Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1930, Page 6

b ORANGES OF ZION GAN ON GALFORNA Holy Land Has Realm Like| Imperial Valley and Be- comes Exporter. Special Dispatch to The Star. JERUSALEM, December 25.—Pales- tine presently will be a counterpars of California, at all events as far as its agricultural development is concerned. For several years experts have been stressing the surprisivg similarity be- tween the two countries. Following upon his investigations of the agricul- tural conditions of ' the Holy Land, Elwood Mead professor of rural insti- tutions at the University ot Berkeley, California, wrote in 1924: “Southern California and Palestine have many rural resemblances. The coastal plain of Palestine, reaching from Gaza to Halfa, is in everything, except its development, a counterpart of the coastal plain of Southern Cali- fornia from San Diego to Santa Bar- bara. . . . These resemblances extend inland from the two coasts. . . . The Valleys of Esdraelon and Jesreel . . . have their counterpart in the route traversel by railways from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Both have soils of great fertility. Oranges Third of Exports. “The Imperial Valley in Californi like the Valley of the Jordan in Pales- tine, is below sea leved, . . . Both have the opportunity of obtaining large prof- its from agriculture because of their | ability to grow crops like cotton and sugar cane, which give high acerage returns, - Both are able to supply the markets of distant cities with fruits and vegetables earlier than other sec- tions.” Palestine has taken advantage of these conditions to develop orange cul- tivation on the California model. No longer do the biblical vine and olive tree form the staple products of the Holy Land. They have been super- seded by the orange, which is respon- sible for a third of the country’s ex- rts. This development certainly set 5 independently of that in the Far est. But of late, ever since attention has been drawn to the similarity between the two countries, Palestine is making a deliberate attempt to mold and sta- bilize its somewhat wild and unsy: tematic wos those of California. Everybody Plants a Grove. Already Palestine oranges are begin- ning to occupy a place on the English and Continemtal markets. From 1932 to 1928 the total area of orange plan- tations increased from 32.000 to 70000 dunam (one dunam 4-11 acre). At the end of this year the area will W, M. Moses & Sons SINCE 1861—SIXTY-NINE YEARS OF PUBLIC CONFIDENCE 9 AM. to 6 P.M. ng methods according to | 4 | CHRISTMAS CLOTHES FOR NEEDY YOUNGSTERS LT Isaac Gans shaking hands with Frank Zier of Rosslyn, Va., following his Yuletide custom of giving overcoats and shoes to needy boys. The boys were allowed to go into Saks & Co.’s store at Seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue and pick ! out their garments. In special cases Mr. Gans added a crisp, new dollar bill to the boys’ Christmas gifts. be in the neighborhood of 90,000 m; 100,000 dunam. | ssion of an orange grove is | the ambition of every inhabiant of | Palestine, It means to him a secure | and adequate income, and even wealth. | Every one who can afford to do so plants an orange grove. The well to do invest part of their capital in that way, the employe his annual saving whilé the worker purchases two-thirds of & dunam from one of the Jewish colonization societies, paying off the purchase price in installments, He thus makes sure of an additional income, apart from the wages he earns by his daily labor. A number of socleties and individuals undertake the laying out and working of plantations for absentee owners. From 2,200,000 cases in 1922-'23, the output has increased to 2,600,000 cases in 1929-'30, even though the newly | planted groves will only start bearing | | fruit this_season. : | ‘These ures are still insignificant. | But once the whole newly planted area, | which is three times as large as that benrlng fruit now, yields its harve: the whole output will amount to 1 000,000 cases. This will come gbout in less than 10 years. So far as export figures are concerned, Palestine can be compared with California even today. According to the report of the Califor- nia Fruit Exchange for 1926-'27, 500,000 cases were exported. | The pos | F Street MORE LIBERTY GIVEN TO PRIVATE FISHING RALEIGH (#).—Hoping to encourage the development of pondfish culture in North Carolina, the Board of Conser- vation and development has liberalized regulations governing fishing in private ponds. J. S. Hargett, assistant director of the Department of Conservation and Development, announced that the limit of 10 pounds on the amount of game fish that might be taken had been re- moved in what are classified as strictly “private mndx," ‘The primary regulations left on fish- ing in such waters, the assistant direc- tor sald, is a closed season during the breeding period and the prohibition of the sale of game fish. ‘The department has also ruled to al- low Tar Heel fishermen in the future to take certain types of minnows for live bait with certain kinds of equipment which has been specified to protect the smallest minnows. Now minnows, ex- cept “Gambusia affinis,” or top min- nows, which fight mosquitoes, may be taken for bait. However, the law strict- ly prohibits the use of small game fish for bait. ‘The changes, Mr. Hargett sald, will probably increase interest in pondfish culture on farms, as owners will be able to fish with more freedom. at Eleventh This Extraordinary ) ¥ 4 Fur-Trimmed COATS Group 3 85 Formerly §98.50 to $125 Group 1 344 Formerly (i $49.75 Group 1 Formerly $25 to $39.75 A» After-Christmas Apparel Clearance! PAYS TAX IN PENNIES 8ix Cents Too Much Given for Five Years' Assessments. FREDERICTON, New Brunswick (N.AN.A).—A taxpayer with a mali- clous smile on his face staggered into the office of J. S. Scott, county secre- tary-treasurer, and plumped down two large paper bags bulging with pennies. “That,” he sald, “is five years’ back taxes.” For a full*half-hour Scott and his stenographer counted pennies. There were 1893. The taxes amounted to only $18.87. The six extra pennies were returned. (Copyright, 19 the North American e by sper Alliance.) HORSE FOUND IN CISTERN STEVENSVILLE, Mont. (NANA).—| Sixteen days after Lee Waddington's | horse disappeared from Lee's ranch it was found In a deep cistern, fallen into it in the darkness. Though it had had nothing to eat during that long period, it was in fair condition. Waddington fed the animal and then freed it by digging a trench. (Copyright, 1930, by the North American Newspaper Alliance.) It had | National 3770 | propriate C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1930. MARRIAGES DROP AS DIVORCES GAIN North Carolina Record of 1929 Referred to in Extension Division Letter, CHAPEL HILL, N, C. (#).—Fewer marriages and more divorces seems to be the trend in North Carolina, says the current issue of the News Letter of the Unlversity of North Carolina extension division. In 1920, it says, there were only 18,746 marriages performed State, which was 2,627 fewer than in 1928. On the other hand, it continues, divorces increased by 98, the number granted in 1920 being 1,707. However, the letter continues “s comparison on the basis of marriages per divorce is unfair since people can run over into South Carolina or some other State and get married, but tifey usually remain at home if they are to be_divorced.” By a comparison of “divorces per in- habitants,” though, the letter adds, it is shown that marriages are gradually || decreasing and divorces holding a tather steady yearly proportion. ‘The letter says there are few di- vorces in the eastern section of the State. The majority of counties hav- ing high divorce rates are found in the western part. “Practically all the countles from Rockingham and Caswell to Gaston and Mecklenburg and thence to Ten- nessee have high divorce rates, says. “Eleven mountain counties cen- tering around Buncombe fall in this group. “Family ties are supposed to be strong in the mountain counties. This is true in the northern half of the area, but it is not true in the south- ern half,” the letter says. COINS BEAR HOLY IMAGE VATICAN CITY (N.AN.A.)—Designs for the city’s new coinage are finished and a complete set of them, to the number of 10,000, will be issued for numismatic collectors. The coins will bear the date of the conciliation, 1929, g‘w %mh year of the pontificate of us The 100-lire pieces bear the image of “Christ the King” on one side and on the other the efigy of his holiness wearing & cope and skull cap. On the cope are the argms of the Rattl family. The 50-lire phces are stamped with the image of the Immaculate Conception | and the smaller coins are struck with | the figures of SS. Peter and Paul, St.| ‘Theresa and other saints and. bear a inscribed mottoes, such as “non prevalebunt.” (Copyright, 1930 by thé North American Newspaper Alllance.) It is not our habit to over-indulge in superlatives. When we use them, they are used advisedly, with a full appreciation of your own intelligence and with due regard for our own responsibility as merchants of integrity. Therefore, when we characterize this After-Christmas Clearance of Apparel as extraordinary, we are not idly tossing a big we mean. Consider for a moment: Here are Coats and Dresses of developed individuality, Paris-inspired style, superb materials and furs, marvelously finished to the last little detail, at the deepest reductions and the lowest prices in ten years or more! Is that not Extraordinary? The Government’s model for the New Year’s dollar may remain the same, but it has a greater value-power at Moses now than it ever had before! word at you. After-Christmas Clearance to $69.50 | 33 Formerly $69.50 to $89.50 ii Group 2 . | Street and Sports Styles After-Christmas Clearance FROCKS and GOWNS Group 2 320 i Formerly | $29.75 to $49.75 Styles for All Occasions A Group of Higher-Priced COATS 25% © 33%% OFF That is what it is, and that is what Look— Group 3 %35 Formerly $49.75 to $69.50 in the | Pol it ROW STARTED BY DENTIST| HOLDING TEETH FOR DEBT| Infamous Abuse of Professional Ethics Chatged by Man Tired of Living on Soup. VIENNA, Austria (Special).—Teeth come high in the Hungarian village of Arnd—f‘n,‘nd dentist, b’l‘l’x‘. too. Laszlo Benes and Simon Karmery are having & big argument these days, and one of them has to be reasonable pretty soon or both will go to jail—all on ac- count of teeth. Laszlo needed repairs on his fine old set of false molars. So took them to the dentist, Karmery, promised to have them cleaned, , repaired, ih no time, good as new. But days passed and Laszlo didn’f get them back. Meantime, eating wi getting to be a bit of a chore. Hui ADVERTISEMENT. wi | amounted to that. garian goulash tastes much better if there are teeth to help it down. Inves- tigating, Laszlo found that the dentist was holding his teeth for ransom. Or it A year before Mrs. Laszlo had some dental work done and Dr. Karmery had done it—and Mr. Laszlo had never paid the bill, 8o the dentist said: “My money or your teeth,” | or its equivalent in Hungarian—and meantime kept the teeth. Thereupon | Laszlo, toothless, sued him, char “infamous abuse of professional ethic: Dr. Karmery sf pat and filed a countersuit, The case will be heard shortly, . Charged with neglecting his three children, John Mullen, a vaudeville per- former, pleaded guilty in a Glasgow, Scotland, court recently, declaring that the “talkies” had ruined his profession and he was able to earn only $32.50 in four months. ADVERTISEME! GYM IN POSTAL SERVICE / Germany Adopts Novel Means of Keeping Employes Fit. BERLIN, Germany (Special).~Min- ister Schaetzl, head of the German Post Office Department, has given his enthusiastic approval to a novel insti- tution for Germany. Twice a week the long corridor in the post ministry is turned into a gymnasium, where men and women in gym suits are working a medicine ball, doing all kinds of ex- ercises, ending up with a short sprint up and down the corridor. All employes may take part, after being examined first by a medical ) specialist, who decides which exerc! are best adapted to each individual. A favorable influ- ence on both health and worl ef- clency has already been noted, all h the plan has been operating for a short time only. ADVERTISEMENT. Sears Roebuck’s Santa Claus is shown here on his way in response to many, many letters like the following: Dear Santa—I love you and I don’t care what you bring me. My father is out of work and you may bring me eny thing. 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