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History from tne files of The)
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AOO
Oct. 20. 1053 (Tuesday)
Burning permits are no longer
required as of midnight last
night.
A resolution requesting city
council action providing for a
city meat inspection ordinance
has been passed by the Medford
Central Labor Council.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 20, 1913 (Wednesday)
City council studies problems
of growing city; population of
23,000 to 50,000 expected after
war.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Hunters
are more careful this fall. Due
to the cost and scarcity of shot
gun shells, no gay-colored O-Ce-
dar mop, dozing peacefully on a
rural backporch, nas heen snot
for a Chinese pheasant rooster."
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 20, 1033 (Friday)
Business shift from Main st.
seen unless improvements made.
Farmers complain pheasant
hunters ignore trespass signs.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 20, 1923 (Saturday)
Idctity of Siskiyou tunnel train
robbers now known and will be
revealed in few days.
Escapees from county jail at
Jacksonville caught at Eugene.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 20, 1913 (Monday)
Ashland visited by gang of
robbers; check of "jungle"
shows hoboes have left town.
Tramp slain during quarrel in
"jungle" near Talent.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct- li superior;
seven or eight Is excellent; rival or
six is good.
1. What common name may be
applied to a weapon, container,
large jail cell and swimming
pool?
2. What famous document
was promulgated at Runnymcdc
in 1215?
3. In what comir opera is
there a character "Little But
tercup"? 4. I'sc of what common ob
ject is partly governed by an
V numbering system?
5. Correct the following: "John
is the best of the two men."
6. Name the three states of
the union that have four-letter
names.
7. Give the Zodiac designation
for the period from Sept. 24
to Oct. 23.
8. Which are the "one-eyed"
jacks in a deck of plaving
cards?
9. In a scaling triangle are all
the angles the same, different,
or more than 90 degree?
in. United Slates light ships
are normally operated by what
branch of the service?
Answers: 1. Tank. 2. Magna
Charta. 3. II. II. S. Pinafore.
4. Cameras. 5. "John is the
better . . ." 8. Iowa, Ohio and
I'tah. 7. Libra. 8. Spades and
Hearts. 9. Different. 10. Coast
Guard.
REAL- LAM) LOR!)
NEW YORK (LTD - The
U.S. government owns so much
land in Alaska that if 1.3 mil
lion acres (the size of Delaware)
were taken aivay every day
from Jan. 1, to Oct. is, the
government would still have
some left over, the Tax Foun
dation says.
v?5 miliums
iJNAY. OCTOBER 20, 1S63
What Do The
During the campaign
iuesclays overwhelming
lature's tax measure, so many arguments against
it were put forth that no clear picture emerged
of the most important
prevailed.
Some were against the "big spenders."
Others were against "too high taxes."
Still others wanted
taxation, the most frequently mentioned were
a general sales tax and a cigarette tax.
THE PEOPLE have spoken, loudly. Let their
will be done.
But what, pray tell, IS their will?
There are a number of alternatives possible,
in the wake of the tax bill's demise. And already
it is plainly evident that
Legislature have no idea
best suit the electorate.
Should there be massive and destructive cuts
in state services and in
be some cuts coupled
increase; should an entirely new tax program
be presented to the people for a vote?
THE ROSEBURG News-Review, in an editorial
entitled "The Voter's Duty Is Not Done
Yet," stated that those who voted "no" last Tues
day have an obligation of good citizenship to
inform their legislators why they voted the way
they did.
The best way of doing this is to get in touch
with them directly. Here are the names and ad
dresses of Jackson county's legislators:
Slate Sen. L. W. Ncwbry, Route 1, Box 253, Talent.
State Rep. John Dcllcnback, 110 East Sixth St., Medford.
Slain Rnn VAwarA RpnnnhfinlH Slni-lr Gt iVInrlfntvl
State Rep. James Redden, 518 Barnes ave., Medford.
Tell them why you voted "no," and what you
expect them to do at the special session Nov. 11.
w
a. xtrvrp rrrn i i : i :
A i ncjix, anu put naps easier, way iu vuiue
your feelings about Oregon's fiscal prob
lems is to complete and mail in the questionnaire
which appears on Page 1 of today's Mail Tribune.
They will be tabulated, and the results made
known, not only to the members of the Legisla
ture, but to the voters as well. The more replies
received, the better able the Legislators will be
to follow the "mandate of the people" what
ever it is.
To be counted, the
Mail Tribune news room
Wednesday, Oct. 23.
You are invited to participate. E.A.
Medford s ' 'Isolation
Here in Medford with excellent airline serv
ice, fine highways, bus service, radio, TV and
newspaper coverage of events everywhere, tele
phone and telegraph we are no longer as "iso
lated" from the rest of the world as once we
were.
We can talk with almost anyone, anywhere,
within a matter of seconds or minutes at the
most. We learn of events within moments after
they happen. We can be in New York in less
than a day, in London in less than two.
But, largely '..tie to
we really are "isolated"
'TWERE are two major, overriding domestic
problems in this nation today.
One is the search for equality of opportunity
in education, jobs, housing of the large
Negro minority.
The other is the haunting spectre of increas
ing unemployment, resulting from the fact that
200,000 jobs are disappearing each year due to
automation, while more than a million new work
ers enter the labor force.
The two are not unrelated, for the Negroes,
many handicapped educationally, and often dis
criminated against, have a far higher percentage
of unemployment than do the whites.
Both problems are increased in severity by
school drop-outs, inadequate schools, lack of
opportunity for job training, and a long list of
other handicaps.
JiTEDFORD is largely not entirely but in large
part "isolated" from these two major prob
lems facing the nation.
We have unemployment yes. But not the
massive and chronic unemployment that can
deaden a whole area, like West Virginia, or
parts of Kentucky.
We have occasional flare-ups of racial feel
ing yes. But, for a combination of reasons, the!
most important of which is the lack of racial
minority groups, we have no problems such as
those faced by Birmingham, New York, Detroit,!
Chicago or Los Angeles. !
How long can we retain this pleasant "isola-j
lion" from our two most pressing problems? No
one knows. But not forever. E.A.
Condensation
Frank Jenkins, our columnist, has a way
with words. He pointed out in his column to
day that Gibbon took 2700 small-print pages
to explain the Decline and Kail of the Roman
Empire.
Then Frank showed how foolish and long
winded Gibbon was.
He said the reason for Rome's fall was
simple. And he gave it in eight words "Rome
bit off more than she could chew."
That's a right smart job of condensation.
E.A.
Voters Want?
which resulted in last
defeat of the Legis-
reasons the no votes
a different program of
many members of the
which of them would
education? Should there
with a more modest tax
ballots should be in the
not later than noon,
the quirks of geography,
in one sense of the word.
"And So My Old Man!'
CHINA SEEKING
NEW
PARTNERS
TOKYO In future, it will be
well for Washington to remem
ber that Communist China ex
ercises a double pull on pros
perous, bustling, capitalist Ja
pan.
On the one hand, the Japan
ese feel that they did the
'Chinese people" an iniurv in
the last war; and despite
Chiang Kai-shek, they consider
mat the Chinese people are to
be found on the mainland. On
the other hand, the Japanese
vividly remember the era when
China and Manchuria cheaply
provided a large part of the ba
sic raw materials needed by
Japan's industry.
This double pull exerted by
Communist China also has a
double effect. On the one hand,
the Japanese who are reason
ably realistic about Communist
China Foreign Minister Ohira
is a conspicuous example are
considerably rarer than hen's
teeth. Sentimentality and the
want of good information gener
ally combine to produce re
markably mushy estimates of
the Peking regime and its fu
ture.
...
riN THE other hand, the first
two factors noted also com
bine with the last-noted, to make
trade with Communist China
seem both attractive and virtu
ous in the eyes of the Japanese.
This is very important indeed at
the present juncture, when Pe
king has started a major drive
to replace its former Commu
nist bloc industrial suppliers
with new trading partners out
side the Communist part of the
world.
It cannot he too often empha
sized that this substitution is a
life and death matter for Pe
king. The causes of the Chinese
Communist purchase of British
Viscount aircraft are directly in
point here.
In brief, the Chinese internal
air transport system had been
almost exclusively equipped with
Russian llyushins. But since
11159 the Russians have nut mere
ly refused to deliver any more
llyushins to China; they have
also withheld deliveries of the
spare parts to keep the existing
llyushins operational. Hence
most of them are beginning to
be grounded, and the British
Viscounts are desperately need
ed. Without them, in fact, Com
munist China would soon have
no domestic air transport.
'PHIS is the model, as it were, !
-- of the present situation of
the entire Communist Chinese
industrial plant and, it must be
added, of all the units of the
armed forces using more ad
vanced weapons. Hence Peking
has eagerly invited visits by
"trade delegations." Britain,
France. West Germany, Japan,
and others have all scented prof
its and responded.
Two factors will determine the
outcome. The first factor is
whotlior any major non-Commu
nist industrial power sets tne i
example of extending long-term
credits to China. This example ;
may be set by the French, who
may also set the further exam-
pie of selling arms to Peking. In 1
the present phase of French poi
lev -making, anything is possible.
li nil' ririiin M-i una Mini m
example, the Japanese will be
both impressed and influenced
to put the matter very mildly in
deed. But even if we leave out
this still speculative possibility
or probability, we hate still to
deal with the second factor,
which mainly concerns Japan.
CINCE the commercial export
- of human beings is now for- j
hidden, trade with Communist
China has few attractions for
most of the really developed na
tions unless, like Gen. de
I
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
Matter
of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
(Cl New York Herald Tribune Svndltale
Gaulle, they see this trade as an
other good opportunity for stick
ing a loving thumb into Presi
dent Kennedy's eye. But this is
not true of Japan.
China's shortage of goods that
other non-Communist industrial
nations arc likely to want to buy
can be judged from the fact that
current Chinese trade plans
seem to be keyed to increased
exports of cheap textiles and
third quality canned meat not
exactly gold-mine-style earners.
But to Japan, China can also
supply with profit the same raw
materials as in the old days,
such as soybeans, coal, and iron
ore.
The recently made "private"
trade agreement will probably
increase Sino - Japanese trade
from an estimated two-way ex
change of about $120 million this
year to $160 million two ways
next year. Additional soybean
purchases, which will hurt
American producers, are a con
siderable factor in the increase
of Japanese purchases from
China to around $75 million for
1964.
a
1JUT in order to resume trade
" on a really big scale, the
Japanese must invest heavily at
long term, in order to re-equip
the Chinese coal and iron indus
tries, both for larger production
and for production of coal and
iron ore of much better quality.
Only thus can the pre-war trade
pattern be restored.
At present, the Japanese lead
ers are strongly disinclined to
take the political-commercial
risks of this kind of investment.
The forecast here, in truth, is
far more hopeful than the fore
cast for France.
But the central point for Wash
ington to remember is that pres
sure on Japan in this situation
will almost certainly be counter
productive. Patience is once
more the watchword.
Editorial Comment
BIG DAY
In case you didn't know, Tues
day, Oct. 15, was Poetry Day
in Oregon, as well as election
day. Some insist there was nei
ther rhyme nor reason in the
way the people voted. Oregon
Statesman. Salem.
Common
By ERIC
SEVAREID
(DMMtiutrd 1983,
llv Thr Hall
Syndicate, Inc.)
( Ml Rtchts
Keservedl
The second session of the Vat
ican Council is now deep in its
work and interested observers
everywhere seize upon each for
al statement that emerges, each
reported portion of debate, each
"ipflk " to form their own est
imation of what mav ultimately
come from this century's for-
rnidable exercise in ecumenism.
jn universalism.
...
Impatience mav poorlv com-
Mr, wh ihe nnifiinHiiv of the
issues and with the age and
massive bulk of the Roman
latholic Church, hut men no
longer have generations at their
disposal; time, like space, has
been terribly foreshortened. The
Council of Trent, four centuries
ago, could spend 18 interrupted
years at its work of revitalizing
the Romiin Church to face the
(orce f protestantism. But this
Council has no such luxury of
time in the (ace of Communism.
the explosion of non-Christian
populations and the inner debil
itation of the entire Christian
GREAT IDEAS...
from
(c) 1063,
COMMUNISM AN OLD
THEORY
Dear Dr. Adler: Was the
theory of Communism an orig
inal thought in the minds of
Marx and Engels or has it not
been an idea in the minds of
great thinkers as early as
Plato and Aristotle?
Marilyn Pearlman
2418 Jackson ave.,
Memphis, Tenn.
Dear Miss Pearlman: Com
munism is no new thing in the
Western world, either in theory or
in practice. The common owner
ship and use of wealth was ad
vocated by such thinkers as
Plato, Zeno, and Thomas More.
It was practiced among the
early Christians, in later
Christian sects, and in the Utop
ian communities established in
Europe and America in the 19th
century. The collective farms in
present day fsrael are "commu
nistic" in this broad, general
sense.
Communism as a revolution-
arv movement intended to
transform radically the whole of
society began with certain doc-
trines preached during the
French Revolution. It became a
practical force in the 1840's,
when it was proclaimed by rev
olutionary groups in France,
who are credited with coining
the term "communism." It re
ceived its historical and decis
ive expression in the "Commu
nist Manifesto," by Karl Marx
and Fredrich Engels, published
in 1848. Their little pamphlet set
forth the principles of commu
nism in the form that it has
taken down to our day.
"A spectre is haunting Europe
the spectre of Communism,"
the "Manifesto" begins. It then
proceeds to set forth a theory of
history, and social revolution.
History, it says, has been
shaped by the struggles between
the exploiting and exploited
classes master and slave,
lord and serf, capitalist and
workingman. Mankind has ad
vanced in each successive stage
of history as a new class has
emerged to dominate and trans
form the social and economic
system. The last and most not
able advance occurred when in
dustrial "capitalism supplanted
agrarian feudalism.
All previous social transfor
mations, however, said Marx
and Engels, have worked to the
benefit of a minority, for they
have consisted only of new
forms of exploitation by a new
ruling class, which obtained
profit and power for itself. The
coming communist revolution,
on the contrary, according to
them, would work for the bene
fit of all mankind. It would in
augurate a classless society,
where no group dominates and
exploits others. "In place of the
old bourgeois society, with its
classes and class antagonisms,"
they assured the world, "we
shall have an association in
which the free development of
each is the condition for the free
development of all."
Mark and Engels foresaw a
transitional period of dictator
ship and inequality in which the
new society would be built and
the former owning classes e
vented from regaining control.
After that, though, they envis
ioned that the state would "dis
solve and disappear," or "with
er a w a y," and that society
would proceed on the principle,
"from each according to his
ability, to each according to his
needs."
However, we see no evidence
Christian Ground Need of West
establishment in this age of !
worldly furies.
The Council of Trent began 1
with an impetus toward re-ab-1
sorbins the Protestants but
quickly became a process of in- j
nor renewal, which ultimately !
became, however, one of restor
ation. The herald of this Vatican
Council as proclaimed by the
late Pope John was Christian '
Unity, but the process has be
come chiefly "aggiornamento"
or renewal. This has to be the
road, no doubt, toward the far
distant goal of unity, but the
roadblocks are formidable The '
most immediate is the rigidity
of that ultra-conservative, mas
sive bureaucracy, the Roman
Curia The Council of Trent
tried but failed to ventilate the
Curia It will require a con
tinued act of w ill by Pope Paul i
as well as the continued spirit
of the late Pope John if this
louncu is iruiy to iioeranze tne
tuna.
It is the nature of anv estab
lishment to be at least a little
out of date. If the Church be-
came modernized to the point of
worldliness it would betrav its
very meaning It must constant
ly seek a true balance within a
permanent dilemma; but the
feeling has grown nearly every
where that today the Christian
Church as a whole has fallen
far. far behind events and the
needs and thoughts of men It
o 4
the Great Books
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Publishers Newspaper Syndicate
of such a surrender of state
power or the advent of perfect
equality in the Soviet Union,
where a communist regime has
ruled for nearly 50 years. Apol
ogists for the regime argue that
Russia is still in the first or
"socialist" phase of commu
nism, and not enough time has
passed to develop the fully
communist society envisioned
by Marx and Engels. Marxist
critics of the regime, such as
Leon Trotsky, argue that a truly
free and classless society can
not be established in one
country surrounded by an other
wise capitalist world.
The true reason, however, for
the discrepancy between theory
and reality, may be simply that
Marx and Engels were com
pletely wrong in their view of
man as a political and social
animal that, despite their
claims to being hard-headed
realists with a scientific know
ledge of society, they were Utop
ian visionaries. The lesson of
events in the communist coun
tries of our day seems to be that
I when men take over complete
j economic and social power, the
! new rule is tar more oppressive
than the old, while the age-old
drives for privilege and profit
are satisfied in new and more
dangerous forms.
You can win a 54-volume set
of the Great Books of the
Western World by writing a
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incorporating a question of
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By BENNETT CERF
OBVIOUSLY, states P. G. Wodehouse, the Soviet's top
comic is Khrushchev, and if you don't believe it, you
have only to watch him on TV. His material usually consists
of some obscure Russian
proverbs and how he
delivers his punch lines!
Wodehouse says, "Mr. K.
glares at the Presidium
and says, 'In Russia, we
have a proverb. A chick
en that crosses the road
does so to get to the other
side, but wise men dread
a bandit.' Then his face
sort of splits in the mid
dle and his eyes disap
pear into his cheeks like
oysters going dowa for
the third time in an oys
ter stew, and if the com
rades are a second late with the big belly laugh, their next
job is likely to be running a filling station out Siberia way."
v a
Walter Vanger tells about a doctor who was awakened at
3 a.m. by his wife, who reported that the bathroom was flooded.
Ho nmmntlv Tthnnpd his nlumhcr. "This Is a hark of an hour to
wake me," protested the plumber. "Do you realize it's three ia
the morning?" "I cerutinJv do,"
never hesitate to call me at that hour when you've been drinking
too much and your head hurts. Jsow what am I going: to do
about that overflow-in? bathtub?" "Tell you what you do, Doc
tor," proposed the plumber after a moment's pause. "Take two
aspirins and drop them in that tub. If it isn't better in the morn
ing call me again.1'
19t3, by Bennett Cet-f. Distributed by King Features Syndicate,
seems the culmination of a pro
cess now several centuries old.
a period in which the vitality of
the Church has faded further
and further from the quality of
its first millenium.
Perhaps, too, Christianity has
reached and retreated from its
outermost phvsical limits. Only
some 28 per cont of humanity is
Christian, and the countervail -
ing forces, including the great
nnraitntinn cmu-th in the East
and the SDread of Islam in Af-
rica. show no signs of slowing
down
Yet our chief concern must
be with the Western world, the
decisive arena for the immense
contest between philosophies
and ways of life. It is the decis
ive arena because the general
cultural and intellectual contag
ion of the West has been the
dominant contaeion for cen
turies now. and marks the rest
' 'r " r uitiu man
the rest of the world marks the
West.
It is hard to see how the W est
is to find its way into the future
if it makes an essential break
with its Christian base of
strength and cohesion. We do
not seem to be finding a sub
stitute. If only the great cur
rent schism in the ranks of Com
munism couut now be met by a
great act of union to heal the
sp
"Why tell 'em you support Kennedy's wheat deal? We might
want to attack It in '64. It's cynical, but that's politics!"
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Mishmash in the news:
In Pennsylvania, Governor
William W. Scranton says he
will block any move to draft
him as a Republican Presiden
tial candidate.
He adds:
"We're no longer living in the
era where your friends surprise
you with a draft."
NOTE, please, that he doesn't
go as far as General Wil
liam Tecumseh Sherman who,
when it was proposed that he be
drafted as a Presidential can
didate, put it like this:
"If nominated, I WON'T RUN,
and if elected I WON'T
SERVE."
XTEWS note from Berlin:
11
The Russians clamped an
other squeeze on Berlin's high
way lifeline. For nine hours,
they held up a British military
convoy on the outskirts of West
Berlin, where they blocked a
U.S. convoy last week.
IVHAT'S in the wind?
' Well, the Washington the-
ory is
Stop Me
a-sserted the doctor, "but you
this epoch a truly memorable American life, it is not applied
one. so strictly to undergraduates (in
So far, no overarching move : college). . . Graduate students
appears in progress. The things i are usually as studious and seri
that unite Christians are greater : ous as lno freshmen are feck
than the thines that divide them loss and foolish. . . As soon as
' bul the things that divide them
nave swollen to fearsome pro-
I portions by the encrustations of
1 age and habit.
1 Renewal of both Catholicism
; a"d Protestantism will proceed
1 with small and hesitant stens.
but it is movement nevertheless,
1 and 'here is excitement in the
air. tne dialogue in the at-
ican's corridors between men of
the Papal Church and men of
the Protestant Church is not
dwindling but growing in inten
sity. Among other things a com
mon English Bible could come
out of this, and, perhaps far
more important, a declaration
from the Vatican in support of
full freedom of religious con-
science for all believers.
" "
But deep in the fastness of
this great confrontation lies the
bedrock of the schism the dif-
ference in the sources of revela-
tion. Yet here, at the heart of
the difficulty, there is a uni-
ersal tool at hand. It is the
science of archeology and mod-
cm Biblical research. With this
tool the rock of difference can
yet be taken apart, chip by chip,
and the original and common
ground rediscovered, on which!
somehow got MIXED UP and
stopped our convoys by mistake.
So
They got mixed up again yes
terday and stopped a British
convoy in the same way.
QUESTION:
H wh
hat are they really up to?
Here s a guess:
They're probing to find out
HOW FAR THEY CAN GO and
what they can get away with
without a fight.
FROM Washington:
Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia,
the "independent" communist
who seeks friendly ties with
both East and West, arrives for
an informal but highly signifi
cant visit with President Ken
nedy. DISTURBING thought:
When Rome was mistress of
the world, they came from
EVERYWHERE to Rome. They
came to get Rome to build their
roads. They came to get Roma
to help them to defeat their
enemies. Thev came to ect
a,u ilUllIC IUI IUUU
when they were hungry.
Rome was then the dispenser
of all good things as the U.S.
claims to be in these modern
days.
WHAT finally came of it?
Well, as Gibbon tells us in
some 2700 pages of small print
ROME DECLINED AND
FELL.
lUHY?
' The answer is simple.
Rome bit off more than sha
could chew.
Do you reckon we might be
doing the same thing?
Communications
No Compassion
To the Editor: The following
from the periodical, "Atlas tha
World Press in Translation," Oc
tober 1963, by Pierre Aubrey (a
Frenchman):
"The struggle for life in tha
United States is so ferocious
that it is often difficult to look
at it squarely. . .
"American universities ara
primarily concerned with sing-
. ng the praises of existing cap-
italist society in order to pre
pare tneir students to accept
that society without even being
tempted to criticize it. . .
"In most cases the professor
depends (for his faculty posi
tion) upon businessmen, wealthy
lawyers, and prosperous church
men, who sit on the boards of
trustees of the universities."
(and decide school policies) . . .
"Although the law of compe
tition rules every aspect of
'ht,' enter graduate school, the
law lot competition) rules lero-
ciously. . .
"In the United States it is
necessary to act, to do some-
,nmB moreover, it is not tha
artist, the thinker, the scholar,
'he statesman, the writer, or the
man of wit. but the millionaire
businessman who is the ideal of
American Society. . .
"(Americans think) of what
use, really, are those people
who ask questions, raise em
barrassing problems, wish to
Probe deeply, interfere critically
and stand on principle'' Amer-
cans are impatient to act, to get
ahead. Toward what goal? Of-
ten they are not quite certain. . .
They are busy doing! . . . and
doing in an astmosphere of
fever, uneasiness and the fear
that is permanently maintained
by the pitiless competition which
sets the individual against the
whole world. . .
'The United States (is) an ex-
hilarating country for the younj
and the strong who mav use
their fresh energies there but
also a country' with no compas-
sion for the weak and those
defeated bv life "
' R.lnh MrKinms
old schism in the ranks of all Christians may stand as they P O. Box :tl
Christianity that would make . stood long ago. I shland Ore
e 0 ' ' ' " '
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