Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-09-03
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
Consolidated Features.-wNU Release.

Consolidated Features-WNU Release.
NEW YORK.-In 1924, a hand
some young English society
girl, daughter of an admiral, living
in the suburbs of London, turned
Out of Aristoi, She n nMay - and and
Espounds Virtue of dances. She
Poverty, Humility fr;end u u th h
the failure of England to make a
better life after the war, the "arti-
ficiality'' of her social coterie, the
"sterility'' of machine civilization,
had made her customary life intol-
cradle and that she was withdraw
ing, TO find peace within my own
SOUL" She found Jail and exile and
Jail again the other day. but, as
she has always insisted, she also
found the peace of mind and spirit
which she sought
She is Miss Madeleine Slade,
somewhat inaccurately identified in
the news as Mohandas K. Gandhi's
secretary, arrested in Bombay with
Gandhi and others in the govern
ment's drive against the civil dis
obedience campaign. AS well as
secretary, she has been Gandhi's
cook, nurse, disciple, adviser, CO.
strategist, high priestess of his nom
violence doctrine, and faithful her
aid of the mahatma's "divine mis-
sion."
We talked to her few moments,
in large company in New York in
1884, when, if we remember correct
ly, she was visiting the late Lillian
Valid, of the Henry Street settle
ment. Her coarse robe of sackcloth
and her shawl drawn tightly over
her head, her olive skin, darkened
by the tropical sun, her large, dark,
placid eyes under highly arched
| brows gave her distinctly the look
of an Oriental ascetic. She expound-
ed the virtues of poverty and hui
mility.
When she took up her clois-
tered life in England, she read
Roman ROlland's life of Gandhi.
She went to Switzerland, saw
ROLAND and told him she be-
lieved her pathway to peace lay
in India. He put her in touch
with the mahatma, but she was
required to serve years no.
vitiate before joining him. sRis-
ing at five O'Clock, she pursued
an unvarying routine of spinning
and other handicraft, of set
periods of contemplation and of
intensive study of ancient east
Indian religion, poetry and
philosophical this with rigid
regime of diet and practice of
physical posture and proper
breathing.
At the end of the year, she went
to India, was received by Gandhi
and admitted to the Ashram, his
school for advanced novitiates of his
Was Gratified at f ia thar Her Ter
Her Disinheritance; late Admiral
She Had Urged 1t or Esmond
vehemently opposed her spiritual
adventure. She had word from Eng
land that he had said she would be
disinherited. She wrote her parents,
insisting that by no means should
she be mentioned in their wills, as
''non-possession" was one of the first
tenets of her religion. A consid-
cradle fortune was distributed in the
two wills, but in neither one of them
was she mentioned-to her great
qualification, she said later.
Her Indian name is Mira, that of
an ancient east Indian princess. The
people call her Mirabel, meaning
Lady Mira
Her working day is now from
four o'clock in the morning until
ten o'clock at night, including,
as well as her various services
for the mahatma, long walk
each day, preaching and teach
ing among the poor. In many
forms and from many texts, she
expounds her belief that Gin
serving the poor, one serves God
and that is the only essential
happiness"
Marching by the side of Gandhi
in his many civil disobedience cam
paigns, she has been arrested sew
eral times, serving an extended Jail
sentence in 1882. She accompanied
Gandhi to London in 1881, when he
participated in the governmental
conferences on Indian self rule. Only
casually and perhaps accidentally
did she meet her old friends of her
dancing and dining days. Never,
she has definitely said, would she
leave her quiet haven of peace for
which she has sacrificed so much to
| attain.
THE bureau of public relations of
L the U. S. navy doesn't specially
need peacemaker, but it has one.
Capt. Leland P. Lovette, succeeding
Adm. Arthur ]. Hepburn as director
of the bureau, is a skilled specialist
in allaying friction and getting on
with everybody. While in command
l