The Denver Jewish news., 1918-11-21
Mobilnint for Palestine
GREAT AcfIvtfy PLANNED HERE
IN RESPONSE TO RALLYING
CALL FROM FEDERAL COURT
JUDGE JULIAN ". MACK. PRES
lDENT OF TitE ZIONIST ORGAN
IZATION or AMERICA.

Denver anu sJOlOfnOO 1or tne ucNti'p
ment of Palestine as National jew
ish Homeland has received new i'm
spetus from the call to duty just issued
by Hon. Julian ". Mack. of the United
states Circuit court of Appeals, who
is president OF the Zionist organiza'
tion of America. In this call, Judge
Mack points To the declaration in fav-
or of, the restoration of Palestine to
the Jews by Great britain. France and
Italy. and the sympathy for the pro,
iect that has been expressed in the
highest Official circles of the United
States.
The local campaign is being con-
Quoted by committee composed OF
the following: Robert II. Kolinsky,
chairman, WIN. II. Blumenthal.. DIR. A.
NJ. Blumberg, Louis a. Braines, Rabbi
A. Braude. Leo II. Cohn. ]. NJ. Green.
hiatt. Rabbi s. nalperln, Philip Horn
helm, Il. Hurwitz. Miss Bessie Israel
Rabbi G, Il. II. Kauvar, Mrs. l. J.. kol-
insky and DIR. c. ID. SpiyaE.
1t is part of a nationwide campaign
which is being waged simultaneously
in over $50 cities and towns and is
expected to result in an enrolment
Of not less than 25O.O0O. Every man
or woman. over Is years of age. who
cnrolls and pays membership fee OF
$500 becomes thereby member of the
national and district organization with
the right to vote ON ail questions re
lating 10 the development of the plap
for n National Jewish Homeland in
Palestine. and to elect delegates to the
ANIMAL conventions of the Zionist Or
ganiza:ion of America. The whole
plan of organization is along lines sim
liar to those followed by the leading
American political parties.
The call issued by Judge Mack is as
fOlows:
To the Jews OF America:
Ry tho promulgation Of the British
declaration and the taking Of n large
tart Of Palestine by the British. Mill
tary forces. Zionism Inns become a
program of action. In order to take
advantage of the opportunities offered
hy the British and Allied Governments
for the restoration of Palestine and
tho settlement of the land by the Jews
the paramount duty of Jewry is to or
ganizc its forces. Every Jew interest
I'd in the future OF his own people
must he made TO realize that it is his
obligation and responsibility to share
the burden Of the whole people ac.
cording to his ability. And the first
obligation is to become a member of
the organization which has made itself
responsible for the realization Of the
Zionist ideal. go ~ -s-, -
The work we have undertaken Is
stupendous in its implications and In
its responsibilities. We have set out
to restore scattered people with little
collective experience to u land long
neglected where We must create the
free conditions of highly civilized
life. In that life we shall have no
room for Internal dissension. We shall
have no room for re.actiOnary ideas
we shall have room only for the best
there is In the Jcw In the light of the
progressive idea TINT animate the pro.
sressive peoples of the world. And we
shall draw for our idealism both upon
the treasure house Of the Jewish peo-
pie. from their prophets and law.giv-
crs anl upon the experiences of the
free and liberty loving peoples in or
der that the new centre to be created
shall he worthy Of our glorious past.
To accomplish our objects We must
organize every element Of Jewry to
provide the basis of. strength for the
Jewish land. The nature of our task.
its broad statcsman.likc qualities. Its
imposing dignity cannot he satisfied
with mediocre performance: it must
he well and thoroly done. people
engaged in building homeland must
bc strongly knit together: the rela-
ton Of each individual Zionist to the
whole body must be direct and per-
sonal not thr, the intermediary of any
society. .-.,.
Every Jew should know that the
now form of organization which the
last Zionist convention adopted was
an act of sound eeneralship.. 1t raises
the Zionist Organization and its ac-
tivities to new heights. 1t brings home
to each man that the success or fail,
urc OF Zionism depends wholly upon
the success Or faiiate Of the activity OF
the Individual Nonists. IT makes the
getting of new u4iabers vital work
for every new Deaaber means one add,
el TO the pumbet tt persons engaged
in furtberins the success Of the cause