Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-12-08

possible to issue government loan. Without "a
loan many public works that would be directly Or
indirectly remunerative cannot be executed.
1.-THE financial conditions of eastern and central
Europe and internal difficulties within the Zionist
organization in the United States have prevented
the Zionist movement from providing as vet any
large sums for enterprises of development or col
Observation-Disclosures, indeed, several land purchases
have been completed and many preparations made
for the future. AS consequence, while there
has been much pressure to admit Jewish immi>
grants there has been comparatively little expan>
sion in opportunities for employment.
1.-The agricultural development of the country,
and, indeed, its urban development also, great
ly hampered by the condition of confusion into
which the titles of ownership of land We're allowed
to fall during the Turkish regime. There is here
tangle which will need years of patient effort to
unravel."
OF the total population of 100000 the Jewish
element numbers 10000, almost all of whom have
entered Palestine during the last forty years. The
success of the Jewish agricultural colonies at
tracted the eager interest of the masses of the
Jewish people scattered throughout the world.
In many countries they We're living under the
pressure of laws or customs which cramped their
capacities and thwarted their energies; they saw
in Palestine the prospect of a home in which they
might live at ease
Profoundly discontented, as numbers of them
were with life of petty trade in crowded cities.
they listened with ready to the call of a
healthier and finer life as producers on the land.
Some among them, agriculturists already, saw in
Palestine the prospect of soil not less fertile,
and an environment far more free than those to
which they We're accustomed.
Emigration of Jews to Palestine is increasing
rapidly in central and eastern Europe, and the new
Palestine immigration regulations would allow
of controlled immigration Of about 1900 Zion
lists Of the pioneer class during the coming
year, said s. Landmann, secretary of the Zionist
organization, in an interview
Mr. Landmann who is now in Vienna on spe-
cal mission in connection with Jewish emigrants
to Palestine, said the selection of the emigrants
is being made by the Zionist organization, which
has established Palestine offices in the important
Jewish centers Preference is given to young peo
pie, strong in body and determined in spirit, who
have had actual experience in agriculture or other
annual work. and who know Hebrew.
Several thousands of such pioneers-known by
the Hebrew name of Chalitzim-have already left
and others waiting in the large centers unit
proper arrangements for their transport BIZ
made and until new openings for employment II
Palestine reported.
One of the features of the pioneer movement
is that 1T Includes fair proportion of girls of we'll
TODD families, who have decided devote thel
lives to the Palestine. They act as land girl
and take care of the domestic arrangements in thu
Jewish colonies
Reviewing the whole field in 'Zionism and World
Politics. DIR. Horace Meyer Kallen concludes tina
at least the cornerstone of the future Zionist edi
flee has been laid. And DR. Kallen believes tina
this is an event of profound and hopeful signifi
canoe for the Jewish He feels that TIL
Jew has too long been compelled to choose between
the unwelcome alternatives of sinking his ricl
cultural and spiritual heritage in thoroughgoin
assimilation with the life of the country in whic
he lives and of leading the starved, unhappy eS
istence Of suspected outcast man with def
mite racial consciousness but without country.