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Pillage Co-operation Urged by Palestine Committee
Jerusalem.—The replacement of the
existing taxes by an income tax, the
abolition of the animal tax when the
income tax is introduced, the reduction
of th? already commuted tax to seven
and a half per cent and as an emer
gency measure the issuance by the
government of a $500,000 short-term
loan is recommended in the report of
the Palestine Committee to investigate
the economic conditions of agricultur
ists and to suggest fiscal measures that
the government should take relative to
them which was published recently.
The committee, which was appointed
last June by High Commissioner Chan
cellor, consisted of W. J. Johnson, dep
uty treasurer of the Palestine govern
ment, R. E. H. Crosbie, assistant dis
trict commissioner for the Southern
district, five British area officers, the
senior assistant treasurer, J. Gress, and
the junior assistant treasurer, Victor
Levy, the latter two serving as secre
taries to the committee.
Other recommendations are the es
tablishment of government experimen
tal demonstrations on better farming
methods, the creation of village co
operatives, and the temporary prohi
bition on the importation of wheat.
The government now has $175,000
available for small loans, while the
importation of wheat has already been
banned.
The committee’s report emphasizes
the difference in the standard of liv
ing of Arab and Jewish farmers. Paint
ing a gloomy picture of the Aral) cul
tivator’s lot, the committee assumes
that with very rare exceptions every
village provides for its own subsis
tence. The farmer is perhaps habitu
ally short of ready cash, but the com
mittee finds no evidence that cither
he or his family is ever without suffi
cient food.
The Jewish farmer is better equipped
for co-operation in agriculture than is
the Arab farmer, his standard of liv
ing is higher and he enjoys social and
cultural amenities unknown to the
Arabs, but appears to be weighed
down by heavy debts, the committee
reports, although not estimating these
debts.
The committee’s work was done
through a questionnaire in 104 Arab
villages throughout the country, Pal
estinian officers filling in the forms,
while the information as to the Jews
was supplied by the executive of the
Palestine Jewish Colonization Associa
tion, and the organizations of Jewish
farmers, cultivators, landlords, money
lenders, and industrialists assisted.
The cultivable area of Palestine is
estimated at over 12,000,000 dunams by
the committee, which finds that the
rural population has increased 33 per
cent since the 1922 census.
age gross per dunam is ten shillings,
of which the tenant pays the landlord
from a quarter to a half, the net re
turn being almost equal to the rent.
The average annual cost of living of
an Arab family of six varies from $125
to $190, exclusive of about $40 for in
terest on debts averaging about $135
per family. T he average Arab family’s
holding is 56 dunams, the committee
found. An owner cultivator requires
75 dunams, while a tenant needs 130
dunams or else he must supplement
his income by hiring out as a laborer.
The burden of taxation is 19 per cent
on net return and more than 10 per
cent on income from ownership and
the same gross income from agricul
ture. The cost of living, as shown by
six typical Jewish settlements, ranges
from $165 per family of six in Yav-
niel, a PICA colony in Galilee, to $625
in Nahalal, showing the different
standards among Jews. Communial ex
penses, taxes, and rent range from $30
per member in the communial colony
of Beth Alpha to $140 per family of
six in Nahalal, the committee’s report
indicates.
The balance from the gross income
to meet the cost of production is not
always adequate to meet further ex
penditure even without paying Zionist
loans varying from $30 to $4500 per
family repayable in from forty-five to
fifty years, the committee found.
The report quotes Moses Smilansky,
a Jewish agricultural expert, as esti
mating the income from 100 dunams
of mixed farming land as $245, the cost
of living for a family of five being
$230 with the exception of those in the
orange-growing zone, whose net in
come per dunam is $96.
The committee estimates that the
total debt of Arab cultivators is $10,-
000,OIK) and that interest charges arc
a minimum of 30 per cent, hut a fee
of 50 per cent for three months is
usual. The gross income of the Jew
ish farmer is roughly double that of
the Arab farmer on the same holding,
the report says, and his cost of living
is more than double that of the Arab
cultivator. The Jewish farmer also suf
fered from the recent sharp fall in ag
ricultural prices.
The aver-
Refute Hitlerite Charge 80 Per Cent
Chicago Judges are Jews
Chicago.—The recent charge by the
Hitlerite organ in Berlin, the Voel-
kische Beobachter, that 80 per cent
of the judges in Chicago are Jews is
refuted by figures obtained here re
cently which show that only thirteen
of the hundred jurists in all courts
are Jews.
Of the four judges here on the U. S>.
court of appeals bench, one is a Jew.
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trict court of Northern Illinois arc
Jews, and none of the seven judges of
the State supreme court are Jews.
1 hree of the twenty circuit court
judges arc Jews, three of tlie twenty-
eight superior court judges arc Jews,
five of the thirty-six municipal court
judges arc Jews, the probate court
judge is a Jew, and no Jews are county
court judges.
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