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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the legal Chronicle

September 19. 1941

NOSH IIASIIONAII GREETINGS

Liberty Lumber
8 Coal Co.

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Paints
Coal - Coke - Wood

8100 RADCLIFFE
TYLER.. 5-1760

GREETINGS . . .

A Message from the President of the Jewish
Welfare Federation

By ABRAHAM SRERE

In extending greetings to the l'ews of our com-
munity on behalf of our Jewish Welfare Federation, I
express the hope that the New Year will bring peace
and comfort to fellow Jews throughout the world. Trials
and tribulations have been our lot throughout history
but never so tragic as this period of Hitlerian brutality.
However, present indications point to the dawn of a
new and better year. An earnest and conscientious Juda-
ism will not only give us the courage and the dignity of
a glorious people but will strengthen us in our battles
against all evil forces.

MERHAVIA IS THIRTY

McIntosh
Coal
Co.

By DOROTHY KAHN

J. A. McINTOSH, Pres.

11850 KERCHEVAL AVE.

LEnox 8500

New Year Greetings!

Editor's Note:—Merhavia is
the Hebrew equivalent for the
English expression: "Wide,
ope n spaces". It was c hosen
by the founders of the first
agricultural settlement in the
Valley of Jezreel, Palestine,
as a name symbolic of their
hope for growth and expan•
sion. Recently, Merhavia, com-
prising a smallholders' village
and a communal settlement on
Jewish National Fund land,
celebrated its 30th anniver-
sary. In this article, the writ-
er, an American correspond-
ent, has recaptured the fes-
tive and fascinating mood of

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- Rosh Iloshonah Greetings!

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11820 JOS. CAMPAU

12005 DEXTER

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(Corner Elmhurst)

NOrthlawn 9444

Happy New Year to All •

MOTOR CITY
SPRING CO.

Dealers
Wholesale Supply.

1821 TROMBLEY AVE.

12871 EATON AVE,

Madison 5250

HOGARTH 1340

THE
SALVATION ARMY-

WISHES TO EXTEND TO ITS MANY
FRIENDS OF THE JEWITH FAITH
SINCERE HOLIDAY GREETINGS!

CADILLAC 2292

601 BAGLEY AVE.

110:_IDAY GREETINGS

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Cap,, Inc.

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Phone VI. 1-8656 .

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1815 TROMBLY

a brave band of pioneer
builders celebrating their joy-
ot. s occasion in the midst of
an intense war situation.

Le Shono Tovo Tikoseva

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Trailer Co.

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Machinery

Tools—Many Kinds
It was early in the morning.
But already trucks, lorries and
Meials. —Many Kinds
horse-drawn vehicles were trek-
king in the direction of Merhavia,
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crowded with farmers, their
wives and children from the
Gears
neighboring settlements, "Many
happy returns of the day" were
Grinding Wheels
brought to this Emek Jezreel set-
tlement on its thirtieth birthday
Material Handling Equipment
from all corners of the country.
Pulleys — Hangers
Taxis, buses and trains conveyed
visitors from towns and villages.
See MERHAVIA—Page 12
Bearings — Belting
The trek continued until night-
fall, workers coming as soon
Pumps
as they could be released from
their tasks.
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The spirit of the occasion
could be deeply Jelt in the morn- Season's Greetings and Best Wishes
Machinists' Tools
ing when the children staged
their festival in the eucalyptus
Welding Equipment
grove. As far as the eyes could
see was the greenness of the
Manila Rope
Emek which was a barren waste-
land when the settlers of Mer-
Wire Rope
havia hoisted their first tents. A
few kilometers away was a patch
Lubricants
of 125 dunams of olive trees—
Ladders and Trestles
3847 West Fort Street
the first olives •o be planted on
Jewish National Fund land.
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It was an oppressively hot day.
But the grove was cool and re-
freshing. These trees which had
been planted three decades ago
for utilitarian purposes—to drain
the malarial swamps—were now
SINCERE HOLIDAY GREETINGS
The
serving a happier end, standing
between us and the May sun
CHAS. A.
like giant fans.
Children of all .ages wearing
blue shorts and fresh white
blouses, squatted on the ground,
many were from Afuleh and PRATT & LAMBERT PAINT
other nearby points, besides those
AND, VARNISH
CO.
from Merhavh, itself. In the
center was the "band-wagon"—
1497 East Grand Blvd.
a piano on a truck and an or-
at Canton
149 .E. Lamed St.
chestra, of children equipped with
flutes, mouth organs, camel bells,
PLazit 1820
and other primitive instruments
to be coaxed into rendering gay
musaice.
Each group of children pre-
sented its own offering, group
singing, dancing. or pantomime.
The girls of Morhavia looked
very grown-up and graceful in
their white flowing tunics, hair
unloosed and wreathed with
flowers—Biblical Miriams danc-
ing with their timbrels. Then
the band-wagon came to life.
One child crouched on the
Extends Best Wishes to the Entire Jewish Com-
• ground to hold the conductor's
sheets of music whch were be-
munity for a Happy New Year
ing rustled by the breeze. The
flutes and the mouth organs and
the camel hells were an appro-
priate "symphony" in this thea-
ter of trees. They played Hay-
dn's "Creation".
HOLIDAY GREETINGS
What a host of unfinished
thoughts trailed through one's
head as the children solemnly
followed the conductor's move-
ments with their flutes and cam-
el bells. It is good to go for-
ward—always forward. But it
Builders - Designers
is good, too, to stand still for
a few moments and look back-
Tools, Dies and Special Machinery
wards. This morning we were
looking backwards—backwards to
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the time when these giant fans
of trees were seedlings. The
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children and the trees and the
olive grove in the distance had
grown — sometimes under the
greatest odds. Few words were
spoken this morning. But Ave
were all under the joyful spell
of the band-wagon and the host
ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS:
of yesterdays which seemed to
rustle through the grove togeth-
er with the rustling of the
branches.
The children 'occupied the cen-
ter of the • woodland stage. And
yet, the "stars" of today's per-
formance were the old-timers
who stood in groups around the
band-wagon and the children. It
HOGARTH 4800
14000 GRAND RIVER
was they who cme to Merhavia
thirty years ago when this was
the only Jewish point in the

Fort Boulevard
Recreation

•

SEASON'S GREETINGS

100 E. Cicotte

BAR-ADON

Plain of Esd•aelon. They had
been pioneers in the deepest
sense of the word. Their little •
settlement was cut off from Gal-
ilee and Judaea. They had seen
their comrades stricken with ma-
laria and murdered by hostile
neighbors. They had dug the
first graves, as well' as planted
the first trees in the Emek.
The original group of settlers
had ultimately disintegrated and
drifted to all parts of the coun-
try. Twelve years ago du set-
tlement was taken over by the
Shunter Hat za ir group which
rout prises the present population.
But today they came hack-
the:;e original settlers. Laughter,
reminiscences, emotion disguised
by heartiness, filled the eucalyp-
tus grove.
Palestine is a tiny country.
and Jews like • to move about.
And yet, the pressure of daily
work • some1 Imes keeps farmers
tied to their land for years on
end. So there were those among
these old-timers who had not
each other or Merhavia
FITn
since they parted company twen-
ty or twenty-five years ago. Men
and women who had - planted
these trees together, introduced
grown children or grandchildren.'
Some embarrassedly rummaged
in their memory for the name
of a former boon companion.
Then, with a rush of memory,
the name would come to their
lips, accompanied by laughter
and embracing.

MADISON 4290

DIBBLE
COLOR CO.

STRELINGER

State Senator
ALLEN GUY LUDINGTON

Kraetke Tool Co., Inc.

Strathmoor Lumber 8 Supply Co.

