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THE EXAMINER. McKINNEY, TEXAS, MARCH 31, 1949
Dallas News Moves To Magnificent New Building
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Lewis and his gangsters
be
their living, they are sure going to
‘over.”
Not a Doctor,
Why Learn Latin?
Many people, especially
Kansas is
Don’t Talk Down
the'
Sam Smith’s Fords
24 Hours Day
Some
of the
committee
INCOME
TAX.
Nearly 600 crippled children have
uage we use today.
Mrs.
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What Kansas Is
Going to Do
pastor of
church,
had advocated prescribing
as a
Hornay
tered
called
Henslee
their
miles north
MEETING THE PEOPLE!
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McKinney Examiner
CLINT THOMPSON
WOFFORD THOMPSON
Editors and Proprietors
SUBSCRIPTION RATE:
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Inside Collin County (6 mo.)_$1.00
Inside Collin County (3 mo.)—75c
Outside Collin County (1 yr.) $2.50
Outside Collin County (6 mo.) $1.50
Outside Collin County ^3 mo.) $1.00
PHONE 233
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Legislators Getting Our Big Government
Tax Conscious
id
John L. Lewis
Requests Court
Set Aside Fine
Entered at the Post Office in Mc-
Kinney, Texas, as Second-Class
Mail Matter.
The Pittsburg Gazette editor says
in Galveston
Believe it or
in the
rural homes
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submission of an amendment tl___
would have included, in addition to
the simple GRANT OF THE BON-
US, the adoption of a method of fi-
Of recent years some schools and i nancing. Some of the committee
colleges have been inclined to slight | members who wanted the resolution
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It is dangerous for every-
to TALK THE COUNTRY
DOWN. Nothing woul dplease our
enemies more than for Uncle Sam
to come down with a healthy case of
stomach trouble.
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A HEAD line in the Paris News
reads “Debate May Break Peace.”
No doubt of that. Talking too much
plays smash and results in a black
eye to individuals in many in-
stances.
ger for many years, is carrying ads
in Examiner every week. This week
Sam is featuring the Old Rreliable
FORD. As the boys used to say,
“Wild and wooly and hard to carry.”
Ford used to let them poke fun at
his “tin lizzies” all they pleased.
a subscriber down
sends him this one.
not. But may be so:
“Walking along the street, a man
was attracted by screams coming
from a house. He ran in to investi-
gate. and found a frantic mother
whose son had swallowed a nickel.
Seizing the boy by the heels, he held
him up, gave him a few shakes, and
the coin dropped out on the floor.
The grateful mother was lost in ad-
miration. ‘You certainly knew how
to get it out of him. Are you a doc-
tor?’ ‘No madam,’ he replied, ‘I am
from the Internal Revenue Depart-
ment’.”
The Star-Telegram does not agree
with Dean Shepardson of Texas
A&M College. The former favors
removal of federal taxes and license
fees on margarine and ALL RE-
STRICTIONS AGAINST ITS SALE
colored or uncolored. Dean Shep-
ardson advocates repeal of the tax-
es, but an ABSOLUTE PROHIBI-
TION of the sale of FACTORY-
COLORED yellow margarine.
There is no economic conflict be-
tween DAIRYING and COTTON
FARMING, even though one pro-
duces BUTTER and the other pro-
duces AN OIL which goes into
the manufacture of MARGARINE.
Hence, the two are almost ideally
complimentary. Dairy and cotton
farming can be carried on in. con-
junction with each other to the AD-
VANTAGE OF BOTH. Dairying
consumes the feed products of cot-
ton farming leading to better bal-
anced agriculture and less depend-
ence upon one-crop farming. There
is a sale for every pound of butter
from the dairy. Those who prefer
to pay a higher price for cow-butter
than the very much lower price for
a vegetable butter are still being
permitted to do so in this govern-
ment regulated age when we have
to take orders from Washington. As
for us to prefer the vegetable but-
ter on our toast.
the very necessary appropriations
are made.
Whatever increase in tax rate is
occasioned by appropriations not
absolutely necessary is going to call
for a good deal of EXPLANATION
bv members of the Legislature as
they SEEK ANOTHER TERM IN
employees was engaged on full time' tractors at the Ford
timate by the Public Printer, 100I
pages of the New York Times would I
have been required to print all the :
“hand out” material received by i
■that paper from Federal agencies I
during a'single week. . | _____
The struggle between the TAX- been treated by Scottish Rite Hos-
EATERS and the HARD-PRESSED ’ ' - ” -
TAXPAYERS is becoming MORE
SERIOUS each year, as office hold-
ers think up new activities for the
government and use their power
to perpetuate the system AT THE
EXPENSE OF THE TAXPAYERS.
Cow Butter vs.
Vegetable Butter
The Examiner believes «Lewis and
his union should be forced to pay
that fine. But we fear that the
Court will weaken and reverse their
decision, j—1 ’--- -------—
ought to be throttled. No wonder
we have Communism growing in
our country faster than cockle burs
in' a horse lot.
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Arnold Bennett in his interesting
book. “How To Live On Twenty-
Four Hours A Day,” said: “Time is
the inexplicable raw material of
everything. Without it nothing is
possible. The supply of TIME is
truly a DAILY MIRACLE. You
wake up in the morning and lo!
your purse it magically filled with
twenty-four hours of the unmanu-
factured tissue of your life. It is
yours. The most precious posses-
sions showered upon you in a man-,
ner as singular as the commodity
itself.”
To which Hubert M. Harrison re-
sponds:
“So time marches on and 1949
with its promise, its opportunities,
its new hope for communities and
for you presents the EVER-RECUR-
RING MIRACLE OF TIME. Won-
derful days are ours—magic JEW-
ELS on an ENDLESS CHAIN—mi-
raculous material of SUCCESS,,
FAILURE, <
have electric lights, butane gas,
running water and a paved highway,
highway runs right in front of their
place.
Another Hard Worker i
On the job, day in and day out”
That’s Mrs. Otis Baskin, who with
her husband owns and operates ca
cafe on East Virginia Street. Mrs.
Baskin says she has to work to keep
things going. But I’m going to put
in a word of defnse of Otis. (Us men
got to stick together). Looks to me
like he keeps pretty busy. I’ve seen
him baking and cooking so fast he
didn’t have time to look up. Their
place is noted for delicious pies. <
A Thought x
Here's a little closing thought in
praise of the ladies. If it wasn’t for
hundreds and hundreds of GOOD
women, there’d be a lot of us men
CRITTERS that wouldn’t be worth
a plugged nickel.
Till next week, s’long!
presses on the Houston Street side. More genius in PRACTICAL
and improvement has gone into that than were EVEN
in the gorgeous Arabic pipe dream.
The UNRUFFLED CALM with which work has gone on during the
stage of transition from the OLD QUARTERS OF SIXTY-THREE FINE
YEARS to the NEW OF TODAY is evidence that while The News is out-
wardly RE-DRESSED and decked in up-to-date finery, the INNER
SPIRIT is the same that has motored the paper from the era of Willard
Richardson to that of THIS FIRST DAY OF SPRING, 1949.
McKinney people are proud of the Dallas News. Some of our print-
ers helped get out its first issues in Dallas over 63 years ago. This editor
saw the first two Linotypes that set the first issues. The operators were
Bill Reeves and Jim Wood, both dead many years now.
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WASHINGTON,—John L. Lewis
has asked the United States Court
of Appeals to set aside the $1,420,-
000 contempt-of-court fines levied
on him and the United Mine Work-
ers during a strike last year.
Lewis’ attorneys filed a brief in
the Appeals Court, in preparation
for formal hearings Monday.
The brief attacked the constitu-
tionality of the national emergency
provisions of the Taft-Hartley act.
Justice T. Alan Goldborough
fined Lewis $20,000 and the UN-
ION $1,400,000 for failure to obey
a court order April 3 for a PROMPT
END TO THE WALKOUT. The
fines were twice as large as Lewis
and the union received for contempt
in a strike in 1946.
Mrs. Ernest Dowdy, Mrs. Tom
Beverl and Mrs. W. D. Howell, at-
tended a silver coffee in the home
of Dr. Wallace Bassett,
the Cliff Temple Baptist ,
Dallas Thursday morning, in honor
of Miss Miriam Willis, a missionary
who is returning to her field service
in Paraguay on April 21.
us.
Perhaps it WOULD. But when
the people of Texas are called upon
to vote for an expenditure of this
size they should also be PERMIT-
TED to sanction the METHOD by
which they shall pav it. Because
PAY IT THEY MUST in the long
run.
The most encouraging feature of
the committee deliberations was the
indication that House members are
getting TAX CONSCIOUS. Gov.
I Jester was elected to a second term
! ’ i office w’lh one of the chief
LT. GOVERNOR Shivers recom-
|L mends that the Legislature make ap-
propriations for ONLY THE YEAR
i 1950 rather than for a TWO YEAR
■ PERIOD, and he would ask the
Governor to call a SPECIAL SES-
, SION of the Legislature in JANU-
■ ARY, 1950 for the purpose of mak-
ing appropriations for the fiscal
year ending in 1951. “We are facing
a definite economic decline,” he says,
and feels that we can better judge
both the DEMANDS FOR APPROP-
RIATIONS and the NEE DFOR AD-
DITIONAL TAX a year from now
when we have learned the FULL
IMPORT OF THIS ECONOMIC
DECLINE. It may be worse and it
may be much
months. I'
body
THE A&M College at College
Station is sending out the late news
that “castor oil is good for keeping
boots in shape for young,” and adds
that kids will agree that boots make
a better use for castor oil than
stomachs, all of which makes us
wonder how long it took those A&M
students to find out that castor o.l
was good for boots.
FARM PROPERTY in Collin
County is WORTH MORE THAN
$39,49'6.00,. Rural homes are in -the
best conditions in history. The rise
in farm incomes and property
values since 1940 has been accom-
panied by a great increase
number of beautiful
equipped with many modern
veniences.
(By Melvin Belew)
Another Ladies Week
Most of the time this column is
devoted entirely to activities and
personalities of MEN. Last year we
dedicated a column one week to the
ladies and all we had to say in that
week’s column was about women.
Well, inasmuch as we have been
negligent of the BETTER HALF of
the people, we are making this
LADIES WEEK.
Mrs. Pete Ford — Mrs. Major Neely
Mrs. Pete Ford and Mrs. Major
Neely live in Allen and operate an
attractive little store on the nortn
side of the main street. Never was
I treated nicer anywhere than wheK
I visited their store. Mrs. Neelys
and Mrs. Ford have been serving as*
co-chairmen for the Red Cross Cam-
paign Fund in Allen, and I am sure
they will turn in a good report when
they have completed the drive.
Mrs. Phillips From Celina
Through the cooperation of Dr. J.
S. Collins of Celina Mrs. Volney
Phillips was persuaded to accept the
responsibility of conducting the Bed
Cross Drive in Celina. And believe
it or not, Celina was the LAST town
in the county to have a working
committee set up for the drive, and
was among the FIRST towns in the
county to report their QUOTA
RAISED and the drive COMPLET-
ED. Mrs. Phillips’ main co-worker
was a Mrs. Snodgrass. Mrs. Phillips
is the wife of Volney Phillips, post-
master of Celina.
From Renner
Mrs. J. C. Wells has lived at Ren-
ner most of her lifetime. She serves
as postmaster- at Renner and because
she is a good leader, she is called
upon to $o a lot of committee work
around town. Several years ago
when I was salesman for Aunt Bet-
ty Bread Mr. and Mrs. Wells op-
erated a grocery store at Renner and
I “journeyed” by their place every-
day to leave a supply of bread for
them. Occasionally, when I was:
late, they’d accuse me of loafing and
wasting time along the way.
Chambersville Teacher
Miss Faye Hudson is one of the
teachers at the Chambersville
school. She has been there for sev-
eral terms and has been teaching in
Collin County schools ever since she
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lie, when the Constitutional limit on I others who assisted her at Cham-
ment was still generally respected • ducting their local Red Cross drive,
, and the rights of the States were, Chambersville being among the first
i still considered sacred,we have en-■ to report their quota “over.”
*----3 upon r —"T — +1— — *’------- —
“Welfare State” which
I The Collin County Motor Co., of
A seek to perpetuate which Sam Smith has been mana-
3 h Xm mey est? themselves in office, generate pres- ‘ '
‘ in Tpy«n ^r^ki V!Ft’ sures on Congress for more and
'+Te*as be eligible for j bigger appropriations and sponsor
pa ticipation and.that the: average! job-building enterprises in the
payment would be: ABOUT $400. name of national emergency or by
But Representative Hornay and an artificially stimulated public de-
otieis weie unalterably opposed tO|mand.” A special report from the
submission qt an amendment that (Budget disclosed that various agen- , Then he got a notion to do some-
cies Spen{; in 194g the sum of $74,-• thing about it. You just have to hand
829,467 for publicity and propagan- Sam’s Fords a ribbon.
da and that a total of 42,000 Federal | Tractors—Clyde Boone carries the
‘ agency, and
in this activity. According to an es- Clyde knows how.
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A Great Hospital
(Greenville Herald)
There was a big drive staged at
Austin . during the current session:
of the Legislature for the submission i
of a Constitutional Amendment that)
would call for payment of a bonus |
to war veterans. Not all of the ex-(
service men, by any manner of|
means, are included among advo-
cates of the proposed amendment
Those who favor it make up in
DEMONSTRATIVENESS what they
lack in NUMBERS, though.
If either of three amendments be-
ing considered had ANY CHANCE
of submission to Texas voters the
House of Representatives, with its
large numbers of World War II vet-
erans sprinkled among the member-
ship, was the LOGICAL PLACE to
get off to a flying start.
Despite TUMULTUOUS DEMON-
STRATIONS in the House galleries,
however, the Committee of Consti-
tutional Amendments has refused to
be stampeded, even though the^re
were not arguments on the floor.
Sponsors of the proposed amend-
ments, led by Representative J. A.
Benton of Wylie, and Jimmy F. Hor-
nay, of Archer City, were indignant
as a majority of the committee voted
to refer the plans to a sub-commit-
tee. They claimed it was action un-
favorable to bonus advocates.
Probably it was.
Those voting to send the measures
to a somewhat doubtful fate in.-the
sub-committee took a VERY SOUND
POSITION. They began propound-
ing a question every solon, state or
Federal, now should be asking these
days. “How are you going to FI-
NANCE IT?”
With the State Comptroller al-
ready having advised that approp-
riations sought by various state
agencies would be FAR IN EXCESS
OF ANTICIPATED REVENUES for
the coming biennium, it is a very
timely question. Witness favoring
the bonus admitted that it would
cost the State of Texas AT LEAST
$400,000,000 (millions). They esti-
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Miss Maud Wilcox and Mrs. Vic-
tor Threlkeld attended the West-
ciLciiai ui ern Arts convention at Hotel Adol-
JOY SORROW LIFE’' Phus in Dallas last Wednesday eve-
LABOR.^LAUGHTER, AND’LOVe'| nin§- TheV heai’d 4,the keynote
' 1 spech of theconvention, Art, a
---. ' Basic Area in Human Experience.”
W. W. Hall, formerly of McKin- ’ by Victor Lowenfield, professor of
ney but now of Stillwater, Okla., ' of Art Education at Pennsylvania
has been visiting his daughter, Di- State College,
anne, in McKinney. 1 Don’t let your paper stop.
COAL MINERS are said to
feeling the “loss of pay” now that
they have been taking a rest at the
order of Jno. L. Lewis. Well, they
asked Old John for it and they are
getting what may be expected—no
work, no pay. If they had called a
strike it would have been at the
expense of the union. But Lewis
called it a “vacation.” If people
have no more sense than to sign
their liberties away and agree to
boycott others who want to earn
their living, they are sure going to
find hard sledding.
Joe Serra, who writes under
“Low Down From Hickery Grove,”
is opening somebody’s eyes. Hear
him on the Kansas outlook:
Kansas—you sisters and brothers
elsewhere, take heed. Out there in
the old Sunflower state—in the land
of wheat, rolling vistas, horse sense,
and grand people—there is a plan
on foot to get its citizens back to
100 per cent self-reliance and self-
respect. They are going to try to do
something about it before Kansas
turns out to be just another softie
where on the flimsiest excuse, ev-
erybody can sit in the shade and
ring up the Uplift Agent or how-
ever he is listed in the phone book,
and ask the guy to send out the
groceries, or the dole, or the pension
—and right away.
Where is the old rugged Ameri-
can eagerness to take off its coat
and feed and care for its household?
It is slippin’ says Kansas. So out
there, in the legislature, is a pror
posed bill requiring every grown
and able-bodied Jay-hawker son
and daughter to come to the aid of
their parents’ when their mom or
their pop should need help. Now,
would say Confuscius, “Kansas is
on the front burner.”
In every state, as on the rollick-
some Potomac, the contest is on—
who can think up the most novel
way to spend or give away the
most, the quickest. But some people
are agin the cuckoo ideas—but do
nothing about it, tell your Gover-
nor—tell everybody, down to
Mayor. Tell ’em about Kansas.
a new era of the so- ’ Always Works
CL/—” ..1—li feeds) Mrs. Herbert Henslee lets her
upon its power to tax and its en- • husband operate their attractive/
croachment upon the private lives store about four miles north ofil
of the citizens. 7 i Farmersville, while she works and
There was a time-when the cry of ] “makes a living for the two of
“Big Business” was heard in the j them.” Mrs. Henslee is a native of
land and certain business men had ' East Collin. She has a herd of good
to be curbed m their disregard for dairy cows and I am told that she
the rights of others. Then recently does much of the milking and super-
Bal?or’ grown arrogant and vises the pick-up and delivery of
fat off the prosperity of many | the milk to the plant. Of course she
members, had to be taught that the takes care of their beautiful home
rights of the public are still para- jUSt finished a few months ago. They
mount. Today it is Big Govern- ’ - ■ -- - ■ ■ J
ment” that the taxpayers fear. I
Every President for the past
twenty-five years, regardless of
party, has been alarmed at the
growing maze of bureaus and com- ,
missions in Washington. Recently
President Truman asked former
President Hoover to head a special
committee to study the vast over-
head of duplication of services in
the National capital and to make
recommendations. The findings of
this committee are appalling. There
are so many agencies in our Wash-
ington government that many of
them work at cross-purposes with
each other without knowing what
is going on in other agencies. It is ,
said that no man, not even the1
President, could possibly keep up
with all the government bureau ac-
tivities. Our government machinery ,
is getting out of hand. |
Another side of “Big Govern-
ment” was recently given some at- I
tention by the subcommittee on ■
publicity and propaganda of the
Committee on Expenditures in the
Executive Department. The report 1
referred to “the techniques of Gov- |
ernment propaganda by which Fed- I
eral officials seek to 1 ' J
pital in Dallas. Six hundred and
five little crippled children of
Texas received surgery and medical
attention at this Hospital for Crip-
pled Children in Dallas. In addition
to the 605 in-patients for the year/
5311 clinic treatments were giyelf
This is no reflection on the many other crippled children, who came
sincere and efficient government to the hospital from all corners of
employees. But government that Texas,
takes about one-fourth of the Na-
tional income is.TOO COSTLY.
From the vantage point of the new building on Young at Record ana! STAFF with a genius for USING HEAD AND MUSCLE. Suppose he had
Lhe News greeted you Sunday with the,first COMPLETE I popped out of his bottle to get his first look at the 45-foot high, half block
fnceJ1®- W messes on the Houston Street side, f
Since 1. .id-November last you have had y our Dallas Morning News pro- I INVENTION and improvement has core into
duced on the new presses, the LAST WORD IN MODERN PRINTING i CONCEIVED ' ' improvement nas gone into
ART. Liaison between two buildings several city blocks apart has operat-
ed smoothly despite obvious difficulties when composition and typesetting
must be done in one place and actual printing in another.
No move is ever facile but the shift by departments OVER THREE
WEEKS’ TIMF was accomplished through MAXIMUM OF PLAN and
effort with MINIMUM OF INCONVENIENCE. This set the stage for the
GIGANTIC TRANSITION of the news and printing departments and the
all-important telephone system which fortunately retains The News’
familiar number of Central 2451. The COMPLETE EFFICIENCY with
which the big job was done over Saturday-Sunday (March 19-20) is con-
vincing as to one thing: Aladdin had no MAGIC LAMP, just a WORKING
man
war. They want
. Some of them
„ . - --- already running w i t h the
. | “Reds.” Let’s be careful. They are
loose oyer Texas just now who are trying to “work” the ex-service
- man.
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youngsters in School are heard to
ask, “Why teach Latin?” Here is
one of the finest editorials we have
noticed in answer to that question,
in the Paris News: “Learn the lang-
uage. Language, says Mr. Webster,
is any means of expressing or com-
municating thought. If that be the
definition, then no one may be said
to be educated who has not the
knowledge of the language used and
the ability to use it so that what one
is saying or writing is understood.
That education is obtained and re-
tained by the student who studies
not only the language that we use
in our daily lives, called English,
out who goes further and learns the
foundation of the language—and
that is largely Latin.
Students who do not have a
knowledge of the Latin language
are not able to use the English lang-
uage as it should be used. Being
able to talk or write is a common
accomplishment. Being able to talk
or write understanding^ and force-
fully, is not so general. Most if not
all those who speak and write suc-
cessfully have learned to do so by
study of Latin, a reading of what
we call the classics, and the appli-
cation of that study and reading to
the matter of which they speak or
write.
Of recent years some schools and | iiancmg.
the study of the ancient language, sent to sub-committee for further
in favor of what are considered study ~
more practical studies. Fortunately some form of^ finanring, such
this is being reversed to some ex- STATE 127C2M—
tent, and the study of Latin is be- ■ declared that would defeat the bon-
coming more general. Paris is for-
tunate in its school and college hold-
ing this view, and during this week
what is known as Latin Week will
see various means used to impress
on students and the public general-
ly the value, even the necessity, of
Latin as a part of real and com-
plete education. It is the founda-
tion of our language and literature.
Just as a good foundation is neces-
sary for a good foundation is nec-
essary for a good building, so is it
essential to a good education, and __
that foundation is a knowledge of ' office" w^lh^one" of the chief
Latin and its relation to the lang- . prOmises being that the TAX RATE
uage we use today. | WOULD NOT BE INCREASED.
■ w That promise now seems IMPOS-
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By Hubert M. Harrison
The mounting cost and the spread
of functions of our Federal Govern-
ment should cause any careful citi-
zen to “view with alarm.” From the
days of the early American Repub-
; the power of the central govern- ! bersville did an excellent job con-
Dr. and Mrs. M. D. Smith and
A „ ,, TT sons, Mark and Mike, have return-
OFFICE NEXT YEAR, says the Her- ■ ecj fheir home in Dimmitt after *
, J.a two weeks visit here with their
- .... .. . It is said the galleries were packed parenfs and grandparents. Mr. and
SIBLE of fulmillment even if only and that 7,000 persons yelled and j^rs j F Sorrell of McKinney.
appiaudedi demanding the passage ——1———-----——-———2 ’
of the bill. But, fortunately, there themselves “solid” with every
were members who believe it is time who served in the ..
to be cautious, hence their action to f0 run for governor,
submit the bill for further study.! are already runni:
There are a number of men running
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doing their dead level best to make
Let’s be careful,
to “work”
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