America Cidth Perk/Nall carter CLITION AMU* - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO limpentortiorisn (ARON lax Garden Cities in Palestine By Bernard A. Rosenblatt. HE land of Israel will become a Paradise of Garden Cities or it will degenerate into the land of deserts and os.imps, for Palestine cannot re- inafa long a half-•ay station between cinhcation and barbarism. Conditions now forcing the recreation arc 0•11 of the land flowing with milk and honey. and the immediate future will show as there either a glorious SUC - or a dismal failure. (Os but natural that the Jewish It Was pioneers, who came to Palestine in the generation preceding the \World War, should place agriculture as the key- stone of our work of regeneration. In fact' Piactical Zionism" was regarded as a back-to-the-land movement, in e'uldition to its specifically Jewish fea- ure.• l'erhaps these considerations t save bail to the present unusual situ- -that l'alestine is the only coun- ation- re the Jew has failed to show, try 1, It • • hitherto, any marked degree of com- mercial skill or exceptional business t.ulent. In America, we are familiar with the stories of poor Jewish ped- dlers, who have become wealthy de- partment store proprietors; of small tailors, who were transformed into large manufacturers; and of insig- nificant clerks, who have risen to the position of prominent bankers. We know how quickly the American Jew, when he accumulates a little capital buy real estate, frequently en- Will cumbered by two or more mortgages —so that he might have some free capital to continue his business oper- ation. Yet, in Palestine, we have the spectacle of Tel Aviv, the Jewish suburb of Jaffa—incidentally, the most successful business accomplishment in the whole country—with real estate values of over £1,000,000, and which (exclusive of a . ridiculously small in- itial loan. amounting to less than I% of the value), does not carry a single mortgage or loan on the entire prop- erty. %With proper financial institu- tions, at least i500,000 could have been secured on this real estate as security—a large sum which could have been utilized by a shrewd com- mercial race to build up stores, fac- It is only in tories and buildings. T Palestine that the Jew seems to lose his business sagacity and commercial talent. communities in which "every man shall sit under his own pine tree or fig tree (if in Palestine), and yet, where communal life will converge towards the civic center of the many small farming estates. In the west, such a concept is described by the words "Garden City," but in Palestine, I have heard it talked about as the "Garden Village Idea." Perhaps the thing that impressed me most in my three 'months' stay in Palestine was this groping towards the ideal communal life. This longing for the "better life" is not confined to theorists and dreamers. It is the dream of very' practical WWII, who have helped to build up Tel Aviv. It is not a result merely of careful think- ing, but it is a practical reaction front the crowded life of Tel Aviv itself. The Jews who built Tel Aviv have felt the oppressive air of city life and lack of elbow room. Some very pro- pressive spirits are, therefore, now working for the development of Gar- den Villages, in which each house will be set in a garden plot of between five and ten dunam of land (approximately one and a half to two and a half acres), which will give each family a "Homestead and a Garden." These gardens will be not merely orna- mental, but extremely useful. The family will derive therefrom not only the pleasures of suburban life, but also some of the physical requirements for the family table—fruits, vegetables, poultry and eggs. Garden Village Idea. But this is not all. The hundred families, living in the hundred houses, set in garden plots—the total occupy- ing au area not exceeding 1,000 dunam or about 250 acres—will still keep us dependent upon the peasantry for foodstuffs. Men with the Garden Vil- lage idea would have us build, as near- ly as possible, self-sufficient villages, each village to be surrounded with agricultural land to the extent of three or four times the area of the village itself. Thus, the houses of the Garden Village would form the community center, the Kernel, as it wefr, of each settlement. But for every acre oc- cupied by the house and garden, there would be at least three acres, on the periphery of the community center, as farming lands. From this village farm, the community would de- rive foodstuffs and various plantation products. This village farm might be worked co-operatively by the village or by individuals, under the general control of the village council, but the constant aini would be to free the Gar- den Village from dependence (only too prevalent at the present time) upon the Aral) peasantry. We might easily be able to plant in Palestine two or three thousand gar- den villages, with a total population in excess of 1,000,000 Jews. Many or the settlers in Garden Villages would be farmers, some operating as tenants, and others as part owners of the vil- lage farm, but the majority would consist, undoubtedly, of artisans, pro- fessional men, traders and small man- ufacturers. Yet, all would have the benefit from the. extra income derived from the vegetable patch and the poultry yard. Such industrial agri- culture is particularly acceptable to the Jew, for it would still permit him to exercise his economic talents in in- dustry—upon which the future of l'alestine depends—yet, without dis- carding the advantages of rural com- Agriculture Not Al. But if any consideration of pure idealism, any undue regard for the holiness of agriculture means the un- dermining of our ability for the com- mercial conquest of the Holy Land, 'then it is inevitable that we must fail in our project of recreating the Jew- ish Palestine. "Man does not live by bread alone," and no country today is economically free that relies exclu- sively upon agriculture: There must be a balanced economic development in which agriculture, industry and commerce play each their respective and important roles. The only difference is that in Pales- tine the problem is complicated by the fact that on an agricultural basis alone we can never secure a sufficient number of Jew's to obtain a majority —to make it a Jewish Palestine. In a country where not more than 5,000,- 001) acres are available for agriculture —we shall be unable to outnumber the present non-Jewish majority of 600,- 00), except under conditions that will be tantamount to an industrialization of our whole agricultural system—by an intensified culture and the growth of industries for by-products, so that our farms will more nearly resemble munities. manufacturing plants and department Fifty Families to Start. stores. But even if the Jews of the world The plan for "A Thousand Garden would be willing and able to trans- Villages in a Score of Years" has been form Palestine into a country of farms adopted by the American Zion Com- and peasantry, the fact remains that monwealth. Each village would start the rest of the world would not per- with 50 families, but the plans allow mit us to do so. Palestine is the con- for an expansion to double or treble necting link between Europe, Asia that number (on an area of between and Africa—the roadway between six and ten thousand dunam, of which, Egypt and India. As the roadbed for one-fourth would constitute the village a railway between the east and west, community proper). There are three it is infinitely more important than as steps in the development of this plan a field of grain--even as the land upon of the American Zion Commonwealth: (I) The purchase of available which rest the tracks of the New York Central railroad, between New York tracts of land at reasonable prices. houses for set- and Chicago, is infinitely more salts- (2) The building of able as a roadbed at the present time. tlers. The preparation of the soil and than if it were utilized as farm land. (3) Palestine is the inevitable trade route the development of the gardens. It is estimated that on the average of the Near East. The agricultural development of the country must lie in every village will cost approximately $200900. Vie can complete the first accordance with that fact, or our en- tire work in Palestine is doomed to hundred villages within the next tune years. at a total cost of $20,000,000. failure. And what is more to the point, ws Immense Capital Required. Furthermore, as a country of large know how to raise the necessary cap- farms, it would be difficult, if not im- ital. The American Zion Common- wealth has already sold over 8,000 possible, to make Palestine a paying land certificates, which will give us for proposition. The Land of Israel re- Palestine development, during the next quires an immense capital investment five years, a sum in excess of $2,000,- to convert it into the land of milk and 0011. ‘We must sell, within the next honeycapital that must be used in year and a half, up to a total of 100.- the development of water power, 000 land certificates in the United afforestation, draining of swamps and States and Canada, which will mean road building. The principal and in- an income for the next seven years of terest for such costly undertaking cannot be defrayed out of the taxes over $25,000,000. The task is not insuperable. The and investments of less than 100,000 American Zion Commonwealth com- tanners (operating the available acre- prises now only a little over 3,200 age on an extensive basis). members out of a total Jewish popu- In short, Palestine can be redeemed lation in the United States and Canada only by means of highly intensive of nearly 4,000.000. Is it too much to agricultural operations, in which the expect that now, under the impetus of farm becomes practically an industrial the San Rem decision and under the unit, analogous to a manufacturing guardianship of Sir Herbert Samuel— plant. (Indeed, the only real success to t the first Jewish governor in Pl aesine of Jewish agriculture • in Palestine in- in 2,000 years—Nee Ode hitherto is to be found in the develop- crease our membership to a total of ment of plantations—which is really 50,000? The installments becoming as much an industrial job as running due from such a membership will give a store or small factory). Industrial- us more than $2ff000,00 0 in five years. ized agriculture alone' can pay for the The peaceful conquest of Palestine heavy initial capital investment in has already begun, and every Jew water power plants and large scale must help us redeem the land of our drainage of swamps. Intensive farm- forefathers. W'e must rebuild the ing can make it possible to support a House of Israel. and every land cer- population of between 3,000.000 and tificate of the American Zion Com- 5,000,000 Jews in Palestine, who would monwealth is a stone in the edifice. be able to support and pay for the American Jewry niust give us 100,000 necessary reconstruction work in the stones necessary for the rebuilding of upbuilding of a Jewish Palestine. the Third Temple—and we must se- Conclusions Arrived At. cure them before the second Passover Nk'e may, therefore, conclude: shall have conic. That Palestine can be develop (1) outlay. u s (2) That in order to preventsuch ing a a bur den an outlay from becoming upon the population, who would have to face the prospect of recurring de- ly ficits, it is necessary that a relative large population shall occupy Pales- tine; and finally (3) That in order to secure a high degree of density in population, so as to obtain the full benefits of water power developments, etc., it is im- perative that Palestine be converted into a country of small farms inten- sively worked. Fortunate are we indeed. therefore, that such a program should fit in with HEBREW BABY DAY NURSERY DANCE AT ARCADIA A SUCCESS The Hebrew Baby flay Nursery Ball which took place Tuesday even. Ing, January 4. at the Arcadia. was highly successful. A varied program of entertainment Was offered by Miss Ida Rosenthal, toe dancer, Miss Phtlamina Hunter, Oriental dancer, Miss Emma Lazur. off singer. Epstein's' orchestra furnished the music for the dancing. Committee heads are confident that the proceeds will exceed their expectations. The Junior organization is now per- fecting plans for Its Flag Day on Jan- the best thoughts of the best brains among its today. The great economists and philosophers of the present day reject alike the lonely farm and the strifeful city as a productive environ- ment for man. uary 23rd. Instead, they offer us pictures of BRITISH JEWS GIVE NIGGARDLY SUMS TO SUPPORT CHARITIES (Continued from Page One) great authority on world revolution— whatever that may mean; and she is one of the few people who seem to know—lectured yet again at the Victoria Chub, a fashionable meeting place near Buckingham Palace, on her favorite topic, charging five shill- ings for the admission of those who wished to feel their flesh creep'at the tale of what we had been up to in the past, what we were after in the pres- ent, and particularly—this being a subject upon which effective contra- diction is a matter of difficulty—what we might be up to in the future. PAGE FIVE. HEALTH TALKS Following is the first of a series of three articles dealing with the subject of Cancer, its forms and treatment, prepared especially for The Detroit Jewish Chronicle by the Maimonides Medical Society, an organization of Detroit Jewish physicians. The series is to be followed by regularly-appearing papers on health, sanitation and hygiene. The Need for Popular Cancer Education. riab ifittruiturr In the vast majority of homes to- day, certainly in most of those of the better classes, the entire family knows that a pain in the right side is very suspicious of appendicitis; a physician is called before nightfall or Chesterton Again! before daylight; should he diagnose A little while before there turns up appendicitis, he and everyone con- Mr. G. K. Chesterton at the Jews' cerned know that there is only one College in Queen s Square of all procedure—immediate operation. Oc- places! Immense of bulk, shaking casionally, if the doctor is in doubt with a Johnsonian ponderosity at his as to the diagnosis—the family will own jests, confident in the knowledge brook no delay—they may demand that Inc was at liberty, in his capacity operation on the suspicion of its be- as guest to dispense subtle, or not ing appendicitis. Why? Operation always subtle, insults at his hosts. for appendicitis was unknown 50 One had thought that the fashion years ago. liut today everyone knows s harn d i ,,,,, if treated amongst J e NV s f o r entertaining that the disease i Messrs. Chesterton and Belloc had immediately. The only deaths, barring waned in the light of certainty that occasional complications, are in the f amily ' s tits they both mean what they say, and ',g i r d e d rases, an d the what they hint about the presence of lit n& toward operation is tliat its a Hebrew Anti-Christ, and are not dangers are much less than those of merely expounding in the cause of delay. Similarly, should anyone ask Ills literary or philosophic research a theory remarkable enough for its un- neighbor " \What do you know about isi'. hettle deadly for s reason, and therefore fit for the at - tubercul osis" disease, s:, reply: is a rather tention of sensible men and women . about which we used to hear more only in order that it shall be demon than use do now, but if recognized strated to be false. It was good to see that at least one of those present, early and proper treat meat instituted we ll. (chiefly fresh air, rest and plenty 111 iss lieg'nui Miriam Bloch, known in the Jewish literary world, food) many cases get well." 1 he wide dissemination of a very and a sound and fearless patriot, get up and ask the meeting roundly why few facts regarding thes e two diseases Irave reduced mortality one-third in they entertained Mr. Chesterton, the case of tuberculosis and to an in- knowing him to he an Anti-Semite. significant figure in the case of appen- Frankness such as this will always dicitis. In a general way, the laity find its critics among those Sql1Catn - know the symptoms and treatment of ish minds who are an easy mark for these two diseases as well as the the Chestertons, protected by the ar- medical profession. tistic temperament from the common- Ask your friend. or even yourself, place obligations of courtesy. Well, "What do you know about cancer?" the protest seas made, awl it cleared and the answer will in all probability be: "l'he terminaticm is in Faust- the air. • • a uifflicted with it, one may as well throw up the sponge. The eases I THE STORY OF have known have all been hopeless A CUP OF TEA. from the start; so much so, that there One of the best known Jewish min- is a family taint about the disease. inters in London was speaking to me Operation? Why, that either hastens a few days ago, about communal af- the end or adds a few months or so fairs. He said, "'rhe community has of misery. Cure? Never." And yet, if a few facts regarding just lost a man whom it could least afford to lose, and I—I have lost a this scourge were as widely known as a ir lyi erthdeisce oasneusnol ttiie par,i,nsc,q,ffres some friend and an advisor such aslile shall o s esd w o on r s. lased never be able to replace." speaking of Mr. Isidore Gluckstein, statistics and known instances of The Edgware Road, in London, is cures, would be as bright as in the An Interior Designed and executed by Detroit Furniture Shops. Facilitated by factory association. Detroit ifuntiturr *Imps Warren and Riopelle Telephone Melrose 1320 Open Saturday Afternoon By street car, via Woodward Avenue and Crosstown cars, east to Riopelle Street, then walk two blocks north. By automobile, via Woodward Avenue, east on Warren Avenue to Riopelle Street, a thoroughfare which is bounded at two first mentioned diseases. " rile purpose of this series of articles one end by fashionable Hyde Park and Park Lane and the whole of the is to bring before the reading public district known as Mayfair, while at a few of the salient points regarding , the other end is the solid comfort of cancer. Only a generation ago, the Brondesbury and West Hampstead. consumptive was regarded as doomed, ■ noonumuunnumumuunN100000000000000000 000000000LED 111111R111114111M11111 llllll 11511111111n1Ulfinm yet nobody now believes that con- I t self however is known more than sumption is sure death. Better re- anything else for a place whe re salts from the treatment of cancer f Crimea had among them several mil- duty of the wealthier sections of 'the "things" (including in the tent any- will only be obtained when the ublic 1 lion rubles. But when they ex- Jewish people to come at once to the thing from oranges to picture know and recognize the early' signs P changed these for Turkish pounds rescue. palaces) are cheaper than anywhere of the disease as they do in tuber- they could not even pay their fares "The prospects are excellent. {lye else within miles. Some forty years culosis. Instead, however, of the pain- as far as Jaffa. The whole of Eastern ago Isidore Gluckstein and his ful appendix and the coughing con- Europe is in the same plight. Mil- have the men, and the political ton- (Continued from Page One) brother-in-law Barnett Salmon were minimise, there is, in the case of can- lionaires are beggars and beggars are ditions in Palestine, since the arrival carrying on a small tobacco business ter, only an inconspicuous lump, ant millionaires. The Jews in other parts of Sir Herbert Samuel—who is new Many in Need of Funds. in this road, and in all probability indolent sore, a painless hemorrhage. "There are hundreds of thousands of the world, where money still re- universally beloved by Jew and Arab were not behind the other traders of etc. ten less the patient is forewarned, like them yet in Central and Eastern tains its value, must come to the aid alike—are most favorable. The en- the district in selling their goods at the early signs of cancer arc too Europe and the great problem is to of their unfortunate brethren whos e thusiasm among the Jews.all overthe world is growing, andl am confident a cheaper rate than elsewhere in the slight to be recognized. The beginning of cancer does not transfer them to Palestine. There are ideals are good but whose valuta i s that in a very few years.we shall see neighborhood. two main difficulties to overcome. The bad. In the late '90's they came into con- hurt. 1Vhen it begins to hurt, or first is due to the economic ruin of "The other difficulty is due to the a strong and thriving Jewish popula- lion in Palestine. The well-to-do wilt discomfort, the hope of cure is tact with the late Sir Joseph Lyons cause generally past. Many surgeons of Central and Eastern Europe. In or- condition of Palestine. The land has establish factories when I once the —"Joe Lyons" he was known as then, dinary times most of these pioneers been desolate for so many years that foundations are laid. lifelong experience with malignant as he was until the day of his death— would have a tolerable suns of money it cannot be rendered fit for habita- and Joe Lyons had an idea in his growths have prayed that the begin- at their disposition for the journey, tion without the expenditure of mil- "Jews from the most remote ior- ning of cancer could be painful. head. He had come up to London and for their first settlement in Pales- lions. Even when the money is forth- ners of the globe are arriving in The paternal, but ever vigilant and tine. Today the German and l'olish coming—and it is sure to come—it one day from the provinces (so the Palestine. Each has certain relations story goes) and felt badly in need efficient German state recognized the mark and Austrian and Hungarian will take time to get the soil ready. in the country he has left, What a of a cup of tea, for which at the same need of this education 30 years ago. crown and Russian ruble are so low The people in Central and Eastern splendid foundation for a world-wide time he did not propose to pay more Through the press. lectures, public that comparatively wealthy persons Europe, living in a state of fermenta- commerce! But apart from com- than a penny:. Ile looked all over health agencies, etc., continual cam- have to ask for assistance to pay their tion and disorder, are naturally im- merce, Palestine is to be the educa- paigns of education were carried passage. Thus a group recently ar- patient; they want to get away as London for such a thing, but it was tional centre for Jews, who will send through. \Within two to three years rived in Constantinople from the quickly as possible. It is clearly the not to be found; and that was the their children there to study." an entirely different group of cancers germ of his idea. lie talked it over were operated upon—they were all in with Isidore Gluckstein and his a much earlier stage. Contrary to 4 brother-in-law, and "J. Lyons & Co." some The Larva alift Mnret Jewelry More on the Mast Mete popular notions, there was no was the result. These teashops sprang popular cancer fear or panic. or up all over London, a boon to many phobia evoked by popular education. • a tired City worker and shopping ma- Carefully compiled statistics in tron. And at the same time the to- England and in this country show that bacco business of Salmon and Gluck- the same advanced stage of tumor stein was growing beyond all knowl- comes to our hospitals now as did (Told in the New Way) edge, keeping pace with J. Lyons & 50 years ago. There is the same Company. average delay of six months to a To the Tune of the Wedding March After a time the small tcashop idea year or more before operation is de- r became too cramped, and after some cided on, and hence comes the popu- hesitation the firm launched out into lar pessimism, the general idea of .: 11 """"ii me.L.eisomie.z.eiMmir e i r==.1 their first big venture of the kind, hopelessness in regard to cancer. and opened the Trocadero Restau- Most of the operations for cancer the Now 's t he lime to pop the question rant. Once fired, their ambition average person knows of have ended blazed like a furnace, and the Corner- fatally and in short order. Why? Because the early, hopeful stage of House, the Strand Corner-House and i sommanes• sminrimiamalit. ■ ■ the Regent l'alace Hotel followed in the disease was passed over unrecog- nized or disregarded. N• ■■•- === . more or less swift succession. rumor" row t.1% ■ oir Lest no one think this topic a moun• Meanwhile, the funnily grew by niar- ......... I lain out of a molehill or "much ado nage, and flourished exceedingly. 'rile the (tray' ring 110W, don't delay about nothing," the following figures younger generation was sent in the 0 main to one of two schools, good may he apropos: The cancer mortality in the U. S. middle-class institutions where they Ms could gain knowledge and sympathy is about 80,000 deaths per annum. As .. ""Zummat ■ u.mwswlawwilmm.liimmliZInommia . iftsai • ■ -.. ■ 1 iieweeloilms 017/- 1.0 ■ 11 MIIIIMI ■ •••••• ■ 11., many die of cancer each year as the -•■■ with their fellow-men; some to the country lost in the great war. One SO City of London School and some to woman in eight. one man in eleven in Platinum diamond heaut ies St. Paul's. At either of these schools, past 40, are destined to die of cancer. if you scratched a Salmon you found A 0 From tenth or twelfth in the list .,.. . ..-......... ... ■ ow a Gluckstein at your elbow ready to of causes of death a few years ago -- ---. .- -7:--••.• ::::-. — avenge all insults and petty tyranny; it has risen to fifth, being now passed and the good nature and sound human only by tuberculosis, heart trouble, sympathy which pervaded each mem- pneumonia and kidney diseases. In ..,,,,I charge it the Aloe Ehrlich tray. ber from birth carried them one and fact, the nurses of tuberculosis and alt straight into the hearts of those cancer are very rapidly approaching with whom they came in contact. each other. due to the fall of the for- "i i, They provided their own business men mer and the rise of the latter. and their own professional workers, There are estimated to be 25,000,000 ': ... Gorgeous solitaires—per- I don't. boost the prico doctors, engineers or what you will; cancer sufferers throughout the world. ,-- , a family which pre-eminently stood All authorities agree that with early r feet blue white diamonds when I open a charge ac- — diagnosis and treatment three-quar- upon its own legs. count with you—my plan set in the newest itutoo- \ And what meanwhile of Isidore ters to nine-tenths of they could be Gluckstein, one of its founders? He cured. Are these figures appealing? is a friend-to-friend ac- lions in exquisite I'lati- • ,, (To be continued.) had helped to found the family for- , al rommoiltion ti mountings. with prices nu tunes; and now, in his quiet, unas- Next Week—The Nature of Cancer. ••i IMMIGRANTS ARRIVE IN PALESTINE FROM VARIOUS COUNTRIES • The old Sweet Story = E • Ilw. sse I= . E,,,G=a= ..._.- fro: suming way, he was taking keen and helpful interest in communal matters which he kept to the end of his days. It was not only that he gave money and material help. He vouchsafed also his incalculable business gift of knowledge of human hearts and af- fairs, and by his well-timed advice was instrumental in setting more than one failing communal charity or busi- ness concern firmly on its feet once more. Money has been given by many; but it is only once here and there that British Jewry has been able to secure such lavish help of one of the keenest business brains it has has even known. And it was all done quietly and behind the scenes, and only those most intimately concerned' knew that the man at the back of the Trocadero was also at the back of most of the communal system of British Jewry. And so I agreed with my friend the minister; the corn- munity has lost a man whom it could , least afford to lose. 'P;41 NEW JUDAEAN CLUB To the many Young Judanan clubs now existing In Detroit another club was added last Sunday, at the home of Mr. Lazaruff. on Fisher avenue. This club will be known as "The Shomerim (Guards) of Judaea" and will be under the leadership of Mr. S. Lehrman, leader of the Stars of Judaea, The club had a large enrol- ment and promises to be an active circle and will bring In closer touch the Jews of the east limits of Detroit. Mr. S. Heyman. Supervisor of Ju- daean clubs of Detroit was the speak- er of the evening. NORDAU SERIOUSLY ILL PARIS—The grand old man of Jewry, Dr. Max Nordau has been taken 111 with • serious touch of pneumonia. Diamond Engage- ment Rings ,:, •:=_ ...._, ... based on actual values. $250 to $2500 7,4 A Buy Back Bond With Every Diamond Sold ) Open A Charge Account INTO . Ehrlich Building Cor. Adams and Hastings Not In I'• r•rn •••••• tl'•n-Vt Have It Charged