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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 12, 1948 (Thursday)
Checks totaling more than
$7,000 delivered to Ralph
Kweenev. county treasurer,
lor the Medford chapter or
the National Foundation ol
Infantile Paralysis.
Work begins in Ashland on
Installation of a 9,000-foot
eight-inch water main from
junction of Highways 99 and
66 through Bellview district.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 12, 1938 (Sunday)
Northwest aviation plan
ning council votes in Van
couver, B. C, to hold 1938
summer meeting in Medford.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "R. Sing
, ler has cast his lid into the
race for sheriff."
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 12, 1928 (Monday)
A successful demonstration
of the new Tucker snow seld
held on the Crater Lake high
way. A welfare baby clinic
scheduled at Central Point
library.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 12, 1918 (Tuesday)
Ben Sheldon, who was
temporarily night editor of
the Medford Sun, resigns to
Bccept the management of
Ashland's campaign for a
state normal school.
Final preparations made for
Lincoln day celebration, ban
quet and talk-fest at the Med
ford hotel today.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or fen correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Correct the following:
"I read in the paper where
the 'invaders were torturing
prisoners."
2. Bible: Is there any men
tion of Adam and Eve hav
ing daughters?
3. Does "inflation" produce
a rise, or a fall, in the gener
al price level?
4. Mandrake is the name of
a breed of duck, a medicinal
herb, or a sailing vessel?
5. Greyhounds hunt chief
ly by sight, or by smell?
6. Who was Dr. George
Washington Carver?
7. Two U. S. state names
end in the letter Y; name
them.
8. Name the author of "The
Forsyte Saga."
9. The name "Seabees" is
derived from the initials of
what, words?
10. Name the largest spec
ies of fish that inhabits the
ocean.
Answers: 1. "I read in the
paper that the invaders were
torturing prisoners." 2. Yes.
3. A rise. 4. "Medicinal herb.
5. By sight. 6. Famous Negro
scientist. 7. New Jersey and
Kentucky. 8. John Gals
worthy. 9. (Construction Bat
talions). 10. Whole shark.
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MAIL TRIBUNE
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Slaughter Bill Progress .
The House of Representatives of the U.S.
Congress last week passed and sent to the senate
HR 8308 the so-called Humane Slaughter bill.
The measure is a compromise. It has been sup
ported by the American Humane Association,
with the support of the
tive Legislation, the Humane Society of the U.S.,
and similar groups, who have long been up in
arms about the methods
animals in this country.
Opponents have included the American Farm
Bureau Federation, the National Grange, the
American National Cattlemen's association, and
many meat producers and packers.
THE widest support
which makes a big
men has come from
revolted by the slaughtering methods used by
many packing houses, and who have written let
ters to their representatives protesting them.
It is doubtful that the
the House had it not been for this type of "grass
roots" support, for the farm and packing organ.
izations are powerful
more so in the Senate than in the House.
The final show-down, then, will come soon
in the Senate, where Oregon's Richard Neuberger
is one of its strongest proponents.
THE bill itself is modest enough in its provisions,
A It would establish
livestock would be slaughtered only by the most
humane practicable methods," would direct the
government to buy meat
the prescribed methods,
would direct the secretary of agriculture to con
duct research on humane slaughtering methods
and report by mid-1959, would authorize a 12-man
advisory committee to make recommendations
and reports on new methods, and would prohibit
no slaughtering methods in conformity with the
practices and requirements of any religion.
It provides no flat ban on the cruelties now
imposed on meat animals, but it would have a
strongly persuasive effect on major packing
houses to bring their standards up to those now
in effect in most European nations.
IT STRIKES us as odd that some similar legis-
lation has not been enacted long before this,
for by and large Americans deplore gratuitous
cruelty. It may be they simply were unaware of
the practices of slaughterhouses in this country.
It is also odd that packers generally have not
adopted the more humane methods, for those
which have done so have found they are equally
economical, with added
smaller percentage of meat spoiled when animals
thrash around in their final agonies.
No one knows, of course, how the bill will
fare in the Senate. But "insiders" in Washington
are quoted as saying
cruelty." E.A.
Mr. Perbobly
Mr. Perbobly is a
on the Oregon scene. He
Alexander, who performs a variety of chores for
the Albany Democrat-Herald such things as
setting type, writing book reviews, and on oc
casion writing about Mr. Perbobly in that news
paper's editorial column.
Mr. Perbobly is a middle-aged, well-meaning,
disgruntled sub-suburbanite, who fights a never
winning battle with life, in the form of Mrs.
Perbobly, the weather, his old jalopy, salesmen,
the neighbors, cats, dogs and an occasional
Martian.
But Mr. Perbobly (whose favorite comment
is "probably"), though he may never quite win,
never quite loses, either. There is something
within him which is a compound of courage,
humor, sensitivity and realism.
WITNESS, then, Mr. Perbobly's latest adven-
" ture, this time the advent of Spring:
Mr. Perbobly's mouth opened down to his chest
and from the cavern issued a thundering "Croar-rk."
Tall trees shuddered, lights went up in neighbor
ing houses, for it was dusk; parents called in children,
hound dogs slunk into hiding.
All because on this bammy evening Mr. P., out in
his backyard, heard the Song of the Frogs. A rising
chorus in swale and rill, they praised spring and the
time of new life: "Roak, Roark, Yelk, Yark." And
such an outpouring the Old Gent hadn't heard winter
long. A moment after he launched his own second bawl,
something whirled him about by the backside of his
belt.
"What do you mean?" demanded Mrs. P. fiercely.
"Bellering like-a bull. Scaring -the neighbors. What
will people think? Like a bullfrog that noise "
"You know what," said Mr. P. persuasively, "you
listen to them dadgasted( happy frogs. You know what
they're up to? They lo'oked at the calendar. They
climbed out of bed in the mud, rubbed their great big
Eddie Cantor eyes and began to get ready to pre
pare "
From over the fence somewhere a cow grunted
and Mr. P. grunted, back, in 'some prehistoric tongue.
"That for you, too," Mr. P. translated.
"I'm going in," snapped Mrs. P. "You stay out
here with your frogs. Crawl in the cold mud with
them."
"The high Yelps and Yarks," the Old Man ex
plained, "those are the girl frogs. The "
But he was alone, and the night swam up and over
everything. The Song of the Frogs seemed to mute,
as from far away. It swelled again, and he knew it
was here, next to him, everywhere.
For they had climbed out of the despond of win
ter, they had cheated death, and life, new life was
acoming. All the hope and happines and destiny of
the new, thought Perbobly. Here in the Song of the
Frogs.
Mr. Perbobly is right. Probably. E. A.
Wednesday. February 12, 1957
Society for Animal Frotec
used to slaughter food
and the kind of support
impression on Congress
individuals, who are
bill would have passed
in Washington perhaps
as national policy that
only from packers using
effective Jan. 1, 1960;
costs being offset by a
that Nobody votes for
'
's Spring Song
relatively recent arrival
is the creation of Charles
'JUST WKSGLE Vttlf? FOOT QUIETLY, IT ISN'T NKESSAR
TO KEEP SAVWe 'WAKE UP''.'
East German Purge Evidence
Of Stalinist-Liberal Trouble
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The purge in East Germany
shows how seriously the de
nunciation of Joseph Stalin
continues t o
affect the
Comm u n i s t
world after
two years.
"Stalini s t"
leaders are
still in firm
control in East
G e r m a n y,
Hungary,
Czechoslovak-
trnmf i
Charles M.
McCann
in Bulgaria and Romania.
But they are on the defen
sive, and they are still being
opposed by prominent Com
munist Party members.
Walter Ulbricht, the East
German Communist leader,
defeated an attempt to depose
him by ousting three first
ranking party members who
demanded a drastic liberali
zation of his regime.
Two weeks previously, Hun
garian Communist Party lead
er Janos Kadar had turned
over his post of premier to
his deputy, Ferenc Munnich.
Both Are "Stalinists'
Both Kadar and Munnich
are "Stalinists" and Kadar re
tains his power as first secre
tary of the Communist Party.
But Kadar apparently gave
up the prime ministry partly
because he is detested as the
man who betrayed his people
to the Russians during the
Hungarian revolt and partly
because he wanted to devote
his energies to keeping his
party under control.
Diplomatic advices reach
ing London disclose that Bul
garian Communist leaders are
conducting a drastic tighten-ing-up
campaign.
They have arrested an esti
mated 3,000 teen-agers who
showed too much fondness for
the "capitalist" way of life,
including public dancing, ad
diction to rock-and-roll danc
ing and western-style cloth
ing. Many of these are being
sent to forced labor camps.
In Russia itself Communist
Editorial Comment
WE'VE HAD ENOUGH
OF DULLES
Very few newspapers are
any longer defending Secre
tary of State John Foster
Dulles. The list of Republican
newspapers that have de
manded that Mr. Dulles leave
the cabinet is becoming im
posing. Among the latest to raise
its voice is the staunchly Re
publican Kansas City Star. A
lengthy editorial on the weak
nesses of Mr. Dulles con
cludes: "The cumulative evi
dence that Mr. Dulles is mis
cast as Secretary of State is
now altogether too persua
sive. The time has come.
Highly principled and dedi
cated though he be, Mr.
Dulles should go."
One paragraph in the Star
editorial sums up so much of
Mr. Dulles' damaging effect
on our relations with 'other
countries:
Perhaps as much by his
manner as by his policies
he has alienated the neu
trals in the East-West strug
gle and disaffected our al
lies. Despite the President's
evident trust in him, ob
servers report that he has
become the most unpopular
man in Asia and Western
Europe, where it is particu
larly important that our
policies be rightly under
stood and freely supported.
This, of course, is an ex
tremely serious situation. In
certain areas of the world we
must exert every effort to
make friends. At the same
time we'd better be working
at the daily task of keeping
the friends we've got. One
would think that Mr. Dulles
could keep his feet and mouth
in proper position in that
Party Chieftain Nikita S.
Khrushchev, who started it
all by denouncing Stalin-type
dictatorship in February,
1956, is tightening up party
control over the government,
the armed forces and indus
try. The effect of the denuncia
tion of Stalinism is still being
felt not only in Russia and
its satellites but in Poland,
which won at least partial in
dependence in 1956.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Missile note:
The navy blamed a "simple
wiring defect" for the second
failure of the Vanguard rocket
to launch an earth satellite.
Scientists issued the explana
tion after divers recovered the
the first stage of the fallen
Vanguard from the waters of
the Atlantic.
They said a bad wiring con
nection disabled the guidance
system of the first stage so
that it couldn't keep the 72-
foot missile on course. As a
result, they explain, it "whip
ped" so sharply in flight that
it snapped a dry twig.
TJMMMMMM.
LITTLE things can have
BIG consequences. A good ex
ample of that is the literary
fable of what happened when
a horseshoe nail failed to
hold. Back in the early 1600's,
George Herbert, an English
clergyman and a one - time
public orator of Cambridge
University who turned poet,
wrote these lines:
"For want of a nail the
shoe is lost, for want of a shoe
the horse is lost, for want of
a horse the RIDER is lost."
MORE than a century later
(along in the 1700s) our
own Benjamin Franklin came
across Herbert's nail story and
liked it so well that, like
Homer, he "went and took it"
and embodied it in a maxim
area, but this Milwaukee
(Wise.) Journal editorial rais
es some doubt:
American-Canadian rela
tions are not too happy
these days. The Canadians
are annoyed with our tar
iff and trade policies, oil
import restrictions and ag
ricultural dumping. They
are irritated at what they
consider Washington's in
difference to their problems
and wishes. This feeling
has been growing. It played
an important part in last
summer's upset of the "Lib
eral party government by
the Conservatives.
And now we come to
Secretary of State Dulles
and his recent concession
to a house appropriation
committee group that "re
lations with our goodf
neighbor on the north are'
not what they should be."
"Why is this, and who is
at fault?" he was asked.
"I should say," declared
Dulles, "that most of the
difficulty is due' to the in
experience of the present
Canadian government in
handling diplomatic rela
tions." "And we have made no
mistakes?"
"I wouldn't say so," said
Dulles.
Having thus brushed off
Canada's serious complaints
and having antagonized the
members of the current Ot
tawa government, the sec
retary of state was off to
Turkey.
And thus closes our lat
est lesson in how to lose
friends and alienate people:
Instructor John Foster
Dulles. Pendleton East Or
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Beloved Abe
To the Editor: A certain
author claims he never stands
before a statue of Abe Lin
coln but he sees in the back
ground the arms of the God
man stretched out "on a cross.
Abe could be compared to the
pipe that brings the mountain
spring into all our Medford
homes. In the case of the
mountain spring we don't
think of the pipe, but of Med
ford's pure water. In Abe's
case we think the opposite,
of the marvelous human and
honor him and rightfully
should. Could that author's
insight be unique, with a life
of its own? Or could millions
of others have felt humble
reverence while standing
looking at America's beloved
Abe?
We doubt those who sat at
the same boarding house
It has long been apparent
that Khrushchev blundered in
his denunciation of Stalin. He
went too far.
One thing is notable. In
Russia and in the satellites
Red leaders have had to resist
the trend toward liberalism.
But conditions in all of these
countries are better than they
were two years ago, and it
seems certain that the Reds
will have to continue to give
their people more liberal rule.
JENKINS
that he prefixed to his Poor
Richard's Almanac. This is the
way Franklin put it:
'A little neglect may breed
mischief: For want of a nail
the shoe was lost, for want
of a shoe the horse was lost,
for want of a horse the rider
was lost."
YOU will probably recall
that back in the late 1400's
King Richard III got his final
come-uppance at the battle of
Bosworth Field, where his
army was defeated by the
Earl of Richmond and he was
killed. In the battle, he lost
his horse, and Shakespeare
puts these words i n his
mouth: "A horse! a horse! My
kingdom for a horse!" '
Richard's horse is historical
ly assumed to have been shot
from under him, but' some
scribbler later tied the horse
shoe nail incident to his mis
hap and came up with this
version of the importance of
a nail:
"For want of a nail the
shoe was lost, for want of a
shoe the horse was lost, for
want of a horse the rider was
lost, for want of the rider A
KINGDOM WAS LOST."
Anyway, the navy has com
pany in its grief over the
trifling bit of bad wiring that
upset its Vanguard rocket.
lyHY all this literary stuff
at this moment in his
tory? Well, it's better than listen
ing to thhe gloom and doom
prophets who are filling the
air with their wails of woe
and the wild and wooly sche
mes of the spender who want
to take advantage of the Sput
nik scare to pry open the
doors of the treasury.
Robert Ayers Named
Director of Bureau
Portland Robert Ayres of
Medford recently was appoint
ed director of the Speaker's
bureau at Lewis and Clark
college. He will assist in pro
viding speakers for outside
groups, serve as chairman of
the college "sounding board"
weekly meetings and help in
forensics.
A sophomore pre-law ma
jor, Ayres is a member of
the debate squad and Pi Kap
pa Delta, national forensics
honorary. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Ayres, 26
South Orange st.
Riddle Planing Mill
Destroyed by Flames
Roseburg (IH Damage
Tuesday was estimated at $65,-
000 in a Monday night fire
which destroyed the planing
mill and loading dock ,at the
Riddle Manufacturing Com
pany at Riddle in southern
Douglas county'.
TfueVieioje
DAIRY-SMITH
East Main St.
SOUR
table when Mary (Abe's wife)
dashed a cup of scalding hot
coffee in her husband's face,
got an insight also of a na
ture that was in tune with
the infinite when no resent
ment was evident. No doubt
pity for his tempermental
wife was what he felt, and
the others saw. . Perhaps as
the hot coffee burned his
face, he too saw in the back
ground the same figure the
author saw, with Ann Rut
ledge standing by.
The united souls of Abe
and Ann surely go marching
on, waving America's flag
and perhaps we all feel
humbly inferior.
Emma Lou Carpenter,
811 Sherman st.,
Medford.
Oregon Power Bill Praised
To the Editor: In August
1953 Bonneville Power Ad
ministration " was forced by
former Secretary McKay to
sign the 20-year private util
ity contracts.
These contracts prohibit
BPA from serving any new
industry until l,500,0t)0 kilo
watts , of surplus power, or
more than three Bonneville
Dams, is set aside for the en
tire 20-year period for exclu
sive use of private power.
This means untold millions of
dollars per year in guaranteed
private power profits.
These are anti-industry con
tracts. They contain a private
power preference clause
which gives perference to pri
vate power ahead of industry
and jobs.
For the past five years and
for the forseeable future this
contract clause has placed an
"anti-industry" curtain around
the Pacific Northwest. It is an
economic albatross around the
neck of the region. It is a con
tributing cause for the present
unemployment and hard
times.
These anti-industry con
tracts are now catching up
with the private utilities.
The Oregon Power Devel
opment initiative which was
filed with the Secretary of
State January 3rd would en
able Oregon as a preference
customer to buy power direct
ly from the Federal system on
a nonprofit basis for resale to
industry and thus get around
the notorious contracts.
Private utilities are attack
ing the Oregon Power Initia
tive by blaming the lack of in
dustry on the anti-monopoly
or preference clause of the
Bonneville Act.
Of course this charge is un
true as witness all the indus
try which came into the re
gion before BPA was ground
ed by the anti-industry con
tracts. .
The Oregon Power Develop
ment initiative should effec
tively by-pass the anti-indus
try contracts as far as Oregon
is concerned.
Gus Norwood
Executive Secretary
Northwest Public Power
3SSI1
210 West 13th
Vancouver, Wash.
On Sunday Closing
To the Editor: Since early
this fall when interest in Sun
day closing of business came
to the attention of the public
we have been queried by var
ious groups and individuals
regarding our official position
on the subject. We have de
cided to share with you as
briefly as possible our feel
ing on this important subject.
We believe that the obser
vance of the Sabbath day is
vital to the religious life of
the community. We feel the
American home will be a
stronger unit with the entire
family praying and worship
ing together. Along with most
Christian churches, we urge
our members to keep the Sab
beth day holy.
. As Seventh-day Adventists,
we believe that every person
must give an account to God
for his conduct. We are equal
ly convinced, however, that
his course of action must be
based upon personal and in
dividual convictions. For it is
our firm belief that in mat
ters of religion, each' person
must make his own decisions.
The state should not, indeed
can not, legislate on religious
matters.
There are some aspects of
the present Sunday closure
movement which cause us
deep concern. During the last
session of the Oregon legisla
ture, attempts were made to
initiate a Sunday closing law.
It has been stated that "these
activities would continue."
at Genessee
(REAM
U.S. Disturbed by
French Use of U.S.
Planes in Attack
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP! Secre
tary of State John Foster
Dulles has told French Am
bassador Harve Alphand that
the adminis
tration is pro
foundly d i s
turbed by last
week e n d's
deadly attack
bj F r e h c h
airmen on a
Tunisian vil
1 a g e. Dulles
d o ubtless
Lyle C. Wilson would have
been speaking more directly
We have also noted that some
leaders of the present Sunday
closing movement have been
quoted as hinting at the fu
ture use of "picketing and
voluntary boycott" to achieve
business cooperation. This, we
feel, is unAmerican unchrist
ian, and unBiblical. .
Recognizing that some 73
per cent of Oregon's residents
are not members of any
church we feel it grossly un
just to compel them to ob
serve a religious precept.
Those who may wish to close
on Wednesday, Friday, Satur
day, or Monday should also
be given the right to do so
without d i scrimination. If
there are those who feel they
wish to keep their place of
business open seven days a
week, they too, should be al
lowed to continue operating
without boycott of coercion,
providing other laws protect
ing the right of their employe
es are observed.
Of the 27 per cent who are
members of Oregon churches,
some seriously question the
correctness of the calling Sun
day "the Sabbath." Seventh-
day Adventists take the posi
tion a church should do all it
can to evangelize and propag
ate its teachings, but no
church or group should at
tempt to achieve this end
through use of force, direct
or indirect.
Your Seventh -day Adven-
tist friends wish to help make
your community a better
place in which to live and nur
ture the great principles of
true Americanism. Through
education, preaching, and
humanitarian enterprises the
church should make its high
qualities felt. But let us pray
that the church will never
allow itself tp gain its follow
ers through means of picket
ing, legislation or the social
embarrassment of the resi
dents of our fair state.
Geo. S. Belleau, Secretary
Religious Liberty Department
Oregon Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists,
Portland, Ore.
Dave Epps is Scored
To the Editor: David Epps,
new chairman of the Demo
cratic Party of Oregon, has
injected himself into the Rep
ublican primary through a
series of identical letters to
favorite editors of the state
attacking the selection of
former Governor Elmo Smith
as head of Mark Hatfield's
campaign for Governor. Mr.
Epps thus points the way for
Democrat leadership to bad
ger M-ark Hatfield because
Hatfield is recognized as the
stronger Republican competi
tor in the fall election. If the
Democratic party leadership
can destroy him in the pri
mary they apparently think
tne t all campaign will be a
breeze.
Secretary Hatfield's voting
record in. two House terms
and one Senate is open for
examination. You know
where he stands. He has a bi
partisan following. Mr. Epps
has disappointed many of his
own Democratic party mem
bers by concerning himself
with the Republican primary
but perhaps that is his way of
standing aloof from the Rob
ert Holmes-Lew Wallace-Wiley
Smith competition. Better
he should be busy with Demo
cratic affairs between now
and May 16.
Jack Miller
648 North High st.
Salem
Lrv
The
Better
, Service
Beautiful
View Chapel,
C M. Litwiller.
Mt.
Off street parking No processions through streets
Quiet Location Better service lower costs
At Cemetery Entrance 100 Locally Owned
LITWILLER
Funeral
Home
Mountain View Chapel
Hwy. 66 at Normal
Office 88 N. Main
ASHLAND
We Never Close.
A." ' :
i
"It is better
than to
for his fellow American citi
zens if he bluntly had put to
the ambassador this question:
"Why and under what au
thority did United StateS;built
airplanes comprise the bulk
of the French strafing force
against the Tunisians?"
The count of dead and in
jured approached 200 which
is. approximately 10 per cent
of the population of the bomb
ed village of Sakiet Sidi Yous
sef. Among the dead were 9
women and 12 children, 1 or
more of the latter were mere
infants.
Used B26's, Corsairs
More significant to the
United States government,
however, was the Tunisian
rundown on the airplanes in
volved in this bold venture.
The Tunisians reported 25 air
planes on the French strafing
mission which, in miniature,
matched some of the trium
phal sorties of Hitler's airmen
and of Mussolini's . against
helpless civilians.
The Tunisians said
French attacked in eight jet
fighters of their own manu
facture plus 11 B26 bombers
and 6 Corsair (Navy) fighter
bombers made in the United
States and paid for, of course,
with American tax dollars
A fair question to Ambassa
dor Alphand right now would
be:
"Were those American-made
aircraft a part of the arma
ment supplied to France at
the expense of the U. S. tax
payer as a part of the Ameri
can contribution to the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO)? If so, how come they
are being used up in an end
less French colonial war?"
Should Ask Dulles-
It would be equally appro
priate for the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee to put to
Dulles the same question. The
U. S. government scarcely can
escape a considerable measure
of responsibility for the use to
which' American made arms
are put by those nations re
ceiving them.
If it had been Soviet Rus
sian airplanes with satellite
pilots who were out last Sun
day blasting an Arab civilian
population, the United States
would be making big propa
ganda out of those circum
stances today. The Russian
Communists are not muffing
the opportunity now offered
them by the Tunisian inci
dent. The United States has just
participated in' a substantial
dollar advance to the French
government whose trouble
basically seems to be a pride
ful and expensive determina
tion to cling to empire with
out the muscle to do it. Before
the next loan or the next ship
ment of NATO weapons, it
might be a good idea for the
United States to have an un
derstanding with the French
as to the purposes for which
the dollars and the arms might
be employed.
An understanding which
would exclude such dangerous
action as that of last Satur
day against Tunisia.
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