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AMERICAN LEGION
 FAI0RS UNIVERSAL
 DRAFT NEXT WAR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-A universal draft in time of war, and the retirement of disabled emergency army officers were among the proposals included in an American Legion legislative program praLented to President Coolidge today by Commander Drain of the American Legion. The program was adopted by the last Legion convention. In a way the universal draft proposed by the Legion supports Senator Cap per's and Senator Johnson's bills providing for the drafting of capi- tai and labor, industry and trans portation in addition to man power.
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REPRESENTATIVE SHELDON
 IN TOWN FROM FAIRBANKS s

Robert E. Sheldon, representative elect from the Fourth division and manager of the Richardson Highway Transportation Company, passed thru Seward yesterday on his way to Cor dova to attend the annual meeting of the Highway company and to make plans for next seasons operations. MT. Sheldon reports a very success ful season just passed and states thaa all indications point to an increased tourist travel next year.
 MT. Sheldon states that much activ- ity is manifest in the Fairbanks dis trict considerable ground having been staked during the past few months. The Hammon and other interests are planning extensive mining operations next year, and from all indications it wwill be the best yet enjoyed by the camp.
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STANDARD OIL BUILDS
 THIRD DIESEL BOAT

It was learned that following the satisfactory performance of the two diesel electric tankers now in oper- ation for the Standard Oil Co. on the Alaskan service, another vessel almost identical in size and dimen- sions is being constructed for opera tion in the coastwise and Hawaiian Island service of the company. The new craft is to be called the Ha- waiian Standard, it is said and is now being constructed at the Union Iron Works in San Francisco
 The General Electric Co. of Schen- ectady, New York, has the con- tract for the electrical equipment of the new vessel which will operate electrically in all departments pos sible Power will be generated by two 245-kilowatt generators driven by diesel engines, the make of which has not yet been announced. The propelling unit will be a 600-horse- pON6I dnu dlI WluCuCS, and other auxiliary machinery will be electrically powered.
 Practically the only structural diff ference between the Hawaiian Standard and her progenitors in the service will be the fact that the propelling unit will be installed in the extreme after portion of the hull while the engine room will be located amidships instead of aft as in the Standard Service and the Alaska Standard.
 The new addition to the tanker fleet is expected to be ready for op-( eration sometime early next year. Her carrying capacity is to be all most identical with that of the two vessels named above.
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JAPANESE REFUSE TO
 SIGN OPIUM CLAUSE IN
 PROPOSE AGREEMENT
Conference for Suppression of Snug gling Abruptly Terminates Over
 Action of Japanese

GENEVA, Nov. 17.-The Inter- national Conference for the SUD- pression of opium smuggling and traffic in the Far East virtually collapsed Sunday when the Japa- nese delegate announced that he would not sign the proposed agreement because it would inter- fere with Japan's importation of opium.
 The attitude of the United States delegation in demanding restrictions on the growing and Importation of opium and its pro- ducts was the subject of an eager discussion among the nations at- tending the conference, following the sensational collapse of the preliminary meeting yesterday.
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PURCHASING AGENT
 FOR ALASKA RAILROAD
 GIVES OUT CONTRACTS

SEATTLE, Nov. 17.-Purchas- ing Agent Dole for the Alaska Railroad, announced today that he had awarded the contract to the United States Products Company for the thirty steel bridges to replace the wooden structures on the line of the Alaska Railroad between Seward, the salt water terminal, and Fairbanks, at con- tract price of $246,OOO. Delivery total;ng 2,7O0 tons will be made at Seward commencing in February and being completed in May.
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WIFE AND LOVER GET
 LONG JAIL SENTENCE

MIDDLETON, Pa, Nov. 17.-Mrs. Annie Willow, who was convicted last week of the murder of her hus- band, was sentenced, on Saturday to the maximum penalty, from ten to twenty years. The same sentence was imposed upon Ralph H. Shadle, an employe of the Willow farm. Shadle and the woman were in love and apparently connived at Willows S death. Shadle is but boy, eighteen years old
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AMUNDSEN HAS BIG
 SUM FOR EXPLORATIONS

CHRISTIANIA, Nov. 17.-Amund- sen, the Arctic explorer, has had one hundred thousand dollars placed at his disposal to enable him to make his projected airplane flight over the North Pole next year, according to the Tidenstegn today. The plan calls for his hopping off from Spitzenber- gen in June.
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COMPENSATION RATINGS
 ARE NOT RENEWABLE

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-Compen- sation ratings made by the United States veterans Bureau are not re- viewable by the courts, the Supreme court held today, except where it is shown that they are wholly unsup- ported by facts and are capricious or arbitrary The Supreme Court also ruled that land purchased by Indians from funds derived from their allot- ments cannot be alienated without the consent of the Secretary of the Interior.
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EMMA GOLDMAN OPPOSED
 TO B0LSHEVIKI TACTICS

LONDON, Nov. 17.-Rebecca West, noted writer, in an interview given to the London Daily Express on her return from visit to Russia said that Emma Goldman will be "the best advocate of anti-bolshevism that England has ever listened to-" Miss West declared that Emma had been completely disillusionized of social istic theories by her sojourn in So- viet land. Emma told her that the welcomed deportation when the Unit ed States shipped her out of that country but that she was "a disap- pointed woman"
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DAVIS WANTS TO RESIGN

WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. IT, James J. Davis has asked President Coolidge to relieve him of his post of secretary of labor next March 4th.
 The President is understood to labor under an expressed hope that MT. Davis will remain in the cabi- net. Reports current in political circles persist that other cabinet of ficials will signify their intention to retire to private life within the next few months.
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BOARD BEEN SELECTED
 TO DECIDE FATE OF
 BRAND NEW DIRICIBLE

WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. IT, Navy officials are puzzled over the problem of what to do with the diri- gible ZR-3 which occupies dual identity to a strictly commercial ship under strictly military Jurisdiction and board has been selected to decide the fate of the pride of the air
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REPTILE FOUND IN
 WOMAN'S STOMACH

CHUR, Switzerland, Nov. 17.-When tn estomach of a young nurse who had died in terrible agony was opened a living wiper was found. The patient had been put on a strict diet and the venomous snake, driven by hunger, had eaten the in- testines of the young woman.
 Only one explanation seems like ly, namely, that the girl, while on a hike in the Swiss mountains. drank from a mountain brook and swallowed either serpent egg or a small living reptile.
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BANDITS TAKE TOLL
 SEATTLE STREET KY.

SEATTLE, Nov. 17.-Three men held up the Fremont office of the mu- nicipal railway this morning in an ef- fort to get yesterdays receipts from the street cars working out of the barn, but hitch was thrown in the plans of the robbers when $80O0 in coin and currency was left lying on the floor of the office vault, while one of the robbers snatched up several empty money boxes and fled.
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AMERICAN EDUCATION
 WEEK STARTS TODAY

WASHINGTON, D. O., Nov. IT, By designation of the President of the United States beginning today will be celebrated as Education Week for the purpose of bringing education al problems to the attention of the people. Churches, lodges and civic organizations are asked to cooperate with the National Education Associa- tion, the American Legion and the United States Bureau of Education in making this observance a nation wide success.
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COOLIDGE MAPS OUT A
 PROGRAM FOR FARMERS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-Presi- dent Coolidge today put up to the committee of representative farm leaders he has appointed, the problem of mapping out a program for a per- manent agricultural committee which met in the cabinet room at the White House for it's first session. Coolidge told the members that his purpose in naming the organization and placed in their hands the formulation of a workable plan for farm relief.
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FILIPINO NATIVES ARE
 ELIGIBLE CITIZENSHIP

WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. IT, Natives of the Philippines are eligi- ble to become American citizens, whether or. not they have been in military service of the United States, t was ruled today by the Supreme court of. the District of Columbia.
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ALLIES HAND BACK
 ROADS TO GERMANY

ESSEN, Germany, Nov. 17.-All railways in the occupied area were turned back to Germany at midnight, by the Franco-Belgian railway ad- ministration as arranged in carrying out the Dawes plan, without hitch or untoward incident.
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VALUABLE BATTLESHIP
 BIZ DESTROYED UNDER
 ARMS LIMITATION PLAN

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1.-The incompleted battleship Washington was lowed from it's berth at the Navy Yard here today and headed to- ward the ocean where. it will be de- stroyed under the terms of the arms limitation conference.
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SPOKANE MAN TO BE
 NAMED SUPREME JUDGE

SEATTLE, Nov. 17.-State Repub- lican leaders say that Frank H. Ru- din, of Spokane, member of the U. 5. Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Division, will be appointed a member of the United States Supreme Court upon the retirement of Justice Me Kenna.
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ROBBERS INVADE CAFE,
 GET OFF WITH $l2,SOO

CHICAGO, Nov. 17.-Seven rob- bers today invaded the Pershing Palace Cafe and Ballroom, owned by Al Teamey, the minor league baseball chieftain, blew open the safe and left with $12,80O.
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CANADA PROTESTS AGAINST ARRESTS
 PROMINENT MEN

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17.-Offi- cial action by the Canadian govern ment protesting to the United States against the arrest in San Francisco last week of R. R. Anderson, a veal thy and prominent Vancouver, B. C., attorney, in connection with the inter- national booze scandal, looms on the horizon, says a dispatch from Otta- wa tonight.
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VATICAN TO SELL GEMS IF
 OWNERS DO NOT CLAIM THEM

ROME, Nov. 17.-A wartime secret of the vatican has just come to light through an announcement that unless certain valuables are claimed from the vaults they will be sold and the pro- ceeds devoted to charity.
 During the war people of all na- tions believing the vatican a safe place sent jewels and other valuables for safe keeping.
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NUMBER KILLED IN
 JAVA TOTALS 51O

BATAVIA, Java, Nov. 17.-The number of dead in last Wednesdays earthquake has reached a total of 51O and the shocks are still continuing. Many of the rivers have dried up un- til they resemble a sea of mud.
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REDONDO SAILS WEST

The steamship Redondo sailed last night for lower inlet points, with good load of freight and w. E. Per ry for Seldovia, and E. Nelson for Kodiak. The Redondo has given the residents to the west a good boat service this season, making a trip each week, which coupled with the Starr and Watson placed the westward in rapid transportation class.
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MRS. HARDING WORSE

MARION, O., Nov. 17.-Further complications have developed in the case of Mrs. Florence Kling Hard ing, wife of the former president, and it is not believed she will survive the week out.
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LONDON, Nov. 17-Emma Gold nal, the famous American anarch- ist, who was deported to Russia, was the guest of honor at a banquet given by 300 Britons last night. Re spending to the address of welcome, Mrs. Goldman condemned in the most measured terms the present communist government of Russia and excoriated the officials in charge of the Soviet regime at Mos COW. In a final burst of eloquence she declared that if she ever re- turned to the United States it would be on her own terms and not on conditions laid down by the Ameri- can government.
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GOOD EATS TOMORROW

Manager Holben says that tomor- rows astronomical delight will be a small dinner steak we'll smothered in mushrooms, as we'll as the usual line of good eats.
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The tie camps are taking all avail able men and more are being sought. The pay is said to be good.
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DAWES OPERATED UPON

CHICAGO, Nov. 17.-Charles Gates Dawes, presidential elect, under went an operation for hernia late to- day.
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MORGAN SAILS FOR HOME

LONDON, Nov. 17.-J. P. Morgan sailed for home today on the steam ship Bsrangaria
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At the Chamber of Commerce meeting tomorrow noon at the Sew ard Grill several very important mat ters of interest to the town will come up. All members should be present.
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The steamship Nabesna is in port today with a quantity of freight.
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Join the Chamber of commerce.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-14
Old Days In AmerjcuS

today from his summer vacation,
spent in the North Care
lima mountains.
Mrs. NJ. 7. Elam and son, Gel.
W. M. Hawkes. leave Wednesday for
Asbury Park, n. j. Mrs. Elam gong
later to New York to purchase
goods.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Z. Johnson
and young son left yesterday for
Charlotte where they viii reside in
future, MIR. Johnson having had an
advantageous business otter there,
Announcement is made of the en-
gagement of Miss Louise Wynn and
Mr.. VIII F, Geeslin, of Macon, the
marriage to occur at the home of
the brides parents, Mr., and Mrs. II.
J. Wynn, ON Prince street.
Miss Lula Hay leaves today for
New York to purchase a full line
of fall millinery and fancy goods
Miss Hay, has secured q desirable
store in the Windsor Hotel block,
next the ladies entrance and will
engage in business there this fall.
Mrs. Josephine Hudson was very
severely injured late yesterday af-
ternoon in being thrown violently
from her buggy by the frightened
horse.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-14
Another Profitable
Crop

Georgia has added another
profitable crop to her already
long list of farm products. Re
ports from over South Georgia
indicate that big yields and
good prices are being had by
the tobacco farmers. There's
smile on the face of every
one in the tobacco selling cent
ers.
1t is estimated that Georgia
tobacco crop this year will reach
six million pounds, with prices
running as high as S. cents -
and higher in some cases, with
an average of 30 cents in some
warehouses. Bank deposits in
Camilla have increased $780,
600 since tobacco sales began,
with claims that land values are
climbing since the success of the
industry has been assured.
The most important news that
has gone out of South Georgia
in twelfthmonth is that South
Georgia no longer has all her
eggs in one basket. Her hogs
and corn, peaches and pecans,
chickens and eggs, small fruits
and fresh vegetables, and many
other farm products are SUP
PLEMENTlNG her great mon
ey crop-GOTTON,, and now
to this list we are adding tobac-
co.
The future for this section of
the State is as brighton bright
er-than any other section of the
entire South Atlantic States.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-14
HERRIoT's FINE RECORD

Edouard Herriot has a great
reputation as an organizer. When
the war broke out he was Mayor
of Lyons. The French military
authorities did not know what to
DO with the German prisoners
captured when Won Kluck was
thrown back at the Marine.
Herriot said that he would take
them and care for them, without
charge, and give them work. He
did it and used them to build pub
lie works at Lyons-streets,
parks, public buildings of every
description.
1t was an example of the higher
type of COMMUNICATING some
use out Of by-product German
prisoners) that was going to
waste.-Atlanta Georgian.
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electric Chair Displaces
the Moose

Substituting the electric chair
for the gallows and moose is one
of the really worthwhile ac-
complishments Of the Georgia
Legislature this year. The cleo
trio chair is less brutal, it APP
peals less to the abnormal appe-
tite of those who would glory
in the suffering of others.
From year to year we become
more civilized, the finer feelings
are taking the place of our alb
original brutal instincts.
Man first punished man with
a club and a stone; law was not
known; each was law unto
himself, with self-preservation
the first law of nature.
AS we moved forward, pun
ishment was placed in the hands
of those constituted by law to
enforce the lawsD Punishments
were made in the open. The
death sentence, by dedication
or otherwise, was an occasion
for great public gatherings. Men,
women and children gathered
in the public squares by the
thousands, to whoop and yell
and enjoy the suferings of 9TH
ers.
There are many living today
who remember the public hang
ings in Georgia. Crowds gath
cred and fought for places of
vantage, where they might wit
ness the death struggles of the UNI
fortunate who paid for his sins
with his life.
Then we began to realize that
this sort of entertainment was
brutalizing; that it was unneces-
sary and anything but whole
some.
A more intelligent thought
abolished public hanglngs and
capital punishment for years has
been performed with only the
officers of the law present, to-
gether with the necessary legal
witnesses.
And now the moose is a thing
of the past. In its place is the
more humanizing volt of cleo
tricity which separates body and
soul in the twinkling of an eye,
with the least possible suffering
for the poor unfortunate.
AS time moves on and man
becomes still more civilized, cap
ital punishment will disappear.
But that day is yet far away.
Man does not yet realize that
the State has no more moral
right to take life than an in
dividual.
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THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(F'rom The Times Recorder. August
ID, 1894.)

NEIOil ne LINES hCCOI'lGI, August
ID, 1894.)
The Attendance at the Baptist
church on Sunday morning was I'M
usually large, notwithstanding the
very oppressive weather. DR.. A. B.
Campbell who until quite recently
was pastor Of this church but who
now has charge Of Tatuall Square
church in Macon, occupied the pulpit
by special invitation, and it was with
the greatest pleasure this his former
congregation again listened to him.
Capt. Hit finally secured the lost
hind foot of a graveyard rabbit yes
terday, and the cornerstone of his
warehouse will be laid at 10 o'clock
this morning. Col. Buchanan whose
eloquence is proverbial will deliver
the grafton, while the Congo band
will play several inspiring airs.
Aaron Cohen has returened home
from a business trip to New York
where he bought his fail stock Of
dry goods and notions.
The plant of the Cordele Ice
Company or rather a cody portion
of it, changed hands recently, the
Americas Ice Company purchasing
half interest therein. The deal
was effected through Mr. S. r.
Sims, of the Americas Company,
who went to Cordele and closed the
trade after a thorough inspection of
the plant.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-14
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. August
IA, 1919

(From The Times Recorder. August
IA, 1910
All sorts of parties are the rage
these days. Along with the spend
the-day parties and the spend the
night parties stalks the Cotton pick
ing party. Out at the Moorhead
farm on the Leslie road, Masters
John Butt, and James Ross are
guests of Louis and Buns Moore
head at cotton picking party. The
most attractive feature, however, is
not the gathering of the fleecy locks
but the hiding away of the melon,
peaches and fried chicken which ap-
pears daily on the Moorhcad's table
The Americas company of Boy
Scouts in camp this week at Myrtla
Springs struck tents yesterday af-
ternoon, and like real soldiers,
trudged the seven dusty miles bacl,
to town. A touch Of home life was
given the young mixers when q
couple Of Americas mammas rode
out to the springs and supplemented
Che camp larder with a couple Of
dozen fried chickens and a few
churns of ice cream.
Mrs. w. R. Walker and daughter,
Miss Marie Walker, returned to
Americas yesterday after a visit of
week at the home of relatives in
Macon.
Miss Matte Sue Taylor is the
pretty guest Of Dir. and Mrs. G. T,
Miller, en- route toyCairo to a house
party.
DR.. and Mrs. N. s. Evans and
children will leave this morning in
their car for GAINESVILLE and Indian
Springs, enjoying a weeks jaunt.
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DIAMONDS

Nearly every woman owns at least
one diamond. And yet if you gath
cred together all the diamonds in
the world, you'd have only Az tons
Three-fourths of these have come
from the South African mines with
in the last 40 years.
If German chemists, now appear
entity on the right track, finally dis
cover how to turn mercury or lead
into gold cheaply, it is not improb-
able that diamonds will become the
basis of money systems. Man has
centuries of evolution ahead before
he will base his money on a sensi-
BILE, scientific medium such as unit
of human energy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-14

furious or impure, the federal
pure laws would stop its inter
state transportation and sale. If
people desire to eat oleomar-
garine, with or without vegeta-
Bile oils, that is their right. If
vegetable oils are used in the
manufacture of olemargarine,
the label must so state. No one
is deceived. If vegetable oils
are pure and wholesome their
sale should not be prohibited by
the enactment of such legislation
as is mentioned in the editorial
quoted above.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-14
WESTON FARM SHOWS RE-
SUITS OF POISONING

While a great number of our
people are going to Arlington to
see the famous Armour Planta-
ton and the results of the boil
weevil poisoning some Of us are
overlooking equally as good pros
poets when we fail to see the 400
acres of Cow B S. Miller located
near Weston.
Col. Miller has been giving this
farm special attention during the
year and by continuous poisoning
and progressive farming methods
has made this tract of land one
of the best farms in Stewart and
Webster counties.
Our people will find it worth
while to look over this plantation
while the fight against the boil
weevil is being waged so Wig
orously.-Richland News.
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TRANSIT

Changed ways of living-progregs
work strange revolutions in in
dustry. DIR. Luis Levine writes a
book, "The Garment Workers." re-
viewing the history of garment
making. He dwells on the year
1860, when the steel industry was
greatly stimulated by the popularity
Of the hoop skirt.
All that is gone. So, also, is the
big steel business based on corset
stays. Today the auto industry IS
one of the leading consumers Of
steel In a half-century or less, lit
tie steel may be used for motor cars,
demand shifted to airplaqes.
Progress is change.
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ADVICE TO THE YOUNG

The average girl does not per-
init young man to kiss her while
motoring, and the reason is, ac-
cording to one of them, that If
man can drive an auto safely
while kissing me, he is not giving
the kiss the attention it deserves"
Here fellows, make a note of this.
Stop your car.-Columbus En-
quirer-Sun.