Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1918-12-27
PEOPLE Who ARE LEFT
OUT OF THE ROLL CALL
Population Of the United States
Asked 10 Stand Up and
Be Counted.
ny GERALD STANLEY LEE.

ny GERALD STANLEY Lee.
had n friend once named Old Bin
Spear, who was the curator and found
or ~ the John Quincy Adams Memorial
In Quincy. Mass. lie conceived the
iden OF making the house into a me-
mortal aud, with his genius us a col
lector OF old furniture, filed II with
things to see,
People cnmc from everywhere, and
at twenty-five cents apiece they went
about to see the things 1911 had col
lccted and hear 1911 talk.
Blll felt very superior TO most col
lectors. Just collectors" Bill said,
"%collect anything"
Bill ufually could aizo people up when
thcy came In tho door. but whom no
wasn't quite sure about people. and sus-
pccted no didn't want to bother with
them very long, he used TO take them up
to the attic to sizo them up quick, lie
would show them n buHhel basSetful OF
something they couldn't quite see, and
then he would wave his hand With q
flourish and say IN an impressive tone
as they stopped to look closer This In
the Largest Collection Of Burnt Matches
In the Worldl'
Hundreds Of collectors didn't break a
smile, Hlll said. nnd Just looked awed.
Then Rni knew. OF course. that he
needn't bother to show them his best
things.
Some Of the people who are proposing
60 go out into tho streets Red Cross
Christmas Roll Gail Week and gather up
everybody TO Join the Red Cross. seem
TO thint that the main thing there IL
to tell people about the Red Cross IN
that n they pay n dollar to belong they
will belong 10 the Largest Collection OF
People who Have Paid Oae Dollar IN the
World.
fei, n little superior to this at nrst
and began thinking how | wouldn't do Il.
hut when I began thinking what the
biggest Collection Of People In the World
could do by iusd being the biggest and
BY all wanting the same thing with y
different ono dollar, II became impress
slve.
II would oven be impressive n forty
million people In America all wanted the
same thing with the same Dollarl
All wanting the same thing would be n
milton prnylng-all the Rrown-up people
Of a nation with their little half con-
scloua children round them-prayingi
The dollar n man Joined with, would
not be a mere one dollar. TIL dollar
hhulu W ~ TNtflHN % tNtII WhH III
America that So. $3.50, 800 other men or
women belonged TO him. and hat he be-
ionged TO them in getting what he want
ed for three million B-ldler boys and for
their children at home.
Forty million peopie-.ail the grown-up
people In this country pick out three
million men and say TO the three million
men they have picked out. you go and
die for US. you go and be savlora Of the
world ana die on our crosses for usi"
Then what do the forty million dot
II would be be something II we would
all line up-the whole forty million OF
un 10 a with our little pallid lnaipid
HpeochleHa dollar bills IN our hands from
Maine to California Chriatmas Week and
use our two dollar bills a year ns ballots,
stand up In line and be counted and
cable TO the men across the seas that
we vote ono cnrfare once In two weeks
20 stand by them, to stand by the souls
and bodies Of the children OF the men
who have made a standing offer 10 die
on our crosses for usl
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 arc left out white
all OF the children OF tho world hle by
aud look at him. while the little children
Of nine hundred thousand dead men In
England file by and look az him, or the
children OF the soldiers Of France giving
their lives TO protect the skyscrapors Of
New York;
For that matter II need not lake 10
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 Ia him--safo
with hir own baby pulling on his face.
jnbbing his small uustful fists IN his
eyeH-if he lot himself be loft out?
OF course, n seems a little like a
mockery 20 cable over TO France Christ
mns Eve that we give one carfare once
IN two weeks 20 the children OF tho men
we picked out TO die for us. but II would
be "a start.
Nobody necdn 20 think Il would be a
big thing lust 20 belong TO the Red Cross,
but Il Is going TO be a big thing 10 be
left out.