Show ZIONISM CONFERENCE OPENED IN CHICAGO CHICAGO Jan 11 The The Knights of Zion have b te opened a two days days' session ion I here beret Grand Grond Master faster Leon speaking of the progress of the general Zionist movement said Only Onh a d decade ado ago Zionism was yas ridiculed ridiculed rid rid- as Utopian and visionary for it seemed to be entirely out of keeping with with- the consecrated beaten track and md the inveterate humdrum of the workaday workaday day ay world Yet Tot today the nucleus of an old old- new nation with ith cultural conditions of its own if is in hi in the process of formation in in Palestine before tho eyes of tho the thoc civilized c world Max liar has bas sent nt the following J from Paris P ris I I hail the thc t twelfth annual convention of the tho order Knights Knight of Zion with ith delight You meet met at a moment of the greatest import im import import im- im port for Zionism and Judaism in iu gen cn eral The new now political situation f in Turkey ought to act as a powerful ul in n incentive n for Jewish immigration to Palestine Pal al- al estine e tine which is to become a free and ana well governed so country But this immigration needs need preparation and that thatis is la the work ork of Zion Zionists ish All your efforts ef of- forts I L am sure fure tend toward the Ute realization realization reali reali- at on of this work and my mt call all and cry is to persevere perse |