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TOBACCO IN PALESTINE
ICING WAH LO CO. IS NOW
detail and lucidity, exactly the poll-
AT THE CADILLAC HOTEL
Lion in which as I conceive it, the
The Jewish Colonial Association,
general mandate question for Pales-
A
highly
interesting
and
significant
tine
and
the
Near
Fast
stands.
I
have
The King Wah Lo Company, orig- in addition to granting financial as-
Speech Before the League Council Declaring the Unchanged
explained why all the regrettable de-
history shedding light on the Arab inally known as the Grand Cafe, on sistance to their farmers for tobacco
Policy of Britain on the Mandate.
stories about "expensive" Jewish labor Woodward avenue, which has sold cultivation, have provided them with
lay has secured; 1 have explained why
free seeds from Salonika and with
the final juridical settlement of the
"In order to successfully enforce is related by the Haifa correspondent out its old quarters, is now located at
Nahum Sokolow, President of the though I have had no official intima- whole question is still in the future;
of the Jerusalem "Haaretz."
the Cadillac Hotel. The King Wah the services of an expert in tobacco
Executive Council of the World Zion- tion of the facts, that in addition to I have explained that this is in no any law or regulation, it is necessary
On December '7, says the correspon- Lo Company, whose catering of food planting, according to a report from
ist Organization and of the last Zion- this action of the American Govern- sense involves a modification of the first to educate the public concern-
dent, the Department of Public Works is well known to Detroiters, was Palestine. There will be about 300
ist Congress, Karlsbad, 1921, who is ment the American Senate has unani- tT
lines of Palestinian policy laid down ing the law's advantages, and that is of the Workers' Organization, applied forced to take these new quarters be- dunams in all planted with tobacco
also Chairman of the Zionist delega- mously exprsesed its approval of the by the allied and associated powers,
in their settlement.
the reason that I have always favored to the municipality of Ilaifa for the cause of its inability to handle the
tion to this country, has received from policy embodied in the Palestinian
The Jewish Colonial Association
mandate. But all this has to be put and emphatically endorsed by Amer- educational campaigns in connection contract for broadening the main large number of people that attend-
Lord Balfour a letter dated May 18,
street of the town. The work was ad- ed the Grand Cafe. The company has already experimented in tobacco
at Genoa, enclosing a copy of the in treaty form. Diplomacy moves Ica. I have indicated also why it is with the enforcement of traffic laws," vertised by means of bills posted in announces that an even improved planting with these seeds in the years
speech Lord Balfour made before the slowly. And it was not till the very that I am most anxious that a step
1896-99 in Roseh-Pinah and Metull-
Supreme Council of the League of Na- eve of the meeting of this council that forward should be taken as soon as said George A. Walters, deputy po- all public places. On February 14, service has been installed at the
lab, and later in the Lebanon, and
lice commissioner. "I do not believe 1922, after the offers received were Cadillac Hotel to cater to its pat-
tions on May 17, on the question of we received the final statement from possible in the interests of Palestinian
administration. You will permit me,
ronizers. here one can get the best are of the opinion that the prospects
published
it
turned
out
that
the
cheap-
the Palestine mandate. The text of our or American
the general
ten- therefore, M. le President, to conclude it is necessary to arrest everyone in
of which friends,
I have already
explained.
est offer was that of the Department of food and service without extor- in some districts of Palestine are
the speech follows:
order to enforce the law. The pub-
tionate charges. The place is cool good.
"I had hoped that in the course of We received it so late that it was by a asking
my under
colleagues
to agree
to lic is willing to be regulated if it of Public Works of the Workers' Or-
proposal
which this
question
ganization. A sitting of the members and comfortable, being cooled by
The Commercial Bulletin of the
the discussions that take place at this quite impossible for the British Gov- shall come u again before a future knows the regulations are based on of the municipality took place immed- large fans.
Palestine government reports that
Id have ernment to give that notice to our col- meeting of the Council, and I would common sense. It does not pay to
Council it
Harry Voile and his syncopators, Rishon-le-Zion has set aside 58 du-
meet in g
iately after the declaration and the
proved possible to make one step for.. leagues, which, of course, we should suggest that that meting should he go to extremes. Any good law can
representative of the Workers' Organ- a band known throughout the coun- nams for the purpose of tobacco cul-
ward in the direction of a final settle- otherwise have done had we intended held within the next six weeks."
be killed through the use of extreme ization was called to the sitting. The try fur its jazz playing, play every tivation, Nachlat Yehudo 25 dunams,
ment of all these mandates connected to raise the question at the council.
measures. That policy has charac- mayor declared that while he recog- day. There is a beautiful dance Beer Yacob 10 dunams, Ilartov 2 du-
with the Middle East. I have been The result was that when I came to
MRS. FREEDMAN TO PLAY terized our handling of traffic mat- nized that the Workers' Organization floor where dance are held every nams, Gederz 48 dunams.
disappointed; but do not let anybody Geneva this question was not on the
It has enabled us to get the was likely not to be only the cheapest evening, including Sundays. Unlike
A new tobacco factory, Kitora,
FOR FREE PRESS RADIO ters.
suppose that the disappointment is I agreed agenda, and I had to ask per-
co-operation of the Detroit Automo- but also the most efficient applicant other places in Detroit, no cover owned by Messrs. J. Ben-Israel & Co.,
due either to the fact that the absence mission of my colleagues to allow me
bile Club, the Federation of Women's for the work, he would give them the charge is made for patrons of the was established on Jan. 1 at Sated.
On Saturday eening, June 24, from Clubs and upwards of 100 other sub-
of discussion at this meeting delays to raise it. They felt, or some of
cafe.
A
special
nooday
luncheon
can
contract only if they did not employ
now operating with
the final settlement of the problem, or them felt (I dare say all of them felt) 7 to 8 o'clock, Mrs. Max Freedman stantial and progressive organiza- any Jewish workers and only five Jew- be had daily for 65 cents, also an The factory is
15 employes.
because I am afraid that the general that while there was probably no ob- (Lillian Shimberg) will play for the tions.
evening dinner at $1.25.
ish
technical
advisers.
The
represen-
policy which the allied and associated jection at all to the substance of any- Detroit Free Press radio broadcast-
"Through the combined efforts of tative of the Workers' Organization
powers and the League of Nations thing proposed, they had not sufficient ing station the following program:
the various agencies concerned there pointed out that according to the ad- RABBIS RULE RELIEF IS
RABBI NOT PERMITTED
have endorsed is in the smallest dan- notice either to enable them to dis-
COLLECTABLE ON SABBATH
has been a saving of 106 lives in the vertisement, the tender had to be giv-
Dennee
Octave Etude.
TO DISTRIBUTE FOOD
ger. Neither of these pre-occupations cuss the question with their own gov-
Chopin
Nocturne . .
last year as compared with the rec- en to the applicant who offered the
teeehetisk y
have animated use on this occasion. I ernments or to enable those govern-
Etude In Octaves ..
ord for the preceding year in regard best and cheapest terms, and he also
W1LNA.—(J. T. A.)—Relief for
Chopin
Revolutionary Etude
"The Treaty of Sevres and the re- menu themselves to consider whether
Liget
to street traffic deaths."
RIGA.—(J. C. B.)—Food parcels
assured the mayor that there would the famine-stricken Jews in Russia
Sixth Rhapeodie .
modeling or the treaty of Sevres this method of dealing with one man-
Mr. Walters is a candidate for not be any discrimination between may be collected on the Sabbath and sent by American Jews through the
have nothing whatever to do with the date at a time in the Middle East was
This is part of an all-classical pro- sheriff of Wayne county on the Re- Jewish and Arab workers, and that Jewish holy days, the Talmudic pro- American Relief Administration for
policy of mandates either in the Near or was not a convenient method of gram.
publican ticket, primary election, many Arab workers were alr
eady em- hibition aganist handling money on their countrymen in Smilowitch,
East or anywhere else. Grave ques- Procedure from a general point of
Sept. 12. Ile has been secretary and ployed by the Workers' organization. Jewish holy days notwithstanding, Minsk, and addressed in care of the
tions undoubtedly are going to be dis- view. They therefore felt, not un- 50,000 EAST EUROPEAN
deputy commissioner of the Detroit Nevertheless, the mayor returned to the Wilna rabbis rule, explaining rabbi have been held up by Soviet
cussed, among the interested powers naturally, that they ought not. in the
JEWS NOW IN GERMANY police department for 14 years, the representative the deposit made by that the collection of money for re- officials who declare that they, and
with regard to certain provisions in English phrase, to be 'rushed' in the
through six different administrations, the organization and the contract was lief purposes is equivalent to saving not the rabbi, are authorized to dis-
the Treaty of Sevres; but those parts matter. The last thing that the Brit
tribute the parcels, says a Minsk dis-
BERLIN.—(J. C. B. by Mail)—The in charge of the department's busi- given to a private non-Jewish con- human life, which is permitted on
of the Treaty of Sevres which refer fah Government desires, of course, Is
patch.
s,
the Sabbath.
German Minister for the Interior as ness and specializing in traffic regu- tractor.
either to the general policy of man- to rush anybdoy into any proposal
lations.
Many
of
the
effective
laws
This
fact
produced
a
very
great
im-
dates or to the particular mandates which he has not had time to consider, submitted to the Reichstag the figures
regarding immigration and emigra- and new regulations were originated pression among the Jewish population
- required in the Middle East, those and I make no complaint against the
tion in Germany during the period of by him and have proved so successful in Ilaifa. A letter was written by the
parts of the Treaty of Sevres have action
I only that
want
my
leagues taken.
to remember
it is
an col-
ac- the war and till the end of 1920. The that they have attracted the atten- Workers' Organization to the govern-
never been and are not going to be
figures are based on the estimated of tion of the officials in all large cities or, protesting against the discrimina-
subject to discussion among the allied Lion which has had some inconvenient
and associated powers. Therefore, repercussion in Palestine itself from the various refugee card organiza- of the United States, where many of tion between Jewish and non-Jewish
workers and against the ignoring of
tions. The number of East European them have been copied.
when I say that nothing that this the administrative point of view.
Mr. Walters was vice-consul gen- the voice of the Jewish inhabitants
"You will see therefore, that the de- Jews who have entered Germany dur-
Council at this meting will do, no
eral
from
the
United
States
to
the
and rate payers of the town.
prac - ing the after-war period is estimated
Oldest and Reliable
number of resolution that will pass lay, however serious may be its
It will be remembered that a chief
at 70,000. Accor ing to the figures central part of China, is a former
will make the judicial date earlier tical effects, in no sense touches any of the Jewish workers welfare organi- newspaper reporter and a lawyer, point in Arab propaganda in England
than it would otherwise have ben, of the broad questions in which the
having
graduated
from
the
Detroit
and
in
Palestine
is
the
allegation
that
about
15,000
of
these
have
re-
ublic are interested. Man y of them
you will observe that I am dealing
think, are in error as to the powers emigrated, which leaves a total of 50,- College of Law. Persons having busi- the Jews refuse to employ Arab work-
with a purely technical point which
of the League of Nations, or of this 000 East European Jews who have ness with the police department have ers and that the Jewish labor is a bur-
has no relation to the substantial
purposes come into Germany during the war always found him considerate and den to the country as it is expensive
policy with which we are concerned. Council, which for many
and inefficient.
courteous.
represents the League; they are in er- and after-war periods.
"Let me repeat that the general pol-
(I
say)
as
to
the
powers
which
ror
icy has already been decided, and is
outside any discussion which could these bodies possess in regard to man-
take place around • this, table. There dates.
"The mandates are not our creation.
is not the slightest doubt that the
views which the allied and associated The mandates are neither made by the
powers have explicitly declared are League, nor can they, in substance,
not going to be reversed. Nobody be altered by the League. Our duties
need be under the least fear, and no- are of two kinds. It is our business,
body, let me add, need entertain the in the first place, to see that the sped-
least hope that those broad lines of fie and detailed terms of the mandates
policy are going to suffer any altera- are in accordance with the decisions
tion. My regret, therefore, that the come to by the allied and associated
discussion has had to be postponed powers in Article XXII. of the Treaty
has no relation to the fundamental of Versailles; and, in the second place
considerations on which I have just to see that, in carrying out those man-
dwelt. It is based purely upon ad- dates, the mandatory power shall be
ministrative expediency. I ask you under the supervision—not the con-
to remember not merely that the task trol, but the supervision—of the
thrown upon the mandatary in Pal- League of Nations, which possess an
estine is one of great delicacy and dif- admirable organization through which
ficulty, but that it is also one which it can obtain the fullest information
requires for its adequate development at to the method in which each man-
the obtaining of large pecuniary re- datory power fulfils the duties which
sources. Unless we are able, as I am are entrusted to it.
confident that ultimately we shall be
"Remember that a mandate is •
able, no to develop the economic capac- self-imposed limitation by the con-
ities of Palestine as to neable it to querors on the sovereignty which they
suport a much larger population In obtained over conquered territories.
much greater comfort than is at pres- It is imposed by the allied and asso-
ent possible, then our hopes as to the ciated powers themselves in the in-
future of the country are no doubt terests of what they conceived to be
doomed to disappointment. Money the general welfare of mankind; and
therefore, is required; productive cap- they have asked the League of Na-
ital is absolutely necessary: and every tions to assist them in Beefing that this
body who knows the present condition policy should be carried into effect.
of the world and the difficulty of ob- But the League of Nations is not the
taining important sums for any pur- author of the policy, but its instru-
pose whatever must be perfectly well ment. It is not they who have invent-
aware that anything which postpones ed the system of mandates•, it is not
or even appears to postpone the final they who have laid down the general
and definite settlement of our prob- lines on which the three classes of
lem discourages the lenders and makes mandates are framed. Their duty,
it more difficult to obtain their much- let me repeat, is to see, in the first
needed assistance. I hope, therefore, place, that the terms of the mandates
that all my colleagues on the Council conform to the principles of the coven-
will remember that we— the Govern- ant, and, in the second place, that
ment I represent—feel ourselves in these terms !hall, in fact, regulate
rather a . special position as regards the policy of the mandatory powers
the duties thrown upon us by the in the mandated territories.
mandate, and that in the interests of
"Now, it is clear from this state-
sound administration every step take nest that both those who hope and
en toward the technical regularization those who fear what, I believe, has
of our position is of the utmost pos- been called the 'Balfour declaration'
.
'Bible value.
is going to suffer substantial modifi-
"Now, I believe the public have been cations are in error. The fears are
puzzled, and perhaps not unnaturally not justified; the hopes are not justi-
puzzled, by the delay which has occur. fled. The general lines of policy stand
eat in connection with this mandate: and must stand. I am aware, of
and, being puzzled, some of them say, course, that a certain wave of anxiety
'Well, is this delay due to any lode has affected some sections of opinion
elsion on the part of either of the al- lest this mandatory system, as applied
lied and associated Powers or of the to Palestine, should have an injurious
Council of the League of Nations or effect upon the religious interest of
of the mandatory Powers? Are any of ' this or that great Christian body. I
these authorities shrinking from the confess to feeling, I will not say in-
policy already declared? In other dignation—that would be too strong a
words. they are inclined to interpret word—but surprise, that any human
delay as a sign of indecision. The ere heirs should suppose that Christian
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ror is a grave one, but I think I can interests shoud suffer by the transfer
dissipate it by explaining in a very of power in Palestine from a Mohan,-
few words hew the difficulties have medan to a Christian power; and,
occured. I have already referred to , frankly, my surprise is not diminished
the fact that so far as the embodiment , when I reflect that that Christian
of our policy in a final treaty is con- ,
earned, that has suffered delay not at power is Great Britain. I venture.
Idly, to claim for my country, and I
.all because of any question connected donot believe that anybody who lis-
mandates, but because other clues ; tens to me or who does me the honor
1 tions wholly alien to the mandate to read what I say, will contest the
problem have pre-occupied the Pow- claim, that no power has shown itself
era who are signatories of the Treaty more equitable in its treatment of dif-
of Sevres. On this point I need say ferent religious creeds, more anxious
'no more. But there is another point to avoid offending religious suscepti-
which I do opt think is fully under- Willies. We have had immense ex-
stood by,the public, and on which per- . perience in dealing with religion other
'haps my colleagues will allow me, as than Christian. And as regards the
this is a public session, to say a word various forms of the Christian relig-
in order to dissipate prevailing mile ion, everybody will admit who known
conceptions.
anything about the practice of my '
"Under the Treaty of Versailles and country. that we have shown the ut-
the Treaty of Sevres it has always most fairness and the utmost gener-
contemplated that America, who had alit in dealing even with these de-
signed those treaties, would alss nominations from which the majority '
share in the ratification of the Treaty of our population widely differ. We
of Versailles, and would become in are a Protestant country, but I hold-
that sense a full party to all the re- ly say that I do not believe that in any
sponsibilities and all the labors of the country—Protestant or Catholic—had
Allied Powers. You all know that, for the Catholic religion receiver fairer
various reasons which I need net dis- nr more generous treatment than it
cuss, that consummation has not been has within the British Isles. Now, in
reached. but America very naturally r it creditable that when you have by
said: 'The fact that I have not rati- the fortune of the war, taken away
fled the Treaty of Versailles does not from a Mohammedan country and put
interfere with my rights, or even my under a Christian mandatory places
duties, as one of the allied and 611110- which have sacred associations for
ciated Powers in connection with the large bodies of Christian believers, is
territories which the victory of the al- it creditable (I ask) that these should
lied and associated Powers placed in suffer by the transfer? And remem-
their hands at the conclusion of the , ber that whatever is done in Palestine,
successful war.' And America there- now or in the future, is done in the
fore has claimed that she shall have a light of day. The machinery of the
voice in the mandates—the sort of Council of the League of Nations, the
voice which she would have had had; ___ hinery , of the Assembly of the
she been a member of the League of I """-
League, are all contrived to make it
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