Loudspeakers are forbidden by law and we shall forbid them in practice, says Michel Toma — Three problems make our summer resorts a hell, says Anna Tabet!
Talk of summering in Lebanon is always delightful and full of ramifications, and The Woman's Voice in particular keeps wishing for Lebanon to become the golden dream of every tourist and summer visitor — out of devotion to this good country and its good citizens, and out of its belief that it lies within Lebanon's power to rival the most advanced countries of the world in this field. So its "roundtable" convened this month to take up this subject in the salon of Mrs. Samia Dimashqiya Abu al-Jabin, and joining the hostess in the discussion were Mesdames Anna Jacques Tabet, Linda Naim Majdalani, Nadia Mohammed Sabra, and Charlotte Edouard Osseily — all of them women who, in addition to their culture, have had the chance to go out to the West and become acquainted with the famous summer resorts of the world.
The "plan of the roundtable" laid out a general attack by the ladies on the Commissioner of Tourism and Summering, Ustad Michel Toma, who is known in Lebanese and international circles for his devotion and his vigilance over the interests of tourism and summering in general, and in Lebanon in particular. Perhaps Ustad Toma was afraid to meet this "heated" attack alone, for he came in the company of his
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secretary-general, Mr. Shahin — but he did not call on anyone's help... "and he measured up to the attack, and then some!"
... The first to attack was Anna Tabet, the most ardent of them all on the subject, and she began raining accusations down on Ustad Toma before the circle of the gathering was even complete!: "I am happy we were invited to this roundtable, because the subject of summering concerns me greatly. And I have no patience to wait!
"... Three problems in the summering season get on my nerves to the last degree. The excessive use