Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-26
Zioni8ts in Session.
Southeastern Council Assembled In This Cy-Resume Of
Results Accomplished in Restoring Palestine.
Congress Meets in August

interest, and to provide its interest for any
great national objects that may present
themselves A popular source of revenue
to the fund are the national fund stamps,
sold at one cent each. Zionists use the
stamps In their correspondence
At the seventh international congress held
at Basic, Switzerland in 1905, several COM
mittees were organized to inaugurate prac-
teal work in Palestine. OF these the most
prominent is the Palestine commission.
Prof. Otto Warburg, a man possessing in
innate knowledge of agriculture and
marked executive ability, one of the fore
most leaders of the Zionist movement was
unanimously chosen chairman Of this COM
mission. The comprehensive program of
development of the Holy Land now being
carried out under the auspices of the COM
mission includes such undertakings as the
working of the asphalt, salt and phosphate
wealth of the Dead sea, the establishment Of
connecting railways in every part Of Pal
estine, automobile service between JeruSa-
lem and the surrounding country, steamship
service along the Palestinan coast, on the
lake of TiberiuS and on the Jordan, estab-
lishment of horticultural nurseries, wool,
silk and cotton industries. the development
of fruit culture and innumerable other en-
terprtses of kindred nature.
The commission now proposes to form
syndicate on a purely commercial basis for
promoting and introducing industries in
Palestine, and is endeavoring to attract
Jewish capitalists to support it. The
actions committee, President Herr David
Wolffsohn, is also very active in its en-
deavors to carry out the Zionist program.
Its activity is political in nature.
Recently there has been established in
Jerusalem a Jewish school of arts and
crafts where Jewish young men and wom-
en- are taught drawing, painting, sculpture,
wax works, carving, rug and carpet weav-
ing, etc. Prof. Boris Shatz, an eminent
Jewish sculptor, is at the head Of the
school, which is now in successful opera
ton, and there is wide general demand for
the goods produced 1t was established in
order to enable the young men and women
of Jerusalem to earn livelihood by honor
able labor. The greater part of the 10000
Jews living in Jerusalem are subjects of
charity, gifts being gathered for them from
all parts of the world. This life the younger
element considers degrading and the estab-
lishment Of the school is regarded as the
young peoples salvation. Another enter
prise in Jerusalem that is encouraging
trade and industry is the Anglo-Palestine
Company. a banking institution, which, It
may be said, led to a revival of commercial
activity in Palestine.
Still another enterprise and one which
will forestall great deal Of suffering and
misery is the erection of an orphan asylum
in Jerusalem for the Russian children who
lost their parents in that country. Con-
tributions are now being solicited from all
over the world to carry out this project
The recently rendered accounts OF the Jew
ish Colonial Trust and the Anglo-Palestine
Company disclose very satisfactory condi-
tons The reports of the various COM
mittees will be the topics of most interest
to the delegates at the eighth international
Zionist congress next August. 1t win be the
first real Palestinian congress of the Zionist
movement. The work of real construction,
for and in Palestine, has been begun and
the congress will, therefore, be an i'm
portant one, inasmuch as Palestine will be
the center of actual interest.