Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-12-20
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PEOPLE Who Are LEFT
OUT OF The ROLL CALL
Population Of tie United States
Asked to Stand Up and :
Be Counted.
By GERALD STANLEY LEE.

| had a friend once named Old Bill
Spear, who was the curator and found
er of the John Quincy Adams Memorial
In Quincy. Mass. He conceived the
idea of making the house into a me-
mortal and, with his genius as COL
lector of old furniture, filled it with
things to see.
People came from everywhere. and
at twenty-five cents apiece they went
about to see the things Bill had col
lec;cti and hear Bill talk.
Bill felt very superior to most col
lectors "Just collect 1rs," Bill said,
"collect anything"
Bill usually could size people UP when
they came in the door. but when he
wasn't quite sure about people, and sus-
pected he didn't want to bother with
them very long. he used to take them up
to the attic to size them up quick. He
would show them bushel basketful OF
something they couldn't quite see. and
then he would wave his hand with
flourish and say In an impressive tone
as they stopped to look closer, This is
the Largest Collection OF Burnt Matches
In the World!'
Hundreds OF collectors didn't break
smile. Bill said. and just looked awed.
Then Bill knew. of course. that he
needn't bother to show them his best
things.
Some of the people who are proposing
to go cut into the streets Red Cross
Christmas Roll Call Week ana gather up
everybody to join the Red Cross seem
to think that the main thing there Is
to tell people about the Red Cross Is
that If they pay dollar to belong they
will belong TO the Largest Collection OF
PEOPLE Who Have Paid One Dollar in the
World.
] felt a I;,Lc superior to this at first
and began thinking how l wouldn't do 1t
But when ! began thinking what the
biggest Collection of People in the World
could do by just being the biggest anG
by all wanting the same thing with q
different one dollar. il became impress
Eive.
1t would even be impressive II forta
million people in America all wanted the
same thing with the same Dollar!
All wanting the same thing would be
nation praying-all the grownup peopl.
Of a nation with their little hal! con.
scious children round them-pray:nG!
The dollar man Joined with woul''
not be mere one dollar. The d..
would be a receipt to every n,2" =.
America that 3S.999999 other men OF
women belonged to him. and that he be
ionged to them In getting what he want
Ell for three million soldier boys a:sl fc
their children at home.
Forty million pecpe-all the grown-u'
people In this country pick out ihr
million men and say to the three Mile
men they have picked out. You go an
die for US, you go and be saviors of Ih'
world and die on our crosses for us!
Then what do the forty million dos
Il would be be something II we woul
all line up-the whole forty million
US to a man, with our little pallid inSipi'
s,eechless dollar bills-in our hands froi'
Maine to California Christmas Week ali
use our two dollar bills year as ballot
stand up in line and be counted all
cable to the men across the seas th#
we vote one carfare once in two week
to stand by them, to stand by the sou!
ard bodies of the children Of the me
who have made standing offer to d
on our crosse" for US.
Who wants TO be left out OF this llnt
by Christmas Eve?
What man would want to be stood u
In a row of those who are left out wh.h
all of the children OF the world file b:
asd look at him, while the little childre:
of nine hundred thousand dead men H.
England file by and look at him. or to:
children OF the soldiers of France givint
their lives to protect the skyscrapers o.
New York?
For that matter 1t need not take g.
many children. What man who let him
self he left out would feel safe in hi!
own house with his own children climbing
up into his lap believing in hin-saft
with his own baby pulling on his face
jabbing his small trustful fists In his
eyes-if he let himself be left out?
or course, it seems little like
mockery to cable over to France Christ
mas Eve that we give one carfare once
In two weeks to the children Of the mer
we picked out to die for US. but It would
be a start.
Nobody needs to think 1t would be
big thing just 70 belong to the Red Cross,
but it Is going to be q big thing to be
left out.