The kindergarten children performing one of the charming dances

and from the community in São Paulo — while the land is a gift from the Lebanese government.

Among what Dr. Harfush said:

"The building standing before us is the first building the League has raised in the name of learning.

It is an enduring monument in its life, for it carries within its recesses, in its majestic silence, the most complete tale of the reality of life in Lebanon.

In it appears the affection of the Lebanese emigrant for his mother homeland — an affection embodied in a valuable material contribution, generously made by the communities of Venezuela and Brazil alike.

In it shines the picture of the strengthening of the public interest through mutual cooper-ation between the state and private effort.

And on every stone of its walls, the struggle has inscribed the memory of endeavors made by a handful of human beings who felt their duty toward society and worked for that duty out of faith, undeterred in their resolve by the breadth of the gulf between the height toward which the goal soared and the low ground where their humble means and narrow possibilities left them.

May Lebanon have, at every turning, an edifice raised in the name of learning.

Yet this building, for all its simplicity, is distinguished in that it expresses the first collective effort undertaken by the Lebanese woman in the service of learning.

And the essential aim of this effort is not only to free the young from bondage to the letter and the word, but to strive to free them from bondage to the traditional differences before whose ancient tyranny our society has surren-dered — until that surrender deluded the individual among us into feeling himself a stranger in his own country, remote in his

ideals and his thinking from his neighbor and his kin."

Then she said: "This humble house is no one's property; it is the property of Lebanon, the property of its people and its sons, of rich and poor alike.

Whoever loves Lebanon will strive to make this house — and every house built in the name of learning in Lebanon — a cherished, solid edifice, supplied with all the material and moral conditions that assure it the progress of its work and the permanence of its continuance.

For 'he who builds a school closes a prison.'

And the Lebanese Women's League, as it presents to His Excellency the President of Lebanon and to its people the fruit of its humble effort, looks with eagerness and the warmth of faith toward the day when every prisoner of this nation shall become a good citizen, freed by knowledge from the terrors of ignorance, want, and disease."

Dr. Jamal Karam Harfush con-cluded by saying:

"The League is a voluntary civic body, and a body that gives its time freely for the fulfillment of its message asks no wage in life better than the moral reward it reaps when the whole community stands up for its highest ideal.

Mr. Nasri Maalouf delivering his address