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SEAFORTH, Friday, November 30
Other Towns Are Acting
• In its leading editorial last week,
the Picton Times said: . "The Times
is unequivocally in favor of the town
fathers proceeding with installation
of a sewerage system for the town
of Picton. It is many years over-
due.
"Council took its courage in its
hands at Thursday night's meeting.
It looked the problem squarely in
the face and wisely decided to
accept the widespread ---sentiment
among citizens that Picton has
reached an empasse where it is on
the verge of becoming a 'veritable
cesspool'."
There are many towns in Ontario
that have reached the same conclu-
sion as' the town of Picton. That
they, too, have reached an empasse
where they are on the verge of be-
coming "veritable cesspools." Among
thein are Paris,' and coming Muth
nearer home, the town of Clinton,
both' of which are preparing to in-
stal sewerage systems.
And there are other towns, Sea -
forth among them, who will have to
take the matter of installing sewer-
age systems under consideration in
the immediate years before them, if
they harbor any hope of sharing any
post-war expansion of industry, or
even keeping what they have.
Aside altogether from the view-
point of health, which is by no
means a minor, consideration, the
sewerage problem in Ontario towns
of any size has reached a stage in
recent years, where either the towns
themselves, or the Provincial Board
of Health, will have to take some
action. And we believe it would be
much cheaper' in the end for those
towns if they would take the initia-
tive.
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Boosting The Pap
,Members of the British House of
Commons, like, those at Ottawa, are
•going to get a pay boost. And as in
the case 'at Ottawa, it is certainly
coming to them—only a little more
so.
No longer can the British House
of Commons be called a rich man's
club Aivhen the majority of its Labor
• members are fresh from the farms
,
and docks, or just up from the coal
mines. Consequently the House is
riot the sinecure it was before the
first p'1,r, for 'a few wealthy poli-
ticians and ,.gentlemen who want a
seat' in parliament to increase their
• social standing.
Like the average Canadian Mem-
ber of Parliament, the, British mem-
ber's day is a long and hard one. He
has committees in the mornings;
reads the woes of his constituents
sent in by mail or 'which come in
person. Then there are daily ses-
sions of the House which start early
,Lin the afternoon, and often continue
until midnight.
But the members of the British
Commons receive a good deal less
money than those in Canada. In
contrast to the $4,000 of the Cana-
dian member, the. British lawmak-
ers receive only £600 ($2,400), of
which £100 is tax exempt. And that
does not go very far in London,
where even a moderately comfort-
able room runs from $25 a week up.
Unlike Canadian M.P.'s too, Bri-
tish members have no offices of their
and no goVernment-paid secre-
`ries to handle Correspondence or
ite,Illejr, letters. Then they buy
efit, 'oWn stationery ad, until A
tlitie AO, they. furnished all
aege tee, Recently the gov-
*,•kelapted bit to provide
hijj rM1ge on .offiefa1 mail,
aliments on.
ceSsicon to the pinched pOeltetbOOks
aireat Many Of its It
Cut, the price of mealsand eitminat-
ed tipping in the Ho ie. of Com-
mons dining room, w la for long
was looked upon as beihg one of the
finest' in the world.
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What Is He Kicking About?
The New' York Herald -Tribune
says that Harold LaFountain, 30 -
year -old farm hand of Hudson Falls,
N.Y., set out determined' to fetch
home a deer. Mr. LaFountain re-
ported 24 hours later that he would
not have gone a -hunting if he had
any • idea what would occur. The
farmhand borrowed a .22 rifle,
tracked down a deer and wounded
it. The deer charged at him; he
grabbed it by the antlers, wrestled
it to the ground, and killed it with
a _ rock. Dragging the 150 -pound
eight -point animal home, he became
lost, fell over a 20 -foot ledge and
suffered cuts, bruises and a back in-
jury.
Well, we ask, what has Mr. La
Fountain got to kick about?" He
got a deer, didn't he? We were out
on the same business a week or so
'ago, when we ecountered most of
the experiences he underwent, in
addition to getting frozen—but we
didn't get a deer. And that makes
a heap of difference in the length of
time it takes to convalesce.
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Things Come To Light
Since the occupation of Germany
by Allied, armies, which mad avail-
able secret documents of all kinds,
many strange things have come to
light, and the outside world has
learned, of the unscruplous swindles
the Nazi authorities have commit-
ted on the German people.
One was the forcing of the Ger-
man workmen to piirchase out of
their pay a "Volkswaggonen," the
people's automobile, which the work-
ingman never saw, but went to the
army instead of to those who had
paid for them. Another was the dis-
tribution of Hitler's "Mein Kampf,"'
which every German had to buy as
an outward proof of his loyalty to
the Fuehrer. This realized for the
author the largest royalties that any
writer, the world over, ever re-
ceived, which royalties were free of
income tax too.
But a newer and a more ghoulish
swindle has come to light, the .great-
est swindle of all, and it shows up
the absolute contempt of the Nazis
for the ordinary human rights of
the German people.
This was the charge of $1,601.12
for jailing, judging, hanging or be-
heading and burying of every Ger-
man charged with treason. This in-
cluded court fees, wages of the exe-
• cutioner, rental of the coffin, bed and
board in jail, fees for the death judg-
ment and its publication. And last,
a charge of 16-zents for the use of
the coffin pillow. Judging by the
countless executions that marked
the Nazi rule from start to finish,
this must have been an exceedingly
profitable sideline.
But the Most curious thing about
the whole business is that the Ger-
man people were so gullible and so
frightened of their leaders that the,r
not only paid them for the execution
of their own family members, but
that millions of them still have no re-
gret that their leaders from the start
kept on leading them from one swin-
dle on to another' until the greatest
of all — that Germany's military
power and its super race could con-
quer and rule the' world.
And if they feel any_regret at all
it seems to be the regret that they
couldn't make good their boast.
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• Striking At Prejudice
(Ottawa Journal)
In the highest tradition of British jurisprudence
is a judgment just delivered in Toronto by Mr.
Justice T. Miler Mackay of the High Court of
Ontario. He declared void a. clausp. in a deed
which stipulated that a certain piece of land was
"not to be sold to Jews or persons of objection-
able nationality."
Race hatred is a poisonous weed that should
haveno place in the soil of Canada. Indeed,
it is a dank weed which, in the light of what
came to Germany, with its fineat flowering the
centration camps of Oswieeim: • and' Belsen,
should have no place in any civiliZed country.
Theories Of racial • auperiority, of a, "master
race" are denied and denten:iced by all history,
are the traits of barbarieta.
• All honor, then, be Iteiller Mackay, Ite not
Only spoke of the noblest in BritiSh la; he de
-
elated. ler. Cartadara loyalty to the rutted
Nations' pledge of 'lath; in the ititidatnefital
riglite, In the sliltY 03114 Worth et
•itivUMW peraOn, eanfti rIghte Of men
Iortoo at tailotik 100an aU
etide
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From The Huron Expositor
Dec,ernis6- 10, 1920
Mr. Richard Robinson, of Tucker -
smith, received an agreeable surprise
a few days 4o when he received a
cheque for $1,419 Qom the official ad-
ministration in British Columbia. The
money is from the estate of his son,
who died in the West two years ago,
without leaving a will.
Miss Mamie Siren, of Bruceneld,
who has been visiting in Westminster
returned home last wbels.
Mr. Alex Monteith, Kippen, ship-
ped 180 barrels of apples from that
station this fall to his brother, Henry
01 Powasson.
Mr. Jame e Beattie, Seaforth, mow-
ed his lawn on Friday, Dec. 3rd.
Miss Bessie McMichael, of the
Bank of Commerce staff, is able to
be out after her recent illness.
C. Aberhart, J. G. *linen, A. A.
McLennan and J. F. R4s attended a
gathering of Shriners in London on
Wednesday.
Mr. R. M. Jones, who has been the
local manager of the Dominion Bank
for some years, has been transferred
to Guelph and his place here is being
taken by Mr. Brough McDonald, of
Toronto.
Mr. F. T. Fowler, principal of Sea -
forth public school, was called to To-
ronto last week owing to a serious
accident to his brother, Dr. Fowler.
The annual meeting of the U.F.O.
was held in Carnegie Library on
Wednesday of last week with the fol-
lowing officers elected for •the com-
ing ye: Pres., J. H. Scott; sec.,
Bert Ire; Directors; Hullett, Bert
Irwin and Thos. Livingstone; Tucker -
smith, Thos. Coleman and T. G. Shil-
lingiaw; McKillop, John McDowell, J.
M. Eckert and N. R. Dorrance.
Monday was a busy day at the stock
yards at Brucefield when six loads 'of
stock were consigned to Toronto, .sev-
eral of which were entries for the
Fat Stock Show. Those who went in
charge of the show animals were
Peter McKenzie, ,John McGowan,
Frank Love and Appleton Elcoat. Mr.
George Hill, the shipper for the U.
F. 0., had two loads under his, care.
Mr. Benjamin Snell, of Constance,
arrived home from the West on Mon-
day evening after •spending the past
three months with relatives and
friends in Saskatchewan and British
Columbia.
Miss Mabel Livingstone, who is at-
tending the Normal School at Strat-
ford, spent Sunday at her home in
Hullett.
• ,,z How ar, soy
By- Use time Oda reaches print,
snow will probably have reached us
here at Lazy Meadows. At the mom-
ent we are waiting for it, feeling -a
trifle snug because of the stories
that keep • coming 1r about snow-
storms in almost all other _parts of
Canada.
We did have a flurry one day that
put a thin frosting of white over the
ground, but it didn't lust very long.
Up until the other day -there were
still some hardy flowers blooming in
the garden. The ground is firm •and
we haven't been troubled too much
by mud. Our wheat"still looks pret-
ty good, but I'm not certain ,how this
open season will affect it. My father
always hoped ,for a blanket of snow
to protect his wheat.
In some respects I would be just
as happy if the snow did come. The
anidety\ of waiting for it and the op-
en weather which lias allowed us to
get caught up with our work are two
conflicting - factors. 1 find myself
squinting out the sqniXo-w—first thing
each morning, half expecting to see
snow on the ground.
This season has also confounded
• From The Huron Expositor
December 6, 1895
Mr. Wm. Scott, of Brucefield, is
having a windmill erected at his ware-
house, to be used in elevating the
grain.
Wm. Ferguson and Robert Erwin,
of Bayfield, have returned from Ket-
tle Point.
The sleighing is now
the vicinity of Hensell
made good use of.
Mr. 'James Petty, Hensall, who has
been spending, a number of months
at his old home in Hensall, England,
returned home, this week, accompan-
ied by his niece, Miss Croysdale.
Mr. Robert Paterson, Jr., Hensall,
is busily engaged in ,completing the
inside carpenter work of Mr. Morris'
fine new brick dwelling on Richmond
Street.
Miss Agnes Murray who has filled
the position of organist of Carmel
Church, Hensel]; for a number of
years, giving the utmost satisfaction/
has tendered her resignation, which
the congregation is sorry to. accept.
Mr. John McMillan, M.P. for South
Huron, and Dr. McDonald, M.P. for
East Huron, with other leading 'mem-
tiers of the House of Commons, have
been taking a hand in the big politi-
cal struggle in North Ontario this
week.
Mr. James Constable will open up
a barbershop in the Commercial Ho-
tel, Seaforth.
The farm on the 2nd concession,
Tuckersmith, H.R.S., ,owned by Mr.
George Sproat, and for some years
occupied by Mr. Hugh J. Grieve, has
been purchased by Mr., John McGre-
gor, 2nd concession, Stanley, for the
sum of $9,050.
On Friday last Messrs. Hugh Brown
of Exeter; Andrew Curry, Harpur-
hey; Jas. McDonald, Jr., of Morris,
and Robt. Somers and Wm. Trewar-
tha, of .McKillop, arrivedhere on
their way home from Manitoba. They
went on the harvesters' excursion.
At the first meeting of the Liter-
ary Society of Seaforth Collegiate,
many ex -pupils were present. The
newly -elected preSident, Mr. Mill -
drew, filled the chair. aletiere. Mul-
drew, Clarkson and Misses Stephens
and Flannigan gave addressee, while
Mlasee Pickard and ,: Elurieliard gave
soled; Mise Tena StePlienii Ming "All
But Not Geed -0e' Mid •
Miss
Edith Fowler mite it IniMertins read,
1'410 "Yruitord left, fof tiaIC
WedfielidaY VISIC dattit•,!*liti' fat,
Very ill• ,
fairly good in
and is being
me as a:weather foreeester. On at
least fear occasions now I have look-
ed at a 'grey sky and felt the bite
of the wind and said with what atith-
ority I could, muster, "There'll be
snow by tomorrow night." So far I
have had a perfect record at being
wrong.
Theft is something very pleasant
about the first snow. The drabness
and ugliness of late fall can be blot-
ted tint at one fell swoop with a soft
white _Coverlet. Usually our first
snow reveals the extent of the show-
-manship of Nature. Big, fat flakes
drift down lazily from a dull sky
and they give you a feeling of com-
fort . . almost relaxation.
Later on we can have nasty storms
that plug up the -roads, but the first
snow seems to never come in such an
ungraceful way. l'Patricia Ann is
quite impatient thi year for the
snow to come. She has her
all ready and -waiting, and feels that
having achieved six and schbonage,
she is perfectly prepared for riding
down the big hill in the east pasture.
AE a matter of fact I was eyeing the
old toboggan in the driving shed my-
self the other day.
JUST A MILE OR TWO
The two little boys were in the
midst of a rough and tumble scrap
when tngsrwere parted by'an elderly
gentleman. The .peacemaker address-
ed the lad who seemed to, have got-
ten the best of his adversary
"Sonny," he pointed out, "don't you
know it's wrong for a little boy to
fight?"
"Yessir," retorted the youngster,
"but Billy doesn't know it, and I'm
proving it to him."
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Patron: "Look here, mister, I or-
dered chicken pie and there isn't a
single piece of chicken in it."
Wai : "That's merely being,con-
sisten sit.. We also have cottage
cheese, t so -far as I know, there's
not a cottage in it."
Husband: "As' I contemplate the
wonders of Nature, I realize the in-
significance of man."
Wife: "Any woman knows that
without contemplation."
Joe; "And now I'm going to steal
a little kiss."
Flo: "Let the crime wave begin."
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A new man was brought into battal-
ion headquarters office by the serge-
ant major.
"Here's a new man, sir," said tire
sergeant to the C.0,
"Fine," said the C.O. "What can
he do?"
"Nothing," replied the sergeant.
"Good. Then we, won't have to
break him in."
Huron FeclerMion of:
Agriculture-FarrnNews
In•Ss•••••~Noss‘rsso"'"ev".1"'""'"
Frefia ciult n. l'Priiberry
• While TurnberrY Township folk go,
abopt preparing for winter in Mucb
the usual manner, feiclbe, 410 felt at
this season are M4!3,40: by the
promise that Weather, is tO be mild
during the. Coming Months. A town -
Shit). prophet bases this cheery pre-
diction on the discovery that large
numbers of small green frogs are still
frolicking in the district swamps.—
Brussels Post.
Hundreds of Deer Hunters
This is the week of the deer hunt
in Huron, and nimrods by the scores
and hundreds are scouring the wood-
ed areas and swamps of the county.
James Naftel in Goderich alone has
issued 200 licenses for deer hunting,
in addition ° to -300 ordinary gun lic-
enses. The' hunters are having var-
ied luck, but taken on the „whole they
are bringing down a great many deer
—so many, In fact, that some people
fear there will be none left. • Consid-
erable objection Is heard to the six-
day open sea,son. Some say two days
should be sufficient; others would
have no open season at all in this
county.—Goderich Signal -Star.
Hotel Changes Ownership
Mr. Grover Clare, of Toronto: has
purchased the Commercial Hotel from
Mr. Kenneth Poole, and took posses-
sion on Monday morning. Mr. Clare is
a married man, with one son, Grover,.
Jr., 13 years old, who is a high school
student. Mr. Poole purchased the
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Commercial Hotel from Mr. A. J.
Glass in July, 1944. They have not
yet made any future plans, and for
the present intend taking a. v.apation_
—Blyth Standard.
Farm Boys and Girls Go To Chicago
Some thirty-two Ontario farm boys
and girls, winners of the .highest
awards in club work in their coun-
ties, will go to Chicago on December
1st to attend the National 4-H Club
Congress of the United States. These
trips are being provided through the
prizes which were won by the boys
and girls during the year's work.
Bruce Beer, of Brampton, agricultur-
al representative for Peel County, will
be the leader of the party, and Mrs.
John McCulloch, of the Women's in-
stitute Branch of the Department,
will go along as chaperon. M. McIn-
tyre Hood, Director of Publicity for.
the Department of Agriculture and
Editor of the Ontario Junior Farmer
News, will also attend the congress
as an observer.
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Short Courses Are Curtailed
On' account of the great pressure
on accommodation and teaching facil-
ities caused by the large infix of stu-
dent's from the armed forces, and
particularly because of the needs of
the special first year classes which
are to be established in January,
Hon. T. L. Kennedy, Ontario Minister
of Agriculture, has announced that
there will be a drastic curtailment of
the short courses to be held at the
Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph,
during' the winter of 1945-46. All
,ayailahle space at the College is be-
ing taktin up by the large classes of
war veterans, and it would not be
possible to accommodate short course
students for the usual period. The
courses which have been cancelled
for the present winter are as follows:
Livestock; Soils and CroPs, Farm
Mechanics, Co-operation and Leader-
ship, Beekeeping and Horticulture.
The courses in Poultry Husbandry
and Dairy Manufacturing, Which -run
for three weeks and three months
respectively, will be held as usual.
To Maintain Print Butter Quality
In recent surveys of print butter
in different parts of Canada in Whole-
sale establishments and on retailers'
premises, considerable variation "in
quality of butter branded and sold as,
First Grade has been found, D. M.
Seattle, Associate Chief, Dairy Pr -
ducts, Grading and Inspection Ser-
vices, Dominion Department of Agri-
culture, Said at the recent meeting
of the Mit Brunswick bairyfeen's
Asecielattell, held at Prederinton. But-
ter in First Grade -strappers was low-
ered In' grade , for having flavors
;which indiettled that little attention
had been paid to the grading of
gal; b* �' :?614:1413r; 1:41r1;f11;'
#0t .046di t*, 10:#4*p it4
been neglected.
Butter was found in First Grade
wrappers which had been purchased
on First Grade certificates, but had
been removed from the solids, re-
worked in the churn with an addition
of salt, and when examined in print
form was placed in Second and Third
Grades for showing mottled color and
containing undissolved salt, and, in
some cases, free moisture. Other
butter purchased for First Grade was
put improperly through the power
cutting machines, and it was neces-
sary to lower the grade oft,.
.prints
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for weak texture, streaky or wavy
uneven color, and free moisture or
leakiness. All the defects mentioned
were traceable to the -manufacturer
or cutter of the butter, and indicated
that the butter was improperly
branded as to quality when it reach-
ed the retail store for distribution to
the,q.itusumer.
One other hand, the responsibil-
ity of the retailer when he receives
butter of the First Grade quality, is
to see that his -purchases are in line
with sales, so that no unusual ac-
cumulation of butter takes place. His
storage facilities should be satisfac-
tory to keep the butter well refrig-
erated and that it should be stored
so that no abeorption of undesirable
flavors will taint the surface OE the
print while in his possession.
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Identify Farmer's Hogs •
The Hog Carcass Grading regula-
tions require that all hogs delivered
for slaughter at stockyards and
packers' yards be carcass graded and
that those who deliver the hogs must,
conform 'to certain conditions. These
,are that all shippers, drovers and
truckers Who deliver hogs to grading
centres for slaughter are required td:
(1) Identify each hog in each farm-
er's lot. (2) Furnish the grader with
a record of identifications and farm-
er ownership. (3 Provide the farm-
er with a record of the transaction,
showing grade, price and any prem-
iums -or deductions. (4) Make Set-
tlement on the basis of the official
• carcass grade. Packers are required
to pay for hogs on the basis of the
official carcass grade, and to keep
proper records of all transactions.
An Official hog careass grading ser
-
Vice is maintained at 50 packing
plants in Canada.
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Manus Prom, Waste
Long regardied as the largest waste
in industry, lignin, a by-roduct of
pillp and fitiper mills is the latest
diapard to be Ihrought into active and
use b itfi researth.
ugtoi, Instead; Of 1),Sitte diseharged
440, .441110. and-•30etS front the
,le -40*"^ 06041100d ^Oitla f4t..
filkera to a, t1t fld ergatie
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German Prisoners on Parole.
A number of the German prisoners
of war who, have been located in a
camp at Eden and have been. work-
ing out among the farmers of this
community, are to be allowed their
parole for the winter and will be,
employed by some of the farmers.
There are approximately 250 German
P.O.W.'s located in Southwestern On-
tario who will remain in the district
until next spring; 175 of that number
are being allocated to farms between
Exeter and Chatham. The prisoners
include only those who have had "no,
demerits" on their conduct sheets
since they left England. The prison-
ers have been living iti tents all sum-
mer—Exeter Times -Advocate.
Family of Four Injured
In what police called an "unavoict-
able accident," four members of a
Zurich family were injured last
Thursday, when their car went in the
ditch on No, 4 Highway as the steer-
ing column snapped. Juju: ed were,
•the driver, Arnold Merner, aged. 42,.
of R.R. No3, Zurich, and his three.
children: Arnold, aged 15, who suf-
fered forehead lacerations; Donna,
with forehead cuts and Chin lacera-
tions., and Robert, aged 5, with cuts -
on right wrist. The ..car was goingsouth and the mechanical failure,
threw it into the ditch, *here it turn-
ed over against a Hydro pole. Pro-
vincial Police Archie Reilly, of Luc -
an, who investigated, said that none
of the four were seriously inpared.
The officer rendered first aid and they
were taken to their home. The car,
he said, was a. total wreck.—Zurich.
Herald.
Found Unconscious on Highway'
Mr. Evelyn Broderick, of town, on.
Monday afternoon was picked up in
an unconscious condition on No. 4,
Highway about a half mile north of
Exeter, and was brought to the office
of Dr. Fletcher, where .it was found
he was suffering Praia a fractured
skull, a nasty scalp wound and con-
cussion. Mr. Preston Dearing, while
on his way to the auction sale at the:
farm of William Welsh, found Mr..
Broderick on the highway and
brought him to his home and later.
he was removed to the'idoctor's of-
fice. It Was thought at first that he
might have been struck by a hit -and -
vim motorist. It seems that Mr. Brod-
erick,.near the Exeter North corner,
?ailed a ride from Charles Prout, who.
wall motoring 'north with a trailer at-
tached. Mr. Broderick got into the -
trailer and later when he attempted
to alight fim]the moving vehicle le
was hurled to the cement .pavement
with the above results. — Exeter
Times -Advocate.
Suffered Stroke
We regret to report that Mrs. Geo.
Spotton suffered a stroke on Thurs-
day last week and that she is now a
patient at Wingham, General Hospi-
tal. Her condition it not, very en-
couraging. Mrs. Spotton suffered the -
seizure at her home and Was not
found for some hours later.—Wing-
'ham Advance -Times.
Huron Warden is Honored
Warden A. „Alexander entertained
the Mashers of the county council at
a banquet in the British Exchange
Hotel last Thursday night. Former
wardens, members of parliament and
others' were honored guests. With
6x•Warclen Fred Watson, fernier
reek) of .Stanley- Tomiship, praddin,g
a progiatt tit speeches' Was etloyed.
he Slit were judgii '1. M. Oda-
Iiis,r)'0ardiff;P ZP,., Dr.
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