pursuing the work — and its members were elected as follows:

The ladies and misses: Adelaide Rishani, Alice Nakhou, Huda Doumit, and Touma and Tarazi.

The doctors: Mustafa Izz al-Din, Jamil Kirbakos, and Elias Jabr.

Messrs.: Amin al-Gharib, Youssef al-Ghalbouni, and Mohammad Jamil Beyhum.

The society opened its work with two memoranda, one to the French High Commissioner and the other to the head of the government, in which it reviewed the danger to young men and women arising from the spread of prostitution in general and from the existence of the public houses in particular, and it pressed the demand that organized pros-titution be forbidden and that whatever of it was clandestine be prosecuted.

Religious and civic elements joined forces in support of the cause; but the reply to the memorandum, alas, disappointed its hope, for our request was deemed unlawful, on the ground that prostitution is licensed by virtue of a resolution issued by the Chamber of Deputies!

This reply sufficed for a time to dishearten the society's endeavors and bring them to a halt, if only for a while.

But the society would not stay silent for long in the face of the evil condition toward which prostitution was developing and worsening. It gathered itself together once more; an elite of people of merit joined it; the struggle was resumed in a more effective and more ardent form; and the Ministry of the Interior was notified of the re-formation of the society's bureau as follows:

Mohammad Jamil Beyhum, pres-ident and representative before the government; Nazik Sarkis, secretary; Adelaide Rishani,

treasurer; the lawyer Camille Howayek, social expert; Dr. Chaglassian, health expert; and Dr. Zaken Shakhashiri...

And since the question of combating prostitution is now the subject of study by a government committee formed pursuant to a decision issued by the Ministry of Health and called the “Committee for the Regulation of Prostitution,” the society saw fit to open its work with a memorandum dated October 13, 1954, addressed to the Minister of Social Affairs, in which it demanded the abolition of offi-cial prostitution.

Pending the realization of that aim, the society pressed in the memorandum for the following:

1 — The removal of the houses of prostitution outside the city.

2 — The employment of a social expert in the Morals Bureau, the society undertaking to guarantee his salary.

3 — The refusal of applications for licenses to open new houses among the public houses.

4 — The refusal of licenses to girls to enter the public houses.

5 — Greater severity in the fight against clandestine prostitution.

A delegation from the society called upon the Prime Minister and handed him this memoran-dum, begging him to impress upon the competent departments the necessity of fulfilling these demands; and it met from him a welcome for the idea. But we have not so far felt any trace of the

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