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...India was tense, watching to see if His Majesty's Government would arrest Mr. Gandhi when he should reach the sea and evaporate a gallon or two of water for a pinch of salt, thus breaking the law which makes salt a British monopoly in India. Pausing at the village of Tresela, St. Gandhi made a speech (characteristically) on a topic which had nothing to do with his main object of starting by example his long prepared campaign of "Indian mass civil disobedience." The subject: Child Marriage...
Last week the thoughts of all the 700,000 Mormons in the world dwelt in Salt Lake City, capital of Mormondom and of Utah, where the centenary of the founding of the Church was to be celebrated, exactly to the day, on April 6, 1930. A week of exercises and formal rejoicing was scheduled to follow...
...requiring four conference hours a week of his tutees, exclusive of time spent in preparation. Other students, who feel that they are far more fortunate, go for weeks at a time without seeing their tutors. Furthermore the general tendency is to take the whole system with a grain of salt until the spectre of Senior-Divisionals raises its head in the last year. Then follows a mad period of cramming, a hasty and forced attempt to summon to memory all that has been cursorily learned during the preceding two years, with the inevitable result of a quickly gained and quickly...
...Salt & Opium. As he painfully kept up his 200-mile walk, last week?not like an imaginary Statesman Stimson trudging to London?but as the unique "Recpolman" Gandhi, breathless spectators watched...
When Mr. Gandhi should reach the sea, when he should defy the British salt monopoly,* when he should break British law by scooping up a little sea water and publicly evaporating it to recover a mere pinch of salt?what then? Would enough Indians respond to this, the agreed signal for nonviolent, mass civil disobedience? Would they obey the Mahatma, abstain from paying taxes, abstain from all obedience to British employers or superiors,? buy no British cloth, and pray that they may meet Death all innocent and nonresisting at British hands...