4
THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
Zionists Begin Great Cam paign
JEWS CAN NOW PURCHASE
LAND ON MORTGAGE.
Seek 150,000 More Jews to Help Establish Homeland in Pales-
tine—Shekel to be Propaganda Instrument.
The Polish government .council has
granted the request of the Jews to
abolish the old discriminatory . law,
forbidding Jews to purchase land on
a mortgage basis.
The request was sent to the gov-
ernment'council in the form of a pe-
tition signed by a la'rge number of
influential Jews of Poland. The mat-
ter was discussed at a recent session
of the council and it was decided to
abolish the law, which was also detri-
mental to Polish interests.
An enrollment of 150,000 is the mini-
mum which has been set as the goal for
the Restoration Shekel Campaign, which
has just been launched by the Zionist
Organizations of America, and for which
every organized Zionist throughout the
United States has been mustered into
service.
Plans for this campaign, the most ex-
tensive ever undertaken by the Zionists
in this country, have been carefully
worked out during the summer months.
and the call for volunteers which went
forth to all the societies of all the
branches of the movement included care-
fully detailed instructions as to the pro-
cedure of what is intended virtually to
be a plebiscite to determine how many
Jews in America are in favor of the
plan to establish in Palestine a publicly
recognized, legally secured Homeland
for the Jewish people. A similar plebis-
cite, though not according to the same
plan, is now being held in Russia and
in Poland, and is meeting with tremen-
dous success..
iasm on the part of the hundreds of
volunteers who have responded to the
"Call for Service." Demonstrations are
being planned everywhere, "button-
holing" campaigns are being organized
and house-to-house canvasses. If the
plans of the managers of the campaign
are carried out every Jewish man and
%voman in the United States will, within
the next few months, have the Zionist
propaganda brought to him directly.
With 150,00) as the minimum, it is ex-
pected that when the campaign gets into
full swing the total will be far in excess
of this number.
"Do you believe in Jewish unity and
solidarity?" says' the :ircular issued by
the organization. "Do you believe the
Jews ought to have a national center in
Palestine? Do you believe that the re-
vival of Hebrew as a living language has
value in the revival of a dignified Jewish
life? If so, you must agree that these
lofty aims can only be ralized by at ,
organized effort, and you are in. duty
bound to become a member of the Zion-
ist Organization. This you can do by
paying your Shekel, the minimum annual
tax.
"When a Zionist, offers to sell you a
Shekel, this is what he mtans:
"He invites you to enroll as a mem-
ber of the International Zionist Organ-
ization, and by that enrollment to show
that you join with the Zionist Organiza-
tion in the great work of rehabilitating
the Jewish Nation upon its own land,
where its future will be as bright as its
paSt was glorious."
The Restoration Shekel Campaign was
begun this week and it is expected that
it will reach its climax when the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress opens its sessions,
in Washington, on November 18.
The Supplementary Services c o nduct-
ed for the holydays under the auspices
of Temple Beth El at the Unitarian
Church were eminently successful. The
attendance was large and enthusiastic
and the officers,of Temple Beth El were
greatly pleased with the outcome. It is
expected that services on Yom Kippur
will tax the capacity of the church to
its utmost. The morning sermon at the
Supplementary Services on Yom Kippur
will he preached by Rabbi Leo M. Frank-
lin, and Rabbi Samuel S. Mayerberg
A Union-of Polish Jews in Russia will on the same occasion occupy the
has been established at Kieff. The pulpit of the Temple proper. Because
objects of the union are to assist the of the unprecedented growth of the Con-
Poles in the creation, as a result of gregation, attendance at the Temple
the war, of a completely unified Po- proper must he restricted to members of
land, governed on a democratic basis, the congregation. At the Supplementary
and ready to accord to Jews full Services all who are not otherwise af-
equality and national rights.
filiated C are cordially invited.
111 ■ 11 ■ 0=1 ■ 0=111010111111 ■ MIHMO ■ 110111
•
MICHIGAN'S GREATEST
•
In asking for a minimum of 150,000
shekel-payers, the managers of the cam-
paign have made it clear that this num-
ber must be obtained over and above
the number of those who are already en-
rolled in the Zionist movement. At the
same time it has been impressed upon
the' volunteers that the purpose is not
to get 150,000 twenty-five cent pieces
(the price of the shekel) but to secure
an enrollment of at least that number of
American Jews and Jewesses, eighteen
years of age or over, who are definitely
in favor of the Zionist program. This
means that every volunteer enlisted for
the campaign will become a propagan-
dist, whose duty it will be to talk Zion-
ism to every person he or she may meet,
to explain the purposes of the move-
ment, the need of its accomplishment,
and to overcome whatever opposition
may be encountered.
They have been instructed that the
shekel is the Jewish national poll-tax,
instituted by the International Zionist
Congress, the legislative body, of the
Zionist organization, and is the mini-
mum annual obligation of every person
who desires to enroll in the organiza-
tion and have the privilege of voting for
delegates to the International Congress.
The shekel is indicative of the demo-
cratic character of the movement. No
person can have any greater privilege in
the Zionist movement than that which he
secures by paying the shekel, even if he
should contribute thousands of dollars
to any of the funds of the movement.
Indeed, a person maY contribute colossal
sums to these funds, and yet if he does
not pay the shekel, and thereby. enroll in
the movement, he is not regarded as a
Zionist, no matter what his sympathies
may be.
TEMPLE BETH EL SUPPLE-
MENTARY SERVICES A
GREAT SUCCESS.
FOOD EXPOSITION I
Every Afternoon
Mon. Sept. 17
and Night
For 2 Weeks
STARTING
IN—
•
COLISEUM
Jefferson Avenue at Belle Isle Bridge
Seven Street Car Lines Take You to the Door
FREE
COOKING SCHOOL
Daily at 3 P. M.
Conducted by Expert Sherwood P. Snyder
First Four Lectures on Canning Foods
Daily Lectures by Nationally Known Speakers
60
BEAUTIFUL BOOTHS
EXHIBITS AND
DEMONSTRATORS
Miss Bertha Meyers'
60
LADIES' BAND
Direct from Atlantic City
Some of the Exhibitors of
Foods and
Beverages
Armour & Co.
Fox River Butter Co. .
Pompeian Olive Oil
National Grocery Co.
Bour Coffee Co.
Blue Valley Butter Co.
Postum Cereal Co.
East Side Creamery
Carnation Milk
Knox's Gelatine
Detroit Creamery
Vernor's Ginger Ale
Delmonico Canned Goods Co.
Smith Bros.' Cough Drops
Aunt Jemima's Pancake Flour
One Minute Tapioca
W. L. Wegener, Soft Drinks
Royal Salad Dressing Co.
Rumford Baking Powder
Hodde Bros. (Bevo)
Good Luck Margarine
0. K. Fansler Co.
Distillo Co.
Canadian Government
•
•
•
Some of the Exhibitors of
Household
Appliances
Detroit City Gas Co.
T. B. Rayl Co.
Henry C. Weber Co.
Franz Premier Co.
Hay Electric Co.
F R I E E SOUVENIRS
AMUSEMENTS
•
9g
GREAT COLISEUM roLR ONE ADMISSION " to°
Advices received from every part of
the United States report great enthus- Oulamoss•a
■
bamosaw•amar•ammeare