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SATURDAY. MARCH . I3>. PEEPERS* PARADISE APPARENTLY the peepers are not going to get their pink slip paradise after all. On Monday, or soon after, the House of Representatives is expected to vote repeal of the Income tax law provision opening the pink aiip to public gaze. Senate sentiment for repeal also Is growing. Any normal man or woman hates a snooper. That, perhaps. Is the chief explanation of the sweeping upswing in public opposition to pandering to tax curiosity seekers. Exrnence shows that this sort of thing works out to the profit of the peeper and gossip monger rather than of the taxpayer or the government. Take the pioneering case of Wisconsin. Af’rr even years of experience with a state tax publicity law, the Wisconsin tax commisnon reported: These expected results sos fewer incorrerr returns and of discovering much unreporfed income) have not materialized In any degree in the administration of either the individual or the corporation returns. There have been no instances where public inspection has brought fourth unreported income, and as to its anticipated effect in producing "more correct income returns, experience has shown that it has had the opposite effect . . * A survey shows that public examination is almost wholly without any public motive or significance, but that advantage is taken of it to serve purely private and personal interets Our filed returns are used by credit organizations. . . . Returns are examined to prepare lists or prospective purchases of stocks and bonds and for other soliciting and advertising purposes. A common use of returns is to secure information in negotiating for the purchase of business properties, and very frequent use is made of them in delving into the intimate concerns of business competitors. . . . Income tax files are also frequently used for information in court actions, and many examinations are made out of curiosity, and at times for the sole purpose of annoying and harassing a reporting taxpayer." The theory behind such publicity provisions, of course, is that the average honest citizen by looking at his neighbor’s tax return can find errors missed by the government and also frighten the neighbor into being honest. But. in practice, the average honest citizen has neither the time nor the inclination to do this prving job. If he did pry. he would not have sufficient expert knowledge to check the meaning or accuracy of the highly intricate returns of upper bracket taxpayers and corporations. There is an added reason why the pink slips are senseless. Unlike the Wisconsin law, they do not give publicity to facts. They distort facts by giving incomplete and therefore usually misleading information. The pink slips list only five sets of totals: Gross income. total deductions, net income, total credits against net income, and tax payable. It is absolutely impossible to arrive at any fait Judgment morally, much less legally, without detailed information of the deductions and credits which is hidden by the pink slips. We believe that Congress should and will promptly get rid of the pink slips.

H AH, RAH COLLEGE BOY ' I "HE Butler Collegian, student publication of the Indianapolis university, has just announced the results of a poll in which the students named the greatest -bores in the news.'* Bruno Richard Hauptmann was bore No. 1 to the Butler students. Second they listed the Dionne quintuplets and third Huey P. Long. But the odd part comes in that 15 students named Gov. Paul V. McNutt as their No. 1 choice, and six others picked Franklin Delano Roooe%-elt. Now Mr McNutt holds the post of Governor of the sovereign state of Indiana. Mr. Roosevelt merely happens to be the President of the United States of America. An individual's viewpoint, of course, is his own. This is the United States and a person ran express whatever views he or she happens to have. But when the students of a university actuallv place the President of the nation as the outstanding ‘"bore in the news.” we think it a sad commentary on the intelligence of the modem American collegian. Perhaps thatj rah-rah spirit gained at basketball and football games has confused them a bit and maybe they think Mr. Roosevelt is the coach of the basketball team at Wabash College. For their information Mr. Roosevelt works in Washington. Mr. Vaughan is coach at Wabash. WELL-ROUNDED LIFE 'T'HERE is something very humanly and touchingly apt about the fact that the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was the son of the man who wrote the poem about the wonderful one-hoss shay. If you remember that famous old poem, you will recall that Poet Holmes wrote of a New England deacon who swore that he would build a shay that couldn't break down. The ordinary shay—or chaise, if you prefe; always developed a weak spot, sorner or later. The deacon's was going to lie different. So he got the strong?**. oak obtainable anywhere for spokes and *oor and sills; the str sign test and toughest in h wood, the finest elm. the best iron and steel for tires, springs, and so on. And when hr had built it the old deacon allowed thar here, as last, was a •hay without a wea< spot. And so it was. The years rolled by, and the shay roiled over the roads without a hitch —Haver a breakdown, never a xcpauw Finally

it rounded out a solid century of service; and then, still so stout that it couldn’t break one place sooner than another, it simply gave way altogether ... died of old age, as you might t*7Now Oliver Wendell Holmes, doctor, essayist. and poet, managed to get a pretty good exposition of the solid, substantial, unyielding old New England character into this poem, and few Americans have ever exemplified that character as well as did this poet's own son, Justice Holmes. What a life the man had. when you stop to think about It! Soldier and statesman, man of letters and jurist, rising to his greatest heights at the age when most men are past their best powers—he seemed to grow younger with the years, to develop a resilient indestructibility like that of the one-hoss shay itself. And his end, too, was in character. No long, painful decline, no bed-ridden and hazyminded years for him; there simply wasn’t anything about him that could break down. He came to the end of a long and surpassingly useful life, and, havir% taken a little leisure to glance back over it. he departed from it, quietly, easily, and swntly. America has seen few lives quite as admirable. as well-rounded, and self-sufficient and complete, as that of Justice Holmes.

LABORATORY TESTED SOCIAL security would be nearer at hand if less attention were being paid to fantastic plans for it. and more to Massachusetts’ successful experiment along those lines. One form of security has been sold over the counter in Massachusetts for 28 years, at prices every wage earner can afford to pay. The experiment is now self-supporting. It has prospered through the depression. It has won the confidence and approval of employers as well as workers. The plan was devised and put into operation by Louis D. Brandeis before he became a Justice of the Supreme Court. It is very simple. Mutual savings banks sell life insurance, under state supervision. Because they have no selling costs and no extra profits to make, they sell it at rates 26 per cent lower than ordinary insurance. They sell weekly premium insurance at 50 per cent less than private companies. Policies are never declared forfeit if six months’ premiums have been paid. Annuities can be bought and are being bought faster than ever before. Twenty-three banks have $100,000,000 in policies outstanding. The Associated Industries of Massachusetts, at first skeptical, has given unqualified indorsement and has even *ured its own field agent to explain the system to workers. President Roosevelt has proposed annuity sales through the Treasury as part of his social security program. It is a most practical and desirable part, judging by results in Massachusetts, and one that should be written into law without fail. VITO M ARC ANTON IO “'T'KERE will never be another like him," A many persons *.n Washington said sadly when Fiorello La Cuardia left Congress. For years that gusty little gamecock, now New York City's Mayor, had been an outstanding champion of liberal causes in the House of Representatives. Few approached him in effective leadership. But haf>vly the voters of Mr. La Guardia’s old district seem to have upset the dire prophecy. Their new Congressman, 32-year-old Vito Marcantonio, in a few short weeks has displayed qualities that seem to mark him as a second La Guardia. Twice within a week Mr. Marcantonio showed his mettle: First, when he led a brilliant but unsuccessful fight against compulsory military training in colleges. Then he blocked passage of the Dickstein alien deportation bill. The first was an issue of goosestep education and the second an issue of goosestep political thought, both of which violate the principles of human liberty upon which this republic was founded.

LABOR STANDARDS IN creating anew Division of Labor Standards in her department Secretary of Labor Perkins moved the nation a bit farther in its slow march toward a unified and decent standard of living for the American masses. Too much, of course, can not be expected of this new sendee. It is small and poorly financed. But its purpose is valiant, and, even circumscribed as it is, it should prove useful in helping the states, organized labor, employers. social workers and other group* to unite for better labor standards. The division will make available to these groups all government information on labor laws here and abroad, safety standards, security measures and other steps necesv>ary to better the lot of the workers. It will help draft laws, investigate industrial “sore spots" and make itself generally a handmaiden to social reform. There has long been need for such service. The labor laws in the 48 states are a hash of good, bad and indifferent statutes. For instance, only 24 states have ratified the Child Labor Amendment. Only 16 states have minimum wage laws for women. Only five states have embodied into law adequate safety codes for industries. While 44 states have workmen's compensation. mo6t of their laws are below the standards set by the more for-ward-looking commonwealths. The greatest disparity exists in the regulation of hours and the type of work for women and children. Secretary’ Perkins last year aided in the unification of standards by calling several regional conferences on labor laws. Now, by setting up a national service for this purpose the government hopes further to hasten the cj-pation of an American standard worthy the name. America should revolt against Greek revolts, if only to stop reading all those unpronounceable names. The TV’A will have to change its name since a Federal judge has ruled its sale of power unconstitutional. For whoever has heard of an “authority" without power? Abyssinia and Italy have agreed on a neutral zone. In the World War soldiers used to refer to such zone as No Mans Land. Mrs. Roosevelt has earned quite a sum of money broadcasting for charity, and yet there •re some meanies who think it would bfe even more charitable if aha stopped ‘Hiking.

Liberal Viewpoint BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

IN traveling about the country rather widely during the last two months I tried to keep my ears open to sentiment with respect to the presidential campaign which will be upon us before we realize it, only a year away. If the Republicans are planning to pull any fast ones on the country, they have given no evidence of this fact to date. There are some rumblings and murmurings among the so-called • young Republicans,” but so far the Old Guard remains in complete control of the party and their only apparent standard bearer is the badly defeated sage of Palo Alto. In spite of all of Mr. Hoover’s public pretense to satisfaction over his retirement, it is hardly an open secret among his cronies in California that he is ready to throw his hat into the ring once more. His “Challenge of Liberty was obviously a thinly veiled bid for public recognition as the logical opponent tc New Deal philosophies and practices. From all which is apparent on the surface as vet, the Republican choice will be Hoover or else someone even more reactionary like Ocrcien Mills. The only sensible proposal I have heard is Hevwood Broun’s recent nomination of Glenn Frank as the Republican candidate. This would b? a brilliant stroke for the Hepubbcans, but there seems extremely slight probability tha thev will seize upon the opportunity. Nor are they likely to select any of the colorful Republican progressives. n n tt THERE seems to be no doubt whatsoever that Mr. Roosevelt had a death grip upon the Democratic nomination. Even if the New Deal ?as not crashed through with some boom between now and the summer of 193 . there seems to be little prospect of stepping Mr. Roosevelt. The most interesting possibility lying between now and 1936 is the development of some strong party of opposition to both Republican raction and the unfulfilled promises of the New Deal. I recently pointed out the strength of a movement which combines, at least roughly, the personal appeal and programs of HueyLom:, Father Coughlin, Dr. Townsend and Upton Sinclair. Whether we-like it or not. Huey seems to be growing in strength. I was in Houston, Texas, when Huey broadcast to the people of the countrv on a Sunday evening. The next Tuesday I was informed by a responsible and industrial journalist in Houston that the ‘ Long President” clubs in Houston had reported 8000 new members within less than two days. And I found that not a few reputable Americans, including the veteran lawyer, Clarence Darrow, take Huey rather seriously. . Thev point out that even his enemies hardly dare question his ability, and have little specific to say against him except to repeat the vague innuendoes circulated so widely in the capitalistic press. In any event, Huey’s candidacy will grow just in proportion as the New Deal fails to deliver before 1936. u >t WITH the revival of the inflationist rebellion in Congress, Father Coughlin is bound to gain renewed strength. It may seem fantastic to imagine a Catholic priest as a candidate for the presidency after the bitterness engendered by A1 Smith’s candidacy. But we must not forget that probably more Protestants than Catholics await anxiously for the father’s weekly radio declamations. Many a Fundamentalist wmo could not endure the thought of Al Smith in the White House kicks over a sitting room chair with delight at the Royal Oak priest’s fulminations against the money changers. While Dr. Townsend has admittedly stirred even the hard-boiled East with his pension program, one has to go to California to appieciate the intensity of the devotion to his scheme. One might almost as well question the Trinity before the common folk of the Sunkist state as to ridicule the Townsend plan. Even if the Doctor is getting a little old. some enterprising youngster may well steal his thunder and run away with it. From several sources of very diverse character, it was reported to, me that Will Rogers would by no means be loath to hang his blue serge coat on the back of a chair in the White House. If we are in line for “the man on horseback” in the United States, it will have to be conceded that Will has superb technical qualifications. An active candidacy on his part would be no joke. He is much the most popular American, not even barring Lindbergh. If the New Deal, which lias been falsely identified with highbrow wisdom, continues to be a flop, there is likely to be a natural reversion to enthusiasm for the homely wisdom associated with the Beverley Hills philosopher.

Capital Capers .BY GEORGE ABELL

THE honest bourgeois (even the dishonest bourgeois, probably, enjoys his caviar as well as the most confirmed Russian radical. If any one doubts this fact, he should have been as the reception given the other day by the ambassador of the Union of Scviet Socialist Republics and Mme. Trovanovsky. When the crowd of guests had thinned sufficiently, it became apparent that something like 10 ice bowls of black caviar had been devoured. Ambassadors, minister, cabinet members, senators, representatives, dowagers and debs all did their part. They need no blue eagle to sound the advance. They scooped the black sturgeon eggs out of the ice with spoons and forks. Huge, gleaming mounds disappeared down gaping throats before you could say “Joseph Vissarionovitch Djugashvilli” (Stalin's real name). “Good heavens! They're even putting caviar in their pockets,” lamented Rep. Sol Bloom of New York, as he eagerly pushed his w r ay toward the magic delicacy. They weren't exactly doing that, but they were putting it every place else —on coffee-cup saucers, on pieces of pistachio cake, on toast crackers, sandwiches and crusts of bread. Sol's lament reached a crescendo as a waiter carried off an empty ice bowl. “Those caviar speculators,” he wailed, “have taken all the best seats.” a a a UNPERTURBED and serene. Minister Djahal of Persia lcvealed a surprising fact about the caviar tikra. the Russians call it). “That caviar.” he announced calmly, “comes from Persia. It is produced through a firm of Russians and Persians located in a Persian port and thence shipped through Russia to Europe.” Djalal said he is now trying to have caviar shipped directly from Persia and bearing the Persian instead of the Russian label. In that case since Persia has now officially changed her name to “Iran,” it might be termed “Ikra from Iran.” ana NE/ RLY the entire diplomatic corps was present—the ambassadors seeking caviar, the ministers seeking distraction, and the young girls seeking the tall, blond Slav giant who is the Russian military attache. Sir Ronald Lindsay. His Britannic Majesty’s ambassador, arrived early, as befitted the dean of the diplomatic corps. But not too early, as also befitted the dean. He accepted a cup of tea with British condescension and departed, pink and pleasant. Irish Minister Michael Mac White arrived early, still looking for “comrades” —one of his little jokes. The staff of the French embassy, including two of the loveliest women in town (one American. one gathered about the buffet. Thev discussed with interest Napoleon's Love Letters (now appearing in The Times and other Scripps-Howard papers). Russian art and American cuisine. They approved of all three. The Spanish ambassador. Senor Calderon and his witty French wife, were surrounded by a circle of friends. In his dark suit with white pin stripes. His Spanish Excellency looked spick and span. But since Communist riots are virtually ended in Spain, Soviet ‘at homes” have lost some of their thrill and zest for Spaniards.

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(Time* reader * are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Liniit them to 200 words or less. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld at request oj the letter writer.) ana SUGGESTS GAG RULE AGAINST HUEY LONG By Disgusted Reader. I am sure many others as well as myseli are disgusted when they pick up the paper or turn on the radio. You are sure to see and hear something about Huey Long doing this or that. I believe the general public is pretty well fed up on his dictatorship tactics and aspirations, especially to be the leading news “item” in the daily headlines. I am sure if the papers failed to give him the publicity he craves for two days he might take the hint and no doubt most of us would forget he ever existed. a a a TOWNSEND PLAN OFFERS SECURITY TO THOUSANDS By L. L. Hopkins. I should like to answer J. Pierce Cummings and Charles Barnett in these columns Feb. 27, in regard to the Townsend Pension Plan. The Townsend pension bill is now before Congress introduced by Rep. McGroarty of California, is known as H. R. 3957. Section 3 of this act provides for a levy of 2 per cent on the gross dollar value of each business, commercial and or financial transaction done within the United States. The President is empowered to, by executive older, increase or decrease the 2 per cent by not more than 50 per cent when in his discretion he deems it advisable. In other words, the President may make it 14 per cent or 2’ 2 per cent at his discretion. How this coujd be multiplied to cost 50 per cent or 40 per cent as feared by Charles Barnett is beyond me. Nothing would be further from my mind than to take aw’ay from the person getting SIOO a month in' order to give any one a S2OO a month pension. How’ever, I would not hestitate to take from that person two or three times 2 per cent to provide an annuity for such person of S2OO a month on arrival at age of 60, nor do I think that any sensible person w r ould object to this. The government is taking 34 per cent from Federal employes in order to provide them with an annuity sufficient to enable them to live above want in their old age and those employes are not objecting to it. To the contrary this is one of the reasons why government jobs are so much in demand. The plan is not primarily a pension plan. It is a business recovery plan coupled with a general old-age annuity plan in which we are all. old and young, vitally interested because we would all eventuallv participate in it. It is the only plan now proposed which promises any immediate results. To Mr. Cummings I would voice the opinion that intimate association with the United States Chamber of Commerce has seldom seemed to be conducive to a sympathetic understanding of the problems of the workers and small business men. The advocates of the Townsend olan are indeed fired with zeal for the welfare of humanity, but they have not lost sight of facts. Indeed they seem to be about the only ones who are willing to take cognizance of the cold, hard facts that stare us in the face where ever we look. The facts of terrible and unnecessary suffering from 1 want and destitution in a land of

OVER THE HILL

Land Program Is Lauded

By Joseph L. Watt. In Mr. George Allen's letter he knocks the government’s program of buying sub-marginal farmland that is unfit for agricultural uses. He knocks a program that desires to make southern Indiana a beauty spot by planting and developing a large forest crop that will be worth $350 to S4OO an acre in 100 years and will be a big source of revenue to the Federal, state and county governments. He knocks a program that would make southern Indiana into a beautiful playground and a happy hunting ground of the future. He knocks a program that will employ several hundred men the year round and several thousar ds during planting seasons. Mr. Allen wants the government to pay him for the crops he can riot raise. 111 other words he wants something for nothing. Perhaps Mr. Allen misunderstood the motives of the government’s acquisition of sub-marginal land. If Mr. Allen understands the program, as he professes, then I would not have signed my name to such a letter as he wrote. It has been proven by other purchase areas over the state that the acquisition of those lands has lowered taxes considerably, has furnished employment, and has brought money into the country from such sources as tourists, the selling and renting of cabin sites and the issuance of hunting licenses. The land that is being contemplated for purchase has been exploited in every way possible, timber has been cut, the soil is poor and hillsides are badly erod-

potential plenty for all, and as for economic facts and statistics, just try out any well informed Town-j sendite or better still read their literature and study the McGroarty bill now pending before Congress. Finally, the only right way to fix 1 the amount of any old-age pension is by the Golden Rule. “Therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to them; for this i3 the law and the prophets."—Mathew 7-12. a a a HE’S SORRY HE CAN'T BUY, BUT HE’S BROKE By Paul E. Smith. Asa working man I wish to extend my sympathy to all businesses, such as department stores, auto manufacturers, coal yards, furniture factories and hundreds of others. The plain facts; I am broke. I can not buy your products. Like myself there are 13.000,000 others, according to statistics, and other millions not registered would, let us say, make 20,000,000 customers broke. Now I made fair wages at one time —sl3 a day. Needless to say, we ate what we pleased, dressed accordingly and felt good toward the world. Everything, the furniture, the refrigerator, the washing machine, the carpet sweeper, and the coal in my basement, was furnished by the business man. They have lost a good customer by me, as in the 20,000,000 others now pauperized. All these customers are indigents who you must support with taxes. Here is the laugh, because you had an idea the working class was beneath your notice you had nothing in common with them, you believe in rugged individualism, you joined, the Chamber of Commerce, the main function of which seem* to be against something.

[1 wholly disapprove of what you say and will 1 defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire. J

ed. The people on this kind of land are unable to pay their taxes and as a result, thousands of dollars of delinquent taxes and school fund mortgage interests are piling up and causing a high tax rate which people who own good soil in these localities must pay. And these people are being taxed into abject poverty. Through the purchase of this land thousands of dollars will be introduced into the county, maintenance of some roads will be lifted from the county, schools costing $3500 a year to operate will be abandoned, families on poor relief will be moved to better localities or an opportunity will be given them to own their own homes and make a decent living. After this land has been purchased it will be reforested, erosion controlled, streams ditched and dredged, propagation of wild life and game will be started. This will result in saving thousands of dollars to the county and state government, a potential hunting area will be available in 30 years, through which revenue can be obtained from the sale of hunting licenses, a part of which will be turned to county, state and Federal treasuries. In addition, the reforestation of millions of acres will stop soil from washing into streams and being carried into lower valleys and rivers; stop the drying up of creeks and streams in the dry seasons; stop overflowing of land, keep the moisture in the soil and keep the streams from being filled with sediment that is constantly being washed into them from the denuded hillsides.

mainly the working class. So what? Your customers, your chief assets are broke, you are badly bent, your credit shot. It won't be long now when we can all laugh together. a a a FILLING STATION WORKERS PRAISED FOR COURTESY By Buster. In an interview an Englishman who recently visited this city described the courtesy of service station attendants as the thing which impressed him most. Local motorists accept this courtesy as a matter of course so accustomed are they to getting it. However, it is little short of marvelous the way attendants retain this courteous attitude when one analyzes their problems. First, the multitude of duties they are called on to perform. They are good housekeepers, good bookkeepers, good painters, good salesmen and good sports. They are always courteous —even under the most trying conditions. They work seven days a week with-

Daily Thought

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall' be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call. —Joel ii, 32. OGOD, how beautiful the thought, how merciful the blest decree, that grace tfan always be found when sought Ad naught shut out the soul from TL.b.—Eliza Cook.

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out vacations of any kind. They are notoriously underpaid when you consider the conditions under which they work. The next time you purchase gasoline give the attendant a friendly smile of appreciation for his services. He deserves it. a * a JUSTICE FOR EVERY ONE IS READER'S DEMAND Br Sim Dotirla*. I have just read your editorial of the malicious treatment of Betty Gow at the sharp end of Attorney Riley’s tongue, and please, Mr. Editor. let us also be fair to the defendant. I have absolutely no respect for Bruno Hauptmann now that he has been found guilty by 12 good and reliable citizens. Didn’t he have just as many constitutional rights as you or I. He had not been proved guilty—only accused. Mr. Wilentz was anything but kind and polite to Hauptmann. Let us give the devil his dries until he is proved guilty. After all, our country was founded on justice for every one. Maybe I am wrongj

So They Say

I think dueling is the only intelligent way in modern times of settling a dispute, because it ends either in the death of one of the parties or in friendship.—Betrand de Jouvenel, French journalist. I am periectly satisfied with the way our monetary policy has worked out in the last year and I see no occasion to change it.—Henry Morgenthau Jr., secretary of treasury. It doesn’t matter what you write into the recovery act; it's how you administer it. —Gen. Hugh S. Johnson. We are going to honeymoon in India, not because we’re afraid of gangsters or kidnapers, but because we want to escape reporters.—Mrs. Doris Duke Cromwell. I’m out, but I'm far from down.— Mrs. George A. Waters, ousted warden of Oklahoma State Reformatory. I hate a man who stands so that the people can not tell where he stands. —Senator Robert R. Reynolds, of North Carolina,

SKATING

BY MARY R. WHITE With you, and the lake. And the great yellow moon— Behind fleecy white clouds In my heart a love tune. On our skates smoothly gliding, By the nights eerie light Down the silvery moon-path Straight into the night. On the face of the moon Like a silhouette small Some lonely night bird A feather fluff ball. On the silvery lake— By the moon's soft light We're gliding, yes gliding. Adown a moon-path tonight. Away from just living To the land of your dreams— We re gliding—yes gliding Down the golden moon beams, Our skates are the dream ships That will carry us away Away from reality—'in the dream world* to etrajr.