She will not neglect her family out of love of the limelight, and she will not stand as a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies unless she has the time for it. And there are a number of women who have ample time and who believe in the justice of the demand, and yet will not stand for election. The Lebanese woman does not demand equality out of love of show or out of mannishness; she demands it, and insists on obtaining it, out of firm conviction and in quest of justice and of cooperation with man in service.

The woman to whom the affairs of the children and the home are entrusted — with all that the rear-ing of the rising generation holds of service to the homeland and of the building of its most important pillars — is broken in spirit and weakened in morale, and she grows angry, when she is not treated with justice and when she is regarded as a minor, and no minor is she. She who is fit to rear the rising gen-

eration is fit to bear responsibilities and to undertake serious work.

Some time ago Mr. Muhammad al-Naqqash criticized the Lebanese woman in the newspaper Beirut al-Masa, because every time she demanded her right she contented herself with submitting memoranda and writing articles, and he urged her to press her demand in a differ-ent style — a style that frightens the men, in his own phrase. I thank Mr. al-Naqqash for his sympathy with our cause, and I wonder whether the men of Lebanon must be frightened before every rightful claimant is given his due, and whether they must be frightened before woman obtains her right to strive for the elevation of the home-land under the dome of parliament.

For a year now the Executive Committee of the Women's Organizations in Lebanon has been setting forth its cause in memoranda, articles, interviews, and publications, and it has spread propaganda against every

candidate who did not back the cause of giving the Lebanese woman her rights in full. The woman of Lebanon will not attempt to frighten anyone, for she believes in the justice of her demand, and believes in demanding without interruption, with dignity, calm, and sobriety; and she believes that in Lebanon, and in the new Chamber of Deputies, there are men who will do justice to woman, who will listen to the voice of jus-tice and act upon what it inspires.

There is a comprehensive move-ment in Lebanon. The women of Tyre, Sidon, Tripoli, and Zahle, and of every town and village, stand in solidarity with the women of Beirut. Telegrams pour in upon the Executive Committee of the Women's Organizations, support-ing, encouraging, and urging the continuation of the work. And we shall continue the work until we obtain our right, for the raising of the homeland's standing, God willing.