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6 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1924 SAYS WE STINT HEALTH SERVICE Slack in Appropriations in Illinois Public health service costs 6.9 cents per capita per year in Illinois. In 29 other states the annual per capita cost runs from 14 to 32 cents more than that. These statistics indicate the relative importance ascribed to the matter of keeping folks well in the various commonwealths, according to Dr. Isaac D. Rawlings, state health commissioner, who made public the figures taken from a recent report of the conference of state and provincial health authorities. "Ranking third in. population," said the commissioner, "and standing very close to the top in wealth, Illinois spends less per capita than any of 29 other states for protecting the health and lives of her citizens against dis- eases, illness and untimely death. New York, for example, the most populous state in the union, spends 14 cents an- nually per citizen, Pennsylvania spends 25.9, while Illinois appropriates only 6.9 for public health work. "The amount of public health serv- ice available is in direct ratio to the amount of money provided for that purpose and to a very large extent the amount of contagiqus diseases present among a people is in direct ratio to the amount of public health service provided. Medical science has given to the world some very positive and fruitful methods for controliing and preventing contagious diseases on a large scale but the practical appli- cation of these methods costs money. "Under present conditions in Illinois an average of 15000 children suffer from diptheria annually because their parents are ignorant; 2,000 folks get typhoid fever and spend 12,000 weeks in bed because they don't know any better; 25 or 30 million dollars are spent for patent medicines because folks are led falsely to believe that nostrums will produce that vigorous, robust health which 50 cents per capita invested in public health service would provide. "While public health service ma- chinery has produced remarkable re- sults in Illinois it is wholly inadequate to attack and solve the problems of preventing disease on a scale com- mensurate with the public needs." PROSPERITY HERE The Public Service company's new contracted electric power business for the first seven months of 1924 is the equivalent of about 65 per cent of the business secured in the entire year 1923. The January to July, 1924, figures are approximately 80 per cent of those re- corded for the full twelve months of 1923. BOOK REVIEWS AMERICAN POETS The interest of the populace in poetry in recent years has brought an excellent guide of American poets of the past fifty years from the pen and classroom of Bruce Weirick, associate in English at the University of Illinois, in "From Whitman to Sandburg in American Poetry." Professor Weirick states that his reasons for this book are to give "a critical estimate of American poetry of the last fifty years and to supply set- ting, national and cultural." The devel- opment of these ideals bring the more familiar verse writers and a supply of negro and western poetry all in one volume. To Waly Whitman goes the title of "our greatest poet." This mystic of the latter half of the 19th century is the shadow of the American poets who have received the attention during this gen- eration. The approval of the free verse which fills our magazines and collec- tions of poems owe their existence to Whitman, because the departure from the rhyming and formal lines is due to the French imitations of Whitman's poetry. "Leaves of Grass," that series of con- fessions which show the personality of Whitman, which teachers of literature recommend to their pupils but never en- courage them to read, is verse that en- titles Whitman to be the godfather of a whole line of new poets. And Profes- sor Wierick points out that Whitman is by no means a bad godfather, "he wrote only as a prophet trying to convince, rather than as a poet seeking literary glory." A poet who writes of love is not new, but Whitman had a love for "attachment to his friends, in his wor- ship of nature, and in his passion for Democracy." And of these he writes and inspires others. With a careful and respectful treat- ment of Whitman in the opening chapter, the other chapters are devoted to a crit- ical survey of the American poetry which has come from the newspaper wits, of whom B. L. T. gets his lines. The collection of negro ballads and verse are proclaimed as fine forms of expressions of the colored race and here men of African descent who are familiar as poets and not as a distinct color, are given attention. The historical progres- sion of the types of peotry alive in America is carried through up to the present generation. In that great interest in American poetry, Chicago and its vicinity has housed and is the home of the more welcome and desirable verse writers, Professor Weirick seems to believe. The scenes have shifted from New England and New York to the Middle West. Masters, Sandburg, Linsday, Sarett are the most vital of the moderns and they find their inspiration in the West. 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