from the practical side she consumes more than man. Is she not the one responsible for the house and its needs and everything to do with its affairs? As for the foreigner, he did not come

to look at our country as a spectator; he came to open markets for himself in it — so let us beware of that.

In'am: What, then, young people, are the practical ways of carrying out this campaign and putting it into effect?

Fahima: Sacrifice...

Asma: I have a comment on the word sacrifice. If the aims are made clear, then any step a person takes is natural; he would be making a sacrifice only if he failed to apply them.

Fahima: The feeling of sacrifice is a beautiful feeling, and it encourages a person to work.

Mounah: The boycott develops in the individual the feeling of responsibility, and makes him feel his duty as a citizen and as an individual. But every nation — every talk of a nation's being whose foundations do not spring from the nation's own soil — is a feeble being... Hence necessity called for the revival of the nation and the safeguarding of its unity and its civilized growth — hence duty called upon this Arab nation to feel its right that its economic being should be strong and alive.

Hamed: This matter has two faces. Negative: resisting the colonizers economically. And positive: building the Arab national economy.

Mounah: When I do what I feel a desire to do, without paying heed to any watcher or rebuker, the nation is assured of prosperity from my work. The boycott is not a blind call stirred up by fanatical appeal; it is dictated by a national duty and taken in by the nation's present circumstance. And so we began it by boycotting everything among the colonizers' goods that can be dispensed with, putting in its place what the Arab world produces for the Arab consumer. If we are asked what goods can be dispensed with, we have specified them in circulars distributed to the citizens... For example, the citizen can dispense with foreign tobacco, because we produce tobacco in our own country — and how many foreigners themselves have testified to the quality of what we have, preferring our tobacco to their own! Likewise all kinds of canned goods — why should we import from Australia and America and elsewhere meat and vegetables whose taste we do not know, nor from what sources they spring, and not replace them with what this land — our land — has grown?! Whenever this direction has become one of our glories, and whenever this meanness my soul harbors has been made good along this path... Our local production surpasses others: tomato juice from Bikfaya or Hammana or elsewhere is a thousand times better than what we import from

abroad — and candies, and shoes of every kind — and even nylon stockings: our country produces some of them. Did our ladies know that??

Hamed: The question is: once we have addressed this call to the Arab people, how do we carry it out?

First: every reader, woman or man, must adopt our idea and believe in our campaign; and once each one of us believes, he strives his utmost to spread it among his friends and acquaintances. He propagates it as a national duty laid upon him, in clubs, associations, schools, and elsewhere. Our campaign is organized, and many conscious citizens, men and women, have already begun to practice it. As for the steps we have taken so far: the formation of a central committee to organize the campaign, and from it subsidiary committees, women's and mixed. Its center is Lebanon, and from there it spreads into the Arab family circle. We have branches in every city — among them, so far, Tripoli, Sidon, and Beirut — hoping to extend them afterward.

Asma: And we, in our turn, count on everyone who reads or hears of this campaign of ours to believe in it and to help us, that he may help himself and his homeland.

Hamed: Likewise the public and private meet-ings we hold.

Mounah: This in addition to the various means of pub-lication, and personal contacts, and meetings, as we said — and the most important thing of all is example.

Hamed: We have addressed invitations to a number of citizens to send us their advice and their comments on the course of this campaign.

Mounah: Our campaign relies on reason in the conduct of its affairs; whatever is useful, it proceeds upon.

Fahima: We have in the Arab countries products we can be proud of, because they rival foreign products. For example: we have perfumed face soap that surpasses in quality the soap we import; likewise sweets, and the various kinds of glass and crystal — and there are many other such things. All of these can be dispensed with, and we can content ourselves with our own products.

Mounah: How can we have a being of our own with Israel at our side — or how can we do away with her, alongside the other fronts of the struggle — unless we cut off her road to the exploitation of the Arab market?

Hamed: We must always remember that there is an idea of making Israel industrial and the Arab coun-tries agricultural. The gain would then be hers, for she would then be able to dispose of her goods in our countries while we remained in need of aid from her...

Mounah: And from here comes the duty to revive industry in the Arab homeland, so that she will find no room for life among us.

Fahima: Do you not think this duty could have been