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TUESDAY. APRTI. 3. 1934. A SOCIAL ERROR short for supper.” That WaS the cry which resounded In he solemn environs of the Marion county a Friday night when it was "suddenly discovered that a prisoner had escaped several hours before the other inmates sat down for the evening meal. •From information that can be obtained, John Allen Lay, 19. is the Houdini of Marion county. He has added another unpleasant chapter to the reign of Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner, and removed any barriers that would have prevented Joe Tragresser, deputy sheriff, from entering the beer business immediately. Mr. Tragresser was guarding the rear of a line of ten prisoners en route from criminal court to the jail. That was Friday noon. Mr. Lay, apparently dissatisfied with his position In life as a member of the "chain gang,” is said to have squeezed his hand through a handcuff and strolled away from the very portals of the county jail. Later—much later —Friday afternoon, when the inmates were ready for supper, it was discovered that Mr. Lay was no longer a member of that jolly company. The reaction at the Jail must have been very similar to the skipper who discovers half of his passengers have jumped overboard several hours before the tragedy is discovered. John Boyce, chief jailer, in defense of the administration, offers this statement: "This is only the second prisoner to escape since Sheriff Sumner took office.” Why, Mr. Boyce, should any prisoners escape? Why, Sheriff Sumper, is it necessary for you to be firing deputies because they are not competent to perform their duties? Don't you think, officials of Marion county, that the time has come when prevention of incidents such as this would be much wiser than the hurry and flurry of executive discharge orders after the crime has been committed? Sheriff Sumner is quoted as saying he knew nothing about the incident until Saturday. It seems rather odd that the man who must bear the blame for this situation is not informed of the trouble that faces him until the damage Is twenty-four hours old. Mr. Tragresser said several days ago he was going “into the beer business. Sheriff Sumner discharged him and he now is in the beer business. It appears, though, that the citizens of Marion county suffered before the beer business gained.

DR. BUTLER ON PEACE FOR the moment at least the war scares of Asia and Europe seem to have passed. In the Far East observers report that the danger of a Russo-Japanese conflict has been postponed; they add that American recognition of Russia has been a potent peace factor. In Europe there is increasing nationalist unrest in most countries, but Hitler’s failure to rope Mussolini into a close alliance has divided the international forces of Fascism sufficiently to minimize the threat of war this year. These brighter prospects, however, are superficial. The basic causes which produce wars continue to exist. Unless there is enough statesmanship in the world to remove those causes, eventual war is inevitable. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, irr his foreword to the annual report of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, appeals for extension of the Kellogg pact and other peace machinery along the lines suggested by President Roosevelt in his Wilson day address. Dr. Butler's warning is especially timely because he stresses facts usually overlooked in the popular opinion that peace can be based merely on peaceful sentiment. A nation may desiie peace, but if it refuses international co-opera-tion and if its economic policies are destructive of the interests of others it will contribute to the war forces. t "The American cotton planter and wheat grower, the French farmer, the Italian, the German or the British manufacturer, to say nothing of the agriculturists and industrialists of Belgium, of Holland, of Scandinavia, of Poland, of Czechoslovakia, of Austria, of Hungary or of the Balkan states, can not possibly find markets for their products or quick and adequate transportation thereto, without that international co-operation which will establish a stable international monetary' standard and which will everywhere bring about a sharp reduction of tariff barriers and the removal of restrictive administrative trade regulation," Dr. Butler reports. ‘‘That economic nationalism which is still running riot and which is the greatest obstacle to the re-establishment of prosperity and genuine peace has been at its height, riming the past twelve months. If it now shows signs of growing weaker, it is because its huge cost is beginning to be understood." Though the Roosevelt administration is making effort to revive the political machinery of peace and disarmament, it can not effectively help to stop the tariff war which we started until congress passes the tariff law requested by the President. SELF-PRESERVATION SIMON J. LUBIN, chief of California’s. Bureau of Commerce, investigates working conditions in Imperial valley and declares: "The workers live in wretched camps, in the midst of filth, disease and misery—and dangerous dissatisfaction." In our country in many instances and in many fields of labor, the workers live in wretchedness —and "dangerous dissatisfaction.” Multitudes of workers underfed, underhoused and underpaid, while rich drones who never earned a dollar are luxuriating in Florida or Europe. r Workers seething with ' dangerous dissat-

isfaction” and the luxurious by Inheritance or special privilege indifferent to th'e sword of Damocles that is hanging over the status quo. There must be sane, humane and patriotic equalization of opportunities, awards and possessions, or "dangerous dissatisfaction” will make the change, perhaps with the bloody business of unreasoning mobocracy. Great Rome went into the depths of decadency by reason of uncontrollable popular ‘ dangerous dissatisfaction”; and, a Mussolini leaps from his street corner soap box into a dictatorship that abolishes industrial war, levels all caste and puts Italy on the highway to resuscitation of greatness, through satisfaction of her masses. Two hundred millions of dangerously dissatisfied Russians stood their czar and his women and children up against a wall and dedicated their blood to the cause of equalization. Roosevelt dictatorship and NRA and its ramifications must aim at equalization and accomplish much of it or our "dangerous dissatisfaction” is likely to finally bring on a depression beside which our present one would feel comfortable. Don’t worry about Roosevelt putting the government in business; his policies mean government In business of selfpreservation. TEACHERS OF GENIUS THE news that the man who taught Colonel Lindbergh how to fly was dying, penniless, in the Cook county hospital at Chicago, emphasizes the odd way life has of submerging the instructors of the great. This man, Ira Biffle, was for years one of the army’s greatest teachers. He showed scores of youths how to manipuate the “Jennies” of war days. , He gave Lincbergh his lessons, as Lindbergh himself says in his book, "We.” At one time he had a fortune estimated at SIOO,OOO. And finally he landed in a county hospital, broke, nearly blind, dying in obscurity, his identity discovered only by chance. The only relieving circumstance is that Lindbergh and others of his former pupils have contributed to brighten his last days somewhat. It makes one wonder, somehow', just what happens to all the other teachers who have taken young genius in hand and showed it how to operate the tools of genius’ chosen profession. Back of every great man, if you look far enough, there is a teacher—somewhere. Genius makes its own rules and finds its own way, but before it starts it must find someone w'ho can touch off the spark, someone who enables it to use the capabilities with which God has gifted it. These teachers don’t become famous. Most of the time we never even hear of them—except when, like Ira Biffle, they call our attention to fate's irony by dying in poverty. But we should like to know more about them. What unknowm and long-forgotten British army officer, for instance, first showed that young stripling, George Washington, the intricacies of military life, taught him how to handle men, and thus started him on the pathway that brought him to leadership of the Revolutionary armies? What instructor in English first showed ardent young Edgar Allan Poe that words properly chosen and properly fitted together can make poetry of rare beauty? What teacher fired the minds of Minnesota’s Mayo brothers so that they got a glimpse of the kingdom that awaited conquering in the field of medicine? What high school mathematician helped steer Albert Einstein into his destined career? Who first showed Henry Ford that fiddling around with machines can be an absorbing and fruitful calling? We lack the answers, of course, in most cases. But these teachers, unsung and forgotten, deserve a bigger share of the world’s applause than they ever get.

ANOTHER VOGUE TO the deadliness of the species add a feminine complex which mere man can not anticipate, define or control. Observe the movement started by Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas, a lady who mows quite a swath in New York social and civic affairs. Mrs. Thomas publicly charges hairdressers with artificiality, hypocrisy and extreme costliness, has shaved her head, and announces as a vogue the wearing of wigs of colors to harmonize with one’s gowns. Bald wives wigged to match their costumes. It is a vogue to be squelched early, though it take the whole United States standing army to do it. Friends, husbands, fathers, particularly husbands, consider well the possibilities. Night times you look from your bed across to the one near by and there glows a female ostrich egg reposing upon the pillow thereof. The bald mistress of the household buys a dress of blue and, right in the depression, one gets a blue-head companion for his bosom; or a red dress and one gets a fiery-headed helpmate; or, greeny green being popular at this time, one can picture oneself indulging in social functions with one’s employer present to think contumely things about one having a greenhaired wife; and. of course, with a checkered costume a jig-saw puzzle wig. No possibility of such a vogue? Huh! You have another guess at the withersomeness of the female complex. The piore aged and experienced readers of this readily will recall a not too remote period when the enormous, outrageous pannier became pandemic with the female of the species. As the writer recalls it. that monstrous contraption hitched on behind the female form divine went into the discard because no woman, certainly no lady, could ride a bicycle harnessed so posteriorily. Happy the thought that the popularity of the lowly bicycle is being revived. TO STOP EVASION 'TPHE fight to keep utility companies from -*• using the federal courts to beat regulation will continue on the floor of the house of representatives. Representative Hatton Sumners, chairman of the judiciary committee, which, over his protest, reported a substitute instead of the Johnson bill, will lead the fight. He will be doing utility companies a service whether they recognize it or not, as well as the public. Years of *ate litigation have proved the need for the proposal contained in the Johnson bill if private ownership of utilities is to hold its own against steadily increasing threats of pubile ownership. The Johnson bill, indorsed by President Roosevelt and passed by the senate, would take from corporations the right to choose whether a state or a federal court should pass

on Its appeals from rate orders of a state commission. Time after time In the past a utility company, seeing that it was about to lose an appeal in the state courts, has used the fact of incorporation in another state to demand trial, instead, in the federal courts. Years of delay have resulted. Meanwhile ratepayers have continued to pay rates which the state regulatory bodies had declared unjust. The Johnson bill does not take away from utilities the right to appeal to the United States supreme court from an adverse decision in the state courts. It simply assures the public that rate appeals will be heard promptly and that relief, where relief is just, shall not be withheld for years on end. PRICE OF SELFISHNESS 'T~'HE desire to make a financial killing Is -*■ one of the most natural and understandable of all human emotions especially In times like these. Nevertheless, there are cases in which it can be a disastrous thing. The federal government recently prepared to spend $9,000,000 on a slum clearance program Jn a large manufacturing city. It had all its plans made; but now it may have to abandon them altogether, because the owners of the land involved are holding out for high prices. "Owners have let this property deteriorate for years,” says one government official, “and in many instances have neither received any income from it nor kept up taxes. "The fact that owners have done nothing would make it appear that they considered the land worth exactly nothing, but now so many of them want speculative prices that the city wiil lose the expenditure of $9,000,000 unless right prices are found in other places.” It would be hard to find a clearer instance of the ruinous price a community can be forced to pay for Individual selfishness.

Liberal Viewpoint —By DB. HARRY ELMER BARNES —

npHERE is a widespread tendency to regard the new deal as only a preliminary experiment in a program which will have to be modified and extended. Messrs. Bauer and Gold make an important contribution to this possible future elaboration of the new deal (Permanent Prosperity and How to Get It. By John Bauer and Nathan Gold. Harper's. $2.75). They argue intelligently that we never shall have prosperity under capitalism unless we abolish unemployment and guarantee security of livelihood to all able-bodied Americans. Hence, they outline a comprehensive plan for stabilizing employment in private industry and for providing a long-time program of public works to absorb those not employed in private industry. The authors consider, in addition, the reconstruction in finance and credit which will be necessary to produce this result. The book may be heartily recommended to official circles in Washington. Mr. Mooney, a high official in General Motors, has written a book which represents one of the most satisfactory presentations of the point of view of the few great industrialists who realize that the irresponsible individualism of the Coolidge days are gone forever (The New r Capitalism. By James D. Mooney. Macmillan. $3.50.). The best part of the book is that upon the purchasing power of workers and farmers. Mr. Mooney seems to have awakened to the elementary logic that we can ( not sell goods unless somebody has the money to buy them. Without this sale' of goods capitalism must crumple and die. Others have stated these truisms as well and much earlier than Mr. Mooney. But they are quite astonishing when they emerge from the mind of an industrialist of his prestige. These sections of the book might well be reprinted by General Johnson and circulated broadcast among American employers. a a a PROFESSOR STEIN and his associates present us with a very useful summary of the labor provisions of the new deal, together with an analysis of the more important earlier decisions of the supreme court bearing upon the major points in the labor policies of the administration (Labor Under the New Deal. By Emanuel Stein, Carl Raushenbush and Lois MacDonald. Crofts. 75 cents. This is a very valuable and practical contribution. Mr. Daugherty analyzes in clear fashion the labor policies of the NRA and indicates some of the results wheih have already been achieved (Labor Under the NRA. By Carr 11 H. Daugherty, Houghton Mifflin. 25 cents). It is in useful form both for the general reader and the college professor who wishes to supplement his text book. If we can not restore prosperity under the capitalist system, Communism is probably the ultimate alternative. Russia now is starting resolutely upon her second five-year plan. Leading officials in the Soviet government present in a symposium the details of the second fiveyear plan and the achievements which they desire to consummate by 1938 (From the First to the Second Five-Year Plan. By J. Stalin et al. International Publishers. $1.00). Here is the new deal which the radicals honor. One important phase of the Rooseveltian policy is the improvement of our shipping facilities and power production which will be secured by completing the deep sea route to the Great Lakes by way of the St. Lawrence river. Mr. Ireland presents us with a clear summary of the relevant facts involved in this great enterprise, which could be completed for a fraction of what has been thrown away on the trivial results achieved by the CWA (The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Waterway to the Sea. By Tom Ireland. Putnam. $2). a a u THE success of the new deal will depend to no slight degree upon the extent to which the Constitution can be strengthened to cover its novel proposals. Judge Black has written an intelligent-and popular book upon the background and making of our Constitution, as w T ell as the many amendments which have since been added (Our Unknown Constitution. By William Harman Black. Real Book Cos., $2). The whole work is designed to give us a more informed and intelligent perspective in approaching the Constitution. , At the opposite extreme stands the incredible little book by Mr. Atwood, probably our most popular patrioteer (Orderly Progress or Chaos: Which? By Harry Atwood. Constitution Educational Association. SI). Nothing would more surely bring chaos to the United States than the literal application of the principles he recommends. Some wealthy Communists should circulate his book by the millions of copies. As an aid in w r recking capitalism there is nothing better in print. Professor Munro of Harvard university has revised his lectures on the three major types in American politics—the reformer, the boss and the leader (Personality in Politics. By William Bennett Munro. Macmillan. $1). It has been brought up to date and made relevant to the great experiment through which we are passing. The author argues in conclusion for the entry of educated men into our political life. In the role of boss, reformer and leader, Upton Sinclair has produced a very entertaining and stimulating book which indicates how, if he were elected Governor of California on the Democratic ticket, he could reconstruct the state and end poverty in two years (I, Governor of California. By Upton Sinclair. Farrar & Rinehart. 75 cents). It is an imaginary history of how Mr. Sinclair carried through this heroic feat. The new deal seem* to have captured Mr. Sinclair s imagination.

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(Timet readert are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them, to 150 words or lessJ a a tt JAZZ MUSIC AND THE PART IT PLAYS By Jimmy Cafouros Sometimes it occurs to one what a rapid development there has been in jazz music. Recall nine or ten years ago—the jazz orchestras of that day. A tenor banjo, a bit of a cornet and plenty of trombone with all the slides incidental to it, a merciless drumming, a tympanic detonation of cymbals and triangle and chimes and dull thuds. The only instrument that can be recalled to have given a fair quota of satisfaction was the piano. The music often placed one in a dilemma, and he had one deuce of a time trying to discern between what was melody and what was almost melody. But time changes things. Jazz is here and it is rooted firmly. Jazz most lucidly and accurately marks the tempo of the public spirit. One who wishes to psychoanalyze (whatever that is) the public, needs only to study the music of the period. At any rate, there are alternating cycles of sophistication and simplification, saxophone rages, piano cyclones, crooner cataclysms and boop-a-doop days. Remember "Stormy Weather” and "Moonlight Saving Time.” They mark an era during which time the public is enraptured of these melodies and their countless satellites. The public never would have appreciated the very recent highly sophisticated and intricately syncopated rhythms and turns of melody w-ere it not for all that w ; ent before. Today w r e call the orchestra a band. It gives a more or less compact, solid effect. The addition of the tuba, the "civilizing” of the saxophone, the high, sweet notes of a steel guitar, sometimes an oboe for remote effects, the "pointing up” of the violin have made the modern band get into any person who is human. Feet start tapping, eyes start dancing and the nunt for a partner is the climax. a a a VOTING IS BLANK FOR REAL THINKERS By H. L. I see there are several candidates for different offices in both parties who extol the secret organizations to which they belong. But I have wondered if the voters know what they are up against, when candidates make this assertion. I have had some experience trying to get justice from fellow-members in these organizations. You always come out at the little end of the horn. I am a taxpayer, but voting will mean nothing to the people who can and do think for themselves. a a a HE’S HEARD M’NUTT WILL SEEK PRESIDENCY By An Admiring Subscriber. Indiana’s comedy of errors has become another tragedy as the latest Dillinger escape turns another chapter. Had the Governor demanded that Dillinger be sent to the state prison for safe-keeping it is unlikely that he would be on the “lose” once again. Instead of placing the entire blame on Lake county we must not forget that McNutt originally paroled Dillinger, that McNutt manned the state prison and other institutions with many unqualified political appointees, including an inexperienced warden at Michigan City. In pointing the finger of criticism it appears that McNutt is quite deservedly on the spot by his personal appointments. His record to data from anr olfactory standpoint

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Cadle Tabernacle

By StJart E. Reed. T. J. Tilden. along with several others in Indianapolis, are much mistaken about the broad statements they make about E. Howard Cadle, the founder and builder, originally, of Cadle tabernacle. Mr. Cadle, in the first place, is not a rich man, in fact, he does not even own the house in which he lives. His former home was sacrificed in the battle to redeem the Tabernacle after other people had tried to run the place after getting it away from Mr. Cadle. If the above mentioned w’riter were to take a little time off and do some real investigating, he would know that he was not asked to donate to Mr. Cadle personally, but to the cause of saving souls of men and w'omen. The tabernacle building is paid for and the lot a long way toward the same point and when paid for never can be sold either for the benefit of E. Howard Cadle or his heirs. I also would ask the writer to investigate the books to find just how the money is used, also to bear in mind that Mr. Cadle does not take a salary out of the collection for himself, deriving his living expenses from other sources. Mr. Cadle and his daughter W’ork endless hours in the office every day. You also refer to the Nation’s Family Prayer period which now r smells anything but "pretty.” It is composed of much sterner stuff. As evidence, the dispensing of political patronage is supplemented by the handling of the state beer racket as w'ell as the shakedow-n of the 2 and 4 per centers, etc. Indiana has been a notorious and fertile field for "mine-run” Governors during recent years—offhand we recall McCray, Jackson and now McNutt. It is indeed disappointing to those of us who were told that McNutt would be a Hoosier Moses—that he had everything it took to lead us out of the depths of political incompetency. What a left-handed lead we £ave had! In my opinion McNutt has become "punch-drunk” with authority Und dizzy from the dreams of his political aspirations. It is rumored that he has high hopes of being our President—some day—maybe. This hallucination may be the propelling influence for his flying hither and thither seeking out school teachers’ conventions to charm with his platform manner. a a a GIVE DILLINGER LAND, MONEY AND SOLVE PROBLEM By A. U. Listening. If the state would give John Dillinger 10.000 acres of swamp land, then the federal government would pay him SIO,OOO a month not to raise anything on it. That would be cheap for the state taxpayers. a a a POSTAL EMPLOYES GET THE WORST OF IT By One of the Boys. I have been reading your fair paper for several years I have read the Message Center recently and I want to get this off my chest. Years ago when the pioneers were having their problems they went after them like men and thus made this country a better place for their children. Now we are confronted with problems and it is our duty to go after them Tike men and have them done away with so as to make the future better for our children. It is each and every man’s duty to teach his children to attempt to do away with our greatest evil, which is individual, selfishness. . Say, you postoffice officials, would you like for your boys to have to go through what the present day

- 1 wholly disapprove of what you say and will _ defend to the deaih your right to say it — Voltaire.

Is bring broadcast each day over Radio station WLW bringing the simple gospel message to between 16.000.000 and 18,000,000 people all over the world since Crosley Radio Corporation now carries the highest powered station in the world. An average of more than 1,000 letters come into the tabernacle offices every day telling of appreciation for the messages of hope that come to them over the radio from the tabernacle. Other letters tell of families which have been united, family altars rebuilt and men and women who have been given anew hope when they were ready to blow out their brains. Indianapolis has a marvelous opportunity in this tabernacle and through the Nation's Family Prater period which is calling this nation to its knees in prayer to the only God who can save the day for us. We have forgotten God and now worship gangsters and money instead of the true and living God. Show me another institution that is spending its money to any better advantage and spiritually aiding more people j than the tabernacle. • If some of the rest of the churches would cease their church suppers and get a little fire in the pulpit the Lord would not have to call men to the particular work Mr. Cadle is doing not only for Indianapolis, but for v the world. substitutes are going through? Well, I’ll say you wouldn’t. Now get away from this evil that I just called to your attention. If this is not correct, why do these politicians spend approximately SIOO,OOO for a measly SIO,OOO-a-year job. Now Mr. Editor, if you print this I know you are on the level. a a a GOVERNOR’S TAX SLICE CLAIM IS DOUBTED Bv J. P. Fauvre. Recently, Lowell Thomas Introduced Governor McNutt during his radio broadcast, and we were amazed to hear the Governor assert that during the last two years our state taxes have been reduced SIOO,000.000. His one big problem, he said, ’••as reducing government expenses. If this is true, then who are the fortunate ones to receive the benefit of such a rduction? Certainly we have not received benefit in Indianapolis—with an increased tax rate. Possibly he only means to be funny—to put us in the proper spirit to receive Amos and Andy, who followed him on the air? a a a PROTESTS HIGH COST OF STATE GOVERNMENT By a Times Reader. We have taken The Times for many years, and we like the way the paper brings out facts the public should know. If more people in Indiana were like The Times staff and exposed the crooked capitalists and politicians as well as Dillinger and his gang, perhaps the people would get a better break. I see in the Message Center a letter by a group of citizens, saying "Hurrah for Dillinger.” I say the same, although our bankers and politicians don’t agree with us. Dillinger is butting into their racket, but with a different method. Dillinger, at least, is a man. He goes out and gets what he wants, and doesn't hide behind a political job as some of our politicians do—or do I mean beer barons? I understand that we have one politician holding eight or nine jobs. We are paying him more than the state receives- from beer tax, and that he was put their by our Governor. How about that? The citizens of Indiana have*, no

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choice. We take what the politicians hand out and have to like it. I still say Dillinger is a man. Let’s set him free and run him for Governor, and maybe, the people will get a break. a a a ADVOCATES STATE LOTTERY FOR REVENUE By F. J. W. Why not use the influence of your paper for the promotion of a lottery run by the state of Indiana? I find that the majority of our. people gamble in one form or another. Fully 80 per cent of all chance games and lotteries are conducted by churches, lodges and fraternities. The state of Maryland will have the legislature .to vote on a state lottery in November for unemployment relief. I think this is a wise move, because people will take a chance on a lottery when our laws are against it. We all have gambling streak and the revenue the state loses each year almost would pay a great deal of state charities, and no doubt would help lower our taxes. I would like to hear from you through your columns, and also what readers think of this proposition in regard to a state lottery. a a a GAS BILL HAS BEEN INCREASED, HE CHARGES By E. H. Simmons. Please print these few lines in your Message Center. I think it is high time for The Indianapolis Times to get after the Citizens Gas Company, now since it had such good luck with the Indianapolis Power and Light Company. Everybody I’ve talked to seems to think their gas bills nearly have doubled since the first of the year. One man I was talking to this morning said that he went up and made a kick on his gas bill and they merely told him if he were tired of using gas they could shut it off. I know my gas bill has increased between $1.75 and $2 since the first of the year and I have bills to prove it. We only are cooking twice a day now, where formerly we were cooking three times a day. It seems to me the less you use the gas the more it costs. Come on Times subscribers let’s have your views on the gas question. So They Say i- l „ . ......—• —•—i In numbers and in depth of suffering the chief victims of hard times are the millions of people who have lost their jobs.—Statement by Senator Robert F. Wagner and Congressman David J. Lewis. The Nest BY R. BOYER The nest is moulded to the tree. And the tree grows in Gods great cathedral. The mocking bird set on her nest; Her mate was there to do his best. To hunt for food and fight for home, And sing for all at break o’ day. The last leaf dropped upon the ground. It fell so light there was no sound. And the mocking bird sang all day long For spring was close at hand. His mate sat close upon her nest, He laughed and mocked them all. His days were full and spring was here. For after days he had no fear, And, like the leaves, he met the fall Full mockingly free. For any bird may mould a nest. But only God a tree.