Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1940 — Page 18

THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1940

Hoosier Vagabond

THE OLD MARMON AUTOMOBILE, one of the many that helped make Indianapolis famous, is practically extinct now. They haven't been made for years.

But the Marmon name is carried on in the new products of the Marmon-Her-rington Co., an outgrowth of the old firm. And they have scattered their products far. They have armored cars, tanks, tractors, marsh-wagons and trucks running on every continent. They have equipment on the front lines in Europe and China. They have great trucks and trailers in the oil fields of Persia. They have grotesque, mammothwheeled machines dragging steel pipe through the marshy jungles of Venezuela, They have tanks scattered all over Central America. They have machines in South Africa and the Dutch East Indies. The company is proudest, as it should be, of its hon-war, commercial vehicles. It makes stuff that does the heavy work of the world. To put it in layman’s language, its keynote is making wheeled vehicles that won't get stuck. The backbone of its product is an all-wheel-drive truck. They take a Ford truck, and add their own axles and transmission to transmit the engine's power directly to all the wheels, not just the rear two. They make trucks with power going to three sets of axles—meaning as high sometimes as a dozen power-driven wheels on one truck. If you put enough power directly into enough wheels, you can pull out of a bottomless pit. That's their theory,

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The Invasion of Holland

A. W. Herrington, president of the company, spends much of his time in far-away lands, selling new stuff or getting equipment running. He travels 10 times as much as I do. He got out of Germany just two days before the war started. Marmon-Herrington has practically mechanized the entire Rumanian Army in the last six years. And today in the factory are row upon row of great wooden boxes, full of truck equipment, ready for shipping to New York. How it gets from New York is Rumania's worry Just last week two officers of the Dutch Army were

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Our Town

THE OTHER DAY, in a mad moment, I wrote a little piece about zig-zag eating, in the course of which I begged the people of Indianapolis to come to their senses and eat asparagus with their fingers. I felt the same way about corn on the cob, a slab of pie and the drumstick of a fried chicken,I remember. Right away, an articulate but anonymous lady combed her columbarium of memories and brought forth something I think you ought to share with me. Listen! “Dear Mr. Scherrer: I'll still slip up on my asparagus and eat it with a fork. “Several vears agb I was in Chicago and at the time I was doing special work in the silk and pattern departments of Marshall Field & Co. The representative of the McCall Pattern concern came to the store and asked me to be her guest at luncheon at the Stevens. She held my rapt attention while we were waiting to be served with her interesting stories of her experiences in the cities of Egypt and in the various countries of Europe.

2 Eating Asparagus an Art

“We ordered jumbo asparagus on toast with crisp bacon. I suppose we had coffee and dessert, but I have never been able to remember any of the details of the meal or of the conversation after the asparagus was served. “Daintily with little finger crossed she lifted the nearly foot-long soft pieces of asparagus and, swordswallower fashion, with neck strained upward and mouth wide open, baby-robin fashion, she slid them down her throat, chewing mincingly all the while

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Washington

WASHINGTON, July 25.—0ut of the widely ramified activity concerning Western Hemisphere defense —military, economic and political—may be evolving a new kind of international organization. The goal apparently is a regional association which would be less binding than a federation but which would have more force and cohesion behind it than the League of Nations, Germany, Russia and Japan are establishing regional organizations by conquest or pressure, The United States is undertaking to organize the Western Hemisphere on a quid-pro-quo basis. We are offering military and economic support to Latin American mations in return for their political co-operation. As to military support, we the most elaborate defense program in

are offering our peacetime history. We are offering our first peace-

time conscription proposal. It is no secret to Latin American republics that we are rushing preparations in order to have troops available at the earliest possi-

ble moment for expeditionary service wherever it might be needed in the Western Hemisphere. ’ un ” ” Keeping Hitler Out As to economic support, President Roosevelt has

asked Congress to set aside $500.000.000 in order to give the Export-Import Bank a free hand in making loans to South American countries, Secretary Hull has indicated the willingness of the United States to assist in creating facilities for the handling of surpluses which are breaking the backs of several South American countries In return for these economic and political services,

My Day

HYDE PARK, Wednesday—Ever since he came home, the President has been busy coping with cases of books and ship models, Some day, I imagine, they will find their proper places in the new library, but at present nobody knows just where to unpack them. I was much interested m rummaging through the library basement the other day to come across an ice-boat, which had been to me a legend. Tt still has the name “Icicle” on the bow, and it is easy to see from its lines why my husband could tell 3 " me of its racing success on the aah Hudson river in winter, STE — When I think of all the work al NER which has to be done before any- § iE thing is on exhibition, I wonder i 18 if the library will be open next 2 spring, as they now plan. I have had some interesting talks with Ambassador Bullitt and 1 hope that he will find ways of telling other people as vividly as he has told me some of the recent history which he has lived through. My husband says that, on hearing of Mrs. Forbes’ death the other day, the Ambassador said: “I wonder if there will be in the next generation any women as great as those produced in Mrs. Forbes’ generation,

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By Ernie Pyle

here, talking over more equipment for the Dutch East Indies. These two men went through the German invasion of Holland. They say there never was such awful destruction of life. The Germans just kept coming, and falling. They said it amounted, in the end, to the simple fact that Germany had more soldiers than Holland had bullets. But they feel the East Indies are almost impregnable. The Marmon-Herrington plant somehow has a good personality. You can sense it. It isn't so big that humans lose their identity. I expect that General Manager Alfred Campbell knows every workman by name. Or at least he did up until now, Things are changing everywhere, now, of course. Marmon-Herrington is swinging rapidly into the defense program. New men are being taken on daily. Carpenters are partitioning off new offices, and

the hammering is so terrific that salesmen, waiting for |

appointments, think somebody is shooting at them,

Ld 2 Gang Way for Ernie Two big new buildings are under way, which will almost triple their production capacity. They will be ready in less than more, they're doing it themselves; not asking help from the Government. They can't say what Government orders they have, or expect, outside of a new batch of tanks, Probably don't know themselves yet, But they will soon be ready. When we got through looking at the plant, General Manager Campbell said, “Now if there's anything else you'd like to ask, go right ahead, and we'll answer if we can, and if we can’t we'll lie to you.” That threw me so badly off base I couldn't think of & thing to ask. We wound up the afternoon by taking an allwheel -drive Ford station wagon and going out to the company’s sand pile. It's an old gravel pit, several miles from the plant, which the company bought for a test ground. Tt is such a horrible place they didn't have to do a thing to it to make it worse. It's rough and rugged and the sand lies several feet deep. We just plowed all over the place. As an old sand-driver from Arizona, I know what you can drive through and what you can't. We drove for half an hour through stuff you can't drive through. Then they turned it over to me, and even I drove through it. As we left, I put in an order for an all-wheel-drive station wagon. For when the Nazis enter New York I'm going to start driving due west, and I don't want anything to stop me.

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By Anton Scherrer

I attempted to keep my eves from bulging out of my | head, but I did notice that half of the dining room had stopped eating and was watching the feat also. To my amazement she didn't say at the finish, ‘Did you notice THAT one!’ or, ‘I picked up that one in Cairo,” or ‘Just an old Portuguese custom, my dear!’ but nonchalantly went on talking as if nothing odd had happened. “I thought at the time that if vou had been to all the places and knew all the people you could get away with the queerest things!

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O. K., Says Emily Post

“When I got back to the store, IT went to the library and got down Emily Post (who, by the way,

changes her tactics from year to year-—now it's per- |

missible to place the salad on the right side for

convenience sake, and to put the elbows on the table |

if it's more conducive to informal conversation, etc., etc.). Emily was equal to the occasion. She said it was perfectly permissible to eat asparagus with the fingers. She didn't say whether one should hold it high in the air and let it drop into the mouth, or to lift it gently from the plate, swoop down and gobble it up while no one's looking, or even whether

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to start on one end at a time or héoeth ends, for if |

picked up in the middle, as most of us amateurs

do it, it will slump together. “TI wonder where the lady from McCall's practiced

before she tried her feat in public. | “Anyway, that ‘vegetable so fraught with a whim- |

sical determination of its own’ got disciplined when it reached the table.” “P. 8 Go ahead and touch it if vou love it that much. You have no less an authority than Emily Post to back vou up. It sorta worries me, though. I'm afraid you really will.”

By Raymond Clapper

the United States seeks the political co-operation of Latin American countries in stabilizing and protecting the whole Western Hemisphere from encroachment. The United States asks the other American countries to join in creating a collective trusteeship to maintain the integrity of the Monroe Doctrine, The chief purpose of this proposal is to provide a joint interAmerican organization which could take over, at least temporarily, Western Hemisphere possessions of European powers in cases where the owners had lost control, The plain purpose of all this is principally to keep Hitler out of the Western Hemisphere, and to prevent his exercise of remote control on this side of the

Atlantic. CI

Chief Burden Ours

As the United States is the strongest and richest of the Western Hemisphere nations, we have the largest interest in preserving the Monroe Doctrine. The chief burden of economic and military assistance will fall upon this country. Some of the Latin Amer-

ican countries have been indifferent, and in some

By Sam Tyndall VERY once Tn a while when you drive out to the Indianapolis Municipal Airport, it reminds you of a

showgrounds after the show is over and the crowd has left.

It’s hard to believe that this is the airport which already has handled 40,000 passengers in the first six months of 1940, plus almost $18,000 worth of air express shipments.

All vou can see are a few small, brightly colored planes making lazv spirals in the sky overhead, motors faint, but monotonous. There are only a few people in sight, for the most part lolling in the sun Suddenly a voice booms ‘out over the ‘public address system. “Attention, please. Announcing the arrival—" With the very first word, the Airport's detached and indifferent atmosphere is shattered. The lobby of the administration building and the taxiways are plunged into activity. You wonder where all the people have sprung from. ” ORTERS hasten for baggage carts. Other attendants rush forward with portable steps. You hear now, not a faint throb of motors, but the roar of a giant airliner. A second later, tires are

whistling as the ship touches the runway. It thunders up the runway, wheels majestically, stops. The plane hatch swings open.

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Passengers file out, Mechanics swarm over the motors. Gasoline supply trucks nestle under the huge wings. Waitresses in the restaurant start serving soft drinks and sandwiches. The air is full of activity,

Refueled, and with the passengers back in their seats, baggage, airmail and express locked in the hold, the craft taxis to takeoff position, gets its go-ahead from the control tower and then, motors racing, roars off into the skies.

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OR the spectators it means a lull until the next arrival. But to the airline personnel, the plane's arrival was the lull. Back in the airlines’ offices, the air travel business is rushing ahead. It's a 24-hour-a-day business. Phones ring. Radios squawk. Reservations are made. Canceled.

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

A T. W. A. stratoliner, one of which soon will be calling here regularly, according to | American Alrlines has learned how to take care of all present plans of air line officials,

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At work in the Eastern Afr Lines operations office here.

Changed. Pilots report their positions. The weather Their speed. Their time of arrival, This is what is going on all over the country. But Indianapolis is not following a trend. Tt is one of ‘those cities that is helping make the trend. The number of airline passengers in, out and through Indianapolis since Jan. 1st has already exceeded the total number in, out and through during the entire vear of 1938. Tt probably will pass

the total 1939 figure by midOctober, ” ” » FRE are some figures that tell the story: PASSENGERS Tn Out Through Total 138 uh 3,711 3.212 13.5970 20 8n8 1338 5.232 5.338 2% 1038 37 86% 1937 "44D 7575 25.0998 10 RN? 1938 BERT R98 7R.011 45,804 1939 12.030 12.01% 39,821 83.874

And here are the comparative figures for 1939 and 1940, just to show vou what's happening:

Tn Out Through Total First 8 mos- 39. . 4.800 4,723 15,667 24.99% First 8 mos- "40. 1,754 74 24.414 42.042

But this is only one phase of the picture for the Indianapolis Airport. A similar increase has been shown in air express ship-

ments, Shipments have been n= creasing steadily on the same basis and revenue in shipments has mounted from $15680 in 1936 to $27.648 in 1930 and already in the first six months of 1940, the amount has reached $17,846,

» % % HE first major airline to put Indianapolis on its route was the old T. A. T., which began op= erations in 1928. Tndianapolis had one flight a dav. Tn 1930, T. A, T. merged with Western Air EXpress and the new T. W. A. then maintained two east-hbound and two west-hound flights a day through this city, Today, T. W. A. runs five east bound and four west-bound flights a day through Tndianapolis and hooks Tndianapolis to the Atlantie ‘Clippers at one terminus and the Pacific Clippers at the other. Tn Mav this vear, T. W. A. loaded more than 1100 passengers here alone, Wesley Bunker, T. W. A's local traffic agent, reported today that his line plans to inaugurate next month a nonstop Indianapolis-to=-New York run and that eventually there will come an Indianapolis= Ft. Wavne-Toledo-Detroit run.

T. W. A's personnel here hag

CITES BENEFITS

OF TOMATOES

Governor Says Crop Worth $50,000,000 Annually . To Indiana.

Times Special

FELWOOD, Ind, July 25.—The to-

mato industry means $50,000,000 annually to Indiana, Governor Town-

instances hostile, to the Monroe Doctrine. They have send declared in an address at the

direct economic interests in European markets, and annual

tomato festival here last

at the same time have encountered difficulty in night.

marketing their products in the United States. Their co-operation in political protection for the Western Hemisphere is not gained easily.

assistance are likely to bring it about. If this co-operation is received, then there are the

Only the canners, strong inducements of adequate military and economic railroads and even tin-plate mills, | he said.

This is divided between farmers,

cannery workers, truckers,

“The tomato industry has helped

beginnings of a regional association of western Nations 4, stabilize Indiana agriculture. TnWhich may provide the mechanism by which free and | giana agriculture is so diversified independent countries can pool themselves into the (nat a failure in one crop may be

kind of continental bloc which seems essential 0 up This is indeed a lonely world Governor asserted.

survival in these times for the nation which tries to stand alone.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

turned to her neighbor on the other side and discussed the conformation and points of polo ponies.” Mrs. Forbes knew more about history than most historians, She had met people from all parts of the world and, at 90, kept her interest in everything that was going on. She maintained a serenity of spirit which made her remain in Paris, in the face of possible bombing, with complete calm until she had completed her arrangements and could leave without any fuss or hurry. There are remarkable characters, these women of that older generation. I am afraid the rest of us are going to seem somewhat uninteresting in comparison,

but, then, most of us have lived through a less inter-|

esting period. There may be situations ahead of us, however, which will develop what latent powers we may have and make us more interesting in retrospect to our grandchildren. Ethel and little Franklin ITT left today to visit their mother in Maine. Everyone here will miss the interest which a small child always lends to his surroundings. Miss Helen Ferris, of the Junior Literary Guild, had luncheon with us yesterday and gave me a most interesting account of the successes and problems encountered in choosing and distributing books for the Various age groups of young peopled

in the success of another,” the “Corn is the first ranking Indiana agricultural product, with soy beans, wheat and oats following. But we have gone farther in Indiana by striving to introduce new crops and to make them the best quality to be grown in America. “Indiana tomatoes,” he declared,

| “are universally recognized as the She talked to me one evening at dinner about the pest in America, The Indiana farmorigin and roots of words in the Turkish language and |ers have taken pride in the quality

of their tomatoes, They have heen careful in the preparation of the soil, the selection of the seed, and the conditions of growing. The Indiana tomato is their triumph.”

SECRETARY ACCUSED OF $500,000 THEFT

NEW YORK, July 25 (U. P).— The District Attorney's office ves. terday announced arrest of Mrs. Mary B. Roberts, 51-year-old divorcee, on charges of stealing more than $500,000 in securities from her employer, Samuel C. Thomson, mining engineer, who died July 13. Mrs. Roberts, who was Mr, Thomson's confidential secretary for 20 vears, suffered a nervous collapse after her arrest and a guard was established at her Scarsdale home. She will be arraigned on nd lar-

ceny charges when she rs.

Hoosier Goings On

MOTHER OF INVENTION

2 Auto Tags Serve 2 Franklin Cars;

Team Protests Brazil Donkey Game By JOE COLLIER

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gone from eight in 1930, to 23 to-day-—six in the downtown office, 17 at the airport.

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RE wmecond line apolis was American Airs lines, which took over in 1032 where Embry-Riddle left off. A, A, is today operating four daily flights through Tndianapolis, not only with Chicage and the Kast, but with important cities in the South, F.C. Malbeuf, A A's local traffic agent, reports that passenger and afr express traffic has increased here in the last year 69 per cent and 136 per cent, respectively The third maior airline Now serving Tndianapolis is Capt. Feddie Rickenbacker’s Wastern Air= lines, which started ‘operations here in 1034 with two flights a dav-=one each way from Chi= cages to Atlanta, Today, Tndian= apolis travelers can hop an Fastern 21-pasgenger hiner for Chicago three times every day, and three others te the Middle West's winter playground, Miami, Fastern's southern terminal eon= nects ug with the Pan-American South American service The total number of commer= cial flights scheduled through

in Tndian=

PAVED ROAD 67 TO OPEN AUG. 1

Last Five-Mile Stretch Near

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THERE'S A PRICE on ingenuity in these complicated times, and Completion; Vincennes and

the last time we heard, it was quoted at $1 and costs.

Franklin,

Two voung fellows there managed to gather enough money to= gether to buy themselves a couple of autos which, in itself, is quite

an exercise in ingenuity, One of them had enough left to buy license plates, but the other didn't, So they split the one boy's plates—each of them in two. For some time they drove their autos with half a plate front and rear. A policeman with a literal mind hauled them before a judge with

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guilty and fined them the aforementioned price—then suspended evervthing but a warning not to

do it again.

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Everything points to a nasty campaign. Especially when you consider what happened to A. V. Weisenberger, of Elwood. Mr. Weisenberger motored out

to Colorado to talk with Wendell Willkie (identification upon re. quest) and had a nice little chat at that, Then he motored back, feeling very good about things until he got home. Tired but politically happy, he bathed the stains of travel from his body, prepared for a good night's rest. Then he discovered someone, in his absence, had stolen his bed. The Willkie-for-President organization, to which he immediately reported the theft, is very tight-lipped about the matter,

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EVER SINCE the Brazil Service Club played the Recreation Clowns a game of donkey baseball, there has been bad blood between the teams. As we get it from uneasy but usually reliable sources, the game which is being protested, ended just short of a mixed riot donkeys and players, It seems, according to the story of the losing team, that the winning run was scored by a player who, instead of making the trip from third to home aboard his

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donkey, made it with the donkey aboard him, Our man down there is watch= ing this closely,

TF YOU ask us, a train with all the manners which the Big Four's No. 15 has deserves a name in= stead of numbers, And a very dig= nified name, too, because it's one of the politest trains in the Middle West The other morning it roared through Shelbyville, not in an up= stage way but in great earnestness and Shelbyville residents thought that was that. But contrary to all plans and specifications, it screamed to a stop on the bridge over Blue River, which, in the memory of the old=est train watchers, it never before had done. Then it backed up to the sta= tion. As it stopped a little man got off, a trifle self-consciously. The train explained the little man had been asleep and had forgot ten to call his station. >» » TAKE ROY MARSH, of New Albany, Mr. Marsh has let it be known publicly that he is very dissatisfied with the way his fellow citizens have been acting. In order to get more business for his taxi cab he announced a 15-cent rate anywhere in town. Delighted with the bargain, droves of citizens began riding fn Mr Marsh's cab any place in town for 15 cents, Snowed under with business, and getting only 15 cents a haul, Mr. Marsh paused while he was taking on some gasoline to re mark that it did seem, in a way, that people went to the any places which were the farthest from where they were, adding greatly to his overhead. Mr. Marsh says he's economically treed. \

Evansville Benefit,

The long-range program of mods |

ernizing Road 67, linking Indianapolis with Vincennes, will be com= pleted next week. The last phase of the program. the pavement of a five=mile stretch extending northeast from Martinsville, ix nearly finished, and the new pavement probabliy will be ready for traffic by Aug. 1, T. A. Dicus Highway Commission chairman, said. The new pavement replaces a rough, oil-mat road The modernization program hag changed Road 67 from a narrow, twisting, dangerous highway to a completely modern road capable of handling all sorts of traffic, Mr Dicus asserted, The improvement program has been underway tor several years and has heen undertaken a step at a time, The new numerous railroad erossings as well as several narrow bridges, Road 87 is algo an important link in the Highway Commission's de velopment of a more direct route from Indianapolis to Evansville, This route will follow Road 67 from Indianapolis then 57 south and west from Worth ington to Evansville,

NEW TRIAL GRANTED ETTING'S EX-MATE

SAN FRANCISCO, July 25. (U, P.==The California Supreme Court vesterday ordered a new trial for Martin M. (Moe the Gimp) Snyder, former husband of bluex singer Ruth Btting, He wag convicted in Lox Angeles nearly two years ago of attempting to kill Myr] Alderman, then Miss Etting's pianist, how her hurband, The court upheld the District Court of Appeal which reversed cons vietion of Snyder on the ground the

prosecution failed to show Snyder mtended to kill Alderman, He and Miss Biting eloped during the trial. almost

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The new Wich School Road Bridge being bailt near the Alrport.

Tndianapolis is now 19 a day=an increase of five in the last few months, Tt probably will increase oven mote within the next six months, " # 8 a matter of fact, Tndian= apolis is known to the air transpoit industry as an airs minded town, As many as 150

passengers have embarked from

here in one dav. At present, the airlines esti= mate that more than 2000 Paz gongers a month originate right here

There are three veasons for this pickup in air travel. One iz nn= doubtedly the airlines’ wafety records, another the general business improvement and the third fact that Indianapolis is a vital “crossioads of the airways.” The increase in business at the Airport can ¢ontinue for some time without necessitating any expansion of the landing ways As far as its mize is concerned, the Tnadianapolis Airport is doing very well indeed, But everybody admitz that it can’t be long before the lobby, the restaurant and the hangar quarters will have to be enlarged Those Tulls between planes are becoming fewer and fewer

SCHOOL'S OUT

1640 End Summer Term,

But Respite Is Short

DONT THOSE guys ever zleep! The School Board chooxex the top of a heat wave to announce fall term advance registration With Tndianapolix kids having a bad time salvaging anvthing oud of their overheated summer, the board tells them registration for gehool next fall will begin Aug. 23. At that, there's a respite for a few, becauxe 1640 summer school *tudents will be turned loowe tH=

morrow in a flurry of plays, te= citaly and speeches Wonder where it's cooler=inside

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Roosevelt Dam Franklin D. Roosevelt or dore Rooxevelt? In which war was the Battle of Jutland?

ix named after Theo=

3--What was the political affiliation

of President Andrew Johnhaon

4=-Which city iz nicknamed “Windy

City"? 5=Will it require four, eight, or six= teen 1=inch pipes to discharge

the same amount of water az one 4-inch pipe? 61x confabulation a proper Eng» lish word, and if 30, what does it mean? Willkie nomi= nated on the 5th or 6th ballot? Answers

1="Theodore Roosevelt, 2-=World War, 3-=Demoecrat, 4==Chicago. H=—=Sixteen, 8——Tt iz proper and means "chats

ting.”

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