Jain Gazette 1920 06

SR No.: 542650
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jagnanderlal Jaini, Ajit Prasada, C S Mallinath Jain
Publisher: Jaina Gazette Office
Publication Year: 1920
Total Pages: 36
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Gazette, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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THE JAINA GAZETTE.
period. The island was about one fifth of its present size, and the elephant and rhinoceros stalked the land." (Pioneer.). This should give room for thought te those who believe that the world was created only about 4,000 years ago; and a get back to the creation theory altogether.
His Highness the Maharaja of Nawanagar has agreed to represent India on the International Committee of Olympic Games in Belgiam this year. Various Indian teams will be going to Belgium to enter the competition. Belgium has so soon after the War recovered leisure to organise a Game Exhibition, the like of which has no parallel in historical India ancient or modern. May one hope for a time when Indis will be in a position to invite foreigners to join in any organisation on terms of equality.
In this connection we are also glad to hear that Master Changle of Belgaum wbo stood first in the Mile Race at Simla also proceeds to Belgium as a competitor. We wish him all happiness and success.
The Hon'ble Mr. Fazl-ul-Hug presiding at the Bengal Provincial Conference at Midnapore, deplored the absence of a leader, or what was worse, the fact that they had so many leaders that they did not know whom to follow.
Here is a point which requires serious and anxious consideration. The one distinctive and all-prominent quality of a leader sheuld be his "selflessness." The leader should be one who has finished his life's work for himself, and his remaining life should be wholly and solely devoted to the organisation or institution which he is to lead. This can hardly be said of many of the present-day leaders, whose leadership has been to them a financial success, and has placed them in a position to help their friends and relations to good positions and offices. The little political life in the country is due to the selfless few whose names are too sacred to be mer. tioned.
In the Jain community there is hardly one who can be called a "selfless" worker. The persons who control Jain institutions have all their private small ends to serve, excepting only Brahmachari Sital Prasada jee. The names of Pandit Arjunlal Sothi, and Mahatma Bhagwandin also come to onr mind in this connection, but the Jain community has net yet appreciated the work of either of them.
We are grieved to learn the sad death of Lala Mehra Chandra which occurred at Lahore on the 13th April. He was a leading member of the Lahore Jain Community and a prominent worker in the Panjab Sthanakvasi Jain Sabha. He was the President of the Ludhiana Jain Conference. His charities took & useful. direction. He built & room in the Amar Jain Hostel, and gave away a few thonhand rapoes shortly before his death. He had liberal views in matters of social reform. He was eighty years of age. His death is a loss to the community. Our sincere sympathies go to the bereaved members of his family.
We are sorely grieved to hear of the death of Mr. S. Ramanujam F.R.S., who was recently elecled to a fellowship of the Trinity College Cambridge. Our National Karma is still on the descending are, and it is not seldom that our best men, and the hope and pride of India are carried away in the prime of life.