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Arizona republican., 1919-09-09

ful in only one particular line, and after a prominent drygoods man, for instance, is elected to office the peo- ple wake up to a realization that all he knows is dry goods, and that so far as having practical knowledge of the workings of political and economic forces he, is a babe in arms, an abso- lute failure as a public executive
 However, a business man of marked success in a number of lines is likely to have the vision. and the exper-
Arizona republican., 1919-09-09

way, of the Calumet and Arizona, 2 man with an excellent war and busi-
 ness record. But Col. Greenway is be- ing urged oy many friends to become q candidate for United States senator.
 E. s. Clark of Prescott, former at torney general. a pioneer in the move ment for woman suffrage. is a very probable contender. His record is ex- cellent, he would receive the woman vote solidly, and a number of other factors would make him formidable
Arizona republican., 1919-09-09
By Altman

Maricopa county.
 Senator Claridge is mentioned by some democrats. He was elected to the legislature from Graham county, but recently purchased and is living en ranch near Glendale He is hand- capped to d certain extent by the en mity of the real estate men. having made bad break last session by carstically opposing realty legislation. and characterizing realtors in a very cisparaginy manner.
Arizona republican., 1919-09-09

CdhuIUdIe.
 Senator H. B. Wilkinson of Phoenix is also being spoken of frequently as . possible candidate. He made an excel lent record in the upper house of the legislature, is well liked locally, and makes an impressive looking candi- date. His business and political record is apparently unimpeachable.
 His only handicap is the jealousy of the mining districts of the state for anyone e anything coming from
Arizona republican., 1919-09-09

Y Use The Republican Classified Pages
 for results-Read for profit
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

laborer that the world is chiefly run bv
means OF lead tubing and iron wire. and
iron pipe and lead pipe and lead wire. and
which was 1t you wanted? They don't sell
retail, but he guesses he can get Won q
little piece, to accommodate lady. You
are all for the hollow kind, because it
weighs a few tons less than the solid bu+
when you talk it over with the foreman be
ADVISES you to take the solid, as the hollow
won't hold up the weight of your clay You
oldn.t know 1T had any weight, but although
ne doesn't know anything about statuarv.
ne has sort of sixth sense, which inspires
your awe, about the relative weights Of
Things, SO you decide on five yards of lead
pipe, solid.
AS they don't deliver retail you volun-
teer to carry this home, and workmen line
up 10 see you off, wishing you all good luck
as sculptor and yelling after you:
Grab it by the middle, miss-itll he
easier to carry" By the time Won have
reached homo with that five yards Won have
learned what you didn't know before-that
ieao tuolng weighs ten pounds yard.
Aiter thls you take a season of rest, won
oer1ng now other sculptors get their lead
tubing. am still wondering, after ten wears
OF experience. Whenever I wanted anv
used to go through this same ordeal. haul
ing 1t home in tiny quantities and leaving
trail of mirth and interest in the bosoms
OF the makers of lead tubings. Apparently
was the only sculptor who ever crossed
their ken. Yet they were the onlv bio firm
listed in the telephone book
Your next trip is to a carpenters. after
the stand. After reading what the bool,
says you must have, he scratches his head
and says:
"Well, lady, I can make 1t for Won COM
piete' but it's big job and will cost YOU.
including the ball bearings and casters and
the two iron plates, $751;
You tell him all right, go head, and Won
mentally give up the idea of having four or
hve made at once, as you had intended
You now get from the academy the ad-
dress of the only man in the United States
VINO makes good modelling wax Can Italianl
put flndlng that, he has none left and ia
waiting for a shipment from Eurone that
may not come for months, you buy CLAW in
stead, which you try to carry home. as he
won't deliver it, but you end by hiring n
pushcart and are worried all the way about
whether that lead tube will hold I'm tho
clay. 1t weighs tons.
Another day is spent hunting for the OH
scure dwelling of the man who makes mod
elilng tools, and after an expenditure of
exactly $50 you are ready to throw off +ho+
little statuette.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
Where the Family
Comes In

but you return to find that domestic fr;o
tlon has now commenced. The family ba q
struck, and insists that if YOU are ooinr ~
maze the mess which they judge you are
ABOUT 10 make you take the furniture out
u your own room, as they won't stand for
al that junk in the backyard (your idea
having been to have an open air stud;o "a
IL were, and let Johnnie and Marv nlav
somewhere else). SO all the furnituro ;s
taken out and the rug up, and Won boo;n
TO think that the art which can mako ,,o,,
go through all this without murmurino ia
great art. You are right. 1t is.
You now discover that you left the lid
on the two cans containing vour CLAW nd
1t has got 80 stiff overnight that vo,, oon
40 nothIng with 1t. The book tells Won +o
aao water which you do, and it at once be-
comes Shiny quagmire which sticks 70
your hands like chewing gum "Wait." saws
'he pook, "and leave the lid off. and knead
me clay to the proper consistencv" %
you wait and ever and anon you knead. and
muscles in your back which never anolo
peiore speak, and you go to bed wreck
ny this time you havo decided on vour
statue; 1t is to- be a young nymph holdino
s over her head tray heaped with grapes
rou are going to call it "Nymph with
urapes" and are much pleased with your
selt over this original idea. You 20 to
pace where models are hired. and hire
one' on although when she takes her clothes
OH ana you see what you have drawn. vo,,
w'sn you hadn't. The academy assured
you she was ono of the best thew had
30 you decide to try her.
Haven't you any model stand?n sho
"A"'' 70 Khow-opening a new vista of
s,;p"a snps"o''urc TO you. On the first day she
ohghts your hopes by absolutely declining
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

There are only four materials in which
piece Of sculpture can be made: Stone.
bronze, clay or plaster There is also cement.
but this is hardly more than very unsatis-
factory form Of artificial stone.
Plaster is useless except as a temporary
medium, for it is so perishable that it has
practically no market value Clay is i'm
practical, because this country has not
proper kilns for baking clay, and the con-
Germs which make tiles and architectural de-
tails In terra Gotta. do not seem willing to
take the trouble to learn the more delicate
adjustments necessary to baking statuary.
The actual materials, then, are onlv
bronze and stone.
What is the history Of piece of statuary
cast in bronze, such as you see in Tiffany's
or in Gorhams?
| become tongue-tied at the very thought
of telling you. Sculpture is an experience.
like eating, or death, or other primitive
things: 1t has to be done to be understood.
You, reader, probably know moro about it
than l am giving you the credit for for if
you were in the state of dense ignorance
which l would like to be talking TO Won
would never have taken the trouble to read
this article at all-thus are educational efforts
frustrated - but for the sake of the others
let US pretend that you don't know any
thing about it, but have suddenly been
seized with a desire to make a bronze
statue From the day you want to do this
TILL the day you emerge with the statue
under your arm, you are plunged into a
new and strange world, where everything
is apparently left to your own initiative.
You do not go to an art school, where the
whole thing is broken to you gradually. be-
cause your aren't sure you really want to
take 1T up seriously. You just want to find
out for yourself
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
Suppose You Want
to SCuIp

You remember how your sister Annie
when she decided to become a painter went
down to the nearest art store and bought q
beautiful boxful of tubes of paints and
brushes, and an easel, and rolls Of canvas.
and a palette, and was home in half an
hour with the full equipment for painter.
so down you go to the art store and in
aulre over the counter for a complete set
OF materials for being q sculptor.
The clerk looks blank for a minute. and
then light dawns, and she shows YOU a
small box containing little colored dabs of
modelling wax and 81 tiny wooden stick to
punch holes in them with The box is
decorated with frieze of lambs at plav
and the whole outfit is labelled "The Kin
dergartner's Friend"
You explain with dignity that it is you
and not your children, that you are pur-
chasing for.
Very sorry, lady, that's all we have"
she says coldly. You telephone the nearest
art school. Will they please tell you what
you nave to get to be a sculptor? The
curator does not know the sculpture class
nave all left for the day, and they are the
only ones who could give information on
this point. Not to be downed, you 20 to
the Public Library, and after much dpcino
you find thin volume entitled "The Art of
Modelling"
from.this you learn that what you need
Is specially constructed stand. with q turn
table with ball bearings, and the larpest
size, double barrel casters, also on ball
bearings, the stand to be three legged in
stead OF four, and with the corners rounded
or. Then you must get one of three grades
OF Italian wax, and about fifteen times mora
OF 1T than you thought nece ssary and modal
ling tools, which the book calls "spatu,as"
and lead tubing--a thing you never heard
OF beforehand a lot Of copper wire. and an
iron armature, bent and measured to At tho
figure you arc going to make.
Armed with this list, you return To ~.
art store, to be informed that it does not
Keep any Of these things, and docs not
know where you can get them
From this moment on your lifc as n
sculptor has commenced. You sit down
and read tho classified telephone book for
Two or three hours, ut the end of which
time you go off quietly, without saying
anything to the family, in the direction Of
tho East River. You are on the trail of
the lead pipe, whatever that may be.
Arrived at tho factory, which is whole-
sale, and as impressive az the Panama
.anal with ita vast machinery and ware
nouses' you learn from good -naturcd
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

Views of a Croun
Formed i'm Mrs.
H.P. .Whitney's
Studio

and try to invent your own. hecom;.
sorbed in medieval alchemy such a''
bining INK with permanganate of potash l !.
get surface the color of wood. yon :. "
through painful experience that Ch.-
blue and orange yermillion do not n;v 'ss' ,'
and you become acquainted with sou. :.
natures strange secrets in regard ~ :.
stone, lampblack, melted tallow c..%.p
white lead, shellac and turpentin.
Finally you give it up and tell tn. h,...
foundry to go ahead and put on their .~
patine.
And one fine spring morning your xt,+,.
comes back to you in pale green bron,s .n.
you are not there to receive it, for -"
have put the carpet down in your roo,n -,
joined an art school, where YOU vii, /.
hidden for many years, laboriously learn;,.
how to become a sculptor.
Now that l have dragged you throuyb ~.
imaginary experience, dear reader. can r.n
ever again stand unmoved before niec. =,
public statuary? Each one represents v.,,.
of devotion and labor; years of disapno;,,
Aiioiie Oil" h"GeAhe Sio1I ever renewed. for
the problems which surrounded your I'M.
statue are hundred times more profou,a
when applied to sculpture on a grand se,,.
I was in the studio Of Mr.. Daniel Cb.,.x
French when he was finishing the statn.,
which are to adorn the front of II.
Triumphal Arch at Madison Square, and IN
the accompanying sketch have endeavor.d
to give you some idea of the swinging
cranes, the machinery and masonry which
were necessary to the completion Of tho,.
vast figures.
Mr.. French is too consummate workman
to suffer from many of the accidents which
happen to most sculptors, but even he coud
remember one tragedy connected with hin
statue of Memory" upon which he worked
off and on, he says, for ten years. The
face had been giving him trouble and he had
at one time cut it off with wire and reset
it on to the figure. After weeks Of work
upon it, this section fell off one night and
was ruined.
"What did you do?" cried in great dis.
tress
"Oh," he replied, 81 did what usualb
do when accidents happen to my statues-l
step off and have look at them to see 4
thay aren't really improved that way"
viii it help you to realizs what BIZ
sculpture is to hear that Mr.. Frencht
Lincoln" was made in twenty pieces?
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
And the Tray
Falls

Inc next morning shock awaits vou
Inc arms have given away in the nipht
from the weight of the clay mass above ::
'he tray and the grapes have descended
upon the nymph's head, crushing il and
the lovefy features which you had piven
IL into fiat, shapeless mass: one of
inc legs has sprung from its moorinpa
ana Is sticking out from the BODY in a
sort OF helpless, tortured way
The family now tell you very frankly
"hat they think, which Is that you have
no talent for sculpture and had better r;va
1t right up and go in for something clean.
But you have decided that the fault ;s
not with you, but with the materials. yor
nave reasoned it out that if YOU cut stopo
none OF these things can happen to vou
its much more beautiful and dignifed
medium than clay, anyway. You decide to
DC stonecutter, and go at once to n stone
yard to buy some tools Here Won oro
plunged into u new set of experienco.
lou are put In touch with vast firms who
zeal wholesale in celebrated cream, green
and white marbles" which they will sell to
you and ship at your own expense for $40
cubic foot, whatever that is, and thcy will
charge you 81 a foot extra for saving II
one way into any thickness
fou carry on fascinating correspond-
ence with New York firm who deal in
rough quarred blocks of pedrura Onvx
winch they will gladly ship to YOU ar anv
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
Joys of
Creation

Inc hrst morning she has an easy time
or 1t, sitting In corner reading "Snappv
Stories" for you find that the armatura
which you had planned to throw together
while she waited does not seem to stay to-
gether, after being thrown, and a perusal OF
the book leads you to devote three hours of
COIL TO Its construction, after which time
the model demands her money and leaves
having oone nothing whatever to earn it.,
through no fault of hers, as she points
out.
Dut at last you are embarked and the
Joy or creation seizes you. AS you spread
the clay over the framework of wire and
lead tubing, and press and push it into
what you think is the shape of nvmnb
holding tray of grapes, a series of new
sensations pervade you.
You go to bed thrilled with sense Of
power, but when you get up in the morninp
you ma that you forgot to wrap the CLAW
hgure up IN wet cloths and oilcloth. as the
oook told you, and a terrible thing has
happened; all the clay has dried up in the
nlght' shrunk and crumbled and is hanging
from the armature in broken masses Yon
nave to begin all over again, the model
stopping to rest every ten minutes. which
delays you terribly.
The family are in state of bitter an+oo-
onlsm toward you and your artistic ideals
since they have discovered that the CLAW
you work with dries into a fine dust which
collects on the floor and which YOU track
all over the house every time YOU leave
your ROOM
But the nymph begins to look like
nymph, and the clay having hardened IN
derneath around the joints of YOUR badlv-
made armature, it no longer SWINGS in
space whenever you touch it, but res;s+s
With a fine frmness
Art schools, indeed" you say. "Pooh!"
On -the third day. after a prolonged con-
Met with the model, you get, with her
very slight assistance, the arms on. and I'm
into the air where they belong. To model
ana place upon them the luscious trav of
grapes Is but the work Of moment. and
the result is superb; the thing seems to
oulid up as if by magic, once it is we'll
started You spend passionate threa
hours modelling your nymph's face-sweet
-eager-upturned toward the rich ;u;cv
grapes. That night you wrap it I'm +eA-
derly.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

time, providing that 1914 per cent of the
cubical contents Of the car be in blocks
SIX feet or over in length, but after seeing
one of these six foot blocks you decide
that something smaller will have to do,
much as you long to make q life-size figure
right off the bat
After many weird days spent along the
stoneyards of the East River you find a
piece of French Caen stone the size of YOUR
figure and stonecutter who will come and
give you lessons. 1t is very expensive, but
it's worth it to be doing anything so won
derful.
The day when the four r-by-three piece Of
stone is hauled up the front stairs into
your room is a day the family will never
forget. 1t took three men two hours to do
it and the stair carpet was ruined.
AS they judged your modelling stand too
light to hold the weight, you had to have
another built and the stone hoisted on
to it.
The next day the stonecutter arrived with
a horrible looking instrument called a
pointing machine, and you learned that
you could not just begin to cut into the
stone, gayly, as you had planned, trusting
to inspiration as dear old Michael Angelo
did, but that to insure results you must
model the figure first in clay, and then have
it cast, and from this cast construct the
stone copy inch by inch by means of the
pointing machine. SO you have to make
the clay figure after all. Apparently there
are no short cuts to being sculptor. but
having undertaken it, you see it through
and finally get the clay figure to stay up
when put up, although your nights are rest
less Nightmares of apprehension that you
Will md 1t all fallen down again in the
morning.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
An Unsuccessful
Fairy

The little fairy, with her hands flung up,
standing on tiptoe, which has been seen all
winter in store windows, has not been a sue
cess, In spite Of its charm. 1t is too
fragile. People will not buy it, and the
Wholesale house who put it on the market
told me last spring that they had lost money
on it from the beginning and would not
handle thing Of the same sort again.
During the war suppose forty sculptors
made statuettes of our soldiers, which they
hoped would find spot on every ones
mantelpiece. Can you think Of one which
has become familiar to any Of US? can
not. know that didn't buy one. and that
only the other day broke up with ham
mer thirty duplicates Of the one made N.Y.
SELF, because there was absolutely no sale
for them
In spite OF ali this there is beautiful
small sculpture being made in America.
which must and will sooner or later gain
the recognition it deserves. and one way to
bring this about Is to acquaint people with
some OF the details az to what sculpture
really Is and how it Is made
Material seems to be confusing element
to many people.
Guests in my studio, and very intelligent
ones, too, have asked me over and over
again as they watched me working on a
figure made of wet clay:
"How long does 1t take It to turn white :"
and when explained to them the secrets of
the plaster east they were amazed.
As . matter Of fact the mechanics of
sculpture are difficult.
There IL the eternal problem Of material.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
Misunderstood
Disciples

Yet America is full of sculptors giving
up their lives for this noble art, which all
accept, but none will take the trouble to
understand. Consequently, they have less
support, less incentive, than any other class
of artists, and as long as this is so we will
Fave, in spite of the young association for
better war sculpture, poor sculpture by
second-rate Italian artisans standing in the
sites where American sculpture should
stand. The people simply do not know the
difference, and In this, as in all things, thew
demand and get what is on the level of their
own intelligence.
One reason, perhaps, that the ignorance
concerning statuary is so widespread is be-
cause 1t is so hard to commercialize and so
cumbersome to get from place to place.
People don't want it in their homes because
it takes up room, has to be busted and, un-
less made of expensive material, usually
gets broken in the end, thus forming
cause for friction between the lady of the
house and the maid, and when a love of
form collldes with q love of food leave it
to you as to which wins in any we'll regu-
lated household.
Every year brings forth some picture
which the whole nation likes and buys
september Morn" or a centennial revival
OF breaking Home Ties"-every year
brings forth dozen or more songs that
every one sings and plays and that become,
as good art should, part Of the general life;
but every year does not bring forth a
statue that every one loves and wants to
have; not by long shot. America has
produced one national statuette-Rose
ONeill's Kewpie-which mas got it's fat
little self on the market Forever, apparent
ly, and is so good that think copy of it
should be in the Metropolitan Museum But
how rarely this happensl I cannot think of
another instance
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

to hold anything representing a bunch of
grapes over her head
Il have weak heart" she says "I never
take poses with the arms raised. Indeed,
it's only as a favor that I took a standing
pose; most of the artists I work for PRE-
FER sitting poses I'm not accustomed to
standing, but thought I'd try it this once
just to accommodate you"
You agree it will be all right if she Just
raises her arms once in while, to give
you a general idea of the pose
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
InfriCaCieS of
Plaster

IN the meantime you have found ont
what 1t IS going to cost to have a plaster
cast made, and have decided that YOU will
save this expense by making it yourself
SO you begin collecting the material. and
become acquainted with the properties or
burlap, of gelatine, of turpentine, and tal-
~" ana baooltts soap, and copper sheeting
and whole world of things Won never
knew the uses of before. A barrel of plas
Ter OF paris and many pals appear in the
kitchen: the cook announces that she will,
leave II the plan of using the kitchen to
cast In IS carried out. So it is undertaken
IN the backyard, to the great edification of
the neighbors
FROM that casting, which fortunately Won
90 not undertake alone, you come ont q
changed and chastened being You have
learned how to mix plaster in pail. you
nave learned how it feels when il is poino
TO set-one of life's great mysteries. You
know how to stir great masses of boiling
gelatine the stove, and how tn now
them into a funnel without spillinp: Won
nave learned how to chip off plaster
mould without breaking the figure inside it
-- at least, you think you have althonob
vac" AioeiC liAt VI the WTlSC which
nose or finger in the nick of time will
take you all your life to learn.
But the miracle has been nerforuoa
Your clay figure has been reborn ord
comes out Of the mould like chicken ont
OF its egg-white and hard. instead 10
gray and soft.
The profound experience of helping chin
tne plaster mould off has given you a new
and somewhat humber conception of what
~ means TO CHIP stone; after few lessons
IN stone cutting you decide that this time
you Will have your figure put into bronze
and that you will do your next feure IN
stone. So the piece of stone is beaved dow,
INTO the cellar, with terrific opposition from
the family at every step; but you nrom;so
yourself that 1t is only until YOU can
scrape together enough money to really
learn to cut stone.