Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-08-16
WALT MASON SAYS HIS
 HOME TOWN RATHER
 THAN GOTHAM ANYTIME
(From the Literary Digest)

(From the Literary Digest)
 "If can be popular in Emporia, l
 don't care three assorted hoots about
 my standing in New York or Boston, T
 says Walt Mason, probably the most
 widely read newspaper poet and phil
 osopher in America. If man can so
 conduct himself that the leading cit izens of his own town will slap him on
 the back, push his hat down over his
 ears, and call him by his first name, it
 consoles him, Walt finds, for the dis
 appointments of life, and he may feel
 that he is not a complete failure.
 "The folks at home know a man from
 his rubber heels to his side whiskers,"
 he assure us in the American Mag
 azine, and fl he gets in wrong with
 them, the stuff's off. There's no hap
 piness, for him elsewhere. The one
 thing needful to become populari ac-
 cording to MT. Mason, is to have con
 sideration for the other fellow. The first impulses of most of us, he as-
 serts, are purely selfish. This trait we inherited firm our forefathers, who lived in trees and caves. In the course of tens of thousands of years man. kind has developed the ability to en- certain secondary impulses. however which involve consideration for others. He illustrates:
 When I want a chicken for dinner, my first impulse is to go out after dark and steal hen; my second inn pulse is to go to the meat market and buy one. I have found that my first impulses nearly always are self ish and wrong, and I follow the second ones.
 The people who follow their selfish impulseS are thoughtless of the feel ings of others, and hence become un- popular, maintains Mason. This man. ifests itself in variety of ways. and he furnishes an example:
 Some weeks ago we were short handed at our house. The butler had sprained an ankle while carrying the winters ashes out of the basement, and the hired girl was at an emer- gency hospital trying to take fall out of influenza. The missis was do- ing the cooking and dish washing. and I was carrying coal and splitting kind linz. and using Languages lof various kinds. el
 It was at this iuncture that Cousin came down from Iowa to oav us surprise visit. He came in his auto. with his wife and several bushels of children, and they all thought thev were doing something and took it for granted that we'd he overjoved to see them. We greeted them cordially as we could, and wore such smiles as people wear at coroner's inauests. but our hearts were full of Jhitternessl Had Cousin Benjamin notified us he was coming we could have wired him that the house was quarantined. or taken other defensive measures. But that isn't Cousin Benjamin's way.
 There never was man with better He is generous and kind, and wants to be everybody's friend, and there is no meanness in him. He las diagonal sense of humor, and when some amusing scheme occurs to nim he goes ahead to work it out with put sitting down for half an hour to figure how it's going to affect the ,ther fellow. As consequence, he is l lonesome man. People appreciate ,is sterling qualities, and have long | distance affection for him; but they lide under the barn when they see him coming.
 Of other thing that make people get in wrong, he mentions the reluc- ance of some to pay their bills. He ;ays they can't settle up without ,rating their teeth and looking like King Charles on his way to the block" specimen of this kind is put on ex- libition:
 Some years ago I was editor and proprietor of weekly paper that was orever teetering along the edge of There was a small job 'ffice in the back room, and two or hree discouraged printers who were Ilways weighed down by the fore 'oding that the ghost wouldn't walk n payday. I never could understand low kept that concern going as long $ I did, for the sheriff was never nore than few rods behind, and the of the county poor arm was always reminding me that le had box stall fitted up for me whenever I was ready for it.
 One day prosperous business man ent for me and told me that he had 'een watching my heroic struggles 4gainst an adverse fate and was going o help me- He had lot of printing |one in the course of a year, and r