Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1949 — Page 14

ARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W_MANZ ABD WALTER LC RON Manager

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Was This Strike Necessary?

strike by reasonable compromise would be better for everybody in the country than prolonged paralysis of this basic industry. A So we welcome the. reasonable settlement last night ‘between the industry's second largest unit, Bethlehem Steel,

Mur we share the hope of the government's chief medi‘ator, Cyrus Ching, that it will lead to early peace through- ~ out the industry. na x a Bethlehem, unlike some of the other companies—including U. 8. Steel, the biggest of them all—already pays |" ‘the full cost of a “non-contributory” pension plan for its wage earners.’ ie

which, plus government social security retirement benefits, are to-total a minimum of $100.a month for employees who reach age 65 after 25 or more years of service, with lesser minimums for those whose service has been briefer.

uN" 3 \ . » » " THE UNION, on the other hand, yielded on Mr. Mur...ray’s. demand that the company also pay the entire cost of a social insurance system. Bethlehem and its employees are to share this cost equally, the company matching a payment of 2% cents an hour by each worker covered under the plan. : ~ Whether U. 8. Steel and other companies will settle on some similar basis rémains to be seen. Industry observers believe that, for competitive reasons, them soon will fall into line. a Meanwhile, the country steel production and will lose more before any of the com | panies can get back to normal operation. : Meanwhile, too, the steel workers and many thousands ‘of workers in #teel-using industries have suffered loss of wages, business in many commurities has been hard hit, and the whole country has been subjected to grave-economic Sanger. «5 = Sl = i - WAS THIS strike necessary? - be ~~ An interview with Chairman Carroll R. Daughtery of "President Truman's steel fact-finding board, published yes-

| ~1¥ not at this particular time. : sgl © Mr. Daughtery said that, in his opinion, the board's chief concern was that and pension plans in’ the steel industry should be sound. He said that, if careful studies conducted jointly by the union and individual com- ~~ panies proved need for contributions by workers ae well as employers to insure the soundness of proposed plans, he thought such cost sharing would be justified. “And he indicated clearly his belief that, until joint

for real barg g and no justification for a strike. This, certainly, is contrary to the position taken by Mr. Murray when he insisted that all companies must agree to pay the entire cost of insurance and pensions or be struck im‘mediately. : Sear yy » . » » ”. _ EVEN if the steel striké ends, there is a coal strike, too. And if the coal strike continues; it can soon bring the steel mills to anéther halt. For it takes more than a ton of coal to make a ton of steel. - However, President Truman has twice invoked the Taft-

~~-He may be less reluctant to use that law once more against

Mr. Lewis than he was to direct it against his friend and po:

litical supporter, Mr. Murray. : A Taft-Hartlev injunction could stop the coal strike for

to spare the country from the damage done by recurrent strikes in coal and at the same time to insure fair treatment

of the miners.

A Salute to Greete 3% 5 NINE years ago Mussolini’ made his sneak attack on ae Greece—and Greece has been at war ever since. Mussolini had been told by Hitler that little Greece, ‘with less population than New York and smaller than Florida, wouldn't fight; that she had béen softened by fifth * gblumnists, that her army yas a joke, and the invasion ‘would be a walkover. _.nBut what Greece lacked in numbers and equipment, sh - made up for in courage and a heroic determination to bow

"Greeks fought on in a fierce resistance movement. . \

"AFTER V-E DAY, another aggressor-—this time the Soviet Union— measured Greece for the kill And soon again these people, with their proud heritage of democracy, were fighting to preserve their freedom and independence. ! : With belated U. 8. financial aid and military advice, they have now battled the Red guerrilla-invasion to an uncertain standstill. . Ti : At the moment Greece is enjoying a truce, while the United Nations debates a formal end to the conflict. But peace is not yet in sight. . So, on this anniversary of a stab in the back, we salute ~~ Greece as indomitable and great in adversity, a valiant foe ; - against two of our common enemies in the past nine years.

~ Now, You Take the French— .

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+ formed a cabinet in France, ending a 23-day crisis. His cabinet includes Jules Moch ‘ (Socialist) who had tailed to form a cabinet, Rene Mayer (Radical) who also fell down “on the job, Henri Queuille (Radical) whose resignation on

do something with that

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i the crisis, and former Premiet Robert n (Popular Republican) who preceded M. Queuille,

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~ “AS we have said here repeatedly, settlement of the steel |

- and the Steel Workers’ Union head by CIO President Philip |

It now agrees to enlarge this plan and finance pensions «

most if not all of

has lost an entire-month of |

terday in “U.S. NéWs and World Report” magazine, seems “= to-justify-the-conclusion that it- was not -necessary——certain- .

studies of pension plans had been made, there was no basis

Hartley Act against John L. Lewis and his mines’ union. |

_...a8 long as 80 days. But something more than that is needed |

to no aggressor. In a matter of months the Italian army | was in full retreat back into the puppet state of Albania, | and Hitler had to send his own troops to rescue the situa: | tion for the ‘Axis. Though under German occupation, the |

YREMIER "BIDAULT (Popular Republican) fina ¥ Bas

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Past

Discovery of Mass Grave °. Hampers ‘Allied Efforts BONN, Germany, Nov. 1—-On a mountain top

who are trying to direet the occupation of the Germans. Here In Bonn, in what was once a | museum, is the government that Is .struggling | fo create a Democratic state out of West Germany. pis Fittingly, * it is a museum .that houses Chancellor Konrid Adenauer and the members of his cabinet, For it is the grim past that haunts the new government. and. bedevils its relations with the Allies, Like an evil genie, it is constantly rising to plague the harrassed men who hurry back and forth across che ‘Rhine in an effort 10 reach a reasonable. plateau of understanding.

the horrors of -the past decade cast a sinister | shadow over the present effort. While it has ‘thus far been kept out of the news, Allied commissioners have been informed of a shocking new discovery at the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau. It is.a huge mass grave, hitherto concealed, that is beliévéd to contain more corpses than any other such mass burial ground:

300,000 Victims? 4 : ONE estimate is that remnants of 300,000 victims may have been dumped into the newly discovered Dachau grave. “This discovery may throw more light on the disappearance of the German Jews-of whom only 45.000; survive in _ Germany-—than anything yet to come to light. Cohcealment of this vast entombment and its accidental distovery are somehow almost as hocking as the newest evidence of mass murder by the Nazis. A road was built across the grave and, "according to my source of information, 4his was done at the direction of local German officials with ‘the . delibérate intention of. concealment, ; ; : Suspicion grew when the road began to settle. Then; when workers for the state railways were obtaining sand from a nearby pit, the corpses were exposed. . . ! As ’'the story was {0M fo the commissioners, -the local burgomeister insisted that these must be corpses from the Napoleonic war. ‘But a hurried investigation brought “the gruesome facts to light. : : . The dimensions of the grave were reported to ihe commissioners to be 360 feet long by 60 -feet wide and 1R feet deep. How many human begins were actually interred there will probably never be known. :

Shocked at Report

THE Allied commissioners were profoundly shocked at the report. - They were fearful of inflaming public opinion In the Allied nations and therefore making any Kind of working agreement more difficult to reach. For this reason, word of the discovery was not in the first instance made public. . * It will certainly tend to strengthen feelings, which are particularly acute among the French, that the German people show no remorse for their hideous crimes of the past; that, in fact, they now refuse to believe these things took place, insisting they are Allled propaganda against the German people. > The attitude that prevailed after World War . 11s beginning to revive agdin. President Theodor Huess of the new government, in a recent conversation with American Commissioner John

“J: MeCloy, spoke of the under the Versailles Treaty, Astonished, McCloy asked Heuss if he was really serious in his reference to Versailles. Heéuss replied that indeed he was serious.

. Far From Perfect

IN my opinion,/American policy makers here take what is perhaps the only realistic view of the Adenauer government. It is far from perfect. It has its own museum-like quality. . Its roots are not deep in German soll. Yet it is probably the best government obtainable in view of the failures and conflicts among the Allies and among the Americans themselves in the four years since the war ended. ' Hope, therefore, lies In integrating the West Germian government “with the countries of Western Europe in some sort of a federation. ~The urgency of this integration In the immediate present weighs heavily on responsible / Americans, . A worse government, motivated by the hatee and excesses of the past, might follow the failure of Chancellor Adenauer, who is credited by all three commissioners with deep sincerity in his desire to bring West Germany into the family of nations. in a closer and mere vital relation than ever existed before. The past cannot be ignored or conveniently erased, as the Soviet Russians have done in their propaganda drive to woo the German People But neither ean it be permitted—to—| “obsess and dominate the present. < -~ To permit the past to. dominate the present moment is to risk a repetition of the monstrous excesses and horrors that have been lived tnrough since 1933. ’ .

German Regime |

across the Rhine sit the Allied Commissioners |.

| A recent episode illustrates the way in which |’

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A ladies’ wrestling club has been formed in An Klnbame town: You have to know how-to | protect yourself when you go to a dance these! days, f

Te $ A man who broke into a home in Ohio was caught while taking a shower. He's all washed | up now, - : a

SOCIAL SECURITY . . .

elmo secre

Bethlehem agreement with the steel union—will

The reason is simple.

expenditures for pensions will decrease in the federal social -security pensions are raised.

involved in the present strike.

year;

Trend Started

pension plans of industry and unions &

women reaching the retirement age. ~ That has been the history of this tries--enough to indicate to experts table in the United States, Other results ‘the Bethlehem: According to Phill

been taken from U. 8. Steel, which ‘steel production, and assumed by

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settle on the Bethlehem basis. Mr, Murray's hand will the CIO convention here dominated unions into

units 'to be thrown out, if necessary, from the CIO, -, Other steel companies will claim that the steel union's apparLent victory with Bethlehem is qualified by the fact t this com- | in taking care of T pany for 26 years has had a pension “Will take months before ‘were not required to. contribute.

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Coufparisons wil deveiop that the

By Fred W. Perkins

Trend of Pensions

CLEVELAND, Nov. 1—The break in the steel strike—the

and stronger support for & bigger federal social security system. Under the plan agreed to by Bethlehem Steel Corp. and the CIO United Steelworkers, the company

THe same fact applies. in-the pension plan recently reached by the Ford Motor Co. with the CIO United Auto Workers. will apply in increasing degree if the pattern of the Bethlehem agreement is followed by U. 8. Steel and other steel companies

Under the Bethlehem plan and the Ford plan, the companies will save money if faderal old-age pensions are boosted—as they will be under a bill recently passed by the House of Representatives and believed to have an excellent chance in the Senate next

THE influence of big corporations new will likely be back of this increase in federal social security pemsions. If the trend is fotiowed to what experts say is the logical end, all the private véfitually will be:absorbed in one federal system offering uniform benefits to zit ‘men-and

movement in other counthat the same thing is inevient: Murray, president of the steel union andthe ‘CIO, it means that leadership in affairs of the industry has ts about a third of the . 2 company, Bethlehem.

PRESSURE will grow today for other big steel

1 GUESS of all the people living in Indianapolis I am the one least qualified to say anything worthwhile concerning art. For two reasons: (1) Because of my over-simplified definition of that cryptic branch of learning; and (2) because of my opinion of artists which is even more elementary—if such a thing is possible. I suspect that my definition 6f art is an Indication of old age. As men grow older they simplify “everything—the food they eat, the liquor they imbibe, the morals they practice, the books they read, the neckties they wear, the opinions they. entertain. Shows that something happens to us oiti codgers —for better or for worse. It isn’t easy to determine which of the two it is. The verdict depends in almost every case on whether it’s the. judgment. of: one's wife'or that of some superficial outsider.

satisfaction—that taste improves with age. : For one thing, septuagenarians enjoy théir - food because of flavors—not because of vitamins. Moreover, they don’t disdain the simple pleasures of life as is the practice of the young. Give old men a decent unadorned omelet, a glass of matured wine, an honest piece of tobacco, a contented wife, a pair of shoes that don't pinch,

a book good enough to have survived two centu- :

ries, the radiance.of .an Indian summer, the Hit of a Schubert song—give thém any one of these things and they can capture the very essence of living. = : Simplify Art WHICH brings me to the point of today's plece—namely along the line, paralleling my tempered taste in other things, I have learned to simplify even such a complicated thing as art. I ‘still remember what a terrihy involved affair art was up until the time I was 60 years old or thereabouts—moreover, the time 1 wasted trying to keep up with the dogmatism practiced by connoisseurs and critics in the hope that, maybe, I could pattern my taste after theirs. Well, I've gotten over that. Indeed, I've now reached the age that I-don’t give a damn what the connoisseurs and critics may think, no mat-

Er whether it involves painting: sculpture; archi=—

tecture, literature br music-let alone the ballet, which, if my eves deceive me not, is the latest manifestation of art the critics want to set me straight on. :

- Jeast of all, 1 don't want anybody to tell me *

what ts good for me. If vitamins are what 1 need, it's -not within the province of art critics to prescribe themi. The only conclusions worth nursing. I've discovered, are my own. fit in with those of the critics, so much the bétter for the critics. If they don't, all the better for my integrify—or what is left. of it. Which is a rounddbout way of saying that I have now réached the station in life where one measures & work 6f art by the amount of pleas-

ure it gives him. By the same token,/my defi-

SIDE GLANCES

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OUR TOWN a Be Aron Scherrer Simplified Appreciation of Art

y However, I'm inclined 6 ‘ pelieve—if fof no other reason than my own

; always pass for artists.

the - discovery that somewhere

—degreeof my delight was-of such an-intox

If they

“Well, Miss Andrews, I've been in the first grade a couple of months now, and there's still a. lot of things | don't know!"

for these. .| the machinery of the Ford ‘plan, but is hore liberal in requir- / ‘[* Ing 25 insead of 30 yeafs of service béfore pensioning, in pro“viding minimum instead of maximum $100-a-month pensions, and | over-age workers now on pension rolls, ,.

nition of art inclirdes any and everything that delights me. Indeed, I've got it worked out that my delight and my dis) are the determining factors whether a thing is a work of art or not. It's as simple as that. S As for my opinion of artists; it's even simpler. Indeed, it's as common as dirt and so ordinary that it almost approaches vulgarity. It is another sign of my years for the older I. grow the less I can bring myself to believe that ' [~ the term “artist” belongs only to those practicing the so-called “Fine Arts.” -So far as I am concerned, there aren't any fine arts, For my money, all men who fashion beautiful things are artists provided, of course, that in the mak- . ing they contribute to my delight.

Workmen and Artists + - IT IS an abnormal condition of things wherein we differentiate between good workmen and artists. In a normal society—such as once prevailed when 1 was a kid—a sculptor, of Images and a stone-mason-capable.of.-building. a beautiful wail, mnvesting jt with a personality of his own, were men of thé same breed. "After all, the imagination born of the mind directs the hand. 2 Nor is it too fantastic to rate the illustrators of the cunning covers of The New Yorker and the Saturday Evening Post the equals of portrait painters who, in the present warped world, Indeed, in a normal society it {8 not impossible to classify a writer of distinguished advertisements as a man of letters. “Fact is my simplification of artists is progressing at such a rapid rate that I expect, by the time my next birthday rolls around, to say a good word for pictorial photographers, too. ~—T-don’'t want to put too fine a point on al this for fear of being tripped. However, I don't want to dismiss the subject without saving that the sooner we consider artists as workmen with the responsibilities imposed upon first-rate workmen, the better it will be for everybody concerned, including the /artists themselves.

Delightful An’ : )

THUS fcrtified with my home-made definition of.art and’ my opinion of artists to say nothing of my/piled-up years, 1 ventured forth to take in the centénnial exhibition of paintings

by William M. Chase now on view at the Herron |

Art Museum. Not in a blue moon has anything contributed more to my delight. Indeed, the ting #mature that, measured by my own definition, it left me no alternative but to pronounce it art of 3/very high order. 4 -/Moreover, Mr. Chase gave a good account of himself as a first-rate workman which, again | Py-definition, increased. my opinion of him as ‘an artist. For example, one can't help being impressed by the fact that Mr, Chase's work reveals no effort on his part, this in spite’ of the discovery-that the huge canvases on exhibition represent a prodigious amount of labor.” It's a trick every first-rate workman masters, as anybody knows who. has lived a full life, All of which doesn't necessarily mean that one must be 4 septuagenarian to enjoy Mr. Chase's work. It helps, though,

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NATIONAL DEFENSE . . . By Jim G. Lucas

Air Force Defeat

5 WASHINGTON, Nov-1—Th defeat in its bid for supremac Unless Congress steps in 70 group program is dead. In Alt clear that he—not Congrés—is m decision to freeze the Air Forcé at 48 Air Force man thinks is safe— which airmen have given passio

It may be revived some day—Mr, Truman

it was conceived to represent-—thé symbol of an force as our first line of defense. - It was not so much fense Secretary Louis

appropriated for 58 instead of 48-groups—that dashed

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But, he emphasized, it would expanding program.” groups;-a program he said “would have to be supported grea incréased appropriations” in the future. Pported by tly

from the standpoint of the Air Force” national policies.” To expand the Air Force national plan; we would be forded to other services" and that would cost'too much. : Air Force's Hopes :

THAT is precisely what: the Afr Force téarea

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With inadequate service, the street car coms year. (It has violated the state laws beyond -

the point of safety hundreds of times daily with . no effort on the part of the State of Ine Seat; diana or the City of Indianapolis to call them By HAR 39 tusk, Industry got

‘The city officials have practically given them Nad its foot on t of other industri For the indu payroll expenses. a long-sought pr Who won? It

the little parking space left for the motorist. by installing parking meters. If* the PEC of Indiana has not, so {ar, found any major fault with the efficiency of operations of the trolley company. they might just as well grant the requested increase and forget the matter. The faults are so many and so flagrant that a 10» year-old schovlboy could fue them easily.

- back in business. Had Comj ~The Bethiehe which broke th ready had a co sion plan of its guaranteed work service or longe i flat, that did t Actually it is n out of the con company will government “Soc give the worker That is a differe Just now the | Security benefit month but the a in Indiana are. means that for tl year ‘Bethiehem ‘$100 a month bu tween $58 and §7 Bethlehem also future of Social § the probable rise benefits which wi pany payments s Under the pro curity amendmer per worker jis $8 ; would leave the $16 a month to passes. And tha scratch the steel account, A Big | Bethlehem is The others seco Steel which now talk settlement ready to fall in Republic, Young: a . Tube Allegheny-} | Jones-Laughlin. But don't forge He is in a better tion than ever, t

‘Consumers Forgotten Men’: By Edward F, Maddox, City. 1 Charges now being publicly made that President Truman is waiting for outraged public opinion to demand that he settle the steel and coal strikes would seem indicate dire consequences for the coal and steel operators, The coal and steel companies had better consider a few significant straws in the political wind which would ‘seem to indicate a combina« tion and collusion of political power against which there is no. chance for a reasonable com= promise. It has been stated that when Mr. True man was nominated for Vice President, a powerful CIO official remarked: “He is our man.” Now add to that significant statement the fact that Mr. Truman picked the fact-finding board for the steel negotiations, and it is only sound reason and common sense to conclude that he picked men wholly in accord with, his own views, and that their findings will be finally imposed by presidential order if necessary. It would seem to be to the best interest of the coal and steel operators and of all private industry and the general welfare, to accept the inevitable result to avoid -compulsion. American private business should be realistia and wise enough to understand Mr. Truman's recent bitter attack against “the selfish ine terests.” His tone and manner in that very radical speech boded no leniency. for the coal and steel operators, according to my opinion. So the smart thing to do is to-bow, under protest, to the inevitable and foreseeable final result. There is no use to cause needless suffering and jeopardize our national economic stability by afutile, useless and stubborn resistance to an overwhelming and arbitrary coalition of government and organized labor. : “We, the American people, will have to pay the cost eventually. There is no way to escape this holdip. We the consumers are the forgotten men. =e ~8 4 &

‘Need 4-Children_ Families’ By J. F. Woodward — : ; Truman's use of Daniel Boone and his wife, Jemima; accord. Law. Mr. Lewis ing to recently published data, had<72 grand- i the steel industr children, over 400 great-grandchildren. Here is ; coal, by the tail. an example, in terms of one Gutstanding frontier: _ to operate. : family. Such are what Woodrow. Wils. .8o.it seems p

son called “The swurming of the English.” k Lewis will use h U.S. A. does not need such large families today. vantage to hike Needed, however, are families of four children > “pension tax on of the intelligent type. In cases whére both E or 40 cents or wl parents have exceptionally high I. Qs, eugenical the trafic will be raising -of national intefligence would be acs © With steél wa celerated by the 72 grandchildren type of family, naces, anxious. t _ On Carniel Beach, Cal, were four. children, lines of distribu They were aged 11; 8, 5, 2—a well-spaced Ameri watch is crafty can family. This is what is needed for replace- can drain the L ment of our intelligentsia. any situation. . — re t——— ~ driver’ seat agai 3 . What Others Say Free Coffee WHEN a business enterprise takes a man or ROGERS, 5 woman into its service, it has a bounden duty to holdin pes a ¢ begin setting aside for that individual's old age, re : draw If it cannot afford to-do that, it shouldn't be in Be custo business.—CIO President Philip, Murray. thre the tur: : * & OUR stock of A-bombs must be superior - ne) we both in quality and quantity to those of Russia, a e out with And coupled with that goes long-range bombers Som - ee that can reach the vital points of Russia from 1 N Bi bases on the North American continent.—Capt. er er Eadie Rickenbacker, president of Eastern Air serve Nan and Lines. / veut etable racks. A

price tags enou housewives look Top variety w ‘he tagged at-1 and prime bacen one pound per four pounds for tage cheese, 10 Kroger opening other price snip =»

the present concept is “its contradictory rela-

ARG THE greatest defect of

Mmitments:-of - the “United * States. Rear Ralph A. Ofstie, U. 8. N. am LE IT'S very difficult-to talk now. The. situation is very delicate, but the day will come when we will talk.—Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, on rela tions with Russia. .

BIG CROP IN the fertile India already are be how much and ° year, + It looks like erop in a row, w The reason: Co tie closing hot supports at 90 | That assures g« + - public won't t crops, Uncle Sai ; Last year Un += in his striped pa some $60 millio ana crop price: year’s bumper piling up, the the hook for bushel. Govern is around $1.4! ‘market price is Agronomists ernment will through fast w government has farmers faciliti bushels of co: strike upset tie Indiana farm farm controls » but. as one pro omist put it, “1 checks.” He fu agement is the

Lo . eS & } WHEN men stop being afraid. they begin thinking in terms of the substance of the problems before them and their real solutions, —Warren K. Austin, U. 8, delegate to UN. * %

*. z THE party that nominates a woman for vice president or president will win the 1952 election, —Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R), Maine.

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@ Air Force has suffered a bitter y in National Defense, plans. with drastic action, the Air- Force's killing it, President Truman made aking military policy. His Eroups—far less than any means the end of a program to nate loyalty since the end of the

says our plans it seems unlikely that it will ever again be Ban

all-powerful alr what Mr. Truman did—he ordered De. Johnson not to spend the extra $615 million -IC'was what he said when he did it. “a : » Mr, ‘Truman said, is unimportant. It would the nation nor seriously upset this year's defense

ia ; ernment is | “merely be the first step in an clency.” That, obviously, was a reference to 70 Some farme

members. will g the Income T piled up by cx . | taxable as per comes. This m have to dig do on money the but is still lc credit in the co "But the stor big one. . Fa: money, want taken off their , seAnother bumpe

posed, he insisted, “cannot be measured solely but “in the light of total would require a new “build up the strength of the

he would say, believed Mr. Tru-

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