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OF THB WORLD
FORTY-SECOND YEAR—NO. 148
PACE REFUSES TO SPONSOR HEAD TAX BILL
CIVIL WAR OPENS
IN LONDONDERRY;
RIOTING GOES ON
Authorities Reported
Powerless; Several
More Killed
LONDON, June 21.—Civil war
| conditions prevail in Londonderry
and the authorities are powerless, it
1 was declared in an Exchange Tele
; graph dispatch from Londonderry this
afternoon. Several additional per
’ sons were killed in this morning’s
I rioting there, according to the dis-
I patch.
RIOTING RENEWED;
BUSINESS AT STANDSTILL.
LONDONDERRY, Ireland June 21
—Rioting was renewed here this
morning resulting in one person be
ing mortally wounded and two seri-
< ously hurt.
Rifle and revolver firing was almost
continuous and as few people ven
tured out of doors business was at a
virtual standstill.
Five persons were killed, ten oth
ers seriously wounded, several of
them probably mortally, and about
100 others were less seriously injur
ed during a period of desperate riot
ing Saturday night. The fighting j
was accompanied, by several at- j
tempts at incendiarism, one of which
resulted in the burning of a large!
drapery store.
The rioting was a continuation of
f the disorder of Friday night, when
nationalists and unionists were en
gaged in clashes for several hour?
and the military had to be called out. j
The military remained in what was I
considered the danger zones, but not
withstanding its presence the disor-:
derly elements held sway for some- i
time.
In many instances persons who I
el fibre suffering from minor wounds;
'‘■f.ent home without reciving treat-:
ment. The authorities have no rec
ord of the number of such cases
Among the wounded are several ship
yard workers with gunshot wounds.
2 Apply Here to Join
In U. S. Naval Cruise
Cephus Buchanan and Hewling
Hammond, two Americus boys, hav.e
made epplication for enlistment j;i
the naval training school at Norfolk,
Va. Georgia has been allotted thir-,
ty-nine enlistments in this training :
corps, which will provide a summer i
cruise for boys who enlist, and these .
are to be selected from the entire
number who make application from
this state. Those who are selected
must <’ dist f r the term of the cruise,
being subject to full na 'al discipline
and will ’uceive appr- dice seaman
pay for that period. It 5- expected
candidates foi en’ stmen; will be call
ed to Norf ».k early in July and those
who pais .he ’ gulation physical ex
am' mt n will be admitted and passed
forth ■ cruise.
The purpose of the cruise is to pro- j
vide a nucleus for a training corps ;
which may be called into service in
emergency, although the members are
released from thdir enlistment at
the end of the cruise.
Police, Called, Find
Long-Wanted Negro
“Buster” Ross, a negro wanted by
the police since last February, was
arrested Saturday night on Davenport
street. An officer went there in an
swer to a call, due to a disturbance
ard wlen he arrived fou>' 1 “Buster”
was the disturber. He was required to
deposit $35 to answer the old and new
charges against him, this being for
feited this morning.
Ross has been working for some
time on the farm of W. J. Josey near
Americus, he said, and had success
fully escaped arrest until Saturday
night, by not coming into the city
except when this could not be avoid
ed.
Princeton Professor
Minister to Greece
ai WASHINGTONchiv.' 21—Edward
Capps, of New .■ -sVfy, was named
today bv President Wilson as minis
ter to Greece, it being a recess ap
pointment. Gilbert Parker, Jr., was
nominated Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury.
Capps is professor of classics at
Princeton and has written many
books on Greek literature and the
drama.
School Consolidation
Move on at Sumter
According to information received
in Americus Saturday patrons of
Sumter school are agitating a move
ment to combine that district with
Thompson school, thus adding another
to the consolidated school of the
county.
E RIC U S
THE TIMESBRECO RDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART*OF DIXIE;
$3,000,000,000 Coal Gouge
Threatening People of U. S.
Mine Operators Send Prices Sky High on Scant
Supply While Workers Wait Idle
For Cars Tied up in Railway Jam
This is the first of several dispatches from investigators, instructed to
get the facts on the coal situation. The next dispatch will show how many
operators are taking terrible profits.)
WASHINGTON, June 21—-(Special)—Sky-high coal prices,
double those of last year, threaten the United States.
Consumers face an added tax of $6 or more on every ton of soft
coal.
Mine prices have doubled and trebled already, since April I.
Total extra cost for the country will be at least $3,000,000,000,
if present prices continue, and easily may reach $5,000,000,000.
Most of this will be clear profit for a thousand or more coal
operators, according to government figures on production costs.
An acute famine, also, is in prospect for parts of the United
States, particularly the northwestern states served with fuel by the
Great Lakes route.
Hard coal, in sympathy, will go up with soft coal prices.
Only drastic action—immediately—can save the situation —
and the $3,000,000,000—f0r American consumers.
It will hit every family, whether or not it consumes soft coal in
the home grate or furnace. Every cent of extra cost is passed on by
the manufacturers. ! -
Attorney General Palmer’s threat
to prosecute individual profiteers may |
or may not stop the runaway coal:
market. Similar threats from him,!
in times past, have not feazed profi
teers in other lines.
The coal situation is due to three ;
causes:
Three Chief Cause*.
FlßST—Under-production already
has created a coal shortage.
SECOND—Railroads are so con
gested that mines are getting only j
40 per cent of their normal supply
of cars. This prevents mines from
working more than 40 per cent of
full time. .
THIRD —Coal buyers, bidding
against each other for delivery, are
enabling mine operators to charge J
high and steadily increasing prices!
in a runaway market.
The poorest grades of Ohio slack,
mine run and lump bituminous coals
sell at from $7.50 to $9 a net ton at
the mines, with the prospect of go-'
ing higher. Coal from Pittsburg,
West Virginia and Kentucky fields
costs from $8.50 to sl3 a net ton
at the mines.
These prices average three times:
the government prices in effect April'
1. They are prices of coal as it comes:
from the mines.
Consumers pay this mine price!
plus freight and the pobber’s and
retailer’s margin of profit and cost ofl
conducting business.
The government’s Geological Sur
vey reports show that production of
bituminous coal for the first 5 months
of 1920 was more than a year ago,
gut 20,000,000 tons less than in
1918. Anthracite production to June
1 was 3,500,000 tons more than last
year.
This good showing rs offset by the
fact that the low production of coal
in 1919 prevented the customary
yearly carry-over of 30,000,000 or
more tons of coal into the present
year. i
Since June 1, congestion on the
railroads has steadily shut off the sup
ply of cars at the mines. Reliable
operators and railroad men estimate
that for June the mines have had only
an average of 40 per cent car sup
ply and have closed down production
accordingly.
June 5 the Black Diamond, leading
lbuFtolphT
SEASONTUESDAY
Dates for 4 Games An
nounced-Team Strong
er, Is Report
LESLIE, June 21—The reorganiz
ed Leslie baseball team, stronger
even than last year, when it made
a great sectional record, will open
the season here tomorrow afternoon
when it meets the Cordele team. The
Bronwood team will come Wednesday
for a game aid will return again
Friday, June 25. On Friday of next
week Souther Field will come to Les
lie for a game.
A number of other contests foi
eaily dates are being arranged.
Mrs. Gradys Application
For Retrial to Be Heard
A motion for a new trial filed in
behalf of Mrs. C. L. Grady will be
heard by Judge Z. A. Littlejohn next
Saturday, June 26. On the same date
he will hear arguments in the case
of A. H. McCoy, who is also apply
ing for a new trial. Mrs. Grady was
convicted at the recent session of
Superior Court of furnishing tools to I
prisoners with which to facilitate es
cape, and was sentence 1 to serve a,
year at the state farm or pay a fine
of S2OO. She is now confined in jail l
here, being unable to make bond.
I WHAT COAL SUPPLY
SHOULD COST YOU
Here are the actual figures
showing what soft coal SHOULD
cost the consumer, based on Hick- ,
ing lump. Other coal* vary per- \
baps 50 cents a ton, depending on ?
qual.ty: >
MINE COST, including fair ?
profit for operator and >
jobber, as fixed by fuel ad- <
ministration, until April 1 $2.90 >
INCREASED WAGE TO
miner* - 45 s
FREIGHT (depending on
distance) 1.50 to 3.00 <
DEALER’S COST of hand- 5
ling 1.97 s
DEALER’S PROFIT 1.00
TOTAL $9.32 )
Three billion dollars extra prof- )
it to coal mine operator* will mean >
Twenty seven dollars for every <
man, woman and child in the Uni- 5
ted States; I
One hundred and thirty five dol- )
lars for every family of five;
If the whole family goes bare- (
footed this summer, saving five ?
pairs of shoes, averaging $6 per S
pair, and 10 pairs of stockings, at ,
50 cents a pair, that will leave
only SIOO of the extra coal bill to \
find some other way.
'' Cut the sugar supply three '
L pounds a week for a whole year, at 1
/ 25 cent* a pound, and save $39 <
' more. .5
All go bareheaded and save $25 (
! more. /
Then find some other way to 1
save the last $36.
> And then—thank the coal op- L
( erator it isn’t any more.
> For you can’t dodge it, whether /
S you burn soft coal in your own
? stove or furnace. Every dollar of
j extra cost in coal used by manu
: facturers, railroads and other pub
!’ lie utilities is passed along to the )
, consumer. That’s YOU.
coal trade journal, said:
“Production throughout the coun
try remains at between 30 and 50
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$4,500 IN OATS
FROM 20 ACRES
Great Record Made on
Selected Tract By Dr.
Bridges
Eighteen hundred bushels of fine
oats, every bushel of which he sold
at $2.50 a bushel for, seed purposes,
totaling $4,500, represent the splen
did grain crop produced by Dr. E.
L. Bridges, of Ellaville, on a selected
twenty-acre tract which he has just
finished threshing out. Dr. Bridges'
oat crop has been considered the
finest grown this season in Schley
Schely county, and before a bushel
of the grain had been cut, numerous
persons estimated the yield would be
in the neighborhood of 100 bushels
per acre.
His entire crop this year Dr. Bridg
es estimates will be about 6,000 bush
els, and he has orders for this quan
tity of seed oats, all of the grain be
ing of excellent quality and splendid
ly suited for seed purposes. The field
from which the grain was recently
cut has not yet been plowed, and it
is stated, the oats grew so thick there
that the stubble now forms a per
fect grass carpet upon which one may
walk for hours without his feet touch
i ing the ground.
Late corn and velvet beans are to
. he planted in the grain field, as soon
i as the ground can be prepared after
' the threshing of the oat crop has been
finished.
AMERICUS, GA, MONDAY AFTERNOON. JUNE 21, 1920
JAS. HAM. LEWIS
DENIES LEAGUE
IS FIRST ISSUE.
Vice-Presidential Aspir
ant TaVp<? Issue With
Wilson
CHICAGO, June 21—Former Sen
ator James Hamilton Lewis, who was!
a candidate for the Democratic vice-i
presidential nomination in announc-!
ing platform he will advocate, today
declared he did not agree with Pres- 1
ident Wilson that the League of Na
tions should be the supreme Issue.
Measures for the "relief of the
United States” must be proposed,
leaving Europe and other foreign
countries to be taken un in due time,
he said.
COLBY SEES WILSON
AS HE STARTS WEST.
WASHINGTON, June 21.—Secre-i
tary of State Colby had a final con-j
ference with President Wilson today!
before leavinv for San Francisco, via
New York, to attend the Democratic!
convention.
Five other cabinet officers will be
present at San Francisco—Burleson,;
Daniels, Palmer, Meredith and Alex-!
ander.
REED CONTEST OF
GREAT IMPORTANCE.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 21.—A
contest over the seating of United
States Senator James A. Reed, of
Missouri, as delegate, and recommen
dations for a complete change in par-1
i ty laws so as to establish definitely |
I the status of women in the party or-'
j ganization probably will come before'
I the Democratic national committee at
| its meeting here next Friday prepara
tory to the national convention, par-
Ity executives say.
: Senator Reed’s antagonism to cer
! tain policies of the administration will
I make any contest in his case one of
i tremendous importance according to
1 leaders here.
Until Saturday the only contest in
view was that involving the twenty
eight Georgia delegates, wose adher
ence is claimed both by Attorney
General Palmer and by the faction
of the party headed by United States
Senator Hoke Smith and Tom Wat
son. On the result of this contest
will also depend the right of Clark
Howell, oldest member in point of
Service on the national committee to
be renamed to that post. Howell is
for Palmer. The Smith-Watson fac
tion is advancing W. J. Vereen, who
was named on the committee by the ;
state convention.
Back From Meeting
Os Funeral Directors
Nat LeMaster and G. C. Davis
have returned from Indian Springs
where they attended the annual ses
sion of the Georgia Funeral Direc
tors association, of which both ace
' members. The State Board of Em
balmers met together with the Fun- j
| eral directors and thirty-five appli- |
cants for license as embalmers in !
j Georgia were examined and passed !
Iby the board. The session of the
I two bodies is the second to be held
i at Indian Springs, and the delegates
; attending were so well pleased with
the conditions there that they resolv
ed to hold their convention next sum
mer at the Spring.
Mr. LeMaster, who is funeral di
rector for the Americus Undertaking
Co., retired a year ago as president
, of the funeral directors assocition
' and ha s long been actiive in its as-
I fairs, while Mr. Davis, who is not ac-
I tively engaged in embalming now,
' has been a member of the organiza
: tion for many years.
LYNCH ALLEGED
SLAYER OF GIRL
Said to Have Confessed
To Crime Near
Savannah.
SAVANNAH. June 21. Philip
Gaithers, alleged slayer of Miss Ans
za Jaudon, 17 year-old girl, was tak
en to the scene of the crime near
Ricon this afternoon and lynched af
ter having been captured near Stil
son, Ga.
He is said to have confessed he
killed the girl.
I
'Weather
Forecast for Georgia—Probably
fair tonight and Tuesday.
Occasional showers and thunder
storms, with normal temperatures
are indicated for the week.
No‘Back-Home Blues’for Happy
Yanks In Our Army On Rhine
Jazz Music, Pretty Frauleins, Foaming Beer, Wine,
Athletics —What More Could
The Boys Want?
“Bring the Boy* Home" would be anything but a popular slogan right
now with “the boy*” who are holding down the American zone of occupa
tion on the Rhine, write* Correspondent Bronner, who is now down among
’em. Bronner is writing the sort of light, intimate, close-up, human stories
of life on the Rhine with the Yanks that every Yank back home like* to read.
This is the first. Watch for more of them in the Times-Recorder.)
COBLENZ, June 2 I—ls any politiician gets up in Congress and,
with tears in his voice, talks about bringing back our homesick boys
'on the Rhine, he’s talking tommy-rot.
We've got the best contented, best fed and best
amused little army that Uncle Sam ever sent any
where. And from officer to buck private you can get
I backing for that statement.
But here is the best proof over: the direst pun
' ishment that officers can hand out to those guilty of
minor pffenses is to threaten to send them back to
America.
Rhine duty Yanks know that hundreds of boys
in every regiment in the U. S. A. are anxious for
duty over here. And the reasons are: The men are
given liberal pass allowances and travel frequently
up and down the Rhine country. The money of pri-
VU IUV, IVIIUIV, I
As vates goes f art h er ove r here, and, compared with
the small pay the French poilu and the British Tommy gets, our Yank
is a millionaire. The country is not dry and one can get good wine
raiv Kaav* _ _
and rair beer.
Also there is plenty of athletic en
tertainment, while the Y. M. C. A.
and Salvation Army look after the
men’s wants and the American Libra
j ry Association furnishes plenty of lit
erature.
Gen. Allen Plays Part
The big boss of the American zone
of occupation, who has had to be a
soldier, organizer and diplomat, is
Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen. He’s a
good fighter from Kentucky and is
six feet tall, has iron-gray hair and
blue eyes that twinkle with whimsical
humor.
Allen has been in Uncle Sam’s ser
vice for 38 years, since graduating
fiom West Point, and has seen fight
i g in all quarters of the globe. He
tcok command of the 90th division
in the World War, and later of the
Bth corps, the 9th corps and the 7th
corps.
When the United States decided to
keep an army at watch on the Rhine,
General Allen was given command.
He whipped into shape thousands of
recently enlisted men and they have
become tip-top Yankee regulars. He
has played h' s .part like a skilled dip
lomat.
Any American in Europe who longs
! for the sound of many American voic
es and the sight of real American fac
es, only needs to visit this Yankee
iand. Quaint-gabled buildings, the
German names and the chatter of the
civilian crowds sell you you are in
Germany, but everything elsi is Am
erican to American eyes and ears.
At the depot you’ll run into Yan
kee doughboys. Alvng the narrow
streets you’ll pass American officers.
ALLIES TO GIVE GREECE
FREE HAND IN TURKEY
REV. G.F. BROWN
RESIGNS PULPIT
To Quit Central Church
For 2 Years of
Study
Rev. George F. Brown, pastor of
Central Baptist church during the
past three years, notified his congre-j
gation Sunday of his intention to!
give up his work here in order to pur-!
sue higher theological studies at the !
Southern Baptist Seminary at Fori:
Worth, Tex. He will leave Amer-:
icus for Louisville late in July, and:
will take a two-year course at the;
seminary there.
Rev. Mr. Brown has enjoyed wide
popularity since coming to Ameri ;
cus in December, 1916, from Savan
nah, where he was pastor of Emanu-’
el Baptist church, and announcement
of his resignation will cause deep re
gret among his friends here. He suc
iceeded here Rev. Robert L. Bivins, 1
I who had served the then Furlow
! Lawn church as its castor from its
i instiution, more than twelve years be-
I fore, and under his administration
the affairs of the congregation have
progressed most satisfactorily. The
i membership has been more than
(doubled during the years of his min
istry here, and the handsome new
church now occupied by the congre
gation was erected soon after he be
came pastor. Besides this splendid
edifice, the congregation has purchas
ed and almost paid for a fine pipe
organ, which adds greatly to the serv
ices there.
In announcing his decision to the
\ YOU SHOULD HEAR
THE DOUGHBOYS SING
> Old Glory’s floatin’ everywhere;
\ the food’s fine over here;
? And Rhine wine flows, within the
law—and so does lager beer. <
<So why should we sing “Back >
Home Blues,” we Yankee* on \
the Rhine?
The world is really lovely, yea, and J
everything is fine!
<
You may have to dodge a motor lor
rie loaded down with mo l '-! dough
boys You will see them speeding by
on motorcycles or cantaring along
on horses.
American Jazz Predominates
American jazz music will greet you
m cases that cater to our men. In
windows are American crackers, cig
arets, and toothpastes And above all
t'.e good old Stars and Scripes float
prcudly ove.- buildings in all sections
of town.
Even the citv hall floats the U. S
flag to indicate that it is t’i? head
quaiters of Maj. Gen. AlF.n and staff
firm when.'e a’ issued orders that
govern 15,060 Yaikees end all the
Gomans in tho American zone of oc
cupation.
Old Glory waves over buildings that
used to be German barracks but now
< house Yanks. Down the river floats
from the masthead of a schooner from
. whjch the imperial German crown has
not yet been removed. This ship is
now Allen’s official boat.
Across the Rhine from Coblenz is a
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Military Measures Re
quired at Once to De*
feat Mustapha
. BOLOGNE, June 21—(By Associ
( ated Press) —Greece will be given a
: free hand in military measures in
Turkey. This was decided upon at
the Hythe conference yesterday, ac
j coYding to information here today.
| The premiers and their advisers found
] these measures were required imme-
I diately because of the grave situation
| there arising from Mustapha Kernel’s
Nationalist forces reaching the Dar
! danelles. French and British troops
( and a British fleet will be concentrat
! ed for the defense of Constantino
i pie and the straits.
Premiers Lloyd-George and Mille
: rand, accompan : ?d by Marshall Foch
i and French Minister of Finance Fran
: cois Marsal, arrived here this morn
; ing. Premier Venizelos, of Greece,
was in the party. Their arrival com
| pletes the delegation which will par
i ticipate 'in the conferenc today and
I tomorrow which is expected to be
(important.
( congregation at a church conference
following the morning service Sun-
: day, the pastor referred feelingly to
'the many and valued friendships he
had established since coming to
Americus and to the helnful efforts of
those who have aided him in his work.
’ but said he felt that the call to great
er service was too strong within his
breast to be disregarded. He will
complete the theological course of
the Ft. Worth seminary, he said, be
i fore seeking another pastorate, be
lieving that he will thereby be better
prepared for the work he has chosen
: as his life vocation.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
URGES INCREASE
IN RETURNS TO
SEVEN MILLIONS
To Offer Bill to Alter
Method Os Arbi
tration
On the eve of his departure for
Atlanta, where he goes Tuesday af
ternoon to attend the 1920 session of
the legislature as one of Sumter’s
representatives in the general asem
bly, Stephen Pace gave The Times-
Recorder an expression of his views
on the subject of raising additional
tunds for defraying the expenses of
the cty school system, and also for
increasing the general revenue of
™ ‘ nunici Pal»ty- 1,1 this interview
Mr. I ace expresses himself as oppos
e * to the impositii ,i el any head tax
tor any purpose, and proposes in
stead that taxable values be increas
et.-—voluntarily by those citizens
who see their duty toward the com
munity clearly, while those who fail
to see their duty should be compell
ed to raise their assessments. He
proposes certain changes in the com
position of boards of tax arbitrators,
and asserts that taxable values here
should be at least seven million dol
lars. With values returned at this
sum, there would be no necessity for
imposing additional taxes or increas
mg rates, according to Mr. Pace,
and, with this end in view, he says he
will introduce as a substitute for the
proposed head tax measure a bill fix
ing a new method for increasing tax
returns which may be too low as com
pareu with actual values. Mr Pace’s
interview, given this morning at the
request of the Times-Recorder, fol
lows:
No Question of Need.
“No one has even questioned the
fact that an additional ten thousand
dollars is necessary tor our schools '
but there has arisen a great difference
of opinion as to how we should go
about raising this sum. Among the
many ways advanced there are three
of principal importance: First, that
the tax rate be increased two mills;
second, that a comutation tax of $lO
be imposed; and, third, that valua
tions of property for tax purposes
be increased and equalized. Let us
maxe an examination of each of these
plans:
“First, an increase of two mills in
the tax rate: by so doing we would
fix the tax rate for the city at twen
ty-two dollars per thousand, a figure
which alone would discourage any
enterprise or prospective citizen from
coming here and would be the worst
advertisement the city could have
such action might just as well b<
immediately followed by abolishing
the Chamber of Commerce and other
civic organizations. Just twelve
months ago, at the earnest request of
the mayor and city council, 1 intro
duced and secured the passage of a
bill in the General Assembly increas
ing our tax rate five mills, or five
dollars per thousand; I consented to
do this for the sole reason that the
floating indebtedness of the city had
increased to one hundred and nine
thousand dollars, or just one hundred
thousand dollars more than allowed
by law, and I realized that this in
debtedness had to be paid and paid
quickly or else have the stigma of a
defaulter attached to the name of
| our city; this increase to last for five
years. But before this bill became
a law the Board of Education had
the mayor and council to agree to
give the schools of the five mills
as they were greatly in need of
money. By this law the rate wap
increased to twenty mills. This, I
believe, is high enough, and it would
be disastrous to the best interest and
future prosperity of Americus to
make it more.
Other Cities and Figure*.
Being greatly interested in this
subject, I have taken occasion to
write the officials of several of the
cities of the state, mostly about the
size of Americus, as to their tax
rates and property, valuations, and
from the information thus obtained I
find the following:
Total re
turns for
Tax rate taxation
Americus ..20 mills $ 4,500,000.00
Americus 20 mills $ 4,500,000.00
Dublin 12% mills 7,738,609.21
Gnffin 14% mills 5,400,000.00
Moultrie ..15 mills 3,666,392.00
Corde’e ....15 mills 3,700,000.00
Dawson ...15 mills 2,325,609.00
Gainesville 16 mills 5,374,975.00
Athens . .17 mills 12,000,000.00
Albany ....17% mills 8,000,000.00
Waycross .18 mills 7,300,000.00
“These figures speak for them
selves; but I wish to call special at
. tention to the City of Dublin, which
I believe is smaller than Americus,
, with a tax rate of twelve and one
, half mills and a property valuation
i of nearly eight millions; and which,
’ I understand, a year or two ago
was confronted with a situation very
. similar to the one we have here, and
i met the needs by raising the prop
l erty valuations three millions at one
• time.
“Next, let us look to this commu
. tation tax, sometimes called a head
f tax. While it has received the en
i orsement of a number of able law
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