Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-06 | Page 5 | Palestine Task Described by Visitor

PAlESTINE TASK DESCRIBED BY VISIT VISITOR A Member of Foundation Asks Salt Lake to Raise Quota of The Palestine foundation fund und committee which was organized for or forthe forthe orthe the purpose of or reclaiming Palestine as a n. home for or the Jews 0 of ithe the world has collected and expended expended In the past eighteen months In the country That was the declaration 0 of Oscar Leonard pr president of ot the Mutual Finance and Realty company of St. St Louis and a member ot of the Palestine Palestine Palestine Pales Pales- tine foundation committee upon his arrival here to urge local members of ot the Jewish organizations to re respond respond respond re- re spond with the quota set by I the foundation as Salt Lakes Lake's contribution contribution con con- to help in the movement to reclaim Palestine More than of ot the money mon mon- ey collected and expended in Palestine Palestine Pales Pales- tine has been contributed by Jews outside of ot America Mr Leonard said Eaid in discussing the tremendous movement to reclaim the Holy Land He added that five fifty agricultural agricultural tural colonies had been established In tho the Holy Land over an area of ot acres 0 of land four agricultural agricultural tural experiment stations Had llad been completed trees had been planted for timber and decorations and that saplings had been raised by the thousands In the nurseries I The Jewish people through Its national fund owns owna almost I 0 of land as against in I 1920 he said Tho The Keren Karen KarI Kay Kay- I or Palestine foundation has placed at the disposal of the Palestine Palestine Pales Pales- tine government for the Je Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusalem Je- Je drainage work In the the- matter of education we maintain three fifty kindergartens kindergarten's sixty five boarding schools twelve secondary schools and teachers' teachers colleges colleges colleges col col- col- col leges seven apprentice workshops which serve e fifteen thousand pupils Health and sanitation n has been an important work In Palestine The first training school for nurses was established by the Jewish women women's organization the tho Haddassah and mci I J Iam Jam am glad to say Salt Lake Lale has haH a branch In its hospitals and clinics cliniC i treatments are given to everybody irrespective of creed color or rR rae race e and during the past year jn- jn were treated in the hospitals in th the clinics in ti the homes and In the laboratory In speaking before the Haddassah tho the Jewish women's organization ion here this at the tho Hot Hotel Utah Mr 1 Leonard said that th the Jewish womanhood of ot America has helped in Red ned Cross work i It has helped the tile women R and arul nd children of France Belgium Serbia and Poland in spite of t ih the hp fact that Poland made more JEwl Jewish Jewah h women and children suffer than any other country in the world he said Mr Leonard stated today that former former for for- mer Governor Simon Bamberger er has been appointed chairman of the committee on the tho Palestine foundation foundation tion fund in hi Salt Lake and that Lou Marcus 0 of the Lasky Film corporation corporation corpora corpora- tion had been appointed vice chair chair- man