The Washington herald., 1921-06-04
PALESTINE Will ne RICH ONLY
IN FREEDOM, SAYS LEADER.

PALESTINE WILL ne RICH ONLY
IN FREEDOM. SAYS LEADER.
"Zionism" said DIR. schmarhayu
Levin, Yiddish writer and one of
the leaders of the American zion
list movement at the willard. "is
primarily a spiritual movement.
IL II is to be facsimile reproduc-
tion Of other cpuntrie'. II ware bet
ter that II be unborn. Palestine
can never be a rich land. Its nat
ural resources. the land available.
arc not adequate for such>a devel-
opment. But we 10 hope to intro
duce, as time progresses. some
thing OF q new social order. where
there shall be neither masters nor
slavs, but freemen all. We believe
that the germs Of this change are
visible in the initial stages OF the
reclamation of the land now going
on there.
Consider the type of Immigrant
coming there. They are coming
from the lands in which they have
suffered. but a strange thing has
happened. There is no bitterness
In their heart. They are not pro-
testing. They come consecrated to
the god OF work. You can see
these immigrants working on the
roads all the way from Dan 70
Beersheba-working twelve hours
day on the toughest kind OF
work. And after their days toll
is over they dream of a Palestine
redeemed and made glorious.
ENDURING PILGRIM HARDsHIPs
TO REACH PROMISED LAND.
You tell me of the Pilgrim
fathers who crossed the stormy
ocean and landed on the bleak Mas
sachusetts coast. That was splen-
did. But we have their counter
part in the Palestinian immigrants
, of today. They come by the most
| devious routes. Many have tramped
hundreds of miles. expelled from
/, port after port. but somehow BY
persistence, by subterfuge, they
have reached the soil of Judea
There are a great many from
Ukrainia, for instance, a country
from which there Is scarcely a way
by which a human being may leave
1t and particularly a Jewish human
being"
What has the non-Jewish world
to gain from this experiment." Mr..
Levin was asked.
I'VE are all interdependent units.
and no real gain but benefits all.
The Jew gave to civilization the
best 1t hast gave IL God. Per-
haps on the hills of Judea once
more psalmists shall sing and
prophets show the way to right
eouness. The Jew in his cultural
development has OF course borrow
ed much from his neighbors. and
his neighbors have borrowed from
him. 1t Is to the interests OF the
entire human race that every
group should attain its noblest de-
velopment. for then 1t can give
most. In the rebuilding of Zion.
we are taking full advantage of the
genius of Christian sympathizers
with the Zionist movement 1t Is
Patrick Geddes, for instance, the
Scotch scientist, who is designing
the plan for the rebuilding of Jeru-
salem. 1t was George Elliot, the
English author. who in Daniel
Deronda" pointed out the need OF
restoring Zion.
WILL BEGIN WITH TRADITIONS
COVERING THOUSANDS OF YEARS
I'VE shall start with our heritage
with our Biblical traditions. It
has been said that Moses was not
an artist. because Ione OF the COM
mandments forbade the making of
craven images. But Moses was a
student of Egyptian lore. He was
inspired by an artistic impulse, but
instead of carving a work of art
with stone. instead of building
pyramids, he aspired to carve a
nation that would be beautiful. Re-
nan, who was no particular friend
of the Jew. has admitted that had
the Jewish people followed the
Mosaic legislation. Juda would have
served as a pattern for other peo-
Piles. Consider for instance. IL the
one item of the Mosaic legislation
forbidding monopoly in land had
been adhered to. What a funda-
mental chang is involved there.
The struggle today is after all
the same one of a thousand years
ago, the problems of the Jew to-
day are but a repetition OF the
problems confronting them in the
time of Nehemiah. The externals
of the problem are changed, but
the kernel is the same. 1t is the
struggle Of the golden calf with
God. money versus ideals. When
you are chained in bonds of iron,
there is hope for you, for the iron
may rust, and wear away, but IL
you are enchained by gold, God
hep you"
ID, s.