Show STATE PALESTINE PAm PAID lARGE J J Budget for Coming Year j Carries With Only Half Million for Purposes of Education JERUSALEM March 3 The The Palestine Pales Pales- t tine me budget for the coming fiscal year cans calls for an expenditure of ot nearly JU u U- U Comment has been caused bythe by bythe the he high salaries paid to English of officials or or- and the relatively small amount allotted to education Two and one-half one million dollars are ara are for or the maintenance of prisons and and public security This however is 18 not surprising in view of the large number numer num nUrn ber er of Indian troops kept there there- whose presence is deemed necessary because of f the hatreds engendered by by- bythe the Balfour Balf Bal Bal- f tour four our declaration Less than half a million mil Inn lion dollars Is appropriated for education education edu- edu tion Lion and half hat of this sum goes to ad administrative administrative administrative ad- ad expense The country would be in a bad way indeed from the tha standpoint o of education were it not for the excellent schools maintained by bythe bythe the the Christian missions and the good work done by the Zionist organization In looking after the education of Jewish Jewish Jew Jew- Jewish ish children The head of the department of education education education edu edu- edu- edu cation draws a salary larger than that of the secretary to the president of t the United States and the salaries of all aU the English officials are correspondingly correspond large The British high commis commis- commissioner commissioner is paid a year and ha hain hasin has hasin in addition an expense allowance of annually These hese nigh high salaries es have created discontent among the the- people In Judging judging Judg judg- judgIng ing the situation It should be remembered remembered remembered that Palestine is a poor country with an area about about- equal to the state of Vermont Until recently all the heads of government departments had their own maintained at A great expense by the government B But Butan t tan an Arabic newspaper in Jerusalem made such an arm outcry ag against this practice practice tice that that- It was speedily dlly diW abolished |