1936-09-21 — Page 18

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1986.

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PAUL ROBESON Hongkong Telegraph.

B-2619 Deep River; I'm Goin' to tell God All B-3033 Oh ! rock me, Julic; Oh I didn't it rain

B-3663

B-3664

Mammy is gone; High water

Old Folks at Home: Poor old joc B-3956 River stay 'way from my door; Rockin' Chair B-4396 Since you went away; Wid de moon, moon, moon B-4421 Pilgrim's Song: Roll the Chariot Along B-4499

8.4309

B-4352

In a Narrow Street: Piccaninny's Shoes

Mah Lindy Lou: Ma curly-headed Baby

MONDAY, SEPT. 21, 1936.

ANTI-MALARIAL MEASURES

T

POINT

[RANSPORT Housė stands, bold, grey, efficient, a monument to the indus- try, the idealism and sacrifices of millions of working men and women.

Behind its wide, modern win- dows are offices where some of the most remarkable women in this country, the mouthpieces.of thousands of others in the home, in professions, shops, offices and factories, translate a nation's idealism into practi- cal agencies.

These women are equipped to fight for the abolishment of social injustices, hunger in the midst of plenty, slums that cry shame on humanity, conditions of labour that revolt the just. and Jingoes for war that rouse fear in every heart.

Even with the best equipment in the world they have plenty to do. You know them all, Mary Sutherland, Chief Woman Officer of the Labour Party, is one.

Many-Sided Job

But do you really know what she does in that bright room of hers overlooking the trees In Smith- square? Since 1932 (after Dr. Marlon Phillips died) she has led two hundred thousand Labour women, members of women's scc-. lons throughout the country, in the way they are striving to go.

Her job is many-sided. It involves work on the Standing Joint Commit- e of Industrial Women's Organisa- Hons, which is actually the Labour Party's Advisery Committeo women's questions. There are no words

Reference to the Colony's esti- mates of expenditure show that the allocation for the Malaria Bureau in the coming year, apart dustry from emoluments, is rather below

Round the bend of the Road; Take me away from the river | thal of 1936, being represented by

B-4354 Hush-a-byo, Lullaby; Gor the South in my Soul

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Bluc Prelude: Swing Along

B-8060

B-8202

Snowball; Fat Li'l foller; Short'nin' bread

a sum of less than six thousand dollars. A slight increase in the vote for conveyance allowances,

Little man, you've had a busy day; I ain't laxy, I'm just due to the expectation of more

dreamin'

B-8372 Swing Low sweet Chariot: On ma Journcy

B-8423

Gloomy Sunday; Honey

B-8438

Shonandoah; Jes' mah Song

C-1585

C-2517

C-2621

Plantation Songs, Part 1 & 2

There's a Green Hill; Nearor, my God to Thee Paul Robeson Medley, Part 1 & 2

field work, is more than offset by

a reduction in equipment charges. Considering the importance of the work of the Bureau, it appears to be run on rather conservative lines, the personnel consisting, be- sides the malariologist and his as- sistant, of one clerk, five inspec- tors and six coolies. If we take

In

on

to measure the work that has been done by this Committee to focus nt tention on questions affecting working

whether in in- or the

Mary Suther band was bora

home.

151 1 farm. worker's col- tage in KIN- cardineshire,

She has grown up to her job by hard work,

Experience has taught her sympathy and wisdom in run. ing the liuge organisation of the women's sections of the Labour Party.

Jittle 2 she 103 taken by her Lather во

As girt

Aberdeenshire.

MISS MARY, CARLIN ffter cry

"Eternal Vigilance"},

shere he bought a small croft on Dreside. She went with her brothers

S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. all charges into account, including in a small country school, walking for

York Building.

Chater Road.

EXCLUSIVE

RANGE OF

FURNISHING FABRICS

A SELECTION OF SMART DESIGNS RANGÉ AND GOOD

OF COLOURINGS.

FURNISHING DEPT. TEL. 28151

miles to get there.

salaries, the year's vote falls con-

short siderably

of $40,000. Whether the departmem is suf- ficiently large is open to question, for, with the tendency of residen- |tial areas to spread into hitherto rural districts, the work of the Bureau must increase rather than otherwise. There have been sug- gestions recently that malaria in the Colony is on the increase, but whether this be the case or not there can be no doubt of the im- portance of waging a continuous Putting Things Right- war against the disease. Apart from the incidence of malaria within the Colony, there is always the possibility, in these days of air transport, of the disease being brought in from outside. The danger, from this source to the world generally was stressed as long ago as 1932 by the late Sir Ronald Ross; in the interim, it has increased. Sir Ronald, who, after years of research, discovered how malaria was spread by certain

Followed - some years-at-a-village- school, then some terms at the Girls' High School, Aberdeen, from which sho passed on to the University, gradunt. ing with Honours in History.

School-teaching for a few months; then on to a Departingulal Committed on Women in Agriculture, but young Mary Sutherland, with the dark brown hair and hazel eyes, know by this time that there were a lot of things in the world that a woman could help la right.

So for two years she worked na organiser for the Scottish Farm Ber- vants' Union and edited their journal. The wider world called, and she pushed forward to work as a sub-editor on

'Forward."

In 1924 she took on the job of Scot ish Women's Organiser for the Labour Party, and in 1932 followed Dr. Marion

Phillips at Transport House.

Now she is tackling her problems with the idea always before her that

organising Labour women to be part of the machinery of the Movement is not enough. Women must be faught fully to understand the purpose for which they are being organised.

"My view," she saya," is that women,

although they are loyal to the party and principles of the party should not merely echo the men, saying the same things in the same way.

"In particular, the mother and house-

species of mosquitoes, pointed out NOTES OF THE DAY

that at the time he wrote, the cost of malaria to the British Empire

Was

the WAY

wife in the home must freely ex- press her own experiences, becauso sho has acquired knowledge and an outlook on life which no other section of workers can possibly have, and with- out which the policy of the La- bour Party could not be all-em- bracing."

In a room not far from-this works Jennie L. Adamson, Chair- man of the La- bour Party. She is the mother of four children- all married but one son and a lover 'of her home and her garden.

She hates in- Justice, and it was this hate

by Mary FERGUSON

MISS MARY SUTHERLAND nos the huge organisation of the

which made her take on the dual role of housewife and pubite worker for labour.

Small, with a shy smile but a biting tongue when tackling her political op- ponents, Mr. Adanson takes a simple housewives all over. the country. She seldom sits in her room at Transport House, for her ideal is to get out among the women and toil them."

"Fight," she says. "Fight for your home ant for your children and get the kind of bones you want, better jobs for your men, and better and cheaper food."

Then, without senilmentality (none of the women I am writing about deal In sentimentality, although the are rich in sentiment), she tells housewives up and down the country how they can get these things, and they love her

for it.

Responsibilities

But the Labour Party is like any other. A woman in a big job has the limelight or her. One lily mistake. one feckless move and the men, like all men, wonder if women can carry big responsibitillen. Women can, as has been proved triumphantly by Jennie Adamson.

Today she is carrying a message of how the world can secure peace if only people will say they want it. She is game, a plucky Bitle housewife and mother of whom all women. If they ·

Bho knew her, would be proud. has a great big job to do and she does it.

Susan · Lawrence, who Iri 1012 changed from being a Conservative and joined the Labour Party because there she recognised her spiritual hume, is unother type of Labour' woman.

Tall, ila,

hair, treying

Elon cropped, she thinks objectively on all problems that affect social advance- ment or retardment. Vivid, vitally Interested in wint is happening in the world, last year she went "to see" in Palestine, and this year visited the West Indies,

With a private income, having be hind her a brilliant career at Next- ham College, Cambridge, where she took mathematical honours, SunR

women's sections of the

Lawrence jumped into the fight for social justice for the poor, and went to Holloway Prison in 1021 for her principles.

The Day Has Come

She was a member of the Poplar Borough Council at the time of her imprisonment, and she was sentenced because she, along with George Lans- bury and others, had insisted on feed- Ing the desperately poor out of the Council funds.

She said then, as they hauled her off to prison: "You cannot kill the spirit in us Nelther prison nor even death will daunt us. If you will Oght on, if you will organise; na wo tell you to OX- gano and work, the day will come for It IR And Busan Law- renco la still fighting on.

tis.

Mary Carlin who sits with Mrs. Adamson and Busan Lawrence on the Executive Committee of the Labour Party, is another of those women working for your future happiness and security.

Women in Industry owe her many thanks, for she has devoted her life to their interests as an executive of the

General and Transport Workers' Union. "Eternal Vigilanco" 18

her cry. and her aim in a Socialist clety.

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"I am pas- alonately eager

to sea estal lished in this country BYN tem of educa tion which ahallive-o- rvey call_sh equal chance," Mary Carlin sald, when naked what sho would do if she became I M.P., and

followed up - with a long list

MRS. JENNY

ADAMSON (Labour Party Chairman)

which included every practical ideal in Labour's agenda.

Nothing less lnn ait will satisfy Utk Ittle wonnin, who has a firm grip on

Labour Party,

every problem facing women in indus iry.

Human documents telling stories of Indlyldun noisery caused by unhappy. working conditions are tackled by Miss Carlin, and she does not leave the job until she lins smoothed out the dim- culty or protested vigorously that such miseries should exist.

Thousands of women members of her Union look to her in her offleo at Transport House as their ideal of what a woman in public life should be.

What would n poet's wife be doing here?" you might ask. Mrs. Barbara Ayrton Gould. wife of Cerali Gould, the poet and reviewer, has a very im~ portant placo Among these other women. Daughter of a famous aclen- tist, she has a capable outlook on life and applies her intellect to probing social problems.

Calm, cheery, with a great belief in democracy, she knows what families In distressed nrens are suffering, because she went out to see for herself.

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She came back to Transport, Hōuse from her compassionata pligrimage, and wherever the question ployment, malnutrition and the care of mothers is raised, her volte will be heard, quoting real cases taken from Ito that no Government M.P, or politi- clan dare nnswer.

Useful Experience

From Glasgow comes, Mrs. Agnes Dollan, wife of P. J. Dollan, Treasurer of Glasgow City Council. Mrs. Dollar is a member of the Executive Com- mittee of the Labour Parly, and her contributions

The the counelis of party are backed by 25 years' experi- ence among the teeming thousands of that elty which, in a hinterlands. hides away so much misery.

Little, quick in movement, eager to get the big works "of constructive and polley going, this housewife mother from Olasgow adds her quota to the total of greatness at Transport. Rouse.

Up and down the country go these women, educating, preaching, tractzing, acting the gospel of Socialism. Because they have a firm grip of the tremen- dous issues at stake, because they know how to tackle these issues, they aro at Transport House Translating ideals into practical commodities is not too big a job for them

Whose Signature Is This?

you received a letter signed

order of baronets, for instance. If

"William Ebor," you would prob- All this is very confusing to the a baronet is writing to anybody who

ably wonder who Mr. Ebor was. visitor from abroad; The communication would be from

may not 'know his rank, he will The aged lady recently gone from sometimes, put "Bart." after his His Grace the Right Rev. Williams signed Susan Duchess of Somer- signature, just as an Army officer,

JA Temple, Archbishop of York.

set, to show that she was the widow or of a

one

to do.

the Navy, odda a deceased Duke and not the abbreviated form of his grade in the Archbishops and Bishops sign

Otherwise, the simple themselves with their Christian Consort of the present holder of the Service. name followed by that of their see. title. In her husband's lifetime she Christian name and surname have Only, to make it a little harder, the would have used the signature Susan

Somerset. Pecresses in their own Younger sons of dukes and mar- ancient Roman form is used in many right sign as if they, were men, quesses have a courtesy "Lord" put cases, and uften abbreviated.

York

front of their

names. For though one of them,, the Countess of in in the duys of the Roman occupation Carantie, does not follow this cua- example, " younger son of the was called Eboracum. Hence the

Marques of Allsa is Lord Angus tora Archbishop's peculiar form of signa-

Queen Mary, ever since the late Kennedy. A daughter of the Duke ture.

Peers sign themselves by their Knig's accession to the Throne, has of Rutland is Lady Ursula Manners. se-signed herself Mary R. She is the But these people sign Angus Ken- titles, as Devonshire. Portland, Rose- bery. A short signature is that of first Queen-Consort to assume this nedy or Ursula Manners.

Eldest sana of peers bear by Viscount Gage, who simply writes style. Queen Alexandro, at the foot Gage at the bottom of a letter. A long of letters and documents, was el-courtesy their fathers' second title. Ways simply Alexandra. Queen Thus, the flist-born, son of a Duke example is that of a holder of two Mary does not use "R. et 1." because of Marlborough is always the Mar- dukedoms, who writes himself

quesa of Blandford. He signs just Richmond and Gordon. This led to abe is not Empress of India.

It is rather confusing that both as if he were a peer of the realm, a funny mistake when the Duke wrote

The the Duke of Connaught and Prince to some tradespeople. reply

ply was addressed to "Mesars. Arthur of Connaught use the same Richmond and Gordon," the title signature simply Arthur. being taken for the style of a firm,

as explained above, and is address- ed as if he were one.

The growing realisation of the as high as sixty millions important part played by films in sterling per annum, this comparto much discussion of how to the average person's life has led ing with the half-million spent provide auitable films for children. annually for quinine supplies to in England the cinema programma counter the disease. But it is not generally consists of one "A" film, sufficient that the disease should show, and one "U" film. The "A" which is the chief feature of the

be fought by antidotes once it has film is not regarded as suitable for

The practice of the widows of got a hold--much more necessary children under 16 years, who can

On the other hand, Princess peers retaining their titles led to is it that it should be wiped out only attend the performance of

comic incident. After the death of such a show accompanied by n

(Princess Jmorant fiction-writers and dim- Patricia of Connaught

the eighth Duke of Marlborough his at the source, by methods known responsible adult. The "U" film producers make the most ludicrous Pat) dropped all this when she rellet married Lord William Beres- to science. It is along these lines is considered to contain nothing mistakes in this kind of thing. Not married Captain Ramsay, and now

which could possibly harm a child, long ago, in a story by an author signs all her letters Patricia Ramsay, ford. On a holiday they arrived at that the Hongkong Bureau oper-who may thereforo.sep it whether quite well known, a peer was rande just like a commoner, Other Royal-ia quiet country hotel where they were not known, but, after looking ates, and, the war which it is accompanied by an adult or not. to algn himself. "Henry, Lord Pel- les sign the simple Christian name, at the entry in the register, The

British

husfeld (or some such title.) In real like Albert or Marina. Instituto waging calls for unremitting of- The

proprietor scandalised life he would simply have put "Pet- One curious point arises. Queen

them enquiries among field.2

a bedroom, le ngainst letting fort. The Colony cannot afford carried out

Mary's parents were the Duke and had to be assured that they were 300 childron to ascertain

Duchess of Teck. Yet the Duchess really husband and wife, though to lose grip of the discase, and for what kind of flims they prefer, and WOMEN'S SIGNATURES

signed Mary Adelaide, but the Duke bearing different names., this reason it would be all to the from the information thus gained,

Peers' wives, on the other hand, was always Teck at the bottom of good were some assurance given panels of teachers and film ex-

use their Christian names as well as hele husband's titles. The present that there are adequate means at perts are now busily selecting

Duchess of Westminster would sub- adapting films for a series of

scribe "Lvelle Westminster." But [coping with an ever-present dan-children, which is to commence in the Duke's former wife uses the

October.

style Violet Duchess of Westminster."

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. the disposal of the authorities for Saturday morning shows

gor.

for

a letter,·

BY COURTESY

Quite a number of people with "handies" to their names sign just

was

all

There is one instance in all Great Britain of a commoner, signing like peer. He is Mr. A. T. Rouch, Town-Cleric of the City of London. he sub- To all oficial documents scribes himself with the single word.

Michael Compton.

ns commoners do. Take the noble "Roach,"