Show Gandhi Saint to Millions Worlds World's W or ld s Most Colorful Figure Mahatma Sways Vast Host of Followers Through I Ideas Alone I Starts Hartal With Word Ends It With Nod Editors Editor's Note Noto This Is b the first of or ofa a series of or six exclusive e th tho Ufe life of Mahatma 1 Gandhi the frail Crall leader of ot millions of people In India S By Dy MILTON BRONNER BRONNE C Copyright p 1931 NE NEA Service Inc Mohandas Mohandas' Gandhi Gandhi- Mahatma Gandhi Gandhi Gandhi-a a little tie wisp msp of or brown humanity almost in n his frail trail body clad only In a a. white loin cloth barefooted bespectacled with STa graying ing hair and mustache and almost toothless mouth mouth mouth-is is one of ot the most unique figures in the history of or today oday and also in the history of all time There have c been great writers our and thinkers like liko Voltaire and G Goethe the Who vho in their day by the written word affected the lives es and thoughts of millions There have been warlike and tyrannical kings and emperors who ruled over oyer nations But Gandhi be beats bethem them all l Still alive e. tIll still going strong armed with neither pen pea CD a a. sold golden en pt r or or w weapon he hes Is s enshrined in the hearts of or the ma- ma of the brown people who seethe in the towns and villages and farms farina of or th the vast ast subcontinent of ot India He has done it with the force oret of or Ideas deas He has Inflamed the Imagination Imagination nation of or his Ills fellow countrymen He Heits s hns its Imbued them with a a. passionate longing t to be masters in their own 11 house louse At a a. word from him countless countIess thousands will declare a a. handa hand hartal a national day of mourning mourning and and anday lay ay do down their tools At a nod th they I will declare declerc a a. day ilay of fasting The Theman Theman man I man is strange according to Vo western tern conceptions Capable of or having haYing earned large sums he has given ghen up all money making lives tires in the barest of ot rooms rooms when when not In Jail Jail Jail- jail dines dines on fruit and vegetables and nd nuts and goats goats' mIll and water water leads leads the life of or the tho poorest of or the thc poor the humble humblest hum burn ble blest t of or the humble which he em- em with his spinning wheel with which one makes the thc cloth that clothes his body I STUDE STUDENT T OF JESUS JESUSA A Hindu by birth and religion and caste he disregards cast in his humane humane humane hu hu- hu- hu mane attitude toward the untouchables untouchables ables combines the teachings of ot his holy books with those of ot Jesus and goes his way turning the left cheek when the right is smitten Never a profound student he Is nevertheless a a. keen admirer of ot the Quietist books of Tolstoi and brings Tolstoi's ls l's pacifist attitude Into moo all his manners of life lUe and thought I Claiming nothing for himself he heIs heis I. I Is nevertheless nc universally un called Mahatma Ma Ma- Great Great Soul Soul SouI by the bulk of his people is looked upon as a a. saint and humble peasants will walk olk scores of or miles mUes merely to see ue him or touch the hem of ot his garments B By his Ills words by his Ills leadership he tic has given such an Impulsion to the brown millions that En England's lands land's recent action in granting to India the thc status talus of ot a self governing do- do Continued on OD Pan Fate Fhe w S S d i rJ rl lIr r J I 4 t i I i id d i pc 1 LY W Vt I. I In ii p pt t teed read the theand and thc hm A impressed S t. t rne tim 9 his G GANDHI IS iS SAINT TO MilliONS Continued from rate Pase One minion Is clearly the fruit tilt cf Gandhi's labors Jabors more his than all the others who have gone before or who have M been his contemporaries and coworkers And strange has been en the romantic roman roman- tic tlc story of this mans man's life jfe He Ho was born In the little town of in the Indian pendent state of on the western side of India on October 2 1869 His father and grandfather had been prime ministers and both had suffered exile because of or their stout to hone honesty ty and Independence The were members of or the Bania caste ceste therefore a grade lower than that of the Brahmins or priestly prIe caste They were at t one time tim retail traders They were ere neither rich nor poor The bo boy went to the local schools I He led the life of oC the ordinary young oung Hindu At the age of ot 7 he was be be by his parents Two of or his destined child brides died To the third he was liS married when he was 13 Gandhi has recorded that to him I at the time this meant nothing more than tho the wearing of or g good Od clothes I drum beating marriage processions I I rich dinners and a strange girl to play with In school he was an Indifferent pupil He had trouble In learning Sanskrit the language In which the sacred books of or his religion were ere written ritten He did not care for athletic games He was Voas a little coward afraid of oC thieves ghosts and serpents His greatest st boyhood sin was when led nItra astray by bj one of or his more sophisticated sophist sophist- school companions he sneaked ked away to a lonely place and ate meat something forbidden b by his ion He went to college and was not a a. success His people concluded that the ea easiest Iest way for tor him to make a success in the world orld was to stud study law And the easiest place to get his ne necessary cess papers was as England His elder brother was a willing to put up the mon money y but lila his r religious mother feared for the lads lad's soul Someone had told lold her that young men got morally lost In England But Buthe Buthe Buthe he satisfied her by taking a a. solemn ow vow to lead a a. lire life of celibacy in England England Eng Eng- land and never to drink wine Inc nor en eat cat t mea meat t. t To be co continued Tuesday |