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Show DARE OFFICERS TO ARREST THEM White Man Is No Longer a 'Tin God' in India American Reports RANGOON, April 16. (By Thc Associated Press ) Ralph EL Hen I- rson. an American writer and traveler. trav-eler. ha.s returned here ;ifu-r spending spend-ing four months in visiting cn my places In India to study the political ' . ondltions. This is his third visit to the Orient. Summing up his im-j presslons of the Indian situation, he said to a representative of The As-j soclated Pr "The traveler must feel in his first hour ashore tnat tne air is iairiy crackling with a new element. In the towns and cities the white man DO longer n tln god' and even In the remote villages hi divinity is fast -lipping from him. FRINGE BOYCOTTED. "1 lii Call utl i a !. hefore the Prince of Wales was due to land At that time our taxi was caught In a traffic Jam on one of the main thoroughfares and held for 16 minutes min-utes whllo the packed stream of i irts. bullock drawn, horso drawn, buffalo drawn or man drawn, strained through the crowded street. "When the prime landed at Calcutta, Cal-cutta, the streets were as deserted as those of a New England town on an 1 Puritan Sabbath. Calcutta shops lid no business. Mahutma Gandhi had so commanded "A few days later In Assam we w. re In Gauhati, the capital of the province. Government officials had Just raided the homo of a wealthy .nd influential cituoa. found Incriminating Incrim-inating literature and made an arrest. There were rumors of a proposed assault as-sault upon the court where the case was being tried, but a company of Mritish soldiers was marched UrM town to guard It. "We were talking with two students stu-dents in Cotton COllOge, the govern men! collage at GauktL The conversation con-versation was naturally upon the subject sub-ject now uppermost in the minds of all Indlanx. the political situation and Gandhi. Non-co-operation they evl- j dently approved. Gandhi they frankly frank-ly admired revered almost. Why" Penalise, they said, of his love for India, and his life of sternest oscetlc-:-m and self-sacrifice. "We 1 1 iee.l xouth. Inward Mad-1 r.'is. Everywhere we saw the unl-form unl-form of the Gandhi 'volunteer.' the white cap and the coat of coarse homespun. Some time hko these 'vol- j unteer" bands were declared unlaw- ful by the government. ( I IMOR i K ARREST. "An Indian member of the muni- pa government of Delhi told us of hs ' urlous reaction to this order in large town where his brother . ' i cill Judge. The day following ihc edict a procession of men In Gandhi J uniform marched to the courthouse j and demanded that. In accord with the law they be nrrested. "The Judge, knowing that there was no provision for such a multitude -f prisoners, was at his wit's end to know what to do. The olunteers (clamored for arrest. Thr Judge do-i do-i dared that the uniforms constituted I no offence to law, and ordered the police to confiscate tho white caps i and coats. This done, the procession proces-sion withdrew to take counsel. 1 The next day they returned with ! cloth badges around their arms, declaring de-claring themselves 'volunteers' In of-1 of-1 fence of law, and demanding ail QSl The Judge confiscated tho cloth ; budgeB. They returned on the mor- , row with paper badges. These wero stripped off and the farce petered out. Such wholesale defiance of law recalls Hurke's words. You cannot Indict In-dict a whole nation'. "The Gandhi uniform Is now little lit-tle more than a fashion. In Poona. the hot season capital of Bombay presidency, I saw a street urchin seat ed on a buffalo and medltatlvelv drumming his heels against the ant-tn.i ant-tn.i I s ribs, wearing the illegal whi: cap and homespun. MM -IN(. in MN til B TE. "In a village near Madras one eve- nlng a rroup of villagers went pas: the bungalow singing. Our host trans-1 trans-1 it- .) for us the words of a strange. OJ LVering song that came out of th Harkneea. It was a regular hvmn of hate against tho deterted white men H nnd had been t.'Ughl the villagers 1 our host explained, by Gandhi pros- - H l tes. In a small town In the Ran . BH I province two or three small boys spat at us from a discreet distance as wo walked through the bazaar. "In these homes of superstition there is , widespread belief in Gandhi H With simple trust tho villagers will H tall you that Gandhi is not a man. H ho Is a god. He haa four arms, four H legs, two heads. The government tried to kill him. They put hlrn H through a meat choppnr. but he can..- LH out sound and well. It is no wonder H that they shout 'Victory to Mahatma I OandOl' and look forward to bliss- H ful times. MM |