Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1940 — Page 18

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Give Light and the Peopls Will Find Their Own Way

THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1940

IN MEMORIAM

“Tr DO not choose to run for President in 1928."—Calvin |

Coolidge, 13 years ago tomorrow,

LEANING ON A “MAYBE”

“AINHEY are saying in Congress that it is Hitler who will | decide whether America is to have conscription; that if | he does not soon invade England, the draft bill ‘will lan-| ~sguish, but that if ever England appears to be toppling, |

| the brothel district | racketeer about 1918.

the hill will be hurried into law. There is a fine farsighted specimen of statesmanship vou, If England falls, and we are thus left to defend these shores single-handed, that will be time enough to start So runs the Congressional reasoning.

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{raining men. Unfortunately the logic of the legislators is ‘warped bv the fact that this is an election year, and by mailbags swollen with anti-draft letters from constituents. Naturallv it is the anti's who are most prone to take pen in hand. The Congressional mail is a very faulty index to public sentiment if the Gallup Poll, which lately reported the public

But whatever the constituents may seem to think, is

this not a time when supposedly well-informed leaders should lead. instead of engaging in the usual election-vear con-

tortion of trving to keep both ears to the ground while

straddling a fence?

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Anv member of Congress who is firmly convinced that this country is safe, come what may, is thinking with his wishbone.

Perhaps we are safe.

Perhaps the alarmists will look silly a few years from Perhaps- There's the rub. When it comes to the safety of this country, who is willing to take a chance on a “maybe”?

Congress has voted billion after billion for implements of war. Yesterday another hill for four billions-plus was run through the House in no time. War Department demands men to be trained to handle these implements of war, what does Congress do? It looks at the morning mail, it gets a cold chill he{ween the shoulder blades, and it begins to hem and haw. And every dav of hemming and hawing is a day In Hitler's favor if he ever whips England and turns his oreedv gaze in our direction. The draft bill should be passed.

NELIVERING THE DURE \ TE hope it's not true, despite vesterdayv's reports from [London, that the British Government has planned the naval escort for the American liner Fxealibur, bringing the

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Duke and Duchess of Windsor from Lisbon, Portugal, to

New York. As Acting Secretary of State Welles said vesterday, it would be an “inconceivable” violation of American neutrality for Britain to convoy the Excalibur. And the suggestion from London—that the escort might follow the liner only halfway across the Atlantic, trailing at such a distance as not to be technically a “convoy’-is ho more acceplable, Windsor, as an officer in the British Army, is theoret-

ically liable to seizure by any German raider that can catch |

That might have been an excellent reason for inviting him to stay off ‘arn American passenger vessel. It is no reason for risking the possibility of getting the American vesgel into the middle of a battle at sea.

him.

Not long ago the British Government was saving that it conid not spare warships to convoy child ‘war refugees. If it can now spare warships for the Duke of Windsor, we it had put him and his wife aboard one and gent them ct to their new station at Nassau, in the Bahamas. That,

Duchess’

sure, would have further delaved the triumphant return to her native land, and deprived some Americans of opportunity te thrill aver welcoming an ex-King and the woman for wham he quit his But after all, there are “thnlls” that this country

could afford to forego just now,

to he

throne.

FIDDLES VS. FIRES DISTURBED bv an epidemic of deliberately set fires on Federal forest lands in the South, the Government has sent a learned psvchologist from the University of Kansas to conduct an investigation. Many residents, it develops, admit that they have started fires in the forests for the purpose of killing bollweevils, snakes, ticks, bean beetles and fever germs, keeping their fields from choking with brush, and “cleaning up the woods.” But this explanation, reasonable as it might appear to one not versed in psvchology, hasn't fooled the Kansas scientist fora minute. The truth, he concludes, is that the backwobdsmen, suffering from a “poverty neurosis” and bored with their traditional recreations of settin’, spittin’ and whittlin’, have turned incendiary for the sake of stirring up a little excitement. And so, according to dispatches from Atlanta, he recommends that the Government establish centers where the forest dwellers may have fiddle music, dancing and other pastimes more wholesome than starting fires, We shall observe the progress of this experiment with keen interest, At the same time, in the interest of curhing premature optimism, we feel compelled to point out that the fiddle music provided hy a famed emperor is said not to have prevented the burning of Rome. Perhaps, however, things would have been different if Nero's concert had been arranged with the advice of ® psychologist from the University of Kansas. {

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By Westbrook Pegler

| Labor Leader, Under Inquiry by U.S. Owns Showplace at Hobart, Ind., Where He Trains Mis Race Horses.

EW YORK, Aug. 1.—By this time it is not news that the American Federation of Labor issues union charters which are used as warrants permitting the holders to rob the public treasixy, the workers in the unions, workers who are excluded from the unions but permitted to work under special license of the racketeers, and the general public. But proceedings are now going forward in the Treasury Department and the Department of Justice against a racketeer in Chicago named Mike Carrozzo, which deserve special attention. It is futile to expect that William Green or the present executive council of the A. F. or L. will do anything to delouse the house of labor, but the interests of the public, and especially of working people in and out of the union movement, cannot be asked to mark time until the next annual A. F. of L. convention on the off-chance that the parent organization will get religion and do something about a filthy criminal condition which has been not merely permitted but actively abetted by the American Federation of Labor.

= ” ARROZZO landed in the United States in 1906 from Montaguto, Italy, landed in Chicago three years later, reached his spiritual and moral level in in 1910, and became a labor He is now so rich—reputedly on graft extorted from the public treasury through

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extorted from thousands of poor, docile day laborers, under license of the A. F. of L.—that he owns a farm of 800 acres at Hobart, Ind. with a private exercise track for his race horses, an excellent commercial dairy farm and bottling plant and a pretentious country mansion at Long Beach, near Michigan City, Ind. This labor racketeer's parent union is the Internafional Hod Carriers, Building and Common Laborers’ Union, which has not held an international convention since 1911. He himself is ‘general representative of the parent union and president of the Chicago district. council of the organization, embracing 26 locals. He is also president of the International Union of Pavers

. wiliie . | and Road Builders, which represents the union side 92 to 1 in faver of conscription, is anywhere near the truth. |

of the paving ring or racket. Mike already is under indictment—one of those Thurman Arnold Sherman Act cases—in connection with the activities of the paving ring which excluded readv-mixed concrete from paving work in Chicago and fixed the price of paving at the expense of the taxpayers.

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HE Federal] Government is now closing in on him from two sides, even though he is undeniably strong in the Kelly-Nash Tocal of the New Deal party of humanity in Chieago.

Carrozzo's huge income has been under Federal investigation, and last week he put up $277,251 in

securities to lift a Government lien on his farm and |

Tn 1936 he gave $250 to the | New Deal campaign, disguised ‘as the purchase price | of the shakedown device known as the campaign book. |

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Tough ‘Getting Someone to Hold the Bag!

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estate for an income tax claim of '$241088 for the |

| years 1937 and 1938. He has tried to hide the sources

of his income, but these are gradually being discovered. and it can be said that he did not ‘grow rich

| enough to accumulate so large a debt, in addition to a |

very substantial income which he did not report in his returns. by honest, selfless service in the cause of labor with a capital L.

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Inside Indianapolis

Keeping Cool ‘at the Library, Some Notes on Humidity and Police Sirens Weather Bureau had just finishing checking

on Tuesday ‘afternoon. Tt Up the street a few blocks

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was 1029 in the shade

the librarians at Central Library ‘were blinking their

eves in astonishment. A patron standing upstairs had tucked his hooks under his arm, had climbed on the banister and had gleefully slid down the rail from the second fibor Following which he nonchalantly checked his books and walked out. Feeling lots hetter, no doubt. » MAYBE YOU'VE NOTICED police cars on hurryup runs dodging in ‘and out of traffic with nothing to clear the wav except a red light and a squeaky auto horn. Perhaps vou've wondered why they didn't turn on the siren, The ‘answer is that they don’t have sirens. Fact is only the emergency and homicide squad cars and the downtown patrols 38 and 39 are equipped with sirens. There are two reasons, says Capt. Leo Troutman: 1. | to drive 80 and 70 miles ‘an hour ‘and there would be accidents. 2. Good sirens cost tho much ‘money. Why mention No. 1 at all, Cap?

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» YESTERDAY vou may have noticed, it was reported that the humidity ‘was 40 points more than was comfortable, Well, for those who don't understand all this stuff about humidity points, ete., we have the explanation.

Humidity is nothing mare nor less than the amount of moisture in the air. When there isa 1ot of water in the air the atmosphere {s muggy. When there is just ‘a little, it feels Ints cooler, In ‘other words, the drier it is the better it is Anvthing to help solve the warld's problems,

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» Ww Ww I'TS PUN TO CALL for W. J Bureau and hear his secretary reply: and I'll dig him up.”

Briggs at the Farm “Just ‘a minute

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

B EITHER Germany nor Ttalv ‘would dare sink ‘an |

American vessel on the high seas ¢arrving a cargo of children.” These are the naive words of a New Republic editorial What! Are we at last ‘ascribing humane feelings fo the beasts of the world? Why should ‘men ‘who suffer no qualms about bombing little children bother their heads about drowning them? Or must we believe that the editorial implies Hitler is ‘afraid of us? Whatever its meaning, citizens who ‘desire to keep their country at peace should bestir themselves at | this point. The Children's Crusade, which began upon such a noble note, is assuming ‘dangerous proportions We hear swelling clamor that ‘we should provide American warships to bring English children over, | although in order to make the ‘act legal ‘we should

| have to repeal the vital section of the Neutrality Law |

which forbids American ships from entering combat, zones, Undoubtedly Germany ‘would construe such behavior as an act of war If we could be persuaded fo do that-—anhd with our emotions in their present state, it might prove easy we should he neck deep in the Buropean mess in no time Our motives in the svacuation of England's children are gond. Rut common sense should have die tated their transportation to Canadas in the first place. Canada is a part of the British Empire ‘and in no more danger of enemy hombings than this country. Tt is obvious, too, that English children would be happier there where the atmosphere is British. Those Americans who wish to help could sasily send money for their support, for our relations with sur northern neighbor have always been friendly. If between them Canada ‘ahd England Have hot enough ships to bring the children of the poor over here, as they have already sent ‘many of those ‘who belong to wealthy and aristocratic families, then the

United States should not jeopardize the future safety | of its ‘own little ohes by committing an ‘act of ‘war. |

The ‘whole thing begins to look like a trap to in- [ wol¥e us. “

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f they had sirens the officers ‘would be tempted |

| CLAT™MS F. Db. R. LUCKY fN HIS ENEMIES By C. P. Miller I enjoy ‘acknowledging my in. | debtedness to critics of Roosevelt who newly fortify and increase my admiration for him. Such, emphatically, was the letter in the Hoosier Forum of recent date, con- | tributed by ‘ohe Richard Sutton Jr. | of Kansas City Assuredly for the {enemies Roosevelt has made he should be mast loved. On account of such enemies. sneering at the sincerity. ability and patriotism of the greatest President America has produced in all her history, we must not fail to Keep Roosevelt in the Presidency for a third term,

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URGES INCREASED PAY TO SPUR ENLISTMENTS By Tean Whanleay It is very evident that few men in America are patriotic enough fo give up what they have ‘and volunteer for military service Reducing the period of enlistment from three vears to one won't help much. Military men advocate con- | scription, as do others including prominent college presidents, who. it seems to me, should keep their noses in their books. On the other hand, some of the most estimable men in | Congress, and elsewhere, oppose conscription. But, regardless of ‘who Is right, there is ‘one method ‘whereby two | million ecarfully picked ‘men could be recruited almost overnight, with thousands more clamboring for ad- | mission to the army. That method | has not been mentioned, perhaps not feven thought of, ‘and it ‘won't be | tried because the cry ‘would immetdiately be: “We ean't ‘afford it!" It, 1s ‘going to cost approximately 15 billion dollars in the next five | vears to buy war implements. If we fean afford that, We ean afford another 15 billion fo hire soldiers. A ‘standing army of fwo million ‘men paid at the rate of $1500 a vear, [would cost 15 billion dollars over a perind of five vears What is the difference in hiring mme man fo make a gun, and another to carry and shoot the gun? | The latter, of course, {sa ‘mere haz-

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ardous fob, but there are millions who would take the hazard for a decent. ‘wage. However, the big difference is that the man who makes the gun, makes it for a third party who in turn sells it to the Government at a profit, whereas if the Government [hires ‘a soldier direct there is no lehance for anv corporation or indi- | vidual to make ‘a profit. | ‘Wo one ‘will denv that the man[power is at least 50 per cent of an farmv. We Have unlimited billions to fspend for the equipment. We hesitate to offer a prospective soldier five to seven dollars a week for his services, » TEES DRAFT MOVE

"TOWARD TOTALITARTANTSM By C. 'W. In case of ‘actual ‘or tertain intended invasion of this country, I. and the overwhelming majority of voung men would rally immediatelv to the defense! However, 1 ‘object to the dicta-

‘torial commands of the BurkeWadsworth Universal Compulsory Service Bill! If ‘our Government uses that method of building an army, there is little to distinguish

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us from the totalitarian states. This

bill appears even more harsh ‘and unnecessary when we that England is far

obstacle to Hitler's forces, "much ‘more formidable must Atlantic appear. Once we have an enormous, well‘equipped and trained army, it ‘will he just a mattér of time till excuses are found fo send it overseas on [another futile ‘attempt to police the world

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ing a single American =oldier to defend the powerful financial infer-

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like this once. in ‘while, don't you?"

The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say 1t.=—Voltaire.

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THURSDAY, AUG. 1, 1940 Aviation By Maj. Al Williams

‘This Next Phase of the War Will Be The Most Astoundingly Rapid Military Action the World Mas Ever Seen.

OW that the last words have heen spoken from Germany and England, the drama of world empire and new military weapons moves to its final and most, dreadful climax. The comparative lull in the war is being constantly misinterpreted by observers. It is well fo remember that once before there was a lull, when action had slowed down to the point where shallow minds complained of boredom. Then the storm broke, I do not believe that the entire German air sirength was used in the Holland-Belgium-France campaign. The Allied air strength was quickly and accurately estimated in that theater, and matched with enough to secure German control of the air over the combat zones. The Germans must have known that the real and decisive struggle was to come against England. » BELIEVE the delay in launching the air invasion of England is “attributable to the German decision to consolidate their extensive air bases on the continental coastline,

Total use of air power is critically dependent upon air bases and air-base facilities, When it starts, the {air invasion will be the full-out air war we have predicted for so many years. And when launched, it will maintain an intensity not seen in this war to date. The end, one way or the other, will be so rapid { that experts and politicians again will be stunned, Numerical superiority is just as decisive in the air (‘as on the land and sea. By careful study, I place Germany's effective power in the air at least three | times that of England. »

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HE German Air Force is organized on lines parallel to those of sea power. It is composed of five | fleets, each one a separate air force with ‘all types of planes and facilities for service and operations, | Originally of about 2000 planes each, these air fleets, | like sea fleets, can he expanded to any reasonable proportions. The length of this lull, therefore, from the mira | render of France to the coming invasion, holds a fear- | ful significance, Although slow to start, 1 helieve this | hext phase of the war will he the mast astoundingly | rapid military action the world has ever seen,

Business By John T. Flynn

News Indicates We Are Inching Our Way Toward Involvement in War,

EW YORK, Aug. 1—It Is not possible to read the daily papers these days without feeling

alarmed at the swiftness with which we are heing hustled into war, For instance military men tell Congress that we must have 400,000 men in the Army

{old men make ‘wars; young men die by Oct. 1, and ‘add ominously that “maybe” we cannot

remember | from bheaten| vet, ‘and if the Channel is such an| how |

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'CLATMS THIRD REICH A CRIME IN ITSELF By Claude Braddick { { “Curious,” it has been | reading Westbrook Pegler ‘as v ll as [Karl Marx. The deplorable conditions in tome of our hoss-ridden ecitfes appall him. “I have never read of flourishing civil erime in the Third Reich.” he concludes, “and it probably doesn’t exist!” Reductin ‘ad absurdum! “Curious” ‘we are not quite so naive as ‘a cement post, as he puts it). Compared to the civic crimes of which Westhrook Pegler speaks, the Third Reich fs a monstrous crime in itself. What Pegler refers to as the “Kelly-Nash machine” is dirty only against the background of American ideals of democracy and civic decency, Against the backferound of the Third Reich it would {appear pure white. The tendency of this undergrad-| f11ate to think for himself is a laud- | fable one. But his writings disclose olaringly that his mind is immature, How can ‘a mind so naive and immature as this one make an “au- | thoritative” statement?

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ny » » THINKS TAXI DRIVERS "DESERVE A BREAK

"By Observer 1

Noticing that the police have “cracked down” on the cab drivers, I think they deserve a little con-| fsideration. They work for such miserably small ‘wages that it is a wonder they éan live, let ‘alone keep a family. 1 have talked with some of them and they say they do well to ‘make $10 or $12 a week, Sometimes they ‘are told to dc things which may get them a “ticket” from Fan officer and they have to take all the blame, Sunday night 1 noticed the eab dispatcher at the Traction Terminal order drivers to pull mp on the stand when there were already four cabs there and at times there were five. He "also ordered cabs to pull up in the train shed and wait for busses. This 1s "against a city nrdinance which only permits four [ahs on the Terminal stand. If an officer catches a driver doing this, [ the driver is given a ticket, though ‘he was ordered to park there. | I saw two dispatchers doing this Sunday night and it continued for mote than an hour. I believe in fair ‘play ‘and if the dispatchers order | the drivers to park five in lie on this stand, they are the ones who should pay the penalty, These

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ELUSIVE PLEASURE By OLIVE TNEZ DOWNING,

Pleasure is elusive ‘quite, Though pursued by night, By day Her charms appear alluring sight, Then she vanishes away. | Ones at lakeside, Beach and surf, | Or in autes with high speed— Or lured away to cooling turf,

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[ Some fo valley, vale ‘and mead

It 1s pleasure that they seek, On these journevs, mile Hy mile Sometimes it Teads to lofty peak, Or déean ‘waves or chafms of Nile, Pleasure glints ‘as bubble east, Though it shines as glow of Marne, | Tt eludes it, cannot Tast— Hometimas mist come the crown | of thorns,

DAILY THOUGHT

A Wwite Tan feareth, and deparfeth from ‘evil; Hut the fool rageth, and Is confident —Prov- | orbs 14:78,

¥ He who fears to do wrong has but offe great fear; He has a

thousand ‘who has overcome it.—-,

Ivor Perfect hat (hey ‘deserve some | mote familiar to most women in

wait that long. Another commentator tells us that mavhe ‘“davs will count soon.” What do they mean? The first of October is only two months off. What is brewing that may cause us to need that new army before that date? Then we read that Fngland has blockaded tha Spanish and a statement from the British Government that “the United Statés is expected to promptly end shipments to Spain.” The =ame paper, in ‘a Washington dispatch, tells us that the Presi. dent has embargoed shipments of oil, ete, to Spain

coast,

‘and cut off American shipping thither, (fo show |

Are the Rritish and American Governments in consultation in the shaping of war moves against, Germany? How far does that put us away from war? And then the American nations are actually considering an arrangement to seize Latin American territories that Belong to Fngland or France to prevent them falling inte German hands. This is well enough, but we ate informed that the American Government considers that Martinique, which belongs to France, has actually changed hands hecause Germany dominates France, and that therefore we should seize Martinique now, If we do, France will protest. She will certainly say it is ‘an ‘act of ‘war by the United States and other American Governments. If this is carried out we will have actually committed an ‘act of open war, and we may find ourselves at ‘war. And that any day. »

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Provocative Acts Continue

Certainly our Government Is leaving no stone un turned to translate events as they ‘arife from day to day into eéxcusés for provocative action against Germany. Of course ‘we ‘are told that ‘We must not refrain from doing these things because of fear of Germany’s disapproval. This Is a very ingenious way of stating Me ‘cage. THe more fruthful way is to recognize that We cannot go on committing hostile acts ‘against ‘any power and expect that that power

will hot recognize them as stich and act accordingly. It 1s not a question of whether we ate affraid of Germany's displeasufe, It fs a question of whether we want to go to War with Germany—to get inte this war. The American people certainly do not want to get in. But ‘assuredly some fatal power, some force which We do not see in daily action and cannot trace, is Isading us in that direction. This will go on—one provocation after ansther—until ‘one day Wwe ‘will ‘wake up with ‘a difficult inet dent on our hands. Then all the ‘engines of propaPanda ‘will go into ‘action to inflame the American people more than they ‘are ‘already inflamed, Wa are treading thin ice.

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford

NTERESTING medical uses have recently heen ye ported for some of the new synthetic

materials transparent rain capes, umbrellas, ‘and bags for keeping bread or covers ing jars of food in the refrigerator. The lightness and impermeability to water and oil which make them useful ‘as rain capes, bread bags or refrigerator jar covers ate making them useful in medical ‘ways. Mitts ‘and socks of Pliofilm afe being

| used successfully to keep continuous wet dressings on

the hands or feet in treatment of certain skin diseases, This was reported to the American Medical Axsociation By Dr. Gareld V. Stryker and Dr. Jogeph Grindon Jr. of Bt. Louis. The new materials afe not only moisture-proof and

oil-proof but nen-frritating, non-inAammable and resistant to weak ‘acid ‘and ‘alkali, These advantages 18d sefentists of the U8. Public Health Service to suggest

| its ue for tHe protection of ihdistrial workers who ate

exposed fo earfain wkin-irritating chemicals fh the

| course Bf their Work. Tor this Purpose it fe suggested

that tHe maférial should Be wade into gloves, sleeves, hhods and coveralls, Bath the clothing and tHe skin of the Workers could Be protected by such garments, whith it fs ‘expected will ¥66n Be on the market, Public Health Service tests of 17 fabrics and fis of synthetic Teasing showed Pliofilm, Vinylite and Kora al fo Pe tHe most suitable for use in protecting workers againet skin irritating substances, THe materials inerease and retain perspiration but do Not give the cold, clammy feeling of rubber, it fs said. They can Pe #dasily ‘washed with soap and water but Mist not Be pressed with a hot iton. While the will Wot Mast for vears, they will Tast a Number of months With ordinary care and longer if they do not

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