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FRUITS OF INTOLERANCE
It goes without saying that the deci-
sion of the Lausanne conferees concerning
the population of disputed territories is
highlv important. Moreover the agree-
ment'may mark a step toward peace.
Rut whatever its political importance and
despite the possibility of its being the
best wav out of a dangerous situation
it affords a very sad commentary upon
modern civilizations.
Millions of ncoplc. .Moslems in one terri-
tory and Christians in another will have
to'abandon their homes and go forth
in search of new place of habitation.
Why? Simply because the two peoples
cannot or will not. live in the same re-
gion without making trouble for each
other. Naturally Americans think that it
is the fault of the Moslems exclusively.
But the Moslems have a different opin-
ion. and some of their representatives
at Lausanne have not been timid about
expressing it.
In final analysis the troubles of the
Near East in so far as religion is a fac-
tor in them —and it is evidently a large
factor —are explained by one word: in-
tolerance. The most profound teachings
of the Christian and Mohammedan re-
ligions have been violated time and time
again through the ages for selfish pur-
poses. Selfishness itself is contrary to
the spirit of every great religion known
to man. Religious fanatics have become
so selfish so intolerant so contemptuous
and have let hatred gain so great a mas-
tery over them that they have murdered
people who did not see eye to eye with
them in matters of the most abstract na-
ture.
The inability or failure of the Chris-
tians and Moslems 'of the Near East to
“get along” finds a counterpart in the
intolerance of people more fortunately
situated —people with better traditions
than the Near East affords and people
of greater opportunities. The intolerance
of the Near East is different from that of
other parts of the earth only in degree.
Intolerance is intolerance wherever it
may exist it may express itself in the
shedding of blood or in nothing more
tragical than mean gossip.
If Americans assume that the Christians
of the Near East have been in nowise
to blame for the troubles there and the
full measure of condemnation be heaped
upon the Moslems then there could be no
objection in this country’ to the state-
ment that in leaving their homes in ac-
cordance with the decision of the Laus-
anne conference the Mohammedan in-
habitants will be paying a penalty for
the intolerance which their race has prac-
ticed through the ages. If one is utterly
without prejudice so that he will consider
the possibility that the Christians of the
Near East have contributed to the trou-
bles from which that part of the world
has suffered so long then the entire mat-
ter may be regarded in a light necessary
to the establishment and preservation
of peace.
A SHORTAGE OF PEARLS
To add to the other ills the world is
heir to comes announcement from Paris
London and New York that there is a
shortage of oriental or genuine pearls.
Where to augment the supply is some-
thing that is worrying the buyers of these
precious jewels because the demand is in-
creasing and the production is decreasing
which in the natural course of things in-
Cicates a rising price.
The pearl is one of the oldest forms of
human adornment. It is so ancient as to
be mentioned in the oldest manuscripts
extant. The chief source of supply is the
Indian ocean although pearls of beauty
and great value also come from the Per-
sian gulf Central American waters. West
Indian waters and from the Islands of
Japan and off the coast of Australia. The
Australian industry is small as yet but
is believed to have great possibilities. It
is largely’ exploited by the Japanese who
are the most expert pearl divers in the
world.
At one time in the world's history the
pearl merchants and traders of Bagdad
and Mesopotamia controlled the pearl
business for all lands. Bagdad was the
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SATURDAY.
center of the pearl trade. Today Paris
London and New York vie with each
other for the honor. All the fine pearls
eventually find their way to one of these
points where they arc sold for fabulous
sums.
Few people perhaps realize the fact that
a fine pearl is esteemed more than a dia-
mond and is far more valuable and more
difficult to obtain. In fact there are
some pearls in existence that arc price-
less. Not even a king's ransom could buy
one of them because they never again can
be duplicated in the opinion of experts.
Fine pearls are decreasing in number.
Now and then one is brought to the sur-
face and usually’ makes it§ debut by a
murder or two for its possession before
it arrives upon the market.
A number of years ago the Japanese
with usual ingenuity sought to create
pearls by artificial means. M hile very
fine artificial pearls are made by purely
mechanical processes yet the experts have
no difficulty in detecting them and they
are not worth much in the market. The
Japanese however were too wise to un-
dertake the mechanical manufacture of
pearls to fool the experts. They took the
mollusc from the sea placed it in huge
vats inserted small grains of sand tiny
bits of mother of pearl and other sub-
stances inside the shells and in four or
five years the oyster formed a pearl with
a marketable value. However it is said
these artificial pearls were dead white in
color lacked the rose-colored hue or deli-
cate pink shadings of the pearls taken
from the beds of the sea and the experts
soon placed the Japanese nutured pearl in
a separate class and gave it a much lower
price. When worn on a necklace how-
ever the Japanese pearl is said to defy
detection if it is a well selected specimen
and many’ wondrful chains of pearls arc
made up of these semi-artificial pearls.
However the real pearl shortage is to
be found only in those brought up from
the sea. chiefly those from the Indian
ocean. They are in such demand that the
divers and traders cannot supply the or-
ders. Annually a crop of pearls comes on
the market but out of the lot in these
days only a dozen or so can be classed
as very fine pearls and they are immed-
iately bought up at handsome prices.
There is some comfort in the fact that
the pearl shortage will not affect most
of us to any great degree. Few of us
are in the market for pearls particularly’
of the kind that bring such fabulous
prices. But it is interesting to know that
the pearl supply’ is running short and
the prices are advancing. It looks like
a long hard winter on the multi-million-
aires.
OPPORTUNITY
There is a lesson for young America in
the story of George Pierocaco age 40
who arrived in America aboard a Greek
liner the other day as a steerage passen-
ger with but 60 cents in his pocket.
A year ago this man left America a
millionaire. He went to Smyrna where
he had extensive interests. Then the
Turk came and destroyed his business
over night. He was so poverty stricken
that he could not even bring his wife to
America again. Yet confident of the fu-
ture he turns to America the land of op-
portunity and confidently expects to re-
build his fortunes and again attain the
financial independence that he had before
Greece lost the war against the Turks.
Doubtless the average man would be
inclined to surrender to fate after such a
reverse so late in life. The country is
full of agitators today who tell the Ameri-
can worker that he is crushed under the
heel of the capitalist and that opportunity
is denied him to better his own fortunes.
Nothing gives the lie to such twaddle bet-
ter than a study of Ellis Island. Nothing
could impress upon an American more
deeply the opportunities that America has
to offer than to witness the incoming Eu-
ropeans who view the opportunities of
this happy land through the eyes of
stricken Europe's poverty hopelessness
and instability.
Th
There is no spot on the globe today
where there is a better opportunity for
success in the best meaning of the word
than is offered the American in America.
Annually thousands and thousands of pen-
niless Europeans come to our shores and
a multitude of them already here attest to
the affluence to which they have risen by
careful living and hard work.
True many of them do not have the
American standard of living. They can
save money on an income that the aver-
age American could scarcely live on. But
that is why the case of George Pierocaco
is different. He had attained to the stand-
ard of living prevalent in this country. He
had made a million dollars and lost it.
Now he steps again on American soil un-
daunted and with the firm conviction that
he can do over again what he did before.
At the age of 40 he is starting again
where he started as a younger man pen-
niless and without a job or business. Cer-
tainly if he can view the future with com-
placency America is indeed a land of op-
portunity and promise.
It is not pretended that conditions are
perfect in this country that our economic
and industrial system is all that it should
be nor that the worker in America re-
ceives his due proportion of profits but
it must be apparent to all that nowhere in
the world arc conditions one-half so good.
There is not a country in the world today
aside from the United States that is hot
confronted with dire poverty 7 unrest an-
archy and mis-government. The unem-
ployment problem in even such countries
as England noted for centuries as a great
industrial nation is so serious that armies
of unemployed are parading as they de-
mand succor.
America may have her faults and the
American methods at times may be open
to criticism but there is no place in the
world today that is better. Once again as
in by-gone years the poverty-stricken
people of all lands look longingly to this
country 7 for opportunity 7 . How many of
us realize the favored position we hold
and the comforts and luxuries that we
have?
A FEW WORDS WELL PUT
In his farewell speech to the Texas
Senate Lieutenant Governor Lynch Dav-
idson made some remarks that will
doubtless be widely recognized as a foil
to the grandiloquent pompous bchold-
your-governor addresses that Mr. Neff
has been delivering over the state. Some-
times it requires just a few words to
put the correct appraisal upon the work
of those who make great pretensions.
Mr. Davidson's brief speech to the Sen-
ate last Tuesday performed that service
admirably for those who had wondered
just how much longer the Neff admin-
istration could hold its pose.
Criticism of the Senate of which Mr.
Davidson was the presiding officer would
be praise of the Neff administration and
vice versa. So the retiring lieutenant
governor had only to indicate what the
Senate had not done to pay his respects
to everybody concerned. That he did in
a temperate and therefore a very 7 effective
wav.
One of the things that the Senate
did not do was to get “all het up” about
“reforms.” Another of its acts of omis-
sion was its failure to empower admin-
istrative officials to oust officers from
positions given to them by the voters.
In short it was the Senate that threw
a monkey-wrench into the cogs of the
great scheme devised by Governor Neff
for destroying local self-government and
making himself a dictator to all the coun-
ties and cities of Texas.
Mr. Davidson gave the members of
the Senate credit for having acquainted
themselves with the proper functions of
“the law” long before Governor Neff be-
gan to make his primer-class lectures on
that subject. “Law enforcement? Yes”
said Mr. Davidson “all of us are for
that and will be found doing our part.
But there is such a thing as straining at
a gnat and swallowing a camel.”
There certainly is. and cases are not
far to seek although the retiring presi-
dent of the Senate cited none specifically.
They are too obvious to require concrete
designation.
Realizing that even though he had
spoken only in generalities his remarks
were rather unusual. Mr. Davidson said
that perhaps he was breaking a precedent
but implied that in such a case he would
be consistent inasmuch as he had been
“trying mighty hard” during his term “to
break away from several precedents.” If
anybody knows so little about political
and governmental tendencies in Texas
as to miss the meaning of the quoted
words he should devote as much thought
as possible to Mr. Davidson’s concluding
recommendation to the Senate—that it
undertake the contructive work awaiting
it in West Texas. He referred of course
to the problem of saving the Orient rail-
road to the people of that section.
What Texas needs is not a series of
lectures on the functions and outraged
dignity of “the law” but really 7 construc-
tive legislation—and very 7 little of* that
as an Irishman might say. If there was
constructive administration of laws al-
ready in the statute books the people of
Texas could “worry along” for quite a
spell without any law-making and cer-
tainly without being in vital need of a
tailored-while-you-wait constitution such
as Governor Neff has been proposing.
The state of Minnesota is trying to
prosecute a dealer who sold old potatoes
for new and made 6000 per cent profit.
Have we deteriorated to a point where
the average purchaser doesnt know a new
potato from an old one?
Congressman Upshaw of Georgia says
bootleggers ply their devilish trade among
too many public officials in Washington.
We opine that if the congressman will in-
vestigate further he will .find that under
the Volstead act everybody can get li-
quor except the poor man.
"APART.”
Dear heart I love thee so
I turn my face
Again again each day
Toward thy far-off place;
1 even note the way
Of cloud if thitherward they go.
I love thee so.
The time not by my uun
I count but thine;
I keep the reckoning
By many a precious sign;
I know so well each thing
Th<>u dost my thought can swift forerun
Thy later sun.
Oh. why arc wc apart?
No atom can
From atom in the earth
Remove but pass the plan
<lod fashioned in its birth.
How dare we break true love s true heart
Going apart? „ .
—Helen Hunt Jackson.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
The Once Over
By H. I. Phillips.
SEEING AMERICA WITH
DR. COVE.
Dr. Emile Coue of Nancy France
land not "with Nancy France” as re-
ported in some of the newspapers) is
now in America. Every day in every
way his publicity is getting better and
better.
Dr. Coue (pronounced Koo-ny. with
the accent on the sub-conscious
likes this country very well and his
followers are confident it will be very
well when he gets through with it.
He arrived in splendid health. This
is iu the contract. It would never do
for Dr. Coue to land on American soil
munching pills in a wheel chair and de-
manding more hot water bags.
He was unable to WILL himself past
the customs inspectors but whether
after reaching his hotel in a taxicab
he was able to fool the driver with that
famous “I cannot open my bands”
speech is not definitely known.
Dr. Coue y a plump little man. He
has a goatee dresses entirely in black
and wears a cape and a high bat. He
looks strangely like the magician who
used to close the show nt Hammer-
stein's years ago by whisking white
rabbits from a silk chapeau.
And the doctor is no moan magician
nt that. The keynote of his theory is
that perfect health can bo drawn from
the folds of a silk handkerchief and
that with the usual pistol shot and ap-
propriate music happiness can be pro-
duced from the trick cabinet at left-
center. .
Dr. Coue started life as a drug clerk.
He was one of the few drug clerks who
quickly realized that there was a great-
er future and more front page pictures
in rolling your own ideas' than in roll-
ing your own pills. Just as the boss
was about tn give him a white suit and
put him behind the soda fountain he
bought a book on hypnotism. This gave
him the original idea for his doctrine.
"Whnt is ain't unless you admit that
it is.”
Thus the world lost a great soda
clerk and gained a great newspaper cir-
culation feature.
Aristotle advanced the Coue theory
centuries ago but there were no news-
paper syndicates to put. him under con-
tract at so much per word.
Wc am slaves to suggestion says the
doctor. Wc think ourselves into Span-
ish influenza bad debts and office dif-
ficulties. and should think ourselves out
of them. The brain is the seat of
thought. If there is standing room only
enlarge your brain. Thought controls
the nervous system. The nervous sys-
tem control* the body. The body con-
trols the hnt. shoes coat vest. etc. Very
simple. If the body can take off the
brown derby and place it on the piano
the brain can take off the chronic
headache and throw it down the dumb-
waiter. Removing the grip is as easy
as removing a four-in-hand tie. Easier
in fa< t.
(Copyright. 192.1. by ths Associated
Newspaper*.)
Pointed Paragraphs
He's a stingy man who will not give
you a smile.
Marriage is a failure —as any spin-
ster will tell you.
Time will tell —unless the gossips
beat it under the wire.
Too many men try to build a sky-
scraper on a one-story foundation.
Some of his Satanic majesty’s lieu-
tenants go about handing out free ad-
vice.
A good story is better than solid
facts—from a literary point of view.
Sometimes a man's warm love melts
a girl's heart and sometimes it is his
cold cash.
Now the strenuous furnace begins to
draw about seven-eighths of a man's
salary.
Fools in glad rags are often per-
mitted to rush in where unlaundered
hoboes would be knocllxl down and
dragged out.
When some people get busy it is al-
ways in connection with something that
is none of their business.
First nuburbnnite—Do you hnr* Io run
very oftjn In the morning to catch yo ir
train?
Recond Suburbanite—Well. it vrr«c*.
Sometimes I Hand at the etantion when
th* train cornea puffing in. And taon
again the train will atrnu ut
the station when I come puffing in
Ain’t It a Grand and Glorious Feelin ’?
Might Variation.
From a Seat in the Gallery
Washington D. C Jan. 13—Would
you —being an ordinary business feller
—spend ¥6OOO to make a million? Or
would you buy a million dollars for
$5000? Or if you would uot go that
high would you consent to take the
million dollars if the rate were shaved
say to $3000?
Well Congress will not. Milhous
are nothing in its life. At any rate
this particular million seems not to
be. 'There are other times when con-
gress is painfully careful of its small
change. At any rate here is the
story: In 1915 the ruling of the then
attorney general of the United States
imposed a loss of one mollion dollars
a year in revenues upon the Panama.
Canal.
Eight years have passed. Eight mil-
lion dollars have been lost.
The loss could be stopped at the
cost of a ten-line law by Congress.
The Dyer bill filibuster demonstrated
that the bushes can be beaten ip the
clokroom lurking statesmen can be
driven on the floor and made to answer
to their names in approximately half an
hour. Add another half hour for the
explanation of the measure and you
have an hour in each House or two
hours in all. If the four-hour legisla-
tive days of the congressmen brings each
$4O in salary which computation is
sufficiently correct then each would
have devoted ten dollars’ worth of time
to this project. There are 531 sena-
tors and congressmen iu all and if
Science and Telepathy
By H. Addington Bruce.
'The longer 1 study the problem of
thought transference or telepathy the
stranger seems the attitude ot most men
of science toward it.
Even those to whom it ought to be
of special interest physicists and psy-
chologists are not merely resolutely
skeptical. They also are contemptu-
ously indifferent and on various
grounds refuse to give the slightest
consideration to the evidence that may
be adduced in telepathy’s behalf.
"It is all very fine” is one argu-.
ment they offer to extenuate the really
unscientific stand they take "it is all
very fine for believers in telepathy to
enumerate instances of coincidental
dreams and hallucinations correspond-
ing to the death or illness or injury
of some absent friend. Such instances
sound much more impressive than they
actually are.
"People are all the time having
dreams of death illness or injury of
absent friends when nothing is the
matter with these friends. The non-
coincidental dreams are forgotten. If
they were taken properly into account
it would soon be apparent that mere
chance explains the coincidences which
do occur.”
This is a stock argument but a fal-
lacious one. For it is not a question
simply of dreams and hallucinations
vaguely conveying an intimation of
death illness or injury. It is a ques-
tion again and again of dreams and
hallucinations in which the details of
a distant scene are correctly pictured.
Thus to cite one well-attested ease
a young woman drcams that her father
and brother on a sledge journey in
Norway are in imminent peril of los-
ing their lives through collision with
the sledge of another traveler coming
unexpectedly out of a crossroad. She
has n vivid detailed vision of the ac-
cident and the narrow escape.
What she saw in her drcam corre-
sponds precisely with what happened
as she learns from her brother on his
return. Now clearly it is difficult to
extend the theory of chance coincidence
to cover all the facts involved. Ordi-
nary comnion sense revolts at the idea
that by chance alone the dreamer's
mind constructed nil the coincidental
imagery of her drcam .and that by
chance alone it constructed this at the
very time the accident it depicted was
occurring.
As Henri Bergson has tersely put it
such a chance coincidence is a mathe-
matical impossibility. Nor are scien-
tists on safer ground when they de-
fend their indifference to telepathy on
the plea that its phenomena do not
seem to be reproducible nt will.
“It telepathy be- n fact in nature."
runs this second objection “then it
ought to be possible to demonstrate this
By HERBERT COREY.
every man Jack were on the floor the
•entire salary cost would only be $5310.
Of course this does not. provide for the
upkeep of the Capitol lights and heat
stationary and knicknacks. On the
other hand not' more than a quorum
could by any poaibility be expected to
be present. For that slight expenditure
of time which is being measured in
money for the dramatics of it one mil-
lion dollars could be saved each year.
Crede Haskins Calhoun of the Canal
Zone has told the story. Not anly does
that ruling of the former attorney gen-
eral cost the United States one million
dollars annually in tolls on ships pass-
ing through the canal but by a queer
quirk it costs American ships more than
it does foreigners. Rather American
pay a larger percentage of wbat
they should pay than the foreigners do
under the rules. They pay 4 per cent
more tolls than do the British. 40 per
cent more than Peruvians and 30 per
cent more than Chileans.
The trouble arose over a conflict be-
tween two methods of measuring the net
tonnage of ships. The attorney general
of 1915 cast out the Panama Canal's
rules and adopted another set. Hence the
eight million dollar Joss since then and
the continuing loss of one million dollars
a year. All of which could be corrected
at a cost of one hour's time of each
House.
Either Senator Caraway of Arkansas
or Mr. Blanton of Texas takes up more
time than that each day.
experimentally just as chemical phy-
sical and other facts in nature are
susceptible of demonstration.”
This assumes of course that delib-
erate willing is the stimulus that pro-
vokes telepathic action. But the evi-
dence so far available goes to show that
the real stimulus comes not from the
will but from the emotions and from
the emotions as experienced in the sub-
conscious depths ot the mind. Obvious-
ly to repeat what I long ago empha-
sized in my book "Adventuring* in the
Psychical":
“One cannot handle feelings as one
can handle a chemical i-ompound nor
can one manipulate at will the subcon-
scious as though it were a physical sub-
stance.”
In other words the evidence for tel-
epathy must in the main be weighed
by the judicial rather than the ex-
perimental method. It is a matter chief-
ly of determining the credibility of wit-
nesses and substantiating their state-
ments by satisfactory documentary evi-
dence —as has already been done to an
extent it seems to me that is quite
convincing.
(Copyright 1923. by the Associated
Newspapers.) .
The bureau of standards in conjunc-
tion with the National Safety Council
and the American Association of State
Highway Officials has undertaken a
project for the standardization of col-
ors of traffic signals. This will cover
both luminous and non-luminous high-
way signals and related subjects.
A committee has been formed to han-
dle this work. Three sub-committees
were appointed which will collect in-
formation and data as to past practices
and will carry out any investigations
that may be necessary to determine the
selection of proper colors and other
items for traffic signals.
Japan Withdraws From Siberia.
The Tokio Yorodzu said on December
16 last that Japan's evacuation of Si-
beria is now completed. .Tapan is re-
puted to have spent the colossal sum of
$300000000 in the venture in Siberia
and to have lost as many as 2400 of-
ficers and men. In comparison the
'Tsingtao campaign cost Japan $50000.-
000. nnd the Chino-Japanese war
$115000000.
Even in connection with the Russo-
Japanese war Japan did not spend more
than fiUO.OOO.OOO. The Siberian ex-
pedition was begun in July.' 1918. in
co-operation with America for the pur-
pose of rescuing Czech troops in that
region the Yorodzu reminds us. and it
relates that it approved the act of the
Japanese government which was done
in compliance with a proposal from
America.
iw a. r. i-.
Facto grams
By E. S. Curtis.
*T raffle Signals.
JANUARY 13 1923.
A Laugh or Two
A railway lawyer tells of ■ malin-
gerer who finally got into a real
wreck. He was
— 1 rushed to a hospi-
-I tai in an uncou-
sci o u s condition
I ““d "as operated
I nn once. After
~the operation still
dazed from the an-
I esthetic he said
| feebly:
“Wbat is this
place ?” ♦
' “You have” the house surgeon an-
nounced. "been badly injured in an ac-
cident on a street car but yon will
recover.”
"Recover!” said the man. bracing
up. "Recover! How much?”
“How far are we from land. Cap-
tain?” asked the nervous passenger.
“Oh. about three
miles” replied the
skipper.
"Only three
miles." said the cu- PeSI JVSWk
rio u s passenger. * "Ort
"It's fun n y we
can't see it.” / xN W
•’Oh.” returned V[U J J
the skipper "that's '
because the water 7=71
isn't clear enough.”
“Miss Robbins has no partner” said
Sthe hostess at a
party. “Would you
mind dancing with
her instead of me?”
“On the co n-
trary” asserted
Hawkh e a d. “I
should be delight-
ed indeed.”
A valued <dd colored barber in a
Virginiu town reads history. He
reads considerable history. It is real
to him; the past
becomes the pres- “
ent and he ia a -g 7
part of it. —'
The other day a
citizeu hailed him. ZWTOZvb
“Been reading J
French history. J
see. Uncle Tobias." /J I
“Sho’ have.” \ V r
“And (that do —
you thing of French history?”
“I likes it. _ But I don't like the
way Mistah Napoleum been treating
Afis' Josephine hyur lately.”
"I am a philosopher" admitted the
gentleman whose frontispiece was as
elongated and sol-
BT emn as that of a
rare old fiddle.
“What makes yon
think so ?” we
skeptical ly in-
> quired.
I “Because” he an-
j swered “although
I I am aware that
-J 1 am not appreci-
ated. it does not hurt my feelings iu
the least.”
Thomas was not the brightest speci-
men on earth and try as be might
he could not succeed in obtaining a
situation.
At last a bright r~ — w
idea occurred to f
him. He would * ‘’<7
offer his services JLgrt
free for two weeks. fIMQK
On these terms
I key Fingelstein 21
engaged him. rtMUI/ £
The two weeks jg
having expired. InS »U
Thomas asked for a “rise.”
"Vat is'your present salary?” asked
Fingelstein.
"Nothing sir.” said Thomas.
Mr. Fingelstein contemplated the
lad. "Veil my poy your vages is
doubled!”
And Thomas was quite satisfied—-
until he bad had tinea to think over
the generous offer.
“Don't you find it awfully hard to
. persuade servants
X~- 1 to stay out here in
£ the country?”
\ 7 / asked the week-
end visitor.
Ll "Hard to keep
E them?” was the
I)s—answer of his host.
—f 'Jr— JMMBfc ~ “why we have
hard work to per-
suade them to
come out over Sunday."
—By Briggs
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