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FRANKLIN CAR SELLS The Relation of the Jews
BY THE CARLOAD LOT
to the Arabs

dowed spiritually and his mentality time reversed. In the early Middle
dneablrm
ingustto,g..i.,1hi(s.tr
related to the Jewish, it can be taken Ages we Jews transmitted to the t l ° a t r e Ys t cai
)1 ' ,fgathini. s: The
for granted that with the same Occident the knowledge of the East
th e
schooling the rising generation of the of which the Arabs were then the the Western Asiatic nations, with that
Arabs will stand on the same cultural custodians, and we thus furnished Arabs and Jews at their head, r
level as the Jews. Endeavoring in the impulse to ward the Renaissance store the near East, which for ten: e.
this wise to transmit European cul- on which the entire present-day turies has presented
a picture of
ture to the Arabs, we shall play the spiritual life of Europe rests. Today desolate spiritual wilderness,
to a
BY DR. ARTHUR RUPPIN.
same role that we once played in the we shall have to transmit the knowl- region of high culture which trill a
If we desire to re-establish our-
So much therefore is clear: No Middle Ages, except that the direc- edge of Europe to the Arabs.
justify the odd dictum, "ex
What history has separated, his- lux."
selves as a nation in Palestine and conflict need arise between Jews and tion of the cultural stream is this
orient,
resume our place in the family of Arabs owing to a lack of land; then
the nations of the Orient from which is enough room there for all. In
we were expelled almost two thou- the acquisition of land neither the
sand years ago, we cannot afford rights of the owner nor those of the
to live in enmity with the leading tenant-farmer shall be prejudiced,
and most numerous branch of this and above all the small farmer must
family, the Arabic. We shall for be protected in every way against
some decades be only a small people being bought out. The Jewish Col-
in Palestine, from one or two mil- onization Societies should never par.
lions at most. All around us there chase peasant lands but only large
will be Arabs as far as Aleppo in estates. The Arabian tenant-farmer
the north, to Bagdad in the east and resident on purchased land should
4 " ECTRIC'
across Egypt around to Morocco in have at his disposal as much ground
the south and west. To live in peace as he previously cultivated.
with these thirty or forty million of The tenant-farmer should no
Arabs is not only a dictate of simple longer be obliged to fear, as at pres-
political wisdom; it is also, in a ant under the Arab owner of large
higher sense, a command of the na- estates, that he may be expelled
tional instinct which guides nations from the soil any year. Ile should
related in speech and race in their receive a legally assured por:tion
LINE OF FRANKLIN CARS.
relations to each other.
through a long-term lease or even
Peace will only maintain itself if through purchase of this plot by
W. J. Doughty, Franklin dealer, last week received a trainload of
Franklin cars featuring the new hood which has already proved popular in all colonization measures we ob- periodic payments. This would urge
among automobile buyers and for which there is a great demand on the serve as our principal rule of con- the tenant-farmer to a more inten-
duct not to prejudice any of the sive cultivation of the land, for the
market.
properly acquired rights of the hitherto extensive cultivation of the
Mr. Doughty, upon receipt of the cars, announced that "they were Arabic resident. We must, of course, land is due in no slight degree to the
selling by the carloads," and that the demand for them was gradually in- acquire our place in Palestine, but fact that the tenant-farmer was
creasing. The Doughty salesrooms for the Franklin car are located at we must accomplish it not by oust- never sure that he would remain on
:1745 Cass avenue.
ing others from their sources of live- the same land the following year,
The Franklin car was virtually unknown to the Detroit automobile- lihood by by creating new sources of so that a more intensive cultivation
buying public before Mr. Doughty established the first agency in Detroit livelihood for ourselves. Fortunately, did not pay hmi. The acquisition of
in 1914, The first thing done by Mr. Doughty upon establishing here was this is possible. Before the war land should generally occur under
to start a campaign of education about the Franklin car, and the campaign there lived in I'alestine on an area conditions of freedom. Only in case
proved a tremendous success, as is evidenced by the popularity of the of 30,000 square kilometers a popu- it should appear that in this manner
car he is selling.
lation of at most 1,000,000; and dui- the acquisition of land at reasonable
ing the war this number has prob. prices is not possible should meas.
ably been reduced to 750,000, or 25 urea be adopted such as the estab-
inhabitants to a square kilometer. lishment of the preferential right of
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This is a very meager population, purchase at alienation of large es-
The soil is not at all fully utilized tates in favor of Jewish Colonization
agriculturally. A considerable por- Societies, full ocmpensation to the
tion of the soil, in fact, has not yet owners always being provided for.
been touched by the plow, and the For the advancement of Jewish
part which is already under cultiva- agricultural colonization and to fa-
tion could, with more intensive and cilitate the marketing of the agri-
improved methods, yield much great- cultural products harbor and railroad
er returns. If we estimate the area construction will have to be started
of Palestine capable of use for agri- at once. Without a large Jewish
The "Detroit Electric" for 1921 is the achievement
cultural purposes at one-half of the colonization these under takings
of an organization bending every effort to produce
total area, that is at 15,000 square would not be profitable and would
kilometers or 17,000,000 dunams, probably have to be postponed for
the highest tye of enclosed car for town and sub-
the number of agricultural units in decades. If, thanks to Jewish col-
urban use.
Palestine at 80,000 to 100,000, and onization, they will be started at
the area requisite for each unit at once, the transportation facilities
100 dunams, there still remain over will be greatly improved to the bene-
Money, skill and art have given their best to the
7,000,000 to 9,000,000 dunams. This fit of the farmer who in consequence
is twice as much as Jewish coloniz- of the easier and cheaper marketing
creation of a line of cars which are not only beau-
ation in Palestine requires for the facilities will make more out of his
tiful to the eye, but have what is more important,
next 30 years. And, in this connec- agricultured products. Thus the
tion, we should consider that, while value of Jewish colonization to the
a structural perfection which insures satisfactory
the grain growing agricultural unit Arab population expresses itself at
and unfailing service for years to come.
requires an area of 100 dunams, once in cold cash. To this must be
DODGE COUPE
once Palestine determines its distinc; added the fact that the Jewish im.
tive agricultural specialty to be the migrants are also purchasing consum-
Discriminating buyers will appreciate the sterling
* 00401 :1 **00004* 0G00000 00000 000 00000 400 00-00 000 00 0400-04110 raising of the best tropical fruits ers and will constitute an outlet for
and vegetables, an agricultural unit the products of the Arabian farmers
qualities and unobstructive elegance of the new
will require no more than 20 dunams. at profitable prices; and, what is not
"Detroit Electric."
of least importance, numerous Arab
artisans and laborers will be em-
ployed in the work of the Jewish
colonies and in "le necessary build-
ing activities in onnection with the
Our exhibit at the Detroit Automobile Show will be of interest
colonization. The last point brings
to you.
us to the much-discussed question of
the competition between Jewish and
Arabian wage-workers. The charge
has been made against the Jews that,
wherever they find it possible, they
employ only Jewish and no Arab
labor. It is true that the Jews in
Palestine must, first and foremost,
endeavor to provide employment for
Sales and Service
the immigrant Jew. The Jews are
not to be blamed for using Jewish
laborers so long as the latter apply
Cass Ave. at Antoinette
Northway 5470
for work. This policy is also just
for the reason that for a large por-
tion of the Jewish immigrants wage
work is the only means of existence
since they possess neither capital nor
land, while the Arab wage-worker is
in almost all cases either himself a
small husbandman, or belongs to the
family of one, and looks upon his.
earnings as a wage-worker merely
as side-earnings. To this must be
added the fact that the employment
of Jews in agriculture and the handi-
crafts constitutes the only means of
LOCOMOBILE
introducing the Jewish immigrants,
who come mostly from commercial
pursuits, into agriculture and the
handicrafts and prepare them for a
life of husbandmen or artisans.
Idealistic motives also to the effect
that the Jews must fertilize the soil
which they acquire not with the
sweat of others but with their own,
play here a part. It goes without
saying, however, that the natural
preference for Jewish labor should
not lead to a systematic exclusion.
of the Arab laboring forces. The
Arabs should not consider it wrong
of the Jews when they employ Jew-
ish labor so long as Jewish workmen
are without work. But the Arab
I he
workman need not be placed under
ban.
Besides the above-mentioned ad-
vantages which accrue to the Arab
population through the public works
to be started by the Jewish Coloniz-
ation Societies, the welfare of the
Arab population should be system-
We believe as dis-
atically advance through other
tributors for three of
measures also. We have in mind
here measures (II with regard to
the moat desirable motor
hygient, (2) with regard to tech-
cars made in America, that we
nology, (3) with regard to the credit
system and (4) with regard to the
are giving to discriminating buyers
school system.
an opportunity to secure a high grade
In the field of hygiene the Jews
must make it their business to stamp
motor vehicle with a service policy in keep-
out the epidemic diseases of Pales-
ing with the merits of the lines we represent.
tine (malaria and trachoma) and in
this way save hundreds of thousands
of Arabs from sickness and blind-
ness.
In the field of technology they
should by admitting Arabs into the
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agricultural and handicrafts schools,
spread technical knowledge among
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them. The Jewish commercial and
agrarian banks should also be open
to the Arabs.
3954 Woodward Avenue
The chief problem, however, ap-
pears to be to raise the very primi-
At Alexandrine.
tive school system of the Arabs
whether by admitting Arab pupils
into our schools or by contributing
to the development of their own
school system through subventions.
The estrangement between Jews and
Arabs can only be made to disappear
if the Arabs will attain the same cul-
tural level as the Jewish immigrants.
Since the Arab is by nature well en-
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