Cheyenne record., 1919-01-09
PEOPLE WHO ARE LEFT
OUT OF The ROLL CALL
Population of the United States
Asked to Stand Up and
4 Be Counted.
ey GERALD STANLEY LEE.

Ey GERALD STANLEY LEE.
had a friend once named Old Bill
Spear. who was the curatoryanG founa-
or of the John Quincy Adams Memorial
Ia Quincy, Mass. He conceived the
idea of making the house into a me-
mortal and, with his genius as COL
lector of old furniture, filed it with
Things to see.
People came from everywhere. and
at twenty-five cents apiece they went
about to see the things Bill had col
lected and hear ELL talk.
Bill felt very superior to most col
iectors. "Just collectors" Bill said,
"co!lcct anything"
Bill usually could size people up when
they came in 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 quic;;. He
would show them a bushe basketful of
something they couldn't quite see. and
then he would wave his hand with
flourish and say in an impressive tone
es they stopped to look closer This is
tie Largest Collection OF Burnt Matches
Hundreds OF collectors didn't break
! smile. Bill said. and just looked awed.
Then Bill knew. of course. that he
| needn't bother to show them his best
| things.
! Some OF the people who are proposing
| to go 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
I to tell people about the Red Cross is
that II they $ay 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 the biggest and
! by all wanting the same thing with
! different dollar. it became impress
, ciEe.
! 1t would even be impressive II forty
! million PEOPLE in America all wanted the
sane thing with the same Dollar!
All wanting the same thing would be a
, ration rraying-all the grown-up people,
/ ef a nation with their little half con-
! cious children round them--praying!
The dollar man joined with. would
| -.ot he mers one dollar. The dollar
would be recent to every man in
| America that 50 $50 9o9 other men
ND':ltii Dcbli|tsi ~ anu lit'tt ItS Dc>
longcd to them in getting what he want
Ell for three million soldier boys and for
tneir children at home.
Forty million rcopie---an the Erown-up
! people in this country pick out three
| million men and say to the three million
/ .aen they have picked out. You 60 and
die for us. you 20 and he sariors of the
! world and die on our crosses for us!'
Tb,D do the forty million dO2
| II would be be something II we would
| all line up-the whole forty million of
! US to a man. with our little pallid insipid
| sDecchless dollar bills in our hands from
Maine to California Christmas Week and
| Use our two dollar bills 4 year as ballots.
stand up in line and he counted and
cable to the men across the seas that
| we vote 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 Il standing offer to die
, on our crosses for us
Who wants to he left out OF this line
! by Christmas Eve?
What man would want to he stood up
| in n row OF. those who are left out while
| NIL Of the children Of the world file by
and look Mt him. while the little children
! OF nine hundred thousand dead men in
| ENGLAND file by and look at him. the
| children of the soldiers Of France giving
! their lives to protect the skyscrapers OF
| New York?
| For that matter 1t need not take SO
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 in hm-safe
! with his own baby pulling on his face
jabbinS his small trustfu fists in his
eyes--if he let himself be left out?
! OF course. it seems little like
| mockery to cable over to France Christ
mas Eve that give one carfare once
| In two weeks to the children Of the men
! TO- l>,,S t.
| be a start.
| Nobody needs to think It would be n
big thing just to belong to the Red Cross
but it is going to be big thing to be
| left out.