Mr. Salim Saad heads the transmission center of Radio Lebanon, and in his capacity as instructor of electrical and radio sciences at the Civil Wireless College, he recently made a journey to West Germany together with the directors of the College, in response to an invitation from the government of Germany and the owners of the Siemens, Telefunken, and Lorenz

factories. His tours, over twenty days, bore the character of survey and study. It gives us pleasure to relay here some of his observations and impressions of interest to our lady readers.

I shall not tell you, dear reader, about what I saw in the television stations and wireless broadcasting stations, nor in the towers of Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, and Kiel — apparatus,

masts, and machines of no concern to you. Rather, I shall relate to you some observations and stories, most of which revolve around the problems of society in Germany today, and especially the largest part, which makes up 56 percent of that society: woman in Germany.

The population of West Germany today is estimated at roughly 50 million souls, of them 28 million female and 22 million male. Hence we see that only six million women are surplus to need — if we assume that all the men are sensible fellows who have found their better halves, in order to lighten the burden of the crisis produced by the last World War and to strengthen the homeland and raise its standing.

Perhaps you will hasten to ask here, saying: I know that woman in Europe, and especially in Germany, works on an equal footing and side by side with man, and can earn her living just as he does; therefore she has no need of a man to support her. Where, then, is the problem?

Here you find me congratulating you on this knowledge of yours, and praising warmly the sources from which you drew your information. But permit me, I beg, to offer you some necessary clarifications about the fields in which the German woman works today — not only on an equal footing and side by side with man, but also alone and side by side with her sister woman. If you entered with me one of the Telefunken radio factories in "Berlin," or the television-tube factory in "Ulm," you would be astonished to see dozens of rows of blonde working girls with blue and green eyes, wearing white aprons, before them the lucky little parts that men's fingertips are forbidden to touch, reserved for soft fingertips alone!

Likewise, if you entered with me one of the Lorenz factories in Berlin or Stuttgart, you would then be convinced that the radio set which broadcasts to you news, talks, and music is, in its entirety, the work of those same soft hands as well. And if the telephone bell rings in your house now as you read, cast a glance at

Members of the wireless mission in front of the television transmitter (the one wearing the badge is the author of this article, Salim Saad). Behind them, the representative of the "Siemens" company.