Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-12-12
PEOPLE WHO ARE LEFT !
OUT OF THE ROLL CALL.
Population Of the United States
asked TO Stand Up and
! Ee caunted.
b. GERAl.o srANLEY e.


1 had fgiend opce named Old Bill
spear, wbo'was the curator and found
sr of the John Quincy Adams Memorial
In Quincy, Mass. BE conceived the;
idea of making the house into me-
snorial and, with his genius as coli.
Sector Of old furniture, filed 1t with
things to see
People came from everywhere, and
mt twenty-five cents apiece they went
about to see the things Bill had col
seeted and hear Bill talk.
Bill felt very superior to most col
sectors. "Just collectors" Bill said,
s'cOllect anything"
Bill usually could size people up when
they came in the door. but when he
Nasnt quite sure about people. and sus-.
Decfed he didn't want to bother with
them very long, he used to take them up
80 the attic to size them up quick He
you'd show them bushel basketful of
something they couldn't quite see, and
8hen he would wave his hand with
siourish and say in an impressive tone
rs they stopped to look closer, This Id
9he Largest Collection OF Burnt Matches
IN the World!"
Hundreds OF collectors didn't break a
emile. Bill said and Just looked awed. Y
Then Bill knew, of course, that he
Aeednt bother to show them his best
things.
Some OF the people who are proposing
60 go out into the streets Red Cross
Nf,.sof ,0T Na11 Wy,
everybody to join the Red Cross. seem
70 think that the main thing there is
TO tell people about the Red Cross Is
8hat IL they pay dollar to belong they
viii belong to the Largest Collection Of
People Who Have Paid One Dollar in the.
world.
I felt little superior to this at first
and began thinking how I wouldn't do IT,
But when l 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 q
different one dollar, It became impress.
aive.
It would even be impressive if forty
million people In America all wanted the
came thing with the same DollarI
All wanting the same thing would be
nation praying-au the Rrown-up people
sf nation with their little half con-
scious children round them-prayfngI
q
mot be a mere one dollar. The dollar
would be receipt to every 1nan in
America that 39,999999 other men or
women belonged to him, and that he be-
sOnged to them in getting what he want
ID for three million soldier boys and for
aheir children at home
Forty million peopls-ai the grewn-up
t9eople IN this country pick out three
EniIlion men and say to the three million
snen they have picked out, You 60 and
Ole for as. you go and be saviors OF the
world and die on our crosses for usp' n
Then what do the forty million do?
It would be be something If we would
mll line up-the whole forty million OF
es TO a man, with our little pallld insIpid
Hpeechless dollar bills In our hands from
-'SGaire to California Christmas Week and
use our two dollar bills q year as ballots.
stand up in line and be counted and
cable TO the men across the seas that
we vote one carfare once In two weeks
60 stand by them. &c stand by the souls
-,znd bodies Of the children Of the men
who have made standing offer to die
en- 0ur crosses for us!
Who wants to be left out OF this line
by Christmas Ever
What man would want TO be stood up
In a row Of those who are left out while
ell Of the children Of the world file by
and look at him. while the little children
81 nine hundred thousand dead racn IN
fingiand file by and look at him, or the
Ehil1ren OF the soldiers Of France giving
their lives to protect the skyscrapeis Of
New York?
For that matter II need not take 90 |
n1any children. What man who let him
self be left out would feel safe in his
RWn house with his own children climbing |
ep into his lap believing in him-safe |
with his own baby pulling on his face.
1Bbbtng his small trustful fists in his |
eyes--if ne let himself be left out?
OF course It seems little like a |
Gzockery % cable over to Francs Christ |
asas 1--we That we give one carfare once |
@Es two wrecks 60 the children OF the men |
We picked out to die for US. but it would |
- q start
Nobody needs 70 think 1t would be q |
dig thing just 70 belong to the Red Cross, |
eut tt 10 going 70 be q big thing to b |
NIT out.