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New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
New Institutions
Within the Old

From the first to the eleventh COLI
gress, held shortly before the outbreak
of the war, other institutions were Gre
ated within and without Palestine, such
as the Palestine land and loan com
panics, the agricultural experiment
station. the Hebrew high school in
Jaffa, the Bezalel School of Arts and
Crafts, hospitals, agricultural schools
and Il complete educational system, all
of them calculated to strengthen and
intensity Jewish life in Palestine and
to awaken and invigoratc the sympathy
Of the Jews throughout the world for
this cause. At the time of the out
break of the war a complete plan had
been maturcd for the establishment Of
q Hebrew university in Jerusalem, q
plan which, with the English occupation
Of the country, is bound before long to
be translated into fact. All of this
was built up on the background of
a network OF Zionist societies and fed
crations of Zionist societies, which had
spread throughout all countries of the
world. Even the Jewish settlements in
Argentina, which the late Baron Ed
mond de Hirsch thought of substitute
ing for Palestine, organized their Zion
ist societies to herald and work for
/ the return of Zion.
have spoken of the marvellous
acnleVementS winch had been attained
during the eight years in which Herzl
led and inspired the movement. To
| give an account Of all the agencies
and institutions and all the organiza
tions which had been established dur
ing those eight years and during the
subsequent period would be TO write
history Of more than one volume.
The United States alone, with its
Federation of American Zionists,
the Federated Societies Of the Middle
West. Order of Sons Of Zion. with the
remarkable movement of the IIadas-
sab wcmen's societies, Young Judea
j M'zrachi Federation and Poalc Zion
Organization, all having various and
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

want to lay the cornerstone of the
edifice which is one day to house the
Jewish nation. The task is so great
that we may treat Of it in none but the
| simplest terms"
Thus, with the modesty and simplic-
! ity Of true greatness, the founder Of
| the movement formulated the task of
the first gathering of Jewish national
| lists. mainly men of professional occu-
pations, who on the initiative of pro-
visional organization committee, which
| had cooperated with the author of
"The Jewish State" had assembled
from all parts of the dispersion to
| deliberate as to how the exile may be
! ended.
1t was, Of course, loosely. organ
lied gathering. The framework of an
organization for the whole Jewish peo-
pie or those who were ready to stand
up and do battle for the Jewish people
had to be created. Old as were the
Zionist aspirations, the idea of giving
| concrete form to this sentiment was
entirely new, and despite his foresight
the founder of the movement never
fully understood the magnitude of the
task. Coming from another environ
ment, he did not understand the weak
and broken condition Of the Jewish
| people; he knew little about the exact
situation within Palestine, but accord
ing to one chronicler Of the first con-
gress this very weakness was his
strength. "Not his the paralyzing
sense of Jewish humor," and the lack
of inside Jewish knowledge saved him
from Jewish irresolution and steeled
| him to bold action, which by its very
boldness carried the day.
The work had to be begun from the
beginning. To be sure, the organiza
tion of the "Lovers of Zion" in Russia
had begun its work of colonization
in Palestine in the year 1882, and by
the time of the Chovevi Zion Confer
ence, held at Kattowtz in 1884, there
were many groups associated with this
work in different countries, the Odessa
committee having become formidable
was also the order Of the "Bene Mo-
that period by the Hebrew writer
Asher Ginzberg. But these societies,
which were in part drawn upon by the
new movement, owed their existence
to other ideas and at first looked
askancc at political Zionism, and they
remained irreconcilablc to the new
currents of thought even for time
after which they had become an inte-
grail part of the new movement. A
larger and more comprehensive organ
iZation, based on national and political
lines, had to be formed, and all of the
as yet uncrystallized and conflicting
views, including the opinions of the
Lovers of Zion," who were primarily
interested in practical work Of coloni-
zation, had to be cast into the mould
of a synthetic programme upon which
all elements could unite.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
The ask of the
+ irst Congress

The first congress was therefore
faced with the uncommonly difficult
task of framing out of complexity of
views the IDEAS laid down by Herzl in
his "Jewish State" the principles Of
his theoretical forerunncrs, the expert
ences of the old Zonsts and the opin-
ions of the newa uniform and COM
prehenslve programme.
This programme to be effective had
to embrace all essentials, besides hay
ing to be short, clear and decisive. How
successfully the commission elected by
the congress to draft the programme
achieved its object cannot better be
demonstrated than by the fact that the
programme adopted by the first con-
gress is still in force to-day unaltered,
after long and difficult years in the life
of the party. The Basic programme,
named after the place of meeting,
reads:
The aim Of Zionism is to create for
the Jewish people a publicly. legally
secured home in Palestine
In order to attain this the congress
adopted the following means:
1. To promote, in so far as it
serves the above object, the settle
ment in Palestine of Jewish agri-
IL,
and men following professions.
2. TO organize tho entire Jewish
people by means Of general institu-
fiOns conforming to the laws of the
land.
3. To strengthen and fur her Jew
ish sentiment and national self-con-
scousness.
4. TO obtain the sanction Of gov
ernments necessary to carrying GU:
the objects of Z;0nism.
The question of tho organization OF
d party whose adherents are dispersed
over all lands and belong to the mos,
varied grades of spiritual, communal
and social life was the complex problem
confronting the congress. After Dr. Nj
Bodenheimcr had submitted "a report o.,
tic subject a comm Mission was Appoiut-
ed, and after some difficulty it sue
ceedcd in celebrating a system Of or
ganization which although modified il
some details in later years still retains
its essential features.
AS tho underlying principle Of The
organization the popular idea Of the
shekcl contribution and its association
with the party membership was par
ticularly successful, and the congress.
adopted the following main outlines O.
the constitution:
I. The chief organ of the movement
is the congress.
= Every Zionist is entitled to vote
for a delegate to congress who pays
for Zionist purposes an annual vol
untary contribution of at least one
shekel. equal to one shilling, IS cents
in United States money.
3. Two hundred shekel payers have
the right to elect delegate to con-
gress.
This democratic system, which estab
lished the equality of men and women
rich and poor within the movement
certainly contributed much to its late
development Tho government of tn,
organization, which by the above con
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
Israel on His Own Soil
By D. w. Hermalin

liberate their country from the forcirn
invader.
The Jewish nation succumbed to the
enemy. When they were driven into
captivity they were met by hostile pa
gan nations and subsequently by hos
tile Christian nations, who never
ceased prosecuting them.
Do you blame tho Jews for LOOKING
askancc at Christianity and for not re-.
garding favorably the founder Of a 70.
ligion which hanged them, which
burned them at the stake, which intro
duccd the Inquisition, which accused
them Of drinking the blood of Christian
children, which instituted pogroms
against them?
And now?
The Jew, like the rest Of mankind
can hate when he is prosecuted, and
knows also how to be grateful when
true friendship is shown him.
If Palestine be restored to the Jew
it will have been the result of the ac,
tion of noble Christian nations, whose
sons have shed their blood TO recon.
quer it from the Turks
The sad past will be speedily forgot.
ten. Aye, it is even now forgotten.
In this great struggle for democracy
the Jew realizes that civilization has
at last placed him where he belongs
by reason of right and justice. Libertv
J and equality were ever the goals IF the
Jew. Now they are almost realized
How will the Jew regard the holv
Christian places in Palestine?
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
The Restoration of
The Lost Treasure

He will obliterate the dark pages Of
his history and see looming up before
his eyes the majestic figure of his own
blood, Jesus the Nazarene, the meek
teacher of old Judea, who preached
peace and good will to all men. Now
after SO many centuries of SUFFERING
the followers Of Jesus, the Chris,
tians will have been the ones to
bring Israel back into his own.
The Christians may idolize all the
holy Christian shrines of Palestine. but
the Jew will look upon them with that
love and tenderness which is born after
lost treasure is returned to its reg
ular owner.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
Wedding the Dream
To the Reality

Zion was of the realm of vision,
dream and prophecy to this unworldly
scholar. 1t was an object grand and
far off and somehow to be obtained,
but he could not associate in his mind
this iridescent hope with the common
place activities of the day which are
required even to make the dream come
true. For two thousand years an OBJ
ject of prayer, Zion had become chiefly
matter Of prayer, of yearning and
spiritual aspiration, and had become
less and less q goal to be worked for
with ones hands. Indeed, the extreme
ly pious had evolved the idea that only
through Providential means could the
restoration be brought about, though
labors performed that pointed in the
direction of the fulflment of prophecy
were not to be scorncd, and the extreme
radicals in Jewish religious thought
abjuring Zion, had carly denounced the
Zionists for placing the hope Of re-
demption iii the performance of mum
dane and material tasks. Thus did over
grown spirituality run'to seed.
TO bridge the gulf between the phan.
'tasmagoric Ghetto and the matter-of-
fact world, to establish mental rcla-
tions between the dream and reality
was the task Of DR.. Herzl and the
faithful licutcnants who gathered
about him in response to his first call
TO accomplish this huge task, large
and all-cmbracing organization had to
be founded, and, all the existing large
Jewish bodies dcvoting themselves to
merely local or philanthropic purposes
the structure had to be reared from its
very foundation, tho whole machinery
had to be created from beginning t.
end-thc story Of creation repeated ii
miniature, for as far as national self
help was concerned, the Jewish worlt
was Uniformed and void and darkness
was upon the face of the Deep the
ocean Of despair.
"Fellow delegates" said DR.. Herzl, as
he mounted the platform of the Baslt
Casino on that evcntful August day II
1897. "as one of those who called this
congress into being, have beer
granted the privilege of welcoming you
This ! shall do briefly, for if we wish
to serve the cause we should economic
the valuable moments of the congress
There is much to be accomplished
within the space Of three days. We
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

stitution embraced all shekcl payers,
was vested by congress in the hands of
an factions committee" and. in view of
the distribution Of the organization all
over the globe, a small committee with
its seat in Vienna and further COM
mittee consisting of one or more repre-
sentatives of each country. DIR. Theo-
dor Herzl was elected head of the "ac-
tions committee" and he held that po-
sition. as we'll as that of president of
the congress, until his death.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

AS the legendary horn of Roland, AZ
Roncesvalle:, so now the call Of France
has sounded all over the world In the
meantime. till great armies shall bring
her succor. she is girding herself fol
The fray alone. Her leader summons
her strength and the whole natio'l'
strong and quick to his touch, quW-
ers with the memories Of the Mara,ss
and Nerdun. The whole nation VII
follow because leader has come =
las,
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
Upper New York State Ex-
perienced AZ Degrees Be-
low Zero-City Coolest in
48 Years
Temperature Increased De-
mand for Food and Coal,
While Snow and Ice
Blocked Supply
By S. K. Pearson

Cooperative Observer, U. S. Weather
Bureau
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-25
STOMACH UPSET?
Get at the Real Cause-Take DR..
Edwards Olive Tablets

That's what thousands of stomach
sufferers are doing now. Instead of
taking tones, or trying to patch up a
poor digestion, they are attacking the
real cadse of the aiiment - clogged liver
and disordered bowels.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets arouse the
liver in soothing. healing way. When
the liver and bowels arc performing their
natural functions, away goes indigestion
and stomach troubles.
II you have a bad taste in your
mouth, tongue coated, appetite poor,
lazy, don't-care feeling. no ambition or
energy, troubled with undgested foods
you should take Olive Tablets, the sub
etitute for calomel.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets are 2
purely vegetable compound mixed with
olive oil You will know them by. then
olive color. They do the work without
gripping, cramps or pain.
Take one or two at bedtime for quict
relief, so you can eat what you IKE
At l0c and 25c per box. All druggists
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-25
QUOTA IN SIGHT
IN X. OF c. DRIVE
Rutland First Of Larger Cities to Give
Definite Assurance Of Over
Subscription.

BURLINGTON, Jan. 25.-Earlv in /
the day yesterday word came IN to
state headquarters from Or. +. Ma
honey. district manager for Rutland
county, that Rutland city would surely
pass her quota Of 1000 in the knights
Of Columbus drive. and, further, that
they were going right ahead TO finish
the Job in typical Rutland style. Much
of the businesa district was not yet
rauvassad and Rutland county Should
| have a gratifying excess oyer her al
lotment
| Word comes to headquarters that IN
many localities throughout the state the
canvasscrs have withheld reports, and,
| in many cases. the active work i'll sec
tons until the industrial plants could
Iresumc operations Wednesday morning
Springfield is notable example, there
the early days of the campaign have
been largely taken up with missionary
work; hut the local managers have eV-
cry confidence of coming across with
their quotas or exceeding them.
Ludlow is ono of the banner towns
with 5000 reported TO date on a quote
OF only 5000. Local Manager McGratl
of Milton reports a remarkable sue
cess in his town. With quota O.
1854 the first meeting held there net
, ted %45o. Bellows Falls had raise
considerably more than half the quot.
9 | OF l,N62 by Wednesday night and
report received late yesterday says sh
y has passed Brattlaboro. \ keen spin
. Of rivalry exists between these tx
towns that speaks we'll for the success
Of the campaign in both places.
Burlington had a total Wednesda
: night of - .334. and the solicitors al
J. meeting with such encouragement tina
c all are predicting a healthy over-sul
scription.
- State Chairman Wright said: lit
to be expected that almost every l.
cality some people will be overlooke
in this canvass. Such persons shoul
consider it a duty and privilege to Q
in touch voluntarily with either the
Eecal or state headquarters. As Ru
1 land paper has pointed out, there is !
such word as alibi in such eampai!
az this.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-25
RRATTIEBOROLO

Rev d. L. Trout will conduct the
chapel service at the Retreat Sunday
afternoon at , o clock.
The young people of the Centre Con
grcgationaI church win serve Hoover
supper, with various patriotic features,
in the chapel Friday, Feb. %
Ouestionnaires numbered from 1152
t. 1904 were mailed today from the
Office Of the local board for Windhbm
county, 10 be executed and returne3
/ within seven days.
! The southbound train due here at
600 =. NJ, was DELAYED in the railroad
ward an hour or more last night, one
pair of trucks jumping the rails. i
already was considerably late
The snowplow which has been work,
ING on the West River railroad was
called to the New London road yester-
dav. but returned this morning to the
work of opening up the West River
line. 1t has gotten past Townshend.
DR.. &. r Anderson is directed to ap-
pear NJ White River Junction today
for instruction by Capt. Waller, I )
A. relative TO the examination Of men
Tor the National army, Medical otli
GERS OF each OF the local boards Of tht
state are 10 ltttiFC liLN 1ll~si ttCt4o4l'
j The funeral OF Mrs John Bcliveau a
Flat street was held in st. Michael
= Roman Catholic church at o 'cloe!
+ this morning. mass being said hv Rev
n James T. Rand The body was place
Il in til, tomb in Prospect Hill cemetery
The bearers were George Beliveau, De
losa Beliveau, CLAYTON Beivcau an
IS John Hanks, ali OF Brattlehoro
o The funeral Of Charles H. Hollan
~ was held at II clock this forenoo
Is in the home ii his niece, Mrs. Will /
d smith of Oak street. Rev Clark
ir Browncll, pastor Of the First BaFti>
church, oificiated. The body wa
k placed in the tomb III Prospect Hi
ID cemetery to await burial III Townshen
n next spring. The bearers were Charlt
ps l.. Shattuck of Staten Island, \. y
Fred II. Holland of East Dover, Pal
IT, Holland of Townshend and VIII
Smith. Those present from ont
town besides those already mentions
i were Mrs F. II, Holland, Mrs. Park
'l'-I Holland Miss Carrie Merriield of NJ
ayI York, Miss Cora +. and Miss Floren
en- A. Kathan of Springfield (Nt.) and
At L. Bailey Of Putney
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-25
AMERICA MUCH INTERESTED.
Rcpcrt That U. S. Would Finance Ire
land Under Home Rule.

LONDON, Jan. 25.-The London
Eeleeranl 3, Dublin correspondent states
that a report from Washington that tAe
United States is prepared to loan Ire
land f20.000O0o to obtain the fulles,
measure of home rule and that Amerl-
can capitalists are ready to invest a
like sum in Ireland if the question Is
settled, is prominently displayed IN all
Irish papers and has caused the lv2hest
interest. The Dublin correspondent OF
the Times says that the report fur
nishes the friends of q settlement witr
new and powerful argument and viii
serve to increase the disrPpute Of tn
Sim Fem policy, whose Violence an'
abuse now embrace the President an'
government Of the United States.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-25
ATROCITIES BY AUSTRIANS.
italian Prisoners Used as Shields from
Gunfire of Comrades.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.--ltalion Of
fetal dispatches continue to tell OF
atrocities and horrors pcrpetrated on
prisoners of waf and the Italian civil
population by the Austro-German in
vaders.
Near Codrippo the invading troops
drove Italian prisoners before them to
be slaughtered by the guntire of thei"
comrades and ut Piaven the Aastrians
drove parties of civilians handcutfed
and nanacled together ahead Of their
advance into the Italian fire.
Near Caserottc sailors and shock
troops of Italian forces were attacked
apparently by large number of women
who turned out to be Austrian troops
in petticOats.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-25
Order Just Issued Applying
to Hotels, Restaurants
and Boarding Houses
AMOUNT LIMITED
EVEN TO FRACTIONS
Each Guest Has to Supply His Own
Sugar for Drinks-Very Strict Re
ouirements in Regard to Fats, Includ-
ing Butter and Margarine.

LONDON, Jan. 25.--Lord Rhondda.
food controller. has taken drastic meas
ures to deal with the meat shortage
An official order has been Issued apply
lug to all hotels. restaurants, boarding
houses and public places, to begin forth
with. 1t specifies two meatless days
we,klv-Tuesdays and Fridays in the
London district and Wednesdays and
Fridays in other parts OF the kingdom.
Between the hours of and lo.3o
clock in the morning no meat, poui-
try o. game may he consumed on any
| dav. no milk may be consumed as q
beverage except by children under ten
| years of age.
A guest must provide his own sugar
| for sweetening beverages except that
residents of hotels. clubs and boarding
houses may be supplied with not exceed
| ing six ounces of sugar weekly for TINS
| purpose, if they do not possess ordinary
sugar ratiOns.
The order gives a table indicating
! infinitely. even to fractions, the exact
iamount of meat. sugar, bread, -four
butter or other fats allowed each guest
for cach meal for the guidance of hote
and restaurant proPrietors in then
weekly dietary OF fats only a
ounces may be allowed each guest daily
of which not exceeding one-half ma1
consists OF butter and margarine.
The weekly allowance for each CUES
is: Meat, 30 ounces; bread, pounds
q flour. If ounces; sugar for cooking,
ounces; butter or fats, S%i ounces.
In weighing III ounces of poultry o
game are rcckoncd the same as on
ounce Of meat; four ounces OF bread ar
2 rec koncd as three ounces Of flour,
Public eating places, which do ne
a serve meals exceeding II pence IN prc
: exclusive Of beverages, are eXempte
/, from observing mgqttleSS Ja6b.- \
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-25
CHURCH NOTICES.

Confessions will be held IN ~t. Nj
chaels Roman Catholic church saturday
morning III O'Clock, for all the children
OF the parish Confessions for adults Sat
urday afternoon at $50 and in the even
ing at 7.3o. Masses Sunday at $50 and
1870. Bcnediction Immediately after the
last mass. Sunday school at Oak Grove
at , O'Clock 1t is the duty OF the par
ents that the children be at confession
at Q O'Clock Saturday morning and at
catechism Sunday afternoon at >.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-25
INDORSES KING ALBERT.
Vatican Looks to Austrian Emperor fol-
Support.

ROME. Jan. 25.-Emperor Karl OF
Austria Hungary is insisting on full
recognition Of Belgium s rights against
German militarist efforts to prevent an
unequivocal Teutonic statement as to
the nation before trial of an unprc-
dented west front offensive, according
to word received by the Vatican.
The Holy See regarded the reply of
King Albert of Belgium to the political
peace appeal of last August, just an
nounc,d as Of the highest diplomatic
Importance. 1t was held in some quar-
| tiers that such a firm statement NIGH
| force some clear definition of Ger
many s position as to Belgium.
The Osservatore Romano declare
King Albert $ note "a splendid yin
dication Of the high and noble motiv