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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, February 11, 1919, Image 3

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Edison Claims
Are Proven!
N selecting a phonograph, don't depend upon unsupported
claims, seek actual evidence. There are many devices
for sound reproduction offered and strong claims are
made for all of them. But there is but one instrument, the
makers of which have ever submitted proof of the assertions
made about it. That instrument is
I
The NEW EDISON
The Phonograph ivtth a Soul
Just what is claimed for this instrument? Merely this: that a RE
CREATION of an artist's voice or instrument upon the New Edison
is so flawlessly perfect that no human ear can distinguish between
the interpretation of the living, breathing artist and that of the New
Edison. Nor is this a mere assertion. More than 2000 public tone
tests in which the artists pang or played in direct comparison with
the instrument have been held. More than 2,000,000 people have
attended them. And out of this vast assemblage not one person
has been able to say when it was the living artist he heard and when
the New Edison. No other instrument has ever been subjected to
the searching tone test. No other instrument could sustain such a
test.
Make it a point to drop in tomorrow and hear a demonstra
tion of the New Edison.
Instruments sold on easy terms and range in price from $41.00 to
$450.00
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HAYES GIFT SHOP
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♦♦ 1 ♦ I » *»l « M - »I - »h
* STERLING
i
Zehn Nelson is ill with an attack
of the flu, however, the case is light.
Mrs. J. W. Sprague made a trip
to Black foot Wednesday to have
some dental work done.
Messers Andrus and Varney of
Idaho Falls, insurance agents, spent
last week here.
Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Quantrell and
children motored up from Aberdeen
Wednesday. Mr. Quantrell went on
to Blackfoot while Mrs. Quantrell re
mained the guest of her sister Mrs.
Earl Taylor.
Mrs. W. R. Leach made a business
trip to Blackfoot the last of the week.
„„ T . . ,, . .
Mr. McIntyre and granddaughter
Miss Cecil Connor have moved from
their home on the Pugmire ranch to
town. Cecil is attending school here.
Mrs. Don Shelman and baby and
Mrs. Wallace of Springfield wert the
guests of Mrs. Roy Wells on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Loveless went
to Blackfoot on business Tuesday.
Mrs. Rose Nugent went to Black
foot Saturday to visit friends.
W. W. Hayes went to Salt Lake
on business Tuesday.
A merry skating party was formed
Sunday, which spent the afternoon
on the ice pond near the J. M. Rice
residence. Those attending were Mr.
add Mrs. J. W. Sprague, Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Quantrell, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Nel
son and the Misses Louise Gravatt,
Louise Herbert, and the Messers.
Frank Gravatt, Dave and Herman
Chrlsterson, Kenneth Loveless, Joe
Graham and Charlie Nugent.
Mrs. Herman Tiechert received a
telegram from her. husband Sunday,
stating that he was now in the U. 8.
A. and is in a camp in Virginia. Mr.
Tiechert has been with the A. E. F.
engineers in France, and as the
family had not heard from him for
some time, the telegram relieved
their anxiety.
Thomas Furnlss is very ill with
blood poisoning, which set in from
a scratch on his hand.
Dr. Mote, who was very low all
last week is slightly Improved this
week.
The ice ponds near here have been
attracting large crowds of skating
parties every evening this week. Miss
Marie Verblck and Frank Gravatt
had the misfortune to fall thru the
Ice Saturday evening, fortunately the
water was not deep and their only
Injuries were a very thoro soaking.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray McIntyre have
moved into the Driscoll house on the
Driscoll ranch just .north of town.
They have spent the winter on the
Charles Shaw ranch in Grandview.
Deputy Sheriff Ezell stopped here I
Fundi Served Free
Cloaks Checked Free
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The Second Annual
FIREMEN'S BALL
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will be conducted at
THE PROGRESS HALL
Wednesday evening, Feb. 19
Tickets: Gentlemen $1.00
Ladies Free
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j MORELAND
James Hern returned Wednesday
from Idaho Falls. He contracted in
fluenza while he was away.
Mr. and Mrs. Hyrum Lake of Aber
deen spent Monday at the home
Mrs. Anna Morrel.
Walt Morrel has sold his home
stead at Bridge, Idaho to John Hall.
Evan and Joey Jones were busi
ness visitors in this town Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Burrel of Pocatello
were guests at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Fyans Thursday and Friday.
They were accompanied home Satur
day by Mr. and Mrs. Fyans who In
tend to visit at Lava Hot Springs be
fore returning.
Mrs. Leavitt, who has been visit
ing relatives and friends at Hamer,
returned home Sunday.
Mrs. Augusta Ellis returned from
p 0 eatpllo Thnrndnv
y '. u
D ® lbert Robbins has been suffer
lng for some tlnie with pneumonia.
Misses Graham and Cherrington
were week-end visitors at Blackfoot.
Mrs. Caleb Hone, who has been
visiting the William Hone family for
several weeks, returned to her home
in Provo Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Louis Felt and little son left
Wednesday morning for Salt Lake,
where they will visit with Mr. Felt
for a few days.
The Andren Kirk family erturned
to their home in Salt Lake City Wed
nesday morning, after an extended
visit with the Charles Kirk family
here.
on his way to Aberdeen the last of
the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Quantrell
and children of Aberdeen spent the
week-end as the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Taylor.
Miss Marie Verbick of Grandview
spent the week-end here as the guest
of her sister Miss Louise Verbick.
Mrs. Maggie Patterson and baby of
Utah are the guests of Mrs. William
Blair.
Mr. and Mrs.. Julius Larsen and
children of Aberdeen were the guests
of the Corbridge and Claypool fam
ilies on Sunday.
Mr. Heida Sr. has rented the John
son farm, formerly owned by Bert
Parsons for the ensueing year and
has moved there.
Bill Blair returned from Burley
this week, where he has been for
some time.
Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Weigel of Me
Cammon spent the week-end here
visiting relatives and friends.
A Valuable
j ,, t p _
Li6ll6r tor t aimers
Communicatlons Relating to Price
i . . .
The following letters and speeches
as given by implement manufactur
era to other manufacturers and deal
ers, when they were trying to fore-1
cast the conditions to be expected
during the present year, should be
of considerable value to our read
Implements and Farm Products
and Following Other Wars
ers:
j "In 1861 the price of western
wheat, f. o. b. New York was $1.38
a bushel; in 1865, $2.45 per bushel;
In 1866, $2.05 per bushel; in 1867,
'$2 60 Der bushel
I "In May 1870, the price of No.
northern wheat, f. o. b. Chicago, was
$1.13 per bushel; in 1871, $ 1.2
l Der bushel and in 1872 tii 2 ner
buriiel ' * per
"It is to be expected that history
will repeat itself after this war, and
there is therefore no reasonable
question, but that prices of materials
will remain upon substantially the
present level for many months to
come, and that one takes no chance
In conducting his business in a rea
sonable, normal way.
"The cost of living will remain
high as long as the demand for food
is greater than the supply. While
the cost of living remains where it
is. there can be no reduction of mo-1
ment in the cost of labor; as long as
the cost of labor is upon its present
plane there can be no marked re
duction in the cost of materials.
"While these conditions prevail it
is the business of both manufactur
ers and merchants to continue to
"carry on" in the usual way. This
is particularly important in this in
dustry .for if there is any slacken
ing upon the part of the manufac
turer or dealer which interferes with
the farmer's procuring the DroDer
supply of tools to produce the crop
necessary to feed the famished na
tions of the world, anarchy and social
dissolution will result. We cannot
make a satisfactory peace treaty
with starving nations—we cannot re
habilitate the civilization of Europe
until its peoples are fed.
"It is more Important that this
industry should conduct itself in a
way to produce maximum food crops
during the coming year than at any
time in the past, and su.h conduct
upon our part will result in profit to
ourselves and to the farmer whom
we serve. This is the basis upon
which we are buying materials and
conducting our busniess of manu
facturing implements, and this is the I
basis upon which the dealer should
conduct his.
'We cannot serve our country, we
cannot advance our own interests, ex
cept by continuing to do business. I
Let us hope that all of our dealers
will do their part in this time of
nutioniil emergency.
'To facilitate the tremendous I
crop production required by such a
progress, the president of the United I
States has guaranteed to the farmers
of this country a price of $2.60 for
all the wheat raised in 1919. The
price of corn will probably be upon
a relatives basis, for the reason that
meat is required in increasing quant
ities and corn is the principal food
animals. I
Such a tremendous demand upon |
the American farmer
means the
greatest prosperity in his history. It
means he must be provided with the
necessary tools to produce the great
est crop ever raised. If this is ac
complished, it is essential that the I
manufacturer and dealer in imple
ments should proceed in a normal
way to produce and have ready for
the farmer when his demands arise,
an adequate supply of farm tools.
Appreciating this fact, and also I
appreciating that the financial prob
lems involved in purchasing ma
terials at the prevailing prices must
have careful consideration, we made
a study into the conditions maintain
Ing after the wras of the past to see I
what, if any, light could be secured
as to the course of prices during the
yea £,. t0 come.
There have been two great wars
during the past century—our Civil
TJV<Tn/.n r p m 1 ? 61 t0 186 » tbe
Franco-Prussian war of 1870 to
During our Civil war there
1871.
was but little destruction of prop-,
erty, but the people of half of our
country were in a starving condition
at its termination.
During the
Franco-Prussian war there was large
destruction of property, but food pro
duction was not materially inter
fered with and no considerable num
ber of people faced famine. During
the present world's war great de
struction of property has occured and
half of the world is now upon the
verge of starvation; we must there
fore conclude that we have to face,
as an after-war condition, problems
both as to material and food prices
which prevailed after the two wars
above referred to.
War Prices in the Past
^'The price of foundry pig iron f.
o. b. Philadelphia, when the Civil
war broke out in 1861, was $20.35
per ton; when it closed in 1865, it
was $46.12 per ton; in 1866, $46.87;
in 1867, $44.12.
"When the Franco-Prussian war
broke out in 1870, the price of pig
iron, f. o. b. Philadelphia, was $33.25
per ton; in 1871, $35.12; in 1872,
$48.87.
"Steel prices followed substanti
ally the same course as pig iron dur
ing both of these wars.
"Mr. Hoover states that this
country will be required to export,
during the coming year, from twenty
to twenty-five million tons of food
stuffs .this against a normal peace
exportation of six million tons and
an exportation during last year of ap
proximately twelve million tons.
Government Regulation of Imple
ment Industry
"In addressing your convention to
day I am going to take the liberty
of discussing matters outside of the
topic upon which you have requlested
Iron and Steel Iinstitute meeting at
New York last Monday. At this lat
ter meeting was formulated the plan
me to talk. I am doing this because
I have just returned from the Atlan
I tic City convention of war service
| committees, and from the American
| In reference to government fixed
prices of steel after January 1, sub
( "'Say and* o'uinSd 1?«!5 morn
ing papers. The recommendations of
the steel institute includes a modest
reduction in the price of iron and
steel after January 1 and as the pro
bable trend of prices is important to
| ~ e implement dealers of the country
I am going to review the conditions
surrounding the same as I see them
Government Control of Implement
Industry
Under the food bill and in accor
| dance with the proclamation of the
implement^ndustrv 11 ^^ h States ; th ?
iunerlELn plaCed
Urv of aaricoftn™ th . 6 se * re '
wlt f, a r 2t i n 't T 118 ' to f« tb « r
wun a resolution of the senate has
11 juement inVst^Sfd °« °7 he
7 f6de , •_//. aad prlce8 T by
0ju® v certlti r *1" La8t
, y certain members of the farm im
Plements committee, the writer
h^ton hv^tW fmiliLi* *!! t0 Wia8 . ll '
L ion t0 d f se ® jf?* tra 1 e c . omml8 -
Ka tion At tha^Vi^L U /L der
^as actively hlfLi 1 «?, t i le ? uestl ° D
the determination P6 !? pl0 aS to
fl xed Dri .„ f a h °7 h , e Rovernment
cr0D P A biI] wn . for . the 1919
t0 S' thi * T aB !tiun "
this JhIh™ l ,2 '®° and wh,le
Unnouncid" th« the P r «* ldent
bushed it beiiu^d' 2 °» i^ r
time that aa 181 t . he
of artl „ Ifi -Unh 1 th«° 8 f b e pr, ® e
purch^ woT.M h^on^J h&i , to >
advance d controlled against
mi, ' __ _. , ...
f rfld „ the federal
Sentio^^f ih»f ' ? d to i he
t hl " of ^
i" pl( " a, , ntal "
same as hoL mS. l
and that , Ma v, rch> 1917
transportation
larg^advance ^ t « h ®
„eaL in thi 17 7/ a ? } n "
volved increases in the , ln '
I ® cases in the cost of im
cent'si'nce thosTnHrif w® 17 2 7 PCr
Thii beina nndi^tn / made ' e
m ™ 8 ^ WayS and
the ^mnTfmen^ f 1 8 ,® c '? re t0
Lold anv^urthlr^dl^ rel , l6f ' ? nd
A g°i re Z ImS® n prce '
nle£enf« far " 7"
nKSia S interviewed Mr.
director of iron and steel
raneedTo/ «"lUS b ?*wh W a° ar '
ill af ? g r J he , Amer "
yokr Cnv Thk^mMHn^t®
" ee T tlag t0< ^. k place
RepWle^oresent * J ly W h Mr '
K piogle Present.
Reduction in Iron and Steel Prices
to
Implement Industry
I "When the facts which I have
stated were brought to the attention
of the iron and steel industry by the
farm implements committee and Mr.
Replogle it was finally determined
I by the steel institute to reduce the
price of steel for ipmlement manu
facture $5.00 per ton, effective July
15. This reduced price has main
I tained since that time. During this
period and up to January 1 next the
I government flxed price of steel is
$2.90 while the price of implement
steel is $2.65. A little later a gov
ernment fixed price was determined
on malleable iron, which meant an
increase over prices that had pre
viously been paid of something like
$100.00 a ton. The farm implements
I committee again became active and
| thru its influence and the under
standing of the necessity of main
taining favorable implement prices
to the farmers these radical
vances were avoided. While this
left considerable amount of Increased
I cost to be absorbed by the implement
industry, it still gave that industry
an opportunity to meet the govern
ment. view and make substantially
the same prices on implements for
the 1918 to 1919 season that had
I maintained during the previous year,
It should be thoroly understood, how
ever, that the present price of imple
ments is considerably less than the
present markets would demand and
are only maintained because of the
preferential prices secured by the
implement industry on certain
classes of its material and because of
the decreased profit which that in
dustry is receiving that the farmers
might not be handicapped in secur
in 8 to o ls to raise a maximum crop.
ad
......
The red *?ction in the price of steel
f ec ommended to the war industries
board and effective after January 1
Is $4.00 per ton. This makes the
new price of steel, after January 1,
generally $2.70 per hundred against
a present price of $2.90. But this
new price of steel is still $1.00 a ton
higher than the implement industry
has been pffjdng since the fifteenth of
last July. It will therefore be seen
that the new price of steel does not
effect any saving in cost to the im
plement industry, but on the con
trary is higher than the price we now
enjoy.
Price Reductions in Steel
Future Trend of Prices
The implement industry has on
hand practically all of the material
required to produce the goods which
will be sold to the farmers during
the coming Bpring season, conse
quently there is nothing in the trend
of the market that could afford any
relief in cost for the spring season.
It is important that the dealers
should understand this so that they
may be able to conduct their busi
ness in a customary manner and pro
vide for» the normal needs of the
farmers in the usual way without
fearing loss thru depreciation of in
ventory. It is also well for the deal
ers to understand that there can be
no substantial reduction in the price
of any class of material until the
cost of living comes down.
The Cost of Living
Mr. Hoover has announced that it
will require the exportation of twenty
million tons of food stuffs to take
care of the demands upon this
country from starving Europe. This
against an exportation last year of
only twelve million tons and under
pre-war conditions of only six mil
lion. The people of Europe have for
four years been deprived of an ade
quate amount at meat and it Is go
ing to require an unusual exporta
products to meet this
demand. As corn is the principal
food of meat animals, this means an
unusual demand for corn and a con
sequent high price. With these fac
tors in view and the fact that the
president of the United States has
fixed the price of wheat for the next
year's crop at $2.20 per bushel,
there is no possibility of any decline
in the cost of living. In addition to
this, we have four million men in
uniforms, while they remain in the
army they use much more clothing
than they do in civil life. Army
training has so changed the physical
character of these men that their
civilian clothing will not fit them
when they are demobilized. The fat
man has grown thin and the thin
man has taken on flesh, consequently
each of these men must buy a new
civilian outfit when he returns to
private life. This is going to make
such a demand for cloth and, in turn,
for cotton and wool that prices for
these commodities must remain high
until after the army is demobilized.
It will be readily seen that all of
these factors tend toward the main
tenance of the high cost of living for
the next six to twelve monthB. Gov
ernment price fixing agencies have
endeavored to fix the price of com
modities upon a basis properly re
lated to the cost of living, and while
there may be some industries which
have been securing more than
. „ a UB -
ual profit and the prices of whose
commodities must be reduced some
whta before the cost of living de
clines, in the main it is not possible
to reduce the products of labor until
the cost of living comes down so that
labor itself can afford to take lower
wages.
Reduction in the Price of Labor
The steel companies, as I under
stand it, in their recent reduction
in price have given up any unusual
profit that they have been making
and that generally speaking, no fur
ther reductions can be made reduc
ing wages.
It is the general policy of the busi
ness men of this country not to re
duce wages except as the cost of liv
ing goes down. This means that it
cannot be expected that there will be
any radical decline in the price of
commodities except as the cost of liv
ing is reduced,- so that the general
barometer which will determine the
fluctuation of price is the amount of
money that the farmer gets for the
commodities that he raises, and if the
implement dealer, will keep in touch
with the market of the products of
the farmer the dealer will be able
to gauge the market upon the pro
ducts he sells, for when the price of
the farmers produce commences to
go down so that the cost of labor can
be correspondingly decreased, then
will the price of implements and
other commodities be affected so that
declines therein may be anticipated.
These reductions, of coursefl oecur
ing some reasonable period after
farmers' prices have declined, so that
these declines reach the consumer of
farm products.
It is the duty of the implement
dealer to conduct his business in a
normal and logical way so that the
farmer may be able to produce the
biggest crop in his history. It is
up to the American farmer now to
determine whether or not this j
country will supply the needs of Bn
rope and thus enable us to quiet the
social dissolution so prevalent ,get I.
the people of those countries back in
l a , 8 ni! e , Way ° f 'n 1 ? 1 ??' a ? d thls
. nIy lif h e, dforlu > ngry
t Uh U 8 lmpoS8lble
with nenn] S « at whn Ct0ry peaC ^
o U ia e .iT h °t a e . u ^ dorfed ' and
, t „' 8 ^possible to get Europe hack
upon a stable social basis until the
threat of famine has been removed.
T h r i8 al ! , t Ii hat tbe American
a ™ 8r 18 facing the most prosperous,
period of his existence and that the
! h F ng t0 hi I" arlger
returns than he has ever enjoyed be
fore. It is the duty of the imple
ment dealer to see that these returns
are not handicapped by inability to
secure implements in the usual
quantity to carry on his farm
tions.
The Duty of the Dealer
opera
hC
y
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Bui/cf She ds /
THE BEST ADVICE WE CAN GIVE IS
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BUILD SHEDS
JJ
THE NEXT BEST ADVICE IS
Come Here for the Lumber
ONE OBJECT OF BOTH THESE SUGGESTIONS IS TO SAVE YOU
MONEY. YOUR STOCK WILL DO BETTER UNDER SHEDS THIS
WINTER, SAVING YOU MONEY IN FEED. YOU CAN GET BET
TER LUMBER FOR LESS MONEY HERE, SAVING YOU MONEY
ON THE BILL.
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R.VICE FIRST
V HARDWARE
QUAUTK ALWAYS
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IANDERSONsSONS LUMBER CO
Jf/- .MODERN HOMES tl.A HDE VS OH, MGR _ -~
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-LUMBER, BUILDING MATERIAL - BL foA r nn OT 'y\ "
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3 Bit of prance
: and French :
_ By Mrs. Byrd Trego. _
France concentrates her agricul
tural population into villages and
communes. We who understand the
ethics of trade and industry claim
this method creates a balance of po
litical forces that guarantees a just
distribution of the results of its
whole productive energy; that the
well adjusted commercial conditions
of rural France are wholly due to its
separation into Villages and com
munal bodies.
As agriculture is the paramount
industry of France in normal peace
times, she guards it carefully
against all influences that would
tend to impair it seriously. She
takes the opposite views of Eng
land in maintaining a stability of
market and product, that is quite to
her credit in caring for her dense
France has always
maintained a well poised relation of
all industrial and productive factors
thru judicious conserving laws. The
solidity of her whole economic fabric
has at times made her the envied of
all nations. She has frequently been
called upon for financial aid and re
lief by other nations, whose bril
liance of industrial ' achievements
have brought them disorder. France
has ever persued serenely a steady
march of industrial progress, unset
tled only by trancient disturbances
that occasionally arise. She has a
way of maintaining steady, health
ful, virtue preserving employment
for two-thirds of her people, with an
indirect influence that extends to
four-fifths of the whole population.
This is one of the prime reasons for
the speedy liquidation of her colos
sal war indemlty of 1870. In fact no
other country has maintained Buch
evenly balanced agricultural rela
tions.
world do we find such skillful regula
tions as has been revealed in mod
ern France.
population.
Nowhere in the western
A few statistics disclose the fact
that in 1900 there were in France
over 18,000 communes and towns
with a poulation not exceeding 500
representing a total of 5,000,000.
There were 10,000 towns not
1000 in population, making an ag
gregate of 7,000,000.
5000 towns not exceeding 2000 in
habitants, with an entire family of
7,000,000. Therefore her agricul
tural body is divided into over 33,
000 communes and towns, with a
combined total of over 22,000,000
people. The rural element also dom
inates largely towns of more inhab
itants. The total population in 1911
was 39,601,509. There are 207,054.
square miles within its territory.
So steady and sure are the
kets of France that for a period of
sixty years reaching from 1840 to
1900 the price of wheat only varied
6 cents per bushel. Of course there
is some good farmer who wonders
what the price of wheat was during
that period. The only information
1 find reads like this: "Between 1840
an d 1870, the average price of wheat
In France was forty-seven shilling
Per quarter, while for the second
period, from 1870 to 1900, the aver
Age priqe was forty-five shilling per
quarter, a difference of only two
shillings per quarter, or about 6
cents per bushel, for the period of
sixty years."
If France had suffered as did Eng
land during the years from 1870 to
190 °- the 8arae rat, ° 1 mean, she
would have lost $4,000,000 on her
wheat alone. So much for the con
8erving P° ,,c y ot t h « French govern
ment ,n the past - Now we will
watch her future with intense in
terest.
P. s.: Perhaps I haven't made it
plain that all farmers live in small
towns. They go out to their fields
in the morning to work, returning
to thelr town or village or commune
homes at night
over
There were
mar

Mrs. Robert Patterson of Pingree
was. in Blackfoot between trains
Friday enroute to Pecabo, Idaho,
where she will spend a few days at
tending to government affairs.

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