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we read Mr.! Lucliesh's amazing and
entertaining volume entitled Artificial
Light: It's Influence on Civilization"
we would not be likely to think of it at
all in such a guise. After having read
IL reader is apt to be convinced that
artificial light, particularly in it's sci
entific development since the middle of
the nineteenth century, is mans great
est boon. Moreover artificial light
does so many wonderful things, adds
so much to the joy and beauty of liv-
ing, that the reader will almost be
tempted to place it in the front rank
OF the useful sciences that have be-
come fine arts.
Mr.. Luckiesh devotes the opening
chapters of his book to a historical
survey Of primitive artificial light.
Starting with the latter part of the
eighteenth century he hegins to show
the development of the science of light
production. rising gradually through
the last half of the nineteenth century
TO the beginning of the twentieth,
when. as he says, adequate light be-
came available" Various economic in
fluences of artificial light are then dis
cussed. and he ends his volume with a
chapter on the esthetics of light and
lighting. The reader is left with the
impression that possibly in a genera
ton or two artificial light will quite
put the sun out of business altogether!
In view of the frequent references
10 invisible rays" in newspapers these
days Mr.. Luckiesh's explanation of
those examples Of modern scientific
magic" is both extremely interesting
and readily understood. His chapter
on Light and Safety" is of marked in
terest to business men and that on
artificial Light in Warfare" will make
more easily understood most of the
references to such things in contempo-
rary books on the World War. This
volume really lives up to the title of
the series It belongs to. THE Century
Books of Useful Science"
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Reviewed by
HARRY PANGBORN.

Looked at from any angle, this is
remarkable performance. In the native
language Of most of It's characters 1t is
kollosdl-in several senses two thick
volumes, totalling 1852 pages. The
theme is pursued and infinitely ana
lyzed with a truly German thorough
ness, beginning with It's hero's grand
parents and the German revolution of
1S4S and coming down to the later
years of the war. Significantly, 1t
leaves the hero literally up In the air
flying as an army aviator against the
race Of his ancestors.
In values it is about one-quarter
story and three-quarters philosophical
and psychological analysis, though as
to bulk these two elements are bal
anced about half and half. 1t flies In
the face of the usually practised rules
of novel writing-not always success
fully, as it could easily have been cut
in half to better effect. Yet it is never
dull, and despite its obvious faults as
work of art 1t arrives.
It's central idea Is the growth into
an enlightened, idealized Americanism
Of a young man whose ancestry con-
tains not a drop of Anglo-Saxon Cor
Anglo American) blood. 1t rises at
times to hymn to Democracy-as an
ideal, meaning thereby a democratized
republic as embodied in these United
States. It is also of value as an acute
study Of the psychology Of adolescence.
entirely aside from its political disser-
tation.
More broadly, it dissects the mental
and psychic attitude of the German
American, naturalized or not, espe-
cially as the varied specimens of that
peculiar creature were to be observed
in Hoboken during the war-and be-
fore II. The author presents numerous
types-and she is ruthlessly painstak-
ing in her vivisection of them. Nothing
more caustic in condemnation Of the
recalcitrant majority of them has been
written, and the book leaves one with
the feeling that, as a whole, they are
unregenerate and beyond remodel
llng-at least in the present genera
ton, although a certain minority Is
capable Of acquiring "Americanism."
Put she is dubious as to the power of
the melting pot to keep on melting
If the ingredients continue to be so
mixed as they are, and, oddly enough.
she seems to recognize that the fabric
Of American idealism rests solely upon
the dynamic ideas of the purely Anglo
Saxon element. One may note, paren-
thetically that she ignores the COM
paratively small but important Latin
streak In our makeup. Her point of
view rather suggests that of an enlight-
ened Russian-American instead OF one
of dominantly German ancestry. The
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Once There Was Peace Congress

Czechs will not permit this. Germany
will take up the cause. The only
course by which the Czecho- Slovak
Government can prevent this situation
from developing is to assist in the re-
construction of Austria with as much
energy as it is devoting to its own
reconstruction"
Although Mr.. Bass foresees the
danger of continued conflicts he re-
ports a widespread determination
among the masses of men from whom
the armies of the world are drawn not
TO permit another great war. This is
the statement of his findings:
THE people of Europe view with hor-
ror the fact that their Governments
have made treaties which demand large
ornaments. The greatest war of the
world is finished and the soldiery of
the victors are not clarifying them
selves. The higher the civilization and
the greater the democracy Of nations,
the less the people want war The
greatest folly of these treaties, which
compels militarism in Europe, is that
the victorious peoples. whose Govern
ments are responsible for the treaties,
will be the first TO rebel against the
maintenance of the armies necessary
for their enforcement. In vain will
the military caste struggle to uphold
its system. Already have
the Italian people rebelled and have
frankly said that they will not fight.
In France, units of the new military
classes have refused to serve outside
the country or even in the occupied
regions"
AS for the authors ability to pre-
sent a true picture of the world as it
is to-day. the following words of Stan
icy Washburn. correspondent OF the
London Times may be taken as suffi-
cient testimony:
There is no man in American
journalism more thoroughly compe-
tent to write a book on foreign affairs
and the world situation Of to-day than
John f. Bass. His career as a jour
nalist has been characterized from its
inception by his accuracy of judgment.
bis lack Of any sensationalism or seek
ing for personal notoriety. I have
known personally most Of the war
correspondents in the world since
| 1919, ana there IS no man among
them whose mature judgment l would
take more willingly than that Of John
| Bass.
"Mr. Bass at the beginning Of the
world war. feeling the gravity of
the impending conflict. again put his
private interests in the background
and represented the Chicago DAILY
Ne1cs. sailing for Europe August, 1914
He served with great distinction on
the Russian front, where he was
wounded in the head by an exploding
shell in 1915. From then until the
conclusion Of hostilities he was at
tached TO various armies in France
Italy and the Balkans and at all times
was received by Premiers, Ministers OF
State and the highest generals. He
attended the peace conference in Paris
and was the official representative OF
the American press with the mission
that went to Poland in 1919. Since the
war he has been in practically all Of
the belligerent countries and has made
a first hand intimate study of these
situations"
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THE HYPHEN. BY Ida c. Schem.
+. p. Dutton & Co.
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Reviewed by
SUSAN STEEL.

During a recent holy week the
reader of several currently published
books of poetry saw a curious thing
from the balcony of a house in the
Gale O'Donnell in Seville. A crowd
of people had collected around a rug
which had been spread on the pave
ment and was watching some action
going on there. But the American
curiosd, in spite of being so high,
could not make out what it was that
absorbed the crowd until ii opened, and
then she saw a quaint dwarf dressed
In green silk with voluminous skirt
and headdress not unlike a Veias-
quez portrait. She was a full sized
woman to the waist, but danced as if
she had no legs. To the music of a
guitar she kept no sort of time, but
leaped and bounded i'm a wild way, ap-
parently without rhythm or even plan
AS the wide green skirt was blown
aside by these movements the specta-
tor, to her horror, saw that the
dancers feet were attached to her
body just below the knee.
Certain of the books OF poetry In
her list reminded her of this unhappy
figure, without plan or rhythm, and
IL with rhyme, then employing II as
the poor dwarf did her leaps and
bounds, in tune with nothing A vol
ume In which familiar rhyming sylla-
bes appear is Songs of Wind on a
Southern Shore" by George Merrick
This wind is meant to bring to us
scents of magnolia, spices Of the
orange groves and savannas OF Flor
ida. These are lost. on the way. That
the author loves his Florida and
wishes TO celebrate her Is evident
enough, and his passion ought to make
us listen to him sympathetically. It
Is his misfortune TO be blind and deaf.
BY reprinting in his present volume
several poems OF an earlier period, and
some OF them from forgotten book"
II is possible to get from the collection
called "Neighbors" an idea OF the
growth Of this poet. He grew seriously,
eliminating more and more the lighter
things of life. until he appears to see,
as is shown by the group Of poems
which give the title to this book. only
the rugged way. the harsh incline, the
STONY yilHs am anu uSdlh anu buCn
doubts of the present life and the
future life as flicker across darkened
understandings are It's web and wool
There is a constant recurrence Of one
or two pessimistic thoughts in this
group that fixes the leaden quality In
the section called Home" the poet adj
mits the element Of hope. These
verses renew the friendly bond be-
tween Gibson and his reader. which
was considerably weakened by his in
troductory pessimism. Theg note Of
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The Clash of Nations in Europe and Here

mans son and the others daughter
fall in love, but before they come to
an understanding the girl in a sort of
trance--a dream of unreality-gives
herself to a middle aged lover "a mar
ried man. who is a disappointed fail
ure pathetic enough, but also some
thing of cad) who has been philan-
dering after her. Nevertheless she mar
ries the man she really loves. and then,
in due time, browns herself. Alto
gether a dismal mess. Yet each of the
three main characters. as well as the
minor folk. stands out clearly drawn,
and patiently human, despite what
must seem to the outsider kind Of
askewness in their makeup. And Bo-
jer's incidental description, his back
grounds and landscape are admirably
vivid AS to the rest, doubtless he
understands his people better than we
may hope to.
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Gloom From
Scandinavia
LEE BY Johan Boier. Moffat. Yard &

LIFE. BY Johan Bojer. Moffat, Yard Il
Co.
To the average Anglo Saxon mind
there is hectic unrealitys about the
modern Scandinavian literature from
Tbsen to the newest exponent Of it. 1t
is not so much in its gloomy tragedy
as in the fact that, 10 us, so much Of
the tragedy seems irrational, fantastic
not inevitable as tragedy should be.
II its types are to be accepted as truth
full they suggest that upon the old
Morse peasant stock there has been
grated during the last half century
or so BIT OF Teutonic sentimentality
and mysticism along with a little Gallo
salt. and that the mixture is one that
simply doesn't jell" The Northman
Of pre- Tbsenite time was melancholy
and grim enough and showed his sem
timentallty. but he was also compre-
hensble; primitive perhaps. but gem
uine. These modern heroes and hero
ines are not primitive. nor to us do
they seem quite rational, even when
they are not obviously neurotic.
Johan Bojer is the chief spokesman
OF this school; undeniably an artist,
after one has envisaged his clearly
drawn characters one Is still impelled
10 ask But how did they get that way7
His newest story, Life" translated by
Jessie Muir suggests this query more
than his earlier translated work. II
has not the breadth and depth Of THE
Great Hunger" being more narrowly
conceived. but It is not lacking In in
tensity. The story Is a sort of Mont
ague and Capulet affair and ends In
the woman's suicide. There is a feud
~ long standing between the elders:
one rich and prosperous, the other
poor and futile failure. The rich
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war is dropping out of contemporary
verse-which is not altogether re-
srettable-but the soldier lyrics that
appear here are Of kind to keep
warm the ideals born of the conflict
and they would be good any time and
anywhere.
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grettable-but the soldier lyrics that
appear here are Of kind to keep
warm the ideals born of the conflict
and they would be good any time and
anywhere.
When one has tried to read 1870
pages of free verse and seriously
sought to CLEAN from il the poets
meaning II is refreshing to turn back
to older forms as they are diversely
used by lyric poet such as the young
American Rhys Carpenter. 1t is not
because one is prejudiced against this
pervading free verse form. for that Is
not true. In the hands of a master It
can easily and triumphantly rule the
spirit, but 1t quickly becomes monoto-
nous Over a hundred pages of It is
more than a surfeit. On the other
hand the lyrist who calls rhyme to his
aid employs various forms and diversi-
fies his music.
Rhys Carpenter Is singer first of
all. He loves poetic words and re-
spends to ancient poetic enchantment.
STEPPED in the culture of poetry from
the times of the Athenians and the
Romans alive to our EliZabethans and
nursed in his childhood on Tennyson.
Arnold, Browning-all the Victorians
discredited or discrowned by the vers
libre cult-he may be reminiscent of
his ancient gods now and then, but he
has flakes, shining flakes of snowy
originality that fall from his poets
coat and shine and allure in the sun.
He exults In storm. carols in halcyon
weather, finds symbols in the every
day sunshine. There is exhilaation In
his lyrics, and there is also art. The
latter Is never a bad endowment for
a poet While the strength of his work
cannot be proved by an excerpt. here
are a few lines that may show how
delicate he can be:
Who can with shadow line
Deity the blowing
Wind In the tree7
Who can with silver fine
Cover the flowing
Waves of the sea7
Almost infinite variety is to be found
in this young mans verse. and al
though that does not set him on Par
nassus, II endears him to reviewer
tired Of the monotony Of changeless
free verse absence of form.
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The Wild Goose
By SAMUEL HoFFENsTEIN.

Some shall dig
The hills Of Use.
And some shall follow
The Gold Wild Goose.
And the hills shall open
And he revealed.
And their gllttering fruits
The rocks shall Yield
Thrones and chariots
For lords Of Use,
And death for the hunters
OF the Gold Wild Goose
The Gold Wild Goose
That cries i'm the mist
With the voice Of Buddha.
The voice Of Christ.
The voice Of Mohammed,
And Moses's voice.
TIL they who hear II
Rise and rejoice
Rise and follow
BY land and sea
TO Mecca or Gauges
Or Galilee,
And die in the desert,
Or die in the stream,
Or die on the hill top,
Dreaming a dream
OF the Gold Wild Goose
That cries in the mist
With the voice Of Ruddbs
Or Moses or Christ.
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Three Volumes of Verse

SONGS Of A wIND ON SOUTHERN
SHORE. BY George Merrick. Boston
Four Seas Company.
NEIGHBORS. BY Wilfred Wilson Glib
son. Macmillan Company.
THE PLAINSMAN. BY Rhys Carpenter.
Oxford University Press
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Throwing Light on
Artificial Light

ARTIFICIAL LIGHT. BY M. Luckiesh.
The Century Company.
Artificial light has become so ia
miliar a phenomenon In our daily lives
that few of us ever think how 1t has
civilization. In fact, unless
Phoenix tribune., 1920-07-24
nioy Little Barbecue
Parents, Take Noticel

All parents of children attending
the Union High schooI will please
meet Mrs. C. B. Caldwell Monday
evening, 8 O'Clock, at the A. NJ. E.
church, corner Second street and JEFF
ferson. Don't fail to attend as it is
for your own best interest July 26,
p. M, at A. NJ. E. church.
Phoenix tribune., 1920-07-24

where these feathers are kept. On
our way up to this house we passed
"a unique little fountain, where each
one had to drop penny into slot
ito get a cup OF drink from it. From
this farm we went back through Los
Angeles to Bruce's beach. There
dinner was served which all enjoyed,
for every one was very hungry We
returned to our various stopping
places. This was Friday, July 16.
also wish to state there were four dis
tinct earthquake shocks the same day.
Phoenix people took them' as a matter
of course. A few of us were not cat
isfed with Fridays trip, so a party
of eight was formed to sight-see Sat
urday afternoon. In this were Messrs.
Rosser, Johnson and Credible, Mrs.
Henderson b. Smith, Hackett, Gre
ollie and Day.
We left Los Angeles at 1870 p. m.
Saturday for San Pedro. There we
viewed the shipyards, saw one large
ship come into port; saw them unload
one, and saw one leave port Our
lunch at this place consisted Of sand
wich and soda water After having
viewed many interesting points, we
took a boat TO Long Beach Where
we landed there were two boats an
chored and one boat anchored beside
these boats. Mrs. Henderson asked:
"Is this where we have to land?"~ On
being told that it was, she replied,
This is "a" oh, well, ask Mrs. Hen
derson what she said. 1t was bad
landing, yet it created much laughter.
Mr. Credible suggested we go down
where we could see nothing but sky
and water. This we did. 1t is a won
derful sight to see the tide come in
and see the waves leap many, many
feet into the air.
At 7:40 we started back TO Los An
geles, all reporting grand time.
MRS. C. CREDIBLE.
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AT c. M. E. CHURCH

Considering the exceptionally hot
weather, last Sunday was another
banner day at the c. NJ. E. church.
A record congregation attended both
services, especially in the evening
when the church was packed to its
capacity. Collections for the day were
$9O.47. Next Sunday morning Rev.
Thompson will preach on "The Visi.
bility and Conservation of the Peo-
pie of Cod Evening subject, Prayer
Is the Christian Armour" The choir
will render special music at both
services.
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enth street They were also enter
tanned in the home of Mrs. Ella S,
White on Central avenue. The No.
bles were in Los Angeles at the time
of the recent earthquakes and report
conditions more serious than those
contained in reports given out by the
Associated Press. Mrs. Noble said
ITS great experience, and after it's
over, you are glad to have witnessed
it. But never again for me"
BY Boston Restaurant
Mr. Albert Allen and Mr.. Walter
Scott, recent arrivals from San
Angelo. Texas, have purchased the
Boston Lunch Counter at II South
Second street. Both are first class
cooks and will give the hungry pub
lie some real service in this line.
From Flagstaff
Mr.. Burse Austin of Flagstaff has
accepted a position as barber IL Mr.
J. r. i2obinson's shop on South Sec
ond street.
Return to Wisconsin
Mrs. A. b Caldwell of Milwaukee,
who has been visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
George Caldwell of this city, returned
home this week
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people and money to Mesa, as you
know we must have the money so
we can do the work Come praying,
pray before you come here yourself.
We want at least 300 delegates.
further suggest that all pastors
and churches send in the number of
delegates before the setting of the
convention to box 500, Mesa, Arizona.
trust no one will fail to heed this
call Yours for the uplift of the
Masters kingdom and the spread OF
the gospel
REV. ]. M. ROBINSON,
Pastor, Mt. Calvary Baptist Church.
p O. Box 699, Mesa, Arizona
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The BIGGEST CARD
OF THE SEASON
Is FRIDAYS BOUT


Two Of Americas greatest 1876.
pound grapplers viii be seen in ac.
tion at Tally's open-air arena Friday
night. when Thomas Grant of Seattle
meets Pete Sauer, local favorite, in
a finish match, cateh-as-catch-can
style. Incidentally, the matching of
these two headliners involves the big
gest outlay ever guaranteed for a
wrestling bout in this city.
Grants recent performance against
Joe Stecher, worlds heavyweight title
holder. stamps him as one of the
greatest men Of his poundage that
ever graced a ring. Scaling in at 1874
pounds for the champion, he held the
Nebraska wonder to even terms for
an hour, although outweighed thirty
pounds. After an hour of what ring
side critics declare was the fastest
work ever seen ON mat in the cen
tral west, Stecher's greater weight
began to manifest itself He secured
the first fall in one hour and four min
utes and the second in thirteen min
utes.
Stecher's Weight Saves Day
SnOrt writers at tho rinocida boxr,
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TO THE BAPTIST CHURCHES AND
PASTORS THROUGHOUT THE
STATE OF ARIZONA

Brethren, our convention is within
a stones throw and l advise that all
the churches, Sunday schools, Wo-
mems H. NJ. societies and B. Y. P.
us, send full delegation. We pray
that the pastors and deacons have
spared no pains in preparing for tn \
great meeting.
trust that each church and pastor
will come to this convention to do
their whole duty. Brethren, don't
come here to make excuses. Carry
your excuses to Jesus and bring the
Phoenix tribune., 1920-07-24

Back From Los Angeles
Mr.. Frank c. Cleveland, Jr., re.
turned last week from Los Angeles
where he has been visiting the past
week.
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LODGE NOTICE

Ascension Temple of the S. NJ. T.
No. 1872, under the Texas jurisdiction
hold their meetings first and third
Wednesday nights at Doris hall
They will also give a chicken dinner
August fourth. The Vice will also
conduct the meeting until W. p re
turns from her visit, who is in Cali
fornia. Don't forget chicken dinner
fourth.
Mrs. E. TURNER, V. P.
Mrs. JENEASER RAY SMITH,
Secretary.