The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, December 17, 1916, Section One, Page 17, Image 17

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TAXI ZONES (LID.
BY M. BIGELQW
BALLET RUSSE BRINGS NIJINSKY,
GREATEST OF MALE DANGERS
Flore Revalles, Principal Mime, Portrays Role of "Cleopatre," Her Greatest
Success, and Appears Also in "Scheherazade" and "Thamar.'
Council Determined Not to
Be Outwitted by Subter
fuges of Mr. Daly.
JTNEY PARADISE TO END
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 17, 1916.
CLEAR AS A BELL
JTew City Divisions Kcquire Approval
of Department Head, but Ho May .
Have Duties Changed ' at
Mayor's Discretion.
In a conference yesterday City Com
rnlssioner' Bigelow approved the taxi
cab zone eystem framed by the Coun
cil to replace the zone system devised
by Commissioner Daly to enable the
Jitneys to evade the Council's mandate
that the jitneys adhere to service and
protection regulations in franchise
form. Mr. Bigelow agreed to the new
Eone plan with come minor changes,
which will be made prior to the for
mal approval of the system by the
Council at a meeting tomorrow after
noon. With Mr. BIgelow's position now
made clear, the Council etands four to
one for forcing the hand of tho jitneys
on the question' of regulation. Four
members of the Council Mayor Aibee
and Commissioners Bigelow, Baker and
deck' stand for the Jitneys either ac
cepting a franchise or quitting opera
tion. The fifth member. Commissioner
Daly, stands for giving the Jitneye
whatever they want. By virtue of his
having charge of the jitneys officially,
his ideas have prevailed up to this
time when applied in the form of sub
terfuges to defeat the will of the
Other four members of the Council.
Mr. Daly's Trick Tramped.
The new zone system provides for
taxicab service to various parts of the
city on a basis of distance and grades
traveled. It will replace the zone
echeme of Mr. Daly's, which has zones
eo marked out that nothing but a Jit
ney can use them. It is so framed that
the Jitneys place a B-cent rate on their
Id jitney runs along streetcar lines,
leaving the rest of the city to be served
at a higher rate of fare.
As the Jitney proposition stands the
preeent'Daly zone subterfuge is on the
verge of being overthrown and the
Council has refused to grant the jit
neys a franchise on their own terms,
but has expressed a willingness to give
n. franchise on the terms which have
been accepted already by two other
Jitney concerns, one a company or
ganized by Stephen Carver to operate
linca through the East Side aB far out
as Lents, and the other by W. M Fos
ter, to operate a line to Linnton.
Jitneys Due to Report.
The Jitney Drivers' Union will report
this week on whether or not It will
meet the Council's terms. Failing in
coming to terms along this line, there
are but two things that can happen to
them. One will be to quit operating
and the other will be to continue their
taxicab system and make deliveries
anywhere in the city for ti jjenta or for
higher rates if they wisnr
It is expected that Commissioner
Daly, in keeping with his pro-Jitney
maneuvers, will refuse to approve the
Council's zone plan, which approval is
required before becoming effective. In
thie event It will be up to Mayor Ai
bee either to sit by and see one mem
ber of the Council prevailing over the
four other members, or to take the
management of the Jitney affairs out
of Mr. Daly's hands. He has this pow
er under the Commission charter.
STUDENTS' BALL ARRANGED
Grays Harbor Fund for College As
sistance to Be Swelled.
ABERDEEN. Wash., Dec. 16. (Spe
cial.) Grays Harbor University stu
dents have set Friday evening, Decem
ber 29, as the date of their fourth an
nual ball. The profits of this dance,
like those from preceding affairs, will
be placed in a student loan fund, to
be loaned out to deserving students
who are working their way through
college. This fund now exceeds $300,
and it may ultimately be used to es
tablish a scholarship in the schools of
this county.
The varsity students in charge of tht
ball are: Margaret Wilson. Adele Wil.
cox, Florence Hook, Floyd Vammen,
y.ora. Karshner, Helena Elway, Horace
Cook, of Aberdeen; Lena Abel, Bob
Abel, Don Abel, Arnold 'Poison, of Ho-
nulam; George Barlow and Walter
Brewer, of Montesano and Satsop.
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XE of the secrets of the phenome- mier danseur, who Is acknowledged to
Unal success of the celebrated
Serge di Diaghileff Ballet Russe,
which is sheduled to give three en
tirely different programmes here on
January 12 and 13, directors Sterns and
Cowan, is the fact that the stories of
the ballets themselves are of such
intense interest that were one to over
look the beauties of costnme and scen
ery, melody and classic dance, one
would nevertheless be held rapt by the
drama of the ballets. This intensely
human quality In "Scheherazarde" un
doubtedly accounts for the fact that
the sensational oriental melodrama, la
unnversally the favorite in the reper
toire of 12 numbers.
It has long been considered the mas
terpiece of Leon Bakst, the great Euro
pean colorlst, who has designed the
costumes and settings for most of the
numbers. Its story is the famous prel
ude to the Arabian Nights, and has to
do with the affairs of the Shah Zeman.
The Shah departs for a hunting trip
and in his absence the harem Inmates
demand the release of the male slaves.
In the midst of a bacchanalian orgy the
Shah returns, much to the chagrin of
the entire party, who are immediately
put to death.
The acting of Flora Revalles, the
principal mime of the company, and
Waslav Nijinsky, the celebrated pre-
be the greatest male dancer alive, re
veals the versatility of the members of
the Diaghileff organization, showing
them at once to be consummate artists
in the drama as well as the dance.
It is not in "Scheherazade," however,
that the magnificent Revalles has made
her reputation. As "Cleopatra" in the
exotic melodrama based on one of
Gautier's tales, she has made herself
the roost famous personage in the bal
let roster. The story has to do with
an amorous Egyptian youth, who has
seen the Queen of the Sapphire Nile,
defied her courtiers, renounced his
love. The queen is amazed by his
devotion, and while her slave girls
dance bacchanales with black servi
teurs and strew sweet-scented rose
leaves on her gilded couch, she grants
his request. But his triumph is short.
Swift death by some rare poison fol
lows, administered in a careless mo
ment by the historic beauty.
Again as "Thama," the wicked Cau
casian queen. Mile. Revalles has es
tablished herself supreme In the art ol
pantomime. In a vast and magnificent
castle. Thamar awaits her lovers, only
to send them to doom in the turbulent
waters, which wash around the walls
below. The setting Of this court is re
garded as one of Bakst's most vigorous
works, and gives the effect of enorm
ous height in a manner heretofore un
known to the stage.
SCHOOL PROTEST IN
Parents Opposed to Sex Seg
regation Proposal.
PACIFISTS ARE UP IN ARMS
MILK CONTEST UNDER WAY
Samples Gathered From Delivery
Wagons for Federal Test.
A contest by the city milk Inspec
tion bureau under the direction of the
United States Bureau of Animal Indus
try was completed yesterday, when the
Inst of the samples of milk were
gathered from dairymen on" their
routes. The milk is being analyzed for
odor, flavor, butterfat, solids and gen
eral purity and cleanliness, and the
dairymen will be rated on a quality
basis.
This Is the fourth contest of the kind
conducted in Portland during the year.
The dairymen were met on their routes
by milk and dairy inspectors and
camples of the milk being delivered
were taken. The dairymen were not
Informed that the contest was on. The
scores will be made public as soon as
the analyses are completed.
SAYS A CORN ACTS
LIKE ELECTRIC BELL
Tells Why a Corn Is So Painful
and Says Cutting Makes
Them Grow.
Press an electrlo button and you
form a contact with a live wire which
rings the bell. When your shoes press
against your corn it pushes its sharp
.roots down upon a sensitive nerve and
you get a shock of pain.
Instead of trimming your corns, which
merely makes them grow, just step
into any drug store and ask for a quar
ter of an ounce of freezone. This will
cost very little, but is sufficient to re
move every hard or soft corn or callus
from one's feet. A few drops applied
directly upon a tender, aching corn
otops the soreness Instantly, and soon
the corn shrivels up so it lifts right
out, root and all, without pain. This
drug never Inflames or even Irritates
the ur rounding tissue or siln. Adv.
Mrs. P. G. Xealon Scouts Suggestion
of Better Morals, Declaring Su
pervision of Youths During
Leisure More to Point.
Segregation of boys and girls in sep
arate schools, as proposed by a School
Board committee. Is not meeting with
entire favor on the part of those most
thoroughly acquainted with school af
fairs. It is asserted that it is not
likely to be approved by parents, ana
that girls will not come to the West
Side hj?h school provided for them
from distant points on the East Side,
nor will boys be inclined to travel long
distances to attend their particular
segregated high school.
The new plan contemplates a military
training of the girls as well as the
boys. Girls are to be put through
drills and evolutions, while at the
same time they will be given training
in first-aid and other lines that will be
much of the character of work under
taken at the girls' camp at Vancouver,
Wash., last Summer.
There are many Portland people who
did not "raise their boys to be sol
diers," much less their daughters, and
thl3 military feature is certain to be
unpopular with a considerable group
of pacifists of the city.
Immorality Cry Ridiculed.
It is further declared by those who
oppose the segregation of sexes in the
city schools that the plea of Immor
ality, advanced as the reason for the
new school plan, is very much of the
alarmist order. Immorality is not ram
pant, by any means, among the youth
of the local high schools, it is de
clared, and the insinuation that is
conveyed is resented.
Mrs. P. G. Nealon, president of the
Buckman Parent-Teacher Association,
is one who does not favor the segre
gation plan. &hs said:
"I cannot see what good mere seg
regation of tho sexes can accomplish.
It cannot be seriously urged that mere
presence of the other sex is enough to
account for poor work. Things have
come to a pretty pass If so normal a
situation as the meeting; of the sexes
under the supervision of good teachers
is able to cause such grave disturb
ance as is charged by those favoring
segregation.
"I believe the trouble, if it can be
-proved that there is any, in our high
schools should be looked for in another
direction.
The mere absence or girls, per se.
will not make tho work more Interest
lng or more vital to the boys. Mere
segregation would not Jteep. our. boys
from dropping out or stimulate their
interests in study.
"We should remedy the condition by
getting at the real cause, and this
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gardless of what they do in their leis
ure hours, or the extra expense to the
parents and without the necessity of a
complete reorganization of two large
schools as a consequent demoralization
of the school work for a long period
of time.
"After all la said and done, if the
school work is to be a training for
life, why shouldn't the school environ
ment be made as normal as possible?
Boys and girls must get along with
one another outside of school and in
days after graduation. That should
be part of their education in matters,
manners and morals. Will it help our
boys to be educated under artificial,
monastic conditions?
"The whole problem should be han
dled fundamentally. I am afraid mere
segregation would be a very super
ficial, thoughtless way of handling it.
"If parents would adopt the advice
of the Council of the Parent-Teacher
Association, and give more thought,
care and supervision to leisure time
of the children, how and where it is
spent, and realize that encouragement
of constructive use of that leisure
time in the home environment, the
problem might be solved there."
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Leona Hatchings Laid to Rest.
The funeral of Iona M. Hutchln)?
was held Friday afternoon at Fin
ley's chapel. Rev. C. E. Cllne offi
ciated. Mrs. J. S. Hamilton and Mrs.
Gladys Saxton sang. The pallbearers
were: E. J. Chamberlain, A- W. Sharp,
Lou Stroup. W. lloscetter. Harvey Frisk
and John Ward. The interment" was at
Greenwood Cemetery. Mrs. Hutch inps
was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C
Dobelbower and sister of Mrs. Cora
Evans.
Will Content Is ITeard.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. Dec. 1.
(Special.) County Judge Marlon
Hanks, sitting as Judge of the Probate
'ourt. has completed the taking of
testimony In the case of Henrietta
Melhase against Gus lie'.hase and
other beneficiaries under tho will of
Fred Melhase, late husband of plain
tiff. Judge Hanks has the case under
advisement. It is reported that no
matter for whom the decision Is given
the cas will be appealed to the Cir
cuit Court. Mrs. Melhase is attempting
to break her husband's will.
J loose Band to Give Concert.
CHEHALIS, Wash.. Dec. 16 (Spe
cial.) A sacred concert will be given
Sunday arternoon. December 24. at the
Liederkranz ' Hall by the Chehalla
Moone hand.
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A-fiCeiat Waited!
to handle large local territory for Eastern Factory building big line of
Commercial Bodies for Fords
25 STYLES $6.50 UP
BODIES ARE PAINTED AND TRIMMED READY TO USE THE DAY WANTED
. This Saves Many Weeks of Expensive Delay Having Them Built and Painted.
If you have $2500 to $3000 to invest and care to derate your time to a good money-making;
proposition that is permanent and growing or add this agency on to your present business,
write promptly giving address and phone number to
"EASTERN J?0DY MFGR." -Care Hotel Portland, Portland
Manager here about Dec. 19 to 21 to establish agency.
EXCURSIONS TowiMriiitmil
North Bank Rail
and Ocean Route.
Round Trip to
San Francisco, in-
H' c I u d i n 2: Berth,
PJgi Meals and Extras
$26.70
FIRST CLASS
S. S. Northern
Pacific
Sails
Dec. 9. 14. 19. 23.
28. Lv. S. F. Jan.
4. 9. 13. 18. 23. 27
FROM
Portland, Eugene, Salem, Albany, Corvallis, For
est Grove, Hillsboro, St. Helens, Rainier, Astoria,
Ft. Stevens and Seaside and intermediate points.
LOS ANGELES
Round Trip $42.50
Selling dates: From S. P. S. stations December 23 and 23 and Oregon
Electric stations Dec. 22, 23, 27 and 28. Return limit on tickets sold
Dec 22 and 23 will be Jan. 10, 1917, and for tickets sold Dec 27 and 23,
Jan. 14, 1917. Stopovers allowed.
Attractions in California U. of O. and U. of P. football and Tourna
ment of Roses in Pasadena Jan. 1; New Year's celebration in San
Francisco.
NORTH BANK TICKET OFFICE 5th and Stark.
Phones: Broadway 920, A 6671.
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