Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 25, 1915, Page 4

Jlorwich Bulletin: and QouPied 119 YEARS OLD Subscription price 12c & week; 50e & month; $6.00 & year. Entered at.the;FPostofiice at Norwich, Conn.. as second-class mat! Telephone Callst Bullet!n Business Office 480, 1ieth i Roo; 35-5. e E‘”B‘:IYI:AII Jol;nsmct 35-2. Willimantle Office, Room 2, Murray Rollding. Telephone 310. Norwich, Tuesday, May 25, 1915. S The Circulation of The Builetin N The Bulletin has:the largest circulation of any paper in East- ern Connecticut and from three ‘#o four times larger than that of any in Norwich. It is delivered to over 3,000 of the 4,053 houses in Norwich, and read by minety- three per cent. of the people. In Windham it is del.vered to over 900 houses, In Putnam and Danielson to over 1,100 and in all of these places it is consid- ered the local daily, Eastern Conneoticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and sixty-five postaffice districts, and cixtv rural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in every town - ° on all of the R, F. D. routes in Eastern Connectizut. CIRCULATION 1905, average | oo §,133 NEEDS DISCOURAGEMENT, Snap judgment often accuses a driver of a truck or wagon of being a grouch, or possessing a bad liver because he refuses to allow children to climb on behind and take a ride, but a little thought makes it plain that it is a bad practice which needs discouragement and that in reality that driver is pro- - tecting the boy against injury and himself from blame through antici- pating and preventing trouble, Another practice often indulged in by boys unbeknown to drivers of ve- hicles and officials on electric ears is for a youngster on a wheel to ride alongside, grasp one of the handles and get towed along. Little consider- ation is given to the danger in this stunt, but it is there nevertheless, as ‘was revealed in New Haven last week when a sixteen-year-old lad was being pulled along in that manner by a ’bus only to be thrown under the vehicle where he received injurfes which caused his death. The case was made the subject of an inquiry by the cor- oner with the result that the driver was exonerated from all blame in the matter. Drivers in many cases realize that they were boys themselves once upon a time and there is not the dispo- sition to be harsh with them, but it is far better that each and every Youngster who places himself in such danger should be driven off than that the practice should be tolerated and injury or death result. It is just such a fatality as occurred in New Haven that the alert driver prevents by bis warning. He is not a grouch, but a protector of human life and should always be upheld in his course. COMPULSORY EDUCATION.! Profiting from the example of other states, two more have recognized the importance of looking after the edu- catfon of the children with a firmer hand and have passed laws in behalf of compulsory schooling. These two are South Carolina and Texas, but the difference in the legislation adopted again shows the opposition which still exists against such a measure. In Texas, for instance, it Is required by the néw law that children between the ages of elght and fourteen must go to school during a fixed perlod of the year, which is patterned after the law prevailing in most of the states, but in South Carolina advancement 1is gradual, for while there is greater sup- port for compulsory education than there used to be it deals with the mat- ter on the local option plan since it will hereafter rest with the majority vote in a school district whether it is put into effect or not. Though the most eatisfactory results are mot likely to be obtained under those conditions it represents a val- uable change in sentiment and gives Indication that in time South Carolina will become like other states. Every such endorsement of required school- Ing is bound to have its influence upon the few remaining states which have no law of the kind. These are Florida, Alabama, Mississippt and Georgia. Such Inattention to school attendance denotes the backward ten- fency of those states and to a large sxtent accounts for the large amount of illiteracy which prevails there. The state which 1s negligent of its edu- :ational interests shows an improper regard for its present welfare and its tuture citizenship. 6000000008000080000000000000000005000800000009204 0090000000 080050008006800000005000000000005000 8000 PUBLIC APPEAL FOR FRANK. Court procedure being abandoned n the effort to save the life of Leo Frank, who is under sentence of death ‘or the killing of a girl factory em- sloye in Georgia, great pressure is deing brought to bear upon the gov- srnor of that state for the commu- lation of the sentence. Not only have yetitions with many thousand signa- tures been forwarded to the chief ex- seutive of that state, but the legisia-, lures of several commonwealths héive lent to him their appeals that his life nay be spared. This case has awakened great inter- 1st throughout the country because if the manner in which the trial of the iccused was conducted. Not a little iffort in his behalf has been aroused )y the claim of mob justice. Still a ireater amount of interest has been iwakened through the statement of he trial judge to the effect that he vas never satisfied that the verdict of he jury-was in accordance with the S m e % facts, while the manner in which the {United States supreme court divided on the question as to whether Frank had been accorded his.full rights un- der the law has given:ground for the urging of clemency in his case. ‘What will be the outcome of this widespread endeavor to prevent the execution cannot be foretold. That Frank continues to maintain his in- nocence may not carry so much ‘weight, since there are few instances where confessions are elicited at the present stage, but where so much doubt prevails both as to the evidence on which conviction was based and the effect of the mob influence the gov- ernor would appear to be justified in granting life imprisonment rather than permitting the sentence to be car- ried out and make it impossible there- after to correct a miistake, CLEAN-UP COMANDMENTS. Norwich gives evidence of begin- ning at the right end of the week to participate in the clean-up movement. It indicates a healthy interest which should be continued with unflagging devotion to a commendable cause. In the city of Philadelphia a week was recently devoted to a like pur- pose and as is the case everywhere it proved a decided success. Ten com- mandments were there advanced for the inspiration and development of the proper civic pride and because they are just as applicable in Norwich they are here presented: Love your neighbor's lot as you do your own; but he sure to love your own. Don't plant temato cans and rub- bish on unused land; their fruits are withered eivic pride. Don't allow yourself or your city to create dumps. Waste can be made to pay for its own destruction at a profit. Don’t allow tumbled-down buildings to stand on valuable land; they are financially wasteful; they create filth, invite vice and are a menace to life. A fence that has ceased to be a fence and has become an offense, should be repaired or destroyed. Unregistered. advertising on unused land pays for the maintenance of a public nuisance. Two gardens may grow where one dump has bloomed before. School gardens are valuable adjuncts to education and recreation. They can be cultivated on an open lot, Let the children play on the unused land so they may become strong and keep out of the hands of the law, Let not an inch of land be kept in idleness. It has a Divine right to bear fruit and flowers and ever serve the highest interests of man. CHANCE FOR SCIENCE, Encouragement to lead a decent life is what a large number of people who have fallen imto the ways of vice and crime have lacked. Though the ab- sence of such influence can by no means be held as the sole cause for moral degeneracy, it undoubtedly had some effect in bringing about the “what's the use” spirit which precedes the decline. In the belief that many such are in need of moral support and that many who have fallen into the ways of vice are in need of medical attention rather than criminal .treatment, the city of Philadelphia has made a beginning in an endeavor to solve the problem of street walkers by securing authority for the municipal court from the state legislature to treat fallen women along such lines. This means that women physicians will take them under their direction and prescribe treatment in accordancee with the results of med- ical and physical examinations and they will be kept in institutions until they are cured. They will be given encouragement to lead an upright life and after their release from the hos- pitals they will not be allowed to drift back to old ways through the force of habit but will be watched over and aided. What will be the result of the Phil- adelphia experiment remains to be seen. It is a problem which every other city as well as that experiences in some degree and from the outcome of this humanitarian effort there should be valuable suggestions for others. It is an opportunity for science to show its power. EDITORIAL NOTES. Among other things Great Britain has a job for a first class cabinet maker. Former Governor Baldwin endorses the idea. of war insurance, What really seems to be needed is war prevention. New London appears to be letting its best health officer go for fear that it will get rid of a smallpox epidemic. A French scientist claims that the fly dislikes blue. Another reason why there are no flies on the Stars and Stripes. From the preparations which Italy has made for war there can be no question but what it knew all the time just what it was doing. The man on the corner says: An ideal husband is the fellow who sends his wife to the country and remains home to look out for the cat. Mr. Taft say: ‘Let the progressives return,” which is good advice, but the fact is that the most of them have already taken just that step. The importance of knowing how to swim is emphasized at this season of the year when the number of people on and in the water Increases. It the Germans insist upon claim- ing that the Lusitania was an auxil- fary cruiser it simply shows how quickly one can be converted into a submarine. The official report that no subma- rine was seen by the Transylvania gives ground for the belief that there was a large amount of imagination aboard that vessel. Inasmuch as there will be but a very small inheritance tax paid by the Vanderbilt estate it indicates that New York counted its chickens be- fore they were hatched. Harry Thaw succeeds in going about where he wants to. A while ago he succeeded in shaking off Matteawan and now he is moved from the Tombs ‘because it didn’t agree with him. By the death of Editor John O'Neill the New Britain Herald has lost an able and efficient director and the city of New Britain a citizen whose ser- vices have been devoted to the im- provement of civic interests. His ready and sensible pen will be sadly missed amongst the large number who had come to so greatly appreciate it. cgbin! T BT ) £l PR SRS T A “Jack Springer is coming in tonight,” remarked the young woman casually as she and her father left the dinner table. “Well, don’t let him keep you up all night. What time was it when he left here the other evening?' “Oh, just a little after 11." “I guess it was mearer 12. I don't see any sense in his staying so late, Bertha. When I was a young blade I never hung around till 11."” “But, papa, you lived in a country town, where vou didn't have more than a ten minutes' walk to see any girl in the place. When a man comes all the way here from Evanston I think he ought—" “Ought to get started home before 11.30 if he wishes to get down to bus- iness at a decent time the next morn- ing. I tell you what, Bertha, my dear child, I think I've been too eomplacent about your swains. I don't believe I've chaperoned you as carefully as I should have. After this, if you don’t get rid of your callers before 11 o'clock, I'm going to shoo them off myself.” He headed for his den. “Won't you come in to see Jack?’ asked Bertha following him, “No: not tonight. I've got a briet to write.” “But you might spare just a few minutes for Jack.” “I don't flatter myself that young Springer calls here to see me, Bertha,” laughed Downs, and he opened his desk with a strong hint of finality. Springer was in the midst of a thrilling account of the basket ball game he had played in the previous night, when the cathedral chimes of the mantel clock announced 10.45. Springer appeared oblivious to the news, but Bertha was keenly conscious of a desire to have him say good night before her father should appear in wrath, “You must be pretty tired after such a strenuous game last night,” she said. “Not a bit of it. It's basket ball that keeps me in such good condition. It was I that got the fellows to pro- long the season. We are going to play until we can begin tennis. I wanted to tell you how one of those roughnecks we were playing against—why, what made you jump? Are you nervous, Berth?” “It was nothing, I thought I heard something. At this time of night every sound seems so loud in a flat.” “Why, it's not late, is it? No; I see it's not ‘quite 11 yet. But maybe you're tired of this old basket ball. You see, I'm so interested in our team that I think everybody else is. I was aw- fully sorry you couldn’t go last night.” “Yes, I was sorry I wasn't there. I— I—" 'She again heard the same sound that had caused her to jump before. Her father was calling her, but his voice was nearly drowned in the chimes of the clock which were sing- ing out 11, ¢ “Well, I'guess T'd better go. I don't believe you're feeling well tonight.” Springer rose and looked at Bertha a little anxfously. She rose also, quick- ly, for fear he would sink baclk in his chair. “To tell the truth, Pm not quite my usual self tonight. But it's nothing. Don’t worry, Jack. Il be all right in the_mornin ‘The voice was louder now and more insistent, but Bertha made no answer. She stood trembling in the hall while Springer slid into his over- voat, and she laughed meaninglessly when he sald good night, and hoped she wasn’t going to be il The street door had scarcely closed when her father stepped forth in his dressing gown. “Didn’t you hear me calling you?” he demanded. - papa, I heard you.” why didn’t you answer?” why, I was going to you in a Jack left. I wanted you to play him that new record I bought yesterday— the Servian folk-song, yvou know. I think he would have llked it. I'm sorry he's gone without hearing it.” “Why, papa, I thought you were call- THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Soclety “The city of Gallipoli, toward which the Allied forces are fighting, guards the neck of the Gallipoli peninsula, where the peninsula poins the maein- land, near the elbow formed by the Dardanelles strait and the Sea of Mar- mora,” begins a bulletin issued today by the National Geographic Society. The description of this key position to the best protected of all the world’'s water avenues, a position to which the interest of all the nations is now turned with much questioning, con- tinues: “Gallipoli is the last bar that locks the Dardanelles, and secures Marmora Sea as a Turkish lake. It is a power- fully fortified city, its defensive works having been begun in modern style in 1878, when the Russians threatened to take possessicn of Contantinople. The work of strengthening this port has been carried on at irregular intervals since. When the Bulgarians were at- tacking ‘the lines at Chatalja, the Turks, who felt that they might ex- pect an endeavor to turn their flanks by way of Gallipoli and Marmora Sea, worked feverishly upon the port’s re- doubts. While Gallipoli is not com- parable in strength to the greatest for- tresses of Europe, it, mnevertheless, j with its modern batteries and exten- sive outworks, forms a proper con- clusion to'the mightily fortified water lane leading down to the Aegean Sea. “This ‘City Beautiful’ of the Greeks (Kallipolis) was the first point in Eu- rope to be won and maintained by the Ottoman hordes. It is today anything but a beautiful city. Its streets are narrow, immethodical and dirty, while most of its houses are overworn wood- en structures, in which decay and un- tidiness mix to an unpleasing pic- ture. There are few buildings of any architectural interest, though the great leaden-domed bazaars appeal to the imagination of the Westerner. Some few and uncared for relics of Eastern Empire and Grecian times have been left to normai decay by the Turks. “Gallipoll hes two good harbors. Both harbors have been improved, one of them serving as the principal road- stead of the Turkish fleet. Gallipoli is 132 miles west-southwest of Constan- tinople, the city which its guns are meant to guard, and it is 90 miles south of Adrianople, the powerful for- tress toward the Bulgarian frontier. The Dardanelles at Gallipoli are about two miles wide, their expanse being completely dominated by the guns of the port. “Until Turkish occupation and the putting into effect of the suspicious, intolerant and short-sighted policies of exclusion and exclusiveness of the Orient, Gallipoli seemed destined, as a ‘well-placed port upon one of Nature's natural avenues of water trade, to be- come one of the greatest of all the commercial cities of the Near East. Through the centuries of Turkish rule, it has slept an almost dreamless sleep. Today, with a population of 25,000, with few ambitions, and little under- standing of its advantages, it has, however, given under the Young Turk ;eglme, some evidence of a re-aweken- ng”? - ing me to make him g “What made you think that?” “What you said about shooing them off, of course,” Bertha spoke tearfully. “I was perfectly horrid to Jag “Any ome would thimk that I was about to kick Springer out of the house. Of course, I didn’t mean that a nice young chap like Jack was to be forcibly evicted. Absurd!” “Just what did you mean, papa?” “Why I—why, I just meant—ah, well, it was merely a matter of generalities. The trouble with women is they’re al- ways so specific. ‘We'll have to have Jack come around to dinner soon, and I'll play all my new yecords for him myself.” “Papa, it was just that old brief you had to write that made you—made you g0 into those gemeralities, wasn't it?™" “Yes, my dear, it was. But now I've got that off my mind, I realize that your beaux have sense enough te know When it's time to go heme." “Especially Jack.” “Yes, dear, to be specifie, especlally Jack.”—Chicago News. ] OTHER VIEW POINTS In the lovely month of May a man may sit on the bank for two hours waiting for the fish to bite, but let not the telephone girl think that-back in the office he can wait two minutes for his long distance call.—Meriden Journal. Waterbury has never had an_ Old Home Week. Yet there must be a good many former Waterbury people who would like to be invited back to renew old acquaintances. We shall be dedicating the new City Hall in a few months and the dedication will be the occasion of a fitting celebration. Why not make the week of the dedication our first Old Home Week? Will Mayor Scully issue an invitation and form a committee, or issue the invita- tion and refer it to the Chamber of Commerce for carrying out the de- talls? Semebody ought to_ get this thing started—Waterbury Republican. Mr. Stremlau has not sdid that the men elected have failed to carry out He has merely said reactionary. The laboring man by ballot chose the rep- resentatives and sent them to office, They did their work and it looks out of place for the labor leader who was defeated to criticize that work. Has he expressed the attitude of labor in general or has he expressed his own personal opinion? If it is his own there will probably be no effects on the election two years hence to throw the election another way. It he really has given the attitude of the majority of the workingmen of the state then we can look for big changes in the makeup of the next gession.— New Britain Herald. There will be a decided relief to the legislatures in the operation of this (home rule for cities) law. Fewer bills for special laws affecting towns and cities will be presented and less time taken up in hearings, debates and enactments. The recent session was a short one and set an example in that respect that future legislatures should strive to live up to, and it will be easier to do that desirable thing if the bills concerning charter amend- ments, and other local matters here- longer to encumber the record, impede action on matters of state importance and delay the proper work of sessions. This certainly will make short ses- sions easier and thus prove a general benefit.—Bridgeport Standard. The call to the Boy Scouts and to all children who can assist to eradi- cate the tent caterpillar nests that are so distressingly numerous this season not an idle fancy nor a whimsical desire to see that youns- sters are kept busy. The need is very real and the occasion urgent for the pests grow so rapidly they will soon be leaving the nests and spreading over the trees everywhere causing annoyance and loss. If they are to be kept in check the work must be done now. It is not difficult, but it takes time and farmers especially rushed with other work have no time to stop for the purpose of getting rid of this particular nuisance. The youngsters here have a real opening for rendering effective public service.— Bristol Press. It is understcod that the new state automobile law, effective Jume 1st, either through an oversight or by de- sign has omitted that section of the old law which required the carrying of individual operators’ markers above the license numbers of dealers and manufacturers. The manufacturers, dealers and operators will thus be freed from the nuisance—and admit- tedly it is a nulsance—of affixing the operator's private license number to each car before it is taken on the road. On the other hand, a measure of public safety is destroyed, and fur- thermore, in case of an accident caused by any car bearing the markers of a dealer or manufacturer, suspicion, is thrown on all drivers using that num- ber in common, until the fault is Sen- tered on the proper individual—if it ever can be.—Bridgeport Telegram. The chief requirement for issuance of a license to operate a motor vehi- cle on the highways of this state seems to be the assurance that the applicant has driven one hundred miles, and that he has two hands and two feet, fair eyesight and good hear ing. That sort of a test may have served in the past, though there is ample reason to doubt that it was in all instances sufficient. But the number of motor vehicles of all sorts in the state of Conencticut is repidly increasing, and the points of conges- tion as well. The jitney situation has brought the difficulty to a point. It makes apparent to even the blindest the need for some efficient sort of a ests preceding the issuance of per- mission to run a machine. Our cities are filling up with drivers who are in- efficient, careless, reckless. The driver of a vehicle for public convey- ance ought to be more efficlent than any other driver. Instead, many of them are of the most undesirable sort, untrained, reckless and irresponsible. —New Haven Register. New Britain’s Loss. New Britain loses a strong end faithful champion of her best interests in the sudden death of John O'Nell, editor of the Herald. He preached steadily a doctrine of New Britain for New Britain people, first, last and all the time, but it must not be inter- preted from this that he was narrow minded. Far from it. He watched closely the affairs of the city govern- ment, and wisely commented upon them. 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Goodrich Company AKRON, OHIO of the sturdiest of the small-town Journals of the state. He served his city in the council, and on some of the most important of her boards, folowing the consolidation of the city government, thus gaining a practical insight which enabled him to treat of many matters with an in- telligence that always assured him a hearing. A consistent democrat, he was never partisan. Generous, cheer- ful, and above all loval to his em- poyers, Mr. O’Neil did his work well. New Britain will miss him.—Hartford Time. Stories of the War price of flour, and having removed it to the communal warehouses there be- gines one of the most interesting phe- nomena in the detailed measures taken to secure absolute economy and justice in the method of distribution. In the case of flour, in the first instance, the joint organizations required the com- munes to secure from all of the bakers a complete list of their customers. These lists were compared with the communal record and a definite num- ber of persons are assigned to each baker for him to supply with bread. The baker is put in bond to supply 325 grammes of good bread made from no other material than that of the Com- mission (in order to prevent adultera- tion) daily to each adult customer, and at _a price fixed by the Commis- = For this purpose he received daily from the communal warhouse 250 grammes of flour per adult. The com- munes sell the flour to the baker at the same price which they pay for it. The baker is compelled to sell the bread to his customers for the same price that he pays for the flour, but, inasmuch, as bread mede from 230 grammes of flour- increases to 325 grammes of bread, by virtue of the water incorporated in baking, the baker thus obtains a small margin of profit with which to pay his workmen. Any contravention by the baker of the minute rule set down means the pun- ishment of heving his list of customers assigned to some competitor. The same system applies to the handling of other materials. On the benevolent side, those who caanot af- ford to Buy their bread from the baker or their groceries from the grocer, ap- ply to the communal authorities, and, on investigation, are given tickets on the communal store. These tickets equal a certain ration per head in each family per diem. The communal store is stocked with foodstuffs partly im- ported and as_stated above, partly purchased locally by the Communes from the cash partially supplied to them by the Communes. In addition to the handling of the imported food supplies the Commission now handles a considerable amount of internal food produce, as it has been necessary to buy potatoes in some portions of Bel- gium and send them to other parts aside from the very large quantity of potatoes now being imported. The Commission recently purchased 5,000 tons of coffe from the stores command- ered at Antwerp and has re-sold this Supplies for Belgians. It is of some interest to follow the actual course of a cargo of foodstuffs through the American Commission for Belgian Relief at Rotterdam. Take the case of Argentine wheat. One of the largest firms of grain buyers in the Argentine undertook to make pur- chases on bebalf of the Commission without profit to themselves. This grain would be purchased in one of the central Argentine provinces, trans- ported to Buenos Aires, and a freight paid on it, less than the usual rates by virtue of arrangements by the Commission _with the Railway Com- panies at Buenos Aires. A cargo would be taken up by one of the regu- lar steamers of the Commission. In- aemuch as the Commission had negoti- ated an arrangement with all of the belligerent governmeats that ships flying the Commission's flag would be immune from attack at sea, they were able to charter ships and obtain rates at less than normal. This cargo, in due time arrived at Rotterdam and was there discharged into lighters which are under time charter to the Commission. These lighters are towed down the canals from Rotterdam into Belgium and discharged into one of the five milling centers in Beigium. The flour mills in these five cities are operated on behalf of the Commission, whereby the Commission agrees to pay for the labor and actual cost of operation. The wheat is milled into 80 per cent flour and 20 per cent bran and the bran is sold to the municipal dairies to feed the cattle and thereby maintain the cycle of milk supply for the baby canteens. The flour is again loaded into lighters and is distributed mnto provincial warehouses of the Commission. From these warehouses it is again distributed into ‘arrondis- sement warehouses.’ The communal anthorities come to the arrondissement warehouses for their supplies. The communes pay in cash to the arron- dissement manegers the stipulated POMPEIAN OLIVE OIL IE- SWEET-V throughout the country. The Children LENTY of GOOD ICE CREAM should be included in the diet of ‘every growing child. “But insist upon” Tait Bios - Gfie foe Goarmn Supreme 114 Copyrighted 1915, The B.S.Codnc.,N.Y. BOYLSTON ano EXETER STREETS BOSTON One block from Copley Sq. and Public Library. Convenient to Shopping and Theatre District. All Outside Rooms. Excellent Cuisine. Single Rooms $2, with Bath $2.50 and uj Double ““ $2.50, “ “ $3.50 “ * (Good Garages — 2 minutes’ walk) L. C. PRIOR, Manacer ‘Two minutes from Back Bay Station ‘Ten minutes from North Station Qverhauling and Repair Work of all kinds on AUTOMOBILES, CARRIAGES, WAGONS, TRUCKS and CARTS. Mechanical Repairs, Painting, Trim- ming, Upholstering and Wood Work. Blacksmithir,g in all its branches. Seott & Clrk o, 507 to 515 North Main St. Mill Ends RETAIL - Cotton, Silk, Crepes, Voiles, Ratines, Fancy Striped Shirtings, Piques, Dimities, Lawns, Silk Chiffon, Silk Poplins PONEMAH MILLS Taftville, Conn. Salesronm closed between 12 and 1. and after 11 a. m. Saturday. Trolley to the door. No samples given nor mail ordert replied to. Babies! Soon they will be big boys and girls, and their faces will be only a memory. Bring the babies and we’ll catch their smiles. LAIGHTON THE PHOTOGRAPHER Opposite Norwich Savings Soclety NEW SPRING MILLINERY at MRS. G. P. STANTON’S No. 52 Shetucket Street THE DEL -HOFF European Plan Rates 75 cents per day and up. HAYES BROTHERS. Telephone 1227, 26-28 Broadway M. J. FIELDS, . . Florist 39 Ward Street Carnations, Special _ Forms ané Plants. elephone 657 ANT to put your T WHEN YOU W. 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