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History from tho files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 31, 1953 (Tuesday)
Permit issued to erect $20,
505 annex to Medford post
office.
Dorothy Warenskjold con
cert under auspices of Jack
son County Civic Music asso
ciation praised; reviewer com
pliments group on "successful
season."
20 YEARS AGO
March 31. 1943 (Wednesday)
State has more than $36
million cash, the largest
amount in history, In Its treas
ury, State Treasurer Leslie
M. Scott' says.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "April
weather has started before
March could make an exit
either as a lion or a lamb.
The month is apparently go
ing out like April."
30 YEARS AGO
March 31, 1933 (Friday)
Two men who attempted to
swindle southern Oregon res
idents, including Jackson
county, out of bonds are sen
tenced to prison in California;
much of evidence used against
was collected by Oregon state
police.
Dramatic group of Phoenix
Grange wins state champion
ship in the one-act play con
test in Corvallis.
40 YEARS AGO
March 31. 1923 (Friday)
Gypsies traveling in 20
high - powered autos pass
through town.
Local Legion and Elks pro-
test importation of alien labor
lor orchard work in valley,
50 YEARS AGO
March 31, 1913 (Sunday)
"Good Citizens' League" is
formed and will hold first
meeting next Friday.
Mail Tribune comes out ed
itorially for peace in city af-
fairs ana closes wltn me od
scrvation: "Plghearicdness has
no place in civic affairs.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine oi tan cornel li luperiot;
even oi eight li aacallent) live or
six is good.
1. What is the name of the
Illinois poet and biographer
of Abraham Lincoln?
2. To which President was
the oath of office administered
by his own father, a Justice
of the Ponce?
:i. What famous woman's
college Is on Philadelphia's
"main line"?
4. Was the chief god In Ro
man mythology Zeus or Jup
iter?
5. If you called a girl viva-l
cious would she most likely be
complimented, or Insulted?
6. In referring to Sino-Rus-sian
relations, what does the
term "Sino" mean?
7. Who said, "Heaven helps
those who help themselves"?
8. What is the official lan
guage spoken In Cuba?
9. In London, if you buy
fish and chips, what will you
set?
. 10. If you wished lo visit
Die Ivory Coast, where would
von so?
Answers) 1. Carl Sandburg.
2. Calvin Coolldg. 3. Bryn
Mawr. 4. Jupiter (Zeus was in
Greek mythology). J. Compli
mented, e. Chines. 7. Benja
min Franklin. . Spanish.
8. Fried fish and potatoes. 10.
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NATIONAL
SUNDAY. MARCH 31. 1963
Semantic
We have never made
semantics the science
ing but we've been fooling around with words
long enough to know that one word can mean
one thing to one person, and something altogether
different to someone else.
Each person, in effect, writes his own dic
tionary. And the more emotional and contro
versial the subject matter, the more strongly
each clings to his own
ing of certain words.
CATCH-PHRASES are even more susceptible
than single words to such manipulations and
permutations of meaning.
-What, for instance, is "the American Way
of Life"?
One group of individuals would say that it
is almost impossible of precise definition, except
within the broad concepts of the Declaration of
Independence ( all men are created equal tne
U.S. Constitution ("Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion, or pro
hibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging
the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the
right of the people peaceably to assemble, and
to petition the government for a redress of griev
ances"), or the Emancipation Proclamation, or
the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inau
gural ("with malice toward none, with charity
for all . . ."), or the Sermon on the Mount, which
is the essence of the morality of our Judeo-Chris-
tian heritage.
A NOTHER group of individuals might envisage
the American Way of Life as one based on
gadgetry, automobiles,
vision sets, baseball games, cigarettes, whiskey
and wild, wild women.
Still another group
some family groups, attending church each Sun
day in togetherness, and participating through
the week in good works and helpfulness.
And another sees the
one of an ever-rising tide of juvenile delinquency,
of increasing crime, of slums and asphalt jungles,
of kids roaming the streets looking for some way
to alleviate their unutterable boredom.
THERE is one large group in the country which
views the American Way of Life as one of
unequal (or no) education; of discrimination
m lobs, in voting, in public services; a Way ot
Life scarred by personal
a Way of Lite marred by constant and miuriat
ing frustration, and an inability to get ahead be
cause of a million barriers some tiny, some
insuperable raised against a dark skin.
There is, here and there, an academic Amer
ican Way of Life, where
ship are pursued for their own sake, and for the
sake of tne rising generations.
There is also the American Way of Life which
is dedicated to public service, often at consid
erable sacrifice of time
cause the individuals teel
fR, ONE need not look too far to find an
American Way of Life which is devoted to
the spreading of divisiveness, fear, hatred and
suspicion; a Way of Life which demands "in
vestigations of the loyalty or our atate Depart
ment, demands that we get out of the United
Nations and stop associating with all them fur-
nners ; demands that the government get out ot
the business of governing, and is vocally violent
against any development which promises a
greater degree of health and welfare to the
American people.
There is the closely associated American Way
"A which sjil-iuis iuucn ui us tiiiny uaiiiu-
ing the kikes, wops, niggers, greasers, frogs.
limeys, ciiiuks, japs
cuiiers irom mem in any
necks and Godless atheists.
So what is "the American Wav of Life"?
There isn't any one. There are dozens of them.'
That is why the phrase means either many things,
or nothing at all.
A NOTHER phrase which is susceptible to vary-
ing definitions is "anti-Communist."
Now we suspect that about 911.9 per cent of
Americans who have given any thought to the
matter at all would class themselves as anti
Communist. But there are varying degrees.
Some see Commies and Reds and Pinkos
behind every gooseberry bush, and do not hesi
tate to let their suspicions be known, loudly and
accusingly. Everything that goes wrong is a
"Commie plot," part of the "international con
spiracy," without bothering to remember that
things have been going wrong in this old world
a lot longer than the Communists have been
around.
A LESS red-eyed brand of anti-Communist
recognizes the threat of the ideology, but
even more the threat of the armed imperialism
that goes under the name.
It, however, refused to stoop to using the
methods of the Communists lies, villif ication,
smears, accusations, and such like in their
opposition to the foe.
Too, they are level-headed enough to recog
nize that Communism the ideology, even Com
munism the armed imperialism, is not the only
threat to the nation's security and stability.
And they remember that there was a time
within living memory when Fascism was an even
greater threat, and that it is one which could
return if we blind ourselves with hysteria, urd
with lack of confidence in ourselves as a nation.
So much for semantics. E. A. .
Viewpoints
an academic study of
of the meaning ot mean
conception of the mean
split - level homes, tele
would see it as whole
American Way of Lite
and gratuitous insult;
learning and scholar
and money, simply be
an obligation to do so.
anyone, in suun, wuu
way, including me rea-
MEDFOBD
"Thanks For The Pat On The Back,
If That'. What It Wa"
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
(c) 1063, The
THE GAMBLE ON
FOREIGN AID
The foreign aid program,
which began with the Mar
shall Plan in 1948, has always
been a gam
ble, has never
been a sure
thing. In Eu
rope, it has
been a bril
1 a n t success.
But 15 years
ago, nobody
could know
that it would
be. In fact,
Lippmann
such were the poverty and
paralysis of France, Italy and
Germany that there was a
serious possibility of a gen
eral collapse into commu
nism. The Marshall Plan was
expensive. But because it
worked, all would agree to
day that it was cheap at the
price.
Now we are concerned with
foreign aid in this hemis
phere. The problem is not
what it was in postwar Eu
rope. There the purpose of aid
was to enable advanced and
highly-developed countries to
recover from the world war.
Our purpose in this hemis
phere is more complicated
and difficult.
Broadly speaking, it Is to
help our neighbors achieve
peaceably, and with liberty
if not with democracy, a revo
lution out of their semi-feudal
past. Our hope is that they
will in fact achieve By pro
gressive government what,
failing that, their people will
attempt to achieve by revolu
tionary communism.
a
OUR policy is not only dif
ficult to carry out, but
also it is difficult to ex
plain. It is rather like at
tempting to explain why, In
order lo protect children from
polio, we inoculate them with
the polio virus.
Our Latin-American policy
would be easier to explain if
we forgot about peaceable
revolution and concentrated
on the simple task of giving
unlimited military support to
any government, indeed to
any dictator, who was un
qualifiedly ant i-Communist.
Such a policy would earn
much applause in certain
quarters. The trouble is that
it wouldn t last very long.
For this is an age when the
mass of men will no longer
put up with their ancient
poverty and servitude.
Knowing this, we are look'
Ing to the progressive govern
merits, as In Mexico, Costa
Rica, Venezuela, Colombia
and Brazil, to carry out the
progressive revolutions which
are the alternative to the
Castroitc kind of revolution.
It is. of course, a gamble, and
nothing Is easier than to
think up the many reasons
why it may be lost.
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MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFQRD. OREGON
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Wanhington Port
rTHE biggest gamble in all
our foreign aid In this
hemisphere is in Brazil. This
is not only because Brazil is
the biggest country in Latin
America and the geographi
cal heart of the South-American
continent, but also be
cause, in Brazil, there are the
biggest stakes to be won or
lost.
If the progressive revolu
tion fails in Brazil and the
country descends into revolu
tionary violence, the whole
continent is certain to become
involved. It is possible more
or less effectively to contain
the revolutionary influence of
a small island like Cuba. It
would be a wholly different
thing with a continental mass
like Brazil which has a com
mon frontier with every
country in South America ex
cept two. .
On the other hand, the
prospects of success in Brazil
are bright and alluring. For
while Brazil has its desperate
ly poor masses, it is not a pri
mitive and undeveloped coun
try. It has a certain resem
blance to Italy before its bril
liant recovery when there
was desperate poverty and
backwardness in the south
and high technical progress
in the north. In Brazil, there
are great modern cities like
Sao Paulo and Rio, and while
the Brazilian west is still be
ing opened, it is empty like
tne American west in the 19th
century. It has no resem
blance to the underdeveloped
and overpopulated parts of
Asia and Africa.
1VHAT is more, Brazil has
' good political habits in
that it has learned how to
change its government with
out violence. In this century,
one Brazilian president has
committed suicide and one
has resigned. There has been
none of the shooting and exil
ing and imprisonment which
has taken place in other coun
tries. In Brazil, there is cor
ruption, there is more infiltra
tion, there are special privi
leges and all that. But Brazil
is blessed with the habit of
domestic peace and of respect
and obedience to the consti
tuted authorities.
If we study the agreement
lust worked out in Washing
ton between Brazilian Fi
nance Minister Dantas and
Mr. Bell, who now manages
foreign aid, we are bound to
marvel at the political cour
age of the Goulart govern
mcnt. To end the inflation
and to re-establish its interna
tional credit-worthiness, the
Brazilian government has
adopted a program which
only a very strung govern
mcnt, strong in its hold on
popular support, would dare
to undertake.
The Goulart government is
going to raise tax collections
- ' .
V Li
you people gel so excited
rbout nothing!"
Matter of Fact
(c) New York Herald
THE EXTREMISTS
Paris-The following report
of a conversation with Gen.
de Gaulle's Minister of Infor-
mation, Alain
Peyrefitte, is
devoid of
news but preg
nant with Inv
p 1 1 c a t ions.
Q U'ESTION:
Just what
does Gen. de
Gaulle mean
by his famous
description of
AUnp
a future Europe extending
from "the Atlantic to the
Urals"?
PEYREFITTE: To begin
with. Gen. de Gaulle has
never accepted the division of
Europe approved by the U.S.
government at Yalta, which
left Eastern Europe occupied
by the Russians and Western
Europe occupied by the Amer
icans. Such a division, he be
lieves, is not in the nature of
things. Eventually, the occu
piers must withdraw, leaving
Europe for the Europeans.
QUESTION: In this "Eu
rope for the Europeans," are
the Russians to be included?
PEYREFITTE: The Rus
sians, it has to be admitted,
are not fully European. Rus
sia, you must realize, was un
der Mongol rule from the
fourteenth to the Eighteenth
century. The Mongols follow
ed the system of killing the
men and breeding with the
women. There is a heavy Mon
gol strain, therefore.
QUESTION: Your history is
not quite accurate. Russia
paid tribute to the Mongols
in the fourteenth and fifteenth
century, but Mongol power
was broken long before Ivan
the Terrible. But leaving that
on one side, what of Gen. de
Gaulle's mention of the Urals?
Does he look forward to the
division of Russia in two, or
has it escaped his attention
that nearly half the Russian
nation is now to be found be
yond the Urals, in Siberia?
PEYREFITTE: We must not
be too exact about a mere
phase. Yet in Siberia, after
all, the Russians are occupy
ing what is Chinese soil. Will
the Chinese forever tolerate
this intrusion? This is not in
the nature of things, as it is
not in the nature of things for
me Kussian occupation of
Central Asia to endue for
ever. fPHIS singular galimatias of
historical mysticism and
bad history deserves serious
study, at the moment, be
cause it conveys the character
of what is called "uncondi
tional Gaullism." No one
by 25 per cent. It has elimi
nated the subsidy of wheat,
which has doubled the price
of bread. It has eliminated the
subsidy of petroleum prod
ucts, which raised the price of
gasoline 80 per cent. It has
increased commuter railroad
fares five times. It is cutting
down the expansion of bank
credit to a third of what it
has been. It is freezing gov
ernment employment and is
trying to freeze government
is an astonishing pro
gram. Yet it is said that the
Goulart government, which
is left of center, is strong
enough to carry out the pro
gram. We must hope that it
will be, and surely the admin
istration has been right in
deciding to help it. For it
would be hard to name any
item in our whole global for
eign aid program which, if it
succeeds, will do so much
good.
Winter's Chill Dims
By ERIC SEVAREID
London - Nature has obey
ed the calendar, a rare thing
for the sceptcrcd island, and
the sun broke
through to il-
luminate Lon-
Hnn'c rtA tilp
1 roofs and new
t i glass hotels
pre ciscly on
tiys y' :z
-, -.a jS&Jj s i nuiltancnus-
Serarrld l.v with the
latest statistics which show a
!harp drop in unemployment
- the basic political barom
eter in Britain - but it is clear
enough that Trimc Minister
Macmillan's winter of discon
tent has not ended, any more
than that of President Ken
nedy. The ruling Conser v a 1 1 v e
party will do its best to take
credit for the re in jobs, if
not for the sunshine, and is
expected to pour money into
the distressed areas of Wales
and the north country for
months to come In what will
probably be a vain effort to
regain its momentum, lost
long before President Ken
nedy lost his. The President
is only up against Congress,
a tangible, calculable opposi
tion, while Mr. Macmtljan is
up against the natural cycle
of British politics, which
would normally put an end
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By Joseph Alscp
Tribune Syndicate
knows whether Gen. de Gaulle
is himself an unconditional
Gaullist. But it is at least cer
tain that the General is in
creasingly surrounded by men
of the stripe of Peyrefitte.
To this, one must add an
other related fact. Once again,
the French government is in
the grip of one of those mys
terious, recurring crises of
suspicion, like the crisis of
1957-58.
Last time, large numbers of
leading Frenchmen passion
ately held the absurd belief
that America was secretly
supporting the Algerian reb
els, as part of a plot to snatch
the oil of the Sahara from
France. This time, the theme
is less well-defined, but the
conviction that plots are being
Hatched is even more intense,
as was proven by the French
reaction to the Nassau pact.
.
THE combination of a crisis
of suspicion with the prev
alence of extremism obvious
ly explains certain very odd
things that have been happen
ing recently. No amount of
friction would lead an Amen
can government to inflict on
a visiting allied foreign min
ister the kind of public snub
that was recently inflicted
here on Lord Home.
By the same token, no
American Ambassador would
make the kind of row about
table placement that the
French Ambassador made at
the New York dinner honor
ing the arrival of the Mona
Lisa. Yet it can be stated on
unquestioned authority that
Ambassador A 1 p h a n d was
only obeying the strictest in
structions from Paris. The
snub to the British Foreign
Secretary, one may be sure,
was also planned in advance.
All this has a bearing, in
turn, because the odd things
that happen may not always
be such little things. In the
last report in this space, the
problem was examined of
Gen. de Gaulle's reaction to
expected European and par
ticularly German resistance
to his designs for Europe. A
moderate, relatively passive
reaction was forecast.
BUT the possibility has to
be faced - and here is the
point of this long excursion -that
Gen. de Gaulle will in
stead react immoderately. He
has always refused to rec
ognize any intermediate
choices between exile and ab
solute mastery. And if he is
resisted in Europe, he may
lead France out of the Eu
rope of the Six.
In this event, he will pro
claim that he is the true Euro
pean leader, that France is the
true Europe, and that the oth
er Europeans are not true, be
ing mere "satellites" of the
U.S. He will pin the banner
of "Europe for the Euro
peans" to the pinnacle of the
Eiffel Tower, and he will wait
for the rest of Europe to rally
to his standard.
As has been stated, such
an outcome still seems im
probable, but it is at least
clearly possible. Hence the
possibility needs to be care
fully weighed.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The week's weirdest story:
The $7.5 million in negotia
ble Treasury Certificates that
got lost in the Federal Reserve
Bank of San Francisco. It is
presumed that they were
dropped by error in a waste
basket and were later burned
along with the rest of the bas
ket's contcnls.
to one party's rule after so
long a stretch of 12 unbroken
years.
This government is unpopu
lar and would be even more
so were it not able to point
over its shoulder at President
de Gaulle, who has served as
lightning rod to draw away
much of the natural anti
Americanism around here.
Opinion polls show the Labor
party ahead in general esti
mation, and the latest by-election,
in Colne valley, shows
another precipitious drop in
the standing of the Conserva
tives. e
Britishers, like Americans,
ten to vote "agin," not for,
and this is not to say that La
bor has suddenly acquired
personalities and a positive
program which have seized
the imagination of the popu
lace. The late Hugh Gailskell.
whom this reporter always
found brilliant, prickly and
almost too glib, had become
a personality force in his own
right, which takes a fearful
amount of doing for an out-of-office
politician in this island.
But his successor, Harold Wil
son, so far neillier presents an
image nor casts a shadow. The
public impression of him
might best be conveyed by
quoting the Washington wife
who once Impatiently de
clared that "Economics arc
men who sit about smoking
pipes and mumbling."
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THINGS YOU WOULDN'T KNOW IF YOU HADN'T READ
THEM HERE
There are two mountain ranges in South America called
the Amos and the Andes . . . Cows give mjlk because Uiey're
too timid to ask the farmer to pay for it . . . People who
live on the moon don't know what they're missing by not
being able to sit under it . . . All chipmunks in national
parks have government serial numbers tattooed on their
furry little chests .' . . After Ponce de Leon discovered the
fountain of youth, he went back and finished the third grade
. . . Horace Greeley was actually advising a nephew to go
to the west side of New York to open a drive-in restaurant
. . . An Orville Wright once said to a Wilbur Wright, "Boy,
is dad ever going to be mad when he sees what we've done
to the chicken coop." . . . Francis Scott Key couldn't remem
ber the words of his hit song two days after he had written
them . . . Because of the flip of a coin, you've never heard
of the Clark and Lewis Expedition . . . The NBC peacock
is really a stage-struck chicken with delusions of grandeur
. . . The Dr. Albert Schweitzer who used to live over on
Fourth Street is probably not the same one now living in
Africa ... A Portland, Ore., dog by the name of Miss Hap
has a man by the name of Gene Rossman . . . Some polite
nut by the name of Sir Walter Raleigh had the biggest dry
cleaning bill in England .... Most porcupines are really
quite ticklish but won't admit it . . . Anyone who can juggle
three bowling balls has quite a future in vaudeville, if it
ever comes back.
KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS
A sally part of the Pacific ocean borders on Cres
cent City, one of the few cities by that nam in North
ern California. Th city, named before, was named
after its harbor which is shaped like a crescent wrench.
Its principal export is fog and it imports tourists and
sea monsters alive. People wading to China often start
from here because it's so close to the ocean.
BIRD WATCHER BULLETIN
If you're sometimes in doubt (and who isn't?) the ostrich
can be told from our other feathered friends by the fact
that both its nest and its fried egg are three feet in diameter.
V5&
PANIC PARAGRAPH
All of the emergency evacuation arrows in Klamath
Falls point right smack toward Medford. This could
very easily lead to a serious congestion in our theatres
if you know who every drops a you know what on
we know you.
SEND IT NOW !
Through a new electronic computer service, it is now
possible to determine how suited you are for marriage.
According to a magazine advertisement, you send in your
questionnaire and only you and the machine ever see the
results. If you really want to know, and if you're willing
to trust the machine not to go blabbing its answers all
around, send $5 to Data Technology, Inc., P.O. Box 278,
Mercer Island, Wash.
KIDS AND CALCIUM
Here is a simple home test to determine if your
children are getting enough calcium. Grasping a child
(firmly by the neck) in each hand, bring the two heads
smartly together. (If you have but one child, a bor
rowed neighbor child will do very nicely). A pleasant
ly hollow sound will set your mind at ease that your
kids' aching head has plenty of calcium.
But
It appears
No harm was done. Nobody
had paid a bill with them. No
body had given them-as secur
ity for a loan. In that event, a
debt would have been created.
The debt could have been paid
only with money or negotiable
paper.
It would then have been a
horse of another color.
QUESTION:
Why don't we just print
money enough to run the gov-ernment-instead
of taking the
money away from us taxpay
ers? The answer, of curse, is that
money is a commodity, and as
such is subject to the law of
Britain's Spring
The test has to come fairly
soon now. Earlier, the in
formed scutllebut forecast a
general election for next
autumn, but as confidence
rises that the employment
rate will continue to rise, the
knowledgeable now bet on an
election a year from now. But
it is hard to see in advance
just what a change of govern
ment would do for this British
race, which seems caught in a
remorseless downward spiral
in the effort to remain a sig
nificant world power. The
minds lhat would occupy
Whitehall in a political
change-over would be fresh
minds, but the problems them
selves are old, tired problems,
every possible escape from
which has been examined a
thousand times by as able
and imaginative a group of
civil servants as the current
political world exhibits.
Vast numbers of the very
young, of course, would put
an end to the whole, exhaust
ing effort and simply take
this island out of the big
power game altogether. If
Britain should become a kind
of large, industrial Sweden.
so be it, they think. It may
yet come to that, and certainly
will If the American nuclear
shield and the American mili
tary presence depart Europe,
as de Gaulle seems to desire.
i In the meantime, the bitter
'frustrations of apparently
, having fallen among three
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supply and demand. If too
much money is printed, its
value will shrink-just as hap
pens when too many potatoes
are grown. Or too much grain.
Or too much cotton.
When that occurs, the
PRICE goes down.
THAT suggests another
thought.
Our government is spend
ing a tremendous amount of
money. It is putting it on the
cuff-which is to say, it is
adding it to the national debt.
The national debt is now
about $300 billion. That's a
LOT of money.
How will it be paid? .
Presumably with paper
money.
stools - Europe, the United
States and the Commonwealth
- show up in every other ses
sion of Parliament. Right
now, as they get the informa
tion in bits and pieces, mem
bers are in a rage about all
the money and effort and time
lost in obsolescent or aborted
weapons systems. Britons
simply cannot stomach wast
age on this scale, as Ameri
cans do, because they simply
cannot afford it; and the only
pleasure they take in de
Gaulle's nuclear arsenal ef
forts is the perverse pleasure
of knowing that the French
will find out that they can't
afford it, cither.
The world is readjusting
and moving on just too rapid
ly for the British to keep up
with it - so far - and the rat
gnawing deep in their vitals
is the thought that they are
losing or have already lost
control c.f their own destiny.
This has produced neurotic
symptoms even in this sane
and steady body politic.
So the charm of this won
derful old city can't be quite
what it was to the history-
conscious visitor The sun on
: the streets and rooftops helps.
but indoors the chili of this
winter, so disastrous for the
plumbing and the Foreign Of
fice, still hangs in the air and
reaches the bones.
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