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Where formerly we had nine schools we now have five. Should we go back to nine schools. if we paid teachers the lowest salary allowed by law, $550, the cost of teaching would be $4,950, instead of $2.150 as at present. a difference of $2,200. A minimum salary law for public school teachers, fix- ing the minimum salary at $550. went into effect on January 1, 1919. This is the lowest salary that can be paid to public school teachers. Teachers of any successful experience can not be hired for that salary. I tried to secure three teachers at that salary this winter, but was unable to do so. I got one for $600. If we should go back to last year's plan of two
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schools in each section of the town and one at Popes Point and Bates Pond the extra cost of teaching, provided we could get teachers at the minimum salary, would be $1,650, and we would not get as good results as under the present plan.
High School Pupils :
Freshmen.
Leonard Atwood
('lara Carron Ella Cornish Gladys Eams
Viola Garnet Dorothy Linton Theo Thomas Eunice Wade
Eleanor Washburn
Sophomores.
Eunice Atwood
Francis Cornish
Marjory Griffith
Mary Peterson Harold Robbins Avis Shurtleff
Juniors.
Ruth Goetz George Perkins
Lillian Robbins Madeline Shaw
Priscilla Shaw
Seniors.
Elizabeth Atwood
Ruth Shaw Leonard Shurtleff
The number of pupils in the elementary schools is twenty per cent. less than the average for five years, but the percentage of all pupils attending high school remains the same as the average for the same period, sixteen per cent. In most cities and towns high school attendance has fallen off during the war. The average number of pupils in the elementary schools,
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the number finishing the ninth grade and the number in the senior class of the high school for the past five years is shown thus :
Average number of pupils in elementary schools, 165.
Average number of pupils finishing the elementary course, 14.
Average number of pupils finishing the high school course, 4.
Children are in the elementary schools nine years. If the average given above holds for nine years then 126, or seventy- six per cent. of the total number would finish the elementary course ; and if an average of four finish the high school each year then thirty-six, or twenty-two per cent. of the total would finish the high school course. This is shown by a graph thus : Elementary pupils, 100%
Finishing elementary course, 76%
Finishing high school course, 22%
While this is probably a fair average high school attendance for towns not maintaining a high school, it is not as large as it should be in a town having a high school, and to which transportation is provided. Nothing but inability to do the school work in a reasonable number of years should debar a child from getting, at least an elementary school education, and only the strongest reasons should deprive him of a high school education. If young people could look ahead ten or fif- teen years and see how much they will then need education and training more would go beyond the elementary school. The difference in value of the product of a group of trained and untrained men is as great as the difference in value of the prod- uct of a farm worked with the selfbinder and the tractor and one worked with the scythe and the tooth harrow. It may seem that we are taxed heavily enough now for education and training, but the cost is returned many times over in the pro- ducing power of those trained. We do not readily see it be- cause education is such a long time process. Unfortunately
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for rural communities much of the benefits of their education goes to the cities and large towns. It is this that should put the burden of education on the State. As good work is being done in the high school as at any time since I have known it.
The present teachers and their schools are: Center Grammar, Miss Elsie M. Slocum, Dartmouth, Mass. Center Intermediate, Mrs. Laura Hudson, Carver, Mass. North Primary, Miss Eunice V. Evans, Dedham, Mass. South Primary, Miss Elizabeth H. Tillson, Carver, Mass. Popes Point, Mrs. Alice M. Russell, Carver, Mass. High School, Mr. Walton S. Hall, Malden, Mass.
High School, Miss Elise Brecker, Lawrence, Mass.
SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR 1918-1919.
Fall term-Sept. 23, 1918 to Dec. 20, 1918, 13 weeks. Winter vacation-Dec. 20, 1918 to Dec. 30, 1918, 9 days. Winter term-Dec. 30, 1918 to March 21, 1919, 12 weeks. Spring vacation-March 21, 1919 to March 31, 1919, 9 days. Spring term, March 31, 1919 to June 13, 1919, 11 weeks. Summer vacation-June 13, 1919 to Sept. 22, 1919. Fall term-Sept. 22, 1919 to Dec. 19, 1919, 13 weeks. Winter vacation-Dec. 19, 1919 to Dec. 29, 1919, 9 days. Winter term-Dec. 29, 1919 to March 19, 1920, 12 weeks. Spring vacation-March 19, 1920 to March 29, 1920, 9 days. Spring term-March 29, 1920 to June 11, 1920, 11 weeks. Summer vacation-June 11, 1920 to Sept. 20, 1920.
Respectfully submitted,
Carver, Mass., January 1, 1919,
C. W. HUMPHREY, Superintendent.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY
LIBRARY ACCOUNT.
Cr.
Paid-
Charlotte M. Atwood, librarian to Jan.
1, 1918, $25 00
Charlotte M. Atwood, librarian to Jan.
1, 1919, 100 00
William M. Shaw. freight on books.
1 50
$126 50
REPORT OF LIBRARIAN.
Supplement to Catalogue, 1918.
Donations, 62 books
By purchase,
1 book
Middleboro Gazette for 1918.
Our Dumb Animals for 1918.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1918, $8 06
Fines received during 1918, 10 75
Paid out for expenses during 1918, 5 05
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1919,
13 76
CHARLOTTE M. ATWOOD, Librarian
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RECREATION
PARK ACCOUNT.
Cr.
Paid-
William Hatch, labor, $25 00
William Mason, labor, 37 50
Joe April, labor and team. 29 60
Fred N. Whitman, flag, 35 00
Eugene April, labor, 24 00
George Johnson, labor and team,
'10 38
Harold McPhelmy, labor and team,
23 70
George Judway, labor and team,
9 60
George A. Judway, labor,
13 50
F. E. Barrows, labor,
22 00
Fred Anderson, labor,
3 75
H. R. Bailey, plank,
5 00
George Blair, labor on well.
5 00
T. A. Tillson, posts, 1 25
Bernard Tillson, labor, 1 00
H. S. Griffith, labor,
75
A. D. Griffith, casting, 50
Plymouth Hardware Co., pipes, etc., 14 10
$261 63
OLD HOME DAY ACCOUNT.
Cr.
Paid- James A. Vaughan, treasurer, $75 00
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REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF CARVER £ OLD HOME ASSOCIATION.
Old Home Account.
Received-
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1918, $1 62
Appropriation, 75 00
Dinner and ice cream tickets, 568 19
Tonic and fruit stand,
27 63
Baseball collections.
26 82
Dance tickets,
19 00
Remnants sold, 8 56
$776 82
For Supplies-
Paid-
C. W. Maxim, corn, $17 50
J. J. Wood, clams,
37 50
W. M. Shaw, postage,
4 62
Leonard Atwood, stone, 4 00
Samoset Cash Market,
163 26
J. A. Vaughan, wood, etc.,
9 87
J. A. Vaughan, vinegar,
80
J. A. Vaughan, potatoes,
6 75
S. H. Pink,
85 56
The Davol Press,
24 10
Fred N. Whitman,
4 61
Middleboro Bottling Works,
14 00
E. S. Moser, ice,
2 40
Pasztor & Klar,
94 70
T. T. Vaughan, rock weed,
14 00
$189 02
The Nemasket Press,
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For labor-
J. S. McKay,
$42 00
J. S. McKay, team,
18 90
Charles F. King,
17 50
J. W. Lewis,
11 25
H. F. McKay,
7 00
Charles Kennedy,
2 50
Charles Atwood,
1 25
Morris Robbins,
2 50
Ellis Bumpus,
2 50
Leonard Powers,
1 50
C. C. Chandler,
2 50
George Perkins,
2 00
George E. Blair,
2 50
Mrs. J. T. Lewis,
5 75
Cora Appling,
3 50
Lizzie Robbins,
3 50
Mabel Peckham,
3 50
Sadie Wade,
5 25
Mrs. Powers,
1 00
Mary Cornish,
3 00
Francis Cornish,
1 75
Alice N. Adams,
2 50
T. T. Vaughan,
2 50
J. A. Vaughan,
3 00
$149 15
For entertainment-
Ball players,
$14 50
Totals paid-
For supplies,
$489 02
For labor,
149 15
For entertainment,
14 50
$652 67
Balance on hand,
124 15
$776 82
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REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF THE POOR
Poor Account. Cr.
Paid-
Carlton Shurtleff, groceries, $26 95
J. A. Vaughan, wood, 15 63
Emma E. Lucas, board and care, 148 00
Mrs. Mary Braddock, board, 252 50
S. H. Pink, groceries, 19 91
J. J. Ryan, groceries, 80 75
H. A. Stanly, services as overseer of poor, 27 00 Thomas Bros., groceries, 49 50
Town of Kingston, aid, 178 00
Elverson E. Atwood, groceries, 16 58
Mrs. George Powers, nursing, 31 00
Ellsworth Braddock, watching, 3 50
Dr. L. M. Chase, medical attendance, 70 50
George Parker, watching,
2 50
C. Thomas Morse, watching, 2 50
Perez L. Shurtleff, auto for overseer of poor, 1 00
W. E. W. Vaughan, wood, 18 00
Henry F. Shaw, groceries, 126 78
B. P. Buck, shoes and rubbers, 8 00
B. B. Keyes, fish, 18 79
Ellis G. Cornish, services as overseer of poor, 8 75
Arthur C. Perkins, meat, 59 86
Clarence Thomas, digging grave, 4 00
Abbie Adams, nursing, 8 50
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Henry S. Pink, services and auto as over- seer of poor, 28 75
Levi F. Morse, rent, 48 00
Town of Plymouth, aid,
279 69
State Board of Charity, aid,
23 71
T. A. F. Washburn, burial,
50 70
$1,614 35
CEMETERY ACCOUNT.
Cr.
Paid-
William C. Hatch, labor, $31 25
William Mason, labor, 25 00
James H. Peckham, mowing and reset- ting stones, 3 00
Fred A. Ward, labor and material,
62 50
$121 75
FARM BUREAU ACCOUNT.
Cr.
Paid-
Plymouth County Farm Bureau,
$40 00
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REPORT OF TOWN CLERK
MARRIAGES RECORDED IN CARVER IN 1918.
March 9. John Carter, Jr., of Middleboro and Alice F. Lees.
April 12. Perez L. Shurtleff and Alice M. Russell.
May 19. Robert W. Willetts and Laura G. Finney.
July 9. Hugh R. Bailey and Ina Durling.
Sept. 2. James F. Hart of Taunton and Julia A. Wrighting- ton.
Sept. 4. Benjamin C. Shaw, 2nd of Middleboro and Alice M. Appling.
Oct. 26. Edwin E. Bisbee and Marion E. Pratt of Wareham.
Oct. 26. Frederik Hesselgrin of Boston and Elini Anderson.
Nov. 19. Daniel H. Dempsey and Orrie A. Shurtleff.
Dec. 25. James H. Peckham and Mildred J. Story.
BIRTHIS RECORDED IN CARVER FOR THE YEAR 1918.
Date
Name.
Father's Name.
Mother's Name.
Birthplace of Father.
Birthplace of Mother.
Jan.
17| Blanche Lois Dimond
Robert E. Dimond
Marie E. Macy
Carver
Jan.
19 Clifford Alfred Morris
Harry C. Morris
Lois J. Shaw
Carver
Feb.
9 Lillian Beatrice Judway
Geo. A. Judway
Alice F. Van Wagner
Fall River
Feb.
14 Ellsworth Clifton Atwood
Elverson E. Atwood
Lillian J. Weightman
Carver Finland
New York Finland
Feb.
19 Otto Everett Majalalıti
Emil Majalahti
F. Riika Palala
Feb.
25 Joseph Silva
Inocente Silva
Meclana Wager
Cape Verde Island
Feb.
28 David Stillman Pratt
Lester E. Pratt
Lulu A. Pease
Watertown
Mar.
7
Miriam Arlene Baker
Clinton W. Baker
Cora H. Wade
Kingston Cape Verde Island
Cape Verde Island
Mar.
7| Tony Rose
Manuel Rose
Minnie Barrow
Philimena Vega
Fogo
Fogo
Mar.
11| Aramanto Pina
Jack G. Pina Dennis Lopes Theron M. Bumpus
Mary Roderick
Fogo
So. Dennis
Mar.
29 Treton Jacob Bumpus
J. E. Wrightington
Mabel D. Shurtleff
April
3, Everett Dexter Wrightington
Charles C. Chandler
Alice B. Dickerson
Carver
April
15 Lois Aileen Johnson
George V. Johnson
Lydia J. Morris
Carver
Middleboro
April
1 William Russell Holmes
William E. Holmes
Almira C. Dowsett
Carver
June June
16 Adelaide Mabel Atwood 17 |Robert Reynolds Wilmarth
Stella E. White
Boston
Aug.
3. Mary Grace Silva
Mary Silva
Cape Verde Island
Azores
Aug.
20| Gertrude Joenpolivi
Lvtia Puranen
Finland
Finland
Oct. Oct.
26 27
Laura Roderick
George F. Roderick
Domingo Fortes
Oct.
30 Eleanor Foch Keenan
Clara B. Lewis
Boston
Oct. Nov. Dec.
8
Wilbo Eland Harjii
Dec.
25 Albert George Parent
Victor J. Keenan Birt C. Chandler Fiilus Harju Joseph Adguter Parent
Jesse J. Garnett Lempi Maki Juliette B. Dube
Finland
C'anada
Boston N. B. Finland Fall River. Mass.
Carver
24 Olive Mildred Chandler
Adolph Joenpolivi Chesley A. Haslam
Helen A. A. Dillabur
P. E. Island Cape Verde
R. I.
1
Harmon Chesley Haslam
Chester R. Atwood
Myrtle L. Gardner
Watertown
Plymouth Carver Carver
July
23 Pauline Roderick Lopes
Lydia R. Hann
Carver
Fall River Maine Carver
Mar.
10 Philip Coleman Chandler
N. F. ('arver Wollaston
Philip H. Wilmarth Justin Silva
Harwich, Mass.
Fall River Wareham Conn.
DEATHS RECORDED IN CARVER DURING THE YEAR 1918.
Date.
Name.
Age.
Cause of Death.
Place of Death.
Birthplace.
Binial Place.
Parents.
Jan.
13 Eugene E. Shaw
61
8
Jan.
16 James II. Andrews
73
0
Cerebral Arterio-selerosis
Taunton
Jan.
27 Frank P. Wilbur
65
1
1
C'arver
Feb.
15 Josephine A. Andrews
69
1 20
Carver
P. E. Island
Mir.
5|Ann Janette Perkins
86
9
8
Lobar pneumonia
Carver
Plympton
Mar.
16 Fanny M. Halunen
30
Pulmonary tuberculosis
Carver
Finland
Apr.
26 Elizabeth Mace
86
10
14
Mitral regurgitation
Carver
Nova Scotia
Apr.
30 Sarah E. Swan
85
24
Chronic intestinal nephritis Carver
New Bedford
Gloucester Carver Cemetery LakenhamCemetery Union Cemetery
Asaph Washburn and Mary Gibbs
Sept.
25 Joseph S. Robinson
31
23
Lobar pneumonia
Syracuse, N. Y.
Rhode Island
Carver Cemetery
Sept.
28 Mellen B. Shurtleff
28
2 22
Lobar pneumonia
Base Hospital, Camp Devens
Bourne, Mass.
('arver Cemetery
Charles H. Robinson and C. L. Wilbur Henry F. Shurtleff and Ella Monamon
Oet.
5 | Hannah W. Atwood
62
5
Arterio selerosis
Carver
Rochester, Mass.
Union Cemetery |Union Cemetery
Jolm Freeman and Deborah Il. Stevens Arad Barrows and Ellen Bailey
Dee.
20 William N. Barrows
70
6
18
74
0
24
Heart disease
Alpena, Michigan
Washington, D. C Carver Cemetery -
James Davis and Sophia Smith
Dec.
22 Maria Y. Shurtleff
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Brights Disease
DeLand. Florida
Rhode Island Massachusetts Taunton
Carver Cemetery Carver Cemetery C'arver Cemetery Carver Cemetery PlymptonCemetery Centre Cemetery Wareham Oak Grove ('emetery James Cosman and ('ollins
Ponsonby Marshall and Mary A. Atwood Unknown and Annie Crane
May
15 Charles F. Cornell
1 10
('erebral hemorrhage
Carver
Berkley, Mass. Carver
July
1 Marshall A. Washburn
85
9 3
Acute bronchitis
Carver
Chen D. Shaw and Enginea Bisher Nicholas Andrews and Mary Martin Ruben Wilbur and Nancy Evans Joseph Smith and Ann Welsh Simeon Churchill and Sally Cushman Cal Silverberg and Lonisa
Acute Lobar Pneumonia Cerebral Hemorrhage
3
New York, N. Y. Philadelphia
EXCERPTS FROM TOWN MEETING RECORDS.
(March 4, Frank E. Barrows, Moderator.)
Voted, under Art. 4, that the following accounts be turned into the town treasury :
East Head Road,
$2 63
Resurfacing Stone Road, 58 99
Old Town Hall, 87 98
Town Hall driveway,
67
Marking Graves, 78
Voted, that the balance of $142.88 in Plymouth Street ac- count be appropriated for the Highway account, and the over- draft of five cents in Quitticus Road be charged to said High- way account.
Voted, that the selectmen be, and hereby are authorized to prosecute, compromise or defend any suits for or against the town.
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Voted, that the dog fund be appropriated for the use of the schools.
Voted to instruct the Overseers of Poor to sell the large pine trees standing on the Poor Farm.
Voted to accept the provisions of Chapter 23 of the General Acts of 1917 relative to the licensing of coffee houses.
Motion by J. M. Bump that the vote whereby the Town vot- ed to choose three Road Commissioners be rescinded.
Defeated on a division. Yes, 22. No, 27.
Motion by Ellis G. Cornish, voted on a division, yes 29, no 1, that the Road Commissioners be instructed to take such action as shall be found necessary in order to construct and maintain on the southerly side of the highway leading from a point near- ly opposite the home of Arthur H. Wade past the former home
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of Andrew Sherman to the brook which runs out of Muddy pond.
Shall Licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town? Yes 13. No S ?.
HENRY S. GRIFFITH,
Town Clerk.
APPROPRIATIONS, BALANCES, RECOMMENDATIONS
OBJECT
Appropriations
Mar. 4, 1918
Balance on Hand
Jan. 1, 1918
Received during
year 1918
Paid out during
Balance on
Overdrawn
Recommendations
for 1919
Charities,
$1,000.00
$557.37
$1,614.35
$56.98
$1,600.00 300.00
State Aid,
500.00
75.00
422.00
$153.00
Soldiers' Relief,
200.00
168.07
$50.00
177.04
241.03
Public Library,
25.00
112.92
126.50
11.42
150.00 250
Support of Schools,
8,700.00
76.61
746.07
8,811.80
710.88
8,700.00
Repair of Bridges,
300.00
200.10
401.22
98.88
500.00
Repair of Highways,
3,000.00
11.30
392.48
3,087.32
316.46
3,000.00
Removal of Snow,
200.00
79.07
120.93
100.00
1.00
Shoestring Road,
500.00
497.41
2.59
700.00
General Government,
2,500.00
156.17
17.00
1,775.50
897.67
2,000.00 _
Unclassified,
125.00
152.84
526.77
248.93
500.00
Reserve Fund,
400.00
296.37
249.60
446.77
250.00
Health and Sanitation,
200.00
65.17
143.00
122.17
150.00
Public Service,
5.00
5.33
2.50
7.83
Weights and Measures,
30.00
4.90
30.93
3.97
30.00
Tree Warden,
200.00
3.33
202.50
.83
250.00
Gypsy Moth,
828.47
1,695.90
5,186.86
9.72
2,500.00
Parks,
100.00
6.03
261,63
155.60
200.00
Notes,
1,350.00
1,350.00
1
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year 1918
Hand Dec. 31, 1918
Dec. 31, 1918
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Interest,
800.00
424.37
641.20
1,221.21
644.36
('emeteries,
150.00
64.85
121.75
93.10
125.00
Oiling Roads,
1,600.00
1,432.74
2,280.80
751.94
1,500.00
Farm Bureau,
40.00
40.00
100.00
Fighting Fire,
274.19
75.34
258.89
90.54
200.00
Police,
332.33
191.91
140.42
100.00
Steam Roller,
10.00
10.00
Town Pump,
2.85
1.50
1.35
New Town Hall,
169.79
169.79
Lead,
6.37
6.37
Bituminous Road,
3,171.73
114.13
3,057.60
Quiticas Road,
127.10
112.85
14.25
Special Articles, 1919 Town Warrant,
East Carver Road,
$4,500.00 +
Weweantic Bridge,
1,500.00. 1,000.00 * 500.00
Ford Truck,
Wareham Street,
1,000.00
$22,753.47
$6,347.99
$5,177.83 $27.938.94
$8,114.15 $471.23 $32,805.00
ELLIS G. CORNISHI, HERBERT A. STANLY. HENRY S. PINK, Selectmen of Carver.
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West Street,
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TOWN MEETING WARRANT.
Contents of the warrant for Town Meeting to be held at the Town Hall on Monday, March 3, 1919 at 8 o'clock a .. ni. The polls will be open at 12 o'clock M .. for the election of of- ficers by ballot and will be kept open four hours at least.
Art. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside in said meeting.
Art. 2. To see if the town will authorize the Town Treas- urer, with the approval of the selectmen to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year, beginning January 1. 1919.
Art. 3. To see if the town will authorize the Selectmen to prosecute, compromise or defend any suits for or against the town.
Art. 4. To decide when taxes shall become due.
Art. 5. To see if the Town will make the yards of field , drivers town pounds, provided they are also chosen pound keep- ers.
Art. 6. To see if the town will make an appropriation for a police force. or act anything thereon or thereto.
Art. 2. To choose all necessary town officers not elected by ballot.
Art. 8. To see what disposition the town will make of the dog fund.
Art. 9. To see if the Town will accept the report of the Selectmen, and other town officers.
Art. 10. To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary to defray town charges the ensuing year.
Art. 11. To choose all necessary town officers. The follow- ing officers to be voted for, all on one ballot viz: Town Clerk. three Selectmen, Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, three
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Overseers of the Poor, two Auditors, three Constables, one Tree Warden, three Herring Committeemen, each for one year, one Assessor, one School Committee, one Road Commissioner, one Trustee of the Public Library, one Park Commissioner, each for three years : one School Committee for two years and to vote by ballot "Yes" or "No," in answer to the following question : "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ?"
Art. 12. To see what pay the town will vote the Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, and other town officers for the ensuing year.
Art. 13.
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