1 50 1 https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/files/original/9f4aa7be3d2d1fbd600178fa99b8acca.pdf a724f9b2013c95f919d9f3f314145dcd PDF Text Text !¥ The Syrian World PUBLISHED WEEKLY —ESTABLISHED 1926 VOL. VII, NO. 15. NEW YORK, AUG. 11, 1933. Rayak * Syria * End of Record Flight "VIVE LA SYRIEf VIVE LA FRANCE! - LINKED NEW YORK TO BEIRUT IN55HOURS,''CODOS AND ROSSI RADIO TO FRANCE BOMB DETROIT POPE BLESSES MILK CONCERN MSGR. WAKIM *TDETRCttT, August 3.—The Family Creamery plant of this city was today the object of a bomb explosion for the tenth time this year. It caused no more serious damage than the breaking of.several windows and a floor partly destroyed. The lives of: two employees, Joseph Genoury and Elmer Cota-y, driver, were imperilled. They weie in the plant when the bomb exploded. The blast was heard several blocks away by a cruising police scout car which was rushed to the scene. Investigation disclosed that several sticks of dynamite were used. Police were unable to link the bombings or trace their cause, but they say it is the continuation of a war on independent dairies begun last fall. Motive for Explosion Unknown George Lutfyy president of the concern, one of the largest diaries in Detroit, and owned by Syrians, was at a loss to explain their origin or motive. He said that the firm had been invited to join the creamery organization but that no threats had been made. LONGEST AUTO ROAD TO PASS THROUGH SYRIA AN AUTOMOBILE road that will take the motorist from London, to Cape Town in Southern Africa without change or transfer of locomotion is now tjgn|> serious discussion. For a long tufflFthe British have contemplated such a road to compete with the French-Belgian road traversing Africa from north to south. In a recent issue of the Daily Herald of London, it is reported, King Fuad I of Egypt participated in a discussion with representatives of the automobile association of London, and of Sudan which took place in Cairo. The main topic was the proposed road which" will be the longest in the world. When completed it Will pass through Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, central and southern Africa. Each country will have jurisdiction over its own part of the road. i H\ If II ( I- ARABIC PLAY WINS PRAISE HAIFA— An Arabic play based on the life of the last of the Umayyad caliphs in Andalusia, Spain, won high J>nuse from the press critics here, who hailed it as one of the few plays written in Arabic in recent times that measures up to the best traditions of the modern western theatre in text, production arid stage effect The successful playwright is Aziz Dunriti a student of/ German literature who spent seVerkl years in* Germany studying the art of play writing and production. MSGR^ Francis Wakim, pastor of St. Joseph's Maronite Church on Washington Street in New York City, returned from Rome on August 3 on the Conte Di Savoia, the same ship that he sailed on July 8. Father Wakim in the company of priests and laymen from America, was granted an audience with His Holiness the Pope. His Holiness extended his blessings to the relatives and friends of the group and expressed his appreciation of the sacrifice that these priests and laymen had undergone in such a time of crisis to visit the Holy City on the occasion of the Holy Year. While in Rome Father Wakim visited the four Basilicas prescribed by the church for special indulgence during the Holy Year, which will terminate in April 1934. This was Father Wakim's second visit to Rome. His first, on October 10, 1926, was on the occasion of the Beatification of the Blessed Martyrs of Damascus, the Massabki brothers, who were killed in the massacre of 1860. LEBANESE CRITICISES ARAB EXPOSITION BEIRUT.— A bitter criticism of the Arab Exposition now being held in Jerusalem came from an unexpected source. A Lebanese citizen, who had visited the exposition said on, his return) ' to Beirut that he was greatly disappointed when, going through the exposition floors, he found nothing to remind him of a separate national entity called Lebandji except for the samples of . Lebanese goods on view. The visitor at first excused the omission of the mention of Lebanon in the exposition program giving the various countries represented, considering it an unintended error. But when he entered the grounds of the exposition and found all flags of the various Arab countries represented with the notable ommission of the Lebanese flag, his spirit of forgiveness gave way to one of resentment at a national slight. SYRIA SHOWS INCREASE IN CUSTOMS REVENUES BEIRUT— An announcement from the customs officials of this port reports an increase of 150,000 Syrian pounds in the second period of three months over the first three months of the current financial year. Th*s total revenue reported is 2,450,850 JS. L. FLYING across the Syrian coast toward the end of their* record-making flight, and accompanied by a battalion of French planes from their base at Aleppo and Dier-az-Zor, which had come to escort them to a safe landing, the two French fliers, Paul Codos and Lt. Maurice Rossi, landed in the colorful sunset at Rayak, Syria amid the combined enthusiastic cheers of Syrians in native dresses, Moroccan cavalry in flowing bournoses and French army aviators in smart uniforms. Land at Rayak MOSLEMS GET GANDHI'S GOAT! JERUSALEM.— (A correspondent of "al-Jami'ah al-Islamiyyah" writes that the Mahatma Gandhi offered his own goat which he milks with his own hands as his share of contribution to the Moslem University project of Jerusalem. The Moslem delegation now travelling in the Far East to solicit funds for the proposed university met with great success in India. Moslems as well as Hindus gave enthusiastic support and contributed liberally towards the endowment of the university. 80 TONS OF BRICK A DAY, PRODUCTION OF LEBANESE PLANT BEIRUT.— George and Hunein Mudawar, brothers, have literally placed a brick, many bricks, in the national construction of Lebanon. A recent article in "al-Ittihad al-Libnami" describes the modern brick plant established by these two energetic Lebanese near Judaidat al-Matn in 1930 at a cost of $160,000. The present capacity of this plant, we are informed, is over 80 tons, sufficient for all the consumption demands of the country. The two brothers built their home near the plant, in the open) country, to be always near it. AMERICAN WOMAN EMBRACES ISLAM TO MARRY YOUH (Special Correspondence) DAMASCUS.— A wealthy American woman in the sixties who was touring the Holy Lands fell in love with a youthful Arab, Shaykh Khalil ar-Rawwaf, a brother of the former representative of the fraqite Government in Damascus. She embraced Islam that she would be able to marry Shaykh Rawwaf, who besides being a Shaykh in rank is also a sheik in the American, movie, sense, with black eyes, raven black hair, and only in his early thirties. Rayak was their chosen landing field, though they had not intended to end there, because of its excellent landing facilities, being one of the finest airports in the east. About an, hour's flight away from Rayak, they sent the following message to the French Air Ministry: "In one hour we shall land at Rayak as the result of very abnormal consumption of fuel. Nevertheless, the Joseph Le Erix has linked New York to Beirut in fifty-five hours. See you soon. Vive the wings of France. Vive la Syrie. Vive la France." The plane used by the two French fliers, the Joseph Le prix, was named after their compatriot who crashed and was killed in Siberia in 1931 in an attempt to make just such a record flight. The message was sent while they were flying over Latakia, an important city on the Syria coast, abeut 50 miles north of Tripoli. Important Junction Rayak, a small village, about 30 miles from Damascus and about 35 miles from Beirut, is an important junction station for two great railways, linking Syria with Europe and Turkey. It is here that tourists or freight change to narrow gauge cogwheel railroads to their destinations, Damascus, Palestine or Beirut. Situated in the hollow valley known as. Buqa', between the, Lebanon and the ante-Lebanon mountains, it is separated from Damascus, another important airport, by the ante-Lebanon range, and from there eastward to Baghdad, the desert, until 1933 a barrier, is now a highway For motor cars and air lines—one vast landing field. Because Baalbek is situated only about sixteen miles north, Rayak is known to the tourists' there, chiefly because it is the railroad junction. "The fliers probably passed over the ruins of this important centre ofl Greco-Roman dviluiation where Caraculla completed the temple of. the sun, and a tempfe of Bacchus is still preserved in almost its ^original grandeur," to quote the National Geographic Society, according to the New York Times of last Sunday. Was German Base During the World War, Rayak was the base of the German army. It was selected by them because it was far from attacks from the sea, �tTWOfc *~~- SB and because it offered means of transportation to Turkey, with which, they were allied. Before the German* left their base, at the end of the War, they set fire to their forts containing stores of ammunition and iwowstans. The English and French, however, saved them from complete destruction. Codes and Rossi started from the Floyd Bennett airport in Brooklyn at 5:21 A. M. Saturday, • flying north-east, over France, where, they dropped a note over the airport at Bourget, over the Alps, Munich, Vienna, the Balkans, then Aleppo, a distance of 5,700 miles, breaking.the non-stop mark by 500 miles. Traveling at a steady speed of about" 100 miles, an hour, they\ landed at,7:21 P.M. (1:10 P. M. ,New York time) in) Rayak. Their plan had been to carry on to Baghdad, Iraq, ox Karachi, India, and set a record of 7,284 miles, but they were forced to come down because of the more rapid consumption of gasoline than they had anticipated, due to the unusually hot weather, it is thought SYMAN WORLD, NEW YORK, AUG. 11, 1933. WOMAN EDUCATION TAKES LONG STRIDES IN IRAQ M ^„^fS^JC^DALAFr' '4RANKING WOMAN IN THE EDUCATION OF IRAQ," REVEALS RAPID PROGRESS IN WOMAN EDUCATION UNDER, KING FEISAL. DOMESTIC SCIENCE AND HYGIENE STRESSED; FEMINISM PROCEEDS CAUTIOUSLY WAS ONLY WOMAN REPRESENTING ARABIC COUNTRIES IN INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS FOR WOMEN • and, with no ostentation or pomp of! royalty. He enters a room where the girls are studying mathematics and hears the students recite. He turns to Miss Kandalaft and says, "Well, well, that is fine! I suppose a little mathematics will do no harm, but what will it mean to the future Iraqite mother?" Then be proceeds to a class of science, and:he makes similar indulging remarks. But when he comes to a class of sewjtog or cooking, his features, beam with .delight He inspects an api-on or; dress that strikes his fancy 'and £ats the girl approvingly, as he says, "Now that is excellent That design is pretty and suggests Arabic art when it was a flourishing one in the East Zein, zein! (fine, fine!) these will make good Iraqite toothers for our country." And the girls, flutter with pride, bow their heads and blush. No wonder King Feisal is such a popular soveriegn, and so well-liked at home and abroad. THE ANCIENT land between the Two Rivers, Mesopotamia, or Iraq as ,t is known today, has nothing ancient about it if woman educat.on.is taken as.the standard oi comparison. According to M.ss ACce Karidalaft, formerly a Syrian girl of Damascus who is now head of the Girls' Normal School of Baghdad, Iraq is taking advantage of the most modern methods of pedagogy and producing .the latest test-books for its school curricula. Miss Kandalaft ' i • • tui herself is a graduate of Teachers College of Columbia University with an UNIQUE MAP OF M. A. degree. She has held her prePALESTINE SENT TO sent post for the last six years conPOPE AS PRESENT Effect of Education on Home tinuously and is now on her visit to JERUSALEM.— Among the The effect of woman education the United States since her graduaFirst Successful Attempt valuable presents sent to His Holion the Iraqite home is being strongly tion, having been invited by the Naness Pope Pius XI from all parts felt today, declared Miss Kandalaft tional Council of Women in New According to the rules of the Inof the world on the occasion of the You will notice it at once in the York to represent her country in the ternational Aeronautic Federation, Holy Year, was one coming from tidiness and cleanliness of the home International Congress for Women their flight will not be official until the holiest city in the Holy Landrun by the educated Iraqite wife, held in Chicago in the week of July their instruments shall have been Jerusalem. This present is a map 16-22. who takes special pride in it and is tested. of Palestine showing the holy sites bringing up her children the modern Theirs was the only successful Presides Over 600 Pupils and made completely of motherway. Nevertheless, Miss Kandalaft flying project from New York to the of-pearl. It was sent by the abThe school over which Miss hastened to say, feminism is proceedNear East, east of /(Constantinople. bott of the Franciscan monastery Kandalaft presides has 600 students, ing slowly and cautiously in Iraq. Joseph Le Brix tw? years ago was here, .who proudly displayed a including the lower grades, and its The modern educated woman there killed in the attempt and much more letter from the Pope's secretary normal course requires for matricula-i now goes unveiled in her own home, recently the ^fly^hg Molliso/is oJ thanking him on behalf of His tion three years of junior high and "appears" before relatives and England planned to fly to Baghdad Holiness for it The present now school education. The normal course intimate friends also unveiled. But but abandoned the project rests in the Lateran Museum of, itself is two years which includes in the streets she wears a chic ,silfc Vatican City. actual practice in teaching in the aba, national wear, with a thin veil kindergarten and lower grades over her face. housed in the same institution. Higher Institutions of Learning "All the courses in the school," Arabic language, a child can count Besides the Girls' Normal SchooL said Miss Kandalaft in an interthem for you. Although it is well Baghdad has a Boys Normal School, view she gave to a representative of known that knowledge of Arabic is a Secondary School and a Medical the SYRIAN WORLD in International the only effective way for the spread SchooL The demand for teachers, House of Columbia University, "is and popularity of the products of! FOLLOWING a recent visit to especially women teachers is tremenin Arabic, except six hours of EngZionist colonies throughout the East Palestine M. Vilanski, editor of "Jourdous in Iraq. There is a shortage lish. From King Feisal down the nal du Caire," a Jewish French newsPan-Arab Policy Urged of teachers there, even when the tendency in woman education in Iraq paper published in Cairo, wrote • Girls' Normal School alone sends out is towards domestic science and hy"The Zionist Committee speaks o£ series of articles on the conditions an average of 50 teachers a year. giene. This does not mean that Irathe necessity of befriending the Arabs, of Palestine under the title, "PalesThe demand is always for more and qites do not wish their girls to take but when you come to action, it has tine in 1933." more teachers. For Iraq, like Ifeypt, * up other purely academic subjects, done nothing in this cause. Even Dr. In the last of these articles, acis expanding its program of educaor that the standard of education is Orxlorf (killed some time ago near cording to "Filistin," Jaffa, the Jewtion to reach every little hamlet in lower in Iraq than in other countries, Haifa, presumably by Zionist fanatics ish editor blames Zionists themselves the country. And even the tribesbut simply that Iraqites do not wish opposed to his policy) could accomfor much of the political unrest and to lose sight of the practical aim men are not forgotten in this proplish nothing in changing the wideuncertainty in that country. gram. There is at present an agriof woman education as it applies to spread Jewish feeling, in spite of M. Vilanski reminds his Jewish cultural school m Hillah, 50 miles the betterment of home conditions. his full knowledge that it is absolutely readers that the events of 1929 are but* south of ^Baghdad, for the Iraqite Marriage is still considered there the necessary to substitute pro-Arab poliexamples of recent developments, and tribesmen with little or no education. main function (of woman and her, cy for the existing one." that the silence of Arabs should not ideal in life." The instruction carried on in that be construed as a sign of satisfaction. school is mostly in the form of pracMiss Kandalaft pictured educaThey have refrained from acts of tion in general in Iraq as building on, tical demonstration, acquainting the INSTALL NEW OFFICERS violence because they have realized tribesmen with modem metthods of AT DINNER DANCE . new foundations, availing itself ofj the futility of such a course, and agriculture and the use of modem the most tried methods and the latest THE SYRIAN Junior League of they do not wish to disturb the premachinery. results in science. Cleveland held its fourth annual dinsent economic prosperity which they Miss Kandalaft is planning to stay ner-dance at the Grantwood Country are enjoying. Write Their Own Text-Books to the end of this month, mostly in, Club July 22nd, in honor of its new "Our teachers are writing thenNew York, where she is the guest of Arabs on Road to Progress officers. own text-books in Arabic. They are Miss Josephine Schain, 155 E 47th, "An opportunity now presents itThose who were entered into not satisfied even with the modem Street Miss Schain is the national self to the Arabs," declared the Jewoffice were: Somia George, president; text-books now being produced in, director of the Girls Scouts of Ameish editor, "to show that they have Nora Ganim, vice-president; Elizarica. Egypt So recent are our texttaken the road to progress with beth George, secretary and Adele Afbooks mat often we have to distribute Miss Kandalaft was the only Arab steady and wide strides." He refers toora, treasurer. them to our students as they come woman in the International Congress Particularly to the movement of Arab Ernest EtolL professor in Oberlin out from the presses before they are for Women representing over 30 difyouths who "suckle the hatred of College, spoke about the good will bound." ferent nations of the world. Jews with the milk." of the dub, and Jess Saba, president The moving spirit in the educaIn view of this, the Zionist leaders of the Syrian American Club lauded tional movement in Iraq, Miss KanIN RADIO TALK of Palestine, warns M. Vilanski, have the progressiveness of the organizadalaft averred, is King Feisal. He tion. given no heed to any act or thought Rev. Mansur Praises Common takes a personal interest in the schools coming from the Arab side opposed to Eighty-two couples were present People as the Bulwark and and makes frequent inspection visits their policy. This, le points, is a spot And among the entertainers were Saviour of Humanity in person, following in the steps of of weakness in ^i"n The Jews Abreeza Saba and Louis Hatton who Harun ar-Rashid who walked the IN A RADIO address at the do not know the Arabs, and do not sang a few popular numbers. old streets of Baghdad incognito to Wayne Herald studio, Wayne, Nebtry to know them. There is not the keep in close touch with his subjects raska, Tuesday, July 25, Rev. W. A. least effort among Zionist leaders, and acquaint himself with the condiSTARS OF LEBANON Mansur of Cedar Ripids took as his even those who had been in Palestions and affairs of his subjects. HOLD PICNIC subject "The Common People," saytine for a great length of time, to Here is an example of those visits, ing, "We are realizing that the comunderstand the Arab spirit, their life, THE RAFFLING off of prizes and as described by Miss Kandalaft: mon people are the most important their history and their present moveSyrian music and doming featured people for the welfare, progress and ments. 1 King Feisal Visits School the picnic of Stars of Lebanon at preservation of civilization. It was "In their cities and quarters," Macarious* Farm in Cleveland, Ohio, I King Feisal sends word that he the Syrian Christ who preached the continues the editor, "the Jews live as on July 30 for the benefit of St is epming to visit the normal school gospel, brought abundant life and though in trenches And if you ask George's Church. Over 400 people Jar gods. Presently he appears, usualbifgan God's Kingdom on earth me how many of them know "the attended. L ly unaccompanied by any officials -jugb the common people." JEWISH EDITOR URGES ZIONIST CO-OPERATION —*-- >'' i ?mw**m°>mm' i �RIHANISTIRSA HORNET'S NEST B DECORATED AGAIN kj?es Literati and Poets for Moaning" and Spirit of Defeatism. Bishara Khouri, Quoted by Rihani, Resents Reference. Newspapers Take tip Fight Manufacture of Paper from Cotton Seed Meal-Linen Grown Egypt—China Industry Shows Progress (Special Correspondence) ..BEIRUT-^ Ameen Rihani, Philosopher of Freike," has taken upon himself the duty of goading the lagging spirit of his nation. He feels that a day is ill-spent in which he does not upset sbme antiquated tradition, ridicules some national foible, pokes fun at some dignified stickin-the-mud or generally shocks the sensitive feelings of his conservative countrymen. At the commencement exercises of "al-Jami'ah al-Arabiyyah of Aleih," one of the pioneers among national high-school institutions in Syria, Ameen Rihani, principal speaker, took the occasion to fire a broadside against poets, literati and national leaders in general who give expression in season,' and out of season to a spirit of pessimism and "mourning" in their, writing and public utterances. Whole Nation Mourns . "If the most excellent and learned person in this country should pass away," said Rihani in his lecture, "I shall neither sorrow nor cry. And why should I? The whole nation will cry and mourn for me, for us all, continuously. Verily we are more generous with our tears and moaning than all the nations of the world. It is as though * we were kneaded with tears and grief. It is as though we were fashioned out of the sighs of hired mourners " Quotes Noted Poet If Rihani had stopped there that would have been the end of it, and we would not have witnessed today the whole newspapers of the country divided into two hostile camps, one defending and one condemning the celebrated author, lecturer and national provocator. But he quoted a poet who, is regarded by many as the logical successor of the late Ahmed Shawqi as the poet laureate of the Arabicspeaking world and who is a newspaperman himself. The lecturer cited two popular lines from a poem ofi Bishara al-Khoury, editor of alBarq, that have attained great popularity since Mohammed Abdul-Wahhab, premier Arab singer of Egypt, set al-Khoury's poem, from which the two lines are taken, to music and made a phonograph record of it. These lines are: "Love and youth and pursued hope, Have all fled from my empty hand." Counting it a slant at him, Bishara al-Khoury wrote a scathing article in al-Itihad al-Libnani in, which he ridiculed and deprecated Rihani. Al-Nida, nationalist newspaper took up the cudgels in the de-i fense of the latter, arid the field was thereupon open for free lance writers and admirers of the two principal contestants. Sermonizes on Pessimism From the ,start the controversyfell to the level of personal recriminations. Al-Khoury called Rihani a "charlatan," and Rihani's defenders called Bishara al-Khoury a sycophant francophile and other unseemly names. On a somewhat higher level of deliberation and with a calmer spirit Salim -William Kfaayyatah took up the debate in al-Nida, making of it an opportunity for ser- :M EGYPT TURNS SOVIET GRANTS TO ECONOMICS TURKSCREDIT DR. N. G. BARBOUR AN OFFICIAL communication from the French Foreign Ministry to the French Consul General of New York, announces that the rank of Officer in the Legion of Honor has been conferred on Dr. N. G. Barbour of Brooklyn. Dr. Barbour has been a practising physician in New York and Brooklyn since he first migrated. here in 1898, thirty-five years ago. He is a graduate of the American University of Beirut, class of 1887, having studied under Dr. Cornelius Van Dyke, who is often referred to as the founder of the i scientific movement in the Arabic renaissance. Upon graduation, Dr. Barbour became Dr. Van Dyke's assistant in the Greek Orthodox Hospital of St. George. In 1897 Dr. Barbour took graduate courses under some of the most noted French physicians and surgeons of that time in Paris. a Soon after the declaration of the Lebanese Republic, President Charles Dabbas semi-officially commissioned Dr. Barbour to be his representative in certain political matters relative to Lebanese citizens in this country. In, 1922 he was decorated with the 'Chevalier" of the Legion and "the Award of Merit" of the Lebanese Government. Dr. Barbour was born in Beirut in 1865, the son of George and Sa'da Barbour, and comes from two old and well-known families of that city. ARRESTED FOR DISORDERLY ,CONDUCT FRITZ Aswad, 29, 907 Ontario Avenue, Niagara Falls, was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct, preferred against him by patrolman James Lindsay. He charged Aswad with becoming disorderly when he ordered a gathering of men with whom Aswad was standing to disperse. monizing on "pessimism" and its degenerative effect on the virility of the nation. He agreed with Rihani that this spirit of defeatism is quite prevelant in Syria, saying that Rihani could have just as well quoted from the popular folk-songs of Hunein or from the "Buddhistic and mystical philosophies with which Naimy comes to us." This, he claims, is a sign of national weakness, "a sickly propaganda to recoil before the struggle of life, with all that it implies of pain, of joy in combat, of the satisfaction that comes from the sense of creation and destruction." Defiant Nationalism Thus a note of defiant nationalinn makes itself felt, and the original theme whether a poet is a privileged, character who may wail, moan, sing, rejoice or play somersault with his and other peoples' emotions is lost in a literary controversy which was soon, transformed into a political one with friends and enemies of the mandate on opposite sides. CAIRO-- Three recent developments in industry and agriculture give further indication of the trend to the development of economics in the Land of the ,Nile under the dictatorial government of Isma'il Sidqi Pasha, himself one of the foremost ecorjormsts in the Near East The first of these comes in a report from London that the experiments carried on there by the Egyptian Government in a well-known chemica. plant for the utilization of cotton seed meal in the manufacture of paper have finaUy succeedeA Samples of the finished product were sent to Cam, for inspection and approval. It is understood that if the manufacture of paper from cotton seed meal proves commercially feasible plants tor such manufacture will be established in Egypt, and a by-product that had been hitherto used as fodder will constitute an abundant supply for paper manufacture. Egypt to Develop Linen The Egyptian Government has also given serious attention to the possibility of the growing and manIfacture of linen in Egypt. For this purpose Egyptian consuls in European countries which grow linen have been gathering agricultural statistics and sending reports to their home government. The third development concerns the manufacture of china, which has shown great progress in the last few years fin Egypt. Representatives of Egyptian china manufacturers have requested their government to facilitate the exportation of this product to neighboring countries in Africa and Asia. THEODORE FRANKLIN JOSEPH RECEIVES GIFT FROM PRESIDENT BABY Theodore Franklin Joseph, the six-weeks old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Joseph of Kiplin Ave., Detroit, has a large order to fill if he wishes to live up to his name. His parents named him after - both the Roosevelt presidents. On learning of this, President Roosevelt sent them the following letter: "May I extend my hearty congratulations upon the birth of your son, Theodore Franklin Roosevelt I am sending herewith a small memento for my namesake with the hope he will have a happy, active and useful life." The gift was a silk handkerchiefs with the President's name embroidered on it. f Communists Reverse Tzarist Policy Towards Turkey «. INc ITS reCent monog«Ph on the Soviet Union as a European Power', the Foreign Policy Association reports that the Soviet Union of Russia has granted the government of Mustafa Kemal Pasha new credits to the amount of $8,000,000 for the purchase of machinery and equipment m Russia, itself. The payment will also be in kind, Turkey exporting lor its machinery agricultural and products TT!u - ^ treaty a<* which the new credits were granted extends over a period of twenty years in _ which no interest is charged oneither side. Evidence of New Policy The author of the monograph sees m this another evidence of the new foreign policy of the Stalin regime which, recognizing that socialism and capitalism can exist side by side, does, not hesitate to enter into international agreements with capitalistic countries while working for the ultimate triumph of socialism. The Soviet Union," says the writer, "has established close collaboration^ with another dictatorship .vigorously opposed to communismJat of Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey. Abandoning the traditional Tzanst policy of seeking control of. Constantinople and the Straits, the Soviet government has repeatedly expressed its respect for Turkey's national independence, and has urged it to throw off the financial control of capitalist states." SHREVEPORT CLUB OFFICERS ELECTED SHREVEPORT, La.- At a recent meeting of the Syrian Progressive Club of this city, the following officers were elected: President, Amelia Ferris; Vice-President, Louise Yazbeck; Secretary, Kstherine Abood; Treasurer, Julia ©ehan; Publicity Chairman, Lawrence Joseph. NEW SYRIAN COOK-BOOK IDEAL COOK BOOK FOR SYRIANS 130 Good Healthful Helpful Recipes Also Used by Americans Sent postpaid on receipt of $3.00 Order direct from author, A S. Alamy, 2609 (Industrial Ave., Flint, Mich. JERE J. CRONIN **eal or Oat of Town Funerals Personally Attended to LADY ATTENDANT Expense a Matter of Your Own Desire US ATLANTIC AVENUE _ BROOKLYN, N. T. The largo amount of business wo do permits us to buy easkots k** « £** "«<* —M" «. to giro the ZttwLT eawets at 945.00 up. Ws pay no agents to secure funerals for .. K„t oalj give the family who ha. sorrow the veryT^o Z£ Z"r£l and economy. Our aim is to help *o« who are fa, SouMe' 2TS littl. cost. No charge for w. of our.erro. or funeral parted Telephone—MAIN H98-im.ai3o.Mgi �TgSSYRlAN WORLD, NEW YORK, AUG. 11,1933. THE SYRIAN WORLD Published Weekly 85 Washington Street, New York, N.Y. Telephone: WHitehall 4-3593 SALLOUM A. MOKABZEL Editor awl PaMishee HAMB t KATTBAH SUBSCBBTION In lie United States and Pessesaions ....One year Six months & Canada ..One year Six months In All Otter Countries. One year Six months HM 1M $M 17* 4je 2Jt Entered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1933 at the Post Office at New York, N.Y, Under the Act of March 3, 1878. Vol. YD, No, 15. Aug. 11, 1933. RAYAK ON THE MAP! frontiers of the forties and fifties we have now internal frontiers of social and political reconstruction that challenge the pioneering spirit just as much, if not more, than die search for gold, petroleum and new lands did a few decades ago in this country. POETRY OF PASSION AND POWER In a particular sense this is true of our Author: Barbara Young. Ancient Lands, of Syria and Lebanon, of Publishers: The Paebar Company, New York, Egypt, of Iraq, of Persia and Afghanistan, «2 pp. Price $2.00 where long, long ago the geographic frontiers have disappeared. Modern science waves "THOUGH the wave of words is forever upon its magic wand, and behold new frontiers, us, yet our depth is forever silent." With this quotasocial and spiritual, are unfolded before us tion from Kahlil Gibran, Barbara Young has prefaced her new book of poems, "I Go A-Walking." like an old roll. Unconsciously violating the truth of the above, she has woven in mis compilation of poems a work of Think of the thrill of the Iraqite teachers beauty and wisdom that analysis would seem to who have to write their own text-books and desecrate-depth and a magnificent choice of words distribute them fresh from the press among that prompted the fate American poet, Robert Noravid* pupils! Think ofa. aauiugi schoolprincipal principaliixe like wood, ~toT-' say *of""*• her: *"IMOW knowOIofnone noneofofmy myconcon-*-— »-«««.•«* Miss Kandalaft who supervises over the edu- T**0 **8 wi>° ha* stepped more definitely from poets." cational destiny of a whole country, from " °f "^ to **** °* ** major poets," * • whose schools women teachers go out to Barbara Young, it will be remembered, was little villages and hamlets in Mosul. Basra. Gibran s literary associate for the seven years preHillah, Kirkuk and Kurdistan to fashion the ceding his death. It was she who transcribed some minds of the future mothers of a nation! of his most famous works. Untiring and with inThink of a sovereign in the 20th century like finite patience she devoted her time to his calling, abandoning her own work even after his death in King Feisal who is repeating the role of a April, 1931. While engaged in the exhibition of King Alfred of England! his works of art the following year, she published Who said that frontiers have passed into a brochure based on incidents concerning his life and work entitled "Kahlil Gibran, This Man from Lehistory* There are today nfore frontiers in banon." the world, greater and more glamorous ones During this time frequent poems appeared in to surmount, than at any other time in his- pie New York Times" and in "The Syrian World", tory. And especially so in a country like of which she was poetry editor when in its magazine Iraq where tradition places the progenitors form. But not since her book "Keys to Heaven," published some years ago, has she satisfied the reof our human race. quest of her admirers with a recent set of poems. Probably as a justification of this silence she writes: w NEW YORK-RAYAK! There they stand as die starting point and landing of the longeat single flight in history. Every newspaper in the world has carried the name of the little town in ancient Coelesyria, the Buqa', only a few miles away from the remains of the greatest temples in history—Baalbek, from the pity of modern aspirations and magnificent achievements to an outcropping "I will go no longer in silence. from the dead past of proud memories and THE TRAVAILING OF A NEW I win make me a tune. glorious records, ft is a challenge of the preI will put seven white stars in it, CULTURE! sent to the past; it is a rebuke of the descenSeven roses of noon. dants of 'the barbarian Franks and Goths to I will gather me. wild pomegranate— THERE is food for thought and wonderthe descendants of the world's teachers and I am done with the smart, ment when a modern poet like Bishara alThe sting of forever hushing moral guides. And if the spirits of those Khoury of Beirut, a lyrical Arabic classicist The songs in my heart." giant men who builded the temples of Apollo of the rank of Shawqi and Hafiz. is deand Bach us could only look down now upon Of the following poem, "Earth Angel," Edwin nounced as a pessimist and a reactionary by Rayak they would shake their spectral heads a newer generation that "does not know Markham, dean of American poets, has said: "She meaningly and stroke their ghostly beards. who could write 'When I Shall Hear You Coming' Moses." It is the rumblings of a cultural reand -Earth Angel', is a poet, a true poet, a poet of But there is consolation in the thought that volt that may have far-reaching conse- passion and power. memory, if vivid and poignant enough, will quences, and may bring in its wake no little "This poet is Barbara Young." act as inspiringly to people of long and mischief, no little konoclasticism and no Kttle rich past, as hope and aspiration to people I walked the hills. .,, , . sacrifice of cultural values once considered with a comparably recent memory. The universa, and everla8ting> *°n»»dered I talked with God. Dast is IS not altogether irrevnrahl* nn Ame Am». I saw the place past irrevocable, na as an His feet had trod. rican philosopher once put it. It lives in With the controversy between Ameen RiI felt His breath the present. The past memories are gathered hani and Bishara al-Khoury we have nothing Upon me pass up in the present experiences and determi- to do directly. It is not a concern of our ediUke winds that stir nations and in turn fashion the hopes and torial whether gifted poets like al-Khoury The earthly grass. I touched His hand aspirations which sustain and nurture the' may moan and Weep with immunity 'or not, With one smalt wing. future. or whether such pessimism and defeatism Now God and I New York-Rayak! There they stand to be as revealed in his quoted poetry is justified Are everything. sure; and perplexed editors scratch their in a growing nation groping for inspiration. • « • , heads as they spread out the map to search We are more concerned whether the criticism Ironical and subtly cynical is "Alibi" a poem for the little, inconspicuous village in middle is prompted by a realistic disdain of every- that appeared in "The New York Times" a few years Syria, on the borders of the Lebanese Re- thing poetic and esthetic, of everything that ago and which has always been a favorite: public is not "practical" and "hard-of-fact." We But who knows, a few decades from now are concerned to know if a superfluous pro- Drunk with quince blossom and the wine of clover, i*. mayi% he Rayak-New York, and editors duction of immature and mediocre poetry Y^^y to me sne day when love was over, And with exquisite irony and splendor wouli'not have to scratch their heads look- has not roused the second generation of You said, "O now, adorable and tender, ing for Rayak! modern /Arabs to a state of disgust and ex- O lovely and incurious and proud, asperation, blinding them against the best and Unpassionate, illusive as a cloud— New, O bewildering and perilous one, choicest in true literautre. No more forever under the golden sun THE; NEW FRONTIERS We merely note, without taking sides on Shall I put trust in any woman's kiss; No marc, O white and wonderful.. And this— HISTORIANS with a Schopenhauerian passing judgement, that we are witnessing in The last tew word of love my lips «i.Ti| speak— turn of mind-lament the state of present-day the Arabic-speaking world today the travail- Is spoken to the langour of your cheek, civilization when frontiers seemed to have ing of a new culture. Let us hope that the To your cool mouth and to your tempered eyes. passed into history, and. there are no more pains and confusions of this period of transi- Your heart would never listen, O most wise." Gallant you were, and bravely debonair, unknown and undeveloped territories to tion will give birth to a great and noble Drunk with wild plum, and with your new love's bring out the energies of man and offer new hair. literature, more magnificent, more articulate opportunities to his latent forces.- But new territories* arc? there in plenty everywhere in and more substantial than anything produced In "Foreshadow" there is an element that seems to suggest Gibran—his life and his philosophy in yet in the history of Arabic literature. Until the world, although not in the geographic all the understanding and appeal of Barbara Young's sense.,, jajnes.Tfuslow Adams^ brought that then we must content ourselves that we are style^ out rignificantiy,;in his "Epic..of, America," still in the stage that gives signs and portents where he pointed, put that instead of the of, such birth, but not the birth itself. (Continued on page S.) •' ananauBavanMsn • • «' It li •: % �PAGE FIVE AT RANDOM DO THE ARABS LACK IMAGINATION? (An excerpt from "The New Spirit in Ancient Lands.") By Alice Mokarael THE CHAUTAUQUA institution of allied arts A SERIOUS criticism is levelled at the Arabs which seems to destroy the case we have tried to make for them that they are the adepts of art and hfe par excellence. It is claimed, as by the French writer, Servierthat the Arabs lack in imaginat^n, and, therefore, have not been able to^roduce great art or hterature. M. Servier, at the face Tf n CMe m sapport ot ne Cann t bu M S^tfii t^^° ° ^ * ^ «>n- im resse P d with M. Servier by the paucity of imaginative cultural expressions in the civilization of the Arabs The epic, the drama, painting, sculpture, interpretative dancing or pantomime-are all lacking or found w T?7Z attemptS fa *" Arabian' S«»itic culture. But Servier is wrong when he attributes this W? , ir*«B»««« P« *• K is, in fact, due to ^rftec^l^nottolackofi^^tiS, And ttuslack of technique may be explained briefly as a result of the impatience of the Semitic mind with anything that does not have a direct bearing on^or relation to life itself and to life's propTutihtil For tius mind m driving home the emphasis on the essentialrealties of life in a world which seemed always to fly tangent in its philosophiatog about f' and to lose cue in attenuated abstractions thereon, was scornful and wary of whatever appeared to carry people away from those realities. Thus 2J£Fi ^1 T** 1»ri«l-*«*«P" the world's greatest lyncists-hecause in lyrical poetry a direct expression of the inner feelings, passions, longings ^ and aspirations of life was accorded in a most effec- ir^Tr'- fc music u " *•,ado^. «* «** musical theme, sometimes pastoral in its simplicity, #omeumes intense and voluptuous, sometimes mystical and subtle, but always the same ever-recurring theme with little variation or embellishment Counterpoint and orchestration which build the musical theme into a magnificent structure, suggestive of infinite expansiveness, of depths and flights beyond Z^t !U,man exPerien<* and human capacity to absorb and assimilate into experiential response, seemed to be foreign to the Arabs except in a sugs gestive sense. I By Ana Bahoof ? ZBZ I0* StatC * pPoud °£ its Sy11** resident, S. Mubadda Rashid. Mr. Rashid has a magnificent By H. L Kabbah £^VJiausible OUR NEW YORKERS store and deals in oriental rugs and furnishings Some weeks ago, when the institution was anticipating a visit from the first lady of the land they sought the best room in the principal hotel in Chautauqua as their place of hospitality. It was found, however, that the furnishings were too conservative and not distinctive enough for such an honorable personage. They turned to the ever-handy Mr Rashid and he solved their problem with complete and sumptuous oriental furnishings that transformed the once plain room into a chamber rich in oriental atmosphere. So pleased was the management with the reaction of Mrs. Roosevelt that Rashid has become a pass-word in the hotel, as it has been in most of the other places of Chautauqua. • • • • I have just learned how the Chautauqua institution operates. Exclusive, yet not forbidding, it B the center for the highest type of the arts, functioning in the summer months. It has a music center and centers for all the sister arts. Residents and their guests are required to pay seventy-five cents a day which entitles them to all the privileges and functions of the. various branches of the institution. For those who live and have gone there to enjoy these privileges it is more than worth the while World-renowned musicians have been engaged to take charge of the music. Internationally famous musicians are heard there and it has become known, as one of the world's greatest music centers. THE CARMA Coffee House in. Washington Street was brought to my attention as the first Syrian business house to put up the NRA poster. Since then several Syrian firms have had the sign displayed They are doing well in that respect, but L1S«r ; Wn 68 01 «* always among t0 T r^!L J * "* ^ Patriot* call- When the Liberty Bonds were sold during the World War they had almost a 100% record for their purchase quota. F-.<J«aw Emily Tweel defended her title this year successfully m the McKinley Park Tennis Tournament She ?t ^ J *" ** winner in the finals last Saturday against Adrienne Hale who had debated her former opponents including Vicky Shamas and Violet Maloof by upsetting their playmg wtth her chop strokes. Miss Shamas and Misskaloof IODg fl^S, ^^ OVer beautifully, but it took Emily Tweel to meet Miss Hale with her own weapons and even go her one better. The score ended 6-2, 7-5 In the second game the scored 5-1 in favor of Mas Hale but Miss Tweel pulled up and won the match. She was invited to participate m the National Park Tournament held in Cential Park, N. Y. last Sunday. She lost almost £ the beginning. It was her first encounter with some of the best amateurs in the country, but she has the makings of a good player, and she may yet win playing against them in the future. Emily attended the National Tennis Association , nn r dance m croy r^tei, N Y * ** "* * "^ • At the dinner given in honor of the jubilee of, Msgr. Elias Hayek in Youngstown, Ohio, it became necessary to limit the time of the speeches because of the unexpected number of speakers. But the priests and laymen who had come from long distances to do homage to Msgr. Hayek found this a great impediment to their flow of expression. One priest who had had an unusually lengthy journey justified this attitude with an incident which he related in his tribute: Syrians ^ • • Among those participating in the Sunset Park Tournament which begins tomorrow are Gladys Jabara, defending champion of the women's singles, Violet Maloof and Vicky Shamas, holder of the^nfxS doubles with Ralph Axelrod. Madeleine Maloof and Olga Abouchar may enter. Miss Tweel doe.-'* care to enter this tournament as no one person "is allowed to win both the McKinley and Sunset tournaments, but she will participate in the Hylan Park Tournament to be held next week. There once came to him a young man who had traveled expressly from Olean, N. Y. to be wed by him. His fiancee had also traveled a similar distance. The priest, in usual procedure, asked the bridegroom: 'Do you take this woman to be thy lawful wedded wife." Whereupon, the somewhat weary and irate young man replied. "What do you think I came all the way from Olean for?" Similarly, he explained, these speakers, who came from near and far to pay homage to Msgr. Hayek, should they be denied their very source of tribute' Receiving a printed announcement the other This characteristic of the Semitic mind is day concerning the training and schedule at Madibrought out indirectly by Oswald Spengler in his son Barracks, N. Y, headquarters of the Citizen. famous book "the Decline of the West," where he Military Camp, I happened to glance to the bottom hite on the dome or cupola as the distinctive feaof the page and there was the signature of George ture of the "Magian" or Semitic art. The dome A. Grayeb, 1st Lt, 7th F. A. A few years ago, we stands midway, Spengler pointed out, between the recall, he was studying and training in West Point geometric columns of the Greek temple and the and now he is the publicity director of this camp space-seeking, infinity-expressing spires of the Gothic cathedral And well may the dome serve not only as a symbol of Arabian art, but of the The editor handed me a letter, as I came in to whole scale of Arabian life, and the Arabian concepheadquarters, one day this week, saying. "Here's Prof. Alexander Maloofs sensational little . tion of reality. For while the dome suggests in116 8 l 8haU hm to year old prodigy, Rudy Favaloro, is, from all re-" ZL^r^'u * take up the finity, « it uues does more wan than tfcat: that: it seeks to capture ^j^ —".*, matter with higher ups and give it thoughtful conhaving a, fine time in Prof. Maloofs summer and enclose it within one sweep of vision, as Semi- | ports, £>„' • ~ sideration^ It will require careful re^wriSg ^ flomp in PiriA T31«;nn XT -*r T* . _- _ tic religion seeks to build up the whole Kingdom of Z. Z flne1.PIa,ns' N- Y- «ndy is a little Italian editing. Here, read it" Heaven within the human heart. / 7 ' been acclaimed as a child prodigy and It said, "Mrs. so and so left her home yesterday p., «~ u_has been a pupil of Prof. Maloof for the last hos itel Far from being unimaginative, the Arabs sup- v «"r year. ^Qter P *>r the removal of her tonplied the western world with countless themes of Passing through Poughkeepsie on the way to imaginative hterature. Before the Arabian Nights were I looked up at Ed's grave face and with a supposed to have assumed their present form, a Pine Plains, little Rudy was taken by the assistant twinkle to his eye he solemnly said, 'If Jwere trickling stream of folk-lore, folk-music and ro- manager of the Bardavon theatre to play the giant appendicitis we might have considered it" mantic Kterature supplied the troubadours and Wurlitzer there. Rudy's nimble fingers raced up trouvers of Andalusia, Provence and Southern and down over the manuals as he played favorite Europe in general with a rich cultural heritage S^S" /^ .•* -as president off the' P Syrian Junior league" tor for two tlT successive • °terms. ** «^uir .League which was developed in time beyond recognition of classical numbers for the somewhat astounded and » on vacation. We can imagine that ZdTl its simple, original sources. Such a scholarly trea- agape people who had assembled to hear this little vacation it would be. This little active wSan. wh^ tise as "The Legacy of Islam," adequately proves "mite of a thing" play. this point "Europe,- says Dr. Julian Riberia in his Rudy also tried the grand piano which he spied book, 'Music to Ancient Arabia and Spain,' "still ffi y the m JZL"%"7, bUt" after """^ a rapid scale, he owes a debt of gratitude to the Andalusian Moore £?ded disapprovingly and shut it, commenting: continually. Most peopled tj??, ^thing who maintained and passed on a rich fund of music, Its a little bit out of tune." she's »m..n^ „„J i . Pretty helpless when snes around and leave the work for her TW ;. a perennial spring to which all European composers' why she is justified in usin. rt. V * M Prof. Maloof declares the child has definite poshave come to renew their inspiration, but without CXpreSSi0n often, "Oh, rmT^s?'. ^ *" * seeking its unknown sources." Even such a monu- sibility Rudy has already given many recitals which have scentered about Prof. Maloofs studio r Peat W Uld mental epic as Dante's "Divinia Comedia," one of, « JlT * ° * *» to know how she spending !her vacation. in Carnegie Hall. A few months back he was fea- is the and most — boldest—„ .-^.v magnificent iuagnuiwui pieces of or imagina imagina- tured in a „,,,, „0i _, . „ — —' " " tured in a newsreel, playing the giant organ in the tive hterature, finds its prototypes and themeTac- Paramount Siount 2£!\ift*"" ^^ant °rgan in the Ttioot-. J_ XT •., . ? . cording to Prof. Miguel Asm, in Arabian sources, "p^ TL % r ,^ °^ * Ae famous We're wondering how Mr. and Mrs D«mi Crawfor But Abu-1-Ala' al-Mu'arri, whom Prof. Asm ^ "^ d, at his side, Munro are doing in Marjorca, that itoTL^S cites as one of the inspirers of Dante, and whose the coast of Spain. Mrs M» 7*7 °ff poetic ability was fully as great, lacked just that f0,TOer Trabulsi of BrooSvn ?h. M * ^^ epic technique which might have made of his "Ri- arri had to contend with a handicap of a stereo» and wentTff^ ^rT^ ZT^ salat-1-Ghufran" eVen as great if not greater, Divine typed literary tradition which imposed the Qoran as Comedy. But Dante had his guide in Virgil and its beau ideal of "eloquence" and which knew not n thMg to his model in the Aeruads; and Abu-1-Ala' al-Mu- Je refreshing inspiration, and what is more impor- fracas thM^I « ° do with the fracas that the natives raised against some writers tant, the literary technique of the Hellenic genius SUE P^n w^mTr doL f ifH - , j "£* �PAGE SIX ^ j" THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, AUG. 11, 1933 U^H^ilili.^HiggW T - - *- - - - MINIATURES MOSES (A NATION'S FOUNDER) MOSES— A man who became the symbol of a nation great leader, great prophet and great lawgiver but greatest of all among the founders of nations in the world's history for forty years he lead the fickle people of Israel in the wilderness, but was forbidden to enter the Promised Land which he could only see from his burial place on a mountain peak. About the time when Akhnaton, the hero of our last issue, sat on the throne of the Pharaohs in Egypt, the Tel-Amarna Letters were written. These were correspondences between petty kings and governors, vassals of the great kings in Thebes, and their superior lords, complaining of the invasions of Syria by various tribes from north and east. Among those tribes mention is made from time to time of the "Habiri," which almost all biblical scholars agree is a reference to the "Hebrews." This FRENCH POLICY -AMBIGUOUSDeclares Shakir al-Aasi of Damascus Upon Arrival in New York. Contrasts It with • British in Iraq. Nationalists no More Demand Annexation of Lebanon "SYRIA' is asking no (more than any living nation today in the world would ask," declared Shakir al-Aasi, the latest arrival from Damascus of the trickling line of eastern students who are seeking higher education in this country. A recognized leader among the younger generation of Syrians, and active participant in the Syrian nationalist movement which has" made Damascus its center and mainspring, Mr. al-Aasi was bombarded with questions on the most recent political developments in that country as he sat last Monday evening among a roomful of invited guests in the Makla home, 104 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, to meet Miss Alice Kandalfcft, an old friend of the family. Mr. al-Aasi who had landed only two days previously, accompanied Miss Kandalaft on her visit. French Ambiguous "The Syrian problem would be much easier to understand and to solve," said the student nationalist, "if only the French themselves were not so hazy, and ambiguous about their policy and objectives in the country under their mandate." •He .contrasted the French policy in Syria with that of the British fn, Iraq, saying that the latter, had definite objectives, and when those objectives were realized the British did not hesitate to come to definite agreement with the Iraqites through a treaty. This treaty, he declared, guarantees the petroleum interests ol the British and gives them aviation posts in Iraq for the protection of) the India route. But in Syria, the' French until the present moment have not made known what they really want. "The Syrian nationalists are willing to concede the French military or naval posts on the littoral," continued Mr. al-Aasi, "and for this purpose the occupation of the whole of Syria is neither necessary nor to is. the first we hear of this great people outside of the Bible. But the "Habiri" or Hebrew would have been today a nameless tribe with a few stone monuments which an excavator from Paris, Berlin, London or Philadelphia might have rescued from oblivion, had it not been for a man whose name looms majestic in the annals of history, a luminary of the first magnitude among the galaxy of illustrious heroes of all times. This man is Moses, the true father of his nation, and more significantly still, the founder of "nationalism" in cur part of the East. Moses, we are told in the Bible, was born the son of an Israelitish slave on the banks of the Nile. The name is an etymological play qn the circumstance of his early life, when he was "lifted" from a premature watery grave. The daughter of the Pharaoh took a fancy to the little Jewish tot and adopted him. She raised him as her own son and gave him what would be the equivalent of the benefit of the French. With a united and independent Syria, a French naval post on the Syrian coast may be to the advantage and protection of the Syrians themselves. The French, therefore, need have no suspicions or misgivings of a Syrian state not under their direct control." Tremendous Waste Incurred Mr. al-Aasi depicted the tremendous waste of money, entailing heavy taxes on the poor people of Syria and Lebanon, that is incurred in the present system where two parallel governments and five separate states are operating side by side. Nobody is profiting from the present regime in Syria but the Mandatory officials who enjoy high salaries with comparatively little expense. Syria, he said, profits little from those French officials, many of whom are half-literate and could be well dispensed with or supplanted by more efficient Syrian officials. The French soldiers, of whom there are about 25,000 in Syria, and French officials buy almost everything but the vegetables and fruits from their own co-operative stores which import almost all their needs from France. At present, Mr. al-Aasi informed, the Syrian nationalists are agreed that the Lebanese Republic should not be required to join the united Syrian state, unless it does so of its own accord. But some economic concord which will unify the economic policy of both should assume some definite form which will take the customs control from French hands and place it in those of a Syrian and Lebanese commission. This concession, however, the" Syrian nationalists cannot grant to other parts of Syria, which, they insist, are integral and must not be given the right to secede whenever they like. Somebody pointed out to Mr. al-Aasi that the Civil War was waged specifically tto establish this principle in the United States. Denounces Zionism While praising the British policy in Iraq, al-Aasi bitterly denounced the one they are following in Palestine. He called the Zionist experiment, "the greatest crime in history, that of condemning a huge majority of over 700,000 to slow death that an imported minority may have a chance to grow and control the destiny of the (country." Shakir al-Aasi is now staying at the International House, 508 fever- =£ - - - - ARABESQUE a private school, leading to Oxford University. He was taught all the wisdom of the Egyptians, the good book tells us, preparing him for his tireless and all-important career as a leader of a homeless and obstinate people. The Israelites under Moses had to take a long detour to Palestine through the Sinaitic and Transjordanic deserts probably because at the time the Philistines were already in possession of a great part of the maritime plain blocking the direct passage of the wandering tribes along the coast. But "the forty • years in the wilderness" became a school of education for the wanderers. Moses instructed them in the principles of true religion and morals, embodied for all future in the two Tablets from Mt. Sinai. There they learned the name of Yahweh, and there the eternal covenant between the chosen nation and their God was concluded. With all the generation of Isra- ASSYRIANS RAID IRAQ BORDERS Christian Minority Seeking Autonomous Home Turn Down League Settlement and Go on Rampage A DISPATCH to the New York Times says that a fight took place between the Assyrians and the Iraqite troops which ended with the unconditional surrender of ..the Assyrians. Since the end of the World War, troops of Assyrians had ravaged the territory near the Tigris river on the bordering line of the French and the English mandates. Both the French and the British authorities had a difficult time in keeping peace between the neighboring governments. Negotiations were taking place peacefully to end the inraids of those troops until recently, when a band of Assyrians invaded Iraqite land and caused the death of 21 soldiers and the wounding of forty. The government of Iraq sent a. protest to the League of Nations claiming that the French Government in Syria is liable for the loss that Iraq sustained in defending the Assyrian attackers. Responding to a resolution by the League of Nations for the settlement of landless Assyrians, both the Iraqite and the Syrian governments reached an agreement. Mar Shim'un Forms Band Mar Shim'un, religious and political head of the Assyrian community and some of his followers notably Yaku formed an armed band to hinder the progress of the settlement A military force was then sent and caused them to submit. When Yaku was pardoned he and his armed men crossed the Syrian territory as a protest against the Iraqite policy. On the evening of August 4 some of these Assyrians applied -to surrender their arms and submit But instead of submitting they attacked! the Iraqite detachment dispatched to take over their arms. On the morning side Drive, where, already a group of Syrian, Egyptian and Iraqite students are preparing for the fall semester.' elites that came out of Egypt, Moses died in exile, not being permitted by Yahweh to trod the Promised Land., A new generation was led by Joshua and Caleb into the land that "flowed With nlilk and honey." And Mcses could only peer from Mt Pisgah or Nebo, where he lay down to die, into the distant country across the Jordan. Those early memories in the wilderness, and the great influence of the towering (personality of Moses welded the Israelitish tribes together* into a nation, preserving their identity in the midst of a tumultuous sea of invasions, counter-invasions, exiles and exterminations. To the present day, after centuries upon centuries of wars, persecutions and social forces that threaten to engulf them, the Jews have still kept that identity, still harp back to the days when Moses led his flock to a land they have never forsaken and to national memories which they cannot forget. of August 5 a larger force crossed the Tigris and attacked a camp of the Iraqite army. The Iraqite Government is now blaming the French in the present trouble for returning 500 rifles to the Assyrians when they crossed the Syrian borders after they had been disarmed. THOMAS SHIYA AIRS VIEWS ON PRODUCTION THOMAS SHIYA, who is described as a young high school student of Niagara Falls, has been running a series of weekly articles in "The Gazette" of the same city presenting the point of view of the modern student In the first of these, Mr. Shiya defends the right of the student to self-expression, indirectly answering a charge by the great American educator Dr. John Dewey of Columbia University who decries the lack of self-expression in the modern school. "The modem school," says our budding educator, "is an outgrowth of the civilization of today. Mass production is the keynote of industry; mass education is the cornerstone of the modern school Then it is only natural that the school becomes a factory of learning, for the practical world demands practical knowledge. And youth steps in with the statement that a continuation of the factoral system of education will effect a next generation of citizenry with an enormous power to absorb facts, but one with little power to think in the face of a crisis like the present depression." BROADWAY LUNCH-ROOM RUN BY N. A. GHATTAS A MODERN drugstore and lunchroom on 20th Street and Sixth Avenue serving "filet of sole," "crabmeat salad," "rice pudding," "apple pie a la mode" and all the accessories, is run by a Syrian pharmacist who came a few years ago to this country as a graduate of the American,' University of Beirut The store which was opened about three years ago was formerly run by N. A. Ghattas and Joseph Saidy, the latter of whom has; now withdrawn; from partnership. It has h capacity} of 120 seats, filled mostly by office girls from the neighborhood. i �Tig- SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, AUG. 11, 1933. PAGE SEVEN The GARDENS of OMAR By HENRI BORDEAUX Member of the French Academy Synopsis: In the last issue Khalil Khoury, Henri Bordeaux' guide who at last confesses to someone the touching and tragic love of- Omar and Yamile, tells of Yamile's betrothal to himself with the usual elaborate oriental engagement party and the customary gifts of the fiance to his betrothed.. Khalil's love was burning inside him.. He was impatient for the wedding day but Yamile, he noticed, was very cool and collected, yet charming to the guests in her parents' palatial home in Bcharre. The wedding date was set by Yamile's father as the day when all the snow would have melted away from the highest mountain peak, sometime in August I Khalil Eagerly Watches the Snow on the Mountain Tops So the date of our marriage was fixed for us. It was to depend, not on our own ardor, but on the ardor of the sun. Every morning on waking, I would leap out of bed and rush to the balcony. "Dear sun! dear sun!" I would cry like a child, "hurry your work for us. Dart your rays ori those snowy pinnacles. Burn them up, as you parch the forests in midsummer. Send the last patch of snow trickling in precious rivulets through our fields and gardens." Every day the snow grew less. But it had been an exceptionally hard winter. Snow had fallen heavily. It vanished slowly. Even when the slopes were clear, it lingered on the summits. How often,, my friend, have I cursed this very height of Kornet-es-Saouda on which we stand! One bright morning at the beginning of August, I ran, half-crazed with joy, to the house of the Hames. "The snow has gone, Yamile! The snow has gone!" I shouted. I had not told her of my ceaseless vigil, and at first she did not seem to understand my emotion nor to connect it with our marriage. "It is true," she agreed, after a long look, turning her blue eyes from the mountains. "Except there—look! in the ravines." "There is always some in the ravines," I said, indignantly. "That doesn't count" "I am quite willing," she said, with a little smile at my impetuousity. "Let us go and tell your father," I suggested. "Whafs the use," was her re- . joinder. "He'll see it for himself." I had to explain to her then all that the freed mountain-tops meant She agreed, but not with the enthusiasm that I would have hoped for. We went together to tell the sheik that the snow had gone from Lebanon. "Well, well," said he, with a humorous twinkle in his eye, after inspecting the mountains for himself, "we will marry you after the Feast of The Cedars." This Feast of The Cedars is always celebrated on the Feast of Transfiguration. I did not forsee that the day was to be fatal to the happiness I now thought within my grasp. Alas! who that loves is sure of his happiness? CHAPTER TWO THE DANCE BENEATH THE CEDARS ON THE Feast of the Transfiguration all the folk«ef Bcharre betake themsehJes to The Cedars. They come even! from as far away as Exclusive Serial Rights Secured by From E. P. DUTTON and Co. The American Publishers THE SYRIAN WORLD Ehden, and the villages that hang at the little arms, ten or twelve of over the gorges of the Kadischa like which joined together could scarcely clusters of grapes. Two or three encircle their trunks. thousand people pass the day toAfter mass, we settled ourselves on gether in the shade of the great trees. carpets and rugs, at the edge of the Mass is said in the open air, there forest, on the side of the ridge that are picnics on the grass, the people leads to Baalbeck and with the violet dance the dabke and return home slopes of the mountain at our right only as the dew is falling. There hand. Our horses, haltered near by, was then no wall and the crowd neighed and kicked restlessly. Boutroamed through the sacred wood at ros,- the sheik and myself, sat to-, will. Our Patriarch, when his great gether. We had taken off our age permitted him, was fond of comkeffiyes, and the girls had hung their; ing in person to celebrate mass. This veils in the branches to let their year, he had delegated the duty to hair flow free. There were my be"the captain" who brought his nutrothed, her sister Mountaha, two years merous family with him. Soufia, the younger, and a few of their friends—> eldest could not conceal her disAbla, Nala, and RahU. Yamile, appointment at my engagement, and among them, was like a queen with I must say cruel Yamile was not her court She seemed, at the same ill pleased at her rival's disconsolate time, conscious and unconscious of face. her supremacy;one guessed it only The sun was burning hot. Not by the ease of her emotions. I only was the snow gone from thev thought with delight that only a few side of Lebanon, but even from the days were to pass before she would gulches. But it was cool beneath be my own. To assuage my desire The Cedars, whose shade is as black' I was forced to turn my eyes away as the hair of the daughters of Bcharfrom a spectacle such as nothing livre. You have seen The Cedars now. ing has since offered me. you will not be surprised if I comI was in deep thought when pare them to the tutelary gods of Boutros, who was stretched at my whom I had learnt among the Lazarist side, touched me lightly on the elfathers at Antoura. But to realize bow: their true patriarchal majesty, you "Strangers," he whispered, with should have seen them surrounded a motion of his head toward a group by a band of laughing children and that appeared between the trees, and smiling from their secular thrones seemed to be seeking a place to halt. JEWS JOIN ATTACKS ON MISSIONARIES KING FEISAL TALKS OF PROSPERING IRAQ *. A RECENT issue of al-Ittihad alLibnani, Beirut carries an article on its front page in which it quotes extensively from the Jewish editor of "L" Aurore," Cairo, attacking the Catholic missionaries in Egypt. AlIttihad holds up the writer as an example of Jewish "gratitude" in view of the expressions of sympathy by His Beatitude Patriarch Antoun Arida towards the persecuted Jew of Germany. L'Aurore, according to the Ittihad version, said: "....But the missionaries have doubled their efforts. They have turned away from missionary work among the Egyptian adults to give their attention to the youthful ones who are more amenable. They have corrupted their thoughts with teachings which torture their innocent souls and disturb their calm consciences, often ending in snatching away the children from the bosoms of their own mothers. In this way the family is divided, its members dispersed, having lost the unity of religion, culture and home training." CALVARIA In front rode two young men, more richly dressed than was the custom in our Lebanon valley, where respect for the traditional costume was even then falling into neglect. They were mounted on magnificent Arab horses. Their red saddles were inlaid with yellow and covered with silken saddle-cloths. Their stirrups were of burnished copper, their harness strung with pearl. The two chiefs were men who would have attracted attention anywhere, not only for their rich dress and accoutrements, but for their physical beauty. Both had short black beards trimmed to a point and large dark eyes in which seemed to smolder a sort of somber , flame. Under their tovhite veils, which were fastened above the forehead, but floated loosely over the shoulders, could be perceived the perfect oval of high-bred and perfectly formed faces. Loose silken, vests, red for one cavalier and violet for the other, covered the upper part of the body, and emphasized the manly grace of the proudly held torsos. Hunting dogs followed, led by grooms on a leash. As it passed through the wood, flecked by the rays of the sun which filtered between the branches, the magnificent cavalcade glittered like a string of precious stones. (To be continued in next issue) Social News ——— INJ HIS message to the English people, during his visit in England, King Feisal of Iraq declared that "prosperity is facing my country; we are not indebted to any nation. Our budget is balanced while many European nations cannot pay their debts. Moreover, we are putting money that comes from oil wells in, Mosul for public utilities and improvements." The king added, "To avoid another 'Tower of Babel,' we are intent on employing only British experts ini Iraq." PUBLIC PICNIC IN BUFFALO (Special Correspondence) BUFFALO, N. Y*- The 13th of this month will be "celebrated as a national festival by the Syrian community of Buffalo, headed by Father Francis Shemaly. The festival will take the form of a public picnic to be held in Armour Park on the borders of the city and in which different communities in the neighborhood will participate. TOCALA SPEAKS! Solomon wasn't so wise, else he'd have lived, To enjoy with you the sweetest music, To sway with you through graceful dance, To stroll with you—and of course the girlfriend too—between the trees neath the beautiful moon. In the heart of Prospect Park Calvaria Tocala bids you attend the MIDSUMMER DANCE At the Picnic House Prospect Park Saturday Eevening, August 19, 1933. Subscriptions: one and one half bones per oouple. Alone one bone. One bone equals one dollar. (Free Parking) Music by Mario Apreda and his Radio Orchestra Played for Gen. Balbo at the Commodore Hotel. With only the immediate families present Miss Alice C. Hamam, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George M. Hamam of New Brunswick, N. J., was engaged last Sunday to Mr. William G. Rizk, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony R. Rizk of New York City at her home. The date for the wedding is indefinite. BERLIN, N. H. Mrs. Michael Haddad of Worcester, Mass., is visiting her son Jerry Haddad, in Berlin, N. H She was accompanied by two other sons, Russell and Robert Mrs. Thomas Angara, of Toledo. Ohio, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Andrea Rozek, in Berlin. She was accompanied by her son, Louis and Mr. <Aziz, her nephew, who had come up from their home in Huntington, W. Va. • • • • Miss Mabel C. Haddad of Grand Rapids, Mich., is visiting her aunt» Mrs. George S. Haddad, of Berlin.. She plans to go to Worcester, Mass.,, to visit relatives, and from there to, New York City and then on to Chicago to visit the Exposition. TOBIA PRESS FOR YOUR PRINTING 55 WASHINGTON ST., NEW YORK CITY Telephone WHITEHALL 4 - 359£ �VOL. VD, NO. 15. NEWYCHHt, AUG. 11, 1933. BISHOP PRAISES SYRIAN PARISH Many Piwat at Benawe* Extend Greeting* to Msgr. Hayek on 25th Anniversary of Hit Priesthood i (»UE *0 the fact flat details el the banquet held in honor of Msgr. Ettas Hayek in Yonngstown on July 3*, reached this office too late for, publication in the last issue, we take pleasure in presenting them to our readers fin fMs issue. Editor.) Rt Rev. James A. McFadden, auxiliary bishop of' the Cleveland diocese, brought greetings from Rt Rev. Joseph Schrembs, head of the diocese, and conveyed his personal congratulations to Msgr. Hayek at the solemn high mass at St Stephen's Church, conducted by Msgr. Hayek. Referring to the allegiance of the Maronite people to the Pope,, he added "You have been the glory of the -church. With the record of the past and die glory of this day, we want you to take h»pe to do the work in this community which is worthy of your tradition." Rev. Elias Basile of Pittsburgh, deacon at the mass, read the message from Patriarch Antoun Arida, Bkerki, Lebanon, to Msgr. Hayek Rev. N. Schemaly, Buffalo, was subdeacon and Bishop McFadden and Msgr. Francis Schemaly, Buffalo, were in the sanctuary. Rev. A. Bakes, O. F. M., Cleveland, acting administrator of Stephen's Church, was in Bishop McFadden's escort. Those who extended greetings were, E. Deebie, Huntington, W. Va., Msgr. Francis Sehenudy; Mrs. Fouz Tarsha, Toledo; secretary of the Daughters of Mt. Lebanon; Nabeeh Rohanna, Joseph Sheban, Youngstown; Sam J. Rashid, Detroit; Nelson Lowandus, Rev. N. Schemaly, Buffalo; Nasif T. Rahi, Massillon, Ohio and H. John Habib, Pittsburgh. Mrs. Marie Francis sang an original number in his honor. J. Ba{berie of Detroit also entertained with local numbers. In behalf of the Society of the Immaculate Conception, Miss Cecilia Yezbek presented Msgr. Hayek with' an oil painting, his portrait which was unveiled by little Marion Alexander. The dinner, which attracted about 30© Lebanese from the vicinity as well as leaders throughout the East and Middle West, was featured by a program of music by Sami Shawwa who was introduced by Joseph Francis, chairman. • S. A. Mokarzel acted as a toastmaster. M. Henry Fabert, French consul at Columbus, was an honor guest at the dinner. In addition to speeches by Bishop McFadden and Mr. Fabert, the following extended greetings to Msgr. Hayek: S. M. Rashid, Chautauqua, N. Y.; Joseph Saker, Warren, Ohio; Joseph Salloum, Sharon, Pa.; D. Joseph Dahood,, Kaleem Salem, Akron; Rev. Basile, Pittsburgh; Rev. ">%u 1 IN AND OUT OF TOWN Mrs. K. Shamas left Brooklyn last Saturday with her daughter, Marion and her. niece, Miss Rose Naufal, for a vacation in New London, Conn. They will stay with Mrs. M Merhige. The Misses Madeleine and Violet Malopf, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Maloof, and Gladys and Violet Jabara, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Jabara, are leaving Brooklyn Monday for a vacation at Naomi Lake, in the Pocono Mountains. Among the Brooklynites who have gone to Haines Falls, N. Y., for a few weeks are Mrs. Raphael Arida and her three children; Mrs. A. Sadaka and her two children and Mrs. Bahige Katen and her daughter, Jacqueline. zour, Michael Aftoora, Dr. J. Col* dangleo, Michael Caraboolad, William Thoma, Joe Abraham, Leo Abraham, Rogers Aftoora and George Lackas. Richmond Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ghosen have returned home after sojourning in Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington, D .C. on a combined business and pleasure trip. • • • • Emir Hasan el Aiyyouby, accompanied by Abraham Yaminy and his children, George and Mary, all of Linden, N. J., are in Richmond visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Fahed and friends. Mrs. Fahed is the daughter of Mr. Yaminy. • • • • Cleveland A girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Philip Shaheen last Monday night She is their second child and first daughter. • • * * Louis Davis of Pittsburgh, Pa., motored to this city to visit his cousin George Oley, and friends. • • • • Mr. and Mrs. Asaad of Roanoke, Va., accompanied by their son, Moses and Miss A. Nero, spent a few days in this city with their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John Simon. If Minum Bokrak's leg doesn't hurry and heal completely he will (not play at Ohio State. Mrs. Hikol Nebhari of Torrington, Conn., is now visiting friends in New York City and Freehold, N. J. The University Grille was remodeled recently for Charlie Negel— now it's a Dine and Dance. Toledo Fred el-Hilow, son of Mrs. Jamal el-HUow of Amsterdam, N. J., is in' New York for a week. A girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Farid Bistany of Brooklyn last Saturday morning. They have another child, a boy. Mr. Bistany is A. K. Hitti's partner in their steamship agency. Another beer garden called the Silver Grille has for its owner, Sam Macron Nice place.. too. Harry Bassett, son of Mrs. George Bassett of Milan, Michigan, flew from Buffalo, N. Y, where he is employed by Sears-Roebuck, to Toledo to visit friends. A letter from Sharon, Pa., informs us that Sammy Karam, W. R. U. law student is giving Rockefeller competition. He owns a gas station. He will go back to dear old W. R. U... Maybe. A baby hoy was born to Mr. and Mrs. James,Mickel. They will christen him Ronald. This is their second child, the first is a girl, Fadwa. Mr. Ellis N. Atiyeh, formerly of Omaha, Neb., is the new addition to Cleveland Syrians. He is an oriental rug merchandiser at the Kinny Levan Co. David F. Essi sends in his resignation as secretary for S. A. C. No appointment until September meeting of S. A. C. Nicklos Zlaket was selected by "the S. A. C. as delegate for the Republican Executive Committee. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Haakish, are the proud parents of a baby boy. .' Miss Nellie Aftoora of Cleveland, Ohio, was given a surprise parti" by the Misses Tillie Thomas and Alice Aftoora on July 28. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Haddad, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Aftoora, Misses Nadia and Abreeza Saba, Nora Ganim, Rosalyn Saba, Louise Hatton, Selma Abraham, Lillian 'Summers, Dr. H Zar- Turkish Lad of 16 Is Record Murderer THE TURKISH authorities of) Brussa arrested recently Mohammed Qara Khayber, a lad of 16, who Is iccused of committing twenty mur<ders. e*jn» ?M^—P—«e»w—ay^— w PAGE EIGHT Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Baz were blessed with a son recently. Miss Vivian Pharo, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Pharo of Birmingham, Ala., will visit Toledo on her way .to the Worlds Fair. Miss Pharo is the third woman pilot in the south. She received her license to fly alone over a year ago. Mr. John Haddad will motor to Grand Rapids Sunday August the 13th. . Miss Adele Geha, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abe Geha of Toledo, Ohio, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Najib Bouhamrah of Cleveland. From there they will motor to Carey, Ohio, to visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation. The Gamma Epsilon Psi Sorority is giving its second annual dinnerdance at the Chateau La France night club August the 20th, Sunday night. Miss Julia Raffual is chairman, as- sisted by Alma Ammer, Marie Saba and Ruth Mickel. Bids are out now. n The Zahle Society of Toledo, is giving its first annual picnic Sunday August the 13th at Greenwood Park. No chairman has been appointed but there is a large committee in charge. Nut '' p Miss Anna Geha, daughter of . Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Geha ol Kansas City, Mo., is visiting her grandparents, Mr. anU Mrs. G. T. Geha of Toledo. She motored back with her aunts, Mrs. George Abde, Miss Anna Geha and Miss Elizabeth Geha. i bee der que pah 20C w3u bell mal iive A political parade was giveni through the second ward of Toledo for Lester N. Haddad running led councilman. The second ward is mostly populated by Syrians. It was followed with a free dance at Sabins Hall. of 1 that by polic with ing. Detroit A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. K Shabtini of this city. The baby son of Mr. and Mrs. K. Joseph Shartouni was christened in St. Maron's Church and given the name of Elias. The godfather was Alexander Joseph Shartouni and the godmother Mary Paul Shartouni. Hun Iraq Non his Feisi nan; criti inas in t men gard gero The wedding of Michael Issa and Miss Banat Shabtini was celebrated at the Church of the Redemption in this city. A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. A. Faran. Rev. Fr. Peter Ashkar was the guest of honor at a banquet held by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Shartouni. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. M. Allem, Mr. and Mrs. Assad Rahi, Mr. and Mrs. G. Anter, Mr. Ghantous Peter, Mr. Simon Ghantous, Miss Eva Habib and Mr. Joseph Ashkar. B Say Ma A christening was held in St Maron's Church for the baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Said Khouri. The godfather was Mr. Shaheen Alkazin and the godmother Mrs. Yazbeck. Fourteen Turkish Towns Destroyed by Earthquake ACCORDING to a cable from Angora, Turkey, it was officially announced by the Turkish government that the earthquake which visited the district of Binzali has resulted in the destruction of 14" villages. TTie less in property and catfle is believed to be great There were many lives lest. The Syrian American Citizen Club of Peterson, N. J. elected the following officers for the coming year: Kareem Maroon, president; Aref Nijmy, vice-president; Nusrie Abdie, treasurer; Nairn Boustanie, secretary; George Sacco, assistant treasuerer; and Fadel Kabash, advisor. Continued from page 5.) When you ate gone into the broken night, Into the broken sky. I sns|» recall : lfhe small barbed things yon said; forgetting nil Your grave young wMswi, * djsD keep the white Terror and calm that caned year hrk* sad years, Saying, -I sen so newly eases en lean." When yea ate gene, tike Spring win be a VO Vanished with lilacs to the grave. The scent this poetry, that it may speak for itself. As an Of aB young leaves he foe n cerement ordinary human being one realizes the truth of AH winds set epitaph. And to tins room GibranV above philosophy and the extraordinary Lave will die keuriy, where you laughed and said "passion and power" of Barbara, Young that can 'Tni curious and eager to he transcend tins human frailty. It has been said that if music renders one mute, then it is music indeed. Excerpts have comprised the majon part of this Such is the essence of Barbara Young's poetry. review. 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