Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1915 — WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

WALT MASON

Thg : FootT’lnlox qAt-iv ovep the n i{ untains, . million Juries, its owr the .c- ; . i s offat ill" end o; the forest aisles - it • ne’er where w e ( hetv, e to hp. Opr homes are gay wit . the rush a; •; ih.viie, and the grass . brig-lit' with dew, but we always ; .ink ol a far-off clime, a? the land where the dreams come true. The young man frets in his native ditc.., and pines Oil a iilace afar: i; he stays at home he can never hitch lys cart to a rising star. He hears the travelers waririTy speak of wonderful things they knew, and lie wanders off in the dawn to seek the land where the dreams come true. Alter many years, when he’s bent and old, he totters on feeble limbs, to lay him down in the, old home fold, and die to the sound of hymns, llis h*-;.d was gray •re h" learned the truth, the truth that is old and new. chat u caeV the, fulfillment of dreams of youth- the place where oar dreams route true. Timely Editorial. Tit’ funeral o’ Gale Petty, who died Thursday, wuz th’ larges, ever held in th’ county. Air. Petty belonged t’ ever thing in town n owed ever’buddy. It was his. purpose had he lived t’ run fer sheriff next spring. Th’ foregoin’ should make us pau.-e That ther’s .entirely too much joinin an’ organizin’ goin’ on in this age ther kin be Ho doubt. It’s gittin’ so ever’ community, from th’ interurban stop with its platform an’ milk cans t’ th’ odorous city, is split up an’ divided off int’ cliques an’ clubs an’ societies an’ cheap insurance lodges. It’s gittin’ so th’ first thing three or four people do after they git chummy is t’ organize. Ever’budffy you meet these clays is backed up by a half a dozen different clubs an’ lodges. If they git sick ther looked after; if they git in trouble, ther defended; if they loaf, ther fed; if they work ther paid more than they earn, an’ if they run fer office, ther generally elected. Ther’s too many people tryin’ t l help ’emselves by belongin’ t’ somethin' instead o ; gittin’ out an’ hustlin'—entirely too many niedicore people tryin' t’ boost

'emselves politically, socially an’ financially by joinin’ ever'thing in sight. Oh, fer th’ ole days when ever’ tub stood on its own bottom an’ folks were known by ther true worth an' not by what they belonged to.—Abe Martin in Indianapolis News.