The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1920-12-22
II. T. CORY, NOTED CALIFORNIA
ENGINEER THINKS ZIONIST
PLANS, BOUND TO SUCCEED.
Is Impressed by Self-Saerificing Spirit
of Jewish COIOnists.

The human material which is going
into the npbuilding of Jewish PaleS
tine. the spirit of exubrrant enthuS-
iasm and sacrifice for cause, com
parable only to the lofty spirit of th.'
dollar-a-day men at Washington dur
ing the early days of the world-war.
are among the factors which. in the
| opinion of Harry Thomas Cory. noted
| California engineer. former Director
/ General of Foreign Relief of the
bring success to the Zionist plan to
establish Jewish Homeland in Pal
estine.
Mr.. Cory, who was associated with
| Sir William Wilcox In the Nile Pro
| jccts Commission of the Egyptian Gov
| eminent. having been called to this
service because of his experience in di
rerting the Colorado River from the
Salton Sea. makes this interesting
| statement in report to the Zionist
Organization of America adding that
when he went to Palestine recently mt
| the invitation of Justice Brandcis,
Honorary President of both the inter
national and American Zionist Organi-
cations. he doubted the basic wisdom
of the plan.
Before making his report announc-
ing his enthusiastic conversion to the
Zionist idea, Mr. Cory. who is not II
V,u I,tS Inc !,
those of Sir William Wilcox and Prof.
i. ii. Focbes of the University OF Ne
braska. The latter. according to Mr..
Cory, is Americas leading authority
or desert and semi-desert Agriculture.
l.oth OF them have made Independent
Investigations of Palestine, and Mr..
Cory declares in his report which is
now made public. they entirely rein
furcei his Judgment nor only as to
the feasibility of the Zionist plan, but
also as to the superiority Of Western
'al"stine to Southern California. The
only point of difference between them
is that Sir Wilcox believes the soil
as more fertile and more favorable for
intensive development.
All three are agreed that another
r"tnt of Ialestine's superiority is tina,
IN tbe lower regions there ia no danger
OF frost. which Is the constant men
,,c of Southern CaIifornia's citrus
fruit industry. In the Jordan Valley.
they agree 100000 acres can be in
:ensively cultivated, ana its output
would be enormous. The rainfall in
Palestine is greater and better dis
tributed seoson,lIv than in California.
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which fouud among I'M, Zionis.s of
nil grades i'm Palestine I was direc-
,or.Generol of Foreign Lelief of the
.uoric,n Rcd Cross during the war
and came to have a deem apprccia-
tion of what morale mems IL, nny ell
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w,shingtop there was mn intense ell
thus;,sm to win the war and the de.
siro nm tba nart of each to do his
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