dinner given in her honor at the University Alumni Club. She also visited Baalbek and lunched at the table of Mrs. Rose Kettaneh at the model farm near Baalbek, which left in her heart the loveliest of memories.
She speaks at the League of Women's Organizations:
Those who heard her speak to the women of Lebanon about her experiences in the police took delight in listening to her for long hours without weariness. She analyzed with surpassing skill how woman by her very nature is fit to be a policewoman, especially in suppressing the traffic in narcotics and in watching over and reforming deviant and delinquent women; and she laid stress on woman's particular responsibility toward delinquent juveniles, whom misery, poverty, and disorder in the family drive into all manner of rough pitfalls, and on how woman — more than man — is able to save them and guard their steps, because of the understanding, the long patience, and the tenderness she has toward the young, and because man's roughness and harshness so often do harm in these delicate, sensitive problems; woman, for that reason, is the fitter to treat them...
At the house of the Palestinian Women's Union:
Mrs. Wadia Khartabil invited her, together with a company of men and women friends of the Palestinian Women's Union. Over a cup of tea the talk turned to the question of the Arab refugees and the misery and homelessness to which their condition has come... Dr. Higgins welcomed a visit to one of the refugee camps, and her eyes brimmed with tears as she took a moving-picture film recording that innocent childhood, despairing and deprived. She promised sincerely to help raise the question, on humane grounds, and to make the right
plain to American public opinion, which still does not know the grievous truth, under the influence of misleading Zionist propaganda... And she showed her deep sympathy for the cause of the Arab refugees, on whose behalf she had so often heard the priest in her Catholic church appeal to the people, urging them to aid the refugees "with woolen clothes that are clean, and such as they themselves would not disdain to wear!"
...of policewomen comprises thirteen countries, and this figure rises day
by day. The first to claim this right for woman, and to obtain it, was Alice Stebbins Wells of Los Angeles, California; that was in the year 1910. Alice Wells died last year, having passed eighty years of age, content of eye, for her dream had come true and met with brilliant success.
On more than one occasion Dr. Higgins expressed her readiness to give every explanation and assistance, within the scope of her authority, to any state wishing to join the International Association
Dr. Higgins's father takes a family picture on his fiftieth wedding anniversary; her mother is at her side, and behind her are her husband, her son, and her daughter
of Policewomen.
Honorary membership for President Adel Osseiran — Dr. Higgins, accompanied by Captain Fawwaz, visited the police school and the gendarmerie command; she also called on the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Adel Osseiran, and conferred on him honorary membership in the International Association of Policewomen, and she presented to the magazine "The Woman's Voice" a large picture of herself
In the Woman's Corner of Radio Lebanon:
Dr. Higgins took part in speaking
to the Lebanese woman from her own special corner, which Edvick Shayboub supervises and presents; Captain Youssef Harakeh also took part with her, giving important information about what woman can accomplish in police work.
Dr. Higgins proved this by the excellent results that woman's record in the police has established. Then she said that the International Association
And shortly before boarding the plane, on the evening of the twenty-fourth of last February,