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essential half-that for uniting these provinces with one another and with some hundreds of princely states, by means of responsible Federation is in dan- ger of shipwreck.
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were made forcibly to override these quite genuine objections. On the other hand he feels also that it is altogether impossible at present to modify the scheme of Federation that now holds the field. His advice to all the parties is to meet difficulties by means of mutual concessions sufficient to start enable the Federation to working, thereby proving beyond dispute India's capacity for self- rule. If this were once achiev- ed, Lord Lothian is confident that mutual adjustments now impos- sible, would become practical politics, thereby rendering per-
CARMICHAEL.-On Tuesday, 3rd manently successful the biggest
May, 1938, at Ardsheal, Worth-federation upon earth. ing, H. F. Carmichael, former- ly of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong, Saturday, May 7, 1938.
INDIA'S TESTING
TIME
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Words by the Eyeful
Learn to read slow; all other
graces
Will follow. in their proper
places.
One wonders what the Rev. William Walker, who wrote those
The vast experiment that is in lines nearly 100 years ago, would progress in India of giving de-think of the apparatus recently mocratic government to 350,000,-set up in a Harvard laboratory. 000 people is in rough water, At first thought it disputes his through which, however, it may dictum. Here a paragraph is This projected on a screen, print made
word yet be steered to success.
groups by the visible, but with has been revealed recent challenge of the Congress emphasised in turn so that the Ministries to the powers of the reading eye involuntarily con- Governors, and by the crisis cerns itself with more than one which this last week developed word at a time.
"With its successive flashes;” at Orissa compelling the Gover- nor to cancel his plan to leave on says a description of this mech- furlough in order to stave off the anism, "the film duplicates the threatened collapse of the govern- technique of fast readers accur- mental organisation. A matter of ately yet flexibly. For example, dignity alone provided the occa- it has been found that readers sion for constitutional dispute, generally make a slightly longer the Congress Ministers declining pause at the start of a line and to take overruling guidance from after punctuation marks, es- an official normally subordinate pecially periods, than at other to them, temporarily appointed times. The film reproduces these acting Governor. That such a slight variations." So may "slow situation could arise gives point out intelligent readers learn how to the constructive suggestions to take eyefuls of printed words made by Lord Lothian in the after the manner of skillful read- columns of the "Christian Science ers." Monitor."
One may doubt that Mr. Wal-
of
› Lord Lothian, who took a lead-ker would have liked the expres- ing part in the "Round Table" sion "eyefuls of words"; it sug- and other negotiations which led gests a gulp. It may also be be- up to the introduction of the pre-lieved that by reading slow he
was meant reading... intelligently sent Indian reforms, and chairman of the official British which is undoubtedly the objec- committee which settled the tive of the educators. As a read- franchise that has since been er emerges from the blank conferred upon many millions of illiteracy he reads one word at Indian voters, discloses a critical a time; but it is safe to say that situation. The first half of the both Mr. Walker and Sir Francis reforms-that which confers de- Bacon practiced a reading tech- mocratic government upon the nique (though without thinking eleven great provinces of British of it as such) very much like India is again working favour-[that visualised by the Harvard. ably. But the other and no less machine.