Gandhi's If

With the light of cut glass chandeliers gleaming on his venerable emaciated stomach, St. Gandhi attended a formal banquet in Bombay last week, drank a little goat's milk, spoke for two hours before an audience in faultless evening dress. Same day he wrote an editorial for hi.-; weekly. Young India:

"If I were appointed dictator for one hour for all India, the first thing I would do would be to close without compensation all liquor shops, destroy all toddy palms from which liquor is locally extracted, compel factory owners to produce humane conditions for workmen, and open refreshment and recreation rooms where workmen could get innocent drinks and equally innocent amusement.

"Exceptions would be made for Europeans and diseased persons for whom a supply of liquor is medicinally necessary."

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