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Volume I.IV, Number 17
MEMORIAL DAY
WITH PROGRAM
Announcement has been made
C. L. Shepard will be the speaker
the program in observance of
rial Day which will be held in
high school auditorium on
morning of next week.
After the program a luncheon
be given at the Woman’s club house
to which members of the TJ. D.
and their friends are invited.
The order of the program at
high school will be as follows: .
Invocation.
Song—“Dixie”.
Reading—Ray Hall.
Quartette—“God Bless America”
Miss Pearl Brown, Mrs. W. S.
Mrs. Rudolph Mills, Mrs. J. I).
drick.
Introduction of the
M. D. Reed.
Address—C. L. Shepard.
Song.
Awarding of Essay
Melrose Lamar.
Taps—to honor the
dead—Billy Davidson.
Benediction.
FSA W ill Assist in
“Food for Defense ”
Answering the call for “food
defense' an enlarged program
Farm Security Administration, the
local FSA offices are buzzing with
activity as plans for individual co¬
operation by each rehabilitation fam¬
ily in this county are determined.
Supervisor Walker L. Hawes of the
local office advises that this program
in the southeastern states calls for
special undertakings to produce ad¬
ditional food requirements for “na¬
tional defense” as well as larger pro¬
duction for irome use". “*
“Each rehabilitation family in this
county will add 50 chickens to his
present flock and in addition will take
on one or more of three operations to
produce marketable products needed
in supplying England and her allies
as provided for in the fund
for food in the Lease-Lend Appropria¬
tion,” said Supervisor Hawes.
Aided by supplemental loans, reha¬
bilitation families will undertake one
or more of the following three enter
prises: (1) One additional brood
sow, to produce four hogs for the
market; (2) two more milk cows for
production of marketable dairy prod
ucts; (3) 50 chickens for meat and
for egg production. (These chick
ens are in addition to the 50 required
for all families.)
In addition to winning for the south
eastern states a large share of the
lend-lease food expenditures the “food
for defense” program of the FSA will
have additional aims as follows:
(1) Increase in normal incomes of
small farm families through perpetu
ation of the broadened program.
(2) Development in this region
better of larger production, of pro
cessing plants (creameries, storage,
etc.).
(3) Extension and perfection of
marketing facilities, one of the great
est needs of the small farmer, so that
none will be too remote for .this serv¬
ice.
(4) Better subsistence for the
grower and the consumer, through an
accelerated “live-at- home" plan for
the southeast.
(5) Improved land.
(6) First and last, a move toward
effective and profitable change in the
agricultural economy of the region,
its release from the one-crop system,
“Judging from the contacts we have
made with some of the families this
“food for defense” program will go
over the top in a big awy,” concluded
Mr. Hawes.
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Vt. j-i tiennillt* r» • rp / Oftay I
-
Two Peach county Negroes left to
day on the 1:30 train for Fort Ben
ing to serve a year in the army.
The two were Isaac Smith, Fort
Valley, and Allen Head, Byron.
Ancients believed that an elk
his left hind foot to his left ear to
cure himself of falling sickness, so
they used the left hind leg of an elk
as a cure for epilepsy.
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Read widely by the people of progressive PEACH , Houston, Macon and Cran ford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
RE OBSERVED
NEXT THURSDAY
I U. S. W ill Protect
| Merchant \ essels
,
R oose cel t A sserts
WASHINGTON, April 16.—Presi
;<ient Roosevelt said Tuesday that the
I United States would protect its mer
;chant ships wherever they go so long
as they do not enter combat zones
proclaimed under the Neutrality
He made this statement in reply to
a press conference question tas to
whether this was American policy.
It was not a question of policy, he
replied, but one of law.
He woul<i not comment on whether
! American ships going into the Red
I Sea * recently taken out of combat
area listing, likewise would be pro
! tected saying jie knew of no ships in
! those waters now.
Regarding a question about the pos¬
sibility of arming American merchant
j vessels, he said there never had been
any discussion of that except by ora¬
tors.
Mr. Roosevelt said that Greenland
would be restored to Denmark as soon
as the mother country became an in¬
dependent nation and not a govern¬
ment under duress.
■ Discussing at the conference the
background of the agreement between
, the United States and the Danish min¬
ister here under which Gx-eenland was
embraced within the Western Hemis¬
phere defense system, the President
said it was a step taken under the
Monroe Doctrine.
The President said that as soon as
the duress was over, Greenland would
be restored to an independent Den¬
mark.
WASIIINGTON, April 15. Presi
dent Roosevelt said Tuesday
| congressional leaders and the War
! Department are studying proposals to
j reduce the age limits for selective
service from the present 21 to 35
I years, inclusive.
W. D. AULT MAN
JAYCE SPEAKER j
W. D. Aultman, Peach county’s
representative in the Georgia Gen
eral Assembly was the guest of the
.Fort Valley Junior Chamber of Corn
merce at their monthly meeting last
night. Mr. Aultman spoke tothe group
on the workings of the legislature as
he had seen it.
He paid high tribute to the admin
istration leaders in the house of rep
particularly Ran- j i
resentatives, naming
i dall Evans, speaker of the house, and
Joe Boone, clerk of the house.
He stated that he believed that the
great majority of the members of the
j General Assembly honestly did their
best to represent the people who elect
them and to aid Governor Tal
| ’madge in carrying out his program,
Attention was called by the secre
[t&ry, Hoke Smith, to the street mark
ing which is being done with a stencil
j purchased by the Junior Chamber of
Commerce.
W. A, Wood was introduced as one
of the organization’s new honorary
members,
; )f j |. Vmill"
(ir on
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Buried in Macon
Mr. Marion A. Vining, formerly of |
Fort Valley, died suddenly at Thursday, his home j j
in Portsmouth, Va., on
10. Funeral services were held.
at the home of his sister, Mrs. j
H. I). Martin, in Hamlet, N. C., and •
interment was in Rose Hill cemetery!
in Macon at 3 o’clock Saturday after-1
noon, with Elder J. A, Monsees offi
dating. j
He is survived by his mother, Mrs.;
P. M. Vining of Hamlet, N. C., four j
brother, A. M. Vining, his twin broth
er, of Raleigh, N. €., J. M. Vining of
Hamlet,' N. C., Herbert Vining of |
Fort Valley and J. L. Vining of New
Britain, Conn., and four sisters, Mrs.
D. Martin and Mrs. A. H. Clem
ents of Hamlet, N. C., Mrs. W. J. But
of Hoffman, N. C., and Mrs. J. C.
Holloway of Macon.
Flowers are love’s truest language,
Benjamin.
FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1941
Loral Troop o f Girl
Scoots Get
A charter for the Fort Valley
of Girl Scouts has been received
the local commissioner, Mrs. C.
from national headquarters in
York.
The local council, which has
functioning since January, is
posed of Mrs. W. A. Wood, Mrs.
II. Wheaton, Mrs. L. E. Houston,
Robert Peebles, Mrs. John Lee, Mi
1 G. W. Spear, Mrs. Chas. S.
M. F, Hatcher. W. A. Wood
’ treasurer,
The troop is composed of
girls and is under the leadership
Mrs. Graham Lowe.
> The Girl Scouts of Peach
are sponsored by the Fort
Woman’s Club.
Public Debt About
$450 per
WASHINGTON, April 14.
debt amounted to $420 per capita or
$1,813 for the average family in
United States at the start of the
rent fiscal year last July 1.
Reporting this Saturday, the
sus Bureau said the states owed
505,000,000; smaller divisions of
ernment, $16,720,000,000, and the
eral government $42,971,000,000.
State and local government debts
accounted for a per capita obligation
of nearly $154, a decline of $3 since
1932.
The federal debt on July 1 was
equal to $326 per capita. However,
it now stands at $47,167,000,000 or
about $450 per capita, and defense ex
ipenditures will add billions to the to
tal.
The obligations of state and local
governments increased only $663,000,
000 or 3.4 per cent between 1932 and
1940, the Bureau said, compared with
an increase of $9,307,000,000 or 91
per cent between 1922 and 1932.
The per capita burden ol such
debt thus decreased 2.2 per cent in
the last eight years, while the ratio
of debt to income per capita declined
55 per cent.
State and local governments collect¬
ed $70 per capita in taxes last year,
the Bureau said, compared with $39
paid to the federal government.
SOUTH GEORGIA TOPS
ALE OTHER SECTIONS
AS USED FOREST AREA
Most intensively used forest ax - ea
in the United States probably is the
10 million acres of piney woods in
South Georgia, according to a recent
surve y b y the Forest Service U S
Department of Agriculture.
The South Georgia region produces
more rosin and turpentine than any
comparable area in the world as well
as great quantities of lumber, poles,
ties and pulpwood. Wealth from the
forest industries overshadows
from any other source, two thirds of
the land being a forest of longleaf
and slash pine, with occasional
stands of loblolly pine and river-bot¬
tom forests of hardwoods.
The South Georgia forest is pre
dominantly second-growth, only
per cent of it still containing stands
of original old-growth timber, ab
though these are disappearing. The
Forest Sei’vice reports that protec
tion, development and harvesting ol
the rapidly growing young
must become a major activity of the
region if the already large and in¬
creasingly diversified forest indus
tries are to be cdhtinuously supplied
with raw material.
In 1936 the sawtimber crop of the -
forest was being cut faster than it
was growing—cypress suffering the
heaviest overcutting, nealy 58 million
board feet more than was grown. Pine
showed 35 million board feet greater
cut than growth. Hardwood sawtirn
her, however, grew faster than it was
cut by 23 million board feet.
A shortage of available trees of
the right size for turpentine and rosin
is indicated for the 8-year
1935-42, .but the oncoming
of longleaf and slash pine trees,
if protected, should be sufficient to
maintain the industry at average pro
thereafter, the survey reveals.
Soup made from crows is used in
Mexico as a cure for asthma.
Her man Talmadge
Is Guest Speaker
at Kiwanis
liy K. A. HALL
Herman Talmadge, son of
i Governor Eugene Talmadge,
. to the Kiwanis Club Friday,
! |
dared that “the State of Georgia
| twenty to thirty millions of
11 debt whcn the present
tion took office. Nineteen
I dollars of the indebtedness was
j curred and by eight the state million highway dollars
|ment, of
' ,lebt is now past due. 1 am
knocking the last General
he continued, “they were, as a
the soberest, hardest working
of men I have ever seen in the
capitol.”
I Mr. Talmadge, reviewing the
of the state from reconstruction
to the present time, pointed out
tremendous strides made in
ture, business and
warning, however, “for the
state east of the Mississippi river
become in every sense the
State’, farm purchasing power
be increased. We must have
agricultural diversification, we
have fair and equitable freight
we must watch industry and
and we must exert every effort toward
conservation of our natural resourc
es.”
Mr. Talmadge, who was introduced
t0 tbc club b >’ Sam Mathews, was the
guest of Kiwanian Billy Lee, who was
out of town.
| Other John guests Lee, I). included Wells, Roscoe 0. Pick- L.
ett, W.
Shepard, W. A. Wood and P. Shaffer
Rowland.
President Pra ises
Record of CCC
WASHINGTON, I). C.—President
Roosevelt, in a letter to James J. Mc
! Entee, director of the Civilian Conser¬
vation Corps, last week, praised high¬
ly the record of accomplishments of
that agency.
The CCC was created on April 5,
1933, to alleviate distress among the
civilian population caused by unem¬
ployment. The objectives of the agen¬
cy have been the conservation and de¬
velopment of such vita! physical re¬
sources as timber and top soil. “In
these fields, the corps has been a
notable success,” says the President.
“I am impressed by official figures
showing that more than 2,500,000
young men and war veterans who
i have worked in the CCC camps have
preserved and developed natural re¬
source assets of untold value. These
impressive official figures show that
enrollees, hundreds of thousands of
whom had their first experience in
bbe wholesome atmosphere of the out
j door CCC camps, have planted close
I to 2,500,000,000 trees for reforesta¬
tion and erosion control; built 118,000
miles of truck trails and minor roads;
constructed 84,000 miles of telephone
11 inos; helped to introduce soil conser
vation on 20,000,000 acres of farm
and range lands and tremendously in¬
creased recreational facilities and the
j effectiveness of our forest fire fight
j ng machinery,
| ‘The corps is a builder of the kind
| of men this nation needs. Its pro¬
! gram, based on such tested funda
mentals as good moral character, hard
W ork, high work performance stan
dards, thorough training on the job,
physical hardihood, active citizen
ship and love of country, has
f Re d arK j improved the health and
usefulness of a sizable portion of this
country’s youth population. The young
men who profit by the opportunities
available in the corps will be well fit
ted to serve the nation’s present need
f or the cooperation of every citizen,” i
President Roosevelt concluded
A. M. LAMAR WINNER
IN NATIONAL CONTEST
A. Melrose Lamar has received a
check for $10 from Pathfinder, a week¬
ly periodical of nationwide circula¬
tion, published at Washington, for
participation in a contest conducted
by that publication called “Know
America.” The questions of the con¬
test pertained to United States his¬
tory, Constitution and government.
Mr. Lamar was in eighth position.
Rev . Jason Shir a It
Preach Sunday at
Methodist
Rev. Jason Shirah, retired
ist minister of Byromville, will
at the Fort Valley Methodist
Sunday morning, filling the pulpit
Rev. L. E. Williams who is
in revival services at Dawson.
Mr. Shii'ah is the father of
Clarence W. Walton.
The Sunday night service will
a religious page ant, the title of
is « The challenge of the Cross.”
I p res byterian and Methodist
| are coopei . at j ng j n that service,
Rev Jame8 Coad directing the
| eant.
j
S prin h «» Is Best Time
To Control
• Right now is the best time to
some effective work towards
j bn * flieib County Agent R.
^ wan nAA " tu "
i -
^ 1 bbe l )csbs * s bo kill
bc * 01 e ^ be ^ babcb *
“The three kinds of flies that
| cially stable affect fly, the the horn dairy fly farmer and the are
mon house fly,” the agent points
The first two are ‘biting flies’
cause untold irritation to the
herd. This condition, of course,
much loss in milk and even in
of the cows, and often contributes
the summer slump in milk
“House flies do not bite but
1 filthy and contaminate
they touch in the dairy and in
home,” he continues. “It is
impossible to accurately estimate
annual damage caused by
in human health and loss of milk
dairy herds.”
Flies can be so controlled that
will not eat up much of the
profits, Mr. Swan says. He states
that effective control iii* of flies *r i begins
with the first ... warm days , in the ,,
Flies r .,. breed , , in . filth so d ... the
spring.
breeding . places , can , be removed , early ,
the ™ the f.ght against flies
“The stable fly and the house fl> ’
breed in manure in the barn or lot or
in many cases in piles of rotten straw,
spoiled silage or other material where
moisture and warmth are present. A
little time spent in a real clean up of
such material will do more good in
fly control than all the sprays, fly
traps or poison bait that can be used
later in the summer. Of course, it is
necessary to keep these breeding
places cleaned up all summer.”
BAGGARLEY IS NEW
POLICEMAN HERE
Roderick Baggarley, who has been
serving as police officer in Marshall
ville for some time, was given a
place on the Fort Valley police force
last week.
Mr. Baggarley is married and has
one daughter, Dorothy. They expect
to move here after school is out.
T. B. MOVIE WILL BE
SHOWN HERE APR. 23
The Early Diagnosis Campaign >
being held this month by the Peach
County Tuberculosis Association as
the spearhead of the year-round activ
ities, is an effort to impress upon
t be public the necessity of finding tu
bcrculosis in its early, most easily
curable stages and of beginning prop
cr treatment early.
Along this line the association,
namely the child welfare committee
of the Fort Valley Woman’s Club, is
sponsoring a movie for the benefit
ab school children in the county,
The picture will illustrate clearly
the causes and effects of tuberculosis
and show just how important an early
diagnosis is. It will be shown, free
to all, on April 23. Three showings
will be held—one at the Fort Valley
public school at 8 o’clock a. m., one
at the Byron public school at 11:00
a. m., and a showing for the colored
at the Fort Valley State College that
night.
The committee is also sponsoring
poster contest in the schools on “The
Early Diagnosis of Tubex-qulosis
with prizes amounting to $9.00 to
given for the best posters.
JURORS DRAWN
FOR MAY
Peach county superior court
convene on the first Monday in
at 10 o’clock in the morning, for
two weeks session.
Therg will be no grand jury.
traverse jurors for the first and
ond weeks are listed below.
Traverse Jurors—First Week
R. D. Gillespie, Donald Jones,
er White, J. B. Hunnicutt, J.
Bradshaw, W. H. McRae, C. M.
ews, J. F. Irby, Jr., Mayo Lacy, J.
Pearson, J. W. Robinson, W. H.
non, Robert Johnson, Cohen
Leroy R. Hallman, M. F. Goff, W. A.
Holcombe, Jr., J. B. Belcher, A. B.
Cooper, I. I*’. Bailey, William
man, J. E. Pickard, Willie Williams,
B. H. Walden, R. L. Wells, Jr., Hugh
Anderson, R. L. Marchman, Jr., C. L.
Sledge, E. B. Vison, W. I). Tharpe,
Jr., Royce Bartlett, W. 11. Davidson,
W. I. Pearson, A. C. Hutto, B. L. Rob¬
inson, J. G. Giles, Thomas Edwards,
Edgar L. Anthoine, Albert Jones, J.
D. Duke, W. M. Sloan, J. C. Melvin,
A. F. Stubbs, W. H. Murray, R. H.
Burnett, R. M. Neal, B. F. Jones, Or¬
ville Jarrell, Leman Duke, R. A. Hall.
Traverse Jurors—Second Week
V. T. Goss, E. H. Holland, Myrtle,
W. C. Wyatt, Cary Strong, W. G. Bris
endine, J. M. Strong, C. F. Salmon,
Sidney Kilgo, D. C. Strother, R. L.
Bachelor, Harris Hafer, B. D. Adams,
Belmont MJcElmurray, Albert Mur
ray, E. W. Bowman, Sr., Hubert Hall¬
man, W. H. Dent, Cliff Newell, T.
Monk, W. A. Defoe, Mervin Glass,
J. M. Greene, Sr., R. M. English, W ■
M. Mathews, Ira Sammons, W. Clel
ton Mathews, A. O. Smith, W. H.
Wortham, J. E. Haslam, Jr., R. R.
Ransome, H. H. Culpepper, W. F.
Culpepper, A. M. Borders, R. L. Rob¬
ertson, Pete Wouvis, R. C. Slappey
E. S. Bryant, Peyton Murphy, Her¬
, bert Hiley, James P. Kemper, E. G.
I Fagan, R. L. Holland, Martin Mosley
W. A. Canthers, John T , 0 Sanders, , J. T TJ Ii.
’ *
Allen, O. ^ Goss, _ J. C. - Scarborough, „ C. _
’
^ R. Collins, ’ W. R. ^ Burnett, ’ W. E.
Greene, Powersville, , n Inard , N. Bry
| ;
j H Allen , L. P. Smith, G. W.
Bartlett, C . K. Slappey, W. J. Liip
fert, H. O. Queen, Clifford Howard,
' Horace Allred, R. T. Hancock, C. F.
I Bateman, M. H. Holley, Jr., C. G.
'Aultman, II. M. Branham, I). W.
I Wells, C. D. Lavendar, R. L. Wells,
Sr., W. W. Howard, Lonnie P. Smith,
| T. M. Anthoine, Jack Sanford, B. A.
j Young, Lester Bradshaw, J. O. C. Har
per, J. G. Jordan, H. Baird, T. M.
| Smith, ’ Tommie Donnelly, B. B. Smis
son.
Randolph Hartley
Buried Wednesday
Randolph Hartley, son of the late ’
William Green Hartley and Sara
Avera Hartley, died Tuesday morn
ing in a hospital in Macon after an
illness of several months.
He was 80 years old* and was a re¬
tired Fort Valley cottop dealer.
He is survived by a son, Jessie B.
Hartley; three grandsons of Macon,
one granddaughter, Miss Eloise
Hartley of Orlando, Fla.; a brother,
W. A. Hartley, Crawford county.
Services were held in the chapel of
McCord and Co. at 3 p. m. Wednes¬
day. The Rev. M. D. Reed officiated.
Interment was in Oaklawn cemetery. I
Pallbearers were Lennis Hartley,
Luttrel Hartley, Lawton Pearson, Os¬
car Pearson, Jr., Irvin Pearson and
Russell Pearson.
Thomasville Rose
Show April 25
THOMASVILLE, Ga.—The 20th I
anniversary of Thomasville’s famed 1
Rose Show is being observed this
spring and will be featured by what!
is expected to be the most beautiful
and elaborate displays of all the score
of years, on Friday, April 25.
A late spring this year held back'
blooms later than usual and is cal- ,
culated to result in an even greater ‘
abundance of flowers available for the '
show than in some previous years,
The show, sponsored by the Thom
Garden Club is a tremendous
undertaking but when completed it is
a spectacle well worth the trouble
and time in going miles to see. There |
is no admission charge.
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REFERENDUM ON
PEANUT QUOTAS
TO BE HELD 26TH
Since Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard has proclaimed
marketing quotas on peanuts for
1941, Peach county peanut growers
along with all others will have an op¬
portunity to vote for or against the
quotas in a referendum on Saturday,
April 26.
Balloting will be done at the court
house from 9 a. m. till 5 p. m.
The proclamation was provided for
j by Congress in a recent amendment to
the Agricultural Adjustment Act of
1938. The national quota for 1941.
is the amount of peanuts which will
be harvested from the national acre¬
age allotment, set by law at 1,610,000
acres. This is the same as the peanut
acreage allotment under the 1940 Ag¬
ricultural Conservation Program.
The quota wjll remain in effect only
if approved by two-thirds or more of
the peanut farmers voting in the ref¬
erendum. The vote is for a three-year
period, affecting the cx-ops of 1941,
1942 and 1943.
Under the quota, a farmer who
plants within his peanut acreage al¬
lotment may market all he produces
without penalty. Peanuts marketed
in excess’ of the farm marketing quo¬
! ta are subject to a penalty of three
cents per pound. However, payment
of the penalty is not required if the
i excess peanuts delivered to
are an.
agency designated for handling ex¬
cess peanuts. In this case, the farmer
receives for his excess peanuts the
price for oil, which usually is consid¬
erably lower than the mai-ket price for
edible peanuts.
i Only those picked
I peanuts which are
and threshed by mechanical means are
subject to marketing quotas. This
means that peanuts hogged off or dug
for hay* do not come under quotas.
Also, quotas do not apply to farms on
which the measured peanut acreage
is one acre,or less.
j The act requires that if quotas are
not approved in the referendum, no
peanut loan or diversion program can
be offered on the 1941 crop. If quo
tas are approved in the referendum,
farmers are assured of a loan or di
version program, or both, as a means
°f protecting peanut prices. The loan
1 ’ate would be between 50 and 75 pel*
cent of parity.
N OlV Is Tittle tO
Plan Trench Silo
Spring is a good time for farmers
to plan their trench silos for storing
their silage, County Agent R. P. Swan *
pointed out this week.
• < Although the silo can be dug latex'
on in the summer, silage crops need
to be planted soon,” the agent said.
<< Land where a crop of winter le¬
gumes has been turned under is fine
for silage. If this is not possible, a
satisfactory yield of silage can usu¬
ally be made following grain, especial¬
ly if sorghum is used. Sorghum will
stand the hot dry weather of mid¬
summer much better than corn and
will make a bigger tonnage per acre
almost any year. The quality of the
silage is nearly as good and any dif¬
ference is more than made up because
of the greater tonnage of the sorg¬
hum.”
Mr. Swan declared that on good
land that has been well prepared and
well fertilized (preferably with stable
manure added) it is reasonable to ex¬
pect from five to ten or even twelve
tons of silage per acre. He added
that ' a good variety of sorghum—one
adapted to the section where it is to
be grown—is also essential.
Plenty of seed,” he advised. “A
good way to have half a stand is to
plant half enough seed. The sorghums
can, of course, be planted thicker in
the row than corn,
“When the silage crop is growing,
then you can build the silo. Select a
place convenient to the barn, on a
slope if possible. Visit someone who is
using a trench silo, see how he did it
and profit from his experience. Do
little careful figuring on the size
needed to store the feed you will
Simple directions on the trench silo
can be found in extension circular 247
which is available at the county
agent’s office.