Toronto Set for Opening on Sunday of Canadian Zionists’ 24th Parley

Delegates from every section of Canada will assemble here on Sunday and Monday for the twenty-fourth Canadian Zionist convention.

The gathering will be greeted by Arthur W. Roebuck, attorney general of Ontario; David Croll, minister of public welfare and municipal affairs of Ontario, and James Simpson, mayor of Toronto.

A. J. Freiman, president of the Canadian Zionist Organization, will deliver the main address on Sunday morning. He will stress the need of strengthening the influence of Canadian Zionism in world Zionist affairs.

RABBI SCHWARTZ TO REPORT

The convention will give particular attention to the inauguration of a Dominion-wide registration of 25,000 shekel payers, so that Canada may have an adequate representation at the next world Zionist congress.

The report of Rabbi Jesse Schwartz, executive director of the Zionist Organization of Canada, will deal with the expansion of Zionist work in Canada in the last three years, pointing out that whereas in 1932 only thirty-eight centers contributed to the United Palestine Appeal, in 1934 there were 100 centers listed as donors.

The Hadassah convention will open on Monday evening at the Royal York Hotel, with Mrs. A. J. Freiman presiding. Reports will be heard from Hadassah chapters throughout the Dominion. The activity of Canadian Hadassah in behalf of the Agricultural School at Nahalal, the Motza Convalescent Home and the Baby Creche in Palestine also will be discussed.

GREETS CANADIAN ZIONISTS

Mr. Freiman today made public the following message to Canadian Zionists:

“On the eve of the twenty-fourth Zionist convention in Canada, judging by the remarkable progress in the development of Palestine, especially in the last three years, we Zionists can truly say, ‘Sehe’hechionu.

“From amid all the darkness and despair there emerges one source of light and hope; and as the sun slowly rises in the East, dispelling the blackness of the night with its powerful and penetrating rays, so does Palestine shine forth brilliant, piercing the shadows of gloom that envelope the world.

“There can be no doubters now with regard to the practical phases of Palestine rebuilding, and an even more forceful factor has been the catastrophic situation in Europe, with Palestine absorbing an immigration larger than all other countries combined. The significance of the Jewish Homeland has become obvious to every observer. Palestine is giving to a greater number of Jews not only a temporary place of shelter, but a permanent home for the expression of a Jewish creative life.

“If the Jewish Homeland stands for nothing else, it serves not only as a home for Jews, but for the Jewish vision of social justice and Jewish hope for righteousness and peace.”