The invitation extended by the Social Affairs Committee of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) had a positive effect that appeared clearly in the National Industry Week held at West Hall in the American University of Beirut, under the patronage of His Excellency the President of the Republic, between April 27 and May 3 last.

This exhibition showed the value of the national industries, which the associations and clubs joined together to encourage in a fitting manner, in keeping with the great meaning embodied in them. The working hand — the national hand — which produced for the world many of the arts, returns once more to good and fruitful work, to

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The Story of National Industry Week

The story of National Industry Week began at the meeting held by the Social Affairs Committee of the Young Women's Christian Association, to which it invited the Association of Lebanese Industrialists, the Al-Nahda An-Nisaiyah society, the Young Muslim Women, the Lebanese Women's League, the Village Revival Society, the Eagles Club, the Arab Cultural Club, and the commerce students of the American University of Beirut.

This invitation was the opening of an organized effort aiming to encourage industry in a comprehensive campaign from which every good was hoped... a campaign for which all groups bestirred themselves and

to whose success all quarters contributed; and thus it was destined to bear fruit, thanks to the many efforts and to sound, organized work.

It was necessary to form special committees, each of which would concern itself with carrying out a particular program. Among these committees was the publicity committee, which took upon itself the responsibility of preparing publicity programs on the radio and in the press. The first and last aim this committee set before the public was confined to promoting national industry and making it known to the people.

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The committee condensed the