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i nickel doe not make a fortune, but fortunes
' are made up of nickels.
WHO CARES ABOUT HIS TAX DILL?
MEN get exolted over1 national systems of
taxation which touch thcrr Bllghtly and
Pndlreotly, while thoy give no though to local
luxation, tho burden ot which thoy feol with
Jvery recurring- autumn.
Tho alze of tho tax bills which the small
householders in this city have to pay de
fends on tho honesty and efficiency of the
government In the City Hall. They have
trot more nearly value received for the money
paid in tho last four yoars than ever before,
but then has been waste and extravagance
which the executive department has been
powerless to prevent. They are vitally In
terested In the kind of administration which
comes Into power next .January. If thoy
choose, they can havo an administration
Which will see to It that tho proceeds of
the tax levy nro spent honestly and with good
Judgment. If they are Indifferent, their
monoy will be squandered to make Gang
favorites rich. They can got the worth or
thejr money In efficient policing and adequate
flro prevention. In good pavements and clean
streets, In sanitary garbngo and refuse re
moval and In proper street lighting, or they
can permit slovenly and slipshod methods If
they care to do It. It Is up to the voters.
Thoy will get tho kind of government that
thoy want and If, after they have got It,
they are displeased, the condemnation Is on
their own heads.
THE ONLY THING TO DO
THE President has pursued the only course
open to him in asking for the recall of
Ambassador Dumba.
The rpnreflpntntlvA of AtatvtnTr....n..
J-2l.elt nsled t0 "Plain his plan to tie up
: XHy-'R Bethlehem and the Middle West,
admitted that he had wrltton tho lnttpr thnt
Archibald carried. Ho did not apologize,
but said that ho had acted in accordance
With orders from his Government.
The President might have gone much
farther than to BBk Austria-Hungary to re
call Dumba. He might have asked that
Government to disclaim glvlnjr any such in
structions, but toT the present he has con
tented himself with bringing about the re
moval of a diplomatist whose usefulness In
Washington Is ended.
JIB. TAFT BUTTERS NO PARSNIPS
THB kind words written by ex-President
Taft on the subject of woman suffrage
re buttering no parsnips for the November
festival which will follow a suffrage victory
In this State. Tho criticisms printed in the
Kveotno XiEdoer are at one In their opinion
of Mr. Taft's policy of waiting hopefully for
little while and then waiting for a little
while, and then some more waiting.
Mr. Taft, like many casual observe h.-
eves In votes for women until the propa-
iMtnaiats start to talk Ho is brought back
15 tho fold when the antls beirln. nut nil
(through It he seems to be saying: "Let me
,s .t see this thing in the decline of my years.
i'Amorrow please or next day or a little
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I. r Very Drouerlv th .tiffrno-i.t. .. .t
JtS. Jiwel" If suffrage Is good, this time Is as
'-ood u any. If it Is bad, fight It to the
,ast ditch. As for women being prepared,
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' THE OLDEST NEW YEAR'S DAY
THB Jew in Philadelphia and the rest of
, tht world are engaged in celebrating the
leglnnlng of the year 6C76, probably the old
est New Tear festival now observed by hu
man beings. This is the year 2576 of the
Japanese, and the Mohammedans date their
alendar back only 1336 years. They will
eelebrate their New Tear's Day on Novem
ber 6.
Tho Christian New Tear did not always
segln on January 1. It, has shifted through
all of the first three months of the year,
yen if It neverame In April. The antiquity
of the Jewish celebration now In progress la
m remarkable as the continuity of the Jew.
Wh people through so many thousand years.
"NAGGING" AN ARMY INTO BEING
'rfmASC the British trades unions would de
. J.fcUr against conscription was as fully
to bo s.pectea as was their approval of tho
WMf lay the overwhelming vote of oa n i.
trteLBoctfuUl should jnake herwlf ridiculous
t-ameaiaieiy anerwara U an Ironic com-
on tes stamina of those wlio once
Um iUet power of earth.
ymm iafcw by (ho Government Is
tMUMsl to the Dettieat nt rph..
to bo m ocrljmon. but each man who
yo m sthfactory excuse for remain
t hsmm )i to be naed until i tnin.
tiie colors. A )WaIrig spoctaclel
p ummr girls, amateur recruiters, will earns
.to iw and; make catty remarks. AcUat
fc4lt wil) griw more than wontedly aclu,
MIS. BOOk SKSttts will h nn1nv,t .
Jftttsjut and. stUhulB(io encoralums on
was m lao mr, la me ep4 a vast tmsabor'
smb vw mh( ontirrty too wry t
! and will iolu the arm v. hM u
f w to do tMaay and do item without
, fsJstr W-mas4 toU 4fc- Mg wjiat mal-
m Its ii In iiTsjislls ihlak at
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EVENING KEDaERPHILAPBLPHIA FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 10. H-"-'.
Belgium ravished and of France outraged,
who could chat unmoved with widows and
orphans, but who were finally driven to "war
by tho reproachful nagging tf spellbinders
and fanatics.
The Government of England seems bent on
making Messers. Gilbert and Sullivan seem
rank failures In the art of musical comedy.
TURN ON TIIE LIGHT
Printer's Ink Is saving mors lives than
any other alnsle agency employed by mod
ern health workers K. A. Moree, of the
New York State Charities Aid Association.
THIS illuminating and suggestive remark
was mado In, the course of an address bo
fore the American Public Health Association
now In session, and It attracted tho attention
which it deserved.
Mr. Moree was pleading for publicity not
only to remove squalid tenements, but to In
form tho people on the way to keep well, on
the way to preserve the lives and health of
their children and on the way to combat tho
salo of noxious poisons in patent medicines.
Ho made the statement, startling to those
who nover thought of it before, that the
health authorities would never reach the goal
of ultimate achievement until they realized
that precisely the same principles govern the
sale of public health to tho community that
govern the salo of beans and bedsteads,
atomizers and automobiles, crackers and cor
sets. He cited an Instance of the breaking
up of on epidemic In a city by n campaign
of publicity. Old fogies, afraid thnt the good
name of the community would suffer, pro
tested, but they discovered that publicity
not only stopped the spread of smallpox, but
gave tho city a reputation for good sanitary
administration that It had never beforo en
Joyed Publicity will cure epidemics of disease
that spread through Indlfferenco or a desire
to conceal the plague spots. It will also cure
epidemics of political Indlfferenco that make
Gang rule possible and result In tho criminal
waste of the money paid Into the City Treas
ury out of tho hard won savings of tho hon
est tollers. So turn on the light! And
again, turn the light onl
THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
B
T CANCELING his passport. Secretary
Lansing has made Archibald for the time
being a man without a country. Ho is on
his way home, for that is about the only
place where he wllf be safe. Without a pass
port ho could travel nowhero In Europe un
less, perchance, In Vienna. If there be any
other American who would offer hlmsolf ns
a bearer of dispatches concerned with up
setting Amerlcnn business by foreign Influ
ence, he will doubtless think twice and per
haps thrice beforo laying himself liable to
similar treatment.
TnE IMPOSSIBLE BORDER SITUATION
WITH a singular disregard for the policy
of watchful waiting General Funston
has put the entire danger zone on the Texas
border under martial law. That Is to say,
soldiers of the United States have taken
chargo of the region which was formerly
patroled by peace ofllcers and the Hangers.
Outrages may cease as a result, but tho Im
possible situation on the Rio Grande will re
main. The Inconsistency of attitude dis
played by the Administration is certainly not
calculated to strike awe Into lawless Mexi
can breasts. From whatever high moral
ground this country has acted, all. that Is
known to Mexico Is that American rights
have not been defended, and that American
lives may be taken with Impunity.
It Is a situation which should never havo
occurred. It Is a situation which must not
be allowed to last until an offensive war Is
the only remedy.
GIVING TIIE MELTING POT A REST
THB war Is giving tho United States n
much needed opportunity to assimilate
the foreign-born population. For the Inst ten
years an average of 1,000,000 immigrants have
entered the country every year. Of course,
some of them havo returned, but the net
gain In population from his source alone has
boen astounding. It has taxed the powers
of the nation to absorb this vast mass of
humanity unfamiliar with American institu
tions and American Ideals. With the out
break of tho war the rush of Immigrants
stopped suddenly. In the year ending with
June 30, only 326,700 landed In American
ports. As the war has gone on the travel
this way has continued to dwindle. July
brought only 21,600, and only 71 of them
landed at Philadelphia.
The problem of making good Americans of
those here Is becoming easier not only
through the decrease in the number arriving,
but through the return to their native coun
try of thousands who had not yet become
citizens and were compelled to respond to
the call to arras.
It Is to laugh when they talk of Penrose
for the Presidency.
The way to keep the British war spirit at
fever heat Is to continue killing civilians by
air raids on London.
Patrons of the Broad street hotels most
naturally object to the preaching of the
Gospel out of season.
Zepps bombarded Trafalgar Square in Lon
don, the heart of the American colony. Try
ing to start something?
More than 200,000 citizens have already
qualified to say at the polls what kind of a
city they would like Philadelphia to be.
If tho Czar were a man of bigger calibre
It might be easy to believe that he has put
himself at the head of the Liberal move
ment In Ilussla.
The Vice President of the Packard Works
In Detroit Is sticking a knife Into tha peace
propaganda of Henry Ford. Persuasion
should begin at home.
On the day the Czar took control the Rus
ulan Press Bureau announced a great vic
tory. Which suggests that tho Czar took
control of the Press Bureau.
The man who swore that the Lusltanla
was armed has confessed that he Is a per
jurer, but Von Bermrtorff has not confessed
that he knew it alj the time.
Lloyd-George Is going to tell the worker
of 5ngland that tho BiunUion manufacturers
ar not making excessive profits from their
war orders. If tht ,tbe case, why not stop
the war?
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CAN PHILADELPHIA
PAY ITS ORCHESTRA?
Good Music Is Not a Profitable Busi
ness, But It Is a Good
Public Enterprise, None
the Less
By GILBERT V. SELDES
A LITTLE more than a month from now
the Philadelphia Orchestra will begin Its
16th season of concerts In the Academy of
Music. From tho six performances given to
a total of 14,176 auditors In 1900-1901, to
the ninety-odd given In and out of tho city
last year Is a progress which can hardly bo
measured In tho terms of numbers Itself.
The regular concerts In this city alone were
heard by 75,000 persons; the specials and
popular concerts will run tho total Into six
figures. With that progress the standing of
tho orchestra has gono steadily upward until
now It ranks as one of tho best two or throe
organizations In tho country. This year, un
der the direction of Its Inspired conductor,
It will perform for the first tlmo In America
n symphony which makes the very last dc
mnnd on tho nbllttlcs of an orchestra. In
every way the orchestra Is a great Institu
tion; certainly It gives moro pleasure, of
a higher order, and with a nearer approach
to perfection, than nny other cultural In
stitution In the city.
And yet, In spite of all this, the Philadel
phia Orchestra does not pay expenses. To
run tho orchestra for a year costs about
$200,000; Its receipts nro only three-quarters
of that amount. The rest would bo silence
were It not for tho devotion of a group of
men and women who guarantee the expenses
and pay about $45,000 n yenr so thnt tho
peoplo of Philadelphia may hear good music.
This Is not a local condition. Thcro are
only two great orchestras In 'this country
which pay running expenses. Tho Boston
Symphony, after 24 musical seasons crowned
by deficits, Is nt Inst self-supporting. Tho
Chicago Orchestra was put on a paying
basis after 16 years. In other cities orches
tras have failed, havo suspended, or havo
been supported by Just tho sort of guar
antee which mnkes tho Philadelphia Orches
tra a possibility.
Now tho surprising thing is that if tho
Academy of Music wero sold out every Fri
day afternoon (which Is practically tho case)
and every Saturday (which ought to bo the
case), tho orchestra couldn't, at Its present
scnlo of prices, pay the necessary expense
of production. It would still have to make
a great deal of money on road tours, or call
again on Its supporters.
The Riddle in the Orchestra
All In all, the plight of an orchestra looks
llko a rlddlo. It looks like a bad business
proposition, and there nro many economists
and clTlclency experts who would say at once
that an organization which serves the peo
ple and cannot make Its expenses Is not
serving the peoplo properly and ought to be
abandoned. Which may be very good
economics, but Is very bad human nature.
Listening to the Orchestra is a growth.
Ono must begin with casual Interest and an
open mind, preferably In youth. There may
bo a sharp struggle when Bruckner is put
on, or a positive rebellion when Schoenberg
Is played But one must go on In the end
the Orchestra will repay. To evolve a music-'
loving, and particularly a ymphony-Iovlng
populace, the Orchestra Is now playing popu
lar concerts, of which there will bo three
weeks this year against two last year. The
Orchestra must also play when the people
can come to hear It; and hero It Is sadly
hampered by the Sunday law. A third con
cert at a reduced rate, played on Sunday
afternoon, would bo a blessing to the city
In many ways. If It could be played without
offense to public decency. It would Intro
duce beautiful music to those who under
presont circumstances have no opportunity
to hoar It, and It would go far to putting the
Orchestra on a saner financial basis.
It Is a groat question whether the Satur
day night audiences actually exhaust the
number of music lovers In the city. The
"rush" seats, In tho famous amphitheatre of
tho Academy, are frequently sold out, but a
number of seats In the lower divisions are
vacant. They should bo filled by those who
can afford to go, but simply haven't got Into
the habit of listening to good music.
Unless an Orchestra speaks directly to
great numbers it Is virtually wasted. Un
like the opera, the orchestra Is not primarily
a society institution; it is a social Institu
tion. Its message Is not for the musically
learned nor for the socially elect. It has a
function in the civic life of the nation.
Abroad that function Is fulfilled In many
ways; here it Is hampered.
The Endowment Question
Ought the Orchestra to have a State en
dowment? Quite apart from political consid
erations, there are grave objections to the
plan. The Orchestra must be free to embody
tho highest artistic Ideals, without petty in
trigue and bureaucratic interference. No
great conductor would accept a position with
the understanding that he was to play only
such compositions as recommend themselves
to the musical Judgment of the State Legis
lature. Private endowments are, to be sure,
excellent things when they are given freely
and without reservations. Almost any or,
chestra in the country would accept a be
quest. Tet In the largest sense the principle
of an endowed orchestra Is wrong unless the
endowment comes from the people directly.
If 46,000 men and women of this city- sub
scribed one dollar each to the Philadelphia
Orchestra to make up the deficit, and then
devoted every effort to make the Phlladel
phla Orchestra a force even more compelling
than It now Is in the city, that would be a
truly great, truly democratlo thing to do, If
92,000 men and women subscribed half a dol
lar each, that wpuld be better still, it Is
not, of course, merely a question of how
many people are Interested in the Orchestra,
but how deeply, and how sincerely they are
Interested. The fact that more people read
and write nowadays than read and wrote
In the Middle Ages would not be half to our
credit if they read nonsense and wrote pop
pycock. The hope of democracy In art Is
both qualitative and quantitative.
Because there Is no such democratlo sup.
port, the guarantors of the Orchestra aro
doing a splendid work. They are sincerely
trying to present to Philadelphia a wonder
ful Orchestra. It caRnot be doubted that no
one would be more pleased than fay If the
city showed Its app.ecIatlor. In the fullest
and heartiest way by making the Orchestra
a self-supporting Institution,
FEATURES OF THE FAIR
Chart Chaplin antws u tM last kmat
WmjBCSZ&tSf
-A POOR EGGSCUSE VAS BETTEfc AS
TAFT ON THE VISIBLE GOVERNMENT
The Voter Is Everywhere in
Inaction, Wisdom or Folly
the Way to Rid Politics
The following discussion of the relation of
governmental mechanism and the party
system to honest, efficient government is
part of the address delivered by ei'Presi
dent Taft before the American Bankers'
Association. Ten days ago the country
heard from Senator Root on the invisible
j70iernment. Now Professor Taft em
phasises the importance of the visible
government.
A MOST Important development In the
country has been an attack upon our
representative system of Government as a
cause fit tho corporate and corrupt control
of politics. If It be true that a people have
rot Information and Intelligence to select
from their own number competent and hon
est agents to do their work, they certainly
have not the capacity to perform the much
morci difficult task ot passing useful Judg
ment on statutes, frequently difficult to con
struo or understand. Again, the duty im
posed upon the peoplo in legislating by
initiative and referendum is so much more
burdensome than that Imposed by the rep
resentative system In selecting agents to
do this work that tho majority of the voters
too frequently refuse to perform their elec
toral duties, and thus leave to a minority
of the electorate the decision of important
questions submitted by referendum. The
majority of the electorate thus show that
they do not approve the reference to them
of such difficult questions.
Tho success of our popular Govern
ment, In promoting the happiness of all the
people, depends upon the Justice and equity
with which It reconciles tho rights of mi
nority and of individuals.
New Mechanism No Solution
Such Justice and equity has been obtained
by the adoption of a written constitution
and an Interpretation and enforcement of
it by an independent Judiciary whom the
people took pains to surround with every
protection against popular passion or con
gressional or executive restraint. The sys
tem of representative Government is an
institution hammered out in the struggle
for liberty by our Anglo-Saxon ancestors
for 800 years. The system of written con
sltuattons and an independent Judiciary has
vindicated Itself In tho strenuous life of tho
Republic for 125 years and there Is nothing
in the actual results of the initiative, refer
endum and recall that commends them as
a substitute.
What is true with respect to the State Is
true with respeot to the party. Parties are
essential to popular government. In no
other way practically can the will of all the
electorate be Interpreted and embodied in
affirmative action, legislative and executive.
The selection of candidates by a party is a
matter In which tho community may prop
erly take an interest and with respect to
which the legislature may properly pass laws
to prevent abuses which have arisen In party
government.
But the question which I moot Is whether
the selection of candidates at a general pri
mary has tended to the elimination of, cor
ruption or political machine rule and the
selection of better representatives of a party.
I say without hesitation that It has not.
Certainly it has not with respect to the many
offices to which It applies, when the persons
to be selected are not persons of whose quali
fication the publlo can. In the nature of
things, have any Intimate knowledge. The
standard of Judges in those States where
the candidates are selected by a general pri
mary has notably and perceDtlblv heenmn
Inferior to those who were selected under the 1
old convention system.
The convention system gavo rise to abuses.
Bosses and machines were able to control
the convention, but oven under tho worst
boss and the worst machine tho convention
was a body with a sense of some responsi
bility growing put of Its desire to nominate
a ticket which would win in tho election,
and therefore while it may have nominated
many machine candidates whose selection
did not mako for tho public Interest, it fro
quently nominated men of strength and
popularity and high oharacter In order that
tho ticket might .be a vote-getting one.
Under tho system of the general primary
tfhoro in no lf responsibility. Especially
U tW truo In tho, oeUctlon of th subOf
sU tWoWf. PifouaMtfauMM of no Mai r
i Mir sJfaAettoo In .tko f)4Uii quail,
11 fcMatttato affoet tk eisalM in evca
Jm
Evidence Through His Action or
Former President Discusses
of Bossism and Corruption
cases. If the Initial letter of tho candidate's
name comes early In the alphabet, and he
Is first In the list of candidates, ho may re
ceive thousands of votes more than the man
whose name begins with W. Anything that
gives a man notoriety or consplcuousness in
the community, however unimportant In
showing his qualifications, attracts votes to
him because the voters have no other means
of Identifying or discriminating between the
many candidates. The man who advertises
himself most In tho newspapers has a great
advantage.
The Duty-Dodging Voter
The general primary, In the opportunity
which it offers to the use of monoy in or
ganizing a campaign, expended, not cor
ruptly but merely In giving publicity to the
candidate, greatly Increases the power of
money. I have known man after man,
worthy of party preference, who has de
clined to enter a primary contest because of
tho financial burden that' a successful issue
Imposed.
Nor Is it truo that the general primary
is any less subject to tho control of a machine
and the boss and a political organization
than a convention. Primaries are usually
attended by a minority of the party. In
other words, the result Is much affected by
tho number who can be aroused to come
out to vote, and that depends upon organiza
tion. This places In tho hands of the politi
cians who have an organization tho means
to control.
In America we have been greatly Influ
enced by the success that our people havo
shown In the Invention of machines to re
duce the amount of labor needed and the
cost of production, and we cannot get over
the Idea that political evils can be remedied
by a change in political machinery. I don't
mean to say that one form of machinery In
politics Is not better than another, but I do
mean to say that every one will fall, or will
suffer In Its operation If the electorate do
not perform their electoral duties.
The representative system In legislatures
and In conventions will work well if
the people who ought to vote will turn out,
and It will work a great deal better than
the Initiative and referendum and the gen
eral primary. But wo should realize under
any system the politicians will control, If
the people fall In their electoral duties.
These so-called reforms and their popu
larity are a sincere expression of the deslrs
of the people to make short cuts and to avoid
the evils of a failure of the people to do
their duties. It Is a futlje policy, as experi
ence Is showingl We find the so-called bosses
still controlling under tho general primary,
and we find the reformers as bitter against
the result of the general primaries when they
are defeated as they woto against the con
vention. Wo may, therefore, expect a wiser
reaction1 from this attempted Infusion of
"moro democracy to euro the evils of pres
ent democracy."
HOW TO MASTER THE SILVERFISH
The silverflsh, a II to 1 bookworm, is under
condemnation by the Department of Agricul
ture. It eats the paste out of books in libraries.
A poisoned paste or prethrum Is the thin to
use to kill It The silverflsh has six legs and a
blny appearance. It will also eat the past
that holds wall paper to tho wall. Farmers' Bui
letln No. Ml tells how to master tho sllvernih
No farmer can raise a good library without this
Jtn6wldge. Not a day goes by without th
department telling the farmer how to get rid
of seme new bug. and now officialdom puriuss
him to the quiet of his library to warn him of
th!; "n'if0 "9 ttra W1htlr his almanacs
and bulletins. Farmers aro rapidly beoominsr
toxlco'oglsts. This will help them whT they
serve on Juries where murder mysteries are be
Ing explained. And it may also serve to In-
f.re.uwt?u'J.pro,ucUon ot mot ot mysteries
it the hired man goes to the closet In the dark
for a drink of medlclne.-Brookln Eagle!
A BAD GUESS '
To the tiditor of the Evening Ledger t
Blr-.Tou pubUshed, a few days ago. a lettar
accusing ono of your editorial writers of beinr
an Ignoramus with a diseased mind. The -.h.
of that letter took exception to Tthe snlrtt""
.dltprlal on the battle of tho MarnonJ ta
the course of hi. criticism accused ti,C
It at tttaj tima, .VltVKSS
U feo Ajaomaa pro, u oubSiL T7!i
ubatolsod by T"t-
NONE, AIN'T IT?"
land, as German sympathizers Insist It Is, hoi
docs It come about that the severest and most
uncompromising criticisms of England have ap.
peared In the news and editorials of those sams
papers? How Is It that the shame of Englami(f!
her cowardice In the face of a great crlsliii
have all been made clear to Americans through W
uiu uuuhiil press ui iiigianaf xne semi
Americana mnrin n hnH fnoaa Aa nn,.
of fact, the press has sold its soul to the money
interests 01 Monaco, against wnom tney havtM
not printed one word since the war began. 9
OLIVEK MUDIE. Jl
west x'miaacipnia, sepiemoer .
NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW
Perhaps Mr. Brynn will learn in time thai
It would have been wiser as well as more Pi-jB
inouc ior mm to smna Dy me captain and sail
under his orders. Baltimore Sun.
That today President Wilson may finally
succeed n restoring peace In a neighboring
country by tho methods of diplomacy is surely!
the widespread hope of his countrymen
Springfield Republican.
The withdrawal of all the trans-Padflc liners
under the American flag engaged In the Oriental
trade must be regarded as an accomplished fact!
however the champions of the new seamen's'.
law may explain it. springllelu Republican,
AMUSEMENTS
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C. STANLEY MACKEY, Conductor
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EMILY STOKES HAQAR, Soprano
EMIL KENNEKE, Cornet
IIOYD T. BARNARD, Cornet
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PAUL I. LOTIZ. Trombona
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