Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1918 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

Some fine day a man can/travel over Germany and France, and no shotgun, charged with grave. l , will go off and wound his pauce. Once again the tourist legions pay good coin for rotten wine. Wo shall tread the pavements Roman, leaf along the Appian way, and behold no charging foeman, some fine day, some fine day. .When they’ve Stopped this beastly quarrel wo can sail the ocean green, nor be sent down to the coral by a cheap fin submarine. We can sit in quiet arbors drinking coffee Viennese, or be shaved by British barbers with their rusty snickersnees. We can watch the Danube river when the dawn is glowing pink, and eat sausage made of liver in a gasthaus on its brink. Unrestricted we can wander when the war is done away; we can travel here and yonder, some fine day, some fine day. Here at home we are remaining, while we lust to go abroad; there where kings and dukes are reigning, we would like to blow our wmd. We must stay,- for death is tearing, seeking victims on the foam; what a heavy cross we’re bearing, that we have to stay at home! Blood is flowing still in torrents, and the torrents bar our way; bat we’ll -go to Cork or Florence, some fine day, some fine day.