"Nida' al-Sihha" (The Call of Health) is a magazine, the first of its kind in the Arab East. Two issues of it have appeared, at the rate of one issue every two months. It aims at "awakening the individual's insight by the light of health, and stirring his resolve to walk in that light, so that he may be safe from stumbling and slipping into the mire of bodily, mental, family, and social diseases." (1)

As we welcome the appearance of our colleague "Nida' al-Sihha," appreciating the importance of its mission in health and education, we are pleased to quote this guiding word by its Responsible Director, Mr. Salim Najim, as we make ready for the opening of the schools...

We all know that the twentieth century has been distinguished by a palpable advance of knowledge in every direction, and the credit for this advance goes to the schools, which trained man in sound thinking and prepared him to be that discoverer and inventor and deviser, that astronomer and philosopher and lawgiver.

Educators have given special care to the raising of the

young and to training them in a way that does not conflict with the child's psychology. The philosophers of the science of the mind studied the aims of the little ones and their movements; they probed and tested and observed the aptitudes of the rising generation, and then laid down the laws of discipline which, if the teacher adopts them and the parents understand their import, the nation guarantees itself a happy life, and success is its ally forever.

For the general benefit, the colleges and universities opened special branches to teach teachers the art of teaching, and this lofty idea has brought abundant profit, so that we now see the graduates of the teachers' colleges, men and women alike, attending to the child's growth — full and well proportioned, in mind and thought and sense and intellect and body. The old-fashioned teacher, whip in hand, shouting in a voice of menace, has left no trace in the modern schools. The school that yesterday was an "ogre" frightening the little ones, so that they shrank from going to it, has today become a spring to which they come to draw knowledge without exhaustion or difficulty.

To the modern schools, then, father of children! To those clear springs from which your children draw sound knowledge, in a manner that does not split the

head, nor sap the will, nor bear down upon mental and bodily growth together. How many a child looks upon the school as a "bogeyman," for the harshness and roughness he meets there, and turns and flees whenever he is pushed toward it by force. Do not shock the child at the beginning of his life and in his first school, and do not suppose that he gains