Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-11
The Country Home
GRAND OPERA IN ATLANTA
BY MRS. w. H. FELTON,

Aged people are very apt to give
the go-by to the frolics and follies of
their youthful time, but with some of
the aged ones the infatuation for
fine music remains. All my life l
have been anxious to hear the best
that was in reach, and to play the
arson a piano. So l went to grand
opera in Atlanta on the last day of
the week, and heard the music of
Verdi's IL Trovatore. L have been
familiar with some of the notable
airs on a piano. So I went to grand
have some music books still contain
ing several of them, but 1 feel sure
I never heard it rendered better than
treat, and 1 enjoyed every minute of
the acts and scenes, as we'll as the
music.
All the words were unknown to me
it was the music, pure and simple
that 1 enjoyed. The Auditorium
was estimated to be full to it's ca
pacity-6,000 seats, filled by an eager
crowd of listeners. 1t was as quiet
as you can imagine when the music
was filling the vast building to the
rafters. A new prima donna was
the star of the afternoon, and she
was simply superb in her parts. How
that single voice could fill such an
immense structure throughout its en-
tire space, is a problem I cannot yet
understand. But she could do it, and
1T was flute-like voice that trailed
from the higher c down to the lower
G-and when one recollects that this
performance lasted from to d. M,
1t is marvellous to remember, that it
was as clear as bell from the be-
ginning to the end of it.
UNHAPPY RUSSIA
Americans have small conception
of what is now going on in Russia.
The horrors that prevail are simply
terrifying to the few who do com
prehend the situation. There has
oeen a committee of the United
states senate investigating and were
it not for the indecency and outrag-
eousness of the facts thus obtained.
every, newspaper in Christendom
would be publishing them The
former Empire of Russia under the
1 OF the czars, was not only. the
largest in territory, most populous,
known worth. That an Infamous gov
eminent prevailed goes without say
ing; but that czarism was humane
and civilized beyond all CONCEPTION
compared to the rule of the present
managers of that vast Russian en-
plre. The subcommittee of the
United States senate had hearings
for months-people were called to
Russia. The proceedings of that
committee hearing have been pub
ished: The conclusions of that sub
committee are based on facts-duly
proven facts. They are official
Facts. And as before stated they are
so horrible that one is staggered to
comprehend the atrocities.
In the Congressional Record of
April %, Senator Myers, of Mon
tana, delivered and exhaustive state
ment before the senate-in which
good deal of information was given
from the aforesaid published re-
port.
Under the rule of Lenine and
Trotsky, the Russian territory is
divided into sections, very like to
the division of the federal union,
into forty-eight states.
They are not called states, how
ever, but soviets. Under these head
ings. they are subservient or are
Trotsky.
Each soviet is allowed to formu-
late its own rules and regulations
subject to the approval OF the chie1
dictators. They only vary or differ
in minor particulars. They all pay
tribute to the central or administra-
tive rulers.
The rulers or DEGREES in force in
Saratov, city of 217,000 inhabi-
tants, are copied into the Congress
sional Record of April %, as a part
of the peech of Senator Myers,
Democrat, of Montana: 1t was not
read aloud to the senate, it was so
disgustingly horrible. Those of the
Tri- Weekly readers, who wish to
read it can also secure copy, by
chamber, U. S. capitol, Washington