Show MAKING GODS FOR INDIA Foreign Countries Cutting Into Profit Profitable Profitable Profitable able Native Industry Few of ot us realize realize that into the vast triangle of ot Hindustan is packed one fifth firth of the entire human race race more more than Hindus 60 aborigines and well wen over of other mis miscellaneous miscellaneous peoples making up a a. a a population lation of over speaking scores of different tongues and divided into hundreds of separate states The most important industry of India Indin In din dia is agriculture for the people are area a race of ot farmers and nearly two- two thirds of the masses cultivate the soil eking out a living so scanty that the slightest failure of ot the monsoon brings acute distress if not positive famine It is perhaps for this reason that India is the most god ridden god ridden region on earth Her deities delUes are numbered In I millions for quite apart from the greater gods every little hamlet between between between be be- I tween the tremendous Himalayas and I Cape has its own set of ot deities del del- ties dreadful and beneficent From this It will be seen that god god- making In India must necessarily be bean bean bean an immense business and just now there is much feeling among the native native na tive artificers over this holy and profitable profit profitable able Industry being cut into by foreign foreign for eign merchants and traders Only the theother theother other day an enormous tiered five-tiered Jug car of gayly painted wood and steel was made In Calcutta and of late years Birmingham and Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel phia have both secured big slices of the traffic In gods Every village especially In South I India is supposed to be surrounded I by evil spirits always on the watch to inflict disease and misfortune on the people At the same time every little mUe hamlet has also Its guardian spirits |