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than a moiety of the total cost. You are probably under the impression that the grant has necessarily to be a half of the cost, and that a smaller proportion is indicative of lack of sympathy or appreciation. Will you permit me to say that this is not altogether correct? I shall not enter into the details of the rules—but the principle is that the grant is regulated according to the necessities of each case, so as never to exceed a moiety of the total cost. A poor community in a part of the country where buildings do not exist and where public spirit requires to be stimulated or perhaps educated, might occasionally get a grant of a half of the cost; on the other hand, in numerous instances, only a very much smaller proportion has been given.
I am glad to note that you have received sympathy and assistance from gentlemen outside your community, and that you have on your Board of Visitors gentlemen of all communities.
Spreading True Education. I trust that this home will be a potent means of spreading true education amongst the Jains; and by true education, I mean, the development of all that is best and most useful in the natural equipment of each student, and the turning of it to the service of humanity and the State, through which service the individual will find the highest happiness. Those gentlemen who have belped to bring it into existence are entitled to the warm and lasting gratitude of their community. I hope that it may fulfil all their desires and help in the making of good Jains and patriotic Mysoreans.
Gentlemen, I have much pleasure in declaring Aramane Padmaraja Pandit's " Jain Students" Home open.
Mr. Sumermall Jain, Jodhpur writes :
I shall be much thankful to you if you will kindly publish in the next issue of your esteemed paper the following resolution passed at a mass meeting of Oswal Community held on Saturday the 4th January 1930 at 5 p.m. at Oswal Njut-ka
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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