Harijan Ahmedabad—Sunday April 21 1946

if the argument ho:ds what about the interests of women ? In view of the maxim does not the basis of selection need clarification ?" The above is from the letter of an esteemed sister. [...] The cultivator is in every sense of the word the Anna-data and I ask you to appeal to him at this critical juncture not to hoard not to sell in the black market but to supply in the greatest measure possible to the Government stores so that food may be distributed equitably and equally to all people rich and poor alike and hunger and destitution may be avoided. [...] What a pity that after a quarter of a century of Khadi production under wise and able guidance the Tamilnad Branch has not still succeeded in overcoming what it calls the 'persistent tendency of the weavers to prefer mill yarn when available to hand-spun yarn and to take to the latter when mill yarn is not available' ! According to the report this tendency mainly accounts for the rise and fall in [...] It is high time the workers of the A. I. S. A. took to the method of doubling and twisting yarn even in the process of unwinding the cone on the spindle. [...] D. SIGNS OF THE TIME Addressing the evening prayer pthering on the Jallianwala Bagh day Gandhiji said : " Today is the last day' of the National Week which I have also called the Sacred Week It on this day that the tragedy of the Jallianwala Bagh was enacted.