Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1917 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

Cheer up, cheer up! If you are sound, no sign of illness giving, you have no right to paw around about the cost of living. No man has any right to snort, or let tears run in rivers, unless we know that he is short some legs and arms and livers. Cheer up! Though it is quite a chore to stock the bin and larder, a gloomy mug won’t bring you more—just buckle down the harder. Cheer up! The prices make you yell, when you go forth as buyer; but when you’ve anything to sell, the price keeps going higher. I sell my labor every day for quite a roll of dollars; what matters, then, if I must pay high price for shirts and .collars? My father got a lot more flour than I do for a shilling; but I earn more in half an hour than he by all day’s drilling. Cheer up! There’s work for every lad, success for him who pushes; the hustler finds the shining scad is growing on the bushes. Cut out the worries and' alarms, toil like the bees that bumble; the man who has no legs or arms alone has right to grumble.