(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Jail. 8.— (Correspondence
of the Associated Press.)—One of the
greatest charitable gifts in the history
of India has just been announced at
Delhi. The Maharaj Kumar of Tikari,
one of the wealthy native princes, has
executed a deed of trust devoting his
entire personal estate to founding an
institution for the education of Indian
women. The property concerned is
valued at about *7,000,000. In view of
the much greater purchasing power of
money in India, it is believed that the
gift will accomplish as much propor
tionately as a gift of nearly ten times
the size in England or America.
Dependent members of the maha
raj's family already have been pro
vided for by separate funds, and all
liabilities of the state are duly secured.
The scheme is for a strictly “purdah”
residential institution, where the girls
will be trained and educated on the
best modern principles from the age
of 5 until they are 18. There will be
no question of caste or creed.
The gift owes its inspiration largely
to the maharaj's wife, who has been
one of the foremost native women in
the crusade for the improvement of
the lot of Indian women. The maharaj
himself was one of the first native
princes to fight in France, and he has
spent more than two years on the bat
tlefield. He was brought up by English
tutors in India, and has been a great
traveler.
The maharaj's wife, in a letter de
scribing the gift, says:
"The education of women is a prob
lem demanding the attention of all
governments in every country of the
world. In India the issue is more vi
tal even than in other countries. A
young man leaves his home in India
to be educated; he comes, perhaps, to
the English university, and at the end
of three years he returns home to
marry an Indian girl of his own social
position. During his college days the
young man has associated with culti
vated Europeans, has learned many of
their ways, has become used to clever
and well-informed conversation and
companionship. What about his Indian
bride? If she has been brought up in
the traditional Indian way she will be
quite uneducated according to Western
standards, and will know little of life
outside her immediate surroundings.
All her days she will have been kept
in seclusion, for the ultimate purpose
of marriage at the age of 13 or 14.
“It is because I feel the position of
the Indian girls so keenly, because l
realize the grave dangers which their
general ability to be real helpers en
tails, that I am so enthusiastic and so
anxious to do all I can to help.
“My husband has executed a deed
of trust for his whole estate for the
founding of an institution to educate
Indian and Cingalese girls, and has
made it an essential point that creed
and caste shall be no bar. We thus
hope to introduce into the school a
thorough knowledge of English. A
college will be built, and will include
residential quarters where the stu
dents w'ill live. A girl can stay until
the age of 18, and this I think very
important, for the prevailing early
marrying age in India at present can
not but prove detrimental to the phys
ical well being of our women."
A site for the college has been given
by Sir Ali Imam, one of the leading
native lawyers.
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(By Associated Press)
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 1.—After more
than three years of effort the Ger
man authorities in Belgium ha'* t0
admit the failure of their attempt to
drive a wedge between the two races
and languages in Belgium. The unity
of Belgium still exists, and there are
signs that the Germans have given up,
at least for the time being, their at
tempt to break it up.
The authority for this statement is
I the German propogandist weekly in
I Holland, the Toekomist, which states
'that the present policy of the govern
or-general in Brussels is “more moder
' ate,” and that "Berlin approves this
policy as a means of gaining peace.”
The article concludes by advising the
advocates of the former German policy
to "steer a middle course and give up
i their flourishes of rhetoric.”
j The attempts of the Germans to
i force the Flemish language on Brus
sels and Antwerp are declared to have
completely failed and the governmen
has had to confess itself beaten The
i supporters of the German scheme <
among the Belgian population arc I
known as “Activists,” and <>re
very unpopular among the ma
jority of their fellow citizens. An Ac
tivists “demonstration” was arranged
in Brussels recently and was much
exploited in the German press at the
time. But according to the Echo Beige,
the demonstration was a fiasco.
"Instead of 3,000, the audience was
only 1,000,” says the newspaper.
“Moreover, one-third of these were
Dutch and another third Germans,
party in uniform. The procession to
the market-place was attacked as soon
as noticed by the crowd, notwithstand
ing the protection of the local police.
Next time there may be a riot. Now
the Activists are beginning to divide
nt0 Maximalists and Minimalists and!
are becoming very difficult for their1
lernian bosses to handle ”
BRITISH LABOR SITUATION
IS NOT SATISFACTORY
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Feb. 1.—The fourth year
of war has been remarkable for the
sustained activity of trade, the contin
uous and cumulative increases in
wages and the ferment in the engin
eering and munition industries, says
the Daily Telegraph.
During the past twelve months wage
Increases to workingmen exceeded
•£100,000,000 and the increases during
the three years 1915-16-17, together
with the rise in prices of commodities, ««
have completely revolutionized the -
pre-war economic basis of British
trade.
The unpleasant feature of the year
has been the growing discontent and
unrest prevading large sections of the
woikers and this is seen in the num
ber of industrial disputes, often of the
most trivial kind. Official returns
from January to November indicate
lhere were 494 disputes during those
months affecting 647,724 workers and
causing the loss of over 3,500,000 work
ing days, the greatest loss of time be
ing recorded during September, Oc
tober and November.
The number of persons unemployed
is the lowest on record, and through
out. the war period the figure has
steadily declined till it is now below
one per cent.
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