The Denver Jewish news., 1924-06-26

exist IN the DEAD Sea, and Whlch re-
main untappcd for want of money.
But what would Palestine have been
like without the Kcrcn Haycsod these
last three years? 1t would never have
turned the corner. For in addition to
what the Government has been doing
with the million or so pounds year
towards improving the roads and the
railways, the post and the telegraph,
'he police and the prisons, the cities
and the fields, there was wanted, and
there Is still wanted, some agency that
would 20 on working without regard
to cost. Only the Kercn Hayesod was
In n position to take the attitude that
no progress is so costly that 1t is not
worth the price. Only the Keren
Hayesod was and is in the position TO
regard AS priceless every reclaimed
dunam of soil and every reclaimed
Jewish soul. Other agencies may be
concerned with progress, but none are
ready to achieve it at all costs. None,
except perhaps Baron Rothschild's or
ganization, We're determined to pro-
mote operations in the land whether
or not the operation was economically
sound. The Keren Hayesod, none
more, aims to have sound basis for its
operations. but 1t does not abandon an
Observation-Disclosures and life-giving
operation because it is apt to require
funds from which no returns are TO be
expected. Because the Keren Hayesod
is the Zionist Organizations instru.
mcnt. no price is too high, no achiey-
mcnt too low. This Is where the Keren
Hayesod differs from agencies which
must reckon the cost. And this is
why 1t Is inconceivable that Palestine
could have progressed as it did with
out the Keren Hayesod.
If today there is work enough for
al willing hands in the Jewish tobac-
co plantations, it is primarily because
the Zionist Executive seized upon this
employment-provider, and poured out
men and money into these plantations
Work today is so plentiful that Arabs
are used on Jewish plantations to cul
tivate the weed. The work of the
Jews is so well done that the Govern
ment recently called attention TO the
fact that the Arabs are learning from
their Jewish neighbOrs the ways OF
making tobacco-growing flourish.
Conceived by the Zionist Executive
as. AN emergency employment measure
tobacco cultivation has become the
rural Messiah. And although Jewish
immigration the last two months has
been trcbled there are not enough
Chaluzim to go around In all colonies
where tents We're pitched for groups OF
hundred Chaluzim, two hundred
could have found their living. The
Chaluzim invasion of the old type col.
onies is now almost complete, and thus
another troublesome problem, that OF
blending the new Yishub with the old
has been solved, if only partially and
temporarily.
Dependent ON the Keren Hayesod not
alone for its daily bread, but for the
bread of hope, Jewish Palestine dare
not stop to realize what it would he
or do, without it. SO obvious is the
service the Keren Hayesod performs
that yOu look in vain in city, colony or
plain, for any visible sign of the fund
1t is taken for granted. The kercn
Hayesod is not the least advertised
institution in Palestine it is not adycr.
tised at all But it is embedded in the
conciousnss of every Jewish man
woman and child in the land. And un-
consciously, all look to American Jewry
to enable EretZ Israel to evolve out OF
the present Palestine by augmenting
the resources of the Keren Hayesod ia
enable Palestine TO become in fact the
Land of Israel by the simple rule of
progress by multiplication.