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Show i .A IX) REIGN NEWS, SOCIETY DESERET EVENING NEWS. , NEWS MUSIC, T1IE DRAMA. AND LITERATURE PalestineAaintobeLandofMilkaodHoney British Aid to Restore Fertility of the of Modern Farming Methods The Natives Now Cultivate as in the Days of Moses immense Changes Will Come When Irrigation Is Widely Introduced The Important Olive Industry Is Taxed to Death by the Turks A Forest Reserve Has Been Already Created, and a Campaign of Agricultural Education Has' Been Started Among the Peasants Who Are Taught the Virtues of Deep Plowing and Rotation of Crops $2QQf)0Q For Farm Loans For Cultivators Shortage of Animals and Machinery , Soil-Introd- uction PALESrTXE FELLAH BLOtTIXa PALESTINE FELLAHIX. OR PEASANTS, HARVE8TIXG BY HAND. PALESTiSe THRESHING FLOOR; TREADING OCT TOE GRAIN' WITH OXEN stumps are now producing new shoots and steps , tobacco, which is consumed by a Turkish monopoly by uainj thl plow ara as poor as th instrumsot t becomes available, however, they are to be attendare being taken to protect the shoots from goats unin Palestine. (Hashish is th only other prohibited itself, la tha neighborhood of th Jewish colonies, e ERUSALEM, Sept 2X One ed. They are still in the experimental stage, for tha til such time ss the new trees have established however, a more modern plow is used, the Arabs most important task which crop in Palestine.) The formation of local agricultural socities is urged and has In many casla been being quick to taka up auch modern Implement as the British hare undertaken in work of afforestation in Palestine is one of themselves. ' the items in . HILLS BARE ar made available to them. " At present, a Khali -, for . largest any program agricultural effected. Palestine administration of their the The debeen almost has modern plow to ba pulled by one horse and a country." country is the awakening of Palestine's Side by side with this campaign of education, larger Apart,from the Carmel and Hebron forests, the nuded of aftrees and the for use with a team ia badly needed in Palwar, during intelligent plow . hills of Palestine are bare. As soon as practicable, the 0. E. T. A. authorities have launched a. big population to the industrial posestine. A small French plow, manufactured by La sibilities of the country.' If the forestation has never before been attempted here. scheme of farm loans. The Turks had a farm however, fbreete are to be established and mainAs an experimental center, a large forest reM si son V eraette da Near East can be shaken out of its traditional , Beziers, haa bean introduced , tained on the hills around the nurseries. These bank In Palestine, but when they evacuated, they serve has been established in the of Beit and waa In uaa before th war to soma extend, and vicinity nurseries are to serve not only for the propegadon lethargy, it is possible that British administration removed not only Its records, but its cash balances, which includes the monastery of Beit will duplicate in Palestine tha miracles it has of timber trees, but also of fruit trees, such as and tha British have had to start all over again in . a larger plow for breaking hew ground, which waa on Rud-Sac- k the north and runs southward into Hebron . -of Leipzig,- - Th faw binders, worked in Egypt The same possibilities are presolive trees, almond trees, vines and other plants - this respect. The sura of $2,500,000 has been set made by horse mowers, raspers, which ent in Mesopotamia which, under British rule, bids province. In the past, the hills here hare been cov- - suitable for the hills. rakes, etc, have ban 4 . , . aside to be disbursed through the fair to become a tropical Canada.. Bagdad may.ered with Kermes oakbut practically all of them to native farmers whose applica- -' introduced, have been of the "Planet make mam- bank in Palestine, remains be to with done the Jordan's Something wer felJed durin tha nd a ragged flood-befactored by 8. Allen and Company of Philadelphia., again take its place as one of the world's industrial second tion for money to develop their land hae received d which now is covered with a dense growth with a few made by Maisey Harris of Canada. Fer , growth is springing up from the stumps. . centers. $ local military governor. . These Acorns have been sown in the soil pockets' and 200 of tamarix,' This grows large enough to enable it the approval of the threshing machines and steam plows, Palestine ia a The chief poksibSilties of Palestine are agrione to three years and loans In are from to be la used timber no in value but for payable fuel, thepe seeds have also been planted in pots, the results to virgin field. At present, there are none hero. Tha cultural. it. It is possible ' thatSreas of poplars and the bear interest at th rate of 6 Hi per cent The auBritish authorities, however, look with favor on tholr At present, of the 16,803,400 dunams of land govern .future methods in afforestation with this larger variety of tamarix known as tamarix ardcu-lat- a thorities have been flooded with applications for introduction, tree. especially along the. coastal- plain, (5,835 square miles) which make up Palestine is loans of money, as well es for animals. There may be put in. It should be remembered that the expense of where they could be purchased by villages or by i proper 5,948,700 dunams, (2,065 square miles) are ; of animals and a farm machinery great shortage . Considerable numbers of eacalyptua have been clearing land for afforestation in Palestine is prosome of the more , families t arable. Large irrigation works in the Jordan valwhich important ophibitive. If the surface of a steep slope is cleared set out at Beersheba, and arrangements have been . throughout Palestine, and much of th agricultural rate large estates. ley would materially increase this area, but jt is of the country must waif on th shortpossibilities to seed the dunes coast made with sand the of stone, the soil is washed away while the trees along . now. too early to describe the extent of the works It la hoped soon to have a mode! farm running, age being' made good. "As much as is possible Is , are still young, and if the slope is sufficiently gentle . Australian wattle. . surNo reclaim. which will serve aa an example of Lie methods which or would area the necessary they Over 800 being done to relieve the shortage. to hold the soil and the surface can be cleared of The next greatest task in the revival of agthe British are tiring to introduce hare. For this - m 1 vey has yet been made and so large is the scheme and have been animals and sold, army army engines ' , atone ia plots, the ' land can be riculture in Palestine is the education of the fellahin, purpose the former German colony of Wilhahna, necessary to make the upper reaches of the Jordan let out ' to owner of irrigation are being pumps used more advantageously for the cultivation of or peasantry, of the country. This is being effected near Ludd, may be taken over. This 1 mhlnee aa valley arable and healthful that the survey, when in the famous orange groves or other crops than for timber growing.-Ilenc- e by the holding of meeting at the various towns rights, particularly different kinda 'of soil aa the authorities ana - .. begun, will require a couple of years for.its complex grain icy ort many Jaffa.around 7 hs to re- andf villages. Frequently ihose meetings are held in afforestation-wtion. It will be commenced doubtless. as soon as hope to combine in one piece of land. Here fruits, WAITING FOR PEACE. the Peace Conference has assigned a permanent .Jtrict. R1 Plantin8 of timber trees to the slopes unde trees in the open air and are attended by large ; cereals, silkworms, baas and ! poultry are to be raised. where the rock is not sufficiently regular to permit crowds of farmers of all ranks in Arab life, from the ' - : The next most important work now under way authority to administer Palestine. of terraces being made, and to places where the sheiks down. ' At these meetings, an effort is made Much of the shortage of implements cannot be i( being done Of the 5,948,700 dunams or arable land in Palesby the veterinary man of the O. E. T. . tine 3,607,032 dunams (1,252 square miles) are now work of preparing the land for other crops will in ' to discover the local needs and to put the farmers made good," however, until peace restores, trading A. A quarantine ia being maintained on all' ani- -. all probability not be done for some time yet in tonth with agents and firms who can supply their to its norms! planes, t present, the fellahin plow under cultivation. Approximately 200 square miles mala coming into Palestine from and from Measures are also to be taken to revive the wants. The necessity of aerating the soil by deeper as they have plowed for centuries. They employ a east of the Jordan, in an effort to Egypd the of this area is being cultivated by the modern ' preserve ftif methods of the Jewish colonists. The remainder is forests in the Mount Carmel area, back of Haifa. plowing and of better rotation of crops than the small primitive plow which merely scratches th suranimals which are left in the country. Veterinary home-made The oaks which composed these forests are of a Arab knows, is urged at these meetings. The natives face of the soil. If is a instrument and infirmaries are being established at .all the 1 under Arab cultivation." big cm-titan the Hermes are quick to attend these meetings and to voice consists of a tree branch, shaped with handles and tera, and complete was the decay of agriculture in . species which grows much larger horses cattle, mules, donkeys, and of their principal wants being the pointed.withlron. It is a poor affalr which any -- are .being treated. Palestine under Turkish administration that iot, . oak of the, Hebron forests and the timber is quite - their want,-on. . 2 he-crops obtained to that of the Kermea oak. The removal of th present ban on" the cultivation of donkey or ox can easily pyfa. inequality even this amount 6f land, could be said, to be unde: '"equal 1 An feature ' 1 thi of Interesting Work I . agricultural f cultivation were it not for the hardihood of the of the British so far' has been' the planned intro- trees. olive is truly the king of olive tree.. The It dqction of the ncttle jnto Palestine aa a substitute endures neglect.andimproper treatment for years . cotton.' The ordinary European nettle is used, ijr without permanent harm. Due to the f three-fol- d nd if the plant are close together so ; that, they; , r taxation which tha Turks placed on olive orchards , re forced to grow long stems, it haa been, found - ? taxis the olive inthe land, tree and produce-tith- e hat they yield an excellent fibre white and strong. 1 dustry in Palestine is now thoroughly decadent. Even Either freshly cut or dried 'nettles may be used in its present condition, however, the average yield to the obtain In fibre.. the Jattar soft'International Economic DUTerenwi Difficult to Solve Germany Will they are and Rosie Boole, Marquis's and Barepets Wife Respeo- Lily Langtry 22,000 tons of oil more than half of Tef'yearis : by being soaked in .'water for two. boon and J . Profit From ' Allied Trade Jealousies and Quarrels. Other at Hot Weather Performance. , Each Surely -T of" which goes into the manufacture soap for are then' broken by being, pounded. According to . local consumption. . and dramatic, haa scarcely been so the procedure in Germany, where nettles were used the outside observer th change seems (Special Correspondence.) (Special Correspondence.) " , ONDON, Sept 22. Germany is I lamentably slow, and countries which Sept. 22. According to successful. To ba aura, at a somepNDON, TAXATION REFORM. largely as war substitute, the rind of the stem unwer sre what wife she became the late formerly period " large see l"ev-to custom. if the exporters pre-wWatching anxiously . ordinary which Juts swollen and loosened in .the poaking, ia : Of a baronet. to meet their home- demands. hut this marriage The British authorities have tackled the task - even Allies will, win the peace as ef- able erybody" has gone out of town. brought her no special social prestige . . then taken off. ..The soaking also reduces the danger of achieving an agricultural renaissance In rales-tin- e fectively as they have won the But In the case of Belgium the posiIn spite of this fact when I and few of the delights of harmonious of the fibres powdering and makes the plant yield or ie tion De more Sir. still the Bel" war. Intricate." for Bathe, Hugo of revenue ac- It by International economic difwent lo witness the first performance domesticity. by establishing a as ha ia generaiy known, did at once a spinnable fibre. If this is boiled in soapy ferences, differences which every day gian manufacturer finds himself faced V of a quite unimportant and insignifi- "Sugar counts and agriculture in the finance department . become more marked and difficult to with a devastated country and in any manner or means- an water for from one to three hours more, it can be cant play at tha Ambassadors' The- not prove by to tha hearth-stonI of the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration solve, ewing to the neglect and apa- many instances with ruined factoratre the other night I aaw numerous ornament of - worked up to a degree of fineness resembling silk. wall known people, who seemed not doubt very much if tha menage thy of responsible officials., a better ies, and the Belgian consumer, who (south) through which the British army' is admincounThe Langtry and "BiigMr" lasted understanding between the , Allies, is in no better position than his in the least worried about being obv The further process of manufacture is'timl-l- a honeyistering the country for the time being. A start which is one of the best legacies left terpart in other countries, hae to sufserved in London during the "Dead longer than the conventional to that of flax and hemp. The yield is comat the the hands and "we mooning period. At any rate "The pf may fer, was made by the army itself during the war in the by the war, will fade away, profiteer ..season, return to th pre-wenough yet. v Th Marchioness of Headfort with Lily is quite handsome daya of petty in- to pay high priced brought about by paratively small, however, so that nettle cultivation establishment of large vegetable gardens, first at ternational Jealousies and odd years, was In spite of her three-scowastage of over four years of , her tall smart looking husband quarrels. , the to afford pleasant ornamentation to a is more expensive than that of flax," hemp or cotIt must be oiearty understood that war and the inflation of the currency. Khan Yunis in 1917, and later at Gata in January, while In box. a seated opposite ' and everybody ton. Jn Germany during the war, waste products many of these economic difficulties But will the entry of German goods InDe Bathe who la perhaps better theatrical 1918. A scheme was also drawn up by the army ' Lady are quite unavoidable in the present in Belgium clear away her economic Rosie," the secured known to all of os at Mrs. Langtry. waa chattering about during the process of extracting the fibre-werof and the baronet's to the the troubles toward and reduce marchioness, "Lily, armys supply condition of affairs. For over four any approduction looking prices , It seemed an odd Juxtaposition of persaS opposite each other also used, th stalks for fodder, the seeds and extent? Germanys domestie sonalities. In her day Lady Head-fo- wife, ss they of grain and forage locally, but the war ended so years the principal manufacturing preciable bad play on a leaves for countries of the world have devoted need is urgent add insistent and she is his was almost as well know as that watching a ridiculously medicine, and tfis leaves and young ahootk - theatre that it all their financial abruptly and so "Completely In-tpower and Industrial compelled to pay high prices for what Star of another decade The Jersey hot svening. ' for salad. . la an Headfort the she Lady commodities has been to of way by It the Boots Rosie as that material was requires. strength production waa never put into effect. It L(ly. , inveterate smoker. She waa on of frotn should a commercial which that tha dawned suggested supply first upon Germany standpoint Headfort Lady It should be added that the cultivation of th 'The work being done at present by O. E. T. A. may - be said to be practically worth- to Belgium certain articles st fixed first Women in English society to British public at the" Gaiety Theatre. tha nettle as a substitute for cotton is not entirely new. and then leave her box or stall between the (the used tq. he a show-gir- l, through the two bureaus in its finance department' less. Again, the carrying power of the prices over certain periods. The diffi - on day she had tha opportunity of acts and repair to the foyer to Indulge world's mercantile marine has been culty of fixing prices, agreeing upon is of more permanent nature. . Large nettles were cultivated in Norway for spinreduced by .the submarine standards of quality, and many other English for Mies in an entr'acte cigarette. enormously appearing as under-stud- y smoke a good deal more than ning purposes as far back as the Middle Ages. Even so that raw materials," the minor points, ie apparent at the out tits greatest work is an afforestation scheme, in campaign, Gortio Millar and she sang that once women if In my experience, 1 have of industrial recon- - net. And on the quite reasonable asfamous ditty "Keep Off The Grass Americans the name of the plant seems to have some connectimber trees and 90,000 fruit foundation-ston- e which already-100,00never a known ; or obrestaurant hotel tion with the word are in very short supply at sumption that Germany could not success she became that each traction, with London where smoking was forbid- "pet."- In Scotland," too, the trees have been set Out. This is intended to utilise the manufacturing centres And even tain the rtw material, Belgium would the talk of tha town. - Then, quite in den to women as It Is still In more nettle was used for spinning and emraa recently the necessity of where lt has been possible' to obtain find herself under .of tha she married, tbs vast areas of rocky hillsides between, the coastMarquis .suddenly, -supplying It. And again- - assuming Headfort. and si nos that time nothing, than one place In New York for Inas a century ago there was a large sale in Scotland al plain and th Jordan valley, that the Belgian workman was content or nobody, haa baen too good for her. stance One of the most Inveterate of cloth made of nettle flax. Botanical investSgm- - ' Bha is received In the most severely smokers is Princess Victoria, tha large that raw material should go to Gere fj sheer rock, but pockets of soil are being utilized been arriving In England in transking older sister. Tears ago before the question of Inland many to help manufacturers there, sacred circles, is known to. and tmni have shown that in Iceland the nettle did not for the planting of adapted trees. Eucalyptus, oak, quantities, it was considered "the thing for woport haa up to the present proved a would A be wise to assist German facby, our own very vlrtuoua men to Princes smoke. originally grow wild, but was introduced by the Australian wattle, ca rob, Alappo pine, cypress and most difficult one and manufacturers tories and workers to become expert "If "Vicky" .Queen, Mary, and ia altogether and the cultivation "of nettle flax there have hot been able to satiety their own prod ucers ? She has done the right smoked the strongest kind of Russian Normans, socially. cassia are being used mainly. Nursery gardens The suggestion has a touch of the Moreover, the posithing" all round, for she haa provided cigarettes that were specially provided requirements. flax." have been established at Gaza, Beersheba, Haifa more difficult s orient system of barter in it, a methan heir and, a second son to the Mar for her by that tragic personage the was more genertj than that of ordinary tion Is , ly This, however, is believed to- - be the first sadVleo a daughter who .will 11 Czar of ail the Russias, because manufacturing countries are od which eventually gsre way to the quisate, and in the yard of the Syrian orphanage atf means on al probably make a great marriage" to introduce the nettle into a passing through a transition period. muCh better f though ' the German institution known as Dr. The court haring removed itaelf to of these daya , That la to say, factories are being con. perfect) system of international exThe litter These-arTOTIlHry: Now her via- - Via, Lady D JJathJ. Scotland, the end of WrSrJfhrng" haa tichneflere orphanage. at present verted as rapidly aa possible from change on a gold bast wse material to the practically eliminates ail doubts and who is of bourse nearly aid enough undoubtedly come to Those of ua who CLAIR PRIC3. srhaliTyrsrie and are to be her mother though her career production of those articles of which Gaza in Kew at Edward with the great nurseries it an page two.) London, has been perhaps, more aidventaroua . (pontinued .(Copyright, .1919, by Marshall), (Continued on page two.) the world Is in the greatest reed. Te near Cairo, or at Alexandria. '(Special Correspondence.) As fast as money of-th- ' Anglo-Egyptian Pent - - ! . - " -- the-pol- , , . '.So p -T- Sources of Friction That May Cause Misunderstanding PairofFamousActresses 1 I ;Who Married Into Society ' ea, ni 1 ' L sub-divisi- ar . -- e. , ar re -- . box-part- y, e u rt I 0 -- -- being-render- Jerusa-rnvfomer- bv-.t- u semi-tropic- -- -- . |
