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Evening star., 1937-05-13
SITUATIONS DOMESTIC.

hs0AsbSNS 0S"IStsS.
COLORED GIRL Is years old. wants
housework and laundry. Address Box
or maid. one. exp. driver; no Sunday work.
Decatur 2924.
CoLoRED WOMAN wants days work,
cleaning or laundry. Phone Atlantic
4O43-J.
GIRL. white, wants position. preferably
nurse and cleaner; good references. stay
nights; nights; IS; Chevy Chase vicinity Wis
GIRL, colored wishes work part time
morning or evening no Sundays; city
reference. District 06s3.
GIRL, reliable colored, wishes work of any
kind good plain cooking. Potomac 1856.
Good city D ref. Cali Potomac a, $3.50. "0l a.
GIRL, colored. honest and willing wants
part-time or days work; no Sundays;
ref. Call North 9463.
GIRL. wants part or full time work. light
complexioned. 1921 18th st. NV.
part-time or days work. Phone Lincoln
GIRL colored, neat, wishes position as
othce maid: Will do part-time work Call
Met $3.50.
GIRL. colored wants part-time or all
day work. Call Sterling 9sol.
GIRL colorcd, reliable, wants part-time
or days work; reference. Lincoln 56s6-W.
GIRL, colored experienced cook and
1856. 2045 st. NV.
evenings and mornings; references. Cali
District 50sA, No Sundays.
MAID. reliable. or couple wants Job best
city reference. Adams 6lol.
Evening star., 1937-05-13
HELP MEN.
DEALER-SALESMAN.

REAL ESTATE statesmen.
Have opening for 2 experienced men
with carsl to sell new houses
]. B. SHAPIRO CO.. INC, 1920 K ST.
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PIANO-Latest model mahogany finished
baby grand. Just Ike new; sss4; used for
II can be purchased by any one who will
continue the balance Of the $40 monthly
payments: a real value. National 1928.
Arthur Jordan Piano Co.. 1899 ST.,
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WE NEED ONE salesman,
with ability and willingness
to work, to sell the best used
car merchandise available.
He will be paid we'll and his
working hours will be rea-
sonable. See Mr.. Palmer,
Trew Motor Co., 1926 14th
st. NV.
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WANTED - 80 bricklayers.
39th and Idaho ave. NV.
$1l per day; big job.
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pIANOS-We offer four reconditoned up
rights at x4O-S5O-S60-Ss The pianos
make excellent practice instruments. Hugo
Worch ITO @ st. NV. Grands and up
rights for rent for all occasions. Home OF
the famous Hardman pianos. Do NOT tail
To examine the smallest and most popular
iol,t he MjpiDlanO
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statesmen, experienced in
electrical appliances; excel
lent opportunity. Apply
Marvin's Credit, Inc, 73O
7th st. NV.
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PIANOS-Schubert baby grand. Sl4S;
Kimmell baby grand. S195; both In good
condition. National 1923. Arthur. Jordan
piano Co. 1899 G. St. corner of 18th.
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| Men with direct sales experience for
| dealer set-up. No investment REQUIRED
This Is most unusual set-up for Wash
inRton and surrounding territory. Also
| opening in Annapolis. Baltimore Frederick
| HaSerstown and Eastern Shore, PROPOSE
| ton exclusive. full time; applicants must
Star Office. givinS qualifications and tele-
| phone number
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PIANO SteinWay upright mahogany. a
nlain modern style has tone and appear
ance of a new piano. Potomac 09S9.
PIANO Fischer upright. mahogany, small
style 3 years old really new piano at
one-third its value. North 1902.
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PIANO-SmaI fun keyboard apartment
upright used for only 3 months and in
new instrument condition; Sl6s; re-
possession, 1t can be purchased by mercy
continuing the balance OF the ~ monthly
payments National 1923. Arthur Jordan
Plano 70 1919 G st, corner 18th.
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BEAUTY OPERATORS t4) all-around with
long experience to work In modern beauty
shop: must have personality. Address
DnN w nfNce
Evening star., 1937-12-28
China Carries On.

Japanese guns have demolished shang-
hal and the Marking headquarters of
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek. but
China still goes on, and what is more.
goes on unconquered.
Her armies have been beaten before
and perhaps will be beaten again, but
no one ever has or ever will conquer her
territory that is half again as big as tho
United States, her $50 million people.
her centuries upon centuries of cultural
heritage which has enabled her to absorb
any and all who have undertaken to
dominate her by force of arms.
Napoleon once called China a sleeping
giant" that, when wakened, might some
day rule the world. Possibly the Little
Corporal" was partially deceived by ru-
mors, since disproved, of vast resources
in China, but 1t is probable that he was
referring to the power Of absorption by
which China today remains an ethnic
unit despite centuries of depredations.
Her conquerors have become Mongols
and others have become Chinese.
There seems, however. ct the moment,
little chance q Tho "slespins giant"
Evening star., 1937-12-28

human beings In flrst-class hospital.
Stranger still, this is the second time
the impossible" has happened.
Two years ago 80 prize animals were
victims and calf was found, horribly
beaten, with club lying nearby. 1t was
only too obvious that the animals did not
get that way naturally" Few cattle had
been admitted to the herd and those
were carefully tested. For eighteen years
the herd had maintained its accredited
status. Despite intensive investigations
both outbreaks remain mysteries.
1t would be unwise public policy, of
course, to reveal the mechanics of the
Investigations. 1t seems logical to sur
mise, however, that the Government
planted agents on the farm in an effort
to discover the culprit. The agents might
truthfully be called by more unpleasant
terms. It would not be erroneous to label
them stool pigeons, or labor spies. Un-
der the circumstances popular opinion
was with the agents. If there had been
such an organization as the Association
of Amalgamated Cow Mixers, Beltsville
Local. No. 10l, protesting the agents
presence as unfair" it would have
found no public support
1t is easy to imagine private concerns
faced with similar mysteries. Under
such circumstances labor spies are al
most Indispensable as
they may be under more normal condi-
tions. Lawmakers and laymen may
profitably give some thought to the
Beltsville incident before condemning all
industrial espionage too vigorously.
Evening star., 1937-12-28

At the same time the lands now
crossed by the equator were covered
with ice. Typical glacial boulders are
found there today, scratched like those
borne by the modern ice sheets of Green
land and the Antarctic. It was, the
geological evidence indicates, the most
titanic glaciation the world ever has
known. The area covered was much
vaster than that of North America,
Europe and Asia covered with glaciers
in the last ice age.
Strangest of all, as pointed out by
DR.. w. w. Watts, British geologist, In
the annual report of the Smithsonian
Institution, the direction of this titanic
glaciation was southwark, from the
present equator toward the South Pole.
This leads him to the hypothesis that
the equatorial lands then were actually
ut the South Pole.
One explanation has been that the
axis Of the earth has shifted so that
what IS now the South Pole may have
been approximately At the equator in
carboniferous times But 4 little con.
sideration shows this to have been i'm.
possible. The Northern Hemisphere
would have been affected rs well as
the Southern. There would have been
northward movement Of glaciers.
Moreover. 1t is impossible to postulate
such an immense shifting of the earth's
axis in geological time.
The alternative hypothesis proposed
by DR.. Watts Is that the glaciated lands
formed parts of 4 single land mass
during carboniferous times and that
this mass floated like a raft across the
South Pole. The glaciation actually
was from the south northward, but the
lands themselves have been turned
around in the great time interval that
followed.
This land mass, Dr. Watts says, would
have been the hypothetical ancient con-
tinent OF Gondwanaland, long since split
up into fragments such as South Africa,
the southern part Of South America,
Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand.
the present Antarctica and the Falk-
land Islands.
Evening star., 1937-12-28
Follow the SsWar"
With a Good Map.

Between fighting and apologizing for
shooting the wrong people, Japan is hav-
ing lively time in China. Keep up with
the news from Asia. Get good map
showing the latest boundaries with the
accepted spellings, so that you can readi-
ly follow the news dispatches. Asia is
playing an important part in world af-
fairs. Half of the people of the world
live there. America has important in
terests that must be respected. On the
reverse side Of this new map is a mass
Of statistical data Of general interest
Send for your copy today. Inclose 10
cents to cover cost and handling.
Evening star., 1937-12-28
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES 3. TRAcEWELL.
What would have become Of Christmas
giving If it hadn't been for our enthu-
siasm for gadgets Of one sort or another?

What would have become Of Christmas
giving If it hadn't been for our enthu-
siasm for gadgets Of one sort or another?
Yet the food is the important thing,
whether it Is bread, crusts, suet, fancy
seed, peanuts, or whatnot.
Going along the other day, we saw
sidewalk covered with birds.
Out Of an apartment window some
one had scattered sunhower seeds and
cracked corn.
English sparrows and pigeons COM
posed the bulk Of the consumers.
What happy time they were having!
It was as fine Christmas picture
as one could want to see. but no doubt
hundreds Of pedestrians failed to see 1t.
Indeed, practically all the walkers
there scattered the birds, preventing
them from eating.
The diners did not mind that, though.
AS soon as pedestrians passed, the
sparrows and others new back.
They enjoyed every grain.
Such impromptu feasts mean as much
to the birds as II they dine at the most
cleverly constructed bird feeder"
We hope that many Of these clever
gadgets were received as Christmas
presents.
There are many types Of feeders, some
Of them inclosed with glass. Some are
on wires, some on poles, others on
stakes
Some are to be placed on trees.
Some feeding devices are for use on
windowsills.
1t seems particularly appropriate that
many people will take up bird feeding
Is the result Of Christmas gifts Of feeders
and seed.
From now on comes the hardest time
of. the year for those birds which choose
to winter in this vicinity.
Not for them the warmer reaches of
the Southland! They prefer to stay
where it Is cold.
Long stretches Of snow on the ground
cut of their supply Of food, unless people
come to their rescue.
1t should be kept in mind by every
newcomer to this combined sport and
good deed that once begun 1t should
be continued, for the birds come to
look for food where they have re-
ceived 1t.
Even persons who do not choose to
feed them continuously will be doing
. good thing by remembering them in
freezing weather, especially In snowy
times.
Then they are deprived Of food ex-
cept such berries as they may md
on shrubs.
It can be imagined that the berries
are pretty well picked over by the time
the severest weather comes
Snow covers lawns and even weeds
on vacant ground. The latter consti-
tute large part Of such "ever-normal
granary" as the wild birds enjoy In
winter.
1t is necessary to make up to them
for this deficit, and handfuls of cracked
corn, wheat, bread. suet, sunnower and
other seeds, nuts, even fruits, help i'm
mensely.
A cut apple gives them both food
and drink.
Evening star., 1937-12-28

Dear Sir:
1T has been thirteen years since
have written you. Remember the young
fellow that lay abed over the book
store?
well, the years have come and that
same fellow still lives to praise God.
Il found God after many, many years.
II found Him in the flower In the
crannied wall.
II had to search long and hard.
But Jesus said the search was the
pear! Of great price.
Eyes, am well again and now dad
and have tiny bungalow.
. 4
What prompted the letter was .
recent article.
I'VE had wondered about q feeder
for the birds, when 10! your article.
AN old table was found in the cellar,
strips Of wood were put on the edge
to hold the food from falling of, many
pine boughs were put around It to form
. perfect screen, leaving only the front
open.
"On the table were piled sunnower
seeds. scratch feed (fine) and sand.
II wish you might peep out there
right now. never knew that the
tufted titmouse loved sunflower seeds
before.
THE branches are full OF birds.
Red BIRDS snow birds, black capped
titmice, tufted titmouse, wood sparrows,
the nuthatches, jays, the woodpeckers
and wren.
I'VE thank you for telling of this
simple feeding station. We put out
some suet in cloth bag that comes
with the oranges. How they do enjoy
= peck at 1t!
Thanks for your articles.
"Your friend that still loves to take
q trip with Conrad over the South Seas.
Cordially, c. w. g."
An old table, soap box, a board,
or even . patch Of earth, makes q very
good feeder.
The food, not the feeder, is the essen
tial thing.
Anything. or nothing, almost, will do
for q device.
What Is In the device is what counts.
1t Is essential for all persons who
think that they might like to feed the
birds. but who have not yet done 50,
to remember that it is the food, and
not the gadget, which Is of importance
When stress is thus laid on foods,
the enthusiast who gives good advice
would hope to avoid giving the idea
that bird food, in its turn, is . very
complicated matter.
Neither feeder nor feed need worry
any one.
A bare spot of ground. or a sidewalk,
will do for the feeder; breadcrumbs
will help many . starving, and there
fore freezing, bird.
-
Yet there is no gainsaying that .
simple feeder, such as discussed by our
correspondent, adds something to the
sport.
Usually it is we'll within the means
or ability of any one.
Americans, as nation, are gadget-
minded.
They like to make things, and to use
them when made.
That was the pioneer spirit, and it
is still the spirit of our land.
Evening star., 1937-12-28

place IN Auditor 0eneral-and to take
away the right Of Congress to have this
omcer pass 1irst upon the legality Of
expenditures made by the executive de-
partments. As the law now stands, the
Controller General decides whether
expenditures are being made In accord
ance with the lAw-before the money Is
paid. That is I check which Congress
specifically set up on Government spend.
Ing, and the Controller General was
MADE responsible to Congress, rather
than to the President. This has not
pleased the New Deal Administration,
although the previous administrations
had been able to get along well enough
with the Controller General. Tho
reorsanisation bill is due to come up in
the Senate as soon - the anti-lynchins
bM hcs been disposed of-whsnsvsr that
NAY b. -.
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awakening for long time to come. Fully
four-fifths Of the population Is made up
Of peasants and little more than one
tenth Of the land is under cultivation Of
the most primitive sort. In her principal
industry, textile, the domestic system
still prevails, according to figures which
show that in 1880 the ratio Of yarn con-
sumption Of the power looms to the hand
looms was as one to four. According to
Professor ]. L. Buck of Marking Univer-
sity. the informed consensus Is that sew
enty per cent Of China's industrial output
both In quantity and value is from the
cottage industries.
In these days Of minimum wage dis
cussion in the Capital, glance at Chinese
incomes is interesting. The annual in
come of the Chinese peasant has been
computed at thirty-f1ve yuan, which
varies in terms Of our money, but is about
50 or $40. More than half Of this sum
goes for the purchase Of food. Accord
ing to figures cited by G. K. Moser Of the
Commerce Department, the Chinese in
dustrial male worker gets thirty-flve
yuan month or between 50 and SO,
while the women earn on an average
l1.54 yuan or between 50 and - a month.
With little beside coal in the way Of
industrial resources, it is difficult to see
= world influencing China, in the eco
nomic status which now prevails, for
many years to come. As far back as two
centuries before Christ, q unified China
under the Chin Dynasty hurled back the
nomads of the Urals upon the southeast
ward-migrating Teutonic tribes who ned
back in terror to the shelter Of the Ro-
man Empire and then destroyed it. Who
is to say a united China may not like
wise turn upon present-day conquerors?
Evening star., 1937-12-28
MIR. Hull Back on His Job.

Now that the nightmare of American
embodiment in the Far East has been
banished, at least for the visible future.
Secretary Hull is promptly returning to
his first love-reciprocal trade agree
ments. According to present indications,
1888 will be busy year for him. Since
the first pact was concluded with Cuba,
IN 1884, agreements with fifteen other
countries have been signed. That is an
impressive record. 1t not only testifies
to the soundness of the gospel preached
by the Secretary of State, but attests
that the doctrine OF economic reciprocity
as the bedrock Of peace is steadily gain
Ing adherents in skeptical world.
The United States hopes to negotiate
no fewer than six additional agreements
IN 1888. Because these would include
pacts with our two biggest customers
Great Britain and Canada-the new year
is expected to produce the most impor-
tant results yet achieved. Contemplated
arrangements with Canada concern am
pliflcation of the existing agreement. An
entirely new deal is in sight with our
British cousins. Besides Canada and
the United Kingdom, Secretary Hulls
plans look to bargains with Venezuela.
Turkey, Ecuador and Czechoslovakia.
The thorniest paths to be trodden are
those leading in the British and Czecho-
slovakian directions. John Bull must
watch his tariff step with Uncle Sam
lest he tread on the toes of the do
minions, which are active competitors of
ours in the British home market for
agricultural produce. They naturally
view with alarm any loss of empire
preference" through reciprocal conces-
sions to "the States" Czechoslovakia
seeks in particular tariff favors for her
important footwear industry.
Throughout four years Of campaign
ing for his program, Secretary Hull has
had constantly to combat that species Of
economic human nature which wants
everybody's OK gored but its own. While
striving to the utmost for a square deal
for all concerned, the premier Of the
Roosevelt cabinet rightly and resolutely
refuses to be diverted from the goal that
is immeasurably more important in his
eyes even than ephemerally favorable
trade balances-the laying, through mu-
tual trade benefits, Of the durable foun-
dations of international accord. Relieved
Of the deadening dread of war and the
bankrupting burden of competitive ar
maments, which 1t breeds, nations can
and will devote to the development Of
commerce the energies they are now
compelled to squander on the arts Of war.
That is the cleaning objective to which
Cordell Hull is dedicating himself with
Trojan persistence and evangelical zeal.
Evening star., 1937-12-28
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
laboratory and Stud
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.
Does . microbe have brains?

Does q microbe have brains?
Evidence for the existence Of . nerv-
Gus system with . motor center In Ger
tain groups Of protozoa-the microscopic.
single-celled creatures at the bottom of
the animal kingdom-is summed up by
DR.. r. Ralph Fowell Of Kings College,
London, in q report to the Royal Micro
scopical Society.
In some Of the larger animals Of this
great family extremely minute fibrils
can be detected which contract when
the creature moves. They seem to run
toward q common center, or motorium.
Moreover, all seem to act In harmony
so that the whole body co-operates in
the movement. One part doesn't pull
against another.
Apparently these flbrils serve one of
two purposes-they may be beginning
of q cellular structure or the earliest
appearance Of nerves, through the pos
session and perfection of which in multi.
celled creatures animal life has made
such remarkable progress. Or at this
stage Of life nervous system and skeleton
may be the same.
Some weight Is given to the nerve
hypothesis by the sensitivity shown by
some of these protozoa to such drugs
as atropine, aconite and caffeine, which
act specifically as nerve poisons in
higher animals, leaving other tissue un-
affected. However, other groups of pro-
tozoa which seem to have equally de-
veloped f1bril systems are relatively un-
affected by the poisons. It may be that
at some stage these fibrils change from
Skeletal to nervous
The remarkable coordination that
exists in body movements of these one
celled creatures, DR.. Fowell points out,
almost necessitates the assumption Of
some regulating mechanism, such as is
furnished by the nervous system in
higher animals. But such co-ordinat-
ing motorium would constitute q form
OF brain. The primary object of the brain
was to govern movement, and all its other
functions seem to have arisen, by va
r1ous processes of refinement, out of this.
The motorium Of the microbe, how
ever, hardly can be considered as 3
primitive brain Of the type which has
reached higher development in many
celled animals from sponges to men.
The latter has been produced by a
dlnerentiation of cells. In the protozoan
the controlling mechanism had to be
produced by q differentiation Of material
within a single cell. The possibilities
are Infinitely more limited.
About 250,000,000 years ago most Of
the Northern Hemisphere enjoyed 4
semi-tropical climate. Forests grew lux
uriantly as far north as Greenland. It
was during this period that the great
coal deposits were laid down.
Evening star., 1937-12-28
Cows and Spies.

The second outbreak of bovine tuber-
culosis within two years in the carefully
guarded Government herd at Beltsville
comes at a time when the question of
labor spies is being widely discussed.
0dlcials have voiced the opinion that
the trouble in the big Federal experiment
station is due to a malicious act" It is
one Of those things that just could not
happen and yet did: Forty-four cattle in
the herd Of 326 animals were found to
b infected, and this In spite Of sanitary
precautions comparable to those afforded
Evening star., 1937-12-28

There are enough poets in service from
coast to coast to make the year of 1898
wonderful for literary art. All We shall
need is a few level-headed men to
write the laws by which the people are
to abide.
Evening star., 1937-12-28

"Panay" was mentioned to the Japa-
nese Emperor, who did not admit that
he was intimately aware of it. He would
be indeed sorry ruler If he were actually
as ignorant Of men and motives Is he
sometimes assumes to be.
Evening star., 1937-12-28

taneously employed by President Roose-
welt again calls attention to his effective
work in keeping men on the job even
though their opinions and methods of
action may disagree.
Evening star., 1937-12-28

Japanese eloquence in expressing re-
gret is unlimited. It takes much elo-
quence to counterbalance the roar of
cannon.
Evening star., 1937-12-28

Holiday greetings are demanded as
they come in season. Even the announce
ment of some far-away political purge"
cannot interfere with them.
Evening star., 1937-12-28

"Tiny Tim" was again heard from. 1t
is unfortunate that Oriental tradition
does not easily submit an analysis of this
simple child-type in English literature.
Evening star., 1937-12-28
Shooting Stars.
DY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Broadcasting.
When I'm receiving fine advice
On what Is practical and nice,
Sweet Is the song that comes to me
From that big station, adv"
Beethoven, List and Wagner bold
New beauties, any night, unfold.
They never knew that some fine day
A part in commerce they might play.
I listen with respectful care
For hints Of what to sing or wear.
Eternal genius seems to be
Linked to that station, ADV"
Evening star., 1937-12-28

A great many big enterprises are still
dependent on what AL Smith may think
of them, even though his voice may for
the present be denied to the arts Of
radio boosting.
Evening star., 1937-12-28

Pictures Of great politicians are freely
published with . possible intention Of
stimulating an indifference as to what
may eventually become of them.