The publishers will turn over the royalties to the funds for widows and orphans of seamen who lost their lives in transporting the Amer ican Expeditionary Force. The permission to reproduce ten of the poems was given by Mr. James Gordon Bennett, who acquired their copyright through the awards in the Literary Competition. The other poems are contrib uted by their writers.

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