2 — The Salary Earners

These earn their daily bread by toil and unremitting work. Rarely can they amass great fortunes; rather, in the course of one week they spend most of what they managed to earn the week before. The thought of returning never crosses their minds — whatever longing for Lebanon stirs within their breasts — and this goes back, for the most part, to two important reasons. The first: work here is not plentiful, and they have not yet for-gotten, since they left the country, that they left it precisely out of a desire for work and in search of a livelihood; how, then, should they cast themselves a second time into the mire of unemployment?! The second: the guarantees the worker and the employee enjoy over there have no counterpart in any other country in the world. The hours of work are limited; life is insured against want, sickness, and acci-dents; and he enjoys, besides, the protection of a strong and active union that safeguards his rights and wards off from him every injustice and exploitation. Where is he to find such guarantees outside the land of Uncle Sam?! The policy of enticement will therefore avail nothing unless it is joined to an endeavor to create work and provide guarantees.

3 — Members of the Liberal Professions

At the head of these: the physicians, the lawyers, and the engineers. Their hours are crowded with work and their waiting rooms packed with people, so much so that they raise their fees out of a desire to "thin out" their clients, while their colleagues among us resort to "underbidding" to win clients. Sentimental publicity in such a matter is doomed to failure; the effective measure lies in founding development projects, so that scope opens up for such men, and the country profits by their knowledge and their experience, and takes pride in what is in them and in their achievements.

4 — The Retired

These are the men whom unremitting work has worn out; they have closed the chapter of struggle in their lives and gone in search of rest wherever it offered itself. The policy of enticement has succeeded among these more than among any others, for here interest has fallen in with sentiment, given the quiet to be had here and the comfort of being among one's

own people, alongside the lowness of prices. And though financial and administrative affairs do not concern them much, they fear they may not find in the homeland a substitute for the free atmosphere in which they live in their expatriation; and so we see them hesitate to sacrifice ample liberty for the longed-for rest.

5 — The Rising Generations

This discussion would not be complete did I not devote a word, however brief, to the rising generations. I am sorry to say that no tie binds them to the homeland of their parents — save only the tie of curiosity. They like to pay a visit to this country, for no reason but to become acquainted with the country their parents came from. But that they should prefer it to the country in whose shade they grew up — that never crosses their minds. They are Americans in every sense, and few of them speak an Arabic free of foreign accent. The emigrant's son is American in tongue, American in mind, and American in heart. There is thus no hope of bringing him back to the fold: the broad democratic order in whose shadow the young emigrant prospers is dear to him as his own life, and he will accept no substi-tute for it under any circumstances.

Finally, the emigrants, for all the difference of their stations and inclinations, agree in their concern for the future of their children, choosing for them the place best suited to their upbringing and to the future of their lives. There is

no disputing that the possibilities of learning and advancement are broader in the American lands than they are here; and so the emigrant may sacrifice his own comfort and his longing for the sake of his children's future. If we wish to win him over, we have no choice but to place the pursuit of learning within the reach of every student, and to smooth for the educated the paths of progress and fruitful work.

The sum of the matter is that the emigrant stands between two forces: an attracting force, which is longing for his country and his people; and a repelling force, which is care for his material interests. The publicity we have carried on until now has confined itself to nourishing the first force; as for the second, and the more important, we have not yet managed to deal with it. Let us press on with administrative reform in sweeping fashion; let the public services be organized decisively; let develop-ment projects be founded on a wide scale; and let the realization of economic, social, and cultural guar-antees of every kind be taken up — and then we shall see delegations of emigrants coming back with their money, and devoting their intelligence and their experience to the benefit of the nation and the good of the country.

Kamal al-Yaziji The American University of Beirut

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