Inauguration of the Hall of the Society for the Advancement of Lebanese Industry

★ The building of the Chamber of Deputies witnessed, on Wednesday the 16th of last month, the ceremony inaugurating the new hall of the Society for the Advancement of Lebanese Industry, attended by the President of the Republic and his wife, with a select gathering of pillars of the state and of men of politics, standing, the press, and the diplomatic corps.

The ceremony was opened by Mrs. Laure Tabet, president of the League of Women's Organizations, with a splendid speech in which she said:

“The idea that guided the president, Madame Emile Eddé, in founding the Society for the Advancement of Lebanese Industry was to put an end to the misery which the Lebanese villages suffer through the emigration of their sons to the cities and to foreign lands in search of a livelihood. Fifteen years have now passed over this institution, and despite the obstacles that have stood in its way, it moves forward under the banner of humanity and the homeland.”

And she went on to say:

“We began the work with nothing but a vast dream and a zeal without limit, and now the Society for the Advancement of Lebanese Industry provides work for more than two thousand workers, women and men, in a great number of villages.”

She was followed by Mrs. Michel Sara with a gracious word in French...

Then President Chamoun rose and hung about the neck of the society's founder and president, Mrs. Lodi Emile Eddé, the exalted Order of the Cedar in the rank of Commander... Then he pinned the Order of Merit on the breasts of the active members, Mesdames: Hanna al-Khazen, Albert Kashou, and Bechara Tabbaa.

The magazine “The Woman's Voice” seizes this opportunity to raise its sincere congratulations to the president and members of the Society for the Advancement of Lebanese Industry, wishing them success in persevering in this noble undertaking they have taken upon themselves, in the service of the Lebanese family and the Lebanese village through the encouragement of national industry.