The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-07
MILLION DOLLAR FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED TO AID JEWISH
 COLONISTS IN BAND OF ZION

send an American hoSpltal unll to Ihe
 Holy Land. The need for such a unit
 has been created by the lack Of medl-
 cal facilities due to the withdrawal by the nations at war. It is estimated
 that the undertaking will cost $25,00O
 year. The unit will leave not later
 than September of the present year, and an advisory committee Of noted physicians is to be appointed inn
 mediately to pass upon the qualifica- tions of the physicians to be sent and upon questions of management and equipment.
 The idea of loans instead of relief funds is that they will enable the farmers to adapt themselves to con- ditions and thus to go far toward set tling the labor problem. The Pales- tinian Colonies have lost heavily | through the war. which has closed the
 markets for the oranges and olives that constituted large part of their crops. Within the last year, however, a determined effort has been made to
 start crops of cereals and other food
 stuffs that will be immediately mar ketable, and so far as it has gone
 this has been successful.
 At the suggestion of the Palestine Committee, the Provisional Commit tee established a committee of seven Zionists to operate what is to be known as the Palestine Bureau. The duties of this organization will be to collect all available material in re- gard to the possibilities for practical work in Palestine and to prepare the necessary data for projects which may
 be successfully undertaken at the end of the war. It is to set forth from time to time what activities can be
 carried on profitably.
 Thank Officials for Aid.
 Resolutions were passed unani-
 mously at the general session on In-
 dependence day thanking the State Department and the United States officials for services rendered to
 refugees.
 Special thanks are due to that dis
 tinguished diplomat and loyal Jew,
 Henry W. Morgenthau, formerly
 United States Ambassador at Con-
 stantinople," said the resolutions,
 land to Dr. Glazebrook, Consul Gen
 eral at tJerusalem, Consular Agent
 Hardig, at Jaffa and Conso1 Arthur
 Garrels. at Alexandria, for their loyal and devoted service to our people, in
 the Holy Land and in the refuge kcamps at Alexandria"
 More than $1S0,000 was raised by the Zionists during the convention. Of
 this sum, $175,000 as contributed or lspledged at the mass meeting in less than 45 minutes, the largest donation looming from the Zionists of Ohio,
 who contributed $20.000. Other large
 contributions were: Massachusetts,
 $7,000; Baltimore, $5.000; the Sons of
 Zion, $10,000; the Knights of Zion, $15,000; Central Relief Committee of
 Philadelphia, $4.o0o, and Chicago, 1 $I2,000. The Order of Young Judea | pledged itself to raise $5,0O0. and
 Mrs. Fels and Mary Antin, author of
 "The Promised Land," pledged them selves to raise $10,000. The con- l tributions and pledges were made aft CT it had been explained that it will
 require $250,000 to carry on the work
 planned for the next year by the Pro- visional Committee.
 One of the most stirring addresses of the convention was that made by
 Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, of the Free
 Synagogue, New York. To him was
 entrusted the task of raising the great
 fund to carry on the work of the Zionists.
 My only answer to the statement
 that Jews cannot govern themselves is
 to point to the record of the Jewish colony we have maintained in Palestine for the last 50 years" said
 Rabbi Wise. Mot one member of
 that colony has transgressed the
 criminal laws of the ruling power, and the Arab tribes come to the Jew
 fish courts of law in the colony to
 settle their legal diff1culties."
 l Throughout the convention it has