The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 26, 1921, Page 12

& AP WARSHIPS DERED NOR March 26.-—-As a4 result “the refusal of the Chita govern “ient to aree to the Japanese ex- ‘of fisheries and rice inter. Siberia, It was announced’ to- |Report J.C. . Director March 2¢.-—Jas, C. Davis, of Towa, is understood to day to have been named director gen: eral of railroads, He has served as general counsel for the railroad ad: arr @ay that Japanese warships will be sent to the Siberian coast to protect jew WASHINGTON, —A cash girl —A rich woman’s clothes a strange man —Falee kisses —A society sensation —Punch —Romance —These are the main ingredients of Dolled Up” GLADYS WALTON A UNTVERSAL “lOOT” GIBSON in “ A Wild and Woolly LATEST INTERNA’ ‘Timely Taleo—Tersety Told “KICKAROO” Western Comedy TIONAL NEWS A WHITE MAN’S FIGHT FOR LIFE AND LOVE IN NEW YORK’S CHINATOWN— STARRING GEORGE WALSH APARTMENT MUTT & JEFF i “GUMSHOE WORK” INTERNATIONAL NEWS COLONIAL / ORCHESTRA A. K. WOLFENDEN MACK SWAIN Poll Tax Everybody Over 50 Finds Woman, Sick, Will State Seize Her BY HAL ARMSTRONG ‘There are some things I'd rather do than collect the poll tax I as- Barker, 1 hated to list her name at all, but— woman over 21 and under 60,” were the final instructions of Anses sor Frank Hull. EXEMPT NOBODY BUT INSANE PEOPLE “Make a clean sweep. nobody but insane people. collect any county treasurer will do that later. We swarmed out of the court Exempt Don't filled with Little yellow cards, By noon I had a score of victims lated. “I'm an idiot, you don’t want me.” Nicola Peolela, proprietor of the Eagle Pharmacy, 601 Jaekson st, admitted joyfully, “Of course, it's a law,” he added, “and we'll have to submit to it, But it's im Possible to enforce a law like that, “Bay, what'll they do if I refuse to pay the $5 when the collector comes “They'll just reach up on your . shelves and drag down a couple of bottles of medicine, take your watch and tie pin and maybe your coat, and go out on the sidewalk and sell ‘em to the first person that comes along that'li buy ‘em for $5," I advised, truthfully. Peoletia grinned. GLAD HE'S SINGLE FOR ONCE, ANYHOW! “Your wife? 1 asked. “Toes she come under the poll tax wr” For the first time in his life Peolelin wan glad he was single. “Meester,” cut in a bystander Quite a crowd had collected in the drug store. “They hava da hella time ketcha me poll tax. I idka see heem coma tak my coatt He shrugged, doubling his fists sugrentively. aid a> Paste the grocery at 603 Jackson st. He has a wife, Teress. ‘ “Junta send da DIN to my wife,’ he sald, “she pay it” “No use tliva in a world any more! Obh! Too bad™ wailed a looker on. WORD SPREADS IN 4APTOWN; THEY DISAPPEAR Word that the poll tax assessor was in the district spread like wild talked excitedly. The only words I “Bors, he come 1 o'clock,” said the girl, hanging up. “You write your name on a plece "1 advieed. “You want sheriff come?” “My name?" she repeated. “How ” 4 iM She wrote, “Shal Ichiki, £3." She had Usted herself for the poll “takis.” In a back room, hiding, I learned later, there had been four more Jap girls, all about the same age. Nawoki Kikushi, the Japanese jeweler at 609 Jackson, looks to be 40. He aid he hadn't heard any thing about the poll tax. He hadn't read the papers. “How old?” I asked. “Bout 21." “IT should think #0. you?” He finally admitted he was 33. His asseexment should be about $50 for the time wasted by the county finding out his name, his age and whether he had a wife. I ascended the narrow flight of steps leading Into the Weller House, 617% Weller st. and rang the door bell. An eye appeared at the peep-hole and was withdrawn. The door flew suddenly open. A huge negro wo man confronted me, “Yes, sah—-yes, wah. How te you this mawnin’? Whassat, sab? Poll taxes? De missus ain't at home, sah. No, sah. She don’t git up, sah, #0 early in the mawnin’, come down 'bout 3 o'clock, sah. Oh, no, honey, bress yo’ heart, I’se 61. I ain't no chicken, I ain't,” BORN “SOMETIME BEFO’ DE WAH” “What year were you born?” I broke in, “Whassat, sah? What yeah? Aw, now, I jeat cain't recollect, sah, but it was sometime befo' de wah. Yes. sah, ‘bout free yeah befo' de wah.” She was positive, “An’ it’s a funny thing, sah,” she went on, “But dey ain't nobody livin’ in dis roomin' house but is ovah 60. Not a livin’ soul, sah. Dey's Old Bill; he's de chambah maid. Old Bill, he must be ‘bout fifty fo’. Ain't you all ‘bout fifty- fo’, Bill?” Old Bill assured her he was born in ‘52, AN the lodgers were gone |but two. They worked nights and were asleep, and, anyway, they were too old to pay the poll tax I crossed over into Jackston st again, and headed east. There was a hotel ahead of me. A curtain was drawn aside in a second story window. A girl's face looked out j smiled at me, She beckoned. I'll give her a little surprise |party,” I mused, I plodded up the lwtaire and rang the doorbell. She |peeked thru the peep-hole and opened the door, They have learned to be cautious in that district. “Hello, Sunshine,” she greeted. “Come right in.” She was young and rather pretty, but well painted “You the girl that gave me the high sign thru the window?” 1 in How old are i Star Man Becomes One for a Day. semed yesterday aguinst Mrs. Laure “Take the name, age, address and occupation of every man and money—now, Thelin, and assened her furniture for house-—100 of us—with our pockets fire, When I reached the Jap| would report at the amecasor’s office could distinguish were “poll takia.”|"aexhip, Hi Collector: or Under 21. Helpless, Alone. Bed as Payment? qui i. . she said, sweetly, Then her tone suddenly changed, She ap- peared uneasy, wanted?” She had swung the door open again, ‘want to asness you for your poll tax, You are under 60, I'd imagine.” “Kighteen,” she said, biting ber lip. “Ho you're the smart assessor, are yout Well, the landlady hasn't come down yet. She's home asleep, But R's Just an well for you she tan't come down here and didn't even come $650, It inn't worth $200-~" Just a minute,” 1 interrupted. “When the assessor came to assess the furniture, he could hear voices in the hotel here, but the door was lock: ed and they wouldn't let him in. So instead of calling the police, like he should have done, to chop down the door, he guensed at the value of the furniture und asseaned it for $650. Toll the landlady to come down to) the office if she isn't satinfied.” “Weill, I'm 18, IT don't have to pay the poll tax, do 1?” “Not if you're only 18. How about he reat of the people In the hotel?” jobody here now but two men. Oné of ‘em's about 60, and the other's You can come back when the landiady’s here in the eveni: She's over 21. Ask for Peari—Mins White.” Oncar Cofling was not in his pool room on Jackson near {2th ave. & 1 caught a glimpse of him vanishing up a fire encape at the rear of the build tng. I explained my mission to « knot of colored men in the front of the pince, and asked for Oncar “Ah'm suah, sah,” said one, “Ab Gon’ know where Oncah has went B'liebe he's beat it downtown. Ain't been here fo’ couple hours.” While he wan explaining there was & unanimous exodus of colored gen Yemen from the pool room. One by one, and in bunches of three agd four, they dwindied away. “Wh-what time, sah? “Oh, thia afternoon.” COULDN'T UNDERSTAND TILL HE MENTIONED POLICE “You mh. Ah'll try to have Oscah heah, mh.” 1 dropped into the International reataurant, where the floor is covered with sawdust and Greeks, Nobody could speak English until I mention of the police. It was finalty explained that no body tn the restaurant lived in Seat- tle, but all were merely in town on a vinit of something, and the bose to account for himself and his «m- neatly kept from hard work. fete her, and her husband, "Yea" she sighed. “Toni's looking for work. He's 33. 1 We can't pay now, tho. I don't know how we're going to pay.” “The law in the law,” I told her, an she cloned the door, CASEY ASKS ABOUT THAT RECALL T didn't find Mra. Laura Barker until I reached the home of Mrs. Mina Hendrickson, at 1321 Yesler Mrs. Barker has a room up ire, “Come In, please,” sald Mra. Hen drickson, ushering me into a neat Uttle parlor with old fashioned plo tures on the wall. “There's my husband and I living downatairn, He's past 50, but I'll have to pay. Downstairs lives Mr and Mrs. J. B. Casey. You can see him, but Il) ask you not to see Mrs. Barker, She's not well.” Casey is a big Irishman, out of work, He came to the door with a ready smile. “You get me and my wife,” he said. “When are you going to get the re. call out? I'm going to ign that pe- tition, too, It's rotten, this poll tax, ain't it? “Now, what about Mra. Barker?” I asked Mra. Hendrickson. She sat down and told ma “Mrs, Barker,” she said, “is about 29. She's a widow, ali alone. And she's sick In bed. She haan’t any money, or any job. She's too sick to work if she had qne. She hada ter. rible bad night, last night. I sat up She | with her till morning. She's just got | to sleep, so I ask you not to disturb her if you can get along without it." I told her it wasn't necessary, “A DIRTY SHAME” SAYS SEAFARER “That's good,” spoke up Hendrick son, a big, harty, seafaring man, who had swung into the room. “It's a dirty shame, taking a poll tax from that woman, that’s what it is.” That's why [ say there are some things I'd rather do than collect the tax I nauensod yesterday against Mrs Barker, It can be easily done, and lewnlly, much more easily than from seme of the big, healthy men I listed and the hotel folke I met, For the law the governor signed a week ago empowers the tax collec: tor to take from Mrs, Rarker what she has—her wedding ring, her shoos or the bed she les on. do it. come and collect from Mrs, Barker, himself, Harding Is Elected LONG BEACH, Cal., March 26. 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