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LACK OF SKILLED
PALESTINE LABOR
only manufacture the rough loath-
or such as is used by the Arabs,
and is known as grade II. The bet-
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Lamented in Special Article
In Haaretz of Tel
Aviv.
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S. GRANADIER
For Every Occasion
This Fall
The Ilaaretz of Tel Aviv in a re-
cent issue laments the lack of
skilled artisans in Palestine. While
there are hundreds of young
it•Wit, men able and willing to do
hard manual work, there is, says'
the journal, a lack of experts in
various trades. The Ilaaretz says:
"Some time ago J. Babas & Co.,
owners of a tannery near Tel Aviv,
imported , 15 tanners from Alexan-
dria. The firm was immediately
attacked for not employing Jews
in this work. There were the usual
protest meetings and resolutions.
Now we know Mr, Ilabas's side of
he story.
"According to Mr. Ilabas the
rider Palestinian tanneries could
You will take as much pride in wearing gar-
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Ilabas opened his factory.
He
manufactured grades B and C. but
did Rot make grade A. It wits an
improvement on the old tanneries
but still it could not produce the
better kind of leather. I.ast year
when the import duty on raw ma-
terial was taken off Mr. Hobos
decided to produce grade A, the
best kind of leather for fancy
work. Ile brought his machinery
from Europe but he could find no
skilled men to operate the ma-
chinery or to finish the fine leath-
er. Ile had to bring mechanics
from Alexandria."
The Ilaaretz says that the lack
of skilled men is experienced in
every branch of Palestinian indus-
try. The Jewish artisans coming
from Eastern Europe are used to
work of a very primitive charac-
ter and are helpless when brought
face to face with modern and ho-
proved methods. "We know of a
foreman in a factory of 30 men
giving up his job. The man could
not lie replaced and the factory
was closed for over four weeks.
It is strange that the young Jew
who is able and willing to do the
hardest kind of work will not read.
ily apply himself to new and bet-
ter methods. We think that the
Jew is not a laborer- at heart. For
him labor is a transition stage to
sonic other thing. Ile thinks mot.:
of the rules of his labor union or
of his intellectual connections than
of specializing in his craft. This
is a very sad fact, but we have to
reckon with it. If industry is to
be developed on a great scale, ex-
pert workers must be brought
from abroad until the Palestinian
Jew adapts himself to modern
methods."
MOSLEM CHIEFS ASK
KINGDOM FOR SYRIA
JERUSALEM.-1.1. T. A.l—A
conference of Moslem and Chris-
tian notables, members of the
Royalist group, which was held in
Damascus Monday, went on record
as favoring the monarchist form
of government for Syria, the
French mandate territory.
This demand was embodied in a
cable sent by the conference to the
French government in Paris.
The opponents of the republican
form of government, which was
voted recently by the Syrian Na-
tional Assembly, dispersed by the
high Commissioner, favor Ahmed
Mimi Bey, former prime minister,
as candidate for the throne.
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FOR GOD AND FOR ISRAEL!
By DR. STEPHEN S. WISE
Rabbi of the Free Synagogue, New York, and President of the Jewish
Institute of Religion.
The year that is now passing has had no one out-
standing event such as last year, which was happily
memorable by reason of the Ford retraction—Aaron
Sapiro supplying the motor power Of the Retractor!
But the outstanding evil of 1926-1927 was renewed
in the form of the Rumanian excesses in the Fall of
1927. There are those who believe the outlook in
Rumania to be better, especially because the some-
what diluted Bratianu regime is committed to a
policy of liberalism in relation to the Jew—forati-
much as Rumania knows that, even if the present
loan be granted by the Western Powers, Rumania
cannot maintain its status as on the highway of en-
lightenment and culture if it endure the brutality of
such anti-Jewish excesses as were committed by the
government-subsidized, if not government-insti-
gated—student body in Transylvania. Let us hope
for better days for our brothers in Rumania; but
let us remember, at the sans time, that two things
are needful, neither of which is, as yet, achieved—
the unity of Jewish forces with a view to safeguard-
ing the life and property of Jews wherever these
may be endangered or violated, and, again, the
bringing to bear of public opinion upon the League
of Nations and other international instrumentalities
which are to insure the fulfillment of the Minorities
Rights Treaties of Versailles.
If Jews cannot unite for this exigent purpose,
then are we cursed by cureless division and incapac-
ity for concerted effort. As for public opini6n and
the League of Nations, Jews should not forget that
we are only one of a group of peoples aggregating
tens of millions, who dwell as minorities in the midst
of majorities, with status not one of sufferance but
of incontestible legality. And, in the struggle for
the safeguarding of Minority Rights, we battle not
for ourselves alone. For ours is a cause that is
common to many—the cause of tempering the
power of the majority lest it become a rod of
tyranny.
In some ways, the great event of the year has
been the development of plans looking to the forma-
tion of the Jewish Agency. It is not for me to seek
to forecast what the outcome of the effort will be.
If the agency is to bring about the too-long deferred
union of forces for the upbuilding of Palestine, ver-
itably an Union Sacre, without the sacrifice of the
basic principles of Zionism, then it will, in truth, be
an agency for much good. But if the mandate of
the Berlin Conference of July be minimized or
ignored so that, from the viewpoint of the Galuth,
Palestine become another realm of Jewish charity
instead of the Jewish land of self-reverence and self-
sustainment, then woe betide the agency. Above
all, they who have stood aside up to this time on any
ground—and it is not for us to question in the hour
of conciliation—may now be expected handsomely
to come forward and take their full part in the ful-
fillment of the supreme task of Israel.
One other problem of gravest moment is before
Israel. God give it that the year find the problem
somewhat nearer solution. Are we to melt away,
or, to change the figure, to drift and drift without
compass and rudder until we are wrecked upon the
rocks of a world which has no hospitality for moral
and spiritual derelicts? Sometimes, I am heartened
to believe that the younger among us are drawing
nearer to an understanding and abiding solution of
the Jewish problem. This will not be found upon
the path of more forms or more formlessness. The
Jew has too long wondered which of the bonds he
is to break—racial, religious, national. The Jew
begins to see that the so-called religious bond is none
other than a spiritual outlook upon the universe,
Spinoza's sub-specie aeternitatis, and that no science
nor modernism of any fashion ought to darken or
confuse such outlook. The Jew begins to see that
the racio-national bond, which is interfused with the
religious, signifies not bondage to an ancient tribal-
ism, but liberation through having a creative part
in the unfolding future of the Jewish people, with
its fadeless hope of service to humankind through
spiritual ethical leadership.
Verily, it might have been for the Jew that
Mazzini unfurled the banner, "Dio e popolo!"—
"For God and People!" Not through forswearing
the God of Sinai and his eternal mandate; nor
through desertion of the people of Moses and Isaiah.
Maimuni and Spinoza, Mendelsohn and Herz' will
the Jew gain aught save the awful penalties of self-
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from Florida. When she arrived
in Ilavana, the discovered that the
prospective bridegroom was nei-
ther "young" nor a "millionaire."
Ile totaled 40 years. The bride-
groom, on his part, was also not
very enthusiastic, first because he
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had heard that the prospective
bride had had herself photo-
graphed on board ship with the
ship officers and he secondly dis-
covered that she really was a
"flapper," one he could have ob-
tained right here in America with-
out importing one from Poland. A
couple of Jewish immigrants in
Havana who found them a (lay af-
ter the girl's arrival quarreling on
the street brought them to the
Jewish Center at Havana, which
was created and is supported by
Ilias, 425 Lafayett street, New
York City.
After lengthy negotiations, the
prospective bridegroom gave the
imported girl $295 so that she
would return to her parents in
Poland. Her return journey wa ,
arranged by the officials of Ow
Jewish Center and the Ilias °Ri-
cers in Europe will see to it that
she goes home safely. The sum
of $1110, remaining over after her
traveling expenses, was sent by
Bias to Poland to be at her dis-
posal.
Bias calls particular attention to
this incident which ought to serve
os a warning to Jewish girls in
Europe who may be tempted to
come here to "picture" bride-
grooms in America.
LEMBERG ZIONIST
MEETING DISSOLVED
BECAUSE OF RIOTS
LEMBERG.-1.1. T. A.1.- -A
Zionist meeting called to consider
the forthcoming Keliillah elections
here was dispersed by the police
because
UM' of riots which assumed a
threatening character.
The clash occurred when sup-
porters of the middle class bloc,
epposing the Zionist Kehillah plat-
form, invaded the meeting shout-
ing their protest and interrupting
the speakers.
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