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programme of non-violence and Its relation to the con-
structive programme.
The Bar Association of Peshawar utilized Gandhijfs
presence In the city b}T presenting him with an address at
the Premier's residence in which they proudly claimed
him as one of their confraternity and incidentally also
managed to blow their own trumpet a little by adverting
to the splendid services In the political field rendered by
the leading lights of the profession. Gandhiji, in a witty
little speech, while thanking them for the honour that
they had done him, observed that he was hardly entitled
to that privilege,. In the first place because, as they all
knew, he had been disbarred by his own Inn and secondly,
because he had long forgotten his law. Of late, he had
more often been engaged in breaking laws than in ex-
pounding or Interpreting them in the courts of the land.
Still another and, perhaps, his most vital reason was his
peculiar views about lawyers and doctors which he had
recorded In his booklet, Indian Home Rule. A true lawyer,
he told them, was one who placed truth and service in
the first place and the emoluments of the profession in
the next place only. He did not know whether they had
all adopted that ideal but If they pledged themselves to
render service through their legal acumen in an altruistic
spirit, he would be the first to pay them his homage.
Before leaving Peshawar Gandhiji had a meeting
with the members of the Frontier Ministry when, in ful-
filment of his promises made at various places, he thrashed
out with them certain political and administrative matters
round which a lot of public controversy had gathered.
The discussion served the purpose of clarifying the posi-
tion with regard to some of the matters, while in regard
to some others, definite decisions were adopted by the
Ministry in the light of Gandhijfs remarks.
A high official from Southern India who sought out
Gandhiji at Peshawar, put to him a pretty poser: " As
.Ijnove from the south northwards, I seem to confront
a different humanity altogether. There seems to be no
meeting-ground between the type here and that found