The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-03-19
(Golden Age)

(Golden Age) When the Zionist movement was young, and that's only six years ago, | its ardent enthusiasts used to dream of a Palestine of 4,00O, 900 people. and possibly 600OO0O living in a land made agracuItura11y rich by irriga- t1on and industrially prosperous by hydro-electric plants furnishing pow CT to a varied selection of industries; country dotted with model garden and industrial villages and cities con- nected with each other parts of the East by railroads, electric lines and highways; a. nation whose merchant marine reaches out to all corners of the world from Haifa, terminal of Asiadc trade with Europe.
 This dream Is coming true, before our very eyes, because:
 The pledge of Great Britain, made through the Balfour Declara- ton of November 2, 1917, to do all in it's power to establish the Jewish National Homeland, is about to be redeemed through the signing of the treaty of peace with Turkey grant ~ ing Great Britain a mandate over Palestine. The mandate is expected at any time (and may be promulgat- ed before this is printed), as the Turkish treaty is now under discus
 
 most reliable authority that the man date to Great Britain is contained in the first ten articles of the treaty.
 2-Millions of Jews throughout the, werld are awaiting the political settle nnent of Palestine's status so that they can begin a mass-migration to the Holy Land, which so far has taken all the power and resources of the International Zionist Organization to restrain until the proper time for emigration arrives
 3-A reconstruction program pre- pared by the Zionist Organization to restore Palestine as the Jewish Ma tional Homeland has already been put into operation on a small scale by the establishment of Jewish agri- cultural colonies, reclamation of swamp lands to rid the country of mosquitoes, and medical and sanitary measures put into effect by the Amer icap Zionist Medical Unit. To begin this program on a more elaborate scale and to take the first steps to- ward the establishment of flourish ing country in Palestine, the Zionist Organization of Arner1ca is raising 10,000,00O throughout the United States this year for it's Palestine Re- storation Fund.
 4-Winston s. Churchill, English Minister of War, in a recent article in the London Sunday Herald, reiter- ated the pledge of his country's CO., @ operation to the fullest extent with the Zionist Organization in prepar- ing Palestine as the Jewish National Homeland, and declared that the present generation would yet see a population of from three to four mil lion in the Holy Land.
 The reconstruction projects which the Zionist Society of Engineers vii initiate through the fund now being raised throughout America, include water-power development, by build ing canals, reservoirs, aqueducts anG hydro-electric plants; reclamation o- the Hullah valley, including tht drainage and clearing of the HulIaF Swan1ps, over 5000 acres, and tn, reclamation of 3,700 acres in the Up per Jordan system; construction of { modern harbor at Haifa, making i the Amsterdam of the Mediterranean connecting this new, great port witt all parts of Palestine and it's hinter land and with the entire Near Eas by a system Of standard-guage rail roads; building of roads and pave mentS throughout the country: pro viding water supply by conserving tn heavy rainfall through ree,rvorrs an, wells; establishing a sewage-disposs system and converting the sewage in to fertilizer, organizing various indus tries, chiefly cement mills with whic to do most of the construction wor in Palestine, owing to the lack ( lumber, which will not be avaiIabl until the afforestation projects ar developed; shoe, clothing and fIrl uiture factories, canneries, tannerie. foundries and blacksmith shops
 Linked up with the industrial con mercial and agricultural reiuvena tio of Palestine, are the plans for estat fishing merchant marine, for wIic the Zionists propose an initial @, penditure of $10,O00, ,00O With FIait made into the leading harbor of Il entire Near East, as experts ha1 claimed it will be, when life in Pale tire is flourishing again it's fleet merchantmen will play between 2 the leading ports of the world, ca rying the new products of the Ho Land. The first ship in this mercha marine vas recently launched at Ja fa to sail between Beyrut, HaifaL. la ia and Egypt Elaborate ceremoni were held to commemorate the z tablishment of Palestine's mercha marine, the wife of the English co1 mandant at Jaffa christening f craft "Hecholutz'' (The Pionee while Italian warshfps in the harh at the time gave an official salute