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TELEGRAPH

TUESDAY, JULY

1984

NOTES OF THE DAY THE

CHOPPED DOLLARS"

MAHATMA The Very Idea!

TOUR

ON

There is an obvious wenknças in the official argument which Rooka to justify disinclination to do any. thing to remove the chopped dollar

By EVERARD COTES nufmance. Despite the fact that complaints of a ramp in defaced to the rep their roads, engaged in civil resistance to tho Harijani-untouch-1 In this statement he bids those

colns liave been sponsored by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, which ought to know something Fabout the matter, the Treasury in

sists that there are not enough in circulation to worry about. If the official contention is soundly based, does not that present a stronger reason why an effort"should", be made to get them out of cirenia- tion? If such as do exist were ac cepted at their face value-by an arrangement between the banks and the Treasury-and retained for re-minting, there would soon be no more 'grumbling. The fower there are about, the smaller the

the medium for a money-changers' ramp, a means should be found of stopping it. If the number in relatively small, no great trouble or lose would be involved in re- ducing them to nil.

..

Hongkong Telegraph TOUR OF THE TROPICS

TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1934.

Miliza Korjus.

Miliza Korjus.

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children."

have for centuries been denied by

wayfarera of the risk

YOUR SON'S CAREER. By George

EAR Mothers and Fa-

Dthers is your progeny

Start your non off with tin

with no teeth, a few wisps a little snivelling wretch cut their houses and wash their Government to keep their activities of scraggy hair, and a lean-

in this reapect apart from those of ing towards rickets? Such is the terse call to the stark the reform movement for the un- realities of social service which touchables. that remarkable leader of Indian

Well, now is the time to look "While congressmen who are al- into the future and plan out for Nationalism, Mr. Mohandas K Gandhi, has been preaching from he writes sters on active service," him a noble career. village to village in a tour from bound to do, such service to the "may do, as they aro one end of the subcontinent of cause as they can, they may not school.

Don't wait until he goo8 India to the other.

belong to the Servants of the Un- The words quoted, are from a touchables Society or to any of it. It may be too late. speech made to Indian university branches," students at Nagpur, Central Pro-

By then he will have mixed with other children, absorbed their vinces, by this former barrister of

Objection folt in British circles favourite film star, and generally ideas on Socialism, picked out his the Inner Temple, who is known among his own people as "the in India to the continuation of the settled his ideas on life. Mahatma," or great-souled one. sitaation thus disclosed leaves the

Mr. Gandhi's, tour is to arouse merits of the untouchable move- Follow our method and catch 180,000,000 Indus of the higher ment unaffected. These

morita 'em young-if you It has proved the most popular car of the year. comparatively trivial loss, whilo acantes to the need for better treat- have been well sorved by a happy follow in daddy's footsteps, makę".

want son to ment for 60,000,000 of their less idea of Mr. Gandhi in naming his him respect his father. It has constant source of annoyance fortunate fellows belonging to organ "Harijan," which means been done in the past. would disappear. In short, the what are known as the "depressed children of the supreme essence." public interest'still demands that classes" or "untouchables."

Facts ho hus collected in this great man and he shows a pro- If you want him to become a something bo dobe. If there are The depressed classes-officially

organ throw lurid light upon con- a great number of chopped dollars estimated at 20 per cent of the uitions still existing among the penalty for playing marbles, re- member that the battle of Waterloo going from hand to hand and mad. į total population of British India-humble folk he is trying to help.

was won on the playing fields of their neighbours the elcinental The extremity of the poverty of Eton. The Duke of Wellington rights of human existence. They the, untouchables is brought out said that to prove he had a good live under a perpetual system of in a pathetic note in the larijan education. ostracism. They are denied access of Nov. 21. This note records the to public walls and

Mussolini began in a smeli temples. award to one Chanshyam Prasod Their lot in one part of India la Chamar of Damoh of 'n scholar- way with tin soldiers and

finished up with such that an "untouchable" pro-ship worth three rupees. ($1) a

real soldiers ceeding along a public road, finds month" to" enable this student "to

wearing shirts, to shout in order to warn other school." One dollar a month as-soldiers and he may finish. up himself compelled by his fellows continue bis studies in the high

of caste parently means ability to Ghan-wearing other people's shirts. If shayam to raise himself to the he is not a bookic he may be a The old theory that the white pollution that is near.. man is apt to deteriorate when he owerful advocate of Indian social

Mr. Gandhi has long been a level of other men.

butler in which ense he will be stays in the tropics too long seems reform. His present mission has record. "Meetings," we are told, sack than losing his shirt.

Other good deeds are put on more concerned with getting the to have received official confirma touched Hindu imagination. En-were held at Damoh and Haraud BRITAIN'S LIMIT

tion by act of Congress. President thusiastic crowds have gathered to to persuade chamars (low caste

Talking of races, it's not every Beniamino Gigli,

Roosevelt gave his endorsement by hear him wherever he has halted. leather workers) to give up carrion horne you can put your shirt on- Despite the very definite designing the Logan bill, which relic is being acclaimed chiefly an eating. Beniamino Gigli, claration by Mr. Anthony Edenocals the former requirement that great nationalist leader and Hindu open for Harijans at the great fair build (and then the horse prob- Wella were thrown unless you are of the Lord Derby O Del Mio Amato Bon (Donaudy)

army, navy and marine Tito Schipa. a few days ago that Britain has officers must remain at their posts educated Indiana feel he is seeking elety received "two maunds (160

corps ascetic, but partly also because in Khandawa district." The so-ably wouldn't stand it). Plaisir D'Amour

Tito Schipa, already gone so für as she can go for at least three years when as La Boheme-Your tiny hand is frozen (Puccini)

in the direction of territorial signed to duty at tropical stations, to remedy what the best of them pounds) of soap from the Birla

and leaves the length of their tour

regard as a reproach to their soup factory for distribution But getting back to your son; Browning Mummery, security on the Continent, the of duty to the discretion of the civilization.

among the students." This, Mr. you must watch early for the little Pagliacci-On with the Motley (Leoncavallo) visit of M. Barthou to London is president. Evidence heard by a good in being done, even though uted to a great improvement in particular line.

Europeans in India agree that Gandhi's organ adds, "has contrib- signs that point out success in his Browning Mummery being seized upon as indicating showed that "because of the con- they and also that politics as well the personal cleanliness, of the

committee, anya a Senate report, Mazurka in E Minor, Op. 41 (Chopin) Piano

the possibility of a

students." new and ditions, climatic, social, and others philanthropy comes in. Vladimir Horowitz, wider Anglo-French understand-wise, prevalling in the various

Other entries mention the throw. Traumoswirion, Op. 12, No. 7 Schumann)

Mr. Gandhi, it is pointed out, members of the depressed classes. Ing open of certain temples to ing. Mr. Eden made it perfectly foreign sorrico, etations." the minds of officers were strained so Vladimir Horowitz, clear in his speech that whilst badly that a considerable number has not ceased to be connected with Another note says "false rumours probably a fotential, detective al- Concerto A Quatro, No. 5 "L'Estro Armonico" (Vivaldi) Britain stands by the Locarno went violently insane. Now It will passive resistance to the existing among the barbers, washermen and ready in disguise, otective

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

he possible to feed tropies to the Indian system of law and order. cobblers say that, the members of certainly not a dentist, a

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

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

freedom that has

made

Mr. would be taken for sacrifice at ask for copy to be sent to you.

thereunder to other parts of confirmed."

due to his having been uncondi Europe with which she is not so

tionally released last September lety, the Harijan acis, "had in- atructed its teachers and students intimately concerned. The issue ANIMALS DUMB?

from prison where he was serving of different bustees (hamlets) to a one year's sentence for disobey-inform the inhabitants by beat of has now been taken a step fur- ther by Mr. Neville Chamberlain, fesses to be fond of animals and the Bombay presidency. His re-

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

ing the law in the furtherance of drum of the baselessness of such who categorically states that Britain-is-not-entering-into-any understands a half dozen famillar for his health felt by the Govern-assertiveness as a result of the will prove

is convinced that his or her petionso-was-in-consequence of fears November, untouchables showed at school, the odds are that he

At Ejhom, North Malabar.in new alliances whatever. The commands may be surprised British view on the question of learn that several "animal diction-threatened to continue to a fatal pilft work done among them." and if he can be induced to take to

to ment owing to a fast which he

a brilliant politician, guarantees and security ought to aries" have been written. Gabriele climax.

The Harijan goes on to describe a curved pipe early enough he may be well known by this time. D'Annunzio, the Italian poet, has Britain's traditional aversion to announced that he will faclude a lion he made on Sept. 14 last when path running through the village."

Ile is still honouring a declara. how the untouchables actually be rise to occupy the Prime Minister's gan "freely uning the publle foot chair or a detective's dreaming accept precisely defined commit-complete glossary of the canine he announced that he would not ments on the Continent must al- of Illustrious Dogs." which is to aggressive civil resistance until tours and "hunted from house to

language in his new book, "Lives himself

It adds that the untouchables were again participate thereupon attacked by their neigh- ways remain a guiding motive of be modelled after policy for a people which is con-"Lives."

Plutarch's after Aug. 3, 1934, when the un-. acious of heing a world Power vocabularies have been recorded imprisonment expirea.

Other animals whose served portion of his sentence of house like wild animals.” A list of resultant casualties follow In- as well as a European Power.are the monkey, the horse, and the The bold departure by the Treaty cal. An American woman

He remains the chief-it for the cluding those of two men and two in hospital with head Locarno from

was moment the otherwise employed Women tradition was responsible for classifying 32 leader of the Indian National Con- wounds, made the holder because it torms of the chimpanzee, together gress, a body still actively support On Nov. 3, Mr. Gandhi's organ omitted to bind any part of the with the meaning of euch. Other ing civil resistance. The dual noticea a case then pending before kert for the amusement of good British Commonwealth except

tabuinted 12 nature of his position in disclosed the courts in Kheda, Gujarat, children and is kind, industrious, the European part. And further

untouchables had been and gentle. than this England is unlikely to

(Continued on Pago 5.). is said to speak with "six words go. The one inducement for her and three kinds of neighing." to accept obligations both wide Cats produce 15 sounds, according and precise in Europe, or farther to the experts, each with its dis afield, would be the promise of tinct interpretation: There are 12 a new and better order. If there and in the rooster's. It seems "words" in the hen's vocabulary were a real prospect that her high time. that the phrase, "our adherence would make effective dumb friends," went into discard. the establishment of a collective

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system of security with reduced

words" of the marmoset language in a statement Issued on Nov. 24, where scientists have

and 14 of the gibbon's. The horse 1933, to his political followers.

armaments, it is possible that A MERITED TRIBUTE

popular consent might be won to

a general guarantee of execution

"He

for an Arms Convention. But, whom one age stones, another en-

A philosopher has said, despite careful exploration of the thrones." While it may be exag- ground, no such indication is atgeration to apply that maxim to present forthcoming. France, the case in mind, it warms the for reasons of her own, does not hearts of that generation which feel justified in making any retic to revel in the exploits of Dead- stole with trepidation into the at- duction of military material or wood Dick to learn that recognition personnel; indeed, in view of has come at last to the favourite possible German rearmament, author of their youth. A bronzo she wishes to keep her hands plated cobblestone monument is to entirely free. But the British bo. erected in America to the public would never agree to give memory of Deadwood Dick Clark, Kuarantees as a counterpart to co

scout, frontiersman, and hero of German rearmament

the un to navals. The Deadwood Dick

thrillers were not literature, It general guarantee of security to. There have

here may

bean justice can clearly only be given rod to the luckless youngsters

in the parental Lhrent

to apply the in return for

general caught reading them. But reduction. It goes with dis-of them comes back for a moment memory armament, not rearmament, like. ગી fresh, clean breeze as one And, unhappily, at the momont turne in disgust from the mass of there are no signs that a satis drivel, and worse that masquerades factory Disarmament Conven- to-day as literature umang. tion is likely to be devised. In the more "advanced" readers. And circumstances, it is patent that day allently chear those who have Deadwood Dick fans of another Britain cannot go further than remembered across the your to pay she already has in the direction tribute to the hero who thrilled of continental commitments. them as he triumphed over his foes..

purely defensive, loval. A

д

our

"I can't help worrying about,, Wille; he always catches cold

when he goes out in the rain like this."

If he la bowlegged he will prob ably make. a jockey but not a professional goalkeeper.

If his eyes are

crossed be is

trnfilc

If his fingers are clumsy he will probably do well for him self on the cash register of some thriving business, but will never win thread-the-needle race or gain distinction as a pick-pocket.

Should be prove to be a dunce

gown.

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We repeat, watch your son He may be in the pantry now!

NATURE STUDIES (Extracts From Little Ada's Exercise Book).. The elephant is a large animal

It earns its living at Home by eating cakes nad #Woets but at other places It carries logs and blows a trumpet;

Some silly children have n rhyme that the elephant le a dainty bird and hops from tree to trec." This is untrue and teacher snya we should have more sonse than, to believe it.

The elephant carries a ifttle.. Filt spray in its trunk for use in the Jungle where there are many lies and mosquitoes, and L'an Additional protection against these insects it is mounted with two big tusks.

Although the elephant is a very. gentle natured beast; it is apt to get mad when big game hunters shoot at it. The great thing about shooting elephants is to hit them in a vital place straight away, ng a bullet in the bohind only makes them angry and is not very good. for the hide.ebat

Elephants have taken up danes eing, accountancy, and juggling with some auccess and apart from the indigestion caused by having. to consume a large number of cakes and sweets daily, they | manage to have a fairly good time. i

The elephant can easily be dis- tinguished from the nowt, the latter confafng its activities to the water and being invariably. much smaller than the elephant

Owing to the value of its tusks: the elephant has always been a bone of contention."