New-York tribune., 1921-10-02
A COLLEGE IN ZION
By MARIE De MONTALVO

feaoy Is rOfry years Old
The next thing to be established will l.
an elaborate plan of sanitation and child v.,
fare work, which will i-csSdc infant f..s.-
stations and maternity centcrs, where wo,...
VIII receive care both before and after ~.
birth Of their children The genera, III.
Foundation Fund has put aside a specia, f,,s
for this.
lhere IS training school for nurses =,
Jerusalem from which the first class of st,~
nurses has just been graduated after a thr..
year course. 1t is well organized in connse.
ton with the hospital there. All the ,,,,.
are college graduates, and Miss Kaplan. a.
New York, is the superintendent
''All Of this medical work will Of co,~..
be used for demonstration and will he a..
operated with first by the st-graduate mad.
lcal school and later by the undergraduate.
school of the Hebrew University when il !.
established.
There is particular advantage which ,hs
Jews in their medical work enjov over N.
gentle in dealing with the natives in pals.-
tine. The dietary laws Of the Arab and tho
Mosem are similar to the Jewish. These
natives are permitted by their religion to ant
Jewish food, but are forbidden to eat food =,
1T Is prepared by gentiles. In fact, the only
prejudice which exists is a strong FEELING
among the population that their women should
not be cared for by male physicians sin..
the Hebrew University is co-educational, there
will be sufficient women physicians to over.
this difficulty
I'm every other way schedules both for the
ARAB and the Moslem students at the uni
versity and for medical treatment are so aY.
ranged that they will be able to follow thsiy
own religions and be protected in their obser.
ance thereof. The country is peopled mostly
by Moslems. One-fourth of the population age
Jews. There are not many Christians-only
a few chance settlements in Nazareth. Bethle.
hem and Jerusalem.
Among the native population the Jews ex-
hbit the highest civilization. The Moslem is
primitive. The Bedouin is wandering Arab.
higher than the others of his race, but stils
not highly civilized The Fellah is the lowest
OF them all. He is the peasant SO downtrod-
den and so exploited that he has nothing and
really wants nothing. Although ne lives in
close relation with his employer, he does not
seem even to envy him. He never complains
and apparently never even compares his condi-
ton with that of his employer He works the
land for one-tenth of the profit that is in it,
and pays all the taxes out of that His en-
ployer gets all the rest and lives in good
house, with excellent food and an extensive
harcm.
Our chief difficulty with the native patients
in the hospitals is to induce then, to take ad-
vantage of the supreme luxury of lying in a
bed. They constantly get out and lie on the
floor. and when demonstrate with them
about it they say How can anybody want .
bed when there is such nice clean floor here?
Some 5000 to 5000 Jewish physicians in
America have combined to contribute 81 000-
900 to establish the medical school at the He
brew University. In order not to compete
it'll the general fund we are accepting money
from no one but physicians We expect other
Jews to put their money in other funds We
feel that physicians should build UP the medi-
cal department, dentists the dental depart
ment, druggists the pharmaceutical depart
rent, and the general body of American Jewry
should contribute TO the Palestine Foundation
Fund
"In three months we have raised quarter
Of million dollars. We confidently expect
hat DR.. Nathan Ratnof, president of the
American Jewish Physicians, will lay the cor
rstone Of the medical school next March.
America is destined to save the world
America saved Belgium from starvation
American Jews saved the Jews Of the world
from starvation through the Committee on
JOINT Distribution. American Jewish intel
iect and money will build the Hebrew Uni
versity at Jerusalem"
DR.. Hilkowick has lived and worked in his
profession in Palestine. He has just come
from there and expects to return before long
1t is said that fully half the contributors
to the fund Of the university are not regular
organized Zionists- IN the pamphlet issued
by the committee. entitled Cali the Doctor,
the following paragraphs occur: