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CONSTITUTION, STATE AND NATION.
In his message to congress the president called
attention to the apparent necessity of at least two
additional amendments to the Constitution of the
United States, at the same time warning against the
danger of ill-considered changes in the fundamental
law. Let us look at the mutter for a moment.
The Constitution of the United States is a foun
dation as well as a bulwark for human liberty. Wil
liam Ewart Gladstone, a statesman unsurpassed in
judgment and foresight, wrote of it: “The American
Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck
off at a given moment by the brain and purpose of
man.” William Pitt, another eminent statesman,
said of it: "It will be the wonder and admiration of
all future generations and the model of all future
constitutions.” Pomeroy, in his introduction to his
“Constitutional History of the Unitejl States,” says:
“Our lathers by an almost divine prescience, struck
the golden mean.” Nicholas Murray Butler writes:
“The Constitution remains the surest and safest
foundation for a free government that the wit of
man has yet devised.”
Vet the document as originally presented by the
convention to the states for udoption has been
amended nineteen times! This might suggest that'
it was not well devised in the beginning and that
the praise then bestowed upon it was insincere. Such
a conclusion is too hastily drawn. The glory of the
Constitution is that it may be amended from time to
time, as necessity arises, without violence to the
fundamentals of justice and liberty it contains.
John Marshall gave vitality to the written word
of the Constitution and made it a living thing, capa
ble of growth and expansion. He held and rightly,
that the Constitution was not a straitjacket, rigidly
holding a rapidly growing nation in a narrow, for
mal system of government. Under the Marshall
method, the interpretation of the Constitution has
permitted its application to the developing needs of
the people, aiding in the expansion of national-life
in all its manifestations, of social, intellectual, in
dustrial, commercial and political growth.
If the people have found it necessary from time
to time to add to the structure of the fundamental
law, it has been easily accomplished, once the public
mind had come to a definite decision, because it was
a process of adding to. Nothing has been token from
the Constitution, and only that added to it which the
people felt was essential to the great end of our gov
ernment, that of securing life, liberty and the pur
suit of happiness to all.
Sir. Harding* had reference to the amendments
mooted in connection with child labor and the pro
posed change in the method of electiug the president
of the United States. Senator Hodge has. already
prepared the child labor amendment, and Senator
Norris %ill probably report the othet from his com
mittee. How Tong it xj-ill take to bring these to the
ultimate vote can not be said. History indicates that
it takes about fifteen years from inception to cul
mination. The mind of the people is fairly well made
up on the point of child labor, piscussion on the
direct election of the chief magistrate is proceeding
rapidly.
States are concerned in these matters, as well as
parties. It is a lingering application of the doctrine
of state sovereignty that.makes the child labor amend
ment necessary. Also, the sovereignty of the state
will require consideration in connection with the
Norris plan for electing presidents.
Nebraska is peculiarly interested, because of the
nature of its electorate. Here we find the republi
can party in control, generally charged with the.di
rection of the state’s affairs at home and in the
congress, but only because in the republican party
the seemingly discordant elements can find expres
sion for their views. Here progressive and stand
pat, the radical and the conservative, and even the
reactionary, find some common ground for meeting,
and by concerted action move the state along the
way of progress. Nothing is permitted to stagnate
here, nor does the success of today blind the eyes
of any to the possibilities of the future. Out of
what might appear to be hopeless discord comes
harmony, and in many counsels lies wisdom. Ne
braska, under the Constitution, is a government of,
for and by the people.
NEBRASKA.
Since Nebraska was admitted to the union in
1867, 4,000 factories have sprung into existence,
and certain of these have forged ahead of the
world. The metropolis of the state takes the lead
as a refining center and the manufacture of butter.
Sand, important for building roads, is found in
large quantities along the Platte. Superior has a
factory for making cement from lime and sand
stone, and sapolio is made from volcanic ash found
in numerous localities. Brick and tile are made
from clay and silt found in the state, while Antioch,
in Sheridan county, is the greatest potash- center
in the United States.
Yet Nebraska is really an agricultural state; its
fertile black soil yields an average per acre of the
standard crops far above the average for the United
States ,and its average for land values is higher
than most states. The large corn crops and grassy
semi-arid regions in the west give it a high place
in beef production, also makes of Grand Island the
largest range horse market in the world, and
Omaha the largest sheep market, while more wild
hay is shipped from Newport than from any other
point on the globe.
As an estimate of the wealth, production and
commerce of Nebraska, consider one small county
~-©f 692 square miles, with a population of 14,146.
Records show the real valuation of property to be
$65,000,000, enough to cover all land purchases
made by the United States prior to 1898. Last
year $6,000,000 in live stock was shipped out, $2,
000,000 in grain, while $500,000 was received for
eggs, cream and poultry. The latter is only a side
line with fanners and no account is taken of
that consumed within the county. Four months
ago there was $4,000,000 cash in banks subject to
eheck. The county seat ranks sixteenth in the state
in volume of business. Remember the county men
tioned is only one out of ninety-three, and this
county can boast, with the glorious state of which
it ia a unit, of being free of bonded indebtedness.
WHAT OF THE LANGUAGE LAW ?
The decision of the United States supreme court
on the Nebraska and Iowa laws prohibiting the use
of foreign languages in the grade schools will be
awaited with considerable interest. The supreme
courts of both states upheld these measures, al
though the opinion of the judges in each instauce
was divided. The question of constitutionality is
now before the highest court in the land.
Whatever the decision may be on abstract points
of law involved, there is room for questioning
whether or not majority Sentiment in Nebraska now
appjoves such severe legislation. Under the Reed
Norval law that is attacked, no child who has not
passed the eighth grade can receive school instruc
tion in the use of any foreign tongue. Even after
the regular subjects have been taught, it is be
clarcd illegal for a teacher to add even the shortest
course in a foreign language. Though the children
have throughout the day used and studied the Eng
lish language, and even though they have a solid
grounding in this tongue, their teacher is not al
lowed so much as to read them a Bible story in
another language.
This bears mainly on schools maintained by
churches in communities where there is a large set
tlement of European immigrants. The children, of
course, should be protected in their right to learn
the language of America, and the instances in which
such training wal neglected in the days before the
war arc regrettable. Yet when they have become
proficient in the use of English, why should they
not be allowed to learn the native speech of their
forefathers?
As the situation now lies, these children can
only pick up their secondary language in the home,
or on the Sabbath day. A correspondent of The
Omaha Bee recently wrote in this connection:
"All children should bo so educated that they
will become good American citizens, loyal to the
country. Its laws and its Hag. and this means they
must know its language well. But should that
limit them to one language? . . . Bet us have
a language law that will protect our schools and
our citizenship, tint not one that puts a bar on a
child's opportunity to obtain a complete education,
ami to learn more than a single language,, espe
cially when that- liar may be lifted without doing
anyvharm or weakening the law that wisely seeks
to make all acquainted with the oflicial language
of the state In which they live.”
There has been much heated argument on both
sides of the question, but the time has come for
cooler consideration. The fact that the task of
testing the constitutionality of the law has been
placed in hands that make it the occasion for bitter
denunciations should not -be allowed to prejudice
public opinion. There are considerations of toler
ance, culture and reason that the legal arguments
do not touch, yet which must be taken into con
sideration.
In all probability the state legislature of Ne
braska will be in session before the slow-moving mill
of the supreme court reaches a decision on the Reed
Norval act. The session quite properly may take up
the discussion Of amending and softening this law
with the ajm of ending dissension and liberalizing
the educational facilities of the state.
CAN WE SAVE OUR FUEL ?
One of the first facts reported by the coal com
mission of inquiry is merely confirmation of what
already as well established. Too many coal mines
call for the employment of too many men and too
much capital. The commission reports that mines
open have a theoretical productive capacity of
1,000,000,000 tons'per annum against a theoretical
requirement for consumption of 500,000,000 tons.
In other words, to bring the business of bitumi
nous coal mining to a basis of efficiencywith steady
employment for men and money, it is necessary to
reduce one-half.
How to accomplish this is not explained, but
that may be outlined for the public later. What is
more to the point is the fact that not only the
waste of effort by. reason of the uneconomical use
of labor and capital menaces the present as well
as the future, but the prodigal use of the fuel it
self, when brought to the surface, is an indictment
of our boasted capacity for management. Until
better ways of using bituminous coal are put into
practice, a large part of the nation s fuel bill will
be represented by money going up in smoke.
From twenty to thirty gallons of tarry oils,
phenol, benzol and the like may be taken from every
ton of soft coal by low temperature distillation
After this extraction from 10 to IS per cent of
volatiles remain in the coal, making a more ac
ceptable fuel than the raw coal. If some portion
of the surplus capital now employed in production
were to be devoted to the better preparation of
fuel, a double benefit would be enjoyed.
Perhaps the fuel commission will have the effect
of bringing light to more things than the discon
nected labor conditions involved in coal digging
While waiting for the jury to come in, we may
be excused for suggesting to the British officials
that one good way to avoid poisoning is not to eat
any candy that comes through the mail without the
sender's identity being known.
With “Ike” Miner owning up that he is 75, and
Mayor “Jim” telling the world that he is 66, some
of the real veterans may yet be induced to come
up for air and tell the truth.
Turkey is behaving very nicely at Lausanne, but
what will happen when Isniet gets back to Con
stantinople?
A magazine writer discusses a lot of possible
successors to Lenin, but we thought the bolsheviki
did their own picking.
Difference of opinion, it is said, makes horse
races, and it also keeps parsons going strong.
The thermometer is also having its. ups and
downs.
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A Stuffed Constitution
'From the St. Paul Dispatch.
Illinois voters have rejected the proposed new con
stitution for the state, as might have been expected.
It contained too much controversial matters, such as
limiting the representation of Cook county in the state
senate, relating to Bible reading in the public schools,
and details ns to local government, organization of
courts, court procedure and other particulars that
should have been left to the legislature, instead of
cluttering up a constitution. The more general legis
lation is put into a constitution the more need there
will be of amendments later, as conditions change.
When an abuse becomes entrenched in a constitution
it is difficult to reform It.
The temptation is strong for temporary majorities
to nail down a victory by putting It into a state or the
federal constitution. It is not democracy or repub
licanism to make It hard for a future majority to have
its way about some question tjiat does not relate to
the nature of the government or the original compact
by which citizens agree to have a government. Why
should a constitution state the exact number of mem
bers there shall be in the legislature or define the dis
tricts from.which judges shall be elected-or the amount
of money that, may, be event for waterways?
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“From State and Nation”
—Editorials from other newspapers—
Out of tbo Legal Jungle.
From the ht. Loul® Fost^Dlspateh.
American law—our entire court
system—is founded upon the Eng
lish common law.
In England, the English common
law has been abolished.
TlWre are over 3,000 judges in the
United States.
There are only twenty-three judges
in all of England and Wales.
In the past two years. American
lawyers and jurists of the highest
rank have been inquiring into the rea
sons v by English courts rank so far
ahead of ours in the administration
of justice. Neither Joseph H. Choate,
vho made inquiry in 1920, nor Chief
Justice Taft, who recently returned
from England, lias succeeded in mak
ing the difference plain to the Amer
ican people. Tlie fundamental, far
reaching nature of the English re
forms has not been stressed.
However, the matter is coming be
fore the people of this country in a
message they can understand. A
book is just off the press, entitled
"The Law and Its Sorrows." written
by a former Michigan lawyer now
living In Florida, .1. Hannibal Clan
cry, which will sink indelibly Into the
mind of every man who reads it. It
says tint all that Chief Justice Taft
might have said—in fact, all there is
to say on the side of judicial reform.
Mr. Clancey lias written for the
people at large, not for the members
of his own profession. He does not
expect most lawyers to cooperate in
leal reform, for he points out that
the present English system was
forced on the judges and lawyers, and
the father of English law reform,
Jeremy Benthani, died at the age of
>4 without seeing one of his sugges
tions adopted, although they are the
basis of English law today. It is
appropriate that Mr. Claneey's book
should be sponsored by “The Bent
hum institute," its name indicating
a purpose to work in an organized
way for what is advocated. Inas
much .as the question of law reform
was one of the most vital subjects
before the English government from
1828 to 1873, when the act of judica
ture was passed, the extent of its
probable debate in American may lie
appreciated. It is generally conceded
that the American judicial system is
worse today, thon Uie English system
was in 1S2S. it can l«e made better
than the English system Is today. The
subject, therefore, is both big and
vital.
It should be understood, first, what
was accomplished by the 1875 act of
judicature. Mr. C'lancey enumerates
its provisions as follows:
1. It abolishes the common law.
2. It abolishes all difference be
tween law and equity.
3. It abolishes all technical objec
tions.
4. It abolishes forms of actions.
6. It abolishes demurrers.
6. It abolishes terms of court.
7. It created the originating sum
mons. which very largely does away
with pleading and puts procedural
matter in the hands of a "master.”
K. It establishes a rules committee.
9. It. consolidated fifteen varieties
of courts.
When one thinks of the average
American lawsuit, he thinks pretty
largely of the very tilings that have
been abolished in England. What is
It ft when nil theso are abolished?
Nothing but justice.
Over half of the work of the
American courts is taken up with
proceedings which have been abolish
ed (n England, fiver half of our law
suits are decided on points of pro
cedure (hat have been abolished in
England. Three-fourths of the fees
of our lawyers are based on work
that has been abolished in England.
"Pleadings.” says Clancey, “are but
childish, senseless quibbling: not one
honest word can be said in their de
fense.” A client with a had case and
a good lawyer can win over any
body with a good case and a poor
lawyer, because If cither lawyer
makes a technical error in the plead
ings, his case is thrown out of court
without reference to justice. It is the
poor lawyer who makes the blunder.
In place of the pleadings Mr. Clan
cejy would have the originating sum
mons, a simple statement of the issue
between two parties to a lawsuit,
made by a court “master” with the In
tent of avoiding error.
Under the system of pleadings, a
lawyer takes a sentence of fifty words
aiid contorts it into an allegation 20.
000 words long, in which the same
thing is stated In a dozen different
ways. If lie fails to put down the
i right word at the right time, out. ho
goes through the window. A case is
cited from Michigan, In which five
children were disinherited through a
fqrged will. The case was dismissed
because the lawyer, in his pleadings,
«Id not make "an averment that the
complainants are harmed." The chil
dren' had been reduced to beggary, the
forgery was set forth, they were ask
ing f«r- relief, but the judge, sup
ported by the supreme court, could
not presume that their beggary had
harmed them, unless at a particular
place In the pleadings that was
"averred.” That case was not ex
traordinary: it is typical of American
Justice.
J liese points or practice and pro
cedure represent a game played be
tween lawyers, with the judge as um
pire, in which the clients pay the
bills. The litigant with a Just claim
must win the game, through his law
yer heating the other lawyer, before
the right or wrong of his case can he
passed upon. If liis lawyer loses the
game'with the other lawyer, the
client is regretfully told that he can't
get justice.
The originating summons would do
away with all of this common law
buncombe. Two litigants, or their
lawyers, would go before a "mastei‘,”
state their cases directly to him. and
tlie "master” would writ? out a state
ment of the issue for the guidance of
the judge. lie would do all the work
that is done by lawyers in their huge
j and roundabout pleadings, and he
woulfl do it in the interest of justice,
not to give one side an advantage.
Where <o Hook for Headers.
From the Portland Oregonian.
If Mr. Harding undertakes to select
tlie leaders for the new congress, lie
would do well to break away from
the Atlantic coast, where the people
of the great cities look out eastward
across the ocean toward Europe’s
aristocracy and plutocracy, and from
the radical labor element, which looks
eastward to Europe's socialism, the
former' element being unable to see
Anything west of the Hudson river
NET AVERAGE
CIRCULATION
for NOVEMBER, 1922, of
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B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr.
ELMER S. ROOD, Cir. Mgr.
Sworn to and ‘subscribed before me
this 5 th day of December, 1922.
W. H. QUIVEY.
(Seal) . Notary Public j
except a vast tributary country. The
man who stands nddway on the con
tinent looks out on America in all
directions, ami Is apt to have views
as broad as his outlook. lie Is the
type not only of the farmer but of
millions of people in cities of like
mind with the farmer. The president
may prove himself a national leader
In the next two years if lie draws his
support from this source, but In order
to succeed he should not be too pa
tient, or too kind to those who oppose
him.
Consolidate State Instil ulions.
From tba Tekamah Herald.
Taxpayers’ leagues me being or
ganized in different parts of the state,
meetings are being held at which
methods are discussed and resolution
adopted aiming at the reduction of
taxes.. Our view of the situation is.
that the way was paved several years
ago' for an excessive stale tax when
the people demanded and voted for
scattering its public institutions over
the state. It Is an expensive luxury
to maintain four separate normal
schools. Why should the state main
tain three separate asylums for the
insane? One at Lincoln with siif
ficlcnt capacity, could be maintained
at less than half the cost of the pres
«nt three. It is the same with the
agricultural experiment farms, also
fish hatcheries and other state
owned institutions, located to form an
asset or to boom certain localities.
Some legislature in tiie near future
will have the courage to use the ax at
tiie roots of the gross. Extravagance
of maintaining duplicate public in
stitutions for the comfort and con
venience of certain localities.
Economy and common sense would
dictate that most all of them should
l»e at the state capital. The taxpay
ers’ league would move in the right
direction if they would advocate the
consolidatiijn of all duplicate institu
tions and concentrate them at Lincoln
'under one management.
Christinas Gold.
From the Rocky Mountain News.
From Washington comes the news
that opposition has been withdrawn
to the distribution by banks of gold
coins to be used as Christmas
presents, for which let us all be truly
grateful to a generous government!
For one brief period In a twelve
month the west that was so accus
tomed to the use of hard money will
be able perhaps to get a glint of gold.
There is the consolatory thought at
this time steat gold coin being so
scarce is all the more valuable as a
gift and the recipient will lie of the
fortunate few and expected to hide it
away as a sort of heirloom. Wo won
der whether Uncle Sam was employ
ing his psychology by keeping gold
from the public until Christmas time
to make the recipient of the gift all
the better pleased.
But why should we in the west—
the east may do so if it pleases and
continue with germ filled paper—b
compelled to go all the year without
sight of a gold piece? The war has
been over more than four years. Are
we preparing for another by hoarding
gold? Look at the returns for the
federal • reserve system—more than
*3,000,000,000 In gold "in reserve.” But
why in reserve? The United States
has more gold in its confines than was
ever dreamed of. The proportion of
gold compared to the holdings of other
great powers is becoming a menace.
Some day there may be an interna
tional combine formed to demonetize
giflil to get even with the hoarder.
Every month there is an Increase
noted In the amount of gold taken
into this country from everywhere
that American bankers can find it.
And much would eome anyway on ac
count of the balance of trade being
with us. There is at work also “Gres
ham's law” that is driving gold out
of the countries, like Germany, that
are using the printing presses to
maintain an artificial credit .and send
ing it to this one. Citizens and cor
porations in the countries referred to
are making the United States their
safety deposit vaults.
But what is all this gold for over
here if it is not for circulation? To'
hoard in banks and treasury vaults?
Xonsense. Public officials anil bank
ers must get rid of the fear-thought
and loosen up. Do not let us become
a nation of misers, worshipping the
bidden store of gold.
The Itailroad Mix-Up.
From tho Lincoln Sts'e Journal.
Chairman Hooper of the railroad
labor hoard tells us that the unions of
railway employes are bent on discred
iting private management as a means
of furthering public ownership of the
railroads. A t the same time. Senator
elect Howell of Nebraska warns the
country against being rushed into
public ownership of the railroads at
the instance of railroad owners. The
railroad unions want government own
ership because they think this will
mean better wages. Mr. Howell 'ex
pects the railroad owners to seek
government ownership as soon as
they decide that government bonds
would be better property than rail
road stocks. Both comments Illustrate
the cross purposes which have come to
dominate and confuse the railroad sit
uation.
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A North and South Railroad.
Omaha—To the Editor of The Oma
ha Bee: In your morning issue of De
cember 12, an editorial appeared en
titled "Southward to the Tidewater,"
which overlooks one of the principal
north and south railroads and, us a
result, caused you to make the erro
neous statement: "... the whole
situation is dominated by groups
whose rhief Interest is to have west
ern farm products move to the At
lantic seaboard."
The Missouri Pacific Railroad com
pany, as reorganized in 1017, extends I
from Omaha to New Orleans. Aside 1
from tide fact, and which seems to i
have been overlooked in your edito- i
rial consideration of the north and
south roads, the more important fae- j
tor obtains that the Missouri Pacific I
Railroad company is primarily and I
in fact literally a north and south |
railroad. In other words, it is neither :
an east nor a west railroad, and it
has not any affiliations "...
whose chief interest is to have west
ern farm products move to the At- '
lantic seaboard."
In fact, one of the principal sources
of tonnage for the Missouri Pacific
is the grain products of Nebraska and
the states contiguous to Nebraska,
and which grain is moved to tlie sea- 1
board at New Orleans.
As indicative of the present north
and soutli grain movements over the I
Missouri Pacific, it might, lie interest- .
ing to note that on the 7.000 main '
line miles of the Missouri Pacific
system. Omaha is the third producing i
point, and clearly the hulk of the I
Omaha tonnage is coal inbound, and I
grain outbound south, with packing |
house products and livestock supple j
menting the outl>oiind tonnage.
Under the consolidation tentative- ,
!y started by the committee of the ;
Interstate Commerce commission, the
Chicago &. Eastern Illinois railroad Is
grouped with the Missouri Pacific rail
road system. Tills arrangements, if
ultimately accomplished, emphasizes
all the more the north and south line
characteristic of tin- Missouri Pacific
system. .1. A. C. KENNEDY.
A Different Opinion or Wilson.
Omaha—To the Editor of The Oma- !
ha Bee: Speaking of Mr. J. R. Dew
ey's "The Man of the Ages." ex-Presi- I
dent Wilson, 1 cannot be so charita- I
hie towards him as the editor of The !
Bee nor so worshipful of him as Mr. \
Dewey. My estimation of Dim is j
more in keeping with that of Henry
Wntterson when he spoke of Mr.
Wilson's "mediocre miml and colos
sal vanity."
I have tried to see wherein Mr ]
Wilson was great, and the more 1 i
study his acts the more I am con- j
vlnced that he was sponsor for more 1
milk-and-water theorits that found
expression in laws than any other ]
of our public men. The harm he did j
by foisting upon us such obnoxious
Think How Tough This Would lie]
I - 6AAT*.
[ »/•**#*•"»#■ w»«o»vir
laws as the Adams law, and by his
application of the federal reserve law
in his deflation policy, is more far*
reaching than that caused by any
other financial depression or any war
the country has experienced.
J have hut little sympathy fifl- him.
Ik* is the “martyr” of his own cro
tism and the author of his own trou
hies, physical, mental and political,
lie has already passed into history as
a serene idealist, a political .autocrat
and a tactless leader who would sacri
fice his friend, his party and his coun
try upon the altar of his own vanity.
It. M. M.
CENTER SHOTS.
A police commissioner who would
cat candy mailed anonymously would
blow out the gas.—Philadelphia Rec
ord.
Bachelor: A male person who thinks
every single lady of his acquaintance
would like to land him.—Memphis
News Scimitar. *
It is estimated the handshaking
from one election would pump 2,hl)U,
0U0 gallons of water.—Worcester
Post.
Hattie, the Central Park elephant
who died from, the effects of a stroke,
was probably closely related to the
(}. O. P. beast.—Columbia Record.
Tllh; OLD WAV AND TIIK NEW. 4
The Old Way.
Train up yob** children, parents,
And teach them to- obey,
Ard when they've grown to inanh. 1
They wjll respect jour way: •,
Train up ymir children, parents.
In ways or love and truth.
And teH<h them of religion
While they ate in their youth.
At «I teach them aelf./ciiance.
That they may r>o the day
When life's disturbing troubles
Are borne ftom them away
Train up your children, parent",
And t<arh them ne'er to shirk
Thojr duty unto others
In all their life of work.
Tim Modern Way.
Train up your parents, children,
In ways jen'U liavn them go.
And when they’yo heard your pleading'"
They never can say no.
Train up your parents, children,
And they will not depart
From love arid fond affection
Entwined about your heart.
They never will depart from
The training that you give.
When you have told them plainly
The way that you should live.
So. train your parents, children,
To follow in your way,
And then It will be easy
To guide them day by day.
— H. M. Hopewell, Tekamah, Neb
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