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The Stupid Utilities Once more the public utility attitude is proved to be as stupid as it is greedy. When the so-called conference between the city of Indianapolis, the civic clubs, one member of the public service commission and utility representatives was held for the purpose of arriving at an amicable readjastment of rates, the answer of the electric and water companies was that they deserve more and not less money. The people, of course, know they are being gouged by both these concerns. They have not yet learned all the methods by which their money is being taken away, but they know that comparison with rates of other cities shows the charges are altogether too high and that fixed upon the basis of cost to the companies, the rates amount to larceny. The people have not yet discovered just how jnuch money Is taken out of the receipts for unearned charges by the holding companies. They do know, of course, that the charge against the people for coal used by the electric company for the manufacture of juice would delight any independent operator of coal mines. They do know that the water company sends a bill but no service from its Philadelphia cranny. The companies seem to forget that they helped to establish the grotesque theory that rates must be based upon reproduction costs and not investment and that today the prices ol labor and commodities arc at least 25 to 30 per cent lower than three years ago. The truth Is that the arrogance of the utilities is justified by their belief in ability to control the commission and delay inquiries for months or yeais Another administration of state affairs will be elected next year. One candidate for Governor has already declared that he will oust the present members. Other candidates may give even better solutions. The issue has become direct. Will the people be able to regulate the utilities or will the utilities continue to regulate the government? A Civic Loss Few men who mingle actively in partisan political affairs retain universal respect and confidence. That is for those whose purposes are unselfish and whose methods are beyond suspicion. Charles Greathouse was one of the exceptional men in politics as he was exceptional in public office. His passing is a loss to the city and a loss to that elusive but very real thing called good citizenship When, as a state official, he refused to permit tolls to be exacted from the teachers of the state for partisan purposes he forever made it impossible to drag the public schools system into partisan politics. His ideal of public service was too high to permit such a perversion of his power. He demonstrated his own lofty perspective of the dignity of office holding. That he held high place in the national Democratic party can be traced to the fact that he had won deservedly the confidence of all factions of that party. They knew that there would be no dubious methods in the administration of his particular post. Asa citizen of Indianapolis, he participated in every forward movement for the common good. His friendship was valued by those who were fortunate enough to be called his friend. He was one whom this city can ill afford to lose. Enter, the Serpent The serpent of sectionalism has raised its head in the Democratic garden of victory. In the midst of party rejoicing over capture of the national house of representatives in Tuesday's special elections, the victors are dividing. The password challenge is no longer, "Are You a Democrat?” but "Are you a Southern Democrat or a northern Democrat?” As usual in a camp of victors, the strife is over division of the spoils. The rewards of victory in this case are the offices of power—the speakership and committee headships. Many years ago, politicians of both major parties decided that the only way to preserve peace within the family was to forget about merit, or any other consideration, and place congressional committee rank solely on the basis of seniority. That has worked rather disastrously at times for congressional efficiency, but it has quieted inter-party dissensions. Today, however, the Democrats discover that the seniority rule would put power completely In the hands of southerners. To the south would go not only the speakership, but two-thirds of the committee chairmen, including virtually all the important ones. "Only over my dead body,” remarks the Tammany tiger. Now there are hasty party councils, trying to give the Tammany-led northern faction enough to satisfy it without raising a revolt in the hungry south. Os course, the bitterest fight is over the five key positions. Here is the tentative compromise slate: Speaker, Garner of Texas; floor leader, O’Connor of New York. Committee chairmen: Rules, Pou of North Carolina: appropriations, Byrns of Tennessee; ways and means. Collier of Mississippi. Under this plan, within that sacred circle of the big five, the ruling triumvirate would be Speaker Garner and rules dictator Pou of the south and floor Jeader O'Connor of Tammany. All of which is mildly interesting, but not very important. The chief organizational trouble with the Democratic party is that it is not really a national party. It has been a rather unnatural and uneasy alliance between a none-too-solid south and a few northern city organizations like Tammany. Unless the Democrats can forget their old sectional strife and begin to function as a national party with a national program, they can lose the 1932 national election on which they now are counting so heavily—and so prematurely. Whether the southern Democratic politicians or the northern Democratic politicians grab the plums Os office concerns chiefly the grabbers. What the country wants to know Is what those Democratic politicians. north and south, propose to do about prohibition, power, tariff, autocratic house rules, taxes, and the depression. The St. Lawrence Dispute Whatever Secretary of State Henry Stimson's motive may be in refusing to recognize the predominant right of New York state to develop power on the St. Lawrence river, his action stresses the very different power views held by the two leading candidates for the presidency. Under Governor Roosevelt’s leadership, the state Os New York has provided for public development of ft vast amount oi hydro-electricity on the St. Lawrence - ~S -

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river. It has provided that this power shall be distributed to the people by means of contracts with private companies guaranteeing a reasonably low rate. If such contracts can not be made, Roosevelt favors public transmission and distribution. He has signified repeatedly his anxiety to preserve for all the people of his state their rights in this great natural resource. But, because the river is an international stream, his hands are tied until the federal government acts. The federal government, which Secretary Stimson represents, is headed by Herbert Hoover, avowed opponent of public power developments, who has devoted much of the energy of his administration to seeing; that Muscle Shoals power shall not be used by the people of the country, who own it. If the federal government thwarts or cripples this great St. Lawrence project, until anew and perhaps hostile Governor has taken office in New York, its action will be understood and resented by the country as well as New York state. Fowl Fordization The drowsy cackle of contented hens soon may be heard no more throughout the land. The scientific age has decreed an end to the afternoon siesta in languid dust-bath, to beauty naps and gossip fests, to feathered flirting and strutting and loafing. The great American speed-up system has hit the egglaying industry with a bang. According to the United States department of agriculture, American hens and pullets, although ; fewer In number by 6.2 per cent than a year ago, yet produce more eggs. On Oct. 1. it was reported that 26.2 eggs were being laid by every 100 of these Fordfactory lady chickens, as compared with 24.8 eggs on the same date a year ago and with 25.7 eggs on that date for the average of five years. Even the luxury of motherhood is being withdrawn from our hard-worked hens. There are 5.2 per cent fewer chicks now than a year ago. What becomes of the technologically unemployed of the nation’s barnyards? You’ve guessed it. They are going the way of all the gallinaceous—into the pot. Who Is to Blame? Federal Judge Wilkerson denounced the "shocking array of perjury with which the court was confronted” in the defense of Al Capone. He declared that the testimony of witness after witness was “perjury on the face of it.” But he failed to direct his shafts at the defense lawyers. Even more easily have the prosecutors of Mooney and Billings escaped censure, although the perjured testimony they presented in convicting the San Francisco labor leaders was even more "shocking.” In fact, Charles M. Fickert, former San Francisco fistrict attorney, who led the Mooney-Billings prosecutions, not only has been given a state job in California, but just has been invited by President Hoover to a White House dinner as a member of the Hoovermanaged Stanford football team of 1894. As mere laymen, we wonder why the wretched lying witnesses are denounced, while the lawyers who present their testimony are honored. Were not Capone’s legal defenders and Mooney’s prosecutors “privy to perjury?” If these lawyers are guilty of conspiring against justice, what is the American bar going to do about it? And now it transpires American Indians have been getting the dole for a hundred years. Wait till they find that out. But in this depression if there's less of everything else, there's at least a bumper crop of pictures of football players making funny faces. Confession stories are getting a big play. Indicating that if your past is dark enough there comes a day when “now it can be sold.” But any college boy will admit that a heavy date is no fun if she sits on your lap. Prohibition workers say the people who are yelling for repeal are sounding a sour note. Probably pickled. No longer, says an ad, is the drug store a place of magic and mystery. Righto! Turn off that radio, Jasper, this lady wants some aspirins. A financial leader says this doing without money is a great lesson. Verily, lesson less. But a headline says it's “better to borrow now and pay later.” By all means (as the bandit would say). Dance music, declares a music maker, is becoming too tame. But cover charges are still driving ’em wild. If things are going to keep on being tough until Thanksgiving, many a turkey will be saying, "Axe me another.”

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ACCORDING to reliable statistics, women now control 40 per cent of the nation’s wealth. When we get that figured up to 50, we can claim equality with men. Indisputably, our economic freedom is the most important item in the entire program of emancipation. So long as the American man sees only the dollar sign, so long as his music is the clang of the cash register and his ultimate ambition is to be rich, the only way by which we can gain his deference is to get the money. We have obtained many liberties in the last thirty years, so many, in fact, that we sometimes appear to be obvious to their value. We may vote, we may hold political office, we may work, we may preach, we may pray. We may even smoke and drink with impunity. But do you suppose we should ever have been able to do any of these things if we had not first gathered in some gold to fight our battles? tt tt tt TODAY a woman with money is as free as any man. She may do as she pleases. She may travel where she likes. Even her reputation will not suffer from scandal-mongers if she has enough cash on hand. It is a far cry indeed from those days when, according to Jewish documents, a man’s wife was put in the same class with his ox and his ass, and he could take his daughter to the market place and sell her for a few pieces of copper. Yet from such ignominy have women risen! We have traveled a long and winding road and walked through many baren places. We have torn our feet upon thistles and our hands have plucked more thorns than roses, but after many weary centuries we have stumbled up the mountain peak of independence. From that high spot we can. look into far countries. We even can get a glimpse of that fair land in which women may have the opportunity to cultivate pH their human possibilities and live at least as true friends and companions of men.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Grape Concentrate is Oat, and Administration Drys Will be Spared the Neces- ! sity of Hemming- and Hawing so Much. NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—No more can the thirsty, but law-abid-ing, citizen buy a wine brick, drop it in a bucket of water, and wait for nature to do the rest. No more can he order a keg put in the cellar, with full assurance that it will produce port, Tokay or sparkling | Burgundy in a couple of months, I without anybody violating the Volj stead act at any time. The clock has struck the hour, the Mabel Walker Willebrandt scheme : for subsidized iniquity comes to an abrupt and unexpected end, the | grape concentrate is out. To what shall we attribute the | calamity, but depression, poor busi- : ness and lack of profit? tt tt it It's a Great Thing BUT cheer up. It isn’t half as bad as it would be if the bootj leggers went on strike, or a tempest ! swept the rum fleet away, or raisins and brown sugar were not to be had in a pinch. A great victory for prohibition, no doubt, though somewhat dimmed by the New Jersey election. We are all glad that Mrs. Willebrandt’s organization is back in the orthodox Republican fold, that the | federal farm board can loan it money with embarrassment from now on. and that administration drys will be spared the necessity of hemming and hawing so much when ! aiked to explain it. tt tt tt Read ’Em and Weep THE skies certainly are clearing, though one finds some difficulty in telling which way the wind will blow next. Even gloomy Dean Inge has decided that people may be better off after the British Empire blows up, which is some concession for a patriotic Britisher, and a churchman, at that. The New York Herald-Tribune feels so good that it construes the recent election in New York City as a “repulse” for Tammany. By next week, Chairman Fess should have convinced himself that the vote in Kentucky and the Eighth Michigan district really presages Republican triumph in 1932. tt tt tt And More Storm Clouds ONLY in the far east do storm clouds continue to gather. According to the United Press, Japan is disturbed greatly by reports of Russian assistance for China. According to War Commissar Voroshilov, Russia has not made the slightest move which could be interpreted that way. According to Phil Simms, some of those on the inside find reason to believe that Japan and Russia have arrived at a fairly good understanding with regard to Manchuria; that all their rowing is just a smoke screen and that talk of war between them should not be taken too seriously. According to General Chi Hung Chang, war between Japan and China is inevitable, no matter how sincerely their respective leaders may be opposed to it, because of the rising tide of popular indignation, especially in China. tt tt o Has Its Raw Side REFUSING to be sidetracked by this one spot of pessimism and confusion, the French air minister comes out with a prediction of fivehour flights between Europe and America within the next ten years. If we’re headed for peace, that’s all right, but if for air raids, not so good. When airplanes can cross the Atlantic in five hours, it will only take them six or seven to cross the Pacific, which suggests that this Manchurian Tumpus, with its possible ramifications, could mean something of importance even to us Americans. You can’t bring people closer without bringing their troubles closer.

Questions and Answers

Is it practical to resize a rug at home? Stretch the rug tight and true,; and tack at frequent intervals face down on a floor or some other flat surface where it can remain undisturbed. It should then be sprinkled generously with a solution made by soaking and dissolving in a double boiler one-fourth pound of flake glue in one-half gallon of water. The rug should be allowed to dry at least twenty-four hours. If it is light weight, care should be taken not to put on so much glue that it penetrates to the right side. What countries are included In the term Latin- America, and wffiy is that name used? Latin-America includes all countries of South America, Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domingo and Porto Rico. Latin-Americans are people mostly descended from a union of the socalled Latin races of the Old World, with the native races of the New ; World. Who won the National League baseball pennant in 1929? Did the same team also win the world series? The Chicago Cubs won the National League pennant in 1929. They were defeated in the world series that year by the Philadelphia Athletics* of the American League. How is the value of a diamond determined? Are cut diamonds more valuable than other kinds? Size, purity, flawlessness and the j cutting determine the value of a diamond. A rose colored stone is j rare and that adds to .its value, other conditions being equal. Does horse power of an electric motor rate the same as that of a steam engine? Horse power is a standard theo- I retical unit of the rate of work equal! to 33.000 pounds lifted one foot high | in one minute. This applies to all horse power. How many editors and reporters are there in the United States? According to the latest census bu- 1 reau figures there are 34,197.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Clean Skin Is Safeguard to Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. WERE it not for the fact that the human body contains mechanisms for resisting infection, bacteria would soon dominate the earth. Various types of antiseptic solution have been developed by scientific medicine to aid the body tissues in resisting infection. The skin formerly was considered merely an envelope for the human body, a sort of cover to hold in the tissues or the organs. Now it is realized that the skin has its own blood supply and that it must be considered an essential living tissue. In order to find out to what extent the skin could destroy bac-

IT SEEMS TO ME

A NUMBER of people gathered to discuss the cause of peace, heard a distinguished British historian remark that he did not approve of prevalent pacifist tactics. This was his objection: "It isn’t enough to say, ‘I am against war.’ That gets you nowhere in particular. It limits your field of activity in a fatal way; to oppose war effectively, one must seek to discover its causes and attempt to alter them.” This, of course, precipitated a general fracas, for few agreed upon the fundamental roots which underlie conflict. Some sought to simplify the business beyond the point of m3" own personal belief. It has become popular to say that “international bankers” bring about every war. This overlooks the fact that a number of bloody wars were carried on in the days when the financial structure of the twentieth century did not exist even in approximation. My own opinion is that the ‘international bankers” are far less villainous and much more stupid than the average man believes. These great giants of industry are made by history rather than the other way around. tt tt tt Conscientious Objectors ONE radical had a very simple remedy. It was his suggestion that whenever a war loomed up on the horizon everybody connected with Wall Street should be immediately clapped in jail. That, he felt, would dull the trumpet blast and the beating of the drums. There might be something in that. But if the decision were mine, I should prefer to restrain the men who write the history books for our schools. Only in that case it would be necessary to take paper and pencil away from the historians to the adolescent long before the time of

m TODAY IS THE- Yf WORLD WAR l ANNIYERSAI^

ABANDON TAGLIAMENTO November 6

ON Nov. 6, 1917, the Tagliamento river was abandoned along a 150-mile front by the Italians before the onslaught of the Austro-Ger-man forces. The retirement was glorified by a score of heroic flights as the troops of the Italian rear guard brought the enemy again and again to a standstill and secured safety for the main armies as they established new lines on the Piave. A thrilling phase of the retreat was the part played by the Italian armored motor cars, each of which had three quick-firers in its turrets. These cars were assigned to hold the bridges from the Tagliamento to the Piave river until the cavalry rear guards had passed across, and then to burn the bridges behind them. All the rear guards made their way over the bridges and all the bridges were burned. Eighteen of the forty cars were so seriously crippled in the fighting that it was necessary to abandon them after the bridges were burned.

Speaking of Rackets!

teria, Dr. J. F. Norton and Miss Marguerite Novy recently made special studies on this point. The hands of workers were put into a dilute suspension of bacteria. Then a sterile cotton swab was rubbed over a designated surface of the skin and inoculated into a plate of culture medium. When the bacteria grew, they were counted, so that it was possible to determine the extent to which the skin itself could destroy germs. It is well established that there always are living germs on the skin, and it seemed possible to the investigators that perhaps some other mechanism was responsible for the gradual disappearance of the germs from the skin. Asa result of their investigations, the authors conclude that bacteria applied to the skin diminish in

conflict. By then any incarceration; would be a bit related. And, naturally, it would be neces- I sary to clap into jail the textbook makers of other lands as well as our own. Probably the various ; threads which go into the making of war and war psychology are almost innumerable. It would be impossible to catalog them all. But certainly one of the strands would be found in the universal practice of exalting nationalistic feeling in the young. I do not know just what an English lad learns, or one in France. But it is assuredly the design here in America to teach the little folk that every armed enterprise of the United States was essentially a crusade for righteousness. Logic blooms early. And it is not unreasonable for the child to assume that if all past American wars were excellent, any which may be offered in the future will have in them something of merit. u tt tt Not Proving Too Much AND let me disgress here to take up another point which constitutes a weakness in pacifist propaganda. Any case is injured if its partisan undertakes to prove too much. I have heard it said that the great war was founded wholly on a tissue of lies and that if each inhabitant of every warring country had known the whole truth ; there would have been no conflict, j The whole truth is, of course, a large order. And even in the light of current disclosures, there remain thousands who are perfectly satisfied that their participation was admirable, and the number who would fight it out all over again is not inconsiderable. It seems to me a great mistake to ; argue that there never is a cause j for any war. Many wars are motivated abundantly even in the actual facts. And I mean motivated for ; both sides. A Frenchman and a German might each have felt that he had something tangible to battle for in ; 1914. To say that all wars—and j particularly the most recent—was without a shred of reasonable foun- j dation is to set the stage for future i tragedy. It is not enough, I think, to point ( out inadequacies in causation. Pres-j ently there might come some new situation in which the true or the apparent reasons are far more per- j suasive. Then you might get the reaction—“ This isn’t like other i wars. This is a good war.” it tt tt No Reasons Good Enough THE pacifist ought to go deeper and argue that even when the reasons for fighting seem peculiarly provocative, war itself never is a ! good remedy. There should be no differentiation between excellent wars, pretty goud wars, and abom- ; inable wars. All should be outlawed. War itself constitutes a crime. But it is palpable that this thing, does not spring out of thin air, even ' though some of the factors may be obscure and remote. We should begin at once to attack elements, which have in them the savor of war. And many such exist, even during those periods in which we term “peaceful.” A tariff, for instance, is obviously! a warlike gesture. Immigration barriers support the contention that

numbers very rapidly, the greatest diminution occurring during the first ten minutes. The most important factor involved. they discovered, waß the presence of moisture. The organisms disappear more rapidly when the skin dries rapidly than when it is kept moist. There seems to be no doubt but that virulent germs getting on the skin and finding a spot in which the surface is broken, such as occurs in times of wounds, bruises or other injuries, may set up serious infection. In such instances, the use of antiseptics and germicides brings about rapid destruction of the germs. It is also well established that the use of plenty of soap and water is an exceedingly and useful technic for avoiding skin infections.

DV HEYWOOD BROUN

some peoples are better and more precious than others. And race and religious discrimination constitutes a fertile field for the belief in that variability of mankind which makes for dissension. Every now and then some city throws out a history because it is insufficiently patriotic. I would reverse the process. I would prefer it by far that nothing should be set before the scholar in his formative years except accounts wholly dispassionate. (Copyright. 1931, by The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times—l am very glad to say that I have been a regular reader of your paper for the last six years. I also have been a reader of the other two popular Indianapolis papers. I like The Times best, because it is the paper that is for the people as a whole, and gives justice where justice belongs. I am very proud of your paper, as you do not draw a line for any one. I hope that you will keep up the good work. I hope that you will continue to roast the new traffic code, as it can not help any others than the garage interests. With the new code in force, it makes our beautiful city look forsaken, with no parking on the Circle, nor around the new Plaza. It is inded a joke that one can not park down town from 7 to 9:15 a. m. With this in view, where is Miss Liberty? How are strangers to know where the heart of the city is? I know if I had just arrived, I might ask some of the crabby policemen for the direction of the downtown district. It is very unfair,to the shops in the loop district, as it runs the trade off to other stores that do not have the styles nor prices in the downtown districts. -J. B. KITTRELL. Do the United States mints buy gold bullion from individuals? How much do they pay for it? The mints and assay offices buy gold in lots of the value of SIOO or more. The price is fixed by law at $20.67183 per fine ounce for pure gold.

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.NOV. 6, 1031

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

V ew Supply of Radium Found in Far North May Break Monopoly and Prove Boon to Cancer Victims. PITCHBLENDE, the mineral from which uranium and radium is extracted, has been found in the remote regions of Canada. The discovery may break Belgium's world monopoly of radium and bring down the cost of that precious metal, as well as increase the world's supply. The next two decades may see the most interesting developments in the far north, particularly northern Canada. The dream of a great Arctic empire, advanced by Stefansron, the explorer, and others, may yet comp true. Wherever valuable ores are discovered, railroads will some day penetrate. And perhaps the airplane and the airship will serve where the railroad does not go. The airplane already has been pressed into service to move the pitchblende ores in northern Canada. The present radium situation is discussed in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, official journal of the American Chemical Society, of which Dr. Harrison E. Howe is editor. The Belgian company obtained its pitchblende from extremely rich mines in South Africa. These, because of their high yield rs radium-bearing ore. have made it impossible to date for other localities to compete successfully. n tt a In Lake Region THE new Canadian mines, however. are sufficiently rich in radium-bearing ore to make it possible for them to compete with the Belgian company, in the opinion of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. "Now, in Canada, there have been found at La Bine Point, in the Great Bear Lake region, very important deposits of pitchblende, occurring in several extensive veins, some of which run deep at points where pits have been sunk,” Dr. Howe writes. "Ore, which may be expected to yield several thousand tons of highgrade pitchblende as well as a lesser amount of milling ore. already has been found in two veins. "Some of the deposits run under small lakes, and underground explorations of these and other veins probably will increase materially the amounts now estimated as occurring in this region. “More than that, during the last summer twenty tons of pitchblende running between 40 and 50 per cent uranium oxide were taken by airplane to the railroad, and an additional twenty tons have been mined and are ready to be transported.” tt tt tt Airplane Transportation SO far as we are aware this is the first time ore in such considerable quantities has been moved by airplane,” Dr. Howe continues. “While the cost of such transportation is high, the values easily justify the expenditure, pending the time when concentrating mills will be located on the property. The twenty tons that have been brought out will yield from 2 to 2.5 grams of radium. “The richness of this ore, together with the low cost of mining it, indicates that here, at last, is a deposit well able to match Itself against those in South Africa. “The men who own it and who have formed a company for its exploitation fortunately are primarily interested in the humanitarian uses of radium. “There is to be nothing spectacular about the further development of these radium deposits, but every procedure will be followed with the keenest interest, not only by scienI tists and technologists, but by the general public. “It is to be hoped devoutly that, as a result of this discovery, supplies of radium soon may be made available, within their ability to purchase, to the number of highly trained men who are skilled in its use and capable of applying it for the alleviation of human suffering.”

Daily Thought

Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose is; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. —Luke 18:33. a a a TO be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.—Hugh R. Haweis. Who presides over the United States senate when the Vice-Presi-dent dies or succeeds to the presidency? The president pro tempore of the senate becomes the permanent presiding officer. He is a senator selected to the office by the senate. How does the area of the United States compare with that of the Dominion of Canada and the continent of Europe? The area of continental United States is 3,026,789 square miles; Dominion of Canada, 3,684,723 square miles, and the European continent approximately 3,750,000 square miles. How much tonnage and how many ships were lost by shipwreck in 1929? Three hundred and twenty ships and 515,056 tons.