Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1918 — PHILOSOPHY’ WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY’ WALT MASON

Breathes there a • man with soul so dead who never to himself hath said, ‘TIl z dig up money, every chance, if that will help our boys in France. If coin will help to squash the Huil, I have no use for hoarded mon. The hat I’ve worn since ’93 will do another year so. me; the shoes I bought three years ago will serve to bear me to and fro; the pants I drew in father’s will are fit for ample service still. I root for Uncle Sam at bat, sq come along and pass the hat.” It’s hard to understand the skate who's scheming early, scheming late, to see how little he can give; he o .ght to be ashamed to live. Committees call at his abode, and kindly ask him to unload. He backs and fills and hums and haws, and- shoves some piffle through his jaws: “I dug up fifty cents last May; I can't spare anything today.” And he can face himself, that guy, who ought to hunt a hole and die. But in the long sad years to come, he'll find this wqrJd is out of plumb, he failed to . whoop for liberty, and while he lives on earth he'll be as lonesome as the yaller dorg that hangs around the city morgue. Oh, we musU give until it hurts, until we’ve soaked our Sunday shirts, and when wove given all we oWn, still strive to give another bone, a