still needed to make up its statutory capital of £50,000. It declares it to be the duty of every individual Zionist to co-operate in the raising of this money to the best of his ability.
(3). The Congress expresses its wish that a large sum be placed at the disposal of the Anglo-Palestine Company, which, by granting long-term credits upon a financially secure basis, should render possible the settlement of classes suitable for agriculture who have either restricted means or none at all.
The Congress refers the following resolutions to the Executive for consideration and investigation and for the eventual carrying out of the proposals contained therein:
(a). In the vicinity of the towns with a large Jewish population, model farms should be created aiming especially at the agricultural training of the old-established Jewish element, and particular attention should be paid therein to gardening and dairy-farming.
(b). The agriculturists employed on the farms of the National Fund should be utilized as much as possible for in-
specting the institutions for the agricultural training of school-children, and they should also, by means of lecturing tours and instruction, exercise an influence upon the proper development of these institutions and upon the increasing of agricultural knowledge in the colonies.
(c). In proportion to the funds to be raised, workmen's dwellings for unmarried laborers should also be built in the Galilean colonies (not only. as hitherto in the Jewish), and workmen's dwellings with gardening plots for married laborers should be erected in the vicinity of existing colonies and towns.
The Congress welcomes the growth of National educational] institutions in Palestine, regards the existence side by side of institutions of different tendencies as quite natural, and expresses the hope that the relation between them will be none but that of peaceful rivalry, in the educational and intellectual sphere.
The complete text of the Organization Statutes and the Order of Procedure as adopted by Congress will be published in England in due course.
The New Era
("Here endeth the first chapter."—American Israelite, September 22nd, 1911.)
The time has indeed come for a wider outlook, a new attitude toward Zionism on the part of those who have hitherto taken no part in the heritage of Israel which is theirs no less than ours.
In the past, it has been the persistant habit of a Jew Anglo-Jewish publications to belittle the achievements of Zionism and to exaggerate its difficulties. Much is made, just now, of occasional instances of anti-Semitism in the land of Israel. And it is charged
that Zionists are inclined to minimize anti-Semitism in Palestine. (If this be true, indeed, how convincingly it shows the strength of the Zionist appeal!) As a matter of fact, Zionists have the right to discount whatever difficulties they may have to struggle with in the land of their fathers, provided, they stand, as they do, laboring to overcome them, night and day: for this attitude furnishes the credentials of their kinship with all that have ever striven greatly in a great cause.