Bad Guesser or Prophet? Chicago Herald
`Predicted' a Palestine 100 Years Later
The files of the American Jew-
ish Archives on the Hebrew Union
College campus in Cincinnati, con-
tain an unusual old newspaper
clipping of special interest today.
In the 1880s, the Chicago Herald
issued a special edition dated Sept.
26, 1985, whose purpose was to
prophesy what would happen 100
years later.
One of the articles described
bow a Jewish clothing millionaire
had just purchased Palestine and
established the third Jewish com-
monwealth.
Here is what the Herald writer
said:
An ezneriment now in the
making in Pal-:-tine attracts the
attention of the civilized world.
Three years ago Mr. Moses
Solomon, the millionaire who ac-
quired his fortune in the clothing
bu.iness at Chicago, purchased
the mho/e laf Palestine, embrac-
ing Judea, Samaria, Galilee, and
Pedrea (sic). His possessions
reached from Tyre on the north
to Jenurussion on the south,
giving a coast line of nearly 200
m;10-. Of course Nazareth, Beth-
lehem, Jerusalem, Capernaum,
Mount Tabor, Gilead and Beer-
sheba, and hundreds of other
historic places are in his domin-
ions, which consists of 8,000
square miles of territory.
Immediately after his pur-
chase, Mr. Solomon began gigan-
tic improvements. A ship canal
has been cut from the Mediter-
ranean to Lake Gennesaret (the
Kinneret), thus opening to navi-
gation that lake, the Jordan and
the Dead Sea. Irrigating canals
run everywhere, and all over his
little empire.
King Solomon, as he is called,
pumps fresh water from beneath
the rocks and pours it lavishly canals throughout the country.
upon the parching soil. This is They have done better and saved
done by means of Allen sun themselves millions, for they have
power machines imported from
Chicago. The Dead Sea itself has pumped the waters of the Kinneret
begun to show signs of life, as all the way south to Eilat—literally
the great sun-driven engines the length of the country. These
pump out the salt water and waters are diverted everywhere
force in the fresh. Many rail- throughout the land.
ways are building, and, in short,
The Jews of Israel have not
under Mr. Solomon's direction even found it necessary to bypass
the desert is blossoming as a the Egyptians at Suez by building
rose.
a canal to connect the Red Sea
How good a guesser was the and the Mediterranean. They have
author? The Hart Schaffner Marx contented themselves with building
Co. and the Kuppenheimers of Chi- a pipe line to pump Iranian oil
cago made money in the clothing- from Eilat to Ashkelon.
industry, but even in those pre-
They have not wasted money
income tax days they never be- attempting to convert the Dead
came rich enough to be able to Sea into a fresh water lake, but
buy as much as a modest hunk— making a virtue of necessity, they
let alone the totality—of Turkish are exploiting the brine of the
Palestine. The world-famous Eng Dead Sea to manufacture potash
lish millionaire philanthropist Sir and other chemicals.
Moses Montefiore had bought some
Palestinian land in the 1850s, and
this fact may have become known Temple Bloodmobile
to the Herald writer. Baron Ed-
mond de Rothschild did not begin Sets 195-Pint Quota
investing heavily in Palestinian
Temple Israel will hold its blood-
agricultural colonies until 1887, mobile 2-8 p.m. June 8, with a goal
two years after the Herald's of 195 pints for use of temple fam-
prophecy was published.
ilies who may require it in the
Territorially, the Herald writer future. Chairman Lowell Ressler.
was a better guesser. Except for said prizes will be awarded to two
Gilead and "Pedrea" (Peraea>, blood donors.
Participants may contact Ress-
which are Jordanian today, all
the towns and territories listed ler, 261-3220, or Budd Schaefer,
in his prophecy are now in Jew- 862-0900.
Some 145 pints were donated
ish hands either as part of the
state of Israel or tmder Israeli last December, with 50 pints al-
ready utilized by the membership.
military occupation.
The Israelis have not run an
east-west canal from Haifa to the
Kinneret, nor have they adopted
the typical 19th-Century American
expedient of cutting irrigation
Concerned Harvard Student Explores
Frustrations in 'Ideals-Reality Gap'
(Editor's note: Writing what he titled
"A Distressed Statement by a Con-
cerned Student," in which he reviews
at great length the current social up-
heavals and the reactions of youth,
Harvey &Bodin, of the Harvard Law
School Class of 1972, presents his views
011 the reasons students have expressed
their frustrations in strike and dem-
onstrations. Modin, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Dzodin of 21901 Beverly,
Oak Park, refers to the "Ideals-Reality
Gap," the "discrepancy between 'what
is' and 'what should and could be."
The conclusion from his paper follows).
s • •
BY HARVEY DZODIN
The need for change is critical
in order to prevent recurrence of
violence, which generally comes
because students see no real al-
ternative. If faculty and adminis-
trators are unwilling to respond to
change from the stimulus of non-
violent protest, their criticism of
violence is hollow indeed.
While the overwhelming major-
ity of students condemn violent
demonstrations, we believe that
there is relevance to many of
the demands being made, and we
recognize that inside and outside
agitators cannot be effective un-
less there are pressing substantive
issues that have not been dealt
with by "the powers that be."
Demonstrations are symptoms, and
as good doctors treat illness rather
than symptoms, the university
should treat its problems rather
than surface manifestations.
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of Harvard students attend the
strike meetings and saw the
intense sadness and angered
frustration over the deaths at
Kent State, and the repeated
attempts at peaceful dissent as
symbolized by the moratorium,
I took stock of my own un-
easiness.
I strongly felt that American
Revolution II was beginning out
of the same roots that caused the
noble American Revolution I. As
I listened to radio reports from
the various fronts, reminiscent of
World War II reports known to
my generation only by recordings,
I felt in the midst of a nightmare.
Yet I do not feel that this battle
inevitably has to come if every-
one — especially the powerful—
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