New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 28, 1927, Page 8

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York st Hotaling's sstand, Times Squat Schultz’'s Newsstands, Entrance Grand Central. 42nd Street. s S e S It they ever get through law- suiting about vacuum tubes per- haps they will work perfectly. One way to discover how many people read an editorial i3 to get 4 first class bloomer in it. We oft Branford for life. If the new speedway on South Main street becomes popular the police may be forced to announce a special regulation limit- ing the going to 45 miles an hour. Governor Dan went through Connecticut train—or was it an automobile? A rotten way to treat us after the nice things we've said about him. Moody while on Dangers of editorial writing: Thinking out one about the Geneva naval arms conference and then have the whole situation change wvery 12 hours, as it has been do- iug. So hot in the Black Hills that the President had to take a rest. the same time most of New England was wondering whether there weére 100 ‘many icebergs in the North Atlantic. Afr race to Hawalii; Frisco air passenger service by August; more airmail routes con- templated; another dash across the Atlantic due. 8till, there are some of us who prefer to keep our feet on the ground. ‘We have been wondering why Senator Borah has said so little late- ly and find an explanation in the fact he had his tonsils removed. As soon as he gets in shape again he will settle the naval situation. The Ku Klux New York, but has been told there are no available wave bands. One thing public convenience and neces- sity” does not need at all is broad- casting propaganda. Representative Dickinson of Jowa went before the South Dakota legis- lature to make a speech in favor of continuing the fight for the McNary- Haugeh farm relief bjll. Now why did this farm leader go to South Dakota to get this out of his sys- tem? Tvy Lee, publicity agent In New York, does not like to be referred to by that title, he indicated at the Interborough hearing, evidently pre- ferring something like “public re- lations counsel.” The Interborough seems to be getting plenty of pub- licity without Lee's aid, but it isn't of the right kind. Pennsylvania’s blue has been upheld by law of 1794 the state 5 o | Supreme court, and there will be no | Sunday baseball in Philadelphia. Other states besides Pennsylvania have some antique laws, however, and it remains a contested point whether a man has the legal right to | kiss his wife, or even his sweet- heart, on a day when he naturally would have more time for the pur- pose The day the sermon of a pricst against intoxicated automobile driv- ing appeared in the paper another tews story related how one man was unable to prevent himselt trom fall ing Into the after his machine arms had come to a sudden stop. Tortunately the man was heavily fined and sent to jail; also fortunately he did not meet an innocent driver coming from the opposite direction before he was dis- couraged from his career. ED HALL AT WORK ¥. Hall, state sioner of finance, has the neat job of stopping the leaks in state penditures—rather an elephantine task, but one which his training and eminently fit him "Edward commis- ex- mental tendencles to perorgi. are | increasingly | 24 At | New York- ! Klan is trying to | open a radie broadcasting station in | of a policeman | Hore is how it works: A certain|as coming under this classification. | taking the situation all in all, one state institution needs lmpmcmanu! and an estimate has been made as to the cost of procuring them. The commissioner’s trained eye, due to years of practice in pruning New Britain's annual budget, immediate- ly detects that in the estimated cost there is an item for the services of an engineer to estimate the cost of changjng something or other. All the | commissioner asks in such a case !is, “What' s the state paying an engincer’s department for?" and the trick is done. Money is saved and /the commissioner looks around for another leak. This is how our fellow citizen is spending his time these days. It print, but he is busy looking things rover. In due time there will be an interesting report emanating from the new state board. STATE'S SHIPPING ON DOWN GRADE A report from western Massachu- setts the other day had to do with |the onion crop. This probably was good reading around Westport, | once the headquarters of the Con- necticut onjon producing industry. What has become of that industry. anyway? | The Westport drawbridge need scarcely ever be opened anymore, i(so little onion shipping is there along the Saugatuck river. Once | Westport's greatest industry, re- |quiring ships by the dozen to take away the annual crop, there now is nothing to show for it but memories i lot the old-timers. Some sort of | blight wrecked the onion industry. Even Danbury hats used to leave the district by boat along the Sau- | gatuck; but not in these rapid day l.\'ot even coal is hauled by boat to | Westport. | This town of Westport Is a symp- tom of what happens to Connecticut | vorts. | With the entire Connecticut mari- time industry. New Haven has am- | bitions to be a real harbor; ap ef- fort has Leen made at cnn!lderablei ‘cost to make a first class harbor lout of New London. Bridgeport hinks it could accommodate ocean liners if given the chance. But whenever one hears of ship- ments to foreign shores made from New Britain—where there are plenty of shipments made to foreign shores, believe you us—trucks take the goods to New York City, where there always seem to be a plenitude of out-bound vessels lying at the docks. The Connecticut ports are entirely overlooked in this matter. FFor practical purposes they do not seem to exist. Shipping in Coinecticut has been on the downgrade for generations. They tell us stories of the days when boats used to ply up the Connecti- cut to Hartford, when shiploads of material were dispatched to foreign | parts direct from the center of the state? Where are they now? | The truth is, the growth of ocean minor shipping and minor ports. The ships are 80 big they can only get cargoes to fill them in the big concentrating their business at the major ports, giving the minor coast cities the go-by because it doesn’t small shipments, Money is still spent by the gov- ernment to maintain the small har- bors, of course; the cities have po- litical Influence of a sort regardless of their size, and many a harbor gets more money spent upon it than the total of shipping seen there in a year. Some rivers, too, are in that class, Only in one thing does coastwise small-harbor shipping still exert an influence. It is still possible to send coal barges up these streams, or to the minor harbors along the coast, and to a certain extent that is being done. The result is that the railroads reaching the same points are con- fronted with ‘“water-borne compe- it. Most coal to such cities may come | by rail, but it Is at a lower rate than it the harbors did not exist. Thus the harbors mean money to the pub- lic—a little money, anyway—even though the ships seen on their bos- oms may be rare as horse and bug- gies on city streets. That's about the | only good they do at this writing. ANOTHER “FOOL LAW" The new state law which would :!'orce out-of-state corporations hav- is one of those little inconveniences which are thrown in the way of bus- iness without just cause or neces- sity. A corporation failing to meet the provisions of this law can be prison for 30 days; and judging from this there is small chance of many “foreign corporations,” as out- of-state concerns are called, from failing to comply with the law. Does a corporation from New York, say, need to have an agent in Connecticut in order to do busi- ness in the state? There are some which at present have agents which to the conclusion that they do not need them. It seems to us that the word “agent” considerable territory; a anager under tion, may come covers district this and no doubt a com- | mercial truveler could be construcd sales comes i cla ic isn’t hot stuff for the papers to| There 1is something ailing ! steamers has beén a deathknell to | ports, and for years they have been | pay to stop there for comparatively | tition,” and rates are shaved to meet 1 ing agents in this state register here | ined $1,000 and the agent sent to | The law looks to be one of those which come under the general clas- stication of being “no good.” If every state of the 48 put through; such laws business would be ham- strung. ‘THE UNMARRIED PRINCE \ The way people refrain from or delay in getting married is fllus- trated nowhere so definitely than in the case of the Prince of Wales. We learn from the chaste columns of the Springfield Republican that his father was married at the age of 28, his grandfather at the age of 22, and his great-grandfather at the age of 21. But the present Prince of Wales is 33 years of age and still regards bachelorhood as more enticing than married life. Perhaps, as one wit observed, the Prince of Wales thinks he could not | support a princess in the manneri of life to which she has been ac- {customed. Or perhaps his hard- hearted disposition is & symptom of the times. STERLING What does all this Ku Klux Klan business mean around Sterling? 1 More than 8,000 of the hooded members from far and near wended ! their way to the Connecticut country town Sunday to attend the dedica- tion of a new church; and there i would have been several thousand more of them there had word not i gone forth to New Haven that the exercises had been postponed on ac- | count of rain, & report that caused | 400 or so automobiles from New York to turn back. It looks from this incident—and | there have been others of a some- what similar nature in the state— that the Ku Kilux Klan has a foot- | hold in this community in spite of the opposition that has from time to time been manifest. What it means to the state, or to the mem- bers, or to anybody at all, is not quite clear. It the order is to be a secret fraternal organization going about “doing good,” probably no- body will greatly object; but if the intent is to stimulate religious and jracial bigotry, as has been charged in the past, then the development is of no socia] value. If the Klan is “different than it !used to be” the metamorphosis must be regarded as remarkable; possibly hard to believe, yet not al- together impossible. Reports from Sterling had it worthy persons in the vicinity were assisted with do- { nations, which s not a bad scheme | there or anywhere. During its pa- rade, however, the order marched hooded, which does not commend itself much to many citizens. This is a free country, of course, and tolerance is or ought to be an essential of citizenship. If the Klan can be more tolerant than it has! been painted in the past perhnps' otiers will reciprocate. How much ' tolerance there is to be shown on | each side of the fence remains de- | pendent upon how much of this quality the Klan shows. DECLINE OF CHEWING TOBACCO The vast increase in the smoking 1 of clgarettes has caused considerable i discomfiture to the anti-cigarette faction of the general public, who {see in the habit something to be Jjustly alarmed about. If the increase meant a general advance in the usc of tobacco, however, such alarm would be more justified than it hap- pens to Le. Certain other forms of tobacco-using has declined so no- tably that it is to be doubted whether on a whole there is a great- er use of nicotine per capita in spite of the increase in the use of clgar- ettes. Take the matter of chewing tobac- co. There was once a time in these United States when it was regarded as a typlcally American habit, when | tobacco chewers were met with on | every hand, when more than half | the adult male population were ac- complished chewers, and no man | was considered an expert unless he could hit the “spittoon” in the cen- ter from a distance of ten feet. The sidewalks reeked with the results, too; the smoking coaches of the railroads were a sight sad to be- hold. None of this today. Chewing has declined immensely. In 1901 the manufacturers of chewing tobacco had the center of the stage. “Their commodity was used at the rate of one and 90-100 pounds per capita,” says a federal tobacco statistican. At that time the cigarette was in fll repute. Today cigarette consumption 18 two pounds per capita, while chew- ing tobacco vies with snuff in the nonentity of its use. In fact, snuff using promises to pass the use made | of chewing tobacco, its popularity steadily increasing, due to “snuffing” among people quite recently here from overseas. Once nearly a mark or royalty, it now is almost entirely used by folk who combine the tobac- co habit with low costs of its main- tenance. Snuff nowadays, by the way, 18 chewed Instead of sniffed. Of con cigars have decreased per capita, greatly to the discomfit- ure of such tobacco growing dis- tricts which have specialized in the leat for this branch of the industry. The nuse of smoking tobacco, how- ever, has somewhat increased. But' cannot help coming to the.conclu- sion that the race is not going to the dogs on account of its change in tobacco consuming habits. We may smoke more cigarettes, but the ! fact that there is less tobacco chew- ing going on would indicate that our ideas have Iimproved somewhat. When Mark Twain was an editor, for instance, a good spit was neces- sary between every sentence writ- ten; nowadays a few puffs will do. That, at least, is an improvement. THE RUBBER “SITUATION” What has become of the once famed rubber shortage, anyway? A year or 80 ago the claim was wide- spread that the British rubber trust was robbing Americans; that a neat way had been found to force Amer- ica to pay the war debts through increased rubber prices. The hulla- baloo lasted for months. Now there is nothing left but the memory. It appears that we have the Dutch to thank for the easier situation in the rubber industry. The Dutch simply did not stand in with the British and through their nefarious independence smashed the British rubber scheme by underselling it, and continuing to do so. The British rubber barons falled dismally in in- cluding the Dutch in their trust and now all they get is the consequently reduced market price, Meanwhile the American Motor Company, of which little is heard but which is in existence all the same, has projects on hand in Cey- lon, the Dutch East Indies, and has not entirely given up the idea of planting rubber in the Philippines it anybody can be induced in those islands to go to work on the rubber plantations, which is doubtful. Se- | cretary Hoover, of course, is opto- mistic; he is a natural born optimist, which accounts somewhat for his continued popularity. It takes time to grow rubber, however, But it will be grown by American capital in the shortest ‘ possible time. Meanwhile it is com- forting to realize that the British rubber barons have been thoroughly rebuked for their greedy efforts to corner the market. Conditions in all likelihood will remain as they are until the American rubber planta- tions get to producing and then there will not even be the ghost of a chance for the trust to gouge us any more. With cheaper tires, cheaper gaso- line, cheaper automobiles and cheaper road construction costs, the automobile business at least has something to be thankful for, not to forget the ultimae consumers. FactsandFancies The good die young. This cludes good front page stories, in- And Europe won't stand alone while Uncle Sam will stand a loan. If he acts the calt and beefs about things, don’t soothe him with bull. Just lam him, It seems strange to limit arma- ment and do nothing at all about oratory. What is fam A careful count shows Lindy still 832 columns be- hind King Tut. Funny world! Dad scolds the kid for robbing bird nests and then shoots the birds when they are grown in the fall, The less conceited men get mar- ried. The others think all the ladies are pining for them and get wary. The Irish have beat their swords into plowshares, but they are beat- ing two versions of history into the heads of children. Every community has at least one conscientious good-for-nothing who has a keen sense of your duty. Americanism: A universal inten- tion to begin saving next month. It is charity to help a man up, but not to prop him. While there's a prop, he never will learn to stand alone, The charitable view is to suppose that the quality that makes a song popular 1s in thé song and not in the people. The reason most patients need a change of climate is because they have become a nuisance to the doc- tor. Don't cuss the “narrow-minded community.” Any other commun- ity would act the same way If you acted the same way. If a man is right half the time, he's doing rather well. And that is the average of the man who says he can drink or let it alone. You can't expect much in a land where people think cooking the pe- culiar vocation of those who can't making a living any other way. ‘The thirst for culture is genuine. People go right on studying French, even though they can get just as naughty books in English. Correct this sentence: “I really don't know why we .can't get along together,” said the wife; “I do my best Copyright 1927 Publishers Syndicate Shop Editor, care of the New Britain Herald, and your letter will be forwarded to New York. Better Than Censorship, Folks! It's Fun Appeal we advocate: We'll bet that it would clean the slate Of Sex Appeal in book or stage, Why not make FUN APPEAL the rage? DELICATE WORK Man in chair: “I want my whisk- ers shaved close, I tell you! A lot closer than that!” Barber: “This is as close as I can get ‘'em—do you want me to turn your mouth wrongside out and shave from the other side? WHEN BLACK IS READ . Hard To Answer “Young man,” her father “why do You come around each night?” “To see your daughter fair,” replied The suitor, young and bright. said, “Well, it you want to nee the girl, Then why turn out thz light?” —Benjamin R. Krogness. « s Pow! Zam! Wowie! Oh, Pity Poor Miss Elsle Boggs— Her Figure Is Not A Pip, Whenever She Goes Out To Swim It\Is A Comic Strip! —Frank ‘f. Locklay o« s . THE DOWNWARD SLANT My neighbor, Dobbs, sat by my side, With meekly drooping head, And, as our trolley homeward hied, I turned to him and sald, “Good neighbor, why do you assume That downward glance and humble? Does it bespeak a mood of gloom, Or, pride that's had a tumble?” “Not s0, my friend,” (his swift reply Within my heart still rankles), “My downward glance gives me an eye- Full, Boy,....of maidens’ ankles! —George 8. Chappell. PURE MATHEMATICS Bannon: “You admitted that she knew twice as much as you?" ° Hartley: “Yes and now she is tell- ing everbody that I am half-witted!"™ —Charles H. Fitch. THEN THERE'S THE OLD MAID WHO LOVES TO STAND UP WITH THE -MAN IN CROWDED CARS SO THEY'LL SQUEEZE HER! MRS. JONES' IDEA OF A RUSSIAN NOVEL (According to Nina G. Jones) “Ah!” he exclaimedsky, holding her tightsky in his armsovitch, “will you kissky me, or notsky?” “T'll screamovitch!” was her an- swerosky, as she triedsky to leap- | ovitch from the speeding “Cursesky you, you brutesky!" ‘With a horridovitch, hoarse laugh- sky he pulled her closersky and closesky. Her strugglesovitch were allin vainsky. He heldovitch a rouh handsky over her mouthovitch. His leering lipskies came closersky— closersky— “Helpsky! Policeovitch!” she wail- cdsky. “Hushsky, me proud beautovitch, he panted, and thenovitch—just as his brutalsky lipsovitch touched her- sky— “What does this meansky Her HUSBANDDOVITCHSKY! “Oh, Ivan,” said uhesk), “this monsterovitch tried to— Quick as a flashsky Ivan's revol- verosky spokeovitch. BANGSKY! BANGSKY! BANGSKY And the ruffian toppled over as deadsky as a doonailovitch! ES8!!! ‘Do you—ah—like rice?” "Oh, Harold! This is so sudden!” —Stanley F. Gould. ¢ o o Girls, Try This! Minister: *“Will you promise to love, honoi Bride: think you ought to have $10 for marrying us, and he wants to give you $5. Minister: “Will you promise to love and honor this man?” —Norman Bacher. (Copyright, 1927, Reproduction Forbidden) QUESTIONS ANSWERED You can geL an answ r to any question of fact or Information by writing to the Question Editor, New Britain Herald, Washington Bureau, 1323 New York avenue, Washington, D. C., enclosing two cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will recelve a personal reply. Un- signed requests cannot be answared. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Q. What was the date of Charleston earthquake? A. August 31, 1886. Q. What is Smithsonite? A. A vitreous, white, green or blue, subtransparent to translucent zinc carbonate, crystallizing in the rhombohedral system. It was. named for James Smithson, the scientist who founded the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D. C. Q. What is a lacrimatory? A. It is a small narrow-necked glass bottle types of which have been found in ancient tombs. Once it was supposed that they contained the tears of mourners but antiquarians declare that they held unguents or perfumes. Q. Why is the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor green? A, It is made of bronze which has become coated with verdigris, & green crystalline substance, by expo- sure to the air. Q. What is the British alty? A. It is the department of the British government in which 1is vested, under parliament, supreme charge of naval affairs, correspond- ing to the U. 8. Navy department. Q. When an American flag is dis- played in a foreign country what po- sition should it have in relation to the Admir- |the flag of the country in which it is displayed? A. The American flag when flown zbroad, is always displayed at the left of the flag of the country, pre- cisely on the same level and not un- der the other flag. Q. What is the address of American Rose Society? A. West Grove, Pennsylvania. Robert Pyle is the secretar: Q. Who were the first five drivers to finish in the Memorial Day auto- mobile race held at Indianapolis the vodka. | Speedway, this year? A. George Souders; Earl Devore; Tony Gulotta; Wilbur Shaw; Dave Evans. Q. How do people become con- tortionists? A. The supple muscles and joints that are necessary in oredr to be a successful contortionist are aquired by a long, painful process of exer- cises designed particularly for that purpose. It is true that some indi- viduals seem to have joints that are easily bent in both directions, but even that will not make them con- tortionists without long practice, be- ginning in eary youth. Q. Is “Ingomar” a play A. Ingomar is the title of a play translated from the German by Marie Anne Lovell, produced at Drury Lane Theater in 1851. Tt has been a favorite on account of the song or a Finisky! FATHER wano SON WEDDING (As pealed out by THE FUN SHOP Joke Factory) Mrs. Newlywed: any money we can't eat! hoo! We'll strave!” Newlywed: “Oh, it isn’t that bad, dear. I've swept up all that rice they threw after us and we can live on that!” —Pauline M. Reicher. o o o BELLS! “If you haven't Oh, boo, (And as other FUN tributors twisted it)— . Suspicious Chap “Oh, so you are married SHOP con- Marie: now! That must be wonderful, but te me—is your husband ever jealous Louise: *He's terrible! Right after the ceremony he accused me of flirting with the minister who married us!" —Iris W. Leach, character Parthenia, Q What is the ancestry Charles Lindbergh on both sides of his family? A. Of the eight great grand-par- ents of Charles Lindbergk, tour were Swedish, three English and one Irish. Q. Where is Mount Whitney? A. It is a peak of the Sierre Ne- vada mountains on the border be- tween Inyo and Tulare counties, Cal- ifornia. Q. What does the Portuguese flag look lke? A. The colors are green and red, the third of the field next the staff green, and the two-thirds at the fly end red. The arms of the country are centered on the dividing line be- tween the two colors and consist of a large silver shield upon which are five small blue ones arranged in the form of a cross, each bearing five plates of silver. Around the shield is a red border upon which are seven golden castles. Q. Who fought in the Battle of Marathon? A. The battle was fought by Per- slans against Athenians and Pla- teans. The Persians were led by the experienced generals Datis and Arta- phernes, but were under the guid- ance of the traitor Hipplas. The Athenians and Plateans were under Miltiades, the Athenian general who was in supreme command. The bat- tle was fought in the open fleld in Marathon. The Spartans who prom- ised aid to the Athenians moved only in time to reach Athens after all was over. Q. Is Hannibal considered one of the great Generals of the world? A. He was considered one of the greatest, it not the greatest general of his time. At the battle of Zama (202 B. C.) not far from Corthage, he suffered his first and last defeat. Q. Where is Lapland? A. It has no political existence, but is a territory in the northern- most section of the Scandinavian Peninsula lying between the borders ot Norway, Sweden and Finland. Q. How many telephones are there in the United States? A. January 1, 1926, there were 16,935,918, 25 Years Ago Today J. H. Kirkham, B. F. Gaffney, Walter S. Hart, and Wilbur Corbin attended their class reunions in New Haven yesterday. William O'Dell is home from St. Charles college, Baltimore. During the summer Mr. O'Dell will act as cashier at the White Oak theater. Richmond’s steam riding gallery in operation tonight on Corbin's lot, Church street. Up to date machine, swift and easy riding. Best ever run in this town. Dr. Recks ran down a case of smallpox on Arch street this after- noon and found it to be malaria. C. L. Barnes of this city lost a lot of wood, measuring between 50 and 75 cords, by fire yesterday. The wood was piled upon a lot be- tween Plainville and Farmington and Mr. Barnes had teams at work hauling it away. The fire was started between trips and there i3 little doubt that it was incendiary, as men were seen leaving the lot. Mr. Barnes has suffered loss in this manner before. John Sheehan, the well-known actor, is spending a few days in this city. He has finished a very suc- cessful season and has under con- sideration several offers for the com- ing one. E. W. Schultz has been elected trustee of Phenix lodge, T. O. O. F. According to a merchant, trade in straw hats is light, but trade in Ten-year-old Tommy Lynch of Clark street went into the old Catholic cemetery this forenoon with some fireworks. - A short time aft. erwards the report of the fireworks and the boy's cries reached 'the ears of neighbors. They hurried in his direction and found him in = serious condition. The fireworks had evidently become ignited and exploded in his pocket -He was taken home at once and a physician summoned. The smallpox epidemic appears to be dying out. Chairman Curtis says that no new cases have been re- ported in the past three days and there are no suspicious cases. Prof. and Mrs. George B. Mat- thews and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Peck will leave Monday for Ocean Bluff, Mass. After two weeks at this resort Mr. and Mra. Matthews will go to Maine. The Swedish Béthany church school has been closed and all further gatherings of . the church children have been called oft. This is a precautionary measure due to the epidemic. COMMUNICATED ROOM RE! IN GOOD FAITH ‘We wish to have it known that Miss Stephen Dykas and Paul Mor- ale, who were in police court om immorality charges, rented one fur- nished room with private entrance in the rooming house at 16 Prospect street, representing themselves as man and wife. The room was rent- ed by me in good faith and I was entirely unaware of the character of the couple as represented in po- lice court. J. H. STONEHAM, Observations On The Weather Washington, June 28.—Forecast for Southern New England: Faie tonight. Wednesday increasing cloudiness, Not much change in temperature. Moderate north, shifting to southwest winds. Farecast for Eastern New York: Fair tonight; warmer in central and north portions. Wednesday partly cloudy; possibly showers in extreme north portion and warmer in south portion; variable winds, becoming moderate to fresh south and southe west. Conditions: The center of the high presdure of the east overspreads West Virginia, Virgipia, and North Carolina. Pressure is falling rapid- 1y in the upper Lake region and northern Mississippl valley. Scate tered showers occurred yesterday in the Gulf and South Atlantic coast districts, also in the northern plains states. A low center prevails over Manitoba and northern Minnesota with a trough extending southwest- ward to the Great Basin. A strong area of high pressure centering off the north Pacific coast is extending its influence eastward over the northern Rocky mountain districts. Temperatures continue to rise throughout the Mississippl valley. Conditions favor for this vicinity fair weather followed by increasing cloudiness with slowly rising tem- perature. Temperatures yesterday: Low (1] 60 54 5% 60 Atlanta ... 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