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Show PROVO, UTAH CdUNTY, UTAH. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1945 Editorial.... (Vim klIIUN-W UU W.M .... . ui us tnereiore rear, teat, a premise MIX us off entering 1st. us rest, any jou wiwo A - tA - - M .. w in come man in uj" ncmcwi il iVeu; Compaigh at Aachen in about a month, ii present pians are not -. changed, Allied Military Government will re open mo BUivuia vi (wwcih 1 thus will bearin one of the war's most import- at . The AMG officers are faced with a tre-t tre-t mendous task. The schoolrooms of Aachen , are to them what New Guinea was to Gen-i Gen-i end MacArthur or Oran to General Eisen--hower the first step on the long, painful and endlessly difficult road that leads to ex- 5 termination of the Axis. Aachen will be only a smalkbeginninjj to "i test opposing strength and try the weapons - of assault. Efforts are now being made to choose teachers and textbooks, and already these efforts have brought samples of the , trouble that lies ahead. Teachers had to join the Nazi party to hold their jobs. One difficulty in Aachen and elsewhere, will be to find redeemable teachers who became Nazis from expediency . and not conviction. Then there will be the problem of what to 2 teach. Of course literature offers as many - antidotes for Nazi poison as there are reme- f dies, in a volume of materia medica. But where in the free world of letters is a start to be made? And what will best assure speedy assimilation and a real start toward mental and spiritual heaHh? Except for the absence of death and danger, dan-ger, tfie conquest of Nazi bigotry will be infinitely in-finitely harder than the conquest' of Nazi arms. Opposition will be found on all sides, impregnable because it is intangible. The start toward victory will have to be made with the very young and the old : those who have not yet been poisoned by a fanati- cal philosophy of lies and hatreds and nation al megalomania, and those who can remember remem-ber when free German thought still existed. With those of 15 to 35, there can be no hope of swift or easy conquest. The task of re-educating Germany to live peaceably in a world of tolerance, culture and progress is the work of a generation. 5U V G4i .AX fcUC WUU WU1U fc VI Ck VVUIUWU definition of freedom and democracy, they ? . ! , I" cotua not ponce every scnooiroom in Germany Ger-many to see that the teaching conformed to that definition. It takes great hope and great courage to commence that helpful treatment But there is no way to begin except by beginning. begin-ning. Probably ithere will be little glory for the men who dont. Yet they are launching a fateful experiment whose result may shape the course of European history in the next 50 years. Book & Lyrics by W. Shakespeare Speaking of Mr. Petrillo, the American Federation of Musicians has made news 'without his assistance. That was through 2 the ruling of New York Local 802 that I Shakespeare's "The Tempest" is a musical comedy, because it has incidental music and about a half-minute of singing in its present Broadway production. Because of this ruling, the play's producers produc-ers must now employ 16 musicians in the pit at $92 a week, instead of 12 musicians at $65. That adds $692 to the producers' weekly overhead. But we still think that they're the winner, and that they probably ought to drop Local 802 a note of thanks. For the union's decision will put the play in a new light for most of us. Of course, there are some who claim that "The Tempest" Tem-pest" is Shakespeare's greatest play. But they're the highbrow minority who like their Shakespeare in the library, not on the stage, and who don't mean a nickel at the box office. of-fice. But there must be thousands of us who suffered exposure to "The Tempest" in school, and who survived it with the feeling that here was probably as dull a dish of mystic double-talk as ever was entombed among the classics. And if we chanced upon the average stage performance of the "comedy," "com-edy," our feeling was doubled in spades. Now a little smart showmanship might change all that: "The Tempest . . . scintillating scintil-lating . . . sparkling . . . the gayest musical on Broadway. Music by David Diamond. Book & Lyrics by W. Shakespeare." Yes sir, a little canny exploitation and the producers can clean up, thanks to Local 802. Investing in war bonds can mean the difference dif-ference between retiring upon old age and just giving up. It's a quaint German habit to hang officials offi-cials who desert their post. Hitler has several hangings coming. If you think you look pleasant going around with a dejected look, just consider the prune. 4 The American fleet again is daring the Jap fleet to come out and fight, but the Japs prefer the game ox hide ana seex to tag, you're hit! The Washington . Merry-Co-Round A DaOy Picture of What's ff T SS52R Going On in National Affairs f. t iVJ S V" WASHINGTON Mississippi rootin-toot-in' John Rankin has introduced an lntereatins lit. tie resolution to drain away a small sergment of the taxpayers' money. It is to pay a salary to uiui-uuci m nuvnt oujpung, VlCrK Ol in. Old Dies committee, during a period when he was supposed to have been in the army and at a time when the Dies committee had ceased to exist This climaxes a long series of draft deferments for the young men who did so much flag-waving on Capitol Jiill about un-American activities. For some time, Stripling was deferred! by his meMnorw, va., araii ooaro as an essential worker. wor-ker. Then last August the draft board decided he was not so essential after all, and put him in 1-A. In October, however, he was deferred again. Others around him. such as the 36-vear . niri nephew of General MacArthur, also living in Alexandria, together with the 32-year-old city manager 01 Alexandria, were drafted. But 31-year old Stripling was deferred. Finally on Dec. 11. he was slated to report to the army at 7 a. m., but once again he was given giv-en more time. This time the Virginia draft board refused to defer him, but General Hershey's selective selec-tive service in Washington went over its head, at the request of wire-pulling congressmen, and gave Stripling until Jan. 4. Came Jan. 4. and the flag-waver got his fourth deferment This time congressman May of Kentucky went over the head of the local draft board and sot him de ferred until Jan. 20. But by this time, the Dies comrauxee naa ceased to exist, having expired Jan. 3. So Congressman Ranking has introduced a resolution to pay Stripling for the time in January that he was hanging around Washington with the Dies committee non-existent and when his araii ooara wanted him in the army. GOULD'S FRENCH TRANSACTIONS French and U. S. offilcals are greatly interested inter-ested in the statement of Mrs. Frank Jay Gould that she paid 5.000,000 francs to the Nazis to save her husband from being taken off to Germany. Ger-many. What puzzles them are some transactions which make it appear that the Gould family was being' well-treated by the Nazis. In fact, during part of the war. the Nazis, instead of exacting payments from Gould, .actually paid him rent on his vUla. This was in September 1943. The amount received re-ceived was 1,300,000 francs. (It was ten months later, in July 1944, just as the Allies were sweeping sweep-ing toward Paris, that Mrs. Gould deposited 5.000.000 francs in a German-controlled bank in Monte Carlo, allegedly to save her husband.) The 1943 German payment to Gould was deposited de-posited by the German commissioner in the Chateauneuf-Sur-Cher branch of the Case National Na-tional Bank for requisitioning Gould's villa in Vichy. Later, the German commissioner even naid Gould an additional 195,300 francs to compensate ior expense connected with requisitioning the villa. Mrs. Gould's deposit of 6,000,000 francs ten months later was In the Banque J. E. Charles Et Cie., of Monaco the elght-square-mlle, neutral principality famous for its Monte Carlo gambling casino. The date of her deposit, July 21, 1944, In Itself It-self is Interesting. For the Charles bank was actually established on this same date. It had not been in existence before. Furthermore, Mrs. Gould became a stockholder. U. S. and French officials also consider other dates significant June 6 was the date when the Allies landed in Nor mandy. July 19 was the St. Lo breakthrough. when General Patton started his dash for Paris. Three days after the breakthrough, the bank was founded. COLLABORATIONIST BANK The group which put up capital for the bank included some interesting Germans and collaborationists, collabor-ationists, suspected of wanting to get their money out of reach of the De Gaulle government. The founders were: 1. J. E. Charles, a German resident of Monte Carlo. 2. August T. Gausebeck, another German banker formerly living at SO Broadway, N. Y. C suspected of handling Nazi funds in the U. S. A., and deported from New York In May 1942. Before the U. S. break with Germany, he apparently knew it was coming and transferred much of. his property to Argentina. The rest has been seized by the alien property custodian. . 3. Guillaume Charles Le Cesne, French banker, who before the war was 'associated with a company making electric storage batteries. Durj Ing the war he continued with this company, the batteries being important to the war and being sold to Germany. 4 Florence La Caze Gould, born in San Francisco of French parents, former actress and third wife of Frank Gould. She is vice-president of "sea baths" at Juan-Les-Pins, a director in "Lunch Et Glaciers," a catering company, and in various winter and summer resort companies. Another interesting date in the history of the Charles. Bank falls on Aug. 23, 1944, when it increased in-creased its capital from 80 million to 150 million francs. August 23 was just eight days after General Gen-eral Patch landed with an American army along the French Riviera, near Monte Carlo. Since Monte Carlo is neutral, officials suspect sus-pect that the Charles Bank was a scheme whereby Germans and French collaborationists transferred funds cut of De Gaulle's jurisdiction. Charles, when interviewed by investigators, said he and the German, Gausebeck. would retain an interest of 50 million francs and the "American group (the Goulds), which has a participation of only 5 million, will have the right to a total participation participa-tion of 50 million " Investigation of the whole affair is continuing by both French and U. S. officials. Note Mr. and Mrs. Gould were warned repeatedly re-peatedly by American authorities before hostilities hostil-ities to return to the United States. Their funds were frozen during the war. END OF WAR After one member of the U. S. high command returned from Yalta, officers surrounded him to ask when the "Big Three" thought the war would be over in Europe. "Listen." replied the returned staff officer, "in the last war, I knew Marshal Foch's chauffer and he told me he was constantly being asked the same question. Every place he drove Foch, people peo-ple asked if Foch had told him when the war would be over. He always said he didn't know. "One day he was driving the Marshal toward the front thinking how when he returned every" one would be asking him if he knew when the war would be over. Just then, Foch reached over from the front seat and asked: '"Henri, when do you think the war will be over?'" "Confidentially," concluded the staff officer, "That's what all our men asked each other 'at Yalta." Note Actually, after American, British and Russia staff officers completed plans for their final coordinated offensive, they agreed Germany should be finished off by July 1st Many of these top men including Generals Marshal and Eisenhower Eisen-hower miscalculated last year, thought the war would be over last autumn. 1 (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Planting Time Is In Full Swing in the Pacific S" . The Chopping Block Frank C Robertson - Robertson Pyle Meets Old Friends From European War in the Marianas Editor's Note Ernie Pyle is with the Navy in the far Pacific. This is an article writen on his way. By ERNIE PYLE IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS It is tropical where we are now. wonderfully tropical. It looks tropical, and best of all. it feels tropical. Just now is the good season, and it is like the pleasantest part of summer at home. But it Is hotter than you think, and you change your whole ap proach to the weather here. You get from the Navy a long Billed "baseball" cap to shield your eyes from the sun. Your clothes closest has an electric light burning constantly in it, to keep it dry so your clothes won't mould. You change your leather wrist-watch strap to a canvas one for a leather one would mould on your arm. You put on heavy-topped shoes again, for it still rains some and the red mud is sloppy. And instead in-stead of light socks for coolness as you d think, you put on heavy socks to help cushion your feet in the big shoes, and to absorb the moisture. Officers wear their sun-glass cases hooked to their belts. Ties are unknown. There is no glass in the windows. Wide slanting eaves jut out far beyond the windows in all the permanent barracks buildings, for when it rains here It really pours. And as someone said, it rains "horizontally" here. In the few showers since we arrived, I've seen that the rain does come at quite an angle. Actually the rainy season is supposed to be over. Consequently, Consequent-ly, every time it showers during dur-ing the day, the Californians in camp point- out that the weather is "unusual." Lieut. Comdr. Max Miller and I are staying briefly in a room of a Bachelor Officers Quarters or BOQ. Our famous Seabees have put them up all over these various islands since we took over from the Japanese last summer. They are in the curved form or immense Quonset huts, made of corrugated metal and with concrete floors. Some of them are even two-storied. They have a wide hall down the center, and individual rooms on each side, side. The. walls are cream-colored. The cutside wall is almost all window, to let lots of air in. The spaces are screened but have no glass, for it never gets so 'cold Q's and A's Q Is Luxembourg treating collaborationists harshly? A Not very. They are being made to work without pay on such jobs as clearing snow from streets. Q What has replaced the lance among Russian Cossacks fighting on horseback? A The tommygun. They still use sabers, however. Q What is the difference be tween Army's M8 and M10 or M14? A The M8 is a rocket The M10 and M14 are launchers. Q Is the Vatican helping to feed Italians? A Yes, with 200,000 meals daily all over liberated Italy. Food is purchased from the Allied Al-lied Commission and the Vatican sells it: soup 3 cents, full meals 10 cents. Q What " President was the first 4o wear long trousers instead of knee breeches at his inauguration? inaugura-tion? A John Quincy Adams. you'd want to shut the window. But it is pleasantly cool at night, and we sleep under one blanket. Each room has a clothes closet and a washstand and a chest of drawers. And also two beds. These beds are the talk of the Marianas. They are American beds, with double mattresses, soft and wonderful. won-derful. As everybody says, they're finer beds than you'd have at home. I ran into one army officer wno had served in Europe, and he laughed and said. "After the way we rouahed it there. I feel self-conscious about sleeping like mis over nere. But if the Navy wants to send oVer these beds, I'm sure as hell going to sleep in them." Naturally everybody on these islands doesn't live like that, for these quarters are only for transient tran-sient visitors like myself, and staff officers. The great working camps of the Seabees and the troops are largely of tents, with ordinary cots in them. But on the whole. now that we have been improving improv-ing the islands for several months. everybody lives pretty comfortably. Max and I had a recention com mittee when we walked into our room. A 1 1 0 M m nan aozen beaDees, were Uirowing old lumber into a truck Just outside our window. We hadn t been in the room two sec onds until one Seabec called through the window: "Say, aren't you Ernie Pvle?" I said right. nd he said "Who ever thought we'd meet you here? I recognized you from your picture." pic-ture." And all the others stopped worx and gathered outside the window while we talked through the screen. It made. me feel eood all rfav to be welcomed like that in mv first few minutes in the strange and faraway Marianas. The fellow fel-low who did the greeting was Seaman Peter Zelles, of (117 Michlgan-St). Toledo. O. Tne Navy furnishes orderlies for these rooms, to keep them clean. Mostly they are colored boys, regular enlisted men. Pret ty soon our orderly walked in. and he started staring at me and at nlm, for he sure looked familiar. He was a sreat tall fellow, and he grinned and we shook hands. xor we nad been on the same ship together when we invaded Sicily a year and a half ago. He was a table waiter then. His name is Elijah Scott, his nome is in (zei Garfield-St.) Detroit, De-troit, and he's a steward's mate second class. He was on the other side of the world nearly a year, spent eight months in America, ano now nere ne is over here, almost as newly arrived as I am. , And that isn't all. Within half an hour we arrived, there was a knock on the door and in walk ed an Army major with a big grin. "Well." he said, "I see you haven't got any fatter sine the old days In Sicily and Italy." He was Major Pete Eldred. of Tucson. Ariz. A year and half ago he was a public relations officer of-ficer for the Seventh army In Sicily. Now he's a press censor in the middle of the Western Pacific, Pa-cific, sitting on my bed talk ins about what used to be. Sometimes the world sets al most ridiculous in being- so small after all. I'm expecting my father and Aunt Mary to climb through tne window nere any minutt now. Once News Now History Twenty Years Ago From the Files Of THE PROVO HERALD February 25. 1925 The city and county building is to be completed. Plans for calling for bids to complete the interior of the building so it could be occupied have been made by. the city and county of ficials, although all the funds needed are not available at this time. President Calvin Coolidge has completed preparations on his in augural mesage and is reported to be engaged in paring it down to nis idea of brevity. s James T. Gardner of American Fork has again been chosen chair man of the county commission He has served in that capacity during tne past four years. Neil Dahl, Spanish Fork merchant. was named a member of the commission. succeeding Fred Matley, deceased. A. O. Smoot of Provo. lone Democrat on the commission, seconded the nomi nation or Mr. Dame, after ascertaining as-certaining that the Spanish Fork man was heartily in favor of completing the Utah lake recla mation project. Claire Johnson of Springville won the Far doe gold medal jp the wind instrument contest at the Young university. Sheriff J. D. Boyd and his deputies staged five raids for con traband liquor over the holiday succeeding in confiscating a large quantity of moonshine and some stills. The arrests were made at Lehi, Springville and Provo Three of them were sentenced in the city court by Judge George S. B&lm, the maximum sentence be ing fines of $299 and six months in the county jail. The Provo high school swim ming team defeated the Brigham Young university swimming team in a dual meet in the high school tank, 33 to 26. Bud Shields and Merrill Christopherson of the high school team won two firsts each. It's NOT G. I. THIEVES STEAL RED HOT STOVE CHICAGO, Feb. 24. U.fi) Thieves stole a red hot stove from the Forest Glen station of the Chicago, Milwuakee, St Pau) and Pacific railroad, police reported today. Police said the thieves left some of the hot coals on the floor as they carried the stove from the building. 7 " aMaaaaaa In Parts on furlough, this WAC couldn't resist the chance to try on one of the new Agnes creations crea-tions for spring. The hat is built up of multiple rows of baoy lace, topped by targe bouquet bou-quet of gaily-colored flowers. I like old things. To those who have toured the ruins of the old world Albuquerque would seem just a young sprout of a town, but Old Albuaueraue which begins a couple of blocks trom wnere i live gives me a satisfactory feeling of being among ine ancients. The old Plaza where much history has been made Is surrounded sur-rounded by the inevitable adobe walL Few readers of history even are aware that New Mexico was Invaded by an army of Confeder ates during the Civil War. Here in the old Plaza a stock of supplies worth a million mil-lion gnd a half dollars was stacked and burned to keep them from falling fall-ing into the hands of the enemy. Harvey Fer-gusson, Fer-gusson, Albuquerque's Albu-querque's noted not-ed novelist tells In his biogra phy "Home in the West", just fresh off the press, how the con federates butchered a great herd of cattle beneath a cottonwood tree near his father's house just a few blocks from the Plaza, and how this tree thereafter at tained the astonishing dimension of fourteen feet In circumference from this fertilization by blood. 'A few blocks from here is a great rambling building called Castle Huning which towers far above the surrounding flat adobe houses. It has Iron fences, an old aviary, and other signs of ancient greatness, but is now used as a day school. I got its story from Mr. Fergusson's book. Franz Huning, its builder, was Harvey Fergusson s grandfather, a Ger man immigrant who amassed a modest fortune, and- built the castle as an outward sign of pros perity. Contrary to my precon ceived notions Franz Huning was not just a man who liked to show off his wealth. He was a gentleman, a philosopher, and an adventurer. The Castle was typi cal of the gay hey-day of the Old West in the last century, even though it was designed by its builder from his memories of old castles in Germany. Mr. Fergusson's father, a New Mexico congressman who had emigrated from the South after his father had lost his plantation and slaves, was the flambouyant type who might have been ex pected to build a castle, but politics probably didn't pay any better in those days than it does now. Anyway, the old castle. weather-beaten, filthy from bird droppings, its library where quiet Franz Huning once pored over Kinley's time? his volumes of poetry and philosophy philo-sophy resound to the shrill voices of poor Mexican children a living monument to the transitory j giory ox man. " Hard by the old Plaza is an old mission which a sign says was constructed In 1706. .High up in an alcove window is a Madonna Madon-na and Child in stained glass. I turned the corner of the old church and found a sign reading: t uia AiDuquerque Fostorxice. There were indications that the rest of the old mission had been turned Into cheap aDartments. Those old priests like Fathers Lamy and Escalante must be squirming in their graves. At one end of the Plaza ii i long, low building also built in 1706 which houses the La Placita restaurant very popular locally by people in search of old Mexi can atmosphere and hot Mexican . food. What I lilce hHr in th sur rounding old adobe houses with a their three foot walls, their strings of peppers hanging out side, with old men who have spent' their lives there old men unable to speak a word of English sitting in the sun, and brood ing upon God knows what bygone fights or fiestas. They look very, very wise, these old men. Probably Prob-ably they can't even read Span ish, and yet one gathers the impression im-pression somehow that they have lived full lives despite their poverty, and are content now with their frioles, chile con came, and New Mexico's blessed : sunshine. They have the knack of living. these people. They laugh easily. They are gregarious. Tney are equally ready tp make love, or draw a ' knife at the drop of a hat They are just as happy in their little flat-roofed adobe houses as they would be in Franz Huning s Castle in its palmiest days. The only thing wrong with their adobe houses aside from the bed-bugs, is that when the old Rio Grande goes on a ram page and overflows its banks tne- " foundations of their houses quickly turns to mud- and down they go. Now, however, thanks to a National Administration which has never been niggardly in such matters, the river is safely confined and there Is no ... reason why the remaining adobe -"J houses should not last at least another couple of hundred years. I am going up to Santa Fe one of these days, where any New Mexican will gladly slit your throat if you dispute his claim that it is the oldest settle- ment in these United States of America. I though Ruth Partridge was kidding when she said she was going to send me a valentine, but she wasn't. It was hand made. too, and very nice. It was the first valentine I've received since but why go back to Mc- Desk Chat, Editorial Column ... a good way to deflate your ego is to ask yourself: 'Which parent does a child yell for when it wakes up at night with the earacher . . . perhaps the sweet young things took up cigarettes in self-defense they were tired kissing young men with cigar ete breath. . . . feminism does not worry the rest of the country too much but if they start holding male beauty contests in Washington, Wash-ington, the rest of the nation has just cause for alarm. . . . a husband is no better than his wife wants him to be. PASSING MIDDLE AGE So many days I lost and Left behind I know are gone And I can Never hope to find. . . So many things I cannot Quite recall. Sometimes I wonder If they ever Were at all. And yet I know that As they came And went. They made me Into an individual Who's somewhat different! If the bobby soxers who mobbed and stormed and raved when the Army took Sinatra for physical examination before in ductlon would have made as much fuss Individually and col lectively when their fathers. brothers, uncles and cousins were inducted, we would have had to declare martial law in order to make the selective service draft work. And old Scot had a peculiar habit of holding his nose when, ever' he took a glass of whisky. When asked why he did it ne replied: "Mon. if I smell it it manes ma mouth water, and I dinna want to dilute my drinks wi' anything." It was during the depression when newspapers didnt have to worry about paper rationing but Instead had to worry about money for the paper when It was de livered that this item appeared In the Mills. Wise Messenger: 'It Is reported that one of the fastidious newly married ladies of this town kneads bread with her gloves on. This Incident may be somewhat peculiar but there are others. ... "The editor of this paper needs bread with his shoes on. . . he needs bread with his pants on . . . and , unless some of the de linquent subscribers to this "Old Rag of Freedom' pony up before long, he will need bread without a damn thing on, and Wisconsin Is no garden of Eden In the winter win-ter time." We wonder if school histories SO years from now, will give England or Russia all the credit for licking the Nazis and the Japs. Man Is either king or slave. He is either conquering or being conquered, vanquishing or being vanquished every minute of this life. Promptness as well as courtesy is essential to building a successful success-ful business. -I'm told, sir," inquired the reporter, re-porter, "that you began life as a poor bricklayer. What was your first step forward?" And the great contractor answered: an-swered: "I became a GOOD bricklayer.' Static will be eliminated from post war radios but we will still have political double-talk. Jim in y had been rushed to the hospital for an emergency but not very dangerous affliction, and trying to make conversation this morning, we asked: "Do you know, old man, that's a swell looking nurse you've j?ot?" And Jitniny replied: ''Really- I hadn't noticed." "Why. Jiminy. "I replied, sur prised,"! had no idea you were so sick!" Your G I Rights By DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 Of fice of Price Administration is studying ways to relax its regulations regu-lations so that veterans of World War H can reopen businesses they were forced toNclose to go to war. This is a result of criti cism of the situation by the American Legion. Priorities, WPB and OPA regulations, reg-ulations, and other wartime red tape makes it practically impossible impos-sible for veterans to take up where they left off. Government officials are working out changes In regulations and laws and plans soon to give enterprising vets the go-ahead signal. Q. May a veteran use the government gov-ernment loan guaranty, to acquire an Interest In a going business? A. Yes. The law provides that the funds must be used in "per suing a gainful occupation." This means the veteran would have to be active In the business. Q. Must a veteran have experi ence in business to get a guaranty of loan if or business purposes?.. A. The law provides that the Administrator of Veterans Affairs must find That the ability and experience of the veteran, and the conditions under which he proposes to pursue such occupation occupa-tion are such that there Is a reasonable likelihood he will successful. Q. If a veteran pars off one lean that has-been guaranteed, may he secure a second guar anty?. A. No. but a veteran may have any number of loans gu aranteed so long as the aggregate total amount of the original guaranty does not exceed the $2000 limit Q. May a veteran pay off a loan that has been guaranteed before It becomes due? A. Yes. . - .--m -.- "-.f a a f |