hygiene and to bring them moral and material aid.

The Ambulance Committee was created to provide medical and material relief to regions far from any medical center. The ambulance rounds are made twice a week with 2 doctors and several nurses, equipped with a complete medical kit, medicines, provisions, and clothing. This service has come to the aid of more than 9,600 sick. The School of Nursing, on which the mobile ambulances directly depend, comprises 3 years of study and 2 months of practical training distributed over the three years, after which the nurse obtains a State diploma enabling her, if need be, to direct a hospital. The School also undertakes to supply first-aid workers and first-aid assistants, as well as trained children's nurses.

All this little world is governed by the office of the Secretariat, which performs a task of central-

ization among the different sec-tions and the regional committees.

To all this work has been added aid to the Palestinians — and that is saying no small thing. It was necessary to answer the appeal of these unfortunates who had left country, homes, and pos-sessions, and who, moreover, were threatened by all the epidemics that follow upon war. The L.R.C. has taken upon itself, in large part, to house them, feed them, clothe them, and above all to care for them. Several dispensaries and milk stations, among them that of the Quarantaine, were created solely for this purpose. At present, one of the L.R.C.'s premises has been converted as a matter of urgency into a milk station. It is there that the milk is pasteurized and the bottles sterilized which must feed more than 3,000 babies and children in Beirut, Baalbeck, Saida, Tyre, etc. Distribution

is made daily in the various refugee camps.

A mail service has been set up at the office of the L.R.C. 2,450 messages have been sent by these refugees to Palestine.

The L.R.C. has extended its field of action as far as Palestine itself, where it founded a hospital at St. John of Acre, provided with a surgeon and a physician, 2 nurses, and 2 stretcher-bearers, one of whom fell a victim to duty while gathering up the wounded on the battlefield. In spite of every difficulty, the hospital continued to function for 3 months, sheltering hundreds of wounded and sick. Nearly 150 of the wounded were operated upon.

Aid to the refugees demands of the L.R.C. constant effort and a careful organization which seeks always to perfect itself, so as to relieve human misery as far as possible and to serve its country.

AN ESSENTIAL TASK

Women have an essential role to play in the diffusion of scientific knowledge. Everything possible must be done here so that scientific progress may be directed to the benefit of humanity instead of hastening its destruction. In the two wars that this generation has known, science, to its eternal shame, has helped to destroy life and its very sources.

Death and wounds were its immediate consequences; it contin-ues to cause the death of millions of persons in every part of the world, save in the few favored

nations that seem to have escaped its effects, and there is not yet any sign on the horizon of an end to misery, famine, and death. Throughout the world, all mothers must cry to the face of heaven: "Never again shall our sons and our daughters know such a fate," and their appeal must be repeated in all the national and interna-tional councils.

Yet a representation, however competent, will carry but little weight if women cannot unite in their firm resolve to bring about understanding among all peoples, all races, and all creeds. A common

bond unites them: the endurance and the pain which are, as it were, the portion of motherhood.

Women are the principal custo-dians of national culture and of spiritual understanding. In these domains no distinction of race or creed is possible, but women must manifest their resolution actively. They must obstinately refuse to take part in anything that favors war; they must instill their ideal into their children from their ten-derest age, so that the generations to come may know a real peace.