The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-18
11any Kenoshans Attend
Opening Session of Con
vention Held In Chicago
On Sunday Afternoon.
CHEER PROMINENT men

KenOsha S Jewry was well represent
ed at the opening session Of the Zionist
Organization of America at the Audi
torinm Theatre in Chicago today. LII
addition to j. D. Rosenblum, Emanuel
Epstein, and the Misses Ruth Epstein
and Celia Cohn, Kenosha' IS delegates,
several persons interested in the Zionist
movement were among the four thous-
and people who crowded the Auditorium
The convention was opened by Presi-
dent Julian w. Mack. Judge Hugo
Pam, chairman of the Chicago conven-
tion committee, delivered the address of
welcome. Reports were read by Jacob
De Haas, executive secretary; Louis
| Lipsky, Organization Secretary; and
! Miss Henrietta Sold, Education Secre-
tary. The report of the Committee on
Credentials was followed by the cleo
ton of convention officers and the Sc
lection of the Committee on Committees.
| Cheer upon cheer arose from the
crowd when the name of President Will
son, ~ the champion of humanity, y,
Arthur Balfour the British foreign
minister, and Justice Louis d. Brandeis
OF the United States Supreme Court,
were mentioned in the presidential adj
dress of Mr.. Mack While the cheering
continued some one struck up the plain-
/ tive chord of Matikvch 80 Our
Hope which is the Jewish national
anthem, and many wept as the pathetic
strains swept through the Auditorium.
/ Judge Mack said, in part: "The ma
tlonalizlng of the Jewish people does
not mean the de-nationalizing of the
American Jew, the English Jew or the
Jew of any other nationality. There
can be no divided allegiance and the
Jew IN any country will remain good
citizen Of his nation for there is no
|compulsion of the Jews to return to
Palestine. Only those who wish will
go; the rest will remain in the
countries of their residence, as always,
good citizens, but with warm spot
of affection for their brethren in the
land of biblical promise.
/ The address was closed with the
statement that 10000 Jews had been
! enrolled in the movement during the
past year, proof positive that nine
ltenths Of the Jews in America were
! Zionists.
/ The central committee of the Zion
lst organization in Russia, the British
organization, Nathan Strauss of New
York, and numerous others, sent greet
lngs and messages of encouragement
which were read by Mr.. De Haas.
The message from Mr.. Strauss read
as follows: 1t is not for use merely
to survive but to preserve our religious
character. The spiritual, moral, and
ethical forces of our fathers bequeathed
Ito US enabled us to contribute to the
true Ideals of America. May there re
suit from your deliberations q Jewish
commonwealth in Palestine established
with the guiding principle of justice
and the glory Of freedom and the hap
piness Of her citizenship
The zimra Ensemble rendered a
forty minute program of distinctively
Hebrew music, immediately after the
opening Of the convention.
IN the evening prominent Hebrew
| speakers gave addresses at the Herzl
School; a Young Judea conference was
held IN the ball room of the Auditorium
Hotel; concert was given at the Chi
cago Hebrew Institute, and confer
ence OF the Jerusalem Printing Works
vas held IN the Crystal Room Of the
| fisherman Hotel.