Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1919 — JEWS MAKE GOOD FARMERS [ARTICLE]

JEWS MAKE GOOD FARMERS

The British Army Found Palestine Dotted With Fertile Fields and Prosperous Communltlea. When the Anglo-Egyptian army, which Invaded the Holy Land under General Allenby, reached the territory lying between Jerusalem and the Mediterranean, it made a discovery which proved both George Bernard Shaw and Israel Zangwlll to be in error. Shaw hnd stated, In opposing the Zionist scheme, that the Jews had. since Old Testament days, been townspeople, merchants and artisans, and could not be made to go back to the fields. Zangwlll had placed his hope on a future-Zion to be organized and colonized after the war. The soldiers of Allenby found thousands of acres cultivated by immigrant Jews dwelling in a dozen or so communities similar to the townships of New England. Moreover, these communities, in spite of the drastic measures of the Turkish government elsewhere taken In regard to the requisitioning of produce and taxation, were found to be in a thriving and prosperous condition and far superior, as to scientific cultivation and housing, to the Arab farmers or those of the Turkish crown lands in thd plain of Sharon.