Kindly Light

St. Gandhi, hope of millions of Indian Nationalists, continued his extraordinary progress to Britain last week aboard 5. S. Rajpntana. Spurning the cabin which the Government had put aside for his use. he slept under a thin sheet on a hard wooden bench in the stern. The ship's cat. a huge black torn, developed a taste for the Mahatma's goat's milk and purred peaceably beside him.

P: During St. Gandhi's day of silence he did not emerge from his sheet at all. General interest shifted to another passenger, the pundit Malaviya who each morning made, out of a half ton of Ganges mud he had on board, a fresh little god to worship.

P: At Aden (entrance to the Red Sea). St. Gandhi and party went ashore for a few hours, were wildly cheered by local Indian merchants who presented him with an offering of $1,625. Blinking through his glasses. St. Gandhi replied both in Gujarati and English that he expected much more.

P: Captain H. Morton Jack invited the Mahatma to the Rajputana's bridge, genially asked him if he would like to take the wheel for a few minutes. Instead of holding the ship to its course, St. Gandhi suddenly spun the wheel sharply to port.

"Oh," he cackled, "I hope I don't capsize the boat and drown everybody!" P: Sitting bolt upright on his bench St. Gandhi attempted to improve his mind by reading the full report of the first Indian Round Table Conference. Shrilly he protested that it invariably caused him to fall fast asleep.

P: To reporters perspiring in the Red Sea heat, St. Gandhi explained that only if the weather became exceptionally cold would he modify his famed loincloth in Britain. Then he would wear a woolen loincloth, reaching his ankles, and a white cotton jacket, specially woven for him by big-toed Raymond Duncan, esthete brother of the late great Isadora. P: On Sunday the Mahatma attended Christian service in the Rajputana's main saloon. Because it is his favorite hymn his thin reedy voice was heard piping "Lead Kindly Light" amid the enshrouding boom of British baritones.

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