Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1918 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

A man comes in where I am toiling, to keep the pot at home a-boiling. He sees the sign, “Be brief—l’m busy,” but he is fatuous and dizzy. Time on his hands is heavy hanging, and he is fond of vain haranguing. He talks of Europe’s battles gory, or tells a long bewhiskered story, until I take him by the galways and push him down the stairs and hallways. And to the office boy I mutter, “I left that old gun in the gutter. If you would earn your weekly pittance, you’ll see he no more has admittance.” How welcome is the man who enters our offices or business centers, as though he knew our time’s worth money, who has no chestnuts labeled “funny,” who springs no wearisome orations about the foreign warring nations! He gets right down to crucial matters, nor for a minute yawps or chatters of things which cut no grass or clover, but hastes to get his business over. We all admire this fellow greatly, admire his manner, calm and stately, admire his tact/ and princely carriage; we’d let him have our aunt in marriage.