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Show FESTIVITY AND FAMINE IN INDIA. "While the eyes of the world are turned to 'India because of interest aroused by the visit of King-Emperor George and his regal party, little attention is given to the impending tragedy soon to be staged there. For h while the pomp and splendor of the durbar at Delhi will hide the stalking figure of Famine, but he will not be cheated out of his day, says the Los Angeles Tribune. The failure of rain in western India has assured the country of one of those fearful periods of indescribable suffering for which the country has become famous. Missionaries arc planning a noble cumpaign of relief in supplementing the work of the government. The government of India will find its own funds for its planned-for planned-for relief. Missionaries and other philanthropic agencies will have to appeal to those whose hearts pity the suffering and distressed of mankind and feel the privilege of giving help. But while the Christian people of the world will do what they can to relieve the conditions, they will find little satisfaction in the contrast of the suffering human millions and the money millions spent in the useless pomp and mummery of acclaiming a new king whose advent is of no more real significance to the empire than is a change of presidents in America. The vast fortune to be spent in' a repetition of the London coronation might better be given to the fund that the good people of the world will be called upon to make up. These are bad times for swollen wealth to flaunt itself before an insurgent and critical people. |