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TRENCH AND CAMP
CAMP HANCOCK. Au«u.«ta. Oa.
W. J. Alien? Editor.
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Vol. No. I—September 4th, 1913—N0. 43.
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R P. Bliss, Sergeant Cy Hecker,
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W. Welsgal, Frank A. Wood.
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$ WHAT IS FOOD $
$ TO BLOOD ? $
$ $ $ .$ $ $
By C. Hecker
The United btatei will ahoxo with the
Aliiea their sacrifice of food au won as
blood In the cauae of world democracy,
declared Herbert C. Hoover Federal
Food Administer, upon hie return to the
United Staten from Europe.
We aimply have to live with every
economy and waete nothing, Mr. Hoover
declare*.
And eureiv America le and will
ing to do that!
For what in food to blood!
When on the war-torn fields of France
hundreds of American buys are laying
down their lives for democracy, liberty
and humanity, certainly the folks back
home ata nd ready and willing to do with
a Crust of bread, If necessary, that'those
brave mon and those of our Allies may
fight on and on until victory crowns
their efforts.
But it will not be neorasary for Ameri
ca even to stint herself Mr. Hoover hkh
assured the country. It means simply
that not a crumb must bo wasted, that
luxuries /such as candy and sweetened
drinks must be eliminated from the diet
to save sugar, and that we share of our
abundance with the people of the other
Allied countries. Then uh will have en
ough.
In The Trenches
Two men who are resting in a dougout
to escape the heavy eholllng of thu ene
my, for few minutes can not sec each
other fn the blacknes, but begin to chut.
After exchanging Ihe numbers of their
battalions, which happen to be both Ca
nadian and In the same brigade, one
says:
“But you’re not a Johnny Canuck, you
talk like iin Englishman
“That may be. J was born in Kngland
But I tm a Canadian I’ve been out
there for seventeen years.’ the other re
turned a little-, more proudly
“Indeed! I was In Canada only three
years Were'd you come from In old
England?” ,
“Faversham, Kent ”
“Faversham! Wall, that's my nme
What yer name!’’ r
“Reggie Roberta.’'
"W’y, I’m your brother Bill!” Affec
tionate greetings followed, then explain*
ing.
Americanism
4w^^'rt3!:: F.k
--—-p bile mad* • vary distinctive, con
tribution to -he politic*! thought of th*
ages. They baked their work upon a
theory of government and of the state
which wan to preclude he lodgment
of arbitrary power In any "sovereign,"
single or collective, abstract or con
crete. They were solicitous to make
an end of autocracy In every form,
and they mount that of tho mob no less
than that of the crowd As Dr. Hill
put* it: ‘The American Idea was that
there be osttaln rights and liberties
which should never be subject to
abridgement by law. and that en
croachments upon these rights and
liberties by a portion—even by a ma
jority—of th* people, or by any gov
ernment they might establish, should
bo, through a superior and permanent
law. declared Illegal. For this there
was necessary a voluntary renuncia
tion of power In accordance with fixed
I principles of justice." Accordingly the
Constitution was adopted ns tho su
perior and enduring law. and in its
guaranties of liberty was effected tho
renunciation for all time of imperial,
ism in its every form This was the
Americanism of 1787. Thia was tho
oplrlt which Edmund Buiko described
as "a fierce spirit of liberty." And it Is
to the maintenance of those principles
that we owe the greatness of this na
tion.) Our Americanism is not a
mere negation. It ie a positive, con
structive force.—Constllutioned Re
view.
$2,000,000 Sent Home
For Boys Through “Y”
Edward 8. Riker, secretary of the Y M
<5. A. Bureau of Soldiers’ Remittances,
reports that he receives an average of
10.000 remittances a week from the Paris
office for transmission to the soldiers'
homes in the United States. The amount
*o far forwarded exceeds $2,000,000.
This service hae been en popular with
the Midlers that its scope has grown
far beyond expectations To keep up
with the work it was necessarv to en
gage additional clerks and work In re
lays during the entire twenty-four hours,
working steadily eight hours a day. Mr
Riker would have to sign more than 200
chocks an hour by hand to dispute of
10,000 remittanac.es a week, but an in
genious machine enables him to sign
4.000 an hour.
HANCOCK-A-DOODLES |
If has a grouch on all day. and then
puts on a saccharine grin when tho young
man comes to see her after supper, could
you call that a company front?
Buck Privates says that he wishes that
some embryo Edison would invent a soup
spoon that would stay on the side of the
dish instead o doing an Annette Keller
man into the soup just at the soupologi
sal moment.
Isn’t
It beastly
Annoying, when
You breeze into the
Me shack ahead of the
Gang, and seat yourself
And you find a
Plate of steak on the table.
And give it the over and across
And the east and west and
Finally after doing a nice
Piece of research work
You locate a chunk that
Looks tender and you sink
Your bicuspids into it
You find that you’ve
Picked a piece ~nat
Tastes like a hunk
Os fire horse with
The harness till
on?
Corpora! Dephanishuns Slightly lower
than a Major Generrl. Diatinjuished by
Iwo otripes 0.. his arm Some privates
thing corporals should have a few hund
wd stripes on them—running in a cir
cular m~.*ner around them.
Oh you rideless Sunday.
As Mclntyre says, its a great life, if
you don't weaken.
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“PERFECTLY GOOD HATE”
p Writing from France, a correspon
dent expresses amazement over the
! consideration for German captives that
has been shown by American soldiers.
[ In the heat of battle, he says, there
is short shrift for the German; but
when the shells are heard no longer
’ and the wounded and captive have
been removed, the German soldiers
I are shown every possible kindness.
“We waste no perfectly good hate
on captives,” an American officer put
it.
In the language of the Preacher of
old, there is “a tune to hate."
I It is before and in the action—the
I “time to hate.” When the combat is
' ended and the wounded are being
treated and the captured are being
[ classified, it is time to pour oil and
| wine into the wounds and to show
| mercy to the prisoners.
America’s hatred in this war is a
I holy hatred. There is enough of the
i sentimentalist, enough of the Chris
tian, in moat of us to experience a
, shock as we read that the business in
i the present war is to kill Germans, and
to kill enough Germans to achieve a
definite victory that will insure an
abiding peace.
We sacrifice some of our sentimen
talism and go forward to this task to
which we hove dedicated catr lives,
our fortunes and out sacred honor.
But when the enemy is hors du combat
we react to our earlier training and
our finer instincts. We strive then
for the moral conquest.
This is what the officer meant when
TO GENERAL MARCH—THANKS!
"Don’t call them Sammies”—thia is
the message of General Peyton C.
March, Chief of Staff of the United
States j Army, to the newspaper men
of the country.
On behalf of all the soldiers in the
United States service, we thank you,
General March.
Let us read the reasons for your
statement. General:
“Why an upstanding, virile lot of
husky young men should be branded
ea ‘Sammies’! cannot understand. The
British rejected tho term immediately
and called the American troop*
•Yanks.’
"The statement in some of the pa-
Sera that it was originated by the
rench ia absolutely not so, because
all the French people want to have it
explained why it is that these big,
strong men are called ‘Sammies.’
In B Bat of recent Britiah award* for
conaplcucua gallantry under fire were
tho natneo of a number of American
Hovr their nstnea cartsa to be in the
But wm something ot a mystery at
first, for no American troops were
attppoaed to be Schttag Sn that partic
ular saetcr,
• Some American aoldiera ha.l been
brigaded with tho British troops—
Anrscs—but a* tho word to enter tho
engagement w«* received a awascjfo
was a’.ao received »sying that th*
American troops were to bo with
drawn as they were not aufficlaatly
aMteaiHl for a bl<StJ’j?£E»aaiv« l
Our Weekly Fable In Slang
By BARTON RICHARDS
Things are not always what thew seem
to be. For Instance, remember when you
were a shaver in knee pants and you used
to see Uncle Dudley drag out the old
whalebone razor every Saturday a. nr,
whether he needed to or not and give the
spinach on his chin the razz 'Member
how* ou used to sit back and hear the
razor plowing up his front yard like a
carpenter sandpapering an new plank and
you used to wish you had enouggh fuzz
on your upper lip to have an excuse for
st etching out in th* barber's chair and
telling him to go easy?
Looked like a lot of fun didn't it? And
then eno day you noticed you had enough
whiskers to require slight attention and
yon blew < n shekel for a quick and easy
razor to shear em off. Fine About the
first month you used to look forward to
that weekly shave with great gobs of
pleasure. Then about the 4th month
you decided that it wasn't so much fun
after all. and about 2 years later you
decided it was all wrong Hortense, all
wrong.
As one of our great philosophlaers once
said, all is not. gold that glitters. Sure
it isn't, but at the same time it isn’t
always mud either.
Mentioning the remark of our sagebrush
philosopher friend leads me to believe that
the fun of getting a thing is a lot better
than after you get it.
To hear some of the** Puck Privates
tell it. the one thing to be desired m this
army game is a hl ole chuk of metal on
the shoulder, you get me. one of those
shiny little bars on the shoulder, a pair
of pigskins from the knee down and an
Lt. for a h.i’-dle to their name This war
would be a Christmas pudding if they
could induce the government to see it
their way.
At that some of their reasoning is all
to the mustard, it takes a real man to
wear one of Uncle Sam’s officer uniforms
and the dude that knocks off a comish
has something that he can pat himself
between the shoulders for But you never
heard of an officer breaking his arm do
ing it did you?—No? As the ad says,
there's a reason.
There's one Loot whom I know that
has changed his mind a little on the
subject. Six months ago he was a Sarg.
To hear him tell it he had had a hard
he said, “We waste no perfectly good
hate on captives.”
Hatred has been too lightly regard
ed. To some it seems impossible that
there can be any such thing as “per
fectly good hate.” But hatred can be
perfectly good. And hatred may be
harnessed to serve a holy purpose.
The good man, the truthful man,
hates a lie; but yet he may love a liar.
Hating the lie, the good man will
fight to sustain truth. His hatred is
the motive of his warfare. His war
fare serve* an ultimate good.
Righteousness embattled is hatred
organized; but it is the holiest kind
of hatred, which is but another man
ifestation of righteousness.
“Perfectly good hate” is that kind
of force which will show the Prus
sians the error of their ways, and will
show them in the only manner that is
understandable to them.
It is with us, as the President put it,
force, force to the utmost, without
stint or limit.
It is the force that the surgeon uses
as lie employs his skill and the scalpel.
The surgeon is concerned only with
the success of the operation. He cuts
-away all the cancer—and then applies
the healing influences.
So with us. We are going to apply
our skill and our scalpel and we are
going to Cut away until every trace of
the cancerous growth of Prussianism
has been removed from the body of
civilization. Then we are going to
apply such sympathetic treatment as
may be necessary to change the Ger
mans into human beings.
“Nobody in France wants to be
called by that name, and nobody here
ought to call them “Sammies.’"
General March knows the mind of
the soldier. He knows, a* Secretary
Baker knows, that there are certain
•"connotations’’ which the soldier-mind
resents.
It ia not so long since Secretary'
Baker felt it necessary to order a
change in the name of the "Service of
the Rear" because of the "shell-proof
connotation.”
Now General March comes forward
with a atatement that connote* the
silly Sammy.
Call him Yank if you mint —for the
term is sectional no longer.
Call him by a better nama that i*
short and that connotes strength of
body and purpose.
Call him by any other name but
Sammy.
THE AMERICAN ANZACS
The United States ooldlor* heard th*
news with grove misgivings, also with
rather profane mutterinta,
Thon Usey silently stole away.
Whan next they were seen they
were tmiformod in the Jaunty manner
of the Australian forcta.
On receipt of the final order to gw
into vetion the unsessim»ed Ameritstse
went In with their courine Akkd the
!sland-csnriraw.t.
Side by ride with «mm nl tbs
cat of the brave, they were eoaeHe.
uoua for their durii and unlfantry. So
well did they dii.tlnguisn theanaejvtn
that they were cited In the ordsre of
>tho day and, when tho British King
life. Tea verily, a hardboiled life. All he
got was fift" one scads per month, aside
from his meals, his dothea. his lodging,
medical attention, transportation Et Set
Rah. The well known dog's life was a
dream of pleasure compared to his. Every
time a Loot passed he had to come to
attention and salute, he couldn’t wear
any cordovan on his shins and as for the
salary, his salary compared to a Loot’s
looked like a one story barn alongside of
the Eiffel Tower.
Well, to come to the crux of the story
as our amateur Arnold Bennets say. this
lad started in to show the President that
as material fcr an officer he was A
number 1. And to band him th© laurel,
he was. Ho got admitted to the next
Officers Training i chool, and after burn
ing the old midnight oil for about 3
months, and losing some 15 pounds of per
fectly good avurdupois. the C. O. handed
him a little slip'one day and said, ’’there
you are son, you're one of us."
Great gobs of pure unadulterated, un
refined joy. Tinkling bolls and that gr-r
--rand and gl-l-lorious feelin. You know
Oh boy' That feeling you have when she
says she’ll take a chance on you for
better or for worse
Right away our friend does a hotfoot to
a car and eased into a clothes emporium
to spend a few shekels for some real
duds. That is he thought he would spend
a few The few he spent had a hundred
tack. 1 on, and the invoice ran something
like this Two suits at fifty five plunks
One overcoat for seventy five skaus. one
‘ hat at eight simoleons. one pair of dress
1 boots at thirty five iron men and when
he got through the list it looked like an
inventory of a department store and the
■ price looked like Ty Cobb's batting aver
age.
After a little wait he got his clothes
and one fine Saturday afternoon he blew
■ into the fair city nearby with his little
1 old shoulder bar shined up like a headlight
and the old cordovan boots looking like
a mirror in a lady’s boudoir.
You know what happened For about
4 squares he felt a large wad of satisfac-
raise under the second button on his
coat and then pretty soon he decided that
he had contracted a violent case of sola- 1
i tica in the right wing. He was p-.wtty
sure he had worn the valves in his elbow
i out. and when he got back to camp he
TRENCH AND CAMP
visited his troops the»e brave men
were called forward to receive a re
ward from the royal hands.
Technically they had violated or
der*. Technically they were subject
to the judgment of the British review
ing authorities.
But what higher reviewing author
ity is there than the King himself?
With characteristic intrepidity the
Americana braved not only the dan
gers of battle but the dangers of the
court-martial.
It is not so very long since Secre-
FRANCE
By ELLIS PARKEB BUTLER "1 !
Os the VIGILANTES
I always think of France as going
forth; of England as standing firm.
Through the centuries the men of
England have seemed to say: “These
are our rights; we will not give them
up!” while France has said: "Man
kind deserves new rights and liber
ties; we will go forth and win them!"
The Frenchman’s ideal of liberty,
as of fraternity and equality, has al
ways been at least a few steps in ad
vance of the fact, so that he has had
to fight to make it a reality.
The Englishman, id nearly every
case, acquired rights by growth, as a
youth grows into man's estate. Hav
ing grown, the Englishman fought to
maintain. Tile Frenchman foresaw
his rights while they were still ideals
and fought to make them real. The
Englishman, never yielding the
rights he bad acquired, pushed bis
foot forward inch by Inch to cover
new rights. The Frenchman pic
tured new rights and leaped forward
to create them.
It was this readiness of his to de
mand—-and die for—an ideal that
gave us the erroneous theory that tho
Frenchman was too emotional to be
steadfast.
Wars, battles and human rights are
■won in various ways; the Fronchrnaa
has won his rights by a long series of
brilliant chargee against autocracy
and the remnants of autocracy. After
each charge, each uprising, the
Frenchman has held new ground,
maintained new rights for humanity.
FOUR-FIFTHS OF WOUNDED RETURN TO SERVICE
The War Department authorizes
the following statement by the Chief
of Staff .
In connection with the casualties
among tho American Expeditionary
Forces in the Marne-Aisne offensive,
It should be stated upon the basis of
the officially attested experience of
our associates during four years of
this wah that of wounded soldiers
sent to hospitals for treatment fewer
than one In twenty die.
Os all the soldiers sent to the hos
pitals only 46 In every l.OffO die.
These include those who die of dis
ease ns well as those who die of
wounds. Os all soldiers wounded in
action more than four-fifths return
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was for sanging the American salute. To
the Buck, the salute seems to be a bore,
but Oh boy it s a picnic to what the Offi
cer gets.
His invitation was only started with the
salute however. He soon discovered that
about the only time an Officer has the
bulge is in appearance at a private ball.
As to that matter of saiar*. after oar
friend got through paying his expenses
every month, the fifty one beans he used
to garner sounded like the balance of a
healthy savings bank
He has about decided that the only way
to improve things is to be a Major Gen
eral. Here se hoping.
eph*° ral; Se * the ftrSt iin * of lhU
MONSTERZIONIST
DEMONSTRATION
AT CAMP HANCOCK
(Continued from Page One.)
led by Leon., rd Joseph and joined by
the whole audience, the hairman pre
sented the British mission. In in
troducing the mission, the chairman
recalled the words of Dr Thodor
Herzl. the founder of the Zionist
. movement who in 1900 at the fourth
International Zionist Congress, held in
I London said:
England. Mighty England. Free
England. A\crld embracing England
she will understand us and our a
- pirations. With England as <• start
- ing point our movement will soar
I higher than ever before.’’
The rising of the British mission
' as the occasion of an evasion that,
lasted nearly ten minutes. Major Hall,
on behalf of the mission, e~pressad
his gratitude for the love shown by
Jewish people to Great Britain. He
then s?oke of Englands tr 'itional
friendship of the Jewish people and
said that Great Britain has always
understood the Jewish people .and
; their aspirations.
A notable contribution of the eve
jning was reading by Meyer W. Weis
gal of the M. ~abbean magazine the of-
II ficial organ of the Zionist organiza
-1 <
tary of War Baker in reviewing a field
order that made gooaefleah down the
back of every American, said: “ I ara
not sure wnether we should court
martial the general first and then re
ward him; or just reward him with
out the formality.”
A final word—and this to England’s
King—there are millions of other
“unseasoned” American men ready to
take their places side by side with the
bravest of the brave, and we are curi
ous to know whether Britain is well
supplied with medals.
The BatftHe fell, freedom was won,
Napoleon followed. That seemed the
overthrow of new-born democracy in
France. It was but the momentary
pauoe before the new advance. With
half the world arrayed against her,
France reformed the legions of her
ideals behind the war legions of Na
poleon.
It is amazing to note how through
centuries France has pressed forward
steadily against regimes, autocrats,
customs and systems, protecting her
national life while winning the rights
of man. Ideals are ragged affairs,
sending out tentacles of value and of
error alike; when France has paused
it has been to conscrfid.tte the trenches
she has gained, making permanent all
that was of valne, discarding the
error.
Who can call France lacking in
steadfastness when a glance shows
her the foyemost among free nations
on a continent where autocracy still
lives in blood and iron? To be Stead
fast to such an ideal as France set
herself means to advance to tbe real
ization of that ideal. This France
has done. France is a free nation es
free men.
God grant that the fight France is
making today may be the last fight
against autocracy and retrogression
the brave nation may be called upon
to make! In such a fight, side by
side with such a people, America may
well be proud to give her last drop
of blood, her last ounce of strength.
And, if need be, will give?
to service, many of them in less than
two months. It is necessary to di&-
cbarge for physical disability only
14.5 per cent.
These figures are based on an av
erage of both British and French
official figures, including both officers
and men. The two arc averaged to
gether since American troops are
fighting with both the French and
the British under conditions which
vary They show:
Returned to service, 81 per cunt, or
810 per 1,000.
Discharged from service because
of physical disability or other causes*
14-5 per cent, or 145 per 1,000
Died from wounds, 4.5 per cent, or
45 per 1,000.
tlon. of a letter oy the Jewish sol
diers on the Western front, sent to
the Jewish Legionaries fighting In
Palestine. The original was written
in Hebrew ...id was translated into
English by Mr. Welsgal for thia oc
casion.
The letter read in part:
. A Letter from Jewish Boys in France
to the Jewish Lcgionaires
in Palestine.
'Dear Comrades:
Engaged though we are in a struggle
against the universal adversary, pre
paring to die every minute, to fall
side by side of our beloved American
brethren, who have thrown themselves
i to this war in order that liberty and
freedom of all peoples may be pre
served, we have not for one moment
forgotten our heroic legionairos fight-
I ing with the liberating forces of Great
(Britain. on the Palestine front.
You are a guarantee to us, dear 1
comrades, that no longer will <ur peo- •;
pl© live like slaves at the mercy of ;
others, that no longer will we re- j
main the eternal wanderes: that we, '
too,, will have our own homeland i
i where we will be able to live like all !
' other peoples.
j Give our blessings to the sons of •
’Great Britain who are fighting with ;
you and for you. Tell them that as
long as the Jewish people will live •
it will remember the noble deed of
Great Britain and whenever the name
"Britainaia” will be mentioned it will
be with blessings on our lips.
Ee blessed, dear brethren, continue ;
; your struggle ac you have done to this ■
day. Go forth with the same courage 1
and self-sacrificing spirit which ani- i
: mated you to throw* yourselves into
: this chataclism. Remember tha* the •
Allied peoples are with us. America. ;
the land of the free and the ’ om. of 1
the brave, is with us. too. March on
to victory that our holy land may
once again be ours.’’
The letter was signed “A Croup of
Jewish boys somewhere in France.”
The next speaker of the eve..ing was
Mr. Nathan Elkin, secretary of the
Jewish Welfare Board, who spoke in !
Yiddish and Hebrew. Mr. Elkin in I
eloquent Hebrew compared the al
liance of Great Britan and the Jew-
i ■
Ibh people to that of a bride and a
bridegroom. Pointing to the three
Lags, he said:
“Here are unfti.: 4 the standards of
: three nations, the oldest (po ing to
; the Jewish), the freest (pointing to
the American) and the greatest (to
the British).’’
Mr. Elkin was followed by th*' prin- ;
cipal speaker of the evening, Mrs. Car
oline Greenfield of New York, who
was introduced by the chairman as
; one of the noblest women of the Jew
> !sh race, who Las given up her time
and energy tc the Zionist.
Cause. In the course of her ad
dress Mrs. Greenfield was interrupted
by loud applauses. She said in part:
“Our country has gone to war not
because of any selfish aims, .ot be
cause it seeks aggrandizement of
e'ther land or money, but as o-/ great
president said: That all peoples may
be able to live freely and unhampered
and '.e given the opportunity for na
tional self-assertion.
“Wha ever the original cause of this
’ war might have been, she continued,
! two things must be clear .j every
political thinker of weight; that this
‘is not so much a war between the
[Central Powers and the Enter te a’ it
is a conflict between two oppe ed and
| irreconcilable theories of life. On the
■ one hand we have the Allied powers
! animated by the idea of democracy
and the freedom and self-determina
tion ot the nations as against the Ger
s' manic theory of autocracy and, the
I subjection of the smaller nations.
“The desire for national self-asser-
• tlon Is deepl; imbedded in every peo
i pie. no matter under what adverse
; circumstances it may live.
i "Democracy ano nationality.’’ she
’ proceeded, "being as they are, the i
I fundamental aims ot the Allies an at- i
’ tempt on my part to acquaint the |
! ireat mass of soldiery—the most po
| tent factor in the ultimate triuph of
i this .‘deal—with the aspirations of one |
1 of the smaller nationalities which have j
; already rece ved th© unqualified ap
i proval of the Allied governments needs
’ no apology.
It would be inconceivable in the
; face of a growing nationalism *hat the
slews, should be left untouched by the
same stirring for national self-asser
; tlon which infused all the peoples of
the world. Moreover, in almost every
1 land the Jews have been in the fore-
I front cZ the national battles whether
waged against foreign tyranny, do
mestic despotism, or in the interest of
national unification. What is of gieat
er moment, Jewish nationalism has
really never died. In the long-drawn
[tragedy ot Jewish dispersion. Jewish
• nationalism expressed itself in the
: passionate outpourings of th© soul by
I the liturgical poets. The yearning for
the return to the ancentral honu never
suffered eclipse But it remained no
r >re than a pious dream, a vague
longing based upon the Messianic pro-
■ phesies.
t "It was not until 1897 that this yearn
! ning found practical expression in the
founding of th* world-wide Zionist
! movement by the immortal Dr. Theo
dor Herzl. Based upon currer politi
cal phyllsophy. and governed by con
temporary politics, the process ahead
was not obscure The fundamental !
doctrine of Zionism as set forth in the
program of tht Basle congress, the
first international Jewish assembly tn
two thousand years, was to establish a
national home in Palestine for the
Jewish people under international law.
Mrs. Greenfield then in glowing
, words recounted the wonderful story
J of the growth of the Zionist organiza
j Gon. telling also of the marvelous
work done by early settlers o£ Pales
tine. to whom sb#' referred as, etc.:
“Jewish Pilgrim Fathers”
The speaker next told of the Pales
tine ionist commission operating in
i Palestine under British authontA’-
' The canclusion of Mrs. Greenfield’s
! address was greeted by loud a id long
! applause.
! The following telegram was re
ceived ,‘rom .Tudg- Julian W Mack,
!of the United States Federal Court,
! president of the iowtst Organization
of America, dated New York. August
31st:
"Tn Meyer w. Weisgal. retary,
Camn Hancock ionist Committee
"The Zionist cause stands squarely
In line with the cause of th Allied
democratic nations and with the t use
for which our own belovc I country
■is now engaged in Thanks to the
magnanimous British Declaration, the
flag of the Jewish people is now un
furled among the of the nations
Every Jewish soldier fighting under
the American flag is serving hfs own
’.and and the cause of his own people
J Consciousness of that fact should
mike every Jewish soldier a depend
able disciplined and self-sacrificing
I American soldier. As the sol- j
diers act on tho field of battle arid
• in the period of training so th' Jewish
ncople will be Judged in the eyes of
th*!r fellow Americans.
i "(Signed) JULIAN W. MACK,
j President ionist Organization of
After the meeting the British of
; ficers and Mrs. Greenfield were en-
■ mrtained at the Hotel Lenwoo<l by Mr.
Morris Margulies Mr Meyer W.
1 Weisgal Mr Nathan Elkin and Mr.
Gilbert Harris
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