Two Versions To, the Editor of the "Nommu-Ciniwa Datu News."
Sm—The following appeared in the issue of the "Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury" of January 4, Page 1, as part of a "United Pres Telegram reporting Mr. Gandhi arrest, viz:—
"As lig. proceeded to prison for the second time" within. ten. yearm. Mr Gendt tue" a "arewoll teases Sh English missionary "Infinite is God's merey. Tell the people never. to swerve' from the Never" finch: 'Tal the peonla five their lives and. thee all 'Nin Stara), Tel your countrymen of" Great Britain that T have na Iwill againat them Fat Ste ing' them out of Tave.
1 immediately felt suspicious regarding the correctness of the astion that Mr. Gandhi's message had been "spoken personally to. English missionary," and this fe ing hag been heightened on reading jcuter's version appearing in your issue of to-day, Page 9, Colunin 2, as follows:—
"Dpfore is removal, ate Mr, Vallabhai Pat Please tell the people never to swerve from the Erath, andthe policy ind never to. finch it lives for' the!
Si—"Your Reviewer" has put strange construction on what I have said. Perhaps the use of the word "depend" was misleading, will repeat what I have said_ in another form: How is it possible for women to retain any true sense refinement where a similar sense does not exist in the men they have marry? To misunderstand this simply holds the old "pedestal" theory which flattered the majority of women into bei duped so long, at the expense of the inevitable minority The result is a mess.
In response to "Your Reviewer's" suggestion I will quote the rest of the passage T referred to in his review. T did not do so before as Twas then on the subject of Victorians. Continuing from:—"It fs inconceivable that women can permanently adopt the infidelities of the Victorian man as their ulti mate standard of either morals or ethics in the question of marriage," he goes on to say:
"Me. Brifault seems to argue from provement that ts to be looked [''Sased on" the introduction Justice anu reason. in the relation be-Yween' the sexes in substitution for the ignorance, fanaticism and. super hich" at present control It.
ibe ight. but it {sdifieale men, and the dee Now you can sce what his theory Tk will be noticed that the frst really rests on. Economies, And portion of Mr. Gandhi's message a3 property tights, Not on. reported by Reuter closely apate sense of refinement" in. wo-proximates to the version given by men at all, The old story, East the United Press, but that there or West. And in the relations of
alleged message ie people of nothing in. Reuter about, the the sexes the ethics ordinarily Great Britain, To go further, the United Press version seems to convey an insidious suggestion that enter.
pathy with the lawless campaign Engllth Missionaries are. in aymmy turally biased) 'The women of today do not, launched by Mr. Gandhi and his associates, which cannot be believed present spectacle" ates, but they' to be 0 in point of fact. are beginning to "expect modern Perhaps, Sir you could see your men to save their own souls, and way to make some investigation to ce-operate with them to make regarding the discrepancy in the a better world (unless men doubt two. version and give the Shang-the necessity) instead of laying the benefit of the result.
Name for their lack of "refine ment" on a small and weak section of the community, with the old
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