`Conquest of the Desert'

Jerusalem Exhibition Shows
Peaceful Road to Survival

By I. BENARI

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undersigned b r i n g
you this message.

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JERUSALEM—The forthcom- ' afforestation in Turkistan, the
ing Jerusalem exhibition of the gradual development of agricul-
"Conquest of the Desert" (April ture in China and India where
16 - May 18) is inspired by an famine yearly claims millions of
idea which has become a burn- victims—these are proofs that
ing necessity for mankind in its the human race is determined
not only to regain its lost ground
struggle for survival.
To quote Ritchie Calder, chief but to spread its influence and
of the Expedition across the its hold over new ones, not yet
classical desert, organized by conquered.
In order to coordinate the ac-
Unesco to exploit the possibili-
ties of the Conquest of the Des- tivities of the human race in
ert: "The population of the this field Unesco is trying to
world is multiplying at an spread knowledge and experi-
alarming rate. There are no vir- ence. In every country congress-
gin lands like the new conti- es of scientists and practical en-
nents which fed the prolific Eu- gineers are being organized. In
rope of the 19th century to be step with these activities the
promoters of the Jerusalem Con-
broken by the plough."
Lord Boyd Orr, one of the vention Center are organizing
greatest specialists in this field, an international exhibition on
affirms that "to feed the world's the theme "Conquest of the Des-
population we shall have to ert." If a congress or a sympo-
double food production by 1965." shim is a necessity for scientists,
It is common knowledge that an exhibition is a necessity for
mankind does not get the food the practical man, for the engi-
necessary for human well-being. neer and for the farmer alike.
In every country scientific brains So, Israel with its mass immi-
are engaged in. finding new gration facing the problem Of
ways of meeting the growing the "Conquest of the Desert," the
necessity of its own population, problem of irrigation and colo-
and for the's,countries unable to nization, is convening this - ex-
meet these equirements them- hibition in the land from which
selves, th United States of sprang the three great religions
America is rushing help and as- of mankind. Governments from
sistance to the famous Point all the continents and arms
Four program of President Tru- from all the countries are ing
man. invited to exhibit their too and
In the absence of new land the machinery . in Jerusalem, thus
human race is faced with the enabling the human race to

necessity not only of stopping benefit from the knowledge and
the march of the desert into experience gained by each coun-
the cultivated fields but first of try separately.
The idea of convening such a
all reclaiming from the destruc-
tive forces of nature lands which gathering in Jerusalem repre-
used to be fertile and rich. sents a vision and a challenge.

Owing to the negligence of the Israel stands today only on a
inhabitants, desert reigns today I small part of the desert con-
over big stretches of land, gran- quered and subordinated to the
eries of yesterday, countries of . genius of man. On a large part
big civilization. It is enough only of its own territory the desert
to remembes, tke highly-devel- Iis still the supreme sovereign.
oped system of irrigation of an- I From Beersheba to Elath
cient Mesopotamia and to corn- stretches the Negev desert—vir-
pare it with the poor conditions gin and yet unconquered by
of modern Iraq in order to un- man. Its soil is still waiting for
derstand the problem in all its the caressing attention of a lov-
significance. The same phenom- ing hand, which will bring water,
enon we shall meet by compar- pacify the blind forces of nit-
ing ancient Egypt, with the ture, restore flora and fauna,
Egypt of today. the old Carthage. joy and peace for man and na-
the ancient empires of the Mid-1 ture alike. Behind Israel in its
dle East—Sumaria. Assyria and hinterland lies the unattended
other territories with the clas- stretches of land in the grip of

sical deserts of today. The p.n- wild forces, longing for centuries
cient civilization of Astek, in to be brought to life, and to be

Central America. is buried un- I beneficial to the miserable hu-
der sand and jungles. I man races scattered across its

To meet its requirements, hu- I vast domains.
The International Exhibition
inanity must achieve more than
the reconquest of the lost of the Conquest of the Desert is
ground. It must penetrate into i designed to be a demonstration
the desert itself not only to stop of the human genius and a pa-
its advance but to transform rade of the force of conquest.
the spots indicated on the geo- To Jerusalem the best represen-
graphical maps in black colors tatives of this peaceful army of
conquest will come from all the
into green fertile areas.
The problem is not a new one. corners of the earth to relate
Every civilization faced these their stories of everlasting vic-
problems and proved that as tory. much superior to any vic-

tory achieved by man with the
scious of this problem the blind help of the sword. In this eter-
forces of nature are conquered. nal city mankind, inspired with
It is enough to remember the big ideals, will come to display
supreme effort of the Low Coun- i its armaments and ammunition:
tries during the last. eleven cen- „ the agricultural and irrigation

long as the human race is con-

tunes and their fight against machinery and tools, boring
the sea. The example of the plants, water sprinklers, trench-
Zeuderzee is a lesson indeed; digging machines and pumps,
550,000 acres were reclaimed tractors and dairy-farm equip-
from the sea and became pas- -ment. They will show their
tures and a cradle of prosperity. < plants and animals, seeds and
Conscious of this problem and Iseedlings, their livestock for,- .
faced with the problem of feed- breeding, their agricultural pro-
ing its population. the civilized duce, their building material,
world is making a supreme ef- their fixtures, their transporta-
fort in this field. Into the Sa- tion and power-supply indus-
hara. France sends the best rep- tries. their roads and railways
resentatives of its scientific across deserts, rocks, hills,
brains engaged in research, pav- marshes and mountains.
ing the way for a new civiliza-
tion. In Algeria, the water ex- Dr. Tartakower to Direct
perts reckon that by drilling WJC in Latin America
they will bring to life not only 1,
BUENOS AIRES. (JTA)—Dr.
the coastal plain of the Northern
member of
Atlas but the High Plateau. the Arieh Tartakower,
Sahara Atlas and LeVrei Sahara.. the executive council of the
From Tunis to Cartago, a run World Jewish Congress, was ap-

pointed director of the Latin
American headquarters of the
WJC here to succeed the late
Dr. Jacob Hellman, it was re-
ported recently. He was given a
leave of absence from the He-
brew University- and will take
over his new functiona• next
month, the report said.

of 30 minutes across history of
3000 years, machines and hu-
man genius reveal mysteries of
high civilization of yesterday.
The vast project of England in
East Africa, the forgotten men
of science in the Belgian Con-
go, the enormous advance of the
Americans in irrigation, the ef-
forts of Russia in transplanting
of vegetations in the far regions 20—THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 11, 1952
of Siberia, the wind-breaking

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