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TIT CEEMC tn MI p. HAYWOOD
l. L O1A4NAO A'AA BROUN

boy of 16 was washing windows out
side the cafeteria on Madison;
curly-headed, impudent and care
less.
He'll" he called to the line-the
solid, drab. unmoying line-"Heh!
Wanna job?" and grinned. The. lit
tie stenographers skipped by, a gay
stream of them. No glances for
these men. No lads here to take
them dancing, or to the talkies.
NOV, I don't mean that every
~ one of those 1000 men wanted
a job, or that all of them would
have taken a job if it had been
handed them. A goodly proportion
Of them were just plain buns
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Old, most of them, though per-
haps not as old as they looked. It's
queer that those stand in line, like
sheep, for three hours on a sharp
April morning, when surely an
hours panhandling on any New
York street would yield them more
than the worth of the little blue
ticket that the Rev. Randolph Ray
of the Little Church Around the
Corner would presently hand them.
A boy, perhaps 10, round-faced
and Stocky of build, was busy with
a crossword puzzle. He was well
in the front Of the line, so he must
have been there for hours, waiting.
A baker by trade, he said.
He looked as if he might relish
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Richest City

T>HIS nippy stuff isn't 50 good
l. when you're on the line. Two
thousand men in the richest city In
the whole world. In one line.
There are other lines in New York
They weren't waiting-they hadn't
been waiting there for three hours
in the early morning chill--to be
handed 500 bills or small but clear
diamonds. They were waiting for a
little blue ticket that would entitle
them to a cup of coffee and a bowl
Of stew.
They were very quiet-almost noise
less. You'd think 1000 men In q
group would make quite a little
noise. one way or another. But il
takes energy to make noise. They
had little to spare.
They occupied so much Of the
broad sidewalk that there was left
just a bare foot or two of space fol-
the passing pedestrian.
The American working girls, the
most smartly dressed in the world
in their fur collars and their silk
stockings and their smart little
shoes, hurrying to their Jobs, averted
their eyes as they passed the line.
The me looked after them. A
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The Pole

A MUNDSEN proceeded to build
n his base on the ice shelf. This
was a risky thing to do, for the ice
sometimes breaks up. His subse-
quent success was due perhaps to
taking this risk, as the ice shelf
provided a base much closer to the
south pole than any other base he
could have established.
Scott and Shackleton had a poor
opinion of dogs. SCOTS dogs had
died on him during his first expedi-
ton. S~hackleton, it will be remem-
bered, had used Shetland ponies.
AmundSen, however, started on
his dash for the south pole on Oct.
10 with four companions and fifty
two dogs. The dogs did so well
that the men were able to ride on
the Sleds for most of the 400 miles
across the ice shelf.
Amundsen's greatest difficulties
came when he attempted to reach
the high plateau which forms the
interior Of Antarctica. For twelve
days he and his companions wan
dered through the mountains seek
ing a suitable pass.
Billiards and fogs added to their
difficulty. They killed all but eight
cen Of their dogs
On Dec. 1 they arrived at the edge
Of the plateau. BY the time they
reached latitude 88 degrees, they
we're at an altitude Of 10000 feet.
They found, however, that the pla-
teau descended slightly toward the
pole.
On Dec. IA the pole was reached.
On Jan. Is they were back at their
base.
In 1918, Amundsen planned an
other expedition to the north pole
but dropped his plans when the
World war broke out. In 1918 he
left Norway In the Maud, planning
to drift across the north pole. He
did not succeed in reaching the pole.
In 1925 Amundsen and Lincoln
Ellsworth, the American. made an
unsuccessful attempt to reach the
north pole by airplane. In 1926,
Amundsen, Ellsworth and Mobile
succeeded in crossing the north pole
in the dirigible, the Norge.
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Army Not Essential

WYE constantly harp on the idea
w of men, guns, and ships, as
though they were absolutely essen
tial not only to national security,
but to national existence.
AS a matter of record, quite a few
communities have survived for a
long time, and that, too, in compar-
alive freedom from attack, without
big armies and navies.
Iceland has no army or navy, yet
Iceland has survived for a thousand
years, first as an independent repub-
lie, and afterward as a colony of
Norway and Denmark.
This year, Iceland will celebrate
the 1,000th anniversary of the
establishment Of it's parliament.
which was opened more than 300
years before that of England. Until
1898 this parliament held It's ses-
sions out of doors, and exercised
judicial, as well as legislative
authority.
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BY EDNA FERBER

IL NGANA
THEY were pretty smart, those
a old boys who drew UP the
Declaration of independence. To all
men they granted three things:
Life, liberty, and the pursuit OF hap
piness. We learned that at school.
1t seemed fair enough then, and
inclusive.
Since yesterday I've wondered
why they didn't add n more thing.
Or, for that matter, why they didn't
scrap the other three and substitute
this one, thus solving at a blow most
of our troubles, civic, social, eco
nomic and moral.
All men should have the inalien-
able Il don't know what ~inalienable
is, but it sounds tight and legaD
right to work, if they want to. The
right of a job, If they want a job.
I was down on the line at the
Little Church Around the Corner at
8 a.. m. with Haywood Broun. The
thing to do now is to write coolly
and imparsonally about what I saw,
still giving it that thing they call
the human touch.
But I have a feeling Of bafflement
and futility. All the men on the
line had life, liberty, and could, I
suppose, have pursued happiness if
ever they had a look at her face.
Two thousand men, and over,
were standing in solid formation,
five abreast, and the queue three
city blocks long, waiting for a little
blue ticket that would entitle them
to a cup of coffee and a bowl Of stew
at the station a mile or so away.
1t was a cold morning-cold
enough for a fur coat. Nippy. Grand
weather for walking-but not if you
had nothing to do but walk, and no
place to go when you'd finished.
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With Cook

A MUNDSEN began his career as
"A an explorer in 1897, when he
joined the expedition to the Ant
arctic which the Belgian explorer,
Captain Adrien de Gerlache, organ
lied. Another member of the ex-
petition was the American, DR.. F.
A. Cook.
This was the beginning of a life
long friendship between Amundsen
and Cook. Amundsen visited Cook
while the latter was in prison.
Amundsen was born July 16, 1872,
in Borge, a country district in
southeastern Norway. He received
his B. A. degree at Christiana in
1890, and prepared to study medi-
cine. Two years later, however, he
changed his mind and decided to
become an explorer.
De Gerlache'S expedition reached
the coast of Graham land. The ex-
petition suffered from inadequate
food, but made valuable scientific
observations.
Amundsen headed his own first
expedition in 1903. His goal was
the famous Northwest Passage. He
and six companions spent three
years on a little sloop of forty-seven
tons, the Gjoa. They made the
passage and succeeded in fixing the
location of the north magnetic pole.
His next expedition was aboard
the Fran, the famous ship which
Nansen had taken into the Arctic
in 1893.
Amundsen had planned to try for
the north pole, but when word came
that Admiral Peary had reached it
he changed his plans and set sail
for the Antarctic instead. 1T was
on April 6, 1909, that Peary reached
the north pole.)
Amundsen arrived at the Ross ice
shelf Jan. IL, 1911.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

A LMOST everyone knows that it
IN is possible for one person to
become infected through receiving
germs from another person, from
animals, from food, from water and
other sources. No germ is known
that will penetrate through q
healthy, unbroken skin under ordi-
nary conditions.
The skin always has germs on it
and for that reason it is important
to use an antiseptic whenever a
wound occurs. 1t is also for that
reason that surgeons are very care
full to shave the skin and to apply
antiseptic before doing a surgical
operation.
It is possible for a person to get
hydrophobia through germs inocu-
lated by the bite of an animal, to
get malaria through organisms in
oculated by the bite Of a mosquito,
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Iceland Progressive

MOST Of US regard iceland as
1V1 not only far away, but small
and backward.
From a physical standpoint, that
view is correct.
When it comes to social progress,
however, Iceland has a record which
some Of the larger nations could
study with profit.
Crime, especially the more violent
kind, has been practically stopped.
The budget not only balances, but
shows a gratifying surplus from
year to year.
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ideals and opinions expressed
m this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
Sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude OF
this paper.-The Editor.
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Of congress Is probably the nearest approach to 2
union Of church and state this country ever has
known. And despite the entire absence Of Demo-
cratic congressman, it Yields an influence quite as
powerful in the Democratic as in the Republican
party.
The same has been true Of the Anti-Saloon
League for years. The difference is that influence
so far as Democrats is concerned. is exercised in con-
trolling nominations, while in presidential elections
the influence is thrown to the Republican nominees.
This may explain the waning influence of the Demo-
cratic party since the days of President Wilson, when
a Democratic congress, controlled by the Anti-Saloon
League, passed the Volstead act over President VIII
sons veto.
If Representative Tinkham succeeds in procuring
an investigation of the receipts and expenditures of
the board and league, he will accomplish a miracle
in practical politics.
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The heading on this column today Is
a lie. I've written nothing but the cap
tons. This column was written by Miss
Edna Ferber as a contribution to the
effort to help the unemployed.
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a little of his own trade product
as he stood there, his hands quite
blue with the cold, working at the
crossword puzzle.
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M. E. Tracy
Very Few of Us Start ont
With the Idea of Remaining
at the Bottom, Which Is
Why Some of Us Do Not.
SAYS:

AIRS. ANGELINA w. FRINK,
1F1 chairman of the home regis
tries section of the welfare council
OF New York, says that a girl must
earn at least SIS a week TO live
comfortably by herself in the great
city.
Even so, a girl would have only
about $l.40 left for recreation, saw
lngs, church contributions, sickness
and vacation funds.
1t sounds d-iscouraging, but not
d~.scouraging enough to keep many
girls away, because, comparatively
speaking, things are about as bad
everywhere.
1t may cost more to live in New
York than in some other cities.
but there is a chance of earning
more.
Besides, no lights are as bright as
those on Broadway and where else
can n ride as far for a nickel?
Like every other town in the
world, New York rather would have
people come to spend than to find
work.
The same advertisement that lures
purchasers also lures those who want
jobs.
Bargain sales, they argue, call for
more help behind the counter, and
each one thinks of herself, or him
self, as qualified for the prize posi-
ton.
AS long as one or two places out
OF a hundred pay more than SIS a
week, the average girl will not be
deferred by a warning that she
needs that much to live in New
York. Neither would the average
boy.
We Americans simply are not
built that way.
Very few of us start out with the
idea Of remaining at the bottom,
which is why some of us do not.
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viii the United States assay Off
ces buy gold?
Gold a be sold to the United
States assay Offices in amounts not
less than 500 In value.
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Cooperation Lacking

CU-Up6fdlIOH Lacking
CENSUS enumerators complain
~ of lack of cooperation on the
part Of the public.
They are finding a good many
people who for one reason or an
other won't answer the prescribed
questions.
Some Of this is due to ignorance,
some to indifference, and some to
pure cussedneSS, but whatever the
cause, it reveals a low state of civic
consciousness.
AS tentatively drawn, the i've
power treaty provides for the scrap
ping OF two battleships by the
United States and four by England.
Since all six are nearly twenty
years old, they would have been
scrapped in a short time, anyway.
The gain comes in the fact that
both countries are freed from the
obsession that six more must be
built to take their place.
Even though agreements of this
kind fall far short of what most
people desire, they represent real
progress, since each one helps q
little to liberate nations from the
unwholesome fear which they feel
toward one another, and which is
largely responsible for all the mill
tary establishments they maintain.
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Daily Thought

Dearly beloved, I beseech you
as strangers and pilgrims, abstain
from f1eshly lusts. which war
against the SOUL Peter ell.
Lust is a captivity of the reason
and an engaging Of the passions.
II binders business and distracts
counsel. 1t sins against the body
and weakens the soul.-Jeremy
Taylor.
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SUBURBAN ROOMS AND BOARD

43 HOLLY ST, CLARENDON. VA.-Room
and board and garage. Phone Clarendon
7l3
DESIRABLE ROOMS and board in modern.
well kept home; garage on premises; gentle
men preferred. Mrs. virginia Taylor, IA
Franklin St. Lyon Park. Clarendon. Va.
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327 K ST. NE.-Large front room. piano,
first floor; $50 per month. Small front
room. second floor sig month
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1907 HOBART ST. N.W.--Well furnished
semi-private bath south exposure: sure all moo
quiet street: Il block cars and BUSES,
Block north 10th st. and Columbia rd. 10
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porch; for / or refined men: S42 per mo.
Free phone service. Adams 2423
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APARTMENTS-ONF
1925 18th 81. N.W:-FOUR Rooms, BATH.
eiec gas, h-w.h., large porch. newly decos
rated; low rent DAVID r. THOMAS .901
18th st. Nat. 325s or Col. 4ssS-Ws 10"
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1902 L ST. NW.-Large front room, suitable
for one or two. Gentlemen only. Private
bath Maid service. Nat. 3577. ,
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1929 RHODE ISLAND AVE; N.W,-Comfort.
bath central; gentleman only. Reasonable
Q7n2
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is 9Th ST NE-Rooms, one or two. with or
without Housekeeping; also will take care
of chili during day
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l34T NW.-Lovely. first floor, front, newly
decorated suitable for living and once &C.
front room. clean and sweet. cleo. fans
free only 81 weakly Met 0l51.
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laos DECATUR ST N.W.-Front room,
southern exposure; $40 per mo-; would con-
slider serving breakfast; gentlemen. Col
rnen w
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room OF large back room with private
porch; cont. h. w. laundry privileges; near
car and bus line; private family. 10
1929 18th ST N.W-Bed room and fitc'en
cite second floor front, So week. Basemel,t
room, use of kitchne, Sc; adults. 10
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$40 ST NE-3 rooms and bath. fur
nished for Housekeeping; cleo, ami; cou-
pie: reasonable rent.
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1nstalled-Convenient Downtown Location
Il, rooms Is, bath, rec. hall, dressing room,
3 rooms, bath, rec, hall. dressing room.
olnette, screened porch; $500
All apartments equipped with Murphy beds
ana dinette furniture. Resident manager
,o,o FRANCIS c. HEIGLE. Agent,
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SUBURBAN BOARD.

HORSESHOE HILL INN, Lee Highway, Falls
Church. Va:--Permanent guests desired; eX-
cellent meals: comfortable rooms; garage; bus
service. dinners served by appointment
Phone 1873.
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1902 MASS AVE N.W-Double room with
porch. next to bath. Also hall room.
lI29 18th ST NW.-3rd floor 2 large, fur
gas, cleo; 81 a week
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500 G ST, NE large front, Ink. rooms
in private home of adults.
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24o6 PA. AVE. N.W.--Front double room, 81
per week; front single room, 50 so per week:
gas and electricity. Can be seen at any
time
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NEAR DUPONT CIRCLE-1 SINGLE. Q
DOUBLE BREAKFAST IF DESIRED; REF
ERENCES EXCHANGED NORTH 1851.
1923 HARVARD ST NV, APT. 5-LOVELY
front room; second-foor front; all conven-
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13 10th ST. SE.-Conveniently located, well
furnished, single and double front rooms, in
new home; ami; accommodate persons;
board OPTIONAL. Lincoln 1896
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for housekeeping rooms, convenient to
market, cars; electricity, hot-water heat
bath same floor; nicely arranged Single
Housekeeping rooms, SO: also communicating
hk. room. 1408 Eighth st. NV.
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Mani, 81 NJ ST. NV.

1917 H SEQ ROOMS, KTTCHENETTE,
SEifeeHeo porch gas cleo, sink; End floor;
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9Ss K ST. N.W.-Pleasant front room, v
reasonable; gentleman; owners priv
home; con~enient to downtown business;
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TABLE BOARD.

THE HILLCREST. $500 18th invite best
| Of everything in season; hot bread; balanced
meals; reasonable. 2Ss
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n SEATON PL. NW.-One room, furnished,
next bath. for two; use of parlor; any time
of
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COUNTRY BOARD.

MISS SARAH w. CONWAY. on June /, opens
her house at Blue Ridge Summit. Pa. Com
Portable rooms, excellent meals. For informa-
ton write 909 st. Paul St, Baltimore.
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FURNISHED-By two young ladies, vicinity
18th and Oak SITS. NV. Address Box 1881,
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AND BOARD

GENTLEMAN and 10-year-old son desire
home in private. Protestant family where
mothers care will be given child, Including
laundry, care of clothes. etc. Would like
two rooms and garage. Fathers meals not
to be included State details. Address Box
265-J, Star Office .
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

WOODBRIDGE - LARGE LIVING ROOM.
i;fnaennce; S2850 Adults. Phone North s743.
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WANTED-ROOMS.

EMPLOYED LADY desires quiet room and
bath with meals convenient. Address Box
334-J, Star office.
YOUNG LADY wishes quiet room in refined
and Mass. ave; reference. Address BOX
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CENTRAL-Cozy fr. liv.-bed rm., large closet,
fan, $40; also 2-rm. airy suite; 7-window
bed rm; cont. h. W.: select; ref. 1926 18th.
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1926 FAIRMoNT ST. NW.-Board and rooms:
large front room with 5 windows, and single
ROOM very good board
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1915 18th ST NW.-Large front, room and
kitchen with range and running water;
1915 18th ST. N.W.-Single, attractive room;
End floor: gentleman.
Ill2 5th ST. NV large rooms, light
Housekeeping, and floor, next to bath; newly
papered; $50 month.
81 H ST. NW.-Rooms for light house,
keeping; one and two, IS, $3.50 and 81 week;
adults; clean, quiet, central.
707 MT. VERNON PL. N.W.-Beautifully fur
nished room. adjoiring bath; also garage;
rent reasonable.
CHEVY CHASE, D. c.. 1925 Morrison St
Large front room, nicely furnished, win
dows, private bath; gentleman; ref.
SIS r ST. N.W.-Large, attractive room, bed
room or housekeeping, IS weekly; continuous
h. W.; downtown. 1S%
1857 KALORAMA RD.-Colonial home; at
tractive front suite or single rooms, pvt. or
semi-pvt. bath; see to appreciate. Ia
1897 ST, near Carlton Hotel-Attractive,
pleasant single or double rooms, pvt. OF
semi-pvt. bath; central; men only. l4e
1902 GIRARD ST. N.W.---AttractiveIy furn.
front room, semi-pvt. bath. cont. hot water:
quiet clean; twin bedsi for one or tvo. AZ
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NO. 9Th ST. S.E-First-fioor apt; rooms
and kitchenette, nicely furnished with over
stuffed suite, s45i also 3rd-fioor apis, SIS
and $40 monthly.