THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1930 PAGE THREE INTERESTING JOTTINGS Gandhi Revolt Causes Upheaval in Indian Life another, Oh Sonny Women and Outcasts Break Old Dr. Fairweather intendent in that district pitched his tcut in front of the temple doors After more than mouth of this guerrilla struggle the Hindus at(By ELIJAH HUNTER)
tempted their sacred procession, car Halelujah in the heights, gramophone bawled out. Slide rying their gods in chariots pulled by gramophones and women say; mongoose, you name gone abroad.
the taithful. Five thou and of these both of them have had some fights, Then again the activities of Gandhi and his fol started out and thousands of the.
just the day ore yesterday!
boy, Sonny boy, and still another, lowers in the neighborhood of Bom tcu. hables rushed upon them and innalelujah! halelujah! halelujah! Fetters as Mohammedan and Lay, India has watched with scarcely sisted on taking a share at the rope.
luss interest the events at Nasik, There was a Se, Senores Senoretas, tam bien. Merey, there was a strite for mastery.
serious riot in which Hindu Barriers Weaken The other night sat in my cage. There was a fight, a battle, a proalut 100 miles northeast of that many on both sides were injured; and You know how. Like a monkey in longed contest. There was competi By Eugene Young in Los Angeles ruling religion and society are tencity. Here, in town sacred to the highcaste Hindus were thorougha Zoo. The atmosphere was still, tion, opposition, contradiction, antaTimes dencies to break down the barriers Hindu pilgrimage, the untouchables ly defiled by contacta.
but only now and then, the toads gonism. The women and the gramoNext day, when the higher ones NEW YORK, April 19 (Exclusive) between Hindus and Moslems and be have demanded the right to worship sent out a dreary croak. The lights phones vied with each other in conwent to the sea for their ablution were flickering from the porches of tentious combat, and the conflict Strange things are happening in tween the royalties and the people in the Kalaram Temple, the shrine of the highest castes. And they have of purification they found the beach the several camps. The little chil assumed the proportions of a conIndia. Whatever may be the outcome of the land.
fught for that right.
occupied by thousands of the outof Mahatama Gandhi campaign for Women Break Barriers dren gathered here and there in little tlagration! Verily, the last gramo freedom and nationhood. whether Fifty thousand orthodox Hindus casts, who could not be passed withA British committee which went to groups, jumping, skipping, chatting, phone was so aggressively persistent British rule shall be thrown off or India last year with the Simon Com gathered in Nasik for their annual out further contamination. There wa laughing. The women folk had in its chorus of halelujahs, that it rites of purification and worship another fight and the untouchables had their evening meals, and had sat rose pisgah like above the riotous kept in a more diluted fashion the mission to study education found in Two months before they came sd to be escorted away by the police, world outside may be perfectly cer is report that The middle and high untouchables of the distriet organized Other such incidents have occurred them down out on the dingy porches. uproar which was produced by the tain of one thing: Life in the mys elasses have long suffered from the Some, with stentorian voices, as they clappers of the women and the terious land of 300, 000, 000 people dualism of an educated manhood and a Social Equality League tod: since.
are wont, screamed out and bellowed records on the other gramophones and many races and religions will be Greater Campaign an ignorant womanhood dualismmand that barriers be broken down.
to some passers bý. Miss Thing, Thus, did an evening pass, full to the radically changed.
which levels the whole measure of What this meant is best illustrated by This demonstration, however, is you feel the heat. Then comes the brim with ardent and impetuous inA social and religious upheaval is the home and domestie life and has the fact that under the strict caste only part of a much greater camanswer. Is that you talk, me terest, the like of which is usually accompanying the Gandhi movement, its reaction on personal and national rules a person of the high caste is paign which will share interest with missus. Then, in another instant, created by women and wine, but this contaminated if he comes within that of Gandhi before the awakennot necessarily bound to it, but find character.
as if variety to introduce, there comes time, by women and gramophones. ing an outlet with its development.
As has been shown by American sixty four feet of one of these outing of India is complete. At present from quarters whence it had not emerged from out a somewhat Two of the most striking features investigators, this ignorance among casts of purification to rid himself the Gandhists frown upon it. They come before another query Miss comatic drowsiness into which had are these: women was largely due to the system the stain have many high caste Hindus in their B, you not going down to night. been enchanted by the interesting The higher castes fought this move leadership whom they cannot afford ruah on the part of women to of child marriage, whereby girla often and quick as lightning comes the drama. turned my unclothed dome join in the agitation, on one side or became wives under 10 years of age, ment bitterly. Untouchables in var to drive away. But it is not secret studied answer. No me issus, me towards the faithful time piece, and the other, and throw off the tradition millions more under 15 and few reious villages were boycotted, refused that Gandhi himself is a champion of no tengo plata, and the rejoinder. lamped the time recorded by its of inferiority and exclusion which has nained unmarried at 17 or 18. Thus employment and even food, barred the outcasts and will help them when Missus, that what. Now, there handa. Eleven of the night it was, so rigidly bound them through the there was little chance for schooling; from centers of population, their chil. it is possible to do so without disis a lull. No human sound disturbs 80 dragged my weary carcass to centuries, and after marriage those able to af. dren dismissed from schools. Proces rupting his campaign.
the peaceful air. No mortals seem wards my nocturnal grass plot, and The outcasts, however, are becomAn uprising on the part of the mil ford it went to purdah, the Indian sions to Uasik were halted by the again to pass that way, and all is muttered grimly as laid me down, lions of untouchables, the lowest system of isolation akin to the harem. police.
Ladeing well organized and their very calm and still good night nurse. caste of Indian life, who are demand. Among the lower classes the young As early as March procession desperation is making them a factor But suddenly, the scene is changed.
ing the overthrow of the caste system wife went into a life of toil from of thousands made their way into the not to be overlooked. Their numbers deathless silence was succeeded PALAIS ROYAL which has kept them in degradation which she had little chance of escape city of temples, marched to the Kal are at least 15, 000, 000 of them, since rudely by a sudden outburst, so and isolation for ages.
aram Temple and demanded admit the Madras Presidency counta 7, 000, or assertion of herself.
for help me god, if don get me dollar, Accompanying these assaults on New Gandhi has appealed directly tance to worship. They were turned 000, the United Provinces over 4, 000, tell your husband where you went SUITS the very foundation principles of the to the women to help in his walt dis Leck by armed police after a strugg 000; and they are scattered through last night. And too, wid anobedience. With an alacrity which They returned. The situation became the rest of the land.
other, will tell your husband that must have surprised their men as so tense that the police guarded the Their only fault is that they beboth of us met there. And then well as the British they have bounded temple night and day and the super. Continued on page 6)
besides, want me sweet oil back into the limelight. Hundreds of them you liad brut, gave you back long helped Gandhi to make salt and thouPOE ODO τοποι ODO time. Believe me word, you better sands have joined in flouting the laws PHYSICIAN DEVINE HAIR DRESSING hold you mouth, for if you don t, it by poking the contraband under the noses of the British authorities, even will be cock mouth killing cock. ImHAS REMOVED HIS OFFICE TO Used to prevent Dandruff and to assist in the courtrooms where other violamediately, a gramophone broke the in the growth and culture of the Hair dialogue, and ripped out. Come ye No. K STREET tors were being tried.
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With that awakening is going the process with which America and Britain and some of the other advance!
countries have become familiar. The LA TRIAL ONCE WILL women are examining the very foundations of the social, religious and polBRING YOU ALWAYS itical structures which have restricted their lives and are throwing aside many of the old ideas; especially the idea that morality is promoted by seclusion of their sex. It can be said with truth that the Indian flapper has to arrived on the scene and is rapidly emulating her American sister. 72 Carlos Mendoza Street 72 No less dramatic is the revolt of (NEAR BALBOA BREWERY)
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