The Child Welfare Party

Before noon on Sunday, Child Welfare in Tripoli held a literary party in aid of its charitable project. Its president, the notable Mrs. Aliya Shawqi, and the members of the association supervised the reception of the guests at the Empire Cinema, assisted by their honorable husbands.

The party opened with the national anthem, which the people heard standing. Then Mr. Husni Atiyya rose and delivered, in the association's name, a statement of its works and its aims, recounting the number of pupils whom the association is rearing in the kindergarten it has founded; his word was met with applause of approval.

The popular poet Mr. Omar al-Za'ni was then presented to the audience, and with his troupe he sang three pieces of his own composition, which cast over the party an atmosphere of patriotic fervor that kept flooding it to the very end.

Mr. Gebran Tueni delivered an address on child welfare and on the arduous task the ladies have taken upon themselves to carry out. He said that we are in need of raising a generation of patriotic Lebanese who will fight sectarianism in politics and work on the basis that religion belongs to God and the homeland to all.

The poet al-Za'ni returned to occupy the platform — a delightful occupation indeed — and sang three excellent pieces that were interrupted by applause.

He was followed by Mr. Mahmoud Salah al-Din, member of the Egyptian mission at the College of Education in Tripoli, who recited a patriotic, educational poem in which he described what he had seen in the kindergarten and the hopes the Arabs pin upon it; it was interrupted by applause of approval.

The poet al-Za'ni closed the party with pieces in which he portrayed our social life most eloquently.

The audience departed thanking the association for its organizing of this "light-blooded" party, and wishing it continued success in its task.