Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1919 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MAHON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MAHON

The idle rich, in ten years inora. will make their journeys in the air; the inan on Hoot will watch /hem soar, and shed a line of tears, and swear. The inan on foot’s a busy jay, he’s dodging autos all the time; some crazy jitney every day attemipts his wayworn frame to climb. And there’ll be thrice as many cars Jn days to come, the seers opine; though aeroplanes may graze the stars, the autos won’t take in their sign. The man on foot’s a busy gent, he hustles wildly through the town, and when he’3 out to earn a cent, some auto tries to run him down. He’s always climbing trees and poles, pursued by crazy choohunk carts, and crawling into drains and holes, to save his divers vital parts. What will it be in years to came, with castings falling from on high, where dizzy airships, whiz and hum? The man on foot can only die. What profit. If he dodge a boat, and save a highly valued limb, it then some airship gets his goat, by dropping rusty junk on him? There’ll be collisions overhead, of accidents there’ll be no dearth, and airship chuffers, quick and dead, will come kerflopping to the earth. The man on foot can’t dodge them all, the autos and the airship freight, and so he’ll jump this mundane ball, and try to keep his shroud on straight.