Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1919 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

As we boast of things we did, as we whoop around and sing, telling how we put the lid on the Huns’ anoited king, we should not forget, I wot, that the British also fought, and the French and Belgians shot up the foe like everything. Let us make a joyful noise, after all the woe and wreck; let’s insist that we’re the boys who can put up ice, by heck; but the British and the French also held the reekiqg trench in the blood and powder stench, and the Belgians were on deck. I indorse the harmless brags we are making nowadays; with the rest I’m waving flags, yelling till I break my stays; for we’ve nobly done our bits; but the Frenchmen and the Brits also made the Hun throw fits, in some fifty-seven ways. With the allies we shall go, terms of peace to wisely frame; and we’re talking Just as though it were ours to boss the game; we’re deserving cordial

thanks —but the Britons and the Franks also faced the Prussian ranks; to forget it were a shame. I take part in all the fuss, and I cheer and snort and pranco, and I ghoot my blunderbus, and get stewed at /.every • chance; but I can’t forget how well Britons fought through all that hell, how for honor Belgians fell, with t).e loyal sons of France.