Okolona messenger., 1918-12-26
WHO ff
"a OF TIVE M call
Fcr or Of tho unllod siasea
asked 10 Stand Up and
10 Counted.
py GERALD orAntHv LgE.


hal friend onrc mined old biil
spcur. who wua the cursior ard found.
er Of lie John Quincy Adams Mpniofiak
IN Qnhcy. Muss. lie conceived The
idcu of making the house into a me-
moriul nnd, With liu genius as col
leclor OF old furniture. illed II with
thlugs 20 see.
People came from Oveiywtrrc. and
81 twenty-five cents apiece they wci'T
about 10 see The lhln.S Blll bud col
lccied and hair Iilll talk
. Bin fell very superior TO most col
leelurs ".Iust collector rs," BIZ said,
"colIcct anything"
nm usually could size people up when
they came IN the door hut when he
wasn't quite sure about people, and sus-
pcecd he didn't &ant to BOTHER with
them very long he used to take them UP
70 the attic TO size them UP quick. lie
would show them bushel basketful of
something they couldn't qelte see. and
then ne would wave his hand with q
flourish and say II an impressive tone
ss they stopped TO lock 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 aha
needn't bother to .show them his best
thlngs
Some OF the people who are proposing
70 go out, into the streets Red Cross
Christmas Roll Cali Week and gather up
everybody to join the Red Cross. seem
to think that tile main thing there IL
TO tell people about the Red Cross IL
that II they pay a dollar 10 belong shey
will 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 wouldn't do IT,
But when | 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. 1t became impress
| sivo
II would even be impressive II forty
million people In America all wanted the
same thing with the same Dollarl
All wanting the same thing would be
nation praying--af the grown-up people
Of a nation with their little half con-
scious children round them--praying!
The dollar man Joined with, would
not be mere one dollar The dollar
| would be a receipt to every man In
| America that s9.999.9ss other men or
| women belonged to him. and that he be-
ionged TO them in getting what he want
| cd for three million soldier boys and for
their children at home.
e. -.stst.. >>x,,In I'll tha erxcvwx, .svss
| peopie In this country pick out three
| million men and say to the three million
| men they have picked out. You 20 and
| die for ua. you 60 and be saviora OF the
| world and die on our crosses for usT
| Then what do the forty million dot
II would be be something II we would
| ali line up--the whole forty million OF
US to man. with our little pallid insipid
| epeechless 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 sean that
| We vote one carfars once In two weeks
| 10 stand by them. to stand BY the souls
and bodies OF the children OF the men.
who have made . standing offec TO die
| OF our crosses for us 3sa /
| Who wants to be LETT eat OF this .ine
| by Christmas Eve? .
| What man would want to be stood up
in a row Of those who are left out whils
| 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 tie skyscrapers Ct
! New York;
For that matter It need not take %
! many children. What man who let him
| Islf be left out would feel safe In his
| swn house with his own children climbing
| sp into his lap believing In him-safe
| with his own baby pulling on his face,
| jahbing his small trustful fists In hiq
syes--if he let himself be left outf
| OF course. It seems q little like q
nockery 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 ". but It wosld
| be start.
Nobody needs to think It would be
big thing just to belong to the Red Cr0sa.
but 1t IL going to be biz thing To be
left cut.