The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-20
By l1IuroN RRoNNER

Enro1ean 1GanaeeE, NEA Service (Copyr1ght, 1881, NEA Service, Incl
 Mahafma Gandhi came out of jail ia 1934 fo md himself a much big ger man than when he went in.
 Tho masses of the people believed iu him. He had suffered for cause. Ho had shown that in his frail body there burned an unquenchable spirit.
 But during his Imprisonment many things had happened to dis
 when the elections for the first h. dian assembly had taken place in 1920, Gandhi and his friends boycott ted the election. But while he was in prison the elections for the second assembly took place in 1923 and a considerable number of his former followers decided to run as candi- dates. Their determination was to work from within by obstructing all legislation. They were partially suc- cessful. Many laws were rejected and were only enacted by the sue preme powers vested in the British government.
 But there was one thing above all others that distressed the weak little man who had gone to Juhu to recuperate from his illness. It was
 
 MOs1ems and Hindus.
 At one time, Gandhi had brought about such unity in the fight for in- dependence. And after he went to jail, he wrote a letter to Halxim Ak maj Khan. president of all the Na- tional Indian Congress, adjuring him to do all he could to preserve this unity, 50 the Indians could fight side by side for q great cause.
 Religious Rl0ting
 SlcIkens Gandhi's Soul
 But such was not to be. The ig- norant masses got out of hand and the continuation came in 1924, the very year he was released from prison. Moslems and Hindu were at each others throats. especially in the north of India. Serious con- hicts, accompanied by bloodshed, oc- cured.
 Gandhi started for the trouble scenes. despite the entreaties of his friends and doctors. He had reached Delhi when the worst outrages oc- cured.
 Gandhi stopped there and spent nights and days in prayer. At last he thought he had received from the Supreme Being guidance as to what he should do. He determined to undertake q 21 days fast as an act of penance on behalf of the sins and infirmities of his people.
 He published letter in which he stated the fast was matter between himself and God for his own puri- ficatfon. The news of this deter imitation quickly cooled off the hot heads in the rival religious camps. Have Faith in God"
 Is Reply of Faster
 Once more his family and friends beseeched him not to undertake Q fast which might easily prove fatal, but Gandhi remained obdurate. On the 18th day it was considered a crisis had come. His doctors thought his life was in immediate danger and urged him to take food. But this 12t.a day happened to be one of the dayB on which he took vow of si- lence. To the urging of his doctors, he wrote on a slate:
 Have faith in God"
 When his friends besought him to listen to reason, he wrote:
 You have forgotten the power of prayer"
 He came through triumphantly. He had done his penance. Gandhi returned to his little colony near Ah-
 
 into thet spinning wheel campaign. For the time being he was more or less quiescent politically.
 In November, 1927, the British government named the simon com mission to examine into the whole Indian question and make report. In December. 1928, the National Congress met at Calcutta and adopt ed an ultimatum that unless the British parliament accepted a con- stitution proposed by Gandhfs asso- clates, the Nehru brothers, the non- violent, non-co-operation campaign would be recommended. This marked Gandhfs formal re-entry into politics.
 The situation gradually became more tense and in December, 1929, the national congress met at La- hore, dropped the Nehru report, claimed complete independence. de-