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RATIFICATION OF PALESTINE MANDATE
BY LEAGUE OF NATIONS MARKS GREAT
TRIUMPH FOR JEWISH NATIONAL CAUSE
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mination of three years' effort and
ritt,otiation on the part of the Zionist
leaders. It is construed as a great
victory for Lord Balfour and as defi-
nitely assuring the realization of the
Jewish hopes of 2,000 years for the
re-establishment in Palestine of the
Jewish national homeland.
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AMERICAN JEWS CELEBRATE
RATIFICATION OF MANDATE
Zionists throughout the country
are holding demonstrations and mon-
ster celebrations on the occasion of
the great Zionist victory at the last
sitting of the Council of the League
of Nations.
The national executive committee
of the Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica, meeting on Sunday morning fol-
lowing the ratification of the man-
date, at the Pennsylvania Hotel in
New York, issued a proclamation to
the Jews of America, calling upon
them to celebrate the success of the
Zionist movement.
The Detroit Keren Ilayesod com-
mittee, meeting in special session on
Tuesday evening at the Shaarey Ze-
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rites a Jewish maiden of the historic
seaport of Jaffa.
Sir Herbert, though a Jew, has ap-
proached his task as a citizen. Of
his impartiality, no question has been
or can be raised. His staff, as last
reported, is as follows: Christians,
1,290; Jews, 616, and Moslems, 597,
or 2,503 officials, British and Pales-
tinian, in all. The figures suggest
that merit alone has dictated the
choice of officials. In the interests of
Palestine, all three religions are ex-
pected to co-opertae.
There is an advisory council, con-
sisting of 10 unofficial members,
nominated by the High Commission-
er. Four of these are Moslems, three
are Christians and three are Jews.
The council meets monthly for two
days and, as last reported, there has
been no occasion on which the High
Commissioner has been unable to ac-
cept the vote of the majority. The
proceedings, moreover, are published
in the press. It cannot be said, as
yet, that Palestine has parliamentary
institutions. But in Jerusalem and
in the smaller towns the association
of different faiths in the common du-
ties of citizenship is preparing the
way for this anticipated develop-
ment.
Sanhedrin Revived.
There remains, then, the question
how far the work of Sir Herbert
Samuel, excellent as it is admitted
to have been locally, has furthered
the world-wide aims of the Zionists.
With one achievement, at any rate,
his name will be forever associated
by Jewry. When the Romans, under
Titus, besieged and destroyed Jeru-
salem in the first century of our era,
ti.e Sanhedrin or Jewish Council,
founded by Ezra the Scribe, of which
such tragic mention is made in the
gospels, was shattered, and after a
precarious exile it disappeared. Once
more there is today the Sanhedrin,
sitting as of old, in Jerusalem. It is
an official body, like any of our feder-
ations of churches. But within it
there meet the Jew who has wan-
dered far afield before returning to
his homeland and the Jew who has
never left the gates of Zion. Over
the constitution of the Sanhedrin
there arose severe differences of
opinion, for the modern Jew desired
and obtained the presence of women
while the ancient Jew objected. The
latter is, indeed, a strange figure as
he stands at the Wailing Place, that
great wall which upholds the temple
area. The Jew of Jerusalem has
shut himself within his home, where,
with ruthless insistence, he has taught
the law to his sons, youngsters whe
are already old before their 'teens.
who may have never looked beyond
the ramparts of the city, but grow
up--like Saul of Tarsus, after a simi-
lar ordeal—mean of physique and
defective in eyesight. This is the Jew
who now averts his gaze from the
quarter where, despite the Pauline
tradition, women in the Sanhedrin
play their part.
The worship which the Jews will
develop in Palestine can hardly fail
to be the worship of the synagogue,
and their temple for the twentieth
century will be the University of Je-
rusalem, the medical school of which
is so strongly advocated by that ab-
struse scientist, Doctor Einstein.
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dek, decided to arrange for a series
of demonstrations throughout the
city during the coming week.
(Among the celebrations to be held
here will be a monster massmeeting
on Monday evening, Aug. 7, at the
Shaarey Zedek and the other syna-
gogues throughout the city, at which
local and prominent national apeak-
ers will talk.
Addresses arc to be delivered in
all local synagogues on Tisha Irab,
next Thursday, and on Sabbath Na-
chamu, Aug. 6. Plans also call for
a series of open air meetings in the
Jewish sections of the city, in which
all Detroit Jews are to participate.
A proclamation to Detroit Jews
will be issued early this week by the
executive committee of the local
Keren Ilayesod, calling upon them
to participate in the great work of
rebuilding Palestine, now that all po-
litical obstacles are eliminated.
On the East Side of New York,
more than 5,000 participated in an
impromptu parade on Saturday even-
ing test, as soon as the news was
flashed that the mandate was rati-
fied. All day Sunday, celebrations
were held throughout New York.
The actual immigration into Pales-
tine is small. Up to the month of
June, 1921, about 10,000 persons ar-
rived, of whom all save 315 were
Jews. But, even so, it was not easy
to absorb the arrivals and in August
important restrictions were applied
equally to immigrants of all races.
They must have independent means,
or intend to follow a profession, or
belong to families already resident
in the country, or ex' ect employment
by specified firms, or they must be
tourists, not expecting to stay longer
than three months. One would have
thought that such regulations with
other evidences of good faith on the
part of the authorities, would have
satisfied even the most suspicious of
the Arabs who fear that the Jews will
take their load. But in May of last
year there broke out anti-Jewish
riots in Jaffa and in certain Jewish
colonies and 88 persons were killed.
The Arabs are moreover loudly pro-
testing at this moment that their
rights are threatened.
Within Palestine herself there are
natural resources of which the whole
truth has yet to be discovered and
stated. By afforestation, the rain-
fall will be increased and irrigation,
for which the entire waters of the
Jordan, whether in the French or
British mandate, may be used, will
increase the productivity of the soil,
already bearing valuable fruits as
well as grain. That there is oil ap-
pears also to be certain, and in the
rocks are hidden, duobtless, latent
resources which may prove to be in-
valuable in financing the Palestinian
state. Over all this mineral and geo-
logical possibilities the administra-
tion exercises control. The grant of
mining concessions and of prospec-
tors' licenses is, for the moment, pro-
hibited, but only, it is argued in the
interests of the country itself. These
concessions are held in trust equally
for the pioneers of all nations.
But, in one matter, Palestine en-
joys an advantage, obvious at once
to the student of her maps. The
River Jordan, which Joshua crossed
dryshod, in which Nieman the Syrian
bathed away his leprosy, and where
John the Banitat preached, is unique.
Among the rivers of the world, there
is no other like it. The source of
the Jordan is 000 feet above sea
level. From that source to its out-
flow, the distance is only 60 miles,
but it is distance which the river it-
self by frequent winding more than
trebles. The outflow is not into any
open sea but into a lake surrounded
entirely by mountains and exhausted
only by evaporation or soaking of the
water into its bleak and desolate
shores. This lake is so charged with
various salts that to sink in its wa-
ters is impossible, while bathing se-
verely tests the complexion. Most
remarkable of all is the fact that the
lake, supposed to contain the ruins
of Sodom, Gomorrah and other cities
of the plain, is situated 1,300 feet
or thereabouts below the level of the
sea. Nowhere, not in the Grand
Canyon itself, is there a phenomenon
so mysterious and so sensational.
It is difficult for the Cadillac
owner to convey even a tithe
of the gratification he finds
in his car. His enjoyment is
derived from so many ad-
mirable features.
swift acceleration or the
basic economy of his
Cadillac.
It springs not merely from
his car's beauty, nor from
its comfort nor its lightness
of movement, grateful and
wonderful as these charac-
teristics arc to him.
It proceeds from something
even more than the de-
pendability, the power, the
Rather, his satisfaction is a
blend and a combination of
all of these attributes, result-
ing in a pleasure and a con-
tentment in his purchase
too deep and lasting for
comparison.
And added to it, and perfect-
ing it, is the consciousness
that he possesses the automo-
bile that the world accepts as
the standard of excellence.
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The Jordan's Waterpower.
To the engineer, a river falling
2,200 feet in 60 miles, with rapid
tributaries entering its channel,
means waterpower rather than theol-
ogy. It is calculated that an expen-
diture of $5,000,000 on the first dam,
about eight miles below Lake Ti-
berias, would furnish enough power
to serve the whole of Palestine's
needs in that direction, so far as
these can now be foreseen. And it
is to such enterprises that Jewish
finance all over the world will be di-
rected.
Under the League of Nations, it is
the duty of Great Britain to define
her mandate over Palestine in a docu-
ment, which thus becomes the charter
or constitution under which the ter-
ritory is administered. The terms of
that mandate have been issued and
approved by the United States of
America. To the League, also, the
mandate has been submitted, but, at
this date of writing, objection has
been taken to it by Italy and France.
What may be the reasons for those
objections, it is not for me to say.
With the terms of her mandate over
Syria, France is not yet ready, and
it may be that Italy is anxious to
he reassured over the Roman Catho-
lic interests in the Holy Places. Be
that as it may, the delay shows that
Palestine is not "a British Possession."
Indeed, it is not "British" rule that
the Arabs profess to dread, but rather
the possibility of a Jewish majority
when the work of Great Britain in
Palestine is complete. It is the pol-
icy of the High Commissioner to
bring the Arab leaders into friend-
lier touch with the Zionists. Even the
most cautious of the Arabs must
realize that Palestine is gravely un-
derdeveloped. It may not be de-
sired, whether by Zionists or by Pal-
estinians, that great manufacturing
cities should spring up to enrich an
essentially simple community. But,
on the other hand, it cannot be con-
ceded to the Arabs that they, in their
present numbers and with their pres-
ent culture, shall for all time veto
the progress of Palestine toward the
revived glory which must be hers.
Palestine no more belongs exclusively
to the Arabs than she belongs to the
sand of the desert in which the Arab
finds his true home. In years to come,
it is obvious that this country, strick-
en so often, extolled in poetry still
matchless, will become the center
and focus of an increasing volume of
human travel and an increasing con-
vergence of human thought.
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Officers of European Welfare Or-
ganisation Praised for Work of
the Past Year.
At a board of directors' meeting
of the European Jewish Women's
Welfare Organization held Saturday,
July 22, at the home of Mrs. II. Stan-
field, the annual financial report was
read.
The report, as rendered by Mrs.
Stanfield, was received with much
enthusiasm. The officers were praised
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work of the organization. The re-
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these columns.
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be held in September instead of
August, because of the absence from
the city of a number of the mem-
bers. The exact date will be an-
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GARRICK THEATER
"Dear Me," that delightfully fan-
tastic comedy in which Grace La Rue
and Hale Hamilton starred last sea-
son; has been selected by the Bon-
stelle company as next week's offer-
ing at the Garrick. It is doubtful
if • more charming, whimsical, at
times pathetic, bit of entertainment
visited these shores last winter than
"Dear Me," which takes its title from
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peculiar institution, to herself, al-
ways signing them "Myself" and al-
ways adding a posteript,
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Grace La Rue role and will be called
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