Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 June 1945 — Page 12
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Give Light and the Peapte Will Find
THE UNITED NATIONS CH HE United Nations charter voted conference last night is a small ste world peace league. To say less is to is better than nothing. To claim mo the people into a false security and I international co-operation. Might-have-beens are futile.
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RILEY 5551 Their Own Way
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by the San Francisco p toward an effective deny that something re for it may betray ater reaction against
But it is essential for
future progress that the public understand why a longer
step was not taken by the 50 nations a The barrier was not American isol a propaganda myth. It was not Brit British nations did not obstruct and d It was not inability of the smaller nat they did. It was Russia's refusal t democratically=¢ontrolled league that ¢ —an organization ‘dominated by the which Russia holds a veto. n
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t the Golden Gate. ationism, now largely ish imperialism; the | id not vote as a’ bloc. ions to get together; o participate in any letermined the result big powers, and .in ls
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By James Thasher
WASHINGTON; June 26-—We don't know how all this is going to affect Old Paint, or what it may do . in time to the ten-gallon hat and high-heeled boot industry, but it appears that the post-war cowhand may be heading | for the big roundup in a neat little cabin plane. { At least that's the impression we get from reading a piece in the trade magazine, Implement & Tractor, Which comes right out and says, “The airplane 1s farm equipment.” And to prove that it’ s the farmer's idea and not the magazine's, the article quotes a re~« cent survey by a manufacturer which indicates that rural America will provide the post-war market for 60 per cent of his factory's personal planes. That doesn't mean, of course, that a man won't be able to farm 50 acres of hilly Vermont land without an airplane in the days to come. But the .article makes out a pretty good case for the practical use of aircraft in the western and midwestern territories of flat terrain and big farms. In fact, the airplane is being used by some farmers already.
He'll Take Wings THERE IS AN organization called the Oklahoma Flying Farmers, for instance. And its president is quoted as saying that if he had to choose between his airplane and his car, he’s afraid the car would have to go. Here are some of the things Implement & Tractor
{ plane: He might sow crops and dust them, ride herd and inspect fences, take produce to market, get needed repair parts for other implements in a hurry, take the kids to school when roads are impassable (a dirty trick on the kids, we say), or just go fo town for shopping and a movie on .Saturday.
"Any Field Will Do
| landing strip, the magazine says, and you could taxi right up to the hay barn, which would serve nicely as a hangar. As for the farmer's learning to fly, it appears that the post-war personal plane is going to
also foreed into the charter: a veto power over peaceful be so nearly stall-, spin- and fool-proof that you
settlement of disputes, and even over league investigations. |
That is the high price the dem paid for getting Russia into even a
alternative was a league without the largest power in|
Europe andl Asia, which Russia would | plan against herself. nations was to accept either little or worse than nothing.
ocratic nations have weak league. The
1ave treated as a war | So the choice of the demoeratic
nothing—or perhaps
But we decline to be down-hearted over these meager
results. Befiter a striving for something better, than charter which the public considers a Meanwhile, there is nothing to st
slow start and world opinion realistically
a grandiose paper cure-all. op the United States
from assuming peace leadership on the basis of the San
Francisco charter. is our duty.
As the world’s mightiest power, that |] TRhough Russia has a veto, so have we—and |
we can use it to prevent misuse of league machinery.
” 8 ” i THE SAN RRANCISCO charter is an advance over the | even less democpatic Dumbarton-Yalta plan. - vide an opportunkty for the league assembly to function as | Tit does officially commit the big powers as It does establish an economic and social council to further the Four Freedoms and a hill of rights
a world forum. well as the small.
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It does pro-
would have to fly it smack inte the Slo in-order to wreck it. We haven't quite dared pursue ine possibilities to their ultimate effect on the colorful West, but we can see that the effect would be felt far beyond the actual business of farming and ranching. For one thing, it would revolutionize the rodéo business. We'd probably have stunt flying instead of bronco riding, with steers being bulldogged by a deft slap of a tail skid.
WORLD AFFAIRS—
No Points
By Karl A. Bickel
OTTAWA. June 26.—Canada is watching with concern the agita- | tian over the food issue in the U. S. because of the possible effects on its own food situation.
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over a year. { to resume it.
Hordes of American. “60-minute” tourists are
| crossing the border and clearing the shelves of meat, |
potatoes, cheese and even soap. So serious has become the pressure that at some |
for all peoples, aml a trustee system better than the old | points such as Windsor, opposite Detroit, a ban has |
mandates.
Though adequate enforcement provisions are
heen laid against export of food. Other Canadian |
ustoms offices have provided similar bans.
. lacking, for the first time there are such international com- | | point ts customs officers will speyroit @ “Teasonable” mitments.and a world forum to advance them. Much depends on the United States, and on how we use our great power \in the new league.
OPA COULD BE IMPROVED
| amount of meat to go out in the arms of basket- { laded Americans. At other points, officers will not | permit more than $5 worth of food to be exported.
| More ‘Tourists’ Cross Border
AT ALL ENTRY points tourist figures are sharply
up for this time of the year. At some points the in-
ELSEW HERE on this page Peter Edson, one of our & adic crease is over 100 per cent
ington reporters, reaches the changes the house vcted Saturday i
controls were just the triumph of paziiesn politicians who | it
want the lid taken off prices. There may have beén some eleme
the amendments that were offered to the OPA extension |
conclusion that the n the war-time. food
nt of that in some of
bill. But those amendments were defeated. The amendment that actually was adopted places control of foods and food prices in the hands of the new secretary of agriculture, a and sacks of potatoes. If the raiding does not stop man firmly committed to maintainitig close price controls,
and head of a department presumed edge of the production and distributio
to have some knowln of food. To us the
house vote represents no mare than national dissatisfaction
with the way the office of price admin the job so far. There is considerable
camse for dissatisfaction.
istration has handled |
For all
the furore over the fixing of food prices by specific items,
the food costs of the American steady. Indianapolis housewives today pound for such items as ham skins— lent in a food cost of beefsteatss at prices for fish and other substitutes pricing policies has made acutety scarc all proportion to their relative value reducing food costs, this sort ofl pricii increased them. swer to scarcities has been subsidies
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2.00 a pound, for the beef which OPA | You can get a bottle of ketchup—23 cents, no stamps.
family have not been held
are paying 30 cents a certainly the equivaRetail |
e, have soared out of Far from 1g policy has actually
as foods.
Far from preventing inflation, OPA’s an-
< to producers, them-
selves as inflationary as printing press dollars.
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is the best of all possible agencies applying the best of all | milk,
PA's
story that OPA
possible systems to the war-time control of food supplies and costs were it not for the example of Canada; alsé dis-
cussed on this page today by Karl A. ample supplies of Teal swith out ratic no higher than legal LU. prices, am U. S. black market prices: Canada has ‘ent system, and it has worked better‘
For us there has been an over
mainly from OPA itself, to the effect gests a corrective change in anything a selfish profiteer who wants runaway inflation. We haven't been methods and policies could not be in in the lower house on Saturday seems of congressmen have shared that feel
wrev:k the country convinced that OPA |
Bickel. Canada has | in points | well below reported ‘simply used a differ-1aNn-0ur's; dose of propaganda,
that anyone who sug-
OPA is doing 18 Just with
" to iproved. The action to indicate that a lot Ing.
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ROBERT M. BOWES ‘I OBERT M. BOWES won his succes story of his early life, when he mere boy to seek his fortune in a gr
come, just as he lived it, out of any of the scores of popular:
s the hard way. The
~ forth _along as a might shave
eat city,
set
books that were an inspiration: to another generation,
To him’ this theme was the very -essetice of America, | and he viewed with distaste any society ipl which any boy 4a.
who wanted to do it could not make h own efforts. The opportunities he gave many another young man a start
- One ofHis last major projects was. for trainimg and employ- | "disabl
18 own’ success by his, himse¥f had created in the wame direction.
veterans of this war to make nem in
Prices are |
Canadians are sympétheti c with the plight of the | food hunting visitors. They believe Canada has the | best food control organization in the world. Under simplified system of control over supply, price and | distribution Canada has exported enormous amounts f food, second only to the U. 8; and still kept its supply adequate, Canadians. do not like it, however, when they. see a 15-pound ham go on a “States” bound ferry in the arms of an American or note a homeward speeding automobile cross the ‘border with 10 crates of eggs
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soon; the Dominion may sharply “curtail the amount of food Americans can take back home with them. Canada has no rationing on ‘meat, g¢heese and canned vegetables. Officials are hopeful that the suspension on rationing can be prolonged. There is rationing on sugar and sugar products such as jellies and preserves. Butter ‘is rationed. €al Canadians pay from 33 cents to 41 cents a pack. On a 33 cent pack 21 cents goes to the government, | Whisky and beer are scarce and are rationed.
Steaks Without Red Points
TODAY IN ANY meat market in Can a porterhouse steak at 90 cents per pound, TRon 1 or sirloin at 45 cents and round steak at 28.
jada has
Canadian stores domestic fish, and poultry gettin
so far have had supplies of eggs, canned and fresh vegetables, cheese Canned meat has been frozen and is 1g scarce as Canada is shipping all’of its canned to Europe Proud as Canadians are of their ‘food control ystem they are fearful that Americans:will gain the | impression that because of the nonsrationed meat | situation they are not doing their part in feeding ithe | world's hungry people. But Canada has shipped great | quantities of meat, cheese, butter, eggs, evaporated and poult Under contract with at Britain for all the meat Canada can spare they were expected to send the United Kingdom around 50,000,000 pounds in 1945 but they | have already exported 80,000,000 pounds. Canada is going short on lamb because of their heavy shipments to the U. 8. In 1944 they shipped the American army 30,000,000 pos of of poultry,
| meat
To The Point—
THERE'S SOMETHING | place where people don't stay because they don't feel at home there
t111 he's late for supper is liable to get tanned--at home.
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THE HOUSE shortage has convinced plenty of people that there really is no Place like home.
THE ‘OPA has ordered a cut in the phice of woglens |
| and right now we hope that includes undies.”
JAPAN, WITH EYES on Germany, is like the fellow waiting ir the barber Hor. Next
BUY THAT exira.war bond and keep a closer bond | between you and the boys in tne Pacific!
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MORE POINTS are now" meolod for canned tomatoes. This will bring ihe, home groan,
‘that won't: give an. inch—ye hope!
ana, goats.
thinks a post-war farmer can do with a $1000-or-so’
ANY LEVEL FIELD or pasture would do for a )
Git along, little dogie, before va git dive-bombed.
Meat rationing has been suspended in Canada for | Canadians do not want to be compelled |
At some |
’. statesmen and commentators
nada you ean |
the terms of their open |
wrong when home is -a |
THE YOUNGHFER who stays oni the sunny beach
THE IRON RULE over Germany sounds like’ one 3
EVENTUALLY suits wills twd pairs of pints. will 4 come batk. Then, how 450i. Young in ah exis vest :
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{“WHAT TO DO ABOUT COMMUNISM AFTER WAR? By Henry W. Reger, 1900 N. Talbot ave. One of our many postwar problems will be what to do about Lommunism.- It's a foregone concRusion that the Red menace will be on the march after the war. It's almost a certainty that all of the Eairoipean countries -will turn to some {form of the Communist state in the {days to come. Not necessarily by lchoice, but as the only means of
| survival. { What will happen in Italw, Greece, Spain, Poland, France, etc. {where a dozen minorities are bat='tling for control with no majorits to take command? These countries will -be susceptible to Communism {Surely they are beyond a lative form of government. racy is the ideal government but one can't implant a democracy overnight. Germany's failure at democracy proved that. It is idiotic for us to say {Communism is without | practicability. Any number of our| have {lauded the Russian might to the skies. Some have said it i§ unbe{lievably efficient. {will not forget those compliments
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{Nor will Joe Stalin ever forget Winston Churchill's remark during Eng- | {land’s darkest hour when he said,’
“Thank God for Russia.” Stalin is the outstanding statesiinan of today. He is the modern {Julius Caesar, with Cagsar's ambi(tion. He very definitely knows what he wants, and how to get what he wants. He has gained all his ob- | jectives to date. He will be a diffilcult customer to deal with after the war. Democracy will be shaken to ithe rafters. Churchill may be forced to liquidate his majesty’s empire against his will. We might |Tf we try to ignore or debunk ComImunism we will be playing into Joe | Stalin's hands. The Red menace is about to become a nightmare. | Our democracy had better assert itself and ‘make its force tthroughout, the world Ln, ou | “FARMER MUST PROSPER | TO KEEP NATION HEALTHY” IBy James R. “Meéitzler, Attica | Those favoring the reciprocal (trade bill say you cannot sell where you do not buy. That is true. It {is as true of the home market as of any foreign market. Labor and industry cannot sell to the farmer
representDemoc- |
virtue or |
The Communists]
never experienced a cigaret shortage but as well face the facts realistically.!
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unless they buy his products. can the farmer sell to labor and ndustry unless he buys of them. Reciprocity seeks foreign markets by opening the home markets to | foreign goods. Of course, there are | npamerous foreign products we can { bay which do not compete or un- { deamine home industry. Those are not in question, President Taft's Capadiah reciprocity bill admitted Canmndian unprocessed grain into { this country duty free in return for { which Canadian tariffs were removed from American manufac- | tured goods. | treatys If carr industrial population buy Canadian grain or Argentine beef, then our own farmers, with their
wheat and cattle unsold or dumped | abroad at world prices, cannot pur-|
chase tlhe output of America’s factories. Or if our farmers buy British textiles, home labor cannot consume fasm products with money
sent overseas. Nor is the abrogation.
of a foreagn tariff any guarantee that coumgry will buy of us Canada and Argentine will buy of England, amd England will buy of Canada and Argentine, because all hree are Mower priced countries
with a lower standard of living. It|
is a natural set-up. Our home market is the lamgest and best in the | wor ld. Why destroy -it for a will- ! of - the-whisp foreign market?
Reciprocity will bring great pros- | perity, they sefy, but they are not specific as to how. Instead they the defemders of the home market as “fat bottomed lobbyists.” |isolationists and nationalists, as if lit were a crime te be an American.. They should be more specific. They should say ‘whose factories they were going to chose, whose labor | they were going #o turn on the streets, whose thnoat they were going lo to cut.
Side Glances=By. Galbraith
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olly disagree with-what y, but will defend to the your right to say it.” | “AMERICAN TROOPS: SHOULD | KEEP LANDS THEY TAKE” le E. R. Egan, a Markweod ave, Just how much progress the Sy'rians have mada“ for self-govern-
{may be gatheréd from their Presi-
POLITICAL SCENE—
dent Shukri ‘al Kunatly who de{clared- “this generaticn of Syrians { will noftplerate seeing one French- |
‘man walk thyough the streets of | Damascus.” ? 1 {+ The ‘Ameri mediation that|
gets in in Europe or Asia | {usually means’ armed force, and | much time and, freasure would be| |saved by an unmistakable declira-| tion of an American foreign i, ol whose main thesis would be that in| the future where American YOODS | go, America will take over for keeps, even as Britain has bad to do. And an excellent beginning should be made at Okinawa whose terrain is! practically barren, but whose strategic value would, fortified, be un-| excelled as an American outpost— | an actual first line of defense of | democracy. This would do more to! stop wars and start a culture that|
could start and maintain responsible
government than any other policy |that could be established.
grasp the anachronism of a camel | borne banditry and a thoroughbred | horse trading. aristocracy sitting on the world’s richest oil deposits and that it would inevitably attract a modern civilization propelled by gas at the rate of 500 miles an hour by air and which their deserts offer no obstacle whatsoever and that modern science could make these same deserts as rich as the civilization which produced themself or | 700 years ago, and which they have been fighting over ever since to promote their ancient crede. There is no more progressive people in the world than the Jews, and no more backward than the Moslem, and it is high time the bluff of these medieval chiefs of half a billion subjects was called by | a modern world and some form of | democracy established that will not be too arduous to be administered to succeed. And that before they have time to arm even as Germany. The actual demonstration of medievalism versus democracy before the world today is convincing evi- ! dence of the success of democracy, whose first law is order and progress,
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» » n URGES SALVAGE OF TIN |CANS FOR WAR EFFORT By Mrs. H. C. Asher, War Activities Chair man, Bruce" P, Robison American Legion Auxiliary, 1639 N. Temple ave. If the folks in Jenny lane and many other streets for. that matter would process their tin cans at
least their trash would not be so bulky. In fact the city should refuse to pick up trash containing unprocessed cans.
I have no one in service, no one who could be in service; but I would | feel like a traitor te my country and to my friends and neighbors whose sons are giving their all if I! threw away one tin can or any thing else that the government has | asked, us to salvage. ” ~ » “WOULD NOT WELCOME FOREIGN DAUGHTER-IN-LAW” By Mayona West, Indianapolis
I certainly agree with bert 8. Ellis when he stand$ up for the American girls, 1 have sons overseas and I certainly would not welcome any girl from over there as a daughter-in-law, although there are just as good girls over there as here. And I believe I speak for the average mother, 1 say for them to wait a year or two and give him a chance to get back to his hometown gal. Then if he thinks the one over there is the one for him, okay.
DAILY THOUGHT I “thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou ‘hast ong evil, ny thine fang won mouth.—Proverbs
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GOP & OPA| By Peter Edson
WASHINGTON, June B— When the house of representatives goes info one of its knockdown, dragout free-fow-alls—as it jusy did in its seven-hour non-stop fight ; over pricercontrol renewal—there isn’t a better show in Washington, More bedlam, more wild statements, and ‘millions of words-that-should-be-eaten-with-or« without-ration-poimts spilled all over the floor. ’ On nearly every question, the argument was split right down the middle aisle, the Republicans favore ing amendment of OPA all over the lot, the Demo~ crats favoring contimuance of OPA as is for another full year. Less than a dozen members from either side broke over the party line on votes. That made poor old OPA a purely political football, and it got a terrible kicking around as a result, The Republican strategy wasn't to repeal OPA outright, Nothing like that. Nearly every Republican speaker stressed how he was all for price controlbut. The buts were that they wanted prices raised, They didn't say this right out, but through a whole series of amendments intended to compel OPA to guarantee profits or costs of production on manus factured goods, on processed foods, on perishable agricultural commodities in season and stuff like that, Leaders in this amending business were Jesse P, Wolcott and Fred L. Crawflord of Michigan, Howard H. Buffett. of Nebraska, John C. Kunkel of Penne sylvania.
Democrats Caught Off Guard EVERETT M. DIRKSEN of Illinois said all the wise dom was on the Republican side and all the votes were on the Democratic side, and the Democrats did have enough votes to kill off all the-* amendments until Thomas A. Jenkins, of Ohio, came up with his broadside proposal to transfer all OPA functions except rationing to the department of agriculture,
When the Republicans caught the Democratic leaders ! off guard and put that one over 145 to 142, they |
cheered like wild men. If the Republicans can make life nice.for Chester Bowles and hand to the new secretary of agriculture, Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico, the hottest potato in the United States today. About all Anderson could do in such a situation would be to take over OPA's price control machinery, and run it with much the same: personnel it has toe day. But the Republicans would consider even thig a victory—a big added embarrassment to the Demos cratic administration. Just how good a long-range political issue the Ree publicans have got hold of in their opposition to OPA is hard to measure. What the Republicans have
seized on is the current dissatisfaction of producers .
and distributors who aren't allowed to make more money—of consumers who can't buy everything they want. The Republican urge is to meet this dissatisfaction by easing up on OPA controls so that suppliers will have added money incentive to make more goods available to the demanders who have the money to spend.
Give an Inch—Lose a Mile THE POLITICAL DANGER of this is that when you give an inch you have to let go a mile. If the Ree publicans should succeed in breaking price controls, there would be an immediate, loud demand that wages would have to go up to meet the higher prices, To garry-through and make the most of their initial politicdl - victory, the Republicans would then have to lend their support to breaking the “Little Steel” formula, That might gain the Republicans some of the labop support they have lost in the last 12 years. On the other hand, broken price control plus broken wage control adds up to only one thing—inflation.
IN WASHINGTON—
New Limbs
‘By Douglas Smith
WASHINGTON, June 26.—Those pictures you see | sh owing one-legged men jitterbugging and playing
Canada rejected the | The whole Moslem world might | tennis are part of an army publicity program that is
in danger of back-firing. From the time a soldier loses a limb he is given pep talks assyring him that Uncle Sam will fix him up as good as new when he gets back to the states,
| The idea, army officers explain, is to bolster the sole
dier's morale. The effect has been, however, to give the average G. 1. a too-glowing picture, According to soldiers who have lost limbs the newly designed artificial legs and arms are better than the old ones, but not much better; the new “miracle hand” is not yet being produced in large enough quantities and some men have to wait for theirs; learning to use an artificial limb is a long, tedious process; and even the newest developments are not satisfactory if the soldier has lost an elbow or a knee.
Some Buy Their Own
ALSO, A GOOD many men have become impatieng with their appliances after discharge and after ree, turning home have bought other types of artificial limbs from the many small shops which have sprung up in many communities. The army insists that it provides the best limbs and that these men are the victims of high-pressure salesmen, but it can’t prevent-them from buying other limbs. On the other hand it claims that ampute are rot released from army hospitals until they have been equipped with limbs and well trained in the’ use of them, The wave of over optimistic publicity about the dexterity of amputees has had some strange results, Senator Langer (R. N. D.) even introduced a bill in congress which -would require every major league baseball club to be composed of at least \10 per cent of men who have lost one or more limbs,
New Products Are Improved THE ARMY'S NEW light-weight leg—made o light metals, ‘plastics and fiber—is stronger and easier to use than the old ‘wooden leg,” and the “miracle hand” is useful and sufficiently real looking for those who don't want to use the more efficient hooks, But artificial-limb research was long neglected betore the war, The new models, developdd several months ago after extensive research, have been standardized, and soon will be in adequate production. Most of the men discharged have been furnished them, the army | says, and those who have the old types may easily obtain the new ones when they are available. Each one is “tailor made” and especially fitted to its owner, Apparently the wain problem is psychological no ballyhoo will make up to a soldier the loss of a limb, and it is hard to persuade some especially sen sitive men to learn to use the artificial ones,
So They Say—
WHEN YOU BARK a command or threaten pune ishment they (German civilians) fold up like vellow rats, click their heels and meekly obey. The only language they understand is the language of force. Lt.. Gordon’ W. Seims’ of Chicago, at Hamer Germany.
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PEOPLE DO NOT realize that the western na of Europe are on a decline, economically, ind and politically. —Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, reat] dent Columbia university, “0 bp 8 FLOURISHING towns and villages Europe have been trasisformed into fields of craters The most outstanding civilization: the world has seen is’ crumbling nto ruins. —Goebbels.
WE. HAVE found a omplete’ ana
and utter admi nl drt coe fui ot . ‘Gen, W. P. Templer,
1 make this amendment | stick in the senate; they will put OPA out of business, |
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