We have previously published the details of this competition, its conditions, and its prizes, and we return now to remind the poets of Lebanon that the poems submitted must reach the office of the Press Attaché — Rustum Pasha Street — Beirut, before the first of March 1946.
The competitor may choose one of the following subjects, as was set out in due course:
a – The League of Arab States. b – An anthem of victory. c – The peasant's hope. d – The nightingale.
There are other conditions, pub
lished earlier, to which anyone wishing to compete would do well to refer. There will be three prizes: the first of ten pounds, the second of five, and the third of three.
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Whoever wishes to take part in this competition should send his poem signed with a pen name, and enclose with it a sealed envelope giving his real name and his pen name, to the following address:
Office of the Press Attaché — Rustum Pasha Street — Beirut (The Arabic Poetry Competition)
The correspondent of al-Ayyam in Homs writes that in the past year, 1945, the Sharia court completed nine hundred marriage transactions and one hundred and fifty divorce transactions.
If we consider the marriages concluded among some 270,000 souls — the population of the province of Homs — we find the rate to be one in every three hundred. This is very low indeed, with grave consequences and heavy results for offspring and for society; it is a matter that calls for attention, and demands the concern of those whom the matter touches.
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Some say that the reason young men hold back from marriage is the high cost of dowries and the expenses of weddings; others say otherwise — that is, a lack of desire for marriage. Whether it be the one or the other, men of sense must labor with all their strength to remove those obstacles, whatever they may be, for the preservation of offspring and the safeguarding of society.
stating her true age in the records of the House, for she is 42 years old. And yet, if she is elected at the coming general election, she will become the Mother of the House of Commons by virtue of the length of time she will have served as a member, for hers will then be the longest service of any woman; and her father was called the Father of Parliament, having sat in it for 54 years.
Allcock's Plaster
The original perforated American "Allcock's" plaster
Allcock's Plaster returns to the markets once more!
Yes — you can now obtain the original Allcock's Plaster everywhere in Lebanon, and you will gain immediate relief from lumbago and pains of the back and joints.
It is sold in all pharmacies and drug stores.
Made in the United States of America by the Allcock Manufacturing Co.