Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1922, Page 6

e {THE EVENING STAR, ‘With Sundsy Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY . . February 22, 1022 —_— THEODORE W. NOYES.......Editor S g e e The Evening Star Newspaper Company’ ‘Bustness OfSte, 11th St. aud Peonsylvania Ave. York 150 Nassau St. New Office : mouu: Tower Bullding. Office : 18 Regent St., London, England. The Erening Star, with the Sundey morning egition, is delivered by carriers within the citz at €0 cents per month; duily only. 43 conts per meath; Bunday only, 20 cents per month. Or- ders may be sent by mail, or telephone Main 5000. Collection is made by carriers at the ead of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo. Daily only. 1 .00; Sunday only. All Other States. ,Daily and Sunday. Daily only. George Washington. The birthday of George Washington 1s of patriotic and historic significance to all Americans, but the connection between George Washington and ‘Washington city is closer than that between George Washington and any other part of the United States. It is mot that the city of Washington is the capital of the country of which George ‘Washington was a principal founder. There are other reasons. The site of the city was suggested and chosen by Washington because he believed it the best site in the United States, and because he was acquainted ‘with this section and had been ac- quainted with it since his boyhood. He had crossed and recrossed the fields that became the seat of government. He had dreamed that the Potomac river would be a chief link in a water- ‘way with an Alleghany portage, be- tween the great lakes, the northwest territory and the Atlantic. He be- lieved that at Great Falls an indus- trial city would grow up because of the water power there. He was the author, promoter and president and a principal stockholder in the Potomac Improvement Company, chartered by Maryland and Virginia in 1784 to make the Potomac navigable from the Alle- ghany mountains to tidewater. ‘Washington was born on the Vir- ginia shore of the Potomac about seventy miles below this city. When a little boy he removed with his parents t0 a farm on the north bank of the Rappahannock opposite Fredericks- burg, about sixty miles from Wash- ington. While in his teens he removed to his half-brother's home, Mount Vernon. about fifteen miles from the city of his name. He inherited Mount Vernon. it was his home till death, and his mortal remains rest there. ‘There was a propo n that h mains should lie for all time in Wash- ington city in a pt beneath the Capitol dome, but the pian failed. He was a leading man in our neigh- bor city of Alexandria. he had many acquaintances and friends in George- ] resentative Burton negotiating the layed by the funding board nominated to the Senate yesterday by President Harding. The personnel of the board leaves ncthing to be desired in the way of ability or stalwart American- ism. ‘With Secretaries Mellon, Huaghes | and Hoover, Senator Smoot and Rep- terms upon which the debt shall be funded, the public will feel assured that the financiers and diplomats of Europe will not “put anything over” on the representatives of this country. It any European debtor says it cannot pay, the members of the board all will be from Missouri, and will have to be shown.. It is not at all improbable that they may be able to help the debtor nations find ways of paying. Often a creditor is able to discover resources where his debtor had despaired. This does not mean that they will play a Shylock role. The members of the board are all men of broad vision and their sympathies have equal breadth. The nations which owe money to us are no less fortunate than we are in having them to deal with. Two Homecomings. Arthur J. Balfour, head of the Brit. ish delegation in the recent Washing- ton conference, and Albert Sarraut, who succeedéd Briand at the head of the French delegation, have returned to London and Paris, respectively. The difference in their homecomings is striking. Balfour is hailed by king and countrymen with glad aeclaim. Little enthusiasm attended return of the French delegation, which is repre- sented as dissatisfied and despondent. ‘Why there should be such a differ- ence in the British and French states of mind is difficult to understand. ‘Whatever benefits come out of the conference will flow to France as free- ly as to England. It is true that the French did not get out of the confer- ence all the things they hoped for and had asked. Neither did the British. | The sacrifices made were rather larger on the British part than on that of France. On the negative side—the prevention of achievements—the score is rather heavily with the French. They were able to block limitation of submarine tonnage, something the British earnestly sought. They were able also to bar any effort to limit land forces, eagerly desired by Italy and deemed advisable by England and the United States. France failed to get a formal defensive alliance with Britain and America, but she got instead as. surances of their moral support. She has everything to gain and nothing to lose by the agreements affecting the Pacific. ’ As Mr. Balfour put it at the Pil. 8 dinner in London: “Every na- tion has gained by these labors; no epresentative will return to his home I and unable to claim that he furthered the interests of the world, and thereby the interests of his particular people.” Whatever dissatisfaction France | may feel. therefore, cannot be because of loss of material advantages. If she is Joser in moral advantage, in failure town, which became a part of Wash-, 1o make her aspirations and motives ington, and he visited at the homes of | understood and sympathized with, the many of the country people in what |loss is not irretrievable. The good We now speak of as “the Washington | wishes of the world still adhere to neighborhood.” He was well acquaint-| yrance, and America especially is 8 in a number of the little old towns | ready and eager to accord her sym- that are still around us, as Bladens- burg, Piscataway, Marlborough, Port Tobacco. Dumfries, Falmouth, Rock- ville and Leesburg. Scenes and plac with Washington associations are all around us. There are scores of houses and several churches, Pohick. Christ, Broad Creek. Yeocomicc and others, which sheltered him and are still standing, and the blood and collateral kindred of Wash- ington in this part of the countiy are numerous. Abingdon. the birthhouse of Nellie Custis and George Washing- ton Parke Custis, is standing in the brickyard region across the Highway bridge, and Woodlaw, the home which Washington gave to Nellie and her hushand, Lawrence Lewis, standing southwest of Mount Vernon. A road leads from Washington city to Yorktown, and many of our people travel it. And that road passes close to the farm on the Rappahannock where George as a little boy on very credible testimony hacked a cherry tree—a likely thing for a little boy to do—and where as a big boy he threw stones across the river, not a gigantic task for a good pitcher. At Fredericks- burg his mother lived and died, and at her grave is a monument tardily built by Americans after the grave had-been neglected for nearly a century. All historians seem to write of George Washington as the foremost | American, and that estimate is per- haps as nearly just as human esti- mates can be. Washington was not as great a soldier as some other men have been; he was not as eminent as a statesman as some other men; he was not famous as a philosopher; he was not an orator at all; he did not shine as a writer, and he was not an edu- cated man in the college sense. His schooling had been simple and elemen- tary. But in every department of ac- tlon into which Washington entered he was a success, and he was volun- tarily accepted as a leader by men who came to be associated with him. Fair-minded men in his time never questioned that he was an honest man, that he was a patriotic man, that he was a wise man, or that he was a man of ability and of physical and moral courage. He must really have been a great man. As time goes on. and men write and | speak of Washington, the impression ceepens in the minds of many that Washington was a man somewhat re- sembling a classic statue in marble or one of the stiff and unhumanlike bronzes one sees in the parks. Wash- ington was not, however, a cold, dis- passionate, austere man. He was in- tensely human in his passions and his appetites and ways of thinking. One reason why men accepted and liked his leadership was because of his red- blooded and robust humanity. ————— Senators who rode over some par- tieularly rough thoroughfares are ex- pressing & welcome interest in the oity’s need of street improvements. Experience is a wonderful teacher. ————— Debt in Able Hands. It there has been uneasiness in any quarter lest the debt owed this gov- ernment by the governments of Eu- rope should not be handled wisely and g the best imterests of the-American -peeple, that uaSasiness ought to be al- is! pathy in fullest measure. ————— The Roma Disaster. The airship disaster causes nation- wide sorrow and poignant grief to the friends and relatives of the victims. Evew in this age of great tragedies that of the Roma stands out as a hor- ror of the first magnitude. The toll of dead is long and will, unhappily, prob- {ably be lengthened, for there is quite a list of those who sailed in the Roma who suffered serious injuries. Yesterday an Army airship flew back and forth above Washington, and | thousands of our people watched its ! maneuvers with great interest. Many | of these were thinking how delighttul ilr must be to ride through the upper jair in that big, swift and easy-going ship. It did not seem to involve much peril. Yet, soon after that airship went to its anchorage, a ship of the j same general style, but very much {larger, was falling to ghastly disaster about 200 miles away. | Air travel seems still to be full uf' {danger. and the records of wrecks or | i dirigibles or steerable motor-balloons | is long and lamentable. A large per- jcentage of them fall because of the failure of some part of the structure, or because of catching on fire or ex- ploding. Yet the conquest of the air !is ever carried forward. There will be a searching investigation of the cause of this tragedy. the truth as to thel causes therefor will be established, and the facts proven at heartbreaking cost will be utilized for the future se- curity of those who must follow the uncharted paths of the air. The nation laments that so many brave and venturesome men died in this disaster, and everybody in Amer- ica would, if it were possible to do so, express their sentiments of sorrow to those who were the friends of the men who died or who loved them because of some even closer association than friendship. ——————— Gentlemen who suggest uubsmunngl | paper for gold may yet succeed in per- suading Col. W. J. Bryan to resume his deliberations on the currency prob- lem. —_———— The English-speaking news presents 2 touch of variety in celebrating a “Mary” whq is a princess and not a picture star. Ambassador Harvey may now be re- garded as no less graceful in compli- ment than he is relentless in criticism. ———— A Minimum of Hardships. The action of thé Commissioners on Saturday last, when they closed the doors of seven of the local theaters to the public, while in itself unavoidable, was taken in such a manner as to cause it to seem somewhat oversevere to the affected owners. It is recog- nized that once convinced that the theaters were a menace to the safety of thelr patrons for the Commissioners to have permitted them to continue to operate would have been palpable criminal negligence. Yet with that fact recognized, there is a strong fecl- ing that simultaneously with the pro- mulgation of the closing orders the owners should have heen served with & full statement of the conditions to * YHE EVENING STAR, WA be remedied before they would be per- mitted to again operi their doors. The Star finds itself In sympathy with that feeling—the more £0 in that 1% recognizes its share in creating the cumulative popular insistence which ‘was behind the Commissioners in their investigation of the local theaters, un- dertaken with admirable promptness following the Knickerbocker tragedy. Recalling that upon January 30 it serted that “a thorough-going study of all local theaters, with a view to de- termining their absolute safety or clos- ing their doors to the public, should be promptly undertaken”; that upon the following day it said editorially that “an investigation as to the safety of every theater in the District should be promptly undertaken, and those found to menace the security of their patrons in any way should be closed to the public’; and that it has subse- quently played its part in the general demand for a comprehensive inquiry into the safety of places of public gathering, it may today with good grace deprecate the fact that what cannot but seem to have been an un- necessary herdship was wrought upon the theater owners in the failure to supply them immediately with the findings upon which the closing orders were based, in order that they might at once arrange to correct the faults indicated and thus shorten the period of suspended animation. It is understood that the data in question have now been placed before the owners of the affected theaters. The community hopes soon to hear from the theater owners the faults in each case criticised, the announce- ment of rush work to correct these faults, the declaration of acceptance of corrective work by the Commission- ers and the fixing of early dates of theater reopening. * 1909 and 1922. At this time the republicans would do well to remember 1909. They had been in power then since 1897—twelve years. Their latest in- dorsement at the polls had been em- phatic and gratifying. They had won under the leadership of an Ohio man. who had been tried in several high offices and had distinguished himself in all. Nobody doubted his qualifica- tions for the highest office under the government to which he had been called. s ; In Congress the republican leader- ship was all that could be desired. Mr. Cannon was Speaker of the House and wielding the large power that then be- longed to that office. The floor leader was Mr. Payne of New York, a com- petent man and veteran legislator. Mr. Aldrich of Rhode Island was the leader of the Senate. As a financial authority he was wearing, not un- worthily, it was thought, the mantle of John Sherman. He was, moreover, a master politician. He knew the game from a to z, and played it with a reso- lution that commanded admiration. Here, then, seemed assurance of a continuation of power for at least an- other dozen years. Why not? Thus led and equipped, both in the White House and on Capitol Hill. what was to prevent such an administration of affairs as by its success would appeal to the eountry right along? Something did prevent. It may have been one thing, it may have been an- other. But certain it is that factionism sprang up, got out of hand, and put the party, fn Congress and out, on the blink. The House was lost the next year, and both Congress and the presi- dency were lost in 1912. A heavy price? One is justified in saying that it was. \ Alexandria, Va.'s, divorce activities have at least destroyed any suspicion that the famous old city has grown slow and ultra-conservative. i Current styles may enable New Yorkers in years to come to refer to Mother as well as to Father Knicker- bocker. ¥ Many German citizsens are repre- sented as inclined toward a monarchy, but most of them insist on waiting for @ brand-new model. —_——t——————— “Furloughed without pay” is an ele- gant phraseological example of the politeness which costs nothing. —————mt——————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Old Friends. Upon the bookshelves, in a row, Stand cherished friends of long ago. And still they speak in prose or rhyme, Companions of the present time. Some shabby, some in splendid dress, They cheer the hour of loneliness. My doubts they struggle to dispel And choose their words exceeding well. They don't talk loud, life's calm to spoll. They never give me tips on oil, Nor make me dance till I grow lame, Nor bump me in a poker game. ‘They never play the phonograph, Nor tell rough stuff to make me laugh. They welcome me in hours of need. These good old friends are friends in. deed. Oratorical Precaution. “You always have a very convine- ing way of speaking.” “I generally ascertain the views of my auditors and then fall in line as closely as possible,” confided Senator Sorghum. “In that way I have 'em convinced before I start.” Jud Tunkins says he reckoms he's the logical candidate for the legisia. ture, as he's the only .nap in the town- ship that owns a silk hat and a Prince Albert coat. Fair Enough. In knickers woman you may note, Unless your glances you avert. Mhn wears a belted overcoat ‘Which flares in semblance to a skirt. Authority. S *“Is your wife the boss of your household?” O “She is,” answered Mr. Meekton; “now that the hired girl has left.” “I dunno whether it's ezackly true,” said Uncle Eben, “dat George Wash- ington never spoke nuffin’ "ceppin’ de facts; but he mus’ IVE banks are being organized in the District of. Columbia under charters {ssued to them by the states. There are twenty-five banks already establish- ed here, chartered by the states. The plain statement of these facts is suf- ficlent argument, in the opinion of responsible officials of the District government, that Congress should without delay enact a general bank- ing law for the District of Columbia, which would make it imperative for any corporation proposing to do a banking business in the National Capital to obtain first the approval and consent of the proper officials in the District. * % At present there are fifteen na- tional banks in the District of Co- lumbia and six trust companies. Un- der existing law, all of the national banks are under the supervision of the controller of the currency. They must obtain their charters from the controller and he must -be satisfied that the proper people and proper | means for conducting a national Ibank are at hand before granting such a charter. Under the existing law, too, the trust companies organized in the District must first obtain the ap-| proval of the District Commissioners, and a measure of control is main- tained over them. But there is no provision of law requiring other banking institutions to obtain the approval and consent of the controller of the currency or the District Commissioners before under- taking a banking business here. The incorporators may go to any state they desire for & charter, to the state where the terms of the charter seem most generous, and, having obtained their charter, they may open the doors of & banking Institution in the District. The only restrictions upon them are that they may not organize a national bank or a trust company without seeking the approval of the officials already iIndicated. * ok ok ok A bill has been introduced in the Senate, which has the strong ap- proval of the District Commissioners and, in fact, many of the business men of the District, which provides that any corporation proposing to do a banking business here’ must first obtain the consent and approval of the controller of the currenc: The Commissioners have pointed out that while the door through which national banks and trust com- panies may enter s guarded by re- sponsible public officials who have “Civil Disobedience” of Mahatma Gandhi. A hypothetical personage leading north and south Ireland in united re- sistance against England would. not have excited more wonder than is appropriate to the spectacle of Ma- hatma Gandhi uniting Moslem and Hindu in a common campalgn against British dominion in_India, if some of rect. “The Mohammedans of India may hate the British," to quote the Cleveland Plaln Dealer (independent democratic), “but this feeling h: never before heen strong enough to make them forget that they desplse the Hindus,” and the net result, as that paper sees it, is that “there Is no hope whatever of putting an end to this Indlan business without either making enormous concessions or fighting.” . Now, the reasons for this unhappy contact of east and west, while va- riously agsigned, would seem to bear out Mr. Lloyd George's statement to the effect that, in the words of the New York World, “they center a ‘new phase’ of one of the greatest historlc 1 ts between Asia an Eu- T Which have shaken the world at intervals from the ecarliest times. That this new phase was ushered in “by speeches like those of Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Wilson at the peace conference, and the discussions over Poland, Silesia, Jreland and Egypt. 1o quote the Springfield Republican, has been charged by Mr. Montagu, the secretary for India. X The Boston Transcript explains thé unrest on the ground that “in west- ernizing Asia, an attempt was M d: o put new wine in old bottles. * I The oriental mind could not at first absorb the western deals of liberty and and the resulting harvest rope which have freedom, h one of dissatisfaction and e ™ 80" much for the motives unrest.” : | un e nspire Gandhi and his Hindu ollowers in their campaign of non- {‘vhbperaflon. Of the impetus which drives the Moslems to their side the Springfield Republican, referring to the mpeech of Mr. Lloyd George be- fore parliament, & “He called par- ticular attention (o the fact that upon Great Britain as a sea power fell the onus of the wur against Turkey. ® * * Yie might have added that the allies made things much worse when they allowed the war against Turkey to generate into a sordid scramble for oile.” That “Gandhi has announced Tecently that Palestine and Meso- { potamia must be returned to the Sul- fan of Turkey” would appear to the ’Banuor Commercial adequate reason for Moslem and Hindu union, which, however, the Boston Transcript be- lieves “can only be a temporary one,” and states that the Moslems are re- ported to be “seeking to gain the up- per hand in the non-co-operationist movement, designed by Gandhi to be effective in ‘rejecting all western civilization and inventions,” to quote the San - Antonio Express, which “would bring back the wooden i plow, the hand-loom, and the canoe. That Gandhi's power is in danger of being broken is implied by the Kalamasoo Gazette when it says: “The rebellion is a comparatively simple { matter for the British in as far as it |is now expressed by force It s when they attempt to com at the mystic Gandhi's all-powerful gospel of non-resistance and boycott that ime British find themselves helple: The Memphis Commercial-ApD thinks the “policy of passive rulu:; ] ance and non - to-operation” “doomed to failure even should it succeed in its apparent object. be- causé Gandhi is not capacitated in any way to be a rulen of even his own kind." : At any rate, “London’s announce- ment that open resistance to British rule in India will be repressed with sternness” seems to the Charleston News and Courier “to. open new chapter in the Indian troubles. 1ts tendency, in the opinion of the N‘?w Haven Journal-Courier, will be “to do' the duty of the day and debate subtleties of authority and allocation of rights later.” in accord with the Reno Gazette, which believes the pol- icy of “giving the natives a measure of self-rule” is “all wrong.* and that “the great natlons of the world have a common interest in helping Eng- and to malintairt her control over th: different races in the lands of India. On the other hand, the New York Call, adverting to the “imperial piety’ contained In Montagu's statements, declares that “the excuses given by all imperialist powers for retaining control of their overseas booty are excuses that would reflect discredit on a child.” Only an Infant? But a Lusty One.. President Loder's warning against exaggerated expectations, at the opening of the Permanent Court of International Justice, ~Wednesday, due to lack- of enthusiasm. *The opening of this court,” he-said, *is an event full of promisé in the SHINGTON. D. EDITORIAL DIGEST the power to protect the investing and the banking public in its rela- tions with such institutions, the door through which state chartered banks may enter is open and unguarded and there is no protection to the in- vesting and banking public in its re- lations with such banks. When the national bank law was enacted by Congress it was deemed ise and proper to empower the controller of the currency, charged i with the administration of the act, to inquire into the character and the ability of those who seek to use other people’s money for the purpo of doing @ national banking busl ness; to Iacertlin whether busine: conditions in the community whe the probosed bank is to be located render it ressonably certain that the 'comrnlcn can secure a sufficlent amount of business to prevent the d {n from belgg impaired of innocent stockholders capital to the 1 by expenses tha to grant or refuse discretion. ceed profits, and a charter in his * ok x X When Congress legislated for the District and provided for the estab- lishment of trust companies it gave the District Commissioners the same authority with regard to such Insti- tutions as it had given to the con- troller of the currency regarding na- tional banks. The states have banking laws which confer upon the state banking departments powers of supervision and control of state banking insti- { tutions organized under charters ob- talned in the states. But there is no banking law in the District sim- ilar to the banking laws of the states, and hence there is no official here who has the power to inquire into the organization of & propose commercial state bank that proposes to do business in the District of Co- Jumbia and determine whether or not it shall be permitted to enter upon that business. * % ¥ ¥ There is no purpose in the pro- posed law to restrict or to narrow competition, nor to prevent reliable and responsible persons from enter- ing the fleld of banking in the Dis- | trict of Columbia in competitlon with existing institutions. The purpose is to place the entire banking situa- tion In the District more completely under the authority and control of a responsible public official, who is clothed by law with the power to guard the interests of the investing and banking public. 1t is considered particularly de- sirable that this official shall pa upon the real need of the el ablish- ment of a new banking Institution here and upon the prospects of suc- cessful operation of the projected institution. a| e e e e o e history of civilizatlon: it marks the dawn of a new era through the col- laboration or more than forty n tions.” But International relationship, ke added, is still in its Infancy. and until that is developed the new insti- tutfon cannot enter into its full use- court can perform | international relationship idea. ternational law, as President Loder points out, is not codified, and there is no present means by which the C. 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It has, in a.way, to make ! law and to win the moral a thority that will give its decisions welght. To put it in another way. it has to obtain the world-wide accept- ance of law apd legal principles that will make International law, and to apply it with such judicial fairness and discretion that nations cannot do otherwise than abide by its decisions. —Newark News (Independent). Paris Chats With Moscow. M. Poincare let a large and active cat out of the bag vesterday when he admitted in the chamber of depu- ties that he had been conducting di- rect negotiations with M. Chitcherin, the Russian minister of foreign af- | fairs, and that M. Briand, when pre- I micr, had done the same. It is true Ilhlt M. Poincare accompanied this azdmission with & warning against the deduction “that we have changed our attitude toward the soviets or that we are disposed to recognize them officially.” It is also true that M. Poincare has refused to dole out the 6.000,000 france voted, for the Rus- sian government would neither recog- nize the old French debt nor allow French agents to supervise the dis- tribution. He will not be accused of being too Lumane. But he is willing to play politics with women and chil- dren who are dying of hunger, he is algo willing to play politics with what might seem to be his principles. It is, perhaps, M. Poincare’s policy to hold aloof just as long as Russia is an outcast in Europe, but the mo- ment that Russian diplomacy gets a shave and a haircut and begins to talk business with the outside world | M. Poincare would wish France to be in a position to listen. No prin- ciples are involved, for, under M. Poincare, France has no principle ex- cept the n.ain chance. Yet if the main chance in this instance points toward peace, who can complain?—New York Globe (independent). Home From Business at 150 Miles an Hour. LONDON.—A Reuter dispatch to the Manchester Guardian from Parls sthtes that Parisians are con- sidering the possibility of flying to their suburban homes in the evening at a speed of 150 miles an hour. The idea is not a new one, for in 1914 an engineer, M. Francis Laur, proposed the construction of an aerial railway consisting of an aeroplane guided by a cable. The aeroplane, instead of flying freely, would be atached to an electric cable supported by pylons, and would follow this cable through space just as & tramcar follows the wire to which the trolley pole is at- tached. The war prevented any fur. ther progress with the scheme. In 1919 the inventor again brought his plan to thelnotice of the govern- ment, and a commission was appointed to inquire into its possibilities. The commission came to the conclusion that the scheme should prove com- mercially practicable, d it recom- mended the authoriti to give M. Laur all facilities for experiments on a large scale. These experiments are shortly to be carried out in the neigh- borhood of Peronne, where the d serted nature of the country—the heart of the devastited regions—will reduce to a minimum any possibility of accident to persons below. The real statesman will be the man who can invent a synthetic bonus.— Asheville Timea The packing trust has bought two more packing houses — presumably with the money they lost last year.— Providence Evening Star. 0 hat makes Er—i'lrlu run around | s0?” worries a leading clubwoman. gnybfi hunting mother. — Augusta erald. Ford has bought - 10,000.000 nuts, which is even a larger order than he placed aboard the Oscar. IL—Wall Street Journal. Though she tried to commit sulcide once, Evelyn Nesbit seemed pleased that the’ body_found in the Potomac wasn't hers.—Toledo Blade. Just because charity begins at home is no reason why a man should treat his wife as a mendicant.—St. Joseph | News-Press. _ : 8t. 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