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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONIq.E and The Legal Chronicle

Friday, September IS, 1944

New Year's Greetings to All From Michigan Communitie s

GINGHAM BLOUSE

Portrait

of

an American Woman Pioneer
in Palestine

By JULIAN L. METZLER
Correspondent of the New York Times in Palestine

I have always cherished an
apophthegm about the soil. and
the most striking is that beau-
tiful line from Keats in his
"Grasshopper and the Cricket"
which says: "The poetry of earth
is never dead."
Think for a moment of the
pulsating aliveness of life on the

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soil. The peasant attached to his
land; his brow furrowed by the
wind and the sun and the rain
of his outdoor life; his face
seamed by the weather of all
seasons; his hands gnarled and
stained by the toil of the earth,
the honorable marks of his call-
ing. Think of the highly cul-
tured and intelligent peasant of
Eretz Israel, tilling the national
soil of his people, whose patri-
mony it has become once again
through the collective efforts of
his brethren in exile; and, as he
works, the thought of that back-
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tions and inherited realities of
the national soil husbandry which
have become interwoven with the
vision and the dream until they
are well-nigh indistinguishable.
The poetry of abundance, the
pleasant lines of a bumper harv-
est, the rhyme and the rhythm
of a bountiful crop, and for mel-
ody the clear sparkling lilt of
gushing irrigation channels that
so vividly contracts with the age-
old aridity of this land; these
are all of the substance of peas-
antry and poetry.
It is in a mood such as this
that I like to think of Rose
Schwartz. That is not, of course,
her real name but she is a per-
son who lives and works and
plays and dreams in Eretz Israel.
When I first saw her some years
ago, she had come from a com-
fortable, middle-class existence in
the United States of the sort
known to hundreds of thousands
of young Jews. She first came
here on a mission—to study Pal-
estine on behalf of her fellow-
Zionists. But the country con-
quered her—and she deserted her
erstwhile colleagues abroad to
acquire a new set of experiences,
an environment and pursuits as
utterly divorced from the past
as the climates of her old domi-
cile and the new. She was in
shorts and a gingham blouse;
and her occupation at the time
I visited the collective village on
Keren Kayemeth land in which
she was a tyro, was nothing more
romantic nor less prosaic than
yodelling "Chick, chick, chick"
to the poultry as she prepared
to fed them with grain out of a
step tin bowl mounted askew her
waist.
he was supremely happy, smil-
ing radiantly at the scrambling
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because of her previous training
and her knowledge of Hebrew as
well as English, more suited for
this assignment than any
other,
and perforce accepted the work
out of party loyalty.
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to the village had none of the
conventional or customary influ-
ence of what, in the films, is
glamorized as a heart-throb for
some particular person. Her re-
lations with the other sex were
staid and unruffled. It was the
earth and all which it implied that
had given her, as it were, the
roots which bound her to this
small spot in the Yishub.
We drifted into conversation.
I asked the obvious question. She
was emphatic in her response. "I
shall never go back to the city,"
she said. "This is the life I shed'
always live. I am only sorry I
wasn't able to come into Hach-
shara (training) sooner, as I
would have been more useful
now. I have a lot to make up."
There she stood in shorts and
a gingham blouse of rougb mate-
rial. No makeup on her face or
in her mind. She was wholly, un-
reservedly real. She had fore-
saken the fashions of her social
milieu in New York. She wore
no blouse of voile or satin, no
smartly-tailored skirt, or silk
stockings (even before the war).
Her external dress was attuned
to the inner harmony of reality.
This was her "gingham" life.
I left her then standing among
the chickens busily seeking out
the grains in the farmyard, and
did not see her again until many
years later in Jerusalem, in a
company of journalists. Some-
thing seemed .to have gone from
her bright natural vivacity; a
more serious, sober look took its
place. She was now wearing not
a gingham but a "city" blouse
with a fashionable costume.
Rose had been assigned by the
Central Committee of the party
to undertake a piece of work in
Jerusalem which would keep her
away from the village for some
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