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Show K DDDO Juvenile Delinquency :The nation has been shocked by. 'disclosure that-a 17-year-old madame for 18 months has been selling Ahe services of 12- and 14-year-old school girls to middle-aged men on New York's lower east side. The moral waywardness or, it you ;Will the immoral adventureousness of both the youthful purveyor and her adolescent clients is startling, but that is not the really shocking thing abbut the story as it has unfolded. If: this incident has got under our hides, we might better begin wondering won-dering how 25. to 30 grade and junior high school girls 'could go on prostituting prosti-tuting themselves .professionally to middle-aged men, as an .organized ring, for a year and a half before anybody began to suspect them. -These children might still be conducting con-ducting their demoralizing trade so far as parental or other normal over-Sight over-Sight is concerned. They were discovered dis-covered only because, after a time, they grew careless about flashing their $5 and $10 bills and displaying the clothing and jewelry purchased with their fees., ":' If this were an unique situation we could dismiss it with pity for the girls involved and disdain for the men who took advantage of their youth. Unfortunately Un-fortunately it is not, except, 'perhaps, as it was organized professionally. .- Probation Association studies reported re-ported at the organization's 37th annual an-nual conference at St. Louis the other day showed that juvenile delinquency delinquen-cy the country over rose 8 per cent in 1941, 9 per cent last year, and is expected to jump even more this year. : Charles L. Chute, executive director direc-tor of the N. P. A., blames the situation situa-tion on soldiers and sailors out for a good time, mothers working in war industries, labor migration to war boom communities, high wages for war plant workers. r ; All but the second of these explanations explan-ations bear upon the temptation. The second, perhaps, is most important because it gives one reason why, girl-children have opportunity to go astray, without a hand to pull them back at the vital moment or even a Yoice to bulwark their own protest-; protest-; .mg consciences after the first misstep mis-step and before they have capitulated capitu-lated utterly to lust or greed or ad-itenturousness. ad-itenturousness. v Intelligent, loving home guidance and companionship probably would save more girls than any other one protection we can throw around them. Telling the World :-; The United Mine Workers have adopted an intelligent course in presenting pre-senting their case to the public through large-scale advertising. And they cose well in the, angle they have ' emphasized in their copy. f.r. Apparently the bluk of the public is against the wage ; increase demanded de-manded by John L. Lewis. But, on the other hand, few have really realized, real-ized, -whehn we have talked about -the 35-hor weekin coal mining, that "another 90 minutes a day of unpaid 'time was required to get back and forth from portal to pit mouth. " Whatever the ultimate decision may be, at least it will be based upon a more intelligent public understanding understand-ing of q major issue involved. , ;Farm Manpower :;- There would - be ho manpower --''problem if all Americans had the mat--.ter-of-fact ambition, energy and endurance en-durance possessed by Mrs. Mary Hawkins and -her sister, Miss Lida Van Ausdale of Keokuk, Iowa, f - Mrs,v Hawkins is 93, Miss Van Ausdale Aus-dale 82. Together - they care for and ,milk two cows, keep ? flock of 200 ih'ens, raise a garden cmd,can its sur-vplus; sur-vplus; and do v their own. housework. They not: only; raise almost all their "own i food, but .'sell ehough . to pay for most pi .their other jsirnpleneeds. : -'.-I THere ought to be some mbraT-to ' this. Perhaps . there ' is. ; f W ' V ' . PROVO (UTAH THE WASHINGTON .... FRIDAY, APRIL 23, J943 r Rough Riding On the Rails By PETER ESON Dally Herald Washington Correspondent The idea of 'Incentive payments" pay-ments" for war iutry workers i, beine toyed with in wasn ingtm official pfanning circles asomething that will put more money in the workers' pay en-velopes, en-velopes, help combat the big bad cost of living, beat the Little Steel formula, increase war production prod-uction and in general reduce the public woe in these bough times. This isn't to be confused with the incentive PaymentVJf mers, which the Department of Agriculture promoted a couple t months ago and Congress kicked in the head. This new brand of incentive payment is to apply to industrial workers only. But tne War Production Board is now reshuffling re-shuffling its Management-Labor advisory setup, will fcwbjWy .do something about revitalizing its moribund Labor Production division, di-vision, will create a new labor office of-fice under Robert . Lamb, former chief counsel of 'the defunct Tolan House Committee investigating investi-gating labor migration, to work with War Hanpower Commission. Out of all this reorganizing is a nmo o pHnn one art of which is the idea of selling a. i i w-v. nrt fiirtnr I management ana ia.w- v ? use of the incentive payment. An incentive payment by any other name is not as fair. In harsh, Americanese. back in the days before a closed shop became known as "maintenance of membership," mem-bership," the theory of the incentive in-centive payment was known simply simp-ly as "piecework." Catch on? Piecework vs. Speedup Now piecework as such is one of the things that labor statesmen states-men have been trying ot get away from for years. Piecework is associated as-sociated with the speedup, the Bedeaux system, efficiency experts, ex-perts, stop-watches, rate cutting and all that stuff. Consequently, any effort to take workers off hourly or daily pay rate bases and put them all back on piecework is going to meet with opposition. The trick, therefore, will be to get labor and management to agree that there's a war on and something should be done about it, so how about adopting incentive payments for the duration? This may be one of the first propositions propos-itions put up to the newly constituted con-stituted WPB Management-Labor Council, made ud of 'the presidents of the C. L O. A. P. of L., U. S. 41 l - . v J XTn. Lnamoer 01 vumnieice aaiu Actional Ac-tional Association of Manufact urers. Reduce the case for incentive. payments to a simple example you come up with something like this situation which actually developed de-veloped last summer: The wife of a leading, well-to-do citizen in an Ohio town got .patri-oticevand .patri-oticevand went to work in the local canning factory at the height of the tomato harvest because the manager simply couldn't get enough help to handle his war crop. The good lady called hec Mrs. Tiara was assigned to peeling peel-ing tomatoes, and was she lousy. One bushel a day was about "all she could do though working right next to her was a nice fresh country coun-try girl call her Miss Nimble-: finger who could peel four, bushels of tomatoes a day ano) never cut a finger. But Under the Fair Labor Standards act, cannery workers must be paid hy the hour, not by the bushel. So I Mrs. Tiara gets the same wagesj Dy law ror ner one bushel that is paid to Miss Nimblefinger for her four, and is that fair? The Soviet System ' . The same principle mieht ap ply to loading shells, making gas masks, laying bricks, riveting. sewing shirts. As the labor sup ply thins out, more and more un skilled labor will be used and it. will be paid the same waeres as the skilled. The advocates of the incentive payment plan say that mere snouia De a minimum basic wage for a given unit of work. But if any given worker can turn out two units of work In a normal shift, that worker gets double pay. This is not necessarily cruel capitalism, grinding workers to the bone. If you can stand a little dose of Soviet propaganda from each according to his. ability, to each according to his labor it; might be recorded that the Rus sians have geared up their war production in lust tnis way. There is a standard unit of daily prod uction for every class of work plowing grounds, making bread making bullets. The workman who turns out a unit and a half a day gets pay and a half . The extra producers are the ; gtakhonovites, the heroes oij uie production line wno get ineir medals Just like soldiers, as weu as extra 'pay. That a tne way tne soviet gets production. In ' the United States .the ' in centive payment 1 is not unknown. and a number, of war industries have bonus plans of one type or another. .Most . notorious t are the records of some of the1 Cleveland rugged individualists;, like Jack and Heintz J. FJ Lincoln Electric, whose workers make $5000 a year and up and are feeling no . pain-. But the. professional labor unions tion't ' like the: idea and it will be a' job' to sell them on it, even as a war measure . . :.Eur6pe. got Jta bonds from Hit ler. -. Over here we can get them from Uncle wSam in- the. Second war. Loan drive. Why Does Such a Big Fellow, Stand for It? e . - . -5 " : : HEALTH COLUMN Before Treating Burns, Determine What Type It Is r1 j - Once News . Now History 23 YEARS AGO TODAY From the Files Of The Provo Herald Aorll 23. 1920 L. E. Eggertsen, superintendent of Provo school for 10 years, announced an-nounced to the school board he planned to retire from the schools at conclusion of the school year, Arthur N. Taylor, president of the board, issued a statement lauding Mr. Eggertsen for his work as superintendent. George K. Lewis and La Relle Bushman of the BYU art services club won first places, respective ly, in the contest sponsored by the Collegiate World magazine for the best) cover design and cartoons car-toons accepted. The contests were nation-wide. . A canvass by the county commission com-mission showed people of Salem voted 64 to 25 for changing the incorporation in-corporation as a town to a third class city. Eli F. Taylor was elected elec-ted mayer and B. E. Allen, B. E. Stone, Oscar E. Hanks and E. E. Beddoes, councilmen. The county commission authorized" author-ized" sale of $400,000 in county bonds, $300,000 for roads and $100,000 on the new joint city; and county building. F. M. Young, principal of the Timpanogos school; accepted a position po-sition as principal of the high school at Moab. Q's and As Q Has the United Nations already al-ready compiled a list of German war criminals against whom charges will be preferred? A Czechoslovakia, through its exiled government, has a list topped by Hitler and his chief pals and including Karl Frank and Baron von Neurath, former "protectors," "pro-tectors," and Konrad Henlein, the Sudeten leader. Q Who is the fattier of the touchdown rub in American football? foot-ball? A During a rugby game in 1823, in which he became chagrined cha-grined at the inability of his team to kick a goal, William Webb Ellis of Rugby College, England, tucked the ball under his arm and crossed SERIAL STORY 7 DARK JUNGLES 8Y JOHN C. FLEMING & LOIS EBY COPYRIGHT, t4Sw NCA SCRVICI. INC MONTADORES CHAPTER XVI JJIS fever had qnce more miraculously mi-raculously disappeared during dur-ing the night.. Barry woke to the golden - fragrance of a tropic morning feeling weak but clearheaded. clear-headed. He lay listening to the loud chatter of macaws, parrots and the thousand and one varieties varie-ties of' birds that flashed their bright hues about the estancia. "Good morning, lazy bones!" Allison was in his doorway. There was a bright light of eagerness in! her as she carried in . his tray laughter in her voice. She spread his napkin for him and touched her small hand lightly to bis forehead. ?Yourr'n, she said with ma-licious ma-licious ;ijfViN" excuse for not coming btiWand . helping initiate my zoot caps.' "What you talking about?" Barry frrwsd'es he drank .. his pineappl Juice. - She stood beside be-side him Iaiichinjr. her. golden hair a ragged, aurfoJe abouV her heart- shaped face whose whiteness had now disappeared under a honey tan. - . "Meet 'me out in the clearing and you'll see,? she taunted. Barry drank 'his coffee and ate the two- eggs5 with relish this morning. He felt stronger than he had for a long time and a surge of fresh, hope went through him Maybe he had thrown the fever for a real loss this ; time. . tie. got up and put on the clothes laid out for him and went out of the es tancia. ' . It was a large thatched house on stilts with; a broad veranda, from which could be seen tnenaiz dozen smaller shacks of the'chi-cleros the'chi-cleros and the wide clearing" that surrounded the massed estancias. On every side crouched the ? vi brant green lush jungle 'waiting to devour the puny resistance of man's efforts against it r Barry made his way unsteadily down the broad- tep -of the es tancia : and 'crossed , tne sun- washed, ' muddy clearing -toward , the boiling ketues. Allison sauxr- tered to ' meet him. I "The montadores came In this morhing?", she reported : breath- ! lessly.j . , - " oMontadores? Barry puzzled. TIER eyes 'twinkled with mis-Chjef." mis-Chjef." l.Iontadores are- our chide scouts, ; tenderfoot." , r-yes," my ; calloused chiclero; ; Barry Tetorted 2 meekly. . " V fTou'ieeV she aq?lained. Wi very naughty of them, but zapote trees don't grow ajl in one place. They go just where they please to live their lives,? "Like you," jeered Barry. "Like me" "she: laughed. "So we have to send out montadores to cut trails to the new grove. Rough boys, aren't they?" She and Barry joined the two montadores who stood in the sun near the boiling kettles giving their report to Renaldo. They were powerful, ugly-looking natives, looking more like exhausted, filthy animals than men af ter their long, grueling tussle With the jungle. Renaldo turned to greet Barry with a smile. "Sounds like we've got a fair-sized grove from what they say," he said, his voice ringing ring-ing with satisfaction. Isn't it thrilling?" Allison cried. "To Just go put and discover dis-cover your, orchard?" "Thrilling maybe, but tough," mused Barry, as the two monta dores, now dismissed, moved heavily off toward their estancias. His gaze returned to the girl be side him. . Her violet eyes were wide and shining. "That's it," she was whisper ing. "That's the jungle. Thrilling Thrill-ing and tough. You can scream your head. o&V but :.you can't faze it. You nave to ngnt every min ute for your life." Barry's mouth dropped open In amazement "Why, you scrappy little varminV he. said. Renaldo laughed,' but the look he turned on Allison was pure de votion. "She understands the jungle," he said. Allison caught Barry's arm with sudden change : of mood. '-'Come on," she cried jubilantly. "You're eoing to see mar zoot caps. She walked quickly down "the wide trail striped with yellow sunlight and deep shadow that led, to the closest group of zapote trees. But, though she chattered gaily, Barry noted her hand rested lightly on the small gun in the holster slung about her slender hips, and her eyes kept alertly ;oa ; the ? path ahead. - - t CHE' broke off to answer his un-- un-- spoken question. "Bushmas-ters," "Bushmas-ters," she said shortly. "Renaldo says they're the meanest snakes in the jungle, They'll find a path that's used often, and lie in wait all day for a victim. know.rBarry.ragreed. "But you mean yeu've learned to shoot that gun already?"-! - TTou can learn 'fast when you have to," she lauzhed. v -sw Tbey; had: come to the group; of zapote trees and stopped to watch the native chiclero slashing a zig zag gash down the length of the zapote trunk. Barry : found h was seething with sudden angei over the girl's statements. "Look here," he protested, ai she waited for the chiclero to descend, de-scend, "you don't have to stay out here in the jungle." She didn't answer, and he prod ded, "Do you?" She shrugged then and looked up at him, confusion and laughtei both in her eyes. "You don't have to do anything," she murmured, "including live. But you find yourself in the midst of something; you want to go on with ? for, a while. I never know why. Bui it doesn't matter, does it? Itkeeps it all pretty fascmating.V -She broke off to point vwith excitement excite-ment "Now you can seerthe soot cap." ;'.; The ; chiclero was , almost Va$ the foot of ;the tree. He Wore. Sharp leg irons to dig in and h(4o! himself him-self upright against' a rope looped around himself and the tree. He was naked except for -1 loin cloth and a white hood with visor which tied under his chin. Barry suppressed sup-pressed a laugh at the startling combination. "Is that bonnet supposed to be a thing of beauty?" he asked. "Certainly not snapped Alli son. She called the native to lower low-er his head, and pointed trium phantly at stains on the visor. "Poison drippings from the com- padre tree," she said.. "Some ol those drops might have gone in his eyes. Later on, Pm going to see if I can send for some goggles. Meanwhile," she added proudly, "the sides of the cap protect his ears from that nasty insect that lives in the top : of the zapote tree." , The chiclero had reached the ground. Another Indian was. hanging hang-ing a canvas bag to a peg. driven at the bottom of the-zigzag gash, and the chicle was already flowing along the jagged cuts. "Lady," said Barry, fyou come right after the grand canyon JNTow if you'd use a .little of , your ingenuity in-genuity to make a little sense out of your.own plans." . - ; ' : . ... t She brushed a bright tumble of . hair back with the back; of" her ' hand . and gave him , an, impish smile. I "Don't worry!. about my plans, my fine-feathered friend," she murmured. : "Just be on- your guard." ! She turned, sharply and started back ' through the .'muddy , path toward the estancia,' leaving Barry' grinning ; helplessly after her... By Dr. THOMAS D. MASTERS Written for NEA Burns are among the most common com-mon injuries to be -dealt with in the home, and most superficial burns can be treated quite satisfactorily satis-factorily there. , Superficial burns are those in which the skin is reddened and becomes painful, as in mild cases of sunburn. There are also burns associated with blisters such as those caused by hot coffee, soup, or any deep burns, in which there is destruction of the skin. The last occur most often from chemicals, chem-icals, electricity, or direct flame that is, longer contact with the actual source of heat. To treat burns of the first and second types, it is wise to be on the safe side, and consider all of the latter kind. At the outset it is difficult to distinguish between them. As it is well-known .many skins burn more readily 1 than others, and more severe burns can be expected in delicate skins or protected areas of skin than in weathered types, so that it is often hard to know If a simple first-degree burn is going to remain such or turn into a second degree burn in which the damage is sufficient to separate the layers of skin in blister formation. Clean the superficial burn with soap and water, and apply a clean dressing. A dressing will assist in relieving pain, and in the event that the burn turns out to be more formidable than supposed, .with the formation of blisters, it will protect the blisters. Such, a bandage should be removed re-moved at the end of 24 hours. If no blisters have formed in this time, no further attention is need-In need-In the event that blisters have formed by or before 'this timp th should be touched with tincture of looine and a needle which has been passed through a flame used to puncture the blister. With a sterile gauze, the fluid should be ex pressed from each blister, and a new aressmg applied. Release Fluid- Expressing the fluid will relieve the pain and accelerate healing, and if one is careful not to carry infection beneath the blister, the aeaa sjqn provides a very satisfactory satis-factory dressing for the layer of raw skin helmxr riiinintr tv,;. i , u.iwg, nuo L11UC, ; the pain dan be reduced by the use of aspirin. I Occasionally, deeper burns with j a destruction of skin and even underlying un-derlying tissue occur, and these snouia oe protected by a large boric acid pack, and professional meoicai care should be sought promptly. Deep burns and those cuvenng an extensive area always require the physician. If the burn is purelv suDerfieial. any oily preparation may be used a remedy popular with many people. Like a sterlie dressing, it protects and serves, as barrier be tween the injured skin and its environment en-vironment But in deeper burns, uie on simpiy complicates subsequent subse-quent treatment, first of all by maKing it necessary for the doctor doc-tor to remove it. If the oil is clean, not much infection can get beneath it but sterile erauze is generally more satisfactory. H t!l TMx f tin i By Draw IX VOUy nClUIB nUUlS (Major Robert Goington in National Affairs 2'.tfr.. WASHINGTON Many an American mother is hearing from her boy, "Why don't you write? I haven't had a letter from home for ages." And she knows she has written faithfully every day. 1 The explanation is the U-boat which the War Department regrets to say caused the loss of "several million pieces of mail" during the first three weeks of March alone. , - - - (To Be Coatla&Ad) i .5 . - I w. "Vii:.'..- the goal line before surprised op ponents. Q What states have the most war, contracts? A California leads, with Michigan Mich-igan a good second and .New York a close third. These three states have almost a third of all war contracts. Q What does the term "call money" mean ? A Money deposited with a bank or loaned bv a bank and returnable when called for. O- What Arab monarrh has or dered internment of all Germans and Italians in his realm? A King Imam Yahya of Yemen in southern Arabia. Q Can. a housewife Rrwnrt aii of her, family's allotment of ra- won points m one day, or must she spread out her purchases over a, moDui : . A rShe mav snenri all nt rt, family's allotment at one time if sne wishes. AUNT HET By ROBERT QUILLCN. ,3 . iliiVPoor old Emmie Lm is r -advertlsin , for a companion ' who ain't Interested in men. . Shell havr to take one eighty years old or else get - . a male , nurse. , But still the mother wonders why some of her daily letters don't get through. Even if a third of them were sunk her boy should have received 20 letters in the month. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. If she writes 30 letters a month all those letters may have accumulated in the Port of New York or some other port waiting for a convoy outward out-ward bound. Convoys cannot leave every day or two. So all 30 letters might go into one ship and if that ship is sunk her son will have no mail for a month. There is no solution to yiis problem except to keep on writing. CLARE LUCE AND HENRY WALLACE Vice President Wallace doesn't Jtnow it tut his most vigorous critic, Congresswoman Clare Luce, . and her husband now have their personal attorney stationed on Wallace's BEW staff. He is Alexander Hehmeyer, who has handled han-dled the legal work for Mr. and Mrs. Luce for some time and who now sits in on the BEW post-war planning committee for air routes. This is the same problem over which the Vice-President and the beautiful Congresswoman from Connecticut tangled. Behind all this is interesting background. Several months ago Time Magazine, of which Henry Luce is publisher, printed a line-up- of future presidential timber listing among - others Vice-President Wallace. The accompanying writeup gave him almost every conceivable bad break, with the good break going to Supreme Court Justice William O. , Douglas. And the photo of Wallace featured by Time was one of those nightmarish effects caught by the camera in an off moment. No photographic "morgue" could have turned up worse. Stung, Wallace called in the Washington representative of Time, Life and Fortune, told him as far as the Vice-Presidential office was concerned, future news pipelines were closed. Shortly thereafter Congresswoman Luce took the floor to denounce Wallace's pet ideas on World Peace Planning as "globaloney." That is why everyone is mystified over the fact that the Luce personal attorney has now suddenly turned up in Wallace's Bureau of Economic Eco-nomic Warfare and is sitting in on the post-war air planning committee. The mystery may not be cleared up until Wallace returns frbm Latin America. PHANTOM CONGRESSMAN Congresswoman Clare Luce is known to newspaper readers for 'her glamour. Speaker Sam Rayburn for his sagacity, Senator Tom Connally of Texas for his oratorical prowess. But, the most phenomenal member of Congress Con-gress is Representative Charles A. Buckley of New York, Tammany Democrat, who never gets his name in the papers. He is known to his co-leagues co-leagues as the "phantom Congressman." Though Buckley is serving his fifth term in the House, there are only a handful of members mem-bers who know what he looks like. Strangely enough, Buckley is chairman of a committee, the House Pensions Committee. But it hasn't held one official meeting since the 78th Congress began, and some of its members frankly admit they don't know their chairman from Adam's off ox. The New Yorker- also' is third ranking Demo-' cratic member of the imoortant Dublic buildings and grounds and the patents committees, but lfAii tt.fr tVlA OMAy r, n v mama . . . a m W a jvsu gti cue aaiuc o njx y iiuiii meiuueis ux uiicse committees: "We wouldn't know Congressman Buckley if he walked through the door," they say. Buckley's wraith-like qualities are a matter of great mystery to employees on the fourth floor of the new House Office Building, where he has an "office." Room number 1429 is reserved re-served for him, and his name is on the door, but-he but-he is scarcely ever seen there. The office is locked day in and day out, and there's no secretary secre-tary to answer the phone. - However, ghost or no ghost, ephemeral Representative Rep-resentative Buckley manages to keep on realistic terms with the payroll. The taxpayers shell out $6,500 a year for three employees who allegedly work in his Capttol Hill Office: Hy man Korn, $3,500; Raymond Ray-mond Neary, $1,500; and Fred L. Flynn, $1,500. It is reported although nobody can vouch for it that Kosn comes down from New York once or tvice a week and shows up at five o'clock in the afternoon to cart away the mailr that accumulates inside and outside the door of 1429. However, repeated phone calls by the Merry-Go-Round to the office at this time have one unanswered. , Meantime, secretaries in adjoining offices ate not happy over having to handle 'thfe daily delegations of Representative Buckleyii constituent,, con-stituent,, seeking gallery cards and inquiring 'about the whereabouts of their Congressman , , "T guess there isn't much we can do about it. thfttlfrh " aicrhAfl rtno aanntam H i 'Congressman Buckley just ain't that's 1 . BRITISH DEMOCRACY A. A creat deal is beine- written nn the- mio. J tlon "What are we fighting for?" tout if the I American public had looked in on the Service-' Service-' men's Canteen of the National Press Club on 4 recent Saturday afternoon, they wouldn't have ! : to be told. ' One of the guests' was a Britisn naval officer, of-ficer, Rear Admiral S. R. Dight, famed In the British Navy for his toughness in battle, and , the saltiness, of his sea yarns. At the Press Club Canteen, he more than justified this latter reputation rep-utation to American soldiers, sailors and marines ' who floeked around him. However, it wasn't until the party wai about tcrbreak up that the Admiral came into his own. Frank Tinsley, of the British Supply Council, suggested that the admiral "join in a few songs It isn't every day that an admiral, British or American.' loins a mnvfait urift mk. wiuier, dui Admiral Dight sang popular Amer- hour. , Finally an American sailor called out "Let's sing this , one for the admiral For He's a Jolly Good . Fellow!" .What followed was probably the lustiest , rendition, of that familiar tune ever heard in the " Nation Capital. More than 100 soldiers, sailors ' . and marine lrkinri in fha . j 1 Jjight who looked almost as happy as if he ' had just won a naval battle. It was one of the' ungs we , are fighting for democracy. -'" 1 1 : - (Copyright 1943 by United Feature ?, ' " '. v ; Syndicate, Inc.) -' |