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The Huron Expositor, 1938-05-27, Page 2.11,044.1 f.d't Huron Expositor Established 1860 eith McPhail McLean, Editor. rublished at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- ry Thursday afternoon by McLean Bros Subscription rates, $1.50`a year in advance; foreign, $2.00 a year. Single copies, 4 cents each. tee re, TT • Advertising rate on application. SEAFORTH, Friday, May 27, 1938. The Federal Works Programme Announcement has been .made by the Dominion Government that it is about to launch a federal works pro- gramme which will necessitate the spending of some $40,000,000. That will be exceedingly good news to many people in Canada, be- side the unemployed, and included in that class will be contractors, manu- facturers and others who have per- sonal axes to grind. As for the rest of the people, which comprise a very large majority of the population, they -might be excused for express- ing some serious doubt\ about the theory of spending to make one rich. Such a policy has not worked out when adopted by other nations. Par- ticularly is this noticeable across the line, where some billions of dollars have been spent for recovery and where to -day the sole objeet attain- ed seems to have been the bringing about of a recession, which is proving as disastrous to the general business of the country aswas the depression against which it was aimed and which it was ,eupposed to cure. However, it must be admitted that if the Government's forty millions is -Spent judiciously, it may, in many cases, prove to be a wise investment. Spending some millions of dollars on improving tourist highways might readily be called an investment, and a very paying one at that, as the tourist trade is already bringing mil- lions of dollars of outside money in - e to Canada every year, and if that trade is properly looked after and encouraged, those millions can be doubled. Spending money on drought re - .habilitation in the Western Prov- inces is also a wise investment- In fact, it is something that has to be done, and should be done as rapidly as possible, if the crushing burden of relief expenditures in these Prov- inces is to be lightened. Coming much nearer home, we would say that spending some of this money on the Grand River conser- vation project will undoubtedly prove a wise and paying investment. It will not only safeguard the land and the farming industry over a wide portion of old settled districts in Ontario, but provide ample op- portunity for work for the present unemployed over the counties af- fected by the project. We have become so accustomed, in --recent years, to hear money spoken of in terms of millions and billions, that we speak quite glibly about the Government's forty million spend- ing campaign. But forty million dollars is really a lot of money even When it is spent in making the wis- est investments. On the other hand, if it is to be spent in playing Santa Claus to a favored and greedy few, it is just forty million dollars too much. • 1 •County Councils To Stay In a statement given out to the press last week, Premier Hepburn has given a new lease of life to coun- ty councils. His government, he said, had no intention of abolishing them at the present time. We can not help but think it was a wise statement for the Premier to make. Wise in the light of votes at any rate. That does not mean, -however, that the County Council, as a legis- lative -body, -has now a permanent of life. Far from it. Premier may change his Mind in Astant future, and if he all pr�babthty some/ Oine other GOV,. .4% adopted by the. County Councils, or rather the county councillors, and the electors who send them there. If County Councils get down to brass tacks and run the business of the counties as it should be done— tht is, economically and without fear or favor; as aewhole and not in- dividual parts; assume responsibili- ties which are theirs and theirs alone, instead of trying to shoulder them upon the Government, educate their electors to the fact that there has to be give as well as take; that county improvements have to be paid for out of thetaxpayers money, and that nine times out of ten the coun- ty will be more lenient on the tax- payer than the Government—then County Councils will continue to ex- ist for a long time to come. During recent years County Coun- cils have given up voluntarily re- sponsibility after responsibility, the theory being that the Government had more money, why not let them pay for things. And the Government has paid. And at the swine time the people have paid through the nose to meet these same Government bills. In the meantime, Premier Hep - burn's announcement has played sad havoc with many a County Coun- cil's programme at their June ses- sions. Dozens upon dozens of reso- lutions condemning the formerly be- lieved policy of the Government to abolish the County Councils, will have to go by the board. Speeches long and laboriously pre- pared will have no point, and thoughts of ordinary business have been too long delayed to produce any real eloquence. The Premier should have had more consideration than to create such a distressing sit- uation. It is inflation at its worst • Years A.gone Interesting Hems Picked From The Huron Expositor of Fifty and Twenty-flve Years Ago. Saskatchewan Can Be Saved That is the statement made by Premier Aberhart of Alberta, in a speech on Saturday night last dur- ing his Saskatchewan election cam- paign. But Mr. Aberhart was careful to qualify the statement somewhat. He added that Saskatchewan could be saved—but only by Social Credit— and only by giving him one chance to do it. Considering that Mr. Aberhart has proved himself utterly incapable of reducing the theory of Social Credit to the every clay business of his own Province of Alberta where- by the peeple would be benefitted, as he so repeatedly promised; we won- der at his reference to Social credit at all. In fact to the majority of the peo- ple of Canada, outside the people of Alberta, and, apparently, some in Saskatchewan, Social Credit, as a panacea for all the ills, government and otherwise, was as dead as fil. proverbial door nail: Even Premier Aberhart has discarded it. No longer do we hear anything about twenty-five dollars a month for every man, woman and child in his Province. Not a murmur. Mr. Aberhart is not eaying anything about it in Saskatchewan either. His party has dropped the Douglas the- ories for something practieal some- thing that really will pay dividends. The policy of the party is not now to bring about Social Credit, but to b ri ng about revenge: Revenge against the whole creditor class, not only in Alberta, IF t in the whole of Canada. Only the debtor Will here- after be considered. And under the conditions that have prevailed in the Western Provinces for some years, the debotor vote has become a Very influential one. Mr. Aberhart has graduated from the leadership of Social Credit to the leadership of the "People." And he is going to lead them against the sonless Government at Ottawa; against the banks; against the peo- ple of the East, and against every kind of creditor who seeks to collect what is due him. "The people," the Western Pre- mier. adds, "are hoodwinked under the Liberal, Conservative and other methods. Just give me one chance." And, perhaps, the people of Sas- khtehewan will. As we say the deb- tor Vote is a nice thing to haVt at one's back when roaming a, Wstr/ From The Huron Expositor May 30, 1913 Osifer of Lazy Meadows 1, Isabelle, the threeeyear-old daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Elliott, of Dungannon, was drowned on Monday evening of last Week in the river that rune through the village. On Sunday afternoon last a horse was grazing in •Mr. Mittleholtz field at Zurich and fell (into the big drain that drains part of the swamp. It sank so deep into the muck that the neighbors had to pull it out with ropes. Mr. S. 'Bickner, of Stephen Twp., recently received $75 for fifteen live Kanas which he sold to Mr. Charles Fritz, .Mrs. James Martin, of Tuckersmith, paseed away at her ;home on the. and concession at the age of 47 years, 'llue band boys of Hensel' appear- ed in their new uniforms for the Rest titne on Satur;lao evening. Among the many Seaforth boys, gradtratee of the Collegiate Institute, who are making their mark in their ekosen professions, special mention might be made of Messrs. Ed. Whit- taker, Charles Sills and Bruce Waugh. Messrs. 'Sills and Waugh are in charge of a party which has left Win- nipeg for a district north of the Prov- ince of Manitoba, to make surveys. Mr. Ed. Whittaker goes to the south, eastern part of British Columbia and is in charge of a party to do paierin.to- lological work. The 33rclaHuron Regiment goes to camp at London on June 16th for 12 days. Messrs. Forbes Bros.' ditching ma chinhas been at work for some days on the farm of Harry Tyndall, Tuckersmith. Its work has been wit- e.essed and admired by many farm- ers. Messrs. Armstrong & Company,. of aeaforth, have purchased the butcher - leg business, formerly carried on by Messrs. Everett. & Son. On Thursday evening of last week a number of Seaforth young people met at the borne of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Soole and presented their daughter, Miss Florence Soole, with a handsome cut glass water pitcher and a dozen' glass tuen,blers, in recogni- tion of her approaching marriage. _ Mr. Michael Murdie, Clerk of Mc- Killop, goes to Toronto next week as a delegate to the Presbyterian Gen- eral Assembly from Cavan Church, Winthrop_ _Mr. William Snider, an enterprise ing farmer near Dashwood, has five incubators at work at his home hatieh- ing chickens. Each incubator holds 144 eggs and; they have hatched two lots Since starting this spring. • - Mr. Jacob Kellerman, of Dashwood, has purohased the flour mills in that village and is having them thormigh- ly overhauled rend made up-to-date in every respeet. (By Harry J. BOW , . • emeeememmisamemeemeimmilememearmaiii. "SPEPIALISTS" 6 • I was getting just about as fed up as possible ore that hospitaL It's just sort of a slow torture, to lie there and look out those windOws and see everything just. springing up into bloom. I could just imagine what it was like back on Lazy' Meadows. On a damp, steamy sort of day like this there would be a few wraith of clouds hovering down over the marsh. Neighbor Higgins, he's just too hoots and a holier over the creek, would be over about One time in the morn- ing. to borrow something. Grunter, our discontented Berk, would be root- ing and complaining around the old straw stack. Solomon, the Gander, world be evaddeing around in plea- sure and wallowing in that pool that comes fromthe drip from the water - tank . . . But my soliloquizing came to a rude end when the door Opened and that young doctor came In. He put on his best beside manner, and sat down on the side of the bed. "Hmram," he says in that exasperat- ing way, 'that makes you wonder if you're all cured or standing on the side of your own grave. Then he starts tapping on my chest, cocks his head on one side like Suchaus(uch our Collie pup, &yang to find out if there is a groundhog in a hole, and stops to stroke his chin as if he was lost in deep contemplation. "Not so good. this morning," he states after an thour of deliberation. "Say, listen, you young whipper- snapper," I flew off this morning, "you are supposed to be a speeialist. One of those birds who have knowl- edge just sticking out of their ears, and yea don't semi to know yet what is the matter with me." , "This ie a very comilcated ease," he comes back with advise abso- lute quiet and nest for at least a month. You're a nervous type." That finished me. Nerves! I haven't had such a thing as nerves for ryears, and no cock -sure young bird,. just out of school was' Weil* to tell me that I badi nerves. That fired him right on the spot, tend I called en the nurse and told her to Call Dr. Hawkins, down at Lazy Meadows. She wasn't any too sure, as to whe- ther. she should or not, but I guess the young gent gave up in despera- tion. 1 fretted and fumed all morning. Then 1 was looking out the window and I saw that old (career his abeam up 'to ..the front -of the hospital. He dived out through the door, and knocked his hat off in the same way that he's been doing ever since he first had a car. Then he stopped to sort of square his almulders, brushed his hat a little and picked -up his old - black bag. Doc Hawkins never was much on fanciness, and from where I could see out the window, I• just thought he would be feeling like me out of place in a swanky hos- pital. The nurse showed him in, and he just waved her away. Then he set the bag down and took a look at me. "What in the name of kingdom come are you doing in here?" 1 hard( to explain then that my niece 'had been down at Lazy Meadows and when I developed a little fever he had bundled me toe to this city hos- pital. I told' him everything, and he just sat there and looked at me. Af- ter I was through he sort of exam- ined me, and then laughed . "Phil, 1 know you too well to say you were sick. Mind you, you're his patient and all have to get his per- mission before I take you home." After a while the nurse brought in my clothes, and I got ready. You know I never appreciated( old Doc Hawkins as much inalterly,Ree, as did when we were ohugging along in that old car of his. The next time I see that niece of mine . well, you can guese the rest • JUST A SMILE OR TWO • A church congregdtion was giving a reception to a. former pastor and his wite. The present pastor in the receiving line greeted his. predecessor heartily. "Ale how pleneant, to see you again," he said, "And is this your mast charmeng wife?" The other minister fixed his host with an accusing stare. "This," he said, "is my only wife." • A raagistrate in a semi' town once fined a drunk five shillings or seven days' imprisonment. The defendant pleaded that be had not even one shilling ill his possession. If ye hatina' gotten drung wi' the money," said the magistrate, "ye could' bare peyed yer as a'richt." • From The Huron Expositor June 1, 1888 A new bridge is being erected on the railway near Kippen and there are some bhirty-six men employed. Messes. W. Prendergast, John H. Kerr and George Hammill have re- turned( home froba Toronto, having completed their present course at the rei ye rsi fp. Mr. E. Saunders, who has been the accountant in the Bank of Commerce here for some time, leaves to -day for Jarvis, where he will take a similar position. .A petition is being circulated by the ladies and is being largely signed, asking the County Council to estab- lish a Poor Reuse or House of Re- fuge. Mr. M. Pillman has been appointed agent for the Ontario Mutual Life As suradce Co., in Seaforth. Mr. Tbomas Hendry is preparing for the ereeeion of a new residence on the Foundry property near the Collegiate. Mr. George Sproat is erecting a large new frame barn on the north side of the road Tuckersmith. A few days ago while Mr. H. Lee - bold, Jr., of Zurich, was working on an edging machine in Mr. S. Rennie's mill, he got part of a finger cut off with the edger.' Mr. John Pollock, of 13ayfield, has opened a sbow roone opposite Mr. T. Cameron's harness shop. Mr. James McIntosh, of the Mill Road, has a colt for which; he was offered and refueed the sum of $150 in cash when it was only four days old. Mr. John Moore, of Wingfhara, wire had hes leg amputated in London re- cently-, leas returned home and is get- ting along nicely. As Mr. and Mrs. D. Hicks, of Us - borne, were driving their horse north- ward, it refused to cross the bridge near the village and backed the buggy weer the. bauk, upsetting the occupants out, resulting in the frac- ture of Mrs( Hicks(' log. The 24th of May celebration at Ex- eter was a emecess in every way. A' large crowd had gathered at 9 a.m. Among those who distinguished) them- selves in the sports wre; William Falland, 13raund, George Ecrett, Billings, W. Grundy and John O'Brien, of Exeter; McFadden), -of 0Iandeboye; Doupe, of Kirkton, -end Dallas, of Brucefield. In the roller rink about 400 were Present and a wrestling match and other sports took pletee. On Tuesday night of last week lambs' belainging to Thoraa,s Shutt, Thomas Bownean and John Prout, of Bruised's, were Worried and nearly killed by a dog. A lady Lad a favorite pet dog's/which she called 'Perchance." "What a singular name for your beautiful pet," said a visitor, "and I would like to ask how you came to choose it." "Oh," ,s he drawled languidly, "it was named after Lord Byron's dog. You remember w(hen. lee speaks of it and say, "Perrohance ray dog will howl!" • -"Oliver Twist was a great contor- tionist." "A fusilade is the bones of an air - "Transverse is crazy poetry, writ- ten while tbe neet was in a trance." "Triumph it -three enorts on a tuba" Give Children Time to Grow (By Aegelo Patri in; "Your Life") • _Young Man Des. Fred Selves, aged nineteen years only .,son of Mr. and Mrs. Johre Selves, of Usborne, died in St. 'Jose eph's Hospital, London, on Tuesday.„ Ort Wedn.esday of last week Fred was taken seriously ill ,and was 'rushed to St. Josephai Hospital where he ua- dement an oaeration: for a ruptured appendix. He appeared to be doing well but took a bad turn and passed avvray. -He was a fine lad and hire passing vrillbe much regretted. Be- sides his parents he is survived by two sisters, Helen and Mabel. Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hunkin, of town, are grandparents. The funeral was held: Thursday afternoon with interment ha the Exeter cemetery, Bev. Mr, Main of Thames' Road, was in charge - The sympathy of the community goen out to the bereared—Exeter Times - Advocate. Accident On Sunday afternoon while Mr. John Hunkin was motoring on Main. Street with his parents, Mr. and alas. Fred Hunkin, ,he turned from the - Main Street onto a side street at the home of his parent. A car approach- ing from behind driven by Mr. Rus- sell Trott, of London, was in the aon of passing the Hunkin car when the. driver applied the brakes and tine stopping his car the driver put his; elbow 'through the car door window.. The dryer placed blie blame for the aceiderut on Mr. Hi:makes. failure to signal that he was turning. 'Chief' Norway was called to the scene and! following some discussion( Mr. Irtm---" kin settled for $6.—Exeter MmesAd- vocate. Bequest of $200 The members of Knox Church aux- iliary of the Women's Missionary So - Meter were -deeply. . touched when it was announcedahy, the preekleart, at their meeting on Tuesday afternoon, that the late Mrs. Maciserazie, Canter - on Street, had made a bequest of $200 to the Society. In grateful re- membrance of Mrs. Mackenzie's inter- est in the Women's Missionary Sae ciety it was decided that the legacy - should be sent to assist in the work. being done in Manchuria.--Goderich _ Signal -Star. Molasses on the Rampage Molasses, bailing, thick and gooey, created a sticky mess at the Big Mill on Thursday night last when the. heating eystera, inadvertently left on,. caused' molasses to boil out of the - huge storage tank. The molasses roll- ed down a gradual slope, across rail- way tracks, and poured into the har- bor before the damage was discovered" and the heat turned off. The molas- ses is used in the making of a feed for chickens.—Goderech Signal -Star. Foot Crushed David McKenzie, Ashfield Town -- ship young man, was taken to Alex- andra Hospital on Saturday with a, painfully injured foot, erushedo by a heavy piece of metal wan- uneinedepg a, truck. A. 6 weeree--- no bones were bin and McKenzie - ears released from the hospital tha- first of the week.--Godenich Signal -- Star. Grain Shipments Afraik. 004• eree e areereenee Children do not grow under a forc- ing syatem. They are confused and slowed down by it. They must have time to grow, time. to experiment, to try out life, to ccrasidere well what good they find in it. Healthy growth of body, healthy sanity of mind, de- pend upon leisurely growth. The Cre- ator set the law when He Allowed the children of men twenty -odd years of growing time. There why should we hurry them? What's all the rush about? Isn't there time for us to stop and take a long breath? Cana we wait long en- ough to see where - we are leading, driving and shoving the children? What's the geed of getting to the end of the road if we have left the real child behind us?—whieh is pre- cisely what this hurry 'very often brings upca us. The baby in his tub takers hold of the washcloth and dabs at his face, broadly missing the mark. He is trying herd to wash (his face but his mother cannot wait.' His hinandmiss efforts take too much time so she seizes the cloth and does the job up I herself, chiding the baby if he cries in protest.. Little sister takes the broom just to see if she Can sweep as mother does. Maybe she hits "her cdevn head, tangles her legs with the handle and falls down. Left to herself, she will rise again and start afreen, but mother, all impatience to get on with the work, takes the broom, lifts the child from the floor, and sends her to her dolls. "Come, come, Ian in a hurry, This work has to be done by eleven o'clock. Now keep out of my wayalike a good Mend so I earn get done." Mother's daily week is undefeated- ly important, but is it so important that it cannot spare five minutes for the training -and development of the child in the home? The ohild for whom the work is done? The oleild's work is highly ineporterat because It 'offers him the one real way to growth and intelligent adjustment to life., Five minutes' granted the baby to rperinnerbt with the washcloth will s(oon, teaoh him how to Wash his own face; five minutes to the child try- ing out Ache broom, especially if sho is given a broom of her own size, wIll 00011, make her helpful about the house. Children trained he this way will soon become independent of moitiherly attendance. Is not that the idea of all our training? What bet - teal use could be .made of the time? By and by the children enter school. What happens there? About the tame thirng. Parente are ambi- teems for their children, to get aimed ae fast es pliesibie. Some are ,so aMbItious that taey force the ohil- aren to Work beyond their ability. lates, Diereen Wanted to rtherW the neighbor% that her child Wag the batattaeat egad best teeing theta So b6 ' JO- IiiWt #0,„. • An Engliebettrai, Irishman an& et Scotebinan entered a cele and order- ed lie6,rrhie leitadr.nagWT4lishmarbuilystr.ueciseoetiaeh::: to (take hire 0 ,tit , e. -, o ' ?.. •Te Xristbitikeat Wes' hifq,. 04. ',. • , - „:„,1,,kr„,,,,,..,,,,,-,,,34. '7,,, 1 ‘iSettei)ilitilt,.*11(4. :,. ',,-, •. „, „: a• e of her rightful age and place. "How old are you, in school, Bet- ty?" "In school I'm 91X, but at borne I'm five." "Smart girl. Now remember! When the teacher says, 'How old are you'?, yOU tell her, 'Six.'" "Six," nodded Betty. "Six in school and five at home." Betty was entered in the first grade along with the six-yeareads, many of whom had had a year in kin- dergarten. She showed up like a sore thumb among the efficient chil- dren. She could not take directions that they took easily. She could not use her hands so effectively as they could. -She could not do the reading exercises, nor the number work. "An undeveloped child," said the teacher, "Either sthe is defective, or she is not aix years old. How old are you, 13etty?" "Six in school, but at home am. five." "Well," said her 'mother, 'maybe she isn't six yet, but you give her a chance. She is the brightest child you ever saw. No, don't put her in kindergarten. They only play there and I want her to learn right off. You just give her a chance and she will show you bow smart elle is." -That is about the worst treatment that a beginner can receive. He is outclassed at the start. He is made to feel hinebelf a failure when if he had been given time to develop he would have succeeded easily. A child must never be allowed to feel art the start of any importanut project such as his entering school, beginning a new subject, taking the first step in a new venture. He mint be helped to succeed, and above all, given time. have known parents so amrious 40 have their child the youngest gradu- ate, the youngest college entrant, the most biaeliant student in the sohool, that they forced the chavii fila _consider marks the only end to be achieved' in school. They carne to school and protested because Jehn: got eighty- eight ill composition and the teacher might just as well have given him ninety; because bus got ninety-five In algebra. and. the teacher might just as well have made it a hunerea and not counted the little mistake in signs or ,exponents. These parents wanted the higheet pousible marks on the ehild'e record beemise they wanted po. skip hind a grade, Usually he was la year ahead of his age already, but the younger he graduated the .higher the hon,r for father ,and mother. The chi' caught the idea and argued over &e- ery mark that waa giveh him. Sheer waste of time and einergyl &etool is a place where chilaren, green( not a place vebere they collct, marks and medals and nettreadlitenia. We echotf1. people are jut as bad as the utterly arbitioUs parentea We are in a great harry. All daed10 ,t,e4ittio4od PAO 3) An unusual activity is taking place on the CN.R. line through Clinton, at the present time due to heavy ship- ments of grain which are coming in boatloads down .the Great Lakes and being traneported by rail for shipment to the Old Country from Montreal_ An average of sixty-five carloade day pass through Clinton, necessit- ating extra freight trains, To date about one million bushels &aye been. moved, and two Million bushels have yet to be shipped. The grain being moved is owned largely by American interests, and the bulk of the ship- ment consists of corn, for which there is a g'reat demand, due to drought in other countries—Clintou N ws-Record. To Receive C: A. Degree Among those who Will be admitted to the profession of fuN-fledged ehar- tered accountants in Alberta, (having pasoed th(e recent examination set by the University of Alberta senate, is. Morgan C. French, of Wetaskiwine who has been articled with Nash & Naal, of Edmonton Morgan is a 'son of Mr. V. C. French, publisher of the Wetaskiwin Times, and a grandson of Mrs. Florenoe French, of Clinton. —Clinton NewoRecord( Lady Bowlers Hold Card Party The Ladies.' )3owling Club treed a 500 party Friday evening The host- esses were Mrs. R. J. McLauchlin, Mrs. D. A. Rann, Mrs. R. Hanalltn- Mrs. F. Santis, Mrs. Getnge• Sarais, Mrs. A. Baeker, Mrs( H. 0. Walker, Mrs, A. Wilson, Mrs. George North- wood and Miss Jessie Little. One hun- dred a ed eighty-four attended: the party and hatch was served at the Carnegie Library. , The ladies' prize was woo try Mrs. James Bryans and the gentlemen's. prize by Robert. Downing.—Bnisses Pont." Preak Duck Born A visit to the farm. of Mrs. Elwin Killough, of Auburn will diselose quite a freak of nature. A duck, ,hatched recently, was, upon exa.mrina Non, found to have four legs. The tiSI:acnkelarisdji.iving and dieing firte.—Blyte Oiitains Master of Science Degree Robert Weir, son of Mr. and Mrs, John Weir, bee been succesaful in, ob-, Mining (his Master of Science Degree from the University of Alberta. Rob- ert will continue his research work for the University during the sum- men—Winghara Advance-Titnes. Trapped Large Owl Crows 'have been bothering the chickens of Mr. Janeee Elliott, Con- cession 4, Tunaberey, so his son, Har- old, decided tie do something about {. He set a seining trap on the toe. a pole, and on Thursday morning f und a large grey den caught in it. He brought it to 'town and we mea - Aired its Wing srpread at over re feet. IM captivity only MONA a few hours, as Mr. EtIlott releaSoll It ($4 main Street, 55(11 11 qule3d$, diappeared, aP- Patently note the worse for its ex - r^!' 4 Vaasa.' a' EY:"'W*‘? .366' a114641111' .-).. eerean; eaead'arkaidaVa(I.4delthellalkarkirlal) e're:,!ree 71,