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Friday, September 11, 1953
In Program of Land Afforestation
By PROF. WALTER C. LOWDERMILK
Instead of finding a primeval
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land of forests and grass lands
and clear streams full of fish,
the pioneers of Palestine found
a land with its hills denuded of
trees and of soil, with sand
dunes advancing inland, with
lowlands in pestilential marshes,
and with its grass lands eaten
into the ground by goats and
camels. The rolling land culti-
vated in patches to grains show
ed marks of heavy erosion. Only
the hillsides that had been ter-
raced in ancient times with
stone walls and had been kept
in repair had held their soils
in place. Here, old olive trees
are still growing and producing
a staple crop of olives.
The older settlements have
not been so seriously afflicted
with soil erosion as newer set-
tlements and the great area of
abandoned lands hastily plough-
ed up and sowed to grain. For
one thing, many of the older
settlements were located on
New terraces will be built here, against a background of flat or gently sloping land where
of erosion are low or in
centuries-old, neglected terraces, With the aid of the afforesta- hazards
the rocky hills where the orig-
tion program of the Jewish National Fund.
inal cover of soil has already for
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the most part been washed
Today, civilization is running a race with famine, and the away: It is on new plantations,
outcome is still in doubt. Any country that dbes not grow its own on the hastily ploughed up
food is in a precarious position in the world, for the United Nations lands, and on the steeper lands
has not yet guaranteed access of all countries to needed raw or. which many new settle-
materials_ for. industries or to feed their peoples. •
ments are located that soil ero-
No . mistake is made when national and private effort is sion is now seriously destruc-
:concentrated on the growing of
tive.
foods
and
fats
for
survival
of
settlement.
But
only
a
beginning
The yoimg applied science of
the state.
in this - good - work has been soil conservation has much to
With the long misused and made.
offer the Israel government and
damaged land of Israel, to ran-
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coin the soil is not enough. Fir The task of making full and the Jewish National Fund in
many; years, besides redeeming suitable use of all kinds of land,- making full use of all kinds of
the land, ,the Jewish National of rain waters that fall on them land of the country. This new
technology now has a backlog
Fund has recognized and has and of- waters. in .streams and of
experimental information and
carried out works of reclarna- undergroUnd, is a complex and
prictical experience that can
Von to prepare the land - for challenging undertaking.
be: of great help to Israel; in
improving its meth oil s and
practices- in the use of land.
Cordial Greetings on New Year's
A number of worthwhile and
important activities that arouse
popular interest have been prc.-
Ansul . Refrigerants - Chieftah Parts
moted by' the JNF. Foremost
Cutler - Hammer Coritrols— Dayton Belts
among these are afforestation,
with a specially strong appeal,
Freon Refrigerants - Henry Valves
drainage and reclamation of
Larkin Coils - Mueller Brass Products
pestilential swamps, the rebuild-
Lehigh Units - Penn Switches
ing of terrace-ways and the
clearing away of 'stones to get
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at the soil. This work must be
the basis for the full redemption
of the land of Israel. Soil con-
servation must be the basis of
New Year Greetings
an important appeal for support
of this historic, ennobling and
prophetic venture of the re-
demption of Zion.
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In my studies of the past 30
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years in many lands to discover
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ing, or if you please, a righteous
of Constructed Walls
adjUstment to the dood Earth, I
In Innumerable Colors or Combinations of Colors
find that land is more than an
economic commodity. Land is
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life. It is as much a part of a
state as its people Nowhere is
this truth better demonstrated
than in Israel.
Season's Best Wishes
Israel, while working in its
own interest, is becoming a pilot
area in building both on mi.-F-
used and erosion-wasted lands.
Established 25 Years
Restoration of these old lands'
is necessary in the full redemp-
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are showing the way to poverty-
stricken and under-develop 'd
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parts of the world that now
comprise fully 1,500,000,000 peo-
ple, how to earn some of the
good things of life, too.
Season's Best Wishes
Let me repeat what I first
offered over the radio in Jeru- •
salem in 1939 as the Eleventh •
Commandment which I dedi-
cated to the good work of the 41.
Jewish settlements, then exist-
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"Thou shalt inherit the Holy •
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earth as a faithful stewari, •
conserving its resources and :
productivity from generation to
generation. Thou shalt safe -
guard thy fields from soil ero-
sion, thy living waters from dry-
ing up, thy forests from over-
grazing by the herds that thy
descendants may have abun •
dance forever. If any shall fall
in this good stewardship of the
land, thy fruitful fields shall
became sterile stony ground or
wasting gullies and thy des-
cendants shall decrease and live
in poverty or perish from the
face of the earth."
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