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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 .and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 1, 1S45
(It was Tuesday)
Medford churches plan union
victory service of "thankskiving
and praise" on VE Day.
From Arthur Perrey'a Ye
Smudget Pot column: May is a
fine month, and starts off that
way today. As a reward for con
tinued weather perfection, it
should be streamlined, and be
spelled Maye or Mae.
20 YEARS AGO
May 1. 1935
lit was Wednesday)
More than 170 homemakers
of Jackson county attend con
clave here.
Use of an airplane for fir
mass analysis in connection with
weather forecasting here pro
posed. 30 YEARS AGO
May 1, 1925
(It was Friday)
New telephone rates of the
Horns Telephone company be
come, effective.
Gold Hill area quicksilver
mines start producing again.
40 YEARS AGO
May 1, 1915
(It was Saturday)
From the Local and Personal
column: Tomorrow is the offi
cial opening of the straw hat
season the world over, but from
present weather conditions, the
occasion will bejbut slightly ob
served in this city.
From the Table Rock Tablets
column: The social life in this
neighborhood was so strenuous
last week that we failed to keep
up with it so will not try to give
an account of it all from the
beginning of the week until the
close there was something do
ing every evening.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. Children are more suscep
tible than adults to polio, or
adults are more susceptible, or
is it about 50-50?
2. Britishers in the new elec
tions vote directly for Eden (Con
servative) or Attlee (Labor) for
prime minister; right or wrong?
3. Five, 15, 25, 50 or 150 U.S.
Air Force members are known
to be in jail m China?
4. More or less than a billion
dollars is expected to be spent
this year on TV advertising?
5. Windsor is a Buick, Cadil
lac, Chrysler or Oldsmobile line?
6. Ten years ago U.S. and Rus
sian troops made contact: in Ber
lin, Italy, northern France, what
is now West Germany or East
Germany?
7. A samisen is a small sal
mon, a Russian urn for making
tea, a dogooder, a Japanese mus
ical instrument, or a breed of
dog?
1. Children more susceptible.
2. Wrong; each rote is only
for a House of Commons mem
ber. 3. 15. 4. More than a bil
lion. 5. Chrysler. 6. What is
now East Germany. 7. Japa
nese musical instrument.
GOOD TIMING
Schenectady, N. Y. (U.R)
Pasquinino Fainelli, 74, didn't
have far to go for treatment
when he was struck by a car.
He was hit near the emergency
entrance to Ellis Hospital.
MAIL TRIBUNE
i The D. Lawrence Mystery
David Lawrence, editor
Report" as well as a popular newspaper columnist,
is to us one of the major mysteries of the journalistic
world.
Not so many years ago he was one of the best
editor -reporters in the
a staunch Republican, but he was never blindly
partisan, could see faults on both sides of the polit
ical fence, and point them
But since the recent
hower he has become as
as interesting.
f N his most recent offering as a columnist in the
A Oregon Journal, for example, Lawrence takes what
he calls the "partisan Democrats to task, for cnti
cising Secretary Dulles for
and thus creating the impression abroad that the
U.S.A. is torn by dissension, disunity, and failing to
present a united front against the threats of belliger
ent communism which
This he seems to think is
in these cntical times of the cold war.
m
TT just happens that on the day following this parti
san indictment, "the Senator from Formosa," Mr.
Knowland of California, arose to condemn the present
administration (including Mr. Dulles) for even con
sidering conversations with Red China, on any subject
at the present time.
And as so often happens Senator Knowland was
backed up at once by Senator McCarthy of Wiscon
sin. McCarthy was even more emphatic. Had Sen
ator Taft not died, he said, and "if President Eisen
hower were alive," this disgraceful appeasement ges
ture would never have been made, but the govern
ment would be devoting its time to securing the re
lease of the US airmen from China, instead of wasting
it holding a conversational tete a tete, with the un
speakable Chou En-lai and his fellow barbarians and
cut-throats.
TF these Republican -attacks on President Eisen-
hower and his administration particularly in the
foreign policy field, were unusual, they would be
news-worthy of course,- but they wouldn't have so
much significance, as far as either Editor Lawrence
or the country is concerned.
But they amount to only a few more pieces added
to a well-established pattern namely: the most per
sistent and most damaging criticisms of the present
administration have not come from Editor Law
rence's "partisan Democrats," but from prominent
members of the President's own party, and particu
larly from the party leader and spokesman in the
Senate, the senior Senator from California.
This has been going on for a long time.
BUT during all this period, Editor Lawrence has
''not only failed to criticize Senators McCarthy and
Knowland in any way, he has had nothing but the
highest praise for both. More than that, in the case
of McCarthy he was, we believe, the only prominent
news commentator in the country who fought against
McCarthy's condemnation by his fellow senators and
condemned the subsequent verdict of guilty.
Now it is as certain as rain particularly under
present climatic conditions
column nor m his magazine
a word to say against this vicious opposition to the
President and his policies, from members of his own
party, but will continue to have much to say about
far more mild and friendly if critical comments : om
the President's "loyal opposition" the latter of
course, merely routine and to be expected.
A ND yet now from Paris, France, the "World Re-
porter", editor, deplores the fact that our allies
abroad, because of the "digs" from the ranks of par
tisan Democrats at home will get the erroneous im
pression that the American people are not united be
hind their President. -
If this is true what must they think when these
"digs" come from high-up officials within the ad
ministration, members of the President's own party?.
But, of course," it isn't true.
The people of France and England all Europe
for that matter are accustomed to far more severe
criticisms from the "Loyal government opposition,"
than has ever come fromfsuch opposition in the
USA. They take it all in their stride.
In fact according to some of the British papers,
the infrequent criticisms of President Eisenhower
on the part of the Democrats in this country has been
a surprise and a dissappbintment. It is the belief of
some the opposition unlike the opposition in England,
has not taken proper advantage of its opportunities,
especially regarding the Chinese off-shore islands,
to properly stabilize U.S. foreign policy.
I
OOWEVER that may be,- the mystery remains re
garding Editor LawrenceMlis loyal support of
the Republican administration is perfectly under
standable and his opposition to the Democrats also,
both to be expected and deserving no special notice,
one way or the other.
But to those who have followed the career of
David Lawrence, his sensitivity to any criticism from
the opposing party, and his complete lack of it where
far more damaging criticism comes from prominent
Republicans like Knowland and McCarthy, isn't un
derstandable. At least it isn't to those who knew David Lawrence
in the early days when he was first and foremost a
good newspaper man, secondly a perceptive, colorful
and objective reporter, and only third, fourth or fifth
an uncompromising and undiscriminatinfir' oolitical
partisan, R.W.R.
Sunday, May I. 19S5
of "U.S. News & World
business, conservative and
out with wisdom and wit.
election of General Eisen
blind as a bat, and about
his "wavering policies,"
of course is not the case.
a disservice to the country
that neither in his
will Mr. Lawrence have
Matter of Fact
WARNING SIGNALS
Tokyo In the past month,
things have been happening in
Tokyo that ought to have alarm
ed even the most complacent and
elf-satisfied American policy
makers.
The theme of the drama has
been a Japanese-American ne
gotiation about the scope of
Japan's "self
aeiense pro
gram and the
size of the "de
fense contri
bution" Japan
pays the
United States
for its present
defense by
American
forces.
At one staee
Joseph Aliap in this drama,
tension reacned such a point
that the Foreign Minister, Ma
moru Shigemitsu, attempted to
fly to Washington on 24 hours
notice to seek a new basis of
agreement. When Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles refused
this abrupt visiation, Shigemitsu
was publicly humiliated.
At another stage, the most
powerful figure among Japanese
conservatives, Finance Minister
Hisato Ichimada, declared he
would resign his post rather
than present a Japanese budget
drawn up in conformity with
American ideas.
Prime Minister Ichiro Hato-
yama was forced to warn U. S.
Ambassador John Allison that
Ichimada's resignation would
bring down the Cabinet and pre
cipitate the ugliest kind of poli
tical crisis in Tokyo. On Alli
son's frantic plea, Washington's
position on Japanese defense
policy was then somewhat modi'
fied. In this manner, the Hato-
yama Cabinet was linally en
abled to agree on an annual bud
get for presentation to the Diet,
As these words are written,
however, everyone is forecasting
that the budget debate in tne
Diet will be extremely, stormy,
Above all, the Diet is expected
to ring with furious charges of
American intervention in Japa
nese internal politics and policy
making. And unfortunately these
charges will be hard to answer,
OUCH are the results, such is
the really appalling after
math, of the bargain struck by
Secretary of State Dulles when
he negotiated the Japanese peace
treaty and the linked under
standings concerning defense
problems.
The Dulles bargain was hailed
at the time as a brilliant feat
But events have proved that it
had two vices, which really
should have been discerned at
the time by simple, common fore
sight. )
Vice number one was to con
vince the Japanese that their
own defense program was some
thing imposed by America and
designed principally to serve
American interests. The rule that
a national effort must grow up
from the nation that makes the
effort was lamentably ignored by
Secretary Dulles. Japanese divi
sions were needed to make
pretty patterns in the paper
games played by the American
Chiefs of Staff. That need,
essentially a need of American
domestic politics, was given first
consideration.
Thus today, the much touted
Japanese defense effort is still
basically a phony. More than
100,000 men are now in train
ing in the self-defense force. But
with great numbers of Japanese,
including many Japanese con
servatives, the "program is bit
terly unpopular. ' And because
the defense effort does not truly
represent the Japanese national
will, because it is regarded as
something done at America's be
hest, the value of the new Japa
nese defense force is at least
highly questionable.
. The second vice of the Dulles
bargain greatly. inflames the ef
fects of the first vice. America
has not only been entangled in
Japanese defense planning. Be
cause of the so-called "defense
contribution," America is also
automatically entangled, each
year, in the proces sof preparing
the Japanese annual budget.
Maybe it looked like good bus-
mess, to provide that the Japan
ese would pay the United States
$150,000,000 a year for helping
to defend Japan. Maybe it seem
ed a good way to spur the Japa
nese to build their own defense
force, and so escape the burden
of this "contribution."
TJUT THE sum involved, while
X a drop in America's fiscal
ocean, is a very large sum in
deed in the eyes of Hisato Ichi
mada and his hard pressed bud
get makers. And because of this
annual payment, the kind of
Japanese-American drama that
has just taken place here in
evitably occurs whenever Japa
nese budget making begins. The
Dulles bargain provides, in short,
for an annual, automatic, un
avoidable row between America
and America's most important
ally on this side of the Pacific.
To date, to be sure, the results
have been just bad, not fatal.
Anti-Americanism has been
greatly encouraged. The Japa
nese have been given an excel
lent excuse for not thinking in
dependently and realistically
about their own national prob
lems.' But there has been no
breach between America and
Japan.
On the other hand, the present
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American policy line on Japa
By Joseph Alsep
nese defense and related prob
lems plays directly into the
hands of the astute Chinese
Communist diplomats who are
working overtime to promote an
eventual Japanese-American
breach. It is melancholy to con
trast American clumsiness with
Chinese Communist adroitness.
On the vital China trade issue,
for example, the American line
seems to have been carefully
calculated to infuriate the Japa
nese, having the same look of
heavy handed intervention in
Japanese affairs as our line on
defense. The Chinese are taking
brilliant advantage of this. While
British and other Western trade
negotiators are not asked in
Peiping to deliver embargoed
goods, the Communist trade mis
sion now in Japan is asking for
almost nothing except embargo
ed goods. The idea being im
planted with great skill that
only American obstinacy stands
between Japan's struggling ex
porters and great profits in trade
with China.
All of which leads to the con
clusion which, it is authoritative
ly understood, has already been
presented to Washington by the
Embasy here. In brief, it is high
time for a radical re-examination
of our poliices in Japan and our
relationship with Japan.
ANY SUCH re-examination
must lead to voluntary re
vision of the bargain struck by
Secretary Dulles in 1951. The
Japanese defense program must
cease to be an effort made by
contract with the United States.
All American pressure on the de
fense issue must end forthwith.
Such irritants as the nonsensical
defense contribution must be al
together removed. If possible, to
reduce the Japanese sense of
stiU being occupied, the Ameri
can ground forces should be
withdrawn from Japan to Korea
or elsewhere.
By such steps as these, and
only by such steps as these, a
wholly new Japanese-American
atmosphere can be created. And
this is urgent, for if the present
poisoned atmosphere persists,
the eventual result is going to
be a shattering shock to the
Washington policy makers who
so comfortably take Japan for
granted.
(Copyright 1955, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
. That interesting modern robot
that we call the teletype has
some strongly human traits.
For example:
It was off the other day in
big way-on the subject of the
weather.
As who isn't!
TT SAYS: -
X "Once more the weather has
interefered with the atomic
planners. Today's big civil de
fense test on the Nevada desert
was postponed less than half an
hour before the test shot was due
to go off.
"There will be no shot before
tomorrow. And, judging from the
weather forecast, "there proba
bly won't be one either tomor
row or the next day.
"A BAD WEATHER FRONT
IS MOVING IN FROM THE PA
CIFIC." I
WONDER about these bad
weather fronts moving in from
the Pacific.
They seem to be running about
a mile apart. As soon as one
passes over another rolls in. Do
you reckon the Russians could
be cooking 'em up over in the
Kuriles and sending 'em against
us as the Japs did with their
bomb-toting paper balloons? -
If so, why? n,
Maybe the Ruskies think they
can so disgust us with our weath
er that we'll all up and move
away and they can come in and
take over the United States with
out firing a shot.
AT ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.,
UNESCO and the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science are sponsoring a sym
posium that has brought to
gether some 300 experts from 18
nations in an effort to solve
the problem of GROWING
DROUGHT AREAS throughout
the world.
Engineers and scientists are
working on methods of saving
water. One plan proposed at Al
buquerque would coat the sur
face of water with simple house
hold detergents to PREVENT
EVAPORATION.
"ITS AN idea. Over east of the
X mountains, for example, evap
oration takes almost as much
water as is used in irrigation.
Anyway, it would be nice for
the birds. They could have SOAP
with their baths.
ANOTHER expert at Albuquer
que doesn't think much of the
raihmakers.vHe believes they can
do a lot of harm, along with any
good they may be able to do.
He says, for instance, that
cloud seeding under an armed
forces operation in Alamogordo,
N. M., back in the spring of 1952
may have been responsible for
the big Missouri Valley floods in
June of that year. He adds -that
it could have been a case of the
seeding particles sent into the
air in New Mexico having been
blown eastward to come into
contact with moist air masses
from the Gulf of Mexico.
TTE HAS a point. As everyone
H knows, rain where it ISN'T
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Singing Convention Proposed
To the Editor: A long time
ago when news came that the
Circuit Rider was coming, par
ents loaded their families into
wagons or buggies and took off
for the camp meeting grounds.
Taking a good supply of food
with them, they were all set for
one or more days of preaching
and singing.
With the growth of the com
munity came full time churches
with regular services and the
camp meeting slowly disappear
ed from the scene. In the South
people were reluctant to give up
their Gospel Singing sessions
and they continued to meet per
iodically for community sings.
Today these institutions are
known as singing conventions.
Varying in size from small
harmony groups gathered from
the community, to the National
Singing Convention which at
tracts the major gospel singing
groups in America to their an
nual two-day sessions, these or
ganizations have no dogmatic
nuts to crack or theological eggs
to hatch. They have no other pur
pose than perpetuation of evan
gelistic, Christ-honoring gospel
song in four part harmony.
Because we feel that a singhv
convention would be an asset
to Medford and the Rogue val
ley, we propose to organize The
Rogue Valley Singing Conven
tion. Here are the details:
The convention would be con
fined to the Rogue valley down
to and including Grants Pass.
An unincorporated body, govern
ing rules would be limited to
manner of election of officers
and time and place of meeting.
There will be no membership
requirements and voting privi
leges will be granted to all pres
ent. Convention expenses are ex
pected to run about ten and' one
half cents per person per month.
Expenses consist of cost of song
books and publicity and will be
underwritten by us until the
convention decides how it wants
to meet them. In no case will
there be any dues, fees or as
sessments made against the mem
bers. We further propose that the
convention meet one Sunday
each month from 2 p.m. to 4:30
p.m. This wul not interfere with
regular church attendance of
even those who may have to
drive from other places to at
tend the meetings. ,
Those interested in good Gos
pel singing and who would like
to have a convention here in the
valley, may contact one of us
by phone or mail.
James W. TUlery
1045 W. 13th st.,
Medford,
Phone 2-8868 or
T. F. Martin
1235 Covina Ave.,
Medford,
Phone 2-8230
Likes Good Dance Masie
To the Editor: It is gratifying
to see that I am not the only per
son in the Rogue Valley who
would like to have modern music
to dance to. As a former dancing
instructor I like to dance very
much but almost never go be
cause of the lack of suitable mu
sic. I feel sure there are many
people like myself who would
actively support the Zephyrs if
they can find a progressive
thinking sponsor and let it be
known when and where the
dance is to be held.
The Zephyrs evidently enjoy
playing, which is an important
prerequisite for a good orchestra.
I feel there is an urgent need
here for such music and dancing
that the Zephyrs would bring.
Jack Rouhier,
515 So. Grape Street,
Medford, Oregon.
wanted and needed can be as pes
tiferous as LACK of rain where
it is wanted and needed.
The classic case of that is rain
on the day of the Sunday school
picnic in the midst of a dry spell.
The rain is swell for the farmers,
but it's POISON for the pic
nickers. . . :
BY THE way and not mean
ing to change the subject
does anyone know right off the
cuff what UNESCO stands for in
alphabet language?
I could look it up, of course,
but my deadline is staring me in
the eye and I haven't time to get
out the books, v
ANYWAY, this weather sharp
who doesn't think too much
of the rainmakers suggests an in
teresting thought.
Maybe we're moving too fast
in this business ot manuiaciur-
ing rain to order. Maybe men's
minds haven't yet matured to
the point where they can grasp
all the implications of rainmak
ing by established'formula as a
cook puts a cake together by fol
lowing the directions contained
in a tried-out and established re
cipe. We all know by this time what
happened when we got to tinker
ing around - with fission of the
atom. There are times when one
can't help wishing we'd left, the
subject alone.
fpppwsiwaBP
1 WWW
ARTviNG IN NEW YORK for tour of United States, Abbe
Pierre, famed French priest who.relieved thousands of homeless
compelled to sleep in streets, is greeted by Prof. Jacques Marltain
(right), now stationed at Princeton University. (lnUniational)
POT
' (By M-T Staff
Medford Attorney O. H. Beng
tson wanted to fly to Portland
with a group of Medford Kiwan
ians Tuesday. Se he set his clock
so the alarm would wake him in
time to catch the plane at 6:15
a.m. From that point on, every
thing went wrong.
First the alarm failed to wake
him. Then he found the plane
left at 6:06 a.m. instead of 6:15.
Then his car ran out of gas on
the way to the airport. When he
tried to call, he found the air
line's office telephone out of
order.
Bengtson finally got to Port
land all right by taking a later
plane.
Dr. J. Robert Oppenhelmer,
the famous theoretical physi
cist, is quoted on the Oregon
State College Barometer as
saying during a speech there
that one of the major prob
lems facing scientists today is
"why some theoretical rever
sible reactions do not occur
to produce nothing."
Staff member suggests we
might call to his attention cer
tain specified politicians who
would fill this requirement.
Staff member's comments
Wednesday, following a Tuesday
day-off: "You should have seen
me mowing my lawn in a snow
storm yesterday."
Mrs. Frank Decker, Thomp
Price, Wage Controls for
Wartime To Be Requested
Washington (U.R) The ad
ministration has decided to seek
standby authority from congress
this year to control prices and
wages hi event of war mobiliza
tion, it was learned Saturday.
It is still undecided, however,
on how to go after the legisla
tion.'
Authoritative sources a i d
President Eisenhower and his
cabinet have reached general
agreement on the necessity for
clear-cut power to impose a
wage-price freeze in case of
atomic attack or mobilization.
' The chief executive could ask
congress outright for such power
or he could arrange to have the
matter brought up and pressed
by members of congress. Both
alternatives are being discussed.
Market Collapse
Dangers Pointed :
Out by Committee
Washington 0J.R) The
staff of the Senate committee
studying : the stock market said
Saturday that, despite built-in
safety: valves, a stock, market
collapse could cause an econom
ic bust.
Chairman J. W. Fullbright (D
Ark.) commenting on the staff
report, said it "points up the di
lema facing government author
ities in maintaining a stable eco
nomy under conditions of a con
tinuously rising market."
Speculative Excesses
The report warned especially
of the danger of "speculative
excesses." Fullbright commented
that it described changes in the
amount of cash required to buy
stocks as "an important tool" in
checking market excesses.
The report was made public as
Robert A. Wallace, staff director
of the group, the Senate Banking
committee, disclosed that a
special subcommittee will hold
hearings in about three weeks
on stock proxies.
Several senators had suggested
a study of proxy fights like the
recent one which involved con
trol of Montgomery Ward. Wal
lace said the hearings on proxies
will be conducted by a special
subcommittee headed by Sen.
Herbert H. Lenham (D-N.Y.).
Court Records
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Robert E. Thomas, overload. $66.50.
. Bob L. Robertson, no mud guards,
$10.
Everett A. Giraotn, defective emer
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son Creek, proved the ether
day that practice isn't every
thing.
She was alone at home
when she discovered a hawk
bothering hen chickens. There
were lots of guns around the
house, but she knows little
about them -and is somewhat
afraid of them. .
However, she gathered up
her nerve, drew a bead on the
hawk with her eight-year-old
son's 22 rifle, and pulled the
trigger.
Mrs. Decker fired only one
shot, but that was enough.
That one blew off the hawk's
head. .
The map reading staff mem
ber has become intrigued with
the way they name towns in
Shasta county, Calif.
Why, he wonders would any
body give towns names like
Hayfork, Peanut, Knob, Bee
gum, Ono, Igo, Gas Point, and
Jelly?
Speaking of California
towns there's one in the sou
thern end of the state that
might be a likely spot for
mailing invitations to next
year's Rogue Valley Pear Blos
som Festival.
The n a m e of the town?
Pearblossom. (For those who
never heard of it, it is just a
few miles from Weedpatch,
Calif. So help us!)
But because of this indecision.
the cabinet has not yet given
final approval to the legislation
to be requested. Neither has the
matter been discussed with con- (
gressional leaders. But it may be
Tuesday when they hold their
regular meeting with Mrs. Eisen
hower. The legislation could be offer
ed as an amendment to the de
fense production act which is
due to come up for extension
before its June 30 expiration
date. Indications are that the
president will ask for simple en
abling " authority under which
wages and prices could be frozen
and later adjusted.
The plan could plunge the ad
ministration into political diffi
culties. In the 1952 election cam
paign the Republicans promised
to get rid of controls imposed
in 1951 after the Korean war
started. This was done soon after
Mr. Eisenhower took office in
1953 although Sen. Homer Cape
hart (R.-Ind.), ranking GOP
member of the senate banking
committee, tried to promote
standby legislation.
Secretary of Commerce Sin
clair Weeks and Secretary of
Agriculture Ezra T. Benson have
opposed the plan but have "
agreed to go along with it
Prospect Students Pick
Leon Bean as President
Prospect Leon Bean was
elected president of Prospect
high school student body at elec
tions held April 21, it has been
announced.
Other officers elected were
Jim Davidson, vice-president;
Sue Colley, secretary, and Bar
bara Wagler, assistant treasurer.
Majorettes will be Ginevra
Mather, Roberta Dunlap and De
borah Dunlap; Yell Leaders will
be Sue Colley, . Beverly Bean,
Barbara Wagler and Donna
Clark.
Aumsville Ceiebrates
106th Anniversary
Aumsville (U.R) The tiny
Marion county town of Aums
ville celebrated its 106th birth
day anniversary Saturday with
an old-time parade and a mock
lynching.
The 300. citizens of the com
munity were decked out in pio
neer costumes and whiskers for
the occasion. The parade fea
tured ancient automobiles and
horses and buggies.
Kicking off the celebration
Friday was a parade of the 170
grade school students.
Highlighting Saturday's pa
rade was a mock lynching by the
town's vigilantes. . , 4