It
CANADIAN JEWISH
How the Jewish People
Appreciate
LONG DISTANCE!
The Jewish Clothing Merchants and Motion Picture Theatres are two very large users of Long Distance. In no other industries is the value of Long Distance service more appreciated.
Only by Long Distance can you state a proposition to a customer in a distant city and immediately get an answer. If any of the details are not satisfactory, only by Long Distance can they be immediately adjusted. When you hang up the receiver the transaction is completed�and your customer well pleased.
Long Distance service is being- speeded up. In many localities the Long Distance operator is now able to make the desired connection while
you hold the line.
W. J. Cairni, Manager
The Bell Telephone Company of Canada
Felix Warburg Reports
{Continued from page 9) being impressed by the common sense and the healthful, frugal frame of mind that pervades it.
''Many of the people have gone through the painful school of experience, having started their homes in malarial neighbour hoods. Of the hrst 1.000 settlers in Hedira, 200 died before they
had learned how to fight malaria. Sanitation has rid the neighborhood of this peril now, and when I was there I saw as healthy and sturdy a lot of men and women as one can see anywhere. They are plain living and they carry on sensible discussions in the Community House. They go in for reading and they all believe in
the value of early to bed and early to rise.
"Their lot has been improved by the acquisition of an expert knowledge of farming. They make no attempt at luxury, some of the men even living without comforts.
"Good roads are a luxury. However, the roads have been left for the Government to build. This question of what England should do for Palestine is being freely and amicably discussed to-day.
"I heard a man high in newspaper circles declare that England has poured money into Palestine. I was amazed that in well-informed circles such a misconception should exist. Palestine pays its taxes, and I am inclined to think that last year there was a slight surplus over the expenditures. A four million pound bond issue has been approved by Parliament for a harbour in Haifa, but this will be an expenditure in which the British Army and Navy are interested in seeing completed. It is not solely local in its purpose.
"It is natural that the population hopes for certain improvements such as the opening of new territory by roads. They feel this might be a governmental task, for it will bring in more taxable property by the development.
"It has also been said that the work of the Zionist organization in attending to the reception and hospitalization of immigrants is a work which properly belongs to the surveyor of the port, just as it does in the United States and most other countries. Were this work taken over, the amounts released to the Zionists could be turned into other projects and the work could pro-ceed more quickly to what should be the main purpose�farms and encouraging farmers and such industries as bear directly on farm life, such as the preserving of farm products and perhaps
the manufacturing of such glass as is "heeded for this.
"The people with whom I discussed the industries of Palestine feel that many small plants should be encouraged by the Zionist organization or by outside credit assistance; whether by regular banking credit or by money from the United States, is a matter of detail.
"For how large a population and what number of immigrant? this combined budget should provide is a serious problem. The extravagant figures as to hov many immigrants could be admitted to Palestine need revision Palestine has not reached the stage where it can digest non selective immigrants. Since my last visit, an outburst of enthusiasm has caused a large number of people to arrive and attempt to settle with the industries there or on their own responsibility, and I am afraid they have not been successful.
"To-day there are about 7,000 unemployed in Palestine, and it will take the execution of some of the larger constructive plants, such as the development of the harbor and hydro-electric plants, to absorb an appreciable number of them. It will also require self-sacrifice in some of the stronger colonies where the unemployed must be absorbed before the problem is settled.
"From what I learned and from the response the committee made to my suggestions, I am confident the Keishan River regulations will be proceeded with promptly. This is a public health matter dealing with the fight against malarial fever. Thai wonderful and powerful indu>-trial giant, Rutenberg, will no doubt proceed promptly with the erection of a hydro-electric station near Tiberius. The-e enterprises will no doubt ghe occupation to a large number cf Jews and Arabs.
"I was glad, too, to learn from the heads of the labour organizations that while efforts to est a -
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