ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER
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COPPER OI TLOOK EXCELLENT.
Conditions in the ct pper industry at tlie close of
1 <t22 can be summarized thus. War scrap has been I
utilized. The cheaper substitutes, having been tried!
and found wanting, are being replaced by copper.
Most of the stock of marketable copper existing at thoj
end of 1922 has been sold for delivery in the firstj
quarter of 192:’.. Current consumption is in excess!
<f current production. Stocks at mills in the I nited
States arc normal; foreign mills have no supplies. The
outlock for 1923 is decidedly encouraging f >r the pro
ducers because of the advancing price and lor the
fabricators because of the better margins they are
getting for their products, say Joseph Clendenin of
Guggenheim Brer , in the annual review number of
the Engineering ami Mining Journal-Pi ess of New
York.
Should the 1923 bookings open up in March ut
anything like the rate of March, 1922, and should
the foreign demand develop as it now promises to
do, the producers may find it difficult to supply the
metal in the quantities called for. The demand is ex
cclhnt here, and y.< xl from Germany, France, Italy,
and Scandinavia, it is not so good from England,
although steadily Improving. With a stabiliz <1 ex
change, cr even a promise of it, a demand from Europe
will arise for enormous quantities of copper. Euro
pean countries are buying largely, even under present
conditions, hut net in proportion to what they need,
and mutt buy when the money is available to pay for
it. The German mills are busy on export, orders, for
which they can compete regardless of the exorbitant!
price they must pay for the copper, in marks, because1
eft their low labor ct u which represents a large part
of the cc. t on export orders. They get foreign cur-'
rt ncy in payment for their < x ports, which in turn!
enables them to pay cash for the copper. The low
value of the mark operates the other way on copper-'
n.ade articles for domestic consumption, a trade that
has fallen off com iderably.
The stock is new more nearly normal than Itt
has been at any time in the last four years. The!
indtiLtry recovered in March, and continued satis
factorily, with occasional lapses, to the end of Decern-,
her, exceeding lot year's business by over 50 per cent.'
For 1922, tlie production promises to be about 1,-j
900,000,000 pounds.
The world's supply of copper is now coming from;
file l nited State.,, 62 per cent.; South America, 17
per cent.; Japan, 5 per rent.; Mexico, Canada, and
Cuba, 5 per cent; Europe (chiefly Germany and
Spain) 5 per cent.; South Africa, 4 per cent.; Aus
lialia, 2 per cent. 'Mine production in this country
is being pushed to the limit or labor supply; South
America has increased output considerably; in other!
countries there is little change. The export demand
lias come, from Germany, 35 pet- cent.. France, 20 per
tint.; the Orient, 12 per cent,; England, 12 per cent.;;
Italy, li per cent.; Belgium, 6 per cent.; elsewhere. I
4 per cent.
Consumption is now at a record rate in this coun
try. all wire, brats, and sheet copper mills ate work
ing to a capacity that is limited only by available
lubor supply. Capacity operation throughout the win !
ter is ;i urea.
Tli.e .suggestions that the fulled States purchase
Hie British and French West Indis and Central and
Soutii American pos r ■ ions to extinguish, in part
at least, the war debt to this country met with ini-^
mediate protect from the sections that would be af
fected. The people down there said they would not
want to become a part of a prohibition country that'
if, some of the people have .aid so Probably they'
think American tourists are doing more lor them than
could American proprietorship.
TIME HAS COME FOR RUSSIA TO
SUPPORT HERSELF.
Secretary Hoover lias announced that Russian!
relief will be dis* mtinued when the next crop i3(
garnered. in view of the militaristic attitude of the
Soviet Government tlie announcement is timely. If
Jtussia can mobilize, as Trotsky declared she could.
8,000,000 men to light in the adjustment of
Luropean ofTait sh * ought to have enough men to1
laite rufficein cats next year to keep her own people
from c.tai ving. la . tile Sa\i< t (lovernment put its <
able-bodied men in the agricultural tields and talk
less about conscripting men to light on German or
French battlefields. i i
It has been four years since the armistice and
more titan ii\e yiars sines* tin* Soviet Government
ussumed the -reigns of authority in Russia. That
country wu ■ < :n of the greatest of the world’s agri .
cultural producing countries in the days of monarchy i’.
and it is potentially so yet. She had the Holds and!
the man power to work them. Certainly five years
Is time for the managers of a "New Freedom" to!'
get their men to work. If they have the authority '
to make men fight they should have power (o make
them support themrelvea when the resources are there
j If there is any humane sentiment left in the Run
ilan Government it will hike the hint implied in I
dr. Hoover's announcement and ait accordingly,
fortv,: rtely the announcement has been made in
imple time to provide against the danger of starvation
lexi year.
Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania lias annount d
hat he wil. return $8,000 a year of his $18,000
lalary to tit■■ ' tie. We suspected that it was not
ho salary t a..’ Mr. Pinchot was after when he
pent several hundred thousand dollars to pr. cure his
iomiitation tut election. He has plenty of money
vithout any of It.
Germany will enforce thrift. She ha? authorizedj
he levying f a tax of 25 per cent, on all meals in
excess of an amount to be fixed. It is called the
‘gluttony tax The American tourists will continuu
o eat and contribute to the German Government.
Alaska Koacl Money.
(Ketchikan Chronicle.)
Late in December, Dan Sutherland, Delegate front
Xiaska, lie; i .■ .-.I in Congress a bill for an amend
ment to i lit- Federal highway bill whereby, it is
sstimated, that Vlaska would receive several million
lollars for r.m i construction. This measure should
te supported by everyone In Alaska, lor it would mean
i great deal in the development of the Territory, if
t should become law.
It is of more importance even than the first ap
propriation, t r it would mean that Alaska would
probably he i cognized then for all time in the Fed
eral road bill, which, it appears will annually have|
arger appropriations. It is true that if such an
appropriation should be granted Alaska that the
noney, or the greater part of it would go to the great
ualnland to the North, to points along the railroad j
mil along the Richardson highway. But even so.j
lout lies si i i a Alaska would be directly benefitted, and!
i il wi'M' ii ' . n' peupie oi me rnniiuiiuie Minimi
■uppori it for thr general good of the Territory.
At the pit: lit time, Southeastern Alaska, in the,
natter of road in provided for better than the reft
)f the Territory, through its national forest funds.
\n attempt has been made, and is being made, to di
vert some of the e funds lo points along the Uovern
uent railroad, a thing that would be an outrage on
be First Judicial Division—but nevertheless a thing
hat is being attempted and having seme strong baek
ng which must he coeibatted.
If the Sutherland amendment to the Federal high-!
vay bill should be enacted and become part of the
triginal measure it would mean that the great main-1
and to the north Would be so well taken care of
that •neither it ncr its proponents would then care1
0 take anything away from the First Division.
The Government has spent upwards or $56,000,000
’or a railroad front tidewater to the Interior, the1
nterest on which, at per cent., is approximately!
wo and one-quarter million dollars a year. it jsl
probable that the railroad, for a considerable period!
it time, will require additional appropriations of at
east a million dollars a year to take care of th ■
leficiency in the cost of operation, making a total an-!
tual expense of three and one-quarter million doiiarsi
° the people of the United States. it would appear!
hat tlie people paying this amount, would want to
teL rid of that burden just us soon as possible, and
tie only way that ever can be done will be by!
Juiiding feeders of wagon road’s and trails and aiding!
n the development of the adjacent country.
The passage of this Federal road Dill to 'apply to
Maska would mean that in a few years the Terri-'
°ry would be so built up. mining and agriculture!
.vould be so stimulated that the railroad, instead of
icing in the red, would be ready to pay Uncle Sami
1 dividend, and Southeastern Alaska wtuld be free
11,111 tlje attempts to rob it of the fruits of its national
oretft.
Ot course .there are those who think that this
nensure will not pans. They may be right, hut if
' ls introduced every year, and year after year, con
turrently with the Federal road aid bill it will nlij.
nately be given favorable consideration bv some Con
tross. Once it is inserted in the bill, "it will stuv
here annually.
An illustration of what persistence will do in
he way of securing de.ired legislation was the ex
perience of the man who is now head of the Consular
service of the United States, in the State Department
y“r\ f0E, ,ifletm -v<’ars °r thereabouts he had
lit rod need in Congress a bill touching . Consular
■mi vice. Each year it was turned down, and again
noxt t:fiasioM l|0 i! Popped again until finally the
lcpartment found a Congress which ‘ w.i suiticicut lv
riendly to pass it. *
SMU,Ui b\with ,ht> aid road bill
Mask a should have the measure before every Congress
.ml be to re every session of Congress until it become!
of the measure, and until Alaska reaps the bar
cst, whereby the United Stales, in turn, will reap •
larger harvest later. 1
Alaska must have roads, and redds and more roads
) henvise it will stand as it lias stood for twenty
'cars, showing little progress.
('heap Publicity.
(New York World.)
When a Governor reduces his own salary from
S 18.000 to $10,000, as Gov. Plnchot hus done, the
let result is publicity for the Governor and $8,000
n llie Treasury of the State for each year of his
term. As a matter of fact. Gov. Plnchot cannot
educe his salat y. His salary Is fixed by law, but I
ic can make the State a present of part of it if lie;
likes, and when lie is a rich man, as the present
Governor of Pennsylvania is, such a Rift is no hard
ship.
Might thousand a year will not save the State
it Pennsylvania nor rolieve the taxpayers by so
ouch as tlie weight of a hair. One way or an
'*her the sum, is too significant to affect the finances
if one or the richest States In the Union. But • Mr.
t’nchot has an eye for advertsing, and at $8,000!
■'vocable mention on all the front pages is cheap
r.deed.
Stcfansaon thinks the Arctic regions arc
rich In natural resources, but there are many
who will wonder how he knows. (Jackson
ville Times Union.)
Maybe Hoc Cook told him.— (Cincnnatl En-:
lttirer.)
Women who got murried in the Episcopal Church
rill no longer have to promise to obey. Now let's
catch closely and see whether we cun discover any
inference. — (Seattle Post-Intelligencer.)
Germany is reduced financially almost to the
luint where a great emperor like Wilhelm, mindful of
lie poverty of his subjects, may consent to pawn sonte
liitig for their benefit. (Chicago News.)
I'ncle Sain keeps wondering how lie can do the
ea enable tiling without appearing to he disloyal1
o Franco. — (Baltimore Sun.)
\ Swedish professor says prosperity leads to de
em rat ion . But we bet that professor isn’t speaking
'■ 'in experience.—(Houston Post.)
A Russian General is here looking for a job.
'here would be Bill Haywood’s, if Bill had had one.
(Detroit News.)
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ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR !
By SAM HILL
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Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
1 kin remember when it was only
lie very poorest people who did not
■ve.ir enough clothes in winter to
tcep warm.
Ouch!
“It's just impo: sible to get that
joy l lied up," sighed his mother as
she handed iilm another piece o;
i • a 1 and jam.
“Still I notice your husband is
nearly always full,'' remarked the
.■-any neighbor, who was calling.
She Gets Wages and Probably Will
Get His, Too
(..Marriage License in Falmouth (Kv.f
Outlook.)
K! ha Wages and Miss Laura Rob
bins, both of near Falmouth.
The Other Side of It
Says Tom Doming: “Flat tires
make a flat pocketbaok." Yes, Tom.
but many a fellow's- pocketboow
wouldn't be so flat if the tire only
had gone Hat before the motorcycle
op hove in sigh;
Well, Do They?
(.1 H. Heed in Canton (Oliiol News.)
“Loudon doctors are wasting a lot
>f time trying to find out why ladies
smoke.” Sain Hill, of lhe Cincinnati j
Enquirer, says. Do ladies smoke, j
Sam?
Fool Questions
M. B. asks: “Is the saxophone a
musical instrument?" NO.
Enough To. We Guess
“No, bis is not an unusual cas?.”'
remarked the guard at the bughouse..
“How did he happen to get here?"|
asked the visitor.
“He was teaching his wife to drive
'lie car and she drove him crazy,"
replied the guard.
If It Fits—
Parents used to ih.nk it was awful
for son to develop an. ambition for
painting, but now both mother and!
laughter go in for it.
No matter how > he may waste oth
er tilings, you never find a w >man
wasting words. She uses them all
over and over again, too.
A man hate3 to have his wife and
vis furnace pipe get started t > smok
ing.
Tlie greatest disappointment some
people can have is to learn the scan
dalous starry th y heard about a
neighbor hadn't a word of truth in it.
If a speaker wants to talk to empty
•hairs all he has to do is announce i
te will talk on how to make your
die beautiful. But he'll have the
louse pac ked if he will talk on how:
:o beautify your face and figure.
There is little consolation for Ha t
men in the movement to curb tie*;
iso of the deadly firearms, for a;
fashion note butts in with th • an-1
aouncement that hat pins are comingj
back.
Fashions are so crazy that we fully!
•xpect to live to see the day when
high shoes and leggings will be in
style for summer wear and the girls
will wear them “Because they are
so cool.”
At that we guess a good many
mothers feel that the children do not
need spanking half as much as the
children's rather does.
An ugly-looking baby often grows
up to be a pretty girl, but we often
have se?n a pretty gir! who could
be an ugly baby when site wanted to
be.
A man wants credit far everything
but the mistakes he makes, and he
always is generous enough to let his
wife take the credit for them.
Kver.v m si likes to be flattered,
and if his wife gets tired of furnish
ing it for him lie will go out and
hllllt 111) siim.* it liar urn>m in ur.tin mill
A man thinks the grocer who
ciharges him nine cents a pound l'or
sugar is a t': f, but lie thinks the
bootlegger wh i soaks him $!t a half
pint Is a friend of humanity.
Daily Sentence Sermon
You ger j-,i | tdr the work you do.
l ut you hat a to pay for the loafing
you do.
News of the Names Club
I. Yankem. of Detroit, has been
appetci.r.l otf ,] dentist for the club
iiud will work with Will Gassem,
of Chicago.
A marriage license in a Western
1> iprr shows | Wrfcglht and Alice Held
wore mani I during the holidays.
YOUR "UNUSED” ASSETS—that
typewriter, mu oral instrument, fur
niture, office fixture or appliance—
aro marketable, for cash, through j
the classified olumns of The Empire.
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APPLES CABBAOES,
j in our a 11 -imcrete fire-proof
s'orage.
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Willoughby \ve. Phone 32.
BEST EVER
MUTUAL life
insurance CO.
Now offers additional attractiv
Disability Benefit features.
NONE OTHER SO LIBERAL.
ALLEN SHATTUCK
INSURANCE REAL ESTATE
ESTABLISHED 1898
He Has Served Under *
13 Presidents. t
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Colonel T.ee Crandall, ill years
old. is the only living office hold
er who received promotion at the
hands of General Stonewall .lack
son. He served in the Civil War
as a Captain in the'Confederate |i
Army and was promoted to the j!
rank of Colonel. He lias been In j.
the employ of the United States I
Government since the lirst term of ’
President Harrison and at present ;
is connected with the Internal 1
Hevenue Bureau.
Shah of Persia Is i
Garlanded in India
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BOMBAY, Yob. 8. The Shah of j
Persia, who has just ended a brief j
iriif; to India, was given an clatter-1
rate ovation of welcome and loyalty
ay P rti.ta residents of this city. His I
thief purpose in coming to Bombay jj
was to call upon certain relatives'
who now live hero.
Representatives of all communities
connuecitel in any way with Persia.!
whether subjects of the Shah or not, \
took port in t'hp welcoming recap- j
iion. The Shah's party, which in- |
itlwded several Paris women, was i
welcomed w :‘h sherb. ‘ in tiie old1*
Persian custopi. Prayers were of- j
’em! for the long life of the sov-[
•yreign and tin* prosperity of his
’ountry.
The add rest c.f welcome was rea.l
>y Sir Hormusji Cowasji Aden walla, I
pre-aid nit of the Iran League, who!
tailed at ten: n to recent ch.ing |
rod predicted a happy future f j: j |
Persia in view of the liberalizing in
fluences which arc actuating t’u ,
present constitutional government,
rhe text ot the address, enclosed in
l casket of silver mounted with goldj
in mahogany, was presented to the I
Jhah amid much hmttring an] cheer-;
ng. The Shah w is then garlanded. ! |
His Majesty replied in Persian, ,
hanking his guests for their recop-!
iion and expressing his appreciation |
>f tiie address, lie assured the rep
resenta.iives of the Zoraostrlaus that
their cosreBigioniista ware not out of
mind, and assured them that dis
:ance did not make him forget any
-f his suhj.It would always be ‘
his policy, he said, to trr it the
Zoroastrians liberally as had been j
lone in the past.
OUCH! PAM, MIN, i
HUS RHEUMATIC,
ACHING JOINTS
St. Jacobs OH stops any pain, and I
rheumatism is pain only.
Not one case in fifty requires in
ternal treatment. Stop drugging!
flul» soothing, penetrating St. Jacobs
Oil right into your sore, stiff, ach
ing joiiits, and relief comes in
-tantly. St. Jacobs Oil is a harmless
rheumatism liniment, which never
disappoints, and cannot burn the
skin.
Limber up! Quit complaining! Get
i small trial bottle of old, honest St.
laeohs Oil at any drug store, and in
lust a moment you’ll be free from
rheumatic pain, soreness and stiff
ness. Don’t suffer! Relief awaits
you. St. Jacobs Oil is just as good
lor sciatica, neuralgia, lumbago, I
backache, sprains.
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Furnished Rooms For |
Rent.
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LILLIAN FOOTE. I
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BRIQUETS
Idea!
fuel for
every
purpose
Large stock* on band
Ladysmith coal.
Nanaimo ooa'
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
Phone 411.
PROFESSIONAL
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Dr». Kaser & Freeburger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bldg.
PHONE £0
Hours 9 a. ns. t* 9 o. je.
Dr. Charles P. Jenue
DENTIST
Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Bldg.
Telephone 176.
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Dr. DeVighne
Malony Building
Hours 1 to 4, 7 to 9.
Phones: Office, 104; Res. JOS.
«-■ - ' - - -1
Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. At. to 9 P M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Re«. Phone 216
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Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bldg.
Telephone 172.
k
Sitka Hot Springs
Visit the Famous
Dr. F. L. Goddard's Sanitarium
Kates $3.00 Per Day aad Up
Every Comfort
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GEO. L. BARTON, D. C.
Chiropractor
2nd floor Messerschrnidt Apts.
Office hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 5;
7 to !) and by appointment.
Phone 259.
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Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
437 Goldstein Building
Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to 6;
7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed osteopathic physician.
| Phones: Office, 167; res., 1672.
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All Alaskan Trails End at
HOTEL ATWOOD
First Ave. and Pine St., Seattle
Popular Prices Nearest to Ev
erything. J. A. Farnham and
Ted Taylor, Props.
HOTEL SEATTLE
"Home of Alaskans”
I Prices reasonable. European
plan. Seattle, WaBh.
j R. L,. nODGDON, Manager
It’s all in knowing HOW to do
first-class cleaning and dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
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THE MAKING OF CONCRETE
! Is a matter of proper materials
I together with engineering skill.
Both are our assets.
Established Twenty Years
CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFC.
COMPANY
I Willoughby Ave. Phone 32.
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i Fraternal Societies
| -OP
Gastineau Channel
B
0 . ELKS
Meeting Wednesday
Evenings at 8:00
o'clock, Elks' Hall.
ARTHUR B. COLE,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodiet
of Freemasonry
Scottish Rite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:30 p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B HEISEL, Secretary.
I. O. O. F.
'h SILVER BOW
S* LODGE NO. 1 A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P. M.,
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Grand;
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
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MOUNT JUNEAU LODQI
No. 147, F. & A. M.
Stated Communication
Second end Fourth' Mondays
. of each Month. In Odd Fellows
I'hII, beginning nt 7:30 nVinek.
Homer G. Nordling. Mastor.
I < has. E. Nagnel, Secretary.
Order of the
t EASTERN STAR
W3r Second and Fourth Tues
days of ea?h month.
At H o’clock. I. O. O. F. Hall.
ANNA DAY, Worthy Matron.
LOIS NORDMNG, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
SEC.HMtS COUNCIL No.
1740. Meetings second
and last Mondays at 7:11
p. ni. Transient Broth
ers urged to attend. Council Chambers
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen, G. K.
j. L. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
_ each month at 8 p. m.
Elks’ I-odge Room. John P. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; G. E.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 196.
LOYAL ORDEB 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o’clock.
Moose Hall. Thoe.
B. Judbon, Dictator; R. H. Stevana,
Secretary.
WOMEN OF M00SEHEART
LEGION
Juneau Chapter No. 439
Meeting second and fourth
Tuesday of each month, 8
o’clock. Moose Hall. Mrs. C. W.
Bender, Senior Regent; Mrs. A.
F. McKinnon, Secretary.
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AUXILIARY, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA, Igloo No. 8.
Meets the 2d Monday In Mooaa
Hall, at 8 o’clock.
ALICE LAUGHLIN, President.
LILLIE BURFORD, Secretary.
WHY A SAVINGS ACCOUNT
IS A GOOD INVESTMENT
fiYou may add to the account at any time in any
amount.
fiYour account is not subject to market fluctuations
but is constantly growing. .
fiYour account is always available and provides an
unfailing reserve for emergencies and business op
portunities.
IfPays four per cent per annum, compounded twice
a year. If you do not withdraw your interest it
continues to earn interest upon the interest, making
the rate better than four per cent per annum.
Accounts of One Dollar or more may be opened in our
Savings Department. - _
The B. M. Behrends Bank
JUNEAU, ALASKA.
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