Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1917 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

In other times, when spring was near, the fans Would talk, untiring, about the team we’d have this year, to pennant fame aspiring. Down at the Blue Front sauerkraut store we’d gather, in the gloaming, and thrash the prospects o’er and o’er, our long chin whiskers combing. But now I seldom hear a spiel „ about - the southpaw pitcher; the talk is of the steering wheel, 'and 'mixtures lean or richer. We (labor at our punk cigars, and talk, llike men and brothers, indorsing 'certain brands of cars; denouncing sundry others. We bake stiff Land ancient limbs, and lay aside 1 our crutches, and talk of rubber 'tires and rims,, of windshields, .brakes and clutches, We- talk- of I trips we mean to make,, when win'ter hits the gravel; for all things 'mundane are a 'fake excepting [■motor travel. To talk baseball I 'sometimes try, but find the going rocky; the talk’s of climbing hills on high, when other cars went balky. I fear me much the- grand bld game has lost its" lofty station, in this our town—perhaps the same throughout’ the car-struck nation!