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Adversity, To (poem) — By J. D. Carlyle
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Agriculture in the Near East
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Al-Farid, The Great Lyric of — By N. A. Katibah
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Al-Khidr, The Millenial Visit of — By Habib I. Katibah
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Americans of Syrian Origin, To Young — By Gibran K. Gibran
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Americanism, What is — By H. I. Katibah
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Antar, The Spirit of (poem) — By Dr. N. A. Katibah
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Arab King in the Desert, Meeting an — By Ameen Rihani
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Arabian Knight and a Desert Poetess, An — By Dr. N. A. Kati
bah
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Arabian Nights, The World of — By H. I. Katibah
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Antioch (Famous Cities of Syria)
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Araby, Tales and Legends — By Miss Sumayeh Attiyeh
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Arabic-Speaking World, The Modernization of the — By Philip
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Carnival in Lebanon, Celebrating — By Ibn El-Khoury
Cedars of Lebanon, The — By Michael Aboussleman
Christ, In the Days of — By H. I. Katibah
Christians and Druzes in Syria
Christmas, The Spirit of — By The Editor
Christmas in a Lebanon Village — By Ibn El-Khoury
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CITIES OF SYRIA, FAMOUS:
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Lebanon, Christmas in a—Village — By Ibn El-Khoury
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Lebanon, Lent and Easter in — By Ibn El-Khoury
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Maisuna, The Song of (poem) — By J. D. Carlyle
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Mano, The Tomb of (poem) — By Hassan Alasady
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Mass in the Near East, The Consular — By The Editor
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Match-Makers, Her First Meeting with the — By Ahmed Hikmat, III
Medicine, Progressive — By Dr. H. A. Elkourie
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Moon, The Sympathy of the — By Dr. S. Y. Alkazin
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Part, The Better (poem) — By Mattfhew Arnold
Phoenicians, The — Ancestors of the Syrians
Ponsot, Executive and Diplomat — By Simone France
Ponsot, Henri — New High Commissioner
Political Developments in Syria
Political Developments in Syria
Political Developments in Syria
Political Developments in Syria
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Saints, The Three New Syrian — By Archbishop Bedhara Chemali
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Santa Claus, Who is — By H. I. Katibah
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Santa, Please — By Marie El-Khourie
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Shahrazad, The Widowhood of — Part I — By William Catzefiis, II
Shahrazad, The Widowhood of — Part II
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Sphinx, The (poem) — By Alfred G. Mussawir
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Spring (poem) — By Benj. T. Hoffiz
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Story, The Story of a — By H. I. Katibah
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1 Wandered among the Mountains — Translation By Gibran K. Gibran
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Syria, Economic Development in — By Paul H. Ailing
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Syria for the Syrians — By Dr. M. Shadid
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Syrian Immigrant, The Contribution of — By Rev. K. A. Bishara
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Syrians in Australia, The — By A. A. Alam
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"Syria" in the 1926 Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica — By
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Syria, Near East Relief in — Charles V. Vickrey
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Syria, Opportunities for Educationj in — By Dr. Bayard Dodge, II
Syria's Place in the History of the World — By Philip K. Hitti,
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Syria, Present Economic Conditions in — By Irving Sitt
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Syria, Signs of Rebirth — By Rev. W. A. Mansur
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Facts on the Run
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Help, Will you ?
Organ, An Honest
Philanthropy
Policy, As to
Policy, We Adhere to
Politics, The Syrians in
Proof, Produce
Public Forum
Question, A Serious
Questions on Syria Answered
Read, What you shall
Reconciliation Trips
Shadows Ahead, Casting
Suggestions, We Invite
Syrians, Discriminating against
Syria for the Syrians
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Aboussleman, Michael - The Cedars of Lebanon
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Alkazin, Dr. Salim Y. _ The Stranger (A Drama in One'Act)'.' .'iX
The Sympathy of the Moon
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Alam, A. A. — The Syrians in Australia ........
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Ailing, Paul H. — Economic Development of Syria
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Attiyeh, Miss Sumayeh — Real Greatness
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Snapshots of East and West
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Tales and Legends of Araby
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The Chosen Three
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Bishara, Rev. K. A. - The Contribution'of'the Syrian Immigrant
To America
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Carlyle, J. D. — The Tomb of Mano (poem)^ .........'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.I
To Laila (poem)
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The Song of Maisuna (poem)
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Catzeflis, William — The Widowhood of Shahrazad.Part i".'.'.'. II
The Widowhood of Shahrazad, Part II
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Bless Their Hearts
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Chemali, Archbishop B. — The Three New Syrian Saints
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Day, Prof. Alfred E. Day _ The Geology of Syria and Lebanon', XII
Dodge, Dr. Bayard — Opportunities for Education in Syria .
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E&tor, The — (See Mokarzel, Salloum A.)
Elkourie, Dr. H. A. — Progressive Medicine
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France, Simone — Ponsot, Executive and Diplomat
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Gibran, Gibran K. — To Young Americans of Syrian Origin " I
Youth and Age
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0 Mother Mine (Moulaya)
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1 Wandered among the Mountains
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Hikmat, Ahmed — Her First Meeting with the Match-Makers
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Hitti, Philip K., Ph. D. — Syria's Place in the History of the
World
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Nahr Al-Kalb
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The Modernization of the Arabic-Speaking World
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"Syria" in the 1926 Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
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The Spiritual Contribution of the People of Syria ....VI
The Rediscovery of an Ancient Empire — The Hittites .VIII
The Arabic Sources of Dante, Part I
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The Arabic Sources of Dante, Part II
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Hoffiz, Benj. T. — Spring (poem)
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Please, Santa
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Katibah, Habib I. — Westward Ho! Eastward Ho! ............I
Pagodas and Skyscrapers
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What is Americanism
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Who is Santa Claus?
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Wisdom Sans Humor
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The Story of a Story
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Whence our Fables Come
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In the Days of Christ
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The World of the Arabian Nights
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Katibah, Dr. N. A. — The Spirit of Antar (poem)
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An Arabian Knight and a Desert Poetess
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The Great Lyric of Al-Farid
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Khoury, Ibn El
Christmas in a Lebanon Village
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Celebrating Carnival in Lebanon
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Lent and Easter in Lebanon
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Knabenshue, Paul — What Happened in Syria
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Motor Routes across the Syrian Desert
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Lathrop, Rev. J. H. — Wise Men of Today
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Mansur, Rev. W. A. — The Ten Commandments of Success
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Signs of Syria's Rebirth
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Benefits of Syrian Emigration to Syria's Future
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Mokarzel, Salloum A. — The Case of Rashayya ...
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Mokarzel, Salloum A. — Editor's Comments in All Issues.
The War in Syria
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The Spirit of Christmas
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The Image of God
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The Consular Mass in the Near East
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A Stanza of Moulaya .. k
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Mussawir, Alfred G. — The Sphinx (poem)
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Naimy, M. J. — The Grumbler
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New Year's Eve (poem)
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Rihani, Ameen — Meeting an Arab King in the Desert
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The Guest (poem)
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From My Note-Book of Travel, Part I ...»
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From My Note-Book of Travel, Part II
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My Day is Bitter (Marmar Zamani)
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Where East and West Meet
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Salomey, Edna K. — My Lebanon (poem)
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Scollard, Clinton — As I Came Down From Lebanon (poem) .. .IV
Shad;d, Dr. M. — Syria for the Syrians
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Shatara, Dr. F. L — Health Problems of the Syrians in the Unitni
ed States
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
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Sitt, Irving — Present Economic Conditions in Syria
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Spillane, Richard — The Syrian as a Trade Blazer
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Staub, Dr. Albert W. — Uncle Sam and his Syrian Cousins
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Subhi, Hassan — Fatima (A short story), Part I
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Fatima, Part II
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Terrazi, Count Philip de — The Beyrouth Museum
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Vickrey, Charles V. — Near East Relief in Syria
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Young, Barbara — "Hands That Touch but Never Hold"
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The Syrian World Newspapers
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<h4>Biographical/Historical Note</h4>
<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
<h4>Scope/Content Note</h4>
<p><em>The Syrian World</em> was published between 1926 and 1932 as a journal. In 1932, the format was changed from an academic journal style to a newspaper style, which continued until the periodical's end in 1935. After the death of his brother Naoum, Salloum took over the publication of <em>Al-Hoda.</em></p>
<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
<p>All issues of <em>The Syrian World</em> are available, along with full indexes for the first four volumes. For volumes five and six, there are tables of contents at the start of the issues.</p>
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THE
SYRIAN WORLD
A
MONTHLY MAGAZINE IN ENGLISH DEALING
WITH SYRIAN AFFAIRS AND ARABIC LITERATURE
INDEX
VOLUME II
Ncs- 1-12
JULY, 1927—JUNE, 1928
THE SYRIAN-AMERICAN PRESS
104
GREENWICH ST.,
NEW YORK
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Adieu, The (Poem) — By J. D. Carlyle
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Al-Farid, The Great Lyric of (Sufiism) — By Dr. N. A. Katibah 1
Al-Rashid, The Son of Haroun — (A True Arabian Tale)
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Al-Rashid, Haroun and the Opulent Umayyad — (Arabian Tale) 2
'Alim's Revenge, The — By Dr. Salim Y. Alkazin
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Allah Joins the Extremes! — (Arabian Tale)
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Alone? No, Not Alone (Poem) — By Dr. N. A. Katibah
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Amara and Her Master-Lover — (Arab'an Tale)
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Ameer and the Palace Maid, The (Poem)
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By Dr. N. A. Katibah
American School in Damascus, The First
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By Anna Leila Taylor
Anna Ascends (Play) — By Harry Chapman Ford
Act One — I
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Act One — II
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Act Two — I
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Act Two — II
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Act Three — I
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Act Three — II
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Act Four — I
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Act Four — II
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Arabic as an Asset — By N. A. Mokarzel
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Arabic Words in the Engl;sh Vocabulary — By Prof. Byron Smith 6
Arabic Words in the English Vocabulary—By Prof. Byron Smith 12
Arabs, The Sanctity of Asylum Among the (An Arabian Tale).. 3
Argument That Prevailed, The — By Dr. N. A. Katfbah
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Before We Part (Poem) — By Dr. Salim Y. Alkazin
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Bel's Lions (Poem) — By Dr. Salim Y. Alkazin
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Books and Authors — Desert Winds—Egypt
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Books and Authors — European Greed in the East
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By Simone France
Book Reviews — Maker of Modern Arabia — As-Suyuti's Who's
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Brother, The Perfect — By Dr. Salim Y. Alkazin
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Byblos, A Pilgrimage to — By Ameen Rihani
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Choice, Her (Poem) — By C. Assid Corban
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Baalbek, City of the Sun God
Byblos, C;ty of Adonis
Homs and Hama
Palmyra, Queen of the Desert
Tripoli
Tyre and Sidon
Clemency of Mu'awiyah, The
Cordova, The Book Bazaar of
Critics — By G. K. Gibran
Cross-Currents in the East — The Editor
Cup-Bearr, To a Female (Poem) — By J. D. Carlyle
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Dreams — By Ameen Rihani
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Er.dless Race, The (Poem) — By M. J. Naimy
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Fatalism, On (Poem) — By J. D. Carlyle
Friend's Birthday, A (Poem) — By J. D. Carlyle
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The Falcon and the Nightingale (Poem)
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Before We Part (Poem)
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The 'Alim's Revenge
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The Rebuke (Poem)
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Transformation (Poem)
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Books for Babies
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Carlyle, J. D.
On Fatalism (Poem)
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A Friend's Birthday (Poem)
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A Vital Industry for Syria
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Her Choice (Poem)
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Matrimonial Problems of Our Young Generation
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Editor, The (See Mokarzel, Salloum A.)
El-Khoury, Ibn
The Great Scandal
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Syrian Naturalization Question in the United States ... 8
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Anna Ascends (Play) — First eight issues
Why I Wrote A Syrian Play
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St. George and the Saddle Bags
Hitti, Philip K., Ph. D.
Syrian Leadership in Arab:c Affairs
Hodgson, James F.
Hydroelectric Development in Palestine
Hoffiz, Benj. T.
Spring (Poem)
Johnson, J. Ray
Syrians in America
Katibah, Dr. N. A.
The Great Lyric of Al-Farid (Sufiism)
Alone? No, Not Alone (Pcem)
Bushru's Encounter wHh the Lion (Poem)
The Argument That Prevailed
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Problems of Syrian Youth in America—Part I
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The Progress of the Syrian Nation
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Religious Tolerance for Syria's Progress
Mokarzel, Mary
A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
Mokarzel, N. A.
Arabic as an Asset
Mokarzel, Salloum A.
History of Syrians in New York
Christian Moslem Marriages
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The Syrian World Newspapers
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<h4>Biographical/Historical Note</h4>
<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
<h4>Scope/Content Note</h4>
<p><em>The Syrian World</em> was published between 1926 and 1932 as a journal. In 1932, the format was changed from an academic journal style to a newspaper style, which continued until the periodical's end in 1935. After the death of his brother Naoum, Salloum took over the publication of <em>Al-Hoda.</em></p>
<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
<p>All issues of <em>The Syrian World</em> are available, along with full indexes for the first four volumes. For volumes five and six, there are tables of contents at the start of the issues.</p>
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Arabs--United States
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Salloum A. Mokarzel
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<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11299/175685" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Annotated Index to the Syrian World, 1926-1932</a> at the University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center Archives
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1927 July-1928 June
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The index for The Syrian World vol. II, numbers 1-12.
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English
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Salloum A. Mokarzel
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
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THE
SYRIAN WORLD
A MONTHLY MAGAZINE IN ENGLISH DEALING
WITH SYRIAN AFFAIRS AND ARABIC LITERATURE
INDEX
VOLUME III
N°s. 1-12
JULY, 1928—JUNE, 1929
THE SYRIAN-AMERICAN PRESS
104 GREENWICH ST.,
NEW YORK
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SPECIAL ARTICLES
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Abu Ali—By Ibn El-Khoury
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Al-farid, The Wine Lyric of— By Dr. N. A. Katibah
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Along the Syrian Coast—By Charles W. Fowie
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Americanism and Native Culture—By Ameen Rihani
10
Arab-Syrian Gentleman and Warrior of the Crusades, An—By Dr.
P. K. Hitti
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Arab-Syrian Gentleman and Warrior of the Cru-sades, An—By Dr.
P. K. Hitti
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Arab Wisdom
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Arab Wisdom
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Arab Wisdom
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Arabia, Rihani s Experiences in—By Ameen Rihani
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Arabia and Its Problems—By Ameen Rihani
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Arabic as an Issue
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Arabic, From the
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Arabic, From the—By Labeebee A. J. Hanna
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Arabs and Bedu, Urban—By Ameen Rihani
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Assemani—Great Oriental Scholar—By Rev. Michael H. Abraham. 2
At the Gate of Arabia—By Ameen Rihani
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Barmecides, The Tragedy of the (A True Arabian Tale)
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Beyrouth Museum, The—By Count Philip Terrazi
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Bitterness of Love, The—By Mahboub Thabit
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Books and Authors
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Books and Authors
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Looks and Authors
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Bride of the Brave, The (Complete Story)—By Arreph El-K'houry. 4
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Can We Retain Our Heritage? (A Call to form a Federation of
Syrian Societies)—By Salloum A. Mokarzel
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Carranza, Syrians' Tribute to—By Dr. P. K. Hitti
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Cedars of Lebanon, The (Poem)—By Alphonse Lamartine—Translation by Toru Dutt
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Challenge to Syrian-American Youth
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Children of America
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Come, Brother (Poem)—By Labeebte A. J. Hanna
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Constitution, The Syrian
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Education and Catastrophe—By Dr. Bayard Dodge
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Federation, An Additional Pledge to the
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Federation Assured, Success of
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Federation of Syrian Societirs. A—By Rev. W. A. Mansur
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Great Longing, The—By G. K. Gibran
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Green of Imr'sfail, The (Poem)—By Josephine M. Crick
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Leper and the Bride of Galilee, The-By Ameen Rihani
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Love Ode, A Nocturnal (Poem)—Ey Dr. N. A. Katibah
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Love's Victim (Poem)—By Dr. Salim Y. Alkazin
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Mal'icks, The- By Paul Dcab
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Man is Potentially Immortal—By Dr. George Knaysi
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Moderation—(Translated from the Arabic by J. D. Carlyle)
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15
Mistress, To My--(Trans!ated from the Arabic by J. D. Carlyle). .11
32
Moslem Prayer a la Parisienne—By Fakry Bey Abbaza
6
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Music—East and West—By Rev. Dr. K. A. Bishara
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Palestine Economic Readjustment
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88
Plutocrat, The—By Kahlil Gibran
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Poets' Nightmare, The—By Dr. N. A. Katibah
8
29
Political .Developments in Syria
1
49
Political Developments in Syria
2
54
Political Developments in Syria
3
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Political Developments in Syria
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Political Developments in Syria
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Political Developments in Syria
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Political Developments in Syria
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Political Developments in Syria
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Political Developments in Syria
10
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Political Developments in Syria
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Prince and His Beloved, The—By Dr. Salini Y. Alkazin
8
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Proverbs, Arab
1
21
Proverbs, Arab
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Proverbs, Arab
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28
Proverbs, Arab
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Proverbs, Arab
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Restrictions of Immigration—By Jos. W. Ferris
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Reward of Honesty, The—By Dr. P. K. Hitti
12
28
Riddles—By Elia D. Mady—Translated by Andrew Ghareeb
10
25
Rihani, The Life of—By Salloum A. Mokarzel
10
21
Rihani's Contribution to Arabic Lore—By Dr. Philip K. Hitti
10
15
Rihani's Lecture in London
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P.'hani's Place in English Literature—By Dr. Marion Mills M:ller. .10
18
Rose Season, In the—By Dr. Salim Y. Alkazin
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A. Hakim
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ge of Washington Street, The—(On Divided Loyalty)—By Akel
cHakim
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8
of Washington Street, The (On the Marriage Problem
Among Syrians)—By A. Hakim
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27
Sage of Washington Street, The—(On the Marriage Problem
Among Syrians)—By A. Hakim
6
20
'age of Washington Street, The—(On the Marriage Problem Among
Syrians)—By A. Hakim
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age of Washington Street, The—(On Perpetuating the Mother
Tongnue)—By A. Hakim
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Syria for the Syrians Again—By Dr. M. Sfaadid
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Syrian-American Fellowship, Our—By Rev. W. A. Mansur
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Syrian Poet of Williams College, The—By Dr. N. A. Katibah
7
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Syr.an ii.ace, The Greatness ox ihe—By liev. W. A. Mansur
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Syrian Sunset, A—By George Maloof
7
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Syrian World Politics, An Introduction to—By Rev. W. A. Mansur 5
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Syrians' t uture in America—By George A. irerris
11
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Syrians' Loyalty to America —By Rev. W. A. Mansur
10
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Syrians ol New Zealand, The—By Dr. C. Assid Corban
1
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Teaching Arabic in America
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44
To Speak or Not To Speak Arabic— By Lila M. Mandour
1
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Tobet and Leila—By Dr. Salim Y. Alkazin
5
16
Tragic Letter, The—(True Story)—By Dr. N. A. Katibah
2
20
Tributes to Gibran
8
30
Two Brothers, The—By Ameen Rihani
6
19
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Usama, A Chapter from—By Dr. P. K. Hitti
11
21
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Verses to My Daughters—By J. D. Carlyle
9
29
Verses to My Enemies—By J. D. Carlyle
8
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Village Festival, The—By lbn El-Khoury
10
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W'eaver and the Rose, The
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Will You Come Back?—(Poem)—By Labeebee A. J. Hanna
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Winds from the Moon—By Dr. N. A. Katibah
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Wings— (Poem)—By Thomas Asa
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27
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Youth and Age, The Biological Significance of—By Dr. Geo.
Knaysi
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EDITOR'S COMMENTS
Americanism
Ancestry, Pride in
Antiquities
Collectivism
Community, A Worthy
Critic, Answering a
Department, A New
Duty, Call to
Elections, The
Enterprise, Spirit of
Federation, The
Federation, The
Frequency of Issue of The Syrian World, Changing
Opinions, Individual
Ostracism
Questions Answered
Race, Future of the
Racial Groups, Recognizing
Religion in Politics
Societies, Federation of Syrian
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AUTHORS
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Abbaza,Fakry Bey
Moslem Prayer a la Parisienne
Abraham, Rev. Michael H.
Assemani—Great Oriental Scholar
Alkazin, Dr. Salim Y.
Love's Victim (Poem)
Hasan Speaks (An Arabian Idyl)
Tobet and Leila
Leila and the Emeer
The Prince and His Beloved
In the Rose Season
Asa, Thomas
Sonnets
Wings
Bishara, Rev. Dr. K. A.
Music—East and West
Carlyle, J. D.
Moderation (Translated from Arabic)
Verses to My Enemies
Verses to My Daughters
Corban, Dr. C. Assid
The Syrians of New Zealand
Crick, Josephine M.
The Green of Innisfail (Poem)
Deab, Paul
The Mallicks
Snowdrops
Dodge, Dr. Bayard
Education and Catastrophe
Dutt, Toru
Translation of "The Cedars of Lebanon" (Poem)
El-Khoury, Arreph A.
The Bride of the Brave (Complete Story)
El-Khoury, Ibn
Summer Pastimes in Lebanon
Abu-Ali
The Village Festival
Ferris, George A.
Syrians' Future in America
Gibi
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29
2
32
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Ferris, Joseph W.
Restrictions of Immigration
8
3
Ferris, Mitchell — The Desert (Poem)
4
37
Fowle, Charles W.
Along the Syrian Coast
6
14
France, Simone—Translations
The Dancer of Daphne
1
25
The Camel
6
26
Ghareeb, Andrew—Translations
Night (Poem)
6
10
Fame (Poem)
10
28
Riddles
10
25
Gibran, G. Kahlil
The King of Aradus
3
17
The Plutocrat
4
10
A Man from Lebanon Nineteen Centuries Afterward
5
21
Night
6
10
Defeat
7
23
The Great Longing
8
8
The Saint
9
13
Fame
10
28
Out of My Deeper Heart
11
14
Habboob, Sanniyeh
From the Harem in Syria
3
31
Hakim, Akel
The Sage of Washington Street
2
41
The Sage of Washington Street (On Display of Wealth)
3
2'
The Sage of Washington Street (On Divided Loyalty)
4
The Sage of Washington Street (On Marriage Problem Among
Syrians
5
27—6
20 —
The Sage of Washington Street (On Perpetuating the Mother
Tongue)
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Hanna, Labeebee A. J.
Come, Brother (Poem)
10
From the Arabic
11
Will You Come Back ? (Poem)
12
Hitti, Dr. Philip K.
Syrians' Tribute to Carranza
Z.
An Arab Syrian Gentleman and Warrior of the Crusades ...... 3
An Arab Syrian Gentleman and Warrior of the Crusades
4
Rihani's Contribution to Arabic Lore
10
A Chapter from Usama
11
The Reward of Honesty
i.
12
Hoffiz, Benjamin T.
Freedom (Poem)
Karam, Edward B.
Syrian (Poem)
,
The New-born Babe
Katibah, H. I.
The Seller of Words
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Katibah, Dr. Nejib A.
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Letter (True Story)
Winds from the Moon
The Wine Lyric of Al-Farid
The Syrian Poet of Williams College
The Poets' Nightmare
A Day in Abu-Hamed
The Sudanese Soldier
Knaysi, Dr. George
Man Is Potentially Immortal
The Biologfcal Significance of Youth and Age
Lamartine, Alphonse
The Cedars of Lebanon (Poem)
Madi, Elia D. — Riddles
Maloof, George C. — A Syrian Sunset (Poem)
Mandour, Lila M. — To Speak or not to Speak Arabic
Mansur, Rev. W. A.
The Greatness of the Syrian Race
An Introduction to Syrian World Politics
A Federation of Syrian Societies
Our Syrian-American Fellowship
Syrians' Loyalty to America
The Greatness of John Hasbani (Short Story)
Meyers, James — Discovering the Syrians
Miller, Dr. Marion Mills
Rihani's Place in English Literature
tfokarzel, Salloum A.
A Nation in; the Making
Can We'Retain Our Heritage?
Eastern Religions in the West
~ife of Rihani
, Alfred — Magic—Old and New
ionia Ruthele — The Orange Tree (Poem)
a, Alice
.e Dancer of Daphne
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olph, Consul John
Desert Routes Between Syria and Iraq
ni, Ameen
The Jinn of the Arabian Nights
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lie Leper and the Bride of Galilee
be Two Brothers
ibia and its Problems
the Gate of Arabia
•ricanism and Native Culture
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ni's Experiences in Arabia
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The Syrian World Newspapers
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<h4>Biographical/Historical Note</h4>
<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
<h4>Scope/Content Note</h4>
<p><em>The Syrian World</em> was published between 1926 and 1932 as a journal. In 1932, the format was changed from an academic journal style to a newspaper style, which continued until the periodical's end in 1935. After the death of his brother Naoum, Salloum took over the publication of <em>Al-Hoda.</em></p>
<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
<p>All issues of <em>The Syrian World</em> are available, along with full indexes for the first four volumes. For volumes five and six, there are tables of contents at the start of the issues.</p>
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<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11299/175685" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Annotated Index to the Syrian World, 1926-1932</a> at the University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center Archives
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1928 July-1929 June
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The index for The Syrian World vol. III, numbers 1-12.
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English
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Salloum A. Mokarzel
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
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Imaginary Speech to the Senate—By Rev. W. A. Mansur
I Need You No More (Poem)—By Labeebee A. J. Hanna
Interview with El-Atassi, An—By Salloum A. Mokarzel
Isaf, Short Story—By Labeebee A. J. Hanna
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Maggie and Joe (Short Story)—By Labeebee A. J. Hanna
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Mandates in the Near East—By Ameen Rihani
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Master-Builder, The (Poem)—By Dr. Salim Y. Alkazin
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Meeting the Maronite Patriarch—By Salloum A. Mokarzel
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Messiah of Old, A—By William Catzeflis
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Minor Key, The (Short Story)—By Labeebee A. J. Hanna
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Return Home, The (Short Story)—By Louis Maron
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Song of a Homesick Man (Poem)—By Najla Sabe
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Traveler, The (Poem)—By Alice McGeorge
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Tripoli to Latakia, From—By Salloum A. Mokarzel
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Two Answers, The (Poem)—By Dr. S. Y. Alkazin
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Two Learned Men, The—By Kahlil Gibran
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Wager, The (Short Story)—By Aref El-Khoury
Wayfarers of the Lowly Road (Poem)—By Paul Deab
While Mortal (Poem)—By Dr. S. Y. Alkazin
Zahle and Points East—By Salloum A. Mokarzel
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EDITOR'S COMMENTS
Another Milestone
Arabic Newspapers
Are the Syrians Arabs ?
Asfuriyeh a Criterion
Beauty Contests
Contest, The
Editor's Itinerary Abroad
Express Yourself!
General Comment
General Comment
t.
Grateful Acknowledgement
On the Nature of Cursing
Organization
Potential Field
Publication Dates
Racial Consciousness
Talent Available
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About Syria and Syrians
About Syria and Syrians
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About Syria and Syrians
About Syria and Syrians
About Syria and Syrians
About Syria and Syrians
About Syria and Syrians
About Syria and Syrians
Political Developments in Syria
Political Developments in Syria
Political Developments in Syria
Political Developments in Syria
Political Developments in Syria
Political Developments in Syria
Political Developments in Syria
Political Developments in Syria
Political Developments in Syria
Political Developments in Syria
Spirit of the Syrian Press
Spirit of the Syrian Press
Spirit of the Syrian Press
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AUTHORS
No. Page
Alkazin, Dr. Salim Y.
Thwarted (Poem)
A Legend of the Nile (Poem)
Restless (Poem)
The Master-Builder (Poem)
While Mortal (Poem)
The Two Answers (Poem)
Reconciliation
1
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10
24
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Asa, Thomas
Success (Poem)
Beethoven (Poem)
Essay On Life (Poem)
The Prophet (Poem)
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Attiyeh, Sumayeh
An Ideal
Bustany, Fuad P.
The Murder of the Patriarch (True Story)
Carlyle, J. D.
Fire—A Riddle
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On a Valetudinarian
On Life (Poem)
On Temper (Poem)
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Catzeflis, William
A Messiah of Old
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Faris, Adelaide E.
In Old Damascus
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Fox, Hilda
A Deserving Institution
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Gibran, Kahlil
The Two Learned Men
On Giving and Taking
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Deab, Paul
Renaissance (Poem)
Wayfarers of the Lowly Road (Poem)
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Dodd, Stuart Carter
Lebanon Mountaineers Take up Health Insurance
Dumit, Emile J.
Staging a Desert Scene
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Egis, Jonard
The Syrian Laborer (Poem)
El-Khoury, Aref
The Wager (Short Story)
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Helpfulness
On the Art of Writing
On Hatred
Hanna, Labeebee A. J.
Isaf (Short Story)
Edwin (Poem)
SuCh Was Fate (Short Story)
I Need You No More (Poem)
Advice to a Lover (Poem)
Maggie and Joe (Short Story)
To My Father (Poem)
Advice to a Rash Youth (Poem)
The Minor Key (Short Story)
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Hitti, Dr. Philip K.
Druze Exhortations and Prayers
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Howrani, Raja F.
The Old Criminal
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La Eace, John A.
The Smile of Death (Short Story)
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MacCallum, Elizabeth P.
Rihani—The Man and His Work
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The Return Home (Short Story)
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McGeorge, Alice
Beyond (Poem)
The Greatest of These is Charity (Poem)
The Traveler (Poem)
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Mokarzel, Salloum A.
On the Way to Syria
Through Palestine During the Recent Uprising
In the Land of Promise
Officialdom and the Gentlemen of the Press
Zahle and Points East
The Changing East
From the Dog River to the Cedars
Meeting the Maronite Patriarch
Through Southern Lebanon
An Interview with El-Atassi
From Beirut to the Palestine Border
From Tripoli to Latakia
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Mansur, Rev. W. A.
Leadership for Syrian Race Progress
Modern Syrians' Contributions to Civilization
Imaginary Speech to the Senate
Can the Syrian Race Survive in America ?
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The Syrians in America
Aleppo, Metropolis of Northern Syria
No. Page
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Naimy, Mischa
The Last Leaf (Poem)
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Nicholson, R. A.
Tears (Poem)
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Ri'hani, Ameen
Mandates in the Near East
Circulating Boons in Jeddah
Deserts of Fact and Fancy
The Ahleyah School of Beirut
A Disciple in Nomadism and Wisdom
The Old and New in Arabia
Originality in Reform
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Sabe, Najla
Song of a Homesick Man (Poem)
Despair (Poem)
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Shatara, Dr. F. I.
Ar-Razi and His Millenial Celebration
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Williams, Talcott
The Syrians in America
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Young, Barbara
To the Man with the Hard Eyes (Poem)
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<h4>Biographical/Historical Note</h4>
<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
<h4>Scope/Content Note</h4>
<p><em>The Syrian World</em> was published between 1926 and 1932 as a journal. In 1932, the format was changed from an academic journal style to a newspaper style, which continued until the periodical's end in 1935. After the death of his brother Naoum, Salloum took over the publication of <em>Al-Hoda.</em></p>
<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
<p>All issues of <em>The Syrian World</em> are available, along with full indexes for the first four volumes. For volumes five and six, there are tables of contents at the start of the issues.</p>
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1929 July-1930 June
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY— ESTABLISHED 1926
NEW YORK, MAY 5, 1933.
MARRIAGE OF ARCHBISHOP
STIRS SYRIAN COMMUNITY
RHODE ISLAND SYRIANS PROTEST
HOSPITAL'S ACT; PETITION GOVERNOR
CONTRACT MARRIAGE OF SYR|AN GREEK ORTHODOX
ARCHBISHOP IN NIAGARA FALLS UNPRECEDENTED IN
HISTORY OF EASTERN CHURCH; CLERGY CALLED TO
MEET AND DISCUSS FUTURE OF THE
INDEPENDENT CHURCH
GEORGE SACKAL ATTEMPTS SUICIDE AND IS DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITAL BEFORE RECOVERY
CAUSING A SERIOUS RELAPSE
By Jacob Saliba
(Special Correspondent)
Niagara Falls, the traditional resort of honeymooners, never
Cen tr
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A Case of fla rant
witnessed a marriage of such sensational magnitude and historical
n
i
by Central Falls, R. I., hospital authorities which may result fatalsignificance as the one which took place in it on the 29th of April.
ly has aroused the Syrians of Rhode Island and neighboring New
Had this marriage taken place on the 1st of April it would not
England states to a high pitch of activity. A petition by the comjhave been believed by the thousands to whom it is of utmost imbined Syrian-American societies of Pawtucket and Central Falls
portance, even though the Associated Press carried it, and it was
condemning the action was sent to Governor Theodore Francis
verified by several personal telegrams.
Green of R. I., this morning.
This marriage, which created so
——
much hubub and heated discussion irk
George Sackal, 18, a local Syrall the Syrian communities here and
ian-American typesetter of Central
everywhere else in America, and is
Falls, having been out of work for
destined to become the subject of even
the past year and a half, became
greater interest and discussion abroad,'
despondent. While in this state he
is none other than the marriage of
attended to take his life by inhala Syrian Greek Orthodox archbishop
ing iliumnating gas on the morning
in good standing in his church, or at
of April ^th. His brother, Albert
least one who, even after his marriage
Sackal. foujd him in a critical constill insisted that he was a Greek
COMMERCIAL DRAWING ACCOUNTS FORM ONLY SMALL dition
and irderfine,poy removed him
OJ Cnukux am!* s'liil an ar&ftii&iup:
PART OF HALF-MILLION DEPOSITS WITH THE
to the No.>, • fThrr*" The ontractual marriage of Archin was_
CLOSED BANK—FAOURS TO MAKE NEW
nearest one at hand.
n and"
bishop Aftimios Ofreish, head of the
Three days later, alth_
PROPOSAL TO CREDITORS
onGreek Orthodox Independent Church
boy was still in a critical condi «t
in North America, has set the whole
hospital authorities stated tha+ .
Syrian community agog, mot only in,
condition was "getting better"; an
New York but everywhere else in
The process of liquidation of Faour Bank is still in progress,
because of violence on the part cc
the States. Heated letters of disi he Banking Department of the State of New York has closed
the patient, he was ordered locke. eapproval pour on puzzled editors
up in police headquarl rs by th
the regular offices of the bank at 85 Washington Street, and transwho cannot quite make up their
hospital authorities.
yferred
all
records
to
its
general
offices
at
Pearl
and
Center
Streets.
minds what attitude to take in the
His only guardian, his brother
matter, and who await some official
Now Faour Bank, for long time a landmark in the Syrian Quarter,
Albert, did not sign the release paaction by responsible church officials
on Washington Street, is advertised for rent.
pers authorizing the removal of the
or council.
patient from Notre Dame Hospital and
From the office of the SuperinClaims
filed
To make the marriage more audacious
$545,101.90
according to this young man he did
tendent of Banks we were able to
Accounts payable
in the eyes of all pious Greek,
23,843.35
not know of any such proceedings
procure en official list of the deOrthodox, Syrians and otherwise, he
until police officers arrived at home
positors of Faour Bank. It reveals
Total
was married by a notary public to
$508,945.25
demanding his street clothes. Bea condition which accentuates the
a girl 22 years old, with a difference
tween the time of his release from,
COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS
human tragedy brought about by
of almost 30 years in their ages. The
the hospital until he arrived at home
the closing of the institution. As will
Claims filed
bride, Miriam Nimeh, came from
$46,934.70
he did not receive any professional
be seen by an examination of the
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., purposely for the
Accounts payable
387.51
attention, bringing on the relapse
list, the principal sufferers are small
ceremony.
Very little is known
which may prove fatal, according to
depositors who had thrift and savTotal
about the bride in this city.
In
$47,322.21
a reliable authority.
ings accounts in small amounts. A
some Syrian circles she is described
substantial deposit is recorded in the
Capt. Piggot Releases Boy
as a girl of good standing and an
name of the Ladies' Aid Society
Hatem Abood
510.09
ertfent Greek Orthodox. At last rewhich had to discontinue its adWhen the boy was brought to
Paul R. Accad
131.06
ports the happy couple are said to
police
headquarters, Capt. George
vances to needy families since its reAcme
Engineering
Co.
275.85
have gone on their honeymoon to a
serve funds were tied up. One rePiggot disobeyed police orders and,
farm about 10 miles from Niagara
Continued on Page 7
would not lock up this young man
jected claim is for a substantial sum
Falls.
The archbishop was quoted
stating, "I wouldn't lock up a dog if)
to Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite
as saying that he went there to have
church in Brooklyn.
'
it were as sick as George was then,"
peace.
and therefore he advised his brother
ARABIC-ENGLISH PLAY
Since the dissolution of the deAlbert to take him home and care
Marriage Unprecedented
positors' protective committee of
for him as best he could.
A three-act play to be given in
which Mr. Geo. A. Ferris was counTo appreciate the revolutionary
what is jokingly termed "broken
Chief Chaput of the local police,
sel, offering his services to the deimport of this event it is enough
Arabic" will be the main feature of)
upon
learning of this disobedience,
positors
without
pay,
several
efforts
to say that it is without parallel in
the fourth annual affair to be given
became indignant and demanded to
have been made to form other comthe history of this ancient church
by the Young Women's Syrian Soknow why Capt. Piggot had not acted
mittees but without success.
The
since the early days of Christianity,
ciety, Danbury, Conn., Sunday, May
as
instructed. The captain then told
last move along this line is a call for
or since the Apostolic Constitutions
7. Mr. Joheph Silwan from Brooklyn
the chief that there was nothing on
and Canons of the 4th Century dea general meeting of depositors isand his accompanist will sing Syrian
the police blotter against this young
sued by the Faours themselves for
fined the attitude of the Church on
songs
and
club
members
will
give
man
and that he was not going to
Sunday, May 14, at 78 Greenwich
this subject, namely that "bishops and
dances. A large crowd from Massbe responsible for what the boy might
priests are allowed to retain the
Street, New York, to consider means
achusetts, New York, New Jersey,
suffer if he were placed in a police
of conserving the assets of the b;.nk.
wives whom they may have had becell.
and Connecticut is expected to be
fore ordination, but not to marry in
Appended is a list of the claims
present.
Music
for
dancing
will
be
order."
At home, the boy had a serious
against Faour Bank as given out by
furnished by Jack Presi's Orchestra.
relapse and Drs. Thompson and KeThere have been instances of
the office of the State Superintendent
chijian were summoned and both adbishops and archbishops who had
The committee in charge are
of Banks.
vised his immediate removal to Butbeen married before their ordination.
Mary A. Moses, chairman, Lena Maler Hospital in Providence R
Filed . with Joseph A. Broderick by
Invariably such high clericals Were
marry, Mrs. Charles Dipple and Alice
where he is now in a very' serious
P. V. Liehr, special department, supt.
Murad.
condition.
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PAGE TWO
terest in this case are: St. Vincent
de Paul Society of Damascus, Pawtucket Branch; Aleppo Club of Central Falls; Syrian American Society
of Pawtucket and the Syrian-American Assn. of Central Falls, R. I. The
Syrian-American Federation of New
England is expected to take an active
part in tnis matter.
Will Hold Mass Meeting
Next Sunday, May 7, these combined organizations will hold a Bene-
fit Concert for this young man at
the Joseph Jenks Junior High School
with Syrian talent from, all sections
of New England. Assisting Mr. Saf'erda on the committee in charge of
this affair are the following: Elias
Gcrey, Bashir Tagra, Deeb Mona,
Chailes D. Zayat, Paul Kahla, Wadeh Kawan, Joseph Sayegh, Samuel
Waian and Albert Madfouni, representing different Syrian organi-
SYRIA IN THROES OF CRISIS;
GOVERNMENT PETITIONED
BANKRUPTCY/ THREATENS COUNTRY UNLESS DRASTIC
REMEDIAL MEASURES ARE ADOPTED IMMEDIATELY,
SAYS REPORT
If reports from the homeland are any indication of the actual
tacts, if the Arabic press is a true mirror of the conditions of the
people in whose name it speaks, Syria and Lebanon are in the
pangs of dire want, on the verge of starvation.
So great is the discontent that
has swept all parts of Syria and
Lebanon alike; so high has the crescendo of angry protests risen from,
every quarter, that we are not surprised to hear the muffled rumblings
of revolutionary threats. And while
Rihani speaks the mind of those who
counsel moderation and point eastward to Gandhi and his passive residence, others are not lacking vho
point the way to bloody stcie and
hold the example of the fie<y Mirabeau to the enraged crowds. Certain
it is there is something.' rotten in
Syria, and its stench has teached the
ip 3x iiigh Olympus.
.*ust the same sources
uit this sombre picture, it
t^even reached the uplifted
_es of the mighty rich who still
end the races, gamble in the gov-' 'nment protected casinos and spend
a- money with lavish lavity, re?h inding us of the days of the war
hen thousands were starving, when
hundreds each day were dropping
dead of exhaustion in the streets,
while the same rich Syrians and
Lebanese entertained the bloody Jamal Jasha with sumptuous banquets.
Nor has the stench of poverty reached
the noses of the government authorities, it seems. For we hear every
day of some petition or other presented to the national government
or the Commissariat, but nothing of
the effect of these petitions, or of any
constructive plans by the same governments to relieve the situation.
Merchants Sound Warning
A serious note of warning was
indeed sounded by a group of responsible merchants of Beirut which
leaves no alternative between drastic
economy in government expenditure
and the complete collapse of the economic fabric of the lands now under the French Mandate,
Addressing the President of the
Lebanese Republic, M. Charles Dabbas, the businessmen's group of Beirut call themselves "the remaining
remnant of this city's merchants."
They present him, and the Mandatory authorities through him, with
their views of the situation, and
recommend the only feasible plan
left for the economic salvage of the
country-drastic economy in government expenditure and lowering of the
tariff.
They hasten in their preamble
to admit that the world economic
crisis, particularly the breaking of
' the economic dam in Wall Street in
the autumn of 1929, has had its ef-
feet on conditions in Lebanon, but
also stress the fact 'that here were
accentuating conditions, purely local,
which had nothing to do with the
world crisis. The foremost of these
in the minds vA's the Beirut merch-mts
is the rdjn tariff pfeced on inported
goorir, and the lack oV any rational
pun in determining the tariff rates.
From an 8% ad valorem before the
War, when Lebanon and Syria were
an Integral part of the extensive Ottoman Empire, the rates were raised
to 11% after the War. Since the Syrian revolution /the rates jumped to
15-25%. At the same time Transjordania charges 11% while Palestine
has adopted a policy of variable tariffs
conforming with the economic needs
of the land and the state of industries
needing protection. No effective reciprocal tariff treaties have been concluded with these neighboring countries under a different mandate. This
condition has led to "smuggling"
goods from the more favorable
treated countries into Syria. And so
the countries which were in the
buyer class in the pre-War days have
become in the seller class. No wonder,
the report further states, that many,
merchants in Beirut and other places
have seriously thought of opening
branches to their places in these
countries, with consequent further
loss to government and people alike.
That this policy has not resulted
in an increase of revenue to the
government is evident at a glance
from the table of tariff statistics
which accompany the petition. From
the year 1927 to 1932 the decline has
been gradual until we reach the
figure of 152,870,300 gold francs or,
roughly, $7,643,515 for 1932 as compared with 222,692,244 gold francs
or, roughly, $11,134,602, of 1927.
Controlled
Tariff
Demanded
Nor is the committee in its report unmindful of the importance
of a protective tariff for the growing
industries of the country. But it wisely suggests a policy which has become identified with the name of
President Wilson—to form a nonpolitical commission, composed of representative businessmen and industrialists of the mandated regions
who will then determine the equitable tariff in these and other instances. Indeed one of their suggestions is the removal of all custom
duties on raw materials used in the
native industries.
A similar petition by the Labor
Union of Beirut was also submitted
' gh Commissioner,
to the Fn
Henri
'onsc
h;ch demands reductior >f ;
rates on tools and
partly
•.toducts. The petition, W'
ir a, was referred to
xu of the High
the Ec
Commis ariat
idy.
: Damascus, which
The (
ed for its conhas alw
olicy, are hardservativo
(
ly any better. A dispatch to a Beirut
paper from
pondent in that
city dec!... .
economic crisis
there h.
an acute one,
threaten!
,
uyiness establishments wnn bankruptcy.
Automobile Strike Effective
Undoubtedly the protracted strike
of the automobile drivers, which has
lasted several weeks, has only added
confusion to a worse confounded
state. Syria and Lebanon have become so much dependent on automobile transportation that a long
strike of this nature would fairly
paralyze the business transactions of
these countries. Syrian and Lebanese
merchants have become accustomed
to hop in an automobile and travel
from one city to another to adjust
some business tangle or interview
some prospective customer, returning on the same day to have supper1
at home with their families. Trucks
bring fresh vegetables from the farms
to the city, or deliver goods at short
notice, as we and you do in this progressive land of ours.
Let us hope that for its own,
sake, as well as for the sake of the
people in their charge, the French
authorities, for they are in the final
analysis -l^ie responsible ones, will
listen to tn« studied observations ofj
the business% <?nd Uibor representatives of the peopjle before it is too
late, and the goose tiVat lays the golden eggs would have ..given up the
ghost.
CHURCH GIVES
MINSTREL SHOW
N. Y. SYRIAN
DOCTORS MEET
Discuss Medical Situation and Means
of Bettering Services Among
Syrians
The Syrian doctors in New York
met on Saturday night, April 29, for
the first time for a social evening
and dinner in the Damascus Restaurant on W. 31st Street, New York
City. After the meeting, the eleven
doctors present, including two women,
discussed the medical situation in
New York. They were primarily interested in discovering some means
for bettering the medical services
among the Syrians.
Their next meeting will be held
possibly early in June arid they hope
to continue their social evenings until some definite plans may be developed. Dr. F. I. Shatara declared
that they wished to keep the meetings informal, free from restrictions
that would be entailed in founding
an organization of this sort.
Besides Dr. Shatara there were
present Dr. F. M. Akl who acted in
his medical capacity when he traveled
with the Gobi expedition into Mongclia under the auspices of the
Brooklyn Museum, Dr. Rizk, 1st Lt.
in the Brooklyn Naval 'Hospital, Dr.
Najib Barbour, Dr. R. T. Deen, Dr.
N.'Sabbagh, Dr. Rosalie Nemir, teacher in Bellevue Medical College, Dr.
N. Lafloofy, Dr. Lewis G. Aide, Dr.
Edward Habboush, and Dr. Joseph
M. Jabbour.
Victor Tadross, a
student in Bellevue Medical College,
also attended.
BASEBALL TEAMS
START SEASON
\
Young Syrians and Americans Participate in Show for Benefit of
Syrian Church
(Special Correspondence)
New Bedford, Mass., May 1.— A
minstrel show was produced by the
Church of Our Lady of Purgatory,
New Bedford, Mass., of which Rev.
George Jowdy is pastor, Thursday
evening, April 27. Rev. Jowdy was
not able to be present at the show,
due to his attendance at the memorial services for N. A. Mokarzel
in New York.
The chorus consisted of William
Kazan, Rita Breau, Joseph Hassey,
Helen Kinv, James Bramwell, Mary
Thomas, Daniel David, Sophy Thomas,
Peter Moses, Helen Courry, Joseph
Ferris, Alice Courry, Harry Hassey,
Cecilia Jazbeck, George Saba, Victoria Brown, Manual Lewis, Annie
John, Jose Joseph, Nancy John,
Joseph Silva, Annie Joseph, Manual
Cunha, Natilda Thomas, Gilbert Rebello, Sara Courry, John Silva, Mary
Sarkis, Joseph Ferriera, Mabel Joseph,
Harry McCleod, Alice Barber, Lena
Durant, Adele Barber, Amelia Thomas,
Helen Nuce.
Mr. Mansour Dow was chairman
of the committee in charge of the
show; John B. John, business manager; James Gaughan, director; and
Joseph P. Hardin, in charge of
costumes.
CLEVELAND
Mr. and Mrs. Shaheen George of
Cleveland announced the engagement
of their daughter, Miss Linda George,
to Mr. David Esber of Canton, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Sliman Esber. The
Rev. Spiridon Massouh and Rev.
Elias Meena solemnized the engagement at the home of the bride's
parents, April 24.
By James Shalala
(Special Correspondent)
Cleveland.—This year promises to
be a more popular year than ever for
the Cleveland Athletic League that
will start its baseball season May 7.
Every Sunday a game is played'
before hundreds of Syrian spectators.
Ninety Syrian boys in Cleveland
are ready to fight to the finish to
take away the trophy won last year
by the Aitaneet Democrats, who it
is feared may win the cup for all
time, if they are again successful
for the cup remains in the permanent possession of the team
winning the pennant for two consecutive seasons.
The teams represented at tr.
first meeting of the League- at the
City Hall were:
Teams:
Aitaneet Democrats, backed by
Aitaneet
Brotherhood Association;
manager, Ernest Sabbath.
Parobek Undertakers, backed by
Paul G. Parobek; manager, Har^y
Assed.
Argonne Athletic Club, backed
by Joseph Tuma; manager, Sam Kassouf.
Glenville Service Station, backed
by Ganim Brothers; manager, George
Ganim.
The
/Unknowns,
self-backed;
manager, Mike Otto.
Kalill Contractors, Joseph Kalill;
manager, Aziz Shaheen.
Officers elected for the coming
year at the meeting and who are
to be installed May 1, consist oft
Michael S. Caraboolad, president; Ernest Sabbath, vice-president; and
Samuel Kassouf, secretary-treasurer.
The teams in the League are
made up of Syrians only. Last year"
was the first year the League played
under the all Syrian policy.
Plans for a tennis team to compete for the city championship are
also being arranged by the league.
�THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, MAY 5, 1933.
SYRIAN CHURCH, CLEVELAND,
BURNED TO THE GROUND
PAGL
GUESS WHO SHE IS!
ST. GEORGE CHURCH COLLAPSES IN FLAMES DESPITE
ALL EFFORTS TO PUT OUT FIRE; BLAZE IN
FURNACE HINTED AS CAUSE
(By Airmail)
Syrians of Cleveland flocked from
all quarters to witness one of the most
spectacular fires in the recent history
of that city which consumed a Syrian church, St. George Greek Orthodox Church, at W. 14th Street and
Starkweather Ave., S. W.
It was
still daylight when the flames,
whipped by a strong northerly
breeze, blazed into a serious conflagration on the evening of last
Thursday, threatening a block of
wooden houses in the district
The fire, according to an article
I of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, dispatched to the Syrian World by airmail by an eye-witness, started
about 7:30 p.m., and had completely
swept the large stone building by
9:15 p.m., burning embers being
blown the length of the block.
While a squad of 25 policemen,
stvigbt to keep back a crowd of several thousand spectators., the fireman
gave up their attempts to save the
church and concentrated on pouring
water on the near-by wooden structures.
Kear Explosion
For a time the firemen ware fearful that the flames might spread to
a gasoline service station on the
corner next to the church, but this
danger was believed to have been
removed when the roof of the church
caved in and the wind took the
embers away from the gas station.
The blaze, Cleveland's most spectacular since the Ellington Apartment fire last June, was believed to
have started in the furnace room.
Najeb Ferris, custodian of the
building, who lives next door, said
he had built a fire in the furnace
early in the evening in preparation
foi the regular weekly social in the
Vestry. Then he went home to shave,
he said.
A few minutes later a
woman, arrivng early for the social,
ran into his home shouting the
church was on fire.
Meanwhile, Andrew Drokar, attendant at the gasoline station next
door, reported that at 7:45 a boy ran
into his station reporting smoke coming from the kitchen of the church.
Drokar gave the boy a fire extinguisher, he said, and called the fire
Apartment. The boy came back, reporting that he had found a small
blaze in the kitchen and haa extinguished it.
Drokar went out and found smoke
still coming from the building. When
firemen arrived, the smoke was pouBing from crevices in the wall at various parts of the building, and a
second alarm was sent in.
A few minutes later, a third
V:- alarm was turned in, bringing out
all available West Side companies.
Hunt Source for Hour
By this time smoke was pouring
from all sides and corners of the
heavy stone structure, but still there
were no flames.
For a full hour firemen scrambled
all over the building in\ an effort to
locate the heart of the* fire, unsuccessfully. Windows werej broken, ladders were put up to the roof, and
water was poured in friim all sides.
The smoke grew thicker, and the
street began to fill with spectators.
AE traffic on the W. 14th Street car
hne was halted.
Suddenly, at 9 p.m., one huge
flame burst from the building as if it
were a great cardboard box saturated with oil, and the sky was ablaze
so that the fire could be seen for
blocks in all directions.
Firemen fell back, police rushed
to force the huge crowd back as
far as possible, and hoses were
turned immediately on houses directly to the south which were being
scorched by the heat and showered
with fire-brands.
Clear Out Homes
Meanw&fe- police hurried into the
near-"by residences to clear out any
persons who might haMe remained
within them.
Through the remaining seined
glass windows of the church cPuld
be seen a great roaring furnace, and
the roof of the structure soon caved
IK, sending sparks flying high-
OLD PERSIAN
CITY FOUND
Dates
Back
to 4,000
B. C.
Shows Evidence of Advanced
Civilization
One archeological discovery follows on the heels of another in these
days which have witnessed some ofl
the most sensational archeological
"finds" of all times. The whole aspect of ancient history, particularly
of the Near East, is in such constant
need of revision that often historians
hesitate to publish their works lest
some new discoveries upset their conclusions and inferences.
Among the notable additions to
this string of archeological discoveries
is one which was only recently announced in New York at the annual
dinner of the American Institute for
Persian Art and Archeology at the
Waldorf-Astoria.
:
Speaking before this organ zation,
Dr. Erich F. Schmidt, director of
the field expedition at Damghan,
Persia, sponsored jointly by the Institute and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Art, revealed
the discovery of a great Sassanian city
and palace 17 miles northeast of
Kish, ancient Babylonian capital, and
the possibility of unearthing other
cities extending into Mesopotamian
territory.
Magnificent
Ornaments
Will she get lost in the Syrian Desert as she got lost a few
\ears back in Arizona? Well, if you haven't guessed so far we
vrill not hold ycu in suspense any longer. She is no other than
An-ee Semple McPherson Hutton. famed evangelisi. of Los Angeles
on can^l back near Jerusalem, during a visit she made to Palestine,
v
show that a banquet w»i going on
when the tragedy fell. The >"ading enemy surrounded the palace ana
set it on fire. Bodies found in the
palace indicate in their postures that
the revelers had tried to find their
0way out when they were overcome
by smoke and fire. One of the remains shows a beautiful dancing gir'
decorated with rich jewelry.
Hfer
body had been laid out "in one < of
the beautiful poses of the dmce
which she made famous." Another
remain is that of a young warrior
"who had been buried exactly as
he fell in battle, with his head turned
away, and his hand covering his face
to conceal his last moment of
anguish."
Extensive Discoveries Expected
The importance of these discoveries, declared Dr. Schmidt, lies partly in ' ^act that this region was
T.ear the bo
Ti and"
Reman empires.
jugh
contact, undoubtedly, added Dr. Schmidt,
many features of Persian art were
transmitted to the western world.
Even more extensive discoveries,
it was announced, may be unearthed
as the work of pick and shovel proceeds and other cities and palac
come to view.
The expedition which is carr
ing on those excavations in Persia was
made possible through the interest
of Mrs. William Boyce Thompson,
now living in" Paris.
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Unearthed
Dr. Schmidt showed pictures of
magnificent gold ornaments, jewelry,
precious and semi-precious stones,
Some of the jewels are beautifully
carved. Great numbers of alabaster
vases and a number of series of pottery types, described as very interesting, were also found. He commented
that life in those times must have
been rich and beautiful.
Dr. Schmidt reconstructed a 5000
year tragedy which took place when
a ruthless enemy attacked and destroyed an entire settlement. Telltale evidence in the discovered palace
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ANOTHER START
In resuming publication of the
Syrian World, we are impelled
by the same reasons which first
prompted its publication seven
years ago, chiefly to afford a
dignified and intelligently informative organ to our younger
generation Americans of Syrian
descent.
It is now proposed,
however, to make the publication of more popular appeal by
issuing it in newspaper form and
at
more
frequent
intervals.
Whereas previously it was being published monthly in magazine form, it now resumes publication weekly as a newspaper.
Many of the magazine features
wjaifh formerly lent it
.distinctiv
il be retained* uUt d&- to the increase
in space, much more attention
will be devoted to news.
The
fact that the resources and connections of Al-Hoda, now in its
t'-irty-six^h year, are now made
ailable to The Syrian World
ould enhance its potentialities
for public service through added
news-gathering facilities both in
the United States and abroad.
The suspension of the Syrian
World as an independent publication for less than a year was
brought about by unfortunate
conditions arising from the death
of the late editor of Al-Hoda
and the necessity of the publisher
of the Syrian World taking over
the daily newspaper. The English
section later introduced in AlHoda was mainly designed to
fill the gap created by the suspension of the Syrian World.
In the present arrangement, the
English section of Al-Hoda will
not be discontinued even though
publication of the Syrian World
is resumed, but, quite naturalthe Syrian World will contain much more and varied
material than is possible to give
ki a limited weekly section of an
Arabic newspaper.
COMING!
The Gardens of Omar, a gripping, modern romance of Lebanon and Syria, by Henry
Bordeaux member of the French
Academy, will be published serially in the Syrian World.:
ADVICE TO ENTICE—
A RADIO TALK
(With Apologies to Mrs.
Pennyfeather)
By an Observer
Good evening, fair listeners: I
trust my subject this evening will
be helpful to those of you who have
been practising desperate, ways to
"land" the "apples of your eyes".
I feel duty-bound to tell you how
wrong you are and how hopeless
your cases will become. The lowest
thing a woman can do is to pursue
the men—and half of them not worth
a breath wasted in the frantic chase.
You see, my dears, most of the men'
have eyes on stalks, like lobsters, and
they see in all directions. Oh, yes,
they notice you when you look at
them too ardently, partly with the
aid of your reflection in the subway
window. This I say to warn the
country girls who come to the city
about twice a year and are not aware
of the tricks of our mechanical city.
Put on an easy, care-free gait,
but with a little gracefulness. Act
as though you didn't even see the
handsome fellow at the other end
ot the subway car. Glance casually
at the car-cards until you reach his
end of the car. Then lower your eyes
and glance at the paper he is trying
to read. Don't attempt to look at
him. If you accidentally catch his
eye, direct your gaze calmly and
slowly to another passenger. And'
so on with 'every passenger to show
this particular man that he is but one
of many. Acting this way makes
them believe that you're "hard-toget" Even if you aren't, pretend it
and you'll socn be bewildered by the
breathless suitors who come a-seeking your seemingly competed-for
heart. Then when you've captured
your prey, that is, the one you like
the most, and he thinks he's the
victor, don't lose your head. Take
love as a matter of fact with an occasional expression of passion. Don t
demonstrate your love too openly for
you will cease to be interesting to
him. Your apparent "hard-to-getness" constitutes the majority of
your attractiveness, so don't fail to
rraintain this all through the battle.
* * * *
When you're bcund for home in.
a cab after a delightful evening in
the Village with him, keep your eye
off the meter and tell him what an
enjoyable evening you had. Of course
you shouldn't stress it. Pay no attenticn to the fact that with every
bump in the road he is brought
nearer to you. If he tries anything
arastic, put up an objection. Show
him you're not the kind of girl who
pets with any Tom, Dick, or Harry,
whichever species happens to be
along. He will feign disappointment,
but never mind, it will pay in the
end. For after you have taken a
deeper liking for each other, you will
have something to look forward to.
* * * *
Sophistication is good at times
but not when it is overdone. An unattractive woman may seem alluring
because of her apparent indifference
toward things. But then, too, men
will not attempt to approach her if
her chin has a habit of sticking in
the air. And so too with everything. Nothing should be overdone,
no matter how beneficial it is.
I'm sorry I have no more time
to mention and devise a few more
ways and means for your male-
itical campaigns, but once you get
on to the knack of it, all the methods
will come to you as second nature.
So, cheerio, fair ones
And heed my advice
For after so doing
You'll be targets of rice!
TURKEY, GREECE EMBRACE
Ip there is any doubt left in the
minds of skeptics that this is the
age when the lion and the lamb lie
together, when the cat and the mouse
gambol and frolic over a tid-bit of
cheese, then here is the proof:
Sometime ago Dr. Tewfik Rushdi
Bey, foreign minister of Turkey, took
a trip to Athens where he was received with open arms and loud
husannahs. His mission, to negotiate
for an amicable treaty between his
country and Greece, met with success; and his activities were reported favorably in the Turkish press.
Not since the armies of Mohammel
al-Fatih (the Conqueror) pounded
the walls of Constantinople have such
earnest efforts been undertaken to
patch up the differences between
these two inveterate enemies, to
eradicate the ugly scars of hatred
and strife which marked the relations
between these two aggressive neighbors across the Aegean Sea.
A Turkish paper, "Swan Postah,"
commenting on a report published
in a Greek paper on the progress of
the negotiations, said:
"We know that the Greek nation and its government are intent
on enhancing the good relations between them and their Balkan neighbors, which relations will be the
basis of universal peace in this country also. The' Turkish nation and its
government in turn welcome every
agreement which takes for its basis
world peace. Turkey puts forth its
hand to Greece to walk together in
this path
"
�THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, MAY 5, 1933
ALEPPIANS ENJOY
ANNUAL SOCIAL
PROFILES
Entertainment
Songs,
Consisted of Syrian
and Dancing
Dean of Syrian Lawyers in America
W^&F**
The Aleppian Fraternity of
Brooklyn held an entertainment and
dance last Sunday evening at the
Knights of Columbus Hall that
brought a thousand young and old
Syrians together. In the first part
of the evening, from 9 to 11:30
o'clock, an entertainment was presented. The curtain rose showing a
Syrian orchestra of many instruments. Mr. Sanduk, chairman, called
upon each musician to sing solos;
calling several times upon Miss Asma
Sabbagh, Mr. Joseph Silwan and Mr.
Antone Abdulahhad of Boston, a
young man born and brought up in
this country who has a talent for
Syrian musie. Two little girls, the
daughters of Mr. R. Kayloon, sang
an Arabian song with their aunt,
Miss Sabbagh.
When the entertainment was
6ver, the hall was cleared for dancing.
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GEORGE A. FERRIS
lawyer.. .
was born in Tyre, Syria on March
10, 1882
the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Khattar Ferris.
Mr. Ferris was one of eight
children
he received his elementary schooling in Syria
and came
to America with his family on October 11, 1891
he was graduated
from Public School 39 in New York.
City
went immediately into business, working in Wanamaker's and
other New York Department stores
until he was 21
he never went
to High School
equipped himself with the necessary law requirements in various night schools
and was graduated in law from the
New York Law School
he . was
admitted to the bar in 1909.
Mr. Ferris was the first Syrian
to practice law in the United States
.... he has maintained his own firm
since he started it 24 years ago at
the inception of his career
and
it has now grown into a large organization.
Mr. Ferris specializes in the trial
of cases
he is frequently retained by other lawyers of standing
of his cases, Mr. Ferris considers the case of Edwin M. Squier
the most important
Mr. Squier,
one of the founders of the New
Jersey Zinc Company, died in 1928
leaving a fortune of $7,000,000
his will was bitterly contested in
New York and New Jersey
Mr.
. Ferris was specially admitted in New
Jersey to try the case with Edwin
A. Maxon, state superintendent of
Banking and Insurance in New Jersey, as his adversary
there were
two trials and for the first Mr.
Ferris was allowed $55,003 by the
court and for the second $65,000
FERRIS
His most important Syrian case was
that of Abraham M. Jabalie tried in
1913
and which received a great
deal of publicity in the American
papers
Jabalie, who owed $30,000
to merchants, borrowed $70,000 from
his banks and then skipped off to
Syria with his family
Mr. Ferris
followed him to Syria, recovered
573,000 in cash
brought Jabalie
back to the United States
and
•had him sent to the Atlanta Penitentiary for 18 months.
In 1921 Mr. Ferris was nominated
to run on the Republican ticket for
State Senator but he declined
he is interested in politics from a
civic viewpoint but he does not seek
t ffice
he is a member of the
Pepubhcaii Club of New York
of the Lawyers Club
of the New
York City Lawyers Association
of the American Bar Association
of the New York State Bar Association
of the National Republican
Club
of the Uptown Club
of the Westchester Country Club
and of the Pelham Country Club
he is also a member of the Commi+iee on National Affairs of the Republican Club
of the Committee
on Staie Affairs
and of the Committee on City Affairs.
His chief outside interest is golf
In 1931 and 1932 he won, successively, the championship of the
Syramar Golf Club
he keeps trim
on the greens of the fashionable
Westchester Country Club whose layout is considered the finest in the
World
Mr. Ferris' magnificent estate is on the outskirts of the Club
in Rye, N. Y
where he lives
with his wife, Gertrude A., nee Johnson of Toronto, Canada, and his two
nieces. Amelia and Ruth Hall.
DON'T MISS "THE GARDENS OF OMAR"
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Preparations and plans for the
second annual convention of the
Southern Federation of Syrian Clubs
to be held at New Orleans, La., September 3 and 4 are reaching the
formative stage.
The convention
committee which consists of members
of the Syrian-American Club of New
Orleans have not divulged their plans,
but it is reliably learned that an effort is being made to have Louisiana's Kingfish, Huey P. Long, deliver the main address. The delegates
to the convention. wiJJ be !»aia£l_ftC=_
cording to procedure rules patterned after those of the national
pc'litical convention. Over two thousand people are expected and special
trains will be run if necessity demands.
DINNER DANCE FOR
CONVENTION DELEGATES
The delegates to the semi-annual New England Convention of
Syrian Clubs to be held on Memorial
Day, May 30, will be entertained by
the Syrian American Club of Worcester Mass., at a dinner-dance to
fcliow the convention in the Bancroft Hotel at 7:30. The convention
takes place at 3:00 p.m. Mr. Lewis
George, president of the Federation
of New England, will preside.
DANCE TO AID
CITIZENSHIP
Club
Holds Dance to Defray Expenses of Its Citizenship
Class
Central Falls, R. I., April 27.—
The Syrian American Club of Central Falls held a dance recently in
Colonial Hall, Broad Street.
Officers and members of the Pawtucket
St. Vincent de Paul Society and of
the Syrian American Citizens' Club
and its Ladies' Auxiliary of Pawtucket were present.
Music was
furnished by Edward Howard and
his orchestra of Fall River. Entertainment during the evening was
provided by Joe Sousa, vocal soloist,
and Henri Angelone, 15 year-old buck
and wing dancer.
The dance was held to raise funds
for the citizenship class that is to be
started soon by the club, for the express purpose of aiding Syrian residents in procuring citizenship papers.
Deeb Mona was in charge of the
dance. Assisting him were Norman
Salum, George Soufy, James Aissis,
Charles. Sallom, Bashier Tajra, Fred
Mona, George Senno, Roger Hashaway, James Noury, Gustave Sakakeeny and Elias Saferda.
Officers Named
At elections held recently, the
following officers were named: Charles (Sorey, president; Gustave Sakakeeny, vice-president; Louis Sayegh,
treasurer; Louis Webber, assistant;
Bashier Tajra, secretary; Deeb Mona,
assistant secretary, and Charles Sallom, publicity director.
Delegates from the club will be
named soon to attend the SyrianAmerican Federation of New England
Convention which will be held in
Worcestor, Mass., on May 30.
GUESTS FROM THREE
TOWNS AT PARTY
A surprise birthday party was
given Miss Eva Kouri of Bethany,
Okla., by her sister, Freeda and the
Misses Marie Koous and Dorothy
Logsdon, April 23. The evening was
spent in dancing, bridge playing and
jig-saw puzzling. Those present from
Norman, Okla., were Mr. and Mrs.
Monier Massad, Mrs. Rosa Adwon,
the Misses Emma Lee, Ethel Massad,
Sadie Adwon and Kamel and Ernest
Massad, Nicholas Adwon, George
Massad, Jim and Mitchell Aboussie,
Joe Taylor and Coy Shadid. From
Oklahoma City were present Mr.
and 'Mrs. C. P. Anderson, Mr. and
Mrs. Sol Davidson, Mr. and Mrs. F.
Gaines, Mr. and Mrs. O. Gross, Mr.
and Mrs. M. McDonald, Mrs. Joe
Adwon, the Misses Sadie, Josephine,
Nellie and Victoria Samara, Jennie
Bayouth, Helen Martin, Ilea Razook,
Effie, Mae, Rosa, Alice, Lorene end,
Joseph Fal'iis, ~~~vir/^VlciCria 5S8
Florine Barkett,
v.j'oria Rahaal,
Juanita Rahill, Jaynell and Leatrice
Adwon, Mary and Quantella Wehba.
Also from Oklahoma City were
Jake Samara, Dale Wehba, Bill, Joe
and Lewis Farris, Vander Barkett,
William Rahaal, John Shadid, Bullett and Tanel Shadid, , Mitchel Andrews, Freddie Shadid and Cecil
Saeid.
From {Bethany were the Misses
Elaine Johnson, Freddie Lee Holly,
Kathryn Davis, Ruth Irick, Salwa
Kouri, Thain Minor, Virgil Roone,
Garvis Logsdon, Leon Webster, L. D.
Wiggman and Mrs. A. S. Kouri.
ORIENTAL POMP!
Khedive Abbas Hilmi II Constructs
"Mansion on Wheels" for His Own
Pleasure and Convenience
In its light, sarcastic vein, whenever it speaks of the Orient or things
oriental, a Hearst publication of
New York features a "freak story''
about a huge automobile built to
order for Abbas Hilmi II, former
Khedive of Egypt who was forced
by the British to abdicate his throne
at the outbreak of the World War.
The automobile is a veritable
"mansion on wheels" with bulletproof glass and bullet-proof metal
doors. It consists of two stories, the
upper one for the servants, the lower
one for the ex-Khedive and his family. The latter is divided into three
compartments, in one of which the
settees and arm chairs can be changed
into beds. The upper story has a
canvas cover which gives to the
whole the effect of a tent on wheels,
rather than a "mansion on wheels."
This is accentuated by the fact that
the Khedive's special has no win
dows.
�PAGE SIX
THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, MAY 5, 1933.
SYRIANS AND LEBANESE OF AMERICA PAY TRIBUTE TO LATE AL-HODA EDITOR
IMPRESSIVE RELIGIOUS SERVICES AT HISTORIC ST.
PETER'S FOLLOWED BY MEMORIAL MEETING
ATTENDED BY THE MOST PROMINENT
LITERARY FIGURES
PRESENT EDITOR PLEDGES CONTINUANCE OF
PROGRESSIVE POLICY
By a Staff Writer
Once more the walls of historic St. Peter's Catholic Church
on Barclay and Church Sts., New York, rang out with the echoes
cl the fifteen-century-old Syriac liturgy, eft hundreds of Lebanese
and Syrians from New York and out-of-town gathered to revere
the memory of the great Lebanese leader, educator and editor
Naoum A. Mokarzel.
Al-Hoda, who, on that solemn occriicn, pledged hir.ise.if to kaep up
the progressive policies of his brother and predecessor. He sounded a
r.ote of hope and optimism in these
dark days of depression and hardships of which Arabic journalism in.
this country has had more than its
share.
"I like to think of Naoum Mokarzel", said the present editor cf
AI-Hoda, "not as my brother, but
as one of you, and you are all my
brethren in patriotism, hot as a son
of Lebanon, but as a son of humanity."
Mr. Mokarzel concluded his touch-
ing speech by extending his gratitude and that of his bereaved family
to all those who gathered to do
honor once more to the memory of
his brother.
Interspersing the eulogies, appropriate music was sung and played.
This included the Ave Maria of)
Each-Gcunod, sung by Mme. Fadwa
Kurban, the Elegy by Massenet, also
sung by Mme. Kurban with an obbligato by the promising violinist
Helen S. Rozek, and the Andante of
De Beriot en the violin, also by
Miss Rozek. The piano accompaniment to' both artists was played by
Miss Alice Mokarzel.
Lewis G.
S. J. Ak<
Kalil Ak:
Alfred AJ
Rev. Nice
George /
Mrs. Lati
Solomon
Thomas 1
Damour l
Daughter:
/Charles I
Est. of F
D. J. Fac
Francis J.
Hassan F
Morris F
Helen M
Joseph G
Garrity ]
James C.
Gem Pha
Granoush
Alice Gn
Hamdan
Emily HE
Said J. I
A. K. Hi
Alex |Ca
Elia D. :
Charles 1
ohn Ma
aragos
arkariai
arrash
ammam
elen M
Tihra &
acob G.
—Jhehadi
jGeorge E
alem S:
t. Niche
amara I
anton E
HfneT^
Mary Sa
Louis A.
Charles
Adele SI
Kalil A.
Mike, Sh
Elias Sir
Jose Sou
Ignatius
State Fh
Rev. M.
A. L. Sj
Teen Re
saac jWi
pamascu
Jos. McC
Following the religious services
" t
commemorating the passing of a year
since the editor's unexpected death
in Paris, a long list of writers and
poets prominent in the world of
Arabic literature and journalism eulogized the memory of one who was
in the vanguard of progressive journalism and social reform, one who
had imprinted his name indelibly on
the memory of the Syrian and Lebanese communities in this country
and abroad.
The memorial meeting, held in
the reception hall of St. Peter's
Church, included such well-known,
figures as Jos. N. Maloof, A. Milkie,
Rashrid Ayoub, Nasib Arida, Nadra Haddad, Dr. F. I. Shatara, and
others.
Editor Teaches People
The impressive Eastern ritual of
the JMaiflaiie Church. was, .conducted
by Mons. Fra^ .s Wakim, Rector of
St. Joseph Maronite church on Washington St., N. Y., assisted by the
Rev. M. Stephen, Rector of Our Lady
of Lebanon Church on Hicks St.,
Brooklyn, and Father George Jowdy, Rector of Our Lady of Purgatory
Church, Maronite, of New Bedford,
Mass. From the pulpit Father Stephen delivered the eulogy, taking as
(his text the words of the Son oi
Sirach, "The wise man teaches his
people," bringing out the fact that
Naoum Mokarzel was primarily and
principally a teacher of his people,
through the press and through the
spoken word. One of his earliest
activities in this country, the speaker
pointed out, was teaching a catechism class in the same church, St.
Peter's, where a year ago his funeral
was solemnized and where once more
a memorial service is held to honor
his memory.
After the service the large crowd
of the late editor's friends and devotees moved to the reception hall
below and took their seats to the
serene, soft tune of Bizet's processional, Agnus Dei.
f
Outstanding Poets
The Late Naoum A. Mokrazel, Founder of Al-Hoda
a reformer of the social evils of his
people here and abroad, a standardbearer of the new school of journalism in the Arabic world. Rashid
Ayoub, Nadra Haddad and Nasib
Arida paid their tribute of eulogy
in beautiful poetry, which our Arabic
readers may find in another issue of Al-Hoda. There was a mystical. Jibranistique spirit pervading these
poems by .recognized leaders of the
modernist school. George Milan ofl
Zanzville, Wis., who served on AlHoda in the days of its late editor,
and Jamil B. Holway, a *iife-long
friend, also recited poems in eulogizing him. Dr. F. I. Shatara, who was
for a time the special physician of
Naoum Mokarzel, spoke of his indomitable will and his tenacious hold
on life, "because he had a mission
to fulfill." He spoke also of the
editor's outspoken frankness and of
fhis desire, expressed in the last
years of his life, to make Al-Hoda
the meeting place of all Lebanese
and Syrian literateurs and writers.
Eulogize Editor
Naoum Hatem, president of the
Lebanon League of Progress, founded
by the departed editor, opened the
meeting and turned it over to Joseph
N. Malouf, chairman of the literary
committee and former editor of AlAyyam, a veteran editor of former
days, who introduced the various
speakers. The choice of Mr. Malcuf was an appropriate one as ten,
years ago he acted also as chairman
of the committee in charge of the
silver jubilee of Al-Hoda.
Asad
Milkie, who followed, was reminiscent in his well-delivered speech. He
/pictured Naoum A. Mokarzel as a
gljvnf^ic, crusading editor who was
isfied with news gathering, as
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M. Christien Belle, representing
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Kailil B. Akoury, N. J.
Lewis G. Aide, MD.
74.86
S. J. Akel.
391.68
Kotaar T. Bohiya
Kalil Akkoul
183.51
Mrs. Rose Boojamia
Nejib G. Bokkar
141.S5
TVO Alfred Alam
108.14
Rev. Nicolas Araktingi
George Bokish
358.82
George Arbeeny
Jcmes A. BaUsh
Mrs. Latify Baclini
102.55
J. Beshara Saker
834.49
Mimie H. Boukatar
Solomon Barconia
Hf.bib M. Bistany
i Thomas Bordes
504.93
I Damour Frat.
2.80
G. J. Boorabsby
; Daughters of Un. Maron Soc. 274.40
Tamam M. Bistany
322.94
j /Charles Eissa
G. Azar Beezher
;
377.00
( Est. of Fouad Shaheen
Mimie H. Boukater
D. J. Faour & Bros.
16588.82
Zbaida Boulous
Francis J. Faour sp. act.
89.33
Emilia Balish
19.02
Hassan Fawess
Minnie D. Bageel
Morris Feldshub
243.84
E. K. Bowarde .
Helen M. Francis
536.31
Salem J- Coury
Joseph Gabriel
33.11
Abraham Chryide
Garrity Lumber Co., Inc.
121.93
Mansoura Chaker
4.25
James C. Garrity
Nicholas D. Carascos
Gem Pharmacy, Inc.
372.66
T. S. Daccash
155.86
Granoush Plate Glass Co.
Barbara B. Daniel
Alice Grayeb
271.28
M. A. Darathany
Hamdan C. Haneck
95.85
Damour Frat.
Emily Harfoush
5.91
Lamy T. Daher
224.29
Said J. Harfoush
Daughters of Un. Maron Soc.
1636.52
A. K. Hitti & co.
T. G. Daniel
213.11
Alex JCatra
Nazeera M. Daher
357.02.! peiyj E Eed
Elia D. Madey
Charles Mahfouz Co.
/2ck and aja G. Elias
8l
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olizing tHa S. Esper
210
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but in S^les Elgosen, N.H.
arkarian Bros,
575..
] Eman. J. Elkoury, Pa.
arrash Bros,
321.
jsr Joudy Esmail
ammam Morad
145.1:
1 Jeter SUias
ielen M. Nahra
176.26
1
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59.08
Esmail
acob G. Raphael
14.35
y Elias. tr
>hehadi Rassi
24.57
.-les Eissa
eorge K. Rassi
140.81
iseel' E. Fahney
alem Sahadi
4070.19
,fos. T. Farah, N. J.
t. Nicholas Y Mens Club • 9634 { Yasmeen M. Faris
' j Samara
amara Bros.
4743.64 • Marie F. G. Faour
\ Santon Bros. (W. Va.)
5293.02 , james Francesconi & Arthur
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^psgnsr 'aarnecKy
James Francescoftr
87.35
Mary Sayed
Jessie Faour (Amity St.)
216.74
Louis A. Secabe
D. J. Faour (Amity St.)
203.49
Charles Shaker
G. F. Faour (Amity St.)
533.72
Adele Shalhoub
Bashara & Aziz Fahad, N. J.
243.92
Kalil A. Shamas
Amelia F. Faour
34.19
Mike^ Shyab
Sadie G. Faour
34.78
Elias Sirgany
J. G. Fillard, Mex.
966.67
Jose Souky
J N. Faour
188.23
Ignatius Spiridon
Michael E. Francis
526.60
State Fire Retarding Co.
M. D. Francis (Syria)
17.91
Rev. M. Stephen
Helen M. Francis
368.97
A. L. Syriani
Mike F. Fayad
461.39
Teen
Realty
Corp.
IK
Abed E. Felat
202.41
saac jWiederhorn
Shafaha J. Farhat
259.60
Damascus Lodge Craftsmen
N. E.' Elgosian
572.63
ijjos. McGlynn
Fahda Gorra
Mrs. Eugenie Elgosen, N.H.
Geo. G. Giraud, nf
Rose- K. George
THRIFT ACCOUNTS
K. George
$402,503.15
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Alice Grayeb
16,081.61
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Alice Grayeb
Abdalla F. Gorra
$418,584.76
fotal
Afma Grayeb
Margaret Gorra
Mrs. Mary Geraigery
JL.>K. Azar (Ala.)
341.47
Marguerite J. Gorra
g/lias M. Allem (Tex)
5567.20
Peter Geraigery
Rev. N. Araktingi
2500.00
Toufik M. Haroon
K. S. Azarian
1259.21
M. M. Angelia
430.96
F. & M. A. Harrak, Conn.
Mrs. Y. M. Assaf
651.79
Wadeh Abo Hoya, Va.
Ketbe Akel
3052.50
K. H. Heraiz & Mary
Werdy M. Anyse
676.92
H. Abohassan & Hasseba
A R. Ahmad
1236.29
Tofick Habib
A Daher Abukair
646.78
Zinee M. Hauack
Helen K. Attia
500.00
Mary E. Hatem, nf.
Mrs. S. Akkoul, for son
441.31
Michael M. Hage
rs. S. Akkoul, for daughter
24.24
Wardi S. Haddad, Cranford
fJSxs. A. J. Abdou
647.73
Ayoub M. Haboush
Isaac J. Andary (Syria)
7459.32
Michael M. Haddad
'oufic K. Ajhas
181.83
Jsmeely B. Hanna
S. Allen
5087.50
Julia Harp, N.H.
alvina Abokair, for child
59.18
Helen Harp, N.H.
[Malvina Abokair, for son
14.42
Elizabeth R. Harp, N.H.
1 Michael A. Andrea
860.81
Theresa Harrak, Conn.
(Said J. Akel
1971.09
Salvado Haddad
Juliette Abood
194.76
Peter Herbo
Anthony M. Abraham
1552.95
James Wm. Haddad (Syria)
Kalil Akkoul
5087.50
Rifka Haddad (Syria)
Dr. H. Awad
1049.20
George Haddad
M
ENG
720.00
5592.41
2112.00
1722.63
3000.00
950.00
96.67
3500.00
6000.00
1345.88
584.38
15.12
4292.44
916.62
1272.22
1738.81
825.00
51.74
1662.23
3728.36
372.16
1004.21
350.00
59.98
867.68
838.67
111.81
6.50
290.72
936.72
4527.80
6366.52
1523.16
89.52 '
4061.69
120.01
2110.78
2094.29
50.83
1000.00
2306.59
3557.42
7052.17
207.04
40.21
4575.33
492.44
492.44
503.71
3053.37
380.14
376.42
47.60
24.88
917.50
46.82
2818.82
3.49
406.58
9.55
5701.48
663.55
5665.28
1398.61
467.67
2087.08
316.79
16.40
1000.00
126.69
426.67
151.88
120.00
30.00
1382.68
3358.52
908.45
833.24
4821.93
346.00
4031.08
206.95
104.10
1017.50
387.42:
2477.18
1135.30
88.72
58.70
34.72
111.54
65.76
944.49
511.29
55.05
54.00
J&cob J. Iltone
Elias Issa
Minnie R. Ismael
George T. Jabos
Jos. Jabbour, Pa.
Mrs. Nazire Jabbour, Pa.
Mrs. Jennie Jerro
Jos. D. Bo Jacob, Pa.
Salim L. Jalelaty
Betrus A. Kassees
Jamila H. Kaba
M. Ibn Khoury
Tanious G. Kassreen
George J. Kassar & Wife
Shafeke J. Khoury
Elias F. Kollasy, nf.
H. B. Kamma
Sarah Kawaji
B. Assad Karam
Regina L. Khouri
Simon M. Karkemmy
Joseph Karam
Barbara N. Kassouf
Ahmad A. Kalilk
350.07
279.77
102.77
2300.00
2842.48
667.32
612.25
10900.00
520.00
156.26
207.12
1200.00
4000.00
2000.00
4200.00
682.89
704.26
1073.88
234.23
968.59
45.88
285.07
27.52
1119.65
Thomas Karam
Mary S. Kirdahy, tr.
A. H. Kadrey, tr.
A. H. Kadrey, tr.
Geo. J. Kassar
Rev. J. A. Kirshy
Simon M. Karhemmy
Elias M. Karkehhy, tr.
Elias M. Karkehhy
Elias M. Karkehhy
Katbie Kassouf
2368.29
282.57
1000.00
1000.00
109.15
7014.72
205.14
21.22
15.96
42.48
161.72
Sam Kordey
Margaret Kassar
Abad E. Kamis
Elias A. Lahlooh
S. Z. Lahood
S. J. Lutfy
Mike T. Libbus
Mary S. Lutfy
Evelyn S. Lutfy, tr.
George Maseeh
Leonie Mazloom
Benjamin Mazloom
George N. ElMeer
1110.87
700.00
160.00
3620.40
11.7S
264.90
15.95
286.37
394.39
4310.45
1691.54
2383.52
5398.52
Kamel D. Mahfouz
S. J. Metri
K. Jos. Mansour
Salim Jos. Metri
Beheja Maloof
Bose Jos. Mahlouf
Evelyn Lutfy
Elias S. Melayes
Mary F. Maloof
Abraham Mansour
Faris Mallouf
Benjamin Mazloom
1021.381
703.97
3750.44
4250.00
500.00
1142.92
239.95
1897.56
14.01
118.56
20.19
. 6434.24
Katar S. Metri
S. A. Maroun
S. Jos. 'Metri
, 'ima Maloof
Hanna Abu Makkoul
Elias Manzur, Mex.
Nayef Mosleh, nf.
Abdalla Makla
Kalil M. Mualem
Bema & Faris Maloof
Jos. Malko j
Geo. F. Malouf
Louis F. Malouf
Hannah Melham
595.40
585.41
13184.68
300.00
3492.78
5002.91
2370.91
750.00
215.94
2500.00
1255.66
12.71
11.98
1522.50
Alma N. Nassef
Nimr F. Nimr & Wife
Sada Nasser
Kaser Nafil
Mike Nihra & Helen
Mike Nihra, tr.
Dalily Nasser
Ameen Nimy
Evelyn Nassif, tr.
Helen ,'N. Nahra
203.92
5269.30
2742.07
792.58
1355.78
174.35
1811.15
4937.50
37.80
3873.49
Rasheedie Nassif
Regina Nassif
Milia iJ*Jasomy
John Nader
Jos. Najjar
George Najjar
John Najjar
Helen Nader
Adele Najar
Sam Najar
Mary Nemer, tr.
Freda Nemer
42.67
928.81
338.58
288.72
3100.00
150.00
300.00
225.47
100.00
1044.41
10:08
702.44
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Est. M. Bo Rababy
75.00
Warder Reashy
16.37
Karija Rassi
2500.00
Shehadi Rassi
10.00
Mary Shehadi
603.32
Louis G. Radd, tr.
3.21
Shehadi Rassi
604.26
Sadie G. Radd
7.88
Sadie G. Rassi
1049.53
Cecilia Rouhana
978.36
Mary H. Radi
315.47
Nabiha E. Romey
228.00
Jos. C. Rouhana
44.14
Jos. Rizk
229.38
George K. Rossi
4689.35
Najib A. Skaff
808.18
Adele J. Sabbagh
3291.17
Sadie A. Soos
227.68
Ignatius Spiridon
449.66
Elias Sheehan /
599.98
Selim A. Stambouly
947.36
Mariam Sayed
7976.13
Abraham J. Sirgany
1050.00
Louis M. Romanos, Vt.
2643.88
Nasrallah Shamas \
2150.00
Mansura Shaker & Mrs. A.
Nasif
5254.60
Joe Shadi & Co.
589.98
Sam Sayed
43.22
Syrian Ladies Aid Soc.
5530.48
Barbara G. Sroor
303.50
Elias G. Sirgany
15973.70
Richard Simon
95.00
Akel Simon
21.84
Emily Nemr Schwirz
71.84
D. & John Saba
100.00
Jos. Souky
1088.04
Elias I. Samia
332.63
Merki Sassine, Pa.
4300.00
Nabiha Saad, tr.
92.60
Nabiha Saad, tr.
92.60
Mrs. H. Saikeli
2075.70
Michael Sroor
700.00
Allie Shehaibe
691.93
Gh. Sahadi
18.03 '
Tteitattb. Sake*
^rmg
Dimitry Summer
^5.10
Adele Shalhoub
43
Sada M. Simon
514.30
Zahra Shaker, tr.
41.03
Nabiha Saad, tr.
863.87
5.20
Fred N. Sahadi
Harry Shaker
30.4Q
Fred Sawaf
80.47
Shafih Shaker
40.10
Beshara Skley
210.00
Anthony Thomas
148.73
590.49
Est. Mollie Thomas
John Tinn
1726.25
Mary Thomas
49.03
Assad Yamin
3240.24
Mary J. Younes
146.62
Moses M. Zeide, tr.
2000.00
Eugene Zarounie
6000.00
CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT
Nasser John Lahood Andary,
Syria
$1045.00
Nasser John Lahood Andary,
Syria
Joudy Esmail
Joudy Esmail
Palestine Trading Co.
Palestine Trading Co.
Palestine Trading Co.
Joudy Esmail
1191.82
5580.08
1135.30
675.62
1576.52
900.00
9684.69
CLAIMS REJECTED
Rev. M. Stephen, pastor of Our
$4237.96
Lady of Lebanon Ch.
Rev. M. Stephen, pastor of Our
Lady of Lebanon Ch.
933.26
G. J. Faour
5853.81
2300.00
David & John Saba, Pa.
Chafaka J. Farhat, Pa.
6000.00
Elizabeth H. Dahood, Pa.
450.00
Gammal G. J. Daniel, Pa.
7000.00
Amelia D. Faour
6904.45
Joseph M. Bistany
456.31
Sadie G Faour
2700.00
Sadie G. Faour
100.00
Betrus A. Kasees
7877.18
Isaac Wiederhorn
1000.00
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L!XRIAN
WORL
D, NEW YORK, MAY 5, 1933.
MARRIAGE OF ARCHBISHOP
(Continued From Page 1)
widowers. According to the tradition of the Greek Orthodox church
they could not be elevated to the
episcopal office and still be' united
in matrimonial wedlock. Lately, the
Living Church in Russia, an organization said to be the creation of
the Bolshivists and in full accord
with their political and economic programs, announced itself against the
celibacy of the Greek Orthodox clergy.
Archbishop Kadrowsky, appointee of
the Living Church in Russia as supreme ecclestical authority on the
Russian Church in the United States
and so recognized by the government of New York State, is married
and has children. Lately the Supreme Court of New York decided on
the rightful possession of the Russian
cathedral on 97th Street, New York,
in his favor against his contenders
of the older organization.
Offeish Not a Bolshevik
a center of contention in the Syrian
Greek Orthodox church in this country. Immediately after his elevation
a break in that church took place
dividing its adherents into "Russians"
and "Antiochians." The former adhered to the Russian ecclesiatical
authority which was influential in
founding the Syrian Greek Orthodox
church here, and the others demanded a return to the Antiochian
see in Damascus. A few years ago
Archbishop Aftimios, with the encouragement of the non-Bolshevik
Russian church authorities in this
country, it is said, announced the
organization of an independent Greek
Orthodox Church which will be wholly American and will have nothing
to do with the seats of authority in
the Old World. A number of Syrians followed him at first, then seceded. And only a year ago he was
involved in litigation with his own
parishioners over the legal possession
of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 345 State Street, Brooklyn, the
Supreme Court of Brooklyn deciding
in favor of the parish. Thereupon
Archbishop Aftimios resigned and
little has been heard about him since
until this last sensational news
brought his name once more into the
newspapers.
But Archbishop Aftimios Offeish,
the newly wed Syrian archbishop,
has never claimed allegiance to the
Living Church; has been known to
oppose the Bolshevik organization
and comes from a country wellknown for its strict adherence to
the traditions of the Greek Orthodox
church. As far as we know, he is
the first Greek Orthodox ecclesiast
Whether the marriage of Archof the higher orders who was marbishop Aftimios will have the effect
ried in his clerical robes.
expected in some circles is problemThe Syrian community of New
atical. But some insist that it will
York and Brooklyn are sharply diprecipitate the discussion of this serivided on this historic innovation.
ous problem by the Greek Orthodox
But it was rather a great surprise
church authorities in Syria and other
tc hear from so many Greek Orthplaces.
This remains to be seen.
odox Syrians their hearty approval
of the archbishop's act. The Greek
Orthodox tradition prescribes that
Uie :
"
" --. must be married,
and
-pporters of Archbishop
Aftimios in this controversy which
his marriage has raised argue that
there should be no .reason why bishops, archbishops and patriarchs
should not do likewise. Especially
Father Boris Borden, Archbiin these days when celibacy is no
shop's
Secretary, Calls a Church
more the "bon ideal" of virtue; when
Conference to Discuss
the clergy of all orders mingle
freely with the families of their comOffeish Aftermath
municants. One of them expressed
it tersely when he said, "A married
clergy is much preferable to a disThe aftermath of the archbishop's
solute one .which professes celibacy."
marriage has created a tense situation no less embarrassing than the
Archbishop Hasty
marriage itself. What shall be done
But those who disapprove of
about the archbishop himself, and who
Archbishop Aftimios' sensational marshall pass judgement on his present
riage stress the point that even if
ecclesiastical status?
such a step were not a breach of a
On the following Wednesday of
fundamental dogma of the church,
the eventful nuptials (or shall we
the archbishop should have awaited
call it ceremony?), the Niagara Falls
the pronouncement of an ecumenical
Gazette carried a continuation story
council of the Greek Orthodox
dealing with this crucial problem.
Church on this subject. Otherwise he
"Clergymen of the Syrian Orthmust be considered as a schismatic,
odox Catholic Church," wrote the
if not a heretic.
Gazette, "and lay leaders of the deWe were told that some of the
nomination in Western New York toGreek Orthodox Syrians in Niagara
day are awaiting word from three
Falls, hearing of the rumor that their
bishops who are members of the Holy
archbishop was contemplating marSynod of the church in North Amerriage, gathered in the home of Tewica relative to a conference of the
fik Shaheen, the archbishop's host
bishops to be held to discuss the reand one of his two witnesses at the
cent marriage."
marriage ceremony, and tried to disA previous copy of a telegram
uade him from this grave step. They
sent by Father Boris Borden, secreasked him if the rumor was true and
tary of Archbishop Offeish and of
he did not deny it. And when they
the Holy Synod, which was received
expressed their surprise and asked
at the office of Al-Hoda, informs oi'
him for the reasons which prompted
this intention.
The telegram, adhis unusual decision, it is reported
dressed to Rev. Abdalla Khoury oft
that he was angry with them, calling
Brooklyn and congregation, confirms
their remonstration with him "unthe marriage, adding "this action
canonical," and adding that he had
canonically incapacitates the Orthomade up his mind to marry the girl
dox Bishop."
whom God inspired him to take to
"His sanity," says the telegram
wife. He quoted from the Epistle of
referring to Archbishop Offeish, "is
St. Paul to the Corinthians to prove
doubted." Father Boris calls the Syrthat the bishop should be a married- ian clergy to a meeting at Niagara
man.
Falls for May 6-8, to discuss the fuOffeish Has Stormy Past
ture church and authority of clergy.
Archbishop Aftimios Offeish,
Three bishops are called upon to come
since his ordination in 1917, has been
or authorize proxies.
BISHOPS MEET TO
JUDGE OFFEISH
The three bishops who, with
Archbishop Aftimios comprise the
Holy Synod of the Independent
Church, are expected to determine at
the conference the archbishop's status
in the church.
They are, Bishop
Sophranios Bishara of Los Angeled,
Bishop Zuk of the Ukraniar. Orthodox Church of America and Bishop
Ignatius Nicholas, bishop of Washington D. C, who is said to be one
of the editors of the World-Telegram of New York. The first of these
is a Syrian.
It was reported on good authority that Father Boris visited the married archbishop in his retreat at a
farm in Lewiston, N. Y., carrying
wth him a copy of a resignation
which it was expected the archbi-
SYRIANS A SUCCESS
IN PORTO-RICO
First 5 and 10 Cents Store Opened
by Philip El-Koury; Another
Attains Success as Political
Leader
By Anuor Azizi
(Special Correspondent)
When the great tide of migrat
was moving to the Americas from
motherland thousands of Leba'
flooded the United States; others v
to South America in search of f
tune, but only a few stopped in F
/Rico, for the majority of t
thought this small island to be p
and unproductive.
They were bs
ly mistaken. We have many ex
amples of Syrians who have triumphed in "the garden of the Americas" as Theodore Roosevelt used to
call Porto Rico.
Founds sT ana iu Cents Store
One of them is Philip El-Koury.
After arriving here he bent great
efforts to establish a store in San
Juan which he named "La Esperanza"
(Hope). In time this store became
prosperous and a strong branch of
the commerce of the capital. Later
on, Mr. El Koury opened a 5 and 10
cent store. It was the first of its
kind on the island; people thronged
to it. Mr. El Koury is now one of
the most distinguished merchants of
the island.
Not only in commerce have our
countrymen distinguished themselves,
but also in politics. Joseph Nine, a
resident of Mayagues, is a Republican leader of great influence in the
district.
He is the supervisor of
schools in that city and his wife is
principal of a school( there.
His
opinions carry great weight in politics.
The younger generation is waking up. There are representatives of
our youth in the Nationalist Party,
the only political organization that
fights for the complete independence
of Porto Rico. The president of this
party, Senor Pedro Albizu Campos,
once said, "Hopes of freeing my
poor country could depend upon you,
Syrians and Lebanese. Your aid in
our cause would be a decisive step
toward liberty. It is a pity you do
not know well the Spanish language,
*or you could translate all your*
oriental philosophy to our people
in our meetings and gatherings, which;
would be a great medicine for their
spiritual sufferings."
i Leader Praises Gibran
Senor Campos is a great admiren
of the Orient. Once I gave him
three books of Kahlil Gibran. His
delight was expresed in these words:
"I am a Doctor of Philosophy, graduated from Harvard, and in my life
I haven't read a book that compares with Gibran's in philosophic
acumen and beauty of expression.
Indeed he is the most profound
philosopher of our days."
shop would sign. He declined to
sign it, however, declaring that it
was up to the bishops to decide what
disposition was to be made of his
case.
M. S. Bishara, president of the
St. George's church congregation of
Niagara Falls, said that he expects
the conference to be held at that
city before Sunday, May 7, so that
the bishops will have the opportunity to confer with Archbishop Aftimios if they so desire. A statement
that three-quarters of the congregation at Niagara Falls were in sympathy with the archbishop was discredited by Ray S. Bishara, who
doubted if one per cent was in such
sympathy.
MAR01
OFF
(Editor—Our correspondent, Mr.
Azizi, is himself an example of the
progressive Syrians and Lebanese
youth of Porto Rico, having been for
three years president of the Patriotic.
Association of Porto, Rican youth, a
branch of the Porto Rican Nationalist
Party. He is also a journalist and a
cartoonist.)
FOLLOWI
ARC1
J
The 1
vest, of wf
cese of Be
bishop has
I > olitics an<
ption not
nts abrc
DAMASCENE DOES
A MACSWEENEY!
.an Patriot Goes on Hunger
Strike > >i Syria Attains Her
Political Demands
A nation's struggle for libertj
jrings out its latent heroism, its poential powers for self-sacrifice and
iltruism. It also brings out a lot of
jvhat must be definitely classed as
erratic foolishness, sensational selfidvertisement and freakish conduct.
!
The reader may remember when
all newspapers of this country and
^e world over featured the ease of
the Irish patriot Macsweeney, the
Mayor of Cork, who fasted himself
to death rather than submit to an,
indictment against him by the British
authorities.
And now we have our Syrian;
Macsweeney, a fellow by the name
of Ismail- al-Buqaii of Damascus, who
was arrested for some political offense
and, until he has changed his mind
or has been pardoned by the authorities of Syria, his emaciated body
should have long ago been sacrificed
on the altar of his mistaken enthusiasm.
<4
One can understand such conduct and conceivably justify it when
it comes from a Macsweeney or a
Gandhi, a recognized leader whose
act of self-emmolation may have
the compensatory value of advertising the cause of his country; but
what justification has a misguided,
poor individual whose futile gesture *
of self-destruction will be forgotten
shortly after he passes away?
His broa<
it of the
ast day of
as the ope
aign. The
fierceness
'"jted i
J\
I French High
tended the ti
at which A
ficiated at St.
sdral in Bei
traditional ci
he Archbish(
espects.
\
This actio
J in§ the adhe
their traditio:
Maronites, bi
a Maronite p
\ heap criticisn
Archbisho
picking u]
^enge thus op
fimmediately
public appeal
and refrain
taxes. It wa
espousal of tr
sistance. The
ately on tipti
of the duel.
>4
Malcontei
The Man
sponded to
joined by a 1
malcontents, -\
been wooing
bishop. But
long continue,
I Maronite Patr
j interest of ui
( Shortly after,
mg the Fren
called on Arcl
him personal
lanation the
Tench official
vas previously
tpresentative
j-since no perse
for the archb
happily closed
The Consi
most cherishi
France to the
and has been
of the crusadi
Son Born to Madys
An 8-pound baby boy was born
to Mr. and Mrs. Elia D. Mady Monday, May 1. He is their third child,
Mr. Mady is tile publisher of AsSameer, a /bi-monthly Arabic magazine.
Dies After Long Illness
John Karam, 37, died Thursday
night after a long illness. Services
were held Saturday in Our Lady of
Lebanon Church, Brooklyn, at 2:00pm.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs.
Miriam Karam, his wife, Jeanette,
and a son, Joseph.
The Book Club will meet on
Friday, May 5th in the apartment of
E J. Audi, 200 West 16th Street,
New York City.
Habib I. Katibah, president of the
club who returned from Florida last
week, will review Pfof. William Ernest Hocking's book] "The Spirit of
Modern Politics."
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The Syrian World
PUBLISHED WEEKLY —ESTABLISHED 1926.
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/ VOL. VII NO. 2
NEW YORK, MAY 12, 1933.
Single Copy 7 Cents.
ynod Sanctions Archbishop's Marriage
MARONITE BISHOP LEADS MOVEMENT
OF PASSIVE RESISTANCE IN LEBANON
ROYAL COUPLE IN SYRIA
King Albert and Consort Visit Lebanon and Baalbeck
«
FOLLOWING SLIGHT AT TRADITIONAL CONSULAR MASS,
ARCHBISHOP MOBARAK OF BEIRUT CALLS FOR
BOYCOTT OF FRENCH AND NON-PAYMENT OF TAXES
\
The little Republic of Lebanon is seething with political un• rest, of which Archbishop Ignatius Mobarak of the Maronite diocese of Beirut seems to be the storm petrel. The crusading archbishop has already plunged, frock and all, in the maelstorm of
politics and succeeded in monopolizing the spotlight of public atption not only in Lebanon itself but in Syria and among the emints abroad.
His broadside attack on the Presit of the republic delivered on the
ast day of St. Maron, February 9,
as the opening signal of his camajgn. The battle continued to grow
fierceness and intensity until it
"jted in an open breach be•o jhbishop and the man. Josies on Easter Monday,
^,„fe
presentatives of the
.—\
French High Commissioner who at^
tended the traditional Consular Mass
at which Archbishop Mobarak officiated at St. George's Maronite cathedral in Beirut, departed from the
traditional custom of later visiting
he Archbishop to pay their personal
espects.
This action was intended as proving the adherence of the French to
their traditional friendship with the
Maronites, but refusing to recognize
a Maronite prelate who continued to
Sheap criticism .On their policies.
A
Archbishop Mobarak was not slow
I Jin picking up the gauntlet of chal( Jlenge thus openly hurled at him. He
') /immediately retaliated by issuing q
. t public appeal to boycott the French
) /and refrain from the payment of
\ /taxes. It was on his part an open
I espousal of the policy of passive re/ sistance. The country was immediJ ately on tiptoes awaiting the result
j of the duel.
i
!»A
Malcontents Support Bishop
I.
> The Maronites immediately re• sponded to the appeal and were
./, joined by a large faction of Moslem
malcontents, who for some time had
been wooing the favor of the archbishop. But this condition could not
long continue, and His Beatitude the
Maronite Patriarch intervened in the
interest of understanding and peace.
, Shortly after, a delegation representing the French High Commissioner
called on Archbishop Mobarak to pay
him personal respects with the exlanation that the action of the
rendi officials at the Consular Mass
- yas previously agreed upon with the
/ -presentative of the Patriarch. And
j ^mce no personal slight was intended
for the archbishop, the incident was
happily closed.
The Consular Mass is one of the
most cherished traditions binding
France .to the Christians of the East
and has been in effect since the times
of the crusades.
V
ENGLISH LADY
JOINS ISLAM
And Makes Pilgrimage to Mecca
Like All Other Good
Moslems
Hajji Evelyn Cobbold!
How does that sound to fcrou? It
may not be as euphonic as Hajji Fatima al-Khidr or Hajji Aiyisha Darwish, but that is the name of our
new Hajji and we have to stick to it.
So Hajji Evelyn Cobbold it is,
and the Associated Press enlightens
us that she is the first English woman to attain this Moslem title, having visited the Ka'ba in Mecca and
the Tomb of the Prophet in Medina.
Clad in nothing but a white linen
sheet and in a state of purification,
the lady pilgrim circumambulated the
Black Stone in Mecca, coursed between Safa and Marwa, drank from
the sacred well of Zamzam, shouted
"Allah-u-Akbar!" (God is great) and
"Lubbeik! LubbeikJ" (Lo here I am!
Lo here I am!) as all good Moslems,
dark and fair, men and women and
children have to do in the annual
pilgrimage to the sacred spot marking the black stone which tradition
says was dropped from heaven by
Gabriel, and which Abraham set up
as an altar when Ishmael and his
mother Haggar were cast out by
Sarah.
English Notables, Moslems
The caravan of English -men and
wcmen who embraced Islam and
have been accepted in the fold of
the faithful already contains some
notable names. Lady Evelyn herself
is sister of the Earl of Dunmore,
Lord-in-Waiting to the King, who
has been a Moslem many years.
Another Moslem peer is Lord Hedley.
Mohammed Marmaduke PickthaL a;
protege of the Nizam of Haidarabad,
is an Englishman of letters. A recent translation of his of the Qoran,
published by Alfred Knopf, caused
a flutter of excitement in Cairo three
The Press Bureau of the Lebanon
Government announced recently that
His Majesty King Albert and his
royal consort of Belgium, traveling
incognito, paid a hasty visit to the
Cedars of Lebanon, Beit Mirry and
other places of interest in Lebanon,
walking back to Beirut part of the
way.
A wing of the Pine Palace, the
residence of the French High Commissioner, M. Ponsot, in Beirut was
set aside for their majesties, where
President Charles Dabbas paid them a
visit shortly after they landed in
Beirut. King Albert, accompanied by
the High Commissioner and the Belgian consul general, made a return
visit. *
Among the places of interest
visited by their majesties were the
ruins of Baalbeck.
LEBANESE ARE
ONE MiLLION
Emigrants Placed at 200,000—
Foreign Residents
62,000
The ministry of the interior of
the Lebanon Republic has disbanded
350 census-takers and clerks who
will now return to the growing ranks
of the unemployed in that little dominion.
The official announcement of the
census, it was revealed, shows a population of one million citizens, who
registered their names in Lebanon itself and abroad. 200,000 of this number are Lebanese citizens resident
abroad, and 62,000 are classed as
"foreigners" of various nationalities.
MONKS INVADE
PATRIARCHATE
What authorities called a burst
of Bolshevism, said the Associated
Press in one of its dispatches from
Istanbul (Constantinople), shattered
the ancient calm of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate on the Golden
Horn, overlooking the historic Basphorus.
Five monks who insisted that they
be given the right to participate in
the discussions of the Synod, like
the bishops and archbishops, broke
into the meeting and caused temporary disorder.
years ago. And we must not forget
Hajj Abdullah Philby, former British
High Commissioner of Trans-Jordania
and modern authority on Arabia!
Perhaps you know of other names,
but now we must do jthe right thing
and tell Lady Evilyn Cobbold,
"Mbarak hajjik ya sitl!" (Blessed be
your pilgrimage, my lady!)
MARRIED PRELATE WIRES
HE HAS NOT RESIGNED.
Two Bishops Confirm Hjm Head
of Church—Father Boris
Thrown Out, for Cause!
Having rescinded a former act in
which it had accepted the resignation of Archbishop Aftimios Ofeish,
the Synod of the Holy Apostolic Orthodox Church (Independent), comprising Rt. Rev. Joseph A. Zuk, Bishop of New York, and Rt. Rev. Ignatius W. A. Nichols, Bishop of
Washington, D.C., met again last
Tuesday at the home of the former
in Carteret, N. J., and affirmed the
headship of the marrying archbishop.
They "begged him to retain full dignity and authority."
God Bless You Both!
Not satisfied to imply their approval of the archbishop's marriage
in their reassertion of allegiance to
their supreme head in the United i,
States, thelwo'8^ 7,n *V in .e ab^v
sence of Bishop Sophronius Bishara
of Los Angeles, and declaring themselves a legal quorum, left no doubt
in their stand on this crucial issue.
In their message to Archbishop Aftimios, who has taken his headquarters
for the present in Hotel Hayward,
Rochester, N. Y., they declare: "We
both stick to you. Wind will winnow
chaff. Out of your brave act Orthodoxy will begin new life in America.
God bless you both."
The purport of this message and
other developments which have taken place since Archbishop Ofeish came
out openly in defense of his unprecedent act, were given in an exclusive interview to a representative of
Al-Hoda and th Syrian World by
Bishop Ignatius.
Bishop Ignatius, to the surprise of
many, turned out to be the religious
editor of the powerful WTorld-Telegram of New York. The office boy
who took in the name of the Syrian
World representative knew of no
Bishop Ignatius, but Dr. Nichols was
no stranger to him.
Deposed and Confirmed
In a previous gathering of the
Synod, held a week before also at
Carteret, N. J., the two bishops took
the position that the marriage of Archbishop Aftimios Ofeish automatically
deposes him as head of the Independent Orthodox Church. Referring to
the archbishop in a memorandum of
the minutes, they say: "
having
contracted a marriage on date of
April 29, 1933, has resigned the offices held by him in the Synod aforesaid, and as said Synod is thereby
without any official head" etc. etc.
What happened between that
meeting and the one following to
make the two bishops change their
attitude so radically must remain a
mystery. Although, even at the former meeting and while "accepting"
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tht resignation of His Eminence Archbishop Ofeish, the Synod convening
make no censure of his marriage as
such. On the contrary they congratulate him and declare themselves unequivocably in favor of
abolishing celibacy in their independent church for the clergy and bishops alike. This is what they have
to say on this subject:
MARRIED ARjCHBISHOP AND HIS BRIDE
Boris Removed for Cause
"Inasmuch as it is merely a canon,
of the European and Asiatic branches
of the Holy Eastern Orthodox Church
that a bishop shall not be married,
such has no valid weight on the
American Church where conditions
are diametrically opposite, and where,
there being no regularly constituted
and conducted monasteries where bishops may be chosen, as is the case
in the old countries, many of the
best priests here are precluded from
the Episcopate by being married.
"Therefore the Holy North American Synod, now in session, congratulates His Eminence on the moral
courage in the step he has taken and
promises to recommend to authorized
representatives of the Holy Orthodox
Apostolic Church in North America,
that the old country canon be abrogated for their country."
In his interview, Bishop Ignatius
made it clear that he and his
colleague, Bishop Joseph Zuk, were
under a mistaken impression that
Archbishop Aftimios had resigned of
his own accord. He then pointed out
to a telegram received by the two bishops before their latest meeting. The
telegram read:
"Synod meeting not called by me.
Have no intention of resigning. Episcopate received canonically from God.
Burdin's disloyal acts sever him from
»lo.lyery office, monk, priest and secretry^in church. My marriage is pubTic message jtior rnrisu'anity to be"
followed by Christians or denounced
by those rejecting Apostle Paul."
(Signed: Archbishop Aftimios.)
One definite result of this ecclesiastical embroglio is (the complete severance of Father Boris Burdin, former secretary of Archbishop
Aftimios and of the Independent Synod, from any and all communication and association with the Independent Orthodox Church. It was hinted
darkly that he was removed for cause.
What cause? We were not officially
told.
TOURNAMENT TAKES
PLACE NEXT WEEK
The fourth annual Soring Handicap Tournament of the Syramar Golf,
Club will be held on Saturday andi
Sunday of next week, May 20 and
21, at the Wolf Hollow Country Club,
Delaware Water Gap, Pa.
Most of the members and guests
are expected to arrive at the Reenleigh Hotel on Friday night. The
Flights and pairings will be based
upon eighteen holes, qualifying round
to be played Saturday morning. The
eliminations, semi'and final matches
will be played Saturday afternoon
and Sunday morning. There will be
three attractive prizes for each flight
of eight, one for the winner, one for
the runner7ug and one for the winner of the beaten four. Prizes will
also be awarded for the low gross
and low net scores. Henry Hadad is
chairman in charge of arrangements
and^ Dave Malhame is vice-chairman.
Assisting them are George A. Ferris,
Wadieh Beder, George Tadross and
Phil Ldan.
TTSbZ timi* °tehh' ^ ** fU" -^^I regalia, officiating
ai a baptismal after his marriage. His bride is by his side.
MARRIED ARCHBISHOP DEFIANTREPUDIATES CHURCH CANONS
SENSATIONAL MARRIAGE OF SYRIAN ARCHBISHOP SUBJECT OF HEATED CONTROVERSY—ARCHBISHOP
PERFORMING RELIGIOUS FUNCTIONS
the n?w!PCr 7d ^ "^
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WlvH^TnCa (Injdependent)> **».-• -y placidly and deWly. He has caused a stir of far-reaching consequences and he is
fully aware of ,t
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Before the surprise of his marriage wore off sufficiently to allow
ccol deliberation by the thousands of
Syrians and others who followed its
accounts with vivid interest, the newly-wed archbishop sprang another
surprise. In the home of Najm Aswad, editor of a gelatine-printed
. newspaper in Niagara Falls, the archbishop officiated at the baptisimal of
the host's young son, Charles., Rashid
K. Bishara, local merchant, acted as
god-father, and the archbishop's bride
Marion Nimey, as god-mother, as the
picture, taken at the ceremony and
printed elsewhere in this issue,
shows.
Archbishop Aftimios' stand on his
own marriage and his ecclesiatical
status has not changed, rather it has
become more pronounced and defined than ever.
Thus to a question put by a repcrter-"Do you believe that the
canons of the church are wrong in
instructing priests to lead a celibate
«"' he iS rePorted to have replied:
"There are two churches, one that
is man-made with man-made laws.
It is corrupt, false and misleading.
It denies the will of the living God
that reveals itself to the heart of man.
It makes slaves and bond-servants of
those who choose to obey it.
Recognizes Only Church
of Jesus Christ
"There is another church, the only one for me, for it is the church of
Jesus Christ, imbued with his spirit,
attention to the word and will of
God. That is the only church I
recognize, and the only laws I re-
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to
face
the
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cognize are these that come to me
through revelations. It was the will
of God that I marry this woman, and
it is only the will of God that I
obey."
Pressed further on his attitude to
celibacy for the clergy, the archbishop replied:
"The Bible says it is not good
for man to live alone. It is a cruel
and wicked thing for the church to
take young boys and shut them away
from natural instincts, teaching them
that they must not marry. It leads
tc vicious practices.
"And yet, I do not say that all
men should marry, for there are men
who are chosen from their mothers'
wombs to take no other bride than
God's church. But only those should
cleave to celibacy. If a man knows
it is God's will to take a woman, he
is a slave to the man-made laws
if he does not obey the higher command."
In another /report he is represented as making light of this particular church canon enjoining celibacy on bishops.
"It is true there is a canon in
our church instructing bishops not to
marry", he is quoted, "but it is not
one of the fundamentals of our
faith. Celibacy was undertaken about
the fifth century only because it was
believed that domestic duties might
interfere with ecclesiastical duties.
Why should I be the slave of this
antiquated, man-made law, 1500 years
old and suited to an ancient day,
when God revealed to me that I
should marry?"
Advocates Quote Bible
i
Naturally enough, advocate?'
marriage for the bishops who /
already expressed themselvertj
sympathy with Archbishop Aii..,_
innovation follow the same line
reasoning which the archbishop hi
sen has taken in his own defense
Asad Milkie, a staff wri'.lfAl-Hoda and a distV r^anduct.
Orthodox layman, puh-g,
tion squarely to the co
.^JMerarahy... "from the. *h ifi nw .L«JHI iif..
rnd makes the issue as pointed as
it is embarrassing. He admits readily that Archbishop Aftimios violated
the church canon, a product of the
councils, but asks, "have the councils right to promulgate canons which
are in violation of the fundamental
law of religion as revealed in the
Holy Bible?" The Bible, which Mr.
Milkie quotes in support of.his own.
views, is quite specific on this point,
he declares. In this vein another
champion of the marrying archbishop defends his conduct. This time
it is a Protestant leader, the Rev
Dr. K. A. Bishara, pastor of the Syr
ian Protestant church in Brooklyn.
Regret Marriage Circumstances
Both, however, find in the peculiar circumstances of this historic
marriage ground for regret and criticism, the former because the archbishop's declarations came after hislta*
own marriage, which robs them of
their effectiveness and makes them
a kind of afiter-thought justification
of his act, | the latter because the
archbishop t^ok unto himself such a
young bride;, whereas a middleaged one w'.ould have been more
proper.
The matter, it seems, has by no
means ended .'here; On the contrary
it seems to heive only begun.
Father Bori s Burden, who earlier in the controversy called a conclave of the throe bishops of the Independent churc'n to discuss Arch
bishop Aftimios' ,'marriage, now lea
a movement to de'! pose him. But it
rumored that he lacks the backii
of the same three bishops who k
said to have resen ted Father Bo.
unwarranted assumrTition of author!
in this matter.
And so it goes. C The ripple which
Archbishop AftinuoXb Ofeish caused
by his sensational J/narriage keeps on
in its everwidening tj circles.
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THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, MAY 12, 1933.
^ RAIN THEN MOON IRAQITE SCOUTS
VISIT EGYPT
ATTEND DANCE
New
President
Installed;
Dr.
Deen Speaks; Novelty
120 Leaders and Newspapermen
Welcome Iraqite Youths Who
Visit Egypt and Entertain
Them in the Cairo Zoo
Dances Held
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The sailing started out to be
rough on the night of the embarkment of the Syrian Junior League.
The Marine Roof of the Bossert Hotel,
Brooklyn, was the scene of the dinner-dance last Saturday night. There
was rain in the beginning of the sail
but it let up about eleven o'clock
* and the moon came out and so the
passengers were able to enjoy the
beautiful vista for miles around from
the famed terrace of the Roof.
There was much gaiety due to the
novelty dances that were conducted.
The moving Picture Stars dance
caused much hilarity, and then there
was a lively Paul Jones. The prize
for a Lucky Number Dance was won
by Miss Antoinette Debold.
• Dr. R. T. Deen was the speaker
for the evening. At the speaker's
table were the Misses Selma Milkie,
former president, Helen Naufal, newly elected president who was installed that evening, Adele Macsoud,
former president and Rose Teen,
chairman of the arrangement committee. Also Mr. Beaver, Gregory
Anderson, and Monroe Naufal.
Among Those Present
Among those who attended were
Mr. and Mrs. John Jerro, Jeanette
Jerro, Madeleine Zaloom, Mr. and
» Mrs. Joseph Gassoun, Mr. and Mrs.
George Saliba, Naiib Kassab. Marie
; Kassab, Sally, Louise and Olga Mussawir, Fred Mussawir, Souhail Herxnos, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Barsa,
Miss Lily Mudarri, Nicholas Macsoud,
Richard Macsoud, Najla Macsoud,
Mr. and Mrs. John Macsoud, George
and Mary "Milkie, Mr. and Mrs. Mike
Teen, Mr. and Mrs. Abouarab, George
Abouarab, Joe, Cater, Elias Sayour,
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hadad, Mr. and
Mrs. Mitchel Haddad, Lily Haddad,
Mitri and Fred Abdelnour, Mr. and
Mrs. M. Howie, Marie Baclini, Lillian Jebaily, Dr. Arthur Allen, Edwin Cronin, Selwa Keamy, Wadie McKaba, Matilda Daher, Alex Howawine,
Gladys, Najla and George Marrash,
Elias Hatem, Joseph Ganim, Frank
Saker, Emily and Ray Halaby, Nedda Uniss, Richard Kahil, Mr. and
Mrs. George Balish, Mr. and Mrs.
George Mabarak, Wadie Kadrey,
Richard Malhame, Rose Haddad, Emil
Haddad, Helen Awad, Nellie and
Eddie Merhige, Alice and George
Makla, Joseph Klam, Alice and William Shohfi, Evelyn and Violet Zrike,
Fred and Alfred Zrike, Edith Khoury,
and Eddie Saydah.
A band of brave Iraqites, descendants of the old Babylonians and
their Arab conquerors, crossed the
Syrian Desert, descended by the
shore of the Mediterranean across
Syria, Palestine and the Sinaific Peninsula and landed in the fertile,
Nile-forked plains of Egypt.
But this invasion was not like
any their ancestors were wont to
make, bringing terror into the hearts
of the enemy and leaving behind them
a trail of blood, ruins and desolation.
The little army was one of brighteyed, clean-cut ambitious boys full of
pep and high spirits. From their
outward dress and appearance they
.could be spotted everywhere they
went, just as they would be anywhere
in Europe or the United States, for
they belong to that world confederacy
of youth known as the Boy Scouts.
And what a welcome they got
from the Egyptians! It would have
made the old bones of a Ramases or
an Amenhotep turn in protest intheir graves, to see so much ado
made of those modern Babylonians!
Scouts at Tea Party
An Arabic newspaper published in,
Palestine devotes quite a space to
this peaceful invasion. The Iraqite
scouts were tendered a big tea party,
attended by no less than 120 Egyptian
notables and newspapermen.
And
to make the party fit the occasion
and cive it the scpi'tvatmnsnK^e it
was held in the Egyptian Zoological
Gardens in al-Giza, only a few miles
distant from the Pyramids and the
Sphinx. No boy scout with even
a pinch of romance and the v-.nderlust wouldn't envy those Arab boy
scouts from the banks of the Two
Rivers.
Among the speakers who addressed
the Iraqie boys were Dr. AbdulRahman Shahbandar, the Syrian nationalist leader, Abdul-Aziz al-Tha'alibi, Tunisian pan-Arab leader, Dr.
Ahmed Qadri, Iraqite Consul General
in Cairo, and many others.
The
Egyptian boy scouts were there with
feathers on, ready to show their
Iraqite guests how hospitable the
Egyptians could be. And so were
the elder boys of the Egyptian National University, who were represented by Mohammed Sabih. In his
address he charged them that, "the
aspirations of the East are a trust
with its youth."
Pleasantries Exchanged
The Iraqite scouts shouted for
the long life of the Egyptian king
rnd nation; and :he Egyptian scouts
responded by shouting for the long
life of the King of Iraq and the
Iraqite nation.
Before leaving Egypt, the Iraqite
scouts visited the famous sights of
Cairo, the Azharite Mosque, the
Mosque of Ibn Tulun and other
places of interest.
The scouts of the Saidiyyah
School invited their Iraqite friends
to a night reception at the school,
which was lighted with torches to
heighten the romantic effect. Hamed
Pasha al-Basil, wealthy Egyptian;
leader, also had them for dinner.
All in all the Iraqite boys had
a good time of it in Egypt!
It is a good, augury for a common union between Arabic-speaking
countries of the East.
WONDER CHILD
AT JIG-SAWS
Faiz Shaheen, 3V2-year-old son of
Richn ond
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puzzle* that had him girls who |
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wonder of the tc or for tiichmond.
The Richmond Trnila-JJispatch published a 1? -. picture of Faiz showing him working at the puzzle.
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Music for dancing was provided
in another room. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Mike Teen,
Mr. and Mrs. George McKaba, Mr.
and Mrs. N. B. Matta, Mr. and Mrs.
X Edward Teen, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Barsa, the 5Sases Alice and Wisteen,
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STUDENTS HOLD
DEMONSTRATION
Resent Action of French Railway Company Which Rules
Out the Turkish Language
in Its Office
A lesson in patriotism and national self-respect was given out to
the world, particularly to the countries of the Near East, by students
of Dar-al-Funoon, the Turkish National University, in Constantinople.
Following what a student of that
university considered an insult to
Turkish nationalism and the Turkish
language, students of Dar-al-Funoon,
gathered in a huge demonstration
demanding an apology.
The story goes that this student
went to the office of a French railway in Gadata to buy a pullman
ticket to Adrianople.
A Turkish
agent of the company told him that
all reservations were taken, and that
he could try somewhere else for a
ticket. There was some give and
take between the student and the
agnt, who, being both Turks, naturally carried their conversation in
Turkish.
A high French officer,
hearing this conversation, remonstrated
with the agent, in the presence of the
student, that the company is a French/
one, and that he is not supposed to
speak but French in the course of
his transactions with the customers.
The student, feeling insulted, left in a
huff and refused to buy a ticket.
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PAGE THREE
The next day the students of the
Turkish university held a mass meeting and discussed the matter. They
appointed a cc"!omittee to interview
ahOiu^S~1lbi.~s!Iiit. --* a*"*= Vaa«w«J
was met with a sharp- rebuff, being
told by the manager that the company was a French one, and nobody
could force him to transact its dealings in a foreign language.
Paying no heed to othing words
of their school authorit .*, 5000 Turkish students from the university
and the various high schools of the
city, marched in force to Galata,
shouting for the Turkish language
and the Turkish nation.
Pitching themselves in front of
the railway office, the students demanded an apology from the French
manager. A spokesman stood up and
delivered a fiery speech, saying:
"Turkey is not a colony for those
people who come to our country to
five on our wealth. We do not seek
to molest them, but we ask of them
to respect our language and our nationality. He who wishes to five
in our country should bow the head
ir. respect to us, or else let him depart from our land."
Students Charge
This was received with shouts
of approval, which was followed by
a barrage of stones on the show window of the office. Somebody shouted,
"Charge!", and in a moment doors
were battered down, and the flood of
angered students rushed in, demolishing desks, chairs nad fu-niture.
Not satisfied they went to branch
offices of the company in Shirkaje,
Kerakeuy and Beg Uglu and repeated their destructive attack.
They were only stopped when a
force of 300 policemen arrived and
drove them away from the occupied
offices by turning on them water
hoses.
They refused to disperse,
-however, until the Turkish chief of
police, Fahmi Bey, assured them that
he would take up the matter with the
head of the French company and
settle the matter to the s. Cents'
satisfaction.
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MOTHER
By Presidential proclamation
tomorrow, May 1 4, is designated
Mothers' Day. A loftier sentiment than honoring one's mother could scarcely be found. Ther
day should be observed with a
religious devotion to the sacred
motive prompting its institution.
The word "mother" is farreaching in its meaning. It signi<fies creativeness in the broadest
sense.
It also symbolizes the
tender solicitude, the unselfish
devotion,
the
whole-hearted
love, of which only a mother
can be capable^The preroga-
**T;
e£ TTWr God
~
^ **sfchi&
Motherhood should be honored in all its various forms, be-
cause it symbolizes creativeness
and care. Our application of the
term to various conditions is
not without reason or significance. ,We call nature mother.
We call one's native country
motherland. We apply the term
mothering" to everything or
anybody who becomes the subject of the attention and love
characteristic of motherly instincts.
'
constituted ecclesiastical body.
But the marriage' of a bishop
who had taken the vow of celibacy, and that marriage to be
"without benefit of clergy," is
an altogether ' different matter.
Again, it is defensible and relevant for one to take the attitude that the canon laws of the
church are "man-made." But it
is indefensible and inconceivable
for one who has identified himself with the "man-made" regime, accepted a high office in
its organization and swore to
defend its tenets and rules, to
repudiate it all of a sudden, yet
refuse to give up the prerogative which the organization reserves for its own members.
devcof
North
his fan0^-
Arrrdefenders and
He
.rms
Ttlon
,ller f
f^
befor
k
- iware
&
e
he marne^Vhen he nailed
his famous 95 fcafe, on the
door of the Wittenberg Church
he was still a monk and still a
loyal Catholic in his own eyes.
Ofeishs championship of the
married bishop's cause appears
as an after-thought justification
of an act which he had precipitately taken.
Indeed one could discover
many more 8uch irreIevandes
and inconsistencies in what looks
to us a mess of irrelevancies, a
mass of inconsistencies.
whom drcumstances have driven
to other lands not forget their
native motherland.
ORIENTALIA
A MESS OF IRRELEVANCIES
Whether the marriage of Archbishop Aftimios
Ofeish
will
prove to be a storm in a tea
pot or the prelude to a historic
reform in the old Greek Orthodox Church, the fact remains
that it has been surrounded by
a fog of irrelevant issues.
The marriage of bishops in
the Eastern churches, to take
one instance, is a legitimate subject for discussion by a duly
SURGEON
<:
Said Sharih, a Moslem theologian:
"He who seeks a favor of
another exposes himself to slavery. If the favor is granted, he
who asks it becomes a slave to
mm who grants it; if it is not
granted, both depart in disgrace,
the one for being refused, the
other for being a miser."
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a view *«, acquiring a governmental
Position, but he declined.
He
started
medical study in the'Amercan Tjrhis
verslty of Beirut .n 19M
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degree
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one of
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He
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uate^ors elected to Bellevue Hospital in New York City
At the
«me time he received the honorary
position as resident doctor in the
Englewood Hospital in New Jersey
ur. Shatara has maintained his
pratice m Brooklyn, N. Y. where he
started it fifteen years ago.
He
was appointed to the Long Island
Hospital in Brooklyn, N. Y.
JS
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instruction there in
.1
«y 5:i ri t
pointed to the Cumberland Hosp fal
m Brooklyn
There he started a
surreal chnic which has grown L
a large institution in which he is the
supervisor of eleven doctor, ...£
1923 he was elected a fellow of the
American College of Surgery
w.11^
ing his work....he has traveled with
medical societies and viewed the work
of hospitals in various parts of the
United States and Canada....he lectures on medical subjects before students and societies ....and writes
frequently on various medical subjects, for magazines and newspapers.
Dr. Shatara believes that it is
not difficult for Syrians to excel in
the medical line because of their
heritage....he hopes, in the near fuodical subjects and to incorporate
his m books which he is planning
o write....what he would like to
see now is more team-work among
the Syrian doctors... .and believes
this will be possible because of the
greater cooperativeness of the new
generation ....the realization of
or anize
P.W ShNational
^ heIped
the
Palestine
League g of which
he was president during its first year
.... the League opposed Zionism and
moved to promote Arab Nationalism
•• •Under the auspices of the Foreign Pohcy Association of New York
and the Open Forum of Boston, Dr.'
Shatara has lectured all over the
eIatiVe SUbjects
1926
1926TKKing°V
Hussein asked Dr.
that he must be in love with
d neVerloSehisa
H
-bition.
tr ,
••••He attends all meetings concern-
(
>ine
v
s
to represent him in Washington, but
Dr. Shatara declined because he
thought the time inopportune
£
ColJZ
<^ °
«on
Committee of the House of Represen-S
tatives a text in opposition to the
Dr. Shatara is a member of the
Kewa
club and of the Damascus
Lodge
he is married and has two
°aughters....his favorite sports a^e
swimming and duck-hunting
THE GARDENS~0F0MAR
with the^vtof r;doeurnngrM0;re
charre.
of L
tanon
and
^ *****
It was published in th T T^ ** * maide» °* Be
puoiisned m the French original under the title:
YAMILE SOUS LES CEDRES
The author, Henrv R^,,J„„
academy.
World.
Exclusive serial nghtS
"hlT'
V ^^ °f Ae French
have been
'
«^ured by the Syrian
Mohammed.
.
ft /
v.
IShatara
SsnT ^^ -»^
ceed..
ed
le
h
^..and the highest medical service
for those who can afford to pay
Brooklyn100 " * "* ***«
Shatara eXem lifi
liefSl
« Ws
belief
that one must fc P^y^
^ guc
_
as
t0 be the rovisi
ofof irTf
P needy
^
free medical service for the
C ngress
read 17*^e ^^
F reign° Rela **<*
*
throw the
the impene
clear pros
practical li
ply. They
quaff their
ineffability
the articul
and look
on the out
the horizoi
ledge is on
fvom life <
never be
knowledge
fundament!
A
when he si
and me following year he was elected
Soo?,
, °f ^ Br°0klyn Surgical
fo onf tv?e member^P - limited
Ibn as-Sammak.
"Beware of greed, for it is
the ever-present poverty!"
!* °Te
?T\.
"Humility in honor is greater
than honor itself."
"Happy i8 the man whose own
Jau ts occupy him from finding
faults with others."
Aj;
1
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Prof. \
; service for
I uals in his
From 1
I at Harvard
I of such f;
fa Royce, and
1 the univen
I tent. He
The
marrying
archbishop
quotes the Bible in his own defense.
But in so doing he forgets that he does violence to
one of the fundamental doctrines
both of the Greek Orthodox and
the Roman Catholic Churches,
namely, that the church precedes the Bible. As a body, it
is invested with the same authority to interpret the Bible, as the
authors of the Bible books
PUAD I. SHATARA....surgeon
writer.... lecturer.... fa a native of
themselves.
Furthermore St.
Jaffa, Palestine.
Paul was not married. In other
Dr. Shatara attended Bishop Gowords the Apostle who was
bat's school in Jaffa when a boy....
most influential in organizing the
then he entered the English College
churches,
and who enjoined
of Jaffa....being too young to enter
a medical school at the termination
marriage on the bishops (if that
of
his secondary schooling, he taught
is a true interpretation of his
for two years in Jaffa.... then he
famous text on the subject) diswent to Egypt and taught there a
obeyed his own injuncrion.
year
In
Egypt a Professor of
We prove our humanness by
honoring our own mother, and
all mothers, and everything to
which the term mother may be
applied. And let those of us
Honoring;' motherhood is an
expression of love and gratitude,
and the sentiment itself is deserving of honor because of the
honorable motives it implies.
PROFILES
TO BEGIN SOON.
i
1
�>A'
THE SYRIAN
FROM EAST AND WEST
A PHILOSOPHER LOOKS
ON THE CHANGING EAST
Prof. William Ernest Hocking has performed a
| service for the Near East which only a few individI uals in his envied position can do.
From the elm-shaded confines of Emerson Hall
j at Harvard University, once the philosophic sanctum
t of such famed figures as William James, Joseph
Royce, and Frederick Palmer, he could contemplate
the universe, including our East, to his heart's content. He could cogitate on past and present, and
throw the search-light of his prophetic reason on
the impenetrable abyss of the future. In this way a
clear prospective is gained which no amount of
practical life and ripe experience can possibly supply. They who plunge into the stream of life and
quaff their fill of its contents pay the penalty of
ineffability and are relatively speechless. They lack
the articulateness of those who stand by the bank
and look upon the flowing stream, and beyond it
on the outlying scenery until the vision melts with
the horizon of the unknowable. But such knowledge is one thing and the experience which we get
fKom life at first hand is another. Knowledge can
'never be a substitute for it. To reconcile both,
knowledge and experience, is one of the most
fundamental problems of life.
. The Arab poet al-Mutanabbi alluded to both
when he said in one of his couplets:
II
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1
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;e
r.
<5
'D.
it,
er
ile
v
li
"Oh, give me wine to drink; and tell me it is wine!
Pass not the cup in secret, when openly you can."
To drink of the wine of life may be sufficient
unto the great mass of humanity who pass through
this vale of tears with little concern and little
heed for the hunger-pangs of the mind. But they
who would know find something lacking in the
wine, a subtle bouquet that only telling about the
wine can supply.
When one can encompass both; when one can
plunge into the stream of life then come out to
fontemplate the views; when one can sip the wine
bf experience and can tell about it intelligibly and
(articulately, one's cup of life may be said to be
running over, and one's knowledge may be called
| complete.
This, we feel, is fully exemplified in Prof. Hocking's book, published some year' ago by the Mac:
millan Company of New York under the significant
I title, "The Spirit of Modern Politics." For Prof.
Hocking was not satisfied to write on such a living
and lively topic from the cloister of his philosophy
hall, nor fill the gaps of his information from the
(prolific, but often unreliable, pages of current, or
j (even from the erudite tomes of scholarly orientalists. Taking advantage of an inspection tour which
carried him to all parts of the Near and Far Easts,
/and which extended over a year, the Harvard pundit pulled up his sleeves and like a veteran correspondent fell lustily on his chosen task of col-'
lecting materials, interviewing leaders and investigating conditions with the help of a rich background
of history and philosophy. The result was a byproduct, not originally envisaged in the Rockefellerbacked commission to investigate the Protestant
missions and their works throughout the East. The
by-product is to us even more interesting and signiificant than the main-product, the report of the
commission headed by Prof. Hocking, which is said
to have caused more discussion in missionary circles than anything written on the subject in the
last few decades.
Of books written on the Near East and combining the astuteness of observation and the depth of
philosophic comment as revealed in Prof. Hocking's book there is today a dearth more acute than,
that which plighted Egypt in the days of Joseph.
In this rara avis class falls Prof. Hocking's book
which, though its title may not clearly indicate it,
takes the Near East, particularly Egypt, Syria and
Palestine, as well as some outlying regions on the
fringe of civilization in Africa, as his philosophic
laboratory. And what he knows about your and my
East will put even well-informed Arab scholars to
test. But what he does to the facts he so laboriously and conscientiously gathered—that, my friends,
is a treat for the philosophic epicures, a spread
worthy of the high-priests and kings of the intellect.
Who, for instance, has not felt and realized that
great changes are stirring the East to the depths of
its soul? But who but a philosopher can interpret these changes in iust the masterly fashion that
">RLD, NEW YORK, MAY 12, 1933.
OUR NEWYORKERS
PAGE FIVE
AT RANDOM
The director of the Bronx Zoo, Dr. W. Reid
Once upon a time there was a nice trusting man
who believed in fairies and the like. He had some Blair, has asked the public, in an announcement
money, quite a sum,—to you and me, in Faour's in the New York papers, to send in suggestions for
Bank. You see, I believe he dreamt of the day a name for the Zoo's latest newcomer, a hamadryas,
when he would take unto himself a wife and have or sacred baboon from Arabia.
many little trusting younguns.
The baboon is the first of his breed to be
Well, to continue with the story, this credulous shown in New York for twenty years and was
man complacently took the news that the bank purchased from Louis Ruhe, a German wild animal
had closed and straightway tripped up to the Harri- dealer. He is a big fellow with a huge, shaggy
man Bank and deposited there money he had col- mane and dignified mien, and made his bow to the
lected from his rented buildings and tripped out public only last week. Among the first to view
again. He smiled contentedly—at peace with him- him was a group of Orientals, who according to
self and the world. Must I finish? Don't you know the Keeper, remained in front of the baboon's cage
the end of the story? I am afraid the bogey-man for more than an hour.
might scare you. Well, the Harriman Bank, for
The baboon, who resembles the monkey in apsome mysterious reason or other, after having re- pearance, was regarded as sacred in ancient Egypt.
ceived this certain deposit, claosed that same week. Last week, when I viewed him he seemed quite at
Ah, the irony of fate! Maybe they were both wait- sea, strutting about in his cage, sans friends, sans
ing, like the spider wit1 the fly, to close its ten- family, sans name. I wracked my brain for a suittacles on some such juiu. \iorsel. 'Tis sad! 'Tis sad, able name for him, but to no avail. I think someto my tender heart to hear such a heart-breaking one with a more sufficient knowledge of the wealth
tale.
of Arabian literature will find a good name therein, probably with a bearing on his sacred associaThere is a literary society in our town, un- tion.
named, unheralded, but not unknown, consisting of
shining lights. Each man is a poet in his own right.
To us they are of the older generation yet if we
It was somewhat of a disappointment to learn
younguns could ever gather together such a group
that Ladysman, favorite of the Kentucky Derby,
of literary talents, believe me, it would be some
which ran last week, came out fourth, contrary to
achievement. Among them are rJasib Arida, Aspopular expectation.
Ladysman was ridden by
sad Milkie, Abdul Massih Haddad, Richard Ayoub
Jockey
Johnny
Gilbert,
young Syrian, who has
X
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shown great promise in the sport and, who, we feel
gather with them.) It's a treat and honor to sit with
sure, will soon take the lead as one of America's
such a group oi fine men and hear their interestgreatest jockeys. Johnny is only 18 and his riding
ing conversation. They've retained tha good old
ability comes by natural instinct. He was adopted
Eastern art of getting a lot of enjoyment by just
when a young boy by Dr! Gilbert, a, lover and posbeing together and conversing.
sessor of many famous breed horses, and who believes that Johnny is one of the best jockeys, nose
Shades of prosperity! Deah Ole Prosperity. He's
ahead or no nose ahead!
become quite an old man now with one foot in
the grave and it seems that his health can never
be revived after his severe illness of almost four
Najla Sabe wrote the follov,ij?£ poem, she says,
years now. Guess folks* will just have to get bebecause of her svmDathy for N(J .native Syrian
ing used *» his little baby Depr^siorw
. —"
~~
-—j "
,SuU»-— — —«=!>
But some people just can't get used to him. girls who are forced to part with theL- sweethearts
You know like that beaming old vacuous doctor or fiances—students who come to America to study
that says the patient is doing, yes doing fine, when
for two or three years
he's sick as a stewed lobster. Take the Junior
Leaguers for instance. They ask me to pay five
SONG OF SORROW
dollars for a ticket to a dinner-dance when I've
reached the stage where I pray that I don't have I said good-bye to my lover last night
Under our cedar tree,
any money at all. For when I do have five dollars, I have a nervous break-down trying to de- And oh! the words he whispered then
cide what I need most of all of what I need most.
Are burning and torturing me.
Among those spotted at the Sorority dance held
at the McChree Club last Saturday night, were Rose
Zaloom, who is a member, Lyla Herro, Fred Shamas, Albert Shehab, Olga and Margaret Abouchar,
Evelyn, Lorice and Freddie Saadi and Freddie
Shamas.
For I know that he's gone to stay
In that land I know nothing of,
And though he's taken my heart with him
He's left me the pang of love.
Prof. Hocking has expressed in the following paragraph:
"Over all the Orient, there broods this sense of
latency, of an immense and unfathomed capacity
ifor new life, the potency of something radically different from our type, if it can be given its own
time and mode of growth.. We have no need to
deal fearfully with the 'mystery of the Orient,' but
we have every reason for dealing respectfully with
qualities which, varying as they do from ours, give
promise of still other variants, not poisonous and
weird, but noble, human, and also universal." (P. 34.)
Or with what an adroit thrust does the same
author puncture the empty bubbles of supposedly
sapient politicians when he subjects their pet theory
of western prestige in the countries of the East to
rational analysis? He knows, and the western politicians abroad know, that prestige in the West cannet be achieved through ruthless assertion of power.
tVhy, then, he asks, do we assume that it can be
achieved that way in the East?—"Is is because
we thmk the Orient has not learned the paradox of
nc>n-assertion or that justice and righteousness are
the Qualities that exalt a nation? ' (P. 289.)
Nothing seems to escape the keen eyes of this
hve philosopher. Notice the observation which he
has made, and which only few enlightened orientals
themselves have noticed. "The Or/ent," he says,
"is engaged in making a distinction which we of the
West have never achieved, the distinction between
western civilization and civilization." (P. 9.)
Prof. Hocking, though a firm
\ever in the
potential efficacy of the League o
-9ns can be
a severe even if friendly critic. Thus he speaks
of the present sorry status of the mandates in the
Near East: What we call tutelage hrrns out to be,
too frequently, a training out of native ways into
ways which fit no man, for the sake of our ownj
private interests." (P. 202.) Or again: "
The
most dangerous man in the world to entrust a nation's prestige to, generally speaking, is a military
man turned governor." (P. 261.) And he offers a
definite and pertinent advise to the League of Nations, not content with mere criticism or a philosophic counsel of perfection.
In his chapter on
"Problems of International Control," we find him
saying:
"The Mandates Commission ought to be authorized to make its own investigations; residents ought
to be permitted to present complaints directly to
the assembly should have the right to withdraw a
mandate from a Power which shows itself .incapable." (P. 428.)
His appreciation of the Arab spirit and culture is almost uncanny. "There was phychological
stuff in the tribesmen of Mohammed and Khalid,"
foe writes, "which enabled them to take the position of masters of arts, recognizing the greatness of
a great heritage, and doing with it something better than a faithful transmission." (P. 448.)
That is the kind of a book we get when a
philosopher looks on the changing East, a book we
highly recommend to all serious-mind d readers
by houdajed camels, black-eyed houris and dirty
beggers and street peddlers.
Habib I. Katibah.
Najla Sabe
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in
�JHEJYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK. MAY 12, 1933.
MINIATURES ARABESQUE
The City of Delight" ... the metropolis
of Syria. . .the oasis of the Syrian Desert. . .
the "Mother of the Poor"...the "Earthly
Paradise" ... the enchanting paradise of the
parched bedwin and the weary traveller.
With its hoary past frought with vital
reminiscences .and, human tradition, Damascus is the oldest city in the world in point
of unbroken habitation. Along its Street that
is called Straaight (Suq-al-Tawil) the pageants of the ages marched in never-ending
procession. Its citrus-shaded, jasmine scented
homes with their sparkling, refreshing fountains and raised courts, if they could speak
would tell wonderous tales of human bliss,
tragedy and comedy more fascinating than
anything in the Arabian Nights.
Still the most picturesque city in the
whole Near East, Damascus is the most
typically Semitic, Arabic, urbanic centre of
culture and civilization. Damascus is the melting pot of the Semitic world. Possessed alternatingly by Babylonians, Egyptians, Arameans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs and
Turks, Damascus has retained its Semitic
characteristics up to the present day.
So
confident is Damascus of itself, so self-possessed and placid that portents and activ- P"'
ities of westernization that stir around and
about it have hardly ruffled its equanimity
and poise. Its canopied bazaars accustomed
already to the jarring, screeching noise of
A General View of Damascus, Capital of Syria.
" "->*«> »"" ""scj
In the days of Abra
P«*»toric.
J"\* "" +**> * «f *T and great cen*? f . **£*** trade" At one time the Jews
T***** V££ * Damasc-' -d the
Aramean
* established quarters in Samaria,
°f
the street cars and the disturbing honking of
Ae
"^
trade
«-ft- in history. It
*£JT*****
" the 8th Centu^
d
T
i /
It is' ^ora^ ZToZ^VJLat
this famous edifice, once aChristen church
for 9 year,
It was never annexed bJThe
Crusaders.
But in the T4 h Cenmrv f
t
nessed its most ruthless and indehbTe tral
the more modern automobile, Damascus soon
learned to shrug its shoulders and go its easy,
PlleZCr
*
^
For several
* Thousands of itsnhabtntfwl £Z
the sword when Timur"ane Z M
T*
leisurely way.
There is a perennial charm
about Damascus that the flow of centuries
..__ beetle
—^.^^^.v, to
tone away.
let with
Wltn
has not
take
Yet
lu
***»« * *»P°*«~ " * ^ Centre
"**?*' l° ^ revived under the Per.^^ *"*, agam S,nk into relat^e unimpor-
^ed it «J^T
t ^LiZ'
men and artisans tohedTsZto^ 7sl'
y
S&
markand
"
'
B
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jance^under the Greeks and^Romans.
a naive genuiness of feeling about its inhabitants, a natural exuberance of emotions,
Which makes Damascus the Peter Pan of all
the cities of the world.
—
b
'\ A' D" * fe» ""der the sword of
Moslem conquerors, from which time it
remained a city of the first rank under
,f
,
^ Under
Arabs and T*
Mrabs and lurks.
Its fafmous mosque
__^_
8, for a. motor trip to Maybrook,
N. Y, where they will spend a week
with Mrs. Johns' parents, Mr. and
Mrs. N. J. Bouhakley.
An unusual christening took place
m Columbus, Ohio, last week when
Mr. and Mrs. Najib Khoury christened their two sons.
* Several priests and many friends
from different states attended. These
included:
Mr. and Mrs. Ameen Samara,
Ceasar Razook, Nimer Salamie, Elias
Haboush and Joseph Barak of Brooklyn; also Mr. S. M. Rashid from
Youngstown, Ohio; Rev. Elias Meeny
and Mrs. Meeny, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hanna, Mr. and Mrs. Daher Ghiz,
Dr. and Mrs. Halim Khuri, Mr. and
Mrs. George Gantous, Mr. and Mrs.
Joe. Hanna, Selim Makkoul of Cleveland; Arch. Rev. Samuel David from
Toledo; Rev. Arch. Anthony Bashir,
Abraham Andrews and George Lutfy
from Detroit, and Rev. Raphael Hussan from Charleston, W. Va.
Mr. and Mrs. Habib Merhige of
Brooklyn are leaving tomorrow on
the S.S. Rex on their way to Syria
to spend a few months with Mrs
Merhige's father, Mr. Alexander Halaby of Tripoli, Syria.
Dr. George Knaysi, professor of
Bacteriology in Cornell University,
Ithaca, N. Y., is sailing tomorrow on
the S.S. Champlain for Syria where
he will spend the summer with his
mother who lives in Hasbeya.
Mr. and Mrs. Carlo Johns of
Bayonne, N. J. left on Monday, May
Mrs. Anthony Deeb returned last
Sunday to her home in Washington,
D. C. after having spent a week in
Brooklyn with her father, Mr. Selim
Samara. She came the previous Sunday with Dr. Deeb who returned the
same day.
Mrs. F. M. Jabara and her daughter, Gladys, are expected to be in
New York about the first of June, as
they have stated their intention of
leaving Syria on May 9. They recently spent several days touring the
Holy Land, after having spent several months in Beirut with Mr. and
Mrs. Najib Khairallah. Mrs. Khairallah is the former Florence Jabara.
Miss Rose Teen of Brooklyn expects to leave next week for Milfcrd, Pa., to open their summer home.
Her mother, Mrs. K. Teen, is still in
Texas visiting her daughter.
Miss Evelyn Jacobs of Brooklyn
is spending this week in Buffalo, N. Y.
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.' Elias
Matter. Mrs. Matter, her sister Margaret, is very ill. Mrs. Joseph Jacobs, their mother, has been there
for several weeks now.
Elvira Helal, Syrian soprano, has
been named as one of the chief
members of the National Grand
Opera Company during if- > coming
season. Miss Helal wa,
'imm? of its
members last season a1
.1
In
the
has
the
the
of
Fora time afte, the World War it flourished as the short-lived capital of a revived
Arab *t»fc> „n,W V
V • 1
' aS I \
f
U
7*
' * retUm ^ *"
*° subjugation under a foreign rule, the *d *L
French.
IB'
!
^
" hMUSSAWIR-HERMOS
«j j
ENCAGEMENT ANNOUNCED . AT (DINNERDANCE BRIDGE
The
f*n£Xaa-OTYio*-»*- of
*t
TY/r:
y\i — _
The engagement
Miss
Olga
Mussawir, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
A. Mussawir of 45th Street, Brooklyn,
to Mr. Souhail Hermos, son of Mrs.
S. J. Hermos of Eastern Parkway,
Brooklyn, was announced on Wednesday of last week.
The Mussawir resided formerly in
Lawrence, Mass., coming to New York
some years ago.
Alexander and
Emil Maloof are Olga's uncles and
Emma Maloof her aunt.
The couple expect to be married
soon. They were the center of a
party that attended the Syrian Junior
League dinner-dance last Saturday.
BOOK CLUB RESUMES
MEETINGS
Old friends got together again
for the first meeting, of the Book
Club of Brooklyn since Habib I. Katibah has now returned from his trip
of several months into the interior.
The meeting was held in the apartment of E. J. Audi on W. 16th
Street, New York City, last Friday
evening.
Mr. Katibah reviewed Prof. Wm.
Ernest Hocking's book, the "Spirit
of Modern Politics," a book dealing
with the modern political, social and
cultural trends in the Near East, particularly Egypt, Syria and Palestine.
Some of those present were Nedda
Uniss, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Abbott,
Mr. and Mrs. William Abouchar,
George Makla, Suleiman Haddad E
J. Audi, Mr. and Mrs. James Qu'inn.
Miss Selma Milkie and Miss Adele
Macsoud were also present.
_—
?E
W3.
The proverbial Greenwich Vil- at
lage atmosphere pervaded the din- ier
ner dance card-party held by the t,i_
Junior Misses Club of Brooklyn ii. me
the Pepper Pot, last Sunday evening sv
Two orchestras provided dance musi r
for the hundred or so persons pre- n
sent. After dinner, card tables were
arranged for those who wished to
play bridge. A cake dish was the
prize for each table. Henry Shaheen of Cranford, N. J., provided the
entertainment by singing several
numbers.
He was applauded enthusiastically by those in the night f
club and was persuaded by the manager to give an encore.
Miss Mary Daas was chaionan of
the committee in charge of the affair. Assisting her were the Misses
Ermino Candido, Emiline Khoury,
Emily Kokabany, Virginia Nader, and
Julia Khoury.
I)
HELEN ROZEK IN
GROUP RECITAL
Helen H. Rozek, the young Syrian
violinist, pianist, and violist, shared
full honors with the Mozart String
Quartette in its recital in Aeolian
Hall on Sunday afternoon, May 7.
The Quartette,whic h is sponsored
by the New York Federation of Music
Clubs, is composed of talented young
musicians under the able leadership of
Wesley .Sontag, /iolinist and composer. Mary Ledgerwood, contralto
and soloist of the afternoon, was
warmly received for her rich interpretations of vocal selections. There
was a large and appreciative audience.
\
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PAGE SEVEN
THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, MAY 12, *1933.
SYRIAN DEBACLE
GROWS SERIOUS
GUILD PRESENTS
SYRIAN DANCER
Gas Pump in Middle of Sahara Desert
Two Syrian Ministers Resign;
Nationalists Issue Manifesto;
Damascus and Aleppo Hold
Demonstrations Against
Parliament
Will the threatening clouds that
have been gathering for months in
the political atmosphere of Syria and
Lebanon -break out at last in a lightning storm of revolution and political
tipheaval? Weather prophets of the
political situation in those countries
(have so often proven false, that we
"dare not hazard our reputation.
But the latest reports from the
homeland indicate that the Syrian debacle has taken a serious turn, and
that conditions in Lebanon are no
less uncertain and troubled.
Of the former we learn that two
outstanding members of the Syrian
ministry and of the Nationalist Block,
Jamil Mardam Bey and Mazhar Pasha Rislan, ministers of finance and
justice respectively, have definitely
offered their resignation. Efforts by
the President of the Syrian Republic,
Mohammed Ali al-Abid, and the
Mandatory political representatives,
M. Halallo, to dissuade the two nationalist ministers ended in failure.
Jamil Bey, who is the political
spokesman of the Nationalist Block,
demanded, it is said, the formation
of a ministry wholly from the Block,
but the French authorities were adamant in their refusal,- If the Nationalists insist on a ministry of the
Bleck," M. Halallo is quoted as replying, "then we must work without
their cooperation."
The causes leading to the resignation of the two' nationalist ministers
appear in a manifesto issued by a
conference of the Nationalist Block
which met in Damascus. The manifesto, signed by Hashim Bey alAtasi, President of the Nationalist
Block, and Ibrahim Hanano, prominent nationalist leader from Aleppo, stresses the fact that the French
High Commissioner, M. Ponsot, has
offered nothing new in his negotiations with the nationalists, and that
his assurances do not go beyond his
report before the Permanent Mandate Commission of the League of
Nations which proved so unsatisfactory to the nationalists and had
aroused so much bitter criticism in
all Syrian political circles.
The "Syrian nationalists will not
compromise on the issue of Syrian
unity, and the French refuse to give
any guarantee for such a unity prior
1o the conclusion of the projected
French-Syrian treaty which is to substitute the mandatory regime.
Repercussion of the political unrest in Syria took the shape of the
usual demonstration in its two leading
cities, Damascus and Aleppo. Shops
were closed in the principal bazaars
and groups of agitated citizens gathered to hear fiery political harangues
from nationalist orators.
In Lebanon, the fighting Maronite
prelate, Bishop Ignatius Mubarak,
keeps up his barrage of wrathful utterances against the native and
French authorities alike.
His latest pronunciamento, ut^
%tered from his sanctuary and refuge
ot" (the parish house of his church in
Beinut, takes the form of a declaration /or (passive resistance and
sbstainment from paying taxes to the
government. How effective will his
declaration trove, we have no way
of knowing at this early date. It is
significant, however, that it came immediately on th, heels of the slight
which the French officials gave the
militant bishop by vithdrawing from,
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Enthusiastically Receives
El-Bashara
Not even the Sahara Desert has escaped the Inroads
at civilization. Pictured above b a small gasoline pump in
[ (be midst of the sandy wastes. _
DRUZE GIRL
A. U. B. FRIENDS
TALKS TO M. D'S. ANNUAL DINNER
Nazira Zain-ud-Din, Druze Feminist, Praises Step of PhysiciansPharmacists Union in Inviting
Feminine Cooperation
Former Students, Professors, and
Teachers of University Attend
Annual Get-Together. Dr.
Hitti Speaks
The feminist movement, which is
making slow but sure .progress in
the countries of the Near East, has
added one more laurel to its crown.
At the annual meeting of the
Physicians and Pharmacists Union,
held recently in Beirut, the principal
speaker was a woman. The choice
of the Union fell upon Nazira Zainud-Din, a Druze young woman who,
a few years ago, aroused a storm of
heated controversy ; over her book
defending the unveiling of Moslem
women. Several Moslem leaders took
her side, among them the Moslem
theologian and reformer of Damascus, Shaykh Abdul-Qadir al-Mughrabi, a friend and defender of the
Moslem woman and her claim for
social emancipation.
Miss Zain-ud-Din took occasion,
in her speech before this notable
group of leaders in the Syrian medical and social worlds to banter hen
critics and (opponents who "demand
loudly that the country rise and take
the path of progress, but at the same
time persist that woman should remain at home, bound hand and foot,
forgetting that women are half of the
nation, that a nation cannot possibly progress as long as women, or
the majority of them, are veiled and
segregated from the fields of activity."
She quotes Jamil Sidqi az-Zahawi,
the xadical poet of Baghdad, Ahmed
Shawqi, the late poet laureate of
Egypt, and others in support of her
contention.
The Annual Beirut Reunion,
sponsored by the former teachers,
professors and students of the American University of Beirut, was held
Friday evening, May 5, at the Sheik
Restaurant, 31st Street, New York
City.
Rev. J. Malcolm Vandyke, who
was on the staff of the University
from 1923-1926, acted as Master of
ceremonies. Dr. Philip K. Hitti, formerly a member of the faculty cf the
University and now professor of Oriental languages in Princeton University, spoke on the aims of Princeton
in regard to Oriental manuscripts. A
special department to classify all
works in Arabic was one aim, he said.
There was also a plan in consideration to have a special library for all
the Arabic manuscripts in the world.
A class for American students wishing to learn Arabic was also contemplated, he said.
the Maronite cathedral without paying him an official visit in his parish
house.
The threatening clouds still hang
menacingly over Syria and Lebanon.
When will they break out or clear
off?'
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Join in College Songs
Miss Helen C. Miller, former
head of the Spence School in New
York, spoke on her travels in Syria
where he spent a few months recently.
Several college songs were sung
by the former students and professors, led by Mr. Erdman.
Among those present were: Mme.
Marie El-Khoury, who has shown
considerable interest in the University, having contributed at one time
$3500 to the Alumni Fund; Necib Tfabulsi, former president of the Alumni
Society; Dr. H. S. Rasi; Albert W.
Staub, American Director of the Near
East College ^Association; W. A.
Khoury, Dr. W. S. Rizk, of the Brooklyn Naval Hospital, Dr. H. Khayat,
Mrs. Adeeb Faris, Miss Adelaide Faris, and other friends, former students and staffites of the University.
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El-Bashara, young Syrian dancer,
was guest artist at the "Browning
Birthday Festival," held in the Roerich Museum on Monday, May 8,
under the direction of Bertha Baker,
director of the Poetry and Guild of
the Museum.
El-Bashara is the professional
name of Miss Emily Bashure, daughter of Mrs. S. Bashure of Altoona, Pa.
She has appeared frequently in dance
recitals in New York in the past
few months and has received encouraging praise from critics for her
intelligent interpretations. El-Bashara is now studying with the famous
teacher, Grace Christie of New York.
El-Bashara's presentations were
warmly received by the audience.
Her numbers included "Chaos." with
music by Prokofieff, and "Dream of
a Naughty Boy," with music by Ravel,
both presaging a promising career.
Mrs. Baker, it will be remembered,
dramatized many of Gibran's most
famous works in Town Hall ana St.
Mark's Church on the Bouwerie last
year.
Her exquisite interpretation
and dramatizing of poetry and prose
are without parallel. It is hoped that
we shall see more of her interpretations of Gibran, probably in conjunction with El-Bashara.
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EGYPTIAN CHAMPION HERE
except 1
of the • Soussa Comes Second
--n jBilliard Championship
in
Egypt is forging ahead in the
world of athletics. In the fields of
weight-lifting, swimming and soccer!
football Egyptian names are becoming familiar to lands beyond the
Nile. Add to these a contender for
the world's championship title in the
relatively more sedate game of balkine billiards.
Last week Edmund Soussa (no
relative of the famous band master)
stole quietly into the bustling harbour of Manhattan. From there he
he crossed the channel to Brooklyn
with an earnest determination to win
the laurels of victory for old Egypt.
The championship meet is being held
under the auspices of the National
Association of Amateur Billiard Players. The first match was played at
the Brooklyn Elks Club.
Egyptian Comes Second
The New York Times sports department, reporting the result of the
game, declares that "the Egyptian set
three new American records and
equalled another in his match against
the title -holdier.
By winning in,
thirteen innings, Soussa lowered his
own low inning standard by one,
and his average, 23 1-13, gave hin
the single-game average mark.
Soussa came out second with E
T. Appleby of New York, world ama
teur champion.
"In the night game (May 4,
said the Times, "Appleby, with t
championship clinched, bowed bef
the brilliancy of Edmund Soussa
Egypt, 300-85 in thirteen inninj
In the match a Frenchmai
Belgian, as well as American:;,
ticipated.
More power to the Egypti
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JHJ SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK. MAY 12. 1933.
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EGYPTO-SYRIAN
TREATY LAPSES
AND NOW THE SYRIAN WORLD
Commercial Treaty Between
Egypt, Syria and Lebanon
Ends With Refusal of
Egypt to Renew Terms
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Following the decline of the
cotton market throughout the world,
Egypt, which was hard hit as a con-sequence, has bent its efforts in the
direction of varified agriculture.
Thousands/of acres of good Egyptian
soil that were devoted to cotton-raising are now used for the plantation
of fruit trees, truck vegetables and
cereals.
This meant a gradual diminution of agricultural importations from
the neighboring countries of Syria?
Lebanon, Asia Minor and Cyprus,
and higher rates of tariff for imported
agricultural products.
In accordance with this protectionist policy of Egypt the Egyptian
government, according to an announcement in al-Ahram (Cairo), refused to renew the terms of the commercial treaty, until recently in force
between it and the governments of
Syria and Lebanon. Propositions for
a new, reciprocal treaty, favorable
to Syria, Lebanon and Egypt alike,
submitted by the French High Commissioner of Syria and Lebanon, were
turned down by the Egyptian government.
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CLIPPERS VICTORS
OVER JOLLY ROVERS
The pitching of George Barakat
baffled the Jolley Rovers in the
" uaSe-baii ssffle-'iast Sunday anj^
suited in an easy victory , , ,.
Clippers. Barakat allowed
?_?xs
and struck out 15 batters' in nine
innings. The final score was 7-5, the
Rovers scoring 5 unearned runs due
to 3 walks and an error.
Emile Barakat, star slugger of the
Clippers, received honors in batting,
scoring twice and driving home 2
runs.
The Clippers A. C. Baseball team
consists entirely of Syrian boys. They
will play the Tygers A. C. this Sunday, May 14, and are open to play
any amateur team. Teams wishing
to play them may communicate with
this paper for information.
CLEVELAND
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OPEN "GANIM
ROADSIDE INN"
Cleveland, Ohio, May 6.—The grand
opening of the Ganim Roadside Inn,
about 100 miles from this city, took
place Saturday night, April 29. Over
50 invited guests were present. The
ground in the back of the Inn is being
turned into an old fashioned beer
garden.
The Inn is owned and operated by
Joe Ganim, who is assisted by his
brothers,- Albert and George.
There was a large attendance at
he dance given Saturday night, April
'9, by the Aitaneet Democratic Club
f this city in the ball-room of the
tatler Hotel.
Miss Nora Ganim gave a surprise
ler party recently in honor of
brother George Ganim. Over 300
ts were present; novelties were
A out as souvenirs.
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LEBANESE S^RODUCEB
Page the Syrian Zuckor!
We have heard of many abortive
attempts by Syrians and Lebanese to
crash the movie industry in this
country. But it has been left for
Mexico, a country comparatively be1. Our time, anybody's time these
hind in this field, to produce the first
days, is too valuable to waste on
Lebanese producer who has succeeded
deciphering illegible hand writing.
in making the first notch on the
Please write your correspondence on
hazardous ascent of this 'precarious
a typewriter, using only one side
industry.
of the paper. If time is too valuable
The "news," if such it may be
paper is cheap enough.
called now, comes under the caption
of "Our Geniuses Abroad" in a news2. Write your name and a brief
paper published in Beirut. It is detitle of your correspondence on the
voted to the achievements of Elias
left-hand corner of each page. Start
Zacharia in producing two successful
your first page from the middle,
talkies. Commenting on one of these,
leaving space enough for the editor's
"Over the Waves", a movie magazine
choice of title and subtitles.
published in Mexico City calls it a
"triumph of the movie industry in
3. A good journalistic rule is to
Mexico, and without doubt the best
include in the "lead", the first parafilm produced in the past year, whethgraph of your story, all the imer in view of production art or draportant
information pertinent to the
matic effect." The scenario for the
story.
talkie was written by the son, Michael
Zacharia.
4. Do not ramble in your story, or
The Lebanese production com"pad" it with editorial comment. Let
pany also announces that it is workthere be a sharp distinction beween
ing on a film depicting the life of
the news and the editorial thereon.
Syrian and Lebanese immigrants in
all the Americas, including the United
States,- featuring their societies, or5. A veteran American journalist
ganizations, commercial projects and
once said, "there is no story important
daily life. This film, it is thought,
enough that a good journalist could
will be of great interest not only to
not
cover in one column." Be brief
Syrian immigrants here, but to those
and
pithy.
in the original homelands where they
will be extensively shown. Another
project contemplated by this com6. Include in your story all the
pany is to take a film of the beautiful
views of Syria, Lebanon and other
Eastern countries.
HINTS TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS
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names that pertain to it, but no more.
A newspaper is not a city directory,
or even a social register.
7. Keep in mind the "national
angle" of the Syrian World, and
that it goes out to all Syrian communities in the United States. We
want all the local news possible,
but it must be news. Purely local
news should be "boiled down" to a
"news item."
8. Watch for your article after it
goes out from the editorial mill, and
try to conform with the spirit and
news policy of the Syrian World.
9. Develop a reporter's nose for
news. It is preferable to send in a
news that might not prove important
than miss important news that you
may think is insignificant.
10. We appreciate the cooperation f
cf our correspondents, and wish to *v
encourage them as much as possible.
Remember, however, that a "by line,"
is an editorial prerogative, and not
all articles carry it. The editor selects some, according to their importance, or the responsibility assumed in the correspondence, for this
distinction.
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<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
<h4>Scope/Content Note</h4>
<p><em>The Syrian World</em> was published between 1926 and 1932 as a journal. In 1932, the format was changed from an academic journal style to a newspaper style, which continued until the periodical's end in 1935. After the death of his brother Naoum, Salloum took over the publication of <em>Al-Hoda.</em></p>
<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
<p>All issues of <em>The Syrian World</em> are available, along with full indexes for the first four volumes. For volumes five and six, there are tables of contents at the start of the issues.</p>
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Syrian World
PUBLISHED WEEKLY — ESTABLISHED 1926
NEW YORK, MAY 19, 1933.
ALLENBY VISITS
HOLY_LAND
Zionists Me.; Him with Triumphal Honors; Arab Women
in Demonstration of
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Details of the visit which Lord
Allenby made about a month ago to
Palestine, the land which he had
wrested from the hands of the Turks
in the World War, reveal the conflicting interests in that much coveted
historic spot.
The Jews, to whom Palestine was
offered on a charger by the victorious British, welcomed him with
paeans and, praise befitting his role
as the Conqueror of the Holy Land;
the Arabs, who helped the British
in the World War, met him with sullen faces and demonstrations of protests.
Tel-Aviv Celebrates
At Tel-Aviv, the Zionists' capital
and next-door neighbor of Jaffa,
triumphal arches were erected in his
honor.
The English Lord, accompanied by the British minister of the
colonies, Sir Cunliffe Lester, was received in honor by a great crowd of
Zionists headed by the Mayor, Mr.
Dizengoff. Riding in state through the
modern streets of the most Jewish
city in the world, Lord Allenby was
escorted by a guard of honor composed of Maccabees on motorcycles.
At the city hall he was guest at a
tea party from whence he visited the
city gymnasium (high school) where
the student band played the British
national anthem and the Hatevka
(the Zionist anthem.)
Quite a contrast was his "welcome" by the Palestinian nationals,
commonly referred to in the news
from Palestine as Arabs.
Passing
from Tel-Aviv to Jaffa, Lord Alienby was practically ignored by the
natives. His visit to the ancient Palestinian port was nothing like his
'visit to the Zionist settlement which,
came to existence as recently as
1909. Hurriedly he passed through
Jaffa to Peteh-Tikweh, another large
Jewish colony on the outskirts of the
city.
Palestinian Women Demonstrate
In Jerusalem a large and orderly
demonstration by the "Palestinian
women" marked Lord Allenby's reentry. It must have recalled to him
his first entry on December 10, 1917,
when, approaching the holy city, he
alighted from his horse and walked
at the head of the victorious column;
when he was received as a deliverer
and saviour by the tumultuous
crowds, cheering him to the sky.
The Palestinian women made
their procession through the old city
within the Walls, going in through
Bab-al-Amud and out through Babal-Khalil (the Jaffa Gate.)' At the
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Mme.
Auni Abdul-Hadi, a modern Moslem
woman, 'delivered a speech, as tourists and foreign visitors looked on
with mixed feeling of amusement and
amazement.
The procession was prepared as
a protest against the British Government and its policy of encouraging
Zionist immigration into Palestine,
and for the benefit of Lord Allenby
and the British colonial minister.
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ORTHODOX-ANGLICAN
UNITY?
An Associated Press dispatach
from Istanbul tells of a visit from
the Archbishop of Canterbury to
Patriarch Photius, Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox
Church, to launch a movement for
the union of the Anglican and
Greek Orthodox churches.
Patriarch Photius, it is recalled, has more than once declared his approval of such a
union. He is well-known for his
friendship to the British, and at
one time it was rumored that he
was slated for the vacant Greek
Orthodox patriarchate of Jerusalem, where the Anglican Church
for years have been preparing the
soil for Anglican-Orthodox unity.
FATHER BORIS
DEFENDS SELF
SAYS
THAT
ARCHBISHOP
AFTIMIOS HAS RULED HIMSELF OUT OF ORTHODOXY:
For Six Years Synod Consisted
of Archbishop Aftimios
and Secretary
(This paper has no intention of
entering in the ecclesiastical controversy which the marriage of Archbishop Aftimios Ofeish has already
stirred. We look at it only from the
news angle. And having thus far
presented .the .Archbishop's .view,
through his own and his followers'
declarations, it is only fair that we
present here the views of one who*
Itas identified himself as a prime
mover against the Archbishop's marriage and its canonicity. . Editor.)
A few days ago, Father Boris
Burden, whose name has often
come in the news dispatches and
articles dealing with the sensational marriage of Archbishop
Aftimios Ofeish to Marion Nimey
of Wilkes Barre, and the last of
which declares that the Archbishop has deposed and unfrocked him, Paid a visit to the
office of this paper.
He answerved to our questions presenting his side of the raging controversy and defending himself
and his position as priest and
secretary of the Holy Synod of
the Independent Greek Orthodox Church in this country.
Father Boris Yale Man
Father Boris Burden is a tall,
light-haired man in the thirties. His
features stamp him as a Nordic, softspoken and gentle in appearance. He
informed us that he is a graduate
of the Yale School of Religion, and
for the last twelve years a convert
to Greek Orthodoxy. For as many
years he has affiliated himself with
Archbishop Aftimios as his private
secretary, and since the formation of
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SYRIAN PARLIAMENT MEETS
UNDER MILITARY PROTECTION
NATIONALIST REPRESENTATIVES BOYCOTT OPENINGAIRPLANES ZOOM OVER PARLIAMENT HOUSE—
AL-SHAABANI DEMANDS RESIGNATION OF
MINISTRY, HURLING LIE AT PREMIER
Nationalists Hold Mass Meeting in the Umayyad Mosque Prior to
Demonstration Through City
With French airplanes circling over Damascus, Senegalese soldiers ,n steel helmets patroling the streets and machine guns planted
at strategic points, the Syrian Parliament opened its second session on the 23rd of April.
FRANCE HOLDS
CONFERENCE
Syria Included in French Economic Empire, Similar to British
Brought by Ottowa
Conference
Consolidation of all French colonies and protectorates, with a total
area of 4,500,000 square miles and a
total population of 65,000,000, is the
aim of a French economic conference
plans for which were discussed last
Tuesday in Paris. Premier Daladier
presided at the preliminary meeting,
at which were also present cabinet
ministers, colonial governors and
their technical assistants.
Follow British Steps
The general conference, which, it
is said, will be called sometime before the meeting of the International
Economic Conference in London, will
follow the policy of the British Empirial Conference held a year ago in,
Ottowa. The aim of the proposed
French conference, like the Ottowa
Conference, is the formation of a selfcontained economic federation in
which all French possessions will enjoy preferential tariff privileges.
The French, who have been already following a relatively isolationits economic policy for the last three
years, are planning, it seems, to face
the International conference of London with a fait accompli, and to present the American representatives and
others with some ground for bargaining, as well as to secure a measure of protection for their imperial
economic advantages.
JSyria's Place Doubtful
What place Syria and Lebanon
will occupy in the projected French
economic empire is still problematic.
Especially is this so in view of the
consideration that discussions between the Syrian nationalists and the
French Mandatory authorities seem,
more than ever, to be threatened.
with disruption and ultimate failure. It is very likely that France",
acting under the international sanction of its mandatory role, will proceed with its imperial economic plans
without any regard to the views of
the Syrian nationalists, finding in a
temporary government, friendly to its
aims, the. necessary legal warrant for
concluding whatever agreements she
and the funeral %o conclude.
Strenuous efforts by French governmental spokesmen to win over the
nationalist representatives failed. Not
one nationalist representative attended the opening meeting, although
a quorum of 38 non-nationalists and
moderate representatives was present and the meeting declared legal.
At 10 A. M, a half hour before
the opening, according to one correspondent's version, there was not
a single member in the parliament
hall except Nuri Pasha a I Orthodox
Er.nr of the bedouin tribes of Ruwala, known for his friendly attitude
to the French. All the rest were
holding conferences in the different
lobbys and anterooms of the parliament building.
Anxiety and high-strung emotions preceded and accompanied the
opening meeting. Subhi Bey Barakat, President of the Syrian Parliament, ascended the platform and announced the formal opening. On the
government bench were M. Faber
representing the French High Commissariat, Haqi Bey al-Azm, Premier
and M. Selim Bey Junbart, Minister
of Public Works. The resigning nationalist ministers, Jamil Mardam Bey
and Mazhar Rislan, were conspicuous
by their absence.
Moves for Adjournment
Upon announcing the resignation
of the two ministers, Premier Azm
moved for an adjournment till the
following Thursday, "to give the President of the Syrian Republic time to
consider the resignation."
At this, Shakir Nimat al-Shaabaai, an Aleppo monarchist leader, delivered a long speech demanding the
resignation of the whole ministry,
and asserting that according to the
Syrian constitution the ministry is
ncn-existent. Several members participated in the ensuing discussion,
some supporting and some opposing
al-Shaabani.
Losing patience, Premier Azm,
shouted at al-Shaabani:
"How long will you keep up that
nonsense?"
Janhi (member): "As long as the
President has not accepted the resignation of the Ministers, it exists
de facto."
Shaabani:
"The Premier has
acknowledged the existence of a
ministerial crisis."
Premier: "There is no crisis, you
lie, you lie."
Shaabani (walking from his heat
m the direction of the Premier):
Please withdraw your words, I am
not lying."
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Premier: "You lie again."
Shaabani: "You lie, you are a
liar!"
In such an atmosphere of confusion and animosity, the issue was
put to vote, the majority supporting
the Premier's view. Then the meeting was adjourned till Thursday.
Demonstrators Gather in Mosque
As this was going on, a huge
crowd of noon-day worshipers gathered in the spacious open court of
the Umayyad Mosque to listen to
fiery nationalist orators who denounced the existing Syrian government and parliament, shouting for
the long life of the nationalists and
the downfall of the Mandatory.
From the gate leading out to alHamidiyyaha bazaar, the aroused
crowds issued forth. As they reached
Victory Street they met a detach-
ment of soldiery who intercepted
them and sought to disperse them.
The result was a clash in which the
infuriated citizens hurled stones at
the armed soldiers. Dispersed for a
time, the crowd rallied again in Darwishiyyah where they were encountered by another detachment of
soldiers and police. Some of the
crowd took refuge in the enclosure
of a near-by shrine and safely hurled
stones at the soldiers, who fired a
few shots in the air. The casualties in
these encounters amounted to a few
wounded on both sides.
The capital was shut down, as
was Aleppo, Horns and Hama. Prevented from registering their political
will through the Regular, legal channels, the Syrians again vented their
pent-up feelings of protest and dissatisfaction with oratory and stonehurling.
POLITICAL SITUATION IN EGYPT
FACES A GRAVE CHANGE
SIR PERCY LORRAIN, SAYS POLITICAL RUMOR, WILL BE
REMOVED FROM EGYPT; MEANS THE END
OF DICTATORSHIP
About the end of last month a rumor spread in Cairo that
the British High Commissioner, Sir Percy Lorraine, Britain's representative in the Land of the Nile, was slated for removal to
another post, probably the secretariat of the Foreign Ministry in
London.
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The rumor was carried by al-iei#.»r>m, an Arabic daily in Cairo, and
'jitkgfSBaiayi_ an Egyptian nationalist
paper also published in Cairo.
If true, this means the end of
the dictatorship which has reigned
in (Egypt for the last three years under the strong arm of Ismail Sidqi
Pasha. The Wafdites, who represent
the great majority of Egyptian electors and constitute the most influential political party* in Egypt, have
never ceased accusing the British
Government, and in particular Sir
Percy Lorraine, of complicity with the
dictatorial regime of Ismail Sidqi Pasha. The Pasha, in turn, made no
secret of his intent purpose to crush
the popular Wafd with all means,
fair and foul, at his command. In a
"ruthless manner and with iron hand,
|ve suppressed their gatherings, restricted their freedom of movement
and suppressed their papers. At the
polls all methods of coercion, cajolery and terrorism were employed to
(prevent the Wafdite peasants and
city-folk from registering their votes
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against the dictatorial regime.
The
result was a hand-picked parliament
which was so docile and amenable to
governmental policies that Sidqi Pasha and his colleagues ruled without
much opposition up to the present
date. The Egyptian constitution was
so revised arid pruned that it no more
resembled its original self then
though it were a completely new
one, especially designed to rob the
parliament of its constitutional powers and transfer them to the Executive branch of the Egyptian Government, the King.
This constitution
was ratified by the Sidqi parliament.
The present Egyptian senate, according to the revised constitution, comprises a majority nominated and approved by the King himself.
Could not Kill Wafd
Yet all these things have not been
able to "kill" the Wafd, rather
helped to prolong its vitality and
tenacity. And the British have realized that the promises of Sidqi Pasha to rid them of the obnoxious
SYRIAN SHOOTS WIFE AND SELF
CAUSE GIVEN AS JEALOUSY
TOUFIK KORKMAZ OF BOSTON LIES TO SIDE OF PRETTY
WIFE AT THE SAME HOSPITAL;
BOTH MAY DIE
Shooting Occurs After Visit to Dedham
Toufik Korkmaz, 30, of 6 Seneca Street, Boston, crazed with
jealousy, according to an account given in the Boston Globe, fired
itwo shots at his pretty wife, Miriam, 27, a patient at the Chickering House for the Convalescent, Dedham, then running away to a
nearby marsh shot himself in the abdomen, intending to kill himself.
Now both lie in a serious condition at the Massachusetts
General Hospital, Boston.
The shooting took place last Monday, May 15, at 4.P.M., following a
visit from the jealous husband to his
convalescent wife. Both were sitting ift the reception room of the
Chickering House, where the husband
had presented his wife with a box
of candy at the beginning of his
visit.
Suddenly two shots were
heard, and the husband, dashing out
through an ante room, crashed a
window, carrying the screen with)
him. He was seen running into the
woods in the neighborhood.
As ar. ambulance was summoned
to take her to the Massachusetts
General Hospital, Boston, Mrs. Korkmaz, still conscious, pleaded: "Don't
tell my husband where I am being
taken." But four hours later, while
she lay unconscious on her cot, her
husband was brought to the same
ward at the hospital. A police officer was stationed at his bed to arrest Korkmaz as soon as he recovers.
Shot in Reception Room
Mrs. Korkmaz, mother of two
children, had come to Chickering
House about a week previously to
the shooting to recover from an illness which had confined her to a
Boston hospital. She said that her
husband shot her while both were
sitting on a couch in the reception
room. One bullet lodged in her neck
Wafd, have not materialized.
And here one asks, why should
the British bother about the Wafd,
and why should it not keep up its
policy of cooperation with Sidqi Pasha and his clique who are willing to
comply with the British will and
suggestions?
King Fuad Opens Egyptian Parliament in Cairo
the other in her body.
Every police officer at Dedham
was sent out to search for the fleeing
husband, but no trace was found of
him. Finally, a motorist driving along
the circular highway near the Chickering House, heard cries and moans
as he passed the swamps. The motorist telephoned the Dedham police and
Chief of police Henry R. Wragg with)
two officers went to the swamp. There
they found Korkmaz with his feet iru
the water, half leaning on the bank,
with a bullet wound in the abdomen.
As the tragedy was later reconstructed at the police headquarters, Korkmaz must have waded into the
water, half-dazed and crazed by jealousy, and fired a shot at himself from
a .38 calibre revolver. The water,
however, revived him and caused him
to attempt to wade back to land,
Korkmaz refused to answer all ques-.
tions at the police headquarters.
After a superficial examination at the
Dedham Emergency Hospital, the
wounded husband was removed to
the General 'Massachusetts Hospital
where there were more facilities for
caring for him.
The two Korkmaz children, Margaret, 4, and Elizabeth, 6, were taken
to the Chardon Street Home in Boston, where the husband used to leave
them each morning, in his wife's absence, as he went to work.
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The answer is simple. The British cannot possibly come to any
permanent agreement with the Egyptians except through some legally
constituted government which represents the will of the majority of Egyptians. Any make-shift agreement is
doomed to repudiation at the polls
unless Great Britain is willing and
(ready to lend its political, moral and
sometimes its military support to a
government that does .not represent
the will of the Egyptian voters. If
Great Britain is at all sincere in its
repeated proclamations that it is
working for a satisfactory solution of
the Egyptian problem, it has once
more faced the inevitable reality that
it must work with and through the
Wafd, rather than around it. Several
times in the past the British tried this
latter political expediency, and several times they have failed. Now they
hsve to swallow the bitter pill, and
come back to negotiate with the Wafd.
Percy Lorraine, Liberal
Sir Percy Lorraine, when he came
to his present office in 1930, was described as a liberal diplomat who
was willing to cooperate with the
Wafdites. But the/ Wafdites themselves, in their negotiations with the
then Labour government in London
evinced such stuaborn resistance that
the negotiations ended in an impasse.
Pictured above Is the scene of the receni official opening of the Egyptian Parliament
In Cairo. King Fuad may be seen seated or his throne as his speech to the assembly is
read by Ismail Sedky Pasha, the Premier.
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FRANCE AND CHRISTIANS
RICH HISTORIC BACKGROUND OF UNIQUE R|ELIGIO-POLITICAL CEREMONY GOES BACK TO TIMES OF
HARUN-AR-RASHID AND CHARLEMAGNE
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Religious and political traditions which have identified France
as the chief defender of the Christians in the Near East, are again
revived in the memories of many as the unique Consular Mass
comes once more in the reports of political news from Beirut.
The definite institution of the Consular Mass goes back to
42, wnen a treaty between France and the Holy See regulating
» .s honors accorded French representatives in the East, as defenders of the Christians, was concluded.
Several revisions were made of
tives and the local authorities. Imthis treaty, which, as it stands today,
mediately following the church cereincludes the following stipulations:
monies the nuncio is to pay a visit
Upon the appointment of a French
to the French Consul as his first
consul to a position in the East, the
official act.
priest of the Latin church in the city
New Vatican Treaty
must offer a Te Deum and preserve
a special place of honor in the
There has been no deviation in
church for the consul Then on all
recent years from these ceremonies.
occasions when the consul is to atBut on December 6, 1926, a new treaty
tend the Mass, the head of the Latin
between France and the Vatican,
mission (be it French, Italian or of
"regulating the honors to French reany other nationality) must send a
presentatives in the Near East," imspebial messenger to inform the conplies that attendance at the Consular
sul of the time Mass is to be celeMasses by non-Catholic French rebrated, and upon the consul's arpresentatives will not be construed
been steadfast in her faith and ready
to defend her title as the first-born
of the Holy Church."
BORIS DEFENDS SELF
Sepulchre Changes Hands
the Independent Church, as secretary to its Synod Now, he has announced himself in complete disagreement with his ecclesiastical
superior, but just as vehemently he
asserts that he is still a priest and
still an Orthodox.
"Before he unfrocks me," he declared in the interview, referring to
Archbishop Aftimios, "he has unfrocked himself and ruled himself out
of Orthodoxy altogether." He continued:
"I was a secretary by election
since the Independent Church was
organized in 1927. In its constitution the church declared itself openly for all the canons, rules and disciplines of the universal Greek Orthodox Church. There was no distinction then made between the Old
World and the New World, between
man-made canons and God-inspired
Bible. In this light, therefore, the
present deviation from the Church
policy for its clergy is unconstitutional and uncanonical. It rules the
Archbishop and his defenders out of
Orthodoxy."
Again in 1313, King Robert of
Sicily and his wife, Queen Sancie,
having paid a visit to Jerusalem and
finding the Moslems had transformed
the Holy Sepulchre Church to a
mosque, negotiated with the Moslems
for the purchase of the Holy Places,
including that historic Church and
the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, for 80,000 gold pounds. King
Robert was of French origin, and on
the basis of this purchase, King Louis
XIV of France entered into negotiations with the Ottoman Sultan in
1685 for the return of the Holy
Places to the custody of the Christians, after they had been seized
again by the Mohammedans.
Coming down to comparatively
recent times, France demonstrated
her claim to the role of prime protector of the Christians in the Near
East by undrtaking in 1860 a military
expedition under Gen. Beaufort to
protect the Christians of Lebanon and
Syria on the occasion of the notorious uprisings, and consequent massacre of Christians in those countries.
Still later on, Pope Leo XIII issued a famous encyclical on May 22,
1888, affirming anew the position of
EMMISSARIES OF CHARLEMAGNE BEIN G RECEIVED BY HARUN AR-RASHID.
Continued from page 1.
Bishops Ignorant of Orthodoxy
Admitting that he had heard of
the report of his removal, Father Boris said that he had known it only
through the newspapers, and that he
had not received any official notice
of it.
He also considered it strange, as
well as significant, that Bishop Sophrenius Bishara was discarded altogether in the deliberations of the
Holy Synod, constituted as it was of
two bishops who until very recently
were outside the Greek Orthodox
Church.
"Neither bishop," averred F~*v
Boris, (referring to Bishop Isnacms
Nichols and Bishop Joseph Zuk),
"knows much about Orthodoxy. The
former was only received in the
Orthodox fold last year, after he had
been removed from the Protestant
Episcopal Church, and Bishop Zuk,
who was a Uniate Catholic, was received only last summer. Furthermore, neither of them is a full bishop, but merely assistant bishop,
and neither of them can sit in the
meetings of the Holy Synod."
Archbishop and Secretary
Constituted Synod
From a Painting by J. Kockett.
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rival at the church, the head of the
mission must receive him and offer
him the holy water in person. During
the progress of the Mass the consul
is to be seated on the altar in a
special {place of honor. Following
the reading of the Gospel, the officiating priest advances and offers the
Holy Book to the consul to kiss, and
upon the offering of the incense, the
priest must turn first to the consul
before facing the congregation. Finally, upon the consul leaving the church,
the head of the mission must again
offer him personally the holy water.
On subsequent revisions, these
honors were made to include the following:
Wherever there are Catholic educational institutions, the French consul is to preside at the final examinations and commencement exercises.
Upon the appointment of a new papal
nuncio, it is the privilege of a French
consul to arrange with the local
authorities the ceremonies attending
ihis reception, and upon his arrival
the consul accompanies him in ofificial costume to the church and undertakes to announce his coming to
religious bodies, foreign representa-
Y,
as a tribute by them to the power
of Catholicism, but rather as homage
offered by the Church dignitaries to
France, whose role from the time of
the Crusades has been that of protector of the faithful.
The first historic instance in
which France was singled out for
this honor is said to go back to the
days of Harun-ar-Rashid and King
Charlemagne. Among the gifts offered emissaries of the French monarch by Harun-ar-Rashid were said
to be the keys of the Holy sepulchre
in Jerusalem, as well as an ingenious and magnificent device for recording time, which is considered
the first timepiece, aside of the sundial, known to Europe.
When the Crusades were launched
formally Pope Urban II chose French
territory for the issuance of his appeal to Christian Europe to engage
in the bloody wars which were destined to rock the whole world and
continue for 200 years. This choice
was deliberate, the Pope declaring in
his speech that, "I came to French
soil to make declaration of a holy
war against the desecrators of our
sacred places because France has ever
France in the role of protector of
Christians in the East, and forbidding Catholic missionaries of other
nationalities to have recourse in their
grievances to any other than French
representatives.
MATAR FUNERAL
IMPRESSIVE
The untimely death of Margaret
Elias Matar on the 12th of this month
was a heavy shock to many Lebanese
and Syrian families in this country.
A solemn requium Mass in the Maronite church on Hicks Street, Brooklyn, Our Lady of Lebanon, held on
Monday morning, 15th, brought hundreds from this city, Buffalo, the
hometown of the departed, and other
towns. In keeping with her expressed wish she was buried next to
her father, Jacob Maron, who died
Tecently in New York, in St. John
Cemetary.
Father Mansur Stephen, assistf/'
by Mons. Francis Wak'im and Mons.
Louis Zwain, officiated |at the Mass
and the funeral service.
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More remarkable still, in this
most remarkable of ecclesiastical mixups, Father Boris declared that "for
six years the Holy Synod consisted
of the Archbishop and myself. The
whole organization and constitution of
the Independent Church was a tentative one, but its decisions and rulings came out officially as emanating
from this Synod."
Father Boris called the present
debacle of the Independent Church,
"a comic opera church."
He announced that he has now laid the
matter back in the hands of the
Russian Greek Orthodox hierarchy in
this country, from whom first permission was secured for its organization, to be later revoked. This hierarchy, he informed us, consists of
Archbishop Platon and five bishops,
among them Bishop Immanuel AbuHateb.
Reports of Living Church Exaggerated
Asked for his opinion on the
Living Church in Russia which has
allowed the marriage of bishops and
which it was said, has a following of
40,000,000, Father Boris said that the
(number is greatly exaggerated, and
that it is not likely to be more than
one-tenth of this number.
"Archbishop Kedrowsky, is no
more Orthodox than Archbishop Aftimios who confirmed him only a few
years ago," asserted Father Boris in
the conclusion of his interview.
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A NEW ERA
The recurrent attempts at collective action
among our youth are the most hopeful signs
of the awakening of our racial consciousness.
Other racial groups in America have for long
had their national organizations.
The Alliance Francaise, the Sons of Italy, the Ahepa,
the Reuben Society, and" the many others of
similar nature, are only an expression on the
part of the various ethnic groups of their
desire to perpetuate their culture and help
contribute to America the best of their racial
heritage. Modern tendencies in America are
for the encouragement and promotion of
such a spirit, rather than confining the inClippeiiatjon of Americanism to the narrow
limits formerly obtaining.
But among the Syrians such a national organization has been sadly lacking. The truth
must be admitted that the first generation
immigrants are still to a large extent under
the influence of their old-country factionalism, and the causes of dissension in the
motherland, springing from religious, political and geographical sources, are numerous
and apparently insurmountable. Hence all
efforts on the part of the first generation to
bridge these deep gaps have so far proved
abortive.
Our younger generation, however, is in a
more advantageous position to successfully
carry out such a national scheme. The conventions being planned in various parts of
the country are heralds of our national union
and should receive whole-hearted encouragement. That our youth, with their courage
and vision, and with their freedom from the
prejudices characterizing their elders, should
be promoting the movement gives rise to
well-founded hope for its success. It also
implies the gratifying testimony that the indifference to their racial heritage of which
our youth were formerly accused is gradually disappearing and giving place to a healthy,
productive consciousness which fosters our
growing spirit of unity.
ANNIVERSARY OF FEMINIST
LEADER
On the 23rd of A^>x\\, 25 years ago, the
first prominent Moslem leader who raised
his voice in the defenses of Moslem women
and their social rights, jessed away.
Twenty-five years ago, Qasim Ameen, an
Egyptian lawyer educated abroad, was alen
most alone among theMoselm *^hc
of his day who declared himself oftenly as
an advocate of the unveiling of Moslem wo-
e 1933 by United Feature Syndicate, "inc. .
men.
Today unveiled Moslem women in
Egypt itself number many thousands. A Feminist Union, headed by Mme. Huda Shirawi, has already made long strides in the progress and liberation of women, Moslem and
Christian alike ;n Eg-pt.
The gates cf the
Egyptian National University are now open
to women as well as to men students. All
over the Moslem world, women are assuming their rightful roles as wives, mothers and
public servants.
The seed which Qasim Ameen sowed in
vexations and tribulations has grown into a
mighty tree.
And today, at the twentieth anniversary
of the death of Qasim Ameen, newspapers
and magazines in Egypt and other countries
of the Near East carry long feature articles
praising the pioneering Moslem lawyer and
expatiating on the great progress which the
feminist has achieved since his passing away.
not forget that the student-engineered German revolution failed, so also the French revolution which was so much imbued with
the spirit of youth. Reactionarism soon found
itself in the saddle at the end of both, thanks
to the rash enthusiasm and unstudied "engineering" of youth.
If old men are often
timid, then certain it is that youth often rush
in where neither angels nor men dare tread.
Especially in the East one must guard
against the unbridled outbursts of youthful
ebullition.
For in the East both olcl and
young take themselves too seriously.
The
prankish element that immediately puts the
elders on their guard and allows the playfulness of youth to spend itself with little
harm, becomes in the East a grim and serious business in youthful hands that have
not been hardened to the rebuffs and disappointments of life.
Moral: Let boys be boys, not men.
ORIENTALIA
YOUTHS TAKE THE WHEEL
One cannot but 'welcome with hearty enthusiasm the advent of youthful participation
in national affairs in the East, which for long
generations had relegated its youth to the
back seat of ineptitude.
But one cannot
also refrain fro/m a timely warning and pertinent counsel.
It is true that youth, as a certain wise man
said, has its own wisdom which the old cannot dispense with. But it is equally true that
such wisdom which receives its authority
from the buoyancy of the spirit and the sincerity of motive, often lacks that ripeness of
experience, that maturity of wisdom and
knowledge, which alone give true perspective and a measure of security.
We must
Said Ibrahim Ibn Adham to Shaqiq al-Balakhi, both Mohammedan mystics: "Tell me
how you fare."
"If Allah send me my livelihood," said
Shaqiq, "I eat; if Hp deny me, I wait patiently."
To which Ibn Adham retorted: "Aye, but
so do the dogs in the streets of Balkh."
"What then do you do?," inquired Shaqiq.
"If Allah grant me," replied Ibn Adham,
"I grant others; and if He deny me, I give
thanks."
Cut not your brother on mere suspicion;
nor turn away from him without explanation.
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OUR NEW YORKERS
MY FRIEND, DO NOT GO TO TARSHISH
By Alice Mokarzel
By Ana Bshoof
Going over the lists of the current and forthcontfhg books, I see the names of Barbara Webb and
Most people who read the Book of Jonah fail to Barbara Young. Aside from the similarity of their
get its true moral; they stumble on the "big fish," names, these women have other things in comthe whale which swallowed the prophet. Whereas mon—they are both Americans with Syrian conthe moral comes much' closer to the beginning of nection:
the story.
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Jehovah, if you remember the story, calls Jonah June 21st by the Paebar Press, is the literary exto go to Nineveh, tW wicked city, to preach re- ecutor of the late Kahlil Gibran with whom she
pentence to its peopl^. Instead, Jonah ignores the worked for seven years. Miss Young is one of the
call, goes down to Jloppa (our modern Jaffa) and best known contributors to The New York Times
takes a ship that is sailing to Tarshish.
and wad poetry editor of the Syrian World in its
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Jonah learned aflter bitter experience that car- magazine form in 1932.
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JjWe*cT*rUrn 'to the Idepith of despair, that it is no use
to shirk one's dvity, and run away to Tarshish,
Barbara Webb, is the wife of Monte F. Bouwhen it was clear as daylight that his life's mis- rjaily, American-born Syrian, who is general mansion was in Nineveh.
ager of the United Features Syndicate of New York
By H. I. Katibah
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The season for long stories has come around
evidently—you know, the fishy kind. But it does
seem as if this New York bunch that goes fishing
is very honest. Anyway, I took it all in, hook fine
and sinker, it sounded so plausible. Sally and Fred
Mussawir and Nedda Uniss took a boat from Sheepshead bay and went deep sea fishing. (I can imagine
them leaning over the rail. Nedda and Sally were
green when they got off the boat, but, oh, they
had a gorgeous time.) Freddy must have been kept
busy baiting the girls' hooks for he didn't catch a
thing, whereas when he went without the girls two
weeks ago he caught sixty edible fish.
Another party consisted of Henry Awad, Dick
and Alfred Zrike and Otto Ehle who went to Esop's
Creek, N. Y. They caught two beautiful 14 inch
trout, which was pretty good as the Creek hadn't
quite thawed out.
Most of* us would be fortunate if our chastise- City. Her novel "Three Who Were Strong" ran in,
ment in the belly of wasted efforts and vain strug- serial form in "Ladies Home Journal" prior to its
Among the fifty alumnae who attended the angles lasted only three days, or three weeks, months publication in book form this month. Of it a cri- nual Berkley Alumnae luncheon in the Crescent
or years. Alas, often, too often, it lasts tens of tic in "The New York Times" writes: "A modest Hamilton Athletic Club last Monday, were Violet
first novel....whose atmosphere breathes throughyears, thirty instead of three.
and Evelyn Zrike. Violet graduated from* the priout simple hopefulness, never illogically sustained
The tragedy of Jonah would have been if he or laid on too thick." The Bourjailys have both had vate school in 1925 and Evelyn in 1929.
actually succeeded in reaching Tarshish, a city fam- journalistic careers and are now pursuing them in
ous in the ancient world as a trading centre, and wider form. They live in .Connecticut and have
On a little card sent to the Junior League anwhich some modern scholars locate on the Eastern three sons, Monte, Jr., Vance and Paul.
nouncing the birth of baby Wadieh to Mr. and Mrs.
shore of Africa.
Eddie Toomey, the mother, the former Mae Ferris,
a former member of the club writes, "I suppose this
There Jonah could have amassed a great forOn two other occasions, I have mentioned in this
is
the first gentleman member of the club." There
tune, become a wealthy merchant, with ships of column announcements in connection with the Inhis own that sail the seven seas laden with gold, ternational Music Festival League of New York. are a few other babies, but all girls it seems, but
precious stones, ivory, silk and rich merchandise. The League, which hopes to bring about a better most of the young married couples have no childBut down in his heart there is a gnawing feeling, and more intimate understanding of racial groups ren. It seems as if there won't be many third gea disturbing remorse that he should have gone to through an international chorus, is now seeking neration Syrians.
Nineveh. Day after day he puts off the call; day the cooperation of more nationalities in this proafter day he soothes his conscience that on the fol- ject. Dr. A. L. Hood, president of the League, hopes,
Eddie Abdou, one of the principals in Zieglowing he would take the first ship to Nineveh. if things go well, to have the chorus sing Mendels^
feld's "Whoopee" is now on a twe weeks vacation.
But ships come and go, and Jonah is never found sohn's "Elijah" in Chicago at the World's Fair this"
"Whoopee" will open in Baltimore on the 26th.
ready to sail to Nineveh. This day it is a shipment
summer. Dr. Hood has always been interested in,
to Oman that has to be supervised, the next it is Syrians and Oriental music and would like espe. with
an order from the King of Tyre for Ebony wood, cially to have an Oriental contingent in costumes of
clad in,
I hear that an engagement announced ire„s:ve
and the third it is a caravan from the interior laden Syrian singers in New York and vicinity, who can
with ivory and ostrich feathers for the queen of attend rehearsals at least once a week, are eligible 'has been called off. It goes against the Sante^
hear that there are some young men so.' <*?ii 3
Ethiopia.
for 'the chorus and can communicate with the League
Jonah grows more prosperous, but also older in for 'further information, Room 1000, 41 East 42nd their mother's influence faat they "desert the girT"
they once thought they loved. (Some love.) I am
years, and the turbulent voice of his conscience Street, New York City.
glad for the girl that it has so happened. She is
grows' fainter, but never stifled, until, at last the
very sweet and charming.
Grim Reaper comes and calls him to the great beFor' a real Oriental treat, go to see the "Baryond. And on his soft death-bed Jonah reviews his
whole life and finds that peace has fled from his barian,"/one of the new screen shows with Ramon
A certain group of young men whispered to me
heart, and the apple of success has turned into an Navarro in the title role. The picture lays its plot
apple of Sodom in his hand, his sweetness into in Egypt and it is replete with Arabic dialogue, .that they have elected Habib Katibah president of
wormwood. He dies with a bitter vacuity in his Egyptian settings and music. But, funny enough, their pipe club. He has been smoking a pipe for
heart and the vision of Nineveh before his closing the Arabic part of this picture is spoken with a years and years. These young men all smoked a
pipe at one time or another, but dropped this form
Syrian dialect and not an Egyptian one.
eyes.
of smoking some time ago. Now since Habib came
A still greater tragedy would be a Jonah chasing the illusory rainbow under one end of whose
Jean Capart, Belgian Egyptologist, who was back, they have all taken it up again. You should
arch his pot of gold is supposed to lie—a Jonah asked by the Brooklyn Museum to come to the have seen them all sampling his tobacco, just like
vainly running after a mirage that carries him United States to supervise the alteration on their girls sampling another girl's powder. They finally
further and further into ,the desert of false hopes Egyptian exhibitions, gave a talk on his current decided that they liked it well enough to buy that
and empty desires.
Days and years pass, and work over the radio last week through station brand and now when you look at any of them each
seems so content with that pipe in his mouth, just
Jonah becomes old, his arched back bent under a W N Y C.
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like a contented baby with a bottle. They find it
double load of unrequited ambition and fruitless
is very economical, too. As for me I prefer a man
endeavor. His dream of Nineveh only makes him
more miserable; what he could be and was not hundred he turns out to be a failure or a third- to smoke a pipe than cigarettes or cigars. It seems
embitters his soul and makes him more cynical, rater, robbing the world of a genuine contribution more mannish as it is almost exclusively a mas*
more intent on justifying his already wasted life. and himself of the only true consolation a man can culine habit.
It is too late for him to go to Nineveh, even too have in life—that he has done something for which
late to enjoy the riches that he might suddenly dis- he is eminently fit.
And here is a man with a social gift and a keen
Just get hold of one of the announcements of
cover. So he glues his eyes to the horizon of his
ill-chosen career and presses his weary steps on- mind for human transactions. He i. _ born mer- the Syramar tournament. Look at the third picture,
ward. At last he falls down, exhausted and parched. chant. But he mistakes the meaning of his popu- the one showing the men drinking beer. They look
In his last moments of delirium he raves of the gold larity. Something he had written for his school just like Syrians. I'd love to know who drew them
(he never could lay hold of, of Nineveh which he paper goes to his head and gives him the obsession and whom they are drawn from. (Ain't my gramma
that he is a born writer instead. He takes up a luscious?) The one with the little mustache might
never could see.
The story of Jonah is a parable of everyday literary career, for which he has no special pre- be, gee whiz, who's got a mustache? The good-lookparation or innate urge. He is attracted more by ing one standing up might be John Macsoud and the
life.
Today, as truly as in the days of Jonah, young false fame than by the joy of creativeness or the jolly one siting down might be Charlie Barsa. And
men and young women whose natural abilities, inspiration of a true message surging in his soul. then thft other picture of a poised little Miss. Maybe
whose inherited gifts and advantages of environ- He becomes just "another" writer, struggling along it's Vicky Shamas. The last picture is hard to
ment, obviously destine them to a career in Nineveh, the path of mediocrity that leads to oblivion. And make out. The trouble is that I don't know many
foolishly turn their faces away and go to Tarshish. the world loses a captain of industry or a construc- Syrian boys who dance well enough to deserve my
honorable mention
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Once they succeed, they argue to themselves, they tive philanthropist.
Tarshish is full of people who should be in
, will take a ship and go to Nineveh of their natural
Girls, haven't you always dreamed of the great
destiny. Against the counsel that embodies the Nineveh.
The world is full of broken-hearted men and big he man? Ah, my heart palpitates when I think
wisdom of the ages, they take a route that ends
women who bow to* expediency, choose the wider, of him! I refer to one so-called Eddie Shamas. I
either in empty success or bitter failure.
Here is a young man endowed with the gift more comfortable, more appealing way that leads am letting out a little secret of his. He simply
of Orpheus, a song in his heart and skill in the further away from their true goal in life, and lands can't treat a girl like an equal. Play bridge with a
girl, not he. Play golf, tennis etc. Not Eddie Shatips of his firm, graceful fingers. But what with the them in the slough of dispair.
Friend, if heredity, nature and environment mas. I wonder how he gets out of the pleading recounsel of foolish parents, the ridicule of his playmates and the false standards of success that entice point to you the way you should go, do not take quests of the imbecile sex. You should see him
squirm when I asked him to play bridge with me.
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him like sirens on all sides, he gives up his piano another.
If Jehovah sends you to Nineveh, dm not go to He avoided the request so skillfully that I don't reor violin to take up a more "manly" career; he
member what he said.
goes into business. In ninety-nine cases out of a Tarshish!
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THE SYRlASf WORLD, NEW YQHK, MAY 19, 1933.
MINIATURES
ARABESQUE
ALEPPO
Aleppo—the northern capital of Syria. .
the gateway of Asia Minor... the apex of
the Fertile Crescent... the city of cafes and
theatres... the melting pot of Arabs, Turks,
Armenians and Kurds. . . the city that made
pistachio nuts famous.
From days immemorial Aleppo was a pivotal city in the caravan trade, standing as
it does midway on the shortest route between
the Euphrates and the Mediterranean, Sea.
Alexandretta, Aleppo's famous port, derives
its name from Alexander the Great who foresaw the importance of this natural harbor.
The caravans, laden with the riches of the
Orient and coming from Persia, Mesopotamia and Asia Minor, would stop at Aleppo
on their way to Alexandretta.
The name Aleppo is Semitic in derivation.
Its Arabic form, Halab, means "to milk."
Arabic tradition identifies this city as the
spot where Abraham "milked" his herd and
once a week distributed the milk freely
among the poor.
The Greek geographer Strabo mentions
Aleppo under a Semitic for,m Khalep. But
in the reign of the Greek Seleucides, its
name was changed to Beroea by Seleucus Nicator, or Chalybon-Beroea.
Mentions of
Khalep occur in Babylonian, Assyrian and
Egyptian records. The chief mosque of Aleppo, Zakariah Mosque, is said to have risen
over the ruins of a church dedicated to Helen,
nstantine's mother, and to have contained
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Make Friendly Neighbors in the
Heights of Desolate
Sinai
On the extreme southeasterly
border of Syria, in one of the earth's
most desolate and also most sacred
spots, modern science now seeks a
footing for undisturbed investigation.
in Mt Sinai, where the Jews received the two tablets of the law
and where the most ancient Chrstian
monastery still stands today, an observing station for the measurement
and study of the sun's radiation has
been definitely decided upon.
Such is the purport of a report of
A. F. Moore* Smithsonian Institution,
astrophysicist, and the Institution is
now following his recommendation in
establishing an astrophysical observing station on the summit of Mount
St. Catherine in the Sinai Peninsula, at approximately 8,600 feet above
sea-level. Daily measurements will
be taken of the sun's radiation.
Monks Make Good Neighbors
The new observatory's nearest
neighbors and closest friends are the
monks of the St. Catherine monastery.
This is the oldest of all Christian
monasteries. It was established in
the fifth century and has had an unbroken tradition ever since.
The
presence and hospitality of these
monks, Mr. Moore reports, alone
makes the establishment and operation of the observatory possible. It
is entirely due to them that the desolate region is free from Bedwin,
brigands.
Moreover, they control
all the native labor in the vicinity.
They have constructed a trail up
Mount St Catherine which Mr.
Moore describes as "truly a marvel,
of even gradient, well constructed,
General View of Aleppo, Emporium of Northern Syria, Showing the Commanding Position m the Citadel.
a relic of St. John the Baptist.
for the rehef of Armenian immigrants, of
The Citadel of Aleppo is one of the most
which the city has about 30,000, more than
impressive historic remains in Syria, and was
500,000 additional trees of this delectable
built by Saladin to fortify the city against
nut were grown in recent years.
•the Crusaders, who uever took possession
Aleppo is famous for its textiles, rugs,
of it.
leather goods and as the chief emporium of
All around Aleppo extensive orchards of
the fez trade throughout the East. A few
the pistachio nut tree extend in all direc
years ago Aleppo imported the first talkie
Under French policy, and as a Z \ gg m^ne ^^^
tions.
and equal to our best mountain trails.
It is like a picture out of the
earliest days of Christianity.
Into
this scene the Smithsonian scientists
were welcomed with open arms.
The. monks, and especially the archbishop of the Greek Orthodox church
who resides in Cairo, took a deep interest in the proposed observations.
The main monastery is located
near the base of the nearby Mount
Sinai but there is a shrine on the
summit of Mount St. Catherine itThe mountain is nearly in the
center of the triangular mountainous
region forming the southern end of
the Sinai Peninsula. The mountains,
of crystalline formation, in which the
peak is located are among the most
rugged to be found in the world.
Mount St. Catherine, according to
Mr. Moore's description, towers above
varicolored mountains and chasms
on all sides. Thirty miles away lies
the Gulf of Suez, in which the
Smithsonian observers can count the
ships on a clear day. To the south
is the Red Sea and to the east are
seen stretches of the Gulf of Aqaba,
separating the Sinai Peninsula from
Egypt.
Mohammed Pledges Monks
One account of St. Catherine
makes her the talented daughter
of King Kenetos who embraced Christianity. The Roman emperor Maximinus (308-314 A.D.) tried his best
to make her recant her Christian
profession but to no avail. She was
finally beheaded and her body was
said to have been borne by angels
/to Mt. Sinai where, later, the Christian emperor Justinian built the
famous monastery in her honor.
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THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, MAY 19, 1933.
PROFILES
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
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MICHEL G. mUI.;.. Assistant
Professor of Electrical Engineering in
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
was born in Deir-ul-Qamar, Lebanon,
the son of Mr. and Mrs. George C.
Malti.
Prof. Malti entered the American
University of Beirut after graduating from the High School in Sukul-Gharb, Lebanon
In 1915 he
received his B. A. from the American,
University. Coming to the United
States soon after, he entered the
Georgia School of Technology where
he graduated as a Bachelor in Elec-
trical Engineering in 1922
Seeking
the highest degrees in the field of
science, Prof. Malti entered Cornell
University, receiving his Master in
Electrical Engineering in 1924 and his
Ph.D. in 1927.
Prior to his present position,
Prof. Malti was formerly Consulting
Engineer for the Elliott Company of
America
He has the high distinction of being included in the biographical sketches in the 1933 edition of "American Men of Science"...
Prof. Malti is a member of the Editorial Board of "Sibley Journal," the
Cornell University Engineering publication,
he is a member also of
the honorary fraternities, Sigma Xi,
Phi, Kappa Phi, and Eta, Kappa Nu.
The most important of Prof. Malti's inventions is his slide rule for
complex quantities
His published
books are considered invaluable by
scientific minds
An American reviewer said of Prof. Malti's "Electric Circuit Analysis": "It is one of
the best in its field"
a British
authority said of the same work:
"The author is to be complimented
upon a volume in which clarity of
expression, thoroughness of treatment and mathematical precision are
skillfully combined with an appreciation of the physical meaning and
practical value of the mathematical
results."
Prof. Malti is now working on
his book "Magnetic Circuit Analysis" which he expects to publish in
1935.
CINCINNATI
LEBANESE BEAUTY
QUEEN
During the Easter season contest held recently in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, for the most beautiful girl among the employees of
the city, Miss Julia Mansour received a majority of 136,000 votes
thus gaining the crown of Easter
queen. ^liss Mansour's parents
are Lebanese, her father coming
from Bkassin.
CLIPPERS, VICTORS OVER
TYGERS
The Clippers A. C. won thensecond baseball' game of the season/
last Sunday by defeating the Tygers
A. C. in an exciting overtime game
of eleven innings by the score of
S to 4, making it two straight victories for the Clippers.
Theodore Hajjar pitched the game
for the Clippers, having perfect control throughout, allowing six hits and
striking out thirteen batters.
Edward Simon, playing shortstop for the Clippers, accepted eight
chances without a miss.
James Hajjar, field captain of the
Clippers, acquired two hits and made
a spectacular steal from second base
to home in the eleventh inning, scoring the winning run to end the game.
Both teams played hard baseball
and fought hard to win, making it a
very exciting contest to witness.
The Clippers will play the Jolly
Rovers again on Sunday, May 21, at
the Edison lots at the foot of Clinton
Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
LEBANESE, WEIGHT LIFTING
MAROON-SAAB WEDDING
Lucille Cecelia Saab, daughter of
Mrs. Anthony Saab of Canton Mississippi and the late Anthony Saab of
Jounieh, Lebanon, and Frederick M.
Maroon of Warsaw, North Carolina,
were married Monday mopning, May
1, in Sacred Heart Church in Canton,
the Rev. Milot officiating.
Mrs. Samuel Nohra was matron of
honor and Mrs. William Kelly and
Alice Saab, bridesmaids. All three
are sisters of the bride. A cousin,
Miss Margaret Neman, was also a
bridAsmaid. David Butross brotherin-law of the bride, was best man,
Samuel G. Nohra, Albert and Peter
Saab were groomsmen and William
Kelly, Joseph and Edward Butross
and Charles Seater were ushers.
At nine o'clock in the evening, a
reception and dance were held for
the bridal party by the bride's mother in the Country Club.
Among Those Present
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The following friends and relatives were the house guests of Mrs.
Anthony Saab during the week: Mr.
and Mrs. A. M. Zwan and daughter
Amelia; the Misses Helen and Marguerite Johns, all of Crowley, La.;
Mr. andf Mrs. S. G. Nohra; Miss Nebeha Nohra; Miss Melvina Salloum;
Sam Owen, all of Gulfport; Mrs. E.
S. Liman and daughter Elizabeth of
Luxora, Ark.; Miss Sallie Hamra of
Carruther'sville, Mb.; Mrs. A. Anton,
Blanch, Agnes and Edward Anton;
Mrs. A. G. Abide, Stella and Marie
Abide of Greenwood, Miss.; Clifton
Saab, New Orleans, Mrs. and Mrs.
Ed. Barret and family of Olney, Tex.
and Mrs. R. Batrous of McComb.
LEBANESE BROADCASTS
Among the visitors to this office
yast week was Joseph Sirgany of
Scrantqn, Pa., who broadcasts over
W. G. B| I., a local station of that city.
He cari be heard any night at the
Nile Restaurant, 121 W. 49th Street,
New York.
SOCIAL NEWS
Mr. Assad E. Anton of Greenwood, Miss., is in New York on business.
Among those who left for Syria
was Mr. George Y. Al-Ehdiny of
Detroit, a well-known photographer
of that city.
Mr. Fouad Dow, well-known merchant of Columbia, S. America, sailed
last Saturday for a visit to Lebanon.
Abraham Arab and his son, Louis,
of Halifax, Canada, arrived in New
York on Tuesday, on their first stop
of their tour of the United States,
during which they will visit the Exposition in Chicago.
Louis Ghiz and William Hanna
of Cleveland, Ohio, spent a few days
with Mr. and Mrs. Richard Eadeh of
Brooklyn. They left last Monday.
Mrs. M. Matta, Mr. Ghiz's cousin,
entertained them in her home on
Sunday.
Miss Bahia Hajjar, Syrian secretary of the International Institute of
Brooklyn, is spending her ten-day
vacation in Oscawana, N. Y. and expects to return to the city tomorrow.
The departure of Mrs. F. M. Jabara and her daughter Gladys from
Beirut has been postponed to the
23rd of this month as Mrs. Najib
Khairallah, the former Florence Jabara, and her baby will accompany
them, to America.
Mr. Joseph Mabarak of Brooklyn
will spend the week-end in Dubois,
Pa., where Mrs. Mabarak and their
son have been spending the last few
days. The whole family will return
on Tuesday.
CHAMPION
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John Mallo, whose town of origin
is Kuba, Lebanon, is hailed as the
'national champion weight lifter of
the United States.
In an athletic meet held on May
17 in Akron, Ohio, John Mallo lifted
226y2 pounds in the snatch and grab
and 280 pounds at clean and jerk, a
total of 743 pounds, breaking the record of the A. A. U. by five pounds.
More power to John Mallo!
TO SPEAK ON HOME
ECONOMICS
Miss Claire Sugden, author of
'The Romantic and Practical Side of
Cookery," who broadcasts over WOR,
will speak on Home Economics to
the Lilola Club in their clubrooms
on Tuesday evening. Mary Ginnawie, president of the club, will preside at the meeting.
Mr. and Mrs. John Joseph entertained two hundred guests at the
Cincinnati Art. Centre. Mr. Joseph
had members of the local Syrian colony stage a wedding scene, and other
scenes representing Egypt of antiquity.
The Cincinnati College of Pharmacy has on its graduation list two
Syrians, Joseph Anthony Salem and
Henry T. Kail. The former is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Salim Salem,
owners of several confectionaries in
this city.
Mr. George Ganim, real estate
expert, has become the proprietor of
the Cintech Hotel, Third and Broadway.
Mabel Howatt will receive this
month her music and high school
diplomas from Notre Dame Academy.
She has already enrolled at the University of Cincinnati, where she expects to pursue a liberal arts course.
HOLY THURSDAY RITES
Father Peter Aschkar With Choir
Boys Celebrate Ceremony of the
Washing of the Feet
A Minneapolis,. Minn., paper devoted quite a little space, with a
double-column picture, to the discription of an ancient church rite
lcvived annually in the Eastern
churches in the Passion Week.
Father Peter Aschkar, pastor of
St. Maron Church in that city, with
the help of his choir boys, clad in
white robes, made an impressive
pageant. Richard Saba repfef^ ijl
St. Peter. Others who assjc -"1.
er Aschkar were Dayhart Jacob, Andrew Simon, Joseph Namie,, Mitchell Joseph, Jacob Jacob, Simon
Simon, Thomas Simon, Thomas Dayhart, Albert Namie, John Risk and
Philip Basil.
A MODEL OF MODESTY
Excerpt from a letter from Prof.
Malti in reference to the Profile Department.
In preparing this interview for
publication will you kindly keep
this idea in mind? Say as little as
possible about M. G. Malti. But say
all you can about what Syilans can
and should be—a credit to their native country, to their race, to their
adopted country, to their chosen profession, and to the world they live
BRIDGE-DANCE
A bridge-dance will be held in
the American-Syrian Federation club
rooms
on
Schermerhorn
Street,
Brooklyn, on the evening of June 3
under the joint auspices of the
Daughters of the United Maronite Society and the Damoor Fraternity. One.
floor will be devoted to bridge and
another to dancing. They will have
the same orchestra that played for
their luncheon dance held not long
ago. Miss Margaret Hatem, chairman of the committee in charge of
arrangements, is assisted by the Misses
Salha Saad, Alice Gryeb, Eugenie
Abood, Lillian Abraham and Effie
Owen, in conjunction with Michael
Owen, Michael Khoury, Freddy Owen,
Said Akel and Adib Gryeb, president of the Damoor Fraternity.
The Daughters of the United
Maronite Society is endeavoring to
raise funds for their church, Our
Lady of Lebanon Church on Hicks
Street, as all the treasury funds of
the church were tied up in the forme
Faour Bank.
OBITUARIES
Najeeb Joseph Minam passed
away in Dayton, Ohio, last Monday.
His wife, May, survives him.
Anise N. Sarkees, Brooklyn, died
yesterday after an illness of 15
months.
Mrs. Wardie H. Radie, Brooklyn,
passed away yesterday. Funeral services will be held in St. Joseph's
Church, Washington Street, N. Y. tomorrow noon.
Assad Joseph Malhame died in
Beirut of typhoid fever April 12.
He is survived by his sisters, Mary,
Victoria and Olga Malhame of Brooklyn. He was a bridegroom of five
months.
Saad Simon Hajj, brother of Elias
and Joseph Simon Hajj of New LonConn., died in Zabougha, Al"banon, last month, at the
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VOL. VII NO. 3
NEW YORK, MAY 19, 1933.
FAOUR PLEA
REJECTED
FUR WORKERS'
STRIKE SUCCESS
Danbury, Conn., May 17.—The
strike of the fur workers, led by
Rev. Wehby, that has been in progress for the last few weeks, ended
yesterday in success for the strikers. Rev. Wehby, who was the
moving force in the strikers' fight,
will broadcast his version of the
strike campaign over station WICC
this evening, at the request of the
Bridgeport Herald which owns the
station.
A repetition of a request on the
part of Faour brothers to the creditors of the Faour Bank now in liquidation at a meeting held last Sunday
wrfs also refused by the creditors.
The Faours asked for a five-year
moratorium in order to conserve
and manage the properties of the
bank which consist mainly of real
estate, to the best advantage of all
concerned, granting the creditors in
the meantime a nominal interest.'
But the same reasons that were
giveri by the creditors in refusing the
same request a short time ago, were
advanced this time also, thus preventing the acceptance by the creditors of
the arrangement and causing a deadlock.
The meeting, which was held in
one of the Faour buildings on Greenwich Street, was marked by great
excitement and heated discussions.
SHE ROBS HOME
BY CLEVER RUSE
A Strange Tale That Sounds as
if It Were' Lifted from the
Pages of the Arabian Nights
Is True Story of Damascene Life
LEBANON NINE VICTORS
Chicago and New York gangsters, with their rough methods and
terroristic ways, may take lessons in,
gentler tactics of robbery from a
Damscene woman.
Sometime ago, according to a
news account from Damascus that
sounds as if it were a story-teller's
invention or bodily lifted from the
pages of the Arabian Nights, but is
a simple account of a true occurance,
a certain comely woman came up to
a tobacco stand in the Sarujiyyah
Bazaar. Lifting up the corner of
her veil and with a bewitching smile
on her pretty face, she handed the
dealer some money and said:
(Special Correspondence)
Niagara Falls, N. Y., May 16.—
"^ ^*!j£$y °* Lebanon softball team
m^*J itS*»*o«rth straight game today
by defeating the Armenian Citizens,
17-6. In the fourth inning, the score
was tied but the heavy hitting of the
Lebanon team broke the deadlock.
D. Maroon was almost unbeatable
on the mound, striking out 10 men.
G. Jacob, Joseph and W. Gazy led
the attack against the rival team.
N. E. CONVENTION
DRAWS NEAR
Clubs That Have not Joined Should
Do so Now
Plans for the convention, which
is to be held May 30 and sponsored by
the Syrian-American Federation of
New England, are complete.
The
object of this meeting is to enlarge
its membership and discuss topics of
interest to our people. The Federation hopes that this will be the first
step towards a national organization
giving our people greater recognition.
Each organization in New England is welcome to send two delegates
who will be allowed to speak, disr
cuss and vote on any subject that
may arise during the meeting which
will be called to order at 3 P. M. Mr.
Louis A. George of Quicy, Mass., the
president, will be chairman.
The committee consists of Louis
E. Ghiz, chairman; the Misses Marion
Birbara, Mary Dowd, Selma Abisamra, Rachel Kaneb, Sally Aramony,
Mrs. John Assad, Mrs. John Beyrouty, Joseph Lian, George Abdella,
Nicholas Koury, and Charles Wakeen. They have engaged the mp^ji
bcllroom of the Bancroft He-' marvei
a dinner-dance that prom*TOnstructed.
one of the outstanding e* »
season in New England. \
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OHIO SYRIANS
KING SLUMMING
HONOR CONSUL IN OLD ALEPPO
(Special Correspondence)
Debtors' Plan for Five-Year
Moratorium Falls Through
Niagara Falls, N. Y., May 17.—
The Daughters of Lebanon Society
entertained at a reception and dance
Sunday night for the benefit of Our
Lady of Lebanon Church. Mrs. R.
George Shalhoub gave a brief address
of welcome.
Single Copy 7 Cents.
Leaves
Order
for
Presents
"Here is some money for five
boxes of cigarettes and a bouquet of;
flowers. In ten minutes please deliver
these to such and such a house
(directing him to a house in the
neighborhood) and say that they are
for so and so (giving a fictitious
name,) a present from her husband."
Then departing from the tobacconist's stand, the woman went
straight to the designated house, and,
taking off her veil and izar, sat on!
a sofa waiting undisturbedly, as i|
she were the mistress of the house.
, Soon the real wife came in, and,
with a questioning look on her face,
greeted the strange intruder, asking
her who she was and what her desire might be.
But the intruder only smiled
back sarcastically, and replied that
she was the true lady of the house,
and that the landlord was her ownj
husband, having married her a few
months back, and now in accordance
with his wish she was moving into
his house.
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Real Wife Enters
As they were thus arguing, the
real wife taken completely by surprise at her supposed divorce of
which she had no previous intimation or knowledge, in came a boy
from the tobacconist dealer with the
cigarettes and flowers, just as it had
been arranged, and, asking for the
intruding woman by her fictitious
name, delivered the presents with the
-ssage that they were from her
id.
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Announces Silver Jubilee of
Msgr. Haick
(Special Correspondence)
Youngstown, Ohio, May 16.—At
the suggestion of Msgr. Rt. Rev. Elias
Haick, of this city, the French Consul at Columbus, M. Henry Fabat,
visited this city and was the guest
of honor at several banquets and receptions held during the last few
days.
During the banquet held by the
parish of Rt. Rev. Haick's Church,
M. Fabat said in his speech, "I am
very fond of the Lebanese and Syrians and my liking for them increases
the more I know them. There is
nothing I would like more than to
visit the Cedars of Lebanon and .then
die boasting that I have beheld the
mest beautiful spot under heaven and
the most beloved to the hearts of
those who know it."
The principal banquet was held
in the open near Youngstown and was
attended by several American officials
and Lebanese delegations from different communities. Mr. S. M. Rashid, toastmaster, presented the following speakers: Rev. Fr. Macdonald,
Msgr. Haick, Joseph Sakr, Nabih
Abbasaad, and Peter D. Aljawish.
Mr. Rashid announced at this time
that the Syrian and Lebanese communities were planning to hold an,
affair in honor of the silver jubilee
of the priesthood of Msgr. Haick
which takes place in July.
Albert King of the Belgians Sips
Coffee in Aleppo's Bazaar;
Buys Red Shoes and
Embroidered Caps
You could
have knocked
them down with a feather!
So surprised were the habitues of the "Bears' Cafe" on the
Street of the New Way, Aleppo, the owner, the garcons, the
shoe-blacks jand peddlers who
frequent that popular resort of
pleasure in the northern capital
of Syria. And who would not
be in their place, when, turning
the pages of the Arabic papers
that come out in the city, they
discovered for the first time that
the dignified gentleman who visited the cafe the day before,
who mingled freely with the motley
crowds, ordered his Turkish coffee
like an ordinary mortal, was no
other than His Majesty King Albert
of the Belgians, now on a visit to
Syria incognito. And there was the
picture of his majesty which proves
his identity beyond the shadow of a
doubt, and also the account of his
visit; with the name of the cafe in
black letters. You should have heard
them talk all at once, in their excitement, gesticulating, smiling and
shaking their heads in amused merriment!
Albert Copies Harun ar-Rashid
The real wife, no more doubting
the strange woman's story, angrily
left her home, with tears streaming
down her cheeks, and went straight
to her parents' home.
In the evening the husband, having locked his little shop in al-Bizuriyyah, turned his steps homeward, with visions of a warm supper and a loving wife who welcomes him smiling at the gate. But
when he got there, he found the gate
ajar, contrary to his expectations. He
called for his wife, but received no
answer. Instead, as he entered the
open court, he discovered that his
house was effectively ransacked, with
no trace of his wife anywhere in the
empty, gaping rooms.
Irate Husband Follows Wife
With suspicion and wrath heaving
in his breast, the irate husband went
to his wife's parents, not doubting
that she had deserted him and.
moved all she could with her. But as
he reached Jiis in-laws' home he was
irtceived icily. Without waiting for
an explanation he began to scold
and berate his wife, who refused even
to lift her eyes up to him. The truth
however, soon disclosed itself. It
was realized that the wife had not
been divorced by her husband, who
still loved her, and that the husband was not robbed by his wife,
who was still loyal to him; but that
both were robbed by a clever, scheming woman who would not have
herself outdone by the cunning Dalilah, the heroine in "Ali Quicksilvr,"
the classical Arabic detective story,
said to be the prototype of all our
modern deteotive literature
The royal visitor, copying a chapter from the colorful life of Harun
ar-Rashid, expressed his desire to
his hosts of the French Commissariat that he wished to'see the city
without attracting much attention.
As we would put it, he wanted to
go slumming through the covered
bazaars, crooked, narrow streets and
quaint squares of Aleppo. So in ordinary clothes,, King Albert, accompanied by M. Lavastre of the High
Commissariat, hoofed it from the
French Residence.
They passed
through as-Sikka Street, lined on,
both sides by gardens and cafes, the
most fashionable of which was the
Bear Cafe. Into this King Albert and
the French official entered. When,
they were seated a garcon asked them
what they wanted. The King ordered
Turkish coffee, which he sipped leisurely as his eyes wandered all over
the place and in his ears rang the
loud callings of the customers: "Boy,
bring three cups of coffee! A live
coal for this nargillah!" ' All this
while a screetchy gramophone was
grinding away popular Arabic songs.
Buys Red Shoes
From there King Albert visited
the famous Aleppo Citadel, and on
the way back passed through the
bazaar of the Red Boot. He stopped
at a few, sampling some Cordovan;
red shoes with his own hand arid buying two pairs, one for hiirjself and
one for the queen, as well as a few
embroidered native caps (taqiyyahs.)
.And so the Alepponese rubbed
elbows with royalty; but what a pity
they did not know it till it was too
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<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
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The Syrian World
PUBLISHED WEEKLY — ESTABLISHED 1926
NEW YORK, MAY 26, 1933.
VOL. VII NO. 4
SYRIAN SITUATION GROWS GRAVER
NATIONALISTS REFUSE COOPERATION
NEW SYRIAN MINISTERS APPOINTED IN PLACE OF
RESIGNING ONES
Fakhri al-Barudi, Leading Nationalist, Breaks into Parliament and
Delivers Fiery Speech, Faints from Emotional Effect
and Is Carried out
Non-Nationalist Members Refute Charge of Subserviency to
French Authorities
(Special Correspondence)
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AGAINST persistent and tumultuous protests from nationalist
quarters of this city, Aleppo, Homs and other cities in the interior
of Syria, and in spite of noisy dejmonstrations, city lock-outs, and
ominous orations, Mohammed Ali Bey al-Aabid, President of the
Syrian Republic, issued his proclamation for the formation of the
new Syrian ministry. This consisted of the former ministers with
the following changes:
Suleiman Jukhdar, Minister of Justice; Shakir Nimat al-Shabaani, Minister of Finance, in place of Jamil Mardam Bey and
Mazhar Pasha Rislan whose resignations in protest of the government's policy had been accepted.
Selim Jubart Bey, former Minister
of Public Works becomes also Minister
of Education, and Mohammed Yahya
Atali Bey Minister of Agriculture and
Commerce.
Nationalists Protest Ministry
No sooner was the announcement
of the new ministry made public
than the nationalists of the city registered their protest in the usual
manner. The city was completely
closed down, thousands gathered in
front of the President's palace and
shouted their disapprovel. The police
were scattered in the streets, and
over a thousand merchants, meeting in
the store of Sadiq and Ramazan in.
al-Hamidiyyah Bazaar, signed a petition of protest to His Excellency Mohammed Bey al-Aabid, protesting
against a (ministry "formed of persons who are known for their inimical attitude to the nation."
A few days later, on the 11th of
May, the Syrian Parliament met
again, after its adjournment, and it
was rumored that the nationalist firebrand, Fakhri Bey al-Baroody, was
going to be present at the meeting to
[register his protest in person. AlBaroody, author of the Syrian nationalist anthem: "Anti Suriyyah Bilady," is a duly-elected representative of the Nationalist Block. He had
absented himself from previous meetings as did the rest of the nationalist representatives. But this time he
had something up his sleeve. The
parliament building was surrounded
with helmeted police in anticipation
of trouble, but nothing of serious nature happened.
Fakhri al-Baroody Enters Scene
The session opened in the usual
manner. But with the formalities over,
Fakhri Bey Baroody stood in his
seat, as all centered their eyes on
{him and listened with abated breath.
With evident emotion and an1
earnest expression on his face, Fakhri
began:
"I must express my regret that I
was absent from the previous session. But now I have certain obContinued on page 3.
FEISAL'S STATUE
IN GAGHDAD
IN the ancient capital of Harun ar-Rashid, which has left us
no genuine likeness of its illustrious rule nor any of his forebears
and successors, because it is forbidden in the Sunna (Islamic traditions) to reproduce living beings, the statue of King Feisal
will rise 7 meters above the
ground. The statue was executed
recently in Italy and shipped to
Baghdad.
OLD HOSTLER
PASSES AWAY
Hanna Antoun Helped Syrian
and Lebanese Immigrants in
Marseilles for 30 Years
THE passing away of Hanna
George Antoun, well-known Lebanese ' hostler of Marseilles, adds
another line to the final chapter of
Lebanese and Syrian pioneers who
left their homes and sought their
fortunes in different climes, far and
near. The "Matin," which appears in
Marseilles, said of Mr. Antoun that
for the thirty years he had lived in
that city and kept a hotel there, he
helped travelling Lebanese and .Syrians coming over to North and South
America or returning to their homelands.
EDDIE ABDOU WEDS
TORONTO GIRL
EDDIE Abdou, of
Ziegfeld's
"Whoopee," was married on May 4
to Marie Khoury of Toronto, Canada.
Mrs. Abdou, who came to New York
City for the ceremony, returned on
May 7 to Toronto where her husband
will join her in a month after the
show has played in Baltimore and
Washington D. C.
They expect to
make their home in New York.
PAN-ISLAMIC
CONFERENCE
Meeting in India Will Discuss
Islamic University in Jerusalem;
Arab Delegation to
Solicit Funds
SYRIAN KILLED,
BEAUMONT, TEX.
Deeb Shaboub, 55, of Damascus,
Murdered by Half-Breed
Mexican; Motive
Robbery
Mohammed Pasha Alawiyyah Gives
Plan of University
THREE years ago, following the
adjournment of the Round Table Conference on India in London, a group
of Moslem leaders, headed by Maulaya Shawkat Ah, Mohammedan national leader of India, made a tour;
of Palestine. Up and down the country, the powerful Hindu Moslem
spoke before mass meetings and to
smaller groups of Moslem leaders on
a subject which had then attracted
a great deal of attention, and had
been the topic of discussion and exchange of ideas among Pan-Islamic
leaders all over the world, particularly of Palestine and Egypt.
Proposed Moslem University
This subject was the proposed
founding of an influential Moslem
university in Jerusalem, perhaps to
offset the influence of the Hebrew
University, established several years
ago with Zionist funds and for the
propagation of Jewish culture in the
Holy Land.
The propaganda for the Moslem
•university of Jerusalem was launched,
as we would say, at the psychological moment. The sudden death of
Maulaya Mohammed Ali, Shawkat
Ali's brother, amidst the heated debates of the Round Table Conference,
and the dramatic funeral procession
in Palestine where the departed
Moslem leader requested that his remains be interred, in the sacred precincts of al-Masjid-ul-Aqsa, created
a high-pitched interest in Pan-Islamic topics. A revivalist wave swept
the Arab-Moslem world anew, and
enthusiasm for the proposed Moslem
university was aroused everywhere.
For three years, however, nothing
of consequence was done to translate
this commendable project from the
realm of planning to the realm of
actuality. "The Moslem world, as all
other countries in West and East
alike, was enveloped with a thick
cloud of economic depression. The
university project required enormous sums of money to materialize;
end money was scarce.
Efforts Renewed
At the beginning of this month
>we began to hear of new efforts in
behalf of the Moslem university.
The immediate occasion was the holding of a Pan-Islamic conference in
India, in the immediate future. Arab
Moslem leaders who had announced
their intention to participate in the
.conference, conceived the idea of
presenting the university project for
discussion at the conference. They
plan, besides, to solicit funds from
the Moslems of Iraq, Persia and
India, for the university. To make
the appeal more effective, it was proposed to offer Palestine real estate
for sale. The property thus redeemed
from the certain danger of falling
into Zionist hands, it is proposed to
turn into a huge land trust, waqf,
Continued on page 2.
(Special Correspondence)
Beaumont, Texas, May 21:
A half-breed Mexican, B. W.
Burge, alias B. Hernandez, shot and
killed Deeb E. Shaboub, 55, of 1786
Crokett Street of this city, last Sunday noon.
The murderer, who was arrested
on the same day, admitted, in a
Statement made to the police, that
he shot and killed Shaboub; but that
he did so in self-defense. According
t«. his own account, he went into
Shaboub's store for a cup of coffee,
and when Shaboub set the coffee
down in front of him he said he
ought to blow his (Burge's) brains
out. "I think he was going to get
gun, so I take no chance and I shot
him."
No Witness to Shooting
Though there were no witnesses
to the shooting, police saif'wfj-- ,. ii
ceived reports that Burge had suggested several days before to two
companions to hold up Shaboub.
After the shooting Burge was seen
running out of Shaboub's store. Two
bullet holes were found in Shaboub's
left temple. One of his pockets was
turned out, and the cash register ransacked, which circumstances confirm
the police suspicion that the motive
for murder was robbery and not
self-defense, as the murderer claimed.
Shaboub was reputed to carry considerable sums of money in his
pockets.
Deeb Shaboub is a native of
Damascus. He was well-known in!
Beaumont, where he had lived for
19 years, and at one time had accumulated considerable property.
ASSAD RASHD3
DIES IN SUDAN
Was
Recepient of Three Medals;
Assisted in Lebanon
Tourism
THE large clan of Rashids in
this country lost one of their distinguished members, Assad Bey Rashid, who died in Argo, Egyptian
Sudan, a few days ago.
Assad Bey was a retired army
surgeon with a long record of service. For the last 24 years, s^ce
his retirement, he spent the summers
in Judaidat Marj-Uyoun, the hometown of the Rashids in southern Lebanon.
Among the honors bestowed on
Assad Bey were a medal from the
British Government, another from the
Egyptian Government and a third
from Pope Leo XIII. In the last
years of his life he was interested in
the movement to enhance the tourist
trade in Lebanon.
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PAGE TWO
THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, MAY 26, 1933.
PALESTINE NOT
PROSPEROUS
MRS. OFEISH DEFENDS SELF
Peter S. George, Arab Palestinian Lawyer in New York,
So Claims in Special
Interview
(Peter S. George, prominent Syrian lawyer of New York,- came to
this country about 25 years ago from
the beautiful town of Ramallah, aly.ut
30 miles north of Jerusalem. His
extensive connections among influential Americans here, and his activities in behalf of the Palestinian question in the past, entitle his comments
on the present situation in that country to worthy consideration. One of
jhis brothers in Jerusalem, Bulus
George, is editor of the influential
Miraat-ul-Sharq.
Editor.)
THE report given out sometime
ago by the Jewish agency and accepted at its value by American
pewspapers, namely that Palestine is
the only country in the world thit
has not felt the effects cf the depresion, is erronuous, according to an,
interview with Peter S. George, New
York lawyer who has kept constant
watch on developments in his home
cf origin.
"Peasants are still paying the notorious 'ushr, or tithes, as they did
for centuries under the Turks," declared Mr. George, when asked for
his comment on this rather strange
report.
Demands Turned Down
"Repeated demands to reduce this
tithe," he continued, "and establish
an agricultural bank have been
turned down by the British Government of Palestine, intent as it is on
3£J^Q£ -ttut. its program of making
Palestine safe for the Jews.
Now
peasants pay as high as 20% for
money they borrow from private
The high cost of the Brim sources.
tish mandate in Palestine, a cost
which the tax-paying Palestinian peasants, in the last analysis, have to
pay, may be illustrated from the existence of supernumerary British
officials drawing high salaries, even
for work that can easily be done at
a much cheaper rate by native officials.
"The bulk of the population in,
Palestine, peasants and middle classes
alike, fare no better than similar
populations all over the world these
days. It may be true that there is
little unemployment in Palestine, as
the Zionists claim, but the high cost
of living and low wages keep the
majority of the native Palestinians
down to the subsistence margin."
"But who is getting the benefit?,"
we asked.
Zionists Mostly Poor Refugees
Mr. George's reply was laconic.
"The exploiters," he replied breifly.
"The Zionists," he went on to
explain, "may have brought some
money to the land, but most of them
may be definitely classed as poor
refugees who are seeking homes and
employment. It will be sometime
before they create any real wealth
in Palestine. True, more oranges were
shipped this year from Jaffa and its
environs than in previous years; but
when we realize that Palestine still
imports most of its consumers' goods
from England for which she has to
pay in gold, little money is left in)
the hands of the people."
The non-cooperative Movement,
about which we hear so much these
days in the news accounts of Palestine, faces many handicaps, in the
opinion of Mr. George. Foremost
among these is that Palestine does
not produce now enough goods for
the consumption of its people. Whenever they can, however, they import from their neighbor Syria.
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THE BISHOP'S BRIDE GIVES 11 TO US ON THE CHIN
Calling Her Reply "An Act of Charity," She Remonstrates with
the Syrian World for Its Editorial of the 12th of May. Repeats the Claim that Her Husband's Marriage Was an
Act of Inspiration, and a Step Toward Church
Reform
(WONDERING what the day will
bring us, as we ambled into our editorial chair, how great was our surprise when we found a letter from
Mrs. Aftimios Ofeish awaiting us on
the desk; We take great pleasure in
publishing this letter practically without any ommission, alteration or editorial disfigurement It is a reply from
(her to our editorial of May 12, entitled "A Mess of Irrelevancies" to
which she takes umbrage. We wish
to assure Mrs. Ofeish that she has our
esteem in spite of the good rubbing
she has given us, and that we were
discussing the marriage of her esteemed husband in the impersonal
spirit of editorial comment on the
news. We refuse to be dragged into
any ecclesiastical controversy, and in
publishing her letter we do so with
the recognition that it is a valuable
item of news value, if not a historic
document, being he first word coming publicly from the first living wife
of a Syrian Greek Orthodox Bishop
perhaps in history. At any rate the
Syrian World is glad to be singled
out for this honor, but will not
promise that it will keep up the correspondence.
Editor.)
THE LETTER
To the editor of the Syrian World,
New York City.
Sir:
YOUR May twelfth publication
was handed to us, and your editorial
comment on our marriage was read,
showing your state of being in a
"mess of inconsistencies" and in a
"mass of irrelevancies."
I find it an act of charity to send
you this word.
"Quench not the Spirit." "Despise not prophesyings." 1 Thess.
S: 19, 20.
It has been said, "an old man
should not marry a young girl."
The Holy Ghost did not look for
an elderly pious (woman bf whom
the will of God will be fulfilled in
the incarnation of The Word of God.
He looked for a virgin, a young lady.
It has been said, "a member of
a constituted body should not act
contrary to the constitution of that
body."
Is there any member of this body
constitutionally properly connected
with another of the same body?
It has been said, "a vow bf celibacy should not be broken or defiled." Is there any of those who
vowed a vow of celibacy, WITHOUT
Youths Taking Lead
The most encouraging feature o£
the modern development of the Palestinian situation, Mr. George avers,
is the active participation of youth
in the nationalist movement
"The good thing about this development" said Mr. George, "is that
the youth are being interested in
practical problems—education, emjustice to the masses. Palestinian'
ployment, labor unions and social
ycuth, like all youth of the world;
today, are developing a social consciousness, and sooner or later, will
assume leadership which promises a
change in the economic and social
orders of the world." ,
EXCEPTION, who has kept the vow?
if so, let him come forward and
speak as one who has the right to,
and his talk will be properly answered. Let him come forth defending celibacy.
Bishop Awaits Verdict
"Irrelevancies and inconsistencies!'
manifest themselves plainly and clearly in the irresponsible unconcerned
individual who, interfering, passes
hasty unbased opinion and judgement
against a responsible person, the
Archbishop Aftimios Ofiesh, who is
my husband, who took his firm step
thru which he spoke loudly, that
every individual, group or body
should hear: WAKE UP AND HEAR!
He spoke and acted; He waits on
others, responsible bodies to censor
his act and word. He is not one to
care for the talk or opinion of the
irresponsible irregular individual or
group.
He is not hidden; He is not mute;
The Holy Spirit which has spoken
in him will continue to do so whenever proper and effective. His marriage is not an act to be known by
carnal minded men, neither to be
understood by such men, but shall
only be understood by the lover of
THE TRUTH OF GOD.
The Scribes and Pharisees of our,
days will hide themselves in the
darkness of their inquities, and instigate and seduce the simple people
who first cried, "Hosanna, blessed is
he who cometh in the name of The
Lord;" to shout later in confusion,
"lift him up, lift him up; crucify
him, crucify him."
Mrs. Ofeish Explains Orthodoxy
You must know this fact: The
claim of the Orthodox church is,
that the only infallible voice of the
church is the ecuminical body of the
Church of Christ. This on the side
cf The Eastern Orthodox Catholic
and Apostolic Church. The Western
Roman Catholic Church on the other
side, claims that infallability rests in
the pronounced word of their visible
head of the church, the representative of Christ, the bishop of Rome.
BOTH SIDES EAST AND WEST BEING DIVTOED, PROVE THEIR "INCONSISTENCY . AND IRRELEVANCY" TO SPEAK THE FULL TRUTH
OF THE COUNSEL OF GOD.
In the matter !of our marriage,
it is a godly inspiration, a problem
to the world, but shall make itself
manifest and bring the purpose of
God in it in God's due course, within His own time, which course and
time is not for us to speak of, nor
ior the world to preSict.
bishops; and if you will read his
word in English in answer to the
Papal Encyclical, "Lux Vertatis," you
will see his answer to the invitation
to the Eastern Orthodox and other
Christian bodies which was issued
in January 1932; together with another English word headed, "Corruption!
in New York City." You will find
more plainly that the "irrelevancy and
inconsistancy" rests only in your
meager knowledge of the spiritual
affairs and life of present Christianity.
Not
Surprised
at
Irrelevancies
We were not surprised to read
in the same issue two incidents; one
concerning the Eastern Churdh, meaning the Orthodox, the other the Western, the Roman Catholic Church.
An Archbishop, in allegiance to
old Rome, refraining the people from
paying tribute to the civil government,
proving that the Master's example in
Mark 12: 14-17, "irrelevant and inconsistant"???
Five monks in allegiance to the new Rome, the socalled ecuminical Patriarchate of the
Greek Orthodox Church, rebel and
invade the canonically constituted assembly of the Synod of said Patriarchate, proving the "irrelevancy and
inconsistancy" of the vow of obedience.
I hope you will publish this in
the editorial page of your "Syrian
World" for the future English reference only. And you are at liberty
to think and write what pleases you
and concerns your own business.
For God's Truth,
Mariam Ofeish "
JJ
PAN-ISLAMIC CONFERENCE
Continued from page 1.
the income of which will go to the
maintenance of the Moslem University
at Jerusalem.
The Moslem delegates to the
Indian Islamic Conference consist of
Hajj Mohammed Amin al-Huseini,
Grand-Mufti of Palestine and head
of its Supreme Islamic Council, Mohammed Ali Pasha Alawiyyah, Egyptian leading Pan-Islamist and former
Minister of Awqaf or religious foundations of Egypt, and Sayyid al-Tabtabaii, former premier of Persia.
In an interview with "Filistin,"
leading Aarabic paper in Palestine,
Mohammed Ali Pasha, while passing
through Palestine on his way to
India, expounded the plan of the
proposed university.
Mohammed Ali Discusses University
"This project'* declared Mohammed Ah Pasha, "is a purely humanistic one. The object is to establish
a university in connection witE the
Aqsa Mosque, which will help in the
progress of human thought and relieve Palestine of its dependence on,
foreign institutions for its higher education."
The university will comprise a
sacred college for the study of Islamic lore, to be situated in the environs of al-Aqsa Mosque, a college
of agriculture and another of medicine and pharmacy. The college of
agriculture
is planned to be built on
Praying God that He will open
the Mt of Olives. Still a fourth colthe eyes of men, and fulfill thru us
lege of arts and industry is also conthe desire of the seekers of THE
templated.
The financial nucleus of
TRUTH OF GOD.
this university already exists in the
If you go back to read the
extensive awqaf of al-Aqsa Mosque.
epistles that my husband issued on
But Mohammed Ali Pasha 'and his
several different occasions concerncolleagues hav.e high hopes that Mosing the unity of THE CHURCH OF
lems in Iraq, Persia, Arabia, India
CHRIST, you will find his plain lanand other parts of the Moslem world
guage written since 1930 to Abraham
will contribute generously to make
Aswad in Syria, beside the two claimthe proposed university a creditable
ers of the Patriarchate of Antioch, - institution of higher learning, comArsanious Haddad, and Alexander
paring favorably with similar instituTahhan, together with some of their) tions in the East today.
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�THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, MAY 26, 1933.
SYRAMAR HAS GREAT WEEK-END
MANY EVENTS CROWDED INTO FEW DAYS: GOLF, BRIDGE
TOURNAMENT FOR LADIES; FORMAL DINNER AND
DANCE; TO HOLD THREE INVITATION
TOURNAMENTS DURING SUMMER
THE handicap tournament of the Syramar Golf Club of New
York was held last week-end in the Wolf-Hollow Country Club,
Delaware Water Gap, Pa. About 70 men and women participated,
arriving Friday night and leaving Sunday evening.
Play started at 8:00 A.M.
f
daylight saving time Saturday
OPERA SINGER
COMES TO N. Y.
SELMA Boujalad, soprano of the
Cincinnati Opera Company, arrived
in New York from Cleveland yesterday noon, having motored here with
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mabarak of
Erooklyn.
She will remain indefinitely in response to several radio
offers which she will consider. She
is staying with Mrs. Sadie Magella
of Brooklyn who is her aunt, and
her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Magella.
morning, when the qualifying round was played, the eliminations
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being played Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.
Elias Hamrah won the prize for
low net; George Tadross for the low
gross and the winners of the prizes
were: First Flight; Philip Lian, Winner; Saleem Munyer, Runner Up;
Nick Makanna, Consolation. Second
Flight: George Aboarab, Winner;
Henry Hadad, Runner up; Eddie Jacobs, Consolation. Third Flight: Dick
Malhame, Winner; James Dowaliby,
Runner up; Ed Leon, Consolation.
Fourth Flight: Richard Macksoud,
Winner; Abraham Lian, Runner up;
George Shamyer, Consolation.
The winners were announced and
the prizes were distributed by Richard Macksoud, president of the Syramar.
This handicap tournament will
be followed by a straight tournament in the fall, the winner of which
will be the possessor of a beautiful
antique English silver tray that was
imported from England. It is to be
the next trophy of the Syramar, the
last one having been won permanently
last year by George Ferris. The
tray will have to be won three times
to be owned permanently. The Syramar Golf Club also presented the
Wolf-hollow Country Club with a
silver plaque which is to hang on
the walls of the club house. It will
serve as a permanent record of the
winners, past and future, whose
names will be engraved on it.
On Saturday night a formal dinner was held in the main dining
£oom of the Reenleigh Hotel where
all the members and friends were
staying. After dinner, a five piece
orchestra supplied the music for the
fdancing which followed. It was a
very successful affair.
While the golf tournament was
going on among the men, the ladies
were participating in a bridge tournament in the club-house. It was
finally won by Mrs. John Macsoud
and Miss Effie Macsoud.""
The Golf Committee for the weekend consisted of Henry Hadad, chairman, Dave Malhame, vice-chairman,
and George Ferris, Wadieh Beder,
George Tadross, and Phil Lian.
Richard Macksoud has already
arranged for three invitation tournaments to take place during the
summer at exclusive near-by country clubs, before the final tournament in the falL The first one will
take place on Thursday, June 22nd
at the Yountakah Country Club, Nutley, N. J. This one will be given by
the Board ofN Governors, who will give
the prizes. The second, the president's, will be given Thursday, July
20 at Braidburn Country Club, Madison, N. J. The third invitation tournament will be announced later.
The members and wives who were
present were Assad Abood, Geo. J.
Aboarab, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Aboarab, James [Assad, /George Balish,
James J. Balish, Wadie Beder, Ma.
and Mrs. Charles Barsa, James Dowaliby, Fred Faris, Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Gassoun, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Haddad, Mitchell Hadad, Mr. and
Mrs. Alex J. Hamrah, Elias Hamrah
LEAGUE HOLDS
SOCIAL-BRIDGE
Daisy Amoury and Fred Sahadi
Bridge Prize-Winners
AS a tribute in appreciation of
the activities of the president who
has just retired from office, the Syrian Junior League held a bridgesocial in honor of Miss Selma Milkie.
It was for the members only and
men who were requested by invitation to attend. At the finish of the
bridge games, Miss Milkie, who was
president for two -years and Miss
Adele Macsoud, president for the
two years preceding, were each presented with an attractive gift by
Miss Helen Naufal, president of the
League.
The first bridge prize for the
girls was won by Miss Daisy Amoury
and the first prize for the men by
Fred Sahadi.
Miss Louise Mussawir was chairman of the evening.
Among the members who attended
were the Misses Najla Macsoud, Rosemary Teen, Mae Sotel, Selma Uniss,
Nedda Uniss, Alice Shohfi, Mary Milkie, Tillie Khoury, Madeline Zaloom,
Lyla Mabarak, Mary Mokarzel, Mabel
Nabhan, Madeline Shogory, Lily Hadad, Josephine Hadad, Adele Thomas, Sally Mussawir, Mrs. George
Saliba, and Mrs. John Jerro, the
former Elvira Zaloom.
Among the men who attended
were George Tadross, E. J. Audi,
Peter George, Basil Khoury, Joseph
Abbott, Al Zrike, Eddie Merhige,
George Magella, Monroe Naufal,
Freddy Shamas, Eddie Shamas, George
Milkie, Elie Hatem, Fred Mussawir,
Dr. Fred Maloof, Albert Maloof, Joseph Ganim, George Marrash, Joe
Kater, Wadie Kadry, Assad Makla,
Jimmy Nassif, Emil Ferris, Dr. Arthun
Allen and Charlie Trefz.
Mr. and Mrs. George Jabaly, Edward Jacobs, W. D. Kadri, Wm. J.
Kharsa, Fozy Lian, Philip Lian, Ed'
J. lion, iMr. and Mrs. Abraham lian,
Richard Macksoud, Nicholas Makanna, Dave Malhame, Richard Malhame,
Salim Munyer, George "Macksoud, Mr.
and Mrs. James Macksoud, Saleem
Meena, Mr. and Mrs. Albert N. McKaba, Mr. and Mrs. George Mabarak,
Ferris Saydah, Mr. and Mrs. George
Shamyer, Albert Sleyman, George
Tadross, Eugene Trabilcy, Kalil Trabulsi, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Trabulsi,
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Teen, Mr. and
Mrs. Elie Zenie, and Henry Zenie.
Also: Mrs. John Mabarak, Mrs.
Mannie Macksoud, and the Misses
Effie, Shafia, Adele and Najla Macksoud, Lyla Mabarak, Adele Gassoun,
Madeleine Zaloom, Lilly Haddad and
Miss Lian.
Mr. George Magella of Brooklyn
returned from Porto Rico last week
where he spent several weeks on a
business trip.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Abouarab
of Brooklyn will spend the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Abouarab of. Asbury Park, N.J.
Mrs. S. A. Lian of Brooklyn entertained the following friends at a
bridge and tea" in her home Monday
afternoon: /Mrs. John Kirge, Mrs.
Joseph Matran, Mrs. Harold Saydah,
Mrs. George Shamia, Mrs. Henry Hadad, Mrs. Michael Abouarab, Mrs.
George Awad, Mrs. Raphael Arida,
Mrs. Clarence Donelly, Mrs. R. Ste-r
ward, Miss Razie Lian and Miss
Najibie Gorra.
Miss Selma Hanna is back in town
after having spent several months
in the West Indies.
MISS Katherine Rashid, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Rashid of
Chautauqua, N.Y., spent last weekend in New York, visiting friends,
including the F. M. Jabara's and S.
A. Mokarzel's. She plans to enter
Duke University, S. C, upon her
graduation from high school this
year.
A daughter was born yesterday
tc Mr. and Mrs. Elias Helow of
Brooklyn in the Prospect Heights
Hospital.
Mr. Cabalan Maari, a Lebanese
of Mexico is in New York on business. Mr. Macari is the hemp king
of Yusatan and is the principal supplier of hemp in the world.
Mr. and Mrs. David F. Essi of
Cleveland, Ohio spent a week with
Mr. and^Mrs. Seeman of Cambridge,
Ohio, parents of Mrs. Essi.
Mrs. Najeeb Bo Hamra of Cleveland is visiting her parents in New
Haven, Conn.
ELVIRA HELAL SINGS
"NEDDA"
ELVIRA Helal, soprano of the
Associated Operatic Artists, sang -the
irole of "Nedda," heroine in the opera
"Pagliacci" which was presented last
week at the Forrest Theatre in New
York City.
In the opinion of the musical
critic of the World-Telegram, Miss
Helal was "admirable in the music
allotted to Nedda, and her fresh and
promising soprano was heard with
keen pleasure."
PAGE THREE
Syrian Situation Grows Graver
Continued from page 1. /
servations on the government's program for which I have come to fnake
interrogations thereon. I do so in my
personal capacity as Fakhri al-Baroody and on my own responsibility.
For the Block does not wish that I
attend, and the nation does not wish
that I attend. But I have come to
defend the nation."
Here Fakhri Bey outlined his
objections to a paragraph in the
government's program referring to
"adminstrative Works and local autonomy," ending his criticism with the
remark:
Throws Challenges to Parliament
"Is this a national or a French
parliament?"
At this broadside, hurled unexpectedly at the members present, confusion resulted. Assad Ishaq jumped
up and replied: "We are all patriotic,"
while al-Shabaani resented the remark as "an aspersion on the parliament." As the clamour subsided, the
speeaker said:
"We are all patriotic and all desire complete independence and Syrian unity."
Al-Baroody: "Very well!"
Subhi Bey Barakat (Speaker):
"I am a Syrian and a son of a Syrian, and demand more than you do."
Al-Baroody: "Very well!"
Barakat: "Then say to your fellows to come over here and demand
what they want, not in the street,
calling us a spurious parliament."
Other altercations followed, after
which al-Baroody was again given
the floor. He delivered a long oration, replying to his critics in the
parliament.
"We want this parliament," declared al-Baroody, "to prove that it
is not spurious. I do not know how
a ministry could be formed wKl-rf z>-±
President says: 'I have no hand in
its formation,'" meaning that the
President's hand was forced by the
French authorities in the choice of
the ministers.
Earlier in the session al-Baroody
had thrown the challenge to the parliament "to demand of the French
the declaration of unity." Some
shouted for the life of al-Baroody
and praised his ardent patriotism,
but others were rather uneasy at his
castigating remarks.
Fakhri, Moved, Faints
So moved was Fakhri, and so afifected with the emotions evoked by
the delivery of his own message and
the bitter replies made to his criticisms, that, as soon as he sat down
ifrom his speech he was overtaken by
a spell of dizziness and he fainted.
He was carried away from the hall
by two members, and driven to his
home in an automobile.
LILOLA CLUB
HOLDS OUTING
THE Lilola Club of the International Institute of the Y. W. C. A. is
making plans for a Mother-andDaughter outing, by auto-bus, to Valley Stream, L. I., on May 28th.
The committees are busy in their
efforts to make the day a delightful
one and the "surprise" program which
is being arranged will afford a great
deal of amusement and much pleasure
to everyone.
Miss Rose Shahood, chairman of
the hostess committee, has as her
assistants: Matilda Gohson, Rose Cassatly, Zahia Souky, Rose Jacob, Lydia Shahood, Mary Ginnawi, Lillian
Haggar.
The chairman of the program
committee is Miss Adele Shahood
and with her are: Nora Najjar, Nellie Rassi, Muriel Subt, Loretta ElJien, Mary Hilwani, and Louise
Jacob.
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WHEREIN WE MAKE REPLY
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To Mrs. Mariam Ofeish, Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Dear Madame:
IT is only because space does not permit
that we could not comply with your request to
publish your letter of May 20th on the editorial page. But we are highly flattered to
.receive your letter and to publish it in the
same issue with pur reply thereto. Nor do
we consider this an act of charity on our
part, aware as we are that we lack the aposjtolic unction to bestow such charity and
knowing somewhat better our humble role as
mundane disseminators of information with a
'-' •'r 4ash of editorial comment.
We are still unconvinced, not even by your
enlightening letter, that the position we took
in our editorial of May 1 2 is not fundamentally right. You see, dear Madame, the question at issue is not whether bishops can or
cannot marry, a perfectly legitimate question in itself, but irrelevant in the discussion
of your esteemed husband's case.
It is a
question, as Father Boris Burden said in his
interview with us, whether your husband has
or has not ruled himself out of Orthodoxy
and automatically relinquished his role as
Archbishop ir, the Holy Eastern Apostolic
Greek Orthodox Church. Your husband has
yet to prove to us that while accepting the
dogmas, cannons and disciplines of the Greek
Orthodox Church, he may, without jeopardizing his position, insist that there is a distinction between a man-made church and a Godinspired Bible. As we understand it, both
(the Eastern and the Western Churches consider themselves custodians of the Bible and
of its* interpretation.
The Church, which
produced the Bible, is prior to the Bible. If
in the Eastern Church an ecumenical council
is the authoritative and final resort of the
communicants of such a church, how could
your husband justify his marriage before a
notary public without even seeking permission from such a council? All other discussions, as far as we are concerned, are irrelevant. And it is needless to tell you, we have
neither the time nor the inclination to enter
into theological argumentation with you, the
archbishop, your husband, or anybody else.
Our editorial was "inspired" (if you allow
us the use of such a prerogative) by no other
consideration than the realization of the
tangled and tangent issues which your sensational marriage dragged behind it.
Allow us in conclusion to congratulate you
at the lucidity of your style, and more so at
the great progress you have made in theology after a comparatively short period of
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Sunday schooling. But may we also remark
that, giving you all the credit you deserve for
the form which you exPresseed in your
letter, we have our doubts about their theological content and purport? May we apply to you that famous biblical proverb:
"The hand is the hand of Essau, but the
voice is the voice of Jacob?"
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WE HAVE REACHED OUR
MAJORITY
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THERE was a time when success in the
higher vocations of life brought a thrill of
novelty to Syrians in this country. There was
a time when material success was our summum bonum of existence, when our heroes,
to whom we lifted our faces with a mixed
feeling of pride, envy, respect and a keen
and secret desire for emulation, were the
wholesale importers and linen merchants.
There was such a time, but is no more, or
passing away visibly before our eyes. Important as these gentlemen still are in our
social scheme of things, our life in the homeland of our adoption has become so variegated and so advanced that success in other
fields of social and intellectual activities has
lost its edge of novelty, and by now shouldbe taken for granted.
When we have such figures in the world
of scholarship like P. K. Hitti of Princeton,
Father Oussani of Fordham, H. Auad of St.
John, scientists like M. Malti and George
Knaysi of Cornell, J. Kanfoush of Syracuse,
C. Sabbah of Schenectady, artists like N.
Macksoud and A. Ghosn in painting, Alex
Malouf, Anis Fuleihan, F. Kurban, Helen
Rozek and Selma Boujalad in music, and
Emily Bashure in classical dancing, writers
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like the late G. K. Gibran, Ameen Rihani,
Micha .Nairny, N. Arida and Abraham Rihbani, surgeons like Dr. F. I. Shatara and T.
Nicola, journalists like Monte Borjaily—when
we have such a galaxy of brilliant and promising men and women in professions so exacting and exalted, the drums of rejoicing
need not beat in our ears every time a Syrian
boy or girl wins first honors in high school
or college. As a race we have nothing to
apologize for, nor would it surprise us to
see some Syrian names go down in history
as among the spiritual and intellectual giants
of our little planet. After all what is surprising about a descendant of the race which
taught the world its alphabet to be a distinguished, even great writer? And who, as
people, are more entitled to distinction in
things spiritual?
Let us have done with this naive surprise that we can produce men and women
to compare with the best in this or any other
country. We have passed the age of our
infancy and adolescence; we have reached
our majority.
ORIENTALS
WHAT REALLY COUNTS
The relative merits of poverty and wealth
were being discussed in the presence of Yahya Ibn Ma'adh ar-Razi, and he remarked,
"On the Last Day it is not poverty and
wealth that are weighed, but patience and
gratitude."
The more the conditions of the ignorant
are enhanced the more abominable he becomes-.
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THE ZEST OF LIFE
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By Alice Mokarzel
By H. i. Katibah
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SPIRITUAL growth can never be measured by
days and years; but all things being equal, time is
an essential element in such growth. There are
some who are young in years old in experience,
some who are old in years young in experience.
We all know old men in our immediate environments who have grown gracefully old, who have
benefited by the school of experience and who show
. such benign benefit in their gracious demeanors,
their considerate manners and their ripe wisdom.
We also know others to whom time had been less
kindly and less generous; who had not received
their share of education from that capricious and
often harsh schoolmaster, EXPERIENCE. Consequently they display, consciously and unconsciously, sometimes to the annoyance and exasperation of
impatient youngesters, a state of mind out of keeping with their age^-petulant childishness, irritable
temper and cutting frankness. They consider these
matters as privileges of old age, but in reality they
are outcroppings of a second childishness in a soul
that had never spiritually matured.
Wisdom, indeed, sometimes comes from mouths
of babes; but one would naturally look for it in the
elder men. Nevertheless, such wisdom, mature and
tried, does not, by any means, indicate a closed
mind that had reached the summit of life and from
there contemplates the universe as Moses contemplated the Promised Land from Mt. Pisgah. More
often it is the fruit of a spiritual growth that has
ripened in the outdoor sun of a free mind and a free
spirit, a mind that has not resigned itself to complete inactiviy, and spiritual stagnation, a mind that
still feels the zest of life and keenly enjoys the blessing of being alive.
Of such an old man, old in wisdom and experience, young with the vitality and alertness of,
a renewed interest in life, the newspapers of this
country carried a brief and significant report a
few days ago.
The man in question is the Rev. Augustus
Beard of Norwalk, Conn., who, on May 11, celebrated his 100th birthday by preaching at a local
church on "The Mysteries of Life and Death." President Angell of Yale University, from which this
.centenarian had graduated in 1857, read the Scriptures at the service.
AMONG those spotted last Saturday night in
the Hotel New Yorker, attending the dance of the
Columbia iSchool of Pharmacy were Nora Haddad,
Mary Daas, Philip Shawie, Billy Arida, George
Khoury and Al Khoury.
EDITORIAL authority having decreed that my name
be affixed to this column, I find it harder to write
on any subject whatsoever. Now that the protection of a pseudonymn has disappeared, I confess
that I am somewhat of a coward. Identification has
become a formidable reality. It paralyzes creative
senses that I thought present until this sudden turn
of affairs when all subjects of philosophy or wit,
PLEASE let me acquaint you with our roster of
or
what have you, seem, to be well covered and
bachelors who live in Greenwich, that village of
even overdone.
freedom and all that goes with it. First there is
* • • • •
John Trabulsi, that sophisticated and bored chap
who looks as if there is nothing much left for him
I have thought of the happy lot of that great
to live for. He has a lovely apartment, spick and
span, and beautifully furnished in Waverly Place. columnist, Arthur Brisbane, who finds his ideas
He is the host par excellence and what a connois- while riding in his chauffeur-manoeuvered sedan
through the streets of New York, recording his obseur of furniture, foods, drinks, etc.
servations and comments through a dictaphone. I
Peter George, the lawyer, feels himself getting have thought of the convenience of Walter Winchell
old, but don't pay attention to that. He is just at with his numerous henchmen keeping him posted
an attractive age, what with those premature dis- hourly on gossip and scandal. I suppose for continguished gray hairs. Someone told me he is the solation I should have started on a lower rung of
Beau Brummel of our people. He mixes with the the ladder and not trespassed the realm of the
•ultra-elite of American society, also the intellec- famous.
tuals. He can fall for any girl with an Oxford
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degree, even though she has nothing else. Ahem! He
was once engaged to Miss Berle, sister of Prof.
The editor informs me on this score that when
Adolf Berle Jr., who was one of his best friends, and I can approach any one of these columnists in style
who is one of the three forming the brain-trust 4n, and reputation I shall be presented* with a Ford
Roosvelt's administration.
The engagement was roadster as an observation car to start with The
broken. I am so glad to learn that the degree proposition (to the editor) seems safe in its imjdidn't satisfy him.
possibility. Anyway, it is a thought. I could spend
Selim Trabulsi, that good-looking young devil, one day alone parading up and down Washington,
pardon the expression, I am sure he doesn't mind. Street registering the actions of the sundry types
I have an inkling that he is one of the few who of Syrians in this quarter.
wouldn't mind being peacefully married and living
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a peaceful conventional life.
Now there's Elias, the peddler, who would make
E J. Audi, (in case you haven't heard,) is the a good subject with his ways and wares. Elias has
genial bachelor unique in one respect. He does piercing black eyes and large shiny moustochios,
not look cynically and condescendingly down at Relics of former days but still his pride. On his
good little girls. He is a connoisseur, too. When head he wears a small black felt turban that comhe entertains at his apartment, his guests love the pletes a picture of misplaced Ea -ternisr Vi^
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way he mothers them and is so thoughtful about hear a musical yoo-hooing or wulloomg, that's
their comfort and desires. He is internationally the voice of Elias crying the merits of his scallions,
famous for his word "fidak," that he throws at you radishes, and other vegetables. He takes time out
smilingly when you get him into an argument. I to throw flirtatious remarks at passing girls. Quite
can't explain it. It is rather subtle, but means some- a cosmopolite, Elias.
thing like, "have it your way," and so ends the
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argument or unpleasant topic.
Then there is George Shaib, that smooth honey"The mysterious universe," said Mr. Beard in
tongued
gentleman. He shares Peter George's aparthis sermon, "bristles with interrogations. It is hapment.
I
don't know much about him, but he told
pily so, for the progress of mankind and a large
share of its happiness depends upon this sense of me this story. Early one Sunday morning when,
mystery.. It keeps thought alert and gives a zest he was still in his pajamas, a priest whom I won't
name, visited him. George was flabergasted but was
to life."
polite enough in this phenominal situation. They
And it is hard for me to think of a more con- talked on sundry subjects, and the conversation
cise, more penetrating and more subtle summation developed into the priests telling George that it
of the whole problems of metaphysic than in this was about time he settled down and got married
brief and beautiful paragraph.
to a nice girl. Whereupon he takes out his noteIt takes age to arrive, at such comprehensive book and shows it to George. It contained the names
wisdom; it takes years of graceful growing to of all the eligible young girls, of the priest's acachieve such spiritual confidence.
quaintance. He described each girl to George in
The lines of the famous poem of Robert Brown- order that he should make his choice!
ing, "Rabbi Ben Ezra," come naturally to one's mind
Don't ask me how he got out of the tight spot.
in this connection:
Maybe he doesn't know himself. Can you just
imagine our Geeeeorge living in a cottage and mar"Grow old along with me!
ried happily to one of the names in that noteThe best is yet to be,
book?
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in His hand
Fred Trabulsi, about whom much can be written,
Who saith 'A whole I planned,
is now travelling in Europe and Syria. Can you
Youth shows but half; trust God: See all nor be imagine anyone at his age, retiring on his income
afraid!"'
and having a swell time? He is the youngest and
perhaps one of the most attractive to the ladies of
Browning himself was a good example of the all bachelors. He is hardened and sophisticated,
old in years who had never grown old in spirit. too, but I gather that he still clings privately to
His love to his equally famous wife Elizabeth was some of his youthful ideals, if there is such a word
a continuous romance that never grew cold or left.
stale with years. And it used to be said of another
Joe Saadi, a stranger to most of us, yet another
famous old man, Charlie Eliot, when he passed his good-looking bachelor, at that, is soon to betray
nintieth that he was ninety-one or ninety-two years the fold, being engaged to an American girl. So
ypung. Of such persons it could well be said that bachelors do marry once in a while!
the devastations and vicissitudes of time which affect all flesh, had no power over their spirits.
"The wise man is not he who knows good
from evil, but he who knows the lesser of
two evils."
Ofcnar Ibn al-Khattab.
WHEN the two exponents of "misery loves
company" got together the other night at the
Junior League bridge, Selma Uniss and Lyla Mabarak, they started right off without any prelimanaries to discuss the fine points of their recent
appendix operations from which they are both
recovering. I imagine it would be very interesting
to some people to hear about operations and how
Then the Effendi, who can be found at any corner, is a wild type, usually towering over a group
of men, excitedly giving his views on current Syrian scandal and inciting the others to a lot of handling too. Up and down.... up and down
There is a Syrian mother walking with her brood,
while pushing part of it in a baby carriage. Suddenly she shakes the child who is tugging at her
skirt and apparently begging for something With
a tirade of Arabic threats she shouts to it to cease
and the organization marches on. Up and down
up and down
Over there a number of Syrian
women are sitting together on chairs on the pavement Now and then one of them recognizes a passer-by and after her nod of greeting, the bunch ofi
them go into a huddle
keza-keza
kezakeza.
*****
I have drifted off my subject with a somewhat
lengthy illustration, but these ramblings seem to
have been inspired by the prospect of the car However large the shadow of impossibility looms I
shall work for the possession of that car, even if
it be a Model 1983!
many stitches were taken and if they opened again
and if they are thinking of putting in zippers, (if
so much less trouble, you know) and such like but
it was not a bit interesting to those grouped around
them who promptly turned thumbs down
YOU should have heard Adele MafcsoucTs squeal
of surprise when Helen Naufal presentd her with
the gift last Wednesday evening at the bridge She
must have thought she was the "forgotten president,"
but now that they have started bestowing a gift
on each retiring president, the Leaguers thought
they might as well make a good job of it and start
from the beginning, although Adele was not the
first president, Ange Dowaliby was the first one
I but she up and married and now lives in Canada'
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PAGE SIX
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MINIATURES
ARABESQUE
JERUSALEM
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JERUSALEM—the most sacred and mostj
precious spot on the face of the earth to
Christians and Jews. . .the third most sacred
and precious to Moslems. . . the symbol in
stone, mortar and wood of the Eternal City
above not built by hands. . . the "city of
peace" for which rivers of blood flowed, and
over whose possession one of the most sanguine and long-drawn wars in history was
waged. . . the city in which Christ, who reconciled man with God taught all to love one
another, even one's enemies, was crucified
and buried. . . the city which has become
proverbial for its religious strifes and sectarian jealousies, even among the followers
of Christ.
The Arabic name of Jerusalem, al-Quds or
Beit ul-Maqdis, is an obvious translation of
its Greek epithet, "Hagia Polis" or its Rabbinic one, "ha-Qadusha," and all meaning
holy.
But Jerusalem only became - "holy"
after its conquest by David, who wrested it
from the Jebusites after a long and bitter
fight. David made Jerusalem his capital and
planned to build therein a temple "holy to
fhe Lord." But he died without accomplishing his purpose. This, however, was carried
on by his son Solomon on a magnificent
scale.
The rock that now rests under the dome
of the Mosque of Omar, and known to the
Moslems as "the Dome of the Rock" (Qub£\^akhra) is identified by biblical scholars and archeologists as the altar stone which
stood before the Temple of Solomon. Jerusalem became, after the exile of the Ten
Tribes in 722 B. G, the only religious shrine
ito which Jews could go to offer their sacrifices. Its temple became a pilgrimage center
for all Jews in different parts of the world.
RICHMOND
DEMOCRATS
\
Meet Before Local Elections;
Hear City Officials
JUDGE T. Gray Haddon and;
Commissioner of ihe Revenue Edward Rose were among the speakers at a meeting of the political committe of the Syrian Democrats of
Richmond, Va., prior to the city elections.
The meeting which took place
on the 17th of last month was held
at the home of Joseph Shaar, 606 West
Broad Street of that city. The speakers were introduced by Samuel Abaady. Members of the Syrian committee who attended ,were: Charles
Kouri, C. A. Mosher, Samuel Shibley, Louis Shuletta, Mike Shuletta,
George Abraham, Samuel Amory and
Ferris Kahiway.
ALMA pEEB PRESENTS
MUSICAL RECITAL
Graduate of Troy Conservatory of
Music Frequently Heard
Over Radio
MISS Alma Deeb, a graduate
pupil of the Troy Conservatory of
Music, presented what was • described
by musical critics of that city as "a
delightful" piano recital at the conservatory studio last Saturday evejning.
The selections played by Miss
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The Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem (the Most Holy Spot on Earth to All Christians.)
The earliest mention of Jerusalem comes
in the Tel-Amarna Letters of the Nth Century B. C. It was not among the cities,occupied by the Jews under Joshua or the
Judges following him, and its occupation under the Jews did not last long. In 598 B. C.
Jerusalem fell before the army of Nebuchadnezzar. For a brief time it was restored to
Jewish hands under Nehemiah's leadership,
then again under the Maccabees.
In the
days of Christ a Nabatean Arab who had
embraced Judaism ruled Jerusalem as a vassal of the Roman Empire. His name was
Herod; and if it hadn't been for Christ's life
and death we would not have had occasion
to remember it.
Jerusalem was destroyed by Titus in 70
A. D. and also by iHadrian in 132 A. D.,
Deeb comprised; Allemande, Gavotte
and Musette, by d'Albert; Impromptu in A Flat Major, Chopin; the
Prophet Bird, Robert Schumann;
Sous Bois, [Victor Stub; the Two
Larks and Etude Heroique, by Leschetizky, and Concerto in D Minor,
Mozart.
Alma is a pupil in pianoforte of
Joseph G. Derrick. One local paper
called her "a gifted young musician."
SYRIANS IN EGYPT
RESENT CONDITIONS
IN PALESTINE TODAY
Syrian Arabian Society of Cairo
Protest Unristricted Immigration
of Jews and Sale of Lands
AWED at the new trend of British
policy for Palestine, which keeps the
gates of Jewish immigration to that
country wide open, the Syrian-Arabian Society of Cairo issued an open
protest to the British Government
demanding the discontinuance of such
a policy. The society "urgently requests" the promulgation of necessary legislation to prevent the transference of lands from Arab to Jewish
hands, "lest the persistence in such
a course lead to unfavorable results
for alL"
The society also appeals to all
organized groups in the Arabicspeaking world to unify their efforts
in "delivering the Arab' nation of
Palestine from the danger which
threatens its very existence."
A similar plea to the "Arabs,"
throughout the world, including those
after which the dispersion of Jews was complete.
The monuments which adorn Jerusalem
today go some to the Byzantine period, some
to the Arabs and some to the Crusaders and
more modern missionaries. The Church of
the Anastasias (al-Qiyameh) is credited to
Constantine the Great, the Aqsa Mosque to
the JJmayyad Caliph Abdul-Malik.
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The present population of Jerusalem is estimated at only 50,000, representing almost
all races. There is hardly a more cosmopolitan city than Jerusalem, with the exception of New York. The trades that flourish
in Jerusalem are usually those we associate
with tourism and the holy pilgrimage—wood
and mother-of-pearl carvings of holy objects,
souvenirs, relics, piotures etc.
in America was issued by the "Syrian-Palestinian Congress," also in
Cairo.
RECEIVES HONORABLE
MENTION
MISS Josephine Asmar Karam of
Brooklyn, who is now finishing her
third year in Cooper Union Art
School, received honorable mention
in pictorial design in the 74th student exhibition in which there were
1700 entrants and 280 awards.
Mss Asmar is taking up commercial advertising and will graduate
next year. Last year she received
the same award in Antique drawing.
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PAGE SEVEN
INTERN'L Y.M.C.A. TURKISH WOMEN
HITS SNAG
GO INTO MOVIES
COMPOSER
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ANIS FULEIHAN
pianist,
composer, conductor
was born in
Cyprus
the son of Dr. and Mrs.
Mulhim Fuleihan.
Came here in 1915 to study engineering
but got side-tracked
into music and stayed there
Hadi
his general education in Cyprus and
New York
Nasib Kalaf, New
York merchant, was headmaster of
the Preparatory School in Cyprus
which Anis Fuleihan attended
Studied piano with Alberto Jonas..
began playing in public in 1919
his first appearance was in
Aeolian Hall, New York City
subsequently toured in recitals with
Duo-Art piano
returned to the
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Mr. Fuleihan has composed works
for symphony orchestra, chamber- orchestra, string quartet, woodwind
ensembles, piano, and voice
has
no use for "orientalism" in music as
orientalism is commonly known
has naturally a keen interest in the
basic character and real strength of
Arab music
thinks that the way
it is commonly practised now is a
degeneration of the original conception of the art and certainly not a
true picture of the real characteristics of the race.
Is interested in many things beside music
doesn't care for "arti|ness" or temperamental affections"..
enjoys anything that's interesting
despises anything that's boring
can't stand long-winded speakers, hence avoids banquets like the
Plague
Cyprus, where he was
born, is noted for its magnificent
breed of donkeys
is proud of that
fact as he considers donkey-riding
one of the greatest sports
"as an
exercise it makes vibrating machines
look silly"
Bewails the fact that
the Western world is lacking in good,
four-footed donkeys
Thinks he
will return to Cyprus some day.
KING SOLOMON
LEAGUE HOLDS
UMPIRES GAME ARABIC COMEDY
Syrian Boxer; Jolly Rovers Turn
Tables on Clippers to
Tune of 10-6
NT
Near East in 1925
remained there
two years, giving concerts in Egypt
and Syria
Came back to the
United States in 1927
has conducted orchestras, from small chamber-music combinations to symphony
orchestras
Is how chiefly engaged in composition, teaching and
playing.
KING Solomon, well-known Syrian pugilist presided over the game
Sunday played between the Jolly
Rovers and the Clippers at Edison
Lots, Brooklyn. A capacity audience
was thrilled by the splendid work of
both teams.
The powerful pitching staff of
the Clippers were hard put to it to
held down the score. George and
Emil Barakat and Teddy Hajjar were
\used in the game by the Clippers,
K. Mansour doing the catching. The
Jolly Rovers were pitched to victory,
Terry Barka and Peter Fluty catching.
Fred Kawahty electrified the Clippers by socking out a two bagger
with the bases loaded in the fifth inning all runs coming in. This was
the turning point of the game and
the result from then on was never
in doubt. On next Sunday the Syrian ATI Stars will tackle the Jolly
Rovers when a good game is anticipated, if last Sunday's contest is
any criterion.
The Rovers included among their
members the following:
George Hindy, Terry Barka,
George Najjar, Mickey Shaheen,
Fred Kawahty, Edward Teen, Fred
Fekiny,, John Thomas, Fred Ozone,
Anthony Hubela, George Mardany,
Alex Ferris, Henry Mokarry, Charlie,
Andrey, and Peter Flutey.
Syrian Social Customs Portrayed;
Two Clubs Combine to Give
Card Party; Another Club
Gives Play and Dance
(Special Correspondence)
Detroit, May 22:
THE Damascus League of Detroit
gave their annual Drama and Entertainment at Our Lady of Redemption Hall, Monday, May 15th. As
usual, attendance was exceptionally
large, and the play, ' a comedy in
Arabic on Syrian social customs in
the Near East, was hilarously received. Refreshments were served.
# * * *
A play and dance was given at
Our Lady of Redemption Hall, Detroit, Sunday May 21. "The Ape's
Thumb," a short mystery drama
written and directed by a member
of the parish, Joseph J. Faddol, was
full of chills and thrills and was
commendably enacted with a professional cast including Frederick J.
Sutton, formerly of the Bonstelle
Players. A short comedy on domestic life followed, and the remainder of the evening was given to
dancing.
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THE knights of St. George and
the Junior League gave a Card Party
and Stage Entertainment Thursday,
May 11th, in St. George's Community Hall. A good crowd erf young
people was present
"The best of friends is he who shows you
no more friendship when you are rich, no
less when you are poor."
Ahmed Ibn Qais.
Christians, Moslems and Jews
alike Show Lack of Interest in
International Y. M. C. A. of
Jerusalem Designed to
Foster Racial and Religious Unity
THE International Y. M. C. A. of
Jerusalem, put up at great cost, and
prompted by a humanitarian spirit to
foster goodwill and harmony among
the jarring religions, races and sects
of the Holy Land, has struck a snag
at its very start.
Before the formal opening of its
doors on the 25th of April agitation
was started against the new Y.M.C.A.
from three different quarters. The
Arab Moslems opposed it because,
they claimed, it is partial to the
Zionists and the government; the
Jews because the institution is Christian, and some of the Christians because it is Protestant According to
one report, the Latin Patriarch issued a warning in which he threatened excommunication to any of his
sect who would participate in the
opening or any of the activities ofj
the Y.M. C.A. His reason was that
the institution is missionary in purpose and spirit.
Y.M.C.A.
Imposing
Building
The Jerusalem Y.M.C.A. is one
of the imposing modern edifices outside the old walls of the city. The
money for the building was contributed by James Jarvie, an American philanthropist, and was said to
be a million dollars. One of the objects of Lord Allenby's visit to Palestine was to officiate at the formal
opening of this international institution.
Things, however, do not look as
dark to the Y.M.C.A. authorities as
the newspaper reports from Jerusalem seem to indicate.
On inquiry from the Y.M.C.A.
headquarters in New York, we were
told that there was no knowledge of
any serious opposition to the International Y M. C. A., although some
agitation was started before and at
its formal opening. There is no fear,
it was said, of any sustained opposition because the amicable and impartial aims and purposes of the
Y. M. C. A. movement, wherever it is
represented, cannot be long overlooked. The International Y.M.C.A.,
we were assured, opens its doors
without distinction of race or religion, to Christian, Moslem and
Jewish young men alike.
BODY FOUND
MONTHS LATER
Body of Drowned Boy Recovered after 6 Months
(Special Correspondence)
Detroit, May 21.
THE body of John Germanos, 22,
who was drowned with three other
boys on a fishing trip six months ago,
was recovered last week.
The bodies of the three other
boys had been recovered the day
of the drowning, but diligent efforts
}iad failed to find the body of Germanos.
Memorial services were held at
St. George's Syrian Orthodox Church
today, Rt. Rev. Archmandrite Bashir
officiating.
AUTHORESS ADDRESSES
LILOLA CLUB MEMBERS
CLAIRE ISugden, author of the
Romantic and Practical Side of Cookery—and who broadcasts over WOR
on "Home Economics";—was guest
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Competition Held in Istanbul fof
Heroines of Movies Roles
IT won't be long now before
we read on the electric boards of the
whiteways of the Near East such familiar names as Fatima Rushdi, Zarifa
Olgu Ali, Sharifa Talast and Jahan
Aftab Ahmed, instead of Joan Crawford, Marelene Dietrich, Greta Garbo
and Clara Bow. As it is, the latter
Inames are now in the monopoly; and
every Syrian, Turkish, Persian or
Egyptian movie frequentor in Beirut,
Damascus, Cairo, Tehran or Istanbul knows them by heart and can
recite them forward and backward.
Almost every stationery store of consequence in those cities and others
in the Near East has their pictures
in postal cards, as well as others
who have made their fame in Hollywood.
Times Changing
But times are changing, and
things are not what they were in the
East a dozen years ago. So accelerated has the tempo become in those
parts of the world, to the syncopated
tunes of jazz and the radio, that we
|kre prepared to receive any shock
and believe any new-fangled development in those ancient lands.
And now, having put you in the
(receptive mood, we will give you
the startling newi
The Turkish movie production
company known as "Film Ibik" which
has already produced talk^s of iy^ttiotic nature, national propaga'J-.viasT
and little Turkish operretas, has lately decided on venturing into the
heavy stuff. It has made plans for
the production of regular fiction with
plots and character parts. But the
Turkish movie industry is still short
of actresses with the proper "registering" qualification.
Nine Turkish Beauties Chosen
To fill this gap "Film Ibik" recently held a competition in which
beautiful Turkish women could participate, and no less than 70 made
their appearance, some coming form
Angora, some from Smyrna and some
from more distant parts of Anatolia.
Out of these the Turkish company
will choose three for heroine roles
and six for supporting ones.
Nor should it surprise our readers to learn that the modern Turks
are a movie-going generation. There
are altogether 150 movie theatres in
Turkey, of which 35 are in Istanbul
itself, each said to have a seating
capacity of 1000.
Of the 70 who participated, 17
have been found to fulfill the conditions required—to be no younger than
18 nor older than 25, to have wellproportioned bodies and desired features, and to speak Turkish with the
Istanbul (cosmopohtan) accent, not
the rural, Anatolian accent.
The winners will be trained h>
the company's Istudio and given
"good salaries," but, of course, nothing
to compare with the salaries of our
Hollywood queens!
speaker at the meeting of the Lilola
Club of the International Institute of
the Y.W.C.A., Brooklyn, on Tuesday
evening. Her talk on "The House
Beautiful" built with foods was inspiring and her description of the
routine of, and the life in a radio
station was educational as well as
interesting.
Miss May Ginnawi, President of!
the club, presided.
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The Syrian World
PUBLISHED WEEKLY — ESTABLISHED 1926.
VOL. VII NO. 4
NEW YORK, MAY 26, 1933.
DAUGHTERS
KILLS FRIEND
THE VE5IER
GIVE BANQUET
BY MISTAKE
AND TOE OWLS
Annual Mother and Daughter
Banquet; Seven High School
Graduates This June; Club
Gives Its First Dance
This Year
Thinks He b a Robber, as
Friend Leaps on Running
Board of Car
(Special Correspondence)
(Special Correspondent)
Cleveland, May 26. — Kareem
Ameen, 37, who on Friday May 12th,
shot Albert A. Royer, his friend
whom he mistook for a robber, was
exonerated in court by the grand
jury on May 22nd. He was represented by Jess N. Saba, young Syrian attorney.
Royer, a young attorney, died
early Saturday morning in Charity
Hospital ftvaa a bullet wound in his
chest.
A warrant for the arrest of Ameen
was issued on the grounds that he
was carrying a gun in violation of
the law. . Ameen who operates a
|restaurant opposite the new court
house said that he was held up twice
before.
Failing to recognize Royer as he
leaped on the running board of the
car, Ameen said he drew a revolver
he was carrying for protection and
fired point blank.
Royer is survived by a wife and
a four year old son.
Cleveland, Ohio, May 26.—The
Syrian Junior League of this city held
their annual Mother and Daughter
banquet at the Golden Pheasant,
Tuesday, May 23. Thirty girls and
their mothers attended.
The League started this move
originally so that their mothers may
become better acquainted with the
social activities of the club in which
their daughters are members, and
also to give the mothers an opportunity to meet each other socially.
Mrs. Ellis and Mrs. Ferguson,
sponsor and secretary of the Y.W.CA^
Institute, where the girls meet, wer^
guests of honor at the banquet.
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Seven children of well-known
Syrian families of Cleveland are
graduating from high school this
June. They are Mary Abdow, daughter of Thomas Abdow, St. Mary's;
'-. 'tT^JafcAuier, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Mike Anter, East High School; Esma
Coury, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Coury, Lincoln High School; Julia
Ezzi, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nemar
Ezzi, West High School; Libby Jacobs,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Jacobs, West Technical High; Olga Jalaty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Jalaty, West High School and Selma
Tuma, 'daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Tuma, St. Procop's High School.
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The Syrian American Club gave
its first'dance this year in the ballroom of the Hotel Holleddon. There
were 200 persons present, the dance
proving an enjoyable affair.
The chairman of the committee on
arrangements was N. Zlakett.
MALOOF PRESENTS
YOUNG PRODIGY
Four
Tear Old Italian Has
Repertoire of Classical
Music
Full
ALEXANDER Maloof, pianist and
composer, presented some of his pupils
in recital in his studio in Carnegie
Hall, on Saturday evening, May 20.
The feature of the evening was
the presentation of four year old
Rudy Favaloro, little Italian boy, who
is regarded as a prodigy. Rudy had
been playing by ear at an even earlier age and various teachers found it
a problem to teach him note reading
until Mr. Martin Gellar took the boy
to Prof. Maloof four months ago.
Since that time Rudy has progressed
rapidly, now possessing a full repertoire of classical compositions.
Rudy has appeared in the Paramount News Reel which pictured him
playing the giant organ in the Paramount Theatre.
Other pupils who played were:
Amelia Hall, Georgianna Meduna, Leonard Hammer, Bobby Markowitz, and
Sam Kiamie. Prof. Maloof will present another group of his pupils in
a recital at the close of the season.
James Shalala
JEWS EMBRpIL PALESTINE
IN GERMAN BOYCOTT
Jaffa Oranges Suffer Loss by
German Relation Against
Jewish Boycott
The storm of persecution and
discrimination which the Nazis raised
against the Jews within Germany
was bound to break out in its destructive effects on distant shores and
climes. The homeless Jews have
made every country in the world
their home, and a proportionately
large share of world commerce is in
their control.
In retaliating against Jewish boycott of German goods, German importers, not able always to distinguish between native-exported and
Jewish-exported goods, are tempted to
boycott both indiscriminately.
This, at least, is the burden of
an article by a Palestinian national
leader, al-Faruqi, who sounds a warning against the effect of such boycott
on Jaffa oranges.
Germany Imports Oranges
It is well-known that the luscious variety of this popular fru » hich
grows in Jaffa and its vicinity ... exported in large quantities to liigland,
Russia and other European countries,
among them Germany.
We learn from the al-Faruqi article
that lately the Hitlerites have instructed German commercial agents
in Palestine to buy German and
Arab-raised oranges, but to turn
down Jewish-raised oranges. The in^
creasing exportation of the Jaffa
oranges to Germany, this article argues, will suffer because it is almost
impossible to put this policy of discrimination into effect.
"And thus," continues al-Faruqi, "a new corse befalls Palestine because of th>i Jews who are in its
midst; and the British Government
would thus deal us a double blow,
Royal Boy Scout
An Ancient Parable With
Modern Application
(The ancient story-teller was often
a moralist, a reformer and public servant who sought to convey his social
message through the medium of the
story. And because human nature
has been much the same since the
world began, these stories, concise
and beautifully told, have become
immortal and of ever-timely application. To this class belongs the following parable:)
THERE was once a despotic
king whose acts of unbearable
oppression and exploitation of
his subjects brought his country
to the verge of ruin. But no one
dared oppose him because of
his evil temper and his pride of
heart which brooked no contradiction even from his closest
arid most sincere counsellors.
Among these, however, was
an old wise vizier who was
versed in the ways of men and
had served the king and the
king's father faithfully.
One day, the vizier suggested
to the king that they go out
for a walk in the country. And
as the two were strolling in a
lonely wood they heard two
owls, each on a dry limb of a
tree, hooting as if engaged in a
lively conversation.
"Know you what these owls
are saying,
your majesty?",
asked the vizier, as he turned to
the king.
"No", replied the king, "how
could I know what they are saying?"
"But I do," retorted the vizier,
"for I am also an adept in the
language of the beasts."
"Then interpret to me what
these two owls are saying," requested the king. And the vizier said:
"Know, your majesty, that
these two owls are holding a
conference over a prospective
marriage. One owl is asking the
hand of the other's daughter for,
his son in marriage.
But the
for^ner would not consent except on a certain condition."
"And what might that condi^
tion be?," asked the king inquisitively.
"That condition", continued
the vizier, "is that the groomto-be should offer his intended
bride one hundred deserted villages as a dower."
"And has the groom's father
consented?", pressed the king.
."Verily he has," assured the
vizier, "for he -told the bride's
jhavj|ng brought about this one after
it had placed a heavy duty on oranges
imported to its country."
w
M
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Crown Prince Farouq of
Egypt, recently appointed
chairman of the Egyptian Boy
Scouts, is shown reviewing
his troop in Cairo after being inducted into the Scouts
by Zaki al-Ibrashi Pasha
(standing behind him).
Readers Forum
To the editor:— Congratulations
on the rebirth of the SYRIAN
WORLD, and may its existence continue successfully. I am sure that
your accounts will always be of interest and help to the new generation. They need an instrument, of
this kind, and a guide such as youc
paper. I think our greatest interest
should be with the young generation,
just growing and thirsting for knowledge that touches their lives.
I enjoy your editorial page immensely. Please do not allow the
SYRIAN WORLD to become too serious. (There is laughter and fun in
this world.)
Boston, Mass. Labeebee A J. Hanna
father that if your majesty's rule
should last one more year he
could offer the bride-to-be not
only one hundred deserted villages but two hundred instead."
Hearing this gentle rebuke, the
king repented from his ways and
became just and considerate with
his subjects.
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<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
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<p><em>The Syrian World</em> was published between 1926 and 1932 as a journal. In 1932, the format was changed from an academic journal style to a newspaper style, which continued until the periodical's end in 1935. After the death of his brother Naoum, Salloum took over the publication of <em>Al-Hoda.</em></p>
<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
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The Syrian World
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY — ESTABLISHED 1926
VOL. VH, NO. 5.
NEW YORK, JUNE 2, 1933.
HONOR MEXICAN AMERICANS AH)
INDUSTRIALIST
MODERN TURKS
Cabalan Macari,
Hemp King,
Honored by Lebanon League
of Progress
ABOUT a score of members and
friends of the Lebanon League of
Progress honored Mr Cabalan Macari
of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, hemp
king of the world, at a dinner held
in the Lebanon Restaurant, Rector
end Washington Streets, last Wednesday evening.
•
Mr. Naoum Hatem, president of
the League, presided.
Among the
speakers were Rev. M. Stephen, S.
A. Mokarzel, Elia Madey and Selim
Thomey. Representing the League,
Mr. Hatem said that the honored
guest had attained three distinctions,
those of wealth, prestige and patriotism. He called him an ambassador
of gdbd-will between us and Lebanese brethren in Mexico.
' Mr. Mokarzel Speaks
Mr. Mokarzel, in referring to Mr.
Macari's wealth and the eminent position he has attained in the industrial world, declared that the Lebanon
League of Progress did not honor
the guest for these things but because
along with these he has evinced a
lofty spirit and a keen desire to serve
his community. ' He mentioned that
among other things, Macari has
opened a restaurant where about 100
poor obtain free meals daily.
Even though he did not know
him personally, said Elia Madey,
on rising to speak, he felt confident
that anyone who had attained such a
good reputation and made so many
friends, must be an asset to his community.
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Mr. S. Thomey recited a poem in,
Arabic, paying tribute to the sturdy
stock of Ehden and Northern Lebanon from which the industrialist
sprang.
Donates
for Charity
Somewhat shy at hearing all this
praise, the guest of honor replied in,
a few concise words, thanking the
League and their friends who came
to honor him, saying that he was
^iot a literary man and did not know
how to adequately thank those who
had gathered to honor him.
He also requested to be included
in the membership of the Lebanon
League of Progress, volunteering to
pay $100 yearly in dues, as long as
Ibis means permit. He also requested
Rev. Mansur to use for charitable
purposes as he saw fit $50.00 which
he gave him.
Among those present were Farid
Bistany, H. I. Katibah, Jacob Raphael,
Philip Raphael, Faris Ackel, Joseph
Bishara, Charles Matar, George Milan,
John Sada, Assad Abood, Said Harfoush, Joseph Saadi, Shikry Salloum,
Mr. and Mrs. George Lutfy and Najib
Bo naoum.
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The last four, all Detroiters, had
motored especially from Atlantic City
to attend the affair.
Turkish Economic Policy Turns
to Americans for Expert Advice;
Labour Legislation, Mining,
Commerce etc are Handled
by Commission of American Economists and
Experts
WITH the end of the World War
Eastern nations which achieved their
own independence began to cast out
for "experts" in the various fields of
industrial and economic reconstruction who had no political axes to
grind for their respective governments. Swiss, Belgian, German and
Scandanavian experts were employed
to some extent. But the lion's share
went to American experts.
And Kemalist Turkey which went
wholesale into political, social and
economic reforms also went into the
employment of American experts for
its economic and industrial rejuvenation in the same wholesale manner.
Americans,
Expert
Advisers
Several important posts in the
Turkish Government under the Ministry of Economics are now in the
hands of American advisers. These
advisers are experts in various fields
of economics, finance and industry
and will work under a general director, who is also, an American.
Among the new posts filled are the
post of mining adviser, by Sidney
Paige, formerly of the Geological
Survey, and the post of gold mining,
by Matthew van Siclen, who was with
the bureau "of mining.
A labour adviser, .for suggestions
of labour reforms and legislation, ani
industrial adviser, a commercial adviser for marketing, are expected to
arrive soon from the United States.
Turkey had already taken advantage
of American expert advice in the
operation of its railroads and customs.
W. D. Hines, Director
For the post of temporary general economic adviser Walter D. Hines,
former Director General of Railroads
under Wilson, has already been suggested by the American Government
at Washington, to whom the Turkish
Government made the appeal some
time ago for the choice of a suitable
and capable person. More American
experts are on the way, and the
choice of the permanent general economic director will be made as soon
as Mr. Hines arrives at Turkey, and
with his cooperation.
,
The new policy of employing
American experts is credited to Jalal
Bey who was appointed to the Ministry of Economics in the Turkish Republic last summer, and who had
been formerly managing director of
the Banque d'Affaires.
Jalal Bey
advised Mustapha Kemal Pasha, President of the Turkish Republic, that
the skilled advice of foreigners "was
the only sure means of putting
Turkish commerce on a sound footf.i, „»»
ing.
BISHOP EMMANUEL ABU-HATAB
PASSES AWAY IN BROOKLYN
NATIVE OF DAMASCUS, SCHOLAR, TOOK ACTIVE PART
IN GREEK-ORTHODOX LIFE OF
NORTH AMERICA
Various Syrian Sects Represented in Funeral
Obsequies
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A, prominent
figure
,~~„.„.w
„.v.
in
the
history
of
the
Syrian
Greek-Orthos
Churc of this country passed away last Monday, June 29, at
dox Church
9:25 A.M
The career of Bishop Erhmnuel Abu-Hatab, whose sudden
death at the age of 43 shocked the Syrian Orthodox communities
of the United States and Canada, is almoU co-extensive with the
history of Syrian Greek Orthodoxy since the death of its first Syrian bishop, Archbishop Raphael Hawawini.
Lymphosarcomatosis!
The disease to which the late
Bishop Emmanuel succombed is
considered a rare and fatal one,
about which physicians are still a
great deal in the dark. It is technically known as lymphosarcomatosis, which is a malignant growth
of the lymphatic cells and is invariably quick and fatal.
Popularly, it may be considered as cancer of the lymphatic
cells.
OUSTED JEWISH DOCTORS
WILL SETTLE IN PALESTINE
Jewish Physicians of America Plan
a Medical School and Hospital to
House German Doctors and
Scientists
THE problem of what to do with
the hundreds of German scientists
and scholars who have been ousted by
the Hitler Kultur regime, will be
partly settled through the efforts of
Jewish doctors of this country.
It was announced at a recent
meeting of the American Jewish
Physicians Committee of New York,
that plans have been drawn and are
;nearly complete to create a medical
school and university hospital, to be
affiliated with the Hebrew University
on Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem.
10 Acres Purchased
The committee, cooperating with
the Hadassah Medical organization (.a
women Zionist organization), was
formed in 1921 at the suggestion of
Prof. Albert Einstein, who is himself:
an honorary professor of the Hebrew
University. The committee has already purchased 10 acres of latid on
Mt. Scopus as a site for the medical
school.
The proposed medical school and
hospital were especially projected for
the housing of German medical professors, scientists and students who
find themselves without university
connections and laboratories to carry
on their scientific works. Among
those are some of the most renowned
men in the medical world.
Noted as a scholar in the history
and ri^_J of the Greek Orthodox
Church, Bishop Abu-Hatab left his
scholarly mark ,in the able revision
of the "Euchologia," the first comprehensive compendium of Greek
Orthodox liturgy in Arabic, which
was translated from the Greek and
Russian by Archbishop Hawawini.
For the last three years he was also
editor of "al-Kalimat," an -ecclesiastical publication founded by Archbishop Hawawini.
Early Education
Born in 1889, the departed bishop came from two of the oldest
Christian families of Damascus. He
was the son of Jurji Abu-Hatab and
Jamilah Najjar, who lived in the
Christian quarter known as Sahatad-Dawaminah.
While still tender
in years, Rizqallah (the, bishop's lay
intme) went to the neighboring Irish
Presbyterian Mission School for
Boys, studying under two of the oldest Syrian educators in that city, Abdou Kahil and Mitri Qandalaft. When
the Orthodox Patriarchate School was
revived in al-Asiyyah, Rizqallah
moved there, completing his secondary education at 16, with a distinguished record. He was among the
brilliant scholars chosen for the
Greek Orthodox Theological Seminary
in
al-Kurah,
al-Balamand
Monastery (the Beaumont of Crusading times). He finished the complete
course of that clerical school in.
three years, a feat of scholarship considered unusual. Still too,young for
the ordination to the deaconate,, Rizqallah taught two years in the Monastery of St. Efias Shuwayyah (Shuweir), at the conclusion of which he
was ordained sub-deacon and then
deacon by Bishop, now Patriarch,
Alexandras Tahhan. He accompanied
Bishop Tahhan to his new diocese in
Marsin; but their stay in that city
was not long, as the Greeks who had
opposed the jurisdiction of any
"Arab" bishop, rose in arms against
them. Accompanying Bishop Tahhan to Tripoli, Emmanuel was soon
called to service in the New World
by Bishop Hawawini in 1909.
Proved of Invaluable Help
The new deacon from Damascus
proved of invaluable help to Bishop
Raphael He acted as his secretary,
assisted him in editing al-Kalimat
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THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, JUNE 2, 1933.
magazine and offering substantial service in the revision of the "Eucholcgia." Before his death, Bishop Raphael elevated Deacon Emmanuel to
the rank of Archdeacon, and with
Father Basilius Khirbaway managed
the affairs of the Syrian Greek Orthodox Church until the election of
Archmandrite Aftimios Ofeish oft
Montreal, Canada, Bishop in the
place of Bishop Raphael. The division between "Russian" and "Antiochean" among the Syrian Greek Orthodox of this country had already set
in and came to an actual rift with the
election of the new bishop. Shortly after, Archdeacon Emmanuel was
ordained Archmandrite and appointed
to the diocese of Canada in the place
of Aftimios. That was in 1917. Ten,
years later, Archbishop Aftimios, elevated Emmanuel ibishop over Canada
and the New England States. But
fcllowing the dissension between
Archbishop Aftimios and his followers
over the status of the "Independent
Church," Bishop AbujHatab was
called in 1930 to Brooklyn to be acting bishop of the CathedraJ Church
of St. Nicholas, 355 State Street.
While occupying his new position he
also revived the publication of alKalimat He was officially assigned'
by the Russian hierarchy in this
country as Bishop of the Syrian Russian diocese, when that hierarchy repudiated the course taken by Aftimios.
Body Lay in State
The body of the late bishop lay
in state in St. Nicholas Cathedral
since the day after his death. His
body was carried in an impressive
procession from his residence at 129
Pacific Street, Brooklyn, and delegations from the various Syrian churches
and philanthropic societies of the city
and environs were represented. A
sequiem mass., in which Metropolitan Platon of the Russian Church
an^ Metropolitan Germanos Shihadeh
officiated, was celebrated for the repose of his soul on Friday, 1 p.M.
This was preceded by a memorial
service on Thursday evening in which
several speakers participated in eulogizing the departed bishop.
WORLD FLIERS
MEET IN CAIRO
Egyptian
'
Aviation Still
Infancy
in
Its
CAIRO has been singled out in
recent years for various international
congresses, such as the International
Geographic Congress, International
Copy-Right Congress and the proposed International Ophthalmic Congress. At the heels of the last-mentioned, it has been announced that
the International Aviation Congress
will be held also in Cairo in the
coming month of August.
ARCHBISHOP MUST RESIGN
ROAD BETWEEN
SAYS BISHOP SOPHRONIUS IRAQ AND HEJAZ
SOPHRONIUS DECLARES ARCHBISHOP FORFEITED
RIGHTS AS HEAD BY HIS MARRIAGE
MARRIAGE OF ARCHBISHOP MADE LEGAL LAST FRIDAY
BISHOP Sophronius of Los Angeles, Cal., head of the Holy
Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church in all states west of the Mississipyi, called upon Archbishop Ofeish to resign as head of the
C urch in a letter part of which follows:
"My dear Aftimios:
"You know that you have my
personal feeling of good-will and
friendship, but I cannot condone your
act, as it is against my personal principles and contrary to the canons
of Our Church. The very life of the
Church depends upon our upholding
the canons.
"
You have automatically by
your act cut yourself from the Holy
American Church Synod. And since
Bishops Joseph and Ignatius have legally registered their approval of your
act and have taken it upon themselves
to mullify certain canons and adopted
others, this again constitutionally
severs them from the Holy American
Synod, as it exists in our Constitution and Charter.
Sticks to Mother Church
"You three have chosen to leave
the Mother Church but I shall remain with Her as I originally began. I am now the sole remaining
Bishop; automatically I become a
member of the Synod upon your marriage, and as Joseph and Ignatius are •
now also out constitutionally, this
leaves me the head of the Synod."
"I am sad at heart to think that
after so many years of harmonius
cooperation we must come to the parting like this."
He goes on further to say that he
does not want to create any iljfeeling which can be avoided if Bishop
Ofeish reesigns, otherwise he declares
he will take civil action to remove
him from his office as ranking head of
the Church in North America. He
also declares that he will not stand
in the way if Archbishop Ofeish
wishes to start "a new church but
that he must leave the Holy Eastern
Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic
Church." He also states that it is
best for the unity of the Church if\
he resigns and effaces himself, thus
avoiding dissension.
Marriage Legalized
Archbishop Ofeish and his bride,
the former Marion Neimy, have taken
up their residence in Niagara Falls,
N.Y. Their marriage was made le-
SERIOUSLY INJURED
WHEN HIT BY CAR
Government Participates
The Aviation Club of Cairo has
requested the government to participate in the preliminary preparations to make the proposal and recommended to the ministry of finance
the appropriation of $15,000 for this>
purpose.
/
Aviation is still in its infancy in
Egypt. In the spring of 1930 an
Egyptian aviator flew for the first
time from England to Egypt, taking
several days and making many forced
landings. But he was welcomed with!
great popular demonstrations suggestive of the Lindbergh demonstrations
in this country following his historic
crossing of the Atlantic. Since then,
Egyptian aviation has made long
strides of progress.
Will Be About 750 Miles Long;
Traversable in About 3 or 4
Days, Instead of 30 to 35
by Camel Caravan
MRS. Marie Anna Hanna of
Brooklyn was seriously injured last
Friday by an automobile in Montclair, N.J. She alighted from the car
in which she had been Tiding and,
started to cross the street to the
other, side. Just .before reaching it,
she was hit by an approaching car.
She was rushed to Mt. Sinai Hospital,
Montclair, where it was found that she
had dislocated vertabrae. She is improving rapidly. Dr. T. Nicola is a
surgeon at the hospital.
She. had been riding with Mrs.
Abouhatab, vridow of the late Elias
Abouhatab, And brother of Bishop
Emmanuel Abouhatab who passed
away last Monday.
NABLUS FEELS
EARTHQUAKE
The people of Nablus, the ancient Schechem of the Bible, were
startled and terrified when a slight
tremor passed through their town,
three weeks ago.
It recalled" for them the terrible earthquake which destroyed
part of their town in 1927 and
claimed many dead.
gal last Friday when they appeared
before the County Judge and filed
their marriage contract, as required
by state law.
The official status of the Archbishop, is expected to be established
at the annual conclave of the Russian
Orthodox clergy, which began last
Monday at South Canaan, Pa.
A motor- transport route between
Iraq and the Kingdom of the Hejaz,
Nejd, and dependencies in Arabia is
under survey for construction to be
undertaken jointly by the Iraq and
Hejaz governments. The special commission appointed by the Iraq Chamber of Deputies to make the survey
has submitted its report, which recommends as the most favorable route
one of about 300 miles, to run from
Baghdad (the capital) via Karbala,
Najaf, Zibeide, and Jemeinah. The
Saudi Government also has appointed
a commission to survey that part of
the route (about 450 miles) lying in
Hejaz territory. This route, the terminal of which will be Baghdad in
Iraq and Medina in the Hejaz, will be
about 750 miles long and traversable
in three or four days by motor
where camel caravans in the past
had taken 30 to 35 days. The highway is expected to become an important route for the annual pilgrimage to (Mecca and Medina which are
in Hejaz. The proposed route will
also facilitate commerce between the
two countries besides being an indication of the peaceful amity existing between the two countries!
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REGULAR STREETS FOUND
IN VILLAGE 5000 YEARS OLD
AUSTRIAN ARCHEOLOGISTS UNEARTH ANCIENT EGYPTIAN VILLAGE AT MERIMDA; FOUNDATIONS INDICATE HIGH STATE OF CIVILIZATION AND
ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE
REGULAR streets, houses built
at intervals in parallel rows, is
a feature of civilized life which
we have come to take for granted.
But in the early stages of
history the village or town consisted of houses together with
no special design or order, or!
grouped around a square.
We learn, however, from special correspondence to the New York
Times that the results of a year's
excavations by the archeological expedition of the Academy of Science
of Vienna at Merimda, in the Western Delta of the Nile, have revealed
the first instance known in history
of the existence of regular streets in
parallel distribution. This was the
academy's fourth years of excavations
in Merimda.
Rows of Houses Found
"In a Section 100 meters long,"
says the Times correspondence, "there
was a row of thirteen houses running
northeast to southwest, with a parallel row of seven houses at a distance
of five or six meters to the north.
The rest of the row was destroyed by
a modern canal. This regular plan
of prehistoric town supposes an advanced organization, as well as the
existence of a powerful authority,
and permits conclusions as to the social structure of the tribe."
The age of the unearthed prehistoric town is estimated at 4000 to
5000 years B.C.
Especially amazed were members
of the Austrian excavation expedition at the evidence of engineering
knowledge, and skill possessed by the
builders of those ancient huts. To
ll;
consolidate the foundations in the
soft mud of the delta, they either
drove wedge-shaped hand-made clay
bricks into the bottom around the
hole, or first placed a layer of bones,
potsherds and pebbles, and, above
them, flat bricks, pointed at both
ends, which were firmly bound together by over-lapping one another.
AVIATRJX KILLED IN SYRIA
Frauletn Von Etzdorf Crashes Near
Aleppo, on Way to Far East
IN an Associated Press dispatch
from Aleppo it is reported that Fraulein Marga von Etzdorf, well-known
German aviatrix, died of injuries received in a crash when she was landing at the Muslimiyyah airdrome,
near Aleppo, on her flight to the Far
East.
Fraulein von Etzdorf, who is 26^
years old made a successful flight
from Berlin to Tokyo last summer.
While in Bangkok, on June 24, she
gave the world the first news of the
Siamese revolution by telephone message to Berlin.
CAR SMASHED;
NO ONE HURT
On colliding with a truck last
Monday night, a car, driven and
owned by Victor Zarick, Brooklyn,
was smashed to pieces. Riding with
him were George Khoury and Victor
Saadi. None of them was hurt.
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PAGE THREE
HUNDREDTH
MEMORIAL TABLET PLACED IN ROOM WHICH HE OC
CUPIED IN 1833 ON VISIT TO EMIR BASHIR;
LAMARTINE'S DESCRIPTION OF
BTEDDIN PALACE
President Charles Dabbas Officiates
"Thou! the child of the East, dost thou ask me for song?
Thou! born where the desert wind sweepeth along;
The flower of the gardens the bulbul might choose,
For the opening blossom his love music woos.
"We bring back no balm 'scaped the odorous fold,
Nor fruit to the orange tree heavy with gold;
Would we offer the Orient daybreak more light?
Or stars to the sky that is glorious with night?"
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THUS wrote Lamartine to a Syrian maiden of Aleppo who
had asked him for a few lines of his poetry exactly 1 00 years ago,
when he was on his famous pilgrimage to the Holy Land. >
The name of the immortal French poet and that of his sister
Julia are indelibly carved on the bark of one of the stately, hoary
cedars that still stand among its thinning group of imrnortal trees
in the historic and sacred grove overlooked by Fam-ul-Mizab and
Zahr-ul-Qadib peaks of the Lebanon range. From a distance below, Lebanon seems to have cupped its palm to protect those
dwindling cedar trees from the ravages of man and beast. The
names of the French poet and his
as host to the large crowd of visitors
sister are in danger of being overwho had come from Beirut, Tripoli
lapped by the new growth of the
and all parts of Lebanon to partivital bark, but a shining new memocipate in the ceremonies of honor.
rial tablet gives a more durable testiTriumphal arches were erected
monial of the" sweet memories which
at the entrance of the town, and the
the poet's visit to Lebanon has left
spacious court (room of the Emir's
in the hearts of its people. This tabpalace was converted into a ball and
let was dedicated with appropriate
reception room for the distinguished
ceremonies as recently as 1925, and
guests.
Among these were Mme.
is a gift iof the enterprising youth of
Henry Ponsot, French High CommisBecharre, the guardians of the Cedars.
sioner, M. and Mme. Charles Dabbas,
It is raised conspicuously on one of
President of the Lebanon Republic,
the largest trees of the group which
Gen. Bernier, Subhi Bey Abu-1has been named after Lamartine.
Nasr, Director of the Interior, Sami
Exactly 100 years after that visit,
Bey al-Khoury, 'Director of Justice,
Emir Bashir al-Malti, the Great
plate, on which was engraved Lamartine's picture and the following words
in Arabic and French: "In memory
of Lamartine's visit to the great Emir
Bashir in 1833."
Reception Held
After a brief tour of the palace,
its gardens, baths and various historic rooms, the guests gathered in
*%r#5M4
years, related how he remembered the
visit of Lamartine to the Emir.
Centenarian Remembers Lamartine
Perhaps this old centenarian would
find particular joy and vivid recollections, now dimmed by the flow
of years and the tremendous changes
which have overtaken the ,Lebanon
which Lamartine knew, in the following passage taken from the French
Poet's description of the Emir's palace, taken from the pages of his
book, almost immediately translated
into English, "A Pilgrimage to the
Holy Land."
"
The hill of Bteddin, on which
stands the palace of the Emir," wrote
Lamartine exactly 100 years ago,
"sprang from this valley (of Deirul-Qamar), and rose like an immense
tower flanked with rocks, which were
covered with ivy, and emitting sheafs
of undulating verdure from the fissures and battlements.... On its summit, and a few paces from us, the
Moorish palace of the Emir extended
itr majestic proportions over the
whole platform of Bteddin, with its
square towers admitting the light
through intended orgives at their
summits
"
And coming closer to the scenes
of the palace itself, Lamartine continues:
Lamartine Describes Emir's Court
Bteddin Palace; Lamartine's Room Faces the Top Landing of the Grand Stair Case Shown
in Centre.
on the 6th of May last, another memorial tablet was placed on the wall
in the, room which Lamartine occupied when he paid a visit to Emir
Bashir ash-Shihabi in Bteddin, in the
historic palace that still stands today over the Deir-ul-Qamar valley.
It was an occasion for the revival of
those memories and an opportunity to
honor a poet who had written so
sweetly about the East and particularly about Lebanon.
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Bteddin Plays Host
The little town of Bteddin ae*od
Joseph Effendi Shamoun, Director of
Utilities, Emir Faiq Shihab, and many
others, representing the government,
educational and journalistic organizations of Lebanon and Syria.
The ceremony itself was simple.
As soon as President Dabbas made
ihis appearance he was welcomed with
loud cheers by the guests and townspeople. After a short rest in the
court room of the Bteddin Palace, he
•proceeded to the room which Emir'
Bashir had assigned for his distinguished visitor, and there placed
on one of its walls the memorial
the ball room for dancing and conversation. Joseph Muzhir, honorary
president of the Bteddin Philanthropic Society, and his wife welcomed
the guests in the name of the town
and its people. The preparations for
the memorial celebrations were under the auspices of Ahmed Bey alBirjawi, Police Commissioner of Lebanon and Nazim Bey al-Akkari,
Lieutenant-governor of Shuf.
A realistic touch was given to the
occasion when an old man of the
town, Butrus Elias Lubus, who had
passed the hundredth mark by seven
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The spacious courts fronting
the palace were likewise filled with
a crowd of servants, courtiers, priests
or soldiers, under all the varied and
picturesque costumes exhibited by
the several distinct populations of
Lebanon; the Druses, the Christians,
the Armenians, the Greeks, the Maronites and the Motoualis. Five or
six hundred horses were fastened by
the head and feet to extended ropes.
On the highest terrace of the interior court, some young pages,
mounted, were running races, throwing the jarid, avoiding each other by
stooping to their horses' necks, turning back at full speed upon thendisarmed adversaries, and performing,
with remarkable grace and vigor, all
the rapid evolutions which this military game calls forth."
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PITY THE EDITOR
"Some love you, some hate you"—that's
how the fortune teller in , Syria begins her
flattering lines as she throws the shells on
the floor and looks up to your face to read
therein your hidden desires and complexes.
And how well do editors know the significance of these platitudinous words.
"Some love you, sopne hate you"—and if
it were left at that there may still remain
the consolation that so long as you do not
know who hates you it does not matter much,
arr^till g-3 j our quiet, calm way buoyed
by the consolation of those who love you.
But when those who love you whisper it in
your ears, and those who hate you proclaim
it in an unmistaken and vehement tone, you
cannot be blamed much if you are at least a
little disappointed.
We have in, mind particularly the editorial we wrote last week on the topic, "We
Have Reached" Our Majority." Some people
took issue with us on the inclusion and exclusion of certain names—why did you mention so and so, and why did you omit such
and such?
Aside from the consideration that we took
a wholly impersonal attitude in the selection
of those names, certainly it did not cross our
minds that it was, in any shape, way or planner, to be taken as a Who's Who of Syrians in America. One could think of just as
good a list without duplicating a single name
we mentioned.
Fortunately there was only one name
Whose inclusion was seriously challenged on
the basis of merit, the rest were objected to
on other less pertinent grounds.
Pity the editor, especially one whose identity cannot be hidden from the circle of his
friends, and when the love of those friends
turns so capriciously into hate and longdrawn arguments when an editorial happens
not to (tickle their funny bone.
HOW ABOUT A FEDERATION
, REVIEWING, at such a long distance, the
agitated and emotion-charged condition of
Syrian politics at their present stage, we fail
to be moved into a state of inordinate enthusiasm over the "issues" that emerge from
so much heat and passion.
Furthermore, we cannot understand why
Syrians and French have not long ago come
jto some comon ground of understanding
which, even from the point of expediency
for both, would be at any rate more profit-
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able than the present unsettled and chaotic
state.
Such common ground, we hold, could
easily be provided in a federation form of
government which leaves a wide leeway of
local autonomy to those divisions of Syria
which still cling to their local traditions and
local semi-independence, and at the same
rime will not stand in the way of a truly unified policy in the economic adminstration of
Syria or of its national defense. The "pattern
for such a federation is already in existence,
and has proven a successful and brilliant experiment. The United States of America have
proven the insight and wisdom of the fathers
of this great country in creating a national
polity so elastic and so efficient at the same
time, and one' that is eminently suitable for
a country of heterogeneous communities and
divergent racial trends. The example of the
U.S.A. has often been suggested by levelheaded and sincere Syrian national leaders
whose motives cannot be questioned for integrity and patriotism. Why it has been ignored so long is a mystery to us. But the
mystery may be somewhat dispelled when
we realize that, whether on the side of the
French or on the side of the nationalists,
sinister and selfish motives are often hidden
behind apparently altruistic and high-sounding words.
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WHITE ARAQ
By Barbara Young
I drink strange beauty from this crystal cup,
And from your hand I hear strange music, too.
I have come back to walk again with you
In the Tost garden of forgotten dreams.
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White poppies blow about our sandaled feet.
The air is laden with a nameless sweet.
You are the young bright god again, and I
One who has seen the light upon your head
Give me the crystal cup! I have been dead
Give me the cup, and let me live again.
I hear the wind among the cedar trees.
I see the snowy mountains. What are these
Swift wings that beat upon the singing «ir?
O white and heavenly and ageless bird,
Bringing the ancient and eternal word,
This is the voice of life and love and death.
Body and spirit, and our eager breath
Rise on these pinions to the starry height.
There is white magic in the crystal sup,
The potency of longing and of love,
And of your eyes, your arms. Now, let us rest,
And dream the last inestimable dream.
,
inebriation and placed a live coal on his foot.
He jumped up, frightened and pained.
"If you cannot stand a little pain like this,"
the slave-girl remonstrated, "how can you
Abdullah Ibn Marzooq, a boon companion
stand the eternal fire of hell hereafter?"
of Caliph al-Mahdi, had a weak spot for the
At hearing these words, the pleasure, lov"daughter of the vine." One day, when he
had imbibed a little too Jnuch of his choice ing Marzooq left all behind, deserted the
beverage, he missed his Friday noon prayer. caliph's court and adopted the ascetic life,
A slave-girl who was devoted to him, ap- having emancipated his slave-girl and disproached him while he; was in the state of tributed all his wealth among the poor.
ORIENTALIA
�THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, JUNE 2, 1933
V
PAGE FIVE
FROM EAST AND WEST
AT RANDOM
OUR NEW YORKERS
AND IS THAT A MARK OF
SUPERIORITY?
By Alice Mokarzel
By Ana Bshoof
By H. I. Katibah
On Leave
(With i apologies to Amy Porter)
Dear Boss:
THERE are many angles from which one could
THANKS for letting me off. That was swell
look at the amazing scandals now being revealed.
in the senate investigations of private bank prac- of you. I was going to drop you a card sooner,
tices^ There is the angle of the insidious domina- —"Having a grand time... Wish you were here...
tion of our local and national governments by the The water's fine"—but we're camped in the mounmoguls of wealth; there is the angle of faulty legis- tains and I looked around for some water all day
lation which would allow those who can bear the and 'didn't find any—so I couldn't send the card
burden of the country's budget most easily to goi Isn't that terrible! Next time I'll go to the beach.
scot-free while piling their share of taxation on
the overburdened backs of the little fellows. There
are other angles, many of them, but I like to conOtherwise it's o.k. up here. No linotypes, no
sider those scandals from one that has not been typewriters, no presses, nothin', can you imagine
touched upon by the newspaper editorials I had the that! And when someone's yellin', it isn't Joe callchance to read, and suspect has escaped most ing Faris from the press-room, honest it isn't, boss,
readers.
it's one 'of the fellows calling the gang to see what
he
shot. They've got game-hunting on the brain
The "favoured lists" of those who were let in
by Morgan House on securities several points below friere, but I don't pay much attention to them. Next
the actual market price, undoubtedly contain seve- 'door they sell chickens cheap, so why bother killing
ral names of individuals who were supposed, and something that takes a lot of trouble to cook and
in many ways are, above reproach. It has been doesn't taste half as good
argued in defense of those individuals that they
'have done no heinous wrong, that their transactions
Listen, boss, tell Habib there's a swell place up
were legal and sanctioned by common practice in
the stock market. But nobody has dared to deny here where he can smoke his pipe and plunk his
that they were not ethical, were not altogether' typewriter—no one'll bother him, only the woodhonest and above board. Nobody has ventured to peckers and they make the same kind of noise. And
refute, the charge that the prodigious profits these if he's afraid I'll pester him with Mss., tell him the
gentlemen reaped had to be made up by the losses click of any typewriter means a quick getaway for
me. Yes, sir, I'm taking a real vacation.
of the poor suckers on the stock market floor.
Now the amazing thing, to me, is how can
people call themselves and expect others to call
I guess Philip feels the same way about his
them respectable and upright who can still entertain such moral obliquity in business practices? linotype. Well, he's young and there are plenty
How can these men have the temerity to call them- of trees he can climb and park and smoke his pipe.
selves superior, the salt of the earth and the cream And Joe, too. Tell him I'll make Turkish coffee
of society, who can harbour such inhuman selfish- whenever he wants it, but no yellin' up here cause
ness and lack of public consciousness, who can stoop tjjey don't like to scare the animals when they
so low in their mad avarice to add a little more to hunt.
their bulging treasures of gold?
Does not superiority include a moral rectitude
I guess Mary'll hop up here when she hears
above suspicion, an honesty above reproach?
this
the post-office is five miles away and there's
And what shall we say of men already rich in
only one man in ft and he doesn't sit in a swivel
their own means, in fact millionaires, who are yet
chair, making you sort the mail the way he wants
willing to put themselves under obligation of gratiit and watching you work.
tude to others for the sake of a few paltry thousands?
Does superiority preclude magnanimity of spirit,
I've been lying in the hammock all afternoon,
the pride of being bestowers instead of the receivers
day
dreaming. Sometimes I think I'm back in
of gratuity?
Lebanon
sitting under a cedar tree and watching
The East which has often fanatically and secretthe
houses
on the opposite mountain. Gee! what a
ly despised the West in spite of the wonderful progress the latter has made in science, culture, eco- dream! I'd be lying down in the shade all afternoon;
nomics and social control, usually entertains a sus- and when evening rolls around, I'd go back on my
picion that there are certain fine moral sensibilities, donkey and meet the crowd. Then we'd go to the
certain marRs of spiritual grace, often lackng in the "kroom" and feast on a meal that we all helped to
make-up of Western civilization. The favoured few bring and cook and then for dessert we'd pick the
who can allow themselves such unchivalrous ad- figs and grapes. What times! Then we'd sit about
vantages at the expense of unfavoured humanity on the straw rugs and some would sing and play
cannot understand what al-Ghazali I called "the hid- the oud. You know, boss, it's o.k. when you can go
den hypocrisy" (ar-riyya'u-1-khafi), the little abroad in style in the summer to these high-filuting
moral irregularities which the common lot of mor- places, but for me, give me Lebanon, any day.
tals wink at as permissible in a practical and worldly society. Nor do they measure up to the lofty
When it gets dark here I keep thinking of
ideal of true nobility expressed in a saying already
quoted in a previous issue of the SYRIAN WORLD the light nights in Lebanon, and the moonlight
—"He who seeks a 'favour of another exposes him- walks we'd take over the mountains, singing and
arms linked. You know, boss, I think I'm homeself to slavery."
We do not by any means imply that such flag- sick. Aw! I guess I'll get over it. Anyway, isn't it
rant practices are not common among businessmen a swell idea to spend a summer in Lebanon? There
of the East. We do imply that the East, with its ought to be some way for us all to go back every
inborn moral frankness and realism, refuses those few years. Most of us are just satisfied with sayguilty of such practices the distinction of nobility ing how great the old country is and never thinking
and class superiority. And while a great deal of of going back. Not me! I'm going back and soon,
injustice may be involved in such an attitude, and whaddya say, boss.
while a great deal of charlatanism passes in the
East for spiritual aristocracy, it is nevertheless true
Ouch! These Jersey mosquitoes are eating me
that the East, does insist that morality should come
before respectability, that things spiritual have pre- up. I guess I'll go in. Some of the girls are making kibbee in the "jurn." I hear them pounding
cedence over things material.
And they who persist in a view of superiority already. The gang wishes you were here and if you
which ruthlessly pushes, and hacks its way, regard- get a big scoop, don't forget me boss!
So long!
less of moral considerations or moral responsibility,
to its goal of success, may subjugate others, but
You know me,
cannot win their respect. They remind one of a cerAl
tain negress who distinguished herself for her zeal
at revivalist meetings; but was caught stealing a
The East cannot take such a view. Fundamenchicken. When her pastor admonished her and expressed his surprise that she could be guilty of tally it feels that such conduct, not only does have
something to do with religion, but that moral insuch a grave lapse, she replied:
"Brudder, dis aint got nothing to do with ma tegrity is of the very essence of religion, of character, of social distinction and of superiority.
religion."
I am the protector of the Syrian girl. In doing
my duty, I must put on guard some poor misled
girls who believe that they are the "one and only" of a certain young man. While in Porto Rico,
he wrote each of these five or six girls. They each
believed they were "the one and only," as I said
(Times have changed. It used to be the girl who
kept five or six on strings.)
Oh, George! are you in for it! (But let's not
tell him that the girls took it as a joke and compared their mail).
Says Cynical Susie: Why do our New York
boys go to college? They all land after graduation
in their fathers' linen or rug business.
Among those who went on the boat ride given
by New York University, last Saturday night, were
Lillian Kaydouh, Helen Mussallem, George Khoury,
William Samara and Victor Saadi.
Shades of Our Fathers! Uncles in this case. The
more I see Joe Ganim, the more I am convinced
that he is growing more like his uncle," George
Dagher, as time goes on, in statemanship and politics.
He is elected in our yearbook as most likely to
succeed in politics.
Selma Mussawir called us to task for writing
the other day in this column that she caught no
fish on her last fishing trip. She says that she
caught one six feet long. How long? Well anyway, three feet long, she insists. How long? Well,
IT WAS A FISH, she cries.
There was a christening last Sunday. Place:
Prospect Park. Weather: Raining. God-father; Joe
Ganim.
Parent: George Marrash.
Child: 1933
Chevrolet.
Alice Kaydouh of Brooklyn, who attends Packer Institute will take part in a play to be given
by the senior class for commencement which
takes place in June.
And now that Spring has rolled around, and
almost rolled away, we shalT see more of Emily
Tweel's beautiful tennis. She won the Prospect
Park tennis championship last year and we're all
rooting for her this year. Another thing that Emily
is an expert at is sewing. She makes herself the
most beautiful clothes,—and hats, you'd swear they
were Paris imports.
But to go back to tennis. I am all for having
tennis matches among our New York Syrians. We
have lots of young people who play tennis that is
not to be sneezed at. The first one that comes to
mind is Gladys Jabara who won the Sunset Park
championship last year. She will return from Syria
this month, so there is some good material to start
with. Then there's Eddie Saydah, the Shamas boys
and their sister, Viky, Madeline Maloof, Violet Zrike,
the Zrike boys, Beebe Siyufy, Margaret Tadross,
and ad infinitum.
There was a private wedding last Sunday, very
private, in fact, up in Bay Ridge of a well-known
Bay Ridgeite and an American man. Don't worry
about it too much,—they'll be announced next week.
A few Syrians attended the supper-dance given
by an American society on the S.S. Rex last night.
But they say that this 'and nothing they've been to
compare with the Junior League affairs.
SPRING
By Thomas Asa
Thou joyous season of awak'ning life,
Refreshed with thy long sleep you come again,
Bringing sweet mem'ries of thy former reign
To eyes soon wearied by the Winter's strife;
The dormant puke revives, the bruising knife
Of Boreas is sheathed;—thy gentle rain
Shall raise in vernal bloom what long hath lain.—
Earth's smiling face shall gladden husband, wife,
Thy strength and beauty inspire Man to hope,
When in his ripened years no longer knows
The unchecked passions of his youthful past.
That mortal bliss can be his rightful scope,
If at thy side his manhood's seed he sows,
And near thee in eternal sleep at least.
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THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, JUNE 2, 1933.
MINIATURES
ARABESQUE
ANTIOCH
ANTIOCH—"the City of God" . . . "the
Queen of the East". . . the. earliest seat of organized Christianity, where the followers of
the Nazarene were first called "Christians."
. . .the seat (nominally) of the principal patriarchate for all the Eastern churches, - . the
city made famous by the missionary journeys
of St. Paul, and more recently by Wallace's
"Ben Hur."...
There were 16 cities in ancient times
named Antioch, and 12 other so renamed.
But the most famous was the Antioch of Syria, known as "Antiochia epi hey Daphne," or
Antioch on the Daphne.
Situated on the left bank of the Orantes
20 miles before it debouches into the Mediterranean Sea, Antioch is one of the best
examples of those Hellenistic settlements or
colonies which once dotted the Syrian litAntioch— "the City of God"— A
toral. Founded by Seleucus Nicator in 300
B.C., Antioch was in architecture, in population and in associations a purely Greek city
on Syrian soil. It was as if a gigantic marid were the baths and the approaches thereto
had carried the city from its foundations from illuminated."
some Grecian plain or seashore across the
This love of pleasure seems to have been
Aegean and Mediterranean Seas and placed one of the deep-seated characteristics of the
it entact at the base of Mt. Silpius in north- people of ancient Antioch. Especially was
ern Syria.
this true of Daphne, the neighboring.pleasure
At one time the population of. Antioch resort which attained world fame for the
eached the unbelievable maximum of half a love orgies enacted in its thick woods, and
million, almost one third the present popula- by which Antioch itself was usually identition of Syria. Today, shrunk to one-tenth fied. It was considered disgraceful for men
\of its original area, its population has dwin- of sobriety even to set foot within the con"Hleo'to~30,000.
fines of Daphne.
In contrast to its present dark and narAntioch was famous for its temples and
row streets, ancient Antioch once prided it- the statues of the Hellenic gods, especially
self over its Wide, colonnaded avenues, throb- for its Temple of Apollo at Daphne with its
bing with life and traffic. The main avenue, huge statue of Apollo, made for Seleucus by
running parallel to the Orontes, was more the Athenian sculptor (Bryaxis.
than '4 miles long. Many public buildings,
The first Christian bishop of Antioch, not
'theatres, baths and magnificent residences counting St. Paul,'the founder of the church,
lined this great street and the one running according to Ensebius, was Eudius. But others
at right angles.
,
hold that Ignatius, the first martyr of Antioch,
"At night," runs one description of the was a'so its first bishop.
Ignatius was a
ancient city, "the streets were brilliantly ilhearer of St. John," and it was said he was
luminated by lights rivaling the light of day. raised to the episcopate by St. Peter. St.
The Antiocheans turned night into day, not Chrysostom, "the golden-mouthed orator" of
looking for security, but pleasure. Especially the Eastern church, however, was its most
f.
"BANATIL YOUM"
PRESENTED
By Lawrence Joseph
(Special Correspondent)
SHREVEPORT, La. May 21.—The
Syrian Progressive Club of Shreveport, La., presented on May 21 in the
City Auditorium a four act comedy
in Arabic. The play was based on
the modern Syrian girls of today,
and the carefree manner with which
they pursued their happiness. Their
parents and relatives, however,
thought the modern girl should conform to their own old-fashioned
standards of life and conduct.
S The cast was made up of Louise
Joseph, Julia Dehan,, Anne Neshum,
Catherine Abood, Louise Ferris, Edward Dehan, Walter Monsour, Fred
Monsour and Amelia Ferris.
Prologue Given
Lorice Eltife and Francis Eltife
gave an interesting prologue on
''Sweethearts" accompanied by Louise
Yazbeck. Little Matilday Abraham
sang "Lindy" accompanied by Law-
rence Joseph. Of much interest was
the recitation of "Mother" by Master
Jchn Moosy, written by Anne Neshum.
Madeline Joseph acted as Mistress of ceremonies and the ushers
were Josephine and Lorice Eltife.
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Elaborate plans are being made
for the second annual Fourth of July
dance to be held by the Syrian Propressive Club of Shreveport, La., in
one of the leading hotels of the city.
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Greek Colony on Syrian Soil.
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celebrated .and famous bishop.
The important place which Antioch occupied in the annals of Christianity, especially of the Eastern churches, make its history
almost exclusively ecclesiastical. Little else
distinguishes it since the decline of its classical glory. Ten church councils* were held in
Antioch in little over a hundred years (from
252 to 380 A.D). From the 4th century ana*
for several centuries thereafter, Antioch became somewhat famous for its trade with the
Far East, and we have several interesting
descriptions of the city by Chinese merchants
and travellers.
Antioch was anneiAd by th» Arabs in 635
A.D., restored to Christian rule by Nicephorus Phocas in the 10th century, only to fall
in the hands of Seljuks in 1084. Fourteen
years later it was retaken by Crusaders who
placed Boemund I prince over it. It was occupied by the Allies in. 191 8.
Once a great trading centre, Antioch's
trade before the War was considered insignificant, and after the War it became even
more so with the separation of Syria from
the Ottoman Empire.
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CINCINNATI, June 1.— Among
the successful graduates of the Cincinnati Pharmacy College is Joseph
Salem, son of Mr. Saleem Salem, prominent business man. Graduation
exercises will be held at the Masonic Temple, on June 6.
Following his graduation, in the
evening, a large banquet will be held
for him, for which plans are being
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ESAU JOSEPH HALOW... .artist
was {born in Meshta Al-Halow oni
April 19, 1892
came to the United
States at the age of seven years, his
parents settling in Latrobe, Pa.
E J. Halow is entirely self-taught
in art
When a young child he
showed a keen liking for the colorful fabrics in his father's store in
Lebanon.... his only regret upon
leaving that country was that he
would see no more the "pretty
dresses" that the Lebanese women,
wore.
Halow was educated in public
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ENTERTAINMENT
Comedy Caricatures " Syrian Trait;
Another Club to Give Romantic
Play; Detroit Socials
(Special Correspondence)
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DETROIT, May 29.—A new kind
of entertainment has been successfully introduced by the Knights of St.
George—the card party and drama,
which was given Sunday, May 28th.
The play, "Never Again," featured the
near break-up of two homes because
of a wife's love of bargain-hunting.
Miss Tillie John is thje bargain-mad
mate and Joseph Eissa her unsuspecting spouse. Miss Josephine Nicholas is their friend. Tom Kazel and
Miss Amelia Aboud are the innocent
' couple caught in the tangle that follows when Charlie Nicholas, the overpolite, over-zealous salesman carries
his zeal a bit too far and causes the
whole mix-up. Direction was by Miss
Amelia Nicholas who also gave a recitation (Betty At The Ball Game);
and the witty chairman of the evening
was none other than the popular legal
light, Fred Alexander. The card party
preceded and followed the drama,
"sandwiching" it in and refreshments
were served. The patrons showed
themselves heartily in favor" of this
type of evening's entertainment, which
promises to be a regular monthly
affair at St. George's Hall next season.
The Rt. Rev. Archmandrite Anthony Bashir left Detroit this week for
El Paso, Texas, where he will perform the ceremony solemnizing the
marriage of the Archimandrite's sister, Miss Nazhla Bashir to Mr. Kazin K. Kazin. The wedding takes
place Sunday, June 4th.
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Mr. and Mrs. George Silhany of
Detroit gave a reception in honor of
Miss Thelma Rafful and her fiance
schools of Latrobe, Pa. and Grand
Rapids, Mich
wherever he went he
frequented the haunts of artists and
exhibitions
imitating the various
styles and schools of art
until,
while a very young man, he had developed a distinct style of his own
As a critic of the International Studio
Magazine has said: "It is impossible
to place him in any of them (schools)
for he has, through the unrestrained
development of his own artistic spirit,
achieved a unique form of esthetic
expression."
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E. J. Halow's works include portraits, landscapes, still-life, marine
scenes, and symbolic paintings pertaining to Biblicial stories
they
have been exhibited in Jackson, Mich,
under the sponsorship of the Jackson,
Art Association, in Chicago in the
Auditorium Hotel, and in other leading centers
At the Bach Festival
iheld in Bethlehem, in Pennsylvania
in 1931 Ameen Rihani came upon an
exhibition of his works, of which he
wrote later in a descriptive article:
"His exquisite little canvasses are
painted with a passion that knows
the value of restraint or in a lyrical
mood that knows the secret of rhythmic beauty."
"Halow was engaged for a while
in the rug business
but abandoned
it to devote his full time to painting.
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He is now living with his sister,
Mrs. S. Bashure, of Altoona, Pa
whose daughter is El-Bashara, the
dancer, of New York.
Mr. Joseph Lahoud of Bridgeport,
Ohio. Guests included Dr. Arthur
Gannon, Dr. John M. Nader, (Mr.
Frederick P. Alexander, Mr. N.
George Bashara, Mr. and Mrs. James
Snaige, Miss Edna Andrews, Miss
Ruth Mickel of Toledo, and friends
and relatives.
Mr. Checri Salloum of Detroit
left for New York last week to meet
Mrs. Salloum who is returning from
a year's visit to Syria and Lebanon,
for her health.
Accompanying him are Mr. and
Mrs. George Lutfy and Najib Bo-
Hajji Ahmed Fallahi and Hajji
Hajar Mohammed Enter a Taxi
on Broadway and Find
Themselves on Way
to Chicago
THAT'S what we call repaying
Arab hospitality!
And that, ,we assure you, is another true Arabian Nights story, this
time taking place in our and your
familiar Broadway.
Among those who had come from
foreign lands to attend the Chicago
World Fair were two curious Moslem gentlemen from Rabat, Morocco,
Hajji Ahmed al-Fallahi, a tea and
coffee merchant, and Hajji Hajar Mohammed, a wealthy wood carver.
Still garbed in their red fezzes, heelless slippers and airy burnoses, as
they stepped down from the ganplank of their ship, they strayed into
our celebrated Broadway, as two
babes in the woods. They had never
heard, it seems, of our gangsters,
racketeers or gentle racketeers, our
taxi-men.
"Where
You Going,
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driven a couple hundred miles or
so, the two Moorish gentlemen became
restive and began to gesticulate and
argue with the driver, who kept on,
however. They stopped for the night
at Pittsburgh, but nothing was said)
abou the meter and what it means.
But when, on the following night they
stopped at Fort Wayne,\ and they
learned that their taxi fare had)
reached over $200, not to mention;
anything about hotel bills and such,
the Hajjis became furious and Fellahi broke loose with* his broken
English.
Finally Kurth settled with the
Moorish Hajjis for $150, and they sent
for their baggage from New York.
And that, my friend, is what we
call repaying Arab hospitality with,
a vengeance!
Snake Charmer
Buddy?"
As they were walking down the
street, so innocently, chattering in
Arabic and expressing their joyful
surprise about the tall skyscrapers of
our city and other wonders of modern
civilization, who popped up but a
taxi-driver.
"Where you going, buddy?," inquired our gentle taxi-man, Arthur
O. Kurth by name.
"Chicago," innocently replied Fellahi, the English expert of the two.
"O.K.," replied Kurth, also innocently, as he opened the taxi door
and invited the two Moorish gentlemen in.
The Hajjis stepped in, and the
Marathon drive across the American
continent began. And as they were
HadJ Mohamed, 92-year-old
Arabian snake charmer, who
traveled thousands of miles "to *
take part in the Century of
Progress Fair that opened in
Chicago after many months of
preparation.
Chicago World's Fair Opens
Our Lady of Redemption's Girls
Club will give a two-act play (The
Hall, at Charlevoix and McDougall. .
Flower Bride) and a dance Sunday
night June 11th at Redemption Church
The story is of a romance that blooms
in a flower shop, and in the second
act is a Syrian wedding with all its
color and pomp. The cast is from
members of the parish. Dancing will
follow.
BRILLIANT HIT
IN BALL GAME
Wins Game in Eleventh Inning,
Hits Single With Bases
Loaded
John Hamrah
(Special Correspondent)
PLAINFIELD, N. J., May 31.—
The Netherwood Bears, a strong semipro baseball team in-Plainfield, defeated the Plainfield Royals 2 - 1 in a
pitcher's battle (yesterday.
Jimmy Hamrah, the Bear's 2nd
baseman actually won tie game in
the eleventh inning with a single,
with bases leaded batting in both
runs.
Donald Emerson pitched a 4 hit
game for the Bears and the Royal
pitcher was touched for 6 hits.
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY — ESTABLISHED 1926.
VOL. vn, NO. 5.
SCORES SYRIANS
WHO DENY RACE
Says They Seek to Hide Some
Deficiency Which Is Not Jo
Nationality but in
Themselves!
By Eugene Fans
NEW YORK, JUNE 2, 1933.
Social News
Mr. and Mrs. George G. Falsey
arrived in Brooklyn last Wednesday
from Hollywood. Mr. Falsey is the
chief cameraman for the Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios and now has a
six weeks vacation. They are staying
with Mrs. Falsey's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Khouri. Mrs. Falsey is
the former Angele Khouri.
(Special Correspondent)
DETROIT, May 26.—With biting
Mumor, painting a comic picture of
weak-minded Syrians who go about
^^masquerading as "French" and whatnot, Paul Dwaihy, newly-elected president of St. Maron's Young Men's
Club, called upon Syrian youth to be
itself.
Speaking before an audience of
the combined St. Maron's Society
groups, including many university
students, at a "Get-together" celebrating the consolidation of the younger
groups with the older ones, Mr. Dwaihy, who is a graduate of the University of Detroit and a present medical student, dedicated his club to
the principles of the society and to
"instilling within ourselves an appreciation of and devotion to our
mother country."
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Deficiency "Above Ears"
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"Those," he aaid, "who conceal
the fact of their Syrian origin are at-iefiipxiiig to hide some deficiency, but
that deficiency is not in their nationality but can easily be located in
themselves, in a region somewhere
above their ears."
The young man who is second
cousin of Chor-Bishop Dwaihy of
Boston, declared that "those who deny
their nationality are insulting us and
more—they outrage the memory of
their forefathers who did so much for
civilization."
"The men of Lebanon were the
first to civilize Europe. They were
the first to go down to the sea in
ships, the first scientists and the first
industrialists. Five popes have been
Syrians
These are only a few
random facts; research will uncover
hundreds more."
Syrian Education, Aim
One of the objects of his club,
lie stated, was to carry on a program
of Syrian education to foster a greater appreciation of our heritage.
Other speakers were Sheffic Maroun, vice-president of the club, who
called upon the three groups: the
senior men, the Ladies' Auxiliary,
and the young men, "to unite in,
purpose and co-operate to achieve
a greater and more dynamic St. Maron's Society;" Wm. A. Roccos, president of the senior men, who delivered the address of welcome in
English, and Mrs. Labeeby Khoury,
president of the Ladies group, who
spoke in Arabic.
AL-LO-HO'S LOSE TO
; MARONITES
Detroit, Mich., May 29.—St. Maron's Young Men's Club mercilessly
chastised the Al-Lo-Ho's in a baseball game at* Belle Isle, Sunday. The
victors challenge out-of-town clubs
with good teams. Write to Nappe
Peters, secretary, 455 E. Congress St.,
Detroit, Mich.
Mrs. John Macsoud served tea
at the exhibit given by the Artists
and Sculptors Society of Brooklyn
last Wednesday in the Towers, Brooklyn. The exhibit was given by the
Society from 3:00 o'clock on for outsiders in order to encourage amaeturs. Among those who attended
were the Misses Adele and Najla
Macsoud and Mary Milkie. Mr. Ni->
colas Macsoud is the president of the
Society.
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Edward Rizk of Brooklyn left yesterday for a three weeks business
tour of the New England States and
to Niagara Falls. He just returned
this week from Ohio.
Readers' Forum
the church fund. Sixty-five members were present. Mrs. Lieza Uniss,
Mrs. Louisa Aramony and Mrs. Amelia Faddool prepared the refreshments. Syrian music was sung by a
group.
AN OLD FRIEND'S REACTION
To the Editor:—I am again ready
to welcome the SYRIAN WORLD
with all its new metamorphosis. I wish
you luck, success and prosperity.
Flint, Mich.
Dr. Jos' A. Macksood
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PLAINFIELD NEWS
By John Hamrah
(Special Correspondent)
PLAINFIELD, N. J., May 27.—
Mrs. C. Bagdan held a card party at
her home. It was well attended by
many friends. Prizes were given and
refreshments served.
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Salim Hamrah, who has just arrived from Pinehurst, N. C. where he
was on a vacation with his aunt, Mrs.
M. Jebuli, is now visiting his cousin
here.
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Abraham Assotli, who recently
arrived from a short vacation in
Florida, has returned to his home in
Middlesex, N. J.
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Mrs. R J. Hamrah of this city is
visiting Mrs. P. J. Hamrah of New
Haven, Conn., who has undergone
two operations, but is improving.
To the Editor:—Please count me
as a booster of the SYRIAN WORLD.
I have received sample copies of
other Syrian papers that consist more
of social items but not honest-togoodness news that one enjoys reading and that contain real facts.
Pottsville, Pa.
Francis A. Francis
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Mr. Salim Thomey of Brooklyn is
sailing on the S.S. Byron, June 6,
for a short visit to Syria.
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchel Hadad of
Brooklyn gave a dinner party at Vil• lepigues's, Sheepshead Bay, last Friday night which was attended by Mr.
and Mrs. Ky Gabriel, Mr. and Mrs.
FJie Zenie, Mr. and Mrs. Nasib Maloof of Englewood, N. J. and Mr. aad
Mrs. Henry Hadad of Brooklyn. The
evening was gayer than ever when it
was discovered that May 26 was the
fifth anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Maloofs wedding.
TABBULI SERVED
The annual closing social of the
Daughters of Syria, the ladies society
of the Syrian Presbyterian Church,
was held last Wednesday, May 31,
in the clubroom of the church, Clinton
and Pacific Streets, Brooklyn. Tabbuli, sandwiches and mamoul were
served. Mrs. Selma Bezargi, president of the club, gave a word of welcome. The refreshments were donated and money realized went to
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"AND THERE WAS LIGHT"
To the1 Editor:—Wishing you success with that magnificent newspaper,
the SYRIAN WORLD, which is the
torch light of Syrian youth.
Porto Rico
Anuor Azizi
SWEET ADELINE THEME
SONG
At Young People's Dance; Priest Returns from Hospital; Other
Socials
Mrs. Charles J. Unice of HousPRAISES PARENTS WHO
ton, Texas, is coming to New York
EDUCATE DAUGHTERS
with her youngest- son, Robert, for
an indefinite visit. She will divide
her time between the homes of her X F. P. Alexander Says They Debrother and sister, Wm. and Roseserve Great Credit
mary, of 8718 Ridge Bl'vd. and Mrs.
Sahid Lian of 91-86th Street. Mrs.
(Special Correspondence)
K. Teen, their mother, is still in
DETROIT,
May 28.—Parents who
Houston, with Mrs. Unice's two older
permit
their
daughters
to finish high
children.
school deserve great credit, declared
Frederick P. Alexander, prominent
Mrs. M. Kaydouh returned last
attorney, who spoke at a reception
Sunday to her home in Brooklyn
given
by Mr. and Mrs. Shaker Ayoub
from Montreal, Canada, where she
in honor of their daughter Isabel who
Visited her daughter and son-in-law,
graduated this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Antoine Masabki.
"Some of you may think it nothing to finish high school these days,
Edward Joseph, president, was
but I tell you it is a rare thing if
given a surprise birthday party by
we
can induce fathers and mothers
the Basilian Club, Brooklyn, two
to send their girls through high
Sundays ago, in their clubrooms.
school. Most of them believe that
girls
are ' bom for house-work and
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gassan and
boys for education."
daughter, Florence, who have been
residents of Deadwood, South Dakota,
for 25 years, have moved to Omaha,
Nebraska where >they will make their
future home.
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By Elizabeth Gazaine
(Special Correspondent)
Torrington, Conn., June 2. —
"Come on, let's sing it," they shouted,
referring to Sweet Adeline and much
later, "We Won't Get Home Until
Morning." The occasion was the dance
held in the American-Syrian Hall
in this city last Sunday. About two
hundred young people attended the
very New Year's "Evey" affair.
Rev. Paul Abarez, pastor of St.
Maron's Syrian Church of Torrington,
Ccnn., has returned from the Charlotte Hospital after a serious opera'tion and is now well on the road to
recovery.
A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Edward of Talbot Street, Tor-'
rington. Mrs. Edward is the former,
Jennie Theebf daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. George Theeb.
Girls Should Find Themselves
Pausing in his humorous vein,
he attacked this idea, stating that
girls should be given the opportunity
to get an educational background and
"find themselves."
Being a bachelor and young, like
the other five members of our legal
fraternity, Mr. Alexander has not had
the opportunity to practice what he
preaches, but his preaching has been
very fruitful. A number of young
ladies, both here and in Ohio, his
home state, owe their education entirely to Mr. Alexander's persuasive
ability with their parents.
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Other speakers were Dr. Arthur
Gannon and the socially popular "Al"
Faris.
Other Gueests
A similar reception was given a
year ago for Isabel's sister Ella, who
graduated then. Other guests last
night included Dr. W. F. Courie, Mr.
and Mrs. Eissa, Mr. and Mrs. John
Toney, Mrs. Habid Naggar, Miss Ninnie Joseph, Miss Najeeba Joseph, the
Ebeids, Adam Morad, the Dahers,
Misses Georgie and Mary George, the
Fikanys, the Azars, Miss Ann Gabriel,
Miss Amelia Eissa, Nick Kalify, Philip
Shebay, and Mrs. Lulu Bomalik and
Mrs. Mary George who rendered
songs in English and Arabia
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Mr. and Mrs. George Frauenhofer were visitors in New York City
over the holidays.
Victor Abraham, son of Mr. and
Mrs. George Abraham of Goshen, is
a patient at the Charlotte, H Hospital.
Mr. Richard Maroon, who was ill
for over a month, is now back at his
business.
"TIGER" CAPTURES
100, 200 YD. DASHES
and JUMPING LAURELS
(Special Correspondence)
PLAINFIELD; N. J., May 31.-^
"Tiger" Andres, son of Mr.*and Mrs.
G. Andres, has been the sensation of
local grammar schools at the Rotary
meet in Boundbrook, N. J. Nicknamed
Tiger because of his agility, this
Boundbrook youngster captured the
10G and 200 yard dashes and also took
all of the jumping laurels which
included the high and broad jumps
in which there was bitter competition.
"Tiger" Andres is but 12 years
of age and took high scoring honors
from a field of five schools.
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<h4>Biographical/Historical Note</h4>
<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
<h4>Scope/Content Note</h4>
<p><em>The Syrian World</em> was published between 1926 and 1932 as a journal. In 1932, the format was changed from an academic journal style to a newspaper style, which continued until the periodical's end in 1935. After the death of his brother Naoum, Salloum took over the publication of <em>Al-Hoda.</em></p>
<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
<p>All issues of <em>The Syrian World</em> are available, along with full indexes for the first four volumes. For volumes five and six, there are tables of contents at the start of the issues.</p>
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The Syrian World
PUBLISHED WEEKLY —ESTABLISHED 1926
VOL. VII, NO. 6.
TYPHUS FEVER
BREAKS OUT ON
SYRIAN BORDERS
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THE dreaded epidemic of typhus
fever, which claimed thousands o£
victims in Syria during the World
War, has broken out again on the
Syrian-Turkish borders in the north.
The health departments of Syria
and Lebanon, giving public warning
of this new danger, have taken the
(necessary precautions to prevent the
spread of the epidemic into Syria
proper. Among these are a set of
sanitary instructions published in the
t. Syrian and Lebanese newspapers, the
free distribution of insecticide for
the destruction of lice, the typhus
carrier, free public baths etc., as well
as a concise description of the epidemic and its symptoms.
First Appearance
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&
The first appearance of typhus
cases, about two months ago, was
discovered among the nomadic tribes
of "Abu-Khattab" in the territory
falling between Tel-Baraq and Telal-Hamidi. From there the epidemic
spread, through a released prisoner,
to ^Deir-uz-Zor. So far no case has
been reported in Lebanon or Syria,
outside Deir-uz-Zor.
GIRL FALLS
TO DEATH
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Syrian Girl Falls Through SkyLight Twenty-Five Feet
Below
MARIE (ZAKIA) BOUJAMRA, 22,
was fatally injured when she fell
Wednesday noon through a skylight
to the stairway well, twenty-five feet
belo^r, of the Guardian Life Insurance
Company, Union Square, New York,
where she had been employed. Elizabeth Wehnes, a companion with
whom she had been lunching on the
roof, despite a printed warning to
keep off, held on to the frame as she
started to fall and screamed for help.
Hearing her screams fellow workers scampered to the scene. It was
then that the mangled body of Marie
was first discovered, while the other
girl was hanging precariously for dear
life'. Some one, a fellow girl employee, had enough presence of mind to
shout: "Quick pile up cushions below her!"
When Elizabeth finally fell she
sustained no further injuries than
slashed fingers from broken glass.
Dies
J
at
Hospital
Miss Boujamra died an hour after
being taken to Bellevue Hospital.
She, Miss Wehnes, and another companion were sitting on the skylight
when two sections of the glass fell
through. The third girl jumped clear.
All were employed in the actuarial
department of the company.
Miss Boujamra is survived by
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mansdur
Boujamra, 105 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn; a brother, John and a sister,
Nabiha.
£^ie was born in Toledo, Ohio,
fcer family having moved to New
York n 1917.
NEW YORK, JUNE 9, 1933~
SYRIAN CEMENT COMPANY
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
PLAN NATION-WIDE
POLICY
CEMENT COMPANY IN DAMASCUS ELECTS NEW TRUSTEES
AND INSPECTORS; LUTFI BEY AL-HAFFAR SUBMITS
RESIGNATION; FARIS BEY AL-KHOURY READS
REPORT SHOWING GREAT STRIDES OF
PROGRESS IN INDUSTRIAL PROJECT
New England Convention Convenes on Memorial Day with
Thirty Cities Represented
and Numerous Delegates
Attending
OFFICIAL reports from Damascus indicate that before the
summer is over, Syria will produce enough cement to satisfy all its
needs of consumption and to export to other countries of the East
besides.
About three years ago technical
experts discovered in the environs of
Dummer, a little village west of Damascus, large deposits, of soil suitable
for the production of cement of the
highest quality. Steps were taken at
once to organize a company to exploit this new resource. In a comparatively short time stocks were issued and offered for sale, and Syrians
of Damascus and other places bought
the new stoeks like hot cakes. It
was another indication of the new
spirit of trust and cooperation in industry which is making itself felt
everywhere' in the Near East.
For three years the company was
working steadily but surely in building the huge plant, installing the
machinery and perfecting its business
organization.
Annual Report
The annual report of the board of
directors of the company, read before
the meeting of the stockholders about
a month ago, shows that the company
has made long strides of progress in
the mechanical and technical sides,
as well as in financial efficiency. Over
500 .stockholders were present.
Faris Bey al-Khoury, President
of the board of directors, gave a brief
(resume of the company's work since
its inception, pointing to the grave
obstacles which the officers had met
and overcome in their efforts to
create a perfectly modern and efficient
industrial plant in the capital of
Syria.
It is somewhat surprising to learn
from Faris Bey's report, that "while
all the stocks in the world have depreciated in value, the stocks of the
Cement Company of Damascus have
'not depreciated a single para (red
cent)." Equally surprising is the revelation that this infant plant was so
efficiently constructed, following the
blue-prints of capable engineers so
faithfully, that not a single mistake
could be detected, and not the least
revision resorted to.
Accordingly, at the end of the
coming month of August or the beginning of September, the Cement
Company will begin the actual production of cement in large quantities.
And when the fourth installment on
the stock would have been paid, about
the same time, the Damascus company will have a surplus of 16,000
Turkish gold pounds ($72,000), without being indebted for a single cent
to outsiders.
Progress Indicated
The {financial reports, given by
Lutfi Bey al-Haffar and Husni Bey
al-Bitar, inspectors of the company,
showed equal efficiency in the business management and book-keeping.
The auditing of the company's books
IRAQITE STUDENTS
ABROAD
From a Baghdad dispatch it
is learned that the Iraqite Ministry of Education has decided to
send 40 students to study abroad
in European and American universities. Seven of these are assigned to study in Germany!
showed a perfect balance, /and the
most modern methods of book-keeping and auditing were employed.
There were some rumors of misunderstandings and differences in
policy among the officers, especially
since Lutfi Bey al-Haffar, one of the
ablest of Syrian economists, had announced his intention to resign from
the company's board of directors.
When pressed by the stockholders to
withdraw his resignation, he declared
that "if you persist in electing me I
will again, resign" The reason given
by Lutfi Bey himself for his resignation was that his pressing business
engagements do not permit him to
continue in his position on the Cement Company. He was serving without pay.
Abu-1-Nasr al-Yafi was finally
elected inspector in the place of Lutfi
Bey.
Two new members of the board
of directors, Sadiq al-Malas and Sa'di
al-Qutabi, were elected in the place
of two others whose terms have expired.
The only knot of discord and disharmony brought into the stockholders' meeting was provided by Mohammed Bey al-Nahhas, director, who
submitted his resignation in letter
attacking the policies of the board of
directors. The accusations of the resigning member were considered hazy
and of insufficient weight. And harmony, once more reigned in the
meeting. Muslim Bey as-Suyoufi was
elected to fill the unexpired term of
al-Nahhas.
Note of Optimism
A note of positive optimism rang
in the Syrian newspaper reports of
the meeting on the following day, and
great hope was expressed that Syria,
in a short time, will need no more
import its cement from abroad.
Two other plants for the production of cement, one in Syria and
the other in Palestine, are already in
operation. The first of these, in Shikka, near Tripoli, is mostly financed
by native capital, while the latter is a
Zionist project.
Cement is being more and more
extensively used in building and road
construction in the Near East. Millions of tons are still imported each
year from Europe and America.
( Special Correspondence)
THE New England Federation of
Syrian Clubs, during its last semiannual convention that took place on
Memorial Day in the Bancroft Hotel,
Worcester, Mass., discussed plans to
increase its membership roll to form
a national organization. These plans
will be further developed at the annual convention which will take
place on October 21 in New London,
Conn., when a change in name will
also be considered to conform with
the nation-wide policy.
Express Confidence in Roosvelt
The meeting opened with the congregation standing in silence for two
minutes in honor of the dead. The
Federation adopted a resolution addressed to President Roosevelt expressing confidence in his administration. It was drafted by Faris S. Malouf, Boston attorney, Michael N. A", odeely of Worcester and David I Sookey of Pittsfield and read as follows:
"The Syrian-American Federation of
New England at its semi-annual convention assembled in Worcester unanimously voted to endorse your
courageous administration and to pray
for your continued success and good
health."
Delegates from thirty cities were
represented at the meeting which
opened at 3:30, and at the dinner
which followed in the evening. Each
club was privileged to send two delegates.
George Shagoury, secretary of the
federation, was empowered to welcome into the ranks of the federation
Syrian organizations outside New
England. Nassour B. Kfarkidy, popular poet, was greatly applauded after
reciting a poem in the vernacular exhorting Syrians to unite and cast
away the spirit of dissension and
fanaticism.
A message was received and read
frcm Governor Ely of Massachusetts
excusing himself for not being able
to attend the convention and appointing to represent him Charles F.
Hurley, state treasurer, who delivered
a spirited address praising and encouraging the Syrians of this country.
Mayor C. Mahoney of Worcester
said he knew the Syrians of Worcester for over 35 years and was glad
to watch their successful progress in
many fields of endeavour.
Proposes Wider Federation
Louis A. George of Quicy, Mass.,
president of the Federation, declared
that the federation should not be
satisfied with the number of societies
now under its banner but should apply earnest efforts to enroll at least
every New England organization
Thanks Federation
Albert Maykel, president oT the
Syrian-American Asociation of Worcester, thanked the Federation on be(Uontiued on p^age 2.)
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THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, JUNE 9, 1933.
PAGE TWO
PONSOT ILLNESS
CAUSES LULL
AN ominous quiet reigns today
in Syrian and Lebanese politics. Political agitations in Damascus and
Aleppo have subsided to some extent,
and Syrian national leaders are marking time as they meet and discuss
lines of political attack and defense,
iformulating their policies to meet
the emergencies of the future. In
Lebanon, little is heard of the agitation for restoration of the constitution
or the maneuvers for the coming elections. Bishop Ignatius Mubarak has
declared a truce in his philippics
against native government corrup-'
tions and French procrastinations.
The wheels of negotiations for a treaty
status of Syria and a more liberal
constitution in Lebanon have come
to a stop.
Hh
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DESERT ROMANCE ENDS;
HEROINE HANGS IN MECCA
COUNTESS D'ANDURIAN, IMITATING THE ROMANTIC
ROLE OF LADY STANHOPE, EMBRACES ISLAM, VISITS
MECCA, POISONS ARAB HUSBAND AND PAYS
THE PENALTY IN SUMMARY EXECUTION BY
IBN SU'OUD
BAGHDAD TAKES
TO AVIATION
Rushdi Bey Al-Umari, Mayor of
Baghdad, Calls Iraqite Notables
and Public Men to Form
Aviation Club. Iraq Seeks
to Emulate Progressive
Turkey
COUNTESS d'Andurian, wife of an impoverished French nobleTHE city that made the "flyman and archaeologist who had emigrated to Egypt to make a new
ing carpet" famous to readers
start in life, was not the type of the contented wife who would put
of fairy tales throughout the
up with hardships and the bitter realities of life.
Romantic and
world and in every tongue, now
imaginative to the highest degree, she could not reconcile herself
takes to the air in a modern and
to a drab life of struggle and thrift. Even before she left Paris
realistic way. The flying carpet
the dreamt of the glamour and romance of the East, and had a
of romance and imagination,
special fascination for the desert life and its dark-eyed, hawk-nosed,
mostly employed to pillow lovblack-mustached, lean sheiks. And now she had actually crossed
ers to elope out of all reach from
Arab proudly telling groups of friends
the Mediterranean and landed on.
their irate parents, is no more
who gathered around him of his
Arabian soil, she could not resist the
adequate today in the grim
charming wife and how he won her.
temptation of cutting loose from her
Ponsot Run Down
There
were
many
among
those
who
struggles of nations for suprem(devoted husband and her two loving
heard him; whose eyes opened wide
children to have a taste of the desert
And all because the one and only
acy in war and trade.
with avid interest and secret envy
jromance she had so longed for. But
man on whom the fate of those counBaghdadites have learned this at
that such good fortune should befall
she paid for her misdirected adventries hangs, the oracle on whose prolast, and have decided to enter the
an ordinary mortal like themselves.
nouncements the whole Syrian and
ture with her life.
race with hearty determination.
They called him lucky and wished
Lebanese political outcome depends,
In a dispatch from Baghdad it is
Conflicting details are given in
they could go to Tadmur and grab
lies sick in his "Pine Palace" in Beilearned that Rushdi Bey al-Umari,
the Syrian press of the dashing rothem a white-skinned, fair maiden
jrut M. Henri Ponsot, French High
Emir (Mayor) of Baghdad, called a
mance of Countess d'Andurian and her
like Sitti Zainab, the name the counCcmmissioner for Syria and Lebanon,
number of Iraqite notables and pubtess had adopted upon her converbrief and eventful life from the time
is run down in health, we are told by
lic men to discuss plans for the formsion to Islam. Sitti Zainab herself
she deserted her husband in Egypt
al-Hoda correspondent in Beirut, and
ation of an aviation club.
remained behind in Jaddah.
the whole country has gone to bed
to the time her limp body hung from
Urges Necessity of Aviation
But only a few days later these
" with him, it seems. He has been orthe gallows in Mecca.
same Arabs were calling themselves
dered by his physician to take a
Addressing the group, Rushdi alEye-Witness Account
lucky and showering Allah's mercy
complete rest from all physical and
Umari urged the necessity of aviaon the soul of poor Hajji Suleiman
mental activities.
One account given by one who
tion in commercial transportation and
who fell a victim to the wiles and
calls himself an eye-witness of the
national defense. While the Iraqite
treachery of his Franji wife.
tragedy relates that Countess d'Anduarmy is still behind in this form o£
On his return to Jaddah, Suleirian went to Palmyra and opened a
equipment, it was revealed in the
PRINCE MDIVANI
man -began to hear unpleasant rumors
modern hotel for French officers and
mayor's speech that great efforts are
TURNS CHRISTIAN
about the doings and goings on of his
European visitors who went there to
being made in arousing public opin«
TCTMARRY HEIRESS see the famous ruins of the once pretty wife. He remonstarted with heri ion in this direction and making the
and a violent scene followed The
prosperous city of Roman times.
Iraqites "air-minded."
Committees
irate French countess left her husSecretly, however, she harbored a
have been formed to collect contribuPARIS,— Prince Alexis Mdivani,
band's quarters and moved to Hotel
strange and romantic urge to imitate
tions from Iraqite citizens to buy airaccording to a United Press dispatch
Jaddafi". A little later, ad-Dikmari
Lady Stanhope, a rich English lady
planes for the army, naming each
from Paris, has been baptized at the
went after his wife to placate her.
of rank who, a hundred years ago,
airplane after the city or district
Russian Cathedral in that city in ormoved with a large entourage and
(contributing the price of one. The
Gives
Him
Poison
for
Aspirin
der that he may marry Barbara Hutlavish splendor in the countries of the
object of the aviation club, Rushdi
ton, American heiress and chief in-'
On entering her room (he comEast, went to Palmyra, married a
Bey explained, is to coordinate the
heritor of the Woolworth wealth.
plained of headache and asked his
bedwin sheik and was crowned Queen
activities of those interested in the
Prince Mdivani is a Moslem of.
wife for a tablet of aspirin. She was
of Tadmur (Palmyra).
development of aviation in Iraq, thus
Georgia, a Soviet Republic.
still sore and angry when she handed
rendering an invaluable service to
It was not long before the French
Doubts have been thrown on the
him some tablets that looked like
their own government. A commitcountess met her ideal lover and
claim of this prince to the title he
aspirin. A few minutes after he left
tee of thirty was chosen to formulate
Sheik in the person of the young
carries. The Almanach de Gotha, the
her room, however, Suleiman ad-Dikthe rules and by-laws of the proand handsome bedwin guide, Suleichief authority on heraldic matters in;
mari complained of severe pain in his
posed club.
man ad-Dikmari. At first the hand-'
the world, does not list him among
stomach. As he fell convulsing he
In stressing the importance of
some bedwin did not reciprocate the
the princely houses. He is a third son
aviation for the land Between the
advances of his charmer, but with , cried out: "Bear witness, she has
in his noble family, and it was pointed her lavish promises and vows ofs
poisoned me!" Then he gave up the
Two Rivers, however, Rushdi Bey
out that if every prince were permitghost.
and his colleagues did not have in
loyalty he surrendered and married
ted to hand down his title to three
The denoument of this rapid and
mind rivalry with the distant Europeher without making her forsake her
sons, one family would produce 59,089
plighted romance followed the usual
an powers, but a much closer neighreligion. For four years they lived
princes in ten generations!
course. The police of Jaddah arbor, Turkey, which has made comhappily, Then one day, Suleiman anrested the countess with whom, at
mendable progress in aviation.
nounced to his bride that he had made
the time of arrest, they found a young
up his mind to go on the pilgrimage
Turkey Example Cited
man hiding under her bed.
to Mecca. She tried to dissuade him.
Plan Nation-Wide Policy
The course of justice in the deagainst the journey, but, like a good
Following Rushdi Bey, Jalal Bey
(Continued from page 1.)
sert is short and summary. The law
Moslem, Suleiman felt it his religious
Baban, Iraqite Minister of Defense,
under Ibn Su'oud is plain and speciduty to perform the visit to the Kaaba
cited the example of ^Turkey which
half of the Worcester branch for the
fic. A chemical examination of the
in
Mecca
and
the
tomb
of
the
Prophet
has
already bought over a hundred
cooperation shown.
viscera of the dead husband proved
in Medina. Finally she gave in and
airplanes with money collected in
Other speakers were Michael N.
beyond doubt that he was poisoned.
tcld her Arab husband that she was
voluntary contributions from the
Abodeely, vice-president of the WorThe disloyal countess was guilty of
Turkish
people. The Turkish aviaready
to
go
with
him.
cester organization, Dr. Toufic Antwo crimeSj according to the Wah"But how can you go, being a
tion club has been receiving such contoun, Miss Julia Forzley, president
habi code, each of which was punishChristian?", he asked, surprised.
tributions at the rate of approximateof the women's auxiliary; Henry T.
able by death—murder and adultery.
ly 5 million Turkish pounds every
George, George Shagoury, George
"I Will Embrace Islam"
And that is why .Countess d'Ansix months. The club buys airplanes
Shidrawy, president of the Boston
durian, in spite of the intercession of
with this money and presents them
"I will embrace Islam and acClub; John George, Worcester; and
the French consul in Jaddah and the
to the Turkish ministry of war.
company
you,"
she
replied
with
deOlga Matta, .attorney.
efforts of the French ministry in Paris,
termination in her voice and a beam.'
Miss Helen Mitchell and Nichowas summarily executed by hanging
of adventure in her eyes. And so it
las Koury sang English and Arabic
at the cables from Paris and Mecca
came
about
that
Countess
d'AnduSYRIAN CHILD
selections, Selim Attaya assisting. Elibriefly advised.
rian
became
a
convert
to
Islam.
When
zabeth Dahdah gave an interpretaTO BROADCAST
In some accounts Countess d'Anthe couple passed through Palestine
tive dancing exhibition.
durian was suspected as a spy in the
they paid a visit to His Eminence
At the dinner, H. T. George was
pay of the British. At one time she
Hajj
Mohammed
Amin
al-Huseini,
chairman and presented Walter J.
JEANETTE Abdo, llryear old
lived with a British intelligence ofhead
of
the
Supreme
Islamic
Council
Mossa,
toastmaster.
\
daughter of Mrs. Mary Abdo of
v
ficer in Palestine. And once she sought
of Palestine and chief mufti of that
The committee in charge of the
Brooklyn, N. Y., (has been asked to
permission from Sultan Pasha Atrash,
country, who confirmed her Islam,
convention was Louis E. Ghiz, chairtake part in the "Juvenile Hour"
the
self-exiled
Druze
chieftain
living,
before her„ passport to Arabia could
man;\Qeorge F. Abdella, Joseph Lian,
broadcast from Station WINS at 9:45
on
borders
of
Trans;ordania
and
Najd,
be visaed.
Nicholas \Koury, Mrs. John C. Assad,
on Saturday morning, June 10. Jeanto penetrate the Desert, but he reThe
recounter
tells
here
of
seeMary Do^d, Mrs. John Bayrouty,
ette will recite the poem "Amirica
fused
her
permission
and
turned
her
ing ad-Dikmari in Mecca, among the
Rachel Kane*, Selma Abousamra, SalFor Me" by Henry Van Dyke.
back
where
she
had
come.
pilgrims, and how he was a proud
ly Aramony afcd Marian Birbara.
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SYRIAN WOMAN
SANS COUNTRY
Mrs. Henriette Khoury, ThriceDecorated "by British for Bravery
Under Fire, Denied Canadian
Citizenship
iff
THE case of Mrs. Henriette Khoury, British war nurse born in Beirut,
is now one of the problems confronting the , Canadian and American,
authorities.
Thrice decorated for bravery under fire as a war nurse, Mrs. Khoury
finds herself a woman without a country, rejected by a nation whose cause
she had espoused during the World
War.
Mrs. Henriette Khoury lives now
with relatives in B-'^alo.
Seven,
years ago she entered Canada where
she operated a beauty shop in Toronto, and on July 15, 1931 she was
Naturalized. On January of the following year, Mrs. Khoury visited
friends in New York. She intended
to stay only two weeks, but she was
injured and spent several weeks in
the hospital. When she was convalescing she was injured again, making it necessary for her to stay longer
in the hospital.
Halted at Bridge
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When she recovered completely
she returned to Canada. At the
Peace Bridge, on the American-Canadian borders, however, she was
halted. She was told that she had
over stayed her leave and could not
proceed to Canada, and that furthermore her original naturalization
had been illegal.
Mrs. Khoury's case has been referred to the Canadian legation in
Washington and the U. S. immigration authorities there. In her communications to al-Hoda, Mrs. Henriette Khoury explained that the American immigration authorities were
courteous enough to extend her stay
Until she hears from her people
in Egypt and arrange to go to them.
Her sickness and citizenship troubles
have depleted her resources, although
her earnings from her beauty shop in
Toronto were, at one time, considered extensive.
INDEPENDENT PARTY
TO SEND DELIGATION
BEIRUT,—The Independent Republican Party of Lebanon has
decided, according to the declaration of some of its members, on
sending a delegation to Paris to
acquaint the French public opinion
with the present situation in Lebanon.
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CALLS HIMSELF THE
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ALHODA
' BISHOP OFEISH
ONLY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CA
°S^RCH AM0MG ALL THE HSE&££
IN AMERICA. BISHOP AND BRjIDE PERSIST IN
JUSTIFYING THEIR MARRIAGE
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U
ications
0,e*fi V^i °
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forwarded by Mrs. Mariam
acsh to the office of al-Hoda, certain developments that have not
been made public m this celebrated and involved ecclesiastical case
come to light.
MlS
A
°ufeish ;*rks
&1 H da f r
' °
° "'^deration shown by you
m your Arabic publication," and requests that more space be given
f" further available information, which she supplies with the letter, bhe closes the letter with, "Sincerely for God's Truth."
Foremost in importance in the
communications mailed al-Hoda is a
reply from Bishop Aftimios to Bishop
Sophronius, the gist of whose letter
to the married bishop we had already
published in the previous issue of the
Syrian World.
Bishop's Letter
Bishop Aftimios' letter follows:
To Sophronius Bishara etc.:
"I knew you before, that you are
the only one that you read of in Rev.
3:15,16, not a betrayer. But now,
since you have fallen a prey, to become an instrument to the betrayers,
I say unto you, 'that thou doest, do
quickly.' John 13: 27."
The letter is dated May 27 and
signlb simply, Aftimios. It is sent
from Brooklyn, and as Bishop Aftimios
has never been in Brooklyn since his
marriage it must be assumed that he
either sent his letter to be mailed
from Brooklyn, or else that he still
regards Brooklyn as the seat of his
episcopate from which his official
communications are sent out.
The reference in Bishop Aftimios'
letter to Revelation showed that he
/had always suspected him of lukewarmness in the religious cause. In
the verses alluded to, the Son of Man.
addresses the angel (bishop) of the
church of the Laodiceans in these
words: "I know thy works, that thou
art neither cold nor hot: I would
thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither
cold nor hot, I will spew thee out
of my mouth."
Mrs. Ofeish also Replies
Not willing to be outdistanced by
her husband in the defense of their
' "inspired" marriage, Mrs. Ofeish also
replies personally to Bishop Sophronius. She repeats her blanket charge
that no clerical at present can keep
his vow of celibacy. Quoting his own
expression, used in his letter to her
husband, that his reply was prompted,
by "personal principles," she hurls
the quotation at Bishop Sophronius
like a boomerang,
Cotton and Onion Markets at
"The 'personal principles'," she
Low Ebb
asks, "which the act of Aftimios violated, is it that of keeping the vow
of celibacy? In what way? As all preECONOMIC conditions in Egypt
sent celibate clergy? Have your 'perin the first quarter of 1933 showed
sonal principles' kept you a virgin,
little change from the preceding
true to your vow?"
quarter. The cotton market was inactive, and price fluctuations were
In still another communication,
small. Shipments continued to lag,
this time a comment on Bishop Aftitotaling 3,817,670 cantars (a cantari
mios' letter to Bishop Sophronius,
equals 99 lbs.) for the period Septhe question of former's present statember 1, 1932-March 3L 1933, as
tus in the ecclesiastical hierarchy of
compared with 5,018,490 cantars a
the Russian Orthodox Church in this
year earlier; arrivals also were less,
country is dwelt upon at length.
amounting to 4,348,430 and 5,838,610
It develops from this comment
cantars, respectively. The season for
that not only does Bishop Ofeish cononions, which rank next to cotton as
sider himself still canonical, but "the
a money crop, opened during the
only canonical hierarch among all
quarter with unfavorable prospects,
the hierarchies who are trying undue to the low prices which cover
canonically to hold by force ecclesiproduction costs.
astical authority." Naturally the re-
CONDITIONS
IN EGYPT LOW
Fit
AFTIMI0S 0FEISH AND BRIDE DEFIANT
CHALLENGE SOPHRONIUS' AUTHORITY
FORM CrLMN OF
NEWS STANDS
IN EGYPT
CAIRO,—A group of Egyptian
and foreign capitalists and newspapermen completed plans for the
formation of a big company to
build news stands in Cairo, Alexandria, al-Mansurah, Tanta and
other Egyptian cities for the more
convenient and efficient distribution of Arabic and foreign newspapers and magazines.
ference here is to the Russian Orthodox hierarchy only.
Bishop's Authority Challenged
"This so-called group of Russian
bishops," runs the comment, "who
are to meet at St. Tikhon monastary
is headed by Platon Redjetsvinsky,
who has been excommunicated by the
Russian Patriarch Tikhon, by the acting locum-tenens of the Russian Patriarchate Sergius and by the Russian
Eishops Synod at Serbia. They are
one of the factions of the Russian bishops in this country having no legal
or ecclesiastical sending, and who
have caused division in the Russian
churches."
The comment appears to come
from Mrs. Ofeish, but it is obvious
that the informations contained therein are supplied by Bishop Aftimios
himself.
BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR
ELAINE MASSABNI
MRS. Leo Massabni gave her
daughter, eight year old Elaine, a
birthday party last Saturday afternoon in her home in Brooklyn.
The guests were the following
children: Marie and Richard Haddad,
Gloria and Junior Hadad, Lorraine
Awaad, Michael Arida, Leo and Hal-old Shamyer, Elaine Meena, Sally
Shawey, Gloria Saab, Jean, Helen
and Rene Malhame, Richard Trabulsi,
Alex Leroy and Eli Kalaf, Viola
Eraheme, Yvonne Meena, Harold and
Dorothy Folk, and Peggy, John and
Jr. Massabni.
BARN DANCE
ON JUNE 17
MANY people are expected to
wear costumes to the Barn Dance to
be given by the Basilian Club on June
17 in their club rooms, 4th Avenue
and 32nd Street, Brooklyn. Costumes,
however, are optional. Beer will be
served, but not free, as it was at
their last dance, but at the low cost
of five cents a mug. Mike Shamoun
is chairman of the committee on arrangements.
PAGE THREE
DEPORTED FOR
ILLITERACY
Two Women and Their Children
Not Allowed to Remain in
New York
Children of A. K. Hitti also Sail;
Influx of Syrians to Syria
MRS. ELY Joseph and her five
children and Mrs. Selim Joseph and
her three children were not allowed
to remain in the New York that they
wanted so much) to, tour. They had
arrived in New York from Haiti on
Monday but were detained and denied
Visas because of illiteracy in English.
Both are wives of wealthy merchants
in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. They sailed
the next day on the S.S. Byron for
Syria which had been their ultimate
goal.
,
Hitti Children Sail
Also sailing on the Byron last
Tuesday was Mr. Salim A. Thomey
who had in his care the two children
of Mr. A. K. Hitti, Edward and Gloria,
who are going to join their father in
Beirut.
Others who sailed were Joseph
and Sam K. Ganem of Lawrence,
Mass.; Mrs. Malaki Fa was, Brooklyn,
and her two children; Nassif Elias
Abiazer of Brooklyn; Mr. and Mrs.
Wadee Yc jof and three children of
Ranger, Texas; Saab Jacob, Torrington, Conn.; Mr. and Mrs. Namatalla J.
Shadid and four children, Oklahoma
City, Okla.; Mr. and Mrs. Musalem
Haidos and their four children, Detroit, Mich.; Elias Ashook, Fall River,
Mass.; Nicolas T. Hanna, Haiti; and
Salim K. Azar, Toledo
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BAGHDAD-CAIRO
BY WIRELESS
THE
International
Petroleum
Company has completed the installation of a wireless telephone between
Amman, the capital of Transjordania,
and Ratbah, a station on the Syrian
borders of the Desert midway to
Baghdad.
Since Ratbah is already connected
with Baghdad by wireless and Amman
with Cairo, it is now possible to carry
on conversation between Baghdad and
Cairo by wireless, as easily as between New York and San Francisco,
which is about twice the distance
between the two Eastern cities.
MARONITE BISHOPS
LEAVE FOR FRANCE
BEIRUT,—It is reported in Lisanul-Hal, Beirut, that Bishops Abdullah Khoury, Augustine Bustany and
Ignatius Mubarak will leave for
France on a visit.
The announcement caused a stir
of gossip in the political circles of
Lebanon, although the official reason
given by Bishop Khoury was that he
had been ordered by his physicians to
•make the trip. Bishop Bustany declared that he was going in order to
keep Bishop Khoury, his close friend,
company. No reason was given for
the trip by Bishop Mubarak.
MOSLEM COMMISSION
TO CHINA
CAIRO,— The. Azhar Mosque Uni-v
versity, foremost Islamic theological
school in the world, is seriously
studying a request received from Moslems in China for a commission of
theologians from that school to instruct Chinese Moslems in the dogmas
and principles of their religion.
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A STUPENDOUS potential force for good
is anticipated in the constructive suggeestion
brought out at the Convention of the New
England Federation of Syrian societies and
clubs, namely that the federation should be
so widened in scope as to include similar
societies and clubs all over the United States.
Several signs and indications point clearly
to the conclusion that the Syrians in this
country have at last realized the full significance and importance of unity for the effective accornplishments of their civic ends and
social ideals. The legions of dissension, pro"vti. ialisui and petty loyalties are hurriedly
and disorderly retreating before the valiant
forces of unity, fraternity and catholicity of
spirit. Especially is this true since the World
War, and a great deal of the credit for it must
go to the Syrians of the younger generation,
brought up as they are under influences far
removed from the entrenched causes which
separated their parents, and set Syrian against
Syrian in a land dedicated to unity and
liberty for all.
Only one advice, one precaution, we venture to offer the younger-generation Syrians
who proved, in this respect, wiser than their
elder folks. It is this:
The only unity that is worth the sacrifice
to attain is such unity that will not hamper
or impair individual progress or supress the
healthy impulse of self-expression and difference in opinion. A unity of sameness and
complete agreement is a unity of stagnation
and death.
Therefore, it is only when we can be different yet united, when we can disagree yet
submit to the discipline of majority, when
we can respect one another's opinions without wrecking our social machinery, that we
have really attained a unity of progress and
liberty, a unity that makes for vitality and
endurance.
A HEALTHY SIGN OF
NATIONALISM
(The lively interest which Bishop
Aftimios' manage has aroused in the
question of the celibacy of the clergy,
both in the Eastern and Western
Churches, has participated discussion
around a question of ecclesiastical
history not quite germane to the
field of popular journalism. It is
only because so much confusion and
uninformed talk has been indulged in,
in print and out of print, in Syrian
communities that have shown keenest
interest in the bishop's marriage that
we give our readers the following
brief outline of the historic development of celibacy in the early Christian church. The historic facts and
quotations are taken from the most
reliable sources, and we state them
without any comment or editorial
bias.—Editor.)
Whatever St Paul said or did
not say, whatever Uc meant or
did not mean, concerning the
marriage of the clergy, particularly of bishops, it is of primal
importance to find out what the
Church Fathers and the early
councils had to say on the subject. Especially is this true for
Christians who turn to those
Fathers in the interpretation of
their creeds and doctrines, to
whom church tradition is as important as biblical utterance, in
short to the communicants of
the Greeks Orthodox, Roman
Catholic and
other churches
claiming apostolic succession and
the authority of the Councils and
Fathers.
Early Utterances Ambiguous
First Rift on Celibacy
What then do the early Christian Fathers say on this subject?
The rift between East and West
on the question of celibacy took a
positive turn towards the end of the
4h century. The decretal of Pope
Sircius in 385 not only enjoins strict
celibacy on bishops, priests and deacons, but insists on instant separation of those of them already married, on pain of punishment and expulsion. Popes Leo (d 461) and Gregory (d 604) further extended this
prohibition to subdeacons.
In the Eastern Church also oelibacy became more strictly formulated,
showing a decided trend to leniency
in matter of deacons, priests and
bishops married before ordination. In
the second Tullan Council, considered
ecumenical jbjy jthe Eastern churches,
but not so by the Western, celibacy
for bishops becomes a definite precept. If a bishop were married before elevation to the episcopate he
had to separate from his wife. On
the other hand, while forbidding
priests, deacons and subdeacons to
take a wife ; after I ordination, it asserts in emphatic terms their right
and duty to continue in conjugal relations with the wife to whom they
had been married previously.
Since then, no change has taken
place in either Eastern or Western
Church to justify deviation from the
canon, except in churches considered
schismatic by both.
On the whole, however, it may
be said that the church was tending
more and more towards the adoption
of celibacy, following the example
of St. Paul himself. While marriage
was a permissable concession to the
flesh, celibacy was considered the
higher and more spiritual state. Thus
Origen, another Christian Father of
the 3rd century, contrasts the spiritual offspring of the priests of the New
Law with the natural offspring of the
priests of the Old begotten in wed-
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First Imposition of Celibacy
The first Christian council that took
a definite stand on the celibacy of the
clergy was the Council of Elvira
(bet. 295 and 302) in Spain. It definitely imposed celibacy on bishops,
priests and deacons.
This council
emphasized the trend of development in the Western Church, and represents one of the early divisions
between it and the Eastern Church.
When the same rigorous measure
was attempted at the Council of Nicea, the first ecumenical (universal)
council of Christendom, there was
objection, especially from Eastern bishops and ecclesiastical representatives. Socrates (a church historian)
tells the story of Pamphnutius rising
ir. the council and objecting to a
canon which separates wives from
clerical husbands. The often-quoted
Third Canon of the Nicean Council
dealing with this topic does not make
a definite commital on celibacy, although it indicates that after ordination the churchman should not be living with his wife. It enjoins that
"n^ bishop, priest or deacon was to
have any woman living in the house
with him unless it were his mother,
sister or aunt."
Let it be frankly admitted that
the early utterances of the Christian
Fathers are not free from ambiguity
in this matter. The celibacy of the
clergy was one of those church canons that evolved and gained definiteness and clarity in time. In
practice also, celibacy was not a
strictly enforced institution with universally accepted rules and regulations. For while Tertullian, in the
latter second and early third centuries, speaks of those in the sacred
orders "who have embraced continence," Clement of Alexandria, a
contemporary, says that "the church
fully receives the husband of one wife
whether he be a priest, or deacon
or layman, supposing always that he
uses his marriage blamelessly
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lock. And St Cyril of Jerusalem
urges the minister who serves God
properly to hold himself aloof from
women.
More pointedly still, St
Epiphanius, 4th century, declares:
"The Holy Church respects the dignity of the priesthood to such a point
that she does not admit to the diaconate, the priesthood or the episcopate, nor even to the subdiaconate,
anyone still living in marriage and
begetting children."
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WHATEVER may be said for or against
the violent and turbulent agitations of the
Sprian nationalists for complete political in- which the West has bound the East, it little dence and liberty. This is because there is
dependence and unity, it must be fairly ad- avails how much of their political indepen- no rational reason why economically admitted that Damascus has given account of it- dence they realize and how far on the road vanced powers should hold down a progresIf sive people from whom they can gain more
self in the economic field, in the patriotic to political liberty they have travelled.
call to liberate Syria from thraldom to the still economically enslaved to Europe, as sure by mutual friendship and exchange of inmarkets of Europe. We call this a healthy as day is .day and night is night the Syrians terests.
Damascus today is becoming an important
sign of nationalism, and we further hold that Will still be enslaved politically also. Whereas,
if
economically
independent,
it
is
one
of
centre of modenr economic developments
unless Syria can learn to extricate itself
(Continued on page 5.)
from the innumerable economic bonds with the surest preludes to their political indepen-
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FROM EAST AND WEST
AT RANDOM
OUR NEW YORKERS
CHARACTER, INSTITUTIONS AND
TECHNOLOGY
By Alice Mokarzel
By Ana Behoof
(An excerpt from a book MS. "The New Spirit
in Ancient Lands.")
)
By H. I. Katibah
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"THE ARABIC word for character, akhlaq, is in;
the plural, and has wider and psychologically
sounder connotations. While the English word almost instinctively suggests a type of moral quali-i
ties and traits particularly salient in the English
people—enterprise, perseverance, fair play, justice,
honesty, cooperation, coolness of temper and loyalty
to principle.
"If you examine these traits carefully you will
find that every one of them lacks somewhat in depth
and spiritual subtilty. Enterprise and perseverance
are excellent qualities, buf only when carried in a
right cause and with the best of motives. History
of English imperialism is full of examples of enterprise in a wrong cause, as the Boers War, or in
the right cause with the wrong motive, as in the
occupation and development of Egypt and the Sudan. Fair play is an admirable virtue, but it does
hot go far enough. It is formal and stiff and lacks
the warmth that comes from the charitable inten_ tion, that springs from the human heart. In fair
play many a contestant has been foully downed,
Who with a little sympathy and understanding could
have been saved, and might even prove of superior
qualities than the successful one. Justice, as the
Arabs themselves recognized, is the pillar of state,
but it cannot be called the highest morality. Justice
often becomes unjust and even cruel when divorced
(from considerations of mercy and forbearance. Honesty is another of those cool, formal virtues which
leave something missing in the all-round character;
of man. One can be just honest enough with others
to be dishonest with one's better self. One can be
an honest yet a selfish, indifferent, unfeeling sort
of a person
"Let us now consider another category of traits,
another phase of character, that we associate more
readily with the Semitic East—magnanimity, liberality, compassion, self-sacrifice, forgiveness and forbearance. I hope it is not belaboring the point to
claim that these traits go further in implication and
application than the former ones. There is a spiritxial side to them that suggests something beyond
and above duty and proper dealings with our fellow men.
"To say, therefore, that the crying need of the
East today is for character is to say something rather
ambiguous and meaningless, unless we indicate what
sort of character it is, that the Semitic East is in'
need of. The Ancient Lands are in need today, and
they are beginning to feel that need quite keenly,
for such moral traits that make for success in the
building up and perpetuation of institutions. And if
lack of civic traditions and secular institutions is
the essential trouble with the East, as Mohammed1
Farid Wajdi assured us in the previous chapter, it
is mainly because the Eastern people lack those
virtues and qualities which enable them to build up
institutions and keep them going
"And it is because the Ancient Lands have
realized the weakness of their strength, the impossibility of 'getting somewhere' as nations, as independent, healthy social communities, with individuals, however splendid and wholesome, standing separately or warring against one another, that they
humbly turn now to the West to learn the elementary lessons of social technology and national progress.
"Paradoxically, this has come about at a time
when socialization and the tendency to standardization of conduct is giving serious concern to farthinking leaders of the West. Somebody, however,
is going to make a great philosophic discovery one
of those days. He is going to prove from an intelligent study of history that the antithetical
attitude of mind which expresses itself in an)
'either-or' complex has done more havoc and harm
to the world than breaking all the commandments
in the decalogue.
There is nothing enigmatical
paradoxical, for instance, in saying that the true
object of all social cooperation should be the production of wholesome individuals; and that wholesome individualism cannot be attained, on the whole
and in the long run, except through the agency of:
organized social groups actuated by what Josiah
Royce called 'loyalty to the community.' Inversely,
the aim and end of individualism is and should be
its expression in community life and community
liwalty. The old controversy whether the hero makes
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A NEW book about Palestine and Syria that
Succeeds in portraying these countries in a somewhat different manner from the usual narrative
travelogue is "A Modern Pilgrimage" by Mary Berenson. Mrs. Berenson recently made the journey
to the Near East with her husband, Bernard Berenson, famous writer on art. She has incorporated in
(her book "the mingled experience of dreams and
fact"—her contacts with the different classes of
people and her reaction to existing conditions. Her
presentations are novel and intimate. She relates
her trips to famous ruins with an interesting representation of their historical relation. A testimony
of her book by the critic of the New York Times:
"It is a forthright tale of things seen, but seen in
the light of all their thronging story of busy centuries that have left their shaping touch and tinting
color on plain and moutain and river, cities and
ruins and monuments of every sort."
Because Oriental music, with its melancholy
charm, is conductive to excessive drinking, Dr. Kerim Bey, leader of the anti-alcohol Green Crescent
Society, in old Istanbul, is seeking to set a ban on
Turkish music in public places where liquor is sold.
In a check-up on cabarets and cafes, Dr. Kerim Bey
has found that where Turkish music is played,
more "douzico" (a counterpart of "araq") is sold
than in places where there is no music.
SEVERAL people have peeves against the Jolly
Rovers now, ever since last Saturday night at the
bridge-dance when they annoyed everybody to death,
trying to crash the dance, some even getting to the
threshold of the dance-floor by way of the fireescape. But they were shooed away by capable but
gentle Margaret Hatem.
Albert Holway, as a young Gandhi, won first
prize in the Sunset Park Field Day Festivities for
the most original costume.
Anybody need a good tennis pro? Just drive out
to the 86th street courts and get a few pointers from,
Teddy Joseph who knows all there is to know about
tennis. He was on both the high school and college teams.
Victor Tadross graduated from the Bellevue
Medical College and is now an interne at the hospital.
A group of all-'round girls have started a unique
club in Brooklyn. It's a swell idea towards the making of future efficient housewives. They meet every
single Thursday at one member's house and learn
from each other how to cook. They cook a complete meal (and consume it themselves). In the
cooking club are friends of long standing: Mrs.
George McKaba, Mrs. Al McKaba, Evelyn and Violet Zrike, Adele Hadad, Alice Saadi, Alexandra
Hawawini.
How about suggesting names for the club? You
should see me, in the attitude of The Thinker trying
to think up a suitable name.
His Excellency Chaffar Khan Djalol, newly-appointed Persian minister to the United States, said
in an interview that the recent %ispute between
Persia and England on the oil concession had been<
straightened out and that there** was nothing furthWe still stick to our conviction that George and
er to worry about. He further declared that in
four years it will be possible for one to travel Katherine Saliba are the ideal married couple. They
from one end of Persia to the other in perfect com- are so happy that they love to see others happy too.
fort because of the work that is being pushed for- All the boys I know want a wife like Katherine and
ward on the great Persian railway which will con- all the girls want a husband like George. I'll see
what I can do about it.
nect the Caspian Sea with the Persian Gulf.
* * » » •
Arriving on the same steamer with M. Dajol was
Lucien H. Tyng, banker and industrialist, who has
just returned from Morocco where he inspected his
250 acres of lots. Mr. Tyng says that Morocco is
the poor man's paradise—there is no tax on the land
there although there is a tax on a tree or a shrub
which is so trivial that it does not amount to as
much as the coins one tosses to beggars on the
streets. At present, he says, there is an influx of
French into the country who are escaping the
burden of war taxes and are establishing fprms and.
plantations. For Americans with small incomes who
desire a modern paradise, Mr, Tyng advises them
to go to Morocco—there the sunsliine is permanent.
On Sunday, June 4, Maestro Achilles Anelli,
president of the American Ope:a Company, presented a unique performance of the Egyptian opera,
"Aida" in the Union Auditorium, New York City.
Termed "A Real Brown Skin Aida," the opera was
performed by a white cast with both of the Ethiopian roles taken by Negroes, including Carl Diton,
noted Negro baritone. The performance was staged
for the benefit of the "Reconciliation Trips," a venture in racial fellowship started a few years ago by
Clarence V. Howell, director. Mr. Howell includes
in his trips the "Syrian Quarter" where the group
visits the Syrian shops and partakes of a Syrian,
meal at which various Syrian speakers give their
views on various topics pertaining to the East.
John and Adele Macsoud, their good friends and
neighbors, are also a very happy couple. John is
on the road often but Adele usually accompanies
him. This time they are on a six weeks' trip into
the interior with plans to visit the Exposition in
Chicago.
Mrs. Adele McCormack's party for her daughter,
Margaret, was a grand mixture of young and old,
reminiscent of the good old patriarchal days. But
the big Malcof family, S'mallah and God bless them,
makes it possible. There were Margaret's friends,
some in pigtails and socks and then there were lovely dignified grey-haired ladies. But in between,
there were the young folks who formed the majority
and who seemed to monopolize the fun.
Madeline Zaloom says it was a great experience
to attend the Morgan trial p Washington, D.C. She
was down there attending her sister's graduation,
wih her family. They saw old J. P. himself, and
many senators, among them, Glass, and Wagner.
(Continued from page 4.)
that have sprung up since the War. Besides
the cement plant, it boasts today of a fullyequipped and efficient leather plant which
is making Syria Practically independent in
this vital item of industry from the Eu opean
exporters. The firm of Omar and '.oumiyyah which has introduced this industry to
Damascus, has also employed the most efficient modern engineering and industrial managership in their plant. More recently a huge
"Seest thou a greedy man who gathers wealth,
company has been formed to conserve fruits
And leaves it to his heirs after his death?
and ship them to Europe.
And for more
Like unto a hunter's hungry dog is he,
than four years the people of Damascus have
For others pick the prey, yet hungry still
been drinking the clean, healthful water of alhe be."
Fijeh spring that comes to them in pipes
Arabic verse.
directly to their ho)mes. This project fs also
a wholly native one in which tl__ citizens of
his social environment or social environment makes Damascus participated with great zeal. It is.
the hero, overlooks the only pertinent and essen- said that the issue of the stocks for this
tial point, namely the alternating action of the inmodern water supply company was greatly
dividual on, society and of society on the individual, each charging the other and being charged over-subscribed in a few days. And these are
thereby at one and the same time. A hero is both, only a few prominent examples of the sort
the product of society and its producer, the agent of thing we have called a healthy sign of naand end of social progress and social perfection "
tionalism in Syria.
ORIENTALIA
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PAGE SIX
MINIATURES
ARABESQUE
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BEIRUT
BEIRUT— The city of schools and newspapers. . . .the gateway of western influence
and culture to the East.... the city made
famous by its law school in the days of the
Roman empire, and made famous to Americans of these days by the American University of/Beirut. . . .the site of the far?.ous
legend of St. George and the dragon. . . .
the capital of the Lebanon Republic.
The most westernized city in Syria today,
Beirut has always stood for those influences
across the sea which worked themselves into
the complex history and traditions of the
Near East. Like Antioch it represents the
strain of Hellenic culture in ancient Syria,
of French, American and English strains today. Like sea-faring people the associations
of Beirut are of foreign climes and lands
far away.
An ancient writer once described Beirut
as "a queen sitting on the mountain side,
bathing her feet in the water,of the sea."
Under the variations of B'irutu and B'runa,
mention of Beirut occurs in the Tel-Amarna
letters of the 15th century B.C. It also occurs in the list of cities conquered by Thotmes III. The name is derived, most probably, from the Semitic word meaning "wells,"
which still abound in that city.
From most ancient times Beirut was a
salient trading post on the Mediterranean,
first under the Phoenicians then under the
Greeks and Romans.
But_i£ reached its aPex of glory in the days
of "the Roman Empire, especially after the
third century. Its fame spread throughout
the whole civilized world of those days for
its celebrated law school established in the
third century, in the days of Septimuius Severus and the other "Syrian Emperors" who
followed him.
A curious note from a Christian scholar
of the fifth century who attended the law
school of Beirut, gives us the first instance of
"hazing," perhaps, in history. This reference
comes from Zacharias Scholastikos, who
wrote:
"When I came to Beirut to study, I was
mortally afraid of the pranks which the students of the second class, known as the regulars, used to indulge in at the expense of
the first year students. These pranks were
EASTERN COLOR
REFLECTED IN
WORLD FAIR
(Special Correspondence)
THE brilliant parade marking the
opening of the World's Fair at Chicago on Saturday, May 27, ushered in
a new era of ideas and a revolutionary design in architecture. Foreign
nations participating in this multicolor pageant received their full
share of honor from the vast crowds
that lined Michigan Avenue from Chicago Avenue to Soldier's Field.
•
Each national group was dressed
in the styles of its native, land, making a motely crowd of brilliant colors
and strange designs that only a gifted
artist could give full justice in describing.
Chicago Syrians were well represented, adding a touch of Oriental
romance and color to the fair dedicated to a Century of Progress.
Syrians Represented
On the fair grounds themselves,
Syrian and other Eastern concessions
9
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General View of Beirut Showing Part of City Lying by .the Sea.
not of a harmful nature, but subjected the two other colleges, the pollege Sagesse and
victims to ridicule before their fellow stu- College Laique, and many secondary schools.
dents."
It has also two important publishing houses,
Augustus Caesar singled Beirut for special one for the American mission and one for
honors, creating it a Roman colony and call- the Jesuit fathers, and no less than thirty
ing it after his name and that of his daughter.^ newspapers and periodicals, mostly in Arabic.
Besides learning and commerce, Beirut is
Its full official name then was: Colonia Julia
Augusta Felix Berytus. It also became the famous for its baqlawa and burma and its
seat of two great Roman legions, and many Pea-mash, known as "hummos-bit-hini."
The present population of Beirut is about
public buildings, baths and theatres adorned
150,000.
the city. In 5 5 1 Beirut was destroyed by a
very severe earthquake and tidal waves
which almost buried the city under the furiTHE GARDENS OF OMAR
ous sea.
A NOVEL BY HENRI BORDEAUX
Since then Beirut never regained its comMEMBER
OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY
mercial and cultural importance until the
middle of the 19 th century when, phoenixlike, it rose again from the ashes of its comparative; obscurity to become the chief port
on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean,
and the centre of a renaissance which affected the whole Arabic-speaking world.
The chief events in Beirut which marked
its modern rise were the advent of the American and Jesuit missionaries, the building of
the Beirut-Damascus-Aleppo railway and the
development of the Beirut harbor.
BASED on the tragic love of a Moslem
Emir of the Syrian plains and a Christian
girl of the Lebanon mountains, unfolding all
ithe emotions of human love battling against
inherited religious prejudices.
It is thrilling and teeming with action.
You will enjoy it as you did no other
novel because of its love plot interwoven
with intriguing historical information.
Exclusive Serial Rights Secured
by the Syrian World from
There are in Beirut at present two univerE. P. Dutton Company
sities, the American University of Beirut and
To begin with the coming issue.
the University of St. Joseph, not counting
are also fairly well represented. West
of the Old Heidelberg, a quaint German beer garden, lies a reproduction
of a Flemish village of the 15th or
16th century. Towering spires, rise
from among a group of irregular
dwellings, and cobble-stone streets
wind their way to the village square
over a stone bridge, under which
flows a typical Dutch canal.
Overlooking this picturesque canal
is a Syrian restaurant, run by James
Mizrahi, an enterprising Syrian who>
ihas wagered his hopes and cash on
the successful outcome of the Fair
with its heavy rentals.
Not far from that location is the
Moroccan exhibit. A bazaar-lined
court yard of sand greets the curious
visitors within a white-washed fort
of Moorish design, with its desert-like
appearance.
A spacious stairway
leads down to an open-air cafe where
coffee or tea is served in highly ornamental brass cups. In the centre
stands an arched platform on whicha stringed quartet emits the weird
tunes of the Barbary Coast.
Moroccan who came to Chicago from
Rabat early in the spring of this year,
is the person to whom credit goes
for this bit of Oriental color in the
Chicago Fair. A staff of thirty-five
natives whom he brought over are
trained in their respective crafts, including the cook who is most indispensible for the Moorish crowd.
Without him the moors would feel
so homesick that they may not
stick it through to the end of the
exposition season.
An Oriental village is another attraction which will give a taste of
Eastern romance to the merry-goers.
The official opening of this typical
Eastern village is awaited anxiously
and will be announced very soon.
Khalil Naimy, a Syrian enterpriser,
who made a hasty trip to the East
not long ago in the interest of the
Fair, is in charge of this concession.
These days he is a very busy man,
directing his crew of workers and
Pushing the construction of his composite village.
Oriental Village Planned
Dr. Shatara at Book Club
DR. F. I. SHATARA gave a review of "Rethinking of Missions" yes-
Hajji Ahme/
/
bdi, a wealthy
terday evening in Jos. M Abbott's
home in Brooklyn under the auspices
of the Book Club. This book, a report of the Laymen's Commission,
headed by Prof. W. E. Hocking and
backed by John D. Rockefeller Jr.,
suggests many reforms in the missionary policies and tactics abroad and
has created a tremendous amount of
interest in all circles interested in^
missions in this country, England and
other countries of Europe.
EINSTEIN BREAKS WITH
HEBREW UNIVERSITY
JERUSALEM,— A correspondent
of the Jewish Chronicle interviewed
Prof. Albert Einstein who is living
now in Yepres, Belgium, after he had
declared his refusal to teach in Berlin
University under the Hitler regime.
The correspondent asked Prof.
Einstein why he had refused the invitation of $he Hebrew University in
Jerusalem to occupy one of its chairs.
Prof. Einstein replied that he w?is
disappointed with the Hebrew University and is at disagreement with
the policy it is now pursuing. Prof.
Einstein is known as an ardent
arden
Zionist.
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American-Arabian Night"—
St. Maron Y.M.C. Detroit
*
LAWYER
tf.
JAMIL BUTROS HOLWAY
lawyer
literateur
public man
was born in Damascus, Cyria i:i
1883.
As a youngster he traveled extensively with his family in Europe
and America
His father was an
artist and his work required that
he go from one country to another...
In 1893 part of the family returned
to Damascus
and Jamil began his
elementary schooling there
In 1900
he entered the American University of
Beirut
and was for three years in
charge of the meteological department in the University observatory.
Upon his
graduation from the
WILL BEIRUT
LOSE TO HAIFA?
French Show Concern Over
Supremacy of Beirut Now
Threatened by Harbor Developments of Haifa
A SPECIAL communication to
the Temps, Paris, from its correspondent in Beirut stresses the grave
dangers threatening the commercial
supremacy of that city. These dangers are now materialized, and their
shadows grow more reprehensible, as
the modern developments in the harbor of Haifa near completion.
A few months from now, says the
communication, the enlarged Haifa;
harbor will be opened officially by the
Prince of Wales and in the presence
of British colonial officials. The British Government attributes great importance to this event, and had
planned for it almost immediately
after the War.
Beirut Enjoyed Unique Place
For the last sixty or seventy
years Beirut has occupied a unique
place in the transit trade of the Near
East. The French railway, laid in
the middle sixties, made Beirut the
logical exporting terminus of Damascus and the interior of Syria. Beirut
harbor, one of the largest and most
convenient on the Mediterranean, was
enlarged by a French company, and
a water-breaker about half a mile in
length was built. This in turn, enhanced the commercial position of
Beirut and turned a large proportion
of the importing and exporting trade
of Syria, Palestine, Iraq and Anatolia ,in the way of Beirut.
Now, with Haifa already the
terminus of three-fourths of the volume of petroleum from Mosul, and
its new harbor surpassing that of Bei-
I
University he came to the United
States
and was appointed Syriani
interpreter on the United States Immigration Service of (the Department
of Labor
in 1913 he was made an
immigration inspector, the first Syrian
to acquire such a position
He
was sent to Memphis, Tenn. and New
Orleans, La. by the Immigration Department
In New Orleans he
studied law at night in the Loyola
University.
In 1922 he went td
Port Arthur, Texas and received his
license to practise law there
He
retained a practise in Texas for five
years and during the last year was
appointed Assistant Attorney General
of that state.
In 1929 he came to Brooklyn and,
opened an office
he was admitted
to the bar in the same year... .one of
his most important victories was the
case of a Syrian whose car was demolished on a New York highway
by falling rocks on a construction
point
Mr. Holway sued the State
of New York and won the case for his
client.
Mr. Holway was president of the
Damascus Fraternity of Brooklyn from
1929 until 1932
He is a popular
speaker at Syrian affairs
for which
he composes original poems in Arabic
and English
While in Texas several of his poems in English were published in the Port Arthur News
For thirty years he has been a regular contributor to al-Hoda.
Mr. Holway is a Mason
he
lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Mary
Hakim Holway, and their four
children.
BLUE LAWS PROPOSED
FOR BAGHDAD
BAGHDAD,—The Iraqite ministry has taken under consideration a draft of proposed laws for
the regulation of the morals of
Baghdad,
the Iraqite
capital.
Among these laws are strict regulations of public places, drinking salons, gambling and suggestive
dancing.
(Special Correspondence)
ST. MARONS Young Men's Club
(Detroit) will give an "AmericanArabian Night" on Sunday June 18th
at the beautiful new St. Maron's Hall,
Paul Dwaihy, president of the club,
announced.
Detroit's most popular Syrian entertainers, oud players and dancers
will take care of the "Arabian" part
of the entertainment, and Steve Bashara's famous Dance Orchestra will
fulfill the "American" part.
Beer will serve and be served as
a common link joining the two, and
just one grand time is promised to
be had by all who attend. A door
prize will be given.
EMIR ADIL ARSLAN
CHANGES DOMICILE
AMMAN,— Emir Adil Arslan, an;
Arab national leader who took an
active part in the Syrian revolution,
has received a special permit from the
government of Emir Abdullah in
Transjordania to change his domicile
to i Amman, the capital of Transjordania. When the British commissioner
in Amman asked Emir Abdullah
whether there was any special objection to the presence of Emir Adil
in Transjordania, Emir Abdullah
frankly replied:
"There is no objection whatsoever. It was you British who expelled Emir Adil and his companions
from Transjordania, and I had no
hand in the matter!"
ERATUM
Dr. T. Nicola is a surgeon in
Mountainside
Hospital,
Montclair,
N.J., not Mt. Sinai Hospital as stated
in last week's issue.
Col. Roosvelt in Persia
TEHRAN— Col. Theodore Roosvelt, former Governor of the Phillipine Islands, received severe burns
in his legs from boiling water accidentally spilled by a servant. Col.
Roosvelt is making an unofficial tour
of Persia.
PAGE SEVEN
MURDERED FOR
FWE DOLLARS
Dagger Drawn Following Argument; One Killed
(By Staff Court Reporter)
A HEATED argument over a refusal to repay a five dollar loan,
culminated in, the murder of George
Assaf this morning.
The tragedy took place at the
corner of 129th Street and Lenox
Avenue, New York City.
While
George Assaf was walking on Lenox
Avenue he met Ibrahim Ali as-Sumalli who had borrowed five dollars
from him sometime ago. Assaf asked
as-Sumalli to repay the loan and
upon refusal a heated argument followed.
According to the version of the
defendant, George Assaf drew a
dagger and attempted to attack him.
He said that he wrenched the dagger
fiom his hand and stabbed him over
the heart. A few minutes later, Assaf died in the hospital where he had
been rushed. As-Sumalli was arrested and taken to court.
DETROIT DAMASCENES TO
BUY OWN PICNIC PARK
(Special Correspondence)
DETROIT, June 7, 1933.—A beautifully situated 40-acre piece of land
containing a small lake, was leased
by the Damascus League of Detroit,
with an option to purchase the property.
The land, which will be converted
into a picnic park for the Syrians
of Detroit and surrounding territory fronts Grand River Road (16)
and is located 35 miles from Detfoit
on the road to Lansing.
Mr. Joseph Cueter, president of
the League, says improvements are
to start immediately. There is spring
and well water, benches. A dance
floor and other accessories will be
added shortly. The picnic to be given
by Our Lady of Redemption Church
July 2, 3, and 4th, will be held there.
Cleopatra Has Her Face Washed
rut in spaciousness and modern efficiency, the French are showing signs
of concern, if not consternation, at
the jprospect that Great Britain,
through its mandated regions in/
the Near East, will make Haifa the
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principal naval and commercial port
on the Mediterranean. Already Haifa
is connected with Iraq and Persia by
a military-commercial railway that
crosses the Syrian Desert through
British-mandated territories.
The new Haifa harbor will have
an area of fifty square hectares, a
;hectare being equivalent to approximately ZV-2. acres. British and Jewish
money was invested lavishly in its
modern development.
BROOKLYN BOY
SERIOUSLY HURT
EDDIE NASSER, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Nassour Nasser of Brooklyn,
N.Y., was severely injured when the
truck he was driving for the Friedman Bakery was struck by a Greeley
Bus at Bridge and Adams Streets,
Brooklyn. He was taken to the Cumherland Hospital in a serious condition, with his right leg badly fractured in several places and a possible
fracture of the left leg and arm. Dr.
Shatara, under whose supervision the
boy is being treated, operated on him,
on Thursday. His chances for recovery are good although he will be
crippled for a long time.
A striking view of the head of Cleopatra on the Embankment in London as a workman mounted a ladder over her nosa
and gave the fambus lady's face its annual washing.
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The Syrian World
PUBLISHED WEEKLY — ESTABLISHED
VOL. VH, NO. 6.
POPULAR GAMES
AT PARTY
Prof. Maloofs Studio Again
Forms Background for Gay
* Party; Other Social Notes
of Brooklyn
SOME very dignified persons
looked very undignified when they
were told to do certain things like
barking, honking like a motor car
(horn, or walking like an elephant at
Margaret McCormack's party last
Wednesday night. Margaret had just
turned sixteen and her mother, Mrs.
Adele McCormack, prepared a surprise party for her and a beautiful
cake on which were written her
name and that of Mrs. S. G. Mussawir's whose birthday it also happened to be. The party took place
in Alexander Maloof s studio in Carnegie Hall. Over sixty Syrian and
American guests were present, among
whom were Mrs. H. A Maloof, Emma
Maloof, Mrs. S. G. Mussawir, Mr. and
Mrs. Emil Maloof, Alex Maloof, Lonise.Sally and Eleanor Mussawir, Mr.
end Mrs. George Saliba, Louise Dibs,
Olga Mussawir, Souhail Hermos, Albert Maloof, George Magella, George
Tfdross, Monroe Naufal, Alfred Zrike,
Nedda and Eddie Uniss, Mary and
Rose Mokarzel,
Fred
Mussawir,
at|jerjnfe-^Ma.cKenna, and George
Ghiz.
Mrs. F. M. Jabara and her daughters, Mrs. Najib Khairalla, and Gladys, and her grand-daughter, Sherene,
are arriving on the S.S. Excordia
Thursday. Mrs. Khairalla and her
baby daughter will spend a few
months here before returning to
Syria.
Miss Olga Mussawir, daughter off
Dr. and Mrs. S. G. Mussawir, Brooklyn, and Mr. Souhail Hermos, son of
Mrs. S. J. Hermos, will be married
Wednesday at 11:00 o'clock on the
S.S. Oriente and will then sail for
Mexico City. A luncheon and dance
will follow for the wedding party.
Sara Therese Yazbek is graduating on the 13th of this month from
the Ursuline High School in Youngstown, Ohio.
Mr. Najib Kassab left last week
lor the Madeira Islands on business
for Kassab Bros., New York and
Madeira.
Miss Harriet D. Faris, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Adeeb Faris of Narrows Avenue, Brooklyn, was graduated from the Wheelock School in
Boston last Monday.
Miss Marie Zaloom, who has been
prominent in college activities, was
graduated from Trinity College, Washington D. C, last Saturday. Of her
family who went to see her were her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Selim F. Zaloom, Miss Clementine Zaloom, Madeline Zaloom and her brother-in-law,
John Jerro, all of Brooklyn.
Mrs. M. G. Katibah and her little
son George of Jasksonville, Fla., are
visiting her folks in Brooklyn: Mrs.
Katibah is the former Mary Coury,
sister of Thomas Coury and cousin
of M. G. Coury, a Syrian poet and
importer. She is also a cousin, on
hei mothers' side, of H L Katibah.
1926.
NEW YORK, JUNE 9, 1933.
Dr. and Mrs. Phillip K. Hitti of.
Princeton, N. J., are leaving this coming week for their summer home in
Corlear Bay Club in Keeseville, N. Y.
in the Adirondacks.
Victor Nader of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
returned from Washington D. C, to
Brooklyn this week where he will stay
for several days on business.
Mrs. John Cajtouny and son,
Alfred, spent the week-end with her
aunt, Mrs. F. Saker in Freehold,
N. J.
Mrs. Rose Naccash of Brooklyn,
N. Y., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Fifi
Ganim, who is ill in Dover, N. J.
Mr. and Mrs. Chicri Salloum and
daughter, Louise, returned to their
home in Detroit, Mich., with Mr. and
Mrs. George Lutfy.
Mrs. Salloum and Louise arrived on Saturday
on the S.S. Byron after a year's stay
in Syria. Mr. Lutfy is president of,
the Family Creamery, the largest milk
concern in Detroit.
Miss Elizabeth Samra arrived in
Brooklyn last Saturday from Michigan.
She expects to remain for another
week.
Among the arrivals on the S.S.
Byron last Saturday, from Syria, were
Kalil Bistany, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Homsy, John Bowari, Mr. and Mrs.
Gabriel Giraud, Said Najjar, Mr. and
Mrs. Abdala Nicola, Francis Mansour,
John Sleyman, Tanous Akel, Najib
Beder, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Abraham
and daughter, Karim N. Elias, Deeb
Mohamed, Mr. and Mrs. George Barsam, Mr. and Mrs. Assad Barakat and
their three children, Mr. and Mrs.
Esper Hadad, George Baccash, Alexander Boushalha, and Said Kalil.
>
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Toufic Atalla of West Orange, N.J.
last Saturday. They have two other
children, girls.
The marriage of Martha Maye
Paris to Burrett S. D. Martin last
Saturday, May 27, was announced by
the ibride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Adeeb Faris of Narrows Avenue,
Brooklyn. The ceremony was performed by Dr. John Haynes Holmes
in the presence of the immediate
family at four o'clock in the afternoon.
Robert Lian, four year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ragi Lian, Brooklyn,
died early Saturday morning, June 3,
after a long illness. Funeral services were held in St. Mary's Melchite Church, Clinton and Amity
Streets, Monday afternoon. Interment
took place in St. John's cemetery
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL
ANNUAL AFFAIR
THE St. Vincent de Paul Society
of the Virgin Mary's Church of
Brooklyn, will hold a musical entertainment and dance in Knights of
Columbus Hall, 1 Prospect Park West,
Brooklyn, Sunday evening, June 11.
This is the fifth annual similar affair
held by the organization.
DANCE PRIZE
CARAVANEER
TICKETS TO SHOW
CLFB FORMED
Many Clubs Send Representatives to Bridge and Dance
Given Jointly by Two
Societies
(
TWO tickets to Leonore Ulric's
show, "The Angel," which is playing
en Broadway, was the prize for the
' lucky number dance at the bridgedance held jointly by the Daughters
of the United Maronite Society and
the Damour Fraternity last Saturday
night. The two large halls of the
American-Syrian Federation were
used, the upper for playing bridge
and the lower for dancing. The Cl' b
Alpine Orchestra furnished the music
ifor dancing until 2:00 A.M.
Mary Mardani and her partner
won the tickets. A prize for each
table of bridge was an enamel
cigarette box.
Miss Margaret Hatem, president
oi the D.U.M.S., was chairman of the
committee on arrangements. She was
assisted by Salha Saad, Ejone Abood,
Alice Grayeb, and Marie Aboussleman. Adib Grayeb, of the Damour
Fraternity, was assisted by Fred
Owen, Michel Owen and Mitchell
Khoury.
Societies Represented
Members of the D.U.M.S. who attended are the Misses Isabelle Hatem,
Effie Owen, Fred Owen, Najla Akel,
Lillian Asfour, Emily Allowas, Lillian Bowab, Lillian Abraham and
Alice Khoury.
Others who attended are Rev. M.
Stephen, pastor of the Maronite
Church, George Dagher and Said
Akel, representing the Syrian American Federation; Naoum Hatem and
Alex Antoun representing the Lebanon League of Progress; Joseph
Ganim, Philip Hanna, George Marrash, representing the Junior Republican Club; Julia Khoury and Josephine Daas, representing the Junior4
Misses Club.
Others also present were: Philip
Raphael, Jacob Raphael, Mrs. B.
Saad, Marie and Elizabeth Saad, Mr.
and Mrs. Halim Shehab, Mrs. L. G.
Aide, Frank Saker, Mary Elhilow,
Shafica Antoun, Assad Antoun, Florence and Evelyn Hatem, Mrs. J.
Basil, and Mabel and Lillian Basil.
Sunday evening, where he had been
a patient since May 29.
Services
took place in St. Maron's Church,
Rev. Paul Rizk officiating. Interment
was in St. Francis cemetery.
He is survived by a son Kablan.
Haddad, a daughter, Mrs. George
Buberak of Winsted, Conn., eight
grand children, a brother, William, of
Fall River, Mass., and a sister, Mrs.
George Peters.
Mr. Saab Jacob left last Monday
for New York to sail for an indefinite
stay in Syria.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jacob ofi
Shelton St. visited New York City
over the holidays.
TORRINGTON NOTES
A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Abdu of Winsted, Conn.
Joseph Haddad, 70, died at the
C H. Hospital, Torrington, Conn.,
Charles Sam, was in New York
ever the holidays last week-end.
(Special Correspondence)
PAGE EIGHT
New Ciub in North Carolina
Holds Dinner-Dance
(Special Correspondence)
THE Caravaneers of New Bern,
North Carolina, an organization consisting of twenty-one charter members, was recently organized. The
officers of the club are: president,
Edeep Bellamah; vice-president, Louis
Nasser; secretary, Joseph Rachide;
treasurer, Charles Misthy; and the
chairman of the program and arrangements committee, Joseph Romanus.
The club gave its initial function,
a dinner-dance, at the Hotel New
Bernian on Friday night, May 5th.
The dinner was followed by a dance
in which guests from cities of Eastern
North Carolina participated. On Sunday, May 14th, the club sponsored
an inter-club debate with Wilson,
North Carolina, to which local Syrians were invited.
The activities of the club have a
wide range,—dramatics, debates, athletics, dancing and other social affairs.
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SYRIAN MOTHER AND
CHILDREN IN FAIR
All Gifted in Dancing and
Singing
By Harry Ojile
(Special Correspondent)
ST. Louis, Mo., June 3.—A Syrian
mother and her ten children of this
city will perform in the World's Fair
in Chicago.
Mrs. A. F. Abachel,
after receiving permission to take
fart in the exposition, rehearsed her
children for several months, sending
to Syria for native costumes that
their act will be purely Syrian. She is
talented in Arabic singing and dancing and her children are also gifted
in acting and entertaining.
Syrian Youngsters
Confirmed
NEARLY one hundred Syrian
boys and girls were among the children who received the sacrament of
confirmation Sunday, May 29, in St.
Vincent de Paul's Church, St. Louis.
Archbishop Glennon officiated. In the
sermons that followed, one priest'
made the remark that there was one
Syrian confirmed to every two Americans, while only a few years back,
there were only a few scattered Syrians in the school.
7 »
THE Syrian A. C.'s Baseball team
of St. Louis beat the Forest Park
Nine Sunday afternoon, May 29. The
game was featured by Ben Ablan's 3
hit performance. Ben is a left-hander. On the defense, Jim Hazer was
a star at 3rd base, playing as if a
world series was at stake. He also
contributed 3 bits.
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GRADUATES WITH
HONOR
JOSEPH S. Nyme graduated with
honors from the Cleveland College
of Art. He took up landscape painting and life in oil, and was considered
the best in his graduating class in
color mixing.
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<h4>Biographical/Historical Note</h4>
<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
<h4>Scope/Content Note</h4>
<p><em>The Syrian World</em> was published between 1926 and 1932 as a journal. In 1932, the format was changed from an academic journal style to a newspaper style, which continued until the periodical's end in 1935. After the death of his brother Naoum, Salloum took over the publication of <em>Al-Hoda.</em></p>
<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
<p>All issues of <em>The Syrian World</em> are available, along with full indexes for the first four volumes. For volumes five and six, there are tables of contents at the start of the issues.</p>
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Arabs--United States
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Arab American Newspapers
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Salloum A. Mokarzel
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New York Public Library
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
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1926-1935
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<em><a href="http://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/collections/show/41" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Syrian Business Directory</a></em>
<a href="http://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/collections/show/44" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mokarzel Family Papers</a>
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11299/175685" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Annotated Index to the Syrian World, 1926-1932</a> at the University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center Archives
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Syrian
PUBLISHED WEEKLY —ESTABLISHED 1926
VOL- VH, NO. 7.
NEW YORK, JUNE 16, 1933.
5 CENTS A COPY
CONFERENCE, SYRIAN MERCHANTS
SAMISHAWA
SYRIA IN GRIP
OF DROUGHT
SEND ULTIMATUM TO PONSOT ARRIVESAT N. Y.
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SYRIAN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE, HOLDING THEIR
SECOND CONFERENCE, GIVE HIGH COMMISSIONER
HENRI PONSOT TWO MONTHS TO CARRY
OUT SUGGESTIONS
A BRUSQUE ultimatum was addressed on the 23rd of May
to M. Henri Ponsot, French High Commissioner of Syria, by the
second conference of the Syrian Chambers of Commerce, comprising all sections of the country under French mandate. The ultimatum, signed by Omar ad-Da ouq, president of the conference and
or the Beirut Chamber of Commerce, and other representatives was
never delivered to the High Commissioner.
It was as brusquely
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returned by M. Helallo, General Secretary of the High Commissioner,
with the annotation that "a High
Commissioner of the French Republic will receive no threats from anyone whomsoever."
Inquiring of the contents of this
"ultimatum" which was addressed to
the highest French authority in the
mandated regions al-Hoda correspondent found out that it consisted of a
decision of ,the conference to grant
M. Ponsot another two months in
which to carry out suggestions which
had been passed by a similar conference held two months previously.
The reaction in the political circles of Beirut, French and national
as well, was rather unfavourable to
the tone and manner in which the
decision was presented, that it was
calculated to hinder rather than accelerate action by the French authorities in compliance with the studied
observations of the Syrian merchants.
Second Conference Confirms First
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The second conference of the Syrian Chambers of Commerce followed
•up the discussions of the First one
held about two months before and its
decisions were in agreement with
those of the conference of the merchants of Beirut, held about a month
ago. It insisted on a regulative tariff
which would meet the keen competition of foreign markets, including
neighboring countries such as Palestine, Transjordania and Iraq where
the tariff on several necessary commodities manufactured in Syria and
Lebanon is already lower than the
rate prevailing in the latter countries.
It also proposed protective
measures and certain tax exemptions
for the encouragement of national industries still in the formative stage.
The period extended to the
French authorities by. the first conference to introduce the necessary
economic reforms and legislation having passed without perceptible results,
as the resolution of the second conference indicates, it was considered
advisable to hold the second conference and press more vividly on the
French the urgency of carrying out
the proposed measures. Hence the "ultimatum."
The convening conference took
cognizance of the reported intentions
of the High Commissariat to hold a
meeting on the 29th of May for the
study of the tariff, on the 30th for
the fetudy of various economic questions . and on the 5th of June for
the study of converting Beirut to a
free port.
Representatives of the
Beirut Chamber Jof Commerce and
other merchant organizations of Syria are expected to be consulted in
these meetings and a final reply of
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KING FEISAL PATRONIZES
ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY
JERUSALEM— The permanent
committee of the General Islamic
Conference received word from
Baghdad that King Feisal has expressed his acceptance to place
the project of the Islamic University of Jerusalem under his
patronage.
,
A local committee, headed by
the premier of Iraq, was formed
in Baghdad to solicit contributions for the proposed university.
A delegation of Moselm leaders
is now travelling in Islamic countries, on their way to India, in the
interest of this university.
the High Commissariat given on July
22nd.
Point Grave Consequences
Awaiting the results of these meetings by French authorities, the Syrian
economic conferees simply satisfied
themselves in pointing to M. Ponsot
and his colleagues the grave consequences that will ensue if their
suggestions are not taken into consideration, absolving themselves of
all responsibility for what might follow. The conference also declared
that in case its voice is not heard
nor its counsel heeded, it will appeal to "higher authorities" in Paris.
The Syrian cities represented in
the conference through their Chambers of Commerce include Beirut,
Damascus, Aleppo, Tripoli, Horns,
Hama, Alexandretta, Sidon and Ladhiqiyyah. The merchants representing Damascus comprised Arif al-Halbuni, President of the Damascene
Chamber of Commerce, Lutfi al-Haffar and Muslim as-Suyoufi. Those
of Beirut were Omar ad-Da'ouq,
Muhi-id-Din al-Nasuli, Alfred Nasr,
George Aqouri, Joseph Farhi, Nasim
Matar, Hasan QurunfuL Kamal Jabr,
Nathan Istanbuli, Arif Diab, AbdulRahman al-Himrani, Abdul-Barraj
and Elias Trabulsi.
PRINCESS BELLAMAH
PASSES AWAY
BEIRUT, May 15.—Mme Gabrielle Bellamah, wife of Emir Assad
Kabalan Bellamah, passed away on
the fourteenth of May in Judeitah, Lebanon. A long funeral procession followed the cortege in Judeitah. Emir Assad is the son of!
Emir Kabalan who for a long time
was head of the administrative
council in Lebanon.
To Play in Chicago Exposition;
Was Principal Performer in He
de France Concert; Dinner
for Him Monday in
Towers Hotel
"EMIR EL-KAMANJAH," the
Prince of the Violin, as Sami Bey
Shawa is known throughout the Arabic-speaking world, is again in this
country after a lapse of five years,
having visited this country in 1928.
He returned on the He de France
Tuesday and comes back to a large
circle of friends and admirers who
met him on his former visit. He
has a charming and impulsive personality that makes him friends
wherever he goes. He was popular
among the Syrians here when he made
a tour of the whole country, giving
several concerts in til the principal
cities where Syrians are numerous,
New York, Boston, Detroit, among
them. By special invitation of the
then Egyptian ambassador, in 1928,
he played in Washington before a
large and brilliant audience composed of the guests of the ambassador, including members of the diplomatic corps of many countries,
senators, representatives and other
officials in Washington.
To Play in Exposition
Sami Bey will remain in New
York a few weeks before commencing
on his contemplated concert tour of
the country. The main concert in
his itinerary will be in the auditorium of the Exposition in Chicago, for
which he had planned bringing a
large company of the principal dancers and singers in Egypt in order
to stage tableaux vivantes depicting
the evolution of Arabic music from
the time of the Pharoahs, but the
Egyptian government refused to allow the women to come, stating for
their reason that the dancing would
be misunderstood. He had even made
contracts with several o' the principals but was forced to abandon the
project.
*
Considers Oriental Music
Superior to Occidental
Sami Bey is considered the foremost Arab violinist living and a
staunch supporter and expounder of:
the old school of Arabic music which"
he believes far superior to occidental
music. Once when he was asked
to give in his own words the distinction between occidental and oriental
music, he said: "You can admire
the one but you love the other." At
another time he said:
"European
musicians must admit that oriental
music is the tongue of the human
heart."
On board the He de France he
was the principal performer in a concert given for charity. He is not
only a player of note but also a composer, having 150 violin compositions to his credit, many of his pieces
being recorded for the phonograph
and heard all over the world wherever Arabic music is played.
A Founder of Egyptian
Conservatory
Sami Bey is <i professor at the
Continued >n page 2.
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Lack of Rain Causes Famine and
Drought in Syria, Palestine.
Hunger Threatens Cattle
in Northern Palestine
IN ADDITION to the general effects of the economic depression, Syria
and Palestine complain of a local
trouble which seriously threatens
thousands with dire need, if not actual starvation.
The "early and the latter rain,"
for which our forefathers prayed in
Bible days and for which the folks
back in the home country still pray,
feiled to fall in due time this last
autumn and spring. The result, in
many places, has been a drought, one
of the curses of the Bible lands. In
some sections, as in the interior of
Syria, the average rainfall hardly
exceeds 10 inches a year. One or
two rainfalls make a difference between opulence and scarcity, between plenty and want.
Cattle Sacrificed
In some of these districts, as in
northern Palestine, the Jordan Valley
and Beersheba in the south, we are
informed that famine seriously threatens the populations. The first to-fts?!"*
the pangs of this famine were the
cattle and flocks which depend almost solely on pasture, which in turn
depends on sufficient rainfall. At
first the Palestinian peasants thought
of selling their cattle and flocks for
slaughter, but the importation of
meat from Cyprus, it is said, has lowered the price of livestock in Palestine
to such an extent that the price
offered by the butchers was lower
than the cost of raising it.
In some parts of Interior Syria
locusts, another biblical curse, have
dene their share of damage and
mischief, reducing the peasant to a
(further state of hopeless despair. A
few months ago we read in the Arabic
press of bedwin tribes migrating to
the cities in search of livelihood, and
of peasants in the vigor of youth
seeking employment in neighboring
towns. But conditions in the Syrian
cities and towns are hardly better,
and unemployment there steadily
mounts with time.
Palestine Paper Sarcastic
One Arabic paper published in
Jaffa, commenting on the existing
conditions in northern Palestine, bitterly mocks the claim of Zionists and
British authorities in Palestine which
paints the economic conditions of
that country in roseate colors. This
paper declares that such economic
felicity may exist for the British and
Zionists with their uninterrupted
stream of financial help from the
outside, but it does not exist for the
Arabs. It confirms the contention of
Peter George in an interview which
he gave the Syrian World in its issue of May 26.
EXTRA
ZRIKE BROS. FREED
WORD was received yesterday
that Zrike Brothers of New York
City and Haiti, who were arrested
some months ago in Haiti for defrauding the custom regulations, were
freed and have again gone back to
business.
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THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, JUNE 16, 1933.
OFEISH ABIDES
OWN TIME
HEI HO! COME YE
TO LEBANON
A Strike Lasting 15 Days Ends
in Appointment of Bishop for
Zgharta and Ehden. ReMove Bells from Churches,
Stop Masses
Buffalo Newspaper Reporter Visits Married Bishop in His Retreat; Finds Him Cool Amidst
Hardships, Awaiting Own
Time to Impress Message
Lebanon Government Appropriates. $6800 for Propaganda
to Entice Summer
Reporters
THE TOWNS of Zgharta and Ehden,
northern Lebanon, have clamored recently for a bishopric of their own that
will make them independent of the
diocese see in Tripoli. Almost all the
people of these two towns are Maronites. When the new bishop, His
Eminence Antoun al-Aabd, was chosen for the Tripoli episcopate and the
demand of the Zgharta and Ehden
people was unheeded, a strike against
church attendance, masses and church
ceremonies was declared and lasted
15 days. Bells were removed from
the church steeples, and no baptismals or burials were allowed to be
performed.
Finally His Beatitude Antoun,
Arida acceded to the demands of
the loyal Zghartites and Ehdenites
and promised to assign them a bishop of their own, but on condition
that two parish houses, one in each
town, be erected for the prospective
bishop within the coming three years,
and that a sufficient income be guaranteed him. This the Zghartites and
Ehdenites promised, on condition that
one-fourth of the church waqf (inalienable lands) be registered in the
name of the local parishes.
A REPORTER of the CourierExpress, Buffalo, made a visit to
Archbishop Aftimios Ofeish in his
humble retreat in Niagara Falls where
he found him with his young bride,
the former Mariam Nimey, in their
little, furnished apartment, reading
the Bible or talking to friends.
The reporter's inquisitive questions prompted one of the archbishop's coreligionists and friends, Ray
Bishara, who happened to be present
then, to address him impatiently,
saying: "You should come out and
tell them. Tell them all. Now is the
time to strike."
Waving his hand, the archbishop
replied: "Do not talk such nonsense,
my friend. When ^ it is time, I shall
know it. Do not get excited."
To this Bishara placed his hand
on his brow and groaning, turned to
the reporter and eicplained:
SIXTH SYRIAN CHURCH STRIKE
OLYMPIAD HELD • ENDS, ZGHARTA
BEIRUT— The sixth Syrian Olympiad was held on May 20 in the athletic ifield of the American University
of Beirut. Amateur athletes, representing different athletic clubs in the
various cities of Syria and Lebanon,
as well as colleges and secondary
schools, competed in the following'
events:
100, 200, 400, 800, 1500 and 3000
meter races; 110 and 220 meter hurdles; high jump, discus throw, shot
put, jareed throw and broad jump.
The only conditions imposed oh
the participants, aside of their being
amateurs who had received no pay
for athletic competions, were the payment of about 20 cents registration
fee and a period of actual training
not less than a month from date of
the Olympiad.
ARABIC FAIR
FOR PALESTINE
Palestine Committee Formulates
Plan for Pan-Arabic Fair
JERUSALEM— A group of Palestine businessmen and manufacturers have formulated plans for the
holding of a huge Pan-Arab fair in
Palestine, presumably, in Jerusalem,
to which all Arab merchants in the
neighboring countries, Egypt, and
North Africa, are requested to send
samples of their national I industries.
A communication' to "all the Arab
-is^ftg*-and -princes" has been already1
issued, urging the advantages of such,
a fair and requesting them to take
the necessary steps to encourage Arab
merchants to participate and to facilitate the exportation of their samples
to the Palestine fair.
TO PLAY AT CHICAGO
EXPOSITION
Continued from page 1.
Egyptian Conservatory of Music in
Cairo and is one of its founders. The
Conservatory was formed a few years
ego under the patronage of his Majesty, King Fuad, as a centre of oriental music. "Nadi-1-Musica-l-Sharqi," as it is called, was the scene of
a Congress of Oriental Music that
was held there in 1930 under its
auspices for the purpose of unifying and standardizing Arabic music.
Ar. Austrian expert in oriental music was invited to give his suggestions for reforming it, and for devising a system of notation of the Arabic
music.
The annual opening of the Nadi
is a gala social affair attended by
members of the king's court and ambassadors and statesmen of the Egyptian capitol.
Patriarch Promises Bishop
Following a letter from His Beatitude to Bishop Abdullah Khoury,
Vicar-Patriarch, assuring him that as
soon as' the necessary preparations
for the support of a bishop are undertaken a bishop will be appointed,
the people of Zgharta and Ehden were
jubilant. The old bells were restored
to their old steeples and now ring
to the tunes of joy and triumph.
An interesting feature of these
two towns is that they are a kind of.
Siamese Twins, in fact two towns with
one population. In summer the people
cf Zgharta move up to Ehden, -and in,
winter the people of Ehden move
down to Zgharta to escape the rigors
of cold and perpetual snow. Ehden
is only a few miles, in an imaginary
straight line from the celebrated
Cedars of Lebanon, but it takes an
hour and a half by automobile.
OPEN BEER GARDEN
IN the "Ganem Block," Torrington, Conn., that already contains a
sports shop managed by George Ganem and an ice " cream parlor, managed by Emile Ganem, Louis Ganem
officially opened a beer garden last
Wednesday, June 7. The brothers
are three of the fifteen children of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ganem who have
lesided in Torri.igton for over 23
years.
Dinner For Him Monday
Friends and admirers of Sami Bey
Shawa in New York and Brooklyn
are holding a dinner for him in the
Towers Hotel, Brooklyn, Monday
evening.
The committee arranging
it was chosen to be representative
of all groups of the community and,
as much as possible, all towns in
Syria. A large crowd is expected
to attend, and to hear Sami Bey and
his famous kamanjah.
TO SWITCH COLLEGES
Alexander A. Howatt who* attended the University of Cincinnati
will enter Ohio State University next
fall. He was a columnist on the
school paper and magazine.
SUMMER CLASSES AT
INSTITUTE
THE International Institute of 94
Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, of which*
Miss Bahia Hajjar is Syrian Secretary, will be open from nine o'clock
to late in the evening each week day
during the summer and will be a
service and recreational center for
girls and 'women of all nationalities
and their families, according to an
announcement made last week by Mrs.
Walter Truslow,. chairman tof the Institute.
There will be English, cooking
and sewing classes. Those desiring
to obtain citizenship papers will be
aided in doing so.
Silly
Stories
Discounted
"There are such silly stories going the rounds. There are so many
old fogies who do not understand.
Why, would you believe it, there are
people 'who believe Aftimios is rich.
They say he has a million dollars.
They say that is why they married.
They say he is going to buy a farm
and take life at his ease."
But it seems, as we well know
ourselves, there is iio foundation to
such wild rumors. Mr. Bishara wanted
the Buffalo reporter to know the
true facts.
"Did you ever hear anything «o
silly?" continued the lay friend. "He
has no money at all. He does not
know where the next meal is coming
from. He does not know whether he
can pay his rent from week to week."
The archbishop himself does not
fret. He shows no signs of anxiety or
dismay. Instead,'he draws a cigarette
from his gown pocket, as he says:
"Do not excite yourself, my
friend."
Then he turns over the leaves
of his Bible and reads: "The foxes
have their holes, and the birds of,
the air their nests, but the Son of
Man hath not where to lay his head."
At this juncture, the young bride
takes up the conversation. She confirms her husband's stand, and shows
frerself as cool and trusting. She
says:
When Will Time Come
"You will have to let him take
his time, Ray, he knows best. He
will know when £t is time."
But when will this time be? To
some devoted but somewhat doubtful
friends like Ray Bishara, it looks
as indefinite as Christ's own prediction of His Second Coming. A note
of tragic determination to see the
thing through, come what may, rings
in the archbishop's words.
Replying to the reporter's questions regarding the repudiation of the
archbishop by his former churches
and followers, he said:
"Let them have time to make up
their minds. Let those who want to
leave me leave me, and those who
want to stay, let them stay.
"When I speak, it will not just be
to the people of our church. I shall
speak to all the people. What I have
to say, I have to say to all."
Then the question of the archbishop's orthodoxy, which has been
questioned by many, including Bishop
Sophronios Bishara of Los Angeles,
THE CHARMS of Lebanon, its
exhilirating air and invigorating climate, will soon become familiar to the
heat sufferers in Cairo, Baghdad, Mosul and Tehran. And our familiar
institution of summer resort pamphlets that paint the lily whiter, the
tose redder and the sunsets in poetic
terms surpassing nature, will also become a familiar institution in Lebanon.
For the last few years, the Lebanon people have awakened to the
great possibilities of exploiting the
beauties and sanitary advantages of
J-iebanon for the enhancement of the
ever-growing tourist trade in that
historic mountain. Last year the Lebanon Government appropriated the
sum of 10,000 Syrian Liras, about
j$8,000 for advertising Lebanon resorts in Egypt, Iraq and neighboring
countries. This year, on account of
the ubiquitous depression, the appropriation was dropped to 8500 Liras
or about $6800.
Lebanon in Movies
The advertisement propaganda, as
far as this modest appropriation would
allow, will comprise the following:
Showing of Lebanon views in
the movies. These, most certainly,
will include the Cedars of Lebanon,
the waterfalls of Jezzin and Hammana, the Bardoni Valley in Zahle
and the fashionable resorts of Alieh,
Sofar and Bhamdun. Besides, there
will be advertisements in the Arabic
newspapers of the adjoining countries
and posters in the streets of the principal Arabic cities. Of particular interest will be an electrically-lighted
poster in the fashionable cafe of
Groppi in Cairo, in Meidan Suleiman, where hundreds of the fashionable citizens of Egypt's capital meet
every evening. This poster will display a relief map- of Lebanon and
Various beautiful views of Lebanon
resorts.
Still another method of enticement will be the printing in Arabic,
French and English, of beautifully illustrated pamphlets, postcards and announcements in railway stations.
This extensive program will be
under the direction of Michael Bahut,
Chief Inspector of the Ministry o£
the Interior of Lebanon, and Emir
Rafiq Arslan, Director.
was brought up.
significant:
Aftimios' reply is
Orthodox or Evangelical?
"Someone has asked," he said, "if
I am Orthodox or Evangelical. I do
not know and I do not care. If to be
Orthodox is to be ruled by a lot of
man-made canons, formulated long
ago, then I am not Orthodox. If to be
Evangelical means to respect God's
truth more than these canons, then
I am Evangelical.
"I see as my first function to
cleanse the church, and to bring together all her quarelling denominations. It is wicked for Christ's church
to be so divided, and* this canon
against marriage which has ridden so
many of its priests for so many
years should be broken. It is God's
will. .
"When the time comes, I shall
speak. It is not yet time. Let the
people cool down a little."
D "I
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THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, JUNE 16, 1933.
WED ON BOARD
HONEYMOON SHIP
Unusual Wedding Unites Olga
Mussawir and Souhail Hermos
Under Bower of Flowers
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AN UNUSUALLY picturesque
wedding took place "Wednesday on
board ship amid a profusion of flowers. In one of the most prominent
weddings of the year Olga Mussawir,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. S. G. Mussawir and Souhail Hermos, son of
Mrs. K. Hermos, entered the grand
salon of the S.S. Oriente at 11 A.M.
to a wedding march played by an
orchestra. They were married by
Msgr. Paul Sanky under an arch of
flowers, in the traditional Catholic
Melchite ceremony, using the crowns.
Selma Mussawir, sister of the bride,
was maid of honor and Charles Arb,
brother-in-law of the groom, was
best man. Little Yvonne Bahry was
flower girl. The bride wore a silk
traveling suit 0f "traditional white
and carried a bouquet of white orchids, and the attendants and guests
all wore sports clothes.
After the ceremony was over the
guests went two decks below for
Jiors d'oevre and much champagne, a,
little later had lunch in the dining
room while the orchestra played dance
music. Mrs. Adele McCormick, the
bride's aunt, sang several songs.
At five o'clock the boat sailed to
Mexico City taking the couple with
it on their honeymoon. When they
return in about a month they will
make their residence in Prospect Park.
At lunch Mr. Richard Macsoud,
Mr. Hermos' partner in the Central
Madeira Importing Co., acted as
toastmaster. In the wedding party
were Fred, Louise and Eleanor Mussawir, 3VIr. and Mrs. George Saliba,
Mrs. H. Maloof, Miss Emma Maloof,
Victoria Hermos, Mrs. Charles Arb,
Mrs. and Mrs. Alex Maloof, Mr. and,
Mrs. Emil Maloof, Margaret McCormick. Others were Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Bahry, Mr. and Mrs. Michel
Maloof, Mr. and Mrs. S. Dibs, Louise
and Fred Dibs, Eugenie Bahry, Mr.
and Mrs. Najib Sahadi, Mr. and Mrs.
Lutfy, the Misses Effie and Sophie
Macsoud, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Makla,
Mrs. N. Maloof, William Karsa, George
Balish, Aref Jabara, Victor Samra,
Ferris Saydah, Fred Saydah and
George Makla.
* * * *
A formal ,dance was held last
Saturday for the couple by the
bride's family in 45th Street, Brooklyn. The rooms were lavishly decorated with flowers and an orchestra
played most of the evening. Both
families were present and many
friends.
Edmund Sargus, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Sargus, who was just
graduated from Notre Dame University, arrived Wednesday at the home
of his relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Aziz
Tanous, Lawrence, L. I. for an indefinite stay. He intends to take up
law when the colleges open again.
Fred and Joseph Ferris, sons of
Mrs. G. Ferris of Brooklyn, will spend
the week-end with Mr. and Mrs.
Tanous in Long Island. Emil, their
brother, is spending the week-end in
Milford, Pa.
Mrs. F. M. Jabara and daughters,
Gladys and Mrs. N. Khairalla, arrived in New York Thursday morning on the S.S. Exechordia from Syria. Mr. Jabara spent Tuesday with
them in Boston, the boat having
stopped there first.
Mr. S. M. Rashid is spending two
weeks in New York City on business
having arrived here Tuesday from
Youngstown, Ohio.
Mr. Rashid will leave for Detroit
in time to attend the memorial services of Assad Rashid, who died in
Sudan some weeks ago, which are to
take place on July 9.
Mrs. K. W. Saydah returned to
New York last week after having
spent three weeks in her home in
Milford, Pa. She expects to return
to Milford shortly for the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchel Hadad are
leaving tomorrow for Mt. Pocono
where they will spend the summer.
Mr. Hadad's sisters, Lillian and Josephine, will accompany them.
George el-Khoury, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Philip el-Khoury of San
Juan, Porto Rico, arrived last week
in Cranford, N. J. to spend the summer with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and
Mrs. Daher el-Khoury.
Albert F. Rihani is now in Syria,
having sailed about a month ago. He
will join his mother, brother, Ameen
Rihani, the author, and his sisters
who live in Freike, Lebanon.
BASHIR-KAZIN
Miss Najla Bashir, daughter of
Mrs. Zaina Bashir, of El Paso, Eexas,
was married on June 11 to Mr. Kazin
R. Kazin, son of Mrs. Jameeley R.
Kazin also of El Paso, at two o'clock
in the afternoon in St. Clement's
Episcopal Church.
On May 27th a surprise party
was given to Philip O. Tederous of
Dunkirk, N. Y. in his home to commemorate his birthday. The guests,
numbering fifty, included relatives
and friends. The toast-master was
A. M. Boorady and his ukele. The
evening was spent in dancing and
playing games.
At the commencement exercises
of the School of Commerce of St.
John's University, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
beld in the Brooklyn Academy of
Music last Friday, Joseph George
Saccal, son of Michel Saccal, Brooklyn, received his degree in accountancy for 'which he was qualified
February 1.
"Miss Helen Rozek and her sister,
Rose, who spent a few days in New
York, returned last Monday to their
home in Berlin, New Hampshire.
SYLVIA SAYDAH
GRADUATES
Miss Sylvia Saydah, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. K. W. Saydah, Brooklyn, was graduated from Centenary
Collegiate Institute, Hackettstown, N.J.
last Monday, her parents attending
the ceremonies. Miss Saydah gave
a Teading from Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" in Whitney Hall
on the evening of May 25, winning
the Foster Prize in Expresion. She is
planning to enter Weseley College
and will spend several days in Boston
where her sister, Lilly, was graduated
at the alumnie reunion.
MISS RASHID A GRADUATE
Miss Katherine Rashid, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Rashid of Chau
tauqua, N. Y. will be graduated from
the Chautauqua High School on the
27th. Katherine is one of the honor
pupils in school, besides being an
able after-dinner speaker at banquets
where her father is toast-master. She
expects to enter Duke University,
North Carolina.
ZAMBAKA-TANOURY
MISS Eileen Zambaka, daughter
of Joseph Zambaka of Monroe, La.,
and Mr. George Tanoury, also, of
Monroe, were married on June 6.
PAGE THREE
MISSIONS TOPIC
HUGE CHURCH
OF DISCUSSION AFFAIR, SUNDAY
Dr.
Shatara's
Book
Keview
Leads to.Informal, Spirited
Discussion
THE BOOK, "Rethinking Missions," that was the subject oi review by Dr. F. I. Shatara last Thursday at the Book Club meeting led to
an informal but spirited discussion
of the merits of the missions in the
Near East. The topic seems to be a
live one these days, due primarily to
the contemplated ousting of Mrs.
Pearl S. Buck from the Board of*
Missions in China by the Protestant
Missions for her "heretic" opinions.
Dr. Shatara praised the book
highly and said that little could be
added in the way of criticism on the
subject matter that had not already
been made. Although the book had
been condemned and criticised severely by orthodox missionaries, all those
present at the meeting, the majority
of whom, incidentally, were educated
in missionary schools, were in complete agreement with the authors of
"Rethinking Missions."
Agree on Missions
They agreed that missionaries
could accomplish more if they did
not go for the express purpose of
converting non-Christians, but would
be more successful if they went to
their given fields, lived among the
people and followed their professions.
Through means of education, they
proposed, would be the best way to
their goal.
Mr. Leroy Lane, a member of the
Book Club, gave an informal interesting description of the Smoky
Mountains which are in North Carolina and Tennessee, telling how secluded they are, their stock being so
pure, never having been touched
by outside civilization, that they even
speak Elizabethan English.
Among those present were E. J.
Audi, H. I. Katibah, Suleiman Haddad, Mr. and Mrs. William Abouchar,
Helen Uniss, Mrs. Helaine Jeha, and
Joseph Abbott in whose home the
meeting took place.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Mamary of Porto
Rico arrived in town Saturday for a
visit to friends and relatives. Mr. Mamary is a member of the linen firm
of Mamary Brothers, Fifth Avenue,
New York.
Mr. Michael F. Barka of Lawrence, Mass., is spending a week in
Brooklyn as guest of his brother,
Murad F. Barka.
TO OPEN STORE
IN SOUTHAMPTON
Mrs. Aziz Tanous of (Lawrence,
L. I., will open an exclusive linens
and laces shop in Southampton, L. I.,
next week. She closed up her, shop
in Far Rockaway some time ago
while Mr. Tanous is retaining his
shoe-store there. Mrs. Tanous will
spend the week-end in Atlantic City
with her daughter, Mrs. Abraham
David.
CARNIVAL AT NEW
BRUNSWICK, N. J.
THE Young Men's Syrian Association of New Brunswick, N. J.,
has fallen in line with the rest of
the Syrian communities in the United
States and is having a carnival of
its own The carnival will be held
on Monday on the banks of a riv?r,
outside of the town. Syrians from
many neighboring places are expected
to come. There will be /
AC music, sword play, debke at
tall the
attractions of a Syrian earn
F
Fifth Annual Event of St. Vincent de Paul Society Again
Draws Large Crowd
THE LARGEST affair of the year
to be given by a church club in New
York took place last Sunday night
in the grand ballroom of the Knights
of Columbus Hall, 1 Prospect Park
West, Brooklyn. Catholic Melchites of
the Virgin Mary Church predominated, with Aleppians in the majority,
although many people of the nine
hundred present represented various
denominations and towns in Syria.
The annual entertainment and
dance was the fifth to be held by
St Vincent de Paul Society of the
Virgin Mary's Church, Amity and
Clinton Streets, Brooklyn. Antoun
Ayoub, chairman of the committee
on arrangements, spoke a few words
thanking Rev. Paul Sanky, pastor
of the church and originator of the
annual entertainment. He commented
on the progress the society was making and stated that it spent from
five to seven thousand dollars yearly in helping needy families of the
parish. He then introduced Jamil
E. Holway and asked him to be
master of ceremonies. Mr. Holway,
in verse, lauded the club and its
activities.
The entertainment, lasting till
10:30, consisted of Arabic and English
songs. Miss Mildred Odone first sang
the Star Spangled Banner, and later
on several selections in English. Miss
Asma Sabbagh and Toufic AhdelahH
sang several Arabic solos. The orchestra accompanying the singers consisted
of F. Abyd, Nairn Karacand, Brahim
Saddy and George Dalai.
Older Folk Watch Young Dance
Many of the older folks, went
home after the entertainment but
quite a few stayed on and watched
the younger people dance till 1
o'clock. Outside and inside the hall
pretty young ladies sold flowers
that were contributed by George Sofifos. Among them were the Misses
Josephine Kassar, Annette Sacco,
Julia Mazloom and Leona Nahass. The
association presented each singer with
a bouquet of flowers. Miss Asma Sabbagh offered hers for auction, and it
was finally bought by Selim Ayoub
for $25. Mr. Ayoub then gave it
back for sale, each flower being sold
separately, some for as high as $10.
Members of the St. Vincent de Paul
Society who assisted Mr. Ayoub on
the arrangements committee were
Jchn Sayegh, James Azrak, Joseph
Abosaad, Kamel Antoun, and Toufic
Salman.
DIES OF HEAT
THE LATE Saad Abu-Jawdab,
who pased away on Saturday last,
June 10, was a victim of the heat
wave which has blasted New York
since the preceding Wednesday with
little let off or intermission. At one
time, on Friday afternoon, the thermometer registered 96 in the shade,
and in some places reached 100,
a record for June in New York and
vicinity.
Mr. Abu-Jawdah suffered of
heart trouble, but looked otherwise
healthy and vigorous. He was 47
years old when he succumbed to the
heat, and is survived by his wife, six
sens and one daughter.
Funeral services of the deceased
were held Tuesday in Our Lady of
Lebanon Maronite church, Brooklyn.
Among those who attended the funeral
services was Salloum A. Mokarzel,
editor of al-Hoda, a relative.
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Furthermore, all the five universities mentioned have a vast matriculation field to fall
back on. True, they are all within the bounderies of a little country, but they serve the
whole Arabic and Jewish worlds.
SYRIAN WORLD
Established 1926
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LEBANON is fast becoming the summer
resort for well-to-do and wealthy individuals
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One of these, as it was pointed out once
by Dr. Ali Ibrahim Pasha, dean of the mediJUNE 16, 1933.
Vol. VH, No. 7.
cal school of the Egyptian National University, is the unexcelled climate, the constant
sunshine and exhilirating air of the more
WHAT, ANOTHER UNIVERSITY
historic mountain.
Then, there is the hisIN SYRIA?
toric and traditional associations of a mounIT LOOKS now as if the Islamic Delega- tain which falls in the midst of the Holy
tion, that is now on its way to India, is also Land, and is so accessible to other countries
on its way of materializing its fond dream replete with historic monuments and tradiA few hours by automobile carries
of an Islamic university in Jerusalem.
An tions.
one
from
any point in Lebanon to Damascus,
auspicious step in that direction was the anAleppo,
Baalbeck,
Sidon or Jerusalem itself.
nounced acceptance of His Majesty King
HABEB L K ATEBAH
Assistant Editor
FROM EAST AND WEST
.
Feisal to take the university project under
his patronage, as we read in today's SYRIAN
WORLD. The importance which the Iraqite
Government attaches to this project is evident from the fact that the Iraqite premier
._hirQself heads the committee which will solicit contributions for the university in Iraq.
At the same time Nadir Khan, the King of
Afghanistan, wired a special invitation to
the delegation to visit his country and spend
some time in it.
If this dream comes true, the Islamic University of Jerusalem will be the fifth in a
country that counts less than 4 millions in
population. The other four universities are
the American University of Beirut, the University of St. Joseph, also in Beirut, the
Hebrew University on Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem,
and the Arabic University in Damascus. The
first two are now well-established with high
standards of scholarship and university traditions, the third has unlimited potentialities
of progress, drawing freely upon a vast world
of Jewish scientists and scholars, and the
fourth has shown phenomenal signs of vitality
and ambition.
There is still another advantage to resorters from neighboring countries. Lebanon
is a more hospitable place, more congenial
and homelike, than Switzerland or any other
resort in Europe could be. Its people speak
Arabic, making the expediency of speaking
a different tongue or the employment of
guides and interpreters wholly unnecessary.
Resorters from Egypt, Palestine or Iraq will
not feel like strangers in Lebanon. They will
be among men of their own race, who share
a great deal with them in ocial life, historic
heritage and outlook on life. There is an air
of informality, of genial fellowship and the
opportunities for genuine friendships which
will take several trips to Switzerland to develop, and which are somewhat lacking in
the fashionable hotels of the watering places
of Europe.
We wonder if there is a state in this union,
of equal population, which can show such
wide opportunities for university education.
So far criticism of the proposed Islamic
University of Jerusalem, directed against it
by some Moslem leaders, especially in Egypt,
has come from two diametrically opposed
sources. The modern, westernized Moslems
see no necessity of such duplication of educational efforts with such a splendid institution as the Egyptian National University already in existence. The conservative Moslems, on the other hand, who fear that the
Jerusalem university may not be as orthodox as they wish it to be, point to al-Azhar
Mosque University, in Cairo, and say: "What
is the need for another Islamic university,
when al-Azhar has long taken possession in
leadership and can satisfy all the needs of
leasonably orthodox Moslems?"
But it may be just as well to have some
institution as the proposed Islamic University of Jerusalem which will bridge the chasm
between an extreme secular liberalism and
a narrow religious orthodoxy.
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x
For these and other reasons Lebanon is
the natural and logical Switzerland of the
Near East.
CONSTANCY
Oh, I remember well how that I held you
In the dawning of my spring!
The stars were talking,
Talking of new love.
The torches of your eyes
Made of my heart a little opal casket,
A still and secret sanctuary
For the flaming jewel of my love.
You were all amethyst and ivory.
I held you, even in my folded arms
After you went
You did not know
It was the dream of you I held.
You have come back to me sometimes,
Bringing to my remembrance
Fragrance of winds laden with jasmine.
You have brought me clusters of new hopes
Like wild grapes.
You have brought me little shining heaps
Of golden promises.
They are all lost or broken now.
But I remember well how that I held you
In my spring.
This faded bit of dry-as-dustWas a hyacinth, purple,
That you trod carelessly with your white foot
As you passed by.
Najib Faaris
By H. I. Katibah
HE IS BLIND indeed who fails to see wherever
he goes thi- portentous signs on the wall against the
existing social and economic orders In letters writ
large that everyone who runs may see. Democracy
is being summoned to be weighed in the balances,
to give an account of itself, and, if found wanting,
to be discarded with little regret or ceremony.
Starting with the World War, and ending with
an economic depression that has held the whole
world in its manifold tentacles like a gigantic octopus, democracy has fumbled from one pit intoi
another, sinking lower and lower in the eyes oB
those who had pinned their whole faith and hopes
theron. The degenerative political wranglings and
dissensions in Italy, the chronic unemployment situation in England, the Austric scandals of France,
the crushing penalties which broke the spirit of
Germany and brought it groveling to the ground,
the Tea-Pot Dome scandals in our U. S. in the
Harding regime, the airing of the Tamanny corrup-tions, and now the Morgan investigations, all point
to what democracy will do to itself and others when
it is given enough rope.
The paradox of democracy is that, being a selfregulative, self-corrective system of checks and
balances between private liberty and public authority, it either relinquishes its role as the guardian
of the first or exaggerates it to the detriment of the
common weal. Despotism lurks always in the offing,
alert and wide-awake, to bounce on democracy at
the first opportunity that presents itself.
And
worse than despotism, more dangerous and more
devastating in its ruthless destruction, is the capricious will of the people themselves, swayed hither
and thither by clever demagogues and conscienceless charlatans. The greatest enemy of democracy
is democracy itself, which being self-regulative and
self-corrective is also self-destructive.
But democracy is also inevitable. It is the only
recourse left a baffled, hard-pressed people, mercilessly exploited by the few who govern with utter
disregard for the welfare and happiness of the many
who are governed- Often, however, it has resulted
in the deposition of one despot only to enthrone
a myriad despots in his place, a hydra of ambitious,
selfish, power-drunk little autocrats who are more
dangerous because they presume to speak in the
name of the "peepul" and can make the same
"peepul" believe it.
Despairing and exasperated beyond their bearing, the people end in turning over their authority
to one man again. And the dictator who derives
his authority and power from the people themselves
takes the place of the king who ruled by the grace
of God. The common man who for thousands of
years had turned to some superior power, whether!
heavenly or earthly, in time of stress and need, reverts to his entrenched instinct and seeks resort
in trust and dependence on others.
What is wrong with democracy, therefore, is
what is wrong with humanity as such. It is the
stubborn refusal of the average man and woman
to assume responsibility and to fully realize the
burden of such a responsibility. Fundamentally it
is a moral trouble. It is the sneaking contention
on the part of many that when responsibility is
diffused on a great number, a little malefaction, a
little "graft" to fatten one's own fortune at the
I expense of the common good, a little relaxation of
one's duty, a little deception at the polls, a little
speculation to the hurt of others, will go undetected.
But when such a contention gains ground, when the
secret of this source of illicit gain "breaks out,"
then more and more find it easier and easier to
"get away with it." Then the whole of democracy
becomes honey-combed with corruption, "graft" and
dishonesty. This in turn soon leads to a demoralization of democracy, and the process of tobogganing
begins.
_ The remedy of such a state, we believe, does
not lie in the easy alternative of relinquishing one's
rights of franchise and relegating all authority and
power to, individual dictators.
For the essential
trouble remains, a trouble well characterized in a
•common Arabic proverb:
"Unguarded property
teaches people to become thieves." And unguarded
exercise of authority, whether by the people's representatives or by single rulers, leads inevitably
to the misuse of such authority.
Eternal vigilance is the price of democracy, as
it is the price of everything worth having. And
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ORIENTAL MUSIC
SHOULD BE PRESERVED
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THE INFLUENCE the East has had upon
our so-called Western civilization has been
a favorite theme among writers, scholars and
orators. In industry, in science, or in art the
fundamentals can be traced back to a Semitic influence that has held its sway throughout the centuries during the evolution and
advancement of these cultures.
We know
that scholars have traced back the art of
writing to the ancient hieroglyphs in Egypt
upon which they have based their claims
of authenticity, and that archeologists are
still unearthing proof of a basic civilization
in Egypt and elsewhere.
However, in music, which we know had its seat
in the monasteries of Syria and Egypt, there has
been no set method for recording the themes of
ancient musicians of the East, except by the use
of the senses. That, perhaps, has been the only defect and failure of the East. Had a method been
devised and the extemporaneous melodies of ancient
musicians been recorded, the world of music today
would undoubtedly be enriched beyond comprehension.
The subtle and melancholy themes of
Eastern music that have been handed down to us
have served many a famous 'composer the inspiration
for some of the world's most loved compositions.
When we know that Rimsky-Korsakoff's "Scheherezade" suite, which is based on a series of Arabian Nights' tales, is one of the most popular among
the concert-goers of today, there should be a great
deal of regret in the fact that our forbears were
so negligent in this art, which is, more than anything else, a means of international understanding.
One of the latest books on musical history, that
has been acknowledged as one of the best of its type
for the layman as well as for the student, is "Music
Through the Ages" by Bauer and Peyser. From
it we learn that the church had the primary influence upon music and that 'the monasteries of
Syria and Egypt were the seat of choral training.
"In the 5th century the trained singers of Syria
were employed as cantors in the Italian churches.
For generations the melodies were handed down
aurally from rftaster to pupil." In churches today1
where masses are said in Syriac we have cantors
who chant the same intonations that the ancient
singers used in the Roman churches. It is rather
ironical, however, that an Italian should be the one
accredited with the first invention of a musical notation.
It is said that' virtuosity is the harmonious combination of technique and inspiration. But in musical geniuses of the East we find the art of technique lacking and sometimes happily so. "Happily"
because their own sense of harmony and improvisation has made them great.
The acknowledged
contemporary genius, Sami Bey Shawa, who arrived
in America this week from his native Egypt, has no
formula for his interpretations. They are the impulses of his Oriental emotion woven around his
keen knack of improvisation. Still, it is inconceivable that any subtle art like music could be perpetuated for long without the technique of written
notes!
It is comparatively recent that Oriental musicians have taken upon themselves to write down
their compositions in note-form. That, after all, is
the only means of preservation. And Oriental music should be preserved. Even now our younger
generation of Syrian-Americans find it hard to appreciate Oriental music because they have not been
given the truly Oriental in music, that which has
meant life itself to our sentimental forefathers.
The genius of Shawa will be appreciated even
after death if his improvisations are recorded. (And
our Oriental feeling prompts us to say that we hope
he will be with us long.) Let us add, too, that
with the proper technique in Oriental music, promising y6ung musicians of the East, whose art, unlike
that of Shawa's, is stultified by this lack of technique, will preserve Eastern music in its natural
and appealing form, to be appreciated now and
through the ages.
that vigilance by the people over their own prerogatives, over the very means and _ways for their
own welfare and happiness, can only come about by
eternal "hammering" of the lessons and technique
of democracy on those who, in the last analysis, are
responsible for it. It is education and more educa'tion in democracy.
The business of government is both an art and
a science, but most candidates to this august office
think it is only "a cinch," a means of livelihood that
AT RANDOM
OUR NEW YORKERS
By Alice Mokarzel
By Ana Bshoof
A SYRIAN young man of great talent, whom I
shall call Mr. X, wrote to me recently his reaction
to the general attitude among our people concerning
their heritage and history. Says Mr. X: "The outside world's misconception of the nearer-orient is
entirely the fault of the near-orientals themselves.
"Certain of our writers and speakers are overdoing the self-back-patting business to the point
of nausea—meaning all this nonsense about our
"glorious heritage," and "noble history" and
"race awakening and pride" and all this making of
fantastic claims about great Syrians, etc. If I were
to form my idea of the average Syrian from the
utterances and writings of above gentlemen I would
picture him as 'an entirely humourless and pompous being standing a la chromo-of-eighteenthcentury-general, hand on chest," brow uplifted, and
gazing upon an endless procession of noble ancestors.
"Racial pride is an admirable and necessary
thing but I see no%eason for strutting it all over
the place.... such manifestations have no place in
our present-day civilization. In other words— it's
perfectly swell to feel proud of one's origin but
not quite so swell to keep on singing one's own
praises with all stops open—other people are apt to
get fed up with the performance."
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Mr. X's specification that only "certain" of our
people are propagandying the cause of our heritage
and history puts him in a safe position. Had he
made his statement general, I am afraid he would
have encountered a great deal of resentment.
In every race one finds its speakers and writers
glorying in the attainment of their history—to them
it is all-important and far more significant than
that of the rest of the world. Even Americans can
be accused of the same crime—if we regard it as
such. The flavor of the Mayflower, centuries after
its original members and even their second generation progenitors have died out, still wafts in the
plains of New England. To my mind, the part the
East has played in the advancement of civilization
is far more significant, but that is for others to expound.
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In every race, too, one finds a number who
bear their racial stigma with somewhat of an apologetic attitude. This seems to be especially marked
in Syrians who know, little or nothing about their
homeland or in those who have been brought up
among Americans in a narrow environment where
any one but an American is- regarded as slightly inferior. This type, and that of the gloctin^ propagandist are the extremes and between them we
have, fortunately, a majority of "happy mediumists."
They mix with Americans with a sense of equality.
They mingle with Syrians with a sense of brotherhood. And above all, they go thtirt appointed way
with a sureness that is not hampered by complexes
of any sort.
WHO should come to the Mussawir' party late
in the evening but Mr. and Mrs. Freddie Saydah.
(She is the former Margaret Siyufy.) Her face was
beaming and happiness just oozed from all over
her. You could actually see the light of heaven in
her eyes. She and Freddie were out, all by themselves, celebrating their first anniversary that took
place the day after, the eleventh of June. I remember when they were married.
It was the most
charming wedding I've ever attended. A quiet happy
affair in a small church that was filled just to
capacity and the beautiful gowns of the bride, maid
of honor and guests, chosen with taste and care, all
lent to the lovely diginty of the wedding.
What
I mean to say is that it wasn't a large splashy affair
that was just buzz-buzz-buzz.
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On the other hand, there is Mrs. Cecil Saydah
who said that hers was the only kind of a wedding
to have. She eloped, by the way. She says that
she can't understand it,—it doesn't seem as if she
were married nine months at all. They are just
crazy about each other, more than ever, if it's possible. She is the former Helen Denton who used
to be. Dr. Shatara's secretary. That's where she met
Cecil, in Dr. Shatara's office and that is also where
she met most of the Syrians she knows. She says
that she is now more Syrian than American, and
cooks lots of Syrian dishes. She is very young, being only nineteen, but, oh, so happy.
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Adele Shehab is ready to turn bolshevist. She
wants to know why a working girl like her should
have to pay an income tax while Morgan can get
away with it. Please, boys, don't rush like that.
She makes enough for herself but not enough for a
husband too.
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The sinuous, lovely grace.of the dancing of AUQP.
Shohfi is enough to make anyone stare fascinatedly
and ask for more. She does the real Syrian dancing
that is accompanied by her .graceful active hands. I
never thought I'd like the oriental dancing but when
I saw her dance I fell in love with it. The reason
why she needs so much coaxing is not because she
is coy and affected but because she heeds her father's wishes not to dance, but if he knew how much
pleasure it gave me and everyone else he might
change his mind.
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Clga Mussawir. who was married Wednesday,
conie.3 horn a i'umily of many v.vjll-kncvn men and
women. Alexander Maloof, the famous musician and
composer, is her uncle; her aunt, Emma Maloof,
owns a trousseau shop on Madison Avenue that is
frequented by all the wealthy and promine it elite;
her aunt by marriage, Alexander's wife, I Iinerva,
is the sister of George Ferris, the eminent lawyer;
Emil Maloof, another uncle and musician, is an ac* * * *
complished theremin player; Joseph N. Maloof, a
When we meet a successful Syrian who is apcousin, is the dean of Syrian journalists in America,
preciated and respected by Americans and find that
now prominent in business; her brother-in-law,
he does not regard us, his fellow countrymen, with
George Saliba, is a radio engineer, inventor and
condescension, we immediately sense his greatness
author of many magazine articles on radio.
and take him to our hearts. He needs no further
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recommendation than his general attitude towards
It wasn't his fault. It was the girl's fault. And
his people. The statement that a person's character
may be judged by the treatment he accords his just because he happened to be attractive, to the
ladies, although he's not good-looking, she went and
family may be taken as a simile.
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sat on his lap and carressingly stroked his hair and
The whole argument of heritage and history hugged and kissed him. It all happened in the
seems untimely. A few years ago it would have gay Hollywood cabaret restaurant on Broadway
been an issue. In fact, in several instances it was where this prominent man happened to be with a
taken up as an issue in justice to different races in group of men. The girl was dancing in the chorus,
America, including Syrian. However, now, when and you know how they dress in the chorus at the
race and creed are forgotten in the general anxiety Hollywood, I mean don't dress. Well, he was safe
toward financial readjustment, the argument of from her wiles for the other men there saw to it
one's heritage does not take ground. Today, more that he was pdopedly chaperoned and protected.
than ever before, nations and creeds (with possibly
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one exception) are linking arms in an international
Did you ever hear of a certain young man that
consultation on the world's maladies which do not
goes around with girls? He must think he's the
include that of race and heritage.
original sheik and immensely popular, but he
seemed just a sucker-to me. He took a dozen girls,
can be attained by a great deal of ballyhoo, a little no more no less, to a recent affair, took each one
common sense and a lot of nerve. As a matter of home again, but before doing so drove them all to
fact few people, after long and arduous training, Coney Island and brought them back at five in the
can really be trusted to undertake it. Unless people morning. I feel sorry for the poor thing but that
of their own accord learn this lesson, unless they must have been his idea of heaven. When will he
learn how to choose their rulers with the same wake up and learn to take just one girl, it's so much
solicitude and careful consideration, that they exer- less expensive, less trouble and much more fun.
cise in choosing legal advisers or technical help, But maybe he's afraid of them and believes in safethere is little hope for democracy.
ty in numbers.
�MINIATURES
ARABESQUE
TRIPOLI
P
TRIPOLI— The city of oranges, olivetrees and soap... the closest competitor in
Lebanon today to Beirut. . .a coming commercial centre of exceptional advantages. .
a bone of contention between Lebanon and
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Syria.
An ancient Phoenician city that had hectic
periods of flourish to be followed by long
lulls of depression and comparative unimpportance. Today its horoscope again reads
"prosperity" and unlimited progress. Having
been for long generations af secondary port
on the Syrian Littoral, certain modern economic and industrial developments augur for it
a brilliant industrial future.
Chief among
these is the pipe-line which carries "the liquid
gold (petroleum) from Mosul tot the Mediterranean.
Forking off somewhere in the
Syrian Desert, the Tripoli branch carries
France's share of the international company's
oil.
Another development, dependent on
this, is the erection of the huge airport, as a
French aviation base. A third development
is a national one, the establishment in Tripoli
by Arida Brothers of a large textile mill costing half-a-million dollars. The Qadisha waterpower company also has its centre in Tripoli.
The name Tripoli comes from the Greek
meaning "the Triple City." It was so called
because in the days of the Persian Empire,
Tripoli was the seat of a council representj»i#»thxee-.cities, Tripoli itself, Tyre and Aradus, each having a quarter of its own in the
Triple-City.
For a brief period, in the 2nd and 1 st centuries B.C. it seemed to have enjoyed a kind
of local autonomy. It was privileged by the
Selucids to strike off coins bearing its own
legend and image.
Like other cities and
towns on the Syrian littoral, Tripoli was subject to earthquake visitations. Two of these
in 450 and in 550, damaged the towVi badly.
About a century later, Tripoli was taken by
the Arab invaders. For a time it was a sort
of football between the Moslem and Byzantine forces, coming now under the one, now
GERMAN DANCER
POISON VICTIM
THE MYSTERIOUS death of
"Sonia," an attractive blond German
dancer who had won the hearts and
turned the heads of many a young
sheik in the most modern of modem
Syrian cities, is now the topic on
every tongue.
Less than a year ago, Sonia went
to Beirut, like so many of her
European Bohemian sisters, to make
jher little fortune and to add to her
little reportoire of adventure and
love, after the doors of opportunity
had been closed in her face in her
own homeland.
There are many
blondes in Berlin, and many graceful
ballet and cabaret dancers. Her type
of beauty and her art, she must have
been told, would be (much more
appreciated in the westernized city on
the Mediterranean coast sometimes
known as the Paris of Syria. Sonia,
too, Was young, hardly 23 summers
to her credit, and she was ambitious.
And those who gave her the tip to
go to Beirut were not wrong.
Indeed she proved, in the short
time she had been in Beirut, so
popular that gossipy rumors attribute
her death to her popularity.
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View of al-Mina, Tripoli, with Sea-Walls.
under the other. In the latter part of the 10th
century it was garrisoned by a force in the
pay of the Fatimide, the Shiite Dynasty which
established itself in Egypt and Northern Africa, and maintained a trading fleet. Tripoli
then lay on a promontory, projecting into the
sea and protected on three sides from the
lashing waves of the sea by high walls and
fortified towers. Impressive remains of these
embankments can be still seen in the older
section of the city, known as al-Mina, or
Port.
The larger section of the present city, Trablus (the Arabic for Tripoli) proper, lies on
a rocky elevation to the west and north,
where it has lain since the old city on the sea
was destroyed by Sultan Qalaun of Egypt in
1289. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Tripoli
again reverted to its old role of football, now
between the Turkish pashas of Aleppo and
Acre. And still again at present, it has become the centre of a political tug of war between the nationalist forces of Lebanon and
the nationalist forces of Syria. The latter,
who find that the French mandate has shut
Proves Drawing Card
The first port of refuge for Sonia
in Beirut, was the dance salon of alNajjar in the main city square, the
Martyrs' Square as it had been renamed. There she proved a drawing
card, and many a gay Lothario of
the Beirutian idle rich ^ literally
lavished his affections and his wealth
at her feet. Before long her name
was familiar to all the old soaks and
night hawks of the capital of Lebanon, and many came all the way
from Damascus, Tripoli and Aleppo
to see for themselves the captivating
charms and beauty of the German
young • dancer of whom they had
heard so much.
Then, one day, attracted by a
more lucrative offer, Sonia deserted
al-Najjar salon and joined the Restaurant Francaise, run by another
Lebanese, Habis.
She had not been there very long
when one night she was missed. On
the following day the police of Beirut
were notified that Sonia was found
dead in her room. On her face and
body were, symptoms of poisoning.
Her death was a shock to her legionof admirers, for up to the last night
she had appeared on the stage of
the fashionable restaurant, she had
been in good health and high spirits.
Only some noticed that she was suf-
off Syria from an access to the sea, clamour
for the possession of Tripoli as the most convenient and logical sea-port for the interior.
The Lebanese, on the other hand, claim that
Tripoli is an integral part of Lebanon, falling within its natural, geographical bounderies.
Tripoli has a population, at present, of
30,000 and is connected with Aleppo and
other parts of northern Syria and with Beirut
to the south by a spacious asphalted automobile road. Another good road connects it with
Hems and the interior of Syria.
Up till very recently, before electricity supplanted living horse power, Tripoli boasted
of the only tram-car in Syria drawn by mules,
connecting the main city with al-Mina.
Among other things, Tripoli is famous for
its "halawah with cheese" and other Syrian
culinary arts. At one time it was the centre
of a sugar industry. It exported glass to Venice and had 4000 busy looms. Before the
Crusades, Tripoli was ruled by an Arab
feudal family, the Am,mars, who founded in
it a library of 100,000 manuscripts.
fering from a little exhaustion and
secret pain that could not but show
on her face. She herself did not
know the cause of her indisposition.
The theory now entertained by
the police of Sonia's death is that
she was the victim of poisoning from
msnicuring, which had slowly had its
effect on her tender body and to
which she finally succumbed -unaware.
The police of Beirut are now bent
on, solving this mystery, to determine
if the German actress was not the
victim of a foul plot from a rival
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employer or a jealous lover.
And Sonia who went to Beirut
for romance and adventure had never
dreamt that the shadow of sinister
death was lurking for her to trip her
(nimble toes and bring her gay career
to a sudden and tragic end.
Poor little butterfly!
Jews
Attack
Consulate
JAFFA— A group of zealous young
Zionists attacked the German consulate here and hauled down the Nazi
flag, which they' tore into shreds.
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�THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, JUNE 16, 1933.
The GARDENS of OMAR
By Henri Bordeaux
Member of the France Academy
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Exclusive Serial Rights Secured by The Syrian World
from E. P. Dutton and Co.
The American Publishers.
Castle," and the famous "Krach of the Beirut, sent criers among the Maronites, anKnights," a veritable eyrie which commands nouncing that hostilities had ceased, and that
the road from Horns and Aleppo. Sturdy they might live in tranquility. But when the
Their names were Omar arid Yamile. In
peasants from France and Flarjders trans- troops of General Beaufort d'Hautpoul apthe Arabian tongue, Yamile (or rather, Japlanted to the East by their feudal lords for peared, the women of the martyred town
mile, of which it is a softened form) means
the deliverance of the Holy Sepulchre, taught rushed to meet their deliverers, beating the
"beautiful." That the girl deserved the name
these primitive people how to use the trowel skulls and bones of their husbands and sons
I have the surest of all proofs. In mountainand to train the vine, how to cultivate the together in a sort of horrible symphony of
ous countries it often happens that, long
.
mulberry tree and to spin cocoons into silk, vengeance.
after the sun seems to have set, the snowyand replaced the huge rattles with which the
All these things happened in 1860. The
peaks become suffused with a tender and
faithful had for ages been called to prayer
story of Yamile must be placed some years
mysterious radiance—a false return of the
by bells of mellow bronze. Even today, in
later, say ten or twelve. For close upon a
vanished light, which we call the "afterglow.
the more remote hamlets, the traveler stops
century, the witness, or rather the actor in
Even so, into the tired eyes of the old man
short with .surprise at seeing an occasional
the drama who related it for me, had kept
from whom I heard this tale of guilty and
young girl with blond hair and blue eyes.
the secret locked in his breast. It was to a
tragic love, at the very sound of her name,
If he is familiar with the history of the counstranger under the very shadow of the Cea sudden flame lept whose source lay far
try, he remembers that the Crusaders, durdars that he chose to break his long silence,
beyond the grave.
j
ing their occupation of Palestine and even
driven by that imperious need of confession
I had not gone abroad in search of mater- later, after the fall of Jerusalem, took unto
that, sooner 'or later, seizes upon all men,
ial for a new novel. There is enough and themselves wives of the daughters of the
the lover no less than the criminal.
The children born of these mixed
ito spare of this at home, where, for the novel- land.
ist, subjects of romance rise up at every step marriages were called poulains or "colts."
he takes, like chaff from a threshing floor. Doubtless, in the family of fair Yamile, was
PART I
What I am about to tell is not fiction at all, some ancestor from the banks of the Loire
but, as in the case of LA MAISON MORTE or Oise.
THE CEDARS
or LE FANTOME DE LA RUE MICHEL,After the fall of St. Jean of Acre, the
ANGE, an authentic history of which not a Maronites, threatened in their haunts by the
single detail has been invented. Like many terrible Bibars, were tempted to' leave their
CHAPTER I
more distinguished visitors, I had long been country and to embark for Cyprus with the
anxious to visit Syria and Lebanon. I wanted last of the Crusaders. Some did, indeed,
AT BECHARRE to see for myself the resurrection of these abandon the levant. But the mass of the
There is but one thing comparable to a
hapless countries from war and famine, un- people preferred danger to exile.
From
first
arrival in Syria upon a cloudless eveder French protection and the vigilant eye now on, Lebanon, clinging desperately to its
ning.
It is that unforgettable moment of a
of General Gouraud, and to bring back my foothold on the sea, becomes an islet of
lover's
meeting when the light dre»a, so imown modest account of what I had seen and Christianity, battered by wave after wave of
patiently
awaited, flutters through the trees.
observed. By sheer accident it fell out that, Mohammedan invasion. In vain has it been
After all, do there not exist for each one of
on the very border of the famous cedars, 1 invaded and over-run.
Its caverns—the
was, made the confidant of this fascinating hearts of its people, remain inviolate. It has us, certain spots upon the earth, specially
desired, with which we make and keep
love story of the East.
resisted in turn the Ottoman Turks, the
rendez-vous?
There are many spots in Lebanon where, Mamelukes, the Metoualis, even its own in"What is its name that dome of snow
to those approaching the edge of a cliff, the ternal divisions, for there are terrible rivalthat
the sunset is turning almost to the color
ries
of
village
with
village—Ehden
with
Beholy river of the Kadischa becomes visible
of
almond
blossom? Look! it is changing
charre,
Ejbeh
with
Balloukite.
It3
patriotfar below, foaming and leaping in its rocky
From mauve it is becoming
bed as though eagfer to lose itself in the bo- ism has been kept alive by the great families color again.
who
have
directed
its
destinies,—the
Ma'ans,
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deep
purple.
One would think the snow^
som of the sea at Tripoli. The abyss that
of
which
family
Fahred-Din
was
a
member;
was
bleeding.
What
do you call the place?
separates two hearts lost in love may be
or
the
Chehabs,
one
of
whose
last
descenI
mean
to
climb
up
there."
still more profound. Trivial indeed seems
century was that Emir
.
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the feud of Capulet and Montagu beside the dants in the nineteenth
,
.....
I believe that these were my hrst words
. .
.
,
.
religious hatred that parted this Romeo of Bechir whom Lamartine visited in his moun- on arriving
at Beirut, as 1 stood upon the
tain
castle,
a
veritable
palace
of
the
Arabian
Akkar from this Juliet of Becharre. Between
upper deck of the Lotus, and watched my
g
s
Mussulman and Maronite a river of blood
"
baggage being lowered into the pinnace.
has flowed for more than thirteen centuries.
The inhabitants of Lebanon have never Brought up, as I had been, on the borders
Even today Lebanon is mainly Maronite, in ceased to dream of eventual liberty. From of a lake, to which autumn mists lend a
race, except for the coast towns, the Druse the rocky promontories of their coast, they vague, indefinite expanse, I would not have
hamlets that dot the plain of the Bekka, and have never ceased to sweep the horizon for been altogether taken by surprise by my arthe Mussluman villages of the district of Ak- the sails of a French fleet. Lebanon has rival in the Orient, but for that unfamiliar
kar. At the time Syria was evangelized by | been rescued in tum by Francis the First, by coloring. .Beirut rises from the sea, with a
the Apostles, the Maronites, who are of , Louis thg Fourteentni by Bonaparte, by Napo- beach of rose-colored sand in the foreground.
Aramaean stock, inhabited the whole district , leQn ^ Third before its final deliverance Its red roofs ascend tier upon tier. Dappled
of Antiodi and Hama, through which the j ^^ ^ one.a^med hero 0f Champagne. with scattered verdure, they cling to the
Orontes flows.
Converts to Christianity | { have ^ my QWn eyeg at Kesrouaili in slope of a hill, and the majestic range of
from the very beginning, the Arab conquest ( ^ Kazen country, seen charters signed by Lebanon towers over all. In my own savoy,
drove thajm towards the mountainous region | ^ Ambassador> M. de Mointel, and bear- I had seen the town of Lausanne rising, like
north of Nahr Ibrahim. Their chief, John j ;ng Ae sea,s of our kingg
a siren, from Lake Leman.
But, even in
Maron, was the leader of this exodus. Promemory, Lausanne seemed faded and colortected by a natural rampart of rocks, gorges, I
When Omar and Yamile m.t and loved, less "beside this magic city that the evening
and forests, Lebanon became, in their hands, | the blood of the massacre^ at De,r-el-Kamar sun set aflame. All preconceived ideas of
a citadel which resisted all attacks. Their and at Zahle still cried to heaven from Mar- the East grow dim when we actually arrive
priests and sheiks organized them. Their j onite soil. Without doubt, these massacres in these s'trange lands. We seem to be looklives passed in meditation, work, and pray- | were the work of the Druses. ,None the less, ing,at them through tinted glass. By day a
er.
Their isolation—the ever-impending the Turkish garrisons were guilty of the vilest kind of golden dust floats in the air. At
peril made them, at one and the same time, I tragedy in first disarming the helpless people night, the sky is of a thicker, denser bluehermits and soldiers. They were the natural ' and then giving them over to these blood- black, the very texture of velvet, planets,
allies of the Crusadors, who appeared to thirsty fanatics.
When there was not a like the great wandering lamps they are,
them as saviors miraculously sent, arid who single Christian male left alive at Deir-el- swing lower and nearer to earth.
strengthened their savage refuge with a line , Kamar, the heart pi Lebanon (the Druses
of fortresses—Tortose, Markab, Safita, ,or j spared the life and even the honor of the
(To be continued in next issue)
the "White Castle," Yammour or the "Red j women), Kourschid Pasha, the governor of
PROLOGUE
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PAGE SEVEN
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY — ESTABLISHED 1926.
VOL.
vn, NO. 7.
PAGE EIGHT
NEW YORK, JUNE 16, 1933.
WINS HIGHEST
AGAIN LOCAL
COLLEGE AWARD
K OF C HEAD
Said to Be First Foreign Student
to Receive It; Qualifies for
Degrees in Record Time
Richard Abowd Reflected
Grand Knight at Fostoria
Elections
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(Special Correspondence)
AT AN ELECTION meeting held,
a week ago Wednesday, Richard
Abowd was reelected Grand Knight
of the Knights of Columbus Council
of Fostoria, Ohio, in the presence of,
a large attendance of members. Other
offices, including those of Deputy
Grand Knight, Chancellor, Warden,
Inside and Outside Guards, Secretary
and Treasurer were also filled. Three
honorary life memberships were conferred on members through the local
council by the supreme council and)
were presented by Mr. Abowd.'
Mr. Abowd was born in el-Matn,
Lebanon, and migrated with his
parents when he was six years of
age. Through persistent efforts he
has been able to acquire a fair knowledge of Arabic reading and is still
studying Arabic to be able to write
it.
THE MAJOR honor of the University of Cincinnati was bestowed
upon Emile Anton Ghory just before
the benediction marking the close of
the commencement exercises when
he was called to the platform to receive the McKibben gold medal, established in 1911 by the Rev. William
McKibben and his wife in memory
of their son Robert. It is awarded
annually to the senior in the Liberal
Arts College who has best kept before him through his course the ideals
of college life. The recipient is selected by vote of the faculty.
Ghory came to this country from
Jerusalem and entered the university 3% years ago in which time he
completed the requirements qualifying
for both the bachelor of arts and.
master of arts degrees. He is said
to be the first foreign student to receive the McKibben award. His major
study was political science.
HIGH MASS FOR SAINT
MSGR. Louis Zouain, pastor o£
•i>W» Antfes»y's Church in Danbury,
Conn., will hold high mass on June
18 in honor of the patron saint of the
church at which Miss Najeebe Morad, daughter of Nakla Morad of
Boston, will sing. Her brother, Louis,
will accompany her on the violin.
An outing will follow in the
afternoon at which Syrians from
neighboring-places will take part.
ORIENTAL EXHIBIT IN
WORLD FAIR
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KHALIL Kirwani, owner of a,
factory of oriental fabrics and tapestries in Egypt, arrived with Sami
Bey Shawwa from Egypt and will
exhibit samples of his factory at the
World Exposition in Chicago.
DIES OF HEART FAILURE
THE SUDDEN death of Aziz N.
Hamaway, 24, son of the late Dr. NaJib Hamaway, and Mrs. Anise Hamaway, Brooklyn, on June 9, was a
shock to his many friends. He died
of heart disease in St. Catherine's
Hospital, Brooklyn. Funeral services
were held in St. Nicholas Greek
Orthodox Cathedral, Brooklyn, Archbishop Germanos Shehadi officiating.
PIONEER PASSES AWAY
MRS. Helen K. Galeb, 70, passed
away in Oaklar, Wise, last week.
Mrs. Galeb is one of the first Syrians
tc have come to this country, arriving
here as a young girl. Funeral services were held in Minneapolis in
the Maronite Church.
SAMI SHAWWA TO
ASSIST AT MASS
>
SAMI Bey Shawwa and a choir
of Syrian musicians will assist at mass
in Our Lady of Lebanon Church, 295
Hicks Street, Sunday morning. A
large congregation is expected to attend. The mass will start at 10:30
A.M.
SYRIANS jSELF-MADE
SAYS U.S. CONGRESSMAN
(Special
Correspondence)
DETROIT. June 10. —A fine
tribute was paid to the Syrians in
America by U. S. Congressman
Weideman, who has taken an
active part in the Senate investigations of J. P. Morgan and partners.
"The Syrians are among the
jfinest groups of American citizens
I represent here in Washington,"
said Congressman Weideman in a
letter to ' Joseph Faddol of. the
Register of Deeds' staff. "They are
self-dependent, self-supporting, and
the story of their commercial success in America will be an inspiration for generations to come
They are a self-made people."
PROFILES
CLERGYMAN
ABRAHAM MITRIE RIHBANY..
clergyman, author, lecturer
was
born in Shweir, Lebanon, August 27,
1869.
He came to America at the age
of 22, knowing only a smattering of
English that he had acquired during
his two years in the American School
in Suk-el-Gharb
He landed in
New York Harbor with exactly nine
cents in his pocket, but with an insatiable desire to learn the English1
language and know the American
people... .•he started lecturing on
Syria, handicapped only by his limited
vocabulary
He attracted the attention of some prominent Americans
who encouraged him in this line.
He attended the Ohio Wesleyan
University
was drawn into the
BROADCASTING
STATION, BEING
ERECTED, CAIRO
CAIRO— The Egyptian Government is working overtime to comCOMMUNIST PRESS
plete the huge wireless broadcasting
IN MOSQUE
station now in process of construction.
At first it was thought to use
ANGORA— In one of the old
the current of the new railway workmosques of Angora, the modern capital
shops at Abu-Za'bal, but it was found
of Turkey, the police discovered
that the current there was not suffi•pamphlets, circulars and documents all
cient for both purposes. The governprinted in Turkish which, on examiment then applied to the Marconi
nation were found to be communistic
Power Company, in Cairo, and the
propaganda. A printing press and
Italian company asked a rental to
other publicity paraphernalia were
cover, in time, cost of new generators"
also discovered.
necessary for the additional power.
This gave the Ministry of CommuniThe communistic propaganda in
Arabic, Armenian, Yiddish and Turcation the idea that it would be just
as well for the government itself to
kish is no more startling news in,
buy new generators and add them to
the Near East. Communistic, literathe Abu-Za'bal workshop.
ture printed in Moscow or .in local
communistic centres in Syria, LeThe broadcasting hours will be
three in the morning and five in the
banon and Palestine have been found
evening.
from time to time since the War. A
few years ago the Third International
Has Over 5000 Radios
Three years ago Cairo, it was said
established a modern Arabic press
in Moscow for printing communistic • on good authority, had no less than
literature and for the distribution of
15000 receiving sets in use. Today the
such literature throughout the Arabic-% number must be much bigger. There
speaking world. A Syrian linotype
were also some local broadcasting
stations, one of which gave regular
operator 6f New York was approached
lectures on the air for the instructo go to Moscow and operate the
linotype of that press, but refused
tion of the Egyptian housewife, as
to go.
well as Arabic music. Cairoeens, howThis is, however, the first time
ever, listened oftener to musical and
such literature has been discovered
educational programs broadcast from
in a mosque.
London, Paris, Berlin, Prague, Mos-
/
ministry
and began preaching in
the Congregational Church, in Morenci. Mich
He was ordained a Unitarian minister in 1900
and was appointed pastor of First Church in
Toledo, Ohio in ,1902, remaining there
until 1911....when he became pastor
of the Church of the Disciples ir
Boston.
Mr.Ttihbany represented the Syrian societies in America at the Peace
Conference in Paris in 1919.... In,
li;22 he received a D.D. degree from
tile Theological Seminary in ^ileadville, Pa.
Mr. Rihbany speaks English without an accent and has a perfect command of cultural English
He is a
member of the Authors' Club* in
Boston
and for many summers has
attended
the
famous
Peterboro
colony.
In 1894 he married Alice May
Siegle of Wauseon, Ohio
they have
a son, Edward Herbert; a daughter,
Marguerite Rose, passed away in 1926'
at the prime of her youth, two years
after she graduated from; college
their home is in Brookline, Mass., a
suburb of Boston.
Mr. Rihbany's books, "A Far
Journey," and "A Syrian Christ" have
been among the most influential
works of their kind
In an analysis
of the influence the East and West
has had upon Mr. Rihbany's works
and teachings, a critic wrote: "The
best elements of two civilizations
are blended in his teachings
the
impact of two diverse cultures has
produced a spiritual leader who !
stands today as one of the stabilizing
influences in the world of religious
thought."
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cow and Rome. For the first time, a
huge broadcasting station will give
the musically-fond Egyptians all they
want of Um-Kalthum, Abdul-WahJhab and other famous musical stars
whose phonograph records are already familiar to our Syrians in the
United States, and could be heard
anywhere from Singapore to LosAngeles and from Mosul to Capetown,
wherever Arabic music is appreciated.
ORTHODOX CHURCH
WITHDRAWS SUPPORT
Grand Rapids Greek Orthodox
Church Repudiates Ofeish and
Joins the Antiocheans under
Archbishop Assaly
ON SUNDAY, June 4, the congregation of the Syrian Greek Orthodox Church of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
met with their priest, Rt. Rev. Icohomos Philip Abu-Assaly, and moved
to repudiate publicly the authority
of Aftimios Ofeish and to drop his
name from mass. At the same time
they declared their allegiance to
Archbishop Victor Abu-Assaly, the
Antiochean Orthodox hierarch in this
country formally so recognized by the
Antiochean Patriarch and its Holy
Synod.
A letter to Archbishop Abu-Assaly acquainting him of this move,
and another to Axchbishop Aftimios,
were sent by the Laymen's Council of
the Grand Rapid church at the same
time.
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<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
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<p><em>The Syrian World</em> was published between 1926 and 1932 as a journal. In 1932, the format was changed from an academic journal style to a newspaper style, which continued until the periodical's end in 1935. After the death of his brother Naoum, Salloum took over the publication of <em>Al-Hoda.</em></p>
<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
<p>All issues of <em>The Syrian World</em> are available, along with full indexes for the first four volumes. For volumes five and six, there are tables of contents at the start of the issues.</p>
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Syrian World
PUBLISHED WEEKLY — ESTABLISHED 1926
VOL. VII, NO. 8.
MEX. PRODUCER
COREY GRANTED
INVADES B'WAY MONTH REPRIEVE
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Miguel Zacarias, Son of Lebanese
Immigrant, Has Meteoric Career
in the Movie Industry. On
Visit to New York in
Interests of Company
Was to Have Been Hanged To-
MIGUEL ZACARIAS,
27,
soft hazel eyes, light auburn
hair, high brow, with an oval
Semitic face of a dreamer, quietly steals into New York and
within a few days succeeds jin
invading the forbidding Broadway, the Mecca of all producers
and Bohemian dreamers.
Himself a scenario and | dramatic writer, Miguel, of Mexican
birth and Syrian parentage, could
take his own life and adapt it
as a Horatio Alger story for the
talkies. But being also a producer, professional pride would
forbid him to do so.
In the last issue of the English
page of al-Hoda we wrote something
about the sensational rise and success of this young Mexican producer,
and how his first Spanish talkie,
"Over the Waves," produced by his
own company, had won him high
praise and acclaim from movie critics
in Mexico and other Spanish-speaking
republics of South America.
(Special Correspondence)
Here for Play
Now the same Miguel is in New
York, and we learn on good authority
that at least one theatre, Vanderbilt, on Broadway is negotiating for
the production rights of this film play.
\ It will not be long before theatregoers will read the electric sign of
the first Spanish movie to be seen
and heard on the famous White Way.
And it will be one written and produced by a Mexican of Lebanese
origin.
Mr. Zacarias, who paid us a visit
in the office of the Syrian World
accompanied by Mr. Boumrad of New
York, was modest about his own
achievements, and his ambitious plans
foi the immediate future.
He is here not only to clinch the
contract for the production of his first
film success, but also to buy the
latest equipments for his modern
producing firm. Organized only a
year ago this firm, with 65% of its
capital in the control of Syrians and
Lebanese of Mexico, has a staff of
65 actors, actresses, artists, musicians
and technical men. Associated with
Miguel in this project is his father,
Elias Zacarias, who emigrated many
years ago from Hamat, in al-Kura,
Lebanon.
May Produce "Arab" Talkies
Miguel spoke of his plans to
produce a talkie taken on Spanish soil
and depicting some aspect of Arab
civilization which flourished centuries
ago in Andalusia. Then he plans to
go to Syria and produce other plays
embodying Arabic romantic themes,
one of which, he thinks at present,
will be the famous romance of Antar.
At present he has enough on his
hands. Four plays, the scenarios of
which are already written by Miguel
himself, are awaiting production on
(Continued on. page 7.)
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NEW YORK, JUNE 23, 1933.
day; Governor Changes Date
to July 28 in Last Minute
Petition
CHARLESTON, W. Va., June
20.— Joe Corey of Charleston,
West Virginia, was granted a
month's stay by Governor H. G.
Kump yesterday in response to a
petition by Corey to change the
death sentence to life imprisonment.
The Governor changed
the date to July 28 at the request of Corey's counsel who
asked for time to prepare a petition asking for commutation.
Governor Kump said: "This reprieve was granted on the request of
counsel representing Joe Corey in
order to give them time to make
certain investigations and prepare his
case for presentation to the governor
for consideration relative to commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment in the penitentiary, Corey's
counsel claiming that the time was
too short for them to complete theninvestigations and prepare their case
before the date fixed for the execution."
Thanks Governor
Hearing that a stay was granted,
Corey's response was, "I thank the
governor for this break."
Previous to his appeal to the
governor, Corey had made an appeal
to the Supreme Court in West Virginia for life imprisonment in the State
Penitentiary instead of death, but this
was denied. About two weeks ago he
was moved from the Charleston prison to the prison in Moundsville,
jibout 160 miles away. Because of the
governor's decision, he returned today to his former quarters.
Corey was convicted by the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County
last January for the slaying of Mrs.
Katherine Ghiz of Logan in a Charleston confectionery store July 11,
1932. He was also indicted for shooting and killing his wife at the same
time but he was not tried on that
charge. His temporary insanity plea
was attacked by the state at the trial.
WIRELESS CHAIN IN
ARABIA
CAIRO— Ibrahim Hamdi al-Kurdi, engineer in the department of
telegraph and telephone of Cairo, returned recently from Mecca, having
carried out his commission of installing an extensive wireless chain
in Arabia. This chain comprises 15
wireless stations, the principal ones
of which are two, one in Mecca and
cne in Riad, the capital of Najd, with
a six kilowat power each.
The
rest are of Vz kilowat capacity each.
This brings the number of wireless
stations in Arabia to 26.
The operation of these stations,
the returning engineer informed, will
be in the charge of native, Arab
operators.
ZIONISM SEEKS TO INVADE
LEBANON AND SYRIA
JEWISH LEADERS NEGOTIATE FOR INTRODUCTION OF
50,000 GERMAN JEWS INTO LEBANON; RUMOR OF
PATRIARCH ARIDA'S CONSENT TO
PROJECT DENIED
ZIONISTS ALREADY SUCCESSFUL IN INVADING TRANSJORDANIA;
ZIONIST NEGOTIATOR, RETURNING, REPORTS
EMIR ABDULLAH "WILLING"
FIFTY thousand homeless German Jews are warming their
feet, so to speak, on the threshold of Lebanon, eager to come in
and make themselves at home. Thousands of Armenians before
had found shelter, protection and means of livelihood within the
hospitable borders of Lebanon and Syria, and the homeless, persecuted Jews of Germany are asking, "Why not we too!"
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ATTENDS POLITICAL
MEETING
ON THURSDAY evening, Mr.
S. A. Mokarzel left New York for
Richmond, Va., at the invitation of
the Syrian Democratic Club to
speak at their convention which
takes place this evening.
The
governor of Virginia and other
state officials will attend and also
speak.
WHEN KING
MEETS KING
Crowds Cheer as
Arrives in London;
Refers to Him
Friend and
King Feisal
King George
as "Old
Ally"
CROWDS of Londoners welcomed
with great cheers their king and King
Feisal of Iraq when the latter arrived in London June 20 on an official visit to the king and queen of
England. King George, Queen Mary,
the Prince of Wales, the Duke of
Gloucestor, Prime Minister MacDonald and many other notables welcomed King Feisal at Victoria Station, and accompanied him to Buckingham Palace.
Receives Royal .Welcome
British destroyers and airplanes
accompanied the steamer, Maid of Orleans, on which the king of Iraq
crossed the channel . The Duke of
York aoompanied him ashore. Aboard
the steamer was the London tailor
who had designed the new westernized state uniforms for Iraq. He carried the colorful uniforms and had
gone to Ostend to meet the king.
King Feisal was attired in one of the
new uniforms, wearing the plumed
helmet and white tunic.
At a State banquet held on that
•night, King George toasted King Feisal as "an old ally and friend."
SYRIAN GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS ARABIC FAIR
DAMASCUS— The Syrian ministry of agriculture and commerce issued a call to all the chambers of
commerce in Damascus and other
Syrian cities. In this call it urges
them to encourage Syrian industrialists and merchants to participate in
the Arabic Fair, which will be held
this coming month in Jerusalem.)
For about two months negotiations have been going on, if we accept the reports of the Syrian press,
between influential Zionist leaders
and the French and national authorities in Lebanon for permission to
settle 50,000 German Jews on Lebanese ground. The negotiations were
not limited to exchange of notes, but
took form of personal visits from
prominent Zionist leaders. Of these
visits two are mentioned specifically,
one by Baron Maurice RothschTIcn
member of the French Senate and
active Zionist leader, who went to
Lebanon about two months ago and
had an interview with M. Ponsot.
The other was a visit from a prominent Egyptian Jewish leader to His
Beatitude Patriarch Antoun Arida,
supreme head of the Maronite Church
in Lebanon.
Succeed in Paris
Commenting on the first of these
visits, Filistin, Arabic paper of Jaffa,
insinuates that the Jewish Baron succeeded in winning the authorities of
(he French foreign ministry in Paris
to his views, but failed to do so with
the French Commissariat in Beirut.
On the authority of this paper, the
French High Commissioner is represented to have replied to a note
from the French ministry favouring
Baron Rothschild's scheme, that the
economic conditions in the mandated
countries and the strong antagonism
of the people to Zionist expansion in
Lebanon and Syria, preclude any
consideration of Zionist immigration
to these countries. It was also said
that 250 German Jewish physicians
are among those seeking entrance to
our homelands, which already have
an oversupply of physicians.
No Official
Confirmation
No official confirmation has yet
been made of this visit.
Equally unofficial is the account
of the visit to Patriarch Arida, coming from Jewish newspaper sources.
According to these sources, Patriarch Arida declared to a leading
Egyptian Jew that he has no objections to the emigration of German
Jews to Lebanon. This declaration is
doubted, as it is considered highly
improbable that His Beatitude would
disregard the interests of his own
people, who are in the throes of a
grave economic depression, to make
place for 50,000 new mouths to feed
in the limited area of the mountainous republic.
The Patriarch was
said also to have issued an order
that pi-'-*' ,i be offered in all Ma-
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�BEIRUT— Dr. Joseph Hitti of
Beirut, brother of Dr. P. K. Hitti of
Princeton, was chosen by the Medical Alumni Association of the American University to officially represent them at the sixth annual Medical Conference held recently in Jerusalem in response to the invitation
of the Egyptian Medical Society to
all the alumni of the A. U. B.
Dr. Hitti was chosen to represent the Alumni at a meeting of the
executive committee at which Dr.
Najib Saad presided, in the absence
of Dr. Khayyat, president, who left
America for Syria a few weeks ago.
ronite churches for the the rescue
of German Jews, and that he had
written tp the president of the Jewish Layman Council in Beirut expressing his sympathies with the German Jews who were persecuted by
the Hitler regime and driven out of
their country.
Entertain "Greater Palestine"
SHAWWA BANQUET PROVES
POETRY AND SONG FEST
THE "EMIR OF THE KAMANJA," RECEIVES THE WARM
TRIBUTES OF THE SYRIAN COLONY OF BROOKLYN AND
NEW YORK. DINNER AT TOWERS HOTEL TURNS
INTO A VERITABLE TROUBADOR FAIR OF
POETRY AND MUSIC
AND MYSTICISM RUNS THROUGH A NOTE OF ESTHETIC ECSTASY;
POEMS RECITED
IT COULD have been in Cairo, Baghdad or Damascus, or in
ancient Cordova for that matter, but it was actually in the Towers
Hotel in Brooklyn Monday last. The uniformed waiters standing
at attention, the clicking of silver as the courses were changed, the
presence of a photographer and newspaper reporters, and the evening dresses of the fair sex, with a meagre sprinkling of tuxedoes,
belonged to the present with its
modern, American atmosphere. But
the music, the poetry and the spirit
of esthetic ecstasy that swayed the
feasters belonged to the timeless past
of the East. That in a few words
was the dual, paradoxical nature of
the first testimonial dinner given to
Sami Shawwa, famous expounder of
Arabic music, in the Towers Hotel,
Brooklyn.
prowess with one another, to others
with a Western background it was
one of those musical tournaments indulged in by the troubadors of Provence and southern Europe generally
in the Dark Ages of chivalry and
romance.
The poets who recited on this
occasion were: Elia D. Madey, Joseph
M. Khoury, Nasib Arida, Nadra Haddad and Rashid Ayoob, a majority
of whom are members of the wellknown "Pen League," which has
made decided contributions to modern Arabic literature, and whose
names are common property in
Egypt, Syria, North Africa, Iraq as
well as in the Americas.
An amazing unison in the poems
recited was a feature which no one
who listened to them and comprehended them could fail to note. Almost all struck the note of aspiring
above the petty tribulations and
chafing miseries of life to the world
of serene peace and spiritual composure which the classical Arabic
music at its best symbolizes. To
quote a line from Arida's poem, it
was as if all of them had conspired
to say with him:
"Ours, my friends, is the vision
which we watch,
Ours, my friends, the dreams which
we repeat."
And in so doing defiantly hurled
their answer, in a characteristically
Eastern spirit, to the sinister challenge of the depression!
But while the approval of French
150 Persons Present
and national authorities to this latest
of Zionists moves may prove baseA committee headed by Selim
less, there seems to be no tfoubt
Ayoub, Brooklyn, began immediatethat the Zionists are sending ou'„ feelly after Sami Bey's arival, on Tuesers to test the feasibility of carryday of last week aboard the He de
ing out their fond dream of a "GreatFrance, to prepare for the testimoner Palestine," which to some of their
ial banquet.
And even with the
mere sanguine leaders extends from
limited time it set for itself, the com"the Great River tc the Great Sea,"
mittee's work proved a brilliant sucfrom Iraq to the Mediterranean, all
cess. Over 150 persons, represent"r"WRicrr" they claim to be their
ing different groups and circles of
"historic homeland.
the Syrian community in Brooklyn,
New York and vicinities, were preIn Palestine proper, the Zionists
sent.
have already established a foothold
in Transjordania, on the eastern side
Arabic was the predominating
of the Jordan River, which until
tongue used by the poets and speakrecently was considered a non-Zionist
ers who extolled Sami Bey and his
zone. The Jordan River, acording to
contribution in the revival of Arabic
the original policy of the Palestine
music, and Arabic, in its mystical,
Mandate, was to be a dividing line
esthetic sense of exultation was the
beyond which the Zionists could not
spirit which pervaded the prose and
cross with their colonization activimeasured words of his extolling adties. But in the last few months
mirers.
there was a report that Emir AbdulDr. Rashid T. Deen, with his
lah had sold some of the' public lands
popular anecdotes, his sweeping gesto Zionist organizations for exploitatures and his bon-vivant line of talk,
tion and colonization. This was imwas the toastmaster of the evening.
mediately denied by the Emir, but the
He was introduced by Selim Ayoub
Carried Hearers to Baghdad
denial was not quite convincing to
who also spoke of th» guest of honor
the Arab nationalists of Palestine.
and the place he occupies in the
Mr. Joseph Khoury, Syrian ediThen, more recently, Mithqal Pasha
world of Arabic music and culture.
tor, carried his hearers to the heyday
al-Faiz, an outstanding emir of the
of the Arabs as he spoke of Sami as
Deen Spoke "Half and Half"
nomadic tribes east of the Jordan,
reviving the glory of al-Musalis
came out with declarations which
For the benefit of the younger
'(father and son), the famous musiwere quite favourable to the Zionists.
generation Syrians, Dr. Deen spoke
cians of, Harun-ar-Rashid.
Rumors spread that Mithqal Pasha was
"half and half," dividing his speech
But the spirit of music, is as
"bought" by the Zionists, who are
equally into English and Arabic. And
eternally youthful as Pan himself.
reported to have offered him fabulous
for the benefit of Americans who
This note was brought out in Mr.
sums for parts of his extensive promight have been present, as well
Salloum Mokarzel's reminiscent talk
perties in Transjordania. An Arabic
as for reporters who "sat it out" to
bringing to memory a night which
newspaper, for Zionist propaganda
hear specimens of Arabic music at
he spent in Alien, with a small group
purposes, it was also reported, is beits best, His Excellency, Anis Bey
of friends, listening to Sami Shawwa's
ing pumlished now in Transjordania
Azar, Consul General of the Egyptian
violin. Some prominent Damascenes
under the sponsorship of Mithqal
Kindom, also spoke in English. In
chancing then to pass through the
Pasha, and under the guise of prointroducing the Egyptian Consul, Dr.
town on their way to Beirut, heard
tecting the local interests of the Arabs
Deen declared that "the bond that
the notes eminating from the room
of Transjordania.
unites us is greater than that of rewhere the small group was assembled
Returning to New York on Wednesligion or politics, it is the bond of
and recognized Sami Shawwa's music.
day of this week, Emanuel Neuman,
Arabic culture. Anis Bey responded
They turned in, and others also came,
American member of the Executive
in a similar spirit, saying that genius
so that in an hour's time the place
of the Jewish Agency for Palestine
is not a national property but bewas crowded to capacity.
who negotiated with Emir Abdullah
longs to the whole world.
Father Stephen Speaks
for the opening of Transjordania to
A long list of speakers then folJewish settlement, corroborated, in
lowed, interspersed by improvised seOther speakers who paid their
an interview with the New York
lections on the violin by Sami Bey
tribute to Shawwa were Father ManTimes, the nationalists' fear that the
himself and songs from various Syrsur Stephen and Karim Sanduq, the
ruler of Transjordania had capitulated'
ian artists in the community who
latter of whom spoke of his impresto the Zionists.
had volunteered their services.
sion of Sami Bey when both were
Mr. Neuman was quoted as saymere children attending the same
A Fair of Oka/
ing that Emir Abdullah "appreciates
public school in Aleppo, long before
the condition in which his country
To those present who had a backSami Bey migrated with his father
now is, and. realizes fully that i\e
ground of Arabic education, the banto Egypt.
inly way it can be properly saved quet was a modern version of "the
The artists who paid their trifrom economic stagnation is by the
Bair of Okaz," when poets and knights
butes in songs were Misses Asma
influx of Jewish capital and enterof the pre-Islamic days of Arabia met
Sedbagh, Helen Dudo, Jamileh Maprise."
each year to match wit and physical ,tcuk, and Joseph Belouny, Antoun
FIGHTING AGAINST
SOCIAL EVILS
Sorbonne Professor Their GuestSpeaker; Society Under Capable
Leadership of Wives of University Professors
BEIRUT— The Women's Auxiliary
of the Alumni Association of the
American University of Beirut is a
very active group fighting for the reforms that have made them a very
useful and important society in Syria. At a recent meeting presided over
by Mrs. Jabr Dumit in the absence
of Mrs. Bulus Khauli, president, Mrs.
Rashid Rishani gave a detailed report of the successful work of the
Prison Committee and a report of
the committee which is fighting white
slavery. At the close of the business
meeting, Mrs. Dumit introduced the
speaker of the afternoon, Farid Zeinuddin, doctor of law from the Sorbonne University, who gave a comprehensive address on the League of
Nations. While he believed in the
good intentions and, worthy aims of
the League, he did not hold much
hope for its success.
Mrs. Dumit Able Leader
Mrs. Dumit is the wife of the
late Jabr Dumit, an Arabic scholar
and professor in the A.U. B. Mrs.
Dumit herself is well-known for her
leadership and success in organization, ant} was many times president
of the Women's Club. Her sons,
Michael, Emile and Najib studied in
America, Emile for several years in
Columbia and Cornell and Najib for
two years in a university of Southern California studying agriculture.
The latter is one of the first in the
history of Syria to pasteurize milk
and bottle it by modern methods.
Mrs. Khauli is the wife of the
well-known professor of pedagogy in
the University, Bulus Khauli.
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Persian Guts Monopolized
by Americans
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TEHRAN— Final touches were
given to a strange trade between some
American merchants and the Persian,
Government in which the former seek
to receive a monopoly of all guts
exported from Persia.
Ghosn and Antoine Abdul-Ahad,
with Tewfik Barham and Tewfik
Mubayyed as oud accompanists.
At times the guest of honor was
so moved by the singing that he took
up his violin and accompanied the
singers. He shook hands "with all
and smiled contentedly and benignly
on all. His own selections on the
violin, as one would naturally expect,
were applauded most enthusiastically and vociferously. He had to give
an encore to every selection played,
cne of which was announced by the
violinist as "Cleopatra's Dance." Two
were improvisations in Bayat and
Hijaz-Kar (Arabic tones).
"Call to Prayer," Climax
The climax was a beautiful and
famous selection, "The Call to Prayer." As he played one could almost
visualize the muezzin call the faithful to prayer. The mosque with its
domes and minarets took shape in the
imagination, the worshippers trickled
into the empty colorful streets of an
Oriental city in the dusk of dawn;
and you could actually hear the
birds chirp in antiphonical respojnse
to the muezzin's dulcet voice. And
thus the testimonial banquet to/ a
genius of the timeless East ended/ on
June 19, in the year 1933 of. our
Lord, in Towers Hotel, Brooklyn.
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SOON TO PAY
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Wins Both Final Prizes in First
of Three One-Day Tournaments of Summer
THE STATE Banking Department
of New York which has taken over
the Faour Bank, in liquidation, issued a statement that they expect to
give out dividends very soon. Nothing has yet been definitely settled
but the dividend, not as large as was
expected to be handed out, will be
issued very shortly.
Several depositors committees have
been formed within the last few
months but none of them was of any
service including that called together
by the Faour Brothers who had proposed a five-year plan that was
promptly voted down. All the meetings held for the purpose of assisting
the depositors, called by one person
or another, produced no tangible results.
The affairs of the bank are entirely in the hands of the State
Banking Department and therefore
it stands to reason that any depositors' meeting would be futile in the
way of rushing through dividends
or enlarging them.
The bank has been entirely vacated, Mr. Bishop alone remaining
there for the collection of rents,
notes and etc. It is very difficult
to see any of the Faour brothers or
even get in touch with them.
THE FIRST of three Syramar
one-day tournaments taking 'place
during the summer was held yesterday at the Yountatah Country
Club, Nutley, N.J. The board of
governors of the Syramar Golf Club
donated the prizes, of which there
were six. The tournament was run
en the handicap basis, giving all an
even chance to win. The nrst two
prizes offered for the morning rounds
of eighteen holes were won by George
Abouarab and Freddy Faris; the two
offered for the afternoon rounds of
eighteen holes were given to George
Mabarak and Michal Abouarab; the
two final prizes given lor the combined best scores of the afternoon
and
morning
were
won
by
George Mabarak who refused to take
both. The second of these latter was
given to Dick Malhame for the low
net score.
City Bred Slicks Turn Hicks
for One Night
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THE GIRL receiving the most
proposals /during the course of the
evening and who presented the most
wedding rings to the judges received
a prize at the Barn Dance by the
Basilians in their clubrooms, Brooklyn, last' Saturday night. Marie Munderlin was given the most wedding
rings and received the prize.
This game was one of many that
were played in the hall that had
been gayly decorated by Victor Joseph. The balloon dance was won
by Sally Ferhan and Louis Owen and
the game known as the "Title Getting" contest was won by Mike Khoury and Kay Theis.
The music was pretty good but
not all of the 75 couples danced.
Some of them preferred to play cards
in the next room. The committee
who prepared for the dance and who
were dressed in overalls, consisted
of George Makhoul, chairman; Mike
Shamoun, Emil Kalaf, Ed Shoucair,
Victor Joseph, Edward Joseph, Ted
Karam and William Shoucair.
Three priests were present and
looked on at the games and dancing,
Rev. Abdallah Khoury, temporary
pastor of the Basilian Church, Rev.
Olaf, and Rev. Thomas.
N. KIAMIE SAILS
ON SAME SHIP SAILS
WADE NADER
NAJIB KIAMIE, well-known merchant and manufacturer of Brooklyn,
sailed
last Wednesday
on
the
S.S. Manhattan for a summer vacation in Lebanon and other parts of
the Near East. On board the same
ship was Wade N. Nader, an alumnus of the American University of
Beirut and' a merchant of Miami,
Ariz. Both come from the picturesque
town of Sheweir. Mr. Nader graduated in 1910 and came to this country in 1915.
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GEORGE MABARAR SYRIANS APPLY
TO STUDY ABROAD
GOLF WINNER
TO KING FEISAL Completes 4 year Course in 3
Old Recurrent Statement Again
Issued i in Reference to
Faour Bank
RECEIVES MOST
WEDDING RINGS
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The next tournament takes place
Thursday, July 20, at Braidburn(
Country Club, Madison, N.J. This
is the president's, Richard Macsoud's.
It is he who donates the prizes.
The men who participated were
Assad Aboud, George Abouarab, Michael Abouarab, Dadie Beder, Fred
Faris, Chosroe Gabriel, H. Hadad,
Wadie Kadrey, Edward J. Leon,
Abraham Lian, George Macsoud,
Richard Macsoud, George Mabarak,
Fred Samara, Elie Zenie, and Eugene
Trabulsi.
President A bid's Daughter
Marries Mardam Bey
DAMASCUS— Leila al-Abid,
daughter of Mohammed Bey alAbid, President of the Syrian Republic, was given in marriage last
month to Mamdouh Bey Mardam,
thus uniting two of the most distinguished families of the Syrian
capital.
LEAVE FOR EXPOSITION
SAMI SHAWWA and Rev. Mansur
Stephen, pastor of Our Lady of Lebanon Church, Brooklyn, left New
York Wednesday with Mr. George
Jebailey for the Exposition in Chicago. Rev. Stephen will be away two
weeks on his first vacation in seven
years.
TURBAN-FEZ FOR
MOHAMMEDAN SOLDIERS
A SPECIAL turban-fez was designed for the troop of Mohammedan
soldiers in Petit Barracks, Zamboanga, Phillipine Islands, so that their
religion might not be violated. They
are the only Mohammedan soldiers
in the United States army and reporsts of their service are excellent.
PLAYS AT THE A. U. B.
SEVERAL plays were recently given!
in the American University of Beirut,
among them "Outward Bound" of
which the cast was composed of the
American faculty; "Majnun Laila," in,
Arabic, a beautiful tragedy by the
late poet, Ahmad Shawqi, of which
the cast, all men, were chosen from
the students; and "Fatima," a drama
by Yusuf Husni, acted by the Egyptian Society and presented to fight
two evils, (1) the custom of forcing
young people to marry according to
the taste and will of their elders, and
(2) the refusal to give a young girl
in marriage before her older sister.
A GROUP OF SYRIAN NATIONALISTS DELEGATE
KING FEISAL TO PLEAD
THE SYRIAN CAUSE
IN FRANCE
His Visit Gives Boost to Monarchist Party Seeking to Place
Feisal Over Syria as Well
as Iraq
A LONG petition by Syrian
nationalists of Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Hama and other Syrian cities and towns, was presented to King Feisal in Amman,
Transjordania, on his eve of departure to Europe.
No sooner had those nationalists heard
of Feisal's intention to visit England
and Europe, than they set the wheels
of political agitation going to utilize
his visit in the cause of Syrian nationalism. Following several meetings in Damascus, they put up a
petition delegating King Feisal to present their cause before the political
authorities in Paris, having failed to
convince the French Commissioner,
M. Ponsot, of the justice of their
claims. The petition was signed by
hundreds of nationalists who have
taken active part in the nationalist
movement to unify Syria and revoke the French mandate over it.
A large delegation, it was learned, then,
carried the petition with them and
went to Amman, where King Feisal
was visiting his brother, Emir Abdullah, national ruler of Transjordania, and was making ready for his
irip abroad to Europe.
Nationalists Despair
In their petition the Syrian nationalists declare that, "the Syrian
negotiators have despaired of making the voice of the country heard,
and of convincing the French side
tc abandon the old politics which
has brought national, social and financial disaster to the land, tearing
asunder the bonds of r iffy among its
sons and casting the , mtry in the
depths of a terrible economic catastrophe. The sources of wealth have
dried up, poverty has pervaded all
and anarchy is supreme everywhere.'"
Pinning their hopes on the Arab
leader and monarch who identified
himself with the Syrian national
cause since its inception, the Syrian
nationalists find in him the right attorney to plead their cause effectively before the higher authorities in
Paris in whose hands lie the fortune
of the present French-Syrian negotiations.
King Feisal, it may be remembered, was King of Syria before he
became King of Iraq. He was driven
cut of Damascus when the invading
French forces under Gen. Gouraud in
the summer of 1920 brought the high
aspirations of of the infant Arab State
in Damascus to an abrupt, if temporary, end.
Launch Monarchist Move
At about the same time that those
nationalists were preparing their petition, another group of nationalists
were raising a concerted cry in the
Arabic press for the abolishment of
the republican form of government
in Syria altogether and substituting
for it a monarchial form with King
Feisal proclaimed king over Syria as
well as Iraq.
A nationalist from Homs, Tewfiq al-Jindi, writing in Aleph-Ba,
compares Syria to Serbia which was a
little state before the War, hardly
Years in Cleveland Art
School; Overcomes
Difficulties
CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 14.—
Joseph S. Nyme. son of Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Joseph Nyme, completed his
course at the Cleveland School of Art
and graduated with the distinction of
being the first Syrian boy in the city
of Cleveland ever to graduate from
that institution.
Mr. Nyme had encountered many
difficulties in his schooling career
in this country. Although born here
he was taken abroad as a baby and
his early training began at the American Mission School at Kirby-elBikah, until he was twelve years
of age.
In 1930 he was graduated from
Lincoln High School and his teachers
insisted he follow a career in art
that seemed outlined for him.
Highly Commended
At the Cleveland School of Art,
Mr. Nyme was highly commended
for the individualistic quality of his
work. A number of his pieces are
on exhibit at the Cleveland Art Museum, the Potter and Bently Studios
and the May Shows.
Nyme hopes to study abroad after
two years work in this country.
He specializes in portraiture and mural
paintings, and his present activities
will be concentrated on fine oil portraits at his studio, recently opened
at 2900 West 17th Street.
He is twenty-four years old, a
member of many art clubs and has a
mania for dramas, which, if he has
time, he will attempt directing.
larger than the liwas of Homs jmd
Hama together, but after the Wln
became merged in a larger Slavic
entity, forming a strong nation with
an access on the Adriatic. Syria
also, this nationalist urges, should
unite itself to other Arab states, particularly Iraq, as an effective means
of realizing its national aspirations.
The monarchist party in Syria
has many prominent advocates, and
at least one representative in the
Syrian parliament, Shakir Nimat ashSha'bani, of Aleppo who has been
very energatic in his monarchistic
propaganda. This party, however, is
in the minortiy in Syria, the great
majority of nationalists still clinging
to the more modern and representative form of government.
King Ali Once Considered
At one time, in the winter of
1930, it was rumored that the French
authorities in Syria and France were
prone to solve the Syrian problem
through the creation of a monarchy
amenable to their influence, following the example of the British in
Iraq. Ex-King Ali, another brother
of King Feisal, then passing through
Syria, was received with public
honors by the French High Commissioner, and many Syrian advocates
of the monarchy predicted with elation
that it will not be long before the
French will declare Ex-King Ali
king over Syria. This prediction was
never fulfilled, and the cause of the
Syrian monarchists received a jolt
by a later proclamation from M. Ponsot that there was no intention at that
time of introducing any fundamental
change in the French policy in Syria.
With the present arrival of King
Feisal, however,' to Amman, and the
agitation of some Syrian nationalists
to delegate him with the Syrian mission in France, the hopes of the Syrian monarchists were again revived,
now turning to King Feisal himself
rather than to his brother Ali,
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"MAHRAJAN," AN INSTITUTION
IN NO MORE brilliant and eloquent a
manner did the late Naoum A. Mokarzel,
founder of al-Hoda, show his usual perspicacity and far-sightedness than in the annual
institution which has become identified with
this name—ai-Mahrajan.
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When the first Mahrajan was held in
Bridgeport, Conn., in September,
1930,
there had been in existence local .festivals and
carnivals at which hundreds of Syrians and
Lebanese gathered for a good time and family reunions. Naoum Mokarzel, however, was
the first to raise these festivals or picnics to
tile level of a national institution. He imbued the Mahrajan, a term which he applied
—~*f ihese gatherings, with a high and noble
^purpose, extended the horizon of its limited
scope and aims, and made it an instrument
for the preservation of the best in the cultural and social traditions of our forefathers.
The Mahrajan, since then, has become no
more a picnic, a gathering for good time, but
a grand opportunity to cement the bonds of
unity which already exist between peoples
of one race and one tongue dispersed throughout the states of this great Union.
It has
also become a grand opportunity for the
exchange of ideas and views between Syrians of the first generation and Syrians of
the second generation, an instrument of education through social contact, as the great
feasts and carnivals of our homelands have
always been.
The Mahrajan has come to be for the Syrians and Lebanese of this country, of whatever age, creed, political hue or personal inclination, a national festival, like St. Patrick's
Day to the Irish, like the unions of the Vereins to the German, an agency for the preservation and perpetuation of the best in us
in a land which welcomes and preserves the
best in every race represented therein, because, in fact, it is made up, or should be
made up, of the best in those races.
FATc. BLINDS ZIONISTS
IF PROOF is needed that nationalist Zionists are purblind, their recent activities, as
depicted in a leading news article in this issue
of the Syrian World, should be conclusive
enough to convice all but Zionists of the extreme nationalistic brand. Driven out of Germany by a surge of blind, fanatic nationalism which has refused to distinguish between
innocent and guilty, which has bared an inborn hatred in the hearts of German nationalists of the internationally-minded or in-
THOUSANDS OF SYRIANS AND LEBANESE FROM DETROIT AND VICINITY
FLOCK TO THE NATIONAL FESTIVAL
WHICH HAS BECOME A
NATIONAL INSTITUTION
FOR THE past four years a great national festival is held on different dates both in
Detroit and in Bridgeport, Conn., which has
done more than any other agency in the
history of Syrian immigration in America to
bring the Syrians and Lebanese together in
a natonal gathering which is taking on additional momentum with every passing year.
Thousands of Syrians of the first and second
generations, and on many occasions with their
American friends, flock to the festival which
is popularly known among the Syrians as
the Mahrajan. In. Detroit the festival is held
under the joint auspices of St. Maron Society
and the national Lebanese organization
founded by the late N. A. Mokarzel, the
Lebanon League of Progress.
This year the Mahrajan will be held in Detroit
at the Martha Washington Park in the vicinity of
the city. It promises to surpass all former ones
because of the extraordinary arrangements made u>
this year by the St. Maron Society and the fact that
the celebration will last for the three days of July
2, 3 and 4 The valuable experiences gained by the
different Jew, the Zionists seek to "redeem
themselves" by staging in a nationally aroused country a drama most abhorent and inimical to those whom they seek as hosts and
new neighbors.
One of the basic evils which crystalized
the amorphous Zionist sentiments into a
world-wide political movement was the AntiSemitism of the latter 19th century in Europe.
The Jews were persecuted often on no other
ground than that they were Jews. Striking
back, some Jewish leaders conceived the
idea that the only way to deal effectively
with this type of touchy, exaggerated nationalism is to assert equally strongly the
nationalistic nature of Jewry, to nurture and
exalt Jewish nationalism rather than to deny
or hide it in the face of their persecutors.
But of all the people of the earth those Jews
sought to vent on their nationalist ire, to
justify their national existence, they chose
another Semitic people who were equally suffering from a ruthless and aggressive imperialism of the same Europe which victimized the Jews. They made allies with their
enemies to pick quarrels with potential friends
who had done them no special wrong. They
reconciled with their persecutors at the expense of a race which has distinguished itself for its leniency and tolerance to them,
which had opened its arms to them in the
darkest days of their history, when they were
massacred by the hundreds of thousands
and driven out en masse from Spain.
It is hard to find a parallel to this example
of ingratitude, to this blindness of vision. The
classical Araic proverb has come true of
them: "When fate befalls a person he loses
his vision!"
society in the management of the farmer festivals
will be used to the limit in adding distinction to
this year's Mahrajan.
Many prominent visitors from the United States
and abroad will be guests of St. Maron Society at
the coming Mahrajan, among them the celebrated
violinist Sami Shawwa whose arrival in America was
announced in the preceding issue of the Syrian
World, and an account of whose testimonial dinner in
this country is given in this issue. Rev. Mansur
Stephen, celebrated poet and pastor of Our Lady
of Lebanon Maronite Church in Brooklyn, N. Y., will
also be present and deliver an original poem coatposed especially for the occasion. Salloum A Mokarzel, editor of al-Hoda and the Syrian World,
will also be present as on all former annual occasions.'
Aside from being a social gathering that brings
thousands of Syrians and Lebanese together in a
spirit of festivity and good fellowship from all sections of the United States, the Mahrajan has for its
main object the perpetuation of those finer traditions which the Syrians can rightly claim as part
of their contribution to the culture of their adopted
country. Henpe the Mahrajan is not a simple outing but a national institution with a broad and lofty
purpose and as such has been growing in popularity with every year.
Every member of the younger generation Syrians should attend the National Mahrajan not alone
for its entertainment and social value, but for the
educational opportunities it affords in the display
of racial culture and national traditions. The National Mahrajan, held every year in Detroit under,
the joint auspices of the Lebanon League of Progress and St. Maron Society, is one of our worthiest
Syrian institutions in America and should be maintained and supported in view of its fine purpose
and. the idealistic and patriotic principles it represents.
SUMMER
The Spring's sweet burden brought to fruitfulness
Beneath thy tropic heats and fragrant show'rs;
Thy presence made known by birds, bees and
flowers
Thy offsprings live in free forgetfulness
Of Time, drinking ambrosial dews, —address
Their mild complaints in unsuspected bow'rs
Of leafy shade; —and, chanting to the hours
Of light and darkness, earthly loves confess.
Flying myriads come at thy festival call,
Thy flWring plains and wooded uplands sound
Pan's clarion horn to lure the human throng.
Where thou rulest in thy sky-vaulted hall,
In thy tranquil beauty hidden cares abound,
Joy wings with sorrow in thy passing song.
Thomas Asa
West Brownsville, Pa.
ARAB EMIR
SWORN HEIR
EMIR SU'OUD IS DECLARED HEIR IN
PICTURESQUE CEREMONY
MECCA— On the 17th of May the holy city of
Arabia was all decorated, its people all decked in
their gala festive attires, as one of the most memorable ceremonies in the history of modern Arabia
was carried out in strict adherence to orthodox
sunna.
The historic occasion was the swearing in of
Emir Su'oud, eldest son of Sultan Abdul-Aziz Ibra
Su'oud, ruler of Najd and Hijaz, as heir.
Emir Met by Chief Cadi
In an august procession, accompanied by the
principal officials of the Arabian Kingdom, Emir
Su'oud was met at the entrance of the Haram
Mosque with the historic call of "bayV (inauguration) first by the chief cadi of the Moslem supreme
court of Hijaz and Najd, then by the holder of the
ORIENT ALIA
key of Kaaba.
As the "amens" to the call were shouted by the
Said Buzurjumhar, the famous Persian vi- crowd who witnessed the ceremony, 21 guns were
zier, to his son: "My son, be cautious of the fired from the citadel of Ajyad in Mecca.
generous one lest you insult him; of the mean
one lest you honor him, of the vile one lest
Said al-Mamoun to one of his sons: "Beyou befriend him, of the fool lest you joke ware, my son, of listening to backbiters.
with him. Be wary as though you were sim- Never has a backbiter come to me with a
ple; be alert as though you were inattentive, slander, but his station fell in my estimation
and remember as though you had forgotten." never to rise again."
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�BUCKING THE INE1
ABOUT one of the most senseless of futilitarian
games indulged in by a great majority of our humanity is the game I have characterized here as
"bucking the inevitable." Such common expression
as "getting rich quick," "keeping young with age,"
"success at all price," attest to the popularity and
sway of this game with all sorts and conditions
of men.
There is nothing especially wrong with getting
rich quick, keeping young with age or even success
at all price, if it were not that in so doing almost
ninety-nine per cent out of hundred, and some cases
always, one is bucking the inevitable, one is pitifully wasting one's efforts and energies in something that, by its very nature, cannot be accomplished.
The man who is credited with the saying, "the
impossible is found only in the dictionary of the
imbeciles," found ample time in St. Helena to reflect that there were many things which were impossible for him. Nearer to truth, even , in this
wonderful age of science in which we are living,- is
the proposition that to believe that everything is
possible belongs to the age of magic and mythology.
For it was our native ancestors of prehistoric times
who, believing in the simplicity of their hearts that
everything should be possible, if not actually; possible, for man, that they invented the myth and the
fairy tale to substantiate and justify that belief.
Men floated through the air without mechanical
agency, deified lightning, ate of a seaweed or drank
from the fountain of youth and became immortal,
spoke the language of beasts, intermarried withi
gods and goddesses, and in every possible way did
those things, vicariously, which they knew they
could not do in reality.
A theologian friend of mine once defined religion as the "morale of the human race." As suchi
it is a source of great consolation to the average
man and woman, indeed to every human soul, that
passes this mortal way with only an infhiitisimal
fraction of their deeper aspirations, hopes and visions realized.
But the game of bucking the inevitable has
nothing to do with this perennial hope that springs
eternal in the human heart. On the contrary, it
almost always ends in a cynical, pessimistic depression of the- soul that has nothing of the dignified,
let alone the spiritual, about it. Religion which has
kept hope alive in the human heart, also recognized
the place of the inevitable and taught with equal
emphasis the virtues of patience and resignation to
the will of God.
No, the overwhelming number of those engaged
in the game of bucking the inevitable usually do so
from sordid motives of worldly gain and consuming
avarice. In their mad rush for success, in things
perfectly tangible and material, they shut their eyes
against the most evidently inevitable laws of the
physical or psychical order.
Take the common counsel given without much
thought to every young man or woman on the
threshold of active life. They are urged to be at
the top, to run the race of life with all their vigor,
keeping in mind always the victory in view. A
wholesome advice, a noble - admonition. But it
utterly overlooks the element of the inevitable. In
fact it is another way of inviting all those youngsters to take part in the pitiful game of bucking the
inevitable.
And while it is very admirable and praiseworthy
for every one to try to be the first in his calling
or business, it is utterly futile, utterly impossible
for more than one to be the first in a given place
at a given time. Needless to say, it is beyond imagination for all to be the first at one time at a
given place. Now to realize this, I believe, is not
a counsel of despair or a gospel of defeatism, it is a
sane, realistic recognition that there are somethings
in this life which by their nature are impossible,
that to act as if there are no such things, is merely
bucking the inevitable, ludicrous not so tragic and
pathetic. Wiser far, if elders instead of egging
their younger charges to concentrate all their energies and determination on success, to tell them that
success may or may not be their reward in their
chosen careers, but that love for their work, the
consciousness that they are working for and with
humanity, and the pride in excellence are far greater
and more lasting rewards than success or fame, that
to cheat in order to succeed is ignoble, that to
shoulder the crowd and p\*sh one's way to the fore
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Beirut as Seen by a Modern New Yorker
I WANTED to get some -views and news about
Beirut from the Jabaras who returned to these shores
on Thursday of last week. I looked at Sherene,
eight-month daughter of Mrs. Najib Khairallah, the
former Florence Jabara, but decided that even
though she was adornably sweet, she wouldn't understand English, coming as she does fresh from1
Syria, let alone my understanding her babbling in
Arabic and French. Florence, whose opinions I
value very much, is obviously an interested party.
She has become acclimatized to Beirut, and in spite
of her attachments to Brooklyn and New York, she
belongs now to the society of the old*" world. Besides,
she is too busy with her baby to give me time for a
story. So I turned to Gladys who was just bubbling
with enthusiasm over her latest visit to Beirut.
"It's so much more modern than I thought it
would be," said Gladys. "It's so sophisticated, and
has become more and more Europeanized since I
lasj visited it (1929). Well! let's begin with the
outside appearance of the city. First of all," she
continued, " the streets have been improved a hundred per cent. I remember when they used to be
awful,—swirling, enveloping dirt, bumps as big as
the Alps and now they are just great and take my'
word for it, those streets meant a lot to me. But
even though they in themselves were good, I just
didn't have the patience to wait for a nonchalant
donkey or camel to pass (not mentioning the odor)
before I could go on and that is why I preferred
the mountains for driving."
"Oh, but I mustn't forget the scenery of Lebanon. I know everyone else has heard how beautiful it is but I must have my say. It's simply
breath-takingly lovely and supremely beautiful.
Na place in the world is like it. But don't let me
talk about it anymore, I could go on forever.
"There are many new buildings up that are
good-looking but the most beautiful inside and out
is the St. Georges Hotel overlooking the sea. The
interior is decorated along modernistic lines and is
very attractive. In it take place the principal events
of the social life. It rivals the best hotels in America and Europe, principally in food which is prepared by excellent French chefs. Every Saturday
night something takes place there in the beautiful ballroom and on Sunday afternoons there is a
tea-dance. That's where I was New Year's Eve
and what a great time I had! It has a nice orchestra, and is the principal gathering place of the smart
social crowd of Beirut, principally the French group.
But before I go further, let me explain that there
are two groups: the American University type who
are very conservative and find their fun in bridge,
picnics, and sports and then there is the French
type who are extremely sophisticated. It is these
who frequent the St. Georges and night clubs and
have cocktail parties and that sort of thing. Of
course it is the girls of this type who smoke and
drink in public as freely as they do in America. I
am speaking of the girls, for the married women,
of any set are free to do as they please, even in
the matter of smoking but the A. U. B. type girls
never smoke, at least not in public."
"There were the races every Sunday in the
beautiful park in Beirut that is surrounded by high
graceful pine trees. Every one dresses up in
sports clothes and the women look stunning," Gladys continued in her reminiscences. "I used to
play tennis two or three times a week on the perfect courts on the University campus. It was heavenly playing there beside the sea, and rolling lawns
and trees everywhere we glanced.
"Later in the season we would go swimming in
the blue, blue, beautiful blue of the Mediterranean
that defies description, and if we tired of swimming
we'd go rowing on the 'Hassaki,' (perfectly flat
rafts) and get our sun tans. And of course," she
added, "there were continuous picnics in all parts
of the mountains. What fun they were. Right by
cool sparkling brooks.
...
"The concerts in the University were pretty
good, especially the one given in honor of the tenth
anniversary of the Music Club. Mr. Kougell, a famous Russian pianist, is director of music at the college."
In answer to my inquiry about movies, Gladys
OUR live-wire Detroit correspondent send/ in
this true story that may be titled "A Cabbie's
Dream of Heaven":
Detroit Syrians claim the title of
"World's Champion Non-Stop Taxi-Rider
for Mike Bonammy, who is too modest to
do his own claiming. Mike once grabbed
a cab and yelled "Buffalo" at the dumbfounded chauffeur. The meter clicked and
clicked to the tune of $650, but Mike, who
appreciates good, snappy service, tipped the
driver another $75. News travels quickly
among cab drivers, and they say that when
Mike got back to Detroit, a long line of taxi
cabs would trail him wherever he went.
Till finally, so goes the story, he could
stand it no longer and hopped on a train
for Miami, Florida, where he is now engaged in the wholesale orange business.
Now every time we see a Florida license
in Detroit, we look up to see if it isn't a
taxi, and if Mike isn't in it.
EUGENE FARIS
is undignified and unworthy of a true gentleman.
In short to drive home the lesson that one should do
one's chosen duty, without attempting the impossible or wasting one's time in bucking the inevitable.
A very charming young couple are being married very quietly this week-end." They've been engaged for quite a long time but don't want the announcement of their wedding made until afterwards.
So you'll hear about it in next week's issue.
On the authority of Collier's magazine, Araq,
the national drink of the Syrians, is consumed more
than any other beverage in the world. Also on
the same authority, the Arabic language has more
endearing and love terms than any other languages.
Last Saturday some "Syrian gentlemen of the
Press" gathered in the al-Hoda office to talk
things over. The guest of honor was the newlyarrived Egyptian violinist, Sami Shawwa, an extremely amiable and sociable person. He has a
knack for remembering faces and on those of his
score of men friends he bestows a luscious kiss
on either cheek much to the delight and embarrasment of the recipient. It is, after all, a show of affection and Sami Bey is an affectionate gentleman
as most of his friends are too.
Anyway, as I
started to say, it was a merry party, replete with
wit and a good substitute for "wine." The "women" of the traditional trio were not included 'in
this male camaraderie but "song" was happily present in Sami Bey himself. It was discovered that
a violin was lacking, so an ingenious mind besought
an "oud" in the Syrian quarter and Sami Bey was
requested to try his famous fingers on it, for he is
as great an "oudist" as he is a violinist. When
languid sounds were issued forth in a favorite Eastern ballad, as beautiful as the sob of a violin, the
men could not restrain themselves. They swayed
and sang and wrung their hands. "Ya habeebie!
What could be more beautiful?" Sami Bey was
the hero of the hour and quite a weary one too
when the "Syrian Gentlemen of the Press" allowed him respite.
,
INFINITUDE
The shattered atoms of ages
Grounded in wheels of time
Revolve in cycles of life-dust,
Through endless aeons of mind,
Evo'ved by the unseen forces
Of God that is Life Eternal.
Nida Salim
George insists he is a great punist on ArabicEnglish wit. When he says "Are you pail!" you
should know that he means "Are you subtle!"
said that there were imported pictures from America
with the English deleted and French substituted.
That's one way in which she picked up on her
French. She speaks it beautifully now, after all
the practice she had in Beirut. As for the cinemas
brought from France, they were simply terrible,
she thought.
But even though she had a glorious time in
Beirut, Miss Jabara is glad to be back in good old
Brooklyn among old friends.
This last statement of hers is the only thing that
prevented me from hopping on a boat immediately,
bound directly for Beirut, after her description o£
the city.
�WORLD,
MINIATURES
BYBLOS (JUBEIL)
BVBLOS— The city of legend and religion
. . .the city made famous by its "dying god,"
whose worship invaded Greece, Egypt,
Rome, and the whole ancient World without
the help of legions or armed force, .the little
town of modern Lebanon famous for its tobacco.
Perhaps no other town of its little size today in the whole of Syria had as great an
historic influence on the religious conceptions
and sentiments of the human race. Its history
ARABESQUE
The myth of Adonis is a symbolic one
characterizing the change of seasons, a
weather myth.
i he illegitimate son, of a native king, his
mother seeks to hide him with the goddess
of the nether-world, who refuses to give him
up. A compromise is reached in which the
adopting goddess retains him a third or half
of the year and gives him back to his rightful mother the rest of the seasons.
The
G;eek myth of Core and Persiphone is only
a variation, as also the Egyptian myth of Isis
and Osiris. In one version Adonis is rent by
wild boars, his blood flowing in a river to the
atre and other public buildings test'fy to its
ancient importance and glory. It was the see
or a bishop when the Crusaders occupied it
and fortified it, building around it a wall
about a mile and a half in circumference.
An Arab historian informs us that Jubeil
(Byblos) remained in the possession of the
Crusaders until Sultan Saladhi wrested it from
their hands and established in it a large number of his Kurdish follovwr.-. "who' only ten
years later soM it out to tha Franks and to
its original inhabitants^
Today Jubeil is reached by a fine motor
road connecting Beirut with Tripoli and Aiep-
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Panoramic View of Jubeil, the Ancient Byblos.
goes back to the twilight of civilization when
myth and written record, when magic and
•religion were inseparable.
Byblos is the
mythical birthplace of the god Adonis, whose
worship under various names became a popular and widely embraced cult in the GreekoRoman worlds before and after the coming
of Christ. Under qne of his Semitic names,
Tammuz, he is stjll memorialized in our Syriac (Arabic) name of the month of July. To
thejGreeks he was known as Adonis, an adapation of his Semitic title, meaning Lord, to
the Egyptians as Osiris, and to the Moabites
as Baal-Peor. Under the latter, as well as
under the name of Tammuz, his mention occurs several times in the Old Testament.
sea. This latter is only a mythical interpretation of a geological phenomenon char.acteriftic of the town of Byblos, where the little
rill runs red in the month of July, due to the
reddish soil of the hills in the neighborhood
of Byblos.
Archeological remains discovered a few
years ago in Jubail show excusively that there
was a predominating Egyptian influence, and
exchange of ideas between Egypt and Syria,
going back to the 2nd and 3rd millenial before Christ. It was a city of considerable
size when Alexander set out to conquer
the East. Pompey, the Roman conqueror,
made it a free city, after beheading its local
tyrant. Remains of an ancient Roman the-
PROFILES
POET
assistant inspector on the Delta Railroad. ... which position he retained
for three years.
In 1903 the American fever got
him and he embarked for the United
States....He jerked sodas for a year,
then sold goods and did some clerical
work
In 1909 he entered Bates
College, Lewiston, Maine.... majoring in English and literature
In
1914 he had enough money saved to
go to Harvard
he chose dentistry
because it was the least expensive.
Despite the fact that he was 34 years
old at the time and that he hadn't
had disciplined study for 14 years, he
was graduated from the Harvard
Dental School in 1917 cum laude!
SALLM Y. JLLKAZIN.... dentist,
peet, literateur. .. .was born in Abeih,
Lebanon.
Immediately after his graduation)
he volunteered for Red Cross service
in Maine
he worked in this
capacity for one year and then on
his own for another year
He came
to New York in 1920 and opened a
practise in 'Brooklyn
His office
is now in the Medical Arts Center
m Joralemon Street in Brooklyn.
Upon his graduation from the"
secondary school in Abeih, Dr. Alkazin entered the American University of Beirut
After the completion of his sophomore year he left
for Egypt
His first position was
that of a clerk
then he sold cigars
in a store
and after that was made
To many who do not know of
his profession, Dr. Alkazin is known-'
as a poet and writer of note in
English and Arabic
His poems in"
English have appeared in the "Sunday Magazine of New England,"
"Pacific Magazine," "The Syrian
po to the north. It is reached in less than an
hour from Beirut. Standing on the acropolis of
ancient Byblos, projecting on a promontory
into the sea, one has a beautiful view of the
, Lebanon coast, north and south, with the
majestic range rising to the east.
Few people would associate the "poppy"
with Byblos or Jubeil. But the Arabic name
of the poppy, which has become the symbol
of the youth of the world who died in. the
World War, is "shaqaiq ul-Na'man (tVe
wounds of the darling), and al-Naman, according to Frazier, is another name or title
of Adonis.
The flower was said to have
turned red when it was watered with the
blood of Adonis.
World" magazine and others
his
works include a published translation from the English into the Arabic
of Scott's "Ivanhoe," and Pope's
'"Essay on Man."
Dr. Alkazin was the president
in 1923-of the Syrian Educational Society of Brooklyn
and is at the
present time its treasurer
He is a
member of the Second District Dental
Society of New York City, of the
New York State Dental Society, of
the American Dental Association, of
the Harriet Newell Lowell Society of
Dental Research of Harvard University and of the Damascus Lodge of
Brooklyn.
Dr. Alkazin's pet hobby is digging in the ground, farming, so to
speak, anywhere, any time
and
fishing, preferably in Maine.. ...where
he spends his summer with his wife,
Nabeeha, a native of Maine and an
active member of the Syrian Ladies'
Aid Society of Brooklyn
and his'
son, Fred Y. (Buddy), 13.
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PAGE SEVEN
The GARDENS of OMAR
Exclusive Serial Rights Secured by The Syrian World
from E. P. Dutton and Co.
The American Publishers.
By Henri Bordeaux
'
Member of the French Academy
(The Story Opens in This Installment with the Au- fortress built by Raymond of Toulouse that a comthor's Visit to the Historic Cedars).
prehensive view of the three cities into which it is
"That is Sannin," was the answer to my ques- divided can be gained. There is el-Mina, the port,
tion. "It is nine thousand feet high. The snow bathed by the water upon which its shipping rides,
disappears only in August, and then not for long| and almost hidden on the land side by orchards of
But Sannin is not the highest point of the range. lemon and orange trees. There is the middle city,
The .king of the Lebanon chain is Kornet es-Saouda. at the foot of the citadel. This is the oldest and
You reach it from Tripoli by way of the Cedars." most picturesque of the three, with its narrow lanes,
Koubbe, or
"You* reach it from Tripoli by way of the Ce- blind alleys, and secluded squares.
the
High
City,
is
more
modern,
and
its
buildings
are
dars!" There are mere phrases that wake a host of
images' in the mind. Tripoli! Princess Lointaine festooned, Italian-wise, along the side of the hill.
watches from her terrace for the galley of Geoffrey The ancient palace of Melissinida is today nothing
Rudel. The Cedars! Wasn't there an illustration by but a mass of crumbling ruins, whose very design,
Gustave Dore in that' Bible at home from which, can only be conjectured. But the view is so enchantwhen I was a small boy, the revelation of the East ing that it is hard to drag oneself away. As at
first reached me, showing these giant trees, being Beirut, the mountains instead of shortening the twidragged to the Temple at Jerusalem, like vanquished light, prolong it with their crests of smouldering
kings in a Roman triumph? You may be sure I snow. The Kadischa brook, hurrying on the burst
shall go by Tripoli to the Cedars. It is a climb no through the last gorge which imprisons its waters,
enthusiastic Alpinist would be likely to neglect. describes a loop around a charming Dervish village,
But there are other trips that will have to come first. half hidden by orange trees. The sun, as it sinks,
Damascus, like some opal, rayed green, and pink, in swells to double its circumference before it disapits verdant oasis. Palmyra, the mutilated city of the pears with dramatic slowness beneath the sea.
Below the gate of the citadel is a little cemetery.
desert, with its long colonnades and arches gilded.
by the sun. Aleppo, chisled and fretted like the No wall surrounds it, and its tombstones, each one
mounting of a ring around its citadel, whose ruins turned towards Mecca, stray, like a flock of sheep
glow with amber and flame; Deir-ez-Zor, on the at pasture, to the very walls of the castle. It is a
Euphrates, wide as the Nile at this spot, with its tranquil spot, well fitted for dreaming with a pleasnightingale-haunted woods and gardens;
Hama, ing melancholy on the nothingness of life. Later, I
whose norias, turning—turning ceaselessly to raise was to hear how often Yamile, veiled according to
the water to the level of the aqueduct, are heard the Mohammedan fashion, lingered here with her
afar off by the traveler, like the bass notes of an, companions of the harem. The Arab women still
organ, or the hum of a hive of monstrous bees; An- spend hours in this secluded spot gossiping on
tioch, on the swift Orontes, under the savage brow daily trifles, and surrounded with the peace which,
of Habib-en-Neddjar, bristling with forts. And tne grave diffuses. When their solitude seems comthe coast cities too. St. Jean d'Acre, girt with the plete, they even remove their veils to breathe easier,
red ramparts that defied Richard Coeur de Lion ' an^> if they are pretty, to taste the pleasure of
and Napoleon. Said (the Sidon of the ancients) ' baring their cheeks, if only to one another and to
so bowered in orange trees that, in springtime, the the sunset. The roar of the Kadischa reaches the
(head aches from the scent of their blossoms. And, ' cemetery as a gentle murmur. Did Yamile, I often
the castles of the Crusaders, prodigious survivals wonder, think, as she heard it, of Becharre, her
from a time when buildings were meant to endure—> native village, bathed by the river at its source, and
Kalaat-el-Hosn, or "Krach of the Knights," still in- of those whom, in her madness, she had quitted?
tact, in fact, that when your horse's hoofs ring un- The little graveyard is an ideal spot to dream of the
der the vault of the main gate, you ask yourself,,, shortness of youth when onoe is no more than six
whether you are not the victim of an hallucination, teen years old.
and whether the Grand Master, in all his panoply,
I started the next day for the Cedars. It hadi
will not meet you presently at the head of his | been arranged that I was to leave my automobile
warrior monks; and the citadels of Tortosa, and of , at Becharre, where an escort and horses would be
Markab towering formidably above the sea, and, waiting. The road to, Becharre rises steeply from,
Khalaat-esch-Schekif, whose almost perpendicular j the sea and soon reaches a table-land, thickly
bulk the narrow Litany river, hemmed in with planted with olive trees, from which, as from a
laurel and rose bushes, mirrors in its still waters. balcony, the traveler looks down upon listless TriIt was on a day in" May that I first entered the poli, dieaming away life among its orchards. Zghor
city of Tripoli. It is only from the terrace of the j ta is passed, a large and well-built town, to which
(Continued from page. 1.)
his return to Mexico City.
These plays are: "Dos Cadetes"
(Two Cadets), "Clase Media" (the
Middle Class), "Inquiscion" (Inquisition) and "Los Dioses Blancos"
(White Gods).
i '
Of particular interest is the fourth
"Los Dioses Blancos," .which is based
on historical accounts of the Spanish
Conquistador, Cortes, who fell in love
with an American Indian princess.
.This princess became a source of
inspiration to the Spanish conqueror
and a powerful ally. She looked
upon him as a superhuman specimen
of the "white Gods," and almost
worshiped him with devoted love.
But when. Cortes returned from his
conquests to be crowned in the Mexican capital as the greatest hero of
his day the princess learns that her
idol had been already engaged to a
Spanish grand lady who had come
from Spain for the wedding to share
in a glory which the Aztec princess
had helped so much to achieve for
her supposed lover. She learns that
the Spanish conqueror had only used
her as a tool for his ruthless ambitions. The fourth cf the proposed,
plays
TCtivities of the Spanish h
""'e^ieo as principal t
t and second
are romances based on current Mexican life.
Served Apprenticeship
Like many modern scenarists and
producers before him, Miguel served
his apprenticeship on the stage. He
wrote and helped produce plays for
the legitimate theatre. He is a graduate of the National University of
Mexico, and after graduation took up
the drama. He wrote plays which
were produced by the Fabregas, Iris
and Arbiu, principal theatres of Mexico City. A little more than a year
age he started, with his father's help,
his own producing company, which,
we are told, is already the biggest
producing company in Spanish America.
The film that is reported to have
been already accepted for Broadway
production is called in the original,
"Sobre Las Olas" (Over the Waves),
a romance based on the life-story of
the Mexican composer Juventino Rosas, who fell in love with one of his
aristocratic pupils, only to be told by
her uncle that his marriage to her is
an impossibility. Although his beautiful pupil encouraged him and instilled in him a high ambition to become a famous composer, he sacrificed
his happiness and left her. Later
when his composition, "Over the
the wealthier families of Ehden resort in wintertime. Soon after the mountains begin. The traveler finds himself journeying along a steep and treeless slope until he reaches the valley of the Kadischa, whose waters flow far beneath his feet, overhung by rocky and precipitous banks. Rooted in the
cliff on either side of the stream, like bunches of
cliffs are often tunneled with caves, laid out with
clematis, cling bright-hued little villages. And the
the precision of monasteries.
Ehden, whose very name recalls the terrestrial
paradise, has the, proportions of a considerable
town, and some pretensions to be a capital. It has
its hero-saint, that Joseph Karam who commanded—
and very badly—the Maronites during the Druse
rising in 1860, who was head of the unlucky revolt
of the Kesrouan in 1866. Dead in exile, his body
was brought back with great pomp, and lies still in,
a sacristy, waiting until his tomb has been constructed.
On the cliffs opposite to Ehden, at a place called
Diman, but also New Kannobin, to distinguish it
from the old residence at the bottom of the gorge
(called Kannobin in memory of the hermits or "cenobites" who lived in the grottos above the river), is
the summer palace of the Maronite Patriarch. This
patriarch is at the same time head of the clergy and
chief executive of the nation. He is elected by an;
assembly of bishops, and the Pope confirms their
choice by sending him the "pallium" as a symbol
of his new dignity, once he has taken an oath to
abide by the Catholic faith. He is subject directly
to the Pontiff and in his church the ancient Syrian,
language, the language, of Christ Himself, is used,
except for the Gospels. These are always read in
Arabic in order that the faithful may follow them.
At last we are to Becharre, the rival towm
Ehden. How bitter that rivalry is I soon discovered.
Mentioning the name of Joseph Karam, I heard the
patriot of the Lebanon immediately criticised and
even called a traitor. Becharre has between three
thousand and four thousand inhabitants.
It is
the nearest village to the Cedars and the highest of
the Kadischa valley. Once or twice during a winter there is a light fall of snow, and even throughout the summer the snow which clings to the neighboring heights keeps the air cool and fresh. Red
roofs and terraces rise gracefully over the stream;
there are springs everywhere and the vegetation is
that of our own temperate climes,—silver poplars,
great walnut trees, mulberries, potatoes, maize, and;
varley. Becharre is the last oasis on the veryi
j threshold of the mountain desert.
I
(To be continued in next issue)
Waves" sweeps all the world, bringing him fame and wealth, the famous
and glorified musician roams the
streets of Mexico with a broken and
empty heart.
P. R. MERCHANT DIES
JOSEPH SOUSS, 76, died on June
12 in the residence of his brother-inlaw, Pedro D. Azizi in Guayama,
Porto Rico, after a grave illneess of
two weeks.
He was a merchant who conducted
his business first in Venezuela for
twenty-five years, five years each in
Porto Rico, Cuba, and Mexico and
for the last thirty-five years again
in Guayama. He is survived by a
son, Miguel J. Souss, also a merchant.
THREE HUNDRED
HONOR GRADUATES
Picnic for Thirty Graduates of
High School
DRUMRIGHT, Okla, June 13.—
The Syrian graduates of the high
school at Anderson Farm, three miles
west • of Drumright, Okla., were
honored at a picnic and entertainment yesterday, I Sunday, by the
League of Americanized Syrians.
About three hundred guests attended
to honor the thirty graduates. William Shibley was chairman of the
program which consisted of addresses
by various members and vocal and
instrumental solos.
Each honored,
guest was presented with a book
of Mother poetry by the League and
responded with a few words of thanks.
Among the towns represented
were Drumright, Chushing, Henryetta, Collinsville, Oklahoma City,
Shawnee, Bristow, Buffalo and Peyton.
ELOPES AS SCHOOL
SEMESTER ENDS
CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 10.—
William Georges, son of Mr. and Mrs.
S Georges of Canton, Ohio, and Miss
Miriam Ann Cramer, daughter of Mrs.
M. E. Cramer, well-known Cleveland
sculptress, were married Saturday at
Girard, Pennsylvania, where they
went to have the ceremony performed.
William Georges is a graduate of
Harvard University and is now completing his first year at Western Reserve Law School
Mrs. Georges is a graduate of
Hathaway . Brown School and Flora
Mather College of Western Reserve
University. She is well known to
ther|S goers for her dramatic work
ie Play House. Both are 24.
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY — fsTABLISHED 1926.
VOL. vn, NO. 8.
NEW YORK, JUNE 23, 1933.
REDEMPHONISTS GIVE
"FLOWERS AND BRIDES"
GIRLS' CLUB OF CHURCH PRESENTS CHARMING PLAY;
TWO PICNICS TAKE PLACE IN DETROIT;
TWO OTHER PICNICS IN JULY
DETROIT, June 12;— A charming
play "Flowers and Brides" was given
by the Girls Club of Our Lady of Redemption Church, Sunday, June 11th.
a fifteen-year engagement between
Fandi Rashid and Helen Nouhan is
suddenly brought to a whirlwind
finish by the clever tactics of Sophie
Bab, the girl in the flower shop.
Joseph G. Rashid is the Jewish proprietor and Fred Daas the errand boy.
In the wedding that follows, George
Barakat gives away the bride, Fred
Alexander and Ted Faris are best
men, and Joe Faddol the preacher.
An Arabian dance by Adele Richey
was well applauded. Brides-maids
were Geneva Richey, Frances Rashid,
Victoria and Josephine Koury, Lebna
Naufel, Mary A. Nicholas, Mary H.
Nicholas and Helen Mitry. Six-yearold Rosie Mae Faris and Freddie Shajheen danced to music furnished by
Anton Farhat, Nassif Soof, and Mr.
Rahoub. Credit for the success of the
presentation is due to the excellent
.^HSJkeetiefi of ML& Amelia Rashid, pre;#*" sident of the club.
RASHIDS HOLD
CONVENTION
DELEGATES of the Rashid Club
of America twill come to Ft. Madison;
Iowa, for their annual reunion, which
trkes place three days beginning June
18th. Between two and three hundred are expected to attend.
Annually the Rashids meet to
"discuss family welfare and make
plans for the coming year. Promising youths are sent to college, and
jhelp given to those in need. President of the club is .Alfred' Rashid.
DETROIT SYRIADS
HOLD PICNIC
THE SYRIADS (Detroit young
people's club) held a picnic at Elizabeth Park Sunday June 11th Barbecued lamb allayed keen young appetites after games of baseball. Besides the regular members, the following guests were present: Dr. Arthur M. Gannon, Dr. Arthur Tesseini
and brother, Mr. Frederick P. Alexander, Mr. Nassif of Grand Rapids,
Mr. Charles Nicholas and Mr. Jack
Barbara.
ST. Maron's Parish (Detroit)
held a big picnic on Sunday, June
18th at Finnish Club Park, E. Jefferson Avenue at Gordon Rd.
The
Ushers of St. Maron's Church will
hold a Moonlight ride to Sugar Island
•on Thursday, July 13th.
*****
Democratic Independence Day picnic will be given July 4th at Detroit
Creamery Grove. Harold E. Stoll,
register of deeds, is committee chairman. Eddie Tolan, the world's fastest human being will he the main
attraction. Another feature will be
Willis Ward, champ of the Big Ten,
who is known as the one man tract
team. One of our boys, Joe Faddol
pt the Register of Deeds Staff, is
Committeeman on publicity! <u>d
track athletics.
STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL
AND PLAY
BOSTON, Mass., June 15.— The
Fourth Annual Strawberry Festival
and Play of the Church of All Nations in Boston, Mass., will take
place Friday, June 30 in the Settlement Auditorium of the Morgan Memorial Institution, Boston, for the
benefit of the charitable Syrian work
of the church.
A three-act play in Arabic, en-.
titled "The Rebellious Love" will exhibit the talent of the actors, attractive costumes, dancing and singing
and, later, strawberries on ice cream,
will be served.
PAGE EIGHT
GOVERNOR AGAIN
APPOINTS GREER
In the last election he was offered
the nomination of state treasurer but
declined on account of his business
connections in the state.
John Greer, Active in New Mexican Politics, Reappointed
Colonel on Governor's
Staff
Politically, he is an Independent
and is often called upon by fellowleaders in conducting the affairs of
the state. He is the organizer of
the Syrian Protective Association ofi
New Mexico which was founded
three years ago on his tour throughout the state.
SANTE FE, N. M., June 17.—
E. John Greer, a Syrian born in
Politically Independent
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Those Taking Part
Rev. Shibley D. Malouf is the
pastor of the church and director
of the play. Those taking part are
Khalil Saliba; Najla Maloof, Saidie
Nassib, Alice S. Rihbany, Flora -Sabino, Toufie Manazer, Lebebe Saba,
Assaf Saba, Salim Maloof, Diana Saliba, and Miss Bader Freijie, a teacher in the Arabic classes. Music will
be supplied by Salim Attayia, Miss
Saidie Sawayia, Simon Rihbaney and
Habib Abdallah.
SECOND ANNUAL DANCE
THE SYRIAN Progressive Club of
Shreveport, La., will hold their second
annual dance on Tuesday evening,
July 4, in the Crystal Ball Room of
the Washington-Youree Hotel. Bert
Benton's Original Nite-Hawks will
play until two o'clock. Miss Amelia
Ferris is president of the club, Mr.
Lawrence Joseph, viee-president, Miss
Anna Neshum, secretary, and Mr.
William Abood, treasurer.
LUTFY-NIMAR WEDDING
SUNDAY
THE WEDDING of Miss Evelyn
Lutfy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Salim Lutfy, Brooklyn, and Raje Nimar,
will take place Sunday at five o'clock
in the evening in St. George Church,
Washington Street.
Last Saturday evening the bridegroom-to-be held a stag party in the
Son of the Sheik Restaurant, Washington Street, at which were' present
Alfred Gassoun, best man, Frank
Schweiri, James Fager, John Lutfy,
Habib Lutfy, Joe Shalhoub, A. Gorra,
D. Gorra, Jim Gorra and John Hogan, leader of the First Democratic
District in New York.
Mr. Abdallah Aboujowdy, representative of al-Hoda in Buffalo, returned to Buffalo after a few days
in New York when he attended the
funeral of a kinsman, S. Aboujowdy.
Mr. George Macsoud and Mr. Nicholas Macsoud, Brooklyn, are leaving Monday on a two or three weeks
motor trip to the Chicago Exposition.
Mrs.- Charles Unice of Houston,
Texas, is spending the week with
her sister, Miss Rosemary Teen hf hen
summer home in Milford, Pa.
At the Dedication of the Carlsbad
seven miles long and three
run from the surface to a depth
are Brigadier General Osborn C.
and Governor Seligman.
Cavern, New Mexico, which is
fourths of a mile wide. Elevators
of 750 feet From left to right
Wood, Mrs. Seligman, CoL Greer
Beirut, was reappointed Colonel on
Governor Seligman's staff. As Aide
de Camp he is called upon at all
times to accompany the Governor
throughout the state, reviews the
New
Mexican
annual
military;
manouevers and acts as the "governor's official host.
A member of the filks and of the
Rotarians, Mr. Greer is also a vicepresident of the New Mexico branch
of Ahepa, a national organization
whose president, Harris Booras of
Boston, was his guest while attending the tri-state convention that was
held in Sante Fe recently.
DINNER DANCE
FOR LAWYER
die Rizk, Gabe Khouri, Jimmie Hawie, George Abouarab, Phil Lian,
Steusi Gabriel, Albert Shehab, and
Ray and Albert Halabi.
WORCESTER, Mass., June 12.—
A testimonial dinner-dance will be
given in Hotel Bancroft, in honor of
John J. George who recently passed
the Bar Examinations en June 22.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. George, Grafton Street, Worcester. Invited guests are the following: Mayor John C. Mahoney, State
Rep. Edward J. Kelly, Rev. Father
George Sebhlani, Judge Donnelly and
other notables. Albert A. Maykel
will act as toastmaster. The committee in charge include George F.
Abdella, chairman, Dr. George Elias,
Michael Abodeely, Walter J. Moosa,
Mrs. Mary J. Assad, Miss Melvina
Mitchell, Joseph Lian and Miss Helen
Agbay.
Party on 21st Birthday
OLGA FAKOURI was given a
party last Saturday night in honor
of her twenty-first birthday by her
sister, Mary, in her home in Brooklyn. Among the guests were Rose
Lian, Adele and Nellie Lutfy, Nora
HaddacQ <Hga KaMiahy, Emile Arida, Eddie Merlug*JBddie Saadi, Ed-
• The family of Dr. F. I. Shatara,
his wife and two daughters, left
Brooklyn last week for their summer
place in Grassy Hill, Lyme, Conn.,, a
summer resort frequented by many
artists.
Miss Elizabeth Samra left Brooklyn for Buffalo, N. Y, late Wednesday night. She will spend a few days
there and then leave with Mrs. Virge
Samra who will spend the summer
with her in Muskegan, Milch.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
B. Katen, 79th Street, Brooklyn,
a week ago in the Bay Ridge
Sanitarium. He will be named Franklin Alphonse and is the third son
and fourth child.
James M Saydah of Fort Hamilton Parkway was grad*"'"-4 ~|* June
12 from Co? Ate *
Hamilton, N.Y.,
We of
Bachelor f
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<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
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<p><em>The Syrian World</em> was published between 1926 and 1932 as a journal. In 1932, the format was changed from an academic journal style to a newspaper style, which continued until the periodical's end in 1935. After the death of his brother Naoum, Salloum took over the publication of <em>Al-Hoda.</em></p>
<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
<p>All issues of <em>The Syrian World</em> are available, along with full indexes for the first four volumes. For volumes five and six, there are tables of contents at the start of the issues.</p>
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ALL PALESTINE
ANCIENT LANDS
GREETS FEISAL
LINKED BY TEL.
On Way to London, King Feisal
of Iraq Is Greeted by Arab
Delegations Who Lay Complaints Bef |re Him
\
(Special Correspondence)
JERUSALEM— The 8th of
June was a memorable day in
the calendar of Palestine. Thousands of the inhabitants of Jerusalem went out to welcome the
popular Arab ruler. King Feisal
>of Iraq who passed through it
on his way to London. Hundreds
of automobiles, carrying representative Arab Palestinians, dignitaries and newspaper reporters,
drove all the way to the borders oi
Transjordania, by way of Jericho, to
welcome the visiting king. With the
king's party which had moved fromi
Salt, Transjordania, were Emir Abdullah, the king's brother, Nuri Pasha
Sa'id, Foreign Minister of Iraq, Rustum Bey Haider, Minister of Communications, Tahsin Bey Qadri, Head
o* the Iraqite Protocol and Dr. Sanderson, the king's personal physician.
J
King Feisal at Jericho
At Jericho the royal party with
•his welcomers were met by a delegation headed by Musa Kazim Pasha
al-Huseini, President of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian
Congress, and many others who had.
come from Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa,
Nablus and other Palestinian cities.
A triumphal . arch decorated with
Arab flags was erected in honor of
the king. In bold letters the arch
carried the following inscription:
"Arab Palestine welcomes His Majesty Feisal I, King of the Arabs."
The royal procession, augmented
along the road by added delegates,
made its entrance to Jerusalem about
noon-time. The royal party was met
by representatives of the Palestinian
government, the British High Commission, the mayor of Jerusalem, Ragib Bey al-Nashashibi, and others.
Performs
<
Prayer
Almost the first act of King Feisal after his arival in Jerusalem was
to perform the mid-day prayer at the
historic Haram enclosure, overlooking the holy city to the west. He
entered from the "immigrants' gate,'"
like any humble Moslem and made
"two kneelings" (a short prayer) in
the Mosque of the Dome. From there
King Feisal paid a visit to his father's tomb, in the neighborhood,
where the opening Sura of the Qoran
was read over the tomb of the Arab
ruler who had stood adamant in the
face of British encroachments on
Arabia and Palestine, suffered exile
to Cyprus, lost his kingdom in Hijaz
and died away from his home, all
in his devotion to the Arab cause.
At lunch King Feisal was guest
of the British Commissariat. At 3
P.M. he motored to the Islamic college,
"Rawdat-ul-Ma'arif,"
where
hundreds of representative Arab leaders were given a chance to meet His
Majesty, and where His Majesty was
given a chance to hear the complaints
of Palestinians against the British
policy favouring Zionism, and its imminent dangers to Arab nationalism
in Palestine.
(Continued on page 2.)
BEIRUT— The ancient and historic cities of Syria and Palestine
are now within instant communication by telephone, the most practicable and efficient modern way of
transaction.
The department of communication of the French Commissariat, a
branch under the control of the
French military authorities in Syria,
issued recently an announcement to
the public that a direct line of telephonic communication has been established between the countries under French mandate and Palestine.
Long-Distance
Rates
The rates for 3 minutes conversation between 7 AM. and 8 P.M.,
and for 6 jminutes between 8.P.M.
and 7 AM., between some of the
principal cities follow:
Beirut-Jerusalem or Jaffa, Haifa,
Nazareth, Nablus, Hebron, and TibeMus-75 Lebanese Piastres (65 a).
Damascus, Tripoli or Sueida (Jabal ad-Duruze) - Any of above Palestinian' cities-100 P. (80 c).
Ladhiqiyyah, Hama ler HornsPalestine -112.50 P.
Aleppo, Alexandretta or AntichPalestine -137.50 P.
It was also announced that in the
near future other direct lines of telephonic communications would be established between Syria on one side
and Transjordania, Egypt, Great Britcin and France on the other.
Operators Must Be Linguists
In Egypt, where the telephone
is used extensively, the girl operators
are supposed to be able to carry on.
conversation in five languages—Arabic, French,English, Italian and Greek.
Will Syria and Lebanon furnish
enough of those polyglotic experts to
irun its telephones? And will those
operators have to know, besides, Yiddish and Hebrew to talk with Zionists in Tel-Aviv and Peteh-Tikwah?
STARTS SUIT
AGAINST FUAD
Princess Returning to America
to Regain American Citizenship
in Suit Against King
of Egypt
PRINCESS Ola Hasan of Egypt
formerly Ola Humphrey of San Francisco, is returning to the United States
from Cairo to regain her American
citizenship for a legal suit against
King Fuad.
She accuses him of preventing her
from obtaining the $1,750,000 legacy
that is due her from her late husband's estate, Prince Ibrahim. She
claims that King Fuad as head of the
rcyal house which controls the estate
of her dead husband, has caused
her case to be postponed whenever it
was brought up, during the last two
years. She also claims the high court
is afraid to set a date for the trial
as long as the king objects and she
is therefore regaining her citizenship
here in order to have the case tried
before the Mixed Court. She accused
the king of\ being all-powerful and
exceedingly wealthy and that he has
.suspended the constitution and is
himself above the law.
RICHMOND SYRIANS HOLD POLITICAL
RALLY ATTENDED BY 40 CANDIDATES
SYRIAN DEMOCRATIC CLUB SPONSORS LARGEST MEETING IN PRESENT POLITICAL CAMPAIGN — PRINCIPAL
ADDRESS BY EDITOR OF THE SYRIAN WORLD
(Special Correspondence)
RICHMOND, VA.,—Friday, June 23, was a banner day in
the history of the Syrian-Lebanese community of this city. The political meeting they sponsored was a huge success and was described
by the local papers as the largest of its kind so far held in the present campaign. Henry Hall was filled to capacity while several
hundred, unable to gain admission, crowded the sidewalks. Forty
or more candidates for state offices, from that of governor down,
attended the meeting.
In almost a full-column report
of the meeting, the Richmond TimesDispatch featured the attack of W.
Worth Smith, candidate for governor,
on the State party machine and his
advocacy of repealing the Layman
act and the legalizing of the sale
of 3.2% beer.
Mr. Smith favors
economy in government and substantial reductions in taxes.
Mr. A. Yarid, prominent Oriental
rug dealer of the city and President
of the Syrian Democratic Club sponsoring the meeting, presided. In excellent English he welcomed the candidates in the name of his organization and the Syrian-Lebanese community of Richmond and introduced
as the principal speaker of the occasion S. A. Mokarzel editor of al-Hoda
and The Syrian World, who came
here from New York for this purpose
as the guest of the club.
Gave Sketch of Syria and Lebanon
Mr. Mokarzel gave a brief sketch
of the history of Syria and Lebanon
and ,of the great contributions contributed to civilization by the Phoenicians, the direct ancestors of the Lebanese. He then proceeded to discuss
the standing of our people in America
and the particular qualities and racial
characteristics which make them one
of the most desirable elements in the
nation. He contended that to be a
loyal American did not necessarily
mean that those who are of foreign
extraction should entirely sever all
(relations with their past and their
native lands, and quoted on this subject a statement made to him earlier
in the day by Dr. Douglas Freeman,
editor of the Richmond News Leader,
who held the same view.
.Air. Mokarzel roused his audience
to a high pitch of enthusiasm, and
at the conclusion of his address was
given thunderous applause. The Syrian-Lebanese community were particularly pleased by the fact that our
able. editor immensely raised our
standing as a people in the esteem
of the American public. It may safely be stated that his address was the
talk of the city on the following day,
despite the heat of the political campaign. The Richmond News Leader
of June 24 made Syria and the Syrians the subject of its leading editorial
of which the following is the opening
paragraph.
"Syrians
in
Spot-Light"
"The Syrians are in the spotlight.
They paid a special visit to The
BRANCH OF BRITISH
BANK CLOSES
IN BEIRUT
BEIRUT— An inspector of the
Anglo-Palestine Bank arrived from
London to supervise the closing
of the Beirut branch of this international banking firm. After careful deliberation by the London
board of trustee, it w„„-Tbuud
advisable to discontinue the bank's »St
activities in Beirut Keen competition, it was said, was the principal reason leading to this decision.
News Leader yesterday, and in the
evening had a brilliant political rally
at their headquarters. It would work
salvation at London if there should
arise one who, like a Syrian of another day, could exercise the same persuasiveness that was shown when he
induced his master, Namaan, on the
banks of the Jordan, to 'Wash and be
clean!"
The meeting lasted until almost
midnight. Mr. Mokarzel was asked
at its close to make an address in
Arabic and he took the occasion to
exhort his countrymen to unite and
cooperate, citing as an illSstration
the splendid results achieved bccoperalion of their local societies to
sponsor the present meeting which
resulted in such signal success.
Mr. Joe Simon, on behalf of the
Syrian community, thanked the prominent American guests for their attendance.
Mokarzel Me» at Station
Upon Mr. Mokarzel's arrival in
Richmond, Friday morning, he was
met at the station by a committee of
prominent Syrian and Lebanese citizens who escorted him to. the John
Marshall Hotel and later accompanied
him on his tour of official visits to
Gov. John Garland Pollard at tht
State Capitol, to Mayor J. Fulmer
Bright at the City Hall, and to the
offices of the Times-Dispatch and
The News Leader. The committee
consisted of Essef Shaheen, Mike
ShuJletta, Charles Kouri, Salem Sanyour Arthur Olin, Philip Shaheen
and Assad Ghusn. With them was Mr.
John C. Goode, candidate for commissioner of revenue and a loya'
'the Syrians.
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THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, JUNE 30, 1933.
ORTHODOXY FACES SIFTING
IN THE UNITED STATES
ARCHBISHOP BENJAMIN FEDCHENKOV, TEMPORARY EXARCH OF THE PATRIARCHAL CHURCH OF RUSSIA,
COMES TO THIS COUNTRY TO LECTURE AND TO
INQUIRE INTO ECCLESIASTICAL STATUS OF
RUSSIAN ORTHODOX HIERARCHY
CALLS MARRIAGE OF ARCHBISHOP OFEISH "A SIN AND A FALLING
BACK," HIS VIEWS AS "PROTESTANT, NOT ORTHODOX"
THE CHAOTIC state which has prevailed in the Russian Orthodox Church in the United States, a state which expressed itself
in contending factions and unruly ecclesiastical conduct, has at last
received the serious and active interest of the Orthodox Patriarche! Church in Russia, the church which still represents the overwhelming majority of the Orthodox in that country.
Embodying this interest, as a
messenger of peace and goodwill, is
His Grace Archbishop Benjamin Fedchenkov, head of the Russian Orthodox Church in France, residing in
Paris, and temporary Exarch of the
Orthodox Patriarchal Church of Russia to North America, who arrived
last week at New York, where he was
met by loyal Russian emigres and
ecclesiastical representatives of the
Russian Orthodox Church of this
and other cities In the United States.
Having accepted an invitation by
the Russian' Religious and Philosophic Society of this country to lecture in the various cities where Russians are to be found in large numbers, the eminent Russian clergyman
was then commissioned by the mother
Patriarchal Church in Russia to inquire into the involved ecclesiastical
state of the daughter churches in the
States and,.report about it.
i
Precarious Situation
Realizing the precarious and
delicate situation which confronts
him, as well as the tense politicoreligious sentiments which govern so
many of the ardent Orthodox Russian
believers who had found refuge in
this country from the Communists at
« home, since the revolution of 1917,
Archbishop Benjamin was very cautious in expressing himself to a reporter of the Syrian World and another of al-Hoda who visited him at
2066 Fifth Avenue, New York.
Ruddy of face, with gray blue
eyes characteristic of his Slavonic
race, receding broad brow, a heavy,
reddish beard streaked with black, of
medium height and girth, the visiting Russian hierarch was an image
of serene composure, geniality and
Christian charity. His subdued smile,
and the innocent gleam from his soft
eyes inspired confidence rather than
(Continued from page 1.)
Complaints Aired
"The calamity has been aggravated in this section of the Arabic
land," declared Amin Bey at-Tamimi
in his speech before King Feisal,
"and the problems and difficulties
Jiave multiplied. Behold the direct
imperialistic rule in this country
and this flood of Zionist immigration
... and these lands passing away from
Arab hands to those of foreigners
All these augur no bright future for
the Arab cause, unless far-sighted
leaders apprehend the situation in
time."
The speaker urged King Feisal,
in the name of Palestine, to lay the
cause of its national .population before the responsible authorities when
he arrives at London.
King Feisal, his brother and his
entourage, motored back to Amman
at 5 P. M., from whence His Majesty
was to take the airplane to Gaza,
then to Egypt
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authority, the spirit of goodwill rather than the letter of discipline and
' the canon.
With him, at the time of the interview, was an English Catholic convert to Orthodoxy, Father Dimitri
Balfour, a distant kinsman of the
famous late Lord Balfour, tall and
stately who speaks English with an
Oxford accent.
Father Balfour Interprets
Through Father Balfour, who
acted as an interpreter, Archbishop
Benjamin wished to impress on us
the fact that he was not here to make
revolutionary and disciplinary decisions, but merely to inquire and report, awaiting instructions from the
ecclesiastical authorities in Moscow.
He is, above all, interested in establishing goodwill and unity where
suspicion, dissension and strife have
xeigned hitherto.
He characterized
his, mission as primarily a religious,
(not a canonical one, to raise the level
of religious life among the Russian
Orthodox communicants in America
and to help consolidate the spirit of
Christian revival which has begun to
make itself strongly felt in Russia,
as well as in other parts of the
world.
A question which has agitated
much discussion, mostly because it
has not been quite clearly understood or explained, was answered beyond the shadow of a doubt by His
Grace. How far is the regular Orthodox Church in Russia friendly to
the Soviet authorities, and what are
the • terms of its working agreement
with the said authorities?
Orthodox in Russia Unmolested
Archbishop Benjamin replied that
the regular Orthodox Church in Russia, known as the Patriarchal Church,
enjoys perfect freedom in that country as long as it participates in no
political activities, or expresses its
antagonism to the Bolshevik regime.
But since 1927, when that concordat
was established, the Bolsheviks have
always
accused
the
Patriarchal
Church of complicity in anti-Soviet
propaganda through its numerous
branch churches outside Russia. To
obviate this criticism and remove all
possible obstacles in the way of its
freedom, the Patriarchal Church recently decided that all clergy abroad
deriving their authority from the Russian church and who are under its
general jurisdiction should sign a
pledge refraining from politics, and
particularly from anti-Soviet activities and propaganda. No positive allegiance to Bolshevism is implied,
nor does this pledge go beyond the
clergy. It does not in any respect
restrict the political or civic freedom
of Russian Orthodox laymen outside the local churches.
One of the first acts of Archbishop Benjamin in this country was to
place this pledge before Archbishop
ST. PETE BOMBER
AN EGYPTIAN
Arrested, Identified Through
Passport.
To Be Tried
in Italy
ACCORDING to an Associated Press
dispatch from Vatican City, the bombing of the portico of St. Peter's
Church, Rome, last Sunday, injuring four and creating a panic among
the Holy Year pilgrims, was charged
to an Egyptian, Demetrio Solamon of
Spanish citizenship, who had entered
Rome a .few hours before from Spain
which is his homeland.
Attempting flight after the bombing, the Egyptian was caught by Fascist soldiers and was identified
through his pasport which he had
unwittingly thrown in a fountain.
The explosion is said to have aggravated the strained relations between the Vatican and Spain.
Bomber to Be Tried
Under the Lateran Treaty, the
bomber will be tried in Italy, but
not in the Vatican. Authorities expressed the belief that Solamon's action was inspired by the Pope's encyclical of June 3 and excommunications of members of the Spanish
Government.
It was not reported whether the
prisoner made any statement, but investigation revealed that he is a native of Egypt who had become first
a Greek citizen, Ihen a Spanish one.
As a large number of the inhabitants of Egypt are of foreign origin, it is quite likely that Demetrio
Sclamon, as his first name seems to
indicate, is either a Greek or Spaniard of Egyptian birth. It is highly
improbable that an Arab Egyptian
would be moved with such zeal for*
a foreign nationalistic cause.
Platon, titular head of the Russian
Orthodox Church in North America.
Archbishop Platon at first showed
favourable intention to sign the
pledge, but then stiffened his opposition and refused to sign It is
thought that post-War Russians, bitter enemies of the Bolshevik, brought
pressure on Archbishop Platon, who
pow suspects that the pledge is a
plot of the Soviet authorities to bring
the Orthodox Church in Russia under its control. Archbishop Benjamin, naturally, is not of this opinion.
Rather, he thinks, the pledge is necessary for the peace and liberty of
the Orthodox believers in Russia.
Living Church not Bound
Obviously this pledge does not
apply to members of the Living
Church, an organization with decided
affinities with the Bolshevik and
which has adopted many ecclesiastical reforms, among them the abolishment of celibacy among the clergy.
Archbishop Benjamin does not believe the total membership of the Living Church, sometimes called Red
Church exceeds ten per cent of all
the Orthodox in Russia. Furthermore,
he has no definite plans to restore
possession of the Russian Cathedral
in New York, now in possession of
Archbishop Kadrowsky, head of the
Living Church in North America,
with his small following.
Since Archbishop' Benjamin's visit
to Archbishop Platon, the latter issued an encyclical declaring the
Russian Church in North America independent of the authorities in Russia. Fyr four years he has not been
in communication or touch with the
Orthodox hierarchy in jMoscow, and,
therefor^, his latest action was not
ed.
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STRONG, DECLARES PRE5.
Parent Institution Has Shown Phenomenal Success in Egypt
BEIRUT— Following rumors {bat
the Egyptian-Syrian-Lebanese bank,
a branch of "Banque Misr," was unstable, Tal'at Bey Harb, Egyptian president, who is one^of the foremost
^financiers in the Near East, issued a
statement of the bank's transactions
with balance sheet.
According to this statement the
balance in the branch bank, with
centres in Beirut and Damascus, up
to Dec. 31, 1932, was 698,382 L.P., as
against 342,161 LP. for the corresponding period of 1931, clear profit
amounting to 15, 965.98. Of this sum
12,500 were distributed as dividends
to the stock-holders at a 2.21 per
cent rate.
The Syrian and Lebanese branches
of Banque Misr were established in
1929, after a persistent demand by
many nationals that a banking institution run by nationals was an urgent need in those countries. Tal'at
Harb went (to Syria and Lebanon especially to make an investigation of
the situation for himself.
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Banque Misr Progressive
Banque Misr itself, founded in
the spring of 1920, has shown phenomenal success. From a modest beginning of 80,000 E.L. ($350,000) it
has grown into a gigantic financial
institution sponsoring and financing
nine Egyptian industrial projects, including a national press and a paper
factory. In 8 years its capital jumped
to 780,000 E.L. and has since kept up
its amazing pace. At one time, 1930,
it was said to be the only large bank
in Egypt which could show substantial profits for the current year.
Coming closer home to affairs of
the Syrian Russian Orthodox Church,
Archbishop Benjamin said he has just
begun to acquaint himself with the
situation, based on documentary evidence. He paid high tribute to the
late Patriarch Gregory Haddad, whom
he recalled on the hitter's memorable
visit to Russia, as a saintly man, reminding one of the old uatriarchs of
biblical times.
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Aftimios' Marriage "a Sin"
Of Archbishop Aftimios' sensational marriage, Archbishop Benjamin declared it "a sin and a falling
back." He expressed his sorrow at
this relapse of the Syrian archbishop,
and hoped that he would repent, in
which case the Orthodox Church,
would consider his forgiveness and
reinstatement. As it is, he is now
declared unorthodox.
Nevertheless,
since no synod has passed on his
action, Archbishop Aftimios is still
nominally a bishop. But he had no
redeeming word for the marriage,
which he said is clearly against the
canons of the church. And as for,
the distinction which the married
archbishop makes the basis of his selfdefense, namely the distinction between a God-inspired Bible and a
man-made canon, the Russian hierarch smilingly called it a Protestant,
not an Orthodox distinction.
He
pointed out that the same Holy Spirit
which inspired the Bible also inspired
the ecumenical councils which formulated the canons.
Archbishop Benjamin was somewhat reluctant to give his first "impression" of America. He remarked,
however, that Americans strike him
as being less spiritually sophisticated
than Europeans, and that there is a
great opportunity for "orthodoxy in
this country, an opportunity which
is endangered by the regrettable show
of dissension and contentions among
the Orthodox.
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ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 22.— The
Syrian A. C. won a gruelling 13 inning ball game Sunday, June 4, from,
the Herbert* ^Tigers. T. Thomas started
the game but could not finish because of the terrific heat. They had
to call on Ben Ablan to pitch the
last 5 innings. He pitched masterfully, so much so that he hurt his
arm and wasn't able to use it for
another month. Cobie Ablan, Ben's
brother, came to his rescue several
times with sensational stops at second base. He also hit a double in,
the 13th to win the game. The score
resulted 1 to 0.
The Kingdom House, an all Syrian team, champs of last year, won
every game last season and won three
so far this season. It is great to
watch these girls play; they have
swift pitching, and exciting base
stealing. Sadie Sayegh broke into
the lineup and starred on the offense
and defense while Meile played every1
position on the infield during the
game. George S. Kormed, American
League Star, and formerly with the
St. Louis Browns, was the umpire.
Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Constantine
and family of Narberth, Pa., left last
week for their summer residence in
Ocean City, Md.
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Toledo
(Special Correspondence)
The St. Vincent de Paul Society
of this city held its annual excursion,
sail which Was enjoyed by 200 mothers and children. They sang songs,
old and new, but the favorite seemed
to be "Sweet Adeline."
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COLORFUL
WEDDING
AMONG HIGHEST IN
SHORTHAND
IN THE recent annual shorthand
test arranged by the New York City
Gregg Shorthand Teachers' Association in which 500 pupils participated,
Miss Anna Barckett of Passaic, N. J.
came out among the three highest,
receiving a certificate for 100 words
a minute.
AWAD-MECHALANY
WEDDING
MISS MARY Rabbat Mechalany
of Brooklyn and Dr. Habib N. Awad
of Brooklyn and formerly of Buffalo,
N. Y., were married Sunday afternoon
at four o'clock in Our Lady of Lebanon Church, Brooklyn, by Rev.
George Zouain. Mrs. Alice Cuirito
was the matron of honor and her
husband, Sam Cuirito was best man.
The couple left Sunday night for
Montreal, Canada, on their honeymoon.
SALIM F. SHAIA DIES
SALIM F. SHAIA, Brooklyn, died
in Kings County Hospital two weeks
after entering it for an operation
which proved successful. He became
subject to pneumonia on leaving the
hospital and died last Friday night.
.Services were held for him Monday
afternoon in jOur Lady of Lebanon
Church, Brooklyn, where a large
number of mourners attended, among
whom were the Aitaneet Brotherhood
who were present in a body.
BRILLIANT and colorful was the
wedding of Miss Thelma Rafful,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. K. Rafful, Toledo, Ohio, to Joseph La Hood,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Noah La Hood,
Bridgeport, Ohio, recently in the St.
Francis de Sales Cathedral. The Rt.
Rev. J. T. O'ConneU, vicar general
of the diocese, officiated at the nuptial
high mass.
Miss Julia Rafful, sister of the
bride, was maid of honor, gowned in
shell pink organdie, Mrs. J. E.
Thompson of Louisville, Ky., cousin
of the bride was matron of honor.
The bridesmaids were, Margaret
Sphire, Rose Farris, Jeannette Jamra,
Alma Ammer, Alice Genite, Emily
Eiias, Sylvia Saba, and Ruth Mickel.
P. C. Andary of Martins Ferry,
Ohio, attended Mr. La Hood as best
man. The ushers were, George Sodd,
George Ammer, Fred Geha, Eli Nassar, Albert Hage, Paul Joseph, and:
mike Saba Jr.
Miss Shirley Jeane Haney, dressed
in pale green, acted as flower girl.
A reception was held in the home
of the bride's parents.
A trip to the World's Fair and
a short stay at Buckeye Lake, followed by a trip to Duluth, was the
honeymoon plan of the newly weds.
After June 29th, they will be at their
home, in Bridgeport, Ohio.
SORORITY FRY GIVEN
MISS ELIZABETH Saba, was
chairman of arrangements for the
hamburg fry, sponsored by the Gamma Epsilon Psi Sorority, Thursday,
June 22nd, at Ottowa Park. Fourteen;
couples were present.
GRADUATES
Those who were graduated from
St. Paul's School in Brooklyn last
Sunday were Clemence Khouri, cum
laude; John Jenawi, Salim Bistany,
Agnes Ata and Elias Chuchari.
Anthony A. Khouri and Kalil
Jenawi were graduated from St. Charles School, Brooklyn, last Sunday.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Kalil Hage of Brooklyn was baptized
in St. John's Baptist Church last
Sunday.
Mrs. Nimnum Hage was
god-mother and Mr. Nassif Gorra the
god-father. The baby was named
Therese.
On June 11 Miss Lillian Asfour
entertained about. 50 guests in her
home in 8th Street, Brooklyn. The
guests were fellow-members of the
Daughters of the United Maronite Society and their escorts. These monthly social gatherings held in turn by
a different member are all day affairs, taking place every four Sundays. Usually tabouli is served and
in the evening there is dancing.
Miss Alice Grayeb held a party in
her home in Brooklyn last Saturday
which was attended by about 25
friends.
Mrs. S. Y. Alkazin left Brooklyn
Wednesday for their summer home
in Old Orchard, Maine. Buddy, the
Dr. and Mrs. Alkazin's son will go to
his usual camp near Old Orchard.
CLUB HONORS
PRESIDENT
To Hold Picnic; Youngstown
Community to Honor Msgr.
(Special Correspondence)
THE YOUNG Syrian American,
Club honored its president, Joseph
Bryan, with a surprise party upon
his graduation from Y. M. C.A. Night
High School, which was held at the
home of the Misses Mary and Edith
Betras, 166 W. Warren Avenue, on
Thursday, June 22. Mr. Bryan has
been president of the club since its
organization about eight years ago.
He was presented with a beautiful
wrist watch from the members with
the club monogram engraved on the
back. A delightful supper was served
at midnight.
The club will hold a picnic for
*fi members and their friends, Sunday, July 2, at Mill Creek Park.
Members of St. Maron's Church
held a mcnic at thg farm Qf ^
Mrs. S Simon on Early Road, on Sunday, June 25th. Every one had an
enjoyable time.
r J116 Syrian-Lebanese Community
of Youngstown are making plans for
a jubilee to be held on July 30 in
honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary
of the ordination of Msgr. Elias Hayek, pastor of St. Maron's Church.
IN NATIONAL HONOR
SOCIETY
CLEVELAND.— Raymond Shibley son of Nasif Shibley of East High
School, Cleveland, Ohio, was graduated on June 15 with high honors
and was elected into the National
Honor Society, the highest organization in any high school. He received
an attendance certificate for not missing a day in school and stood highest
in his class in French, having taken
two years in one. He will enter
Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and train to be a language instructor.
WOMEN'S AUXILIARY
OFFICERS INSTALLED
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., June
14.— The officers of the Women's
auxiliary of the Knights of Lebanon
in Niagara Falls, N.Y. installed their
officers who were recently elected
Mrs. H. J. Hamam was elected president; Mrs. J. Houraney, vice-president; Miss Margaret Elias, treasurer;
Miss Madeline Hamman, secretary;
Mrs. A. Nimur, Arabic secretary;
Mrs. A. D. Joseph, speaker and Mrs.
S. Hamnam, guard.
The Board of Directors consists
of Mrs. Najeeb Joseph, Mrs. J. Hanna, Jr., Mrs. George Joseph, and the
Misses Rose Deban, May Sarkees,
Linda Joseph, Helen Hamman, Emily
Mansour and Julia Joseph.
DINNER DANCE
THE AMSYRS Club gave an informal dinner dance recently at the
La Tabernilla night club.
Fifty
couples attended.
Mike Saba Jr.,
chairman of arrangements, was assisted by Eli Nassar and Alex Jacobs.
FATHERS DAY PICNIC
HELD
THE SIGMA Alpha Phi fraternity
entertained fathers of Toledo Syrians,
at a picnic held at Greenwood Park.
Committee in charge of arrangements
included Mike Addis, Yob Darah, and
George Abrass.
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CHILD ATTACKED
BY RODENT
PLAINFIKLD, N. J., June 19.—
Karim Hamrah, nine-months old son
of Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Hamrah of
Dunellan, New Jersey was attacked
by a huge rodent while asleep early
Saturday morning.
The animal bit the child just below the thumb and was frightened
away after the cries of the child had
aroused his mother.
Waving his
wounded hand frantically about his
face and body the infant was splattered with blood. A doctor was immediately summoned and attended
the child The wound was not as
serious as $vas expected
How the rodent entered the
house and the child's room could not
be determined.
SYRIAN WOMAN EXAMPLE
OF PIONEER MOTHER
Mother of Prominent Sons and
Daughters Was Active in
Aiding the Syrians
CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 15.—
One of the early Syrian settlers of
this city, Mrs. Julia Zlaket, 54, passed
away on May 29. She had been actively engaged in promoting the local interests of the Syrian people here.
She had been engaged in the wholesale dry goods business for the past
28 years with her two sons, William
and Nicholas, and was the widow
of Salim Zlaket who conducted the
business for 15 years until his.death.
In 1927 she retired into private life.
Nicholas Zlaket, her oldest son, has
been prominent in local politics for
some years past. He was appointed
to an important post with the city
of Cleveland adminstration, but has
since given that up and again tak ~
up the business. He is vice-presi
dent and chairman of the Board of
Trustees of the Syrian American
Club. Miss Sophie Zlaket, president
and Miss Anna Zlaket, treasurer of
the Syrian Junior League of Cleveland have been prominent and active
in Syrian affairs for a good many
years.
The funeral was attended by a
large number of Syrians of Northern
Ohio in St. Elias Roman Catholic
Church. The funeral procession to
Calvary Cemetery was one of the
longest ever held (in Cleveland. The
cnly surviving member of Mrs. Zlaket's family, (nee Caraboolad) is
Abraham Caraboolad of Brooklyn who
came to Cleveland for the funeral.
ARABIC RADIO
PROGRAMS
EVERY Saturday evening from
8:30 to 9 P.M. an Arabic musical
program is given by outstanding Syrian musical talent in America over
station WBBC, 1400 kc.
Antoun
Abdelahad and Fithallah Abyad Sang
and played on the last program,
June 17.
FARIS-NUCHO
WORD has just reached this office of the marriage in Beirut on
April 8 of Miss Lily Nucho, daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. Nemeh Nuoho, and
Basim Faris, professor of Economics
in the A. U. B. The couple is now
living in the home of the bride's
father. The former Miss Nucho was
graduated from Miss Kassab's School
in Beirut. Mr. Faris left this country some months ago, having studied
two years in Princeton University.
Miss Selma Sahadi, Brooklyn, will
return this week-end from a week's
visit to the Chicago World's Fair.
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June 30, 1933.
TO SPANK OR NOT TO SPANK
IT MAY not sound very dignified to take
the question of spanking or1 no spanking as
a subject for an editorial. But when we recall
how much this smarting experience does enter into the early life of almost all of us, and
bow much of the destiny of youth depends
on its wise or unwise administration, we loosen our frown of disapproval and admit that
it is an important, if not a vital subject
worthy of consideration.
Like all subjects of this sort, the antithetical manner in which it is put robs it of a
great deal of its effectiveness and significance. It reminds some of us of debating
topics that used tO be popular in the Syrian
lt^m'ehtary~ schools years ago: "Which is
j»*^tter wealth or knowledge?", "Who is
more useful the physician or the teacher?",
"Which is more preferable the city or the
country?"
The. truth is, such distinctions may exist in
the immature minds of little pupils, but have
no place in life whatsoever.
The same may be said of spanking or no
spanking. The question, therefore, is not: to
spank or not to spank, but when and how
and under what conditions should the parent
or teacher spank or not spank. It reminds
one of the story of a stem father who, having given his little boy a good spanking,
asked him: "Son, do you know why I spanked you?„" The boy, drying his tears, between
sobs, replied: "Yes, because you are stronger than I!"
One reason why the findings o( modern
science and psychology so often and so repeatedly confirm the wisdom of our ancestors, is that such wisdom has been almost always PRACTICAL WISDOM, relying not so
much on the soundness of a theoretical principle, as on an intimate understanding of the
subtle ways and working of life itself. Nature has provided in healthy instinct and
common sense the necessary means and ways
of its preservation, conservation, well-being
and growth.
It is when we fly in the face
of life and instinct that we find ourselves at
odds with it, and pay the penalty from which
BO amount of psychologizing will exempt or
save us.
A LONCSOUGHT CITY UNEARTHED IN
ALOUITE DISTRICT, REVEALING
MANY SECRETS OF HISTORY
AND LEGEND
A DICTIONARY 3000 years old, a cosmetic set as elaborate as any Parisienne may
display on the chiffonier of her modern boudoir, spit curls and eye black used by coquettish ladies and goddesses several milleniums
before our flappers mastered the arts of
charm, were among many things discovered
and deciphered by tireless archeologists in
Ras Shamar, a little distance north-east of
Ladhiqiyyah, the ancient Latakia.
It is all told in a graphic and instructive article
in the current issue of the GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE by Claude Schaeffer, chief American archeologist in charge of the excavations carried out
there since 1929.
Mr. Schaeffer considers the archeological finds
in Ras Shamra among the most priceless and historically important of all the numerous finds unearthed (in Syria, Palestine, Transjordania, Lebanon
and Mesopotamia in the last decade or more.) Particularly is this true of the inscriptions which, the
American archeologist holds, indicate the most ancient examples of alphabetical writing in history.
If this is true, it means that the discoverers of the
Alphabet were not the Phoenicians, but some other
Semitic people to the north. According to another
authority, Prof. Martin Sprengling of the University of Chicago, the first alphabet was a sort of
marking code used by Arab foremen in the quarries of Sinai. At any rate the alphabet remains a
Semitic contribution to civilization, perhaps the
greatest, the corner-stone of all culture and progress.
Ras Shamra is a modern, Arabic name. But on
its site, overlooking the Bay of Minat-ul-Beida,
cnce rose an old cky which had its day in the annals of ancient history. Schaeffer identifies it with
Ugarit, mentioned in an Egyptian hieroglyphic record commemorating the victories of Ramases II over
the Hittites in northern Syria.
This city must have been the meeting place of
several races and nations, a metropolis, like so many
m the Near East of our day, where peoples from
distant parts mingled in its streets, haggled oven
prices in its bazaars and gathered in its squares and
caravansaries. We are told that eight languages
were used by its polyglotic inhabitants, and that
slates displaying these eight different languages side
by side were found in the ruins of Ras Shamra.
Three of these languages have not been definitely
deciphered yet. The other five are Babylonian,
Summerian (allied to Babylonian), Egyptian, Hittite and the local lingo of Ugarit, which the author!
declares is closely related to classical Phoenician.
Of curious interest is the added information that
the Summarian was a kind of learned language
used by theologians, scholars and lawyers, much as
Latin was used by the ecclesiastical and scholastic
people of Middle Ages.
The "finds" of Ras Shamra abound in oddities
and curiosities of ancient history. Here are a few
taken at random from Schaeffer's article: A dictionary of synonyms that must be at least 3000 years
old. Of course the dictionary is out of resemblance
to any dictionary we know of our age. It was a
series of slates with the words and their synonyms
marriage of Archbisop Aftimios.
We feel
compelled to do this because right before us
lie two lengthy articles, one from Archbishop
Ofeish defending himself, another from a
correspondent attacking the history-making
marriage.
In refusing space for either of them we do
that not out of disrespect for His Grace or
for the worthy correspondent, but simply because we insist on adhering to our policy announced in previous issues of the SYRIAN
WORLD, that we refuse to enter into controversy on a subject that clearly DOES NOT
belong in the domain of popular journalism.
HIS QUARREL IS WITH HJS OWN
Only when something of news value breaks
CHURCH AUTHORITIES
out are we justified in writing about it, and
RELUCTANTLY, and with some apology then only in the usual news reporting manto our readers, we take up once more this ner.
limited space to write about the celebrated
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inscribed with stylus in parallel perpendicular lines.
'Numerous slates ajso were found: which proved to
fee exercise books used by pupils in we schools ofi
those days, as well as slates on which long epic*
poems were inscribed centuries before Homer. A
series of alabaster and ivory jars, of different designs and sizes, were found in a" princess' tomb,
obviously used to hold cosmetic preparations and
perfumery. A couple of silver statuettes, one tail
and one short, may indicate the first "Mutt and
Jeff" comic in history. Other statuettes of gods
and goddesses, with inscriptions extolling their
virtues or recounting their legends in prose and,
verse, throw fresh light on characters already familiar to us from the Bible and older excavations.
Thus Adam and Eve are mentioned as living in a
magnificent garden in the East. Adam is portrayed
as the founder of a nation, the Semites, and Eve
comes out in the Ugarit inscriptions as a vivacious,
cruel and revengeful goddess, not at all like the docile, demure Eve of our Bible. Then there is mention of a Din-el, who must be our familiar Daniel,
and he appears as a protector of the weak and oppressed. The story of Adonis is also alluded to,
and Leviathan of the Psalms and Job appears inj
the consonant root of "Ltn." In one "dictionary,"
terms for various prices, such as "great price,"
"small price" and "fixed price," are given, which
proves that "haggling" and bargaining over prices
is a truly ancient institution in our East.
These instances by no means exhaust the range
and archeological importance of the discoveries made
at Bas Shamra. Experts in the ancient languages of
cur East are busy deciphering some of the more
enigmatical slates and inscriptions unearthed, and,
Mr. Schaeffer believes when that work has been
done, many startling facts will be found which will]
revolutionize some of our conceptions of ancient
history.
WHEN ALI FAILS
Buzurjumhar, the wise vizier of Anushurwan, a famous Persian Shah, was asked:
"What things are best for a man?" He replied: "A mind wherewith to make his living."— He was further asked: "What if he
had not that?". "Then," he replied, "Brethren to cover his defects."
Again he was
asked: "What if he had not these?". "Then,"
he replied: "Wealth wherewith he could win
the favor of men."
And if not that?" He
was pressed.
"Then good behavior wherewith to enhance his station," he. replied.
"And if not that?" "Then," said the vizier,
"Silence to save himself." "And if not that?"
"Then," replied Buzurjumhar, "Death to relieve him and rid creation of him."
Said an Arab sage: "I sought rest for myself, and found nothing more restful than
letting alone what does not concern me. 1
sought solitude in the wilderness, and found
nothing more solitary than the evil companion.
I witnessed battles and military campaigns and challenged my peers in combat,
and found nothing more defeating to man
than the evil wife.
I took cognizance of
everything that humiliates the eighty, and
found
nothing
more
humiliating
than
poverty."
Aftimios the article in this issue of the SYRIAN WORLD in which Archbishop Benjamin
Fedchenkov, Temporary Exarch of the Patriarchal Church of Russia to North America,
gives his views on various churchissues pertaining to the Russian Orthodox Church of
this country. There Archbishop Benjamin
gives a clear-cut answer to this precarious
question of a bishop's marriage, as well as
to the attitude which Archbishop Aftimios
takes in the defense of his act: the distinction
between "a man-made canon and a God-inspired Bible."
The quarrel of Archbishop Aftimios is not
with the SYRIAN WORLD, which has conscientiously tried to present the issue in an
impartial and historic light, but with his own
church authorities, with his colleagues of the
Greek Orthodox hierarchy.
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DR. R. T. DEEN who is a Druse (please forgive
me for mentioning the religion of the gentleman.
I hate this practice that is prevalent among Syrians
(An Excerpt from: "The New Spirit in
but the notation is relevant to the, story) was waked
Ancient Lands.")
up one morning at two o'clock from a deep dream
ONE OF the most significant signs of our times of peace and was asked, "Is this the Doctor?" "Yes,"
is a rise of a spirit of contriteness and self-criticism said Dr. Deen, "I just wanted to know," said the
among the intellectual classes the world over. That voice and the receiver* on the other end clicked.
arrogant, cocky self-aggrandizement which charac- Naturally Dr. Deen couldn't sleep after that puzzlterized European nationalism before the War is giv- ing mystery. After a few minutes the phone rang
ing place to a sort.of apologetic consciousness which, again. "Is this Dr. Deen?" "Yes, darn you. And
discovering its own nakedness, now blushes to go who are you?" "This is St. Maron speaking." "Oh,
<mt before the world without a cloak of moral justi- it's St. Maron, is it," rebutted the doctor. "I don't
fication, however diaphanous. A sense of moral believe it. I know St. Maron well and I know he
bankruptcy, of spiritual failure, pervades the whole wouldn't stoop to such folly." Bang went his receiver.
world.
Not only in nationalism, but in all forms and
The famous and gorgeous dancers, Ramon and
phases of social expression this spirit manifests itRosita, will display the charm of their dancing, beself more or less explicitly.
Harbingers of it passed in solitary flights in the ginning June 28, at the new El-Patio Club that they
dark, tumultuous atmosphere of mamon-mad, are or/ining in Valley Stream, L. I., near the Pavigloire-drunk Europe before the W^r. Their pro- lon Royal where Guy Lombardo plays. Joe Moss
phetic voice, often sombre and pessimistic, fell on will conduct his smooth orchestra for a few weeks.
receptive ears and responding hearts before it was Edouardo Bianco Tipica's orchestra, imported from
drowned, temporarily, by the bellowing thunder of Argentine for the purpose, will play their snaky,
hatred and destruction on every frontier of Europe captivating tangoes and Frances Maddox and Rewa
arid-Western Asia. It was a reaction from an over- Reyes, Mexican singer will be among the famous
bearing superiority complex which sometimes ex- entertainers, while charming, witty Peppy d'Alpressed itself in the dubious gospel of "Nordic su- brew, will act as host.
periority," or the still more dubious one of "the
At the dinner for Sami Bey Shawwa a couple
white man's burden."
In the Ancient Lands, until quite recently, the of weeks ago, there was an old lady present who
case was somewhat different. Awakened from a looked just like one of those good old-fashioned
prolonged slumber which had carried their people Syrian grandmothers, not stylish or modern, yet she
to the vanishing point of social consciousness, to the was smoking, very matter-of-factly. Which inborderland of religion and magic, where fact and stance reminded me that smoking among women
fancy, romance and realism frankly intermingle, the was prevalent in Syria long before American
first reaction of those people was one of self-as- women even countenanced such a thing. And it
sertion, the development of a defense complex also makes me think of all the Syrian women who
against the withering hauteur and crushing domina- leave America for Syria, very prejudiced against
smoking but return to it smoking themselves. I
tion of European imperialism.
This usually expressed itself among Moham- wonder what it is in Syria that changes their atmedans of the East in intense hatred of the West titude.
and everything western, resulting sometimes in the
The members of the Syrian Junior League are
persecution of native Christians who felt a natural
thinking
of having a picnic to take place in Greenkinship to their coreligionists of the West. A feeling of dependence grew among those eastern Chris- wood Lake, N. J., in the near future. They will
tians who sought the protection of European powers, have buses to take out the picnicers, and most likea feeling accompanied in many instances by a cring- ly only young people will go. It isn't definite yet
ing adoration of the West and evet-ything western. but they are thinking about it seriously. Miss
This condition of extreme reactions which cre- Adele Macsoud was commissioned to make inquiries
ated distrust, hatred and alienation among popula- about arrangements, etc.
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The Daughters of the United Maronite Society
language and the same general culture heritage,
could not last very long. It soon gave way to a are also holding an outing. They hold one every
spirit of rapprochement and effort at mutual under- year. This year it will be on Sunday July 16 to
standing on both sides. Mohammedans not only be- take place in Babylon^ L. I. Buses will be provided
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Christians and native Christians, who shared with
And then the third outing planned for this
them the same homeland, language and historic experiences, but also between European civilization month is that of the Aleppian Fraternity to take
in its imperialistic aspect which threatened to swal- place this Sunday.
low them up and subjugate them to its ruthless
will, and the more humane, spiritual one which
said:
expressed itself in the devoted service and self"Hasan, my brother, these are the ones who
sacrifice of the pioneer missionaries.
know how to enjoy themselves in this world off
Furthermore, those Mohammedans began to reours!"
alize that not everything western is an abomination,
"Never mind," retorted Hasan with a distant
of Iblis which deserves only to be spit upon, nor
look and a serious mien, "bye and bye when we
everything Moslem or Arabic is admirable and withleave this world we will go to Paradise, where
out fault. They reflected that nations which have
pleasures beyond description await the believers,
made such tremendous strides of progress in things
where black-eyed houris will be given us in marmaterial, which invented the steam-engine, the
riage, -where we will pluck rare and luscious fruits
telegraph and the cotton-gin, cannot be altogether
from overhanging branches, where we will sip freely
inferior to people who worshipped Allah in poverty
from flowing rivers of honey and milk, where...."
and squalor, who still had to travel on back of the
But Ali was of a different mood and a different
camel and the mule and who, even when they fought
mind. He was not to be convinced so easily. He
among themselves or against the infidel enemy,
turned to his companion, as he shook his drowsy
had to shoulder flint-locks bearing the stamp of
head, and said:
their Christian origin.
"By Allah, O Hasan, my brother, if these words
An amusing story speaks graphically for itself
of yours be not true, we are going to get it in the
in portraying this spirit of disillusionment and
teck in this world and in the world to come!"
doubt which began to make its disquieting invasion in the Ancient Lands a century or so ago.
In the gay nineties, two typically ragged, dirty,
ORIENTALIA
emaciated hashish-eaters stood at the gate of alAzbakiah'Park in Cairo facing Nubar Pasha Street,
"Slander is the pastime of the ungodly,
as a crowd of tourists were coming down from the
fashionable Shephard Hotel. Some were in their and the revenge of the mob."
riding habits on back of horses, some drawn in
stately carriages, and all agog with joyous merri"Enough praise for learning that it is
ment, the picture of opulence and happiness.
claimed
by those who do not possess it."
. Watching this sight with envious eyes, Ali, one
Ali.
pf the two derelicts, turned to his companion and
About Syrian food—
DESPITE the heat Syrians will continue to have
their "koosa mihshee" and other hot dishes. The
change of climate doesn't alter the menu for Syrian wives in their native homeland or here in America. When vegetables are in seasoi there will always be a cooked vegetable -and-ltt*ib dish with
fice or stuffed squash, cabbage or grape leaves. Offseasons are provided for by the preservation of
grape leaves in salt and the stringing of dried okra.
While our American neighbors are boiling potatoes for a cold salad and getting cold cuts from the
delicatessen for the traditional cool American meal,
the Syrian wife is in the hot kitchen patiently rolling wads of grape leaves or scooping out squash.
Her side dish will be a luscious salad filled with the
usual summer vegetables and a generous proportion of mint leaves. Some will add a finely chopped
onion and particularly epicurean wives will have a
faintly detectable smack of garlic. Mayonnaise ir»
a Syrian salad is taboo. French dressing made of
a good proportion of select olive oil and lemon
juice or vinegar with sprinklings of pepper, salt and,
other favorite spices beaten with a fork will produce a rich and tasty dressing. To prevent a too
garlicy taste it is a good plan to pour the finished
dressing over a small crushed garlic in a strainer.
This will do away with the bulk of the garlic and
too much of its tang.
Unfortunately too little or no time is given to
the thought of a dessert. The usual thing to have
after a heavy Syrian meal is fruit. The anticipation of a good dessert is unknown in most Syrian,
families and yet most children prefer to think of
meals in terms of dessert than in anything else, so
I think it would be well to create a good, light
dessert once in a while.
With the advent of summer "tabooly" or "safsouf" will have its fling. You of strictly Syrian
tastes should put every conceiveable green vegetable
in this dish but omit cucumbers and tomatoes or
you will be teased about your "salata." When I was
in Syria a few years ago I was surprised to find
that for no reason at all these two vegetables were
faithfully omitted. Why? oh, they were too suggestive of salad. In Syria it isn't so bad, as green,
vegetables are numerous and plentiful and one can)
well do away with the saladish type, but in America the green vegetables boil down to lettuce, parsley, mint, scallions. Of course there are some
who prefer their "tabooly" this way but to more
Americanized tastes I don't think it's satisfying.
The younger married couples are forming their
own ways of serving meals. They are adhering to
age-old methods of cooking but with some revisions. They are happily combining the best off
Syrian customs in food and the harmonizing finishing touches of American customs. The result is
quite successful and I venture to say surpasses the
purely Syrian or the purely American. It is a
happy combination of the East and West and satisfying to both tastes.
Receives B. A. at 18
Fouad Kordahi, a young handsome lad of Alexandria, Egypt, received his B.A. from the French
College in Alexandria at the age of 18. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Farid el-Kordahi. His father is
the manager of the Telegraph Company in SidiAkbar and his mother is the sister of Fadwa Kurban, the singer.
The Magic Carpet of Movietone, a feature of
the Embassy News Reel Theatre in New York, took
us to Egypt and acquainted' us with the less familiar scenes of that country of the Nile. Too little
of the best part of Cairo was shown to be pleasant,
but the native scenes of the less civilized sections
were interesting.
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MINIATURES
BAALBEK (HELIOPOLIS)
BAALBEK— City of the Sun-God. .mute
-witness of the grandeur and majesty of the
past that was Syria's. . a meeting-place of
the religions of East and West, of Rome and
Phoenicia, .a little village of 10,000 population, .eloquent witness of the backwardness
and stagnation of the East, until comparatively very recent times, .once famous for its
magnificent structures, now for its luscious
apricots!
There is hardly a name on the Syrian map
excepting that of Damascus, that is more
ARABESQUE
held by some superstitious people of Syria
to the present day that the temples of Baalbek were built by a race of marids, giants,
of supernatural size and power. There is
still lying in the quarry of Baalbek, about
three-quarters of a mile from the acropolis,
an immense stone 71 feet long, 1 3 feet wide
and 14 feet high. It is known to all visitors
of the ancient town as "Hajar al-Hubla"
(the Pregnant Woman's Stone).
And a
guide who has a mind for the colorful folklore of the habitat will stop to tell you the
story of that stone and how it came to be
so called. Well, it seems that long, long ago
when the giant race who lived in Baalbek,
Ubeida Ibn al-Jarrah soon- after the fall of
Damascus in 635. The Arabs, who had a
fanatic aversion to all hewn statues and painted figures of life, destroyed what they
could of the historic temples of Baalbek. At
some distance to the east of the town, one'
may still see a pathetic structure of a ramshacle mosque, now in ruins, made of the
stones and pillars of the nearby temples.
Baalbek was visited by earthquakes on several
occasions, particularly in the 12 century and
in 1 759. Because of its strategic position on a
foothill commanding the rich Buqa' (the Coelesyria of the ancients), it became a bone
of contention between the Syrian and Egyp-
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A view of the Ruins of Baalbek, showing the remaining six pillars of the Temple of the Sun, and to the left the Temple of Bachus.
familiar to the average tourist. It is almost perhaps descendants of the Amalikites, were
the first name on/nis or her itinerary, the occupied in building its gigantic temples, a
first to be visited after a hurried inspection pregnant woman was carrying that very stone
of Beirut with? its numerous missionary in- on her head, and feeling a premonition that
f
she was about to give birth to her child, she
stitutions.
let drop the stone at the spot, where it
And for/the grandeur, magnificence, majhas remained ever since! The stone would
iaresty-and- sheer massiveness of its architectural
weigh, at the least estimate, 1000 tons.
remains, Baalbek has not been unworthy of
The name Heliopolis was given to old
its fame and popularity. One writer rightly
Baalbek by the Seleucid kings of Syria. It
describes them as "the most beautiful mass
was sometimes called Heliopolis Syriae, to
of ruins that man has ever seen and the like
distinguish it from its Egyptian namesake,
of which he will never behold again."
Heliopolis Aegypti. While its temples bear
. To get a graphic idea of the prodigious the mark of Greeko-Roman architecture,
size and massiveness of some of the stones Baalbek was predominantly a Semitic city.
that went into the building of the ancient About the third century A.D., however, the
temples of Baalbek, ruins of which now hold worship of Baal attained a widespread poputhe visitor in wrapt wonder and reverent larity, and the local Semitic god was identiawe, the words of another writer are here fied by Romans with Jupitor, while the
Greeks identified him with Zeus or Apollo.
appropiate.
The empress of Severus was a daughter of a
"Look at these stones as long as you will,"
priest of Baal, and another Roman emperor
said Louis Gaston Leary, "you can never fulof Syrian origin, Caracalla, assumed among
ly see their bigness. Yet if only one were
other titles that of "High Priest of the Suntaken out of the wall, a space would be left
God," an appelation of the local god of
large enough to contain a Pullman sleepingBaalbek.
car. Each stone, though it seems only of fitBaalbek was captured by the Arabs under
ting size for this noble acropolis, weighs as
much as a coastwise steamer. If it were cut
up into building blocks a foot thick, it would
provide enough material to face a row of
apartment houses two-hundred feet long and
six stories high. If it were sawn into flagstones an inch thick, it would make a pavement three feet wide and over six miles in
length,"
tian dynasties of Islam. In 1090 it passed to
the Seljuks, in 1 1 34 it fell under the invasion of Jeghiz Khan, in 1 1 75 it was captured
by Saladin and in 1 51 7 it passed with the
rest of Syria to the Ottoman Turks.
The best preserved of the Temples of Baalbek, all included within the, enclosure of
what is known by the natives as "al-Qal'a"
(Citadel), is the Temple of Bacchus, to the
left of the great Temple of the Sun, now in
complete ruins, only six lonely columns remaining of what must have been one of the
magnificent monuments of ancient times. An
idea of the heroic size of this historic edifice
may be gained from the fact that 3 stones,
rising about 23 feet from the ground and
still showing in their place in the crumbling
wall at the northwest angle of this temple,
measure 60, 60 and 62.9 respectively in
length.
Today Baalbek has two modern hotels for
the accomodation of visiting tourists, and is
linked by railway, through Rayaq, to Damascus and Aleppo. It can be reached from
almost any point in Syria by automobile,
over well-built roads.
In what epoch Baalbek was founded and
by whom, is still an historic enigma which
has occupied the minds of many research
historians. In past ages, when the miraculous
was always invoked in the explanation of
life's mysteries, even when such mysteries
were the result of man's handiwork, the building of the temples of Baalbek was ascribed
to the jinn and to supernatural agencies. Thus
Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela, who visited Syria
in I 163, did not hesitate to state that King
Solomon in building the city invoked the
help of the jinn. This was also a tradition
The great stone in the quarry of Baalbek, known as the Stone of the Pregnant Woman (Hajar alamo~
' Arabs, referred to in a couplet of Hublah). It is 71 ft long, 13 wide and 14 high. The quarrying, transportation and placing in position of.
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THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, JUNE 30, 1933.
The GARDENS of OMAR
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By HENRI BORDEAUX
From E. P. DUTTON and Co.
The American Publishers
Exclusive Serial Rights Secured by
THE SYRIAN WORLD
Member of the French Academy
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(Synopsis: In the last installment the author commences his trip to the Cedars. He dwells on the
passing villages and cities—Tripoli, Zghorta, Ehden,
Diman,—and gives a vivid account of the important events these landmarks played in the history
of the country. Finally, his party arrives at Bcharre, the nearest village to the Cedars, and the last
oasis on the very threshold of the mountain desert.)
narrow streets of Bcharre. The entire village had
turned out to assist at our departure. Our mounts
were fresh and we had some difficulty in getting
into the high saddles. These Syrian horses, so lively and nervous, invariably prance and turn from side
to side before settling down into their stride. But
their movements are so free and easy that even a
mediocre horseman, if he does not use the curb, soon
adapts himself to their pace. They are the finest
horses in the world.
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over his shoulders, and upon his head was the kef- Grand Prix winner in the enclosure. And, with an
fiye, a "kind of loose veil that protects neck and air of pity for my ignorance, he added, mystericheeks from the sun, gathered upon the forehead ously:
with a black aghal or crown. This Eastern costume,
seldom worn in its entirety by the Maronites, who
leave its use to the Bedouin tribes, became him
SYRIAN EDITOR
marvelously. He was tall and erect despite his
age, with finely chiseled features and a white pointed
beard. Nevertheless, the clear complexion, the look
in his eyes of that intentness peculiar to the eyes
to hunters and nomads, who are piercing the distance at every moment, gave me at the first glance
the impression that I was watching a masquerade
by some merchant of the coast. My host must have
guessed my thoughts, for no sooner had Khalil left
my side than he began to furnish me with
planntions:
"Khalil Khoury," said he, "left the country at
the time I was born, fifty years ago. You know how
it is at Lebanon. On account of the poor soil, we
emigrate in large numbers to Egypt, America, and
Australia. Khalil Khoury went'to the Transvaal
with his brothers. He has now come back with
a large fortune. Never before has one of our people
waited so long before returning to the homeland.
He is building a palace for himself near by, and,
as we are relations and he has neither wife nor
child, he is staying with me until the work is completed."
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A marvelous exploit indeed. To make so long
a journey with a double burden in the saddle was a
feat no ordinary horse could accomplish Yet I attached no great importance to it then. Even the
three syllables "Yamile," which I now heard for the
first time, would not have struck me but for the
sudden lighting up of this old man's face. His eyes
glowed like the snows on Lebanon at sunset. I
knew instinctively, as he uttered the name, that
across his vision was passing the image of one of
those rare women who leave an ineffaceable impression on a human life.
In no other part of it have I seen their equal.
They are all swiftness, mettle, and life. Their eyes
shine, their nostrils quiver, their flank, thrashed carelessly by their long tails, rise and fall restlessly.
KHALIL KHOURY
They carry their heads high and often reared backMy host at Bcharre was the descendant of one of: ward. Their foreheads are generally long, the withers high, the barrel thin, the legs*fine, especially at
"Yamile!" I repeated. "Who was this Yamile?"
the great families of the country, the Daher. Lebanon is still a feudal community. Its great land- the hock and postern. Their masters make much;
He seemed surprised at my question, as though
of them, lavishing the most cunning embroideries
lords are the masters of the villages, and the felit were an indiscretion. He appeared even to reupon
their
Saddle-cloths
and
adding
to
the
harlahs work for them alone. But these masters are,
gret a confidence that had scaped him against his
generally speaking, generous and benevolent. The ness of dyed wool red and blue collars and rosettes
of every color under the sun. It is unforgettable will. Instead of answering, he touched the sensitive
house of Nassib-ed-Daher, unlike the palaces of,
side of his mount with a spurred heel. The *»imal
Damascus or Hama, whose wretched exteriors make to see them, fully caparisoned and moving with a
made a bound and drew ahead of the cavalcade, '
hundred
graceful
caprices
like
a
pretty
woman
in
a
the beauty and good taste of their rooms all the
ball
dress.
And
yet
these
same
horses
'will
cover
incutting our conversation short.
more a surprise, was solidly built, in European
credible
distances
without
showing
the
least
sign
of
style. It consisted of two main buildings, roofed
We were now, as befitted the two principal perwith red tiles, and partly surrounding a spacious distress, and so long as one gives them their head sonages, leaders in the little party—I, the stranger
courtyard in whose center a fountain sprang from will scale the steepest and rockiest slopes without from a far land, and he, the gray-haired prodigal
a large marble basin. The furniture was a strange a single slip or misstep. For all their feats upon son, whose inheritance all Bcharre was already apmedley of East and West—rich oriental carpets, peaks and glaciers, I have come to think less of portioning. Shortly beyond the gate of the town,
with clocks and candelabra in imitation bronze. chamois of my own Alps since riding a Syrian and after passing through a dense grove of walnut
In thes principal room an engraving of the great horse in the Lebanon. For my host had reserved trees, the road bites into the rocky ledges that overNapoleon confronted a photograph of General Gou- a dappled gray mare of which any horseman might look the source of the Kadischa. With an exhilaratlegitimately have been proud, once, that is to say.
ing clatter of iron-shod feet on stone, our little
raud.
he had managed to find his seat, for she reared,
troop galloped up the ascent, as though it were
I was sipping the inevitable lemonade and coffee pranced, and flung up her pretty head furiously
charging an enemy. Khalil Khoury, on his mare,
and listening to the stamping and neighing of the from fae start
set the pace. Even when we had reached the sumhorses which our escorts were saddling below, when, .
mit of the cliff below which, and at a depth that
Nassib-ed-Dah* approached me. At his back was ,
made the brain reel, we could perceive the sources
pered
the
servant
who
held
her
head
while
I
put
a tall and commanding figure, dressed in flowing
of the sacred river, the old man did not draw rein.
my foot in the stirrup.
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Oriental robes.
He seemed to be possessed of a kind of foolhardy
Whatever her value, she was not worth half courage, choosing the more vertical paths as though
"Khalil Khoury is to accompany you to The
of the mare which Khalil Khoury had mounted. he would defy danger, and, as my mare followed
Cedars," Nassib explained, when the elaborate introduction had been completed. "He has not been, This beautiful animal, whose coat of dark diestnut j ^ j^ /^ j,^,^ ^rf^ ^ ^i*. ftiglistened in the sun as if every hair were hum- (
^ ^^ ^ ^ can.eer Below ^ in a
so high for fifty years."
nous, seemed absolutely to be on fire, to such an ^^ ^^ of fa mountains> to whose violet
I looked, with unconcealed surprise, at this extent was she consumed with ardor.
I slopes and sunless clefts patches of snow still clung,
man, already aged, who, living near The Cedars for
Her eyes seemed to be charged with passion. I could see a thicket of tall trees. Khalil Khoury
fifty years, had not thought them worth a visit. His
Tremors
of delight rippled along her flanks. As I pointed to them with a gesture that was full of a
was a figure well calculated to excite curiosity.
was
complimenting
the old sheik, whom the joy 6& solemn significance.
While the other guests were dressed entirely in
riding
seemed
to
rejuvenate,
he answered:
"The Cedars!" he cried over his shoulder.
Western clothing with the exception of the tarboosh,
this man wore Arab costume from head to foot,
"Oh, yes. She is of the Salma stable. But you
He spurred his steed to full gallop as he spoke.
and not without a certain ostentation. A tunic of]
did not know Salma."
I, on the contrary, drew rein, and looked around
dark red color embroidered in gold, covered the
He spoke of Salma as one speaks of a famous me.
upper part of his body, a silken burnous floated
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"The mare belonged to Boutros Hame, my brother and my friend. He rode on her from Tripoli all
one short summer night carrying Yamile in his
arms."
Our conversation must have been overheard by
this ghost of- half a century ago, dressed in the
fashion of another day. He came back, and was
joining courteously in pur conversation when the
horses were announced.
A swarm of beasts and men were gathered in the
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VISITS RICHMOND
Delegation who met Salloum A. Mokarzel, editor of al-Hoda and Syrian World, at station of Richmond, Va. Reading from left to right (front row): Essef Shaheen, John C.
Goode, candidate for Commissioner of Revenue, Mike Shulletta, Mr. Mokarzel and
Charles Kouri; (back row), Salen Synour, Arthur Olin, Phillip Shaheen and Arthur
Ghosen.
(Photo^by News Leader.)
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THUS SAY SOME MODERN PSYCHOLOGS,
REFUTING MODERN PEDAGOGS
AND IN SO DOING PROVE ONCE MORE
OUR ANCESTORS WERE RIGHT OF YORE
WELL, reader, we can't keep up this pace, of hackneyed rhyme
all out of place. But here it is in black and white, for those who
but can read and write.
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The Sunday American some time
ago published a one-page article
with illustrations to prove to modern
readers of both sexes that the old,
old-fashioned way of honest-to-goodness spanking is a more effective
means of bringing up children the
right way than all the contraptions of
modern psychologists and pedagogs.
The article is based on the public assertions of a noted English
educator and child expert, Dr. F. C.
Shrubsall, senior medical officer of
the school system of London, who
had declared some time ago that the
"enlightened way" of dealing with
disobedient boys and girls, the way
of reasoning with a child to show
where he or she had done wrong, is
all wrong itself.
Punishment, argues Dr. Shrubsail, is nature's way of teaching offenders to avoid things which bring
-their? pain and suffering, and that
nature has furnished every young
animal, including the human cub,
with just one method by which to
learn the "pleasure-pain" principle.
What interests us more, however,
is the fact that Dr. Shrubsall quotes
the book of Proverbs more than
once, recognizing thereby that its
ancient practical wisdom is more
substantial than all the theories of
modern pedagogy and psychology in
this matter.
In that book we read, "He that
spareth his rod hateth his son," a
wisdom we recognize in its modern
application: "Spare the rod and spoil
the child." We also read, "Chasten
thy son while there is hope and let
not thy soul spare for his crying..."
And the way of the Book of
Proverbs has ever since been the way
of our forefathers and some of our
own generation of elders who have
inot yet capitulated to modern psychology and forsaken the age-old
wisdom based on sound experience
and more fundamental psychology.
Non-Spankers Refuted
"Hat ya Mdallal"
The chief objection raised by the
non-spankers, says this authority on
the effectiveness of flagellation, is that
a chastised child becomes resentful
and hates the parent or teacher who
made its skin smart with pain. But,
he points out, there is no justification in fact for this contention. A
child learns that fire burns only by
actually burning its fingers when attempting to touch the warm bright
object before it, but no child hates
fire for that. "Treat the fire right and
it will treat you right, if not it will
punish you," is a formula which a
child soon learns. The same formula
applies to punishment.
Furthermore, Dr. Shrubsall contends, punishment should be given
immediately after the offense and in
anger, preferably on the southern
end. of the human anatomy where
nature has provided a soft cushion
of flesh that can absorb a lot of
smarting pain with little injurious
effects.
A child's way is not the way of
reasoning, argues Dr. Shrubsall, but
the way of associations and psychical reactions. The sure knowledge
that his disobedience to his mother
or his destructive pranks in the
house will bring about a swift punishment, a smarting pain which he
would rather avoid, is more effective
in deterring him from these things
than all the logic in the world. Unlike grown ups, a child's mind does
not work along logical lines, but
^psychological, and punishment, if
reasonable and at the right time, is
the most effective way to drive home
the needed lesson.
If Dr. Shrubsall had known it he
might also have quoted a common
expression which the masons in Damascus apply to their help, the hodcarriers and brick heavers. For it
is said that these masons, when calling one of their help, say: "Come
on, you spoiled one!" (hat ya mdallal!)
When asked for explanation
these masons say, "If these unfortunates had not been spoiled in their
childhood they would not have
reached this stage."
Adduces Statistics
^U
Dr. Shrubsall adduces criminal
jtistics to show that boy^ and girls
icityv
brought up the modern way have
fared worse, on the whole, than the
ones brought up the old-fashioned
way.
RECEIVES M. D.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass.— Raphael N. Joseph, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Nassar Joseph of this ' ciU received
bis M.D. degree froi.
awn
University School of
>c
•. Before studying medicin
O
N.
Joseph had attended
3
ally
High School and Gecf-ie?
College.
Miss Najla Faddool, daughter of
Mrs. M. Faddool of Brooklyn, and
Mr. Karim Saleeby, sqn of Mr. and
Mrs.' R. Saleeby of Brooklyn were
married on Saturday, June 24th at 4
o'clock in the First Reformed Church
in Brooklyn, the Rev. K. I. Bishara
officiating.
They left for Haynes
Falls on their honeymoon.
FREE BEER!
FREE beer and- accessories-, were
served to invited guests at the, grand
opening of Constantine's Beer Parlor
on the boardwalk in Ocean City,
Maryland. The' Parlor is operated by
B. G. Constantine and his sons.
wk —I
FADWA KURBAN, famous coloratura soprano and Najeebee Morad,
noted singer of Arabic songs, left
today for the Mahrajan to be held in
Detroit on July 2, 3 and 4. They
will participate in the musical program with Sami Shawwa, "Emir of
al-Kamanja," who left last week for
Chicago and from, thence to Detroit.
Mme. Kurban and Miss Morad
went by automobile in the company
of S. A. Mokarzel, editor of al-Hoda
and scheduled speaker at the Mahrajan, Mrs. S. A. Mokarzel and their
daughters, Mary and Rose.
FIRST HONORS IN
DENTISTRY
SCRANTON— Joseph Driebe, son
of Mrs. Frieda Driebe of West Scranton, Pa., and the late Kallie Driebe,
•was graduated from Temple University School of Dentistry with first
ihonors in operative dentistry and
special honors in oral surgery. He
will take a post-graduate course at
the General Hospital in Philadelphia
specializing in oral surgery, at the
completion of which he contemplates
practicing in Scranton.
Dr. Driebe received his early
training at St. Thomas High School
and took a predental course at college where he was star full-back on
the football squad. He entered Temple
Univrsity in the fall of 1929 and was
for three years a member of the varsity foot-ball team. He was sports
editor of the Temple Dental Review
and a member of the Xi Psi Phi
Dental Fraternity.
BRIDGE FOR MRS.
CHARLES UNICE
MRS. CHARLES Unice of Houston Texas, was the guest of honor
at a bridge held for her by her
sisters, Mrs. Said Lian and Miss
Rosemary Teen in the former's home
ill 86th Street, Brooklyn, last Wednesday night.
A buffet supper was
served at midnight. The guests were
Mrs. A. S. Daas, Miss Edna Daas,
the Misses Selma and Mary Milkie,Mrs. James Lordie, Mrs. Aziz Katen,
Miss Maude Dahrouge, Mrs.' Henry
Haddad, Mrs. Nasib Kalaf, Mrs. N. S.
Maloof, Mrs. Ky Gabriel, Mrs. Michael
J. Abouarab, Mrs. Elias J. Abouarab.
Miss Maude Abouarab. Mrs. Najib
Khairalla, Mrs. Al Stuart,' Mrs. Badic Katen, Mrs. Raphael Arida, Mrs.
Albert Macsoud. Mrs. A. Macsoud,
N. Macsoud, Mrs. Alex Sarkees,
the Misses Edna and Rose Jabron,
the Misses Lila and Rose Mano, and
Mrs. John Moutran.
To the Editor:— I am very glad
indeed to see the revival of the
Syrian World manifest itself in such
a popular fashion. I do not hesitate
to say that your editorials are up^
lifting, progressive and enlightening.
In them I see a dynamic spirit that
pervades the Syrian soul. This is a,
world of motion and we cannot stand
still. We must create and destroy,
destroy and create in all the different phases of endeavor;- and journalism is not exempted.
Unlike
other Syrian-American publications
which are merely imitative the Syrian
World carries a direct message to that
part of the Ego which rejoices in
truth and progress.
CARRY ON.
Syracuse, N.Y.
Jamile J. Kanfoush
AND WE ARE HEARTILY
GRATEFUL
To the Editor:—I wish to express to you my deep appreciation of
this paper. The Syrian people here
welcome it with open hearts. 'We
wish you success, progress an-' a bigger paper.
Torrington, Conn
Mrs. Elizabeth Gazine
TO THE Editor:— You have a
very educational paper which has a
wide variety of information and
brings to the reader cross-sections of
IMWS and articles.
Your paper is
colorful and individual and is unlike any American paper. It is brief
and contains a great deal.
Cleveland, Ohio.
Anne Shibley.
FOUR PRIESTS OFFICIATE
AT WEDDING
THE WEDDING of Miss Evelyn
Lutfy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Salim
Lutfy, Brooklyn and Mr. Raje Nimar, took place last Sunday at five
o'clock in St. George Melchite Church,
Washington Street, New York City.
Msgr. Bernardos Ghosn officiated assisted by Rt. Rev. Paul Sanky, Rev.
Economus Thomas Fyad, and Rev.
Peter Lian. The maid of honor was'
Miss Victoria' S. Lutfy, sister of the
bride and the best man was Mr.
Alfred Gassoun.
E. J. Audi of New York City
is leaving this Saturday for Chicago
to visit the Exposition. From there
he will go to Grand Rapids on business and expects to be back in New
York on the 10th of July.
Mme. Marie el-Khoury of New
York City is leaving tomorow for
Chicago to visit the World's Fair and
to attend to some business.
JERE J. CRONIN
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
MORTUARY CHAPEL
Local or Out of Town Funerals Personally Attended to
LADY ATTENDANT
Expense a Matter of Your Own Desire
115 ATLANTIC AVENUE
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
The large amount of business we do permits us to buy caskets
in large quantity which enables us to give the best funerals very
reasonable. We carry a complete line of the very best manufactured
caskets at $45.00 up. We pay no agents to secure funeral, for us but
only give the family who has sorrow the very best of service, reverence
and economy. Our aim is to help tfeose who are in trouble at a very
little cost. No charge for use of our services or funeral parlors.
,
Telephone—MAIN 1398-1399.8130-3655
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<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
<h4>Scope/Content Note</h4>
<p><em>The Syrian World</em> was published between 1926 and 1932 as a journal. In 1932, the format was changed from an academic journal style to a newspaper style, which continued until the periodical's end in 1935. After the death of his brother Naoum, Salloum took over the publication of <em>Al-Hoda.</em></p>
<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
<p>All issues of <em>The Syrian World</em> are available, along with full indexes for the first four volumes. For volumes five and six, there are tables of contents at the start of the issues.</p>
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SYRIAN STUNT FLIER KILLED, AS
THOUSANDS LOOK ON AT FAIR
ACCIDENT WHICH MARRED THE 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATIONS AT CHICAGO FAIR, WAS NOT REALIZED AS
FLIER PLUNGED HEADLONG AND
DISAPPEARED IN LAKE
*
Joseph Adrey, 24, the stunt flier who was reported killed in
a leap at the Chicago World's Fair on July 4, is a Syrian, it was
disclosed today.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Khalil Kadrey of Jersey City,
,N.J.. natives of Zahle, Lebanon. His family was unaware of the
tragedy until Wednesday, when letters were found in some of the
clothing which he had discarded to don the "Uncle Sam" suit in
which he was to make his leap on the Fourth.
Adrey had hired a plane to wing
PONSOT REMOVED
him up to a high altitude so that he
HAVAS REPORTS
could make his death-defying leap
before the 100,000 persons assembled
BEIRUT—In an airmail letter
below. It was to be the opening
received yesterday from al-Hoda
number of the Fourth of July pyrocorrespondent in Beirut, it is retechnic display.
A spotlight was
ported that, according to a Havas
focussed on the plane as it circled
dispatch from, Paris, the French
about and then Adrey leaped. His
Foreign Ministry has decided upon
parachute failed to open and he
the removal of M. Henri Ponsot
-dropped into the lake out of sight.
as High Commissioner of Syria
To the thousands assembled it apand Lebanon.
peared that the stunt was being perThe report adds that a M.
formed by a dummy and they gave
Pathier (as far as we could make
no thought to the fact that it was
out from the ^Arabic) has been
not faked and that the fall proved
appointed in his place, and that
iatal.
M. Ponsot, in turn, has been deThe spotlight went out and the
signated Resident General of Mo.skyrockets and fire/works commenced
rocco.
heir din and flare.
The new appointee is said to
Men Recover Body on
be a member of the French ChamWednesday
ber and belonging to the same
Adrey's manager ibelieves that he
political party as M. Daladier, the
was stunned during the fall, as it
present French premier. If the
was found by Kenneth E. Johnson,
report is true, M. Pathier will be
aeronautics inspector of the U. S. Dethe first French High Commissioner
partment of Commerce, that the parato Syria and Lebanon not chosen
chute was in good working condifrom the military ranks or the extion, but that Adrey had not atecutive branch of the French
tempted to draw the rip chord.
Foreign Ministry. Little else is
From relatives ttn Washington
known about him at present.
Street, New York City, it was learned
that young Adrey took a notion to
stunt flying about two years ago
when he was climbing the skyscrapers
in New York City on stunt manoeuvers for various advertising firms.
He went to Hollywood and got a job
as an extra stunt man and only reLocal Plights Aggravate the
cently went to Chicago to particiHardships of Syrian
pate in the Century of Progress exFarmers
hibition.
Father Averse to Stunt Career
BEIRUT— Accompanied by Emil
It is said that his father pleaded
Eddie, former prime minister in the
with him to give up his hazardous
Lebanese Republic, a delegation of
work, but that Joseph insisted there
Buqa' farmers' representatives from
was no danger. On Monday a letter
Baalbek, had an interview with M.
was received by his father in which
Charles Dabbas, President.
Joseph stated that he was in good
In a petition they laid before him.
health and that he intended to make
the Buqa'ite farmers requested the
the leap which resulted fatally on,
enactment of emergency measures for!
the Fourth
the relief of the farmers of Buqa'.
He made his last visit home
These measures include: Suspension of
I about seven weeks ago. His mother
the tithes tax on farm products since
and a sister are vacationing in Ala1928 and for the future as in the case
bama. Besides his parents, he is surof Lebanese who pay no tithe taxes,
vived by two brothers, Frederick and
and a morotarium on farm loans, as
James, and four sisters, Martha, Eliin the case of the Syrians.
zabeth, Catherine and Grace. His
The Buqa'ite farmers pointed out
father is-in the fur business in Jerthat, in addition to the universal desey City.
pression affecting all agricultural
countries of the world, the farmers
of Buqa' and the rest of Syria and
BUST BELIEVED TO BE
Lebanon have suffered from local
OF QUEEN NEFERTITI plights such as drought, low tariff
on imported products etc., which
A BUST sculptored in quartzite
have made their state insufferable
was found in Tel-el-Amarna in Egypt
and is believed to be an image of and beyond their power $0 alleviate,
unless the government steps in and
Queen 'Nefertiti, mother of the wife
takes the situation in hand.
• of Tut-ankh-Amen.
BUQA' FARMERS
MAKE APPEAL
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FRENCH C'NTESS NOVEL RACKET
STILL AUVE
FOUND, SYRIA
Counsellor of Ibn Su'oud Arrives in Beirut and Denies Report of the Hanging of
Countess D'Andurian
Vagrant Children Hunt Rich
Parents Who Had Lost
Children in War to
Adopt Them
(Special Correspondence)
(Special Correspondence)
BEIRUT—^Countess d'Andurian, reports of whose summary
hanging were received not long
ago from Paris and Beirut, appears to be still in possession of
body 'and limb. This came out
in an interview with "al-Nida' ",
a nationalist newspaper of this
city, by Shaykh Yusuf Yasin,
Counsellor to His Majesty King
Ibn Su'oud, who arrived recently from Hijaz.
In the course of the interview,
in which a representative of the paper was inquiring about political
and economic conditions of Hijaz
and Arabia in general, Shaykh Yasin was asked: "What is all this excitement about the French countess
d'Andurian?"
Newspapers
Blamed
Shaykh Yasin replied:
"The source of this excitement is
the newspapers, for the case is only
an ordinary one in which a woman
is indicted in the poisoning of her
husband. I am indeed surprised at
the organized campaign with which
Beirut papers have undertaken to
confuse public opinion by reporting
news which have no foundation in
fact. I can only ascribe this to an
evil intent to libel the good name
of Hijaz before public opinion at home
and abroad."
Shaykh Yasin then proceeded to
deny the report of the speedy trial
of the French countess, declaring
that she is still alive awaiting trial.
Nor is there any truth, he said, to the
other rumor that the viscera of the
poisoned husband were sent for
chemical analysis. The Meccan court
is awaiting the arrival of a kinsman
of the victim, a member of the 'Niza
Tribe of the Syrian Desert, to claim
the body.
Countess d'Andurian, it appears
in the interview, not only has not
been executed, but is' treated like any
ether ordinary prisoner, the prison
authorities even allowing her friends
to bring her special food.
Furthermore, the accusation has
not been definitely established.
But
once the court gives its decision,
Shaykh Yasin added, the sentence
will be executed without delay, 'according to the traditions of the Moslem canonical court.
TUNISIAN ARABS
BOYCOTT FRENCH
TUNIS— The action of the French
authorities in closing down an Arabic
paper led to a general threat to boycott French goods throughout the
country of Tunis. The Arabic paper
had printed articles which were considered by the French colonial authorities as inimical to French policy in
Tunis.
BEIRUT—Here is a new racket
which is inconceivable except in a
country like Syria with its peculiar
development and conditions since the
Great War.
Some time ago the local papers
printed accounts of children, lost
since the War, who had been found,
identified by their parents and restored to them. This gave an idea
to some shrewd vagrant boys who
sought to capitalize the parents'
anguish and longing for their lost
children.
Seek out Rich Daddies
Making secret inquiries of parents
who have lost children and of the
conditions under which those children were lost, some of those vagrants
then present themselves as the ones
who had been so long sought by the
grieving parents, spinning a strange
yarn and a hard luck story that
sounds
plausible.
The
parents,
anxious to belive their children are
still alive, and recognizing details of
identification not known except to
those who are close to the local conditions, open their arms wide and
take in the clever hoboes.
A story is told of one of those
ragamuffins who successfully applied
with his yarn to a woman in Harit
Hureik, a suburb of Beirut. After a
few days the vagrant boy asked his
"mother" to buy him an automobile.
But finding that his "mother" had no
money, nor anything at home worth
stealing, he ran away and applied
to another family, from which he
also ran away, having also found that
his new adopters were poor. But on
the third time the vagrant's trick was
discovered and he was driven away.
As similar events have been
known in different parts of Lebanon,
and Syria, it is thought that a band
of those vagrants have hit upon this
trick as a new source of easy racket.
ARAB YOUTHS
PLAN CONGRESS
Transjordania Follows in Steps
of Syria and Palestine in
Organizing a Youths
Society
AMMAN— {Delegations of jArab
Youths from Syria, Palestine and
Transjordania met in this city, capital
of Transjordania, and discussed plans
for the holding of a Congress of Arab
Youths. It is understood that Damascus has been chosen as meeting
place for the congress, and that the
problems of the three named countries will be discussed therein.
An outcome of the meetings at
Amman was the organization there
of an Arab Youths Society with
branches throughout Transjordania,
patterned on the Youths Societies in
Syria and Palestine, which have been,
in existence..for some time.
�lT-'"-f'!IMMI*'-
THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, JULY 7, 1933.
PAGE TWO
fMA snows GREAT PROGRESS,
SAYS LAWYER UPON RETURN
SEUM TOTAH, RETURNING TO PALESTINE AFTER AN
ABSENCE OF 25 YEARS, FINDS EVIDENCES OF IMMENSE PROGRESS AND OF CONVENIENCES IN
MOST UNEXPECTED PLACES *
sEPLUKES APATHY OF MANDATORIES. AND URGES EMPLOYMENT
OF MONEY IN CORPORATIONS BY SYRIANS OF AMERICA
A HINDU tradition says that if a man keeps away from his
country 15 years, a mysterious urge in him will lead his steps in
direction, and that he will not rest till he sets foot again in his
homeland.
Selim Totah, well-known Syrian lawyer of New York, waited
10 years more before that urge came upon htm. He was absent 25
years from his native town Ramallah, a few miles north of Jerusabefore he visited it again, about two months ago. And now
t he has come back, he is as happy and enthusiastic as a child
Yf 15, and so anxious to tell of the amazing and unexpected signs
of progress which he encountered wherever he travelled in Palesline, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt.
"Would you believe it," he beamed
0s he swung in his swivel chair in the
study of his office at 276 Fifth Ave.,
New York, "we had the most delicious steak since we left New York,
at, least that's what my wife said, in.
Hotel Philadelphia at Amman, Trans3ordania, after a four nour drive by
automobile via Jericho.
The very,
•existence of such a hotel, up-todate, with all the modern conveniences of. running cold and hot water,
private baths etc., that one finds in
the average American hotel was a
revelation to me."
Excellent "Hotels in East
BAALBECK REPLICAS
MAY VISIT CHICAGO
BEIRUT— Mrs. Jan Dibs, widow of the Lebanese artist and
sculptor, offered to exhibit in the
Arabic Fair of Jerusalem replicas
by her husband depicting the
temples and ruins of Baalbeck and
which were shown in the Paris
Exposition of 1931.
It is said that Mrs. Dibs may
send these replicas' to the Chicago Fair, after they had been
shown in Jerusalem.
MAKES PLAN TO
OLD SALOON,
SAVE COTTON
m PALESTINE
Beth-Zur Gives up Secret of
Ancient Soldiers Who Imbibed Rohdian Wine
200 B. C.
IN A copyrighted article in the
Westminister Press, Philadelphia, Dr.
Ovid Rogers Sellers reports on latest discoveries of the Presbyterian
Theological Seminary's expedition iri
Beth-Zur; Palestine.
Among these discoveries. the
article describes a wine saloon, prototype of our modem .saloon, which
it is estimated, goes back to 200 B.C.'
Nine jars of wine set in a- rockhewn trench were found. The stamps
on the handles of the jars indicate
that they were imported from Rhodes, famous for its wine in ancient
times.
As Beth-Zur was a fortified, city
guarding the approach to Jerusalem,
it is thought that the saloon was frequented by soldiers from the citadel •
' of the city. There was evidence also
of complex living quarters and shops
in the neighborhood of the saloon,
which also depended on the soldier
trade.
FRENCH CONSUL
VISITS CANTON
ON A recent date Henri Fabert,
French Consul stationed at Columbus, paid a persohal visit to Elias
Kakim of Canton, Ohio. He was accompanied by Tewfik Joseph Khoury.
Among those present were the
mayor of Canton, other county and
city officials and the reporter of the
local paper.
homes, and water drawn in pipes to.
these homes were all features lacking more or less, 25 years ago which
cne may come across even in small
towns and villages today.
More important, however, in the
opinion of, the returning lawyer, than
Mr. Totah gives little credit for
these outward signs of progress and
all this progress to the Mandatories
western conveniences, . was the new
now ruling in Syria and Palestine,
spirit of social and spiritual progress
the French and the British, and
which has gripped the people of these
thinks that such progress was inevihistoric countries.
,
table. These governments, Mr. Totah
"There is a new moral fibre,"
claimed, have contributed very little
declared Mr. Totah, "a strange detertowards education, still mostly in|
mination for initiative and indepenhands of missionaries and private
dence, not only in the political, but
schools. The people are over-taxed,
also in the economic realm, with
and mostly because of unjustifiably
which no one can fail to be imlarge andl expensive government orpressed. There is also a more funganizations. A house with a little
damental unity among the peoples
garden which used to pay $8.00 in
of different religions and different
taxes to the Turks, now pays $30.00.
sections, than one would gather from
Even the excessive price of gasoline is
first impressions. All the peoples oij
'due mostly to revenue taxes.
In
Syria, Palestine, Lebanon and Egypt *most instances, Mr. Totah believes,
seem to be imbued with the same
nationals could well be substituted
social and economic ideals, which, in
for foreign officials with better and
time, are bound to emancipate them
more efficient results, and at less exfrom the thraldom to old traditions
pense.
and ways 'that had subjugated them
Peeved at Barriers
these long centuries.. Undoubtedly,
"I was overwhelmed with the
the multiplication of popular means
More pernicious still is the rise
progress in facilities- and means of
of education and information, the
of "unwarranted custom barriers becommunications in our country in
daily paper and illustrated weekly
tween sections of what used to be
the last 25 years," was the enthusiasmagazine,
has
a
large
share
in
the
considered
one country under the
tic way Mr. Totah gave expression
propagation of this new spirit among
Turks. These customs barriers are
to his general reactions and impresthe common people. The newsboy
not only a source of nuisance to
sions of his short visit, lasting a little
now, unlike 25 years ago, has become
tourists, but retard considerably the
more than a month in Palestine and
a ubiquitous feature at almost every
flow of trade between neighboring
Syria. Good automobile roads now
street crossing of the big cities. (News
countries. They have no justificaLnk the historic places and sites of
stands have sprung everywhere, and
tion except as a source of revenue
our ancient homeland with the outpopular education, especially among
to keep up the appearances of state
side world, as they link almost every
the fair sex has made prodigous proand government pomp.
town anjl hamlet in the interior secgress."
tions with the larger centres of trade
Mr. Totah believes it is the duty
and city life. The only drawback
Impressed by Feminist Movement
•of French and British authorities to
that Mr. Totah could not help notice
invite Syrian men and women of edP| especial interest to Mr. and
was the excessively high cost of gasucation and experience to assist them
Mrs. Totah was the progress made
'. about 35 to 40 cents a gallon,
iri governing • the countries under
by the feminist movement.
One
hree and four times what it costs
their mandates. He also urges men
comes across many Mohammedan
the motorist in this country.
well-equipped with' capital and the
women - today completely unveiled,
commercial knowledge they gained
even in such cities of predominantly
Conveniences lacking
in this country to invest their money
Islamic
traditions,
as
Damascus,
and
25 Years Ago
in large corporations for the exploitaJaffa, and those who are still veiled
tion of the natural resources of their
Broad streets and. paved sidetre wearing their veils thinner -than.
Rative lands.
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laths and . toilets- in most' - ever.
But Hotel Philadelphia, which,
by the way^ is the Greek name (by
which the ancient capital of Transjordania was known, is only one of
many today in the Near East which
stand comparison very favourably
with the best in Europe and America. It is situated opposite the remains of the old Roman aipphitheptre and commands a beautiful view.
Besides the famous tourist hosteleries
of Cairo, Shepheard, Continental and
Heliopolis Palace Hotel, etc., which
have attained world renown, there
are more recent ones which are not
inferior in quality, if not as famous.
Mr. Totah singled out the St. George
in Beirut, the Umayyad and Khawwam in Damascus, King David in Jerusalem, built by the same company
which operates the Shephard and
Continental in Cairo and Hotel Baron in Aleppo. In all of these one
'could secure rooms with private bath,
although the luxury of a bath in
each room is still an American exelusive feature. The service, conveniences and cuisine leave little to
be desired.
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Malouf Proposes Insurance and
Licensing of Cotton
Growth
A "'PLAN for the safety of Agriculture" Was been' made by A. M. *
Malouf of Ashury Park, JSI. J., and
submitted to the heads of the various
. recovery boards in the United States: '
The plan is purposed to save the cotton industry and . its basis, it is
claimed, can be adopted to save other
industries also.
Among the official persons who
have received and acknowledged the
plan are: Louis M. Howe, Secretary
to the President; ^William Green, President of the American Federation of
Labor; Henry Morgenthau, head of
the Farm' Credit Administration; Rohtrt K. Straus, Ass't to General John• son; Hamilton F. Kean and W. Warren Barbour, .Senators from New Jersey, and William H. Sutphin, Congressman from New Jersey,
Insurance
and Licensing ,
The plan puts forth four rules, in
brief:
1. Take the average price of cot-'
ton from 1900-1914 (when Americans
were supposed to be living a normal
life).
2. Insure such prices for the cotton in the field.
3. No cotton (or its products)
will be grown for interstate shipment
without a federal license.
4. No licenses are issued without
insurance policy with the Cotton
Growers Mutual Insurance Company.
With the adoption of these rules
the plan hopes to bring forth the
following result:
The growers will be getting their
due price for their labor.
The cotton price will be permanently stabilized.
This will eliminate the middle
man who is a natural burden on the
industry and who usually gets the
money that should be paid the grow-
REX INGRAM
TURNS MOSLEM
REX INGRAM, American film
producer, has confirmed reports that
he will embrace Islam, 'according to
a news report from Paris, where he
is staying prior to his permanent
leave for Moroccco.
Mr. Ingram will transform his
name to Ben Allam Nasir ud-Din.
which means "the son of the bannerbearer of the champion of religion."
As was announced in 'the first issue of The Syrian World, Mr. Ingram is a dabbler in occult sciences.
At one time he was1 reported to have
made a large bronze sculpture of a
miniature Christ in. the arms of a
giant Buddha. His decision to embrace Islam was made after one of his
frequent visits to Morocco when he
had become fascinated \«tth the phi-,
losophy and religion of Islam, which
he claimed was the best antidote to
the "nervous indigestion and suffering caused by our too active American,
life.'*'
ABOUSSLEMAN VISITS U. S.
William Aboussleman of Paris,
France, son of Mrs. Elias Aboussleman, of Brooklyn, N. Y., will arrive
on July 13 on the S.S. Champlain for
a visit of four or five weeks in the
United States. Mr. Aboussleman will
be accompanied by his French wife.
They expect to visit the Chicago Exposition. Mr." Aboussleman is engaged
in the radio business in Fraiice and
has not'been in America for the past
eight years.
His brother , is Ted
Black, the orchestra leader.
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EGYPTIAN MOSLEMS ORGANIZE
TO DRIVE OUT MISSIONARIES
SHAWWA IN
CHICAGO FAIR
NEW YORK TIMES CORRESPONDENT REPORTS WIDE
SPREAD UPRISING AMONG EGYPTIAN MOSLEMS TO
DRIVE MISSIONARIES OUT, FOLLOWING RUMOR
Consuls of Various Nations Attend ; Shawwa Carries
Audience to Desert
OF FORCEABLE CONVERSION
AL-MARAGHI AND AL-ZAWAHIRI, FORMER AND PRESENT HEADS OF
AL-AZHAR, AMONG AGITATORS
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A REPORTED attempt by missionaries to convert a Moslem
girl to Christianity has resulted in what is termed by Egyptian papers to be a serious development in the stand of'all foreign missionaries in Egypt, according to an article in The (New York Times
by its correspondent in Cairo, Joseph Levy.
The student, 16-year-old Turkja Hassan, attended the asSalaam Missionary School in Port Said, which was founded by a
Swedish.missionary, Miss Erickson, with the aid of American funds.
Because of unruly behavior, the girl
is alleged to have been severely beaten by the headmistress, a Swiss woman. Running to the police soon
'after, the girl cried that she had been
beaten for refusing to be baptized
into the Christian faith..
The press immediately kindled the
flame that is spreading with more
. nation-wide fury against missionaries
than they have encountered since
their activities which began there a
century ago.
Coptic Priest Beaten
Last week while attending a private missionary meeting a Copticpriest • was severely beaten by an infuriated mob of Moslems.
Sheikh Mustafa al-Maraghi, former rector of al-Azhar University,
and other Moslem dignitaries, have
organized a committee for "the defense of Islam" to combat missionary work in Egypt. According to
The New York Times Special Correspondent 'the committee has presented a petition to King Fuad, requesting him to save the Moslems
from the evil intent of the missionaries." The committee has also forwarded a petition to the government,
asking it first to promulgate a law
•preventing missionaries influencing
minor children and weak-minded
adults to adopt Christianity: second.
to repeal the law whereby missionary institutions are exempt from
customs duties and other taxes, and
third, to discontinue all subsidies to
<sionary schools."
It ij> estimated that if the gov. ernment withdraws the exemption of
taxes, and subsidies granted to such
institutions, it will have additional
revenue -of about L 150,000 annually,
-or approximately $675,000
which
would be available for the education
or poor Moslem, children and other
welfare work and thus eliminate all
Possible means of conversion by the
missionaries.
Azhar Rector Issues
Appeal
A stirring appeal has been issued to the Moslems by Sheikh Ahmedi el-Zawahiri, the present rector
of al-Azhar University and the highest Moslem ecclesiastical authority
in Egypt, together with the Council
of Moslem' Ulema, beseeching them
not to send, their children to missionary schools or to frequent any
missionary institutions.
Sheikh alZawahiri has donated L200 toward
a fund to combat the missionaries.
That the fight against the missionaries Kas taken on a serious aspect is shown by the fact that the
rector, besides being an Egyptian
Government official, has hitherto
maintained silence in previous similar
instances and it is deduced that his
present action has received sanction
from and perhaps has even been
urged by. the government.
The Arabic papers are appearing
daily with huge headlines reporting
developments in the campaign. Two
cf the oldest and leading Egyptian
papers, al-Ahram and al-Mokattam
find themselves confronting an unusual dilemma, according to the correspondent, since they are both owned
by Christians and yet are forced to
take up the campaign together with
the Moslem papers.
Unless the campaign is checked
scon, the correspondent concludes, it
is feared that a general hatred of all
foreigners will result because of the
extreme fanaticism of Moslems where
religion' is concerned.
Readers' Forum
An Authority on the East Finds
Syrian World "Admirable"
"....I was very much surprised
to see an old friend in an entirely
unfamiliar format. I am quite suie
that the "decision to make the SYRIAN WO*LD a weekly <vas an excellent one, however. I used to find
ii a long wait between issues of the
magazine, and wished I had some
means of getting American comment
on Syrian affairs a little more promptly. In its present form the SYRIAN
WORLD meets that difficulty admirably.
Elizabeth P. MacCallum.
(For « number of >ear> Miss .MacCallum was the research worker on
the Near East for the Foreign Policy
Association of New York. an influential organization supplying impartial information on foreign affairs.
In her capacity she kept a watch ful eye on news, editorial comments
and official reports pertaining to the
Near East She wrote a hook on the
"Syrian Revolution" which she called.
"The Nationalist Crusade in Syria.'
published by the Foreign Association.
find has a mastery of several tongues,
including Turkish and a reading ability in Arabic. Her testimonial of the
SYRIAN WORLD is very valuable
«nd highly appreciated.
Editor.)
TO THE Editor— In an article
appearing in June 16th issue of the
.SYRIAN WORLD extolling the genius
of the distinguished violinist Sami
Shawwa, you state that Mr. Shawwa
was a native of Egypt. It may please
your readers to know that Mr. Shawwa was born in the city of Aleppo',
Syria, the son of Antoun Shawwa who
also was considered the outstanding
violinist .in the Arabic world 6f his
day.
Our distinguished visitor has long
been a resident of Egypt, and this
fact may have given the impression
that he is a native of that country.
New 5Tods ..'
'Leon Sayegh
(Special Correspondence)
' CHICAGO, July '3.—The Egyptian
pavilion in the Chicago Fair Grounds
was filled to capacity yesterday when
Sami Bey Shawwa, "Emir of el-Kamanja," took possession of it and
turned it into a concert hall, .giving
the Fair visitors samples of classical
Arabic music on his famous violin.
Among those present were the Consuls of the different governments,
managers of the Fair, and many
American and Syrian distinguished
visitors. Of the latter we may mention Msgr. Michael-Ibrahim, the Rev.
Father Mansur Stephen, of Brooklyn, N. Y., Mr. and Mrs. George
Jebaily of Brooklyn, who had accompanied Mr. Shawwa to Chicago
and the correspondent of ar-Rasid of
Beirut who was especially invited to
the occasion by the official representatives of the Egyptian government
to the Fair, Ahmed Bey Afifi.
Afifi Welcomes Crowd
Afifi Bey welched the audience
in the name of his government and
presented Sami Bey Shawwa of whom
he said that the Egyptian nation is
proud of his fame. Among the selections played by Sami Bey was one
imitating the chirping of canaries
end another with a folk-song theme
carrying the audience to the Arabian
desert. The concert was concluded
with the Egyptian march for which
all stood up in honor of Egypt and
its modern king, Fuad 1.
I AM delighted with THE SYRIAN WORLD as it enables me and
my family to keep informed oi the
doings of our people in various
places.
New Foundland.
J. A. Basha.
To the Editor:—I was pleasantly
surprised to see your new SYRIAN
WORLD. For I have often given voice
to the wish that we had a true newspaper representative of our people in
English. I congratulate you for the
finest paper I have seen yet.
Niagara Falls. N. Y.
Thomas 5. Shiya
MOSLEMS RIOT,
PREVENT BURIAL
Tunisian Moslems Incensed a:
Renegades Who Adopted French
Citizenship, Seek to Block
Their Burial in Moslem
Cemeteries
(Special Correspondence)
TUNIS— A long-standing controversy between Moslem Tunisian
natives and the French colonial authorities in that country of North
Africa over Moslems who adopted
French citizenship, has broken
c-pen revolt and riots.
Tunisian Moslems, who are ardent nationalists and who form the
great majority of the population of
Tunisia, • have contended that the
adoption of French citizenship by
any of their faith automatically annuls
their Islam and classes them among
the renegades and faithless. Fatwas
(canonical decrees by religious authorities) to this effect were secured
from nationalist Moslem shaykhs. But
the French were equally industrious
in offsetting these fatwas by securing
others from religious leaders amenable to them or in government employ.
Demonstrate
at
Burials
Despite these latter fatwas, Moslem Tunisians held a great demonstration to prevent by force the burial
of one of them who had recently
died a French citizen. Petitions were
wired, demonstrators came to clash
with the police in the streets, and
shops were closed in protest agains:
the forceable burial of this citizer.
in the Moslem cemetery of the city.
The demonstrations were repeated
when the wife of the "Citizens' Society's" president passed away recently, and al$o at Banzart when
another Moslem French citizen died
In each case the body of the deceased was carried to the cemetery
under guard and buried at the poin".
of bayonets. In some instances th<?
tcmb of the "renegade" was des>
after the burial.
So acute has the situatioi
that the French authorities have hi--.
upon the plan of hedging- .
rion of the cemetery with high
for the burial of the frenchine.j
HONOR MAN
SAILS FOR SYRIA
TO THE Editor— I have read
the SYRIAN -WORLD from a
to cover including even the personals about i)etroit Syrians, for
instance, and I prize the privi;
It seems to me highly valuable to
have such a medium for keeping
alive the noble tradition so that
it may make a distinct contribution to our Western life and not
be utterly obliterated. Especially,
do. I enjoy and approve of EAST
AND WEST.
John Lathrop
(Dr. John H. Lathrop, minister
of the Church of the Saviour, on
the Brooklyn Heights, is one of the
most popular and influential of the
liberal clergymen in the Metropolitan area. He is in frequent demand as a speaker.)
Editor.
EMILE BUSTANI, wh
irs required' study at
Institute of. Te..
logy in Boston in one year.
- on July : with a part
'
n the S.S. Sinaia.
to :r! inflation received fron:
rffices of the steamship agetuA. K. Hitti & co.. New York C
DEIROITERS SAIL
Those sailing in the party . • _
Mrs. Fadwa Schowaicar of Jamaica
B W. I.. A. A. Herro of New
City, Mrs. Annie Risk. Sadie Risk and
Joe Risk of Hattesville, Miss., Abraham Dakroub, • Mohammed Ali Berry,
.Mahmoud Berry, Mohammed Berry,
Baker Berry, Mrs. Zahia Berry, Alber;
Berry, Lucille Berry, Baddie Berry
and Bedie Berry of Detroit, Mich,
end Mrs. Nellie Joseph of Havre de
Grace, Md.
BABY BORN TO AKELS
A baby girl was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Fares Akel of Brooklyn, N; Y„
this morning. Mr. Akel is the secretary of al-Hoda.
The baby ^weighs ten pounds and
it is reported that mother and. child
are doing fine.
Sailing for Syria on the 3 S
Roma, July L were Frank Koury.
his sons, Albert and George, of Brook ryn, N. Y., Isaac Bedesh of New Yor.<
Gity. and Mrs. Nectar Bilez.
and her sons, Andrew and Alb
New/ " >>-k City.
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WAS THE FAMOUS ALEXANDRIAN
LIBRARY BURNED BY THE ARABS?
Our Investigations Find There Was no Library
in the First Place to Be Burned; and if
Such a Library Did Exist, Alexandrians
Had Ample Time to Move It Before
Arabs Could Destroy It
Caliph in Medina, then Omar Ibn al-Khattab, the
second caliph of Islam. It is said that in due time
a messenger brought back from the caliph the following reply: "Behold if these books are in accord
SALLOUM A. MOKARZEL
with
the Qoran, the Qoran has made them superEditor and PabUsher
fluous, and if they are not in accord with the QoHABIB L KATIBAH
ran they should be destroyed." Whereupon Ami*
commanded that the books be distributed over the
Assistant Editor
4000 public baths to be burned, and that for 180
SUBSCRIPTION
days the fire of those public baths was kept alive
WE KNEW it was coming sooner jor later, with the rolls that contained the wisdom and learnIn the United States and
that
some avid and relentless searcher of the ing of the ancient Greeko-Roman world.
Possessions ....One year
$&M
Six months
1.50 truth would come up to us and, holding us by
Where Story Originated
In Canada
One year
3J» the button-hole so we could not run away,
This story is said to have appeared for the first
Six months
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1-75 would confront us with the dreaded questime in the history of Bar Hebraeus, known by the
In All Other Countries. One year
400
Six months
2.00 tion over which historians have wrangled for Arabs as Abu-1-Faraj Ibn al-Ibri, a Christian writer
more than two generations.
and authority who thrived in the 13th century A.D.
Entered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1933 at the
Well, who burned the Alexandrian Lib- But it is pointed out that Jurji Zaydan in his "HisPost Office at New York, N.Y., Under the Act of
tory of Islamic Civilization" mentioned two Aral*
rary? Or, to put it in the more familiar form:
March 3, 1879.
Moslem sources before Bar Hebraeus who refer to
Did the Arabs under Amr Ibn al-Aas, the the same story. These are Ibn al-Qufti, in his famconqueror of Egypt, actually burn the Alexf ous source-book called "the History of PhilosoJuly 7, 1933.
Vol. VII, No. 10.
andrian Library, the most famous collection phers", and Abd-ul-Latif al-Baghdadi, who visited
Egypt in the 13th century.
of books in antiquity?
Those who believe the story as related think it
THE NEW WAY FOR THE
The latest recrudescence of the •book-burning
mania by the Nazis of Germany was sure to re- highly improbable that a responsible authority'like
MISSIONARIES
surrect this historic subject of debate, and the Bar Hebraeus would venture to repeat it unless he
SYRIAN WORLD was appealed to for some light were sure of its truthfulness, and that the two
SETTING aside some inaccuracies of re- if not a definite opinion. And since the subject may, authorities before him who also mention it, are
well-known for their accuracy of report and fidelity
porting by the correspondent of the New be of interest to many readers of this weekly, we to truth. Being both Moslem, they would not inYork Times in Cairo, and overlooking his ob- will* share the results of our meagre investigations clude it, without doubting qualifications, unless, in
with them.
vious "padding" of his dispatch with subtle
their eagerness for historic truth, they were conThe traditional story or account of this incident,
editorial opinions that lack the necessary or supposed incident, is that a learned Alexandrian vinced of its historicity. Some even go to the exbackground and knowledge, the fact still re- Greek whom the Arabs called Yuhanna al-Nahawi tent of saying that Bar Hebraeus' account is a
verbatim of Ibn al-Qufti.
mains that the Moslefn world is not quite as (Grammaticus), but whose true name was John
That there is nothing inherently improbable about
hospitable to the missionaries as we are led to Philoponus, approached Amr Ibn al-Aas, after his
the burning of an ancient library by fanatic or zealoccupation
of
Alexandria
in
642
A.
D.
and
petibelieve.
tioned him to restore the famous treasure of books ous Arabs who had not yet learned to appreciate
to
the people of the city. Amr replied that he could the advantages and intellectual delight of Greek
Many reasons can be given for the aggralearning and philosophy, may be for the present
vated condition which has broken here and take no step in the matter before writing to the accepted at its face value. There are accounts
there in riots and petty persecutions of the
of other incidents of book burnings by the early
missionaries. To ascribe this to the ingraticonquerors recorded by historians.
The new way which the changing conditude of Moslems and their lack of appreciaBut assuming that the Arabs could have burned
tions in the Near East clearly point to the the Alexandrian Library, what are the evidences
tion of the benefits which the missionaries
modern misionary, is the way of coopera- that they actually did burn it, aside of this meagre
brought to them in generations of. devoted
account?
service and self-effacing benevolence, is un- tion, the way of understandning- and sympathy, the way of sharing with the East the
Evidences Against It
fair and wrong.
Nor need we give any
best fruits of Christian civilization, while at
credance to the rumor that missionaries busy
The evidences, say those who deny the veracity
themselves unduly in proselytising "minors the same time trying to appreciate the best in of the report, are overwhelmingly against it, not
the civilizations and cultures of other races, tenable enough to hold water in any court of schoand weak-minded adults" against their wills.
and other religions. We believe most mis- larship or stand the scrutiny of close analysis. The
Rather we must seek the cause in deeper sionaries today in the East have seen this way author of the article "Iskandariya" in the Encyclopedia of Islam, Rhuvon Guest, rejects it with the
levels, in the change of the mentality of the and are trying their best to follow it.
remark that "it cannot be accepted as true."
populations of the Near East, their sensitive
Perhaps a brief account here of the Alexandrian!
pride against tactics which represent them as
Library prior to its supposed burning will throw
inferior peoples not worthy of independence
some light on the reasons with which many reliable
WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH
or able yet to take care of themselves.
historians conclude by rejecting the story that has
OUR CRITICS?
come down to us from Bar Hebraeus or Ibn alThere was a time when the missionary
Qufti. There is an interesting article on this famschools in Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Iraq
ous ancient library in the June number of Antiquity
LOOKING -over our "letters-to-editor" for 1928 by George H BushnelL
were not only the best, but often the only
There we learn that under Ptolemy Philadeldecent ones to be found.
Today native mail bag, we are somewhat dismayed and
schools from kindergartens to universities disappointed at he unanimiy of attitude, the phus, Alexandria became a famous book mart. So
have sprung up everywhere^ some as ad- sameness and monotony of platitudinous exf fond was this biblophile ruler of books that it is
related he refused the Athenians wheat unless they
mirable and modern as any the missionaries pressions.
provided him with certain; editions of the famous
can boast of. Certainly it cannot be said, for
Naturally we are grateful that so many Greek dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euriinstance, that the American University of
earnest readers are "highly pleased" with the pides. It was "the same Ptolemy Philadelphus who
is said to have commanded the famous Septuagint
Cairo is any more modern, surely not half
SYRIAN WORLD, that "it has meant so translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew to
as well equipped, as the National Egyptian
much" for them and that "it has filled a long- Greek. Whether he or another ruler before him,
University in the same city. In Beirut, Dafelt desire." But we are also anxious to find founded the library, it is certain that under him it
mascus and Jnany towns of Lebanon there
more definitely what feature or aspect of the attained great importance and fame. Editions isare today modern, efficient schools, as good
paper pleases this or that reader, and equal? suing from that library became famous throughout
the Hellenic world for their accuracy. Our present
as any the missionaries produced, which are
ly anxious to know what feature or aspect editions of the Greek classics may be directly
run completely by native initiative and supdispleases. An exasperating criticism, once traced back to those ancient ones of the Alexandrian
port.
in a while, is even better than a colorless Library. It was estimated that this library housed
some 500,000 rolls (books). The building of the
In the face of this duplication, and because one.
library itself was part of a great enclosure of royal
of the sectarian nature of most of the misOf course we do not mean that we want palaces and public buildings, more particularly part
sionary schools, as well as because of the nato scrap with our readers most of the time, of "the Temple of the Muses" (Mouseion), from;
tural bias which the missionaries still enterbut too much kindness to the editor gives whence our English word Museum. In this Musetain when native interests conflict with those
um were places for scholars, scientists and poets
him sometimes the impression that his readto exchange ideas, lecture and study. There was
of the. powers who rule their lands, we can
ers are just trying to be polite to him, and a large force of professional copyists employed, as
at least understand why the "natives" of a
afraid to tell him their minds.
well as professors and scholars who received- redifferent religion are resentful at heart, and
Now come, sour, disgruntled reader, you
seek the least opportunity to vent their reare
just as welcome as the honey-sweet kind!
sentment against those missionaries.
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By Ana Bshoof
By Alice Mokarzel
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IF BUCKING the inevitable is a peculiarly
western "game," we may as rightly say that keeping the inevitable always in mind, brooding over
the inevitable, is a grim "business" peculiar to the
peoples of the East G. K. Chesterton in his "New
Jerusalem" indulges in no little sarcasm at the expense of lugubrious orientals who become obssessed
by a single idea, who stress it to the point of seeing nothing else in view. And while Chesterton;
has failed to distinguish between different trends
in the East and different types of single-mindedness, thus detracting a great deal from the effectiveness of his argument, it remains, nevertheless, true
that this tendency became in time more or less
universal in the Orient, as its counterpart of challenging and bucking the inevitable is a more or less
general tendency in the Occident.
Perhaps a vivid, if somewhat exaggerated, example of what I have in mind is the eccentric saint
of northern Lebanon, Simeon the Styletes, who is
said to have lived for 30 years on top of a pillar
60 feet high without ever coming down. His pupils
brought him food and took it up to him on a ladder which rested on the pillar. And perhaps you
have heard of Moslem ascetics and sufis who repeat the name "Allah", or the phrase "Allah liveth"
without catching breath until they pass into a frenzy
of unconsciousness, or perchance saw in one of,
Ripley's "Believe it or Nots" the picture of a Hindu
sadhu (saint) who kept his fist closed so long%that
his nails grew out of the back of his hand.
These and their like, and their name is legion in
our East, are engaged in the grim business of re-,
minding their fellow brethren in humanity of the
ever-present reality of the inevitable; they are
brooders over the simple facts of life and reality,
which should be taken, most often, for granted.
Mme. Marie el-Khoury, noted Syrian jeweler
of Fifth Avenue, New York, is also one of New
'York's most original hostesses.
In summer her
hospitality is transferred to her palatial summer
home at Mamaroneck where one is certain to encounter noted personages as interesting as Mme.
el-Khoury herself. Her library, whether in New
York or in Mamaroneck, is the setting for unusual
discussions of drama, music, literature and the like.
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One could spend hours in Mme. el-Khoury's
home in New York looking at the valuable curios
and unusual works of art. In the library there is
an arresting bust that Rodin made of her in Paris...
the walls are encased with bookcases filled with
enviable volumes of literature
on the walls
hang the works of famous artists, including Kahlil
Gibran
In another room there are autographed
photographs of her personal friends, Ruth St. Denis
and Ted Shawn, affectionately inscribed "To Arabia."
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In Mamaroneck, too, one immediately senses an,
original note of taste in the striking surroundings.
Mme. el-Khoury will show you around the lovely
flower gardens that she herself has cared and in
the morning you will be served luscious berries
that she had gone out early to pick.
A common example, however, is the disgustingly demonstrative and funereal manner in which
people in the East still encounter the event of death.
For eons upon eons people have been dying; there
is no instance in the memory of any one living
that someone, however old he may grow to be,
could pass the bitter cup of death from him. This
sounds tautological and naive enough, but hardly as
tautological or naive as the way in which most of
our people still meet death as if it were a novel ands
unheard-of affair. They know that no amount of,
wailing and crying can restore the departed dear
one; they know that death is perfectly inevitable,
if anything is inevitable, yet they carry on as if they
will not and cannot take this simple inevitable fact
for granted I do not know whether this innate instinct that refuses to believe in death, that somehow
regards it as "an accident" or "In error," as the
Christian Scientists would call it, is an intimations
of immorality, or of morality. In either case I
think it is most futile and foolish to brood over it in)
such a manner that it makes life itself a misery.
Certainly it is a sign of morbidity which is not consonant with sound experience and healthy growth
of life.
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Similarly our "resignation" to the point of utter passivity and defeatism, the folding of our
hands in the face of a catastrophe, the dismay and
discouragement which take possession of us at the
first approach of life's troubles, are all instances of
our inability or unwillingness to take the inevitable
for granted
Ted Black and his orchestra are on the road
again. He will be back in the Village Barn in September when his present contract expires.
Those who insist that George Metaxa, the actor,
is a Syrian, will be disappointed to learn that he is
Hungarian and that the full details of his childhood
in his native land were given in an article last
week in the World-Telegram.
No doubt the Fourth proved disappointing to
many private parties in Brooklyn and New York.
It's not so bad when the weather is the cause of a
break-up in plans but it is annoying when private
parties don't click somehow and the group becomes
separated into factions and disagreements.
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thinking of a downtown Brooklyn party that was
planned for the Fourth.
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When the stragglers were finally assembled and
ready to start one confessed a desire to remain at
home. Of course this started the others thinking
of their own comfort and the result was a general
disorganization so that the party was forced to cancel itself amid a lot of grumblings and accusations.
It is too bad, isn't it?
But maybe it was the
weather.
The originality that has made her jewel-creations famous is also characteristic of her hospitality.
Favorite Syrian dishes are well-represented on her,
menus but so beautifully well-ordered and served
that one tackles them anew. Her created dishes are
the most interesting. Last Thursday in the WorldTelegram there was an interesting description of
one of her "ruby" parties, which are given in the
month of July. Mme. el-Khoury remembers what
month your birthday falls in and invites you ac-rf
cordingly to a party representative of the jewel that
characterizes the month. If you are a "July child"
you will be invited to a "ruby" dinner that will
include a delicious beet soup and tiny stuffed red
cabbages. Of course all the other phases of the
dinner have been taken care of and you will marvel at so much originality that is so versatile and
so pleasing to the senses of taste and sight.
I finally went to see "The Barbarian" of which,
the Syrians have been talking because of the Arabic
dialogue in many of its scenes. It was a good picture, because it was different from the general run
of plots these days. One never knew what the
heroine Myrna Loy would do next. It seems that
she could not decide between two loves, one of the
West and one of the East but, as one expected, the
advances of the ardent Easterner were too much for
her and she submitted to their charm.
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It would have been better for purposes of restraint, I think, to have left out the fact that her.
mother was an Egyptian until the very end, when
she elopes immediately before her wedding to the
Westerner, with the persistent Egyptian, Ramon Navarro, or "the best dragoman in Egypt" and they
are shown' on a magnificent barge, rowed by an
Egyptian gondolier, on what I suppose was the Nile
jriver
in a brief pause in the ecstasy of their lot
and the enchantment of the Egyptian setting, Diana
says to Jamil: "My mother was an Egyptian," andl
Jamil comments with a great deal of ardor: "I
wouldn't care if she were Chinese."
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Quite a nice picture, except for its inconsistency
in dialect. Ramon Navarro was tutored to say his
lines with an Egyptian dialect, including the hard
'"g", whereas the Syrian extras of the cast who were
hired for the picture said their parts with the Syrian dialect and the soft "g".
I had a good long talk with one of the most
eligible bachelors in New York City the other day.
What I learned was a pleasant surprise. E. A.
doesn't believe that a wife should be the door-mat
kind—yes-yessing all her husband does or says.
No, he believes that the" woman he would like to
marry should have her own opinions and not be
afraid to assert them. Above all, she should be interesting, after marriage more than before. She
should be conversant and pleasant, able to discuss
topics of interest and culture with her husband and
in a group of people.
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And she should not be affected in any way, nor
repressed, nor restrained. Which, I think, is quite
a nice set of conditions for any wife. Times are
changing and for girls who would be interesting,
mark E. A.'s and others words, that the Syrian men
do not want for wives those who rely upon their
looks and sweetness to work the miracle of enticement for future husbands. Be natural and you will
attract the man most suited to you because you
will find it no effort to maintain the same attitude
that has made him love you before marriage as
well as after.
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Let me add as E. A. has said, that the Syrian
girl has more natural charm than her occidental
sister and therefore possesses one of the most essential "magnetizers."
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Bucking the inevitable is futile, to be sure, but
staring the inevitable in the face until we are mesmerized by it is equally futile, a nullification of the
functions and activities of life. Somewhere in the
middle course lies the way to a true conception of
life. This middle way, we must not forget, has
ever been the way of our Semitic forefathers, the
Navarro was so sincere in bis acting that he
way of the Prophets of the Old Testament, the way
forgot to concentrate on his newly-acquired dialect
of the Nazarene and his Sermon on the Mount.
and all one could see was a rapidly contorting
The story of David fasting and mourning when mouth and an emittance of a great deal of gutturals
his son was sick, .but suddenly calling for food that carried no meaning. '(Luckily we natives do
when his son passed away, is both instructive and not form the sole audience of this and other Eastillustrative.
ern pictures.)
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It is not from the Semitic East, not from the
traditions of our wise ancestors, that this ascetic,
spiritually nullifying view of fife came.
Rather the inevitable, a living memento of the stark reality
it was an infusion, an invasion into our Semitic of death—from India, where matter is considered
East from the land of spiritual depression and pes- a curse and the body a burden to be cast off or
simism, from the land which has been a martyr of mortified.
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And don't think that K A. doesn't believe and
encourage what he preaches. He is o^e of the most
congenial Syrians in New York. You always feel at
ease in his presence and you believe at once that
what he says is said in sincerity. He is, too, a perfeet host and gentleman, happily lacking that attitude of condescension and always respectful in his
attitude to his guests and friends.
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veteran enemies of the Romans. But, through
treason from some of her own followers, Zenobia's plan was discovered in time. A Roman detachment apprehended her, it is related, just as she was setting foot in the ferry
which was to carry her to the other bank of
the Euphrates. The fall of Zenobia is placed
at 272 A.D., and a year later Palmyra was
again in revolt. But on the approach of Aurelian, this time, the inhabitants surrendered
without opposition.
Aurelian, however, destroyed the city, and put its population to the
sword.
From that time Palmyra never regained its former glory and importance.
Other routes to the Mediterranean, notably
Petra, were discovered and, in time, replaced
Palmyra.
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MINIATURES
ARABESQUE
PALMYRA (TADMUR)
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PALMYRA—The skeleton of a once great
city, rising majestically in the heart of the
Syrian Desert, .the capital of Zenobia, the
picturesque Arab queen who challenged the
mighty phalanxes of the Roman Empire
and almost defeated them under Aurelian,. ..
a great centre of caravan trade through which
the luxuries of the East, laden on backs of
graceful camels, passed in an unending prosion to the Mediterranean, and from there.
>n ships to the world's capital of wealth,
power and aristocracy—Rome. . the little
collection of miserable cottages and squalid
streets that mock the greatness and grandeur
of the past.-.the modern airport of the flying squadrons of France, who seeks today
to establish in the East an empire rivaling
that of the Romans. . the little village is famous for its salt and dates.. .
If Baalbek can boast of the greatest collection of magnificent ruins within a small
. area. Palmyra of ancient fame, the Tadmur.
of the Arabs, can boast of the greatest range
of scattered ruins, giving the effect of a city
in ruins, rivaling those of Pompeii.
Lying about .150 miles northeast of Damascus, Palmyra is reached from that city
through a long plain, as flat as the extended
palm of a hand, bounded to the north and
south by two parallel chains of low hills. As
the traveller leaves Qaryatein (the Qiryatayim of the Old Testament), the last stopping
place in the Syrian Desert before reaching*
Palmyra, he drives through mile upon mile
__of_dreary desert, only occasionally broken,
as at "Ain ul-Wu"ul (the Antelope Spring)
by the ruins of a Roman citadel or those of
a lonely caravansary, the parallel hills come |
closer and closer.
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Suddenly, without any heralding of habit- \
able signs or the trace of'a grean leaf or enlivening spring, the traveller comes face to i
face with one of the grandest, most refreshing sights to make a vivid, never-to^be-for- j
gotten impression.
The hills now have
$ clcsed up to form a natural entrance, leading i
to a slight elevation behind which the ruins \
of the ancient city appear all at once, stretched out before him like a panorama from the j
Arabian Nights.
Close in front stand citadels on both sides of the closing hills, and in ;
tie distance behind rises up the majestic !
ruins of this Temple of the Sun, around which !
The Avenue of Columns Starting from the Triumphal
the present habitations of the lowly village
cluster. And to the north, lie long lines of pillars, the skeletons of what once must have
formed the magnificent porticoes of. the
Queen of the Desert, Palmyra, in the days of
its glory.
Like Baalbek, the origin of Palmyra is
also surrounded in legends and myths. The
most current of these is that it was built by
Solomon who impressed the jinn to carry out
the superhuman task. Most authentic historians, however, doubt that Solomon ever
built Palmyra or that his kingdom extended
that far into the Syrian Desert. Its mention
occurs in the Old Testament (Chron. VIII :5),
where it is referred to by its Semitic name,
"Tadmur in the wilderness."
In most probability it was built by Nabatean Arabs as a
trading post, following the overthrow of the
Syrian kingdoms by the Chaldean invasion.
In time. Palmyra grew to a great city, one
of the richest and most magnificent caravan
posts of ancient times.
Its people grew
wealthy from the taxes and custom duties
which they charged the caravans that went
through it, laden, with the riches of India, Persia. Mesopotamia and Arabia, to the bazaars
of Antioch. Alexandria and Rome. Ultimately. however, most of the riches and luxuries
of the East that came through Palmyra or
Arch in Front of the Temple of the Sun.
other trade posts of the East, found their
way to the proud metropolis of the Roman.
Empire, the capital then of the civilized
world.
Outstanding among the ruins of Palmyra
is the Temple of the Sun, or Temple of Jupitar, which stands at the southern edge of the
town.
But perhaps more impressive is the
great Avenue of Columns which extends
from the Temple northward for 1240 yards.
Along its entire length these columns, in fair•ly good state of preservation, stand to the
height of 55 feet.
At one time they numbered 750, and supported statues, projecting
from brackets at top. Each column and status
commemorated some enterprising or prominent citizen, something like our Hall of Fame
in New York, which must have proved quite
a stimulus to the civic pride and ambition of
the ancient Palmerenes.
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The golden age of Palmyra was reached
in the reigh of Queen Zenobia, . when the
city, as all the Near East as far as Persia (the
Parthia of the Romans) was nominally under
Roman rule. 1 he story of Zenobia and her
valiant fight %gainst the Romans has never
tailed-to enthrall the imagination of the world.
It is said when this charming brunette queeof the desert was led captive in golden chains
through the streets of Rome, every neck wa-f
craned to gain a view of her. and that mote
attention1 was paid her than her captor Aura-'
lian.
The wife of Odianthus, who was assasinatei
through Roman plot when' his intrigues
against them ' became known,Zenobia carried
on the open revolt to rid her free,' nomadic
people from the irkesome yoke of the Romans.
She inherited from her husband a
kingdom that extended from the. Nile to the
Euphrates, and like him had coins struck in
her own name. This open affront and challenge to Roman authority could not be ignored, and Rome moved with its legions under Aurelian to quell the revolt in the desert.
Zenobia showed remarkable chivalry and
strategy in her battles with one of Rome's
greatest generals and soldiers. Defeated first
at Antioch, then at Emesa (Horns), Zenobia
retreated into the desert, where Aurelian followed her.
After strenuous encounters in
which Zenobia's limited forces were exhausted, she planned to flee across the Euphrates to seek help from the Parthians, inis
General View »f Palmyra Bains Before the Days of the Automobile
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The GARDENS of OMAR
By HENRI BORDEAUX
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THE SYRIAN WORLD
Member of the French Academy
Synopsis: In the first installment the author commences his trip to the Cedars. He dwells on the
(passing villages arid cities—Tripoli, Zghorta, Ehden.
Diman,—and gives a vivid account .of the important events these landmarks played in the history
«f the 'country* Finally, his party arrives at Bcharfce, the nearest village to the Cedars, and the last
cttsis on the very threshold of the mountain desert The author is given for escort Khalil Khoury,
sat old" man of Bcharre who had not visited the Cedars for fifty years. The two, on magnificent horses
given to them by their host. Nassib-ed-Daher. start
their journey to the Cedars. On the way Khalil
Khoury proves a quiet companion except for his
frequent descriptions of the surrounding plains and
Ms mysterious interjections of the story of a ceriain "Yamile." They reach The Cedars and draw
Tein to gaze at the solemn spectacle.
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CHAPTER THREE
UNDER THE CEDARS
Palestine, and the absence that made him lose some
of the last days of his bejoved child, and it was
there that he wrote pages of his Voyage in the East
in which he recalls the last walk with her above
the sea. Before leaving Syria, he was anxious to
undertake he pilgrimage o he Cedars on which
poo? Julia was to have accompanied him. It was
at the beginning of April, when the road at Ehden
was blocked by snow-drifts.
Nevertheless, he
mounted "Lebanon" the best of his horses, and
rode towards the amphitheatre where the famous
trees hold their eternal council. When he had
reached a spot less than five or six hundred yards
away, the snow was up to the horses' breasts, arid
he had to be content with looking at them from afar,
as Moses watched the Promised Land. It was not,
then, he who carved the beloved name upon the
trunk of one of the oldest trees.
The graceful
thought must be attributed to\one of his Lebanese
friends who knew of his desire, and who mounted
to The Cedars after the poet had embarked for
France. What more pious homage to the memory
and the sorrow of Lamartine could this land of the
East have offered?
Before this tree I paused a long while. Birds
were singing in its branches. The escort had made
camp at the -far end of the wood. I could see only
my own mare, pawing at 'a little lump of dirty snow
which the sun had missed. Khalil Khoury had
vanished. I retraced my steps, seeking him, and
even entered "a little chapel at the side of the enclosure thinking he might be there. At last, as I
emerged from the grove upon the moutainside, and
looked towards Kornet-es-Saouda, in order to gain
some idea of the possibilities of an ascent, I caught
sight of him. I could not repress an exclamation
of surprise at what I saw. Half-kneeling, halfsquatting, and huddled together like a dog asleep,
this tall man, in his burnous and keffiye, seemed
shrunken to a little patch of white upon the dark
soil. He had dismounted without haltering his
mount, but the mare, like the faithful companion,
she was, stood close by her master, dropping her
graceful head as if in sympathy. As he did not
move, nor appear to hear my footseps, I touched him
on the shoulder. A shudder rang through his body.
He turned to me a face altered almost past recognition.
"What has happened?" I could not but ask,
my voice full of concern.
BEFORE my eyes, in a" fold of the mountain,
Were the last survivors of the glory of Lebanon, ancient witnesses to the primitive world, those famous trees which Lamartine has called the most celebrated natural monuments of the universe. No other
wood but theirs was deemed by Solomon worth;'
oi the Tabernacle of the One God. The prophets
in their most lyrical outbursts could conceive no:
finer or grander image." Dyed a dense black by their
very shadow, they app'eared, from afar, like a
ilock of giant birds, perched with extended wings
upon the arid landscape.
I soon reached the first'ones, a kind of advance
guard composed of isolated trees which, not having
been constrained in their growth, had developed
trunks and limbs' freely, and whose long straight
branches spread in every direction. Khalil Khoury
had not waited for me and I continued my ride
slowly, grateful for a solitude which left me alone
with my reflections, and with my escort following
a short distance behind. When I came to the enclosure, surrounded by walls which protect the three
or four hundred majestic prisoners against damage
by herds and herdsmen, and against the misdirected
zeal of pilgrims, I found the iron- gate open, the
custodian having been advised of our visit. In passing under the shadow of these great trees, for aU
the world like a congregation of monks, in black
habits, and with their arms raised in benediction,
I had the same feeling of devotion that one has on
entering some ancient cathedral. Instinctively, I
bared my head and bowed it on my breast. Viewing these prodigious trees, some almost terrifying
from, their tortured configuration, with bare roots,
twisted like the serpent that crushes Laocoon and
his children in the famous Vatican group, vast
shafts formed of interlaced trunks, summits scarred
hy lightning—others slighter and more graceful,
springing to the blue ether with a line straight
and pure a jet from a fountain—it seemed to me
something more than a fancy that they were in
truth great secular dignitaries, authoiized by their
very age to greet with contempt any stranger who:
should dare to look upon them without fervour and,
awe. I could not help humbly beseeching their good
v will, begging from their stored memories some evocation of a past many centuries old. What migrations
of whole peoples had they not beheld—of what
mysterious rites, bloody wars, and massacres, had
they not been the silent and serene witnesses, in
their mountain fastness overlooking the blue seaof Tripoli!
The escort now rode up, and we haltered our
horses. I went from tree to tree, pausing before
the oldest and most venerable. One bore the inscription "Julia Lamartine." But it was not the
poet himself who carved the name. He had. lost
his little daughter at Beirut, in the month of December, 1832, a few days after his return from the
Holy Land, when she was only eleven.
She died after an illness of two days, at the
very moment her parents were rejoicing over her
'return to health. The despair of Lamartine was
so great that for four months he could not leave
the house at-Beirut—that house where he had followed the opening of her mind to nature and. life,
3ike a ' flower' that bloom in one short spring day.
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eproaches himself for his journey to-
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He straightened his body as though ashamed
of his abandonment. But the impulse to speak
seemed too strong for silence.
"It happened there," he said, pointing with
outstretched arm. "There was no wall then."
"The wall is very old." I ventured.
"There was no wall," he persisted, "and Yamile lay stretched out—there."
Always the mysterious Yamile. 1 dared to
question him, as one questioned a medium in a
trance.
"Was it a long while ago?" I asked.
"Fifty years," he answered. "I am seventy. I
never came back. I thought that...;. after so many*
years
But forgive me."
He asked for forgiveness like a true gentleman
and man of the world who knows well that emotions should be repressed. At the same time, I
could see he was in that condition of weakness and
confusion, which m^rks the moment when a secret,
kept too long and too jealously, has become a burden,
too hard to be borne. At such a moment it is often;
a stranger who makes the best confessor. He passes
too soon. He forgets readily. With an impulse that
would have been inconceivable a few moments before, I offered myself as confident.
"Listen!" I said. "I thought of climbing Korhet-es-Saouda tomorrow. Would you like to come
with me?"
"The mountain is high," he objected. "I am no
longer a young man."
I insisted."
"They tell me our horses will take us almost to
the top. There we shall be alone, far—far above
men and their habitations. And 'there, if you will,
you can tell me the story of Yamile."
"What is the use of going back to a dead past,"
he murmured.
I told him I thought there were se-..ie-..*e,»—*»:.! whom no other life is possible. He looked at me
hard.
"You are right," he said, suddenly. "You have
seen me in my. misery. It is only fair you should
know its cause."
And once again, his vision of a few moments
since returning, he repeated: "There was no wall
then."
(To be continued in next issue)
der Islam, Alfred Butler, sums up the arguments
against the traditional account in a chapter in his
book, "Arab Conquest of Egypt," devoted exclusivegular stipends from the government. The famous
ly to the study and analysis of this historic mooted
heathen philosopher and feminist Hypatia, lectured
question. His arguments follow:
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in that Museum.
The first catastrophe to befall the Alexandrian
Story 500 Years After Event
Library was at the time Julius Caesar was fighting
1. The story of the burning of the Alexandrian
Pompey in Egypt. The forces of Pompey and the Library under Amr Ibn al-Aas comes 500 years
Alexandrian mobs who sided with him set fire to after the event it relates. No Arab or non-Arab
his fleet in the harbour, and the fire reached the historian prior to Bar Hebraeus' time makes menMuseum and destroyed a great part of the book tion of it.
collection. Then in 272 A. D. Aurelian (or Claudian
2. The analysis of the details of the story reaccording to Eusebius) invaded Alexandria, and the
solves
it into absurdities. Chief among these deBruchian quarter, in which the library was sittails
is
the fact that John Philoponus mentioned in.
uated, was completely razed to the ground. Bushnell believes that the library could not have sur- the story died many years before Amr invaded!
Egypt. Then, Butler points out, most of the books
vived this catastrophe.
in the Alexandrian Library were inscribed on velAversion to Heathendom
lum rolls, which is unburnable, not to say anything
With the rise of Christianity there was a grow- about the exaggerated account that -the books kept.
ing aversion to everything heathen. In Alexandria 4000 public baths burning 180 days!
3. Of the two libraries the story could have al-.
the forces of Christianity and heathendom, up to
the 5th century, were about evenly divided. To the luded to, one, the Museum Library, was destroyed
Christians, the great Temple of Serapeum in Alex- in the conflagration caused by Julius Caesar's invaandria represented the citadel of heathendom. So sion 400 years, and the other, the Serapeum Li~
when the zealous followers of Bishop Theophilus in brary, 2% centuries before the Arabs.
391 A.D. destroyed this temple, razing it to the
4. The 5th, 6th and early 7th century literature
ground, it was considered a signal victory for Chris- contains no mention of any such library.
tianity. And it is believed that if any of the Alex5. If, nevertheless, a library did exist, its books
andrian Library had survived to that time, it sure- could have been removed during the 11 months of
ly must have been destroyed or dispersed at the armistice, according to the treaty of surrender bedestruction of the Serapeum, to which the Library, tween Amr Ibn al-Aas and the Greek population
if a library there was, must have been moved.
of Alexandria. During all this time the sea was
.With this as a background the historians who open to them, and they were permitted to carry
disbelieve - and discount the story of Amr's burning away all they could of their movable properties.
of the Alexandrian Library, point to several in6. If a library had been removed, or destroyed,
consistencies and historic flagrancies in the way the almost contemporary Coptic scholar and writer,
of its acceptnace.
John of Nikiou, could not have passed its disapAnother historianf an authority en Egypt un- pearance in total silence.
(Continued from page 4.)
�MARONITE CLUB
PLAN OUTING
i
CLEVELAND, Ohio— The Syrian
Junior League of this city has rented
a cottage on Sunnyside Beach, on
the lake, near Vermillion, for (the
benefit of any of its members who
would like to spend their vacations
and week-ends there. There will be
swimming, boating and tennis, when
its season opens on July 8.
Arrange Dinner-Dance
The League has completed plans
for its fourth annual formal dinnerdance to be held at the Grantwood
Country Club on Saturday evening,
July 22. Those in charge of reservations are the Misses Adele Aftoora
and Nora Ganim.
/
At the last meeting,'of the Syrian Junior League held on June 20,
the following officers were elected
for the new year: ' President, Somia
George; vice-president, Nora Ganim;
secretary, /Elizabeth George; corresponding secretary, Linda George;
treasurer, Adele Aftoora; assistant
treasurer, Catherine Betor.
RICHMOND, Va.— Funeral ser
vices Were held on Friday, June
for Salim Mosha, 65, of Petersburg,
Va., a native of Jazzin, Lebanon.
Mr. Mosha came to this country at
the age of 23 and made his home in
Petersburg where he lived for 42
years. He established a small mercantile business in 1891 and took
great interest in his church and fraternal organizations. He was constantly helping his friends and became
one of the most beloved leading business man in the Cockade City. He
was said to be the first Syrian settler in Virginia.
Six priests officiated at the services which were held in St. Joseph's
Catholic Church in Petersburg. The
(Syrians of Richmond paid their respect to their beloved friend by attending the funeral in large numbers.
Relatives and friends attended from
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Connecticut and surrounding Virginia
localities.
Mr. Mosha is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Wadiha Mosha, two sons,
Fareed and Joseph, a daughter, Adele
and a brother, Bishara of Jazzin.
LILOLA CLUB
HAS OUTING
THE LILOLA Club of the International Institute of the Y.W.C.A
in Brooklyn, held an outing on Sunday, June 25, at Valley Stream State
Park, Long Island. The club chartered
a bus to carry the fifty-two Lilola
members and their friends.
The committee in charge prepared
an entertaining program including
several games, stunts, swimming and
baseball.
There were tdso prizes
for the winners.
The hostess commiittee was comprised of: Rose Shahood, chairman,
Matilda Gohson, Rose Jacob, Lydia
Shahood, Mary Ginnawi, Lillian'
Haggar, and Adele Shahood. Those on
the program committee were: Matilda)
G-ohson, chairman, Nora Naffar, Nellie Rassi, Muriel Subt, Lorette Ellien, Mary Hilwani, and Louise Jacob.
Rose Cassatly ,member of the Lilola Club, is attending the Industrial
Girls' Conference for the Eastern Region at Summit Lake, Central Valley, N. Y.
Miss Cassatly will remain at the
Conference ten days and upon her
return will give her report on the
conference.
Antiochean Women Society
Meets in Brooklyn
RESPONDING to the request of
severe! members, Archbishop Germane* ffl^f^*** of the Greek Orthodox Antiochean Church, of North
America, revived the Greek Orthodox' Antiochean Women Society,
which met recently in the hall of Our)
Lady Cathedral, State Street and
Boerum Place, Brooklyn.
The
following
officers were
elected:
President, Mrs. Phillip Kiamie;
vice-president, Mrs. Nasri Hajjar;
treasurer, Mrs. Zarlfa Khalaf; assistant treasurer-! Mrs. Michael Hew-.
k
wa; secretary, Mrs. Tamam Zaydan; recording secretary, Mrs. George
- Ssfce.
•- 1 *
STORK LOSES TO 4TH!
The stork lost in a race with the
Fourth when a baby girl was born to
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Amador, Brooklyn, N. Y., one hour and fifteen
minutes after midnight on July 5.
A baby boy, Milhem, was born,
on July 6 to Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Mahfouz of New York City.
Mrs. John Shofi and her daughter
AHce of Brooklyn, N. Y., are spending
two weeks in Stamford, N. Y.
Mrs. August Badwey and her sons,
Fred and Victor, of Fall River, Mass.,
arrived in New York on Thursday for
a few days' visit.
Miss Alexandra Shdoudi and her
grandmother of New Mexico are visiting their relatives, Mrs. Melia Faddool and her daughters of Brooklyn,
N. Y. '
Mr. and Mrs. Spiridon Lian and
their family of Brooklyn, N. Y., left
this week for their summer home in
Easthampton, Long Island.
TORRmGTON, Conn— Gerald
Shaia, 3-year-old son, of Mr. and Mrs.
Nasiff Shaia of this city was struck by
an automobile last week on Main
Street but was not seriously injured.
The United Daughters Maronite
Society, of Brooklyn, N.Y., will hold
an outing on Sunday, July 16, in Belmont State Park, Babylon, L. L. A
bus has been chartered for the occasion and many private cars will be
taken also.
Mr. L. Keywan of Houston, Texas,
is visiting relatives in Torrington for
en indefinite period.
ALEPPIANS HAVE
COMPLETE SELL-OUT
Josephine Narsiff, daughter of!
Mr. and Mrs. Soloman Narsiff, oil
Torrington, was graduated from high
school and was among the highest of,
the honor students in her class.
The Syrian Political Club of Torrington, Conn., held an outing on
Sunday, July 2. There was a large
gathering and a good time was had
by all.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Jacob of
Torrington held a christening at their
home in honor of their son who was
baptized in Trinity Church on Sunday, July 2.
CLUB HOLDS
GALA PICNIC
HARTFORD, Conn.—The first picnic of the newly-organized American
Lebanon Club of Hartford, Conn.,
was held on -Sunday, June 25 and
proved to be a memorable day for the
members and their guests.
Fred Sahadi, president of the
club, delivered the welcome address.
"Wales" proved an ideal spot for
swimming and canoeing. Horseback
riding was found to be the most exciting event of the day both for
those who took part in it and for the
onlookers, watching the riders slide
from side to side in a wild attempt
to stay on the horses' backs. The girls
in smart sport outfits, staged a bicycle
race.
Late in the afternoon all gathered
around in a circle and sang familiar*
songs. After dark a fire was built
and hot dogs were roasted.
THE STEAMER Susquehanna,
chartered especially for the second
outing of the Aleppian Fraternity
of Brooklyn on Sunday, July 9, is already assured of 1,000 passengers, according to Selim Ayoub, chairman
of the outing and president of the
club. It was reported that the thousand tickets issued went actually like
hot-cakes so that late applicants were
confronted with (the theme-song
"That's all there is; there is no
more."
The steamer will leave its dock at
foot of Wall' St. at 8:30 AM. sharp
and return at 11:00 at night. There
will be dining, dancing and plenty of
oriental and occidental entertainment.
The port of call will be Hook Mountain up the Hudson.' -
TWO IN FAMO.Y
RATE HONORS
Edward Abdo, 15, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Mirshid Abdo of Brooklyn, N.Y.
received a solid gold medal for general excellence in his studies in St.
Peter's School, New York City, from
which he was graduated on Sunday,
June 25. His sister, Jeanette, 1L
who is a pupil of Assumption School,
Brooklyn, received her second certificate for the highest average in her
school on Thursday, June 29.
Mrs. Marcella Thomas of Brooklyn, N. Y., and her daughter, Adele,
are leaving Saturday for Rochester,
N Y., to spend a few weeks with
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Assad Hatem and
their son George, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
spent the Iholiday week-end in Asbury Park, N. J.
John Macsoud of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
and his sisters, Adele and Najla are
spending the week in Asbury Park,
N. J., where they went to \ celebrate
tile Fourth.
Miss Helen Najar of Brooklyn,
N. Y., spent the holiday week-end
at Chalfonte-Hazdon Hall in Atlantic
City, N. J.
Miss Sally Ganem, who has spent
the past few months in New York
is returning to her home in Torrington, Conn., today.
Selwa Farhood, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Toufic Farhood of Brooklyn,
N. Y., was graduated from Bay Ridge
High School with honors last week.
:
Mrs. Luke Nebhan and her daughter, Pearl, of Brooklyn, N. Y., are
Visiting their relatives, Mr. and Mrs.
Hikol Nebhan in Torrington, Conn.
Raymond Jabara, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fayad Jabara of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
was graduated from Manuel High)
School with honors on Thursday,
June 29.
Miss Bahia Hajjar, of Brooklyn,
N. Y, is leaving Tuesday for Edgartown, Martha Vineyards, Mass., toi
spend a month's vacation.
From
there she expects to go to Vermont
to spend another month in the White
Mountaim
JERE J. CRON1N
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
MORTUARY CHAPEL
Local or Oat of Town Funerals Personally Attended to
LADY ATTENDANT
Expense a Matter of Year Own Desire
118 ATLANTIC AVENUE
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
The largo amount of business we do permits us to bay caskets
la largo quantity which enables as to giro the host funerals vary
reasonable. Wo carry a complete line of the Tory best manufactured
caskets at $45.00 up. We pay no agents to secern faaerals for ae bat
only give the family who has sorrow tits very best of service,
and economy. Our aim is to help those who are hi trouble at a
little cost. No charge for use of our
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<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
<h4>Scope/Content Note</h4>
<p><em>The Syrian World</em> was published between 1926 and 1932 as a journal. In 1932, the format was changed from an academic journal style to a newspaper style, which continued until the periodical's end in 1935. After the death of his brother Naoum, Salloum took over the publication of <em>Al-Hoda.</em></p>
<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
<p>All issues of <em>The Syrian World</em> are available, along with full indexes for the first four volumes. For volumes five and six, there are tables of contents at the start of the issues.</p>
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY — ESTABLISHED 1926
VOL. VII, NO. ,11.
PONSOT MOVED
IN a wireless dispatch to the
New York Times from Paris, it
is reported that at a meeting
of the French cabinet M. Henri
Ponsot, French High Commis' sioner to Syria and Lebanon,
has ./been named Resident General of Morocco, replacing M.
Lucien Saint.
It is further reported that the new High Commissioner, replacing M. Ponsot,
is M. de Martel, the French
Ambassador for Japan, who had
been attached for a long time
«<,,_ to the French Embassy at Washington.
Arab Caligraphist
Sends Specimens
To Chicago Fair
BEIRUT— The famous Lebanese caligraphist, Nasib Makarian, sent two valuable specimens
of his work to the Chicago World
Fair. The first of these is a grain
of rice in silver engraved with a
likeness of the ruins of Baalbek
in their present condition.
The
second, a similar seed in marble
engraved on one side with the
likeness of the first automobile
made by Ford in 1903 and two
others, the second and the latest
models. On the other side Makarian had inscribed in English some
sayings of Ford on success.
CiEORGE SHAHIN MADE 2ND
LIEUTENANT IN U. S. CORPS
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.—George
~P. Shahin of this city was commissioned second lieutenant in the infantry branch of the United States
Army officers reserve corps.
PERSIA CHANGES
CALENDAR FROM
LUNAR TO SOLAR
(
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TEHRAN— The Persian Government, following in the steps of the
Turkish Republic, has adopted the
solar calendar for the lunar one, but
has kept the Moslem era, as a concession to its citizens, the large
majority of whom are Shiite Moslems.
"There is a difference of ten days between the two calendars, whichi
causes a great deal of confusion in
computation of dates as well as busimess difficulties.
The Moslem era,
dating from the Hajra (Flight) of the
Prophet in 622 A.O., is 40 years benind the Christian one, pointed the
Persian Government in its proclamation giving its reasons for "the
-change.
NEW YORK, JULY 14, 1933.
BROTHER BRINGS
FLIER'S BODY
FROM CHICAGO
JERSEY CITY, N. J.— The body
of Joseph Adrey, 24, Syrian parachute
jumper who was killed in an exhibition leap at the Chicago Exposition
July 4, was brought to his home here
on Monday by Fred Kadrey, brother
of the dead boy.
Funeral services were held on
Tuesday morning in St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church and interment
followed in Holy Name Cemetery.
Personal Effects Missing
All personal effects that were
found in one of Adrey's suits after
the fatal leap were missing when Fred
Kadrey arrived in Chicago OH Saturday to make positive identification!
of the body. Adrey had discarded
hi$ civilian clothes to don an "Uncle
Sam" suit in which he made his
spectecular death-defying leap before 100,000 Fair spectators on the
Fourth. It is said that the missing
articles included several signed contracts. The cause of the tragedy is
still a mystery inasmuch as it was
found by experts that his unopened
parachute had been in good working
condition but that Adrey had failed
to pull the rip chord.
Mother Unaware of Tragedy
Meanwhile the boy's mother, who
is vacationing in Alabama with one
of her daughters, is still unaware
of her son's death. Also surviving
him are his father, Khalil Kadrey, a
fur dealer, and six brothers and sisters, Frederick, James, Martha, Elizabeth, Catherine and Grace.
CHINESE MOSLEMS
FLOCK TO AZHAR
SEEKING LEARNING
CAIRO— Impressed by the large
increase of Chinese Moslem students
who have flocked recently to al-Azhar, famous Moslem theological center, its authorities have decided on,
adding a "Chinese Portico" to the several ones already existing and bearing the names of different nationr
alities.
LOAN SOUGHT BY
IRAQ IN LONDON
BAGHDAD— It is reported that
the Iraqite delegation now in London and headed by King Feisal will
seek a $10,000,000 loan from London!
bankers. The Iraqite Minister of Fi->
nance has left for London, to take
part, it is said, in the negotiations for
the loan and to discuss Haifa-Baghdad railway.
EXPEDITION TO SYRIA
FINDS ANCIENT POEM
Former Lebanese Journalist
Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison
THE FINDINGS of the French
expedition to Northern Syria include
many significant sidelights on biblical
history, according to a wireless to
The New York Times on July 1L
One of the most interesting was
•a poem written in Phoenician cuneiform characters which describes the
life and times of the father of the
prophet Abraham. The poem was
found by Dr. Claude Schaeffer, head
of the French mission, and has already furnished material explaining
biblical history. The text is being1
ACCORDING to "Fata Lubnan,"
an Arabic newspaper appearing in,
Sao Paulo, Brazil, Najib Constantin
Haddad, convicted for the murder of
a fellow citizen, Toufic Khoury, in
1929, Was condemned by the high
court of that city to 30 years in prison. The trial lasted several hours
in which the defendant's lawyer put
up a brilliant defense.
Mr. Haddad, who appealed the
sentence, is a picturesque journalist,
who had a long and colorful career
in Arabic journalism in South America and the United States.
translated by experts.
"MAHRAJAN" IN DETROIT RECALLS
SCENES OF HOMELAND LIFE
OLD AND NEW, SYRIAN AND AMERICAN, ALL FALL
UNDER THE SPELL OF THE PICTURESQUE CARNIVAL,
AS DEBKE AND FOX-TROT, MIJWIZ AND BANJO,
NARGHILA AND BEER GIVE KEYNOTE OF DUAL
NATURE OF THE ANNUAL FESTIVAL
S. A. MOKARZEL FORMALLY OPENS THE MAHRAJAN; SAMI SHAWWA
FOLLOWS WITH SEVERAL SELECTIONS ON VIOLIN
(Special Correspondence)
DETROIT— Syria was transplanted to America, to Detroit,
to be more specific, during the three days of the Mahrajan held
here at the Martha Washington Park on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of
this month. Scenes and settings that were reminiscent of similar
ones in old Lebanon, echos of the shepherd's song on the "mijwiz" (flute), the phantoms of old men at the gate of the village,
of festal merriments and folk dances at a wedding, seemed to recall something of the magic of youth and romance to memories
dimmed by the long passage of years.
PERSIAN WOMEN
PARTICIPATES
IN PROFESSIONS
TEHRAN— The first appointment
to an important governmental ofIfice held by a Persian woman
was announced here recently. In
the advance of feminism in all
countries of the Far and Near,
Easts, .the Persian woman now
participates' in all professional and
business activities. Persian women doctors, lawyers, business executives and educators are now
met with everywhere in the ancient land of Omar the Tentmaker.
MSGR. WAKIM
HOLY YEAR PILGRIM
ON SATURDAY of last week
Msgr. Francis Wakim, pastor of St.
Joseph's Maronite Church in Washington Street, New York City, sailed
on the S.S. Conte de Savoia to Rome.
Father Wakim, one of the oldest Lebanese clergymen who came to
this country still living, made two
previous trips to the old country on,
the last of which, in 1919, he was
elevaed to the rank of Monsigneur by
the late Patriarch Elias Huwayyik.
This year he will be one of the millions of devoted Catholic pilgrims
visiting Rome in the Holy Year.
PIONEER IMMIGRANT
DIES IN AFRICA
(Special Dispatch)
JOHANNESBURG, South AfricaJoseph K. F. Lahoud, one of the earliest emigrants to South Africa died
here at the age of 86. A large crowd
of Syrians and Lebanese in this city
attended his funeral.
Street Named for Lebanon
in Rio de Janeiro
A MOVEMENT is afoot among
the large Syrian and Lebanese community of Rio de Janeiro, to change
the name of Rua de Alfandega, the
principal street inhabited by the Syrians and Lebanese there, to "Cedar of
Lebanon." Mr. George Shidyaq, editor of the Oriental section of the influential Brazilian newspaper, A Van
Guarda, is the instigator of this
movement.
Contrast of New
As a contrast, the younger generation of Syrian and Lebanese men
and women, and even children in
their rompers, looked on with evident interest or amusement, or enjoyed themselves in their own modern ways. They danced to the musieof a jazz orchestra, sipped soda or
beer, and occasionally tried their
nimble feet at the rugged and strenuous dance of the debke.
The main attraction seemed to
be the meeting of old friends and,
establishing new friendships, as thousands were attracted here, as though
cities and towns all over the United
by a huge magnet, from numerous
States. People treked from far and
near to attend the Mahrajan—from
New York, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Niagara Falls, Canton, Chautauque, Lansing, Akron, Cleveland, Chicago, Flint,
Oklahoma City and hundreds of
other places.
The rich and the poor, the literati, the musicians, the artists and
professionals, the simple ordinary
folk, the known and the unknown, met
their friends and kinsmen,many of
whom would not have met otherwise.
Long .luxurious limousines were
parked side by side with the trucks
in which some came, ate and slept.
The hundreds of automobiles were all
parked in the open, under the trees,
in the beautiful natural park that
was dotted with lakes and enhanced
ta night by the lovely moonlight.
Rain during the first day kept
many away, but on the following
two days Old Sol smiled benignly,
ana perfect weather reigned the rest
of the festive days.
The circular pavillion in the centre of the park was the gatheringplace during the opening program
which consisted of speeches and music by Sami Shawwa, Fadwa Kurban,
Najeebe Morad and Johnny Falad.
Mokarzel Opens Mahrajan
S. A. Mokarzel, editor of alHoda and the Syrian World, who
was invited by the St. Maron Society
especially for the occasion, opened the
carnival. He welcomed his countrymen and paid tribute to the ideals
and objectives underlying the Mahrajan, saying that it was more than,
a mere picnic or carnival for the
purpose of a good time and the gath-
�THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, JULY14, 1933.
PAGE TWO
EDITOR FLAYS
FACTIONALISM
DETROIT AND CLEVELAND
TIEATBASEBALL
Mokarzel Throws the Gauntlet;
Archmandrite Bashir Inducted
into Rashid Clan
DEFEATED AS GUESTS, ARE VICTORS AS HOSTS
By Eugene Fans
DETROIT—Cleveland defeated Detroit,
and then Detroit
MARGARET ABRAHAM TO
WED YOUNGSTOWN MAN
MESS MARGARET Abraham,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Af>raham of Niles, Ohio, will be married
to Mr. Abe Aune of Youngstown,
formerly of Akron, Ohio. The wed^
ding will take place on Thursday,.
July 13 in St. Stephen's Church in
Niles.
(Special Correspondence)
defeated Cleveland, and now another game, in the nature of a
playoff, » anticipated.
r».fT«it'«
It all started when St. Maron. Young Men s Club, Detro t s
crack.Syrian indoor baseball team, accepting the challenge of the
rCalill Contractors of Cleveland, invaded that Buckeye town to
meet those powerful ten led by "Zig" Shaheen.
ering pf friends. He characterized
the Mahrajan as an "institution" for
the preservation and perpetuation of
those sound and fine traditions and
folk-lores which constitute our peculiar contribution to the already composite traditions and culture of the
land of our adoption.
Mr. Mokarzel then introducedSami Bey Shawwa who was applauded eagerly by the thousands who
bad heard of his name, and many of
whom had never met in person. Sami
Bey more than fulfilled their high ex• pectations, and proved generous with
his selections and encores. He was
followed by Mme Kurban and Miss
Morad
Because of the lack of proper
acoustics in the pavillion, there was
difficulty in hearing the speeches and
the music. Many in the audience
left their seats and crowded around
the platform,, standing throughout the
program. Children played rough and
tumble all over the place, getting between people's legs and hilariously enjoying themselves at the expense of
the grown-ups.
They seemed to
"swSrm all over the park, especially
where the elder folks held their
gatherings, so one had to walk cautiously to avoid running into them.
Ziggy's boys were in tip top form.
Ernie Abdu's masterful pitching and
errorless ball succeeded in defeating
the classy Motor City outfit, attired
in new uniforms of maroon and white.
Two extra innings, however, were necessary to down the Detroiters, captured by Norman Dwaihy. The score
was 4-3.
TShe outstanding Detroit players
were Michael Rizik (1st baseman)
and Michael Karam (3rd baseman).
Rizik pitched throws from every
angle, and Karam faced two flying
pieces of a broken bat, simultaneously dodged the pieces and caught the
ball between them, 'fielded it, and
threw it to first where his alert colleague Rizik inade a fine catch for
the putout. It was the most spectecular play of the game, and made
the spectators send up wild cheers
for the visiting team. They went
down losers, but great losers. They
lost the game but won the big heart
of that big town.
Pavillion Scene of Dancing
The program was repeated on
each of the two succeeding days,
lasting over an hour. This over, the
pavillion was then left clear for the
young folks to dance and enjoy themselves. A Syrian orchestra provided
dance music for the young men and
women, some of whom never left the
dance floor until far into the night.
Not only the young men and women*
danced, but the little tots hugged
each other around the waist and
imitated their elders, some doing intricate steps and others just jumping up and down.
Every once in a while a debke
group would form. A man or woman
would start, and others flock to join
in the strenuous Syrian folk dance
to the seductive, soft music of thepipe. Faster and faster the circle
of dancers would go, following the
steps of the leader who, with kerchief in hand twirling high over his
head, would lead in the singing and
prompt the lagging dancers. Here and
there, if one would stroll far enough
into the woods he would come upon
some clearings where smaller groups
of debke dancers with a circle of
on-lookers watching the Syrian folk
dance.
St Maron Matrons Serve
\
The restaurant on the premises
provided Syrian and American food.
Beer, which flowed freely, was inj
charge of several matronly women and
charming girls, members of St. Maron Society who had volunteered
their free services. In a tiny pavillion, about ten feet square, there
was an improvised little Oriental
cafe. Several of the older Syrians
and Lebanese sat at tables and puffed
the celebrated narghila, while others
sipped Turkish coffee;
Some sat in-
Hospitality Overwhelms Detroiters
The Michigan boys were swept off
their feet by the over-whelming hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Sabe
and their son Waddy, the official
hosts. The Detroiters were received
at S A.M. ;and taken to the Sabe
home where, in their own words, they
were treated so royally, they were
at a loss to know how to reciprocate.
Later they had dinner at the home
of Mr. Kalill, sponsor of the Cleveland team.
Only July 4th, in Detroit, before
thousands at the Mahrajan gathered
from all parts of the country, the
Kallil Contractors lost the return
match to Detroit. The visiting stars
fell, 6-0. But they were great sports,
and gave the Mahrajan crowds a great
show. It was a very exciting game
in spite of the one-sided score.
Another game is expected in the
hear future.
DETROIT, July 12.— Throwing
his whole being into his clear, impassioned voice, Salloum JJdokarzel,
editor of al-Hoda and the Syrian
World, earnestly denounced factionalism and feudism among Syrians.
About three hundred invited
guests, including nearly a hundred
members of the Rashid family from
different states, heard the editor at
a banquet given in his honor by Shik•ry Salloum, at St. Maron Society Hall
in Detroit
"I am proud to claim adherence
to my religion...'.and I will keep
faithful to it as I am faithful to my
wife and children, and my country...'
I have no fear to proclaim the truth
in the columns of my paper, come
what may in consequence
" ,
Mr. Mokarzel made a plea for,
Syrian unity, last night, asking that
he and his paper be considered onj
their own merits, aside from religious
issues. "I am striving to reach a
goal," he said, "if I don't reach- it
it will be my fault. If I do, it will
be through your assistance. I want
your support if I deserve it but if!
I don't, then I don't want it without
deserving it.
BROTHER OF MISHA NAIMY
PASSES AWAY IN LEBANON
THE DEATH of Nasib Naimy„
brother of Misha Naimy, well-known,
literary figure in this country who is
mow living in Lebanon, was an-,
mounced recently. The deceased was:
a promising young man who had
returned recently from Paris after*
completing studies there. He is survived by his young wife, a Frenchwoman, whom he had maried a few
months before his death.
Helen Rozek Returns
to New York
HELEN H Rozek, violinist, returned on Tuesday to New York after
spending a month with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Rozek, of Berlin, N. K, and her nine brothers and
sisters.
Miss Rozek will resume her work
here as teacher of violin and a violis*
in various ensembles.
Mbadda Rashid, Toastmaster
The master of ceremonies was
Mbadda Rashid of New York, dean
of the Rashid family in America.
Speaking of the editor he said: "We
will stand by him, as long as.he is
right."
Mr. Rashid at one point in the
program called a meeting of all the
Rashids, and one of them nominated
Archmandrite Bashir to be "adoped"
as a member of he family. The motion was carried, and Mbadda announced a new member of the family— Antonius Rashid Bashir. The
Archmandrite accepted the new honor,
with proper dignity. He said: "The
Rashids are frank and sincere. Frankness and sincerity are the greatest
things in life. I love frank and sincere people. I hate hypocrites."
Sami Bey Shawwa and Miss Morad entertained. Other speakers were
Rev. Peter Ashkar of Minneapolis and
Rev. Mansur Stephen of New York.
picnics at distant points of interest at
side the enclosure, on a little elevathe invitation of Detroit friends.
tion, while others preferred the more
The first night all the artists and
natural atmosphere under some tres
speakers gathered at the home of Mr.
below outside the railing. Once in a
while some one would sing a "maw- , and Mrs. Chicri Salloum and spent
a merry evening of song and festivity.
wal" as others responded with exOn the following night the many
clamations of approval, crying "Alfriends of Mr. and Mrs. FJias Gastine
lah" or "tishun" or some other spongathered under the clear sky in the
taneous expression. While, at another
moonlight; and on the third night
circle, wit was matched against wit
about a hundred people attended the
in the improvised folk poetry known
picnic given by Sfire Bros., who had
as "m'anna." Some of the most celesent a truck load of food for the ocbrated "m'anna" improvisers 'qawcasion. At these gatherings the artwal) came from different parts of the
ists played and sang to their smaller
States to participate in -the poetio
audiences at the call of the muses.
tournament like the old troubadors
All in all the Mahrajan of Deof Provence and Spain in the long
troit was a grand success. About
ago when Arab influence wa*s a prefour thousand attended many of
dominating one in southern Europe.
whom, coming from distant parts,
Eat Repasts Under Trees
took the occasion to visit the World
Fair in Chicago, about 150 miles
Under the trees, wherever you
away.
went families gathered and spread
Mr. Mokarzel was introduced by
out their meals for the midday reEdib Azouri. On the speakers' stand
past Raw kibbe, pounded in imwere the Rev. Peter Ashkar of Minnprovised "jurns" (mortars) and meat
eapolis, Shukri Kanaan, editor of
on skewers, kept the womenfolk busy,
Lisan ul-Adl of Detroit, H. I. Kafrwhile the menfolk sipped arak or
sghabi', vice-president of the Lebanese
beer, before the main meal started,
League of Progress of Detroit and
lasting sometimes for two or three
others.
hours. Many groups went to private
.
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Haddad Nominated
For Toledo Council
(Special Correspondence)
TOLEDO, Ohio— Toledo enjoys
its share of politics, especially when
one of its own boys is in the. race.
Lester Haddad, born and raised in,
Toledo, is up for nomination this
August for councilman of the second
ward Mr. Haddad has been a very
efficient business man, and is socially
prominent among the Syrian people
in Toledo.
On July 6th a beer stag was given in his honor. Speeches were given by the chairman, Joseph Shimmally. and by William Jacobs, Barber
Farris, Charles Hider, Kay Yarad,
Claude Jefferies and Peter Long.
SILVER JUBILEE
ON COMING Sunday Msgr. Louis
Zouain, who passed through New.
York on a visit to Philadelphia, will
officiate in a High Mass service at
the Maronite Church in Waterbury,
Conn., in celebration of the silver jubilee of its pastor, Father Joseph
Rizk.
NORWICH SOCIETY
ELECTS OFFICERS
(Special Correspondence)
NORWICH, Conn.— The SyrianLebanese Brotherhood Society of this,
city held its elections this week with
the following results: President, Shikry Sabra; Vice-President E Antoun;
Secretary, K. A. Antoun; Treasurer,
A. Bishara; Sergeant-at-Arms, B. JGermanos and George Assaf.
Brooklyn Syrian
"Trimmed" Camera
THE SOMEWHAT bruised and
giant-strided he-man who towered into the Victoroia Hotel barber shop the
morning after the Sharkey-Carnera
fight was Camera himself, coming in,
for his daily shave and accessories.
The distinguished customer, as
usual, received the attention of the
manager, George Coury, Syrian oft
Brooklyn, who admits that Camera
was a "heavy" customer, keeping him,
the boot-black and the manicurist
quite busy, but notwithal a cheerful,
one especially on that particular
morning.
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BRIGHT FUTURE FACES SYRIA
SAYS SON OF ITS PRESIDENT
MAHMOUD MUKHTAR BEY AL-ABID, MODERN SCION OF
AN ARAB EMIR, VISITS THE STATES ON PLEASURE
TOUR AND TO STUDY AMERICAN LIFE
i
IS FORMER STUDENT OF OXFORD AND PREPARING FOR
DIPLOMATIC CAREER
IT IS WELL with Syria! Take it from a typical Syrian youth
of the modern generation who speaks with authority and knowledge on his own country. For it is no other than Mahmoud Mukhtar Bey al-Abid, son of Mohammed Ali Bey al-Abid, President of
jhe Syrian Republic and former ambassador of the Ottoman Empire tq 'the United States in Washington.
Mahmoud Mukhtar Bey arrived
Wednesday morning of this week on
board the S.S. Champlain of the
French Line, docking at the foot of
15th West StreetOn the same ship
were Mr. and Mrs. William Aboussleman, of Paris.
Comes Without Ostentation
j»
Without fanfare of publicity, with-i
out pomp or ostentation, this young
nobleman, whose grand-father Ahmed
Izzat Pasha al-Abid was the power
behind the throne of the powerful
Sultan AbdulrHamid, and whose
great >grand-father was Holo Pasha
al-Abid, an Arab Emir who attained
great power and influence under the
Turks and became governor of Damascus. He quietly stole into port,
was standing in section "A" along
with other first-class passengers of;
the, ship whose names begin with,
that letter, waiting for the customofficers to discharge him, when we
met him on behalf of the Syrian
World and al-Hoda.
He responded to the call of his
name with a simple "Here, I am the
man you are calling!" He was accompanied by no servants or valets,
and the pomp we associate with
oriental nobility was altogether lacking. With blue-gray eyes, full, round
face and black hair, medium size and
height, he looked more like a student tourist, a French or Italian
gentleman of leisure who was intent
en travelling light and seeing the
sights without the cumbersome interferences and formalities attending an
official visitor with an entourage.
Talks English Fluently
Ready to talk with him in his
own tongue, we found him just as
(ready to talk in English. We were
a little taken aback with his perfect
command of the language, but soon
our surprise vanished when we found
he was a former student of Oxford
University, having spent in that famI ous institution two years. With no
less fluency he spoke French to the
stewards of the ship, attending to his
luggage.
The "interview" on the pier proving hectic and often interrupted, we
adjourned to the cab which carried
us to Hotel Pierre on Fifth Avenue
and 61st Street, <New York.
The
young man proved a charming conversationalist, and a born diplomat,
avoiding the discussion of political
subjects that may prove embarrassing or which his father, the first citizen of Syria, may frown upon with
disapproval.
But he intimated
enough to make ua draw the conclusion that Syria is going on the
Tight path, politically ^speaking, that
it may not be long before Syria wUl
enjoy as good a status as that of Iraq,
and that the majority of Syrians
. still adhere to the republican form
of: government He wanted us to
(realize that the position of his father,
President Mohammed Ali Bey alAbid, was a very delicate one, and
. we assented, adding that he was car-
Tying out his charge with great tact
and sense of patriotism.
Speaks Freely on Economics
On the economical and social
sides of Syria's modern developments,
however, Mahmoud Mukhtar Bey
spoke with Jess reserve and caution.
His eyes beamed with enthusiasm
when he spoke of the great progress
Syria has already made in both, giving promise of a brilliant and progressive future. Syria, he declared,
is on the road to economic self-sufficiency and independence. A large
company for the conservation of i
fruits was recently formed in Damascus, Mahmoud Bey pointed out,
which soon will be able to ship great
quantities of the luscious fruits ofj
tliat famous city and its equally
famous "Ghuta," the Orchard district surrounding Syria's capital and
watered by the .historic river of
Barada, to all parts of Europe .and
the Near East.
1500 Syrian Students in France
As for the social evolution of;
our ancient homeland it is sufficient
to relay to our readers the significant information by the President's
son that Syrian youths studying in
France alone number about 1500!
With such an army of students preparing for technical and professional
careers, it is not hard to visualize
the future of a little country numbering less than S millions. Higher
education has become the style among
the post-War generation of Syrians
and Lebanese, and they. go after it
with an avidity that is nothing short
of amazing.
The princely scion himself, it is
evident from his easy manners and
the tone of conversation, is decidedly a modern. He is a champion of
unveiling, and it is his firm belief
that all modern Moslems, like himself,
'are of the same opinion. The veil is
passing away, and the old-fashioned
confined Moslem woman of harem
fame is gradually disappearing. Int
her place is rising the modern Moslem, woman with high-school or even
college education who is no more
content to stay at home and look
sweet. And it is inconceivable that
such a modern woman would stand
very long the veil and the life it
symbolizes.
Wants to Study American Life
Mahmoud Mukhtar Bey is 26;
years old and unmarried. At present
he is a student in l'Ecole de Science
Politique in Paris, preparing himself,
icr a diplomatic career. His visit to
this country is a spontaneous affair,
and he has no special plans for his
itinerary. But he has few definite
objectives in mind. One is a visit
to the Chicago World Fair, and
another a trip to the famous Niagara
Falls. He may also go as far as California and visit on his way our celebrated national parks, the Yellowstone, Yosemite Valley, etc. He also
wishes to make a study of American
1400 ALEPPIANS AND
FRIENDS "PICNIC" ON
LAND AND SEA
APPROXIMATELY 1400 Aleppiand their friends embarked upon
Steamer Susquehanna last Sunat 8:30 A.M., for a picnic and
up the Hudson.
The occasion was sponsored by
the Aleppian Fraternity of Brooklyn,
N. Y., and was the fourth of its kind
to be held by that organization. The
steamer was transformed into a carnival grounds for the day and the
gay Aleppians made merry as only
they know how.
• There was Arabic music by native instrumentalists accompanied by
volunteer singers and clappers and
popular music by the steamer's orchestra for dancing.
Jamile Matouk of Brooklyn drew
a large portion of the 1400 with her
Arabic crooning and oriental gyrations and Naiim Karakand, violinist,
came especially from Atlantic City,
N. J., to play and help make merry.
At Hook Mountain, the port of
, call, the "sailors" disembarked for
seven more hours of unbridled fun
and fest. To them it was a seemingly short day when they finally arrived in New York at 12:30 A.M.
ans
the
day
sail
Rose Cassatly Reports
on Conference
MISS ROSE Cassatly, member of
the Lilola Club, of the International
Institute in Brooklyn, N. Y., gave an
interesting report on the Industrial
Conference which she attended as a
delegate from the club for ten days
at Summit Lake, N. Y., in a get-together social held in their elubroom.
on July 6th. Miss Cassatly also gave
a report on the Conference at the
City Wide meeting of the "Y" girls
which was held on July 10 on the
lawn of Mrs. Richardson Pratt's estate
in Brooklyn.
Receives 4th
Scholarship
THEODORE Joseph of Brooklyn,
N. Y., for three years has been a
scholarship student in St. Stephen's
College in New York City where he
will be a senior next year. Last week
he received word that the college
has also awarded him a fourth scholarship in the amount of $450 to cover
his tuition for next year.
Mahrajan in Conn.
THE American Syrian Society of
Winsted, Conn., held a Mahrajan, July
9th at the Peoples' Picnic Grounds
in Barkhamsted. The affair proved
to be a huge success. Dancing, musical selections, and outdoor sports
were enjoyed by hundreds of Syrians, both young and old.
One of the main features was
a 4 piece orchestra of 3 brothers and
a sister from Adams, Mass. Miss
Farris, the oldest of the four, is 18
years old and the youngest, the drummer, is 9 years.
Societies from Torrington, Waterbury, Ansonia, Danbury, and Winsted, Conn., were well represented.
There were guests from Adams, Pittsfield, North Adams, Mass., and Brooklyn, N. Y.
Miss Elizabeth Autella, daughter
' of Mrs. Mary Autella, graduated from
the fforrington High School June 15
as the Valedictorian of the class of
1933.
Miss Josephine Narsiff ranked 3rd
highest
life, and visit places which typify such
life. His stay in New York is indefinite, but at any rate will last
over a week.
Benefit Concert
for Gloria Shweiri
TOMORROW a concert will be
given in honor of Gloria Shweiri,
oriental dancer, proceeds of which
will go to her benefit Among artists
who volunteered their services will
be Jamile Matouk, Toufic Mbayyid,
Meyer Morad, Ibrahim Mesdi, and
Mike Hamawy. The concert will be
held at the Pilgrim Hall at 290 Court
Street, Brooklyn.
Gloria Shweiri is only 13 and has
shown great promise as an oriental
dancer.
MARONITE SOCIAL CLUB
FORMED IN CRANFORD, N..J.
CRANFORD, N. J.—About twenty
young Syrians met here on Tuesday
evening to form a social club which
will be known as the Maronite Club
of Cranford.
The initial meeting was held in
the home of its temporary president
Isabelle Azar. Further meetings will
be held on each Tuesday in the homes
of the members according to alphabetical order.
Brooklyn Boy
Graduates at 16
EMIL Khoury, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Khalil Khoury of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
was graduated from the Brooklyn
Technical High School last month
with honors. Emil is 16 and expects
to take a post-graduate course to
enable him to enter Cooper Union
in New York City where he expects
to major in engineering.
KAZIN NEWLY-WEDS
FETED
(Special Correspondence)
DETROIT, June 30.— Mr. and
Mrs. Kazin K. Kazin, accompanied by
the Rt. Rev. Archmandrite Anthony
Bashir, brother of the bride, arrived
here early this week, after a trip from
Mexico, and El Paso, Texas, where
the wedding ceremony was performed
by the Archmandrite. The trip took
them through many cities and states,
including the World's Fair at Chicago.
Among the dinners held in their
honor was a supper given by Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Ashare, on Sunday evening, a supper given by Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Sayer, on Monday evening and a banquet given by the congregation of St. George's Syrian Orthodox Church, Thursday night at St.
George's Hall.
At the banquet in the Hall, Archmandrite Bashir thanked the congregation on behalf of the bride and
groom. George Lutfy delivered the
address of welcome. The archmandrite
answered rumors to the effect that
he was leaving his Detroit pastorate
by assuring his congregation that he
had considered no such step, and
would remain in Detroit.
REV. DAVID SPONSORS
CONCERT IN TOLEDO
Rev. Sammuel David of Toledo,
sponsored a successful concert en
Sunday evening, July 9, in Sabaw
Auditorium, Louis Wardini gave selections both in Arabic and English.
A large audience was in attendance.
SYRIAN WELFARE CLUB
TO PICNIC IN OTTAWA PARK
THE SYRIAN Womens Welfare
Club of Toledo, is giving a picnic at
Ottawa Park, Sunday July 16th. This
group of women has been very active
in welfare work among the people
and is largely responsible for the relief work among the Syrians here
although the percentage of needy
Syrians is said to be the lowest in
the city.
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WHAT YOUTHFUL SON OF SYRIA'S
PRESIDENT MAY SEE IN
AMERICA
IN EXTENDING its hand to welcome the
youthful son of Syria's first president, the
SYRIAN WORLD is conforming to its fundamental principle of good fellowship between
Lebanon and Syria, and of common understanding and good wijl between the Syrians
and Lebanese in this country and their brethren on the other side of the Atlantic.
The simple, earnest manner, unostentatious
and democratic, in which Mahmoud Mukhtar Bey, scion of a noble and distinguished
*» Arab: family in Syria, has made his appearance
among us, gives promise that this democratic
note will be a dominating one in the younger
generation of the powerful and wealthy families which still exercise a tremendous influ-
|
ence in the ancient homeland.
If young Mahmoud Mukhtar Bey keeps
his eyes and ears open, as he goes about
in this great land on his tour of observation,
experience and pleasure, he will notf ail to
realize that the secret of its greatness has
been that it has put achievement above tradition, the aristocracy ,of worth above the
(Confirming the truth of the emancipation of the
Moslem woman in the East as may be gathered from
the article interviewing Mahmoud Mukhtar Bey,
son of the President of the Syrian Republic, in this
issue of the SYRIAN WORLD, the following excerpt from an article by E L Katibah appearing in
the July issue of Travel Magazine is timely and
appropriate. The text and the cuts are by courtesy
of Robert M. McBride and Company, publishers of;
Travel. Editor.)
"....In Turkey the days of the harem
have passed. Turkish women have entered
every conceivable profession formerly preempted by men. There are women doctors,
women lawyers and judges, women editors,
women (merchants, women executives, women teachers and the ever-growing army of
stenographers. Turkish women, having been
declared equal to man before the law, are
now pressing for political equality and equal
suffrage.
A Turkish
man, even a pasha,
can no
longer dismiss
his wife
by
merely saying:
"Thou art divorced!
Thou
art
divorced!
Thou art divorced!" When his
wife's .youth and
charms begin to
ifade away he
can not marry
a lyoung girl
and I relegate
the (old and
faithful wife to
the role of a
•household servant. Hiere are
Idivorce courts
in Turkey where
The traditional veil of
the procedure
Egypt is held in place by
is similar to
a cylindrical ornament
that
in
the
resting on the bridge of
courts of Paris,
'the nose.
and New York.
But one may
rightly ask: If
this is the case in Turkey, how is it in other Moslem
countries? Has the lot of the Moslem woman improved outside Turkey; or has there been a reaction against the atheistic reforms of Mustapha Kemal Pasha, a swinging of the pendulum away from
Westernization and the feminist reforms?
It is very hard to give a sweeping answer to
these questions. For while in some quarters the
Kemalist reforms have given impetus and acceleration to fnmilar movements which have taken root
in the Arabic-speaking section of the' Moslem world,
it seems to have put some die-hard reactionaries
on their guard and stiffened their opposition to
anything that smacks of "Turkish infidelism." On
the whole, however, judging by my own observations over a year and a half spent in Egypt, Syria,
Palestine and Iraq, after an absence of over fifteen
years, I am convinced that feminism in the Arabic-
speaking world is passing from the stage of speculation and discussion to the stage of practical achievement.
,
The first time I came in contact with the femin-4
ist movement in the East was during an interview
with the leading feminist in Cairo, Mme Huda Shirawi, rich widow of a Cairoene pasha.
Madame Shirawi told me that the Egyptian^
Feminist Union, foremost feminist organization in*
the Arabic-speaking world, had its origin in the
year 1923, when an invitation from the bureau oft
the International Feminist Union was sent to a!
group of Egyptian women to attend a feminist
world conference held in Rome. A delegation o£|
leading Egyptian women, headed by Mme. Huda
Shirawi, attended the conference, and it was the
Ifirst time in history that Egyptian Moslem womeiij
represented their country in world activity abroad.
The Egyptian Feminist Union was registered with,
the international bureau, and two items of reform
which had been approved by the union at Cairo
were submitted for the approval and support of the
international body. These were a minimum marriage age for girls and equal opportunity of educa-i
tion for boys and girls in Egypt It speaks wefl
for the progressiveness and liberalism of the Egyptian parliament that both these reforms have since
been written down in the statutes of-Egypt, as well
as many similar reforms.
Today Jhere
are several Egyptian
girls
among the student delegations
to Europe, and
3 years ago before I left Egypt, a young
Egyptian lady
had
returned
with a Ph. D.
degree
from
(England,
and
the Ministry of
Education was
taking a special interest in
her. The Egyptian
National
University, rapidly
coming
to the forefront
of educational
The diaphanous white
institutions of
veil worn by some Egypthe East, is cotian women with their
educational, and
Western clothes is mereamong the founly a concession to custom.
ders of it was
a Moslem lady,,
a member of?
the reigning family, Princess Fatima Ismail.
aristocracy of family.
We do not ask him to give up or even
modify his oriental outlook for the American
one. More than others we are aware of the
shortcomings, the failures and disappaintments that seem to be concomitant features
of a great and unwieldy democracy as that
of the United States.
But we plead with
him, at least, not to go away with that flippant, superior air which has characterized so
much of the "impressions" carried away by The point of saturation in women employhasty European visitors.
We hope he will ment, the keen competition between the sexes
not confuse between the sound, fundamental in professions formerly closed to the "weakprinciples which underly American democracy er sex," is still far away in the East. There
and the adventitious, destructive elements is still ample room there for higher educawhich have grown on its body like deadly tion for women, for their participation in
•parasites,
various professions where they may be of
great assistance and guidance to their less
fortunate sisters.
THE EAST NOW SOARS WITH
It is a source of inspiration and pleasure!
TWO WINGS
that in a list giving the names of successful
IF EVIDENCE were lacking that the mod- graduates for the "certifieat," corresponding
ern developments in the East are directed in to our high-school diploma, we counted 1 16
jthe right path, are both sound and progres- women to 255 men. Of the former 44, to
sive, such evidence is plentifully supplied in tell from their names, are Moslems. This is
highly significant, in view of the fact that
this issue of the SYRIAN WORLD.
The rise of feminism-in the lands of the only a decade or so ago the number of Moscelebrated harem, more celebrated in fic- lem girls taking advantage of higher educa-
Next to Turkey, and possibly India, Egypt leads
the Moslem world in its feminist. agitation. And.
as in Turkey, Egypt produced national leaders
among the women who joined the men in fighting
for independence. Today Safiyyah Zaghloul, widow
of the late Egyptian national leader, Saad Zaghloul Pasha, is among the most important of the
Egyptian national leaders. Her sound counsels are
often sought by the men nationalists, and she takes
keen interest in the affairs of the WAFD, the chief
national party of Egypt. She is popularly, and not
undeservedly, called, Umm al-Masriyyeen," or Moth(Continued on page 7.)
who have not submitted to the "certifieat"
examination, or girls attending the American
Junior College for Women at Ras Beirut,
among whom are already a few ambitious
Moslem girls.
As the Moslejm population in the Lebanese
Republic is about equal to the Christian one,
we sincerely hope the number of Moslem
"certifieat" holders, in a short time, will
come up to that of the Christian girls.
Pioneer reformers and feminists in the
East were fond of using the hyperbole that a
bird cannot fly with one wing, and that a nation which counts as illiterate half of its citizenry, and that the one to whom is entrusted
the bringing up of children, cannot hope to
rise. It is hardly necessary to add the comment that the other wing now is beginning to
tion than in fact, has not reached a point tion, in ratio to Christian ones, was much move, and that the East now soars with
Nor does this list include. both wings in the way of emancipation and
where it may be called a social problem, as J smaller than this
it tends to be called here and in Europe, [ girls studying in missionary or private schools progress.
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PAGE FIVE
FROM EAST AND WEST
AT RANDOM
OUR NEW YORKERS
By H. I. Katibah
By Ana Bshoof
By Alice* Mokarzel
DEMOCRACY OR SOCIALISM?
LIVING in a private house one encounters the
SOME columns ago we told the story of soand-so who was found around the amusements spots daily run of peddlers, solicitors, and a new class
DR, M. SHADID of Elk City, Oklahoma, is an in Brooklyn in the company of twelve girls. I forinteresting personality, if for no other reason than got to mention that immediately after we received known as the "converters" or "reformers." I have
that he is one of those very rare birds, Syrian so- a long and wordy letter in which the author, anony- had the unique privilege of playing doorman to
cialists. He is the founder and manager of a com- mously if .you please, defends the presence of said one of the latter class and I must say that I was
munity hospital, and at one time was a candidate dozen girls, and goes so far as to fix the blame for. completely taken aback with the sincerity of the
on the socialist ticket of tha state for the office of the news on a certain party, however vague. I sweet-faced and voiced woman who tried her best
governor.
have deemed it opportune to mention it here because
Syrians are usually conservative in nature, tak- I have heard of another incident that is almost to reform me. I am not a dogmatically pious person but I don't exactly need "reforming." My reing little stock in institutions based on studied identical except that it concerns the opposite sex.
ligion is my own conception of right and wrong,
theories, and having little faith in the guidance oft
although I do derive a comfort in adhering to the
reason divorced of intuition and the backing oflife's experiences and traditions. In this they dis-i
A young lady rushed gayly into our office one dictates of my church.
play a marked Semitic trait that expresses itself in> afternoon last week and gave us what she termed
their different reactions, their conduct and their so^ an interesting piece of news. For proof she waved
the menu of a dinner party that was given on a
rial philosophy.
To return to my incident, this extremely solitiBut Dr. Shadid, who, in this respect, is so differ- steamer by twelve officers in her sole honor with cious woman confronted me with literature on "Jeent from most Syrians, is also a serious-minded no other women present. We females of the staff hovah" and his imminent and inevitable visit to the
gentleman, who takes his ideas religiously. He is were not averse to printing it; in fact, we thought universe. She was apparently shocked at my lack
somewhat of a crusader, a missionary and a dog- it a rare piece of news, indeed; but the men would of knowledge on the subject, but mustered courage
matist, thus giving evidence in his ego of another not think of it. Good Heavens! Advertise the fact to go on. "Jehovah will visit the world and that
Semitic phase of human nature that is unmistak- that a Syrian girl had dinner alone with twelve men! time will not be long from now.
" "But, I inAnd so the news was blue-pencilled.
able.
terrupted, "I am completely satisfied with my reIn a letter replying to my article "What Is
ligion and besides I have an uncle who is a great
Wrong with Democracy," which appeared in this
believer and advocate in "Jehovah" and who will
column in the issue of the 16th of June, both his
A somewhat* different "dinner-party" was the one supply me at any time with the information which
socialism and his dogmatism come to the surface, Fares Akel held in honor of his first-born—a pro- I apparently lack." However, I bit my lip from goflourishing both in his zeal to defend his economic mising young lady who, true to type, arrived in ing on and substituted my love of argument with a
"gospel" and "refute" our errors.
time to have the news sent to press. Fares is the little tact and promised her to read the literature,
In doing so, however, the socialist medico failed "writers of secrets" for al-Hoda.
which submission she accepted with some triumph
to read between the lines of my article, and so he
The day after the baby arrived we found our- and I suspect a little disbelief.
failed to perceive that I am at heart one of his al- selves invited to a sumptuous "banquet" in the
lies, not one of his opponents.
press-room. Ninety-nine per cent being males, they!
He mistakes the terseness of my sententious voted to have as their main dish raw liver. ExI do not wish to make the impression that one
column, in which obviously I could not go into cept for the linotypes and machinery the atmos- should turn a deaf ear to religions outside his own.
"premises," syllogisms and conclusions, as "groping phere was almost Lebanese. There were green On the contrary, I think that all religions are basicIfor the light," and proceeds to correct me as one vegetables galore all over the newspaper tablecloth ally the same. But I do think that one comes upon;
who speaks "ex-cathedra."
and a faithful lacking of silverware.
his own formulated religion at some time in his life
After quoting a few passages from the article
without the help of so-called "reformers". I believe
•
»
*
*
he plunges into an argument to prove that "while
that there are as many religions in the world as
Amidst the hungry munching a steady discussion there are individuals and to try and "conver*'
politically we are a Democracy, we are a despotism
industrially" and that "all the evils of modern De- commenced about the newcomer who was respon- another to your own is hopelessly impossible. .
mocracy, or at least the major part of the evils sible for the dinner, the men hoping for the happy
are traceable not to democracy in politics but to father that his ne:.t would be a boy. Of course
despotism in industry." He "begs to differ" with this got my goat and I began an argument with
Relevant to the same subject is an article that
my "wrong" conclusion that "the greatest enemy of the whole tribe but they were adamant. Fares,
I have just come across in the May, 1931 issue of
democracy is democracy itself," which he says is like any Syrian father, they said, would have pre- the Readers Digest. The article is by George Creel
based on a wrong premise, namely that "democracy, ferred a boy. Of course not, I said, Fares and his
and is called "The Man Behind 'The Arabian
family long ago decided that had they a choice
pure and simple, is the dominant social system."
Nights'" and relates a few incidents concerning
I searched in vain in my article to find where they would like a girl. Fares, in his diplomatic "The Man," Richard Burton, that have been hitherI made such a premise, and equally in vain in his way, confirmed the fact, and still more diplomaticalto unknown. Burton, it is disclosed, was a worldarticle to find wherein he has disproved my "con- ly as is his wont, remained silent.
traveler and adventurer of no mean experience.
clusion."
Long before he made the translation of the "Arabian
The main fallacy in Dr. Shadid's reasoning, as
Nights" he was seeking the wonders of the world
I said above, is his failure to read between the lines
The young and recent wife of William Abou- in the East and then was made a British Consul in
and to supply the intermediary steps of the argu-. char of New York, who sailed with him on Tuesday
the "fever-ravaged island of Fernando Po, off the
ment which I was trying to sketch in a few rough for Spain, is a graduate of Vassar College. Since
West Coast of Africa." The rest is copied verbatim
lines. If he had done so he would have found little her marriage she has learned more about Syrian,
from the article:
1
:',[**.
occasion for argument with me, and little justifica- cooking than a native and has taken to her Syrian!
tion for his contentuous letter.
atmosphere as a fish takes to water, so we have
For after all, whether we are ruled by political learned. Mr. Abouchar deals in perfumeries and
"Eventually England gave Burton the concrooks or by industrial despots, whose is the fault? linen and is quite a dabbler in water-colors and
sulate at Damascus and once again he was
Certainly, in the long run, it is that of the "people" oils.
in a land that he knew and loved. He found
who accept such a state of things. Whether socialism
time to explore the whole of unknown Syria,
or any other panacea is the cure of our social evils,
visiting ancient cities, determining the source
"Prosperity
in
a
big
way!"
was
William
Abousit will remain utterly ineffectual and impotent unof rivers and laying the foundations for geosleman's
motto
as
he
rushed
off
the
S.S.
Champlain,
less the people are made^to see it and comprehend it.
graphers who were to follow him and claim
1
And, I am of the firm opinion, as I said in my on Wednesday. "Hey, young fellar!" I shouted to
full credit. Time after time he risked his
article, that the fundamental wrong with democracy him, catching up to his speed. "What do you mean,
life in Bedouin country. Rarely had he been
is a moral one. It is the refusal of the common run
prosperity? What did you come to America for?
more happy, yet all the time a storm was
of humanity, who naturally must carry the burden,
brewing.
Do
you
expect
to
stay
long?
Are
you
going
to
Chiof democracy, autocracy, socialism, or any form of
"
government or any social order conceivable, to as- cago? Will you
"Mrs. Burton, at it happened, was a resume responsibility. Make them realize this, make
ligious
fanatic, and no sooner was her husband
"Listen!" he cried, with a majestic wave of his
them feel the seriousness of their responsibility,
installed in Damascus than she set about her
hand. "Sure J'U show America prosperity. One of
the great value of their suffrage; make them realize
self-appointed task of Christianizing all Islam.
my friends in France read in a newspaper that a dethat their self-seeking tactics at the expense of|
Slowly at first, but more and more swiftly,
pression was going on here so I packed my things
the public, will ultimately redound to their own) and came over. I'm going to buy all the merchanthe ridiculous business rushed to its inevitable
iruin, and the result will be an orderly and sane dise I can lay hold of and set the whole American
conclusion. The outraged Moslems turned
society which is both self-perpetuating and selfaway
from Burton, who had been welcomed
machinery to work. I'll map out a plan that will
corrective. It little matters what you call the order
as their blood brother, and when resentment
knock the London Conference cold I'll
"
Tinder which they would then live, whether socialreached the point of an attempted assasina"Stop!" I cried—and fainted.
ism, controlled capitalism or even "anarchy".
tion, the British government recalled him
*
*
*
*
peremptorily."
Dr. Shadid, like many socialists, seems to think
Eight years of living in Paris has sharpened
that "capitalists" and "industrial despots" are a
sort of mythical "ghouls" or human dinasours. The William Aboussleman's wit more than ever. With
simple truth is, they are very ordinary people, some him and his brother, Ted Black, their mother, Mrs.
And now, in Egypt, Islam is up in arms against
of them even below the ordinary in intelligence and Elias Aboussleman, has an armful to be proud of. all missionaries as a result of the rumored proselycapacity. They were placed there by a false eco- And right proud she is, not only of them but of) tization of 16-year-old Turkia Hassan in a Swedish
nomic system of "competition," "unlimited oppor- William's pretty French wife, also, who came with missionary school in Cairo two weeks ago. Which
tunity" or "rugged individualism." It is only a her husband. They DO expect to visit the Fair and proves the blunder of this phase of our "civilizathey HOPE that prosperity will not be long com- tion" and the truth of the philosophical maxim
"Live and let live!"
ing. So there!
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HQMS AND HAMA—The twin cities on
the Orontes. . the cities of mills and water
wheels, -the market-place of nomad Arabs of
the neighboring desert. . the cities of feudal
aristocracy, .the links between Aleppo and
Damascus.
Horns and Hama are often referred to as
the twin cities of Syria, and hardly one is
mentioned without the other. This close association gives the impression to one who had
not visited them or taken the trouble
to look
i
them on the map, that they are only quarters
of one city, or a twin city, like New York
and Brooklyn, bearing one name. In fact they
are separated by a distance of thirty miles
with a few villages between.
The geographic location of Horns and
Hama gave them natural advantages as well
as military ones which made them coveted
by the different conquerors who invaded our
ancient homeland. They are both of very
ancient origin, going back to the days of the
early Hittites.
During the occupation of
Syria by the Greeks and Romans they played
a conspicuous part, especially the former.
For it (was Homs which supplied Rome
with one of its "Syrian Emperors." In the
year 218 A.D., the Roman legionaries of
• Syria, flushed by the consciousness of their
power, raised the young Bassianus, then in
his fourteenth year and archpriest of the tem,ple of Homs, to the imperial dignity. He
_s known as Emperor Elagabalus or Heliogabaius. - 1 here was nothing, however, in the
brief reign of this emperor that makes one
proud to claim him.
He was a debased
monster in human form, and accounts of his
orgiastic parties and his inhuman cruelty, his
bestiality and lust, make even the most hardened reader of history blush for shame. Aggravated by his licentious doings, as well as
by the fact that he raised the worship of his
naive Baal of Homs above that of all the
Roman pantheon, the enraged citizenry of
Rome rose against him. He was murdered
by his soldiers in camp while he was engaged
in the effort to appease them. His body was
dragged in the streets, and later thrown in
the Tiber. Hence the epithet' of Tiberinus,
one,of many applied to this youthful tyrant
after his brief reign of four years.
Heliogobalus, albeit, was only a Syrian by
bringing up and adoption. He was of Roman
blood, the son of a noble Roman family and
a cousin once removed of Caracalle, another
grotesque and cruel emperor. When this latter was murdered by Marcinus, his maternal
aunt, Julia Maesa, grandmother of Heliogabalus, fled to Syria, where she always pined
for the imperial splendors she had left liehind. It was this scheming woman who fired
the imagination of young Bassianus and maneuvered his selection by the legionaires as
their chief and emperor.
Today the ruins of the Temple of the Sun
over which the youthful emperor once reigned
as high priest lies under a mound of ruins.
The Arabs came and built a citadel over its
site.
Early in the 12 th century both Homs and
Hama were captured by the Crusaders. Their
possession of them lasted only seven years.
Upon the capture of Hama, it is related. Tancard massacred its lsma'iliyyah inhabitants.
Shuts Moslems, with the edge of the sword.
As we saw in the previous issue of die Syrian
World, it was near Homs tlat Queen Zeno-
bia lost her first major battle with Aurelian,
leading to her ultimate defeat in the Syrian
Desert.
The most distinctive feature of Homs is
its flour mills, each supplied with several
mill stones run by the powerful flow of the
river that passes through the orchards and
gardens of the city. The Arabic name of this
river, al-Aasi, comes from the fact that it is
the only river in Syria running from south to
north. The name means "the Obstinate."
As al-Aasi reaches Hama, its course becomes deeper, and the outlying fields of that
city are too high to be reached by its enliveling waters. The ingenious inhabitants then
hit upon the device of the "water-wheel" to
raise the water to a higher level and make it
flow in troughs and conduits to the fertile
soil of the Orantes Valley. As one enters the
city of Hama, and long before the waterwheels are in sight the moaning and sighing
of those monster contraptions give one the
effect of an airplane zooming way above in
the clouds. A traveller coming from a country like America where airplanes are a common sight instinctively looks up to see where
the airplane is in view. Some of those wheels
measure a hundred feet or more in diameter,
and are said to be over a century old. Standing in front, of one of them the traveller never
fails to be fascinated by its grotesque size, its
huge, jmoss-covered beams and- buckets, as
slowly one bucket after another dips into
the river, driven by the couhterwise motion
of the stream, and come up full of water,
dripping over half of it before it reaches the
trough,a hundred feet or more above at level
with the apex of the wheel. The Arabic name
of these wheels "na'urah," has lent one word
to our English tongue, the noair, which must
have come to the ancestors of the Europeans'
via the Arabs of Andalusia.
Both Homs and Hama thrive on trade with
the bedwins only a few miles away in the
Syrian Desert. Homs, lying 30 miles southward, has grown in importance because of
its approximity to Damascus and to the littoral coast, via Tripoli. Both are linked to
Aleppo and Damascus, via Riyak, by railroad.
Homs and Hama export large quantities
of cereal, mostly wheat and barley, wool and
dairy products. Some of the richest landowners, the agricultural feudal families of Syria,
such as the Atasis, the Drubis, the Jundis and
Huseinis are citizens of Homs with family
traditions several hundred years old.
The population of Homs is estimated at
65,000, while that of Hama is about half this
number.
/
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(Continued from page 5.)
covert excuse in the subconsciousness of the average "little fellow," that some day he wishes to be
"the boss" himself, with millions of dollars at his
beck and call, with a beautiful mansion in the city,
a lovely summer home, servants and tenants, riding in a limousine and generally "lording it" over his
former companions or oppressors. That this is the
theme of the song that runs in the brains of 90 per
cent of our American "democrats," may easily be
illustrated by the fact that it constitutes 90 per
cent of the themes in our movie plays.
Indeed it is hard for Dr. Shadid or anybody
else, to disprove that what is wrong with democracy is what is wrong with the majority of "democrats." And I have my serious doubts that socialism would fare any better, unless the people, by
some heavenly miracle or by the slow process of
education are brought to the full realization ofl
their responsibilities and duties, unless they accept the burden of democracy willingly, as they are
so eager to reap its benefits.
That is exactly what I mean when I said: "Unless people of their own accord learn this lesson,
unless they learn how to choose their rulers with
the same solicitude and careful consideration that
they exercise in choosing legal advisers or technical
heto, there is little hope for democracy." And we
may add, "little hope for socialism also!"
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and the privilege of contemplating him as near as men ranged in a half circle around the fountain,
possible is jealously maintained.
each lad with one hand upon the shoulder and one
around the waist of his neighbor.
Out in the street muskets were fired in our
"It is our national dance," Nassib-ed-Daher exhonor, torches Waved, children held spluttering
plained. "We call it the dabke.. It is danced all
Bengal fights. The night came slowly on. Already
through Lebanon by Christians and Mussulmans
I had difficulty in distinguishing, over the roofs,
alike. Dancing has nothing to do with religion,"
the foliage of the. walnut trees and the sno.w on,
he added, philosophically.
the distant mountains, on which the stars were alAmong the Maronites, where the separation of
ready beginning to cast their cold blue light
the sexes it not practised as among the MohamAround the torches surged a motley throng—wealthy
medans, young girls often join in the dance. It
farmers in red tarbooshes, fellahs in embroidered
was not long before they entered upon the scene.
shirts, with colored keffiyes or caps of camelskin,
One particularly attracted my attention. She was
priests in long black cassocks, their heads covered
Our return was made in silence and with the by the tabie, a kind of toque wound round and Aiot more than fifteen or sixteen years old, but was
setting sun full in our eyes. Leaning backwards round with black ribbon, women in brightly hued already in the full bloom of young womanhood, her)
over the buttocks of our horses, and with our feet shawls or tunics, boys and girls, wild little urchins, throat round as a column, her hips gracefully arched,
braced in our large Arab stirrups, as the clever in rags and tatters. Everyone shouted—everyone her face dark, her eyes full of fire. A red scarf
beasts, their heads lowered to the ground, looked sang. Presently, a kind of order began to evolve was wound carelessly round her hair, black as
She accomplished the stately ritual with a
carefully before them for safe foothold, we watched from this chaos. A space was cleared round the night.
it slip slowly towards the sea, almost amazed, when' fountain in the center. Spectators, thrust aside, •rustic majesty that was strangely impressive, now
its molten rim touched the horizon, at not seeing a stacked themselves against the walls, clustered on raising herself on her toes to her full height, her
arms stretched above her head—now sinking to the
confusion of boiling waters.
the staircases, clung to pillars and embrasures. Danc-<
I was looking down at the river at my feet, a ing began in the cleared space to the sound of an ground, feigning fear and flight one moment to relittle uneasy at the narrowness of the steep bridle orchestra composed of a big drum, a flute, and an sume her defiant attitude the next. The unsteady
path, when Khalil Khoury, who was riding just oboe. JEven the orchestra could not be still. The light of the torches, that by turns lighted up the
ahead, turned to me and pointed toward the burn- big drum rose and fell, the two other musicians swaying figure and plunged it into darkness, gave
her the aspect of an apparition. An eternal aping sky.
with puffed cheeks and red faces skipped and
parition, I thought, in watching her. The woman—
"The dawn was redder still," he said enigmatical- danced on either side.
who makes wars, who tempts, maddens, flies, surly, "on the day I rode to The Cedars—on the day of,
First came the handkerchief dance. A tall young renders, only to emerge triumphant at the end.
death."
Khalil Khoury was leaning over my shoulder.
The sun had disappeared, but as he spoke, a peasant, with open shirt, his baggy breeches tucked
long band of red, like a scarf held lengthwise, into soft ankle boots, led the measure. In his right I guessed his thought and amused myself by giving
draped the horizon from north to south. Was it hand, high above his head, he held a red silk it words.
"Did Yamile dance as well as that?" I asked
ind«".} an evil omen?
. I scarf. His face full of pride and the joy of exercisAt the foot of the cliff a family of wandering ing authority, his chest expanded, and his whole innocently. He knit his brows and spat on the
,
Bedouins were setting up their black tents by the body in a posture of pride and defiance, the lad ground.
v
"As that?" he echoed, contemptuously. "This
roadside. The camels, freed of their burdens, were beat upon the pavement with a practiced foot, now
(
cropping the grass, in company with asses and a advancing, now retreating, now balancing himself one is not worthy to have been her servant."
little herd of long-eared goats. A camp-fire threw for a moment to commence the motion anew. Gradfantastic shadows of these grazing animals over the ually, the rhythm was taken up by a row of young
(To be continued in next issue)
grass. It was fed by the women of the tribe, unveiled, and disfigured by tattooing on cheeks and
foreheads, but with the supple and graceful movements of hip and bust that come from going bare- (MODERN POLITICIANS TAKE NOTICE)
The wise man is he who makes his own
foot and from carrying burdens on the head.
breast the repository of his secrets.
Bronzed and bearded,their eyes sparkling from the'
Ar-Rabi' Ibn Younis was a favorite of Abu
depth of their keffiyes, a few men were driving
Poor sight is not so much of a shortcomtent-pegs into the ground. They uttered gruff Ja'far al-Mansour, founder of the Abbaside
ing
when one is blessed with insight.
cries, their bared teeth gleamed as they worked.
dynasty in Baghdad, and his standing with
Khalil Khoury's glance, as he eyed these poor
him was such that he could ask of him any
people, seemed charged with impatience, and even
To ask for undeserving praise is the worst
fury. I supposed at first that he merely shared the favor.
presumption.
dislike of his peasants for these thieving birds of
On a certain occasion, a certain friend of
passage, but he quickly disabused me.
The supposition of the learned man is
"It is not that," he said, hastily. Then after Ibn Younis sought his intercession with ala pause: "This is just how they came—that other Mansour, the Caliph,"for a political appoint- superior to the assertion of the ignorant one.
ment, and Ibn Younis, loathing to disappoint
time."
I understood now that here was a man entirely his friend, approached the Caliph with the
possessed by his past. I had happened to inter- request.
(Continued from page 4.)
vene at some crisis of his suffering—and to-morrow
I had little doubt I should hear all about Yamile.
This was the reply of al-Mansour:
er of the Egyptians. Few realize that this energetic,
And yea, after all, I had a moment of doubt. I
"The relation of your friend to us is a
noble-hearted woman not only shared her husband's
had known Khalil Khoury only a few hours. What
personal one and this would place his claim struggles and privations, as any dutiful Moslem wocredit was I to attach to a story whose mystery,
BO fitted to the time and place, was intriguing me in on us in the category of private favors and man would do, but even sacrificed her own private
State fortune in the national cause forw hich her husadvance? I rernembered the phrase of Melchior de not in the class of public interests.
The
Vogue upon these very Maronites. "They call one offices are matters in which consideration of band devoted his whole life and energy.
"House
of
the
Nation,"
headquarters
of
the
WAFD,
gun-shot a war, and one knife thrust a massacre." the public weal should be paramount, and
is said to be her own property, which she freely
I decided that I would ask my host without delay
we therefore disregard in our appointments donated to her nation. Among the victims of the nato throw some light for me upon my strange comall influences of relationship or personal in- tionalist uprising of 1915 were four Egyptian women.
panion.
tercession.
Only those whose integrity and
In Syria, Palestine and Iraq women, Moslem and
efficiency qualify them to hold public office Christian, are taking part in the public and nationCHAPTER FOUR
are deserving of trust, and those among our al activities of their respective countries.
subjects who are thus qualified may claim
In Beirut there are high schools for girls run,
THE GAMES
appointments from us as a right.
Now as by Syrian women, one of them a member of an
influential Moslem family of that city. There are
My thoughts were interrupted by our arrival regards your friend the office-seeker, we
at Bcharre. The entire town, advised of our ap- shall care for him out of our personal funds." other Moslem and non-Moslem schools outside of
Beirut run by women, one a Druze school for girls
proach by some swift-running little urchins, had
in Shweifat, a town near Beirut.
turned out to meet us. We entered it, preceded
One is apt to meet ultra modern Moslem girls
by a choir of young people singing a melody imanywhere in Syria, Palestine or Iraq. One day,
provised in our honor, and pressed upon from all
sides by a tide of humanity. From the terraces,
while in Jerusalem, I was invited to the home of
women sprinkled us with perfume from long-necked
a friend of mine to meet a young married couple.
bottles. We had hard work to dismount and to
Two things only those who have lost ap- The wife, a beautiful blonde with blue eyes, was
the daughter of a leading Moslem citizen of Beirut
clear our way to the door of our host. Nassib-ed- preciate most: Youth -and Health.
and a graduate of an English mission school. Her
Daher made us mount to a balcony supported on
husband, a wealthy orange exporter of Jaffa, was
slender pillars and overlooking an interior courtequally modern in his ideas and manners* The
yard which was already invaded by the populace.
Better be silent until you are asked to
young bride contributed to the discussion of the
Here a house where a stranger is being entertained
becomes at once a public resort. The guest him- speak, than speak until you are asked to be evening with as much freedom and ease as would
be expected of a wife in any Western country....,"
self is considered as an object of legitimate curiosity, silent.
(Synopsis: The author, on his way to The Cedars, stops in Bcharre the nearest village on the
threshold* of the Cedars. His host gives him as
guide, Khalil Khoury, an old and quiet man, and
also two valuable horses on which to make the
journey.. There is a passing view of the surrounding beauty of the mountains and they arrive near1
tile Cedars. Khalil Khoury who mysteriously refers to a "Yamile," finally tells the author that on
tiie following day, after they climb Kornet-es-Saouda, he will tell him the story that transforms him
each time he refers to its mystery.)
ORIENTALIA
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yrian 1
PUBLISHED WEEKLY — ESTABLISHED 1926.
VOL.
vn, NO. 11.
NEW YORK, JULY 14, 1933.
BROOKLYN FRIENDS ENTERTAIN
MRS. CHARLES UNICE OF TEXAS
THE FIRST of a series of dinners
in honor of Mrs. Charles Unice of
Houston, Texas, who recently arrived in New York to visit friends,
was given last Saturday evening by
Mrs. Al Stuart of Brooklyn, N.Y.
The following day a dinner party
for tea; /was given by the Misses
Rose and Edna Jabbron of Brooklyn.
And last night Mrs. Alex. Sarkis,
also of Brooklyn, gave a dinner in
Mrs. Unice's honor in her home.
Syrian Re-elected in
State Convention
POTTSVTTI.E; Pa.,— Francis A.
Francis of this city was re-elected
vice-president of the United National
Association of Postoffice" Clerks at
the state convention on July 11.
Abdallah Francis, father of Francis A. Francis, is vacationing in Detroit where he attended the Mahra§an. From there he will go to Fort
Sheridan, HI. where his son Charles,
is a Corporal of Battery A. 61st Coast
Artillery.
Mr. Francis expects to,
visit the World's Fair at Chicago and'
to make a comparison of this year's
Fair with the one held in 1893 which
fee had visited forty years ago.
r
L
IN
Jill
TED BLACK (ABOUSSLEMAN)
orchestra leader, arranger
was
.born on July 20, 1903 in Brooklyn,
N. Y..... the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Elias Aboussleman, natives of Matn,
Mount Lebanon.... and among the
first to migrate to America.
When Ted was a youngster he
sang in a minstrel show in Brooklyn with a chum of his who, unlike
Ted, was as blonde as a Norseman
The contrast of the two boys appealed
to the other members of the show
and they nicknamed them "Black and;
White."
The name has stuck by
. Ted ever since and he now uses it
professionally.
Ted Black, besides being a distinct exponent of modern dpnce
rhythms, is also one of the few native
New Yorkers conducting an important
orchestra in the Metropolitan area...
... .A few years ago when his father
gave him some money to pay for Ms
tuition at the Art League in New
York, Ted used the money to buy
AND OUT OF TOWN
Edmond Salheb Zenni arrived today on the S.S. Byron from Beirut,
Syria. He will join his father, Thomas Salheb Zenni, in Youngstown who
is also visiting in this country.
Mr. and Mrs. M. Simon, Mrs.
Ida Khoury and Miss Cecilia Yazbek spent the week of July Fourth in
Cincinnati, Ohio with relatives.
The Young Syrian American Club
of Youngstown held a steak-fry for
its members at Idora Park Pavilion
on Tuesday, July 11. In the evening
there was dancing, swimming and
sports.
A baby girl was born to Mr. and
'Mrs. Constantine Antaki, formerly of
Hartford, Conn., now living in Brooklyn. She is their second child.
Mr. and Mrs. Kareem Saleeby
returned to Brooklyn, N. Y., this week
after a two-weeks honeymoon near
Lake George, N. Y. Mrs. Saleeby is
the
former
Najla
Faddool
of
Brooklyn.
Khalil Teen of New York City,
is leaving this week with his daughters, Mrs. Said Lian of Brooklyn, N.Y.
and Mrs. Charles Unice of Houston,
Texas, for Chicago. They will meet
Said Lian who is expected in Chicago on the 25th after his return
from China.
Mrs. Unice and her
father will proceed from there to Fort
Wayne, Ind., to visit friends.
PROFILES
CONDUCTOR
PAGE EIGHT
a clarinet
' He had already studied
art for two.years but music appealed
to him more, and he decided to try
his hand at it
With the aid of a
victrola, which he used to practice
with, he started on his musical ventures
Although possessing no
knowledge whatsoever of theory or
composition he struggled on for seven,
years until one day, as it seemed to
him, he woke up thoroughly familiar with all the essentials of compostion and harmony
The facts
are that he studied these himself
without supervision of any kind
This self-acquired knowledge is responsible for the originality of all his
arrangements.
In 1924 with his recently-organized orchestra he landed his first big
job
but he and the orchestra were
fired because the tone of their music was found to be "too sweet"....,
He tried changing the style but fortunately could not
as it is that
sweetness of tone that hag made his
orchestra famous
Instead of string
instruments he uses wood-winds
and with his original arrangements
they produce effects equal and more
varied than any set of strings.
Besides his regular broadcasting
over Station WJZ, he has been on
various commercial programs, including the Campbell Soup program at
9 o'clock in the morning
The orchestra's recordings are for Victor
and they are reported to be the bestselling records in dance tune arrangements—Ted Black now plays
nightly in the Village Barn in hew
York, where the midnight broadcasts
over WJZ are a feature.
Ted Black's orchestra also played
in Salzman's on 42nd Street a few
years ago... .Recently, Ted ant. bis
orchestra made an extended trip to
Europe playing two months in London and eight in Paris.... an^ then
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Yamouny
and their daughters, Marie and Vera,
of Linden, N. J., left for Richmond,
Va., where they will spend a week
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob
Fahed. Mr. Yamouny is a brother of
Mrs. Fahed.
Joseph Shar, Mike Shulleeta, Joseph-Mike, Louis Shulleeta and Arthur Ghosen spent the last week-end in
Greensboro, North Carolina, where
they visited friends.
Miss Philly Caram of Brooklyn,
N. Y., is back from a vacation in the
New England States. She visited relatives in Boston, Fall River, New
Bedford, and Brockton, Mass.
Mr. and Mrs. George ^Febaily and
their daughters, Lorice and June, of
Brooklyn, N. Y., returned last Saturday after a visit to Detroit and Chicago. They attended the Mahrajan in;
Detroit and visited the Chicago
World's Fair.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dow and
their children, Lorice and Lillian,
are returning on Monday to their
home in Raiford, N. C, after an eight
weeks tour of New York, New. Jersey,
Massachusetts, Washington and Maryland. -
three months in Havana.
A few
months ago the orchestra was engaged!
to play for a series of college dances
in New England and surrounding
states.
Next to playing music, Ted Black
likes to play golf.... He has played
on links all over the country, wherever the orchestra happened to be
engaged.
Ted Black is married and lives
in East Fifty-fifth Street, New York
City, near the National Broadcasting!
Studios.
Mr. and Mrs. Assad Dagher and
their children and Mrs. Z. Dagher of
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., are in Brooklyn,
N. Y., the guests of Shikri Dagher.
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Kouri of
Brooklyn, N. Y., left Saturday for a
trip to Goshen and Middletown, N. Y.
They expect to be gone a week.
Mr. and Mrs. William Abouchar
left on the S.S. Excalibur on Tuesday
for Marjorica, Spain. Mr. Abouchar
will be engaged in business there.
Mr. E. J. Audi of New York City,
returned on Sunday from Chicago
where he visited the World's Fair,
and the Furniture Exchanges of Grand
Rapids.
Mr. and Mrs. Kaiatt of Brooklyn,
N.Y., left this week with their daughter Alice for a two-weeks' stay in
Kaines Falls, N. Y.
The Misses Victoria arid Evelyn
Arwady of Brooklyn, N. Y., spent
the week-end with Mr. and Mrs.
Marge in Albany, N Y. They left
for Lake George to spend the rest
cf their two-weeks' vacation there.
The Misses Matilda and Linda
Gohson of Brooklyn, N. .Y, left on
Saturday for Lake George where they
will spend two' weeks. Other departees for the same resort were>
the Misses Nora and Victoria Najjar,
Mary Mardany, Mary Ginnawie and
Jean Hanna, all of Brooklyn, N. Y.
who expect to stay for the same
length of time.
Miss Alice Saleeby
Engaged
MR. AND MRS. Shukri Saleeby
of Brooklyn, N. Y., announced the
engagement of their daughter Alice
to Albert Khairallah, on Saturday,
July 8, in their home in Brooklyn.
Mr. Khairallah" is the son of George
Khairallah of Bhamdoun, Syria, and
came to this country six years ago.
Betrothal of Miss Athena Hajjar
Announced
THE engagement of Miss Athena
Hajjar to Mr. Naoum Naman was
announced on Saturday, June 29, in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. Naman
in Brooklyn, N. Y. Miss Hajjar is
the sister of Mrs. S. Naman.
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FUNERAL DIRECTOR
MORTUARY CHAPEL
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<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
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<p><em>The Syrian World</em> was published between 1926 and 1932 as a journal. In 1932, the format was changed from an academic journal style to a newspaper style, which continued until the periodical's end in 1935. After the death of his brother Naoum, Salloum took over the publication of <em>Al-Hoda.</em></p>
<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY — ESTABLISHED 1926
VOL. VII, NO. 12.
NEW YORK, JULY 21, 1933.
T. BITAR SLAIN
NEW PARTY BIDS
BY MAD TENANT
FOR SUPPORT
IN DAMASCUS
Enraged at Demand to Pay Back
Rent, Habib Mughrabiyyah
Shot and Killed Landlord,
Tuma Bitar
FOLLOWING
arj argument
over three months rent due, Habib Moghrabiyah shot and killed
Tuma E. Bitar, his landlord. The
,murder took place on the top
floor at 192 Warren Street,
Brooklyn, where the murderer, a
silk mill-hand, had lived for the
last three months without having paid rent.
When Bitar insisted on the pay.ment of the back rent and evacua"tion of the room for a new tenant, the
alleged slayer, as it was later told by
the victim's wife, is reported to have
said, "If you are a man, try and collect." Then whipping out his pistol
ihe emptied two shots in the landlord's abdomen and fled.
Murderer Still at Large
Mrs. Bitar, who was cleaning a
window on one of the floors below,
heard the shots, and hurried to the
street, as the murderer was turning
the corner, and shouted, "Hold him,
hold him. He has shot someone," not
yet realizing that it was her husband
who was shot Then running upstairs she found him lying in a pool of
blood. He was in an unconscious
state and in' a few minutes passed
away before the ambulance arrived
to carry him to a nearby, hospital.
Up to date the police have not
apprehended the murderer nor discovered his whereabouts. On Tuesday of this week funeral services
were held for Bitar in St. Mary's
Catholic Church, Clinton and Amity
Streets, Brooklyn.
OFEISH SEVERED
BY PATRIARCH
Patriarch Alexandras of Antioch
Declares Marriage of Archbishop Has Barred Him
from Hierarchy
>>
IN A proclamation from Damascus dated June 22, His Beatitude Alexandros Tahhan, Patriarch of Antioch over the Grelsk
Orthodox, enjoins all faithful
members of his church in the
Antiochean See and America
from participating in any religious services or ceremonies in
which the married archbishop
Aftimios may take part.
The proclamation cites church
canon to Show) explicitly that Archbishop Aftimios -Ofeish, by his act,
has been automatically dropped from
the ecclesiastical hierarchy. It considers the married bishop as formerly
belonging to the Antiochean hierarchy, a priest of al-Muhaidtha, Lebanon, before his emigration to the
United States, but is ominously silent
on his later connection with the Russian Orthodox Mission of North
America or the Independent Church
which the married bishop had organized before his marriage, and
which he still claims to head.
i (Special Correspondence)
DAMASCUS.— Desperately groping for a new orientation in the
muddled state to which politics in the
past has dragged Syria, a group of
political leaders, with the evident
support of the mandatory authorities,
have annaunced the formation of a
new party.
Unlike previous parties, this one
frankly avows its purpose to throw
the principle of popular representation over board and follow in the
steps of dictatorial rule which has
been gaining ground in some of the
most advanced democratic countries
of the western world.
A member of this new group,
who wishes to remain anonymous, declared in an interview that "the representative form of government is no
more suitable for this country." He
pointed to other, more advanced,
countries which have discarded this
form after they were convinced of
its futility, adding, "and repeated
events have proven that neither is
it suitable for us nor we for it."
Bids for. Pouplar Support
Members of the proposed new
party which is bidding for popular
and governmental support to supplant the existing ones include such
names as Riza Pasha Rikabi, Nasouh
al-Bukhari, Badi' Bey al-Mu'ayyad,
Ata Bey Ayyoubi, Jamil al-Ilshi,
Hamdi-1-Nasr, Arif Quattli, Rashid
Mardam Bey and Tewfik Shamiyyah.
Most of these have been identified in
the past among the supporters of the
French policy in Syria, or moderate
nationalists who are in favour of
working in narmony with the French
and negotiating for a wider range
of self-government in an atmosphere
of cooperation and understanding,
rather than one of boycott and antagonism which has hitherto characterized the policy of the Nationalist
Block in Damascus.
The latter, however, who still
claim the undivided support of the
Syrian nation, have taken an attitude
of "watchful waiting" 'towards the
unsettled and ambiguous policy of
the French. Resting on the assertion of their fundamental political
principle of a unified Syria, they have
withdrawn all cooperation with the
mandatory, anxiously awaiting the announcement by the new High Commissioner, M. de Martel, of his policy.
At the time of this communication
M. Martel had not yet arrived in
Syria.
One of the chief objectives of the
newly proposed party is the establishment of a status for Syria similar
to that granted by the British to
Iraq.
SENTENCED TO PRISON
JACK Katash of Coney Island,
N. Y., was sentenced last. Thursday on
a charge of grand larceny to two and
a half years in the penitentiary at
hard labor. He has a long record of
thefts, it was revealed in his trial,
but 'sentenced on the charge of stealing jewels and money from his landlady.
RASHID MEMORIAL IMPRESSIVE;
HUNDREDS ATTEND SERVICES
ALL SECTS AND NUMEROUS COMMUNITIES SHARE IN THE
EULOGIES TO ASSAD BEY AND SHUKRI RASHID,
BROTHERS, WHO DIED WITHIN FEW DAYS
OF EACH OTHER IN HOMELAND
(Special Correspondence)
DETROIT.— The 9th of July, Sunday, was a memorable day
for the Rashid clan in this country, numbering hundreds of the
first and second generation descendants. Following the carnivals of
the St. Maron Society and the Church of Emancipation in this city,
a large number of the Rashids who were still in Detroit and numerous others who joined them from the states of Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Pennsylvania, ,New York and more distant ones, held
Attar
Manufacturers,
Feel the Depression
ANGORA. — The celebrated
"attar of rose," a whiff of which!
is sufficient to fill the soul with
ecstasy and carry one to romantic
realms of wnodrous beauty, is
classed now among the industries
hit by the depression.
Complaining of the dearth of
the Turkish variety of this serene
luxury, some foreign importers
have made presentations to the
Turkish authorities here to help
them out. The Turkish chemist
Nur-i-Din Munshi Bey thereupon
made investigations with the suggestion that rose producers form
cooperative societies to enable them
to buy large distilleries which will
cut the expense of attar manufacture. The Turkish chemist further
suggested that bottling the precious attar should be made in the
presence of government authorities who would then affix their
seals to the bottles.
a family Reunion. It was for the
solemn occasion to eulogize the memories of two of their celebrated
members, brothers, reports of whose
death in Sudan and Lebanon came
within a few days of each other.
The deceased, Dr. Assad Bey Rashid and Shukri Rashid, both of Judaidat Marj-Uyoun, the first a surgeon in the Egyptian army of Sudan
with the rank of major, the other
a distinguished lawyer, were held in
high esteem by the Rashids, old and
young, here, in the countries of the
East and wherever the ubiquitous
Rashids are to be found. That was
at once felt by the other hundreds
of guests who attended the memorial
services and shared the Rashids with
their grief and loss. All sects and
groups represented in the Detroit
community and visitors were represented both among the speakers and
among the condolers.
Shawwa
Plays
Requiem
"The violent anti-missionary campaign which has been gaining strength
The memcrial service was held in
the spacious hall of the Knights of, .
Columbus, which had been decked in
black. It was opened with a selection
on the violin by Sami Shawwa. Then
Mbada Rashid introduced Dr. H. Khuri
of Cleveland as chairman. Dr. Khoujry spoke briefly before presenting
the speakers, who comprised S. A.
Mokarzel, Archmandrite Anthony Bashir, John M. Khoury of Detroit,
who spoke in English, Rev. Elias Asmar, also of Detroit, Shaykh Husein
Kharroub, representing the Moslem
Sunnite community, Najib Samra, representing the hometown, Judaidat,
who spoke in English, Mrs. Najibah
Khoury, on behalf of" #se women's
auxiliary of St. Maron Society of Detioit, Shaykh Khalil Bazzi, representing the Moslem Shiite community,
Sasin Rukoz, president of St. Maron
Society, Elias Maksoud, who recited
a eulogy in verse sent by Shaykh
Qasim as-Sayigh and Mrs. S. K. Adwan, editor of an Arabic-English
paper for Syrians which appears in
Oklahoma City.
Besides the eulogies in prose and)
verse that were delivered by the
speakers, no less than 255 messages
of sympathy were sent by wire, including one by Dr. Rizk fttddad oE
Brooklyn, who declared that the lives
of the departed ones "shall ever remain a good example to the second,
generation Rashids in this country."
Others who wired included Joseph.
David of Jacksonville, Fla., a close
friend of Mbada Rashid who spent
many years in that city, Msgr. Elias
al-Hayek of Youngstown. St. George
Continued on page 3.
Continued on page 7.
MISSIONARY ROW
A POLITICAL ONE
Joseph Levy, Times Correspondent, Pictures It as a Cloak
for Political Issue with the
Sidqi Government
THE ominous howling for the
blood of the ^missionaries in
Egypt by "fanatic Moslems"
turns out to be merely a guise
for political scowling by Wafdite
and Liberal Constitutional nationalists in :their warfare against
a common enemy, Ismai Sidqi
Pasha, Egyptian premier, according to the latest dispatch by Joseph M. Levy to the New York
Times.
Lumping Azharite religionists with
lay leaders, liberals with conservatives nationalists with pan-Islamists,
in his former reports of the "uprise"
against foreign missionaries in Egypt,
the New York Times correspondent
now discovers that the whole thing
was a political game between the
present Egyptian dictator, Sidqi Pasha,
and his opponents in which the missionaries, somehow or other got entangled.
Mobs Continue Attacks
�PAGE TWO
THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, JULY 21, 1933.
SYRIAN BOY KILLS SWEETHEART
IN DRAMATIC FASHION, BRAZIL
EMPTIES FIVE BULLETS IN HER BODY, BUT FORGETS TO
LEAVE ONE FOR SELF
RIHANI PLEDGES
GIRL GRADUATES
A. U. B. HOLDS
COMMENCEMENT
Urges Them to Give Their
Future Children Arabic
Names
Prof. Bulus Khauli, Spokesman,
Strikes Social Note in College
Education for the
Near East
BEIRUT.— Mixing wit with
(Special Correspondence)
SAO PAULO.— Joseph Eli Khoury, 24, shot and killed his
sweetheart in a typical love tragedy that was enacted in this city.
Khoury fell in love with a young woman of his nationality, Elzira Rustum, daughter of Rustum Abu Jabra, a merchant.
According to a confession given
later by the defendant, he had kept
TURKEY COMPETES
company with the. young woman for
WITH LEBANON
a long time without the knowledge
ON RESORTS
of her parents. Their love was a
CAIRO—
A
movement
has almutual one, he stated, and he had
ready
been
launched
by
represenspent thousands of dollars in gifts
tatives of the Turkish Republic in
and entertainments on her. But when
Egypt to bid for Egyptian patroh« went to ask her hand of her
nage
of summer resorts. The movefather he was rejected because, it was
ment is considered in many quarsaid, he was not rich enough for her.
ters as an open competition with
Overtaken with despondency at
Lebanon, where a large number
this curt refusal, the young man reof Egyptians go every summer.
solved to end it alL Arming himself
Everywhere in the Arabic press of
with a revolver, he went to his sweetEgypt and by means of large, conheart's home in Paraiso Street with
spicuous posters attractive Turkthe intention of killing her and then
ish summer resorts are advertised
committing suicide. According to his
extensively. As an inducement the
confession, the young man at meeting
Turkish Government has required
his sweetheart, said: "Are you willof all Turkish ships plying the
ing to die with me?" And she reMediterranean between Turkey
plied, "Yes, I am willing." Then
and Egypt to lower their rates 50%
he shot five bullets in her body, forfor Egyptian summer resorters who
getting, he claimed, to leave one for
wish to go to Turkey.
himself.
NEAR EAST RICH
FIELD FOR SOVIET
PROPAGANDA
THE SOVIET authorities in Moscow, according to Walter Duranty,
staff correspondent of the New York
Times, in Russia, eye the countries
r
of the Near East, especially Turkey
ond Persia, with special interest as
a rich field for the propagation of
their communistic principles.
The
Near East, they hold, is a natural
link between the West and the Far
East. Ever since the War Soviet
Russia has shown special interest in
the political and economic developments of Turkey and Persia, where
the nationalists turned naturally to
communistic Russia for help in their
struggle for independence against the
imperialistic powers.
SON CAPTURES
THREE ROBBERS
Holds Them at Point of Gun
Until Police Arrive; They Had
Threatened Parents i
By Beulah Geha
(Toledo Correspondent)
HEARING a noise in his parents'
bedroom, Lester M. Haddad called the
police and, taking up a gun, surprised
a trio of negroes who were ransacking the room early Saturday morning.
They had entered through a window
in the rear of the house in 329 Indiana
Avenue and threatened to kill Mr.
and Mrs. George Haddad with a
crowbar if they called for help. Lester Haddad forced the men into another room while his father seized an
unloaded shotgun. When the police
arrived, the two men were standing
guard over the prisoners who had
succeeding in getting $1.75.
Lester Haddad recently returned
to Toledo after spending a year in
Washington, D. C. and joined his
parents who had also returned after
spending some time in the south.
BRITISH REPORT
PROTECTS ARABS
IN PALESTINE
THE BRITISH report on agriculture and land development in Palestine has just been released, according to a dispatch to the New
York Times from Jerusalem.
The report, prepared by Lewis
French, investigator for the British
Government, seeks an equitable solution of problems that have arisen
from the sale of Arab public' lands
to Zionist settlers. It provides, among
other things, the establishment of a
land administration agency, control
of water supply and speeding of the
partition of Arab village lands held
under an archaic system compelling
every farmer to hold land for a short
period and then exchangf it for other
land.
"The government decision," declared' Mr. French, "is a recognition
of and a move to retrieve the mistake
which permitted the displacements to
occur as they did."
The report recommends an act
providing for minimum jhomestead
areas, similar to the Cromer "three
acre minimum act" of Egypt, and
for registration of lands which have
been tilled by' Palestinian peasants
for generations but for which, under
the defective Ottoman law, the peasants had no legal deeds. Under
the minimum homestead act such
prescribed properties cannot be sold
for the satisfaction of a debt or any
other purpose, contrary to the wishes
of the owner.
wisdom and passing from light
sarcasm to heavy preaching, in
his inimitable way, Ameen Rihani, author, practical philosopher and globe-trotter, addressed
the graduating class of the National School for Girls in Beirut, founded after the War by
Miss Mary Kassab.
Mr. Rihani reminded the budding
graduates that they are indebted to
him with a debt of gratitude since
he helped Miss Kassab in soliciting
funds for her school when she visited the United States in the year
1930.
Then the speaker proceeded to
extract from the fair graduates a
pledge to discharge their debt to
him, limiting them neither to time
fcor circumstance.
"I am submitting the bill to you,"
declared Ameen Rihani, "to pay in the
future. Tomorrow you will graduate,
my dear ones, from the little school
to the big school, the school of life;
and in a few months or years you
will fall in the snare of marriage,
from which there is no escape for
any of you unless she becomes an
aviatrix, a lawyer or a nun. Then
your first installment of the debt
falls due."
Urges Arabic Names
This first installment, the speaker
particularized, is to give Arabic names
to the future children of the girl
graduates. For, he said, it is just as
easy and more pleasant on the ears
to call children by such names as
Farid, Majid, Raif and Adel, as to
call them Theofil, Vladimir, Francois and -Victoria.
Other installments demanded by
Rihani were for the future mothers
to talk to their children in clear
Arabic, not interspersed with French
or English idioms, to make their
vows, if they had to make them, to
native saints rather than foreign
ones, and, finally, to instill in the
children the spirit of determination,
courage and magnanimity.
"Precious daughters of my country," pleaded the speaker in conclu-.
sion, "when you become mothers,
teach your children to prostrate befcre no man, to worship none but
God. Teach them to bow the head
before naught but justice, goodness
and honor, as revealed in your fellow men and women. Teach themi
this lesson of life: that revolt against
oppression, even if it brings misery
in its trail, is far better than subn ission with ease and comfort; that to
champion truth is the most beautiful
manifestation of piety and religion;
that to defend the weak and oppiessed, whether as individuals, communities or nations, is the most sublime declaration of faith."
BROCKTON SOCIETY
DENIES DISSENSIONS
TURKS MONOPOLIZE
MENIAL OCCUPATIONS
ANGORA.— A law designed to
relieve the growing army of unemployed in Turkey, has been passed
by the Turkish parliament and approved by the ministry, according to
a recent announcement.
This law proclaims the exclusion
of all non-Turkish residents in the
Turkish Republic from menial occupations, and the gradual substitutions j of Turkish citizens in their
place within the period of two years.
IN A LONG communication to
al-Hoda, Thomas Khoury secretary of
the Lebanon-American National Club
.refutes the rumor that the Brockton
community and the club have been
divided by dissensions and internal
troubles. On the contrary, Mr. Khoury avers, the Brockton community offers one of the finest examples of
u> -ity and cooperation. Founded only
this year the Lebanon-American National Club counts already 72 among
its active members.
(Special Correspondence)
BEIRUT.— Amid brilliant processions of graduates and alumni, headed
by professors and staffites in their
various academic gowns, the American
University of Beirut celebrated the
64th commencement since its founding on the Promontory of Beirut,
facing the blue azure of the Mediterranean Sea and the snow-capped
peaks of Lebanon, to the east.
Representatives of the French
Mandatory and of the Lebanon Republic sat with other distinguished
visitors and university professors on
the improvised raised platform facing the spacious play-field in front
of Fisk HalL
The democratic spirit of this
famous American institution of high- er learning in the Near East was given
emphatic reiteration by the principal
speaker, Prof. Bulus Khauli, who
welcomed the visitors on behalf of the
university.
, Explodes Popular View
Prof. Khauli exploded the popular
view of university education which
(ffegarded the recipient of an academic degree as a privileged personality entitled to honor and service
from his fellow men. On the contrary, he declared, it means and has
meant in the past, a permit to serve
one's community in the profession
for which the successful candidate
had expended long years of .leisure
and study. That, he averred, was
also the original intent and significance of the highest degree granted
by any institution of learning, the
doctorate.
"It is not enough," said Prof.
Khauli in his speech, "for schools to
graduate students skilled in the intricacies of the law, unless it sends>
them out to a world filled with crime
and injustice, imbued with the determination to defend the oppressed
and defeat oppression."
Similarly,
college graduates who come out with
full mastery of literature and the art
of writing should use their skill in
the way of social reform in all what
they say or write.
The speaker called the large
army of university alumni "the travelling university," by whose standards and conduct their alma mater
is ultimately to be judged.
Graduates from the A. U. B. this
year numbered 109, of whom 22 were
taurses, 5 midwives, 2 holders of diploma in music, 38 holders of the
degree, B. A., 5 of B. A. in medicine,
11 B. B. A. (Bachelor of Business
Administration), 3 M. A., 7 Pharmacists, 2 Dentists and 13 Doctors of
Medicine.
AMERICANS RECEIVE
PETROLEUM CONCESSIONS
IN A DISPATCH from Cairo it
is reported that the government of
His Majesty King Ibn Su'oud has
granted a concession to the American
Standard Oil Company of California
to exploit the petroleum fields in all
his kingdom. The official, organ of
Ibn Su'oud, "Um-ul-Qura" printed
the semi-official agreement in which
the terms of this concession were
stated. The same company, it may
be recalled, has a similar concession
in Bahrein where a great quantity of
petroleum has already been discovered.
s
M!
�TRI COLORS FLY
AT CLUFSDANCE
DEFENDS SYRIA
IN CHICAGO
Silver Jubilee of Rev. Rezk
Celebrated in Torrington
Honored Guests from Out-ofTown; Reception Held
for Them
Alice Kandaleft Strikes at France
in International Congress
of Women
TORRINGTON, Conn.— The 25th
anniversary of the ordination to the
priesthood of the Rev. Paul AbiRezk, pastor of the St. Maron Syrian1
Maronite Church was celebrated here
last Sunday, July 16th. Following a
high mass in the morning in the
church a reception was held in St.
Maron Hall.
Father Rezk was ordained in,
Syria twenty-five years ago and has
been in this country for fifteen years.
He was pastor in Pennsylvania for
three years before coming to Torrington twelve years ago. Through his
untiring efforts the super-structure of
St. Maron Church was raised and
dedicated on January 27, 1929 by Rt.
Rev. Maurice McAuliffe, auxiliary bishop of the Hartford, Conn., diocese.
A luncheon was served to the
guests coming from other cities, and
to the two hundred parishioners present. Dancing followed in the afternoon.
(Special Correspondence)
SHREVEPORT, La., July 16—
Hundreds of red, white and blue
balloons lent patriotic atmosphere to
the second Fourth of July held by
the Syrian Progressive Club of
Shreveport, La., in the Crystal Ballroom of the Washington-Youree Hotel. The colorful summer frocks of
the girls and white suits of the men
added to the charming picture when:
a grand march was held preceding the
dance, led by the officers, which drew
over two hundred couples. The lights
were dimmed and a spotlight turned,
the soft tri-colors upon the dancers.
The honored guests on the occasion
were the out-of-town guests, coming
from Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and
distant points in Louisiana and were
cordially welcomed by the entertaining committee which was composed
of Annie Neshum, Louise Ferris,
Louise Yezbeck, Madeline Joseph,
Lawrence Joseph, Fred Monsour and
John Dehan.
Miss Amelia Ferris,
[president of the club delivered a
brief address of welcome.
According to the tradition of the
club, the guests at the dance were
asked upon their arrival at the hotel
to write their names in the club
book.
Preceding the dance, an openhouse reception was held from 3 to 5,
to greet the guests of honor.
MINIATURE "MAHRAJAN"
OF WOMEN'S CLUB
s
TOLEDO, Ohio, July 19.—The
Syrian Women's Welfare Club, celebrating its ninth anniversary, held
its annual picnic Sunday July 16th,
at Ottawa Park, bringing together
over four hundred Syrians from Toledo and vicinity and turning a picnic into a miniature "mahrajan," Mrs.
Zahia Corey was in charge of the affair. A weiner roast was given for
all the children. Races were one of
"the main events. Boys race ages 7
to 10 was won by Mitchell Sahdi
girls from 7 to 10, Eleanor Darah
fat married women, Mrs. Abe Abood
light weight women, Mrs. Sam Abdennour; Married men's races were
won by Mr. Albert Corey and Mr.
George Sabback; boys from 10 to 15,
Johnnie Zilba. Baseball and tennis
kept the younger set interested. Oriental music from the oud, banjo and
mijwiz were furnished by Joe Francis, William Haddad and Wakim Sha-
REPRESENTING Iraq in the International Congress of Women now
convening in Chicago, Miss Alice Kandaleft, who a few years ago was a
graduate student at Teachers' College of Columbia University, struck
bitterly at France, eliciting a reply
from Mme. Marthe Oulie, French delegate to the Women's International
Writers' Conclave. The incident developed into a heated debate. In answer to Mme. Oulie's assertion of
the public works France accomplished
in Syria, Miss Kandaleft said, "We
all know that old story," and declared it was '"only a new form and
technique of the old atrocity of confiscation!" She also implied that the
mandate was trying to impose an
alien culture upon Syria which would
only lead to racial and religious antagonism.
Miss Kandaleft, who is head of the
Teachers College for Girls in Baghdad, is in Chicago at the request of
the Congress. She arrived on the
S. S. Bremen on Monday, July 10,
and left the following Friday for. Chicago expecting to return to New York
next week.
LEBANON LEAGUE OF
PROGRESS OUTING
The Lebanon League of Progress
of New York will hold its fourth annual Lebanese festival-outing September 2 and 4 at Champ's Farm in
Bridgeport, Conn. Tickets are now
available in the offices of the League
in 55 Washington Stareet. Hundreds
of people are expected to attend from
surrounding and distant cities and
states.
MUSICIANS' OUTING
THE SYRIAN Music Radio Group
of Brooklyn are holding an outing
on Sunday July 30 to Hook Mountain on the Hudson, sailing from the
foot of Wall St. in New York on the
Iron Steamboat "Cygnus" at 8:00
A.M.
There will be Syrian and)
American music on board and on
shore.
(Special Correspondence)
ANNUAL PRESIDENT
TOURNAMENT
THE President's Annual Tournament of the Syramar Golf Club of
New York was held on Thursday,
July 20th at the Braidburn Country
Club at Madison, N. J. Richard Macksoud is the president and sponsored
and awarded the prizes for the
tournament.
ANNIVERSARY OUTING
OF BOSTON CLUB
THE SYRIAN American Club of
Boston, Mass., will hold its 20th anniversary outing at Lake Pear in
Wrentham, Mass., this coming Sunday, July 23. Among the activities
will be sports, swimming, canoeing,
singing, music and races. The entertainers scheduled for the event
are Mrs. Najdi Coury, S. H. Attaya,
Nassour Abraham, David Bader, Thomas Nicholas and Nadir Haddad.
Those taking part in the sword play
will be John Shaheen, Joseph Neder,
George Neder and M. Neder. In case
of rain the outing will be held the
following Sunday.
GREAT TURNOUT
IN FLINT, MICH.
FLINT, Mich., July 18.- Flint's
greatest turnout of the year took
place last Sunday in the large dining hall of the Y. W. C. A. in honor
of the editor of al-Hoda and the
Syrian World, S. A. Mokarzel. Approximately 300 Syrians attended; the
toastmaster of the evening was Dr.
Elias Macksoud. The speakers were
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Joe
Joseph, Andrew Transuc, Judge Godala and Judge Parker.
About fifty persons attended the
dinner that took place later, among
whom were many from Lansing. The
entertainment was furnished by Mr.
and Mrs. Michael Russey who gave
selections from the play, "Raphsody
in Black."
N. HATEM WIRES
CONGRATULATIONS
TO FRENCH EMBASSY
Contiued from page 1.
MISSIONARY ROW
ON THE 14th of July, Naoum
Hatem, President of the Lebanon
League of Progress of New York,
sent a telegram of congratulations to
the French Embassy in Washington
end another to the French ConsulateGeneral in New York on behalf of the
League, and in pursuance of its traditional custom.
in Egypt," declared Mr. Levy in his
dispatch of July 17, "has now developed into a political issue. Since
the government last week banned all
public
anti-missionary
gatherings,
the opposition press is criticizing the
government for trying to suppress
what it terms 'a peaceful movement
to avert.the danger of missionaries.'"
In a previous dispatch, dated
July 13, Joseph Levy reported several incidents in Alexandria, Tanta,
Kafr al-Zayyat, Damanhour and
other Egyptian towns in which missionaries, foreign and native, were
attacked by infuriated mobs. These
attacks had not subsided on date of
his latest dispatch in which he reports that at Mehalla el-Kebir (correctly Mehalla-1-Kubra) a Greek
priest was beaten and an American
mission school was stoned.
Two
Copts who were also accused of being missionaries were driven from
a shop in which they had sought refuge and beaten by the mob.
Mr. Hatem received acknowledgments of his telegrams, one signed by
M. Andre de Laboulaye, French Ambassador, and the other by M. Charles
de Fontnouvelle, Consul-General in
New York.
EDMUND ZENNI, LEBANESE WRESTLER, ARRIVES WITH
CHIP ON SHOULDER
Al-Azhar Leads Movement
FIELD DAY IN WATERBURY
»»
AT A meeting of the annual reunion committee of the Maasser elShouf last Sunday in Waterbury,
-Conn., plans were made to hold a
field day in Waterbury on August 6.
Dr. Lewis G. Aide of Brooklyn, president of the committee, will be assisted in the arrangements by Kareem S. Corey, Rashida Corey, Carrie
G. Haddad, Emily Ferris, all of Waterbury and Marshall Nejaime of
ASBURY PARK EXHIBITS
PAINTINGS OF SYRIAN
THE paintings of Nicholas S.
Macksoud of New York will be shown
at a private retrospective exhibition
by the city of Asbury Park, N. J. in;
the convention Hall Galleries on the
Boardwalk on Monday afternoon, July
2* from 3 to 6 P.M. The exhibit will
bo open daily to the public from
July 25 to August 7.
EDMUND ZENNI, who arrived in New York on board the Byron last
Friday, was born in Tula-Batroun, Lebanon, in 1911. At the age of 18
he took up wrestling with Alexander Dobridge, Bulgarian wrestler of fame,
as trainer. In 1931 he defeated the Turkish title-holder, using the Greeko-Roman method of wrestling, and in 1933 he prevailed over Mahmoud
al-Bahra, heavy-weight champion of Syria, who was trained by Ibrahim
Mustapha, world famous trainer. In the same year Edmund won the title
from the Egyptian and Italian cham- pions, and now his ambition has carried him across the Atlantic to chal- lenge the champion wrestlers in this
country.
Edmund Zenni was met by his father, Thomas Salheb Zenni, who
came from Youngstown in the com- pany of Faris Alexander, R S. Rizk
and Anis J. Galeb for the occasion,
Edmund has won several cups
and medal's, including a golden medal from the Egyptian Government, conferred upon him by the Egyptian Consul-General of Beirut.
In the same dispatch the correspondent reports a movement led by
al-Azhar authorities to protect Islam "against the dangers of Christian preaching." The report fails to
tell us whether the plans for such
a movement include Moslem countries beside Egypt or not. For it is
well-known that al-Azhar has often
assumed leadership of many pan-Islamic movements and spoken in behalf of Moslems in general.
Missionaries find consolation in
the political trend that the movement
in their opposition has taken, according to the correspondent who says
that "they are not so anxious, now
that they realize the affair has become a political matter involving internal party politics."
At Tanta a Moslem official of
the Ministry of Agriculture who paid
a visit to the famous Ahmadi Mosque
there, was beaten by a crowd who
mistook him for a missionary because he had failed to wear a tarboush (fez).
�THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, JULY 31, 1933.
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A WANDERER IN THE
PROMISED LAND
than the Bay of Acre seen from the height of Carme! in the early or'lave hours of the day. The
crescent blue of the sea, the crescent whiteness of
the sands, the dappled green and gold of the Kishon
marshes with the silver stream of the River Kishon
itself threading between them, the azure haziness o£
the hills of Galilee topped here and there with
their village-cluster, some bright with the red tiles
of modernity, others merging more quietly into the
gray stone of the hill
" etc.
The author gives what we believe to be undue
prominence to the role which the "land" played in
the history of the Jews; and in doing so we think,
he has betrayed himself as a doctrinated Zionist.
For if, as he claims, the influence of Palestine itself had so much to do with the preservation of the
Jewish nation after the exile, how did it come about
that of the twelve tribes ten were so completely
merged and assimilated with the peoples of the
conquering nations that we refer to them as "the
lost tribes of Israel"? Undoubtedly the Messianic
doctrine of the Jews, and the tragic turn of their
history since the exile had much more to do with
this fundamental thesis of Zionism than the land
itself.
Regardless, however, of this Jewish angle that
reveals itself on every page of Norman Bentwich's
book we recommend it as an admirable and up-todate introduction to the study of Palestine, not as
good as George Adams Smith's famous book, but
more recent, and from the Jewish point of view
more informative.
H. I. K.
A MODERN Benjamin of Tudela, famous
Jewish traveller of Spain of the 12th cen•
tury, with the superior advantage of modern
Entered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1933 at the scholarship and the perspective of many cenPost Office at New York, N.Y., Under the Act of turies, is Norman Bentwich, Zionist leader
March 3, 1879.
•
and until a year ago attorney general for
the Palestinian Government.
Julv 21, 1933.
Vol. YD. No. 12.
In his recent book, "A Wanderer in the Promised Land," published by Charles Seribner's Sons
of New York, Mr. Bentwich cleverly weaves hisARE WE SPOILING OUR
toric observations and the results of modern excavations with the most recent events and developSPLENDID RECORD?
ments in a land which, having sustained the reveMURDER and crime are the monopoly of rent interest and devotion of countless millions
no nationality; they bring a stigma of shame throughout many generations, is rightly called the
and condemnation only on the individuals Holy Land par excellence.
It is both expected and somewhat excusable in a
who commit them. But for a long time the
Zionist
of the active type of Bentwich that his book
Syrians in this country enjoyed an enviable
may be briefly characterized as Judo-centric. Like
record of law abidance and civic loyalty.
the authors of the historic books of the Old TestaThis record is threatened by a few lawless ment themselves, Bentwich seems to look at uniindividuals who have lost their sense of pride versal history, in its application to Jtelestine, from a
and social consciousness. Now we begin to Jewish angle and a Jewish point of view. Jewish
hear of Syrians caught in burglary, counter- events, Jewish trends and Jewish influences are
brought to relief in vivid contrast to things "genfeiting and murder not to mention smuggling
tile." This becomes so clear, and a little jarring to
through custom houses and crooked business the orthodox student and reader of history, when
"practices. It is a matter of grave concern to the author, avoiding reference to anno Domini, the
the great majority of Syrians in this country accepted usage of historic reckoning in western
who still pride in their splendid conduct and countries, substitutes for it the abbreviation C. E.
(Common Era). The reviewer understands that this
their loyalty to the country of their adopis a novel practice by some modern historians, and
tion. We are not asking them here to organ- we suspect of Jewish origin. But the author is not
ize any vigilante committees to supress crime, quite consistent and sometimes lapses into the comor to bow their head in shame for the sins mon usage of B. C. instead of B. C. E. (Before the
of their fellow citizens.
But the least they Common Era), as on pages 164 and 165.
Bentwich carries us to the most unexpected
could do is not to stand between these crinooks and corner- of Palestine, to give us some inminals and the firm hand of law that reaches sight into a neglected phase of Jewish history in
out to apprehend them. Our sense of local or the ancient or medieval days, as, e.g., to Meirom
family loyalties should not blind us to our and Safad, Meccas of the Jewish mystics of the
duty as good citizens, to our larger, more Middle Ages, Kabbalists, from the latter of which a
comprehensive and more co|mpelling loyalty Jewish legend tells us that the Messiah will spring
forth. He takes us to the dark cave of Athlit where
to the larger community.
A .murder comthe remains of the first pre-historic art in the Near
mitted in defense of family honor, so pre- East were dug out recently, as he leads us with him
cious to the peoples of eastern extraction, through the tunnel of King Hezekiah, one of the
may merit some attenuating apology, but most indisputably genuine and unchanged monucold-blooded murder over a matter of room- ments of biblical days still extant in Palestine. He
makes us feel again the thrill which animated the
,rent, as that which took place a few days
diggers of that historic conduit as, according to the
ago in Brooklyn, and which reminds us so Assyrian tablet commemorating its completion tells
much of the ruthless crimes of gangsters and us, the labourers boring from both ends'and while
bandits in this country, should have no place there were but three cubits more to dig, '"there
was heard the voice of one calling to the other,
in our Syrian communities.
for there was a crevice in the rock on the right
More important still is the timely warning
hand."
to our Syrian fathers and mothers to watch
Mr. Bentwich's style is facile, and sometimes
out more carefully the goings out and asso- rises to heights of beauty and grandeur, as in the
ciations of their children, the companies they following descriptive passage on page 73:
"There are few sights in the world more lovely
keep with shady characters who would lead
them in sinister and crooked ways into the
realms of the underworld.
The germs of
crime grow in adolescence, the most critical
period in the life of an individual, and one
that should be watched with infinite care and
directed with untiring solicitude.
EDUCATION TAKES NEW TURN
IN THE EAST
EACH in his own way, Khauli and Rihani, strikes a new note, revealing the new
trends in education in the East. The one,
more reserved and academic, emphasizes the
note of social service, the other, more colorful and bold, stresses the note of self-depen-
dence and nationalism.
Both are spokesmen of the new era and among the vanguard
of the new leadership which is beginning to
assert itself unmistakably in the ancient lands
of our homeland.
To us, who observe the modern developments in the Near East frofcn a point of vantage, both notes are necessary, each supplementing the other.
We can see no better
atmosphere and spirit in which graduates of
higher education in Syria, Egypt and other
countries of the Near East can carry out
their mission of intellegent and profitable
service to their less fortunate fellow men and
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ORIENTALIA
THE CADI AND THE STREET CLEANER
Abu Hanifa was a learned and righteous
cadi who lived in Kufa in the days of Haroun ar-Rashid. He had a neighbor, a humble street-cleaner who, on returning from his
day's work, would bring home meat, fish,
vegetables, and wine, and after supper drink
himself to intoxication. Then, he would start
singing twol ines from an ancient Arab poet:
"They have lost me, what a man they've lost
In time of battle or in day of need."
Day after day this went on until, one day,
Abu Hanifa heard no more the singing of
his neighbor. He inquired after him and was
told that the night watchman arrested him
on a charge of drunkenness and carried him
to prison where he had been for the past
three days.
On hearing this, Abu Hanifa
mounted his mule and proceeded to the court
of the Caliph who received him with great
honor.
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"What is jthe wish of the honorable Imam?"
asked the Caliph.
Abu Hanifa made known his wish and interceded for his neighbor, the street-cleaner.
"Let him free," commanded the Caliph,
"and for his sake free all those who were
caught on the same night with him."
Then, Abu Hanifa, followed by the streetcleaner, went back to Kufa.
When they
reached home Abu Hanifa addressed the
street-cleaner, saying:
"Thinkest thou we lost thee, now, O good
neighbor?"
The street-cleaner knelt down and thanked
Abu Hanifa profusely and' promised him
never to drink again as long as he lived.
women than that of independence.
It supplies those elements of initiative and pride
of accomplishment without which "social service" becomes merely a drudge of routine
discipline. Of equal importance is the consideration that the emotion of independence,
unless it is harnassed to disciplined deeds, unless it is channelized in planned activities and,
the necessary technical education and direction, is bound to fritter away in empty show
of words and chauvinistic demonstration. It
is a healthy sign of the times that both are
considered necessary, both are being kept in
view, in the East as well as in the West.
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SOME of our most charming yet least written
MY GOOD friend, Dr. Salim Y. Alkazin, takes
me to task for advising Syrian mothers to concoct about women in New York are the wives of some
tempting desserts for their children. Writes the of our prominent men. They are the staunch and
doctor:
"That advice of yours to the Housewives faithful supporters of the "bulwark" of our colony,
From the Chapter: "Character, Institutions
urging them to replace fruits by pastries for des- and their silent and helpful partners. Most of them,
and Technology
serts is wrong—very wrong. Pasteries have no are content and desirous of seeing their husbands
place
on any table
Don't be afraid or hesitant successful, admired and praised with never a word
(An Excerpt from "The New Spirit in
yourself
in
living
on
the side of fruits.
Health about themselves, but there are others who are
Ancient Lands")
should be the first concern and not the pleasure of prominent in their own right.
"
It is good Anglo-Saxon psychology to say the palate."
A Good Example of the Modern Syrian
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that if we keep at a thing diligently and assiduousAmerican Mother
Aside from the good and common sense of Dr.
ly, with mind alert to new opportunities, never desMrs. K. W. Saydah is one of the latter. A very
pairing, never giving up, always cheerful and opti- Alkazin's assertion, I don't feel that the reference
active
woman in Syrian societies in Brooklyn, she
to
pastries
refers
to
my
original
suggestion
about
mistic and observing the rules of the game, we are
bound ultimately to succeed. But it is good Se- desserts. What I had in mind was a good pudding, yet manages to devote the major part of her time
mitic wisdom to ask oneself before expending so a cake or the like. Dr. Alkazin has my hearty sup- to her home and children all of whom have been
much psychical and physical energy whether the thing port when it comes to tabooing pastries on the graduated from college, except Sylvia, the youngwherein we wish to succeed is worthwhile at all, table. But a pudding or a cake, made of whole- est, who is entering this fall. She is one of the
whether the result would balance the time and ef- some and nourishing ingredients is not prohibited by best examples of the Syrian mother who has imfort thus invested. We hear so much the expres- the laws of nature and is rather an incentive to proved upon her English almost to perfection, who
sion that "time is money." If it were, it would be what philosophers claim an aid to digestion. If we is always interested in the community, eager for*
very cheap indeed. It is much more precious than don't satisfy the children's craving for sweet things knowledge and a woman of notable achievements,
that—it is life itself. And a sly Arab could very in good wholesome food, then they will seek it else- if achievements are gauged by children, as many
are and should be. She is a former president of)
well dampen the missionary zeal of the typical where, most likely in penny candy shops.
the Syrian Ladies Aid Society and a frequently
American businessman who would preach this diccalled-upon
speaker.
But one characteiistic 08
To those who know the doctor, this and all of
tum in and out of season by replying that if time
hers
that
stands
out
is
her pleasure of hearing or
is money he would rather spend time: It costs noth- his utterances are invaluable. In fact, I have found
meeting "one of our clever young girls" as she
myself
frowning
upon
pastries
since
receiving
his
ing.
calls them, and is evident of her desire of seeing]
"Here, however, the sly Arab overshoots his advice. I know that our soft-eyed and soft-spoken
more Syrian young people educated and accomplishmark, and his reply is not so clever as it sounds. poet advises in sincerity and only when he knows
ing things.
that
that
advice
will
reap
benefit.
But,
on
the
other
Spending time is not an idle, but a serious business,
(not such an easy matter as the sly Arab would hand, if you don't know the doctor, you will nod
A Charming Hostess
imagine. It involves more than a passive attitude approvingly while reading his counsel and then most
Mrs. Nesib Trabulsi is a charming, attractive
•of receiving sensations from the outside, a sort of likely go smacking your lips over a tasty dessert
spiritual osmosis of delectable stimuli, as some (as most likely I will when the dessert presents woman with much poise and personality. She was
oriental hedonists would construe it. For to tran- itself.) "I am sure that the doctor, with his keen born and brought up in Manchester, England, which
slate sensations into intelligible experience, the only insight, is convinced of the perversity of human, accounts for her lovely accent which is also evident
enjoyment worthy of rational beings, is to imply a nature and the hopelessness of such cases as this in her eight year old daughter, Gloria. It yet remains to be seen whether or not her little son, a
stock of experiences and ideas beforehand, in terms specimen denotes.
few months old will develop it. Formerly LilyHamid,
of which the new sensations and experiences are
she
is one of five daughters who were all named
translatable. These experiences and ideas in turn,
Another "good" friend (I am still wondering
imply the expenditure of mental, and even physi- over the classification) said to me: "Shades of Scho- after flowers. Upon entering her home one feels
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cal, effort—attention, selection, continued interest penhauer! You are becoming a philosopher. Cant that she is a hostess of gracious personality. -*and application. They imply work; they imply the you talk about anything without injecting philosoGreat Mixture of Syrian and American
expenditure of time.
phical thisis and thats? You had better snap out of it.
Mrs. Salim Y. Alkazin, the charming wife of the
"The question still remains, how much time to You know, I actually skipped parts of your column
dentist-poet, although born in America, in Maine,
spend; what experiences and ideas to acquire and last time, it got on my nerves."
how much of them. And to this there is no speci"Hm! Was it that bad? I confess I have been has a great understanding of and love for the old
fic answer. It depends greatly on the innate capaci- reading too much Schopenhauer lately, but you Syrian traditions although she is one of the most
ties and tastes of the individual, as well as on the flatter me, my dear, if you think I remind you of modern women I know. Her attractive apartment
intrinsic value of these experiences and ideas in him. Anyway, here's a secret: A columnist rarely she has made not just a house but a real home for
terms of social expression. Life is an art, not a knows what he's writing about. He comes to work her husband and son, Buddy. She is one of the very;
science; and one cannot lay out cut and dry rules of a morning, his brain a vacuum. "What to write! few Syrian women, I believe, who cooks according
for art. But one may keep in mind the Latin adage What to write!" Then, lo and behold! A thought pre- to a recipe, whether American or Syrian dishes.
that art is long and life is short
sents itself. He plunks and plunks on his typewriter, (I can hear the older generation Syrian women
"The typical American business man who works his mind dizzy with discovery and his fingers crazy scoff at the idea of a recipe, yet her dishes are
from eight in the morning to five in the afternoon, with speed. Good God! He's actually producing a, delicious.) So systematized is her cooking that she
who crams his brain with details of his business, full column. Then, still in the fury of white heat, was asked by a well-known magazine for several
and who, even when sitting at table would be read- he tears out the sheet and reads it. Sure, that'll do. articles.
ing the stock quotations of the evening paper, or The beginning's not so hot, but the ending—what
Well-Known Organizer of Societies
absently thinking of this or that problem or pro- an ending!"
position connected with his enterprise, may have
Although not a Syrian, Mrs. Jos. W. Ferris, wife
back of his mind that when he makes enough
I am wondering, on these beautiful summer nights, of the lawyer, is considered and considers herself!
money he would retire and take life easy.
He •how many of us go to the summer concerts that as one' of us. A very capable woman she is the
usually finds, however, when the time comes for the best of symphonic orchestras are affording us founder and organizer of the Syrian Junior League
him to retire, that he had been so absorbed in his at popular prices. There is for Californians, the of Brooklyn, which is one of many of the societies
business career that he enjoys nothing else. He Hollywood Bowl, for Philadelphians, the Robin Hood that still bear witness to her altruism and efficiency,
had not prepared himself; he had not taken time to Dell, for New Yorkers, the Lewisohn Stadium and the latest of which is the "Good Neighbors" of
acquire the necessary experiences and ideas—the many other out-door places all over the country.
Brooklyn, an influential society consisting of the
necessary education—by which to enjoy the time
In addition to the Philharmonic Symphony at mothers of the children in private schools. Many
he had worked so hard to save. For here is a| the Stadium, metropolites are afforded the oppor- of the older and well-known clubs in Manhattan!
mystery of time: we cannot redeem it except with) tunity of seeing opera at its best performed by are also the fruits of her efforts. Her two pretty1
time; and things worthwhile take time to possess stars of the Chicago Civic Company at the Hippo- young daughters are a lovely blend of their parents'
orientalism and occidentalism, and are good material
and to enjoy.
drome.
"Nevertheless the Arab who makes ridicule ofi
for their mother's wise trainiqg.
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Painter-Mother
For my choice, I would spend my nights in the
jr
incessant strife and struggle after the trivial and
Stadium,
watching
the
stars
and
listening
to
a'
non-consequential, hardly fares any better at the
Having been graduated from the Chicago Arts
end. It is true, he keeps in view the central aim Tchaikowsky Symphony. Almost as "well, I would College, Mrs. A. Sleyman, the mother of three
of life and has a keen sense of spiritual values, like to hear the performance of Rimsky-Korsakoff's children, is a painter of note. She has many large
which saves him a great deal of wasted efforts and; "Scheherezade Suite" with its portrayal of legends oil paintings and portraits of her children and friends
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misdirected energy. But he too fails to realize the (from the Thousand and One Arabian Nights.
in her home, enough to form an exhibit, that she will
know
many
music-loving
groups
of
young
Syrians
paradox of life which makes the attainment of the
graciously show you when you visit her. How she
worthwhile only possible by the mastery of much who are waiting for this composition to be played manages to take care of her family, attend social
that is not worthwhile, but which has a direct bear- this season. There is no doubt about the Orien- functions and yet find time to paint is beyond me.
ing on it, of details the neglect of which leads ul- talism of its flavor, but its beauty, I think, is uni- I suppose the axiom, "The busiest person is he wha
timately yet surely to spiritual atrophy and apathy. versal. If you would compare the attendance of finds time for everything," applies to Mrs. Sleyman.
For if the process of the reversion to the essential these nightly concerts, you will be amazed at the
Interested in Homeland
and worthwhile is followed to its logical end where obvious increase on nights when "Scheherezade" is
will it lead us? Of certainty to that abstraction of) performed. The other oriental-sounding composiA few blocks away from the Sleyman's home
mystical unity, that ecstasy of sublimated emo- tions are great favorites too, as "The Procession of
is the beautiful residence of the Beders. Not elabothe
Sardar"
by
Liadoff,
"Bacchanale"
by
Saint-Saens,
tions which consumes itself in the transient exultaand most of the compositions by the Russians that
are of a Tartar or Caucasian aroma.
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ARABESQUE
TYRE AND SIDON
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TYRE AND SIDON—Another pair of twin
cities, the most famous and celebrated twin
cities in the history of the world. . . anciently
Tyre was the more famous and more important of the two, but the vissicitudes of time
fell iriore harshly on the foijmer, and Sidon
today has assumed supremacy. . .Sidon is
famous for its luscious oranges, something
like the Florida oranges, but sweeter, while
the Jaffa oranges are more like the granulated
variety of California.
An indication of the greatness of these
two cities, the principal ancient ones of Phoenicia, is the consideration that our word
"Syria" is a derivation of Tyre. In its English form, we do not see the resemblance,
but the Semitic word for Tyre, Sur, or Sor,
makes it clear. The popular notion that Syria is an abbreviation of the word Assyria, of
which the former was an integral part at one
time, is now discounted by historians. This
popular derivation is based originally on a
conjecture of Herodotus, the father of history, which is proven to be wrong. The
Greeks identified Syria with the land of the
Tyrians, the Phoenicians, with whom they
were in constant touch and communication
through the sea-faring activities of the latter.
As the history of both cities from ancient
times, going back two milleniums before
Christ, is practically identical, and as Tyre
was the more important of the two we need
consider for the present only the latter.
The Christian poet of the 5th century,
.Nojnnus, left us a beautiful description of Tyre,
which had still retained something of its importance to his day.
"And Dionysius rejoiced when he beheld
the city which Neptune had bounded with
the humid girdle of the sea," wrote this feeling poet. "And he beheld what seemed a
double wonder, for Tyre lies in the sea, being bounded by the waves, yet belongs to the
land. She is like a maiden floating motionless, half hidden in the waters. . . Never have
I seen more beauty, for the lofty trees murmur beside the waves; The nearby wood
nymph listens to the ocean nymph speaking
in the sea, and the mid-day breeze breathing
from Lebanon on the Tyrian waves, and on
the maritime fields, with the same breath that
ripens the fruits, fills the seaman's sails, at
once cooling the brow of the husbandman
and filling the mariner's sails.. ."
Little of the splendor of Tyre remains today to tell the gripping story of its extensive
maritime empire; of the thousands of merchant ships and war vessels which plied the
seas and ventured beyond the Pillars of Hercules, the limit then of the inhabitable earth
beyond which none but the daunty Phoenicians had ventured.
The peculiarity of Tyre mentioned by the
Christian poet we just quoted, the layout of
the maritime city which makes half of it lie
in the sea, is not a natural but an artificial
one. The neck or "mole" which joins both
parts goes back to the Greek period, when
the mainland part was called Palae Tyrus,
or Old Tyre, and the other Tyre proper.
Modern historians are inclined to believe that
the part considered older by ancient historians was the more modern one, and that
the island city was the original Tyre. The
mole was constructed by Alexander the
Great when he invaded the city and possessed
it in 332 B.C., after a savage besiege which
is unparalleled in the annals of ancient his-
General View of Sidon Taken from a Cloister on a Foothill of Southern Lebanon.
tory. The Tyrian defendants showed superhuman courage in the defense of their island
city, to which those on the mainland had
fled in boats, defying the armies of the great
conqueror for seven full months.
The first mole, constructed by Alexander
to reach the island, was destroyed by the
Tyrians, whereupon another one was immediately built in its place. Towers were built
over the mole to enable the Greek soldiers
to ram the city and throw their javelins at
the besieged defenders.
'The Tyrians annoyed the soldiers," runs
a modern description of that historic siege.
".Nets were used to entangle the hands of
the assailants; masses of red-hot metal were
hurled amongst them, and quantities of
heated sand which, getting between the interstices of the armour, caused intolerable
pain.. ."
But the valiance and heroism of the Phoenician defenders availed them naught in the
end. On the contrary it enraged Alexander
to such a pitch of rage that he wreaked his
bitter wrath on the defeated enemy and
visited upon them most cruel punishment.
The Macedonians set fire to the city and
massacred 8000 of the inhabitants, selling
30,000 to slavery and crucifying 2000 more.
Tyre was famous not only for its extensive
maritime trade, but for the colonies with
which it dotted the {shorelines wherever its
sea-faring sons sailed in pursuit of gain and
for the exchange of merchandise. The most
celebrated and important of those colonies,
without doubt, is Carthage, on the shores of
North Africa, which challenged the power
of Rome itself. The founding of this famous
colony is shrouded with myth. But we are
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OUR NEW YORKERS
rate, but tastefully furnished, it has been the meeting place of various multi-purposed gatherings under the excellent supervision of Mrs. Rashid Beder.
She is a graduate nurse and is actively interested
in affairs of the homeland taking place here. When
the Syrian community planned a benefit for Miss
Kassab's in Beirut, Mrs. Beder was given full charge
and the complete success of the affair was undoubtedly due to her management.
Those mentioned above are only a very few of
the many noteworthy wives and mothers others of
whom will be written about in a later issue.
safe in assuming that the event came about
a hundred years after the reign of Hiram,
the account of whose cooperation with King
Solomon in building his famous Temple, the
reader may find for himself in the Bible.
In the days of the Romans, Tyre revived
something of its ancient importance as a
£rade centre, though shorn of its political independence. Strabo informs us that Tyrian
purple was acknowledged the best, and that
the large nurnber of dyers' workshops in
Tyre made it unpleasant for inhabitance. So
crowded was Tyre in the days of the Romans that its houses rose frequently to five
and six stories.
The rise of Sidon over Tyre is comparatively of recent date, going back to the days of
Emir Fakhr-ud-Din al-Ma'ni at the beginning
of the 1 7th century.
Besides its oranges,
Sidon has become famous for a variety of
Syrian confectionery, "sanayoura," secret recipe of which has passed from generation to
generation in a Mohammedan family. The
present population of Sidon is about 15,000
and that of Tyre 5000.
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(With this installment of the Miniatures we
close the series of Famous Syrian Cities. And with
the next issue we will start another series on Great
Figures whose lives and doings shaped the course
of history, who were influential in the evolution of
our civilization, particularly of the East. Editor.)
(Continued from page 5.)
FROM EAST AND WEST
tion of the moment. The reaction of this moment of
psychic transfiguration, unless the emotional urge
is channelized and utilized in different lines of human endeavour: in art, in literature, in social reform, in inventions and science, in a thousand and
one different activities—is invariably a state of spiritual depression, pessimism and nullification. And
here the tireless westerner who goads himself into
the pursuit of the many needless things, and the
easterner who just as absorbingly and zealously goes
after the one thing needed, the super-salesman and,
the whirling dervish, meet inthe same slough of
despondency, in the nirvana of ennui and monotony.
"
Fortunately we are dealing here with extreme types. The typical American business man
turns out in most cases to be a mythical type; and
the mystically-minded gentleman of the Ancient
Lands is usually a practical fellow with wide worldly experiences and cultivated tastes. As types, however, they are interesting as showing the trends in
West and East which may at any moment, unless
constantly watched, go into these extremes."
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vague particulars on Khalil Khoury.
the snow above our knees. The peak once attained,
"We come from the same family originally," he we reaped in full the reward of our long and ardouus
explained.
"But I can't say I know him. No one climb. Far below our eyes, a country of magical
knows him. It is so long since he went away. He left beauty was outspread. On one side the sea of deep
the country with his two brothers—the Hames. their ultramine, creaming into foam round the rocks ofS
sister Mountaha is still alive and a grandmother. Batroun and Tripoli, and the rosy sands of the Bay
She lives in the upper part of the town. The brothers of Akkar, covered with ripening fields of wheat and
never came back. With good reason—or so people oats, stretched between Lebanon and the savage range
say. Boutros Hame, the elder, years ago, killed a of the Anti-Lebanon. A serried line of violet peaks
Mohammedan who had caried off his sister.
closed the distance to the north. These were the
"
Yamile" I exclaimed.
Ansarieh mountains, the home of those Allaouites
The Dabke was followed by the sabre dance. Two
He appeared surprised.
whose religion and custums are still shrouded in
adversaries stood face to face. Each held a yataghan]
"Yes—how do you know her name? At any rate mystery.
in the right hand, a small shield over the left forearm. they preferred to pass overseas. They married abroad,
We returned at nightfall, after two long halts.
Their weapons whirled in a series of lightning-like —the daughters of a French prospector, I have heard.
One
was made on the ridge of Dahr-el-Kabib, where
feints. They bounded forward and backward, slashing, Khalil Khoury has lost wife and children. You must
thrusting, parrying. Blade rang on buckler. The have noticed how well he speaks French. That is we lunched luxuriously, our host having supplementfury attack was equaled only by the miraculous because they all lived among a French colony. He is ed the mechoue into which the poor little companion;
dexterity of the defense. The audience went wild very rich—or so it is said. I know no more than, of our ascent was transformed by a turkey, two
chickens from his poultry yard, trout from the icy
with the enthusiasm, for throughout the East the that."
image of war is worshiped even more than war itself.
In days that were yet to come, I often recalled Kadischa, and fruits from the orchards of the plain
Our entertainers left the courtyard only to re- this conversation. It showed me, at least, how qickly The other halt was made in the dusky enclosure
the Cedars.
sume their merrymaking in the village, where danc- history grows into legends, and how easily one death of WIM'
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ing went on for hours. Meantime, our host conducted) can be replaced by another, and a judgement handed
That day, passed in the company of Khalil Khouus into his house, and offered us the traditional down as a murder.
ry, has left upon me an impression that time will never
maza. A long table was covered with a medley of
efface. It was partly during our halts, partly at times
appetizers: olives, goat cheeses, sardines, pistachioes
when the road allowed us to ride knee to knee, that
grilled and salted, salads, sausages, hard eggs, sheep
the story of Yamile was poured into my ears. I selCHAPTER FIVE
kidneys, and livers. Each guest thrust his fingers
dom interrupted, fearful to spoil by some maladroit
or the point of the fork, into his favorite dish, and
ON THE MOUNTAIN
question the perfect manner of the recital, which was
washed the delicacy down with a draught of beer
EARLY next morning I started on my journey interspersed, after the manner of the East, by many
or arrack.
to the summit of Kornet-es-Saouda. Khalil Khoury a proverb and reflection on human destiny. But
The dinner itself was interminable. Course fol- accompanied me, as he had promised, but our escort indeed, to reproduce the accent of him who told the
lowed course, chopped meat mixed with rice, stuffed this time was only four servants all mounted like J story is beyond the power of words. In the mouth oil
squashes, fish swimming in sour milk, chicken smo- ourselves, and a donkey loaded with blankets and an old man of seventy, a love story of his youth is
thered in sauce, or cheese mixed with honey, the provisions. I must not forget an unfortunate sheep, too often a rambling and preposterous affair. But to
keschek el foukara, or pistachioes swimming in a destined to be butchered for our dinner on the this man, the mere telling seemed to restore all the
jelly-like cream, a desert of dried cakes of flour mountain peak, and who made the journey to the fire of youth. It was a singularly touching experience
and sugar, and the marvelous fruit of the Lebanon, place of sacrifice on his own four feet.
to witness such a triumph of love over the vanished
oranges from Tripoli, pears and peaches from Ehden,
We passed the Cedars, at six thousand feet above years. The passion that has fevered and wrecked his
and apricots from Hasroun. Toast after toast full of the sea, and followed a track roughly marked out early manhood still lay in his heart, intact as on the
exaggerated compliments and flowery phrases, lasted through rock and shale.
Until the ridge Dahrel- first day. Such a survival constituted in itself the
far into the night
most astounding tribute to the guily passion ofi
Kabib was reached, we kept in the saddle on our
After dinner, as we stood on the balcony to sure footed horses. From this ridge, however, a na- Yamile.
watch the stars, I managed to draw Nassib-ed-Dahei- rrow plateau leads to the summit, and this final
aside for a moment and to obtain from him some stage of the ascent was accomplished on foot with
(To be continued in next issue)
(Synopsis: Mysteriously referring to Yamile,
Khalil Khoury, Henri Bordeaux' guide who was
given to him by his host in Bcharre, while on his
way to the Cedars, implies the great beauty that
was Tamile's when they passed a large group of
young people watching games and dances, some of
which were joined in by the young girls, especially
a loveiy one whom Khalil Khoury said was surpassed by far by Yamile.)
PROFILES
PUBLIC SPEAKER
HAICKEL ALEXANDER ELKOURIE
public speaker, medical
doctor
was born on March 6, 187&
in Wadi-el-Arayish, Mount Lebanon.
His grandfather, Rev. Stephen Elkourie, was killed by the Druses in
the Zahle Massacre of 1860.
Dr. Elkourie was educated in the
Jesuit School in Zahle
and in
several medical universities in America.
His chief interest and distinction since coming to America has
been public speaking and debating.
In 1907 when John L. Burnett,
representative in Congress from Ala-:
feir ' Hriir '
in i ml.
":': Mn'iniH
bama and chairman of the Immigration Committee, returned from a tour
of Syria, Italy and other countries
and made a derogatory report of
these races, Dr. Elkourie challenged
him to a debate before the Chamber
of Commerce in Birmingham
The
records prove that Dr. Elkourie defeated his opponent and walked away
with the honors
Burnett, however, renewed his attacks in the
newspapers, each time receiving a
heated reply from Dr. Elkourie and
the papers, the Birmingham News
and the Age Herald which rendered
their moral support by endorsing Dr.
Elkourie's position
Subsequently
he went to Washington and argued
the cause before Congress and the
Immigration Committee
President
Taft vetoed the :bill that Burnett proposed on the issue.
For many years Dr. Elkourie was
a representative of the Committee
of Union and Progress which brought
about the deposition of Abdul-Hamid
without bloodshed
The event was
celebrated in Carnegie Hall with
more than twenty thousand people
attending
The speakers included
Charles Evans Hughes and the meeting was presided over by Dr. Elkourie.
When Judge Smith of Charleston,
S. C. refused to grant American citizenship to an applicant of Syrian
extraction, on
the
trumped - up
theory that the Syrians were of the
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yellow race, Dr. Elkourie was appointed by the late N. A. Mokarzel
to head the movement against this
outrage.... Dr. Elkourie went to
Charleston and wrote numerous columns refuting the contentions of the
Federal Judge....and finally, through
(public sentiment, forced a debate
in open court between the Judge and
himself
While in Charleston he
was given authority to designate the
attorneys
the case went to the
Supreme Court and was won by the
Syrians.
Dr. Elkourie has presided over
banquets and assemblies honoring
statesmen, candidates for the presidency, governors and other distinguished personages
Chief among
his bad traits, he confesses, are his
extreme positivism, his emotions and
his impulses which have made for him.
bitter enemies as well as loyal friends.
He has been president of the
Syrian Young Men's Society of Birmingham for twenty-five years and
is president of the Elks Luncheon
Club
He is a member of the Jefferson Medical and Alabama State
Medical Societies.... a fellow of the
American Medical Association and
of the American College of Physicians
He is listed in the Alabama
blue book of social register and is
a life member of the Shades Mountain
Country Club.
His most absorbing hobby now
is playing with his two grand children, Patsy, 4, and Phylis, 2
His
sen, Leo Alexander, former honor
student and graduate doctor, is a
student of radiology.
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Continued from page 1.
RASHID MEMORIAL
Society of the same city, the Rev.
Louis Malouf of Toledo and many
others.
The memorial service was preceded by a high mass in the Church
of Emancipation, Melkite Catholic, at
which the Rev. Archmandrite John;
Hindi officiated, pronouncing an eloquent eulogy at the conclusion of the
gospel reading.
Speakers Extol] Rashids' Spirit
A note that could not have escaped the hundreds of sympathizers
who joined the Rashids was the splendid spirit of family loyalty and family solidarity shown by the mourning members of this extensive and influential clan which has preserved
the fine traditions of family life unspoiled in this country. This same
note was a repeated theme in the
eulogies which extolled the magnanimity, liberality and patriotism of;
Dr. Assad and his brother Shukri,
who exemplified those fine qualities
and traditions of the East. It was
given impressive expression in the
eulogy of Mbada Rashid.who pledged
the departed ones that the Rashids
in this country would follow in thensteps, preserving the best traditions
of the family intact.
At a meeting held about a month
ago in Fort Madison, Iowa, of thi
Rashid family, Fandy Rashid of
troit was elected president of thi
Rashid society, succeeding Alfred Rashid of Davenport, Iowa.
�Dear Editor:
In your issue of July 7 which
I just received; you have an article
entitled, "What is the matter with
our critics?"
I am not one of your sour and
'disgruntled readers but one of your
many special correspondent-agents.
I would, however, like to make one
suggestion and I hope that you do
Irtot think me to be acting the part of
^an all-knowing newspaperman.
You will agree with me that this
paper caters mostly to the younger,
element of the Syrian young people
and in the last three weeks I have
not seen one single article pertaining to sports.
Syrian young folks of this country are no different from those of
other nationalities and if the other
young people enjoy spirting articles
I think that the young folks of our)
nationality are just as enthusiastic.
My suggestion is that you add to
your already well columned paper a
weekly column on sports which is
sure to draw the interest of the
young Syrians.
When I first accepted your offer
of Special Correspondent-agent I took
the assignment with the sole purpose of helping bring the Syrian
young people closer together and;
making closer personal contacts with
these same people.
i .„r
Very truly, yours
Jacob Saliba
(Dear Mr. Saliba: .We will gladly open the columns of the SYRIAN
WORLD to sport news pertaining to
Syrians, but not to general sports,
which is accessible to readers in the
American dailies.
WEATHER CLEARS
FOR OUTING
A DAY that brought steady
heavy rain in New York and New
Jersey and spoiled the plans of many
cleared up, fortunately, at about
faoon in Belmont Park, Babylon, L. I.,
whence the busful of the members
of the Daughters of the United MaJronite Society and their friends had
gone to enjoy themselves.
The picnicers numbering about
* jBfty, rowed, swam and canoed and
a had their meals in the beautiful state
park. It is a lovely spot and ideal
. for an outing. Due to the repeated
'requests of those who went, the Society is planning to hold another
outing next month.
The club is also discussing arrangements for a possible bus trip to
Bridgeport, Conn., on the Sunday of
the Mahrajan, September 3.
BASHARAS HONOR
DEVOTED MOTHER
*r
By Eugene Faris
DETROIT, Michigan.— Members
of the Bashara families in Fort
Wayne, Midi, gathered to honor
a devoted mother, Mrs, George S.
Bashara, who made a great sacrifice in
the cause of educating her son, Saleem G. Bashara, a recent graduate
of Grand Central High School.
Among those participating were
Miss Evelyn Bashara of Houston,
Texas, winner of the inter-collegiate
cratorical championship of Texas, Dr.
Arthur U, "Gannon of Detroit, Nayf
George Bashara, attorney of Detroit,
Miss Louise Bashara, radio artist, Mrs.
Esther David Stephan and Miss Amelia B. Ziton,
IN
AND OUT OF TOWN
The Misses Nora and Alma Giha,
daughters of Mrs. Freida Giha of
Toledo are spending a few days in
Cleveland visiting relatives.
Mr. Barber Farris and daughters,
Rose, Elizabeth and Alice motored to
Charleston, W. Va., to visit Mr. and;
Mrs. Abe Haddad, and later to bring
them back to Toledo for a brief stay.
Mrs. Abe Haddad was the former Miss
Genna Farris, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Barber Farris of Toledo.
Rev. Samuel David motored to
New York and Boston for an indefinite visit.
Mr. Nahim Hamid will leave
July 22 for Brazil on the Western
Liner.
The baby daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Said Raya of Brooklyn was baptized by Rev. Mansur Stephen last
Saturday. She was named Lillian
Mary.
The god-mother was Mrs.
M. S. Hanna and the god-father Mr.
John K. Menesh.
Mrs. Sameera Aide, wife of Dr.
Aide of Brooklyn, returned last Sunday from New Kensington, Pa., with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Z. Essa.
Miss Jesse Asa returned to her
home in Brownsville, Pa., after a two
weeks stay with her uncle, Mr. B.
Elian of Brooklyn.
Mrs. Adele Canaan, wife of Mr.
Anis Canaan of Brooklyn, returned
with her two children after a several
weeks stay with relatives in Wheeling, W. Va.,
Mme. Fadwa Kurban and Miss
Najeebee Morad, the celebrated singers, returned a week ago Thursday
night from Detroit where they sang
at the Mahrajan.
Mrs. M. B. Matta of Brooklyn
left today with her two children,
Gerald and Elizabeth Jean for Los
Angeles, Cal., where she will spend
three or four months wjfh her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Andrews.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Falouga
of Bristol, R. I., and John F. Rahme
of Fall River, Mass., are leaving New
York tomorrow after a week's visit
here.
Mrs. N. J. Sleyman Of Brooklyn
left last week for Fairfield, Maine,
where she expects to remain a couple
of weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Assad Hatem o£
Brooklyn, their daughters, Isabelle
and Evelyn and their son, George,
will complete the summer in Asbury
Park, N. J., where they have already
spent a month. Margaret, another
daughter, expects rto join them
shortly.
Mr. Antonio Coury of Boston,
Mass., received news from Cuba of
the death of his brother, John, who
was killed in an automobile accident.
He is survived by his wife and four
children..
;
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.
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The Misses Salha and Emilia Saad,
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Boutross
Saad of Brooklyn and their cousin,
Miss Mary Saad, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Boutross Saad of Brooklyn,
left last Tuesday for Algonquin, N.Y.
on a vacation of two weeks.
Mrs. S. A. Mokarzel, wife of the
editor of al-Hoda and the Syrian
World, and her daughters, Mary and
Rose, returned a week ago last
Thursday night from Detroit where
they spent ten days as the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Chukri Salloum and
Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse Deeby, and
attending many dinners held in honor
of Mr. Mokarzel and others in honor,
of Sami Shawwa. Going over they
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. David Skaff in Akron, Ohio, at a dinner
held in honor of Mr. Mokarzel which
was attended by people from many
surrounding cities, and on their return they were the guests of Dr.
and Mrs. Halim B. Khuri and Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Kallil of Cleveland.
Rev. Mansur Stephen, pastor of
Our Lady of Lebanon Church in
Erooklyn, returned a week ago last
Thursday night from Detroit where he
attended the Mahrajan and a dinner
held in IHS lionor- by Kisrawan Society
in Detroit. He also attended the
World's Fair in Chicago in company
with Sami Shawwa whose companion
he was during his travels in the
west.
Henry Awad of New York went
to Hyamis, Mass., on business. He
will return about the middle of September.
Miss Rose Maloof, buyer for
Btrgdorf-Goodman,
Fifth Avenue,
sailed a week ago, Friday, July 14,
on the S. S. Champlain for Paris on
a business trip for her store.
Mrs. Chas. Kouri of Richmond,
Va., left by automobile on Thursday
to visit her sister, Miss Elizabeth
Kouri, in Linden, N. J. Mrs. Kouri
will spend two weeks visiting friends
in northern cities.
Mrs. K. A. Bishara
Sails for Lebanon
Mrs. Khalil A. Bishara, wife of
the Rev. Dr. Khalil A. Bishara, pastor
of the Syrian Presbyterian Church of
Brooklyn, N. Y., sailed on July 18 on;
the S.S. Byron for Syria. Mrs. Bishara will go to Lebanon for her health.
Passengers sailing on the same
steamer, through the agency of A. K
Hitti and Co., of New York City,
were: George Abood, merchant in
Panama, his children, Therese and
Josephine; Assad D. Zorub, Elias N.
Zackariah, Mrs. Nejla Showker, her
children, Selwa and Khalida and
Miss Selwa Sahadi,
Also Wadde Macksoud of Brooklyn, Jacob Corey, Mrs. Freda Corey,
Joseph K. Modi, Michael Abu Nimr
Haddad, Mrs. Hanieh Haddad, their
child, Lillian, George Sulhaney, William Sulhaney, Mrs. Anisey Radi
Sheehan, Albert Elias Sheehan, Salem'
Beshara, Sami Eff Wafa Dajany,
Abraham Zain, Hassen Ali Seloom,
Tom Essay, Issac Beshara, Abdella
Eddo and Mrs. Clamantine Eddo.
J
Arriving on the same ship on,
July 14 from Beirut were: Scandar
Maksud Jeffs, Edmond Tanios Zeene,
Tom Abraham, Nabeeha Abraham,
Constantine Sawaya, Kassar Assad
Sahady, Latify Assad Sahady, Naheera
Sahady, Nebah Sahady, Jose Core,
Karim Elias Matry, Amelia Marry,
Yvonne Matry, Margaret , Matry,
Elias Matry, Malaki Matry, Jamil C.
Ayoub, Mary Joseph, Neshan Odian,
Anna Kazarian, Amen Najjar and
Marjie Mary Najjar.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gazel of!
Pittsburgh, Pa., accompanied by their
son and daughter, Shakeeb and Alice,
and Miss Evelyn Baraky, were guests
of Mr. and Mrs. John Faris Solomon'
at Detroit. Dinners in their honor
were given by the Solomons and Sallcums of Detroit.
They attended
the Mahrajan and also the Annual
Picnic of Our Lady of Redemption
Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Mickel of
Toledo, Ohio, left Saturday for a
week's visit at the World's Century
of Progress Fair at Chicago. They
were accompanied by their daughter
Ruth and their son and daughter-inlaw, Mr. and Mrs. George Mickel.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Tamer of Indianapolis, Ind., who were visiting
New York, returned last Wednesday.
BEGGIANI WEDDING
AL-HODA issue of July 12 announced the wedding of Miss Sada
S. Beggiani, daughter of the late Seeley Beggiani and Mrs. Sophia Beggiani and' niece of the late ChorBishop N. Seeley Beggiani, to Joseph
Haroun Beggiani, well-known local
merchant.
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Elias Hayeck
officiated at the wedding which was
held in St. Maron's Church, Youngstown. The couple are spending their
honeymoon on an extended trip which
will take them to Chicago, Detroit,
Niagara Falls and Canada.
Mrs. Clarence Donnelly of Rockville Center, L. I. held a garden
party in her home iast Thursday
afternoon. Among those present from
Brooklyn were Mrs. Adele MoutfarC
Mrs. Al Stewart, Mrs. Charles Unice,
Mrs. Said Lian and Miss Rosemary
Teen; and from Southampton, L. I.,
Mrs. Rajie lian and Mrs. John Kerge.
Miss Afifi Sawaya of Brooklyn,
N. Y., left with her sister for their
summer home in Inlet, N. Y.
Kamel Mcsha and Abou Moosey
returned to Richmond, Va., from a
business and pleasure trip which
carried them through the southern,
states.
Mr. Armour Azizi of Porto Rico
arrived in New York on the 26th of
last month on his way to Syria. He
sails on August second on the S.S.
Washington for Beirut to study in the
American University there. Mr. Azizi, although young, has been very
active in Porto Rican politics, having
led the' young Independent party in,
its campaigns. He is also talented
as a Cartoonist.
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<h4>Biographical/Historical Note</h4>
<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
<h4>Scope/Content Note</h4>
<p><em>The Syrian World</em> was published between 1926 and 1932 as a journal. In 1932, the format was changed from an academic journal style to a newspaper style, which continued until the periodical's end in 1935. After the death of his brother Naoum, Salloum took over the publication of <em>Al-Hoda.</em></p>
<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
<p>All issues of <em>The Syrian World</em> are available, along with full indexes for the first four volumes. For volumes five and six, there are tables of contents at the start of the issues.</p>
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The Syrian World Volume 07, Issue 12
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1933 July 21
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ANOTHER FLEER WIHBI, EMPOSTER
CRASHES, DIES ARRESTED IN N.Y.
George Dinn's Plane Drops to
Ground After Motor
Stops Dead
LESS than two weeks had passed
after the death of a Syrian aviator
in Chicago, when another crashes and
is killed not far distant, in Port Huron, Mich.
While high up in the air, performing for crowds of people gathered
on the ground who were eagerly
watching his skillful feats with his
plane, George Dinn dipped his plane
and swooped it up again, looping the
loop and writing on the sky figures
that are familiar to fliers, when suddenly his motor went dead. Before
the spectators could recover from the
shock the plane had crashed to the
ground, killing Dinn. He was rushed
to a hospital where it wasf ound that
he had been killed instantly.
The other flier who was killed
twelve days before, on the Fourth of
July, was Joseph Adrey, who met
his death in a parachute leap at the
World Fair.
Services for Dinn were held on
the 19, the Rt. Rev. Bishop Victor
Abo-Assaly officiating, assisted by
Archimandrite Ananias Kassab and
Archimandrite Anthony Bashir. He
is survived by his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Abdallah Dinn.
Is
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BEAT TURK BECAUSE
HE WORE RED SHIRT
THE RED silk shirt of Mohamid
Ali, a Turkish window cleaner, caused
him to be beaten up by police who
believed him to be a Communist.
He was slugged unmercifully by
three Westchester Parkway policemen as he tried to board a New York
bound bus with his wife, two children and a sister. The police say he
attacked them while resisting arrest.
He is now in the hospital in a critical condition with a possible fracture of the skull.
Traveling in Style He Mulcts
Money from Rich Syrians Representing Himself Sometimes as a Student and
Sometimes as a Flier
A LONG communication signed
by Isaac Nader of Shreveport,
La., warns his fellow-citizens all
over the United States against a
clever Syrian imposter who has
obtained money from Syrian
merchants and wealthy men on
false representation.
According to this communication
the young man, about 30, short, baldheaded, round face of dark complexion
and weighing about 125 pounds, went
to Shreveport and stayed in one of
the best hotels. He called himself
Michael Baroudy, claiming to be a
member of a well-known family in
Beirut, a graduate of the Jesuit and
American Universities of that city
t.nd that his father sent him to America to study dentistry. Making inquiries of the Syrians in the city
pn the next day he presented himself
to Mr. Nader and said that he was
a graduate of Phoenix University in,
Arizona and that he has an uncle in
Oklahoma City, a well-known merchant. He was entertained hospitably
by the Syrian community. Before
leaving, on the following day, he
asked Mr. Nader for a loan of $7.00,
claiming that he had lost his money
and that he needed funds to go to
his uncle. He also said that he was
leaving shortly for Syria and asked
his host about his relatives there
that he may visit them and pay them
his respects.
Ten days later, a telegram reached
Isaac Nader from New York signed
by Nakhle Nader, a brother, and
stating that as he had arrived from
the old country in New York and
was in need of $75 to continue the
trip to Shreveport asking that the
mcney be sent at once by wire.
(Continued on page 2.)
PRIEST FOR 25 YEARS
ELECTED HEAD OF
FORTY AND EIGHT
;%;*
CHARLES S. Baddour of Albany,
Georgia, son of S. Baddour of Goldsboro, N. C, was Recently elected
grand chef de Gare of the Grand
voiture of Georgia of the Forty Eight
at its busines session in the Hotel
Daniel Ashley at Valdosta. Mr. Baddour succeeds R. Frank Callaway and
won by a close vote over Leonard
LeFiles. He was graduated from the
Goldsboro schools in 1917 and immediately after entered the army, taking part in the World War. He was
interested in athletics and won recognition on teams in Goldsboro. S.
Baddour, his father, is a veteran of
the Spanish-American War and formerly resided in Atlantic City, N. J.
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DR. SHATARA IN AIR FORUM
Dr. F. I. Shatara will discuss the
Arab side of the situation in Palestine in a radio symposium to be
conducted by the Foreign Affairs
Forum on August 1st at 10 P. M. over
station WEVD, 1300 kc.
Thomas
Cook will discuss the British side and
Mr. Margulies the Jewish side.
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IN COMMEMORATION of the
silver jubilee in the priesthood of
Msgr. Elias Hayek of Youngstown,
Ohio, the Syrians of that city have
completed plans for a banquet in his
honor to follow a mass to be celebrated by Rt Rev. Bishop James A.
McFadden. The editor and publisher
of al-Hoda and the Syrian World
will be toastmaster; Sami Shawwa
will be present and will play several
selections on his violin. M. Henry
Fabert, French Consul in Columbus
will be present as honorary chairman.
BACCASH, AMERICAN
SYRIAN JOURNALIST,
LEAVES PAPER
IT IS learned through a communication to al-Hoda from Zahle,
Lebanon, that Shikry Baccash, veteran
journalist, well-known to a large
circle of friends in this city where,
at one time, he edited "Zahla-1-Fatat," an Arabic paper, is no more
connected with that paper, now
edited in the hometown itself, Zahle.
His colleague and co-publisher, Raji
Ran. is now sole owner and publisher. _ His son, Abraham Raii, has
assumed acting editorship.
EGYPTIAN PRINCE SCORES
BRITISH AND MISSIONARIES
PRINCE OMAH TOUSON, OF EGYPTIAN REIGNING FAMILY,
IN COMMUNICATION TO SHAYKH MOHAMMED MUSTAFA
AI-MARAGHL HEAD OF ISLAMIC DEFENSE COMMITTEE,
ASSAILS BRITISH FOR LENDING COVERT AID
TO MISSIONARIES IN SUDAN
URGES THE FORMATION OF A MISSIONARY EXPEDITION TO THE
SUDANESE HEATHEN TO TEST BRITISH CLAIM
OF IMPARTIALITY
CITING several instances of discrimination against Moslem
Egyptians and Sudanese in non-Moslem, Upper Sudan, His Highness Prince Omar Touson, leading Moslem and nationalist figure
of Egypt who resides in Alexandria, sent an open letter to Shaykh
Mohammed Mustafa al-Maraghi, former Rector of al-Azhar Mosque
University and head of the newly formed Islamic Defense Committee asking for action to make a stop to such practices.
The New York Times, which recently published communications by
its correspondent in Cairo describing
uprisings of Moslems against missionary activities in Egypt, has thrown
little light on the Moslem side of
this serious disturbance. Prince Omar
Zahle Editor Is Beaten up by
Touson's letter, published in the AraMakhoul Qassouf, Brotherbic Egyptian press, is the first inin-law of Joseph Bey
direct account giving the Moslem verBraid y
sion of the controversy to come under our attention in this country.
ZAHLE SPLIT BY
FAMILY ROWS
(By Special Correspondent
of al-Hoda)
BEIRUT.— Rivalry between
two influential families in Zahle
over a municipal contract has
grown into a bitter feud in
which government and church
authorities have intervened to
prevent serious trouble.
The feud started when a contracter of as-Saddi family won by
public bidding a municipal contract
to build the proposed boulevard from
Mu'allaqat Zahle to the entrance of
Zahle, Wadi-1-Araish, for the sum of,
10,000 Syrian pounds.
Thereupon
Makhoul Qassouf, brother-in-law of
Joseph Bey Braidy and belonging to
the same political faction, sought to
void the bid, succeeding finally in a
revising it Refusing to enter the
bidding once more, as-Saddi withdrew, leaving Makhoul al-Qassouf
alone in the field
Paper Takes up Issue
• "Al-Wadi" newspaper, published
by Jan Aloof in Zahle, then took up
the issue, criticising Makhoul Qassouf. A scrap between Qassouf and
the editor followed in a cafe, where
they were separated by those present. But the matter did not end
there.
Passing before al-Braidy
home, Jan Aloof was set upon by
partisans of Qassouf and beaten up
severely, before Joseph Bey Braidy
could come out and protect the victim.
,
.
The feud now was on in earnest,
threatening to break up Zahle into
two camps. The Lebanese Government, fearing serious consequences,
stepped in, sending Izz-ud-Din alUmari, chief of police, at the head of
a force to quiet things fa a peaceable
way. At the same time, Patriarch
Cyril IX, of the Greek Catholic
Church, dispatched his vicar,; Bishop
Dionysius Kfuri, to mediate between
the two excited factions.
Elated at Triumph of Islam
Starting his letter with the jisual
Moslem salutation, "Peace be upon
you and the mercy of God and his
blessings," Prince Omar Touson gives
expression to his elation at the splendid manner in which his fellow Moslem citizens in Egypt showed their .
unanimous disapproval of the activities of the missionaries, that a chance
incident has brought to light. "The
country from end to end" writes the
Prince, "has been moved by what
those missionaries commit in way
of their propaganda, which no man of
character and religion would attempt." The institutions of Islam,
Prince Omar Touson reassured, are
firmly rooted in Egypt and in no
danger of any attacks from outside.
Moslems who are well-established
in the principles of their own religion are everywhere to be found
in Egypt and can be depended upon,
to return attack for, attack and argument for argument
But in Sudan, where the people
are still in a stage of semi-barbarism,
the crusading Prince paints a different, sombre picture.
On the strength of what he calls
indisputably
reliable
information,
Prince Omar Touson declares that
the British authorities in that country do their best to abet and encourage the missionaries in their *
activities to civilize and convert the
heathen Sudanese to Christianity,
while laying all obstacles conceivable in the way of Moslems, whether
missionaries or merchants, who seek
to travel in the heathen sections of
that country.
British Bias Cited
Among evidences of what he
calk glaring partiality to the Christian missionaries in the Sudan,
Prince Omar Touson cites the fact
that the British have organized a
committee to study the native Su-
(Continued on page 3.)
�THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, JULY 28, 1933.
PAGE TWO
BISHOP MUBARAK SENDS SCATHING
LETTER TO PATRIARCH ARIDA
DISSENSIONS THREATEN ANEW
ORTHODOX PATRIARCHATE
PRECIPITATES ROW IN MARONITE CHURCH. "WE DID NOT
ELECT YOU PATRIARCH OVER THE JEWS," BISHOP
MUBARAK IS REPRESENTED TO HAVE SAID
ELEVATION OF ARCHMANDRITE ATHANASIUS BISHOP
OVER HAURAN AROUSES OPPOSITION FROM
BISHOPS; ARCHBISHOP VICTOR OF NORTH
AMERICA PROTESTS
(Special Correspondence)
BEIRUT.— A heated controversy in the Arabic press of Lebanon and Syria was precipitated by a scathing letter in which Bishop Ignatius Mubarak, Maronite bishop of Beirut, is said to have
roundly denounced the Maronite chief
head, Patriarch Antoun Arida, and
brought him to task for failure to
defend rights of the Lebanese people.
"You know the wretched condition
of the land," Bishop Mubarak is said
to have -written his Patriarch, "and
you see with your own eyes the
misery and hunger which threaten
the people, the plight which hovers
over their heads. And now we are
forced to come out of our silence
which we had kept in compliance
with your promise and the promiseci: the authorities that something will
be done, but nothing has been done.
When we elected you, Your Beatitude, we did not elect you patriarch over the Jews (referring to
declaration of Patriarch Arida in
sympathy with the persecuted Jews
of Germany). You have neglected
the affairs of your own sect and
country... God has punished us for
electing .you, and we accept this
punishment with gratitude, but, alas,
this punishment has not been restricted to us, but has affected others
of our sect and country
"
How Letter Came to Light
First intimations of this letter appeared in a communication to al-Hoda
by its special correspondent in Beirut
who 'quoted passages from the letter
purporting to have appeared in an
issue of "an-Nida" (Beirut) which
was confiscated on threat from the
French authorities. Then a week later
"Aleph-Ba
(Damascus)
published
the whole letter, which was thereupon
copied by "Lisan ul-Hal" (Beirut),
and a bitter controversy followed,
whether the letter as published was
genuine. An official denial of the
version of the letter as published was
issued by the Bishopric of Beirut,
supported by "al-Ittihad al-Libnani"
and "al-Bayraq" (both of Beirut and
both Maronite) who denounced "Lisan ul-Hal" and called the letter it
published "made up." But "al-Ahrar"
(Beirut, Greek Orthodox) assured its
readers on reliable authority that
a letter was actually sent by Bishop
Mubarak and that its contents do not
differ materially from the published
one.
ETHIOPIAN PRINCE
VISITS ROOSEVELT
TWENTY-ONE guns boomed in
salute to Ras Destu Demtu, prince
of Ethiopia and son-in-law of the
'Emperor on his arrival in New York
few days ago.
He was taken off;
the S. S. Majestic by the Coast
Guard cutter, Manhattan, which bore
the code nag.
He is bringing gifts to President
Roosevelt. As he wishes them to be
a surprise, he is keeping their nature
secret.
Prince Demtu is here to return
officially the visit of the American
mission which attended the coronation of the Ethiopian Emperor in
1930.
Ethiopia is a Christian kingdom,
of the Coptic faith, avowing allegiance
to the Alexandrian patriarchate. According to an ancient tradition, the
Ethiopian royal family is said to have
descended from the Queen of Sheba
and_ King Solomon.
TO BE LISTED AMONG
PROMINENT MEN
JOHN W. COURY
JOHN W. Coury, an attorney of
Detroit has been asked by the Detroit Free Press, a leading newspaper there, for an account of his
life to be included in a book they are
preparing in which the prominent
people of Detroit will be listed.
STEAL $40,000 IN LINENS
FROM NEW STORE
THE ART linen shop of Mrs.
Nora Tanous, wife of Aziz Tanous of
Lawrence, L. I., which was opened
just about two weeks ago in Southampton, L. I., was robbed of $40,000 worth
of fine linen a week ago, last Friday
morning. The thieves, entering the
store by prying off a wire netting
from a back window, emptied all the
cuses up to the middle of the store
where the most valuable laces and
linens were kept, abandoning the
rest.
I. W. FARHA
RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT
BEAUMONT.Texas.—At the semiannual election of officers held by the
Young Men's Syrian Association
Thursday, July 1, Mr. I. W. Farha
was re-elected president Others elected are: A. G. Taweel, vice-president; J. L. Abood, secretary; Tony
Amairoe, assistant secretary; Charles
Riezek, sergeant-at-arms; A. Jamail,
house speaker; Joe Salhab, chaplain;
Edward Monsur, American reporter;
Wallace Sekaly, Syrian reporter and;
I. J. Halbouty, athletic director.
TOBIA-HADDAD
WEDDING
OUR OLD friend, Tobia N. Tobia, make-up man and printer of the
SYRIAN WORLD, was maried to Miss
Hasiba Naufal Haddad, both of Brooklyn, last Sunday evening. The ceremony was officiated by Rev. Mansur Stephen. The best man was
David N. Rizcallah, nephew of the
groom, the matron of honor was
Mrs. Wadia Kassouf.
Because of
mourning in the family the wedding
was limited to the immediate family.
The bride and groom »fe spending
their honeymoon in Atlantic City,
N. J.
'
THE CHAOTIC state of the Greek Orthodox Church in Syria,
falling under the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Antioch, had no
sooner been healed with the death of the late co-Patriarch Arsanius
Haddad, than it threatens to return again with new, unexpected
developments.
It now seems certain that the
The Arabic press of Syria has alcoming
Synod that must have met a
ready echoed the ominous report of
few days ago, will have many serious
this new threat, with no little display
and tangled problems before it vto
of concern (and consternation.
iron
out. The future status of the
On the Sunday of June 15, PatOrthodox American Church will unriarch Alexandras Tahhan, who, upon
doubtedly be discussed in it, as also
the death of his colleague and comwill
be discussed whether Archbishop
petitor Patriarch Arsanius Haddad,
Germanos Shihadeh may still be cahas been recognized by all factions as
nonically considered Antiochean Archsole Patriarch of Antioch appointed to
bishop over North America when
the episcopate Archimandrite Athathere is already another who claims
nasius Kalilah, as Bishop of Hauran.
the same jurisdiction. The Syrian
Immediately on hearing this, the rest
Greek Orthodox Church in North
of the bishops of the Antiochean See
America
is already divided into four
wired their protests, couched in vecamps—two Antiochean groups, those.
hement language, raising objections to
following Archbishop Victor, and those
the constitutionality and canonicity
following Archbishop Germanos, one
of such an act. They argued that
"Russian" group, and the Indepenr
the Patriarch, according to the
dent
Church of Archbishop Aftimios.
church canons, cannot , designate
someone to the bishop's office without holding a synod.. The Patriarch
wired back that the elevation was
done in accord with canon, and that
it is constitutional. "Your calling it
irregular," declared the Patriarch in
his wire, "does not lessen its canonici'ty."
Demand Synod
Not satisfied with this reply, the
bishops then wired back:
"The canonicity or non-canonicity
of the candidacy and election of the
Bishop of Hauran shall be determined
by the Synod."
The Patriarch, in spite of this repeated protest, proceeded with the
ceremony of consecrating' Bishop
Athanasius. Assisting him were bishops Meletius Qattinah and Photius
Khoury.
Upon their persistent demand,
however, Patriarch Alexandras consented to the holding of the Synod
and assigned for its meeting the 4th
of July, eastern calendar, which will
make it fall on the 17th of our western calendar.
Furthermore, the bishops of the
Antiochean See have announced noncooperation with their patriarch till
the meeting of the Synod, implying
that they will not recognize his
authority, counting his act in electing
and elevating the Bishop of Hauran
contrary to canon.
And as if this situation was not
complicated enough in itself, al-Nida,
a Beirutian paper owned and published by Moslems, avers that it has
learned on reliable authority that Bishop Victor Abu-Assaly, Antiochean,
Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox;
Church in North America, has made
protestation to Patriarch Alexandras
for delaying his recognition till now.
. In his letter to Patriarch Alexandres, Archbishop Victor points out
that he was canonically and constitutionally elected and elevated arch;
bishop over North America by the
late Patriarch Gregorios, that he participated in the election of the late
Patriarch Arsanius Haddad and of His
Beatitude Patriarch Alexandras, and
also in the election of the new bishop of Ladhiqiyyah. Why, then, he
asks, his own recognition by the
Antiochean Patriarch has been so
long delayed? Such a state, he further warns, is conducive to the crea' tion of new dissensions and new confusions in the North American See.
PLAN TO DETOUR
NILE 400 MILES
PLANS are being laid in Egypt
to detour the Upper Nile River 400
miles, a stupendous engineering feat
that will require twenty or twentyfive years to complete, and from.
$150,000,000 to $160,000,000 expenditure.
The project is in reality an effort
to dodge the sun in order to prevent
evaporation which sucks into the air
every drop of water beyond a flow
of 400 cubic meters a second through
the swamps.
The detour must be a
channel narrow enough to cut down
the evaporation surface and deep
enough to keep an excess volume of
water hidden out of reach of the
burning rays.
ALEXANDER HOBEIKA
DIES IN JACKSONVILLE
S. KOKABANY of Brooklyn was
informed of the death of his friend,
Alexander Joseph Hobeika, a resident of Jacksonville, Fla.' Mr. Hobeika had many friends and was well
liked in the community where he
resided.
•
RUSE FAILS
(Continued from page 1.)
It was then that Isaac Nader became suspicious for, while in constant
touch with his brother, nothing concerning the latter's trip had been
mentioned. Instead of wiring the
money, he got in touch with the
telegraph office in New York by telephone and was convinced from the
description of the man who sent the
telegram that he was not his brother
but the same Mitchel Baroudy who
had visited him before and touched
him for $7. The man was at once
arrested in New York and it appears
from investigations that followed his
arrest that the man has a long record;
as an imposter with several aliases,
sometimes claiming to be a, flier who
was arranging to cross the Atlantic
to Syria on his own airplane. Among
those he victimized was a lady of
the family of Mogabgab in New Orleans.
The communication states
that the defendant, breaking down in
tears, was released through the intervention of some of his countrymen.
It is said, also that he is wanted for,
trial in several states, including Alabama and Mississippi.
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�COUNTESS D'ANDURIAN ALIVE
GIVES OWN VERSION
BROUGHT BEFORE ARABIAN JUDGE SHE ANGRILY
DENIED CHARGE OF MURDER. LEAVES
FOR BEIRUT
ON THE 29th of June Countess d'Andurian, reported hanged
in Mecca on charge of poisoning her Moslem husband, Suleiman
ad-Dikmafi, was released from the Jeddah prison by Arab authorities of Ibn Su'oud's government.
{'
Going straight from prison to the
French consulate in that city, the
countess-told the curious officials and
others who gathered around her,
her own version of her arrest, trial
and release.
,
"My purpose in embracing Islam and marrying ad-Dikmari," said
the countess, "was to enter Mecca
and travel in Najd and other parts
of Arabia to study conditions at close
xange. I was preAjented from entering
Mecca and told that I must' spend a
whole year before I would be permitted to do so. My dreams, thereupon, vanished and I knew not what
•to do.
"Then one morning an agent of
the police came to me and said.that
he had a warrant for my arrest, adding: 'You must tell the truth.'
'"What truth?', I asked. He replied:
" 'Symptoms of poisoning have
appeared on your husband, and he
says that you poisoned him.'
"I denied the charge emphatically,
saying that it, could not be true and
asked that I face my husband, for it
was not told me yet that he was dead.
"I spent sometime in confinement,
and when I stood before the judge, he
asked me: 'Did you kill your husband?" And I replied: 'Are you crazy
"to say such a, thing, for I have no
reason to poison him.' I had not
known that he was dead till I stood
before the judge."
The countess asked leave for
Beirut, from whence she was to proceed to Palmyra, sell her hotel and
sail to Paris.
In another report from Mecca it
was revealed that in her trial the
Arabian court did not find the evidence strong enough to convict the
countess on. the charge of poisoning her husband, as all testimony to
this effect was of hearsay nature.
She was convicted, however, of the
charge of living with another man
in the hotel, but her imprisonment
was considered punishment enough for
that.
Honor Student Strives for
Altruism among Syrians
(Special Correspondence)
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PHILADELPHIA.—. Miss Catherine Nagher, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, is making a
survey of the Syrian community in
this city in an effort to promote understanding, fellowship and an appreciative sympathy of the problems
confronting Syrians and their aspirations.
Miss Nagher has distinguished herself during her academic career, having received many scholarships among
which were the Pennsylvania State
Scholarship, the Valedictorian Award,
and the Debate Award. In addition,
she was elected to Tau Kappa Alpha,
the National Honorary Society.
It is Miss Nagher's ambition to
establish clubs among her people
in this community and to organize
evening classes. Miss Nagher has
been highly commended for the spirit of altruism and service that dominated her activities in her endeavor
"to perpetuate the spiritual heritage
that Syria has given mankind," which
she states is her goal.
AND WE PASS IT
TO THE PUBLIC
(We received the following letter
from H. A. Amuny, President of the
Southern Federation of Syrian Clubs,
in which the case of the said federation is gladly passed "to a neutral
press." We in turn gladly' pass it
to the public, who in the last analysis,
especially the public of the South, to
whom the appeal is especially made,
are the logical and rightful judges.
We are not in a position to add anything editorially or to throw light
on the subject therein broached. The
constitution accompanying the letter
sounds a fairly representative one of
such organizations, but there is more
than the constitution to consider.
Here is one matter, for instance that
we and, we believe, a great many others
would like to have made clear. Of
the nine societies listed on the letter-head of the Federation seven are
of Texas and two of Louisiana. That
b perhaps only natural, but it is
also natural for us to wonder why an
important and an old organization like
the Syrian American Club of Jacksonville has refused its cooperation
sr. far, or (perhaps why it had not
taken the initiative itself. What we
are driving at is simply an inquiry,
for enlightenment, not for criticism,
whether some of the old Syrian organizations were taken into confidence
before such a momentous step was
undertaken. We would like to hear from
the Federation and from those to
whom the appeal was sent without
response.
Editor.)
Nearly one year ago the Southern
Federation of Syrian Clubs was organized, the first project of a seminational nature to Americans of
Syrian birth to have been attempted
in this country.
To the casual observer, mere organization may be misinterpreted as
the successful development of one's
purpose. This letter is intended tocorrect that impression. The Syrian
American press, whose success incidentally depends en the racial reawakening of the Syrians through
leagues of this kind, is the best means
of getting our point to those concerned.
The Federation has made varied)
requests and overtures to the Southern clubs to join it in its work. We
i believe that our resources of reasoning have been depleted. . Therefore,
we gladly pass our case to a neutral
press. From the following facts and
the enclosed constitution, we respectfully ask that you pass judgement on,
and, if you find our cause deserving,
join us in an impartial appeal through
your editorial page to have every
eligible club rally to our compact.
These are the pertinent facts:
There are not less than fifty clubs
in the thirteen states of the Federation's territory. Only ten are affiliated.
The majority of outsiders
declare that they are in sympathy
with the union but are waiting to
see its outcome before joining. We
would impress upon these non-affiliates that their affiliation is urgent
to the success of the Federation. A
silent majority, to be frank, are wary
of the good intentions of the spon-
sors of the Federation. A study of
the enclosed constitution will reveal
that the participants are amply protected, and a little faith in those who
are "persistent in creating an altruistic
endeavor will testify to the sincerity
of the original backers.
We believe that your editorial
comment can dissolve those two main
barriers to our success, which, also,
will mean the added success of your
journalistic enterprise.
Of course we realize that minor
changes in the constitution are imminent, but we want your impression
of its basic quality. Any proposal
you might have in our favor, if you
will make it known, through your
paper, will receive the serious consideration of the convention.
We
sclicit that advice.
, We cannot achieve our ends by
so small a representation of Syrian
clubs. With all those clubs embraced
in this chain we can more clearly express the desires of the Syrians of
America. Furthermore, the complete
success of this Federation will lead
to a national one, but never can a
ijation-wide union be affected without success in sectional leagues.
We can advance many reasons
•for the Federation, but we want
your particular views which will
probably be new to us. Your paper
has helped materially in re-awakenmg the younger and older generations
ot Syrians to their racial pride. We
both must fight tenaciously for the
growth of that awakening. The time
for the second annual convention at
New Orleans, La., September 3rd and
4th is drawing near. Will you consider our fight as yours and judiciously exert your journalistic powers in
ct nsistent attempts to recruit every
eligible club to our compact?
Most humbly yours,
SOUTHERN FEDERATION OF
SYRIAN CLUBS
H. A. Amuny,
President.
Port Arthur, Texas.
The Junior Misses Club of Brooklyn is holding their summer celebration this evening. The entire club
will participate in the gym exercises
and a swim at the Hotel St. George
and will later have supper in the
Fulton Royal.
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DENIES POWER
TO REMOVE HIM
Bishop Ofeish Pays Little Heed
to (Edict from Patriarch
Tahhan
NIAGARA Falls, July 22.— Declaring
that he is his peer and ' not his
superior, Archbishop Aftimios Ofeish
replied to the open letter of Patriarch Alexander Tahhan declaring
him to be cut off from the church.
The archbishop declared that he
is still head of his church until recalled by the Patriarchate of Moscow or a real ecumenical council.
Archbishop Ofeish precipitated a
world-wide discussion of the celibacy
of bishops when he unexpectedly declared his marriage to Marion Namey
of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on April 29.
SCORES BRITISH
(Continued from page 1.)
danese dialects in order to create a
unified language to take the place
of Arabic, the recognized official
language of Sudan, and to be used in
government schools being established
for the heathen Sudanese. And while
giving Christian missionaries unrestricted freedom to establish missionary centres and schools in outlying
heathen districts, a Moslem traveler
is dodged and hedged with all manners of petty restrictions, especially
if such happens to be a Moslem
clergyman. Passengers on ships going
up the Nile, Prince Omar Touson
avers in his communication, are prevented from landing at any port in
the Upper Sudan if among them
happens to be some Moslems. The
latter are even prevented from saying
their prayer on shore.
In short the Prince said, the
British are so alarmed at the spread
oi Islam in Sudan, that they have
tf.ken all stringent measures to suppress it. No Moslem officials are
appointed to posts among the heathen
Sudanese.
Urges Mission to Sudan
Officially the Sudan is supposed
to be governed jointly by the British and Egyptians. Therefore, concludes the Prince in his message, if
Egyptian Moslems are truly zealous
about their own religion and its
propagation in Sudan, in emulation
of Christians, they should make this
question a test of claimed British impartiality. He urges the organization
of Moslem missionary expeditions
from Egypt, to see what the British
will then do, and whether they will
take steps to stop them. This, he
points out; is as much a matter of
concern to the Azhar authorities as
sending
Moslem missionaries to
China, if not of more urgent claim,
as Sudan is a neighbor and partner
of Egypt, the Nile passing through
bcth and vitally linking them together.
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ARE WE HIGH-BROW?
ONE criticism of the SYRIAN WORLD
we hear occasionally is that it is a "highbrow" publication, that it devotes undue
space to feature articles on historic and "philosophic" subjects that are not up-to-date,
and that news about eastern countries predominates in it over local news.
Before we take up this criticism, let us
see if it is true. In the last issue of the SYRIAN WORLD, July 2 1, we find three "local"
news in display on the front page, one a
murder case, to two "foreign" features and
one boxed item. The second page has ten
news items and articles, two of which may
be considered "local." The third page, on
the other hand, has thirteen items, with two
displays, which are all "local." The two editorials on the editorial page reflect the fair
division of the paper's materials, one on a
"locaL", one on a "foreign" subject. But on
the opposite feature page, two are local and
peppy, and one which we may concede for argument's sake to call "high-brow." The "Miniature," on page 6, as would be expected,
cannot be "local," but the "Profile," on page
7 is definitely so, and the novel serial was
considered of enough interest to American
readers to be published by a reputable publishing house of ,New York.
The 8th and
last page is all "local."
For diversity and true "human interest,"
we challenge anyone, Syrian or American,
to find another publication of equal size
anywhere in this country. And for Syrians,
who' have the least interest in the country
of their origin, we challenge anyone to show
that the news features are not well-chosen
for their current significance, their accuracy
and their conciseness, that they are not the
type of news and features that a high class
American newspaper would gladly publish.
We could easily imagine how a paper
ten times the size of the SYRIAN WORLD,
would be crammed with "news", if the "Walter Winchell". sort of stuff may be so dignified, if a girl "falling on her pride" from a
bicycle would be considered "news."
But more important than even this consideration, the careful selection of true news,
and even decent gossip, is the one that the
SYRIAN WORLD is able to supply the background of the news and news features it
gives its readers.
It supplies true and unbiased information, iinderstandingly and intelligibly. So confident are we of our contribution in this direction, that we believe
there is a great field for our paper among
Americans who are interested in the Near
East.
There is not a single publication in
this country in English, we firmly believe,
which is so truly and faithfully "interpret'RETHINKING MISSIONS'
ing" the living Near East as our publication
is doing. We are not satisfied to take our
A Laymen's Inquiry after One
news second hand, or interpret it editorially
Hundred Years
in an amateurish spirit.
The criticism that our paper is "highbrow" can come from two sources, and only Author: Commission of Appraisal, headed by Prof.
William Ernest Hocking.
two, from those who are. not interested in
Publishers: Harper and Brothers, New York and
the old country at all, and therefore are not
London.
true to themselves when they say "we are
A MORE debatable book on a more controverproud of our race," or else from those who
sial subject could hardly be thought of than this
are so little concerned with anything serious one we have picked up for this week's review. But
in life, anything educational, that one would it is timely; and for those who would understand
imagine them to be exclusive readers of a the underlying causes and motives behind the agicertain type of tabloid newspapers, in other tation against Christian missionaries in many parts
of Asia and Africa it is indispensable. Particularly
words "low-brows." Their standard for a
inow missionary patrons and supporters in this
"high-brow" is so diminutive, that we are country, and readers of the SYRIAN WORLD who
not tempted from their criticism to puff up are interested in the Near East are doubtless at
in pride and take seriously their charge that some loss to interpret and appraise fairly and without bias the reports of uprisings against Christian
we are "high-brow."
missions in Egypt. In today's issue a leading Egyptian Moslem gives what may be called a sidelight
on the Moslem side of the controversy.
"Rethinking Missions" had its inception in 1930,
A BEAU GESTE
when a group of earnest Christian laymen came
OR; A FUTILE GESTURE?
together to discuss the advisability of making a
fresh
and impartial appraisal of the work of ChrisTHE DEATH within a short time of two
tian missions in Asia. It was about the time when
Syrian fliers gives the Syrians in this country
a large section of the Chinese Baptist Church in
a higher quota of fatalities in aviaton than southern China declared its independence of the
their number would merit.
foreign missionary board governing it, insisting that
unless they take such a step their national loyalty to
, Those who hasten to condemn the rash- their motherland will be seriously doubted by their
Christian missionaries
ness and recklessness that results in such re- non-Christian brethren.
throughout China were being persecuted, and Chigretable deaths, may deprecate those gallant
nese Christians were being dubbed by Chinese
youths who seemed to have sacrificed them- Confucians and Buddhists as '£he dogs of the
selves so unnecessarilly, so futilely. But there foreigners."
Thirty-five laymen, representing seven Protestant
is another angle from which that same sacrichurches in America finally constituted what was
fice would appear magnificent and noble in- called '"Directors of the Laymen's Foreign Missions
deed, and those who apparently flipped their Inquiry." These in turn selected a commission of
fifteen, chosen for their scholarship, impartiality and
lives away true heroes.
representative character, who were impowered to
undertake the actual investigation. The CommisThe spirit of adventure which we now
sion included college professors, religious leaders,
identify with such intrepid races as the Anglo- prominent laymen and specialists in the fields of
Saxons and Europeans in general, the spirit education, medicine and agriculture, as well as a
which forges ahead into mysterious, unknown specialist in work for women. The chairman of
places, that sails the uncharted seas, belongs the Commission was Prof. William Ernest Hocking,
Alford Professor of Philosophy at Harvard Univerto no race in particular. At one time it was
sity.
a peculiar quality of our own race, the PhoeA FactrFinding Committee was further chosen;
nicians.
But long centuries of oppression, by the Commission, and a whole year of actual
of foreign domination and crushing disasters, observation, investigation and statistic taking, by
threatened to crush that indomitable spirit competent investigators, preceded the work of the
Commission, based greatly on the results of the
in our forefathers. It made them often timid,
Fact-Finding
Committee, but freshly appraised on
cringing and submissive.
Their lives were1 the spot.
hemmed in from outside and inside with
That is how the book "Rethinking Missions," the
true and serious dangers that they often were Commission's report, came to existence, thanks to the
afraid of the shadow of danger. This, we say generous and unlimited financial support given by
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unequivocably, was only a transient and con- John D. Rockefeller Jr., himself a heavy contributor
to the missionary coffers.
tingent development in our racial and nationThe book is, therefore, a quintessence of laborial evolution. Once the outward conditions ous and faithful investigatino, reflection and studied
that seemed to make sycophant cowards of so judgements. It is decidedly sympathetic to the
many of us were removed, we have not hesi- missionaries and their work, as it is decidedly liberal
tated to show our true color and of what stuff in its point of view and conclusions.
The positive spirit of construction and reform
we are truly made.
The records of our
which runs throughout the book could be no better
achievements in this country, in the republics illustrated than in one of its own conclusions:
of South America, in Australia, in Transvaal,
"It is clearly not the duty of the Christian mison the Golden Coast of western Africa, in sionary to attack the non-Christian systems of rethe Malayian Archipelago, in almost every ligion—it is his primary duty to present in positive
form his conception of the way of life and let it
inhabitable patch of this terrestrial globe, is
speak for itself. The road is long, and a new
a living proof that our inborn spirit of adven- patience is needed; but we can desire no variety of.
ture has by no means died.
religious experience to perish until it has yielded up
to the rest of its own ingredient of truth.
The
In this light the spectecular manner in Christian will therefore regard himself as a cowhich a Joseph Adrey or a George Dinn worker with the forces within each such religious
passed away compells those of us who prefer system which are making for righteousness."
And it is greatly because missionaries in the past
to live in the security of a protected life, bow
our heads in tribute and admiration. They have disregarded this valuable counsel; because they
engaged too much in polemic controversy, in miliventured, they dared, they paid the supreme
tant tactics; because they took too little time to unprice, that it may not be said of us as a derstand the people they lived among, too little effort
people that there is any field of endeavour or to enter into the spirit of the people they were sent
experiment which is closed against us because to serve and to save, that they are now reaping the
we are afraid to tackle it. Yes, their death whirlwind of their folly, that so much hatred and
rancour has been aroused against them in so many
Was not a futile gesture, it was a beau geste,
different countries of the reawakened East.
noble and magnificent;
KLK.
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FROM EAST AND WEST
AT RANDOM
OUR NEW YORKERS
By H. I. Katibah
By Alice Mokarzel
By Ana Bshoof
All MAKES me laugh. He says it is a good
thing Balbo isn't a Syrian. The inevitable '"Why?"
Because the Syrians will claim the very territory he
treads on as theirs. If he is in New York they
will all flock to New York, bearing all the accessories that mean a Syrian celebration—predominantly noise, confusion, food everywhere, and riotous singing and debkying.
When he rides down Broadway, instead of ticker-tape there will be pistachio-nut shells and probably araq bottles thrown all over the place. Punctuating the parade there will be women who have
"generously" volunteered to parade alongside the
victorious men, waving handkerchiefs and "yelling
their heads off, like a Syrian funeral."
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When they give him dinners, they will keep him
in the reception room for a couple of hours, so that
this friend of that friend's friend can shake his hand
and say "Oh, yes, I know Balbo. I met him at a
dinner party." No one will think of bandaging
Balbo's sore hand and he will be led into the banquet room where everywhere one will start the
works by singing. Then someone will tell him the
song is over and he will sit down with one ear
deafened by a young hopeful of community fame.
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Waiters will come and go, spraying whiffs of
savory dishes under the honored guest's nose. He
will pick up his- fork to tackle his chicken a la
king. But no. Not yet. The first speaker is announced, "our eminent countryman, etc., etc.,"
ten minutes, twenty minutes, ancestors, countrymen, forefathers
" My God! Is he through? Yes,
they are applauding and the elusive fork is again
taken in hand. But no, oh silver-bedecked something-or-other, thy time is not ripe. In short, the
dinner will be like all the rest—just a hopeless
round of golf, with eighteen speakers in so many
holes.
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THE GROUP of medicos, attorneys, real estate
men and pharmacists and their wives and friends
who met last Monday night in the Nile restaurant
as the guests of Dr. R. T. Deen did not go there
to discuss the cost of medical care nor the status
of real estate or what NIRA is doing about it but to
prove to alien stomachs, as Dr. Deen puts it, that
the Syrian dishes are after all just as good in summer as in winter. Among them were: Bornstein,
Lieberminson, Dr. Leo Antine, Joseph Rabinowitz,
Counsellor Richard Bieber and others with equally
as good Irish names!
THE GOSPEL OF RELAXATION
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ABOUT a quarter of a century ago, the great
American psychologist William James spoke before a group of American women teachers gathered
in Cambridge, Mass., on a subject which had been
until then rather a virginal one. He spoke with the
perception of a prophet and the clarity and earnestness of 3 watchman warning his people of an approaching disaster. Like many prophets before him,
like many watchmen who preceded him, the words of,
William James fell on deaf ears; his still, small
voice was lost in the babel of confusion and the
poise of blatant demagogy.
William James, the philosopher and theorist,
uttered what he perceived to be a timely and
urgent message, and what a generation of "practical", level-headed politicians and money changers
after him learned to their rue and ruination to be
what he called it—a gospel.
In the midst of a period of unrivalled American
prosperity and expansion, when another Roosevelt
was going up and down the states preaching his
gospel of the "strenuous life," William James had
the coolness, the clairvoyance and -depth of vision
to talk in a totally different vein, to preach what
he called a "gospel of relaxation." He warned of
the evil consequences of the strained life, the round
of ceaseless activities, to which the Americans of
his day, and more so in our days, were given. He
urged the custodians of American youth who were
then listening to him to instill in the tender minds
of their charges the benefits of calmness, the artifices
of poise, to look to the Orient for inspiration and
emulation of that gift of serenity and relaxation in
times of stress that brings with it abundant spiritual
rewaros.
What a quarter of a century ago was considered
visionary idealism, has become in our day and generation the only exit from a helpless impasse, the
only avenue of relief from a disaster which threatens to engulf us with distress and sweeping disaster.
For if you reflect well on our economic debacle
which has made a large portion cf our able-bodied
men and women an idle and inert burden on the
(rest, that has thrown our social machinery completely out of gear, you will have to admit that,
at bottom, the cause has been too much activity,
too rapid and intense a progress, an expenditure of
physical, moral and spiritual energy that was bound
to exhaust us and bring us to a sudden stop. And
now that we have stopped and have leisure enough to
think and reflect, we have come back to the ancient wisdom expressed in William James' message,
to an elixir for our social ills that was all the time
within easy reach of us, but which, in our mad,
race for wealth and power, we had always ignored.
Another Roosevelt now, finds that not the
"strenuous life," but the ordered, measured pace of
cautious progress is the only salvation from a depression which has left us exhausted, downcast and;
thoroughly chastened. The codes which the different basic economic organizations in this country
have entered into or announced their willingness to
do so, at the request of the administration imply all
shorter hours of labour and minimum wages—a sort
of enforced and imposed relaxation.
It is still far from the spiritual relaxation and,
repose that William James wished to see among his
restive and too-active fellow citizens, but, we may
at least hope, it points the way thither, and gives
those temporal conditions of a spiritual state very
much desired, very much needed.
Like many spiritual truths, it is not easy either
to define relaxation or to defend it. It is one of
those things that we have to perceive with the eye
of the spirit, that are presented at once to the inner perception, that are grasped by intuition, not by
reasoning logic. But there are certain considerations
which make its compelling dialectics easy to comprehend. One of these is that nothing really worthwhile has ever been achieved by a "tour de force"
of sheer energy. You may challenge the elements,
and conquer the vast expanses of space by the
sheer assertion of the indomitable will, but the
things, yes the material things, with which this has
been made possible were dreamed of and labouriously
produced through the quiet of a scientific laboratory,
with infinite patience, infinite reflection and no little
relaxation, both physical and spiritual. There is a
mysterious kinship between chemists and anchorites,
between the true scientist and the true saint, and
both have learned the art and utilities of relaxation
And if that is true of purely worldly and physical
MHH9HHB8e
Fish Story in Reverse
When George Saliba and Dick Zrike went fishing last Sunday in Congers Lake, George caught the
prize catch of the day, a four pound nine ounce
Oswega bass, twenty-one inches long. What a beauty it was! Do you think Qeorge wasn't excited.
Please take another guess. He was speechless and
his knees were shaking so that he had to sit down,
you can see that he is a died-in-the-wool fisherman.
The unusual side of this particular fish story
is that when I heard someone relate it again three
days later, the fish had shrunk instead of increasing. It was by then three pounds and eleven inches
long. I can't understand it, especially as there
can be no doubt as to the authenticity of the
weight and measurements. George wanted to rush
home to show it to his admiring wife but Dick persuaded him that the right thing to b!o in order to
avoid all future arguments wculd be to show it to
the boys first, which he did and "flopped" the fish
down on the table, to use his own word which is
pretty good. It's still their main topic of conversation, even though they have other good stories to
relate. No doubt when Al Zrike and Otto Ehle
and another friend come back from their two
weeks fishing trip in Indian Lake they'll have more
Oh Ali raved on and on, but I won't quote him than one story to keep us spell-bound.
entirely. I think he had just returned from a trip
and was fed up on Syrian dinners, speakers, etc.,
E. J. (Fidak) Audi comments on his opinion of
etc. In fact, I think he had a little too much, be- the World's Fair with the remark, '"If I lived in
cause he was delirious when we applied the chloro- Grand Rapids I might visit it but I wouldn't go
form. Anyway, I am witholding his address so that from New York."
I may spare you the trouble of omitting "caution"
on the gifts that you may want to send to him.
Business is not all it should be in Hyamis, Mass.,
we gather.- Henry Awad went Up there with intenI have found a way of detecting Americans in a tions of returning in September but we find him
Syrian restaurant. When anyone of dubious na- down again enjoying the heat that is exclusive to
tionality enters, I look towards the other end where New York.
the waiter will emerge. If he dashes in with a
plate of butter, then I am sure the party is AmeWhen you ask Richard Macsoud who won the
rican.
tournament a week ago last Thursday at the Braidburn Country Club and receive a gruff reply, don't
take it personally. It's just his modesty that asks
you to refer to someone else.
RESURRECTION
As he is the president, he donated the four
The remnant of a day long past
prizes for the president's tournament and,—won
Has come again
two of them himself. Naturally he refused to acAnd I must watch it as of yore,
cept them and they were toted home by two others.
Unknowing and helpless;
I have begged for release of my soul
You don't know what a pleasure it was to hear
From this power
someone say the other day that the young men enThat knows no breath nor respite
joy the company of Isabelle Saidey and Lilly SayBut it will be so.
dah very much because they are good-looking,
charming, and above all intelligent. What a relief
that offered me. I am so glad to think that it isn't
necessary to be a moron to get along with the men,
and that I don't have to substitute for a fairly good
word one that has only three letters, when I'm
speaking to them. The reason for this outburst is
the old tradition that a girl, in order to "make a
hit with a man" could only nod her head and agree
with him in whatever he said, and never let him
even suspect that she had brains. It was the greatthings, much more is it true of things of the spirit. est crime a girl could commit. Many a young lady,
A musical inspiration may take possession of the in the effort to hide this great drawback, actually
soul of a composer like a whirlwind, may drive him became dumb and eventually herself believed she
to a fury of activity, it may flash upon his soul was half-witted. But now I breathe freely once
like a lightning bolt released by Apollo, but for it to more and speak and act according to my years and
gain such possession, for it to surge to such heights not like the soft-brained pussy we have at home.
of genius, it has to find the receptive soul attuned
to the whisperings of the spirit, nurtured in the
bosom of relaxation That is why, with all the ditation give us for the asking. Somebody, I think
facilities of composition, with all the mechanical Theodore Roosevelt himself, said that success is
devices at our command, with the book of inspiration one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent
flung open before our eyes, we see such tawdry and perspiration. But when we look at the results ofj
stunted results from our busy tin-pan alley artists. such success we still see the marks of ninety-nine
No amount of "diligence" can supply the reserve per cent perspiration, and only one per cent insources of spiritual energy which reflection and me- spiration.
The fettered ghost of expression
Has broken forth
And all that was builded
In patience and repression
Must be crumbled again,
That the gods of love may live.
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MINIATURES
Hammurabi
(The Lawgiver)
THE FIRST KING IN HISTORY TO LEGISLATE MINIMUM WAGES AND FIXED
RATES. 4000 YEARS AGO; THE
FIRST FEMINIST AND FIRST
PROTECTOR OF MINORITY
RIGHTS
HAMMURABI— The first great lawgiver in history, .the unifier of Babylon, .a
great soldier, but a greater humanitarian, .an
organizer ajid empire-builder. .God-fearing,
stern, benevolent,.... protector of the feeble,
"shining like the Sun-god upon the blackheaded men." . .a great exponent and exemplar of the Semitic spirit, .a towering giant in
the dawn of a great history.
In 1901 diggers in Susa under the expedition of the French Ministry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts, hit upon a fragment
of a black diorite stone. Other fragments
were found, and they proved to belong to
one monument, sugar-loafed in shape, 7ft.
4 in. high, and 2 ft. in diameter. This monument, now resting in the Louvre Museum
in Paris, turned out to be one of the greatest finds in the history of excavations, one
of the most significant human documents for
the understanding of ancient history. To a
French assyriologist of note, Prof. V. Scheil,
fell the credit and honor of first deciphering
this great document. And that is how the
great Code -of Hammurabi became accessible
~fo "millions of general readers and students
of history.
Hammurabi was famous for many things,
as a conqueror, organizer and wise ruler, but
his name has become almost synonymous
with his code, which, many biblical scholars
claim was a source of the more famous Mosaic Laws. There is a passage in .the 14th
chapter of Genesis in which a King Amrophel
comes to the help of Abraham in battle.
Some scholars believe that the name is a
Hebrew version of Hammurabi. We do not
know of a certainty when Abraham lived, but
the Babyonians kept a very accurate chronology of their dynasties, and we can determine more or less definitely when Hammurabi himself lived. He is described in the
Babylonian annals as the son of Sin-muballit, the fifth in the line of the Semitic dynasty
which had invaded Mesopotamia and gradually subjugated the non-Semitic population of
Summer and Akkad to their rule. Hammurabi may be considered the first to unify
the Semitic empire of Mesopotamia, which
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SUMMER DANCE
DAZZLING
By James Shelala
ARABESQUE
became known as Babylon, after the chief of
the independent city states then in existence
in the fertile valley between the "two rivers,"
as the Greek word Mesopotamia means.
Hammurabi reigned 43 years. The character
and sway of this great Babylonian king may
be'inferred from an inscription describing the
second year of his reign as "the year in
which Hammurabi established righteousness
in the midst of the land." The exact date in
which the famous code or this king was promulgated is a subject of debate, but it is
likely that its codification extended over a
long period of time, and perhaps completed
at the end of his reign, say between 2084
and 2081 B. C.
After a little pious preamble, in which
Babylonian gods are invoked, Hammurabi
says:
"Then Anu Bel (gods) delighted the
flesh of mankind by calling me, the renowned
prince, the God-fearing Hammurabi, to establish justice in the earth, to destroy the
base and the wicked, and to hold back the
strong from oppressing the feeble; to shine
like the Sun-god upon the black-headed men
(aborigines), and to illuminate the land/'
Any fair reader of the Code, keeping in
mind the state of world civilization at that
early date of history, cannot but assent that
Hammurabi was not vaunting empty words,
but giving us a true record of his noble impulses and heroic achievements.
The Code of Hammurabi is surprising in
its comprehensive legislation. It leaves little,
if any, of the social and legal usages then
current which it does not regulate.
It establishes a minimum wage for every class of
workers; it protects the rights of slaves, captives, children and women; it defines the
privileges of nobles, priests and soldiers; it
regulates commercial transactions, and personal status laws.
In short it covers the
whole gamut of social life then in existence.
And, realizing that this code is over 4000
years old it is surprising how modern and
equitable so many of its laws sound even
today.
Here are some instances taken at random
from his great body of jurisdiction:
"If a fire breaks out in a man's house, and
another man has gone to extinguish it, and
has lifted his eyes upon the goods of the
householder; that man shall be thrown into
the same fire."
"If a prefect or brigadier has, taken away
the property of a soldier, has injured a soldier, has given a soldier for hire, has abandoned the soldier to a superior in a law suit,
or taken away from the soldier a gift of the
king, that prefect or brigadier shall be slain."
Jess N. Saba, Cleveland attorney
and president of the Syrian American
Club "was (present with Miss Mae
Unis.
Dinner was served at one A.M.
and the dancing continued until four
to the music furnished by the Phi
Sigma Chi Orchestra.
Due to the absence of Miss Sophie Zlaket, president of the League,
Miss Ida Shalala was acting chairman, who before dinner welcomed
the guests and hoped that they would
be with them again the next year.
The committee in charge were
the Misses Adele Aftoora and Nora
Ganim.
(Special Correspondence)
CLEVELAND, O., July 22.— The
fourth anniM dinner dance sponsored
by the Syrian Junior League' of this
city was another successful affair held
bf the League.
The Grantwood County Club selected for the fourth affair in preference to the Ridgewood because of
the facilities was gaily bedecked and
completed a- final setting for the gay
and formal gowns of the girls.
Among out-of-town guests was
Professor Ernest Etoll of Oberlin
College, accompanied by his wife,
Attorney and Mrs. Peter B. Betras
and Fred Alexander, Detroit attorney have motored to Chicago to attend
accompanied by Miss Nadia Saba of the Century of Progress Exposition
Cleveland.
*for two weeks.
"If a man has leased an orchard to a
gardener to manage it, the gardener, as long
as he holds it, shall give two-thirds of the
produce to the lord of the orchard; onethird he shall keep himself."
"If a man has been taken captive and
there is no food in his house, and his wife
enters the house of another, then that woman
bears no blame."
"If a man's /wife, dwelling in a man's
house, has set her face to leave, has been
guilty of dissipation, has wasted her house,
and has neglected her husband, then she
shall be prosecuted. If the husband says,
'She is divorced,',he shall let her go her way;
he shall give her nothing for divorce.
If
her husband says, 'She is not divorced,' he
may espouse another woman, and that woman (original wife) shall remain a slave in
the house of her husband."
"If a wife is seized by sickness and the
man desires to marry another, his first wife
remains in the house and is supported as long
as she lives."
There are numerous laws for the regulation of trades and professions, protecting
both the tradesmen and professionals, and
the men they deal with. Interest on money
loaned is recognized and justly determined.
The wages are fixed not in terms of money,
but in terms of what money may buy of
wheat or corn, thus protecting the wageearners against the depreciation of currency.
We were rather surprised and disappointed in the appraisal and appreciation, or
lather lack of them, in some of the standard
histories dealing with Hammurabi and his
Code. H. G. Wells, in his famous "Outlines
of History," has very little to say of Hammurabi, except to use his name for historic
references. And the author of the chapter
dealing with Babylon in the days of Hammurabi in the famous Cambridge series of Ancient History, R. Campbell Thompson displays lack of insight and undue levity and
facetiousness when he says Hammurabi
"would have made an admirable governorgeneral of modern Iraq." It is certainly flattering to some Britishers to think their governor-generals could be as great as Hammurabi. With more justice we could say that
Hammurabi would have made a great modern sovereign, were he living today, combining the astuteness of a Mussolini and the
wisdom of a Franklin Delano Roosevelt. At
any rate, L. W. King, in his "History of Babylon", is indisputably right when he writes
that Hammurabi "is the real founder of Babylon's greatness," and that his fame "will
always rest on his achievements as a lawgiver."
NASSAR-DAVID
ENGAGEMENT
By Cecilia Yazbek
(Special Correspondence)
YOUNGSTGWN, O.— Mr. and
Mrs. Aziz Nassar, S. Forest Ave., announced the engagement of their
daughter, Susanne, to Joseph David,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Sol David of Jefferson, on Sunday, July 23. The
news was revealed at a party held
in Nassar's Hall at 1043 Wilson Ave.,
toa bout 200 relatives and friends.
Appointments and favors were carried
out in^pink and white, with a luncheon served at midnight Out-oftown guests included Mrs. Abdo, Mr.
and Mrs. Tommy Abdo, Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Kalil, Helen Anthony and son,
Leo, Miss Marie Anthony, of Detroit, Mich; Haikel Fadel and son,
George, and Albert Joseph of Niagara
Falls, N. Y.; John Coury of Cincinnati, O.; Tom Shaiyya and Tom
David of Ashtabula, O. Mr. and Mrs.
David honored their son's fiancee with
a party, Tuesday, July 25, in Jefferson, Ohio.
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The Misses Lydia and Agnes
Khoury, and Mary and Julia Betras
are planning to motor to Pittsburgh
next Sunday to spend a week.
CONCLAVE OF MARONITE
BISHOPS
BEIRTJT.— Secrecy surrounds the
conclave of Maronite bishops at Bkirki, headed by Patriarch Antoun Arida,
to discuss the new Papal canons concerning the status of the Eastern
Catholic Churches and the elections
of future bishops.
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THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, JULY 28, 1933,
The GARDENS of OMAR
By HENRI BORDEAUX
From E. P. DUTTON and Co.
The American Publishers
Exclusive Serial Rights Secured by
THE SYRIAN WORLD
Member of the French Academy
THE BOY'S EYES ARE OPENED
TO HIS LOVE FOR YAMILE
day was coming that would show how far he could
press his authority.
Boutros, his elder son, was my own age, but far
beyond me in height and in strength. He was both,
hardier and craftier than myself. In my studies, it
is true, I was far ahead of him, but book learning
was thought little of at that far day. All that it
has done for me is to addle my brains. Boutros
protected me, just as he protected his two sisters,
Yamile and Mountaha, and his little brother Michael.
We were brothers and comrades in arms, in hunting,
iri riding, but he loved to protect just ai he loved
to command. He was already showing signs of that
spirit of initiative and enterprise which is the mark
of the born leader of men.
tians of the East, and holding the sword of vengeance
in her hand.
Among us, young girls usually marry between
the ages of fourteen and fifteen and young men,
(Synopsis: Henri Bordeaux, inh is travels in
when they have reached their twentieth year. I was
Lebanon, comes across a tragic and beautiful love
nearly twenty when Yamile was fifteen. We untale that happened some years ago. In his journey
derstood each other, but were in no hurry. Even,
through the Cedars and Bcharrc, his guide, Khalil
our families were so little doubtful of the future
Khoury, seems to be* the only one, mysteriously,
that they did not press us. Why did this calm,confident
who can tell the complete story. And now with
love change suddenly? How was it that my affecthis installment Khalil begins the story with the
tion for this little sister became in a moment, a love
realization of his love for Yamile.)
that most men, luckily for themselves, have never
known? I ask myself this question, but never find
an answer. I know it happened so. But why that
PART TWO
day, and not the day before or the day after—this
I cannot tell.
CHAPTER ONE
"Yamile will be your wife," he declared one
One day Boutros had taken us both with him
day, when I was fifteen and she but ten.
THE BETROTHAL
to Hasroun, a village near by, famous for its prunes
And so, it was settled generally that < Yamile .and dried apricots. It was a late afternoon in early
I WAS the betrothed of Yamile. For years our
should be my bride when the time came. Was she spring. Snow still covered all the roads. On our
marriage had been considered a settled affair benot already my little sister? The rest would be a •return Boutros left us two alone, while he inspected
tween the two families. Her mother and mine were
natural development. Or so it was thought. Per- his jackal traps. There was always some hunting
the closest of friends, who spent long hours together,
haps it is not well for those who are to marry project or other in his head. We waited a long time,
gossiping, sipping syrups, and nibbling sweetmeats.
one day to be too intimate in childhood. Love de- and by pure accident it happened that I touched
I had lost my own father when I was eight years
mands as -its due something of the unknown—the Yamile's hand. It was cold as stone. I took both
old, in the massacre of Deir-el-Kamar. He * had
mysterious. It is true, we covet the past of the loved her hands in mine, as though I wanted to bring them
gone to the fatal scene, I learned long afterwards,
one as though it were time stolen from us. But back to life. Little by little they grew warm. But
because Joseph Karam, of Ehden, the commander
when that past has been shared in common from I did not let them "go.
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of the Maronites. and more a monk than a soldier,
earliest childhood, does it not, in losing the attrac"Let
me
have
back
my
hands,"
said Yamile,
chose to rest at Kesrouan rather than to go to the
tion of the unknown, also lose something of its laughing.
help of our menaced town. He never returned.
savor? Do not be surprised at these reflections. Often
The fields belonging to both our families lay side
"Not yet," I answered in a husky voice.
and often, during long journeys in Rhodesia, while
by side on the upland slopes. It often happened
I pressed them tighter. I carried them to 'my
conning over the sad memories of my youth as
that sheep and goats did not distinguish one propthough to extract the last drop of bitterness from lips. She seemed a little surprised, but looked at
erty from the other, but, when the herdsmen comthem, I have dreamed of that which might have been me frankly. The strange trouble that I felt had
plained, they were only laughed at for their pains.
not touched her. We were alone on the road that
but never was.
Near neighbors are not often such good friends.
stretched before and behind us, white in the gatherPerhaps, because I had no father of my own,
It is true we were separated during our school ing gloom.
Rachid-el-Hame, Yamile's father, considered mei years. But these are not the years when the heart
"Let us go in," she said quietly.
as his own son. He was a powerful and respected and senses are awakening. She was in her convent
"Let us,'r I echoed.
sheik, whose authority was seldom questioned at at Tripoli and I in the Lazarist school at Antoura
Indeed I could have borne no more- just then.
Beharre and who governed his household and his near Beirut. We both learned quickly, and loved
tenants with justice, but with a certain ostentation. to speak French together during the holidays. With That simple touch seemed to have burnt me. They
Even his patience over the damage done by my our people, to speak French well is always a mark had mulled wine ready for us in the house. But
mother's flocks must be laid to his designs upon of distinction. It has always been France that has I was drunk already.
myself, for he was a man, as a rule, not slow in saved us from massacre and destruction. We liked
exercising the strict letter of the law. A terrible to imagine her, across the sea, smiling on the Chris(To be continued' in next issue)
PROFILES
CHEMIST
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chemist, manufacturer
was bom in
Rushein, Lebanon on May 24, 1903
His mother came from an old family
named Abaad and his father, Joseph,
was the best known merchant in
North Lebanon and northwestern
Syria.....He married twice and was
blessed with thirteen children
Jamile was the youngest of the six
children of the second marriage.
At the age of. five Jamile was
sent to the parish school in Rushein
and attracted the priests' attention because of his zeal
He mastered in
cne year the work that generally
required three years
The following year he was sent with his sisters
and brothers to their mother in America after their father's death.
They settled in Lawrence, Mass.,
where Jamile attended the public
schools
Six years later the family
moved to Syracuse, N. Y., where
he attended the Christian Brothers
Academy and was graduated with
high honors
The following year
he matriculated at Syracuse University in the College of Liberal
Arts in the department of chemistry.
After completing his necessary
scientific education, he engaged in
research and succeeded in precipitating the deadly cyanic acid from its
salts
He made use of this preparation several years ago when he
was called upon by the village of
Whitesborough, N. Y., to free it
from the ravages of roaches after
the authorities had tried all means
to stop them
The undertaking
proved a complete success...At about
that time, Mr. Kanfoush prepared
several non-poisonous insecticides for
home use that are today used by
many counties and municipalities with
success
When the city of Utica
was afflicted with the cricket epidemic in 1931, Mr. Kanfoush was
called upon to destroy the insects
after thirteen other chemists from all
sections of the United States had
failed in their efforts to check them.
The other experiments which he
has developed in connection with his
insecticide work include; an external relief that gives instant results,
that is said to be more lasting than
anything manufactured for rheumatic
relief
also a dandruff remover
based on sulpher and paraffine oils,
dissolved in water without the aid
of alcohol
At the present time he
is developing an insecticide based
on the precipitated cyanic acid for
the Japanese and Mexican beetles.
As soon as time permits, Mr.
Kanfoush fwill resume jhis research
to do away with the carbon deposition in the gas engine.
Mr. Kanfoush is fond of sports,
baseball, swimming and the like
His hobbies are philosophy, geology,
mathematics and history
and
his greatest ambition is to be able to
do what others can't do.
SYRIAN AMERICAN
CLUB OF LAWRENCE
WJLL HOLD CARNIVAL
IN A BEAUTIFUL little park ten
.iriles distant from Lawrence, Mass.,
the Syrian American ,Club of; Lawrence will hold a carnival on Sunday,
July 30. The committee inc harge
is striving to make the affair a success.
Among those already engaged for
the entertainment at the carnival is
the well-known singer, Joseph Silwart
and his orchestra. The park where
the carnival will take place is located
between Manchester, N. H. and Lawrence. Two years ago Tom Malouf,
an oud player by avocation, bought
this ground and christened it "Mecca," spending a great deal of money
on its improvement and enhancement. The club itself has a beautiful
building to its name which cost.
$40,000. Aziz Ganem is president.
{Catherine Saleeba Wins
Praise as Singer
HONORED AT DINNER
Mr. Lester N. Haddad of Toledo,
Ohio, who is up for councilman of
the second ward was honored by the
Young Syrian Democratic Club at a
dinner July 22 at the club cafe. Jospeh
Shimmaly was general chairman,
James Shimmaly was chairman of
the bill of fare, and Kay Yard was
chairman of arrangements. Speeches
were given by Louis Darah, Albert
Jsmra, Peter Long, Charles Hider,
Joseph Shimmaly, Claud Jefferies,
and • also Dr. Hartung, candidate for
mayor.
Charles Hider was toastmaster.. Over thirty couples were
present.
(Special Correspondence)
PHILADELPHIA.— Miss Katherine Saleeba, soloist of the St. Nicholas Church in this city, has won
many admirers for her singing in Arabic, Latin and English.
Miss Saleeba recently returned
from Danbury, Conn., where she was
' guest soloist at a Novena in honor of
St. Anthony at St. Anthony's Church.
Msgr. Louis Zouain, pastor of St.
Anthony's Church, accompanied Miss
Saleeba's selections which were rendered in Arabic.
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VOL. VH, NO. 13.
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WINS TWO OF
OWN PRIZES
Richard Macksoud Wins Two
Oat of Four Prizes He Donates
But Yields Them to
Next Winners
AT THE President's Tournament
held by the Syramar Golf Club at
the Braidburn Country Club in
Madison, N. J., a week ago last Thursday, Richard Macksoud, president,
who donated the attractive prizes,
won two out of the four, the second
and third but yielded them in favor
of the two men who followed him,
George Mabarak and Dick Malhame.
The first prize was won by
George Abouarab whose low gross
score was 88. Fred Faris won the
fourth prize.
This tournament was the second
of one-day tournaments that were
held this summer. The first was
held by the Board of Governors and
the club is contemplating a third
to be given by the officers, Richard
Macksoud, Ferris Saydah, vice-president, George Mabarak, treasurer, and
Edward J. Leon, secretary.
The championship tournament
will be held the second week-end in
September at Wolfhollow Country
Club in Delaware Water Gap, Pa.
The Wolfhollow Club is owned partly by Syrians, two of whom, Paul
Traljulsi arid Eugene Trabulsi, own
more than half of the stock. Paul
Trabulsi, of Brooklyn, who has a
summer home at the Gap, is managing the club together with his son,
Kalil.
3000 FEASTERS
IN BROCKTON
CARNIVAL
THE INSTITUTION of the "Mahrajan" is taking well with the Syrian
communities in this country. The
lust of those carnivals of which an account was received by this paper
came to a successful conclusion in
Brockton, where it was held on Sunday July 16.
Over 3000 feasters, we were informed, were present at this public
festival and community reunion,
mostly from the New England states.
Representing the Lebanon League of
Progress, the originator of the "MahTafin" idea, was Shaykh Naoum Hatem, President of the League.
The usual attractions and amusements were given in the Brockton
affair—debke, folk songs, oriental
music on the oud and flute, and
comedy skits, contributed" by voluntary talent
Many of the feasters came in
groups; representing different societies and organizations.
Among
these was the St. Vincent de Paul
Society of that state. It made its
entrance to the merriment, as in the
community festivals of the old country.
Preceding the Rhode Island
pilgrims was an oriental band ofl
several pieces—drums, tambourine,
flutes-and violin, accompanying Arabic
singing by young men and women.
At the entrance an aged man, Joseph
Tarinous Stephen, chanced to be
standing. Moved by this Sight which
brought to him memories of his
youthful days in Lebanon, he danced
before the feasters as David before <
Mrs. S. K. Adwan, president of
the Syrian Ladies' Educational Society in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is
spending a few days in New York.
She is touring several cities in the
United States, having first visited
the World's Fair in Chicago and
then Detroit to attend the Mahrajan.
She was accompanied by her niece,
Miss Emma Lee Massad of Norman,
Okla., and her two daughters, Jaynelle and Leatrice. They stayed with
Mr. and Mrs. Moussa Tabet of Brooklyn and will leave for Washington
where theyex pect to remain a week.
Miss Olga el-Khourie, the former champion typist of the world,
and her sister, Emily, have been
in New York having accompanied Mrs.
Adwan.
Miss Mary Haddad of Springfield, Mass., is visiting her cousin,
Miss Helen Rozek of this city for
two Weeks.
Mrs. Herbert Barto of New York
City is leaving tomorrow on a vacation in Hughesville, Pa., where her
husband preceded her to, the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Ashkar.
Miss Selma Bojalad, formerly of
the Cincinnati Opera Co. who has
been in New York for several weeks
is motoring up to Oxbridge, Conn,
with Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Magella of
Brooklyn where they will spend a
few days. Mrs. Magella expects to
remain for two weeks.
Mrs. George Farris, of Charleston, W. Va., is spending her vacation with her aunt and uncle, Mr.
and Mrs. Barber Farris of Toledo.
She motored back with them on
their return trip from the south.
Louis Wardiny of New York, the
(talented ;singer jwrho is touring the
country is now in Richmond, Va.
Starting his tour in California he
visited all the larger cities on his
way East and now is heading south.
Miss Mary Saad, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. B. J. Saad, and the Misses
Salha and Amelia Saad, daughters of
Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Saad, all of Brooklyn, left New York to spend their
vacation at West Sand Lake, N. Y.
Mrs. Lydia Tadross and Mr. and
Mrs. Salim Mallouk of Brooklyn are
spending a few days in Asbury Park,
N. J.
The Young Syrian American Club
of Youngstown, Ohio, held a supper
at Idora Pavilion last Thursday, July
20, for the members and their friends.
Word has just been received from
Beirut by Dr. R. T. Deen of New York
City that his niece, Miss May Takydeen'was engaged about three weeks
ago to Dr. Ibrahim Alamaddin who
is a member of the staff of the
government hospital in Amman,
Transjordania.
Mrs. Joseph Kallil of Cleveland,
Ohio, who visited her mother in,
Washington, D. C, and also friends
in New York and Trenton, N. J., has
returned to Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ballora of
New York City left last Saturday on a
two weeks motor trip to Chicago and
cities in the west.
The Roosevelt Syrian Club of
Toledo held a luncheon meeting at
the Club Cafe Tuesday July 25. Albert Jamra was chairman for the
evening.
B. H. Hamadi and Victor Hamadi
converters of silk and cotton goods
opened a new place last Monday in
174 Madison Avenue, New York City,
the Hamadi Textile Co.
Aziz Zoghby, his mother, Mrs.
Najeebee Zoghby, his sister-in-law,
Mrs. Joseph Zoghhy and her daughter,
Rose, all of Middletown, N. Y., attended the wedding of Tobia N. Tobia, in New York.
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Mrs. Marcella Thomas of Brooklyn and her daughter, Adele, returned Sunday from Rochester where
they spent two weeks with relatives.
Also on a visit to New York,
Assad Aboud Forzly of Scranton,
Pa., is the guest of A. Lahoud of
Brooklyn.
Mrs. Faris David of Toledo is
visiting relatives in Grand Rapids
for a few days.
Mr. George Magella of Brooklyn
is spending this week in Vermont,
expecting to return Sunday.
the Ark. It was a touching sight
which put enthusiasm in the hearts
of young and old alike, and almost
brought tears to the eyes of many
eld timers.
REV. PETER Giha of Aleppo,
Syria, arrived recently in New York
for a visit to his relatives in this
country and is staying with his
brother, Abdallah Giha of Brooklyn.
Rev. Giha is a graduate of St. Anne's
Seminary in Jerusalem.
OPEN NEW STORE
Madhat Sarbaji of Boston, operatic singer, regaled large groups with
his singing. Others who sang were
Miss Najdi Khoury, also of Boston,
Shaykh Abu Hamzah of fNew Bedford, Mass., Tewfik Shweiri, Alexander Shweiri and Tony Solomon.
In another circle young Syrian women displayed their skill in oriental
dancing. Sword players also were
well represented in John Shahin,
George T. Nadir, Joseph T. Nadir
and B. G. Tannous Assaf. A comical
skit was enacted by Peter Joseph
Kirdi, Michael Malouf and Joseph
Isaac.
The speakers at the carnival ineluifed Peter Assaf, President of the
Syrian American Club of Brockton,
Suleiman Bathani, lawyer of Boston,
Lewis George, President of the Syrian American Federation of Quincy,
Mass., Massoud Matta, representing
the Bsharri Benevolence Society of
Boston, Tony Khoury, secretary of
the Syrian American Club of Brockton
and others representing the local city
government and organizations.
A
wire was also received from S. A.
Mokarzei another from Gov. Ely and
other state officials who. expressed
their regrets that they were not able
to attend.
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Mr. and Mrs. K. Zrike of Brooklyn left yesterday morning for Haines
Falls, N. Y, where they have taken
a cottage. They were accompanied
by their grand-daughter, Miss Violet
Zrike, who will remain with them
for two weeks.
Mrs. Philip Zrike arrived last
Monday morning from Haiti with
her two children, Vivian and Philip,
Jr., at her home in Brooklyn.
Mrs. George McKaba of Brooklyn is staying with her mother, Mrs.
Ameen Samara, in Haines Falls where
she has taken a cottage for the
summer.
Miss Louise Jobe returned from
Chicago where she spent her two
weeks vacation.
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Mr. Fred Lutfy, son of Joseph J.
Lutfy of Hasbrouk Heights, N. J.,
returned last Saturday from China
where he spent four and a half years
oh business for his firm, Mabarak
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Mr. NajibCoury of Columbus,
OWbi is in New York,
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Mr. and Mrs. Shiner
Celebrate 50 Years
of Marriage
RICHARD Shiner of 254 Sixth
Avenue, Brooklyn, was one proud
man last Sunday, July 23. He invited
a group of intimate friends and relatives to celebrate with him the
golden wedding anniversary -of his*
father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Shiner of Wilkes Barre, Pa., who
were visiting with their son and
daughter-in-law, Adele, for a brief
vacation.
The elderly couple, 69 and 64
of age, were as merry as children, especially the husband who raised his
voice lustily in m'anna and 'ataba
fclk songs that used to be popular
long ago in Lebanon and must have
been sung to him at his wedding
fifty years ago.
The elder Shiners have 10 children,
all living* 35 grandchildren and 2
great-grsiidchildren. Altogether the
Shiners made 7 trips to their little
town in northern Lebanon, Hardin,
crossing the Atlantic 14 times. They
finally decided the old U. S. A. was
good enough for them, especially,
since the majority of their children
were born on, this side, and would
not think of living in Lebanon where
they know practically nobody.
Among those present were Father Mansur Stephen, Mrs. Salima Jabbour, mother-in-law of Richard,
Khalil Khoury, Jacob Raphael, editor
of Character Magazine, Faris AkeL
H. I. Katibah, Miss Jamilie Matouk,
iFred Jabbour, Mr. and, Mrs. Joseph
Saadi, A. Ghosn and others.
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<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
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<p><em>The Syrian World</em> was published between 1926 and 1932 as a journal. In 1932, the format was changed from an academic journal style to a newspaper style, which continued until the periodical's end in 1935. After the death of his brother Naoum, Salloum took over the publication of <em>Al-Hoda.</em></p>
<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
<p>All issues of <em>The Syrian World</em> are available, along with full indexes for the first four volumes. For volumes five and six, there are tables of contents at the start of the issues.</p>
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PARISH HONORS ZIONISTS SET FOOT
MSGR HAYEK
IN LEBANON
Banquet Held for Priest in
Honor of Twenty-Five
Years of Priesthood;
Mokarzel and Shawwa
Attend
THE LEBANESE of Youngstown, Ohio, honored Msgr. Elias
Hayek on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordination at a
banquet jfreld in the Hotel Ohio
ballroom. Rt. Rev. Bishop James
A McFadden headed the celefe#>n which began with a High
Mm$ at 10 o'clock, followed by
a banquet and a musical and
speaking program.
The toastmaster for the occasion)
was S. A. Mokarzel, editor and publisher of THE SYRIAN WORLD and
of al-Hoda.
Mr. Henry Fabert,
French Consul at Columbus, Ohio,
was honorary chairman. Notable
among the guests was Sami Shawwa,
who accompanied the mass with his
violin.
Received Baccalaureate at Nineteen
Msgr Hayek occupies a devoted
spot in the hearts of his parishioners
to whom he gave the greater part of
his life in teaching and preaching.
Upon receiving his baccalaureate
at the age of 19, he taught school at
the Patriarchal Seminary for four
years, and was then ordained to the
priesthood. After his ordination he
was called upon to occupy the chair
of Rhetoric and Logic at the famous
JLazrist College of Aintoora and simultaneously the position of Director
of Arabic studies in that college.
Under his tutorship, some of the most
prolific and brilliant Arabic authors
of today flourished, and they attribute their success to his profound
knowledge of Arabic.
Since coming to Youngstown,
about four and a half years ago, he
has made many improvements in,the
parish which is a tribute to his efforts and energy.
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Patriarch Sends Crucifix
with Blessings
No sooner had the parish learned
of Msgr. Hayek's silver jubilee than;
a committee was formed of the most
prominent Lebanese in the city and
vicinity.
The initial blessing for
this movement came in a special letter from His Beatitude, Patriarch
Anton Arida, who sent him a crucifix,
of fine ivory.
ARCHBISHOP BENJAMIN
ASSIGNED TO AMERICA
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ARCHBISHOP Benjamin Fedchenkov,
formerly of Oddesa, has been definitely assigned by the Patriarchal Greek
Orthodox Church of Russia as supreme head of the Russian Orthodox
Church in North America, in the
place of Archbishop Platon, deposed.
Message of this assignment and its
confirmation was received lately by
Archbishop Benjamin who had arrived recently in this country as
temporary exarch of the Russian
Church.
An interview with His
Grace Arcbhishop Benjamin appeared
in the SYRIAN WORLD for June 30.
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Offer $600,000 for Village on
Borders
ARAB EXPOSITION IN PALESTINE
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^^ OPPOSITION TO ZIONISM
HUNDREDS OF EXHIBITORS FROM SYRIA, LEBANON,
EGYPT AND IRAQ CONTRIBUTE TO SUCCESS
OF FIRST NATIONAL EXPOSITION
IN PALESTINE
(Special Correspondence)
BEIRUT— The suspicions and
fears of many Lebanese that Zionists
will capitalize the humanitarian sympathies of His Beatitude Patriarch;
Antoun Arida for the extension of
their colonizing penetration into Lebanon and Syria proper, have begun
to assume disquieting reality. Armed
with the vague assurance of His Beatitude, as formerly revealed in his
declarations of sympathies for the
persecuted Jews in Germany, Zionist
agents let no grass grow under their
feet.
Negotiations between Zionist
agents and some rich land owners
have been reported for the purchase
of fertile lands in Hazimiyyah, between Beirut and Shuweifat, as well
as in the Junieh district and in Beirut
itself. According to one source, which
seems to be well informed, the vanguard of Zionism are planning to buy
the extensive lands lying between)
Mar Elias Btinah and the White
Sands, in Beirut, for the ultimate
purpose of building up there another
Tel-Aviv, the famous Zionist town
near Jaffa. It is rumored that the
Zionists will stop at no expense to
secure these and other lands in Lebanon and Syria proper. For two
months, it is reported, Zionist agents
have been negotiating for the purchase of a village on the borders of
Palestine and Lebanon called al-Batibah, which is said to be of strategic
importance for the success of Zionist
colonization plans in Syria. A huge
sum, said to be aro\nd $600,000 was
offered by Zionists for this little town
on the sources of the Jordan River.
But, it is understood, the Mandatory
authorities finally refused sanction,
of the sale.
It seems that the Zionists are anxious to get a foothold in Lebanon or
Syria,
wherever
an
opportunity
beckons to them. One of their reported projects is the erection of a
large modern hotel in Damascus to
be called "the Promised Land Hotel",
which will cater to tourists, particularly Americans.
Already land
agents in Damascus are said to be
planning the purchase of real estate
properties in Southern Lebanon, Hauran and other sections with an object of reselling them to Zionist agents
at high profits.
3 BANKS FAR,
IN DAMASCUS
(Special Correspondence)
DAMASCUS.— Three banking institutions run by nationals have already declared their bankruptcy,
throwing Syria's capital into consternation. These banks, which for
years have been doing business without a hitch, are said to be Muraqqadah Bros., George Muraqqadah and
Sons, and Ernest Asfar, all of Damascus. A fourth bank is also said to
be on the verge of bankruptcy. Speculation in the world markets and the
fall of the American dollar are given
as principal causes of this financial
catastrophe.
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ZIONISTS AND BRITISH WERE NOT INVITED
(Special Correspondence)
JERUSALEM.— After a year of propaganda in the Arabic
speaking countries, extensive preparations and no little opposition
from Zionists and British sources, the project of an Arab exposition in Palestine was finally realized with unexpected success.
BISHOP MUBARAK THE
"GANDHI OF LEBANON"
THIS is what Msgr. Michael
Abraham said in an interview he
gave Aziz Arajj appearing in recent issue of al-Hoda.
Msgr. Abraham, who returned
recently from a trip abroad, said
that the people of Lebanon, especially the peasants, have flocked
around the militant bishop as they
have never flocked around anybody else. The manner in which
Bishop Ignatius Mubarak took up
the cause of the Lebanese taxpayers, demanding for them reduction of taxes and immediate
relief, gave him the tremendous
popularity
which
he
enjoys,
averred Msgr. Abraham.
15per cent dividend
to be paid
Depositors in Faour Bank Will
Receive That Amount After
August 10
ACCORDING to a notice published
in AL-HODA of August 1. by the
State Banking Department now in
charge of the Faour Bank in liquidation, a petition is now before the
Supreme Court of New York for final
consideration by the judge, and upon
its approval the banking department
will pay the dividend as early as
possible.
The application, dated July 28,
made by order of the court will be
heard at a Special Term of the Supreme Court in the County Court
House at 10 o'clock on August 10.
When it has been signed by the
judge, payment will be made to depositors and creditors whose claims
have been filed and accepted, and to
accepted accounts payable as appear
on the books of the bank, now with
the Superintendant of Banks of New
York.
EDITOR RETURNS TO
NEW YORK
S. A. Mokarzel, editor and publisher of THE SYRIAN WORLD and
AL-HODA, returned to New York last
Wednesday after a month's absence.
During his trip he spent the major
part of his time in Detroit, where he
formally opened the Mahrajan and
spoke there each day, attending dinners held in his honor. Mr. and Mrs.
M. Rashid were his companions on
the return trip as far as Chautauqua,
N. Y.
On the 7th of July the Arab Exposition was formally opened here in
the Awqaf (Religious Endowments)
building known, as "Palace Hotel,"
which was decked with the flags of
the Arab nations represented in the
exposition. A procession, led by Arab
boy scouts of Palestine and the band
of the Moslem Orphanage of Jerusalem, preceded the formal opening
at which were present representatives
from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Arabia
and .Iraq. The Zionist organization
in Palestine and the British Mandatory, who had shown their disapproval of the exposition idea from the
start, were conspicuous by their absence.
Isa Proudest Man
Perhaps the proudest man on the
opening day of the Arab Exposition
was Isa al-Isa, editor of Philistin,
Jaffa, the Exposition manager and
member of its executive council, who
gave the inaugural speech and welcomed the visitors, distinguished representatives and exhibitors.
For
the Arab Exposition was the original
idea of Mr. Isa, for which he lent
the influence of his paper and gave
much of his time, energy and resources.
The veteran Arab editor gave a
brief account of the project from the
time of its inception, enumerating
some of the obstacles which stood ia
the way of its realization. At first,
Mr. Isa declared in his opening speech,
the British High Commissioner, gave
every encouragement to the exposition, but owing to pressure of Zionist opposition who demanded that the
exposition be inclusive to all Palestine and that Jewish products be exhibited in it as well as national ones,
the British authorities of Palestine
refused cooperation except on the
basis of this principle. The exposition authorities rejected the demand
flatly, and decided to go ahead without governmental assistance.
Urge Boycott
Throughout his speech, Mr. Isa
urged all Arab nationals in Palestine
and neighboring countries to boycott
foreign products, particularly Zionist
ones.
The object of the Arab Exposition,
declared the speaker, was not merely
a material one, but a moral one
which would link the Arabic speaking countries and make them independent of foreigners.
Among others who spoke were
Musa
Kazim
Pasha
al-Huseini,
venerable president of the Arab National Committee and head of the
executive committee of the Arab Exposition, and Ya'qub Bey al-Ghu-
(Continued on page 3.)
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KA AND FRIENDS
BRINGS WITH HER FAMOUS REPLICA OF ORIGINAL BAALBEK TEMPLE MODELED BY HUSBAND, JEAN DEBS.
HOPES TO EXHIBIT IT TO AMERICANS
THIS FALL
MME. 1EAN DEBS arrived in Mew York from Beirut just a
week age on the S. S. Aquitania bringing with her the famous repHca oi me original Temple of Baalbek that was modeled by her husband, the well-known sculptor, who died two years ago while exhibiting the model in the Colonial Exposition in Paris, at 36 years
of age. The replica is modeled after the Temple when it was in
its glory, not as rt is now, in ruins.
Jean Debs is no doubt remem-.
bered by many in America, having
been here some ten years ago, and
particularly for jhis models of "starving Syria" during the World War,
which were photographed and circulated as post cards around the world
at the time.
The replica of the Temple of,
Baalbek is a beautiful work of art
sculptured in plaster and wood, about
20 feet long and 14 feet wide, and includes the temples of Venus, Jupiter,
Bacchus. The whole miniature piece
of architecture requires two weeks
for its installation.
Mrs. Debs
Uses effective lighting in setting off
the model to its best advantage.
Receive Praise
Wherever it has been shown,
whether in Paris, Beirut or Cairo, it
has elicited; the highest praise from,
expert architects, archeologists, and
dignitaries of state. Pages and pages
were written in the newspapers and
magazines of France, Syria, England)
and Egypt on the genius of die work,
giving large illustrations. In the little
"lifrrre d'Or" which was distributed
in the Colonial Exposition were
laudatory excerpts quoting Henri
Bordeaux, whose novel is now running in the SYRIAN WORLD, General
Gouraud, Comte de St Saud, La
Duchess d'Uzes, Edouard Eiffel, son of
the designer of the Eiffel Tower, M.
Rene Dussaud, Professor of l'Ecole
du Louvre and many others, all highly
praising the artistic replica by the late
Lebanese artist
Mme. Debs was Mabel Kabalan
when Jean Debs married her ten,
years ago while here in America.
She 4s the daughter of Mrs. Adla
Kabalan who is still living in Jersey City, N. J. It was she who en-
EGYPT'S GIFT
TO THE FAIR
By Michael E. Taweel
(Special Correspondent)
THE MOST outstanding feature on Northerly Island is the
temple of Philae.
Reproduced in fall its splendour, this ancient palace from
the Banks of the Nile is vividly
outshining, so far, any bmer exr
hibit in the entire Exposition.
Nicholas Khalil Bey, charge d'affairs from Egypt, formerly dedicated
this beautiful pavillion in the presence of Fair officials after which it
was thrown open to the public who
were eager to view and , delve into
the mystery of the land of Pharoahs.
What a contrast this temple of
the Nile presents amid modern surroundings. What if King Tut should
return to power, according to Egyptian Mythology, and find himself under strange skies,—alas, but the glory
that was Egypt is now preserved
materially in the musee d'Antiquite in Cairo.
Reminiscent of the days when
Romans, Greeks, Persians looked '.toward Egypt as a source of civilisation and culture, nothing has been
There isn't as much activity. Yet I
like my life there. But I am so glad
to be bade again to my old home
to see my family and friends."
Asked if she would like to five
again in America, Mme. Debs emphatically replied in the negative.
She loves Beirut and Syria and would
live in no other country. She doesn't
believe that Americans live, they justwork to exist, so it seems to her.
In Syria the people have plenty of
leisure to enjoy themselves. And me
climate of Syria is ideal, she stated
with a deprecating gesture signifying her discomfort at the heat in
New York. "Why even in Beirut
the heat isn't like this. This is terrible."
MME. JEAN DEBS
How the Baalbek Temple Looks as Conceived by Jean Debs
couraged her rising young sculptor
husband to carve the Temple of Baalbek and inspired him to go on with
the work that required two and a
half years of research, mainly from
German documents, and minute figuring and application. She is an attractive, charming young woman who
still speaks "American" but intersperses it with French words, so accustomed is she to speaking the
French language.
"I love America, particularly New
York," she replied to our query on
her opinions of America and Syria.
"It is so active and progressive. There
is progress everywhere. Something,
new to learn, to be done, or to see
every day here. Beirut is different.
spared to reproduce Philae Temple in>
all details. The palm trees flunking
the entrance, the facade supported by
four huge columns in blue, ornamented with hieroglyphics and the
statues of the once powerful kings
that guard the entrance.
As one enters, the eye is immediately attracted, to a large painting of King Fuad I hanging on a
wall directly facing the entrance and
above it is a six word inscription in
Arabic perpetuating life and Glory
to the present ruler of the modem
kingdom.
Sing Tut's Throne on View
The exhibit contains an actual
size reproduction of King Tut's throne
in the centre of the halL
A lavish display of agricultural
and handicraft work is shown in
booths that are very modern in appearance.
Unquestionably the Egyptian
people of today have shown great
skill in the art of furniture p^flV'^g,
neatly inlaid with mother of pearL
A collection of the finest style of
furniture that Egypt could produce
is receiving the admiration of every;
visitor.
The Royal Agricultural Society
of Cairo displays the Maarad Cotton
world famous for its stapleness and
quality. Directly above in glass jars,
six different varieties of wheat tell
the story of that country's wealth
from the soiL
The pavillion is under, the direction of A. & Afifi assisted by M.
Refat and H. Abu-1-Fath.
Syrian Women Progressive
"The women in Syria have just
as much courage, energy and ambition as the women of America," she
replied in answer to our query about
her fellow-women. "But they have
not the opportunities. They are intelligent and very well-educated but
they are encouraged by no one, least
of all their husbands, to show their
ability. However, some of them are
daring enough to follow their inclinations and work, in the two fields
now open to women, besides teaching
and nursing, offices and department
stores. But most of them work out
SHATARA FLAYS
ZIONISM ON AIR
IN A three-cornered debate on
the radio held on Tuesday night at
10 P.M., Dr. F. I. Shatara of Brooklyn, defended the Arab nationalist
cause against .Zionism in Palestine.
Morris Margulies, secretary of the
Zionist Organization of America, took
the Zionist side, while Thomas L
Cook of the economic department of
Columbia University took the British
one. Mr. Cook, upon whose support Mr. Margulies must have depended to defend the present British
mandate in Palestine, was even harsher than the Arab speaker in denouncing political Zionism,
Altogether it was an ethereal victory for
the Arabs of Palestine.
Arab Progress Cited
Enumerating instances of modem
Arab progress. Dr. Shatara said, "The
Showman Bank (founded by a Moslem
Palestinian of New York) is an Arab,
institution. There is a chain store
owned by a Betblehemhe. The Mejdel textile and homespuns, embroidery and needle work are in Arab
hands."
The Arab claim to Palestine was
ably defended by Dr. Shatara, who
averred that the Arabs "cannot
ascribe to the theory that being a
Jew entitles one to ownership of!
Palestine."
The debate, run under the auspices of the Foreign Affairs Forum,
was broadcast from' the roof of the
Claridge Hotel 44th Street and
Broadway, New York, over station
WEVD, 1300k.
of sheer necessity. Even so, it is a
good sign and I have great hopes
that women will soon be emancipated from the iron bound traditions and conventions," she said. She
went on to tell us of two women
lawyers who were practicing in Beirut one of whom, Miss Nina Trad,
was quite successful
Upon our question about women
in politics, she answered that they
were very patriotic and that they
had made a good beginning in practicing the "Buy Syrian" in an effort
to help their country regain its economic status.
She was met at the boat by her
sister, Mrs. Anis Daye of Winston
Salem, N. C. They are spending the
week-end in Cape May, NJ .
LEBANESE IDLE
URGED BACK TO
NATIVE SOIL
BEIRUT.— An editorial in air
Ahwal, an old newspaper published
in mis city, urges the Lebanese idle
and unemployed, thousands of whom
had flocked to Beirut seeking employment and relief, to go back to
their native soil in Lebanon and till
it as the only sure way of amelioration.
"Beirut" warned al-Ahwal, "is
no more a source of fortune to its
visitors, as it used to be in the past,
nor the countries of emigration an
object of hope for the Lebanese who
would turn to them. And the neigh;
boring countries are no better off
than Lebanon itself. Wherefore, facing an impregnable wall of siege we
have no other resort but to work our
hills and plains, to dig out the wealth
of the soil, if we wish to live."
Heading to Bankruptcy
Al-Ahwal paints a gloomy and
pessimistic picture of the economic
conditions in Beirut and the rest of)
Lebanon, entitling its editorial, "the
Nation Heading to Bankruptcy." Chief,
among the causes for this sorry state,
al-Ahwal puts the reckless spending
of money by Lebanese who had depended for their living budgets on
relatives in America. The depression in the United States and South
America has practically cut off this
source of supply. At the same time
Lebanese merchants persisted in importing foreign goods when they
knew that in doing so they were
.forcing many native labourers into
idleness and bringing disaster to the
aewly established national industries.
The Lebanese Government instead)
of taking effective measures to control the situation 0¥ create employment for its idle citizens, has "flung
open the doors for the employment
of foreigners who take away, nay
snatch, the mouthfuls from the
mouths of our hungry ones!"
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THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, AUG. 4, 1033.
MOSLEM NATIVITY AN OCCASION
FOR POLmCAL DEMONSHIATION
THOUSANDS OF SYRIAN NATIONALIST PARTISANS FILL
THE UMAYYAP MOSQUE AT MAWLID OF THE
PROPHET; SHAKE SWORDS AND SING
NATTONALIST SONGS
(Special Correspondence)
v
DAMASCUS.— The .Nativity of the Prophet Mohammed
Which fell'on the 7th of July was celebrated with appropriate ceremonies in all Moslem countries and communities throughput the
world. It corresponds among Moslems to our Christmas, and is
considered one of the three principal festivals of Islam. But because Mohammed was both the founder of a religion and of an
Arab national movement which spread east and west of Arabia
like a far-flung crescent, the Moslem Nativity has always aroused
national memories among the Moslem
celebrants. In Syria and Lebanon
the governments suspended activities
in honor of the day which is considered a national holiday. In Egypt,
where Islam is the state religion, Mohammed's birthday was officially celebrated by the Egyptian Government
and the royal court. It was also
made the occasion for protestation
meetings against the missionaries.
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Turned into Nationalist Holiday
In this city of frustrated national
aspirations the Moslem Nativity was
practically "adopted" by the Nationalist Block and their many followers
and turned into a nationalist holiday.
Synchronizing their procession to
the Umayyad Mosque, chief religious
centre of the Syrian capital, with the
official procession of the government
and their supporters, the nationalists
marched to the music of national
songs and the waving of bared swords.
The leaders of the Nationalist Block,
comprising Jamil Mar dam Bey, Nasib Bey al-Bakri, Mazhar Pasha Rislan, Afif as-Sulh, Sa'id al-Ghizzi and
Ihsan Sharif, met in the home o£
Nasib al-Bakri and from there rode
in their carriages, accompanied by their;
followers, who were augmented at
every stage of the procession by
others corning from different parts of
the city, until at the entrance of the
Mosque they were a formidable
crowd.
The nationalist procession passed)
through Madhat Pasha Street, named
after the father of the Turkish constitution and known to tourists under the historic name of the Street
that is Called Straight. At ad-Darwishiyyah they were joined by the
delegations from the Qanawat and
Jabiyah quarters of the city, entering the Umayyad Mosque in an impressive demonstration, holding their
bared swords high and shouting for
the long life of the nationalist leaders and for Syrian independence.
Nationalists "Occupy" Niche
Entering the Mosque itself the
youthful members of the nationalist
demonstrators "occupied" one of the
"niches", still singing their national
marches and waving their swords.
Some nationalist enthusiasts shouted
for the downfall of the government
and particularly of the minister ashSha'bani, royalist member of the present ; Syrian government. But the
more moderate of their leaders prevailed on them to stop such manifestations that may lead to unhappy consequences.
As the Imam (Moslem priest)
reached in his recital of the Nativity
story the high point where he asks
the worshippers to "pray upon and
bless" the Prophet, the nationalist
demonstrators rushed to their leaders, carried them over their shoulders and started their march in the
Mosque court, firing their guns in
the air. From there the nationalist
procession started back through the
MH^i0^^^0^;
HHI
FEUD IN BAGHDAD
BAGHDAD.— Lying »in ambush
in a narrow crooked street of Baghdad, a band of Nuri Bey Bawil,
waited for Isma'il Bey ar-Rawunduzi and his followers. A skirmish
between the two parties followed
in which 12 on both sides fell dead
and many wounded
The feud between the Bawils
and Rawunduzis came to a point
a year ago when a member of the
Bawil clan shot and seriously hurt
Isma'il Bey, and as a consequence
was condemned to nine- years in
prison. Nuri Bey Bawil resented
the sentence and planned for revenge.
principal streets of the city as they
came.
"Consider Sacrifice Sweet"
Responding to the shouts of the
crowd Jamil Mardam Bey delivered
a spirited speech in which he said:
"Your brethren of the Nationalist Block consider sacrifice sweet
in the way of this patient, struggling
nation, from whose high goal neither
promises nor threats will turn away."
It was estimated that no less
than thirty-thousand participated in
the nationalist demonstrations against
the existing Syrian government on
the birthday of the Arabian Prophet.
COMFORT FROM HEAT
IN FAIR CAFE
THE MOROCCAN Cafe seems to
be the most typical rendez-vous in
the Fair, only recently dedicated in'
the presence of Rufus C. Dawes, President of the Fair, and Chicago's most
select society who acted as hosts and
helped serve mint tea and coffee to
the many friends who assisted in the
official ceremonies.
Julia Taweel, noted Lebanese interpreter of oriental dances, was the
center of attraction.
Mrs. Potter
Palmer and many others from Chicago's Gold Coast personally complimented her for her unique and
artistic performances.
The celebrated violinist, Sami
Shawwa, who visited recently the
Century
of Progress . Exposition,
spoke highly of the Moroccan Village
as the most attractive and original of
all pavillions.
Anyone who is suffering from the
heat wave, will find comfort and
pleasure in the cool open-air Cafe of
Casbah des Ouadihs.
The four musicians, Mohammed
Ben-Kadir, Moulay Idris, Abd-esSalaam Ben Tihany and Abd-es-Salaam Mouline, hail from Rabat, Morocco, and take great pride in introducing to the public their native
music. They are accompanied during the evening hours, by Wady Nazzal, a Chicago merchant.
M
MISS ASH ARE TO
WED E. NASSAR
(Special Correspondence)
DETROIT— The wedding of Miss
Pauline Ashare, the attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ashare
of Detroit to Earnest Nassar, attorney
of Pittsburgh, Pa., will take place
tomorrow evening in St Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, Detroit, and will be
one of the most important social
events of the season. A reception,
following the ceremony, will take
place at the Ashare home, 13004 E.
Outer Drive. Miss Ramsa Kellie will
be maid of honor, Eddir Nassar,
best man, and Mrs. Jos. Snage, Miss
Annette Heich, and Miss Edna Andrews bridesmaids. Ushers will be
from Pittsburgh, where, the couple
will make their home, j
On July 14 Miss Edna Andrews,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
gave a shower in honor of the
bride-to-be.
. Albert G. Aboud of Detroit has
announced his candidacy for the
office of constable of the 13th ward at
the primary election, Oct. 10th ' A
square deal to all is Aboud's platform. He is 23 years of age, and
has been active in political circles
for several years. He is deputy state
fire marshall, and a former contributes
to the SYRIAN WORLD in its magazine form.
RICHMOND CLUB
SPONSORS CONCERT
A LARGE audience attended the
successful concert given by Louis
Wardini, the well-known tenor and
Victor recording artist, last Monday
night, July 31, under the auspices of
the Lebanon Social Club of Richmond, Va.
It was a rare opportunity for the
Arabic music lovers of Richmond, to
be entertained by the artist and they
did not fail to take advantage of the
occasion. They came in great numbers.
Wardini sang in four languages,
Arabic, English, French and Italian
and had among his audience people
of many different nationalities. He
was accompanied on the oud. S. T.
Sanyour, president of the club, introduced him.
POTATO RACE;
HAMMER WEIGHT AND
WHIST AT OUTING
THE MAASSER second annual
reunion which takes place this Sunday at the Pavillion of the Twin
Lakes Amusement Park in Waterbury,
Conn., will be featured by awards to
those who win the 20 pound hammer-weight contest; the potato-bag
race which is open for boys of 10 to
15 years of age; a whist card tournament; and to the best Arabic dancers among the single girls. There
will also be American dancing.
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ARAB ACROBATS TAKE
LAURELS IN OPERA
THE HADJI Kader Arabs, a troupe
of acrobats, were the veritable heros
of "The Bohemian Girl," an opera
that was revived on Thursday, July
27, by the Aborn Opera Company in
the Majestic Theatre in New York.
With an excellent cast of artists
and dancers, Milton Aborn produced
this sumptuous arrangement of Bal-i
fe's romantic opera with such success as was evident on its opening
night! There were several encores by
each of the artists and numerous curtain calls at the end.
The Arabs won the greatest applause because of their unusual contortions in the scene at the gypsy
camp'where the Bohemians are celebrating the betrothal of one of their
members.
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ARAB EXPOSITION
Continued from page 1.)
sein, president of the Youth Congress, speaking on behalf of Arab
youth.
Among Exhibitors
At the opening oft he exposition
there were 178 separate entrees.
From the mention of some of them
the reader can gather for himself
how extensive has been the progress
of industrial development in the
countries represented Thus among
the exhibitors were Abdul-Hamid
Fakhri of Aleppo, chalk products, Abdul-Qadir Khalil of Haifa, drug products, Tewfiq Qabbani of Damascus,
sugared fruits, Michael Qanawati of)
Bethlehem, mother-of-rpearl products,
Badri al-Dana'i of Damascus, perfumery, Tabbakh and Mizhir of Junah, Lebanon, textiles, Mohammed
Bayyumi of Cairo, bamboo furniture,
etc. etc There were several companies exhibiting textiles from Damascus, Aleppo, Homs and other
cities.
At night the exposition building
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lights, while a constant display of
fireworks by a Beirut native firm,
light the sky form iles around and
help attract the crowds.
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mril t»f conviviality which this national festival make* possible in sundry means and
ways. Amusement for amusement's sake -also
has its large share of appeal and attracts its
coteries of merry-makers.
Dancing, jazzbands and outings take first place among
those of them who were born in this country
and have naturally taken to the ways of
their land of birth. This is all justifiable and
natural.
But if the Mahrajan means anything more, if it does not deteriorate into an
ordinary "picnic" on a grand scale then
what we have called its neglected aspect
should come first in consideration.
The modern march of civilization is
playing havoc with the local mores, traditions and folk-lores. This is true even in
Syria and Lebanon itself, and it would be expected to be true in America. But we were
once told on good authority that if you want
to study the typical, genuine manners, traditions and idiosyncrasies of the old Damascenes
one will do that to best advantage not in Damascus itself but in Boston. At any rate our
youngsters can learn much, if they so desire,
of the old Syrian folk-life from the folksongs, dancing and conversations of thei*
elders. Some foreign scholars spend many
years of study and research, take long trips
overseas and undergo no little expense to get
first-hand impressions of what is given so
freely to those who attend a Mahrajan. We
recommend it as a little side-course of study
in Syrian folk-life to young Syrian men and
women who have hitherto taken little effort
to do so. It will prove a great source of
pleasure and profit.
NATIONALISM AND IMPERIALISM IN
THE, HITHER EAST
Author: Bans Kohn.
SALLOUM A. MOKABZEL
Publishers: Boutledge and Sons, London, 1932.
Tr. from the German by: M. M. Green.
THE INTERACTION and clash between EuropeHABEB L KATTBAH
imperialism and eastern nationalism, between one
aspect of occidental evolution which is passing away
and one aspect of oriental development that is still
SUBSCBIPTION
at the threshold, has been a fascinating topic of,
In lie United States and
discussion
to an increasing army of writers and
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lit Canada
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derstand the East and its peoples, has given us in
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East, a notable contribution to this lively discusEntered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1933 at the
sion. It is, in fact, a supplementary continuation
Post Office at New York, N.Y, Under the Act of
of his earlier scholarly book, "the History of NationMarch 3, 1879.
alism in the East," which has already become a
standard reference work on the subject.
The high level of constructive thinking on which
Vol. VH No. 14.
Aug. 4, 1933.
Kohns "Nationalism and Imperialism" develops its
envolved themes with utmost fidelity and genuine
understanding, is evident from the introduction in
"THE GREAT DAY OF ARABY"
which the author says:
IN THESE words the opening editorial
"To the future historian the first decade after
of "Filistin", for its issue of July 8, characterthe World War will be marked by the beginning of
Europe's relative loss in world importance, and he
izes the inauguration of the Arabic Exposiwill see three decisive events of the period in the
tion held on the same day in Jerusalem.
economic domination of the United States of North
a u»e im.'.riv^uoinU * +,*<.•
America, the revolutionary erection of the Soviet
held from time to time in London, Paris,
Union and the recent entry of the East into world
Madrid and other capitals of Europe, or with
politics as an active factor, the 'awakening of the
nations of the East, hitherto without history.' Only
the great Century of Progress Exposition now
the
future historian will be able to say to which of
going on in Chicago, the Jerusalem exposithese
three factors we must ascribe the greatest
tion is a Lilliputian* affair. We doubt even if
importance in moulding the future of mankind."
it will be as impressve or successful as the
Throughout his book Dr. Kohn displays that
Syrian exposition held four summers ago in
subtle knowledge of eastern psychology and philoDamascus. Only 187 individual and corposophy of history which we found so highly porRELIGION OR POLITICS?
trayed in Prof. William Ernest Hocking's book, "'the
rate participants are showing their products
That so much space should be devoted to &pint of World Politics." And while Khon's book
in the Jerusalem exposition, held, as we
news about religious topics and religious is not as philosophically profound as Prof, Hockfurther learn from the report in today's isleaders in the East is both significant and wg's it supplies that deficiency in a more thorough
sue of the SYRIAN WORLD, in a building
knowledge of the Semitic East, of which he speaks
interesting.
with authority.
of the Moslem Waqf known as "Palace
It shows that "religion" still plays an unjustiOne of the fundamental themes in Kohn's book
Hotel." The total expense of the exposition
fiably large part in the mundane affairs of is the distinction between nationalism in the East
did not exeed $25,000.
the Near East. But a closer analysis of those and nationalism in the West. The former is a posiBut we find ample food for thought in a
features makes one strongly suspicious of tive, regenerative force. But, "Nationalism in Europe
passage in the inaugural speech of Isa Isa,
the "religious" quality of those movements has already fulfilled that function. Whereas in the
editor of "Filistin" in which he says: "The
East we may still appraise it, morally and economicand activities in which the names of religious ally, as a positive and progressive force, in Europe
purpose in holding this exposition is not a
dignitaries are dragged to the arena of squab- it already belongs, morally and economically, to a
material one, it is a moral one in which we
bling and heated argument. It leaves us with past phase of development."
have sought to unite Arab countries one with
This Dr. Kohn illustrates and demonstrates in a
the impression that politics more than reanother, that each in turn may supply its dehundred
different ways in his book. Although he
ligion constitutes the news aspect of those
ficiencies, hitherto imported from foreigners,
is
equally
aware that the political form which the
features.
by what the other has. In this way we will
nationalist movement in the East has assumed is
dissipating a great deal of spiritual and social energy
all boycott foreign products which are bleedin
rather a negative aspect of development, and
ing us, particularly Zionist products."
THE COUNTESS IS DEAD,
that only "when it attains a social and cultural
And thus we have another evidence
THE COUNTESS IS ALIVE!
character will it gain a profounder meaning."
brought clear to us that the East has touched
Regardless, however, Dr. Kohn realizes what
THE FIRST we heard of Countess d'An- every sober and intelligent student of the East is bethe real springs of vital and progressive nationalism, when it is no more satisfied with durian, the adventurous French woman who ginning also to realize, that "the East now wishes tot
its own instructors, and to learn how and
poltical agitation and diplomatic representa- was enamoured of a bedwin of Palmyra, choose
what it wilL"
was
through
the
news
cables
to
American
tions for the solution'of its national problems;
The part of Kohn's book dealing with Egypt
when it has realized clearly and vividly that papers. As far as we are aware from that and the struggle between Egyptian nationalism and
the only sure prerequisite of political inde- source she is dead as a door nail, as they British imperialism there, is admirable. Speaking
pendence is economic independence. Native first reported, hung from the gallows, a pic- of the impasses which met one Egyptian delegation!
economic and financial institutions may rise turesque touch of realism, in Mecca. But we after another seeking to negotiate with Great Britain,
Dr. Kohn said:
or fall, may succeed or fail,' but once the idea know now definitely that she is alive and
• •" -.It was, therefore, impossible to ask Egypt
has grown firmly in the minds of the people kicking. Three weeks ago we were the first how far she could meet England in restricting her
of the East that their national safety, and in this country, we believe, to correct the own liberty. First of all Egypt's natural right must
their political security must finally depend false report, which we are ashamed to say be acknowledged and then Egypt, in complete freeon their financial security, the road to con- the Arabic press in Syria swallowed hook, dom and independence, could grant concessions,
taking account of the needs of British imperial
structive nationalism in the East has already line and sinker from the foreign agencies
strategic communications without prejudice to
without
effort
at
verification.
been laid out, and the way to progress and
Egypt's national sovereignty."
On the whole, we believe, the Arabic
prosperity has been clearly indicated.
We may remark here that that was exactly the
press on which we have to rely so much for attitude which Syrian nationalists of Damascus took
our information is both reliable and con- when they refused to strike out those features of
A CONSERVATOR OF OUR
scientious. But it lacks a litde, we must ad- the Syrian constitution which conflicted with France's
FOLK-LIFE
mit, in the technique of news gathering and "international obligations," and for which the Syrian,
parliament after the Revolution was first prorogued
ONE ASPECT of the Mahrajan which news verification.
On sensational topics and then dissolved.
receives slight, if any attention, from our of this sort in which the western press is so
Even when he discusses the Palestine situation,
second generation Syrians who attend one of the East, the Arabic press must be doubly Dr. Kohn is fairly impartial and fully aware of the
those carnivals is its role as a conservator of lax, and often maliciously intent on defaming serious conflict between two great movements, each
our folk-life.
Almost the first thing that sure of the veracity of its sources of informa- legitimate in its own way, but because they meet ini
little Palestine, they become a source of highlycomes to their mind is the "get-together" tion.
charged and dangerous national emotions. He says
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THERE are three attractive and popular girls
UNFORTUNATELY for Christendom and the
BILLY BENEDICK, society writer for the New who live in Brooklyn who are doing the round of
Islamic world alike, for the future of civilization,
York Journal, finds the "Karams of Egypt" an "in- the nicest places in town with their escorts almost
for the cause of world unity and brotherhood, that
teresting couple." Benedick states that he had the every Saturday night They are very publicity shy
those who are most deeply moved and most ingood fortune to be the guest last Thursday night of and don't want their names revealed Don't think
tensely interested in the present agitation by Mosthe Royal Egyptian Consul of New York, Anis A too hard about it for you probably will guess them.
lems against the missionaries in Egypt are those
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Raphael Mr. Raphael entertained in honor of Mr.
who are most positively and biasedly doctrinated
and Mrs. Theodore Karam of Alexandria, Egypt,
Another innuendo—our New Yorkers may any
They who have taken sides in a contention which
who arrived in New York last week for a visit
day hear of the engagement of a very popular boy
involves much that is essentially human and uni*
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to a girl who isn't so well known He is usually
versal, much that should bind and unify men all
Referring
to
the
couple
as
the
"Vanderbilts"
of
called "the life of the party," you know, very soover the world, much that has the same historic
Egypt Benedick writes: "Truly some of America's phisticated rather good-looking, and extremely
origin, are of such bends of mind that they cannot
well known so-called society matrons could leam genial and she is very sweet a pretty home girl
see each other's side. The white-hot effusion of
a lot about savoir faire and charm from Mrs. Karam. Strange things happen or perhaps it isn't so strange.
animated passion and hatred that is being displayed
One is impressed with Tier ladyship' every mo- He has seen so much of life that he probably knows
today in the motherland of civilization, in the land
ment
and delighted with her gracious personality. what's good for him, and more important what is
which was said to have given Moses his early educa"She is tall and extremey bealutiful and looked good
tion, comes from those who accentuate unduly the
regal in a simple pale blue gown, topped by a capeelements of difference and distinction between two
let
of ermine, edged with ermine tails. Her jewels—'
And yet another deep, dark secret It would
great historic monotheistic religions.
diamonds and turquoise—are gorgeous."
make a good head-line, — ANOTHER MODERN
The liberals, particularly on the Moslem side,
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MARRIAGE GOES ON THE ROCKS. She-a prostand aside with folded arms, afraid lest if they
The Karams are staying in New York about a fessional woman, a Lucy Stoner. He-also a prospeak their words would be misconstrued and week before going to the World's Fair. Mrs.
hurled back at them without any effort to consider Karam speaks fluent French and very little English fessional. They have been married sue years and
or understand That is because most of the mis- but Mr. Karam speaks English like an Englishman usually mixed with the "bachelor" set The breach
sionary activities in Egypt, as in many parts of the Their main ambition before leaving, they stated widened after'he started his latest venture a few
months ago, until three weeks ago when they deworld are definitely of the fundamentalist, polemic! was to visit a speakeasy.
finitely
decided to separate. Of course there are all
hue, any defense of which would be interpreted as
sorts
of
rumors of "why" and different opinions;
so much victory to the other side, an ingrate stab
When Modern Shocks Modern ..
some blame her and others blame him. The separain the back of Islam.
Forty years ago at the World's Fair, Mme. Fah- tion may soon be common knowledge, after alL
To be sure, there are even among the fundareda
Mahzar, as Little Egypt made curious faces
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mentalist missionaries and their fundamentalist
New York has quite a few visitors from all
Moslem opponents men of moderately liberal minds turn livid with amazement at her hip-notic gyrations.
over the country during this past month. Almost
and generous souls, who, sticking to the letter ofj
Today
it
is
her
turn
to
roll
her
eyes
in
astonishall of the out-of-town boys said they don't like the
their revealed religions, do yet take a sympathetic
ment
Her
seven
pieces
of
apparel,
she
points
out
New
York boys? They are a little afraid of them,
view of the other side and make an effort to understand it without conceding to it A mitigating are sufficient proof of her modesty when compared afraid of their coldness, and hardness. What is
element in the Egyptian missionary situation is the with the little more than a coat of talcum powder wrong? But perhaps if these out-of-towners lived
fact, not brought out in Joseph Levy's articles, as in which Sally Rand twirls and sways next to her the hectic life we do they wouldn't have time either
at the 1933 Fair.
for those pleasant courtesies which make life a little
far as I could find that the head of the Islamic
Mme. Fahreda, now 62 and still nimble, dances in sweeter. Of course this attitude is to be deplored as
Defense Committee, Shaykh Mohammed Mustafa
al-Maraghi, former Rector of al-Azhar Mosque the Streets of Paris exhibit at the "Exposition." Her time should be made for these little, amenities, yet.
University and former. Grand-Mufti of Sudan, is neighbor, Sally Rand flits about with a fan as hen they are brushed aside as superficial. Well, all
kinds of people make this world
of this type. On the Christian side one could think part in the "display."
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of the American University of Cairo, who hold the
Do
you
know
that
prominent
gentleman who,
An Opinion of the Dentist by a Young "Victim"
when driving his car, usually forgets to honk his
esteem of all classes of Egyptians, Moslem and
MY DENTIST
horn and in his excitement on seeing a pedestrian
Christian, and who have made positive contributions
in front of him, says, "Psst psst hurry up." And
to the modern educational development of Egypt.
Whenever I go to the dentist
when he doesn't catch the unfortunate's attention he
I go with fear and hate
One of the most inspiring and profitable hours
again hisses, leaning half-way out of the car, "Pssst,
I ever spent in my life was one in the serene and
And always have a good excuse
pssst." Maybe he doesn't trust the horn
For being a little late.
gracious presence of Shaykh al-Maraghi himself, over
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three years ago in Cairo. I had heard a great deal
The Trabulsi Knitting Mills seem to be doing
about him and about his bold program of reform
I sit on the chair and grasp its arm
very good business these days. They have two
in which he sought to modernize the old-fashioned
But the kind dentist does me no harm.
shifts in the factory, the latter starting at 5:30, and
Moslem theological school, making of it a modem,
ending at 3:30, and the owners, Nesib, Philip and
university teaching all the modern secular subjects
Sometimes when it hurts a bit
John Trabulsi "too, too busy" to do this or that
necessary for a liberal education. But even when
I move around on the chair I sit
We know that this is their season, yet we hope it
I was prepared to hear from him liberal ideas and
continues.
Reform suggestions, I was genuinely surprised to I
I am happy when I go away
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But dread to think of the next dental day.
supposed orthodoxy could go. Not only was he preGUESS WHO that young man is who tangoes
pared to go the limit in modernizing al-Azhar, inThe dentist I have is an unusual one,
beautifully, holds a girl's hand delicately and gazes
troducing in its curiculla the study of modern phiBut still when he's through home do I run.
soulfully into her eyes (he really has soulful eyes,
losophy, modern history and foreign languages, but
just like a gazelle's, or cow's) and murmurs, "Why
also to send intelligent, aspiring theological students
He does everything neatly and well
are you so cold? Ah, doesn't he know that when
to the great universities of Europe, to study all they
And now I'm through I do feel swell!
the grand passion sweeps him and he starts breathcan about the Christian religion and philosophy of.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Agnes Sada, Age 13. ing heavily, the girl is afraid of getting a draft
life from Christian authorities. Shaykh al-Maraghi
And she murmurs back, "Ah, Alex, you sweep me
argued that al-Azhar in the past was engaged in
off my feet." (Aside, she means the breeze is enough
combatting old heresies and old philosophies that Azhar and from his judgeship because of a learned to sweep her off her feet) Ah, what a roprevailed a thousand years ago, but which had no book he wrote in which he refuted the popular mantic scene. I think I'll go in for the love-story
place or sense in our modern life. Islam, there- claim that the Caliphate is an essential and integral business. However, thes edrawbacks are a little
fore, should turn away from those ancient scholastic institution of Islam.
nicer than those depicted by the ads, as marring
It will be some time before liberal Moham- true, pure love, such as the drawbacks of B. O. and
topics and apply itself to modern, living philosophies
medans in Egypt will venture to give free utterances halitosis.
and modern problems that beset it on every side.
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And one cannot but feel a tinge of disappoint-' to their views and opinions, or if they do, that
ment and regret that the charged atmosphere of their utterances will have a salutory effect on the
animosity that has now enveloped Moslems and progress of Islamic liberalism. The missionary row mind to understand it and appreciate what is best
foreign Christian missionaries in Egypt, and may* has undoubtedly given a setback to Islamic liberal- in it be substituted for the more fundamental type
extend to other Islamic countries, will put a tem- ism; it has been a decided victory for Islamic re- who, in the words of Hans Kohn, whose book is
porary stop to the cautious liberalism of Moslem actionarism and fundamentalism, for men of the reviewed in another column of this issue, 'Tacking
gentlemen of Shaykh al-Maraghi's stamp of mind type of Abdul-Hamid Sa'id head of the Young the historical sense, they saw in Europe and in
This is not to mention anything of a man like Dr. Men Moslem Association, Shaykh Rashid Riza and Christendom at the present stage of development
Taha Husein who is called by his opponents "the Mohammed Mustafa ar-Rafi'i. This we consider a the absolute norm of what is good and humane."
Many Christian missionaries and laymen who
Shaykh of the Infidels," or Shaykh Ali Abdul-Ra- most regretable development; one that tends to
ziq, former Azhar professor and judge, who was widen rather than close the gap of animosity be- support them have finally come to this conclusion,
tried for heresy and expelled from his chair in al- tween Islam and Christianity, between East and as we saw in the book we reviewed last week, "ReWest
thinking Mission." Prof. G. Kampffmeyer in a
And for a possible amelioration of this strained modern book on the East "Whither Islam?," edited
of the British mandate over Palestine that although situation, for one cure which might heal this wound by Prof. H. A R Gibb, quotes Father Tillo Banit was designated as a class "A" mandate, it is of hatred and estrangement I suggest that Chris- nerth (O. S. B.), a German Jesuit as writing adtreated exactly as a class "B" mandate, a British tian missionaries with a liberal outlook on life, with
colony.
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a thorough knowledge of Islam and a sympathetic
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MINIATURES
AKHNATON
(Great Reformer and Idealist)
AKHNATON— "The first individual in history"
the world's first
idealist... .a great dreamer, an indomitable soul in a sickly body who
thought more of peace than war, ofi
speculation and theology than of administration and government
a
Pharaoh with a personality, standing
out distinctively from the endless
procession of warriors and conquerors
who trampled nations under their
feet
an impractical sovereign whose
sublime ideas and magnificent reforms
went with him to the grave, to be
resurrected over 3060 years hence to
the admiration of historians and huhanists.
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If ever there was a man who
could mould the world of his day to
his heart's desire that man was Pharaoh Amonhotep IV, who changed
his name later to Akhnaton. He was
the ruler of the greatest and mos£'
extensive empire then known. Unlimited wealth and power were at the
beck of his finger. His trained army
was the strongest and best equipped,
his chariots the swiftest, his generals
the most skilled in the arts of war.
But Akhnaton chose not to be great
in the worldly sense of the word.
With hia splendid empire practically
crumbling at his feet, with his generals and soldiers chafing for war
and conquest, he chose a career of
peace. He dreamed a magnificent
dream in which the nations of the
"world would be bound together under one system of universal worship,
-earn rule of peace. But time, that indispensable element for the realization
of any extensive reform or noble
vision, was against him. In his* own
lifetime he mustered enough loyal
followers to hold his powerful enemies and mockers, the priests of Thebes and his. proud generals. But he
could not convert the Egyptian nation,
,he could not win enough public support to insure the success of his reforms. So when death claimed him,
the whole structure of his ideal vision,
literally crumbled to the ground, and
the old die-hards won another victory. If , he had lived in the year
1933 A. D., he might have found in
the powerful press, the telegraph, the
telephone and the radio efficient
agents for the .conversion of his
ideals into practical results, as F. D.
Roosevelt is doing. But he reigned
from the year 1375 to 1358 B. G, and;
that made all the difference between,
failure and success.
Coming at the end of a brilliant
succession of Egyptian conquerors of
the 18th Dynasty who drove the Hyksos from the Land of the Nile, Amonhotep IV had grave problems on his
hands, problems which his father and
his grandfather before him were
Syrian Child Croons
Over Radio
LITTLE Barbara Haddad, 13,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George
Haddad of Berlin, N. H., came to
New York City last week to join her
aister, Mary Ann, and to try her luck
over the radio.
* Barbara is noted for her crooning voice wherever she goes and because it is so unusual she passed
tier radio audition for Station WMCA
and broadcast last Sunday at 4
o'clock.1 The station wanted to book
"her for subsequent Sunday broadcasts
but Barbara, as a dutiful Syrian,
child, bad to return home.
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just beginning to feel. Wealth and
power which came in the wake of
conquests created in Egypt a rich and
powerful aristocracy, especially among
the priests of Thebes, who were using
their power for the extortion of the
poor, and who were even thwarting
the Pharaoh's court and threatening
the power of the Egyptian rulers
themselves.
Almost all historians who have
written on Akhnaton, and he has been
a fascinating topic for historians and
romancers alike, agree that in his
high visions and noble spirit Akhnaton owes much to the influence of
a woman, his mother, Queen Tiy,
who was the daughter of a local king
ot northern Syria. Many see in her
son's remarkable conception of a universal worship of the Sun, the innate
monotheism of his mother's Semitic
race.
At the time Akhnaton ruled, Egypt
had a very complicated system of
mythology and innumerable gods.
Their polytheism, furthermore, was
gross and trude, enjoining the worship of mamals, birds and reptiles,
especially the crocodile. This must
have appeared revolting to Queen
Tiy, and her son Akhnaton inherited
this revulsion from his mother. Chief
in the Egyptian pantheon was Amon,
who was originally a local god of
Thebes. But when that city became
the capital of united Egypt instead
of Heliopolis, its god gained supremacy over the god of the latter—Ra,
ARABESQUE
the Sun-god. The priests of Thebes, however, in their craftiness,
coupled the worship of both, making Ra an attribute of Amon who
then became known as Amon-Ra.
Chiefly to break down the power
of the priests of Thebes, but also in,
a genuine effort to revise the whole
system of Egyptian worship and theology, Akhnaton, no sooner had he come
to the throne, planned in his heart
to humble Amon and raise in his
place the worship of Ra, under an
old attribute of which he was also
known as Aton, or the Setting Sun.
He was a mere boy of 11 years when
he reigned, and his powerful mother,
Queen Tiy, was made .regent over
him. She must have exercised great
restraint over her son, for we find
that his most radical reforms were
undertaken after her death.: For no
sooner was he sole ruler of Egypt
than he conceived of a most radical
and ingenious plan to put. his reforms in practice. He changed his
own name, from Amonhotep (Peace
of Amon) to Akhnaton or "Servant
of Aton." This was the first bold
step in his reforms. But he went
much further. He commanded that all
monuments to Amon, all temples devoted to his worship be transferred
to Aton, who then became the supreme god of the Egyptian pantheon.
He himself and all his followers recognized no other god in their worship, and he proceeded to instruct his
subjects in the worship of the only
PLAIN MR. ARID LEAGUE HOLDS
BECOMES PRINCE 4TH MAHRAJAN
IN BRIDGEPORT
Enthusiastic Over President
Roosevelt, World's Fair,
Niagara Falls, and
American Women
After two weeks spent in
America having a grand time in
the conventional European suit
and traveling simply, "Prince"
Mahmoud Mouktar Abid "Pasha", son of "Prince" Mohammed AH Bey al-Abid, president
of Syria and Turkish ambassador
during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, sailed a week
ago yesterday, Thursday July
20, on the S. S. Bremen.
Calling up THE SYRIAN WORLD
to say good-bye, he said, "This is
Mr. Abid speaking." And all at->
tempts at racking our brains thinking who Mr. Abid was were futile
until
someone
remembered
the
"prince." And then we recalled that
he liked to travel simply and would
have come incognito had it not been
that he was meeting some French*
friends here.
A FIRST class American orchestra will play for the younger folks
during the fourth annual "Mahrajan"
of the Lebanon League of Progress
that takes place over Labor Day •
week-end, the 3rd and 4th of September, in the beautiful park called
Champ's Farm jn Bridgeport, Conn.
And for the entertainment of the
older people the principal singers,
dancers and sword players of Brooklyn have been booked, among whom
are Joseph Silwan, Arabic singer;
Toufic Barham, oud player; Nairn
Karakand, violinist; Princess Athena,
oriental dancer and singer; Farjalla
Saccal, sword player; Araf Kaouk,
oud player; Abdallah Manjaa, singer;
George Dallal, "derbeke" player; Salim S. Haddad, flute player; Joseph
N. Ashkar, dancer and "derbeke"
player; S. A. Saadi, double flute
player. From Worcester, Mass., there
will be Milad F. Germanos, t and
from Norwich, Conn., Paul Anthony,
both sword players.
"American Women Charming"
Among the sights he visited in
America were the World's Fair which
he declared to be the best yet held
and Niagara Falls for which he had
the greatest admiration and enthusiasm.. And American women he considers very charmimr and well educated.
Traveling to Washington to see
President Roosevelt, he was disappointed in his purpose as the president was away on vacation.. "Your
president is a genius, a man of rare
ability," he said.
After the completion of his studies
in diplomacy and law In Paris, the
"Prince" intends to enter the diplomatic service.
"Prince Abid" Is not a Prince
Putting their heads together the
combined editorial staff of the SYRIAN WORLD and AL-HODA could
COt. ROOSEVELT
LEAVES SYRIA
COL THEODORE Roosevelt,
former Governor General of the Philippines, arrived in Istanbul last Monday from Syria and after a short
stay will return to the United States,
according to the New York Times.
>iot recall where the young "prince"
got his titles. There is no royal
blood in al-Abid's family in Damascus,
even as far back as Holo Pasha, its
founder, who was only a self-made
Arab chieftain, not even an emir.
His son, Ahmed Izzat Pasha attained
great influence under Sultan AbdulHamid, and his grand son, Mohammed Miikhtar's own daddy, as far as
we know, has never attained a title
highei than Bey,
i
god, Aton. Not satisfied with this,
and to be as far away as possible
from the machinations and destructive
influence of the priests of Thebes,
Akhnaton now conceived of. building
a totally new capital which would be
organized on his own plans, and in
which the sole worship of Aton would
be supreme. With a. large retinue
of devoted followers who believed in,
him and his reforms he sailed upward
on the Nile until he came to where
Tel-al-Amarna is today and there
built his new capital which he called
Akhetaton (The Horizon of Aton).
There Akhnaton devoted the rest
of his life to the promulgation of his
monotheism and the fulfillment ofj
his dream of universal peace through
negotiations and treaties. Completely obsessed by his own vision, Akhnaton paid little heed to the great
stirrings going on in his extensive
Asiatic empire, where one local chieftain after another was either setting
up a little kingdom by itself or succumbing to the growing domination of
the great Babylonian Empire. In vain
his generals appealed to him to carry
on the invasions which marked his
predecessors' reign and to consolidate the great empire he inherited.
A modern writer, Simeon Strunsky, one time editor of the Book Review
of the New York Times, wrote an
engaging book on this Egyptian Pharaoh and dreamer, Akhnaton, as a
Woodrow Wilson of ancient times,
bringing out in subtle sarcasm and
humor remarkable parallels between
the two dreamers who failed in their
own lifetimes.
There is no more fitting tribute
to Akhnaton in this miniature than
to quote some lines from two poems,
composed, it is thought, by himself,
in praise of his favourite god Aton,
and of which the great Egyptologist
Breasted said that "of all the monuments left by this unparalleled revolution, these hymns are by far the
most remarkable."
"Thy dawn is beautiful in the horizon
of heaven,
O Living Aton, Beginning of life;
When thou risest in the eastern
horizon,
Thou fillest every land with thy
beauty."
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"Thou bindest them with thy love.
Though thou art far away, thy rays
are on .earth;
Though thou art on high, thy footprints are the day."
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"When the cricket crieth in the eggshell,
Thou givest him breath therein to
preserve him alive."
"Thou art in my heart;
There is no other that knoweth thee,
Save thy son Akhnaton...." '
NEW LAW CONCERNING
VETS EXPLAINED
BY RED CROSS
BROOKLYN Syrians who wish
information concerning the new law
affecting disabled war veterans who
served with the United States forces
in the World War may consult the
Home Service Section of the Brooklyn Chapter, American Red Cross, at
130 Clinton Street
Residents of
other boroughs will be served by
their local Red Cross Chapters.
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�The GARDENS of OMAR
By HENRI BORDEAUX
Member of the French Academy
Synopsis: The true tragic and
thrilling love story of beautiful, blond,
Christian Yamile, daughter of the
chief of Bcharre and a handsome
Moslem aristocrat boy is revealed to
Henri Bordeaux while on his trip to
the Cedars by his guide, Khalil Khoury> who had been the affianced ofl
Yamile. Their betrothl had been understood by the whole town for years.
Even the boy and girl took it for
granted, until one day, when Khalil
returned from school, at the age oD
twenty, and she was fifteen, his love
for her suddenly burst forth in a
wild flame. Khalil, now an old man,
continues his story.
I had only just discovered Yamile.
Yamile, perhaps you know, means
"Beauty," as "Mountaha" means
"gracefulness." She was all beauty
and all grace. Till now I had treated
her as a comrade, a kind of Boutros,
not much less strong or hardy. She
could ride a restive horse, and bring
down quail and partridge with the
best shot among us. I never dreamed
of asking her if she were tired. She
was taller than most of the girls ini
cur country, slighter and better
modeled. All at once, it seemed to
me that I had never yet looked at
!her. Perhaps I had looked at hen
yet never seen he*.
How many
know how to use their eyes? We see
marvels without being dazzled by
them. How else could I have lived.
so long, indifferent, at Yamile's side?
So beautiful—so beautiful, and I had
not known it. This is what I could
no kmger /understand.
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She was straight as a young poplar. Her hair was of a light chestnut, almost golden in certain lights and
parted into long tresses knotted with
ribbons. It half concealed a neck,
long, perfectly formed and recalling
that beautiful smile, the tower of
ivory. Her complexion was the pale
amber which wind and sun give to a
delicate skin, but wherever it was not
often exposed—her arms when she
raised her sleeves, her neck when the
veil slipped over one shoulder—I saw
skin of an incredible whiteness. This
dazzling fairness was at once a delight and a torture. It filled me at
the same time with passion and foreboding, as though I guessed it inaccessible to me as virgin snow on
which no human foot will ever be
placed. All her body'appeared to me
full of a new grace, supple as the
tendrils of a vine, fluid as a river. Her
eyes were blue, the blue of the ocean
at Tripoli as one sees it on a calm
day from The Cedars.
Nothing
warned me of the terrible and ardent
flame I was to surprise in them on,
a later day.
She was at that rare and transient
moment of a young girl's life When
there is still something of the child
and already something of the woman,
when the very immaturity of the
figure is a promise of perfection to
come and when a certain naivete
still tempers the hard brightness of
the radiant face. The robe and veil
of white wool which she wore that
day added to her air of candor. Her
voice, which it seemed to me I was
bearing for the first time, was so
clear and sweet that I had the wild
desire even to taste it—taste it some-,
where at its source between her teeth,
white as a lamb newly washed, and
her lips rosy as a fillet of coral
When I got back from Hasroun,
I said to my mother:
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"Don't you think the time has
come now?"
She knew from my very confusion of what I was speaking. Thoughts
of love are never far from a woman's
imagination. When they are not for
herself, they are for her children.
But she only teased me, saying laughingly:
"No doubt of it Well, the house
is big. There's plenty of room. Whenever it is your lordship's pleasure."
It depended, then, on my pleasure. Up to now I had thought of
my marriage to Yamile as an agreable
and sensible step that would please
everyone concerned—herself, our two
families, and the whole village of
Bcharre, which had been waiting for
the news a long time, and which
would play its part by organizing rejoicings, fireworks, and dances on an
immense scale. The use of the careless word "pleasure" now affected me
almost like an insult. The idea of,
wedding Yamile had suddenly become
a joy whose very poignancy made
me tremble, and which in the near
future I hardly dared contemplate.
My mother, however, agreed that
the time had come when my proposal in due form should be made to
Sheik Rachid-el-Hame.
But the
priest had first to be communicated
with Though Yamile had been assigned me as my wife for years,
ancient custom prescribed the steps
to be followed and their order. The
rector (you know that among us
priests may marry) would have liked
me for a son-in-law himself and
would most willingly have given me
his eldest daughter Soufia. He was an
active and masterful man, loud of}
voice and quick of action, a stern
father to his family of seven children, and nicknamed "the captain"
by his parishioners on account of his
great height, black-beard, piercing
eye, and sonorous voice. He overwhelmed my mother and myself with
objections.
"This Yamile is like no one else,"
he declared. "Where does she get
her blue eyes and her milky white
skin? There are plenty of pretty
dark-haired girls in the village. A
wife should not attract too much
attention."
•.
"It is his own affair," was all my
mother deigned to reply.
I held my tongue, but only by
biting my lips. I was seized with
hatred for this man of God, who had
dared to regard Yamile so closely,
while I had noticed nothing till today but the golden hue of her cheeks.
Now I feel that he was right, that it
is tempting fate to confide one's destiny to a young girl different from all
others and that he is wisest who
seeks his bride among women from
whom neither great joys nor great
sorrows are to be expected.
The priest raised no further objections. Still with my mother, I
paid the customary visit to the house
of the Hames in order to obtain the
formal consent of the family. We
were received by father and mother
with as much pomp and ceremony as
though we had been distinguished
strangers. Luckily, Boutros was there
to temper the formality of the occasion. He hugged me impulsively in
his powerful arms and cried in that
frank fashion which contrasted with
the solemnity of the father:
"Go and find Yamile!"
In those far days the consent of
the parents had so much importance
that one hardly troubled to add that
of the fiancee.
She entered the great room in
the most natural manner, with no
more bashfulness nor self-consciousness than she had shown me the day,
before. I almost envied her her selfpcssession. She held out her hand
to me, her eyes looked straight into
mine with a frank, level gaze as she
offered it. It was soft and warm.
I thought of the little cold hands I
had warmed in mine only yesterday.
"Kiss one another, children,"
commanded Boutros.
In public! Boutros had a way
of giving orders that was not easily
resisted. I just touched Yamile's sunburnt cheek with my lips. She kept
her calm air of aloofness. One; would
have thought her a princess, receiving homage with perfect grace, but
also with perfect indifference.
There was the usual throng of
relatives around us, as at all such
ceremonies.
Ranged in order on
the wide divans that encircled the
walls, they uttered the customary
little cries of ecstasy and sentiment.
I could hear them saying: "What a
splendidly matched pair!" It was true.
Our height, our ages, our families,
our property were perfectly suited.
And our hearts. Everybody seemed
to take that for granted; I with the
others. I was sure that young girls
were far more innocent than men,
ignorant of the desires that trouble
us. How could I doubt this one,
she who seemed so happy arms,
white as though washed in snow—so
pleased at being the central figure
iu a great family rejoicing.
Trays covered with lemonade,
syrups, and perfumed wine, with
cake, fruit, and dragees were handed
round among relatives and guests.
This was only a preliminary to the
mere and dinner which would take
place in the evening. When we rejoice, we eat and drink late into
the night Even the "captain" priest
who was there to bless the betrothal
and who looked upon our happiness
with a forbidding eye, melted at tne
sight of these sumptuous prepara-
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your diverse philosophies of life are
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tions. He was officiating in one of
the wealthiest houses of Bcharre.
On Yamile's finger I slipped the
little gold ring that symbolized our
eternal promise,- and I offered her,
according to ancient custom, a bracelet and a long flat pin with which to
fasten her hair above the forehead.
She was charmed with her presents,
and I was rewarded with a look
of infinite sweetness from her blue
eyes.
"When is the marriage to be
held?" the priest asked. It was barely spring, but even in our mountains
the mild season starts in the beginning of April. The orchard trees
were already budding. From the balconies, the slopes of Lebanon were
visible, still white with snow as far
down as The Cedars. The sheik gave
his decision.
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"When the snow is all gone up
there," he said.
This meant August or even September, and that all the harvest must
be gathered before our marriage.
"That's too far away," Boutros
objected. A true man tof action, suspense and waiting, once a decision,
had been made, were hateful to him.
I stole a glance at Yamile, but
read nothing from her eyes. Still
smiling, patient, and unmoved while
others were deciding our destiny, she
seemed neither to approve nor disapprove. I dared not support Boutros
for fear of vexing her. Perhaps the
very worst service my studies had
done me was the habit they had
given me of reflection instead of that
frank and instant exercise of the
will which brings good fortune. In;
leve, especially, the man who knows
to impose his wishes finds an instant
ally in the secret love of being conquered and subjected which is instinctive in women. But alas, we
are what we are, made up of our
weaknesses as well as of our strength
Already I loved Yamile too well to
be capable of crossing her will.
(To be continued in next issue)
the highest honors. This year saw
many young Syrian American college
graduates enter the professions, and I
believe the number in the future will
increase to a much larger percentage.
Any nation, as old as the Syrian nation, should be grateful for having
such an intelligent representation inj
the economic structure of the world.
I know that they are making progress now and will soon be contributing many valuable services to their;
United States.
Cleveland Ohio.
Raymond Shibley
To the Editor— I find the SYRIAN WORLD very interesting and
hope later to be receiving it every
day instead of every week.
You
don't know how glad I am to read
about my parents' country.
Richmond, Va.
Rose Dailey
THE SYRIAN AMERICAN
BOY AS A SCHOLAR
DIES OF HEAT
TO THE EDITOR— In this day
when education is destined to abolish
ignorance the Syrian boy is helping
the cause; he is gradually moving
ahead of the other boys and establishing a sound goal. All over the
United States, in every high school,
college or professional school the Syrian boy is carrying away many of
NICHOLAS Joseph Jed of Brooklyn was overcome by the heat wave
this week and died'early Thursday
morning. He was in the real estate
and insurance business. He is survived by his wife, Charlotte, and six
children. Funeral services will take
place in Our Lady of Lebanon Church
at 10:00 AM., Saturday.
�VOL. V* NO. 14.
NEW YORK, AUCL 4, 1933.
SYNOD MEETS
IN DAMASCUS
Strict Secrecy Dominates Council
Which Wfll Settle Many
Tangled Problems of
Greek Orthodox
Church
(Special Correspondence by Air Mail)
DAMASCUS— Called at the persistent behest of dissenting bishops
of the Antiochean See, the Greek
Orthodox Synod of "Antioch and the
rest of the Orient," convened on the
21st of July in this city, the present
seat of the Antiochean Patriarch.
Little has been known of the august
sessions being held behind the walls
of the patriarchal conclave here. At
the outoset, the Antiochean hierasrehs adopted the policy that nothing
Will be made public until the Synod
has come to definite conclusions of
the discussions on its agenda. Among
these, newspaper correspondents and
representatives gathered, the new canon of the Syrian Orthodox Church,
under which the present Patriarch;
achieved his election, will be threshed
out There are many bishops opposed to it, and it is believed in,
authoritative
quarters
that new
amendments will undoubtedly be introduced.
Another question that will arouse
no Httle animated argument will be
the recognition or rejection of the
new Bishop of Hauran, over whose
election and elevation the new Synod
was demanded by the dissenting bishops.
.While no mention has been made
of the Orthodox Antiochean Diocese
of North America, it is more than
probable that it will receive its due
share of the deliberation of the Synod.
Archbishop Victor Abu-Assaly has
been constantly corresponding with
Patriarch Alexandres Tahhan, requesting the settlement of the tangled
situation in his far-flung diocese.
MILITARY HONORS FOR
CHARLES KHOURY
The funeral of Charles AbrahamWas held with full military honors
in Torrington, Conn., July 31, from
St. Maron's Church, Rt. Rev. Paul
Abi-Rezk officiating. Interment took
place in the New St. Francis Cemetery. The military honors were in)
charge of the 102nd Infantry of the
American Legion.
His military record as compiled
by Ramond H. Mignerey, historian
of the Torrington post of the Ameriean Legion is as follows:
Enlisted in Torrington, September
19, 1917; A. E. F. France; wounded in.
right thigh at Belleau Woods; discharged, December 24, 1918 at Camp
Upton. He was a member of the
Disabled Veterans and a member of
the Second Division Veterans Association.
Kannans on Air
Miss Addie Kannan and her
brother, James, rendered a program
over station WPTF in Raleigh, N. C,
last week, comprising many popular
songs. They are the son and daughter
of Mrs. N. Kannan of Goldsboro, N.C.
IN
AND OUT OF TOWN
Hie marriage of Miss Anne Abraham of Niles, Ohio, to George Matar
of Buffalo, N. Y., came as a surprise
to everyone. The couple were married Thursday evening, July 23, in
St. Maron's Church, Youngstown by
Msgr. Hayek in the presence of the
immediate family. The couple left
directly after the ceremony for Buffalo.
Mr. and Mrs. Abe Aune, who were
married recently, were given a colorful party by the members of the
Young Syrian American Club of
Youngstown, Ohio. The evening was
made enjoyable by oriental dancing
and singing such as predominate at a
Syrian wedding. After the delightful
luncheon the president of the club,
Mr. Joseph ,Bryan, presented the
couple with a gift.
Syrian Athletic League in
Final Baseball Play Off
Cleveland Syrians await the final
three game play off for Syrian baseball championship of the city between the Kalill Contractors backed
by Joseph Kalill and the Aitneet
Brotherhood Association backed by
the Aitneet Club. A two week tie
between these two teams was broken Sunday by the Kalill's run to
first place and defeating the ABA's
9 to 4.
The first of the final three games
series will be played Sunday, August
6.
Both teams are evenly matched.
The ABA's are the 1932 Syrian champions.
Cleveland Flashes
License for marriage was issued
to Abraham Mike, 35, of 3504 Scranton Road to Miss Elizabeth Kaleal,
19, of 3054 Scranton Road
Habeeb George recently opened
a Downtown Syrian-American restaurant.
Najeeb Bou Hamra left Monday
A. M on a buying trip to N. Y. for
his Florence Gift Shop. David Esber of Canton, Ohio, accompanied
him. They will vacation in the east
for a month.
Syrian Junior League members
sill bear sunburn marks as a result
of too much week-ending at their
cottage.
Mrs. Aref Orfalea and her daughter Adele are home again after a
month in the east.
Sammy Kassouf is mechanically
engineering the National Tube at Loraine, Ohio.
Depression must be over for Vernon F. Essi, civil engineer at the
City HalL
WILL LIBERAL ISLAM PREVAIL?
(Continued from page 5.)
miringly of the spirit of friendly cooperation between
Moslems and Christians as revealed in the fiftieth anniversary of Pare Anastase Marie of Iraq at which
the Moslem poet Jamil Sidqi az-Zahawi presided.
Pr. Bannerth is quoted as having said: It is of
PAGE EIGHT
Joseph Sheban of Youngstown,
Ohio, arrived in New York last
Wednesday for an indefinite stay. He
is a student at Western Reserve University where he' will receive his
M.A. in law nxt year.
He was
graduated with a B.A. from the
Youngstown College. He is an editor
of the Reserve Weekly and a contributor to several American papers.
Mrs. M. Hawawini and her daughters, Olga and Alexandria, returned
last Sunday from a two weeks tour
through Canada during which time
they visited the World's Fair.
Mrs. George McKaba of Brooklyn;
and Mrs. Anthony Deeb of Washington, D. .C have taken a home for
the summer in Haines Falls, N. Y.
Mrs. Solomon Kaleel of N.
Main St., Torrington, Conn., is spending a week in Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Harry Shaia, Mrs. Sam Shipley and Mrs. Louis Shalleeta and their
children of Richmond, Va., have taken
a home in Budkroe Beach, Va.,
where they will spend two weeks.
Mr. Naoum
town announced
his son, Joseph
sazyk of Berlin
Joseph of Youngsthe engagement of
to Miss Anna HalCenter, Ohio.
TO HOLD NOVENA
SERVICES
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. Aug. 3.—
Our Lady of Lebanon Church, 1120
Niagara Street, will conduct Novena
services August 7-15, They will include the Feast of the Assumption
and the Feast of the Shrine. Mass
will be held morning on those dates,
in Syriac, and services at 8 in the
evening, in English, by Rev. Philip J.
Nagem, newly appointed pastor of the
church.
On August 13, on the Feast of the
Shrine, the annual procession of the
Shrine will take place, to be followed by solemn high mass.
A
large outing will be held in the afternoon.
SISTERS TO WED
Mr. and Mrs. Toufic Jamate announce the wedding that will take
place on Sunday evening, August 13,
of their two daughters, Mary and
Margaret, the former to Alfred A.
Mashnouk and the latter to Edward
J. Sefershayan. The double wedding
will be solemnized in St Mary's
Church, Brooklyn, at six P. M.
N. SHIBLEY DIES
SUDDENLY
NASSIF Shibley died suddenly
in his home in Cleveland, Ohio; Tuesday, August 1. He wiH be remembered by many Syrians as one of the
Srst settlers in this country. He was
a member of the Aitaneet Club. His
loss came as a great shock to his
many friends. He is survived by his
wife and children, Anne and Raymond.
the highest value that Islam at least maintains the
belief in God in purified forms. If this refuge of
belief in God should vanish, then Western Christianity will be threatened by a new seat of danger.
The consequences of the vanishing of the last ethical
ties can be seen already in the lemancipated Turkey
of today."
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If a healthy and sound BberaBsia in itfsxa, one
that can listen sympatheticaUy to what is good and
Mr. and Mrs. Nasib Kalaf and
their children of Brooklyn, N Y.,
left last Friday for Bethlehem, N. JL,
where they will spend the remainder
of the' summer.
Miss Adele Shehab is spending
two weeks in Sunset Inn in Haines
Falls, N. Y, and will return a week
from Sunday.
Louis Maloof of Rome, Georgia,
arrived in New York last week for*
an indefinite stay and is stopping
at the Sloane House.
Mr. and Mrs. William Aboussleman left last Saturday on the 20th
Century Limited for Chicago to visit
the World's Fair. They expect to remain ten days after which they will
return to New York and probably go
back to Paris at the end of the
month.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Haddad and
their children left New York last
Thursday for a week's vacation in
Waterbury, Conn. Mr. Haddad is a
staffite of AL-HODA.
Fred and Emil Faris returned
last Monday from a two weeks vacation in Mt. Pocono, Pa.
Miss Louise Mussawir of Brooklyn left last Saturday for a vacation
in Cape Copper, Maine. She will
remain two or three weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Souhail Hermos are
making their 'home dn 90-8th Avenue,
Brooklyn. Mrs. Hermos is the former Olga Mussawir, daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. S. G. Mussawir.
Mrs. George Shiya is spending
the summer with her sisters, the
Misses Helen, Kathleen and Winifred Flannery in their summer home
in Spring Lake, N. J., Mr. Shiya joins
her week-ends.
George Shiya, the attorney of New
York, and his sister and brother-inlaw, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Faddool
of Long Beach, L I., made a flying
trip to their home in Ashtabula, Ohio,
leaving a week ago last Wednesday
and returning Monday.
Young Syrian Matrons Club
JULY 27.— The Young SyrianMatrons Club accompanied by their
husbands visited Mr. and Mrs. Fred
A. George to congratulate them on
the recent addition to the family—
an 8% pound baby girl.
The Y. & M C. left George's
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of the rides.
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E. Kassouf being the only unwed
couple accompanying, chaperoned the
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<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
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<p><em>The Syrian World</em> was published between 1926 and 1932 as a journal. In 1932, the format was changed from an academic journal style to a newspaper style, which continued until the periodical's end in 1935. After the death of his brother Naoum, Salloum took over the publication of <em>Al-Hoda.</em></p>
<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
<p>All issues of <em>The Syrian World</em> are available, along with full indexes for the first four volumes. For volumes five and six, there are tables of contents at the start of the issues.</p>
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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.
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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,
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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
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^„^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
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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
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HORNET'S NEST
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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.
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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,"
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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 *
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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
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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^
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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,
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sideration^
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will
require
careful
re^wriSg
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flomp in PiriA
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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.
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' 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
•
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which was developed in time beyond recognition of classical numbers for the somewhat astounded and
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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
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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
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Prof. Maloof declares the child has definite poshave come to renew their inspiration, but without
CXpreSSi0n
often, "Oh, rmT^s?'. ^ *"
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seeking its unknown sources." Even such a monu- sibility Rudy has already given many recitals
which
have
scentered
about
Prof.
Maloofs
studio
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W
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mental epic as Dante's "Divinia Comedia," one of,
« JlT
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spending !her vacation.
in Carnegie Hall. A few months back he was fea- is
the
and most
— boldest—„
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iuagnuiwui pieces of
or imagina
imagina- tured in a „,,,, „0i _, .
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tured in a newsreel, playing the giant organ in the
tive hterature, finds its prototypes and themeTac- Paramount
Siount 2£!\ift*""
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cording to Prof. Miguel Asm, in Arabian sources, "p^ TL
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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
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epic technique which might have made of his "Ri- arri had to contend with a handicap of a stereo»
and
wentTff^
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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
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THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, AUG. 11, 1933
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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-
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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.
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�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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Cleveland
A girl was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Philip Shaheen last Monday night
She is their second child and first
daughter.
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Louis Davis of Pittsburgh, Pa.,
motored to this city to visit his cousin
George Oley, and friends.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
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<p><em>The Syrian World</em> was published between 1926 and 1932 as a journal. In 1932, the format was changed from an academic journal style to a newspaper style, which continued until the periodical's end in 1935. After the death of his brother Naoum, Salloum took over the publication of <em>Al-Hoda.</em></p>
<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY — ESTABLISHED 1926
VOL. VII, NO. 16:
NEW YORK, AUG. 18, 1933.
500 KILLED IN
IBN SU'OUD-IMAM
IRAQ REBELLION
HOSTILITIES
Number Includes 200 Innocent
; People. League May Inter, vene if More' Fatalities
Occur
TKE FIGHTING which has
been" ravaging the Iraqite border has resulted in a tragic sequel, according to a special dispatch to The New York Times.
200 persons who had nothing
whatsoever to do with the rebellion were reported killed
making the total number of
lives lost 500.
It is reported that the majority
of those slain were Assyrians and
that the actual killing was not done
by Iraqite troops but by irregular
police, mobilized for the uprising and
with pronounced anti-Assyrian feeling.
Geneva May Intervene
In the meantime Sir Francis
Humphrys, British Ambassador to
Iraq is hurrying to Baghdad from
Norway where he had been spending
his vacation. At the present King
Feisal is ill.
Unless the killing of the Assyrians ceases, it is believed that, sharp
criticism will "be provoked at Geneva
inasmuch as the British confidence
in the ability of the Arab Government to control its officials is regarded by the League to be "dangerously Optimistic."
BRITISH BLAME
KING FEISAL
Say He Could Have Stopped
Massacres; MacDonald Hurrying to London
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FURTHER developments of the
Assyrian situation, as reflected in
New York Times dispatches, place
King Feisal, who has already returned to his capital Baghdad, in a
precarious position. Although it is
admitted that news received by the
London Times, "leaves scarcely any
doubt that the Assyrian rebels who
crossed into Syrian territory in July
were entirely to blame for the col-t
lissions of August 4 and 5," political
circles- in London are of the opinion
that King Feisal's weakness is much,
to blame for consequent unfortunate
developments.
He is particularly
blamed for failing to carry out an
inquiry into the whole Assyrian situation before leaving for London.
Feeling Changed Against Feisal
.
The high popular feeling, with
which King Feisal was welcomed on,
his visit there has given way to undisguised criticism and disappointment It is even wondered "whether
* Feisal will lose his throne as Amahuilah did"
So important is the Assyrian
situation in the eyes of the British
Foreign Office that Prime Minister
Eamsy MacDonald, who is now vaca< tioning in Scotland, is hurrying to
London to give it personal attention;
in the absence of Foreign Minister
Sir John Simon.
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Invasion of Asir Territory May
Lead to War in Arabian
Peninsula
HOSTILITIES are said to have
broken between Ibn Su'oud, King of
Hijaz and Najd, and Imam Yahya of
Yaman. Ever since the buffer state
of Asir, lying between Yaman and
Hijaz, was put under the protection
of Ibn Su'oud in 1926, the territory,
of Sabya on the southern borders
has been a bone of contention between the two Arab potentates.
According to a New York Times
dispatch, the invasion followed a recent demand by Imam Yahya for the
cession by the Wahhabi king of the
former Idrisi territory. In 1930 this
territory was definitely annexed by
Ibn Su'oud.
Negotiations Fail
Negotiations for a settlement,
opened some time ago in San'a, the
Imam's capital in Yaman. A Wahhabi delegation was sent to the Imam
and received in friendly fashion until the Imam's1 illness, after which
his disposition was said to have
changed completely. He kept the
delegates as virtual prisoners refusing them communication with their
government.
A breach now seems inevitable
unless the Imam withdraws his
troops from Sabya. Ibn Su'oud is
reported to maintain a conciliatory
attitude.
DROWNED BODY
BROUGHT HOME
THE BODY of Fred Karam, 19,
who was missing since last Sunday
when he had gone swimming in
Coney Island, was found Wednesday
morning after a continuous search
by the coast patrol, and brought
to his home at 327 Henry Street,
Brooklyn.
A poor swimmer, Karam was
feared drowned by his family after
a futile anxious wait all day Sunday.
His clothes were still in his locker
in the Jefferson Baths, 33rd and
Surf Avenue. He was lost track of
by his friends with whom he had'
been bathing and .they were unable
to tell how he was drowned.
Funeral services will take place
this afternoon at St. Nicholas Cathedral, State and Bond Streets.
SYRIAN KILLED •
IN GANG FEUD
WORD has just been sent to this
office of the slaying of Ferris J.
Anthon, 34, Syrian of Kansas City,
Mo., also known as Tony Anthon and
Tony Kansas. Anthon was felled by
8 bullets believed to have been fired
by a member of a rival gang as a
result of. a recent flareup.
Anthon was termed the "most
frequently arrested man in Kansas,"
and made $500,000 in only a few
months when he moved his bootlegging business to Chicago.
(As above news was received at
the time the SYRIAN WORLD was
going to press, further details will
be given in the coming issue.
Ed.)
GEORGE HAICK KILLS
MURDERER HAS P0UCE~REC0RD
CLAIMING SELF-DEFENSE EMPTIES GUN AT ABRAHAM
GANTOUS. HAICK ARRESTED FORMERLY ON
NARCOTIC CHARGES
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 11.— Abraham Gantous, 48, of
this city was fatally shot by his cousin, George Haick,-44, in West
Jefferson Street last night, (Thursday) at 6 o'clock. Philip Gargotto, 55, a friend of both, was wounded in the left side.
COREY AGAIN
ESCAPES NOOSE
Murderer of Two Women to
Plead Insanity in New Trial;
Third Time Hanging Is
Postponed
CHARLESTON, W. Va., Aug.
15.— A writ of error stayed the
execution of Joseph Corey who
was sentenced to hang a week
ago, Friday, August 1 1. It was
granted him by Judge M. Litz
of the Supreme Court, two days
previously.
Corey, who had been sentenced
to hang for the murder of Mrs. Katherine Ghiz had also been indicted
for the slaying of his estranged wife,
Mrs. Ada Ghiz Corey, but was not
tried on that count. He shot and
killed both women in a confectionery
store in this city in July, 1932.
First Date for Execution
The first date for execution by
hanging was set for June 23 but
Governor Kump of West Virginia
granted a stay until July 28 to give
the condemned man's attorney's time
to present their plea for commutation of sentence. He then again
granted another stay, until August
11, but beyond that refused to extend any further leniency in commuting the sentence. He stated that
Corey's attorneys had pleaded insanity but that physicians who had
examined him reported that he was
not insane.
The present writ of error, granted
by Judge Litz, has been refused by
the court, according to the Charleston Gazette, but the judge had not
been present at the time it was
pleaded for. He was still on vacation)
when it was taken to him and granted.
Judge Litz made no comment on his
present decision.
The case will probably be up for
argument before the Supreme Court
on September 12, when the defendant
will again plead insanity., Physicians
during the last few weeks have been,
examining Corey, and presented their
verdict that resulted in the governor's
refusal to grant clemency.
Corey Over-Joyed
Asked to make a statement on,
the writ of error granted by Judge
Litz that automatically stayed the
execution, Joseph Corey in the death
cell in the Moundsville, W. Va. penitentiary, was "too excited to talk,"
he declared The warden reported
that the prisoner was overjoyed at
the stay. He was moved immediately from the death cell to another
wing in the penitentiary.
Haick claimed self-defense. He
reiterated that he was glad he shot
his cousin and hoped he would die,
but that he. was sorry he wounded
Gargotto. Gantous was taken to the
City Hospital where he died at 7:35.
The attending physicians said that
the three bullets entered his right
side, passed through his body and
lodged in his left arm A blood
transfusion after his removal to the
hospital proved useless.
Murderer in Vindictive mood
The murderer told detective
Sergeants Henry Biebel and H C.
Griffin, members of the homicide
squad who had come upon the scene
and taken away the revolver from
his hand without effort, that he
"wished the first bullet had gone
through his heart; I hope he dies; I'm
not sorry: he deserves to die."
Haick is the proprietor of a meat
market in 113% West JeffersonStreet. . He said he had brought
Gantous from Mt. Pleasant, Pa., where
he is married and has eight children, to work in his store, several
weeks ago. At the time of the murder
the victim was living at Haick's
home.
Gantous was about six feet away,
Haick told the detectives, and that his
cousin had his hand in his pocket
and was approaching him in a
threatening way, whereupon he fired.
Gargotto said that he and Gantous
were on the sidewalk discussing a
fishing trip when Haick suddenly
fired.
Other witnesses said that
Haick fired without provocation, six
shots, two of which went astray.
Haick told the detectives that
although he had so generously given
Gantous work and lodging, Gantous
had abused Haick's wife, daughter
and sister after "doping," their food
and that he had stolen money from
the store.
Arrested on Narcotic Charges
According to the Courier-Journal,
Louisville, police records show that
Haick was arrested in Louisville in
1924 and 1927 on charges of violating Federal narcotic laws, and that
he served a term in the Federal
Penitentiary at Atlanta.
He was arrested in Louisville
six times since 1927 on charges of
gaming, disturbing the peace and
disorderly conduct.
Palestinian Veteran
Passes Away
A TELEPHONE message to alHoda from Washington announced the
death of Mitry Habib of Ramallah,
Palestine, after an illness of pneumonia. Mr. Habib, who was a veteran
in the American Expeditionary forces,
was given a military burial.
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BISHOP SALEEBY BEATEN WHILE
CELEBRATING MASS IN CHURCH
ELECT SANYOUR
TO CONVENTION
LANSING HOST.
TO NEIGHBORS
TENSION BETWEEN ASSISTANT BISHOP OF BEIRUT AND
CONSTITUENCY ENDS IN FRACAS AT CHURCH
OF PATRON SAINT
Sanyour Also Elected Head of
Legion Post 141
Friends from Detroit, Flint awl
Grand Rapids Are Guests
at Lake Picnic
THBEAT or ANGBY BEDtUTIANS CASHED OUT DESPITE SIXTY
POLICEMEN OH bCTlr. FEAk LOBS Of FEESTIGE POB
PBSSTBOOD m LEBANON
(Special Correspondence to AL-HODA)
BEIRUT.— The bitter controversy between Bishop IKya Saleeby, assistant to Metropolitan Garanmos Masarrah, and his Beirutian Creek Orthodox constituency hat culminated in violence, the
bishop himself falling victim to die wrath of the disaffected dioThe controversy began a few
months ago when followers of Bishop
Saleeby in Suq-al-Gharb beat up
Rene Sursuq, prominent Orthodox
citizen of Beirut Attempts at reconciling the bishop with Sursuq resulted in failure. Feelings were still
at high tension when Bishop Saleeby,
a few weeks ago, insisted on carrying on the election of a laymen's
commission said to be favourable to
faun. It is reported that in spite
of a promise to Patriarch Alexandras
Tshhan to postpone the election to
a more propitious time, Bishop Saleeby went on with it after his return from Damascus.
For days Beirut was buzzing with
heated comment and controversy over*
the regrettable incident. In some circles it is regarded as another indication of the trend of the time and the
low of prestige of the clergy in a
country where they had exercised
great influence and authority. That
a bishop in his ecclesiastical robes
and while officiating at mass was
beaten in the confines of the sacristy
is an offense that has no parallel in
the memory of people in this city.
LECTURES IN RASHID'S
STORE
MISS SELMA Ekrem of Istanbul,
Turkey, who came to America to
Following an old tradition, Bispeak before the International Counshop Saleeby announced that he will cil of Business and Professional Wocelebrate mass on St Elijah's feast men, gave an address in the spacious
day, falling on the second of August store of S. M. Rashid in Chautauqua,
at St Elijah of Batinah church in N. Y., on "The Place of the Rug in
the heart of al-Mazra'ah, where the
the Turkish Home," on Tuesday,
majority are Greek Orthodox and of. August 8. Her interesting talk was
-the opponents of Bishop Saleeby. heard by many Chautauqua residents
The Mazra'ites sent word to the biand visitors.
shop warning him not to come to
Miss Ekrem, attired in a typical
their church, and that if he came
Turkish costume, was one of the
they would prevent him if need be by speakers of Chautauqua "Old First
physical force from celebrating mass.
Night" which is celebrated annually.
Bishop Saleeby insisted on going.
Chautauqua, the American Institution
Regaled in his episcopal robes and of Arts, now in its 59th year boasts
mitre, he proceeded to Mazra'ah, ac- ' this year of having Mr. Rashid with
companied by a group of valiant folthem for thirty-one years. His enlowers. The local government on joyable auctions are well attended
its part, had taken the necessary and are now an institution there. They
precautions, detailing sixty policemen were suspended, however, on Old
to keep order in the church.
First Night August 1, in celebration
of the event.
Atmosphere Tense
latent an Holding Mass
The atmosphere was electrified
with feelings of enmity and grudge.
The church was filled to capacity,
and many of the "strong men" of
Mazra'ah had gone there with no
intention of worship, but to make
trouble. As Bishop Saleeby entered'
the sacristy and mass was opened,
some of the "strong men" of Mazra'ah
came forward. The bishop's' drago-i
man tried to hold them back, and a
fight started. In the midst of the
confusion which followed, someone
from tiie crowd, who was identified
as Nicola Nimr Majdalani, rushed
forward and dealt Bishop Saleeby
a heavy blow with a stick. The bishop
fell down unconscious and was immediately carried out with a four
inch cut in his forehead. It was
said that had it not been for the
mitre, the blow would have been
fatal
Offender Arrested, Released
The offender was arrested before
he had chance to leave the church,
but on order of the assistant commissioner of police, Michael Milkie,
who was in command, was released
at once.
As an aftermath of this trouble,
the assistant commissioner lost his
position, was put under arrest and
confined to prison. Two days later,
al-Majdalani and two of his accomplices surrendered themselves to
justice,
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PROF. FREIHA HERE TO
STUDY IN CHICAGO
Anis Freiha* Professor of Semitics in
the American University of Beirut
arrived here last month for advanced
studies in Semitics in the University
fo Chicago.
This is1 Prof. Freiha's second
trip to America, the first being in,
1928 when he was a student in Chicago University after which he went
to Germany and studied under the
late Prof. Noldeke, considered in
his days the greatest Semitic scholar:
living and dean of all orientalists.
Third Carnival for >
Fall River Church
FALL RIVER, Mass.—The Church
of St Anthony of the Desert Church
of this city, will hold its 3rd annual
carnival oh the 20th of this month at
a place not yet designated, somewhere near the environs of the city.
TO STUDY IN A. U. B.
GEORGE A Nassif and his son,
Floyd, were here on a visit from
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Floyd Nassif,
a former student of Iowa University,
sailed yesterday on the S. S. Manhattan to Syria to continue his
> studies at the American University of
Beirut He Will take the preparatory
work for medicine which he intends to study there.
RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 14,-Salem
T. Sanyour of Richmond, newly elected Commander of Federal Post 14L
tile American Legion, Department of
Virgins, was named delegate to
the National Convention to be held
in Chicago. He will also represent
his post in the state convention to be
held in Bristol.
Mr. Sanyour is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Abraham Sanyour, and is the
president of the Lebanon Social
Club and local correspondent of
THE SYRIAN WORLD. He is finishing one year as Junior Vice Commander and two' years as chairman
of Ways and Means Committee of
Post 141. He served two years inj
the World War, one year in France
with Co. E. 104th Ammunition Train,
29th Division, and is still serving the
Government being connected with
tiie Post Office Department
Federal Post 141, of which Mr.
Sanyour is -now chief, proposed am
advance payment plan for collecting
Legion dues which was recommended to all posts throughout the
world by National Headquarters.
MISSES SHAMAS
SAHADI, FINALS
Gladys Jabara 1932 Champion
Loses to Lorice Sahadi
THE ANNUAL Women's Singles
Tournament of Sunset Park, Brooklyn, was begun last Saturday, August
12, in uncertain weather.
Gladys Jabara, defending champion of 1932 and no. 1 seeded star
was upset in the semi-finals by
Lorice Sahadi, whose game was in
tip-top form. Miss Sahadi, with this
victory has suddenly come to the
top. She was not of the Brooklyn
players considered formerly a one of
the seeded players. Like Miss Jabara,
she has a swift driving game, plus
graceful form.
Miss Sahadi will meet Victoria
Shamas in the finals which will be
held tomorrow. Miss Shamas, with
Ralph Axelrod was the winner of the
mixed doubles tournament of 1932.
She also plays a strong swift game
and her game with Miss Sahadi is
expected to draw a record crowd of
young tennis fans to watch the
match that promises to prove the
mettle of each player.
SUMMARIES: First Round: Lulu Tweel defeated Jean Hanna,
4-6, 6-4, 7-5. Gladys Jabara defeated Alma Dayes, 6-0, 6-1. Lorice
Sahadi drew a bye. Victoria Shamas
defeated Anne Iocca, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2.
Ida Glutzkin defeated Violet Sabah,
6-3, 5-7, 6-2. Margaret Sabah won
by default
Second Round: Lulu Tweel, Margaret Sabah and Lorice Sahadi each)
won by default
Quarter Finals: Victoria Shamas
defeated Margaret Sabah, 6-0, 6-0.
Semi-Finals: Victoria Shamas defeated Lulu Tweel, 6-3, 5-7, 6-1.
Lorice Sahadi defeated Gladys
Jabara, 6-1, 6-2.
TO HANG SHINGLE
ANTHONY A Nasif , M D. opened
his office on August 16 at 148 Clinton
Street near Borough Hall Station,
Brooklyn. Dr. Nasif was graduated
from the Long Island Medical College two years ago'.
LANSING, Mich, Aug. 14— The
Syrian American Workmen's Association and the Syrian American Unity
dub of this city were hosts yesterday, Sunday, to many friends from
Detroit Flint and Grand Rapids at
their annual Basket Picniic held at
Alward Lake, Tensing.
The order of the day was lunch,
speeches and then dancing for the
young folks for whom a five-piece
orchestra played, and oriental dancing
for the older people.
Speaks After Picnic
After the picnic lunch M. N.
Nakfoor, chairman of the arrangement committee, introduced Louis H.
Estfan as toastmaster. After Mr.
Estfan's brief talk he introduced in
turn the following speakers: A. N.
Corey, Checri Kanaan, Detroit; Sam
Assad, Flint; Lyle Austin, city assessor, Lansing; Floyd L Webb,
candidate for city assessor; Joe Joseph, assistant prosecuting attorney
of Flint; Frank Kasoof, president of
the Syrian American Unity Club,
Tensing; Mrs. S. A. Bofysil of Lansing who recited an original poem,
and 12 year old Edmund Farhat
The committee was headed by
Mr. Nakfoor and Mr. Estfan who
were assisted by S. N. Corey, Louis
Horaney, Abraham Nakfoor and
Louis G. Rahmey.
PICNIC IN FLINT, MICH.
A BIGGER and better picnic than,
was ever held in Flint Mich., in the
past five years is planned by the
Flint Phoenician Club for Sunday,
August 20. It promises to be a great
get-together for Flint residents and
friends from out-of-town.
There
will be prizes for • running, dancing,
and weight-lifting in the Sokol Park,
six miles east of Flint just off the
Richfield Road
Speakers will be Dr. Jos. Macsood, popular advisor of the club;
Joseph Joseph, assistant-prosecutor*
of Flint; Edmund Rashead, who
served the club for two years as
vice-president and the president of
the Phoenician Club, George Rashead
Fred Maloof Purchases
Fashionable Florida Hotel
PALM BEACH, Fla., August 15.—
Fred Maloof, of New York City and
Providence, R. I., has purchased The
Billows, one of the most fashionable
hotels of this resort and the only
one on the beach besides The Breakers.
Mr. Maloof is a dealer in art
goods in New York City.
SERAPHIM ELLAS
GIVES DISSERTATION
ON HICCOUGH
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"AL-BARID" which appears in.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, informs us that
Seraphim Elias was granted the Luis
Barboza prize in medicine upon his
recent graduation from the medical
school of the Brazilian capital. This
prize, the most coveted in Brazil was
a recent endowment by the donor,
and Seraphim Elias was the first to
receive it. His dissertation, on -hiccoughs' received high praise from Brazilian medical authorities who declared that it Contained many valuable
and original observations.
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TOE 8TRUH WORLD, NEW YORK. AUG. IS, 1933.
RACIAL PRESERVATION AIM
OF CANADIAN SOCIETY
VISIT OF ARCHBISHOP ABOUASSALY OCCASION FOR
REVIVAL OF RACIAL CONSCIOUSNESS
(Special Correspondence)
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Foot-Ball Team Organised
Already the club has begun to
make itself felt Over 75% of the
available youth of the community
have joined, and hope is expressed
that the membership will steadily extend to include as many of the rest
as possible.
A football team has
been organized under the club and
has done creditable work in various
meets with existing Canadian teams
of much greater experience.
The archbishop's visit was made
the occasion for a reception at which
His Grace was guest of honor, and
which proved an unqualified sucSpeaking on behalf of the club
and expounding its aims before him,
Elias Karem emphasized the assimilation of the best elements of Syrian
personality with similar elements in
other nationalities.
"The Syrian Canadian Club of;
Ottawa," declared Mr. Karem, "is
a non-denominational association of;
Syrian youth seeking for its goal, in
part, exactly that atmosphere which
your presence produces, but with an
all-year permanence. It will seek
to instill in the hearts and minds of
our growing youth those elements of
our Syrian personality that are desirable and allow them to be intermingled with the best of those attributes that are deemed most desirable in other nationalities we come
in contact with in the course of our
Canadian life. It will seek to awaken
in the hearts of the descendants of the
Syrian Canadian pioneers those traditions for which the latter resisted oppression, emigrated to a new and
unknown world and suffered untold
hardships."
Make no Religious Distinctions
In aiding the Syrian Orthodox
Church in Ottawa, continued the
speaker, it will do so "not because
it happens to be the house of worship of a certain portion of this
community, but because we take pride
in it as a Syrian institution, the product of Syrian ingenuity and effort
We will do the same for a Mohammedan,' a Catholic or a Protestant institution if it were a source of pride
to our Syrian racial traditions."
Depicting the conditons which
gave rise to the Syrian Canadian
Club of Ottawa, and which differ little
from conditons confronting the second-generation Syrians and Lebanese
throughout the United States as well
as Canada, its spokesman pledged his
club to the obligations and duties
LEBANESE RUNS
MEX. INDUSTRIES
Jacob Simon, Here on Business,
Controls Six Industries in
Mexican Capital. Built Own
Industrial Plants with
148 Offices
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Archbishop
VKtor Abouaasaly, head of the Antiochean Greek Orthodox, for
North Amenca, on the 7th of this month wa, an occasion for the
revival of community spirit and racial consciousness.
tile Syrian Canadian Club of
Ottawa, which had been organized
previous to the archbishop's visit,
was launched formally, and its aims
made public in a speech delivered1
in his grace's presence. Originally
the club was said to have been the
result of a "Syrian Orthodox movement" But owing to the fact that
several gro-ips of young men not
belonging to the Syrian Orthodox
faith who might have joined the
movement were thus excluded, the
religious aspect of the constitution!
was dropped out, and the doors of)
the club were opened for minority
groups to enter.
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devolving upon this generation to
carry on racial traditions for which
their fathers and forefathers laboured,
and suffered so much.
Signs of Decay Noted
"Already," said the speaker, "we
are witnessing the signs of moral decay in our second-generation due to
the neglect of such obligations and
such moral duties. Already we witness the pitiful sight of young Syrians
showing inclinations to associate with
and copy even the scum of other
races, too embarrassed to own up to
their own nationality when the occasion is forced upon them, nay even,
banging their heads almost in shame
when somebody identifies them with
the Syrian race."
The speaker went on to urge
Archbishop Victor to proclaim the
message of the club wherever he
went and to those who are similarly
associated to extend its greetings and
encouragement. "But to those who
have yet to awaken from their lethargy, our hearts as our voices go forth:
"'Arise and follow the standard.
Let not the spark die out with the
passing of our pioneering forebears!'"
MAASSERTTES GET
TOGETHER IN OPEN
THE ANNUAL Maasser Reunion
which was held in Waterbury, Conn,
on Sunday, August 6, drew about
400 Maasserites and their friends to
the outing. Mass was first solemnized at 11:30 by Msgr. Philip Salamouny of Danbury at the altar that
had been decorated by Mrs. Abo
Hamra of Naugautuck.
Mass over at 12:30, the crowd
enjoyed their picnic lunch under the
cooling trees and cloudless sky.
Seated at the speakers' table was His
Honor Mayor Frank Hayes of Waterbury who had visited Beirut and
Damascus in 1925. He spoke reminiscently of his trip and expressed
his respect for the Syrians. He was
introduced by George Haddad who
followed the welcome speech given
by the chairman of the committee,
Dr. Lewis G. Aide of Brooklyn.
Louis Habib Nejame, toastmaster,
introduced in turn the following
speakers: George Betros, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; Archm. Philip Salamouny,
Arch. Bernardos Ghosn, N. Y.; Dr.
Rashid T. Deen; Fozi Brady, A. M.
Haddad, and Louis Shaker, 12 year
old son of Charles Shaker of Winsted.
Among the entertainers were
Jameely Matouck, Toufic Mobayed
and Mrs. Melvina Haddad.
The silver cup for the 201b. hammer throw was won by Michael Stevens and prizes for the best Arabic
dances, which were donated by Miss
Matilda Aide, Brooklyn, were awarded to Margaret Habib, Naugatuck;
Annabelle Nejame, Waterbury; Beadie Negame, North Adams, Mass.;
and Frieda Antous, Danbury.
Others on the committee were
Marshall S. Nejame, Kareem Corey,
Sam Nejame, Charles Shaker, Louis
F. Nejame, Joseph Shaker, Mike
Peter and George Betros.
AN INFANT immigrant from
a little town in Kura two years
of age, Jacob Simon is now a
power in the industrial life of
Mexico, a pioneer in the national life of the sister republic
across the Rio Grande.
Stocky with graying black hair
indicating his age in the middle
forties, with firm lips and a smile
of expansive good nature, Senor Simon is a picture of determination and
goodwill.
You would hate to be
his business competitor, but will
rest assured of his friendliness and
loyalty if you are on his side.
Reluctantly and modestly, and
with no little prompting from an admiring friend of this city, Mr. Said
Harfoush, we elicited a romantic and
picturesque story of the meteoric
career of Simon Jacob, premier industrialist of Mexico, as he paid us a
brief visit to this office accompanied
by his daughter, Senorita Nellie.
He is in this country on business,
to buy equipment for a newlyfounded industry, one of a string
of such industries already to his
credit
Simon Develops Industries
Everybody in Mexico City, from
the President down to the humblest
Indian peon, knows Senor Simon.
His group of office and factory buildings on Cappuchina Septima is an
industrial landmark in that capital.
The group, comprising 148 offices and
34 plants, is over a square city block.
Six district industries are housed in
this block. One of these is a razorblade plant with a capacity of 50,0<5b
blades a day. Other products which
bear the Simon stamp and are
shipped
everywhere
in
Mexico,
and South America are combs, fountain pens, said to be equal to
the best produced in America, building materials, celophane and amunitions. Among the building material
products produced in the Simon!
plants is a patented cement airblown brick especially suited for tall
buildings in Mexico City and other
places where a substratum of rock, as
we have in New York, is lacking.
Perhaps the most romantic chapter in the industrial career of our
Mexican compatriot is the one dealing
with the development of electric
lamp bulbs, and which led to his
bucking of the great General Elec•tric Company of this country.
States, France and Germany. Realize
mg the highly technical nature o£
this industry, and the great engineering preparations which it entails,
he sailed to Germany where, for a
whole year, he made an intensive study
of this industry in the famous Osram
plants in Berlin. Fully equipped he
then sailed back to Mexico, imported
the necessary machinery and started
with a few thousand bulbs. In time
his new plant separately built on the
outskirts of the city, had a capacity
of 25,000 bulbs a day of various sizes
and candle powers.
Competition
with the outer bulb manufacturing
companies, especially the General
Electric Company of Schenectady,
led to law-suits in which Jacob
Simon won. Subsequently he sold
to* plant to the General Electric for
500,000 with the option of keeping
a stock of 2,000,000 bulbs. Due to
the failure of the General Electric
Company to abide by its promise to
buy the plant it was said, Jacob
Simon has decided to start operation
again on a scale of 10,000 bulbs a day
This decision has now carried him
to New York once more for the
purchase of new machinery and
Plant equipment He is now staying
at Pennsylvania Hotel, where he wul
remain a few days more. Before
going back to Mexico he plans to
visit the Century of Progress Exposition. He will find there exhibits
of the latest and most advanced industrial inventions, and maybe get an
inspiration for ahother industry to
introduce to his land of adoption.
Simons Wefl-Known in Mexico
The Simons are a well-known
and established family in the MexicanRepublic. His brother, Senator Najeeb
Simon is an influential lawyer and a
Personal friend of former President
Plutarcho Calles.
" Jacob Simon has given liberally
of his means for educational and philanthropic projects in Mexico and in
the country of his birth, Lebanon.
In the little town of Aba, Kura, in
a spacious ground outside of his
former hometown, a large, modern
high-school, endowed by Jacob Simon, stands today as a memorial to
the philanthropic and patriotic spirit
of the premier industrialist of Mexico, the former Lebanese subject
from the little town of Aba.
NEW SYRIAN
COOK-BOOK
IDEAL COOK BOOK
FOR SYRIANS
130 Good Healthful Helpful
Recipes
Introduces Electric Bulbs
Also Used by Americans
A few years ago Jacob Simon
noticed the high prices which this
necessary article commands in Mexico and which is imported by several competing firms from the United
Sent postpaid on receipt of $3.00
Order direct from author, A S.
Alamy, 2609 (Industrial Ave.,
Flint Mich.
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LADY ATTENDANT
Expense a Matter of Year Own Desire
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BROOKLYN. N. Y.
The Urge amount of business we do permits us to buy caskets
caskets atJ45.00 up. We pay no agents to secure funerals for us but
only give the family who has sorrow th. very best of service, rer^nc.
and economy. Our aim is to help fees, who are in trouble aTTrery
little cost No charge for us. of our serric« or fun.nd parlors
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AN INSTITUTION
THE MAHRAJAN.
first suggested
by
the late Lebanese leader in America, N. A.
Mokarzel,
and sponsored by the Lebanon
League of Progress of New York-and ALHODA, has in four years firmly established
itself as a national institution in the life of
the Syrians and Lebanese in America.
The
It is therefore not enough to nurse the!
racial consciousness and accentuate the racial
differences without first taking firm grasp of
those racial traits and characteristics which
should be selected for preservation and expression in the composite body politic. We
note with regret that often this consciousness
in our younger Syrians is emotional, with
little content to it.
There is not enough
earnest effort to study history and culture of
the ancestors they seek to pride themselves
in. They seem to be content with a little
muttering of general history such as that the
Phoenicians discovered the alphabet and
were the greatest sailors of the ancient world,
or that Arabs contributed a great deal to
the renaissance of European learning and
arts. That is not enough. It does not supply sufficient content to build upon the racial
self-expression desired.
-aim of the sponsors is that it shall become
perpetual both as a reminder to our descendants of their racial origin and as a means
of
keeting
alive
whose (Contribution
those
worthy
traditions
to
American
life will
One
WORLD,
great
one
objective
of
the
SYRIAN
fundamental reason for its
existence, is to supply this deficiency.
And
yet it is just those youngsters who stand in
so much need of that valuable background
add to the national culture.
who often complain that we do not give
The Mahrajan is the annual festival at
which we gather every year on Labor Day,
which falls nearest to September 1, the Lebanese national day commemorating the establishment of the republic, and engage in
patriotic exercises as well as in native sports,
folk songs and various forms of social and
cultural activities.
It is a source of enjoyment to the old and should serve as a source
of pleasure and education to the young. It
is highly advisable, therefore, that our youth
be induced to attend that they might become
more fully acquainted with the various phases
of our racial culture expressed in action, and
that they might be able to carry on the
worthy traditions when those who brought
them over would have passed away.
During the summer'season many outings
are held throughout the country by churches
and civic associations which, due to the recent popularity of the name, are being called
Mahrajans.
AH these serve a purpose and
should be encouraged. . But they are mostly
local and hence fail to convey the real meaning, or express the spirit of the national Mahrajan because of the obvious impossibility of
a
general
representation
of
talent in die
local affairs.
enough space to "sports", to "social news"
or this or that. If we did as they desire what
else remains in the SYRIAN WORLD that
would
distinguish it from any other local
paper in America? In what sense will it be*,
a "SYRIAN" WORLD?
It is just this historical-cultural content
which our young Syrians stand in so much
need of that makes the SYRIAN WORLD
the unique institution it is among all the
"Syrian" papers published in English.
FR£E INSURANCE
ASSUMING that Fred
Karam died of
drowning under ordinary conditions,
it is
one more unnecessary and avoidable death.
It seems a pity that such fatalities should
occur so frequently.
But it is more a pity
when they could be so easily avoided. Swimming is in truth free insurance for which we
have to pay no premiums and which, once
acquired, is almost impossible to lose.
At
least one university in our eastern states requires swimming of its students before they
can graduate. The practice should extend to
It is fitting, therefore, that;, our youth
strain every effort to attend the original Mahrajan which in the East has been held in
Bridgeport, Conn., for the last four years. It
is mainly held for their benefit as a means
for perpetuating our national culture, and it
every high school and grammar school in the
is but fitting that they respond.
in hand and teach it how to swim in a tub.
country.
It is not an over-wise mother who
asks of her daughter "to hang her clothes on
a hickory limb and not go near the water."
A modem mother should take her little child
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"AN EGYPTIAN CHILDHOOD"
Author: Dr. Taha Huseiii.
Publishers: Routledge and Sons, London, 1932.
Tr. by E. H. Paxton.
THIS LITTLE book of 168 pages could be well
entitled "the Triumph of a Gigantic Mind against
the Odds of Circumstance and Environment" or,.
V Living Proof that Nobody Knows Where Liberalism May Sprout and Take Root" We could foitilr of
other names also. The author calls his own book,
which ran serially in al-Hilal Magazine, "al-Ayyam"
(Days), obviously not an appropriate name for
English translation. The title chosen by the translation is apt and expressive.
Title aside, this is one of the most significant,
gripping, graphic autobiographies of our day and
generation. No reader of this paper, young or old,
liberal or conservative, Christian, Moslem or Jew,
who has any serious desire to be posted on what i*
going on in the Near East today can afford not to
read it It should be in the library of every city,
town or hamlet wherever Syrians are to be found
in this country.
There is no modem Arab who has attracted
more attention and aroused more interest among
students of the Near East than Dr. Taha Husein,
the author of this autobiography. Blind from childhood, sprung from the soil of peasant Egypt weighed
down by odds of natural and social handieaps that
would have dragged down more fortunate ones,
he. rose meteor-like to become the dean of the
College of Literature at the Egyptian National University and standard-bearer throughout the Arabicspeaking world of modern, scholarly criticism.
Born in Maghaghah, a little town in the district
of Minia of Upper Egypt in the year 1889, Taha had
to contend against limitations and inhibitions of all
sorts, heightened by his blindness, which was due
to ignorance and neglect in early childhood The
autobiography traces the poignant memories and
impressions of this restricted, but not always unhappy, life up till the blind lad entered al-Azhar
Mosque University in Cairo at the age of thirteen.
It is written in the third person in the form of a
narrative addressed to his little daughter.
The earliest reminiscences of our hero are of a
yard fence that seemed to have shut him in from
the rest of the world, and turned him on a world
of his own imagination.
"However," he writes, "if there has remained
to him any clear distinct memory of this time about
which there is no cause to doubt it is the memory
of a fence which stood in front of him and was made
of maize stems which was only a few paces away
from the door of the house. He remembers the
fence as though he saw it only yesterday. He
remembers that the stalks of which this fence* was
composed were taller than he was, and it was difficult for him to get to the other side of it
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Taha's village home was typical of most Egyptian fellah homes. There was the canal from which
the village women went to fill their jars; there was
the jshadouf to draw water from the canal for the
cotton fields; there was the village poet around
whom old and young gathered to listen to the exploits of Antarah, of Abu-Zaid, Diab and Khalifa
and of King az-Zahir Baibars who conquered the
Crusaders; there was the old grandfather incessantly
reciting the Qoran, the talkative women telling the
Ifolk-tales of the race, singing the peasant folksongs and repeating the familiar dirges at funerals.
And there was the typical school-master, "Our
Master," a rapacious, greedy old-fellow fond of
singing and not over conscientious in his pedagogical
duties.
It is a fascinating story to be appreciated only
when read in some cozy comer, under a shady tree
or in the quiet of night at bedtime.
Little did Taha dream, even after his day of
triumph had come, and his father decided to send
him to al-Azhar in the company of his elder brother,
that his retentive Wmory for folk-tales and songs
was his best early asset as the future premier critic
of Arabic hterature. The Alfiyyah of Ibn Malik,
the grammer. text-book in verse still, currently
used hi backward native schools, which it was his
envy to memorize as his brother did before him,
was only one of a- series of disillusions which the
growing, avid youth discarded in his passionate
pursuit of true learning.
The erudition of al-Azhar doctors of theology
did not satisfy his soul Team there he moved to
the newly founded Egyptian University in 1988.
He was selected as one of\ the bright students to
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THE PLACE OF TRADITION IN
NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS
By R L K*tibah
THERE broods over the whole Orient today a
titanic struggle between two forces of life which!
have always acted in the evolution of the world
as two magnetic poles. Hitherto, the magnetic field
in the countries of the Near and Far East had been
somewhat dormant. Mysterious forces, gathering
up dynamic energy for the last hundred years or
more broke out all of a sudden after the World
War. It is as if an electric current from outside
had touched the magnetic field and livened up the
activities of the human particles in two oppcsitie
directions. It will be perhaps another hundred
years before something of a new design, a new arrangement of human values and ideals will take
definite shape.
The.Oriept today is engaged in a far-reaching
warfare between the old and the new, between tradition and progress, between conservatism and liberalism, between the forces of conservation and
tiie forces of creation.
,
If we were called upon to take sides in this
warfare, it is hardly necessary for me to presume
that most readers of my column will declare themselves openly and unequivocably on the side of
the hew and liberal, on the side of creation and
progress. Therefore it seems hardly necessary for
me to defend that side. Our sentiments, and rightly so, are on the side of men like Mustafa Kemal
Pasha, Riza Khan Pehlawi, General Chiang KaiShek, Hu Shih, the great Chinese modernist, Dr.
Taha Husein, a review of whose life the reader
may find in another column of this issue, Ameen
Rihani and many, many others who have taken
up the fight on the side of the forward-looking
forces of life. We need no argument to convince
us that the harem institution should pass away,
that capricious divorce by the almighty male should
be done with, that autocracy has no more place in
the world we are living in, that unquestioning submission to authority does not fit in a world ofi
, scientific curiousity and empiric reasoning, that
religious dogmatism should not dominate our political and social order in a blind and arbitrary
fashion.
But it is one thing to give our undivided allegiance to these things, and another to blind ourselves against all that is good, beautiful and of
permanent value in the past. In my book-in-themaking I have given expression to this timely
warning when, speaking of Jerusalem as the symbol
of the isolated and irreconciled past, I said:
"A liberalism which will merely rationalize
eway the mystery of life and man's real vocation
and destiny; a realistic dogmatism that will flip
away all things considered sacred and eternal because they are not amenable to demonstration by
microscope and test-tubes; an impatient radicalism
that has no time for the jibberish talk of ponderous
theologians, but lends'an over-indulgent ear for the
(jibberish chatter of imponderous materialists—all
these have to remain outside the walls of ancient
Jerusalem."
The solicitude for the past that we are here
calling for involves many difficulties and many
problems. We are not substituting one attitude of
irrational reverence for the past for an attitude
of complete and prejudiced indifference. Rather
it is a question of adjustment and interaction, of,
what and how much of the past should be incorporated in the present, what, element should be conserved and what and how much of it should be
relegated to oblivion and the mercy of Allah Tradition in the building up of a new culture should
act like a ballast, not too light to be of no effect
on the course of the ship, not too heavy to retard
its progress. Prof. Hocking formulates this principle in his own words when he says in his book,
"The Spirit of World Politics:"
"Yet, if Islam vanishes from the Arab regions
without leaving any. equivalent of human dignity,
horizon and hope, the cultural result will hardly
be other than a modernistic cross-breed, which
might as well be hatched under European feathers
as under any other."
And what Prof. Hocking says of Islam is true of
all the old traditions of the East Like Jacob and
the angel of God in the biblical story the forces of
the present, in their struggle with the forces of
the past, must not let ga of them till they give them
their wholeheartedMessing.
The Influence of Gibran
FARID HADDAD, that modest good-looking
young
man hated to give his opinion about the
A LITTLE green brochure has just eome to
hani It is called "Another Spring" and is a com- World's Fair for fear he would be quoted for pubpilation of small poems by Marie Falconer of Port lication. "Well, ifs a matter of opinion," he said.
Washington, LI. The brochure is published privately "I liked it but I know others who didn't" And that
by the author and has an introduction by John, tells us ex-actly what he thinks of the World's
Fair.
Haynes Holmes, pastor of the Community Church
of New York City. Of Mrs. Falconer's poems, Rev.
Holmes writes: "One feels in her work the influSelwa Keamy spent last week in Asbury Park
ence of certain masters—Rabindranath Tagore, Kah- and thought she would see the exhibit of Nicolas
lil Gibran, Adelaide Crapsey. But Mrs. Falconer Macsoud's paintings now being held by the City
is in the end her own master."
of Asbury Park, while she was down there. So in
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she trots and what did her eyes behold, first thing,
The brochure is of especial interest to us be- but two pictures of her beloved hospital. Selwa
cause of the Gibran element Undoubtedly, as is a trained nurse, and an amateur painter. She
Mrs. Falconer has herself said, Gibran has had a doesn't use models but draws and paints from
decided influence upon her work. The frontispiece is memory. Summer doesn't usually find Selwa in
a reproduction of a pencil point drawing of the New York, as it usually takes her to camp to be
author by Gibran and is especially significant be- the nurse there; but this year she thought she
cause of its lighting effects.
would have a good time for once and therefore
A summation of the Fourth Dimension in a stayed in the city. (There's something strange somegood choice of words and rhythm, is "The Einstein; where.)
Theory"—
Selwa said she also visited Kadrey's while she
Eternity is the moment
was in Asbury. You don't know Kadrey's! Why
When love walks in the door.
everyone knows Kadrey's. It's the famous auction
Desolation is the lifetime
house that people attend instead of going to a show.
When he knocks no more.
Someone remarked that he thought the seats there
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had glue on them. Once a person sat down and
Love and a keen philosophical sense predomi- started to be entertained by Kadrey, why he just
nate these poems. "The greater self' belief of
remained until he was forcibly ejected from the place.
Gibran is seen as an influencing factor in the poem Well, Selwa said that this time Kadrey was trying to
"To Kahlil Gibran" dedicated to him and published sell a small Chinese rug. When offered what he
soon after his death in the Sunday Magazine of The thought a ridiculous sum for it he was actually
Herald-Tribune:
going to tear it up. A gasp went up from the
It is but a few months since you walked a little people and Kadrey solicitously desisted. Just one
further than I.
instance of his great sense of dramatics.
Your feet are now treading stars and suns.
Do you hear my cry?
Or, is your new world so high and bright,
I just couldn't resist passing on this beautiful
Unharnessed to the flesh and bone,
name that will be bestowed upon the little new bom
That no call of mine can pierce the light?
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Farid Bistany. It is
I would like to think you could see me on the Cynthia Crystine. It makes my mouth water.
breast of earth,
Waiting for a word from you
To justify my greater birth.
Although residents of Princeton, Dr .and Mrs.
Philip K Hitti can be called practical New Yorkers;
they are here so often, although not as often as
And When Do They Laugh, These Men of Tunis? they used to be.
They are now enjoying the crisp mountain air.
There is a new dilemma confronting immigration officials. Last week the He de France brought in the Adirondack Mountains, just thirty miles from
in F. el-Khedidi, an Arab of Tunis, who arrived Canada. Corlear Bay Club where they spend each!
summer, wouldn't be the same without the Hitti's.
in the full regalia of a native of the desert.
El-Khedidi Was a merchant from Tunis and Dr. Hitti, whom many people think so serious, is
his purpose was the Chicago Exposition. Because a lot of fun on vacation.' It is he who organizes the
documents were found indicating that he would swell tennis tournaments that take place there every
work in the Tunis art Section of the Fair, he was summer. He was twice the winner of the cup, but
told that he would have to go to Ellis Island first. this year was conquered in the second round. He is
no dashing brilliant player, but he certainly can
On hearing this el-Khedidi burst into tears.
So pitiful was he that the ship's officers de- get the balls over, and put them where he wants
cided to see what they could do to help him in them. He is a match for any man, even against!
his plight They searched him and found a paper the young upstarts. And all this excellent tennis he
that revealed that he was going to display pottery manages to play during off moments when he isn't
working on his book.
in the exhibit.
Mrs. Hitti is the director and producer of all
The immigration officials were satisfied and told
el-Khedidi he could enter. Whereupon the Arab the pJays that are staged in that camp every sumagain burst into tears. An interpreter explained that mer, and is very active in other activities. Their
daughter, Viola, now a tall husky pretty girl, was
this time he was weeping for joy.
ousted in the junior tournament only in the semi-,
{finals.
An Invitation to Young Syrian Poets
What is the matter with our young poets? It
seems a shame that so many promising poets who
have written in the past seem to have lost inspiration of a sudden. To you who are gifted with poetic talent, I would suggest that you dig up your
rhymes of yesteryear, revise them, and send them inj
for consideration. Most likely, they will open yourf
eyes to your possibilities and serve to freshen your
poetic pen. Don't vacillate. If they're good we'll
publish them.. If they're not and, if you wish, we'll
tell you why and how you can improve them.
Many a rejection slip has been the cause of a poet's
success. And that is no idle fact
'AN EGYPTIAN CHILDHOOD'
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study abroad. He received his doctorate in literature from the Sorbonne. On his return in 1919 he
was appointed professor of ancient history, then
professor of Arabic literature at the Egyptian National University. Before he was deposed from his
university chair by a vindictive and reactionary
A young lady from out-of-town in New York
on business tells us that she is so glad to meet
Syrians on this trip to our little city. It makes
her feel so mnch^t home, and so much less lonesome. She said that upon-her return home from her
hist trip she said to her father, "Dad, there are no
Syrians in New York."
"What!" he said." No Syrians!"
"Well," she replied. "I can tell a Syrian when
I see one, but of all the people I saw on the streets, "
I didn't see a single one."
Teh, tch. Where are all our thirty-five thou^
sand New Yorkers keeping themslves.
regime, he also held the deanship of the College
of Literature.
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But Dr. Taha Husein is still in his early forties,
and his power and influence are on the wax
In his autobiography, Dr. Taha Husein, pays
a touching tribute to his wife, the little French
Bu-1 he met while studying at France, who became
his mspirer, his encourager, and as he calls her
"his guardian angel."
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MINIATURES
AMOS
(THE PROPHET OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS)
AMOS.— A shepherd from a little
town in Judea and a tender of sycomore figs....a 'great political commentator on contemporary events....
the first great social reformer "to,
lew with alarm"
the founder of
the school of writing prophets
•the forerunner of a distinguished line
of great reformers and moralists
whose writings have changed the
face of the earth, although themselves
were considered rather insignificant
men of the world in their days.
All we know about Amos Is
from his own little prophetic rhapsody that bears his name. But we
learn enough from it to reconstruct
a most amazing personality, colossal
and fearless, denouncing kings and
priests, sweeping kingdoms and dynasties before his withering, audacious wrath.
To superficial readers of the
Bible, Amos is just one of the "twelve
minor prophets." Few perhaps read
him with enough concentration and
interest to discover between the lines
the great spirit that started one ofl
th most stirring moral revolutions in
Jaistory. Far from being a "minor
prophet," he is one of the trulymajor ones not only in the history
of the Jews, but among all the nations of the earth. He is the first
Hebrew prophet to write down his
prophecy, and there is strong evidence that he became a model to all
the great Hebrew prophets that came
after him.
Strange enough Amos himself;
rather resented the appellation of
'"prophet!" When the high priest
Amaziah contemptuously told him to
go back to Judea whence he came
L
SURGEON
JOSEPH A. MACKSOOD......
physician and surgeon....was born;
in Beit-ud-Din el-Luqsh, Lebanon,
near Jazzin.
Dr. Macksood came to Michigan
City, Indiana, at the age of 11 ..
Entering St Mary's Catholic School,
he completed the first four grades
in 1 year—In 1914 his father, who
had come to America, was unemployed and Joseph was forced to
work in the weaving mills of Fall
River, Mass. where they had gone
soon after
His wages were $2.50
a week
At the same time he attended night school
When things
appeared to be going better in Michigan, he again packed his things and
went to Lansing.
He re-entered
St Mary's School for half a day.....
The other half of the day he was em-
fe*.««c ^m&m^mxm,
Amos was no mincer of words.
He knew not what it means to bow
the head before spiritual or temporal
authority which had forefeited its
inherent right for respect and submission. To him religion was first
and foremost righteousness. Everything else was empty words, empty
forms and a mockery in the eyes of
God. Some inner compulsion of a
higher source than that of king ox*
priest had gnawed at his conscience
and made him throw his shepherd's
staff and travel to Bethel, then the
capital of the Kingdom of Isreal.
Therein his
uncouth shepherd's
domes, his homespun aba, his faded
'headgear, his heavy dust-covered'
sandals and his leather belt drawn;
tight over his baggy, flowing garb, he
stood in the city square where passing city folk stared at him askance.
But he had only to open his mouth,
and a cataract of mighty words
flowed fluently from it, a flame of
fiery eloquence that consumed the
rottenness, hypocrisy, . greed and
heartless indifference of the highfalutin city people. Those who stared
with curiosity as they passed,
stopped to hear, were hypnotized by
the power, of the man that spoke
with an authority but "not like the
scribes and Pharisees" of his day.
Soon his 'denouncing words reached
the ears of King Jerfooam II and
the high priest Amaziah, who trembled in their seats lest the hearts of
men be captivated by the shepherd
of Takoa, and the pomp based on oppression, corruption and graft be
I
Rev. Fr. Anthony Ellering of
Michigan City, Ind., pastor of St
Mary's Church, took interest in him
and sent him to the PioNone College at Milwaukee where he spent
his freshman year of high school
The following year he entered St.
Francis of Sales Seminary where
he intended to study for the priesthood
He completed courses there
leading to the B. A. degree which he
received in 1922... .However his heart
yearned for the medical calling and
he sought to enter the Loyola University in Chicago
Through the
assistance of Prof. Rev. Calh in, who
tutored him in the subjects he lacked
and through his own efforts, Joseph
entered the college.
During his first
two years there he taught Arabic
to young Syrians and English to
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shaken to its foundations from under
them. Amaziah, shaken with wrath,
hastened to drive the self-styled,
prophet to his little hometown. Instead of silencing, the words of the
hiigh priest aroused Amos to even
more bitter and pointed denunciations against the high priest, king and
their court coteries.
The kingdom of Israel, after the
secession of the southern kingdom,
had prospered and grown fat with
worldly gain. A long period of peace
with its neighbors had brought wealth
and position to the few, poverty and
degradation to the great majority.
The common people were oppressed
and victimized by the wealthy traders
and landed gentry.
The peasant
was driven to the wall by usury,
and political favouritism. Israel hadt
forgotten its moral bearings, the
rugged foundations of its nationalism.
The lesson of moral fortitude which.
their forebears had learned in the
wilderness, and the bitter experiences
which had welded the nation had
been forgotten by a generation of
effete revellers and court sycophants.
Religion had been degraded to a
system of empty ritual and sacrifices
from which the spirit of true piety)
had fled away. The prophets of the
day had become schools of ecstatic
dervishes with no message to the
people. That is why Amos resented
to be counted among them.
The shepherd of Takoa knew all
this. He knew more. With the per-,
spicacity of a true seer the clear,
mirror of his untarnished soul reflected
the events of the day. At the time
of his (historic stand in the city square
of Bethel, he could see beyond the
horizon of Israel and Judah. He
could hear the rumblings of the
armies of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser II approaching. Northern Syria
had gone down in defeat, and its
older ones to earn his tuition.
He received his B. S. in 1925 and
his M D. in 1927
In 1928 he
served his internship and in the same
year opened an office in Flint Mich,
where he still maintains a flourishing
practice of medicine and surgery.
Dr. Macksood is a member of
the staff of all three hospitals in
Flint Mich.
He was one of the
chief surgeons who operated on welfare patients for the city of Flint
His ambition is to achieve great renown as a surgeon.
ployed as a bell-boy at the Downey
Hotel
He also completed the last
four years of grammer school in
1 year.
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and there prophesy and eat bread,
Amos replied: "I am not a prophet
(nor the son of a prophet; I am a
shepherd, and one who tends sycomore figs. And Yahweh took me
from behind the flocks and Yahweh
said to me, Go, prophesy against my
people Israel"
PROFILES
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Dr. Macksood has an honorary
degree from the Phi Chi Medical
fraternity and from the Alexian
Brothers' Hospital in Chicago.
He
is a member of the American Medical
society and is licensed to practise
in 39 states of the union through)
reciprocity.
Dr. Macksood enjoys a game of
golf, bridge or chess... \ He is a
member of the Flint Chess Club
He is maried to Sadie Rasok, from
Tibneen, Lebanon, a college graduate
and former school teacher.... .They
have two children, William, 3 and
Albert, L
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STROKE
MRS. MATILDA Shadid of New
York was suddenly stricken with
paralysis last week which affected
the length of her left side. She
was taken to the Nyack Hospital
where she is a patient of Dr. L G.
Aide. Her recovery is almost certain, it was reported.
Kinswoman HoFds Requiem
for Celebrated Journalist
PATERSON, N. J.— Mrs. Khalil
Awn of this city held a requiem
mass on Sunday, August 13, for the
benefit of her brother, Wadih Akel,
celebrated Lebanese journalist and
editor of ar-Rasid of Beirut, who
passed away recently in Beirut
The mass was held in the
Sacred Heart Church at 161 Barclay
Street near Main Street Several
delegations from Lebanese and Syrian
societies attended the mass, including the Lebanon League of Pro-
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And thus we have the first emphatic note of a moral monotheism
struck not by a high priest, not by
the official custodians of religious
rites and ceremonies, but a God-inspired prophet, even a shepherd of
Takoa.
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Israel had lulled itself into the
comforting belief that they were
Yahweh's chosen children, and as
long as they offered Him the necessary worship and proscribed sacrifices that was all that could be asked
of them. But Amai had a quite
different and disquieting interpretation of this same doctrinal principle.
Israel only remembered the prerogatives of such a unique position, but
Amos was emphatic in reminding
them of its duties and responsibilities.
"You only have I known of all the
families of the earth," he cried out, '
"therefore I will punish you for all
your iniquities."
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"I hate, I despise your feast days.
Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings I will
not accept them; neither will I regard
the peace offering* of your fat
beasts. Take away from me die
noise of thy songs; for I will not
hear the melody of thy vioto. But
lot judgement run down as waters,
and righteousness as a mighty
stream
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people carried into captivity beyond
the Great River. Firmly believing:
that righteousness and justice were
the only sound foundations of lasting national power, Amos could see
no other salvation 'for Israel, Judah,
Edom, Moab and all the bordering
states except in a turning away from)
their unrighteous and unjust ways, a
return to right living, to the true and
simple worship of Yahweh. That is
why he cried out on behalf of Yahweh with all the righteous indignation that he could muster:
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Synopsis: KhaUI Khonry, now en
old man, in relating the tracic tote
ef MB lost love to Henri Bordea
fed* how die onto of hb wedding in
the beenfifs1 blond Yandle di
of the Cedars
in the open with a i
later when the
. in
varions ways, an elaborate cortege
cameby, at the heed of which were
two handsome young men, more richly
dressed titan is the custom of those
in the Lebanon valley.
"They are Mohammedans," said
Boutros.
His eyes were already
full of hatred. "What are they doing here?"
But Rachid-el-Hame, who also
had seen and heard, laid a finger1
on his lips, and struck the lad silent
with one imperious glance. . The
massacre of Zahle and Deir-el-Kamar were not yet twelve years old
The insurrection of Joseph Karam
in the Kesrouan, that had so pitifully
failed, was more recent still France
had just finished a disastrous war.
We could no longer count on her
to come to our assistance. Patience
was the order of the day.
Our
hereditary enemies held undisputed
sway. We were forced to bear withj
them—even to welcome them with what
dignity we might when they entered
our villages. A sort of truce of God)
reigned at that moment between
Christian and Mussulman.
Nothing
not even the hatred of the hotblooded Boutros, must be allowed to
endanger it.
The proud cortege halted near
us, dismounted, and spread their
carpets and luncheon baskets on
the grass. Their arrival had been
followed with breathless interest by
the group of young girls. I was
rejoiced to notice that Yamile alone
seemed indifferent. She even seemed
vexed that the general attention was
diverted from her by these new
arrivals.
The displeasure of her
lather, the sheik, was more strongly
marked. He beckoned to a man of
'his own age who made one of a
party near by, and whom I recognized as a Maronite of the Akkar
district, often among our people on
business. I caught a few words of
their whispered conversation:
"Yes, they are Mohammedans,
from my own country. A very good
family: both are beys. The one in)
violet is called Omar-bey-el-Hussein; the one in red, Abdulrajakbey-el-Osman. They must have lost
their way. No—they wish no harm
to us Christians. We are on the best
of terms down there. It is not like
your own valley."
Our valley of the Kadischa is
the tabernacle of the Maronite faith,
the citadel of Lebanon. It is inhabited by Christians only. A Mussulman could not live among us.
But it is not the same in the Akkar
country.
The country of Akkar,
north of Tripoli, is a land where the
land slopes gradually from the
mountains to the sea. The foothills
form a terrace commanding a vast
plain whose fcvheat, barley, and Indian
corn are the finest in Syria. It is
a veritable granary from which the
coast towns draw their supplies. I
had been ther^f once to buy a horse,
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and remembered it as a strange
mixture of steep rocks and gardens
fragrant with oleanders. The Akkart
country raises a breed of horses,
hardy and of incomparable shape.
In its higher valleys the women
weave coarse red carpets, with a
border of flowers. I had been there
only once, but I was fated, for my
own sorrow, to return] soon again.
No doubt it was an agreeable
surprise for the two young beys from
Akkar, as they ate their ntaonono
and drank their filtered water, to
watch our young maidens. I strove
not to appear jealous at their frequent glances in our direction, the
more so as the less discreet of the
two, the bey in red, seemed captivated by the round cheeks and childish airs and graces of little Mountaha.
The bey in violet, after a close inspection of our group, raised his eyes
to the tops of the cedars, and seemed
lost in a reverie. Suddenly his dream
seemed to vanish and a new enchantment to lake its place. His eyes
dilated. A sudden flame appeared
in them. I watched them for a while,
fascinated
at
the
extraordinary
change. They were not black, as I
had at first thought, but brownbrown specked with a gold that
seemed to prevade the entire pupil.
Their glance was as direct as a bent
bow from which the arrow is about
to fly. They desired, exacted, demanded.
They gave their orders
from a distance, or rather, they
seemed to have the power to attract, dutch, despoil, and possess,
as though from them radiated some
magic spell, which nothing could escape. It was the flame of desire
that consumed this man, visible from
afar, like a fire at night I could not
mistake it Had I not felt it myself, not so long ago, on one winter
evening when my blood seemed suddenly to catch fire on the snowy road?
And, even as I looked, the bey's
glance lost its imperious violence,
' changed into a sorrowful yearning, a
passionate supplication. That change,
too, I had known. No chance of
mistake for me.
Nor did I need to conjecture
long on whom that glance was falling.
This infidel dog dared to desire my
bride, and to make his desire plain.
Well—he should reap nothing from it
but confusion and shame. The homage of a Mussulman for any Christian,
maiden was a humiliation, much
more so for a girl of good family,
who knew the history of her race,
and who shared the accumulated
hate earned by centuries of war*
and massacre. I had no fear—nothing
but the same secret feeling of irritation which the priest's words on
the whiteness of Yamile's skin had
given me. Why should I fear? Was
not a gorge ten times deeper than the
gorge of Kadischa there to protect
me? An abyss created by a past
whose origin was lost in the mists of
time and whose heirs we all were?
Turning to Yamile from my bitter
contemplation of the horseman in'
violet I watched the calm, unmoved
face of her who was destined to me
from childhood and who would be
all mine in a few days.
She sat on a thick carpet, leaning back on a pile of cushions which
raised her charming bust. She rested
her head on her right hand. Braids
of chestnut hair, with little coins
instead of ribbons at the end of each
tress, fell across her shoulders. A
ray of the declining afternoon sun
gilded her cheeck. I was surprised
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at the hardness of her face. For
an instant I thought that it signified
contempt for the stranger, but only
for an instant It was her eyes that
undeceived me. In them too, the
tempest was rising, clouding that
clear blue of the calm sea, and driving off, one by one, like ships that
will never regain port, all the old
tranquil sentiments, filial love, desire
of marriage, hopes for the future.
One by one I watched them disappear over the horizon of our love.
Great waves, with foaming crests,
luminous and tragic, carried them;
beyond my eyes. My first feeling
was a kind of numb stupid despair.
Alas! my Yamile, whose cryptic heart
I had never reached, could give
herself up in a few seconds to this
sudden passion, body, heart, and
soul, as women give who fling themselves into love, at the peril of their
happiness and' if need be, of their
life.
I sat there, motionless as a man
of stone. I do not konw how long
my agony lasted. I only know that
throughout it the man's eyes were
riveted on the girl's, the girl's upon;
the man's, and that during the moments that passionate glance lasted,
they had flown to one another, embraced—possessed one another alone
among hundreds of merrymakers,
who were too blind or too stupid to
know the horror that was passing
before their eyes.....
In the course of a long life it
has been my lot to listen to many
stories of love. I have often heard
of women, seduced, little by little,
by a long and patient siege.
I
have never believed these tales. When
once the first glance has been exchanged, either a woman is conquered
or never will be. Heart cries to
heart—flesh to flesh. Defend herself—deceive herself as she may,
once her destined conqueror has been,
met, she belongs to him—is his. I
knew from that moment that my beloved was no longer min^ But that!
she should be that other's—no! This
was unspeakable—unimaginable! Our
very mountains would have quaked
with horror at the bare thought.
Satiated—or suddenly grown conscious of others, the man and woman'
had ceased their unholy communion
of eyes. By a strange phenomenon
I suddenly doubted the truth of what
I had seen. Perhaps, after all, I
was the victim of an hallucination.
My very tenderness, so long and so
cruelly repressed, might well have
turned to an unreasoning jealousy.
Yamile had lowered her eyes. At
that moment, with her long lashes resting against her cheek, her hair parted
above her forehead, she had the air
of some youthful Madonna. I reproached myself for my bitter
thoughts—I was almost on the point
of begging her forgiveness, when,
more furiously than the first time,
the eyes began their interrupted
sport
Boutros, who, it appears, had
asked me several questions without;
obtaining an answer, now nudged me
violently:
"Whafs the matter?*' he said.
'Have you become deaf? And what
a face! You look like a setter at
fault What game do you smell?"
I could not lie. My distress was
now too complete.
"She is watching the stranger."
Boutros laughed so loudly that
the young girls turned round.
"Well," he said, "that's no crime.
A cat can look at a king. Our women
are not veiled like theirs.
Wild
beasts are worth looking at!"
As though Yamile understood the
allusion, the blood rushed to her,
cheeks, a blush that was a full confession.
But Boutros was already on his
feet calling together the young
people for the dabke. Musicians with
their instruments in their hands left
the different groups and placed themselves under his orders. The big drum
had been too heavy to carry so far,
but there were flutes and stringed
instruments, not to speak of professional singers whose interminable recitations beguile caravans in the desert Boutros ranged the young men
in ranks behind him, took the red
handkerchief in his hand and the
dabke began. You know it by now.
The dancers advance by interrupted
movements, retreat half the distance
after each advance, and slowly form
a semicircle. In dancing as in all
physical exercises Boutros had no
equal. With his tense muscles, his
expanded chest, his proud carriage,
he seemed liike a yoifng monarch of)
the forest leading his subjects
through a ritual handed down from
immemorial years.
(To be continued in next issue)
BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
GAME THIS SUNDAY
KALIL CONRACTORS DOWN A. B. A. DEMOCRATS IN FIRST
GAME FOR BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
y*
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 13.—
Two home runs and a double play
was too much for the A. B. A. Democrats, when they lost to the Kalil
Contractors 7-4 Sunday Afternoon
at Lincoln Park. .
Although many Syrian Baseball
enthusiasts had already left for Carey,
Ohio. The g«me was witnessed by
about a thousand supporters of both
teams.
The losing pitcher, Joe Asseff,
for some unknown reason did not have
the fielding support that so marked
the spectacular plays of the Kalils.
Bill Jacobs, center fielder for
the Kalils, drew many rounds of
applause for sensational catches. The
double play during the fifth inning,
just as the Democrats found thein
batting eye, broke up what seemed
to be a good rally when G. Joseph
of the Democrats hit a fine drive
down the third base to zig Shaheen,
who sent the ball to Hanna at first
Hanna hesitated but not long enough
to lose the putout at home plate.
Ernie Abdow, was the winning;
pitcher.
The championship is by no means,
certain for the KaUls may win or
lose this Sunday. Each team is still
confident enough to expect victory.
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IN AND OUT OF TOWN
HUNDREDS ATTEND
DOUBLE WEDDING
THE DOUBLE wedding of the.
Misses Mary and Margaret Jamate
of Brooklyn was attended by almost
eight hundred people last Sunday in
the Church of the Virgin Mary on
Clinton and Amity Streets. They are
the daughters of Mr. and Mrs, Toufic
Jamate of 171 Court Street Miss
Mary was given in marriage by her
father to Alfred Mashnouk, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Mashnouk. The
maid-of-honor was Miss Eva Jamate,
sister of the bride; the best man
was Joseph Mashnouk, brother of
#the groom.
Miss Margaret, was given away
by her brother, Anthony Jamate, to
Edward Sefershayan.
The matron
of honor was Mrs. Rose Saadi, and
the best man, George Sefershayan,
sister and brother of the groom.
The wedding was solemnized by
Msgr. Paul Sanki, assisted by Rev.
Economus Thomas Fayad.
Immediately following the wedding ,the couples left on their honeymoon trip. On their return Mr. and
Mrs. Mashnouk will reside at 85 Dean:
Street and Mr. and Mrs. Sefershayan
at 930-54th Street, Brooklyn.
Mr. and Mrs. Michel Merhige arrived from Syria last week to visit
friends in New York and also to see
the World's Fair in Chicago. They
are at present the guests of Mr.
--Ifehl-Jeen of Brooklyn.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Hitti of Brooklyn, last Saturday.
Elia D. Madey, editor of
meer, is spending a few
traveling in the New England
having left New York last
day.
as-Saweeks
states,
Satur-
M. E. Howatt and his daughter
Louise of. Brooklyn, N. Y. are vacationing in Asbury Park, N. J.
I
Mrs. Ameen Kassab, the wife of;
the founder of the first native department store in Syria, arrived in
New York from Beirut two weeks
ago for her first visit to America.
At present she is staying with Dr.
and Mrs. W. Kassab in Ocean City,
N. J. Upon her return she will
stay with her nephew, Farid Haddad, in Brooklyn. She expects to
.remain in America about four or:
five months.
Miss Emily Habib and her brother
David of Brooklyn, N. Y., left on
Saturday for a two weeks vacation
With their uncle, Theodore Habib in
Ittwrenee, Mass.
Mr. Philip Khauli left New York
on Tuesday to visit western cities including Cleveland, Ann Arbor, Detroit and Chicago. He will return
in about two weeks. In Ann Arbor
he will visit his niece and nephew
who are studying in Ann Arbor,
Miss Wadad M. Khoury and Mr. Elias
, M. Khoury. They are the son and
duaghter of Prof Jurius Khoury of\
.the American University of Beirut.
The Misses LaBebe and Evelyn
Siyufy of Brooklyn, N. Y, left fos
Mahopac, N. Y., on Saturday for a
week's stay.
Mrs. George Farris and her son,
Philip, of Charleston, W. Va., are
visiting Mrs. Ferris' brother, John
Hanache, of Brooklyn, N. Y. They
expeet also to visit Mrs. Farris' aunt
Mrs. Aziz Tanous, of Lawrence, L. I.
Miss Ruth Essad of Detroit is
spending a few days in New York,
stopping at Jthe Hotel Waldorf-Astoria. She is a designer for the
WeHs-Portin Shop in Detroit
The Misses Olga and Emily Elkhouri and Marie Maskiny of Detroit are at the Willard Hotel in New
York. They leave for Washington,
D. C.,1 Sunday for a short stay.
Cleveland
Syrian Junior League picniced
at Willoby Beach only to discover
that Mike Aftoora can dance.
Happy Zarzour (our dentist) came
out of seclusion and reclaimed his
childhood title—happy—which may
apply to George Lakis—Fuzzy's big
brother.
Miss Adele Jeha of Toledo is
spending her vacation in Cleveland.
Thursday night she dined at the Sam
Macron's.
The Syrian Matron's Club took
their husbands out to Wildwood for a
lahem mishwee Saturday night The
husbands took the beer.
That west side bunch- WeinerRoasted at Shamato's Farm Saturday
night. It was one of those sudden;
picnics arranged by AL Anter and
E. Ezzi.
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James and William Solomon of
Cleveland are now in Detroit, staying with Mrs. A. Farris.
The early part of the week found
many happy Clevelanders had deserted their homes for the annual
pilgrimage to Carey, Ohio, to visit
the Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation. Among them were the Anters,
Kassoufs, Aftooras, Maloofs, Macrons, Ganims, Sabas, Kalills, Gantoses and others who seldom miss
the visit
John Nasser of Wilkes-Barre,
Pa., visited with the E. N. Atiyehs
at the Bolton Sq. Hotel.
Akron
EL KIRBY REUNION
AKRON Syrians are making preparations for the Mahrajan to be held
by former residents of el-Kirby, Buqa', Lebanon, over Labor Day weekend. The reunion will be held at the
farm of Mr. antl Mrs. Sam Nimir,
W. Richfield, Ohio.
Much interest has been shown by
Ohioans and word has been received!
that delegations will be present from
other states. Invitations have also
been sent to Canada.
The time will be passed informally. Reminiscing, oriental dancing and
singing will be in order. Families
will bring basket lunches and sheep
will be roasted out of doors." A musical program will be provided also.
Nick Ellis of Akron and Jibran
Francis of Toledo fathered the idea.
They mentioned it to a few friends
and interest spread rapidly.
Ac-,
cording to word received, it is estimated that four or five- hundred
guests, will attend.
Invitations have been received by
Akron friends for a reception to be
held at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Elias "J. Abraham of Niles, O., on
Sunday, Aug. 13.
The honored
guests will be their daughter and sonin-law, Mr. and Mrs. George Mater
of Buffalo, N. Y. Before her recent
marriage Mrs. Mater was Miss Anne
Abraham.
George Smith, a marine, is home
on a furlough -visiting his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith, Edgewood Ave. He has been stationed
at San Francisco.
Miss Zakelia Nahmi, 342 W.
Chestnut Street and Miss Alice
George, 537 Bell Street, are attending the World's Fair in Chicago.
Mrs. John Ferris of Meadville,
Pa.,' is visiting her aunt and uncle,
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Nimir, W. Richfield, Ohio. ' *
Mrs. Mary George Karam of
Montreal, Canada, is .the guest of Mrs.
Mike Ferris, S. Main Street
Mr. and Mrs. Abram Joseph of
Perryopolis, Pa., are the guests of
their daughter and son-in-law, Mr
and Mrs. John Simon, Kenmore.
Mrs. D. Deeb of Montreal, Can.,
is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Mike Milheim, 422 Wabash Avenue.
Dr. Harvey Karam fa home from
Chicago.
Joseph La Hurd, manager of the
Square Deal Stores, has been named
a member of the Akron NRA "shock
troop," merchants' division.
Toledo
The Zahle Society of Toledo held
their annual picnic last Sunday in
Greenwood Park, bringing together
over 200 from near and far. Races
were won by Michael Sawaya, Junion
Abde, Louie Abrass, Henry Geha,
Lester Haddad, Abe Tanber, Nellie
Sawaya and Genevieve Sawaya.
The Misses Sultanna and Alice
Farod, daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
Taufi Farod of Lorain, Ohio, visited
Mr. and Mrs. Moses Tanber and
were entertained at several informal
affairs.
.
Miss Lillian Nassar, daughter or
Habeeb Nassar of Toledo, Ohio,
spent several weeks in Peoria, IS,
and from there went to the Century
of Progress Fair.
MISS OLGA ELKHOURI
Who Enters the Office of James
A. Farley, Postmaster General
of the United States in Washington, D. C, as a Secretary Beginning Monday.
REV. 5. D. MALOUF
IN NEW YORK
REV. S. D. Malouf of Boston,
Syrian pastor in the Morgan Memorial Church, known more popularly
as the "Church of All Nations," came
on a visit to New York for a few
days. From here he will go to Chicago to see tile Fair. With him was
his nephew, Haleem F. Malouf, who
sailed on the Holland-American liner
Statendam. Haleem is another Syrian
boy born in this country who is
seeking education in the American
University of Beirut
'
FUAD TRABULSI
ATTENDS ALUMNI
REUNION IN BEIRUT
BEIRUT,— Fuad Trabulsi, ofi
New York City, who arrived here on
May 7 after an absence of twelve
years, attended the Biennial Dental
Alumni Reunion of the American
University of Beirut on June 19.
Mr. Trabulsi is now in Mashghara, Lebanon, his native town, for
an indefinite stay.
ILYAS KHURI HERE
TO COMPLETE
ENGINEERING COURSE
ANN ARBOR, Mich/*- Ilvas J.
Khuri, son of Prof. Jurius Khuri of
the American University in Beirut
arrived here last month to complete
his studies • in engineering in the
University of Michigan.
Mr. Khuri expects to remain fifteen months. He has joined his
sister, Wadad M. Khuri, who has
been a student of the same University
for three years. She is a student of
sociology. •
YOUNGSTOWN
BUDDY FARES, well- known
wrestler of Youngstown has finally
taken the fatal step. On Sunday,
August 6, he was married to Miss
Evelyn Conroy at St Maron's Church,
Msgr. Hayik officiating at the ceremony. Miss Zarifa Basile of this
city was maid of honor and Joe
Fares of Trenton, N. J. best man.
Mr. and Mrs. Fares will visit Atlantic
City and Trenton on their honeymoon.
RICHMOND
Eseff Shaheen is visiting his old
home town, Cleveland, Ohio, where
he has many friends and will also
go to the World's Fair before returning home.
MIDSUMMER DANCE
IN PROSPECT PARK
CALVARIA Tocala, a Syrian;
fraternity, will hold their first large
social function in the Picnic House,
Prospect Park, on Sunday, August 19.
The committee in charge includes
Joseph Ashkouti, master, skull, and
the senior skulls: Louis Glayat, Victor, George and Joseph Trad, Anthony
and Louis Owen, Joseph Karam and1
Frank Marino.
The young people will dance to
the rhythmic music ipf Mario Apreda
and his'Radio Orchestra, the same
that played for tiie reception to
General Balbo in the Hotel Com-
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<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
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<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY—ESTABLISHED 1926
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VOL. VII, NO. 17. *
GANGSTER HELD ASSYRIANS
IN MURDER
DEFENDED
OF SYRIAN
Bootlegger ^Believed "Put
Spot" by Rival Gang
Member
on
> KANSAS City, Mo.- The
slayers of Ferris Anthon, 34,
Syrian ,of this city, who was
killed on , August 12, are believed to be members of a rival
gang with whom Anthon had
recent friction.
Anthon, also known as Tony
Anthon and Tony Kansas, was widely
known as a liquor, merchant, operating in Kansas City, Kansas, this city
and Chicago. He won notoriety last
September when he was indicted by
the federal jury in Chicago on
charges of being the instigator of a
liquor ring which operated throughout the whole Middle West
Frequently Arrested
Anthon was1 termed the "most
frequently arrested man in Kansas
City, Kansas." In 1928 he and his
brother-in-law were arrested on
charges of arson in connection with
the burtSag of a grocery store operated by the relative. He was not
indicted because of insufficient evidence. In the same year Anthon was
the cause of a great turmoil in the
City Hall of Kansas City with
charges of police bribery and extortion as a' result of his arrest on the
charge of stealing water from the
city to operate his still
Since that time he was frequently arrested on various charges until
1932 when Al Capone became the
focus of an income tax investigation.
Anthon, believing he would draw to
him a good portion of Capone's trade,
moved to Chicago and there, according to government statistics, he built
up a $500,000 business in the Short
time that it functioned.
Felled by 8 Bullets
Last Saturday morning, as Anthon, his attractive blonde wife, Mrs.
Evelyn Anthon, 24, her mother, Mrs.
Ella Bate and Elvin Bate, 7, were returning to .their hotel, Anthon was
accosted by a masked man, who, with
little delay, emptied his gun of 8
bullets, into Anthon's body and disappeared.
Mrs. Anthon, who did
not realize what happened until she
heard the shots and saw her husband crumple to the pavement, began
screaming for help.
Anthon died
soon after in his wife's arms while
she was desperately making an effort to help him.
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Sheriff Kills Two
Sheriff Thomas B. Bash and
Lawrence Hedges, deputy sheriff,
heard the shots as they were driving on a nearby street As they
quickened their speed, they caught
sight of another racing car which
seemed headed directly fron where
the sound of the shots came. Following it they immediately encountered
a fusillade of shots; They returned
-Ire and killed 'two of the men. A
third, Charles Gargotta, who is being
held on charges of murder in the
first degree, surrendered himself to
the sheriff.
Known
Mrs.
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"Donble-Crosser"
Anthon,
at
police
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NEW YORK, AUG. 26, 1933.
head-
Calls Present Clashes Mere
"Skirmishes''; Says Minorities
in Iraq "Hate Arabs"
A CONTRIBUTOR to AL-HODA
under the pen name of Nimrod
writes a long article defending his
own people, the Assyrians, against
the great majority of Arabs in Iraq
who seek to assimilate them. He
calls the present clashes between!
the Assyrians and their enemies in)
Iraq' mere skirmishes which may turn
into bloody massacres unless - the
Assyrian question is settled equitably.
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. . : Bights Guaranteed
The writer insists that the
rights of the Assyrians, or Chaldeans,
as they are also called, are guaranteed by the treaties of Versailles,
London, San Reraon, Genoa and the
League of Nations itself. The League
of Nations, he declares, has no right
to make a decision of itself on the
settlement of the Assyrian' question,
but only to execute the terms of the
above treaties. A note of strong
antagonism; to the Arabs animates
Nimrod's article,' in which he says,
that "the minorities in Iraq hate the
Arabs and Arab nationalism; and
when necessary will not hesitate
to defend themselves by force."
Eleven of these minorities in
Iraq are enumerated in the article.
They are the Catholics, Nestorians,
Syriac Catholics, Syriac Orthodox,
Armenian Orthodox; Protestants, Adventists, Sikhs, Sabaites, Jews, and
Yazibites.
These do not include
the Kurds who form the great
majority in the district of Mosul.
ASSYRIANS "RECALCITRANT"
SAYS HtAQITE SPOKESMAN
PICTURED AS A WILLFUL AND AGGRESSIVE MINORITY
WHO HAVE BLOCKED EVERY EFFORT AT RECONCILIATION; MATTA IKRAWI, RECENT ARRIVAL FROM
BAGHDAD, CLAIMS THEY WERE IMPORTED
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TO IRAQ TO BOLSTER BRITISH
IMPERIALISM
PATRIARCH MAB SHAM'UN DEPORTED TO CYPRUS
A VERSION quite at variance with one received by cables
in this country was given in an interview with Matta Ikrawi on the
current troubles in Iraq over the settlement of the Assyrian question. Mr. Ikrawi, who is head of the Nbrmal School for Boys in
Baghdad and in close touch with King Feisal and the centres of
the national movement in the Iraqite Kingdom, arrived this week
to pursue further studies at Columbia University towards a Ph. D.
degree.
HUGE TAR DEPOSITS
DISCOVERED IN SYRIA
(Special Correspondence)
BEIRUT— In the little town,
of "Mi'dan," about 60 miles north-,
west of Deir-uz-Zor, a huge hill
of tar has been discovered. The
French military resident in Deiruz-Zor, hearing current reports
about a "mountain of tar," finally
visited Jabal Bikhshi, and was
convinced that everywhere under
the thin surface of soil of that
mountain huge deposits of tar
were to be found. In some places
the tar had melted and flown
on the surface, under the heat of
the sun. A chemical analysis in
Deir-uz-Zor and Damascus showed
the tar to be of excellent quality
and high degree of purity. The
value of the tar in Jabal Bikhshi
is estimated at over $100,000,000.
involving comparatively little expense in digging it out
IRAQ DENIES PART
IN MASSACRE
IN A TELEGRAM to the League
of Nations, Wednesday, the Foreign!
Minister of Iraq denied that. Iraqi te
troops jased oppressive measures
against villagers and charged that
the troops had attacked the dead
and wounded and killed women and
children.
The Iraqite government is indignant over the reports spread
abroad that there was a massacre
of Assyrians and the aspersions cast
on its army.
ANCIENT MS. OF
GOSPELS FOUND
CAIRO.— In an ancient Egyptian
monastary near al-Fayyum an ancient Greek Ms. of .the gospels has
been discovered lately; It is said that
the Ms. goes back to the third century A. D., which will make it the
oldest Ms. of the Gospels in existence.
quarters, stated that her husband
had been in unusually good spirits
and that as far as she knew he had
received no threats.
It was also
stated at headquarters that Anthon
was known as a double-crosser and
those who "got mixed up with him"
usually had to "run second."
MRS. D. FAOUR
INJURED IN CAR
Six Others Also Hurt as Car
Collides with Truck
MRS. AMELIA Faour, wife of
Dominick Faour, former member of
Faour Bank, now in liquidation, was
injured when the car in which she
and others were riding, was hit by
a truck and thrown against a trolley
car at Third Avenue and 65th Street,
Brooklyn. The car was driven by
Mrs. Howa Peters who suffered injuries of arms and right leg.
The
others
all
of
whom
were also injured, were, Mances de
Francis, Mrs. Marion Road, her son,
Louis, 8; Peter Eloriage, and Mrs.
Helen de Francis, all of Brooklyn.
They were all taken to Israel Zion
Hospital.
The driver of the truck, Salvatore Valenti, of West Shokan, L I.,
was uninjured.
MACARI WILL FLY
TO MAHRAJAN
THE LEBANON League of Proreceived word from Cabalan
Macari, Mexican king of hemp, that
he will attend the Mahrajan in
Bridgeport, Conn, and that he would
probably take an airplane from Mexico for that purpose.
rjS%.!:'!^S^ifeat
HHHHHHI
Far from being a persecuted
minority, Mr. Ikrawi pictured the
Assyrians as "a willful recalcitrant
minority imported after the War by
the British to bolster their imperialistic domination of Iraq, guard their
aviation posts and defend the frontiers."
Noted for their military
prowess and unerring marksmanship,
the Assyrians, Mr. Ikrawi revealed,
were pressed into military service
hy the British as "the Assyrian levies," and thus became very unpopular with the national Iraqites. They
were enticed into this mercenary)
role by promises, through British influence and instigation, which are
now realized to be impossible of
fulfillment
Who Are the Assyrians
"The Assyrians," declared the
Iraqite informer, "are a remnant of.
the Nestorian Christians who lived
in the mountainous region of Hikari and around Lake Urmia, southeast of present Turkey and northwest of Persia. Jn the World War
they cast their lot with the Russians,
and were forced to seek refuge in
Persia when the Turkish forces successfully repelled the Russian invasion. In the last days of the War
the British imported them to Iraq
and organized them into what was
known as 'the Assyrian levies.' Their
(number at present hardly exceeds
30,000, of which about five or six
thousand are fighting men. They*
proved excellent soldiers, and were
used by the British for the protection of the borders and to guard the
British aviation fields."
Mainly because of this, and because of their persistent refusal to
assimilate with the Iraqites, they
were unpopular witih the people.
They kept to their language, a corruption of eastern Syriac, and avoided
mixing with the national population,
banding themselves against any real
or fancied wrong by the native population. In this manner, continued
Ikrawi, they created an atmosphere
of tension not welcomed by the
other Christian minority groups who
are seeking to live peaceably with
their Moslem neighbors.
Demund Independence
"They demand independence and
an autonomous state within Iraq,"
explained Mr. Ikrawi, "but when you
ask them what kind of independence
they would like to have, and where
in Iraq could they be settled, they
give no reply. For to settle a group
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of thirty-thousand anywhere in.
Iraq today you have to expatriate
others and give them their homes in
: place.
The Assyrians themselves
have asked for an autonomous home
in the State of Mosul, but the Kurds,
who form a majority in that district,
would have none of them. Furthermore, the Iraqite Government is not
unjustly apprehensive of settling such,
a large number of warlike people
all together. As an alternative they
hate been settle*! here and there in!
small groups, but the Assyrians have
nof .acceded to such a solution, taking every opportunity to show their,
resentment by revolts and "rri"^f
Whh at) Iraqite standing army o£
about 13,090 and twenty airplanes,
it can be readily imagined what
trouble the Assyrians will give the
Iraqite Government if they were al)
settled in .one place, with all the
antagonistic feelings they harbour
against it and against all Arab nation! aspirations. About ten thousand of them, as a matter of fact,
- were settled in the northern mountains of Mosul, where trouble arose
more than once between them and;
the Kurdish population over pastures."
Blames French
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PILGRIMS LEAVE TROUBLES
AND CARES AT SHRINE
OOPIRATIOrt THEY RECEIVE AT SHRINE OF LADY OF
CONSOLATION LASTS THEM THROUGHOUT
THE YEAR
By CecflU Yezbek
(Youngstown Correspondent)
THE ANNUAL pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation in Carey. Ohio, drew hundreds of Syrians from Youngstown and other cities in Ohio and Michigan and many more from
other state* of the Middle West They all went to join in this special devotion jn honor of the Mother of God. Numbers of people
motored there in companies.
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EGYPTIAN MINISTER
COMING TO STUDY
NRA AT WORK.
ACCORDING to an announcement from the State Department
at Washington, it is learned that
the Egyptian Government has
taken keen interest in the working out of the NRA in this country.
The announcement says that Egypt
is sending to the United States
its assistant minister of finance,
Ahmed Abdul-Wahhab Pasha,
one of its ablest men in finance
and economics, to study at close
range the Roosevelt recovery
program, with the intention, probably, of adopting it if it meets
the local conditions and requirements of Egypt
Abdul-Wahhab Pasha will arrive in New York about September 1.
Mr. Ikrawi blames much of the
recent troubles of the. Assyrians on
me French Over a year ago, he
pointed out, when Iraq was admitted
to the League of Nations the Assyrians objected, claiming that there
Was nothing in the British-Iraqite
treaty about the protection of the
minorities. A large number of them
threatened to leave the service of
the British, who. immediately transported by airplanes about 300 soldiere from (Egypt Incidentally the
''UNUtnttf levoTToT-fBi Assyrians'
demonstrated to the British the effi171} AIM 1?T A1UI17C?
ciency of airplane transportation in
riiUlTl rJuAlTlllJO
their military operations in the East.
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Following this incident many of
Barking of Dog Saves Grand
their fighting men and families miRapids Family from Fire;
grated to Syria across the Euphrates
Loss $17,000
borders. A few weeks ago, ~ as it
was reported in press dispatches,
GRAND Rapids, Mich— The famthese Assyrians recrossed the Syrian,
ily
of James Balesh in this city
borders into Iraq and attacked a
small police detachment, killing all was saved from the flames that demolished their home last week by
its members. Tins was the imthe barking of their Belgian police
mediate cause of the present trouble
dog, Tiger.
and agitation about the Assyrians.
Mr. Balesh, who was sleeping
Mr. Ikrawi inquired accusingly,
on
the second floor of their home
"Could it be possible that the French
at 1025 Oakleigh Road was awakened
authorities in Deir-uz-Zor were not
by the barking of the dog at 3:30
aware of the movements of the AsAM Wednesday and rushed upsyrians, or did not realize the danstairs
to discover smoke. He woke
ger and responsibility of allowing
.up
his
wife, their children, Fred,
them to cross into. Iraq full-armed?"
Mitchell,
and Mable and his mother,
Already the Iraqite Government has
Mrs.
Susan
Balesh, 80. They seized)
lodged a protest against the French
each
a
few
pieces of clothing and
Mandatory in Syria to the League
rushed
out
in
their night clothes
of Nations over this particular issue,
just before the flames reached the
upper floors.
British Abo Suspected
But while blaming the . French
Cause of Fire Unknown
for instigating the present Assyrian;
The fire of undetermined origin,
trouble, one must no$- overlook the
hue and cry raised in the London; which Mr. Balesh believed to have
press which seeks to capitalize any started in the kitchen or basement
leveled the house to the ground
mishap to the newly liberated Iraqite
state. There is a large element in and destroyed many valuable antiques
the British public that has never including Chinese rugs and vases.
been reconciled to the substitution of The loss was estimated at $17,000 by
the treaty for a mandate over Iraq, Mr. Balesh
Firemen were unable to check
and it is this element which has
taken every occasion; to criticise the the raging blaze but prevented its
Iraq Government and King Feisal reaching nearby buildings.
whenever an occasion arose, as at
present
on the latest phase of the Assyrian1
The French, on the other hand, debacle. When he left, on July 10,
have also looked with disfavor on there were preparations to send an
the British-Iraqite treaty, for it es- armed expedition against the Astablishes a precedence for its owni syrians, but the differences were then1
withdrawal from Syria.
Already settled without employment of force.
Syrian nationalists have used this Recent dispatches report that Patritreaty as a trump card in their de- arch Mar Sham'un, the highest remands for aj similar status, "H^TE ligious and civil leader of the Asthat Syria is at least as qualified for syrians, was deported to Cyprus,
an independent life as Iraq itself.
where a few years ago the late King
Suatetn was deported by the British
Mar Shamiut Deported
' ms ' temporary '' refuge In
Mr. Ikrawi has no information ,'Akaba.
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DOG SAVES SK
V*** year the pilgrimage took
place on Sunday, Aug. 20, as well as
the Monday and Tuesday preceding.
Aside from the public devotions
held for all, nationalities mass was
celebrated for Maronites Tuesday
morning at 10:00 o'clock by Rev.
Joseph Komaid of Cleveland Masses
were also said by other visiting Syrian priests.
A marked piety, bespeaking true
faith and sincere devotion, could be
discerned in every one of the travellers to the shrine. Although all who
make the pilgrimage do not have
their prayers answered literally, still
they receive something in another
form, inspiration, or enlightenment
or whatever you may call it for which
they are grateful and which makes
their trip worth much trouble.
Troubles and cares seem to lift like
a cloud when the people behold the
beauty and glory of it aH They carry
back memories from each pilgrimage
that livens up their devotion and
faith throughout the year. Besides
offering religious advantages, the pilSrmwge also affords the opportunity
"
m
eeting old friends and relatives
from far and near.
The pilgrimage to Carey is an
old institution among the Syrians in
the Middle West For years, they
have been going in droves, some of
them not missing a year, keeping the
days of the pilgrimage sacred Families go together, or groups of friends
to keep their pact with their shrine.
The mayor of Carey, grateful to
the Syrians for this annual journey
opened wide the gates of the city to
them, giving them the key. Shopkeepers there look forward to those
few days when they do brisk business, their busiest days of the whole
year, and the whole town livens up
when the Syrians go there to pay
their respects to the Mother of God
This annual pilgrimage is among
the oldest if not the oldest such
institution among the Syrians in,
America, even older than the institution of the Mahrajan which was instituted four years ago. Some ol
the older pilgrims remember that they
started going fifteen or more years
ago. But it is not only. the oldtimers who keep the faith, but the
young children and the young men"
and women have caught the spirit
and also visit the shrine.
JEWISH PALESTINE QUOTA
MAY REACH, 1923 CLIMAX
BRITISH; authorities in Palestine
have warned the Jewish agency in
Jerusalem that the quota of Jewish
immigrants to that country for the
current six months has been exhausted. Permits, however,, have
been issued for another thousand
expatriated German -Jews to settle
in Palestine which will be counted
against the quota of the coming six
months .ending in March 1934.
All appearances indicate that the
wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine will rival the apex which it
reached in 1923 when 30,000 Jews
were allowed to enter that country.
ORGANIZE BOY
SCOUT TROOP
Boys Go on Hikes, Camping,
Fishing Trips, etc; Only
Syrian Boys m Troop
THE BOY Scout Troop which
was organized by the Basilian Club
of Brooklyn, 4th' Avenue and 32nd
Street is steadily growing in numbers. Their summer activites consist of the usual sports, hikes, and
other activities of the National Scout
Organization.
This troop is for Syrian boys
only.' Although it was started by the
Basilian Club, working for the rebuilding of their Greek Orthodox
church unity, the troop, under the
leadership of George Makhoul, a club
member, is specifically non-sectarian
and open to any Syrian boy who
wishes to join.
So. far the boys have gone oh
hikes, had bonfire meals, and are
learning the outdoor requisites rt»»t
are taught all boy scouts. They
conform to all the regulations and
principles of the national society.
POPE RECEIVES
KING ALI
ITALIAN newspapers jjn Rome
made much of the visit there of exKing Ali, brother of King Feisal of,
Iraq and former King of Hijaz. The
Arabian, ex-king was granted an
audience with His Holiness Pope Pius
XL
Fascist newspapers took occasion,
in writing about ex-King Ali and
his audience with die Pope to criticise
French policy in Syria, saying that
the republican experiment has failed
dismally, and that the French now
may toy the monarchial .rule, with
ex-King Ali, or somebody equally,
suited, on the Syrian throne.
300 TOURISTS ARRIVE
IN BEIRUT
BEIRUT.— On Thursday, July
27, the S. S. President Johnson laid
anchor in the harbour of Beirut with
300 tourists, mostly Americans, on
board
SYRIAN NEWSBOY
KILLED BY CAR
DETROIT, Aug. 16.— Samuel
Simon Ajaj, a newsboy in this city
was killed instantly when an automobile hit him as he stood on the
side-walk on the corner of Jefferson
and Hastings Streets.
TO ATTEND TWO
CONVENTIONS
FRANCIS A. Francis of Pottsvflle,
Pa., is leaving tomorrow to attend
the National Convention of the
United Association of Post Office
Clerks which will be held in Chicago,
from Aug. 29th to Sept 1st He
will then proceed to the Big Day
on Sept 2, or Veterans Day, at the
World's Fair with the Veterans ol
Foreign Wars of which he is an
honorary, member.
\ .
Mr.- Francis is the post office
clerk in Pottsville, secretary of the
local branch, slate officer of the Pa.
State Branch, and secretary of District ,4 of thafated National As-i
sccfctton of Pok Office Clerks.
ill
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THE SYWAN WORLD. NEW TORK, AUG. 2S, 1933.
PAGE THREE
CHICAGO TRIBUNE PRAISES
BISHOP QATTAN RESIGNS
MODESTY OF SYRIAN GIRL
RAISES SERIOUS QUESTION
m
^J£SFL' OWENTAL DANCER IN WORLD'S FAIR
SUBJECT OP FAVORABLE COMPARISON TO OTHER
DANCERS. DRAWS CROWDS SOLELY BY
HER DANCING, NOT BY SUGGESTIVE
MOVEMENTS AND LACK OF DRESS
GRE
S^J^2UC METROPOUTE OF BEIRUT GIVEN
CHOICE BY VATICAN EITHER TO RESIGN OR
APPEAR FOR TRIAL
(Special Correspondence)
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Snd
m.-.
in-
THE SYRIAN girl, who has always been held up as a model
of modesty in dress and manners, is publicly praised in a great
American newspaper for just these characteristics, Kathleen Mc
Laughling, staff writer for the Chicago Sunday Tribune, write, in
the issue of August 13, as follows:
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nit
Maybe, after all, Sally Rand was
tight when she batted her lashes at
the judge and gushed, "It's my art!"
Nobody believed that Sally thought
it really was her fonrjng that
packed 'em in at the Streets of Paris.
In contrast to Sally is Julia Taweel,
*bo rates a place in the history of
a Century of Progress as the only
solo dancer on the grounds who
hasn't dropped her veils nor shaken
a single shimmy. Who doesn't even
think that ^clothes hamper her technique.
Across the Midway from Sally's
stamping ground in the French
quarter rise the high white walls of;
Morocco, where Julia gaily prances
daily on the raised platform in the
centre of the coffee shop. Her schedule is as full as the fan dancer's, her
costume much much fuller.
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She Has Her Public, Too
In proportion to the size of the
concession the crowds which gather
in the oriental atmosphere to watch
Julia perform are as large—and as
enthusiastic—as those who go to the
Parisian square opposite to see Sally, even, without the pull of the publicity or the magnet of the weaving
fans. Maybe it's true, as Julia artlessly suggests, that everybody likes
dancing.
It needs but a glance at her dark
«3(es, with their jincredibly long
lashes, heavy with kohl, to prove
that she is genuine oriental Born
in Lebanon, Syria, she came to this
country with her family at the age
of six, and still chatters Arabic as
freely as English Both the gestures
of her dances—without a suggestive
movement-and the detail of her
costumes, she contends, are authentic
and traditional.
On her scant 4 feet 10 inches
Julia wears more than an army of fan
dancers like Sally,, whose idea of a
costume is a whisk with the powder
puff.
Julia wears the "shirwal,"
billowy thin silk trousers, caught at
the ankles with belled ornaments
called, "khilkhaL" Then she has on
the "minten," or upper part, consisting of a brassiere over which falls
the long, diaphanous tunic. Also she
wears the draped headress. And on
her feet are the "kibkab," intricately
worked wooden sandals inlaid with'
mother-of-pearl in diamond patterns,
discarded when she dances.
Expression of Emotion
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'It's as natural for the oriental
to dance as to express emotion in,
music or singing—and this type of
dance means something," explains
Julia earnestly.
"Dancing without clothes doesn't
mean a thing. And I'm willing to
let the others do it alL Pauline
Frederick clapped a lot for me the
other day when she had luncheon
here and told me I had the only respectable dance she'd seen on the
grounds, and lots of people tell me
they like it, too. So I'm satisfied.
"I don't do the shimmy or muscle
dancing, because they're not oriental
One came from Honolulu and the
other from Egypt, and that isn't the
orient: to: me." '
n.LBEiRl5,~ F°r Weeks the Prec«io«* stand of His Grace
Bishop BaaUus Qattan, Metropolite of Beirut for the Greek Catholic
church, with the Vatican has been a lively toPUi of conversation.
FOREIGN PRESS
LEAGUE HONORS HERE BACKS NRA
JACOB SIMON
A CONFERENCE of foreign press
Mexican Industrialist and Founder of First Free School in
Syria Given Dinner
A GROUP of Lebanese and Syrians of New York and vicinity held;
a dinner in honor of Jacob Simon,
Mexican industrialist, a week ago
Thursday evening under the auspices
cf the Lebanon League of Progress.
Mr. Naoum Hatem, president of the
League,
introduced
the
various
speakers who included S. A Mokarzel
Rev. Mansur Stephan, Nasib Arida,
A. A. Haddad, Farid Rahaim, H. I.
Katibah, Salim Ayoub, Dr. Lewis G.
Aide, and Jacob Raphael Joseph
Silwan entertained the group with)
selections of Arabic songs.
The qualities of Mr. Simon as am
industrialist and philanthropist were
extolled by the various speakers.
Mr. Arida recited a poem in which
he compared Simon to a Cedar of
Lebanon planted in foreign soil Mr.
Mokarzel held up Mr. Simon as an
example of distinguished individuals who exalt their nations, saying
that after all a nation is only the
sum Jof its (individual citizens. Mr.
Katibah recalled a visit to northern
Lebanon where he passed by the
town of Aba where Mr. Simon had
founded a modern, up-to-date free
school for his former home town
and all the towns of the neighborhood.
The guest of honor replied to
the various speeches declaring mod- '
estly that he only did his duty and
wished to be an example "for others
to follow. He spoke feelingly of
his school in Aba and said it was
truly the only free school in Lebanon,
today as far as he knows. Not only,
is education given free to the 25©
boys and girls attending, but also
school supplies and even clothes. It is
a non-denominational school and.
couples school education with mani
ual labor.
Last Saturday Mr. Simon left
New York with his daughter, Nellie,
for Chicago, passing by Niagara
Falls. After visiting the World's Fair,
they will proceed to Los Angeles,
and from there take a boat to Japan;
and India, returning to Mexico via
Syria, Lebanon and Palestine.
GETS THREATS OF
ASSASINATION
NTMAT Bey ash-Sha'bani, Syrian
Minister of Finance, who aroused
the enmity of the Syrian Nationalists
by his stringent new measures, has
received threats of assasination, according to information received by
Lisan-ul-Hal .Beirut. Ash-Sha'bani,
who is spending his vacation in Lebanon, has been heavily guarded by
Lebanese gendarmes for the protection of his life. According to the
account in Lisan-ul-Hal ten persons, said to be radical nationalists,
have sworn to follow ash-Sha'bani
and kill him.
editors in New York which convened
Wednesday of this week unanimously
adopted the NRA, backing President
Roosevelt in 22 languages!
S. A Mokarzel editor of ALHODA and the SYRIAN WORLD,
was among the editors invited to
attend.
SYRIAN FASCISTS
SAIL TO ROME
Many Are Enticed by the
Ridiculous Rate
(Special to
AL-HODA)
BEIRUT, Aug. 11.— Fascist propaganda in Syria has borne fruit and
now comes out in the open. This
became evident yesterday when 320
youths, mostly Italians or Syrians
of Italian origin, sailed on board the
S. S. Martha Washington to Rome.
Ostensibly the object of the tour is to
visit Italy, to meet Premier Mussolini
and other officials of Italian Fascism.
It was learned that many Syrians
who are neither Italians nor graduates of Italian schools, have taken
advantage of the ridiculously low
irate of the trip to "see Europe." The
trip will last 50 days, for which only
10 Syrian pounds, about $10, are
charged.
March
in
Uniforms
The Fascist group, dressed in
special uniforms of orange colored
coats and gray pants, marched
through the streets of Beirut, preceded by the Fascist band.
The
words "Fascists of Beirut" in Italian
were printed on their backs in bold
letters. They gathered in the Fascist Club, and from there continued their march to the harbor;
where they were met by the Italian
'consul and officials of the Fascist
Club who bid them farewell before sailing.
It was also learned that the
youthful Fascist delegation will attend the general Fascist conference
to be held in Italy, and from there
proceed to Germany to pay respects
to Hitler and the Nazis.
The Catholic bishop was accused)
of violating certain canons of his
church, and was thereupon summoned to appear before the Vatican
for answers to the charges brought
against him. He was given the choice
to resign of his own accord if he refused to appear.
Controversy with Vatican
The point of interest to the
Catholics and non-Catholics alike in
this city and throughout the East,
however, is not the nature of the
charges, which have been the topic
of open innuendo and whisperings,
as the outcome of the controversy
between the bishop and the Vatican.
Upon receiving the verdict of the
Vatican, Bishop Qattan replied that
he has an immediate superior officer,
His Beatitude Patriarch Cyril Mughabghab, and that he is willing to
stand trial before him but not before the Vatican. He was told, however, that the Vatican is the highest
court of appeal for all
It is further rumored that Bishop
Qattan has accepted the alternative
of resignation, and that he has written
Patriarch Mughabghab protesting.
Laymen's Council Protests
What will happen when the resignation of Bishop Qattan is officially announced is still a matter of
guess, but there is ground to believe that the Vatican, contrary to
the traditional policy of Eastern
Catholic churches in the past, will
assign his successor directly from
Rome. Acting on this supposition,
the Laymen's Council of Beirut for
the Greek Catholic Church, interviewed Patriarch Mughabghab demanding that the traditional policy
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Certain Pester John, a Tarter chieftain, who
embraced Nestorian Christianity with all his
tribe.
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We know little about the ,true situation
in Iraq today, as it affects those Nestorians.
Published Weekly
We hope, however, that no unsurmountable "ISLAM: BELIEFS AND INSTITUTIONS"
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historic people.
Tr. from the French by Sir Denison Ross, 1929.
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THE ASSYRIANS ARE WITH US
LET us hope that the general American
public has had ample opportunity these day*
to learn that the Assyrians and Syrians are
two different terms for two different .people.
But since there are Syrians themselves who
.might be hazy about the differences and
likenesses of these two ethnic groups we
venture to elucidate a bit.
The name Assyrian is itself a misnomer.
While the Assyrians of our present generation may have traces of Assyrian blood in
(them, it must have thinned down to an infinitesimal proportion since the historic Assyrians went the way of all nations of the
past. The Assyrians call themselves Athurians, which may be only a corruption of
Assyrians.
Under Moslem and Turkish dominations
the Assyrians were subjected to great persecutions. Until recently, when the Church
of England took interest in them and sent
them missionaries, they were almost without schools and without printed books. It
is only natural that they still harbor suspicions against a Moslem rule in Iraq, although
times have changed considerably in these
latter days.
It is more correct to call the Assyrians
Nestorians after their religious affiliation.
They still speak the Syriac language, the
eastern branch, which, at one time was the
language of Syria as well. But today there
are only three towns in Syria—Ma'loula,
Bakh'a and Jib'adin, in the district of Qalamoon, Ante-Lebanon, where Syriac, western
branch, is still commonly spoken. Two of
these towns embraced Islam over a hundred
years ago, still retaining their old Christian
language. The rest of the Syrians speak
neither Syriac nor Syrian, as many Syrians in
this country mistakingly call their language,
but Arabic, the language of the conquering
Arabs.
At one time the Nestorians had a brilliant
history. Many .of the scholars and tranlators who introduced Greek learning to Arabic
under the Abbaside caliphs,of Baghdad were
,Nestorians. The great Bkkhtyashu', court
physician of Harun ar-Rashid, was one of
them. Marco Polo relates that at his time
there were Nestorian churches all along the
trade routes from Baghdad to Pekin. And
not'leng ago a Nestorian monument in Chinese *was"?discovered in the province of Shen8i, indicating the zeal of Nestorian missionaries and the great extent of their activities.
There is even a legend of a Nestorian kingdom that was ruled in. the Middle Age* by a
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THE PASSING HABIT OF
READING
"WHAT is a book without pictures?",
Alice in Wonderland is made to cry out
And we cry out in turn, "What is a home
without books?" ,
..*...
Many of our modern generation have
lost the taste for that true luxury of owning
books and priding themselves over a wellstocked library. This is the age of the
movies, the serial stories, the comic strip
land the radio. All the forces and influences
of modern society seem to conspire against
serious literature and books that deserve the
dignified name. It is a matter of deep regret for some of us old fogies that this habit
of owning and reading books is passing away,
v.c only hope it is a transient phase of this
perplexing modern civiliization.
The Syrians in this country who pride
themselves as descendants of the inventors
of the alphabet, should conceive it their racial
duty to preserve the tradition (of .reading
books and owning libraries, when they can
afford it. This duty becomes doubly incumbent
on them when these books happen to be
about their own people and history. The
least readers of the SYRIAN WORLD could
and should do is to see that books reviewed
on its pages, or mentioned in the course of
its articles, are supplied in. the libraries of
,the different cities 'and towns where they
happen to be. If we do not take sufficiently
serious interest in these books, we cannot
blame others when they pass them by. When
Americans make silly mistakes about the
Syrians and are perfectly ignorant about
some of the most elementary historic facts'
concerning them, ah execuse might be found
for, them. But what execuse could be conceivably conjured for Syrians when they display similar ignorance?
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WE wish as many of our readers as possible will participate in the contest announced
on Another, page of the SYRIAN WQRLL).
The rewards may not be tempting, but it ia
one good opportunity to gain practise in writing. When all n said and done there is no
better training for writing than writing itself,
under the guidance of others who had had
more experience.
Of books written on Islam and accessible to the
•English reading public there is no shortage. Most;
of those books are not worth the paper they are
written on. Of scholarly and unbiased books dealing with the whole range of Islam as religion,
however, the shortage is noticeable. There are
plenty of good and reliable books dealing with this
or that phase of Islam, but few that cover Islam itse£ as a historic religious movement in a concise
and satisfactory manner. I know of two such books,
one, '"Mohammed and Islam," by the late Ignaz
Goldziher and this one by Fr. Lammens of the
University of St Joseph, Beirut, which is the subject of our review this week.
Of the two, Lammens' book is in many ways
to be preferred. Its diction is more fluent and
graceful, more easily grasped by the uninitiate; its
divisions are more logical; it is more concise without sacrificing any essential matter, and finally it
is later in date, bringing the discussion of Islam to
our own time.
In his academic, methodical way, TJIMMD, divides his book into eight chapters dealing with5
the following topics: the cradle of Islam, the geographic and ethnic background; Mohammed, the
founder of Islam; the Qoran, the sacred book of!
Islam; the Sunna; the.acts and sayings attributed
to Mohammed; Jurisprudence or "fiqh" which,
treats of the various schools of traditional exegisis;
asceticism and mysticism; the sects of Islam, and}
a last chapter dealing with "the Reformers and
Modernists."
With more caution and good sense than usually
characterizes religiously-minded quasi-scholars, and
with remarkable lack of bias in a man who is a
Confessed missionary of a type of mind diametrically!
opposite Islamic philosophy and psychology, Fr.
Lammens rarely interposes himself between the
reader and the recital of objective facts and analyses.
When he does, it is usually to give a remark here
and there based on thorough study and unremitting
research. Notice, i e., the manner in which he
Refutes a popular and wide-spread fallacy about
the pre-Islamic Arab, or bedwin.
"There is reason to contest," he says in chapter;
one, "the accuracy of the idyllic picture painted by
certain orientalists of this fundamentally positivist
and realist specimen of humanity."
Of Mohammed himself Fr. Lammens says little.
Like all modern students of Islam, he recognizes
the decisive significance of the Hijra date, marking
the time when Mohammed "migrated" from Mecca
to Medina. "It started the political evolution ofi
Islam," Fr. Lammens sums it up succinctly. In-<
cidentally he informs us that it has been definitely
fixed as July 16, 622 A D.
The chapters on the Qoran and Sunna are very
ably handled and full of valuable information. He
gives us a brief account of the different "Tafsir"
(exegisis) of the Qoran and their distinctive features,
and elucidates the place of "Hadith" (tradition) in,
the juristic and theological schemes of Islam. He
quotes an Islamic dictum showing the importance
of Sunna: "The Sunna can dispense with the Qoran,
but not the Qoran with the Sunna." This funda-i
mental thesis of Islam, remarkably similar to the
Catholic and Orthodox thesis feat the Church precedes and includes the Gospels, is based on another thesis which holds Mohammed "ma'sum,"
infallible in whatever he said or did.
The four orthodox schools of Jurisprudence are
discussed in the fifth chapter. They are the Hanifite, the Malikite, the Hanbalite and the Shafi*ite.
The first, taking shape to Iraq under the Abbaside
caliphs, was liberal emphasizing the Place of}
*ra'y" (opinion) in the manipulation of text and tradition; the following two are conservative and literal,
Blowing "opinion" only in the absence of any "Qoranic stipulation or traditional antecedent," while the
fourth; Shafi'ite, was an effort at compromise between the two extremes, giving prominence toi
still another principle of interpretation, "qiyas," ot
analogy;
Of especial importance to us is Lammens' discussion of the "reformers and modernists," and here
we find him 'refreshingly realistic and impartial.
He mentions three centres of liberalism or reform
in modem Islam-India, Egypt and Turkey. The
first, which is likewise to point of time,' is char-
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"THE RISE OF REFLECTIVE CRITICISM'
(Excerpt from, "the New Spirit
in Ancient Lands.")
By A. M.
By Am Behoof
By H. L Katibah
IN THE FEBRUARY issue of al-Hilal, 1932,
Dr. Mansur Fahmi, Professor of philosophy in the
Egyptian National University, discusses the outcome of modern civilization and the stand which
the East must take in the future. He reviews various opinions by well-known Arab writers and makes
his own conclusions at the end. |
Among those quoted by Dr. Fahmi is the Egyptian nationalist and modernistic writer Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad. Al-Aqqad makes the sweeping
declaration that the West which has produced on,
one hand capitalistic imperialism and on the other
communism is doubtless bankrupt Both of these
manifestations, he recognizes, are materialistic in|
nature. They are twin brothers," he avers,'" of
one flesh and blood, of one heritage; both their
lives are derived from.' belief in things material and)
disbelief in everything else." The West, al-Aqqad
agrees with Spengler, without quoting him, is in the
stage of old age and decrepitude.
On the other extreme, Dr. Fahmi finds Khalil
as-Sakakini, a Christian literateur of Palestine, advocating an attitude of emulation or rather inmitation.
of the West as a necessary step at the present stage
of development of Arabic culture. This stage of,
imitation, followed by another of assimilation, must
precede the stage of creativeness and original initiative for which the East is vainly striving today.
But Dr. Fahmi wisely replies that there is no inherent reason why these stages should exist successively. They could exist concomitantly. Whereas Dr. Mohammed Husein Haykal, Egyptian writer
and editor of note, repudiates altogether the imitation stage, "imitation in all its forms," he says,
"can never be the basis of civilization."
More critical and studied is the view of Mohammed Farid Wajdi, a reconciliationist Moslem thinker
of Egypt and author of an ambitious Arabic cyckw
pedia. Wajdi has. admirably combined a thorough,
knowledge of things Islamic with an equally,
thorough knowledge of western culture.
Hie distinctive mark of western civilization, as
contrasted with the eastern one, as Wajdi finds it,
is the development of institutions which have acquired definite technique and have become selfsufficient and self-perpetuating.
Western nations, he says, have risen on firm
foundations of knowledge and action. "For centuries," he writes, "they have struggled with erosive
social agencies, prevailing over them despite uprisings which, at times, were as dark as patches of
darkest night. In this way a civilization traditional
in its piecedure and culture has flourished, a civilization whose principles have acted as a general
source of supply and to whose rigid authority all
its spiritual forces concede." And thus, Wajdi argues,
a sense of social security and .stability is gained.
But in the case of eastern civilization, and I can,
not help but think that Wajdi has in mind particularly Islamic civilization, "the basis of our social
life, the very genius of our being, has been a religious culture which, lately, has been seriously
impaired and weakened by the influence of materialistic doctrines, like all similar cultures the world
over."
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And here is the significant note in Wajdi's
reasoning: Whereas, he declares, the western nations have gradually built up a substitute culture
for the religious one; whereas they have accumulated a stock of cultural traditions independent of
religion, the East finds itself threatened at the
only basis for its traditional culture and civilization, without a substitute to take its place.
"We have no civic traditions to speak of," he
laments, "independent of religion, traditions that
have been polished by successive catastrophes, sifted
by temporal standards of criticism, so that these
traditions would be fit to serve as a psychological
source of supply when the authority of religion has
given way."
Needless to say that aside of the mature ideas
'embodied in the criticism of these Arab thinkers,
all but one Moslem, and regardless of the intrinsic
Validity 'or invalidity of these ideas, the manner
of presentation, the reflective, unimpassioned analyses displayed therein, especially, in Mr. Wajdi's
subtle analysis, is a novel phenomenon in the
development of the Ancient Lands. For the first
time, clear-headed easterners are showing dexterous
manipulation of critical technique and scholarly
discussion. I Submit, such a confidence in the employment of 'ideas, such a comprehensive knowledge
-.efca stifliol jphilrtinphy^ stick, -.-a free : ' .and unaffected
A GROUP that someone termed "rabid nationalists" gathered in Miss Alice Kandaleft's apartment
in New York City this week to meet each other
and converse on things Syrian. It was an interesting group that included Damascenes, Lebanese, Palestinians, Syrians and Iraqites—to be very technical, or geographical, I should say inasmuch as we
have identical qualities in common.
However, there was a difference. We who are
used to the general Arabic accent used here were
pleasantly surprised to hear such a varied number
of accents that were at play that evening. It reminded me of American students who study French
here for years and years and are peculiarly at
sea when a native Frenchman talks. That is how
marked the difference was. The beautiful Damascus accent that is resonant and peculiarly round
suggested the music of flowing water to those, of us
who could only snatch a vernacular word here and
there.
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Miss Kandaleft, as was stated in an interview
in the August 11 issue of the SYRIAN WORLD, is
the head of the Normal School for Women in Baghdad She is an M. A of the Teachers'"College in
Columbia University. Although a Damascene by
birth, she has become a naturalized Iraqite citizen.
She came to attend the International Congress for
Women in July at the World's Fair at the invitation of the National Council for Women to represent her country.
Matta Ikrawi, also very progressive, is the young
head of the Normal School for Boys in Baghdad
and is here to study American educational methods
and is working for his Ph. D. at Columbia.
The other native Damascene was Shakir al-Aasi,
an ambitious protagonist of the youth movement in
Syria. He has been studying business and finance
in America.
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Another Syrian was my neighbor H. I. Katibah,
for whom I think the word "rabid" came in. *H. I.
K. has sound ideas about the welfare of the Near
East and is never afraid to express them whether
by word of mouth or pen.
THE MISSES Emily Tweel and Lorice Sahadi attended the national tennis games at Forest Hills,
L. L, and came back vowing they would never
touch a racket again. Although they are among the
best tennis players in Brooklyn, after watching
Helen Moody, Helen Jacobs and al\ the other grand
players, perform they just felt too discouraged to
wield a racket again. Ah, but they'll get over it.
I bet they're on the courts now.
Miss Evelyn Zrike went up to Haines Falls to
join her sister and her grand-mother and grandfather who isn't welL Her grand parents exemplify what remains of the old-fashioned aristocratic
conventional families. Living in a large house full
of beautiful furniture, this old couple are the kind
and charitable king and queen of their large family,
a family that is closely bound together by filial
ties.
The end of summer is drawing near and that
means that when winter comes I shall not have
headaches every time I sit down to write this column. Our New Yorkers are away during the
summer and I skip once in a while also. No contact
no material. (Don't you see my hands and shoulders
shrug, just like a Jew's—or a Syrian's.)
If I ramble' along, I should be forgiven. During the languid summer months, once in a while I
forget the newspaper dictum* "The Public Be
Served," and don't care what happens. But the
editors, true to the principle, always, never forget
How I lament that fact You should see what they
cut out from my copy. Can you imagine! Cut
out when just now writing this column is like
getting two dimes from Rockefeller. The trouble is
that they void the parts that I think are good, the
juiciest parts, the items I know you'd gobble up
with interest.
As long as I have nothing to write about I
might as well say what I think.
With Fall and Winter approaching the thought
of the dances to be held by the various clubs
arises with the wish that during the affairs of the
coming year there would be no evidence of the
weaklings who can't hold their liquor, yes, both
men and women. There is nothing more despicable
than a person whodoesn't know himself well enough
to know he has enough. And there is nothing more
admirable than the person who can imbibe and yet
be a perfect gentleman or lady.
Of all the uncovered and unrecognized groups
of the blanket code of the NRA, I think the plot of!
the unemployed musician is the most pitiful. He
is among the first to feel the pinch in any kind ot
a depression and among the last to benefit by re->
coveries. The Syrians have a good representation*
in this class and there is about nothing that can
be done about it unless they themselves are ambitious enough to invent methods to bring a followThe subject of the dances reminds me of some
ing.
article
some woman wrote somewhere about the
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Syrian Junior League dances in New York. She
Of the latter type is a Syrian musician who said that several mothers had come to her and
is desirious of starting a Syrian band. He is quite asked her to write about them; that they brought
a capable bandmaster, capable of teaching any band out all the silly superficial qualities in the young;
instrument and having had three years' experience people. Instead of charging a high price for the
as the head of the music department in the College tickets, they averred, they should make them much
in Zahle, Lebanon. He has been teaching since he cheaper and thus enable more young folks
came to America years ago, but things are not the to go and meet the opposite sex. The League,
same in the teaching business now and he has they said, could be a strong factor in bringing the
turned his thoughts to other channels. Besides the young people together and maybe they could marry.
possibilities of his idea, I k/iow he was prompted by! Always a mother's thought. Instead, (it is they who
an altruistic motive. He feels that a centre like are still speaking) only very few attend, those who
New York should have a Syrian band and I think fear they will be left out of the social swim. The
he's right We have small groups of instrumental- sensible boys, they claim, feel only contempt foP
ists but they cannot serve the purpose that a band » such affairs. They want honest-to-goodness wholewould. I know of much smaller Syrian communi
some dances where they can meet nice Syrian girls.
ties that boast of a band of their own and it doesn't Instead, they take out American blondes, although
seem logical that a large and active center as New they would rather pal around with girls of their
York should be lacking in this respect.
kind.
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WeH, the above is an endless subject I dare
If you live in the vicinity and are interested
not opinionate on it for fear of running over into
in this proposition, please write to me to that effect next week.
and I shall be glad to forward your communication.
ZAHLE
At the foot of Mount Lebanon,
Inland from the sea,
Stands a beautious little town
Called Zahle.
"ISLAM: BELIEFS AND INSTITUTIONS'
(Continued from page 4.)
acterized as neo-Mutazilite, a return to a liberal
interpretation of Islam, the second is neo-Wahhabite,
a return to a puritanic conception of Islam, with a
Beneath this holy mount
smattering of modem European technique, while the
Dwells a people fair,
third, Turkish, is avowedly nationalistic, holding
Strong and brave and ever true.
only a sentimental attitude to Islam as the "his'Tis well to tarry there.
toric religion of the Turkish people."
All in all Lammens succeeded in writing a
Louis Joseph Maloof
comprehensive and admirable book on a subject that!
use of critical thought, were quite rare, if not alto- should be indispensible to all intelligent students
gether lacking, in the Arab writers, (and can we of the modern East
say thinkers?) before the War.
H. I. K.
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�DEUTERO-ISAIAH
(THE PROPHET OF INTERNATIONALISM)
ISAIAH— Represents the high
mark in the paophetie development
of the Jews....one of the first to
conceive of a world united in peace
through the worship of the one God,
theocracy
one of the greatest idealists in history..,.one of the first to
develop a teleological view of history, history which has an object
towards which God directs the affairs of nations as in cosmic movie
....his lofty style and noble thoughts
have been an inspiration to millions through countless generations.
With tiie critical and exegetical
aspects of Isaiah we are not concerned here. Whoever wrote the
latter part of the book attributed to
this great prophet, must have been
one of the rarest and greatest of
prophetic writers. He certainly^ was
one of tile most subtle interpreters
of history, a man of immense faith
in human nature, and even a more
Immense faith in the providential
guidance and outcome of the world's
progress.
A great Jewish scholar, Morris
Jastrow, once said that the Jews
produced their most illustrious men
in the different walks of life only
after they had been driven from their
homeland, Palestine.
Isaiah takes
first rank, both in point of time and
importance, among this brilliant gallaxy of Jewish great names. What
would have happened to our world
history if Israel and Judah had not
been carried to captivity "beyond the
great River," nobody is in a position
to tell us. We know what happened
because of the exile and through it
And Isaiah had a great part in
fashioning the direction which Jewish thought took since that historic
event
Briefly, the Isaianic philosophy
of history is Judo-centric. It develops more fully and more articulately .the central theme in Jewish
nationalism, that Yahweh had chosen
the Jews as His special people with
whom He had made a covenant If]
the Jews keep Yahweh's commandments and ordinances, if they walk
the way of righteousness and mercy,
Yahweh will protect them and prosper their ways among the nations.
But an impartial and objective
observation of the course of history
which takes cognizance of the conduct
of the nations surrounding the Jews,
could not but elicit the criticism,
reflected in Isaiah himself, that, after
all, Israel and Judah were not any
worse than the rest of the nations,
perhaps, on the whole, of better moral
fibre and more righteous- conduct
Why then did Yahweh visit upon
them such single and severe punishments and tribulations? Does it
mean that Yahweh had deserted His
people? If that view had prevailed
the Jewish nation, and with it Jewish nationalism that has survived
the nation itself, would have been
swept away before the forces of history into the abyss of oblivion. It
was because despite all the misfortunes, defeats and catastrophes that
befell Israel and Judah, Isaiah still
believed Yahweh had not departed
from their midst, that Jewish history
took the turn it did. But what could
have Yahweh meant by these tribulations to His chosen people? What
was the meaning of all this suffering for iwhich they were singled
out?
Here Isaiah developed a theory
that may rightly bear his name in any
survey of philosophies of history.
This theory, in short, conceives oi!
Israel suffering for the sake of mankind, that through their dispersion
and through Itheir tribulations the
Jews may win the nations over to
Yahweh, and through them,. all the
world become one kingdom under one
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OPPOSE RAILWAY PROJECT
BAGHDAD, July 29.— An outburst of criticism met the announcement of King Feisal's treaty with
the British for the building of a
railway from Haifa to Baghdad and
,a loan of 8,000,000 E.L. to finance the
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Nationalists newspapers featured
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"... .Yet ft pleased tile Lord to
bruise him; he hath put him to grief:
when, thou shaft make his soul an
offering' for sin, he shall see his
seed, and the pleasure of the Lord
shall prosper in his hand. He shall
see the travail of his soul, and shall
be satisfied: by his knowledge shall
my righteous servant justify many;
for he shall bear their iniquities
"
It is a long way from the nationalism of Amos, but it is clear as
day that the internationalism of Isaiah is rooted in that moral nationalism, of the former prophet It is
equally clear that in Isaiah we have
already the prolegomenon of an internationalism of universal religion,
that had already taken a different
approach through the universal philosophy of Plato. The two elements
were bound to unite in that amazing
mele of human forces and ideas
known as the Greeko-Roman world
in which the Nazarene moved about,
preached, taught and healed the sick
around the Sea of Galilee.
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Two Transportation Planes Arrive in Cairo
(Special Correspondence)
CAIRO— A sum of 60,000 E. L,
amounting to more than .$300,000 has
been appropriated by the Egyptian
ministry of war for the purchase of
war planes with the most modem
equipments. Dr. Hafiz Afifi Pasha,
Egyptian ambassador at London, has
already started negotiations for the
purchase of 10 of these planes,
equipped with machine guns, wireless
and aerial photography. Half of the
appropriation will be designated for
purchase of planes, the other half
for'maintenance. The planes will be
all manned by Egyptian aviators, of;
whom the country .already boasts ten,
well-trained and ready for active
duty at a moment's notice.
Transportation Planes Arrive
Simultaneously to the announcement of the government's above plan,
two huge transportation planes,
equipped each with two'motors, arrived recently in Cairo. They are the
property of the "Egyptian Aviation
Company" and constructed especially
for it in England. Each airplane
will have a capacity of 12 passengers,
and will be used for transportation
between Cairo, Alexandria and Marsa Matrouh. The planes are equipped
with electric lights for flight by
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ACCORDING to an Associated
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gendarmes < who mistook him for an
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By HENRI BORDEAUX
Member of the French Academy
Synopsis: Omar aad Yamile see
each other for the first time. Their
long fiance into each other's eyes,
without words, proclaiming their great
mutual attraction, was evident to no
one bat Khafil Khoury, Yamile's
fiance whom she was to marry the
coming month. Omar and his friend,
richly dressed, came by the picnic
grounds in an elaborate equipage
past the Cedars where all Bcharre
was celebrating the Feast of the
Cedars. They were foreigners, Moslems, but the Christian feasters did
not do them harm for fear of again
rousing the hate and bloodshed that
had existed between Christian and
Moslem for centuries.
The holiday makers left their
places and formed a vast circle
round the dancers. The Mohammedans alone kept their places and
finished their meal with haughty indifference. It was only then I understood that Boutros had his plan.
He had affected to take his sister's
interest in the strangers with indifference. His pride was really
deeply wounded and he was contemplating vengeance. With unmistakable accuracy, he led his dancers
straight upon the spot where the
young beys from Akkar were seated!
with their escort. The slowness of,
the advance and its periodical halts
made his intention all the more impressive. A few moments more and
Bcutros would be treading their carpets underfoot, scattering their plates
and dishes, throwing disorder into
the entire company. And this audacious plan was carried out with ait
unconsciousness that was stupefying. Boutros seemed like a man inspired. His eyes, as he danced, were
fixed on the summits of the ancient
trees.
But his plan was forestalled. At
the very moment when one more
advance would have carried the
dancers into the enemy's camp, the
horseman in violet, with a glance in
Yamile's direction, leapt to his feet,
agile as a young panther, and, without any trace of hurry or confusion,
ordered his servants to gather up
the carpets and lunch baskets.
Drawing a little to one side to leave
the ground free, he remained standing, as though the dance were for
his amusement
His companion,
though evidently surprised at his
lack of spirit, did not question the
order. I turned to my betrothed.
She too had perceived the danger.
I thought I could detect a fleeting
smile upon her lips, as though of
gratitude for the young bey's courteous act
Foiled in his plan at the very
moment it was on the verge of success, and feeling only grass under
his feet, Boutros lowered his eyes
and stopped the dance with a.brusque
gesture as though suddenly tired.
He had counted on the proud spirit
of the beys to provoke a quarrel.
The time andj place were just what
he would have chosen. Never yet
had strangers intruded upon the
Feast of the Cedars. Whatever the
issue of the quarrel public opinion
would be with him. And now the
chance was lost—lost through the
cowardice of the hereditary enemy.
The sudden cessation of the dance
bad attracted his father's attention.
Racbid-el-Hame, who ...had bidden
his son he patient, was not a man
to brook disobedience to his orders.
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. It was Yamile's turn to save the
delicate situation. With a bound she
was in the center of the open space
from which the dancers, grumbling'
and puzzled at the sudden stop, were
turning away dejectedly. A smile
and a little gesture and the musicians resumed their languid melody.
You saw the young girl who danced
at Bcharre the other evening. You
were surprised when I told you
she was not worthy to be the servant
of Yamile. It. is the simple truth.
Only those who saw her dance that
day under the Cedars 'would understand!. The very memory brings
a light to my poor old eyes. Let
me try to describe it in words,
She began slowly, to the languid
rhythm of the {opening bars. Her
motions were so light her muscles
so little dependent on the ground
for her support that she seemed
not so much to tread upon it as to
brush it like a bird. After the first
few bars, her steps were no longer
those of the traditional dance, but
her own, as though she harkened
to an interior melody. The sleeves
of her tunic fell back. Her arms,
white as driven snow, now swept
near the ground, as though she were
calling the flowers to share her emotion, now floated over her head, as
though she were inviting the birds.
At times a ray of sun crept through
the branches, dappling her figure
with patches of light Around her
right wrist gleamed the golden brace-'
let I had given her, and over her
forehead the golden pin that was the
token of our betrothal. Her long hair
rose and fell with a light tinkle of
golden sequins. Her face was grave,
as though intent upon the steps her
feet were weaving, but her color
deepened, taking that tint of amber
whieh the declining sun gives to the
stones of Baalbeck. Her eyes gazed
far over our heads, withdrawn in,
some dream we could not follow.
Gradually the pulse of the measure rose to a maddening cadence.
She swooped, flew, twisted, and
turned with emotions as wild yet as
accurate as the flight of a sea swallow in the trough of the sea. And
at the height of the dance she
stopped, suddenly as an Arab courser
pulled in on the curb, and for one
moment remained as though suspended in the air, her limbs rigid,
her lissom body drawn to its full
height like a column that soars to
the roof of a vast church.
There are presentiments in which
the intelligence seems to play no
part As I gazed, there flashed
through my mind the Bible story,
which I had learnt by heart at
school. Absalom flying before the
wrath of his royal father is caught
by his long hair in the branches
of a tree and transfixed by cruel
Joab with three spears. In the
somber shadow of these century-old
trees Yamile, 'drawn to her full
height her disordered hair crowned
with the ,royal emblem of gold,
seemed to typify youth, beauty and
love. And yet by a singular association of ideas for which I can find no
explanation, I saw her only as Absalom, gazing with terror on approaching death. What vision from
the future' made me guess that the
place of her triumph would be the
theater of her tragic end? For her
dance was a genuine triumph. The
audience applauded her again and
again. She seemed too tired or too
abstracted to hear them. Little beads
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of perspiration that bedewed forehead and temples bespoke her fatigue.
Seeing her so tired my heart melted.
I approached her to add my congratulations to those of others, but
her eyes were fixed upon the horseman in violet, and I turned away
with the words unspoken.
Her father, to my great astonishment went over to the young Mussulmans from Akkar and welcomed
them, with air the courtesy of a
grand seigneur, desirous of effacing
the bad impression caused by. the escapade of his son. Omar-bey-elHussein received his diplomatic
phrases with more than affability. I
would say with obsequiousness, had
I not sworn to be just in relating
the horrible tragedy which ensued.
The two entered freely into conversation. The bay mare that the young
chief was ridnig furnished an easy
topic of conversation. Rachid-elHame patted the nose of the splendid
creature, accompanying his caresses
with little exclamations of admiration.
"Her name, is Tadmor," said the
young bey. "I call her that since
I rode on her to the ruins of Baalbeck beyond Damascus."
The sheik asked whether there
were any horses for sale in the Akkar country, and both the young
men promised to bring him some
later.
"I have one just like this," said
Omar, patting the crest of his mare.
"What is her price?" the sheik
asked quickly, but the bey evaded
the direct question, and it was arranged that the price should be discussed when the strangers visited us
later.
"It is those who should . guard
the door," says one of our proverbs,
"who let sorrow enter the house."
Through excess of politeness or
through over-prudence, it was the lot
of the father of Yamile to bring
ruin upon us all
The strangers rode away before
us, and we returned to Bcharre in
the dusk. Not a word passed between Yamile and myself, but none
seemed to remark our silence and
constraint Lovers' quarrels are seldom noticed by others.
That evening, as I took my placS
at the dinner table in the Hame home,
I found a small package beneath my
napkin. Covered by the general confusion (it seemed as though everyone were talking at once over the
strange events of the day) I opened
it Within were the ring, the bracelet, and the presents that I had
given Yamile.
Although the shock to my heart
was so terrible that I wonder no one
heard it leap in my breast I had
presence of mind enough to hide the
trinkets under my clothing. I glanced
across the table at Yamile. Her face
was deadly pale.0 Her eyes, full of
terror, of supplication, even of affection, seemed to be thanking me for
my silence and self-possession.
Among us, a girl retains the full
right to break her engagement But
it is a privilege seldom claimed.
Parental authority, public opinion,
all are against such an assertion of
liberty. Should she, however, despite all these, decide to claim her
freedom, she is bound by custom,
to return the presents made her by
her lover. Yamile, without a word,
had broken our engagement
I decided to put off explanations
till the morrow. But I had no delusion. "The rays of the sun" says
another of our proverbs, "cannot be
hid, nor can truth be forever concealed." Love knows in advance
whether happiness or sorrow awaits
it
(To be continued in next issue)
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A son was born* to Mr .and Mrs.
Frederick Saad of New Brunswick,
N. JL, last week. Mrs. Saad is the
former Julia Bistany of Bound Brook,
N. J.
Tom George of Crosbyton, Texas,
who ,u in the retaU textile business,
is spending a few days in New York.
Mrs. fGeorge Bolus of Wake
Forest, K.'C,J> » New York City for
a lew days on business.
Louis J. Maloof of Rome, Ga., who
is now in New York, is back in town
after spending two weeks with Mr.
and Mrs. John Maloof in New
Brunswick, N, J.
Miss Margaret Hatem of Brooklyn is back in town after spending
two weeks in Asbury Park, N. J.
Miss Josephine Abraham of Philadelphia is spending a few days in
New York on her, vacation. She is
}he guest of the Karams at Wyckoff
jStreet, Brooklyn.
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TORRINGTON, CONN.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ganem left
Torrington for New Jersey to attend the funeral of Mrs. Ganem's
father.
Mrs. Allie Kader and her
daughter, Anna, are visiting relatives
in Lawrence, Mass.
Mr. and Mrs. George Soloman,
and family of Brooklyn visited Mrs.
A. James of Torrington over the
week-end
Richard Maroon of Wirtthrop
Street will soon leave his home in
Torrington for New York City from
where he will sail for Lebanon on
an indefinite stay, visiting his parents
and relatives.
Mrs. Adele Azar of Pittsburgh,
Pa., arrived in New York last week
and will remain for a few more days.
Mr. and Mrs. Badie Katen and
Mr. and Mrs. F. Naman, all ofi
Brooklyn, are now in Chicago, viewing the Exposition.
GABRIEL-GILBERT
MISS Eleanor Gertrude Gabriel
of Brooklyn, N. Y., was married to
Franklin S. Gilbert of Brooklyn in
the home of the bride's aunt Mrs.
Lieza S. Uniss in Brooklyn on August
19. The couple are honeymooning
in Canada and upon their return
expect to make their home in Riverhead, LI.
Toledo
William Zoohary who operates a
grocery store is one of Toledo's rising wrestling stars. Bill can be found
every Sunday at Toledo Beach, where
he is one of the life guards.
GEORGE A. Ferris, attorney of
New York City, gave a talk over station WBBC, 1*» kc, last Saturday.
His subject was the history of the
Syrians, from the Phoenicians to their
present activities in America.
Cleveland
JOE NYME—Recent entry /into the
art world is making a name for himself at his Seventeenth St. Studio.
Mrs. Frank Kabase and daughter, , Frances, of Birmingham, Ala.,
are visiting (Mr. and Mrs Abraham
Geha of Toledo. Mrs. Kabase and
Mrs. Geha are sisters.
Anters Grocery on Good ole
Bolivar remains the meeting Grounds
of Joe Hanna, Richard and Joseph
Kalill, Mike Anter, Rev. Meena, and
X)aher Ghiz. They, like other old
timers of the street, take the world
apart at each meeting.
Miss Pearl Koorey, and Anthony
Koorey, daughter and son of Mrs.
Dan Koorey of Cleveland, spent a
few days with their aunt and uncle,
Mr and Mrs. Abraham Gena in
Toledo.
The baseball season is over and
Michael Caraboolad claims it is a load
off his shoulders. Anyway he acts
happy about it
Mr. and Mrs. James Shimmaly,
Mrs. Mary Shimmaly^ Edward and
Dolores Shimmaly of Toledo will
motor to Scranton, Pa., and from
there will motor to New York City
for a brief stay.
Youngstown
THE MISSES Yvonne and Alice
Gazal of Pittsburgh, Pa. were honored
at two parties in Youngstown during their visit there, to which the
Young Syrian American Club were
also guests. Mrs. N. A. Jabbour was
their hostess last Sunday evening.
Besides games and dances there was
a baloon dance and musical chair
contest
On Saturday evening they were
•entertained /by Miss Lydia Khoury,
a buffet lunch being served at midnight
Other jgbijt-of-town gufcsts
were Mrs. Matilda Joseph of Flint
Miss Debe Karam of Toledo, Miss
Amelia Azar, Akron; James Shamas,
Huntington, W. Va.; and Fred Johns,
Cambridge, Ohio.
Mrs. Aziz Nassar and her daughters, Susanne and Virginia, of
Youngstown together with Mrs. Sol
David and sons, Joseph and James,
of Jefferson, Ohio, motored to Detroit wherethey were guests at the
home of Mrs. Helen Khoury.
PAY DIVIDEND
TO DEPOSITORS
THE DEPOSITORS of the Faour
Bank in liquidation received last
week the first installment of their,
deposits, a fifteen percent dividend
The assets of the bank consist mainly of real estate, and as their value
cannot be realized now, it is unknown when the depositors will receive another dividend
SECRET MARRIAGE
Faour bank, which was conREVEALED
trolled by George and Dominick FaTHE MARRIAGE of Emile Morin, cur, now in the hands of the State
son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph'Morin Banking Department, closed its doors
of Newark, N. J., was revealed this on February 13 at their own reweek to his family and friends. He
quest. A letter, which was puband Dorothy Gavin, also of- Newark,
lished, requested the banking deto whom he had been engaged,, partment to take over the institution
were married three weeks ago.
because of unavoidable losses they
Ead incurred
GEORGE FERRIS
OVER RADIO
Sixth Inning. Rally Enables
Kalills to Down A. B. A.
in 6-3 Defeat
DEMOCRATIC CLUB
OUTING SUNDAY
THE CEDAR; Democratic Club of
Brooklyn is holding an outing in
Grant City, S. L, on Sunday. There
will be dandng, music, a play and
speeches.
Mrs. Najeeb Bou Hamra is visiting relatives in Toledo. A little vacationing.
While speaking of vacations, Ted'
and George Shaley and Al Anter will
not Be 'BacETrom Devils Lake, Michigan until late this week. They'll
have a good time considering the
name of the place.
Now that the so-called depression is over, the younger folk are
kicking—claiming that they dpnft
have a chance to see every one of!
their friends as oft as before.
Fred Alexander, Dr. Gannon and
bis brother of Detroit. stopped ir*
Cleveland, Sunday on their way to
Philadelphia.
Mr. Alphonse Deeby, vice-president of Detroit's St Maron's Society, dined with Joseph Kalill, while
in town.
Mr. and Mrs. John Cotter,
Akronites and former Clevelanders
watched the famous championship
game in Cleveland last Sunday.
Their little daughter Jo is a honey!
Mr. and Mrs. E N. Atiyeh will
be buying rugs in New York this
week.
Sammy Karam deserts Western
Reserve University where he studied
law for Michigan. He writes that
Michigan has a larger campus.
The SKaneen Georges visited with
-the Sliman Esbers' of Canton last
week-end.
Our nomination for good
and hostesses,— Farien George,
Haddad and Ann Kalill. For
fellows,— Dave Caraboolad and
Haddad
hosts
Rose
good
Fred
ST. VINCENT OUTING
WELL ATTENDED
THE SYRIAN branch of St Vincent de Paul Society held its outing
last Sunday, Aug. 20, at Luna Park,
Coney Island It was a well attended
affair, hundreds coming in famih£
groups to enjoy the amusements ana
the sociability of the occasion.
A meeting, preceding the dance
in the spacious salon of the Park,
was opened by Karim Sanduq, chair-'
man of the arrangement committee.
Antoun Ayoub was principal speaker,
while Rizkallah Yanni, who came
specially from Boston, Nairn KaraIcand, Tewfik Barham, Mitri AbdulAhad, Miss Jamilie Matouk and Tewfik Mubayyid supplied . the musk.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 30.-*
Coming up for their turn at bat ir>
the first half of the sixth inning, the
Kalill Contractors batted their way
to a four run rally to tie their opponents' score and even the chances
of either team winning the final
inning.
The A. B. A.'s, favored to win*
the game from the outset could not
hold the Kalills once their bats
started a vertible tatoo with the
horsehide. Assef pitching one of his
best games of the season was called
out of the box early in the seventh,
inning in favor of; Ernie Sabbath,
who allowed the final winning run.
The Kalills allowed) two runs in
the first and fifth innings and a
home run in the seventh. The A. B.
A. Democrats gave their runs in the
sixth and seventh innings.
Ernie Abdow 'broke pitcher's
traditions when he doubled in the
sixth inning to allow the first rally
for the Kalills. Johnny Shalala's
sacrifice in the final inning scored
Zig Shaheen with the winning run.
Johnny Hanna, Kalill's star first
baseman, clouted out the first homer
in the game. Bisett Morad, the A.
B. A. star third sacker, rapped the
pill for a circuit in the seventh.
Spectacular playing on part of
both teams kept the crowd of 1500
shouting throughout the full game.
Moses Nahas' fielding in right robbed
the Kalills of many hits had someone
else ploughed grass there. Joe Lewis
and Billy Jacobs evened matters in
the field for their team mates.
The Kalill Contractors, managed
by Zig Shaheen, were congratulated
immediately after the game by their
opponents in a comradely display of)
sportsmanship.
The eager Kalills not satisfied
with a City Syrian Championship
and learning that the Akron team has
defeated Youngstown and Canton, are
challenging them for a game in the
near future.
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FOLLOWING a chronic \finess,
Habib Hanoun, known as the dean
of Syrian journalists in Brazil, passed
away in the early part of this month,
in Rio de Janiero. He is said to
have published the first Arabic paper
in Brazil with the collaboration of the
late Naoum Labaki. After the War
his colleague returned to Lebanon
and took active part in Lebanese
politics. Before he died he rose to
the rank of President of the Lebanese
legislative council.
CLEVELAND MAY
HAVE ALL-SYRIAN
FOOTBALL TEAM
The Syrian Athletic League expects to give a big party for all the
baseball teams at the end of the
season. Negotiations for the first allSyrian football team were also being discussed by present officers of
the League. It is doubtful whether
or not money enough can be raised
for such an unusual undertaking.
There are about fifteen Syrian boys
who have all-scholastic rating in the
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<h4>Biographical/Historical Note</h4>
<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
<h4>Scope/Content Note</h4>
<p><em>The Syrian World</em> was published between 1926 and 1932 as a journal. In 1932, the format was changed from an academic journal style to a newspaper style, which continued until the periodical's end in 1935. After the death of his brother Naoum, Salloum took over the publication of <em>Al-Hoda.</em></p>
<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
<p>All issues of <em>The Syrian World</em> are available, along with full indexes for the first four volumes. For volumes five and six, there are tables of contents at the start of the issues.</p>
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VOL. VII, NO. 1
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NAD DEAL WITH
PALESTINE
t
Offer to Buy 10,000,000 Marks'
Worth
of Oranges for
20,000,000 in German
Imports
THE
GERMAN Land Trade
League, a Nazi organization, according to a wireless dispatch to the New
Ycrk Times, has offered to buy
8,000,000 to 10,000,000 marks' worth
Of Jaffa oranges in return for which
Palestine . and Syria will import
20,000,000 marks' worth of German
goods. These German imports are
said to include agricultural machinery,
motors, refrigerators, textiles, seeds,
household utensils and various machinery for the erection in Palestine
of small manufacturing plants for
buttons, leather goods, wicker furniture and similar household articles.
Barter Profitable Germany
The League is reported to have
said that the new barter arrangement will bring Germany 1,000,000
marks in customs duties. A German commission is said to be now
en route to Palestine to arrange details.
This report, however, is denied
in" London. Captain Walter Joseph
Webber, leader of the British antiGerman boycott in England, said
that he did not believe any such
barter arrangement exists.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY —ESTABLISHED 1926
NEW YORK, SEPT. 1, 1933.
SYRIAN UNITY
HOW THE DEFICIT RED PROMISES
SUBJECT OF
UNDER MANDATE MILK AND HONEY
CONFERENCE TURNS DIVIDEND Plants Banner on Top of Hill
A CONFERENCE of Syrian andj
Lebanese political leaders was held in
the early part of August at the summer home of Shaykh Abdul-Hamid
Karameh, former Mufti of Tripoli.
The main topic of discussion at
the conference was '*the political and
economic unity of Syria, and its relation to Lebanon." Among the prominent political figures present were
Ibrahim Bey Hanano, the Alepponese
lea"der; Ali Salam, Omar Beihum and
Omar Da'ouq, of Beirut. At the end
of the lengthy conference, it was
agreed to except the old Lebanon
from the Syrian unity pending a
plebiscite to determine the wishes
of its inhabitants. If the majority of
Lebanese then declare for a separate
existence, they will not be pressed
to join the rest of Syria.
No Mention Made of Annexed
Parts
The report of the conference
makes no mention of the parts annexed to Lebanon since the War—the
Buqa', Tyre, Sidon and Tripoli. But
it may be surmised that these parts
were regarded by the Syrian spokesmen and their sympathizers in Lebanon as belonging by right to
Syria.
Seen as Attempt to Ridicule
"The chief purpose of the German
Land Trade League," he declared to
the New York Times correspondent
in London, "is to throw ridicule
upon the Jewish boycott." If such an
arrangement existed, explained Captain Webber, it would have to be
made with the Zionist Federation
which has heard nothing of such a
move. That it could have occured
with native Palestinian merchants
and growers suggests itself to Captain Webber as a Temote possibility.
BADLY HURT IN
FALL OFF ROOF
Falls
CO
O
Several Feet While Repairing Roof of Home
M. BASHARA el-Hilow, 28 years
of age, slipped and fell from the roof
of his home in Warren St., Brooklyn
last Saturday afternoon seriously injuring himself. He had been repairing the roof of his home and suddenly lost his balance. He fell 25
feet to the ground to the pavement'
of the backyard, sustaining severe
injuries to his back and head
He was immediately rushed to
St. Peter's Hospital in the neighborhood.
CHURCH HOLDING
PICNIC
THE CHURCH of the Virgin
Mary, Brooklyn, is holding a picnic
in Fail-field, N. J„ over the weekvjnd, Sunday -and Monday. -
GIVES CARESSES
TAKES PURSE
George Arab Has Two Disappointments; His Purse Is Gone
and Lovely Lady Turns
Plain Man
PASSING along Smith Street one
afternoon two weeks ago, George
Arab was stopped at 141 Smith St. by
a comely young lady with two paper
bags in her hands, looking quite
helpless. She asked him to kindly
open the door of her apartment
Which was two flights up. He assented obligingly and followed her
upstairs.
He took the ^Key she
handed him and vainly tried to unlock the door. In .the meantime, the
fair young lady put her bags on the
floor and started, caressing and hugging him. After a minute or two
of unsuccessful manoeuvering of the
key, Arab left with apologies. Coming
once more out on the street, he missed
a roll of money he had in his pocket,
amounting to $135. Where the roll
of money had been he found a roll
of pieces of newspaper. Turning back
swiftly he went back again to the
apartment and breaking into the
house found the erstwhile young
lady, now in its other personality of
young man, washing his face, with
the'feminine clothes on the floor. The
young fellow vehemently denied any
knowledge of the roll of bills upon,
Arab's demand for its return. Arab
•thereupon left and called a policeman who had the impersonator arrested: Taken to court he was held
under ball of $1009. He gave his
name as Raymond Bandis and was
found to have a police record.
MAGIC of a .new sort is reported in dispatches from. Paris to
the Arabic press in Beirut. Here we
call it financial wizardry of a shady
reputation to be frowned upon, or
at most winked at, by the government. There it is compiacently reported as effected by the cooperation of the government itself.
Recently the report of the general
meeting of the stockholders in the
French Company of the DamascusHama Railway and branches was
made public in Paris. In this report
it was revealed that the company
sustained a deficit of 8,506,570 francs,
for the fiscal year of 1932.
Deficit Covered by Mandatory
The report adds innocently that
the Mandate Government covered the
whole deficit, raising the dividends
of the stockholders from 6 to 7%.
Naturally the money had to come
ultimately from the Lebanese andj
Syrian tax-payers. "And yet," said;
a native paper, "our national government dismisses officials in the interest of economy!"
ROSSI LEARNED AVIATION
IN RIYAQ
SYRIAN newspapers are full
of detailed descriptions of the
honors with which Cordos and
Rossi were showered upon their
arrival from their record-breaking distance flight from New York.
Banquets were held in their honor
by French officials of Riyaq, after
the fliers had their much-needed
rest.
From a speech delivered on
one of these occasions, it was revealed that Rossi had learned aviation in Riyaq itself, several years
ago.
The French fliers visited Damascus, Beirut and other interesting sights in Lebanon and Syria,
after which they flew back to Marseilles.
H. I. KATIBAH
ON THE RADIO
ON NEXT Tuesday, September 5,
at 9:30 P.M., H. I. Katibah of the
SYRIAN WORLD will give a talk on
the radio, station WCDA, kc. 1350,
under the auspices of the Foreign Affairs Forum. The subject of his talk
will be: "Some Popular Fallacies
About the East."
LEAGUE GAME
AT MAHRAJAN
THE TWENTY-INCH cup of the
New England Baseball League is to
be awarded the winner at the Mahrajan that takes place in Bridgeport
Sunday and Monday. All four clubs
of the League, those of Troy, N. Y.,
North Adams, Mass.,; Springfield,
Mass.; and Waterbury, Conn., met last
. Sunday in Hartford and played for
the championship. The games resulted in a tie for first place between North Adams and Troy. The
deciding big game is to be played
Sunday afternoon at the Mahrajan.
and Calls People to Hear Him
Lecture 'on Communism
COMMUNIST advocates and
sympathizers 'have
appeared
from time to time in Syria and
Lebanon, only to be nabbed by
authorities and .placed behind
bars. But this did not deter Rashid Aasi, a lad of 25 of the
city of Zahle, from airing his
communistic views in the most
spectacular" manner he could
think of.
Unlike most of our soap-box
orators in this country who content
themselves to speak from some street
corner with a handful of curious
listeners as their audience, Rashid
ascended, the highest point in Zahlei
the Rasiyyah quarter.
There he
planted his red banner on which
the words "Long Live Communism"
were conspicuously inscribed. .Then
standing by his red standard he
shouted at the top of his voice to
his fellow citizens below, hailing them
to come and listen to him lecture
on communism. He said:
Calls Fellow Citizens to Listen
"O dwellers of this quarter, come
ye hither and let me tell you of the
virtues of communism which will
shower you with its outpourings of
milk and honey!"
Hearing of milk and honey many
flocked to see how they could be
procured in these days of dearth and
bitterness. But when they listened
further and found that the price required was to embrace communism,
and remembering that the Russian
peasants themselves after years of
communism have' not had enough to
fill their bellies of such luxuries of
life, they turned away angrily from
the speaker.
Policemen Informed
Then one of them proceeded to
the local police station and called
th attention of the peace cohorts to
the orator on top of the hilL Hurriedly the policemen 'climbed the hill,
snatched the banner away and dispersed the remaining crowds.
And now Rashid Aasi is lingering in the Sand Penitentiary in Beirut, wondering whether a more
modest and less fantastic approach
would not have been more effective
in winning red disciples!
PICNIC ENDS IN FIGHT
THE CEDAR Democratic Club of
Brooklyn held a picnic in Midland
Beach, Staten Island, last Sunday,
about 500 people attending.
The
usual Syrian entertainments, consisting of songs, dances and speeches
were the order of the day.
The whole picnic ended in a
heated argument between Fozi Brady,
president of Meraat-ul-Garb Corporation, a Syrian paper published
tri-weekly, and Farris Dreacha that
ended in a fist-fight, drawing the
whole crowd and almost preciepitating a free-for-all fight. The police
came running upon- the scene but not
before on-lookers had prevented the
two men from inflicting serious inJury upon each other by drawing
them apart
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THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, SEPT. 1, 1933.
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TURKS ATTACK
ASSYRIANS
Miss Evelyn Kojak is secretarytreasurer of tile southern organization. Miss Beatrice Debes was named
reporter for the ElAwanis Club.
Slay 50 in Skirmishes on Border;
Report Assyrians Are Being
Cared for by Iraqite Government. Atrocities Denied
DAGHER PREDICTS
FUSION VICTORY
TWO attempts were made
recently by Assyrians to enter
Turkey,. according to a special
dispatch to the New York Times,
which
quotes
"milliyet,**
a
Turkish newspaper of Istanbul to
the effect.
In the first attempt about 200
Assyrians, carrying all their effects
with them, entered the Turkish
borders near Zakho, only to withdraw leaving 30 dead Another 20
were lost in a second attempt when
300 Assyrians refused to surrender
their arms to Turkish guards who
barred their way.
Revolt Suppressed
Official reports from Baghdad indicate that the Assyrian revolt has
been effectively suppressed Assyrian
refugees are being taken to Mosul
and put in concentration camps where
they are being fed and clothed It
is significantly reported in explanation
of the heavy tolls in Assyrians dead
in the recent uprisings, that nearly
every Assyrian carried with him his
life's savings, amounting to about
L50.
Iraqite spokesmen, according to
Baghdad reports, deny that their
army commited atrocities against the
Assyrians. On the contrary, they
declare, the only atrocities reported
were those perpetrated by Assyrians.
There were no outrages committed
\„ against women, it is affirmed and the
treatment meted out to the insurgents were not outside the usual
treatment employed by any armed
force against rebels.
Iraqite Officers Rewarded
It is further pointed out by
Iraqite sympathizers that if the Assyrian rebellion had been successful
the whole of northern Iraq would
be in chaos today, as a Kurdish uprising might have followed any success of the Assyrians at arms. It
is understood the Ministry of Defense has granted one year's advancement in seniority to officers who
tcok part in operations against the
Assyrians, and that it has promoted
Bakir Sidqi Bey, commanding officer,
from a rank equivalent to colonel
to that of Brigadier, carrying the
courtesy title of Pasha.
Another report appearing in the
London Daily Mail says that Iraqite
Jews are alarmed over their safety,
end that "when the Iraqite army returned there was not one Christian;
or Jew seen on the streets."
PAPER RETRACTS
On the following day, August 28,
Milliyet retracted the report, denying that any Assyrians were killed
by Turkish frontier guards. Whether
the retraction, however, was an inspired one from officials at Angora,
the Turkish capital, or not, the Times
dispatch does not indicate.
ELECT DELEGATES
TO CONVENTION
DELEGATES to the second convention of the Southern Federation of
Syrian Clubs to be held in New
Orleans, La., September 3 and 4
were elected by El Awanis Club,
Beaumont, Texas, at a meeting in
the home of Miss Olga Salim. The
delegates are the Misses Evelyn KoJak and Geraldine Farha and lbs.
A. JamaiL The Misses Lillian Sekaly,
Vivian Kojak and Amu* gyfrripwere named as alternates.
A MEETING was held of the
County Committee of the 1st Assembly District of the Republican
Club under the leadership of George
Dagher to make plans for the coming elections and choosing delegates.
Among those serving on the County
Committee are George Ghiz, Emiline
Ferris, Sabri Andrea, and Joseph S.
Ganim.
.
Mr. Dagher predicts a fusion victory this year to beat Tammany
Hall whose ticket this year is the
weakest ever put up in the history
of New York. The Seabury revelations and U. S. Attorney Medalie
who was about to expose the contact of gangsters with political leaders and the imminent bankruptcy
of New York City, all forced Tammany Hall to the background he
averred.
GEORGIA BOY PREPARES
FOR HOLY ORDER
TO WEAR the brown habit ot
the Franciscans, to take the vows
of poverty, chastity and obedience
is the sole desire of Louis Joseph
Maloof of Rome, Georgia, who has
been admitted into the Franciscan
Monastery of 31st Street, New York.
Sometime ago Pope Pius XI conferred on him a medal in recognition
of his religious poems. Louis is a
talented young man in poetry and
Singing. He is only 19 years old
but already his first book of poems
appeared some time ago, while his
second is still in the making. He was
St. James in the Freiburg Passion
Play of Germany in 1929 and 1933.
CALIFORNIA
MAHRAJAN
THE FIRST Annual California
Mahrajan to be held in Los Angeles,
September 2-3-4 will take place in
Valley Park Country Club, Van
Nuys, CaL Among those who will
attend are Hon. Frank L Shaw,
mayor of Los Angeles, CoL Harry
Baine and Roger Jessup and other
public officials. There will be entertainments, dancing and contests
Gaway and five children; Hussein
Roukieb; Mr. and Mrs. Leon Malouf
and three children; Ezek Borady;
Ally Hamood;1 Sam Talb; Mr. and
Mrs. Nasri Zehil; Thomas Abraham;
Louis Asian; Mr. and Mrs. Isaac
Abraham and their four children,
and Mohammed Hassan.
The majority of these arriving
are residents of America returning
after a trip abroad
rick's Cathedral, New York, in a
private* ceremony.
George Abouarab was best man;
Mrs. Joe Jacobs, wife of the manager'
of Max Schmeling, was matron of
honor. The couple are temporarily
residing in 15 State Street, Brooklyn.
CLUB GIRLS BATHE
IN SUN AND WATER
THE WEDDING of Miss Absi,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gibran
Absi, to Joseph Ganim, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Shaker Ganim, both Brooklyn families, was celebrated last
Saturday evening at 6 o'clock in Our
Lady of Lebanon Church on Hicks
Street. Rev. M. Stephen officiated
A sister of the bride, Miss Matilde
Absi was maid-of-honor and Joseph;
H. Touma was best man.
SOME of the members of the
Junior Misses Club of Brooklyn got
together last Sunday and went to Rye
Beach, sailing to and fro on the
boat, American. This is their second
beach outing this summer. They report they had a grand time. Those
who went were the Misses Josephine
Daas, Mary Daas, Julia Khoury, Antoinette Ashraoui, Erminia Candido,
Julia Harfoush, Alice and Emily
Kowkabany, Emeline Khoury, Jean
Marascuila, and Virginia Nader.
RHZK-DAVIS
WEDDING
MISS Ann Davis and Mr. Eddie
Rizk, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Rizk of Brooklyn, were married
Wednesday, August 23, in St. Pat-
GANIM-ABSI WEDDING
LAST SATURDAr
BARBARA YOUNG
TO SPEAK AT FAIR
CLEVELAND, Ohio. — (Barbara
Young, American poet and literary executor of the late Kahlil Gibran, has
been asked to speak in the World
Fellowship of Faith Division of the
Chicago World's Fair on September
13. Miss Young has chosen the subject "Evangelism of Culture."
WHAT DO YOU WANT IN YOUR MATE?
WHAT ARE THE QUALIFICATIONS FOR AN IDEAL WIFE?
OR HUSBAND ?
WRITE A LETTER ON THIS TOPIC TO THE SYRIAN WORLD
The judges will be four persons who are not associated in any
way with the paper: an Ideal Husband, an Ideal Wife, a Bachelor,
and a Bachelor Girl.
(1.) Contest closes September 29.
(2.) Employees in the SYRIAN WORLD or relatives will not
participate in the contest.
(3.) Each letter should not be longer than 250 words. Write
on one side of the sheet only. Typewrite it if possible,
otherwise write legibly.
(4.) The three best letters will be published each week, the
best of which will receive the weekly prize.
(5.) Letters must bear names, or pen-names if desired.
MANY SAILINGS TO AND
ARRIVALS FROM BEIRUT
AMONG those who sailed on the
S. S. Byron for Beirut, Syria, last
Tuesday were Sheikh Abbas Aboushakra of Detroit, former first assistant editor on al-Hoda; Albert Roukous and Mrs. Rahil Roukous ofi
Watertown, N. Y.; Mrs. Rose Yarid
of Richmond Va, with her two
children, Evon and Anis; Saadallah
Idriss and Grace Coffman of California; Joseph A. Khoury and Mrs.
Bader Khoury of Akron; Mrs. Helen
Peter of Fall River, Mass., with her
daughters and son, Annie, Adele and
George; Mohomed Ismail, New York
City; Carl Hassan; Philip Fornainy)
of Brooklyn; Abalan Fadel of Lawrence, Mass.; Philip Simon of Louisiana and Samuel Joseph and Alexander A. Bodwean of Buffalo.
Among the arrivals to New York
from Beirut on the Byron, as reported by Farid Bistany, partner of;
A. K. Hitti now in Syria, are Mr.
and Mrs. Theodore Zayat and thentwo sons; Faris N. Shadid; Bolus
N. George; Mr. and Mrs. Calile Merad; Edward Hougaz; Antoun Salem
Sayegh; Sitto Dawood; Lena Joseph;
Martha Sassine; Rizk Abiad; Mr. and
Mrs. George Kahwaty and their five
children; Albera Robene; Mr. and Mrs.
Assad Rashid and two daughters;
Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Bucaram and
three children; Mr. and Mrs. Sam.
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�THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, SEPT. 1, 1933.
IN AND OUT OF TOWN
Miss Tillie Khoury of Brooklyn
is vacationing at Sunset Inn, Haines
Tails, N. Y.
John Hayward who works in the
Labor Department in the Compensation Building at Centre St, Manhattan, returned from a month's
vacation in Asbury Park, N. J.
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Mrs. Juan Kahtouni and her son
Alfred, are spending the summer at
Frank Saker's popular farm in Freehold, N. J.
Mrs. Tom Ganin* and Mrs. Bob
Mayek are also there, their husbands
joining them week-ends.
Ernest Homsey of 48th Street, Brooklyn, returned from a two week's tour
of Canada.
Mrs. Toufic Barhoum and her
son are on vacation in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Miss Marie Trabulsi sailed last
Tuesday on the S. S. Roma, sister
ship of the Rex, for Egypt where she
will spend some months. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Suleiman
Trabulsi of Mashgara, Lebanon, and*
the sister of Nesib, Selim, Philip and
Louis Trabulsi. She has been in
America for several years.
Dr. A. Abdullah of Brooklyn
and Joseph Saidy, former druggisit
of New York City, returned home
Saturday after a three weeks tour of
Canada and the New England States.
They visitied Mrs. Abdallah and
children who are spending the summer with her relatives, the Lawands,
in the Laurenthian Mountains, Canada. In Boston they were entertained bys several college friends and
were also the guests of Adeeb Jabbour, who asked Miss Najeebee Morad, the prominent singer, to -sing
for them.
The Misses Victoria Najjar and
Nora and Mary Jowdy returned from
a three week vacation in Lake
George, N. Y.
Philip Raphael returned from a
month's stay at Saker's Farm in New
Jersey. He claims it makes a new
man of you and advises everyone to
try it.
Thomas Nader of Washington,
D. C, is visiting relatives and friends
in New York.
Mr. Benj. M. Jabara on his trip
west with his son and nephew were
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. David
Skaff of Akron, Ohio, last week.
Miss * Katherine Haje of Trenton,
N. J., is spending a few days in,
Washington, D. C.
Miss Violet Jabara, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Jabara of Brooklyn, leaves next Saturday for Kentucky where she will enter Georgetown! University. Her brother Raymond is also leaving for Princeton to
attend
Laurenceville
Preparatory
School.
Rev. Namtallah Saleeba of Philadelphia and his brother, Dr.
?
Saleeba, spent a few days in the city
They are returning today.
Rev.
Saleeba is the inventor of Father
Saleeba's Rheumatic Remedy' which
has proved quite successful.
The Misses Josephine and Alexandria Daas of Brooklyn are leaving
this Sunday for Chicago where they
will spend a week viewing the Fair.
Toledo
The Gamma Epsilon Psi sorority
held its annual dinner dance at the
Chateau La France Sunday, August
the 20th. Chaperons were, Mr. and
Mrs. James Mickel, Mr. and Mrs.
Nick Tanber, Mr. and Mrs. George
Mickel, Mr. and Mi's. Paul Darah
and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph of Detroit,
Michigan. Over thirty couples were
present.
The daughters of Phoenicia held
a special meeting "Wednesday night
at the home of Miss Selma Bassett.
No meetings were held during the
summer months.
Michael Mitry of Detroit, Michigan is visiting at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Alex Mickel of Toledo.
Doctor Arthur Gannan, Edward
Gannan and Frederick P. Alexander
of Detroit, Michigan, spent the weekend in Toledo on their way to Philadelphia, Pa.
Mrs. N. J. Seleam, accompanied
by Joseph Seleam, her step-son and
her little daughter Miriam, from
Norfolk, Va., are here on a brief
visit with Mrs. N. A. and Edwin Katibah at Hollis, N. Y. Mrs. Seleam
is the former Miss Dalai Katibah.
A roast of meat on skewers was
held in honor of Mrs. Najeeb Bou
Hamrah who visited here for a week.
She stayed at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Abrass.
"Baba" Corey, son of Mrs. G. A.
Corey, of Charleston, W. Va. visited
in Toledo. He attended the dinner
dance at the Chateau La France.
From here he will go to Detroit.
Miss Alice Genite of Toledo returned home after vacationing in
London, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Abe Haddad of
Charleston, W. Va., is visiting with
Mr. and Mrs. Barber Farris of Toledo.
Mrs. Haddad was the former Miss
Genevieve Farris.
Mr. and Mrs. William George of
Cleveland, Ohio, visited at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. George Sabbagh of
Toledo. Sunday night they were entertained at the home of Miss Adele
Geha.
Rev. Samuel David, pastor of the
St George's Syrian Orthodox church,
sponsored a mahrajan at the Ottawa
Park for all the Syrians of Toledo
and cities close by. Over four hundred attended. Speeches were made
by Rev. David, Rev. Paul Malouf,
pastor of the Syrian Melchite church,
Alex Abdo, Barber Farris and Oscar
Joseph. Syrian music was furnished
by the Francis brothers, and many
took part in the dabka and Syrian
songs that were the main event of
the afternoon.
Games and races
were given for the interest of the
children. The younger girls and boys
played baseball and tennis.
The Gihas, Anters and Sahleys
held a reunion at Cedar Point Sunday, August the 27th, the closest point
between Cleveland and Toledo, parties coming from both cities.
Mr. George Ammer with his sister Alma Ammer motored to De-
troit Sunday, August the 27th for a
brief visit with friends.
Professor Ely Sabbagh with Mrs.
Sabbagh will return to Lafayette,
Ind., soon where Mr. Sabbagh will
resume his teachings at Purdue University.
Torrington, Conn.
Louis Ganem was elected president of the Litchfield C.T.O. Association at a meeting held Sunday at
Red Mej's Hall.
Mr. and Mrs. George Frauenhofer
of N. Main Street spent a few days
in Brooklyn the latter part of last
week.
A large gathering attended the
roas^ sheep picnic given by Essie
Jacob last Sunday at the Hemlocks
for the benefit of St. Elias Church
in Syria.
Richmond
Mrs. Rosa Yarid and children
Anis and Yvonne left Richmond last
Monday for New York where they
will sail for Broumana, Lebanon,
their native home.. Mrs. Yarid has
been in the United States several
months, making Richmond her home.
Sam Amory with his son, Joe, returned home after visiting his- sister,
Mrs. Lulu Daher of Newark, N. J.
They also visited friends in Philadelphia and New York City.
Ameen Yarid and Noel Ghosn, the
son of Arthur Ghosn of Richmond,
Va., have returned home after spending several days in New York attending to business. Najla, the daughter
of Ameen Yarid is also spending
several days in New York with
friends.
Farris Haboush, Esseff Shaheen
and Arthur Oley motored to Virginia
Beach where they spent the weekend on the surf.
Joe Francis still has the honor
of being the most interesting entertainer when it comes to relating tales
of fifty years ago in Syria. The
"Iron Man" hasn't aged one year
in the last thirty, and tells his stories
as if they happened yesterday. And
they are always true!
Youngstown
ANN HALSAZYK BECOMES
BRIDE OF JOSEPH JOSEPH
Miss Ann Halsazyk, daughter of
Mrs. Halsazyk of Berlin Center, Ohio,
became the bride of Joseph Jooseph,
son of Mr. Naoum Joseph, Thursday
August 24, at four o'clock in St Maron's Church, Msgr. Elias Hayek officiating.
Tile bride was lovely in a princess
model dress of white chiffon. Rare
rose-point lace graced the coiffure
cap of her tulle veil. She carried
an arm bouquet of white roses and
lillies-of-thevalley.
Her attendant
Miss Frances Thomas, wore a pink
dress with matching accessories and
carried, pink roses.
The groom's
PAGET
brother-in-law, Mr. Sliman Joseph,
was best man.
At the conclusion of the wedding
festivities the couple left for Niagara
Falls, and upon their return they
all reside at their newly furnished
borne on Wilson Avenue.
HONOR NEWLY-WEDS
AT CASTLE
EL AWANIS Club of Beaumont
Texas, held a party recently at the
Broadmoor Castle. Prizes for skill
in bunco games, played earlier in
the evening, were awarded to Miss
Geraldine Farha and Joe Fazio, dancing affording diversion later in the
evening.
The honor guests of the evening
were Mr. and M»s. A. G. Taweel,
who were married in June and a trio
of visitors, Miss Lucille Elias of Port
Gibson, Miss Bertha Thomas of Marshall Texas, and Miss Alice Sacker
of Houston, Texas.
WIN BROOKLYN
TENNIS MATCHES
Syrian Girls Win Championship
of Tournaments Held
in Every Park
THE SYRIAN girls have made
quite a showing for themselves this
summer in the tournaments that were
played during the last two weeks and
that are still running.
Gladys Jabara and William Lurie,
King's County champion, were the
winners of the mixed doubles of the
Sunset Park Tournament in the
finals held last Tuesday evening. Miss
Jabara regained her long follow-up
drives that characterize her beautiful
form that she seemed to have lost
for a time. The losing opponents
were Alice Hale and Charles Brandt.
Miss Jabara is last year's Sunset
Park Women's champion.
Lorice Sahadi's steady playing
that marks all her games won
for her this year's Sunset Women's
singles against Victoria Shamas, in
the finals.
Emily Taweel, new champion of
McKinley Park has added another
cup to her shelf this summer. In
the finals held Monday she won the
Women's singles of the Highland
Park Tournament.
Last week Miss Shamas with
Ralph Axelrod won the McKinley
Park Mixed Doubles Finals, thus
retaining their title of last year.
CLUB INVITES PARENTS
ON PICNIC
The Young Syrian American
Club held a picnic Sunday August
20th for members and their parents.
A large number attended and there
were contests for all including a
clothespin contest, prizes for which
were won by Mrs. Dohar Betras and
Moses Deep. After the contest games
were enjoyed by old and young
alike. The committee in charge of
the events were Mary Betras, Edna
Bryan, and Lydia Khoury.
SHAWWA GIVES
FOURTH CONCERT
SAMI Shawwa, held his fourth
concert in Akron last Sunday
evening, a few hundred attending.
Many persons came from surrounding cities, Detroit Akron, Toledo,
Chautauqua and other places.
He was entertained at dinner by
Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Skaff, Friday
night. This concr teaws one of a
series given since Professor Shawwa
made his appearance at the World
Fair.
�But wnat%*tfee^use? "Bodks, good, scho
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students of the East on these and sundry
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piningly on some library sehlf, eating their
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fact that the SYRIAN WORLD has no re- what are their claims to our interest and time?"
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about Palestine in their Sunday schools, and perVoL VH, No. 18.
Sept 1, 1933. us about it. If you have a colorful person- haps not a few can visualize the multi-colored map
ality about whom you could write an inte- showing the divisions of that Holy Land among
| resting little feature, or an out of the ordinary the tribes of Israel. But Palestine to the average
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development of any sort, we will be glad to American reader is a kind of half-mythical halfmystical land invoked in their minds only when,
You do not have
SOMETIMES we are tempted to raise give them consideration.
they open their Bibles and read about the fall of
our hands in despair and proclaim to all the to be a regular correspondent to write for Adam and Eve, the story of Joseph and his brothers,
world that we have given up! It seems no the SYRIAN WORLD. Write us the facts, David and Goliath, Saul and Samuel, and other
amount of authoritative information by with all the necessary- details, and we will do annals of Jewish history as recorded in the Good
Book. Of Palestine today, of its recent history, of,
people who know the facts at,first hand will the rest.
its
people, its social and political problems, of its
This means, when you write about a cerever change the deep-rooted ignorance and
aspirations as a modern country seeking its place
prejudice in the minds of most western tain person to give full name or name with
in unsettled world, most newspaper readers in this
people, even ones who are otherwise fairly initials, the right date, the right place. Par- country have as hazy notions as they have about
intelligent and impartial, when matters of the ticularize in your description, so that when Timbuctoo or the Ivory Coast of western Africa.
near East are under discussion. Some of the a person reads what you have written he
Let us hope that there are no readers of this
most elementary truths are so distorted or so will have a definite idea about the person weekly who will find themselves in th same state" of
neglected in newspaper cables and reports, or event you wish to describe. In other words, mental chaos when they read about "Arabs," Zionthat we often wonder if >they are talking put local color in your stuff. One does not ists and Palestine. For those "Arabs" are none other
about the same countries and the same have to be a full-fledged writer or a univer- than the native population of Palestine who have
inhabited that country from generation to generapeoples we know, or about some mythical sity graduate to write simple. news stories.
tion, and many of whom descend from the CanaaEast that exists only in the brains of its de- Many of the best writers on our cosmopolitan nites and Philistines who were in the land long betractors.
Often things that were true there newspapers have never had more than a high fore the "Habiri" crossed the Jordan from the wildtwenty-five or even fifty years ago are as- school education. When it comes to regular erness of the east and south. At present they hapsumed to be still true today. Whereas in no feature stories and editorials, that is a dif- pen to speak the same language the Syrians speak,
show the same general ethic characteristics, share
other part of the world, we believe, has the ferent story. It requires real experience and
the same historic traditions and associations and
tempo of progress been acceleratd to such real knowledge to write these, but we are are bound with them by the same laws of economic
an extent or the time element has become so not asking anything of the sort from our necessity. Even geographically there are no marked,
So avoid editorial slants boundaries dividing Palestine from Lebanon or Syria.
important in the evaluation of its present fledgling writers.
in your stories. Write us straight news, which Our interest in Palestine and the Palestinians, theredevelopment.
fore, is pertinent as well as timely.
And yet we have a correspondent of a we will always welcome *nd appreciate.
Come one, come all.
The pages of the
And what better source of information can one
respectable newspaper of New York, describing the anti-missionary movements in Egypt, SYRIAN WORLD beckon you with hospi- suggest than a little volume in which the litigant
parties, so to speak, give their respective sides its
write from Cairo that unless the campaign table welcome.
compact, ordered and documented briefs? For that
against the missionaries is stopped, it is
is exactly what the special number of the "Annals"
feared, "it may develop into a general hatred
was intended to do, and it did it with thoroughness
THE FUNCTION OF THE IDEAL
and precision.
of all foreigners here, which might result in
Among the "Arab" or Palestinian contributors
FOR TWO person is marriage on the
the most serious consequences because of the
to
the
monograph are some—Dr. Fuad Shatara,
extreme fanaticism of the Moslems where whole a satisfying and satisfactory state of
Ameen Rihani and Khalil Totah-who are known
life—the philosopher and
the ignorant
religion is concerned."
to many readers of the SYRIAN WORLD.
But
The first because philosophy others, less known or comparatively unknown to
Where to pick at this innocent looking bit proletariat.
of journalistic enlightenment, recently quoted lends its adept a spirit of human understand- them, are in a closer and more official relation to
in the Literary Digest, we are at a complete ing, forebearance and universal sympathy the whole Palestinian question and its ramificaloss. We like to ask, for instance, who are which help him realize the essential weakness tions. Aounoi Bey Abdul-Hadi, prominent Moslem
lawyer, Jamaal Bey' Husseini, one-time secretary
the ones who fear such dire consequences, and imperfection of all flesh. Therefore he
of the Arab Executive and of the Supreme Moslem
and what substantiation has the correspon- expects little of what passes for happiness Council, Omar Bey Salih al-Barghuti, Mogannam
dent for such a sweeping accusation?
It in this world. His mind and soul are pre- E. Mokannam, prominent lawyers, all hold importanti
makes all the difference in the world whether occupied with higher things, and the little positions in the political, social life of Palestine, all
the correspondent's informers have an axe anxieties and" frets of life do not touch the are influential in the development that has taken
place there in the last decade. The Zionist spokesto grind should "the serious consequences" equanimity of his serene nature. The other,
men, doubtless, are equally representative of their
take shape. Then there is something to say. because he is insensible to the higher and side, while a few so-called neutrals try to hold
about the ','foreign^ejs^here."
For even a nobler desires and aspiration, and, therefore, the middle-ground.
A few titles indicate the nature of the discuspurblind tourist 'who stays any appreciable is easily satisfied.
sions
covered in the monograph: "Constitutional As-,
time in Egypt, say a week's whirling, visit,
It is the third class of the great mass of
pects of tiie Mandate for Palestine"; "the Balfour
cannot fail to observe that Egypt is run by humanity who desire, hope, aspire and strive
Declaration"; "the Proposed Palestine Constitution"foreigners, not the foreigners by Egypt, that for an ideal which can never be realized to "Local Autonomy in Palestine"; "Palestine Legislaif one must apeak of fear it is the Egyptians whom marriage is a test and often a vexation tion under the British"; "Palestine Agriculture";
who need our consideration and sympathy. of the soul. Luckily for them and for the Commerce, Industry and Banking," etc. etc. •
The Palestinian editor of the mono graph, Dr.
Again one may atop a little quizzically at destiny of the world that a complacent acquiKhalil Totah, has an interesting article on "Educathat other pontifical pronouncement of the escence to life's everyday troubles, and distion in Palestine." He is headmaster of the Friends
correspondent about the "extreme fanaticism appointment does not take full possession of Boys' School of Ram Allah, author of "The Conof the Moslems where religion is concerned." them.
If it did even the little progress we tribution of the Arabs to Education" and co-author
and write a whole chapter replete with* quali- enjoy would have been beyond the hope of of "The History of Palestine" and "The Geography
«f Palestine."
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fications and distinctions.
realization.
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�THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YOR&, SEPT. 1, 1933
PAGE FIVE
OUR NEW YORKERS
AND SUBURBANITES
MARRIAGE IN EAST AND WEST
By H. I. Katibah
\t
OF RECENT years much, perhaps a little too
much, has been written on this vital question. Untill comparatively a short time ago the discussion
of marriage was somewhat one-sided, it being considered mostly from the point of view of the male.
The female of the species was frankly regarded
even by women themselves as ai* object of desire
and love to be won by' various ways and schemes.
Qualities of grace, demureness and even submissiveness in women were stressed and praised, passive qualities calculated to enhance the would-be
wife in the eyes of her spouse. The court lady
who was tendered all gentle consideration, respect
and gallantry became the ideal of feminism. . Music,
art and a smattering of culture, enough to make
the woman a refined object of adoration in parlour,
were sufficient accomplishments for the destiny and
vocation of woman who sought in marriage the
summation of her being and the fulfillment of her
life ambition. A halo of sanctity and chivalry
placed a kind of tabu on woman and raised her
on a pedestal from which it was difficult for her
to step down into the active arena of life.
It is one of the paradoxes of history that among
the Arabs, where woman was supposed to be an
inferior creature, where she was confined to the
harem and put under lock and key, where she could
see the world only through a veil, the symbol of
household slavery, woman had more effective freedom than her sister in Europe. Marriage in Islam
was considered from the start as a contractual institution, not only as a sacrament, a view that only
in our day and generation has come to be accepted
at large in the different countries of Europe and
America. Within her limited sphere, the Moslem
woman enjoyed rights and privileges which her
Christian sister was denied by law. Thus there
was nothing in Islamic law against woman engaging in business or one of the professions. Throughout Moslem history we read of business women, of
women physicians and midwives, even of Moslem
lecturers in mosque universities. A Moslem woman
could be divorced for little or no reason by her
capricious spouse, but there was a term in her marriage contract which always protected her civil
Tights. A dowery was stipulated before marriage,
part of which was given in advance on marriage,
and part to be paid her "in future," in case her
husband divorced her. This latter stipulation, which,
was strictly executed by the canonical court, often;
proved so onerous on the male that he could not
afford to divorce his wife. The Moslem canon also
provided that the woman, even after marriage, was
the administrator of her own property, which did
not accrue to her husband on marriage. Similar
privileges were extended to her on the bringing up
of her children under maturity.
With all that, however, Moslem jurists and
theologians had no illusions about marriage and
the place of woman in the scheme of things. In.
his frank and realistic manner, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, the great Moslem theoloogian of the 11th century,
does not hesitate to call marriage, "a sort of slavery."
And that, it certainly was for woman, whether!
Moslem or Christian, Oriental or Occidental.
It is only comparatively recently that woman as
a co-partner of man, not only in the light of civic
rights, but in every respect, even intellectually, is
becoming an accepted dictum. There is no field in
our modern society that has not been preempted
by woman, no civic or social activity from which
she is excluded. Indeed woman, toda'/ is not only
the equal and co-partner of man, but often his
competitor and rival.
And it is just here that al-Ghazali's definition,
of marriage begins to gain a new significance. Marriage indeed is "a sort of slavery," not for woman;
alone, but for man likewise. It is better to call
it a mutual limitation.
For in marriage, to be at all a successful institution of our social life, both man and wife must
surrender something of his or her independence
and freedom.
•
It is because this is not as universally and fully
recognized as it should be that we hear so much
of marriages going on the rock of failure. Either:
the man or the woman who enter on the contract
of marriage is not willing to surrender any of bis or
her privileges enjoyed before marriage.
Hence
By A. M.
By Ana Bshoof
Persian Philosophy and Peace
The Famous Battle of Staten Island that was
A SOCIETY that' is analagous to the French fought last Sunday has staunch supporters for both
Foreign Legion in that it asks of its members no the versions and the causes of the conflict. Upon;
questions pertaining to creed, religion or the like anyone's inquiry of his neighbor as to the cause he
is the New History Society with headquarters in will hear one version or the other which makes, it
superfluous to give here and now.
New York.
But it is very surprising that no matter how
I attended the opening meeting of this season big and old a boy grows up to be and even though
on Wednesday in the spacious home of Mr. and Mrs. he is assumedly a very dignified editor he cannot
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanter through whom the per- but get into a common brawl featuring bottles over
heads and drawn knives. Tsss. Tsss.
petuation of the society is made possible. The
Chanlers returned two weeks ago from Europe with
IT IS now an open secret that Fred Trabulsi at
Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Persian poet and mystic and
the guiding force of the society. On July 3 at a last doesn't give a hoot for the advice of his bachelor friends. He will be married in October to Miss
meeting held in the Sorbonne in Paris they awarded
Alice Moore, in Paris where they both will go,
seventeen prizes to students in institutions from all she from New York and he from Mashgara, Lebanon,
over the world on the best papers submitted on the where he has been visiting his parents after eleven
question, "How Can the Youth of the Univiersities years in the States. (Absence makes the heart grow
fonder.)
and Schools Contribute to the Realization of a
United States of the World?"
Mr. and Mrs. Son of the Sheik are expecting a
little Sheik or Sheikess very soon. Mr. Son of
the Sheik is Alexander Katra of the restaurant in
The winner of the first prize, Russell M. Cooper,
New York and of Bound Brook, N J.
an American, who was studying in "L'Institut Universitaire" in Geneva under a Roberts Fellowship
from. Columbia, attended and spoke at this meeting.
Who said Balbo went back to Italy? We could
It is interesting to note in the biographical sketch swear he is still here. Or maybe it's Senor Grandi.
of Mr. Cooper in the August number of "New Anyway it's someone with a black Van Dyke. Joe
History", the society's official organ, that for his S. Ganim lost a bet two weeks ago and had to grow
Master's Essay he chose the subject of the British the abominable thing. He was stared at everyPolicy in Iraq.
where he went. He's a popular young man and
questions were fired at him from all sides. In the
subway he'd hold up his paper to hide his face.
Based on the teachings of the Persian mystic The lawn is now mown, we are glad to say.
and pioneer of peace, Abdul Baha, and inspired by
the excellent interpretations of one of his greatest
When Nedda Uniss came back from her two
disciples, Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, the New History
Society has continued to flourish in the cause of( weeks vacation in Mt. Pocono she had some memory to remain with her of her visit. Riding over
international understanding and peace.
the mountains, she fell off her horse, but managed
Sohrab, a renowned writer in Persian and to extricate herself from the horse before touching
English, realized the materialization of his ideals ground and so not go tumbling down the mountaina few years ago when he met Mrs. Chanler, who side. Whew! what a close call!
believed so intensely in these ideals that she renounced the life of luxury to which she had always
been accustomed, to devote herself to the cause.
Mr. Chanler, one of America's greatest criminal
lawyers and former
lieutenant-governor of New
York State, himself has become a devotee and a
personality which the members greatly appreciate.
When the St. Nicholas Society held their outing in Valley Stream, L. I., several of the fellows
got tired of cards, (the good old Syrian pastime)
and got horsey. Joe Uniss, Joe S. Ganim, Anthony
Awad, George Karneeb, Eddie Saydah, Michel Audi,
Joe Roumain jumped on to the backs of horses
and pranced away over the countryside. It seems
as if all of a sudden our New-Yorkers are getting
very horsey.
Last year the Crystal Room of the Ritz-Carlton
The boys have been helping Emil Naccash
Hotel was the scene of many of the colorful meet- sing "Ida."
ings sponsored by the society. Guest speakers included Alfred Einstein, Helen Keller, Rabindranath
Tagore and many others. On such occasions Prof.
Jessie Awad and Monte Khouri have finally deAlexander Maloof and Mme. Fadwa Kurban were cided to join hands and venture into the great unasked to furnish the musical reportoire.
known together. They have been ga-ga over each
other for a long time but just lask week became engaged.
Youth, in which the society believes implicitly,
. Quite a rumpus was created when Eddie Rizk
has been given an integral part in this movement
for pacifism. For them a sister organization has and Ann Davis went to City Hall for the marriage
license in their riding clothes. They happened to
been created, the Green International, symboliized
be riding that morning; the newspaper photographers
by the olive-green shirt because of its suggestion, mistook them for society people up to a new stunt
of peace and worn by members at meetings and
demonstrations.
Ray Halaby will now get that electrolux he's
Because of the excellent guidance of its direc- been talking about, now that he has a job. The
tor and sponsors, because of the intelligibility of electrolux, he claims, will give him forty-eight
its ideals and because of the sincerity of its mem- cubes for his famous high-balls.
bers I am sure this movement will go far in establishing world-fellowship and peace.
Michel Audi, who twice had his Buick stolen
IMPETUS
All things call to one another,
The tide to the sea,
The sea to the sky,
The sky to the tree,
w
The tree to the star,
The star to the moon,
The moon to the tide,
The tide to the sea,
AH things call to one another.
from him, is finally sporting around in Essex Coupe,
the Black Beauty. Maybe an Essex vanishes into
thin air when it sees an auto-thief coming along.
Washington isn't the only one who crossed the
river. Phil Hanna has been crossing to Jersey quite
often recently. I wonder what the attraction is.
Miss Emeline Ferris, assistant district attorney
of New York, was appointed delegate to the judiciary convention for the coming elections.
Eddie Nasser and Vincent Cronin are both re-
Nadya
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Contained on page 7.
Continued on page 7.
A
�ZOROASTER
(The Prophet of Dualism)
ZOROASTER.— A great teacher
and moralist... .the chief Magian who
made die sun the symbol of the
beneficent power for goodness, light,
law and truth. ...the founder of the
dualistic philosophy which had an
incalculable influence on the course
of ancient thought and religion.
The birth and origin of Zoroaster,
like many of the ancient sages and
religious founders of the East, is lost
in myth and hazy tradition. Aristotle places him 6000 years before
the death of Plato, while other Greek
authorities mention that his birth
was 5000 years before the Trojan
war. The Persian traditions speak
of him as living in the reign of Hystaspes, the Vishtaspa of the Greeks.
Rut since the only historical Persian
king by that name is the father of
Darius, and it is well established
that at that time, it is assumed that
the Hyspastes referred to is a more
ancient sovereign about which we
know little, except for references in
Zoroasterian literature. Probably the
earlier Hyspastes was a Bactrian
dynast who lived about 1000 B. C.
and who gave early protection to
Zoroaster and his new religion. From
Bactria and eastern Iran the new religion spread westward into all Persia. At one time Manicheanism, a
revival of Zoroasterism was the
strongest rival of Christianity bidding
for the universal allegiance of mankind.
The name Zoroaster is a Greek
corruption of Zarathustra, under
which name Nietzsche makes him the
example of the superman in his famous book, "Thus Spake Zarathustra."
The Arabic name Zardusht is identical with the new Persian form current in the time of the Arab conquest
Our only reliable source of information about Zoroaster comes from
the Gathas, a Persian sacred book
within the A vesta consisting of the
conversations, sayings, exhortations
and doctrinal teachings of the Persian prophet. There we are told that
Zoroaster was born in the district
of Arran, close to the northwestern
frontier of Media. After an arduous
•career full of adventures and dangers, he won to his religious movement the powerful prince Hyspastes.
There is an interesting parallelism
here between Zoroaster and Confucius, for the latter also is made to
wander from place to place in China
until he found refuge with a powerful Chinese prince.
Before Zoroaster, the old Persian
religion was a natural polytheism in
which the gods represented the vari->
ous powers of nature.
Zoroaster
raised it to a high moral level in;
which the central doctrine was the
conflict between the forces of good
and the forces of evil. He relegated!
the evil gods of his time to the rank
DOES HELAINE WANT TOO MUCH ?
i-
IS THERE SUCH A PERFECT PERSON LIVING?
WOULD YOU WANT SUCH A MATE?
DO YOU agree with Vee Ze Ess? The Bachelor? or Helaine? Tell them what you think? And the thousands of other
readers of THE SYRIAN WORLD who will eagerly read your
replies.
Several letters in this week's mail bag were written in the
form of poems. We smell poets among our readers. But maybe
poetry is the language for the sentiment of the topic.
Try to win the $5.00 and two books for the best letter printed
between now and September 29 when the contest closes or the
good book that is given each week for the best letter printed that
The Old-Fashioned Bachelor's was picked by the judges as
this week's best letter.
"MY IDEAL MAN"
Well, indeed, here it is before us again,
This subject of discussion: "My Ideal Man."
Ideal, as defined, is a mere conception,
A hazy one, vaguely meaning perfection.
But, really now, in this great day and wise age,
Where is she who will dwell on such a vague haze?
He comes in dreams, in song and in poetry.
Most vain to hope for such in reality.
And yet, I wish my man to be most gracious,
Daring; to be loving and most courageous.
Be a cool mantle when hot suns scar my heart—
And bear me back with his smile to heal its smart
My joy, my pain, my goal—his. My light and guide.
If I err, blame with care, lest he shed my pride!
His word must ring true and his action be free
That no shame shall come through inconsistency.
Let him strive and venture through life's course and lot
If he lose, defy! be bold, care as if not!
Meek, modest, in the face of praise, all he can.
Most truthfully be must be my pal, my man.
And in Autumn, when my hair has changed its hue,
His love must increase, bis interest accrue.
Out of life's chase a love-trophy he must bring
To cherish, adore, as he did in the spring.
This noble image of my heart HI design.
With jewels of yearning, with thoughts rare, divine!
I pour forth this feeling with the utmost zeal,
This conception of perfection: "My Ideal"
*
Vee Ze Ess.
k
oof deavas or demons, at the head
of whom was Ahriman (the Evil
Spirit) while elevating the chief
god of goodenss to the rank
of Ahuro Mazdao, or Ormazd, ..the
Wise Lord." The struggle between
the forces of Ormazd and Ahriman
last to the day of judgement, when)
the final victory of Ormazd will be
declared, and Ahriman and his forces
will be vanquished for ever. .Ahriman;
himself (is pictured as confined in,
hell, where he rules. He fights Ormazd and his followers through his
demons who are left at large.
Man is the creation of the good
God, but he was created free, and
was endowed with the power to
choose between Ormazd himself or
his arch-enemy. The essence of Ormazd is truth and law; the essence
of Ahriman is falsehood and chaos.
And the centre of struggle between
the two is the soul of man, over
whose possession the whole conflict is
staged. Thus man himself is declared a warrior, and his allegiance
to Ormazd is a sort of loyalty in
warfare. He must not lay down' his
weapons in the fight against the
forces of evil till he dies. Later, in
the days of the Roman Empire,
Mithra, the chief of the gods under
Ormazd, became an adopted god of
soldiers, and his worship spread to,
the banks of the Danube in Europe.
After death, man is judged by his
deeds. And here we see the origin of
that interesting doctrine that the
THE IDEAL HUSBAND!
MY IDEAL husband must be one
who venerates me before he loves
me; who understands my spirit and
falls in love with it before he falls
in love with the beauty of my face;
who can touch the strings of my soul
that its harmony may intoxicate him
before he is intoxicated with the
sweetness of my lips and the wine
of my eyes.
He must be considerate and chivalrous, denying himself for me and
others when duty calk.
He must be confident of himself,
but not conceited, industrious yet
scrupulous, intellectual yet not too
absorbed in himself and his studies
to the extent of forgetting me, sociable
but not frivolous, charming yet without, undue dignity.
He must be ambitious, seeking
fame, wealth, glory and pleasure,
without crushing the rights and souk
of others.
He must be brave in word and
deed, with the bravery that springs
from the liberal mind, brave to confess his mistakes and not blame them
on others, brave to conquer temptations, not vaunting in his conquests
of women.'
He must love his mother and
sisters, and honor his father's feelings; then I know he will love me
dearly and honor me. Under all
circumstances he must be faithful to
his friends, a man of loyalty and
principle.
He must be a man of living conscience and big hearted to defeat the
inborn instinct of selfishness in human nature.
When I find tins ideal husband,
I will be a worshipper at the temple
of hk love, I will burn my soul and
heart as incense on the altar of devotion to him. When I find him I
will give him all that I ask of him.
Brooklyn
Helaine
thoughts, words and deeds of every
man are recorded in a celestial
"book," according to which man will
be judged. If the good thoughts,
words and deeds outweigh the evil
bis soul goes straight to heaven, if
otherwise downward it goes to helL
But if they balance, his judgement is
postponed to the last day, and he
lives in a nondescript. kind of purgatory till that fateful day.
Next to truth and virtue, purity
holds a high esteem with the Zoroasterians. Their priests were dressed
in white robes, and all precautions
were prescribed against defilement.
The cow, as the chief benefactor of
mankind became almost sacred to the
Persians, as it was also to the Hindus.
So great was the influence of
Zoroasterian dualism on the course
of human thought as it developed in
the Near East and the West, that no
account of the history and culture
of the Arabs is complete without reference to it. In one form or another
this dualism sprang up to contest
the field now with Platonic monism,"
now with Christianity and now with
Mohammedanism.
Today, Zoroasterism has practically disappeared, except for a few
thousand loyal followers in India
and the province of Yazd in Persia.
A perversion of Zoroasterism may
be also recognized in the devil-worship 6f .the Yazidites in Kurdistan,
Armenia and the Caucasus Mountains.
WHAT I WANT IN A
WIFE!
Dear Editor:
I do not know whether I want
a wife at all. I mean, I am not quite
sure I would like to pay the price
of a wife, not these days anyway.
I have no reference in mind to the
barbaric custom, still current in our
days under more polite guise, of
actually buying a wife in the open
market.
I refer rather to the less tangible,
but not less real price, of self-limitation surrender of individual liberty
and conformity to the wishes and
whims of a wife.
Our modern society not only
makes woman the equal of man but
gives her superior advantages and
privileges that make marriage for
the male a risk as well as an adventure. The modern woman looks at
marriage < as partnership; but if this
parnership fails, she places all the
blame on man, and makes him pay
for 'it; if it succeeds hers k all the
credit
Should I decide to marry, I do
not ask much of my wife. If she is not
beautiful, she must be at least charming and gracious. She need net be
intellectual, but she must take a
tolerable interest in life and literature. Above all I do not want her
to talk philosophy and economics.
But if she does, she must at least be
sport enough to realize that she may
be conceivably wrong sometimes.
Anyhow she must know when an
argument stops.
There are other things I want
in a wife, but" what k the use, my
modern wife win turn about and ask
twice as much as I would. So I
think I will remain single, and you
may give the book and dollar to
somebody else!
New York
An Old-Fashioned
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THE SYRIAN WORLD; NEW YORK, SEPT. 1, 1933.
PAGE SEVEN
The GARDENS of OMAR
By HENRI BORDEAUX
Member of the French Academy
Synopsis: Yamile and Khalil
Khoury, while young, were betrothed
to each other.. Their wedding day
was to be held after the feast of the
Cedars. During the feast under the
Cedars, while the Christians were enjoying themselves, two aristocratic
.young Moslem men came riding by
in a magnificent equipage that proclaimed them to be princes, one of
them Omar, who, after settling himself, saw Yamile, and looked into her
eyes long and ardently, she returned
a look just as entranced which was
noticed by no one but Khalil who
whispered it to Boutros, Yamile's
headstrong brother. Boutros' effort to
pick a quarrel and fight with the
Moslems was ignored. The next day
Khalil finds under his plate at dinnar in the home of Yamile's parents,
the ring and bracelet he had given
her to cement their troth.
CHAPTER THREE
THE ELOPEMENT
OUR explanation was -frank—
free at least from bitterness. She
was waiting for me next morning in
the courtyard of her home by the
side of the fountain. I was resolved
to lose neither time nor self-respect
in idle reproaches. Love cannot be
controlled. It is enough that its yoke
must be borne.
She had kept her head over the
fountain with her lips pressed tightly
together. Now for the first time she
spoke.
"Yes, I do love you."
Our hopes are so much the
slaves of our desire that, at this unexpected answer, my heart seemed to
beat naturally again.
"You love me," I repeated, "yet
you will not marry me. This is something I cannot understand!"
"Nor I," she answered, with a
mirthless little smile.
"But we must try to understand,
Yamile," I insisted, gently. "Between
us two there should be no shadow
of deceit. Let us try to find what
is parting us. Was it not something
that happened yesterday?"
She looked up quickly.
"Nothing happened yesterday,"
she said. Her words were true, yet,
how profoundly false. Eyes have no
words, yet they speak far more eloquently. Eyes have no arms nor
hands yet nothing resists their hold.
Why should she lie? She who but
yesterday had risked the wrath of
father and brother, she who today
did not fear to break my heart. My
voice rose.
"Yesterday," I said with bitter
emphasis on each word, "under The
Cedars, before your dance, oh—and
after it, too, this bey from Akkar
looked at you."
"Every one looked at me," she
answered lightly. "I am not veiled
like the t Mussulman women. Are
you jealous of everybody?"
"Oh, no," I answered. "Not of
everybody.
But of Omar-bey-elHussein."
A shiver ran through her body.
It was admission enough, but less so
than her next words.
"Ah," she murmured. "That is
his name, then."
Her lips moved as though she
repeated the hateful syllables to herself. To know that one is no longer
loved is torture. But to know that
another has taken ones place is to
find life a nightmare. As though
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I would taste the full measure of
my .suffering, I went on.
"You cannot, Yamile, you can
not love him! An enemy, a Mussulman!"
"Who said that I love him?" she
queried.
"For a Maronite woman to commit such a crime," I went on, not
heeding Her interruption.
"Oh it
would be monstrous!"
She put her hand to her head
as though dazed. It was plain to
me that she was asking herself how
far her guilt had gone. Perhaps,
poor soul, it was not until my words
were spoken that she realized in
what an abyss of passion she had
suddenly fallen. Her pitiful weakness and amazement were so evident
that my anger melted. Boutros, I
am sure, would have acted far otherwise. Overwhelming wrath, blows,
perhaps, would have been his answer
to a promised bride so perversely led
astray by a single glance from a
stranger. And it may be, he would
have been right. In our East, perhaps everywhere, fear is not only the
beginning, but the end of wisdom.
But, even had Yamile endured such
an answer, my fatal studies had rendered me incapable of it. That last
generosity of a hapless love, the desire to protect the beloved at all
costs, prompted my next words.
"Yamile, you can never be the
wife of that man."
"I know it," she answered.
"I am willing still to make you
mine."
She was astounded at my words.
It was as though I were offering to
protect her against herself. But she
shook her head sadly.
"It is too late," she replied. "I
am no longer anything to you at all.
Suddenly, with that wilful grace
that was her greatest charm, and as
though to thank me mutely for my
unselfish offer, she bent over my
hands and pressed her lips to them,
just as I had done on that winter
evening that seemed so far away,
when I first realized my love.
The tears came to my eyes.
"Listen, Yamile," I said. "I will
tell no one what has happened between us. Perhaps—in a few days—*
you will ask me for your presents
again."
She shook her head. "And yet,—"
she said, knitting her brows as though
puzzled at her own heart, "It is not
that I don't love you. You are so
good—so good!"
Nothing falls so ungratefully upon
the ears of a rejected lover as this
From E. P. DUTTON and Co.
The American Publishers
tepid phrase. What has love to do
with goodness?—love that takes its
wages in tears and blood. Suddenly
I yearned to have done with the
thing, once and for all. I was even
sorry that I had not yielded to the
violence of my jealous anger. But
it was too late now. I had assigned
myself a magnanimous role to play,
and it was too late to change that
part. We are actors in our own
tragedies. Often we make them more
tragic than they need have been.
"I will wait, Yamile," I murmured
tamely.
So we separated upon a promise
she had not asked me to give. I
have often thought since that if I
had warned the sheik that night oH
his daughter's folly, the supreme
tragedy might have been averted.
The time was short. Our bridal day
had been fixed for a fortnight later.
But we stood on the threshold of
events that would make still shorter
work of human foresight.
mares whose price was to be fixed.
The village poured into the street
'to see the strangers and to pass
judgement upon the famous horses
from Akkar. Feeling was divided between hatred of the hereditary foa
and the curiosity of a horse-loving
race over the forthcoming sale. Even
Boutros, back from hunting, forgot
his enmity -while running a practised hand over the loins and neck
of the magnificent creatures.
One of the mares was of a silvery white, almost bordering on gray.
The coat of the other was of that
burnished bay which looks almost
red in the sun. Their nostrils quivered and seemed to breathe fire.
The restless eyes, rolling in their orbits
from side to side, besought a test
that would prove their life and fire.
But the bay surpassed any horse I
had seen.
"She is Tadmor's sister," Omar
explained. "You could hardly tell
one from the other. The white one,
Salma, was foaled later. She has perA messenger from Akkar anhaps a little less speed, but, for ennounced the coming visit of the' durance, there is nothing to choose
young beys with the famous horses.
between them."
I was not in the house when they
"I choose the bay," said Yamile's
arrived and Boutros, sulky, was
father. What is her price?"
hunting in the mountains.
But
The young chief from Akkar stood
Eastern hospitality sets no limit upon
a moment in thought
the liberty of a stranger who is a
"We will settle that tomorrow,"
guest within the house and I have
he answered.
always believed means were found to
In vain did Rachid-el-Hame
put a letter into Yamile's hands.
lavish all his diplomacy, all his noted
What makes me still more certain«are
skill in bargaining, to obtain a niore
the words she spoke to me the evedefinite answer. The price remained
ning of his arrival.
a mystery only to be revealed on/
"Now you can tell,," she said sudthe morrow. But that it would be a
denly.
high one, surpassing any sum yet
"Tell whom?" I retorted.
given for horseflesh in Bcharre, all
"My father. I can never be your
were sure.
wife. Forgive me, Khalil."
The laws of hospitality obliged;
This time there was no room for
the sheik to keep his guests overself-deception. The last ray of hope
night. I was asked to dinner as bedied out in my heart.
ing already considered as one of the
"Your father is a violent man.
family, but no women were present,
He will be mad with anger. He will
either at the dinner or the dances
strike you, Yamile."
that followed.
"Let him," she answered, with
In the course of the evening
all the resignation of a martyr.
Boutros drew me aside and whisWas the fatal choice already
pered in my ear.
made, with a final instinct of self"He has spoken to Yamile," he
preservation, was she striving to
said with a bitter emphasis on the
place the anger of her father between
first word. "But for the last time.
herself and an abyss at which her
It is now I who forbid it. He goes
brain reeled? Alas! today all is contomorrow and will never return."
jecture.
The words: "he has spoken to
I was still trying to make up my
Yamile," overwhelmed me with desmind to speak to her father when
pairing fury. I had no heart for the
our two cavaliers of The Cedars,
dance, but went out and took my sorOmar-bey-el-Hussein and Abdulrarow under the stars.
jak-bey-el-Osman rode into the
street of Bcharre with a great clatter,
followed by servants leading the two
(To be continued in next issue)
MARRIAGE IN EAST AND WEST
Continued from page 5.
the friction, the conflict, the chafing under a selfimposed yoke, the short-lived conjugal life that ends
in Reno. Selfishness, not incompatibility, is often
the true and underlying cause of most marriage
failures of our time.
Count Keyserling, a modern German thinker,
having reviewed the opinions of many prominent
thinkers of East and West on this subject in his
"Symposium of Marriage," comes out with the con-i
elusion that not love or utility should be the aim
and goal of a happy marriage, but self-fulfillment
A man or woman should seek the mate who can
(fill that part of his personality which is, lacking,
who can develop those qualities which the man or
woman alone can not develop.
And thus we find ourselves" after centuries of
experimentations and philosophizing back at the
door of the ancient wisdom expressed in the second
chapter of Genesis that woman is a "help meet" of
man.
" \
OUR NEW YORKERS
Continued from page 5.
covering rapidly n their respective homes. Eddie
was hit by a truck a couple of months ago and
Cronin hurt his leg getting out of an automobile.
The Cronins, by virtue of their long and close association with Syrians, may be considered part of
us.
Victor Nader refused to go back to Wall Street
in this new boom although his firm has written him
several times to return. He doesn't want to leave
Washington. I bet she is nice.
\
Geo Ghiz sure can take it He is back on the
curb. Better luck this time, George.
Richard Cahill keeps open house in his beautiful
penthouse on 81st Street, Manhattan, but he didn't
count on the visitor who stole many of his fine
rugs, tapestries and other pieces of art
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ENTERTAINERS AT THE FOURTH ANNUAL MAHRAJAN WHICH WILL
TAKE PLACE SUNDAY AND LABOR DAY IN BRIDGEPORT, CONN.
NAJEEBEE MORAD
Who will sing in Arabic
in that deep throaty
voice of hers that certainly draws the crowd.
JOSEPH SILWAN— Whose Arabic songs please even the
American born Syrians. It's the voice, it's the voice that
counts.
TOUFIC BARHUM— Who can tickle those oud strings so
"that every singer wants to sing.
NAIM KARACAND— The viofawiirtnof Arabic son*.
THE SWORD QUARTET— Two of whom will make you
to follow their swift foot and wrist
0M other two male mem to mom UUfu slay.
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<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
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<p><em>The Syrian World</em> was published between 1926 and 1932 as a journal. In 1932, the format was changed from an academic journal style to a newspaper style, which continued until the periodical's end in 1935. After the death of his brother Naoum, Salloum took over the publication of <em>Al-Hoda.</em></p>
<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
<p>All issues of <em>The Syrian World</em> are available, along with full indexes for the first four volumes. For volumes five and six, there are tables of contents at the start of the issues.</p>
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MAHRAJAN, NATIONAL FOLK FESTIVAL,
ATTRACTS CROWDS DESPITE RAIN
LEBANON, SYRIA
ECONOMIC MESS
BRIDGEPORT, CONN., BECOMES TEMPORARY MECCA TO DELEGATIONS
FROM NEW ENGLAND AND NEW YORK STATES
DISCONTINUANCE OF AMER.
ICAN MONEY FLOW DRIED
UP ECONOMIC SPENDING
POWER OF LEBANON
AND SYRIA
Matches of Wit in Folk Poetry Has Its Devotees; Singing, Dancing,
Sword Play Make Gloomy Hours Pass Merrily
PRESERVATION OF NATIVE TRADITIONS AND CUSTOMS KEYNOTE
OF SPEECHES
OLD KING SOL had his merry joke on the week-end vacationers this year. Behind his broad benign smile and jolly nature,
as he beamed good naturedly Saturday afternoon on his subjects
down below, he hid a mischievous wink. For no sooner the long
caravans of automobiles issued out from the gorges of our modern
Gothams, seeking the wide open spaces, than fickle King Sol
frowned menacingly and wrapped himself with apprehensive
clouds.
The vanguard of the Lebanon
League of Progress who had left for
Bridgeport on Friday and Saturday
had no suspicion of bad weather.
They placed? too much confidence in
the constancy of King Sol. But they
were not at all disheartened. With
hospitable good nature and sunny
smiles they did their best to offset
the dampening effect of drizzling
rain and cloudy sky as they welcomed one delegation after another to
the fourth ftrmual MAHRAJAN at
Champ's Farm.
Shaykh Naoum Hatem, Faris Akel
and Alexander Antoun were everywhere hustling and hurrying, like the
proverbial bride's mother at an oldfashioned Syrian wedding, to see that
their guests and charges lacked nothing in good time and conveniences.
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Automobiles from Many States
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All day long Saturday and Sunday morning, the stream of automobiles carrying Lebanese and Syrian
feasters from far and near kept pouring into the spacious enclosure set
aside for that purpose on the extensive farm. Hundreds of automobiles bearing a checkered variety
of license plates from the New England states, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, lined several rows deep
on the lawn.
A few uniformed policemen
directed the traffic from the main
entrance by the Boston Post through
the long lane to the grounds of the
national fair. A large sign at the
entrance pointed the way. Order and
. peace dominated the whole atmosphere, even when the constant tap,
tap, tap of rain drove many to
thoughts of mayhem and murder.
A large hall, reminder of comfort
and opulence from the manorial days
of hoop-skirts, crinoline and onehorse shays, housed over a thousand.
Other thousands sought refuge in
their automobile seats, budging only
when rain let up a little allowing
them to participate in the festive
activities or join their friends and
townspeople.
Formed
Festive
Circles
True to the traditions of the old
public festivals of Lebanon and Syria—such as the Lord's Feast at the
Cedars or the Virgin's Feast at Saidnayah, or even way back in the days
of the Israelites and Phoenicians—the
people gathered in circles and groups
"under every green tree." For the
brief period of two days the hand
of time seemed to have turned back,
the conventions and associations of
modern America vanished, and as
though by the waving of a magician's wand, a bit of old Lebanon
was transported across the Mediterranean, the continent of Europe and
the Atlantic Ocean and placed itself at that beautiful bit of Connecticut landscape at the bank of placid
Ash Creek. Some were dancing the
debke, others formed a circle about
two sword players cutting harmless
swathes through the air, but giving
the impression of two bloody wariors
in single combat determined to
fight it out to the bitter end. Still
others were listening to the plaintive strains of the double flute (mijwiz), the strident notes of the violin
or the rumbling, torn torn beats of
the dirbakkeh. Those with a city
folk trend of mind hied themselves
to the main hall to witness "Princess
Athena" do her Oriental shimmy
from a platform accompanied at the
violin by Na'im Karakand.
Battles of Wit
Of special interest were the circles of m'anna and 'ataba folk poets
who carried at Bridgeport a folk
tradition so characteristic of Lebanon
of our early childhood. Among those
who distinguished themselves in this
popular diversion of wit and repartee were Anthony Morin of North
Adams, Mass., T. S. Nicholas of Boston, Joseph T. Jaji of Coatesville,
Pa., and A. John Francis, also of
Coatesville. This particular featurt
was of especial attraction to American
guests who saw in it a reminiscence
of the days of troubadours and their
matches of wit before the Medieval
courts of Provence, Spain and England. In another place of today's
issue of the SYRIAN WORLD the
reader will find a translation of a
typical selection of this form of folk
poetry.
Mass Held for Naoum Mokarzel
Two masses, both well attended
by the festival crowds, were held at
the large dance hall by the river,
where an improvised altar was erected for the purpose.
The first
mass, on Sunday, was conducted by
Mgr. L. Zouain of Danbury, Conn.,
assisted by his cousin Rev. George
Zouain of Springfield, Mass. On MonContinued on page 2.
KING FEISAL
PASSES AWAY
Blames French for High
Tariff
DIES SUDDENLY OF
HEART TROUBLE
AT BERNE
AGRICULTURAL STATION IN BUQA' CALLED ENCOURAGING SIGN
BY DR. KNAYSI, RETURNING
SCIENTIST
A DISPATCH to the Associated
Press from Berne, Switzerland,
announced the death of His Majesty King Feisal al-Hasani al-Hashimi, king of Iraq and former
king of Syria.
On his return to Baghdad from
his short visit to England, King
Feisal had taken the trip to Switzerland for treatment. He was
gravely ill when he arrived at
Berne, and his physicians were
apprehensive lest he could not
stand the journey. The recent
uprisings of the Assyrians in
Mosul and the consequent political
furore which they created in the
world might have aggravated his
condition. In spite of his apparent
vigor and cheerfulness, King Feisal had tiffered from poor health
for sometime past He died suddenly of heart trouble, passing
away at 12:30 A.M. on Friday,
Sept. 8 with Prof. Charles Kocher,
Swiss specialist, and a nurse in
attendance.
His condition had
taken to the worse at 3 P.M. on
the previous day.
(In the next issue of the
SYRIAN WORLD further developments resulting from King Feisal's sudden death will be given
in more detail.)
W0LFH0LL0W
TOURNAMENT
TfflS WEEK
Syramar Golf Club to Hold
Sixth Annual Tournament
on 10th and 11th.
THE SIXTH Annual Championship Tournament of the Syrajmar,
Golf Club will be held the week-end
of September 10 and 11 at the Wolfhollow Country Club, Delaware
Water Gap, the usual scene of their
tournaments.
Play will start Saturday at 8:30
a.M, sharp with the qualifying round
of 18 holes. {Eliminations will be
played Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.
All flights will be on the handicap basis except the Championship
Flight A beautiful antique English
silver tray will be the new trophy
this year and will have to be won
three times to be permanently possessed. George Ferris is now the
possessor of the last trophy, having
won it three times.
There will be a bridge tournament for the ladies ,and on Saturday
night a formal dinner and dance will
take place.
Henry Hadad is chairman of the
Committee on Arrangements.
TOO MANY automobiles, too
many unnecessary officials; too
much taxation, too extravagant
manner of living and too little
initiative—these are the symptoms of economically sick Lebanon and Syria, according to
the diagnosis of Dr. George
Knaysi, bacteriologist at Cornell
University.
,
Dr. Knaysi who spent a three
month vacation in these two countries, arrived at New York on Monday of this week, having passed on
his way here through Egypt. While
his first object was a well-earned
vacation of relaxation and rest, the
Lebanese scientist kept his eyes and
ears open and brought back withp
him some valuable observations.
Contrasting Syria of today with
Syria at the start of the World economic depression when he visited it
last three years ago, Dr. Knaysi found
little encouraging signs. The splashes
from the great tidal wave of revival
and prosperity in America have not
reached the eastern shores of the
Mediterranean as yet
Flow of American Dollars
Stopped
"Business today in Syria and
Lebanon," declared Dr. Knaysi, "is
much worse than it "was when I
visited them three years ago. This
is mainly due, I believe, to the cutting off of American money that used
to flow continuously from Syrians
and Lebanese residing in North and
South America to relatives and kinsmen abroad. Taking the whole western hemisphere into consideration
this constant stream of American
dollars represented at the least estimate $15,000,000."
No wonder, we are informed by
Dr. Knaysi, the people of Syria and
Lebanon for the fiist time are beginning to realize the importance of
America to them and appreciate it
more than ever. For the first time
they realize in a concrete, tangible
manner how much America has meant
to them in the past
"Every building of consequence,"
continued Dr. Knaysi, "that I noticed
ki Hasbayyah, my hometown, and
Zahle was put up by hard-earned
American cash. I was told that this
was /true generally of most other
towns and villages in Lebanon and
many other towns and villages in
Syria."
Extravagance in Evidence
Yet while this important income
has been practically discontinued, and
while other resources have dwindled
considerably, Syrians and Lebanese
have not changed their manner of
living correspondingly. Extravagant
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THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, FRJDAY, SEPT. 8, 1933.
living and little initiative are still
much in evidence, Dr. Knaysi averred,
leaving one to wonder where those
people get the money to spend so
lavishly, and whether they are not
spending from their savings and capital. The Americanized Lebanese observer said that from $15,000 to $20,000 are spent daily in Syria and Lebanon for gasoline, and much of this
expenditure is uncalled for. He cited
as an example his own hometown
with a population of 3000 having 15
taxis, mostly idle. ¥ou could hire
a taxi from Hasbayyah to Beirut, a
distance of 60 miles for 4 Syrian
pounds, which, at the present rate
of exchange are a little over $4. The
taxi drivers, it is obvious, do not
figure the element of depreciation on
cars, but (merely expenses. When
the time comes for buying a new
car in the place of the old, they
must perforce consider that cut throat
competition is suicidal for all. Many
taxis must get out of business if
automobiles are to be an asset, not
an economic drain on the resources
of the country. Dr. Knaysi learned
that there are at least 20,000 automobiles in Lebanon alone, an entirely
too great a quota for a little country
of its size.
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Conditions qf the Syrian and Lebanese peasantry, Dr. Knaysi found,
have not changed much. Prices of
agricultural products have dropped
considerably and wages of labour
have followed.
"You could hire a first class
labourer," he told, "for 25 to 30
cents a day,"an extremely efficient
one for 35, and a master mason for
75 to $1. And since a working day
in our old country still consists from
sunrise to sunset, you can see that
the Syrian and Lebanese labourer
pts less than 3 cents an hour on the
average."
Blames Political Division
and Taxation
Are these conditions due solely
to the general economic depression
whjch the whole world feels today, or
are there local, extraneous causes
that could be removed or remedied?
Dr. Knaysi answered unhesitatingly
that much of the Syrian peasant's
plight was due to the latter. Political
division of the country into small,
semi-independent states, the unnecessary multiplication of offices and
bureaus, customs barriers and the
consequent heavy taxation—these all
are removable causes of unusual depression in Syria and Lebanon which
are not only remediable but should
be attended to at once if those countries entertain any hope of economic
revival.
Dr. Knaysi blamed the French
in particular for lowering tariff on
wheat, allowing Australian wheat to
compete with wheat grown in Syrian
soil. Syria, he pointed out is essentially an agricultural country and
the government should protect the
interests of the Syrian peasant by
raising rather than lowering the tariff
on agricultural products. He thinks
introduction of modern machinery is
a liability rather than an asset to the
Syrian farmer. Nevertheless, he sees
some hope in the industrial revival
in Syria which is beginning to show
some tangible results. He praised
the quality of silk fabrics now being
woven in Damascus and the leather,
especially sole leather, being produced in Mashgarah, Lebanon. The
silk industry, Dr. Knaysi observed,
is on the slump. People in Lebanon
are pulling out their mulberry trees
and planting instead banana trees.
The vine also comes in for its share
of misfortune, but this time it is
one of those acts of Providence. The
phylloxera, that dreaded insect to
all vine growers, is now sapping the
vitality of the celebrated Lebanese
vine. Planting of American stock
WHY KING FEISAL
TURNED DOWN LOAN
CLAIM HAIFA-BAGHDAD RAILWAY WOULD PLACE IRAQ
UNDER BRITISH INFLUENCE
Assyrian Uprisings Had no Bearing on Failure
POLITICAL speculation on the causes that led to the disruption of negotiations between King Feisal of Iraq and British authorities in London has occupied the Arabic press since the Iraqite
King's hurried return to his capital about a month ago.
Nationalists who suspect every,
turn of political development emanating from Europe and attribute to it
sinister motives, real or fancied, have
not hesitated to insinuate that the
late Assyrian uprisings were the
machinations of the British who had
timed ft to come immediately after
the announcement of King Feisal's
withdrawal. Others, inclined to be
more moderate but not the less suspicious, were content to view the uprisings as an independent movement
which came just in the nick of time
for the proverbially lucky British.
According to these, British imperialists who were never in favour of
complete withdrawal from Iraq and
the substitution of the treaty regime
for that of the mandate, capitalized
the Assyrian episode for all it was
worth.
Iraqites Become Wary
Whether, however, there was any
logical connection between King Feisal's mission to London and the Assyrian debacle, it is now a well-recognized fact that the Iraqite Government has openly shown its discontent with the British interpretation
of that mission and with British demands for its fulfillment The reader
may recall that among the foremost
objects of King Feisal's visit to England, where he was received with
single honors and where he was met
at the station by King George V in
person, were the proposed railway
from Haifa to Baghdad and the conclusion of a substantial loan to the
Iraqite Government. After the usual
pouparlers and negotiations it is said
that King Feisal and his colleagues
realized that their point of view differed diametrically from that of their,
British negotiators.
has not brought the expected results, either because the American
vine is too old by the time it is
ready for plantation there or because
they do not treat it right. American
vine, it is well known, has a natural
resistence to the phylloxera pest. Dr.
Knaysi told an amazing anecdote of
a Druze refusing to plant American
vine in his vineyard because, he
thought, it was "haram" (tabu) to
do so.
Encouraging Signs
One encouraging sign, Dr. Knaysi
noted on his trip, was the agricultural
station at Tha'labayah in al-Buqa'
run by the Near East Foundation and
managed by Profs. Forrest Crawford
and Halim- Najjar of the American;
University of Beirut. Over 50 young
promising farmers with elementary
or high school education are shown
in practical ways how tt> apply
modern science to agriculture.
A
plant for pasteurizing milk, run by
Najib Dumit of Beirut, was another
encouraging sign.
Dr. Knaysi, a slim, bespectacled,
dark-eyed, dark, thin hair, with
a scientific composure and carriage,
left for Ithaca to resume his work in
the bacteriological laboratories of
Cornell University.
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Had no Objections to Railway
The Iraqites had no special objection at first to the building of the
Haifa-Baghdad railway, but it became
clear to them as the negotiations
proceeded that the British intended
to have the Iraqite assume financial
responsibility for the whole project,
and that the loan they were willing
to extend to them was to be expended
in that direction. This the Iraqites
thought was a little too much. In
the first place, the Iraqites held, the
chief advantage of the proposed railway goes to the British who should
bear the burden of its expenses.
There were, furthermore, many economic and civic projects which the
Iraqites were anxious to launch in
their newly freed country, and for
which they were anxious to get the
loan. The railway was a concession
on the part of the Iraqites, but the
British negotiators held differently.
Iraq Seeking Leadership
As an after thought, it seems,
the Iraqite nationalists now look back
to the proposed railway and realize
that it was fraught with dangers to
their national existence. They point
out that if it had materialized it
would have meant the subjugation of
Iraq to British influence to an indefinite time, thus placing Iraq under
indirect British rule after all the
strenuous efforts and bloody sacrifices to rid it just from that rule,
thus negating in spirit the effect of
the treaty. Iraq, those nationalists
now reflect, should soon assume leadership over the rest of the Arabicspeaking world, and the existence of
the Haifa-Baghdad railway would
automatically cut it off from the
Arabian states and place it in a
secondary position among the Arab
nations. Besides, in these days of
automobile traffic it |s considered
much more economical to use the
present traffic route passing through
Palestine and Transjordania.
French Suspicion, Factor
There is another factor, however, that might have contributed to
the failure of the Iraqite-British negotiations. It is pointed out that the
British must have yielded to the
pressure of French public opinion
which regarded the proposed railway, passing partly through Syrian
soil, with evident apprehension. The
railway, it was realized, would have
placed a decided handicap in the way
of French colonial policy in the East,
if not putting it in jeopardy.
On their part the Iraqites point
out that their treasury could not
possibly assume the responsibility
of financing the railway, and that its
commercial advantages do not balance
its political disadvantages.
For these reasons, King Feisal
withdrew from the negotiations in
London and turned down the proffered
loan. The Assyrian uprisings had
no direct bearing on the failure of
these negotiations, but they came at
a time to embarrass the Iraqites and
place them in a bad light with thenBritish allies, and the rest of the
world.
ARTISTS WHO
PARTICIPATED IN
THE MAHRAJAN
r
THE LIST of .singers, dancers,
sword players, instrumentalists and
folk poets who participated in the
Mahrajan was long and varied. Prominent among them were:
M. J. Germanos, Milad Joseph,
Nimr Fayyad, T. M. Germanos and
B. Tony (sword players); M. T. Barakat, Anthony Morin, T. S. Nicholas,
J. T. Jaji, and John Francis (folk
poets); Najeebee Morad, Joe Selwan,
A. Gohson, Wadieah Khurj and
"Princess Athena" (singers); N. Karakand, T. Barham, Daniel Suleiman,
S. S. Haddad Michael Khoury (instrumentalists); Kamil S. Haddad, A.
Zaitar, Badieah Nujeim, Najibah Simon and Selwa Ramih (dancers and
debkists.)
Basilian Club to Hold
Reunion Dance
N.
on
at
861
The Basilian Club of Brooklyn,
Y., will hold a Reunion Dance
Saturday evening, September 23rd
8:00 P.M. in their clubrooms at
Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn.
MAHRAJAN FESTIVAL
Continued from page 1.
day at 11 A.M a special mass for
the repose of the late Naoum Mokarzel was held in the same place
at which Mgr. L. Zouain also officiated, assisted by Rev. Mansur Stephen and Rev. George Zouain. It
was a fitting and solemn occasion recalling to the thousands who attended
the Mahrajan the memory of the
astute editor to whom the idea of
the Mahrajan-is credited, an idea
which promises to become a national
Lebanese and Syrian institution in
the land of Uncle Sam.
The Mahrajan was formally
opened by Shaykh Naoum Hatem,
President of the Lebanon League of
Progress, presenting S. A. Mokarzel,
who besides being editor of ALHODA and the SYRIAN WORLD
stands in the relation of < Counsellor
to the League. Mr. Mokarzel in turn
introduced Edward Buckingham, Mayor of Bridgeport, who extended to
the feasters the hospitality of the
city and spoke feelingly of this annual pilgrim of the Syrians to Bridgeport. He was followed by Prof. John
Hazam of Yale University, Ameen
Zaydan, Rev. M. (Stephen and Elia
D. Madey, editor and poet. But rain
knows no favoritism to poets and
the poet's recitation was cut short
before he was a few couplets away.
Madey's legs were as nimble as his
wit when the crowd scurried for
shelter from the open platform on the
green slope to the right of the main
hall.
The principal oratorical fete,
however, was held indoors on the following day. Mr Mokarzel acted as
chairman introducing the following
speakers in their turn: Mgr. Louis
Zouain, Dr. K A. Bishara, M. Charles
le Genissel, French Consul suppleant of New York; Rev. B. Wahbi,
Eha D. Madey, George Milan, Dr. R.
T Deen, Assad Rustum, Dr. Lewis
Aide, Nasib Arida, Jacob Raphael
and Karim Sanduq. Other speakers
were scheduled but had returned
home earlier in the day.
Throughout the speeches rang
a jubilent note. Orators and poets
alike offered their mead of praise
to an instieution which, more than
any other, is destined to perpetuate
the worthy traditions of our old
homeland and to solder the bonds of
uniey among the different Syrian
factions in this country. Mr. Mokarzel paid a special tribute to his late
brother, Naoum, who originated the
idea of the Mahrajan.
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THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPT. 8, 1933.
NEW HAIFA HARBOR LARGEST
ON EAST MEDITERRANEAN
AREA OF 400 ACRES FIVE TIMES THE SIZE OF BEIRUT
HARBOR; DEPTH 37 FEET; STRATEGIC HARBOR
WILL HAVE PETROLEUM REFINERIES
AND AIRPORT
British Imperial Dream Comes True
ON THE fourth of August the enlarged harbor of Haifa,
work on which began some four years ago, has been opened for
incoming and outgoing ships. On the first of coming October it
will be opened formally with appropriate ceremonies.
Still lacking in certain supplementary developments which may
take as long as the middle of 1935,
the new harbor is considered the
largest and best equipped on the
eastern side of the Mediterranean
Sea. Its holding (area of 400 acres
makes it equal in size to Marseilles
and five times as large as Beirut
harbor, until then the largest on the
Syrian littoral.
Some believe the
Haifa harbor even surpasses Marseilles and all other harbors in the
whole Mediterranean. The depth of
the new harbor is 37 feet which will
permit ships of medium size to anchor
comfortably.
Tanks to Hold Millions of
Gallons
Rising on the wharf of Haifa
harbor will be huge petroleum tanks,
with capacity for millions of gallons,
to which the oil lines from Mosul
will empty. The tanks of the Shell
company alone are estimated to hold
9 million gallons. Other provisional
tanks will be built to the northeast of
Haifa in an area which will be known
as "the petroleum area" owned jointly by the British and Shell companies
whose shares of the liquid gold will
debouch into Haifa.
Brilliant Future Predicted
A brilliant future of prosperity
and economic exploitation is predicted for Palestine because of the
new harbor. Refineries built neait
the harbor will bring occupation to
hundreds of workmen, while other
hundreds or even thousands will find
work in the different activities fostered by the harbor. One of these
will undoubtedly be a huge airport
housing British planes. And if the
Haifa-Baghdad proposed railway is
ever materialized, as many think it
will, Haifa will become one of the
most important railway termini in
the Near East, as trains coming from
Egypt, Syria and Iraq will then converge in it.
Haifa Strategic Centre
Not only as an economic centre,
but as a strategic military one Haifa
will take its rank among the principal
British posts of colonial expansion.
The new harbor will be efficiently
fortified against land, sea and air attacks, necessitating the presence of
military forces with all their accessories and appurtenances. For Haifa
then will become the door of British
imperialism to India, thus materializing one of the fondest dreams of
British
imperialists.
Preparations
have already started for the building
of the airport which, it is said, will
occupy 500 acres in a spacious plain
east of the Akka-Beirut road. When
completed it will be among the largest airports anywhere in existence.
Dream Comes True
While work goes on for the completion of the Haifa harbor and its
accessory developments, the laying
of the long pipe-line from Mosul
proceeds with renewed vigor. Thousands of laborers are already ply-
BATTLE-OF POETS AT
MAHRAJAN WON BY
MERCHANT FROM PA.
THE LATE KING FEISAL
ing their picks and axes in levelling
the desert spaces and laying down
the huge iron pipes through which
the oil of Mosul will flow. By the
time the pipe-line reaches Haifa, the
tanks, refineries and other equipments would have been in place to
receive the precious liquid.
And
thus one of the most ambitious projects in modern economic exploitation would have passed from the stage
of dreaming, scheming and planning
to the realm of reality, costing hundreds of millions of dollars.
J. KAIM HEADS
POLITICAL CLUB
Women State They Can Abo
Be Helpful; Mrs. Orfalea
First to Join
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 3.—
The unselfish move on the part of
the Aitaneet Brotherhood Association
in the forming of the new Syrian
American Democratic Club with
membership open to Syrians regardless of creed or relationship is being
highly commenedd by Syrians in this
city.
Jamil Kaim, recognized as the
Aitaneet leader and a highly respected
Syrian in this community is responsible for this move. Mr. Kaim in a
letter sent to many well known Syrians said: "We feel the majority of
the Syrian people appreciate this fine
connection and the many things we
have so far accomplished." Mr. Kaim
is president of both the Brotherhood
Association and the Syrian Democratic Club.
At the meeting held Sunday evening in an effort to increase membership,
eighteen new
members
swelled the poster to a little over
one-hundred members, who will be
quite active in the party elections
this coming November. As meeting
follows meeting it is no longer doubtful that the membership will pass
the two-hundred mark. Many of
our larger independent groups do not
have a much larger active membership list This club in its entirety
during election times will be devoted completely to Democratic Party
activities.
Mrs. Aref Orfalea suggested to
Mr. Kaim "that women too can be of
much help" and Mr. Kaim wholeheartedly accepted the suggestion.
Mrs. Orfalea was the $rst woman to
join. Before the termination of the
meeting many more came under the
standard of the old Jeffersonian
banner.
Murshid Abdo stressed the necessity
of working together for a common
cause. Charles Sahley, David Essi,
Joseph Kalil and Mr. Morad also
spoke.
The officers of the new organization are: Jamil Kaim, President;
James Abood, Vice-President; E. Sabath, Secretary; N. Nahra, Treasurer;
and M. Nahas, Publicity Man. George
Bird, chairman of the board of
trustees, G. RahaL A Thomey, T.
Abood are members of the board.
18 8 5—1 9 3 3.
A GREAT statesman of the Allies
once said of the late King Feisal
whom he had come to know at the
Versailles Conference that he was
"every inch a prince." With his almost twenty years of modern living
in Istanbul, his extensive travelling,
his frequent contact with western life
and his association with western diplomatists, the late King Feisal typified the Arab gentleman of best
traditions.
A dispatch arriving as the SYRIAN
WORLD goes to press, reports that
Prince Ghazi, eldest son of King
Feisal has been proclaimed King of
Iraq in his father's place. The Arab
king is dead, long five the Arab king!
A J. Liebling, World-Telegram
staff writer, in covering the Mahrajan for his paper, found the extemporaneous exchange of wit betwen the
poet-singers the most interesting
phase of the national Syrian festival
held in Bridgeport last week-end.
"In bardic combat", wrote Mr.
Liebling on the following day, "Joe
Thomas, a big merchant with a small
business at Coatesville, Pa., met and
defeated all comers. Seated at a
long table decorated with pomegramates, green peppers and numerous bottles of stinging araq and yellow wine, he met the verbal assaults
of his rivals. Each challenger would
begin with a rhymed sing-song of
about fifteen minutes duration and
then pause maliciously, hand cupped
on ear, for the champion's reply."
When, after the winning decision,
the weary merchant expressed his
desire to sleep, Liebling requested a
translation of his concluding remarks from the young Yale professor, John Hazam, who obliged
with the following:
"Oh, inauspicious day, when I have
become the prey
Of a person insatiably inquiring after
unessential data.
It is undoubtedly a tribute to my
poetical position
And a recognition of my unique type
of erudition,
But does it matter?
OMAR DA'OUQ
CHOSEN TO BOARD OF
BANK DE SYRIE
BEIRUT.— At a recent meeting of
the board of Bank de Syrie et Grand
Leban, the official bank of the Mandatory, Omar Bey ad-Da'ouq, former
mayor of Beirut and one of its foremost financiers, was chosen director.
The appointment was received with
satisfaction by nationals of Syria and
Lebanon who recognize in the new
director an able economist and reformer.
POPE RECEIVES
ALEPPO PILGRIMS
ALEPPO.— A group of 26 devout
Greek Catholics, headed by Bishop
Macarius Saba, Metropolite of Aleppo, were granted audience by His
Holiness Pope Pius XI who bestowed
on them his blessings. The Aleppo
pilgrims included laymen and priests
and were joined by four others from
Beirut.
Oh
grub, oh
oh sap,
fool,
oh
journalist,
Permit me to resume my nap."
DETROIT MAN CLAIMS
CURE BY NOVENA
DURING the novena held in Our
Lady of Lebanon Church in Niagara
Falls, N. Y., last week conducted by
Rev. S. Jowdy, pastor, Ralph Carter
of Detroit claimed that he was cured
by the novena from meningitis. He
was in a hospital where there were
'two other similar cases in the sanitarium both of whom succumbed to
the disease, he states.
The first day of the novena, a
procession marched through the
streets escorted by the fire and police
department bands and a motorcycle
squad The American and Lebanon
flags were carried by veterans of
the Foreign Wars.
Many Syrian
clubs of Niagara Falls were also in
the procession.
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A COLORjFUL KING LAYS DOWN
HIS SCEPTRE
THE SUDDEN death of King Feisal of
Iraq at the premature age of 48 writes finis
to one of the most remarkable and colorful
chapters in contemporary history. His revolt
in the desert against the Turkish forces, with
the instigation and assistance of the British,
became a common legend through the no
less colorful person of Thomas Edward Lawrence.
Whatever may or may not be said about
the role which King Feisal played in the
political developments of the Arabic-speaking world, particularly in their relation to
Syria, it cannot be denied that he was one
of the most progressive, constructive and
liberally-minded sovereigns the Arabic East
has seen for many generations. His chief
aim was to see a true revival in prestige, industry and culture of the Arabic states, with
a pan-Arab kingdom as an ultimate goal.
Towards this grand vision he strained all his
energy, which, weighed down by the grave
responsibilities of a precarious throne and
constant friction with the British, was ebbing
fast in spite of his tenacious vitality and stoic
fortitude. He was truly an energetic man,
as those who know him personally testify.
It is said he was the first to arrive at work
in his modest palace at Baghdad and the
last to leave. He took interest in every detail of his kingdom, and special solicitude in
those young aides of his who had caught his
vision and brought to its realization the science and technique of western schooling. He
knew them by name, and they soon learned
to admire and love him as a big brother, to
respect and revere him as their beloved soveriegn.
King Feisal's democracy was not factitious
or ostentatious. It was the natural heritage
of his Arab ancestry where emir and beggar
met on the common ground of humanity, as
equal before Allah, and only personal merit
and character entitled individuals to preeminence and hero worship. But to this innate, unassuming democracy of the spirit,
King Feisal added an alertness of mind, a
native shrewdness which led him early in
his monarchical career to realize that only
through modern science and the sound principles of social and economic technique could
any sound hope be entertained for the ultimate realization of his distant golden dream.
A story is related how, while still king of
Syria, he met the late president of the American University of Beirut, Howard S. BUw,
and embracing him like a long-lost brother,
said: "We want men of your college to take
up work with us."
Undoubtedly King Feisal* s death is a calamity not only to Iraq but to other Arabian
provinces where his influence was felt. Perhaps one of the greatest and most far-reaching achievements towards the realization of
Arabic unity was the amicable treaty which
he concluded with King Abdul-Aziz Ibn Su'oud in the winter of 1930 abroad a British
war-ship in the neutral waters of the Persian Gulf.
His achievements in the progressive development of Iraq itself—in. industry, agriculture, national defense and especially in education are numerous and noteworthy.
King Feisal was the third son of the late
King Hussein.
Through al-Hasan, the
second son of Ali and Fatima, he traced his
ancestry to the Arabian Prophet himself. He
was born in Taif, a town southeast of Mecca,
and brought up in noble nomadic traditions.
But like his father before him he was brought
to Constantinople by the wily Abdul-Hamid
as a political hostage and educated in the
"Tribal School." His command of Turkish
was perfect, but he never learned to love the
Turks.
At the break of the World War, King Feisal embraced the opportunity to draw the
sword in the face of the inveterate enemies
of the Arabs— the Turks. It was freely admitted on several occasions that without the
help of King Feisal and the influence of his
father, King Hussein, the Allies would have
had a hard time of it to occupy the former
Turkish possessions over which their mandates now extend. In his inimitable, vigorous
style Lawrence has made the account of that
famous revolt in the desert familiar to most
English xeaders and others throughout the
world.
To Syrians particularly, King Feisal will
be remembered for his brief and eventful
reign in Damascus from February 1920 to
July of the same year. For reasons into which
this paper need not enter the French put an
end to his kingship by a swift military move
headed by General Gouraud. In June 1921
he was elected to the throne of Iraq by a
plebiscite in which he was said to have received 96% of the votes cast
THE FALL DRAWS NEAR
A HOMELY Arabic proverb runs: "The
festival with its joys has passed, and now
comes the teacher with his beatings." And
the same way feels every one of us now that
the principal activities of summer have come
to end and autumn approaches with its russet fallen leaves, its sombre landscape, its
shortening days and its reminiscences of summer activities. And with it all we turn to
serious thoughts of work and struggle through
the dreary days of winter.
But winter has its own joys, as it has its
beatings. The school of Ufe would be monotonous indeed if it were all play. And happy is he who can find in work itself a diversion for his soul and mind; vv*ho can squeeze
from the privations and tribulations of life
some sweetness of cheer and cojmfort to temper its bitterness.
A CITY'S HOSPITALITY
THE MAHRAJAN proved such a feature
in the life of the City of Bridgeport that its
Mayor saw fit to attend it at its four successive gatherings, and the four local papers
treated it as a front-page feature with accompanying photographs of its interesting
phases.
A PLEA FOR THE PRESERVATION
OF SYRIAN FOLK-LORE
I WISH to take the space allotted in this
column to a weekly book review to digress a little*
on a subject quite pertinent to books and to the
stuff of which books are made.
The two days spent in Bridgeport with the
annual pilgirms to the Mahrajan convinced me more
than ever of the truth of a view I have entertained
for the last few years: namely that our Syrian
folk-lore is passing away so fast that in a generation
or two a great deal of it will be lost completely
to coming generations, unless something drastic is
done about it before long.
I remember when I was a little child listening
to a centenarian from my hometown Yabrud reciting proverbs and ditties which I was taking down.
I was fond then of collecting common Arabic proverbs of which I eventually had a large collection,
only to lose it in my later checkered life. But one
thing the old man told me still rings in my ears as
a stinging rebuke.
"Take them down, my son," urged the centenarian, "before they go down with me to the
grave!" I recalled this saying at the Mahrajan and
seemed to imagine that the folk poets, dancers and
sword players were repeating the same stinging
rebuke: "Take our folk-lore down before it goes
down with us to the grave!"
To expect Syrians born in this country to understand the richly local and often picturesque
doggeral that is known as m'anna, baghdadi or 'ataba is asking too much. It is sometimes a strain on,
the ears of elders to catch the subtle insinuations
and puns of those jousting troubadors. It is sad
to say, but true nevertheless, that second generation
Syrians born under the transluscent sky of Lebanon
and interior Syria itself are taking less and less
interest in what constituted the main mental exercise and diversion of their forefathers. M'anna,
baghdadi and 'ataba, we are sorry to predict, may in
a few decades become the occupation of antiquarians
who will thread them together from dispersed
written sources after tiring and exhaustive research.
The dead line of a living study of Syrian folk-lore
in general, in our opinion, is the coming ten years.
Not long ago I came across an article in some
Syrian newspaper, published in Lebanon, which described some folk games. And the tone of the
writer was already reminiscent, intercepting his descriptions with such remarks as, "in the days of
our parents," or, "the elders may still recall" etc
Three years ago when in Cairo I was told on good
authority that while before the war one could count
a score of native cafes where one could hear professional story tellers do their stuff before large
groups of avid listeners, and often reciting the folk
songs in the stories to the* accompaniment of the
tabab, nowadays one can hardly count them on the
fingers of one hand, with ever dwindling audiences.
In Damascus I was shown only one lingering cafe,,
(near the spouting fount in front of the Umayyad
Mosque, where one can still listen to the story
teller recite in spirited voice and forensic gestures
the exploits of az-Zaynati Khalifa, Zaid or az-Zir
al-Muhalhal. Their days, it seems, are numbered,
and other exploits of Hollywood lovers propped in'
soft pillows or sailing under the moonlight in softly
gliding canoes are more to the taste of a generation
brought up to listen to crooners on the radio.
One is at a loss what to suggest to our earnest
youngsters to help in stemming the tide of doom
which is inevitably sweeping our folk-lore. There
are several books in English dealing with Arabian
folk-lore and proverbs, written by such able orientalists as Lane, Burton and Burkhardt which one
may recommend Perhaps at some other time I may
devote one or more issues to these books. But I
am forced to admit, these books have merely
scratched the surface of an immensely rich treasure.
I hear that the American University of Beirut is
undertaking a great collection of Syrian folk-lore
at present Until this undertaking comes to public notice we can say little about it except to wish
those engaged in it good luck.
But even before suggesting any books on this
subject it may be worthwhile to ask if a sufficient
interest in Syrian folk-lore does seriously exist
among our second generation Syrians in this country.
For only when such an interest is there in the
first place, may one devote any time to ways and
means of reviving it and nursing it to sound and
healthy vitality. Let us hear your reactions to this
matter.
H. I. K.
�OUR NEW YORKERS
AND SUBURBANITES
By Ana Behoof
Reminiscences of a Sleepy Observor After
the Mahrajan:
(Excerpts from a radio lecture given from station WCDA on Tuesday, Sept 5 at 9:30 P.M. under the auspices of the Foreign Affairs Forum.)
IN HIS symposium^ "Whither Islam," Prof. Gibb
writes: "The outer world into which Islam issued
from Arabia was the Hellenistic world, the world
of Greco-Roman civilization
Its intellectual life
was penetrated through and through by Greek culture; its very theology is in debt to Aristotle. The
whole culture of Islam was thus essentially a culture
of the western type, and stands much closer to us
than the cultures of India and the Far East. To
call it 'Oriental' is a niisnomer; it is Oriental not
in the absolute sense, but only in its local extension as the eastern branch of western civilization.."
Prof. Gibb does not differ here from many
others like him who have made a serious study of
this subject. Only we must not overlook the equally
important historic consideration that the Hellenstic
world itself into which Islam broke out had already
been permeated with Semitic ideas and Semitic
culture. We recall that Thebes in Greece was said'
to have been founded by Kadmus, which is only a
Semitic word meaning leader. Before Aphrodite
was worshipped as the goddess of love by the
Hellenes, she was worshipped as Astarte by the
Phoenicians and as Istar by the Babylonians. In
the days of the Roman Empire it would have been,
almost impossible to segregate neatly those influences which we may recognize as western from
those which are equally recognizable as eastern or.
Semitic.
What I wish to speak of tonight is this SemiticHellenistic world of the Near East which I prefer
to call the Arabic-speaking world.
Remembering, therefore, that it is this part of
the East or Near East which I have in mind, the
piext popular fallacy I like to discuss with you is
the oft quoted and oft repeated expression that the
East is idealistic, spiritual or mystical. Our East'
is none of these in any absolute or critical sense of
the words.
The Semitic people, including the Arabs, are
realistic, not idealistic. They are spiritual not in
the Hindu sense of denying the reality of matter,
or in the Greek one of separating between the flesh
(sarkh) and the soul (pneuma), but in the sense of
subordinating matter to the spirit, the body to the
soul. When they are mystical at all the Semitic
people have likewise developed a practical, psychological mysticism rather than a speculative, metaphysical one. Father Henri Lammens, speaking of
the nomadic Arab, said: "There is reason to contest
the accuracy of the idyllic picture painted by certain Orientalists of this fundamentally positivist
and realist specimen of humanity." And it is this
positive and realistic strain of the bedwin mentality
that has persisted throughout the development of
Arab civilization.
Almost all fallacies about the Semitic East are
tributary to the major one we have touched. Take,
for instance, the popular fallacy that the East is
fanatic. Every now and then somebody writes of an
otherwise staid and tranquil' world being rocked
by the reverberations of a pan-Islamic menace. One
would imagine that the western babes in the wood
have no other hobgoblin half as terrifying. But I
know of no informed or impartial student of the
East who takes this hobgoblin with any seriousness.
Then there is the popular fallacy that eastern nationalism is aping western one, with its concomitant features of militarism and imperialism. But
in fairness a distinction must be made between
the aggressive nationalism of Japan today and the
defensive nationalism of Egypt or Syria. In these
latter countries, and in all the Arabic-speaking
lands, nationalism is never an end in itself, an idea1
or ideal divorced of all the fundamental considerations of life. Aside of their sound conception of
nationalism I daresay there is more international
sentiment among Arab national leaders today than
among any similar group in Europe or America,
more earnest desire to settle their problems in hte
light of international welfare, more anxiety to reconcile themselves with their world enviroment,
more serious interest in such an international instrument as the League of Nations.
In these and many other manifestations our
Semitic East has threaded its way through a maze
of irrelevant ideas and impractical speculations.
Sunday Morning. Mass in the ground hall.
Three priests in gold and white vestments. Ancient
Syriac rites. A miniature altar. Tall white lighted
candles. Olive green plants. Najeebee Morad at a
small organ fingering and chanting melodies. Her
father and Anton Gohson punctuating in the choruses. People standing. Transients strolling in,
craning their necks, now to the right, now to the
left, and departing. Tall handsome Father Mansur
delivering the sermon.
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»
*
Dinner in the dining-hall-recreation-room combination. Food and drink on the tables. People
on the chairs. Children on the floor and under
the chairs. Waiters on the run. Outside—luncheon parties spotting the lawn. Plaintive Arabic
melodies issuing forth from all points. Now from
a group around a dancer, now from a group of debkyists and .clappers. Wholesome Mount Lebanon
atmosphere everywhere. Automobiles still pouring
in. License plates of all sizes and color. An endless line of cars bringing the Aleppian Fraternity
from Brooklyn.
In the field. An intense group listening to extemporaneous matching of song and wit. Lanes and
lanes of parked automobiles. An endless display of
dialects. A flag-draped platform filled with guests
and speakers. S. A. M. opening the formal exercises. Mayor Buckingham of Bridgeport welcoming again "the interesting Lebanese and Syrians."
Litia Namour, St. Denis troupite, looking for native
dancers in action. More bus-loads of people.
*
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•
Gradual rain. A general rush for shelter. Popular dancing in the hall.
An American jazz
orchestra vying with a rasping zamr. Sword dancers on one end, jumping in the air. The flashing
of blunt swords and shields. Singing parties on the
porch, clapping, laughing, singing, munching at
nuts and drinks. Crowds of diners and strollers
in the dining hall. Musicians on the platform.
Princess Athena, in flaming red, dancing with
castanets.
Young Prof. Hazam translating verse for A. J.
Liebling of the World-Telegram. Liebling acquiring
an Arabic vocabulary and sharing his "sheesh
kabab" a la Syrienne. Outside. A temporary letup in the rain. People seeking each other in the
'night. A rushing business at the beer stand and
general counter. Turkish coffee, narghile tobacco,
watermelons, pears, apples, candy, ice-cream. Cars
leaving for city hotels. Lingering good-faights.
*
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*
*
More pelter of rain. Friends telephoning friends
in the hotels. Breakfast in the cafeteria. Arabic
and coffee aroma. Syrian eyes and bacon-andeggs. Back to the farm. A slow warming up of the
works. Mass in the hall. Kindly Msgr. Zouain
sermonizing. Nodding of heads in approval. Out
again to renew acquaintances through slush and
rain. Short people, tall people. Young people, old
people. Dark hair, flashing eyes, reddened lips.
Back to the hall. Masses of people. A chain of
debkyists. Intoxicating rhythm of drum and mujwiz. More and more filing in. Clapping, stamping,
ejaculations. Electrifying exhilaration.
Hurried luncheon. To the great hall. Thousands seated and standing. Speakers on a high
balcony. Strains of the Marseillaise. A word from
the French Consul. Introduction of Isaac Weill,
head of the Speakers Bureau of the NRA. A splendid assemblage of Arabic poets, orators, theologians,
doctors, humorists, etc. etc.
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*
A clear-up. A thankful rush to the open.
Dancing, dining, singing parties strewn on the lawn.
Festivity everywhere. Renewed excitement. Again
dinner. Confusion, commotion, laughter, merriment.
Jazz on the platform. "Ya Leil" on the side.
Outside in the night.
Around the grounds.
Laughter
Dr. Deen and his priceless "That reminds me of a story." Chicri, still hoarse, and
dancing. Glamorous gyrations and a black satin
gown.
The mujwiz piercing the night The swish of an
Arabian aba. A last glimpse of Mount Lebanon.
Departures. Handshakings, kissing. "Good-bye
An revoir—next week....next year." An exodus
of automobiles.
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•
•
Tha lid claps on the picture box
music dies
away—and all is peaceful in the erstwhile Lebanon
village.
Ignatif Badran is the psychoanalist at the Bazaar of India in 314 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. C. It is
he who mends broken hearts, brings husband and
wife together again, and sends people away beaming
with happiness. Confidentially, he doesn't know
any more about psychoanalysis than the lamp-post,
but that is psychoanalysis for you and more than
that the power of suggestion.
J. A. Barakat the backgammon expert who used
to give lessons over NBC is now doing character
parts in the Ward Baking Co. hour in which Mitzi
Green is featured.
Miss Bahia Hajjar writes in her poetic flowery
style that she is having a wonderful time in a
"quaint little old New England town, called Dorset,
which nestles down at the foot of the mountains
in a gorgeous blissful quiet"
Emily Halaby did not get her tan in Bay Ridge
but in Long Beach, L. I. where she spent her vacation.
Wonder what's taking Michel Audi and Joe
Uniss to Torrington, Conn., so often.
Dick (Promoter) Karam is leaving for Pittsburgh to take a position with a leading coal concern there.
The Syrians have gone strong for NRA but
there are some uptowners who are laying low,
working extra late hours and not letting anyone
know about it.
Little Joan O'Connell fell down her front steps
and was cut over the eye in which two stitches
were taken, Joan's mother is the former Edna
Rizk.
.--.*Viola Hitti, 14 year old daughter of le profess-eur, and Mrs. Hitti, director of plays, has
changed her name to Yetta Goldenstein for "Rich
Man; Poor Man" that was staged by the "Woodby
Players" of Corlear Bay Club.
Philip Aboud (the mayor of Atlantic Avenue)
is planning another outing to Valley Stream, L. L
He specifies, though, that this time cards will be
left at home.
Victor Nader has recovered from a week's illness of summer rheumatism. Summer rheumatism,
summer rheumatism, oh, yes. I remember.
Johnny Gilbert, .the famous Syrian jockey is
now riding at Saratoga. The boys on the Avenue
haven't been so lucky with their bets on him this
time. But they certainly hope he wins.
Miss Nora Massad who is now in Milford, Pa.,,
is another summer bride-to-be. She was engaged
to Antoun Majdaleny. Miss Massad is the sister
of Mrs. Ben Jabara, Mrs. Aref Jabara, Mrs. Ameen
Bardwil and Mrs. S. Kaydough.
Spotted swallowing yards of spaghetti one day
noon in little Italy were Mary Milkie, Eddie Saadi,
Gladys Jabara, George Kaydough, Elie Hatem, Olga
Fakoury, Mrs. Najib Khairallah, Jimmy Azrak and
others. Now that Mrs. Khairallah (the former
Florence Jabara) is back the town is humming;
once more.
They say that gentlemen prefer blondes. In.
that case Umpy Haddad is a perfect gentleman.
Those people out in Englewood must have a nice
time together. They are all young married couples
who are ,so chummy as on that evening last week
when they were seen at the Riviera Club dancing
to Emil Coleman's smooth tangoes. Among them
were Mr. and Mrs. Elie Zenie, Mr. and Mrs. Ferris,
Mr. and Mrs. Ki Gabriel, Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Maloof and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Saydah.
Johnny (Sheik) el-Khoury of Cranford, N. J.
didn't do so well with his pacard roadster at the
Mahrajan. He usually has a pack of boys all
jammed in the car so that you can't see it It's said
in Cranford that no girl has ever ridden in it The
little so-and-so's.
�SOME come down from Hilaine's ideal husband of last week's contest;
but My Lady in Waiting's choice seems to many more substantial and
wafer. What do you think? Let us hear more from our readers. A Lady
in Waiting was proclaimed the winner of this week's prize. Will she
please call at this office for her autographed book; or if she is too shy
send somebody to take it for her?
Dear Contest Editor:
You ask me what kind of a wife
I would like. First of all my wife,
H I marry, she must be pretty. If
she be pretty the home look nice too,
Bess pretty mindoon nothing in back
of it no good.. She must be a lady
not childish and be a good housewife.
I don't care if she can cook or no.
But she must be able to bring up our
children right.
I want her medium size, between
140 and 145 pounds.. Who wants a
wife around 90 pounds and looks as
if she is sick. No, 140 or 145 pounds
just right That way she be good,
healthy. Many men say they want
young girls so that they be able to
train them the way they want them
to be. But me, no. Why should I
bother raising her. Let her family
worry about that; that's their business.
Too much trouble for me. That is why
I want her 25 and up.
She must be a decent woman
and not answer me back when sometimes I shout You know a husband
can't help sometimes getting his
temper up. And if she keep quiet
and not answer back at me then
everything be peaceful in the house.
Brooklyn.
Francis.
Dear Contest Editor:
I am positively satisfied I do not
want my man to possess all the
godly traits I sometimes read about
I have had exalted dreams of HIM,
but as I became more sophisticated,
these dreams gradually evaporated
that now my desire is for something REAL, something tangible!
Handsome? In qualifications, yes,
but with features pleasant enough
to appeal—features that possess the
tint of character, not the pretty-picture-type one sees in a frame, with a
look of emptiness and conceit
Just sufficiently modern with a
happy mixture of the old-fashioned
that somewhat coincides with myself.
An honest-to-goodness man
who will endeavor to respect the
contract he makes when he signs his
name on the line marked (X) to share
his wherewithal; plus the good sense
and graciousness at necessary times
to give me right if right I am.
And, too, he could assign me a
goodly portion of his affection—not
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I do not want him to make me
feel our love is an iron cage with
barbed wire and that my goings and
doings should be dominated by his
will simply because he is lord of the
manor. If his contract calls for this,
then I pray the gods to release me
so that I may soar as I will in blessed
liberty.
It isn't much I ask of my matenot GODLINESS, not FAME, not
RICHES galore,—just a sufficiency
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IN A colorful early morning ceremony Wednesday, August 24 at 9:00
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of Syracuse, N. Y., at the Cathedral
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George N. Alafat of Lebanon, N.
H., brother of the bride, gave her
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Fayette, Peter Solomon, Edward
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Mrs. B. J. Fayette of Burlington
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Mary C. Alafat, sister of the bride,
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The bride wore a gown of white
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gowns of net each in a different shade,
green, peach, yellow and shell pink
in colonial style and hat sweet peas
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Whitney Avenue, Niagara Falls, N. Y.
died last Saturday, September 2, in
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The GARDENS of OMAR
;
By HENRI BORDEAUX
Member of the French Academy
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PAGE SEVEN
Synopsis:—At the feast of the
Cedars, a few days before beautiful
blonde Yamile was to be married to
Khalil Khoury, a young man three
years older than herself, an elaborate
Moslem equipage goes by bearingtwo handsome youths. They stopped
nd settled themselves. One of them
looked at Yamile who returned his
long fascinated gaze. They seemed
to be instantly and deeply attracted
to each other. Khalil noticed the
attention the young Moslem was giving Yamile and in anger told Boutros, her brother, who tries to start
a quarrel but to no avail. Instead,
Sheik Rashid-el-Hame, their father,
became interested in the splendid
horse of th young Moslem, whose
name turned out to be Omar and
asked him to visit him the following
day to talk business. That evening
Khalil found under his dinner plate at
the Hame's home the ring and bracelet he had given Yamile as his engagement gift Demanding an explanation the following day, she vows
she loves him but cannot marry him.
He accuses her of loving Omar.
Omar later in the day agrees to
sell the Sheik the bay but declares
he will fix the price on the morrow.
Early next morning Boutros burst
into my room, thrusting my servants
aside. He grasped me in his arms
like a madman. I believed he had
come to kill me.
"Come at once!" he gasped
you. She has gone."
Since the day at The Cedars
I thought I had drained the chalice
of sorrow. But the news seemed
to fill it afresh to the brim. Never
in my blackest dreams had I foreseen this. That I was doomed to a
bitter and solitary life, that Yamile
was consumed with a passion, hopeless like my own,—this was bearable,
this was a blow that had struck us
both. But that a young girl so pious,
so proud and so reserved could consent to abandon home, parents, and
faith for an enemy of our race and
religion, fly with a stranger, seen,
twice, with whom she had hardly
exchanged three words—here was
something that struck the wildest
imagination dumb.
And I had
dreamed—poor
ignoramus—that
I
knew something of love—love that I
saw now can carry the heart of a
woman too swiftly and too far for
eye to follow.
I continued, stupidly, to defend
her. "She :did not leave, Boutros,"
I said "She has been carried off."
Boutros gave a horrid laugh.
"Women aren't off that way," he
said "She went willingly enough."
"To arms and to horse—then!"
cried I, "we will follow them."
"It's too late," he answered
gloomily. "Come! you may as well
know alL"
At his father's a family council
had been assembled in haste. It has
thus—in those days, that, according
to ancient tradition, private wrongs
were judged. No tribunal was more
awful. "Sharper than the bite of
scorpion," says one of our proverbs,
"is the anger of those nearest us."
On the divan sat two men of advanced age with long white beards,
who seemed to me tired and almost
indifferent These were Nametallah
Kazi and Nsgib. Daoud the uncles
of the sheik Nek* them sat the vicar of Bcharre, "the i&jptain". Through
a half-closed door I dpuld hear the
sobs and cries of the ftromen.
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The priest, as soon as he saw me,
gave me a terrible look. I turned
from him with horror. Rachid-elHame made room for me at his side.
"Khalil Khoury," said he, "we
were waiting for you hefore passing
sentence. After myself you are the
nearest relative of Yamile's. In a
few days the bonds of marriage
were to unite you to us. No voice,
save mine, will have more weight
with us than yours."
Even under the shock of this
calamity he kept his dignity, his
facility of speech, and that ability
to play a great role which is a part
of our national character. I took my
seat at his side. I could not abandon Yamile. I must know every
step her judges would take, perhaps even soften/their rigorousness.
From afar, and despite her cruelty,
I would continue to protect her.
Boutros took his seat and the
sheik stated the case.
"Yamile shared the bed chamber;
with her sister Mountaha. About
midnight Mountaha heard her get
up from bed. Half asleep, she asked
her what was the matter. 'I have
been dreaming,' Yamile replied 'I
am going back to bed' She kissed
Mountaha and the child fell asleep
again.
In the morning Mountaha
woke later than usual, thinking her
sister had already risen and left the
room. When Meryem, their mother,
asked her where Yamile was, she
could offer no explanation. Yamile
was sought throughout the house, in
the courtyard in the garden. We
called. There was no reply. We
made inquiries. No one had seen
her. We did not disturb the strangers
from Akkar. As long as they were
our guests, they were masters. No
one had the right to enter their
apartments. But I was surprised at
their silence. We had agreed to clinch
the sale the first thing in the morning. It was Boutros who thought of
going to the stables. The horses had
gone. Only Salma the bay mare,
which I had decided to buy, was still
in her stall.
Servants, the other
horses,—all were gone. We entered
their rooms, they were empty. All
doubts were at an end. They had
departed during the night, taking
Yamile with them."
"A willing captive," the priest
interposed sarcastically.
"Doubtless," agreed the sheik.
"She must have left her own apartments willingly. By the time our
suspicions were confirmed it was
too late to follow. Their horses are
too swift. Besides, once they reach
Ehden, they are in safety. The people
of Ehden hate us: they would oppose
any attempt at a forcible rescue on
their territory. For the moment the
fugitives have escaped our vengeance.
But we have another duty to fulfil.
Yamile must be judged"
At the thought that I sat among
Yamile's judges I would have fled
from the room but that horror kept
me tied in my seat One of the older
men asked a question.
"Why," said he, "did the bey
of Akkar leave the bay mare in the
stable?"
"That has puzzled me," Rachidel-Hame replied, "but I think I can
answer your question. Every country
has its own customs. When a Mussulman wishes to take a wife for his
harem, he gives the parents of his
bride one-half of the marriage portion;
agreed upon.
With them, unlike
ourselves, it is the bridegroom who
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pays. The other half is reserved for
the wife in case of death or divorce.
In leaving me Salma, Omar acts according to /the custom of his people.
He leaves me a horse. He steals my
child"
"Woe to him!" cried the "captain" in his ringing voice.
"Woe to him!" echoed the sheik,
with a calmness that was far more
terrible.
"Yes. But woe also to
Yamile!"
The other old man lifted a trembling hand and asked his question.
"How is it that no one seems to have
heard their horses' shoes on the
pavement of the village during the
night?"
"That's easy to explain," said
crafty Boutros. "They were muffled
in rags. Yamile rode the white mare.
It was pitch dark. There was no
mcon last night."
"How are you so sure Yamile
rode the white mare?" I demanded.
"Did some one meet her—some one
see her?"
"For what other reason was the
white mare brought here?" scoffed
Boutros.
"The plot was hatched
long ago."
Breaking in upon our argument
impatiently, the sheik demanded a
sentence against his daughter.
"Yamile is guilty," he said "She
has betrayed her plighted husband"
"No, no," said I quickly. "Not
me. She had given me back my
promise."
"Without my approval," said the
sheik sternly, "she could neither
give it nor take it back But her
ether crime is far greater.
My
daughter has betrayed her race and
her faith. She has given herself up,
body and soul, to an infidel and an'
enemy. Never till now, in our valley
of Kadischa, has such a shame fallen
upon a family. Our hearts are pure
as the streams that flow from our
mountains. Yamile is no longer my;
daughter."
He stood erect, his arms raised
above his head as if to call down
a curse from heaven. In his long
black robe, embroidered in gold, he
seemed immense, terrifying. Suddenly, like a cedar struck by lightning,
he swayed and would have fallen had
we not supported him. The priest
heedless of this paternal weakness,
was the first to speak the fatal word
that I had felt hovering in the air
all this time like some great black
bird.
"She has deserved death," he
said gloomily.
"Death," echoed the old men,
bowing their white heads.
"Death!" cried Boutros, in a ringing voice that must have reached the
room where Jthe women were weeping. With voice or gesture, every
relative present endorsed the terrible
sentence.
"We are judging one who is
absent" I cried "No one has the
right to do this. The Gospels warn,
us aginst hasty judgments. They
even command us to forgive. *He
who forgives is above all others."
"The guilty must be punished,"
insisted the priest
"This woman,
is an adultress and a renegade. She
must be made an example to all the
daughters of our race."
With a kind of frenzy, I flung
myself into the defense of the woman
who, guilty as she was, had loved
only too dearly.
"You cannot" I insisted, "condemn Yamile without knowing more.
Where is the proof that she was not
carried off by force?"
"She left her room," said Boutros,
plainly puzzled at my obstinate defence of one whom her own kindred
had condemned
"It is well known the Mussulmans are sorcerers," I suggested
Have they not all sorts of incantations—communications with the evil
one?"
My words touched the credulity
of the priest.
"That is true," he admitted "It
is possible Yamile is possessed of
the deva"
"You see," said I, pressing my
advantage. "Then, befo«e condemning her to death, it is our duty to
question her."
"Do you imagine she will ever
come back to be questioned by us?"
asked Boutros mockingly.
But I found unexpected support
from the two old men. They nodded
their heads weakly in sign of approbation and the elder, raising his
eyes to the ceiling, spoke these words.
"What the youth says is just
Yamile must be questioned"
In spite of the role of impartial
and implacable judge which the
custom of our country obliged him
to play, the sheik, I knew well, was
far from indifferent to the fate of his
beloved daughter. His sudden swoonjust now was proof enough of tT
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He turned to his son, with all \ •
authority of a father and a judge!
"This is my command to you,
Boutros," he said "You will go and
save your sister from our enemies.
Khalil Khoury will accompany you,
and we will admit no failure. The
court will rise.
The sentence is
postponed until the day when Yamile
shall appear before us in person to
be judged"
My intervention had succeeded
The fugitive was reprieved and upon
me was placed the duty of tearing
her from the arms of her ravisher.
"How are we to find them?" I
said to Boutros as we took counsel
together. "Akkar is a big country,
covered with towns and villages from
the mountain to the sea."
"Come with me," said the lad
He led me to the stables, and
showed me the bay mare.
"Here is the answer to your
question," said he, stroking her neck.
"Here is the guide who will show
us the way."
(To be continued in next issue)
HtAQITE TROOPS MARCH
TO TUNE OF "MARCHING
THROUGH GEORGIA"
AN ASSOCIATED press dispatch from Baghdad reports that
Arab soldiers, returning from a
victorious encounter with the Assyrans, marched to the popular
strain of an American Civil War
tune, "Marching through Georgia."
The returning soldiers were acclaimed by thousands of enthusiastic citizens of the Iraqite capital, some of whom preceded the
marchers waving big sticks and
daggers. Veiled women, adds the
report, on the verandas overlooking the streets showered confetti
on the soldiers.
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NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPT. 8,1933.
VOL. VII, NO. 19
Summit, Pa. They are motoring and
expect to see the horse races before returning home "down where
the south begins."
IN AND OUT OF TOWN
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Massad
and their daughter and son, Lena
and Philip, also the Misses Jean and
Theresa Massad of Worcester, Mass.,
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. B.
Trad of 914-77th Street, Brooklyn,
for a few days over Labor Day weekend.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.
Joseph K. Rizk has returned to
his home in this city after an extensive trip throughout the southeast
in the interests of the U. S. Nickel
Corp.
Joseph Stanpoly is seriously ill
in his home on George's Road.
Sam Rizk of New Brunswick has
started a chain of Silver Fox Sweet
Shops. He hopes to open additional new shops throughout the northeastern states.
The Young Women's Syrian Association of New Brunswick are
planning a Box Social for the night
of September 10.
Toledo
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph LaHood,
of Bridgeport, Ohio, motored to Toledo to visit Mrs. B. K. Rafful over
the holiday. Mrs. LaHood is the
former Thelma Rafful.
Miss Niema Kourey, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kourey of
Charleston, W. Va., visited for several
weeks with her relatives in Toledo.
Fozi Azar and Ted Dewood of
Detroit together with Fred Geha and
George Abrass of Toledo motored to
Cleveland over Labor Day to visit
the Hamras and Aftooras.
The Keferians of Toledo left
Saturday night for Huntington, W.
Va., where a convention was held
for all Keferians near and far.
Miss Mary Geha, Miss Ruth
MickeL and Misses Nora and Alma
Geha of Toledo drove to Detroit Sunday to spend the holiday at the Mahrajan in Ryan Park.
The Syrian Women's Welfare
Club will resume their meetings the
latter part of Sept. There were no
meetings held during the summer
months but the club was active
where any help was needed.
Several affairs have been arranged
for Miss Victoria Joseph, 742 Coburni
Street, before her marriage to Fred
Addis of Toledo on Sept 16. Miss
Leila Haddad, 251 Brown Street, en-<
tertained informally Saturday; Mrs.
Massoud Mansor will receive friends
of her daughter at her home an evening before the wedding. Mr. Addis
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Nicolo
Addis.
Mrs. Paul Shangola of Detroit,
Mich., has returned home after a visit
with her brother, Ayoub Kalil, 43S
Pearl Street The Kalil's daughter
Mrs. Abe Karam of Michigan City,
Ind., has also returned home after a
visit to Akron. Her brother, Elias,
accompanied her.
Visiting the Misses Adma and
Rose Jabron of Prospect Park West
were Faris Safire of Niagara Falls
and bis three daughters, Margaret
it
Marie and Rose who are musically inclined. At the Mahrajan in Bridgeport, where they stopped on their
way home, Rose imitated Baby Rose
Marie, Margaret accompanying her
on the piano. Marie plays the violin.
Dick Karram and a party of
friends spent the week-end in Connelsville, Pa., at the home of Miss
Stella Kirke while on their way to
Pittsburgh.
Several friends of Miss Olga Kateb of Hudson Blvd., Jersey City,
N. J., bade her farewell on the S. S.
California on which she sailed last
Saturday noon for a several months
visit for California. Some of those
who saw her off were-. Pauline Zrike,
Rose Moukad, Mitchell Auda, Joe
Younes, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Kateb,
Charles Bersa, Anthony and Elizabeth Awad, Mr. and Mrs. J. Shalhoub
and Birdie Cohen.
The George Bardwils of Prospect
Park West returned from their summer home in Milford, Pa.
Mrs. S. Y. Alkazin returned yesterday with her son, Buddy, from Old
Orchard, Maine, where they spent
the summer.
Michel Maloof, who lives in the
Harvard Club, Boston, is now in the
city for a few days on business and
to visit friends.
Visiting New York last week were
friends of Philip Albert, Mrs. Name
Shadid and two daughters, Mary
and Pauline, Mrs. Elias David and
Mrs. Zariffe David, all of Washington,
D. C. They visited points of interest
in and around New York.
The noted millinery shop owned
and presided over by the Misses Adma
and Rose Jabron will be moved and
reopened in the exclusive Delmonico
Hotel in Park Avenue on or after
October 15. It will retain its name
the Adma Rose Shop.
Victor Azzam sailed for Haifa on
the S. S. AquHania Wednesday night
after seven years spent in the United
States studying structural engineering. He attended the Pratt Institute
after having prepared at the New
Haven Collegiate Preparatory School.
A birthday party was given Katherine Uniss, youngest daughter of
Mrs. Lieza Uniss of 291 State Street,
Brooklyn, Wednesday evenig. Besides members of the family a few
friends attended.
Mrs. Richard Beder and children are
spending the week in Delaware Water
Gap and will witness the tournament
that takes place over this weekend.
Cleveland
PAGE EIGHT
Elias Sabbagh of Toledo and W.
Lafayette, Ind., passed through Cleveland on his way to Canton. From
there he will return to Purdue to
resume duties as instructor in the
Electrical School.
His mother is
visiting with the Shaheen Georges.
St Maron's Church Parishoners
picniced at Maccarris' Farm last Sunday. There should be some place
where the younger folks can learn
to do that famous sword dance. The
older folks are getting a little too
husky for it. Plenty of dancing,
eats and refreshments.
Sammy Kassouf formerly of
Cleveland and now of Lorain, returned after a short visit with his
folks.
Toots (Florence) his little
sister will stay with friends at Lorain for a week.
Overheard at the church picnic
"no, don't make him... He's just a
kid." Something will have to be
done about this younger generation.
Incidently the same affair did hot
constitute the usual day of rest for
Tony Sabe or E. Ezzie, who had to
work at the refreshments.
N. S. Zlaket is a vice-president
on the board of the League or Republican clubs of this county.
Congratulations Nick, you certainly
earned it.
Jess N. Saba has a slight fever.
Not serious; yet enough to put him
in bed. He will, we hope be up and
around soon.
Mrs. J. Kassouf of Du Bois, Pa.
and her daughter Mrs. Rossi of California are visiting Mrs. A Bojalad,
who is also Mrs. Kassoufs daughter.
Mrs. Joseph Anter and family are
visiting her mother, Mrs. E. Maloof,
at Du Bois, Pa.
Michael Caraboolad and Harvey
Jalaytie left for Chicago to take in
the sights at the World's Fair.
Post card from JNew York informs
us that Miss Celia Samia of Lorain,
Ohio, is visiting her sister and
family there.
Wonder what Freddy Mahowish
is doing in Niag Falls, N. Y. He
will return in a week.
Minum Bokrak left last week
for a visit with his sister in Texas.
He is driving.
Richmond
Mrs. Elizabeth Kouri has returned home after spending several
weeks in Linden, N. J. visiting her
cousin Abraham Yaminy and family.
She also spent several days with
friends in' New York and Newark,
N. J. '
A family reunion took place last
Sunday when the Anters, Gehas,
Macrons and Sahleys of Cleveland
and Toledo arranged to meet halfway betwixt the two cities—Cedar
Point— for the annual family confab.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Polis and
children of Louisa, Va., spent the
week-end on Richmond /with Herbert Zehab, Mrs. Polis' brother.
Grand Rapids, Michigan, donates
three visitors to the home of L Haddad. They are the Misses linda and
Nellie Courey and then- brother, Mitchell, who will spend two weeks in
our city.
Ceasar Mosha, Mike Shulleeta,
Sam Shipley, Joe Shaar, (Louis Shulleeta, Ferris Kahwajy and Habeeb
Shaia all of Richmond are to be the
guests of Sam Tooma of Baltimore
at his summer home in Blue Ridge
Charles Kouri, Philip Shaheen
and Faris Haboush left Richmond by
automobile Saturday morning for
Bridgeport, Conn., to attend the Mahrajan. They also plan to go to the
World's Fair in Chicago before returning home.
Youngstown
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bryan entertained at a delightful party Saturday evening, Sept 2nd in honor of
Attorney and Mrs. Joseph Joseph of
Flint Mich. The latter is Mrs. Bryan's sister.
Dancing and games afforded an
enjoyable evening.
Luncheon was
served at midnight.
Mr. and Mrs. Sab Fares of South
Avenue, announced the engagement
of their daughter Delia to George
Hanna, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Hanna, Wilson Avenue.
The announcement was made at
a party given in honor of Miss Fares
by her parents. The wedding will
take place October 12 at St. Maron's
Church.
Mrs. Joe Joseph, formerly Miss
Ann Halsazyk, was tendered a miscellaneous shower Thursday evening
August 31st at ,the home of Miss
Mary Kama, 629 Mabel Avenue.
The guest of honor was remembered~with many beautiful gifts. Supper appointments reflected pastel
tints, the tables abloom with garden
flowers.
TOLEDO GLIMPSES
Who's the Syrian girl in town
that looks like Joan Crawford and
has Marlene Dietrich's legs
who's
Hie barber on St. Clair Street that
never has a wrinkle in his clothes...
who's the young lady in town that
won the title "Miss Personality" a
few years ago
who's the girl with
the reddest fingernails in town
who's the young dentist in town that
looks like Warner Baxter (oooh girls!)
who's the girl at Walgreen's with
the twinkel in her eyes, maybe it's
mischief
how about the girl everyone calls "Sophia" (short for sophistication)
who's the girl that makes
scrap books her hobby, she has about
ten of them
who's Toledo's Walter
Winchell
knows all., sees all, and
tells everything
who's the young
fellow with the golden voice
how
about Toledo's very own natural
blonde Syrian girl
and the trio of
young Syrian boys that entertain
with their voices and make an orchestra out of cast off articles
they
are worth listening to
I could go
on for ever, so stop me somebody.
CHURCH CHOIR
OVER RADIO
UNDER the auspices of the Federation of Churches, The Syrian Protestant Church of Brooklyn was featured on the radio from 3:00-3:36!
P.M. last Sunday afternoon over station WBBC. Rev. K. A. Bishara
gave a short sermon. Miss Anna)
Khalaf rendered a solo musical selection assisted by Miss Nedda Uniss at
the piano.
The church choir sang three
hymns during the entire half-hour
program^ In the choir W«WJ Mrs.
Amelia Faddool, Mrs. lieza Uniss,
Mrs. George Ba^ergi, and the Misses
Selwa Keamy, Sumiyeh Faddool, and
Catherine and Helen Uniss.
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<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
<h4>Scope/Content Note</h4>
<p><em>The Syrian World</em> was published between 1926 and 1932 as a journal. In 1932, the format was changed from an academic journal style to a newspaper style, which continued until the periodical's end in 1935. After the death of his brother Naoum, Salloum took over the publication of <em>Al-Hoda.</em></p>
<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
<p>All issues of <em>The Syrian World</em> are available, along with full indexes for the first four volumes. For volumes five and six, there are tables of contents at the start of the issues.</p>
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY —ESTABLISHED 1926
VOL. VII, NO. 2a
NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPT. 15, 1933.
1000 Attend Convention of New England
Federation of Syrian-American Societies
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SYRIAN NEGLIGEE INDUSTRY
CRIPPLED BY VIOLENT STRIKE
TWENTY-FIVE OF LARGEST SYRIAN BUSINESS HOUSES
TEMPORARILY FORCED OUT OF BUSINESS IN BUSIEST
SEASON.
MOST OF THE STRIKING WORKERS
SYRIAN WOMEN. ALLEGED THEY ARE
FORCED TO STRIKE YET NOW GLAD
THEY DID
Every Syrian negligee and'underwear house in ,New York
City, of Which there are about
twenty-five, is at a standstill due
to the strike that threatens to
cripple their industry.
In this
their busiest Reason, they are
forced to see their new and hopeful orders unfilled.
It is estimated that there are about 3000
workers striking in the negligee
business of which there are
about sixty houses./
down, and having a stack of orders
to fill.
The house of George Kateb was
forced into submission yesterday,
the guards overwhelmed and the
workers ordered out.
The employers state that gangsters have been (hired for the purpose. Two of them would accompany
two union men from the American
Federation of Labor, Union 62, and
force their way into each business
firm.
Jebaily First to Be Invaded
The strike started brewing in
the firm of Barsa and Company as it
did in the strike of 1919 which proved
futile. A young fellow, Fred Kabib,
who had been employed there, left
and started campaigning for the
strike, handing out circulars and
talking to the workers.
Last Tuesday, Jebaily-Lonschein
was the first firm to be invaded by
the strike leaders and then quickly
the workers in every other firm were
lined up, the majority of them
forced to join the union by threats.
The workers, most of whom are
Syrian women, are snatched at the
doorway of a building and bundled
into waiting taxicabs.
The employers themselves are bewildered, not knowing how the strike
will end, not even having heard officially of the terms to be demanded.
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A reporter for the SYRIAN
WORLD, going up to the firm of
Henry Hadad and Co., found a policeman in front of the building. Ascending in the elevator to the eleventh
floor was peered at and finally, looking harmless, after the door was unlocked, was allowed to enter. Michel
Hadad, of the firm,; stated that he
was going to fight to the last. He
could see no reason why some of
his workers left, except by force and
threats, and, he stated, they were being paid even better than union
workers.
Declare Syrians Worst Payers
Most of the workers, who punch,
in and out daily at the union office
in St. Marks Place, claim now they
are glad they have been forced to
join. They say they will now get a
square deal, where before they were
worked like slaves at little pay and
worked overtime at half pay, despite
the NRA Most of these Syrian women are now resentful against their
former employers and state they will
hold out until their demands are
met Before now, they claim, they
were afraid to object for fear of losing their jobs. They also claim that
the Syrian employers are the hardest to work for and the worst payers.
C N Macksoud Co., snid to be the
largest negligee firm in the United
States,
nploying a couple of hundred workers, was completely shut
Employers Meeting at McAlpin
The Negligee Manufacturers Association, of which C. N. Macksoud
is president, submitted to Washington
a code drawn up by them fixing the
scale of wages and hours. In the
meantime, however, they claim they
are operating under the NRA cotton
textile code.
Ever since last Tuesday they have
been meeting daily at the McAlpin
Hotel to discuss the situation, trying
to formulate some plan of settlement.
ROOSEVELT SENDS
GRIEF MESSAGE
TO KING GHAZI
PRESIDENT F. D. Roosevelt
sent a message of condolence from
Washington to King Ghazi I in
which he said:
"I am shocked and grieved
to hear of the death of your illustrious father, King FeisaL Please
accept the expression of my deepest sympathy in your bereavement."
A similar message representing the government and people
of the United States was sent by
Secretary Cordell Hull to Premier
Rashid Ali Bey.
YOUNG MAN AND FRIEND
KILLED IN ACCIDENT
GRAND Rapids, Mich., Sept. 12.—
Louis Ellis of Grand Rapids was
killed last week in an automobile accident. He had been driving with
an American girl, a friend of his.
She was also killed.
MICHEL N. ABODEELY OF WORCESTER ELECTED PRESIDENT; SPEAKERS, INCLUDING GOVERNOR SCOTT
OF CONN., EXTOL SYRIAN TRADITIONS
Message Pledging Loyalty to President Roosevelt, Condolence
to King Ghazi Were Sent
(By Olga Matta, Special Correspondent)
IN WHAT was described as "the largest gathering of SyrianAmericans ever held in New England, if not in the entire country,"
the Syrian-American Federation of New England held its second
annual convention in the Griswold Hotel at New Lodon, Conn.,
on Saturday and Sunday last, the 9th and 10th of September.
FEISAL'SBODYTO
ARRIVE SUNDAY
Iraqite Nationalists Postpone
Manifesto in Deference to
Late King
THE BODY of King Feisal, who
was so fond of flying, will take its
last ride on the flying carpet of our
modern times before it is laid for
final rest in the grave. A British
airplane will carry it across the Syrian Desert from Palestine. It is expected to arrive in Baghdad this
coming Sunday. On the same plane
or accompanying it will be Rustum
Bey Haydar and Nuri Pasha Sa'id,
the two Ministers who were with
him on his fateful trip, and who
have corroborated the medical report that King Feisal had died of
heart disease and arteriosclerosis.
Nationalists Attack Premier's
Speech
As the British plane is speeding with the Arab king's body, rumblings of discontent and revolt are
echoed from the nationalist circles
of Iraq. A wireless message to the
New York Times from Baghdad reports that the chairman of the Nationalist Party of Iraq issued a statement on Tuesday of this week attacking the government's policy as
outlined in Premier Rashid Ali's
speech. Because the country is still
in mourning, the nationalist leader
said he would postpone the publication of a manifesto criticising the
government's policy and stating that
of the Iraqite nationalists. It is
understood that the nationalists took
umbrage at reference in the Premier's speech to Iraq's continued loyalty
to British alliance.
Rumor Feisal Committed
Suicide
An Arabic newspaper which suggested that King Feisal had committed
suicide wast suppressed for ten days.
The quoted statement was based on a
rumor made public by an Egyptian
newspaper published in Cairo to the
effect that King Feisal had intended
to end his own life.
The funeral will take place tv,-o
hours after the arrival of the body.
Two thousand invitations have been
issued out.
From start to finish the convention
proved a brilliant success, at which
English and Arabic, American dance
music and classical Arabic, were used
freely. But youth with its new ways
end enthusiasm dominated the varied
program and lent a note of exuberance and optimism to the atriosphere.
Cities Represented
The largest representation came
from Boston and Worcester, Mass.,
with as many as 25 other cities of
New England repx-esented.
Delegates and guests began registering at the fashionable hotel of New
London as early as Saturday morning, and continued throughout the
two days. The first scheduled affair
was on Saturday evening, a dinner
for the delegates, with Mr. Salloum
Mokarzel of New York as guest of
honor. Many of the younger generation Syrians who had never heard
Mr. Mokarzel before were highly impressed by his eloquent appeal for
unity, for loyalty to our adopted
country and loyalty to the treasured
traditions of our forefathers.
Following the pinner, the business
meeting of the convention took place.
Officers for the) new year were elected
as follows:
Michel N. Abodeely, attorney of
Worcester and retiring vice-president, President; Joseph S. Hage of
New London, president of the SyrianAmerican Society of New London,
Vice-President; Elias Safadi of Central Falls, R. I., Treasurer; Shukri
Khoury of Boston, Arabic Secretary;
and Miss Olga Matta, also of Boston,
English Secretary.
Message to Roosevelt,
King Ghazi
Two important resolutions were
passed by the convention. The first,
in the form of a message to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, read
as follows: "The Syrian American
Federation of New England, at its
second annual convention assemble
in New London, Conn., uaanimoir
pledges its active support and fid
to your administration ai/d the
plete success of the aHinir
of the National Recovery
very £
The second resolution
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sage of condolenoe from,
tion to Prince, now
Iraq for the untimely
lustrious father, "Kin?
resolutions were rev-|»jllM
Faris S. Malouf of r>umn
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by Michel Abodeely, President. In,
presenting the resolutions, Mr. Malouf, who had taken active parts in
Syrian organizations of his city for
the last twenty years, said that he
had been looking forward to such a
gathering for years. He thanked God
and the United States for making
it possible for so many Syrian
people to gather and express their
desires freely. He spoke touchingly
of the recent death of King Feisal,
whom he characterized as a great
leader of the people of the East. At
his request the whole assembly stood
silent in memory of the departed king.
- Public Meeting
The Sunday program began with
a public meeting at 2 P.M. and included Speeches and entertainments.
The opening address was by Elias
Moukowsher, President of the New
London Society, followed by Louis
A. George of Boston, retiring president of the Federation, who introduced the following speakers: Thomas
M. Mokarzel, Lebanese pilot who
flew to the convention from Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Joseph S. Hage, Faris
S Malouf, Attorney Albert Moosa of
Worcester, Elias Safadi, Nasif Joseph
of Providence, James Bulus of Winsted, Conn., Michael Khoury of Torrington, Conn., Kalil Antony of Jewett
City, Conn., Salman Hassad of Quincy,
Mass., Elias Saad of Los Angeles,
Shukri Khoury and S. A. Mokarzel.
Mr. Hage presented the retiring
president, Louis A. George, who presided at this meeting, with a gift on
behalf of the convention. The gift
was a surprise and was not opened
at the meeting. Announcement was
also made that the Society of Norwich
became a member of the Federation
Saturday, and that two other SyrianAmerican (societies at Winsted and
Torrington declared their intention
of joining. The society at Central
Falls offered to be host for the convention the coming year.
Entertainment Varied
Miss Najeebee Morad, popular
young singer of Boston, made the
afternoon program particularly enjoyable by singing several beautiful
Arabic songs which were repeatedly
applauded by the audience. Abraham
Nassour, popular vernacular poet, entertained with (clever extemporizing
of witty Arabic verse. Other singers
and musicians were: Salim Attaya of
Boston, Joseph Sfeir, Simon Lybous,
George Zyter and Wadeeh Bagdady.
A special feature was a sword dance
by Paul Anthony of Norwich, Conn.,
and Milad Germanos of Worcester.
The highlight of the convention,
however, was the evening banquet
on Sunday. The brilliant array of
speakers included Gov. Wibur L.
Cross of Connecticut, Mayor Malcolm M. Scott of New London, Prof.
John Hazam, Louis A. George, Judge
Cornelius C. Costello, Walter Moosa
of Worcester, George Shagoury of
Boston, retiring secretary and Joseph
Hage. Mr. Mokarzel acted as toastmaster. The ^dinner was a formal
affair and many ladies in beautiful
gowns were present
Introduces Mokarzel
The after dinner program was
opened by President Aoodeely who
introduced the toastmaster as Editor
f the leading Arabic daily, ALODA, and of the SYRIAN WORLD,
of the. outstanding Syrian-Amerwho\jhas distinguished himself
^activities in uniting Syrians
wijiese of this country in one
Peajjlowship.
Mrs. opening remarks, Mr. MoIJJII^ ;ed: "We love our mother
visit &i°ve our adopted land.
accompa. prosper. We Syrians
untry as poor immiVisitin built ourselves up
" Rose Jatabst independent ra~
were Far?
and his t
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WORLD, NEW YORK, FRI
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15, 19*3.
KING GHAftl PLEDGE
FRIENDSHIP TO BRITISH
TAKES OATH BEFORE PARLIAMENT. THROUGH HIS NEW
PREMIER ASSURES CONTINUANCE OF HIS
FATHER'S POLICY
BODY OF KING FEISAL BORNE ON WAR-SHIP DISPATCH; KING EMMANUEL AND MUSSOLINI LAY WREATHS ON
FEISAL'S COFFIN
THE TWENTY-QNE year old heir to the throne of Iraq became on last Monday King Ghazi I in the place of his father the
late King Feisal. In a formal cerCSmony before an extraordinary
session of the Iraqite Houses of Deputies and Senators combined
he took the oath to preserve and defend the Iraqite constitution,
immediately thereupon the session was adjourned till November
when the two houses will meet in the regular manner.
Following a. constitutional requirement the old ministry resigned
in a body, leaving the field clear for
the regime. A new ministry was
called, headed by Rashid Ali Bey,
former Minister of the Interior, who
delivered a brief speech pledging his
government to maintain "our friendship and our alliance with Iraq's
great ally—Britain."
KING GHAZI I
cial elements in the economic life ofi
this country." He paid special tribute to President Roosevelt's program
for the revival of industry and called
the NRA an outstanding and courageous movement in this direction. He
lauded Governor Cross and Mayor
Scott, and concluded that the Syrians
are heirs to a great civilization.
Gov. Cross Praises Syrians
Gov. Cross, who was first speaker
en the program and who was warmly
applauded, said he did not know
when, he had seen such an enthusiastic greeting—even at a political
meeting, and that he never expected
to see so many Syrian-Americans
together at one time in Connecticut.
After looking over the assembly he
commented on the beauty of the Syrian women.
"Yours is one of the oldest of
civilizations," declared Gov. Cross in
his speech. "It goes back thousands
and thousands of years. The discovery
of America is comparatively recent
when we think of the civilization
you come from. And you will do
well to keep up the traditions of
your race. You are doing as well if
not better than most of the old Yankee stock in enjoying the advantages
of the United States."
A great deal of the success of the
convention was due to the untiring
activities of the committee on arrangements, headed by Joseph S.
Hage. The singing of the American
national anthem was the signal for
the conclusion of the convention.
Aside from the scheduled program, the guests enjoyed tennis and
other sports, and swimming at the
local beaches.
King Ghazi Friendly to British
It is felt now that this pledge
which came in the "speech from the
throne" also voiced the true sentiment of the new king. A wireless
message to the New York Times from
Baghdad declares that "the best informed circles here doubt that there
will be any serious repercussion as
a result o fthe death of King Feisal." It adds that King Ghazi is "extremely popular among all elements
of his subjects."
Nor is it feared that King Ghazi's
youthful age will necessitate any extraordinary changes in the form of
Iraq's government King Ghazi wul
rule within the bounds and restrictions of Iraq's constitution with the
help and counsel of his experienced
ministers. No dictatorship or regency
is expected. The first real problem
which will face the new king will
come when the League of Nations
discusses the Assyrian situation and
alleged massacres next month. The
outcome, says the Times' correspondent, will depend more on Geneva's
verdict than on any change in Iraq's
cabinet or in the royal house.
Baghdad Mourns Its Dead King
Meanwhile Baghdad has assumed
an aspect of deep mourning for its
beloved king. Processions representing all factions and religions of Iraq,
including Jews and Kurds, pass continuously through the streets chanting
weird dirges for their mourned monaich. King Ghazi is said to be bearing his grief with dignity and reserve.
As elaborate preparations are
being taken in Iraq's capital to receive its late king's body, it is now
being borne on the British war-ship
Dispatch across the Mediterranean.
The ship is expected to stop at Jaffa
where Syrians and Palestinians will
join delegations from Iraq to receive
the body in fitting ceremonies. King
Feisal, it may be recalled, was commissioned by Syrian and Palestinian
(nationalists to lay their causes before British and French authorities
and before the League of Nations
when he passed through Palestine on
his way to j London.
Mussolini Lays Wreath on
Feisal's Bier
At Brindisi, where King Feisal's
WEDDING AROUND
body reposed before it was i taken
CHRISTMAS TIME
aboard the British war-ship, his
bier was guarded by Italian officers
JACK iYoussephany, and Madeof the infantry, marine and air corps,
leine Awad, both of Detroit, are enTwo wreaths, one from King Victor
gaged, it was announced this week.
Emmanuel, one from Premier Benito
Mr. Youssephany is an attorney, v Mussolini, were among the many
Their wedding will take place durfloral tributes deposited on the king's
ing the Yuletide holidays.
bier.
A. tl. B. CRUSADE
FIGHTS POVERTY
Delegation of Youthful Scientists Received in Ramallah
by British Commissioner
A MOVEMENT sponsored by the
Near East Foundation and backed
by the American University of Beirut has been launched with expected
far-reaching results.
Last summer groups of youthful
scientists,
students
and staffites,
spread out into the little towns and
villages of Syria, Lebanon and Palestine, to teach, the peasants and villagers the simple rules of hygiene
and proper living. It was a crusade
against the sinister forces of poverty,
disease and ignorance, and the A.U.B.
scientists formed themselves into
shock troops on the internal frontiers of those respective countries.
Tendered Reception
At Ramallah, a summer resort in
Palestine about 20 miles north of
Jerusalem, the A U. B. delegation
made its stop on the latter part of
August, from whence it passed
through several towns and villages
of Palestine.
Dr. Khalil Totah, head of the
Friends School for Boys in Ramallah took the occasion to honor those
ambitious and altruistic young crusaders. He arranged a tea party
for which he invited the British
High Commissioner, the British Commissioner of Education, the local
American Consul, the mayors of Ramallah and Bierah and some, distinguished men of Ramallah and
neighboring towns. The reception,
at which both the High Commissioner
and the Commissioner of Education
spoke, was held in the school.
High Commissioner Addresses
Delegates
"I have accepted Dr. Totah's invitation," said the High Commissioner in his speech, "because I was
very anxious to see the members of
this commission and talk to those
who are sacrificing their time of
rest and spending it in the villages.
I am specially glad to see, the mayors
and village heads at this meeting."
The High Commissioner praised
the work undertaken by the American University and the Near East
Foundation, saying that the Palestinian Government is indebted to
them for the generous help they
have extended to it
A member of the delegation
wished to speak to the High Commissioner on a matter which fell
under his observation, and he was
referred to the Commissioner's private secretary. The delegate complained of a legal restriction in Palestine which forbids pharmacists to
sell eye droppings without prescriptions, and of vagrant quacks whq
sell patent medicine and ointments
to the simple peasants, causing more
harm than good. The Commissioner's
secretary took note of these observations and promised to bring them
to His Excellency's attention;
Husseini Calls Movement
First of Kind
Thanking Dr. Totah and those
present, on behalf of the A. U.'B.
delegation, Rajaii al-Husseini, head
of the delegation and economic/ instructor at the A. U. B., called the
movement in which he and t£ fellow
delegates had volunteered «ring the
summer vacation "the firstjfetion of
its kind undertaken .by the Near East
of its own accord:
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�TH£ SYWAN WOM.B, NEW YOKK, FM., SEPT. 1* IMS.
OFFICIALS OF SYRIAN -AMERICAN CONVENTION
MICHAEL M. ABOOfcfcLY
New President of the Syrian
American Federation of New
England.
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cov.
JOSEPH S. HAGE
Convention Chairman
8ALLOUM A. MOKABZEL
Toastmaster
ELIA8 MOUKOWSHE&
President, Local Unit
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WILBUR L. CBOSS
Speaker
NEW ENGLAND AMERICAN-SYRIAN BANQUET
AITY. LOUIS A. GEORGE
Betirlng President
ELIAS SAFADI
Re-elected Treasurer
AXTY. G. J. SHAGOUBY
Betirlng Secretary
MAYOB M. M. SCOXI
Sneaker
JUDGE C. C. COSIELLO
Bpeakit
P. LEROY HARWOOD
JUDGE DANIEL CRONIN
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PBOF. JOHN WAZAM
Speaker
AITY. FABIS S. MALOCF
Speaker
ALTON T. MINER
THEODORE BODENWELST
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"PERSIA"
Author: Sir Arnold T. Wilson.
Publishers: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933.
(Latest volume in the series of "the Modern World,"
edited by Rt Hon. H. A. L. Fisher, F. R. S. and published by Scribner's.)
AN ILLUSTRIOUS company of authors and
scholars are doing a valuable and timely service
to the general readers of our time. They are making a new human survey of the different countries
which constitute our modern world, a new appraisal
of the political, economic, social and cultural forces
which are fashioning the world of to-morrow. Eighteen volumes covering eighteen countries have already been produced. These include Arabia, by
H. St. J. Philby; Egypt, by George Young; India,
by Sir Valentine Chirol; Turkey, by Arnold Tonybee and K. P. Kirkwood, and others by equally distinguished authorities. Syria's turn, evidently has
not come yet.
crowd is doing.
Not so in peace time, when everything is
conductive to a life of selfish, though "enlightened," self-interest and "rugged individualism." The emotional urge that makes one
merge his fortune and fate with those of
Entered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1933 at the others in one supreme effort of self-sacrifice,
Post Office at New York, N.Y., Under the Act of is lacking.
If one is then patriotic, he is
March 3, 1879.
patriotic with forethought and rational determination.
His patriotism becomes a true
Sept 15, 1933.
VoL VII, No. 20.
measure of good citizenship.
Such a patriotism we are'called upon to
The present volume in the series is the work
of
a
recognized authority on Persia and things Pershow
in
the
magnificent
crusade
to
see
that
FEDERATIONS
the NRA ^program is carried out in spirit sian. It covers the whole gamut of the Persian
nation, its history, physical geography and racial
THE ENTHUSIASM of the sponsors of and in letter.
background. But it is particularly a book about
It is indeed gratifying that Syrians who^did modern Persia, with its modern problems and aspirathe Syrian-American Federation of New England, as displayed at their second annual con- their "bit" in the World War, who enlisted tions, rising against the background of its colorful
vention held in ,New London, Conn., last in proportionately great numbers in the ex- and eventful past Like a true painter, Sir Arnold
Wilson uses Persian history sparingly and in a
Saturday and Sunday, was such as to herald peditionary forces of Uncle Sam and resuggestive manner to give more prominence and responded
to
his
appeal
for
Liberty
Bonds,
ultimate complete success.
It was evident
lief to the living present. It is one of the most
that the trained professional men who domi- are now demonstrating the same response to valuable and useful books written about a country,
nated the convention are determined to see President Roosevelt's peace call. They are like our Syria, which has attracted a variety of
the movement through. Particularly gratify- proving to Americans, and more important writers. The earnest tenor and tone of this work
ing is the fact that although the protagonists still to themselves, that they are intelligent, may be judged by contrast with others undertaken
by writers with no special qualification save a
of the Federation are mostly of the younger loyal citizens who can be depended upon in general literary adroitness and nimble imagination.
generation, they are fully aware of the ad- time of peace as well as in time of war.
Referring to such books and one-sided observations
vantages of banding together for the promothey embody, the author himself is as Impatient with
them as the modern, educated Persian. He says:
tion of their racial interests in a manner that
A
YOUTHFUL
KING
WITH
"Observations of this type, seasoned with deswould dispell the fear once so seriously enA
HEAVY
CROWN
criptions
of ancient ruins, desert scenery, and tribal
tertained of this same younger generation
costumes
and customs, are too frequent in the
breaking away from their racial moorings.
NOT LQNG AGO this paper referred to abundant literature on the subject of Persia to leave
Syrians and Lebanese are no longer hesi- the late King Feisal as a King Alfred attempta native of that country entirely unmoved." (P.49.)
tant about being idetified with their racial ing the task of reconstructing an ancient kingAllowing for his natural British sentiments, Sir
descent. There are any number of instances dom.
Today his son, King al-Ghazi, falls Arnold Wilson shows objective impartiality in dewhere" once some highly intelligent Syrian and heir to this kingdom. But it is not only a
picting the Anglo-Persian political relations exLebanese young men and women Ishunned kingdom, it is a great responsibility at which tending over a hundred years and culminating in
mention of their ancestry; now they publicly even more astute and experienced men may the Anglo-Persian Agreement of 1920. One cannot
proclaim their pride in it. They were before quake with terpidation and concern. He; falls help but admire the open-mindedness and sense
of fairness and justice of this British authority
in ignorance of their racial traditions and hisheir not only to the glory of a throne hoary when he writes concerning the abrogation of this
torical distinction, whereas now they have with traditions, buj} to one circumscribed with
agreement that "
we can now, with all sincerity,
come to emerge into the light of knowledge
congratulate the Persian nation on the success aldifficulties, tribulations and pitfalls.
which leads their steps in the right idirection.
ready achieved and on the prospect of a more august
The youthful king has to employ the sagac- future under His Majesty's vigorous aegis, than it
Thi3 publication is particularly pleased at
this turn of events which the editor, in his ity of a veteran diplomat to avoid all the would have hoped to achieve under an Anglo-Peropening address at the formal banquet of the snares that foreign imperialism will place in sian Convention, however honestly interpreted by the
parties to it" (ppl43-144) Two principal causes
convention, characterized as the "rebirth of his way, all the wisdom and forebearance of contributed to the abrogation of this Agreement
the consciousness of a people." The attitude a ripe Oriental sage to settle the vexing symbolic of stage of political and economic subof the SYRIAN WORLD on this point has problems of dissension and conflicting fac- jugation of Persia by the West One was the genebeen consistent and clear ever since it sound- tionalism within the borders of his own king- ral nationalistic movement which was sweeping over
ed the call to ^he formation of a federation dom. If "uneasy lies the head that wears the all the Mohammedan East, the other was "the sudden passage across the Persian firmanent of a meteor
more than six years ago. We stand behind crown," King Ghazi's crown is exceptionally
in the person of Riza Khan Sartip
", its present
every effort at unity and collective action be- heavy.
ruler.
cause of the obvious benefits it is bound to
The topics treated in Sir Arnold's book are
numerous and interesting. He discourses!of Persian
bring.
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OUR PART
agriculture, of its army, of financial reforms under
The federation movement is now being
American advisors, of the Persian national 'debt of
crystallized in a manner that augurs ultimate
THE MONSTER demonstration! in support legal reforms, of trade, of population problems etc
success. Almost simultaneously regional feof the NRA staged at Madison Square Gar- etc. He quotes foreign and 'native authorities and
derations were held this year within a week
of each other. They have exchanged mes- den on the evening of September 12 was a sometimes whole speeches and documents. He
signal success for the foreign language press makes generous use of statistics.
;,
sages ,of good wishes and are already in
in New York which sponsored it. It tended
friendly communication with each other,
Of special Interest to us is the chapter dealto prove conclusively that although we might
which we trust will soon result in forming
ing with Literature. We find the same problems
speak different tongues, we are as true and
the nucleus of a national federation.
confronting Arab modernists and reformers facing
We are confident that the able and ener- loyal Americans as the American-born. Amer- the Persian modernists also. Sir Arnold quotes a
getic young men guiding the .destinies of this icanism is a conviction and does not come prominent Persian modernist Sayyid IHasan Taqimovement will prove equal to the sacred merely through the accident of birth.
zada, to show the prevailing tendencies of westerntrust placed in their hands and brush .aside;
In having helped bring about this demon- ization in Persia. These briefly are: the adoption,
all petty considerations which might spell stration, AL-HODA, the only Arabic lan- without reservation, of European civilization; predanger to its success.
t
guage daily in New York, is happy to have servation of the Persian language and literature,
If this be Ae rebirth of the consciousness done its part and represented our country- and the diffusion of European sciences.
\ .
H. L K.
of a race, let it be destined to live and to men in their true American loyalty.
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�THE SYRIAN WORLD, NEW YORK, FRI., SEPT. IS, 1933.
FROM EAST AND WEST
MY VISIT TO KING FEISAL
By H. I. Katibah
FOR TWO weeks I was cooling my heels on
the streets of Baghdad. For two weeks I took my
daily stroll from my quarters at the English
Y. M.C. A. near al-Huneidah along the bank of the
Tigris River to the ancient city two miles away.
I had met some of Iraq's foremost men of politics,
business and letters. At a particular tea party I
was fortunate to meet the two great poets of Iraq,
Jamil Sidqi az-Zahawi and Ma'rouf ar-Risafi, the
literary Gemini of Baghdad of whom I had heard
so much. Even the foreboding gate of the British
High Commissariat swang on its heavy hinges
sufficiently to allow me enter and secure an interview with the commissioner's political secretary.
But my visit was not complete, and at heart
I considered it a failure unless I had met the one
man in Iraq who, more than any other individual,
held in his clear, untrammeled mind and his sincere,
unfaltering will the talisman of Iraq's future. Until
then I had not been able to see King Feisal, who
had so fascinated the imagination of all western
readers. For a newspaper reporter it is inconceivable to cross the 600 miles of arid Syrian Desert and
return the same way from Baghdad without meeting its picturesque king. My friends Miss Alice
Kandaleft and Abdallah Hajj, the latter of whom
was at the time the second secretary of King Feisal, did their best to facilitate the interview.
W
The reason of this delay was not any unwillingness on His Majesty's part to grant me the audience. It was just my misfortune that I had hit
Baghdad when King Feisal was convalescing from
a serious attack of influenza. He was still too weak
for any interview, except on very urgent matters.
And there was nothing so very urgent about my
interview.
At last, however, a few days before my departure, my persistent wish and long patience were
rewarded. The day and hour on which I could
proceed to the palace and meet His Majesty were
entered by the palace secretariat in the visitors'
book. But I was gently warned not to discuss
politics with His Majesty.
There were no liveried flunkies at the gate of
the palace, no royal aides or "yawirs," no signs
whatsoever of pomp and crimson grandeur. A
word was communicated to Rustum Haydar Bey
that I may come in, and I went in.
King Feisal was alone in a spacious room,
simply but elegantly furnished. The king was dressed
in a tweed suit, of unmistakable English cut, a blue
penciled shirt with collar attached, yellow patent
leather shoes and pearl spats. A colored silk kerchief dangled from his coat pocket. He was sitting
on a lounge smoking a cigarette. He bent his head
slightly, as his steel-gray eyes beamed in a wan
smile, and waved me to a chair nearby.
I had hardly concluded my flustering salutations and inquiry about his health, when he sailed
forth into a chatty conversation. He had already
known who I was and what my mission was in
Baghdad. But I was not a little surprised that instead of asking me about my impressions of the
city and my observations in the countries I had
already visited, he was_ so anxious to know from
me about the Syrians in the United States and
what they were doing. His delight was obvious when
I told him how the Syrians in America had passed
the stage of "peddling" and little shops on Washington Street, and have now branched into all the
activities and professions open to them in a great,
modern state. I told him of the big Syrian business
men, of physicians, lawyers and writers who had
made a mark for themselves in the life of the American nation, of the interest they are beginning to
take in the political life of the people. He was so
interested to know about those Arabic-speaking
kinsmen of his across the Atlantic Ocean. In my
hand I had carried a copy each of my Arabian
Nights books which I had inscribed as a present
for his son Ghazi, the present King of Iraq.
I
passed them to His Majesty, and he commented encouragingly on the fine make-up of the books and
the beautiful illustrations. And when I told him
they were published by one of the greatest publishing houses in America, he expressed his sincere delight.
AT RANDOM
By A. M.
Impressions of the New England Federation
NEW LONDON after 7 hours of refreshing sea
breezes. The Griswold Hotel—gigantic, fashionable.
Beautiful water everywhere. Rugged rocks, breaking waves, trees, colorful estates. Through the endless halls of the hotel. Another turn. Down another
hall. Temporary leisure. Dinner with about 50
delegates. Lewis A George, retiring president, officiating. Capable, poised, well-spoken, young, affable. Short, informal speeches. To another halL
An open business meeting. Bed and beautiful Connecticutt breezes. • Sleep.
Morning.
Rustling of leaves.
Swishing of
waves. Memories' of Syria. A gorgeous day. To
the dining-room.
A formidable New England
breakfast. In the lobby. More guests. Milling
people. Porters, attendants, Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinians. To the air-field. Arrival of Thomas
Moawad Mokarzel, aviator, and Fred Hashem representing a society in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Joseph
S. Hage's lovely home for luncheon. Back to the
hotel. In the large hall. Officers and guests on the
platform. Najeebee Morad crooning minor melodies. Personable gray-haired Sheikh Nassour delivering his verses with sweeping gestures. A mock
sword-duel.
More singing.
Unbelievably short
speeches from the delegates. 5:30. 3-year old Lewis
George, Jr. addressing his audience. Mr. George
enjoining the guests to be in the banquet hall
promptly at 6:15 "American time."
Hurrying. Dressing. To the lobby. Evening
gowns. Tuxedos. Laughter, excitement. In the
banquet-hall. American guests at the long table.
Private parties at small tables. Music. Lines of
waitresses. Clicking of silver, china, glasses. Cocktail. Coffee. Short speeches. The governor, mayor,
judge. Puns, counsels, jokes. To the dance hall.
Dancing and snake marching to young Mitchell Sabbaghs' music.
Amiable atmosphere.
Midnight.
Moonlight. Music. Romance. To the boat Sleep.
Morning. New York.
Margaret Anglin, famous reader of poetry over
the radio, devoted her entire program on Sunday
morning, Sept. 10, to the reading of excerpts from
Barbara Young's new book "I Go a-Walking."
James M. Talge, a young lad of New England,
has had one of his compositions published by a
New York firm. The new ballad is in waltz time
and is called "Alma."
Jack Barakat, that personable Syrian gentleman
of Australian birth, has had a past so eventful that
it would put any historical or romantic story to
shame. When we can pin Jack down long enough
to get the whole story in all its glamorous detail
we will tell it to you. Now, Jack is too busy and
besides he is still on the top of the ladder.
Joseph S. Ganim, that obliging young Republican committeeman of Brooklyn, found out his hiding place last week and we took a peek at him. Jack
was transformed into a Hindu Mahrajah in the
"Happy Landing" cast at the WOR studios in New
York. Mitzi Green is star of the cast. You will
also be interested to know that Jack's magnificent
voice adorned the cast of the "Arabesque" sketches
featured not long ago over WABC.
MY CARAVAN
Slowly across the desert sand
Moves my lonely caravan—
A train of camels led by me,
Each marked with faith and charity.
So goes my caravan of years
Across the desert sands of time;
Each marked with suffering and with tears
That bring to me sweet grace divine.
Louis Joseph Maloof
And thus ended my first and last interview with
one of the most democratic sovereigns the Land
between the Two Rivers had ever seen since the
days of Harun ar-Rashid.
Never did I realize that that was my last chance
to converse with King FeisaL My plans to revisit the East after a short stay in the United
States following my return in the winter of 1930
did not materialize. The depression which I thought
might last a few-months lasted longer than most
of us ever contemplated. And death, the respecter
Half an hour of this pleasant discourse passed of no persons, called King Feisal before his time.
like half a minute. His Majesty rose, and it was a I still believe that his heart weakness was to a
sign for me that the interview was over.
great extent an after effect of his sickness then.
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PAGE FIVE
OUR NEW YORKERS
AND SUBURBANITES
By Ana Behoof
HENRY HADDAD left a sick bed Sunday to attend the Syramar tournament. It was a treat watching George Balesh imitate Gene Trabulsi sing Ole
Man River.....George Aboarab, the new champ,
went up to the Gap on Thursday and spent two
solid days puttering around the links before the
tournament. George, by the way, first learned
his strokes and stance, etc, on a Turkish rug in
his garage
Michael Teen turned excavator. Someone thought he might be trying to find Tut-ankhamen's tomb, the way he was digging up those
greens
There were more women than men
watching that golf tournament for men
Effie
Macsoud won the prize that was raffled off but there
are some who think it was a frame-up
it was
her brother who read out the numbers, and he
knew her number, so what?
Phil Lian went to
bed with golf sticks in his hands, someone said.
He retired at eight o'clock Saturday. George Aboarab went to bed at nine, both sacrificing wine,
women and dance for dear old Syramar.
All the
Syramarians are wondering why George Ferris left
early Sunday afternoon for New York
And at
the dance, everybody seemed to step out of his
and her character. They certainly had a swell time.
George Balesh had about six girls hanging
around him. With him in the center, under a huge
beach umbrella, and the girls grouped around him,
they jumped up and down to the tune of Stormy
Weather led by Freddy Faris in his temporary
role of orchestra leader. I know that some of the
girls were the Macsouds and the Milkies
Michael
Teen got a booby prize worth getting, three golf
balls and—an apple
Joe Gassoun was the best
dressed golfer up there. He had on a snappy green
gabardine suit
Mike Aboarab was so good he
reached the 19th hole with a birdie
Assad Abood
tried to use those new fangled rubber sticks
Ky Gabriel seemed to be all wound up. He could
not stop jigging up and down.
Richard Macsoud
is largely responsible for "the grand time had by
all."—John Macsoud was the best one-handed
golfer up there.
Autumn moving has started this season with
Mr. and Mrs. Luke Nebhan's removal of their
can-opener from 181 Remsen Street to 271 Hicks
Street. And Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Cyre, nee
Mary Ganim, of West Orange moved their toothbrushes to 307 Hicks.
Charlie Sayegh moved
his oud from 138 to 113 State. And Frank Saker
brought his tux from 138 to 115 State.
The P. K. Hittis have moved from their home
in Wilton Street in Princeton to a large home
formerly occupied by Dean Root of the University at
138 Fitzrandolph Road. It is one of the faculty
houses. Faculty houses are pretty hard to get, the
members having to wait until one of them is empty
and then being offered to occupy it. Mrs. Hitti,
being a home-loving woman, has had her eye on
it for years.
At the opening of the new 1st A D. Rep, Clubhouse Joe Sirgany's silver voice, accompanied by his
banjo, entertained in the cabaret below and Phil
Hanna tap danced smartly and did a good imitation solo of the four Mills Brothers. Ruth Trabulsi
also "did her part" and performed with a dance.
After that the orchestra had the floor until far into
the morning playing dance music.
It won't be long now before Phil Macsoud and
Alice Aneed can be seen together without exciting
gossip. They were married last Saturday.
The Jolly Rovers are preparing for an NRA
dance on October 14 to take place in the St. George
Roof Garden. They will have Elie Dantzig and his
inaugural Ball Orchestra play for them.
The Junior Misses are planning out their dinner^dancej to take place the following week, October
21, in the Italian Village.
But it will be left to the Basilian Club to officially open the gay winter season when they hold
their reunion dance in; their club rooms in 32nd
Street and 4th Avenue. They have elready sold
tickets enough to wu-m their hearts.
They say that out in Asbury Park Lyla Mabarak is pointed out with pride by all policemen as
the perfect woman driver.
What star salesman, a partner in a leading
linen house, lost his first wrestling match and suffered a dislocated shoulder bone.
George Najjar, Ken Zrike, and George Hindy
stopped at Salem, Mass., over the week-end before they went to the noted race track at Rockingham Park, Mass., to get some horse sense.
�THE SYRIAN WORLD, NSW YORK, FRL, SEPT. 18,
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HOW DO YOU LIKE TOUFICK'S
IDEA OF A SCIENTIFIC MATE?
2S2S&S
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GOLF CHAMPION
Then there is The Fortunate Man who has found his ideal. What a
break from him! But do you agree with him about the "usual feminine conceit?"
AH the letters printed in this week's issue show evidence of intelligence
in our young people. The letters were (selected as the three best received this week. But of them the one selected as the best is Emmeline's.
The judges believe that her letter represents the "backbone of the people".
Emmeline does not ask the impossible or has too high ideals. She represents what almost every girl will insist upon as essential in a good husband.
But remember, even though the judges may not agree with the letters you
write, they judge them on the merits of originality, and sincerity.
My ideal woman must have a
sound body; she must have bones, not
brittle sticks of phosphate of lime.
She must have muscles, not flabby,
slender ribbons of empty sarcolemma.
She must have blood and not a thin,
lencocytis ichor.
She must be beautiful. I confess that I don't know what beauty
is, because it is both subjective and
objective; it depends upon taste and
education. But I desire a beauty
which abides; a beauty in which the
charm of seventeen becomes a real
essence of seventy; a beauty which
the art of dressing may adorn but
never create; a beauty which is not
, produced by any artificial pose or
by any possible banging of the hair;
a beauty which doesn't fade with the
passing hour but stays through the
heat and burden of the day; a beauty which delights rather than
dazzles.
I want her to value health and
wealth, and to think kindly of honor
and of reputation; she must prize
knowledge and truth.
She must
have a good education in science and
letters, and must have the higher
wisdom which can see the fitness of
things and grasp the logic of events.
If she speaks Arabic, French and
German, or if she knows conies and
curves, all is well.
Last but not least, the ideal
mate must have culture. True culture is that knowledge of men and
affairs which places every problem in
Sociology in its true light. Such culture is not incompatible with a broad
knowledge of books, nor with a deep
insight into art. She must have a
mind above petty prejudice and giant
bigotry. She must see something in
life beyond a ball or a ribbon; she
must have wit and judgement; she
must possess domestic skill and
house-wifely thrift.
It is true that she is infinitely
far beyond my reach, but is near in
my imagination. Yet, one can find her
on a crowded street of a metropolis,
on a university campus or on a country lane. She is known as the ideal
girl of today.
Cincinnati, O.
Toufick
II
Dear Contest Editor:
When I resign the great advantages afforded a single man I want
to feel sure I have done the right
thing. Then I hope to find in the
wife I choose the essence of all that
goes for a happy marriage.
Yes, sir. Like all normal men,
I want her charming of face and
manner and with enough intelligence
to comfort me; the quality of intelligence that lacks, as much as possible,
the usual feminine conceit!
When I leave in the early morning to struggle for a modest living, I
want to feel anxious to rush back at
dusk and find my companion a consoling friend, a loving being, and in
her intelligent way show appreciation
for the little or much of the fruit of
my labor and take a keen interest
in all I undertake.
The subject of faithfulness should
never be discussed but courageously
understood by her! And with the
added attraction of healthy culinary
qualifications, a way is well paved
for a happy journey together.
The nuptial service should tend
to impress upon her the seriousness
of her act and help mold a disposition
of submissiveness necessary for connubial bliss.
There are other considerations
that demand serious thought, but I'm
content with the picture above: as
evincing the essence of such characteristics she will eventually evolve
in an "IDEAL".
The fact is I am courting such
a lady and therefore sign my name,
N. Y. C.
A Fortunate Man.
Dear Editor:
My ideal of a good prospect for
a husband is a sober, plodding, intelligent fellow, who is working toward some fixed goal. I would want
a husband that I could rely on and
who will be a good provider. One
who doesn't need to be reformed.
I would pick out a man who is
warmhearted, affectionate and overflowing with kindness to the world.
In choosing a husband I would also
watch his character and pick a man
that is congenial.
I would expect faithfulness, courtesy and tenderness from my husband,
and at least expect him to give me a
sign now and then that he still loves
me and doesn't regard me merely as
a useful convenience.
I would expect my husband to be
a fireside companion and to be willing to spend evenings in his own
home with me.
I would also expect companionship from him. I would want to marry
to get a cheerful, affectionate, sympathetic chum, who will have the
same interests I have, who will like
to do the things I like to do and
who will enjoy my society as I
would his.
And finally, I would expect my
husband to deal fairly with me about
money. I would expect him to give
me an allowance for running the
house and for my own personal use,
as a matter of square play, because
I would be a partner in a matrimonial firm entitled to my share of
profits..
Toledo, O.
Emmeline.
GEORGE ABOARAB UPSETS GOLF
VETERANS; WINS TOURNAMENT
THE TOURNAMENT PLAY HELD MANY SURPRISES FOR
THE RECORD NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS AND
SPECTATORS WHO ATTENDED THE SIXTH
ANNUAL TOURNAMENT OF SYRAMAR
HELD LAST WEEK-END
AT THE annual tournament^ of the Syramar Golf Club held
last week-end at the Wolfhollow Club of Delaware Water Gap,
George Aboarab made a fine showing and came off the links winner in the sixth annual tounrament in one of the most dramatic
tournaments yet held by Syramar. He defeated veteran players
and winners, particularly George
pjji Lian.
Ferris who for three times had won
Winner of the first flight was
the tournaments, thus making him
Ferris Saydah; Runner Up, Fred
permanent possessor of the first troFaris; and Consolation Winner, Dave
phy. Nat Malouf, who wasn't preMalhame.
The second flight was
sent this year, had won the other two
won by W. D. Kadri; Runner Up,
tournaments.
George Macsoud; and Consolation,
Eliminates Edward Jacobs
Wadie Beder. Jimmie Assad won
Aboarab, eliminated Edward Jathe third flight; Abe Lian was Runcobs, four up and three to go. Next
ner Up and George Balish winner of
lie had George Ferris three up and
the Consolation prize. The trophy
three to go, Ferris winning the next
Aboarab won is a beautiful imtwo. The match was over when
ported silver antique English tray.
Aboarab took the next hole making
Wins Booby Prize
it two up. In the next match he
Michael Teen, a beginner at the
eliminated Phil lian five up and
tired-business man's game, won the
four to go. . The low net score was
booby prize.
won by Richard Macsoud with a score
A supper dance given by the club
of 91 with a handicap of 16. The
took place Saturday night in the Renlow gross score of 88 was made by
leigh Hotel, about eighty-five members and friends attending.
The
dancing lasted until 12.
And while the,men were playing
golf the ladies played bridge. They
also held a tournament that was
WHAT ARE THE QUALIFICATIONS FOR AN IDEAL WIFE?
won
by Alexandra Hawawini with
OR HUSBAND ?
Mrs. George Shamyer a close second.
WRITE A LETTER ON THIS TOPIC TO THE SYRIAN WORLD
Richard Macsoud, president of the
The judges will be four persons who are not associated in any
club, acted as master of ceremonies
way with the paper: an Ideal Husband, an Ideal Wife, a Bachelor,
throughout the week-end.
and a Bachelor Girl.
Other Participants
(I.) Contest closes September 29.
The chairman of the committee,
(2.) Employees in the SYRIAN WORLD or relatives will not
Henry Hadad, was assisted in arranging the tournament by Edward
participate in the contest.
Lian, Ferris Saydah, George Ferris
(3.) Each letter should not be longer than 250 words. Write
and George Mabarak.
on one side of the sheet only. Typewrite it if possible,
Other participants in the tournaotherwise write legibly.
ment were Eugene Trabulsi, Elias
(4.) The three best letters will be published each week, the
and Michael Aboarab, Assad Abood,
Richard Malhame, Joe Gassoun,
best of which will receive the weekly prize.
George Tadross, Sam Meena, Jimmy
(5.) Letters must bear names,, or pen-names if desired.
Balesfe, William Karsa> Mitchell Haddad and James Dowaliby.
WHAT DO YOU WANT IN YOUR MATE?
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PAGE SEVEN
The GARDENS of OMAR
By HENRI BORDEAUX
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Synopsis:— At the feast of the
Cedars a few days before the wedding of Yamile to Khalil Khoury,
two handsome strange youths make
their appearance. One of them is
fascinated by the beauty of Yamile
and she in turn is attracted by him.
Yamile's father, unaware of this, becomes interested in the. stranger's
beautiful mare and invites the youths
to be his guests. Immediately after
Yamile returns to her fiance the engagement jewelry which he had given
her.
Demanding an explanation
the following day, Yamile declares
she still loves him but cannot marry
him. He senses that she loves the
stranger, Omar.
That night Yamile disappears as
well as the strange youths. As a
result, Khalil Khoury is summoned
to hear the verdict which a group
of men headed by Yamile's father
will pass on her for her violation of
the honor code of her people. Khalil
Khoury avows Yamile's innocence
hut the judges decree that she has
merited death. Khalil Khoury persists that she should be questioned
first. The judges relent and decide
that he, with her brother, Boutros,
should seek her and bring her to
trial
CHAPTER FOUR
THE LAND OF DAKKAR
I COULD, if I had wished, have
been the leader of our expidition.
Yamile still belonged to me in the
eyes of her kinsfolk. Her treachery
to her faith and to myself left my
position, as her promised husband,
untouched. But t felt neither the
wish nor the power to take command. The bond between us that
our months of betrothal had been
powerless to create, her guilty love
had now achieved. She desired as
I desired—gave herself as I gave:
she it was who still reigned over
my heart, even though another had;
, won her away from me. For a moment, as I lost her, we had stood
face to face, equals at last. Far from
hating her, it seemed to me that I
alone understood her. I shuddered
at her defencelessness, alone, in a
far country with a stranger abandoned
to the force of a love that sweeps
men and women away as a swift
torrent carries a dead leaf. I would
not cease to watch over her. I saw
her again, kissing my hands, as
though, despite herself, she had put
herself under my protection. Guessing from my own love, what hers
must be, I could not but pity her.
Boutros hurried on our preparations.
"You will ride my father's gray
mare," he said. "She is the best
saddle horse in Bcharre. I will ride
the bay mare that these devils left
behind. We will take only Elias, my
own servant."
"Elias!" I exclaimed in astonishment "When they have more than'
a dozen men with them? We can't
fight them four to one."
Boutros looked at me in amaze-?
ment.
"Who is talking of a fight?" he
exclaimed.
"Aren't we to take Yamile from
them?" I asked in turn.
"Not by force, man," he answered.
"The whole Akkar country is Mohammedan, and would be about our
ears."
"They have not reached it yet,"
I argued. "Our horses are swift"
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"What about theirs? And with the
start we've let them have?"
It was only too true. They were
by now hours ahead of us. In vain
I insisted that night marches are
slow. Dawn comes quickly in August and once Ehden had been
reached (and they must by this time
have been miles beyond it), the
strangers were safe and could profit
by the wretched rivalries that at
that time, divided our people against
themselves.
Boutros then exposed his plan.
This was to be merely a reconnoitering expedition, and we must be careful to raise no alarm. Once we had
discovered where Yamile was being
kept, we would return later. There
was no question of recapturing
her by force. Craft was called for
and the plot must be carefully contrived.
"Later!" I echoed, gloomily.
Boutros * understood all the horror that word contained for a lover.
He turned away his eyes.
"The harm is done now," he said,
stoically.
But ,for once, I rebelled against
his authority. No. The harm was
not all done yet. Yamile, mounted
beside her lover, was even now fleeing, but she was not yet his. We
might catch up with them on the
road. With a woman in their party,
they would not I argued, try to reach
Akkar in a single march. They
would pitch their tent for the night,
and if we rode without drawing rein,
we would come up with them at
supper time.
At the thought of Yamile in the
arms of her pagan lover, my brain
was filled with images that seemed
to set it on fire. My love suddenly
turned to hate that tortures—death
alone could satisfy.
I implored
Boutros to hasten—to organize a
strong party, t fell at his knees,
calling him friend and brother. I
knew what an attraction desperate
enterprises had for this headstrong
youth, and I was not mistaken.
"You are right" he said, as
though I had given words to some
thought kept secret till now. "We
can kill her if need be."
His sister was no longer his sister.
My own pity was consumed in the
. delirium of my hatred and jealousy.
In a few minutes that seemed hours
to me, he had assembled several
companions of his own age, brave
and hardy youths who were his
partners in hunting and in sports.
It is true, our preparations wasted
precious time. We could no longer
count on overtaking the fugitives
except by a night march. To add
to my misery, I could easily see that
I [was become an object of ridicule
to the entire village. "A man in
prosperity," says one of our proverbs,
"is like a tree round which people
gather to pluck its fruit When the
harvest is over, it is left alone to
wither with heat and dust." My
betrothw had left me to fly with a
Mussulman.
Never before in the
history of Bcharre had such a thing
happened. Public opinion, unjust as
ever, covered innocent and guilty
alike with its contempt To my
surprise, I felt no bitterness at this
injustice. I felt even a secret joy
at finding myself united to Yamile,
even though it were by the contempt
of the world.
As is always the case with our
people, we left with as great a clatter
and tumult as though we were starting on a crusade. Boutros took the
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lead, on the bay mare: I followed
close at his heels, urging him incessantly to make more speed. Our
horses were so swift that often we
had to draw rein to let the rest of
the cavalcade catch up with us. I
now regretted I had suggested so
large a party. Perhaps, after all,
it would have been better had we
fallen on the fugitives, our arms in
our hands. I did not value my life
more than a straw, and Boutros
could be trusted to find a way out
of the worst predicament. The sheik
had forbidden us to. fight upon Mussulman territory, but I could easily
depend upon the violence of Boutros
to make light of such an order.
From the summit of Kornet-esSaouda which we now reached, the
region through which we had passed
lay at our feet. Before us was the
vast curve of the sea that begins
at Tripoli, to lose itself in the rounded
arms of the bay of Akkar. From
the beach fertile plains mounted
in terraces to the hills. Between
them and Lebanon were rocky hills
with overhanging summits surrounded
by large cultivated fields or narrow
valleys through which ran winding
streams. Here and there a: little
huddle of gray roofs, half perceived
in some sheltered hollow or lost
amid the confusion of colors, told of
a village.
Once Ehden had been passed,
the bay mare which Boutros was
riding turned from the road to follow
a bridle path that twisted between
pines and dwarf cedars.
"Horses don't follow a scent," I
said to my companion. "It is folly
to trust ourselves to her head."
"She won't lead us astray," he
answered. "She's following the exact
way she came. We are going towards
Sir."
Sir is a village of Lebanon, at
the foot of a high cliff. It is built
upon the bank of a torrent which
foams from a cleft in the countainside. At our entry, the women who
were drawing water or nursing their
children fled from the street and
bolted the doors of their houses,
wretched cubes of stone with a single
entry for light and air. The men
gathered menacingly at the head of
the street as though determined to
AL-HODA TAKES
PART IN RALLY
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Huge Demonstration in Garden
Proves Backing of and Faith
in President Roosevelt by
Foreign Press and
People
MISS JULIA HARFOUSH REPRESENTS SYR1IA IN PAGEANT OF BEAUTIFUL
GIRLS
By a Staff Reporter
THE Arabic daily newspaper,
AL-HODA, was one of the foreign language newspapers invited to participate in the foreign
language press 'and radio NRA
rally that was held in the gigantic
Madison Square Garden Tuesday
night AL-HODA the only Arabic
paper in the membership of the NRA
division of the foreign press, was represented by its publisher, S. A. Mokarzel. Rallying to the call of the
bar our passage.
Our comrades called for a halt
and insisted on knowing something
more of the adventure upon which
we were engaged. They had departed lightheartedly, as for a hunt.
Now they suddenly perceived the
danger to which they were committing themselves.
With a sudden
"transition, only too common among
our people, from enthusiasm to panic,
they treated us to long speeches
upon our folly in penetrating further
into a hostile country.
"You forget the wrong done to
my family," said Boutros indignantly.
"A private wrong calls only for
a private vengeance," was the retort.
"Yes," sneered Boutros. "That
was the way you fought against the
Druses after the massacre of Deirel-Kamar.
Your ancestors were
braver men than you."
"War is war," was the answer.
"We are not at war with the Mussulmans."
"Go back then," said Boutros
contemptuously. "Go back and guard
your sheep and goats. You are not
worthy to carry a rifle. I want
nothing from you. Be off!"
He was wrong, for the instructions of his father were definite and
he was risking not only the safety
of his escort but peace and perhaps
the future, of the whole Maronite
re.ce. The fault lay in his youth,
always an obstacle to leadership.
Every other quality of a great leader
was his—decision, audacity, exact
vision, and rapid judgment. Had
Boutros but stayed in Lebanon, he
was destined to have become a great
leader, one of a very different stamp
from Joseph Karam.
He recognized his error at once,
and, as his comrades after a moment
of hesitation, turned their horses'
heads and rode slowly away, he
suddenly spurred his steed and went
back to them to beg their pardon
for his harsh speech. I have heard
since, that after the first generous
word they were conquered and offered
to come with us and share our fate.
It was he who now forbade the sacrifice. Never afterwards did they miss
an opportunity to show him their
love and devotion.
To Be Continued -
foreign press in the city, 10,000 people
heard General Hugh S. Johnson's appeal for whole-hearted backing, and
his words of appreciation to the
foreign press.
The huge rally was the first
enormous public demonstration of its
kind to support the President's National Recovery Act.
Sitting in a box assigned to ALHODA I was thrilled to hear the
vigorous speeches lof Gen. Johnson,
Grover Whalen, head of the New
York NRA, and to hear such a conglomeration of brilliant stars that
light the stage and radio firmament
Mme. Schumann-Heinck, George M.
Cohan, Morton Downey, James Melton, The Street Singer, Roy Atwell,
and many others. Major Bowes, the
Capitol Impresario, persisted, to the
great delight of his intimate audience
and Capt /Buncho, the Whitehouse
leader with his orchestra was very
generous with his marches, and popular songs.
Miss Julia Harfoush, daughter of
Said Harfoush of Brooklyn, was one
of the beautiful girls, each of whom
represented a foreign country.
�NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPT. IS, t*33.
VOL. VII, NO. 20.
IN AND OUT OF TOWN
Mrs. Anne Badwey and her son
and daughter, Cecil and Selma, of Fall
River, Mass^ spent a few days in
New York. They, met Mrs. Pogson,
Mrs. Badwey*s daughter who" has
come from her home in Santa Domingo City to remain in Fall River
until December.
Mr. Joseph was presented with
a leather traveling bag given by the
club at the conclusion fo the delightful evening.
George Zinnie of Abouarab Brothers returned from Atlantic City where
he spent six weeks.
Albert Khairalla and fiancee,
Alice Saleeby, returned with a group
of friends from a two weeks vacation
in jMt. Pocono.
Elias Kateb of the firm of George
Kateb, Inc., returned from a two
weeks vacation in the vacation-land,
Bermuda. He is now on his way
to Chicago for the Fair.
The Misses Violet and Lillian
Habib of Norwalk, Virginia, are the
guests of the Misses Odele and Nellie Lutfy of Bay Ridge.
Mrs. Adele Shyab and Betty
Shyab, her cousin, of Bay Ridge are
back from a three week's trip through
the New England States, principally
Old Gun Quite near Old Orchard,
Maine, where they stayed with their
cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Shipe.
The George Daghers have come
to town from their summer home in
Patchogue, L I., to their home at
138 Hicks Street Their daughter,
-Betty, will enter first year high in
Packer's Institute.
FORMALLY OPEN
NEW CLUBHOUSE
The Y. S. A. Club held a corn
roast for members and their friends
Sunday evening, Septtember 10th at
Mill Creek Park.
Akron
Leader Dagher Presides at Ceremonies of New Clubhouse. Several Prominent Fusion Candidates Participate. Many
Young Syrians in
Evidence
Memories were revived when the
first annual El-Kirby reunion was
held at the farm of Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Nimir Mokares, W. Richfield,
Ohio, Sunday, Sept. 2. Date and
place for next meeting have not
been determined
'
Present from Cleveland, Canton,
Youngstown, Toledo and Ravenna
were 1000 members and guests.
Wade Haddad was program chairman. Speakers included Roger Hattoum, Akron; H H Karam, Canton;
Henry Haddad, Cleveland; Elias Karam and Joe Nicola mi Canton, and
George DeWood, Toledo.
The largest delegation came from
Cleveland with Toledo taking second
place. {Both groups came to the
grounds in a procession of autos.
Hosts ran forward to greet the guests,
singing and waving tree branches,
in lieu,/of palms, reminiscent of Bible
times. Ayoub Karam of Toledo preceded his group doing the sword
dance to the accompaniment of music
and clapping.
Folk-dancing and music entertained the people, and an oriental dinner-dance, prepared by the Akron
group, was served out of doors.
Mr. James Abdou of Boston is
in New York for a few days on
vacation.
Mrs. George Nassif and her little
son returned to their home in North
Adams, Mass., after a three weeks
stay in Brooklyn with Mrs. Nassif s
sister, Mrs. Fred Bistany.
ROOMS looking more like a
luxurious hotel with their tapestried
walls and subdued lighting effects
in the sixteen story building at 271
Hicks Street are the new headquarters of the Republican Club 1st Assembly District of Brooklyn. The
house had an official housewarming
last Monday night when George C.
Dagher, leader of the district and
several Republican representatives
and fusion candidates met there to
celebrate the dedication. The ceremonies were held in the- auditorium
where several officials and candidates spoke, commenting on the
clubhouse and on the coming elections.
But is seemed as though the one
room ,'that pleased the many young
people present was that in the basement the cabaret, where later in the
evening Leader Dagher led the assemblage for beer, hot dogs and
dancing.
Ladies Aid Society of St George
Orthodox Church held its annual
picnic at the Mokares farm, Sunday,
Sept 10. Members brought basket
lunches. Mrs. Mike George, president, was in charge, assisted by Mesdames Mary Hanna, Nick Ellis, Tuffic Haddad, and Sam Sawan.
Richard Domat of New Kensington, Pa., is returning to his home
tomorrow after attending the convention of the Metropolitan (life Insurance Company held this week in
New York.
Miss Alice Simon of Brooklyn returned Monday from Bermuda from
a three months vacation.
Mrs. Liza Uniss and her daughter,
Nedda, are touring the New England
states. They attended the convention
in New London and expect to go to
Boston.
Mrs. pi G. Coury of Columbia
Heights, Brooklyn, returned home after
a visit of a few weeks with her sister, Mrs. A. Mudarri of Boston.
Returning with her were Mr. A.
Mudarri, his daughter and Mrs.
Charles Barsa, the former Louise
Mudarri.
Youngstown
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Abdo
Joseph, 724 Willis Avenue, was the
scene of a surprise party held by the
Y. S. A. Club in honor of Joe Joseph
who recently, graduated from Tri
State College. Mr. Joseph, incidently, is the first member of the club
to have the distinction of being a
college graduate, although the club
has several other members attending
various colleges.
Syrians Present
Amongy the Syrians attending were
George Ferris, Miss Emiline Ferris,
Assistant State Attorney General
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Halabi, Dr. H
Rasi, Emily and Ray Halabi, Odell
and Nellie Lutfy, Phil Albert, Norma
Shaleesh, George Karneeb, George
Marrash, Mitchell Auda, Lyla Herro,
Anthony Awad, Joe Younes, Joe
Roumain, Ernest Homsy, Mrs. V. Z.
Shehab, Joseph Jabron, Harry Magdalanie, Esber Najjar, Norman Naj-
Out-of-town guests were entertained over Labor Day by Miss Marie
Azar, and her,brother, Attorney Robert Azar at their home, 214 W.
Chestnut St Among those present
were Mr. and Mrs. Alex Haddad,
Cleveland; Mr. and Mrs. Moosa Smith,
Youngstown, Miss Adeebe Karam of
Toledo and the Misses Boutross of
Youngstown.
Mrs. Malaki Haddad of Williamantic, Conn., is visiting relatives in
Akron.
Mrs. Hanna Haddad of Danbury,
Conn., is the guest of her brother, F.
G. Nairn, 552 Carroll St.
In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Abram
Aune of Youngstown, Mr. Fayiz G.
Nairn entertained at dinner at the
home of his uncle and aunt Mr. and
Mrs. E. G. Haddad, 552 Carroll St,
Sunday. Mrs. Aune before her recent
marriage was Miss Margaret Abraham
of Niles, O. Mr. Nairn was best man
at the ceremony. Immediate families
were
Mr. and Mrs. Aune were entertained in Buffalo, N. Y., over Labor
Day week-end at a series of parties
given for Mr. and Mrs. George
Mattar. Mrs. Matter was the former
Ann Abraham, sister of Mrs. Aune.
Dr. G. Gannon, Eddie Gannon,
Fred Alexander, of Detroit Mich^ and
Mrs. Eli Abraham of Niles, O., stopped
in Akron Sunday en route home following a motor trip.
PAGE EIGHT
jar, Dick Cahlil, .pavid Rizcalla, Mr.
and Mrs. Luke Nebhan, Delia Nebhan,
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Secabe, George
Ghiz, Nicholas Ghiz, Vivian Ghiz, A.
Naccash, E. Naccash, James Fager,
Albert Schaty, William Massad, Mrs.
R Morehead, Bertha, Ida and George
Hassoon, Philip Raphael, Peter Geraiger, Richard Geraiger, Peter Tabib,
Mary Mardany, Mary Genawy, Sussan and Katherine Malooly, George
Deicken, Emily Hajjar, John Kirdahy, Elias Serhan, Mrs. Sophie Serhan, Violet and Lillian Haib, Dick
Karem, and William, McKaba.
Leader Dagher extended a warm
invitation to the several hundred
gathered there and their friends to
go there anytime they wished to
spend the evening.
AMERICAN AMBASSADOR,
JARDINE, LEAVES EGYPT
Was Popular with Egyptians
and Americans
Alike
WILLIAM M. Jardine, American Minister Plenipotentiary
to Egypt, sailed this week on
board S. S. President Monroe
.to the United States, according
to a dispatch to the New York
Times from its correspondent
in Cairo.
Mr. Jardine was one of the
most popular and well-liked American ministers sent to Egypt He
was appointed by former President
Hoover because of this agricultural
authority. His advice on problems
of cotton growing and other agricultural matters was sought by Egyptian officials and private individuals
alike.
Was Liked by American
Colony
The American colony in Egypt
was attached to Mr. Jardine. Before his departure a group of them
sent a petition to Washington requesting the Roosevelt administration
to keep him in his post.
STAR BASE-BALL TEAM CHOSEN
EXPECT TO PLAY IN CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES OF
NATIONALITY GROUP LEAGUE .OF CLEVELAND
CLEVELAND, Sept 6, 1933.— Last Tuesday evening in Michael
Caraboolad's home, the all star Syrian team was selected from
all players of the Syrian Athletic League which is composed of
four teams.
The Athletic League has been asked to select a team to play
in the nationality group league for a championship of such
groups in the city.
The all star team named runs as follows:
Team
Position
Kalill
catcher
John Shalala
Kalill
pitcher
Ernie Abdow
A. B. A.
pitcher
Joe Asseff
Kalill
1st
base
John Hanna
Ramblers
2nd base
Halim Mady
Kalill
s stop
Joe Lewis
A. D. A.
3rd
base
B. Murad
Gallaghers
s center
Phil Assad
Kalill
left field
Sam Nader
Kalill
center
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field
Bill Jacobs
A. B A.
right field
Moe Nahas
Mgr. Zig Shaheen
it
Asst E. Sabath
Second Team
Gallaghers
Ted Sahley—c
A. B. A.
E. Sabath—p
A. B. A.
P. Boger—1st
Ramblers
Ed. Jacobs—2nd
Gallaghers
Ed George—*s
A. B. A.
M. Kalil—If
A. B. A.
Al Joseph—cf
Gallaghers
H. Assad—rf
Kalill
Ed. Joseph—sc
Kalill
Z. Shaheen—3rd
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The A. B. A. is the Aitaneet Brotherhood Association.
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<h4>Biographical/Historical Note</h4>
<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
<h4>Scope/Content Note</h4>
<p><em>The Syrian World</em> was published between 1926 and 1932 as a journal. In 1932, the format was changed from an academic journal style to a newspaper style, which continued until the periodical's end in 1935. After the death of his brother Naoum, Salloum took over the publication of <em>Al-Hoda.</em></p>
<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
<p>All issues of <em>The Syrian World</em> are available, along with full indexes for the first four volumes. For volumes five and six, there are tables of contents at the start of the issues.</p>
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY—ESTABLISHED 1926
VOL.
NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPT. 22, 1933.
vn, NO. 21.
NRA NEWS
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GEORGE Massad, of the Massad
Mercantile Company, has the distinction of being the first to sign the
NBA pledge in Drumright, Okla.,
according to a local paper, the
Drumright Daily Derrick.
Two Week Strike of Negligee
Workers Still Unsettled
The campaign which al-Hoda is
W£3ing in support of the NRA is
bearing splendid results, writes M.
Abdallah of Coatsville, Pa. People
there and in other towns and cities
throughout the country await al-i
Hoda anxiously to read its special
articles and editorials throwing light
on the activities of the National Recovery Act.
Al-Hoda is rallying the Syrians
under its banner in time of peace
to support Uncle Sam as it did in
time of the World War.
STRIKE LEADERS CLAIM SYRIAN NEGLIGEE EMPLOYERS GIVE LOWER WAGES THAN
ALL OTHERS IN INDUSTRY
Negligee
TO ESTABLISH
FREE ZONES
THE establishment of free zones
in the ports of Syria whereby the
manipulation of goods may take
place without payment of the duties,
taxes, or other customs charges, was
authorized by a decree of June 28,
it was announced in a report by Consul General H. S. Goold at Beirut
Finance Secretary of Egypt,.in Radio
Talk from Washington, Explains
Paradox that Is Egypt Wishes
NRA Success
"EGYPT is the only country that
levies no income tax," stated Ahmad
Pasha Abdul-Wahhab, over the National Broadcasting Company's network last Monday evening. "Egypt
raises her taxes on more stable commodities, such es houses, automobiles and other properties."
Egypt a Paradox
O
<
CO
Abdul-Wahhab, Under-Secretary
of Finance in the Royal Kingdom of
Egypt explained to his radio audience the paradox that is Egypt.
Egypt is a paradox, he said, because it
is the connecting link between East
and West because in Cairo, its capital,
are streets and buildings dating ages
back and others that are very modern.
Its international airport, he
said, one of the finest in the world, is
the home for Dutch, French, Italian
and English aircraft.
12% Million Dirt Farmers
in Egypt
He also said that 12% millions
out of Egypt's 15 million population
are linked to the soil as the country
presents a rich field for agriculture.
"All the, world is watching America's efforts to pull out of the depression," declared the Egyptian minister. "Egypt wishes the NRA ^uccess,
the success which would make world
history."
SYRIAN
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BY
JOINING
WITH the negligee workers' strike passing its second week,
the strikers are holding out bravely. Negotiations are going on at
present between employers and strikers' representatives before
Grover Whalen, head of the NRA committee of New York, results of which have not been made public at the writing of this
article.
The strike was called on Tuesday
before last by the International
League of f^adies Garment Workers
Union, locals 26 and 10.
ZAHLE FARMERS
FLOCK TO FIGHT
PHYLLOXERA
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A MONTH ago Joseph Bey Brady, distinguished leader of Zahle,
called together a group of vinegrowers
to
organize
themselves
against an unseen enemy which
threatens to destroy the chief product and chief industry of that
beautiful summer resort
Zahle is noted for its luscious
grapes and its celebrated araq. The
distilling of the latter is one of the
principal industries of the Zahlites
who export large quantities of their
crystalline intoxicant to all parts of
Syria, Egypt, North and South
America.
Phylloxera Lurks for
Vine-Growers
But an unseen voracious enemy
lurks for the Zahlites, threatening
to destroy their vineyards and bring
ruin to the araq distillers not only
in Zahle but in other parts of Buqa'
and Lebanon.
This enemy which
can be seen only under a microscobe is the phylloxera, dreaded by
all vine growers the world over.
At the war council held in the
home of Joseph Bey Brady, Profs.
Forrest Crawford and Halim Najjar
of the agricultural station at Tha'labayyah who were present, confirmed the findings of Isa Ubeid,
agricultural engineer of Zahle, that
the pest which is attacking the Lebanon vine is none else but the
destructive phylloxera.
Syrian Workers Poorly Paid
At the strikers' headquarters, 23
St. Marks Place, where the two locals
and other union groups meet a
SYRIAN WORLD reporter was told
by a strike organizer that "according to our investigation Syrian negligee manufacturers pay lowest wages
in the industry, lower even than
those of out of town employers."
Cutters, who are classed as skilled
labourers, were being paid, according to the same authority, from $12
to $17, while in union shops they
were receiving from $40 to $50. The
average wages for ordinary operators,
finishers, examiners and pressers was
below $13, and in some instances as
low as $6 or $5.
workers are demanding a 35 hour
week and a minimum wage of $25
for operators, finishers etc., and $47
for cutters, on the basis of piece production.
On entering the union hall at
23 St. Marks Place the SYRIAN
WORLD reporter had no difficulty inrecognizing Syrian workers, mostly
wemen. The hall was cluttered with
strikers of all nationalities. A? _b«".._
threaded his way through the lower
and upper floors his guide were the
bright, black eyes peculiar to the
race. Syrian eyes are unmistakable.
He was anxious to find from them
their own version of the strike, and
their own reactions. They seemed
a happy, cheerful bunch, as they
clustered around little round tables.
In one corner on the upper floor was
a fruit and cake stand, where strikers could help themselves, but very
few availed themselves of that frugal
hospitality.
Taking Advantage of Blanket
Code
The negligee manufacturers have
not submitted yet a code of their
own to the National Recovery Administration, but have gone under a
blanket code covering other women's
wear manufacturers. This code provides for a minimum wage of $13.
It is claimed by the strike spokesmen that the Syrian employers intend
to keep as close to the minimum as
possible, even in the case of skilled
workers.
One striker adduced as evidence
of this that a well-known Syrian
firm, soon after signing the blanket
code, issued cards to all operators
which read:
"Dear madame, in case you do
not produce more work than the
previous week your services will no
longer be wanted."
Since the strike all negligee manufacturers, including Syrians, have
organized a Negligee Manufacturers
Association, with Milton Goldberg,
head of the Japanese Negligee Company, as President with headquarters
at 105 Madison Avenue. This organization, it was said, was formed
primarily to deal collectively wi'~i t.e
workers in the future.
Strikers' Demands
At present the striking negligee
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WORKERS SUFFER
THE UNION ?
Under
(By a Staff Reporter)
The usual import duties and
other customs charges will be collected on goods withdrawn from the
free zones for consumption in Syria.
Upon the request of a local port or
municipal authority, the free zone
will be established by separate
decree.
EGYPT HAS NO
' INCOME TAX
CO
WILL
Ports in Syria, Upon Request,
to Be Free of Duties,
Taxes, etc.
Michael N. Abodeely, President
of the Syrian-American Federation
of New England, received a letter
of thanks from A. R. Forbush, chief
of the correspondence division of the
NRA's headquarters at Washington.
The letter was an acknowledgement
of Hie resolution sent by the Federation at its second annual convention)
at New London which appeared in
the last issue of the SYRIAN WORLD.
It read:
"At the request of the President
we want to acknowledge and thank
you for the telegram of September 10.
We want you to know how deeply
the National Recovery Administration
appreciate this splendid pledge of
cooperation from the Syrian-American
Federation of New England."
Employers Discount Charge; Say Pay Good
Ordinary Conditions, Object to Unionization
Strikers
Deny Coercion
One striker after another interviewed denied they were brought
there by coercion, saying they were
glad the strike was on. To the question, "How much were you receiving before the strike?", many answered $12 or $13 a| week.
A rumor that the strike was part
of a Red campaign, taking advantage
of the NRA and the sympathies of the
Federal Government with labourers,
was vehemently denied by union officials. M. Falikman, Chairman of the
Picket Committee of the Negligee and
Underwear Strike, explained that the
union calling the strike is a member
of the American Federation of Labour,
and all talk of Red agitation and Red
activities is so much nonsense. It
is intended merely to becloud the
issue, and scare the strikers away
from the union.
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Quite a different impression one
gains after interviewing the manufacturers, however.
This is only
natural.
Union Charges Refuted by
Sjrian Manufacturers
A spokesman of one of the leading Syrian negligee m. nufacturers
denied flatly that Syrian negligee
employers gave lowest wages in the
industry. He said that barring four
or five firms that have made them-
�NRA PROGRESS
SHOWS RESULTS
AS BODY IS LAID TO FINAL REST
1TOTQAT
negligee employers paid, on the average, higher wages than prevail in
other similar firms.
The charge of the low pay applies
only to the lean years of the industry, during the depression, when
the manufacturers were actually
losing money, and when they often
took oh workers as a measure of relief. Syrian cutters in 1929 were being paid from $40 to $45, and even in
the depression the average was $35.
Furthermore, wthe Syrian negligee
manufacturers have no objection to
meet the legitimate demands of the
workers, and pay them the union
scale of wages. What they object to
strongly is unionization of their
shops. They are loathe to "take
orders from Cohen and Levinsky and
others how to conduct our business,"
and be always at the beck and mercy
of union officials.
Independence Treasured by
Syrian Manufacturers
One manufacturer ijnterviewed
explained that he was always an independent man, even when he was
as poor as the poorest of his labourers. He sympathized with the workers,
and treated his own' employees as
sisters and brothers under his charge.
When the strike was declared, he
said, he took up the demands of the
strike committee and analyzed them
with his workers, whom he had called
together for that purpose. He was
willing to comply with all those demands, but urged .them for their own
good not to join the union.
The Syrian manufacturers fear
that once the Syrian workers are
unionized, they will find that preference will not be given them when
union workers are in demand. If
unionization of the Syrian negligee
is inevitable, they advise that Syrian
strikers should make some provision
to be given preference with Syrian
employers.
"What is your objction to the
unionization of your workers?", we
asked a leading manufacturer at 105
Madison Avenue.
Union No D... Good
"One way to answer your question," he replied, "is to tell you there
are twenty floors in this building,
only two of which are not unionized.
On the other eighteen floors the employers unanimously tell you, the
union is no d.... good."
But we did not interview the
workers on the same eighteen floors
to find if they too think the union
is no d... good.
Syrian Firms Lead
Our own investigation revealed
that the Syrian manufacturers of.
negligee are the foremost in that
industry, controling a great bulk of
it Their combined turn-over a year
amounts to $20,000,000. One firm
alone has a yearly turn-over at
$750,000. But the negligee industry
is also a seasonal one, lasting from
September to December. The rest
of the year the negligee manufacturers
just manage to make expenses. One
source of their fear is that when
their workers join the union they
will take advantage of this peculiar
condition of the industry and time
their strikes atf the busy season, when
the employers will be completely at
the mercy of union demands. That
is how the present strike was timed,
while orders are piling up and manufacturers are frantically trying to
fill them before the season is over.
Few employers can afford to pile
stocks from year to year to defy
their striking employees.
Altogether there are about 25
firms engaged in this industry, and
only three or four small firms have
not been invaded yet by the strike.
HUGE CROWDS MEET DISPATCH, CARRYING FEBAL'S
BODY, AS IT DOCKS IN HAIFA
2,000,000 Idle Restored to
Work, First Tune Industry Is
Under Control
AMID impressive scenes of mourning, the body of the late
King Feisal was lowered into it» final resting place in the court of
By Olga Elkouri
the Iraqite Parliament Building in Baghdad, on Friday, the 15th
(Secretary to the Industrial Advisory
of the month.
Board
of the National Recovery AdKing Ghazi, overwhelmed by sorministration at Washington and forrow and bearing himself with reserve
mer World Champion Typist)
and dignity, headed a crowd estimated at) 100,000 through the streets
of the Iraqite capital in a funeral
SYRIANS who bave made their
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procession that was unequalled in
Mexican Millionaire, at Testi- new home in the United States are
the recent history of that city. Woplaying an important part in the
monial Dinner, Urges the Use
men in black crowded the roofs, trygreat marshalling of American inof Money, not Its Safe-Keeping.
ing to gain a last glimpse of their
dustry under the aegis of the Blue
Sami Shawwa Contributes
popular monarch. Mourning women acEagle.
Violin Selections
companied the procession, and dirges
Important traders and merchants
were sung throughout the 4 mile
since ancient times, the Syrians in
"MONEY is made round so that
procession.
America have helped this reputation
it can roll," said Miguel Abed, Mexican millionaire industrialist, at a' and have invested millions in mercanPlatoon Bridge Crowded
dinner tendered him by the Le- tile establishments that are recognized
So great were the crowds that
banon League of Progress in the as amongst the best in the country.
flocked to the cortege of the mourned
The (operation of the National ReTowers Hotel Tuesday evening.
king, that the Baghdad police had
"When one earns money, it should covery Administration has received
to club many who rushed from the toot be collected and put in safethe full cooperation of all Syrian
Karkh side of the city to cross the
keeping at a stand-still. It should merchants and its rapid progress alplatoon bridge to the other part, Riready has had a profound effect on
run and run round the world," he
safa, on the left bank.tof the Tigris.
their business and industry as a
said.
When the crowds became unconwhole.
Honored for Interest in
trollable, the authorities in charge
General Johnson Had no
Homeland
cut the platoon bridge in two, makPrecedent
ing it impossible for thousands to
Mr. Abed was honored by the
cress.
Few realize that the National ReLeague for his interest in the welcovery
Administration is less than
fare
of
Syria,
his
country,
which
.Funeral Ceremonies Simple
he left at the age of twelve and three months old. On June 16 this
The funeral ceremonies at the which he visited a few months ago.
country, began the greatest econograve were simple. Portions of the
"I was very sad," he said, "that mic experiment it ever attempted.
On that date President Roosevelt
Qoran were read, and several Imams
upon visiting England, France, even
took part intoning the usual services.
signed the National Industrial ReAmerica, I .cannot feel proud when
At the conclusion ninety-nine guns
I speak about my country because it covery Act The President appointed
General Hugh S. Johnson the adwere fired from the citadel.
is unknown. We have no repreministrator. About all General JohnThe body arrived by plane two
sentations or consuls in foreign coundays before the scheduled.time
son bad to launch this vast campaign
tries."
At Haifa, on the preceding day,
to end the depression and build a
Praised Benefactor for
new economic and social order were
the new harbor .was also crowded to
$20,000 Clock
a desk and a telephone. There were
capacity. Many had come from distant parts of Syria and Egypt to witThe editor of the SYRIAN no precedents to guide him. The
whole thing was unprecedented.
ness the arrivalj of the British cruiser WORLD and AL-HODA, S. A. MoDispatch carrying the king's body karzel, was toast-master. He praised
Now, less than 90 days after,
from BrindisL
Mr. Abed as a benefactor of his
what are the results? More than
country. The clock that Abed was
2,000,000 unemployed have new jobs.
Highlanders Form Guard pf
having
erected in the Bourse in BeiHonor
A total of nearly 14,000,000 men and
rut at a cost of $20,000 would be a
As the cruiser steamed into harwomen are working under agreements
Mecca
for
tourists,
and
/would
be
bor, the British Seaforth Highlanders,
one of Syria's attractions, Mr. Mo- insuring thenaj shorter maximum Work
in picturesque Scottish uniforms,
weeks and minimum rates of pay.
formed a guard of honor. A band karzel said.
TEN
10
The
eminent
violinist
Sami
Shawof bagpipes furnished a weird mournChild labor has been eliminated
wa,
played
several
selections
which
ful accompaniment The British High
throughout American industry. Other
Commissioner, in full uniform, was were received enthusiastically. He
unfair and anti-social practices that
also
accompanied
Joseph
Silwan
and,
also present
have (resisted solution for a hundred
Antoun
Abdel-Ahad
who
sang.
The procession from the harbor
years, have been wiped out by volunAmong those who spoke were
to the airdome took about two hours.
tary agreement Millions of dollars
Naoum
Hatem,
president
of
the
LeA funeral oration was delivered by
have been added to the daily paybanon
League
of
Progress,
Rev.
Manthe acting president of the Palestine
rolls.
sur
Stephen,
Farid
Rahaim,
Elia
D.
Supreme Moslem Council, in absence
Madey,
Nasib
Arida,
Jamil
B.
Holof Shaykh Mohammed Amin al- HusSign of Recovery
seini, who is now with the Moslem way and Salim Ayoub.
In New York City alone it is
delegation touring India and the Far
estimated that 150,000 new jobs have
East in the interest of the Moslem
been provided by operation of the
University of Jerusalm.
NRA.
Los Angeles reports close to
The coffin was jplaced aboard a
100,000. Throughout the length and
British Royal Air Force plane, acbreadth of our land bread lines are
companied by a second machine in
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breaking up into pay lines. Stores
which rode former King Ali, King
are reporting increased business of
ACCORDING to an Associated
Feisal's brother, and other members
from
11 to 32 per cent Display adPress
dispatch
of
Wednesday
mornof the royal family, as well as Iraqvertising
lineage, regarded as one
ing,
it
was
reported
that
King
Ghazi,
ite statesmen; and the Iraqite Ambasof the most accurate business barosador to London who had come with who thirteen days ago ascended the
throne of Iraq upon the death of meters, increased 16 per cent in one
the body from BrindisL Six smaller
his
father, King Feisal is engaged month.
planes served as an escort of honor.
to marry his cousin, Princess Aliyah,
Permanent Benefits .Listed
daughter of former King Ali of, Hijaz.
JOLLY ROVERS WILL
The engagement is not generally ,
But remarkable as these results
DANCE ON OCT. 14
known in the capital of Iraq, Baghhave been, we may anticipate even
dad, although the betrothal was
larger permanent benefits. Increasing
THE Jolly Rovers, a Syrian Athcelebrated
at the palace. It is bepayrolls Will put increasing numletic club of Brooklyn, are holding
lieved
that
political
reasons
hastened
bers of men back to work. Our
a dance on the Hotel St George
the engagement so soon after the
tremendous industrial machine which,
Roof on Saturday evening, October
death of Feisal.
uncontrolable, could produce ar more
14.
goods than we could buy, can now
Princess
Aliyah
is
said
to
be
very
Eli Dantzig and his Inaugural
Ball Orchestra, who played for the beautiful, although few have seen be throttled down. Buying power
Will more nearly balance production
King and Queen of England and for her face as according to Moslem
custom, she has been living under power. This is the first time in our
President Roosevelfs Inaugural Ball,
history 'that we have been able to
the veil. <She is of the same age
will provide the music which it is
exercise such control.
as Ghazi, twenty-two years old.
promised will last until 2:30 A. M.
MONEY OUGHT TO
RUN, SAYS ABED
GHAZI ENGAGED
TO WED COUSIN
�ts
:n
ig
ljr
h,
re
rw
er
>n
ur
to
ASK INSURANCE CONDUCTS BEER GREAT CHALICE OF ANTIOCH
LAWS FOR
SYRIA DRINKING MEET
EXHIBITED AT WORLD FAIR
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Foreign Insurance Companies in
Syria Draw Money from
Country
THE PREDATORY methods of
business which prevailed in the Eastern countries under the capitulations
have aroused criticism from national quarters in Syria and Lebanon
on numerous occasions.
Not long ago al-Ahrar (Beirut)
sin.led out the foreign insurance
companies for an editorial demanding the immediate introduction of re^
forms and precautionary regulations
fo: tbe protection of national invfcs-ors.
Money Insured Abroad
"There are numerous insurance
companies for life, sickness, accidents and fire in this country,"
the editorial avers, "but for decades
past these companies have never
ceased to utilize the money drawn
from this country for their own benefits, free, of all regulations. No monetary securities are deposited in government banks to guarantee the
promises of those companies, and
that they will fulfill the terms of
their contracts, nor real estate securities under supervision of government. In this respect the contract
is deficient, for the laws of the land
protect the interests of the insurance
companies but not the interests of
those who take out the insurance.''
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No Redress to Insurance
Then al-Ahrar goes on to show
that the insurance companies drain
the wealth of the country, which
they proceed to invest in the different countries where the companies
have their central offices. Should
one of those companies fail, there
is no redress to the native investors.
The paper demands immediate re-,
form of this exceptional situation.
SYRIAN-AMERICAN CLUB
SPONSORS H. L. DAVIS
FOR CLEVELAND MAYOR
A SYRIAN group, working under the auspices of the SyrianAmerican Club of Cuyahoga County,
Ohio, will be represented in a gala All
Nations Festival at Puritan Springs
Park, Cleveland, endorsing the candidacy of Harry L. Davis, Republican
candidate for mayor of that city.
A special feature of this festical
will be a barbecue of six oxen. There
will be races, fireworks and other
entertainments.
. Prizes
will
be
awarded winners in the different
races to be held.
The festival is scheduled for the
Sunday falling on October 1.
Nicholas Zlaket is Chairman of
tEe Board of Trustees of the Syrian
club, and Abreeza 1M. Saba Publicity
Agent.
SYRIAN MERCHANT BUYS
IRIGOYEN'S BUGGY
AN- ARAB storekeeper of Buenos
Aires, according to a special cable
to the New York Times, bought the
huggy (of Hipolyto Irigoyen, late>
President of the Argentine Republic,
at a public auction held on the ranch
of the former deposed president. The
Syrian merchant, whose name is not
given in the cable and who is called
an Arab merchant, paid $23 for the
buggy. He announced that he would
erect a special building to house it
as a memento and would never use
it
The cable further states that
the "Arab merchant" was often befriended by the late ex-president
Charlie Soffee in Richmond
Gathers Fellows Together for
Now Legal Pastime and
Contest
(Special Correspondence)
RICHMOND, Va., Sept 12.—
Charlie Soffee who runs his confectionery store in 3000 Idleowod Avenue, invited all the boys who liked
good old 3.2 to join in a beer drinking contest. He was kept rushing
back and forth supplying enough
beer for the fellows to keep them
going.
Fifteen entered the postprohibition contest and at the end
of 29 minutes one of them, Norman
Brown, had drunk fifteen bottles and
was declared winner. Even then he
wouldn't have balked if the prize
were a bottle of beer. He could
still say "truly rural" when it was
put up to him. There were no signs
on him of fifteen bottles of beer
which led all to declare that it wasn't
intoxicating.
TERRORIST SOCIETY
UNCOVERED, PALESTINE
POLICE officials uncovered recently -4 secret terroristic society with
membership drawn mostly from the
extremist Zionists known as Revisionists and headed by Jabotinsky.
Forty of these terrorists were arrested after a search of their homes.
Subsequently 38 were set free on a
$200 bail each, while two were remanded to prison for questioning.
It is declared fei some circles
that the investigation of terroristici
society may throw light on . the
murder of Dr. Orlzoroff, a Zionist
leader of Palestine who advocated
better understandings between Zionists and Arabs.
Orlzoroff Trial on
The trial of three suspects of the
murder, all Zionists, is now under
way in Jaffa. Following the murder, Zionists hastened to declare
through their press that the murderer or murderers must have been
Arabs. But the doctor's widow has
persisted in her testimony that the
murderers were Jews, identifying the
suspects in court.
SYRIANS START
CITY GARDEN
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To Make Garden Representative of Gardens of Syria. May
Erect Statue of
Syrian
(Special Correspondence)
CLEVELAND, Sept. 16.— The city
of Cleveland donated to the different
nationality groups a section of land
on the boulevard facing Gordon Park
for the jpurpose of cultivating flower
gardens representative of their different homelands.
The Syrians were fortunate in
being one of the groups allotted a
section of this land.
Several of the groups have already completed their gardens and
have built a statue of some great
man of their country.
The ^Syrians of Cleveland have
not completed their plans owing to
the fact that the committee has been
busy with relief work; but recently
they have started to plan their flower
garden.
The committee consists of Michael
Caraboolad, Nick Zlaket and Elias
Caraboolad.
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ONE of the most important exhibits at the World's Fair in Chicago
is the beautiful Chalice of Antioch
exhibited by ^Fahim Kouchakji, an,
antique collector and importer of New
York. It is awing thousands with
the possibility that it may be the
cup used by Christ at the Last Supper. The priceless value of the article
are worn down by continual kissing
and in places it has been chipped by
fanatic souvenir collectors.
Work of Augustan Age
The carving and shape of the
chalice indicate that they are unmistakably of the Augustan age, about
50 B.C. to 79 A.D. The carvings may
I
Famed, Chalice
of
Antioch
Considered
by Experts
to Be the
Holy
Grail.
\
cannot be determined, although it
is believed by many and proved by
experts that it is the original Holy
Grail.
The chalice has an eggshaped inner cup in unfinished silver. The outer one is carved with
twelve seated symbolic figures in an
intricate design and! evidently serves
as an ornamental protection to the
sacred inner cup. Parts of the rim
have been worked by a Roman convert of great skill, after 33 A.D. If
it is authentic , it would be a relic
second only to that of the True
Cross.
Mr. Kouchakji is proudly exhibiting {his, "his most precious possession, with infinite precautions in
the Hall of Religion.
DANADISHAH, LEBANESE DOONES,
RESTORED HOME FROM EXILE
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CITIZENS of Ras Baalbeck, a Christian town near the historic
city, are stirred at the return of their veteran enemies the Danadishah of al-Hurmul, the Doones of Lebanon.
Tnis clan of Shiites who settled
years back in the rugged fastness of
Ras Baalbeck have a long record of
feudal murders, nlunderings and intimidation of peaceful townsfolks
all around them. In the days of the
Turks, their forages extended to distant towns of Ante-Lebanon, and
merchants had to pay them "tribute"
for fear they will hold up their
stores or kill their men on the highways of trade.
So powerful and
fierce were the Danadishah that several expeditions against them failed)
to subdue them.
Punitive Expeditions Started
Four years ago Jhe French decided to put an end to the outlawish activities of those picturesque
marauders.
Armed with machine
guns and airplanes, the French
forces kept up their punitive expedition until the Danadishah submitted,
having lost a great many of their notorious figures. The rest were then
exiled to Deir az Zor on the bonders of Iraq.
And now the same French Government has decided to restore them
to their mountain homes in il-Hurmul. The townspeople of Ras- Baal-
beck who have possessions in alHurmul do not countenance their return with favor. The Catholic bishops of Baalbeck and Zahle went
to Beirut and laid their protests
against the return of those peace
disturbers.
Migrate to Baalbeck in Fear
Many of the Rasites migrated to
Baalbeck, returning only when the
French authorities assured them full
protection. In particular the Rasites
fear the reprisals of the Danadishah
for the murder of Ta'aan Dandash,
one of their leaders who had killed
one of the principal citizens of Ras
in cold blood. It is well known that
the Danadishah are a revengeful clan
and will not rest till they avenge
their murdered members.
French Will Conscript and
Educate Danadishah
According to a report of alFatat, Zahle, the French have planned
to conswipt the Dandash youths in
its army, and send their children
under age to orphanages and schools.
But withal the Rasites do not feel at
ease, and insist on the removal of
the whole clan.
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S
THE SYRIAN LABORER
HAS HIS DAY
IT MAY be true, as some
Syrian employers say, that the
Roosevelt government is a "labor administration," and that
President
Franklin
Delano
Roosevelt is more socialistic than
Ramsey Macdonald.
If that is true, -and we would
not contest its truth here, it
means a break for the huge mass
of Americans who have been
the ^proverbial
"under-dog."
The Syrian laborer in particular
should welcome the Roosevelt
regime and back the NRA to
his utmost ability.
Almost all nationalities, excepting the Syrians, in this coun^
try have recognized the labor
unions and benefited by them.
The Syrian laborer should not
be an exception. If labor unionism has its advantages, he is entitled to all the protection and
benefits that it will bring him.
Like the Jews, Syrians have a
degree of clannishness in industry that we do not like to see
go without an equivalent social
and economic compensation to
offset the acrifice.
We commend Syrian employers who
give preference to their own
countrymen, as long as blueblooded Americans make distinctions against "foreigners" in
employment.
It is a self-defensive instinct which may not
be right in an ideal democracy,
but we are far yet frofm an ideal
democracy her^ or anywhere
else in the world.
When we support the Syrian
employees, especially when evidence of gross abuse from employers come to our notice, we
make no discrimination against
employers. This is our public
duty, and we piit the welfare
of the majority above the welfare of any individual or group
of individuals however influen-
or
There is nothing we like better than the continuance, of that
fraternal spirit between Syrian
employers and employees, which
we are happy to say does exist
in the majority of Syrian industries in this city and other parts
of the United States.
We are in hearty approval of
a suggestion made by a sensible
Syrian employer that should
unionization of Syrian workers
become inevitable, a provision
should be made that Syrian
workers have preference of employment with Syrian fiijms. We
pass this suggestion to the
striking negligee workers that
they may incorporate it in their
terms of joining the unions, or,
possibly to form a separate contingent within the jurisdiction of
the American Federation of Labor. We also urge our Syrian
employers to take a more friendly attitude towards the striking
Syrian workers ,and recognize
that new times demand new conditions. Let us all, employers
and employees stand squarely
by our beloved President and
work for the fulfillment of the
NRA in spirit and letter.
If
there ever was "a noble experiment," this is the one, and let
us not be found among the
slackers.
H. I. K.
Readers9 Forum
Dear Editor:
LAST' evening at the international Institute of the Brooklyn
Y.W.C.A. I saw a copy of the SYRIAN
WORLD and read your article on
the position of the industrial worker
in Syrian shops. The girls were
very much pleased at your knowledge
and interpretation of their .difficulties.
'It seems to me that you' can do
more in creating public opinion on
labor problems with Syrian employers than any large city daily. Syrian
employers will not be on the defensive with you.
I should like to see your paper
from time to time and will ask
Miss Hajjar of the Institute for it.
Sincerely yours,
Any E. Krueger
Metropolitan Industrial Secretary
AN APPEAL TO YOUNG PEOPLE
ON ARABIC LANGUAGE
To the editor:— My interest in
the SYRIAN WORLD has incited me
to write the following letter to the
young Syrian Americans:
Have you ever realized that it
is your duty, you, the, younger
people, to carry on the traditions of
the Syrian race for the years to
come? If not do something toward
making it your duty.
First get the history of your race
which will not only make the background for today but the inspiration
for the future children.
Secondly learn the Arabic language. If we can learn Spanish,
French, Latin and German in school
why can't we learn our native tongue
at home. Now is the time to learn
it Don't say as so many young
people do, "We're living in America.
We wouldn't use it unless we went to
Syria." You may not use it in ordinary transactions but if you don't
learn it it will die away with our
FROM EAST•+-** ^ND WESf
By H. I. Katibah
A PIPE DREAM
"CALL up Central Station for a
pullman reservation on the 5:30
train for Boston," I said to my private •
secretary before I sat down to my
dictaphone. The office of the SYRIAN
WORLD on the 87th floor of the
Phoenician Towers Building on
Broadway and 50th Street was all
aflutter that morning. The teletype
was clicking furiously, and the cable
editor was scanning the rolls that
were 'being brought to him Iby the
office boy from the Associated Press
room.
Half (a dozen reporters bad come
early to the city editor's desk to
take instructions for their assignments. They were all university
graduates versed iq the Arabic, Turkish and Persian languages, the pick
of the staff. The day before the
S. S. Feisal had docked in New York
carrying aboard over a dozen of the
distinguished ^ublic^ literary and
scientific men and women from Syria,
Egypt (and Iraq. Among them were
such illustrious figures as AbdulRahman Sadiq, the foremost Arab
historian and scholar whose works
had been translated into English,
French, German, Hindu, etc., Matta
Jurjus, the brilliant playwright who
won the Nobel Prize in literature,
and whose plays had been produced
in London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin and
on the theatres of Broadway; Fahim.
Qadri, the foremost authority on,
biochemistry in the world and many
others.
They had all come to attend the
annual convention of the Syrian Society for the Advancement of Learning in the Arabic world.
This society, founded in the early
thirties by a group of far-sighted
Syrian leaders to advance scholarships to brilliant students in the old
homelands ,had grown into a formidable organization with a $10,000,000 foundation. Colleges and libraries
in Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut and
Cairo were instituted through its
able assistance; exploration expeditions were organized under its auspices, Jand scientific projects were
sponsored by it. Rich Syrian merchants had left it substantial bequests, until it had become the richest private foundation of its sort in
the whole world.
And these distinguished men had
come to attend the convention, scheduled for that year in Boston. Among
the speakers were Prof. Hanna Bulus,
professor of pathology in the Harvard
Medical School; Prof. Salih Salam,
the well-known Orientalist fot Yale
University; and Salim Mansour, President of the Phoenician University
of Sao Paulo. Some fof the guest
speakers who had come from abroad
were recipients of scholarships from
the S. S. A. L
And the SYRIAN WORLD which
had taken active part in the organization of this great society was particularly interested in the convention. In the art department, lithographic reproductions of the speakers
and officers of the society, and of the
beautiful convention hall, property
of the Syrian-American Society of
New England, were being prepared.
Special writers were ransacking the
"morgue" ^for write ups, and knots
of editors were consulting on the
make-up of the special number in
which the convention was being
covered.
I sat at my desk and sank in a
reverie. I smiled as my memory
recalled the >old conventions of my
youthful days. The old wranglings
over petty issues have now given)
way to discussions of serious civic
problems of far-reaching consequence.
A prominent engineer from Baghdad
was scheduled to read a paper in;
which he advocates an irrigation system which will turn the Syrian Desert
into one huge fertile plain. From
an advance account of this project
which the editors of the SYRIAN
WORLD were examining, it is
claimed that the project if carried
under a conscription plan, like' that|
of the reforestration project of the
late President Roosevelt will not
cost more than $200,000,000. This
sum, he urged, could easily be met
by long-term bonds issued by the
governments of the two countries,
and the rich returns of the project
in a few decades will more than repay the costs. Besides, it will solve
for all time the vexing problem of
the impoverished bedwins, turning all
the nomadic tribes of that desert into
settled agricultural communities, and
giving employment to thousands of
idle hands which the* recent depression in the) industrial centres of the
Arabic world had brought to existence.
Then I looked at the program
before me, and recalled the screetchy
moaning that used to pass for Oriental music. At this convention an
orchestra of Syrian musicians were
going to play a sonata in Isphahan
by the gifted composer Nahi Abu-1Ala, a descendant of an old Egyptian
improviser, now almost forgotten....
Suddenly Philip came from the
adjoining room, asking me if I had
finished my column to set up....
Oh yes, what was I writing
then—Here it is
This new brand
of tobacco must have turned my
head, and set me dreaming....
generation. And when language is
forgotten nationality may as well be
forgotten.
Flint Mich.
Catherine Alex.
tunity to serve your fellow-men.
Detroit Mich.
Albert Rashid.
ENVIES OUR OPPORTUNITY
TO SERVE FELLOW-MEN
LAST Monday Syrian (strike
organizers invaded some negligee
firms in Brooklyn which had not
joined the strike and tried to
force their way to the workers.
They wanted to "speak" to them,
but the employers were of a different mind and a little fracas
was the, result Eddy Masabki
and James Sawaya were arrested,
but the union lawyers secured
their release on bail The invading squad, we learned, was led
by Arthur Dibs, one of the organizers of the striking Syrian
workers.
To the Editor:
May I say that the addition of
Habib Katibah to your staff has not
only brought new life to your paper
but has made available to every reader the services of a scholar, philosopher, and a great Eastern student.
With Mokarzel in command and
Katibah as assistant THE SYRIAN
WORLD should lead our people to
greater enlightenment and a much
closer unity.
I envy you that great opportunity
which is in your hands; an oppor-
TWO SYRIAN STRIKERS
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By Anna Bshoof
SOME of his empoyees saw
Henry Haddad, walk out of his place
the Tuesday of the NRA. "Where
are you going sir," they said. "I'm
going awalking, my sweet maids,"
he replied. "I'm going to walk in
the NKA parade." But where he
really went was to the meeting of the
negligee employers in the Hotel McAlpin.
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The cooking class again started
its season in Bay Ridge. Wednesday
saw the girls up at Zrike's house
cooking, I don't know what, but
maybe Irish rabbits, and Welsh stews.
Sally and Elsie McKaba have husbands to practice on, but Violet and
Evelyn Zrike and Alex Hawawini
can run no danger of being sued for
incompatibility or excessive cruelty.
Some of the Syrian firms who
marched in the NRA parade were
Mabarak Bros., Bardwils, Attiyeh
Bros., Mallouks and Shiyebs.
We have among us in Brooklyn
lots of amateurs who are good sports
and entertain a crowd wherever
they happen to be. Little Pearl Nabhan can do a special Arabic dance
to her father's banjo playing that
will make you sit down. Mr. NabTian is popular fwith the younger
crowd who gather around him to hear
and sing the latest songs. Then there
is Marjie Hatem, that tall attractive
brunette who has been dieting for
the last year until now she is fit to
be a model. She plays the jpiano.
Outside the range of amateurs
there is little Gloria Shalhoub, eight
years old, who has made her dancing pay. There is a story told about
her. Up at the Bridgeport glorified
picnic over Labor Day, she was danc-
By A. M.
ing before a large group of people.
She wasn't doing what was fully expected of her so one person in the
crowd shouted, "Hizi, HizL" She refused to hizi until someone threw a
dollar bill at her feet. She brightened up and did as requested. After
that the faster the dollar bills flew
the faster she hizied.
During their tour of New Jersey,
last Sunday, the Calvaria Tocalo club,
including Lewis and Anthony Owen,
George and Victor Trad and Joseph
Karam stopped at Paterson, Passaic
and New Brunswick.
Their first stop was Passaic where
they engaged in a football game
playing the unbeaten "Passaic Trombones," and losing to thel tune of 8
to 2. The game was lost on account
of Lewis Owen's famous run of 75
yards,—towards the opponents' goal
thereby scoring 6 points for the opponents.
His komrads are hoping that
Lewis will wear a football uniform
and shoes backwards.
Those two Brooklyn brothers are
still following their chosen calling,
that of acting as the S. J. L.'s boyfriends.
You hear of girls, walking home
from rides, but did you ever hear of
a boy in like predicament? Last
week when some fellows were riding
in Hempstead, L. I., they missed
George Rizk and shading their eyes
and looking from the top of the
bill over the horizon, they saw a
lone horse climbing up the hill, and
a little speck in back of it. That
was George Ghiz. It's still a mystery.
CONTEST LETTERS
MISCHIEVOUS! says Phillippe
We suppose you never heard anyone say that before about bis would
be wife. Phillippe wins the prize this week.
Dear Contest Editor:
The requirements I would like
in my wife are as brief as this letter.
First she must be intelligent, second,
she must have what is known as
"common sense" and last, but not
least, she must love me. I am convinced that I want no angel in the
house but a streak of mischief now
and then would be appreciated.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Phillippe.
ITS ALL BIGHT IF WOMEN
DRINK IN OWN HOMES
Dear Contest Editor:
The definition of the word, IDEAL,
means imaginary, we understand. I
say this because we ordinary mortals
are marked by the foolish consistency,
of hobgoblin minds. We plan and
say things today that on the morrow
we will contradict
However, I present these brief
qualifications for MY DDEAL MATE,
and I hope on the morrow I will
not be indifferent to them.
1. Good character is important in
the choice of my wife.
2. She should not be of the choosy
kind for the fond delusion that men
will respect her for her "intellect"
and admire her for her brains.
3. She should be monogamously
minded.
4. She should be on her guard
against alcohol in any form, and refuse absolutely to touch intoxicating
liquors, at least outside of her own
pany of a male stranger or mere
FVE found a new pastime—
tangible!" Now tangible is a very
studying the letters in the "What Do
tangible word. It may mean short,
You Want in a Mate"contest. Oh,
it may mean fat it may mean anyit's a grand game. You know, each
thing. But our "Lady in Waiting"
of the contestants thinks that he or
has learned from practical experience
she is sounding a new note in this
that "ideal" is a chameleon-like
age-old question. But behind the
word and that it takes less than
simple and fancy (and I mean too
disillusionment for it to change its
fancy) trimmings the whole thing
hue. Let the high-school girl sigh
boils down to one word "companand dream of her beau-ideal of Nell
ionship."
Brinkley fame with curly hair and
Who wants beauty of features
blackened eyes. Time will tell.
alone? Practically none of the letters
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voices this as the main theme, alOf course there are some people
though by most it is considered eswho have hopelessly distorted picsential. And of course who wants
tures of their mates-to-be (or nota paragon of virtue. I don't want you
to-be). v Francis wants a meek and
up in arms for that statement. But
humble wife who above all must
getting down to real facts—Wouldn't
acknowledge him as lord and master
you get tired of having someone so
of his house. He seems to be under
good around the house that even a
the impression that a woman's sense
mild ejaculation would seem profane.
of speech was created only to be
A too virtuous person is in a manner
used in acquiescence with whatever
dangerous. He can produce two efher husband says or does.
And
fects upon his associates—either that
further that it is man's sacred duty
of inspiring them to righteousness or
to force her to abide by this. Francis
of inciting them to extreme profanity.
is sadly lacking in observation if he
The average person is therefore a
is still unaware of the fact that wosafer guess. He strikes a happy
man has rebelled so much against this
medium and enables one to form a
atrocity that she has broken ail
philosophy for himself without the
bonds and in plain English "loosened
counter-influence of virtue or vice.
her tongue" with a lubricating re* * * *
sult. Francis doesn't want a partner.
But that is getting away from
He wants a doormat And of course
our subject. We were talking about
doormats are becoming quite scarce,
the letters. Now Toufic's ideal may
except in the desert where Francis
seem too "highfalutin" to some but
really belongs and where we hope
it. does conform to his own requirefor civilization's sake, he will pitch
ments of the girl who would be his
his' tent.
logical mate. He is culturally in* • * •
clined and leans to education and
The
cynical
old bachelor is a
refinement
Therefore, his dreamhopeless case of pessimism. Someone
girl would naturally have to possess
should tip him off. He seems to think
these tendencies to be able to apthat the modern girl is waiting bepreciate him for what he is and be
yond the corner, contract in one hand,
a compatible companion.
club in the other, prepared to catch
her prey and make the result a oneAnd then there's "A Lady in
sided institution.
Waiting" who confesses that her air* » • *
castles have been pricked by the
Seriously
speaking,
does the argupin of reality (and most likely exment pay? People will continue to
perience). The prince-charming of
fall in love. Compatibility and comher teen days seems to have taken
panionship will lose their attraction
a more worldly aspect as she conas college professor falls in love with
fesses "my dreams of HIM
gradchorus girl, brick-layer with schoolually evaporated and now my desire
teacher, etc., etc. Oh, well.
is for something REAL, something
home and particularly in the cornacquaintance; as I believe alcohol
is one of the most powerful agents
towards the downfall of any young
woman and a potent agency in the
hands of the seducer.
5. She should realize that the continuance of love depends on the recognition of each other's rights as
individuals.
6. She should.never conclude that
her heart is so badly broken that it
cannot be mended.
7. She should know that a clean
mind, healthy body and spiritual
cleanliness are the three principals to
go by, and the greatest assets any
young woman can possess and the
richest of gifts she can bestow on
her man.
Dorchester, Mass.
Michael Stephan
JUST HUMAN
Dear Contest Editor:
EVERY intelligent woman imbued with principles aspires to
tangible qualifications in the companion she chooses for her journey
through life. Being aware of the fallibility of all humans, it would be folly
to exact godly traits—sheer nonsense
to demand him of certain dimensions
bodily with the face of an Adonis or
possessing the fame and wealth of
kings.
Let bis countenance beam with
a cheery, contagious smile, and his
mind, intelligent, broad-manifesting
character; bis word, true and con-
soling—-carrying the ring of weight.
Let his heart be loving and generous
—with a vision of ME securely imprinted thereon; and his doings, commensurate with dependability and
sincerity—pronounced! by an urge
to accomplish a goal.
Let him incorporate in his traits
the duty of providing a comfortable
home wherein security and a chummy
feeling of comradship would lodge;
and let him consider an occasional
lapse into the romantic, thereby indicating I am still his sweetheart as
well as his wife; In the interchange
of home discussions, let him gently
decide his own without coerced efforts
to influence.
There are desires without rhyme
or reason and varied shades of opinion, but thank God, the fundamental
traits in a man have somewhat become standard. Oh, ever so much
could be said, but let him possess
these necessary fundamentals and I
will lay me down to sleep in peace
feeling confident he will always aim
to DO, and do right by me.
I agree, my conception of the
IDEAL MAN may not be accepted
generally, but to any woman confronted with (this discussion and
reasoning logically, HER conception
becomes a reality—to her.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Just Human.
For contest rules please turn
to page 7.
CHURCH YOUTH
HONOR
PASTOR
4 WM >
AT THEIR annual banquet held
Sunday, the 10th, at the Royal Cafe
in Front Street the Lebanon Youth
Society of Waterville, Maine, entertained their new pastor, Rev. Philip
Nagem, a local boy who had been
recalled from Niagara Falls to take
over the pastorate. They had attended the 9:30 mass, before the
lunch, in St Joseph's parish.
Rev. Nagem was introduced as
the guest of honor and principal
speaker. He expressed his happiness
at being back in his home town
among his own people. He said that
the Bishop of Maine had appointed
him as permanent pastor of the Syrians of Waterville and of the entire
state.
CONN. CLUB JOINS
N. E. FEDERATION
TORRINGTON, Conn.— The Syrian American Political Club of tius
city unanimously voted to join the
Syrian American Federation of New
England at a special meeting held
last Wednesday in its clubrooms.
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MINIATURE ARABESQUES
PLATO
(THE DIVINE TEACHER)
PLATO— The first great philosopher in history
the first to found
a school of philosophy whose influence has lasted to our present day....
an aristocrat who was the devoted
pupil and worshiper of humble,
poor, bare-footed Socrates.
"The well-spring of European
thought,'* as he is called by one
authority, Plato, in a strict sense
was also the "well-spring of Arabian" thought, of all critical thought
or philosophy.
The Semitic Arabs never produced any great philosopher to compare with Plato or Aristotle, with
Aquinas or Kant. They were great
psychologists not philosophers, great
intuitionists not (intellectuals. They
developed great systems of ethics
and religion, which appealed to the
will and feelings of man, not systems
of theology which essayed to explain their implications.
It was, therefore, not surprising
that when Christianity appeared and
won to it the Greco-Roman world,
it was principally Plato who was appealed to for the rationalization of
Christian teachings and doctrines to
the Greek mentality of that time.
Platonic ideas became inseparable
from Semitic ethics and teachings
in the great systems of theology developed by the Church Fathers. Almost all the early Christian theologians had been before their conversion, and sometimes even after
their conversion, students of Plato.
And when the Arabs came in
turn with their religion of Islam, the
.same process was repeated, through
the influence of Christian theologians, undoubtedly, and Plato again
was summoned to solve the metaphysical tangles of Moslem theology.
Only at the time of the Arabs
Aristotle had gained a supreme
place, as the greatest realist of all
time. The Arabs paid their reverence
to Aristotle, but they hardly realized
that, the Aristotle they bowed to and
called "the First Teacher" was really a Platonized Aristotle. We know
that certain works attributed to Aristotle were in fact the works of NeoPlatonists of the fifth and sixth centuries A.D.
Plato was the first great thinker
who turned away from the empty
speculations about the origin of the
universe and devoted his gigantic intellect to solving the problems of
life, to reconciling between the apparently arbitrary standards of virtue and beauty, and the innate consciousness that such things must be
permanent and of universal value, if
they were to have any significance, or
if fife were to be conceived of as
a rational whole. The conflicts between the real and the apparent, the
transient and the permanent, the
contingent and the necessary occupied
the profound intellect of this great
pupil of Socrates. It is now admitted
that the Socrates that we see through
Plato's dialogues was more the subjective projection of Plato himself
than an objective picture of the
great master.
Plato was born in 427 B.C. and
lived to the ripe age of 80. He came
of an aristocratic family, related on
his mother's side, it was said, to
Solon the great Athenian ruler and
legislator. He had strong inclination to poetry, but when he heard
Socrates discourse, he was so captivated by him that he destroyed his
poetic efforts and gave himself wholeheartedly to philosophy. His literary
genius, however, could not hide itself. His dialogues today are read
as beautiful prose literature unequalled by anything the ancients
have left us. The reader is especially urged to read his famous Apology,
his Symposium and his Republic as
masterpieces of prose as well as
great philosophical documents. Plato
taught in a grove near a pleasure
ground and gymnasium combined,
known as Akademia. Hence his followers were called "the Academicians."
DR OEEN PLAYS DETECTIVE;
MAKES POOR WOMAN RICH
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LITTLE CARD IN POCKET OF MISSING MAN UNCOVERES
MYSTERY
A LANDLADY'S anxious phone call to Dr. Deen one night
four years ago precipitated a drama into the lives of several persons in New York' and Syria. And at that moment began the
career of the doctor as a humanitarian-detective which lasted four
years, ending just two weeks ago. The case took him to the morgue,
to Potter's Field, into the courts, waging battles over history, geography and the customs of Lebanon and Syria and the differences
in the laws of America and Syria.
The landlady had grown anxious
because one of her tenants had not
shown up for a week. Finding Dr.
Deen's card among his possessions she
called him up. Yes, the doctor remembered Sam Mallack and happened
to know that he worked as a window
cleaner. Well, he would do what
he could and let her know. If it
hadn't been for this chance coincidence of the finding of the card, (Sam's
death might have remained unknown
till now and his mother may still
be wondering why he didn't write.
Calls up Window Cleaning Firm
Dr. Deen called up the window
cleaning firm in whose employ Mallack was. They /were very sorry,
they said, to inform the doctor that
Sam had died a week ago when he
fell from a building to the ground.
The company had no way of locating
his family or friends as he moved
from his former boarding house and
had neglected to inform them of his
change of address.
After having been held in the
morgue for the specified number of
days, his body was buried in Potter's
Field. On learning this, Dr. Deen
wrote to his brother, Amin, a noted
lawyer and poet in Beirut, assigning to him the task of informing the
boy's mother back home in^el-Shouffein where the Deen and 'Mallack
families both lived. Then straightway he went about his self-appointed
task of trying to get compensation
for the poor woman. He went to the
morgue and obtained records of the
deceased there. He also went to
police headquarters and investigated
the death certificate and other records. And then the great court
battle began, after he had been given
power of attorney to act for Mrs.
Mallack.
Has to Prove that His Mother Is
Really His Mother
The first battle started in the
referee's room in the New York
State Building in Center Street between Dr. Deen and the attorneys
for the insurance company of the
window cleaning firm. In order to
insure proper transfer of American
money to a foreign country there
was a lot of legal tape to be run
through. Four affidavits in particular
had to be shown as evidence. (1)
Sam's birth certificate. (2) An affidavit showing that Mrs. Mallack was
really Sam's mother. (3) Another
to show that Sam was her sole support and (4) a certificate of Sam's
legal entry with the name of the
steamer, eta
Where Is Syria? Legal Lights Ask
The Monument Erected in Beirut by Miguel Abed. The Clock
Which It W3I Encase Is Second to the Big Ben in London.
A clash developed between the
attorneys as to the status of Syria'
and Lebanon. Were they independent countries or mandates, were they
still under Turkey, Arabia, or what?
—where is Syria? Dr. Deen straightway proceeded; to expound in court
on the geographical location of Syria.
After the brilliant legal minds were
convinced on that score they had to
be convinced that the birth certificate
was original and authentic. Why did
a priest sign the certificate? they
asked. Where are the records kept?
And so the doctor-turned-attorney
had to explain that prior to 1922
no vital statistics were kept by the
government in Lebanon. Only the
churches and priests could give information on births and deaths. The
judge ruled, however, that a satisfactory birth certificate must be
shown.
Papers Fly Across Atlantic
So more papers, more proofs, more
refusals, more proofs, flew back and
forth across the Atlantic between
the doctor and his brother and between the consuls.
More papers,
more proofs, translations of documents, and more expenses on the
weak backs of Sam's relatives.
After the question of the birth
certificate had been settled in a
manner leaving no doubt, (President
Dabbas personally stepping in and
signing an affidavit before the American Consul) the legal lights wanted
to know how come Salih, the boy's
name on his birth certificate, had
been changed to Sam on his records
with the (window cleaning company.
So Dr. Deen explained patiently and
convincingly how Syrians in America
changed their names. (If they only
knew the half of it.) He cited his
own case. He found it more convenient to use the diminutive, Deen
rather than Taqi-ud-Din.
Women in Syria Live to Be 100!
Dr. Deen vows that he occasionally shows a temper which he owns,
although no one has ever seen signs
of it, but he reached the end of his
tether whei^ a few more good months
were used up in postponements and
waiting. "If the distinguished lawyers of the insurance company think
they can keep putting off this case
until the poor lady dies, (she was 84),
and so dispense with paying the
money, let me tell you that the women of Syria usually live to be a
hundred!" That put the court and
witnesses into a fit of laughter.
Efforts Finally Rewarded
Having had enough of this monkey-business, Dr. Deen decided that
an end should be put to these mock
trials to get down to serious business. He applied for help from a
friend of his, Richard Bieber, 401
Broadway, an eminent insurance
attorney, and engaged his services.
Mr. Bieber went about the matter
in a direct way. He studied the
history of Syria and Lebanon, learned
its laws and plunged into the battle.
The case was won last April with
a verdict of |3700 in favor of Sabah
Mallack, mother of Sam or Salih.
She is a rich woman now. Computed
in Syrian money and Syrian prices
she will be able to live very comfortably for the rest of her allotted
days.
And Dr. R. T. Deen, the good
scout, has nothing to show for his
good deed but a pile of papers three
feet high when squeezed down.
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PAGE SEVEN
The GARDENS of OMAR
By HENRI BORDEAUX
Member of the French Academy
Synopsis: Yamile, beautiful girl
of Bcharre, Mount Lebanon, is betrothed to Khalil Khoury of the
same village. One day two strange
youths make an appearance during
the Feast of the Cedars and Yamile
falls in love with one of them, Omar.
She disappears with the strangers
that night and as a result is condemned by her people to be brought
back and punished. Khalil is commissioned with Yamile's brother,
Boutros, to seek her and bring her
back. Boutros and Khalil Khoury
make their preparations and depart
with horses and men. Boutros is
still adamant in punishing his sister.
They pass Ehden and reach Sir when
some of the men demand to know
more of the journey. Boutros resents this and is bitter to them but
later he relents and gains the respect
of the entire party for his leadership. Khalil continues:
We continued our way, alone except for the faithful Elias.
We
followed the course of the torrent,
which, after a short distance, flows
into the Nahr-el-Bared river, close
to the village of Btermos. Even ray
sorrow did not altogether prevent
me from being struck with the savage beauty of the country through
which we were passing, with its abrupt cliffs, the thick foliage of its robust oak trees, the sudden gleam of
a turn in our path of some clump
of oleanders. Yet this very beauty
of the country that was to be her;
home henceforth. Sometimes, even,
in noticing a broken branch of
oleander, I fancied that he might
have plucked a bouquet of nlowers
to lay across her saddle.
Evening came upon us in a
deep gorge that is called Ouadi Gehannem, or: "valley of hell." Our
path was overhung with pines and,
plane trees. Beside it a furious torTent dashed its waters into foam
against rocks and boulders. It was
one of those beautiful evenings of
August that descend upon the parched
earth, in a pomp of rose-colored
clouds. In the narrow torrent the
sunset was reflected like blood.
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"Our horses are tired," said Boutross suddenly, breaking a long silence.
I begged him to go on.
"They can Still walk," I pleaded.
"Tomorrow will be too late."
"I can not see the way any longer."
/
"The bay mare knows it," I said.
"Lay the reins on her neck."
"As you will," said the intrepid
youth, on whom all danger acted as
a challenge.
We had some time ago passed
a clearing where trampled grass,
scattered bones, and raisin skins gave
clear proof that a party had halted
to eat Salma; went on slowly, but
as confident of her way as a setter
that follows a hare. Darkness enveloped us. No sound broke the
silence save the monotonous roar of
the torrent and the occasional click
of a steel horseshoe on rocky ground.
The stars seemed to be an infinite
distance above our heads, the waning
moon had (not yet risen.
Yet, blindly as we were advancing, alone in an enemy's country,
cur only guide the instinct of a
beast, my heart was full of a strange
bitter pleasure. I was following in
Yamile's traces. At each step of my
tired mount I drew nearer and
nearer to her I loved. There is an intoxication in suffering such as mine,
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an unreasoning joy at feeling oneself united to the adored being, not
indeed by the bonds of the flesh, but
by all that is deepest and most
secret in the spirit. In youth the
sources of pain and joy are strangely
mingled. At twenty years old even
sorrow can sing.
"Yamile!" pay heart sang now as
I rode on. "Yamile! where are you
now? Why could you not stay, among
your sisters, in the house Iwhere the
gentle fountain lulled you to sleep
night by night? Shall I ever again;
see your fair hair—that hair which
must be damp now with the dews
of night—your eyes, blue as the sea,
your smooth sun-burnt cheeks, ^rour
neck like a tower of ivory, the driven
snow of your neck and arms that I
trembled even to behold by chance?
Is your beauty mine no longer?
Alas, is it even any longer your
own? Yamile! I am coming to you
through the darkness. Yamile! can
you not hear me?"
In the country we <were now
traversing there was neither sight
nor sound of human habitation, ex.cept the occasional bark, far away,
of a house dog. The moon rose, and
by its light we perceived the roofs
and walls of a village huddled together at the foot of a steep hill.
Before the white walls of a small
square house the bay mare suddenly
checked her pace. My heart gave
a leap. We were there. Only these
walls separated me from Yamile.
Boutros, with the huntsman's
practised eye, was piercing the
gloom as though to impress every
'detail of the position upon his memory, when his mare, to our surprise, threw up her head and began
to climb the hill. Halfway up she
stopped, and gave a shrill whinny,
to which another replied from a
mass of buildings at our left. We
were outside what seemed to be a
large country villa, with terraces
overlooking the valley. From the
gardens came the plash of fountains.
Birds were piping drowsily in the
dark trees.
At the neigh from the stables,
Boutros stiffened, like a pointer that
has found a partridge.
"Which one was that?" I asked
in a low voice.
"The other bay," he answered
without turning his head. "Omar
has put Yamile down here. That
means he is going to marry her according to the Mohammedan rite."
The knowledge that Yamile was
still safe—that we had not arrived
too late, was like a handful of snow
laid to fevered lips.
"How /can you know?" I asked
eagerly.
"I am putting two and two together," answered Boutros. "Salma
would not (have stopped before the
first house if Tadmor, the other horse,
had not put down his rider there.
Yamile must have mounted Tadmor
and the bey the white mare."
He answered with an assurance
that left no room ' for doubt. But
we dared not stay long before the
sleeping park. The rising moor, the
clatter of our horses' feet, would
betray us. Boutros spoke to his
servant in a low voice.
"You have been to Akkar before, Elias?" he questioned.
"Long ago," said the servant.
"Where are we, then? Do you
recognize the place?" The servant
looked about him carefully and
seemed to consider.
"Soon after Btermes, we passed
a village on our right Where the
dogs were barking. That is Haouara.
This village ought to be
Chrar."
"How many people are in it?"
"I donf remember very well.
Three hundred, perhaps."
"Are they all Mussulmans?"
"There are a few Maronites,"
said the servant. "Listen," he added
after a moment's reflection. "I remember I lodged at the other end of
the village, with an old Christian
peasant called Yousef Abboud."
"Find them, then," said Boutros.
"We will follow you." The servant
now took the head of our little party.
Salma at starting struggled with
Boutros for her head. It was quite
plain that she smelt her stable, and
was reluctant to leave it.
A little beyond the main group
of houses, Elias drew rein at a
wretched hut, half in ruins.
He
knocked, without obtaining any reply. When a second summons had
gone unanswered, he pushed the
door open. It yielded, slowly and
grudgingly.
"Your old man is dead," said
Boutros, impatiently.
Elias stooped from his saddle.
"May God protect you!,' he called
through the half open door.
This assurance that we were
Christians produced its effect. An
old man opened the door and welcomed us timidly. He lived alone,
he told us. • His children had emigrated; to America after the massacre,
but he had felt himself too old for
change of life and climate. His house
was poor and filthy, but we had no
choice in the matter. After putting
up our horses in a small disused
stable, we stretched our tired bodies
on tattered rugs and fell into deep
slumber, so near to and yet so far
from the house where Yamile lay
sleeping or waking, as God willed,
alone, yet guarded by thick walls,
solid bolts, and watchful sentinels.
CHAPTER FIVE
UNDER THE VEIL
The next day the old man toldj
us what he knew. The big house,
with the trees and gardens, belonged,
as we had jguessed, to Omar-bey-elHussein, who was landlord of the
entire village and surrounding country, but who passed only the spring
and summer in his villa. In the
autumn, he descended the mountain
to his fpalace at Tripoli. Yousef was
eloquent on the subject of Omar.
He was, it seemed, the best of landlords, generous and free handed,
kind to the peasants, tolerant to the
Christians. At Chrar he was popular,
even among the Maronites, a great
lover of hawking and hunting, and
renowned throughout Akkar for his
arms, his horses, and his courtesy.
More than once Yousef repeated a
significant ( trait.
When hunting,
Omar would turn his horse to avoid
harming the peasant's crop.
"How many /women are therein his harem?" asked Boutros roughly.
"One only," jwas the answer, "He
has divorced her recently. His religion gives him the right."
"Recently?" echoed Boutros.
"Only a few days ago. But before he sent Yasmine to Tripoli, he
doubled her marriage portion. He
gave her all manner of jewels, silk,
and carpets. Oh! Omar is a generous prince."
"Well," paid Boutros, "your generous prince has carried off my sister
Yamile."
A guard seemed to fall over the
old man's eyes. Being a Christian,
however, he could not pretend indifference.
"Did he take her by force?" he
asked dubiously. "To make her his
slave?"
"His slave!" exclaimed Boutros
angrily. "Do you think the daughter
of sheik Rachid-el-Hame could be
his concubine? By force or with
her consent what do I care!" —
And he explained the sudden
halt of our horses before the white
house, and the conclusions he had
drawn from it
"Yes," said the old man. "That
was the house of Mohamed-bey-elYasin. He is an old man. The
uncle of Omar. One of his wives,
Abla, was Omar's foster mother.
Omar lost both his parents when a
boy.
Truly, if he has entrusted
your sister to his mother Abla, it
must be that he means to marry
her. But in that case, your sister
must be willing."
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"We'll soon know that" said
Boutros. "How many Maronites are
there at Chrar?"
"Only twenty," said the old man.
"There are nearly three hundred
Mohammedans. We live in peace with,
them," he added hastily.
"That means we can look for
no help here," said Boutros, gloomily.
"None," said the old man. "But
you are my guests."
(To Be Continued.)
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EMILY HARFOUSH
IN AND OUT OF TOWN
After spending two weeks! in
Bridgeport, IfeH River, New Bedford,
Fremmgham and Boston, Mrs. F.
Caram and her daughter, Fhilly, returned last Sunday to their home
in Brooklyn.
Mr. and Mrs. M. Malouf returned
to Brooklyn from a two weeks vacation visiting friends and relatives in
New England.
Mrs. George Diab returned from
a two weeks vacation in the New
England states.
Miss Susan Azar of Pittsburgh,
Pa., has come to town for the winter.
She is continuing her course in design at Pratt's School of Design.
Mr. and Mrs. Z. Hallow of Pittsburgh left New York this morning
after a week's stay.
Mr. and Mrs. B. Katen, Mr. and
Mrs. F. Naman and Mrs. Victoria
Farah returned last week from Chicago where they spent two weeks
viewing the Fair.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Macksoud
and their daughter returned last
week from Milford where they spent
the summer.
Mrs. Russell Miller, the former
Dorlie Shehab, has just returned from
a month's vacation in the Poconos.
Richmond
A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Saady of Richmond.
Their first baby's name will be Ruth
Elizabeth. The proud father is a
great hand at making homemade
articles and we expect that he is
now whittling away on a cradle.
Miss Effie Summers and her sister Elizabeth spent a few days in
Norfolk visiting friends.
Charles Kouri of Richmond who
was to attend the Mahrajan in
Bridgeport and the World's Fair, then
return home, seems to be treating
himself to an extended vacation.
Better come home Charles, or the
Madam will be forgetting how to
make Syrian bread.
The Lebanon Social Club of
Richmond will resume their meetings
next week. The club has already
made plans to usher in the fall season with a party for the members
id immediate families.
Eseffe Shaheen, the strong man
at the Ritz Confectionery, was perturbed when a man came into his
place of business under the influence
of liquor. After downing the man
he carried him out and is now nursing a sore back-
Beaumontj Texas
— Eighty-four boys and girls were
registered in the public and high
schools of this city.
— Philip Saman, a young man of
Beaumont was found in sound health
after an absence of five days from
his home.
— A baby boy was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Jamil Angelo. The mother
is enjoying good health, and the
baby is of normal weight.
Youngstown
Mrs. Thomas Stephens, 736 Wilson Ave., entertained a group of 35
friends at her home Thursday Sept
14th at a surprise party in honor
of Miss Delia Fares, whose engagement to Mr. George Hahna was announced. Dancing and 500 were the
pastimes of the evening. Later a
delightful lunch was served. Miss
Fares was presented with a shower
of gifts.
Toledo
Simplicity marked the wedding
of Miss Victoria Joseph and Fred
Addis at the Cathedral of St. Francis
de Sales Catholic Church Saturday
at 10:00 o'clock.
The Rev. Paul K. Malouf officiated in the presence of the immediate families and a group of
friends.
The bride looked lovely in her
white satin gown fashioned in princess lines and her long veiL Miss
Anna Addis, sister to the groom,
was the bride's only attendant. Mr.
Leo Abdo attended the groom as
best man.
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Addis
were hosts at a wedding breakfast
at their home following the church
ceremony. A reception was held in
the evening.
There is out at Central Catholic
High School an enthusiastic young
senior who has started a collection.
She is Miss Emmeline Geha and her
hobby is collecting pictures of students of the different high schools
of Toledo with whom she is acquainted.
She takes great pride in her album and exhibits it on every possible occasion. The volume to date
contains over three hundred and
fifty pictures, most of which depict
the smiling countenance of her Central classmates.
She expects to fill a large number of these albums with pictures
which she secures from the newspapers of Toledo. Her greatest ambition is to become a photograph collector.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. Geha.
Mike Smith of Akron, Ohio is
visiting relatives in Toledo, he also
attended the Joseph-Addis wedding.
Miss Ivy Simmons has chosen
September the 25th as the date for
her marriage to Roger Giha, son of
Mrs. Freida Giha. The wedding will
be at 3 P.M. in the Central Christian
Church with Dr. Grant W. Speer
officiating.
The Daughters of Phoenicia will
present "Everlasting Love," a four
act play based on mother love at the
Catholic Community House, Nevember
the 12th.
Abraham Shimmaly is
directing the production, and Miss
Elizabeth Ammer is chairman of the
affair, with a large committee assisting her. There will be an Arabic
speech given by Marjory Zouhary,
the president of the club. Mrs. Amelia
Payees will also speak. Josephine
Sawaya will give a couple of her
favorite readings. Alma Ammer will
render a song. Tickets are on sale
now and can be purchased from any
of the club members. The cast of the
play is composed entirely of girls.
The Joseph sisters of Scranton,
Pa., stopped at the home of their
aunt, Mrs. Mike Geha, in Toledo on
their way to Detroit to visit the Azar
family. Fred Geha, George Abrass,
William Zouhary, Mary Geha and
Joe Abrass motored to Detroit with
them to attend a party in their
honor.
Mrs. Charles Ammer with her
son, George, and daughter, Alma,
left to attend the Worlds Century of
Progress in Chicago, I1L They will
be there a week.
Mr and Mrs. John Mickel should
be very proud of their family. They
are Robert, Virginia, Paul, Elizabeth
and George Mickel. Paul is the eldest
and he's 14 years old. This young
group presented a program of Syrian
songs from Station WSPD. The entire family is endowed with singing
talent. Elizabeth is always sought
to entertain at parties or social affairs, to croon in her "blues" voice
all the popular songs of the day.
Of interest to the young folks
is the approaching dance to be given
at the Toledo Yacht xClub by the
Gamma Epsilon Psi next month. No
date has been set
Brooklyn Girl Who Represented
Syria in the Beautiful Girl Pageant
at the NBA Rally in Madison
Square Garden. It Was Erroneously
Stated in Last Week's Issue That
Her Sister Julia Was the Representative.
ANTIOCH SYNOD
ENDS SESSIONS
Demand Immediate Presence of
Archbishop Victor Assaly
from United States
Toledo Glimpses
(Special Correspondence)
The ideal Syrian girl should have:
Anna Giha's hair,
Marjory Zouhary's eyes,
Alma Ammer's complexion,
Jeanette Jamra's nose,
Genevieve Habib's lips,
Elizabeth
Farris's smile,
Adele Geha's teeth,
Sylvia Saba's height
Anna Abdo's form,
Dorothy Geha's legs,..
Freida Jamra's hands,.... Julia Raffia's personality.
DAMASCUS, August 9— The Antiochean Greek Orthodox Synod
ended its sessions officially yesterday
with the publication of a report of
its activities in the national press.
Among the results achieved in
this Synod.
The dissenting bishops of Beirut
Akkar, Aleppo, Hama and Horns approved and confirmed Rt Rev. Athenasius Kleilah of Damascus as Bishop of Hauran.
FATHER SERAPHIM
COMES TO NEW YORK
Suspend Laymen's Council
REV. Seraphim Nassar, recognized
scholar in the Greek Orthodox
Church, arrived in New York City
on Thursday from Spring Valley, 111.
Father Seraphim was accompanied by
the Misses Elizabeth and Sadie Abraham who have charge of the leading store in Spring Valley.
The
party expects to remain in New York
for about two weeks.
DIES OF OLD AGE
SAOUD N. TOBIA died last week
Wednesday in her home at 79 Pacific Street Brooklyn, at the age of 84.
Funeral services were held in Our
"Lady of Lebanon Church, Hicks St,
Rev. Mansur Stephen officiating.
She is survived by her sons,
David, Tobia, Tony and three daughters, Mary Catherine and Rahab.
Suspension of the old and new
laymen's councils of Beirut and the
appointment of,a neutral administrative counciL
Postponement of decision concerning the change of the eastern
calendar and the adoption of the
western one until the result of the
discussions between the independent
Orthodox churches and the League
of Nations are known.
Rebaptismal of converts from the
Papal. churches, Protestants and .Monophysites and their annointment
with the holy chrism.
The issuance of an Orthodox
monthly /publication, beginning with
January, 1934.
Calling of His Grace Victor Assaly, Archbishop of New York, North
America, to appear in Damascus, the
patriarchal seat as soon as possible.
Object
SYRIAN DOCTOR WORKS
BY CANDLELIGHT
DURING a recent severe storm
in Washington D. C, Dr. Louis Jimal, a young Syrian doctor on the
Casualty Hospital staff, treated three
emergency patients by candlelight
when the vicinity of the hospital
was plunged into darkness.
He took five stitches in the hand
of James Simpson who had smashed
a glass door in his home and treated
two women who had suffered cuts
and bruises when they were struck
by a taxicab.
Dr. Jimal is now on leave and
is staying at his sister's home, Mrs.
Joseph Hage, in New London, Conn.
to Press Report
In some circles here close to
the late developments of the Greek
Orthodox situation it is claimed that
the Synod report as it appeared in
the Arabic press is misleading. The
Syrian Eagle of Brooklyn makes special mention of the rebaptisimal
articles, saying it was merely discussed in the Synod and no action
was taken upon it whereas it appears in the report as though it was
a decided matter.
Demands Official Record
Archbishop Victor has replied to
the letter asking for his appearance
that he must first have the official
record of the Synod before he can
reply to it
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The Syrian World Newspapers
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<h4>Biographical/Historical Note</h4>
<p>Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded<em> The Syrian World</em> in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of the Arabic-language newspaper <em>Al-Hoda. </em>Together, the Mokarzel brothers ran Al-Hoda Publishing, and in 1909, they published <em>The Syrian Business Directory.</em> </p>
<p>Mokarzel created <em>The Syrian World</em> in order to document and celebrate the culture and history of "Syria." At the time, Syria referred to the modern-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. The publication was primarily aimed towards second-generation children of immigrants, but Mokarzel hoped that it would also appeal to the general American public.</p>
<h4>Scope/Content Note</h4>
<p><em>The Syrian World</em> was published between 1926 and 1932 as a journal. In 1932, the format was changed from an academic journal style to a newspaper style, which continued until the periodical's end in 1935. After the death of his brother Naoum, Salloum took over the publication of <em>Al-Hoda.</em></p>
<p>The articles in <em>The Syrian World</em> cover a variety of topics spanning from the practical to the theoretical. Practical subjects include international and domestic travel, historical and contemporary Arabic and Arab-American art and literature, and the mental and physical health and hygiene of immigrants. More theoretical, philosophical, and ideological subjects include ideologies of race, the changing role of women, the formation of Syrian and Lebanese-American societies, and the political and psychological relationships between immigrants and their countries of origin.</p>
<p>All issues of <em>The Syrian World</em> are available, along with full indexes for the first four volumes. For volumes five and six, there are tables of contents at the start of the issues.</p>
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Arabs--United States
Arabic periodicals
Newspapers
Arab American Newspapers
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Salloum A. Mokarzel
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New York Public Library
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
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1926-1935
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<em><a href="http://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/collections/show/41" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Syrian Business Directory</a></em>
<a href="http://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/collections/show/44" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mokarzel Family Papers</a>
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11299/175685" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Annotated Index to the Syrian World, 1926-1932</a> at the University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center Archives
<a href="https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/collections/show/58" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Al-Hoda Newspapers</em></a>
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English
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TSW1933_09_22reducedWM
Title
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The Syrian World Volume 07, Issue 21
Date
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1933 September 22
Description
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An issue of The Syrian World published September 22, 1933.
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Arabs--United States--Periodicals
Lebanese-Americans--United States--Periodicals
Newspapers--United States
Language
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English
Creator
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Salloum A. Mokarzel
Habib Ibrahim Katibah
Source
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New York Public Library
Publisher
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
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55 Washington St., New York, New York
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Text/pdf
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Text
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