Evening star., 1923-05-10
ydz7, Petting, Crime and Dance
Waues Waning, Says Gen. Booth
Volunteers Of America
Founder Has Hope for
Present Age.
u. S. Going Back to Re-
ligiOn and Virtue, He
Declares.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, May 10.-Despite it's
petting parties. crime waves, mara
thon dances and longdistance knit
eing contests, this old world is get
ting better all the time. Jazz is
doomed and people will find their
pleasures in the appreciation of the
more solid" things, such, for in
stance. as the music of Mendelssohn
and Mozart.
Booth on the eve of the celebration
in honor of himself and Mrs. Booth
this evening, when a message from
President Harding will be delivered
and Secretary Herbert Hoover. Bishop
Manning and four governors Will
speak at meeting at the Metropoli-
tan Opera House. commemorating the
twenty-seventh anniversary of the
founding by Gen. and Mrs. Booth of
the Volunteers of America. The gen
eral was head of the Salvation Army
in the United States before he es-
tablished the organization and he
speaks as a student of human ma
ture.
The jazz era. characterized by ii
freedom in sex relations. by the
crashing of cymbals and ShriekinG
of clarinets through bars more noisy
than musical. in accompaniment 20
weary-eyed dancers gliding sinuously
through the bunny-hug and to'ldle
only the blowing off OF the steam"
the relieving of feelings that were
depressed and compressed during the
war and the reconstruction peril u.
Waltz Coming Back.
The world already has begun it's
trend back to normal thinking and
acting and a few years more Will
find
Hot Lips" as in the tuneful strains
Of Mozart and Beethoven and Wagner
and Mendelssohn. Even the old waltz.
minus its Jazz interpretations. may
again be danced. Books that dissect
sex and hold 1t up through magnify
ing glasses to young girl readers will
pass with the era, the general indl-
Gated. In other words. when jazz.
the dross that formed on the minds
of people as a result of the war. is
poured off. it will leave the pure
metal, the survival values"
Gen. Booth gives three reasons for
his beliefs.
THE war" he said. stirred up in the
breasts of millions a spirit of benevo-
lence. as we'll as the spirit of unrest
in millions of others. Ten millions of
women couldn't be knitting socks and
underwear for soldiers and reading of
the muck and CRIME and filth and hor-
Tor of war without having brought to
them a new sense of their responsi-
plllty 10 IlldHkIlu
Loss Causes Change.
The great loss of millions of young
men in twenty-three countries has
cause people to turn their minds as
never before to divine things. They
may have developed before the purely
business. social. civil and political
sides of their lives. but now they have
been brought TO sense of their loss
Of God. ! have had infidels, scoffers.
agnostics say to me. Since / lost my
hoy That has meant everything
To them.
"The war gave to men new idea
Of discipline and fraternalism. Be
tween father and son there is d
friendlier feeling. with no loss of re
SpeCt. Between men there is ii great
er fraternalism manifested by
their clubs and civic orga anizations.
The lack of restraint came chiefly
among the younger people.
"Jazz music and song and jazz as
Sociations-and | believe that is the
worst of the trio-are giving way to
the more solid and staid kind Of
Inirth."
Gen. Booth doesn't believe the world
will be highbrow TO the point of pop
ular appreciation of grand opera or
Browning or the Einstein theory: he
simply believes we won't continue to
be SO lowbrow as we are now.
He confessed that there Is a trend
toward IL questioning of the Bible
and blamed it more upon the colleges
of America than upon the isolated
cases of advanced thought ministers.
The trend in the colleges is not