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THE MAHATMA The Very Idea!

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By George

Derete your progeny

EAR Mothers and Fa

a little enivelling wretch

There is an 'obvious weakness in the ofetal argument which necks to justify disinclination to do.any- thing to remove the chopped dollar nulance. Despite the fact that complaints of a ramp in defaced 660 to the Haftung untouch In this statement he bids those with no teeth, a few wisps

Grables-aweep thelt roads, engaged in clell resistance to the coins have been, sponsored by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, children."

enter their houses and wash their Government to keep their activities of scraggy hair, and a lean-

In this respect apart from those of ing towards rickets? which ought to know something

Such is the terae call to the stark the reform movement for the un- about the matter, the Treasury in realities of social service which touchables.

Well, now is the time to look sists that thore 'are not enough In that remarkable leader of Indian "Whllo congressmen who are at- into the future and plan out for circulation to worry about. If the Nationalism, Mr. Mohandas K.so civil resisters on active service," him a noble career. official contention is soundly based, Gandhi, has been preachlug from he writes, "may do, as they are does not that prosent a stronger Village to village in a tour from bound to do, auch service to the Don't wait until he goes.

one end of the subcontinent of cause as they can, they may not school.. reason why an effort should be India to the other.

| belong to the Servants of the Un- made to get them out of circula- The words quoted are from touchables Society or to any of Ita tion? If such as do exist were ac-speech made to Indian university branches," cepted at their face value-by an students at Nagpur, Central Pro- arrangement between the banks vinces, by this former barrister of

Objection felt.in British circles and the Treasury and retained the Inner Templo, who is known

among his own people as "the In India to the continuation of the for re-minting, there would soon Mahatma," or great-souled one. situation thus disclosed leaves the be no more grumbling. The fewer Mr. Gandhi's tour is to arouse merits of the untouchable move- Follow our method and catch venting end, at for performance, you hate there are about, the smaller tho 180,000,000 Hindus of the higher ment unaffected. These morits 'em young-If you want son to castes to the need for better trent-have been well served by a happy follow In daddy's footsteps, make ment for 60,000,000 of their less idea of Mr. Gandhi in naming his him respect hin father. It has fortunate fellows belonging to organ "Harijan," which means been done in the past. what are known as the "depressed "children of the supreme casonce." classes" or "untouchables."

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TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1934,

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It may be too late..

By then he will have mixed with other children, absorbed their favourite film atat, and generally ideas on Socialism, picked out his settled his ideas on life..

pro-

was won on the playing fields of

comparatively trivial loss, while a constant source of nnnoyance Would disappent. In short, the public interest still demands that something be done. If there are [a great number of chopped dollars estimated at 20 per cent of theditions still existing among the member that the battle of Waterloo:

going from hand to hand and made total population of British India humble folk he is trying to help.

have for centuries been denied by the medium for a money-changers' their neighbours the elemental The extremity of the poverty of Eton. The Duke of Wellington ramp, a menna should be found rights of human existence. Thoy the untouchables is brought out aald that to prove he had a good of stopping it. If the number isive under a perpetual system of in a pathetic note fo the Harijan education. relatively small, no great trouble ostracism. They are denied access of Nov. 24. This note records the to public wells and temples. award to one Ghanshyam Prasod or leas would be involved in re-Their lot in one part of India is Chamar of Damoh of "a scholar- ducing them to nil.

(81) a such that an "untouchable" pro- ship worth three rupees ceeding along a public road, finds month" to enable this student "to himself compelled by his fellows continue his studies in the high One dollar a month ap to shout in order to warn other school. wayfarers of the risk of caste parently means ability to Ghan shayam to raise himself to the pollution that is near.

TOUR OF THE TROPICS

ANIMALS DUMB?

at

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Mussolini began la" a small way with tin soldiers and finished up with real soldiers wearing shirts.

Start your son off with . tln. soldiers and ho may finish up wearing other people's shirts. If he is not a bookie he may be a butler in which case ho will be more concerned with getting the sack than losing his shirt.

Talking of races, It's not every horso you can put your shirt on unless you are of the Lord Derby build (and then the horse prob- ably wouldn't stand it).

But getting back to your son, you must watch early for the little signs that point out success in his particular fine. ·

The old theory that the white

Mr. Gandhi has long been aslovel of other men. man is apt to deteriorate when ho

powerful advocate of Indian sociai] Other good deeds are put on stays in the tropics too long seems to have received official confirma reform. His present mission has record. "Meetings," we are told, BRITAIN'S LIMITtion by act of Congress. President touched Hindu imagination. En-"were held at Damoh and Harsad thusiastic crowds have gathered to to persunde chamars (low caste Roosevelt gave his endorsement by hear him wherever he has halted leather workers) to give up carrion Despite the very definite designing the Logan bill, which ra- He is being acclaimed chiefly as a eating. Weils were thrown Beniamino Gigli. claration by Mr. Anthony Eden peals the former requirement that great nationalist leader and Hindu open for Harijans at the great fair army, navy and marine corpuscetic, but partly also because In Khandawa district." The so- Tito Schipa: a few days ago that Britain has ofcers must remain at their posts educated Indians feel he is seeking ciety received two maunds (160 Tito Schipa. already gone so far as she can go for at least three years when a to remedy what the best of them pounds) of soap from the Birla

signed to duty at tropical etations. La Boheme-Your tiny hand is frozen (Puccini)

for distribution in the direction of territorial and leaves the length of their tour gard as a reproach to their soap factory

civilization.

among the students." This, Mr. Browning Mummery, security on the Continent, the of duty to the discretion of the

Europeana in India agree that Gandhi's organ adds, "has contrib- Pagliacc-On with the Motley (Leoncavallo)

visit of M. Barthou to London is president. Evidence heard by at

good is being done, even though uted to a great improvement In committee, says a Senate report, Browning Mummery being seized upon as indicating showed that "because of the con. they find also that politics as well the personal cleanliness of the

If he is bowlegged ho will prob students." Mazurka in E Minor, Op. 41 (Chapin) Pisno

the possibility of a new and ditions, climatic, social, and other as philanthropy comes in.

ably make a jockey but not a Other entries mention the throw-professional goalkeeper. Vladimir Horowitz. wider Anglo-French understand-wise, prevalling in the various stations." the foreign service Traumsewirren, Op, 12,, No. 7 (Schumann)

ing opan of certain temples to ing. Mr. Eden made it perfectly minds of officers were strained so as not censed to be connected with Another note says "false rumours probably a potential detective nl- Mr. Gandhi, it is pointed out, members of the depressed classes. If his eyes are crossed he is. Vladimir Horowitz. clear in his speech that whilst badly that a considerable number passive resistance to the existing among the barbers, washermen and ready in disguise, but he is Concerto A Quatre, No. 5 "L'Estro Armonico" (Vivaldi) Britain stands by the Locarno went violently insane. Now It will indian system of law and order. cobblers say that the members of certainly not

be possible to feed troplen to the

dentist, a traffic Played by Pro-Arte Quartet. Treaties, she has no intention of officers in smaller doses. And an freedom that has

It is recalled that the personal these (low caste) communities cop, or a snooker player. extending There are many other interesting records in the supplement,

her commitments old theory, beloved of novelists, Gandhi's present tour possible is some supposed bridgo." The so

mande Mr. would be taken for sacrifice

If his fingers are clumsy he ask for copy to be sent to you.

thereunder, to other parts of confirmed.

due to, his having been uncondi-ciety, the Harijan adds, "had in-

will probably do well for him- Europe with which she is not so

tionally released last September structed its teachers and students:

self on the cash register of some from prison where he was serving of different bustees (hamiota) to thriving business, but will intimately concerned. The issue

a one year's sentence for disobey-inform the inhabitants by bent of

never win a thread-the-needle ing the law in the furtherance of drum of, the baselessness, of such

race or gain, distinction”ax-'a ther by Mr. Neville Chamberlain, fesses to be fond of animals and the Bombay presidency. His re-

The man or woman who pro-un anti-Government movement in rumours.".

pick-pocket. who categorically states that is convinced that his or her pet lease was in consequence of fears November, untouchables showed at school-the-odds-are-that-he At Ejhom, North Malabar, in Should ho prove to ho a dunce Britain is not entering into any understands a half-dozen familiar for his health felt by the Govern asertiveness as a result of the will-prove new alliances whatever. The commands may be surprised to ment owing to a fast which he

a brilliant politician, British view on the question of learn that several "animal diction- threatened to continue to a fatal The Harljan goes on to describe a curved pipe early enough he may uplift work done among them." and if he can be induced to take to guarantees and security ought to aries" have been written. Gabriele climax. be well known by this time. D'Annunzio, the Italian poot, las

how the untouchables actually be rise to occupy the Prime Minister a He is still honouring a declara-gan "freely using the public foot chair Britain's traditional aversion to announced that he will include a tion he made on Sept. 14 last when path running through the village." gown.

or a detective's dressing accept precisely defined commit-complete glossary of the canine he announced that he would not it adds that the untouchables were ments on the Continent must al-af Illustrious Dogs," which is to aggressive civil resistance unti! hours and "hunted from house to language in his new book, "Lives himself again participato In thereupon attacked by, thoir neigh-

We repeat, watch your son. |ways remain a guiding motive of be modelled after Plutarch's after Aug. 3, 1934, when the un-i

He may be in the pantry now!.. policy for a people which is con- "Lives. Other animals whose served portion of his sentence or house like wild animals." A list scious of being a world Power vocabularies have been recorded Imprisonment expires.

NATURE STUDIES as well as a European Power. are the monkey, the horse, and tho ite remains the chief--if for the cluding those of two men and twe

(Extracts From Little Ada's The bold departure by the Treaty ent. An American woman

was moment the otherwise employed women in hospital with head

Exercise Book). Locarno from tradition was responsible for classifying 32 leader of the Indian National Con- wounds. made the bolder because it terms of the chimpanzee, together gress, a body still actively support On Nov. 3, Mr. Gandhi's organ

The elephant is a large animal omitted to bind any part of the with the meaning of each. Other ins civil resistance. The dual notices a case then pending before kert for the amusement of good British Commonwealth except "words" of the marmoset language in a statement issued on Nov. 24, where

12 nature of his position is disclosed the courts in Kheda, Gujarat, children and is kind, industrious, the European part. And further and 14 of the gibbon's. The horse 1933, to his political followers. than this England is unlikely to is said to speak with "alx words go. The one inducement for her and three kinds of neighing." to accept obligations both wide Cats produce 16 sounds, according and precise in Europe, or farther to the experts, each with ita dis- afield, would be the promise of tinet interpretation. There are 12 a new and better order. If there and 5 in the roosters. It accms "words" in the hen's vocabulary were a real prospect that her high time that the phrase, "our ndherence would make effective dumb friends," went into diacaril.

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a moment farmament, not rearmament, like a fresh, clean breeze as one And, unhappily, at the moment turns in disgust from the mass of there are no signs that a satis-drivel and worse that masquerades factory Disarmament Conven- to-day as litorature among our tion is likely to be devised. In the Deadwood Dick fans of another more "advanced" readers: Aud circumstances, it is patent that day silently cheer those who have Britain cannot go further than remembered across the year to pay she already has in the direction tributa to the hero who thrlifed of continental commitments. them as he triumphed over his foos.

of resultant casualties follow in-

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untouchables had been and gentle. (Continued on Page 10.)

"I can't help worrying: about" Willle; he always catches cold

when ho goon,out In the rain-like this,

It carns its living at Home by eating cakes and sweets but at athor places it carries loga (and. blows a trumpet.-;.

Some silly children have a rhyme that "the elephant is a dainty bird and hops from tree to tree.' This is untrue and teacher ядув

we should have more sense than to believe It.

The elephant carries a little Filt spray in its trunk for use in the jungle where there are many files and mosquitoes, and as additional protection against-these Insecta It is mounted with two big. tusks.

An.

Although the elephant is a very gentle natured beast, it is apt to get mad when big game huntors. shout at it. The great thing about. shooting elephants is to hit them in a vital place straight away, -as a bullet in the behind only makes. them angry and in not very good? for the hide,

Elephants have taken up dan- cing, accountancy, and juggligé with some succesá and apart from.! the indigestion caused by having to consume large number of cakes and sweets dally they manage to have a fairly good time.

The elephant can eally be dis tinguished from the nam thời fatter confining ita activities to the water and boing, invariably -much smaller than the elephant.

Owing to the value of its tusks, the elephant has always been bone of contention.