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THE JAINA GAZETTE Donation to the Hindu University, Benares. We are glad to learn that the Jain Swetambar Conference of Bombay has given a handsome donation of Rs. 52.000 to the Benares Hindu University, for establishing a Jaina Chair in the University. We understand that the Conference has executed a pronote for the amount in favour of the University and the cost of maintaining a Professor of Jaina Philosophy will be met by the interest accruing from the amount. We offer our heartfelt thanks and sincore congratulations to the members of the Jaina Swetambar Conference for their excellent charity But we think that the income from the amount will be insufficient to maintain a Professor of the first rank. We wish to suggest that if the Digambaras will pay an equal contribution, the University authorities may be requested to appoint an efficient Professor well acquainted with the two branches of Jainism to teach the Jain Religion. We invite the attention of all our Digambar Jain millionaires to this rery important matter and we hope that they will not take a long time to do the needful.
A new rouser.
We should like to hope that something permanently painful will happen to the man who invented the alarm clock, observes the “Daily Mirror." This machine, more than any other, enslaves us to Time. But it is nothing to what the inventors have in store for hapless humanity. A new "rouser "bas been designed by a German which fires a cartridge and gives off a pungent gas, making the sleeper sneeze himself awake. Did anyone say “thoroughness"? Such devilry in olden days would have sent the inventor very properly to the galleys for the rest of his days. Machinery is making decent life impossible. Samuel Butler was quite right when he said, “We shall have to scrap our machines before they scrap us."
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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