Show PEOPLE WHO ARE LEFT OF le ROLL CALL population of the united states ased to tand up and Coji ted by GERALD STANLEY LEE I 1 had a friend once mined old bill spear who vis tho curator and found quino adams memorial in ma lie conceived the idea of dauns the hodiw into a memorial with genius as a col lector of oil ailed it with to people la from vi n i here and at twenty tt ants chev went nebout to se ahe things had col and hi ir anik bill felt r to most col electors lectors I 1 bolec rs bill said collect anything bill ui lauy could size people up when they came in the door but when he t quite s ie at it people and BUS pe ted he d t want to bother with them ery long he used to take them up to the attic to size them up quick he would show them a bushel basketful of to they coulden couldn t quite see and then he would wave his hand with a flourish and say in an impressive tone as they stooped to look closer thie Is the largest collection of burnt maschea in the ft orld hundreds of collectors djan t break a imalle bill said and just looked awed then bill knew of course that he bother to enow them hie best things some of the people who are proposing to go out into the streets red christmas roll call week and gather up everybody to join the red cross beem to think that the main thing there Is to tell people about the red cross Is that if bicy pay a dollar to belong they will belenk to the largest collection of people who hae paid one dollar in the world I 1 felt a little superior to this at arst and began thinking how I 1 wouldn t do it but hn I 1 began thinking what the collection of people in the world could do by luit being he biggest and by all wanting the same thing with a different one dollar it became te it would even b impressive if forty people in america all wanted the came thing with the same dollard all wanting the sam thing would be a cation praying all the grownup grown up people rf a nation with their little half con children round them the dollar a man with would hot be a mere one dollar the dollar would be a to every man in america that 39 9 99 other men or women belonged to h m and that he be lansed to them in getting what he wanted for three million soldier boys and for their children at home forty million people all the grownup grown up people in this country pick out thue million men and say to the three million men they have picked out you go and die for us you go and be saviors of the world and die on our tor us then what do the forty million do it would be be something if we would 11 II line up the whole forty million of to a man with our little pallid insipid speechless dollar balla in our hands from maine to california christmas week and ue our two dollar bills a year as ballots up in line and be counted and cable to the men across the as that we vote one carfare once in two week to stand by them to stand by the souls and bodies of the children of the men taho have made a standing offer to die on our crosses for us I 1 who ante to be left out of this line by ahat man would want to be stood up in row of those who are left out alle alt of the children of the world file by and look at him while the little children of nine hundred thousand dead men in england flie by and look at him or the children of the soldiers of france giving their lives to protect the skyscrapers of nea york for that matter it need not take eo anany children what man who let himself be left out woud feel safe in his own house with hia own children climbing up into his lap believing in him safe with hit own baby pulling on his face jabbing his beall trustful fists in bis yea if he ie himself be left out of course it adems a little like a to cable oer to france christ anaa anve that we le one carfare once in two to the children of the men tet picked out to die for us but it would be a start nobody to think it would be a big thing jus 0 o belong to the red cross but it Is gox to be a big thing to be aft out |