Evening Public Ledger · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · 5 July 1916

CP-1916-004

$1,000,000 Corporation To Conduct Colony Of Zionists In Palestine

Resolution Unanimously Adopted at the Closing Session of Federation’s Convention · PLEA FOR WAR VICTIMS

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“A plan to form a $1,000,000 corporation to colonize Palestine after the war is over and thus make the place a haven for Jews of the entire world was recommended in a resolution unanimously adopted this afternoon at the closing session of the 19th annual convention of the Federation of American Zionists at the Hotel Walton.

Today’s action caused considerable enthusiasm among those attending the convention, in view of the fact that it follows quickly the announcement yesterday of the proposed establishment of a Jewish colony in Palestine, to be financed by Mrs.

Joseph Fels, who is devoting her life to furthering the cause of single tax… The stock of the proposed corporation, advocated in the resolution, is to be subscribed by the Jews of the United States… Fully 5000 persons in Palestine are facing starvation since the war, according to Dr.

Levin Epstein, of New York, who in a forceful plea asked the convention to increase its subscription for the war relief in Palestine from $30,000 to $54,000. He said that much was needed annually, and there were 1000 families in want. The Jews there, he said, are helped by getting the opportunity to help themselves.

They are given employment, and if the money received is insufficient for their needs loans are made to be paid after the war.”

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A corporation with a capital figure, a stock subscription, a board and a plan, reported as business news in Philadelphia in July 1916. The verb in the first sentence is colonize and the noun in the headline is colony, neither of them hedged, sixteen months before Balfour.

What the money is for is set out twice over: a colony, and relief for five thousand people facing starvation. The people already living in the country are not a party to either, and the last sentence is about loans repayable after the war.

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