Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 116, Hammond, Lake County, 2 November 1911 — Page 4

THE TIMES.

Tlmrsdav, Nov. 2. 1911.

THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS By the Lake County Printing; and Pub. Baking Company.

Gary Evening Time?: Lake County Time (Country); Lake County Ttmes (Evening); Times Sporting Extra, and Lake County Times (Weekly). Entered at the Fostotflce. Hammond, Ind.. as second-class matter. Main Office Hammond. Ind Tel. Ill 1'rlvate Exchange. Call Dept. Wanted. Gary Of nee 777777777 ...... .Tel. 137 East Chicago Office Tel. 63 Indiana Harbor Office Tel. S24J Whiting Tel. 492 Crown Point Tel. 6S ' LARGER PA in IP CIRCULATION TH.IX ANY OTHEH TWO SEWSPAPERS IN THE CAM-MKT REGION. New York Representatives rPayne A Young, sn-34 West 33d St., and 29-35 West 3-nd St.. New York, N. Y. Chicago Representatives Payne ; Young, 747-748 Marquette Building, Chicago. 111. ANONYMOUS communications will not he noticed, but others will be printed at discretion, and should be addressed to The Editor, Times, Hammond. Ind. A PRAYER. Give me. lirnr Lord, the atveet philosophy , That nil! ennble me, with friendly eye. To view the thins" thnt have no joy for me The of other men that paxa me l.y. I wonlri not frown at folly, aolrmn-nlur, And be content hrewdly to crttlclne. r (Ire ine the wide phlloiiophy that find In -a-b poor jet and antle something good Show me the tie that me to other bind. N That make men lovable, when nnderntood, . , Too I on ik I've had the narower wtnh to - bo Clad In the garb of ld annterlfy. ;lve me a rnltht liint for each roniiimu day, Not In vain thlncra and rare beyond my ken I.e me believe that down Ilfe'a darkest way The grime and dun hide anmethlng good and fair, Let meb elieve that down life- darkest eene Of hidden good that is, or might have been. I.otila Dodge, tn Youth' Companion, A BRAVE EFFORT. me Chicago police are making des perate efforts to stop vice and immor ality in the Windy City and though Chief Alc eeney says he doesn't know of any gambling going on in Chi cago, Assistant Chief Schuettler was given carte blanche to go ahead with a trusty squad of bluecoats and clean up the city. Despatches tell us that Schuettler sicked his trusty squad on six small newsboys who had gathered together to thoot pennies in newspaper alley. After a long chase three of the "desperate little criminals" were arrested. Hurreh for Schuettler! .THE WOMAN , PAYS. By. the trial of a divorce suit pend ing in a Chicago court is brought home with startling emphasis again the fact that it is the wife, the motherland the children of labor, sluggers and agita tors who foot the bill. . The home has to suffer. Florence Madden, wife of the notor ions 'Skinny" Madden, Is suing fpr di vorce. "Skinny," as we all know is me Kingpin of labor sluggers. He must be a nice pleasant S0r of a fellow to live with. The' unfortunate woman who is his wife, was asked if he drank often and answered that she never saw him sober. He struck her constantly and threatened to kill her. He forced her to visit disorderly resorts with him. The court asked: . "Did he ever bring men to your house?" "Yes, very frequently." "What kind of men?" "Sluggers and murderers " And the worst of it is that it is not necessary to go to Chicago to see men of 'this type. Foor unfortunate women. Poor helpless children, f TOLLESTON'S STEADY RISE.! Tolleston, the sixth ward of Gary, is making some very material progress this year. Once the habitat of retired German farmers, a place of old-fashioned ideas, a community of the most staid and conservative, and at one time the only settlement in many square miles of sand dunes, it has now becomes, by reason of Gary's birth, one of the most prosperous communities in the county. Electric lights, miles of cement sidewalk and paved streets have come to Tolleston. A quarter of a million dollar sewer system is now building, which will mean city water, sewers, and all modern conveniences. Recent ly Tolleston added a "gay white e way" .re wire to its list of attractions and a liv

improvement association is another

one of its assets. The Gary board of safety is to build a fire station for a. permanent company, a Carnegie library will soon be in course of erection and it will not be long until the school board duplicates the Emerson school with i $200,000 building. Tolleston has a level area, making it a natural townsite. Its rail and interurban facilities give it cheap transportation, it is just south of the great industrial mills, and with unusual qualities as a residential section, there is no doubt but that its wonderful building record will be even doubled in the next few years. IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. Have you ever thought that no matter what your religion may be, a Christian Science lecture will always do you good. There is not a person living, no matter how hide-bound his creed, who' may not derive a world of good by following the tenents of Christian Science in hos own home. THE FARMER'S AUTOMOBILE. "We note with some interest that another Indiana banker fears that the country is going to the dogs because the farmer is buying automobiles and sometimes has to borrow the money to do it. The concern of the harrassed bank er for the farmer is pitiable. But why shouldn't the farmer buy an auto ir he has tq. borrow to pay for it? , Nobody needs an auto more than he does. As an agricultural journal points out: "Of all men the farmer needs the automobile most. He needs to be able to slip into town and back while the men rest at noon. He needs a means of having a chat with the man in the next county, after the chores are done at night. He needs a method of get ting into touch with every other farm er within a radius of 100 miles. Above all, he needs it for his lonely wife." MORE TROUBLE COMING. The lesson of Gary seems to be that if you are doing any crooked work beware of the deadly dictograph and shun the frumious bandersnatch. Crawfordsville Journal. Now who in thunder has bn monkeying with the bandersnatch and what in blazes is it anyway? MEDICAL INSPECTION. We acknowledge the receipt of an epistolary objection to the medical ex amination of children in the schools from a patron, but it is so bitter in tone, it premises so unreasonable that its publication would be unjust to those who favor this most excellent idea. If the conservation of the health and lives of our children is not an excellent idea, we are at a loss to know where there is an idea worthy of consideration. This is an age that demands prac tical education. It wants to be taught not simply how to read and write, but how to live most happily and most ef ficiently. The time to learn this is at the mother's knee and in the school room. If the lesson be never taircht there it will never be learned. It is pointed out that school medical inspection and instruction are the essence of practicability and this is so for the reason that the body must be freed from the hampering defects before the mind can be freed from the fetters of ignorance. Why do you send your boy or your girl to school if not to bring them out of ignorance and set their footsteps on the right path? It is folly to try -to introduce the intricacies of fractions to a child made stupid by a growth of adenoids. It is cruelty to force the art of drawing upon a child whose visual detects render him incapable of realizing the value of perspective and form. The ancient dunce cap in nine cases out of ten marked a defective child. It rather should have been placed' as a crown of folly upon the child's teachers and school officials. The dunce 'cap now remains only for those cities and counties who can but won't provide or medical examination tor their school children. XMAS TRADE PROSPECTS. A year of comparative prosperity for the cities of Lake county Is just about to be brought to a close. Every body who wanted work during thu year was able to get it. All of the small factories and most of the larger ones have been running steadily, although in some cases at a reduced capacity. Building operations have stimulated the sale of building materials and have made local prosperity pronounced. It is estimated that there has been $1,000,000 worth of building in the Calumet region this year. The farmers of the county were never more prosperous than they are today. They've all got money in the bank. T: of I Traveling men - from over the state ndiaua, which must still be consid

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say ihat the. merchants are all opti mistic and that orders for Christmas goods are larger tb,an ever. There is the promise of seasonable weather during the rest of the fall and that means a great deal to the merchant. There seems to be a combina tion of influences to promote generous holiday buying. It simply remains now for the merchant to bring the people to his store and the solution of that problem lies in judicious advertising. The merchants are doing twice the advertising they did two years ago and they are all getting results. The merchant wtao doesn't, will get get the cream of the holiday trade. The merchant wh odoesn't will get what is left. The great stores that have built up in the past two years have grown so marvelously because they have advertised judiciously. SENATOR LaFollette, who two years ago wa,s so clamorously shout ing for "tariff reform," now boTs up bitterly opposing Canadian reciprocity on the Eround that he is opposed to free trade. Senator LaFollette may convince some of the people that lie is sincere, but there are others, many others, who see in his activity the dual purpose of knifing President Taft and protecting the lumber trust, which has Immense interests in LaFollette's home state. Fort Wayne News. - LOTS of people imagine that the newspaper business is all beer and skittles and that newspaper men roll in wealth and affluence. This is not so. We know a newspaper man who makes a hobby of cats and when the printing business gets a little slow, he manages to make a little money on the side by felling felines at so much purr. You can pass that on If you want.' DESPITE the strenuous efforts of Editor Leeds, the Wayne county republicans do not care to take Mr. Lafoilette under their wings until they are obliged to do so and the good Lord knows that no one, not even Mr. Leeds, can make them stand for Lafollette if they have no inclination to do so. IT is all the style now in London to be photographed while asleep from the fact that faces look better In re pose. When it gets stylish to be photographed in the dark, several of us will doubtless be able to have our pic tures taken. HOOPSKIRTis in vogue in Paris and is going to be here soon. Hope it hurries, we would love to see some one try to get in a Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago car during the rush hours. "TAX the bachelors," says an ex change "for thy ought to be made to pay for single-bldessedness." The man who wrote that must be having some trouble with his wife's hat bill. CONFUCIUS says: "The virtuous are free from anxiety." Perhaps so, but we note that the defense in the Gary bribery cases Is leaving no stones unturned as it were. WHEN a newspaper tries to live up to the ethics and traditions of the professions it is entitled to the support of the people in the town in which it is published. . THE death knell of pugilism, a cheap sport at best, seems to have been rung in every city in the Calumet region, and most people are glad about it. HALLOWE'EN merry-makers took everything away from a Whiting man except hi breath and he nearly lost that in a Ion,; stern chase. THAT scuffling sound Is probably made by someone hurrying to Halleck W. Seaman and trying to punch him np a little. SUFFRAGETTES are going to make a stand in Ohio next. That will be a fight worth going miles to see. Ohio? Hm! ' . SCIENTIST ays he has found what makes the human heart beat. Trying to run a newspaper to suit everybody THERE are two sides to every question, of course, but you never count the Side that the other fellow has. GOVERNOR Dix says New York suffers from too many laws. We take the liberty of including Indiana. GOVERNOR Dix says bankers hold the world's peace. Yes, and quite a - Jfew of the world's pieces.

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TIME" IHREAU. AT STATE CAIMITAL. Indianapolis. Ind.. Nov. .2. While tho local nptlon Question is one with which the Indiana Republicans will have to deal in the. campaign next year, especially in making a platform, the same question has arisen to cause bad dream to the democrats ns well. It is weU remembered that when the Democrat.! went before ine people in 1908 and in 1910 and asked them to elect Democrats staie omces ana to the legislature, "'J iiiumioru iimi iney wouiu repem tne county local option law and enact a substitute for It, and that once the subsmuts was enacted they would see to that It was enforced. This campaign promise was heralded far and wide over he state, and undoubtedly many voters accepted It and believed it, for the Democrats won at the elections. It is we.ll remembered, too, that when the Democrats got control of the Leglslature they did repeal the county local option law and enact a substitute in the for mof the township and city and town option law. In the campaign for the enactment of this new law Thomas Taggart and CrawTord Fairbanks, tha Terre 'Haute, brewer, who practically ran the campaign, were in favor of having the legislature repeal the courity option law but they said the general assembly should stop there and not enact any thing to take its place. They fought the. Proctor local option law and. also the Proctor saloon regulation law. They left nothing undone to defeat both of these measures, and this is a matter of political history. Since the enactment of the law, In spite of Taggart and Fairbanks, there has been a demand from all narts of the state that the Democrats do what they promise before the elections, and see to it that the laws are enforced. In his the Democrats have rallen down woefully in many parts of the state, and this Is especially true of Indianapolis and Terre Haute where the In fluence of Taggart and Fairbanks is most pronounced. In this city a short time ago the Republican city administration, under the leadership of Mayor Shank started In on a campaign of law enforcement, against the saloons, and It was not long until they found them selves up against a loud protest, coming from certain quarters which are under the. control of Taggart. So openly did somcof the saloons disregard the law, that a few' weeks aro a number of the better rlass of saloon keepers met and organized an assoria tlon for the purpose of running down and prosecuting saloon keepers who violated the liquor laws. This association promised tho police that It would assist In gathering evidence against tho law violators, and they started out -with detectives for that purpose. A week agr last Sunday these detectives found four saloons open and had the owners arrested and fined. Last Sunday they found three more and affidavits have been filed against their owners. And all of this was done by saloon keepers who were not under the domination of Taggart and Fairbanks. They said they had come to a point where they realized that unless the saloon keepers were forced to obey the laws the legislature probably would enact laws much more stringent and possibly there might be a state wide The Day in HISTORY "Tins DATE IX HISTORY" November 2. 2 Town meeting In ' Boston, at which commutes of correspondence were appointed - by the "Sons of Liberty." ' 1767 Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria, born. Died Jan. 23. 1S20. 1773 St. John. N. B., captured by an American force under G-n. Montgomery, ' ... 1793 James K. Polk, eleventh Presi dent of the TJ. S., born in Mecklen burg, country. North Carolina. Died In Nashville, Tenn., June 13, 1849. 1S31 Indian battle of San Saba, in Texas. 1850 The planet "Egerla" discovered by A. De Gasparls. 1865 National thanksgiving observed for the peace between the North and South. 18S0 James A. Garfield of Ohio elected Prt-stdent of the United States. 1SS7 Jenny Lind. the famous singer. died in England. Born in Sweden, Oct. 6. 1820. 1 889 North and South Dakota admitted to the Union. 1894 Nicholas II. proclaimed Emperor of Russia. 189S France agred to withdraw from its pretensions at Fashoda in the Soudan. 1901 Close of the Paw-American Exposition at Buffalo. "THIS IS M V S.1R)HIUTHD.IV" Carroll G, Penme. Carol . Pearse, the new president of the National, Educational Association, was born In Tabor, Iowa, November 2, 1S38. His education was received In the public schools of Iowa and Ntbraska. supplemented by two years at Doane College. He began his career as an1 educator thirty years ago aa superintendent of schools In Crete, Neb. Later he was the head of the public schools at'Wjilber, Neb.;'Beatrice, Neb., and Omaha. While residing In Nebraska he was president of the State Teachers' Asoclation and other State organizations, of educators. Since 1904 he has been superintendent of the public schools of Milwaukee. Dr. Pearse

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prohibitory law enacted. Reports from over the state show that In cities where the Taggart and Fairbanks influence Is not so strong the liquor .laws are being better enforced and that saloon keepers are living up to them, l or Instance at Lafayette where the Taggart Influence has been practically rooted out by Mayor Durgan and a few others, the saloons are obeyIng the law to the letter, and the drug store, as well, are refusing to sell whisky except on prescription. At Fort n an n is reported tne saloons are obeying the law, and that the saloon keepers realize that it is up to them to continue to obey It or take the consequence of having a stronger law passed. South Bend is said, also, to bo enforcing the liquor laws much better than ever before in many years, and that, while there are occasional violations, they are the exception and not the rule. And South Bend Is not a Taggart city among the Democrats, Evansville, which in former years was a notoriously bad city from the standpoint of the saloon business, and which had a larger percentage of dives and law breaking saloons than, any other city 'in the state, IS said to be living up to the new Proctor law, and that violations are uncommon. In Elkhart, which Is the home city of Senator Proctor, the father of the new liquor laws, the saloon keepers are religiously obeying the statutes. Reports from Elkhart say that saloon keepers are scared half to death of the new law. and that they know that if they violate it Senator Proctor himself will prose cute them. It Is said that Elkhart is now one of th'cleanest saloon towhs In the state. Gary Is one place in the state where the saloon laws are said to be violated with impunity. In fact they never did pay any attention to the law in Gary, and no one has ever compelled them to obey the law. But conditions at Gary are more local than general, it is pointed out, and Gary cannot be used well ns a "horrible example" of law violation for this reason. Most of the saloons there are ru nby foreigners, and law violation Is held In easy regard, And so it goes, from reports all over the state. Neither South Bend. Fort Wayne, Elkhart, Evansville or Lafayette are Taggart towns, and in them the laws are pretty well obeyed. In the other places, where the influence of either Taggart Or Fairbanks is supremo the laws are not so well followed. " All of this Is of importance to the Democrats, because Taggart and Fairbanks are making every effort to retain control of the Democratic. stat4 committee and organization for the next campaign, and It is pointed out that if they succed in doing this and in nominating the tickets which they J hope to do the Democrats will be called on, probably, to make radical changes In the present liquor laws and to make It easier for the saloon keeper who wishes to violate the laws. To prevent this condition from arising a large faction of Democrats are swearing veng ance and they declare that they will not allow the Taggart machine to takes control of the campaign next year. If the machine does succeed It Is almost certain that many of the opposition Democrats will vote the Republican ticket. has been active in the affairs of the National Educational Association for many years previous to his recent election to the presidency. In 1S99 he served as treasurer of the association and later be held offices in the Department of Superintendence and In the National Council of Education. Up and Down in INDIANA LEAVES SOTO BESIDE BODV. "Dear Helen: I can not stand the clouds of sorrow any longer. Good-by ; This was the note found beside the unconscious body of Oscar Vernooy at his home at Lapotre yesterday after noon whenihis daughter'and the house 1 keeper, suspecting something wrong. ' broke into his room and found htm dy ing. A physician was unable to give relief, and he died at S o'clock. A glass found beside the bed Indicated that some kind of drug ha been taken. Vernooy, an expert accountant, hal been in poor health for some time. Two daughters. Helen. 16 years old, of Ia ' porte. and arie, 23 years old, of Bloom Ington, suvlvo. IJttlU I'AlSBI MAX'S DEATH, ' Aioen aiiiicr. or lnoianapous, u.t years old. 1014 Shelby street, for many years a prominent druggist, died yesteraay morning irom tne errecta or a drug to which he had become addicted In curing headaches. Miller was found in bed in a semi-conscious condition early In the morning by persons at his home. He remained In a stupor and died at 6 o'clock in the morning. Ac cording to Coroner Durham, Miller re ceived a severe wound on the head sev eral years ago, when a buggy in which he was riding was struck by a train Since that time, it is said, he used the drug continually to dispel headaches. Coroner Durham has not decided on his verdict. Miller is survived by a widow (iRI'DCG CAUSES SHOOTING SCRAPE. Bud Conner, employed as a button cutter at a factory at Rockport, was struck in the left eye by a bullet from a slfle In the hands of Chester- Small, a'so employed at the factory. The ball lodged in Conner's brain and physicians say. he can not live. A warrant has been sworn ejt for the arrest of Small

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been able to say as much as this man in a short space. Among lawyers, whose common fault is the faculty of expressing the Ten Commandments in three volume saplece. Walker shines like an honest man In the Illinois legislature. In comparison with his word-lovln? brethren of the bench, he is the Ideal of Josh Billings, who remarked, "I don't kare how mutch a man sez if he only sea it in a few wfirdz." The giants encounted by Oulliver !t his travels had a rule- that every law must be expressed in less than 11 words, and the lawyer who undertook to discuss or debate upon the plain meaning of the law was put to death. The average lawyer would have been led to the slaughter; but Walker could have made good if he had to, becausi he knew 'how. At the conclusion of his "American Law" this great writer pausps to

give some moral advice that Is as valuable to anybody else as it is to a lawyer and brief enough to be easily understood.

He said: "So live that men may be able to know where you ARE at any time, by simply considering where joi OlfiHTTO BE KOIM)." There is the wisdom of many agrt compressed into a single sentence the most sensible of moral counsels in a nutshell. In a business sense this advice i especially valuable. OPPORTUNITY passes men by, usually, because it cannot find them where they OUGHT TO BE. Speaking generally, a man ought to be at work, study or recreation; and in each case with respectable companions. If he is there, opportunity will flnl him. Absent, the goddess with the golden gift In her hand will consider where he ought to be, and, not finding him there, will pass on.

ONE HUNDRED AND TWO OF UNCLE SAM'S ' SEA FIGHTERS CA THER FOR DIG REVIEW

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One hundred and two vessels of the United States Navy, gathered in the Hudson River, are to be reviewed November 1 by Secretary of the Navy Meyer. As they anchored upon their arrival, the flagship Connecticut was first in the line of the vast armada, w-hlch, with Its total tonnage of 577.2S5, will stretch its length for nine miles along the

river on review day. Plans for the crack cutter crews of the fleet, and necticut's and Idaho's elevens for the There had ben a grudge between the two men for some time past. Or.n GRIST MILL BURNED. The stone quarry mills, eight miles southwest of Newcastle on Blue river, burned yesterday morning, the fire starting from spontaneous combustion. The loss will reach $13,000 with no insurance. Included in the burrssd contents were 5,000 bushels of wheat stored bv farmers, 35,000 pounds of flour and feed of all kinds. The mill wis more than fifty years old, and waa operated by water power, the only one of the kind in that section. If was owned by William Hodson. PROMISES TO DRIMv W ATER. Arrested on a charge of kidnapping his 14-year-old bride, formerly Miss Mary Soey of Nyesvllie. Ind., Davifl Klrkham of the same place, obtained his freedom and the right to live in peace and harmony with his newly wedded wife by signing a pledge to mount the water wagon and stay on It five years. Klrkham and aiiss oey went to Louisville, Ky., to be married. In the complaint filed against the young man by Abraham Soey. father of the bride, it is alleged that he induced an acquaintance to Impersonate the girl's father In granting permission for the marriage. SHOOTS LOVER AT DAXCE, Insanely jealous of his sweetheart, Alta Hay worth, of Muncie, 20 years old, Charles McOaUiard, 22 years old, shot! her dead at a Halloween dance because

she refused to accompany him home. A farmer of Washington Township, panic followed the shooting. The mur-stPphen t Brown of the same townderer was arrested. The girl Was the ' M- was arrested by Sheriff Jams

and was well known and respected. SUED FOR KLSF. IMPRISONMENT. Horace L. Burr, a justice of the peace, and his bondsman, his father, Lycurgus L. Burr of Newcastle, are defendants In a suit for $2,000 damages for false Imprisonment filed by James Adams, an automobile company's employe. Justice Burr Is a graduate of DePauw, and has for several years been a member of, the Jlenry county bar. Ills father Is one of Henry county's wealthiest cltlisens. Justice Barr tried Adams on the charge of . defrauding a. board .bill at Richmond, Wayne county, and Adams

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of young law students Walker Blackstone." few writers, alive or dead, who have Cap t . Wl H a'rrxTi-. O r oe rr9ie r review week Include races between f a football match between the Con navy Championship. was convicted and was committed to the county jail by the justice of the peace. After being released Adams learned that he could not legally be tried In this county for a violation of the law In Wayne county, and he sought attorneys and filed the suit for damages for false Imprisonment. DIES WHILE CRANKING AUTO. James C. Somervllle, 65 years old. the first rural mail carrier out of Hartford City and commander of the Hartford City G. A. It. post. Is dead of heart trouble brought on by overexertion In trying to start a balky automobile englne. After working an hour in an effort to crank the machine he fell unconscious. He served three years during the civil war as a member of the One Hundred and Klghteenth, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth and One Hundred and Forty-seventh Iniana Regiments. GAS KILLS MOTHER AND BABE. On returning home from a car party last night. Edward E. Weaver, of Sout.i Bend, department managed in a downtown store, found the dead bodies of his wife and infant child, who had met death by asphyxiation a short time before. . The house was filled with ga. Whether the wife chose death for herself and child to escape domestic troubles or the case was an accident Is not known. HESENTS THREAT TO KILL. On a surety of the peace affidavit filed by John Cavlniss, a well known Browning and Deputy Robinson yesterday. and was brought to j:ill In Bloomington. According to the affidavit. Brown threatened to kill Caviniss. When Brown was arrested i down was arrested i cket full of catrldg pockets. Brown l.stv revolver and a pod were found in his been living the life of a hermit In one-room house, and he was at on time an inmate of an insane ay!um. A FEW DIMES .-FOR CAR FARE OR POSTAGE 'IF YOU'RE ANSWERING ADS. A FEW DIMF.S FOR YOUR OWN "WANT," IF YOURE ADVERTISING IN THE TIMES AND THE USUAL RESULT tS A JTOXJ. '

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