The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean., 1919-01-08
PEOPLE WHO. ARE LEFT.
OUT o.. THE ROLL CALL
Population Of the United States
Asked to Stand Up and
Be Counted.
BY GERALD STANLEY LEE.


had a friend once named Old Bill
spear. who was tile curntor and found
y If the John Quincy Adams Memorial
Quincy. Mass. He conceived the
,.ra OF making the house into Z me-
'"'ial and. With his genius as col.
.!ur of old furniture, filed it with
;r-S to see.
Peobe came from everywhere, and
It twa 'ty-five cents apiece they went
about to SEE the things Fill had col.
'.cted and hear Bill tulk.
''tll felt very superior to most col.
,a';ors. "Just collect u.s." Bill said,
collect anything"
Bill usually could size people up when
'cy came In the dour. but when he
ISN'T quite sure about people. and sus.
,a2ted he didn't want to bother with
Aem very long. he used to take them up
,h" attic to size them up quick. He
"o:'Ia show them a bushel basketful Of
omething they couldn't quite see, and
i,en he would wave his hand with
'aur'sh and gay in an impressive tone
: hey stopped to look closer This te
he Largest Collection Of Burnt Matches
n the Worldi"'
hundreds Of collectors didn't break q
's:n;'e. Bill said. ana just looked awed.
TIE. BIZ hnew. Of course. that he
,"eA:' tother TO show them his best
h.HRs,
Some Of Inc people who are proposing
. 80 on! into the streets Red Gross
k-.stmas Toll Call Week and gather up
everybody to- join the Red Cross seem
:: hnk ::,at the main thing there is
y tell raonle about the Red Cross is
ina; II they pay a dollar to- belong they
iii. belong to the Largest Collection OF
r".:e Who Have Paid One Dollar in the
Void.
telt little superior to this 1T first
sra began thinking how wouldn't do 1t.
SIT whom began thinking what the
biggest Collection Of People in the Werld
ould do by Just being the biggest and
ay all wanting the same thing with Q
different one dollar. it became impress
sive.
1t would even be impressive forty
million reople in America all wanted the
| same .l',g with the same Dollar!
A. wanting the same thing would be q
natio:. 'oying-an the grown-up peopl,
| cf nation with their little half con-
| seious children round them-praying!
The dollar man joined WITH would
| net be a mere one dollar. The dollar
| would be receipt to every man in
America that 3S,sss.sss other men q
| women belonged to him, and that he b.
| Cd for three million soldier boys and for
their children at home.
Forty million people-all the grown-up
people In this country pick out three
million men and say to tho three millioa
men they have picked cut, "Yeu go and
die for u.s. you 80 and be saviors Of the
world and die on our crosses for us!''
Then what do the ferty million do?
| all line up-the whole forty million oi
us to a man. with eur little pallid fnspi:i
speechless 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 bs counted and
cable to the men across the seas tha.
We vote one carfare once in two week:
to stand by them. to stand by the souls
and bodies Of the children Of the mesi
who have made a standing sfer to di-
On our crosses for US!
Who wants to be left cut Of this hsle
by Christmas Eve?
What man would want to be stood ur
| IN row of those who are left cut while
| all sf the children Of the world file by
ana look at him. while the little children
| el inc hundred Thousand dead men il.
| En- land file by and look at him. Or the
| children Of the soldiers Of France givins
their lives to protect the skysorapsrs .:
New York;
For that matter 1t need not take &
many children. What man whe let hiE,:
| self be left out would feel safe in his
| ewn house with his swn children climbing
up into his lap believing In hirn--saft
| with his own baby pulling on his face
jabbing his small trustful fists in his
| eyes-if he let himself ~ left sut7
OF course, 1t seems little like
mockery to cable over to France Christ.
| mas Eve that we give one carfars once
in two weeks to the children Of the mon
We picked out to die for us. but 1t would
be q start.
Nobody needs to think It would be q
big thing just to belong to the Red Cross,
but It is going to b q big thing to be