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Evening star., 1924-05-01
TRIBUTES TO LENIN
MARK SOVIET MAY |
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, May 1.-Bolshevist Rus
STA today departed from its usual Gus
tom of observing May day with spec
tacular military parades, and confined
it's celebration to peaceful demonstra-
tions at the tomb of Lenin. The
authorities having decided to allot two
days to the celebration, tomorrow will
be given over to parades of the COM
munistic boy scouts and children of
the working classes. who will take the
oath of allegiance to the revolutionary
principles at Lenin's shrine.
Hundreds of thousands of workmen
with their families and many govern
ment employees marched from all parts
of the city today bearing flaming BAN
ners and flags and converged upon the
mausoleum in Red square, forming a
spectacle hardly less impressive than
that at the funeral of the premier.
Special platoons of military police
guarded the thoroughfareS to insure
unimpeded passage for the long col
umns of workmen and their families.
Ambulances were stationed in the con-
gested areas to render first aid to the
injured. Groups of unarmed red troops
joined the civilian professions, being
under orders not to organize separate
demonstrations.
Speeches were made by War Min
lister Trotsky and others. in which the
socialistic ideals and life work of
Lenin were. the principal themes. All
government buildings, shops and homes
were profusely decorated with masses
of crimson flags and streamers. while
Red square abounded with illuminated
banners, inscriptive legends, electric
signs and portraits of the revolution
ary leaders.
Directly behind Lenin'S black wooden
tomb appeared the huge red placard:
"Our banner is Lenin. Our weapon is
Leninism. The aim of the world is
revolution"
Evening star., 1924-05-01
May Day Joyously Observed in ID. c.
At Fairgrounds and Social Centers
Children Dance in Ancient Pole Ceremony and Fes-
tiraIs-Pageants Ciren at NeighborhOOd
HOuses--AtI,letic Erents FEATURED.

streets southeast; Georgetown, 33d
and Volta streets northwest; Happy
Hollow, 18th street and kalorama
road northwest; Hoover, I'd street and
Delaware avenue southwest; Iowa
Avenue, Iowa avenue between Var
mum and Webster streets northwest;
Mitchell Park, 23d and S streets
northwest; Montrose Park, Goth and
r streets northwest; New York Ave-
nue., 1st street and New York avenue
northwest; Park View, Warder and
Otis streets northwest: Plaza, I'd and
E streeS northeast; W. r. Phillips
Longfel.ew and Madison streets
northwest; Rosedale, 18th and kra-
mer streets northeast; Thomson, 18th
and L streets northwest; Twin Oaks,
18th and Taylor streets northwest;
Van Ness, Sd and M streets southeast;
Virginia Avenue, Virginia avenue
southeast between 9Th and 11th
streets; Cardoza, 1st and l streets
southwest; Howard, 5th and w
streets northwest; Logan, Sd and G
streets northeast; Payne, 18th and G
streets southeast; Phillips, 27th and
o streets northwest, and Willow Tree,
Sd. 4R, B and c streets southwest.
At the headquarters of the Child
Welfare Society, 2100 G. northwest, a
maypole dance at pm will mark
the opening of the playground there
for the season. All children in the
city under six years invited.
Evening star., 1924-05-01
CONGRESS EXPECTED
TO ADJOURN EARLY
House Could Leave Now if Sem
ate Would Finish Up
Business.
RADICALS MAY INTERFERE
Business of Whole Nation Hurt by
Delay.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

The White House expects an early
adjournment of Congress.
The legislative program in the
House of Representatives has been
virtually completed and were it not
for the unfinished business in the
Senate Congress could adjourn in
a week. But the delay in the Senate
will mean at least thirty days more
work Assuming that no filibusters
are attempted, Congress may be able
to adjourn in time for the national
conventions, so that the members may
devote their whole time and attention
to the presidential campaigns and the
congressional contests for reelection.
The Democrats will not block the
Republican plans for an early adj
iournment. They are in no mood to
stimulate the Republicans to work
any harder than they care to work
They are getting ready to character
ize the Republican record rs a do
nothing" session anyhow.
Big Business Restivc.
There are signs that the big bust
ness interests of the country want
Congress to finish it's work and go
home. The long delay in handling g
the tax revision bill has not helped
business. The thought is advanced
that when Congress once acts on the
tax program and business knows ex-
actly what taxes it must pay out of
the incomes being earned during 1924
much of the uncertainty which has
begun to develop in industry here
and there will disappear. Also, the
present bill carries in it a fiat reduc-
tion of 25 per cent on 1928 incomes
on which one quarterly installment
already has been made. When the
public knows definitely that sums al
ready laid aside for tax payments
will be saved, a perceptible increase
in the buying power of the nation is
expected to be noted.
Few differences between the House
and Senate on the question of tax re-
vision have arisen, and none that can
not be ironed out quickly in confer
ence.
Farm Bill Lacking.
Congress has not adopted an agri-
cultural bill, and there are indications
that labor will press for passage of
the Howell bill, which eliminates the
public from the Railroad Labor Board
and substitutes representatives OF
President Harding thought the
trouble with the Railroad Labor
Board was exactly the opposite; that
the interested parties ought to be
eliminated and the whole board made
up of disinterested representatives OF
the public. Mr.. Coolidge will prob
ably share that view, though the
chief basis for a veto. if the bill
comes to him for action, will be his
objection to the expenditure of $780,,
600, as provided for in the proposed
legislation. No provision for that
sum has been made in the budget
The railroads are fighting the Howell
bill on the ground that the present
transportation act has not. had a
chance to demonstrate its value.
A fight on railroad legislation may
precipitate controversy over the
Evening star., 1924-05-01
URGE AVAILABILITY
OF DISTRICT FUND
Rhode Island Avenue Citizens
Want Surplus for D. C.
Needs.
$4.500,000 IN TREASURY
100000 IN TREASURY
Association Also Indorses Capper
School Census Bill.

Money now in the Treasury which
Congress has held to be the property
of the District should be placed to
the credit of the District and used
for needed improvements, such as
schools, salary increases and other
benefits, according to a resolution
adopted last night by the Rhode
Island Avenue Citizens Association,
meeting at the Sherwood Presby-
terian Church. Noah j. Brumbaugh,
author of the resolution, pointed out
that about S4,5O0,000 now lies un-
expended in the Treasury out of un-
appropriated District revenues and
that additional revenue will be gained
by imposition of the gasoline tax
which will proba bly, also swell the
fund in the Treasury. The resolution
was presented by J. p. Benfer. chair
man of the committee on legislation
tof the association.
Notwithstanding that the District
ifre marshal recommended changes
fin construction of the Langdon School
fto avoid fire risks. nothing has been
done about the matter and some ac-
ltion should be taken Immediately,
Che chairman of the school committee
reported. The school committee also
urged passage of the Capper bill pro-
Yiding for a school census, which was
indorsed by the association
A large pond at 18th street and
Rhode Island avenue northeast
caused by accumulation of water in a
cut, menaces the lives of children and
even adults, J. F. McBeth declared.
The association in a resolution in
h,-N
on record in opposition 10 the use of
the oneman street car on Rhode
Island avenue. and requested the
Public Utilities Commission to place
its ban on the use of these cars. The
resolution also instructed the COM
mittee on Legislation to draw up and
introduce in Congress a bill compell-
ing the use of a full crew of two men
on street cars in the District of Co
lumbia-
Construction of a road from the
end of Rhode Island avenue to Hyatts-
vile was urged in a resolution passed
by the association. c. r, Engel led
group of the members in a COM
munfty sing preceding the meeting.
The following candidates were elect
ed to membership:
Charles H. Cook, Fred c. Christ, S.
II. Grant, Ranay PaSSeno, Robert Q.
Jennings, Il. S. Moorhead, jr., Will
liam l.. Nesbitt. William w Beard
Raymond w. Murphy, Anton f. Snie-
goski Anna NJ. Santmyer, George w
Wendal. f.. L. Santrr. ,ar. John Fl.
Zeller, L. ]. Worthy, Wilbur s. Finch,
w. s. Tyler. HERMAN Fl. DIoyer, Mrs.
Ruby Edmonds, Charles II. Caldwell,
ir. Carl L. Duehring, L>on NJ. Thomp-
son, George f. Romer, n. L. Terry,
Paul NJ Tebault, Truman +. Henning,
EE f. Scott Neal D. Bragaw, ]. H.
b EHouser, George G. Culberton. James
EB. Robinson, A B. Mustain, Douglas
10. Reed. John A Robb, G. Il. WINS,
Julia H Underwood. Robert B. Doing,
B. R Meyer, A. S .MacLachlan, w. b.
prndorff, ]. Engelberg, o. v. Kessler
and z. w. Robins.
Evening star., 1924-05-01

suggested repeal of the so-called
guarantee clause. Investors have
been worried about that possibility
for some time. Should Congress dis
pose of the question by failing to
change the transportation act, the
holders of securities will be consider
ably cheered. This is another impor-
tant factor in the demand for an
early adjournment of Congress, for
the less the House and Senate tinker
with the business structure the better
the interested parties like it and the
more chance, they say, for a business
revival in the remainder of 1924.
Possible Deadlock.
The McNary Haugen bill will cause
a real fight. 1t may even delay ad-
journment. The champions of the
measure are in dead earnest, and the
opponents are insistent that no such
piece of legislation will pass.
The differences are irreconcilable.
They represent two schools of
thought on agricultural economics.
The President is preserving an atti-
tude of apparent neutrality, but his
to be a guide to his future attitude
and there prevails at this time con-
fidence that he will not sign the
measure. The fact that the Norbeck
bill was beaten is taken nowadays as
a precedent. for in that fight the
farm bloc was shattered A COM
bination of southern Democrats and
eastern Republicans beat the bill. A
similar alignment would kill the NC
Nary Haugen bill and save the Pres
ident the problem of acting on it at
all Some of his friends are sure he
will not have to act on it. They
want some agricultural Legislation,
however, and just now the Curtis
Aswell bill seems to have adminis-
tration favor 1t would attempt to
coordinate farm cooperative or
CARNATIONS under a federal market
ing board. There are enough things
on the calendar to delay adjournment.
The regular Democrats and Republi-
cans will not block an early ad-
tournment, but maybe the radical will.
Copyright 1a24.j
Evening star., 1924-05-01
TAXES DUE THIS MONTH.

The second half of real estate and
personal property taxes for the cur
rent fiscal year is due this month,
Collector G. NJ. Towers said today,
as reminder.
Although the tax may be paid at
any time prior to June 1, the collec-
tor advises those who can do SO to
visit the tax office early in the month
and avoid a last-minute rush.
Beginning with June 1, a. penalty
of ] per cent a month will be added
to all bills that go unpaid.
Evening star., 1924-05-01
PRESIDENT TO ATTEND.
Will Be at Opening of Congress
sional Country Club.

President Coolidge will attend the
official opening of the Congressional
Country Club May 23. This was an
nounced at the White House today.
In addition to the President and Mrs.
Coolidge, there will be many men
and women of prominence in Wash
ington on hand to participate in the
ceremonies incident to this opening.
President Coolidge recently was
made an honorary life member of the
Congressional Country Club and at
the time said he hoped to be able to
go to the club frequently during the
coming season.
The Washington times., 1924-09-10
believe It'll KNOW II"
Billy Sundays Statement.

In these days Of bobbed hair bootleg whkey pettno
parties something the hip and very little in the head
It is interesting to read Billy Sundays statement:
Eyes, the idea Of He'll is od-fashioned But it is mot
as oldashoned SIN any asks me- DO you really
believe in He'll? say don merely BELIEVE in it. KNOW
that it is there The only question in my mind is how can il
possibly hold all Of those that will be standing in line when
the times co1nes?"
Under the heading, IT Preach Clean Living Billy Sunday
has written about He'll and its gruesome reality for the
October Smart Set
will interest od-fashioned people and some of the new
fashioned people to read Billy Sundays Smart Set mes
sage about Hefre We only print paragraph or two
Of it, by permission.
Billy Sundays says
I'VE need 10 be reminded of clean living this year 1924
with new diseases crimes shameless open bootlegeinc
defiance Of law following upon the destructive great war
he Is right and right also when he says 1.-THE worst of all
the epers in the Holy Land with eprosy eating him to the
bone, he pitifuly cried out Uncean unclean was
"CleGaesS itself compared aUith some that odlk an nnd
doaOn the streets Of great cities lounge IN their oused
gin pGrlors, dressed and perfun1ed.
"OWt0OGrdLy they are clean and CGsked Ipwdrdh then
sinks of inquitu, and HE'LL YAWNS FOR THEM AMI
WILL GET THEM"
It is good thing for occasionally to get oIfashioned
doctrine straight from the shoulder To him He'll is REAI
it's THERE right under your feet, within easy reach
through the ether.
It filled with devils put there torment you; fire that
burns forever Heaven help the booeggs and some Others
Billy Sunday Is right on this question
The Washington times., 1924-09-10

Yes they But Youth will always do wild and terrible
things if it gets the chance it is deprived of the op
portuny to do interesting and wonderful things Youth
made the grade without of two ads-either the
incentive Of great and fine adventure influence of
loving friend.
IF YOUTH TODAY rs FAILING TO MAKE THE
GRADE, TT is BECAUSE WE OLDER ONES HAVE BE-
QUEATHED TO YOUTH A SOCIETY IN WHICH GREAT
ADVENTURES ARE LACKING AND BECAUSE WE ARE
TREATING YOUTH WITH CONTEMPT OR INDIFFER.
ENCE INSTEAD OF LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING
My work brings into intimate touch with thousands of
young people every month They not only write me- but
they to carry with them through their lives
Their problems my problems OF all those thousands
have known only cant dozen youngsters who did not long
to be regular guyswho did not respond eagerly to all
that fortune offered of fine adventure But let me speedily
add hundreds Of them going to the devil today BE-
CAUSE FORTUNE OFFERED NO FINER ADVENTURES
THAN GANG LIFE OR DANCE HALL AFFAIRS. AND
NEITHER THEIR PARENTS NOR SOCIETY AT LARGE
ARE DOING ANYTHING TO OFFSET THAT LACK
want you to hear what Katherine OConnor policewoman
and social welfare worker Of San Francisco has to saw about
this condition Katherine OConnor gets the Tragic Results
The bloom off the peach for keeps by the time gets to
Katherine If any has the right think i'll Of the youth
Of today it is that lady Here is what she says:
SIT easy to blame things onto the younger generation
but the problem is deeper than that Blame it onto our
anquated social system which has stood still while people
have advanced Blame onto the lack of right education
the lack of direction. LET THE PARENTS COME IN FOR
THEIR SHARE OF TILE RESPONSIBILITY.
.t.aa.
The Washington times., 1924-09-10
DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
Suicide
BY DR.. FRANK CRANE.
CORRESPONDENT from somewhere

CORRESPONDENT from somewhere asked Il
AZ person is who commits suicide.
n She seems to have idea that is guilty OF
this crime who has first become mentally deranged
Just what sanity is hard say 1t is relative term
1t means the balance Of all the powers of the mind
rather balance of the intellectual forces with the instincts
The strongest instinct of human being is and ought to
be, the instinct of life
This we recognize il the saying that Sef preservation
is the first law of Naturs:'
We mean that the defense or salvation of life is
always juStfiable and murder excusabe
when it is committed in self-defense.
Pastor Wagner says that the first creed is belief in fe
1t is evidently the intention Of Nature that her creatures
should live out their generation and has to be strong
instinct in each of them to do this.
The span of life not very great anyhow and is
justified in deliberately shortening it. Accidents and
preventable disease will do that for him.
No would commit suicide he could around the
corner
Suicide is collapse Of hope and Of patience.
Patience enables endure the present for the sake
of the future, and hope is the anticipation Of better
future
Those who have lived any considerable length Of time
know that anything is liable to happen, and why not
something good?
There subtle relationship between ones attitude and
events will not say that optimistic attitude always
brings favorable event. but it certainly has something to
do with it, just how much cannot say.
And belief in the worst confidence in calamity, has
tendency to bring it about.
AS the preservation Of life based upon the strongest
instinct that present human being justified in
saying that who commits suicide is wholly
Copyright 1924 by the Mcclure Syndicate)
The Washington times., 1924-09-10

stance People bound make love. It fundamental
BUT CAN THEY DO TT AT HOME IN AN APARTMENT
WHERE SOMEONE WANTS TO GO TO BED EARLY IN
ONE OF THE THREE OR FOUR ROOMS? My experience
is that they It. What do they doY Children the
the world They WILL make love- AND IF
THEY CAN'T AT HOME THEY'LL FIND A PLACE
EITHER THE BACK SEAT OF AN AUTOMOBILE OR IN
THE PARK.
ONE OF THE REAL DIFFICULTIES is THAT THE
PARENTS HAVE NOT KEPT PACE WITH THEIR
CHILDREN OR WITH THE TIMES. We are facing NEW
condition of things which MUST BE MET IN A NEW
WAY And parents ought to meet this condition.
That's what pocewoman in big city thinks of
Jazzmania Sit right don and plaster those charges on
Yourself my friend You've been writing some pretty
criticisms Of modern youth. WE'LL
HOW OFTEN DO YOU OPEN YOUR HOUSE TO
YOUNGSTERS?
HOW OFTEN DO YOU TRY TO GIVE THEM SOME
BETTER ADJUSTMENTS THAN THE ADJUSTMENTS
YOU DEPLORE4
HOW MUCH TIME HAVE YOU SPENT LISTENING
TO YOUNG PEOPLE, LAUGHING WITH THEM LEARN
ING THEIR JARGON, STUDYING THEIR VIEWPOINT
WHICH DIFFERS SO RADICALLY FROM THE VIEW.
POINT OF THAT OTHER WORLD IN WHICH YOU
SPENT YOUR YOUTH
HOW HARD HAVE YOU TRIED TO GAIN THEIR
CONFIDENCEY
How much do you know, anyway, about these children
you condemn? You CAM know much unless YOU have done
all these things which have suggested. And unless YOU
have done these things in humility sincerity and friend
ness YOU CERTAINLY HAVE THE CRUST TO STAND
UP AND PREACH AT THEM!
The Washington times., 1924-09-10

pranos opportunities for vocal
pyrotechnics. Such pieces as
Lucia di Lammermour. 'Tra.
viata," and the Barber of Seville"
are typical of the pre-Wagner
form OF opera. They remain in
the repertory today to serve as
vehicles for great singers Of the
CALI Curci type.
Richard Wagner believed that
music should be dramatic, that
the orchestra and voices together
should move along, revealing a
story whose moods and incidents
were perfectly reflected by the
score.
A soothing world greeted his
theories. His mighty music
drama "Tannhauser," containing
some Of the most sublime pas
sages in all musical literature,
was howled down by a Paris
musical mob and did not get a
second chance for sixteen years.
The Washington times., 1924-09-10
Famous Facts of History
WAGNER BELIEVED MUSIC SHOULD BE
DRAMATIZED
BY MARK STUYVESANT.
WAGNER WORKED UNTIL HE WAS SEVENTY

" ENTUR1ES hence, historians
studying the nineteenth CEN
~ fury are liable to decide
that the wisest king Of the age,
and the monarch who accom-
plished most for posterity, was a
crazy man, Ludwig Of Bavaria,
who spent the last thirty years of
his life and died In an asylum.
For Lugwtg gave Richard Wag-
ner his chance and Wagner found
q new and enduring art, the
music drama.
Grand opera in the days when
Richard Wagner was q young
man was a curious affair, con-
sisting OF a dozen pretty tunes
strung together with a sort of
chanting known as recitative, ami
accompanied by an orchestration
not much more impressive than
that which accompanies modern
popular song. To hold interest,
the stories of these operas were
terrifically grim and sometimes
gruesome.
The melodies are almost always
cheerful and bright. They were
written to afford tenors and So
The Washington times., 1924-09-10
ONCE-OVE
THOSE WHO PRETEND.

OF all shams pretence is the easiest read v those who
You know of pretendes among your acquaintance and
YOU have mighty little respect for their show of knowledge
But how about yourself while talking about pre-
tenders?
Are you actually what you leading others to think
Are you spending much time to equip your mind with
genuine information you to plashy speeches where
YOU air Just enough knowledge to make your hearers think
YOU have gone deeper and made study of your subecG
You yourself do not to the standards which
YOU wish others to think that you represent.
And often it is rue is it not that you disguised with
yourself because you fall short of what you should be?
Instead of regreng it, begin systematic reading study
which will make good the claims which actions have
suggested.
You make real change in yourself if you WISH and
if you do not it is because you willing sacrifice
time or pleasure in preparation.
Copyright 1874. international Feature Service. Incl
The Washington times., 1924-09-10

Wagner's powerful music
dramas, "Lohengrin," Tristan
und Isolde" and the libretto OF
his Ring Of the Nibelung" were
produced while he was in dire
poverty. The Germans were
gradually beginning to appreciate
the wonderful idea which made
his operas different from the
popular works of the day, but IL
was not until King Ludwig Of
Bavaria sent for him and gave
him a pension and every encour.
agement that he got his big
chance.
Ludwig's protection wavered
for a time, but was again extend
ed to him. A huge opera house
was built In Bayreuth for him.
and under favoring circumstances
he produced die Walkure,"
'Siegfried," ''Das Rheingold,"
'Gotterdammerung," die Meis-
tersinger Won Nurnburg" and
"Parsifal." For many years those
who wished to hear "Parsifal"
were compelled to go to Bay
reuth, as the composer had for.
hidden performances elsewhere.
and his widow and son held firm
The Washington times., 1924-09-10

" TO his wishes. He died In 1888
at the age of seventy.
The influence Of Wagner on
contemporary composers was re-
markable. Verdi learned to COM
pose all over again, as is evi-
denced by Aida" ''Otello." "FlAl-
staff" compared with LA Travi-
alta" and Ell Trovatore." Ros-
SIM was unable to do so and SO
gave up writing operas. though
he lived for forty years after
william Tell" Bizet, who wrote
Carmen" Puccini, Mascagni,
Massenet and most Of the mod
ern composers are followers Of
the music drama theory. Old
fashioned opera lives today only
in the operetta form.
Wagner's system of guiding
themes of characteristic me-
lodic phrases has been modified a
good deal by modern composers,
but it's value is indisputable.
The Washington times., 1924-09-10

''Love, good times, dancing-are they oldi
About as old as the world Every youngster
has certain amount of energy to wear off.
Public dance halls are criticized. YET 1T is
A MATTER OF RECORD THAT POLICE
HAVE LESS TROUBLE WITH THESE
THAN WITH A LOT OF PRIVATE AT
FAIRS. IF THEY WERE NOT AT THE
PUBLIC DANCE HALLS. THEY WOULD
BE SOMEWHERE ELSE WHERE THEY
COULDN'T BE WATCHED.
"What / plead for is education, super
vision. Let the schools take part Let us
have more school dances. Let the parents
take part-let them interest themselves in
their children, try to understand them, go out
with them, PLAY WITH THEM.