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, FACIAL HAIR PERMANENTLY REMOVED Eyebrows—Neckline— Arms— legs . Recommended by Physicians FREE CONSULTATION SHIRLEY PERSIN Regis tered Electrologist ADVANCE BUILDING 23077 GREENFIELD Nr Room 260 Northland & Providence Hotpitol PHONE 557-1108 15 V.,,,, Downtown 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 WALL WASHING 5 Rooms $3900 Special Wall Washing process. Cleans and brightens. You've never seen anything like it before. Also full cleaning service. • Residential • Commercial Call 542-1640 WONDER WASH CONGRATULATIONS Upon Your Graduation from Medical School DR. 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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. 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