The Rural India July 1940

The foregoing facts sufficiently Where there is love and sympillustrate that the methods adopted thy between the village people and by the Sangho have increased the the workers 4nd the people have income of the people of Deori centre come to believe in the capabilities of by 146% and that 36% of the aggrthe workers and are prepared to adopt gate debt has been paid off in the the methods th [...] talks that we had with some of the While emphasising the necessity prominent members of the Gandhi for and advocating the formation of Seva Sangha and from the position such an All-India body we would revealed and policy enunciated in one particularly plead for large-heartedness of the latest issues of the Sarvodaya and a spirit of accomodation and Mahatmaji appears to be in favour of adjustme [...] The contact with the masses in seven lacs war in Europe has diverted the of villages through the army of our attention of both the government and educated young men and women as the people to face so dreadful a yet preparing for life in the schools catastrophe as the threatened eclipse and colleges of this country. [...] the best via media is that the teachers It is not the Governments that make and the students from high schools the nations but it is the awakened and colleges should migrate to the conscience of the members composing villages and spend their summer the nation who by voluntary service vacations in the service of the village and self-sacrifice little by little lift the people. [...] rural population in the electorate and in the The development of the means of communLegislature is perhaps responsible for the cations and transport destroyed the isolation great interest that is now evinced in questions of the village and with it the self-sufficient affecting the welfare of ryots.