of inspiration dries up? An appal ling blankness, in which there seems to be a complete absence of any sort of copy material, is familiar to all who keep pen in hand over a period of time. It is one of the most maddening, dis couraging situations that can con front a scribbler. Solace for despairing souls Is offered by Dr. Wimberly, who tells of protracted unproductive spells in the work of authors of note. It is some consolation when your own feeble grey mat ter refuses to function to know that some great genius went through the same trials. One writer sat at his desk for three months, consuming daily 50 cigarettes, without writing a line. Then light dawned, and one of his very best pieces was forth coming. And his refusal to force the flow of literature is hailed as the restraint that makes for immortality. No Best Sellers. Needless to say, this gent would be no man to bother with such constraints of the workaday world as deadlines. Not only would he be hopelessly out of place on a newsnaner or maarazine. but he would be no boon to the modern publisher. The latter is a busi ness man, interested not so much In the perfection of your material as in its being ready for the press time. Writers of the hour find themselves in the dubiously en viable position of having sold, and scheduled for publication material which they have not yet written. Copy must be ground out to meet the obligation, whether the muse is perched on the shoulder or no. Mr. Gass, aware of the diffi culty of a barren topic till in the editorial writing game, sug gests saving up bright ideas for a rainy day. Whenever you con sider an event or problem from one angle, you jot down other possibilities for discussion in the well-known little black book. If one day you run long on sub jects, preserve the ideas in the notebook. Record all random thoughts with potentiality, even if at the time they seem half baked. Mulling over them may result in full fledged material. Looking In Vain. This is fine, but for the current requirements. Although there are some controversial subjects as old as time, and just now, there is a limit to the amount of pickled stuff the public can down. There are times, too, when the most ra tionally excellent notations fail to fan the spark of molten verbage. Those are the days when you go haggardly from caking joint to lawn gathering to gussy groups, from cone to hamburger to Good man record seeking, seeking, seek ing. Ready to grasp at the most slender straw, you find many charming distractions. There are the lads who plan R. O. T. C. maneuvers loudly in your sane tim sanctorum or discuss the joys of spirituous beverages or speak with disarming intimacy of the size of your waistline. There are the young ladies who groan over belated book reports or talk of fascinating clothes, or weekend plans. There is pipe smoke wafted in your puss, constant activity in all direc tions. But you can't be diverted; you must sit firm and contem plate the vast emptiness of your page. Torturous Production. It is repotted to us that at one of the times when we were in a deep agony agony mood, head bowed over typewriter, hand clenched to forehead, little Betty Van Horne saw the pathetic spec tacle from afar. Her heart moved, she turned to Bill Clayton asking. (Continued on Page 3.) FINE ART BALL TO FEATURE FACULTY CARICATURE SALE Rawolf's Orchestra Will Play; Orchesis Gives Floor Show. Preparations for the Fine Arts Costume Ball proceed so all may bo in readiness for the affair sponsored by Delta Phi Delta, fine arts honorary, at 8 p. m. Saturday, From Lincoln Journal. RAY RAMSAY. May 22. Vern Rawolf's orchestra, a Lincoln band, nas oeen secured so that dancing in the galleries of Morrill hall may alternate with Ray Ramsay's auctioning of faculty caricatures and the floor (Continued on Page 4.) JOE COLLEGE THEME SELECTED FOR PARTY Corn Cobs Accept Burney As New President, of Men's Pep Club. Theme of Joe College will pre vail at the annual Corn Cob dinner-dance to be held at the Broadview country club Friday, May 21, it was decided at a meet ing of the men's pep organization Wednesday evening. Members of the pep club and their dates will attend in informal attire and guests to the dance are requested to be dressed informally. Recognized as one of the smart est spring parties of the year for several seasons, the Corn Cobs will this year feature Franklyn Vincent and his orchestra at the affair. A dinner for Com Cob actives, pledges and their dates will be served at 7 o'clock by Eddy Jungbluth of the Broadview country club, preceding the dunce. Novel Bids. Novel bids printed for the af fair will be distributed on the campus Thursday. With Morris Lapp as general chairman, a com mittee including Ed Steeves, John Brownlee and George Rosen are in charge of arrangements. Willard Burney, named Tuesday evening by the oiu ana new Innocent society as the 1937-38 president of the Corn Cob group, was favorably accepted by the pep club as the new head. Other new officers to take their positions were Ed Steeves, vice president; Frank Johnson, secretary; Don Moss, treasurer; and Phil South- wick, sergeant at arms. Bids for the dance are available to old and new members of the Innocent Society and Mortar Boards. Any Tassel desiring a bid may secure one from Martha Mar row, Tassel president, '"tJ sQr'"i J at i 'Billy' Quick Reminisces on 19 Happy Years as Band Leader Director Recalls, 'If You Think You're Funny Play Lincoln.' A kindly, gray haired man with slightly tired step climbs slowly up the stairs of Temple theater. This same little man has been climbing those two flights of stairs every Wednesday afternoon for 19 years. William T., loving nicknam ed "Billy," Quick wouldn't miss a band practice with his boys if all the doctors in the world forbade him to leave his home. And the doctors are warning "no exer tion." A lover of music since his earl iest childhood, Billy takes more than an ordinary director's inter est in his band. There are approx imately 90 members in the varsity or concert group, and he knows each one by his first name. He knows the instrument that each plays, and upon what type of music each needs practice. Joined Faculty in 1918. Director Quick joined the Uni versity faculty in the fall of 1918. St u denl s to Apply Now For Publication Jobs Applications for appointment for the following positions on the student publications will be received by the student publi cation board until 12 noon, Thursday, May 20. THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Editor-in-chief. Two managing editors. Six news editors. Business manager. Three assistant business managers. THE CORNHUSKER. Editor. Two managing editors. Business manager. Two assistant business managers. THE AWGWAN. Editor. Business manager. Application blanks may be obtained at the office of the School of Journalism, Univer sity hall 104. Material r.lready on file need not be duplicated. John K. Selleck, Secretary Student Publication Board. DR. POOL TOJJIVE ADDRESS Wesleyan Seniors to Hear Botanist Thursday. Prof. R. J. Pool, chairman of the department of botany, will give the principal address at the special convocation at Nebraska Wesleyan university, next Thurs day, when seniors and other stu dents are recognized for honors. The title of Dr. Pool's address is: 'Questionable Honors." Trips Abroad Top Plans for Student, Faculty Vacations France, England Figure as Most Popular Countries On Itineraries. Vacation holds much for univer sity students and professors plan ning extensive travel abroad this summer. Most popular among the countries included in itineraries, will be Frame and England with an accent on post coronation events. Leaving . Lincoln June 22, are Jean Walt and Susan Stoll who will stop in Chicago and Niagara Falls on their way to New York City where they board the "Bremen" for England. In Lon don they will visit relative nd from there go to France, Ger many, Austria, Hungary, Switzer land, Holland and Italy. They will From Lincoln Journal WILLIAM T. QUICK. Since that time the varsity band has steadily improved in size and (Continued on Page 4.) RESEARCH TRIP TO Party of N. U. Zoologists to Work With Professor at Oceanographic Labs. Two months of study and re search on San Juan island at the University of Washington Oceano graphic Laboratories constitute the summer plans of Dr. Otis Wade, of the zoology department, six students, and other members of the department. The party will leave June 18 and from June 26 to Aug. 28 will be located at the island laboratories about one and one-half miles from the town of Friday Harbor, Wash., within fer rying distance of Anacortes, Bell ingham, or Sidney. Members of the party, of which Dr. Wade will be in charge, in clude Ashton Cuckler, assistant instructor in zoology; Edson Fich ter, graduate student; Robert Shuler, graduate student, and Rosalie Brewer, Rufus Lyman, jr.. and Fred Webster, jr., seniors. Mrs. Fichter will also be in the party and probably Mrs. Brewer. Study at Washington U. Each student will take some course work from the University of Washington, for which he will (Continued on Page 4.) be gone for about two months, and Mrs. Leo J. Schmittel will accom pany them. Dr. Fellman to Tour. Dr. David Fellman, instructor in political science, sails June 18 on the "Scythia." With him will be Irving Hill, a graduate of the uni versity in 1936 and Zolley Lerner, former teacher at the University of Nebraska. They will spend nine weeks touring the low countries and England, stopping here and there to visit friends. They plan to return the first week of Sep tember. Journeying on the "Statendam," which leaves New York June 29, are Virginia Smith, Maren Dobson, Maryann Martin, and Dorothy smith, all of Lincoln. Ihey nave included England, France, Ger- (Continued on rage 4), WADE SCHEDULES SAN JUAN ISLAND MOSEMAN NAMES TO SERVE NEXT YEAR Burney Chosen as Student Member of Athletic Control Board. Ten standing committees were appointed by newly elected student council President Al Moseman at the first meeting of the new coun cil Wednesday afternoon. The new committees will begin work with the opening of the next school year and will continue thruout the term. Altho no definite action will be taken by any of the committees this spring, with the single excep tion of the budgetary board which will outline the financial program, President Moseman urged the chairmen of all committees to contact past members and to learn of any unfinished business that might be carried over next year. After the appointment of the committees by the council presi dent, the entire council elected Willard Burney to sit as the stu dent council representative on the Athletic Board of Control. Following are the committees as appointed by President Moseman, at the council meeting: Budgetary Committee. Bill Clayton, chairman. " Genevieve Bennett Dave Bernstein Rosalie Motl Ed Schmid Forums Committee. Bob Wadhams, co-chairman. Paul Wagner, co-chairman. (Continued on Page 4.) SCHULTZ LAUDS STATE IN FOSSIL COLLECTING Director of Field Museum Praises Dr. Barbour at A.S.C.E. Meeting. "Nebraska has one of the most outstanding fossil collecting grounds in the world," declared C. Bertrand Schultz, director of mu seum lield parties, at a dinner meeting of the Nebraska branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers last night at the Y. M. C. A. "Being located in the center of the continent toward which rivers flow accounts in part for this fact. Fossils are carried down from the mountains and de posited on the plains. Nor has ero sion removed the fossil bearing strata here in Nebraska as it has in so many states." Paying tribute to Dr. E. H. Bar bour, director of the university museum and professor of paleon tology, Mr. Schultz told how he has built up the museum from practically nothing into a position of national prominence, all in the space of a very few years. Largest Elephant Collection. "It is a matter of common knowledge that Dr. Barbour has gathered together one of the most complete and varied collections of fossil mammals in the world from the Nebraska region," stated Mr. Schultz. "His elephant collection is one of the largest in America." Illustrating his lecture with slides, Mr. Schultz explained the origin and forms of such fossil mammals of the state as tha camel, horse, and elephant. As sociated with the museum for over ten years, he will leave Lincoln in a short time on another sum..ier field expedition out in the state. He has just recently returned from New York City where he has spent each winter since 1932 in work on a book about Nebraska fossils and in study at the Frick laboratory of the American Museum of Nat ural History. $ COMMITTEES
