Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1945 — Page 11

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: Inside Indianapolis

FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD. ris Achgill Jr, who lives about a mile south of Glenns Valley, is well on his way toward his first $1000. This spring he de-

started at Center Grove high school. His father let him have three acres on the share basis, Chris would get 60 per cent of the profits but would haVe to pay for all the expenses out of his share. ] 40 per cent. Tomatoes were Chris's only crop and fle raised some beauties. He got the plants and fertilizer from Stokely-Van Camp and operated his farm on the contract basis. He averaged nine tons of toma= toes per acre and cleared more than $400. He's banking the money ‘and hopes to use it in a couple of years to go to Purdue. He wants to keep up with his agricultural interests. But he already has made up his mind he doesn’t want to be a farmer—it’s too much work. . . . The story the ‘other day about the guinea pigs as pets brought this one about the guinea piggery at 35 N. Drexel ave. David Frederick Lichte« nauer, 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs, Alfred Lichtee nauer, has raised about 50 guinea pigs since Christ« mas. He has sold most of them and has put the money into bonds,

Express Busses a Boon

INDIANA’S BUS lines are now offering sort of a “dream come true” for some of their passengers. Be= ginning Oct. 1 the busses put on express trips to Chicago, Louisville, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and Detroit. And the faster trips are really popular. It takes abolit six hours t6 get to Chicago with three stops between Indianapolis and the Windy City, three hours each to Louisville and Cincinnati on a nonstop trip, nine hours to Detroit with three stops and around 10 hours to Pittsburgh with four stops. There are as many as six express runs to Chicago a day and the fast trip cuts off about two hours from the old schedule. Three express trips are running to Cincinnati and Louisville a day. and four tq Detroit and Pittsburgh, . . . The express trips were added following the end. of gasoline rationing, the abandonment of the speed-limit and the increased cemand hy businessmen and pleasure seekers for faster bus trips. . . . Another post-war revival of the bus lines is the chartered bus. Various lines now offer chartered busses to clubs, business groups and for entertainment trips. . . . The house which used to be the governor's mansion and later the detention home on W. New York st., has had its white columns painted and venetian blinds installed. The detention home, now on the East side, changed its location the first of this year. “The old mansion now is an apartment house.

Brazil's Election

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Oct. 17.—Brazilians still find it hard to believe that the 15-year reign of Dr. Getulio Vargas is scheduled to come to a peaceful conclusion following the election in about six weeks, All along, a coup detat, a palace revolution, or news that Vargas has changed his mind and decided to stay on indefinitely ~ as -their president has. been expected by the people. Such has been the history of Vargas’ Brazil since the dictator failed to win the presidency at the ballot box in 1929 and the folJowing year took over by revolution. Eight years ago a presidential campaign was in full swing when Vargas called it off, Many still think that Vargas will find a reason to call off the election this time. Rumors, apparently, will continue to fly here, as they did in Cuba when President Fulgencio Batista staged an election after 12 years in office. They are expected up to election day, then to inauguration day, and even after the new president » takes office—providing, of course, that all goes as scheduled.

Vargas Has a Candidate BUT AS Dec. 2 draws near, the idea that the sly little president will quit is being accepted as a stronger possibility. Vargas has assured Brazil on five occasions in the past year that such is his intention. Now he has given Brazilian labor his word that nothing will interfere with the balloting. War Minister Gen. Eurico Gaspar Dutra, who was once decorated by the Nazis, but who more recently dispatched Brazilian expeditionary forces to Italy to fight with the allies, is the candidate of the Vargas machine.

Science

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—The background of the controversy as to whether the atomic bomb should be shared with other nations is explained in a book, “Atomic Energy in the Coming Era,” by David Dietz, science editor of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, and Indianapolis Times writer (Dodd, Mead & Co. $2). Universal and perpetual peace will reign in the era of atomic energy, Mr. Dietz predicts optimistically, He gives three reasons for his forecast: ’ ONE: With energy as abundant as the air we breathe, there will be no longer any reason to fight for oil and coal. : TWO: By using atomic energy to mine the ocean for its vast mineral content,-every nation will be able to obtain ehsily all the raw materials it needs. There will be no such thing as a division of the world, on a basis of mineral resources, into the “have” and “have-not” nations,

My Day

NEW YORK, Tuesday —Yesterday I attended the Democratic women's rally in Brooklyn. Mrs. William H, Good presided and many of the local candidates spoke. The members seeking election on the council were also presented, Most of the people present were party ‘workers, I imagine, ¢ but Brooklyn must have a tremendous number of active workers, for the room was filled and women stood during the whole time that I was there. I am always sorry when 1 hear that registration is low at times when such an important election as that of the mayor of New York City is at stake. Mr, Kelly, who is a wise person, said that iv ' required a crusade to get out the number of registrants that were on hand in last autumn’s campaign. This means, I suppose, that we are more interested in national

. representatives than we are in local representatives.

Yet that goes against all the things which I have believed in the past! I have always thought that we had to awaken the interest of people through happenings in their own localities which they could directly connect with their lives. Yet here, in a matter which affects so many people as the election of a mayor in our city, we apparently find

. people . taking very little interest. Perhaps we are

just contradictory! eo -

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“and those in power trying to stay that way.

Chris Achgill Jr. . .. He'll work his way through college via the tomato field.

Smith Has Nothing on Tudor

GEORGE MADDEN, advertising manager for Block's, isn’t going to be outdone by the discharged war veteran who is now attending Smith college. The soldier is the only man in the history of the women’s | school to be enrolled in the classes. -Mr. Madden, who is speaking on behalf of the United War and Community fund, asked to be the speaker at Tudor hall. . . . The mailman may be one of the best cures for 11-year-old Donald Reese who was injured last July by a hit-and-run driver, Dgnald is going to| have to learn to walk and talk all over again. But doctors agree that mail or anything that enthuses him will help him to talk and also will cheer him up. Several of the neighbors have made donations to the family. Among things the boy still needs is a wheelchair, He lives at 5217 Beecher st. ,.. One of the young mothers on the South side was quite embarrassed about her clumsiness until she found out what really was wrong. She kept stumbling every time she went up or down the basement steps. Finally she investigated. Her son had jacked up one of the stair steps with a car jack.

By Ernie Hill

Maj. Gen. Eduardo Gomes, former aviation chief, is the candidate of the opposition. Gathered around him are Vargas’ enemies, among whom is Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, former foreign minister, who played a leading ‘part in the Rio De Janeiro conference of 1942 when most Latin American countries broke relations with the Axis. Neither of the candidates has a platform or program that has aroused particular interest. The campaign has chugged along with the outs wanting in, |

Communists Want Vargas

ONE OF the stronger quirks of the campaign is the position of the growing Brazilian Communist party. Once outlawed by Vargas, the Corhmunists now refuse to back either Dutra or Gomes and want Vargas to postpone the election and stay in office. Both Gomes and Dutra are considered rabidly antiCommunist. ; The streets and building walls of the Brazilian capital are covered with campaign signs. The government, apparently, has the most paint, because Dutra is better advertised than Gomes. The Communists, however, also have been doing some painting. They have painted the slogan: “Constituente,” meaning that they want Vargas to postpone the presidential election, stay on as chief executive, and hold a constituent assembly election. The constituent ‘assembly would meet after its election and draft a new Brazilian constitution, The constitution would set the dates for a presidential election. Presumably, that would give the Communists another six months to a year to organize themselves and get a candidate in the field. | Gomes and Dutra have aroused a minimum of en-| thustasm, prospect of an election, a return to constitutional government and the revival of congress.

By Watson Davis

THREE: With even more powerful atomic bombs than those dropped on Japan, way will become 80 destructive that no nation will dare to begin one since it will mean the mutual destruction of every nation and the end of civilization,

Ideal Energy Source TRACING the progress of science in exploring the atom trom the time of Democritus, the Greek philosopher, to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiro- | shima last Aug. 5, Mr. Dietz reports the many steps | that led to the release of atomic energy. Other sources of atomic energy, in addition to! uranium 235 and plutonium, are foreseen by the| author. He points out that for more. than 20 years | scientists have realized that the ideal source of atomic energy would be conversion of hydrogen into helium, | with an accompanying transformation of mass into | energy. Some such process accounts for the genera-| tion of heat and energy in the stars. : | More cheerfully than some others, Mr. Dietz ends | his book with the hope that “the dawning era of atomic energy will be an age of peace and plenty -in | which man shall realize the best that is in him.”

By Eleanor Roosevelt

teachers and workers in community centers said about the difficulty of interesting the older people in local ‘activities for the benefit of children or for the benefit of the community as a whole. In one case, where 194 families were personally visited and asked to come to an important meeting of community affairs, only 12 came. Then the young people of the community center visited the same people and urged their attendance at a meeting called by the younger element themselves, The same 12 mothers came to the meeting. Of course, it 1s easy to understand that the conditions undef which most of these Harlem mothers work make interest in civic affairs very difficult. But there was one encouraging note about a neighborhood association which actually had been formed and was. working successfully in one area, 1 had.a visit the other day from Mrs. ‘Bernard Gimbel of the American Women’s Voluntary Services, Inc, She came to ‘tell me of a new activity among the American children, who are being asked to fill A. W. V. 8, friendship boxes. They take an empty wooden cigar box, decorate it to suit their taste, and fill ‘it with a variety of small items. Certain things, however, must go in—namely, pens, erasers, note books, paper pads, crayons, foreign language dictionaries, small rulers, etc. : The articles may be old or new, as«long as. they are in condition to be used. ‘Then the boxes are sent with a letter to a child abroad, the sender being allowed to select the

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DUKE OF WINDSOR GREETED- AS LONG-ABSENT SON

Queen Mary's First Job:

By HILDE MARCHANT NEA Staff Writer

ONDON, Oct. 17.—~When the Duke of Windsor came back to England and broke a nine-year absence, he said he had come back

to see his mother. To her it was not the return of

a prodigal or the black sheep of the

family—it was the return of a son she had favored and loved and understood better than the rest of her children. » 2 n FOR heneath the public parade of matriarch and monarchy that Queen Mary symbolizes, there lies the simplicity of domestic and famsily life which she has fostered through palaces and castle homes. As a young mother and queen she nursed and bathed her children. Now at 78, che seeks to heal the quarrels and scars that were enforced by the abdication. To the British public Queen Mary appears in the great tradition of rigid royaity. She immortalized the toque, the flickering hand wave to crowds that line the streets whenever she appears, the formality of red carpets and the bow of curtsy as she passes. " EJ ” BUT IN the war years her friends have seen her as a woman of simple and natural tastes, a grandmother to the children of the Duchesses of Gloucester and Kent, living in the wing of a country castle at Badminton. Here she held court only. with the

| local villagers and their children, | walked

through the woods and fields with no escort or guard, talk ing to the farmers or going into the village shop to post letters. She culfivated a victory garden at the side of her wartime home. Children from the local came in the evenings to help hor

hoe the rows of tomatoes and lettuce. A NE ioe EARLY IN ‘the morning - she

called on one of the gardeners and together, with saw and ax, they went to the woods to chop and saw logs for her home, Even at 78, her incredible, inexhaustible energy is still expressed in a brisk walk, an upright carriage and the famous erect poise of her head. There is nothing old, fragile or ailing .about her. Back in London she has assumed her formal role again, drawing affection and admiration from crowds that stand for hours to

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Symbol of rigid royally is Queen Mary, who has steadfastly refused

Rare photo (left) shows her in 1893, at the age of 26. During world war I (center) she played a vital role Today (right) she symbolizes the royal tradition in England.

at state councils.

by in her brown Rolls that has

specially wide, long windows so she!ceremonies to her son and daugh-

can be seen. » ” ” AS QUEEN of England, living in Buckingham palace and Windsor, Queen Mary ran her castles on a strict home . budget. She found that with her commitments of royal entertaining, there was not an excessive income to lavish, It is said that her housekeeping was so frugal that King George V's breakfast was not prepared until he decided whether he wanted one egg or two, in case one should be wasted.

" Her influence on her husband was stronger than generally known. She would attend state councils with him, would advise and suggest when he was in conference with ministers,

It was natural that at the abdication she took a decisive and unrelenting stand, even against the overwhelming love she had for Edward, , » 5 5 ” SHE ISSUED an order that she was not to be referred to as the queen mother. Her personality was embedded in the name of “Mary” and she had no inclination to become the aging dowager of the family. . During the war, when it was essential that the royal family symbolize the strength of a great em-

catch one glimpse of her riding

General MacArthur Stays in the Limelight

By EDWIN

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—~What has General of the Army Douglas

MacArthur got that other generals haven't? The average general in his late 60's, even after having been “blessed” with two pretty good wars, is unsung and unknown, destined to sit around | the army and navy club, writing occasional letters to the Army and But Brazilians are excited about the Navy Journal until a mirror-over-the-mouth test by a bellboy indicates

that he is dead and must be moved from the premises.

But Gen. MacArthur goes on interminably, not merely the most widely discussed of our military hired hands but always the center of a towering controversy. Here it is necessary to make the most amazing note about Gen, MacArthur. From birth he has been devoted exclusively to the military craft, with the single-mindedness of a boy born to inherit a master plumber’s license, ' Yet, there has never been any Serious criticism of MacArthur as a soldier. The brilliance of his strategy in the Pacific is an accepted fact, even to those of his own craft who dislike him. The thing that has kept MacArthur always in the limelight of controversy is perhaps, best seen as a combination of military skill and personal vanity. He steps arrogantly to the plate, but he never strikes out, and this is always an irritation to eritics. MacArthur, by reason of birth and training, has a strong character, with what is known in polite terms as a flair for the dramatic, The word more commonly used to describe this characteristic is hamminess. The more recent MacArthur flareup centered around his observation

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pire, she kept well in the back-

A. LAHEY

that it would require only 200,000 American troops to police Tokyo. This irritated Undersecretary of State Acheson, because the MacArthur statement (which omitted the fact that a few hundred thousand other troops would be needed to back up the first 200,000 gave encouragement. to the congressional demagogs who demand an overnight demobilization of our forces.

No Basic Conflict Actually, there is no basic conflict between MacArthur and his civilian

superiors in the government at Washington. State and war department officials assert that the supreme commander in Japan is carrying out orders, and implementing policy, not making it. The Communist press has been | criticizing MacArthur recently for failure to fumigate Japan of fascism |

has been made frenzied partisans (nobody is neu-

Arthur is a Red plot.

ship of MacArthur's martinets are not Communists.

ground, leaving public functions and

ter-in-law, Now she passes on. her great tradition to her grandchild, Princess Elizabeth, schooling the young girl for queenship, taking pride in the girl’s public appearances, for in her she can see herself, On one occasion when Queen Mary took the young Elizabeth, then only 10 years old, on a shopping expedition, she found the child inattentive and anxious to leave the glove counter where they were buying plain chamois leather gloves. Elizabeth tugged at her grandmother’s arm and said, “They are waiting outside to see me. Come along.”

” » 2 CROWDS HAD gathered and were waiting to cheer them. Queen Mary immediately ordered her car at the back of the shop, took Elizabeth out by a side door, dodged the crowds and told the child, “You may be a Princess, but at least we will make you a lady first.” During the war a bomb dropped at the back of the garden of her home in the country. The next morning she went to inspect the crater. It was large, ugly, but harmless, having broken down only a few trees. She turned to her companion and said, “Do they think they can win a war this way?” » » » QUEEN MARY has not had a particularly happy family. As a

to be known as “Queen Mother.”

young girl, the Duchess of Teck, she was engaged to the heir to the British throne, the Duke of Clarence. He died during their engagement, ! She married George V, bore him children, and lavished her love on the eldest and the heir. He abdicated and she was deeply shaken that the traditions of royalty she had trained him in- had been betrayed. Her youngest son, the Duke of Kent, was killed on active duty and she grieved as deeply as any mother who received the official notification. " o ”

WHEN HER husband died she went into deep retirement. At his funeral at Windsor Castle she in-

sisted on having the curtains of the state coach half” drawn so that the people could not see her grief. Queen Mary has one real pas sion, now that she no longer ap~ pears in public. She collects antique jewelry and pottery and she is an authority. on period silver. She was often seen driving into Bath and scouring the shops for bargains. War has humanized royalty for the British people. George VI and Elizabeth have been drawn nearer to their people than any other monarchs. To England, Queen Mary symbolizes the last of the great tradition of “the king can do

unanimous in their dislike for MacArthur, It has never been revealed before, but MacArthur snubbed the late Secretary of the Navy Knox in 1942. Knox flew out to the Pacific to inspect navy installations and confer with his admirals, He wired MacArthur before he went out, asking the general to meet with him and other navy people at a ‘specified rendezvous. MacArthur ignored the message and didn’t show up. “Born Under Star” One of the men in MacArthur's generals league explains the man in these words: “He was born under a general's star, and has always been in the limelight, Anyone in the limelight develops critics.”

MacArthur is the son of Lt. Gen. Arthur MacArthur, one of the military “400.” At West Point he was head of the class and held the senior military rank, and was distinguished for his dashing good looks as well as his brilliance. The rest of the s¢hool watched the contest for leadership between - MacArthur and another scion of our military aristocracy, Ulysses £. Grant III, and respect-

and militarism, and some attempt |fully watched MacArthur walk away by MacArthur's with the honors.

All through MacArthur's life, his

tral about this man!) to prove that friends point out, he has been | President in 1044. On three senanything said in criticism of Mac- | plagued with distinction that make arate {the pursuit of humility difficult./avowed any political ambition, sayBut the correspondents who have | He was the youngest officer ever to|ing on one occasion that he began been writing bitterly of the censor - | serve as superintendent at West | as a soldier and intended to end as { Point. | dier general in the first world war, closely associated with the supreme Certainly the navy is not com- and was loved by the men of his commander swear by the honesty

munist, and navy people are rather | division.

He was the youngest briga~

no wrong.”

MacArthur's friends gave an inevitable political tinge to the controversies that raged around his name during the war, and war department associates point out that it is unfair to hold MacArthur responsible for this. Aided by Newspapers Early in the war the newspapers most hostile to the Roosevelt admin~ istration started beating the drums for MacArthur because the Pacific was being ignored by the men who were running the war. While the emphasis was being placed on the defeat of Germany, MacArthur's newspaper champions virtually accused the Rocsevelt administration of upholding this decision because of personal pique and jealousy of the “glorious name of MacArthur.” It is fair to point out, in this connection, first, that subsequent events proved the wisdom of the allied military strategy of Germany | first, and, second, that the theater commander did not exist in the recent war who did not believe that he was being mistreated by the men on high who allocated the military supplies. The same journalistic champions kept MacArthur on the spot in the latter years of the war by hoosting {him as a Republican candidate for

occasions MacArthur dis

ia soldier, Men who have been

{of this assertion.

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Blood Bank Offers By-Product

of the year, Others say the result is likely to be the opposite. Those who think the board’s expira= tion will ease the situation hold that some labor unions, particularly

the C. I. O., have benefitted from the agency's policies. lieve these unions have started controversies with the aim of get

ting them before

the WLB no longer functioning they would have to depend on the peacetime machinery of collective

bargaining. » n

THOSE who predict otherwise fear an increase in strikes’ and threats of strikes with the aim of forcing President Truman to create a peacetime agency similar

to the WLB.

The record shows that the C. 1, O. has been more in favor of such an agency than the American Federation of Labor. The A. F. of L. has just reiters ated (through its executive coun= cil meeting In Cincinnati) a dee mand that WLB be terminated,

THE BOARD'S decision to quit and sharply to limit its activities during its remaining 11 weeks was cleared first with the President and Secretary Schwellenbach. It will be up to them to determine what new machinery is

needed for the that lie ahead.

If they delay and industrial dis turbances continue at their present rate, congress is expected to step in with a prescription of its

own.

” o » INDICATIONS point to a decle sion on the explosive question of higher wages and prices by a group of officials including re=conversion Director © Snyder,

Also, the

til next June, These duties

upon such voluntary wage adjustments as require approval and acting upon violations of wage stabilization regulations. ” = THE DIVISION assigned to this work could be transferred elsewhere, probably into the labor when WLB finally

department, liquidates itself,

These evolutions obviously will require considerable time, one-question is whether the time can-be spent without more dane, ger from the numerous strikes, The whole subject may come under discussion in the national labor-management conference set

for Nov. 5.

LaborOpinions Mixed On Effects of W LB Abolition

By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, Oct, 17.~You can take your choice. Some authorities say industrial strife may be diminished through the war labor board's final deci= sion to close up shop by the end

war labor board is expected to establish a division to perform its duties under the stabilization act,

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Serum Eases Measles Severity

IF YOU have never had measles, your turn is coming, for everyone gets measles sooner or later, If you think you have never had measles, but you have had it without realizing it. you are safe, for one attack usually instills protection for life. But there Is good news on the measles front. A simple method ‘of making measles milder has been found. The Amerfcan Red Cross h a s announced that gamma globulin is now avail-

O’Brien able through departments of health.

Gamma globulin is made from pooled human serum. As most of the adults who contribute blood in collection centers have had measles, their “blood . contains anti-bodies

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a Re LPT

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D.| Purpose Is to modify measles, not

to prevent it. If measles is pre vented, protection will last only a short time and then the patient is susceptible again, If measles Is | modified, a light attack occurs, and | permanent protection conferred.

the colder months, it may become epidemic at any tithe. Only requirement is a sufficient number of unprotected persons who have not had

|the disease. Public Health officials ‘|do not recommend deliberately exposing any child to measles. If the exposed in the natural course of events, this’ meets with

child is

their approval, » ” » ”

virus enters the body. with fever, headache and fussiness. Patient usgally doesn’t care to eat and may vomit, Catarrhal inflammation becomes more severe, as the eyes are inflamed and

Measles is constantly present in| our larger cities. Most common in|

MEASLES starts with catarrhal symptoms on the 10th day after the Early symptoms resemble a tommon cold

sensitive to) ro

the victim the well-know woebegone measles appearance, y Just before the skin breaks out] with the rash, little pin point spots| appear in the mouth. They have al white or bluish center surrounded | by a red zone. When present they | are an indication that the measles eruption is on the way. i » n » RASH begins on head and trunk| at hair margin, most marked behind | the ears and between the scapulae. Skin is quickly involved all over so that on the third day, only the elbows and feet are free. Rash is at its height on the fifth day when it starts to fade, clearing up in the reverse order in which ' it appeared. Slight discoloration and scaliness of the skin follow, © Measles should always be made less severe if possible for it has a habit of lowering resistance to other diseases, particularly lung infections. Best treatment for measles is good

bed in a well ventilated room. Avoid direct sunlight, but do not have the

nursing care. Keep the:patient in|

darkened, Croup th and sega |

A VETERAN

English bride while stationed in the British Isles is asking for & | divorce because his

pared him culed his American. customs, Thousands of

Yanks have married girls of foreign

countries—and presumably they want those marriages to last, But they won't unless’ both learn to their

ston

foreign.

That plenty of foreign brides are disappointed in America because it doesn’t, in their estimation, come up to what their huse bands innocently led them to ex« pect, is evidenced in the, letters I receive from them, ¥ un " THE HOMESICK married foreign girls apparently went all-out for boosting their country and their home towns and in assuring their wives they would be crazy about living there, Well, naturally, America isn't going to look any hetter to a strange, lonesome girl from another land than her own country looked to the soldier who found himself stationed there, But it will look better in time

—if the girls

quiet about their disappointment and refrain from making any

speeches about -with America.

4 " os " THE HUSBAND, too, will a at ih not re down the bride’s homeland, thereby putting her on the defer

by mutual

If they can’t out

We, the Wome U. S. Veterans, Foreign Wives

Have. Problem By RUTH MILLETT

unfavorably Englishmen and constantly ridie

the husband and wife can

own country and its people and get over the provincial habit of finding fault with everything

who married an

wife come with

hragging about

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Yanks who

can just keep’

what is ~wrong :

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