Show Marion y Visits SD Comments by several sc English students hearing the lecture and seeing the slides presented on Thursday March Match 16 16 follow By TED HEMSLEY Dr DI Marion 1 assistant assistant assis assis- tant superintendent of the Salt Sail Lake City schools school came carne to Mrs Irs Heywood's Heywoods literature class and ga e gave a slide lecture on the Jew Arab problem He started started start start- ed cd his lecture h b by saying that Old Palestine as it was once called is now called Israel Israel and Egypt together are called Syri Syria The people of E Egypt speak the Arabic lan language language langu langu- u- u age nrc while the people of Israel Israeli speak the Jewish language I Most 1 of the D ople in this are of the Hie Jewish religion ion but some are Moslem faith laith The main point Dr l wanted to point out is that hat Arab rab does not have ha anything g at all nil to do u with religion just justas as ns American A goo good d number of oC the people of Bethlehem Bethlehem Bethle Bethle- hem m arc Ire Christians Christian He Ile feels that the book which our groups have re been reading should never ne have ha been written The book Is too sided one-sided and makes the reader fool e th that f all the Arabs are people without a good side and the Jews lets are nrc ar e perfect Of course no one type e of or people arc are perfect and there arc are bad Jews and there are arc ba bad d There was a war var between the Jews and the Arabs and the United Nations drew a line dividing divi i ding Jordan and Israel The Jewish part of ol the th-e land is fertile and good land upon which to produce food while the Arab part is mountainous and rock rocky and so poor that the they have a hard time raising enough food to live U on After Alter hearing both sides of oC the makes Ifs is user er very happy to think that we live Ii in a country where all an this fighting is not going on and where we weare weare weale are ale free from all these hardships hardships hard hard- ships and arc not hungry By Br PATTI DARLEY BARLEY There are two million people in Palestine and most of them arc Arabs who could be Moslems Mos Mos- lems Christians or Jews The Arab people originally lived li where Arab language was used In Bethlehem there are 4 people Between Jordan and Israel a boundary was made bya by a brick wall If IC you ou would wan want t to see sec the Old Hal Holy y Lands you vo u would have c to go to Jordan There are crops of ol squash grapes watermelon o olives oes es bananas ba ba- nanas and tropical fruits Mcd red aba aha is the old city where Rut Ruth h lived Jived Half Hall of ol ahe people livin living g I there have red hair resulting g from the marriages between lh the e dark Arabs and the Crusaders At the time of ol Christs Christ's death people were forced to join th the e Christian Church hurch and were forced lore fore ed to be baptized After baptism baptis n 1 they had their heads cut off and an d their bodies were thrown over ove r the wall so they would go bac back k rk to heaven Bay Ruth has has- beautiful colleges col col- leges and sports program The They y I trade right on the streets All AU Al 1 i their buildings were built bunt right t on the mountains There are ar arstill e still old ruins left from cities citie S before the time of oC Christ Chris t Many had beautifully designed designe d buildings and tiled floors I believe Ive I've got a prett pretty y good picture of ol what's going o on n in the Arab rab world and other places To me it is a problem which I hope will be solved noon coon oon If anI only thins things couldn't happen to people as it did to them Item Im I'm sure those p op c are re just as ns good as we are arc and maybe mabe a few are arc better belter I 1 By y SHIRLEY COLE COLEMERE IERE Dr l explained thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- the Uie Arab world and helped helped help help- ed cd me to understand the pro pro- i I blem He said that the Arabs I had been put in concentration I camps and had not started the whole v disturbance as I had thought before belore I n the book Exodus there is a lot of ol information in information in formation about the Jews but butI I have e a feeling if Jl Leon Uris had written the book about Arabs he would still have felt as s strongly about them as he felt Celt about the Jews Before BeCore hearing Dr talk I would have had the UlC impression that the Jews were all all right fight and the Arabs all wron wrong B. B By JOAN JUAN DUNCAN The Arab World is quite quit e modern and up to The They have ha modern houses and apartment apartment apart apart- ment meat buildings In Rose City the they have c homes and other buildings s which were actually carved caned i in n nIn huge rock done ago In Arabia there are many man buildings building s which have been standing since the time of ol Christ In the garden where Christ spent 40 days pra praying pray pray- ing lag there arc still standing eight olive trees which were there a at that time Or one road there arc the same stones in the Ule paving that Christ walked upon In the place where Christ was crucified the road is still sUU there but the walls have hwe had to be rebuilt They have modern cars and in the cities and thc they dress in modern clothes clothe just as we do There were wew some slides of or the Jordan River where all nil th the trees have ha been cleared clears away by the Turks These slides slide were ver very good and helped meto me meto meto to see sec both sides of oC the pro pro- blem It H was very interesting seeing these historic places where Christ lived and preached to the people of ol his time B By CAROLYNN CAROL BROWNING In Dr slides we saw a few of or the Cedars of Lebanon Only a few of them are left We saw a city cUr where temples and houses were carved ri right t out of rock Here the people people peo peo- plc worshiped the dead an and built tombs lombs for lor them We sat saw the tomb where Jesus was supposed to be buried Here there were many Roman rum ruins that were left This city wa was called Petra which means The liThe TheRose Rose City |