The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 15, 1932, Page 4

C3 E_&£&£<__$_$_$_ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1932 : An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and en- tered at the postoffice at Bismarck as Second class mail matter. GEORGE D. 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All rights of republication of ail other matter herein are also reserved. oom TERE we at 1 (Official City, State and County | Newspaper) : Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER (Incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Pressure on the Tariff One of the unusual phases of the impending political campaign is the fact that the tariff bids fair to play only a small part in the political ar- a guments. ie President Hoover declared himself unequivocally for the present high . rates and the Democratic stand has * yet to be fully outlined. The Demo- i cratic platform calls for a lower tar- "i iff but it is not very specific and the 4 tendency seems to be to soft-pedal ‘ this as a campaign issue. j The result may be disadvantageous i to the country, for there are unmis- ; takable signs that our tariffs are too iy high. Nearly everyone is in favor of rea- sonable protection for American in- dustry and labor, but the log-rolling which was done when the Smoot-|" Hawley bill was enacted, and again at the last session of congress in con- G nection with the purported effort to raise additional revenue, makes it rather obvious that the people most interested in the tariffs are not in fa- vor of reasonable rates. The plain fact is that it has become an instru- ment of commercial warfare, not with other nations but between industries in this country, An interesting review of the tariff situation recently was made by vames D. Mooney, vice president of General Motors corporation in charge of overseas sales. The fact that it is being printed and widely distrib- uted by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce indicates that our motor manufacturers agree with Mooney’s sentiments. Mooney points out that for 10 years after the war, we sold goods abroad to @ world which could not pay for them in gold. Much of the money to buy these goods was loaned by our own bankers and Europe ran serious- Jy into debt to us. “We should have known that the debts represented by these credits could be discharged ultimately only in terms of other goods and services,” Says Mooney, “yet, in face of this very obvious fact, we deliberately shut the door on the possibility of ever Te- ceiving payment for the goods we sold.” We shut the door, Mooney con- tends, by making a tariff barrier so high that few, if any, European goods could come over it. Mooney’s contention is that the ex- \ cess of exports over imports, as shown by federal statistics, represents goods | which we have actually given away | during the last 10 years. We have | given them away because the only | thing other countries can use to pay | for them are goods or services and { we will not let their goods come into this country. The statement is fully susceptible to statistical proof and no one con- tends that the situation outlined by Mooney is not a fact. Yet the high- tariff fetish has become so firmly established in this country that our national leaders either cannot or will not see that it is open to serious question, There was a time when high tar- iffs were sound policy for America but that time seems to have passed. The stétus of creditor nation which ‘we achieved during the war changed the situation completely. To main- tain the American standard of liv- ing in competition with foreign coun- tries we may have to find some means of more equitably distributing the benefits of capital investment and the production of labor, but if vestipai | |The Bismarck Tribune tempt to do less business, but bold, intelligent determination to do more. “2. From the standpoint of the consumer, any restriction placed upon the free flow of interna- tional trade deprives him of the benefits of an abundance of low- priced goods which might be im- ported for his use, and deprives him also of the benefits he would derive from the profitabie exports his employer might make in ex- change. “Our standards of living are not a matter of price-tags or symbols; they are a matter of steady production, an abundance of goods, and efficient, continu- ous trade or distribution. “3. From the standpoint of the producer, his ability to sell his products abroad depends ab- solutely upon the willingness of his countrymen to buy forcign products for consumption in ex- change. “4. From the standpoint of in- ternational economy itself, the argument against trade restric- tion — against seeking greater prosperity through setting out deliberately to do less business— is even more obvious. “Our net capital structure in the United States today demands an excess of imports over exports of $900,000,000 annually to bal- ance the books. So long as the debt structure remains as it is, this import excess will inevitably be achieved, tariffs to the con- trary notwithstanding. “Under our present approach, it is being steadily achieved by a reduction in exports at a faster rate than the reduction in im- Ports. “It could be achieved also, of course, by increasing both im- ports and exports—but by in- creasing imports more rapidly. “A creditor nation, which has ceased projecting additional cred- its abroad, is a nation stamped | : Cheerful Little Earful! indelibly with an “adverse” bal- ance of trade, and the only way an excess of exports over imports can be sought is by abandoning or mitigating the creditor posi- tion. “There is no compromise pos- sible with the simple arithmetic involved in these figures. To in- crease our exports we must either increase our imports even more, or we must start lending money abroad again, or we must aban- don our creditor status by cancel- ing the debts. “The cumulative excess of ex- ports over imports is literally the amount of goods we have given away during the last 10 years— the amount, in other words, for which money is owing us which we cannot collect in cash, and which we have refused to dis- charge in kind. “Naturally, in the circum- stances, it became increasingly difficult to ship out more and more goods. Lines of credit be- gan to be exhausted; we began to realize finally that we were giving something for nothing, and soon, instead of more and more, we were shipping less and less. “There are two ways in which the accumulated bill for this un- natural excess can be paid: (1) in gold, (2) in goods and services. We are insisting today that it be paid in gold, and this demand is resulting in a scramble for gold that is causing the price of gold to go up, and, therefore, all other prices to go down. “We can, as indicated previ- ously, stop asking for gold and continue refusing to accept goods —in other words, cancel the debts. “It seems better business all around, however, to hold fast to the debts, if we can, and seek payment for them, an intelli- gent and rational manner, in goods.” Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with The Tribune's policies, The Returns Will Tell (Duluth Herald) Republican leaders gathering in Washington to take part in today’s notification ceremonies were reported by the Associated Press in The Her- ald last night to be cheerfully pre- dicting the reelection of President Hoover. At the same time, wherever Democratic leaders gather they issue glowing reports of the virtual cer- tainty that Candidate Roosevelt will Sweep the country and become the third Democratic president since Bu- chanan. And all of it, from both sides, is utterly meaningless. A prophecy at this time expresses hope, perhaps, but it cannot express knowledge and therefore it cannot be a conviction. And a little later on when the party managers are issuing tables showing the electoral vote by which their can- didates are going to win, you may be sure of this: That besides the pub- lished tables each committee has in its headquarters a jealously guarded table representing its real convictions, which is a very different affair from that which is made public. Probably it is betraying no secret to explain that the first principle of campaign management is based on the supposition that a great many voters care only to be with the pre- valling side, and so that there is Nothing that succeeds like a band- PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to discase diagnosis, or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, self- addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions, Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. THE EFFECT OF BALONEY ON Answer—There is no danger of get- RHEUMATISM ting tuberculosis that way. If your The Ills Called Rheumatism—|children associate much with anyone there’s a subject on which we might |who has tuberculosis they are likely expatiate to fill five dollar book jto contract the disease. length yet really say no more than Crickets you will find in the ten cent booklet] How can I rid the house of crick- on the subject which is issued as No.{ets? Any remedy should be non-poi- 12 in Little Lessons in the Ways of jsonous because children are around. Health. When writing for the book-|—(Mrs. H. G.) let or anything else provided in this} Answer—I don't know. If you don’t Personal health service, do NOT say |like their song why not treat them to it with a clipping but use your own! fly or mosquito spray? pen or typewriter and be sure to in- (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) close with your request a stamped envelope bearing your address, not a trick address such as “City.” Every day a dozen or two answers are un-! deliverable because correspondents | use such incorrect address. In the booklet “The Ills Called Rheuma- tism,” I warn you these is no cut and dried diet recommended. If you in- sist on monkeying with your diet, | don’t send for the booklet. Not that! material modification of the diet is not advisable for many mature adults | who have or are training for some; such ill. But what do you expect for/ AWFUL MOMENTS . ae poe ici boys i New York, Aug. 15.—Stage demon- girls who feel that they are a biti ology, it seems, requires almost as stale probably need an Iodin Ration, many volumes as the Golden Bough and if they ask us to mail the in- structions for taking the Iodin Ration|or the Greek and Roman myths. Doors that refuse to close at the along with the Rheumatism booklet right time; doors that insist on open- it won't cost them any more. Speaking of diet and rheumatiz, the character the diet has something |ing at the wrong time; revoivers that to do with those degenerative | ‘ail to go off or that explode too soon changes that occur in individuals just |—ll elementary, my dear Watson— past their prime. Now please do not |€lementary! push or shove, folks. This is not an introduction to the New Rejuvena- tion. We are merely leading up to eee ‘There was, Broadway records, that fateful moment when portions of the Corrective Protective Regimen,|Leonore Ulric’s apparel refused to carefully calculated to take care of Stay in place. Only in dream books, vitamins, roughage, mineral elements,|Where obstreperous clothing rates calories, alkali and everything, com- ie tai will you find a plete with girth control, in No. 32, aed. “y ” Little Lessons in the Ways of Health} Miss Ulric was playing in “Kiki. | other of Belasco’s discoveries. From an unconventional character to begin with, she graduated to an eve- ning dress. It was a gown that in- cluded a flowing train, Part of the business was to assume @ noveau hauteur (snooty manner, to you!). She preened in the best pea- cock manner. But there came that evening when Ben Hardy, who ap- peared in the same scene, trailed too close behind. Oh, far too close! And stepped on the train. Came that 8-zz-ur-kk sound of ripping! And a snickering audience beheld the opening gesture of a burlesque stripper! Miss Ulric remained stand- ing on little else than her reputation. Which, to be sure, is enough. * % & That, however, is not the end of the story. A less experienced player j might have fled from the stage. Not Miss Ulric! With @ graceful flip of silk yardage, she tossed most of it over one shoulder and swaggered off. So great was the ovation received that the late David Belasco seriously considered using this as a bit of “business” in later performances, *e # BR-R-R-R! One old-timer recalls an incident in the career of Frances Starr, an- Miss Starr was appearing in Phila- delphia. The play was “Lady in Blue.” A second act scene was laid in a small French town. It was win- ter. Snow was lightly falling. Sez you! Never was there such a stage bliz- zard, as a matter of fact. The ap- paratus known to the theater as “the snowcradle” suddenly went ga-ga and the entire contents came suddenly down upon the head of the heroine. xe HONK-HONK! A couple of years ago Mary Boland, who was recently creating convul- sions in “Face the Music,” was mak- ing a large hit in “Cradle Snatchers.” According to the plot, a bevy of gigolos descend upon the fun-seeking matrons. Their arrival by auto was first hinted by an off-stage purring motor. This became the cue to sev- eral lines. But one evening the moment came for the gigolo entrance and there was no purring motor cue. Experi- “ence brought from the on-stage char- “Guide to Right Eating” which costs | — an air mail stamp or our New Eng-| &——"—"—— = land readers may have the Corrective s 4 4 Protctie Bastien sce tetieaete| Biblical Quotation ing, if they inclose a 3 cent stamped envelope bearing the correct address, | §§—eeeeeeeeeeneteneeneneee nn ene It should not be necessary to say that so far as any one knows there is) HORIZONTAL “rheumastim” the corrective protec- tive regimen will safely correct the error of diet. We know that most mature adults who suffer with chronic joint troubles are in fact overnourished and should in any case practice temperance in eating, but there is no reason why such near- invalids should pick on the proteids. More likely their excesses are com- mitted with the delectable carbohy- drates. In an early issue we shall analyze the influence of baloney on acidosis. 33To warble. 34 Upon. 35 Triple. 36 Short, pithy expression. 17 Mariner. 18 Solemn. 19 Coats with tin. 20 Any linear variation of 38 Venturing. color. 40 Preface. 22 Abounding in 41 Companion, gorse. 442 Blunders, 23 Street. 43 Mother. 25 Possess. 44 Drives. 26 Unctuous. 45 Game of skill 27 Evergreen played on a ‘wagon movement. That is why party claim everything | the tomatoes, for all I care. managers invariably in sight, even on the eve of the great- est defeat on record. will improve with them. election may turn on something, per- haps somebody's misguided public utterance, not yet dreasied of, London, Eng.—If you are one of |stir in the wool fat those people who ate tardy about|and scent. everything you do, observe what punc- | follows: tuality did for one Englishwoman. Because she always had his breakfast Ips Teady at the time he asxed, with| 4pounds gum arabic never any delay, Edith Taylor was|74 pounds water awarded $50 a year for each year or} 2 pounds hydrous wool fat fraction thereof spent in his services,| 4 ounces oil of lemongrass (for by her employer, John James, of Stratford-on-Avon. knows | for making a protective cream for the bad on elec-| hands and arms of machinists, 1 for the party | wish to ask whether all the in power, while if conditions improve|ents are to be mixed together or is the prospects of the party in power |there a But the|them .. .—(N. E. K.) Meanwhile, eat lots of tomatoes—if you have ’em and like ‘em. Eat all tree. - board. 28 Smooth, 46 To peruse. 29To slide. 30 Numerous. 48 Rich part of 31 Grain. — milk, 32 Pasture land. 49 Cowl. 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Tram. 14 To Analyze. «16 Banal. 17To be of use. 36 Geometric solid, 37 Large antelope. 39 Opera hy Verdi. 40 Pretense. 41To and ——? 42 Pronoun, 43To low. 45 Credit. 46 Company. . acters a time killing series of ad libs|convinced that the outlook is really|vited to do so by the Oo iaaealy that began with: brighter, the football coaches will “I wonder what has been keeping |cover everything with black again. se 8 them. . .” “Perhaps they stopped at the club,” Suggested Miss Boland, for whom no such lines had been written. At which moment the terrible thing happened! In the wings, some 18th rate imitator attempted an im- Personation of an automobile horn. “Honk-honk” came the voice. No horn could possibly have made such @ sound. Of course, the noise-making appar- atus had failed to work. A stage hand, at a loss, had had his big mo- ment. And did the audience roar? TODAY 41S THE) GERMANS IN RETREAT On Aug. 15, 1918, German forces began the evacuation of a five-mile section of their defenses near Albert, and were reported burning huge quantities of supplies. Australian and Canadian regiments continued their advance in Picardy, taking hundreds of prisoners. Offi- cers attached to these units reported that German morale was near the breaking point and predicted a dis- aster for the Central Powers before the end of the year, The French war department an- nounced the sinking of the steamer Djemnah in the Mediterranean on July 15 with the loss of 442 troops aboard her. Secretary of War Newton D. Baker announced the landing of American troops at Vladivostok, Siberia. | ee | Barbs ‘ Al Capone ought to make a first- rate baseball player. Even the high- est priced lawyers can’t get him-out. * * > The king of Abyssinia is reported about to give his subjects a constitu- tion. If this thing keeps up. King- fish Huey Long will be the only abso- lute monarch un é An Englishman is breeding rabbits whose fur cannot be told from sable. That evens things up. We've been paying for sable that you couldn't tell from rabbit. se & that he has really suited him. Perhaps he should change his restaurant. (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) T have signed the economy bill with but lmited satisfaction—President Herbert Hoover. *“* & No group of countries can isolate themselves from the rest of the world. ... The United Kingdom needs the world market for her manufactures. —Prince George of eu bush * # The communities do not get all the tax money they should have. For in- stance, only one-quarter of the motor vehicle license fees go back to them in New York.—State Senator Seabury C. Mastick of New York. *# % & I just haven't got the right kind of training to hold down that job in the White House——Owen D. Young, busi- ness executive. ee * I think we all feel a measure of disappointment that great results have not been attained, but I want the country to know that the presi- dent has not only had full oppor- tunity to make definite suggestions tor further reductions in federal ex- * Just about the time everybody is|penditures but that he has been in- Senate in a resolution adopted.—Senator Joseph T. Robin- son of Arkansas, Democratic leader in the Senate. Russia's second five-year plan calls for colonization of Far East Siberia. STICKERS AUSTTYNP of the above letters, see if you can last four letters are the same and in the 4 _ same order. Stealing a kiss isn’t always petty lar- ceny. it’s grand. reek SYNOPSIS In the Mexican desert, a masked rider, his gun still warm, hides in the“sheltering mesquite as the cav- alry ride past. They stop beside the Prostrate figure of a man. “Lopez!” they exclaim, and a shiver runs through the group. A jeering laugh bursts down from above, and gazing up they see the masked rider out- lined against the sky. Across the border, tall and handsome Ted Rad- cliffe arrives at Verdi Junction. He is met by a pretty girl who drives him to the home of his friend, Bob Harkness. She leaves without giv- ing her name. While waiting for Bob, Ted goes riding. He rescues a boy being beaten by two wants Ss ‘hey threaten him with the vengeance of their leader, Jito. Later Ted goes to dinner at Major Blount’s, of the U.S. Army, and is cordially received in Paco Morales’ employ. by Mrs. Blount. CHAPTER IV “You're being awfully good to a stranger.” “Rot. You're not a stranger here. Already Verdi is whispering that you've come out to buy miles and miles of land and irrigate the whole Verdi well remembers that desert. father of yours.” Radcliffe nodded somberly. “Yet this same Verdi sent him away a pauper. It took him years to win back prosperity again.” “But men say he did win it back— with interest.” She lighted a cigar- ette. “Why did you come, really?” “Would you believe me if I said I didn’t know? That’s the real truth, Five days ago I was back in New York without a thought of coming West. I had just returned from Europe and found a letter from my father’s banker telling me to come out and see Bob Harkness, Father and Bob, you know, were partners in the old days.” His hostess considered the end of her cigarette. “So perhaps there is a mystery, then. We'll ask Bob to- night. Bob, of course, has told me I didn’t quite expect to see a young giant saunter in on me.” She looked at him in frank approval. “You're quite too big and good-looking to have come out here. If the boys don’t lynch you before the month's out, and if “That should be the name of some god- “It almost describes her, The Mexican ranch- ers and peons would-tell you she is a saint from Heaven. Some day she will be the richest girl in all north all about you. But Adela spares you—” “Adela,” he repeated. dess of the desert.” The woman nodded. Mexico.” He laughed. “And beautiful, of course—she would have to be beau- tiful.” “Aren't all heiresses beautiful? No? Well, a dried-up old colonel once said that Adela had hair like a desert sunset.” A sudden recollection seized the matter of sober truth, they're a very nice shade of blue.” “And least-——' - “Just the suspicion of an accent, That's Adela.” Once more in retrospect the man saw that upturned, smudgy face, then to the great delight of his host- ess he told the tale, adding, “But on the little impostor said she lived a ranch with two or three cows.” “Two or three thousand wouldn't cover it.” Her kindly eyes clouded, “Adela puzzles me,” she added. “I think perhaps she puzzles herself, lies a queer childhood, the freedom Behind her As a child she had all Adela| gave me s dollar for of th COPYRIGHT 1931, BY INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE CQ, she speaks with just the’ GAY BANDIT e BORDER by TOM GILL INC. “4 DISTRIBUTED BY KING FEATURES syworcare inet —_. changes so swiftly. At times she's as you saw her this morning—at times the quiet, aloof little Mexi- can princess, Never really gay. Well —there are reasons for that, too. Meanwhile, look behind you.” It had grown dark outside and across the room, outlined against the lamplight, Radcliffe’ saw again his girl of the morning. That coppery wealth of hair curved now in a thick braid about her head, and the white ivory of her skin gleamed against a black low-cut evening dress, She was the same but somchow subtly differ- ent. Their eyes met as he rose, and a little smile played about her lips. She took the older woman's extended hand. 4 “It's been so long,”she said. “Ages,” agreed Aunt Clara. “And all your fault. If you would leave that feudal dungeon once in a while, you'd learn what's happening in the world of Verdi. Here, for example, is something very important. Here is Mr. Ted Radcliffe, who rides out of the East. He's been boring me with tales of some impossibly lovely lady who met him at the junction.” The girl smiled and seated herself beside Aunt Clara. Yes, she had changed—the same frank eyes, the same quict, friendly smile, and yet he found himself regretting that their comradeship of the morning had disappeared. “And I suppose,” the girl was say- ing gravely over her cigarette, “that like all lovely ladies she left him and will never come back.” “Never,” Radcliffe agreed. “I'm beginning to believe she never ex- isted. She was just a mirage of the desert.” The girl turned to Aunt Clara. “Tell me more about your mysteri- ous guest.” “Here's what Don Bob reports: It appears that this Mr. Radcliffe who stands smoking before us was first brought into prominence by his abil- ity to carry an inflated pigskin through eleven opposing young gen- tlemen. For this naive gift he was twice made captain of Yale's football team. He also tok great interest in contests whereby two opposing youths attempt to unravel each oth- er’s limbs and dislocate various joints for the somewhat obscure purpose of forcing their opponént’s shoulders on a dusty mat. Mr, Radcliffe was so successful in this pursuit that he was later amateur heavyweight wrestler of the East,” Ted Radcliffe nodded. “I also played on the freshman chess team.” Aunt Clara ignored the interrup- “Later this burly gentleman graduated with some such silly title as Bachelor of Arts and spent a year in Europe and another in Africa, ba amazing sefior, then, is of the very rich?” “He is, I am sorry to admit, one of the dirty rich, I gather that he has been reared in luxury.” “That,” Radcliffecountered,“shows ‘men can be misled.” says have entirely too) much money for your own good.” “Rumor is probably right. But I don’t believe rumor ever sald I was ‘reared in luxury.” I wasn't. I've sold papers and shined shoes, One of my first memories is of my father holding me in his arms the holes in my shoes let snow in, That was what your border coun did to father No, I certainly wasn't reared in luxury.” He stopped, looked down at ¢ two listening women, then eas By “How terribly strapped we were! I remember énce in Denver woman clearing he girl shook her head. “This| him?” even reasonably intelligent wo-| is Aunt Clara turned toward him.| Clara married girl with a little “ waited in a long bread line, because pera try lof northern Mexico yl, snow from her pavement. I ran all the way home to show the big silver piece to dad. You know, there were tears in my father’s eyes. He held itup in the sunlight and said to me so earnestly that I remember every word, ‘Never be without these, son,’ he told me. ‘To be poor—that is the unforgivable. sin. Radcliffe’s broding face cleared. ‘We weren't poor long after that. My father’s luck turned. That win ter he herded sheep on shares, and next spring had a band of his own. Later we went to Washington and . in a gear father was the leading © spirit in a group of men who were developing land in South and Cen- tral America. He touched every kind of industry—steamships, to- bacco, sugar-cane plantations, trop- ical woods—and they all yielded gold. I'm very proud of him, and I respect him more than any man in the world. You see, we suffered to- gether and came through the dark places together.” Radcliffe stopped, and added slowly, “Then five years ago he died.” The silence that followed was broken by a closing door above them, and a moment later Major Blount clattered down the stairs. The ma- jor's ruddy face that seemed never to tan beneath the suns of sixty years smiled a broad welcome. He was short, inclined to heaviness, and his shirt bulged dangerously above his vest. It was, as Mrs. Blount had many times declared, a sad but scien- tific fact that the major looked better in uniform than in evening clothes. He boomed his greeting from across the room. “Glad Clara asked you both to get here ahead of the mob.” Over Adela’s hand he bowed his stiff military bow, and, holding Rad- cliffe’s hand for an instant, looked up into the younger man’s eyes. To Radcliffe it seemed that some mo- mentary pain passed across the old soldier’s face, vanishing as he spoke again. “Bob left a note asking us to take care of you until he gets back. It's a pleasure to do that.” he asked, “Staying long in Verdi?” “How long I can’t say. My com. ing has been unexpected and a fittle™ mysterious.” Again that fleeting look of pity seemed to touch the major’s eyes. Aunt Clara lighted another of her interminable cigarettes. “It was pret- ty low down to let you in for a formal dinner There will be twelve of us. Adela~ and you are the only ones who haven't reached second childhood.” Party this first night. “If ever Uncle Paco hears that you are numbering him among the old “there cations, 8, girl warned, will be international compli hunting the kind of things one hunts} Mrs. Blount turned to her there. In his spare moments he prob-| “We're talking about the big es ably slew lions and zebras and posed| northern Mexico.” with one foot poised on their Adam’s| “Paco Morales?” The woman nodded, “You know “Or to Sito.” added the _ “Morales is really the government a “+. (Te Be Contianed). Niet wow bohee She 2 ¢ ” ”