Friday, September 12, 1947
THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Eight
Shofar, Sound Our Message British Justice!
To All Nations on Earth .. . Police Note
Suffices to
Jail Women
Capitol Hill Organizations
Toil Hard for Jewish Cause
By CHARLOTTE WEBER
By DR. NOAH E. ARONSTAM
The sun rises on another year:
In its bosom latent problems
Invisibly confront our task.
Old hopes and aspirations are revived,
Fraught with the intensity of achievement
As in former years; with equal devotion
We dedicate ourselves to our goal,
An aim that like a star
Illuminates the horizon of our future.
By BERL CORALNIK
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Let the horn's sound proclaim anew
Israel's message from shore to shore
To all the nations of the earth:
"Hear the blast of the great trumpet for our freedom,
Behold the ensign lifted to assemble the remnant
Of the dispersed, scattered and unredeemed!"
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May this year bring us the fulfillment thereof:
To gather the exiles on the land, which they may call
their own,
Their ancestral domain once more again!
May God speed the day—Amen.
Scientists Are Jewish Settlers'
Right Arm in Building Palestine
By EPHRAIM GOLDMAN
JERUSALEM — In a small,
comfortable villa off the Jeru-
salem-Bethlehem road, 35 Jewish
women and girls live.surrounded
by a low stone wall and a barbed
wire fence. They are political
detainees.
No charges have ever been fil-
ed against these women. They
have never been tried by military
courts, none of them have been
arraigned in a civil court. Their
only offense is that they are sus-
pected of being members of a
terrorist organization.
To win a place here is not dif-
ficult. All that has to be done is
for a police officer to submit a
report marked "Secret" to the
"Committee of Three," which
actually rules the country, and
state that for reasons of public
security such and such a person
should be detained.
The Committee—which consists
of the Commissioner for Special
Duties, a representative of the
police and a representative of the
government's secretariat — rarely
turns down such a request.
This Committee is all-powerful.
It rules on all matters—military,
political and economic — and is
virtually independent of all local
authority. Only London can
overrule it.
The women internees bear lit-
tle resemblance to prisoners.
Their clothes are brought from
the outside by friends and rela-
tives. They are allowed to read,
to sew, and enjoy other "liber-
ties."
The relations between the poli-
tical prisoners and the women
imprisoned in an adjoining jail
are extremely friendly.
The "politicals" envy the other
prisoners, even 'though their liv-
ing conditions are generally bet-
ter, for the other prisoners know
when their terms are up and the
politicals remain confined at the
government's whim.
Many Jewish organizations maintain offices and representatives
in Washington. Active among them are the Zionist Emergency
Council, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the American Jewish
Conference, the American Jewish Congress, the Bnai Brith, the
American Jewish Committee, and the National Jewish Welfare
Board.
The Zionist Emergency Council office is headed by Leo Sack,
one-time newspaper man, ex-diplomat, and former assistant to
James Farley. Palestinian-born Hy Schulson, a former assistant
director of the ZOA, contributes a great deal of driving force to
the work of the Council.
At the State Department appointments are arranged for top
ZOA officials such as Dr. Silver and now Dr. Emanuel Neumann
to see Secretary of State Marshall, the undersecretary of State,
or area chiefs such as the Middle Eastern Division chief Loy Hen-
derson. These appointments are important in order that officials '
be kept informed of the trend of Zionist thinking.
Action on Capitol Hill is largely stimulated through getting con-
stituents to write their representatives on matters concerning Pales-
tine. Meetings between Zionist delegations and senators and con-
gressmen are frequently arranged. Contacts are maintained with
Democratic or Republican party leaders.
On Massachusetts Avenue is the white building which houses
the Washington branch of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Eliahu
Epstein, chief of the Middle Eastern section of the Political Depart-
ment of the Agency, represents Palestine to the American gov-
ernment.
Much of his work is like that of any representative of a foreign
government, even though the Agency does not have official diplo-
matic status. His contacts with the State Department, and with
other diplomatic representatives are directed toward encouraging
better political, economic and social relations between Palestine
and other countries. He also is in constant touch with the Corn-
merce Department on trade matters.
The American Jewish Conference is perhaps contacted more
often than any other Washington office on matters concerning dis-
placed persons in Europe. Dave Wahl has been the Washington
representative of the Conference since October, 1945, when the
organization was created. His work as liaison between the dis-
placed persons and the State and War Departments is highly im-
portant.
His work includes the problem of maintaining an open border
into the American zone in Germany so that Jewish refugees flee-
ing persecution in other countries may find haven there, matters
of extra rations, shelter and camp affairs, and the question of work-
ing out restitution laws that will help to restore some of the Jewish
property losses in Germany.
Marcus Cohen, who has been Washington representative of the
American Jewish Committee since the office was opened in 1944,
represents the aim of the Committee to protect the civil, political
and economic rights of minorities. Besides his contacts with the
War, State, Navy, Agriculture, Interior and Treasury_Departments,
he also works with the Civil Rights Division of the Justice and the
President's Committee on Civil Rights.
The Bnai Brith's Commission on Americanism and Civic Affairs
and Committee on Veterans Affakrs, headed by A. B. Kapplin, co-
operates with the Department of Justice to combat juvenile de-
linquency, with the Veteran's Administration and the Housing Ad-
ministrator.
Phil Schiff, representative of the National Jewish Welfare
Board, also works on programs of service to veterans and Jewish
youth and those coordinating religious activities.
The scientists of Palestine find no project too great, and none
too small—if it is something that affects the future of the Holy Land.
The experience of the Matzuba settlement in Galilee is typical.
It has suffered acutely from a shortage of water during the first
seven years of its existence. Food was sometimes served on bread
because there was not sufficient water to wash the dishes. Many
attempts were made to obtain water, without success. Finally the
settlement turned to Prof. Leo Picard, head of the department of
geology at the Hebrew University. Picard indicated a number of
points for boring. On the third attempt, after drilling to a depth
of 65 meters, the water-bearing level was reached and Matzuba's
water problem was solved.
Another rich source of food is fish, and here again the scientists
of the Hebrew University have made important contributions.
They have conducted fishery research, leading to the development
a large-scale fish breeding industry, and they have rescued the
industry through the discovery of a formula which kills a common
Palestinian micro-organism which had threatened the country's
land fishery.
Weather is an important consideration everywhere, but has a
special bearing in countries which suffer from extremes of tempera-
ture. Scientific investigation in Palestine has led to important con-
clusions about building materials and clothing, and health and
working capacity.
The scientists of the University also have made contributions
to native manufacture in Palestine. Findings have included plas-
tics, chemicals, drugs and building materials. Dr. Chaim Weiz-
mann has perfected a new plastic fabric which is said to be superior
to nylon, and Dr. H. Littman has demonstrated that cellulose for
(Copyright, 1947,
paper production can be manufactured from Palestine plants.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
(Copyright, 1947. Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Inc.)
However, things are for peo-
ple, and not people for things.
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of awter rushing down into the reservoirs.
Two other outstanding medical
scientists of the Hebrew Univer-
sity are Prof. Leonid Doljanski,
head of the Department of Ex-
perimental Pathology, and Prof.
Ludwig Halberstaedter, head of
the Department of Radiology, who
have brought an international
reputation to the Cancer Re-
search Laboratories of the Uni-
yersity and the Hospital. These
are the first laboratories in the
Middle East to be devoted to can-
cer research and treatment.
Prof. Bernhard Zondek is an-
ether scientist who has achieved
world eminence. His laboratory
established that wound healing
The second photo above shows the water rushing down into the
The Negev—the vast desert area in the south of Palestine—
can be placed on a biological
reservoirs. The photo at left, bottom, shows a typical Negev
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basis. The government has pro-
scene. The photo in the center, bottom, depicts the water pipeline
vided a grant for the continua-
was built at Revivim, which holds 45,000 cubic meters of water,
for irrigation purposes, while the picture at the right, bottom.
tion of the study.
enough to irrigate 150 dunams throughout the year. The picture
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above shows the water-filled channel with the flood gate open.
represents an ancient well in an Arab village.
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