Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-21
INDIA IS ASKING FOR THE
EDUCATION OF ITS WOMEN
As Return Britain's Empire
That Eventually cad to Autonomy.
From the World Outlookl

IA EARMALADE, jam, butter, oat-
N meal, timed beef, mutton, bis
cults, boots, khakie drilled
cord, helmets, jerseys, puttees, socks,
coats, shirts, cigarettes, tobacco, gal
Nanized iron tubs and buckets, Ian
terms, lamps, brushes! No, we are
not reading from the catalog of a
Chicago mail order house, but a list
of the new industries of India. The
armies of the Allies in India, Meso-
potamia, Egypt and Palestine were
well supplied with all these articles
and got them every one from India
Men of India labored that the SOL
diers in Palestine might have butter
on their bread, and marmalade on
their butter, unless they preferred
jam.
Munition factories sprang up out
of railway and other workshops. By
the end of 1916, the output of shells
in India had increased 1900 per
cent. Fifteen hundred miles of rail-
way track made in India were laid
down somewhere in the desert for
the winning of the war, and $50
Indian engines pulled $500 Indian
railway cars over these tracks. From
the workshops of India came the
river craft for the Tigris and
Euphrates, the machinery that went
into the river craft and the trained
men that went aboard them.
Native Industry Developed
During the last official year, the
cloth woven from India's home
grown cotton and homespun yarn
could have belted the world forty
amount gave only a scant five ynrds
a person, and this in a country where
the climate makes cotton cloth the
one usable material for most of
the people.
India already has 114,oOO looms,
more than half of which are in the
Bombay Presidency alone Hundreds
of thousands of hand looms of home
workers are as yet uncounted. The
cotton mills employ nearly three
hundred thousand, and the cotton
ginning, cleaning and pressing mills
more than a third as many addi-
tional workers.
The present stress is pushing ma
tive industry into a new develop
ment. In India democracy seems
truly on the march; not only democ-
racy for the outcast. but democracy
for all castles and classes is on the
way and it's advance agents are seen
in India. Hindus and Mahometans
have joined hands for the achieve
ment of autonomy for India as allies
in the great tasks of the new Indian
nationalism. India's sons have been
passing through the University of
Democracy where the campus was
the shell torn area, the trench the
hall and the dugout the class room,
and as Bachelors of Democracy are
returning to village and town and
city.
Want Education for Women
Barring the war, the talked of
subjects of India have been nation
aIism and the education of women.
In one year G916) three significant
conferences met in India; large
meeting of Indian women represent
ing all branches of Hinduism. ortho-
dox and reformed in Lahore and
demanded increased educational fa-
cilities for Indian women and girls;
a conference of women's societies
met in Bombay with similar results,
and in Hyderabad, the great Mahom-
etan native state in the south of
India, an educational conference re-
ported that Hindus and Mahometans
there were awakening to the need
of education for women. A new
Christian university for women and