Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1918 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

Still, still we bask in gilded ease, and soothe ourselves with, fine cigars, and fill ourselves with costly cheese, and choo around in motor cars. We put fine raiment on our backs, we buy* silk shirts of "gorgeous price; i we haven’t yet got down to tacks, we haven’t made a sacrifice. We read stern tales from o’er the sea, which tell of Britain’s battered line, and buy up seven bonds or three, where we should call for forty-nine. We haven’t helped our Uncle Sam so much it’s worth while to relate; we eat brown bread, well, spread with „jam, and think we’re doing something great.. We waste enough, each passing day, (because we do not use our domes) to drive the wolves of wain away from fifty thousand soldiers’ homes. We waste our coin on princely duds when simpler rags would do as well, we blow out change for smokes and suds, ana gawds too numerous to tell. Of sacrifice we’re talking large while on our padded course we romp, like Cleopatra on her barge, in luxury and idle pomp. Our loyalty is all a fake unless we show we have some steam; oh, let us prod burselves' awake, and do the things oi which we dream. s aSi