Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1918 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

The winds were fried before delivered; the cornstalks in them curled and quivered, they shriveled in the sun; oh, now the men who run the weather should change their campaign all together—-hot winds won’t whip the Hun. The corn was healthy, strong and nifty; I've never seen it look more thrifty, ’twas green and full of juice; the farmers sat them down to figure upon a harvest three times bigger than common years produce. And then the rattled weather prophet shipped in a lot of wind from Tophet, where it was doubly, broiled; he turned it loose upon regions -where cornstalks grew in rustling legions, and all the crop was spoiled. The weather man should surely catch it; he did it with his little hatchet, and can’t get through with bunk; another golden dream is busted, another hope lies red iind rusted, and only fit for junk. We are not desolate, forsaken; we have alfalfa, wheat and bacon, rolled oats and wholesome bran; we have excelsior and lettuce —the kindly gods will not forget us, though corn’s an also ran. Then let us bravely bear reverses; we can’t improve things much with curses, or rending of our hair; we still have prunes and beans and squashes, and we will surely whip the boches, so speak not of despair.