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Page 9 The Southern Israelite In The Limelight RABBI JACOB KATZ, of New YORK, pave a speech, part of which was printed on the first page of “The Osservatore Romano," the Vatican newspaper. Rabbi Katz had spoken in praise of the Pope's recent en cyclical on the education of youth. PR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, editor of the Journal of the American Med ical Association, said in the course of a lecture that the claims for rejuve nation have passed because of lack of visible evidence of their success. No permanent cures have been found as yet for either cancer or old age, adding that the best physicians for the latter disease are those mentioned at Salerno centuries ago; Dr. Diet and Dr. Merryman. ALBERT HENRY WASHBURN, American Ambassador to Austria, whose tragic death occurred in Vi enna, shocked the leading Jewish fam ilies of the city for he had many im portant social connections with them and always invited them to the Em bassy receptions. Jewish artists were also his frequent guests at the official art evenings. DR. C. B. LIPMAN, professor of plant physiology at the University ot California, has accidentally discov ered “artificial bacilli.” If confirmed this discovery would mean as great a revolution in physiological science as was caused by Pasteur’s refutation of the theory of spontaneous generation in the middle of the last century. HENRY MORGENTHAU, former United States Ambassador to Turkey, who was helpful to Greek refugees during the World War, will go to Greece as the guest of the Greek gov ernment to participate in the celebra tion of the hundredth anniversary of Greek independence. DR. ELIAS GUAMZE, rabbi of the Loop Orthodox Synagogue in Chica go. will direct a Hebrew class for Chicago Jewish business men with of fices in the Loop. During lunch hour there will he classes in conversational Hebrew, writing and the study of classical Hebrew. “Shop Individual ATLANTA NASHVILLE LOUISVILLE Two Forty-Four Peachtree BERNARD GUTTMAN, German Jewish novelist of Berlin, has won the Harper’s Brother’s $2,500 prize for the best German novel of the year. Ludwig Lewisohn will translate the volume into English. PROF. ALBERT A. MICHELSON, 77-year-old scientist and winner of a Nobel prize in physics, whose life was recently despaired of because of ill ness, has returned to his laboratory at the University of Chicago where he will continue with his research work. LEIBELE KARLIN, a fifteen- year-old Jewish boy living in Soviet Russia, has been acknowledged the most extraordinary prodigy of Jewish learning of recent years. The Russian Jewish lad has astounded some of the most learned Talmudic scholars by his precocious understanding and in terpretation of Jewish religion and philosophy. It is reported that Karlin has been permitted to leave and enter the Yeshiva at Riga. RABBI JACOB NIETE, rabbi emeritus of Temple Therith Israel in San Francisco, died at the age of 6f> after a brief illness. For nearly twen ty years he has been a leader in the movement to abolish capital punish ment. He successfully led the cam paign to rid the San Francisco board of education of political influence, and in 1895 he organized the local Y. M. H. A., being the first to suggest the idea of Temple Centers. PROF. FELIX FRANKFURTER of Harvard University was bestowed with the appointment as visiting pro fessor of government at Yale, where he will deliver this year’s Dodge lec tures. PROF. EDWIN R. A. SELIGMAN, outstanding economist, is reported to have turned down an offer for $1,000,- 000 from Harvard for his economics library and to have sold it to Colum bia University, where he teaches, for $25,000. His library, comprising 40,- 000 volumes, is said to be the best of its kind in the world. Former Supreme Court Justice JO SEPH M. PROSKAUER, who has never before identified himself closely Fashion Increases the Power of the Cfc Navy”#.. Allen’s Features it in Silk Suits! World Courts may convene to discuss reduction of the navies, but Fashion calmly ignores World Courts and Disarmament Conferences and deliberately increas es the power of "Navy’’—such power that even conferences would be of no avail in decreasing its popularity in style! Navy finds its smartest expressions in silk suits, this season—Suits of Elizabeth Crepe, Flat Crepe, or Georgette—Suits with jackets which flare from the shoulder or are belted or which have very tailored, fitted lines—Suits with white and ecru blouses of embroidered batiste with mosaic edge—Suits of every style line up their resources of chic to prove the power of "navy''! *49 50 »<i *69 50 i J.IP. AILLIEN&CO. The Store All Women Know Peachtree at Cain