Eventful Week-End
Frank Lloyd Wright's lecture to
night; choir Sunday; Emerald
KORE finals Sunday; symphony
orchestra Monday—truly p- ant
ful week-end for the camp ^
VOLUME XXXII
The Weather
Fair; rising temperature.
Maximum . 55
Minimum . 25
No precipitation.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY. MARCH 7. 1931
NUMBER 92
Radio Contest
Finalists To Go
On Air Sunday
Five Organizations To Try
For Prizes Offered
* By Merchants
Broadcasting Schedule Is
Shifted; New Rides
Announced
Grand prize—Nine-tube Ma
jestic radio, offered by McMor
ran & Washburne.
Additional first prize — Em
bossed leather wall-piece, given
by Oregon Pharmacy.
Best opposite — Birchfield
Cogswell chair, presented by
Powers Furniture company.
Second prize — Fifty-dollar
lamp, donated by White-Marlatt
Electric store.
Third and fourth prizes—•
Line parties with Fox McDon
ald theater as host.
Individual (men)—Silver lov
ing cup, given by Paul D.
Green’s store for men.
Individual (women)—Silver
loving cup, given by Densmore
Leonard, ladies’ clothing shop.
Promptly at 4:30 tomorrow aft
ernoon, station KORE will switch
controls to the main unit of their
studios, judges will pick up their
pencils and papers, and talent
from five University organizations
will begin a two-and-a-half-hour
broadcast which will determine the
winners of the eight prizes being
offered by Eugene business houses
in the second annual Emerald
KORE radio contest.
Because of conflicts of time in
the original broadcasting schedule,
Delta Gamma will appear last on
the program instead of Sigma Pi
Tau, who will broadcast at 6
o’clock. The time change will also
y affect Phi Sigma Kappa and Ore
gon Yeomen by one-half hour. The
Yeomen will go before the micro
phone at 5 o’clock and the Phi
Sigs at 5:30. Alpha Beta Chi will
start the final broadcast program
at 4:30.
New Rules Made
Art Potwin, director of the con
test, announced several additional
regulations last night for the
finals. Any of the five organiza
tions whose previous program was
found to be five or ten minutes
short of the required 30 minutes
should fill in with several addi
tional numbers so that the broad
casts will be exactly a half-hour
in length, thus eliminating con
flicts at the studios. However, if
this addition .seriously interferes
with the continuity of the skit,
this addition need not be made.
None of the original numbers of
the programs are to be omitted or
'replaced by others. No additions
y or eliminations of the original tal
ent will be permitted.
Quiet Said Necessary
Unnecessary noise and confu
sion in setting up equipment dur
ing announcements will result in
a penalty by the judges on the
guilty organization. Absolute quiet
will be necessary. Representatives
of organizations must be at the
studios at least ten minutes be
fore the time of their appearance.
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directs Orchestra
Rex Underwood, professor of vio
lin in the University school of mu
sic, and conductor of the student
symphony orehestra, will direct
the 65 student musicians Monday
evening- in their last concert of the
term. Aurora Potter Underwood
will play a piano eoncerto with or
chestral accompaniment.
Quarter of News
Read, Says Dean
Allen Over Radio
Students’ Survey Reveals
Crime News Interest
Runs High
“The average reader,” says Eric
W. Allen, dean of the school of
journalism,” is able to read only
between a fourth and a sixth of
what is published.” This fact was
brought to light by the compilation
of statistics by Dean Allen's senior
class in journalism which last
spring made an extensive study of
what the people of Lane county
liked best in their daily newspa
pers. The results of the survey
were revealed for the first time in
a radio address, sponsored by the
Emerald, which Dean Allen gave
over station KORE yesterday af
ternoon.
During the survey, about 500
people, chosen from all walks of
life, were interviewed, and from
day to day they marked exactly
what they read in the morning,
and in the evening Guard. A care
ful survey of what most appealed
to the average -reader was made.
Small Items Popular
“One of the first points that was
definitely settled when the figures
began to come in,” said the dean,
“was the popularity of the type
of small news items about an inch
long which the Register-Guard
now calls “City News.” Fifty-nine
per cent of the men proved to be
habitual readers of these little
items, and 76 per cent of the wo
men, thus proving perhaps that
women do take a more personal
interest in the doings of the people
they know.”
The strong popularity of comic
strips, according to the dean, was
also outstanding. Ninety-four per
cent of the men, and 71 per cent of
the women of Lane county daily
followed the adventures of "Bring
ing Up Father.” Interest in edi
torials was found to be very high
among the readers of the Eugene
papers. This interest, however,
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From The President’s Pen
Opportunities for Group Life, Friendships, Accomplishments
Found in Dormitories and Fraternities, Says Dr. Hall.
By ARNOLD BENNETT HALL
We like to think of people liv
ing together in dormitories, fra
ternities, and sororities as having
a peculiar opportunity for group
life, group friendships, and group
accomplishments. What is more
important, such organizations
should afford equal opportunities
for the frank and intimate discus
sion of those serious problems of
life which must in one’s better mo
ments challenge his attention and
compel him to grope for light and
learning. I can think of no more
attractive picture than a group of
students living together meeting
around the fireside in the latter
part of the evening and coming to
honest grips with the fundamental
problems that seem to bar the
pathway of their fullest develop
ment.
In the speed and variety which
seems to be the mania of our day,
there is little time left for intro
spection, meditation and a sincere
j discussion of these more basic
problems. I would like to feel that
these living groups provide an at
1 mosphere conducive to just such
discussion. I would like to feel
that the members of these groups
realize something of the precious
| nature of these possibilities and
that they will consciously seek to
build up a spirit of group frank
ness, candor and understanding in
a mutual quest for those ideals and
values which represent the highest
type of human aspiration.
Whether or not the living groups
| really afford such opportunities
and incentives will, of course, de
pend upon whether or not the
members of the group are seeking
to find their organization this op
portunity for the spiritual quest of
i life's largest values.
Symphony and
Pianist To Play
Monday Night
Students Showing Cards
To Pay 15 Cents for
Varied Concert
Profits Will Buy Expensive
Orchestra Instruments;
Underwood Director
The 65 members of the Univer
sity symphony orchestra will bring
their term's activities to a close
Monday evening when under the
direction of Rex Underwood they
will present a varied concert pro
gram which will feature Liszt's
"Hungarian Fantasie” played as a
piano concerto with orchestral ac
companiment by Aurora Potter
Underwood.
Admission Price Low
A "new low” quotation of tickets
at 15 cents is offered students who |
present their student body cards
at the box office. In response to a
number of inquiries as to why stu
dents are not admitted without
charge to the concerts of the Uni
versity orchestra as they are to
the associated students’ concerts,
Assistant Graduate Manager Ron
ald Robnett pointed out yesterday
that the orchestra concerts are not
financed by the A. S. U. O. con
cert fund as are the professional
concerts which are brought to the
campus every year. Fifty cents
admission will be charged the gen
eral public for Monday’s program,
but students in the public schools
of the city will be given the 15
cent admission privilege.
Instruments Are Brought
Proceeds of the concert will be
used by the orchestra to buy in
struments. In the last few years
more than $800 worth of instru
ments, principally bass viols, bas
soons and French horns, have been
purchased from conceit receipts.
Monday evening's program will
open with a suite written by Bizet
as incidental music for Alphonse
Daudet's drama, “L’Arsienne.” An
intermezzo from the opera, “Jew
els of the Madonna” (Wolf-Fer
rari), and Saint-Saens “Danse Ma
cabre” will also precede Mrs. Un
derwood’s piano concerto. The
concert will begin promptly at 8
o’clock.
Orchestra Roster Given
The roster of the orchestra fol
lows:
Violins: Howard Halbert, con
cert master, Delbert Moore, Juan
ita Oskins, Estelle Johnson, Mabel
McKinney, Beulah Wynd, Kamilla
Klekar, George Kotchik, Laurence
Fischer, Leo Lohikoski, Helen El
liott, Peggy Sweeney, Roderick
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Oregon Riflemen
End Hearst Shoot
Five Men Score 880 Points
In Competition
Yesterday marked the close of
rifle team competition for Oregon
when the last shot was fired in
the Heart trophy matches. The to
tal score for the week was 880
points.
Individual scores of the five men
composing the team follow: Gay
lord Cox, 181; L. E. Smith, 179;
Carey Thomson, 176; Herbert
Jones, 173; and Spencer Haynor,
171. These matches, which are
sponsored each year by William
Randolph Hearst, nationally known
newspaper man, are governed by
the same rules as the regular R.
O. T. C. matches except that five
men teams are used and each man
is allowed only five shots in each
of the four positions, making 200
points possible.
All colleges and universities in
the United States and Porto Rico
giving military training are eligi
ble to enter the matches. Each
team entering forwards its score to
sixth corps area at Chicago where
the winning team is announced.
Local Women Journey
To Portland on Business
Peggy Boyer, circulation mana
ger of Old Oregon, alumni publi
cation, drove to Portland Thurs
day afternoon with Jeannette
Calkins, editor of that magazine.
They will confer with Portland
alumni officers on the proposed
drive for increased circulation that
Miss Boyer is planning.
Jazz King for a Day When
Students Flock to Lecture
Popular Music Explained
By Stephenson Smith,
Aided by Pianist
Lowly and abused American jazz
had its day as an academic sub
ject on the University of Oregon
campus Friday morning. A crowd
of nearly a thousand students,
professors and townspeople crowd
ed into Villard assembly hall to
hear S. Stephenson Smith, profes
sor of English, deliver a lecture
on the mechanics and the psychol
ogy of modern syncopation, with
the assistance of Ralph Richards,
Portland pianist, who “illustrated’’
the professor's remarks with selec
tions from current dance hits and
the more advanced “symphonic
jazz."
Professor Smith has made a
critical study of this form of mu
sic in writing his book, "The Craft
of the Critic,” which has recently
been placed on sale by the Thomas
Y. Crowell company of New' York.
“Jazz should not be regarded as
a serious medium of expression,”
Smith declared. "It is rather a
hearty, broad form of the comic
in music, done in the best Amer
l ican manner. Its more tolerable
examples are comic or serio-comic,
as in the ‘blues.’ When it grows
sentimental and serious in the
Rudy Vallee style, it becomes un
bearable.”
The basic rhythm of jazz is
merely the rediscovery of a very
old device, Smith pointed out as
he compared the modern interplay
of two different rhythms with the
melody of the old Scotch song,
[ “The Campbells Are Coming,”
with the underlying beat of the
bagpipes.
"The jazz of the last 12 years
grew out of earlier ragtime as a
comic relief from the strain of the
j war,” Smith said. “In effect, it is
a recurrence of primitive dance
music and barbaric melodic pat
terns.”
The so-called "symphonic” form
of jazz, which Richards illustrated
with Gershwin's “Rhapsody in
Blue” and Bloom's "Soliloquy,”
waS explained as the result of
“sophisticated man resorting to
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Oregon Women
Beat Willamette
In Debate Here
Contest Judges Uphold Idea
That Gandhi Is Benefit
To India
Alice Redetzke, junior in busi
ness administration, and Gwendo
lyn Caverhill, sophomore in educa
tion, upholding the affirmative,
defeated the Willamette debate
team, upholding the negative, in
the question debated last night,
“Resolved, That Gandhi has been
a benefit to India.”
Lillian Beecher, junior in public
speaking, and Barbara Elliot,
freshman in public speaking, com
posed the Willamette team. The
debate was held in room 105, Com
merce, with Mrs. Harry T. Holden
acting as chairman.
Debate Coach Is Judge
Prof. T. Garner, dramatic and
debate coach of Corvallis high
school, acted as critic judge for
the debate. Professor Garner
judged according to the nine points
of debate. The two teams tied on
the first six points, but of the re
maining three, two went to the
affirmative and one to the nega
tive.
This is the third debate held on
the campus by the women’s team,
and the second decision rendered.
The other decision debate was
against Washington State, which
the Oregon team lost.
Negative Upheld at Salem
Miss Redetzke has upheld the
affirmative of the question in one
other debate, while last night’s de
bate was Miss Caverhill’s first ap
pearance.
Bernice Conoly, junior in his
tory, and Geraldine Hickson, fresh
man in English, members of the
women’s squad, made the trip to
Salem last night to uphold the
negative of the same question
against the affirmative Willam
ette team.
Rules for Renting
Will Be Organized
Householders and Officials
To Meet Tuesday
A meeting of the Eugene house
holders, those persons having
rooms for rent during the school
year, is being called for next Tues
day evening at the YMCA hut, it
was announced last night by Mrs.
Charlotte Donnelly, head of em
ployment and housing for the cam
pus.
At that time Dean Hugh L.
Biggs, dean of men, and Hazel
Prutsman Schwering, dean of wo
men, and Mrs. Alice B. Macduff,
assistant dean of women, will be
present to aid the householders in
drawing up plans and rules gov
erning house renting during the
year. Owners will be given an op
portunity to list their available
rooms for reference to room seek
ers who apply at the hut.
Any questions and problems of
the owners will be discussed at the
meeting which is open to everyone
interested including prospective
room-renters.
Chance of Youth
Is in Friendship,
States Jameson
Address at Cosmopolitan
Club Banquet Decries
Effect of Heritage
That the chance of youth today
is to choose the road of interna
tional friendship, rather than the
road of kinship and heritage, was
the message brought by Dr. S. H.
Jameson, associate professor of so
ciology, to the Cosmopolitan club
members at their formal banquet
last night.
Dr. Jameson brought out the ef
fects of heritage which stultify
the growth of nations and indi
viduals, and gave youth as a rem
edy for this condition. He said
youth has three advanfages at this
time, the condition of change now
prevalent in the world, the activ
ity and enthusiasm of youth, and
the ability to change minds and
mold opinions.
Varied Entertainment Presented
Edna Spenker, president of the
club, presided over the banquet,
which is an annual affair. As
toastmistress, she gave the wel
coming address, to which Florendo
Mangavil, the vice-president re
sponded. Doroteo Ines gave two
readings, and Hanale Kaahea en
tertained the guests with Hawai
ian songs, accompanying himself
on the guitar. These two members
of the club represented the Philip
pine islands and Hawaii, respect
ively.
Other nations represented by
speeches of welcome were Japan
and China. The United States was
represented in song by Mildred
Wharton.
Unique Placecards Feature
A feature of the banquet was the
placecards, each one individual,
decorated with pen drawings of
great men from every country in
the world.
Special guests were Mrs. Prince
L. Campbell, Mrs. Murray Warner,
Mrs. Charlotte R. Donnelly, Mr.
and Mrs. Younges, Mr. and Mrs.
Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Max Adams,
Dr. and Mrs. Jameson, and Mrs.
Lucy Perkins. Regular patrons
and patronesses present were Dr.
and Mrs. H. S. Tuttle, Dr. and Mrs.
L. O. Wright, and Mr. and Mrs.
Juan Rael.
The banquet was served by
members of the International Re
lations group of Philomelete, with
Margaret Hunt in charge.
Law Professors Attend
Services of Judge Bean
Charles E. Carpenter, dean of
the school of law, and Charles G.
Howard and Carlton E. Spencer,
professors of the law school, are
planning to attend memorial serv
ices in Portland today for the late
Judge Robert Sharp Bean, who,
until the time of his death, was
the last surviving member of the
class of 1878, the first class to
graduate from the University.
Judge Bean passed away two
months ago. His successor, Judge
Alger Fee, of Pendleton, is a mem
ber of the editorial board of the
Oregon Law Review, publication
[of the school of law.
Beta Phi Alpha
Installation To
Occur Today
National Sorority To Take
Over Local Chi Delta
Organization
Big Banquet Will Be Given
Tonight at 7 o'Cloek
In Eugene Hotel
Installation of the local sorority
Chi Delta, as Alpha Gamma chap
ter of Beta Phi Alpha, national
social sorority, will be held today
at 5 o’clock in the chapter house.
Installing officers are Mrs. Dor
othy O. Riebe, Berkeley; Mrs. An
gelina H. West, Seattle; and Miss
Ethel Armitage, Corvallis.
Following the installation, a
banquet will be held at 7 o’clock
in the Eugene hotel. Georgina
Gildez is in charge of the banquet
and is being assisted by Margaret
Read. Grace Ash will act as
toastmistress. Decorations will
consist of yellow tea roses, daffo
dils, yellow iris, and gold tapers.
Banquet To Honor 16 Guests
Guests of honor at the banquet
will be Mrs. Hazel Prutsman
Schwering, dean of women; Mrs.
Alice B. Macduff, assistant dean
of women; Mrs. Warren D. Smith
and Mrs. Edwin L. Knapp, patron
esses. Besides these there will
be five guests from Delta chapter
at Seattle, six from Rho chapter
at Corvallis, and one from Lamb
da chapter at Los Angeles.
Sunday, from 6 to 8:30, a recep
tion will be held at the chapter
house. About three hundred and
fifty guests have been invited, ac
cording to Ruth C. Clark, head of
the committee in charge.
To Be Nineteenth National
In the receiving line will be Mrs.
M. F. Burkhart, housemother;
Mrs. H. P. Schwering, Miss Ethel
Armitage, Mrs. Dorothy O. Riebe,
Mrs. A. H. West; Miss Ruth
Gough, alumnae president; Mrs.
Warren D. Smith, and Nana Cra
mer, house president.
Those who will pour are Mrs.
Alice B. Macduff, Mrs. Dan Clark,
Mrs. Edwin Knapp, and Mrs. Gen
evieve Turnipseed.
Beta Phi Alpha will be the nine
teenth women’s national on the
campus. Zeta Tau Alpha was the
last national to be established in
Eugene. It was installed in 1929.
Beta Phi Alpha will be the only
house on the campus to have its
national originating on the Pacific
coast, the sorority being founded
at the University of California in
1909.
S. Smith Will Read
O’Neil’s 1-Aet Play
English Reading Features
Tropic Play Sunday
Eugene O'Neill’s “Moon of the
Caribbees” will be read by S.
Stephenson Smith, associate pro
fessor of English, at the English
reading this Sunday evening from
7:30 to 8:30 o’clock in the women’s
lounge of Gerlinger hall.
"Moon of the Caribbees” is a
play which has for its setting the
romantic atmosphere of the trop
ics and for its characters the rough
sailors aboard a ship. The con
trast of the two results in a very
interesting effect. Throughout the
play the low beat of the tom-tom
combines with the rough language
of the hardy seamen.
These Sunday evening English
readings are sponsored by the
committee on intellectual activi
ties, and are open to all people
who are interested.
Colds and Sore Throats
Still Predominate Here
With the approach of the end
of the term the nurses at the in
firmary find themselves with 11
students confined to their care.
Colds and sore throats, which have
been quite numerous this term,
still predominate as the main
cause of confinements at the pres
ent time. Those confined to the
care of the University health ser
vice yesterday were: Dorothy Foss,
Thelma Collins, Mary Caniparoli,
Carol Werschkul, Tom Faley,
Glenn Kimberling, Wendell Smith,
James Woodruff, Isaac Feves, Rob
ert Brown, and Fred Reid.
Noted Visitor
Frank Floyd Wright, world-fa
mous modern architect, will arrive
on the campus this morning for
a four-day stay. He will lecture
at the music auditorium tills eve
ning on “Twentieth Century Archi
tecture.” An exhibit of Wright’s
work has been plaeed in the school
of architecture’s gallery.
Polyphonic Choir
Ready To Present
Concert Sunday
Roy Bryson To Direct 140
Singers in Presentation
Of ‘The Holy City’
Singing of the sacred cantata,
“The Holy City,” by the 140-voice 1
second division of the University
Polyphonic choir, will be the Sun
day afternoon program at the Mu
sic auditorium tomorrow.
Roy Bryson, voice instructor at
the school of music, is to make
his first campus appearance as a
chorale director on this occasion.
He has been training the large
second division for this concert
since the first of winter term, and
last week rehearsals have shown
that both the chorus and the solo
ists are ready to give a capable and
artistic performance.
"The Holy City” was written by
Alfred Gaul, an English composer
of the 19th century. While not
ranked as one of the greatest sa
cred cantatas, it has earned a wide
popularity throughout the English
speaking world by virtue of its
smooth continuity, and the melodic
and harmonic beauty of its solos
and chorales, according to Mr. Bry
son.
Tickets for students will be on
sale at the Co-op all day today for
20 cents. Tickets for faculty mem
bers and the public v. ill be sold
at the same place for 00 cents, and
both classes will also be on sale
at the box office at the music au
ditorium preceding the concert,
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Wright ToTalk
On New Forms
Of Architecture
Designer To Speak Tonight
At Music Building
Auditorium
Large Audience Expected;
Open Forum Promised
After Lecture
A capacity audience is expected
at the lecture on “Twentieth Cen
tury Architecture” which will be
given tonight at 8 p. m. in the
Music building auditorium by
Frank Lloyd Wright, internation
ally famed architect, Hazel P.
Schwering, dean of women, yester
day announced that attendance at
the lecture would be permitted,
though this is a closed week-end.
A request for a large bloc of
seats has been made by the land
scape architecture department of
Oregon State college. The over
flow attendance will be put on the
stage, says Glen Gardiner, presi
dent of the Allied Arts league,
which is bringing Wright to the
University.
Exhibit Is Here
Tickets, which are 50 cents, will
be on sale at the Co-op and Mc
Morran and Washburne’s until 6
o’clock tonight, and at the box of
fice in the school of music after
6:30.
The exhibit of Wright’s work ar
rived yesterday afternoon in 14
large boxes and packing cases. It
will be set up in the little gallery
of the school of art soon after
Wright’s arrival today noon, and
will be open to the public, free of
charge, until late Tuesday night.
Open Discussion Is Listed
One of the brightest spots of the
evening’s program, says Gardiner,
who is acting as head of the com
mittee which will welcome the ar
chitect, will be the open discussion
at the close of the lecture. Wright
is always willing to answer ques
tions on any subject connected with
his building, whether it be a home
or a skyscraper, and his modern
ism has many critics.
He is an interesting speaker,
says Gardiner, and a talented writ
er as well as being a creator and
designer.
Monday Wright will be a guest
at a luncheon to be given at the
Anchorage by the Allied Arts
league, and a formal banquet in
his honor is being planned for
Tuesday evening.
Five To Be Initialed Into
Phi Chi Theta on Sunday
Initiation ceremonies will be
conducted by Phi Chi Theta, na
tional women’s professional com
merce fraternity, when that group
meets Sunday morning at 9 o’clock
at Susan Campbell hall, Alexis
Lyle, president, announced.
Five junior and senior women
from the business ad school will
be admitted to membership. Ida
Belle Tremayne, former student of
1925-26, who was national secre
tary for the organization at that
time, will conduct the ceremony,
and will give a talk on "The Work
of the National, and What Other
Chapters Are Doing.” Miss Tre
mayne recently returned from a
tour of Europe.
Diamonds9 Dives9 Crocodiles
Feature Co-ed’s World Trip
By GEORGE ROOT
To her father it was only a bus
iness trip in which to visit the ruby
mines of Siam, the sapphire mines
of Ceyon, and the diamond dig
gings in Africa, but to his daugh
ter, Edith Jessop, junior co-ed who
jusf entered Oregon this year from
San Diego, it proved to be a nine
months’ adventure around the
world, including crocodile hunting,
riding elephants, visiting Shang
hai night clubs, winter sports in
Japan, and, in one case, narrowly
escaping a jaunt through a leper
island.
Edith got out her diary the oth
er afternoon and briefly sketched
her trip beginning with the winter
sports in Japan. “There's lots of
snow,’’ she explained, “and skiing
and tobogganing, being very new
to the Japanese, are very interest
ing to everyone there.”
“Shanghai was the next stop. We
visited the night clubs,” she said.
“And do they have night clubs,
my dear!”
“We were in Hong Hong for
New Years.” Edith turned over a
few pages and picked out a para
graph. “There were fire-works
three stories high, and all kinds of
smoke and racket. Incidentally,
the Chinese make it a custom to
have all their debts paid by the
first of the year so you can pur
chase most anything in the little
shops at bargain prices.”
Through Manila and over to
Singapore was the boat’s next
jump. Edith held up a pressed or
chid she had saved. “Orchids are
only two cents apiece in Singa
pore," she said. "There are whole
fields of orchids and enormous rub
ber plantations all over.”
"We went through the Malay
peninsula, stopped at a big tin
mine, and then went on to Bang
kok, Siam’s capital, where we vis
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