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Literacy & Progress. Duane Hatch began his career in 1922. He was a Y.M.C.A. worker with a new Ph.D. (in sociology) from Yale. As headquarters for his work, he picked the Travancore village of Martandam, in one of the most backward parts of southwest India. His mission, then as now: to teach the villagers how to help themselves...
Hatch spent 18 years in Martandam. The villagers soon nicknamed him "Double-Your-Money" Hatch. They learned to breed the best poultry in India, instead of the semi-wild jungle fowl that laid an egg every two weeks. They learned to build roads, how to control malaria and cholera, weave baskets, rugs and rope. Instead of their sticky, grimy jaggery (unrefined sugar candy), Hatch taught them to make clean palmyra sugar to be sold at double the price of jaggery. He introduced scientific beekeeping, revived the art of kuftgari (working designs on iron and silver). At the same time...
...Martandam news spread, other states wanted advice from Double-Your-Money Hatch. He helped set up reconstruction centers in Baroda and Hyderabad, preached the twin gospel of literacy and progress for hundreds of miles. In 1940, Hatch and his family returned to the U.S. for a vacation. When the war made it doubtful that he could transport the family to India again, he carried on his work in Mexico. Last year he went back to India...
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