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September I I, 1942
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
SENATOR BROWN FERVENTLY HOPES THAT
JEWISH PRAYER WILL BE ANSWERED
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By SENATOR PRENTISS M. BROWN
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August 21, 1943
Editor's Note:—The settlement of Emek Jezreel which began 20
years ago through the acquisition of the land by the Jewish
National Fund, is one of the most romantic chapters i n the
upbuilding of the Jewish National Home. Lea Goldberg, noted
Hebrew poetess and authoress, graphically describes in this
article her impressions and experiences after a visit to the
Emek on the occasion of its 20th anniversary. The strategic
importance of the Emek, which serves as the very backbone
of the upbuilding program of the Jewish National Home, is
Particularly emphasized here.
Dear Mr. Margolis:
Many thanks for the oppotunity of conveying the
Season's greetings and feliciations to your people. I do I had never seen such a sky
the Emek. Through a thin
so with a feeling of keen sympathy for the Jews over
veil of scorching dust, as though
throughout the world, and particularly those who have one were looking through semi-
suffered so terribly at the hands of the Axis nations. opaque glass, one caught a
1 do so with a prayer on my lips that we will soon wel- glimpse of a pale blue sky.
were no clouds, but here
come the dawn of a new day when their misery and There
and there in the distance were
suffering will be at an end.
stretched strips of white. The
Soon you will celebrate your Holy Days. Mindful whole gave the impression as if a
screen had been erected between
of the past and contemplating the future, we wonder man
and heaven. In the far dis-
what Fate holds in store for us during the coming year. tance, a bird of prey, with out-
Above everything else, may it be Victory in our present stretched wings was hovering
conflict. Victory and achievement of the ideals and high, motionless and proud, but
it appeared somewhat distorted
principles for which we are struggling.
behind the dusty mist.
Lincoln in substance said at Gettysburg, "We are
It was a khamsin day, and that
engaged in a great civil war, testing whether * * * any dust veil was settling itself over
nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposi- the whole region as far as the
tion that all men are created equal, can long endure." eye could see—over the bushes and
few trees that were there,
In the light of the present we are engaged in a struggle the
the hedges and the wide fields.
which makes our Civil War fade into insignificance. This To us it appeared as though our
conflict is far greater than any in history It is not a war car was cutting its way between
by and against one nation—it is world-wide in scope. two layers of burning dust.
Somehow, it seemed to be the
It involves the life and pursuit of happiness of all dem- only
real thing around us, sure of
ocratic nations and institutions. It is a mortal struggle itself and of its direction. And
testing whether our conceptions, our idealogy can en- the man at the wheel and his
dure and whether our God-given inalienable rights will two companions also seemed to
belong to hard and stark reality.
survive.
They were members of Kibbutzim
The lines of battle are clearly drawn. We are (Communal settlements) returning
fighting with faith in our cause and confidence in our home after a fatiguing day's work
ultimate success. Justice and right must and shall pre- in town, settling accounts and
looking after the other matters
vail, as surely as the night follows the day.
relating to their settlements.
As the Jewish people turn to their God in their
Presently we saw houses—the
sacred and solemn hour, it is my fervent hope that their water tower and the entrance
prayers be answered, that peace, health and happiness gate; we caught a glimpse of the
for all mankind be inscribed in the Book of Life. Above bungalows on the outskirts of the
Kibbutz and of the white walls
all, may victory be ours. May the time be not far dis- of
the communal buildings. The
tant when "nation will no longer lift up sword against reality of which our car reminded
nation" and "peace on earth and good will toward men" us gave way to a different real-
prevail.
ity, strong and immutable, deeply
With my very best wishes, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Prentiss M. Brown.
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rooted in the soil on which it is
built. The khamsin day had lent
the houses and court-yard the
appearance of worn fatigue.'
That is why they so much re-
sembled my two companions, tired
and overwrought, but so human
and real, bent on their daily toil
and duties. It was well-nigh im-
possible to think of those fields
and of the hot and steaming
earth without associating them
with the fruits of human labor
in the Emek.
Twenty years ago everything
was desolate there . . . It is diffi-
cult to set down this statement
on paper. It brings to mind a
story I once read in Russian,
of 10 Soviet journalists who were
sent out to one of the new indus-
trial centers in Russian Asia. The
journalists took note of everything
that had been created there, Pro-
fessional guides and managers of
industrial concerns showed them
round the factories that had been
erected and the dwelling houses
that had been built. The journal-
ists made note of everything in
their hurry-skurry fashion, their
pens scratching on the paper and
their faces beaming with recog-
nition of the great achievements
they witnessed. In a few days
their reports were published
throughout Russia, but every man
of them began with the sentence:
' "A year ago desolation reigned
here."
Yes, reality is stronger than
our efforts at expression, and our
tongues are not always capable
of expressing it. We are forced
into banality, but the fact of a
wilderness being transformed into
a place of human habitation is
never banal.
Twenty years ago desolation
reigned here. The place where a
copse of eucalyptus trees is now
facing us was then a malaria-in-
fested swamp . . . But what is
that we see? On the other side
of the road there was a little
thicket too . . . Yes, only a month
ago I saw it, and now only grey
and short-cut trunks are visible
"They are cutting down our
trees," I said to the man sitting
beside me, not without a feeling
of sorrow and revolt. "There are
none too many trees in the coun-
try, and the few which we raised
cost us dearly."
"Here's a romantic town-dwell-
er all over again," chuckled the
Kibbutzman who was well up in
trees and afforestation. "We need
timber, don't we? We need boxes
and furniture and sheep-folds,
which are best built of wood . .
Why, the Jewish National Fund
itself is cutting those trees
down."
fore you will have stopped mourn-
ing for the thicket that has been
cleared a new one will have risen
in its stead. Such is the eucalyp-
tus tree: You fell it and it rises
again; you cut it down and it
grows up. Not in vain do Arabs
call the eucalyptus the "Jew-
See ENEK—Page 22
L'Shono Toro Tikosern!
I looked perplexed.
"Never mind. You don't, it
seems, know the nature of the
eucalyptus tree. You cut it down,
leaving one shoot protrding from
the trunk at the bottom, and be-
fore long that branch grows and
develops into a tree trunk itself.
A new tree rises in the place of
the one you have cut down. Be-
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