Friday, December 20, 1946 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Eight . Palestine 'Bright Economic Spot' Head Temple Sisterhoods' Drive Labor Body Maps Canadian Congress Center in Warsaw Sets Parley Date TORONTO—The seventh plenary session of the Canadian Jewish Congress will be held in Montreal at the Mount Royal Hotel on Sunday and Monday, March 16 and 17. The plenary session of the con- gress is the gathering of the rep- resentatives of Canadian Jews. Delegates from all parts of Cana- da attend and each Jewish group is entitlefi to representation. Among the subjects which will be discussed at the forthcoming session are combating the residue NEW YORK—The erection of a trade union center in Warsaw, Poland, was announced in a cabled dispatch released by the New York office of the American' Jewish La- bor Council. Five million zloty was contrib- uted by the European delegation of the American Jewish Labor Council and the International Fur and Leather Workers Union, for the erection or the union center in the devastated capitol. A wing of the new labor structure will be named in honor of the American Jewish Labor Council. The trade union delegation also cabled that it had placed a wreath on the grave of the great Jewish author, I. L. Peretz. Wreaths were also placed on the mass graves of thousands of lowish dead in the Warsaw ghetto. Unrest and Boycott Fail to Curb Trade NEW YORK — Despite political tensions, Palestine today is "one of the brightest economic spots in the world," Eliahu Ben- Horin, author and Middle East ex- pert, declared this week upon his arrival here after a four-month visit to Palestine as correspondent of Hitler-induced anti-Semitism, for Harper's Magazine. the assistance of Jewish war vic- Ben-Morin, who is author of tims overseas, the settling of some "The Middle East: Crossroads of Jewish refugees in Canada, the History," and was for many years protection of the civic rights of editor of a Palestine news service Jews in Europe and the religious in Tel Aviv, declared he was and education problems of Cana- "overwhelmed by the tremendous Mrs. J. Walter Freiberg (left) of Cincinnati, honorary chairman, dian .;every. economic and industrial develop- and Mrs. Edward B. Schulkind (right) of New York City, chair- ment" he had found in Palestine man, head the postwar victory fund-raising project of the National after an absence of nine years. Federation of Temple Sisterhoods to raise funds for the House of "Not only is there a shortage of Living Judaism which will provide headquarters in Cincinnati and labor in both urban and rural Pal- in New York for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and its affiliates. The National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, estine," he said, "but scores of with 65,000 members in over 400 Sisterhoods throughout the world, new industries have sprung up in is headed by Mrs: A. Rosette of New Rochelle. the last decade. * * * SKILLS BROUGF(T IN staggered by what they could do their curren prosperity for a "WE HAVE NO IDEA in this with this million acre area if they doubtful political fight in which they may lose not only their country as to the extent of the are only given the opportunity." arts and skills which have been New Jewish settlements are be- wealth but their lives." Ben-Horin added that he had a brought into Palestine before and ing established in Palestine al- during the war years. I was as- most at the rate of one a fort- narrow escape when a taxicab tonished to find French merchants night, he said, "and some of the in which he was riding in Tel- Office Equipment and Supplies placing orders in Palestine for older colonies look like small gar- Aviv was shot at by British soldiers who passed by in an ar- fashion goods made in Tel Aviv, den cities." "Politically," Ben - Horin said, mored car. and manufacturers showed me or- CADILLAC 9330 CADILLAC SQUARE "I still don't know why," he ders on their books from Switzer- "the Palestine picture is quite land for leather products, from confused. Scarcely a day passes said, "except that British soldiers Denmark for textiles, and Greece without its own rumor as to what are pretty jittery in Palestine." disposition the British will make for industrial chemicals. The diamond industry in Pales- of Palestine. I think there is no ti tine is now perhaps the most flour- question that the British have ishing in the world, with exports failed miserably in their attempt SEASON'S GREETINGS exceeding $24,000,000 annually." to assert an iron hand. For ex- He added that he had investi- ample, the curfew as a measure gated the effectiveness of the Arab has proved futile." * * * MODEL CLEANERS boycott against Jewish products, and found it observed cursorily, ROADS MINED if at all. td DYERS "WHEN THE CURFEW was in • * * effect it meant that after 7:00 12950 WOODWARD WHY ARABS BUY p.m. all civilian traffic was for- "PURCHASERS FROM ARAB bidden on the roads of Palestine. TO. 8.5366 Giountries continue to buy their The Jews on the whole took it goods in Jewish Palestine for two rather cheerfully but the British reasons: (a) many of the things paid a terrible price. they need are manufactured no- "Since it was absolutely certain where else in the Middle East, and that only British vehicles would (b) goods from abroad simply be on the road after dark those cannot be had. Many orders plac- reads were mined by extremists." Chanukah Greetings ed in England cannot be filled for "It was not long before the and Best Wishes to Ml at Jeaat two years." British realized that it would be He added that some of the Arab practicable to have the protection importers from neighboring coun- of Jewish vehicles op the roads tries developed ingenious methods after dusk and so the curfew was to circsnvent the boycott. removed." "I was assured by representa- As for the Arabs — "the Interior Decorating Studio tives of the Palestine manufactur- Arabs do not appear in this con- ers' associations that whatever loss flict at all. They have profited a was caused to Jewish industry by good deal during the. last few 1414 FARMER ST. the boycott had been more than years; most of them are far bet- balanced by orders from Europe ter off than ever before and some RA. 4244 and the opening of new markets." are actually wealthy. CHARLES H. LOTT that very is "My own feeling What impressed him most pro- 9 foundly, he said, was the fact that few of them would risk changing General Manager in the uncultivated Negev — the southern part of Palestine lone' ,mforommuzsumizzamilemumusuirlmmillommillimmorminamallmimmirmammum considered desert — scientists E' and agriculturists have found an area of 2,000,000 acres of which DETROIT. MICHIGAN Ben-Horin said, at least 1,000,000 acres is definitely cultivable land. * • * CASS—BAGLEY EI NEW COLONIES RISE 4 E1 07Virnit "IN VIEW OF THE fact that H the Jews have done what they p WI 10 MN 101 1 1 Ig ■■■ 10 I ■■■ A KW I \WI ■ ■\■■■•■ .\\\•• 1 bli have done in Palestine on the FRIEND FROM little more than 400,000 acres they own, one's imagination is Chanukah Greetings GREGORY, MAYER THOM CO. Chanukah Greetings Oscar Klausner DETROIT- LELAND `HOTEL Chanukah Greetings .. . And Best Wishes to You All A B. E. & CO. 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