The Indian Scene To the matter-of-fact Englishman, the spectacle. of
Mr. Gandhi and his friends streaming down to the sea to collect inedible salt seems unmixed comedy.. The end of the "National Week" was celebrated in no less strange fashion by the erection of an effigy of the Salt Act which was subsequently hurled into the sea. This blood- red figure was represented as squeezing two "miserable human beings in, each hand and trampling on others, the victims being. labelled "Indians." In Madras and other Provinces, there were bonfires of foreign cloth, and everywhere there was much flag-waving and singing of National songs. Mr. Gandhi, addressing a Conference at Jalapur, adjured the women . to picket the liquor and foreign cloth shops. -Men might be violent whereas women could bear being beaten without beating others !
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