Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1918 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

The" submarines go subbing forth, manned by heroic men; they journey east and west and north, and don’t come back again'. The kaiser sees his costly boats go sailing from his shore; then something frightful gets their goats, and they come back no more. “There is a hole,” the kaiser sighs, “somewhere beneath the sea;‘there U-boats go, no more to rise; alas, and woe is me! When first my U-boat graft was sprung, I called for volunteers; the chosen seamen then gave tongue to loud and happy cheers. They sailed away to break and burst old Britain’s power and might; ach, sch weitzerkase. und liver wurst! where are my boys tonight? And when to save the Fatherland I now ask volunteers, no sailor lifts a willing hand —I'm facing mutineers! And so I have to make the threat of hemp and gallows scenes, before they’ll come, already yet, to man my submarines. Naught can affright the German soul like less mystery, and I’ini! afraid of that great hole, somewhere 1 beneath the sea!” And still the kaiser’s Üboats go, by crews reluctant manned; and some grim monster down below, is seeing that they’re canned.