Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-16 | Page 24 | Gandhi Day is Monthly Event

GANDHI DAY IS MONTHLY EVENT Indian Nationalists Asked to Observe Holiday in Patriot's Honor j Calcutta July i -. The Working Work-ing Committee of th'- Indian N'ational f'nngress has ask d In linn rtOtlOnal-lsts rtOtlOnal-lsts to continue to observe the 18th day of each month tfi "Gandhi Day."j as they have done for llie past two months. It wa i on March ish tnatl j Gandhi was convicted of sedation and senten;ed to Imprisonment on Ajirll 18 and again on May 18, nationalists In all parts of Indis suspended bus!-: " s to take part in political demon-, titrations, Henceforth, these are to be! held regularly each month. In public add' esS ,.n The Great-j Souhd Gandhi.' delivered on the last' Gandhi Day, T L. V'aswapl said. PROPHEfl1 OF ITREOBDOM History Will salute him as a prophet or freedom an Idealist uf Hon .t political mystic At the bar of His-! torv. the bureaucracy stands lm-1 peached for having Jailed this patriot of humanity One la easily Impressed with Ma- j hatms Gandhi's asceth life and h Is i democratic social gospel. He Is a lover of the poor Ihold that Swaraj win arrive in the day we nft the l ban which has fallen upon millions of the Indians I called Gandhi an ascetic. In his heart burns a flame, spent in thinking of the deep iragedy How many sleepess hours has he not Of India' The tragedy of a nation once mighty, now in poverty and political po-litical suhjei tion, has entere as an iron Into his soul. There Is a safdness in his beautiful smile. As he went from plane to place pr-af hlng hi.s gospel. I 'thought of The Man with a Lantern' in tho .story. The man went from place to place lighting up dark rorners. and s tying t everyone 'Where art thou?' And as they heard his voice, one by one. they answered 'I am here," and one by one. they rose to follow th light As Mahatma Gandhi moved trom place to place manv awoke from their ease and indifference ond I followed tho light It 9 no wonder thousands have gone to jail in vill-ing vill-ing obedience to his call and his rue-sage rue-sage "In the day we have In our heart the humility and loe which may inaJte US true brothers ,,( tre poor in that day may India achieve her freedom. The coming religion fl wor ship of the poor Mahatnn Gondhi is a wane.Ts to that religion there-fore there-fore God has given him ihe Kreit 1 leadership of the people The very I prison which holds his feebh bod Is to man t iia a temple.''