Harijan Ahmedabad — Sunday February 8 1942

At the request of the lady students themselves Gandhiji agreed to listening to a recitation from the Gita by some of them after the end of the prayer. [...] On our capacity to feed the starving and clothe the naked and generally to serve the masses in the time of their need will depend our capacity to influence the peace whenever it comes. [...] " For instance in September last the Government of U. P. fixed the prices of wheat in the Hapur market without any relation to prices in other centres and at a level which was low compared to the prices of wheat in other provinces and markets of India particularly in the Punjab. [...] To end the anomalies and hardships pointed out above the Committee have proposed that if the price control measures are to succeed "(1) The maximum fixed by the Government must bear proper relation to the replacement costs; and (2) The Government must be prepared to sell the articles concerned at those rates — the prices to be fixed after taking into consideration the total cost of production t [...] If we treated the hide properly if we knew the manurial value of the fleshing and the use of the bone and the entrails — which we are demonstrating at Nalwadi — there would be no carrion-eating." Pi njrapols He next came to the question of pinjrapols with which almost every town in India is studded which have plenty of funds but some of which are grossly mismanaged.