Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1938 — Page 9
From Indiana=Ernie Pyle
‘Gone With the Wind' Isn't Gone With the Wind at All, Ernie Finds; | Filming of Book May Begin in May. :
OLLYWOOD, March, 15—I have searched and sought in Hollywood for the s status of “Gone With the Wind.” Surely some of you must remeniber that book. There may be a few who even re.member that they were going to make a movie of it—the movie of the century! But the movie nevér showed up. What became ~~ of it? That is my purpose in Hollywood-—to find out. : : I've done so to the best of my poor ability. Here you are: - They intend to start actual shooting by May 15. They expect to make the picture in three months. They expect to be road--showing it before Christmas. They say they have not yet picked Scarlett O'Hara. Counting letters, there have been tens of thousands of applicants. Those who have had reading tests run into the thousands. But those who have got as far as a genuine film test (in Mr. Pyle costume and Southern accent) number only about 40. The dopesters say Paulette Goddard will be it. But the studio told - me in a2 confidential whisper, “You won't be embarrassed if you say flatly that Paulette has not been picked.” If you can get any significance out of that, go ahead. The actor who will play Rhett Butler has not reen picked. Clark Gable and Ronald Colman have been . .most talked of. But .Gable is out; his studio won’t lend him. To date, only three people have been aefinitely chosen ior parts. They are: Walier Connolly for Gerald ‘O'Hara, Margirel # Tallichet for Carreen O'Hara, and Maurice Murphy * for Charles Hamilton. Since I didn’t read the book and ‘seldom: see a movie, I’ve never heard of any" of .these six except Walter Connolly. One reason for all the stalling is that David Selznick feels that whoever plays Scarlet will make such 8 hit shell immediately increase herself in value by two or three millions.
Selznick Wants an Unknown
Selzni ck’ (who is a small, but very fine, independent producer) deesn’t- want to borrow an actress from one of the big studios, build her into a million-dollar asset; and then have to give her back. Hence the search for an unknown, whom he can keep. It takes much more than dctors to make a movie, of course. And all the rest of the multitudinous preparation for “Gone With the Wind” which have been going oh all these months. Sidney Howard sits in New York transferring the book fron: novel to screen form. He'll be through in a few weeks. All the costumes have been decided on. The whole picture has already been ‘“‘blueprinted” in
« sketches.
. I asked the Selznick people boldly if they didn’t believe they had puttered around too long with this thing. But the studio says it hasn’t hurt a thing. “We're -not making this picture just for people who " read the book,” they say. -“If nobody but the people "who read the book came to see the picture, we'd go " so broke it would be pitiful. We're making it for everybody, and the time doesn’t make any difference.”
My Diary ‘By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
' Flood Conditions Still Causing Trains to. Run Late in California.
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AN FR ANCISCO, Monday —We are having a Tats of what floods can do to disrupt the orderly pro- |
cedure of life in general. We crawled through the desert yesterday afternoon, and in addition, we had
the experience of going through- a sandstorm. The engineer was obliged to slow down because the sand blows: over the tracks and there is danger of derailment. We were over an hour late and got off the train at Alhambra to drive across to Glendale, just outside . of Los Angeles, to catch the train for San Francisco. - ‘We need not have been anxious about our connections, for we waited some time at the station in Glendale and ‘ the train left an hour and a half late. They cheer- « fully teld us that they were several hours late in San _Pranciseo on account of the flood conditions, and so I. fear that many plans which we made for today will have tc b= changed. ° We woke this morning in the Salinas Valley, and - what 'a change it is from the desert country of yes- ; terday! Everything is green and: beautiful. This is certainly rich land, but I notice a certain amount of soil erosion and something will soon have to be done, even in this rich country.
‘Compile Calendar of Events
I am always fascinated by the desert, even though the cowboy ‘songs which detail all the uncomfortable animals you may come upon in it make you feel nature is not altogether kind. In Phoenix I was given a ‘book ealled “Desert Mavericks.” with drawings and verses. by Eve Ganson. It is quite delightful and I . éanm promise you -an hour's entertainment if you . read it. -I must tell you one or two interesting things done 2 by the New Mexico Federal writers project. If you are ing of going to New Mexico, be sure to get the calendar of annual events in New Mexico, compiled ; and. written by the New Mexico writers’ project. ..- It will tell what you can see t during the wholg . ‘year, and there seems to be no part of the year in
i Hish there is not something interesting to see in the
New Books. Today
: Public bray Presents—
have a. few weeks for a honeymoon is the aim and dream of every newly wed couple, but to oa a whole year of leisure in which to enjoy a new fond happiness comes only to a fortunate few. Place this happiness on. a lovely, sunny island inthe Bay of Naples, and you have the story of ISLAND IN THE SUN, by Geoffrey and Kit Bret Harte (Little). Here among pink, white and blue houses, they led a carefree, happy-go-lucky existence, lazying on the great golden beaches, roaming through the vineyards, exploring sirange caverns, bathing in volcanic waters, - and attending village fiestas. Keeping house was - more than an experience; it was a diplomatic adventure. Add two dogs, several goats some giant rahbits to the establishment, not to mention two tempera- © mental servants, and the story ‘is colored with ex.citement. This is not the ist travel book, nor is it meant to" be. It is, rather, a duet of a year of love, peace, and contentment among sympathetic Lalians on the island of Isshis, their “Island In the Sun.” :
2 ” 2 W SULTED AND EXILED by Arnold Zweig (Miles) _is a passionate piece of invective designed to refute the propaganda of the Nazis. - To this end the author argues impressively that German intellectual
and scientific progress has always been by Jews; and -
supports his argument with details of many typical careers of German-Jewish leaders. Mr. Zweig’'s inconception of life's purpose that the development of individual talent is of greater value to society than the claims of the mass—is antagonistic ‘to N=zj doctrine. He feels that the instinctive life, whick Nazism ‘exalts, is “the ‘hereditary enemy of
progr: 88.” ‘Tha atithor attempts to explain the amazing "growth of Naziism by two psychological factors: the dominance of group-thinking after every war and the . bhenomenon of former leaders, -consciences strick=n by their failure to win the war, taking ‘comfort fort 1 worship of nationality and mystical submis‘a a dictator. Zweig ‘is himself a Jew and : nei >! Jha: aolsworihy wap devel £5 Case of Serge. at Grischa,') :
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Hitler
By Richard: Helms .
: TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1938
ars, Inc—
Local Interviewer Sees Fuchrer as Consummate Politician
(One of the first ‘American eorrespuniénts. to interview Hitter after his rise to pawer; a former United Press correspondent in Germany, and now a member of The Tugiiapayoli Times advertising staff here.)
APDOLF HITLER snarls. The Old ‘World quivers. The reason: Germany’ s neighbors are in constant dread that a wave of his hand will loose a machine of destruction manned by 73,000,000 people. For should Der Fuehrer decide on war, every German man, woman and child would jump to a post specified in the rulebook of the “total war.” Each citizen in Hitler's Germany must live,
work, die, for the Fatherland alone:
In war as in peace.
But why should the dictator of Germany be more feared than that-of any other nation? Betaize; the world
feels that he is unpredictable.
No statesman is willing to forecast the next offspring of Hitler's mental incubator. took over Germany in 1933, European diplomats have had “.countless week-ends ruined by the Fuerhrer’s “Saturday surprises.” The war-wolf - which people thought was neatly chained in his pen by the Versailles Treaty found a most disconcerting... method : of snapping link after link. without anyone daring to get close enoggh
to repair the damage. Today the wolf is Joose. 3 » ® t 2 ;
HE person, somewhat of an enigma, dif ficult to understand. Writers and observers have attempted to explain his ability and his success. Their combined efforts form a muddled, contradictory picture. How could it be otherwise with the use of such a hash of descriptives as fanatic, mad. man, dreamer;
- aseetic; aloof, frowning, divinely
cold, ruthless, ex-
inspired; canny, conscienceless; vindicative, plosive, passionate, irrational? Some have tried to explain Hitler’s personality with theories of psychoanalysis. Experts generally have - termed these attempted “half-baked.” Without presuming to become highly technical with invoived psychological explanations, an observer in Germany can, after a time, sort out this patchwork of adjectives which have been stitched together into a scarecrow Adolf Hitler. Today jittery Europe inclines to forget that the Dictator of Germany got the job by being an expert politician. Hitler needs no lessons from Tammany in the art of corraling votes. A look at his campaigns through the years before 1933 shows a cold, calculating mind offering every group what it wanted most. Hitler had carefully studied ' the complaints of postwar Germany, and there was nothing irrational or ascetic about his stark presentation of causes.
” ® = HOSE years of political battle taught Der Fuehrer never to take .chances. He had done so once—in the abortive Munich Beer Hall putsch of 1923 and got neatly
thwarted by a few unexpected
bullets. After that he attacked politically only where he knew his enemy could not defeat him. Even when aged Field Marshall von Hindenburg asked. the one-time lance-corporal to join the Cabinet on-Aug. 13, 1932, Hitler demanded that he be made chancellor and that his powers be unrestricted by any other political group. Hindenburg, stunned by such effrontery, refused. So did Hitler. On Jan. 30, 1933, the threatened Schleicher putsch finally created the crisis for which Hitler- had hoped. The lance-corporal climbed into the driver’s ‘seat, unhampered. The reins have never for a moment left his hands. Such a policy had to be based on an insight into the play of political forces. : Hitler Seveloped that to an uncanny degree. instinct for spotting his ay saries’ weaknesses and making the right move has become almost legendary. His pet bugaboos—Jews and
Bolshevists—were also with him
Side Glances—By Clark
Since the Nazis :
Adolf ' Hitler, "is
during those years. As he has since tacitly - admitted, the two have always been synonomous in ; his mind. : 2 8 8
O Hitler, during his struggle for
power, saw to it‘ that the
Jews were arrayed consistently on the side of his political enemies: with the Communists, Socialists, pacifists, capitalists. Then, too, in a rather hazy way Hitler has al~
~ ways held the Jews responsible for
bolshevizing Russia and usurping it from the influence: ol the Germanic Balts.
From the Yopinnihg.: of his. .
career after the war, Adolf Hitler has been the®standard-bearer of a ‘Weltanschauung (political
philosophy. of iife). In it is woven
his own German mysticism,
‘smacking of the ascetism of monks
in the Middle Ages yet possessing pagan elements of a Teutonic character. Out of - this stems -Hitler’s love for what he calls “Germany,” a love wherein his sincerity cannot be doubted. It is not that he admires every German ditch-digger as an individual. - Quite the contrary. His ideal appears to take-shape in the form of hundreds of uniformed Nazis or soldiers marching behind a flag. That to him begins to represent this greater conception, “Germany.”
Whatever tolerance Hitler ever had appears to have been lost in the years before 1933. With the utmost candor he made it clear from the beginning that any and every political party—Catholic, Nationalist, Socialist —was his enemy and must be abolished. To him there is only one way to do business in Germany: = Hitler's way. Other ideas must be crushed, wiped out. Toward an opponent of any kind Der Fuehrer has no conscience. ® 8»
I= should not be forgotten that Germany's leader is an Austrian. . In this fact must lie his profound admiration for Germany and the German people. As a clever German statesman once remarked, “no German could admire Germany as much as an Austrian.” This psychological peculiarity dates back to the end of the last century when Germany emerged as a unified state with a unified race, contrasted to Aus-tria-Hungary with its mixture of Germans, Hungarians, Slavs, and what not. Austrian methods have been compared to those of the Prussian as a rapier is to a bludgeon. Hitler bases his tactics on the rapier, carries out his decisions with the bludgeon. Briefly stated, this is the personality of the man who on Jan. 30, 1933, popped up as dictator .of Germany, quite the - amazement of an unsuspecting world. And. there is no reason to believe that his ‘character and abilities have changed much since. The cold, calculating mind of the politician took hold of Gers» many’s foreign policy. His measures have been assured of success, because, despite appearance to the contrary, he never took chances. His uncanny instinct for judging the enemy’s strength ‘has never
‘failed him.
rae method of using
surprises to tear up the Versailles Treaty has .created the: impression that he took long shots. When he reintroduced military conscription, the wo rd gasped. But what chance did he take? Britain was in no position to fight, didn’t want to anyway. Alone France did Syre attack Germany.
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: “Thi is- the room. we. Trad up for the. baby—but- she: sists on sleeping i in:our room with us."
Whether the Nazis took any chance at all with the reoccupation of the Rhineland on March 7, 1936, is debatable. At best it was but. little.
On the domestic side Der
Fuehrer likewise never drops -his policy of caution. Believing his authority threatened in June of 1934, he personally supervised the notorious “blood purge” -on .the 30th. ;
crush the Christian religion - in Germany has led foreigners to wink a knowing eye: “Ah, ha, so Hitler is going to make the same mistake that Bismarck did and founder politically on the rock. of religious conviction.” Thus far, however, the leader’s policy of taking no chances has kept his own hands off the knotty problem. In fact, his first foreign political treaty, the Concordat of July.20,
1+ 1933, guaranteed German Catho-
lies free. worship and church schools . in return for the Vatican’s assurance. that it would keep its fingers out of Reich politics. ” ® ” ITLER counts on. the next generation to give him na trouble in church matters. Why: should he cause ‘an upheaval now? He educates {he youth of
the nation in his Weltanschauung. -
Time does the rest.
The national electigh after the
world wh
world whane stant showed the
eventually turned out an alleged 99 per cent “Ja” for the leader— were masterpieces of political skill: The Olympics caused something of a breather in the outward display of Hitler adoration. September, however, brought the annual Nazi Party Congress, that one--man show with an audience of a million. ardent claques. The gigantic new stadia - erected ‘in Nuremberg for the Congress are used as open-air temples in the “worship” of this “son of God.” Nazi talent for display outdoes itself yearly, and cool, calculating Adolf gets a week of what he conceives ‘‘Germany” to be: blaring bands, marching columns, .clicking heels 2.8 ®
UT let's take a ride behind Hitler ‘through the: streets of old Nuremberg, decked out with
bright, red flags. ‘His address to the storm. troopers finished, Der
- faint
The attempt ‘of the Nazis to
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Puehrer stood . beside : his SSBlackguard chauffeur as the open, black Mercedes moved slowly through the Sunday morning sun- -
light. The car was enveloped: in‘ cheers from city limit to city limit- The nonchalant flip of the hand-ahd: a smile. acknowledged: the trib Women lea! from gable windows, waving handkerchiefs and “heiling” frantically. Men beamed shouts and ' saluted eagerly. Even little children spon-
taneously shot out their: arms.
But what is it like‘ to meet the object of such adoration? The battlement of the ‘medieval
- Nuremberg Castle looked out be-
yond the red, gabled roofs of the town to the spreading: farmland of Franconia. The warm autumn sun bathed the bright landscape in lazy peace. Birds twitted in the silent trees. A small: group: of .interviewers chatted calmly. Suddenly, a throaty cut in, ‘“That’s certainly-a lovely: view!” Everyone turned. Adolf. Hitler had stepped out on the - balcony and was waiting to be introduced. : : 2 ‘sm 8 Fh : FIRM handshake, : the .Nazi salute, a smile: - his greeting for everyone... Germans saluted
Foreigners did not; it's not ex
pected. An poral conversation ‘ fol-
lowed. The personality of ‘Ger
many’s dictator was not hypnotic. Physical appearance: Less: attractive than from a distance. Hair: Dark brown, fine in texture, inclined to rustiness in front, ‘slightly graying on the crown. Eyes: Bright blue. Skin: Coarse with a pinkish tinge. Mustache: Slightly shot with grey. Teeth: Bottom row gold plated, which leads to
the hunch: that they :are ‘false. Stature: Shorter than expected.
Uniform: Brown boots and breeches, - simple brown : shirt adorned only by ‘the ‘Iron: Cross and the Nazi brassard. . Smile: Humorless. Salute: Stylized - by throwing the hand back over the ‘Manner: Pleasant, usually not :at ease, knees moving back: and. forth nervously: ; go hen, rn ‘active SB vary glan make indistinct—answer to why: words are often difficult to. understand during speeches. . His shoulders, hands, and arms: are all used. in
gesticulations, Sa
o 8s = \BSERVING his commonplace, ‘unimpressive manner as. he
‘walked out on :the , ~one ‘could hardly believe. ‘him’ the same
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person he shortly before ‘had ‘thrown wide his arms’ proclaiming. to 200,000 ‘“heiling,” roaring, hypnotized stormtroopers, “The wonder of -this age is that you have found me—an unknown man among millions.” In the course of the talk, the dispassionately explained the purpose of the Nazi Party Congress. Said he: “I want this celebration to be within everybody’s reach. Despite the fact that mostly new party people attend each year, it will be 15. years (half jokingly) before they have all seen one of these affairs, “But what else could I give the people? There are 2,800,000 Party officials, and I couldnt hand out five or six marks a year to each one. That would be ridiculous. So I give them this show.
. “They pay their own way, and |
if they can’t afford it, their particular unit provides the money. And seeing all this is ample compensation. They go home thrilled and satisfied.” (The Armed Forces, _ Hitler Youth, Labor Service, and ' Labor Front are not counted. as Party officials, although they all participate in the Nuremberg Congress.) .
Pe “an ER FUEHRER’S understanding of his people was evident when he outlined the char-
~agter ‘of German bureaucrats. His
none too complimentary remarks about their initiative- were matched only by his openness in admitting that he allowed come
petition only in .order to get a maxim
um of work out of them. Cold and calculating are Hitler's ‘methods. ‘A member of the group mentioned the word “bolshevism.” It was like hitting Hitler witha torpedo. The ' words began to rush out. He assumed the “platform” manner on a small scale; the toss of the head, the laugh. of scorn, the sweep of the hand. Only the snarl was missing. - He argued quite logically about Germany’s: stand on bolshevism, omitting the catch phrases and emotional pleas of his speeches. He was convincing, but not compelling. With Hitler every opinjon is a flat statement. “I have only one fear. It is that the countries. around us into which the poison of bolshevism is eating its‘ way will succumb to the Red Wave one after another . . . : Moscow is- seeking to- dominate Europe. We shall never permit that . . . People wonder why we are fanatics against bolshevism. It ‘is because we—Italy too—have ‘lived through’ the same sort’ of “thing which is happening in Spain.” = Hitler stepped to the parapet and acknowledged the insistent. cries of “we want to see our Fuehrer.” shouted by a few beaming followers in ‘the street far below. | 8 = ® IKE many orators Hitler evi-
.dently needs a crowd to.
work himself into hat. state of frenzy which grips: the hearers and numbs the critical faculty.
His conviction: o on the platform is .
‘contagious. But no ima, tion could make anything god-like out of the ordi“nary mortal who chatted on the balcony ‘that day. The striking things were the ready ' intelli- - gence, the understanding of Ger-
wet
expression ‘of opinion vegardiess of what ft
hology, the complete as-
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By: Anion Schorr
‘When War Came Herman Sturm Didn't Lose the Opportunity to ‘Show His Bullet-Making Ability,
HELENE STURM, one of the teachers ° ~ who had to put up with me at old No. 6, used to take time off occasionally to tell me about ‘her brother, Herman Sturm, the man ‘who not only supplied the Union troops
with SIunisions, but actually made the
bullets right/here in Indianapolis. Her oF Story always started the same way, I remems ber, with Mr. Sturm calling on Governor Oliver P, Morton, and showing him some bullets he had made. Seems that
| ‘Mr. Sturm had learned the trade of
-ammunitionsmaker- in. Germany, .and he wasn’t going to:let it-go to waste, now that opportunity was “knocking - at his door. Governor: ~ Morton, it appears, was mighty in- : terested in Mr. Sturm’s sample -but. couldn’t see his way clear to “start an arsenal--not right then, anyway—and so he sent him to Washington to see President Lincoln.: Well, as a result of that visit Mr. Sturm was put in charge of an arsenal in rented quarters on the square south of the State House. He was given a blacksmith’s forge for melting lead, a room for make -ing cartridges and a detail from the 11th Regiment to do the work. It turned out.just the way Mr. Sturm said it would, and the first Indiana troops were fure nished with bullets from that source. : This lasted about a month, and then Governor ‘Morton gave ‘the order to build ‘a real-for-sure arsenal on the north half of the State House Square. ‘When it got going, it employed 100 women making cartridges. Even so, it was. much too small, because in the winter of 1861 the furniture factory of John Ott on W. Washington St. was rented and added to the plant. That's: where they made cannister shot and signal lights. ‘In 1862, partly for-safety and partly for economy, the arsenal was moved about: a mile and a half east of the State House on W. Washington St. The next year the Government bought the tract now-known as Tech High School and began the erection of an arsenal there. I can’t remember whether in the telling of the story Mr. Sturm moved eastward with the arsenal or whether it. was later that he bought a thickly wooded site for a country place out there. Anyway, it was out there that he built a big two-story house. It was the only ‘house on the street, and for -that reason people called it Sturm St. Later, they changed - the street to avenue.
Arsenal Was Profitable
I went out the other day to have a look at the old house, but it’s gone, At that, I got to see Sturm Ave, ' again. It’s only about four blocks long, but it is the widest street in town. Why, even to this day it has a park down the: center wide enough to take two automobiles. But to return to Mr. Sturm’s arsenal. It ended up employing more than 700 people, and did a business of $799,836.45 during the war. The State made a clear profit of $77,457.32, and offered to share it with Mr. Sturm, but he refused. It was a mistake on his part, because right after the war he loaned what money he had to Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, When Maximilian was executed by the rebels in 1867, Mr. Sturm lost nearly everything he had. They SSulant sake Mr. Sturm’s title away from him, though. I ys thought that the best part of Miss Sturm’s story about her brother. Believe it or not, Mr. Sturm didn’t participate in the Civil War at all, but he ended up with the rank of Brigadier General—just for making bullets.
Jane Jordan—
Agrees Man in Love Shouldn't Fear The Responsibilities of Marriage.
EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am a girl of 25. About four years ago I met a very nice fellow who lives about 40 miles from Indianapolis. He came in to see me every other week or so. All at once he stopped coming and I haven't seen or heard from him in about six months. Last Sunday he called me up and asked if I could see him. I was very glad to hear from him because I do like him very much. We went out together and had a very pleasant time, He told me why he stopped coming to see me. He likes me very much but is afraid that he might fall in love with me and he can’t get married. Condi‘tions are very bad and he earns only 0 a week. He is sure we couldn’t live on that: and is afraid that I wouldn’t be happy living a small town. He is afraid to leave his job and to a larger city to get . work; he is more than surg that he wouldn't be able to get another job. It replly is hard. I told him that I am not 16 years old any more and that I think I know my own [| know I could live on $30 a week and be happy living in a small town with him. I don’t know if he believed me or not. I think time will tell. I think if he really cared for me he wouldn't be afraid to face the future with me. Please tell me what I can do in a case like this. OC. Re
Mr. Scherrer
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. Answer— Thirty dollars a: week is a fortune to some people and a mere bag of shells to others. Your estimate of it depends on the standard of living to which you are accustomed. If the young man has been spending all his money on himself and finding it inadequate, it will be a struggle for him to share his weekly wage with another. - If he has been live ing frugally and saving money he should not be wore ried about its possibilities. Whether or not two people can live happily on $30 a week depends entirely -on their station in life and what their values are. Unstable economic conditions have made many young men jittery about marriage. It is notf only the fact that they do not earn enough which disturbs them but they feel no certainty. of holding on. to the _ job which they already have. To incur serious. finanb cial responsibilities under such circumstances does indeed give one pause. However, I am inclined to agree with you that if his feeling was strong enough he would not try to evade the responsibilities of marriage but find the courage to to plan for the future with you in one way or another. : It would: be interesting to know whether or not this young man’s fears are wholly financial or whether money is simply his excuse. If he is an only son living at home, it may be the tie to his mother which he dreads to break. Or he may be loathe te give up his freedom and enter on a life based on “sharing more than money. : In any event all you can do is to be sympathetio and reassuring on the financial side and guard your= self against concentrating too intensely on a scarey young man. i JANE JORDAN.
Put your pilin ina Tetter to Jane ‘Jordan, whe will = SHINEE yout questions ia {1s getumn dally; 4