Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1917 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

The wrestlers and the fighters, and baseball heroes, too, are boomed by sporting writers, the whole long twelve months through. But they are sordid suckers, who for the boodle play; I sing the champeen shuckers, who husk four loads a day! When corn is ripe and yellow* and the winter air, the active farmer fellow goes forth to husk his share. If he shucks bushels eighty,, between the dawn and dus& he’s made a record weight/, and he can surely husk. Ulis fame goes down to zero, and he must bow before the shining cornfield hero with forty bushels more I I’ve seen the chain peen shticker, who won a township fame, in his best bib and tucker, enjoying men’s acclaim. h 4 has no use for medals, no loving cups he needs, and he puts on soft pedals when talking of his deeds. No sporting scribe indorses, and no promoter knows this gent who drives his horses adown the long corn rows, and beats the rival shuckers. because he likes to win -they boost the? prize ring muckers, who reek of dope and gin, f