The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-12-18
WHO ARE LEFT
out: OF The ROLL CALL
Population Of the United States
Asked to Stand Up and
Be Counted.
BY GERALD STANLEY LEE.

NV SV0SvSOSs 49,
BY GERALD STANLEY LEE.
I 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-
ihorial and with his genius as . COL
lector of old furniture, filled 1t with
things to see.
xoenle came from everywhere, aud
q, twenty-five cents apiece they went
ele0t to see the things Bill had COL
beeeel and hear Bill talk.
Bill felt very superior to most col
lectors. "Just c~ollectors," Bill said,
"collect anything"
Bin usually could sisa people. up when
they came. In the do0r, but whom 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
"SSeA OAS" Uu0As0t VA6hVSkO4 "a
something they couldn't quite see. and
then he would wave his hand with q
flourish n say In m impressive tone
e. they stopped to look closer This u
b Largest Collection Of Burnt Matches
In the World!" "
Hundreds OF collectors didn't break q
smile, Bill said. and Just looked awed.
needn't bother to show them his best
things.
Some Of the people who are proposing
70 20 out Ninto the streets Red Cross
Christmas Roll Gail Week and gather UP
everybody to Join the Red Cross, seem
to think that the main thing there Il
to tell people about the Red Cross ID
that II they a q dollar to belong they
will belong to the Largest Collection Of
People Who Have Paid One Dollar In the
World.
I felt . little superior to this Al frs,
and began thinking how I wouldn't do It.
But when I began thinking what the
biggest Collection Of People in the World
could do BY just being the biggest and
by all wanting the same thing with
different one dollar, 1t became impress.
sive.
It would even be impressive II forty
million people in America all wanted thu
same thing with the same Dollar!
A., wanting h same thing would be
natio.l praying-all the grown-up peopl<
cf a nation with their little half con.
scious children round them-praying!
The dollar a man Joined with, would
not be \ mere one dollar. The dollal
would be a receipt to every man II
America that 80, 999. 999 other men OF
women belonged to him. n hat he be-
longed to them in getting what he want
ed for three million soldier boys n fol
their children at home.
Forty million people-all the grown-ul
people in this country pick out three
million men and say to .theathrss million
men they have picked out. "''You 60 ant
world and die on u crosves for us!"
Then what do the forty million do?
It would be be something II we woult
oil line up-the whole forty million o
us to q a with u little pallid insipit
s~peechless dollar bills in our hands from
Maine to California Christmas Week ant
use our two dollar bills a year as ballots
stand up In line and be counted ant
cab to the men across the seas thai
We vote one carfare once in two week.
to stan by them, to stand by the soul,
md bodies Of the children Of the mer
who have made q standing offer to di.
on our crosses for US!
Who wants to be LETT out OF this I'M
by Christmas Eve?
What man woul want TO- be stood VI
IN q row Of those who are left out while
Ill Of the children Of the world file BY
n look at him, while h little children
of nine hundred thousand dead men II
England die by Ind look At him, or thu
children Of the soldiers Of France giving
their lives to protect the skyscrapers o.
New York?
For that matter 1t need not take *
many children. What man who let him,
self be left out would feel safe in hi
own house with his own children climbing
up into his lap believing in him-safl
with his own baby. pulling on his face
3abbing his small trustful fists In his
eyes-if he let himself be left out?
OF course, 1t seems . little like &
mockery to cable over to France Christ
MAJ Eve that we give n carfare once
in two weeks to the children Of the mel
We picked out to die for u, but It would
b q start. rT
Nobody needs to think 1T would be
big thing just to belong to the Red Cross
but it 10 going to be q big thing to b
left out.