Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-03-07

~ ALESTINE POST, Jerusalem
- Delivers into the past are I'M
covering fresh surprises almost
i every day. Outstanding Incl
dents in history are topping
over as natural scientists dig into the
past via the excavation route. Astron-
omers with more powerful lenses and
a larger accumulation Of knowledge are
upsetting the traditions of centuries.
Hitherto accredited facts" are being
ripped up. re-examined and RELOCATED
to the NEUROLOGICAL cabinet. And out
of it all there comes occasionally an
item interesting to the layman.
To the average person the devel-
opment of the nebular hypothesis is
of little or no moment. He does not
care whether Diogenes went around
hunting for an honest man with a
kerosene lamp. whale oil scoop or
an electric bulb. And if Aristotle were
to be credited with the discovery Of
America he would probably turn over
and 60 to sleep again.
But when the discovery is made that
Turkish towels did not originate in
Turkey, and that the clotheslines OF
the early back yards of the Turkish
people knew them not, then practically
all the newspapers in the world contain
an item about it. And why? Perhaps
it is because everyone has an interest
in the subject from personal contacts.
And again, the Turkish towel is. next
to soap, the universal symbol OF clean
illness. 1t is in practically every home.
1t has welded an important influence
among the children. But 1t is not a
Turkish towel, we are told 1t is an
Egyptian towel, and just to prove 1t
natural scientists attest the discovery
of Turkish towels" In an Egyptian
tomb 1000 years old.
There goes another myth "ker-
splash" It may be that hotel offices
will be receiving calls for Egyptian
towels" hereafter-ard it may be net.
The old Turkish towel is too close
to the people to be dropped in minute.
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Treatment Of Jews
In Poland Scored.
South African Jewish Chronicle,
Cape Town. - The tragic news which
has been reaching us from Poland
must have been read with no
small amount of distress within recent
weeks. It Is always tragic when human
beings are prosecuted as result OF
bigotry and intolerance; it Is more
tragic still when it is noted the form
the persecution of Polish Jewry is TAX
ing at present. To state that this
persecution is barbaric is putting it
mildly. Jews are being attacked and
beaten in the streets, shooting and
pillaging are, if the reports are correct,
an almost usual occurrence, young
Jews are bounded out of the universe
ties Today we learn that two Jews
have been killed in the riots that have
taken place recently. And this is the
twentieth century! 1t is incredible.
Jewry the world over, as indeed
every civilized people, feel deeply with
their brethren in Poland in this dark
hour, and South African Jewry, we are
certain, will join with us in extending
to them a message OF heartfelt SYM
pathy, and in protesting vigorously
against the inhuman treatment which
is being meted out to them. It casts
but a doubtful reflection on the Polish
government when such events can &C.
cur within its domain, and 1t would be
well for it to pause a while to con-
slider their results on its prestige and
standing in the eyes OF the civilized
world. It might perhaps consider 1t
advisable, if not for reasons of COM
mon humanity, at least in its own in
terests to change its methods as far as
its Jews are concerned.
True, the authorities, we are told,
have taken steps to check the dis
orders. In Lemberg where the trouble
began, the police have been active, and
the warsaw University has been closed,
but the general inefsctiveness in con-
trolling events at once shows how
deeply the canker Of anti-Semitism has
affected q large section Of the Polish
people. The trouble haA hx the time