• At the beginning of December the League of Women's Organizations in Lebanon held a meeting of the general council, attended by a large number of members from all the cities and villages of Lebanon.

After the president of the League of Women's Organizations, Mrs. Laure Tabet, had welcomed those present, the president of each committee came forward with a report on its work during the year 1953, and an atmosphere of familiarity and affection prevailed over the meeting.

• Between December 7 and 14 the society "Al-Nahda An-Nisaiyah" celebrated the Week for the Fight Against Illiteracy in Lebanon; for this society, which first directed its efforts toward encouraging national manufactures, has in recent years turned its activity to the fight against illiteracy, and has built several schools for girls in the remote villages, wherever the government concerns itself with the schooling of boys and not of girls!

The "Week for the Fight Against Illiteracy" was opened over Radio Lebanon by the president of Al-Nahda An-Nisaiyah, Mrs. Najla Kfoury, and there followed speeches by Mrs. Ariette Khoury, Dr. Jean Merhej, Mrs. Ellen Rihan, and Mrs. Laure Tabet; and Mr. Salah Labaki closed the week.

The Week for the Fight Against Illiteracy was likewise brought to a close with a grand dancing party held at the Bristol Hotel, at which a lottery drawing took place, along with contests of elegance and beauty. As usual, the commercial houses donated all the prizes, in encouragement of the Week for the Fight Against Illiteracy and in appreciation of its noble educational mission.

• In Cairo, between the 5th and

17th of last month, was held the "Conference of Social Studies on Delinquent Juveniles," bringing together representatives from all the Arab countries, who took up in research and study the most important practical and effective methods for solving the problems of juveniles, and for protecting

them from the dangers that drag them into vagrancy and crime.

Lebanon was represented at the Conference of Social Studies on Delinquent Juveniles by the president of the Union for the Protection of Juveniles, Mrs. Alice al-Qird Nakkash, who delivered an important statement at the conference, which we shall publish in the next issue.

Mrs. Nakkash was accompanied to the conference by the delegate of the Union for the Protection of Juveniles in Lebanon, Miss Georgette Abousamra, who is counted an expert in juvenile affairs, in view of her continuous

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