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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1980.

Acts like a Charm.

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PAUL ROBESON Thongkong Telegraph.

B-2619 Deep River; I'm Goin' to tell God All

B-3033

Ohl rock me, Julio; Oh I didn't it rain

Mammy is gone: High water

B-3663

B-3664

Old Folks at Home; Poor old Joc

B-3956

·River stay 'way from my door: Rockin' Chair

B-4396 B-4421

Since you went away: Wid de moon, moon, moon

Pilgrim's Song: Roll the Chariot Along

B-4499

In a Narrow Street; Piccaninny's Shoes

B-4309

Mah Lindy Lou; Ma curly-headed Baby

B-4352

B-4354

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Blue Prelude: Swing Along

B-8060

Snowball: Fat Li'l foller: Short'nin' broad-

MONDAY, SEPT. 21, 1986.

ANTI-MALARIAL MEASURES.

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

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

Hush-a-bye, Lullaby: Got the South in my Soul

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

B-8202 Little man, you've had a busy day; I ain't lazy, I'm just due to the expectation of more

dreamin'

Swing Low sweet Chariot: On ma Journey

B-8372

B-8423

Gloomy Sunday: Honey

B-8438

Shenandoah; Jes' mah Song

C-1585

C-2517

C-2621

Plantation Songs, Part 1 & 2

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

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field work, is more than offset by a reduction in equipment charges, Considering the importance of the work of the Burcan, 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 all charges into account, including salaries, the year's vote falls con- siderably short of $40,000. Whether the department 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-

WOMEN who

POINT

RANSPORT House 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 inidst of plenty, slums that cry shame on humanity, conditions of labour that revolt the just," and Jingoes for war that rouse Icar in every heart.

Even with the best equipment in the world they have plenty to do. You know them all. Mary Sutherland, Chief Woman Offeer 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-

Since square?

(after Er. 1933 Marion Phillips died) she has led two hundred thousan Labour women, members of wor n's stc- tions throughout the country, in the way they are striving to go.

Her job is many-sided. It involves work on the Standing Joint Commit- fer of Tudustrial Women's Organisa- tions, which is actually the Labour Party's Advisory Committee women's questions. There are no words to measure the work that has been done by this Committee to focus st tention on questions affecting working

whether in in- dustry or the home.

Mary Suther- land was born 111 n form- worker's cot- Enge, m Kin- eardineshire. She has grown up to her job by hard work.

Experience has

he r taught sympathy and

wisdom in run- n the huge organisation of the

women's sections of the Labour Party.

MISS MARY, CARLIN

(Her cry * Eternal Vigilance").

op

43 FL little it she was taken by her father to A bordernshire, where he bought a small croft on Deeside. She went with her brotherA In a simil country school, walking for miles to get there.

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

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

Bo for two years she worked organiser for the Scottish Farm Ser. vants' Union and edited their Journal. The wider world called, and she pushed forward to work as a sub-editor on. **Forward."

In 1924 nhờ took on the job of Scot- ish Women's Organiser for the Labour Party, and in 1933 followed Dr. Marion Phillips at Transport House.

Now she is tackling her problems

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

with the idea always before her that

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 hus increased. Sir Ronald, who, after merely echo the men, saying the same years of research, discovered how malaria was spread by certain

"My view," she says, "is that women. although they are loyal to the party and principles of the party should not

Things in the same way,

"In particular, the mother and house

species of mosquitoes, pointed out NOTES OF THE DAY

the WAY

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

In a room not

from far

this works Jennie L Adamson, Chair- man of the La- bour Party, She Is the mother of four children- all married but cné son and a lover of her home and her garden.

by Mary FERGUSON

MISS MARY SUTHERLAND runs the huge organisation of the

She hates In- Justice, and it hate Was this which made her take on the dual rôle of housewife and public worker or labour,

Small, with a shy smile but a biling tongue when tackling her political op- ponents, Mr. Adamspo takes a simple message to housewives all over the country. She seldom alts in her room at Transport House, for her ideal is to get out among E's women “and tell them."

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

food."

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

Responsibilities

But the Labour Party is like any other. A woman in a big job has the limelight on her. One Billy mistake,

one feckless, move and the men, like all men, wonder if wonien can carry big responsibilities. Women con, as has been proved triumphanty by Jennie Adamson.

Today she is carrying a message of how the world can secure peace If only prople will say they want it. She in game, a plucky ile housewife and mother of whom all women, if they knew her, would be proud. She has a great big job to do and she does it.

Susan Lawrence.. who in, 1012 changed from being a Conservallye and joined the Labour Party because" there she recognised her spiritual home, 19 another type of Labour

woman.

Elon

Tall.

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

With a private incume, having be hind her a brilliant career at Newn- hau College, Cambridge, where sho took mathematical honours, Busan

women's sections of the

Lawrence jumped into the fight for social justice for the poor, and went to Holloway Prison in 1011 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, find insisted on feed. ing the desperately poor out of the Connell funds,

Sto said then, as they hauled her off to prison: "You cannot kill the spirit in us. Neither prisen nor even death will daunt us. If you will fight on, if you will organise, as we tell you to or- ganise and work, the day will come for

It has. And Susan Law- *** renco is still fighting on.

Mary Carlin who sits with Mrs. Adamson and Susan Lawrence on the Executive Committee of the Labour Parly, in another of those women working for your future happiness and accurity,

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

General

Transport Workers'Union. "Eternal Vigilance"

in

her cry, and Jer aim is a Socialist 80-

elety.

"I am +4- alonately cager to sec estab- lished in this country a kyse tem of educa tion which Ahalf-give 10 every child an equal chance," Mary Onlin

nald, when naked what she would do if she became an M.P., and she followed it

MRS, JENNY.

ADAMSON (Labour Party Chairman)

י'

with a long list which included every practical ideat in Labour's agcode.

Nothing less than all will satisfy this tle woman, who has a firm grip on

Whose Signature

All this is very confusing visitor from pbrond.

to the

Labour Party.

every problem facing women in Indus-

try.

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

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

What would a poèt's wife be doing here?" you might ask. Mrs. Barbara Ayrton Gould, wife of Gerald Gould, the poet, and reviewer, has a very im- thesc other portant place among women. Daughter of a famous scien- tist, she has à capable outlook on life and applies her intellect to probing social problems.

Calm, cheery, with a great bellef in democracy, she knows what families in distressed areas are suffering, because * she went out to see for herself.

She came back to Transport House from her compassionate pligrimage, and wherever the question of unem- ployment, malnutrition and tho care of mothers is raised, her voice will be heard, quofing-real cases taken from life that no Government M.P. or poli!!- clan dare answer.

Useful Experience

From Olasgow comes Mrs. Agnes Dolian, wife of P. J. Dolish, Treasurer of Glasgow City Council, Mrs. Dollan is a member of the Executive Com- miliee of the Labour Party, and her 'contributions to the councils of the party are backed by 25 years' experi ence among the teeming thousands of that city which, in its hinterlands, hides away so much misery.

Lilile, quick in movement, eager to get the big works of constructivė policy

and going. th housewife mother from Glasgow adds her quota to the total of greatness at Transport House.

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

Is This?

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a letter signed IF you received

order of baronets, for instance. If "William Ebor," you would prob-

a baronel la writing to anybody who ably wonder who Mr.. Ebor was.

insy not know his rank, he will The communication would be from

after his The aged lady recently gone from sometimes put "Bart." His Grace the Right Rev. William as signed Susan Duchess of Somer-signature, just as an Army officer, Temple, Archbishop of York.

in the Navy, adds set, to show that she was the widow or one

and not the abbreviated form of his grade in the Archbishops and

sign of a deceased Duke Bishops

Otherwise, the slmple 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

to do. Only, to make it ittle harder, the would have used the signature Susan

Younger sons of dukes and mar- ancient Roman form is used in many Somerset. Peeressen in their own

men, quesses have a courtesy. "Lord" put right sign as if they were cases, and often abbreviated. Yuck though one of them, the Countess of in front of their names. For in the days of the Roman occupation Crenartic, does not follow this cur-example, A younger son of the was called Eboracuni. Hence the

Marques of Ailsa is Lord Angus Archbishop's pecullar form of signa-

Queen Mary, ever since the late Kennedy. A daughter of the Duke Peers sign themselves by their King' ucretion to the Throne, has of Rutland, is Lady Uraula Manners. titles, as Devonshire, Portland, Rose-signed herself Mary R. She Is the But these people sign Angus Ken- bery. A short signature is that of first Queen-Consort to assume this nedy or Ursula Manners.

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

quess of Blandford, He clens Just Richmond and Gordon. This led to she is not Empress of India.

when the Duku a funny mistake

It is rather confusing that both as if he were a peer of the realm, wrote to some tradespeople. The the Duke of Connaught and Prince as explained above, and is address- reply was addressed to "Messrs. Arthur of Connaught use the same Richmond and Gordon," the title signature simply Arthur. being taken for the style of a firm,

ture,

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

ure. The growing realisation of the was as high as sixty millions important part played by films in sterling per annum; this compar- the average person's life has led

to much discussion of how to, ing with the half-million spent provide suitable films for children.` annually for quinine supplies to In England the cinema programme counter the disease. But it is not generally consists of one "A" fim, sufficient that the disense should which is the chief feature of the show, and one "U" film. The "A" be fought by antidotes once it has film is not regarded as suitable for got a hold-much more necessary children under 16 years, who can is it that it should be wiped out only attend the performance of such a bow accompanied by a at the source, by methods known responsible adult. The "U" alm to science. It is along these lines is considered to contain nothing that the Hongkong Bureau oper- which could possibly harm a child, ates, and the war which it is who may therefore see it whether accompanied by an adult or not. waging calls for unremitting ef- Tha British Instituto has fort. The Colony cannot afford carried

enquiries Among to nscertain to lose grip of the disease, and for what kind of films they prefer, and this reason it would be all to the from the Information thus gained, good were some assurance given panels of teachers and film ex- now busily selecting that there are adequate means at perts are the disposal of the authorities for and adapting films for a series of Saturday morning shows. for coping with an ever-present dan- children, which is to commonco in

October.

ger.

out children' 300

1er.

ed as if he were one.

The practice of the widows

of

On the olher hand, Princess peers retaining their titles led to a -Ignorant "iletion-writers and Alm- | Patricia of Connaught (Princess comic incident. After the death of producers make the most ludicrous Pat) dropped all this when she the eighth Duke of Marlborough his relict married Lord William Beres- mistakes in this kind of thing. No! married Captain Ramsay, and now ford: On a holiday they arrived at where they long ago, in a story by an author signs all her letters Patricia Ramsay, quite well known, a peer was made | just. Ilke'n commoner. Other Royal- quiet country Hotel

were not known, but, after looking the to sign himself "Henry, Lord Pet-les sign the simple Christian name, at the entry in the register,

all fleld" (or some such title.) In real like Albert or Marino.

proprietor scandalised fe he would simply have put "Pet-

One curious polat arises. Queen against letting them a bedroom. He fleld."

Mary's parents were the Duke and had to be assured that they were Duchess of Teck. Yet the Duchess really husband and wife, though WOMEN'S SIGNATURES

signed Mary Adelaide, but the Duke bearing different names. was always Teck at the bottom of

Peers wives, on the other hand,

a letter. use their Christian names as well as their husband's titles. The present | BY COURTESY Duchess of Westminster would sub- scribe "Loelle Westminster." Bul the Duke's former wife uses the style Violet Duchess of Westminster."

Quite a number of people with handles" to their names sign just as commoners do. Take the noble.

was

There ช one instance in all Great Britain of a commoner signing like peer. He is Mr. A. T. Roach, Town Clerk of the City of London. To all official documents he sub- seribes himself with the singlo.word

Roach,"

Michael Compton.,