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Palestine Development Council In Second Annual Conference at New York Decide* to Establish Local tc*Att�a with Dues-Paying Members�To Raise Million Dollars This Year-Mayor Hylan Urges Citizens to Contribute.
New York (J. T. A.)�More than $200,000 was raised by the Palestine Development Council at the closing sessions of the second annual conference held at the Hotel Astor. The sum of half a million dollars has been spent in building and other forms of enterprise during the past half year in Palestine, it was announced, and the Council proposes to add another half million of investment before the end of the year. The Council adopted resolution authorizing the establishment throughout the country of a network of local Palestine Development Leagues, an intensive campaign haying been authorized to establish branches of these leagues . throughout the United States. :..'�...
"I have never left a Zionist meeting with more, satisfaction with the work accomplishecl and the prospects in sight," Justice Brandeis said at the concluding session. 'Justice Brandeis in particular referred to the co-operation of the Central Conference of Reform Rabbis, which'was represented at the conference by Rabbis Isaac Land man, Nathan Stern and Charles Levi.
the largest subscription at the .conference came from Dr. Stephen S. Wiser who pledged himself to personally raise $50000 for the Council. Emanuel Hertz, of Washington Heights, brother of the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, pledged his congregation to raise $37,500, sufficient for 15 houses to be erected in Palestine by the Council. Rabbi Max Heller, of New Orleans, and Rabbi Blau, of New York, each personally subscribed $500. Providence, R.I., was pledged to raise $10,000 by Max Grant, of that city Allentown, Pa., was pledged to the extent of $10,000. Israel Nesson, Boston, subscribed. $10,000; Henry Friend, Chicago, $4,000; F, J. Fahs, New York, $5,000, and Bernard Flex* ner and sister each subscribed $1,000. The resolutions adopted for the establishment of local Palestine Development Leagues throughout the country provide that the leagues shall be organized on a dues-paying basis.. The:resolutions provide;; that the .' 'local leagues shall -� fix their own membership dues, provided a per capita tax of not less than $3.00 per head shall be sent to the central office in New York for its administrative
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' The Council went on record in favor of the establishment in the near future of an industrial bank as well as an agricultural bank for Palestine. The function of the industrial bank is to encourage co-operative industrial enterprise in Palestine, while the agricultural bank is to foster co-operative agricultural enterprise. It was also decided to create a fund which should care for the making of an economic survey of Palestine. Another resolution put the Council on record as favoring the early establishment of a Penny Savings Bank for the people of Palestine.
The Palestine Building . Loan and Savings Association,'it was announced, was now erecting 120 homes in Palestine, and had plans for the erection of an "ever increasing number." Another resolution provides for the gathering at once of a total of "one TniHion dollars necessary to meet the immediate housing and credit needs of Palestine."
Professor Patrick Geddes, Jamous tewB-pteimer and destgnertrf the Het*ew University of Jerusalein. addressed the conference and outlined a plan to establish a Palestine insurance company, the receipts of which would be used, after the expense of the business was subtracted., to reafforcst Palestine.
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"We are trying to build a new land. �aid Justice Branded. "We Americans, *e thi*k �f the txtikSat of � oew
land, at least those of us who have been in New England, think always of the Pilgrim Fathers., what they didr what their adventure was and what they builded. If they were likely to be discouraged, I should think they would be discouraged by the loss of at least half their number before the first year was over. Disease, death, trial, left behind what in a very short time" became one of the most prosperous regions on earth.. But it was the spirit. And the spirit that they had in coming west is a spirit that we should show in going East.
"I have heard it said by some," continued Mr. Brandeis, "How can you expect success in so small a country? To my mind, the smallness of the country presents the greatest possibility of our success,"
Reports appearing iri the general press to the effect that there was a split m the Council over the question of the Council's "sense of indebtedness to Great Britain as the author of the Bal-four Declaration and the Mandatory for the League of Nations in Great Britain" were branded as erroneous by Dr. Wise. "It is most unfortunate that an inaccurate impression of the. proceedings of yesterday's conference should have gone out,!' said Dr. Wise. "The question was whether the Palestine Development Council, ^in^conference assembled, shall deal with any political implication of .the Palestinian resettlement. As chairman of the session, 'I found myself under the necessity of ruling the resolution^ out of order, :.because, the Palestine Development Council, by virtue of its spirit and purpose, must, limit itself to the/consideration and solution of the problems involved .in the social-economic upbuilding of Palestine." - ����-.
Mayor in Proclamation Urges Citizens to Contribute
The .Mayor of New York City, John F. Hylan. has issued a proclamationjto . " the ^citizerisTof'NewrYork commending the work of the Keren. Hayesod and expressing satisfaction that the Jews of New York set aside Tuesday, May 29th, as "Palestine Day.'1 He also urges all citizens to "remember generously" on that day the Palestine Foundation Fund "so that the largest sums may be raised for the rebuilding of the. ancient land of the children of Israel." The Mayor, interrupted his review of the Jubilee parade Saturday, May 26, celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of Greater New York in order to sign this proclamation. .
The full text of the Mayor's proclamation folio ws:
"As the Mayor of a municipality which comprises within its limits nearly one million and a half jews, the largest number ever gathered together in any* single city, it gives me particular pleasure to note the success which has attended the efforts in the campaign for the Keren Hayesod, which is now drawing to a close. This fund is devoted to the rebuilding of Palestine, the ancient Jewish homeland, and the generosity and ideaKsm manifested in the support of this project are a just cause of satis-factkm to all the citizens of our community, legmdtess of race or religious affiliation.
"Two years ago I had the pleasure of honoring, as Mayor of New York, the President of the World Zionist Organization, Dr. Chaim Weitrmann, and I rejoice in the success which he has red in hit (xtatot America* tewr
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BETHLEN SEEKS JEWISH FAVOR RETURN OR GUARANTEES
MANY INJURED BY WARSAW BOMB
Budapest "(J.Tr~ A,)� Hungary is willing to bargain with the JeWs for the removal of the existing discriminations against them if the Jews will engage in propaganda on their behalf in their efforts to obtain a loan. This is the purport of an offer aud to have been made by the Hungarian Prime Minister, Count Bethleh, to Jewish representatives according to the press. .
.The .Premier's statement came in response to a query by newspapermen as to whether he had during his journey to other parts of Europe in behatf of the Hungarian loan/made any guaranr tees for the removal of the Jewish disabilities, it having been intimated that Count Bethlen had in particular approached the Aliance Israelite with such a proposition.
The Prime Minister replied that Hungary was prepared to modify the "nurnerus clausus" which limits the number of Jewish students at the universities if the Jews outside of Hungary: would .in return engage in propaganda tending to improve public opinion regarding H -.in cary, especially in Central and Western .furor*1.
Warsaw (J. T. A.)^At least a score of students were injured when a bomb, believed to have been planted by members of an anti-Semitic band near a high school building exploded to-day. A number of passersby were also injured. Professor Oziemiahski has been killed.
The headquarters of the Students' Aid Association, an anti-Semitic-organization, is located near the schoolhouse, and officials believe that the members of that organization are responsible for the latest of the bomb outrages.
The Minister of Justice to-day announced that those believed to be involved in the dynamiting of the ultra-nationalist Polish papers. "Kurjer Pol-ski" and "Rzeczpospo.ita" will be tried before a court martial.
Charges are made that the agents of the anti-Semites dynamited the newspaper offices, assuming that the suspicion in the bombing or these ultra-nationalist papers would fall upon Jews. '
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"I am\glad to leafn that the Jews of "New York have.set aside ne.xt Tuesday. May 2�. as 'Palestine Day.' and as a token of the interest of all the citizens of New York in the revival of the Holy Land, I urge upon our citi/ens to remember generously on that day the Palestine Foundation Fund (Keren Hayesod?, so that tfre largest *m�* mav be raided for-tbe rebuilding of the ancient land of the children of Israel."
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\Yars-aw <}. T. A;)�Polish police and .military officials have begun to carry out the recent serret instruction? to oust Je*s from Military General Head-<jwArtei*, A report from Bialystorfc states. Three Jewish policemen were dpi lulled, and * number of Je wish soldiers who were �Offciat m the Mfli-tary C-H-Q- **re returned to the