The kindergarten of the Lebanese Women's League held its annual party on June 16 and 17, 1947, attended by His Excellency the Prime Minister and a distinguished company of ladies, young misses, and gentlemen. After the president of the kindergarten, Mrs. Edvick Jureidini Shayboub, opened the party with kind words, the program of the party proceeded, and it proved a splendid display of the progress this young school has achieved, thanks to its teachers and the women in charge of it, under the presidency of Mrs. Heneni Tarcha, president of the Lebanese Women's League.
How fitting it would be for those responsible in Lebanon to give this kindergarten, and other useful educational institutions like it, the attention they require, and to offer them the necessary assistance—especially as the Lebanese Women's League aims to expand it into a complete elementary school beginning next year.
On this occasion we remind those responsible of their promise to grant the League a plot of land for the erection of a building worthy of this fine kindergarten. The kindergarten's need for such a building is most urgent, and it is no longer well to postpone it.
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different kinds of amusement, threaded with watercourses, with dance halls and spacious rooms for games — making the park contain everything that the older man, the young man, and the boy could ask of the means of rest and amusement, besides the largest zoological garden in America, and a museum containing a beautiful collection representing the colonial and independence eras, which closely resembles the art museum in New York.
Hershey recalls that when he began building his factories, many mocked him: some called him a green dreamer, others said he was ignorant of the rules of economy, and still others prophesied that he would one day take his own life; but he paid no heed to the remarks of any of these — he cast them to the winds and went forward.
Among Hershey's traits is that he rarely writes a letter — most of his communications are by telegraph — and he rarely reads a book, contenting himself with leafing through the New York daily paper. He hates watching people and criticizing them, and counts every man honest until the contrary is proved. He believes that thrift is the first step toward freedom and independence; and by thrift he means abstaining from the luxuries of life and confining oneself to necessities, that a man may build his success upon them. As for the motto hanging in his office, it is: "Work is a human service."
And here are some of the questions that were put to Hershey:
What is the event that gave you the greatest joy of your life?
— My paying my creditors what remained owing to them, after I had been forced years before to leave my business and pay only 40% of my debts.
— What is the greatest surprise that ever astonished you in your life?
— When my workmen surprised me with a party for my eightieth birthday and presented me with a birthday cake lit with eighty candles.
— What was the greatest cause of your success in business?
— My mother's advice to me the day I left home for work, when she said: "Be a man, my son, and if you begin a piece of work, do not leave it until you have mastered it." That is what heartened me through my trials and helped me all my life.
