The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-27
WILL JEWS BE BENEFITED BY
 NATIONS LEAGUE
Goden Age.)


 many things that would be a surprise to the deceased makers of history, if they should arise from their graves and read the record. For history is written, not from the viewpoint of the day when it is made nor from the Viewpoint of the makers, but from the Viewpoint of the age and of the pro- gressive thinkers of the time.
 Before the League of Nations was even thought of, there had been other leagues of nations and leagues of kings, some of them so long ago and so buried in obscurity as to be forgot ten. All of these leagues started with Blowing promise of benefits for some one for some time, but after a few years operation of them failed. Some of them left no tangible after-results; for they were motivated by fear or the other negative states of mind that impede all progress in any direction.
 It is said to be possible that the most lasting good of the League of Nations may be for the benefit of people who are scarcely mentioned in its provisions. If at all, the Jews fig ure merely as one of the Subject" peoples, whom it is the privilege of the great nations to uplift.
 History may fully record that the
 
 permit that most ancient of all the nations, Israel, to occupy once more their native soil; to become a na- .tional entity again; to begin the wis ible progress toward the inheritance which will, when history is written, have become the Jews. This ancient race is about to come into its own a very great prospect; for when the low are made high and the high brought low, the most aibased nation in the world is destined to rise to an eminence that will far more than re- pay them for their age-long bondage to unfavorable environments.
 Be that as it may, the Jews through their Zionist organizations are plan ming for the reoccupation of Pales- tine, and are going right ahead with the execution of their plans Regard less of delay in the final determina- ton of the status of their country, the Zionists assume that out of the Jewish Republic.
 This nationality is expected to con tinue under the wing of the League, with quite complete autonomy and with absolute freedom from the in tolerable restrictions from Turks and Europeans, which the Palestine Jews have suffered for centuries.
 That the tide is rising there is no doubt, and it is said that no less than a million Jews will soon go from America and Europe to live in the fatherland. By hundreds of thous- ands the Jews are familiarizing them selves with the climate, soil, and business environment of Palestine, so as to be ready to go to their home. So much larger is this host than the existing Palestine population-most- ly Turks and Arabs of a low order of education and ability-that it's pre- ponderance of numbers will auto matically settle the social and po- litical questions of the land.
 Once in a while through history whole peoples have suddenly been seized with the desire to move on to other lands. This was illustrated in the hordes of Goths, Vandals and other Tartar peoples which from time to time appeared from their obscure homes and swept over large portions of Europe.
 Today the Jews are "on the move" The hegira of the Hebrews from Europe is about to take place, for ''it is a literal fact that at the present moment a large part of the Jewish people is possessed with an irresis- tible impulse to strike its tents and move A million strong, everywhere. impatient, with tense eagerness, the Jews are getting ready to sell their all, turn it into money, and proceed to abide for the rest of their lives :n the homeland. They only wait the mandate of the League of Nations, to fix their political status for such a time as may be found necessary for the Jews to firmly establish them selves"
 pr. Saalkind of the Jewish Ma tionaI Council for the Ukraine, tells how the emigration fervor has struck Russia: "Many have liquidated their property and made themselves ready to go. The Zionist offices at Kiev CRussfa) are thronged with hundreds incuiring as to the possibility of early migration.
 Committees have arrived from various communities demanding fa- cilities for at once sending their peo- pie to Palestine. They are pre- pared to go en masse. There is no risk of exaggeration in assuming that sev- era1 hundred thousand, perhaps d million, people are planning to leave Russia upon first opportunity
 It is only natural that when the news arrived in Russia of the pros pect that a Jewish state would be erected in sacred old Judea, there should have arisen a bound1ess agi- tation for resettlement in the historic land of the Jews. At any rate, ac- cording to Dr. Goldberg, chairman of the Zionist organization of Greater Russia, whole Jewish towns ant communities have begun to make themselves ready to move as soon a: communications hould be opened.
 There is no inducement to TeTnaiI where they are. The great war wa! bad enough in the trials brouGh upon the Jews; but under the eco homie pressure of the revolution ant counter revolution, the very existence of the Jews in Russia has been un dermined. Even bread to eat, to Sd! nothing of comforts or luxuries, i endangered for three-quarters of tn, population of the Russian pale, b! the presence of the revolution.
 Preparations are being made t receive the Homecoming host. Tn, Zionist organizations of the wor1t are making preparations to furnish the necessary administrators, en gineers, specialist and other expert whose great and pleasant task vii be to make Palestine ready for tn wholesale migration about to talk n1acA.