• On the occasion of the passage of twenty-five years since the appearance of the Lebanese newspaper al-'Alam, a group of its supporters and admirers, and of the friends of its owner, the patriotic writer Sheikh Michel al-Hayek, have resolved to hold a silver jubilee celebration next summer, in appreciation of the patriotic struggle of its owner, who has continued to publish it throughout this stretch of time.

The committee, in inviting the friends of the owner of al-'Alam and its supporters to take part in this patriotic duty, in acknowledgment of merit and in avowal of gratitude, announces that it will accept no monetary donations, but will content itself with the sincere sentiments and noble feeling that the friends will show by taking part in the jubilee celebration, the date of which is fixed at ten o'clock on the morning of Sunday, July 25, 1948.

• An association has been founded in Beirut under the name of "the Young Muslim Women's Association." It is a cultural, charitable, humanitarian institution, aiming to bring out the personality of woman and to raise her scholarly and social standing, to fight illiteracy and idleness and to spread learning, to awaken the social spirit in woman, to kindle the love of learning and of work, to spread the spirit of virtue, and to realize the educational ideals that help toward universal brotherhood, human love, and the doing of good. A great work of this kind, undertaken by our gracious ladies, is a work for which we wish the success it deserves. May God take by the hand the women who labor in the cause of humanity and the general good.

• From Mrs. Christine Rizk, president of the health committee of the Lebanese Arab Women's Federation, we have received the following word:

The health committee of the Lebanese Arab Women's Federation is still working with zeal and energy to improve the state of health and of general cleanliness in the town. It has made abundant efforts, which have brought proven benefits and many results for the comfort of the inhabitants, too many to enumerate. It regrets that the municipality has not permitted it the use of the health car for getting into touch with the inhabitants and hearing their complaints so as to raise them to the proper quarter—this owing to the epidemics current this year and the pressure of the municipality's business; but that has not prevented the committee from presenting abundant reports in answer to the demands of the inhabitants, reports which it hopes will be received with attention and carried into effect.

We are also pleased to announce that the great benefactress the Marquise de Freige has presented the committee with a bolt

of homespun cloth, as is her custom every year. We have sewn it and distributed it as aprons to some of the bakery workers, that they may appear in a clean state; and we have hopes that this distribution will grow to include all the workers. To her go our thanks and our appreciation.

It is truly a matter for satisfaction to see, on the part of the authorities, this genuine concern for the public interests on the one hand, and, on the part of the inhabitants, compliance with the orders of the authorities out of willingness and consent; this shows us with plain clarity that culture and progress have begun to show their results in the character of the community and in its understanding of the meaning of advancement and progress.

• The editorial committee of The Woman's Voice held two sessions

in the past month, the first at the house of Mrs. Afifi Majdalani and the second at "Dar al-Kitab," at which it studied the means by which this young magazine can realize its aims. Mrs. Najla Cortas Zureik, president of the committee and wife of the Honorable Dr. Constantine Zurayk, vice-president of the American University of Beirut, presented a report in which she set forth the new possibilities that can be introduced into "The Woman's Voice" to make it the magazine of the Arab woman, working in everything that concerns woman. Readers will see in our coming issues the signs of this activity being shown by the editorial committee of The Woman's Voice, which includes a distinguished element from among the ladies of this country.

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