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Hore Is Real Hope Taxpayers, worker*. Jobless ran find hope in the passage by both houses of the legislature of a measure *hirh will divert half of the revenues of the highway commission to cities and counties. For the taxpayer, it will bring relief from a portion of the local taxes. For the worker, it means that what money will be spent on roads will not be turned over to contractors Who practice peonage. For the jobless in cities, it means more work during the fall and winter. The measures were sponsored by Delph McKesson In the lower house and due credit should be given to him for his courage and his ability to combat the powerful forces set up in opposition by the contractors, the material salesmen, the huge political lobby of the commission itself. The commission attempted to intimidate by threats find to seduce with promises of favors. It failed. The commission surrendered any claim to either confidence or recognition when it sanctioned the blackmailing of its own employes for political purposes and fixed as its standard of political morality, the basis that those who hold state low-waged jobs should pay the political freight of the parties which appoint them. This commission has spent, between twenty and twenty-five millions of dollars each year for a number of years. That vast sum made the commission the most important b'rdy in the state. Its revenues were as large ns those of all other units of state government, outside the sums spent for education. The commission influenced legislation by giving or withholding roads. Activities were dictated by the political necessities of the commission which found very pleasant the task of buying vast amounts of materials and machinery and giving out huge contracts to favorites. The awards have not been above criticism, and protest. The big fact, however, is that these funds, which will be diverted, will reduce taxes. There is no new' lax added. There is no burden shifted. The same tax will be paid—but it will go where it is needed in these troublesome times and relieve burdens that have become too heavy to bear. The measures require the signature of the Governor. If he fails to sign, public sentiment should force the passage of these measures, really constructive moves in the direction of economy, over any veto. The special session, despite the lack of any definite guidance or direction from the Governor, promises to be worth while. “Revolution” Revolution has been threatened, General MacArIhtu, chief of staff of the United States army, announces from the White House. This is untrue. The veterans ridden down, and slashed by MacArthurs troops were insurrectionists, according to the general. This is untrue. T here is no danger of revolution in this country unless the government and local authorities continue the reckless and ruthless tactics used Thursday against veterans, their wives and children. ihe danger now is that local officials elsewhere may follow the Washington example and call out state troops. Revolutions can not be threatened by unarmed men. The bonus marchers were unarmed. What a pitiful spectacle is that of the great American government, mightiest in the world, chasing unarmed men, women and children with army tanks. The weakest governments in Europe are accustomed to handling vaster crowds w'ith a few police armed with nothing but brains and fire hose in reserve. The President justifies his sudden and unprecedented use of the army against unarmed citizens by raising the cry of Communism. That is good propaganda for the Communists, who wish the credit, but it is untrue. Os course there were a few' Communists in Washington, and of course they tried to take advantage of the situation. But the Communists had been isolated and cast our by the veterans themselves. The veterans fired upon by the police and ridden down by the cavalry and tanks were not Communists or criminals, as the President implies. We have opposed and will continue to oppose the demand for an indiscriminate cash bonus for all veterans regardless of their need. We urge that relief be concentrated on veterans injured in the war and that general unemployment relief be given without favoritism to veterans and non-veterans. But. while disagreeing with the bonus demands, we protest the use of guns against these citizens and ex-soldiers. We protest against the Cossack methods of local officials in many parts of the country against the unemployed. Unless they die or are killed, the millions unemployed must sleep somewhere and eat something. If they do nothing more than trespass and beg food, the country will be fortunate. But there is a limit. Drive these desperate men against the wall with machine guns and tanks, as the government did in Washington, and you create danger of the revolution which no Communist propagandists ever have been able to start in this country. We appeal to the President'and all local authorities of the counfty to reverse this policy before it is too late. We do not appeal merely for justice to hungry and suffering citizens. We appeal for the safety of this nation. There can be no safety if police and troops turn millions of peaceful citizens into desperadoes, fighting for their lives. Now is the test of this democracy. If the government can not lead the nation out of this depression crisis peacefully, democracy is gone. If the army must be called out to make war on unarmed citizens, this no longer is America. We pray that the folly of those in power will not lead them further toward the despotism which brings revolution. The Relief Loan The Reconstruction Finance Corporation has made the first "hunger loan” from its $300,000,000 relief fund. In this first loan, the beneficiaries will be the distressed of Illinois, particularly Chicago, who will be fed from a $3,000,000 advance from the federal treasury. The loan will draw 3 per cent interest, which will be collected, if necessary, from federal road building appropriations. The care and precaution exercised by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in its first relief transaction is encouraging. Governor Enur.erson of Illinois proved to the government board, first, that the need was woefully pressing; next, that the state had reached the limit of its own resources; and, finally,

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that it had organized to administer the money with a maximum of efficiency and a minimum of waste. To show that Illinois first had helped itself, it was pointed out that a special fund of $18,750,000 noted at a special session of the legislature in February would be spent before the end of this month. In granting this advance, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation board declared; "In making funds available under the new act for the relief of .destitution, the board desires to say that the corporation will expect all states to meet their nerds to the greatest extent possible from thdir public and private sources and call upon the corporation only as a last resort to supplement their ow'n efforts. “Otherwise, the $300,000,000 made available will not be sufficient to meet the purposes desired or all requirements for such purposes.’’ While the first loan and its accompanying warning would seem to dispei fears and charges that federal relief in some cases might be administered through favoritism and partisanship, vigilance should not be relaxed. The sum of $300,000,000 is all too small. The need is all tooo great. Already thirty states are in the bread line. While President Hoover has named a majority of the appointees of the board from among the rival party, most of the members are not outstanding. Upon them will be exerted pressure such as seldom is applied to any official. Only by the most scrupulous and disinterested administration of this relief fund can starvation be prevented. In view of this human problem, the thought that federal relief funds may be dispensed selfishly or wastefully is incredible. Experts These be hard times for all of us, but particularly the expert. He was the first thing liquidated after the depression hit. And now everybody is taking a kick at him. When times are good, the expert thrives, because a lot of the good news is credited to him, even though he doesn’t play any personal part in creating it. All he has to do is to draw a lot of graphs and charts, to cite a lot of figures and predict that we are in a new' era, and so ride the w'ave. But when things turn the other way, and his predictions fail to pan out, the expert soon is knocked from his pedestal. Peter Witt, long famous in the politics of Cleve-. land, defined an expert as a man who is a hundred miles aw'ay from home and gets a hundred dollars a day. And now' Senator Borah, advocating his world conference on war debts, has this to say about the ex-' pert: , “I would exclude all experts; at least I would put them on the other end of the long-distance telephone. They so far have been detrimental to every conference W'hich they have dominated. They would sterilize the humanitarian impulses of the angels.” A butcher will be the principal witness in a New' England murder case. And when he gets through testifying the defense will probably claim it is just a lot of bologney. Now Ireland is about to start a tariff w'ar writh England. Some of De Valera's kinsmen over here could give him a few' facts about how often a tariff war backfires. One great advantage to loving in December as you did in May is that the sun tan w'ill be gone by December. . Things aren’t so bad as they might be. after all. Just imagine that instead of a wheat surplus we had! too much spinach. Among other false rumors heard immediately after the conventions w r as the one saying that the Republicans w'ere going to end the depression for campaign purposes. A member of the Explorers Club claims that he never has tried, to find anything without being successful. How about sending him around that corner to hunt prosperity? i One unusual thing about hot weather is that w r e never seem to mind until the health department starts giving out advice about how to keep cool. There are two kinds of gangsters. The quick-on-the-trigger and the dead.

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Feerguson

A CONGRESSIONAL candidate who championed the bonus bill said in a recent speech, "If we do not pay our veterans at once we may find it difficult to get other men to fight for us in case we become involved in future international disputes.” This is a bald, an evasive, statement. If it is true, then the 1 United States of America already is a lost land. For when nations must hire their citizens to defend them they speedily disintegrate. No soldier ever was paid for service to his country'. if we measure his remuneration in terms of money. Does a man weigh his life in the balance with gold? Can all the wealth of the world restore to one obscure dead soldier his lest future? Through all history, men have fought for many things. They have gone forth for conquest. They have waged wars in the name of their God and died heroically for faiths that now are forgotten. They have battled against the aggression of tyrants, against injustice to themselves and others, and for liberty of conscience? They have enlisted under the banner of a cause, or followed a leader whose personality represented a cause. They even have marched behind the drums in search of high adventure. ana BUT neves, except in scattered instances, have they fought only for money. And no nation ever has called itself great for long whose citizens have waged war for a monthly stipend, or held their lives of such little account that they were willing to gamble them for a petty pension. The truth is that no matter how sad the ordinarycitizen may feel'over the plight of the bonus army, about to be driven by executive order from the national capital, nothing ever has been done to give war such a black eye as the march of the B. E. F. These ex-soldiers have accomplished effective work for the cause of peace. For they have disclosed the mercenary depths of our 100 per centers. And they have trailed patriotism in the deepest dust. *lf there is not within the American soul something that can soar higher than the eagle on our dollar, then what is it for which we shall fight in this mythical “next war”?

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M. E. Tracy Says

We 'Merely Have Seen a Blunder Work Itself Out in the Bonus Army Trouble While Public Officials Sat | By. NEW YORK, July 30.—Lack of leadership, and nothing else, j is responsible for this tragedy at Washington. The government could, should, have assumed control of the bonus march the moment it showed signs of developing into a i i real movement. j If the government considered it I wise to permit 20.000 povertyi stricken veterans to come and camp ! in Washington, it should have taken i care-of them decently for a limited i length of time. If the government did not intend ; : to do that, it should have turned j | them back and called on the states \ \ to turn* them back. We merely have seen a blunder ! ! work itself out, while public officials sat noncommittally by. What do we have public officials for, if not to handle such emergencies? Barring the scrimmage which occurred Thursday, the bonus marchers could have done -what they did and the government could have done what it did, without public officials. As- far as public officials are concerned, the performance just has been allowed to drift.

Just Joined the Parade THOSE boys did not realize what they were doing, and neither did other people, when the show began. More because misery loves companionship, than for any other reason, they joined the parade. Soapbox orators egged them on, while some politicians lent sympathetic ears. Other politicians, though not sympathetic, made little effort to give them good advice. When they found themselves in Washington 10.000 strong, and with no indications that they soon would be evicted, they naturally ! came to the conclusion that they j could tire the government out. The government appeared quite | content to try the issue on that basis. Mahatma Ghandi could have asked no better illustration of his passive resistance creed. The bonus marchers took possession of certain old government structures and vacant government property and called for sustenance by donation. The government made no move to help, or interfere. e tt tt * No Basis for Idea THE government seems to have imagined that the bonus marchers would leave Washington when congress adjourned, though why still is a mystery. The bonus marchers never said anything to justify it. On the other hand, they constantly asserted that they would remain untih’l94s, if that were necessary to get what they wanted. All things considered, why shouldn’t they? In spite of their sorry plight, most of them were just as well off in Washington as they would have been anywhere else. Just before congress adjourned, President Hoover asked for an appropriation of $125,000 with which to provide the bonus marchers transportation back home. Some of them took the money and used it for that purpose. Some of them took it and used it for other purposes—a perfectly logical incident in the farce. tt u tt Here’s Funny Part of It ITS apologists say that the government has been very patient, and maybe they are right. Anyway, the government waited six weeks after getting the transportation fund and then called out the regulars. It needed the old abandoned buildings and shacks which the bonus marchers were occupying. They had to be torn down to prepare the way for new structures. Allowing them to remain would interfere with relief of unemployment through public work. Ii sounds all right, but why didn't somebody think of it before? Well, the bonus marchers are scattering, just as you and I would in the face of bayonets—some of them for home; some of them for anywhere. But here's the funny part of it.j They are being met and turned back | by police patrols at the borders of: neighboring states, which sho\ys j what might have been done when they started for the national capital, but what ought not to be done when they are trying to get away.

Questions and Answers

Could an alien seaman who deserted his ship in the United States in 1924 become an American citizen? He has no legal residence in this country and must leave the United states and re-enter legally before he can be naturalized. How many eyes has a flea? Two simple eyes. When was the silent version of Edna Ferber’s “So Big” first produced, and who starred in the picture? First National produced it in 1925, starring Colleen Moore. What does the white band on the arm of a sailor's uniform mean? It signifies that he is an apprentice seaman. The stripe is removed when he receives a rating. Which states have the shortest residence requirement for filing a divcrce suit? Nevada requires six weeks: Idaho and Arkansas both require ninety days. Was the former kaiser of Germany also emperor of Austria? No. Do participants in the Olympic games receive any compensation? They are strictly amateurs and can not receive salaries or monetaryremuneration of any kind. What is the highest score in runs by a major league baseball team during a single season? The Boston Nationals scored 1,221 ia 1834.

BELIEVE IT or NOT I

ALEX KERASSIOTES HAS SOLO Discovered by ffOWW Jf HOT - But Au. Comstock A freight car wasblown 25 m : * UPHILL BY THE WIND / 6 /o Per cent Grade . i

Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not,” w'hich appeared in Friday’s Times. The Duke of Alba —The present Duke of Alba, most blue-blooded member of the aristocracy of Spain, was born in 1878. In addition to all his titles of nobility, he is an attorney-at-law, a former senator by right of birth, and the owner of many baronies and extensive estates, as well as the holder of the most exclusive decorations by the governments of Europe. The Duke has inherited all his titles by right of being descended from fourteen grandees of Spain. A Burrowed Castle in Spain— Twenty-five years ago, Lino Bueno, w'hom the inhabitants ofAlcolea del Pinar affectionately

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE- * Early Diagnosis Needed in Sclerosis

This is the second of two articles by Dr. Fishbein on multiple sclerosis. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medicai Association and of Hveeia. the Health Maeazine. . DIAGNOSIS at the earliest possible moment is important, not because much can be done for multiple sclerosis, but because relief might be given if some of the other diseases w’hich resemble multiple sclerosis happen to be responsible for the symptoms. Thus the presence of a definite infection in the central nervous system or tumor of the brain may be determined by scientific medical methods. Moreover, there are certain cases of hysteria in which there is no actual destruction of tissue present, in which mental treatment may be of value; vet these cases of hysteria may resemble multiple sclerosis. Recently, investigators in the Neurologic Institute in New York have been studying the effect of quinine on such cases. Use of the quinine was based on

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times—Through my connection with an automobile dealer, I come in daily contact with employes of the automobile department in the secretary of state’s office. During a recent visit, I have heard a great deal of discussion of a two weeks’ vacation without pay which the employes of that department are about to enjoy. There seems to be a great deal of bitterness over the fact that the department heads of these same employes are not to enjoy, the same kind of vacation. It seems to me that these employes have considerable cause for resenting such actions on the part of a Democratic administration. It is beyond my poor powers to conceive" the Republican party, in its palmiest days, being guilty of such a gross injustice to the rank and file. Why should the department heads who enjoy a comfortable- salary be exempt from a tw’o-week layoff without pay while the people who do the work for a salary of from SIOO to $125 a month are forced to endure it? Did these department beads do more for their party, that they are deserving of such benefits in the name of democracy? To an outsider, it looks like a far cry from democracy, or perhaps the taxpayers would not benefit by a saving at the sacrifice of these department heads as they would from the people who do the work. I know one department head in particular who is amusing and confusing himself over crossword puzzles every time I visit his department. Do they close these departments up when these same heads go on their regular twoweek vacation with pay, as the statement of that department would have us believe, by inferring “that someone must remain to do the work.” or do the people who usually do the work continue in their absence? My candid opinion is that if some

On request, sent with stamped addressed envelope, Mr. .Ripley will furnish proof of anything depicted by him.

call “Tio” (Uncle), was a homeless drain digger. To provide himself with a home, he started to belabor a huge rock towering over the highway back in 1907. Following his trade in the daytime and devoting his leisure to his homestead w’ork, .he succeeded in converting the rick into a house for himself and family by dint of the most patient labor, lasting twentyfive years. The house, hew’n out of the solid rock with the aid of a pickax alone, contains seven large rooms, a kitchen, benches, shelves, portals, dormitories, windows, a balcony, and other furnishings, all hewn out of the rock. Tio Lino's casa-roca has attracted the attention of the government, and the picturesque old

the chemical changes that take place in the tissue in this disease. It that in the course of multiple sclerosis a portion of the tissue of the nervous system, called myelin, is acted on and disintegrated by some toxic agent. When the myelin disintegrates, scarring occurs from a removal of the broken-down products by the white cells of the blood. The New’ York investigators believe that the giving of quinine might act against such toxic agents. They, therefore, administered it in sixteen well-established cases of multiple sclerosis, in w’hich there were present many of the symptoms mentioned. In three cases there was slight regression of symptoms in the beginning of treatment. Tks effects of the treatment w’ere studied symptom by symptom, and it w'as found that forty symptoms, most of them of short duration, improved. whereas thirty-three symptoms which had lasted for a long time did not improve. Practically all the improvements

of these heads who are to remain to do the work actually do some work other than exchanging political gossip, the shock will be greater than some will be able to bear. I have assembled these remarks with the idea of bringing them to the readers of your paper so that they might form their own opinion of the manner in which the secretary of state’s office has gone about reducing their tax. I also have set them down with the hope that such a gress injustice might be rectified. We taxpayers should be able to make use of a saving effected by extending that two-week lay-off to include all employes of the secretary of state’s office, regardless of what they earn. We know w ? e can use the additional revenue. Furthermore, let’s have Democrats in the statehouse be democratic. WILBUR SHANTY. Editor Times—Congress has evaporated. and, as should have been expected, its campaign promises for relief have all gone up in mist. Instead of giving relief to the hungry millions, it sought only to more firmly fasten the stranglehold of the big capitalists, who have already brought this country to its knees. / But it did another thing for certain. It either proved its inability to handle the depressed condition, or is bent on driving this country into a reign of terror. It is true that a so-called relief measure was passed, but it also is true that glaring deception was passed for the sole purpose of preventing the voters from starving to death before th< election. % After the election of either Hoover or Roosevelt, we will find ourselves in a worse condition than were the chattel slaves in this country in 1860. For don't forget this. There has not been, in forty years, a presi-

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■ ‘campesino” has been awarded a life pension and a medal for his persistence. A Death Defying Stunt—Martin Barcaittegui, famous in taurbmachy under his boyhood name of Martincho, acquired undying fame by incredible feats of temerity in the bull ring. A favorite stunt of his was to aw'ait the rushing bull w'hile seated in a chair, and to dispatch it in the same position while his feet were shackled with leg irons that prevented his slightest movementThe Spanish painter Goya immortalized one of those moments in his famous painting of martincho in the ring. Monday—“ The Mysterious Rolling Tombstone'.”

were maintained at a constant level once they w'ere established. Even though this study has lasted for a year, it is not possible to estimate finally the actual value of the quinine in this disease. Nevertheless, the use of the product has been encouraging. The average case of multiple sclerosis lives from five to ten years. The shortest period of time between the onset of the disease and death was six weeks, but there w'as one case in w'hich a patient lived thirtythree years. There is no record of complete spontaneous cure or cure by any treatment yet devised. Because occasionally symptoms improve without any treatment, it is difficult to evaluate the usefulness of any new measure. Multiple sclerosis is a typical example of some of the extraordinary serious diseases that may attack the nervous system of man and bring about death. The field for research in the diagnosis, the cause, and methods of control of these diseases even yet is exceedingly great-

dential candidate nominated by either party except with the approval of J. P. Morgan and his gang. Since congress failed to recognize the Soviet union, which is the only form of government on earth giving its workers a square deal, that omission alone is sufficient to convince even a dumb Dora that capitalism never has and never will give labor any of its rights. But the opportunity will be given us in the coming election, by a third party, to take those rights by force of *he ballot. If we fail, through indifference, or by being again duped by old party promises of a full dinner pail or a chicken in every pot, when all such mealymouthed crooning has been proved to be just so much slush, I'll say that we working people are not capable of self-government. 808 MOULTON. Editor Times—News of city council movements bring us the report that the honorable Mr. Hildebrand is planning an ordinance to close all groceries and delicatessens on Sundays. Os course, it is evident that Mr. Hildebrand is moved only by religious impulses, but, running true to the mine-run form of pres-ent-day Democrats, he isn’t using his head. Banning of all groceries and delicatessens on .Sundays would be a real hardship on “the forgotten man.” Here’s an instance: Company drops in on Sunday evening. No delicatessens are open. The “forgotten man” has to patronize a high-class “gyp” joint, where they serve delicatessen under the guise of a “toasty shop.” Os course, it would be proper to be stocked up all the time, but who hae that fine a memory? Thanks to the Republicans, we have too many blue laws now. And between th* Democrats and Republicans. I think I'll take Norman Thomas. At least, he has brains. JUST ONE CITIZEN.

JULY 30. 1032

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Conservation of Energy Ldw May Be Tossed Overboard by Scientists. SCIENCE may have to throw overboard the law of conservation of energy. This suggestion, contained in an address brfore the Royal Institution of London by Lord Rutherford, director of the Cavendish laboratory of the Uni- ; versity of Cambridge, is the most I radical pronouncement, that has hr. | science in the twentieth century. If scientists find it necessary to do what Rutherford suggests, a revolution far greater than any caused by the Einstein theory a f relative v will have taken place in the world of science. For after all the changes occasioned in modern thinking by development of relativity, a few foundation stones were left more secure than ever. Among them was this law of conservation of energy. This law held that there was a total amount of energy in the universe and that in all the activities of the universe energy merely changed from one form to another. The law held that energy neither could be created nor destroyed. Recent experiments have led Rutherford to this new view. The address which Rutherford delivered before the Royal Institution was titled “The Origin of the Gamma Rays.” a a a Rays of Radium RADIUM, as every one knows. was discovered by the Curies. But it w’as Lord Rutherford who made the analysis of the mysterious rays given off by radium. He showed that these rays were !of three kinds. The first three letters of the Greek rlphabet were applied to them as names. The first kind, the alpha rays, were shown by Rutherford to be electrified atoms of helium, or. as ! they became known at a later date, i the nuclei of helium atoms. The second kind, the beta rays, w'ere shown to be electrons. The | third kind, the gamma rays, were j shown to be true rays, like X-rays, only much shorter. The alpha and beta rays, bc- ! cause of their nature, frequently ; are referred to as alpha and beta ; particles. From his study of radium, RuthJ erferd laid the foundations for the | theory that the atom consisted of j a central nucleus made up of protons and electrons around which more electrons revolved. (The proton is a positive electron. Ordinary electrons possess a negative electrical charge.) The behavior of radium w'as seen therefore as a disintegration of the nucleus of the radium atom, the alpha and beta particles being erupted from the nucleus by the disintegration. The gamma rays presented a more difficult problem, one which still holds the attention of scientists. It is this question of the origin of the gamma rays which Rutherford discussed before the Royal Institution in his recent address, as already stated. a a a Two New Methods IT was at first assumed that the gamma rays originated from the movements of electrons within the nucleus, Rutherford points out. This would be in keeping with the generally accepted belief that Xrays originate from the movements of electrons near the nucleus, and visible light originates in the movement of the outer electrons of the atom. In recent years, however, so Rutherford tells us, the belief has been growing that the gamma rays must be due to the activity of an alpha particle or a proton within the nucleus. Until two years ago, little progress was made, because it has been so difficult to study the nucleus of an atom. The nucleus, even today, may be thought of as being chiefly an unsolved puzzle.

M TODAY jbS ' / 7. IS THE- SVf /world war \ ANNIVERSARY L U. S. TROOPS ADVANCE July 30 ON July 30, 1918. Amerfcan troops advanced almost two miles from the scene of the bloody fighting at Sergy on the previous day. Their progress was opposed by Prussian and Bavarian guard divisions, considered the finest solders in the German army. Fighting on the Marne salient continued with great intensity, with allied forces making progress at all points. Late in the day it was learned that the German high command had decided to abandon the Ourcq region and retire to a line approximating that held before the great drive in May. Australian troons in Picardy followed their attack of the dav before by regaining positions last in April near Amiens.

Daily Thought

I s*id in mine heart. Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure; and. behold, this also is vanity.—Ecclesiastes 2:1. Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame—Quarles.

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