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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1938

~ THE OLD GUARD NEVER LEARNS

“ON to 1940,” said Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, was’

the slogan of yesterday's Washington session of the Republican National Committee. “Back to 1932” might have been more accurate. | : ~The committee faced a great opportunity. It might have shown the country that Republican leadership interprets the election returns correctly, not as a vindication of _ the old policies which have cost the party six years in the dog house, but as a challenge to adopt new policies that will head the party toward new influence and prestige. But the opportunity was booted. The old guard ran the meeting and made clear it intends to run the party. There was talk of progressivism. Actions, however, speak louder than words, and the session’s most important - action was the selection of a successor to Charles D. Hilles New York on the party’s policy-making executive comittee. | : ; That place, by every test of logic and wisdom, should ve gone to New York's present National Committeeman, ineth F. Simpson, leader of a gallant and successful fight iberalize the G. O. P. in the largest and most politically ificant state. : EN Mr. Simpson conducted for Thomas E. Dewey the jartest and most spectacular Republican campaign in many years. He came within an ace of electing a Repub-

throughout the country. You didn’t hear of any Repub- ~ licans being elected, or even running, on platform promises f a return to the days of Hoover and Coolidge. Yet the National Committee ignored the claims of Mr. impson. Not only that, it paid no attention to party ares of the fresh and forward-looking type that are erging with Mr. Saltonstall in Massachusetts, Mr. Vannk bilt in Rhode Island, and Mr. Stassen in Minnesota. As - - if to emphasize its contempt for progressive sentiment, it elected to the executive committee Daniel O. Hastings of

Delaware. Mr. Hastings stands well with the du Pont interests.

#1 He served them obediently as a U. S. Senator, and he may

be useful in collecting campaign contributions from them. But he comes from a politically unimportant state, and he dyed in the wool reactionary. Plainly, the Old Guard is determined to maintain itself in power, even at the cost of another party defeat. That puts a crucial choice up to rank and file Republican voters. | Will they let the Old Guard lead them to disaster? Or they insist upon new ideas, new principles and new ers, in keeping with the new times?

,NTAL HYGIENE CLINICS

HERE is: probably no branch of public administration in which states and municipalities are so backward as ovision for the care and treatment of the mentally ill Only recently we saw an example of this in the handling 1 by ocal authorities, of several women, one of whom was “held for seven months on vague charges of “mental vag-. ran y” because neither the City nor the State had adequate machinery for observation of mentally ill persons. There should be fewer blunders of this kind if the : outlined yesterday by Dr. George C. Stevens, director of the State Welfare Department’s Medical Care = Division, goes into effect. But Dr. Steven’s plan concerns itself with a greater problem than the foregoing. Aimed % at “that vast body of borderline mental illnesses which are so neglected today, it will attempt: - 1 To set up mental hygiene units in every part of the State to diagnose and cure as many such cases as possible - before they become fixed and incurable. : , 2. To effect legislative reforms that will legalize a 80-day period during which the more serious mental cases

can be studied. This would be done only on the order |

f a health officer and without any steps toward legal commitment. : =r 8, To require the inclusion of at least one psychiatrist on each lunacy commission in the State. ~~ While we recognize the importance of the last two parts of his program, the thing that stands out above all else is the hope it gives that something will be done at least for the mentally sick. Not the insane. Not those already in State hospitals. But those cases which, as Dr. Stevens points out, “might, but will not inevitably, velop Tos insanity” unless they are helped in time. And the primary job of the mental hygiene clinics will be, as he sees it, to search out these persons and try to work out a cure while they are still curable. : No one familiar with statistics on insanity, or of mental illness, will doubt for one moment the importance of what Dr. Stevens is undertaking. It deserves to succeed.

EASURES PPRAISERS: of the late John D. Rockefeller’s $26,410,837 estate listed, as items of “no value,” 27,733 shares mining stock and six gold-plated collar buttons. We don’t know about the mining stock, but the apsers must be mistaken about those collar buttons. The age man goes through life without ever owning more a two collar buttons at any one time. And when he wants

e he can’t find them. Or, if he does find them, one of

is sure to leap from his fingers and hide beneath the motest corner of the biggest, heaviest piece of furniture in room. ; No value, indeed; Why, we've seen plenty of times n to have six collar buttons, even with the green showthrough the gold plating, would have made us feel like

onaire too.

it seems. Unable to corral a taxi, because of the snow, of those .invited to Mrs. McCeney Werlick’s tea ay afternoon arrived by bus or even on foot.”—From

“wages.

Aviation By Maj. Al Williams

Maximum Speed Forecast at Close To 600 M. P. H., but Radical Plane Designs Are Needed to: Achieve It.

(Batting for Westbrook Pegler)

: ASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Our experts forecast the top speed of airplanes as 575 miles an hour, and the foreigners think tops is 620. He Both figures are interesting, and the studies which brought them to light may bring developments in engines, propellers and airplane designs that will lift the present world’s speed record from 440 ni. p. h. nearer to 550. But neither our people nor the foreigners will get far beyond 500 with airplanes and engines and propellers as we know them today. The absolute limit for speed in the air is established by the speed of sound—about 765 m. p. h. From about 370 m. p. h. on up, the compressibility of dir becomes a greater factor in limiting the speed of objects traveling through it. At about 400 the air begins definitely to break away from the wings and bodies of airplanes instead of flowing along them. ” E41 2

speed of sound, the more tendency the air exhibits to spatter at right angles to the object moving through it. And if the air spatters, instead of flowing over a curved wing, little if any “lift” is| developed b¥ the wing. And if no lift is developed, the airplane tumbles out of the sky. What the 600 m. p. h. airplane will look like no one knows, but it will not bear more than a resemblance to the ships we are flying today. The refinement of design in propellers, wings, and fuselage shapes played a greater part in the development of modern high speed. Increase of engine power alone is the most expensive way to gain additional ‘speed. Pp The speed of the Wright Brothers’ machine was about 30 miles an hour. The existing world’s speed record is 440. Until about 1924, when the world’s speed record was about 280 m. p. h., the greater part of this increase of speed was accomplished by boost--ing engine horsepowers. From 1924, however, more than half the increase in air speed was made possible by refinement of design and shape of wings, fuselages and propeller. . » 2 ” {

HE air can be led, but: it won’t be pushed.

led the air to follow our best design lines to a little beyond 400 m. p. h. But now our engineers are pretty much at a loss to build shapes that will coax the air to fiow smoothly. Another item that is holding us up is the fact that the air around certain parts of speed ships is skipping too close to 765 m. p. h. for efficiency. The air which flows over the top portion of a wing travels 50 per cent faster than the ship itself. Likewise the air around struts travels 40 to 50 per cent faster. Why? Well, a straight line is still the shortest distance between two points—even in the air. The air flowing around a wing or a strut-does so in curved lines, but must get there just as fast—so it has to travel faster. . Jolly little puzzle isn’t it—620 miles an hour in the air is the new tops—but you can’t have it.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Nazis Due to Fail as High Taxes End Investment and Capitalism Falls.

EW YORK, Nov. 30.—One of the questions most often asked about Germany is: “How long can the Nazi regime last?” It is a question which covers two aspects—economic and political. Economists have predicted that Germany, running in violation of most economic laws, wolild ¢rack up sooner than this. Without an adequate gold reserve, with her foreign trade ruthlessly cut, with her capital investments drying up, how does she manage to operate? . * In 1933 Germany found herself in much the same position as we found ourselves. Herr Hitler came into power about the time Mr. Roosevelt did. Both adopted the plan of raising funds by heavy borrowings. In six years Mr. Roosevelt borrowed nearly 20 billion

enormous figure: for Germany—proportionately

greater than the United States.

But they adopted very different financial plans from this point on. The Fuehrer pegged both prices and wages at the point at which he found them in 1933. Mr. Roosevelt announced his intention. of doing everything in his power to raise both prices and Both succeeded—Herr Hitler completely, Mr. Roosevelt partially. Then Herr Hitler proceeded to tax. He taxed everybody, from the lowest workman to the richest capitalist. He literally drained everyone. Thus, when Mr. Roosevelt borrowed a billion and spent it, it went into private hands and remained there. When he wanted to spend more money he had to borrow another billion. When Herr Hitler borrowed a billion it went into private hands and there he immediately recaptured it by means of drastic taxation. :

Spending Power at Low Ebb

Herr Hitler thus kept the spending power of the people at the lowest point by keeping wages down, but he spread the income over a larger number of people. Soon there were no unemployed because all had work —work in the armament plants supported by this enormous borrowing and enormous taxation. But these people have little to spend because We Government withdraws it all by taxes. One effect of this is slowly to dry up all capital investment. As investment comes to an end the Government must step in to supply its place by Government supported industries. The effect of this will be gradually to extinguish the capitalist system entirely and thus what started out to be a last-aitch fight to save capitalism ends by growing into a collectivist state. On the purely political side, the regime is founded. on violence and scarcity. The scarcity is bound to increase and, with it, the discontent. Already there has been one falling out and one bloody purge. There will be others. No revolutionary regime based on brutal violence has ever escaped the quarrels of the leaders.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson |

HIS article is being written during National Book Week. The week will be over before these words are in print, but ®nnually I am moved to mention the

here with a subject which should be of interest during the entire year.

about bullets. From world news, it seems that the art of reading has fallen into disrepute, and we do not wish it to do so in our country. For that reason, President Roosevelt deserves the rate on books. A great educational hazard now cona small Eastern area. A Traveling through other parts of the United States, 6ne is reminded poignantly of Andrew Carnegie, whose libraries, architectural derelicts of 25 years ago, still supply the reading needs of a number of large and quite wealthy cities. They are shamefully inadequate, rotting on their foundations and a disgrace ‘to any community which pretends to favor education. | Their weather-beaten faces do remind us, However, that but for Mr. Carnegie we might not have had any libraries at all. In the hearts of millions of Americans who love to read, his name is forever enshrined, for he probably has brought more unadulterated joy to our people than any other man. rs But can’t we go on where Carnegie left off! Can't

The excuse that the population does not- care for owing

reading is quite absurd. : For reading, lik a fa piv: J Pi or the

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HE nearer the speed of the plane gets to the

Smoothly curved contours of wings and fuselages |

dollars; Herr Hitler borrowed 10 billion. This is an.

importance of the event and certainly we are dealing

It’s a pity we can’t talk more about books and less

warmest praise for having recently lowered the postal |

fronting us is the concentration of cultural facilities in |

we provide good books to people in the hinterland?

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Have Headaches !”—By Herblock

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The Hoosier Forum

disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

DEMANDS FAIR TRIAL FOR MERIT PLAN , By Merit Plan Supporter It must be nothing short of amazing to voters who consider the Dem-

in casting their votes to learn now that the party has done a complete about-face on the civil service idea.

Governor Townsend: bound by his platform promise, put a mere 10 per cent of State employees under a merit system,. thereby very neatly straddling the issue. Now it is said that he is being blamed for Democratic losses in the State because he did this. Looks like a “devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea” situation for the Governor.

Now, not only is the merit plan clouted, flouted and abused, but sneers are being cast at the League of Women Voters for standing pat in their demands for a civil service. “That’s a swell idea,” is the comment, “to get Republicans on the State payroll so they can go out and File the Democratic Administraion.”

Just why should politics enter into service for the State at all? A merit system insures a worker's ability in his job ‘and no political trafficking is allowed. Why should an able servant of the State go through all the rigmarole of party obeisance and then have to quake in fear every time a politician stubs his toe? And why should others who have little qualifications beside their party affiliations be allowed to get away with shoddy work because they happen to be the second cousin twice removed of a big shot? Obviously it doesn’t make for efficiency, And since all the taxpayers of the State contribute to the salaries of those in public service, why should a worker’s allegiance be only to the party in power? Even more obviously it isn’t fair to the opposing party, and to the public than it is to the workers themselves. The merits of a civil service sys-tem-are well established by now and need no defending. But the thought occurs in reading of the Democratic Party’s antipathy that the Republicans ought to be able to do enough knifing without suborning lowly workers. And if the Administration is so afraid of being knifed it must resort to “clips on the snout and handing out a few rotten turnips” (Letter of Henry Adams) in order to stay in power, then it would seem that it wasn’t worthy of being in power any more. And that is unworthy of the good record the Democrats have hung up so far. The sooner we get a complete

ocratic Party's espousal of the merit | ,|system before the election of 1936

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

merit system for all State employees, the better it will be for the State and the public. Democratic legislators would be wise to take the ini-

tiative in this reform as well as the

others they are said to be considering. EJ

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THINKS LOYALISTS OF

SPAIN MERIT HELP By Agapito Rey, Bloomington The inhuman treatment of minorities in Germany and other totalitarian states has aroused the people everywhere to the danger of absolutism in its different forms. Fascism is a real and immediate danger to democracy everywhere.

We must watch against it in this|

country if we prize our liberties. We

must guard against reactionary and self-seeking groups whose red-bait-ing is only an excuse to spread their own bigotry. \ We feel there is a great deal of insincerity in the recent condemnation of Nazi barbarism and in the prayers for the sufferers. On the cae side some pray for the oppressed minorities in Germany while on the other they pray for Fascist success in Spain. Our President rightly condemns the persecution of minorities in Italy and Germany, but at the

A GOOD NEIGHBOR

By ROBERT O. LEVELL A good neighbor proves to pay, To enjoy a happy way; For the pleasure you have near To provide your heart with cheer.

For the gladness that can be, When you look across.and see; With a kind and friendly way, A good neighbor every day.

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DAILY THOUGHT

For we are saved by hope; but hope that is seen is not hope; for what a man seeth, why doth he

yet hope for?—Romans 8:24.

"HERE there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.—Johnson.

same time tacitly approves the horrifying crimes daily perpetrated by these countries in Spain. We maintain an embargo on war materials for the Spanish people while the

Fascist invaders can buy anything they want here. One hundred and twenty thousand Italian and German soldiers are leveling the Spanish cities and brutally bombing villages and open towns, often with American-made bombs, yet diplomatically we do not recognize that there is foreign intervention in Spain, any more than) we recognize that there is a war in China. The aggressors can obtain war materials here; the Spanish Loyalists cannot.

President Roosevelt has it within:

his power to lift the arms embargo against the Republican government of Spain. The Spaniards are the only people who dared to oppose the spread of fascism. They have been laying down their lives that this black beast should not overrun their country. For two and a half years they have been putting up a desperate fight. Their fight is our fight, too; for the defeat of fascism in Spain will prevent its spread to

Latin America and then to our

shores. If we believe in democracy, we should help the Spanish people. First, by lifting the one-sided embargo, showing England and the other countries that we are above their shameful diplomacy. Secondly, by sending food, clothing and medical supplies to the innocent sufferers. 2 ” 2

SUPPORTS PROTEST AGAINST STEEL TRAP By Estella R. Dodson, Bloomington I am in accord with Prudence W. Douglas concerning the use of the steel trap in procuring furs. The steel trap is a barbarous instrument of torture and should be abolished. Probably many people do not realize the agony a trapped animal has to endure, but I had it impressed upon me when a cat of which I was very fond came crawling home with one hind leg torn off as the result of his being caught in a trap. ; j I. have heard people laugh gleefully when I told the above story,

‘land point out that wild animals are

cruel to one another, but nevertheless, I wear no fur, and have not for years. I will wear fur only when I can be certain that no hours of terrible suffering lie back of the luxury I enjoy. Since I have no way to prove that the fur I am buying is not trapped fur, I simply do not buy it. 5

bE BICTOR EN STATUARY AND EINE FURNITURE AND ins

JO ART GALLER ARFSTIC ABILITIES P YOUR OPINION ____~ 1 THIS immensely question has been studied

psychologist. Competent

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dren and then rated their

important | They found that th by Frances ‘Rodgers, Iowa University t. judges rated the art work of school chilhome en-|f

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

neil OR Bin brSToBie DEFIENCIES? VES ORNO i

~ WOULD KNOWING ABOUT IS AD Sha AD You DRNIRG? YOUR OPINION _—

There are probably enough beauti-

e best and worst artists were just as likely to come from one environment as the other.

2 YES, there is a very strong ten- ' dency in human nature to do this—much stronger in some persons than in others. The psycholo-

gists call it “projection”—projecting our own faults upon others. Often a husband becomes jealous of his

takes of another man as a flirtation

‘whereas he is the one. who is con-

stantly casting eyes at other women. And vice versa. boss is grouchy and irfitable and claims hi employees are obstreperous. And so on. Just watch yourself, and you may be surprised at how often you are working overtime at this “projection” business. : 8 2 = AS RELATED by Sydney N. Newhall, Johns Hopkins psychologist, a man was starting to cross the street and looked to the left, then to the right. He saw nothing coming from the left, but by chance took another look as he stepped forward and, as he changed his location, he saw a almost upon him. He did no the car the first time, apparently because it was in the blind spot of his left eye, which should have seen it, and his nose prevented the right eye from seeing it. Dr. Newhall thinks many accidents may come because one’s nose or spectacle frame or windt the clear

shield frame may prevent e from the

rolitical liability, and he with it.

is ruined by their devotion to duty. A playgoer should

- should be shot down like wolves.

wife and interprets every notice she |

of the digestion.

Gen. Johnson

Says— - Harry Hopkins Probably Didn't Say: That 'Spend, Tax and Elect’ Thing: But It Does Him No Good to Deny Its

ASHINGTON, Nov. 30—Far be ‘it from this: column to keep alive the now somewhat stale’ controversy between Harry Hopkinsand Arthur Krock as to whether Harry said that the policy of the Thirds

| New Deal is to “Tax and tax and spend and spend

and elect and elect.” Mr. Krock didn’t hear it. Hey only reported on somebody who thought he had heard; it. So did this column weeks earlier—minus the" “elect and elect.” And on the say-so of two ear wit?

nesses. .I believe these two wouldn't deliberately says the thing that is not, but I also believe that neither would Harry. y ; a My belief might be something like the aged and:

doting Kentucky colonel ‘who ~ accused his young.

flancee of embracing a handsome stranger. She in-+ dignantly denied it. He protested he had seen it in. broad ‘daylight at three yards distance. She convinced.” his fond heart by saying: “Do, yo’ believe your honey, or do yo’ believe yo’ eyes?” wa I believe Mr. Hopkins. Words are tricky things. especially in an uproar at the races. But it doesn't” make the slightest difference whether he said it or not.~ « 8 #2 8 He xy BZ Mr. Hopkins’ denial of the phrase and the re< sulting controversy were highly important. The} editorials in a single paper probably do not reach the: eye of % of 1 per cent of the population. If Mr.” Hopkins had just been content to let Mr. Krock’s com= ment sink into the great silent sea of the other 99% per cent it would have sunk like a hunk of lead without hardly a ripple. But a fight is news and that reaches everywhere. * Mr. Hopkin’s denial and Mr. Kroek's answer were put on the press wires and spread across the country. After that, because the saying, whether spoken or. . not, so aptly and so accurately describes what the Administration and especially WPA has been doing, the denial falls dead and the words become a catch phrase that will haunt Mr. Hopkins for years. This is especially unfortunate for him because the denial came long after the publication and in the meantime there ascended a little trial balloon, perhaps from the Hopkins wing of the White House jannissariat, of “Hopkins for President—Yes?—No?” ” tJ

T= publicity and timing for that were very bad. It came on the heels of wide disclosures that Mr, Hopkins repeated assurances that there is no political ~ Jobbing in WPA relief were all very much in error and the public is_sore about that. “It came just after the Hopkins-Corcoran purge turned sour and the midterm elections spoke their rebuke. : I am not sure that it doesn’t put Harry on the ropes. His WPA, as recently run, is getting to be a ; There was talk of saving him by making him Secretary of Commerce or War. But he knows nothing about either subject and the rumor now is that this project is out. he Any such outcome would be somewhat sad. In ° the emergency of 1933 and 1934, Mr. Hopkins did one of. the best jobs in this Administration. He was able, courageous, honest—and modest. He is still all that. —all that except the last. When the Presidentialtarantula stings a man there is no way to predict.what it will do to him. iy

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

‘Fabulous Invalid’ Reason Enough. To View Theater With Sentiment..’

EW YORK, Nov. 30—If there is anything cop. -\ cerning which it is reasonable to be sentiment: then I would nominate the theater as the propery stitution for adoration. Of course, there's also mi riage. I had forgotten about that for the mome In nominating the theater I'm not just talking abo the American drama, greater or otherwise. A plaza goer’s romantic memories may return to some sha, which was not so hot. Of course, good plays are better that bad ones. Who wants to debate this? An old , gentleman who just came in interrupts to say that he . certainly doesn't agree at all if by good I mean the merely “worthy” school of theatrical entertainment. He -says, “There is a thing called ‘The Art of Acting.’ and on occasion a lovely performance may be found. even in a grove of banalities.” ; . It might be a good idea to let him finish the lec- ° ture. Will you please step up, sir? : “Mr. Chairman, the trouble with all dramatic crit- ~ ics whether ‘ex’ or otherwise, is that their enjoyment check his job along with his hat and overcoat.

He Was Unduly Excited ‘ 3

“Ethel Barrymore made me weep when she did... ‘Declasse,” which was certainly a preposterous piéce- - of poppycock. You may be too young to remember, .~. but there was a scene in which she said, ‘Let the mu--. sic play on,” and then lit a cigaret and took a glass. , of champagne and died delightfully, Of course, I» realized that it was sentimental nonsense, but if any-. of you commentators, critics or reviewers attempt to, jeer sentimental nonsense out of the theater you

“Take, for instance, the attitude of the critics to. . ward ‘The Fabulous Invalid.’ ~ upbraided the, authors, because they said that } “were celebrating - - the theater of elegance, and tha wi shallow stage ~, deserved to die. That was missing tne point come. pletely. I have not the privilege of knowing Mr. Kaufe_;

‘man or Mr. Hart personally, but I assume when they...

tossed in a brief moment from ‘The Witching Hour” they 1 ad no intention of offering it as anything but ,. an exhibit of something which was exciting in its day. «* “Nobody says that the old Empire in the days of . John Drew was putting forward the best aspirations of the highest potentialities of artistic endeavor, but a it was fun. And when all fun goes out of the theater. : then I go, too. Even if my aim is not as good as it. used to be I think I'll try a shot at you, you phony ° intellectual, just for old times’ sake.” Bang! ia " I'm glad he missed me. He was shooting the, . wrong fellow. I quite agree with him, and “The, Fabulous Invalid” was more fun than anything lve seen in the theater in a couple of seasons. . . ay

Watching Your Health

y “tr §7 of By Dr. Morris Fishbein HILDREN do not tire easily unless there is some physical difficulty as the reason. Parents are ’ seldom able to judge just how tired the child actually.’ may be. r wa = Children may become tired without much physical" activity when their school work is too strenuous; when ** they find themselves unable to concentrate .on problems that are placed before them, or when their daily::. routine is so completely organized that there is har( = a moment's time in going from one task to anot) g§ The modern child rises early, attends school,’ frequent periods of reading and play, and therefp may fake a dancing lesson, a music lesson, anc’ some homework, not infrequently also listening to radio for one or two hours or perhaps going te motion picture. This program is, of course, en different from that followed by children of a pr generation when there were no movies, no radios motorcars, and nothing resembling the schedule has been: described. . nia se Obviously, while such a schedule is difficult for Te child in perfect health, it is much more difficult for one with a chronic infection of the throat, the teeth, or the lungs, or for one with any serious disturbance»

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Particularly serious are the demands which ‘come to children at that period when they are passing from .. | childhood into youth or adult life. ~~. soupy Particularly important is, of course, the question of the weight of the child at this period of life. -Parents must observe the changes that occur. _ Per!