Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 263, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1934 — Page 11

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It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun MIAMI, March 14—’Money you get that way doesn't do you any good.” To me this is the most comforting of all sage sayings. It makes gambling a sure shot for the player. If he wins he has the material rewards. In the event that he loses there is spiritual consolation. And if he breaks even, look at the run he had. At the moment I could do with a little less spiritual consolation, but possibly lam too close to the happenings to see them whole and clear. For more than twenty years I have re-

membrred a great newspaper story written by Bob Ritchie at the time of the fight between Jeffries and Jack Johnson in Reno, Nev. Mr. Ritchie was less concerned with the gladiators than with the background of the place in which the bout occurred. and he told of a Chinese who entered the chief gambling place of the town with his year's savings all in gold. Ah Fong, who was a laundryman, set down his entire capital upon No. 11. The wheel whirled ’round and round and up popped 36. Ah Fong rose from his chair, smiled pleasantly upon the as-

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s-mbled company and went back to his shop to work for anothrr year. tt tt tt Rabbit Radiates W isdom I HAVE not quite made up my mind whether the Ah Fong or the Broun system is the better. Under the Broun system it takes you almost, a week to lose what you can make in a year. But look at what Ah Fong gained in sleep and lark of nervous strain. However, both Broun and the Chinese had the right idea. Neither was corrupted by the poison of gambling gains. Here in Miami I have learned much philosophic wisdom from a rabbit named Rusty. In the beginning I believed that the most aggressive rabbit I had ever seen in my life is the one which lives in the zoo of the Roney-Plaza hotel. His name is not known to me, but he sits in a compound with twelve flamingoes and a fallow deer. Deer and flamingoes are among the most tractable of all God’s creatures, and this rabbit realizes that fact. He lords it over his fellow tenants, and when I passed his cage yesterday he growled at me. I iooked at him severely and endeavored to convey by pantomime that he was suffering from hallucinations of grandeur. I hope he interpreted my dumb show correctly, for if that rabbit ever tries to bite me he will know that he has been in a fight. But he is not Rusty. It is a little difficult to argue Rusty out of a sense of superiority because he is the mechanical rabbit at the Miami Beach Kennel Club. Dog races are not confined to Florida. There are several tracks in the neighborhood of New York, but it was never the fortune of this old recluse to see a contest until he came to Miami. The sport ranks high among the thrillers. Until T came and watched I carried a certain contempt for the greyhounds. ’ Will they never learn," I thought, "how’ elusive and impractical is the object which they seek? Will these bloodhounds of the bourgeoise be forever content to go yelping after pie in the sky and rabbit rainbows?” BBS Electricity Raffles Life Force BUT at that time I did not know just how convincing a quarry has been contrived. "Here comes Rusty." said a voice through the aVnplifier, and around the track there hopped a fluffy object which was very like a rabbit. If I were a greyhound I would have chased him myself for the five or seven times. Along about that time, on account of the superiority of human intelligence. I think I would have said: "There must be something wrong with the system itself.” The dog races are distinctly under the Roxy influence. Before each race eight ushers in red coats and a major general in blue parade the dogs before the stand and place them in the starting stalls. "Here comes Rusty," says the mechanical voice of the announcer as the mechanical rabbit goes once and twice around the track. He begins a little slowly, so the imprisoned dogs see him distinctly as he goes past. When next he comes their way, like spring in a war poem, they are set and yelping. Out of the little box they leap, starting faster than any species known to the animal kingdom. A horse can outrun a dog over any considerable distance, but the tantalized greyhound in his first impulsive leap matches light itself for a split second. ’Round goes Rusty and after him the killers. They pile up on the turns and break all the rules of racing in their ecstatic pursuit. But no dog. no matter what his prowess, ever catches the mechanical rabbit. The best which he can bring into play is the life force in profound essence, but he battles electricity. u a u Doomed to Everlasting Winning ASSUME that in their kennels the greyhounds swap slogans and justify expenditure of energy and loud yelps on the ground that mechanical rabbits breed so rapidly and live so cheaply that they threatened the sanctity and safety of all ranine life. But for the patriotic efforts of Mutt Cutlet. Black Bison and Blue Heather II any one of us might be murdered almost any night by mechanical rabbits. But when I talked to Rusty himself after the eleventh race had been v un and I had picked one winner to show out of the night, he expressed a tragic distaste for his role in life. "Mr. Broun." he said, "you come to me and complain that you are a loser. I want to tell you that I wish I were lying there in your place. I always win. I never know defeat. Each night I come out and finish first in eleven races. Although a rabbit. I am close km to the prince who could neither shiver nor shake. The ecstasy of fear is denied me. The poignant gloom and surliness of the big laser I shall never know. Always a winner and never an also ran. My name should be Alexander, so I might mingle my tears with those of that other too excessive conqueror. Do not envy me. I beg of you. Mr. Broun. You will go from here. I presume, to Deauville. You will back No. 11 on the wheel. I an tell you frank - ly that I think it will not come up and that you will lose heavily. But in a second I would trade that electricity which animates me for your immortal soul. "I am hag-ridden by a passion which is forever denied me. I want to go away from the track some night in high dudgeon. Pity me. Mr. Broun. I can not make it. I am Rusty, the rabbit who never loses." (Copyright. 1934 bv The Times'

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN~

DO you realize how much you depend on ordinary sanitary precautions for your health? In most large cities, the boards of health demand that dishes used in public eating places shall be rinsed or sprayed thoroughly, or immersed in clean boiling water for one minute before being used again. If the temperature of the rinsing water is as low as 180 degrees. Fahrenheit, which is under the boiling point. 212 decrees, the dishes must be kept in the water for not less than two minutes. Whenever dishes are washed bv use of machines, the safety is more certain, because the machine usually requires boiling water and the use of thick soap solutions. *r n * IN most hospitals the precautions about dish washing are very rigorous. After dishes are used, they are cleaned first and then boiled. The dishes are kept in cupboards which are dry, well ventilated, and constantly watched to make certain they are free from dust or insects. Moreover, the employes who handle the dishes are required to their hands thoroughly and frequently.

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"THE LIFE OF OUR LORD" Written hv T r\ The Manuscript Kept nntten °y Charles Dickens Secret for 85 Years

CHAPTER THE EIGHTH THERE was a certain man named Lazarus of Bethany, who was taken very ill; and as he w’as the Brother of that Mary who had anointed Christ with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair. She and her sister Martha sent to him in great trouble, saying, Lord, Lazarus whom you love, is sick and likely to die. Jesus did not go to tnem for two days after receiving this message; but when that time was past, he said to his Disciples, "Lazarus is dead. Let us go to Bethany.” When they arrived there (it was a place very near to Jerusalem) they found, as Jesus had foretold, that Lazarus was dead, and had been dead and buried, four days. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she rose up from among the people who had come to condole with her on her poor brother’s death and ran to meet him: leaving her sister Mary weeping, in the house. When Martha saw him she burst into tears, and said "Oh Lord if Thou hads’t been here, my brother w-ould not have died.” —"Thy brother shall rise again,” returned our Saviour. "I know- he will, and I believe he will, Lord, at the Resurrection on the Last Day,” said Martha. Jesus said to her. "I am the Resurrection and the Life. Dost Thou believe this?” She answered "Yes, Lord”; and running back to her sister Mary, told her that Christ was come. Mary hearing this, ran out. followed by all those who had been grieving with her in the house, and coming to the place where he was. fell down at his feet upon the ground and w’ept; and so did all the rest. Jesus was so full of compassion for their sorrow', that He wept, too, as he said, “where have you laid him?”—They^said, "Lord, come and see!" He was buried*in a cave; and

there was a great, stone laid upon it—when they all came to the Grave, Jesus ordered the stone to be rolled away, which was done. Then, after casting up His eyes, and thanking God, He said in a loud and solemn voice, "Lazarus, come forth!” and the dead man, Lazarus, restored to life, came out among the people, and went home with his sisters. At this sight, so awful and affecting, many of the people there, believed that Christ was indeed the Son of God, come to instruct and save mankind. But others ran to tell the Pharisees; and from that day the Pharisees resolved among themselves—to prevent more people from believing in him, that Jesus should be killed. And they agreed among themselves —meeting in the Temple for that purpose—that if he came into Jerusalem before the Feast of the Passover, which w’as then approaching, he should be seized. BUM IT was six days befoie the Passover. when Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead; and at night), when they all sat at supper together with Lazarus among them, Mary rose up, and took a pound of ointment (which was very precious and costly, and was called ointment of spikenard) and anointed the feet of Jesus Christ with it, and. once again, wiped them on her hail; and the whole house w’as filled with the pleasant smell of the ointment. Judas Iscariot, one of the Disciples, pretended to be angry at this, and said that the ointment might have been sold for Three Hundred Pence, and the money given to the poor. But he only said so, in reality, because he carried the Purse, and was (unknown to the rest, at that time) a Thief, and wished to get all the money he could. He now' began to plot for

The Theatrical World Katharine Hepburn Takes the Top Rung in Filmdom BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

Katharine hepburn and Mae West are the two most discussed women of the screen this season. Mae is at work on her third feature and Miss Hepburn’s lat-

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can prav blessings and curses upon human beings. An unwelcome character among tne mountaineers. Trigger, the mountain girl, as played by Miss Hepburn, is a strange mixture of the good and the bad. She may be praying one minute and the next she is throwing rocks. She pu's herself in a suspicious spot when she us supposed tc have ' lifted” Granny, a mountain character, from the arms of death. Trigger knew that Granny was not dead and so she prayed that she might still live. Granny came out of her fainting speli and lived to see the day when she was chased out of the mountain region because the folks didn't want ghosts walking around. Granny returned in person to accuse Trigger of disturbing her peaceful sleep of death. This indictment of Trigger on the part of the mountain folk came right on the heels of Trigger's kidnaping of an undernourished baby. If the child could have remained with Trigger he would have lived, but the mob forced Trigger to pray and the child died. Even with this sketch of the story, one can easily see this Trigger is a tremendously difficult role to play. The triumph of Miss-Hepburn is more amazing because the story at times does not ring true, perhaps because the superstitions of the mountain people are so foreign to most of us. Just as ‘ Morning Glory” caused her to be a sensation and just as ‘ Little Women” endeared her as a great star to millions. “Spitfire” will establish Miss Hepburn as the leading dramatic actress on the talking screen, despite a story that is weak and overdrawn in spots. Miss Hepburn's "Trigger'’ is the strongest dramatic creation the screen has reflected in its history.

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betraying Christ into the hands of the chief Priests. The Feast of the Passover now drawing very near, Jesus Christ, with his disciples, moved forward towards Jerusalem. When they were come near to that city, he pointed to a village and told two of his disciples to go there, and they w'ould find an ass, with a colt, tied to a tree, which they w'ere to bring to Him. Finding these animals exactly as Jesus had described, they brought them aw'ay, and Jesus, riding on the ass, entered Jerusalem. An immense crowd of people collected round him, as He went along, and throwing their robes on the ground, and cutting down green branches from the trees and spreading them in His path, they shouted, and cried “Hosanna to the Son of David!” (David had been a great King there) “He comes in the name of the Lord! This is Jesus, the Prophet of Nazareth!” And when Jesus went into the Temple and cast out the tables of the money-changers who wrongfully sat there, together with people who sold Doves; saying “My father’s house is a house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of Thieves!”—and when the people and children cried in the Temple “This is Jesus the Prophet of Nazareth.” and would not be silenced—and when the blind and lame came flocking there in crow'ds, and were healed by his hands—the chief Priests, and Scribes, and Pharisees were filled with fear and hatred of Him. But Jesus continued to heal the sick, and to do good, and w’ent and lodged at Bethany; a place that w ? as very near the City of Jerusalem, but not within the walls. B B B ONE night, at that place, he rose from supper at which he was seated with his Disciples,

It will be shown soon in this city. tt X X On View in City Theaters INDIANAPOLIS theaters today offer: Tonight at 8:15 o’clock, the Scarlet Masque Dramatic Club of Wabash college will present “Three Taps at Twelve” at the Playhouse of the Civic theater; “Nana” at Loew’s Palace; “Broadway Revels” on the stage and “Ever Since Eve” on the screen at the Lyric; “The Meanest Gal, in Town” and “The Ninth Guest” at the Indiana, and, burlesque at the Mutual. Films Get Another Dorothy Stickney, star of Broadway's “Another Language,” has joined Hollywood’s film ranks to appear in Paramount’s production of Earl Carroll's “Murder at the Vanities.”

est movie, “Spitfire,” now is being exhibited in New York. After seeing this picture at a private screening, I’ve decided that Miss Hepburn is the on iv actress who could even dare to attempt such a role. It is a bleak, stark drama of a ”w'ild girl” in the mountains of Caiolina who

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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and taking a cloth and a basin of water, washed their feet. Simon Peter, one of the Disciples, w’ould have prevented Him from washing his feet; but our Saviour told Him that he did this, in order that they, remembering it, might be always kind and gentle to one another, and might know no pride or ill-will among themselves. Then, he became sad, and grieved, and looking round on the Disciples, said "There is one here, who will betray me.” They cried out, one after another, “Is it I Lord!—ls it I!” But he only an-

DOCTORS’ GROUPS HOLD JOINT SESSION HERE

City and State Medical Societies Hear Noted Speakers. Principal speakers at the joint meeting of the Indianapolis Medical Society and the Indiana Medical Society last night in the Athenaeum were Dr. John Stanley Coulter, Northwestern university, faculty member, and Dr. Max Thorek of the Cook county post graduate school of medicine in Chicago. Other speakers were Dr. Willis D. Gatch, dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine; Dr. E. D. Clark, Dr. L. L. Shuler and Dr. F. H. Ewerhardt, -St. Louis, Mo. SCHOLAR-ATHLETE DIES Robert H. Michelet of Dartmouth Victim of Pneumonia. B>/ United Press HANOVER, N. H., March 14. Robert H. Michelet, 22, of Washington, Dartmouth collelge’s outstanding scholar-athlete, died of pneumonia here today after a fortnight’s illness.

Christ’s Entry Into Jerusalem, by Gustave Dore

swered, “It is one of the Twelve that dippeth w’ith me in the dish.” One of the disciples, w’hom Jesus loved, happening to be leaning on His breast at that moment listening to his w’ords, Simon Peter beckoned to him that he should ask the name of this false man. Jesus answered “It is he to whom I shall give a sop w’hen I have dipped it in the dish.” And when he had dipped it He gave it to Judas Iscariot, saying “what thou doest, do quickly.” which the other disciples did not understand, but

Capital Capers Pieces of Fate Georgetown Professor Gets Eighth Decoration on March 8; Releases News at 8 P. M.

BY GEORGE ABELL Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, March 14. —A quick glance at Washington notables by the newly returned editor of “Capital Capers”: Dr. Thomas F. Healy, dean of the foreign service school of Georgetown university, proudly expanded his chest as Ambassador Andre de Laboulaye of France pinned upon him the medal of the Legion of Honor.

Later Dr. Healy commented: “The Legion of Honor is the eighth decoration bestowed upon me by a foreign government and it was conferred on March B.’’ “Furthermore,” commented a friend, “you asked that news of the ceremony should not be released until 8 p. m.” tt tt A HANDSOME young woman strolled into a G-street book shop here and asked: “Have you a copy of ‘Resurrection and the Life,’ by Michael Strange?” - The proprietress shook her head. “I don't carry her stuff.” she explained. “There’s no call for it. But I could order it for you.” “No, don't bother ordering it,” said the other, “but if you happen to get it in. let me know.” She gave the name of Mrs. Harrison Tweed and an address in Georgetown. She neglected to mention that her pen name is Michael Strange, that she was John Barrymore's second wife and is spending the winter in Washington. NOTE—Exotic Michael Strange is said to be doing some wTiting in Washington (and maybe on Washington). Once, it may be recalled, she produced a play which was a complete failure. Husband John Barrymore appeared in the leading role, causing Critic Percy Hammond to headline his account of the show: “All for the Love of Mike.” tt tt a MINISTER Charalambos Simopoulos of Greece has gone to Chicago to attend a funeral. He fervently expressed the hope no one will mention the Insull case to him. Samuel Insull has become the “beta noire” of the Greek Legation. u tt a Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes. one of the trustees of the newly organized Virgin Islands Cos., which will manufacture old St. Croix rum, exchanged’ repartee with newspaper men at the White House. “We just heard that you're a big rum man, Mr. Secretary,” grinned one correspondent. “W T hat? You just heard that?” queried Ickes. “Now, when I was a newspaper man—” OMM Merry Michael macWHITE, the Irish minister, is credited with being respond-

w’hich Judas knew’ to mean that Christ had read his bad thoughts. So Judas, taking the sop, w’ent out immediately. It w’as night, and he w’ent straight to the chief Priests, and said, “W’hat will you give me. if I deliver him to you?” They agreed to give him thirty pieces of Silver; and for this, he undertook soon to betray into their hands, his Lord and Master, Jesus Christ. (Continued tomorrow) (Copyright for North and South America 1934, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc., all rights reserved.)

ble for the note of congratulation w’hich President De Valera sent to Mr. R,oosevelt on the completion of his first year in office. No other nation followed De Valera’s example.

ARMSTRONG URGES ADEQUATHEFENSE State Legion Head Outlines Legislative Program. V. M. Armstrong, Indiana department commander of the American Legion, at a meeting held in his honor by Memorial Post No. 3 in the Hoosier Athletic Club last night, outlined the need for an adequate national defense and a universal draft law and told of the legion’s four-point legislative program. He pointed out that President Roosevelt had stated that the legion had justified its existence by its child welfare program, if for no other reason. “Many metropolitan newspapers have been unfair in refusing to give the legion’s side of the program for veterans’ legislation,” Mr. Armstrong said.

COAL PRODUCTION IN STATE SHOWS DROP Bituminous Output 10.000 Tons Below Previous Week Bituminous coal production in Indiana during the week ended Feb. 24 dropped to 356,000 tons, a decrease of 10,000 as compared to the preceding week, the federal department of commerce reported here today. The former figure was an Increase of 72,000 tons over the corresponding week of last year, however, and represented slightly less than 4.3 per cent of the total national production of 8.330,000 for the week ended Feb. 24. LIGHTING EXPERT I DIES W. D'Arcy Ryan Designed Niagara Falls Illumination. SCHENECTADY, N. Y.. March 14. —W. D’Arcy Ryan, internationally known illuminating engineer, who designed the lighting effects of Niagara falls and of many large expositions, died today of a heart ailment. He had been iB since test aumme*.

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler NEW YORK. March 14.—Your correspondent had a very hot story today in which Clarence Chamberlin, one of the greatest fliers in the world and a young man who is not given to idle popping off on subjects which he knows nothing about, declared that some of the most impressive passenger ships in use in the country at this time are mantraps which should not be allowed to take passengers off the ground. But there seems to be a question of libel in the

piece and your correspendent. who has learned something about backing into an essay, has been unable to work it over in such a way as to tell the story with due regard for the safety of the people who may have some idea of flying from place to place and also for the legal responsibilities which must be assumed by a publisher. The publisher has a pretty difficult problem, for he may have the information of life-or-death importance to the citizens and find himself deterred from passing on the same until some way is discovered to shove it into the Congressional Record or the record of some official in-

quiry. which would be a good w'ay of doing in the present case. So perhaps it would be a good idea for the statesmen who are interested in the air mail controversy to summon Mr. Chamberlin to Washington and let him repeat there for the Record the remarks w'hich he made to your correspondent this afternoon about transportation companies which are soliciting passengers for and carrying passengers every day in ships which he condemns as much less safe than they ought to be in the present state of the development of aviation. Mr. Chamberlin in that case could call startled attention to his claim that some companies have failed to buy the safest ships that are to be had in the open market because they are mixed up with the ownership of manufacturing companies which produce planes of inferior kind. tt x What It Might Show HE says that the worst of It is that some of the most dangerous, or least safe, passenger ships, which are carrying a great volume of passenger traffic nowadays are so impressive in their externals and such little refinements as personal attendance and physical comfort that they present to the layman a false notion of security. Mr. Chamberlin's story is one which, is spread upon the record of a government inquiry, backed by his authority as a flier, would be likely to kick up an interesting row in the aviation business quite aside from the fuss which has been kicked up to date. It might show that the army’s performance in flying the mail with poor equipment and inferior training is not much w'orse than that of one of the passenger carriers. Mr. Chamberlin took account of the fact that the army had lost ten fliers in the mail service and said that one of the passenger companies had killed ten or eleven pilots, co-pilots, and hostesses and ten or fifteen passengers in the last few months. Well, it seems as though there ought to be some privilege to take the opinion of such a man as Chamberlin, w T ho generally keeps a still and discreet tongue in his head, and just print them for what they may be W'orth but you can’t do that in this business. Such a thing w r as done some twenty years ago as I recall, in the matter of the wooden railroad cars and much hell was raised w'eek after week in a great newspaper crusade w'hich took daring chaneco on libel. The result of this crusade w'as that very few W'ooden cars remained in service a short w'hile later, and no railroad or equipment company ever collected any libel money, either. But this airplane story seems even more chancy than the wooden car story and, although some of the planes w'hich Clarence Chamberlin w'ould like to accuse may crack up and kill some people in the meanw'hile, the naming of names will have to wait only until he has a chance to spell them out for the record in Washington. tt x x He Respects Fords IN the meantime it is no libel not to mention a particular brand or ship or a particular line so it will be of interest no doubt to know that Mr. Chamberlin. has the greatest respect for the tri-motored Ford, although he says it is slow and one of the least comfortable ships in the passenger traffic. He also approves the Douglas plane which is used by the T. W. A., the ships of the Pan-American service, which are slow and expensive, and the tri-motored Stinsons w’hich are used on the American Airw'ays. Chamberlin points out that some lines use more than one type and kind of ship so that a passenger may fly with a line in one boat w’ith the utmost possible safety but may also happen to take another one, flown by the same company, which would be considerably more risky. This sort of utterance from such a flier seems likely to cause some confusion in the minds of persons who intend to go flying about their business, and the quickest and surest way of settling the doubt and proving the quality of all the ships w'ould be a formal inquiry in Washington where the hearings would get a lot of national publicity and every line and all the ships would get a fair deal in all the papers. They couldn’t object to a fair deal, could they? Or could they? (Copvrlsht, 1934. by Unite and Feature Syndicate. Jnc.l

ROCKETS capable of carrying scientific instruments to a height of fifty miles or more above the earth’s surface may be the means of solving many problems now puzzling the radio engineer, the meteorologist, the physicist and the astronomer. This is the opinion of Dr, J. A. Fleming, acting director of the department of terrestial magnetism of the Carnegie institution of Washington. In particular, Dr. Fleming feels that, the rockets may yield data which will aid in the solution of the special problem, which his laboratory is interested in, namely, the magnetism of the earth. For many years now it has been known that the earth is a huge magnet. That, of course, is why the compass needle points north. But no completely satisfactory explanation of why the earth is a magnet has as yet been advanced. BUM IF the compass pointed exactly to the north pole there would be no practical problem involved. But the compass doesn't. In general, the compass points to the north magnetic pole. But at any given locality on the earth’s surface, the compass is just a little off in its direction. This variation, as it is technically called, is little in some localities and great in others. Moreover, it is not constant, changing with the time of the day end the season of the year. The situation is further complicated by the fact that there are changes in variation from year to year and by the further fact that the north magnetic pole is slowly shifting its position. A majority of the nations of the earth maintain magnetic surveys w’hich study the changes in the earth's magnetic field in order that adequate charts may be prepared and kept up-to-date. In the United States that w’ork is carried on by the coast and geodetic survey, a unit of the department of commerce. 1 Since 1904 the Carnegie institution of Washington has maintained its department of terrestial mag* netism which has carried on similar surveys in remote parts of the earth where there are no regular surveys, and over the oceans. 1

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