CHAPTER LIU

A CODE FOR STUDENTS

(1) Students must not take part in party politics.
They are students, searchers, not politicians.

(2) They may not resort to political strikes. They
must have their heroes but their devotion to them is
to be shown by copying the best in their "heroes, not by
going on strikes if their heroes are imprisoned or die
or are even sent to the gallows. If their grief is unbear-
able and if all the students feel equally, schools or colleges
may be closed on such occasions with the consent of
their principals. If the principals will not listen, it is
open to the students to leave their institutions in a
becoming manner till the managers repent and recall
them. On no account may they use coercion against
dissentients or against the authorities. They must have
the confidence that if they are united and dignified In
their conduct they are sure to win.

(3) They must all do sacrificial spinning in a scien-
tific manner. Their tools shall be always neat, clean
and in good order and condition. If possible, they will
learn to make them themselves. Their yarn will natu-
rally be of the highest quality. They will study the
literature about spinning with all its economic, social,
moral and political implications.

(4) They will be Khadi users all through and use
village products to the exclusion of all analogous things,
foreign or machine made.

(5) They may not impose Bands Mataram or the
National Flag on others. They may wear National

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