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By Edward Thompson

WHA

France and its Nizam has full internal sover-

'HAT is the All- is as large as

India National cignty. Some States (there are about 560 in all) consist of only a few square miles and have trivial powers.

Congress?

The general settlement of An unofficial body. Pay- India was in 1819. The Peshwa ment of four annas (six- went (the Emperor was already nominal ruler): the pence) constitutes member- only

were rescued ship. Its annual conference Rajput Princes

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TUESDAY, AP 13, 1937.

"RUBBER STAMP"

LEGISLATION

A matter which is not with out ita interest to Hongkong was raised in the House of Commons recently, when the Leader of the Opposition lodged

The place of meeting which has lasted till now.

Ought it to last for ever, un- changes to familiarise all

changed? India with the Congress.

This Child, what Kind of India will She see?

how to make an Indian Central Government strong enough to take the weight of the Provinces

What are India's guns pressing problems?

At their best the States re- Its central cabinet is stylel present

a quality of personal and to prevent revolution.

rule

which the Working Committee. Locni understanding centres keep the Congress active Indians prefer to cold-blooded efficiency. At their worst they represent what would not be everywhere and always,

Sympathetic British ex-of- tolerated unless British

being in were behind it. cials brought it into

Just now the Princes are short Indian 1885. They thought

of far-sighted leaders. They opinion should have expression.

are straining every resource to The Congress then desired decent preserve their sovereignty in- a protest against what he des-representation of Indians in the tact, as their price for entering higher services. Representation the All-India Federation. A lot cribed

"rubber stamp"

was conceded so grudgingly that of nonsense is talked about them methods of legislation. The

the aim changed, and control of in our snob-Press. measure before the House was the political machine-Govern- the Special Areas Bill, and Mr.ment itself and the legislative Attlee's point was contained in assemblies, then nominated and

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Why do Indians object

I could name Calcutta colleges whose numbers are so immense that hundreds of students never get inside the classrooms. The teachers' words come to them on verandus, as a vague blurring most noise.

How do such colleges keep full? By touting for brilliant students, offering them large students Com- scholarships. These

are decoys.

MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. actment was rendered impossi-General Dyer's chooting down of have seen (ar suspect) of all- Council get £6,000 (with a large

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Is India ever going to

Poverty, Ignorance, munal Dissension. Gracious offi-

Further, some of the profes- cial receptions, the Princes' dazzling hospitality, may throw sors have to bring their own film over the poverty for our rations. That is, unlcas they own people, but I have never met bring along thirty or forty pay- any American or Dominions visi- ing students they do not hold tor who was not aghast at it. down their jobs. These colleges These visitors come to con- turn out misery and unemploy- clusions flattering. neither to ment. Part of the remedy is Indians nor ourselves. By what obvious. But no one will ever right (I have been asked re- have the pluck to apply it. peatedly). de we forbid India, the fact that, by reason of the official-was seen to be neces- to the new Constitution?

however desperate her need, to Because they were ignored in touch the swollen expense of her limited scope of a financial sury.

Why resolution in connection with By degrees Moderates dis- the final stages of its making; higher administration? the Bill, amendment of the en-appeared, a process completed by because they distrust what they does a member of the Viceory's be educated?

in the offing), when Yes-by the filma. Landing ances behind the scenes, between pension 1,600 people at Amritsar in 1919. parties who wish to keep things South Africa's Premier gets £3,- in Bombay, I read: "Monster Attention was drawn to India for a while was united by essentially unchanged.

Film Star Competition! Fifty the point that when the Bill was anger and sense of humiliation, But a difference-is-admitted Why are we complacent, if Thousand Rupees MUST Be under discussion on a previous and Mr. Gandhi launched "Non- between the Constitution for the this is the result of our rule? WON!"

Central Government and that for And why, with such a terrify- At a railway station a charm- Violent Non-Co-operation." occasion, members were pre.

If carried out this would have the Provinces. The Constitution ingly low standard of living in ing, intelligent little boy coaxed. chocolate. I for the Centre is disliked by their own land, do Indians domi- me to buy some vented from moving an amend- ment for the inclusion of other made the British position in Moderates us well as Congress- ciled in a Dominion and enjoying gave him baksheesh also, so

India untenable. It was carried

men, as being so over-weighted far higher standard grouse at thought I had done my duty. because the areas were out only by sections of the Hindu with representation of the land- their lot?

But he kept pestering me with a ed interests and the 500 Princes defined in the financial resolu- community. Congress, still the

The next census will show. a Hindustani word I did not know. most important organisation in

as to be a monstrosity.

four hundred million population. It sounded like "Coupon," tion, which could not be varied, India, is now mainly a Hindu one.

The Provincial Governments, Yet the land is mostly bones, opened the chocolate-and found was delighted, The result of procedure of this

on the other hand, are admitted with hardly any breasts. The a coupon! He

un, and showed me a pile of coupons. type, it was argued, was to take

to concede real power to the people's life is idiotically

touched, I thought, people.

hygienic. This November twice Rather from the House control of

boy working In defence of the British Gov- within ten minutes I saw men "Here is a little A few-mostly Rajput-have legislation. "What is happen-

titles older than the British Government, it should be remember- gargle and sluice their mouths hard to become entitled to get ing to-day," said Mr. Attlee,ernment's. When the British ed that the four years of Round-back into a well, the only something jolly, a fountain pen "is that our legislation is being went to India they had sunk into Table Conferences made a pitiful drinking water!

subordination to the Emperor at exhibition of Indian communal Delhi.

ble.

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framed in detail by civil servants and experts. The only check on the bureaucratic mind is the Minister, and he himself may have a bureaucratic mind." Representatives of all parties

What are the Princes?

500?

There are many Indians, of quarrels.

all creeds, of a culture and per Also, European Governments sonal charm no race has ever Others, including the Nizam of Hyderabad and the Mahratta changed so fast and alarmingly surpassed. Yet the educational Princes, are descendants of great that the British Government be- system is quite mad, and is get officials of the Emperor of the came obsessed with one thought ting worse every year. Peshwa (acting Head of the. Mahratta confederation in the associated themselves with the eighteenth century).' protest, and, eventually the These States vary greatly in

Try for Yourself this

Attorney General announced extent and power. Hyderabad FINGER-PRINT EXPERIMENT

that the Government were

RE Anger-prints infallible clues in Says HUGH BRADY

There have been suggestions re-

prepared to consider the matter, detailed working of the mea-A the detection of crime? and if, after discussion with Jaures to be applied by means of Mr. Attlee, such a step seemed regulations: thereunder. desirable, the Government true that in many

regulations would set up an inquiry by a these

before the Selcet Committee to go into the come whole

.The

perhaps,"

But I found that what he would ultimately get was five film star pictures-one Indian lady mixed in with them. Think and sleeps on a mg; and he is of it! That boy lives in a hovel collecting to obtain our synthetic beauties.

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Ramshackle tents on lorries take the cinema to remote ham- lets. I saw a tent in shadow of renowned Buddhist shrine. Tables of coloured drinks and cigarettes were before it, and from the tent camo erooned jazz about "My Baby." Indin is pro- ducing her own films, bad Holly- wood in Oriental clothes.

each day in time for the opening of the London police courts.

Every person detained for a crime

The peasant's mind,' untouch- be is invited to have his finger-prints

taken

and if he is a first offender the ed through millenniums is going "dabs" reach the court without to be swiftly and thoroughly re- comment.

Regular criminals are so used to made! In five years, both Hindu the routine that they hold out their and Moslem cultures are going to hands automatically. The operation be smashed, and India will be as may occupy Ave minutes, because daft as we are (on top of its own the ten digits are taken.

brands of silliness).

in

cently that they may not be; but so It is

overwhelming is the evidence in instances their favour that any doubts that

may have been raised. can eventually quickly dispelled.

There are more than half 21 Legislative

million sets of finger-prints at Scot- of the issues involved. Council for approval, but there land Yard and the 60 experts who We have remarked that the are innumerable other cases in keep up to date this Who's Who

crime have supreme confident subject is one which is not with-which the police or other the value of the records of

they are in charge.

A wise Government would find out its interest to this Colony, authorities take to themselves.7

Department and Finger-prints

Tell-tale Impression at i Ofco Criminal Record the

the money-even if it meant cut- That is so, not because precisely the power of laying down rules Scotland Yard are controlled by INGER Impressions are divided ting down the colleges, even if

His into main groups of arches, the same point in encountered which are not even gazetted. It Superintendent Hurry Baltley,

assistants, Chief Inspectors L. Ake- here, but because our Or-is casy to see that, in these hurst and C. Cuppona part tented arches, loops sloping to the it meant cutting down the swank

cularly with the dinances and regulations con- circumstances, there is wide and crime index sections.

criminal records left, loops, sloping to the right, and extravagance of its own whorls, central pocket loops, and higher circles--to provide every- accidentals.

where a free service of instruc- tuin ample evidence of "rubber scope given to what Mr. Attlee

Checked Each Day

The skin is engraved with furrows tion in elementary common, which form elevations called ridges, sense, through the films (resist stamp" methods of legislation. has described as the bureauera- This is usually achieved by the tie mind, in the operation of ONE

NE of the first lessons given to and when the finger touches

the police recruit is on how to smooth surface a tell-tale impression Ing the temptation to slip in propaganda in, favour of itself). process of skeleton Bills which which there is a distinct danger take finger-printa. From all parts of is left.

London there is a never-ceasing pro-

Try it for yourself. Let a friend But this will not happen. No morely touch the main principles of individual rights being im cession of these prints to Scotland grip a sheet of white paper is one fueses. No one le going to of the legislation and leave the 'pinged upon.

Yard, and the dabs," as they are between finger and thumb. colled, are checked and, reported, on

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No

fuss.