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THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1938
IS §11 A WEEK TOO MUCH? THE big battle over differentials is about to begin among the House and Senate conferees on the Wage-Hour Bill. It seems to us that this whole befuddling issue might be simplified by holding to the question—*“differentials on what?” The answer is, on $11 a week for one working 44 hours. Is that too much, North, South, East, or West? Granting that if the figure were very considerably higher, the South might have a case because of freight rates, climate and other points, nevertheless, somewhere
there ought to a baseline.
entials. We believe that this nation, which prides itself on being the richest in the world, has no valid reason to tear itself up in a struggle over a baseline of $11 for 44 hours, and that the employer, North, South, East or West, who can’t pay that ought to go out of business and give somebody else a chance. Is $11 too much? If it is, then let's quit patting ourselves on our backs about being the richest nation. Ld » » n u n HAT we may have the picture clear, let us not overlook the exceptions—or differentials if we want to stick to that term—already provided in the bill to which the differential advocates so violently object. assure the The ex-
This is no all-inclusive thing that will modest $11 to everyone who toils. By no means. ceptions are wide indeed. They include: “Persons employed in catching, taking, harvesting, cultivating or farming of any kind of fish, shellfish, crus-
tacea, sponges, seaweeds; in packing such products for ship- |
ment; in propagating, marketing, freezing, canning, curing, storing or distributing these products or by-products of them. Bona-fide executive, administrative, professional and local retailing employees and outside salesmen. “Seamen. “Employees of weekly or semi-weekly newspapers with circulation of less than 3000, major part of such circulation within county where printed and published.” Any employee in agriculture, including “handling, packing, storing, ginning, compressing, pasteurizing, drying or canning of farm products and in making cheese and butter . the raising of livestock, bees, foxes or poultry,” etc., through a lot more of legal language. No, this is no bonanza, widespread to every human being who would look upon $11 a week as sudden riches. It is merely a humble minimum. an attempt by that richest nation in the world to practice, not in a bold but in a very timid way, that which it so long has boasted.
SAFEGUARD ON SPEED Fit were not for all the talk about priming the primaries —charges, for example, such as those made by the Chandler faction in Kentucky—we could feel more serene about the President's letter of vesterday, urging Congress not to earmark the vast sums in the spending-lending bill. If the President has his wav. the Executive Department will retain emergency power to spend as it sees fit, and Congress will continue to abdicate its natural constitutional function.
The President's plea stresses speed as egsential in an
economic emergency that is growing worse. Of the danger |
of undue delay, if the spending program is to do any good, there can be no doubt. But of the danger of these funds being employed for political purposes, in the primaries and the election that will be fought out while they are being spent, there also can be no doubt,
We think there might be one way to permit speed and at the same time prevent political misuse of relief money. That would be for Congress, while voting the appropriation, to vote into law the proposal of Rep. Barton and Senator Austin, making it a penitentiary offense for anv official in charge of the distribution of Government funds to influence the political beliefs or actions of those who receive the money.
ONE YEAR AFTER BRIEF paragraph on an inside page of a newspaper tells us that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, having gone to a new summer home at Antibes, on the French Riviera, will celebrate their first wedding anniversary there tomorrow, Twelve months ago the limelight beat so fiercely on these two that they begged for such treatment as ordinary citizens might receive, and hegged in : their marriage plans, and of the ceremony itself, told in thousands of words, was cabled and radioed to every continent. What she wore, what he said, where thev ‘would travel, how his family would receive the news, whether the Church of England would sanction the union—these were topics eagerly discussed around the globe, But a year has brought the Windsors, in large degree, the obscurity they professed to want. Our world whirls fast. Wars and rumors of war, economic troubles in many lands, events boding good or ill, crowd for attention. ' man who once ruled an empire and the woman for whom he renounced his throne are becoming figures remote and dim. “The world's greatest love story” is fading into history. Long ago there was another Emperor who, finding the duties of state almost too heavy a burden to endure, sought refuge in philosophic thought. He was Marcus Aurelius of tome, and he expressed a truth upon which David Winslsor, through the years ahead, may have ample leisure to ponder: “Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”
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Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Hague Has a Record Similar to That Of Others Who Have Been Defended
By Some in the Save-Jersey Drive.
EW YORK, June 2.—Frank Hague is very popular in Jersey City and anyone who ventures to call him hard names on his own home grounds
assumes certain risks. The risks are about the same that a Hague man would face in hollering, “Down with John L. Lewis!” at a meeting of the C. I. O., but much less grave than any dissenter would court in yelling from a soap box in Moscow that Josef Stalin was a man so bad that to mention his name was to poison the tongue. This is the phrase which Rep. Jerry O'Connell, of Montana, was going to use in the speech which he didn’t deliver in Jersey City. Among those who are clamoring for their constitutional rights to denounce Hague to his own crowd are some avowed Communists who advocate the adoption here of government by firing squad and others who haven't the honesty to take membership in the Communist Party but hew to the party line
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HEY include some men who like to get up at union meetings and holler against every proposal which appears to contain a possibility of industrial peace and fair employment and chuckle when some poor, tongue-tied rank-and-filer in the corner is howled down for trying to say that he likes his job and advocates a settlement. - Hague is one of those heavy-handed American local politicians who learned government in the wards and precincts and not from books, and he is disadvantaged when he tries to meet glib and slippery revolutionary intellectuals in debate. Nevertheless, there is truth in his clumsy statements that among the leaders of the “invaders,” as he calls them, are Communists and Reds of various hues who have fought and whose policy is always to ficht against any proposal which might permit a peaceful solution of any labor dispute and prevent a strike. There are many cities in the United States in which it is unsafe to rise up on the principal street and express certain sentiments. On the basis of election returns, which give Hague a local mandate comparable to President Roosevelt's, the sentiment of Jersey City is such that denunciation of the Mayor could give violent offense to many impulsive citizens.
” n 5 UEY LONG was a much worse dictator than
Hague is and should have been even more hateful to members of the save-Jersey movement, but
| somehow wasn't at all objectionable to them even at
his worst. Yet any crusader for the right to speak freely would deem it imprudent to rise up at his grave in Baton Rouge and denounce him. That right
| is just waived.
Moreover, as to the purity of the purpose of this movement there comes tc mind the conduct of the late Ku-Klux Klan. This organization certainly inhibited speech in many of the centers which it held, but when one of the most illustrious of the late Klansmen was elevated to the U. S. Supreme Court
[ he was acclaimed and defended by many of those who | now denounce Hague.
But Hague, according to the bill against him, has a similar record to that of Hugo Black and would seem to deserve their indorsement rather than censure.
Business
‘By John T. Flynn
Only Energy in Sight to Stimulate Business Is Government Spending.
EW YORK, June 2.—Those charts we see in newspapers called “business index” charts are
| supposed to present a picture of business activity as
They are not necessarily bases for forecasting The statistics which measure business
it is. the future.
| volume at any given time are not the same statistics | which must be used to estimate the coming volume in
business. The business index charts do not, of course, all agree, since different statisticians use different factors to make up their business charts. Thus, for ine stance, the chart of The New York Times shows that
| business began to decline in Aprii, 1937, while that of
The New York Herald-Tribune and some other papers indicate that it began to decline in January. But whatever differences of opinion exist all the charts now agree that the long decline which began either in January or April, 1937, leveled off for the ast month or two, but without showing any evidences of moving up again, Whether it will move up again or not depends on
| certain other factors which do not appear in business
index charts. A good business index chart ought to include figures on various kinds of production—consumers goods, capital goods—and bank debits and retail trade. But a chart to be useful for predicting
must reveal the flow of new funds into the blood- | stream of business.
Construction Is Down
This chart must include figures revealing the funds from all the sources which supply new funds to industry. Loans from banks, but more particularly long-term loans of all sorts, measured chiefly in security issues for new capital investment, construction contracts, along with the borrowing of state, city
| and Federal governments are the important factors. | When the combined figures of all these new capital
sources move up the promise is for increased business activity in the future. When it moves down the promise is for decreased business activity. At present building construction. as far as we have the figures, which is up to the end of April, is down compared with last year. Bank loans are at a threeyear low. New security issues—that is, those registered to provide new funds for industry—are only about one-third what they were last year, > All of this makes it fairly plain that so far as private business is concerned it is not pumping any new funds into its veins. We may therefore conclude that the only energy in sight which may be expected to Stimulate business is Government financing and Spending. How far business will be stimulated will aepend on how large this financing and spending is.
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
S Sreny out of every 100 marriages end in divorcee, the figures say. A number of Judges, interviewed on the question, differed as to several causes but were unammous in saving that partly to blame for broken homes. According to these men who hear pleas for matrimonial freedom, when our standards of living were raised many women be-
incomes which would have and the husbands
sistance, It's true then, isn’t it, that the attitude toward money IS a major reason for our high rate? But let's not be dolefu] about it, for in reality it is cheer= ful news because it is possible to change attitudes about money. Even that old stand-in for stubbornness—human nature—is subject to alteration. Unhappily, however, male human hature has adamantine qualities, especially when it comes to the question of woman's behavior. It usually requires a cataclysm to shake some men out of their mental ruts; the current idea about work and women proves it. Anything that sneaks up on them, as the economic situation has, finds them unprepared to make adjustments. And as a consequence, although all are ready to admit that our social structure has undergone a complete change since 1850, most husbands want their wives in a mid-Victorian setting. They regard work as a panacea for all ills, and consider the ability to earn money a divine right for the male. But few of them understand why women might also regard work as a blessing, or enjoy the feeling of independence that earned money gives, Isn't there some way of forcing American men to look squarely at their world? They made it, but a large number have not modernized their minds to keep pace with business and industrial machinery, ¥
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THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1938
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The Hoosier Forum
[ wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
save YELLOWSTONE PARK, | READER SAYS |
By Edward Meeman
The unspoiled primitive beauty of
Yellowstone National Park, the { property of all the people of this | nation, is menaced "by bills intro- | duced in Congress by Senator Pope {and Rep. White of Idaho. The bills authorize “the construc- | tion of a weir (nice word for dam’
{at Yellowstone Lake and a tunnel |
| for the diversion of water from such lake to a Snake River” for Idaho irrigation. It is not the first
the benefit of
time that an
attempt has been made to invade | to work and since it is imperative
Yellowstone National Park. Bu! this particular attempt is especially | threatening because the bills have | been referred to the Committee on
| Irrigation and Reclamation, which | healthy men at work. A |
puts local interest in irrigation ahead of the national interest in | natural scenery conservation and | recreation. Such bills have usually | been referred to the Public Lands | Committee, which favors conserva- | tion, As far back as 1921 John Barton | Payne, Secretary of the Interior under Woodrow Wilson, protested against similar bills going Irrigation Committee. “When once vou establish the | principle that you can encroach on {a National Park for irrigation or | water power,” he told the commit- | tee, “you commence a process which | will end only in the commercialism {of them all.” | Citizens who wish to preserve the | wilderness value of our national | parks—and that is their greatest value—should protest against these | bills,
n ” nN SUBMITS PLAN ' FOR RECOVERY By S. E. L, | The economic condition of our | country has brought forth many [ideas and opinions as to the best way out of the depression, or re-
[of retirement from time to time as | especially [demand for laborers increased or | | diminished.
{ Any one of a dozen ways that would
to the | | PREDICTS BASIS FOR U. S. POLICY IN CRISIS | By w. pr
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tributary of the | necessary
two, three order without a storm of opposition from this or that group, in Congress or out,
(Times readers are invited
to express their in these columns, religious con | Frequently the same groups try t i luded Mak | to play on both sides. Some of the roversies excluded. ake who fought hardest to
| Senators your letter short, so all can | make neutrality iron-bound and 100 have a chance. Letters must
{ per cent mandatory on the Presi-
views
‘ of the conflict in Spain. withheld on request.) I do not pretend to know but
| strongly suspect that regardless of time | isolationist tendencies in peacetime,
lowered at to provide laborers to fill all necessary posi- {be based pretty much on the followtions. The idea is to have no en-{ing premises: . forced idleness for any man able | 1. Isolation merely means limited | liability in commitments abroad to have thousands of idle persons | 2. Our liability will vary and be to have but one class, and that the | determined after the circumstances older men and women | have arisen, In other words, ' younger,| 3. America will pursue an active old men, | foreign policy of her own. But she enjoying the fruit of their former | will co-operate with other powers years of toil, all of which could be| that have similar policies. easily adjusted by changing the age | 4 The fate of the democracies. the British Empire, is of vital importance to Americans. In | certain cases the British Empire How to finance this proposition? | might well become the first line of | defense of American ideals and inbe cheaper and more satisfactory ! terests. than our present relief system. ” » =n
"nD LAUDS CONGRESSMAN FOR RETURNING EXPENSE MONEY By T. B,
A few weeks ago The Times proWe shouldn't let it get our dander | posed a roll of honor for Congress-
raised or any
up when foreigners twit us about, men Who refuse to accept the 20- | i > > le S-a-Mmi y . ray | our foreign policy or even inquire a | CCNts-a-mile allowance for travel |
bit cynically whether we have one, | tNey have not actually done.
After all, it is not exactly the Rep. Franck R. Havenner of
| clearest thing in the world. In fact, | California belongs high on that roll.
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| cession, and back to prosperity, but |
(thus far, all remedies have failed. I am not a politician
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| learned teacher of economics, but |
la plain, simple, humble citizen to whom careful observation has revealed the following facts: That many old persons, scarcely lable to work, are forced to continue at hard labor in order to [support themselves and families, | while many strong, able bodied men are idle and are searching in vain (for work. I am convinced this | should not be, and best of all, need [not be. I would suggest that an lage limit be established at which
men and women be permitted to | | retire with pay from the Govern- |
| ment, thereby allowing their places (to be filled by younger, more able- | bodied men. The age of retirement should be
it is doubtful that the President | He has just returned to the Govhimself, or his Secretary of State | ernment $1200 which had been paid
i | dent, now want it amended to facili- | be signed, but names will be | tate munitions shipments to one side |
| industry,
| either choice.
sufficient | in a pinch our foreign policy would |
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could set it down on paper in one, '© him for travel from San Fran- |
| cisco to Washington and back for | the present session, He received a { similar amount for the special session last winter, and he visited his | home during the short adjournment | over Christmas, but enough left to pay for a second round trip. So, he says, he didn't feel justified in keeping the extra $1200, Some other members also will stend on that principle. Senator distance far: | Norris, who did not return te Ne-
Seeing Heaven from here below Vrsska HE! ee hg has sid We find enchantment in a star. that he will not take the money. | Senator Borah made a good but
Gazing into the vast unknown, hopeless fight to eliminate the Trying ever to see God’s| Whole second appropriation for mysteries; mileage True to our strangest thoughts We try to solve eternity.
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THOUGHTS
By ALBERTA DUNCAN STIER
Strange thoughts of ours— Thinking flowers fairer on yon distant hills; sver seeing beauty where The river flows farther still,
Fields of grass
Greener seem, if viewed from
indian - collected money for trips they "wo \ didn’t make, at mileage rates far DAILY "THOUGHT in excess of what they would have Blessed are the meek: for they | spent if they had made these trips. shall inherit the earth.—Matthew | Mr. Havenner has set them an ex5:5. i cellent example. Congress would rise in public estimation if UMILITY, that low sweet root | colleagues would take it as
his the
But there are a great many Sen- | ators and Representatives who have |
had money |
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| so hard to pay for these appalling expenditures.”
from which all heavenly virtues | signal for a general restoration of |
shoot.—Moore, I mileage money to the Treasury.
ARE MEN MORE MORE PUNCTUAL IN KEEPING ENGAGEMENTS THAN WOMEN 2 VES OR NO
economic conditions are |
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A LARGE sample of men and; were among the very early arrivals, | thought women were studied by G. J.|but a much larger percentage of Dudycha, psychologist, to see if one | women were among the very late sex was more punctual than the arrivals. other. He found that an equal per-|than tha men centage of both men and women | sometimes coming late and some-
LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND
By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM
times early. On the whole the men were both the early birds and the most dependable. n n nN | CERTAINLY, you can change a | person's attitudes at anv time [of life. Indeed, as Remmer, Thurs[tone and other psychologists have | proved the main things we can change in human beings are attitudes—points of view, The older they are, the harder it is, because [they have habits built up around (every attitude, but it can be done. A scientific study recently showed that the attitude of an immense number of people in the United States toward Hitler suddenly changed after he seized Austria— their attitudes became much more hostile, and certainly a large percentage of these people were past 40.
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SUPERSTIONS os YES ORNO ce 2
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A study is reported in Psychological Abstracts, made by [J. Eisenson, psychologist, in which he had stutterers write for 15 minutes on a topic of general interest. He found they tended to write and then cross out a larger percentage of words than nonstutterers. He this indicated that stuttering has other effects upon the nervous system than merely that of setting up a hesitancy in speech. With a good teacher the habit can
BO PERSONS WHO STUTTER IN SPEECH ALSO STUTTER IN THER.
WRITING ?
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The women varied more in punctuality-—
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Gen. Johnson Says—
The Republican Party's Job Now
Is Sincerely to Make Alf Landon's Principles Its Campaign Creed.
ASHINGTON, June 2.—This column has never been noted for its boosting of ex-Governot All Landon. It opposed him in the last 50 much for what he said or proposed as because of muddiness about what his party Before the Cleveland Republican convention, the second New Deal had a regular St. Vitus dance case of genuine Jitters on all straw polls, ob servers, Mr. Roosevelt's greatest slump. But you can't beat something with nothing. After the performance at Cleveland, it seemed clear lo many that, regardless of what its candidate thought, the Republican Party still believed that it was living in the good old days and that its election would ree sult in an attempt to turn back the hands of the clock. That is not what the country wanted then and it is not what the country wants now. Mr. Landon got licked and, whether he deserved it or not, his party deserved it and, if they try the same thing again they will get licked again both in 1938 and 1940,
election-—not
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UT at Niagara Falls last Saturday, Mr. Landon said precisely that. His was a great speech—a political document of primary importance. He said that an issue. is taking shape very plainly in this country. That issue is whether American Government shall, for the protection of the public, tell people what, they may or may not do, which is the essence of Jof= fersonian democracy; or whether it shall tell them = agriculture, finance and labor all exactly alike—what they must do, which is of the essence of both fascism and communism. He also said that. in times like these, underprivileged people are more concerned with their stomachs than they are with any theory of economic or political liberty, That puts the case as this column has repeatedly tried to put it. That is the only issue—whether Americans want only so much governmental interfer ence in their daily lives as will, as Jefferson said, “keep men from injuring each other,” or whether they want to be told by some Washington theorist exactly what they must do every day from the rising of the
[ sun to the going down thereof. [
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UT, according to Mr. Landon-—and this column heartily agrees—it is not necessary to make It seems quite clear that the real wav to feed hungry stomachs is to release natural economie forces to maximum production, which the third New Deal had stifled. There would be no choice between regimentation by corporations and regimentation by Government if Government would only tell corporation exactly what they may and may not do, instead of telling both corporations and people what they must do. That speech alone will not make this great and obvious issue clear, but it helps to do so. The Republican Party doesn’t need Glenn Frank's committee to tell them what to do. Mr. Landon has stated the whole case. All that party needs to do is sincerely to make Mr. Landon's principles its creed,
It Seems to Me
By Heywood Broun
Ladies Who Oppose Federal Relief Urged to Get Out on Jobless Front.
EW YORK, June 2.—-The “Women's began in Suffern, N. Y Mrs. Sarah Hulswitt and Mrs. Charles P. Bispham, wife of the Episcopal rector, came together over the tea cups and resolved to lead a fight to curtail Federal relief for the unemployed. I imagine that nobody starves in Suffern. It mains one of our loveliest suburbs and the milling crowds of hungry men and women in Cleveland are a long way off As Mrs. Hulswitt said to the Committee on Appropriations of the United States Senate, “Our huse bands and fathers have to work all summer.” That is quite true, and even in the club car the ride home from the city is often hot and dusty. And though the Rev. Bispham does not have to commute, his lot must be at times extremely difficult, I seem to see him in his study preparing a sere mon and racking his brains as to some method bv which to make the story of a certain rich voung man palatable to his parishioners. “He went away sorrows ful; for he had great possessions.” It was after this encounter that Jesus said. “It is easier for a camel to go through the eve of a needle than for a rich man to enter inte the kingdom of God.” The Bible records that, “When His disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed.” And I have no doubt that the good ladies and gentlemen of Suffern would be equally startled i. the rector were to remind them,
Things Which Appall
Mrs. Hulswitt made a plea to the Senalors to heed the piteous plight of “the people who have to work The expenditures are appalling. But I wonder whether Mrs. Hulswitt or Mrs. Bispham has ever seen a breadline. When thousands of homeless persons stand on the borderline of starvation—and there are thosa who have crossed that line—that, my dear Mrs. Hulse witt, is also appalling. Pump priming is merely another way of saving “immediate relief” It will not suffice to say that these things can be done in time. And it will be difficult to tell the frightened horde in Cleveland that privi te charity or State or municipal action can ate tend to these things. The simple answer is that it hasn't, I am willing to grant that Mrs. Hulswitt and Mrs, Bispham may have acted out of the best possible mos tives over the tea cups. But these matters cannot be settled in any such way. The ladies will be well advised if they forget Suffern and go out to where the woe begins, Before they urge less for the masses let them look first hand at the legions of the une employed. Let them look at their faces,
Watching Your Health
By Dr. Morris Fishbein
HE chief distinguishing feature between man and the lower animals man’s brain It the master organ which gives the human being the power to think and to reason, to speak and to create. The brains of all animals, however, are not the same--as anyone who has had much experience with them knows. There is lots of difference between the brain of a fish worm and that of a dog or a horse. One of the distinguishing factors between the mammals, for example, and lower animals is the fact that the mammals nurse their young and take care of them. Of course, birds and even some snakes develop care of the young for brief periods, but the mammais have greater capacities than animals of a lower order, A dog gets along much better than & snake. He can adapt himself to many conditions. In fact, a dog can learn far beyond the ability of lower animals. It is interesting that the seal, which is also a mammal, can be trained to performances which would be ime possible for fish, which are not mammals. The nearest brain to that of man is the brain of what are called the anthropoid apes—the monkevs that are like a man. These monkeys, including the chimpanzee, orang-utan, lemur and the gorilla, have hands that grasp and a brain structure much like that of man. Intelligence tests made on the orang-utan show that it is slow but that it actually tries to get insight into every test situation. In fact, it has been urged that the brain of this monkey can attain the development necessary for the production of an idea. . The chimpanzees have attained great reputations as performers and as comedians. Gorillas, too, make remarkable development. The one which is attracting great attention in a circus this year was raised in a home as have been other gorillas in the pst.
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