GANDHI'S GOAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 27, 24 September 1931, Page 4

GANDHI'S GOAL

MAHATMA'S FOOD SUPPLY. LONDON, Sept. 1. I have tried to get Gandhi's goat, but bave been beaten by his inexhaustible and irresistible unresistance! for Gandhi's goat is clearly part of his non-co-operation tactics, writes Irwell Woolf. "Why must Gandhi have a goat?" I asked Miss Winifred Norris, the young secretary of Kingsley Hall, where Gandhi is to stay if and when he comes to London in the autumn. "It it part of his doctrine?"I added, "or one of the thirty-nine articles of his creed — or what?" "But he doesn't have to have a goat!" retorted Miss Norris. "In fact, he doesn't want a goat at all! What should we do with a goat here?" she continued, swinging her arm in the square yard of solitude which is the great man's cell-elect. And it must be admitted that a goat would be a horny dilemma in the little East End oasis which is Kingsley Hall. Every Variety of Goat. "You see, it is like this," she went on. "When Miss Lester, the founder of Kingsley Hall, went to live in Gandhi's community at Ahmenabad, she noticed that the Mahatma's favourite diet consisted of wholemeal b'scuits, fruit, and — goat's milk. She thought it would be a delicate comp'iment if she could provide the same fare while he was in London. . . ." "And so she planted a wholemealbiscuit trees and captured a goat?" I queried. "It wasn't necessary!" returned Miss Norris. "Offers of goats came from far and near; big goats, little goats, scapegoats — every variety of goat you can imagine." "Well, show me the goat, then!" I insisted. A Myth? "There isn't one!" she repeated. And then, rather crossly — "You don't have to keep a cow because you drink milk with your tea!" And (So Gandhi's goat i5 a myth The proprietors of a friendly goat — or the friendly proprietors of a goat, if you prefer — will deliver daily a pint of milk- in plain sealed wrapper, and Gandhi's whole meal of wholemeal will descend the Mahatma's gullet duly lubricated. Getting Gandhi's goat is an impossibility. You can take a rabbit by the ears and a bull by the horns, but a goat. . . ?"