The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-21

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 Editor Tall Tower Topics No doubt you hsvs s read somewhere place about thlS Socaleo Iallo W exotic mystery and strange aacsa snS of the Marina raiahs and of their wealth and Spenoor when "So S in grammar school often wondered what it woulo os like over here If would see all the Splenoor anu grandeur and the Marharaahs riding their glant ele phants that are decked out in grand and oeautu coo and If they would parade down the street m pottP anu pagentry of a circus. , ,.o. 4o Well, I am over here now where have chance to see all that that which was portrayed m my mn1 Wte was in school But do see all that? No For a S ses o desttutor disease poverty and starvation sea peope who make me retch and wonder if Lincoln was TghV Wei he said "All men or people were created equal n
 have been in city where the famine LOOK US nor r,he toll of lives but st don't feel any pity for these so-caled human beings have no pty TOT Peopse WIZ would starve to death their religion that IS so lana cal that 1t makes them turn their head when they see meat I have actually men who can no longer De called men, only dried up mass ot bones staVlhS ~ death while in front of their eyes IS 1oo9 W'cn etIS will not touch because of their religious belets 4ha IS why my heart holds pity for them TOT they 4eS religion not religion in our sense, but fanatlcai region stand in their way Of life or oeatn nave @ see with my own eyes a struggle over morsel or tooo between boy and iackal, and the lacKal winning because he had strength than that thing when no longer can be called human, also have seen women who would sell their children for few cents they could get food few grains of rice for themselves nave seen scenes that would turn your stomach Ike cMo Oens born in street where these deStuteS are lyng ha41 dead And I've seen this woman wrap her newborn child in her dirty filthy rags which IS her ony cote and get up and Stagger away only to tal m Heap o @ have seen people passing by who wouldn't even glVe that creature second glance The caste system preVaS and flourisheS throughout India - :.
 have seen disease which would curl the bones or your body You look at one person and you look away In disgust only to have your eyes light on anotner oes ute of corrupted land.
 Yes this is the India see not the India that was so pomptly portrayed in our school books l wanted to find out about this and to my disay see these thngS It will be on my mind for long time
 Mingled in with all this is the ever present heat ana periodical monsoon. Who would think mlghty man would cringe in fear to mosquito? We'll we do to theSe denizenS of the insect world that carry the dread (censored germ within its body Yes, we have to pc afraid for we know how potent this insects power can be not have fear and out of that fear comes pro lection have seen the damage it has wrought But do not care to tell it.
 But then our life in India isn't all like that, for when our work is done sit outside our basnas ana talK and there is need for me to tell you what the soderS talk about AS the hot sun sinks below the clouds like huge ball of fire it sets the whole sky are with its brilliant and hay coors but that scene doesn't last forever for the sinks lower and lower unC it be seen more breeze springs up from nownere and slowly steals the heatparched terrain but swift it comes it is gone And then the socalled lush tropical moon pops up from nowhere and bathes the evening with silver With the millions of fireflies Hitting about it looks like the stars down to Earth to KISS Mother Earth goodnight while old Father Moon beams down his approval from up above. That is the only time which India is like thing of beauty, but that doesn't last The night steals away as fast as it has come and that of destuton is portrayed again Some one said time India with it's poverty disease and starvation isn't all of India for she is wonderful country after all" We'll that may be to him-but say India for the Indians and give life liberty and hap piness which only be in one country-the United States of America.
 shall close now remaining Soldier in forgotten world Regards to my father and mother on 30 Bron- Street and my brother Morton in the South Pacific and Sam in the Merchant Marines.
 Private Zanvil Kaplan
 Somewhere in Inda)