New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 8, 1921, Page 10

10 SITUATION IN INDIA THAT IN IRELAND, DECLARES HUME Former Local Y. M. C. A. Of-!| ficial Gives First Hand In- formation On Political Sit-4. uation in Far East. ‘Wilson M. Hume, former educa- tional secretary at the local Y. M. C. A., nod aseociate. secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Joint Finance Appeal at l.ahore, India, has written an inter- erting letter to C. H. Barnes, general scretary of the New Britain Y. M. C. A. Mr. Hume will be remembered by the older members of the local *:Y", having left this city about eizht years ago to pursue his work in India. He has spent some six years there and has lately returned there after a short' period for another term of six yoars. He is a Yale graduate and has followed the footsteps of his gather who is a missionary worker, and his grand-father as well, who was in the same fleld. The interesting letter, describing the ¢onditions exising in lndla., is as fol- lews: “Y. M. C. A, India, Aug. 25th, 1921. *“My Dear Clarence Barnes. “I am very glad to have this op- portunity of sending a message from Lahore to som tof those who are in- terested in the Foreign Work of the Young' Men's Christian Association in India. And I am especially glad to tell you a little something of the con- d:tions and work in Lahore, the cap- tal city of the great province of the Panjab in North India. The Panjab is at once the granary and the sword- arm of India, supplying a large amount of the wheat, rice and cotton which is partly consumed in India and rartly exported; and being the home of the so-called martial races of In- dia, such as the Sikhs, Dogras, Jats and Panjabi Mussalmans. Lahore is the heart of the Panjab,’ as they say, and we' can ‘say, like Paul, that we are ‘citizens of no mean city’, as La- hore has a population of about 250,- 000 people and is the headquarters of the Government of this Prowvince of gome twenty miliion folk, while it is the seat of the Panjab University, in connection with which more than five thousand college students are present every year. Lahore is the home of w~arious important religious bodies like the Arya Samaj, and from it radiate s'reams of culture and influence that resach not only to the ends of this “province but even into Afghanistan and “Central Asia, with which places there ‘are_ extensive trade dealings. Before the Mogul Emperors made Agra, and lattr Delhi, their capitals, Lahore the scene of their courts and dule, ‘while, earlier still, wé kown that Alex- der the Great passed through Lahore ju the course of his' attempted invas- fon of India. But our interest in La- hore today lies not so much in its( ancieny and proud past, but in thel tremendous tide of life and acitivity wkich surges in the minds and hearts ot its people. Situation. “In' order to understand this we must take a bdird's-eye glance at the present state of affairs in India. We scem to be living in a storm-tossed era, it such a#imetaphor may be per- ‘mitted. Just now political interests occupy the'center of the stage and SIMILAR TO NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, glad to have three full-fledged Indian secretaries, and four other Indians are just coming to us on the first of Sep- tember for a period of training. Eyen with this considerable staff of secre- ‘W. H. HUME. taries we are not able to provide all the activities which are’ crying to be undertaken in this great center. Educational Work. “The strongest feature of our work er similar commercial lines. We have the, largest commercial school in the Panjab, and last year some 528 younz men were enrolled in the classes, learning such subjects as type writ- ing, shorthand, book-keeping and oth- er similar commercial lines. He have a good hall; in which we have courses of Jectures, very often using lantern slides with out lectures. We have a good reading room with the common daily papers and weeklies from India. and a selected number of weeklies and monthlics from England and America |as well. There are social rooms with various indoor games, among which billiards and ping-pong are the fav- orites, - We have a good outdoor gym- nasium, with a good equipment of American gym apparatus, and this year we too have an Indian associate phyical director to assist our American expert in the physical department. ‘The most constructive piece of sefvice iy known in India as ‘Mahatma’ (Su- He is a most in- and I am sending vou herewith an excellent estimate evi- uently writteh by an Englishman and per-Spirit) Gandhi. teresting person, ot the man and his character, published in The Glasgow Herald, wnich has been copied in Mahatma ‘Younz India.’ T1his {s the most comprehensive and fair estimate I have yet come across of this remarkable leader, and I am you becauke it is so miuch better \than anything I’ could I am also sending you a small colored pictufe of the man. «which shows how very far from being an Apoljo’ he is in outward appear- He is most like the Apostle Paul, in his personality, as the article He is the 1eal leader, intellectually and spirit- ually, of the people of this land today, and he declares that he is aiming at complete: Home Rule, or Swaraj, for India within the next two months, though he is wise enough to say this will happen only if the necessary con- ditions are fulfilled, and the one es- sential condition he insists, is that the people of India shall learn ‘to act as in at least some one Gandhi’s own paper, sending it to sive myself. ance. in ‘Young India’ suggests. of ' one mind’ Cause. Just now he is trying to kind, Cause, serve the pudpose and by making the tions to Control and Self-Rule. he has managed to get a larger meas- ure of unanimity of opinion than meost people wonld have believed to be pos- sible 'in India, the most heterogenous I hope 1 have succeeded in making plain that I believe Gandhi is a true prophet and spiritual leader,. of the highest per- sonal character, and is in many ways a follower of the principles taught But one of the main difficulties that Gandhi faces is that his right:hand ¢men are not of the same high character as he is, and are often actuated by nothing and mixed-up land on earth. and lived by Jesus Himself. more or less than hatred of England and of all things Western. &re absorbing the interest of pratically all parties. The chief issue seems to be wnether India will’ progress more or less gradually on the path to the To lization of self-government and re- n an integral part of the British Bmpire, or whether she will make a supreme ecort and launch her. ship of | state boldly on the uncharted sea of “On the other hand we have strong men who are trying to guide India wisely ‘and as rapidly as is probaply safe along the rpad to regular consti. tutional development n® the representative of Great Britgin. which iy being carried on by us is, T feel, the work of training the drill- masters, as they are called, of the schools of this great province. Last year some 98 men were sent to us by the Panjab, government to be trained and best methods of physical educa- tion, and, in this way, we are multi- plying ourselves a hundred - fold by whom ctherwise we could not hope to touch ourselves, and adapting/to In- dian conditions and requirements, the best knowledge and practicé that the west. nas to give concerning physical education. Part of our religjous work consists of special meetings for college students on Sunday afternoons, for we are practically the only Christian body wHo are responsible for delivering the Christian ' message to the non-Chris- tian. students- of . this great university center, who do not attend the Forman Christian college, a Presbyterian mis- sion institution which is doing a won- derful work in Lahore.' “But the best religious work we have found, is that which is done for individual college men and others who e to study the Bible and to talk r their personal and intellectual problems with us. We have a hostel, or_boarding house for about 25 col- lege men and this also gives us an € | opportunity for a clo: e h d the boycott of foreign cloth of every |aom ! o o of . this people #conomically independent of other na- them on their own feet politically and in the qualities of Self- It has never teen ‘true in the past that the people of India have become of one mind in any matter, and. it does’' not éven now reem likely that Gandhi will succeed inthis latest ‘scheme of his, though acquaintance with a selected group of men. In these and other ways we are striving to make clear that in Christ there is true fullness of life. Getting Many Friends. “Perhaps the most important single problem we have tackled this year is_that of building up a constituency of friends and supporters. for our Y. M. C. A. work throughout the Pan- jab. The. letterhead. with which this letter starts indicates the committee which is in charge of our finance ap- peal. We are trying to raise 35,000 rupees, and this is quite as hard to accomplisi in India as it would be to obtain an equal number of dollars in America. We have the additional complexity here, that the great ma- Jority of "the’ pednle’ who canimake subscriptions ‘is made up of non- Christlans_who ‘are often indifferent too, it not; definitely 'opposed to our Christian message. ' But we belleve that .the people. here, as everywhers in, the world, mnust be educated’ |} to take ian’ interest in true social and welfare work, and-we find that e by our physical director in the latest reaching out to the boys in the schools, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1921. Paris, Oct. 8.—(Associated Press-—— There will be three: ceremonies in connection with the marriage of Wil- liam B. Leeds, Jr., the nineteen-year- old son of the late American “tinplate king,” and of the Princess Anastasin of Greece, to the Princess Xenia of Russia, also nineteen years of age and Mikhailovitch. The first of the series will be the “rench civil ceremony, which took rlace tkis afternoon at 3 o’clock. The second ceremony will occur at the American Church of the Holy Trin- ily at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, ar.d the third, the Russian, at the Rus- s1an church at 3 o’clock Sunday afte:- noon. 3 As the invited guests will be con- fined largely to, relations, the cere- monies will see a large gathering ot titled men and women of the old Rus- sian regime as well as a great many members of aristocratic Greek fain- ilies, It is said that few prospective daughter of Grand Duchess Geoige . bridegrooms have had more difficully in getting married than young Loeda. Every move made had to be referied fcr approval to the executors of the Leeds estate in New York. Negotla- tions have been going on for severnl months, involving the send!ng park «nd forth across the Atlantic ‘of numerous legal documents. In ‘ad- dition Princess Anastasia, mother of LEEDS, 19 YEAR OLD AMERICAN MILUBNAIRE, WEDS GREEK PRINCESS TODAY; THREE SEPARATE CEREMONIES IREVIVAL OF FRANGE INTERESTING STORY France’s Achievement in War Told by M. Loucheur Paris, Oct. 8.—An impressive pi:- ture of the extent of Fiance's ac..cye- ment in restorting her war-ravazed regions is afforded by M. Loucheur, the Minister of Liberated Regions, in a public statement, entitled “The Re- vival of France.” Official statistics of the decwuc- tion caused by the war and the re- construction accomplished up to May 1, 1921, the Minister declares, shows that “France of today is the same as Fiance of yesterday and that in peace 2g in war she continues to work with steadfastness, courage and confi- dence.” M. Loucheur’s statement covers followink subjects: Inhabitants, 1. nicipalities, schools, houses, land, « riculture, livestock, rads, factoric. and railways. After showing that 5,- 154,000 of the 8,400,000 Frenchmen from 19 to 50 years of'age mobilized during the war, were killed or wound- ed, the statement presents the follow- ing statistics of civic reconstruction. Inhabitants—Deported because of tae war,2,500,728;returned to France 1,975,798. Municipalities — Abandoned 3,256; re-established, 3,216. Schools—Before the war, 7,271; re- established, 6,830, Houses—Destroyed, 789,000; bailt, 10,213; repaired, 326,700. Land—Devastated, 8,240,000 acres; cleared from projectiles, wire en- tanglements and trenches 6,881,000 re- |acres. Leeds, while enthusiastic about the marglago, opposed it - taking place for : several years because of the ascs of:both the Printess and her son Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovitch, of Russia will be the witness for his cousin, Princéss Xenia, and ' Princess Anastasia -and her husband, Prince Christopher - of ‘Greece, wsn dct for soung Léeds. ART COLLECTOR DEAD. Grenville A, Ellis Was Also Well lKnown as Publisher of Books. London, Oct. 8.—Grenville A. Ellis, a prominent figure in the Americdn colony in England, publisher of books of reference and a connoisseur and art collector,” died: récently in nhe Iste of Wight, : Mr. who was' from Boston, and. marries "Mar: Elliot,” an Ameri- -can ‘writér,#or many years icontribu- Yor chiefly Ton' thedtrical subjects to “Bllis; best way to educate them is ‘to ob- tain their financial ought to provide the support for those movements which are trying to uplift support. India as a self-gov- erning Domingn| within the British Empire. Chief of these is Lord Reag~ ng, the new Viceroy, who was so suc- ceestul in Washington, during the war, her own young men, and I am sure she will do it. But it is surely a wonderful opportunity for America, England and other. Christian lands to show the true Christ-spirit which lives in the hearts of so many of their people, by préviding the support for Beston papers, came to London 40 years ago and had be~n a resident here ever since. He published some of the standard refercsce books and devoted his spare time to the collec- tion of old ptints on which subject he was considered one of the greatest experts. Many of his purchases found their way into Ameérican art myseums. It might help some if a lot of rich fathers' would hold a conference with thelir sons coucerning unemployment. . TAX PAYERS UNITF. London, Oct. 8.—The Ificome Tax- payers’ society, under the leadership;of Lord Inchéape, han been formed hero to heln simplify tho taxing machinery and maintain the consfitutional rights of the mngfrs ! FACE WAR LOSS SUIT. Paris, Oct. 8.—The/ former: Rados- lavoft cabinet of Bulsaria faced & Sur for $2,000,000,000 for damaga caused to the state by the eniry of "Bulgaria as an ally of Germany in tha war. No action has as yet.been taken. / ‘{for Agriculture—Farm land devastated, 4,571,000 acres; farms now cultivated, 3,420,000 acres. Livestock—Horses and mules ca 1led away, 367,000; restored, 96,30 oxen carried away, 523,000; restored, 120,263; sheep and goats carried away, 469,000;; restored, 121,164. Roads—Destroyed, 32,960 miles; temporarily repaired, 18,825; mies: definitely repaired, 8,426. Factories (each having at Jeast - employes)—(1914) 5,297; destroyec 4,700; resumed operation, 3,645. “France took up arms only in self- defense, endeavpring at the same time to maintain justice and liberty for the world,” said M. Loucheur. “For nearly five years her richesy provinces have endured continual martyrdom. And yét by her own names, from day to day, the ruins are reviving; houses arise from the ground, fields are cov- ered with promising crops. The popu- lations of the devastated areas be- lieve thatg they can rely on the spirit i solidarity of all those who have measured the magnitude of thelr sae- rifice and understood their unques- tionable right to the fullest repara- tlons. A vast fleld of action is open the demonstration of human protherhpod. These people who suf- g AR the safety of Franca snd the world was at stake, deserve & fresh belier in the joy of life. Besides shelter and bread they are cntitled to peate and happiness. their own representatives who go to carry that same Christ-spirit to for- eign lands, in order that Jesus’ prayer may be realized,—“that they may all be one.” “Frequently 'we do get most satis- fying opportunities to tell of ‘the great good news’ of Jesus Christ.’Last Sun- day, evening I went with one of the Forman Christian college professors to a little chapel in the heart of the busiest section of Lahore, and spoke to the mixed group of men who as- sembled on the thought, that ‘Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today,—yea and forever.’ A few lan- tern slides helped to make Jesus’ life on earth seam real to them, and it was surprising to me to see how intent- 1y they listened,and the apparent long- ing in their faces for just,that which Christ alone can be to ‘them,—‘the same yesterday, and today yea and forever. And the conviction grows on me that we need to have faith and the insight to sense how God is pres- ent and working and loving in India today,—using even Mahatma Gandhi to help spread the truth, with his remarkable lifé of devotion and self- sacrifice and with his great emphasis on the power of the spirit over ma- terial things, even over violence and force. Then, as India arrives more and more at self realization. must she come to see and know and choose Jesus Christ for herself and of her own free will. It is the greatest and truest service anyone can render, to help Indi:. forward on this road,—in order that, in her turn. she may lay all the wealth and warmth of her spiritual life at the feet of the Mas- ter, and thereby proclaim Him to the world, as ‘Lord of All or Not at Al Yours very sincerely, WILSON M. HUME. . Swara), that is to say complete Home !Rule. 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One great difficulty which all ‘foreign- ers’ labor under in India today is the most insuperable barrier of Face P:jjud!ce and Race Feeling which has been stirred up by the events of Lhe past two or three years to an in- tense heat. There is a most tragic lack of faith by those of each: side In the purity of motive and honesty of those belonging to the other side, Even in Chrisian and Missionary work this difficulty has become. acute.; It can only be conquered, I am sure, by a fresh realization and appropriation of Power from 'the presence of Jesus Christ Himself in the hearts of men. Another fine, good ruler is the present Guvernor of the Panjab, a-Scotchman named Sir Edward . Maclagan, and a true 'Christian,. We are ““We are indeed fortunate in having such a man to guide this province's af- fairs in these troubled times. He has the confldence of the Indian people to a remarkable degree, and he knows how to combine gentleness and kind- hess with firmness and justice. Heisa great friend of the Young' Men's Christian association, having served on several boards of directors in the gourse of his life as a government of- ficial in the Panjab, and he is now the patron of the Lahore association, —a position found only in countries connected with England and the East, I believe. By the way I meant to have said that Lord Reading is the patron of the whole association movement in India, and is a sincere believer in what we are trying to do for\ the young men of this land. Conditions Being Faced. “And now, with the background of the foregoing hasty sketch of the situation which wa are facing in India today, T want to close my letter to you with a brief description of what our Lahore Y. M. C. A. work is like. The Lahore association was organized in 1875, and existed as a smal! band of young men for several years, for the most part with voluntary leadership. Then secretaries werd sent out from England and from Scotland till the year 1912, since when the interna- tional committee in New York has been responsible for providing the for-; eign members of the Lahore secretarial staff. At present we have thfee Am- erican secretaries, and . just /recently’| a Scotchman was sent to look after our work ‘for the British soldiers in Lahore cantonment, which is five miles from Lahore city, but operates under the same board of directors. We are, Domestic Economy is Easily Learned OU can take'a free lesson every day, simply by rea. - ing the advertising columns of this paper. No matter how well you run your home—or your busi- ness—it can be done better and more economically. The advertisements teach efficiency in buying. They show you the cheapest and best markets. They help make housework lighter by telling about the newest conveniences and labor-saving devices. The merchant or business man ecan get a good line on a thousand and one things that will help him materially. No home and no business can progress by standing still, The advertisemeflts help you keep up with the bandwagon, . 230 MILES—ONY. HOUR, Paris, Oct. 8—Airmen taking part in, the Deutsch de la Meurthe speed race in France are planning fo ‘cut the flying time between Paris and London to one hour. The present recor is one hour and 13 minutes for the 230 miles. If you want a real 1asson in economy, Delegates to the Disarmament Con- ference will do a great good if thoy don’t waste too much energy trying to do one another. ~-DANCE- MONDAY EVE. At Tabsg’ Hall —read the advertisements [ OHN BARRYMORE, day, “DR. JEKYLL and MR. HYDE”