The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1920-06-23
DR.. de Solo Pool Throws
Light on Palestine
PROMINENT NEW YORK RABBI
HAS JUST RETURNED AFTER A
YEAR SPENT IN HOLY LAND.

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Palestine can he made once more
into land of milk and honey, accord
ing to DIR. David de Sola Pool. former
Rabbi of Temple Shearith Israel, New
York. who has just returned from over
n year spent in Palestine as member
of the Zionist Commission,
All plans for the restoration of the
country. including the engineering and
| reclamation projects of the Zionists,
Investments of large amounts of cap
| ital in industries and commerce and
other progress in the development of
the Jewish National Homeland can he
undertaken as soon as Turkey signs
the Treaty of Peace. which grants
Great Britain mandate over Pal
estine for the express purposes of
establishing Jewish National Home
land there, according to DIR. Pool. The
signing of the treaty will mean til"
establishment of civil government IN
Palestine instead of the temporary mil
itary administra ton. first Turkish and
then English, which has had control
/ Vi tHt Slbtt Tie oNtDltuh VI liN'
war. Herbert Samuel. former Secre
| tary of State for Home Affairs. ac
cording to reports from London. il
scheduled to assume the office of
High Commissioner to Palestine as tl,r
first head of the civil administration
July I.
| Palestine can most readily acquire
world market in those products such
! ns oranges, rugs. aircraft articles
olives and their derivatives. olive oil
and soap. wines. almonds grapes and
grape jellies. which 1t produces as web
as or better than any other country
DIR. Pool continued I'm Hebrew print
| ing and book publishing. as well as il
other essentially Jewish products, Pal
estine should lead the world. A grea'
advance is already promised in Hebrew
printing.
There are immediate possibilities
! in agriculture and its ,lyproducts, But
lin establishing or reestabishihC many
other industries. persons investing cap
ital must spend their first two or three
years in building up and developing
their business and creating markets
| for ancient Palestine is economically
young country. practically undevelop
| ed industrially."
DIR. Pool paid glowing tribute to
| the work of the Joint Distribution
| Committee in its relief and reconstruc
| tion work among the poor and war
stricken Jews of Palestine. and of the
American Zionist Medical Unit in its
| fight against disease. '"There is mari:
edly less malaria in Palestine today
| because of the work of the American
| Medical Unit" lie said. 1.-The Ameri.
can doctors of the Unit ser a standard
of modern. expert medical service
which had never before existed i'll
Palestine They introduced the special
list. unknown, except in the case of
treatment of the eye. before In Pal
estine. 1t was encouraging to observe
how the local physicians eagerly learn
ed the modern up-to-date methods of
the American doctors and surgeons
The Joint Distribution Committee
thru its relief work carried on by
funds raised among American Jews.
had kept tens of thousands of Jews
alive in Palestine, according to DE-
| Pool. Starvation, following in the
wake of the war, would have swept
parts of the country. but for the ac-
complisl,ments of the Committee whose
relief work is still imperatively neccs.
sory, but which is now developing
more along reconstructive lines. he eN-
plained. Some of the principal relief
measures now carried on are medical
and sanitary work. loans to artisans
workmen and small shopkeepers. which
enable them to resume their produc
tive position of before the war: work
shops thruout the country, combined
with technical schools. where sewing,
lace work and carpentry are taught
training i'm stone-hewing, whereby ma
terial and workmen are being prepar-
ed in anticipation of the building boom
that will soon come to Palestine: ana
employment bureaus. To relieve tho
shortage of houses and give employ
ment. loans have also been made to
repair houses damaged by the war.
which are repaid by the rent. while
two societies of worlmen's sick benc-
fits are kept up.
Commenting on the recent Arab nnt:-
Jewish outbreaks in Jerusalem. which
he declared were fomented by few
self-interested politicians DIR. Pool
said:
"Retween the Crusades and 1919
there was never even any suspicion OF
trouble between the Jews and Arabs
Ing ono of tho