Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-01
HOLY LAND APPEARS DESTINED
TO BECOME JEWISH REPUBLIC
After 1900 Years Of Exile
Racial Dream Nears
Realization.
Administrative Commission
of Hebrews Planning
Reconstruction.

After 1000 years of exile 1t is now
almost certain that a Jewish govern
ment will be established in Palestine.
When Gen. Allenby, at the head of
his victorious army, carried the Union
Jack into the Holy City last Decem-
Der, dream OF twenty centuries be-
came possible. On the hills of Zion
a Jewish civilization with something
of its old moral and intellectual vigor
may once more come into being.
The Jews have seized their oppor-
tunity Already an administrative
commission of Hebrews is at work
restoring the country for that race.
This administrative commission has
a program. Its aim is to bring back
the life of the Jewish colonies in
Palestine to their f1ourishing pre-
war conditions. 1t intends to furnish
the necessary educational. medical
and economic aid to all Jews who go
back to the Holy Land.
One of it's most important projects
is the immediate founding of Jewish
university. Along the lines of diplo-
macy. the commission proposes to Gre
ate harmonious relationships with
the Arab and Armenian states, which
are to be it's neighbors
Jews Migrate Back.
The story Of the return to Palestine
of the Jews during the last forty
years is as amazing as that OF our
Pilgrim Fathers and in many ways a
remarkable parallel to it. This mi
grafton. too. was born of persecution.
The first great series of massacres oil
Jews in Russia began in 1882. Scores
of thousands of them fled to America.
I'd n
The pioneers in Palestine in 1878
found a land that was arid. barren,
full of miasma and surrounded by
hostile tribes. These first immigrants
We're professional men. They knew
nothing of agriculture. yet they re-
conquered the land for their race. The
scientific achievements of the Jewish
agriculturist in Palestine have
pointed the way for all regions in the
world of similar soil and climate to
increase their productiveness.
Within a generation TINS iand OF
desolation was the home of $4,000
Jewish farmers organized in Coop
erative societies. Towns began to de-
velop. The Jewish population in Je-
rusalem grew from a handful to, Co.
600.
The little colonies were operated
under managing boards which were
elected annually by universal suf-
frage Banks were established. trust
companies financed and schools built.
Every village has it's Hebrew school
and Hebrew kindergarten. Hebrew
was the chosen language of all the
schools.
Germany Interferfs.
But already the pan-Germanists had
turned their gaze to these struggling
Jewish colonies. Here. they thought,
was a gateway to the orient. Ac-
cordingly, they began laying their
plans to get possession of it.
ward the Jewish Institute of Tech
nology at the foot cf Mount Carmel
were two Germans. James Simon and
Dr. Paul Nathan. They became mem
bers of the governing board.
When the board sought to pass a
resolution introducing Hebrew as the
sole language of instruction in the
school. the German members sud-
denly rose up and opposed it. They
demanded that all scientific and tech
meal subjects be taught in German.
The controversy which ensued over
this language question was one of the
first battles fought in the great war.
When the Germans pushed through
their plan in their logged Prussian
fashion the friends of the Hebrew
language resigned in body. At
meetings of protest were held and
resolutions were passed demanding a
reconsideration.
The students of the school pro-
tested. but their pro-German director
ignored them. The teachers protest.
cd. DR.. Nathan overruled them
Thereupon. teachers and students re-