Definition of a Genius A genius is a person who, • .eeing farther ana pro mug leeper than other people, has 1 different set of ethical valu- itions from theirs, and has ffect to energy enough to give effect [his extra vision and its valua- Lions in whatever manner best suits his or her specific talents. Uganda Impressions have been in the offer of autonomy, but it is rather doubtful whether London had idealists who dreamed about the Return to Zion and set out to put their dreams into action. No Jew ever dreamed or prayed for Return to Uganda. And the Return to Zion was not only geographical and spiritual. It was also a profound sociologi- cal revolution of the return to the land, to work with one's own hands to turn the desert into orchards and the waste- lands into blooming gardens. There were no deserts on the Ugishi Plateau, and the or- chards and gardens were plant- ed for the white man by the colored African. As so many nations learned throughout his- tory—you cannot stay long on a land if somebody else is working it for you. KAMPALA, Uganda — For more in mind than some kind practically all the delegates at of cultural and communal autonomy, and whether Bri- Editor's Note: Eliahu Sal- the Sixth Zionist Congress in tain would have actually 1904, the debate was rather peter, chief correspondent of looked with favor upon any the Jewish Telegraphic Agen- academic. Some—they proved to truly large-scale immigration cy in Israel, has just returned be the majority—insisted on which could have established to Jerusalem from a trip in Palestine as the only possible the foundations for Jewish Africa. Uganda is one of the Jewish homeland. Others were in favor of accepting Lord statehood there. countries he visited. —G. B. Shaw. But more important than oa Chamberlain's offer to establish an autonomous Jewish territory these are the twin points of the in Uganda, in the heart of Love of Zion and of Jewish British East Africa. After the Labor. In those early years, Pales- Congress was over, both the Wishes pro-Palestinians and the pro- tine did not yet loom largely Michigan Jewry Ugandists went quietly home, as a safe haven for Jews per- A Happy New Year to Russia, Poland, Austria, secuted in the Diaspora. Those Germany and Western Europe. who came to Palestine to settle ALLEN A. WARSEN However, a group of young on the land were the young President O people—ten boys and two girls, to be exact—took this Uganda Holiday Best Wishes business seriously, and went We Build Friends While We Are Building out to pioneer, despite the de- Holiday Greetings Industrial cision of the Congress, in the Meyer Commercial wilderness of Africa. 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What ro■Norrm sailsommeo4Nwo ■ ovine-o ■n■•■ naleruparomor 4( would have happened if the * New Year Greetings Happy Holiday 4( Zionist Congress had accepted * * Lord Chamberlain's "Charter" * * offer and decided to establish East Africa a Jewish home- * 4( in land? One can only point at Consulting Engineers * Detroit, Michigan t some facts, which may perhaps * Detroit, Mich. .ii serve as guiding points for any 11 32 Book Bldg. 0411111■ 0411M0.111H3.1•11.!....041■04■414■041111•1.4111101.0.0111.0.1.. 1 ■ -I( conjecture on the subject. ■ * 4C****************************** **************1 0 The first and most obvious —though not necessarily the 10 Happy New Year 0 most important—point is that nobody ever "offered Uganda ' Happy New Year To Our Friends & Patrons C to the Jews." 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