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WILMETTE LIFE, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBERS. 1924 S~'is:tCE (Bo~~::~wsl ~:~~i=~ In · . ed w ~e · . The interest of the populace in poetry speaking at the Institute for Nurses just m .recent years has brought an excellent held by the Illinois State Leacue of in Appropriations in gUide of American poets of the past Nursing Education in the lecture hall fifty years from the pen and classroom of the y M c A Ch' d mou of Bruce Weirick, associate in En tish . . . . . ., lcago, rna e a at t~e University of Illinois, in "/rom s1gn1ficant statemen~ to !he effec~ that Wh1tman to Sandburg in American a t?wn ~r commumty m1ght be Jud'ed P_oetry." Professor Weirick states that by 1ts att1tude t?ward the s'!-le of Chn~t Public health service costs 6.9 cent~ ~~s r~~sons for this book are to give mas seals. Th1s ~as one stem. ~e ~~d, per capita per year in Iltino1s. In 29 a cnt1cal estimate of American poetry that helped to ~mt out th.e ~~rab1hty place of res1dence as 1t tnd1cated a other states the annual per capita cost of the last fifty years and to supply set- of a _ runs from 0 to 32 cents more than ting, national and cultural" The devel- certam amo~t ?f culture, public spirit opm~':lt of these ideals bring the more and comlli;Uillty mterest. . · that. These statistics indicate the farruhar verse writers and a supply of The Cb1cag? Tuber.culos1s Institute of relati\·e · importance ascribed to the negro and western poetry all in one course app~ec1~tes th1s st~tement and feels that It IS very applicable to the matter of keeping folks welt in the volume. 1 Wh · . various communities in Cook county in various commonwealths, according to " T 0 a 1l 1t~an g~s the. tttle of which for years it has had a wide 'exDr. Isaac D. Rawlings, state health t our greatest poet. Th1s mystic ?f the perience jn the annual sale of these little commissioner, w.ho made public the atter half of the ~9th century 1s the seats which furnish the funds for its figures taken from a recent report of shad.ow of the Amencan poets who have fight against disease the conference of state and provincial rece~ved the attention during this gen· · health authorities. erahon. The approval of the free verse Cleaning lighting fixtures has been "Ranking third in population," said ~hich fills our magazines and collec- found to increase the light output by the commissioner, ·:and standing very tions of poems owe their existence to as much as 84 per cent. Lighting fixclose to the top 111 wealth, Illinois Whitman, because the departure from should be cl~ned as frequently as spends less per capita than any of 29 the rhyming and formal lines is due to tu!es wmdows and skyhghts and vice versa. other states for protecting the health the French imitations of 'Vhitman's and lives of her citizens against dis- poetry. eases, illness and untimely death. New "Leaves of Grass," that series of conYork, for example, the most populous fessions which show the personality of state in the union, spends 14 cents an- 'Vhitmarf, which teachers of literature nually per citizen, Pennsylvania spends recommend to their pupils but never en25.9, while Illinois appropriates only courage them to read, is verse that en6.9 for public health work. titles Whitman to be the godfather of "The amount of public health· serv- a whole line of new poets. And Profesavailable is in direct ratio to the sor: \Vierick points out that Whitman is amount of money provided for that by no means a bad godfather, "he wrote purpose and to a very large extent only as a prophet trying to convince, the amount of contagiQus diseases rather than as a poet seeking literary present among a people is in direct glory." A poet who writes of love is ratio to the amount of public health not new, but Whitman had a love for service provided. Medical science has "attachment to his friends, in his worgiven to the world some very positive ship of nature, and in his passion for and fruitful methods for controlting. Democracy." And of these he writes and preventing contagious diseases on and inspires others. a large scale but the practical appliWith a careful and respectful treatcation of these methods costs money. "Under present conditions in Illinois ment of Whitman in the opening chapter, the other chapters are devoted to a critan average of 15,000 children suffer from diptheria annualty because their ical survey of the American poetry which parents are ignorant; 2,000 folks get has come from tl1e newspaper wits, of typhoid fever and spend 12,000 weeks whom B. L. T. gets his lines. in bed because they don't know any The collection of negro ballads and better; 25 or 30 million dollars are verse are proclaimed as fine forms of spent for patent medicines because expressions of the colored race and here folks are led falsely to believe that men of African descent who are familiar nostrums will produce that vigorous, as poets and not as a distinct color, are ~obust ht;a1th w~ich 50 cents per capita given attention. The historical progresmvested 111 pubhc health service would sion of the types of peotry alive in provide. America is carried through up to the "While public health service ma- present generation. chinery has produc«!d remarkable reIn that great interest in American sults in lttinois it is wholly inadequate poetry, Chicago and its vicinity has to attack and solve the problems of housed and is the home of the more preventing disease on a scale com- welcome and desirable verse writers, mensurate with the public needs." Profeesor Weiriek eeepl· to believe. '))be t. ~,----~~ scenes have shifted from New England PROSPERITY HERE and New York to the Middle West. Public Service company's new Masters, Sandburg, Linsday, Sarett are COiltracted electric power business for the most vital of the moderns and they the first seven months of 1924 is the find their inspiration in the West. And equivalent of about 65 per cent of the their work is more or less an extension business secured in the entire year 1923. of Walt Whitman's poems. -Jac Tulman. 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