The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-07
Justice Brandeis, Dominant Fig ure In Movement, Keeps In Background In Four Days Convention In Philadelphia Seven Hundred Delegates In Attendance.

Philadelphia, July 7.-The achieve ments of the most vital importance to Jews throughout the world and espe- cially to the sixty thousand settlers of the race in the Palestine Colonies marked the four-day convention of the Federation of American Zionists which ended here Wednesday. Near ly seven hundred delegates attended. some of them making special trips from the Holy Land to describe what the Zionists there have done to pre- serve the institutions built up before the start of the war and to plan for the future.
 One of the high lights of the con- vention from the viewpoint of the American Hebrew was the unqualified support given to the Congress move ment in the face of prophecies by those who oppose it that the Fedora ton would go a long way toward severing connections with the Con- gress at this convention. The ques- ton first came tup on Sunday morn- ing at the first general session, but 1t was not until Monday that it was put to vote. The delegates then over whelmingly voted their confidence in the Congress movement. About 400 delegates were present at this meet ing, and the anti-congressionalist could muster not more than ten votes. Instead of the split that had been prophesied should this action be taken, the dissenting delegates de- cided to abide by the will of the majority after the vote had been taken, and there is now absolute peace in the Federation.
 Another element of interest in the proceedings of the convention was the apparently inconspicuous part taken by Louis D. Brandeis, Associate Jus tice of the Supreme Court, who Is honorary president of the Federation MT. Brandeis had been scheduled to make a public address at the mass meeting held Sunday night in the Metropolitan Opera House, but al- though present he did not speak. Il was thought he would have something to say at some other general session but here also the public was disap- pointed. Yet while he did not appear publicly to any extent, in many ways Justice Brandeis' hand was seen in the acts of the convention.
 ef No One-Man Affair.
 The delegates said that there was a strong feeling among Zionists against individual leadership. They do not want the movement to become lone man. affair-in fact it was this atti. tude which led to some of the op- position to the congress. MT. Bran deis agreed heartily with this feeling and because of the judicial position he now occupies and the impression that might be made upon non-Zion- ists by anything he might say, he de- oided not to appear publicly. It wa, general knowledge, however. that the Associate Justice sided strongly with the majority of the Zionists in their desire to approve the Congress move ment, and the action taken in this matter was hailed as a victory foI him.
 of the convention were the decision to create a million dollar corporation for the issuance of loans to the Pales- tinian farmers in the Jewish colonies and the announcement that Mrs. Jo- seph Fels, widow of the noted single taxer, had agreed to provide the fund. for the establishment of single-ta1 colony in Palestine. Another i'm portant announcement was that the Hadassah, the women's organization of the Zionists, had made plans tt