The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-12-18
PEOPLE WHO ARE LEFT
OUT OF THE ROLL CALI
Population of the United State,
Asked to Stand Up and
Be Counted.
&,
BY GERALD STANLEY LEE.

had 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-
Raorial and, with his genius as q col
lector Of old furniture, filed 1t with
things to see.
People came from everywhere. and
ut 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.
lcctors. Just collectors" Bill said.
collect anything"
Bill utmally could size people up wher
they came In tho door, but when h,
wasn't quite sure about people, and sus.
Dected he didn't want to bother witt
them very long. he used to toxic them ur
10 the attic to size them up quick He
would show them bushel basketful OF
something they couldn't quito Gee and
then h would wave his hand with a
flourish and say in an impressive tone
aa they stopped to look closer, This Is
the Largest Collection Of Burnt Matches
In the World!"
n
smile. Bill said. and just looked nwed.
Ihen Bill knew, OF course that Id
Needn't bother to show them his best
things.
Some OF tho people who are proposing
TO go out into tho streets Red Cross
Christmas Roll Call Week and gather uu
everybody to join tho Red Cross, seem
to think that the main thing there ia
to tell people about tho Red Cross ia
that II they pay a dollar to belong they
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 I began thinking what the
biggest Collection Of People in the World
could do by just being tho biggest and
by all wanting the Same thing with @
di11erent one dollar, 1t became impres.
sive.
1t would even be impressive II forty
million people In America oil wanted the
same thing with the same Dollar!
All wanting the same thing would be a
nation praying-all the grown-up people
Of nation with their little half con.
scious children round them-praying!
The dollar man Joined with, would
not be mere one dollar. The dolla,
would be a receipt to every man in
America that 39.999.999 other men O,
women belonged to him. and that no be-
longed to them In getting what he want
ed for three million soldier boys and 70,
their children at home
Forty million people-all the grown -uu
people In this country pick out three
million men and say to the three million
men they have picked out You 20 and
die for us. you go and be saviors of the
world and die on our crosses for us!"
Then what do the forty million do?
IL would be be something II VIC would
all limo up-thc whole forty million OF
us to man, with our little palid insipid
speechess dollar bills in our hands from
Maine to California Christmas Week and
use our two dollar bills n year as ballots
stand up in line and be counted and
cable to the men across tho seas that
we vote one carfare once in two week,
TO stand by them. to stand by tho souls
and bodies OF the children Of the men
who have made n 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 ftood ur
In row OF those who are left out while
all OF the children OF the world file by
and look at him, while the little childre~
OF nine hundred thousand dead men H.
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 1t need not take sc
many children. What man who let him
seif be left out would feel safe in his
own house with his own children climbina
up into his lap believing in him-safc
with his own baby pulling on his face
Jabbing his small trustful fists in his
eycs--if We let himself be left out?
Or course It seems little like n
mockery to cable over to France Christ
mas Eve that give one carfare once
In two weeks to the children Of tho men
we picked out to die for us, but It would
be n start
Nobody needs TO think It would be a
Dig thing Just to belong to the Red Cross
put II Is going to be big thing to be
left out.