Page Thkty-Three THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, March 30, 11945 Weekly Cites Peril Against Rash Partitioning of Zion Palestine Working Women's Council Establishes New Home for Children Anti-Semitic Note Brings Postal Probe Liberal British Paper Says Such Action Could Nullify Scheme for Irrigation and Electrification of Palestine Weizmann Hailed on Return . LOS ANGELES (JPS)—"lf you need any blind Jews maybe we can blind some and send them to you." This was the scribbled note on an envelope returned by the T. J. Machine Works of Los An- geles to the Guild for the Jewish Blind, New York City. The en- velope had contained pencils, which the Guild regularly sends out in requesting donations to defer the expenses of that in- stitution. The matter was discussed by the Anti-Defamation Lea g u e with the Post Office Department. When questioned, T. J. O'Hara. who operates the machine works, attempted to shrug off the inci- dent with an "I'd rather not go into it." Later during the course of the official investigation, O'Hara ad- mitted he made the notation; that he was not aware it was a violation of a postal law; that he regretted the incident and that he would refrain from any further violation of such nature. LONDON (JTA)—Apparently referring to the persistent rumors that plans for the partitioning of Palestine are being con- sidered, the liberal New Statesmen and Nation warns against "rash drawing of boundaries." Such action, it points out, could nullify the Lowdermilk scheme for irrigation and electrification of Pal- estine. It says that Palestine must be open to all Jews who wish to settle there and advises Britain to help in the development of the country and thus give the Arab inhabitants confidence that they will not be neglected in postwar plans. The Sunday Observer this week paid tribute to Dr. Chaim Weizmann on the occasion of his return here from Palestine. The paper says that the dilemma created by the conflicting Arab-Jewish claims calls "for all of Weizmann's forbearance and sagacity. At 70," it concludes, "his task of steering his people to peace and se- curity is not nearly done." • Jewish Group in England Opposes Jewish State LONDON, (JTA)—Opposition to the establishment of a Jewish State anywhere was expressed here in behalf of the "Jewish Fel- lowship" at a meeting of the Middle-East Committee, composed of members of the House of Commons, at which the Palestine question was discussed. The meeting, which took place under the chairmanship of Gen. Edward Spears, former British Minister in Syria, was attended by 30 members of Parliament. Basil Henriques and Brunel Cohen, leaders of the Jewish Fel- lowship, told the committee that their organization advocates the largest possible Jewish immigration to Palestine that can be ef- fected without bringing about conflict with the Arabs. To the question of whether the Board of Deputies of British Jews dis- New Civic Light Opera agrees with the views of the Fellowship, Henriques answered that Season Commences Here "the Board of Deputies does not represent British Jewry." Capt. Allen Graham said that "only the immigrants and the The second annual season of descendants of recent immigrants are clamoring for a Jewish State, whereas the old established Jewish community in Palestine, partic- 10 weeks of operetta produc- ularly the Sephardic Jews, are not Zionists." tions by the Civic Light Opera Association of Detroit was in- Considerable Quantities of Oil Discovered in Palestine augurated on Tuesday evening, JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The Arab press reports the discovery at the Masonic Temple, with a of "considerable quantities of oil" somewhere between the Dead performance of "The Great Sea and the Egyptian border." The discovery was made by mem- bers of a British oil research group which is conducting boring Waltz." A specially selected symphon- operations in that region, the report said. An Iraquian trade delegation has arrived here to negotiate a ic orchestra of 30 is conducted treaty between Iraq and Palestine. Goeffrey Walsh, economic ad- by the noted Vienese director, visor of the Palestine Government and food controller, pointed out Fritz Mahler. that while Iraq was a "supply" country, Palestine was a "demand" Tickets for all performances country and, therefore, the two could cooperate. Palestine, he said, needed raw materials from Iraq, and could for the 10-week series can be export to it manufactured products in return. In 1944, Palestine's secured now at the Civic Light imports from Iraq . totalled about $13,500,000, while its exports to Opera Ticket Office on the mez- Iraq amounted to only about $1,500,000. zanine of the J. L. Hudson store. Mail orders accompanied Four Times as, Many Jewish Taxpayers in Palestine as Arabs by check • and stamped self-ad- JERUSALEM, (JTA)—There are four times as many Jewish as dressed envelope are being filled Arab taxpayers in Palestine and their per capita tax is five times in the order of their receipt, that paid by the Arabs, it is revealed by the current issue of Statis- thus assuring those ordering tical Bulletin of the Palestine Government. The publication reports that there are 1,061,400 Arabs in the tickets by this method choice country, more than twice the number of Jews, of whom 4,947 are location seats. taxpayers, paying a per capita tax of 260 mills. While the estimated On April 3, the second of the Jewish population is 493,000, there are 17,527 taxpayers among ' series, "Rio Rita," wil be pre- them, resulting in a per capita tax of 1,390 mills. sented and on April 10 the of- fering will be the ever popular Protestant Ministers Appeal For Jewish ImMigration to Palestine "Irene." WASHINGTON, (JTA) — An appeal in behalf of 5,000 Protestant ministers, asking that the doors of Palestine be kept open for Jewish immigration, was presented to the White House 4. and the British and Soviet embassies. The appeal, addressed to President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Joseph Stalin, states that "there can be no just peace for the world until there is a just peace for the Jews. GIVE! YEHUDITH SIMCHONITH, left, GRUNIA ROSH and BEBE IDELSON (right), leaders in the Working Women's Council in Palestine, shown signing the foundation-scroll for the new Child- ren's Home at Nathanya. The heartwarming pictures stitutions, solving a basic prob- lem for every working mother. of Palestinian children—radiat- Thus the children in the agri- ing health and happiness—which cultural settlements and towns many of us have had the oppor- of the Jewish Homeland become tunity of seeing in recent years, proud citizens of the Jewish often makes us wonder: Why is community because they are not it that these youngsters show no relegated to the streets, but learn traces of the tensions surround- and play in nurseries, kinder- ing them? The answer lies in gartens, children's homes, after- the solution of Palestinian wo- school clubs, vacation camps. The Working Women's Coun- men of their educational prob- cil is receiving the wholehearted lems. The working women of Pal- and increasing support of the estine had years before establish- Pioneer Women's Organization in ed a network of children's in- the U. S. and Canada. 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