Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1918 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

It was away last winter the German ruler said, in v substance, to the printer, “We’ll paint the ocean red! With unrestricted sinking of everything that floats, we’ll end the war. I’m thinking, and get the Allies’ goats. Two months is all we’re needing of action in the seas, and you’ll see Britain pleading for mercy, on her knees’ Oh, "England, you had better take in your ancient sign! Gee whiz and donnerwelter, the seas will soon be mine! ’ And Bill’s been subamrining like blitzen, ever since. “What is old England meaning?” he asks of the crown prince. “We’ve sent ships to the bottom as fast as they could scoot, yet Britishers, dod rot ’em, don't seem to care a hoot I said, in the beginning, I needed teixty days, a triumph to be win- ■ ning. with laurel wreaths and bays, jMy campaign's hit the ceiling! Ex-- > cuse these briny tears., I don’t see England kneeling in less than sixty j I years ” “Oh. sire,” the prince Intakes answer, while tears flow in la flood, “it seems our name *s ! Pance or perhaps its Mohen-Mud. Lin spite of all our slaying, no prize the struggle yields: ah. that we | two were marine,-down-in the pret- ■ zel fields.’’ Old England still goes j • boating, her flag is in the breeze, I her bulwarks still are floating, she’s < mistress of the seas.