The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-29
KINGS BALD HEAD IS CAUSING MUCH ANNOYANCE
 IN INDIA. Appears on New Rupee Put in Cir culation There-Indians Thinks That Edward Ought Not to
 Show His Naked Head

King Edwards bald head is seriously in India, says The New York Press. It seems that on the new rupee. just is bust of the King appears bald and un- crowned. Therefore native feeling is stirred to it's profoundest depths, and the eft1gy of royalty has been brought into rtdicule and contempt. Also it is taken as direct insult to them that the kaiser-i-hind should be put on In- dian coins in condition which appears to them improper and even immodest.
 In India every respectable person would no more think of uncovering his head in public than he would of-well. there is nothing that he might do which would be more immodest. A poor Indian may have a wardrobe made up only of a breechhclout and a turban and still be good form, but let him remove his head covering. in public and he commits a serious breach of decency. Only in the seclusion of his own home. when no stran- gers are by, does custom permit him to be uncovered.
 On the rupee of the reign of Victoria the Queen appeared crowned. and all was well; but the Indian mint. with singular disregard of native feeling on the sub 1ect, has placed on the new rupees the head or her son; not only uncrowned. but bald. It is as if some Indian rajah had built statute of the King in Hyde Park and represented the monarch in suit of pajamas.
 SlSAdHu SoNcTnS many millions or peO- pie in India. and has about 200.000 white people there to do 1t. That she is able to accomplish this remarkable feat in the governmental way Is owing to the fact that she has ben studiously careful since the Indian mutiny. to study the racial prejudices and customs of the in- habitants. It is a close attention to little things that she perpetuates her rule.
 It was little thing that precipitated the great Sepoy rebellion. The Sepoys were Mahometans, and. therefore, forbid den to taste of the flesh of the swine, but the cartridges served out to these soldiers were greased with the grease of the un- clean animal In those days the soldier had to tear the cartridges with his teeth before he rammed 1t into his gun, ana him who sleeps in Medina" by polluting his lips with the fat of the hog.
 The rebellion which followed the insist ence upon the use of the greased cart ridges was a terrible lesson to England and taught her so we'll the danger or run ming counter to native prejudice that un- til the new rupee came out the other gay 1t was thought the lesson was not TOT gotten. That he imperial crown IS on tne rupee does not alter the case Tn the mlnaS of India millions. It is stamped on the reverse of the coin. and that does not count. The crown should be on King Ed wards head to save him from lndecency.
 Again, millions of Hindus shave their heads and the badness Of the King VIII be taken in the baZsars-in fact is taken as an evidence that the King is shaved head who goes about without his turban. This compiicates matters and makes him appear more indecent. It Is not. of course, probable that the new com VII cause a of India no one knows what such little thing may lead to.
 In A land where fakire throw a rope into the circumambient air and then