Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1919 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

When Kais-r Bill’s embattled Huns were doing stunts with swords and guns, you were a dead gaime sport, we know, who breathed defiance to the ,foe. No sacrifice was then too great, you wished to squelch that Wilhelm skate, and everything for which he stood, and you were busy sawing wood. You sold the cow, your car you pawned, so you could buy another bond. With loyal boys you held the fort; you were, in truth, a dead game sport. And now the silly war •is done; we’ve placed the kibosh on the Hun, have gained for man a brighter day—but there are many bills to pay. In wartime you were great, my friend; don’t be a piker at the end. Our Uncle Sam, he needs a pile, and has to borrow for a while. He needs full many a shining bone, and so he springs another loan, and we should rise on our hind legs, and offer him the dough in kegs Are we less loyal than we -were when we were lifting Teuton fur? I wot not, and wist nay, nay; we’ll help our Uncle Sam to pay. He needs all kinds of large round plunks; we’ll dig ,the doubloons from our trunks. And you will help us out, my /friend. Don’t be a piker at the end.

Astronomers aver that no one has ever seen the sun. A series of concentric shells envelope a nucleus of which we apparently know nothing except that It must be almost infinitely hotter than: the fiercest fur>nace, and that it must amount to more than nine-tenths of the solar mass. That nucleus is the real su'd forever hidden from us. The outermost of the enveloping shell is about 5,000 miles thick, and is called the “chromosphere.”