Harijan Ahmedabad—Sunday March 2 1947

In our country where the major portion of the land is subject to the vagaries of the monsoon it would be a pure gamble to plough deep and manure the land with expensive manures only to find at the end of the season that the rains have failed. [...] Perry Burgess the Preside.) of the American Leprosy Foundation sums up' the facts in the following words : " Despite the facts that among the many leprosria scattered throughout the world thousands of well people doctors nurses and lay workers have been in daily association with patients the incidence of infection is very small. [...] He wanted to deal that evening with a question that arose out of the meeting of the third instant but he could not deal on the fourth as he had to deal with the statement read to him by the Muslim friends. [...] The sooner therefore the inhabitants of Noakhali attended to the laws of sanitation the better for them. [...] In the recommendations of the educational scheme of the Centrai 'advisory Board of Educatioti commonly known as the Sargent Scheme a note has been added to distinguish basic edcation as envisaged in the report of C. A. B. E. from what the report calls the Wardha Scheme of Education.