Dutiful Devi Das

Mahatma Gandhi smiled a smile of paternal satisfaction last week as the fourth member of his family went to jail. He had been highly pleased when his second son Harilal, onetime foe of Nationalism, renounced his opposition and went to prison in Ahmedabad. But his youngest son did even more. Last week Devi Das Gandhi, 20, was to have married the 19-year-old daughter of his father's good friend C. R. Rajagopalachari. A war rant was out for the arrest of Devi Das. If he tried to go to the northwestern frontier, where trouble was brewing, he knew he would surely be captured. Be tween love and duty Devi Das did not long waver. He went to the railroad station in New Delhi where a squad of police men pounced upon him, clapped him into jail. Said he: "While I am deeply at tached to my fiancee, it would not be right for me to seek happiness in marriage while my father and mother and eldest brother are in prison." In Ahmedabad the Government seized St. Gandhi's spinning wheel, clock, cup board, two iron safes, $10 in cash and a typewriter. Unperturbed, the Mahatma in his cell at Yerovda Jail continued to scrawl letter after letter on morals, health, religion and the rearing of children.

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