The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1921-12-10

of Jerusalem seem to be fulfilled.
.Totny the city stands midway between the hor-
of the Turkish regime and the promised good
of the British mandatory rule. Nothing has been
done yet in public way to benutify the city.
North and west the houses strnggle outside the
walls: on the south forbdding slopes border the
road to Bethlehem: and the east lies the ter
rble valley of Jehoshaphn-n valley of dry bones
Seventeen times DIES troyed-bitterly hated
anxiously sought-low desperate history since
Nebucatlnezzar captured 1t more than twenty-five
centuries ngo.
Redeemed today, but In her naketness, Jerusa-
lem waits to be clothed. She has as yet no grnce.
no covering for her ugly wounds. Some day her
sides will gsten with the brightness Of Il heaven
ly radiance; she will be washed and anointed like
bride waiting for the bridegroom"
The prophetic part of this Is written. of course,
in Oriental Imagery Sir Herbert Samuel, the Brit
Ish high commissioner, puts the situation In plain
English and says. in his report to parliament:
"Undevelopel and unterpopuated, Palestine has
possibilities of far more prosperity than the stand
ard attained before the war"
And Paestines future Is the concern Of half the
world Christian Jew and Moslem see In Pales-
tine II holy land 1t is most interesting situa-
tIon that Is being worked out under our very eyes.
1t is un obvious chance for the punster; Palestine
is Indeed the "Pro4Ised Land" To whom is 1t
promised? That Is what Jew Arab and Christian
in Palestine are asking Of the British government.
The British government replies that under the
mandate there will be complete freedom and equal
tty for all religions and equal Justice for allp re-
gnrtess of religion. race position.
Sir Herbert's report to parliament makes Inter-
csting reading. of which must be done be-
tween the lines. Concerning the policy followed
under the mandate he says:
1.-The policy. of His Nujestys British govern
ment contcmplates the satisfaction of the
legitimate aspirations of the Jewish through
out the world In relation to Palestine, combined
with full protection of the rights Of the existing
population.
For my own part am convinced that the means
can be found to effect this combination. The Zion
ism that is practicable Is the Zlonism that fulflls
this essential conditions.
ut is the clear duty of the mandatory power to
promote the well-heing of the Arab population, In
the same way British administration would
regard 1t as Its duty to promote the welfare Of
the local population In any part OF our empire
The measures to foster the well-beng the Arabs
should be precisely those which we should adopt
in Palestine If there were Zionist question: and
II there had been Balfour declaration
There Is in this policy nothing incompatible with
reasonable Zionist aspirations.
"On the contrary, II the growth of Jewish In
fluence were accompanied by Arab degradation,
or even by neglect to promote Arab advance
ment, 1t would fail in Of its essential pur-
poses
"The grievance of the Arab would be discredIt
to the Jew, and in the result the moral influence
of ZlOnism would be gravely impaired.
simultaneously there must be satisfaction Of
that sentiment regarding Palestine-a worthy and
ennobllng sentiment-which, In increasing degree,
animates the Jewries of the world.
1.-THE aspirations OF these 14OOO,OOO of people
also have right to be considered They ask
for the opportunity to establish home" In the
land which the political and has always beea
the religious center Of their race. They ask that
this home should possess national characteristics
lin language and customs, In Intellectual inter-
ests, In religious and political institutions
~ Jewish Immigration
to involve Arab emigration, that the greater pros
perity Of the country, through the development Of
Jewish enterprises, Is to be Mt the expense. and
not to the benefit Of the Arabs. that the use of
Hebrew is to imply the disappearance Of Arabic.
that the establishment of elected councils In the
Jewish community for the control Of its affairs is
to be followed by the subsection Of the Arabs to
the rule OF those councils.
"In q word, the degree to which Jewish national
espiratious be fulfilled In Palestine Is condi-