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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

PALESTINE

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more important than long years
on the land. It is surprising
that even during war, yields can
be increased through new methods
of cultivation, in cereal growing,

through the choice of suitable
crops, in vegetable planting
through the expansion of irriga-
tion. Recently the demand for
artificial fertilizer, as well as of
hands generally in view of the
enlistment of great numbers of
people of military age, has be-
come more acute.

Arabs and Jews
Agree on Wailing
Wall Repairs

JERUSALEM (PALLOR)—As

a result of agreement with the
Supreme Moslem Council and the
Rabbinical Council, the Palestine
Administration today started on
repairs to the Western Wall, the
Kotel Maaravi, more familiarly
known as "the Wailing Wall."
Owing to weather conditions,
the pointing of the upper strata
of stones, belonging to the Sara-
cenic period, is required. A num-
ber of the stones had become loose
and were falling on the pavement
below.

When, however, we stress the
economic success of the Kibbut-
zim, we do not wish to imply
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that socially they necessarily pre-
sent the most suitable type of
settlement. In recent times the
many varieties of settlement have
been enriched by yet another
which strikes it mean between the
communal and the smallholders'
settlement. Every family owns
1 1 1
its own cottage, but cultivation
In accordance with the sched-
and agricultural pursuits are
financed by the common purse. ule of regulations attached to the
The final word has not yet been Palestine Western Wall Order-in-
said about this experiment, but Council of 1931, repairs that are
it is being put to the test on found necessary can be undertak-
en only with the consent of the
various estates.
Moslem and Jewish religious au-
All these forms have one thing thorities.
in common: A definite coopera-
tive character, which the late Jus-
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tice Brandeis regarded as the in every branch function as Sec-
ideal economic order. We know retaries and give advice to the
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of no other country in the world affiliated farmsteads. There are
OF THE
in which agriculture in particular no secrets; each learns of the
is carried out on such social lines. position of the other from reports
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This tendency has made still and balance sheets. The most
further progress in these years efficient middle-class settlements
of the war. Not only are have also recently created a cen-
to their many friends
the purchasing and distributing tral cooperative organ and it is
centers of the workers such as to be hoped that the same mod-
and patrons
Hamashbir and Tnuva gaining ern process will also overtake
extraordinary strength as far as the older pre-Zionist settlements.
turnover and capital are con-
Parallel with the strengthening
cerned, but regional cooperatives of agriculture, a still more rapid
are set up to adjust require- development is taking place in
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ments to local stocks, and trade industry. To be honest with our-
unions for every single breach selves it must be admitted that
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of economy, be it cattle raising even good Zionists placed very
or sheep rearing, bee keeping, little hope before the war on a
vegetable or cereal growing, fowl prosperous Palestnian industry.
raising, etc. The greatest experts For the essential conditions for
a thriving industry are expe-
rienced capitalists, skilled work-
ers and, about all, a large mar-
ket. For a long time these were
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wanting. Even the Palestine
Potash Company Ltd., the only
This Is the Fifth Anniversary of
productive concern in the country
of any great size, which was
subsidized by national capital, and
which exploits the inexhaustible
resources of the Dead Sea was
regarded before the outbreak of
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the war as a concern only in
the making. Apart from this
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Company there were hardly a
Suits. Coats and Haberdashery
dozen factories in the country
employing more than a hundred
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men. The situation changed dur-
ing, and as a result of the war.
Today even cautious observers
are confident of a considerable
industrial development that will
crrIllpi-nen'r
persist also after the armistice.
It appears almost as though
Zionist Palestine has just entered
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into its second economic phase.
From a dominantly agricultural
country, Palestine is now being
developed into a mixed agricul-
tural-industrial land.
This has been revealed to an
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astounded world, and possibly
also to some Palestinians, too,
only now at the Cairo Palestine
Industrial Exhibition. To many,
and not least to British officials,
this was a sensation. To men-
t ion only the most outstanding
e nterprises: Palestine Potash now
mploys 1,000 Jewish and 1,000
Arab laborers. It also employs
a staff of refugee scientists from
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Europe, who investigate new pro-
esses of production and uses the
1 aboratories of the Hebrew Uni-
ersity. The Refineries at Haifa,
which were completed just as the
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war broke out, constitute one of
t he greatest oil producers in the
Sole Distributors for the
East. The occupation of Belgium
a nd Holland has given rise to a
g neat diamond industry here em-
p loying more than a thousand
h ands. The edible oil factories
h ave expanded considerably, while
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t he young textile industry already
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ails for serious notice; there are
oncerns with over 300 laborers
e ach. Most conspicuous are the
ndustries in Haifa Bay—on the
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'ell-placed and planned holdings
0 f the Jewish National Fund.
N umerous enterprises have sprung
u p there. Great hopes are placed
I n the chemical industry, which
omprises concerns manufacturing
c it•us by-products, and the young
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P harmaceutical industry. In this
5 ector much advantage has ac-
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c rued to the country from the
a rrival of European-trained chem-
is ts.
A c e r t a i n industrializaton
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a long profitable lines is also
n oticeable in Palestine's agricul-
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to ral settlements. Local industry
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Si , ems to be pursuing a tendency
0 f establishing itself in the coun-
tr .yside where the workers can
li ve more cheaply and comfort-
a bly than in the towns. Here,
to 0, there is a strong inclination
to ward cooperative forms, chiefly
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in conjunction with Kibbutzim
many of which have established
workshops of appreciable size in
the course of the war period.
Thus in some Kibbutzim there
have been opened factories for
marmalade securing considerable
orders from the Forces, a large
factory for cases which already
exports, and a factory for mar-
grine. In others, machines are
made and repaired, and shoes
made up. A large brick factory
in one of the Kibbutzim has re-
cently come to the fore. Another
settlement has turned to toy mak-
ing, while there are numerous
locksmiths and iron works and
( joineries, etc. up and down the

Naturally this development of
the agricultural settlements along
semi- industrial lines has given
rise to serious criticism. The
members of such settlements
stress the fact that agriculture
alone can support but an insuffi-
cient number of people, that arti-
cles can be made more cheaply
in the settlements, and that the
great fear of unemployment is
considerably alleviated by such
development. On the other hand
urban industrialists look upon
such undertakings as undermining
their existence particularly in
view of the cheaper cost of living
in the countryside.
Rural enterprises have also a
certain advantage over the urban
industry in view of their very
sound financial policy. Due to wise
and in part self-sacrificing meas-
ures taken by the members of
these settlements, various financial
instruments have been set up. In
addition to the sound Workers'
Bank for short term loans, the
no less helpful "Nit." Company
for medium term loans and sim

ilat institutions, rye l o a e n t shteaa bri i d (suhfr it e:s in t nt .
l s
in.:cceen t
movements and groups by mea
ns
of self-taxation; they partly have
appreciable resources at their dis-
posal which can supply 1,t.hc
younger and financially
members with very cheap credits
a,
The above-mentioned clash in
interests between rural and urban
industries would s eem
little goodwill to be not unlit.i:itrea.
able, if the rural settlements
when considering the establi,h:
ent of some industry in thoi r m
midst would try to avoid :wch
undertakings as are already well
represented in the towns. Ther e
should be wide possibilities for
everybody in a country in whi c
h
industry is just entering upon
its initial stages.
It should also be noted that
the tendency to establish coopo ra _
tive workshops in the countr is
apparent not only in the Kihhut.
zim but also in the sma
villages. Fortunately, provision s
are being made to train a new
generation of skilled workers—a
fact not to be underrated in at
country where a shortage is expe-
rienced in well-trained working
hands. With this end in mind,
the existing professional training
schools, the Technical Institute,
the Bezalel School for Arts and
Crafts, etc., have been develop •d.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!

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The Hack Shoe Co.

Modern Style Health Footwear
for the whole family

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State Senator
ALLEN GUY LUDINGTON

Extends Best Wishes to the Entire Jewish Community

for a Happy New Year

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NEW YEAR

from

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LOUIS FREEDMAN
DEL PARKER
ROY SCHWARTZ
JACK ROSS
SKEETER PALMER

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