The Farmington times., 1918-12-06
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 friend once named Old Bin
Spear, who was the curator and found
er Of the John Quincy Adams Memorial
lin Quincy, Mass. He conceived the
idea of making the house into a me-
mortal and, with his genius as a coll
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 coll
iected and hear Bill talk. p
Bill felt very superior to most col
lectors. "Just collectors" Bill said,
collect anything"
Bill usually could size people I'D when
they came in the door, but when he
wasn't quito 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 a bushel basketfuI of
something they couldn't quite see, and
then he would wave his hand with .
flourish and say In an impressive tone
az they stopped to look closer This is
the Largest Collection OF Burnt Matches
in the World"
Hundreds Of collectors didn't break q
smile, Bin said, and Just looked awed.
Then Bill knew, Of course. that he
needn't bother to show them his best
tbInHs.
Some OF the people who are proposing
to 20 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 the Largest Collection of
People Who Have Paid One Dollar in the
World
1 felt a little superior to this at first
and began thinking how l wouldn't do II.
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
different one dollar. it became impress
sive.
II would even be Impressive II forty
million people in America all wanted the
same thing with the same Dollarl
All wanting the sane thing would be O
nation praying-all the grown-up people
Of nation with their little half con-
scious children round them-praylng!
The dollar a man Joined with, Would
not be a mere one dollar. The dollar
would be receipt to every man In
America that 39,999.9 9e9 other men on
women belonged to him. and that he be-
longed to them In getting what he want.
ed for three million soldier boys and for,
their children at home.
Forty million people-ali tho grown-up
people in this country pick out three.
million men and say to the three million
men they have picked out, You 60 and
die for us, you go and be saviors of the
world and die on our crotses for usv'
Then what do the forty million do7
II would be be something II we would
all line up-the whole forty million of
US TO man, with our little pallid insiuid
speechless dollar bills in our hands from
Maine to California Christmas Week anS
use our two dollar bills year as ballotsl
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 uns
by Christmas Ever
What man would want to be .tood I'm
IN row OF those who are left out while
All OF the children Of the world file hv
and look at him, while the little children
u nine hundred thousand dead men in
England file by and look at him, or the
children Of the soldiers OF Francs giving
heir lives to protect the skyscrapers OF
New York;
For that matter II need not take an
many children. What man who let him
elf be left out would feel safe In his
'wn house with his own children climbing
'p into his lap believing in hlm-safe
Win MIS- own baby pulling on his face.
abiding his small trustful fists in hi.
yes-if he let himself be left out?
or course, 1t seems a little like a
1ockery TO cable over to France Christ
1as Eve that we give one carfare once
Two weeks 10 the children of the men
re picked out TO die for us, but It would
e a start.
Nobody needs 20 think 1t would be
Is thing Just to belong to the Red Cross.
ut 1t Is going TO be big thing to be
IT out.