RICHBERG IS POWER
IN ADMINISTRATION
CIRCLES THIS YEAR
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Washington, July 25. (Special)?
i'f course, there is no such th'ng as
;u, "acting: President" of the United
: tali's when the President is absent
lYi.ni I lie country, but Washington
. , -sijib ure fond of picking*fehis, that
,.i the other official for the "job
whenever Mr. Roosevelt goes away
n hi a trip. This time it is Donald' K.
Kichberg who is regarded as the
?while-haired hoy" of the Admiuis
1 1 at ion, intrusted with swing that
none of the cat.tle get out of the feed
lot until the boss gets back.
ludoitbtedly Mr. Riehberg has
>:.iiiie(l greatly in the estimation or'
tin President, of the public aiwt of
|u>litieians in the past year. His ap
pointment as temporary chairman of
the National Emergency Coftuu'il,
while Karnk C. Walker takes a va
cantia, puts up to hi:n the diff cult
job of trying to iron out all the per
sonal jealousies and administrative
traffic tangles in flovernmental at*
fa">rs. There are plenty of both.
Mr. Kichberg came to Washington
with a record as a "laln>r lawyer."
lie was supposed to be solidly com
mitted to putting tin- American Fed
elation of Labor in charge of all
business. That id*>a, w idely circulated,
mated n strong prejudice against
l.iin in the mitnhs of business meu, a;
the start. But in his handling of a
thousand or so collission between
business groups ami labor groups in
the working out of the XRA co<les.
In- lias won the reputation of being
kirn, intelligent, fair and moderate.
Indeed, Richberg has been so fail
that the labor leaders began to think
\\.M lie isn't their friend any more,
vk\* business men look on him with
wneh greater favor. The fact seems
t<> lie that Mr. Richberg is not and
Jurer has been a blind partisan of
any particular labor group or organ
ization, but does helievc that the best
interests of the public require that
labor should receive a larger share
of the proceeds of ipdiM&ry.
Mr. Richherg is sometimes spoken
of as one of the Brain Trust; lAi't he
k certainly not one of the half-baked
radicals usually im-ant when that term
ii used. A ln>ut the only on*' of the
original Brain Trust who still func
tions importantly in an official caj>
acity is Rexford G. T ligwell, Under- 1
shrctary of Agriculture, and the
iilea is seeping through officialdom
that Mr. Tugwell's achievements thus
far have consisted more in getting
liim.self into the headlines than in
H-Totnplishing ' anything of conse
?imnce. It looks q|uate certain ? il
anything can Ive regarded as certain
in these days? that most of Mr. Tug
? ell's radical program has hern
?Mitched."
On the other hand, the one of the
<iri<nnal Brain Trusters who came
in for the most abuse in the begin
ning of the Roosevelt Administration
is y til I among the most influenzal
of the President's advisers, although
he has been out of public office for
more than a year. Tie is Professor
Raymond Moley, with whom tlu*
Prescient is said to have consulted on
every important economic question
that has arisen, and who is said to
have had the last word in shap'ng
most of Mr. Roosevelt's decisions.
The President is not alone in believ
ing Professor Moley to be a man of
meat erudition and talent, though
nil do not share the Presidential
belief in the soundness of his econ
omic views.
Nevertheless, Moley is one of the
three ni'.'n who, as the picture clears
hi > and s< -If-appoiutod- minor prophets
?><? eliminated one by one, stand out
th ? "three musketeers" of the Ad
" inistration. The other two arc tin
? r-Kai-tliful ()>!. Lnui'h McHenry
1 1 "\ve and Bernard M. Barueh.
' 'is purely political questions it has
) '"'N undetvtood that the President
n iii., more iijmhi Col. . Howe than
" I " ?n the Chairman of the Democrat
National Committee, . Postmaster
'???neral Farley. An incident that
? inn to lifjht the other day shows
!'"'v strong the Farley influence is.
'intary likes wanted to appoint
?Mm \V. Finch, Dean of the Sehool
' 1 Miiiiiig of the University of Idah :j
the post of Director of the Bu
"f Mines. He talked, with the
' " -ident who gave his o.k. Secretary
b'kes notified Professor Finch, who
""OUned his university job and came
Washington to take over the post.
' Presidential commission apj>oint
him has been drawn up and la'i:
"" the President's desk. But when
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Hamburg's Crop Will
Top Quarter Million
With buyers coining into th<\ Ham
burg region seeking to buy cabbage
i in the fields, and with a large pad
of the bean crop already marketed,
it is conservatively estimated that
'he cash feturn fro:it cabbage, b.eait?,
and potatoes in Hamburg, Mountain
audi Cashier's Valley townships will
v xcced a quarter of a million dollars
this year.
The estimate is that the cabhagc
crop will be in excess of 8.'5,f>00 tons,
in Hamburg alone, and the buyers
will pay for the total, of the three
mentioned produce crops more than
?<250,000 th s year to growers in the
hree townships.
Annual rentals for lands from
dinners i;i Hamburg has gone as |
'iigh as $100 an acre, it is stated; j
Mid with the bumper crop of all
ime now in the fields, the Ham
burg folks are feeling that there is
?o depression.
KverylM>dy who has looked into the
situation agrees that the produce in
lustrv in Hamburg is just beginning
?> be developed, and that it can be
xpauded1 to proportions uiulreamed
f a few \ears ago.
What cabbage lands i-.? Ham-burg
? re worth, uoIkhIv will even hazard
a guess.
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SMITH FUNERAL IS HELD
AT CULLOWHEE YESTERDAY
Funerla services for K. Nathan
Smith were conducted at 0 ullowhee,
yesterday. The IkhIv of Smith was
found in n hotel room in Norfolk,
Sunday, .togehter with a check made
to his wife, Mrs. Ellen Higdon Smith
of CtillowJiee, for $3000. Among his
effects were insurance policies total
ing $10,000, according to Associated
Press dispatches from Norfolk.
Mr. Smith was a native of this
county, and a son of the late Sena
tor L. J. Smith. He has a largo num
ber of relatives, including his widow,
three daughters, Frances, Nell, and
Jo Smith; four sisters, Mrs. Lee
Hooper, Speedwell, Mrs. Nannie Mc
Ouire; Mrs. John Phillips, and Miss
Ida Smith, all of Oullowhec, and
one brother, Lewis J. Smith, of West
Mills, Macon county.^
Mr. Smith left this county several
years ago, and engaged in the pro
duce business in Florida. It is under
stood that he had recently opened a
produce store in Greensboro, and
that it was in connection with this
business that he was called to Nor
folk, and while there was taken Jo
the Halifax hospital, in that city foi
treatment; but had returned to his
hotel there, when he was claimed by
(H'ath.
Mr. Smith belonged to one of the
oldest and most prominent fanvlics
in -tliis comity. His grandfather was
the late Nathhan Coward'. iHe was a
Mason and a member of the Shrine
and Knights Templar, which bodies,
in his Florida home, requested that
Kast LaPorte Ixnlgc, conduct h's
funeral services.
CRAWFORD GOES TO GLENDALE
The following from the Twin-City
Sentinel of July 20, will be of inter
est to ;nnav friends of Mr. Crawford
who is a native of and has been re
cently visiting in this county:
"E. E. Crawford, teacher of Math
ematics in the Richaj'd J. Reynolds
High School s'nce his graduation
from the University of North Caro
lina in 1P25, today resigned his work
there to assume the prineipalsh'p of
Glendale High School, at Kenly.
Johnston county.
Last year when C. R. .Tovner was
named piiucipal of the local J.igh
school, Mr. Crawford took over his
work in solid iconic, try and tr'gon
ometrv and assumed cluirge of the
2,000 lockers at the school. He nlso
has been sponsor of the house of
ronrcsentatiivis and the .lun'br Ili-Y.
Mr. Crawford, discussing his res
ignation, stated that he and Mrs
Crawford had a great liking for Win
ston-Salem a:u* Winston-Salem peo
ple, hut that the opportunity to bet
ter his financial condition by tnkimr
up the new job was of too great
mo'iient to he passed over.
Glendale High Sehool, in which
both Mr. and Mrs. Crawford will be
employed, is a most modern high
j school plant with about 800 students
and around 21 to 25 teachers. Thr
teaching staff lives in the teacheragc
of dormitory provided for their use.
Mrs. Crawford substituted in the
city and ocunty schools last year.
She has bften superintendent of on.'
of the Sunday School departments of
Fourth Street Chnrch of Christ.
^uSir^\Vounds Convicts
As They Attempt Escape
40 YEARS AGO
Tuckaseige Democart, July 18, 1894
We are having a superabuni jance
of rain. Crops arc very promising.
Mrs. Mamie K. Bulla and children
of Lexington, are visiting her .sister,
Mrs. Xe:I Buchanan.
Mr. J. S. Mewlrornr, of Kinston,
whose family is visit rug Dr. . J. H.
Wolff's, came up Katuiklav and
stayed until today.
Mr. B. B. Brown, of Buncombe,
came over Saturday, to confer with
the Board about the po^iton as Su
perintendent of the Normal Depart
ment of CuIIowJhm? High School, to
which he has lieen elected.
Mr. .1. h. Sawyer, our popular and
accommodating railroad agent has
been prevented from attending t??
his duties, for /several days, by ill
ness. His place was I'illecl meanwhile
by Mr. Kincaii:!1, of Dillsboro. We are
glad to say that Mr. Sawyer has re
covered.
County Democratic Convention:
< leu. E. It. Hanpton, chairman of
the County Executive Committee
callckt the convention to order in tin'
court house, in Webster, July 16th,
1894 aii'l F\ A. Lack, Sr., was made j
secretary. On motion the chair u.?
|M>iutc(b Messrs. VV. E. Moore, I). L.
Ix?ve, \V. A. Enloe, D. Rogm an!
Capt. .1. W. Terrell ?dVlcgates to the
State Convention; on iuot:on of Hon.
L. J. Smith the delegates to the Con
gressiofial Convention were iustnutul
to cast the entire' vote <?t" the county
for Hon. W. T. Crawford; delegates
to the Senatorial convention S. W.
Cooper, VV. P. Jones, W. ,1. Kincaid.
W. M. ft hea, B. M. Smith, W. W.
Rhinehart, Sidney Ashe, K. L. Wat
son, Dr. A. M. Bennett, S. C. Allison,
VV. J. Miller, M. D. Cowan, J. I. Nor
man, W. R. Cowan, T. N. Tf'1 ham,
R. L. Madison, W. 111. Thomas, J. F.
Jones, Th os* H. Hast'ngs, I). J, A Men,
I). L. Robinson, E. D. Davis, Robt.
Tatham, Wm. Wilson, Lee Hoojier.
E. Taylor, Hiram Ashe, alternates)
.lack VVike, .1. D. Zachurv, Thos. J
'Jackson, J. E. Norton, Thos. H.
Hooper, J/ A. Hunter, J. T. Collins, .
E,{ Watson, T. I. Jamerson, M. I*
Coggius, J, Si I. opard, J. E. Haw
kins, Jas. A. Galipway, H. F. Baird,
Sylvester Melton, Thos. A. Dillard,
Thos. R. Zacharv and McD. Adams.
To the judicial .toiivenjion: S. VV.
Coo|ier, Dr. A. M. Bennett, VV. H.
Thomas, W. P. lones, S. C. Allison,
I. El Jones, VV. A. Enloe, J. C. Wat
kins, VV. A. Dills, J. TI. VV o ff, M.
II. Morris, C. VV. Allen, B. M. Smith
J. T. Norman, D. L. Robinson, VV. E.
Moore, .1. J. Hook r, D. L. Ix)v:>, Sid
ney Ashe, T. X. Tatham, D. Rogers,
.I. E. Moss, L. .1. Smith, (T. A. Cox,
Win. Henson and1 J. VVr. Shelton, al
ternate's) .1 avau Davis, V. F. Brown,
J. A. Gr.lloway, Thos. A. Dillard.
Thos. R. Zacharv, McD. Adams, J
T. Colli*s, E .Watson, T. U Jamer
son, M. I.. Cogging J. S. I>'opaid, J.
E. Hawkins, J. E. Norton, Thos. H.
"Hooper, J. N. Hunter, Jas. A. C.ollo
wav, II. F. Baird and Sylvester Mel
ton. The roll of townships K?ing
called, tin- vote cast in the primary
meetings, for candidates tor the
Judgeship was reported so as to make
the vote of the county in the nomin
ating convention stand: For G. S.
Ferguson, 14.8; C.. A. Shuford, 3.5;
H. B. Carter 7; the vote of the coun
tv for solicitor was d;rccted to be
cast for Geo. A. Jone,s 14.1; Fred
Moore, 3.3; N. NVwbv 1.3; J. J.
Hooker 1 ; delegates to the Senator
ial Convention were instructed to
cast the entire vote of the county
for Hon. R- L. Leatherwood. The
Convention then procecdted to the
election of a county executive com
mittee, choosing D. L. love, Thos.
A. Cox. Dr. J. H. Wolff, B. M.
Smith and S. Wr. C >oper. On motion
of Hon. W. E. Moone, the thanks of
the convention were extended to Gen.
E. R. Hampton, the retiring chair
man of the executive committee, who
had declined re-election, for the very
efficient' manner in which he had
discharged the arduous duties of the
position, to whieh Gen. Hampton re
sponded approprately. Hon. W. E.
Moore then offered the following
resolution which was adopted, after
Two convicts, J. L. McHargue,
about 45 and Furnia Cannon, about
thirty, inmates of the State Prison
Camp at Hazelwood, were shot, ra aii
attempted escape, Wednesday momir:
ing, by Prison Guard Rogers. Me*'
Hargue, who is said to be serv'ng ^
terra of thirty years for nsurder wa&.
shot through the backbone and livery
and may die. Cannon was shot through,
the hip, and after treatment at thcL~
C. J. Harris Community hospital iii.j
Sylva, was taken to the prison camp'
at Hazel wood. McHargiue is still in
the hospital here. Cannon is said to.
have been serving a ten year term. *
The two convicts captured tho!
prison truck and were escaping in it,'
when C. J. Crisp of Sylva eame
along, and was waved down by the*
guard, who mounted Crisp's car and;
gave pursuit. The car overtook the'
truck and when the two escapees re-,
thtsed to halt the guard opened1 fire,
it is said.
The convicts have been repairing
Highway 106 on the h'll this side
of East La|H>rte. The crew -was
brought from the camp at Hazclwood,
yesterday ir.oiiiing, and all dis
mounted from the truek. The two
men who attempted to escape walked
around tlu truck, mounted the seat,
;Um1 sped away. They crossed the
river on the bridge near .the home of
John T. Mnjodv, and it is believed
that they expected to aba-.idon their
captured veh:clc and make for the
woo.fs.
The condition of McHargue is said
to be extremely grave.
ADDITIONAL HINDS PROVIDE
MORE MEN IN MARINE CORPS
Savannah, Gr., July 25. ? Until |
Congress passed the Naval a | (propria- 1
tio:i bill providing funds to maintain
the U. S. Marine Corps ,at its normal
strength, the Marine Corps did' not
have the funds to keep its ranks
filled. The new appropriations will
enable the Marine Corps to fill the
vacancies which occurred dtarinm the
|>eriod of enforced economy.
Major Louis E. Fagan in charge of
I he M;irin< Corps District of Savan
nah with office and examining rooms
'n the ik'W Post Office building, ( an
nounces that two hundred of these
vacancies have been assigned to his
district which includes Georgia, Flor
ida, North Carolina, South Caroling,
and Virginia.
Most of these vacancies will be
filkkt from'1 waiting lists of applicants
who have already submitted evidence
of their qualifications. Under the
new appropriations, however, vacan
cies will be regularly filled so thai
the opportunity to serve in the Ma
rine Corps which has been practical
ly flUosii.il during the last year will
be reopened to qualified young men
Applicants must be graduates of
high schools or have equivalent or
superior education, must be over 18
years old and over 66 inches tall. Ev
idence of educational and physical
qualifications anjdi also of charactei
and standing in home community
must be submitted by mail before ap
plicants are admitted to the examin.
ing offices.
Jackson County is represented! in
the Marine Corps by two high school
graduates; Jackson M. Guthrie, a
graduate of Sylva High School, and
Roy W. Henson, who graduated from
Glenville High School. Both were ac
cepted for this service at Savannah
during the past year.
The Marine Corps is essentially an
expeditionary force and1 its men are
trained and1 equipped for duty on
either land or sea. Marines are serv
ing on the battleships, cruisers, and
aircraft carriers; they are ashore in
foreign lands, such as China, Philip
pines, Honolulu, Panama, anjdl thv
West Indies ; and .they are serving at
many marine stations and navy yards
throughout the United States, includ
ing such cities as San Diego, Cal.,
Philadelphia, Pa., New York City,
Wjashington, D. C., and Bremerton,
Wash., near Seattle.
which the convention adjourned : Re
solved that it is the spnse of this
convention that each township in
Jackson county hold a primary for
the approaching* election and that the
county executive committee have au
thority to adopt a plan for holding
and conducting said primary and
making returns of the same to tihe
county convention for nominating the
candidate# for t&e various offices.
Funeral HeH Monday YOUNG DEMOCRATS
For Mrs. J. S. StMhreM GATHER TOMORROW
Mre. Martha Elizabeth Stillwell,
died last Sunday, at her home near
Webster. Funeral services were con
ducted!, Monday at Webster, by Rev.
G. N. Cowan, assisted by Rev. I. K.
Stafford and Rev. W. C. Reed ; and
inferiaenj. was in the Stillwell cem
etery.
Mrs. Stillwell, who before her
marriage, was Miss Altaian, was
born May 18, 1848. Her husband pre
cecfed her to the grave in 1916. She
is survived by three daughters, Mrs.
HatUe Bryson, Mrs. W. N. Cook,
MjrSf Goe. W. Sutton, three sons, I.
B. Stillwell, Webster, E. H. Stillwell,
professor of history at Western Car
olina -Teachers College, E. P. Still
well," Sylva attorney, and several
ofrandehildren and other relatives.
/
Mrs. Stillwell was the youngest
and. last surviving member of her
'family^ her two brothers, John All
man, arid* Polk Allmian, and three
sisters, Mrs. Mary Cowan, Mrs. Sar
tnh Cowan, and Mrs. Margaret Dills,
;aU having preceded her.
TODAY and
TOMORROW
, (By Prank Parker Stock bridge)
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bfSyBAKCE ... for jobkn
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The fii st experiment with compul
sory unemployment insurance in the
United States went into effect on
the first of Jtfly this year, ia Wia
con sin. The movement for a Federal
scheme of unemployment insurance is
Vrowin?L l don't think there is much
Question that we are heading toward
p social system under which men who |
are able and willing to work are
thrown Out of work through no fault
of their- own will receive unemploy
ment benefits, either from funds es
tablished: by employers, or out of.
thejr wages While they are earn
dy'state or Federal Govern
"ent,, ,
' Th?' English system, which is a
combination of all three, looks to me
the soundest. Every wage-eanaer, to
lie entitled, to unemployment insur
ant*, must consent to the deduction
of A small percentage of his wages
when he U working, which goes into
I fund to which the employers con
tribute an equal percentage and the!
government contributes its share,
that provides the much-discussed
^ritiuh dole, which seems to have
Worked pretty well throuyh the hard
times? ^yhich are now about over in
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England. ..
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(jOUNTIXS ... too imall now
County ; government, generally
speaking, is. the least efficient and
must corrupt phase of public service
in the United States. Most of our
eciihties are too small. They date
from the horse- andwwagun days. There
are few places now from which one
who has business at the county seat
cOuldlnl't make a fifty-mile trip eas
ier than he could go ten miles a few
years ago. .
There is too much overlapp:ng of
city and county governments. Few
cities are as fortunate as St. Louif
which has no county. New York is
makirigj a brave effort to rid itself
of the* five counties which are all
inside the city limits. They make
for duplication of cost and effort,
waste .of public funds and genera!
inefficiency. Those who are fighting
to retain them are the politicians who
hold county .jobs and their followers.
I thinkwe-are coming pretty clos*>
to a genera] consolidation of counties
in many parts of the United States.
P&AXBUrmES . . . first 1730
Away back in 1750 a group of
students at William and Mary Col
lege inf Virginia organized them
selves into the "Flat Hat Club,"
whibh was the parent of all Ameri
can college fraternities. Thomas Jeff
erson was one of its members. Later
, it beeame the custom to give these
fraternities Greek names and identify
them to' the outer world only by in
itials,, and as colleges multiplied^ one
fraternity might have chapters in
many colleges.
There is something about each of
these Greek letter fraternities whieh
constitutes a life-long tie between its
members. Most of America's famous
men have been members of some
fraternity. I am reminded of .that by
t&a intewsitag innovation of Alpha
Delta Pin, one of the oldest of them
FOR ANNUAL MEET
A large number of young Demo
crats from this county are expected
to attend the State Convention of the
Young People's Democratic Clubs of
North Carolina in AsheviJLe, tomor
row antf next ctay, Friday and Sat
urday. Headquarters of the conven
tion will be at the George Vander
Iriit Hotel. Approximately 400 dele
gates are expected to attend.
At a recent meeting of the Jackson
County Club it was voted that all
young Democrats from this county
wishing to attend will be recognized
as delegates. Arrivals on either Fri
day or Saturday are requested to
register at the convention |dfesk in
the George Vanderbilt immediately,
and make reservations for the Sat
urday luncheon and banquet.
District caucuses will be held in
the convention hall at places desig
nated by placards for the various
districts.
The general business session of the
convention will be at 10 o'clock Sat
urday morning. At 9:30 o'clock, del
egates to the convention will meet ia
units ->f the several congressional
districts to select members of the
executive committee for the ensuing
year.
Business sessions, morning and af -
ternoon, Saturday, will be devoted to
whatever matters arc brought before
Che convention. Among other business
matters there is almost certain to be
a proposal to change the constitution
of the organization in order to elim
inate the present fixed requirement
of -membership dues.
William ?). Cocie, Jr., retiring
chairman of the clubs of the eleventh
district and newly elected president
of the Buncombe club, said that it
has been impossible to sendi persona!
invitations to all Democrats to attend
the convention, but that all party
members old and young, arc extended
a blanket invitatioft*$6 '^ttfnd the
conferences and the "general program
events.
A change in the program was an
nounced1 recently. Instead of the 1
o'clock luncheon on Friday at the
Oeorge Vanderbilt hotel, the conven
tion committeemen havc_ accepted an
invitation extended by the American
Knka corporation to have lunch at
one of the plant cafeterias and to
make a tour of the plant Friday af
ternoon. The annual banquet will be
held at the hotel Saturday night., at
which time the following speakers
will be heard: Senator Robert R.
Reynolds, Asheville; Congressman R.
L. Doughton, of the eighth Congres
sional district; and Clyde R. Jloev,
Shelby attorney.
Other speakers scheduled to ap
pear on the program are Governor
J. C. B. Ehringhaus, Senator Josiah
William Bailey, T. X. Griee, Albert
Coates, Charles \f. Johnson, Jule
Warren, I^erov Martin, Fred L. Seely,
Stanley Winborne, Dillard Gardner.
Henry Brandis, Jr., A. .T. Maxwell,
Attorney-General Dennis G. Brummit,
William J. Cocke, Jr., Thomas New
bom, Jr., Judge Sam Cathey and J.
Wallace Wlinborne.
The convention will convene at 10
o'clock Friday morning and business
will be concluded' Saturday after
noon. A motorcade will be formed
Sunday morning for a tour of th<
Great. Smoky Mountains National
park, terminating at Franklin, where
the Maeon county club wil l?e host
to delegates at a picnic.
Mrs. May Thompson Evans, of
High Point, is the state president.
Doyl? Alley, of Wavnesville, is being
boosted by Western Counties to suc
ceed her.
all, in holding its annual convention
the other day on a cruise to Bermuda.
And I was specially interested to
note that a great educator from my
own section of the country was elect
ed' to the presidency of Alpha Delta
Phi, of which esident.
RooJ?eve" *?tone
of o X, SHOE SHOP, / nem
mi Main Street i and
heau J "hose
rowiu | fousa
tonic K^s Work M chooJ
crews oi % s one
of the ran ? ts the
most honor . Wit can
be jfiven to a lOSt ^ristian
gentleman. A * Delta
PW. he will 1mm
ben of that 1 ernity
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