Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1919 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

We bought our bonds in times of stress, to help our Uncle Sam’l fight; war being done, we say, “We guess we’ll say to all our bonds ‘Good night!’ We need the coin for gasoline, for suits of clothes and shoes and lids, for playing on the slot machine, and buying fireworks for the kids.” Folks are so anxious to unload their precious bonds, they scarce can wait; they want to scorch along the road that takes them to the ipoorhouse gate. And so the price of bonds is down, to, figures low I've seen them skid, and gents are hawking them in town, and asking us to make a bid. The wise man buys in all he can, he'd rather have those bonds than wheat; the seller is an also ran who’ll never live in Easy street A little while and men will wish to buy the bonds to have and hold, and owners will remark, “Odsflsh! They’re worth more now than minted gold!” How foolish are the sons of men, how fatuous, so help me John! If they have fourteen bonds or ten, they.’re frantic till said bonds are gone. They care

not for the rainy day—the day they're living la serene, and so they throw their bonds away, that they may burn more gasoline. All heedlessly they whoop along, and put a mortgage on their coops, and sell their thrift stamps for a song, that they may gayly loop the loops.