Young Judea's Map of Palestine
Young Judea, the League of the Nationalist Jewish Youth, announces the publication of a map of Palestine. The map is intended not merely for its own members, but is at the same time meant to satisfy the need for a distinctly Jewish map, long felt by all Jews interested in the Holy Land. Great care was taken to make the map artistic in appearance and thus render it an attractive ornament in every Jewish home. The size of the map is 14 by 18 inches. It is printed on durable high-quality cloth-paper and is finished on both edges with attractive metal rods. It is provided with a hook and can be either rolled or hung up on the wall.
The coloring of the map, representing the topographical features of Palestine, and patterned after the recently published large wall map of Prof. Kent, is exact as well as pleasing. The map has been carefully prepared by competent scholars and artists. It embodies the latest results of Biblical scholarship. It pursues at the same time an eminently pedagogic purpose, and instead of confusing the mind and the eye with a mass of unimportant details, gives only that which is essential. The map does full justice to the Biblical period, giving all the important places and indicating the borders of the Tribes, the frontier between Judah and Israel and the territories of the neighboring nationalities. It is at the same time a Jewish map in the true sense of the word, for it does not confine itself to the Biblical period, but illustrates the history of Palestine in all subsequent ages. The modern Jewish colonies are fully represented, while an attractive little chart in the corner of the map illustrates the growth of Jewish colonization in Palestine. All names are given in Hebrew characters which are fully provided with vowels. Where the English names differ in form or pronunciation from the Hebrew, both the Hebrew and the English are given side by side, so that anyone who
can read the Hebrew type is able to use the map with ease. It is expected that the map, which is the result of much work and thought, will prove a safe and convenient guide in the study of Jewish history and will help to deepen the interest of the Jews in the land of their Fathers.
The price of the map is 30c per single copy, 25c per copy for a dozen or more, or 20c per copy for one hundred or more.
For the first time three Jews have been elected to sit on the Municipal Council of Jerusalem: Mr. David Yellin, Mr. Joseph Elyaschar and Mr. Rachamim Misrachi. These are three out of five new members elected every two years for a term of four years.
THE DANGERS OF A HOT BOX.
Two years ago there occured at a powder mill, located in Indiana an explosion which reduced the factory buildings to ashes, and even damaged a section of the town in which the factory was located. This is all ancient history—in fact, so old that the matter has probably been entirely forgotten by you. Do you remember the cause? It was a hot box.
That's the whole story: a hot box—but it resulted in a heavy loss of life and property. Fortunately, the results of hot boxes are rarely as dire as they proved in this case, but there is always the chance of loss in every case. It may be the ruining of the bearing or journal, it may be the tieing up of the plant for hours, it may be a fire that destroys a portion or all of the plant—there is no way of knowing exactly what will result from any hot box.
There is one perfect insurance, however, against all frictional damage. It is Dixon's Flake Graphite. This lubricant will absolutely prevent excessive heating of bearing parts as well as cutting and seizing. Dixon's Flake Graphite attaches itself directly to the metal surfaces, filling in the microscopic depressions and becoming fastened upon the microscopic projections that exist in all metal surfaces. Thus direct contact of metal-to-metal is made impossible, and we have what may be termed a "graphited contact" which lowers friction, reduces wear and prevents damage. * * *