Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-10-18 | Page 2 | Public Opinion Aid Asked by Indian Speaker

I PUBLIC OPINION N AID ASKED BY INDIAN SPEAKER Before a crowd that taxed the ca capacity capacity ca- ca of the assembly hall hail Dhan Gopal l Indian poet and philosopher closed his address Friday Friday Fri Fri- day evening with a stirring plea for forthe forthe forthe the support of public opinion for his native land India asks not your our gold nor not yet et your material help he s said fd but your souls souls souls- I your o r real selves selves and and the understanding understanding understanding under under- standing of our people in the spirit of Him Him who sad said that man lives not by bread alone Bring u us your Christ without dogma and we will bring to you our God of compassIon compas compas- sion Mr who op opened med the seasons season's seasons seasons sea sea- sons son's course for the extension di division division division di- di vision of ot the University of ot Utah spoke on The Present Crisis in inthe inthe inthe the East The speaker brought out the Idea that the crisis was an inevitable between modem modern modern mod mod- em ern ern progress and ancient wisdom He pointed out some of the follies of modern progress specifically noting that most of the modernIsts modernists modernists modern modern- were too busy doing good as s they see it n to develop their own inner vision being worn out outI by 5 o'clock in the afternoon as ashe ashe ashe I he expressed it The sp speaker aker also paid a notable nota ble tribute to Mohandas 1 Karam- Karam chand Ghandi otherwise known as Mahatma Ghandi the leader of the Indian nonresistance movement mo He declared that the nonresistance movement was but one of the evidences evidences evidences evi evi- dences that his land had produced a man man whose power ov over r millions of ot his fellow men was supreme and pointed to the fact that even imprisonment had not for a moment moment mo mo- ment lessened the Influence of the mah mahatma At a time when India I was ripe for an armed uprising l I continued when a word from Ghandi would have been sufficient sufficient sufficient suf suf- this remarkable man who Jor or fifteen years has led a life of lonel lonely service despite his riches counseled his followers that they must refrain retrain from violence even though it take five hundred years for the I movement to accomplish Its object