Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 184, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1934 — Page 15

It Seems to Me HEYIMM TN a recent r !umn I was disowning the infant prodigy mer.ice which now la sweeping the country. The discussion was restricted to the kids who do oalcuius and the tiny tot* who will not go to sleep without an hour's scamper through trigonometry. But. of course, thi* children's crusade is advancing on a far wider front. The patter of tiny feet resounds on every movie lot. At the moment screen plays are by children, for children and with children. The drive to clean up the films has routed Hollywood into rompers. Indeed I understand that one of the reigning stars referred to a hated rival as. “that old hag of seven." . The fact that we are living, or possibly Just surviving, in the children's hour was forcibly impressed upon me the other night in Newark, N. J., at a bene-

fit where I was one of a flock of masters of ceremonies. Happily Newark his long since forgotten the fact thit it was the very spot of my first venture on any stage. They say a m lrderer invariably returns to the scene of the crime and so I found myself once more on the wrong side of the footlights in a Newark theater. With all proper remorse for my transgression I can at least assert that I knew the nature of my act and that I was not put forth as Baby Broun or Buster this or that. At the benefit I was up to my ankles in

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tots who danced and sang and played the accordion. Nor did it help very much that each last infant who toddled up to the amplifier to warble had chosen for his song a lugubrious ditty entitled “Out in the Cold Again." a a a Out in the Cold THE little lady with the accordion played the same melody, but in her case I managed to eke out for myself a mild revenge. Mr. Brunside, the stage manager had been severe w r ith her. “Just three minutes, dear," he said to the little lady, “and that does not mean six or seven.” She required five to tell the world that she was out in the cold again. The applause was something less than deafening but someone in the rear of the theater, probably a relative or friend, shouted “more.” To my horror I saw that the little lady was tuning or pumping, or whatever it is you do to an accordion, preliminary to an encore. The stage of the Masque Theater is wide, but like a wounded fawn I crossed it in two bounds and applied a hammerlock and body scissors to the infant musician. “Yc i were magnificent, darling,” I hissed in her ear, “and we don't want any more.” “I'm Just going to do the overture from William Tell.” she assured me. “It is a thing of precious beauty,” I replied, still hissing, “hut the hour of midnight is close at hand and we won't have William Tell.” At another point somebody had to stop a gentleman who was going to catch a very tiny child who was about to execute a swan dive into his arms from the top of a 15-foot ladder. Os course, I mean stop him before the child jumped. u n a He's For Child Labor Law UNTIL we get the Child Labor Amendment, which grows increasingly important as a must for American legislators, organizations ought to police their own industries and keep children on the sidelines. I am aware of the fact that certain roles on the stage and screen can not be acted except by authentic children. A midget playing a child is a most unhappy expedient. It may be necessary to make some very limited exceptions under the most careful kind of regulation. Personally I'm not even for that. It is better to have a few good plays suffer than to break a necessary precedent protecting all children. Somebody may point out to me that under the stringent regulations of which I am speaking, Gus Edwards would have been unable to stage his famous “School Days” act. which gave to the theater such famous stars as Georgie Jessel, Eddie Ca. tor and Georgie Price. These and many more were Developed by the good Gus Edwards. Asa matter of fact the juvenility of the kids in the act grew to be more or less a gag. Some of the schoolboys had been shaving for years before they were graduated into headlinerism. But I w r ould base the argument on a wider plane than the blue-black chin of schoolboy Jessel. I may be bigoted, unreasonable and fanatical, but in my opinion it would be better to sacrifice even the career of a Cantor, a Jessel or a Georgie Price if thereby an iron clad chiic l labor law might be obtained. (Copyright. 1334)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

DISCOVERY of insulin has made it possible for children, who have diabetes, to live long and useful lives. However, there is no disease affecting mankind in which life and death are so close together as they are in diabetes in children, because the failure to use insulin when needed will result promptly in the appearance of the unconsciousness called coma which moves on into death. The responsibility, therefore, of every one connected with the care of the condition, including parents, nurses and doctors, is great. Diabetes is rare in infancy and quite infrequent up to the age of four years. Most of the cases in children come on during the period between 8 and 12 years. a a a THE structure of the body, or lark of certain parts responsible for diabetes, may have some hereditary connection. ' In the control of diabetes, it is not only necessary to use insulin which supplies the material that is not given to the body by the pancreas in such cases, but also to control the diet. It must be borne in mind that children require food not only for their daily needs but also for tissue repair and body growth. However, the diabetic child should never eat more food than is necessary, since an excess of food wjll result in an excess of sugar in the blood. The highest total number of calories allowed for the child with diabetes is 1000 daily. Eeyord that the diet of the diabetic child differs little from the well balanced diet of the normal child, and it avoids all extremes in sugars. a a a IN giving insulin in such cases, the best method is to use the least possible daily amount, Frequently these children get along with two injections of the Insulin daily, but in some cases three are required. An overdose of insulin results in a serious condition—namely. a lack of sugar in the blood, which produces severe symptoms. Every one associated with the child must be informed concerning these symptoms. This includes particularly the teachers, who take care of the child when it is away from Its parents and nurses. With the use of insulin more and more children are developing to advanced years, and there js some hope in the fact that occasionally the development of the gland called the pancreas is such that less and less insulin becomes necessary. A complete cure of the disease is not expected. There is some evidence, however, that in some cases the disease stops advancing when the child is full grown. , The occurrence of any other disease at the same time, of course, lays a special burden on the diabetic child.

Questions and Answers

Q— Name the United States Ambassadors to Great Britain. France and Germany. A—Great Eritam. Robert W Bingham: Germany, William E Dodd: France. Jesse I. Straus. Q—What are the names of the law-makmg bodies in Sp*in. France. Austria and Hungary? A—Spain, Cortes: France. Nations: Assembly; Austria, Nauonalrat; Hungary, the Legislature.

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THE MURDER OF BABY LINDBERGH

Ransom Note Left in Crib Chief Clew to Identity of Killer

1 ollowing Is the serand of a series of 12 dispatches by Sidney B. Whipple dealing with the “crime of the centnry"—the and murder of Charles A. Llndberrh Jr. It pletare* the early confusion, the frantic activity at Hopewell, that followed swiftly npon the announcement that the Llndberg child had been stolen from his crib. man BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE United Press Stall Correspondent (Copyright. 1934. by United Pressl ON the morning of March 2, 1932, the white-washed garage that formed one wing of the Lindbergh manor in the Sourland foothills became the field headquarters for a regiment of policy officials. Dirt roads leading to the estate were alive with another army of unofficial investigators and morbidly curious citizens who spread, fanwise, through the desolate territory and up the sodden slopes of the mountains, in eager attempts to discover clews to the kidnapers of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. They tramped through the meadows and into underbrush and forest. They marched through winding paths and unused lanes, churning the muddy ground with their heels and creating a confusion of tracks and trails. And they found nothing at all. The only tangible clews to the kidnaper’s identity had been left behind, inside or within a hundred yards of the Lindbergh home. Prom the vacant crib in the nursery, Col. H. Norman Schwartzkopf had taken —with extreme care, lest a finger print be blurred—a

pencilled demand for $50,000, the price for returning the child to his parents. The note, in blurred and peculiar script, said: Dear Sir! Have 50 000 $ ready 25 000 $ in 20 $ bills 15 000 $ in 10 $ bills and 10 000 $ in 5 $ bills After 2-<r lays we will inform you were to deliver the money. We warn you for making anything public or for notify the pol . • . (blurred) The child is in gut care. Indication for our letters are signature. Then followed a “signature’* consisting of a strange device of interlocking circles, colored with red and blue ink and bearing the imprint of three slight indentations—pin pricks, perhaps—near the edges of the circles. Subsequent notes, in negotiation for payment of the ransom, bore the identical symbol. a a a WHEN Col. Schwerzkopf and Col. Lindbergh, lighting their way with electric torches, made their first hurried search of the grounds, they had stumbled upon the second physical clew—an abandoned ladder. The ladder was of “home-made” construction, and consisted of three sections which, when joined together, rose to a height a little above the nursery window. It had been made by a skilled artisan—by a man adept in carpentry. The pegs by which the sections were joined fitted perfectly into grooves carved for them. The rungs were sunk, to be flush with the sides. One rung apparently had broken beneath the weight of the kidnaper and his burden. Could that have been the sound heard outside his window by Col. Lindbergh? Not far from the nursery window they found a heavy chisel. Part of the kidnaper’s equipment, and evidently intended for forcing the nursery shutters, it had not been needed. The shutters warped by inclement weather, had resisted all effort to lock them.

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

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Behind the Crime Conference in session here today is some basic, homespun philosophy by its chief inspirator, Homer Cummings. Not long after he became Attorney General, Cummings decided that all the sleuths at his command could not cure crime unless he had the co-operation of the American public, as long as the movies were indirectly extolling the criminal and the flapper glorifying him. So he set out to make the public crime conscious. This week s conference is not intended as a ballyhoo movement as a sporadic, sudden drive against crime. What Cummings is planning is a long-sustained campaign that will grow in volume.

RAIL SHOP BATTALION JOINS INDIANA MILITIA Major F. K. Mitchell to Head New Unit; Headquarters Here. Organization of the 663rd Railway Shop Battalion has been completed, it has been announced at headquarters of the Indiana Militia Area. The battalion is commanded by Major F. K. Mitchell and is allocated to the Big Four Railroad with headquarters here. In addition to Major Mitch*-il, the Engineer Reserve Officers who make up the commissioned personnel are Captains B. F. Orr, R. W. Retterer, W. E. Crossmeyer, J. A. Martin, C. A. Harper. T. O. Quinn: First Lieutenants K. L. Urich, John Voorhees, Charles McDonough, W. R. Beck. E. F. Waterman, Frank VonStaden, H. H. Templin and R. L. Frame: Second Lieutenants F. H. Winget. L. I. Meek and G. H. Hyde. The Big Four Railroad also is sponsoring the organization of the 53rd Railway Operating Battalion. Corps of Engineers. Major H. O. Schuyler will command the new unit. FRATERNITY HONORS 2 BUTLER STUDENTS Charles Learv and Kenneth Harlan Join Sigma Delta Chi. Election of Charles Leary and Kenneth Harlan. Butler University students, to membership in Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalism fraternity, has been announced by Morris King, president of the Butler chapter. Pledging ceremonies will be held next Monday night. Mr. Leary is sports editor of the Butler Collegian and Mr. Harlan is one of the makeup editors. Both are majoring in journalism. ULLERY TO HEAD JLUB Young Democratic Group Officers to Take Over Jan. 1. Erwin Ullerv will take office Jan 1 as president of the Young Democratic Club of Perry Township. Miss Stella Flegel will become vice-presi-dent; Mrs. Ila Horn, secretary and Claude Port, treasurer. The advisoryboard consists of Ralph Todd, Mrs. Alvin Mayer, Mrs. La born Hendricks and Omer Penrod.

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FROM the house, and trailing away into nothingness at the main road, were a series of heavy footprints. But they were not clear-cut. They looked to have been made by one who had bound his feet in an overcasing of cloth. Those provided the only physical evidences of the kidnaper’s visit to the Lindbergh home. The investigators turned to an analysis of the note. Manifestly, the demand had been written by a person of foreign antecedents and of slight education. The English-speaking races do not w r rite “50 000 $.” The note said “We warn you for making public.” It said the child was in “gut” care. The word and the Teutonic arrangement of phrases stamped its author as German. Quite obviously, the kidnaping had been staged for gain, and neither with the hatred of a crank nor with the thought of “revenge” by a deranged mind. Col. Lindbergh announced his willingness—his eagerness—to pay the extortioners their toll. * n IN the 24 hours that followed the kidnaping the police forces of three states swung into action with increasing momentum. Every road in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania was patrolled and guarded. Squads of state police began a systematic, house-to-house and hovel-to-hovel search in a 10-mile radius. Reports of “suspicious characters” and of “a man, a woman and a baby” seen by tollbridge keepers, filling station attendants. lunch-wagon countermen, and other night workers poured into the white garage at Hopewell. The warped minds of cranks, tottering still further under the shock of the tragedy, filled the mails with cruel, useless “clews.” The town's one-man postoffice force staggered that afternoon to the Lindbergh home under the

To this end delegates convening today are not merely crime experts, lawyers, representatives of prison associations etc., hut also representatives of. women s clubs, the press, radio, the motion picture industry nd from a broad sociological field. The plan is tc put the problem of crime before the public and keep it there rather than the Kvual reverse of the people putting the problem up to the Government. a a a EVER since the Justice Department announced its plans for a crime conference, it has been deluged with almost as many suggestions on how T to eradicate crime as Franklin Roosevelt gets on how to end depression. One of them urged the registration of all laundry tags. Another urged the segregation of all unfit children into concentration camps where they would not be allowed to reproduce. But the prize “nut” letter attributed crime to the United States Navy and the bad example set by sailors while on shore leave. So far. Atty. Gen. Cummings has refrained from showing this letter to his co’league, the Secretary of the Navy, but the temptation is rather great. a a a WHETHER 29-year-old Rush Holt will be allowed to take his Senate seat next month is still a moot question. But the youthful West Virginian already is having his troubles with job hunters. He tells this story himself: Election night he did not retire until nearly dawn. But at last his friends departed and he turned in. Hardly had he fallen asleep when he awakened by a vigorous ringing of his door bell. At the door was a stranger. “Senator.” he said, “you may not remember me. But I voted for you and I got my friends to vote for you. I’m looking for a Government job. and I thought I'd get my application in early.” “I'll do my best for you.” Holt said. “You come and see me when I get to Washington.” “You won't forget.” the caller asked. “You'll remember me?” “Always." Holt replied. And there was a ring of conviction in his voice which the visitor may not have appreciated. {Copyright 1934. bv United Feuure ArndicMw Ibc.i

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1934

At the left is the ladder down which Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. was taken from his nursery to his death, and in the upper center is the handwriting on one of the ransom notes sent Col. Lindbergh. In the lower center photo is a reproduction of the handwriting of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Right is a photo view of Hauptmann as he sat in the Bronx courtroom recently.

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Here is a Department of Justice artist’s concepti on of the man who received the Lindbergh ransom money from Dr. Condon. This sketch was drawn from descriptions given by “Jafsie” and was made almost two years before Hauptmann’s arrest. In the upper center is the footprint photographed under the Lindbergh nursery window the morning after the ah duction. Lower center is one of Hauptmann’s shoes. Right is a photo of New York police officers inspecting $13,750 of the Lindbergh ransom money found in the Hauptmann garage. ,

burden of three heavy sacks of mail. It was the forerunner of a deluge. Meanwhile, the questioning of the Lindbergh household had be-

LEFT TURN-STOP BUS PROPOSAL APPROVED Morrissey’s Recommendation Given Safety Board’s O. K. The Safety Board yesterday approved the recommendation of Chief Mike Morrissey that Peoples Motor Coach Company busses be permitted to make left turns and then stop for passengers on four of their lines in the city. At present the busses have to stop on the extreme right of one corner and then cut across the stream of traffic to make a left turn. The approved recommendation will allow the busses to make their left turn from the center of the road. The board also approved installation of stop and go lights at 16th and Alabama-sts, 16th and Penn-sylvania-sts, and at 16th and Sen-ate-av. The measure was suggested because of the increased flow of traffic on 16th-st since the opening of the new bridge over the canal.

SIDE GLANCES

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gun. Betty Gow, the comely Scottish nursemaid who had ministered to the baby since his birth, became the subject of intense investigation. Her story

I COVER THE WORLD . * n nan By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Upon revision of the Treaties of Versailles, Trianon and St. Germain today hangs the question of eventual peace or war in Europe. And on that issue Europe seems hopelessly divided. By the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was reduced to the position of a second-class power. She lost her colonies, part of the homeland, her navy, her merchant marine and her liberty of action. By the Treaties of Trianon and St. Germain, the Austro-Hungarian empire was partitioned and what was left of the separated states, Austria and Hungary, was so small they could not stand alone. To exist must lean upon their more powerful neighbors.

Whether or not all this was the hand of justice, admittedly has nothing to do with the present. Nationalism is seething. An explosion is feared. Whatever may be the right or the wrong of it, Europe is in danger. The leading statesmen of France, Italy, Great Britain and Russia no longer deny that some post-war treaty revision is desir-

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had>certain;aspects tt&t. for a time, were to pf-ove startling. Tomorrow—Henry (Red) Johnson’s milk bottle.

able. But the nations of Europe are miles apart as to when and how it should come about. Great Britain is among the most outspoken of the revisionists. She received German East Africa, part of the Maeroun and Togoland and some of the other German colonial possessions as her share in the German breakup. Yet no responsible British official has ever suggested she return the colonies. a a a TT'VEN the allied powers trilling to grant revision . mto want revision to be at the exp'ißse of the other nations. By the Treaty of Trianon of June, 1920. Hungary lost Transylvania to Rumania and Croatia to Yugoslavia. Fiume went to Italy. It is over the minorities in Croatia that Hungary and Yugoslavia are now quarreling. By the Treaty of St. Germain, signed in 1919, Austria lost Galicia to Poland, parts of Bohemia and Moravia to Czechoslovakia and other territory to Italy and Yugoslavia. Hence Czechoslovakia has warned the League that any attempt to redraw the map will be resisted by her to the bitter end. Today, Germany, Austria and Hungary stand waiting, as they see it, to “get back some of their own.” They look upon the post-war treaties as paralyzing straitjackets out of which they intend to emerge by hook or crook as soon as they may. a a a FRANCE admits treaty revision is desirable, but insists it must be brought about within the framework of the League of Nations. Italy is more insistent. Speaking for Premier Mussolini, Baron Aloisi frankly warned the council of the League that revision must come, and soon. Hungary, he said, could not wait forever. This brings Franco-Italian relations to a head. France desires, and must have, Italian co-opera-tion if her plan for anew Eu ; ropean peace network is to be made effective. Yet Italy Is siding with Hungary in the present crisis, and France with Yugoslavia.

Second Section

Entered as Second-Haa* Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis. Ind

Fair Enough WMtolffllHt WE seem to have developed anew major sport in this country when 35.000 customers can be corralled on a wintry Sunday afternoon in December in New York to watch two teams of mercenaries play a game of football strictly in the employe spirit without so much as a tradition to warm the proceedings. The New York Giants, so-called only because they happen to be based on the Polo Grounds, and the Chicago Bears, another pioneer firm in a difficult field, carried off their so-called football world

series game amid considerable excitement and the Giants won. The personnel of the home-town team is still widely unknown to the local population and it may be a long time before the juveniles of all ages find a professional football man comparable to the gods of the baseball industry. Nevertheless, they drew $64,500 at the turnstiles on a day that was more fit for sitting around the saloons, and the least that can be said of the new branch of the sport business is that it finally has overcome the prejudice which existed in the beginning.

It was less than 10 years ago that thi college football coaches, all professionals themsel.’es, at their annual union meeting decided that henceforth any man who soiled his hands with wages as a player would be ineligible to membership in their select society. nan McMillin Had His Troubles THERE was some question then as to whether Bo McMillin, late of Center College. Kentucky, and now Indiana University coach, who had played some professional football after leaving school, should be tapped for membership. Mr. McMillin. however, asked permission to speak for himself and, in an oration moist with tears, explained that he hadn't really intended to sin but. on the contrary, was inspired by the honest motive of paying off his school debts when he tried out as a pro. Prom now on, however, his owings being paid and his error pointed out, he would shun bad company, bear in mind that the game was too fine and beautiful for professional interpretation, and drink a glass of milk to old man Stagg whenever Yale met Harvard. Not only among the coaches, however, but even among the more influential sport essayists of the daily papers, the attempt to present the college game of football under frankly professional conditions, was viewed with loathing and alarm. In that naive day, though famous students were playing to millions of dollars worth of trade and emerging from school ragged and with no talent commercially comparable to their football ability, it seemed ridiculous to believe that a time would ever come when people would patronize the pros in pay loads. The few customers who would do so could be regarded as denizens of the underworld of sport to whom nothing was sacred anyway, and the attempt would fail because there weren't enough of them. * ana Too Much For the Customers THE restless C. C. Pyle, who was later to promote the memorable bunion derbies, challenged this prudish prejudice with, first, a team built around Red Grange and. finally, a whole league built around him. He and Mr. Grange lost their fortune in the attempt but not until Mr. Pyle, taking his enemies at their word, had striven hard to roll his own traditions, created his own varsity spirit among his own customers and incorporated an alma mater of his own under the laws of the State of New Jersey. Mr. Pyle visited a Broadway theatrical agent and came away with a staff of 12 female varsity cheerleaders who could do more splits and pinwheels on the space of a dime than the entire West Point gymnastic team working in a million-dollar gym. But the trouble there was, as he discovered too late, that the customers spent their time ogling his cheer leaders and yelling “Hey, baby, how about after?” and ignored his varsity athletes who were out there on the frozen ground leaving divots of live meat wherever they came to earth. (Copyright. 1934. by Unite and Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Today's Science BV DAVID DIETZ

GET acquainted with “sima” and “sial” If you want to talk the technical language of geologists these days. “Sial” is the name which geologists have given to the granitic rocks which constitute the continents. “Sima” is the name for the heavier basaltic rocks which constitute the floor of the oceans and which underlie the continents. Sial floats upon sima and according to certain recent theoiies, the theories of continental migration, sial moves about due to the periodic melting of the sima beneath, a melting brought about by radioactive heating. Theories of the structure of the interior of the earth are undergoing changes these days as a result of recent geological investigations, particularly the studies of the transmission of earthquake waves through the earth. Originally, it was supposed that the interior of the earth was in a molten condition. Then it became popular to believe that the earth had a solid interior. Now geologists, chiefly because of the studies of the propagation of earthquake waves, are inclined to believe that the earth has a liquid core. a a a THIS liquid core is believed to have a diameter of about 4300 miles. Surrounding it, geologists now believe, is a layer of heavy rock, silicates impregnated with iron. This layer is thought to be about 1056 miles thick. Next comes the sima. about 700 milPs thick. At the top of the sima is a layer of ultra-basic rocks about 14 miles thick upon which the sial floats. As already mentioned, geologists have arrived at these notions, chiefly from the way in which earthquake waves travel through the earth. When an earthquake occurs, several types of waves radiate from the center of disturbance. These include the so-called primary waves, which are waves of compression like sound waves. Following the primary waves are the secondary waves. In these, the plane of vibration is at right angle* to the direction in which the waves are traveling. a a a THE speed with which these waves can travel varies with the density of the rock layers through which they are traveling. This fact gives the basis for the theories concerning the thickness of the various rock layers. Liquids can transmit waves of the primary type but not of the secondary type. When the record of an earthquake has to travel through the central portion of the earth to reach a seismograph, these secondary waves are lo6t. It is this fact which leads scientists to infer today that the center of the earth is liquid. Recent researches by Dr. Harlan T. Stetson have disclosed the fact that the moon causes changes in longitude. Thus the distance between America and Europe changes by as much as 63 feet. This change can only be explained by supposing that the moon causes tides in the earth itself, raising a bulge on the earth and altering the distances between continents. So much elasticity in the earth seems to favor the theory of a liquid core. Q—Was the independence of the Confederate States recognized by any toreign power? A—The Confederate States were recognized as belligerents by most of the maritime nations, out their independence was not recognized by any foreign country q who played in the title role and that ot Pnnce Efenilo in the original New York production of the “Merry Widow,” and when was its premier? A—lt was presented at the New Amsterdam Theater in October, 1907, with Ethel Jackson in the title roie and I'onaid Brian in the role ol Danilo.

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