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are. There are miner-
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Made with store proprietors for build-
ig such a section.
..Contrary to some reports I wish
to state that the housing shortage in
Palestine has not yet .been Overcome.
m y be s sufficient number of
hohues'es-it Tel Aviv, but that is not the
T nine in H a ifa s od Jerusalem. I found
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have been
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sal difficult
paying
to what is equivalent to one
million dollars in annual rental for
houses which a:, not owned by Jews.
ho "The need as lAell as the opportun-
ties for industry is illustrated by ex-
perience. A tanner who started a
small plant on the outskirts of Tel
Aviv is now exporting his product to
Syria and other countries. A great
deal of wool is being raised, but in-
stead of being utilizel by home indus-
try, is being exported. One of the dif-
ficulties that Palestine has to contend
with is the fact that its currency units
are too large, the smallest coin being
equivalent to our nickel and the pound
being the major unit instead of our
dollar.
"Land purchase is, of course, one
of the outstanding necessities. It is
not true that the Arabs refuse to sell
us land. It is true, of course, that they
are holding for high prices. The
present Jewish holding is small and
should be increased without any de-
lay. The longer we wait the more we
shall have to pay.
The Tourist Industry,
"I interested myself especially in
the tourist problem. I found that the
tourist industry was entirely in the
hands of the Arabs and that the
guides were also Arabs. The conse-
quence was that Jews were not only
deprived of a certain source of income
but it also resulted in the dissemina-
tion of false information to tourists
on Jewish affairs in Palestine. The
Arab guides poisoned the minds of
many of these tourists, misinforming
them both on our aims and our
achievements. In order to combat this
hostile propaganda, I organized the
American Information Bureau, and I
am glad to say that an encouraging
start has been made towards the de-
velopment of Jewish tourists guides
in Palestine. I found it invariably to
be the case that when Jews see Pales-
tine through unprejudiced eyes, they
become enthusiastic supports of the
cause of rebuilding the land. The
same Jew, if left to be influenced by
the calumnies of the Arabs, become
pessimistic knockers.
"I found the schools which are be-
ing maintained by the Keren Ilayesod
splendidly conducted and with modern
methods. I was particularly interest-
ed in the Haifa Technicum, the direc-
tor of which, Dr. Biram, is anxious to
receive in the institution a number of
children of American parentage, and
has made special provision for that
purpose in the dormitory. The results
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of such an education would be very
beneflicial both to the children and to
Palestine.
"I ant not disturbed by the Arab
question. I find that it does not ga
down deep among the Ara., masses.
It is generally surface froth, fomented
by those who hope to profit from it.
I am convinced that when the Jewish
population of Palestine has grown to
a quarter of a million, the Arab prob-
lem will disappear.
I have left l'alestine, to which I
hope to return before long, with one
major conviction, and that is what the
country needs most is that successful
American Jewish business men should
go there and apply their experience,
their capital and their energy to the
The type of Mistress Malaprop is
met with among all peoples, and the
Jews are no exception. With immi-
grants into the country it may be an
incomplete comprehension of the
English language, but quite gener-
ally it is often a deficiency of the
sense of style. X. told us the story
of an East End Jew who went to a
printer to order visiting cards. He
was shown a number of samples, and
among them one that bore the le-
gen, "Duke of X., Iona House, Hyde
l'ark.” That caught his fancy, sad
he ordered one hundred to read as
follows: "Abraham Jacobs, I own
ten houses, Whitechapel."
One more of the same kind. An
irate tradesman wrote to a customer
in the following terms: "Dear Sir—
Who promised to settle my account
by the first of this month? You!
Who has not kept his word? You!
Who is a scoundrel? Yours truly,
Ephraim Fine."
How the Jew accommodates him-
self to all conditions is illustrated by
the following story:
A Polish nobleman one day re-
quested his Jewish steward to get for
him a dachshund, and the steward
promised to have it by the following
morning. "flow much do you intend
spending?" he asked his master. "0,
let us say 10 rubles," the nobleman
replied.
"That's too little. You can't expect
me to provide a dechshund for that."
"Very well, make it 20 rubles."
"Excuse me, your lordship! You
will, of course, want a fine dachs-
hund, one worthy of your establish-
ment, and I think you'll get nothing
satisfactory under 50 rubles."
"All right, I don't mind. Make it
50. But don't fail to get it by to-
morrow."
"Yuo can rely on me," the Jew
concluded, and as he was leaving the
room he turned round to the noble-
man with the words, "Your excel-
lency, what is a daschshund?"
Much as the Jew has had to suffer
at the hands of the anti-Semites, his
sense of humor has not been blunted.
One of the bees in the bonnets ofthe
anti-Semites is to make Jews of all
unpopular characters. In England,
De Valera is said to be of Jewish
origin; in Germany, the anti-Semites
ascribed the same honor to the late
Lord Northcliffe; in France, Daudet
was written down a Jew, the allega-
tion being that Daudet stands for
Little thvid. A Jewish wag went
one further. Ovid must also have
been a Jew, for what is Ovid but
David with the first letter omitted?
Horace was likewise a Jew; did he
not write "dinat frater Megille,"
which, being interpreted, means, "Let
your brother read the Megille?"
Moreover, chemistry must be the sci-
ence of the Jews (probably the secret
science, too), for its important de-
ments are C for Carbon, 0 for
Oxygen, Ii for Hydrogen, and N for
Nitrogen, whereof the formula is
Cohn.
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