Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1918-12-19
PEOPLE WHO ARE LEFT
OUT OF The ROLL CALL
Population of the United States
Asked to Stand Up and
Be Counted.
ey GERALD STANLEY LgE.


I had a friend once named old Bill
Spear. whe was the curator and found.
tr o. the John Quincy Adams Memorial
In Quincy, Mass. He conceived The
idea ~ making tine house into a me-
mortal and, with his genius as a col
lector of old furniture, filled 1t with
things t' see.
People came from Nerywhere, and
al twenty 1--WE cents apiece they went
about To see the tlIings Bill had col
iected and hear Birl talk,
Bill felt very superior 20 most col.
%iectofs. ''.Ins' collectors" Bin said,
"collect anything"
Bill usually coG;a size people rn when
they came In thr door. but WREN he
wasn't quite sure a. out people. ana sus-
pected he didat want to bother with
them very long. he uspd to take them up
20 the attic 10 size them up quick. He
would show them a bushel baskctful Of
something they couldn't quite see, and
then he would wave his hand with q
flourish and say I'm an Impressive tone
- they stopped to lock closer, This Is
the Largest Collection Of Burnt Matches
IN the World"
Hupdreds OF collectors didn't break q
smile Bill said, and Just looked awed.
Then Bill knew. Of course. that he
seedn't bother to show them his best
things.
Some Of the people who are proposing
90 so out into the streets Red Cross
Christmas Roll Call Week and gather up
svery body TO join the Red Cross. seem
90 think that the main thing there Is
20 tell people about the Red Cross IL
that II they pay a dollar to belong they
will belong to the Largest Collection Of
People Who lave Paid One Dollar In the
World.
fen a little superior to this at FIRST
ana began thinking how | wouldn't do II.
Out when ] began thinking what the
biggest Collection Of People IN the World
csuld do by just being the biggest and
~ all whiting the same thing with q
different one dollar, it became impress
mys.
1t would sven be impressive II forty
million people In America all wanted the
anne thing with the same D0llarl
All wanting the same thing would be a
nation praying-all the grown-ip people
Of q nation with their little half con-
scIous Children round them-prayingl
The dollar a man Joined with. would
net be q mere one dollar. The dollar
would BE 9 receipt to every mai in
America that SO, 9s9. 1893 other men OF
women belonged to him, and that he be-
tonged to them In getting what he want
Cd for three Hilion soldier boys n for
their children at home.
Forty million people-all the grown-up
people in this country pick out three
million men and say 20 the three million
men thay have picked out. You go ana
Gle for us, you go and be savi0rs OF the
world n die on our crosses for us!"
Then what do the forty million dot
II would be be something II we would
oil line up-the whole forty million OF
rs to q mSD. with our little pallid inslpld
epseohless dollar bills In our hands from
Maine to California Christmas Week and
use our two dollar bills a year as ballots.
stand up in line and be counted and
cable to the men across the seas that
we svets one carfare once In two weeks
70 stsnd by them. to stand By the souls
IND boAies Of the children Of the men
who have made a standing offer to die
On eur crosses for usl
Who wants to be left out Of this line
~ Christmas Eve?
What man would van to be stood up
IN . rev Of those who are left out while
ail OF the children OF the world file by
and lock- 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 akyscrapers Of
New Ycrkf
For that matter II need not AXE %
nany cAlAren. What man who let him
self - hft cut would feel safe In his
swn heuse with his own children climbing
- into hts lap believing in him-safs
with his own baby pulling on his face.
jabbing his small trustful fists In hs
syes-if he let himself be left out?
Of ooursA Il seems a little like .
meckery - cable over to France Christ
Ms I've that we sivs one carfare once
IN TIVE weeks 10 the children Of the men
We picked cut 70 die for us. but Il would
- . start
Melody needs to think It would Be .
biG thing tust to belong to the Red Cross.
but II 10 gelng - be q big thing b -