The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-06-04

=. Among IN Jews themselves. %
whom heFs are less han foe.o1o In
Palestine. THE British official figures
Of = recent tnHua roughly taken ares
Noaismn. 5t1.ooo. Jews st.fo1. Chris
tiaue. so.sf9s samafitans. an living At
Nabius. the ancient thfch4fn. lt3).
there u serious division. Every teu m
Palestine n a Zionist. In that he wants
10 see u = Jewish homeland. "puhlicls
r~ccornized. legally secured" xicnisi1
Z not the line o. citaganf. The breach
lies In the old gap between the t<e.
settlement ana the Orthodox major
Nv. a breach which tho Zionist Com
mission. rscentiy rtefssnized under
Or. Harry F~rledenuald Of baltimore
ginning to heal. Already. TOO. IN =
Jewish community stepped In foreign
philanthropy. there y . clere problem,
"rnullnlinf" versus "~ufuIafnrinI."
humorous n n we're not 20 serious
and unwtolcsome IN q nation in the
making.
System Hs- Jiot-lsoass Az.
= side by side with the insplring
and rcmafhable spectacle Of ghetto
bred Jews successful peasants IN pic
turesque colonies. tnere ~ a dollhouse
AR about he wDoie system Of coloni-
xation, an a~rtifloiality that n thu 49,
rtltnble result Of paternaliEm. Jews
have had 70 demonstrate with the
nelp Of their brethren IN the exile
tt4.t they = 80 back IL the land
successfully. nut nov there II every
Indication mat the time Tor q second
stage of development h az hand. a
sound fitting into b world Of pro.
auction and distribution TO the natural
operation Of economic supply and de-
mand.
s. Jewish iifs IN Palestine today.
aside from the uaf of he Hebrew
language n the universal obssrt-
ance OF the Sabbath and the holy
days. Il pretty much the same a. n
u In the rest ~ the world. particularly
IN America with ia diversity u Jew
ish lie, coiorsd by tho iife Of every
nation In Europe.
The shettoa OF Russia and Rou-
mania may be found In The holy cities
Of Palestine. A. for the New Set
tiemcnt. The predominatinE influence
h hat OF the Russian 'intellirenEla."
with It's radical ~leanlnEs and its pas
sion foe quihbiing d~iaiectic.
I have seen ~soui-surring examples
Of Hebrew idealism In Palestine. OF
a filnsinE 20 the sacred soil In he
lace % hardship and death hat T.
magnificent In ~ simple grandeur.
Put under the smiling skies Of PaleH-
tine recall similar examples Of He
brew idcaliam right In New York city
In quiet hooks. And was not quite
certain whether the test was more
fiery In the isolated Holy Land or In
the city % JOY. where Jew arc cling
ms 10 IN Hebrew sabbath and The
Hebrew law az tho cost Of worldly
success. just NJ hundreds 81 their
people are doing all over America.
faiu tine PrpbhamA
The same problems are met In Pal
estine In Jewish life that are disturb
inF Jewish well-wiHhers everywhere
In the piarpora. q slipping from the
moorings 81 religion In the young. a
familiarity toward parents. etc. Pal
cstinc 10. after all. an organ OF the
world to-day. through which flows the
same life fluis. with all IT, richness
and most % itr poison
g. Palestine, authorities agree. n
capable Of a fruitful N not a bountifui
development with special. concen-
tratei effort. Hut all insist that IN
dlvidual attempts on a small scale
are doomed to failure. The land
ICED a central bureau In charge of
master administrators and a body of
pioneers with grit, tdealism and The
spirit Of ~Helf-nacrifice.
when I left Palestine last month
there was every indication that with
he advent % Tho American members
the Zionist Commission was headed
in the right direction toward the Holu-