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WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY, 12th. 1919
PREPARING THE JEWISH STATE
(From "The Independent".)
Announcement h.is been made that a commission composed of repre
sentative American. British and Russian Jews will leave for Palestine in a
.short time to plan the foundations of the new Jewish state in the old home
lead of the rare, in accordance with the promise of the British Government,
i tched 1 • v its allies. Jewish re-establishment in Palestine, after a lapse of
JhOO years, is perhaps the most dramatic event "f the world war.
For th< pa>t Vw : oaths, the Jews of the I'nited States have been rais
ing a gloat fund for the restoration of the forty-eight agricultural colonics in
Palestine, which have been blighted"b\ the war. and for the groundwork nec
essary foe the inauguration of .1 Jewish administration. The first million
dollars of the fund, for immediate net ds in Palestine, is now about completed.
Pontributions have been received from nearly 300 cities in forty-two states.
They represent over 150,000 individual donations.
The new Jewish state will be situated in a strategic position at the
junction of three continents, Europe Asia and Africa. It is expected to be a
gloat factor for peace and stability in the Near East. The Zionist leaders
purpose to make it not only a center for the development of Hebrew religion,
and culture, and a refuge from oppr : sion. but a model state developed on the
most practical co-ope; ative lines, a home for freedom, democracy and social
justice. The new Zion, according to the deliberately laid plans, will be es
sentially a country for the people.
THE DISCOVERER OF FRESH AIR
New York recently celebrated a new kind of festival—it devoted, under
the supervision of the Board of Health, an entire week to the modern fetish
o: fresh air, says a writer in the World’s Work. “Open-Window Week,” the
sanitarians called it: and the ceremonies included, besides seven days’ sleep
ing with open windows, walks a I fre: co, and a study of certain air-borne dis
eases, such as pneumonia and bronchitis, and the destructive effects of that
g'catest of cures, fresh air.
We regard this enthusiasm for oxygen as a modern discovery. Cer
tainly we have evidences enough that our ancestors, even the comparatively
recent ones, lived a hermetically scal- d life. In certain backward parts of the
country, "night air” is still supcrstitously regarded as the cause of malaria
; nd other diseases. But there was one famous American of the eighteenth
century who was not led astray by these absurdities. The more we learn of
Pen Franklin, the more we learn tha: he was one of ourselves. No man’s life
was more misplaced in the matter ( f time. He belonged to the era of sky
scrapers, electric trains, telephones, and microbes. Hero, for example, is a
Utter he wrote in 1773—a letter th; t the New York Board of Health might
appropriately have used ns educational matter in its recent campaign for
fresh air:
The gentry of England are remarkably afraid of moisture and of air:
but seamen, who live in perpetually moist air, are always healthy if they
have good provisions.I have long thought that mere moist air has no
ill effect on the constitution. But v. e abound in absurdity and inconsistency.
Thus, though it is generally agreed that taking the air is a good thing, yet
nhat caution against air! what sto ping of crevices! what wrapping up in
warm clothes, what shutting of do .rs and windows, even in the midst of
summer! Many London families ,0 out onte a day to take the air, three
or- four persons in a coach, one jierh ips sick; these go throe or four miles, or
as many turns in Hyde Park, with the glasses both up close, all breathing,
over and over again, the same air t y brought out of town with them in the
coach, with the least change possii io and rendered worse and worse every
moment: and this they call, “hiking he air!” From many years’ observation
,}n myself and others, 1 am persuad d wo are on a wrong scent iq supposing
moist or cold air is the cause of 1 it disorder we call a “cold”. Some un
known quantity in the air may sometimes produce cold, as in the “influenza”,
but generally, I apprehend, they are the effects of too full living In proportion
to oar exercise.
PROHIBITION COSTLY IN BRITAIN
(From the Literary Digest.)
Owing to the doctrine of vested interests l>y which an established
tradesman can not he legally deprived of his means of livelihood with out re
ceiving the equity of his business in cash, state purchase is held to be tlv
only way of securing prohibition in England. The London Daily Now
“The Commission, presided over by Lord Summer, which was appoints
t - consider what should be the terms if State purchase of the liquor trade wer
adopted in England, have reported.
‘Their business was to consider how control of the trade could be con
tinued after the war, and the terms of purchase.
It is understood that they find that not loss than $1,750,000,000 woulc
to required to purchase the brewery and saloon interests in England an'
Wales. This is presumed to include the supply of malt got by the brewer!- *
from tile malsters. It does not include spirits; but altho there arc very fen
distilleries In England, there is something like 150,000,000 gallons of whisk\
in this country to deal with, which would he a complicated matter.”
BELFAST STRIKERS AGREE TO VOTE ON QUESTION OF SETTLEMENT
Special to The Nome Nugget by The Associated Press
BELFAST, Feb. 11—Prospects of a settlement of the great shipworkcr
strike here were enhanced today by the decision of the strikers to take a bal
lot on the question of settling the strike.
Heretofore the strikers have resisted all efforts to induce them to vot
on a settlement, and their change of view is reviving the hope that 1h
trouble will soon he settled.
The city has resumed its usual activities and the situation is quiet
The strikers are expected to vote on the proposal to settle the strike immed
lately.
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