in the circles where the standard of living has risen to some degree and where traditions hold sway. It is clear from this list that the obstacles are of two kinds: first, eco-nomic; second, social and traditional. To combat them, the causes must be treated by means partly economic and partly edu-cational, as follows:

1 - Establishing social guarantees in such a way as to remove economic fear from the young man's soul, and to pre-vent his working father from becoming a burden upon him in case of disability or old age.

2 - Improving the condi-tion of the workers and employees of the middle class and of the culti-vated, whose wages are small and whose stan-dard of living is high, by raising their wages and opening before them the doors of advancement and promotion.

3 - Multiplying the openings for work and production, to combat poverty and ward off unemployment.

4 - Teaching her house-hold economy, which will show her how to lighten the expenses of the house and to economize time, energy, and money without any lowering of the standard of living.

5 - Educating girl and young man alike in the affairs of married life — and this is very important in the program of educational reform. This education includes the study of the problems of choosing a spouse, of family relations, and of the management of house and children.

Among its aims would be the combating of the tra-ditions of the ancients on this subject and the fight-ing of harmful customs, such as extravagance in weddings, the methods of bargaining in marriage,

the chase after the dowry, reliance upon the parents in the choosing of bride or bridegroom, and so forth.

6 - Combating the social barriers between the classes, by the spreading of culture and of the means of contact. And it is to be noticed that these barriers are grad-ually disappearing with the spread of culture and the retreat of tradition; for the cultivated work-man is not below the employee in his social level. Culture, likewise, is apt to remove the sectarian barriers.

7 - Setting right the rela-tions among the mem-bers of the family, so that they rest upon indepen-dence, not exploitation; so that there does not reign among them that spirit of dependence which ties the children to their parents, or makes the father a dependent upon his children or a master over them; and so that no monopolizing bonds arise among them, profiting the one at the expense of the other.

The truth is that our social development lags far behind our cultural development. It is not strange that we find cultivated young women and young men submit-ting to the will of their families in the questions of marriage, as though the matter concerned the whole family and not the young man and the girl alone; just as we find reactionary parents disposing of the affairs of children who surpass them in culture, as though culture were a thing separate from life.

All this shows us the importance of social edu-cation in the schools, the clubs, and else-where; the necessity of preparing the means of mental growth for the earlier generation; and

the spreading of the idea that life is a continuous growth — so that we may urge the middle-aged and those advanced in years to keep up their reading and their self-cultivation, in the hope that they may understand that their children were born to a generation other than theirs, and may try to reach an understanding with the rising genera-tion, and so not expose themselves to that colli-sion of ideas and con-tradiction of inclinations which we see before us.

To conclude: our women's renaissance shows itself in woman's steadily growing pursuit of learning and of work, out of the desire to complete her personality and to realize her eco-nomic independence; and it shows itself also in her increasing contact with society, her mixing with the other sex, and her gradual liberation from the authority of tradi-tion. But this renaissance still lacks an organiza-tion and a direction to be undertaken by the women themselves, and an encouragement to be undertaken by the gov-ernments — in spreading general and professional education for women, in treating their social problems by doing them justice in the field of legislation, and in striv-ing for the reform of education by giving its social side its due share of attention.

Yet the development she has attained, thanks to favorable circumstances, invites us to be optimistic about her future; for having begun on the pattern of the women's renaissance in the West, she will continue her march along this road until her growth is com-plete, God willing.

The Arab women have resolved to boycott all kinds of toilet articles issuing from the Zionist factories, and to do without them until they are able to replace them with goods issuing from another state.

This resolution was taken during a congress held by the executive committee of the Arab Women's Association in Palestine.

Mr. La Guardia, Mayor of the City of New York, has announced that, on the occasion of the expiry of his term of office at the end of this year, he has decided to come to an agreement with one of the great American broadcasting companies for the broadcasting of daily commentaries in the margin of events.

A New York newspaper says that his yearly salary will be no less than 100,000 dollars!

• What you would say to a man while he is present, if you say it behind his back, is no backbiting.

• Your frequent finding of fault in people is proof of the abundance of your own faults; for the seeker after faults seeks them only in the measure of what is in himself.