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Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. II Timothy 2:1. Idealism and Booberies LLOYD GEORGE, Premier of Britain, is the king of press agents. Would that America had one like him. The whole world is now ready to burst out crying over the case of poor old England and is correspondingly bitter against the villainous Uncle Sam—thanks to Little David. David has been telling the world Great Britain favors forgiving the debts the allies owe her; in fact, it would give her the greatest pleasure to do them this little favor! Only—mark how the little Welshman puts it—only so long as America presses Britain for payment, Britain is helpless! . Sacre Uncle Sam! Shylock, va! If it were not for him and his gTeediness, what a lovely world this would be! So is the world thinking. What America needs is a press agent of her own. Mr. Harding or Mr. Hughes, or somebody, might do a little Lloyd Georgeing on their own hook and put things in their right place. It may be that a certain amount of cancellation of war debts all round is the only way out. We do not know. But we are from Missouri, and if we can be shown, nobody in the world is more liberal than the American with his money. The mere cancellation of $11,000,000,000 worth of war debts owed by the allies to the United States is not going to save the world. What good will it do this country—or the world, for that matter —to make the allied nations a present of this eleven billions only to have them take the money and use it fighting new wars! Europe must first set her own house in order, reduce her military establishments to a minimum, cut all expenses to the bone, then take stock of how much or how little she can pay. If she can pay all, even by making sacrifices, she ought to be made to pay all. It was her own foolishness which brought on the war. If, however, after she has reduced her budgets to decent limits, it is discovered she really can not pay, then America may take an entirely different view of the situation. Some high-placed publicity man of the David Lloyd. George order ought to make, this plain to the world. America is not without her ideals, but neither is she a sucker. Is This You? WHAT is “the average American” like? Politicians talk about him. Newspapers write about him. Psychologists hold him up as a sort of phantom in their shadow-boxing. The average American man is 5 feet 7 y inches tall. He weighs pounds. This is announced by Maj. Gen. Merritte W. Ireland, surgeon general of the army, after studying the records of 1,000,000 who were examined for service in the last war. How close are you to the average? The shortest American men are in Rhode Island. The tallest are in Texas and the mountains of North Carolina. Even at that, they average only about an inch above or below “the average Americar. South Dakota men averaged heavier than any other State’s. Rhode Island men were the lightest. The two groups varied only five pounds above and below normal. Out of each 100 city men examined for the army, sixty-one physical defects were found. The figure was only fifty-three for the farm boys. This confirms what yon already know—that health is in the country, close to the soil. A fifth of the Class One men were found physically unfit, for military service in the field or for home study. This is a very serious handicap for the next generation, as yet unborn—for, while few physical defects are inherited, the weakness or tendency toward a physical defect is definitely known to be liable to be passed on from father to son. Kansas averaged highest of all States for physical specimens. Rhode Island was at the foot of the list. Three out of each 200 men examined were rejected for mental defects—inadequacies or abnormalities. On this basis, at least 1,500,000 Americans have hopelessly inferior brains, some of them of the vegetable type. Millions of bits of valuable information, each leading to*an important and helpful deduction, can be drawn from Ireland’s analysis of “the average American.” Os all these, the are: 1. The need of greater health education and exercise. 2. The need of more intensified education for those whose brains are below normal. 3. The urgent wisdom of cautiously considering the physical and ‘mental health of an intended mate, before marriage.

Country Youth Has Advantages Over City Lad in Radio Practice

By PAUL F. OOO'jEY America’s Foremost Radio Authority. Many city folks who have grasped at radio as a delightfully fascinating novelty may be expected to tire of It soon. Their efforts toward getting the best out of radio meet frequently with discouragement. Electric elevators, flashing signs, steel buildings, cramped quarters and lightning-shy landlords —all bar them from pleasures which are experienced-by their more fortunate brothers in the suburbs, the small village or the farm. Country folk appreciate radio most. They do not have the varied forms of entertainments which their city brothers enjoy and are therefore much more appreciative of the programs broadcasted by the larger stations. They can rig up their sets easily. In most cases, supports for the antenna wires grow near the house. If not. the wires of a fence, when propsraly arranged, make a very good aerial- There are no steel buildings to absorb the feeble impulses. ■No Lightning Fear The farmer has no fear of lightning. He has lived in the open with it. He knows that the wires which pick up the radio signals will bring no more lightning than the telephone line. During winter months when life on tbe Carta baa the least to offer, radio

is offering most. The long, cold nights bear signals from far and near. Entertaining programs can be selected at wilL from any one of two dozen stations within a radius of 1,000 miles if a good type of regenerative receiver is available. News of the day, weather reports, market gossip, entertainment of great variety, fashion talks for the women —all tend to make radio popular in the country. As with the automobile and telephone, so with radio. The rural dweller will And the greatest need for it, and put it to the most useful service. He will learn most about it. too. The tendency on part of the youth of the farm toward operation of telephone and telegraph stations for communication from county to county and State to State seems a nhtural one. Extends to Far West Thousands of them are doing it now and 1923 promises to bring many thousands more into the game. A group of young men in a small town in Washington by their concerted efforts have just been able to report the reception of almost two dozen stations in the central States on a fence wire 1,600 feet in length. This feat was accomplished during the worst season of the year for radio. Their experiments -will be duplicated th* ecjpntry over.

DRYLAWAUIHOR ASSERTS REPEAL CAN NEVER COME Sheppard Avers Modification of Amendment May Mean Rigid Substitute. BRANDS EFFORTS FUTILE Texas Senator Derides Move by Wet Forces to Combat Volstead Act. Rv LEO R. SACK, Times Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—" Wets who are putting up money to help organizations which are fighting the eighteenth amendment and the Vplstead act and candidates who are digging deep into their pocketbooks to run on light wine and beer platforms are the most conspicuous easy marks of the century.” Rather discouraging to tho thousands of folks in Missouri, Ohio and other States who voted for wet candidates in the recent primaries, perhaps, but Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, author of the eighteenth amendment and it's sponsor during it’s arduous passage through Congress, doesn’t intend to have his baby kicked around too much. Expects Few Changes Senator Sheppard says "it is utterly futile” to attempt to bring back wine and beer and he warns that attempts to modify the Volstead act may result in additional legislation which will make the United States “as dry as the Sahara desept.” "The eighteenth amendment is as permanent a part of the Constitution as any other section of that great instrument,” he says. “The Volstead act is being administered with increasing efficiency, and if there are any changes at all, it will be to strengthen the law. "A few people are making money out of organizations propagandising wine and beer, but their agitation is making no headway. The people understand that restoration of any form of intoxicating liquors would mean the overthrow of prohibition. I.ight Drinks Worse "Asa matter of fact beer and wine always has been more dangerous than whisky, because it is more seductive, more palatable and more tempting to first drinkers.” Aside from the determination of Congress to turn down wine and beer Senator Sheppard Insists: “Any act of Congress which would restore Intoxicants in any form would promptly be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. "There is no use for people to fool themselves. Prohibition is here to stay.”

THE REFEREE By ALBERT APPLE. SLOW-DOWN The timid —fearing prosperity is too good to be true —get out their telescopes and search the business 6ky

for clouds. You hear many wonder if “'there'll be a slow-down this fall.” Wise men at the head of the steel industry, weathervane of general business, do not seem to think so.

Shipments of Iron ore, APPLE down the Great 1-a.kes from the mines, so far this season are three-fourths bigger than in the corresponding period a year ago. Steel men would not be building up their stocks of ore unless reasonably sure they willl need it this winter. CHAMPION U. B. Chase, Jr., in a New Orleans contest, is declared champion crawfish eater of the world. He ate five bucketsful, weighing sixty pounds in the shell. The speed record goes to George Luthy, who devoured 100 crawfish In two and a half minutes. This may be unimportant news, but It would be a dull world without people like Chase and Luthy Back of events like the crawfish tournament, you see the American sense of humor, our safety valve. MARINE Manning American ships with American citizens is just as important, in building up a merchant marine, as having the ships under the American flag. So you approvingly chuckle "Okeh!” at this rews: The Shipping Board reports that in twelve months it placed 84,782 officers and men on American ships. And ninety-two out of 100 of them were American citizens. RADIO PROGRAM (Indianapolis (HatfUld) WOH.) (Central Standard Time! Evening Program—Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. 8:30 to 10 p. m. Musical Programs Daily Programs (Except Sunday) 10:00 to 11:00 A. M.—Musical program with special features— Bond, grain and live stock market reports at 10:15 a. m. 1:00 to 2:00 P. M. —Musical program with special features— . Closing bond and grain market reports at 1:30 p. m 4:00 to 5:00 P. M—Muaioal program with special features— Closing live stock market at 4:15 p. M Baseball scores at 4:45 p. m 4:30 P. M.—Police notices. Sunday Program 10:00 to 11:00 A. M.—Kecital (Discontinued July and August.) (Indianapolis ( Ayres-Hamilton) WLK.) Daily Except Sunday. 11:00 .to 11:30 A. M.—Musical program. 11:30 A M.—Weather reports and forecast 485 meters. 12:00 to 12:30—Musical program. 12:30 P. M.—Market reports. 2:00 to 2:30 P. M.—Musical program. 2:30 P. M.—Bureau of Agriculture market reports. 3:00 to 3:30 P. M.—Musical program. 6:00 P. M.—Baseball scores 10:00 P. M.—Time and weather reports, 485 meters. RADIO PRIMER FADING—-A rapid variation of the strength of signals from a given transmitting stat.on. the same circuit adjustments being used at the transmitting and receiv.ng stat.ons. It is observed particularly on short wave lengths, at distances from the transmitting station which are some 10 to I 20 per cent of the normal transmitting i range of the station Another word for fading i* ‘‘swinging.'' t

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Bibliologist Brands Dogmatic Religion Unfit Catechism for Growing Youth

By NEA Service (Copyright, 1922, by NEA Service.) BALTIMORE. Aug. 14.—This is what is the matter with us, said Dr. Hendrik 'Willem Van Loon in an interview today: Dogmatic religion is losing ground everywhere in the world. Democracy is in a bad way everywhere in the world. We take ourselves too seriously and don’t smile enough. Mankind staggers under a burdeti of self-conscious gloom. Dr. Van Loon is used to saying starting things as well as doing them. His famous "Story of Mankind” shook the traditions of history teaching. Now he is about to upsett certain Bible traditions with his new book, "The Story of the Bible.” This is to be followed with a volume on the Renaissance to show there was once a time when people got fun out of life. Then he plans to write a “Story of the Eighteenth Century." “The sectarian churches,” he says, “have lost their grip on the people despita universal spiritual curiosity. Nothing is more pathetic and more general than the blind groping for spiritual concepts. Witness the New Thought volumes —Ralph Waldo Emerson served up with some spiritual cod-liver oil. “As an intelligent man, I can’t very well send my boys to a sectarian church or Sunday school to listen to the outworn ideas tossed about in those places. As for reading the Bible, the Old Testament is hardly a book to give any child as a guide for his conduct unless thoroughly revised. Van Loon says “The Story of the Bible” was written for his two boys because he didn't want to expose them to shopworn notions in church and Sunday school. “Religion, politics, education, the arts and other components of cultured life," he says, “have been hamstrung by a vague conception that there is something sinful In having a good time. I am impressed with the gloomy face of civilization; we take ourselves much too seriously.

Harvard Psychic Recommends Hard Work As Remedy for Sudden Outbursts of Rage

BY PHILIP J. SINNOTT SPOKANE. Wash., Aug. 14.—'' Keep your temper if you can. But if you do get angry—go into action! Saw wood, pile bricks, do something. It’s good for your health.” Dr. Walter B. Cannon of Harvard Medical School's department of physiology, thus summarized at a recent meeting results of his studies of physiological effects of powerful emotions. “If the emotions of rage or fear overwhelm us, our bodies are put on a war footing -when there may be no war to lie fought. We ore ready for action —so the best thing is action. Attack something—wood piles, an unbeaten carpet and the like are safest to pick on. "Down through the ages nature haa endowed vertebrate animals with involuntary mobilization of bodily fighting or running facilities in time of fear or anger. Through these, the body ceases all functioning not connected with the fight or fight for protection.” Further preparation of the body noted in such times of stress is secretion of strength giving fluids into the blood by certain glands. “This mobilization of the bodily forces was helpful when primitive man

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DR. HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON AND HIS TWO SONS, FOR WHOM HE HAS WRITTEN T STORY OF THE BIBLE.

“The cure? Educate people for life rather than for their job. Teach men to enjoy themselves intelligently. If the inhabitants of dull country regions could see ‘The Follies,' there would be no room for the Ku-Klux Klan. “It Is impossible for me to imagine civilized men in New York taking up lynching as a recreation —there are too many other ways to secure excitement.

s* V ’V y \ f | ■ ■’ ... AW j DR. WALTER B. CANNON battled for his life with wild animals or other men," Dr. Cannon continued.

are many substances containing nitrogen. Nitrogen combines with oxygen to form these five oxides; (1). Nitrogen monoxide; (2) nitrogen dioxide; (3) nitrogen trloxlde; (4) nitrogen tetroxlde; (5) nitrogen pentoxide. Q. —What Is meant by “mediocre people?” A. —The word “mediocre” means of middle quality, ordinary, commonplace. or people of ordinary ability. Q. —What are the general principles of adding machine construction? A.—The mechanism of adding machines is based on the principle that our system of writing numbers has place value, 10 units making 1 ten, 10 tens making 100, and so forth. The units are placed around the circumference of a wheel, the tens In the same manner on a second wheel, the hundreds on a third wheel, and so forth. These wheels are operated by keys which cause the wheels to turn one-tenth, two-tenths, three-tenths, etc., of a revolution, depending on whether the key depressed is 1,2, 3, eta At the end of a complete revolution the unit wheel engages the tens wheel, causing it to move forward one-tenth of a revolution. In the same manor the end of each complete revolution of the tens wheel the hundred wheel moves forward one-tenth of a. revolution; thus carrying is provided for. It is possible to subtract on the machine, but not by reversing the mechanism, as might be supposed. Subtracting must be done by adding—a process known as complementary subtraction. Instead of subtracting the number, we add its complement. Multiplication can also be performed by considering it as continued addition. To multiply 27 by 43 we strike 27 three times and 270 four times, the result being the product. Q. —How many miles of railroad were there in the United States in 1865? Tn 1920? A.—35,085 in 1865; in 1920, 263,821.04. Q. —Who designed the first seal of the United States? A.—A committee was appointed to suggest a design, but as none of the committee could draw they called into consultation Eugene Pierre du Simitlere. The design was accepted by the committee but never used. No seal was cut at the time and several years passed before it was again taken up for consideration. The first seal as accepted and used was designed by William Barton and Charles Thomson. The distinction of originating the arms of the United States cannot justly be accorded to either but belongs to both, with the larger share of the distinction to Thomson. This design was accepted on June 20, 1782, and became the first seal of the United States.

“But in these backwater towns there is no form of enjoyment, and ! the Ku-Klux Klan gives a stimulation with the possibility of a lynching j thrown In to add spice to the enter- j tainment. “But all these violent religious an- j tagonisms, which are so comon in this country today are the results of an attempt to escape from the dull monotony of an industrial environ- i ment.

“But what was beneficial then may be harmful now. “Civilization has not eliminated our proneness to fear or rage. Such functions are not governed from the cerebral hemisphered, so once they are set in motion, they cannot be checked. “Anger prepares the body for hard work. Let hard work be the outlet for the mood. It utilizes the effervescing energy, accomplishes something, exercises the body, and at the same time, diverts the mind from the cause of anger. “There is one method better than hard work, however. That Is letting nothing drive you into a rage, especially if you cannot do anything to bettor conditions by your augmented powers.” IF YOU ARE WELL BRED You are always careful about your appearance and do not consider housework an excuse for being untidy and unkempt. You provide yourself with neat house dresses arfd are as attractive in them as you are In more formal attire. Then If you are taken unawares by the morning caller, you do not have to apologize for your untidiness or risk displeasure by refusing an appearance.

CANCERS By DR. R. H. BISHOP

HERE is a crying need for the dissemination of a lot of information to the public on the subject of cancer. A p p ein and ic itis used to be a practically fatal disease. Not until the fact was broadcast thoroughly that speedy opera-

tion was the only salvation did appendicitis lose its dread reputation. Something of the sort must be done tn the case of cancer. Cancer is confined almost exclusively to adult life. Largely because of neglect and Ignorance, nine out of ten cases are fatal. Yet If proper precaution and treatment were observed, It is probable that more than half of these deaths could be prevented. There are three forms of unnecessary worry about cancer. People often believe it is contagious, hereditary or a blood disease. It is none of these. The most dangerous thing about cancer Is that its onset is frequently painless. If it were painful from the first most people would take warning and less cases would be fatal. It Is, therefore, the part of wisdom for all adults to have insidious sores that have been irritated for some time examined. LEARN A WORD TODAY Today’s word is—VERVE. It's pronounced—vurv. Tt means—vivacity of Imagination, especially such as animates a poet, artist or musician, in composing or performing: enthusiasm: spirit. It was borrowed into English directly from the same French word, “verve,” with the same meaning In the two languages. It’s used like this—“ Literature of the old-fashioned ‘dime novel’ school, long looked down on, Is beginning to be recognized today 4as having been distinguished by its verve and continuity of interest.” BOOKS FOR WATER LOVERS Indianapolis Public Library Circulation Department, St. Clair Square. (Free Book Service) “The Canoe.” by R. E. Pinkerton. “Goin’ Fishin',” by C. B. Cook. “The Book of the Sailboat,” by A. H. Verrill. “How to Swim,” by Annette Kellerman. "The Dingbat of Arcady.” by Marguerite Wilkinson'.

“The world today Is tired—physically and mentally. Boredom to most people has become the rule.” Democracy, thinks the historian, is passing through the same crisis as religion. Democratic government exists in America despite democracy's inefficiency, he says. He thinks such government will be a failure in Europe unless a certain spiritual element is added to mere political theory.

REPORT SHIS PROGRESS IDE ON NM nine Bulletin Issued by Hoosier Motor Club Gives Condition of Roads. Continued steady progress in hard surface paving work on the National road east and west of Indianapolis is reported by the touring bureau of the Hoosier Motor Club in a statement issued today. East of Greenfield the detour now starts at the city limits, the motor club stated, and while the contractor turns traffic east at the first road, the motor club advised through motorists to continue on to the third road south of the National road, which the club has marked throoughly all the way into Dublin, Wayne County, thus avoiding ail the present construction gaps. The first road south of the National road is advisable for local travelers wishing to go to Charlottesville and Knightstown. This road is not good in spots, while the through route marked by the motor club is in splendid condition generally, it was stated. The eastern barricade is still being maintained at Dublin, although several miles of pavement have been mmpieted to the edge of Straughn. Business interests at Straughn are preparing to grade the street longside the new concmrete pavement. The motor club states that with the side section of the main street in Straughn graded traffic likely will be permitted to come west from Richmond to that city before detouring. The west-bound detour is to the north of the National road, and in sections this detour is rough. Only about eighteen miles of pavement remain to be laid between Straughn and Greenfield, divided into two gaps, one between Straughn and Knightstown, and the other between Charlottesville and Greenfield. YTest of the city the construction work is proceeding steadily, some handicap being reported on account of slow shipments of cement and other materials. * CHEF PERNOLLET By BERTON BRALSY. <T , b / xrmfest cook in the world Ildto be SV?n>oUet of the town of Belley, France) OME bards may prate of warriors great. Or statesmen mi*hty iu debate. Who sit amid the halls of state - - Discussing; many questions; Eut J/ttebire to touch my lyre And’sing- with fervor and with fire Os him whose one and sole deeire Is pleasnig- our directions: Thus Ia wreath eternal lay, A laurel ever-verna) lay. Beneath the Galliv kelly. And on the toad of Pernollet, Chief Pernollet of Belley ’ WELL-NAMED the town of euch renown. Where monarch, merchant, prince or down. With gustatory bliss gulp down Roasts, ices, entrees, salads. To come across the special sauce Os Pernollet, makes words a loss. And makes the versifiers toss A sheaf of noble ballads: Such cooking might well earn a lay From poets who could turn a lay As well as Keats or Shelley. To celebrate Chief Pernollet. Chef Pernollet of Belley! OH. gluttony may justly be Viewed as a sin of low degree. But Pemollet’a great cookery Entirely justifies It: And gourmets come to IUI their turn with food that leaves them wholly dumb Except to say “Cm, yum. yum, yuml" To show how much they prize it. So. all good-livers, learn a lay That sings the fame of Pernollet, His soups, his meats, his jelly: As Ia wreath eternal lay On PernoUet of Belley! (Copyright, 1822, NEA Service)

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'PROHIS' CHIDE KEITH'S PREXY FOB flfij JOKES Wheeler Scores Vaudeville's Buffoonery at Expense of Prohibition. THEATERS PROFIT BY ACT Declares Playhouses Accrue Millions Through Enacted Statute. By C. C. LYON. Times Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Nationwide prohibition is no joke. It is nothing to laugh at or ridicule. Imbedded as it is in the very cellarfoundation of the Government —the Constitution —it should be treated as a deadly serious proposition. If vaudeville folk don’t quit poking fun at it, dry folk wJI stay away from the theaters and then the box offices will suffer, and the he and she actors will have their salaries cut or maybe be fired altogether and then maybe they'll starve worse than ever. One of the finest pieces of hot' weather literature offered the parched Washington public this summer is a burning letter Wayne B. Wheeler oil the Anti-Saloon League has sent E. FAlbee, head of the Keith vaudeville interests, on the subject of “Albee actorlings” cracking jokes on the stage at the expense of prohibition. _ Theaters Profit “Can't you see,” he writes Albee, “that prohibition has helped the theatrical business? Prohibition closed 177,000 saloons. Theater receipts increased $633,000,000 under prohibition in 1921 and millions of people now go to the theater and movies who never attended these places before. The theater manager that will encourage the outlowed liquor trade in the lac eof these facts is ungrateful and worthy of censure by a fairminded public.” Moreover: “We learned some time ago*that wet organizations vere making a determined effort to get those on the stage to ridicule and oppose prohibition. The theater is not supposed to be a propaganda forum. When it is its manager ought to be frank enough to advertise a wet speech and thesr allegiance to liquor so that those who are in favor of th* Constitution and its enforcement may know what to expect.” The clear-cut inference in the AntiSaloon League’s stand against prohibition joke-cracking in the theaters is that millions of drys could be indued to stay at home and crack jokes at the theater box offices. UNUSUAL FOLK By NEA Service AUSTIN. Tex., Aug. 14. —Mrs. Grace McClellan is woman’s champion pistol-shot of Texas, a state which boasts of plenty of fancy pistol-shots.

I She entered the pistol competition at the Texas State Rifle Association’s meet at San Antonio recently and shot rings around all the men who opposed her. Her score was 272 bullseyes out of 300 shots. She used a .45 automatic gun. The medal she won at San Antonio is byno means the only one she has to her credit. Besides her

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Mrs. McClellan skill with the revolver and automatic, she la a fristclass rifle-shot. GOLF DIGNITY Contrib, Sees No Virtue tn Charge for Playing South Grove. To the Editor of The Times Your correspondent “Brassrie," who Indorses the action of the park board charging 25 cents per round on the South Grove golf course, certainly doesn’t belie his name. 'Brassie” talks about “exclusiveness” and a “gentlemen's” game, which Is the surest way to kill the popularity of gulf, municipally patronized. In the first place, charging a fee for the sue of city property is unlawful. No matter how you attempt to disguise the action, it is both legally and morally wrong. Again, the payment of a 25-cent fee doesn't guaranee the quality of the golfer. The biggest duffers usually have plenty of money, while the poor citizens who do well to provide themselves with clubs and balls, may find the fee a real hardship, especially if fond of golf. Exclusiveness doesn’t always make for dignity either. I know some of our most exclusive people sure those who have no consideration for other*, and when analyzed their “dignity” Is l often a mask to hide their true natures If Lew Shank allows his park board to charge a 25-cent fee for golfing ati South Grove, I, for one, am in favor of bringing impeachment proceedings against him. DRIVER.

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