Sees Palestine Good Derived from Tragedy of Germany

“Hadassah in an index of growing Zionist interest,” according to Mrs. Samuel. W. Halprin, young and energetic nationnal president of Hadassah, who quoted from reports on increas in membership, more intensice participation in activities and a more generous support of health work in Palestine.

Said Mrs. Halprin: ” Palestine’s stability in a world of turmoil has made many friends for Zionism in those circles which were indifferent or even antagonistic to Zionism.

“And today the tragedy the tragedy in Germany and the rapid and unbelievable spread of anti-Semitism as a political credo and governmental policy has made Palestine the only hope for the whole gamut of world Jewry.”

She went on to point out the irony of a fate which is driving the most assimilated of the Jews back into the fold. That these German Jews, who repudiated any other nationality but that of the “Fatherland,” should turn in their hour of need toward Palestine, is according to Mrs. halprin, one of the historical phenmena which is bound to bring renewed interest and life to a people.

KNOWLEDGE OF COUNTRY

Mrs. halprin, her husband and children spent a year in Palestine recently. Her family Goes back and forth between bere and palestine as if six rather than 6,000 miles separated the two countries. Her son, Lawrence, is in Palestine now working with the Dead Sea concession.

Mrs. Halprin is not only familiar with Palestine but she is fluent in the language. All the members of her family speak Hebrew fluently. When she estimates the influence of the present German immigration upon Palestine, she knows where of she speaks.

“The German Jews, with their training in social discipline, their organizing ability and their orderly habits of living are already making themselves felt in Palestine,” she says. “The German aliyan (immigation) is bound to force certain revaluations in the social life of Palestine, for instance, as did the large Russian immigration in 1905, when by introducing theidea of self-labor they laid the foundation for the large labor movement in the country.”

WORK FOR ADJUSTMENT

During this concentrated period of immigration she feels that the problem of adjustment is a keen one. Not only is language a stumbling block; but the newcomers who cone from a temperate climate are often easily susceptible to the diseases of the East. Hadassah is working with increased energy to meet the increased needs.

German Jews are making a large contribution toward the solution of health problems in Palestine. There are already thirty-five German Jewish physicians who are connected with the various Hadassah hospitals, clinics and healthcenters.

“Palestine has already profited by having one of the most eminent cancer specialists of Germany,” said Mrs. Halprin. ” He is Prof, Ludwig Halberstadter, formerrly of the Cancer Institute of the University of Berlin, who now heads the new Hadassah Radiology Institute, the first in the Near East. He donated the first quantity of radium ever to be brought to a Palestinian institution. He is also the inventor of an X-Ray machille, known as the irradiation machine, which is the only thing of its kind in existence “Contributions of this sort are being made by German Jews in Palestine, and we hope that when the new Hadassah University Hospital is built, expatriated German scientists and physicians will have at their disposal completo facilities to continue studies and research that will add grory to the name of Palestine.”