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MEDLTROIT EMSRPIRDNICLE
THE OLD GUARD
Wasn't Russia as great and glorl camel was still the motive power YEVSECTSIA LEADERS
Hous a country as any defiled, for their wells, because to keep a
LOSE RUSSIAN POSTS
Christ-hating Jews wanted? Was camel was cheaper than to run new
By JULIAN L. AVI•SIGLA
not the great Nicola', the Little tangled motors and pumps. The
MOSCOW. —(J. T. A.) —Over
Father of this People, as amiable enterprise of these Jews had spur-
"Le garde hieurf, nis and as princely a monarch as they red on the peasants to emulate their 200 Jewish leaders of the liquidat-
ne se rend yeas f" could have, without aspiring to example. Many fellaheen in this ed Jewish section of the Commun-,
It was in 1906. The Czarist have one of their own degraded and other parts of the Shephelah ist Party will lose their posts as
government had been pursuing its] number upon a throne? Nonsense! (coastal plain) soon were able to supervisors of Jewish matters in
policy of merciless extermination The meeting was being held for rev- rid themselves of the yoke of their 10 districts of Russia, states the
Moscow Emes, formerly the organ
of all revolutionary and firebrand olutionary purposes; they wanted feudal ties.
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bodies. Revolutionaries were all to overthrow the noble government,
The Jewish Communists are grad-
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such who held secret meetings, ir- and used as a pretext a desire to into his own. Ibis boys now help
respective of what these meetings return to Zion. Attention! For- him on the homestead and in his ually losing their dominating posi-
tion
in Jewish life in Russia in
pleasant, thriving grove and mead-
discussed or in whose interests they ward march!
That should have been the end ows. Ile is older than he was in view of the decision of the Central
were held. If you called a privy
assembly, the mere fact that it had of Jacob Spektor and his friends. the care-free days when he first Communist l'arty to abolish the
came to Palestine, to savour of the district centers fur national minori-
not been permitted by the police It was but the beginning.
In 1908, cholera broke out in the free, spacious nights under the ties. In connection with this re-or-
was token that "its purposes were
little
penal
settlement
of
Siberia
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stars or in the light of the moon ganization program it is also pos-
not consonant with the welfare of
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Communist
the State." That was an end of it. to which Spektor and the 10 others to g,o walking through the groves. sible that the Jewish
No trial, no travesty of justice: had been exiled. The Russian Yet he regrets not his age, nor the papers appearing in Odessa, Bei.-
ditchev,
Kiev
and
Vitebsk,
which
guards
deemed
discretion
to
be
the
passing
of
the
years.
It
has
been
you were cast into dark, moist dun-
v
he would not change aro TIOW subsidized by the district
goals until the word came from better part of authority; the next 1,iiith
centers,
may
be
compelled
to
dis-
morning
they
were
gone.
Their
any.
some bureau that you were being
There are many such as Jacob continue publication.
sent to Siberia. Siberia spelt finis. little formality in locking up the
prsioners
overnight
and
concealing
Spektor,
all
over
the
country,
old
is.
EVIL OF IDLE GOSSIP
Jacob Spektor was not a revolu- the keys proved a hindrance for a men and middle-aged, who swing
tionary; he was a Zionist. In 1906 foodless and uaterless day or so, in their rockerchairs on wide
he ions a student of 17 years, at- lad not an insurmountable obstacle. perches and tell pal stories of the
A peasant with a troubled con-
tending the gymnasia at Kiev. One of the Russian prisoners, a beginnings of contemporary agri- science went to a monk for ad-
There were a number of students notorious brigand in his own pas- cultural Israel, of their adventures vice. Ile said he had circulated
with Zionist inclinations at Kiev tures, picked the lock, and let the and of the early days of Karen a vile story about a friend, only
at the time, and now and then they others out. There were about 1.11) Kayi•meth. They knew our mod- to learn afterwards that the story
would hold a meeting to expound of them all told---.men and women. ern Yishub when it was young. was not true. "If you want to
their cult. It mainly centered, at Of Spektor's original coterie of 11, ( . 1) in the Daganias or at kinner• make peace with your conscience,"
among the numerous and pros.
that time among the youth, around eight remained.
Fortunately it was summer when perous settlements of the En•k, or said the monk, "you must fill a
the personality of a man named
hag with chicken down go to ev-
Theodor Ilerzl, deceased two years, the guards fled. TO reach civili- in the Judean colonies, they still ery dooryard in the village,
THOMAS G. LONGSTAFF, Mgr.
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and
who had unsuccessfully bilmbarded zation from that trackless waste lire an dwork —men
drop
in each one of them one Hof-
European chancelleries with an ab- meant a journey of several monts, Guard.
fy feather." The peasant (lid as
since
the
fugitives
dare
not
use
the
They saw the growth of Eretz. lie was told. Then be came back
surd proposal to found a Jewish
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State in the southern part of Syr- railways or the beaten roads. Near- Israel of our times, the evolution to the monk and announced he had
ia. Jacob Spektor attended these by ran one of the great Siberian of the virile Chalutzpeasantry, done penance for his folly. "Not
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private meetings because he, too, rivers, the Amur, linking: up with and the start of the National Land yet," replied the monk. "Tab(
was convinced of the feasibility of the China coast. The fugitives had redemption—and they are seein • it yo ur hag , go the roma s
no
desire
to
enter
Russia
over
the
still!
Most
of
them,
like
Jacob
a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel.
and gather up every feather that
All this he tried to explain to ordinary frontiers, Most of them Spektor, encountered difficulties and you have dropped." "But the wind
the gendarmes who surprised one knew their fate would be more hardships on their way to the land must have blown them all away,"
of these meetings on a cold winter's drastic than exile were they to re- of their desire, but they came—and said the peasant. "Yes, my son,
night. The officers found it diffi- enter Russia so speedily. The ma- they are coming still!
said the monk, "and so it is with
cult to understand what the jority were headed for America.
gossip. Words are easily drop-
Three months or SO later they
I tell you that as long as I can ped, but no matter how hard you
Zhid wanted. A country? Pshah!
reached a port on the China coast. conceive something better than
may try, you can never get them
Some had died oiroute, others had myself I cannot be easy unless I
back again."—Albany Knicker-
been left behind, many had given am striving to bring it into exist- bocker Press.
up the long trek and stayed in the ence or clearing the way fur it.— I
villages on the way. Thirty-seven Shaw
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were left, including Spektor 's eight.
I asked the girl in a gentle voice.
"We had the choice of going
Be
civil
to
all;
sociable
to
many;
"You
bet I can," he answered
across hi America," said Spektor,
with few; friends to one; ] eagerly.
a bronzed, sturdy man, telling me familiar
;]inne.mly to none.—Benjamin Frank- ] "Then have an apple," she said
the tale as we sat out in the cool
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twilight of a Palestinian summer's
Upholsterer
day in one of the Judean colonies,
"or of shipping for European
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six of my friends chose America;
I hear from them still, they have
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This Jacob did. The ship sailed
• without him. Sombrely lie watched
it veer out to sea.
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one broad generalization the intel-
l ectual tendency of Israel," wrote,
Zangwill, "I should say it was a
tendency to unification. The
Unity of God, which is the decla-
ration of the dying Israelite, is but
the theological expression of this
tendency. The Jewish mind runs I
to unity by an instinct as harmoni-
ousas the Greek's sense of art. It
Is always impelled to a synthetic
iwrception of the whole. This is
Israel's contribution to the world,
his vision of existence ... Unitas,
Unitas, omnia Unitas!"
Surely, then, it is a paradox of
this paradoxical people of ours,
that with this passion for unity it
shows in all things so amazing a
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Spektor came to Palestine to-
wards the end of 1908. It was
a long way that he had travelled
to reach the "bourne of his de-
sires." Thousands of miles across
the steppes to Siberia; two or
more thousand miles further to
China; and all around the Indies
and up the Red Sea to Eretz-ls-
rael. The journey took him two
years and five months; but he
reached his haven at last.
Eretz-Israel in those days was a
wilderness indeed. None of the
luxuriant Emek had been won back
by the Jewish National Fund from
its desolation. The few Jewish col-
onies were more partially or whol-
ly supported by "the Baron:" the
concept of a Jewish agricultural
community was as yet embryo.
Yet the spirit of settling in Pales-
tine, later to be crystallized into
modern, pulsating and practical
Zionism, prevailed throughout.
Jacob settled in a little Judean
colony, the land for which had been A : .
provided by the Jewish National
Fund. It was ore of the newer pre-
war settlements that marked the
beginning of the great land pur-
chases of the Fund. The Einek
was yet to come.
The Arab peasants in that dis-
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trict were eager to sell part of their +1]:
lands to the newcomer Jews. Bur- I
dened with debts, for which they
were paying usurious rates of in-
terest to the effendies, it became a
harder struggle as each year passed'
for them to maintain their hold.
"One of the leading Arab pas-
ants," said Spektor, "told me, 'the
Jews have energy and fresh spirit;',
we are old and broken after all'
these years of fighting for our liv-
ing. Let many Jews come; the'
fellaheen know that it is to their I
benefit.'"
That was, Spektor recalled, 22
years ago. The new colonists ap-
plied themselves to their task with
refreshing vigor. They planted
small areas of orange-grows;
bought cows and started dairies on
a small scale; kept poultry and
sold the produce in a larger, older
colony near by. They struggled
for their livelihood just as much
as the Arab peasants, and in fact
many had to work as hired labor-
ers in the big groves of the wealth-
ier colonists nearby. But it was
worth it. And the land was theirs
in perpetuity!
"To come from the snow-steppes
of Siberia, the vast uncharted wil-
derness of Asiatic Russia, into
bloom-laden and sunny Palestine,
was a change too great to be de-
scribed. How we enjoyed those
nights under the cool Mars, and
scents of F.retz-Israel borne on the
fragrant breeze, and the howling
of the lonely jackal in the distance;
the dark, clustering vines and the
I balmy smells of the almonds, what
more could Jewish soul desire!"
Little by little, they prospered.
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Truth to tell, their Arab neighbors
prospered with them, and gave ev-
ery help to this new type of Jew,
this agrarian folk who were the
forerunners of the sturdy post-war
Chalutzim. The peasants planted
groves and orchards, albeit the
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