New Britain herald., 1919-03-13
CALLS EGYPTIANS
 DIRT|EST PEOPLE
Local Boy in Palestine Not
 FayorabIy Impressed

Isador Pizcr. who is in the trans port service a Palestine Wf''fS 'o 'l9 parents Mr. and Mrs. flAcr ol W est >I,i,, e+raot an account of the hard shins endured hv the Americans Tn the far distant country lMeS'lhe' ne says. ;s no place for Wh1te man III the winter time or the summer tune. He tolls of the wretChCd condition of the Eevptians and believes that the Amcricarized Jew puts 1t over tho homo-stnying Jew every time. Fol lowing iS the letter:
 .PICnse don't blame me for not Writing to you often, because in tho transport We work from six in the morning to six at night. and often times we arc called out at night. so you sec how little time l have to my self.
 Tn your last letter, you asked me 10 tell you what kind of place Palestine is: we'll I will tell you. The place where I am stationed now is a pretty good place, but only if you live in a house. l am in a city named IIaiti. and our camp is at the foot of mountain. Mount Carmel is the ramc of it but it is a rotten place, because we sleep in tents, but as l have already slept in tents for the last ten months, it makes no differ ence whether the ground is wet or dry. Our camp is only five minutes walk from the Medit terranean sea- so we have pretty rough weather this time of the year. It is no place to stay in either winter or summer, because in the summer it is very hot, and there is a great deal of fever. Besides, there was a great battle fought on the mountains. and the smell is something terrible. Tn tho winter, it is no good to stay, because the sea is very rough, and it rains every day.
 "TIow would you like to sleep on a blanket and a waterproof sheet, and have the rain dripping in on you in the middle of the night, when a big wind comes up and blows your tent about half mile away and scatters all your clothes about. You would have to lie down on the wet ground and sleep and that is what happens to us nearly every night, and then at six o'clock we must go out to work, rain or shine. The companies work only five and a half days q week and only a few hours a day, and we work every day in the week, and about twelve hours a day. so you can just imag zine how I am enjoying myself.
 Well. about Haifi Half of Half is a German colony while the other half is composed of Egyptian Turks and Jews. The streets of the German colony arc wide and very clean; the houses as we'll, and what is more. they arc a bit moro civilized than the Egyptians. The Egyptians arc about the dirtiest raco Of people l have ever seen, and un~ civilized as we'll The streets are small, narrow and filthy. not fit for q white man to pass. They live in low down shanties made of stone and the earth serves as a stone; they all sleep on the floor and eat on it as well. They have dOnkies which stand about three feet high, and no mat ter how many they have, they stay in the same room with the occupants When they cat they place a large bowl in the center of the floor, and the whole family sits down in a circle around the basin and eat with their fingers, regardless of whether their hands are dirty or not. When they wash themselves, as of course they seldom do, they find q puddle of water in the gutter, and wash without soap, and they wipe their faces with their clothes or wait until the sun dries them. I tell you they arc the dirtiest race of people on the face of the earth of course they are not all alike, but the majority of them are just as I have written about them.
 T almost forgot to tell you about the Jewish people. I don't think much of them, and would rather be amongst the worst Jewish people of America than the best Jewish people of Palestine. I can't explain to the letter, but I will tell you about the business places. Their business is chiefly because they know that we get very little food. and they know that thQk can rob us, so they take the oppl lrtunity."