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September 09, 1926 - Image 57

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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, 1926-09-09

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A merica 'apish Periodical Cotter

CLITTON AVENUE • CINCINNATI 30, OHIO

PAGE THREE

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MEDErton; Lnsiteiftractz

ROSENWALD GIVES $3,000,000.

CIIICAGO.—(J. T. A.)—Julius
Rosenwald has given $3,000,000 for
the establishment here of a great in-
dustrial museum on the order of that
in Munich. It will be known as the
Rosenwald Industrial Museum.
The gift has been accepted by the
South Park Board and plans are un-

der way for the reconstruction of the
beautiful Field Museum in Jackson
l'ark, erected in the days of the
World's Fair. A bond issue of $5,-
000,000 is available for the rebuild-
ing of the Jackson Park structure.
A conference of art and civic lead-
ers is to be held for the detailing of
the plans for the museum which will
contain miniature models of mines,

transportation system, manufacturies
and the like. The proposed museum Is
to be maintained without profit. The.
gift was announced by Mr
. Rosenwald
at a luncheon given by him at the
Union League Club, attended by a
group of Chicago civic leaders. The
donation has been acclaimed by all
of Chicago as a benefaction of great
merit.

Extends Its

GREETINGS!

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By JAMES M. WOOD

Note:--Into this article James NI. Woods puts a wealth
of the information he has gathered during the 20 years he has been
connected 'with the fuel business. At present Mr. Woods is fuel sales
manager of the United Fuel & Supply Company. For 15 years pre-
vious to this he was with the Semet-Solvay Company, acting in the
capacity of assistant to the sales manager. Mr. Woods is widely
known among the fuel men of the Middle West.)

(Editor's

LEADERS DISCUSS
PALESTINE, RUSSIA

Brainin and Billikopf Agree
That Colonization Plan Is
Not Zionist Rival.

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Suggestion to Send New Delegation

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I Wish All My Jewish Friends a Very Happy
New Year.

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be doubly sure of the
quality of materials that
go into it by ordering from
United. At every one of the 18
convenient United Yards we
carry a complete line of sand,
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SUPPORT
CLAIMED BY ARABS

MOSCOW.—(J. T. A.)---Whether
JERUSALEM—(J. T. A.)—A sug.
or not the Jewish colonization Work
gestion that the Palestine-Arab lead.
in Soviet Russia is rival to the Jew-
ere send another delegation to Lord
ish colonization in Palestine was the
main topic of discussion at a recep- Hunter, the high commissioner, or
to the London government, to pre.
ingredients, such as gas, ammonia, tion given 1.y Albert Fuchs, president sent the Aral) claims, was made by
In nature's process an enormous benzol and tar are distilled from the of the Moscow Rehillah, to the Ameri-
Merit UI Shark, the Arab newspaper.
supply of vegetable mutter was ac- coal, leaving but a small pi.reentags• can visitors here.
The newspaper published a letter
cumulated and buried in the earth by
'flu. reception Was given In honor from a prominent Arab resident in
upheavings and subsidences of the
of Jacob Billikopf, Stanley Feltz, Mr. the l'aited States of America to
earth's surface. Fermentation, tem-
Schweitzer, William Rosenwald, son of Sheik Solirnon Alfaruk. The writer
perature and pressure developed and
.1 ulius Rosenwald.
of the letter claims that "the Pales-
'after countless ages the anthracite
In his address Mr. Fuchs described tine-Arab cause has many supporters
his impressions of the Jewish colo- in Anierica" and that many members
\ and other coals were formed, while
the earth above was hardened into
nies in the Crimea which he visited re- of the United States Congress have
layers of rock. During this process
cently together with Dr. 11.1aurie Hes- promised to assist the Arab move-
of distillation and transformation, pe-
ter and Reuben Itrainin.
troleum and natural gas were formed..
Mr. Itrainiii, who is honorary vice- ment.
The Merat 1_11 Shark further pub-
Under the enormous pressure of thel
president of the Zionist Organization
sensational report with re-
rocks, these gases and oils were forced
of America, stated in his address that fishes a
gard to the results achieved by the
through small openings and crevices
he came to Russia full of doubts but
last
Arab
delegation to London. It
into larger openings or pockets, •from
without prejudice. After seeing the
is declared that at that time the Brit-
i
which they cannot escape until we
indescribable misery of the Jews Si
ish
government
had proposed to the
drill down through the rock layers.
the towns of Russia and, on the ether
Palestine-Arab delegation to create
When the drills strike through these
hand, the wonderful success of the col-
in
Palestine
an
immigration control
openings the oil and gas (many times
onization, he must admit that the col-
board, to be composed of five Arabs
both) gush up, and we then have (di
onies provide a solution to this prob-
Jew,
with
a fixed maximum
wells. Where the rock burden was
lem. "I have been it Zionist for 40 and one
of annual Jewish immigration of
thickest, and hence the greatest pres-
years. I was the founder of the first
:1,000
persons.
Should
it be • found
sure developed, what we term hard
Zionist circle in Moscow, but I C1111
that Palestine could not absorb this
coal was formd by pressing out most
say wit h a clear conscience that great number, the immigration control
of the oil and gas. During nature's
historic work is being done for the
JAMES M. WOOD
board would have the right of sus-
process the vegetable nuttier passed
has here. There is no contradiction
pending all immigration.
through three distinct states: First
of the volatile matter Ismoke. re- between the Jewish colonization work
The paper complains that the Arab
peat; second, lignite; third, bitumi- maining in the coke. These basic in Russia and the Jewish colonization
nous coal, each stage being of higher Products, particularly tar, are relined work in Palestine. All those who are delegation to London submitted no
development than the preceding one into hundreds of valuable articles hindering the work in Russia are com- report of its activities and the fact
toward the final goal of anthracite, which are in everyday use, some of mitting a crime against the impover- has come to light that Ilaj Tewfik
Effendi Hamad, a member of the
or "nature coke."
the most common being dyes, per- ished Jewish masses," Mr. Brainin delegation, was the principal op-
Nature's methods have in many fumes, explosives, drugs and even exclaimed.
ponent to accepting this offer. The
cases been improved by man, and an
Professor Scher, who recently re-
result is that Jewish immigration to
instance of this with which most of chewing gnu.
The man who declared he would turned from a visit to Palestine, stat- Palestine for the peat five years hen
us are familiar, is the work of Luther
gas and ed that the Palestine work is very
been not 15,000 but 80,000, the pa-
Buthank in the development of seed, not buy coke "after all the
valuable parts of the cool" had been important and has a significance for
less oranges, etc. The development of
entire Jewry, but it is in no contra- per states.
The Arab organ, however, ex-
the by-products coking process is taken out at the coke works didtl not
that in nature's process iese diction tn the Russian colonization.
tlle
equal in importance to any invention sae
Billikopf
declared
that he had doubt as to whether
sam constituents were removed
from
presses
in modern times. Credit for its initial
already
spoken
to
all
classes
of
Rus-
American
government would inter-
itiTaw raiy1
,
ann.t,lk,thatat,haihsrav,eirty,
re
devolopment is generally awarded to hisa
sian Jews and that he had not found hero in Palestine affairs. "Such in-
two Belgians, Evence Coppee and Car-
a single opponent to the colonization terference would never be tolerated
vis in the year DWI The production
well Both Zionists and non-Zionists by the British government," the pa-
81111
The romance of anthracite coal
of coke was not put on a co6nnercial
in Russia are warm friends of the per says.
basis until 1873, when 30 ovens were coke, like any other, is destined to end
erected in 'England, and in the fol- with tile survival et the fittest and the
re
end may be safely pdicted
from the
lowing year 60 in South Wales.
Today there are approximately rapid growth of th e coke industry.
15,000 by-product coke ovens in toler- In former leers hard coal was used
ation in the United States alone, with extensively for metallurgical pur-
an annual production of close to 40,- poses, but coke has won this field be-
(100,000 tons of coke. Right here in cause of its greater efficiency and
Detroit and suburbs we have three economy. At the present time the prin-
companies operating 300 by-product cipal use of anthracite is for house-
ere
ovens, 21 hours a day and 3.,o days a heating purposes an
year, producing a total of upproxi- coke growing in favor every day and
't. rapidly replacing anthracite as a do-
mately 1,800,000 tons.
About one-half of this is consumed mastic fuel.
V
ou ( • .
Some people may have the idea that
in blast furnaces and
throughout Michigan and Canada. because coke is used in foundries to
The balance is consumed for domestic melt iron it would do the same to
purposes in the same territory. In furnaces and stoves anti injure the
1010, the city of Detroit consumed grates or firepot. Nothing is further
less than 50,000 tons of domestic coke. from the facts. It is, of course, true
Last year this tonnage exceeded 500,- that coke will reduce iron to a fluid
state in a foundry cupola; it is equally
000 tons.
In the manufacture of by-product true that hard coal will do the same,
coke, coal which is partly treated by in fact, anthracite was used as a
Nature's process is used (commonly foundry fuel before the science of
called soft coal), and a great heat is coke making was developed. Coke is
substituted for nature's pressure, and now used by foundries in place of
in from 16 to 21 hours the gas and anthracite because of its higher effi-
HIGH-GRADE
oil are driven off, leaving a hard mass ciency.
of practically pure carbon—the heat
MATERIALS AND WORKMANSHIP
element. Both processes leave a prod-
Living thus everywhere, yet denied
Garfield 5781
uct into which is concentrated the territorial possessions anywhere, and,
7484 Fourteenth Avenue
carbon that was contained in the orig- therefore, tied nowhere, they (the
inal soft coal, one is called anthracite Jews) were turned into a race of
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and the other coke.
nomads.—Israel Zangwill.
In the by-product process valuable

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moment, Mr. Billikopf stated.
Dr. A. Bragien, initiator of (he col-
onization work, and S'eadiah Maze,
son of the late Rabbi Jacob M
addressed the gathering.

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