The sum of $500,000 for Hadassah’s medical organization and affiliated work was voted by the convention of Hadassah, Women’s Zionist Organization, which is in session here. Mrs. Edward Jacobs was elected president, succeeding Mrs. Robert Szold who was elected first vice-president. Miss Pearl Franklin was elected second vice-president, Mrs. Samuel Halpern, third vice-president and Mrs. Henry Hay, fourth vice-president. The new secretary is Mrs. Moses F. Epstein; treasurer, Mrs. Samuel Rosensohn and Miss Henrietta Szold, honorary president.
In addition to the regular budget Hadassah delegates to the convention voted unanimously to allot $110,000 for infant welfare work, school lunches and welfare centers. The sum of $813,000 was voted for the reclamation of land around Haifa Bay by the Jewish National Fund branch of Hadassah.
“The Jewish National Fund represents the fundamental ideal of Zionism,” Mrs. Irma Lindheim told the Hadassah convention. “Socialist England attacks the Fund on the grounds that it has encouraged self labor on the land. England feels that the Jew should secure labor and merely be an overseer.”
Mrs. Lindheim warned Britain against “selling short the high ideals of the Jewish National Fund.”
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