Show the old settler 0 my dear san Jua ners when mohandas gandhi came as envoy extraordinary from his beloved india to england he carried with him his knitting not in his suitcase but in his hands and he knitted through every minute in which he would otherwise have been idle some people gawped gasped in astonishment some laughed in scorn how ridiculous the leader of milliouns milli of people knitting like an old woman in the chimney corner Moli mohandas andas gandhi is a little d up brown skeleton not much bigger than the pygmies of the jungle and some people who saw him knitting and taxing his sunken and bespectacled old eyes to see the stitches figured that he continued on paye page 4 the old settler continued f from rom page 1 was as small in mind as in body but he not a bit of it to this anglo saxon world of extravagance prodigal living and I 1 shameless debt where fifty per cent of cf the people live like parasites on the backs of the others and the other fifty per cent are trying desperately to reverse this picture mohandas gandhi brings a lesson more badly needed than any others other yet the people to whom he brings it laugh and mock like a lorde horde of ravenous cannibals As I 1 contemplate the lofty standards of that 01 old rd H i n d u I 1 am moved with admiration if not with reverence his idea is that every able man high or low bearing great public trust rust or no not should really live by the sweat of his own brow as god ordained and never be a needless nee expense to anyone else to be an unnecessary tax on someone else is to him a great shame between his standards and the standards of the racketeers and profiteers bribe takers and extortionists high and low in business and government there is a g gulf wider than the gorge cf the grand canyon instead of drawing a salary a hundred times greater than his honest needs gandhi serves his people for the love he has for them and his christ like desire to do them good he figures that he is as much obligated to provide for his own wants as any other honest man his position at the head of the hindus notwithstanding he costs his people nothing by his knitting he pays for his plain dress and his simple food to him true service is that which men give from their love for those whom they serve no wonder the millions in india love him and trust him and bless him often kissing the ground where his willing bare feet have trodden compare him to the fraud and tricksters trick and graft in the world all around us compare him with the drones and shirks and leeches in this world of parasites where th the e producer becomes at once the abe pre prey y of those chose who produce nothing and the big multitude is hunting always to get something without 1 cost to themselves content to maintain the lofty standard of a louse that would starve to death I 1 if he feed on the living tissues of some other creature ALBERT R LYMAN |