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4 THE IXDIAXArOLIS SUXDAY STAR, MAY, 13, 1928. two great fanatical religions who ENGAGED. KAPPA DELTA HAS ANNUAL LUNCHEON AT COLUMBIA CLUB FRUGALITY OF LIFE IN INDIA ENABLES COUNTRY TO EXPORT Announcing (Bachraeh.) would be at each others tnroais in a minute if the wise, patient, although sometimes blundering hand of good mortherly old England were removed from control. It is easy to understand why the minority religious groups favor the continuation of the present government, with increased rather than diminished Dowers. It is easy to un (Dr.

W. A. president of Han The New Location over college, who i on a trip arnui.d the world, is writing his observa mer "spading" up ground with this wooden pole. A few quite modernized farmers have a tool which looks like a narrow shovel attached like a hoe to a short handle. He ruts tions for The Star.) Tha members of the Indianapolis Alumnae Association, of the Kappa Delta Sorority were hostesses for the annual state luncheon which was held yesterday at the Columbia Club.

Active members from Indiana and DePauw universities and alumnae members throughout the state at Canada, but did not provide for formal recognition of dominion status. It gave great extension of authority to the Indian legislative bodies full control subject only to executive veto over education, taxation, health, morals, industry, etc. It provided that at this time' a commission should come out to India to investigate the w-orking of the system after ten years' trial with the view to recommending alterations and improvements. The commission was directed to take testimony of all individuals, organizations and agencies which desired to be heard and to invite prominent Indians to sit with the commission. Purely as a matter of protest against the failure of Parliament to grant dominion status the Swarajists have declared a boycott, which means that they have gone into a boyish sulk and refuse to appear before the commission with a statement of their attitude, or to sit with BY DR.

W. A. MILI.IS. Special Correspondent of The Star. MADRAS, India, March 26.

A fev days ago I read in a Ceylon newspaper the statement that the farm his wheat with a sickle, working on his knees, and women and children glean after him. He threshes his grain on a "tramping floor" as did his father five to ten thousand years before Christ, and herds his sheep and goat3 in the same colorful fashion. Not onlv are his tools and meth derstand why the nobility as a whole favors England, for they have not lost any of their prerogatives in giving up gome of their former responsibilities. It is also easy to understand that the professional politician wants a change, for any sort of change means increased chance for a lucrative position. What the Western mind, accustomed to the total separation of religion and politics, may not so readily understand is that the priestly heirarchy in the Hindoo church are a party to the I ers' bloc in the United States Congress had demanded a new tariff schedule which would protect the wheat growers of Red rivfr valley from the wheat of India.

During the iast two weeks we have ridden through thousands of mils of India's ods exceedingly primitive, but he is decidedly adverse to improvement. Religious loyalty demands the status quo, and the new patriotism of Mr. Gandhi and his followers makes a primary issue of the "back to our and MEYER FURS Removed ft'om secpnd floor to the Fifth Floor tended the luncheon. The long tables were arranged with bowls of white roses, the sorority flower, and tall white tapers tied with olive green tulle bows were used. The places were marked by small corsage bouquets of sweet peas nd white roses to which the name cards were tied.

During the luneh.on the Dannpr trio played. Two clever skits were given by members of the Indiana university chapter under the direction of Miss Maxine Williams. Members of the DePauw chapter pave a stunt under the direction of same fundamentalist movement which has swept the rest of the world, and are intent upon grasping full political control within India in 1928 wheat harvest. We are whrlly at, a loss a3 to the cause of the American farmers' alarm. India is the huge triangular penin- fathers" movement.

Three Farm Problems. There are three agricultural prob pit the commission in its inquiries. They hope by such tactics to tire England into conceding the Hindoo extremists absolute local control. Their ilrst objective is to get free from the English veto of their partisan measures. sula extending south from the main- i land of Asia.

It consists, roughly, i of three divisions, the Himalayan or "Alpine region" in the north, the order to foster the Hindoo faith and its social system against the invasions of other religions, and against Western democracy as well. The leaders in the so-called independence movement also demand along with lems here: Irrigation, soil restoration and proper cultivation, including necessary tools and the intelligent use of them. The farmer himself can not take the initiative. Adequate irrigation will require an enormous expenditure one that will repay richly, but an expenditure which the exclusion of English participa tion in local government, the exclu HANDBAG COLORS VERY IMPORTANT Be she ever so smartly attired and Irreproachable in the matter of costume harmony, the effectively dressed woman is liable to have for I I sion of mpdern medicine, modern sanitation, modern machinery and "Northern Rivers plain." watered by the Indus, Ganges nnd Brahmaputra, containing four-fifths of the wealth of all India and half the population, which in this district was about rine hundred to the sqirare mile, and the Deccan. which makes up the larger part of the peninsula.

India was pushed up out of the sea by a mighty upheaval ages ago, carrying up a only governments can make. And beside his lack of vision the Indian industrial organization, modern social reforms and all modern education MISS MARGARET SEAL. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Seal, Allen avenue, announce the engagement of their daughter Margaret to Guaranty Building "Just a step front the Elevator" FUR STORAGE Fur Remodeling Fur Repairing A Collection of Choice Fur Neck Pieces So Fashionable Now Miss Cornelia Cooney.

The alumnae lso gave a stunt, "Our Fortune." Mrs. Russell Henry presided and Introduced Miss Mabel Batchellor, I president of the DePauw chapter, who gave a toast on "The Elimina- tion Trial" and Miss Irene Smith, president of the Indiana chapter, 4 who talked on "The Pits." Miss Florence Hill, president of the Indianapolis alumnae chapter, gave a toast to "The Finish" and Mrs. John D. Davy responded with "The F.ace Fans." Mrs. Henry was the general chair which fosters these objectionable factors which the rest of the world deems necessary.

vast area of ocean sands along with volcanic rock. The three great rivers on the north have their source in is ignorant. Only 3 per cent of the men are literate and none of their wives. There is also the opinion, very generally held by persons of long experience with the workers, and who have not been blinded by the Hindoo poets, that the Indian has evolved about the only civilization possible for him. They are of the opinion that the sterility of the ra Charles L.

Fisher. The wedding will take place in June. gotten one important detail the color of the contents of her handbag. An indiscriminate choice of lipstick container, vanity and such accessories in the color range may spoil an otherwise perfect effect. A woman dressed bewitchingly in green should not take out a compact in a case of bright blue, nor follow it with a lipstick in a red case.

They should the Himalaya mountains, and derive most of their water from mountain snows. AH of India with the ex hammedans and Buddhists favor British control. The Hindoos are di England Is Salvation. England is the salvation of India, provided she does not compromise her power for the sake of peace. Her withdrawal would be a calamity which not even Indian statesmen desire.

In fact, the agitation, aside from its religious bearings, is puerile. The present proposed boycot of the Simon commission is an example in point. The act of Parliament of 1919 granted India practically the same autonomy as that enjoyed by be green or a neutral color like gray or beige, according to her other accessories. cial factor is as adverse as the aridity of the land. But if some brilliant engineer evolves plans for a great system of irrigation: if England runs a road-roller over the tricky, ignorant politicians back of the fake campaign for independence and finances the "Better Furs at Prices Most Appealing" Phone Lincoln 5073 vided into three factions the provinces and nobles, who are generally pro-English the common people, who are disposed to quarrel with the tyrannies of the Brahman caste rather than with England, and who have more to lear from their spiritual overlords, the Brahmans, than from the easy-going British, and RAILWAYS CAKKY 100.000.000.

SwiM railway rarried more than ception of the immediate valley land of these river basins, exhibits the same terrain, climatic, soil and other economic conditions as New Mexico and Arizona. The temperature of northern India is about the same as that of Mexico, and Madras in the south compares with Panama. India is arid. If rains come during June and July the northern 300,000,000 of country dwellers will have crops. If the rain fails in June and July they have no crops.

The rains have some POn.oort paasengera In the past twelve months. project; if some new Gandhi will man for the luncheon and was as-Kited by Mesdames Gaylord Wood, Glen G. Heavenridge, Misses Patricia Lynch and Gertrude Barcus. From Indiana hapter. Members who attended from Indiana university v.

ere Misses Irene Smith, Juanita Moser. Elizabeth Voight, Hazel Jackson. Clarice Barker, Dorothy D. Finley, Maxine Williams, Mary Westfall, Helen Spaugh, Margaret Maisoll. Margaret Wil-jiams, Mary Jane White, Mary Ton-nell.

Hazel Arkenberg, Evelyn Ar-kenberg, Florence Phillips, Helen "Barker, Eva Compton, Beatrix Bum-'pas, Orah Cole and Mary Grant. From DePauw were Misses Jos third, the Brahmans and the professional politicians, who are sharply divided as to the continuation of the teach the 300,000.000 Indian farmers how to farm, and if these farmers are capable of a new vision and new methods and willing to work: if these four things should happen, well may the American wheat present English government. times failed two years in succession. This it is but one group within one of these three factions of the Hindoo Live on One Meal a Day. but i rancher take alarm.

A crop failure means famine party that is agitating a change. There are a number of radicals more or less loosely organized, who this term doesn't mean the same in India as elsewhere, for in good times their farm population lives on one hover about the independence party, meal a dav. At best the people are the Swarajists. But the regular Swarajist does not want England to withdraw from India; he doesn't want independence as we understand Aflame With T'nrest. It is said that all India is aflame with political unrest; that in the hearts of the people there is burning a passion for freedom.

Western minds have read into these reports the American conceptions of liberty and democracy and their sympathies have gone out to the "valiant brethren over the far seas." An examination of the debates on it. By independence he means what ephine Trimble, Mabel Bachellor, Marie Steinbach. Mary Foster, Harriet Kelley, Cornelia Cooney, Eula Clifton, Sarah Frances Burris. Dorothea Aikman, Katherine Brooks, Re-gine Alspaugh, Anne Williams, Mary Katherine Mitchell, Mabel Matthews, Carol Sayre, Mary Kiser, Olive Gus-tin; Mesdames John Spaugh, Zions-ville S. C.

Wynn, Robert Miller in a state of starvation and it is impossible to understand how India can manage to have any significant quantity of grain for export. The value of the agricultural product of India averages less than $5 a person a year. More than three hundred million of the total population of are farmers the leaders now call "dominion status," the status of Canada in the British empire. The small group of radicals go further, snd demam'. the total severance of relations with the empire.

They are not so numerous as vocal, and have lost much of the The Westerner is amazed that India can live on such narrow resources. Even a hurried survey reveals the explanation. More than the floors of the various Legislatures now in session and in the newspapers, reveals that the political situation is not so simple, nor so heroic as American idealists have been misled into believing. The first misconception is that there are only two political parties in India, and that these cut through the entire population. Many suppose that C.

A. Payne, F. H. Hickman, Greencastle; Misses Ma-rian Ahern and Esther Hoskins, South Bend. Among the local alumnae who attended were Mesdames R.

K. Mc-Cloy. M. K. Alexander.

T. W. Mitchell, J. F. Knapo.

Frank Cooney, Edward P. Gemmer, Henry Boxman, Gaylord Wood, Edson T. Wood, H. popularity they once possessed. Mr.

Gandhi is apparently no longer a political factor. Issue Is Religion. The issue is religious rather than truly political and the game began a any other people in the world tne Indian has learned to reduce the cost of living to the minimum, and he accomplishes it by reducing life to the irreducible minimum. He lives in a stone or mud hut covered with palm leaves and without floor, doors and windows. He sleeps on the ground, or on a rude mattress of palm leaves.

He cooks his frugal v. Wilson, George Brenton, T. thousand years before England came into the struggle. The real issue is Finley. John E.

Brandon. Russell Henry, Misses Thelma Davy, Constance Davy, Blanche Hutchinson, Patricia Lvnch, Gertrude Barcus, Ruby Hamilton, Florence Hill. Mar-jorie Alexander, Dorothy Crosby and Brandon. meal outdoors, in an earthen pot of his own manufacture, and eats from his one luxury, his brass bowl. His all Indians belong to the party of independence, and all Englishmen to the pro-English party.

There are in British India, the portion controlled bv England, and hence involved in the political controversy, 247,000.000 people, of whom 200.000 are Europeans of all nationalities. These are fairly unanimous in their support of continued British control. The remainder is divided between the larger religious groups, into the Hindoo party, the Mohammedan party and the Buddhist party. The minor religious groups may be passed over with the observation tha they favor the present government. Tho overwhelming majority of the Mo between the Moslems and the Kin doos for control of India and to wip out old scores.

The Moslems frankly that the agitation is fostered by fanatical Hindoos who dream of a completely Hindooized India, and that the withdrawal of England would be the signal for the beginning of a bloody religious war which w-ould set the entire Orient on fire. Buddhists share the same view as do intelligent Christian misssionaries who have been on the field for sufficient time to understand the forces at work. At present England seems to be a sort of referee between the adherents of clothing consists of a strip of cotton cloth wound around his loins, and his wife is indulged to a similar strip one yard wide and five yards long. The milliner, the shoe man and summer furs are unheard of. Nature is decidedly against the CEDAR CHEST Time "is HERE! Protect Your FURS and WOOLENS in a Nationally Celebrated Chest, the CAS WELL UNYAN CEDAR CHESTS are a necessity, and not to use them is LACK of ECONOMY.

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