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Show ' Bggggggggtglgggaggggggggggk ggggggggggggrskHgaBlBa. .sSflggH a ww wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww ANY MAN TO ANY MAN ''' . 7 GERALD STANLEY LEE I DO not know how'o4hr men feel about K, but 1 find A it hard, with all that is happening to the world toda to look a small boy in the face. 1 'When a small boy looks trustingly up to me and - I see his world the world he thinks he is going to have, in his eyes, I am afraid. The look in his eyes of the world he thinkshe b . going to have cuts me to the quick. I have always felt 1 had an understanding with a small boy before. But the last four years when he looks at me in that , old way and I think of his world the one I see in his eyes the one I had myself the one every small boy has a right to, I see suddenly instead the one that is r being left over for him by me, by all of us, the one he will have to try to put up with, have to live in, have to be a man in, when you and 1 have stopped trying. Then when I face. the small boy I want to go off in a wide high place alone and think and ask God. I want to go down into the city andv fight fight with my ' money and with my hope, go over the top with my religion and then come back and face the small boy. - There are days during this struggle when my soul - is spent and all the world seems made of iron and glass and all these crowds of people flocking through the streets who do not seem to care. I ' Mt seems as if I would not turn over my head to save a world to live in myself. ... It does not matter about i me and seme days the people I sfe go by almost make me think it does not matter about them. . . . Then suddenly I go by troops of school children at , four o'clock pouring out into the streets, . . . pouring Bee fire, pouring like sunshine out into the streets 1 It is as the roll of drums for the Liberty Loan! VrwantJo ring great church bells to call people' to 4 the Red Cross! My rule for a man's finding out just how much he should subscribe to the Red Cross is this: Put down your name and address on the blank and leave the amount open to think. Then try going past a schoolhouse a-out four o'clock when the children are pouring out Or in the everting when the -house is quiet, put down your name and the best figure you dare on the white paper. Then go upstairs a minute and look in the crib. Then look at your blank when you come down once more. |
