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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1948)
) ; r : l : >v A fc'^Z'todav’-Sugust'the 6,1945, ’Want-it has not rtlvaaled its final course, three years agt> toclay.j*ugu_ ^ ^ , Men m fighti y te an y powers. Greed and just, rear and < intol ;e Anniversary . . . kirosbima-. exactly % In the three years We have observed the . . .. n -t r\ j >- ( • n 1 »4-n -PiriQl ortivrcto year of lame nevl^ era. the first! day of the first w ^ I* rm.'ff*;'': The Atohii < Age was born.. r , The world that conceived it was a nick world.'B was a world made feverish bv thosel anci|eirt primordial illnesses of mankind-strife, hate, fears and para- t; doxes. :j ~f j The sickHarent 'feiii down on its child and was frightejief astonished and glad. It Ivortdered i^|itsi child would in- j '• V •11-. ; T4- rlrhT'orl I'f TflA herit those atomic at . t _ d .hlHfP ^ ^ nourishedi that it might grow strong and The moat am brtious and inspiring effort ^ ‘ ; agfe hB throw o£t tnei om, i^g cursea of its j n hjgtory has been imade to preserve heredity.! \ j i ■ ., 1 peace and abolish^he sword. The United Could/this lusty babe grow and develop Nations is a monument to that endeavor, beyond- ifs inheritance? Could, this child Though its failures aife painful and tragic, Sw whole and string without the de- jts achievements are ^reat and portentious foitnations of its parents? Would it be a of good. ] , t ,. l j stupid,land dull, more vici- Man has two bright futures. He may v . - l^arn to love and woiik With man . . . that erance still curse the earth. It is evident that the Atomic Age will have difficulty growing into a balanced adult. Its parent has terribly abused a^d frightened'it. The atomic age is alreM^ revealing neurotic, unhealthy traits whijch wilLcurse it till it dies. ' j i 'j; • i > M 'i ■' Fortunately it hasj shown potentialities in its nature. Medicine, Chemistry, Agri culture—all the physical sciences have do me ills. It wondered if the ve i 0 p e d under its guidance. Even the so- would bp—*or could be so cjai and political scieinces have benefited. <lljinri)pw . TrampKng Out! the Vintag All But Passerby Self-Made Baftei pi- ,.'V ■ m ■j.'fi By JOE HOLLIS* I Battalion Forum Ibis Coin mu is open to all Battalion readers Should the Dixiecrats Bolt? monster, more ; ous than its ancestry? ^ . .. iMen Vere astounded \y the poSsibili- would be gloriously Ibright. He may not ties Life and'hopeWere not impossible; ^fearn. In 3 years he:has not learned. He tolerance and understanding could be has rushed back toi those battlefields found • liberty and justice might be achie- where the Atomic Age was conceived. ^ Men werk also tightened. The lusty Three years of cold wiar have taken him to SSI mij ht develop into am atavistic that poii^t where he may destroy himsSlf Suturei mor! terriUk jthaii the parent m the iristant flash {of art atomic flame. Sh-foatered AttiiT.fi® -and Nerp, That woild be brigl* too. The Great Congressional Spy Probe '' ■i President Truman! as much as admit- munist Party leaders, proving that it w^ ted yest^day - that he was hurt bjtthe atten tion his special session ot Dr. A. B. Nelson, of the History Department, slays the split in the Democratic Party is the climax of a movement Wb.ch has been dls- cernaole tor a generation. By A. B. NELSON , The present division within the Democratic i'grty is tne climax of a constantly growing movement which nas neien discernible tor a | DR. J. H. BASS of the History Department says Dixiecrats con- stiiote a sectional party with a pj^t but no future. These are his ivfews: r y " [ By j. H. BASS I The threatened dismeihberment ;of one ot our major political par ties, the Demoeraue, into splinter 'groups, and the growing number ty ties and allegiances is signifi- groups leprbsent aivlrgent lines of tnougnt regarding such funda mentals as fivnat constitutes the cant tor the nation. This analysis of the party situation, by request Patrons of a Los Angeles bar thought that something seemed inconsistent with the ideas they held concerning saloons. In stead of being asked to pay, they were in formed by six bartenders 3thal everything was on the house. Being people quick to ac cept a free drink and slow to question a gift the non-cash customers drank heartily. During the consuming of ten cases of beer and more than one hundred bottles of wine, the party livened up considerably. One frustrated Dizzy Dean pitched a beer bottle through the front window which had the misfortune to strike a passerby. The beer bottle did, not the window. (I certainly wish that the bottle had struck two people for I like the term passersby. It’s got a certain air to it. However for the sake of news accuracy it must be passerby.) : Said passerby, being a kill-joy, ran tattl ing to a policeman who came to put a halt to the festivities. He too thought things were slightly inconsistent. After sleuthing around a bit he was so certain that he summoned aid to run in the bar-tenders. The self-made drink-servets, it seems, had desired a party. Finding the bar locked and empty they had kicked in the door and started the free drink policy to' various and sundry passersby. (All good things comes to those who wait, even passersby.) '! ! ★ i ■ ; ., ; (I T ; . “ ■ • i' * 1 • ; Some people are never happy no matter how fate treats them. A perpetual-mourner of, this type started complaining long and loud. He was unhappy when a well, which he had believed contained water, exploded. Up on investigation it turned out that from some unknown source gasoline had seeped in. . | 4 ; i The sad one reports that he has pumped some six thousand gallons of gasoline out of well ii iihe pure thht it | irm maq it they they hail 1 period cf Personally I pping Aboutw luting ih well len? The cheerful >ly purchasj hir and st irt a More i n< I mo aft the youpger to outsta »d ng foung meifi . uat thi feat when ficed wi| tfder overwlielminf Late i i jin aft found a s n nge? ii which ih * woi ^bw he get here tl ‘ at heihad >valked| whose h or ic it wa idolph Hsai_, itended burglar )r me!” three months; gasoline ejetively be used ip his ineries are near by, Id definitely knbw it itities in that ihott i ‘‘ . i what the tht if the seei threatening his gar- olutibn would be to slm- i jcap, build a rest he stuff. ★ I ' '.i i . l,.\. lews stories relate how len tion is. One today is >e of how so many jf> their arms ih de task which they con- n reccatlyr a i^aid foyer of the house -M u *• j J’ en she asked ap brightly coni him ided irst’s.j police othe feelink tHit a man hooking a fii hey quizzed • • • ead^rs not reluctant to indict! people when enough evidence had beep pmassed. 4or lack of r .- 7 . ... . Cohgre s $ is getting’ while it is playing second fiddle .to the Senate’s popular “spy , ■ Senator Ferguson), Michigan ^Republi can and head of the jsenate investigating nr^e ” fcallmb the wlhoje investigation a committee, wanted tbje investigation mov- herring ' the President sought to di- ed to Washington becimse he thought New le|t some wdnUeringj public? pttention to - 1 CongresP where he isi tiding ,to get some only new cars, Carson action on inflation, j .. While thebe is no question that any suggestion of communistic infiltration in- ' ' ,6 government should be investigated, , •{*. ; i j nliyswxT • it !does seem hat the present show was , York jitry wasn’t ropking any progress. 'Rlepreseritative Thomhs]'chairman of the house un-American Activities committee, sdid the same thing. If / We wonder, howi have been better to to continue its inves ley’s charges until $r, if it would not ve allowed the FBI tion of Miss Bent- ough evidence had Aggieo that those currying,only one nan m- any- Were ^he best sources of rides,I a nd to licerisefi By HARVEY J. CHELF i Whenever a group of gather on an Aggie corner whenj i»f Texas or the neighboring ears with out of st* state, a “session” gets undemay fered the best c ha nice for a Jctyj as they vie with each other in, re- ride. „ . v lating stories of past hitch-hikjnR Having selected a pir jfor ti experiences. These stones are in-*mg, Caison would hold out ) Variably concerjied with extremely naming the city Qf iuSt a hfee well, timejdl I., . . . . Vest Wv, wc lev since 1944(when sfie repented and tokl them. In that way, (the guilty men and S Agents hdWbeen quietly.working on women could have bpen just as easily m- Lr charges ejv'er since. A federal grand dieted, arid the innocent men, who may iury ih New [York his (been working on weir be ruined by thje present investiga- the case but had not made any indict- tion, would have beenlcleared without hav- ments as a result of her charges. The jur>-. ing been exposed to!the glaring light of however indicted the 12 top Com- the congressional “r|d baiting” session. MacArtiur ipP Correspondents .1 f j laqArthur is up to ewi reports are com- fell of the General’s irrespondents Trom ; - “Dugout Doug” hiS old tricks Jigain. ling from Japan that orders i^Dhiliiting < v obtaining and seiidirigj nort-military infor mation to their paper! in pa.county. The latest report 'of the General’s handiwork coijnes froi a correspondent of the Chicago Daily NCwsgKeyes Beech. In an effort to ; find ouh the costs of army [occupation anjd construction costs in Ja- wjent to Major General H. J*, ICasey MacAilthur’s chief engineer. Casey technique u^sd in Mpscow i and each time the Genieral accuses the cor- ■ • il . |-.-j— |ii'. i (• : )' The Bkttuliw, o [City ot College Station, Tex» [Friday aftiertioop, except^dm 1 I talion *3 ppblishi id tn-w<r [ V pof. Advei tisiig rates' I Goodwin Rail. [Office, Room, |pan* Beech went to Casey, MacAijthur suggested thaji the pe<H?l<} back home were not interestet in^ociupat^ion costo, but IwhUn .pressed asked Beech: to submit a written list ft questjons. Beech iUbmlt- d the. questions and hasn’t seeri or heard nhem since I J I y '•Qther: incidents have been reported respondents involved: pf “sensation mon- gering, incoherence, and professional in competence.” It seeite improbable that all the “incompetent’; correspondents are in Japan. Y ' |. i The Supreme Corjimand of the Allied Powers in Japan seejms to take the atti- : tude that the American- people should know only as much about the American people’s expenditures and operations in occupied Japan as SCAP decides it is best for them to knew. This is the same r;; y «« p*f,y ana ob W . Z | Ih, ,n,.p !.t at Ihc c.u«,et ! U ' of the na.ion«l Oi-sanuatioii at the : th»l the ..ontl.tu!™, ;h, pro - • ,Sa<ia of A Thlllllb P- 1 represents Iwge- ^pvisions lor li .r relerence to ponti- i U1 ^ I nilllllJ 1> the nor'hern wing, tne oig cay ca i parties. y e t t i, e development bosses organued labor and tne so- b ^ of , »’ aTty government" cai.eu liberals and Communist Par- j i( f an ^ senlia l feature of our de- ^ 4k " JS 4 S ° re * mocracy. In a dem'oeracy, where k anU?W l fr <* elections are held among an boosts (.both Norin and South j w|»o .exveiibive ^leiitoraie, poiiucal par- asuad> coniml the local party or- Ries arc inevitable, necessary and gaiiizanons. ; < | • r - . _ v The Southern Democrats or ‘ Dixiecrats ' hoid (o the .‘•states iftfifnts" tneorj’ ot the constitution as, did Thomafi Jclferson and the original founders oi the JJemo- crauc Party and represent a more .agricultural economy tnan the fngniy inoustnalueil iNorth] At presfent the two Wings of the party use ,a fundan4mtaily differ ent approach to the question of party loyalty, which is being hea vily stressed by tne organized par ty bosses. Those remaining faith ful to the nat|onal ticket define loyalty-in terms of allegiance to the national party organization;, those swinging to tne ” trotievracs” fhinJf ol loyalty in tenhs of ad herence to the principles on which jthe party was founded. Th.s giouip does not believe in loyalty to an organization or a mati but to the fundamemal principles and rights the .national constitution and the party were formed to, protect. They also believe that the people, aiid not the organization, are the party. However, even this disagreement over fundamentals df belief would not, in all probability, have brought about an open break if it had not lieen for constant and purposeful disci immation against the South ^ on a sectional basis, plus a long ^however, inconsistent serious of vicious attacks, in con- - stant violation ot the rights guar anteed to the states by tne Federal Constitution. These stacks have been on southern social and poli tical institutions. The attack on the poll-tax Is destructive of the fundamental right of each state to set its own requirements as to voting qualifk canons and the attempts ot the present national leadership to force poun| a sus is innocehcfe. All b that tank n yen. Ever since w-abiding citize bowed ae is}. The he arson ;h tree. n ariri questioned Mr as . The reply;was William Up Mi hearting that the- d 1‘0h, this is too big Such tjctlon is ieplbrable. What indeed ; happe le I to th i ol<|i time perserver&nce that gave )akt geneffitiojna the determination tjo never fijajl die? ; Japam tod a fire tl r useful. Furthermore, the most (healthful cohuition exists when there are two major parties of ^about equal strength. I History proves that rampant multipai :yisni and its consequent i chaos and msuniiy among voters is jag destructive of parliamentary ^government as is one-partyism and dictatorship. The Weimar Republic in b;rmany was a victim of ex cessive multj-partyism. the insta bility of the 'rrench and the Ital ian governments today grows out 'of the absence of any major party capable of harmonizing and com- ; mantling the loyalty of a suiticient ;number of voters to create party ] goveinment. WucVl party iragmen- ttalion nurtures dictatorship. ? No one cohtends, however, that (minor and third parties have no - useful place m a democracy. They xlo have a distinct role to prevent, inertia within the major parties, ;to act as protest groups, and to serve as sotinding boards and 1 whipping boys tor the major par ities in gauging' pubhc sentiment Ion dormant and on new issues. Nor (can mere be unqualified censure of ' 'the “mugwump” voter, who for neither whimsical or for serious rea- gowl jrides or extremely poor rides; thumb with the ot ier haqd * fid ^ nj ro flash his “Personality smile^at tjhe owner. Other equipment included a folding campstool which he us4d r jfor than b- 1 out a Hi tn destihaR in,j the norm has rto human interest, i And in these sessions, sooner or later, the feats of (he Paul B u n y a n o( Thumb-wavers, I A&M’s World! Champion Hitch- ! hiker. Keys F. Carson, ’42, of Cuero, Texas, ate brought up and retold. 1 Keys F. Carson got into his hitch-hiking method of locomotion While a istudent at A&M and wound up as organizer and president; of , the' United Collegiate Thumbers By CARROLL TRAIL Association, with 4,000 members, Dear Sir- including 2000 Aggies. t have heart! ^confirmed U , He elevated thumbing procedure orts that 0hm , 8 6 (I ^ to a professional basis, with such E/R) is not ^sojutdy co ^ ct newTlangled equipment as creden- vn ,, ^ ’ Hal. and rcfleitors. As president Can ^ “‘'SfeK,; he Rave association mombera a Elertncflly yours, Army Secretary: Royall intervened once in behalf of a fMe press when it be- came clear that Mat Arthur was withhold ing information about, non-military mat ters. It is now evident that the General iUd not heed the hintj \ It is time: for Sec notary Royall to tako action. social and economic equality on the southern Suites have precipitated a struggle, tor the very existence of those fundamental rights of self-determination upon which the republic was founded. |VP ,„ V „ WJ The aouthutrt plea for jtmticc at [heir own tlw recent 1 Democratic ^National ihc appnn Cdnvjgnpdh Was received with con- by the m /Ilews i«i{itr^ut^^^^O!^ , ^b|adOy^lophone^(4^l^)^^^tb^ The Associated Preas is ^ Jited to jt’.on not oi 3djterein.r .Rights of I jjotewd 'secow lcJ*» At bffie* * C«lle«e itmtloa. < Un. |tte A 6 * of OonxrcsJ of 'Marcb ^^70. pNNiTH BQ^D, LOUIE MC Ic C- Hunros T ..^i -ir'’- Arjifal '■ fna ( oi ly ? c J . Billy ce. H< .■ 1 Vi • r.Iiicoar ys and exentination periods, y, Wednesday and Friday. on request, X, . ' allege of Texas and the every Monday through ; the summer The Bat on rate $4.30 per school — ixclusively to the use ior 3d in the paper and local news of all other matter herein are also , itiorial office, Room 201, at j the Student' Activities i J -j •• •. ■ 4k — r “ i ■ Member ot Associated Press of all. news diapatches taneous origin publith. ed - sateb * j ■' • . ~ '•-jf- 4&vor . or rttinority ShS MtkiwUy tar Nittaul Al*. wt^tlnk iffc- ^ ork c ' iv ‘ > This year will see he* ! Oen venue tempt, Uiid the present spilt is the result. W. K. HENDERSON, an A*1 istudent, bvheVes the Solid Sout should break away trom the regu lar Democratic t arty. These are his reasons: f I By W. K. HENDERSON , There is htuc doUbt tnat the Republican Patty will be the Vie- tees in the cording Presidcntiil election. a The moat profitable action for the Bouth at tn»a time would be the establishment of a two party aytltem for electing .President^. Following blindly behind any can didate that the National Democra tic Party chooses to thrust upon us will only earn us the contempt of both msjortparties. The Tnnnan- Barkiey crowd, feeling assured of the habitual,support of the,s states’-electorates, have to unbelievable lengths to the favor of ; minority groups in sons, ekereiSes his right to cross party lines. That does not mean, however, inconsistent as it may (read, that the American people can irisk the disruption of the -major itwo-party system by encouraging rebellion against party discipline .upon issues that may be at best transitory and superficial. It ought to be emphasized at this time that political parties are hie rarchies and organizations not rab- jbles of ideologists and doctrinnir- ires. While political patties do pre sent platforms of policy to be guile the voters, they are composed of men and women who must be possessed of a high degree of com promise and reciprocity. As organizations, political part ies identify themselves and adopt procedures less through he hppiuatui of the platform than more elaborate machinery f coirtmittcM, conventions, and rinmi ics. it is through tho latter hlnery that they must mahi- identity: and continuity. Of urse, parties may not coerce mbers by positive action; but must by thoiv very nature Withhold froih disjoyul members *nd ! independent (non-pnrty) vot ers such privileges, preferment*, they Mriisess. No wishes to pre- Answes: E. E,; I will give you this In-; formation in the strictest cor fi-i mark} to shoot at by thumbing 250,000 miles in> six years—and at an average speed of 37 miles per hodrl! ! 11 j. , , y Oafs on had (Already chalked up dence, and only ifj you promise thousands of miles when he first n ^Y er to breathe a word of it toj gained front page publicity by miyonc else, especially to the ehc- thumbing his way to Washington, tncal engineers. .As you kn< w, D.C., carrying a live turkey in a handbook is bpilt up arm nd crate, which he delivered to Prdsi- P , s Law .Discredit their hand dent Roosevelt for the President’s ' )0 ?) c where would they bt ? Thanksgiving dinner, In 1941 he , But . lf you solenfhly swear to went 1 international by hitching ^ Quiet, I will give you : he to Mexico City with another famed straight dope, and who else is hpt-i Cuero turkey, this one for Presi- ter 'quattiWaT dent Camacho. Even before this, hitch-hiking had gotten into Carson’s blood. Like some people played golf or | marble machines, Carson was addicted to hitting the highway ; at every opportunity for a trip j someplace, just to see how fast he could do it. Pefbaps^hls watt According to Dan matics professor, Oh' lie iuui Perhaps - his | gri bh 'iti 1940 wpei Hall, matfee l’s law is pot accurate. He says jthat I equils E/R minus E/R times e to hej negative power Rt/I, where o » the base of the natural logarlthns; -t- the time and L tlio inductance. I queried Dan aboilt the induit-i anec, but he bounced back Wijth eotest triumph circuit doesn't have m ho thumbed »mall inductanw?" Well. B. E., thorfe you hato Dfen’t let the word jwt armind. at Hiroshima invesfiga- daiy and had the same ing for sunfish but 58 might have. When hq loudly proclaimed ht d done, he said, was igt r last fall of a pill- le Y ak been a completely That -man certoinly >ffi<:ers forgot all about * ridfs were alow, a Texas B reflector sign which fould i ?en |t long distances at a^d a handbag wi h a built in pottable radio. . Cai ion’s career continued cvpn after uiid i lieutie hiker, but terjty ydiitih his JndKiction into the army uijttl the time' he g »t' tM” anj^i bars. OCS schoil tie- :he World Champioti litch- nbt before he gay * pos. mary : thumbihg recqzds at, to ^hoot. Amplificati m D apartment .. A U»<\T I -TI, A II 1 1 r -X i 1 it8 4: ts. . 1 j! led by public .for a ibbee-.: : bougl . forty of them to give cmplo ^ee» for lawn omamer The other one was purchaiji the b cal stuperintendent of workt and given to his son weddi ig j resent The son quentjk' mJVed to California and took iHic f^ojtprint with him reporta, those bought corjipany have been broken ipped ito such an exten; that Ibdt all their valu™ and resemble li the pi inti of u ir hodf. yrltb tho one in Califor- pne is BUpposedl iwier, it’s not for| er keeps ft os so: fl idh' in- jrf sale, it) of a S^one, andf lets his guests this; does hot 'completely #n *tul coun mem (hey With indtpeniknt (non such privilege!, pjefgrme and patronage as they possess, •rgaiiization which wishes to i iistimny give aid and comfort its own destruction, How, then,; should orte evaluate the Wallace-Tuylor Progressives fend the Thurmond*Wright Dixie- f** uev Id _ , est realignmi the Clarif itic ti the I crate? The writer believes these new parties will serve as therapeu tic agents in iorcing a more hon- est realignment of JorcingHhe two major parties to Cleanse and Clarify their pc ’he Democratic ticket of Truman- parties and in ijor parties to Jarify their policies. ley and of Dev ^— 4-, r Wire Edilor : Editon ■Si‘, 1 ■ — — — | — WlUcn. H. T.iWrlsht, K. ‘ ®SSSiSa"i^~i U* Angeles, and San Francisco. U Jim T. Rolan. Bob Aka; Cbm —— lisnrto Hnwall - T j . y (Saak) fr •K l 7" UatMcar ■ ■ ^jr. elements iri the House am (See HENDERSON, Page 6) Republican nomi* ewey-Warren must recog- the warding signals. The propef procedure for the Dixiecrats and Progressives is to heir party organizations ance with Texas laws re- parties and present their the voters in the coast-to-coast (n 4 days and 20 ^ { ^ , hoursilLlfe magazine had dond a Dfetft let the word get (featui*o story on a hitch-hiker who aasily cause tSIwi eiectricifens m a muted to struggle across the J® gfet Panicky, nation in ten dkysTwith a deriaiv- Hoar sir: J laugh, Carson wired Life that he Carroll, .1 think you’re nuts, could ,do It in half the time, and Sincerely, then proceeded j to do so. In order R - V. to prqve he was no fraud, he mall- Answatf: ed in street car transfers contain- _ 1 “fil ing tho hour fend date, from the Sir: ■major!cities hejpassed-through oh- • •* v y Bnt to.pu route to the coast. •} Another high point in Canionfs career was the time in 1910 he saw A&M’s team off at le Station as they left to .’ UCLA in Pasadena, Cali- forniu—and then met them on the motion platform when their .-train pulled in* j'Cf m \nd cvhaii t the supply. They can be bo|ght on the market in! New Chicago. However, since* no high, I would fedviso e: your money and] wait depifeteion. the age of one o|f the iyoutigejit seems to be buhdled aiVrl fifty 4l^ ion I old. The old ones date fur- tw|ec that far. uy your track, the. wilfl’be a prabWta. t that you talk to r Ei E-iMcUulllan’s . ther I wc the hou»i y«< yni b tn km sugget ni ovini bring kiieab osaur tracks, or shot prints, tot tl Would you please them, and what tl How, 6!d would osaur track for sale If Tam able to footprint, how - mend that I trar November election. .A .referendum or «- fokos- (foma ,i . rt the TrumaniBatWe: would' be violative of the endiim on whether iDem- ocrate in Texas- should or should not support the Truman.BatWey ticket simplest concept of party orgahi- aiticn and affiliation. Place tho • (See BASS, Page 6) three of them had flats. te> yott? wet and was never i , Sincere . But this success } &• R- Answer: several d n*[ d 1 say foiM my frier is. mo who *< life cost? youngest din- a dinosji “ J you recc it? Would such a th g pleasi Oh,; wf 1 0^ Writers ed i* ho ThJ! Amprican TechnicfelJ pW iToyultie«. The pferp than a matter of luck; isult of hh thumbing.” matei faj-! to li\ result of his system of S. R-, I hate to disappoint Selective but dinosaur tracks,! like most i » i to meant flagging cars that tiques, are getting scarcer to be potentially good mrw, and T am. afraid that 1 ignoring others. ■- will have quite a time finding ttmg which care tnighf be ^ 1T in a quarry the Uceuse plate. Thumb- the local ' the highway at 'orlconilinB tlie .ina^e. of car, tjhe When tl m us i influence put ou ?h will facilitate Lifc- . Education. ission define^ B ition as wit “which H -Amerieen you h and pn fitV -o iberij, wferke^