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This Thanksgiving Day we have set apart : = For praise to God with all our hearts Member of United Press, Scripps-Howard, News" go poo veiowed upon us, His blessings and favours, paper Alliance, NEA Service, and Audit Bureau of - And in our gratitude to, Him, we must never Circulations; , | * waver : To Price in Marion County, § cents a copy; deliv- | On Thanksgiving, let us pass first the dish ered by carrier, 25c a week. Of Christian virtues and let us wish Mail rates In Indiana, $5 a year; all other states, For increased understanding of God's love, U. 8. possessions, Canada and Mexico, $1.10 a To help us do our share of promoting peace, month. Telephone RI ley 6851 We are thankful Lord, this Day ot Thanksgiving Give 1Apht and the People Will Fina Thetr Own wey | yor our Saco Amtrican WY of dh NG,

oo ° THE GOOD OF A SONG

HIS STORY is as old as the Indiana hills from where he come. He was young. an’ eager, an’ the big city had lured him with shries of fame an fortune. While huntin’ fer the bottom rung of ti success ladder he found hisself in a squirrel «cage merry-go-round. Up airly in the mornin’, ridin’ crowded street cars, then workin’ all day with no glimpsin’ of the sky, no greeg grass, no wilers bendin' over the curve of a ff¥endly crik; nothin’ but hard pavements, sky-scrapers, work,

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The Criminal Goes to Court... Maybe

HEN a crime of violence is shocking enough, and sensational enough, outraged public opinion demands , , . and gets . ., speedy action on indictment and trial of those accused. As it is getting, right now, on three of the most shocking crimes Marion County has had in recent years. But that's the exception, rather than the rule. Generally persons charged with crime in this county do not get a speedy trial , , , especially if they themselves have wt make work reasons for wanting delays. The case of Howard Pollard, The years went grindin’ by an’ finally his big still not tried for a killing he confessed a year ago last April, chance vom, bt bl the Jus ii he was edged for instance. And many a lesser one. And delay, of course, * de by de ne an’ do he headed fer always works in favor of a guilty defendant. Witnesses die, ihe city park alongside the lake, aimin’ to start or disappear, memories fade, proof becomes more difficult,

walkin’ out into the watet an’ never stoppin’, i y A storm was blowin’ ob, an’ lightnin’ cut through interest lags . .. and his chances of getting off become the hoverin' darkness. Stoppin' at the water's steadily greater as time passes.

edge he watched the waves with their crack-the-

a8 =u whip motion thet ended sendin’ spray lin’ ou 4 : icrost the top of the pier. Then he noticed an HERE are two major factors that make this kind of ,yeursion boat fightin’ the waves af’ headin’ delay possible after the police have done their job, and fer the dock. As it ¢ome closer he could hear «

5 orchestra playin’, “Oh, the Moon It Shines l'onight Along the Wabash,” an" he found hisself hummin’, “Through the meadows comes the scent of new mown hay,” Once again he was a kid ettin’ side his father on a hayrack loaded sky

after the prosecutor has done his job, and the case should be ready-for trial. They have to do only with delays. Both can be corrected. : One is the volume of business that crowds ‘the court

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nigh. He could feel the hay stickin' his bare dockets, Trials have to wait their turn. A great step. legs an’ the smell of seasoned clover began fillin’ ar ' or ' q \ y ‘a 1 ‘8 his lungs. Snugglin’ deeper into the hay an’ toward correcting this one was made this yeal when ap Yeu Va a i additional judge of criminal court was established, doubling powerful - muscles of ole Bess an’ Jim as they | the number of cases it is possible to try in a given period. pulled the load homeward. : He come to only when he felt a drivin’ rain

The other still causes unwarranted delays, still beyond peltin’ him in the face. Lookin’ round he saw |

any doubt enables many guilty defendants LONgs« ape the | that he was alone in the storm. Throwin’ his | i os ri ack st : h his face uplifted he Ww e hme that is the greatest deterrent to head back an’ standin’ wit Wilt, sure punisfment : Eres let the cleansin’ rain wash, an’ wash, ‘til deep crime, down in his soul all bitterness an’ discontent was Under state law any defendant can demand , , , and Washed clean away. With clothes drippin’ he

: : headed fer the depot, an’ puttin’ all thoughts of automatically get... a change to another judge or another | ("0 05 Ce out of his mind, he caught the court, without questions It is customary to wait, with such | next train back to his beloved Indiana. demands, until the case is at the top of the list in one court | I orter know, fer I was OPE and about ready for trial. Then it is moved to another | : court, where of course it goes .to the bottom of the list of |

® % " " _ F008.’ J : THANKS cases awaiting trial. The device is always good for a few | Thanks for the good things which I have received «weeks delay . . . sometimes a few months , , , occasionally A And not deserved: . I ATG Thanks for overlooking me for not having relieved 4 complete escape. . . : . | The burdens of those less fortunate than myself; Certainly the constitutional rights of any defendant, Thanks for listening over and over guilty -or. innocent, must be safeguarded, and certainly no To the same worn-out excuses; a iv be tried befor biased. prejudiced court Thanks for being patient and. kind Man May propel y be trie >elore a biased, prejudiced court. | A." continue uncalled.for abuses; But just as certainly this safeguard should not be used to

Thanks for the home in which I'm living win delays that defeat justice. It can be corrected, and | And all which I receive for such little giving;

: . » ™ ers | easily, by the simple statutory requirement that the man Thanks tor he gin hat 1 8) eke which | who asl's for a change of venue show some reasonable pre- I speak; sumption that prejudice exists, Thanks for knowing that I shall never attain There are other weaknesses in our courts which will Ne*r-perfection as a human being; . : Thanks for the spark of ambition to grow better exist as long as courts are run by human beings. But these | And for every tool I was given to work with: are basic weaknesses in our court system. And justice ig | Thanks for guiding me and lifting me as I falter - : : : | And hesitate—zeluctant to take the road so vividly unlikely. to be either swift or certain so long “as they marked: continue, | Thanks for all: which I have had and may have And for the good in me with which to fight the bad; . { Thanks for realizing and making allowance for all these things—and more, ; —~ROBERT 0. REYNOLDS. Wy * 9

EXPECTANCY |

I fancy a cooing darling, With eyes as blue as the sea; Cheeks a wild red rose has kissed In a tender ecstacy. Chubby and playful ‘little hands, Curly locks that won't stay put; MMnkets just kicked high to show Ten wee dimbles in either foot, Smile like a cherubs laughter, And lips of a cupid's bow; Two small ears of nacre, and Breath like Spring Zephyrs blow. Great is the love that conceived you, My darling, my Zada-Lee, But a greater love awaits you, By your beautiful mother and re. —H. LATELLE GREGORY.

That is our over-lenient law on changes of venue.

Fine Success Story

PRESIDENT TRUMAN has made pleasant history selecting Jesse M. Donaldson to he Postmaster ( of the United States. Never before has a postal care been named to that Cabinet post. Usually, under esther party, the Postmaster ( has been a professional politician. Robert E. Hannegan, | who has resigned to head a syndicate purchasing a St. | Louis baseball team, was until recently chairman of the | Democratic National Committee. Many of his predecessors also were chairmen of that, or the Republican committee, | They have been useful political lieutenants of the | Presidents who appointed them. But with most of them the | job of running that big business, the Postoffice Department, : has been a secondary interest, and almost never have they | been specially qualified for it by experience or training, Mr. Donaldson never has been active in politics. He has worked hard, for 44 6f his 62 years, in the working branch of the postal service, lle began as an $11-a-week clerk at Hanson, 11. He has been a letter carrier, a postal inspector and, since #33. deputy to the second assistant postmaster general, deputy to the first assistant, chief inspector and then first assistant postmaster

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at home we constantly hear that we must.

LOO great the job

general, like best. In naming Mr. Donaldson, we think, the President h

if only he tries hard enough,

His is a success story of the kind we

as done a very

wise and fine thing. He has put politics aside to reward x be done. And the great debate now: beginning

We Must Count Odds

CAN AMERICA save the world—or even save Europe? Much of the outside world® seems convinced that we can,

There are a few who think the job is.impossible—the handicaps But the majority view seems to be that Uncle Sam can do

S50 we are embarking on this undertaking—"gamble” might be a better word--with the widespread assumption that -the job can

that it can't be

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IN WASHINGTON . . . By

Peter Edson _

Turkish Roads Mud and Dust

WASHINGTON, Nov, 27—A Turkish embassy official here in Washington was talking about the highway system of his native country. He threw up both hands in a gesture of complete helplessness. “Mud!” he exclaimed. “You never see such mud.” He dropped his hands to his hips. “Up to here. And in summer? Dust! Ah, you never see such dust.” He dropped his hands again to his knees. The Turk then told stories about the sport of going hunting in an automobile, and being held up by brigands. Somebody asked him if there were filling stations along the road, and garages where cars could be repaired. He just smiled. Gasoline, +he, explained, was sold only in the bigger towns, and in cans. The main highway from the capital at Ankara to Istanbul was 300 milef* long, but it took a whole day to make it by car—in good weather. The general impression wasthat it was hopeless to expect that things could ever be better. But a team of American highway engineers is now about to tackle the job of helping Turkey lay out a mod-

ern highway network—in two years. Under H EE

Hilts, deputy administrator of the U. 8. Public Roads Administration, the first task force, of eight experienced road-builders, will supervise the work. Most of them are veterans who helped plan and boss construction of the Alaska highway across Canada.

Equipment on Order

A COUPLE OF MILLION dollars’ worth of roadbuilding elipment has already been placed on order. Some of it has already been shipped and is being unloaded under U. 8. Army supervision at Istanbul and Iskenderum—formerly known as Alexandretta— a tiny port at the northeast corner of the Mediterranean which may some day be an important city. The British built a mile-long plier there during the war, with a modern traveling crane. The whole highway job has to be done from scratch. The first thing Mr. Hilts plans to do when he arrives is set up a laboratory to test soils, sand, gravel and rock—the materials he will have to work with. When his engineers know about them, they will place orders for American rock. and gravel crush€rs, cement and asphalt plants, In all Turkey, there are now only four small cement plants, which combined might equal the out-

done—even at the highest cost

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of the world's food.

future Presidents to follow, [9

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‘Scrap Iron’ to Russia

Corp logic and national self-interest, we think, will compel President Truman to change his mind about shipnients to Russia. We shipped $11 billion of wartime lend-lease supplies to Russia, which helped to shorten the war, but for which in, return we received knowledgement. - We sent $352 million worth last vear, of which 83 per cent were lend-lease and UNRRA: and in the first months of this year $113 million worth, of which half was wive-away and the other half for cash. The give-away shipments have about petered out. Rut even for cash on the barrelhead we should not,sell to-Russia anything that is needed in this country, or in any of the | countries of Western Europe that are trying to co-operate with us under the Marshall Plan, or in China where Chiang: Kai-shek's government is resisting active Communist aggression, or anywhere else in the world where free peoples friendly to us are trying to work out their own destinies. Anything we sell to Russia which helps to increase her economic or imperialist ‘military power only makes more difficult the heayy task we have undertaken of trying to / re-establish peace and security in the world. One thing at least we should leurn from history: We

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faithful hl { ‘ 4 around how much we shall do, and what privations and restraints arthiul public servant; given the postal service ‘a chief we shall endure in doing it. who knows it thoroughly and whose prime ambition is to his writer believes there is a strong chance improve it; and given the emplovees of that service new un TT incentive to strive for advancement on merit. Side Glances—By Galbraith Mr. Truman has established an excellent precedent for :

in the European Recovery Plan.

as ourselves. numerous. our bounty.

topsoil that sustain life.

food won't do much.

What the world needs is means to produce them.

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should remember what was done with that scrap iron we “Maizie says it's much harder to prepare meals on these food- | -.sold to Japan. ; = : ; savings days—sounds like the first: propaganda for a raise!’ | ca . : ; a hd rea : y 3 al > VEX x oo 5 bie . x yl \

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o Feed World . . proposed by the program's most enIn any event, we should study the odds. if we do so they will reveal that By “success” is meant that American aid will enable the |

world—-particularly Burope—to recover where it can stand on its own feet.

It's a Great Stretch on Our Food

TWO FORMS OF AMERICAN HELP are proposed—food and | dollars, Let's consider what they can do under existing handicaps. We are a nation of 140 ‘million persons. tion is around 2250 millions—so we are about” one-sixteenth of all | mankind, But we produce—in terms of calories—about one-eighth

Europe has some 350 million persons—of whom about -275 mil- | lions live in the 16 countries and that part- of Germany included

In short, the people we are trying to save by temporary and long-term ald are about twice as numerous Then there are the OChinese—about three times as 8 And there are others who feel they should share fn = °

| We are, therefore, trying to stretch our food to cover enormous | numbers—perhaps four or five times our own population, We can increase our food ‘output very much; our share of the world’s calories (the mysterious food values that keep us alive) has risen nearly 50 per cent since pre-war days. We are already farming and grasing much land which is marginal or needs rest and recovery. The weather has to be almost perfect to increase our crops —and it hasn't been. We are straining our land almost to present capacity—risking the peril of creating great future dust bowls. ‘We are endangering man's most precious possession—the few inches of

Inescapable figures tell the story, stretched to cover several times our own population in amounts that will give anybody ‘a very generous helping. To make a real dent in the hunger of Europe and China would leave us equally | hungry. And, in a nation of high income, the insufficient food supply | would be bid up to fantastic prices—regardless of any controls, | * = The facts are inescapable. No matter how hard we try, our Relief of hunger depends on the world— and especially Burope-—doing morg for itself, quickly. . =»

The World Must Produce More

WHEN IT COMES TO DOLLARS, the situation isn't much’ dif~ ferent— just more complex and harder to understand. Nobody can eat our dollars—or wear them or live in them. food, and clothing and : homes—or the |

Dollars are just tokens for buying those things: the money we lend or give will have to be spent for them. 'And we will have to | supply the bulks of the things that the dollars will buy. . But the products which we make, aud to buy which the world | SU: Jobs Tas Ck) 98 S09 Yoru

put of one fair American plant. Asphalt is now shipped into Turkey by the oil companies in drums. The country has only one small steel mill. It may be able to produce enough reinforcing rods, mats and small shapes. The bridges will probably have to be built in the U. 8. from designs made dfter the engineers complete surveys.

Full U. 8. participafion in. this Turkish roadbuilding program “will cost $5 million. The money comes from the $100 million appropriated by Congress for aid to Turkey under the Truman Doctrine. The original amount earmarked for roads was $1 million, but when it was pointed out to the military that their modernization of the Turkish army would be wasted and useless unless there was a modern highway grid over which to haul it, the allocation was increased five times,

Must Train Turkish Engineers » ON TOP OF THIS the Turkish Republic has ap-

propriated $3 million to pay native labor and buy

materials. About 5000 Turkish workmen will be employed at peak construction. Part of the job of the Hilts mission will be to train Turkish engineers.

This road building is perhaps the only part of the Turkish aid program with which there can be no quarrel. Benefits aren't just military. Turkey has big farm and livestock areas which are now isolated. They can't’ move their crops to market because there are no passable roads. Of the 27,000 miles of roads on the Turkish map, 12,000 miles are classified as macadamized and 15,000 are dirt. But only a third of this mileage is considered passable. When the American road mission gets through, it hopes to have a 20,000-mile net of main highways surveyed. Construction will begin next spring. There will be three classes of road, ranging from 24 to 30 feet in width. Little of it will be modern concrete highway in the modern American sense, outside the cities, In 1944 Turkey had only 13,000 motor vehicles, which is half as ‘many as Puerto Rico has, and a third of what Cuba has. With a more or less modern highway system, the Turks should provide a good marke for American cars, trucks, filling stations and probably even roadside hot-dog stands.

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"1 do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

fotos Y ’ " | Forewarned, Wife Is Forearmed | By ©. fagen, 142 E. Ohio St. ; | © Just a few words to these”gripers about, our | Police Department. I don't know anything about

the State Police or the Sheriff's office, but leave

the city police alone. There are three groups, the ‘patrolmen, the traffic and the squad cars. They have to do what their bosses say, the same as you do. The Homicide Department should be by itself, Instead of riding the cops, why don't you do what they do, take time out and instruct your wives how to handle and shoot a gun. You never hear of a policeman's wife being attacked. Bo lay off the cops. You big he-men voters think that as soon as a woman is attacked a cop is supposed to walk up and grab the culprit. They can't be everywhere. I am teaching my wife how to clean, load and shoot from the hip and to keep a gun in her hand when she opens the door (even if it has a chain). She is not to let any man in to use the telephone unless he has the regular Indianapolis police badge. She has studied a real police badge and knows at a glance what it looks like.

I'm teaching my wife the Judo and how to break a man's arm, also how to sling a blackjack. And if there is anymore guys driving eity trucks that are tired of living, come up and see us sometime. Wake up, you police gripeérs, and teach your wives what to do. | vo @

‘Now Art Thy Sins Come Out’ . By T. M. McGuire, 1126 Eugene St. :

These are trying times in our fair city and I, like others, have wracked my brain for a solution and am almost despairing of hope, .my courage had wavered and faltered, until I find we who select our own officials by vote are guilty by allowing this state of affairs to come upon us. .

I would respectfully refer you to a couple of verses from the Holy Scripture taken from the book of Daniel, Chapter 13, Verses 52 and 53. Those desiring a more detailed information would do well to read the entire chapter;

* “S80 when they were put asunder one from the other, he called one of them and said to him: O thou art grown old in evil days, now art thy sins come out which thou has committed before.” In judging unjust judgments, oppressing the innocent and letting the guilty go free, whereas, the Lord saith, “The innocent and the just thou shalt not kill”—This is taken from Exodus, Chapter 23, Verse 7.

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Increase Police Force ‘By L. L. Indianapolis There has-been much discussion on how to solve our crime wave. Permit me to offer my own |. solution to this problem. First, I would suggest that we add about 600 more men to our present police force. Second, I would suggest that each policeman be assigned to foot patrol duty over an area of about 10 or 12 blocks for night duty—alleys included. * Third, give them the authority to shoot to kill if they

see anyone committing any vicious crime—such x

as robbery or rape. It! would only take a few such killings to stop this crime wave. I would suggest that these policemen be trained, who stand downtown and swear at pedestrians for jaywalking, how to walk the beat also and I'm sure it would work out to a greater advantage for everyone concerned. - Last but not least, convict some of these so cglled - criminals as habitual criminals and send ~ them up for life rather than turn them out on the streets every 90 days. : * >

What Causes Crime? By Mrs. F. N. Stewart, City Group meetings are being held in all sections of the city and county to formulate plans for counteracting and stopping the recent crime wave. The wheels of justice, manned by state, city and county officials, have started spinning in order to punish offenders. Let's retrospect as we quiz ourselves concerning one’ public enemy: 1. What good would it have done to furnish adequate recreational facilities for 14 children? 2. What neighborhbod conditions contributed to delinquency? 3. What “punishment was meted out for early offenses? ’ : 4. What church provided spiritual guidance? 5. What teacher impressed the boy. favorably? i Well, “it's never too late to do good.” While | meetings are being held at the Meridian Hills Country Club, on Northwestern Ave., around Washington Blvd. on Virginia Ave, in the Lockefield Recreation Room, etc, why not use the afore- | mentioned questionnaire as a platform on which | to ‘stand’?

wants our dollars And, the chances against success are

and get going to the point

: By E. T. Leech

, must be considered in their true form—raw materials to which labor and capital have been applied. And we are even shorter of some raw materials than we are of seme foods. Here, again, there's a-limitwand-it-falis-Sar -short-of supplying-

the vast populations involved. The only answer is for the world to produce more for itself.

| Europe. to embark on a

down. The world's popula-

make its schemes It has raised keep the farmers

trade; shortened

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Private industry handicapped by political piddling. State planning has built vast hordes of bureaucrats to try to

But the world, with a few exceptions, isn't prodiicing—especially Amid the wreckage of war, it has chosen this critical time

variety of socialistic schemes promising a better

life with less work. War's destruction has been followed by a slgw=

n which Europé grew—has been stifled and

succeed——and they live off those who are working, price controls and artificial money values which from selling produce to the cities.

On the rubble of war, it has built barriers to production and

the work-week; stified incentive and initiative—

and developed the habit of depending on an allowance from Uncle

But Uncle—already over 258 billion dollars in debt and still

| paying wartime taxes—is supposed fo keep sending the monthly

Well, at least

checks withoyt comment or question.

we should count the odds.

So They Say—

THERE 18S, one point at which high prices must lead directly to socialism, and I think 30 per cent of the national income is dangerously close to that.—Sen. Robert A. Taft (R.) of Ohio.

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Our food supply can't be |

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Europe into the English Channel in about three weeks.—Rep. L. H. Gavin (R) -

” WE HAVE GOT to do what we a the same time we must not wreck the ‘economy of the United States.—

political issues.—Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach.

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a : ONE THING I want to find out is how much of Europe's capital has gone underground because of this threat of socialization and see | if we can't put it back to work.—Sen. George Malone (R.) of Nevada.

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» GRIM REALITY warns us that Allied unity has split apart.—Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg ( R.) of Michigan,

= ~ WHETHER THERE is to be another world war depends in over-

on the success of Europe's free people in resisting the police state.—Norman Armour, assistant secre- : v EJ . " ” her satellite nations vould push us through

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day.at Flanner & an Street Metho Hill. :

Mr, Baker, 1 riding north in stricken yesterd: Mr, Baker had the real estate « Security branch more than 15 ye was manager of Foundry Co., wl employed since ! A native of Te lived here since member of the Estate Board an Methodist Churc He is survivec nephew and two

Mrs. Daisy Services for M ard, who died home, 1445 Fair held at 10:30 # Moore mortuarie and at 2 p. m. fal will be in B: Frankfort. Mrs, Shepard, native of Moran, here eight years, of Edward O. SI Surviving are «Mrs. Robert BI Cal, and Miss | Indianapolis, ai George Miner,-{

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Services will | Saturday for An Columbia Ave, in General Hos] Burial in Ne will follow the : Baptist Church. A native of | had lived here 2 He is survive Millie Hatchett; Burrin and Ja stepsons, Edwar Brown; three ds Ella Shorter, M land, all of Ind Mary Frances N a brother, G. H Ala.; 22 gran great-grandchilc

Mrs. Lucy Services will - tomorrow at J. | the Chimes for . who died .yester a daughter, NM 1317 Lawton St Mt. Pleasant County. ‘Mrs. Burris, lived in Indian was a native ¢ member of Met

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Services are | tomorrow at Northeast Cha W. Bockbrade: March 3, 1945, many. Burial v Pfc. Bockbrac a lifelong Indis had worked at tering service I He went ove and fought in Rhineland cam Headquarters 894th infantry He formerly nings St. and North Side B attended Techr Surviving are and Iva Kiplin Bockbrader; tw and Linda Ki brother, Glen dianapolis.

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