The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-04
JEWS ARE URGED
 TO AID ZIONIST
 MOVE WITH CASH
Mobilization of Men, Money and Resources Asked By
 the Zionist Committee.

The Provisional Zionist committee has issued a statement to the Jews of America calling upon them to mo- bilize money and resources for the purpose of establishing the New Zion which has been made possible by Great Britain's Declaration on Nov. End in favor of national Jewish home in Palestine.
 The statement which was adopted at a special meeting of the Provisional Zionist Committee presided over by Dr. Stephen s. Wise, and at which were present among others, Judge Julian W. Mack of the U. 8. District court, Prof Israel Friedlander of the Jewish Theological Seminary, MT. Louis E. Kirstein, Mrs. Joseph Fels, Miss Hem rietta Szold, MT. Jacob deHaas, Sec retary of the Provisional Zionist Com mittee, and MT. Louis Lipsky, is as follows:
 ""Ehe declaration of the British government favoring the establish ment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people marks an epoch in Jewish history. The wise and mag unanimous purpose of His Majesty's Government to use its best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of the Zionist aim is in consonance with the policy of the British nation respecting the Jews. It is in consonance with the policy of liberation and protection of small nationalities, which the En- tente Powers, including our own gov ernment, have determined shall pre- vail throughout the world. ''The British declaration is a public recognition of what the Jewish people has ever proclaimed as it's historic task. IsraePs perennial aspiration to re-estabHsh himself in his homeland is approaching reality before our very eyes. But only through Jewish valor and Jewish sacrifice can complete re- alization be attained. The New Zion must be built by Jews. And by Jews il will be built. For from of old the Jewish people has had a large capac- ity for sacrifice, and the vision of the New Zion will rekindIe the ancient in- terest of the, nation. The Goluth has been record of. forced, hap-hazard migrations. The return to Zion will beA a wel1-ordered stately homecom- ing.
 l 4A0 way IS HOW open to a SuCC0S- sion of practical steps leading to the resettlement of Palestine by the Jew ish people. Without delay prepara- tions must be initiated that every de- velopment may be forced to yield its contribution to the national task. Not the least of us may now be betrayed into impatience. Events and circum- stances must be observed with watch full wisdom. Our man-power must be assembled; our organization buttress- ed; the whole sum of our spiritual and material resources made avail able. A self-disciplined host must hold itself in readiness to pluck ad- vantage from every turn in the course of events. The national purpose must 1 be established as the supreme pur- pose.
 "The Provisional Zionist committee calls on all Jews to enroll themselves in the Zionist organization. Now Is the decisive moment. Men are need ed to act; means are needed for ef- fective action. All Jews, each accord ing to the measure of his powers, should do their share in the redemp- ton of Israel and the restoration of IsraePs land. The united effort of Jewry throughout the world will wrest from the Goluth the New Zion of the Prophets vision.