Harijan Poona — Saturday December 31 1938

After waving the light the person who did so touched the feet of the other party even the father and the husband touching the feet respectively of the son and the wife. [...] But the fall in the sale of liquor during the current year has been so great that the Congress Government* has been compelled to take notice of it with a view to introduce prohibition in the district as the only. wise step to prevent the people from falling again into the temptation of drink. [...] Hodson expressed the opinion that the solution of the Hindu-Muslim question was made difficult by the fact that owing to its very nature the Congress tended to take on the nature of a theparty " and acted as if it were tlie one and the only party in the country that. [...] Thus it used to have Rajas and Maharajas on the Reception Committee and has defended the cause of the States against the paramount power as in the case of Kashmir and Mysore. [...] The city is the native place of the Premier of U. P. Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant who met the members of the Sangh and promised Government support to facilitate their ;programme.