Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-09
GOAL OF THE H|NDOOS
Students Look to United States
 For Practical Education.
WANT TO LEARN OUR ARTS.

American Colleges and Universities the Aim of Growing Class of Ambitious Young Men-Wish to Develop Their Country's Resourees-Their Dislike
 of English Rule In India.
 | J. c. Gossain, NJ. H. Rashid, Rash Behari Day and James Marcos, all natives of British India, recently ar rived in New York city at India House, HAP Park avenue, to take up various | courses of study at American univer- sities. They form the advance guard of the Hindoo students who are con- | ing to America under the auspices of the Society For the Advancement of | India.
 Coal black though they are, every one speaks English with painstaking ac- curacy and an accent better than many Anglo-Saxons. All wear west ern clothes.
 Not that we do not like our own,' explained one, but our clothes would be strange to American eyes and we should be stared at in the streets, which would be distasteful to us. At home. on the other hand, these clothes we are now wearing would be con- 1 spicuous and even, on account of the antiforeign agitation prevailing at present, somewhat dangerous. So when we return to India we discard jackets and trousers and again wear our robes and turbans."
 A striking peculiarity of the group and one perhaps best illustrative of the advancement of knowledge in India is that the four students belong to three different religions and live and work together happily, says the New York l Post. Two are Hindoos in faith, one a Mohammedan and one, Marcos, a baptized Christian, who, while he doesn't call himself so, is really Uni tartan. Religious antagonism is a thing of the past in India, according to i these young men.
 Another interesting point in their characters is their dislike of the Eng 1 fish and the English rule in India.
 'They treat us like dogs" said Cos sain. An Indian is never considered We have been kept down and our in tellects stunted. Instead of giving our people trade schools. where they might learn industrial arts and so in time be- come able to build up their own man. ufactures, they have taught us to be- come clerks and accountants. If India | could take care of her own raw prod ucts, you see, that would mean so many pounds out of Englands profits and so many more in our pockets. The English know that.
 "Yes," chimed In Marcos, that is why we are here. That is what we have come to America for-to learn your arts so that we may be able to teach our people. There is plenty of capital in India in native hands, enough to do almost anything. But heretofore it has been idle because it has had no one to provide means for its use. It is q sad fact that in every thousand miles of railroad in India but a mile is owned by natives. Had our people a knowledge of engineering and kindred sciences they could utilize the idle capital, and then we should have real Indian railroads and street car lines.
 We must inaugurate the policy the Japanese employed at first before they were clever enough to do things by themselves. They secured the best for eign talent to direct their enterprises, but always the head man was a native He might not have known enough to manage the undertaking alone, but 1t was he who signed the papers and gave the orders. and the effect of the system was to build up the latent ex- ecutive capacity of the Japanese until they were able to do things for them selves. Executive capacity is a thing we Indians lack as yet. We must build 1t up."
 Marcos, by the way. is proud that he is not what he calls a rice Christian" "Rice Christians" 1t seems. are those who are baptized in times of famine in order that they may receive addi- tional assistance from the missionaries. Marcos does not think much of the at- tempts of the English missionaries to convert his countrymen.
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