The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-12-19
Population OF the United States
Asked 10 Stand Up and
Be Counted.
q, GERALD STANLEY Lee.

! had friend once named Old BIZ
Spear, who was the curnior and found
er of The John Quincy Adams Memorial
In Quincy, Mass He conceived the
ldea Of making the house Into me-
mortal aud, with his genius as col
lector OF nd furniture, filled II with
things to see.
People came from everywhere, and
nj twenty-five cents apiece they went
about to see the things Bill had col
lected and hear Bll talk.
BIZ felt very superior TO most col
lectors. Just collectors" BIZ said,
collect anything"
BIZ uiniaiy 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 chow them buahe basketful OF
something they couldn't quite see, and
then he would wave his hand with a
flourish and say In an impressive tone
as they stooped to look closer. This Is
the Largest Collection of Burnt Matches
In the Worldi'
Hundreds OF collectors didn't break
smile Bill said. and just locked awed.
Then Rill knew. OF course. that he
needn't bother 10 show them his best
things.
Some Of the people who are proposing
to go cut into the ntree,s Red CrosD
1T. tl..I ss.tI
everybody to Join the Red Cross. seem
TO think that the main thing there 10
to tell people about the Red Cross Ia
that n they pay a dollar to belong they
viii belong to the Largest Collection OF
People Who Have Paid One Dollar In the
World
! felt little superior TO this at first
and began thinking how I wouldn't do II.
But when | began thinking what the
bigges, Collection Of People In the World
could do by Jum being the biggest and
by all wanting the same thing with a
different one dollar. II became impress
sive.
1t would even be impressive II forty
million people In America all wanted the
same thing with tho same Dollarl
All wanting the same thing would be
nation praying--nil the grown-up people
Of nation with their little half con-
scious children round them-prayingl
The dollar man Joined with. would
not be a mere one dollar, The dollar
would be a receipt to every man In
America thot 39,g9s.9as other men or
women belonged 10 him. and that he be-
Ionged to them in getting what he want
ed for three million soldier boys and for
their children Mt home
Forty million people-ali the srown-up
people In this country pick out three
million men and say to .he three million
men they have picked out You 20 and
die for u.s. you 20 and be sayiors Of the
world and die on our crosses for u.s.
Then what do the forty million do?
II would be be something II we would
ali line up-the whole forty million of
us 10 p man. with our little pallld insipd
sneechiess dollar bills in our hands from
Maine to California Christmas Week and
use cur two dollar bills year as ballots
stand up In line and be counted and
cable to the men across the seas that
we vote one chrfare once in two weeks
tc stand by them. to stand by the souls
and bodies of the children OF the men
who have made standing offer to die
ON our crcsses for rB!
Who wants to be left out of this line
by Christmas Eve?
What man would want to be- stood UP
N
NIL OF the children OF the world file by
and look at him. while the little children
OF nine hundred thousand dead men In
England Ale by and look AT him. or the
children Of the soldiers OF France giving
their lives to protect the skyscrapers of
New York;
For that matter 1t need not take SO
many children. What man who let him
self be left out would feel safe In his
own house with his own children climbing
up Into his lap believing in him-safe
with hin own baby pulling on his face.
jebblug his small trustful hsts In his
eyes-f he let himself be left outg
OF course, It seems little like a
mockery to cable over to France Christ
mas Eve that we give one csrfare once
In two weeks to the children OF the men
we picked out to die for US. but IT would
be a start.
Nobody needs tc think II would be
big thing Just 10 belong to the Red Cross
but it is going to be big thing to be
left out.
On the roof of the Pavilion Belle.
vue. near ST. Cloud Is most interest
Ing hospital for soldiers who havt1been
"gnssed." The Pavilion Bellevue is