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Washiagten. D. C.. June 1 Mako HulsGtiae 4a British dominion. is the wstcAward of . committee orsanix- e b England. Members of the eoeamjttee are pledged to work for tbe Incorporation of the Holy Land n the British commonwealth of na- tloa2.
 Palestine is now mandate ad- ministcred by Great Britain for the League of Nations.
 4 geographic inventory prepared by the National Geographic society reveals Palestine as a country "on the make"
 Progsess ia History's Footprints Today the Jordan river has been crossed again = by the dam of a power project.
 Crusaders from Europe once more invade the land, fighting tho mos- quttoes which infected s4 per cent of the new. settlers with malaria.
 The land of milk and honey flows with oranges and Portland ce- ment.
 Nazareth is town famous throughout Palestine as the home of-a new water system.
 Within the walls of Jerusalem rises . new temple - $:,000. 900 museum of archaeology presented by an American philanthropist.
 Jehu chauffeurs drive furiously over the hills to Jexreel-not to wreck vengeance on Jexebel. but to transport some of the 50,000 tour ists using the Bible as guidebook, Motor cars on the modern Jezreel road make the chariot speed recorI of the original Jehu, (II Kings, s. 20). patron saint of taxicab drivers, seem . mere snail's pace. Indeed from Dan,s tn the north, to Beer. sheba. in the south, the length of Palestine. is a pleasant days motor tour.
 Eirst Am-Jcwish City for 5000 Years
 Where Richard the Lion Heart. Ii ruled in Haifa there is . Norman castle-at least it looks like Nor naan castle. but it is an electric powerhouse.
 Progress reaches even to the little town of Bethlehem. where a Dew hospital is under construction.
 Even the age-old cry of the Jews has been changed. The wall of D. 900 years of yesterdays, Next Year iR Zion," has became Tomorrow. Zion" Tel Aviv is called the first Hebrew city since the destruction of the temple.
 Jews Still . Minority
 There is more to postwar Zion- ism than Tel Aviv. While this new ali-Jewish community of 10000 is the largest. there are more than 100 other Jewish colonies. Since the Baifour declaration of 1917 recog- nixed the special interests of Jews in Palestine the Jewish population has increased from about 10000 i'll 1920 to more than 150, 900. Jews are still . minority in their homeland, however, numbering but one-fifth oi inc .total population.
 lsrael's ten tribes lived of the land. Driven out of Israel into the 
 corners Of the world, they made those corners shops and banks. Re- conquest of their Palestine home- lahd once moro requires agricultural skill of the Jews. Some Of the new scttlers; former druggists, clerks. trocers in Russia. studied aericril- ture two years before coming to Palestine.
 Coed orange growers will inherit the Holy Land. Yet there is q movement by the Jewish immigrants to make Palestine a glorified depart. ment store Of the awakening Near East. Already they are selling stock nss to Egypt. cement to Syria and Cyprus. perfume to France. oranges N England, and made-in- Palestine unleavened bread ell over the world.
 Movement RjtIes Two Horses
 It h plain that the reconquest of