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August 19, 1927
Zionist Or Cosmopolite?
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not as it is that they could not. Consequently the ma-
jority of Zionists will always continue to dwell not in
Zion but in the Goluth. The live-and-let-live cosmo-
politanism of the Zionist, harmless though it is, can-
not but meet with some hostility from zealous patriots
in all countries. A certain amount of active anti-na-
tionalism is bound to be forced upon him by the hos-
tility of the jingo. Thus we see that it is only a step
from easy-going cosmopolitanism to active anti-na-
tionalism.
Cosmopolitanism therefore appears to be only a
half-way house to internationalism. But it is not a
makeshift house hastily thrown up for a night's shel-
ter. It is built of durable materials. It is destined to
shelter the cosmopolite for some time and, inciden-
tally, to offer the hospitality of a philosophical justi-
fication to the Zionist who is not content with a narrow
Jewish nationalism. The half-way house of cosmopol-
itanism is after all a very substantial shelter for those
who have escaped from the narrow confines of geo-
graphical patriotism.
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The Dead Sea and Future of Palestine
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By W. BASIL WORSFOLD
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(Editor's Note:—The Jewish public is greatly interested in
reports emanating in London concerning the forthcoming grant
of the concession for the exploitation of the Dead Sea to an
Anglo-Jewish company. The reports of the experts estimate
the resources of the Dead Sea at the fabulous figure of $1,500,-
000,000,000, which, if exploited, will bring forth from the Dead
Sea a stream of industry and commercial life to Palestine,
which is at present suffering from the lack of industrial and
commercial activities and is going through a difficult crisis.
The author of this article, W. Basil Worsfold, English writer
and economist, gives a description of the Dead Sea and its
chemical and industrial possibilities, following a visit to the
region in the company of Palestine government officials. With
the love of the Bible characteristic of Anglo-Saxons he blends
practical observations with the gripping Bible tale of Sodom
and Gemorrah, which are covered by the asphaltic waters of
the Sea.)
What would you do if you were asked these questions
in an intelligence test?
''What does one do when it rains?"
"What is the difference between a man and a woman?"
"What is the difference between summer and win-
ter?"
many feathers has a goose?"
"How long is a string?"
"Can you make it stove out of butter?"
In all countries today culture is synonymous with
cosmopolitanism. There is nothing on which the cul-
Luck or Genius.
tured man of all nations loves to pride himself so much
Julius Rosenwald, interviewed in Chicago on his
as on his catholicity of taste. The cultured American,
sixty-fifth birthday last Friday, had some interesting
repudiating the old charge of provincialism, points to
things to say about his business success. Said Mr.
his Garnet, Deutch and Moncrieff translations or to
Rosenwald:
their paper-back originals and proceeds to discourse
"I was lucky, not a genius, and I think you will find
learnedly of Decadence or the Chinese problem. It is
that is true of most rich men. With rare exceptions,
a passion.
the man who accumulates great wealth displays no
And it is true. The improved modes of travel and
more genius than did the capital prize winner in the
communication coupled with the prolific product of
Louisiana lottery. By luck he got hold of a good thing,
the translators have made the cultured man of all
at the right time, and by more luck he held on to it."
countries a citizen of the world. And, side by side
It is rarely that the successful American business
with the more fashionable (if more innocuous) cos-
man finds it in his heart to say the simple, obvious,
mopolitanism of cultured people, there has been a
sensible thing about his success. In Mr. Rosenwald's
steady growth of internationalism.
statement there is something as fundamentally Jewish
Although the trend may seem to be in the direction
as a shrug of the shoulders. lie knows, and everybody
of nationalism, it may seem so only to those for whom
else knows, that business success is not noticeably con-
seeming is believing. For the diseases of a nation, like
fined to men of genius. Business, as it is conducted in
those of an individual, are often discovered when the
this worst possible of all worlds, is not always attrac-
patient is already in a bad way. And it is altogether
tive to the man of genius.
possible that the geographical allegiance that passes
Furthermore, not all businesses are alike. There
for patriotism today is a self-limiting disease that has
are many lines of business that not only do not demand
already run the greater part of its course. At any rate,
genius for success but even very little real intelligence.
it is certain that cosmopolitanism and its political
Business may be "human service," as the success-ven-
and economic counterpart internationalism color the
dors assure us, but, after all, there are many forms of
thought of the cultured of all classes the world over
service. The man who furnishes his fellow man with
today as they never did before.
pants is rendering a service. So does the man who pro-
Now that cosmopolitanism has become a virtue—
vides us with chemical medicines and surgical instru-
an heretical virtue, perhaps, but nevertheles a- virtue
ments. Yet it is clear that the manufacturing chemist,
—there is no one of professed cultural attainments
for example, must bring to his service a knowledge that
who does not lay claim to his share of it. Like "welt
is of a somewhat higher nature than that of the pants
schmerz" and psycho-analysis it is something that no
maker.
self-respecting modernist can afford to do without.
Mr. Rosenwald is at least one successful American
So the modern Jew, like other moderns, has lately dis-
Jew who has not lost his essentially Jewish practicality
covered that he has it too. There are even those who
in success-mad America.
say it is his "mission"
A cosmopolite is a citizen of the world. The word
A Jewish Hospital.
is Greek: Kosmos, world, plus politus, citizen. Cos-
Just now, while there is a lull in the world of Jew-
therefore
defined
as,
"at
home
in
every
mopolitan is
ish events, it may be well to pause for a moment and
country." Internationalism, though it is often used
consider the state of our own Detroit Jewry.
interchangeably with cosmopolitanism, is, strictly de-
Surely it is no secret to any of us that the Jewish
fined, quite another "ism." An internationalist is one
community of Detroit still lacks some of the necessities
who is without prejudice against any nation (not even
that other, smaller, communities in America are pro-
his own) and is therefore in favor of a peaceable
vided with. Chief among these is a hospital equipped
adjustment of all differences arising between nations.
primarily for the use of the Jewish community.
The basis for such adjustments is obviously an
It should not be necessary to go into detail concern-
understanding of the differences between nations.
ing the need for such an institution. Wherever it has
Now it so happens that adjusting himself to other and
been established the Jewish hospital has proved its
different peoples has for two thousand years been the
value beyond all doubt. In pointing out the need for a
chief business of the Jew. lie has gone out among the
hospital in Detroit no criticism of any existing institu-
nations, not as the conqueror who is free to live as he
tion is implied. But the fact is that Detroit is under-
was wont to live at home or even to impose his way of
hospitalized at present. The best hospitals are crowded
living upon the vanquished. Ile has not gone like the
to the doors and the Jew always insists upon the best
Englishman to India or the Frenchman to Africa tak-
hospital just as he always demands the best doctor.
ing with him all the paraphernalia of life in London
There is also the matter of kashruth. There are hun-
and Paris. The Jew today dwells in all lands as a
dreds of patients who insist upon kosher food during
guest—in many cases an unbidden if not an unwel-
illness because they are accustomed to eating only
come guest. He is obliged to adapt himself to the cus-
kosher food in their homes. On such people it works
toms and cultures of the countries in which he finds
a real hardship to have to partake of trafe and it is
himself. Consequently he is in a position to acquire
quite possible that it may interfere with their recovery.
a passionate understanding of the points of view of
The usual custom is that the family of the patient brings
other peoples. So that in the practical aspects of cos-
kosher food to the hospital.
mopolitanism the cultivated Jew has less to learn than
This food is not always the best possible diet for the
the cultivated Englishman or German. Not because
patient. The question of kashruth must be considered
it is a virtue—a peculiarly Jewish virtue—but because
as an important one in this connection. But the most
it is a necessity. Cosmopolitanism is made easy for the
important point to consider is the general paucity of
Jew.
hospital accommodations in our city. A Jewish hospital
But the Jew also has a nationalism. Does not this
would relieve the situation materially.
very cosmopolitanism constitute a species of nation-
ality? Is it not a Jewish point of view as distinguished
Solomon J. Solomon.
from an English or a French point of view? What is
Solomon J. Solomon, the famous Anglo-Jewish por-
to prevent the Jew from making a Jewish ideology
trait artist who died recently in England, was an excep-
out of this Jewish point of view? And if a Jewish
tion among Jewish painters in that he not only painted
ideology, why not a Jewish nationalism?
Jewish themes but took an active interest in Jewish
The answer is Zionism. Zionism is the nationalism
affairs.
of the Jew.
We had occlusion to remark in these columns a few
Can a cosmopolite be a Zionist? Clearly he can-
weeks ago that Jewish artists are not receiving their
not be an anti-nationalist. He cannot even be an inter-
due mead of recognition from the Jewish public. This
nationalist since internationalism implies hostility to
was not entirely the case with Solomon. It may be that
the very idea of the nation—unless he subscribes to
English Jewry is more alive to its obligations to Jewish
the pseudo-internationalism of the peace societies and
art than is American Jewry. But perhaps the reason
the League of Nations. Many Zionists do in fact pro-
may be found not in the Jewish public but in the work
fess to adhere to such a spurious internationalism. But
of the artist. For Solomon had a keen insight into the
the submitting by Zionist leaders of memoranda to
Jewish soul. Ile chose for his subjects those subjects
the League of Nations does not constitute a very con-
which every Jew could immediately recognize and
vincing basis for a Zionist internationalism. At most
admire. Such a picture was "Samson and Delilah," for
it is only a political expedient. There does appear to
example, the work that established his reputation.
be however a good deal of sincere internationalism
Solomon always took an active interest in Jewish
among Zionists. Is there not perhaps some limited
institutions. lie was one of the founders of the Macca-
form of internationalism to which the Zionist may
beans, a society that owed much of its early success to
subscribe?
Solomon's personal influence. For the first ten years
Maintaining a nationalistic position with regard to
of its existence he served as its president.
Zionism the Zionist may nevertheless also maintain a
Solomon was born in London in 1860. He was the
half-way position towards internationalism as long as
son of a wholesale leather merchant. He had a good
he does not actively engage in anti-national propa-
Jewish education in his youth and pursued his art stu-
ganda. lie may not seek to tear down the national
dies at the Royal Academy Schools. Later he studied
walls but he may look over them and beyond them.
in Munich and at the Beaux Arts in Paris. He exhib-
That, in a very real sense. is really the meaning of
ited his first picture at the Royal Academy in 1881,
cosmopolitanism. The cosmopolite has no quarrel
was elected A. R. A. in 1896 and R. A. in 1906. He
with geographical nationalism. He sees the world as a
was president of the Royal Society of British Artists in
house of many rooms but he feels at home in all the
1918.
Zionist
is
such
a
cosmopolite
but
he
also
rooms. The
Among the famous men whose portraits Solomon
wants a room of his own.
painted were Israel Zangwill and Solomon Schecter.
Stated in this way Zionist cosmopolitanism seems
The latter work is now in the possession of the Jewish
to be a tenable position. But it has its practical diffi-
Theological Seminary in New York.
culties. For one thing, the Jewish state is still a very
The Jewish ar..:sts of America should ponder on the
remote eventuality. For another thing. it is certain
fame of Solomon J. Solomon. lie was more than a Jew-
that the entire Jewish people could not even. if they
ish painter. lie was a painter who portrayed the life
would, be accommodated within the narrow confines
of the Jew.
of Palestine. And it is just as certain that they would
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I don't know what you would do, but I would imme-
diately ask that the examiner be incarcerated in an insane
asylum. Yet those are some of the questions put to Jews
in Poland who apply for visas to come to this country.
And these questions are asked by American consular of-
finials, or at least by officials connected with the Ameri-
can Consulate. Surely, those smart glees have no heart
or they would not torture unfortunate men and women
with such questions, the answers to which spell hope or
despair. I note that action has already been taken to
put an end to this inexcusable outrage. In line with
these "intelligence" tests I ask, "What is the difference
between an examiner who asks such questions and an
ass?" And I defy anyone to successfully show that there
is any difference.
I admire the courage of Professor Shirley Jackson
Case of the University of Chicago, but I tremble for his
professional future. He has written a book about to be
published by the University of Chicago l'ress. It deals
with the life of Jesus. And here is one of the statements
that appears in the book: "The stories of the birth of
Jesus and the miracles performed by him were contrived
by his disciples in competition with other gods. Jesus
never claimed for himself divine power, nor did he ever
think of himself as the Son of God." Professor Case
says that the miracles in the Gospels were originated in
an attempt on the part of the interpreters of Jesus to
make him as great as the other gods.
In other words, it was a competition to see who could
tell the greatest exaggerations. One little boy said "1
saw a man 16 feet high" and the other little boy said
"That's nothing; I saw a man as high AS a mountain."
One group was bragging about the wonderful gods it
had and what their wonderful gods could do, so the dis-
ciples of Jesus, according to Professor Case, were not
to be outdone. And I must say they certainly did have
an imagination!
The Fundamentalists see red when the word "evolu-
tion' is mentioned, yet Professor Cowles of the depart-
men. of botany of Chicago University saye that the Fun-
dan.entalist• are teal evolutionists, though they don't
know it, Ile argues that they believe the different peo-
ples, the divergences to be found in the human race, such
Its red and yellow and white and black, have come from
0 single pair, Adam and Eve. For they surely do not
attribute these divisions in the human family to any spe-
cial creation. But while Professor Cowles and other
evolutionishts believe that these differences have come
about as a result of hundreds of thousands of years of
evolutionary development, the Fundamentalists believe
that it has been a matter of only 6,000 years. Professor
Conklin of Princeton believes that there is too much emo-
tion in the consideration of the evolution of man, which,
I presume, is one reason why it cannot be discussed rea-
sonably by the Fundamentalist.
I have been asked what the situation is regarding the
recent outbreak of anti-Semitism in the Kings County
Hospital, New York. I understand that the matter has
been temporarily adjusted through apologies proferred
by the offending 'acmes who hazed their Jewish fellows.
But that does not mean that the question of discrimina-
tion and other undesirable conditions existing in Kings
and other New York hospitals have been finally settled.
In two months, the reports of investigators will be made
public and then Mayor Walker will take steps to correct
the situation. In the meantime, it is hoped that the
Christian internes will have learned how to act like gen-
tlemen and in a maner consistent with the character
of their profession.
-
I hear that Emil Ludwig is coming to America this
fall to lecture. Ludwig, whose real name is Cohen, wrote
one of the best, and at the same time one of the most
devastating, biographies of recent times when he gave
the world "William Hohenzollern, the Last of the Kai-
sers." That book has probably done more to destroy
Hohenzollern prestige than any other single publication.
Since it had to be, I am glad that it is a Jew who deflated
the kaiser's importance. It repays some of the nasty
statements the kaiser was fond of making about the Jews.
Well, here's great news indeed! There are actually
Christians living in this country! The other day, in com-
menting on a statement of Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman,
I took occasion to say that if one were to square his life
according to the teachings of Jesus, he would be con-
sidered "peculiar." But here comes a reader from Roch.
ester, N. Y.—a prominent Jew, by the way—who writes
this:
"You will find at the Gould Farm, near Great
Barrington, Mass., a group of people who are
actually squaring their lives with the teachings
of Jesus, and are not considered "queer" by the
believing Jews, Catholics and Protestants who
have been fortunate enough to come into contact
with them This is not a sect or a cult or fanatical
experiment. Some have called it communism. I
believe it good Judaism, and also believe that
whatever the sources of their spiritual inspiration,
people can live practically by adhering to these
teachings which as you and I know are neither
original nor unique. Vide our prophets.
Along comes a breezy letter from my friend, Lewis
Browne, author of "This Believing World." He has just
finished a new book, "That Man Heine," and my fingers
are just itching to get hold of it. Mr. Browne has had
this book in his system for some time, for he writes:
glad the job's done. For 15 years, ever
since I was a high school boy, I've wanted to do
this job. And now I feel as though I'd paid a debt.
This book, which promises most fascinating reading,
will appear early in September, and if it doesn't quickly
become one of the season's best non-fiction sellers I shall
be greatly mistaken. And it should be of extraordinary
interest to Jewish readers the world over. Everybody
has his own idea of what's what in a vacation, but if I
had my choice just at this moment, It like to go up to
the Mactiowell colony in New Ilampshire and loaf with
Lewis Browne, listening to his fund of stories of Heine.
Pierre Can Paasen, the European correspondent of
the New York Evening World, knows his notables. He
has handed me the most interesting story I have heard in
many years. Mme. Lupescu is a Jewess, and one of those
blondes that gentlemen prefer; in this particular case the
gentleman showing his preference is none other than
Prince Carol of Roumania, who is hiding in ambush ready
to make a flying leap for the throne the moment the local
constabulary is withdrawn from duty. In the meantime,
the prince has shaped up his domestic affairs (in his own
mind) so that when the "call" comes, he will have every-
thing arranged to meet the necessities of the situation.
First of all, his companion, for whom he sacrificed so
much and with whom he is living in Paris, is ready to
give up her Judaism and to join the Orthodox Church of
Roumania, no that she may become co-ruler with "King"
Carol.
It would be utterly impossible for Prince Carol to
attempt to make a Jewess a queen in Roumania. That's
just about the last country in the world where such a
thing would be possible. So he has arranged. according
to Can Paa.sen, to elevate his converted Jewess to no-
bility, divorce his wife, Princess Helena, recover the
throne and make Mme. Lupescu queen. It is a romance
and an intrigue worthy of the pen of an Anthony Hope.
And to think that • Jewish woman may one day be queen
of • country whose treatment of the Jews has been a
blot on civilization! Of course, Prince Carol hasn't the
throne yet. But it does look from the sidelines as if the
prince is going to make a desperate effort to get it.
We visited the "asphaltic pool," we should exchange winter for
whose glistening waters we could summer. Here, on the Mount of
see from our windows, and on Olives and in the hill-country of
whose confines, science tells us Judea, it was an English March.
with some certainty, we can find The electric heaters were still in
the actual scene of the destruction use throughout the government
of the five Cities of the Plain. No house; and out of doors, although
trace of them remains; but in that there had been plenty of sunshine
heavily bituminous soil there took since we came, the wind was too
place one• of those terrible explo- strong and too cold for comfort.
sions and conflagrations which But in less than two hours we
have sometimes broken out in the should be at the tropical end of
similar geology of the oil districts the Jordan valley, with a tempera-
of North America. in such soil tore at this time of year of an Eng-
great reservoirs of oil and gas are hob July at its hottest.
formed, and suddenly discharged The car slid down the now famil.
by their own pressure or by earth- iar road past Gray Hill house,
university is be..
quake. The gas explodes, carrying w h ere t he J ew i sh
high up into the air masses of the ing built, and the war cemetery.
oil which fall hack in fiery rain, There it left it, dropped to the Val.
and are so inextinguishable that ley of Cedron, passed beneath Geth-
they will float afire on water. semane and the gilded cupolas of
Sometimes brine and saline mud the Russian Memorial church, and
are ejected and over the site of ruse to Bethany. From this on-
these reservoirs there are tremors wards, except the so-called "Well
of the Apostles" and the Khan
and subsidences.
(partly destroyed in the war)
So writes Principal Smith (Mist.
Geo.). And Tristram, before him known as the Inn of the Good Sa-
in "The Land of Israel": Again maritan, there was nothing to de-
the bitumen, unlike that on the lay us. At this season there was
shore of the Dead Sea is strongly grass upon the hills, but this man-
impregnated with sulphur and tie of faded green velvet (as it
above all, it is calcined, and bears looked in the distance) was gashed
marks of having been subjected to and torn by the lilac and orange of
extreme heat. So far as I can un- the stone beneath, and speckled by
derstand this deposit, if there be flowers. Else they might have been
any physical evidence left of the South African kopjes, only larger
catastrophe which destroyed Sodom and more rounded. The road, made
to=
and Gemorah, or of similar occur- by the Turks and restored, with
new bridges, by the administration,
rences, we have it here.
No book contributes so largely to was now one of the few which the
the secondary consciousness of man public works department schedules
as the Bible; and apart from the as 'first class." On this good
road the car, rising here and there.
story of the beginnings of Chris-
tianity it holds no single episode but always falling again lower and
firmly
lower,
wound swiftly along the hill-
that has gripped the mind SO
as the narrative in which this ea- sides and through the gullies, and
tastrophe appears as a punishment crept carefully round the hairpin
turnings of the zigzags, until sud-
of the God of Righteousness. Thus
treated, we have here what is, per- denly we saw the plain beneath us.
When the roofs and gardens of
haps, the truest, as it is the most
dramatic, presentation of the moral Jericho were well in sight we left
the straight road which led to them,
ideal in literature.. It shows man's
conception of right-doing in con- to follow a track running southeast
flict with wrong-doing in a form across the desert. No longer the
good road was under us; and the
that menaced his very existence.
But even here the vindication of ear alternately glided over soft
desert surfaces or swayed and
righteousness must be deliberate in
bumped horribly across the mounts
action; careful to seek and accept
the smallest item of the exculpa- and ruts, which had been made in
tory evidence which would justify the wet season and were now baked
hard by the sun. Fifteen minutes
mercy.
"I will go down now, and see of this uncomfortable progression,
whether they have done altogether and we stood upon the actual mar-
gin of the blue sparkling plain of
according to the cry of it, which is
waters, whose brightness, far off
come unto me; and if not, I will
and wonderful, had met our eyes
know."
upon Mount Olivet; the Bahr Lout
"And Abraham drew near, and of the Arabs, the Sea of Lot.
said, 'Wilt thou also destroy the
South Africa had its mines of
righteous with the wicked?'
diamonds and gold. Egypt its cot-
"Peradventure there be 50 right- ton. Did this glittering surface
eous within the city: wilt thou also hide the future wealth of Pales-
destroy and not spare the place for
tine? We knew enough to think it
the 50 righteous that are therein?"
might be so.
"That he far from thee to do
Every day the Jordan, with many
after this manner, to slay the lesser streams, pours 6,000,000 tons
righteous with the wicked; and of water into this most marvellous
that the righteous should be as the of all inland seas. No stream or
wicked, that be far from thee:
river flows out of it, and yet the
Shall not the Judge of all the earth
level of its waters scarcely alters.
do right?"
The hot and constant sun takes
"And he said, Oh let nut the
away in vapor as much water as
Lord be angry, and I will speak. flows in, and no less speedily. But
but this once. Peradventure 10
while under this long continued
shall be found there. And Ile said, evaporation the volume of its wa-
I will not destroy it for ten's sake."
ters varies but little, their mineral
But when even this minimum of properties increase. Today the
10 righteous persons cannot be
Dead Sea water is five times as salt
found, there is to be no tragedy. and buoyant as ocean water, and
The doctrine of Nemesis—the at-
no fish can live in it. Every gal-
tempt to justify punishment other-
lon yields 15,260 grains of residual
wise plainly repugnant to the
matter; and of this total (accord-
moral sense by identifying it with
ing to Bernay's analysis) 7,305
the action of physical causes that grains are magnesium, 5,106 sodi-
are alien to the issue; the visiting
um, and 1,059 potassium chlorides.
of the sins of the fathers upon the
Disregarding the sodium chloride
children, with the assumption that
(or common salt) we have here
innocent persons can be punished
potash and magnesium supplies of
justly for the guilt of others for which are drawn at the present
whose actions they were nut re-
time by England and other coun-
sponsible—has not yet appeared. tries from Germany and Alsace. The
The idea of tragedy, the unde-
former, found at Stassfurt in the
served and unexplained suffering north of Germany and elsewhere, is
of the average good, is expressly
used chiefly in making artificial
excluded. The one guiltless family fertilizers; while the latter serves
et;
is to be saved.
to "dress" cotton fabrics. All
"And when the morning arose, three 'inducts can be obtained by
then the angels hastened Lot say-
solar evaporation from the Dead
ing, Arise, take thy wife, and thy
Sea water.
two daughters, which are here; lest
The character of the Dead Sea
thou be consumed in the iniquity of
deposits has been known, of course,
the city."
for many years; but it is only since
But if justice must be untainted the British eiccupation that the
and absolute, to be complete in its
of re-covering them has as-
preventive office, it must also take
sumed a practical form. The posi-
i4J
on a form more swift, terrible, and
tion is this: The administration has
deadly than any manifestation of
received an offer to give valuable
physical energy that had appalled consideration for a concession of
man's senses before.
the sole right to exploit them; but
"The sun was risen upon the
in the absence of any precise
earth when Lot entered into Zoar."
knowledge of their marketable
"Then the Lord rained upon
value it has refrained from accept-
Sodom and upon Gemorrah brim-
ing it. In order, however, to pro-
stone and fire from the Lord out of vide the necessary knowledge of
heaven."
their marketable value, a commit-
"And he overthrew those cities
tee of experts has been set up by
and all theplain, and all the in- the colonial office, and it will be
habitants of the cities, that which
the business of this committee not
grew upon the ground."
only to fix, as far as possible, a
"And Abraham got up early in
reasonable price for the concession,
the morning to the place where he
but also to advise the administra-
stood before the Lord."
tion as to the terms and conditions
"And he looked ... and beheld,
to which the concession must be
and lo, the smoke of the country
made subject, if the interests of
went up as the smoke of a fur-
the people of Palestine and of the
nace."
mandatory power are to be ade-
Our visit to the scene of this stu-
quately protected. So soon as the
pendous act of God came about so
administration is informed upon
quickly and easily that it seemed
these necessary matters, the con-
almost an idle and impromptu holi- cession will he offered for sale in
day. In a "Murray" of some 50
the open market and awarded to
years ago I read: "This excursion" the highest bidder.
from Jerusalem to Jericho, "will
According to a statement in the
occupy three days." And began,
Times of August 25, 1921, the
"For this excursion an escort is ab- agreement of London was followed
solutely necessary, as without it
by a Franco-German commercial
the adventurous traveler will un-
agreement, under which the Amer-
questionably 'fall among thieves
ican potash market was appor-
ere he reaches the Jordan." Autres
tioned between the industries of 54
temps, autres moeurs. With the the two countries as to 62.5 per
good car and driver ordered from
cent. Germany to Germany and as 1 . 1
Halifax), we expected to reach the to 37.5 per cent. to France. The
plain in an hour and a half; and amount of pure potash imported
the only interference with our per-
into American in 1923 was 24111,000
sonal liberty we could think of was tons, of the value of $15,500,000,
the remote chance of a breakdown.
In the same brief period of time
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