other · Issue No. 3, March 1954 · p. 44

In the Next Issue

في العدد القادم

1 — We shall publish a detailed press inquiry into the married women employees on the state payroll, whom Lebanese law deprives of the family allowance because they have husbands. This is the question raised last month by the editor-in-chief of this magazine, in an open letter addressed to Mrs. Laure Tabet, president of the League of Women's Organizations in Lebanon.

Is it not an injustice that these employees should be deprived of their family allowance when their husbands are emigrants who have abandoned the responsibility of the family (as is most often the case), or are out of work, or invalids, or of small income?? What do our readers think of this important subject?

2 — And let readers also await an illustrated reportage on the juvenile beggars whom the Beirut municipality has gathered up from the open streets — who they are, why they took to vagrancy, begging, and swindling, and what the fate of each of them is to be...

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