Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-26

The Southeastern Council of Zionists Is
holding it's annual conference in this city
today The Federation of American Zion
lists will hold its annual convention the lat
ter part OF June at Tannersville, n. Y,
the great summer resort of the Catsk1ll
mountains and the scene of its successful
convention last year.
The Southeastern Council of Zionists has
Jurisdiction over the Zionist societies In
Maryland, Virginia and the District of CO.
lurn6ia, and is subordinate to the Fedora
ton OF American Zionists, which has juris-
diction over ell the Zionist societies In the
United States. some 800 societies being affili-
ated with 1t. The southeastern council was
organized to assist the federation in It's null
hilarious work of propagating the Zionist
movement In this country.
Both DIR. Harry Friedenwald, the presi-
dent of the federation. and DR.. S. Schaffer.
the president of the southeastern council,
will deliver addresses before the mass meet
ing of the conference this evening at Pyth-
ian Temple, which will be attended by
delegates from Maryland, Virginia and the
District of Columbia, In addition to the
local Jews. Other prominent speakers will
also attend and an elaborate musical pro-
gram has been arranged
During the last several years the Zion
list movement has been steadily growing.
1t Is said that more has been done for the
cause in the last ten years than in the
whole two thousand years since Titus and
his Roman legions destroyed the Holy Tenn
pie of Jerusalem, from which time the Jews
as a nation ceased to exist. The Jewish
people have at last abandoned the hope that
the lost land of their forefathers, Palestine
the country now without people to call
her own-would be restored to them-a peo-
pie without country-by prayers only, and
have settled down to hard practical work.
The departed Zionist leader. DR.. Theodore
Herzl, convened Zionist congress, which
assembled for the first time in Basic,
Switzerland, in August 1897, and consisted
Of 2O4 elected representatives of the Zionist
thinking Jews of both hemispheres This
congress declared it's object to be Ito create
for the Jewish people a publicly recognized
legally assured home in Palestine and this
is the program that the Zionists are now
striving to carry out.
The actual work accomplished toward car
rying out the aims of Zionism is very en-
couraging. In 1898 the second Zionist
congress resolved upon the founding of a
Jewish colonial trust bank. This was car
ried out the following year. the bank being
established in London. The joint stock of
the bank amounts to f2,OOO, 900, and, ac-
cording to its statutes. when an eighth part
Of Its joint stock has been actually paid in
IL could begin active work-namely to OBJ
tain a charter from Turkey for the settle
ment of the districts of Palestine which are
available for the opening up of its re-
sources. The bank reached this stage in
1902
Another financial instrument of Zionism
Is the Jewish national fund.-, which is raised
by contributions, and now amounts to over
forty thousand pounds. One-half of this
fund Is to be devoted to the purchase of
land in Palestine, the other to remain an
inviolable common possession of the Jewish
people, to increase constantly by compound