The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-12-13
PEOPLE WHO ARE LEFT
OUT OF THE ROLL CALL
Population of the 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 q me-
mortal and, with his genius as a col
lector OF old furniture, filed 1t with
things to see.
People came from everywhere, and
+ at twenty-five cents apiece they went
about to see the things Bill had col
lected and hear Bill talk.
Bill felt very superior to most col
Iectors. "Just collectors" Bill said,
collect anything"
Bill usually could size people up when
they came In the door, but when no
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 q bushel basketful Of
something they couldn't quite see, and
then he would wave his hand with q
flourish and say In an impressive tone
the Largest Collection of Burnt Matches
In the World!'
Hundreds OF collectors didn't break a
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
20 go out into the streets Red Cross
Christmas Roll Call Week and 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 II they pay a dollar to belong they
will belong TO tho Largest Collection of
People Who Have Paid One Dollar In the
World
felt = little superior TO this at first
and began thinking how 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 oil wanting the same thing with
different one dollar. 1t BECAME impress
sive.
1t @oufd epen. be impressive II forty
million peesle m. America all wanted the
Same thing with the same Dollar!
All vanting.the same thing would be
nation prayiig-all the grown-up people
Of a: ,natiop .yith their little half CON
ecious children round them--prayingi
The dollar man Joined with would
not DO mere 'one dollar. The dollar
would be- a'.receipt TO every man in
America that 39.999. 500 other men or
women belonged to him. and that he be-
longed to Ihefi in getting what he want
ed for three million soldier boys and for
their children at home.
Forty million people-all the grown-up
people in this country pick out three
million men ahd say to the three million
men they have picked out, You 90 and
die for us. you go and be saviors Of the
world and die on our crosses for u.s."
Then what do the forty million do?
1t would be be something II we would
ell line up-the whole forty million OF
us to a man, with our little pallid insipid
speechless dollar bills In our hands from
Maine to California Christmas Week and
use our 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 carfare once in two weeks
TO stand by them, to stand by the souls
and bodies OF the children Of the men
who have made a standing offer to die
on our crosses for us!
Who wants to be left out OF this line
by Christmas Eve?
What man would want to be stood up
in a row of those who are left out while
all OF the children OF the world file by
and look at him, while the little children
OF nine hundred thousand dead men in
England file 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 It 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 his own baby pulling on his face.
Jabbing his small trustful fists IN his
eyes-if he let himself be left out?
OF course, IL seems a little like a
mockery to cable over to France Christ
mas Eve that we give one carfare once
in two weeks to the children OF the men
we picked out to die for u.s. but it would
be a start
Nobody needs to think IL would he q
big thing just 10 belong 10 the Red Cross
but II is going TO be q big thing 10 be
left out.
No Hay So Good ~ Alfalfa.