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Jaina Journal illustrated with so many half-tone illustrations specially prepared for it and with so many important speeches and articles all printed on the best art and ivory finished paper respectively.
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.
It is a fact too well-known to the readers of our Journal that the Jaina Gazette has no permanent fuil to finance the Journal. The idea of a fund for the Gazette was thought of so early as 1910 when Mr. J. L. Jaini visited Meerut as as he returned from England and when Mr. Mansumrat Das Jaini, Bar-at-law, promised to raise a fund of ten thousand rupees for the Gazette. But some how the idea has not crystalised itself into anything substantial. It is not possible to over-estimate the importance and necessity of a permanent fund for a communal magazine like the Jaina Gazette. The marvellous success of the Christian institutions is very greatly due to their never failing funds.
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India is passing through one of the momentous periods in her history. The Jains forming an important minority" have their own problems, political, social and religious which are inseparably connected with the struggle for power and prestige in India ar.d the ultimate question of Swaraj for cur motherland. For the last so many years the only voice which has been upholding the cause of the Jai..s from time to time consistently is the Jaina Gazette. For instance, we are glad to say that the Jaina Gazette was solely responsible in getting a seat for the Jains in Madras Legislative Council. Some of the Associations and Political Conferences cf the Jains exist only in name and they do no more than to wake up now and then and get up a show at the important places where the national bodies like the Congress meet and play second fiddle to what all the Congress thinks it wise to resolve. The very speeches and resolutions of such annual and aimless gatherin's are vexingly dull and commonplace. We earnestly appeal to the leaders of the Community not to fritter away their energies and money in starting new institutions but to work up the All-India Jaina Association in all seriousness and sincerity. "The call of the Times (see page 125) is also for a serious and frank hearted handling of the situation in right earnest.
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Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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