26 Friday, May 30, 1975
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Israeli Drip Irrigation Method
Spreading to Many Countries
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.)
Israeli scientists have in-
vented a process known as
drip irrigation, which opens
up a new chapter in agricul-
ture. It may help solve the
problem of the world food
shortage which so many re-
late to the population explo-
sion.
The basis of the Israeli
process is to drip water at
the rate of about a gallon
per hour directly to the
plant rather than to spray
60 gallons per hour in the
air or channel it to furrows.
If you can save 59 out of
60 gallons of water, it is
quite a saving. Further-
more, the Israeli scientists
found that with drip irriga-
tion brackish water can also
be used.
Dr. Gustafson, an agri-
cultural scientist of the
University of California,
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learning of the results of
drip irrigation, spent a
year in Israel studying at
the Hebrew University the
subject — and returning,
experimented with the
process in California. This
year, 40,000 acres in Cali-
fornia will be drip wa-
tered.
The process can be used
for rocky and infertile land
which hitherto have hardly
been cultivatable at all, and
what is more, with the drip
process, one can simulta-
neously drip fertilizer to the
plant. Grapefruit and avoca-
does have been grown in
about half the time usually
required.
The best evidence of
By DEBRA SAMUELSON
(Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.)
course is the dollar. Land
which was regarded as so
hopeless that it was selling
for $5 an acre now is selling
at $10,000 an acre.
The American Jewish
community's participation
in the founding and forma-
tion of the United States is
the subject of numerous
publications being issued in
connection with this coun-
try's forthcoming Bicenten-
nial celebration.
Many new books and up-
dated editions of older ma-
terial are, or shortly will be,
available on American Jew-
ish life over the past two
centuries. In addition,
teachers and community
leaders will have access to
listings of the existing pub-
lications to help them orient
students and groups on
their American Jewish heri-
While the public has
heard little about drip irri-
gation, big business seems
to be better informed.
Some 60 different compa-
nies are now manufactur-
ing the apparatus for drip
irrigation. Among them
are Dupont and Motorola.
An Association of Drip Ir-
rigation Farmers has been
organized and will soon be-
gin publication of a maga-
zine. The process has made
much headway in Australia
and has been introduced in
South Africa.
Chaim Weizmann and His Institute
The scientific periodical,
"Endeavor," devoted its lead
article in the January issue
to Chaim Weizmann in
honor of the centenary of
his birth last November.
Portions of that article are
reprinted here:
By many, Chaim Weiz-
mann will be remembered
primarily as a statesman
who became the first Presi-
dent of Israel. In the scien-
tific world, however, he will
be remembered equally as a
scientist of no mean ability
and of very great influence.
In this field, he had to his
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credit an impressive list of
publications in European
and American journals: be-
tween 1899 and 1950 these
amounted to no less than
102 scientific papers and 111
patents.
Weizmann's great contri-
bution was to use his per-
sonal authority to stress the
profound importance of
science in international af-
fairs generally, and in the
affairs of developing coun-
tries in particular. Israel
was the first modern state
to have 'the great import-
ance of science built into the
country's economy.'
Although well known in
scientific and Zionist cir-
cles, Weizmann was
wholly unknown to the
public. The turning-point
came in the first world
war, when there arose in
Britain a grave shortage
of acetone — then pre-
pared by pyrolysis of wood
— for the manufacture of
cordite.
wealthy British business-
man whose son Daniel, for
whom a brilliant career in
medical research had been
anticpated, had died tragi-
cally young.
Between them then con-
ceived, as a memorial to
him, the Daniel Sieff Insti-
tute, opened at Rehovot in
1934.
Since the last world war
there has grown up round
the Daniel Sieff Institute,
on 75 acres of land recov-
ered from the wilderness,
a multidisciplinary re-
search institute — the
Weizmann Institute of
Science — with a staff of
some 2,000 people.
The range of research at
the Weizmann Institute is
reflected in the 500 scien-
tific papers which now ema-
nate from it every year.
In his latter years, when
frail health and failing eye-
sight led him to withdraw
from the political arena,
Weizmann took a particular
delight in seeing the Insti-
tute expanding and talking
with the growing band of re-
search workers.
At the time of his death in
1952 many of the present
developments were no more
than a pious hope. Today,
they are a lasting memorial
to a man of great compas-
sion who had a profound be-
lief in the advantages
science could confer on hu-
manity.
Weizmann went to see
Lloyd George in London,
and shortly became director
of the Admiralty Laborato-
ries (1916-19). Within a few
weeks Weizmann had found
a satisfactory solution to
the acetone problem by de-
veloping a well-known fer-
mentation process.
For this valuable service,
Lloyd George was anxious
to recommend him for some
honor, but this Weizmann
refused. Instead, he told
Lloyd George of his Zionist
aspirations and asked that
something_ might be done
L.A. Federation
for his people.
Shortly, Lloyd George
to Aid Refugees
became Prime Minister, and
brought the request to the
LOS ANGELES (JTA) —
The board of directors of the
attention of A. J. Balfour,
then foreign secretary, who
Jewish" Federation-Council
of Greater Los Angeles has
had known Weizmann, and
voted unanimously to pro-
been keenly interested in
Vide resettlement assistance
Zionism, since 1906. This
was the genesis of the fa-
for South Vietnamese refu-
gees as requested by the
mous, and controversial,
Balfour Declaration of 1917,
nited States government.
in favor of a Jewish national
Mrs. Lawrence Jay Wein-
home in Palestine.
-berg, JFC president, said
In the years immediately
the federation-council
after the war Weizmann
through its affiliated agen-
forsook science completely
cies — primarily Jewish
to pursue his political activi-
Family Service and Jewish
ties, but in 1932 he estab-
Vocational Service — would
lished a private laboratory
assist in the absorption of
in London, and set himself
approximately 1,000 South
up as a consultant. During
Vietnamese men, women
this time he was in close
and children into the metro-
contact with Israel Sieff, a
politan area.
U
tage. Another form of aid in
this direction are pamphlets
that suggest means to cele-
brate the Bicentennial.
The history of the Ameri-
can Jewish community is as
old as the nation itself.
While many of the materi-
als being brought forth for
the Bicentennial deal with
the Jewish community, a
great number relate to the
interconnection of all
groups of Americans work-
ing together to develop our
nation.
The Book Council also co-
sponsored "Selected Juven-
ile Books on American Jew-
ish Life," compiled by Debo-
rah Brodie, with the
American Association for
Jewish Education. The As-
sociation, which is distrib-
uting the bibliography, is lo-
cated at 114 Fifth Ave., New
York, N.Y. 10011. A fifth
pamphlet issued by the
Book Council is "Dramatic
Scripts on American Jewish
Themes," prepared by Han-
nah Grad Goodman.
With vast amounts of
The Book Council, locate ,'
material on the American at the National Jewish We
Jewish community having fare Board, 15 East 26 St.,
been published over the New York, N.Y., 10010, has
years, the Jewish Book also published a pamphlet
Council, a division of the on ideas for the marking of
National Jewish Welfare the Bicentennial.
Board has compiled pam-
phlets listing those now
available.
Two of the annotated bib-
liographies, compiled by
Nathan M. Kaganoff, cover
"Selected • Books of Ameri-
can Jewish Biography" and
"Selected Books on Ameri-
can Jewish History."
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