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The Southern Israelite Page 13 ISIDORE LAPSON, FORMER ATLANTAN, WILL VISIT PALESTINE Isidore J. Lapson, former Atlantan v ,1 superintendent of the United He- ;‘ r ‘, w school here, recently sailed for Fivland, with Mrs. Lapson, aboard S. S. Minnekahda. Mr. Lapson p]an ; a brief stay in England and will proceed to Palestine, where hr will spend some months in study- I; ir conditions in the new Palestine. He will go from Palestine to Zurich, Switzerland, where he will attend a Zionist world congress. Accompanying Mr. Lapson is Elias Newman, well-known Jewish painter, ..chose works recently were exhibited at the High museum here. MEETING TO CONSTITUTE JEW ISH AGENCY PLANNED FOR Al'GUST 15 AT ZURICH Zionist General Council Convened for May 20 in London or Berlin Jerusalem (J. T. A.).—The meet- : of Zionist and non-Zionist leaders to constitute the Council of the ex uded Jewish Agency will most like- c be held on August 15 in Zurich, Switzerland, the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency here learned from good authority. A session of the Zionist General Council, commonly known as the Ac- s Committee, will be held on May London and Berlin are the two eapitals under consideration for the holding of this meeting. Negotiations now being carried on with Dr. .00 Motzkin, chairman of the General ncil, toward this end. The General < oiincil will, it was declared, have to ratify the final agreement between the Zionist Executive and the non- mnist leaders on the constitution of •he Jewish Agency. This is necessary was explained, in order to enable e Zionists and non-Zionists to take 'tops for convening the meeting to 'titute the Jewish Agency on Au- In, for, if the matter is left for he decision of the Zionist Congress, ii' h is scheduled to be held in Zurich L* end of July, the Jewish Agency ‘ting could not be held before the m,(Idle of September when many nericans who are expected to at- d the Jewish Agency meeting will unable to come to Europe. August i> a more propitious date and may "Ure a greater attendance. n addition, it was felt thai ' lsh Agency meeting will during the fall instead of in contemplated campaign foi e fun( L ^ the United State arily have to be delayed The Zionist General Council ' have t0 d eal with the immi question at its forthcoming . e lonis t Executive recently the Palestine government ' ,uance of 2,800 certificates l ; n,ltt ance of Chaluzim, u orers. It has made this j tion m view of the fact that 1 lc situation has improved •h - f- ent that it was consider n mi!™ 6 ,. * 138 come to resume ! ~ la Ji on to Palestine on a no fnn i ^ 6 ^ xecut i v e, howev exnert a S at present to eare f„r ( ed immigrants and it wil r? b ? the business of the C ° Unci to find the means FINAL TEST ON EINSTEIN RELA TIVITY THEORY MADE BY FIVE SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS OB SERVING ECLIPSE IN SEAS REGION New York—(J. T. A.)—What were termed to be final tests of the Ein stein Relativity Theory were made by five scientific expeditions during the solar eclipse in Polynesia and the South Seas today. The eclipse, which was computed to last about four min utes, was an obscuration of ninety per cent of the face of the sun, when the moon came between the solar rays and the earth. The expeditions, lo cated at Iloilo, south of Manila, P. I., were ready to photograph the phe nomenon in an attempt to finally prove the correctness of Prof. Ein stein’s theory of relativity and also to obtain more information on the substance and origin of the solar co rona. It was believed by scientists that the eclipse visible in Sumatra across the Malay Peninsula, China Sea and in the Phillipines, will yield sufficient evidence to prove once and for all and beyond the doubts of the most scepti cal the validity of the Einstein theo ry. The most direct proof of the va lidity of the Einstein theory is the corroboration of his contention that the rays of starlight when they pass close to the sun deviate from their straight line. This phenomenon can be observed at no other time except during the total eclipse of the sun. Observations made by scientists of various nations during previous solar eclipses confirmed Einstein’s conten tion. Dr. Clyde Fisher, Curator of As tronomy of the American Museum of Natural History explained that du ring no total eclipse since the Einstein theory had been tested had there been any star apparently so close to the sun as the one which was nearby du ring today’s eclipse. By means of comparison of photographs made in advance of the eclipse, when the sun was still far away, and during and after the eclipse will enable the scien tists to measure accurately the exact bending of the light rays by the suns purescence, when Dr. Fisher added that the scientists did not expect that the star rays will arrive unbent. If such a thing happens, it would go far toward disproving the whole Einstein point of view. But that is something which few scientists believed possible. The result of the observations will probably not be available for some time. SIR OTTO JAFFE, FIRST JEWISH LORD MAYOR OF BELFAST, DIES London (J. T. A.).—Sir Otto Jaffe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Bel fast and twice re-elected to the post, died here at the age of 83. Sir Otto was born in Hamburg in 1846. He was educated in Belfast and Switzerland. For many years he was head of the firm of Jaffe Brothers, linen merchants of Belfast. He was greatly interested in progressive and philanthropic movements. He founded an elementary model school chiefly for Jewish children. He was awarded the honorary de gree of Doctor of Law by the Royal University of Ireland and was knight ed in 1900. Besides occupying the post of Lord Mayor of Belfast, he was at one time High Sheriff of the County of the City of Belfast. Last March Sir Otto and his wife celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. YOUR HOUSEHOLD GOODS Serviced by Modern Methods IN MOVING, STORING AND SHIPPING MY THE WALKER STORAGE & VAN COMPANY Lullwater Building. 139 W. Peachtree St. Atlanta, Ga. 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