Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1919 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

When I am sick, in punk condition, when I am lame and blind and halt, I hire" the city’s best physician, then if I die it’s not my fault. The big physicians charge like thunder, they charge each time they draw breath, but they give value for the plunder; they show us how to sidestep death.

When my old auto's In a panic, with many doodads breaking loose, I hire the best mechanic that our small village can produce. He has no conscience when he charges, or so odefish I sometimes think; but he can fix our boats and barge-: when they are strictly on thn blink. Some other ger.U flight do it cheaper, but when re cctl.t the final cost, we find running expenses running deeper; the tinhorn workman is a frost. The Tinhorn workman badly botches all tb'ngs entrus’jd to his care: he spoils our pants and hats and watches, and bungles when he cute our hair. When I decide to paint my stable, I'd hire a Titian at his best, some grand old master, amply able to make all rivals seems a jest. 1 patronize the ablest baker that in this country hetnlet dwells, and w-hen 1 die my undertaker must be the one who’s wearing bells.