Show SIDELIGHTS ON INDIAN I BY fORMER HER mm BRITISH OffiCIAL I Var former chief clerk of the British ju ju- India has been in for several days on a world taken for the IB health which has been heen t Jb close application to bust bust- is a guest at the 18 II Ie had planned to remain a. a day but was attracted by e of Co f the city and the excel excel- th early summer climate retired from the judi- judi liberal illiberal pension Mr J managing mana operator of a amill mill at Bomba Bombay It was that he lost his health by his physicians to lie He is now ou on his I ond n. n after havin having visited P nj Hawaii Va i and the PhilipI Philip Philip- I Ir Eife r fifty huge e cotton mills felone valone sai said Mr Ir RA I CI and and these mills than people is for both men and dJ ho wages ran range o from 4 I computed in American mone money ij Thc export trade is al al- I ely y of yarns to China lester En England land is a a. heavy f nd is a aggressive in busi busies busl- busl es liSt The government tax on the Indian mills is a of the Manchester t ally fry India offers a wonder wOnder- study an and investigation this timo n a slight a itaL ita- ita L system of home rule simi I il Lt of Ireland In Calcutta of the central government s ron anti European senti- senti J is man manifested ested rowing of bombs Anarchy n foothold in certain r cry is India for the In- In if f religious ious differences and Ir ices ices difference in Ian Ian- of the tho many castes m ji of of the people unity scorns of accomplishment n is as re- re essentials that go Iro to f form rm 0 Tho sentiments IiI of the many sects 11 bi hate each other with a at at t t t cannot be conceived by P erica lEI us and are cads 3 S. S Tho Hindus hate the the favor e tt Should the British mili mili- bK withdrawn India would l me the scene of what naps haps bo be the most dreadful story of the world Blood every town and province r de would give ive up the fight fights I as s completely annihilated 1 the British forces should a hese people would fly at I th all an the tho fiendish ener energy v 19 and bitter ha- ha uster ster Anarchy and chaos ur supreme The country's ild be set back a thousand housand I r Forces forces forles in in the country not ot to exceed men meI menou ou can see b bv consulting Ish is is the smallest that has on Indian soil Their Their principal function ty on a largo scale The I British government is studiously endeavoring en en- orin dea to help the country and ana promote pro I mote is development and advancement A t A royal roal commission has bas been appointed appointed ap- ap pointed within a short time to conduct i a careful stud study of irrigation and its I possible application on a huge scale to i conserve the water supply and e equalize alize its distribution It is the belief of I many of the leading a agriculturists of the country that in irrigation lies the I secret of the prevention of the fam famines nes which have devastated the population To this time howe however er the government govern go I ment has favored ored the railroads Of course the building of railroads gives k keeping in in doser closer touch with all of the I areas area traversed bv by the lines and enables en ables them to mobilize troops quickly quick if need for such course should be pre But the thinking people of India believe that the development pf f the natural resources of the country would do oven even more to harmonize existing exist ing differences and equalize the planes of thought What India n needs eds first and foremost today is development Coal mines are being opened on an extensive scale in the tho Bengal district There British and nat native nate e ca capital ital is working hand in hand and performing mira miracles elf's of development If this were the tho rule throughout the tho empire its progress would astonish the world The tea and indigo concessions are largely controlled by I European capital Electrical Power Needed There is a big P Pars e firm opening up the gigantic iron iron fields of Bombay and in this they are arc not aided by outside out outside out side capital What the natives naties lack is initiative energy and enterprise When these arc aro supplied or developed the na no native the tive business men are arc the equals in the business field of the Europeans We lack electrical power on a big scale Steps are under way to supply this need in certain districts For ex example ex- ex ample the cotton mills of Bombay Bom bay will bo be operated ted by electrical power within a year or two if present plans materialize Work on the Queen Alexandra Alexandra Alex Alex- andra dock the third of the huge vessels carrying the Bombay trade is isnow now being completed What surprises me most in the United States is the energy and of the tho business men Their darin daring takes ones one's breath and their success is the wonder of tho commercial world The Tho pro progress ress of the country its development develop develop- me ment t its enterprises are wonderful to behold A greater democracy of the people of I such a democracy as exists in inthe inthe the Cm United ted States would uplift the gen general ueral u eral plane of the Indian people their reforms could be planned in harmony and md executed in in peace With such a democracy we could secure results that would e make India a world power as great I t believe belien as the United States is today |