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time activities. It is a thrilling
sight to see the youth of Israel,
dressed in the sea uniforms of their
organizations, swing along down
the streets of Tel Aviv or to watch
them man their sailboats in the
harbor or plunge into the water in
their races. You feel that here,
once again, the young Jewish na
tion has found a new avenue of
strength and responsibility, a new
muscle that it must and shall de
velop.
At the core of this stimulus is the
Israel Maritime League, an organi
zation of many thousands of mem
bers in Israel, In England, in South
Africa, and now, for the first time,
in the United States. Under the
sponsorship of the American Fund,
Rise Up and
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Vienna knows, that the subcon
scious cannot be squelched. He
knows the reality of a dream.
At the Basle Congress, he writes
in his diary, “I created a Jewish
state.” If he were to say this pub
licly, he adds, there would be uni
versal laughter, but fifty years
hence, he is sure, all will see it.
Too bad, we say, Herzl did not
live to see the fulfillment of his
vision. But he saw it from the be
ginning, saw it as we have not yet
seen it.
The other day the Palestine Post
can,id an item about some Ameri-
san businessman arriving in Israel
for the purpose of investigating the
possibilities of the refrigerator in
dustry there. Even such a detail
did not escape Herzls sight. Pales
tine was a warm country and Herzl
foresaw Israel becoming a center
of the refrigeration industry.
Herzl saw the possibilities of
utilizing the drop in the Dead
Sea area for creating what we now
call the proposed JVA.
He saw, what I believe none of
the rest of us have yet seen — the
ultimate picture of the old Jeru
salem. Today, the Old City is still
in the hands of the Arabs, but cer
tainly it cannot remain in its pres
ent status either politically or phys
ically. It is an eyesore today. If
the I.M.L. has been launched in the
United States, sponsored by more
that twenty organizations — mostly
youth groups, because it will be the
youth that will conquer the sea
for Israel.
Israel is a small nation, com
paratively speaking, small in size,
small in length and breadth, but it
is a giant of a nation in energy and
determination and with that titanic
strength it can become a great mar
itime nation. A beginning has been
made, a beginning that has tre
mendous possibilities that can be
realized with the assistance of our
friends in the United States and all
over the world.
(Copyright, 1949, J.T.A., Inc.)
Hear Bells
you can imagine the slum of a big
city, and visualize it at the same
time worse by one hundred per
cent, then you have a picture of
the Old City.
Herzl wanted the peddlers and
(he dirt removed, inexpensive
homes erected, handsome public
buildings built to serve the com
munity life established there. It
should be the jewel, wrote Herzl,
of the opulent life of Israel.
Yes, Herzl, truly speaking, did
not need to live to this day. He saw
Israel reborn long ago. The dream
was no dream to him. It was a fact.
Only one thing perhaps Herzl
failed to see — the acclaim of his
people. He died broken-hearted for
that. As they carried his bones to
the final resting place in the hills of
Jerusalem, in the minds of the hun
dreds of thousands there doubtless
ran the thought that Walt Whit
man applied to Lincoln at his
death:
Captain, my captain, Rise up and
hear the bells
Rise up, for you the flag is flung —
for you the bugle trills
For you the bouquets and ribbon’d
wreaths — for you the shores
acrowding
For you they cal — the swaying
mass, their eager faces burn
ing!!
(Copyright, 1949, J.T.A., Inc.)
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“SUITS THE SOUTH’*
Tit for Tat
At the turn of the nineteenth century, Dr. Abraham Jacobi was
one of the leading physicians in America.
He had emigrated from Germany at the time of the great German
influx in the middle half of the 19th century. One day, one of his
“landsmen who liked to save doctor fees, suddenly stopped Dr.
Jacobi on the street and asked him if he would diagnose his trouble.
The man figured that Dr. Jacobi wouldn’t charge him anything for
such a cursory examination.
Dr. Jacobi said. “All right, close your eyes, and stick out your
tongue.”
The man did so — and Dr. Jacobi walked away.
“I wonder,” said the doctor upon reaching home, “if he is still
standing with his tongue stuck out.”
Not So Good
Today in Israel, despite inflation and all the troubles that come
with the birth of a new nation, the situation is still better in many
respects than in the early days of Zionist colonization.
Then, indeed, it was a desert land with almost none of the con
veniences of modern civilization. The story is told of a good Jewish
lady who went to settle in Palestine. Later, her son visited her.
“Well, how do you like it here?” her son asked.
“I’ll tell you,’’ she said, “if I had known I would live so long, I
would have stayed longer in America.”
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