Good government, public order, and trade have made of Palestine again flourishing state, unparallelled in [speed of progress, 'The increase in population is the rst significant index. From 1922 to this day, the population of the entire Jcountry' increased from 653,851 to 1,957,000 of all classes, This astonishing achievement has been made pos sible because of the wealth produced the country being greatly In-
Jan strategy must be built on the Jewish State, as has been ably said, fand the Jewish State must bulld on. the British connection.
Now, what: of the people of the Hebraic principles of life and their' economy? It is true thet they, more than any, have laid supreme emphasis. jon the dictum that man does not live' by bread alone, and that the material world is but a speck relative to the infinite subjective Kingdom. But equally is it true that without material means there can be no physical existence. So the intangible and tangible have perforce to complement Jone another.
Of modern Jewish life, on may benefit from the very able exposition, of Mr. Paul Goodman. He. states that it moves within two poles. On the one hand there is the idea of the Large-scale factories and works have been erected, equipped with machinery driven' by electrical power. Potash, soap, olls, cement, canned goods and food products of various kinds are produced.
In an economic survey of the country, one learns that the latest form Jot developing electrical power through harnessing the waters of the Jordan have been applied, as well as by using the Diesel engine. An efficient grid system distributes electricity to every. corner of the country. There is large-scale industry in magnesium chloride, magnesium bromide and other chemical deposits of the Dead /Sea. Soap, salt and other heavy chemicals are manufactured. Eleetricity is generated from oil and from (Continued on page 256)
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