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POLL TAX OUT SOON .: Mass Meeting at the Hippo-| | drome Decides to Open | Initiative petitions for the re- call of the poll tax law will be | elreulated shortly, it was decided at a mass meeting of citizens at the Hippodrome Sunday after noon, Hart's bill will be started immedi ately. Office space will be obtained, petitions printed and committees ap: Pointed to handle the campaign. Joseph R. Manning, sponsor of the Movement in Western Washington, wnpopular law would be speedily ob tained. “The poll tax is obsolete and with out any justification,” he said. “The People of the state enactment, There will be little diffi culty in securing tha requisite names @9 soon as our organization fs per- fected.” the poll tax as being inequitable, in- @fficient and antiquated * _A campaign to kill the poll tax Taw was scheduled to be made at the annual convention of state assessors, Which opened at Olympia Monday . Hull, King county a@ ‘Measor, Is expected to lead the attack | Against the measure, which the a» Seesors declare has been a flat fail as a method of raising revenue. ‘The pol tax will come in for 100 | per cent opposition, Hull declared. BLAME LAID FOR Unexpected Opening of the Throttle Causes Smash RED BANK, WN. J., Jan. 16.—The plunge of a piloticss airplane into a throng of skaters on the Shrewsbury Fiver, which resulted in the death of | a woman and the severe injury of @ man who tried to save her, was opening of a home-made throttle. The airplane, Joy rides over the fe start it. |. skaters who had gathered to watch athe start. HOME TOWN of Vancouver, was paid a high com- pliment by his friends and co-work- ers on the police force when they presented him with a gold star, The star was presented by Mayor John P, «eee 1 The Vancouver Columbian wit! hold “open house” for all its friends Monday evening. The visitors will be shown the “ins” and “outs” of newspaper printing. | o- A saving of nearly $40,000 In the) y expenses during ag effected by the| county commissioners. see Mayor John Kiggins, of Vancou.| ver will bulld a new brick block, work on the new structure beginning a@ soon ag the weather permits. eee | ‘The Hains Box Factory, of Brokus, expects to double its capacity in the coming year. cee An enlarged plant, capable of tak ing care of the strawberries and oth @r soft fruits next summer, as well aa tomatoes, is the plan of the Oro- ville Canning Co. cee The s¢cond course of the farmers’ Winter school wag scheduled to open at Puyallup Monday, at the Western Washington experiment station, with one week of instruction in berry growing. eee As the result of the work of state Sportsmen, the department of fisher- jes announces that fishing with hook and line for steelheads will be permit téd from January 15 to March 15 Port Angelenos are especially ticklea by the new ruling. Bank of F on of Connell have wo banks, both in ted in towns x consolidated. ‘Th Adams county. a short distan ing the sam community Ivar Vaumond, veteran Harbor mariner, and for the p: years firm m. and pilot of th ernment dre Col, P. 8, Mic has been appointed pilot for Gray Harbor by the shipping and towing interests of Abérdeey and Hoquiam see An organization of their own for the purpose of marketin thru their own sales agenty formed by the Walla Walla prune growers, according to resolution Passed by that body one r fruit will be Work on f ma's new doc begin Januar The 1 Booming Co, will be in charg SOUTH BEND, Wa Jan. 16 Richard a blacksmith, died late y after shooting himself thru the stomach while duck hunting, The. accident oceurred in Mall Roat slough, near here. Rasmussen leaves @ widow and three children, vho wanted to knou is ideal girl because he learned that she indulged in pop! | gard to his girl tolerating promiscuous kissing. Attack on Un ular Law nothing in her actions to indicate anything but the ideal he) thought her to be. ideas of a modern girl than they mother’s time, The active fight against Governor! and one night, just for mischief, I counted kisses On him) worse which numbered only 98, | life, with this same lover, we enjoy our kisses just as ny oat ment will give rise to new inter | as we did that night. eee Dear Mise Grey expressed confidence that the neces fanswer @ary signatures for the recall of the | cently. 1 read his letter with emotions. course About promiscuous kissing have been bit: |know where to begin. ferly Opposed to the law since its |don’t believe I would care for kissing games. that “familiarity breeds contempt.” I think strative person who, because of his Speakers at the meeting denounced |nature, thinks himself superior, The girl did wrong, of course, to discus | his traits with another girl; but even so, I think she would make him a | Rood wife. Dear Miss Grey Ing the answers to and too, All Tecan say ts that any live, red |bieoded man would kiew his girl, and) if he doesn't she will find someone else who will-—effection is a domt- | nant trait of us humans, and who) bas a better right to demonstrate it | Hal” and than an engaged couple? = M. J Dear Mins Grey: Just a few words }to “Hal.” I have found myself in more girls than the average fellow jsimilar circumstances to those in ot my age, but still have yet to find which his girl is now. Tho I hold &/one whom I would ask to beco kiss to be a token of love the same|wifeg Howéver, I have kisser as he, still I have found myself do-|out of ten of the girls whom I have ing things which would make people |taken out and have yet to find one disbelieve me. jone whom I held dearest, I am writ ing in hope that he will not give up| his ideal untit he has put the situa | passions, that in a matter which is tion squarely before her A girl often does things In one en vironment that think of doing when she is herself. Delieved by investigators toduy to | several years ago I was at a party | have been caused by an unexpected | While |kiswes, altho they were all given to|to wish te in which James ithe same boy. Casey, exarmy aviator, was giving |iike being under ice yesterday, |some drug. and I behaved in a man Yeaped over ita restraining blocks | ner myself which I would have con |sane person has so little rempect for! when the pilot whirled the propeller |demned other girls for doing. After the womanhood of today to may that it was ul] over I realized my mistake, A gust of wind turned the rearing |but that was too late, for I had lost |ous and pure as they were 1922 years | | plane straight into a croup of 1.000} my friend. ) | suggestions and recipes for mak- Ing vegetable jellies for salads may obtain same by writ- ing to the Seattle Star Washing- ton bureau, 1322 New York ave., Washington, D. C., inclosing two- cent stamped envelope for reply. o CO-OPERATIVE ACTORS SCORE. Premiere at Wilkes Theatre| Well Received By Glenn Hughes oday by “Hal,” Regarding “Petting Parties,” Continue to Pour In BY CYNTHIA GREY Following are some more replies to “Hal,” the young man| if he should break his engagement to| “promia-| uous kissing” when she knew he disapproved. If you wish | % kak toe on to express an opinion it is not yet too late to u rite. las aces of “The Brat.” Dear Miss Grey; I can’t resist answering “Hal” in re-| 4 o three-act comely There was | ur » direction of T. Daniel | It is an interesting venture, the rmation of thia new stéek company The only thing I can see was that she was wishing for more}, a Mt. Frawley explained before the ses from the man she loved, Her ideas are no more the! play Sunday night, i¢ t* an unusual are of the girls of his| thing for actors, musicians, stage me chanics and producers to throw in their lots together, for better or for| And that is what has hap 11 years of married! pened at the Wilkes I was once a girl going with the man I loved Now, after That their ex eat In the plays offered at the stock house goes without saying. And if determination and whole hearted, un. | neifieh enthusiasm can bring success, jthis company will have @ successful | MRS. Mine Grey will receive callers in her office Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1 to 2p, ™., and on Tuesday and Thumgday ffm 11 a m, to 12 m, each week, Please do not come at other times as it seriously interferes @ith her ]| Old faces and new greeted Sun writing, j day's audiences. Mary Thorne, for | mer Ingenue under the Wilkes re boy since, but that does not rectify | ¢im me back with colors Nying. the mistake. and ¢ m pretty and affecting I know, too, that when T have vse] ewe aracterization of the Brat, How with girls who approved of kissing | ard Russell, who was applauded with | 1 have not disag heart I did not agree with them. I would 1) who wrote te Mal,” a mixture of I felt sorry for him, of }AND NEW | 1 don't For myself, I as I have always believed “Hal” is just an undemon first appearance that he almont held But too often a girl does not lke , G14 an execiient piece to appear prudish before others who or work in the role of | measure by a different standard. he Irish butler with the ee Lead bea So I say to “Hal.” be fair with | go stn to. dee Gita tok lyour girl. Do not give her up until! yiuenn Morgan, also old favorites, khe tells you directly that she 4005! were seen to advantage in secondary | not hold a kiss to be a token of love |She may have been influenced by lenvironment and in her heart may ifeel the same as you. A WALLPLOWER: Dear Mise Grey: The letter signed | I have been read “Hal's” problem, decided I would write to him, roles. | New members of the company car | rying parts in “The Brat” are Ada| Daniels, Maxime Miles, Hieriet | | Hellen and Arthur Allard. Evelyn Atkinson, who has done minor parts She varius ente Sellewing previously, proved interesting, as| umual, as Margot, the maid. | |for and ‘against promiscuous oscula: | Sore, | A COMEDY OF retain 8 |tion between young men and «tlt. Fears AND SMILES has attracted my attention | Silke chase alt ta oumeebr adie lated to bring tears and amiles in quick succession, and ita purpose | was realized unmistakably by the |local company, The story concerns A novelist and a young girl whomd he picks up on the street and takes home in order to atudy her for material, The noveliat'# brother complicates the situation by falling in love with the girl, and there are moments when It is uncer tain just how happinens is to be at tained by everyone. Hut being a comedy, the play solves ita own dif. It In perfectly natural for a gir! | ficulty, and the clouds turn out their to wieh to be loved and for a fellow | sliver lintnes can the girl. Since the} There will be rorformances every At the time it was beginning of time this has been the | night this week, with Wednesday and the influence of physical expression for the regard | faturday matinees \for one sex by the other, Surely no I believe that I have been out with eo my nine | Becaure I lost the| who hasn't enjoyed it ae, much as I | Nave. Aa to this practice stirring up the jopen to discussion. If the minds of | both partics are clean there wilt be would never|no unholy thoughts following the kineting. she there I waa free with my thelr attentions, do not think that they have no reapect for you if they try to love you a Iittle Anyhow, how many of them try to kiss you I have never kissed a |ago, |the first Ume they take you out? | “Purthermore, if ever get married,| My mother i# the finest woman tn | I shall pick a girl who shall remain | the world and bas taught me to re {my pal and sweetheart all of my life} spect womanhood. I do not go out, ‘and as an engagement really means |with any girl I don't reepect. With & vow, I shall not become engaged |all dus respect to “Hal” and his before I in be sure that the girl of|morals, or rather prudish ideas, ft limy choice likes to love, kiss, and be |don't believe he has been out in the lowed and kissed jcompany of very many girls. How | | So girls, if you care enough for | about it, “Hal”? your young men friends to accept! Yours truly, “TWENTY-TWO.” the girls of today are not an virtu Star readers who would like winter THE: BON MARCHE RGAIN BASEMENT We Want to Be the Best Friend the Man-With-The-Small-Salary Has— That’s Why We Sell for Less Women’s House Slippers $1.95 One-strap Caberetta Leather House Slippers with leather soles and heels, some of the heels are capped with rubber. These are splendid slip- pers to wear about the house, as they are made on a very comfortable last. 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In the January CLEARANCE SALES $2.90 dessert spoons, knives, 27 inches wide, Almost Every Department Has Many Savings for You : Discontinued Pattern in Oneida Community “Par Plate” Silverware Half Price The “Ardsley” pattern has been dis- continued by its manufacturers, making MENT in THIRD FLOOR reduced Extra heavy, black only, with lustrous finish 36-INCH PEAU DE CYGNE REDUCED Satin finish, very durable—specially priced 35-INCH BLACK MESSALINE REDUCED Finely woven, dependable quality, at a low price 36-INCH CHIFFON TAFFETA aera a Jet black—fine for wear—non-crushing FABRIC FLOOR (THIRD)—-THE BON MARCHE $1.50 tea spoons, reduced to 75¢, set reduced to $3.00 table spoons, reduced to $1.50, to $3.00 dinner forks, reduced to $1.50, Also Butter Knives, Sugar Shells, Pickle Forks, Gravy ‘Ladle, Soup Ladle, Baby Spoons, But- ter Spreaders, Coffee Spoons, Berry But many lots are too small to be advertised. It will pay you to look for them. Spoon and Meat Fork, and Orange —Complete set of 26 pieces with chest, formerly sold for $14.30, ‘reduced to government war tax is to be added to the above prices. UNION STREET—B. lee! Chambray Ginghams 12!/c blues, tans, greens—lengths to etait