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." 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