The Canton Herald (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, September 18, 1936 Page: 2 of 4
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FRIDAY, SEPT, IS, 1936.
PAGE 2.
THE CANTON HERALD
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ANNOUNCEMENT.
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the act of March 3, 1879.
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that we are living in!’
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' J munity is nearly always a person
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WHAT IS GAINED.
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Farmer lists six
The Progressive
A
ENRIGHT"
WRAP 'EM UP. JOHNNIE. WE'LL TRY 'EM ALL
full force h®r
PHYSICAL CHECK-UP
isuch diseases.
‘The annual physical examina- game will be work of the opposing
the growing rearmament craze.
and to
and grounds.
GEESE AND SUCCESSORS.
aid to the underprivileged and vast
other worthwhile things, there is no
The calamity about rearmament eventually succeed State
is the fact that there appears to be
CRACKS AT THE CROWD.
it.
be
the rest, it proceeds to build up its this space. But not soon, not soon,
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defenses.—Kaufman Herald.
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vagrant and 12 cents per pound.
are
4
bread
affected
crop
Used Cars
matter what the price of
thia malice?. . . . What, then, are
the
of last year. We leave
Washington. A
fore the crash?"
of two cents
was
1934 Ford V-8 Pickup, (New Motor)
1934 Chevrolet Pickup, (New Motor) $425.00
1
1933 Chevrolet Truck, Long Wheel Base $275.00
FARM LOANS-ABSTRACTS
If you have a land matter of any kind, see us.
4
VAN ZANDT COUNTY ABSTRACT COMPANY
WAGONS AND TRUCKS.
- R. E. BLACKWELL. Manager
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1935 Chevrolet Pickup ....
1935 Chevrolet Pickup ..
1931 Chevrolet Truck.....
for
says
$125.00
$475.00
$385.00
$425.00
$475.00
$225.00
The answer is that it will never
be. Of course, man is an animal in
months and that the
probably take care
lace sees no reason
prices to advance,
prices will not be
meat
for
will
have had to be increased to pre-
-vent an ungovernable boom and ev-
FARMe
$00THIN
$YRU£
MRS THEO LUMPKIN
Editor and Manager.
the
at
1932 Ford V-8 Coach .....................
1934 Chevrolet Master Coupe.....
1933 Chevrolet Master Sedan
1930 Chevrolet Master Sedan.........
1931 DeSota Sedan..........................
1935 Chevrolet Coach____________________
Good Beds,
Whilesome Food
and Courteous Service.
DIXIE HOTEL
Canton, Texas.
gram this year.
We disagree with that. No mat-
INDIVIDUALS GOOD AND BAD.
If an individual will collect all
the bad things that he reads about
I will always serve you with a
smile so why not use my products
once in a while.
there need for a price adjustment
program.
While here is every indication
that the price of cotton this season
drought; widespread.
THREE-FOLD RELIEF.
NO WHEAT FAMINE.
CORN CROP SHORT.
IMPORTS OF FARM PRODUCTS
I am at 'the J. A. Threatt gro-
cery every Saturday, and as Mae
West would say, “Come up and see
me sometime.”
spring. It will certainly be a big
jump for a youngster to jump from
amateur baseball to the big league
n one season.
McCallister and Terry tangled in
one hurling duel last season at Van
and McCallister was the victor by
race he will be convinced, no doubt,
that men and women are going to
the dogs and that there is no hope
of salvation.
If the same individual will care-
.........$250.00
--------$375.00
..— $375.00
--------$225.00
hurlers. Lloyd (Sinker) McCallister
will be on the mound for the Bak-1
CHARLIE LEHECKA,
Your Watkins Dealer.
Bakers To Tangle with
Kaufman Co. All-Stars
Queen City Chevrolet Co.
WILLS POINT, TEXAS
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so long as the farmers of
If you buy a used Car or Truck without seeing
our stock, we both lose.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
(In Van Zandt County)
Three years_________________________
One year______________________
NEW STOVE LIGHTENS
WOMAN’S KITCHEN WORK
Special Washington Corre-
spondence.
DR. 1. E EPRIGHT.
CHIROPRACTOR
Campbell Building, Wills Point.
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
DR. T. R. KEAHEY
Dental X-Ray
Hours: 8 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 5 p. m..
CANTON, TEXAS.
wTERSs
€LIR
WEST & STANFORD
ATTORNEYS
First National Bank Building
CANTON, TEXAS
4
dA8,
own profits seem to be unimpair-
DR. NOEL J. TOMLIN
DENTIST
X-RAY PIAGNOSIS
Office in the Campbell Building.
Office Closed Each Thursday.
WILLS POINT. TEXAS
VETERAN FARM AGENT
ed and the nation has been rescued HONORED ON BIRTHDAY cuttonmay be, the farmers of the
GENERAb
WEBILLTY
WASHINGTON FARM NEWS
I tion has two definite objectives in
the life of an individual; namely,
to establish the fact that there is
or is not present a diseare which
calls for prompt control meas res.
L. C. JARVIS
Shoe repair and harness shop
Across street from Postoffice.
CANTON, TEXAS.
"9ANe
K
Friends, I am here again to an-
nounce my campaign, not a politi-
cal campaign this itime but a Wat-
kins Campaign.
' Office North Side of Court House Canton, Texas
— " ■ The cotton price adjustment pro-
"Of all the remarks we hear in gram for the 1935-36 cotton season
traveling up and down rural Dixie was a rather happy solution to a
less than
1 our house. "Well, I didn't go any-
where else except the store,” she
1 said, "and I had it when I left the
store.” She said she was positive
she didn’t go anywhere except the
store and our home, and she was
1 quite positive she didn't leave it at
' the store. Then she came over to
I take a look and when she left it
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not that they, as well as their poor- cultural enthusiast, was honored the na ion 3 mar 6 '
er neighbors, must help pay the at a birthday dinner given by his i
price of recovery? Or did they children in observance of his seven-, minimum price be set at th n
really expect to pass on to the ty-sixth anniversary recently in cents this fall and the loan a 550
masses of thhe people the cost of Mineola. EightyJthree persons were en cents per pound against >e
the depression as completely as present. twelve-cent limit and the ten-cent
ment.
Jappan has announced to
postoffice at Wills Point, Texas, as
second-class mail matter, under more heartening, more refreshing, success of that program last year,
nothing to
ter how high cotton gets in
91V •ea
W%--
w Petee
maintain that the world will have
about a normal carry-over on
July 1. 1937, or about 300,000,000
bushels. In the United States will
be grown 600,000.000 bushels in
1936 and with 125,000.000 bushels
of old wheat will about take care
of a consumption of 625,000,000.
Substantial imports of special
grades, however, are expected be-
cause of the shortage in these
grades for the past few years.
Concern here is centered upon
the corn crop. Private sources
indicate that world production
will be 900,000,000 bushels under
normal this year, or about the
estimated shortage in the Unit '
States. Secretary Wallace i____
mated, on July 29, that a max-
“ITS A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD PRICE ADJUSTMENT OF 193«.
WE LIVE IN” ____
Buy your films at Jamieson’s
Parts Service. We loan you a ko-
dak.
these days, there
America alone can not further the lhe biological sense, and perhaps a
cause of disarmament ... so, like man will some time succeed S. P. in
of the nation “are making more' has trained himself in imperturb- would receive a subsidy not ex-
money than ever and yet they ability. Those who would raise his ceeding two cents per pound be-
how , . dander, like the one at Tyler who tween the price for middling .7-8
thinks a goose might run this inch cotton in ten spot markets,
an adjustment pro-
Some have suggested that the
done about
safety in health habits. When the
family physicians has established
i the facts brought to light in a
। physical examination, he is i a po-
sition to advise the Individual as to
procedures which must be adhered
to in order that a proper balance
may be maintained.
“Go to your family physician
and give him a chance to Itell you
whether you are giving your .body
the treatment it needs.”
they howling about now? Surely
it is unfortunate that nations
will not co-operate. Treaties and
agreements are worthless and it is
futile to make them.
If the world would disarm and
spend the millions that now go to
munitions, for hospitals, colleges,
their only run.
I The game will be in the Baker
(Stadium at Wills Point at 3:30 p.
m. and the admission is 15c and 25c.
This will be the first of a two-
game series between these two
clubs and the second game will be
unreeled Sunday, Sept. 27, and that
will close the season for the Bak-
ers. You should see these games.
ment which may be briefly sum-
marized as follows: First, enlistmental conditions which justify a
mighty submarine 1 everybody in some farm organiza-' price adjustment to the cotton
tion, preferably a national farm or-' farmer are present and should be
com- recognized through action by those
there has been a tendency to "let
thax._State Press things ride on cotton this fall.”
The private cotton trade and those
who make money out of handling
cotton especially want that. How-
of present
able purchasing power for their
crop in terms of things they have
to buy, such a program should be
announced immediately by the
AAA.
There are those who maintain at
These price adjustment pay-
A few years ago I was district
champion. With your help I can be
champion again. Let’s show the
Watkins company that the good old
Free State of Van Zandt is still on
the map. My motto is: “Use Wat-
kins for it pays.”
world that she will maintain
। who is doing something to make it.
good. And there is probably more South,
What is gained py worldwide community spirit in the rural the South must sell their crop on
rearmament? The only persons i south today than ever before in our world market and buy their con-
who profit, of course, are the mu-' history." sumption goods from a tariff-pro-
nition interest. | Pointing out the fact that one tected market-just that long is
One nation can not rearm and of the greatest needs of the rural j
expect the rest of the world to sit south is to add community achieve-
°“
fadd
< i-via
ment to individual achievement.
(By Claud Callan.)
When you convince a man you
are honest he believes you are hon-
est but when you convince a wo-
man you are honest she still has'the score of 1-0. McCallister allow-
her doubts. Mrs. Jimpson has ed Terry's teammates only one hit
known us for years and she is con-1 while all the strong Pure Oilers
vinced We are honest, but yesterday 1 were able to get off Terry was two
she missed her pocketbook after, hits, and an error gave the Oilers
and what kind of an animal, will will he said.
- ■■ ’ m * Press?” [ Attempts to assure a reasonabl
price to farmers for cotton in the
1934-35 season through the 12-cent
loan had the effect of holding cot-
ton so much above the world price
that it resulted in virtual sale to
' if you are hoping for a successor, the government through the loan.
| Tyler man. No goose could manage ' In 1935-36 season, seeking to
What Are They Howling About? | this department. He couldn’t take avoid the dangers inherent in an
It was Jay Franklin in his col- t. Geese are sensitive creatures, bove the world price loan for cot-
umn in .the daily papers the oth-' They squawk at the least disturb- ton, the AAA established the cot-
«r day who hit the nail on the ance of their serenity. But State ton price adjustment plan. This
head when he said that investors Press never squawks, because he simply provided that farmers
mum of 1,700,000,000 e bushels
could be expected this year in
this country, as compared with a
normal 2,500,000,000 bushels. Con-
ditions have not improved since
the estimate was made. Mr. Wal-
Austin, Sept. 17.—Great sitrides
have been made in mass control of
public health in the past twenty-
five years by public health offic-
ials and the use of scientific meth-
ods in the control of disease. The
job of the individual in getting fit
and remaining in good health, how-
ever, is a personal rather than a
public matter, according to Dr.
John W. Brown, state health offi-
cer.
“While the ravages of diphther-
ia, smallpox, typhoid fever, and
other devasting diseases have been
definitely checked by public health
measures, ” he said, ‘Ithere are left
many health enemies whose on-
slaught is stealthy, and whose ap-
proach is definitely individual.
Heart disease, cerebral hemorrhage,
nephritis, and cancer continue to
stand high in the list of major kill-
ers.
“As these degenerating diseases
cannot be controlled by quarantine
and immunization, each individual
should see Ito his own protection
against these diseases if they exist,
When we visited our old home
town while were were doing well all
the relatives made us eat with
them, but when we went back af-
ter losing our job we had to eat at
the restuarant.
Zandt counties. Before his last ser-
vice, in 1922, Raina and other
counties were added. In 1922 ha was
employed by the farm bureau cot- ‘
ton association for three years to
kEDBeAne
armada—originally scheduled for
more inspiring than the simple and in view of a similar need this
1 statement by some farmers’ wife:— year to assure farmers a reasonable
' " ‘It’s mighty good neighborhood price for their cotton and an equit-
A
{2
In view of the plain mandate
laid down by the laws of congress,
in line with the objectives laid
down by AAA and its administra-
tors, in view of the parity and
above prices for other farm com-
modities, cotton alone excepted; in
view of chronic disparity between
the purchasing power of the cott
dollar and that of tariff-protected
industry, there is no choice for
' those at Washington. They must in
justice to the South carry out a
price adjustment program for this
year—let the price of cotton be low
or high.—American Cotton Grower.
man," so support your verdict by
using more Watkins product. If
you are not using them, we are
both losing money. Practice econo-
my by using Watkins product.
livestock on a normal basis. He
predicted that dairy products and
some vegetables would be affected.
It should not be forgotten that
much of the aid now being given
to the farmers is of doubtful leg-
ality, although no one expects
any effort to stop the assistance.
Whether it is a proper function
of the Federal government to give
relief to individual farmers, or to
attempt to plan new farming
methods in certain areas, will re-
main an unanswered question for
this year at least. No politician
will raise the issue and the Courts
would not have time to pass on
the issue before the work ends.
opportunities for comunity achieve- will be higher than the more ser-
ious depression years, the funda-
Buy all Watkins products, in-
cluding Vanilla from
season. This season Smith took
Terry to the Galveston club of the
Texas League for a tryout back in
the spring. Galveston shipped him
to the Bartlesville club of the
Western Association where he
spent the season. At the close of
the season the Chicago White Sox
of the American League liked his
pitching so well that they paid
$5,000 for him. Terry is to report
to their training camp in the
Every car listed below has been reduced in
price and sold with a written guarantee.
fully collect all the good things
that are published about men ar
women he will likewise come to
the conclusion that, after all, the
race is making progress and the
future is apt to be better than the
past ever hoped it would ble.
The moral is that we should
try to see both sides of the ques-
tions and keep faith in the ultimate
triumph of right. Just now, in a
befogged world, with many old
standards under fire, the individual
can rely upon the eternal worth of
certain fundamental principles.
The future may bring us new
forms of government and new
ways of living but it can do very
little to change human nature.
ers while Ernest (Slim) Terry will
do the hurling for Smith’s club, ill-assorted members of the human
Terry is a youngster that Smith
determine the margins of ' developed for his Abner club last
So says a leading editorial in the
current Progressive Farmer, and
adds this comment:—
2150 । "For a remark like that tells a
(Outside of Van Zandt County) whole lot not only about the neigh the present price cotton we have
Three years....-_____________________$2.00 , borhood, but also about the person •
One year............. 100 you are talking to. The person who ,
__ appreciates living in a good com-
South are justified in demanding
a price adjustment which will
nearer balance their position in
. visiting us. She phoned about it!
1 and we told her it was not left in
• Officials in Washington are in-
terested in the possible effect of
the drought upon the imports of
farm products, about which the
farmer is already hearing plenty.
Some wheat is coming in but of-
ficial figures for the first six
months of this year show only a
trickle of products formerly im-
ported in larger quantities. For
six months there have been im-
ported 19,805,560 bushels of wheat,
as compared with 12,839.047 for
the same period of last year. Corn
shows 5,662,315 bushels compar-
ed with 17.620,195; cats 45,567
bushels against 10,054,861 last
year; butter 4.680,055 pounds
compared with 21,500,146 pounds
in 1935.
is hardly one difficult situation. In view of the I
idly by and do nothing about it.
The natural result is world rearma-
from .............Why all this bit-;
terness, this meanness, this fury, I
as present.
they unloaded their inflated secur- Mr. Vandiver was born in Ala-Uoan
ities on the public in the years be- bama, moving to Mineola in 1898.1 top and the bottom imi s o c
I He began his pioneer home demon- best judgment of
' stration activities in 1907 when he minimum adjustment
----supervisor for Wood and Van per pound should be provided for,
no matter what the price.
price several years ago. The estab-
lishment of price parity for farm
products was a specific objective of
the Agricultural Adjustment Act.
: . . ... The president in one of his early
Referring to articles in this P ,
, ... , , speeches on farm problems de-
newspare telling how geese have F *
end to the good that could be done, .been substituted for cotton chop- clared paritzsprtcesafor arm Pro
But the world prefers to enrich ' pers in Van Zandt county, a Tyler. 11 6n ar it may
munition interests even if it means gentleman asks “If geese are good y but reach it we
sacrificing progress and going cotton hands how long will it be, 1
hungry.
Mr. Franklin pointed out that
by the Republican gospel of mater- i column,
ial prosperity alone, the country is feathers in khe air in relation to S. ■ _ .
far advanced on the up-grade and P. 3 sangfroid. Residents of the low- ments amounting to some 20 mil-
the G. O. P. had nothing to do er intellectual altitudes are subject lions of dollars have recently been
with it, except as members of j to tanitrums, but those of us who distributed to farmers. The money
congress voted for new deal mea- | dwel in the upper reaches of tran- to meet the payments was taken
sures which started recovery. quility have companionship of the from a ninety-million-dollar fund
"in this connection,” wrote Mr. stars and are immune to petulance, set aside from import duties.
Franklin, “it is important to point But Eeese arenot new in cotton While the price adjustment pay-
out that net farm income for 1935 patches. Scut Davis,a North Caro- ments to cotton growers last sea-
was higher than for 19:30, that bank linia farmer, lost his crop to the son did not begin to offset the
deposits are higher than at the be- grass one year because of a mur- higher costs of tariff-protected
ginning of 1930, that kilowatt-hour rain that seized his goose flock in consumer goods that Southern
production and asszts o: life in- 1 e al e springtime. When my lead farmers bought, it did serve to
surance are at all-time highs, that gander taken the epizootic and laid equalize this disparity between the
5,000,000 of Hoover’s unemployed ! down'and died in the cotton row, farmer purchasing on a protected
havie been absorbed into private in- and the others laid down and died market and selling on 3 world mar-
dustry, etc. alongside of him, " know- ket. For years this thing has gone
“In fact, reserve requirements . ed 1 Was plowed up, Mr. Davis ex- South has been able to
, plained to inquiring neighbors. , . .. ..1.
if, " . .7 . . survive under such a system only
Here we are moved to hint to .. , , .
.. . . . , . . because of the wonderful recupera-
en the 'Wall Street Journal' de- blackland farmers who have de- power of our lands and the ex-
Clares that 'Pessimism becomes spaired in front of their oncoming in of many our cit-
difficult.’ I Johnson grass. Turn the geese in izeng who farm
“What, then, are the Tories hol- I on it, fifty geese to the acre. They
oman "l, Whv do they rush will keep ithe leaves picked so Of course, tnis year W1
lering.ahout-why dostheytsh’close to he ground the-roots wil price of cotton substantially better
with every sign of panic, to cakling pees, onC, saved the than in some late previous years
don and the G. O. P. as the one u,e- -aK8 geese onee Saved -ne
hope of survival in what they an- city of Rome. Working geese can
nounce is a terrible crisis? Where do better than
is the fire? (in Dallas News.
"The profit system and their 1 •-----
county’s first home demonstration
agent, political observer and agri-
With more than one-fifth of
the counties of the nation includ-
ed in the area suffering from the
damages of drought and no im-
mediate possibility of estimating
the extent of the damage that
will ultimately result, the people
of the country, as a whole, scarce-
ly realize the serious situation.
Apart from fears on the part of
consumers that there may be a
shortage of essential food re-
quirements, which will mean high-
er prices, there is a general opin-
ion that the situation will take
care of itself and that the farm-
ers, somehow, will pull through.
destruction under the London naval ganization. Second, have a
treaty. As a consequence, the other munity fair. Third, take trips to- responsible for the AAA in Wash-
nations of the world will retain gether as means of making neigh- ington.
theirs, build submarines to full bors better acquainted and develop- ' If cotton was selling today on a
strength and so the race for supre- ing community spirit. Fourth, co-op- comparable price pasis to other
macy gets under way. ! erate in rural electrification. Fifth, ' commodities and in ratio to the
Consequently, the United States make the school the capital of a purchasing power of manufactured
may be expected to keep pace with community republic. Sixth, have 1 goods it would be bringing the
look after Wood and Van Zandt
counties.
Owned by Ellis Campbell and
published weekly by the Chronicle
Publishing Co., and entered in the
any powers, belonging to the
Federal government, that will en-
. able it.to use its great length
nited to assist the farmers of the United
estin States answer their permanent
problem?
“A new gasoline stove made my
kitchen work much lighter this
summer,” says Mrs. L. M. Hendley,
kitchen cooperator of Enterprise
home demonstration club. “Not only
do I find I get quicker heat but I
also find it much easier to keep
my stove which is done in black
and white. I have cooked two meals
a day for two and a half months
with fifteen gallons of gasoline,"
says Mrs. Hendley.
In my campaign two years ago
1 was plain she thought we had stol- your verdict was a "a Watkins
| en her money. Later she phoned
that she found the pocketbook at
her dressmaker’s
while they are in a state where
churches which not only lend beau- farmer around 15 cents per pound,
ty to lives of the people but set That is called a parity price. We
an example of beauty in buildings heard a good deal about parity
M. H. Vandiver, Van Zandt
, control may be effective. The an-
~~ nual physical health examination is
NEEDED EVERY YEAR the major defensive weapon against I
At the same time that our im-
ports were going down our farm
exports, with one exception, were
doing the same. The lone excep-
tion is cotton, which in six months
sold 2.466,000 bales abroad as
compared with 2,223,000 last year.
Exports of wheat were down to
little or nothing although this
country, in years past. has been
accustomed to selling 200,000,000
bushels of wheat to foreign coun-
tries annually.
Significant is the reduction of
huge surpluses of farm products
in this country. The government
has managed to get out of tho
cotton market because it has been 1
able to sell out it." holdings. The
short wheat and corn crops will
dispose of any unwieldly sur-
pluses. What will be the situation
some years from now when high-
er prices tempt American farmers
to grow more? It is possible for
some system to be adopted that
will store the surplus of good
years as a protection against
scarcity in other years?- Is there
The Federal government is an-
swering the cries of State gover-
nors and other officials for aid in
the face of the worse catastrophe
that has happened to American
agriculture. Three regular agen-
cies are busy while a special
Drought Area Committee studies
the question with the view of
recommending a long-time pro-
gram, taking into consideration the
prophecy of some experts that
present weather conditions
threaten to make a semi-desert
area of certain sections.
The Department of Agriculture
has modified its soil conservation
program in order to facilitate
benefit payments to drought-
stricken farmers who replace lost
crops by soil-conserving ones. The
WPA is offering employment to
farmers who have been left des-
titute by ruin of their crops, em-
ploying them on road. work, cat-
tle relief and similiar undertak-
ings. The Resettlement Admin-
istration is busy extending aid to
animals and human beings that
need help immediately.
Government officials do not ex-
pect a world shortage of wheat
despite a report some weeks ago
that there might be a lack of this
essential food crop. Officials
Sunday afternoon Wills Point
will play Leland (Bull) Smiths
Kaufman Counity All-Stars at the
local park. Smith has gathered
players from his own Abner club,
the state hospital club of Terrell
and the C.C.C. players who can hit
the ball, in High and Slack of the
Terrell club, Everett and Carr of
the C. C. C. club and Roney and
the Tankcrsly brothers of his Ab-,
ner club.
The greatest attraction of the
We sell wagons and trucks on
easy terms. Let us figure with you
before you buy.—J. E. Deen &
Sons. |
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