cess in obtaining the political right. But to wage the battle oneself strikes harder than striving to stir it up, and the woman who volunteers to teach the illiterate and founds model schools is better than the one who strives by words to combat ignorance and illiteracy.
I say — and I do not absolve myself — that we have lately been afflicted with a verbal inflation that gives cause for alarm.
This is what occurred to me as I leafed through an article in which mention was made of the women's conference intended to be held in Beirut next June. In it too was a reference to the subjects the conference will take up. It will be noticed that they are the traditional subjects examined at every conference of this kind: family affairs, the fight against illiteracy, compulsory education, the creation of vocational schools for girls, prison reform, juvenile reformatories, and so forth. No doubt the conference will also raise the subject of political rights, and the question of demanding them in those Arab countries which have not yet granted them to their women, or have granted them in mutilated form. Nor is it unlikely that it will touch on other subjects, such as organizing election campaigns and forming women's blocs and parties to back candidates who back women's demands, or to support women candidates for parliament in the countries that have granted women this right — as in Lebanon, for instance.
Previous women's conferences have accustomed us to their laying down comprehensive, wide-ranging resolutions, printed and published abroad, which yet remain ink on paper.
That is because they scattered their aims and multiplied their undertakings and demands, and neglected the matter of preliminary arrangements; and if they resolved on something, they omitted to indicate the means of carrying it out.
The success of a conference of this kind depends first on preparing for it several months before it convenes; second, on confining its
efforts to one main subject which the members study at length, treating everything else briefly and within limits.
And it would well become the conference to concentrate its work on the subject of gravest moment
in woman's life, namely her work in the home and outside the home: what are its forms, what is its extent, how does it develop and expand, what are its problems and issues, and what are the needs of
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