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Show PALESTINE HELD j LAND OF PLENTY Founder of Zion Commonwealth Common-wealth Tdls of Possibilities in New Homeland RY It Mill R I VPORTE Written i"i International Newsservice i LONDON Aug. 2 1 --"Palestine Is B tho southern California of the east I What lifts Angeles. San Diego and the I Imperial valley art to the Pai If:.-. J Jerusalem. Haifa and the Dead .. I are to the Mediterranean The only I dlfferenCs between th.. two Is a deference de-ference of two or three hundred mil-lien mil-lien dollars When we have put into Palestine the amount or money spent. g upon the marvelous roads of south-, ft im Californls, upon the mansions of ": Pasadena and the orange giovs of I the Redl.inds, von will' have almost "i ar exact duplicate of our American I southland. Arid Palestine has more water than the section around Los An- : grles. Southern California is ,i man- p. made country. The new Jewish COm-jl monweslth vvlll have to be inafle tho S; Kimc way with large Investments and & enormous energy." This is what Bernard Rosenblatt, of N'rw York, founder of the American E Zion Commonwealth, thinks of the L I ossl bill ties in the new Jewish home- la nil Me has Ju3t left the Interna- & tlonal Zionist conference in London to go to the. east to purchase so vera; hundred thousand acres of land In I Palestine, With him go many mem- - hers of the conference, including sev- I eral American:", who will not return L to the countries from .vhlch they R Came, but go to Join the pioneering I colonies In the Holy Iand. No absentee landlordism or speru- lnllon in land; model villages plan i .1 vdh an eye to hPfttlty and ;oi ninrcnou 5 with all social values retained by the fit whole community are alms of the new I settlerv who promise l show tangi- r ble res. lis In two years The commonwealth, which Is only L' one agency for Palestine development f. has already collected, previous to th r big campaign which is being planned rj for the near future, two and S halfi million dollars, for the purchase of lands, which art being acQlllred at a cost of from twenty-five to thirty dollars dol-lars an acre. "Purchasers of land through the commonwealth buy only suifacc values," val-ues," says Mr. Rosenblatt. ' furge contiguous areas sufficient to settle an entire colony are purchased and 10 per cent of the total is set apart foi a village. This 10 per cent remains forever the Inalienable property of the wi.oie community, it may be leased fo- homes, businesses, schools, etc but It can never be purchased. Smo these are the lands which are lik iy to acquire enormous values through j no Industry on the part of thepwner we shall prevent the making of fortunes for-tunes through land speculations Th. i e Iwlll bo no Marshall Fields In Palestine. Pales-tine. ! "The lands which are purchased may be uwd for agricultural purpose j solely. If oil is discovered, ;is it ' doubtless will be, all tho members of tho community will profit, not merely the person on whose land it Is found "Since lroids arc purchased under tv,esc stipulations, business being eon-ducted eon-ducted in communal lands only, it Is i possible for us to plan our villages Patrick Geddes, of the University of IFdlnburg, who is probably the greatest 'city planner in the world, is helping to design these villages." oo I LONDON, Aug. 21. Rar silver, money and discount rates, unchanged. |