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Show Walt Mason DEMOeVALIZED T used to find ni evenings chcerlnT. H '..i readlni snd repose hut sin- J profiteerlnp I've lost sll t ta-te fi r things like those. I'd come H home tired from honest labors, and when H the even me meal was doner there would Pl blow in a nun h of neighbors, and we'd H in-lnlre In harmless fun. Alas. I do not H them steering in my direction ail) H ini.ro, sin.-e i .m busy profit eerlng thej H all Insist tliat 1 m a 1-ore Each day I'm H bringing home the bacon. I nut another H nadln brim bul sm lonelj an.' for- iken and how I miss those friends H r,f mine' In other limes Hie evenlnu' H found me cay as a monarch n his H throni ' '' mj loving a-m s around H me Id sit and play the grai-hophone . H i hen hearts were clad and smiles wert M sunny, and laughter made the windows H shake, hot now mv thoughts are all o' 1 i money, of extra dollars I can make I M no more for helpful reading, tlm H I hards don t stir mo worth a cent, to busy f thoughts are speeding, on use- L H -Id , ,i , . trampled under b Ihl i hate mania of mine; the man whose mind L H is fied . n plunder gels out of tou- h H |