Arizona republican., 1914-10-04
CLUB NOTES

longer considered good fighting and war and it's qualification as d theme for art is rapidly passing away.
 The present struggle in Europe is one of the most enormous of all times. Millions of men, the flower of six great nations, are duly exposing themselves to death in all it's forms, and day by day the efficiency of each nation is slowly dropping lower and lower still, as the death toll of it's strong young men and wise older ones grows larger and larger
 Commerce has been so paralyzed, industry so stagnated that we can hardly realize that conditions could be worse, until we remember that when war is finally ended this time, there will be no cessation of these conditions, but a necessary continual ton of them in part at least. The men who tOiled in factories or sailed the seas will be reduced in numbers, the students, who might be expected to discover for the world some 2s yet undreamed marvels of medicine CT to have solved some of it's hard est social problems will have giyen up their quota to the dead the ar tisans may have furnished to the great majority some humble work man who in peaceful times might have developed into a ROdin or a Meunier. Men who yesterday were rich and patronizing, or should one say furthering ?-the arts will have lost their means to do these things if not their interest in them, before this war is ended.
 "A world event of such transcend ent importance will not only create a demand for a special literature, if d literature devoted to so enormous a subject can be called special but it is likely also to have a marked effect on literary taste. Some sub Jects which have grown to immense dimensions in time of prolonged peace, will be obscured by the clash of arms. For example, the literature of feminism, too swollen and too widely theoretical to be entirely wholesome, is likely to have a check, woman's world in general will shrink temporarily while battles rage There will be less attention for the eXploi- tation of vice or the discussion of sex, or for most kinds of problem lit erature, and perhaps some surcease of miscellaneous agitation will do ID harm. But writers who can tell a stupefied world what this fearful por- tent means, who can throw light on the great fundamental problems of the race and give some hint as to it's destiny, will have an attentive and even anxious hearing War books will be in demand"
 Mrs. H. A. Guild acted as chairman lat the initial meeting of the Madison Improvement club held at the dis trict school Thursday The after noon was given to a general discus sion of civic questions including the proposed amendments to the consti- tuoin initiated bills and referred measures to be voted upon at the November election. Miss Jane Pin GUS made a well received address on Iletiiciltil SuIlldSb. Gillu NlIS. oHtlltS Mcdonald furnished delightful musical program. A social meeting is scheduled for october 15 at the home of Mrs. F. D. Duncan.
 There is a possibility that Mrs. Percy Pennybacller of Tucson. presi dent of the General Federation of Womens clubs will be present at the annual meeting of the Arizona Federation which will be held in Phoenix January 1922. Mrs. Henry D. Ross, the state president, has in vited the distinguished club leader and well known historian to address
 the gathering but as yet she has not 1 had time for a reply from Mrs Pen
 nybacker. Mrs. Ross is in constant communication with the members of the executive board from whom she
 has asked suggestions for the federa-
 tion program which will be compiled at an early date.
 | The College club will hold it's ini- tial meeting of the season at three
 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the home of the president Mrs. A. w..
 Morrill,, 34S West Portland street. An
 nual election of officers will be fol- |