Harijan Poona—Saturday August 6 1938

The determination by the whole of the Harijan population in the area to abstain from all kinds of intoxicating drink may be said to be the direct result of their energies having been released for constructive work by the newly created atmosphere of amity. [...] Fire is the eternal purifier and when it quenches the fumes of the fiery liquid the lives of those who eschew it must be full of the fragrance of camphor. [...] It speaks well for the impartiality of the Indian Press in that several journals found it necessary to condemn the action of the Working Committee in pronouncing the opinion it did on the part H. E. the Governor of C. P. played during the unfortunate crisis. [...] Is it to be said :that in C. P. it was obviously to the British interest to precipitate the crisis in order to discomfit the Congress ? The Working Committee resolution is a friendly warning to the British Government that if they wish to avoid an open rupture with the Congress the powers that be should not allow a repetition of what happened at Nagpur on the night of 20th July. [...] The greater the importance and use given to the medium the greater is the disadvantage of the owner of perishables.