The American University of Beirut held a ceremony on the occasion of the feast of the noble Birthday of the Prophet. After the recitation of verses of the Wise Remembrance, the master of ceremonies, Mr. Sami Alami, spoke; then Miss Sumayya Hamwi, on the subject "From Khadija's House to the Cave of Hira" (the gracious reader will find her address on page 15), and she was most successful. Then Dr. Nabih Faris spoke on the subject of two scenes from the Prophet's life: he presented the scene of the building of the Kaaba and the dispute of the notables, then the arbitration of the Prophet (peace be upon him); and then the scene of the founding of Arab unity, describing the disagreement of the Arab lands over the leadership, and he wished for a Muhammad, or the spirit of Muhammad, to unite them anew. Then Mr. Abdullah Mashnouq spoke on the difference between Arabism and Islam, distinguishing between them with his customary tact and concluding that not every Arab is a Muslim, nor every Muslim an Arab. President Dodge closed the ceremony with wise words.
There arrived in Beirut, in answer to an invitation from the engineers of Lebanon, a delegation of the engineers of Egypt, accompanied by Her Highness Emira Qut al-Qulub al-Damardashiyya; Hussein Bey Said, maternal uncle of His Majesty the King of Egypt; Deputy Mohammed Bey Jaafar and his wife — he being the president of the last congress; and Jawdat Bey, director of the railways and secretary of the congress, accompanied by his wife. The guests proceeded to the presidential palace and inscribed
New York — In America, the land of wealth, luxury, and comfort, there are three million souls who eat no meat, but live — as Gandhi the ascetic lives — on what the earth brings forth of vegetables and fruit.
These vegetarians have a magazine called "The American Vegetarian," edited by Mr. Symon Gould, who affirms that the American people, known for its appetite and its love of luxury and comfort, is among the peoples most abstemious in the eating of meat — quite the opposite of the English people, who in the days of plenty used to breakfast, lunch, and dine on meat!
But a number of scientists say that the English excess in eating meat is the secret of the boldness and daring that distinguish that people — qualities no one has ever denied the English; indeed, Hitler was foremost among those who testified to them in his book Mein Kampf.
Eating meat in quantity, then, has its good side and its bad side: it breeds in the soul a bent for boldness and adventure; but on the other hand it quickly ruins the stomach and is almost a slow poison coursing through the body. That is why the average lifespan of vegetarians is clearly longer than the average lifespan of those who indulge in meat to excess.
their names, where Mr. Haymari received them in the name of His Excellency the President; they then went on to the Cedars and skied upon the snows. The president of the congress declared that the delegation represents the permanent committee of the Congress of Engineers of the Arab East: "We shall discuss the question of convening the next congress, which is to meet on April 9 in Egypt, and we hope that the Lebanese technical departments will take part in it together with the Lebanese engineers; and we trust that this visit will strengthen the bonds existing between our two countries."
Ahmad Farag, and Mr. Mohsen Abaza; and the members of the Lebanese colony, who kept coming forward to us saying, with evident joy and burning feeling, "We are Lebanese, brothers — I am so-and-so... from such-and-such a town..." and so on — which moved us to embrace them while the tears all but sprang from our eyes. We were also received by a great throng of notables and dignitaries, scouts, and inhabitants, for whom the whole bank was too small. After several pictures had been taken of us, we boarded the car under police escort and made a tour of the streets of Ismailia amid the cheering of the multitudes who had packed the streets to overflowing, hailing Lebanon and its President, and Egypt and her Farouk. When we had finished the tour we put up at the Palace Hotel, where the members of the Lebanese colony asked to keep vigil over the torch and guard it.
It is worth mentioning that Radio Ismailia was broadcasting, for its part, every move and pause of the mission. In the evening we met Mr. Ghalib al-Turk, the envoy of the Lebanese Legation in Cairo, and agreed with him on the program drawn up for our reception; and the Lebanese colony gave a dinner party for us at the hotel, to which the notables and dignitaries of the town were invited, and at which Captain Michel Zoghbi spoke — his speech made the greatest impression on all hearts for the tender feeling it held toward Lebanon, this immortal country. After passing that night, in the morning we paid a visit to
the cooperative that had risen on the arms of the town's poor; then we went to the police administration, where we called on the inspector general, Bikbashi Muhammad Farid Bey; after that we proceeded to the zone command headquarters and paid our respects to Liwa Ibrahim al-Dasuqi Pasha. At noon the Lebanese Mr. Tawfiq Kayrouz Bey had prepared a luncheon for us in which Lebanese generosity and the noble Lebanese