Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1918 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

If they would let me go to France, and o’er the fields of battle prance, the war would see its close; the sight of me, in brave array, all armed and bucklered for the fray, would paralyze the foes. The world would hear the kaiser cry, if he beheld me whooping by. In my bright shirt of mail, ‘‘There is no use to struggle now; that fat bard with the bulging brow has surely turned the scale. The way his dripping saber clanks, the way he’s wading through my ranks, has chilled my royal feet; so let the strife and tumult cease; let us sit down apd talk of peace, a boon that’s truly sweet." Our government, alas, seems bored, whene’er I clamor for a sword to prod the Teuton backs; officials, In their bonehead way, explain to me that I must stay and pay my income tax. And so the weary war drags on; there is no sign of peace’s dawn, no symptoms of a truce; and all because I may not go across the sea to swat the Ifoe, and cook the kaiser's goose. When will our government awake, and realize Its dread mistake, and send me to the front? world from blood will then be free; then old Dad Hindenburg will see how useless is his stunt. Cameo-cutting, one of the most ancient of occupations, has recently been introduced Into the United States.