Urges Jews to Settle Lands Near Palestine

An exhortation for the Jewish settlement of the countries near Palestine, including Syria, the Transjordan region and Turkey, was made by S. Dyck, former chief of the semi-official Prussian Settlement Association, in an article printed in the Pariser Tageblatt, the newspaper edited by Dr. Georg Bernhard.

Discussing the possibilities of Jewish immigration, Dyck calls for action to aid the refugees, some of whom have already been stranded for nine months in various parts of the world. The writer points out that an organized enterprise for occupational readjustment is possible only for persons who are less than thirty years old. This is especially true, he says, with regard to agriculture. He urges that the important problem of evolving a plan for creating training farms, where prospective emigrants could acquire the necessary practice, should not be neglected.