Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1940 — Page 9

TUESDAY, OCT.

1940

Hoosier Vagabond .

DANA, Ind., Oct. 1—My mother is usually. up and sitting on the living room sofa by 6 in the morning. But this morning, when I got up around 7 and went into her room, she was still in bed. “I've got a bad headache this morning,” she said. ims. I said I was mighty sorry, and probably too much excitement had caused it. Then she said, “When are you going to leave?” “I've got to leave right after | breakfast,” I told her. "I'm way behind: in my work.” ? And she said, “Aw, you're always in sucha rush.” “Yes, but I've got to go,” I | told her. | And she said, | what?” And I said,

“Do you know

“No, what?”

And then she started to get the giggles, as she

sometimes does, and she laughed awhile before she could speak, and then finally she stopped and reached out for my hand, and said, real wise-like: “Some of these days youre going to die. And when you. do the world will get along just fine without you. Do you| know that?” And I said, sort of on the defensive: “Yes, I know i i plenty. But as long as I'm in the world I've got to keep rushing around and trying, haven't 1? You always did yourself. You wouldn’t want me to just stop and go on relief, would you?” And then she got to laughing again, and said, no, she wouldn't want me ‘to go on relief. And that's all we said about it. .

Death of Two Friends

The mail this morning brought news of the death of two friends. One was an important man, who had cone pig things and good things. The other was an unimportant man, with nothing in this world at all. One was a white man. One was colored. They are equal now. They| are both dead. One man was George B. Ward of Birmingham, Ala. He was once mayor of Birmingham; a prominent investment banker, and a civic conscience who made the Birmingham he loved a more beautiful place. Some of you may remember him from a column I wrote a few years ago, His hobby was Roman history.

By Ernie Pyle

He rode his hobby to the point of molding his own life into it. On a mountain ridge a few miles from Birmingham he built a home in the form of a round Roman temple, which he called Vestavia. He lived there alone, and raised flowers and read history. But a hobby has a way of running out. You play it for a long time, and then its power to beguile you begins to fade, and finally you have to pretend to piay, 60 as not to be ashamed of the thing to which you once threw your passions, George Ward was a wonderful man. And yet I feel pocitive that he died,lonely within himself. We could 1eel his lonesomeness reaching out the last time we visited him in his Empire. Now it is all over,

‘The Things We Could Have Done’

The other iriend who died was John Campbell. He was once janitor of the apartment house where we lived in Washington. ‘He and his sister lived in the basement. He was an enormously big man. He had ns idea how old he was. My guess would be 75,

but that might be 15 years off either way. John could | neither read nor write. Once we came back from one of our early trips, and found hira partially paralyzed. Through a little newspaper pull we got him into the City Hospital, and then into the Old Folks Home. That's all we ever did for him. But his adoration for us grew into something almost childlike. His few friends and relatives dropped away. That Girl and I became his only family. It has been two years since we were last in Washington. John’s letters (written by a fellow inmate) begged us to hurry back to Washington, so he could see us just once more. We never got there. He waited. Ana finally he couldn't wait any longer. We are not sorry he is dead. But we are sorry for not being more thoughtful, for taking his love for us so casually, for not doing a thousand little things

we could have done to make him more comfortable

and his spirit easier. The things we could have done, and didn’t! How often people say it. Little things that would have been nothing at all—but things- a poor old Negro. needed so desperately. Things that, now forever undone, will build up and scourge our memories like ghosts until the day when we too are old and sad and

© pitiful with loneliness.

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

ROSCOE TURNER turned 45 Sunday and the members of his staff had the very dickens of a time roping the Colonel into a surprise birthday party. Roscoe wanted a chicken dinner and insisted on

making his own reservation. He called up and made | the reservation. Bill Gage, gen- | eral manager of the Turner inter- | ests, dashed into the next room to call up and cancel. Finally, they succeeded (almost by force, however) in luring Roscoe to a pre-arranged site where more than 15 of his pilots were . gathered to tpast their boss around | a three-tiergd birthday cake on | top of which was perched an airplane. They gave him a barometer as a present and then sat down | to eat. Yes, he got his chicken,

The Curr ot Styles

A WOMAN SHOPPER stopped and gazed into a downtown -window yesterday. in open-mouthed amazement. . Then she turned to her companion. “Why,” said she, “the men’s styles are as silly as the women’s.”, Charles Ettinger, the County

Clerk, has submitted a list of 105 names to the Governor's office for the Marion County Draft Board. Of these, 45 will be selected. . . . The bachelor delegation is worried these days about I. J. (Nish) Dienhart, the Airport’s energetic superintendent. He's taking life seriously and all his time seems occupied these days. . . . The betting in informed circles at the Court House is to the effect that the disputed Juvenile Detention Home is going to be located in| Irvington—after the election.

Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—This piece won't be for or against anybody ‘but merely an effort to hand on something in the hope that it will be as helpful to you as it has been to me. In looking through some ‘of my notes over the period (© unich, in the fall of { 1938, I find jottings of a conver- - sation which I had with one of ' our important officials, who must . remain unidentified. @ What he says always impresses me but I am the more impressed now that I check back and note what he was thinking just after the Munich crisis.

In substance, hat he told me then was as follows: “For a long time I have known and predicted, - almost on time schedule, what the - desperadoes were going to do. We knew Japan was going into China. - We forecast accurately what would happen. “The real situation was not at Munich but in the fact that. Britain and France were ‘not prepared and Hitler held a pistol to their heads. The British had been saying that Hitler was all right, that he would be reasonable. But when the time came, they found he wasn’t. And he will continue. Germany and ltaly are no; giving up Spain. I predict that in time you will see a drive in South America.

A Post Munich Prophecy

“This is a desperate period of the world. (Note— that was in October, 1938, just after Munich.) We are being pulled back into the dark ages. You have the ' same thing going on in Asia and in Europe that you had in the dark ages, pillage; brutality, rape in China, beatings in Europe, destruction, etc. Hitler is the successor to Genghis Khan, Caesar and Napoleon, and like them he will keep going on. “We must have strong force to be respected now. If we had had a fleet strung out from Brazil to the Azores when the Munich crisis came, we would have been listened to. “There are three ways of dealing with these desperado nations. You fight. Or you submit. Or you try to carry on in your own way, avoiding one extreme or the other. That last is what we are trying to do. These autarchies have to keep moving ahead into new

My Day

HYDE PARK, Monday.—Though it is a gray day today, I have just'come in from a ride through the

woods, where the colors are becoming more and more beautiful every day. Across our brook there are some trees that have turned a brilliant scarlet, next to them are some deep green pines and a vellow tree. They all reflect in the smooth surface of the water and make a most beautiful picture from the window where I write. It is curious to be able to sit here and write you about these quiet pleasures, and to have listened to the radio this morning with news of the nightly bombing in London with scarcely a respite before the morning raids began. The British seem to raid quite as often and as steadily, but their objectives do not seem to be 2 entirely concentrated on a city like London, or, as reported this morning, such smaller cities as Aberdeen and Edinburgh. There seems to be a difference in objectives. On ‘the one hand, the Germans seem to be#trying to break the morale of the people by attacking the places

sacrifice internally all around.

The Doctor And No. 13:

ONE OF THE town's prominent doctors, as scientific as they come, has one abiding superstition nevertheless. It's the old No. 13: When he makes out his orders to the nurses at the hospitals, he avoids that jinx like, the plague. . ‘The other day he gave his orders, and was starting to leave when the nurse called his attention to the fact the orders totaled 13. “Oh,” he exclaimed, “that will never do. all the orders I have.” He pondered and knitted his eyebrows for a. minute or two and then had a stroke of genius. “Here's the other one,” he said happily, “keep patients out of drafts”

‘Straight Ahead?”

REGISTRATION FOR the election may mean nothing to you, but.it’s certainly been a grand headache for one WPA worker at the Court House. The WPA has had a record-filing project under way just inside the Alabama St. door and the chap at the end

But it’s

of the line has been the first person you see as you

enter. You can tell just what nok been going through by the home-made sign he’s put “Tyst in front of him. It says: “You Register at Pye 34 -— Straight Ahead!” . ;

The Presidential Rut :

Passengers on an Illinois street car were startled the other night to hear a loud “Boo” from the rear of the car. It continued all the way up to 30th St. A boy about 12 was booing every car he saw with a Willkie plate on it. Which reminds us of the local man who called up to say he’d driven through Elwood and has seen as many Roosevelt signs as Willkie signs. Well, they make both kinds there. |

By Raymond Clapper

territory. If you announce in advance that you won't fight, if you neglect to build up your defenses, then you can't deal with a bandit except by having a gun at your head. “The whole situation is bad hecause it means ‘heavy armaments and that means regimentation and | If Hitler had good faith now he would move to reduce armaments and

he could -get sornewhere with it.. But he isn’t making

a move in that direction. On the contrary he is going’

the other way. That is sufficient proof of his in-

tentions.”

This gentleman, although an. official, was speak-|

ing as an individual citizen, trying to size up the situation on the basis of his exceptional information and his opportunity to give an informed and balanced judgment. By taking his observations of exactly two years ago as a starting point, and noting the course of the world since then, we gather a better sense of the direction in which events are moving.

No Time for Recriminations Much is being said now about what we should have

. done, or might have done, or should not have done.

The hour is late and is too precious to be wasted in futile recriminations. Criticism and approval can be distributed to either the Administration or its critics, as there is abundant material for argument on both sides. They were arguing the same way in England a year before Munich. I still have a copy of the London Express of Nov. 5, 1937, which I brought back from London. It quotes Lord Nuffield, the Henry Ford of English industrialists, as saying: “I see no reason why we should join in the little wrangles around the world. If the gentlemen in the two houses of Parliament will only keep us out of war a little longer, we shall enjoy still greater prosperity in this country.” In the same newspaper, Sir Samuel Hoare, then Home Secretary, was quoted: Let us say to the warmongers—the talk about the inevitability of war is almost criminally dangerous. We must be so strong as to make war too dangerous for anybody to undertake. I say to the slumpmongers—this wicked harping on future misfortunes during a period of increasing prosperity is bad for the country and its industries.” So they spoke in England, in those dear, dead days before Munich.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

where humanity is concentrated. The R. A. F, on the other hand, seems to put more emphasis on attacking the oil supplies or factories and Channel ports where shipping and supplies may be massed for an effort fo land in England. I suppose the Germans make an effort to do this too, but perhaps it is harder to find such scattered objectives. The English are a curious people. each other and their government freely in times of peace. They are individualistic as any people in ‘the world, from the Duchess who dresses always as the fashions were in her youth, even though she may be 80 years old, to the woman who will run a London flat for you and try to run your life as well. will do her job according to its traditions, never doing more nor less than she thinks they require. Yes, they are an individualistic. people, and I

don’t think anything could draw them together more |

solidly and make them act as a unit more surely than continued attack. They have whatever it takes to stand up under long drawn out pressure. - - Miss Thompson and I are leaving for a little jaunt into New England. Tonight we will be with our friends, Miss Esther Lape and Miss Elizabeth Reed in Connecticut. somewhere along our way, but where we will lay our heads for the ght is still on the lap of the 8945,

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Tomorrow you .will hear from us

By MAJ. AL WILLIAMS HE air war over England is the first full scale field demonstration of test-tube experiments conducted elsewhere in the last few years. The science of air war is as devoid of sentiment as a banker's bal-

ance sheet. ’ The major object of Germany's air war against England obviously is the capitulation of London. ‘This city, heart of world-wide empire, represents about 46 per cent of England’s material assets, and upon it about one-third of England’s population depends for food, habitation and livelihood. London has been hammered day and night by air bombardment. ‘Wholesale destruction of buildings and community machinery has proceeded at an alarming pace. Thousands of civilians have been killed and wounded. The routine life of business ‘and existence has heen dislocated. “How long can this continue?” is the pressing question. Mis= takenly, too much attention is being devoted to the courage and indomitable will. of the English people to fight on, while the real question is how they can fight. It is not necessary to blast an entire city to pieces, killing hun-

The City Holl—

N. SIDE PARKING VEXES COUNCIL

Action Deferred on Building Plea Because of Garage Deficiency.

City Hall today took a new offensive against overnight curb parking. on the near north side. Dropped by the Safety Board last winter after police failed to break

it up, the all night parking problem popped up again at a Zoning Board hearing yesterday. Zoning Board members took a stand against it. They deferred action on a vari-

ance petition for the construction |

of a $175,000 apartment hotel at 215 N. Pennsylvania St. because the plans made no provision for car storage. The petition was filed by Everett A. Carson. Questioned by the Board, Mr. Carson said the proposed structure

does not now provide a parking.

space. The building would have 36 units, but no garages. “I don’t see where the people who live there would park their cars,” said George J. O'Connor, Board president. “The parking situation on Pennsylvania St. is terrific as it is.” On the motion of Louis Borinstein and Louis C. Brandt, Board members, the Board agreed to postpone final decision pending an investigation into parking facilities. Members approved other petitions for new construction totaling about $80,000. Among these was the petition of Dr. Robert I. Blakeman who proposes to build six double houses at 3852-3906 N. Pennsylvania St., each to cost $10,000. The Board's approval of Dr. Blakeman’s petition was given after several adjacent property owners protested against the development. They contended the doubles would have a depreciating effect on existing property values of single residences in the neighborhood. The petition of M. E. Morely for the erection of a $15,000 four-family apartment building at 3033 N.:Talbott St. was granted as well as the petitions of the Jose Balz Realty ‘Co. for a residence at 3751 N. Temple Ave., costing $12,000, and of Charles H. Keever for a $9000 building housing a physician’s office and beauty shop at 5216 College Ave. The request of the Hall-Hottel Co.,, Inc, for a permit to erect a $35,000 storeroom building with auto parking facilities at the southeast corner of Sheridan Ave. and E. Washington St. was denied.

A group of Irvington property|.

owners protested that the proposed building would result in t Sle conn S

gestion on Washingto

{Our America

“A city can be anesthetized and made helpless, not in the point of resistance to the enemy but in its inability to serve its inhabitants,” writes Maj. Al Williams. Here is an aerial view of the Thames River as it passes through the heart of London showing how vulnerable the great sprawling city is to the conslant attacks of Nazi bombers, the purpose being, as Maj. Williams explains, to make the city unin«

habitable.

dreds of thousands of civilians, in order to force it to capitulate. A city can be anesthetized and made helpless, not in point of resistance to the enemy, but in its inability to serve its inhabitants. Its water mains, sewers, railroads, busses, docks, highways, power houses and gas mains are a city's arteries. Cut these and the city ceases to function. » t. 4 »

NY high explosive bomb can

reach the water and sewer mains of a modern -city.! A 1000pound bomb will demolish a power house or gas tank. Don't turn away from this ghastly picture of modern air war. We cannot dodge this frightful realism, as ugly as death, but as conclu=sive. For instance, cut the water supply of a thickly populated center. You cut off ¢ i -ing and cooking water, and you it out of commission the sanitation system, which depends upon continuously maintained ‘water supply. Human beings cannot live long where there is no water. Without water a city turns into a pest house, Four years ago, Pittsburgh was flooded. Electric power statjons were put out. Office building elevators stopped. Leaving an office on the 24th floor was like pre-

Not

paring for a long journey, when one had to walk down. Transportation stopped. Autos stopped. What have power houses to do with autos? Gasoline service stations are operated by electric pumps. No electricity—no pumps; no pumps—no auto fuel. Pistsburgh’s business stopped; likewise its administration, All this was regarded as a transitory nuisance. Then the airlines, the only transportation. facilities connecting with the outside country, announced they were carrying serum into Pittsburgh. Rumors of water taint. Water rationing. Then rumors of possible epidemics. Then all humor disappeared, and people began to worry. + What's the difference between a water supply that has been bombed out of commission and one that has been flooded out?

” ” ” HE air siege of London is military. history’s first taste of airpower’s drive for dominance or, at the very least parity with land and sea forces. No one can completely interpret its various phases at the moment and espe-

cially is this true of those tied to the old school of warfare.

We Need Change of Heart

of Government

By JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS

AUTHOR OF “THE LIVING JEFFERSON,” “EPIC OF

“MARCH OF DEMOCRACY,”

AMERICA,” etc.

(Twentieth of a series of articles by 24 authors)

What does America mean to me? It means everything, but above all a way of life. It means the chance to be yourself and to make the most of yourself you are capable of without being told what you are to. do or how to do it. : Many years ago I brought a young Frenchman to smerica and after a few days asked him what impressed him most. He said ‘at once, “The way everyone of every sort looks you straight in " the eye.” Another incident. I had an Alsa“tian who delivered goods to my apartment in New York. He was well educated and used to sit and talk with me, and he said once, “This is America. In Germany I would leave a parcel at the servants’ entrance and never be able to sit in a room like this and talk, man to man, to a person like you.” I believe in this way of life, in what America does for people, and in our democracy. We have built a sort of society in which all can make the most of themselves in the way they want and are able to. Our democracy to me is our most precious possession. It and not national wealth or foreign trade is America. It can be taken from us in two ways—by a discipline imposed on us by some man or group, the Nazi and Fascist way, or by our failing to use self-discipline. I do not believe that democracy and what I call the American Dream must fail. We can preserve them if we want to, but in order to do so we must discipline ourselves, or somebody will discipline us and take our way of life from us. We need leaders, but they will be of no avail if we have not got decency, morality, and self-reli-ance ourselves. Democracy cannot win out in this 'world of today, nor can we

James Truslow Adams

maintain our freedom if we are. not free in our own souls and

lives, and we are not free in our souls if we are looking for easy money, easy jobs, dirty political deals, feeding at the public trough at someone else’s expense if we can work ourselves, and all the rest of what has been replacing what the Frenchman I started with found here. I am not speaking of the necessarily unemployed at the moment or of politics, but of fundamental morality. Democracy is the only form of life humanity has found in which it can have freedom of speech, thought, religion, and the right to be one’s self. If that goes, all I care for in life goes. The trouble is not with democracy, as I see it, but with the deterioration of our own characters. What we need to make us an efficient and powerful nation is not a change in our form of government, but a ‘change in our own hearts and desires. I am not preaching a sermon, but talking only as an American professional man who loves America and wants to keep alive the American Dream which has been the finest: mankind has yet dreamed. I am not speaking of candidates or leaders of other sorts. I am thinking, of just every one.of us in private life and as I have watched democracy and America here, and been -in many other countries, I more and more believe that the fate of democracy in the world and of a life for free men lies with no leader, no conqueror, but just with you and me and all the rest of us ordinary Americans, and how well we can discipline ourselves in our_ lives and what kind of people we turn out to be.

Rex Beach takes a look at Hitler’'s blueprint for living, and comes up with greater appreciation for the American way of life, in the next article of this series on “Our Country.”

CONTRACTS TO INDIANA

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (U. P).— Two Indiana firms shared in contracts totaling $27,997,490, awarded by the War Department yesterday. They are General Motors Corp. $2,536,000 for artillery , and U. 8S. | $367,710,

Anderson, ammunition compone Rubber Co., Misha

for rubber raincoats.

The bravery of a citizenry is of no avail in a paralyzed city, he says.

Significant indeed! is the fact that invading airpower has car= ried the siége right over London, in spite of the defensive land and sea forces. : ; I still believe that airpower will smash the London defenses. But if that belief is demonstrated to be erroneous then the claim can hardly be contested that tne heart of all that the British na=tional defense system was ce= signed to defend is being defended, but not protected from direct air attack. The people the homes and the possessions of London are being hammered day and night while their armies and navies are standing by or doing other jobs. I feel certain that no one has the real explanation of the air attack pressures, varying in degree, that have been applied and lessened at intervals during this air siege of London. There's no denying that this period marked the beginning of a real air drive against London.

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UT the outcome of this strug= gle over England for air supremacy will unquestionably decide the entire Battle of Britain, and will also decide when

FUND CAMPAIGN SPIRIT IS HIGH

357 Members of Employees’ Fellowship Map Own Part In $688,500 Drive.

Between next Monday and Oct. 27, Indianapolis will open ‘its purse to contribute $688,500 to its “37 friends.” As a preliminary step to the opening of the annual Indianapolis Community Fund drive, the Employees’ Fellowship met last night at the Hotel Lincoln to map its own strategies on the campaign. The attendance—357—set a new record. At the first meting in 1928 there were 12 persons at the Fellowship meeting. The largest previous attendance was 285. Taking last night’s enthusiasm as “hand writing on the wall,” Community Fund leaders did not hesitate to predict that the $688,500 goal set for this year, $8400 above last year’s, would be achieved. The Employees’ Fellowship is comprised of representatives of local firms with 25 or more employees.

Jones Is President

Charles W. Jones, president of the group, introduced its past presidents last night. They included Earl Beck, Eli Lilly & Co.; Zeo W. Leach, Bell Telephone; A. C. Mathias, Standard Qil Co.; Chain Co.; Le Roy 8. Breuning, A. J. Wichman Co.; A. H. Whitcomb, Polar Ice & Fuel Co., and Charles W. Jones, Wm. H. Block Co. The invocation was presented by the Rev. A. R. Fussenegger, director of the Catholic charities. As this year’s junior speaker, Elliott Goodman, Shortridge High School pupil, described a tour of the “37 friends,” agencies which dispense the money collected by the Fund, and the duties of the organization. John R. Mack, executive vice president of the American City Bureau of New York and Chicago, an organization which establishes Community Funds of cities of more than 20,000 population, was the speaker of the evening. . Officers Elected “Your job is different this year,” he told the Fellowship. “This is a year of increased employment. Your subscribers will probably increase in a large degree. Indianapolis stands high in the Community Funds of the nation. I believe. that you will rank higher in the near future.” The election of officers for the coming year was by a unanimous vote. Nominated and elected automatically were William J. Freaney, president; Evan Walker of the Indianapolis Railways, first vice president; Hardey Adriance, Eli Lilly Co., second vice president; Virgil

Martin, executive vice president, and

C. C. Winegarcner, Diamond}

and .if land and sea forces shall participate. The time-table schedule of German air pressures appears to be following some kind of pattern. At times there are high pressures, one heavy wave after another. Then when observe ers are ready to estimate that the attack has reached its peak, higher pressures build up. Then comes a comparative lull, with straggling raiders appearing overhead. Each raid = occasions air raid alarms, with dislocation of civilian life, transportation, business, and factory production. For weeks the sleep of England has been disrupted periodically. But the timing of these disruptions appears to be regulated in the effort to prevent non-combatants from planning day or night routine. So far, both sides insist that maximum pressure has not yet been applied. Sleep is as necessary as food for normal existence. And these raids appear to be timed purosely to prevent non-combatants rom setting certain hours apart for this essential human need. Grgatly outnumbered, the Royal Air Force is performing veritable miracles with the same identical squadrons taking; off to aerial defense combat as many as six times in a single 24 hours. Unless this “sleep blockade” against Eng= gland is broken, regardless of what breaks it, the end is clearly in sight.

Corn Queen Gets Crown Thursday

FOWLER, Ind., Oct. 1 (U.P). — Mary Louise : Garrison, 18, of Flora, Thursday will be crowned queen of the annual Indiana Corn Festival by Edward C. Elliott, president of Purdue University, at the annual Queen’s Coronation ‘Ball here. The festival will ve formally

| opened earlier Thursday by Gov-

ernor Townsend. It will conclude Saturday with the annual Parade and corn display.

DEFICIENCY IN GIFT TAX SET AT $699,298

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (U. P.).== Charles F. Kettering, Dayton, O., today agreed with the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals in setting the dee ficiency for his 1935 gift tax at $699,298.

A total of $1,625,482 had been in controversy. Mr. Kettering coh= tended the Internal Revenue Commissioner erred in increasing the value of 3000. shares of common

"stock of C. F. Kettering Inc., above

the market value. ’

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Within the boundaries of which State were the first ‘church, blockhouse and ship built in the American colonies 2—Do peanuts grow on bushes or in the ground? : 3—Automobiles for private use are not allowed on the streets in Mae nila, Honolulu or Bermuda? 4—Do owls see as well in sunlight as in moonlight? 5—Which Southern State first ses ceded from the Union? 6—Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, is on the Mississippi, Hudson, or Potomao Rivers? T—What is the Appian Way?

Answers

1—Maine. 2—In the ground.’ 3—Bermuda. 4—N

0. 5—South Carolina. 6—The Potomac. T—Roman highway. a ow 8

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