The border vidette., 1919-01-04
PEOPLE WHO ARE LEFT
OUT or THE ROLL CALL
Population Of the United States
Asked to Stand Up and
= Be Counted.
BY GERALD STANLEY LEE.

1 had q friend once named Old Bill
Spear. WHO WAS the curator and found
er OF the JoIIn Quincy Adams Memorial
IN Quincy, Mass. FIe conceived the
idea OF making the house Into 4 me-
mortal and, with his genius as col
Iector 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 Eill had col
lected and hear Bill talk.
Bill felt very superior 10 most col
Iectors. Just collect 1rs," Bill said,
"col!cct anything"
Bill usually could size people up whea
they came III the door, but when he
wasn't quite 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 bas!setful of
something they couldn't quite see. and
then he would his hand with
flourish and say In impressive tone
they stooped TO look closer. This In
IL Z Largest Collection Of Burnt Matches
in the World!''
Hundreds OF collectors didn't break n
smile Bill said, and Just looted awed
Then Bill knew. OF course, that he
needn't bother TO show them his best
things.
Some of the people who are proposing
Christmas Roll Call Week and gather UP
everybody to join tho Red Cross seem
to think that the main thing there In
to tell people about the Red Cross 10
that II they pay 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 / wouldn't do It.
biggest Collection OF People in the World
could do by just being the biggest and
by all wanting the same thing with a
different one dollar, it became impress
sive.
1t would even be impressive II forty
million people in America all wanted the
same thing with the Same Dollar!
All wanting the same thing would be n
nation praying-an the srown-up peopls
Of q nation with their little half con-
GciouS children round thcm-prayingt
The dollar a Joined with. would
not be a dollar The dollar
would be receipt to every man Ia
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 the srovn-up
people in this country pick out three
million men and say to the three million
men they have picked out, You go and
world and die on our crosses for us!'
Then what do the forty million do?
1t would be be something X we would
all line up-the whole forty million OF
us to a man. with little pal!id insipid
speeches. dollar bills in our hands from
Maine to California Christmas Week and
use our two dollar bills year ballots.
stand up in line and be counted and
cable to tho 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 standing oner to die
on our crosses for usi
Who wants to he LEFT out OF this line
by Christmas Eve?
What man would want to he stood up
IN a of those vino are left oIt while
and look at him. srhle the little children
of nine hundred thousand dead men ia
England file by and look ct him. or the
children OF the soldiers of France giving
their lives to protect the skyscraDers OF
New York?
For that matter 1t need not take
many children. what man who let him
self be left out would feel safe in hls
own house with his own children climbing
with hir by pulling on his face.
tabbing his small trustful fists ia his
eyes-if hs let himself be left out?
OF course, 1t seems little like
xnockery 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 a start.
Nobody needs 20 think II would be
but It IS going 20 be a big thing 70 be
Taft