Arizona republican., 1920-08-02
ARE THE SPIRITS NEGLECT|NG
 PHOENIX? THEY ARE. SAY WISE

Although the revival of spiritism has been general throughout the world and interest in it has been manifested Lin every grade of society, the particu- lar section of the southwest of which Phoenix is the center has not been as active in prying into the affairs of the supernatural as the rest of the coun try according to those who have an opportunity of knowing what is going on in the literary and philosophic circles of the city.
 In the first place. say these ob- servers, the sale of ouija boards here has been so small as to be accounted negligible. The mysterious little table, spelling out it's messages from another world, or. as others will say, from this world through the fingers of an un- conscious dupe, has not become in any manner a common piece of household furniture. No spirit has waited its messages over the polished surface of the lettered plane-no celestial poet has spoken in free verse or told of truths eternal in the rhymes of d Masefield of a Kilmer-no historian of the realms above the skies has la borously spelled a volume for the con- sumption of the credulous or the de- vout-no angelic novelist has spun a fairy tale of spiritual affection for the delectation of the summer reader. 1 Ouija is dead in Phoenix. declare the wise, who also hint that ouija was never very much alive here, anyhow. Nor has the spiritual given in Phoe- nix more direct manifestations of it's existence. Perhaps the heat has kept the messengers from the Salt River valley in the belief that a visit here would remind them too forcibly of those neither regions which they have escaped-some, we may believe, by the narrowest of margins. None of the | fn sN tod hoe FDxl T- Phoenicians the inner workings of that golden city to which Saint Peter holds the key and where the twanging of melodic harps is mingled with the clink 1 of silver sandals on streets of yellowest | gold. Mrs. Cleopatra has not appeared here. Julius Caesar has not given any | observations concerning the battle of the Marne or the comparative merits | of Marshal Foch and the Ahkoond of 1 Swat. Frances Willard has refrained from airing her opinions concerning | the eighteenth amendment Ruth has not made any observations concerning the difference between gleaning in a | wheat field and working in a cotton field when the sun is seeing how hot ii can get without exploding. Noah has not given us any idea of the superior ity of the modern circus, (and these are circus days) over the time Hher he carried the worlds greatest mena-
 
 The fathers of the constitution have
 been discreetly silent concerning tn,
 interpretations being placed upon that venerable instrument by the two par ties and a half that now occupy val.
 uable space on the front page Ever
 the ghost of Woodrow Wilson has kept
 the peace.
 The dearth of messages to Phoenix
 in the opinion of the observers who are accustomed to watch the course o1 | events here, is due in all probability to | the fact that PhoenicianS have not 1 found time to enter whole heartedly | into consideration of super-mundan, things as expressed the spirituaiistiC 1 literature of the day. Sir Oliver Lodge has never been a popular author here 1t is asserted, and if Sir Conan Doyle had never written detective tales his name would be unknown to those who
 sell, give or lend books to their neigh | bors throughout Maricopa county The book business, as far as spiritistiC | themes is concerned has not beer flourishfng here. And with half of the
 books on the subject declaring for the | reality of manifestations to the living l from the dead, and the other hall asserting that the only manifestation
 of the kind ever given Is that repre- senter by the undertalzers bill it is not ] wise, have turned to the latest summer fiction, including campaIgn literature, when the desire to read has come upon | them.
 But. whatever may be the truth of