The Mena weekly star., 1920-08-19
BY BARBARA LAPoRTE

BY BARBARA LAPORTE
 written for International News Service. London, Aug. F. Palestine is the. Southern California of the East. What Los Angeles. San Diego and the Imperial Valley are to the Pacific, Je- r,asaien. Haifa and the Dead Sea are fo the Mediterranean. The only diff ference between the two is differ eIloA 0f two or three hundred million dollars When we have put into Pal eJkine the amount of money spent upon the marvellous roads of South ern California, upon the mansions of Pasadena and the orange groves of tue Kedlands, you will have almost an exaet duplicate of our American southland Arid Palestine has more water than the section around Los Angeles. Southern California is a man.nade country. The new Jewish commonwealth will have to be made the same way-with large invest nzents and enormous energy"
 This is what Bernard Rosenblatt, of New York, founder of the Ameri- can Zion Commonwealth, thinks of the Possibilities in the new Jewish homeland. He has just left the In fannalional Zionist Conference in London to go to the East to purchase aeFeraI hundred thousand acres of land n Palestine. With him go many members of the conference, including several Americans, who will not re turn to the countries from which they came. but go to join the pioneering colonies in the Holy Land
 No absentee landlordism or specu. lation in land; model villages planned with an eye 10 beauty and perman- e1zce, with all social values retained by the whole community, are aims of tho new settlers, who promise to show tangible results in two years.
 The Commonwealth, which is only ono H9ency for Palestine develop fI141{ has already collected, previous to the big campaign which is being DI1un6d for the near future, two and hai{ million dollars, for the pur- cfnSe 0f lands, which are being ac. dHired at cost of from twenty-five 10 thirty dollars an acre.
 Furchasers of land through the oornmQnwealth buy only surface val iIex, says MT. Rosenblatt.
 Large contiguous areas sufficient 70 settle an entire colony are pur chaa6d nd 10 uer cent of the total Is &4t AH0rf for a village. This 10 per cont femains forever the inalienable p<00&<fy of the whole community may be leased for homes, business 4S. 6cb0ols, etc, but it can never be purchaSed. Since these are the lands which are likely to acquire enormous values Through no industry on the part of the owner We shall prevent the making of fortunes through land speculatfons. There will be no Mar shall Fields in Palestine.
 The lands which are purchased niAy he ised for agricultural purposes solely If oil is discovered, as il dQpatlees will be, all the members oi tns a0nmunity will profit, not merely tue person. on whose land it is found &h1ae lands are purchased under F5IqH9 1Ipulations, business being con Q&q{e1 ln communal lands only, it is pce1ltI4 for us to plan our villages E4kEl<E Geddes, of the University oi d|4a4<&h, who is probably the xf11f1zz city planner in the world is 1xlpI1& to design these villages.
 here will be no scattered farm hollsas in Palestine, with the farmers le1o1n& lonely lives, and their wivei 0ft4Q going insane from lack of com panionship. They will live in villag ta. 88 they do in Russia.
 mi Jewish farmer will have {
 {n the village In oul X 3' Fl e4ch house will be surrounded zz Last an acre of garden so tha E 9[<nies will be little garden cit
 |ze first houses will necessarily
 The pioneers will have tl
 5ld them themselves, but the, E of white stone, which is plen
 c9nd these garden villages W, XI1nt groves of trees-olives ant 4l!!!- and oranges. We hope tha
 eHish farmer will own at leas
 [ts of such plantation.
 md this grove will be tn, ~fI<@ where the coionists will grov oats, and wheat. We hay, 4I1c1fe1ed a new variety of whea t 6k8Ws even in the hot climate 0 HIi buying of seeds and marketinl Ql r<41ucts will be done cooperative
 <o1&fbly the farms will be work
 <eratively, since each man vii
 <1ough garden and plantation
 1o satisfy his desire to owl
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 6 succeed we shall build colon
 X which there is no poverty, i 4I11 <xery man must work for wha LII and no man can gain riche < IN<k in which every man vii 4xe 6cme that is not only comfori 9|1< beautiful
 Ahall prove that it is not tru <A4 Jews are race only c 44t8Nlen. but that on their own so tn4y c&o develop a unique and sus E7441NI 8griculture.
 course, those colonists who ar l91x5n& America, England and othe 1QdN<K1es where they have the as 4lZfzxe4 of civilization already a 1H have a hard time. They ar 61eers. But we shall not bull
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