Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1921, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR. With Sunday Morning Edition. -— WASHINGDON, D. C. MONDAY.....December 12, 16231 THEODORE W. NOYES... -Editor The Evening Star Newsgaper Company Business Office, 11th 8t. and Pennsylvania Ave. New Jork Office Ni 8t. Star, with the Sunday mornin, The g edition, is delivered by carriers within the eity At 60 cents per month; daily only, 45 cents per Frog Yy “mait- oe “iiephone Main o Yeleplione 6000, Collcction is made by carriers at the nd of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. ,Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunday..ly Daily ‘only. . w1y, All Other Statex. Daily and Sunday.1yr., $10.00; 1 mo., Daily only. 17r 37.00: 1 mo., 60c Sunday only. 1yr., $3.00; 1 mo.. 25¢ —_— The Civil Service Commission. The Civil' Service Commission, in its thirty-eighth annual report, states that it considers that it is one of the agencies operating to effect economy in government service, and that true economy in government requires that its effectiveness be increased rather than impaired by a reduction of the amount appropriated for its main- tenance. In this stand the Civil Service Com- mission will be upheld by all those ‘who have made any study at all of the government service as a whole. While the budget bureau may with pro- priety prune the estimated of many government bureaus, it should think twice before attempting to reduce the appropriations of the Civil Service ‘Commission. Upon this commission depends the quality of men and women who do the civil business of the United States. Although it lacks many powers to make it an ldeal personnel agency of the government, it is the central agency, nevertheless, and as such is responsible for the workers in all the departments and branches of Uncle Sam’s great civil business. The com- mission has indicated the desire of its membership for a real employment policy, to be a model for all industry, and has signified its desire to conduct examinations more thoroughly into the moral and character qualifications of applicants than has ever prevailed to date. This vitally important work cannot be carried on when the commission is hampered by inadequate funds. The commission is not now doing all the work that it should do, the report states, but it has riot even been pro- vided with funds sufficient to carry on the work it is now doing. It has to borrow about 200 employes from other parts of the government. These lodned employes are shut off from their own departments, and the com- mission has no power to reward them. ‘The whole condition is unfortunate. It would seem quite true, then, that “one of the first and most important needs of the commission is sufficient appropriation for salaries to enable it to employ under its own full jurisdic- tion the entire force necessary to carry on its present work.” It is not a question here of extending the work of @ bureau in order that the chief may reap more glory on account of more work done. It is solely a question of bringing to a state of highest efficiency the ‘body upon whom the efficiency of . every other government agency de- pends. [ Soldiers Two. Gen. Diaz has sailed for home. ‘Marshal Foch will sail in a few days. Both met with enthusiastic receptions. ‘They traveled widely, ahd were toast- ed everywhere. Neither is a young man, and both came over a little apprehensive as to the pace. Could they stand it? They. had heard of American hospitality, and been assured of a strenucus ex- hibition of it. They stood it. They reviewed par- ades. They met great numbers of peo- ple. They attended many banquets. They covered thousands of miles.. Is there risk in the statement that they had the time of their lives? Their hosts did not spare them. They did not disappoint their hosts. Heavy as tHe drafts were on their physical resources, the drafts were met. L This argues that the two famous commanders, notwithstanding the strains of the great war, are still in kelter, which seems to assure them many more years. Both should come again—cbdme and take a lengthier and more leisurely look around—come after America has begun to function again in the normal " way—when all the wheels of industry are in motion, and capital is pulling down good dividends and labor good wages. When the country is in its stride and in its best form it has something to show visitors unmatched elsewhere, and seen under favorable circumstances’ not soon to be forgot- ten. ————— China has been compared to Mis- souri because people from there de- sire ““to be shown.” It also recalls the old days when everybody was asking, *“What is the matter with Kansas?” As circumstances vary, firreconcil- ability may be political policy or & per- sonal state of mind. Peace on earth is now regarded as rational politics as well as good re- ligion. f A Gorills Family Captured. A male gorilla weighing 360 pounds, with a standing reach of seven feet and eight inches, is on his way to this country with four other members of his family, “wife and three children.” They are consigned to the American Museum of Natural History in-New York, and the hope is that they will all get here'alive from Africa, where they were recently captured. But if they should not survive the voyage their bodies, at least, will be brought on and used for mounting in accord- ence with motion pictures that have been taken in the jungle by the leader of the expedition that captured them. These pictures, it is said, are the first , ever to be taken cf gorilla life in na- tive conditions. I- The gorilla is the most difficult of e all wild animals to take alive and to keep in captivity. The first specimen te be brought to this country lived - only two weeks after it reached the Pacific coast fifteen years ago. An- other secured’to replace it lived only & month. Two have in recent years been secured by the New York Zoo, but they died in short periods after arrival. The last gorilla to be shown in this country was a circus feature, and it died in Madison Square Garden. Just why this particular animal can- not endure confinement, while others equally wild and ferocious adjust themselves to restraint, is not under- stood. The gorilla {s singular in his social life, quite different from any other wild creature. He is, 8o far as known, monogamous and there is a family system. Yet the smaller sim- ians show more intelligence than the gorilla, as far as studies have gone. Perhaps the tremendous strength of the gorilla and its ferocious tendency make it incapable of any degree of re- straint. If the gorilla cannot live in capitivity in the most favoring condi- tions there should be no more efforts to bring it alive within bounds to gratify human curiosity. ——————— Prison “Breaks.” Within a few days three desperate prison “breaks” have occurred, two of them successful, at the time. At Little Rock, Ark., the other day, one of the most notorious “bad men” of that region overcame his guards, and with five other convicts won the way to liberty, only to be shot down by one of his companions later and killed. It has been hinted that the man who slew him was chiefly responsible for the ‘“break,” seeking to wreak private vengeance upon the desperado despite the virtual certainty that he would be executed. In Chicago yesterday, & notorious gunman, implicated in nu- merous crimes and finally convicted and sentenced to death for killing a policeman, escaped with two other convicts after a fightywith the guards, is now at liberty,’ with the police ordered to shoot to kill the moment they see him. This case suggests “in- side aid.” The condemned man was armed, and under a prison rule the guards in charge of the exercising squad had no weapons. Eventually doubtless this fugitive will be caught and probably slain. He was taking a last desperate chance in the face of certain death on Thursday. Almost simultaneously with the Chicago “break” @ riot occurred in the Michi- gan state reformatory at Marquette, where, during a motion picture exhibi- tion, a number of the prisoners sprang upon the warden and beat him, wounding him dangerously with knives presumably taken from the prison kitchen, and before they were subdued several of the officials had been badly injured. ‘These successive troubles in sup- posedly welk conducted penal institu- tions suggest that discipline is lax in these places. The tendency for a number of years has been to loosen the hand of control over men held by the state in confinement. Prisoners have been given more privileges, even condemned men have been treated with sympathetic leniency and much more visiting has been permitted. Communication between prisoners is now easy, whereas formerly in the major establishments it was difficult. The smuggling of contraband to the inmates of a large institution is com- paratively easy, it would appear from results, and escapes occur with signifi- all fares are deposited, it milis{ neces- sarily be slower than a two-mpn per. A slow car, running on downtéwn tracks, as do all the one-man cars in ‘Washington, checks -the traffic at every stopping point. Th cars may be of value on suburban runs; whese the tracks are in a measure protected from trespass and where stops are in- frequent, but in the city they are un- questionably dangerous. Several acclh dents have occurred in consequence of the inmbility of motormen to operate their cars while collecting fares with- out risk to people in the streets. The protest of the citizens' associa- tion should be immediately considered by the Public Utilities Commission, and unless its contentions are met by plain proof that the cars can be safely operated this style of vehicle should be barred from service. The Pension Office Report. The report of the commissioner of pensions shows that nearly 100,000 claims were pending at the close of the fiscal year, leaving the hard-work- ing and underpald clerks of that office with a gigantic task on their hands. “The work of the pension bureau should be made current, to do which will necessitate a temporary addition to our force,” declares Commissioner ‘Washington Gardner. “Once it is cur- rent, our present permanent force of employes can keep it current.” Congress alone can remedy the con- ditions as they exist in the bureau at the present time, Commissioner Gardner points out. During the past fiscal year the pension office had to meet a great influx of cases by reason of legislation extending the scope of pension laws in regard to civil war and Spanish war service. Then the civil service retirement law went into operation, adding more work to the employes of an already overworked bureau. Making refunds to govern- ment workers who have paid into the retirement fund and then left the service is now becoming a huge task in itself. . The pension bureau is dealing with hundreds of claimants of advanced age, whose claims must be settled shortly if they are to be settled at all in this life. The refunds to govern- ment workers' leaving the service should be adjusted as quickly as pos- sible, for many of these persons are out of work, and need the money which they paid into the retirement fund. It would in no sense be ex- travagance for Congress to appropri- ate money for a temporary addition to the pension office force, in accordance ‘with the recommendation of Commis- sioner Gardner. This work should be quickly made current. —_———— The ex-kaiser has at least realized a wholesome ambition. History discloses to the most casual reader a long list of autocrats who would have been more comfortably and congenially situ- ated as wood sawyers. Admonitions to mail early are dis- played on the post office wagons in jovial rhyme. Truth and poetry are for once combined in discreet propor- tion. ——————— e Civilization has advanced definitely. beyond the stage where a differerice of opinion or an argument over money matters is popularly regarded as justi- fication for homicidal assault. cant frequency. The question arises whether prison leniency has not been carried too far. The men who are held for crime are not, of course, all hardened into irre- deemable rebels against society. There are many who are susceptible of im- provement. Perhaps most of them, if released at once, would lead law-abid- ing, decent lives. But therg are many who cannot be trusted, either in prison or out of it. Probably the best eourse in seeking reformation would he to have two types of institutions, one for those who are readily to be classified as chronic criminals, and the other for those who are only casually breakers of the laws. This has been to some degree the tendency, but for lack of proper provision the states have not offered adequate opportunity to the courts to differentiate in sentencing those convicted of crime. Paroles and probations permit some classification of the convicted, but there remain many of the hopeful kind who must be held in custody, and for these there should be provided de- tention places suitable to their condi- tion, while the habitual law breakers, the men with records, the men for whom there is practically no chance of redemption, should go into jails and penitentiaries where . confinement means punishment, and from which there is no chance of escape. —_—— A novelist employed temporarily in conference reporting finds it difficult to develop sensational interest in an event that deals with straightforward expression rather than in plot com- plications. .The arms parley news has been given out so rapidly as to prevent any gossipy imagination from finding time to get itself into working order. Nothing is being heard from agita- tors who departed from America ex- pecting to grab the soviet spotlight from Trotsky. One-Man Cars. b Agitation has been started by the North Washington Citizens’ Associa- tion aegainst the continued use of the “one-man car” operated on some of the local lines. It is contended that these cars are not only inconvenient and slow in operation, but that they are actually dangerous to the public. The motorman must operata his car and supervise the collection of fares, making change, selling tokens and seeing that no passengers get into the body of the car without paying. It is obvious that he cannot.properly watch the track while thus occupied. It is too much to expect that any one men can run & car carefully while The one-man car is plainly an eco- nomical grrangement. It saves the pay of an employe. But it does not render the right sort of service to the public. If the car is carefully oper- ated, thet ix. if it Is started only when| ¢ Not all the senators in discussing international relations are expected to be as brief and explicit as members of the conference have been. After ten years of naval holiday the world may feel no inclination to go back to the old war grind. President Harding has shown. his ability to give advice as well as to receive it. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Pep of Yesteryear. A pressing question haunts the thought ‘Which cannot wait for formal rhyme. ‘Where is the gayety that brought The smiles into another time? The dance is slow and jazz becomes A strain of melancholy queer. And through the mind the murmur hums, “Where is the pep of yesteryear?” The bold comedian, free with jest, Finds all his glory at an end._ He folds his hands upon his breast And says, “I hope I don’t offend. The story which I tell to you Fond recollection renders dear.” ‘We listen and we sigh anew, . ““Where is the pep of yesteryear?” The railway trains that used to whizz. Now at a water tank delay ‘While various parties hold a quizz Regarding profits, rates and pay. The world whose dreams of power and { wealth Have brought its nightmares filled with fear - Needs sunshine, health— X ‘Where is the pep of yesteryear? i Quite Sufficient. “There are two sides to every ques- tion,” said the ready-made philosopher. “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum. #And sometimes it's a hard piece.of ‘work to get from one side to the other when e situation requires. I'm’ glad there are no more than two.” air and simple “The man who hates to fight,” said Jud Tunkins, “can usually be depend- ed on when forced into a fight to work @s hard as he knows how to get it over with.” 3 Simple But Secure. The Eskimo is light and gay Because he lives so far away No statesman’s skill needs to be shown To keep his snowbank all his awn. Problems. “Are you in favor of arms limita- tion?” ! “I wasn't thinking of that” an- swered the soviet politician, “as, much @s I was of an unlimitation of money.” It's lucky dat Santa Claus is a myth,” said Uncle Eben. “If he wasn’t dar wouldn't be & chance of his dodgin’ de traffic. policemen,™" THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1921. handle more ticklish situations—in which XMAS TREE OUTFIT WHILE THEY LAST Atthe Arms Conference MEDITERRANEAN CRUISES WEST INDIES CRUISES CARIBBEAN CRUISES CALIFORNIA AND HONOLULU Via PANAMA CANAL Europe, Orieat, Souith America Steamshl, Linds 9 Who’s Who 0% dakier Dr. H A ven Kisnchiak e e A—jonkheer Ur, I'l. A. van Karnebee: o l0)! = 809 7¢h St. 1771 Col. Road lflm Me at ROW?L l“. For House Current or Battery ET P Ticke l EVERY SET GUA 2D OBER’S | Steamship mad Tourist Agemey, | No. 1 Woodward Bulldiag { Phone Main 1089 Alse large assoftment of different celes Suibe, fancy and piain, at reduced pricess PENN ELECTRIC & GAS PPLY CO. SU! » 911% NINTH ST, N. W. Evenings Phone Mata §13 OLLAND has sent to the Wash- ington conference as the head of her delegation Jonkheer Dr. I l H. A. van Karnebeek, her foremost statesman of today. -Dr. van Karnebeek has been called upon to his country might have become seri- ously involved internationally—in the last few years than falls to the lot of the ministers of foreign affairs some- times for many generations. He had to steer the ship of state in Holland during the trying period of the world war, when every effort was made, by one side or the other, to get Holland to throw aside her neutrality and plunge into the fray. -Under the leadership of Dr. van Karnebeek, however, Holland mairtain- ed her policy of armed neutrality. His country is. free from scars of battle. It has been in a position to give aid to thousands upon thousands of refugees seeking to escape from the war zones, and when the war came to an end, Hol- land was in a position to hasten relief to_the nations around her. - But even after the cessation of hos- tilities there was put up to Holland and, of course, to her minister of for- elgn affairs a tremendously difficult problem. The deposed emperor of Ger- many and the former crown prince, his (JONKHEER DR. H. A. VAN KARNE- son. fied to Holland for sanctuary. BEE There was an_insistent demand from | France, Great Britain and Belgium that these men be given up that justice might be dealt them because of the war and their crimes against the laws of war. But Dr. van Karnebeek, holding to the historic principles and traditions of the Netherlands, refused to give up the political refugees. Holland has long been recognized as an asylum for those oppressed for political or religious rea- sons. It goes without saying that a man to deal with such unusual situations :uccessful:,y'mulst hnvel “fi"({mly great rmness, but also an infinite amount | Harding to send delegates to the of common sense and tact. Dr. van|Washington conference, because of Karnebeek comes by his statesman-|her very deep interest in the far ship honestly, for his father before east, where her colonies are vast him was for many years minister of | The Dutch East Indies, Borneo, Su- foreign affairs of Holland and was|matra and other islands are of great| recognized as an eminent leader among | wealth. The Hollanders have ruled his people. their eastern colonies for some three Dr. van Karnebeek has a most pleas- | hundred years. But while Holland ing personality. Of average height, | holdings in the east are very large, he is rather slender, has black hair |she is here, Dr. Van Karnebeek has turning gray, and plercing dark eyes|made it clear, with no selfish -aim in and a black mustache. He is always |mind, but merely to aid as far as immaculately ~dressed. and ~ wears | possible in the solution of the prob- elasses. He is courteous and genial | lems of the Pacific. in manner, has a pleasant speaking| The foreign minister of the Nether- voice, and. by the way, speaks Eng-|lands has great faith, so he says, in lish remarkably well, and French like | results that may be obtained from a a Frenchman. full and frank discussion by leaders International conferences have been|of various countries gathered about a common occurrence in the life of | the same table. You Owe It to the Children —10 join the Christmas Savings Club for 1922, starts today. 3% is paid on flle. money you deposit. It Fifty cents is only a wee pinch of any person’s and get $25. weekly income. $1, fifty weeks get $50. $2, fifty weeks and get $100. $5, fifty weeks and get $250. Plus 3% Interest McLachlen Banking Corporation 10th and G Streets N.W. Southwest Branch, 1350 B Street You never miss it and it comes back to you in a joyous lump, with interest. Make the First Deposit Today Dr. van Karnebeek. At the first Hague conference he served as secretary. The second Hagme conference he at- tended as a delegate from his native land. His latest appearance as a dele- gate at an international-conference be- {fore coming to Washington was at the jassembly of the league of -nations in Geneva. He was elected president of the assembly of the league, by tie way, and presided over its delibera- tions with great tact and firmness. Holland was invited by President It will make hearts glad—yours and others. | l BUY YOUR VICTROLA HERE And Receive This Evenings *Til 10 O’Clock EDITORIAL DIGEST Vanderlip’s “Beautiful Gesture.” The plar to correlate the allied debt and rehabilitation in Europe recen'ly wivocated by Frank A. Vanderlip, oy which, as he says, the Upited Stais would make a “beautiful gesture,” has at least “infinite possibilities,” qae one writer puts it. But, because in vary- ing editorial opinion these possibilities are great for good and for ill, the pro- posal is searchingly analyzed in the press. Vanderlip's scheme was stat:d briefly by The Star, thus: “Undes it the debts owed to the Tnited States by its late war associates would be recognized as just, and the policy of cancellation uncompromisingly refected. But all interest moneys for an undetermined period would be pended by the United States, throu, a carefully devised loan scheme, in be tering the lot of the people who owe it“to us. in order that the economic and social structure of the old world may be rendered sound and secure.” “The hypothesis on which this pro- posal rests,” the Minneapolis Tribune (republican) explains, “is that the United States will ‘not thrive as it should so long as its sister nations abroad are crushed and handicapped as they are today; that our material good is So interwoven with that of other peoples that while they are sick we can- not be wholly well.” Oregon Journal (Portland. independent) says, “is a policy that looks to aiding the world, for the rid’s and our own sake,” and Vanderlip's plan, which the Rocky Mountain News (Denver, ind pendent) thinks is the most ‘‘reason: ble proposition” yet advanced for han- dling_the debt problem, advocates, as the Wilmington (N. C.) Star (demo- cratic) sees it, ‘“the adoption of the only attitude that this country can in- telligently adopt toward European in- debtedness.” Certainly the “only form in which Europe can pay us at this time would be in goods, and the Indianapolis|p1f Star (independent republican) agrees with Mr. Vanderlip that such pay ment would result “in an industrial upset such as we have not seen be- | fore.” So far-as a demand for money payment is concerned, “we cannot The only policy | that “can in any way aid America.”” |l|e| ent, the Sioux City Tribune (in- is not disposed to wel- jon of Uncle Sam crowned world king, with a golden-dollar sign for a scepter,” lording it over the countries of the world, “no matter lsnv‘t}' benevolent that lording might e. Her First Vote in C; For the first time in the history of the Dominion women will have a vote in the approaching general elections in Canada. One of the incidents of the campaign now in progress for the election of members of the Canadian parliament is the interest being taken by the women of the gerat agricul- tural provinces in the current public questions. Their support will go chief- 1y to the farmers' party. Orators for the other parties are being heckled with all sorts of questions when they appear in the districts’ where the woman voters have organized to have an influence in the election. The claim is made that upward of 90 per cent of the women of the farms will vote, Wwhile the feminine vote in the citles will bée less than 10 per cent. It is this circumstance that is putting ap- prehension into the councils of the majority party, as any such redistri- bution of voting strength would up- set the balance of power in the Do- minfon parliament. The bloc spirit that began in the prairie regions of the United States seems to have crossed the border to stimulate the demand of the Cana- dian farmer’'s household for a more direct consideration from government. This_spirit has been encouraged by the degree to which the world's diplo- mats and statesmen have proceeded ever since the world war to the dis- cussion of abstractions and dreams instead of applying their wisdom and resources to the solution of the world's every-day problems. — Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal (republican). A Necessary Indulgence. it be true, as reported, that ce and Gfeat Britain have agreed upon & plan to extend the time of Germany’s reparation payments for a period of three vears, an entirely en- couraging and auspicious factor en- ters the European economic situatio By this time it has become satisfa Gold Bond Guarantee “We will regraphite, oil, regulate and tune the motor of said VIC- TROLA during the lifetime of same without cost to the original purchaser.” NO INTEREST CHARGED You pay absolutely no ‘interest—if you choose the most convenient terms— and you make your selection from the largest and the most complete stock of Genuine VICTROLAS in Washington—we have all styles and all finishes. EVERY ONE AN ADVANCE 1922 MODEL Our Stocks comprise nothing but the NEW 1922 MODEL VICTROLAS, and you are assured a finely regulated instru- ment, with all of the new equipment. STYLE VI VICTROLA *100 OFFERINGS —in a late and fash- ionable console cabinet Genuine English Brown Mahogany. But you must call at once, as the supply is very limited on these— and there is < ” incinnati Times-Star :::leo;:‘.)"c.t:;e heids, “to play the hard: ! torilly (demonstrated that Germany's hearted pawnbroker.” Therefore, it| C2PACItY to pay her irdemnity obli- - e e e roma | Eatlons has been tested and has fafl- s Biiahoman (democratic) _ to | ¢ Obviously it is no longer a ques- Sdopt what the St. Louis Post-Dis- | §of, °f, willingness: on the part of ependent) calls “the easy | . nability to mee ,‘ZZ;“J.‘.J{“»&“:- giving the allies | the Installments of her debt, guch a reasonable time within which | to repay their indebtedness that pay- | ments can be made in cash and not in products” and in order to en- courage them to meet their obliga- tions the Oklahoman thinks it “might be wise to follow Mr. Vanderlip's suggestion” and spend the money in rehabilitation and thereby “enable them to earn more and make more certain the eventual payment of their dness.” m‘;‘ibnteldvanmga to the United States, the Pittsburgh Gagette-Times (re- blican) points out, lies in the Pereation of new markets” by “build- ing up all manner of industries where they do not now exist. But while the plan “Is inspired by a fine idealism,” the New York Post lindependent) finds it “open fto a number of practical objections,” the ohief one of which is that the money fs mot available. Mr. Vanderlip, the Poat_says, “speaks almost as if these billlons, of even the interest on them, | Were rattling around loose In Uncle | Sam's pocket and he was not quite Sore how to make best use of the Sromey.: an fdea which the Manches- fer Union (independent republican) expresses by comparing the proposal 2 Bian excellent recipe for rabbit pie With the rabbit left out of the cal- m;‘l:‘v‘v:'\lr'er. there are more deep-seat-|than power.—Houston Post. ed objections to the scheme than this. S h The Wall Street Jeurnal (independ- al lsoner louts For 239, which holds that the allied debt| Water,” says a New York headline.| - l‘r{llll be converted to “private:owner-| Draw your own conclusiona—Day- | b opposes “the Vanderlip debt|ton News. 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Sometimes it laoks to us as if the Christmas dollar has mote -speed OF $5.00—BEGINS JANUARY 15,1922 One difference between “leagu and an “association” of nations is that the United States will probably belong to the latter.—Woroester Telegram. ; The modern nursery rhyme seems as being -in desperate extremities, their willingness to ship billions{ gy which they .do not have and claim they cannot get to this country to be handed over for the relief and re- habilitation of areas largely aban- doned to bolshevism may well be doubted.” The New York Globe (in~ dependent) shares the doul Of all the debtor nations, it says, best able to repay its loan “the utility of the plan is mani- festly greater for central and south European countries than it is for France or Great Britain, ® ® ¢ Amer- fca’s beautiful gesture might thus, in effect, be’financed by the " In to have been edited up to “Sing Term of Six Months for a Bottle of Rye.”—Columbia (8. C.) 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