want my call to pierce their ears and stir their innermost hearts, so that they rise to answer the homeland's call.
Come, my brothers, let us close our ranks and make ready for the return; and just as we emigrated here poor, let us return to our country rich and honored, and take our children with us, that they may come to know the land of their fathers, and that the bonds between us and them grow strong, so that we are not ciphers in their eyes after our death.
Let us take them as tourists, as the American does who goes to gaze on the ancient, venerable monuments of our country, crossing the distances and spending what he has saved through the years, in order to carry in his breast new knowledge of a land to which no tie binds him save the desire for knowledge and the longing to learn.
And I do not know what prevents the educated youth from gathering no fewer than a hundred young men for a tour to view monuments that are among the glories of the East and one of the wonders of the world, for which the sons of the West envy us; if life there pleases them, they may decide to settle; if not, they return bearing experience and acquaintance with a new tongue and a new world.
And what does the aging man wait for, who came here in his youth and has managed to amass a fortune that spares him further struggle, before returning to his country to breathe its wholesome
air and live what remains of his life in its flourishing regions, recovering his vigor and shedding the ailments that cling to him? For I do not exaggerate when I say that it is rare to find one among us who does not complain of some kind of illness — and I do not know what breathes them into our breasts: the climate of these lands, or the effects of civilization?
We came healthy and we shall return ailing; and yet our country opens its arms to receive its dutiful children, calling to us imploringly to return to its embrace. Shall we shrink from answering its call?
Let us go and build the great factories, sparing hundreds of workers the pinch of need and teaching them to earn their bread by the sweat of their brows instead of being a burden on others — so that the Jews are left no argument against us when they say that it is they who founded the factories and set the wheels of labor in motion.
How many working hands in our country groan under the weight of want, because outrageous prices and the narrowness of the field of work leave them standing with folded arms, unable to earn their daily bread — while we here found great mills and employ thousands of foreign workers, instead of our factories standing in our homelands, worked by the hands of our countrymen, so that we give them life and give the country life together, and at the same time keep alive our memory, which
Cairo — Her Ladyship the venerable Mrs. Huda Hanim Shaarawi broadcast the following appeal:
"Today Egypt is arrayed in her most splendid festive attire in celebration of the arrival of the great monarch of the Hejaz, and the members of the Egyptian nation vie with one another in showing their feelings toward His Majesty, sharing their King's sentiment toward his great guest and following the example of their government in the kinds of welcome and forms of honor it is offering — the raising of decorations and the feeding of the poor. What more, then, might we do to honor His Majesty further and bring joy to his great heart?
"I believe that the thing dearest to him is to strengthen his hand in his honorable stands in defense of Palestine against Zionist immigration and in defense of her usurped right; and the surest way to that is to help the Arabs of Palestine to purchase their remaining lands.
"O my dear compatriots, men and women, help your brothers, each according to his means, be it only with a few piasters.
"O sons of Arabism in the farthest and nearest parts of the earth, contribute to the financing of the Nation's Fund, that it may resist the sweeping tide of immigration before it is too late; and show those who champion falsehood against right, relying on their arrogance and their brute strength, that the Arabs are able to stand as one bloc in the face of this aggression and repel the usurper's scheming.
"And may the coming of King Abdulaziz be a star of good fortune for wounded Palestine."
The venerable lady accompanied this appeal of hers with a money order for the sum of one thousand pounds, opening the subscription for the Fund of the Palestinian Nation.
It is like scattered dust outside our homelands.
I do not know, my brothers, in what language to address you so as to stir the wellsprings of feeling within you, that you may return to your country and help her and stand by her.
Love your country as I love her, for love, when gathered together, lifts heavy burdens and brings forth prosperity. I would have the sons of my country be second to none of the sons of the whole world in giving and in sacrifice; and
the sacrifice our country asks of us is nothing more than a journey through her regions, for which health, vigor, and rest of soul and body repay us.
So come, my brothers, let us unite our feelings and close our ranks and return to our country, to our homelands, for she is our mother, and no dutiful son with dignity in his soul and feeling in his breast will ever fail his mother.
Mari Yanni Ata Allah