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COTTON MILLS AND A.R.P. Scheme for Individual Efforts to Protect the .Workers CO-OPERATION WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES Copies of a " specimen outline of an air-raid precautions scheme for cotton-spinnmg mills " drawn up by a special committee of the Federation of Master Cctton Spinners' Associations should be in the hands of the managers of about 500 mills in Lancashire and adjoining centres this morning. ' I" a SiS011!?? letter accompanying the scheme Mr. -Wentworth Schofieia, chair! man of the committee, and Mr J -""-"."'j' w me leaeration. emphasise the importance of evemhing possible being done to safeguard thf lives of the emp oyees and of the plan! of local authorities, being supplemented by the individual efforts P of both employers and employees. The scheme r"- ?ra,n "P in accordant with official instructions. It i? rfaii5 that individual mite wilP present different problems varying according "to the character and location of the build- lusl' uhenceL the aJter native suggestions that have been set out. Individual Schemes Each individual scheme should include provisions that should be made at once, as well as those to be taken in the event of war. and necessary equipment which may not be readily available in an emergency should be obtained now if possible and its place of storage noted in each scheme, with exact details of other equipment and sources from which it may be obtained. Moreover, all workers who would be required for service should be rehearsed in their lespective duties until they are sufficiently familiar with all they should do in an air raid. Each employer, too, should work in close co-operation with the local authorities. The scheme itself begins by pointing cut how the cotton mills of Lancashire are particularly liable to attack from the air because of their size, nearness to railways, canals, electricity, gas, and munition and aircraft factories, and because an enemy "might deliberately attack buildings believed to contain large numbers of people with a view to breaking the public moral." Details follow on the work of organisation and control, such as the selection and rehearsal of men and women for various tasks. If. it is underlined, the rehearsals are carried out in the manner in which boat-drill is performed on board ship, ir as is done in the case of fire practice, it will go a long way to allay panic in the event of an emergency." Protection of Workers In a section devoted to the protection or workers special stress is laid on the importance of constructing trenches wherever there is plenty of available open ground adjoining the mill ; on the use of the cotton and yarn storage chambers in the basement of mills as splinter-proof accommodation; on the use of bales of cotton on the inside ef NORTH-WESTERN New President on Moving the adoption of the report at the annual meeting of the Lancashire. Cheshire, and North-western Federation of the National League of Young Liberals at the Beform Club, Manchester, on Saturday, Mr. Houghton Diggle, who succeeded "Mr. W. Gorman, K.C., as president, compared the prewar and pdst-war days of Liberalism. .In the pre-war days the Young Liberals, he said, had a relatively simple task. He could not remember a single discussion of foreign affairs in the old Young Liberal Federation. They were entirely concerned with problems of reform. Free Trade and its allied iuestions seemed to them to have been settled for all time. They had confidence in leaders to whom compromise on principle would have been regarded as betrayal. The mistake of the Liberals of the few years after the war was in assuming that religious, economic, and social freedom had been won. Freedom was never really won. It was something aiven to them by the previous generation to hand on unimpaired so far as possible and. If possible, enlarged. Over -a large part of Europe it had been lost to-day and in their own country they were in grave danger and might, within a few months, find that their political freedom had been taken away. Freedom was not taken away in a single night or in some single dramatic act. Austria's loss of independence was only one of the steps in the long march which began in 1919 with the Treaty of Versailles, and where that march would end none could foresee. His own prophecy was that it would only end when they got rid of the present Tory Government A Nation in Arms They seemed to be heading towards becoming a nation in arms. Mr. Diggle declared. There "was to be no conscription. National service, a national register, physical fitness, perhaps, but they would not call it conscription. Protection, both economic and 'military, had " come full circle, but Mr. Chamberlain could not see i that the citizen fully accoutred for war-might SOUTH SALFORD LABOUR SEEKS A CANDIDATE A divisional meeting of South Salford Labour party was held yesterday, preceded by a meeting of the executive, for the purpose of considering the adoption of a prospective Parliamentary candidate. A number of names had been submitted for consideration by the Labour party headquarters, and from these a short list of eight, including one woman, was drawn up. A further meeting of the party is to be held next month to make the final choice. The division has previously been contested on a number of occasions on Labours behalf by Alderman J. Toole, ex-Lord Mayor of Manchester. , It is 'understood that at yesterday's meeting the party asked its president. Alderman E. A. Hardy, a former Mayor of Salford, to become the prospective candidate, but he said that he had no intention of standing for Parliament. A two-year-old - boy. Lewis Bonas, only child of . Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bonas, of Preston Old Road, Blackpool, fell into a lime pit on Saturday night and died in hospital yesterday- The pit is in a contractor's yard at the back of the .child's home. The father, hearing, screams, -ran into the yard and saw his son lying;hvthe,pit. He pulled him outv suffering from terrible "burns. windows and of sandbags on the outside, which would also keep the windows intact and gasproof ; and on the provision of additional gasproof entrances to all such places of reiuge, hurricane and electric hand lamps, and of water and lighting supplies. The advantages of a number of small shelters over a lnrjip one and of trenches over indoor accom-mooation are explained. Employees, the scheme continues, should be divided into two classes, one consisting of those who constitute the various fire brigade, first-aid, decontamination, and oher teams who on receipt of an air-raid warning would proceed at once to specially protected assembly points under the control of a selected leader, and the other, including the rest of the employees, who would go in an orderly manner to the shelters. For the first of these classes the necessary protective clothing and respirators should be ready. The respirators and protective clothing should be the responsibility of the fire brigade ; and a sufficient supply of gas masks, gas blankets, and decontaminating equipment should be secured beforehand to allow the fire brigade and first-aid sections to be properly trained in anti-gas measures. SDecial splinter-proof protection should be given to boiler-houses, electrical generating plant, engines, and the like. Signals and Fire Equipment Agreed signals should be arranged for the communication of air-raid warnings a special one for department officials, coloured lights for all employees, and another indicating when the raiders had passed. Dark-coloured blinds should be provided for the concealment of lights, all blinds should be drawn during hours of darkness, and arrangements made for all but necessary lights to be blacked out whenever desirable. Members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade employed in the mill should be formed into a first-aid section, and others trained where there are not enough. The types of fire-fighting equipment are set out, and it is recommended that at least two firemen should be posted in each spinning-room and cardroom to be ready to deal with penetrating incendiary bombs. Long-handled shovels or scoops for removing burning incendiary bombs should be available in each room and galvanised iron bins, half-filled with sand, should be built into the window bays into which any burning bombs could be deposited. For this purpose the "Redhill" sand container and scoop is recommended. Additional fire-fighting appliances should be installed in every room ; and, as the existing fire brigade may include men of military age who might wish to join the colours, volunteers should be sought to take their places. In no case should men under 25 years of age be recruited. Arrangements should be made with the local fire brigade for training in .dealing with incendiary bombs. YOUNG LIBERALS Threat to Freedom stand foodless. They should watch the Federation of British Industries and the Associated Chambers of Commerce to begin to realise what lay behind the economic war that this Government had declared on the whole world at Ottawa. It looked as though the harvest was going to be gathered in immoral profits and human suffering. The present Government had broken the League, but it could not break the idea of it. The ideal remained. A Liberal peace would not be the mere absence of war of the Tories ; it would be the outcome of active and constructive steps to remedy wrongs so that each nation might work out its own destiny fairly in a world of good neighbours. Mr. Herbert Eccles. the hon. treasurer, and Mr. J. A. Ratcliffe, the hon. secretary, were re-elected. "IS'o Public Conscience'' Mr. W. Gorman, K.C., the retiring president, replying to the toast of his health proposed at the dinner by Miss Abley (Chester), spoke of the things that had happened since, in 1935, a Government pledged to peace was returned to power. There was no public conscience now. he said, and it was quite the thing to say that the League was the product of the dreams of the idealist without any relevance to practical matters. But people who said there was no place for Liberalism in this world did not only show ignorance ; it was the impudence of the man who did not understand the significance of the thing about which he was talking. Dictatorship was a comfortable life for dead people. Among the other speakers were Mr. Leslie H. Storey, prospective Liberal candidate for Carlisle, who said that if the world was to live permanently at peace they must rebuild the League of Nations or substitute some such organisation ; and Mr. E. A. B. Fletcher, prospective Liberal candidate for Macclesfield, who said that peace could only be achieved by achieving in some degree the other principles of Young Liberalism freedom of the individual within the State, the essential economic principle of ireedom for trade, ownership for all, and equality of opportunity TOWN CLERK OF BOLTON Mr. Harold Brooke Ashford, Town Clerk of Bolton, died at his home in Chorley New Road, Boltomvon Saturday, at the age of 52. He had been ill for some days with a chill which developed into pneumonia. Mr. Ashford, who was admitted a solicitor in 1907, was in private practice in Manchester and served with the Ilkeston Corporation before going to Bolton as assistant solicitor in 1919. He was appointed deputy town clerk in 1923. and succeeded to the position of town clerk on the death of Mr. S. Parker in 1934. He was a past president of the Bolton branch of the National Association of .. Local Government Officers. A widow, two daughters, and a son survive him. The deputy town clerkship of Bolton is also vacant, owing to the appointment of its bolder. Mr. F. S. Renhison, as Town Clerk of Swindon. The Finance Committee is inviting applications, at a salary of 650, rising to 750. James Meadowcroft (27), railwayman, of Kensington Road, Southport, was fatally injured yesterday in a collision between bis motor-cycle and a motorcar in Preston Road, Crosston. Passengers in the motor-car. sustained bruises and shock." THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN. MONDAY. A "PUTT. 4. 1938 PLIGHT OF JEWS IN AUSTRIA Worse than in Germany PALESTINE THE ONllY SOLUTION Professor S.' "Brodetsky,? executive member of the Zionist World' Organisation, described the position of Austrian Jewry as "so bad "that, none of you can form any impression of how bad it is " when he addressed a meeting of the Manchester Zionist' Association -last night. 1 " From the information wo hnvo heen able to gather the treatment of 'the Jews in Austria, especially -in Vienna 'and certain places round : it, -. has been infinitely worse even than anything the Jews of Germany have had to endure," he said. "No Zionist propagandist ever made so clear a Zionist speech as did Herr Hitler when he marched on Vienna and literally overnight, without their knowing anything about it, placed 200,000 Jews outside the law, stripped them of citizenship and all- their rights, and reduced them to a'level of sheer misery such as has never .been imagined in a so-called civilised. Europe. - ' ' "Trapped Like Rats". " Six million Jews at this moment are trapped like rats in lands where democracy, freedom, and. human decency are not understood.' - They cannot help themselves and no one will come to their aid, as the note of 'We can't interfere in the internal affairs of other nations,' which has crept into the speeches of statesmen, plainlv shows. You are woefully mistaken if you think the fate of these millions will in any shape be influenced by public opinion in other lands ; nothing happened in Germany and I cannot see anything happening in Austria. We must depend ultimately upon ourselves for our safety and our future. " What can we do about Austria ? We can go round begging once again from our own people, as we did five years ago, and little enough good that will do. The Germans have learned a lot more of the art of suppressing Jews since then. In five years something like 40,000 German Jews have found their way to Palestine under far more favourable conditions than we have to-day ; what can we do for Austria's 200,000 victims ? " The only hope of a future for the Jews was to secure the fundamental right of every people to live in its own State. Palestine represented that hope, and he believed that the whole world was now conscious of the fact. He felt that, in particular, the tragedy of the Jewish position abroad had-aroused in Britain the deepest possible sympathy and he was convinced also that the Government was not unaware of the advantages of having a laree number of Jews with the strongest ties of gratitude and friendship for Britain at so vital a key to Empire communications as Palestine. MENUHIN'S RECITAL The young violinist Menuhin was such a success on Saturday in the Manchester Free Trade Hall that even after several encores had been granted the audience still clamoured for more. Eventually the lights in the body of the hall were turned out, so then the people .turned out too with extreme reluctance. There is no doubt that Menuhin now stands in the line of virtuosi that began in strange fashion with Faganini arid continued with Sara-sate, Joachim. Kreisler. and Huberman. Each of these artists has extended the instrument's province, has given richer expression to emotional feeling, or added to the player's technical resources. In former days violinists seemed to like the idea of belonging to one or other of two kinds of interpreters, and though the bond of virtuosity united them all there were the so-called " classical " performers and the self-confessed "romantics." Few modern musicians would acknowledge such distinctions, yet it is found that some of our well-known young violinists favour a severity ot style associated with the classical tradition. Menuhin certainly possesses a fine sense of balance and proportion. He has the scholar's love of logical "development, and it is probable that hife recent period of study has sharpened his sense of the significance of design. He may at present be so deeply impressed with the ideals of the old-world classicist that he would incline rather to austerity than to exuberance ; yet there is no lack of real emotional fervour. Many musicians of repute have before now been praised for their artistic restraint, and it has been found later that there was not much feeling or imagination to restrain. Beneath the quietness of Menuhin's general style lie force and passion. Listeners on Saturday could gather these impressions of his quality, though the actual planning of the programme and, in one or two instances, the manner of performance did not make it easy to do so. The works in the first part of the recital had been finely chosen, the only drawback during the interpretation of a Mozart sonata being the fact that the music in its intimacy of expression was intended for small gatherings of friends, and here was a vast assembly. The tonal blend as between the violin and pianoforte was excellent, and Mr. Ferguson Webster never had cause to fear, as pianists sometimes have' on such occasions, that his instrument would not be -allowed its rightful partnership. Before the finale was played it was obvious that Menuhin was having trouble with his. strings, and during an unaccompanied fugal movement by Bach that followed the sonata he suddenly stopped to tune and then resumed the piece. This was a surprising error of judgment, for no musical form is more damaged than that of a fugue if any accident stops the playing. The performer ought to have started again from the beginning. In spite of this interruption the masterly handling of the work was apparent to all, and though Bach confines his range of notes to the instrument's lower octaves the tonal monotony that is the chief danger was easily averted. The later half of the recital opened with Mendelssohn's Concerto, which, however beautifully played by soloists, ought never to be given in our large concert-halls unless there is an orchestra. Mr. Ferguson Webster did wonderfully on Saturday, yet just because here and there he imitated as faithfully as .possible certain orchestral effects we longed all the more for the ensemble of instruments. The first movement was taken at a slightly faster tempo than usual. The sweetness of the soloist's cantabile playing in the andante and the brilliancy of the rapid' notes during the finale were admirable qualities. We listened with regret to the last part of the recital, tor it proved thai Menuhin is simply adopting the hackneyed procedure of most of the other "star" violinists. Arrangements of the songs of Dvorak and -Schubert which turn sentiment into mawkishness were among the other standardised features of the concert, and such things are not worthy ot Menuhin's art ana not good for it in any way not even in the IN MANCHESTER By Staff Frank' Brangwyn's Manchester A fnliO'Of tfn Qtonaj i ? - . 6u eicuings, eacn 9 by 8 inches, by Frank .Brangwyn and William Walcott, is being prepared in connection with Manchester's centenary pageant. It will be issued only in a collectors' edition, limited to one hundred copies, at six- guineas each, and a proportion of the profits will be handed over to the city's i t V.rt.54-1 The etchings will nn uvJitb OLLUdl episodes in the pageant, but the artists' uwii -ictunsirucuon of the historic events on which v,mo are based. They now announce that nmnnff ' their Suhiwfo n'ill l . nm uc ine fnnndins of the Roman fvrf 4U . -.w w, tc KlcUlt- ing oi uie iiibi cnarter, the visit of tj- trTT V.- ; . - , . . . . J-taiiuaEMllLC men to help to repel the Armada, the fmiTifiinff Of Chpthame Unr.UAl a uoJi l ait ctUU the arrival of Bonnie Prince Charlie in .J. itJ. Academy Losses Mrs. Louisa M. Bancroft Elizabeth M. Chapman, who for many years have voluntarily discharged the duties of secretary and trpasiiror respectively of the Manchester Academy of tine Arts, and whose decision to resign for reasons of health was announced by the president. Mr. .T. P. Chettle. at the opening of this vear's spring exhibition, have each received a gold fountain-pen and cheque from past and present members of the academy as a token of gratitude for their services. Mrs. Bancroft had acted as serxetarv for 16 years, and had served as assistant secretary for a long time before that. She is now leaving Manchester for somewhere on the Yorkshire coast, and her house in Acomb Street, which adjoins the academy's studio and which was the home of Isabel Dacre and Francis Dodd before she and husband, Elias Bancroft, came to live there, has been bought by the academv for the use of future secretaries. Girls of the Diocese Entries for the annual diocesan mm. petitions of the Girls' Friendly Society have for some years been increasing steadily. A year ago they reached eight hundred, and when the competitions were held yesterday another forty had been added to that figure. The entries come fairly evenly from all parts of the diocese. For some years the competitions have been held in the Central High School, Whitworth Street, where there is plenty of room for (four programmes to go on at the same time. Finally the whole body of spectators- and competitors come together for the presentation of awards. The programmes consist of dancing, skipping, singing aAd piano-playing, recitation, reading, physical exercises, and dramatic work. There is also an exhibition of handicrafts. Where possible the competitors are teams and not individuals, and the awards to winning teams are simple. The great ambition is to have a share in winning the shield for points. Last year Greenfield and Atherton tied, and held the shield for six months each. Yesterday they surrendered it to Blackrod. WAR-DISABLED MEN'S PENSIONS Premier's Assurance At the annual conference of the British Limbless Ex-servicemen's Association, held in Manchester during the week-end, the general secretary, Mr. G. Chandley, read a letter from the Prime Minister in regard to the question oi the appointment of a Select Com mittee to review the whole question of war-disabled men's pensions, for which the ' association has been asking for several years, and about which a deputation of members of Parliament has, on behalf of the association, waited on the Pensions Mmistor In his letter Mr. Chamberlain said that, as a result of the meeting with the Pensions Minister, arrangements had been made for a proportion of the cases on which the association's statistics in the matter were based to be individually examined. "You may rest assured," the letter added, "that careful con- aiuerauon will be given to tne association's views." The conference also decided that the association should send a petition to the Prime Minister moirins a number of other requests. One of these was that the War Pensions Act should be ainenaea, on the lines adopted Dy ine New Zealand rjvrammpnt- so as to en title the wife, widow, or young child of any war-disabled pensioner to claim for pension or dependents'! allowance pro- vucu me marriage took piace neiure iij oi, iyjb. Thrown on Public Relief House on the matter, the Minister of n . . . , , Tcuuons said the Royal warrants nau been drawn, with the approval of the House, on the basic principle that uabuity for pension to a man's dependents must be limited to marriage which took place before he "con- trartoH . . " Tho - uia war tusauxKui association points out that in Great Britain only one nonsinner in three was married before disablement, and says that i . . i- i . f . n n - a consequence oi w" regulation many widows and orphans woo servea tneir cuuuuj are left with no alternative source of help than the Public Assistance Committee. Among the remaining requests in the Petition is one that the Government should follow the example of France d Canada and provide sheltered employment for disabled men stul capable of some kind of work, but deemed unfit for competitive employment. Another is that the Government should adopt a policy! of stable and adequate provision for all permanently incapacitated war-disabled pensioners, --oocixjr increase oi - made direct from State funds instead of through the Poor Law. or. by the pro- visions of the means test, from tne earnings of wives or children. 1 Correspondents Sunday Night. Boys' Club Boxing More, than forty, likely lads .'from a dozen' Lancashire and Cheshire towns assembled withtheir-supnarters.-at the recently established Mill Street Police Lads' Club, Manchester, last night to ; fight the first eliminating rounds of their : annual boxing championship. This contest is open to members between the ages of 14 and 18 of all clubs affiliated to the Lancashire and Cheshire Association of Boys' -Clubs, and attracts entrants from as far afield as Preston. Crewe, Blackpool, Nantwich, " and Birkenhead, as well as from half a dozen local clubs. So numerous are this year's competitors, indeed, that a second preliminary round will have to be held on Saturday, also at the Mill Street club. The finals will be fought at Hulme Lads' Club on April 23, and from the most successful Lancashire survivors will be selected a county team to meet-representatives of Yorkshire boys' clubs in the match for the Duke of York trophy at the Manchester Y.M.C.A. a week later. More M.G.S. Successes Close observers of the lists of Cambridge and Oxford scholarships which have appeared in the "Manchester Guardian " recently will have seen that the achievement- of the Manchester Grammar School is again one to be envied. For the second year in succession five M.G.S. boys are in the awards of Trinity College, Cambridge. This year they have won ' three major scholarships, a minor one, and an exhibition. Last year it was three major and two minor. This year's successes also include a scholarship to Balliol. Wounded for Others There was an unexpected event after the service to-day in St. Ann's Church for the members of the British Limbless Ex-servicemen's Association, which had been holding its annual conference in Manchester. General Sir Henry Jackson, who had been inspecting cadets in Albert Square. learned of the service and came across to St. Ann's Sauare with the Lord Mayor in his official robes. The men, some with crutches, others leaning on sticks, and all wearing their war medals, were drawn un in a rirmhlo line hear the church, and the General had a talk with each. Afterwards they marched as well as they were able to the Cenotaph, where one of them placed a wreath. A simple and informal service in the church was conducted by Canon Paton-Williams. It was moving to hear the men sin sine with fervour hymns whirti had. a special appropriateness singing, ior instance, When comes the promised time That war shall be no more ? In 'his address Canon Paton-Wiltiamc said the words in the lesson he had read ' wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities" applied to the men before him as much as tn Trim of whom they were written. " It ought to De remembered by everyone as you walk through the streets that you are paying the mice of the transm-PRsinrK! of the world." FOOD PRICES IN MANCHESTER Sugar Cheaper Lancashire cheese is 3d. a pound dearer this week, while all grades of granulated sugar are cheaper by a farthing. Otherwise prices in general are the same as last week. Thp mmnsr. able figures of a year ago are shown in me ngnt-nanu column. April 2, 1938. April 3, 19S7. Butter : Danish . Empire. Pec lb 13 .. 13 & 12 13 .. 10 Bacon : Plain English Wiltshire ib'- best cuts 15 .. 14 Irish, best cuts 15 . . 13 Danish, best cuts 15 . . 13 Polish, best cuts 12 . 11 Smoked: All kinds Id. per lb extra. Cheese: , . . Per lb Colonial o9 .. 08 Cheshire 12 .. 12 & Scotch Cheddar 10 1 Lancashire, new (3d. Increase) 13 .. 10 Gorgonzola ie .. 16 Lard: English Wiltshire. 0loe!.P'"o10 English refined 08 .. 09 American 07 .. 08 Margarine: . . . . , Per lb. Roest table 08 08 Other qualities 07 &.. 07 & 06 .. 06 Cess: English new laid 12 .. 13 KngHsh mediums 10 12 Finest selected 10 .. rlO Finest selected ducks . . 11 13 Continental 1Oi..- 010 16 for 10 Per m. . Tea 18 to .. l10to - C .. 44 Sorar: t, , . , .. . Per tt. decrease) o2 Super , granulated CJd. decrease) o2J 03 02 024 03 031 line gramuaiea tja. decrease) 02i .. 031 Finest lump riuc lump ............ cr3 Roar: . Per Best 20 .. Seconds lll .. National mark 30 . 21 20 21 Saange: Special Cambridge (pjjrk) 13 &. 10 . . J3 Admitted to Preston Infirmary a week ago suffering from burns received when her nothing caught fire at her home. Mrs. Gladys Beare (29). of Moor Lane, Preston, died yesterday. . "i '' " ' xgif(fif3 fsa : INSURANCE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS To-day's Extensions From to-day about a million boys and girls between ages of 14 and 16 will benefit under an extension of National Health Insurance. These young workers are now insurable for medical benefit, free medical attendance, and treatment and medicines. The object is to bridge the gap in the medical care of young persons between leaving school and reaching 16. Employers must now stamp Health Insurance cards for boys and girls of the ages of 14 and 15 whose employment comes within the scope of the National Health Insurance Act. The rate of contribution is 4d.. 2d. payable by the employer and 2d. by the worker. A young worker who does not produce a contribution card to his or her employer should be instructed to get a juvenile contributor's card at the Post Office. Juvenile contributors are advised to join approved societies. From to-day too unemployment insurance is extended to " domestic servants" such as chauffeurs. gamekeepers, river-keepers, and so on. You are entitled in these days of hustle to the best possible equipment to help you through your work. - Make un VOllr minrl tn. day that you will no longer be r i .1 j 1 ui siiurinaua in speea. accuracy Dictate to TV, TkiS THE OICTAPHONF.CO. LTD. TI10MASDrXON, Managing Director S, DEAH8G ATE,; MANCHESTER i TELEPHONE ts K1NCWAT, KOUSC IMIMGKAM. . CLASOSO. USDS, . KSWCMTLX.CM.TYm. .' DUMJK. OVER 9BOm BUSINESS WEN SCHOOL DOCTORS' PROBLEMS The . 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