The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1933-03-24

Stanley Reed, Mrs. Thoressa Moore
and Mrs. W. f. Shaffer.
East High Street Club
The East High Street club met il
regular session Tuesday, March 2ls
tat the Coover club house. Before
continuing their study of India, the
subject of school lunches was taken II,
and the president, Mrs. C. A. Holtor
reported that the East High Street
club would serve and pay for the mea
on Wednesday, the 22nd Of March
Mrs. NJ. M. .Cfeath would act, as chair.
man for the day. sre
The club voted $40 toward the Boy
Scout movement.
The first paper on the program was
we'll prepared one on "India's Hand
leaps to Progress" by Mrs. Lizzie
Jones. She sent it from Florida and
it was read by Mrs. Mary Beatty.
India's mode of living is it's chief
handicap to progress. The natives are
slaves of superstition. They arc
half-starved, they will kill no living
animal or insect and they have prac-
tically no sanitation. The greatest
handicap Of all is the caste system
there being four principal ones, the
these have many subdivisions.
Mrs. Virginia Hume was next with
a very interesting talk on Diplomatic
Relations with India" She began with
Kipling's EAST is East, West is West
and never the twain shall meet" Eng
land has helped the India of today in
many ways-it has been conquest of
Christian civilization, but the curse Of
bureaucracy exists and flourishes.
Tagore says some canned foods are
advertised as being canned without
coming in contact with persons
hands and SO the people Of his coun-
try are ruled by Great Britain. They
are efficient but unsympathetic. There
are four great reasons for the back
wardness of India: climate, caste, ra-
cial antagonisms, and conspiracy of
the clerks.
The fact that English bureaucrats
do not have to spend all of their time
in India is the reason for successful
British rule. They are constantly be-
ing sent back to England. The indica-
tions are that India will never be in
dependent and the only diplomatic re-
lations she ever had with any coun-
try other than England, was in 1922,
when Great Britain allowed her to
send three representatives to labor
conference in Washington, ID. C.
Miss Virginia Webb, who is in Cal
ifornia, sent her paper, which was
read by Miss Helen Shields. The SUBJ
ject was India in Current News" and
many items of interest were discussed,
them Gandhi and military ex-
penditures.
The city of Fatepur-Sikri was dis
cussed by Mrs. jeanette Loofbourrow
Akbar, the Great, one of the most sue
cessful men that ever occupied a
throne, built this, lovely City on a sand
stone ridge. i; He built the road lined
with trees, which leads up to the city,
the walls of which, still stand after
300 years. They are made of red
sandstone. 250,000 inhabitants lived
here sixteen years. Then suddenly
everybody left. The city was deserted
and only the beautiful palaces and
Iombs remain Akbar had four wives,
a Mohammedan, Hindu, Turkish and
Christian Each of these had her own
gorgeous palace Of richly tinted sand
stone and white marble. Nobody
knows why the order was given to va
rate the city, but many have guessed
that Alkbar grieved over the death of
his beloved saint, Sheikh Selim Christi
his tomb remains along with the
beautiful gates and mosques. Tourists
wonder at the cleanliness of the place
with not person in view. Mrs. Loot