Janet Hitti Invites Beirut's Women Journalists to Luncheon

Friday, January 24 last, set down a delightful precedent in the history of women's journalism. Mrs. Janet Hitti, president of the Young Women's Christian Association in Lebanon, invited all the women journalists representing the various Arabic, French, and English newspapers to a luncheon, attended also by the leading officers of the association and the president of the financial campaign, Mrs. Eva Malik.

The gathering was, in a word, on a high level. Brief remarks were made by Mrs. Eva Malik, by the hostess Mrs. Janet Hitti, and by Miss Leila Shaheen, president of the publicity committee, on the purpose of this gathering — namely, the cooperation of all the women's press bodies together to make a success of the financial campaign, which aims to collect one million liras with which a building housing all the departments of the association is to be erected — all of it in the service of the rising generation and of young women, and to ease their entry into a dignified, independent working life...

Then the women journalists asked the officers of the Young Women's Christian Association to clarify whatever had escaped their understanding, and pamphlets and photographs were distributed, giving the cause still more light and understanding...