Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1917 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

The war will end some blessed day, home day the strife will cease' th© kings will put their guns away, and boost the boon of peace. The captains then will drop the tools which made the world forlorn, and drive their teams of sorrel mules along the rows of corn. While still the tide of battle rolls, while still we hear the din, it seems to countless weary souls that war has

always been.. Three years, they say, the strife has raged, across the mourning seas, but it would seem that war’s been waged for three eternities. The days that reek of blood and tears pass slowly o'er the stage; to weary hearts three gory years become an endless age. We're looking forward to the day when peace with honor comes, when kings will put their swords away,

and soak their battle drums. 1 long to see the colonels drop their silinig snickersnees, and buckle down to raise a crop of beans and early peas. I long to see field marshals hang their batons from a nail, and then get busy with the gang, to earn some bloodless, kale.