Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-14
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Alice NJ. Fay, % years old, of New
York City, has written a poem of
eighty-three verses, entitled MY
Country" Miss Fay is very earnest
in her desire to make the American
people, her people, realize what a
great country is theirs, and in her
poem she has tried to bring home to
the reader mot only the beauty and
variety of American scenery, but the
high place that America holds in lit
erature and history, the sublimity OF
her ideals, and above all the posi-
bilities of the coming American race"
Her own words are used purposely.
In the opinion of the writer, Miss
Fay has succeeded admirably. She is
best in her descriptions of our coun-
try, over which she has evidently
travelled, constantly alive to the beauty
which we are so wont to overlook in
our search for the more material
things. Her powers of Installation
are good and her optimistic patriotism
and buoyant youth are very likely to
carry one along with her when read
ing her poem, dedicated to her coun-
try.
Perhaps there is lesson in it,
written between the lines, for many
of those whose patriotism may have
been temporarily sidetracked in the
light of passing events. Miss Fay is
to be commended upon her efforts.
"Sweep on, vast Tide of Commerce
night and day
Afar on steel-shod track or ocean
trail,
Bearing the burdens for the worlds S
advance,
Linking the varied lands by sea ana
rail.
Without thy aid what would our
work avail?
Civilization owes it's spread to thee;
So serve the world, till mans long
light is won.
When all our work on earth at last is
done"
The above dedication to that vast,
immeasurable thing which we call
Commerce, is the preference to book
of poems, Tides of Commerce" by
| William Cary Sanger, Jr., (published
by the Country Life Press), which are
written in the hope that they might
do their part in calling attention to
the interest and romance in the de-
velopment of transportation and to
the men whose lives are spent in the
various departments of this work and
service "a United Federation of the
| World" is the poets vision. and COM
merce, industrial development ano
rapid transportation are to be the con-
crete means, in the poets mind, by
which this end is to be accomplished
The Jews i'm the Eastern War Zone
Published by the American Jewish
Committee, Lois Louis Marshall
President
The persecution which history anC
current publications from time te
time have taught us is the lot of the
1 Russian Jew living in that huge mon
i archy. is we'll known but there is
curious sympathy which can be fell
| for the sufferers in that war zone thai
only a detailed study of actual con-
ditions can bring. In this book or
the Jews in the Eastern War Zone
the disabilities of the Jews not only
in Russia in normal war times, but
also in other countries, in Austria
Hungary, in Rumania, in Palestine
etc, are set forth. The work is a very
live and presumably authoritative
commentary upon conditions as they
exist for the Jews in the zone of fight
ing.
The Aftermath vi BattIe.-By Ed
ward ID. ToIand. published by the
Macmillan Company, New York
Price, S1.00.
In the introduction to this book
owen Wister writes: Most of these
pages are, like the photographs which
go with them, torn fresh and hot sc
to speak, from the diary of a young
American. just as he jotted them down
day by day in the war hospitals ot
France. He saw the wounded die
he saw them get well, and he tells
about them, their suffering, theil
courage, their patience. AS
page succeeds page written without
art. yet with the effect of high art
with the effect (for eXample), of De-
Foes account of the Plague, the read
er ceases to be looking at a picture
he is himself in the picture, its ter
rifle realities surround him as IL he
were walking among them.'
/ Throughout this diary occur the
names of Americans who have wholly
or i'm part dedicated themselves to
serving their fellow man i'm the great
world conflict. And this host, adds