Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-03-17 | Page 7 | Jewish Colony Will Succeed

JEWISH COLONY WILLJOCCEED Lecturer on Political Economy Tells of Agricultural Cooperation Co-operation in Palestine. Now York, N. Y., March 17 Dr. Franz Oppenhelmer, lecturer on political po-litical economy, at the University oT Borlln, told a mass meeting in Cooper Union last night about agricultural cooperation co-operation in Palestine. (.'When Theodore Herzl asked me to hell) him in the work of colonization ot the Jews in Palestine," Dr. Oppen-heiraer Oppen-heiraer said, "I submitted to the congress of 1903 a plan of colonization coloniza-tion upon a co-operative basis. Herzl died and It was nearly ten years later when the plan was ready for adoption, because the leaders of the movement had no faith in it at first. "But development in Palestine compelled com-pelled them to accept my plan as the only possible one for colonization of workmen without capital. "The colony which I have founded in Palestine, is of the pure co-operative kind. It is situated In the celebrated cele-brated Plain of Yezrcel, Immediately below Nazareth, with an area ot about 1000 acres. Thore arc fifty workmen work-men In tho colony no.w, and wo havo a right to say that there is hope for Its future success."