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History from tna files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
qi incl Kalitrrinv)
The 1953 pear harvest in the
. ..-11.:. ...m i nrwi nnn
nogue vauey win win
packed boxes, C. B. Cordy,
county extension horticulturist,
has declared.
Jackson county's polio total
for 1953 may stand at 15 cases,
Dr A. E. Merkel, county health
oliicer, sara iouay.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 24, 1943 (Sunday)
Earl C. Gaddis named fore
man of Jackson county grand
jury; District Attorney George
V. Neilson expected to present
five fatal accidents and two or
three criminal matters for con
sideration. Ruth Edge, Medford, recog
nized as Oregon's champion ice
6kater, leaves for Berkeley,
Calif., to receive skating in
struction. 30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 24, 1933 (Tuesday)
Carl Y. Tengwald scheduled to
discuss U.S. Navy in radio
broadcast.
Medford residents promised
they will receive "full strength"
beer on local market, at least
by Christmas.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 24, 1923 (Wednesday)
John B. Coan, pastor of Med
fold's Main Street Methodist
Church, assigned to form Boy
Scout troop here.
Ezra Mcker, 92, one of first
pioneers to come to state on
Oregon trail, ill and suffers
relapse.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 24. 1913 (Friday)
County grand jury adjourns
aflcr hearing 107 witnesses and
bringing 21 true bills in 24
cases; prosecutor Kelly praised
for his hard work.
County Recorder Fred Colvig.
Jacksonville, visits in Medford.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct ll superior;
even or eight Is excellent; live or
sii is good.
1. A notch made in a tree
remains the same height from
the ground regardless of later
upward growth of the tree: true
or false.'
2. Charles Gates Dawes was
Vice President under which
U.S. President?
3. Anything that destroys or
masks offensive odors is called
a what?
4. In which city was Abra
ham Lincoln buried?
5. What country is called the
Land of the Midnight Sun?
6. If unmarried, the bride's
- attendant is called a maid of
honor; what is she called if she
is married?
7. What noted instiulion in
Washington, D.C. was founded
by the bequest of an English
man? 8. Did WW II begin in 1938,
1939 or 1940?
9. The Monroe Doctrine was
declared on Dec. 2; was it in
1781, 1799, 1823 or 1837?
10. In grammar the word
which denotes any object spok
en of, whether animate of inan
imate, is called a what?
Answers: 1. True. I. Calvin
C o o 1 1 d g e. 3. Deodorant. 4.
Springfield, III. 5. Norway. S.
Matron of Honor. 7. Smithson
ian. . September, 1939. . 1123.
10. Noun.
4 A-
OCTOBER 24, 13
United Nations Day
Today is a sort of day of mourning for the
tiny fraction of Americans who believe that the
United Nations is part of the international Com
munist conspiracy, and who sloganeer with "Get
the U.S. out of the U.N., and the U.N. out of
the U.S."
For today is United Nations Day the 18th
anniversary of the day the U.N. Charter went
into effect.
They have been 18 momentous years. The
United Nations, while not always successful in
its peacekeeping mission, has had its triumphs,
and no amount of ill-informed sniping and criti
cism can dull them.
NO one claims the United Nations is perfect.
But it has had the undivided support of all
Presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to John F.
Kennedy; it has had majority support in both
houses of Congress, and, if pollsters are to be
believed, it has solid support from a majority of
the citizens of the United States.
President Eisenhower once said the U.N. is
"man's best organized hope to substitute the con
ference table for the battlefield."
Adlai Stevenson recently said that the chief
importance of the United Nations was as "a com
munity of tolerance."
Even Barry Goldwater, who once thought we
should quit the world organization, now believes
we should not unless Red China is admitted.
THE Birch types who wail about the United
Nations taking over the United States armed
forces and putting them under the command of
a Russian colonel (either Sobelof or Suslov, de
pending on which version of the fairy tale is
being told) have not been able to convince very
many people of their fantasies.
One recent publication said of the U.N. :
"The international body never has become the sort of
world parliament that some of its critics feared it might. Us
original function of world forum meeting-place, sounding
board, tension-easer, whatever image one likes remains its
essential one."
And a tremendously important function it
is, too. E.A.
UNICEF at
Aside from the United Nations itself, two of
its agencies have come in for witless criticism.
One of them is UNESCO, which can take care of
itself. The other is UNICEF, which usually (and
sadly) needs a boost about this time of year.
UNICEF is the U.N.'s children's fund, and its
chief work is feeding and caring for kids
throughout the world who otherwise would die
of illness or starvation. Donations support it.
But, because some of these kids live in Iron
Curtain lands, it too has come under suspicion.
(Permitting a child to die because you don't like
his form of government hardly qualifies one for
a bouquet of daisies.)
)NE week from tonight is Halloween. For the
past several years more and more young
sters out trick-or-treating
coins, as well as candy, and donating the coins
to UNICEF.
This humanitarian project, and the organiza
tion which benefits from it, has the solid support
of all who care a whit for the health and happi
ness of children, and who know how UNICEF
operates. Recent statements by Presidents
Hoover, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy have
praised it. E.A.
A Way With Names
The British have a way with names.
The Queen is called Elizabeth. The family
name is Windsor, but until World War I was
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, previously Hanover. Eliza
beth is married to Prince Phillip Mountbatten
(formerly Battenberg). Hut she does not take the
last name of her husband; she remains a Wind
sor. He is now the Duke of Edinburgh.
Her oldest son is Prince Charles Philip Arthur
George, and presumably he will be Britain's next
ruler. Although commonly called Charles, he
need not necessarly become King Charles 111: he
could use another of his names.
THE Queen's uncle once was David, Prince of
Wales. Later he became King Edward Y11I.
and after his abdication, Duke of Windsor.
Her father was Albert, Duke of York, before
becoming King George VI.
Her sister was Princess Margaret Rose
(Windsor) until her manage to a commoner, An
tony Armstrong-Jones. Then he became t h c
Earl of Snowdon and the father of David Albert
Charles, Viscount Linley, fifth in line of suc
cession to the throne.
A ND now Lord Home has become prime min
" ister of Great Britain. Because of his title, he
could not sit in the House of Commons, where the
real business of government is done. So, he
dropped his peerage and became Sir Alec Douglas-Home.
And, to add to the confusion, Lord Home
pronounces his name Hume. Why pronounce
Home as though it rhymes with fume?
Well, the perhaps-apocryphal story goes that
one of his Scottish ancestors was leading a battle
several hundred veal's ago, and in the course of
the melee a knight yelled, "To Home, To Home,"
meaning, "rally round Lord Home, bovs."
But some of them thought he meant "Go
home!!" Which they did. !
It's been pronounced Hume ever since. Ori
at least that's the way the story goes. E.A. I
Halloween
have been accepting
MEDFORD
'What A Dirty Trick,
From Behind
ASIAN BALANCE SHEET
WASHINGTON - For the long
pull, this autumn's most signifi
cant news may well concern the
harvest in Communist China.
Recent evidence that may be
considered conclusive indicates
that this year's harvest was
poorer than last year's.
Superficially, t h e difference
may not seem dramatic. Last
year's Chinese Communist grain
crop was on the order of 182 mil
lion Ions. This year's may be as
low as 175 million tons, and will
certainly be less than 180 mil
lion tons. The difference, then,
is no more than three to nine
million tons.
In the conlcxt of the crisis in
China, however, this drop in the
crucial grain crop is an exceed
ingly dramatic development,
full of intimations of danger.
The point is that the Chinese
Communist leaders themselves
have placed their whole reliance
on an increase in agricultural
productivity, as the only way
out of their troubles.
.
EVERYTHING has been sub
ordinated to securing this
increase. Industry has been al
lowed to come to a half-halt.
Public investment has been sus
pended. Every kind of conces
sion has been made, to concil
iate and to spur on the Chinese
peasantry. Last year, moreover,
when there was a slight but sig
nificant rise in farm output,
these measures seemed to be
working.
Only a few weeks ago, when
this reporter was in Hong Kong,
the China-watchers there still be
lieved that lata would again see
another slow rise in farm output
on the Communist mainland.
Tile fact that the output has in
stead dropped has several mean
ings, all of them pretty hair
raising. Politically, the new fact means
that the government of Mao Tse
tung can no longer be regarded
as stable and secure. It is irra
tional to suppose that any group
of national leaders must have a
secure grip on power, when they
have first inflicted a gigantic
catastrophe on the nation they
lead, mid have then totally failed
to find any way out of the ap-
palling situation created by the
catastrophe.
' "
GREAT nation like China, if
persistently led deeper and
A
deeper into misery and misfor- other side's difficulties will end
tune, will surely find its own j by weighing heaviest in the bal
way out in the end. even if it ante. And if we give up. we can
is necessary to find new leaders. I miss what increasingly looks
And as China's descending spir-1 like a major chance of a great-
al has not been halted, despite
GROCERY
l
"What a coincidence tomorrow Is 'boycott day' for members
of the Blrrh Socletv!"
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD.
Sneaking Up On Us
Like That!"
Matter
of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
cl New York Herald Tribune Syndliate
all the drastic self-reversals by
Mao and his colleagues, the fu
ture of Mao's regime is now in
doubt.
This does not mean, of course,
that a great change is to be im
mediately expected. This does
not mean, either, that, if and
when there is a general upheaval
or a great leadership crisis, the
successor-regime will not re
tain the Communist label. But
this quite certainly means that
U. S. policy in Asia must be
based on a balance sheet, which
shows the troubles of the other
side just as prominently as the
difficulties we ourselves have
encountered.
Our own difficulties have at
least been somewhat exagger
ated by the obsession of a num
ber of the American newspaper
men in Saigon with a political
moral crusade against the gov
ernment of President Ngo Dinh
Diem. The warnings offered by
the outcomes of similar cru
sades, in China and later in
Cuba, are being conspicuously
ignored.
INDEED the actual war in Viet
Nam is being rather conspic
uously ignored, if one may judge
bv the extreme rarity of front
line datelines among the lurid
reports of the leading crusaders.
And the war is still going rather
well, even though the govern
ment of President Ngo Dinh
Diem has probably ceased to be
permanently viable as a result
of the Buddhist crisis.
Thus our own difficulties have
been painted in unduly emphatic
colors. They exist. They are al
ready serious difficulties, and it
cannot be excluded that they will
grow more serious with the pas
sage of time. In the present state
of affairs. President Diem s im
mensely powerful brother. Ngo
Dinh Nhu, may even try to make
the deal with" the North Viet
namese Communists for which
the French on the spot have
been intriguing.
On the other hand, our diffi
culties in Viet Nam are down
right trifling, compared to the
difficulties which now confront
the Chinese Communist regime
not to mention the regime in
North Viet Nam. where condi-
(ions are even worse than in
'China. j
j if we hang on. therefore, we '
: can reasonably hope that the
zig-zag in the course of history
OREGON
Internal Split, Independence Desires,
Make British Guiana Source of Trouble
f. f ;
PHIL NiWSOM
UPI Korelin News
Analyst
As Britain step by step has
gone about the business of dis
mantling its empire and giving
independence to lormer colo
nies, among the most persistent
of its headaches has been the
crown colony of British Guiana.
Although on the way for more
than 10 years, independence
still is a goal to be realized by
British Guiana which is situa
ted on the north coast of South
America and is about the size
of Kansas.
Now the British are making
another try at setting a date.
British Guiana has been de
scribed as a small country with
big problems, poor, racially di
vided and isolated by moun
tains and jungle.
As well as being a problem
to itself and to Britain, it also
is a problem for the United
States.
At the center of the problem
is Guiana's prime minister, Dr.
Cheddi Jagan, an American
trained dentist of East In
dian descent, and his wife,
Janet, who once called Chicago
home and who doubles as min
ister for home affairs with re
sponsibility for internal secur
ity.
Jagan is an admitted Marxist
and an admirer of the Soviet
Union and Castro Cuba.
In London, Jagan has been
making dire predictions of an
"explosion" if British Guiana
does not achieve its independ
ence now. The country, he said,
could be the signpost, whether
the whole of Latin America is
to proceed through peaceful
evolution or bloody revolt.
Jagan derives his strength
from the East Indians who
make up nearly half of British
Guiana's population, living
mostly in rural areas and work
ing on the big sugar planta
tions. His chief opposition comes
from the predominantly Negro
Peoples National Congress led
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Mismash in the news:
Lord Home, Britian's new
Prime Minister, assembled his
cabinet to discuss the problems
that lie ahead. One of these
problems is that as Prime Min
ister he must be a member of
the House of Commons.
He ISN'T.
He must get elected first.
So the opening of the fall
session of Parliament must be
postponed until the new Prime
Minister can get himself elect
ed as a member.
TTAPPILY, that isn't as diffi-
cult as a similar situation
in the United States would be.
One of the peculiarities of the
British House of Commons is
that its members don't have to
be elected from the districts
where they live. They can toss
their hats into the ring in just
ANY district that looks the most
promising.
So
It is reported
He will contest for the elec
tion in Kinross, up in Scotland,
which is regarded as a "safe"
conservative district.
THERE'S another block in the
road that must be removed.
Lord Home is a member of
the British peerage. He is an
earl. Before he can be elected
j Prime Minister he must become 1
a commoner.
So
He must shed his earldom.
He will ask Queen Elizabeth to
postpone the reopening of Par-! espocjalv in the education de
liament, which is scheduled for 1 partment before we think about
this month.
3 PEAKING of hats-
j The National Hat Council is mNt down our throats.
I feeling pretty chesty these days Unless our votes are upheld
because President Kennedy, I we may as well sit home on
; doesn't wear one, came out and i election days. If I were a legis
admitted the other day that "a lator and wanted to keen Hu
man is not well dressed without
a hat
U'HETHER he was influenced
" by the fact that next year
is a Presidential election year
is beside the point. His state
ment brought from one of the
lv commentators this crack
The modern politician needs
. i
"On'o throw in the ring.
"One to talk thrnnrh
rw i miii ik ,ai,Ki
of.
riROM Houston. Texas.
! A large black horse ran to
I Wally Franks' house, kicked in
! a window, knocked an air con
ditioner down on top of a TV
si ' and then tried to climb in
thiough the window.
fOOD Lord!
Are the horses beginning to
act that wav. too.
It's bad enough then onlv HU
MANS carry' on like that."
P.S.
They SHOT the horse.
by Forbes Burnham represent-
ing a voting bloc nearly is
large as Jagan's.
And, while Jagan talks of an
"explosion," Burnham talks of
civil war.
Last April the two forces
locked in a bloody struggle
which began with a general
strike and lasted 11 weeks.
Fourteen persons were killed in
ensuing Negro-Indian race riots
and about 40 buildings were
bombed or burned. Before Brit
ish troops restored order, losses
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contrary is often the case.
Why Barry Can t Win
To the Editor: With all this
noise about Goldwater lately
you would actually think he has
a chance to win. Actually, there
are three good reasons why he
does not have a chance. He is a
halfbreed Protestant Jew.
Since he is a halfbreed the
Westerners won't vote for him;
he is a Republican so the South
erners won't vote for him; he is
anti-labor so the Northerners
won't vote for him; he is a
Westerner so the Easterners
won't vote for him; he is a Jew
so the Protestants won't vote
for him; he became a Protest
ant so the Jews won't vote for
him; the Catholics won't vote
for him because they already
have one to vote for; he is
aaginst civil rights so the Ne
groes won't vote for him; he is
against government subsidies so
the farmers won't vote for him;
he comes from a rural area so
the urbanites won't vote for
him.
In other words, Goldwater
will get the vote of every half
breed Protestant Jew in the
country. That is, every half
breed Protestant Jew who is
not a Northerner, Southerner,
Easterner, Westerner, Laborer,
Farmer, Negro, Catholic, or
city -dweller.
This only leaves one person.
Senator Barry Goldwater. And
Goldwater won't vote for him
self because he has said that,
if elected, he would not elimi
nate the income tax, which he is
against because it is unfair.
I may vote for him. At least
we have a candidate who has
stated clearly and concisely
just where he stands.
Leo J. Hughes Jr.
Butte Falls, Ore.
People Have Spoken
To the Editor: In Sunday's
M.T. in the editorial, "What is
it the voters want?" E.A. asked
"Pray tell what is it the voters
want?" Really, Mr. Editor, if
the overwhelming vote against
this tax bill did not tell you
what we want then I don't see
how it could be made any plain
er. It would seem now that the
people have spoken that the pro
ponents for more spending and
higher taxes would let this thing
drop before the legislature pre
sented this bill. We the people
ask them to hold the line on
more taxes and again at the
polls Oct. 15 we asked loudly
again for no tax increase and
elimination of wasteful and un
necessary spending, mainly in
the educational department. I
think there are few of us but
that are willing to sacrifice for
our children's education if neces
sary, but we don't like the waste
of our tax monies.
Unless we want another repeat
iike we got on the daylight sav.
ings time issue after the people
had spoken, we should write our
representatives demanding a full
investigation and housecleaning
in all state departments and
I any other form of taxes or
change in existing taxes, before
I we cet another huce tax cram-
job, I think I would listen to
the will of the people on this
issue.
Mrs. C. T. Poole
Route 1. Box 738
Eagle Point. Ore
Courthouse Parking
To the Editor: Jackson County
Employees association, in their
protesting restriction "against
lh(,ir monopolizing street park-
JinE space in the courthouse
i-aicMiiitmn in tno rmimv pi
area, at first reading, failed to
create a sympathetic response
in this taxpayer's heart.
The reasons listed for pre
senting the protest were that the
county employees might have to
walk a couple of blocks to their
cars in stormy weather and
their departure for lunch might
be delayed five minutes.
Of course, countv residents
wanting to transact business
within the courthouse should
I trudge through the rain with 1
smile on their face and the wind
in their hair from i several
block distant parking space so
county employes do not have to
endure these hazards of winter.
in property and wages ran to
millions 0f dollars.
Strengthened Red Ties
Jagan used the period to
strengthen his ties both with the
Soviet Union and Cuba. He
seized Shell Oil storage facilities
and used them to store Russian
gasoline. Cuba shipped in oil
and flour and the Soviet Union
offered long term loans and
cheap prices for fertilizers ind
agricultural machinery. .
Jagan also offered landing
Parking in the courthouse
area has been a problem lor
years. The city of Medford sev
eral years ago made an at
tempt to solve the problem by
restricting parking in the li
brary block to two hours. This
past summer courthouse em
ployees were requested to park
their cars away from the imme
diate courthouse area and this
has further alleviated the park
ing problem.
As one who has enjoyed the
resulting improvement of the
parking situation, I am desolate
to learn my pleasure has been
at the cost of such great in
convenience for county em
ployees.
(Name on me)
Medford.
Extravagance
To the Editor: With reference
to Tax Questionnaire, front page
Sunday Mail Tribune, it is our
opinion that the author of the
questionnaire is sidestepping the
real significance of the "No"
vote on the tax bill.
Most of us know that our in
comes have their limitations
and that sickness andor dis
ability can affect those limits.
We know that we must restrict
our spending to where our in
comes will cover our needs and
necessities and have a little for
that rainy day. We are also
aware that we cannot wish our
selves a raise in income and
start spending it before it is a
reality without hurting ourselves
or someone else.
When we observe the ever in
creasing numbers of department
of state vehicles on our roads,
often one passenger to a car and
often following one another;
when we realize that our mon
ey can be spent by the bucket
fulls, to try to obtain a vote so
such extravagance may be con
tinued, and so a new crop of
state employes can be absorb
ed annually or oftener, when we
note that our elected state ol-
ficials can raise their own sal
aries and expense accounts and
can include members of their
familiies in their benefits, when
we observe our school transpor
tation vehicles coming and go
ing in every direction, after
school hours and on week ends,
and when we assume that the
1800 graduates that our state is
reported to absorb will require
their share of expense accounts
and state owned vehicles, we be
lieve that some of the same
economy measures used at
home might help if applied in
our departments of state. It is
Strictly
Personal
By Sidney J. Harris
(cl Field Enlerpriaes. Inc.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
One of the saddest sights
in the world is a man
who. at the same time, looks
aged and immature; who
has become gray and lined be -
yond his years, and yet has not
acquired me cnaractcr to
match his appearance.
"Giving an example" is not
proof of anything, except of
giving an example: we all
know that one swallow does
not make a summer, yet we
persist in trying to prove our
dubious points by Mushing a
bird or two from the bushes
and calling them a "flock.
When parents correct or rer
nmand a child, they should nev-
er say. "I'm only doing it for
your own good," which the child
quite properly resents as smug
hypocrisy; they should say, if
j Fm doing i, for MY
" R000- because it makes me
i b.' try to make you
into the kind of child I want you
to oe.
When a bright man wants to
be Incessantly clever In con
versation, he almost invari
ably makes a fool of himself:
his it. of which he is so
proud, usually becomes the
very vehicle of his downfall.
Some people can refuse to do a
j favor with more grace than olh-
I ers can confer a favor; and we
1 would rather be refused with
tact than obliged with oilv self-
satisfaction.
Speaking of tjprs ol person
alities. I'm fond of the annony.
mous definer of a "pessimist"
rights to Cuban planes next
door to both Venezuela and
Brazil.
The United States sees an in
dependent Guiana under Jagan
as another Cuba and its sus
picions are confirmed by
Jagan's own words.
It has brought pressure upon
Britain to see that such does not
occur. On the other hand, there
have been British complaints
that the U.S. position destroys
any chance of racial peace or
national unity.
also our opinion that a new tax
measure would be a go signal
for further extravagance.
Jesse P. Elder,
3579 Table Rock road,
Medford.
Socialist Utopia
To the Editor: Why do so
many people have the erroneous
idea that Russia has socialism?
This is not true. The system that
masquerades as socialism in
Russia is one in which the po
litical state owns the land and
industries and the Communist
bosses control the State. Tha
people of Russia work for wages
and have no more to say about
determining the economic pol
icies under which they produce
than have the employees of Gen
eral Motors, United States Steel,
or any other American corpo
ration. The police-state appar
atus created under Stalin, whish
has been curbed but not dis
mantled by Khrushchev, was re
tained to preserve this system of
bureaucratic despotism.
By way of contrast, under tha
genuine socialism advocated by
the Socialist Labor Party, there
will be no bureaucrats, no pol
iticians, and no political parties,
not even a Socialist Labor Party
after socialism is established.
Administrators will have no jobs
to dispense, hence no means of
building up subservient follow
ings. They will have the privi
lege to serve, but NEVER tho
power to rule. Further, the
workers who elect them will
have the power to recall and
remove them. All power will be
in the only safe place for power
to be in the collective hands
of the people.
Under socialism there will be
the strongest possible guaran
tees that power will not be us
urped, nor freedom destroyed.
And these safeguards will be
enormously strengthened by the
fact that material well-being
will be enjoyed by all the peo
ple. It is one of the best-kept
secrets of the age we live in
that right now the material con
ditions exist, not only for wip
ing out the curse of poverty, but
for insuring that every human
being in the land receives an
abundance in a world free from
war.
The profit system, now no
longer serving a useful purpose,
is a hangover from a simple age
to which it was fitted to a com
plex age to which it is not adapt
ed. Lydia Burnham,
814 Warne St.,
Prescott. Ariz.
as being "somebody who's
been forced to live with an op
timist." We cannot understand why
; boys generally follow the lowest
; and wildest among them, unless
we recognize that bovs need a
vent for their anti-social impul
ses, and the leadership of such
a boy allows them to give free
rein to their rebelliousness with
out assuming the prime respon
sibility for their deeds; the bold
leader is popular not because
they value him in himself in
the end thev desert him but
because he embodies their re-
Dressions. and thev are usinrj
him more than he is using
them.
'. ....
The fatal defect with most
flatterers is that they put so
much cheese In the trap that
there's no room left (or the
mouse.
i It is easier to respect a per
( son who depreciates us than one
who wildly overestimates us;
the former can always be sur
j prised when we turn out to bo
better than he thought, but the
latter can only be disappointed
when we fail to live up to his
inflated estimate of us. (Women,
especially, have a secret con-
tempt fur the men who over
j value them.)
The finest test for disting
uishing true love from false
as most succinctly put by
St. Augustine, when he said:
"Love slays hat we have
been that we may me what we
were not."
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