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made hats and boots to complete their dress. They have cultivated a special liking for foreign clothes, coatings and shirtings and also foreign perfumeries. Every pie that we pay for these things goes out of our country. After all are these quite inevitable? Can we not live comfortably without these ? Yes! we can but we only refuse to live without these, nay we think it beneath our dignity to be without these. If we want to drive poverty from our country we should begin to live poor and simple lives; we should refrain from using the foreign goods as far as practicable.
Donations. We most thankfully acknowledge receipt of the following amounts sent as donation to our Gazette to pay the excess in Expenditure incurred in publishing the Gazette during the past four years 1923, 1924, 1925 and 1926.
Rs. A. P. Mr. Nagindas Amulakhrai, Bombay. 250 0 0 „ Nagindas Maneklal, Bombay ... 50 0 0 Rai Bahadur, L. Moti Sahar, Lahore
25 00 Praktana Vimarsa Vichakshana
Rao Bahadur, R. Narasimhacharya, Bangalore
25 00 „ Rai Bahadur, A. B. Lathe, Kolhapur
25 00 „ Lala Gopichand Jain, Ambala City
1000 , B. Rickhab Dass Jain, Meerut. '5
Total ... 390 00 The total excess amounted to Rs. 2,150 and now Rs. 1,760
be realised. We request all our rich and sympathetic brethren to kindly contribute what they can to make up the required sum. It is necessary to point out here that The Jaina Gazette deserves the help of every English-educated Jaina for the following reasons.
1. It is the only Journal in English for the whole of the Jaina community.
2. It is non-sectarian in its aims and views
3. It carries the teachings of Jainism every month to the distant corners of the world.
4. It corrects all the wrong notions about Jainism.
5. It has been doing great services to the Jaina Religion and the Jaina community for more than two decades.
6. it is the only medium through which the Jainas living in different parts of the country are able to exchange their views. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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