The border vidette., 1921-01-01
NOW ON NoN-PRoFIT BASIS.

An event of far-reaching con- sequence occurred recently in Portland, Oregon, when the Eli son White Bureau, operating hundreds of Lyceum Courses; Festivals and Chautauquas thro ghout the West, placed their business on a strictly non profit basis. At one step this places these entertainment and educa tional assemblies on the plane of the school, college and church.
 Two years ago Mir. Ellison and MT. White were prime movers in an attempt to place all bure aus in the United States on non profit basis. It was defeated through selfish interest on the part of some of the smaller com panies of the East. The Western firm has now taken the step and it is expected that within 8 few years the movement will be na- ton wide.
 The new organization takes the name of the Ellison White Lyceum and Chautauqua Asso citation. It is sponsored by some of the leading men and women of the Pacific Coast.
 There are nine members on the board of trustees, seven of whom will be elected from year to year by the Lyceum and Chautauqua patrons in the different districts. The board of trustees for the present year is as follows: C.. w. Penney, President of Good ing College, Gooding, Idaho, re- presenting district No. l, of Louisiana, Texas, Arizona; L. L.. Mccoy, Banker and Capitalist of Red Bluff, California, repre- Senting district No. ?. California; Geo. ". Gearheart, Attorney at law, Portland, Oregon, repre- senting district No. 3, Nevada, Utah, Colorado; Gov. D. w. Davis, of Idaho. representing district No. 4. of Idaho and Wyoming; A. c. Stragne, Sups. of Schools, Astoria, Oregon, re- presenting district No. 5, Mon tana; Mrs. Josephine Corliss Preston. State Superintendent of Public Instruction and Presi- dent of the National Educational Association, representing dis trict No. 6, State of Washington; H. E. Cross, President of Villa mette Valley Chautauqua Asso. citation, at Gladstone, Oregon representing district No. 7, Ore: Ron; J. R. Ellison and c. H. White, ex officio members. .
 The Ellison White Chautauqua ed in 1913 by J. R. Ellison oi Portland, and c. H. White oi Boise. Idaho. Ia eight years il has grown from tiny company to tue largest organization of its kind in the U. s.. operating either Lyceum, Festivals or Chau tauquas in practically every town of the west. Several hun dred people are employed the year around and approximately y three and third million people in the Western States attended their Lyceum and Chautauqua assemblies during the past year. Offices are also maintained in Calgary, Alberta, and Auckland, New Zealand. Tn 1919 the New Zealand Chautauquas, were placed on 2 non profit basis and it is expected that the Canadian department will also follow in the near future.
 In a Portland interview the other day MT. Ellison said, For years MT. White and I have felt that the Lyceum and Chautau- qua was too big an institution to be operated for private profit. It has been our dream to place it on a bigger, broader basis, one purely of service. 1 believe our reorganization has effected this. Now the Lyceum and Chautauqua can truly take it's place with the school, the col. lege and the church-an institu. ton of the common people,"