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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
to years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sep? 15, 1945
(It was Saturday)
Detroit and Washington in
American and Chicago and St.
Lbuis in National leagues going
into stretch in pennant races.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Kids are
getting haircuts preparatory to
returning next Monday to their
three R's and 25 other letters of
the alphabet. Some of the big
boys have been making $80 per
week, working in the fruit, but
there is no bill before Congress
to pay then! for the pears they
didn't pic.
20 YEARS AGO
Spt. 15. 193$
(It was Sunday) .
Two arrested near Grants Pass
for forging auto king Walter P.
Chrysler's name on express trav
eler's checks.
Rumors around to the effect
California will abolish senate
Irom its legislature.
80 YEARS AGO -Sept.
15, 1925
; (It was Tuesday)
Stores close at noon tomorrow
to hail opening of Jackson Coun
ty Fair.
From the Local and Personal
column: Reserved seat tickets
for grand stand and boxes for
Jackson "County Fair will be on
sale every morning until 12
noon, at the Chamber of Com
merce. , Get your tickets early
no you will not haVe to stand in
line.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 15, 1915
(It was Wednesday)
- Telephone line from Medford
to Crater Lake park superintend
ent's office completed..
City proposes issuing bonds
for $1,000,000 at 5 per cent in
terest, would raise taxes consid
erably for next 30 years.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial ReMatch depart
1. A typical new car depre
ciates in book value about 5, 10,
15, 20 or 25 per cent from list
price as you drive it borne?
2. OMore newspapers are
bought in proportion to popula
tion in England, Russia, Sweden,
West Germany or the U.S.?,
3. Adlai E. Stevenson has said,
he'll tell whether he's a candi
date again on or before Sept. 15,
and of November, Christmas, .or
April 1, 1956?
4. Price of cotton on the farm
at the worst of the 1932 depres
sion did or didnt fall below 6c
lb-? ...
5. Castel Gandolfo is the sum-
mer home of the former king of
Italy, Marshal Tito, General
Franco of Spain, the Pope, or the
Duke of Windsor?
6. Average time taken . by
major-league baseball games so
far this year is about 1V6, two,
2V or three hours?
7. The present leader of Tam
many Hall in New York is of
Irish, Italiaa, Jewish, Greek, or
early American extraction?
The Answers: 1. About 20 per
-cent. 2. England. 3. End of No
vember. 4. Did. 5. The Pope. 6.
About 2Vi hours. 7. Carmine
DeSapio is of Italian Extraction.
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
noon Saturday. 10 a.m. Monday for
Monday; othfi days 530 previous day.
MAIL TRIBUNE
The Constitution Was Adopted
Constitution Week by resolution of Congress be
gins on Saturday, Sept. 17. It was on Sept. 17, 1787
that a majority of the delegates from 12 states (Rhode
Island sent none) signed the Constitution that had
been drawn up in 100 days of deliberation, sometimes
heated,, always high-minded.
In contrast to the unanimous signing of the Dec
laration of Independence at Philadelphia 11 years be
fore, 16, or 29 per cent, of the 55 delegates (65 had
been chosen but 10 never shower up), to the 1787 con
vention abstained from signing the Constitution.
Among those who refused to sign were such stalwart
patriots as Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts and
George Mason of Virginia.
TN the separate conventions chosen in the states to
pass on the Constitution, ratification was unani
mous or by wide majorities in (chronologically) Del
aware, Pennsylvania, New
cut, South Carolina Maryland, North Carolina. But
acceptance came by close squeaks in Massacnusetts,
New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, Rhode Island.
Most of the objectors found-the Constitution be
stowing too much power on the central government
at the expense of the states. After all, the delegates
had been chosen, not to draft this new constitution,
but only to revise the Articles of Confederation, un
der which each state had in effect a veto power over
almost everything.
Other obiectors. who
Bill of Rights, were promised that one would be added
at once. And to those who didn't exactly demur but
were unenthusiatic, it was pointed out that the Con
stitution allowed for a new convention to be called
some day to propose amendments to it. E.R.R.
Drys Out
The Prohibition Party, U.S.A:, always well ahead
in this but well behind when the votes are counted,
has already picked its presidential and vice-presidential
candidates for 1956. They are a 74-year-old col
lege professor-emeritus, and a retired brigadier gen
eral who hates universal military training as much as
the demon rum.
The first presidential
ceived only 5,600 yotes in
1872: twenty years later
the high water mark. In
1952, the party garnered only 70,700 votes. Although
the Prohibition Party has never won an electoral
vote, it has sponsored many reforms later put into
effect by the major parties.
THAT first prohibition platform of -1872 advocated
tection of public officers against removal for political
reasons, and laws for suppression of monopolies. The
1892 platform, advocated equal pay for women, lim
itation of immigration, and control of speculation on
margins. Later platforms called for direct election of
U.S. senators, prohibition of third terms for presi
dents, minimum wage laws and other social reforms.
lhe platform for 1956
reserve plan enacted by Congress this year, statehood
for Alaska and Hawaii, sharing of farm surpluses
with less fortunate countnes, and outlawing of, all
weapons of mass destruction.
The Prohibition Party
American "third parties." The Populists and T. Roose
velt's Bull Moosers, who made great showings in their
day, have long since passed from the political scene.
And small as the Prohibitionist vote was in 1952, it
was larger than the combined votes of the Socialist
and Socialist-Labor parties. E.R.R.
Why The Russians Took Berlin
Winston Churchill has again raised the question
why. the Russians under Marshal Zhukov were al
lowed to capture Berlin in, May 1945 when it could
easily have been taken by the western allies. And he
has again suggested that the whole history of postwar
Europe Would have been different if "our American
friends had listened to appeals which I made" that the
left wing of the allied army under Gen. Montgomery
be ordered to advance on the German capital.
, It is now clear that the decision to halt , allied
forces short of Berlin and leave the way open for the
advancing Russians was one made by Gen. Eisen
hower in the field, not by officials in Washington.
A personal message to President Roosevelt by
Churchill on April 1 had pointed but that the Russians
were ' already in position to take Vienna and asked
whether their taking Berlin also might not "lead them
into a mood which will raise grave doubts and for
midable difficulties." He made the same point in a
note to President Truman five days after Roosevelt's
death on April 12. Truman replied that the tactical
deployment of allied forces was a military question
which should be left ttf the judgment of the Supreme
Commander.
EN. Eisenhower in an official report to the Com-
bined Chiefs of Staff said that "military factors,
when the enemy was on the brink of final defeat, were
more important in my eyes than the political consid
erations involved in an Allied capture of the capital,"
which 'no longer represented a military objective of
major importance."
And an American historian, Forrest C. Pogue, con
cluded from a long study that Eisenhower decided to
halt U.S. troops at the Elbe "on a purely military
basis of ending the war as quickly as possible with
the fewest number' of casualties." There was "no
evidence of a political bargain between Allied and
Russian leaders whereby the forces of the latter were
to capture Berlin.' WE.R.R.
Thursday, September 15, 195S
Jersey, Georgia, Connecti
deplored the absence of a
in Front
candidate of the party re
the presidential election of
its ticket got 271,000 votes
the Eisenhower election of
asks repeal of the military
is the longest-surviving of
Egypt's "Strong Man1
Apparently Decided
To Seek Co-Existence
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Egypt's "strong man" appar
ently has decided to pursue a
policy of active cc-existenc;
with the Com
munist pow
ers.
Two brief
dispatches
from Cairo re
port what
seems to dis
close a new
step ia the for
eign policy of
Premier
Abdel Gamel
caaxies Mccaun Nasser.
One dispatch says that Pre
mier Nikolai A. Bulganin of
Russia, Premier Chou En-lai of
Red China and President Tito
of Yugoslavia are expected to
visit Nasser within the next
three months.
The other dispatch says that
Nasser favors the admission of
Chou's Peiping government to
the United Nations and plans to
open consulates in Chinese Com
munist cities. .
If the reports prove to be cor
rect, they will have important
bearing on the situation in the
Middle East.
Egyptian Prestige
Nasser has been trying ever
since he confirmed himself in
power 17 months ago to build up
Egypt's prestige. .... . ,
Nasser 'suffered a damaging
blow in the Sudan, Egypt's
neighbor to the south. ;
When the Sudan attained its
independence, after half a cen
tury of joint British and Egyp
tian rule, Nasser had every rea
son to believe that it would voteN
for union with Egypt.
Instead, the Sudanese leaders,
upon ' whom Nasser " depended,
say now that they want corn-
complete-independence, and no
interference from Egypt.
Bulganin Visit
A visit by Bulganin to Nasser
certainly would be a big diplo
matic event. Presumably Bul
ganin would be accompanied by
Soviet Communist Party bow
Nikita S. Khrushchev, Foreign
Minister Vyacheslav B. Molotov
and the rest of the Kremlin hap
piness boys who are buttering
up one non-Communist leader
after another.
If Chou En-lai visits Nasser,
undoubtedly Egypt will recog
nize Communist China. . '
The sole visitor of note from
the West who is known to be
due in Egypt soon is Vice-President
Richard M. Nixon. He plans
to start probably in November
on a tour of the Middle East..
. It looks as if Nixon will have
his work cut out for him.
Domestic Success -
If Nasser finds the going hard
in the foreign affairs . field, at
home he has won a big suc
cess. -The
35-year-old premier and
head of the Egyptian Revolution
ary Command Council is per
sonally popular with his 22,000,
000 people and is trusted by
them.-
Handsome, friendly and built
like a football player, Nasser
and his fellow leaders have
given Egypt its first honest, ef
ficient government. He -has
smashed the WAFD and Moslem
League political machines. By a
Crackdown Planned
On Drug Traffic
Rome (U.R) The Interna
tional Police organization is
planning a vast crackdown on
world drug traffic, a, U.S. nar
cotics agent said today.
Agent Charles Siragusa said
a ,52-nation conference of police
officials at Istanbul last week
adopted a resolution "calling for
sterner measures and fuller co
operation in the suppression of
the international drug evil."
He said actual details of clos
er cooperation between nations
who are members of the Inter
national Police organization
were hammered out at secret
sessions of the conference.
"Our aim is a full-scale crack
down on all sides," he said. But
he declined to reveal further
details.
Public Not 'Stupid
Ad Executive Says
Portland (U.R) A prominent
San Francisco advertising execu
tive charged yesterday that too
many advertisers operate under
the assumption that the public
was "stupid."
Walter Guild, president of
Guild, Bascom and Bonfigli of
San Francisco, says the best ex
ample of this was '-'the technique
of the cigarette advertisers who
believe the only way the public
can get their message is to cry
some silly phrase over and over
again."
Guild told the Oregon Adver
tising Club that another tech
nique was the "big lie," but he
says none of these approaches is
as effective as a message which
attempts to sell a product on
its merits. .
broad program of social justice,
including radical land reform,
he is trying to raise the "living
standard. '
Before many years, Nasser Is
likely to be a friend worth hav
ing. In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
This powderkeg world note:
At a Paris railroad station,
some 400 French reservists head
ed for duty in French Morocco
(where there are serious anti-
colonialism troubles) engaged in
a ruckus with military police.
Their battlecry was: "Morocco
for the Moroccans."
A communique issued by the
French ministry of defense
blames the incident on what it
terms "several regrettable errors
and a few hotheads and de
ranged minds."
The statement insists it was
not a mutiny or a revolt by the
reservists.
rpHE French have long had a
cynical explanation for trou
ble of aU sorts. They shrug their
shoulders and mutter "cherchez
la femme."
Maybe in these modern days
they'd better change their an
cient wisecrack to "cherchez les
Communists."
Wherever there is trouble in
the world today, the Commu
nists are apt to be at the bottom
of it. .
CJPEAK1NG of troubles, the gov-
J ernment of India introduced
a bill in the Indian parliament
to curb a crossword puzzle craze
that is sweeping the country. The
bill would limit prizes to $210,
The explanation of the trou
ble is that some Indian newspa
pers ate now offering up to $42,
000 in prizes for puzzle solutions,
with ENTRANCE FEES ranging
from a few cents to more than
a dollar.
The Indian government says
the bill is intended to stop the
"deleterious effects" of the puz
zles on large sections of the In
dian population.
TIHY are they so "deleteri-
" ous?"
The answer is simple. Because
a FEE is required to enter the
contest, they AMOUNT TO LOT
TERIES on a big scale : and
when people quit thinking about
how to earn money by . the pain
ful process of WORKING FOR
IT and start thinking about how
to get money BY GAMBLING,
production suffers.
JNDIA NEEDS production.
India doesn't produce enough
to meet the needs of her people.
Hence her poverty. Nations that
don't produce enough to go
around are always impoverished.
Poverty is a lack of the things
that people want and need.
GAMBLING produces noth
ing.
It merely takes money out of
one person's pocket and puts it
in another person's pocket.
T OTTERIES are generaUy for-
bidden in the United States.
Among other things, publica
tions that deal in lotteries ad-
vertisingwise or otherwise are
barred from the mails.
I suppose that if lotteries were
LEGAL in the United States
some newspapers here might do
as the newspapers of India ap
pear to be doing. That is to say,
they might use potteries in
crossword puzzle foW or some
other form as circulation-building
devices.
I'd like to add, however, that
this newspaper wouldn't do so.
Those of us who make it think
it is WORTH WHAT IT COSTS,
and .doesn't need a gambling
scheme to promote circulation.
BACK in North Carolina the
other day, an amusement
park elephant named Vickie
took off into the woods when
her handlers started to load her
into a truck to visit a nearby
fair.
They whistled to her and they
called to her. But to no avail.
She took off deeper into the
woods AND FREEDOM.
Her owner thinks he knows
TAME elephants. He went into
the woods along the route Vickie
had taken and blazed a trail out
with buckets of grain which
she adores. He thinks the grain
will bring. her back.
11 ILL it? I wouldn't know. But
it will be worth-watching.
We Americans have lived long
and happily in the FREE EN
TERPRISE - woods, looking out
for ourselves. But in recent dec
ades we've been feeding on the
easy grain of GOVERNMENT
GUARANTEED SECURITY.
We've been forming the habit
as Vickie did of BEING FED,
instead of rustling our own grub.
WiU we STAY in the free en
terprise woods?
Or will we come out to get
the easy grain? .
I
WOULDN'T know.
But it will be interesting to
see what Vickie does.
Matter of
SHERM AGAIN
Washington The storv of
how the Eisenhower administra
tion tried to bring Benjamin V.
Cohen back
into govern
ment services,
makes as pe
culiar a politi
cal anecdote
as Washington
has produced
in many a
year.
Secretary of
State John
Foster Dulles
wanted, and
Joseph Also
the President apparently also
wanted, to put Cohen on the
American delegation to the Uni
ted Nations. If the Secretarv and
the President had got their way,
this single act would have con
siderably altered the style and
appearance of nresent American
foreign policy-making.
To be sure. Cohen has loner
ceased to be the inflammatory
figure that he was in the hieh
New Deal days of the famous
t-orcoran-Cohen partnership. His
post . war greatest friend "and
sponsor was James F. Bvrnes.
who brought Cohen into the
state .Department when he be
came Secretary of State. Later,
onen served on the UN dele
gation with acknowledged dis
tinction; and in this last assign
ment he worked rather inti
mately with John Foster Dulles,
when Dulles was the Republican
symbol of bi-Dartisanshm in a
Democratic administration.
But President Eisenhower has
been curiously more rjartisan
than his supposedly too partisan
predecessor, under Eisenhower.
there are no ' equivalents to
Dulles, and Forrestal. McClov
and Lovett and all the other
men . of their "sort who played
such a great role in the Truman
years. Hence it would have been
a great and novel step, if Ben
Cohen had become the pemo
cratic symbol of bi-partisanship
in this Republican administra
tion. Secretary Dulles, at any rate,
was entirely ready to take this
step. Some time before the sum
mit meeting at Geneva he asked
Cohen, whether he would con
sent to serve again on our dele
gation to the UN. He added that
he had discussed the matter with
the President, who hoped that
Cohen would accept. '
Not wishing to become a sym
bol of bi-partisanship without his
party behind him, Cohen asked
for tune. He then consulted the
Democratic House and Senate
leaders, Sam Rayburn and Lyn
don Johnson, and the party's
national leaders, former Presi
dent Truman and Adlai Steven
son. AU urged Cohen to accept
Dulles' offer; and he thereupon
did so.
AT THIS point, a slight pre
liminary hitch developed.
Walter F. George of Georgia, the
Democratic foreign policy chief
in the Senate, was then m the
hospital. Secretary Dulles inti
mated that it was not quite cer
tain that Senator George would
go along. After some delay, how
ever, Dulles renewed his offer
to Cohen in the majestically
combined names of himself, the
President and Senator George.
Cohen renewed his acceptance,
and so the matter seemed to be
settled when Dulles and Eisen
hower departed for the Geneva
meeting'. . "
Then came the real hitch. Evi
dently rumors of the impending
Cohen appointment had reached
the ears of the more extreme
sort of Republican rightwingers.
No doubt this faction in the
party came down like a ton of
bricks on the President's pert
sonal chief of staff, Governor j
Sheman Adams.
At any rate, with both Dulles
and the President absent at the
summit, Adams took the remark
able step of calling on Cohen at
his Washington department,, to
ask him to change his mind
about DuUes' offer. There would
be a lot of trouble on Capitol
Hill, Adams said. The session
was just ending, he went on;
and if possible a fight ought to
be avoided. Would Cohen there
fore withdraw the promise he
had given Dulles, and so make
it unnecessary for Adams to send
his name to the Senate?
After some thought, Cohen
consented te do as he was asked.
The failure of the Cohen ap
pointment was therefore an ac
complished fact when Secretary
Dulles returned from the sum
mit meeting. He expressed his
deep regret to Cohen. He rather
curiously remarked . vthat he
thought the appointment could
probably have been put through,
if he and the President had not
been absent at Geneva. And he
ended, rather lamely, by claim
ing that the real opposition to
the Cohen appointment had
come from the Democrats, and
specifically from Acting Senate
Leader Earle C. Clements of
Kentucky.
mEE CLAIM was transparently
incorrect. Senator Clements
would never, under any circum
stances reject a project already
approved by Senators Johnson
and George. Furthermore, the
Kentuckian specifically denied
that he had ever, at any time,
objected to the nomination of
Cohen to the UN delegation.
Someone, in short, sold Secre
tary Dulles a strictly phoney bill
of goods. v
But these political, intricacies
Fact By Joseph Alsop
are only significant because they
illustrate the labyrinthine char
acter of present day politics.
What matters much more is the
proof of the remaining blackmail
power of the Republican ex
tremists. The proof is all the
more ironically entertaining in
this instance, because the ex
tremists primary' objection to
Cohen stems from his views on
the Formosa problem, and
Cohen's views on Formosa have
now come to be the views of
President Eisenhower, if not yet
of Secretary Dulles. ,
(Copyright, 1955.
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
A Nichol's Worth of . . .
Comment On
By HARMAN
UiiM few
Washington U.R Here's
a man with a
pepping up the
novel Idea for
morale of our
servicemen in
peacetime.
Edward R.
Place, - who
can swing low
in a sweet cha
riot as harmo
niously as you
please, thinks
that barber
s h o p quartet
I singing is
hlmmm what tho flTo
Harman MichoU need to en.
Liven dull nights in the barracks.
So, as a labor of love, Ed has
volunteered to be chairman of
an Armed Forces Collaboration
Committee for the Society for
the Preservation and Encourage
ment of Barbershop : Quartet
Singing in America, Inc. The
barbershop outfit has one of the
longest handles so far as titles
go of any organized group in
the land.
Anyhow, Ed got together with
an old singing pal, Dean Snyder,
who works in the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare,
and formed a group called the
"Singing Squires." And that's
kind of how it started.
Something To Do
It doesn't matter much how
the GIs sing, or where. It could
be in the barracks, before lights
out, or in the service club if the
kids are good enough. The idea
is to give them something to do,
when time lags. .
Ed and Dean don't expect to
make silk purses out of sows'
ears. But they take encourage
ment from . the fact that one
throw-together military quartet
the "Four Teens," became inter
national champs a few years
back. These lads were from Eau
Claire, Wis., if I recall, and
were in the Air Force. They
went around entertaining and
while so doing they did a bunch
of recruiting. It was an accident
that they all wound up at Scott
Air Force Base near Bellville,
HI.
Anyhow, the goal of the new
committee would be to have one
barber shop quarter at every in
stallation at home and abroad.
No matter what branch of the
service. Ed and Dean : figure
there must be talent around
every place. .
To Discuss Compact
With Government -
Jackson, Wyo. U.R) Jhe Co
lumbia River Interstate Com
pact Commission concluded its
two day meeting yesterday and
announced appointment of a spe
cial committee to discuss the
compact with the federal gov
ernment. ' Calvert Anderson, executive
secretary of the commission, said
the special committee would con
fer with the government to sub
ordinate downstream power and
navigation to upstream con
sumptive uses and . to establish
consumptive uses in downstream
area. ......
' R. P. Parry of Twin Falls,
Idaho, was named chairman of
the committee. Other members
are Paul Geddes of Roseburg.
Ore., and George" D. Clyde of
Salt Lake City.
- Howard R. Stinson, Idaho
Falls. Idaho, was appointed legal
advisor. . .
i in i I
At no other time would you spend
a like amount .without considerable
investigation first. Before any actual
need arises, why not investigate what
is involved in a funeral service?
i
CHAPEL MORTUARY
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan -
niLirn 11
Salem Man Guilty
01 False Oath
Portland (U.R) James D.
Campbell, 50, Salem, was found
guilty yesterday of making a
false oath to a bankruptcy ref
eree. The Federal Court jury ac
quitted Campbell of a second
charge, of preparing a false
bankruptcy petition. Judge Gus
Solomon postponed sentencing
pending a probation office in
vestigation. Campbell is a former weather
stripping and insulation contractor.
This and That
W. NICHOLS
hMw Writ
According to Ed and Dean,
the Army has the best organized
singing groups. Largely because
there is a man by the name of
Dr. Harold W. (Bud) Arberg on
the job as "musical adviser to
the adjutant generaL" "Bud" has
done a lot in developing har
monizers and choruses.
The idea of organized singing
in the forces is not new, but it
has been lagging a little lately.
A new needle was inserted a
couple of years ago when the
adjutant general s office pro
moted an all-Army soldier's
singing concert. There was popu
lar music, opera, and the kind of
folk songs that were born in the
coal mines and in the fields of
cotton.
Long-playing records were
made of the winners, and those
lads ought to be .on television.
I have the album, and I can
testify it's mighty good listening.
Democrats Would
YelcomeCampaign
With Eisenhower
San Francisco (U.R) The
Democrats would be "very hap
py to take on" President Eisen
hower in the 1956 presidential
campaign "as the bjst the Re
publican party has," according
to Democratic Gov. George M.
Leader of Pennsylvania.
And to defeat Richard cfJixon
for the presidency "would be
like taking candy from a baby's
hot, sticky little hand," the 36-year-old
Qftaker State chief ex
ecutive added.;
Substitute for Truman
Leader, the youngest govern
or in the nation, spoke as a sub
stitute for former President
Truman at a $100-a-plate Dem
ocratic fund raising dinner here.
Supported by cheers and ap
plause, he called on Democrats
everywhere to make it clear to
the President "that the honey
moon ft over."
"He and no one else is respon
sible for' the administration he
heads; Talbott and Hobby and
Benson and Dixon-Yates are not
individual failures they; are
Eisenhower failures," . Leader
said.
"It sould be made absolute
ly clear that it is a matter of
indifference to the Democratic
party whether Eisenhower runs
again or not. We are very nappy
to take him on as the best the
Republican party has to offer."
Strength Gained
Leader said the Democratic
party had consistently gamed
strength, while the Republicans
have lost support since Eisen
hower was elected. -
The trend is still there," he
said. "If Dwight Eisenhower has
any political magic, he keeps
it to himself. It doesn't rub off
on the Republican party." ,
He said the Republican lead
ers -were ,, "shameless dema
gogues" in 1952 for their cam
paign of exploiting the losses
of the Korean war as President
Truman s "private ponce ac
tion." Then, as we all know, the
Eisenhower administration pro
ceeded to matte a peace in itorea
pn terms for which a Republican
congress would have undertaken
the impeachment of Harry Tru
man." i
Harold Snodgrass
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