Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1917 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

I logged along a country road. in my large choo-choo dragoil. and met a farmer with a load of pump-, kins in his wagon. "Go back, go back*" the granger said, through whiskers long and ruddy: you'd’ best turn round —the road ahead is) dangerous and muddy." • "*F- never yet have seen the pike" j said, "that scared this auto, and I'll go on. so help me Mike, for 'Gel There' is iny motto." 1 drove into a marshy hole, when I had gone some distance, and farmers took away mv roll for giving me assist-

ance, We toiled and wrought a night and day, |to remedy my folly, and when again I took tny way, T reeked with melancholy. The road of life is much the same,\the road we blithely follow; we ’re warned by men who’ve played the game, to shun the swampy hpjllow. They tell us wheiu? the way is worst, and where the bridge is . rotten, and when we've got a half a verst their co until is f orgott.en. We will t ot learn from sage and seer who’ve walked the path before us; we greet the prophet with a sneer and wise men only, bore us. And every day we pay the price, the cost this course engenders; we stick in mud and break through ice, and bust our best suspenders.