Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 161, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1934 — Page 17

It Seems to Me HEM BROUN LE\ ELAND Nov 15.—The man at the Grand Central station noted down the number of my car and berth and looking over my shoulder said. ‘ Good evening. Mrs. Roosevelt." Jn her place in the lin* 1 stood that inveterate traveler who is sometimes railed The First Lady of tne Land." It seemed to me that shij was going about her business with far less fuss and swank than anybody possibly could imagine One lone policeman stood at the gate, but there was no sign of attendant secret service men and once through ths gate Eleanor Roosevelt was on her own. I w ; reminded of the fact that some feminine ■ ■ .’>n asserted that it was unfair for the Presidents wife to go on the stump for a friend because her power >nd prestige might distort the issues

and influence the minds of voters. Yet at the beginning of this railroad oumey I was struck by the fact that Mrs Roosevelt neither asked nor received any special favors. And this was not only a compliment to her own unpretentiousness, but also to the fundamental democratic feeling of America. a a a That Democratic Attitude IT is unwise, perhaps, to build up towering theories upon small incidents. but I am reinforced in the

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hope that in spite of many ominious symptoms America is not yet ready tinder for any* Fascist movement. Surely there is no other land m which the wife of the Chief Executive could travel with so little flutter and commotion. I am not endeavoring to stress the fact that Mrs. Roosevelt is possessed happily of a high degree of ease and independence. This I believe to be the fact, but at the moment I am more concerned with crowd reaction. Any one of two dozen motion picture stars would have created far more stir in the station. In fact, even a minor Hollywood luminary would have been disappointed gravely if her leavetaking had attracted so little notice. And this calm acceptance of the fact that “The First Lady” was taking a solitary trip on the 11:40 from New ? York to St. Louis had nothing to do with any lack of recognition. Even Mary Pickford in her long curl days was no more easy to spot than Mrs. Roosevelt. M. original conception was heightened and confirmed by breakfast in the diner. The only hint of -n ciousness in tjie manner cf Eleanor Roosevelt . the rapid way in which she strides through Pullmans and this I think is less to be attributed to the fact that she is the wife of the President than to the circumstance that she is a shade aware of her tallness. Th table which she took was just ahead of mine. “Grapefruit." I said. “Orange juice” was the order of Mil Roosevelt With a certain bitterness 1 assumed then would be little breakfast for coml the First Lady had been served. Asa matter of fact. I beat her by thirty seconds on the friii” and by a full minute on the scrambled eggs. The steward sauntered over and said: Sometimes I read your column with great interest.” a a a Just the Usual Corner sat inn I TOOK this as a tradelast and answered. You know who that woman is who is sitting at the next , , he replied. ‘lts Mrs. Roosevelt. Shes traveled with us lots of times.” And subsequently he did take occasion to wander over to her table to ask whether the coffee was all rich” and to remark that it was certainly a most unpleasant morning. But he asked me the same question and made the same observation. The waiter took everything in his stride and nobody kowtowed or spread out the red carpets. Mrs. Roosevelt was just a fellow traveler. A little later in the lounge the man to my neht remarked. “That was Mrs. Roosevelt who just went through.” He gave it out merely as a news report and as another reporter I would like to add that I have not seen any person in the public eye go about her business with less swank and ostentation. Quite possibly somebody will write in to inquire whether I believe that all the ills of the world will be solved promptly because of the fact that the wife of the President is exceedingly well mannered. Let me reply now that I do not think so. Nor am I readv to assert that many dangerous trends are not afoot in spite of the fact that the First Lady is a person who manages to be democratic without effort or condescension. I merely say that to me it seems a small but useful indication of the national temper. And can't we let it go at that? iCopvrtcht. 1934. bv The Tunes!

Today s Science Bi' DAVID DIETZ

r T'HE brain, not the heart, is the great problem in l attempts to revive the dead, according to Dr. C J Wiggers, professor of physiology at the Western Reserve university medical school and one of the world's chief authorities on the subject of the heart. Restarting a heart which has stopped beating is no ereat trick, according to Dr. Wiggers It is done daily m physiological laboratories all over the United States as a routine procedure during animal experimentation. , . Dr. Wiggers himself invented a method for doing this several vears aeo. but a simpler method, perfected bv Drs. Hooker. Kouwenhovven and Langworthy. at Johns Hopkins university, now is the standard method. Once, however, the flow of blood to the brain is stopped, the celLs of the brain begin to deteriorate and perhaps actulally disintegrate. These changes, Dr. Wiggers says, do not even require that the heart be actually stopped, merely that its action become so disorganized or feeble that blood is no longer pumped into the brain. If it were possible. Dr. Wiggers believes, to start into action the heart of a man who had been dead four minutes, the ’nan would be only a breathing machine. He would be an absolute idiot. Perhaps he would be blind, deaf or dumb. He might be partially paralyzed. Any scheme to restore life to a dead man would have to be applied and carried to success within two minutes after the heart had stopped. Dr. Wiggers says. a a a DR WIGGERS sees no hope for the program suggested by Dr E. Cornish to revive convicts who have been executed by lethal gas. The method suggested bv Dr Cornish, who first came into prominer.ce as a result of his experiments with dogs in 4 California, is as follows: Inject methylene blue as an antidote for cyanide poisoning. Put the victim on a teetering board, a sort of see-saw. as a means of getting the blood back into circulation. Apply artificial respiration. Inject a fluid into the victims arteries as a means of applying a pressure to the heart and starting it *nto action Inject adrenalin as a means of constricting ihe arteries and further increasing the blood pressure The trouble with this program, according to Dr. Wiggins, is that it wont work. To begin with.” he says, ’ the usefulness of methylene blue .is extremely doubtful. Most experimenters today think that it is useless. The teetering board likewise seems useless to me. a a a THE heart can stop in three ways. One is a nervous inhibition. This is what happens when a prizefighter is knocked out by a blow to the solar plexus or the jaw. A second type of stoppage is due to failure of the pacemaker. Methods for reviving the pacemaker have been invented by Dr. Joseph Erlanger and Dr. A. S. Hyman. But Dr Wiggers regards these as useless because he believes that as a rule the pacemaker fails last. . The type of heart stoppage which is the most important is known as ventricular fibrillation. In this, the ventricles of the heart cease to beat with rhythmic tempo and instead flutter and pulsate irregularly and wildly. Circulation of the blood ceases, the person becomes unconscious, and if the fibrillation is not stopped. :gath and stoppage of the heart follow. When a convict is electrocuted, ventricular fibrillation it the cause ol death.

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TV A Lifting Living Standards and Saving Farms in Southland

Tht* i the fourth of six storfro on what PrMident Roosevelt will see when he visits the Tennessee Valley, So. 1 social planning project of the New DeaL What actually has been done in eighteen months of work and spending? These stories tell you. a a a BY JOHN T. MOUTOUX Written for NEA Service KNOXVILLE. Tenn., Nov. 15.—From 75 to 80 per cent of the Tennessee Valley's 2,000.000 people live on farms and in villages and make their living by farming. Any program to better the conditions of the people of the valley must consider their special problems. The Tennessee Valley Authority is doing that. Improper land use in the Tennessee Valley since the days of Daniel Boone—stripping the land of its trees and forests cover and planting it year after year in cotton and com—has left it in such poor condition that thousands of acres are in waste and other thousands are so run down that they produce only a small part of the crops they once did. The cry of the TV A agricultural division is “Save the Soil.” To do it will require a revolution in the valley’s agriculture. Cotton and corn, the present big crops, will have tq give way to legumes and livestock. „ Until now cotton has been the main cash crop. Under the New Deal, livestock will take its place. Under the old order, the livestock in the valley was fed on corn. Under the TV A program, they will be fed on legumes. ' The new’ system of cropping w’ill do big things: It will build up the soil instead of destroying it. It will enable the region to feed itself. Cotton and corn took important plant foods, such as nitrates, out of the soil. Legumes, such as alfalfa, lespedeza, and clover, put nitrates into the soil and form a mat or protective covering, preventing erosion.

The TV A agricultural division, headed by Director H. A. Morgan, has a staff of men working with experiment stations, extension workers, and county agents in selling the program of a balanced agriculture to the Tennessee valley farmers. To prevent further erosion, farmers of the valley are trying something new to agriculture of this region—terracing the land, which checks the runoff. Long neglect and improper cropping has left the land in such poor condition that a tonic is needed to build it up more quickly than the new crops can. This tonic the TV A is about to provide, in cheap fertilizer. The three main ingredients in fertilizer are nitrate, phosphate, and potash. Nitrates are already cheap and potash is used in small quantity. The big job for the TVA was to lower the cost of phosphates. a a a IT asked twenty-two of the leading technical institutions and chemical societies of the country to recommend a man to head the chemical engineering and fertilizer program. The first choice of eighteen of them was Dr. Harry A. Curtis, then working for an oil company. He came to the TVA for a smaller salary. Pilot or laboratory-sized plants were set up at Knoxville and at Muscle Shoals. Curtis and his aids went to work. Phosphate rock form beds in middle Tennessee were brought to the laboratory and processed, with a view of converting them into superphosphates. On the basis of these experiences, anew plant w r as designed for Muscle Shoals. Plans called for utilizing parts of nitrate plant No. 2 at the Shoals, converting two of the old carbide furnaces into electric furnaces, and building a new’ plant costing approximately $1,250,000. The plant has been completed, tests run, and is ready for President Roosevelt’s inspection on his trip to the Shoals. Up to now, commercial superphosphates have contained 16 per cent phosphate, while ordinary phosphates have been only half that strong. TVA chemists have worked out

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND —By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen —

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—1 t looks as if the election of Arthur W. Mitchell, Negro congressman from Chicago, as successor to Oscar DePriest, also a Negro, might cause the New Deal a little trouble. Already some of the old guard Democrats have intimated private objections. What they say is that they don’t mind having a Republican Negro around, but that a Democratic Negro is different. Mitchell, they say. will be a member of their own crow’d and party.

And it has more significance than merely the opposition of southern congressman. For Roosevelt and his administration deliberately have courted Negro support. Interior Secretary Ickes once w&s an officer in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Oscar Chapman, his assistant, had been a strong rooter for more funds for Howard university (Ne?ro>, which is run by the interior department. Harry Hopkins, relief administrator. has operated on the assumption that black men can be just as hungry as white. Finally. Mrs. Roosevelt has conferred frequently with Walter White, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. It has escaped the attention of most, but this is the first time in history that the Democratic party has sent a Negro to congress, a * a 'I’ITHEN James Roosevelt. W father of the President, died, he left his son an estate which was invested carefully and nets about SIO,OOO annually. The administrator of this estate is Philip Roosevelt, a partner in Roosevelt <fc Sons, investment bankers. .He is a cousin of the President and also a close friend. Some time ago he wrote his cousin in the White House regarding the various stocks and bonds in which the trust fund was invested. He suggested that if Franklin' would give him some general information as to certain elements of the administration's future fiscal policy, it would help him. Philip, as administrator, of the trust fund with more benefit to the President. To this the President sent the following reply: "Dear Phil: "You are the administrator. tSigned) FRANKLIN" Some days later, the President received from his cousin another letter which read as follows: "Dear Franklin: "I have converted all your secur-

a 48 per cent superphosphate, which means that one carload of TVA superphosphate contains as much plant food as three cars of superphosphates now on the market and six times as much as the ordinary phosphate. a a a WITH freight costing the farmers of the valley $4 to $5 a ton, bagging $1.50, and handling $1.50 a ton, it can be seen that reducing the tonnage to onethird will mean a big saving even if the cost of phosphates themselves is not reduced. The TVA plant is big enough to show commercial feasibility of manufacture by processes worked out by Curtis and his aids. When these processes are proved practical they will be made available by TVA to the fertilizer industry. The TVA land terracing, fertilizer, and new crops program is being applied to flat and rolling land in the valley. But thousands of acres of hillsides are now gullies. Farmers had stripped these steep hillsides of their trees and put the land in crops. Bad erosion followed. To meet that problem the TVA has a forestry and soil erosion department whose men are directing the work of 5,000 CCC boys in 25 camps in the valley. Beginning in October, 1933, these boys, during their first year, built 80.000 check dams, excavated 40,000 yards of diversion ditches, laid 2,500,000 square yards of brush matting, developed two nurseries in which millions of seedlings are growing, and planted 3,000,000 seedlings last spring. a a a THE boys worked on 125,000 acres of land, most of it in hilly East Tennesiee where hillside cultivation has resulted in the most severe erosion. Stopping erosion, in addition to restoring the land, will lessen the mud deposit in Norris Dam reservoir, thereby lengthening the life of the dam. Farmers who w’ere skepticaleven hostile —to the soil erosion work have now come around to it and welcome the CCC boys on their farms; others, using TVA methods, are doing their own soil erosion work.

ities into government bonds. Now you are the administrator. (Signed) “PHIL.” a a a THE President sees newsmen twice a week in his office in the White House. One hundred strong and more, they gather in the lobby every Wednesday and Friday, scrutinized as they enter by police and secret service men, wno know every face. There is more than a scattering of women in the group. When Bill Collins, press gallery chief, claps his hands, the rush for the door of the President's office is like the rush for a New York subway train entrance. Places close to the desk are coveted, for Roosevelt is a man to see as well as to hear. Never taciturn, as Hoover was, he is always informal, engaging in pleasantries with those near at hand while others assemble. When the last man is in. Collins calls, “All in,” and chatting stODs. It is the President's cue. He leans back in his chair, smoking a cigaret. He announces that he has signed a bill, or vetoed one. or appointed a commission. or issued an executive order. Then the questions pop. Here is the difference between Roosevelt and his predecessors. Both Coolidge and Hoover required that questions be submitted in advance, in writing. Roosevelt is less cautious but entirely capable of avoiding pitfalls. “Mr. President a newsman tries to draw him into dangerous ground. The President grins. “That’s like asking a man if he's stopped beating his wife.” “Mr. President .” a question is asked about a technicality in the housing bill. Frankly. I don’t know. I haven’t the foggiest idea ” For the most part, his ideas are far from foggy. He gives the press an even break, and better. He is not afraid to confide, to talk “off the record,’’ to say things which, if reported by any one of the

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A TVA subsidiary, Tennessee Valley Associated Co-operatives, is working along another line to benefit the farmers of the valleys. It is 'Setting up co-operatives which aim to bring the farmers more for their produce. Already a number have been set up, and others are planned. There is the cannery group, with plants at Soddy, Tenn., and Murphy, waynesville, Hopkinsville, Green Mountain, and Cranberry, N. C. Farmers bring their fruits or vegetables to these plants and receive cash. To mention one item, sixty tons of blackberries were canned at these plants last summer. TVA raised the price of blackberries from 15 to 25 cents a gallon simply by paying the higher price, thereby compelling other buyers of berries to pay as much or go without.

scores of listeners, would be disastrous. But his trust is sound. He is never betrayed. Roosevelt’s press conferences are largely and eagerly attended not because he is a charming man, but because, knowing the value of a favorable press, he takes pains to hand out good “copy,” to repay every newsman for every visit. They can’t afford to miss it, (Copyright. 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) Prospect O. E. S. to Meet Prospect auxiliary 542, Order of Eastern Star, will hold a:i all-day meeting with a pitch-in dinner at noon Friday at the Prospect Masonic lodge, State avenue and Prospect street. A business meeting will be held at 2 p. m.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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M .HereX are ~^ B paiMwthout a.crack.iniem.”

An eroded hillside in the Tennessee valley.

CCC boys planting free seeds for future orchards.

POTATO growers of four western North Carolina counties formed a co-operative at Banner Elk, borrowed $4,500 from TVAC, and bought two carloads of seed potatoes from Maine. They doubled their money on the first crop, paid back TVAC, and have seed potatoes stored in their warehouse. Seed potato growers of Maine have protested, but the potato growers of Ashe, Watauga, Avery, and Mitchell county say that from now on they are going to grow their own seed potatoes. There are creamery co-opera-tives at Norris, Tenn., and Brasstown, N. C.; woodworking cooperatives at Cranberry and Hazelwood, N. C., and Norris, Tenn.; a mineral co-operative at Johnson City, Tenn., and a mountain crafts co-operative will be organized at Norris.

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP a a a a a a By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15— If the new congress arrives in Washington in radical mood it will find its guns have been spiked by

President Roosevelt. Offense has been adopted by the administration as a defensive tactic. It does not intend to wait until the new legislators have assembled and whipped up formidable sentiment in favor of cash payment of the bonus, the thirtyhour week, and other measures out of line with the New Deal program. The administration is hard at

Norris, the town the TVA built, probably will become headquarters for co-operatives in this section. Chairman A. E. Morgan of the TVA is enthusiastic about such projects because he regards them as a way to increase the income of the farmers of the valley by helping them to help themselves. TVAC was given $300,000 at the outset and it has used only a small part of the money. Most of the co-operatives either cost little or paid back quickly. (Copyright, 1934, NEA Service. Inc.i NEXT: Norris—the kind of town most people have only dreamed about. There were mistakes, but the government learned by experience, and the result is the prettiest, most livable town you’d care to see.

work on substitutes and compromises. It hopes to avert a break with congress and even the sort of row’ which would be unsettling to business. The President may present his full program to the country when he speaks over the radio early in December. If not, he will have it ready for congress as soon as the members have hung up their hats. Enough congressmen-elect are on record for the cash bonus to over-ride a presidential veto. The Roosevelt compromise has not been decided on but the veterans’ bureau and fiscal officers of the government are at work on it. It may call for cash payment to veterans now on relief. The American Federation of Labor has not announced the number of congressmen it succeeded in pledging for the thirtyhour week, but has expressed satisfaction at election returns. ,a m a THE administration alternative may follow one of two lines. It may take the form of a thirtyhour week from which some department of the government is empowered to grant exemptions; or it may follow suggestions made recently by a number of business men that quotas of unemployed be assigned each industry for absorption. The industrial emergency council is in charge of settling this problem. No sooner had the re-election of the two leading proponents of a central bank —Senators La Follette and Cutting—been assured, than the President moved to forestall them on this issue. One of the chief complaints of central bank advocates has been the opposition of the federal reserve board to a greater expansion of the currency. The President now has put at the head of this board Marriner S. Eccles, who believes that an expansion of money supplies, together with increased velocity of circulation, is necessary to bring about sound recovery. A federal reserve joard with new powers bestowed by the last congress and dominated by New Dealers will be able in the next few months to accomplish many of the things the central bank bloc wants done. Financial journals have commented approvingly on Eccles’ apopmtmen;s,

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Fair Enough WESHHMPEtUR WITH deep regret, your correspondent learns that he has wounded the feelings of United States Senator Huey P. Long and has him announcing he will keep his band and rooters at home and absent himself from the football game which his team is to play, but may not be allowed to play, with the University of Tennessee on Dec. 8 in Knoxville. Your correspondent recently wrote a little composition pointing out that Senator Long was using

the football team of Louisiana State university for purposes of political ballyhoo. He had led the team and the varsity band as well as the student body on a junket to Nashville for the Vanderbilt game. He had led the parade through Nashville, attended by his armed bodyguards and he also had led th: newspaper stories of the occasion. Following that exploit, the senator had put in a week challenging the University of Minnesota to an intersectional game with his team the proceeds of which, minus natural shrinkage, would be devoted to poor relief in Louisiana with the compliments of Huey P. Long.

Count on Shrinkage THE senator has been so active in connection with the football program at Louisiana State for several years that any relief which the Louisiana poor might receive from such a game, after the deduction of the shrinkage, naturally would be associated with the name of Huey P. Long. Your correspondent feels some delicacy about alluding to shrinkage, but citizens of Louisiana who have yearned to know something about the state revenues collected under the dictatorship have learned to expect no better answer than “a certain amount” or “quite a lot” of “none of your business.” They will appreciate the factor of shrinkage in any moneys, charitable or otherwise, which are administered by the dictatorship. However, it will be time to consider the shrinkage if and when the Minnesota game has been played and the receipts have been collected and shrunk. The senator has announced that he will stay home and keep his band and rooters away, leaving Louisiana State to play Tennessee at Knoxville without benefit of cheering section unless the athletic director of Tennessee is able to produce for him a vindication of his motives in football. He disowns any desire to advertise Huey P. Long, a denial which would suggest that the publicity which he seemed to court, and undoubtedly received, in connection with the Vanderbilt game was repugnant to his nature. His disclaimer would seem to imply also a promise to refrain from parading or making himself more conspicuous than the team, itself, which might give the Louisiana team a chance to break into print. In view of the conditions which the senator has laid down, however, the reinstatement of the junket to the Tennessee-Louisiana game seems a remote possibility. The athletic director of Tennessee is not in a very good position to produce a retraction. a a a Something New in Football IT does seem curious, if the senator is merely one fan, or customer, among many that he assumes the right to call off an entire student demonstration at Louisiana’s games for personal reasons. Your correspondent has had a rather extensive experience with football teams in all parts of the country, but never has known before of a case in whigh an outsider possessed the authority to orders to the varsity team of any organization ing itself an institution of learning. Asa rule ti. authority lies first with the coach, then with the athletic director, next with the faculty committee and, finally, with the president of the school. Senator Long is not an alumnus of Louisiana State nor even an officer of the state government, but he speaks as the only authority and issues challenges, calls off dates, leads the parades, recruits and hires the players and, in general, takes quite an active hand in the conduct of football affairs at the state university. He also speaks of Louisiana State as ' my team” and it is more than your correspondent can do to distinguish the difference between the purposes for which he used the football team when he takes it out on tour in the fall and the use to which he puts his famous radio sound truck at other seasons of the year. In fact, football has created a louder ballyhoo for him and over a wider territory than the circus radio truck ever has been able to accomplish. Probably, the senator will just decide to rub hfs feelings and make the trip anyway, band and all. It would be very unlike him to foiego the ballyhoo value of the trip because he has been caught in th* act. The senator always is being caught in the act. (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.i

Your Health —BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

EVEN those who are most eager to have some kind of sickness insurance in this country freely admit that none of the systems in use abroad would do here. One reason is that Americans like to choose their own doctors. Many systems of sickness insurance in foreign countries do not permit a man to choose the doctor he wants. After all, the link between doctor and patient is one of the most intimate of human relationships. One reason why American doctors have been opposing state control over medicine is the likelihood that it will interfere with this personal relationship. American doctors are proud of the service they have been giving to the American people. Our sickness and death rates are about as low as, if not lower than, those of most of the large countries of the world. 4 a a a ANOTHER reason why American doctors are opposed to sickness insurance is the fact that the quality of medical care given under such systems in foreign countries is far below the average care given in thus country. In most of these systems a doctor gets a list of about 1,000 to 1.500 persons whom he is supposed to look after. He gets so much a person each year. In addition, in many countries, he carries on private practice. Now, doctors are only human! By the very nature of the circumstances, there is a tendency to give less attention to those who come under the insurance system than to those who are directly responsible to the doctor for payment. 'The Germans say that insurance service is second class, that the leading doctors will not do this kind of practice. For this reason it is frequently found that even patients who are on sickness insurance lists will go to an outside doctor and pay his fee, when they think anything is seriously wrong with them. a a a THE tying up of sickness insurance with unemployment insurance in some countries has multiplied the evils tremendously. It has caused patients to come to their doctors repeatedly for minor illnesses just to get their unemployment benefits. Thus, it is found that there is much more sickness among persons who are insured than among those who are not insured. Actually, there is really no more sickness than there was before. Those who promote sickness insurance in this country insist that there is an advantage in having the patient see the often, because then the doctor mav find disease in Its earliest stages. Os course, many doctors who practice under the insurance systems take their work conscientiously and try to study their patients. But. if the persons who favor sickness insurance could produce figures to show that the insurance doctors have detected a great many more cases of Bright’s disease, tuberculosis or cancer than are detected by doctors in this country,, their argument would be better.

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