THE MORNrVG OREdoNIAIT, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1917.
CHILDREN'S HEALTH
DANGERS DEPICTED
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Social Workers Club Is Told
That 90 Per Cent of Country
Schools Are Insanitary.
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Drs. Mackenzie and Roberg 'Deplore
Attacks on Proposed County
Institution Free Dispen
sary's Value Is Told.
The almost total lack of the pro
tection of the health of Oregon's chil
dren was pictured In half a. dozen
speeches yesterday afternoon at the
Library before the Social Workers
Club.
Among' the most stinging arraign
ments of those who are responsible for
the Improper care of the state's school
children were delivered by Dr. K. A. J.
Mackenzie and Dr. David N. Robert,
secretary of the State Board of Health.
Dr. Mackenzie deplored the attitude
of certain Individuals and organiza
tions In attacking- his scheme for the
building of a big county hospital, and
asserted that It would, be but an exten
sion of the present free dispensary now
operated through the co-operation of
public and private enterprise, where
more than 3000 individuals hadi been
Riven more than 6000 treatments during
th! past year.
Dr. Mackenzie said that he consid
ered the free dispensary now being op
erated at Fourth and Jefferson streets
the most practical and the most effect
ive charity.
Injudicious Eating: Hit.
Dr. Mackenzie asserted that although
temperance and prohibition had elimi
nated much of the disease. It was just
as important that judicious eating be
practiced. It was his opinion that in
Judicious eating- caused as much disease
as drinking.
Dr. Roberg was strong In his attack
1 on "ignorant and. arrogant" people who
bad attacked the county hospital
scheme. He said the people were cut
ting their own throats in defeating the
Plan, for only through dispensaries of
thfat sort and through intensive scien
tific investigation could the remedial
measures for the cure of diseases De
discovered and the treatment of In
digent cases be carried on.
"The last Legislature appropriated
J45.000." said Dr. Roberg, "for the ad
vertisement of Oregon. Yet It deems
valueless a scheme for the protection
of human life. It would be Injudicious,
I presume, for those who are to ad
vertise Oregon to say that this state
spent but - cents a year per capita
for the protection of the health of its
citizens.
"There are those who repudiate the
existence of disease, yet the state has
n. bee inspector who inquires into the
diseases of bees. Bees have a com
mercial value, yet little is done for the
Protection of human life through pre
ventive measures to its public health.
Coonrry Ppfc ols Insanitary.
"Ton may go to P0 per cent of the
country schools t. the state and find
that they are too insanitary to live in.
You may go to most any farm in the
state and find the barns of the most
modern type, with all the modern ac
coutrements, yet the house where the
fam;ly lives you will find little better
than a hovel, where a woman, sur
rounded by a litter of children, slaves
in squalor.
"We may go to the Legislature and
ask for appropriations for insuring the
state against disease. We are asked
how much we can get along with. We
tell them that we want as much as the
livestock get, yet they say that live
stock pays Indemnities for loss. Are
human lives valueless?
"I have gone to many parts of the
state and asked parents if the births
of their children were registered. They
say 'no. and seem to think there is no
value in keeping statistics of that sort.
But when a farmer points to a cow it
is with the greatest pride that he shows
you the -registry and pedigree."
PnbLe School Record Good.
Dr. Abele, of the City Health Bureau,
told of the work being done among: the
school children of the city, and made a
comparison with the health of public
and private schools. Owing to the medi
cal inspection, he said, the public
schools showed better health records.
Dr. Chance asserted that the city
should have a central dental clinic
where the city's children, of Indigent
parents could be treated. He gave de
tails of an experiment carried on In the
Buckman School, where a class of 40
scholars is beng given tests.
Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar reviewed the
work of thv association for the study
and prevention of tuberculosis.
Dr. J. Gilbert, who was to have
spoken on the need of moral instruc
tion In the schools, could not speak be
cause of the lateness of the hour.
W. G. Thacher presided.
300 Men Made Moose.
Members of the Loyal Order of Moose
from many cities and towns in Western
Oregon gathered here Wednesday night
to assist In the ceremonies Incidental to
the initiation of a class of more than
300 candidates. A banquet and speaking
programme followed the lodge session.
George R. Funk, dictator of the Port
land lodge, presided. Nearly 150 of the
new Moose will be members of the
Portland lodge : others will Join Mc
Minnville. St. Johns, Oregon City and
other nearby lodges.
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TODAY'S FILM FEATURES.
Peoples Marguerite Clark, "The
Fortunes of Fifi."
Majestic Virginia Pearson, "Sis
ter Against Sister."
Columbia Dorothy Dalton, "The
Female of the Species." ,
Sunset Douglas Fairbanks,
"Flirting With Fate."
Star Lenore Ulrlch, "Her Own
People."
Globe Alma Hanlon, "The Final
Curtain."
Star.
H
ER OWN PEOPLE" presents
Lenore Ulrich In one of her
best roles. The story is of
the outdoors of mountains, pines and
lakes; of Indians as well as white men.
It's a good picture, one of the best of
its type, and has a number of strong
situations, cleverly developed, and a
charming love tale.
The Indians and their country form
an admirable background for the story.
which has for its nrlnclnal n. half-breed-
daughter of a white man and a squaw.
Miss Ulrich gives a convincing por
trayal of the grirl of mixed blood, wooed
by men of white skin and or rrA- T-tt-
heart favors one of the former, but
through the cupidity of one white she
is Inclined to condemn the whole race
and revert back to her maternal people.
John Kemp, the father of Alona. the
heroine, turns to the wilderness and an
Indian wife because of the unfaithful
ness of his fiancee. Then his deter
mination to remain far from the centers
of civilization is shaken by the fear that
Aiona will marry an Indian. So he
takes her East to be educated. The
girl falls in love with Frank Colvin
(Colin Chase), a younir prospector, but
will not wed because she thinks that all
whites seek her for her father's money.
She makes the young fellow wealthy
by buying his mine, but this does not
cause a change of heart, and Alona Is
convinced that' at last real love has
come Into her life.
This picture Is out of the ordinary.
noteworthy for fine settings and Miss
uiricns wonderful Impersonation of
the Indian maid.
A Max Linder comedv Dresents the
French farceur in many funnv situa
tions.
Majestic.
DONT HURT A 'BIT 1
Lift your old, torturous corns
-' and calluses right off
with the fingers.
i This tiny bottle holds the-wonder of
wonders. It containa.an almost magical
drug discovered by a Cincinnati man.
It is called freetone -It Is'a compound
made from ether. . ,
Apply few drops of this
free zone upon a tender, ach
ing corn or a hardened cal
lus. Instantly the soreness
disappears and shortly you
will find, the corn or callus
so shriveled and loose that
you just .lift it off with the
fingers.
You "feel no pain or sore
hess when applying freeone
or afterwards. It doesn't
even irritate the skin
.Just ask' in any drug
store for a small bottle of
freerone. This will cost but a few cents
but will positively rid your poor, suffer
ing feet of every hard corn", soft corn, or
corn between the, toes, or the tough cal
luses on bottom of. feet,'' Genuine frees
DBS "has a yellow label. Look for yel
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The power of environment to nerfect
or deform Is the underlying theme of
the new William Fox photoplay. "Sister
Against Sister," which is beinar screened
at the Majestic Theater with Virginia
x-earson in me Headline role. Its a
story of much melodramatic action,
mystery and love.
Miss Pearson plays a dual role, that
of sisters. Katherine and Anne. They
are parted when their poor, but respec-
lame parents separate after a petty
family quarrel. Katherine goes with
her father and Is dragged rapidlv, to
the bottom of the social pit; the father
is Kiuea in a saloon row and the girl
thrown Into the slums. Anne lives un
der the refining- Influence of her
mother.
Years pass and environment has done
Its work. Katherine aDnears as he-
jeweled product of the netherworld.
Hate Is her ruling passion. She is the
creature, or toy. of Huxley, a manufac
turer. A big political fight Is on and Duns-
more (Irving Cummings) Is candidate
for Governor on a child labor platform.
Huxley is appointed to spike Duns
more's guns. Anne, at the switchboard,
overhears the plan and warns Duns
more while he and Huxley are confer
ring". Huxley Is driven from the Duns
more borne and aa an aftermath of the
affair the gubernatorial candidate falls
in love with Anne. Anne lost her Job
when she left the switchboard and soon
gets a job as governess In the home of
Mrs. Raymond, Dunsmore's sister, lira
Raymond advises Anne that she can
best aid her brother by dropping out of
cis lire, ana Anne disappears.
Huxley plans to compromise Duns
more and uses Katherine. Dunsmore
thinks the girl Is Anne and when Hux
ley is killed by Katherine the candi
date keeps quiet to shield the woman
he loves. Then comes the trial, near
conviction of Dunsmore, confession of
Katherine, and uniting of the lovera.
A Vitagraph comedy and a scenic also
are shown.
Columbia.
Something new In vampires Is Intro
duced in "The Female of the Species,"
the current Triangle production at the
uoiumDia Theater. She s a stronir
minded, almost masculine, creature, of
the Bohemian type, and not the Theda
Bara-Louise Glaum perversion. But
well aa Dorothy Dalton essays this role.
the outstanding feature of - the f ive
reeler is a spectacular head-on collision
between trains in - the dead" of nie-ht.
It's one of the most convincing bits of
realism ince nas introduced In months.
Dorothy Dalton, Enid Marker and
Howard ilickman minus moustache
are the principals in the story of the
eternal triangle presented under the
title, "The Female of the Species." Miss
Dalton is the Bohemian, openly loving
the husband of Enid Markey, who Is of
the conventional type of womanhood
He forgets the past as a result of the
shock sustained in the railroad accl
dent, and la then content to live on as
the vampire's husband. The arrival of
the wife changes the complexion of the
situation, for the husband falls in love
with her all over again.
The vampire realizes that she has
lost again and departs, and an opera
tion on the husband's head restores hi3
memory and he finds out whom he's
really wedded to.
Miss Dalton dominates the picture
and is splendid as the woman of strong
natural impulses, neither vain nor un
moral, who permits her love for a man
of wealth and social standing to rule
her conduct.
"Stars and Bars" is another of those
new Mack Seunett Keystones, full of
the riotous stuff that one associates
with Keystone and the starring appear
ance of Ford Sterling. Incidentally it
is one of Sterling's last Keystones, for
a recent announcement has it that he
has quit the Bennett forces.
Concerning Marguerite Clark.
Memories of Sarah Bernhardt were
rife at the Famous Players' studio not
long ago . when Marguerite Clark ap
peared in several scenes for "The For
tunes of Fifi," wearing the same Ro
man costume which she had worn two
years ago when she appeared on the
stage of the Palace Theater in New
York with Madame Bernhardt. The
Divine Sarah, had especial'fc requested
Miss Clark and Laurette Taylor to ap
pear with her in the roles of Roman
maidens and the little Famous Players'
star had readily consented.
When "The Fortunes of Fifi." which
is the Paramount 'picture at the Peo
ples Theater this week. wasing
staged, it was found that Miss 'lark
was to play a Roman girl in a play
within the play. Immediately recall
ing the "Bernhardt" costume. Miss
Clark had her maid unpack it and it
was donned for the first time since it
was first worn.
Miss Clark has so many animals and
pets of various kinds appearing in her
pictures that she seldom completely
loses her heart to any one of them.
loving them all collectively, as she does
all dumb beasts. ' But when she was
introduced to the little white toy dog
that plays Toto in her latest picture,
she completely capitulated to his
charms and. gathering him up in her
arms, announced that bo was hers till
death does them part.
Toto is. in fact, one of the most In
telligent little dogs that evar came into
a motion picture studio. Bubbling over
with mischief and responsive beyond
belief to the slightest word of com
mand, he is the center of attraction the
moment he steps upon the floor of the
Famous Players studio.
Director Robert G. Vignola. who pro
duced "The Fortunes of Fifi," declares
that Toto Is the most Intelligent extra
he ever saw but directors frequently
say harsh things which they later regret.
Sunset.
This la Douglas Fairbanks week at
the Sunset Theater. Yesterday marked
the end of the engagement of "Man
hattan Madness." greeted by the largest
crowds that ever witnessed a film pro
duction at the Sunset, and today" Flirt
ing With Fate" will open a two-day
run. With this will be screened
"Bombs," a rapid-fire Keystone comedy
thriller, and Burton Holmes Travelogue.
"Flirting With Fate" is a Fairbanks
tale of a hired assassin, and is full of
comedy and athletics. "Dougle" essays
the role of an artist, a chap who loses
his sweetheart, yields to despondency,
and hires 'Automatic Joe, king of assas
sins, to do away with him. Then the
artist discovers that his sweetheart is
true to him; he falls heir to a fortune,
and the world once more wears a rose
ate hue. So it's up to him to preserve
his life. Preserve it he does, but the
result is a nightmare for. the hero.'one
not confined to the night.
Screen Gossip.
Adolpn Zukor, who is really . the
brainworks of the Artcrart Pictures
Corporation, Is dickering with Charlie
Chaplin, taunting the comedian with a
red flag on which is written "One Mil
lion Dollars."
A Triangle company will Journey
from California to the Arizona border
for "a few flashes" of a herd of 6000
cattle erasing.
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A new process of color photography
said to be as near perfect aa possible
was shown at the Museum of Natural
Hlatory in New York recently.
E. K. Lincoln will Te featured in the
Mutual-Jimmy Dale serial. "The Grey
Seal." ,
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The Paula Blackton Country Life
Stories, In which Mrs. Blaclrton, wife
of the Vitagraph official, and their six
children play an important part, will
be released thrugh VitagTaph. The
series, consisting of three one-reelers
and three two-reelers, have proved
very popular in New York.
Mary Charleaon. the little actress
whose work In recent Henry Walthall
pictures won her high praise, is to. be
starred toy Essanay in "Truth Tri
umphant." . '
"The Deemster," now being sold on
the state rights basis, i3 said to be one
of the truly wonderful pictures of the
jrear. . .
INTRIGUE and conspiracy against
-the United States by foreign foes
are dealt with forcibly in this thrill
ing, patriotic photoplay. They arc
subjects uppermost in the minds of
Americans to-day. PATRIA teaches
the urgent need of preparedness
'against such dangers. It teaches, too,
the beautiful lesson of patriotism and
shows what a woman can and will do
for her country and her flag. It is
' fitting that this character, embodying
the most glorious characteristics of
Betsy Ross, Molly Pitcher and Molly
Stark, should be portrayed by tho
best known woman in America,
MRS. y ERNQN CASTLE.
Read the story of Patria
in The Sunday Orego
nian, and see it in vivid
motion pictures at best
theaters.
MASHER'S EXIT SET
Native of the Barbadoes Will
Be Deported to Canada.
Commissioner George L. . Baker, the
Public Employment Bureau and City
Auditor Barbur.
AIR OF HAUTEUR ASSUMED
Louis Marlines Resists Arrest and
Says Se Will Be Glad to Get Oat
of Country "Where Colored
Raco' Does Not Rule.
Louis Martinet, colored subject of
Great Britain, his birthplace the Bar
badoes Islands, was remanded by Mu
nicipal Judge Stevenson to the custody
of the Federal - immigration officers
yesterday and will, be deported to
Canada. He admitted entering the
United States via the .brake beams In
order to escape the Immigration in
spectors. Color lines are of no conseauenoe to
Martinez, he declared, and it was his
Insistence In this regard that caused
his arrest by Patrolman Cameron, after
three citizens had been summoned by
the policeman to aid in subduing the
captive. He was taken to the police
station, hancuffed. but still rebellious.
Patrolman Cameron was appealed to
by a young woman on Broadway, near
Davis" streets, late Wednesday night,
who complained that Martinez had ac
costed and followed her. She did not
wish to appear as a witness against
him, bat asked that Patrolman Cam
eron discourage his attentions.
"You must leave young women
alone," warned the patrolman as he
confronted Martinez.
"I take my orders only from the
British Consul," retorted Martinez.
"Keep your hands off!"
In the melee that followed the words.
Patrolman Cameron found it necessary
to ask aid before the handcuffs clicked
on Martinez' wrists, and the sullen six
foot wanderer was hustled into the pa
trol wagon.
The prisoner's claims to British citi
zenship were verified by the British
Consul's office. A charge of disor
derly conduct against him was dropped,
and he was taken to the County Jail
to await deportation by the Federal
officers.
"I'll be grlad to get out of your
country." was the comment of Mar
tinez. "Down In Barbadoes our courts,
our lawmakers, our police and all our
prominent families are colored. I don't
want anything more to do with, the
United States." ,
200 LOTS ARE AVAILABLE
List Made of Property That May Be
Used for Gardening-.
Two hundred vacant lots in varlouB
parts of the city --are listed with the
Public Employment Bureau for free
use by persons wishing to make gar
dens during the coming season. The
lots will be parceled out as rapidly as
possible to the first applicants.
Lots are listed in the following dis
tricts: Alameda Park Avalon. Balch. Burrell
Heights. Center, College Place. Colum
bia Park. El Tovar, Fairport, Fremont
Place, Granville, Hlbbards, Irvlngton,
Ivanhoe, Jonesmore, Laurelhurst, Lin
coln Park. Mont Clair. Olmsted Park.
Portsmouth, Reed College, Riverside,
Southern Portland. Stratton, Terminus.
Terwllllger Homestead. University
Park, Vernon, Wellesley, WUburton.
Willamette, Williams, Wtberg Heights
and Woodstock.
. The lots were listed with the bureau
voluntarily by people interested In the
vacant lot garden movement promoted
by the Parent-Teacher Association.
MOTHER-IN-LAW BLAMED
Walter J. Kroder Says Rich Hus
band Promised to Wife.
Walter John Kroder. Portland insur
ance agent, says it is purely a case of
'too much mother-in-law" in his reply
to Winifred Dorothy Kroder's divorce
action.
"If I were given any reasonable op
portunity to reconcile my wife and re
move her from 'the Influence of her
parents." says Mr. Kroder In an affi
davit filed In the Circuit Court yester
day, "she would be perfectly willing to
return to me and live with me as she
ought to do."
Mrs. Henry V. Scott promised- her
daughter a 1125 violin, an expensive
musical education, and to introduce her
Into society in Washington, D. C, where
she might capture a rich husband, if
she would divorce the husband she now
has, accuses Mr. Kroder.
HOTEL MEN ARE , DINED
R. W. Chllds Entertains Those Who
Raised Tourist Fund.
When R. W. Chllds, manager of the
Hotel Portland and president of the
Oregon Hotel Men's Association, ap
pointed the committee to raise funds
with which to fight the $17.60 tourist
rate differential, he promised them a
dinner when they had raised the
money.
Wednesday night the membere of tbe
committee, with the exception of Al
Lundberg, manager of the Benson Hotel,
were guests of Mr. Childs at a dinner
at the Portland. Those who attended
the dinner were E. V. Hauser, chair
man of the committee: E. E. Larri
more. Phil Metschan. Jr., and F. W.
Beach.
Y. W. C. A. TALK SCHEDULED
Proposed Municipal Lighting; Plant
to Bo Topic Tonight.
W. H. Daly, City Commissioner, will
discuss tonight at 8 o'clock at the
Y. W. C. A. the subject. "Municipal
Water and Lighting Systems." Port
land already has its own water sys
tem, should it have Its own lighting
system? This question will constitute
one of the Important Issues to be
brought before the people at the elec
tion next June. Mr. Daly believes the
city should own its lighting system
and he is prepared to present his side
of the proposition. This he will do
in his talk tonight, and the publlo
generally Is Invited to attend. This Is
the fourth of a series of talks on
municipal affairs which are being given
every Friday night at the Y. W. C A.
TRUST EVIDENCE PROMISED
Mr. I'enton Wants Chance to Prove
- Truth of Charge.
Reopening' of the Webster potato
suit. In which Circuit Judge Gatens
scented an unfair restraint of trade,
was asked by Attorney W. D. Fenton
yesterday that he might offer evidence
that a secret agreement existed be
tween San Francisco jobbers not to
bid against one another. Judge Gatens
had another case on trial at the time
the application was made by Mr. Fen
ton and said be would take the matter
up later.
Mr. Fenton asserted that his personal
Integrity had been questioned by the
denials of San Francisco concerns of
allegations be had made on the witness
stand last Tuesday, andi he wished to
read his evidence into the record of
the case.
Washougal . Beats Battleground.
WASHOUGAL. Wash., March 8.
(Special.) The Washougal High School
STARTING TOMORROW
SATURDAY
Return Engagement
tiles Verne s
0,000 Leagues
Sea
Under the
Children 5c Matinees 10c
Evenings, Sundays 15c
defeated the Battleground debaters
here last night on the question of com
pulsory military training In the high
schools. Loren Cochran and Arthur
Jones composed the victorious team.
Washougal also won from Vancouver
High School. therehy tying with
Ridgefleld for the county championship.
H. A. BARON DIES SUDDENLY
Portland Business Man Stricken at
Omaha, Widow Learns. .
IT. A. Baron, proprietor of the Won
der Clothes Shop, of 142 Third Btreet,
died of heart disease In Omaha, Neb.,
Wednesday. A message announcing his
death was received yesterday by his
widow. Mrs. Bertha Baron, of 814 John
eon street.
Mr. Baron was returning from a
business trip to New York and was in
Omaha perfecting plans for the open
lng of a branch store there. He operate
ed another branch store at Grants Pass,
Or.
During the past six years Mr. Baron
had been a resident of Portland. H
was 44 years old, a 32d degree Mason
and an Influential member of the B'nal
B'ritli order. Prior to coming to this
city he resided in Salt Lake City.
Besides his widow, three children sur
vive him. They are Pearl Baron, 14:
Shirley Baron, 14, and Irvine Baron, ,
The body will be brought to this city
for burial.
Beans Extinguish Fire.
THE DALLES, Or., March 8. (Spe
cial.) Beans played an Important part
in saving the residence of Mrs. Gray, of
Maupin, from being destroyed by fire.
Mrs. McShane and E. J. Styer were the
first to arrive when the alarm was
heard, and tbe latter, grabbing a pot of
beans, threw it on the roof fire and
extinguished It.
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