Evening star., 1937-09-05
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

Discussing Our Permanent Interests"
as a Nation, Representative James A.
Stanley OF Connecticut, former Yale
athlete and athletic coach, takes us
back to the beginnings Of history and
Christianity, reciting the nomenclature
OF the accomplishing that "our whole
daily philosophy is filled with the lore
and outpourings of the Hebraic patri-
archs and writer's
He recites in detail the struggle
throughout the ages of the people of
Israel for a home-citing the rule of the
Hapsourgs, the French and Spanish
Bourbons, the Hohenzollerns, the Ro-
manof1s, the Wittelsbachs, and the per
nicious" partition of Poland
What of Bethlehem, Nazareth. the
Sea OF Galilee. Beersheba, the Transjor-
dan, GAIA, Haifa, Tel Aviv, the Valley
OF Esdraelon?" he rhetorically asks. Who
will get the holy places?" He points out
that the Transjordan consists of $4,000
square miles and Palestine has 10000
square miles. Palestine has a rough bor-
derland close to the sea, he explains, with
over 10 per cent cultivation extending
north and south for more than fifty miles,
virtually 500 square miles of cultivation,
which may conservatively be said to
possess 1000 square miles of such valu-
able territory.
The Royal Commission has proposed
that the new Jewish state get $500
square miles to include the greater part
OF the coastal plain the Valley of Esdrae-
lon Galllee and the upper waters of the
Jordan. The mandate covers 500 square
miles around Jerusalem. In the coastal
area is much of the more fertile area
and in the upper reaches of the Jordan
around Lake Huleh north of Tiberias
there is reclamation project to recap
ture needed land, while south of Lake
Tiberias the river in its fall of 13O feet
gives the chance for the Palestine Electric
Corporation with $4,000 horsepower. The
Palestine hinterland would go to the
Arabs, making the Arabian kingdom
$4,000 square miles in area. The new
suggested mandate would include Jeru-
salem and Bethlehem with a corridor
to the sea near Jaffa, and the admins
tration Of the seaport of Haifa and other
centers OF Arab population within the
Jewish area for an indefinite period
Mr.. Stanley calls attention.
OF Palestine potentialities he warns
that its future importance is linked with
the struggle for air domination and
trade supremacy by way of that glamor-
Gus means of transportation-he sketches
in the waterway from Liverpool and
Bombay. the proximity of the Suez
Canal; the frontier that separates 10O,-
100000 Moslems, countless millions of
Hindus and the untutored tribes be-
yond the Transjordan. Representative
Stanley sees Palestine as the golden
apple in the political orchard of the
Hesperides and that the fate of the
nation of Israel is linked inextricably
with "imponderables of the future" He
insists that there must be deep concern
on the part of America because of our
prior commitments"
Here's little used word-ochlocracy-
given us by Representative James c.
Oliver of Maine. He declares: I'VE spent
billions of dollars and sacrificed thou
sands of human lives to make the world
safe for democracy and now in time of
peace we are spending equally as many
billion dollars and are driving our Gov
ernment into ochlocracy." That word
means rule of the multitude, govern
ment by the populace. mobocracy."
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Scraps of steel"
Representative Edward H. Rees Of
Kansas, with apprehension in his voice,
calls attention to the big growth Of the
export trade of the United States In
scraps of steel and iron-especially to
Japan. Here are his figures: This coun-
try exported during the first six months
of this year total of 1926, ,92l tons Of
scrap steel and iron-and in May 630,67l
tons Of this material In 1888. he said,
I'VE exported 773,000 tons, Of which Japan
took $4,000 tons. During the first four
months of this year Japan bought 605,327
tons of steel and iron scrap, more than
the entire world purchased four years
ago. Great Britain bought 5000 tons
In January this year and in May more
than 10000 tons. Germany bought 1,7O0
tons of scrap steel in January and in
April almost 1000 tons-five times as
much scrap steel in April as in January.
Italy bought 1900 tons in January. and
In April $4,000 tons. He also called at
tention that from March l to August l,
this year, the United States has pur-
chased $4,000, 900 worth Of gold from
Japan, paying $35 an ounce-"more than
Japan could have received anywhere else
for her gold"