LAST FEE PAYMENT
ill be due at the cashier's office on
or before Saturday, May 6. Students not
paying by this date will be charged 25
cents a day extra. After Saturday, May
13, students with unpaid fees will be
dropped from the University.
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QUEEN ELECTION;
Will be held today at the polls be
tween Oregon and Commerce halls. Polls
will be open from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m.
Student body members only will be al
lowed to vote. A.S.U.O. card must be
presented at the polls.
VOLUME XXXV
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1934
NUMBER 108
Polls to Open
At 9 for Junior
Queen Election
ASDO Cards Necessary
For Voting
NOMINEES LISTED
Aspirants Presented in Parade
Around Campus; Larson
Provides Comedy
The balloting- for Junior Week
end queen and attendants will be
held today between 0 and 3 o’clock
at the polls situated midway be
tween Commerce and Oregon .ac
cording to Bob Zurcher, chairman
of elections, who stated that all
University students who have stu
dent body cards are eligible to
vote.
The nominees are as follows:
Virginia Gaddis, Virginia How
ard, Miriam Henderson, Margaret
Ann Howland, Cynthia Liljeqvist,
Marytine New, Lucille Stewart,
Elaine Untermann, Lucy Ann Wen
dell, Josephine Waffle.
These ten junior women who
were nominated last week were
borne around the campus yester
day sitting on top of sporty road
sters for campus approbation.
Crowds of students issued from all
living organizations as the proces
sion passed. Members of various
fraternities drove the cars.
The spectacle rivalled an old
fashioned 4th of July celebration
as it moved by the new men’s
dorm. Paces rapidly emerged
from the upper story windows.
Boys with towels in their hands,
pens, books, thrust these aside as
the display of pulchritude slowly
moved below.
Blondes aiid brunettes were
evenly divided and all waved and
smiled blithely up at their friends.
Chief of all amusement was a mod
ed T Ford coupe of aged vintage
which was decorated lavishly with
Scotch bloom and other wild flow
ers. Sitting high and queenly on
the ricketty top was Campbell
Larson, Sigma Chi, dressed in a
lovely flowered gown, picture hat.
and radiantly smiling and throw
ing kisses at the appreciative
crowds.
The parade wound around the
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‘The Chief Thing’ Rated
By S. Stephenson Smith
As Riproaring Comedy
S. Stevenson Smith, associ
ate professor of English, phoned
the Emerald last night at about
9:30 to report that “The Chief
Thing,” the Guild hall produc
tion which will open tonight at
the Guild theater, is one of the
most riotous comedies he’s ever
seen, professional or amateur.
He declared the comic high
spot was the sequence depicting
the behind-scenes view of a
production of "Quo Vadis.”
Smith will write the critical
article on the play which will
appear in tomorrow’s paper.
Directs Play
Horace W. Robinson, instructor
in dramatics, who directed “The
Chief Thinj>,” drama division pro
duction to open at the Guild thea
ter this evening.
Two Communists
Sell 200 Editions
Of'Daily Worker9
Without even one single solitary
policeman to protect or deter them,
two genuine campus communists
yesterday made almost $6.00 for
their party unit. Standing on the
Co-op corner, they sold nearly 200
copies of the May Edition of the
Daily Worker, official organ of the
Communist party.
Each nickel paid out by student,
faculty member, or passerby
bought 24 pages and a small slip
sheet of flaming revolutionary
reading matter. Apparently, most
buyers were more curious than
communistic, for even a promi
nent campus D.A.K. paid out five
cents.
The two young salesmen were
Richard Boiling, senior in sociol
ogy, and Clayton Van Lydegraf,
freshman in social science.
Freshman Picnic
To Be Celebrated
At Goshen May 20
No-Date Affair Is Open Only for
First Year Students;
All (Events Free
The Frosh Picnic will be held on
Sunday afternoon, May 20, instead
of May 13 as announced in the
Emerald last week. It will be at
Swimmers’ Delight, near Goshen
on the Pacific highway.
The picnic will be a no-date af
fair, with only freshmen eligible
to attend. Drastic punishment is
promised for any sophomore or
upperclassman who dares 'to at
tend by Dave Lowry, genera!
chairman.
Expenses will be taken care of
by the freshman class and there
will be no charge for any of the
events.
No charge will be made for any
of the program, the entire expense
being paid from the freshman
class treasury. Free transporta
tion, free dancing, free refresh
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Was This Prof. Dumb or Was
He Fooling? Anyway He Won
By HOWARD KESSLER
Riding into office as fire and
police commissioner of Tulsa, Ok
lahoma, with hundreds of votes to
spare, Colonel Oscar Winslow
Hoop, head of the school of gov
ernment at the University of Tul
sa, must have puzzled his brain
considerably to account for the
evident failure of the theory he
had impounded into the minds of
his students insistently and to
prove which he had entered the
lists as candidate for the office
named.
“Graft, extravagance and inef
ficiency are due to the indifference
of the public,” propounded the
learned professor, who gained his
master of arts degree in history at
the University of Oregon in 1928.
“The machinery of politics and
party organization remains in the
hands of politicians only because
of the negligence of voters.”
Anxious to further demonstrate
the infallibility of his premise, the
professor decided to roll his Hoop
into the political ring and prove to
his 150 attentive students that in
active yote-getting just wasn't be
ing done this season.
“I shall make the race with no
expectation of being elected,” de
clared Hoop in what should have
been a sonorous, Demosthenic nom
inating speech. But pearls of wis
dom were not to be a part of this
quaint campaign. ‘‘I will pay my
own expenses, make no promises,
kiss no babies, conduct myself like
a gentleman and congratulate my
successful opponent,” and Hoop
sat back to wait for the elections
and say “I told you so,” to his pu
pus.
Just what were his emotions
when the city of Tulsa showed
their preference for Hoop over two
campaigning opponents, can only
be guessed. Possibly chagrin over
the fallacy of his teaching min
gled with satisfaction that the cit
izens of Tulsa were not gullibly
«wayed by stumping or stamping,
were his predominant feelings.
While stationed as an army of
ficer at the Vancouver, Washing
ton, barracks, Hoop wrote his mas
ter’s thesis on “The History of
Fort Hoskins,” located west of Cor
vallis, and received his degree at
the University.
‘Ch^ Thing’
Ope/* 't Guild
Hah icnight
Lavish Selling, Unusual
Effects Featured
ROBINSON DIRECTOR
Play First Comedy Produced This
Term; Has Scenes Fa id
In Russia
Lavish settings and unusual
lighting effects characterize “The
Chief Thing,” which is being pre
sented by the University players
in Guild hall tonight at 8 o’clock.
This Russian comedy, under the
direction of Horace W. Robinson,
will also be given Friday and Sat
urday evenings.
This comedy is the first major
production presented by the drama
division this term. Written by Ev
reinov it expresses the playwright’s
philosophy—that “life is but a
stage, and the men and women
merely players.”
The play opens in a fortune tell
er’s room where many persons
come to receive advice. To this
room come the Lady with the Dog,
Dorothy Parks, whose husband
has three wives; the Landlady, El
len Galey, who is worrying about
her daughter, Barbara Reed, the
student, Wm. Dougherty, who at
tempted to commit suicide; the
deaf mute, Evelyn Davis, and the
fallen woman, Helen Campbell,
who are married to the same man.
Ted Karafotias has the princi
pal role of Paraclete, the man
with many faces. He will be re
membered for his outstanding per
formance as Agmar in “Gods of
the Mountain.” Gertrude Winslow
supporting as the Dancer and Nev
ille Biden as the Lover have im
portant roles.
The setting introduoea for “The
Chief Thing,” several new ideas in
stage design, a black and white
motif, painted shadows on the wall,
and a raised stage. Painted shad
ows on the wall were seen used
most effectively in the motion pic
ture “Nana.”
This is the first time that Mr.
Robinson has appeared as director
of rehearsal in Eugene, although
he has been technical director and
stage designer for all plays given
by the department this season.
Park Block Scene
Of Demonstration
By 'Red9 Speakers
A crowd of about 150 or 200
persons, one-third of whom were
University students calmly lis
tened to several speakers at the
“red” demonstration held last
night in the park blocks in down
town Eugene.
The Oregon radical club was not
officially represented, although a
large percentage of their member
ship attended. Other students were
those from classes in political sci
ence, social science, and editing,
and those only casually interested.
The meeting passed with no vio
lence or hard words, the various
speakers telling of conditions lo
cally, and in Germany, France, and
Russia. Very few policemen were
present in uniform.
Yeomen Officers to Be
Elected on Thursday
Election of officers for the com
ing year will take place at a meet
ing of the Oregon Yeomen, men’s
independent organization, Thurs
day night on the third floor of
Gerlinger hall.
Plans and organization for the
building of the queen's float for
the canoe fete will be discussed.
Each year the Yeomen have un
dertaken the task of building the
royal float. George Bennett, who
was president of the independent
men until this term, Howard Oh
mart, and George Teltoft are in
charge of the construction.
Pan Xenia Will Initiate
New Members Tonight
Initiation of new members will
take place at a meeting of Pan
Xenia, national foreign trades hon
orary, tonight in the men’s lounge
at Gerlinger. The meeting will be
gin at 4:45 this afternoon.
At 6:00 a dinner will be served
in honor of the new members at
the Anchorage. At this time offi
cers for the coming year will be
elected. Arthur Dudley is presi
dent of the organization at the
I present time.
The Revolt Against Drill
A Loiter to the Emerald from Oswald Garrison
Villard, Loading Liberal Publisher and
Former Editor of ‘The Nation’
To flic Editor of the Oregon Emerald,
Sir:
There are many reasons to justify the increasing revolt in
colleges ami universities where there is enforced military train
ing. In the first place, the juxtaposition of the military and
the civilian in the curriculum is contradictory and un-American,
and often leads to direct contradictions in teaching. The viola
tion of freedom of conscience in the matter of bearing arms is
obvious, yet nothing could be more sacred than that in any
liberal and democratic community. There is no possibility for
reconciling the military ideals and the ideals of a free society
cf scholars and pupils, certainly not in a democracy.
The plainest proof of that lies in the following excerpt
from the official War Department Manual on “Citizenship,
prepared for the instruction of military officials detailed to
colleges. It is this definition of democracy:
Democracy: A government of the masses. Authority derived
through mass meeting or any other form of ‘direct’ expres
sion. Results in mobocracy. Attitude towards property is
communistic—negating property rights. Attitude towards
law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it
be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice,
and impulse, without restraint or regard for consequences.
Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
If tliis is not treason to American institutions what could bei
Is it conceivable that any civilian instructor in any American
college would teach such stuff? Certainly at best it shows such
a gross misconception of what the American democracy stands
for and what it actually achieved that it seems incredible that
even the most stupid Secretary of War could permit such a
thing to go out with the approval of his department.
Against the training itself there are numerous arguments
that can be made. In the first place, it is as remote from mod
ern warfare as anything- could well be. It is not only no prep
aration for’the trench warfare of the last war, it bears no rela
tion to the new tactics which are being evolved in Europe,
notably in Germany, which make the Germans feel that they
can bid defiance to even the newest French fortifications. No
one denies that in the next war poison gas. and possibly even
bacteria of deadly diseases will be the chief weapons. What
instruction can there be given on a University campus in gas
warfare, except perhaps the use of gas masks, as to which no
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Cameras, Sound
Truck to Feature ~
U of O Canoe Fete
Paramount Company’s Experts
Will Photograph Floats of
Historic Times
Paramount newsreel men will
have their cameras focused on the
University’s canoe fete this year,
according to a letter received by
George H. Godfrey, associate in in
formation service, yesterday, from
W. P. Montague, assignment edi
tor for the film company.
A sound truck with a crew of
experts will be sent here either
from Seattle or San Francisco.
Since the photography and sound
must be "picked up” at night, the
enterprise will call for a great deal
of skill and ingenuity on the part
of the cinematographers.
Unusual interest has been
aroused in the canoe fete this year.
Each float will depict some stage
in development and growth of Ore
gon. The first float will go back
to prehistoric times, and will
graphically depict the eruption of
Mt. Mazama, which formed Crater
lake. Subsequent floats will show
Indian life, early pioneer struggles
and the climax will be a vision of
the future.
A special section on the millrace
will be set aside for taking motion
pictures, and it is probable that
other companies will fake advan
tage of this opportunity to film
one of the outstanding college
events in the United States, ti is
stated.
Paramount newsreel is distribut
ed to thousands of theaters, not only
in the United States but in foreign
countries as well.
Polivka Chosen
As President of
. Sigma Delta Chi
Honorary Elects Officers and
Formulates Flans for
Spring Activities
Officers for Sigma Delta Chi,
men’s professional journalism fra
ternity, were elected at a meeting
of the honorary Tuesday afternoon
at 4 :00 in 101 Journalism building.
They are president, Douglas Poliv
ka; vice-president, William Phipps;
secretary, Leslie Stanley; treasur
er, Charles Aetzel. The position of
Quill correspondent was left open,
and will be filled by the incoming
administration.
William Phipps reported on the
contest for the best editorial
among weekly newspapers in Ore
gon. The award, Paul R. Kelty
cup, will be made at the conven
tion of the Oregon State Editorial
association in Roseburg June 22
and 23. Arne G. Rae, assistant
professor of journalism and field
manager of the Oregon State Edi
torial association, is working with
Phipps on this contest.
The Gridiron banquet will not be
given this year, and instead a joint
"get-together” will be given with
Theta Sigma Phi, women's profes
sional journalism fraternity. Plans
for this year’s Green Goose, and
spring pledging was discussed.
Sigma Delta Chi scholarship
awards will be presented to Joseph
Saslavslcy, Sterling Green, and Eli
nor Henry at an Emerald banquet
at the end of the term. Pins and
shingles were given to four recent
ly initiated members: Rueben Rad
abaugh, Leslie Stanley, Guy Shad
duck, and Charles Aetzel.
The fraternity will meet again
Thursday afternoon at 4 in 101
Journalism building. Spring pledg
ing will be further discussed.
Campus Calendar
Dill Pickle club meets today
noon in the YWCA. There will be
a program.
Dr. E. S. Conklin’s 2 o’clock
psychology class will not meet to
day, except for those students who
did not take the questionnaire
given last Wednesday.
Henriette Horak’s Frosh Coun
sellor group will meet today at 4,
room 3 Johnson hall. All girls
must attend.
Heads of houses’ meeting is
postponed until next week.
Oregon Radical club will hold its
regular weekly meeting in the Y
hut at 7:30 tonight. This is an
exceptionally important meeting
and the presence of all members,
as well as other interested stu
dents, is requested.
Box-office in Guild theater will
be open from 9 till performance of
play, "The Chief Thing," today.
A. W. 8. speakers’ committee
will meet at 5 this afternoon in
the College Side.
Peggy Chessman’s group of
frosh counsellors will meet in 4
Johnson today at 4 o’clock.
Tickets for Oritles spring infor
mal, Friday, May 4, are on sale
at the Co-op or by Helen Nicka
chiou, phone 2436-W.
Webfoot Team
To Meet Idaho
VandalsToday
U. O. Nino Determined
To Keep Title Clean
FOX CROUP STRONG
Prospect for Pitching' Duel Scene;
Tilt Scheduled for 3:80
At Heinhnrt Field
The Oregon Webfoot varsity
baseball nine will meet it second
opposition of the season in confer
ence play when they clash with the
Idaho Vandals today at 3:30 on
Reinhart field. Coach Bill Rein
hart's team has two conference vic
tories to its credit as a result of
5 to 1, and 10 to 8 defeats handed
Oregon State college last week
and will go into the contest deter
mined to keep their path to the
conference title clear.
Coach Rich Fox’s Vandals boast
the strongest aggregation the
northern team has had in many
seasons. In a preconference sched
ule of 13 games the Idaho nine lost
only three. Their first conference
clash ended in a loss to Washing
ton State but was a short inning
affair stopped early by rain. The
second game scheduled with the
Cougars was also rained out.
McFadden to Hurl
Prospects of a pitching duel in
today’s game seemed likely with
an Ashland, Oregon, boy, Neil
Spears, a two-year letterman for
the Vandals and the ace of their
staff, in the box for Idaho and Don
McFadden, who limited the Bea
vers to five hits in the season’s
opener last week, slated to see
mound duty for the Webfoots.
Ike Donin, who hurled ten inn
ings of good ball against thg Ore
gon State nine in Saturday's game,
and Ron Gemmell will be ready to
support McFadden. with Ossie Ed
wards and Ear} BUCknurr al8o
available for duty. The catching
job for the series will again be di
vided between Mickey Vail and
Con Fury, with the former slated
to work in today’s contest.
Outfield Shifted
The infield, with Harry McCall,
Ray Koch, Joe Gordon, and Mark
DeLaunay starting, will be the
same as in previous tilts. However,
in last night’s practice Reinhart
was working several men in the
outer gardens. Wes Clausen and
Mike Hunt were in left, Maury Van
Vliet and Bud VanDine in center,
and Marvin Stroble and Bob Thune
man in right.
Familiar faces on the Idaho nine
will include the Geraghty brothers,
Cy and Wally, who delighted bas
ketball fans last winter in the hoop
contests in McArthur court.
AWS Installation
To Be Tomorrow
Officers of the AWS for 1934-35
will be formally installed at an
A.W.S. mass meeting at 4 o’clock
tomorrow afternoon in Gerlinger
hall. The installation will be fol
lowed by a tea.
Jean Failing, A.W.S. president,
will install the new officers. Each
officer will be presented by the
girl who has held that position this
year.
Virginia Hartje, vice-president
of the A.W.S., is in charge of the
mass meeting and the tea. She
announced that both old and new
Kwamas will serve, this being the
first function in which the new
Kwamas, pledged last Saturday at
the Mortar Board ball, will partici
pate.
The officers to be installed are
Catherine Coleman, president; Vir
ginia Howard, vice-president; Reva
Herns, secretary; Ann-Reed Burns,
treasurer; Elaine Cornish, ser
geant-at-arms; and Margery Kiss
ling, reporter. Everyone taking
part in the installation or serving
at the tea will wear formals.
Following the meeting, a formal
banquet for the old and new A. W.
S. council members will be held at
the Delta Gamma house. This is
in accordance with a custom ob
served in the A. W. S., that a ban
quet for outgoing and incoming
council members be held at the
house of the outgoing president
after installation.
Measles at Infirmary
Measles have necessitated a stay
In the infirmary for Dorothy Dill
and Guy Benson, while severe
colds and fatigue are responsible
for the presence of Gretchen
Gregg, Frances Fearnley, and
Bernadade Franzen.
Letter from V illard
Denounces Military
Drill at Universities
Epistle Received by Emerald Expresses
Hope That Compulsory Training
Here Will Be Dropped
i. .
Oswald Garrison Villard, former editor of The Nation and recent
visitor and lecturer on the University of Oregon campus, has turned
his fiery pen on compulsory military training at Oregon.
The Emerald yesterday received from Villard a 1600-word letter,
administering a stinging slap to military drill in general, and more,
particularly to the system of compulsory training.
Villard emphasized his profound hope that Oregon would abolish
at least the compulsory feature. ‘‘The University of Wisconsin,” bis
letter says, ‘‘has abolished compulsory military drill, and within the
Japanese Seeking
U. of O. Delegates
To Foreign Meet
Two Students Urge Attendance;
Transportation Is Only
Expense of Trip
At noon Thursday, two Japan
ese students, Mr. Harue Endo of
Waseda university and Mr. Edwin
T. Tabata of Keio university, will
arrive on the campus. The students
are traveling through the North
west to interest students in the
America-Japan Student conference
to be held in Tokio, Japan, from
July 19 to July 26. Coming from
the University of Washington,
where ten delegates to the confer
ence were promised, and Reed col
lege, where an additional five were
added, Mr. Endo and Mr. Tabata
hope to secure a delegation from
this campus.
Some 50 American students are
expected to attend the meetings,
at which economic, politics, relig
ion, philosophy, education and in
ternational problems will be dis
cussed. Lectures will also be given
on Oriental culture by professors
from the large Japanese universi
ties.
The only expense to the Ameri
can delegates attending the confer
ence will be the cost of transpor
tation from Seattle to Yokohama
and return. All other expenses will
be taken care of by the Japan Stu
dent English association.
Following the termination of the
meetings, the U. S. delegates will
be taken on a free trip through
Japan, Korea, and Manchukuo.
Leaving Tokio on July 28, the del
egates will visit Kyoto, Osaka,
Nara, Kobe .Kiroshima, Shimono
seki, Keijo, Darien, Mukden, Hsin
king, and numerous other smaller
cities.
Students who would be interest
ed in having personal interviews
with Mr. Endo and Mr. Tubata in
order to make application for the
conference, are urged to get in
touch with Dick Near, 1718-J, or
Jay Wilson, 3300, local 241.
Art Students Travel
Twelve students in the school of
landscape architecture from this
University are making a study
trip to the gardens of Tacoma and
Seattle this weekend. F. A. Cuth
bert, assistant professor of land
scape architecture, will head the
party.
current academic year De Pauw
university has abolished its unit
altogether, after abolishing the
compulsory feature back in 1928. X
hope with all my heart that the
University of Oregon will do the
same without loss of time.”
Encouraged Student Group
When he was visiting the cam
pus March 5 and 6 this year, the
militant pacifist extended full en
couragement to those students who
had just completed a nearly-suc
cessful campaign against compul
sory drill.
At that time, he declared of his
father, Henry Villard, who was in
strumental in helping found the
University, “If my father could re
turn to this campus today, he
would be shocked and disappointed
to see young men here wearing
military uniforms."
The article received by the Em
erald yesterday, which appears in
columns four and five of page one,
denounces military drill as a “vio
lation of tlic ficcUuiii of con
science.” Villard asserts that col
legiate officers training corps units
offer poor preparation for actual
warfare; that it is, indeed, “as re
mote from modern warfare as any
thing could well be.”
Not Physical Training
The article, said to be one of the
few which Villard has ever pre
pared for publication in a college
daily, charges that military drill
has no defense as a method of
physical development, but rather
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Ducats for Canoe Fete
Mow on Sale at Co-op,
ASUO Office for Week
Canoe fete tickets will go on
sale today at the University
Co-op store and the A.S.U.O. of
fices in McArthur court, Tom
Stoddard, assistftit graduate
manager, announced last night.
The tickets will for the entire
week be distributed only at
these two points, in order that
students may have first choice
of the best available seats. On
Monday the remaining tickets
will be placed on sale at down
town establishments for Eugene
residents. Until that time they
will be held on the campus ex
clusively.
Tickets are 75 cents apiece.
The fete will be held Saturday
evening, May 12.
Bloodshed and Riots Replace
May Day Traditional Beauty
By LESLIE STANLEY
May day, a survival of one of
the most ancient customs, came to
us yesterday not in its natural
beauty and simplicity as the orig
inal occasion was intended, in its
stead it came with bullets, air
planes, and tanks, to break up
demonstrations, so say the scream
ing headlines that tell us of the
riots, bloodshed, and clashes be
tween laborers, troopers and po
lice as the workmen sought to ob
serve their annual celebration.
How far May 1, the world’s bad i
day, has traveled from its innocent
origin will be seen as we follow
the course of events which lead
up to the present strife.
Originating, it is believed in
primitive times, when the natives
worshiped the return of the warm
days, because they thought their
god had been angry through the
winter, was now pleased with
them. Out of this pre-histone
custom developed the Roman idea
of honoring Flora, the god of
flowers. Great festivals, dancing,
singing, and laughter came with
the sacrifices which were offered
in thanks for the many flowers.
During the medieval times in
France, England and Germany, the
Roman festivals were changed in
to a day and night of rejoicing.
On May 1, called “going a may
ing,” young men and women
gathered Hawthorn flowers, sing
ing as they merrily danced on
their way and decorating the win
dows of the houses which they
passed, and on the next day
crowned with the Hawthorn
flowers the most beautiful maiden
as "Queen of the May.” Today in
the old countries this custom has
been displaced by the carnival with
its artificial enjoyment taking
away the simple beauty.
Ireland during the middle ages
developed the "wishing well,” a
custom borrowed from the Scotch.
They thought if a maiden on May
morning when the sun was shining
brightly, looked into a well and
saw the reflection of her lover any
wish she made would come true.
Though the commercialization
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