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$2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 27,1S20. Established in 1891
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CONVENTION EXTOLS
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
LEAGUE AND TREATY WITHOUT
RESERVATIONS INDORSED.
Suffrage Cause of Trouble.
Delegates to Sail Francisco Go Uninstructed?Will
Vote as Unit.
Tries to Indorse Mcadoo.
The State Democratic convention
Columbia, May 20. ? The
State Democratic convention begun
yesterday noon concluded its
session at 1:27 o'clock this morning
after a day of considerable turmoil
over the various questions under discussion.
Twenty-eight delegates with
one-half vote each, if the different
congressional districts so determine
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to distribute their votes, ana iuui
delegates at large and four alternate
delegates at large were elected. The
South Carolina delegates were instructed
as a unit on all questions
coming before the San Francisco convention.
The delegates go uninstructed
as to candidates of the party, The
administration of Woodrow Wilson
was indorsed and the achievements
of the Democratic administration extoled
in the highest terms in the platform
which was adopted at an early
hour this morning. The platform
unqualifiedly indorsed the treaty of
Versailles and the league of nations
covenant while condemning "as unwise
and unpatriotic the attitude of
those senators who defeated its ratification
either directly or by overwhelming
it with reservations that
are intended to and will have the effect
of nullifying it."
Woman suffrage was defeated by
an overwhelming majority, the resolution
granting suffrage without regard
to the Susan B. Anthony amendwas
rejected by the resolutions committee
by a vote of two to 30. The
resolution to grant suffrage conditioned
on the ratification of the amendment
by one other state before the
nrimaries this summer
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was rejected by a vote in the committee
of 14 to 18. The convention
adopted the majority unfavorable report
on the suffrage resolution by a
vote of 245 to 68.
The following are the delegates
elected:
State at large: Governor Cooper,
Columbia; Senator E. D. Smith,
Lynchburg; R. I. Manning, Sumter,
and Congressman James F. Byrnes.
Alternates at large: Ben Hill
Brown, Spartanburg; J. H. Manning,
Dillon; B. F. McLeod, Charleston;
H. P. Fulmer, Orangeburg.
First district: Charlton Durant,
Manhing; R. S. Whaley, Charleston;
V. C. Badham and J. S. Padgett, Walterboro.
Second district: J. E. Harley,
Barnwell, and N. G. Evans, Edgefield.
Alternates, C. F. Rizer, Olar, and J.
H. Johnson, Allendale.
Third district: Congressman F. H.
Dominick, Newberry; F. C. Robinson,
McCormick; H. L. Watson, GreenJ
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Fourth District: W. D. Workman,
Greenville, and W. W. Johnson,
Union. Alternates: D. M. Douglas,
Clinton, and S. F. D. Lancaster, Spartanburg.
Fifth district: A. L. Gaston, Chester,
and Leroy Springs, Lancaster.
Alternates: T. ^B. Butler, Gaffney,
and R. E. Wylie, Lancaster.
Sixth district: Dr. J. H. David,
Dillon; James W. Johnson, Marion;
George J. Holliday, Conway, and L.
M. Lawson, Darlington.
Seventh district: R. H. Jennings,
Orangeburg, and W. A. Coleman, Columbia.
Alternates: Dr. E. S. Booth,
Sumter, and B. Frank Kelley, Bishop-j
ville.
, John Gary Evans, of Spartanburg,
was reelected national committeeman
xcithmit rmnosition. Thomas P. Coth
ran, of Greenville, was elected chairman
of the executive committee and
Harry N. Edmunds, of Columbia secretary,
both also without opposition.
Ashley C. Tobias, Jr., withdrew as a
candidate for the chairmanship of the
executive committee and did not offer
for reelection as secretary.
Governor Cooper received 300 votes
for candidate at large; Senator Smith,
273, Congressman Byrnes, 251,
Former Gov. Manning. 211, and L. D.
Jennings, also of Sumter, 177.
George Warren, of Hampton, moved
that all of five of these he sent to the
convention, each to cast four-fifths,
of a vote, but this was lost.
Four delegates will go from the
First, Third and Sixth Congressional
districts, each candidate to cast one
SMOAKS SCHOOL CLOSES.
Address to Graduates Delivered by
It. M. Jefferies.
Smoaks, May 20.?Smoaks school
closed a successful year Wednesday.
The baccalaureate sermon was preached
by Mr. Inabinett, of Walterboro.
On Monday night the following programme
was given at the town hall:
Welcome song, by primary grades;
piano solo, by Miss Connie Berry;
"Whistling Song," by three boys and
three girls; recitation, "The Prodigal
Son," by Mondell Crosby; spoon drill,
by primary boys; recitation, "Si and
I," by Connie Berry; "Oh, Doctor,"
minstrel show, by ninth grade boys;
"Midsummer Eve," by intermediate
grades.
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Tuesday nigne ine graduating wcicises
were held and the address was
delivered by R. M. Jefferies, of Walterboro.
The programme:
Piano solo, by Miss Inez Lyons;
class prophecy, by Miss Dolly Campbell;
piano solo, by Miss Hallie Hiers;
essay, by Miss Inez Lyons.
Graduation address by R. M. Jefferies;
piano solo, by Miss Eleanor
Smith; valedictory address, by Miss
Hallie Hiers; presentation of diplomas,
by S. P. J. Garris, Jr.
Camp Fire Girls Entertain.
The Camp Fire Girls, of Ehrhardt,
gave an entertainment in behalf of
their organization last Friday* evening,
and the following was the programme,
directed by Mrs. C. S. Hen
ery:
Instrumental solo "Sweet and Low1'
Louise Copeland; address by president,
Hildergarde Dannelly; a play,
"Why I never married" by seven boys
and seven girls representing old maids
and bachelors; duet, "Military
March," Katherine Roberts and Louise
Copeland; dialogue, "A slight
misunderstanding," Louise Freeman
and Louise Copeland; song, "Oh,
What a Pal was Mary," by Camp Fire
Girls; song, "Carry me back to old
Virginia," Camp Fire Girls; song,
"Camp Fire," Camp Fire Girls; address
in behalf of Camp Fire Girls,
Willie Hiers; due, "An Indian
love son g," Louise Copeland and
Hildergarde Dannelly; song, "UmHe-Lo,"
Camp Fire Girls.
The Camp Fire Girls have just
organized and hope to do a greater
work. They gave this entertainment
to raise money for a summer camp.
Seek Beauty
:Be happy
Pursue Knowledge
Glorify work
Hold on to health
Be trustworthy
Give service.
These are the seven rules of the
Camp Fire Girls, which all must know
and keep.?Contributed.
Cope School Closes.
Cope, May 23.?The closing exercises
of the Cope graded school were
held Friday night, and a packed
house greeted the youngsters, who
entertained them in a most pleasing
and complimentary manner.
Standing room was at a premium,
many ladies having had to stand, and
quite a large number failed to gain
admission.
There was only one graduate at
this session. Murray Tatum received
his certificate from the hands
of Rev. G. W. Dukes, who delivered
a short but pleasing address. To discriminate
would hardly be fair, but
Henry Ritter and Rodgers Carter deserve
special mention, as also do
little Misses Helen Cope and Ernestine
Ritter as little fairies, and Jennie
Dell Brickie in her rendition of a pretty
song.
Everybody present spent a most
pleasant evening, and thus ended one
more successful session of this popular
and growing school.
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Cope Fir? Does Damage.
Cope, May 22.?The greater part
of the stock of staple an^ fancy groceries
owned by D. W. Bonnett &
Sons who was badly damaged from
smoke and water during a fire Thursday
night about 11 o'clock that it is
almost a complete loss.
The store itself is of concrete
blocks, and tbe fire was up in the
ceiling towards the front and was
kept in a smothered condition by a
tin roof.
The concensus of opinion was that
it was caused by rats. An insurance
of $3,000 was carried on the stock of
goods, the building being uninsured.
half a vote. No alternates will go
from these districts. A resolution
was adopted just before the closing
of the convention allowing all districts
that had elected two districts and two
alternates to send the two alternates
as delegates, each delegate in this
case being allowed one-half a vote.
Mr. Hooton Tells
is Grown Sv
For the past few weeks we have
had expressions of opinion as to the
effectiveness of certain chemical and
mechanical appliances that are warranted
to destroy in part the boll weevil
and perhaps it might be well to
again direct attention to a few of the
basic principles that underly the sue
cessful campaigns of eradication that
have been waged in other sections
against this enemy of the cotton
farmer.
The following information was
given us by D. F. Hooton, vice president
of the Eamberg Banking Co.,
and we have his permission to give
this to our readers with the hope that
it may draw attention to important
details of the successful raising of
cotton under boll weevil conditions.
Mr. Hooton, on a visit to Alabama,
in sarch of first hand information,
was so fortunate as to secure the
views and the expressions of ComHiissioner
of Agriculture James A.
Wade. Mr. Wade has been in intimate
association with the United
States government and the state gov?r>vimar>+
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tinually for the past fifteen years.
Some years ago he was teaching
school in Texas and Dr. Seaman X
Knapp, late United States commissioner
of agriculture, requested Mr.
Wade to devote his time and energies
to the study of methods to combat
the boll weevil in Texas. Dr.
Knapp informed Mr. Wade that there
was no set programme to be followed
but that his work would be to investigate
the habit of the boll weevil
and to experiment with methods to
curtail the damage being done to cotton
in that state.
Mr. Wade obtained very little encouragement
and scarcely any cooperative
effort from the farmers in
the boll weevil section of Texas at
that time, and succeeded in inducing
only one farmer to plant.and cultivate
his cotton crop and to carry out
the suggestions of Mr. Wade. This
farmer waS a white man having a
large family and he was not dependent
upon outside labor to work his
crop.
Mr. Wade instructed him to plant
his croD early and to plow his cotton
and chop it out as he had always
been doing. This cotton farmer did
not depart from his usual practices
in the preliminary work on his cotton
and was rather disappointed that
Mr. Wade did not instruct him to
carry out radical changes in methods
of planting and working the cotton.
When Mr. Wade thought that the
cotton plants would begin to put on
forms within a week or ten days he
instructed this farmer to bring all of
his children down into the cotton
field, each to be supplied with a tin
can having a little kerosene in it.
There in the field Mr. Wade collected
these children around him and commenced
examination of the cotton
plants ono by one. The boll weevil
was found in the bud of the plant
and the hildren were shown that they
must catch these weevils and drop
them into the can. It was remarkable,
said ,Mj\ Wade, how easily and
rapidly these children covered the
seven or eight acres of cotton that
this farmer had planted.
Within a short time the forms began
to appear on the plants and Mr.
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waae again cunecieu tuts winmcu
and, carrying them to the cotton field
carefully instructed them as to the
picking up of such forms as had fallen
to the ground. Each week thereafter
Mr. Wade had the children go
over this cotton field and pick up the
forms, place them in bags and burn
the forms as sufficient quantities
were gathered.
This probably was the first effort
ever made to grow cotton under heavy
infestation of the boll weevil.
This farmer made a good crop of
cotton and his neighbors made utter
failures. Thereafter in Texas Mr.
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suading the farmers to follow out his
instructions, for it was clearly demonstrated
time and again, year after
year, that the farmer who paid attention
to the details above mentioned
made cotton in spite of the boll weevil.
Mr. Wade attributes the success of
this plan of combating the boll weevil
to the fact that during the winter
almost all of the weevils die and
that the comparatively small number
that live through the winter have hibernated
on the edges of the cotton
fields and with the return of warm
weather come out to feed. These
first weevils, having no other food,
attack the bud of the cotton plant.
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iccessfully in Ala.l
| They do not go very far from their ]
j winter quarters but obtain their food 1
as near at hand as possible. It can
be readily understood that if a farmer
can destroy the first weevils that ap- 1
pear by picking them off the bud of
the cotton plant in theory at least
he could at that time destroy the
weevils that would attack his cotton
during the entire season.
It is impossible, of course, to col- 1
lect all of these first boll weevils, and :
therefore it is necessary to pick up
the forms as they fall, since each
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develop into the boll weevil.t
The boll weevil does not travel
very far early in the year in search
of food, but will alight upon the nearest
available cotton and will go from
stalk to stalk in search of food, and
I will not fly from one portion of a
field to another portion of the field,
nor will it leave one field for another
field. This localizes the attack of the
weevil early in the life of the cotton
plant and it is only late in the season
when the food of the boll weevil becomes
scarce that they disperse ana
migrate to other fields or to other territory
in search of food.
Mr. Hooton was convinced that
Comissioner Wade had outlined to
him a very important and vital phase
of combating the boll weevil, for Mr.
Wade demonstrated to him that cot|
ton could be grown very successfully
by this method, and demonstrated
also that without this method cotton
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| Hooton was shown a field of about
| seven acres in Alabama that Commis!
sioner Wade was planting and this
! field had enough fruit on the plant to
| make a bale of cotton per acre. The
! adjoining field, separated only by a
! fence, had very little fruit on the
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; stalks. The heavily fruited cotton
| was about three feet high; the poorj
ly fruited cotton was about three
! and one-half feet high with plants
| that looked vigorous and strong and
yet were worthless because the boll
weevil had destroyed the cotton bolls.
Commissioner Wade told Mr. Hoot|
on that the early maturing variety
! of cotton was very important; that
j early fertilization and rapid cultiva|
tion were essential, but that the pickj
ing of tie boll weevils out of the
; buds of the plants and the picking
up and burning of the infested squares
; the same week that the first blooms
i appeared, and the picking up of these
squares each week was absolutely necj
essary if a farmer expected to make
! a crop of cotton under boll weevil
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Commissioner Wade's advice is important.
It will not profit a farmer
to read this article unless he puts into
practice the suggested methods. You
may believe that the boll weevil can
be overcome by this method, but the
thing to do is not only to believe but
to carry out Commissioner Wade's
instructions. Now is the time and
your farm is the place and if you
wish to harvest cotton in September
it is necessary to harvest boll weevils
in June.
What does it profit a man though
he make a big weed and has no fruit? '
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WHEAT CONDITION SERIOUS.
Dr. W. W. Long Appeals for Action
to Save Shortage.
The following telegram from Dr.
W. W. Long, of the extension department
of Clemson college, in regard to
the serious condition of the wheat
crop, was handed The Herald by the
Bamberg Banking Co.:
"Reports just received from United
States department of agriculture indicate
34 per cent, reduction in wheat
production this year. Unless something
is done to meet this situation
flour will be on the same basis as durj
ing the war. With this difference, we
! were then blessed with large corn
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iyields. Owing to unfavorable weather
I conditions and the natural incentive
j to grow cotton on account of the pres|
et high prices and fear of the wider
i spreading of the weevil within next
! fpw vpnrs wp are liable to have a
j distressingly short corn crop. I am
j wiring this information to many
! farmers, bankers, merchants, cotton'
I seed crushers and newspapers so that
our farmers, even at this late date,
.| may be urged to increase their acre-:
; age in corn. If this is done we can
j largely increase our food supply and
. I thereby save a serious situation most
| likely to prevail this fall. I suggest
. icounty meetings of prominent farms
ers, bankers, and merchants to con,
sider the situation. Money without
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bread is not satisfying."
DEATH OF J. F. BHELAXD.
Confederate Veteran Died Xear Olar
Wednesday Morning.
John F. Breland died at his home
in Bamberg county near Olar on Wednesday
morning, May 19, aged 75
years.
In his death the county has lost a
true Christian friend. But few men
have* lived in the county who have
left a more enduring impress for good
than that resulting from the life of
this good man.
During the Confederate war he
served as a brave Southern soldier,
at one time being severely wounded.
He is survived by his widow, a son,
three daughters and many sorrowing
relatives and friends. His body was
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laid IU "TCSl 111 cue i.cujLLiij uuij 1UQ
ground, near his home, the funeral
services being conducted by the Rev.
Mr. Risinger, Lutheran pastor of Ehrhardt,
in the absence of his pastor.
He had been a member of the Baptist
church since boyhood.
Cotton Under Boll Weevil Conditions.
The following suggestions if intelligently
followed out wrill enable the
cotton producer to realize profitable
returns under boll weevil conditions.
1. Plant only properly standardized,
rapid fruiting, early maturing
varieties. If you have wilt infested
land, Council's Toole is the best variety
to plant; otherwise the
Wannamaker-Cleveland is the moat
suitable. It is well that a continual
fruiting variety be selected so that the
weevil will not have to fall back on
the bolls when forms are no longer
available.
2. Plant on well drained soil of
good fertility.
'3. Fertilize liberally and in accordance
with the grade and character
of soil selected for planting.
Don't apply nitrogen to a soil that
has plenty in it and lacking some
other plant food material. An exception
is in the case of rolling the seed
in nitrate of soda or applying soda to
the bed before the cotton comes up in
order to hasten an early growth of
the crop.
4. Put alt fertilizers under the
drill row and mix throughly with soil
at or'before planting time. It has
been found that rows should be 3 1-2
feet apart and plants 12 inches in the
row.
5. Side applications can be made
very early in the season but not always
available. The idea is to double
the amount of available plant food
that ic nrriinarilv used Tinder cotton.
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6. Chop cotton to a stand as early
as possible having the cotton choppers
look closely for weevils. Go over
the field systematically every Monday
morning and pick the weevils as they
come out of their winter quarters.
This is neither hard or costly as weevils
do not appear in great numbers
during the spring. They will make
their first appearance in the field near
the place that furnished the most
favorable hiding place; such as barns,
out buildings, trash covered areas
and woods. Destruction of the weevil
early in the season is very important
work which can be accomplished. The
weevils should be picked until the
fruit begins to form and if necessary
pay something extra to have this work
done effectively.
7. If the picking of the weevils
is not properly supervised it is wasted
effort. ?
8. Pick up all fallen forms every
Monday morning and burn them, this
is nnt hard tn dn as infested areas are
scattered when the weevils first appear.
This practice must be kept up
until the middle of July or until the
weevil begin to migrate.
9. It is important that the cotton
acreage be limited to about 5 acres
per plow, depending on how much
you can take care of following out
the principles.
10. At present poisoning is recommended
in a limited way. If you are
going to use Cal-Arsenate get literature
on its use from a reliable source
before using. But do not depend on
its use alone if you expect to raise
cotton successfully and profitably under
weevil conditions. It is only one
means to an end.
11. During the fall is the most
favorable and successful time to fight
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tne weevil. as suuii as me cuuuii is
gathered rip up the stalks immediately
but do not burn them as this
will destroy from 20 to 40 pounds of
nitrogen per acre. The best practice
is to bury the stalks with a disc plow.
1 2. Stalks must be destroyed before
frost falls but September is the
most effective time. This causes the
weevil to go into* winter quarters
hungry and much weakened, and the
chances are that he will not survive
the winter.?John D. BBrandon, Agt.
GEORGIA'S VOTE
GOES TO PALMER ;
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DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
ISSUES CREDENTIALS.
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No Bolting, Says Gardner.
State Secretary- Declares Smith and
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Watson Disregarded Primary
Rules.
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Atlanta, May 23.?Hiram L. Gardner,
secretary of the Georgia Demo- / /
cratic executive committee, forwarded
today to the national executive .
committee headquarters at Washington
the official certificate of the State
committee issuing the credentials of
the state committee to the full Palmer
delegation from Georgia to the
San Francisco convention. The record
was endorsed by sixty-six of the
sixty-seven members of the committee.
The certificate contains the regulations
for the presidential primary as
issued on February 10, in which it
was provided that all of the State
delegates to the national convention
"shall be chosen from among the
friends and supporters of that candidate
for president receiving the highest
county unit vote." It showed that
Palmer received 148 votes, Watson
132 and Smith 104.
In forwarding the letter to the secretary
of the national committee Sec- * ./ .
retary Gardner stated:
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"Press reports have misrepresented
the situation in Georgia. No 'bolting'
convention was held nor was
there any necessity for such. The
rules of the primary adopted long before
either Smith, Palmer or Wat- '
son were candidates, provided that
the candidate who should receive the highest
number of county unit votes should
have the whole delegation.
"Not until after Palmer had won
under the rules of the primary was
tnere even tne suggestion 01 dissatisfaction
about the regulation.
Rules Disregarded.
"When the state convention met the
Smith and Watson forces combined
were strong enough to disregard the
rules under which the primary had
been run, which they did on the theory
that the convention was supreme
and had the right to as it wished.
"It was the Palmer delegation to
San Francisco that met and organized
immediately after the convention adjourned,
and this the press erroneously
reported to be a meeting of the
Palmer delegates to the State con- m
vention."
Delegates elected by the State convention
and representing the Smith
and Watson factions will meet here
next Wednesday to organize and
make plans for attending the San
Francisco convention. Former Senator
Thomas W. Hardwick is expected
to head the delegation.
Slashes Throats of Herself and Babies
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Cuthbert, Ga., May 23.?Mrs. W.
H. Ward, of Cuthbert, slashed the
threats nf herself and four of her
five children with a razor early today
1 according to the police, while her
husband lay asleep in an adjoining
room. Mental derangement from
long illness was said by her family
1 to have caused the deed.
1 One of the children, a girl of five, ;
' died from the injuries, two others
' were said to be in a serious condi1
tion, but the fourth child and the / V
mother are expected to recover.
According to the police, Ward was
: aroused by the screams of the children
and ran into the room in time
to grapple with his wife as she slashed
her own throat. He overpowered
her and gave the alarm. Mrs.-Ward
was placed in the care of a physician,
who administered drug to quiet her
nerves, and no statement of the affair
had been obtained from her tonight.
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Authorities expressed the opinion
j that an effort would be made to place
I the woman in an institution and that
no charge of murder would be placed
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against her. She was not arrested. r
All of the children who were injured
were girls, anging in age from
' five to ten years. Ora, who was killed,
was the youngest child whom the
mother attacked.
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Don't raise tobacco for the worms.
' "Kill 'em." We have the "Pizen.'"
> Rentz & Felder.
We have the "pizen" kind of "Pii
zen". Simply kills the tobacco worms,
i Rentz & Felder.
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