To

ISADORA BENNETT, CITIZEN OF SPRINGFIELD,

because she helped me to write many of the pieces, from the Golden Whales of California to Alexander Campbell, and because she danced the Daniel Jazz.

For permission to reprint some of the verses in this volume the author is indebted to the courtesy of the editors and publishers of The Chicago Daily News, Poetry (Chicago), Contemporary Verse, The New Republic, The Forum, Books and the Book World of the New York Sun, Others, The Red Cross Magazine, Youth, The Independent, and William Stanley Braithwaite’s anthology entitled “Victory.”