Preface
This volume, from the land of the singing corn, is offered to the public by the Iowa Press and Authors' Club as the first bit of co-operative work done by Iowa writers. The anticipated needs of the brave men who have given themselves as a human sacrifice to the establishment of a world-wide democracy, make a strong heart appeal, and the members have come together in spirit to do their bit toward the relief of suffering.
Many members of the club could not be reached during the short time the book was in the making; others doing work every day on schedule time had no opportunity to prepare manuscript for this publication, while still others preferred helping in ways other than with their pens.
The whole is a work of love and representative of the comradeship, the spirit of human sympathy, and the pride of state, existent in the hearts of Iowa authors, artists, playwrights, poets, editors and journalists.
Officers of the club for 1917-18:
- Hamlin Garland, Honorary President.
- Alice C. Weitz, President.
- J. Edward Kirbye, First Vice President.
- Nellie Gregg Tomlinson, Second Vice President.
- Esse V. Hathaway, Secretary.
- Reuben F. Place, Treasurer.
- Editorial Board:
- Johnson Brigham.
- Lewis Worthington Smith.
- Helen Cowles LeCron.
Index
| American Wake, An | [217] |
| Rose A. Crow | |
| At Kamakura: 1917 | [44] |
| Arthur Davison Ficke | |
| Ballad of the Corn, A | [234] |
| S. H. M. Byers | |
| Box From Home, A | [138] |
| Helen Cowles LeCron | |
| Bread | [37] |
| Ellis Parker Butler | |
| But Once a Year | [51] |
| R. O'Grady | |
| Call of the Race, The | [260] |
| Elizabeth Cooper | |
| Captured Dream, The | [84] |
| Octave Thanet | |
| Children's Blessing, The | [236] |
| Virginia Roderick | |
| Dog | [116] |
| Edwin L. Sabin | |
| Field, A | [285] |
| Minnie Stichter | |
| First Laugh, The | [131] |
| Reuben F. Place | |
| Freighter's Dream, The | [133] |
| Ida M. Huntington | |
| God's Back Yard | [223] |
| Jessie Welborn Smith | |
| Graven Image, The | [19] |
| Hamlin Garland | |
| Happiest Man in I-O-Way, The | [83] |
| Rupert Hughes | |
| Iowa as a Literary Field | [316] |
| Johnson Brigham | |
| Kings of Saranazett, The | [177] |
| Lewis Worthington Smith | |
| Kitchener's Mob | [241] |
| James Norman Hall | |
| Load of Hay, A | [314] |
| James B. Weaver | |
| Masterpieces | [36] |
| Ethel Hueston | |
| My Baby's Horse | [259] |
| Emilie Blackmore Stapp | |
| "Old Bill" | [67] |
| Henry C. Wallace | |
| Old Cane Mill, The | [195] |
| Nellie Gregg Tomlinson | |
| One Wreath of Rue | [278] |
| Cynthia Westover Alden | |
| Our Bird Friends | [302] |
| Margaret Coulson Walker | |
| Peace and Then—? | [292] |
| Detlev Fredrik Tillisch | |
| Poet of the Future, The | [169] |
| Tacitus Hussey | |
| Professor, The | [248] |
| Calista Halsey Patchin | |
| Putting the Stars with the Bars | [173] |
| Verne Marshall | |
| Queer Little Thing, The | [199] |
| Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd | |
| Recruit's Story, The | [77] |
| Frank Luther Mott | |
| Reminder, The | [63] |
| Allan Updegraff | |
| Rochester, Minn. | [221] |
| Marie G. Stapp | |
| Semper Fidelis | [300] |
| Addie B. Billington | |
| September | [166] |
| Esse V. Hathaway | |
| Some Magic and a Moral | [101] |
| Virginia H. Reichard | |
| Sonny's Wish | [114] |
| Bertha M. Shambaugh | |
| Spirit of Spring, The | [140] |
| Laura L. Hinkley | |
| That Iowa Town | [45] |
| Oney Fred Sweet | |
| Tinkling Cymbals | [126] |
| Helen Sherman Griffith | |
| Truth | [97] |
| Carrie Moss Hawley | |
| Unredeemed, The | [121] |
| Emerson Hough | |
| Wild Crab Apple, The | [231] |
| Julia Ellen Rogers | |
| Wind in the Corn, The | [17] |
| Alice C. Weitz | |
| Woodrow Wilson and Wells, War's Great Authors | [280] |
| Honoré Willsie | |
| Work | [100] |
| Irving N. Brant | |
| Work Is a Blessing | [161] |
| Lafayette Young | |
| Your Lad, and My Lad | [290] |
| Randall Parrish |