The Sunday Express of London carries the following editorial on Jewish growth in Palestine:
Look at Palestine. No crisis there—no unemployment.
In four years the customs receipts are up 300 per cent, the value of imports doubled, the investment capital trebled.
New towns shoot up. Camels and mules give place to motor omnibuses. Nomad Arabs settle down. They have four million pounds in the banks.
The Promised Land is an industrial State. Once more it flows with milk and honey.
But it is a dangerous prosperity. The first Jews came as pilgrims and pioneers to till the soil, to risk and to endure. Now they come as moneymakers and speculators to crowd the cities.
The cities grow, the price of labor goes up. The colonists who are the life-blood of the country desert the soil for the higher wages that the town has to offer.
That is an unhealthy sign.
REVIEWS SITUATION OF JEWS IN POLAND
The Manchester Guardian writes as follows on the position of the Jews in Poland:
The position had gone from bad to worse. Financially ruined by the regime before that of Pilsudski, the Jews had been forced out of the economic life of the country both by the government and by the municipalities. Death was sometimes a welcome escape for those who lived as so many did in Poland. The Jewish youth, seeing no prospect in finding work under existing conditions, had courageously organized themselves into groups for retraining in new occupations. The younger generation must be helped and encouraged to lead a new and active life.
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