Whoever follows the story of the Lebanese woman's charitable and social efforts knows full well that they rest upon the work of the many women's associations spread through all the cities and the large villages. And these associations have cooperated among themselves since the year 1923 by creating a Lebanese Women's Union, formed expressly to strengthen the spirit of union and cooperation among the women's associations, whatever their differing aims, so that they might work together for the advancement and happiness of family and society, for raising woman's standing in them to the level worthy of her, and for obtain-ing her social and political rights. For a long time the Women's Union labored alone toward this aim — a period that served as preliminaries and as preparation of public opinion and of the governing authorities, which would procras-tinate and stall at every attempt.

The idea of demanding woman's rights ripened with the rise of several political parties whose programs included full equality in rights and duties. The women's section of the Lebanese Kataeb became active and called a general women's meeting, one of whose results was the formation of a com-mittee representing the women's organizations of all tendencies, to pursue this cause to the end.

This committee performed its duty admirably, and kept up its effort, its demands, and its insistence within a peaceful and courteous compass, until it obtained the resolution of the Administration and Justice Committee, drawn up by His Excellency Mr. Habib Abou Chahla and published in all the newspapers.

This committee expects the ques-tion to be laid before the Chamber of Deputies at the earliest moment. What, then, is the responsibility of the Lebanese woman, now that her cause has climbed to the topmost rung of the ladder and stands waiting before the door of the Chamber of Deputies? The women of Lebanon and the women of the Arab lands await that happy day on which the Lebanese Chamber

of Deputies will place on record its intellectual and liberating leadership, and be the first to place on record general, all-embracing equality and the ideal liberty granted to every member of the nation without distinction.

The Lebanese Women's Union, which has placed all its confidence in this committee, wishes to share with it this final stage of its unceasing struggle and to strengthen its arm in the most deli-cate hours of its long labor. It asks every self-respecting lady to prove worthy of its good opinion of her, and to help by appearing as befits her at the doors of the Chamber of Deputies and in its spacious halls, so that with tact and grace we may occupy the nation's assembly, upon whose word depends the conclu-sion of this cause that has occupied us for so long. We want approval by acclamation before this assem-bled gathering of women's organi-zations, that we may inscribe our thanks to them in letters of gold.

The Lebanese Women's Union calls upon all its associations, and likewise asks every Lebanese lady, to join it at the Chamber of Deputies on the appointed day.

Muneera Shehadeh For the Committee on Publicity and Publication The Lebanese Women's Union

Since the founding of the kindergarten in 1946, Al-Nahda An-Nisaiyah has followed a spe-cial plan: opening the kindergarten at the beginning of spring, with the school holiday falling in the winter season. As usual, school began on the first of April, at the coming of spring and the beautiful weather in Zahle, the bride of Lebanon. The mothers have felt the opportunity the kindergarten offers them, and the double benefit of having their children under the

care and attention of specialist teachers, so the number of chil-dren has grown perceptibly — the school's three rooms can hardly hold them. Yet the economic squeeze that is tightening its grip on the country in general, and on Zahle in particular, has greatly affected the society's resources in subscriptions and donations, and it finds itself with bound hands before the expansion demanded by the cultural and educational need which this kindergarten fills.

The society has a full program for the days ahead, including the showing of a special film on the child and the method of raising him and caring for him; and also a grand oratorical celebration for the famous American writer Dorothy Thompson, president of the society of the Friends of the Arabs in America, who is visiting the East for the second time — a longer visit that will enable her to make it known more and more to the millions of her American read-ers. This issue will scarcely reach its readers before the society has completed this program and begun preparations for the summer festivities and for receiving the great number of compatriots who deserve celebration and honor.

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