THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1920.
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The Bee's Platform
1. New Union Passenger Station.
2. A Pip Lino from tho Wyoming Oil
Field to Omaha.
3. Continued improvement of the Ne
braska Highwayt, including the pave
"ment of Main Thoroughfare leading
into Omaha with a Brick Surface.
,4. A hort, low-rat Waterway from the
Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean.
5. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
THE TRUE RAILROAD POLICY.
; 1. Hurry back to the western railroads their
empty boxcars now lying idle on eastern and
outnern sidetracks.
2. Restore prompt distribution of industrial
lnd food products by barring all nonessentials
from the rails until that has been accomplished.
3. Thereby release from nonessential em
ployments the men necessary for food produc
tion, insure an abundance of essentials wherever
Heeded, and end the period of price extortion
encouraged and established by the government.
Much of the abnormally high cost of living
may be traced directly to the government ad
ministration of the railroads, and its failure to
distribute promptly the essentials of industry and
living. When fuel and the raw materials used
in manufacturing are delayed in transit to the
factory, the time lost is added to the cost of
the finished product, and is paid for by the ulti
. mate consumer. When finished products fail to
reach the merchant in due season, the people
. are made to pay the delay bill. When foods
are not given rapid transit to the points where
they are most needed, and local scarcities result,
prices soar in "sympathy" where there exists no
scarcity. All the time and everywhere the high
Cost of all these failures in transportation is
.paid for out of the purses of the families of the
nation. Its big blister raises on the skin of the
man who has a family to feed, clothe and h6use.
There was time when these losses fell upon
the manufacturer or the merchant. But not so
lince the administration at Washington has en-
Icouraged and approved the charging of all its
inefficiency, its administrative failures, and its
wanton and, prodigious extravagances, 1o the
man who must buy in order to keep his family
alive. No matter what else happened, business
has been kept enormously profitable by the gov
ernment in order that it might take from it
a great portion of its income and excess profits
to pay for administrative waste. It is at last
dawning on the people that they, and not big
business, are paying every dollar of the income
and excess profits taxes when they go to the
, grocer, the clothier, the dry goods merchant,
and all other dealers in commodities. The
families of the nation are the ones who are pay
ing the bills rather than the big industrial and
mercantile establishments.
With proper distribution of essentials by thff
railroads, however, high prices may be de
creased in spite of their official encouragement.
By returning to the western roads their empty
boxcars, by giving essentials the .right-of-way
everywhere until distribution is systematically
restored, there will ensue a big contraction in
the production of nonessentials, now clogging
the railroads and occupying the time of men
sorely needed on the farms.
One year of this policy by the railroads
would do more, in our opinion, to relieve the
people from extortion and to bring normal and
wholesome conditions to the country, than any
other plan jet called to our attention.
t Labor and trie Mexican Revolution.
A statement by a Mexican revolutionist that
his cause will receive the support of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor undoubtedly resti on
a misconception of the great institution.
The American Federation of Labor does not
exist , to foment or forward the cause
of revolution, in Mexico, or anywhere else.
Primarily' a clearing house through which the
national and international trades unions and or
ganized groups of labor transact their mutual
business and co-ofdinate plans for unified ac
tion, the American Federation of Labor finds its
real employment in the economic field, and its
excursions into politics are incidental merely.
, That the labor men of the United States sym
pathize with the situation of those below the
bdrder has been clearly shown, especially in the
assistance given to the all but embryonic trades
union movement in Mexico. Carranza's effort
to suppress the unions was merely following a
tradition that has come down from the " dark
days of Mexico's history. Rulers there have
been accustomed to dealing with labor, skilled
and unskilled, on the peonage basis, and have
rigorously held down any effort at organization.
Resistance to such oppression may be found at
the bottom of much of the uneasiness and dis
turbance in that unhappy country, whose trou
ble all flow from misgovernment. American
workingmen appreciate this, but it is not at all
likely they are at the moment inclined to go
beyond giving moral support to the revolutionists.
Truth All-Important.
Sound beliefs are all founded on knowledge
knowledge being acquaintance with, perception
of and acceptance of fact, truth and duty. False
beliefs are founded on false, insufficient, or mis
leading information.
The world is crowded with spurious and de
ceptive information, which too often crowds
truth and knowledge out of the minds of the
majority, Particularly is this true of pontics,
which seems sometimes to be nothing but a
welter of errors, some of them honest, others
palpably false, and still others deliberately con
ceived, cunningly phrased and circulated for the
sole purpose of misleading the public.
Men who sincerely desire to be just and
definite in their beliefs, political or otherwise,
must be sure that their information on which
they ba$e.thenia and jthe principle? on which
they do their thinking, are true. There can he
no intellectual stability,, no correct political
judgment, without knowledge of the truth. In
this land of liberty it becomes increasingly im
portant that we understand that only the truth
shall make us free.
Chance for the Non-Churchgoer.
Having devoted a week to securing sub
scriptions and pledges from the church mem
bers and attendants of the country, the drivers
of the Inter-Church movement are now giving
attention to non-churchgoers. This division in
cludes, perhaps, a majority of the citizenship,
but is in no sense a sign of disinterest or lack
of appreciation. Those who do not attend
church or pro.fess religion are beneficiaries, di
rectly and indirectly, of the existence and ac
tivities of the churches.
Primarily, the church of whatever denomina
tion is but the outward and visible proof of the
deep underlying moral principles on which our
civilization rest, and from which flow all the
benefits of enlightened organized government.
These benefits are not peculiar, to any class, but
are the common heritage and possession of all.
It is also true that membership in a church
or the public profession of religious belief is
not essential entirely to the acknowledgment
and worship of God. Many a man whose daily
walk is a benefaction to his fellows, whose life
is consecrated to service, and whose soul looks
up to and reverences profoundly his Maker,
seldom inters a church, but worships silently
and without show God the Supreme. And here
are others, whose seeming irreverence is but
on the surface, and many who make no pretense
whatever to religion in any sense, but who are
keenly alive to the great precepts that are taught
by religion.
These are now properly to be asked to con
tribute to the great organized and co-ordinated
work of the churches. It is not to foster de
nominationalism, to spread sectarianism in any
sense, or to bolster up creed or dogma. The
object in view is the support of the effort to
make the world better by disseminating doctrine
of truth, with the accompaniment of" relief
through hospitals, schools, asylums and other
means for ameliorating human ills. Don't dodge
when the solicitor comes, but give your bit and
feel that you are doing something in a practical
way to assist in making the world a better
place to live in.
A Democratic Mark Tapley.
The New York World sees "a divided repub
lican party" because.it has not yet united on a
presidential candidate. In thus disclosing the
parental wish of a premature thought, we have
no hint of what the World thinks of the soli
darity, or lack of it, in its own party.
Does it regard the expressed hostility of a
majority of Georgia's democratic primary
voters to the League of Nations without
reservations as an omen of party harmony?
Can it view the activities of the rejuvenated
and irrepressible Mr. Bryan as a leader of the
nation's democratic drys in a finish fight with
the eastern democratic wets led by Edwards of
New Jersey and Cox of Ohio, as productive of
democratic unity?
Is the prospect of defending the Wilson autoc
racy, its "frigidity of emotions," its blunders,
waste and inefficiency, pleasing to the World?
And just as a YnaMer oi record, to what ex
tent does the World think the recent state
ment of the democratic senator from Massa
chusetts will operate as a party harmony pro
motor. Senator Walsh said last week:
Any leader who thinks the democratic
party as a whole is &oing to the San Fran
cisco convention, dominated and' controlled
by the treaty and league democrats, is going
to Ret the shock of his life. Senator Smith
of Georgia informed me yesterday the Geor
gia Convention, soon to be held, will pass a
resolution placing the Georgia democrats
against the Wilson position on the treaty.
Other states, I am told, will take fh same
course in the next few weeks.
If the World imagines the wreck just ahead
for the Wilson league westbound express will
not expose a whited sepulcher full of dead men's
bones and all uncleanness, then we have with
us in real life a democratic Mark Tapley who
can be jolly and light-hearted in spite of a
democratic party about to be torn asunder
north and south, east and west.
Interest in the Primary.
One encouraging sign is found in the final
reports from the late primary in Omaha. Total
figures just compiled show that 60 per cent of
the registered voters went to the polls to ex
press a choice for nominees. Here is a strong
defense for the system. Opponents are in the
habit of loosely charging that the primary is
not expressive of sentiment because not enough
of the voters take part to make Ihe result rep
resentative. When six out of ten voters in a
community the size of Omaha feel enough con
cern in the outcome to vote, the result must be
accepted as fairly indicating the popular choice.
True, most of the nominees are "minority" can
didates in the sense that they did not receive
a majority of the total vote. Where more than
two are running for the same place, it is un
usual for one to receive a majority. In one of
the contests on the republican side at the late
election, less than 100 votes separated the first
three aspirants. The winner is none the less
the nominee of his party simply for the reason
that two other equally popular men vied with
him for party favor, and the losers are in honor
bound to give him the loyal support they would
have expected for themselves had they come
out ahead. What the state will show in the
way of proportion of vote cast to total possible
is yet to be determined, but Omaha has no need
to worry that its voters were not out jon
primary day.
That Chicago hotel keeper who asked the
Nebraska delegation $500 a day for one room
must have been reading some of the recent bank
statements.
Local building operations still jog along at
the rate of a million and a half a month. It
will be some total by the time the seeason ends.
Europe just now is giving a wonderful ex
ample of peace wrought through the machinery
of a League of Nations. ,
If that show in London was anything like
some we have seen, it deserved to be stoned.
A local preacher sees perils in prosperity.
Some of the prices asked are criminal, all right.
Some close races in the primary suggest how
Candidates hustled.
Come into the Flower, fund; nobody barred.
A Line 0 Type or Two
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PROTEST is made to us by the Society for
the Prevention of Calling Sleeping-Car Porters
George against the recent suggestion that the
Pullman Palace Car Porters' Association Head
quarters should , be called, to save time,
"George's Place." The statistics committee of
the S. P. C. S. P. G. reports that more por
ters are christened Sam than George, and sug
gests that the headquarters would be more ap
propriately known as "Sam's Place."
THE SAVING SENSE.
Sir: Psychologists tell us the saving grace
of a people Is a national sense of humor. They
do not say what kind of humor, and as you are.
reported to run a humorist. column, I appeal to
you. AXEL.
FIRST, this does not purport to be a hu
morous column; a sense of humor keeps us from
attempting such a thing. As for your question,
a very good example of national humor is the
British government's response to the unhumor
ous Senate of the United States.
, . Ye Resourceful Kd.
(From the Buffalo, N. D., Express.)
Is your hoe rusty? Better see, for it
won't be long before you will be tickling
the ground In that Mil old garden spot. And
by the way, nee that the lawn mower is
sharp, because the editor may want to
borrow It for a day or so business has been
so rotten that we have not been able to get
ours ground up to cut grass. Either pay
your subscription early or else expect to be
asked to loan him something this year. Be
sides he often forgets to return what he
borrows. (
WHEN a state of war no longer exists be
tween Germany and Woodrow Wilson, we may
learn many interesting things about the secret
history of the war. The decoding of ciphers,
for example, was a fascinating department. The
cipher in Poe's "Gold Bug" was childishly sim
ple compared with some of the nuts cracked
by the experts. It seems there is nothing that
can be devised with the alhpabet which cannot
be unraveled. The only safe code is one in
which symbols or whole words stand for other
whole words, previously agreed upon. There
was published a year or two ago, in a scientific
paper, a cipher said to be absolutely unreadable.
We asked an expert about it, and he smilingly
assured us that it was one of the simplest of
them all.
WEALTHY BUT THRIFTT.
(From the Muskogee Phoenix.)
Beautiful farmer's daughter with 425
acres of land, very wealthy, would marry.
Send stamp for a reply. Box , Talla
hassee, Fla.
"THE record loss for the week was made
by Mrs. Nellie Leonard, who came tumbling
down from 323 to 315 pounds, in the week's
time." Dispatch from the front.
The first hundred pounds are the hardest.
A CINCINNATI corsetorium announces
that its expert corsetiere is Mrs. Titus.
A Sympathetic View.
(Dr. Joseph Collins, in the North American
f Review. )
Woodrow Wilson does not love his fellow
men. He loves them in the abstract but not in
the flesh. "
He says with his lips that he loves his fel
low men, but ther is no accompanying emo
tional glow.
His determination to put things through in
the way he has convinced himself they should
be put through is not susceptible to change
from influences that originate without his own
mind. '
In contact with people he gives himself the
air of listening with deference and, indeed, of
being beholden to judgment and opinion; but
in reality it is an artifice which he puts oft when
he returns to the dispensing center of the word
and of the law, just as he puts b.ft his gloves
and his hat.
. Obstinacy is one of his most conspicuous
characteristics.
The President attempts to mask with facial
urbanity and a smile in verbal contact with
people, and with the subjunctive mood in writ
ten contract, his third most deforming defect of
character, namely, his inability to enter into a
contest of any sort in which there is strife with
out revealing his true nature, that is, his emo
tional frigidity, his lack of love for his fellow
men.
When he attempts to play this game his ar
tiflced civility, cordiality, amiability are so dis
cordant with the real man that they become of
fensive, as affectations of manner or speech al
ways are, and Instead of placating the individual
to whom they are manifest, or facilitating a
modus vivendi, they offend him and make rap
port with him impossible.
THE distinguished neurologist, who is a
sincere admirer of the President, argues that if
it were not for his outstanding faults he would
have been the greatest man that America has
produced; which is somewhat like saying that
Mrs. Jones would be a pretty woman were it
not for protruding teeth, . receding chin and a
squint. Is it not nearer the truth to say that
Woodrow Wilson owes his position in the world
to his extraordinary egoism and lack of humil-.
ity? How far would his virtues have taken him
on the road to greatness?
HAPPY VALLEY.
I walked a winding footpath,
With beauty all athrill;
On one side shone a river.
On one side knelt a hill;
Reflected in the water
Was flower and bush and tree,
And in his leafy palace
A thrush sang Joyously.
How well do I remember
Each sight and sound and scent; "
But I have quite forgotten
Whither and why I went;
. And I've no recollection
What cares 1 tossed away,
Nor have I the least remembrance ,
What dreams beguiled the day.
LiAURA BLACKBURX.
TOOK TURNS REMINDING HER.
(From the Friend, Neb., Sentinel.)
Tuesday evening of last week a few of
the near neighbors and relatives spent the
evening with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Red
man to help Mrs. Redman remember her
birthday.
THIS FOOLS MANY CUSTOMERS.
(From the Austin, Minn., Herald.)
Parasol and umbrella repairing neatly
and quickly done. I am also equipped to
sharpen shears. N. O. Wait.
"SUMMER U. S. Residents of Canada May
Import Booze." Cheering headline.
How about a summer membership in the
Canadian -Club?
ONE knows that the recital season is over
from the expression on the faces of the music
critics. It is almost happy.
Going Going Gone !
Sir: You remember the wonderful maid I
told you about? She left Saturday night. She
wouldn't wash the dishes after eight o'clock.
When my wife recovered from the shock she
said the maid must have read the Line. The
dark horse is temporarily on the Job again. I
bring Ice cream home to her. My two-liner is
running in the Trib again. The smooth-haired
young gentleman at the desk inveigled me into
three insertions. "There is lots of demand for
this kind of help," he said. Gosh, don't I know
it! M. F.
SIGN in a grocery store in Greenville, Tex.:
"It is alright to give checks providing you have
the money to take care of them. Please do not
give me any more worthless paper or it will be
turned over to the proper authorities."
A CORUSCATING IMMORTAL.
(From the Purdue Exponent.)
Sparkle Moore, 'i'3, has gone to her
home at Zionsville to spend the week end.
ON Mr. Palmer's calendar this is a red-letter
day. . - B. L.T.
How to Keep Well
By Dr. W. A. EVANS
Be Some Gang.
Two generations from now the descendants
of mn who were mentioned for the presidency
in 1920 may hold a meeting, if they can find a
halt large enough, New York Telegraphy
HORSES CAREFULLY
EXAMINED.
General Pershing's war horse, Ke
dron, was released from quarantine
in about two months. Maj. Gen.
Leonard Wood's war horse never was
allowed to enter the United States
after the Spanish-American war.
The law requires that horses ex
posed as these horses were shall be
examined by a veterinarian before
being allowed to enter this country.
If found to be bearing contagion
they arc excluded. If found healthy
they are held in quarantine under
observation for six months, at the
end of which time they are released
if found healthy on examination.
Kedron, along with a largo number
of other valuable animals, is just
now being released from this period
of observation.
Surgeon General Cummings, when
he returned recently from a pro
longed period of observation of
European conditions, is quoted as
having said we were in .imminent
danger from somo of the epidemics
rife in parts of Europe. "
No doubt Dr. Cummings was In
fluenced in part by the difference be
tween the care exercised to prevent
disease of live stock and that of man.
While we examine every immigrant,
the examination is very hurried and
superficial and there is no period of
detention for observation. No doubt
he was also under the Influence of
what he had observed in Europe.
The record docs not indicate that
we are in any great danger from the
major epidemic diseases of Europe.
Influenza is already here. We do not
expect another invasion from Europe
for a generation. That is the teach
ing of medical history. Cholera is
bad in parts of Europe. About a
decade ago cholera came into the
port of New York on several ships.
It was held in that harbor and so
cured no foothold in America.
Typhus fever has been the worst
of all major epidemics, next to in
fluenza, during the war and the
troublous years following it. In
Brill's disease we have a form of
typhus fever always present with us.
Mexican typhus is just as contagious
and just as deadly as is the disease in
Serbia and other badly infected parts
of Europe. Three years ago Mexi
can typhus got a good foothold in
the United States.
It was widespread along the
Southern Pacific railroad from Los
Angeles almost to New Orleans. It
spread up the Santa Fe to within 200
miles of Chicago. And yet the pub
lic health service, state boards and
medical departments of the two rail
roads wiped it up like taking candy
from a baby.
Plague has not been much In evi
dence in the European war zones,
but it is one of the major epidemics
liable to follow war. Plague has
had a foothold in the United States
for 20 years without making head
way. For several decades people of
Caucasian stocks appear to have had
the upper hand of plague.
We are in practically no danger
from the major epidemic diseases of
the unsettled parts of Europe. But
Dr. Cummings is right in warning us
that we are too easy at our immigra
tion offices. We do let in a lot of
conditions which in the long run do
us harm. We let in many with con
sumption and trachoma. We let in
many who are feeble minded or in
sane. We let in many who are anti
social by inheritance, training and
mentality. We let in many who are
poorly developed physically.
May Not Be Hay Fever.
A. L. writes: "I am 14 years old
and have suffered with hay fever for
11 years. What is the best 'thing
to do?"
REPLY.
Be certain that your disease is
hay fever. Does it come at a cer
tain time? Does it act like a very
bad cold or like asthma? . If in a
position to do so have skin tests
made to find the cause of youf
trouble. Having found the cause,
be vaccinated against it. If you
have hay fever and cannot be treated
and can go to a resort, do so. If
you cannot be treated by vaccines
begin taking chloride of lactate of
calcium now. Dissolve four ounces
of calcium chloride crystals in one
pint of distilled water. Take one
teaspoonful three times a day for
several months.
Probably Not Pyorrhea.
S. J. N. S. writes: 1. "What is
pyorrhea? 2. What causes it? 3
My gums are not inflamed, but when
I eat an apple or a sandwich and
then take a nap for about an hour
or two it seems as though my front
teeth are about to fall out,. What
causes this? 4 I have bxm to two
dentists and they told me I did not
have pyorrhea, but I am afraid they
are not telling me the truth. S Is
there anything I can do to harden
up my gums?
REPLY.
1 An inflammation of the gums.
2 Infection.
3. 4, 5 Brushing your gums twice
daily will harden them. Your symp
toms do not suggest pyorrhea.
Scant Comfort. ,
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visiting wife's relatives is eating so
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Omaha, Neb., May 1. To the Ed
itor of Tho Bee: The old myth that
Nebraska is devoid of natural min
eral deposits has in recent years
been thoroughly exploded. On the
southern border there are largo de
posits of cement rock and shale; to
the westward there are workable
deposits of pumice stone; to the
northwest there are lakes of potash,
and on beyond there, are traces of
petroleum oil. At Humboldt and
Tekaham there are inexhaustible do
posits of shale of the highest qual
ity out of which is made every kind
of brick and tile and other clay
wares. There are a number of build
ing stone quarries.
Out of this wealth of natural re
sources has arisen a group of im
portant industries which are en
riching the state. They are attract
ing for profitable investment an
enormous amount of working capi
tal .and are expanding from year to
year. The growth of these indus
tries has also led to the creation of
new processes of manufacture,
which are labor-saving and time
saving, and will in the end enable
the manufacturers to reduce the
price of their wares to the consumer
and at the same time make a good
profit.
There Is one new process to which
I wish to make brief allusion. It is
a tower-shaped brick kiln. 66 feet
high, the proportions of which re
mind one of the Arc de Triomph. A
huge tube is placed in the center of
each wing of the arch, within which
a slow-moving elevator hoists 1,000
freshly-moulded bricks to the top,
conveys them over to the left wing
and down the tubes. Half way down
it moves into a zone of intense heat
which, of course, rises and dries
the bricks as they traverse the tube.
This remarkable kiln dries and
burns. 1,000 bricks every 15 minutes.
It Is revolutionizing the clay prod
ucts industry, and by the way, it is
the invention of an Iowa man.
In both Iowa and Nebraska there
are deposits of shale from which
clay wares are produced. The de
posit at Humboldt, Neb., Is said to
be Miitable for paving brick of the
highest quality and also for build
ing brick, while the shalo deposit at
Te.kamu li is suitable- for all clay
wa res.
Nebraska is manufacturing only
11 per cent of the clay wares con
sumed in the state, all the reat hav
ing to be Imported from other states.
There is a market In both Nebraska
and Iowa for all the clay wares, In
cluding paving brick, that can be
produced, to say nothing of the
broader field. And we have' the raw
material In limitless quantities.
These conditions argue . for the
building up of a great industry.
J. B. H.
Read I he Hook of Job.
Columbus. Neb., April 25. To tho
Edttor of The Bee: I beg for spai'0
to answer the article written in the
Letter Box April 21 by Joseph Greig
of Mapleton, Neb.
He says tho Bible Is sponsor for
the idea that terra flrma Is the only
abode of intelligent creatures.
Where, in the Bible, does Mr. Greig
got the idea that other planets are
referred to. If the Bible mentions
other planets then why did the
church aupthorities burn Bruno at
the stake because he said there were
other worlds besides our planet?
He says all questions will resolve
themselves Into Biblical questions
and that the Bible Is tho source of
all knowledge. If so, where. In the
Bible do we get our knowledge of
science, astronomy, mathematics,
mechanics, electricity, etc. He in
fers that it is useless to try to ac
quire knowledge not revealed In the
Bible. What, then, are we to do?
Are we to cease all investigations,
fold our arms and let knowledge
and wisdom be taught to us from the
Bible by interpreters of Holy Writ
who have for 2,000 years failed to
agree on the truths of the Bible?
The world did that passive stunt for
about 1,000 years after the fall of
Rome, when It was dangerous to in
vestigate anything. This 1,000 years
is referred to as the dark ages.
Mr. Greig closes his article with
an attack on Voltaire. I do not
know who Mr. Greig is, but I do
know that Voltaire was the intel
lectual monarch of Europe for 40
years. That Is an old story about
hit old home being turned Into a
Bible society. It Is absolutely false.
Why would a Bible society want to
meet in tha home of one of the
devil's angels? If it s providential
that a Blbla society would be held in
Voltaire's home then what have the
Christiana to offer for an excuse
that the birthplace of Christ was in
the hands of the infidel Turk for
nearly 2,000 years and the site of the
Holy Temple be replace by a Mo
hammedan mosque? Is that provi
dential? Let us be just to the dead. Vol
taire did most all his writing on bis
estate near Geneva, Switzerland. He
was a Catholio and had a church
built on his estate where services
were held. He wrote, not against
religion, but against the abuses of
his time and what may be termed
"privileged orthodoxy." That there
were many abuses In the church is
evidenced by an old French law
passed about Voltaire's time limiting
the number of mistresses a bishop of
the church was entitled to.
JESSE S. KINDER.
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