disturbed in the "goluth." It is not building for to-day, but for the future. It is true, immediate advantage is lost to the Zionist movement, but the advance of the Jewish people must be orderly, systematic and carefully planned.
We believe that, as the time advances for the general settlement of the land, the Palestine Commission will have to be given greater powers, and its ultimate position will be that of a buffer against the onrush of settlers. The return of the Jews will be, when successful, one of the most stupendous facts in history, and it need not be expected that the Jewish people, scattered over the face of the globe, will always act for the best, actuated, as they will be, by their individual needs. The movement is the guide of renationalization. It will have to become the executive of the return, when the day comes for action.
For the reasons above stated, Zionists do not look upon the reports of an exodus out of Jaffa and Jerusalem as evils in themselves, or as evidence of any merit. It is but the sifting of the elements of the population; it is the natural ferment attendant on a movement which has not as yet sufhciently cleared the way. Our opponents may quote, with glee, the reports that come from hostile sources as to the dissatisfaction of the young people in Jerusalem or in Jaffa. In the light of the larger things that are being planned, they are insignificant. The emigrants leave, but the home- builders, the patriots, the conscious nationalists remain.
But with the incoming of self-supporting Zionists, who have made a study of conditions, who know the difficulties, and who are alert to the risks and the dangers involved; with the devotion of those leaders who have determined to take their future into their own hands and settle in Palestine, we have good reason to congratulate ourselves on what has been done so far in the way of colonization in Palestine, and the reader who will study Prof. Warburg's report, which we give in this issue, will have good reason to congratulate the movement on having such an able, clear-sighted, devoted leader in this work as is the chairman of the Palestine Commission.
Death of Br. Bembitz
We regret to announce the death of our venerable and valued co-worker in Zionism, Dr. Lewis Naphthali Dembitz, of Louisville, Ky., who passed away on Monday, March 11, at the ripe old age of seventy-four.
Though old in years, Dr. Dembitz found renewed vigor in devotion to Zionist ideals, and no man was so ardent, so expectant, so hopeful in his thoughts of the Jewish future. Zionists will remember how joyously he entered into the work of the Tannersville convention, and with what genial
good-fellowship he conversed with the young men in the movement. He was learned with that particularism which often degenerates into pedantry, but his fund of anecdote, his good-humored recognition of the limits of scholarship in the face of a great race movement, lessened in a great degree this predeliction of scholarship. His knowledge of jurisprudence, both Jewish and non-Jewish, was immense, and he had also a fund of quaint Jewish knowledge, of which it was delightful to hear him tell. His memory retained a great amount of the minute and apparently trivial in Jewish