Miss Dixie Booth on her winning horse "Sammy"

de Freige, president of the Lebanese Red Cross, and most of the administrative members.

• Sporting circles recently wit-nessed a great horse show, inter-spersed with rounds of "jumping over obstacles," in which 25 men and ladies took part, at the riding club in Beirut.

The occasion was honored by the presence of the First Lady of Lebanon, Mrs. Zalfa Chamoun, who herself presented the first winner with the "Cedar Prize" and shook hands with all the riders taking part in the show, in encouragement to them and in appreciation of this refined kind of open-air sport.

Of the fair sex, six ladies took part, among them the wife of Mr. Gabriel Murr, Miss Myrtle Winter of the international Relief and Works organization, and Miss Dixie Booth, who alone carried off one of the prizes.

Miss Dixie Booth is an American, one of the employees of Point Four — tall and blonde, and pas-sionately fond of horseback riding and skiing; she began practicing these two refined sports from her earliest childhood.

When asked the secret of her skill in riding, Miss Booth "mod-estly" affirmed that the credit for her victory belongs to the grace-

ful horse "Sammy"; but those who saw her on the horse's back could not contain their astonish-ment at her grace and lightness.

• On the eighth of this May, Mrs. Faiza Maalouf Antiba delivered an educational lecture at the club of the employees of the Iraq Petroleum Company and its associated companies in Tripoli, on the subject: "Our Educational Problems and How to Treat Them." She reviewed the educational problems arising from the complexity of social, economic, and political life and the interaction of these factors with one another, and summed them up as follows:

First: the problems arising from sectarian education, which gives Lebanese education a denomina-tional stamp that works to divide the members of the nation. She asked that religion be taught in a manner that brings out the traits of affinity among the different denominations, so that religious instruction may become, as it ought to be, a means of unifying the social soul and not an instrument of its fragmentation.

Second: the problems arising from the backwardness of the

country's economic condition; and she enumerated the services that education must render for the solution of those problems.

Third: the problems that spring from within the teaching pro-fession itself, chief among them the need for teachers trained in modern educational methods, and for creating in pupils and parents mentalities open to the interest of the nation and its economic, agri-cultural, and commercial future, and the country's need for work-ing hands trained according to scientific and technical methods.

She concluded her lecture with an appeal to educators, teachers and trainers alike, to unite their efforts to overcome those difficulties and to raise the level of national education.

• The Women's Committee of the Islamic

Orphanage institutions issued invitations, on the seventh of May, to the opening of the charity bazaar in the garden of the Orphanage. The courts and walks of the garden were crowded with the invited guests, at their head His Excellency President Camille Chamoun, who had granted the committee's wish that the bazaar be placed under his patronage. His Excellency moved among the tables accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Zalfa, both showing the utmost admiration for the hand-work, splendid in beauty and per-fect in workmanship, and giving generously with open hands. The task of making introductions and accompanying the gentlemen of the diplomatic corps was undertaken by the committee's president, Miss Ibtihaj Kaddoura. In addition, His Excellency the President donated, in the name of the Lebanese government, the sum of 5,000 Lebanese liras, after which donations poured in from the people of piety and charity.

A raffle was drawn for a refriger-ator, a sewing machine, and other things, and the outcome of the bazaar was a complete success, owing to its good reputation in past years and to the commend-