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THURSDAY. MAY 25. 1933

WOODI.VS EMBARRASSMENT. f t '•HAT Mr. Woodin, a private citizen, acA rrpted special favors from J. P. Morgan At Cos. in the form of stock far below its market price is not a matter of public interest. That Mr. Woodin, the secretary of the treasury-, thus is obligated to Mr. Morgan for past benefactions is very much the public's business. The secretary of the treasury more than any other man controls federal reserve policy. The House of Morgan stands to make or lose millions on the turn of federal reserve policy. The secretary of the treasury is in charge ot income tax collections. J. P. Morgan and his partners, who have paid no income tax in the last two and three years, now are being investigated by the government. The secretary of the treasury, under the new emergency bank law, has been made an absolute dictator to clean up a financial system of which the House of Morgan is a very imjiortant part. It is unthinkable that the secretary of the treasury should be a personal beneficiary of the House of Morgan. We have the highest confidence in Mr. Woodin's honesty and integrity as a public official. Probably this revelation of past favors from Morgan would make him especially scrupulous in his official relations with the Morgans. But that is not the point. Mr. Woodin henceforth is likely to prove a liability and an embarrassment to the United States government and to the Roosevelt administration. This is unfortunate, perhaps even unfair. Nevertheless, it is life. Mr. Woodin made his choice. When he became the recipient of personal financial favors from J. P. Morgan As Company, he disqualified himself as a proper secretary of the treasury. MOONEY’S TRIAL. /'\NCE more the innocence of Tom Mooney has been dramatized in San Francisco. The victim of San Francisco’s pre-war hysteria and class hate left the cell he has called liis home for seventeen years to face a jury on thp last of ten murder indictments pending against him. He sought the trial himself, and a just superior judge considered it his due. When the jury box was filled with his peers, the prosecutor refused to enter a word of evidence. Why? Because there was no murder evidence worthy the name. District Attorney Brady knows that Mooney was convicted in 1916 on the word of proved or confessed perjurers. Brady was and is an advocate of pardon for Mooney and his fellowvictim. Billings. He refused to submit evidence in a cause that has no foundation in guilt, and the judge directed a verdict of not guilty. What more does California's Governor Rolph need by way of proof that the state is making a ghastly jest of justice? MR. MORGAN TIJR MORGAN is a rare person. Not because he is so rich—others are richer. Not because he is so wise^—others had sense enough to lose less than he in the crash. Not because he is so powerful—his system is crumbling. But because he is so sure that all is right with the private bankers. Perhaps he is the only living person who still believes completely in the perfection of the system which nearly has so destroyed our nation. There was a certain magnificence in Mr. Morgan as he was questioned by the senate investigators Wednesday. Great faith always is moving to behold. And here was a man who might have stepped out of medieval times, so untouched was he by modern thought, so remote trom the suffering of victims of Wall street domination, so assured of the divine tight of the money lender. But we found Mr. Morgan rather more pathetic than magnificent. To be blind to the havoc wrought by security pawnbrokers like himself, to be deaf to the cries of President Roosevelt and 120,000,000 Americans for anew deal in the financial game, to be dumb and unable to voice with others the hope of reform, is a tragic state for any individual, Mr. Morgan does not think private bankers Mho handle other people's money, who wield power with other people’s money, who speculate with other people's money, who lose other people's money, should be regulated by the people's government. He thinks the House of Morgan should be allowed to go on ruling a great spider-web of commercial banks and corporations through Interlocking directorates without government regulation. We fear Mr. Morgan wlil be shocked when he discovers that the old days of uncontrolled finance in this country are about over. If there is one thing this country has learned in the depression, it is that no man is wise enough or good enough to play with other people's money for personal profit without being watched. Maybe financiers like Mr. Morgan can not be reg dated by the government effectively; Maybe they have been a law unto themselves too long. That remains to be seen. But eithei the government will regulate the money trust o: take R over. Indeed, Mr. Morgan unwittingly may go down in history as the public benefactor who forced the government in self-defense to nationalize banking. THE SMITH BROTHERS AS youths, Jim and Elmer Smith left North Dakota and took up a homestead in Washington state. They cleared their land Cf pine trees, built houses of hand-hewn boards, grew food in their gardens, dug coal

from their property. In time they married. Elmer studied law. Jim stayed on the farm. On Armistice day, 1920, a mob of legionnaires swooped down on I. W. w. hall in Centralia, and when the workers fired in' selfdefense, killing an ex-soldier, Jim was. arrested as a murder conspirator, and Elmer, a lawyer, offered to defend the lumberman. Jim was released, but Elmer was put on trial for having told the workers they acted within their legal rights in defending their hall. Elmer was acquitted. Instead of going back to their jobs, the Smith brothers went to work to free the eight men serving twenty-five to forty years for the shooting. Last year Elmer died from the effects of overwork. On May 12, Jim died. Both were in their early forties; both left families. Echoes of that one act of mob violence thirteen years ago still sound through the northwest. One of the radical woodmen died in prison, another was paroled to join his dying wife, three have been released on parol?. But three still are in prison at Walla Walla. Elmer and Jim Smith are dead. OBSTACLES TO PEACE TJACK of the difficulties which lie in the ” road of the disarmament conferees at Geneva is the simple fact that the ordinary citizen of the world doesn't know what he really wants. Between mankind and the achievement of a fair degree of disarmament there are only intangible obstacles; such things as suspicion, prejudice, and misunderstanding. And all these, if you examine them, track back to our inability to fix on a common goal. On the surface, no such inability exists. Ask any man. in any land, what he wants his government to give him and he will reply that he wants prosperity, order, security, a chance to get and hold a decent job, make a decent living and bring up his children in conditions that will insure the same things for them when they are grown. Simple, isn’t it? But it isn’t hard to demonstrate that we don’t really want those things at all; or, if we do, we take some extremely peculiar ways of going after what we want. It is perfectly clear by this time, for instance, that no nation truly can “win” a prolonged war under modem conditions. The loser is doomed to certain revolution, chaos, and long drawn-out misery; the victor has more than a fair chance of getting all those things, and even if he misses them he is bound to get unemployment, recurring tides of deflation and inflation, economic distress and political disturbance. You hardly can find a man who will not admit the truth of that statement. And if that statement is true, it follows inescapably that war is the surest of all ways for the ordinary man to lose all those things that he most desires. Yet we refuse to take the definite steps which will remove the danger of war. We admit that these things may be true, but we insist that we must have large armies and navies, so that if war does come we can be the victors. Since all of us—Americans, British, French, Germans, and Japanese—feel the same way, we go whirling merrily along toward new wars and the destruction of our fondest hopes. If we really want the things that we say we want, we shall make a complete success of the disarmament conference. The trouble is that we aren’t as desirous of those things as we think w ? e are. WILL ROGERS’ NEIGHBORS ' T'vEMURRING to the Roosevelt disarmament program. Will Rogers says: “It's just not possible for me (3,000 miles awayi to tell you what caliber gun to have in your house. You know your neighbors better than I do.” It is a curious inconsistency that the cowhoy philosopher who hops from continent to continent by airplane still should be thinking in terms of the age of the stage coach and the sailing vessel. It is strange that this man whose written words appear simultaneously in a thousand newspapers and whose words spoken at one end of the continent are heard by radio at the other, has not discovered that in this modern day 3,000 miles is no distance at all. That discovery was made in 1917 and 1918 by several million Americans who traversed that distance in darkened ships. No, Will, those neighbors you speak of are more than neighbors. We are all living fn one house. It certainly is our business if they are going heavily armed and likely to shoot up the place at any time. President Roosevelt is doing the sensible thing in acting to prevent the outbreak of wholesale murder. REVOLUTION HAS TAKEN PLACE THOSE timorous souls who have been jiggling about on one foot lately, wondering when the revolution was going to begin, might just as well calm down now. The revolution already has taken place, and there have been no casualties —except, possibly, for a die-hard Tory or two, who suddenly realized what had happened and died of apoplexy. To say that the revolution already has happened is not simply to use a figure of speech. Simply because what has taken place happened in an orderly, constitutional manner, without bloodshed or mob scenes, we needn't think that everything is going to go on just as it did in the old days. The Roosevelt administration's industrial control bill steps off in a brand new direction, and it is a good long step, too. It crumples up all our'old theories about the proper relationship between government and private industry and tosses them in the wastebasket. It goes so far along the new path that it takes reforms which used to look like the very limit in radicalism —such things as minimum wage laws, short work week regulations and the like—and makes mere incidentals out of them. It avoids classification in the old. established pigeonholes. If it is Socialism, no Socialist would recognize it; if it is Fascism. Mussolini wouldn't know it. It may have borrowed an idea or two front Moscow, yet one of its main ideas seems to be to promote private profit. It draws simultaneous indorsement from such ultra-progressive labor leaders as Donald Richberg and such solid business men as

President Henry I. Harriman of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Asa matter of fact, we are about to make an experiment which is not only new to us, but new to the whole world. We made the first great experiment in political democracy, and we proved to a skeptical world that it could work; now we seem about to find out whether a modem democracy can readapt a complex industrialism in such way that the essential features of both democracy and industrialism come through unimpaired. There is nothing in any of this to frighten us. Revolutionary? To be sure; but isn’t our whole tradition based on revolution? A nation that can put through its revolution in as quiet and orderly a manner as we are putting through this one has little reason to get nervous. EVEN-HANDED JUSTICE JUDGE HARDY S. McDEVITT of Phila- " delphia recently had before him a deputy city collector who had pleaded guilty to embezzlement. Instead of sending him to jail at once, Judge McDevitt remarked: “I’ll wait until I see what sentences those New York bankers who stole millions receive- Then I can give him a sentence in fair proportion to the time they’ll have to spend in jail. There is little doubt that this attitude will appeal immensely to the people in general. That sort of talk from the bench ought to do a great deal to re-establish confidence in the theory that big fish and little fish must fare alike when they fall into the net of the law. There are fifty-six kinds of fatigue, says Dr. Donald A. Laird, Colgate psychologist. The worst case, probably, is that o<f a husband whose wife makes him help with spring housecleaning. That movie actress who boasts that her dining room contains “no two pieces of china alike” really has nothing to boast about. We can say that, too. Oratory at $55 a page cost the taxpayers $2,100 for a recent issue of the Congressional Record. Now will those who have accused congressmen of being dumb please apologize? The man with a brand new car must be patient. Maybe by the time he gets the third scratch on it his wife will let him take it for a fishing rip. United States treasury warns everybody to be on the lookout for anew counterfeit S2O bill. For a long time, we’ve been on the lookout for a good one.— Henry Ford says the country has made a complete turn-around and now is going forward. Here’s hoping that the speed in high will soon be equal to what it was in reverse. “Four Powers Agree on Ten Years’ Peace” —headline. Why not extend it to 100 years and then celebrate a real Century of Progress? Ohio law requires all persons served with beer must be seated, but customers seem to be willing to stand for it. - There was no crying over spilt milk in the recent Wisconsin milk strike, except when sheriff's deputies threw the tear gas. Well, it certainly seems from the testimony that Banker Charles E. Mitchell is one of those fellows who owes a lot to his wife. Quite often the purchaser of a secondhand auto finds it’s hard to drive a bargain.

M.E.TracySays:

IT is an ungrateful task to throw cold water on the essential dreams and hopes of mankind, but we might just as well be hard-headed about this peace movement, since that is the only way it ever can be made effective. The world does not lack for plans, proposals or programs. The existing agreements, pacts and agencies would be adequate to insure peace, if properly used. Until civilized nations indicate an honest intent to fulfill pacts already made, carry out programs already formulated, and be guided by agencies already established, it will do little good to suggest substitutes or modifications. Order depends quite as much on enforcement of laws as on enactment. Almost any group of human beings can make peace or prosperity on paper. Modern life is cluttered with perfectly beautiful blue-prints and specifications for accomplishing this or that purpose. We do not lack for good advice or moral support. what we do lack is a disposition to follow through, and we lack it in no field so distinctly as in that cf international relations. BUB EVER since the war, statecraft has been giving birth to one proposition after another, many of which have been adopted. - Technically, the League of Nations is a going concern, with war outlawed and a world eburt established to settle controversies. Technically, great governments have agreed to nonaggression. Technically, Japan has violated solemn commitments. Technically, Paraguay and Bolivia have breached a treaty sanctioned by the whole civilized world. If nations had kept faith, as faith is understood by average people, the world now would be free from threats of war, but the world is not, and everybody knows it. The magnificent superstructure of idealism we have erected since’ the war rests on a poor foundation. The will to sustain it is wanting. All nations stand ready to let others fight for peace, but few are prepared to make the sacrifice, surrender the sovereignty or give up the advantages which its honest enforcement involves. Order in the world calls for exactly the same thing as order in a nation, a city, or a totvn. It never can be brought about by an impassive attitude, by the expectation that other people will do more or give up more than we are willing to do. or give up. -t never can be brought about except through agencies able to enforce their authority. B B B REALIZING that there is not a crossroads community in this world which would be safe for very long without a constable or a justice of the peace, is it not absurd to suppose that world-wide order could be maintained without a visible expression of authority. We shrink at such visible expression, at the thought of an international police force or anything approximating it, and that is the weakness of our attitude. That is why all the agreements, pacts and agencies are failing, and why they will continue to fail. Until the people of this world are ready to trust a general federation, with power to summon disputants, to adjudicate their differences, and makes its decisions stick, the peace movement will represent little more than an academic prayer.

THE IXDIAXAPOLIS TIMES

(’Times readers are invited to erpress their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By John Maxwell. Just a line in defense of “vicious pests.” It seems that any one who so desires can take a slam at the bum, as you call them, and get away with it. I suppose because they are engaged too busily fn struggling for an existence to bother with defending themselves. I, at present, am broke. I should not be wasting time answering vicious pests, but once in a while the people can learn from other sources that there are different samples of bums, or, I would say, poor, unfortunate victims of circumstance. When i was in business in Seattle, the organizations used to get my address from Polk’s directory and call around for contributions. I told them then the same as I would tell them now. I would investigate myself and give what I could spare directly. I left Seattle seven or eight years ago and have travelled extensively, mostly paying bus or train fare, but once in a while business would be bad, so I would ship my baggage parcel post and follow it on the highway hitch-hiking. Then someone who pretends to have the welfare of the public at heart would warn, “Don’t jeapordize your life by giving lifts to strangers,” but there always was the good Samaritan. I have made and sold chemical novelties for thirty years and made a fair living, but the time has come when I am one who has gone in the evening to try to catch the owner or boss instead of the servant in the fair city, mostly seeking assistance through the channels of hard work and have met with the response, “We subscribe to the mission or welfare.” I know there are people who would rather give ten or twenty dollars that way than to help you directly with 10 cents or a bite to eat. Last Sunday I went around asking for something to do to about a

This is the second of two special articles on rheumatism. AN important factor in the development of rheumatic disorders is over-use of certain joints or exposure of such joints to repeated injuries. These are likely to occur particularly in the ankle joints in stokers, who shovel coal using the foot to push the shovel, and in gardeners who use the foot in the same way. There also are the possibilities of injuries to the elbow and shoulder joints of truck drivers. Bakers, waiters, cooks and hairdressers who are much on their feet are most likely to develop rheumatic joints in the lower limbs. It is important to remember that rheumatic conditions are associated

SKIES are brightening in every direction. Even for mothers there comes a gleam. A distinguished child specialist announces that it's all right to rock the baby. Could anything be more heartening? Ar more than a decade mothers have had a tough time, what with all the danger signals that flared about them, and the warnings of what would happen if they indulged their natural instincts. They’ve had to bring up infants according to a rigid mathematical code, and about the only thing got out of the effort was the somewhat empty satisfaction of calling herself a parent. It always has seemed to me that in a world that provides such marvelous articles as a b?.by and a rocking chair, the wc should g&t together. Fortunately both are coming back into fashion. BBS IN a good many ways we can not blame the modem girl for staging a rebellion against maternity. Given the proper training, the state

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Road to Peace Bv Benjamin A. Osborne. IF mere advocacy of peace were the actual instrument with which to clear the atmosphere of near future wars, I should find sufficient solace in it to disabuse my mind of the certainty of wars and more wars. Discussion of peace subjects is worthy of encouragement, regardless of the results it may be expected to achieve. For in discussing peace one may lose some of the ego that seems to direct many peace advocates in the wrong direction. The real, lasting road that leads to universal peace is devoid of intolerance and injustices, and is made of brotherhood, co-opera-tion, equality. It strikes me that as long as the causes of war exist, the hope for universal peace is an impossibility. The powerful nations that now are popularizing the idea of peace are not essentially concerned with dispensing justice to the minorities living under their jurisdiction. It is my judgment that the talk of peace by many of the political leaders is just one of their schemes to make more secure their grip on the weaker groups. Let the nations that claim so much interest in peace of the world begin to treat their less fortunate brothers with more respect, giving an equal chance in industry, education, and politics, and the world then will begin to shake off its fears of near future wars. couple of dozen big homes. I came back without anything at all and I had to solicit my 25 cents for my bed at the Salvation Army. It seems to me that no vicious pests are going to pull anything off to amount to anything, even without Mr. Ford's advice, but I, myself, am watching Mr. Ford. My commodities will stand investigation, metal putties, glues and so forth, and I am nearly 60 years old.

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hy*eia, the Health Magazine.

with infections throughout the body, particularly in the teeth, the tonsils, the sinuses and the urinary tract, which cause germs and their toxins to get into the blood. These infectious materials and poisons are carried by the blood to the joints which have been injured in the manner described, and which have their resistance further reduced by the exposure to cold and 4 damp. Obviously, therefore, an early step in the control of rheumatic disorders must be the attempt to clean up such sources of infection as have been mentioned. In addition, it is well for every

has specified thermometers, formulas, collandered carrots, long-drawn-out spinach campaigns, trying hours mastering psychology, and the accumulation of moun- / Questions and Answers Q —What was the appropriation for maintenance of the Governor’s mansion last year for Governor Leslie? A—slo,ooo. Q. —What is the source of the quotation, “Now we see through a glass darkly?” A.—Chapter XIII. First Corinthians. Q —When did the Metropolitan opera house in New York City open? A—Oct. 23. 1883. Q—What is the population of Indiana? A—The 1930 census figure was 3,238,503 and the state was eleventh in rank.

After eight years in the mail order business, they came along and said that I must pay $25 a day license, or S4OO a month, for demonstrating my commodities. That was in Seattle. That is one main reason I am here today, looking for grass cutting or any odd jobs to get started again. There are plenty of people who keep away from missions and welfares and try to help themselves. I am one of them. The disgusting elements, criminals and so forth, meet there, get their souls saved, and train for evangelical work. I don’t want to mix.

So They Say

The world is particularly perplexing for a woman. She has a threefold job. She must have some sort of work outside the home almost, inevitably; then family; then citizenship. It is difficult to combine these three.—Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve of Barnard college. One of -the most encouraging features of the times is that men’s thoughts are upon the actions of their government. Secretary of Commerce Roper. I think Americans are wonderful. I simply can’t imagine being afraid of going among them as I always have done, as I always shall. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, upon being cautioned about her personal safety. If all the nations will agree wholly to eliminate from possession and use the weapons which make possible a successful attack, defenses automatically will become impregnable and the frontiers and independence of every nation will become secure.—President Roosevelt. Hitler is a child of the ,Versailles treaty.—Senator William E. Boarh.

person with a tendency to rheumatic disorders to get himself into the best hygienic condition. Therefore, every error of diet and every tendency to overweight, exercise, rest, ventilation, and all other factors involved in personal hygiene must be controlled suitably. Every physician who makes a specialty of rheumatic disorders finds dozens of people coming to him with advanced conditions, who have been misled into the belief that it is possible to get something out of a bottle to cure rheumatism. Vast sums of money are spent constantly on rheumatism remedies, snake oils, and all sorts of similar preparations which are worthless and even harmful, because they cause postponement of essential diagnosis and treatment.

tainous fears and a well-developed inferiority complex. The rules set up by the late unlamented moderns abolished practically every conceivable compensation in raising a family. Righ now there is a sort of revival of maternity in the land. Motherhood once again is regarded as a serious, if not the perfect, profession. Feminism is dead and the depression has exposed all the emptiness of social life. Cocktails are going out—cradles are coming in. And once we reach that state of mental maturity, which we may name the return to common sense, we shall realize that babies are a necessity for living and not a social service philanthropy. Then we shall take up the bygone habits that used to make them such satisfactory things to have around. Coddling, rocking, kissing are the A, B, Cs in the long alphabet of motherhood. To rock your baby while the dusk comes down—there's pure happiness, within the reach of every woman who can afford a rocking chair and a baby and courare enough to laugh at the psychologists.

MAY 25, 1933

It Seems to Me BY HEYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK. May 25.—The job of being a newspaper columnist becomes increasingly arduous. And of course the word I mean is tough. Fifteen or twenty years ago the man who had a daily stint to cover could fool around or be deathly serious. Now he has no such choice. I am in complete agreement with a friend who said to me: “You may think that it is possible for you to write a frivolous column when such a subject comes to your mind. But it isn't. People who read it think 'This man has no sincerity. He doesn't mean what he says. How can he talk of fish in Hale Lake or his dog. Captain Flagg, when thirteen million people are out of work?' ” a a a Earnestness Important AND he's right. Whether anybody believes it or not, the column I turn out is premeditated. I used to fashion it somewhat after the manner of a big league baseball pitcher. After twenty years I was arrogant enpugh to assume that I had been graduated from the bushes. And my notion was, “I'll try and give them change of pace.” My fast ball may have had something less than fire o r a hop. but after three or four "strict'' columns it was not notion. “Now I'll ease up a little ahd attempt to be facetious.” It never was my idea that I had any great capacity as a humorist, and still I thought it might be possible for me to change from grave to gay. That just won’t work any morp. Unless your jokes are very good, nobody wants to hear them. The American public has become economically conscious. Ten years ago an article about inflation or the gold standard seemed to most of the millions academic. John Doe said: “Where does this touch me? I've got a steady job and SSO a week and none of these theories can disturb it.” But suddenly this point of view has changed. Men with SSO a week want to know. "What will my SSO buy if it is no longer gold but something else?” nan Start to Wonder PEOPLE out of work are beginning to wonder what put them in that economic state. They no longer are willing to assume that it must be their own ineptitude and they are not a very receptive audience 'to the minor and personal jokes of any newspaper writer. I think the temper of the world is sound. I’ve never been particularly enthusiastic about self-revelation, even although the “I” may have appeared all too frequently in my column. I don't expect to capture the interest of hard-pressed people by talking about the problem of which speakeasy is most congenial during a depression. But I just can't be serious minded every day. That’s my fault. On a good many occasions I have spoken my mind as to what I thought was amiss with the world. I've tried to be too dogmatic. u n n ‘ Brains' as a Reproach IT annoys me to find editorial condemnation of President Roosevelt's “brain trust.” For a great many years the American public has been comparatively well satisfiedv.if an American executive surrounded himself with advisers drawn from the dominant iving of the current majority party. I fail to see why a bright young experimenter from some cloistered hall should not be a better choice than an old line politician who floundered around Washington for a couple of generations to no good effect. Moley and Tugwell may be less than inspired, and yet I would rather put my money on them than on Moses and Mills. The practical boys, the realistic boys, the waywise boys, have had their chance. And whht a mess they made of it. The cry is these new advisers are mere striplings, still wet behind the ears. But what have we had from various ancients who were dehydrated twenty years ago? The more experimental Franklin Roosevelt becomes, the better I like him. BUB

Pledge to Hair Shirt AND as a newspaper writer, I am convinced that for the next four or five years, to put it mildly, no attention can be gained by anybody who is not intent upon the present economic situation. When unemployment has ceased, when nobody goes cold and hungry, when everything has gone to three hundred, then it will be time to try and be just too funny about all affairs upon this earth. But here and now I make the vow to draw a hair shirt over my ears and to say, “It is my job and the job of every one who has to leave to print to tackle as best he can the problems which afflict us all.” And if by any chance I happen to be light or whimsical in the next twelve months, please call it to my attention. It will not be by design. This is no time for jokes. And I never was very good at them anyhow. I don't pretend to be a profound economist or commentator. But, good or bad, the very best that I can do is to urge upon readers that co-operation which is so necessary to salvation. And if this proves to be boresome. ail I can say is that I know nothing more tiresome to a man or woman than to want a job and have none. f Copy right 1933, by The Times)

Lullaby

BY OLIVE ENSLEN-TINDER Go to sleep, my little son; See, the stars peep, one by one. There’s the big moon overhead And It’s time you were in bed. Come, I’ll sing of happiness, All the songs that you like best, I’ll sing soft and tenderly The song my mother sang to me. Os the land where dreams come true There you’ll go and I’ll go, too. We will walk in this land so fair And we’ll meet your dream friends there. We’ll see a flower of every hue Beside a mirror lake of blue, But now, my child, we’ll have to run If \<e get home by dawn of sun.