Various Other Activities.
With regard to the Judean and South Galilean Colonies, the Palestine Land Development Co. has just completed some important purchases of land there.
In Russia Zionism has to contend against a strong antagonism, but, on the other hand, the young generation is turning more and more to the movement, and since the project of a University in Jerusalem has come into being, the organization has gained a good deal in respect and prestige.
Work has been done with untiring energy in England, America, Canada and South Africa since the Congress. Of late a closer connection with the Head Offices has also been established by the Societies in Argentine, Mexico
and Brazil.
In Germany the organization has been fully occupied in warding off attacks, which indeed have been more beneficial than harmful to the movement, as they were the means of more accurate information being obtained and distributed.
Lectures have been systematically given in Roumania, Belgium Holland, Galicia, Switzerland and Italy, and the local groups have been centralized as much as possible.
Three-quarters of the financial year for which the receipts of the shekel are used has already gone. But the Zionist Organization does not consider that a mistake, as it believes that there has never existed a more favorable or suitable moment in the whole history of Zionism to increase the shekel collection.
WITHIN THE RANKS
THE ROCHESTER CONVENTION
The Seventeenth Annual Convention of the Federation of American Zionists will be held at Rochester, N. Y., opening for regular business on Sunday morning, June 28, and closing on Tuesday evening, June 30. Delegates arriving in Rochester before the Sabbath, will be entertained on Saturday evening, June 27, and special religious services and sermons will be arranged for.
All societies affiliated with the Federation are asked to arrange for the election of their delegates, to formulate their suggestions, and to take steps to secure good representation at the convention.
Any society affiliated with the Federation and in good-standing, is entitled to elect one delegate, for each twenty-five of its members or a major fraction thereof. To be in good-standing a society must have paid its per capita and shekel tax to the Federation before May 31.
The Order Bnai Zion, the Knights of Zion and the Mizarchi Federation will elect their delegates to the Federation convention either at their annual conventions or by their committees, co-operating with their constituent gates or camps. A special
This department is conducted By ESTHER AST.
subconvention of the Daughters of Zion will be held during the convention days.
We have had a year of Zionist propaganda unparalleled in our history, and this together with the interest aroused by the Haifa Technicum controversy, have created a situation which demands our careful attention. We cannot allow the agitation to spend itself without attempting to organize the sentiment thus created.
The Federation must be given greater support in order that it may be in a position to systematize the propaganda, follow it up, and extend Zionist influence. Our own institutions, like Dos Yiddishe Folk, The Maccabaean, The Young Judaean, must be strengthened and their influence broadened.
To consider these problems, we must have at our next convention our most experienced and best informed co-workers to participate in its deliberations.
The Federation is making a strong effort to secure the attendance of all such Zionists who can help in the work of forming broad, progressive policies for the coming year.