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immense potency. We are now rushing to and from with the velocity of air, delivering speeches, writing newspaper articles and yet we fall short of our accom- plishments and the cry of despair fills the air. I, for one, am of opinion that as in old days our acts will have a more powerful influence on the public than any number of speeches and writing. It is my earnest prayer to your Association that its members should give prominence to quiet and unobtrusive work in whatever it does,

��PLEA FOR HINDI

Mr. Gandhi wrote the following letter to the press under date. Indore, March 3, 1918 soon after the conci- sion of the Hindi Sahitya Sammelan

At the Hindi Sahitya Sammelan just closing a com- mittee consisting of the Hon'ble Rai Bahadur Bishen Dutta Shukla, Rai Bahadur Saryoo Prasad, Babu Shiva- Pnisad Gupta, Babu Purushottan Das Tandon, Babu Gauri Shanker Prasad, Pandit Venkatesha Narayan Tiwari and myself, were appointed as a speial committee to give effect to certain resolutions of the Sammelan, One of the instructions given to the committee is to find out six Tamil and Telugu youths of promise and good' character who would undertake to learn Hindi with a view to ultimately becoming missionaries for the pro- pagation of Hindi among the Tamil and the Telugu people. It has been proposed to locate them either at Allahabad or at Benares, and to teach them Hindi, Expenses of their board and lodging as well as instruc- tion will be paid for by the committee. It is expected that the course will not take longer than a year at the

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