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From Tirtt Statesman, March 28, 1831
THE STATESSIAN PUBLISHING COSIPANY J ;f
CUAIOJES A. 8PRACUX, Editor and PubUstM
Member of the Associated Pros - '
The Associated Press, la exclusively enUUed to the uh for publication of all
ntwa' dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. -ti
More Acres, Fewer Farms
. The nation as a whole, becoming Increasingly
the breadbasket of the world, can well be glad
that there has been an increase of 82,000.000
acres about 1 1-3 per cent in farmed land
since 1940. But the, fact that there are 86,000
fewer farms isn't so heartening.
! The latter disclosure of the census bureau
can be interpreted in many ways that large
scale operation makes for economies with
which smaller operators cannot compete; that
war years have led many, persons to sell their
tracts and accept the high wages of industry;
Cftat lack of help has forced many ranchers
to go out of business. Whatever the interlocked
reasons, it is doubtful that the 1840-43 period
can be termed one of "normalcy" insofar as a
definite trend is concerned. !,
i Of major interest to us in the west is tha
fact that all three Pacific coast states have
gained both in farm acreage and in the number
of farms. Only 10 of Oregons 38 counties were
In the category, however Clackamas, Clatsop,
Columbia, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Lane, Lin
coln, Malheur and 'Marion. And seven counties
lot in both classifications Benton,. William
Hood River, Linn. Polk, Tillamook and Uma
tilla. The others gained or lost in one category
of the other, but there were enough increases
to put Oregon on the plus side both in acreage
and farms.
That is as it should be and probably will be
In increasing proportions as many servicemen,
drawn from the soil by the years of war, re
turn to buy their own long-dreamed-of plot or.
grt back ir)to production otherwise. But they
should be well aware that the ' interest on
present land prices will eat up a lot of profits,
and profits may not be as fat as formerly.
It's all very well to preach "back to the
farm, but farming now has become so com
petitive that it's more important fo- the vet
eran to look to his own economic good than
to try to coast on the national' statistics. -
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Civil War Fading Out !
The Chinese civil war turns out to be similar
to other internal wars in China, chiefly sound
and fury. The nationalist troops are entering
Mukden and Changchun without communist
' resistance, although, a few weeks ago bloody
conflict was presaged, with the communists
over occupation of Mancharia.-
The communists hold control over large areas
of Northern China and Inner Mongolia but they
eeefn to be fairly .well content if they are not
pushed around too much by the nationalists.
TMjr assert their communism is really democ
rat, although they claim to. adhere to Marxian
principles. ! : ' . .
jjkme kind of working relationship may
emerge which will avert real conflict in China
anJ still permit the unity which is essential for
Ch na's political and economic reconstruction.
Wl ile we as a nation are genuinely concerned
over what happens in China the responsibility
is 1 China's and we can't successfully dictate the
course the Chinese must follow. .
feet of v lumber they hold on this coast and
through the Pacific Such information would
confirm. the view here expressed that it is V
large in amount and. definitely surplus. .
Housing is top k priority sis far as need it
concerned .her at home. The government is !.
concerned and anxious to j "do I something".
Turning this lumber over for civilian use here
would be one practical step toward 'speeding
up house construction. ?, '., f - v.
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. The manr neople in Salem and
vicinity who made contributions
to the clothing onve wrunnit-
Five-cent Fare .j .,;
New York must be about the only city re
maining where the prevailing fare for. street
car travel is five cents. San Francisco's mu
nicipal railway kept a . five j cent charge until
it bought out the private company when it
went, to seven cents and now considers going
to ten cents. 1A New York the five-cent fare
has long been a sacred political' cow. When
the private subways groaned under the burden
of hauling people for that fare and went into
receivership the city finally took them over
but kept the fare at five cents. As a result the
city has an operating loss of about $50,000,
000 this year, besides loss of taxes on the for
mer private property. ; i
The board of transportation has a program . I By PAUL MALLON
of expansion and rehabilitation which runs to (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction tn whole
63Z million, financing or wnicn may result
PbliSjrtil hw mam Mm tyUW
Jockeying for Position
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News Behind the News
Lumber Surplus 1
! Service men returning from the Pacific re
poi t' huge stocks of lumber piled on islands
frcia Hawaii to Guam and probably well on
to Australia. This' is added to the stocks held
at terminal bases on this coast. The lumber
wh ' accumulated when it was anticipated that
at least an additional million men would be
mrved into the Pacific theatre of war who
wriild require housing, hospitals, warehouses,
do ks, headquarters, etc. The ending of the
wjr virtually wipes out need for much new
lur ber unless it be for the occupation troops
in Japan. The lumber ought to be returned to
thij j country, where it is urgently needed. It
rail be sold as surplus and go into the housing
of it he same men who would have occupied the
barracks planned in the Pacific. .,
It would.be interesting to get from the army
arp navy an inventory of the millions of board "
Editorial Commont
aHkooancit
JTrtion labor leaders have often surprised us by
lr aburd demands and the reason therefor
bvit Phillip Murray outdid them all when he re
, friyftd to Mr. jTruman's fact finding recommenda
tion as "arrogance." If there is ever anything more
errf ant cr unreasonable than Murray's castlga
ikt of the president we never heard it All over
this country owners and managers of plants are .
kept out of their own buildings by strikers' who
witt j not let them cros a picket line to get to
their own property. Office forces, not on strike,
have been turned back by pickets so that pro
prietors could 'not even answer their own mail,
lo many of tfreae plants, -too, mayors of the cities
are so cowardly that they . will not order the
pulire to clear a path so that a proprietor can
enter his own factory. If they can. do this, they
ran alo picket the nun's house, thus preventing
turn from getting home. In Stanford, Conn., the
pickets used force to prevent the owner of a plant
from entering his offices and the police stood by
arvi did nothing about it This is clearly govern
mfnt by aaarchy or rather a rule of anarchy for
an 'jxhj prevents government. We have mob rule
iv si only berause of the bold arrogance of the
s Aers- but because the- spineless politicians are
f, iid to do their duty. The reconversion period
wi supposed to be a time for turning out goods
t' ; people need. and want Instead of that we
h - nothing but strikes ia our leading industries,
t.' 1 a u tomobi le f a ctories, the steel plants, the long-
jfrrsen and te muskrians boss, Petrillo, de
r lis that a bani be used as a standby whether'
it" ars or net r ere recorded music is all that
! quired :
. -i the prt
in taking the five-cent fare "for !k ride' The
experience shows it still takes money to make
the mare go, even under Isocialisrhi
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Don't Lose Next War j S ,
It will never do for the Uhited States to
lose a war to Germany or Japan. Then we
might expect execution- of bur statesmen and
: military leaders and al least imprisonment for
those handling bond campaigns land money-,
raising efforts for war causes.
. A lost war might Well mean overturn of
our Zaibatsu (business heirarchy) too. And
think of the upset that might be caused if
some conquering general ordered that the
sharecroppers in the south get title to their
lands or that the big ranches in eastern Oregon
be? split up, or that "niggers" get jobs.
No. we dare not lose the next I war.
Interpreting
The Day's! News
By James D. White ' .
AwocUted Preaa Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. li-(ffy-Six U. S. ma
rine fliers have been cooling their heels in a remote
north China village since their plane was forced
.down Nov. 10 . . i I i
The official marine version is that the plane
was on a routine flight from Tientsin to Peiping,
got lost, ran out of gas, anJ came j down about
80 miles west of Tientsin, ij I
Names have not been announce! nor, has the
village been specified, but 80 rhiles west of Tientsin
would put them in the mountains.
west of Kaopeiuen station on I the
Peiping Hankow railway, possibly
in the valley that leads up to the
Hsi-ling, or the western tombs of
the Manchus. ". r
The I mountains roundabout are 1
high and sugged, and in the past
have raised crops of young Chi
nese who left the crowded, bare
land to live as bandits. 1
Other marine fliers have fdund
the plane, half covered .with
brush, and seen its tracks where1
it landed and which have since
been ploughed over. ' j f t
Today a marine transport plane flew over and
dropped food and winter clothing to the six strand
ed men, because it is getting very; cold in those
parts and there isn't much :to eat Negotiations
for their release, both local and through Chung
king, thus far have failed to? free them.
. Because this area is within; the territory nomin
ally controlled by the Chinese communists, the
question was put up to communist representatives
m Chungking, who announced on Dec. 8 that the
-fliers were beina released.- i . K i
Matter ef Established roUcy 1
or in part strictly prohibited.)
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D. Whit
j WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.
Secretary of. State Byrnes goes
to Moscow! He says the Iranian
government wilL make the trek
also. So both Mohammed and
the mountain gdj to Moscow.
' The senate, as all knowing
: individuals here, is worried.
Realizing this, f before his de
parture, the state secretary took
twith H una. $
tors and the
press into his
confidence in
Off the - rec
ord meetings.
; The attitude
of ti. worried
senators and in
di v i d u a 1 s is
this:
i The Truman-
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, pyrnes ioreign paBj Malloa
policy has been working well,
by comparison with the appease
j ment policy of the Roosevelt
adminisUration, designed to goad
the Russians tdever greater war
against the naziS,
We have not established much,
j except our position in China.
We have lost inj Iran. The Rus
sians are in the! process of con--quering
that country.
Have Wen and Lost
1 But at least we have not lost
abjectly. We have won and lost,,
by defending our. position, the
; Roosevelt Atlantic Charter,
: against make-believe freedom for
' peoples and world-democracy.
We have ceased to lose every
Conference.
1 We ceased our, losing because
we had an adamant attitude, for
what we- belieyed was right
Does Mr. Byrnes trip to Moscow
mean we have (abandoned that
attitude? J .
i Frankly, the senators think it
may. They think generally ap
peasement of Britain (with mon
ey) is to be followed by appease
ment of Russia (with atom
. bombs,, concessions, eye-blinking
regarding Iran, China, and sim-
think 'have been, unpublished,
certainly have not been men
tioned j prominently i
(A) Mr. Byrnes dropped his
adviser Jimmy Dunn for the
Moscow trip (Dunn had been
charged by Moscow enthusiasts
as being fascist, Catholic and
otherwise unsympathetic with
Moscow causes) and Mr. Byrnes
is taking in Dunn's place Free
man Mathews, a .butterfly diplo
mat, who has skipped around
the world in his assignments,
his limitation did not suffer ser
iously m the defeat of the t!an relief will be interested to
Dewey-Bricker ticket Out of know that not only Is such cloth
office In 1845 he has an opening reaching. Norway but that it
; for political re-entry In the sen befog , distributed under gov
ate seat - vacated wpn Harold ernment supervision free ot
Rurtnn went on- the -supreme rharre and on the basis of need.
' court A democrat was .named to j Theodore C. Nelson, chairman of
the place but Bricker is expected Norwegian relief for Marion
to be a candidate. He has a strong county, said Thursday. ; Letters
following in Ohio, having been from different parts of Norway
elected attorney general, and now reaching Salem people tes
three ; times governor, so his ifv to thai fact In a letter dated
prospects for winning the sena- J November 2, to EL F. Arneson of
tonal contests are -regarded as gout), Cottage street his brother
- favorabje, A seat In the senate Qustav at Nordstrand Heights,
will aet him back into the politi- Norwavl writes: "Now there Is
cal main current in- good season being ; distributed j free. American
for the 1948 campaign.! clothing throughout the country.
One dare not count 7 out Ther are being distributed on the
Thomas E. Dewey, governor of Dasi, 0f provident need. Because
New! York. His friend, Herbert 0f-he generous supply of doth-
Brownell, is still national chair- jng which you have sent us direct
man, and New York's 80 votes Is f fcainot been necessary for us
a nowerful initial bloc for any n anr helo from that
candidate. But Dewey has a Murc"
more immediate task than cam- Johanna Svensvold, an aunt of
oauzning for the 1948 nomina- j Iv Swenwold of. Salem, writes
tibn. He first must be re-elected from sanOnes: "Much clothing and -
governor of New York; and don t shoes have come here from,
doubt the democrats are laying I America. Coats and other articles
for him with well-sharpened ha been distributed in Sandnes
broadswords. Senator Mead is an jye heard that those who
regarded as a likely candidate, revived them were very 1 pleased -but
the one who might be even w;th what was allotted to them.
more of a threat is James A. Those in greatest need are pro
Farley, former postmaster gen- vided for first" ; After thanking
erali and democratic national for j clothing sent to her direct,
chairman. Farley left the cabi- iiu Swenwold's aunt expressed
net in protest against a third special gratitude for a, carton of
Term, ou ne siayea rcguMi m i goap.
ms voung. now ne is saia vo
cherish the ambition to become
governor.
partmental informants tell me:
How about another ' foreign
ministers meeting? He got Rus
sian consent first (he, needed it
after the straight Moscow re
buff of his Iranian note request
ing early Russian withdrawal of
troops from Iran) and in spite
of the fact that Mr. Truman, had,
just the day before, announced
he exoected no meetings of the
big three, but thought the UNO ' Dewey too: a setDacx in we
New York city election wnen ne
prevailed on the republicans to
could tike care of everything.
Confusion Charged
In the face of the president,
Mr. Byrnes asserted the White
House-1 had confused the dis
tinction between colossal big
three's
Legion Plans
Christmas Fete
nominate an ex-Tammany man.
Judge Goldstein, who I made
miserable showing in the elec
tion. This miffed many republi-
i (Truman, Attlee and. . cansand lowered tne governors 'ZTZSZ. tiw :
Stalin) and ordinary big three's political prestige. However wew ju j . . rLZi:Tz
York's repuDiican strengm us i i, f ' " 1
larelT UDsUte and there is no port James uarvin ana wwiw
Plans for entertainment at the
annual Christmas party of the
American Legion Capitol post No.
(Molotov, Bevin and Byrnes.)
yet never got the reputation of -. .; . A. . .
Mr. Byrnes is also taking John
Carter Vincent, head of the far
eastern division, which Pat Hur
ley said was sabotaging Ameri
can foreign .policy (the demo
crats sure stopped Hurley, didn't
they, Senator Connally?) ,
"Crises" at Hand? j
In answer and apology to this
line of thought, Mr. Byrnes'
people explain a crises of the
United Nations organization is
now ' it hand, due to Russian
lack of cooperation. If UNO is to -be
saved, Mr. Byrnes must save '
it at Moscow, they say.
Unless Molotov shows up at
the January 7 meeting of the
assembly in London, it will mean
Russia! has turned thumbs down
on the Roosevelt formula for
world peace. j
The meeting has been adver
tised las a routine assemblage
of the foreign ministers, as prom
ised by Stalin to Roosevelt and
Churchill at Yalta. . My inside
information is that Mr. Byrnes
went to his office on a recent
Sunday and began reading the
Yalta jagreements. They say 1 he
found fthe agreements calling for
meetings of the foreign minis
ters every three months. (They
also called for independence of
Iran.) These meetings had not
been I held.
Russians Blamed !" '
The) publicity men may claim
that the San Francisco confer-.
ence .came in Apru (against.
it ! . .
What the senators think is
that the Roosevelt people in this
country (Mrs. Roosevelt's pro
motionists, CIO, the auto work
ers, etc;) raised such a publicity
opposition to Byrnes, even caus-
tertainment committee.
A1 'feature attraction
of the
this. His potency as a 1848 as
ttMMi lttiuA 1sa1is am' ttia
If he is defeated, or if he squeaks or Champion baton-twirler who
v,.,v, . n.rm m.r.in spins a blazing baton. Following
his presidential strength will be Prt7 refreshments wiU
slight Republicans have never j Jr V?: . . ; '
ing communist pickets to de- renominated a loser; and at pres- :y
? Win'rontofhi. Snr. MM?Wv
, liar oretensionS that conauest of
Europe and Asia by Russia ia Yalta's January) , and . Potsdam
Unthinkable.) I came ; in July, and London In
"Peace In Our Time? September but these were hot
The mere fact: that Mr. Byrnes
U t
goes to Moscow with atom bomb
in hand remindl them of Cham
berlain at Munich. That also
meant "peace lr our time." Re
member? 1
I Their, understanding is rein
forced by two facts which I
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peer.
TVirina ' th Wr ft i net Jiiun mmmimliti
rescued many ! American fliers from behind Japa- OFTJ A NTl IF A R IT
to hold these six as a matter, of sensible .policy.
' Getting the local commander, who may or may
not be a communist to release them is another
matter under present circumstances, ij
As mentioned, this is bandit country, and the
marines well could be held by bandits who happen
to claim right now that they are communists.
- There has been no 'mention of a j ransom, but
reports. thus far have .been meager and the pos
sibility cannot be counted out ;H
Chinese bandits can be brutal, and childlike.
There was the elderly American missionary who
was shot in cold blood by nervous i bandits who '
-.held him up in his summer homel
On the other hand there was the .case of four'
picnicking Germans from Peiping iwhom bandits
nabbed in the hills in 1941. The bandits claimed
to be., "communists," but deft quest ionirg by one
of the Germans, who was China-born ; and a fluent
talker, developed the fact that the! bandits didn't
know what communism Vas and had no connection
with the .red army. i If
Passed Over fteeaest fee atioe f jj
. They had been starving under Japanese occupa
tion to. long that the first ransom they asked for
was coarse kaoliang meal which if commonly fed
to cattle. It dtdat occur to them to ask for rice.
When the question-of money - came up, they
wanted $50,000. The Germans explained their
country was at war, they were 'cut off without
any business, and couldnt possibly pay that much.
"Well, not a copper less than $400," said the
leader firmly. - f :-
meetings of the foreign minis
ters as prescribed. The only one
which was what was prescribed'
was the London ' gathering , in
September, and i it broke up in
complete failure; due to Russian
opposition. s . .?
Mr. j Byrnes thought, my de-
By Lichty1
'He noticed a wrist-watch with a luminous diaL
! Congress does nothing a Bout It the fhrst he had seen. The German: let. him try
. nt f the United States recom- it on, then told him to keep it j !
it even weak a solution as a -iacx iinamg . i couian't possibly ivs . yours," j! 'was tne siarv
-i sim." the hnU of the various labor unions ling reply. j !
M. '"Sat .i. via. thant Ji jmfA t u B-.trh rit . tA
1 v'Cv
state department for one day.
' that he . became heightened ' of
the domestic political conse-
quences of his non-losing policy
. 'and decided to embark upon
appeasement which is what the
. Rooseevlt radicals want
' For the present only, they will
keep quiet in hopes that the
agreements at Moscow will be
fair and valid.
The situation ; is so serious I
will begin an analysis of world
conditions soon, and will pursue
it to its ultimate factual truth
if I take four or five columns.
The Literary
Guidepost
By W.G.ROGERS
rO'CASTLE WALTZ, ky Louis Slo
ktdkia (VangnarS; $2.75).
Louis Slobodkin has demon
strated, in the past that he is a
man of many talents. He is, first
of all, a sculptor of considerable
note, also an artist and illustra
' tor, . a lecturer-;, and writer of
books for boys and girls.. To these
accomplishments' must ' how. be
"added j that of story .teller fox
; grownups, and in that category
he rates with the best. ' , r
. The story that Slobodkin tells
here is an account of a trip to
Argentina he made in his young
er j days in the crew of the SJ5.
Hermanita, a little freighter. Slo
bodkin 's story is complete from
the day he decided to ship on a
freighter because he "had seen
nothing of ' the world until ' he
Comes back home a little wiser
. and perhaps a little sadder.
. n those daysi apparently in
the early 20s - life aboard a
freighter had not required some
of the refinements which go with
services in our merchant marine
todayi'The work was hard, es-
pecially f or a youngster fresh out
of, a sculptor's studio; the food
was of dubious ; quality wormy
oatmeal for breakfast greasy
v pork chops for lunch, leathery
chicken for Sunday dinner. Bath
ing was a luxury and had to be
accomplished with one bucket
of water. ' ) ; ..
Nevertheless, Jife on the Her-
J manitai had its interesting mo-
ments,; provided, in the main, by a
varied: collection -of crew mem
; bers Al and ,Mush and Scotty
and Portuguese Peter, who liked
"unsalted buttaf on his bread,
..;pat the Oiler and others.
. ,Slobodkins style is sharp and
direct; He has a lot to tell and
h- wastes no time in the telling.
His trip covered five or six weeks
v but Ari incredibly large number
or things happened, all of which
me author avers are, the truth.
At any event; his story Is a good
. one throughout
erans and members of both' Sa
lem's Legion posts are : Invited,
Women's Club
Hears of Paris
will break that rule.
President Truman, organiza-J
is clearly in line for the demo- Garvin said;
era tic nomination in 1948, The
organization can hardly desert
him, and the radical wing, which
would prefer Henry Wallace,
will hardly have sufficient
strength to force their own choice
on the party convention. The
party suffers from having few . Pre-war Paris as seen in 193S
in the "runner-up" class. The was the highlight of a' talk by
preeminence of Franklin D. Amanda Anderson at! the 8
Roosevelt as party chieftain! o'clock dinner meeting of Toast
overshadowed other leaders and mistress last night at the Quelle,
none can claim either his mantle Esther Gulley was toastmistress
or his power. But the democrats for the program and Grace Bott-
ought to be looking over other ler conducted parliamentary
entries in the paddock besides I practice.
Truman. They may need them. A nominating ? mmmittoo was
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Plate Sale Near
Ij t:i ration coming to? Corvallis GazetteTimes. Germans went home.
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FOUK HdUSES'BURN
; PORTLAND Dec. lSH-rire
destroyed "four small houses on
tJIelens road north of Linn ton
army er awvy experience last : nig&t Owners estimated dam-
l,i HMIIIIII H i iiaii i
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elected last night composed of
Marguerite Gleeson.' Mrs. E. G.
iRickettsand Mrs. James' Hartley.
Ljois Hamer -was introduced as a
new member of the club.
Because of many members
m- k.vi-, i planning to be out of town during
1948 go on sale at the city poliee T ' " w" T
ber-W, C, T. Jory. Ucense clerk j"? 19 P"
mere, -announced inursaay. -:
. Sach bicycle owner - is expected j t i j . -r v
to, take with him to the issuing Oil! iCil tig ' r er ITllt
four inches conUining his name, l8SUea lOr HOUSe
addresST' telephone number, make l t . , : .. , '
of bicycle and serial number.- Bi- ? Edith Eyre White was issued a
cycle owners who live outside the building .permit Thursday by the
city but ride within the city limits city building inspector's office to
must license their wheels,- Jory J erect a one story dwelling at 340
pointed out S. 20th st, at an estimated cost of
A limited length of : time in i 4000. ..- -: ; i-
which to secure the new licenses A permit was Issued to W. H,
is permitted . before bicycles found Petti t to reroof dwelling at" 504
without 194 plate will be ordered N.14th st at a cost of $23. Frank
impounded. The license clerk will N. Waters was granted a nermit
seai ine piaie on uie rrom oi anv I " s repair an lea slant i . imi
bicycle when there Is no waiting I Center st; at a cost of 135 ..
line oi applicants, ne said Thurs- l ora c Kufner was mnM .
day. - i v I permit to alter a one storr Hwii.
During the early period of the ling ; at '80S- Pine at. at a cost of
i . i. . . , . I wnA : -
uccux rusii. uiaies- wiu oe luuea I
from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m Saturday
included. After those hours, the M aitrvv . . :
50-eent license fee may be left ?IAMNE ANOtt WCKS
with jthe desk sergeant and the TACOMA, Dec. IS 4V-Sii
plate ( picked up the next day. from ; Calcutta, India, November
Changed addresses and sales of 19, the SS Marin. Angel docked
telC mbe W?dd l once 4t V Prt of Tacome piers today
JOnr declared. ritK tn .
veterans aooard.
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