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the way of true progress. Our policy is to live, not to stagnate and vanish into a community that once was.
For this great co-operation is necessary. Men are needed. Money is required. Organisation is wanted. Workers are scarce. Our monied men are either close-fisted, or inclined to extravagance in passing shows, melas, tamashas, drum-beatings, and feastings.
We expect that all Jainas, young and old, rich in wealth, and rich in knowledge and experience, will realise that the sorest need of the hour is to economise our slender resources. Not a pie is to be mis-spent or ill-spent. The Jainas are charitable enough. What is needed is to give their charities a true and really meritorious and fruitful turn.
Our constant unceasing endeavours shall be to point this out; to serve as beacon-lights in showing the true direction in which the stream of charity should be made to flow, the direction where the soil is soft and fertile, and not hard and barren. A stream may make much noise when running over a stony bed of pebbles, but it produces the best results only when it flows silently over soft ground of rich clay. Let us use good care and sound discretion in the bestowal of our gifts. The Jain Gazette will ever be pointing out the true way to the propagation of Jainism and the betterment of Jain Society.
May we have the strength and endurance to do our Duty, watchfully and unfalteringly.
