Harijan Poona—Saturday April 23 1938

There is nothing constitutionally wrong in the Congress allowing the Kisan Sabhas to work independently nor in allowing the officbearers of the Kisan Sabhas to be office-bearers of the Congress for they will come in the usual way. [...] “ But the main question is whether you want the Kisan Sabhas to strengthen the Congress or to weaken it to use the kisan organization to capture the Congress or to serve the kisard whether the Sabha is to be a rival organization86 HA. [...] The picture would incomplete without the interpretation of those ides in terms of the money they add to the ekets of the poor. [...] I invite the attention of the reaers to Satish illuminating article on the cottage manufacture of matches in India in the April number of the MODERN REVIEW. [...] This is as the author calls it the " story of liquor and efforts at prohibition ". The first one= third of the 'book briefly traces the history of restriction on liquor consumption in India since ancient time and through the Middle Ages and the progressive " increase of the facilities for drining and as a matter of course to an increased consumption of liquor with all its attendant evils