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ROUND ABOUT by

M

The Showman

Y colleague, Mr. Hughes, may say what he likes in his part of the paper, but I alene can give you the truth about "Paul,"

You remember Paul, on whom n blaze of light was shed when the wrong B.B.C. Luned in to the

voice was heard saying "What about a bit of this. Paul?"

tudio, and

I tave made most inetful Biquiries, and found out that al-a recond rousin of Peter Pan, by the way-la the Elf in charge of the B.D.C. Coy Department. He patters about from Bludio to sludio: making jolly little Jokes, bekling Bir John Heith with feather to make him laugh; in short, belug the Bfe and soul of the party,

He is really rather a tease be was aprile for those fanny fade onta. and for the lden of the D.1.C. StafT College--but everyone likes him for its terry face.

BALLAD

NAPIRED by a drop of something and the announcement of the fest frosty night in London this auttim. Note comer the frost, the prat white-

whtakered warning

That Winter with its Summer chilla

Is Heart

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1936.

WOMEN WHO RULE

They Help to

RUN LONDON

A

LITTLE Woman with shiarp eyes,

neatly shingled head and a quick smile all round, walked into an L.C.C. hospital one day and didn't stop until she came to the kitchens. shuddered

and Ugh! she quickly walked out again. A few dinys later new furniture and cooking equipment arrived for that hospital and the nurses were glad.

This dynamic little woman is Dr. Esther Rickards, Chairman of the L.C.C, Hospital Management Sub- Committee, which, with the Hos- pitals and Medical Services Com- mittee, of which Dr. Bomerville Hastings is chairman, controls 75 London hospitals,

She is No. 2 on the 11st of Women who Govern London under the

The errant wife prepares for firesideable guidance of Mr. Herbert Mor-

darning.

Li makes her annual change to port

from herr

And falling troves e in sccumulations As thick as politicians' reputations.

The rut makes fewer swashbuckling

excursions

Across the wall, and ceases jar to

TOBNI

The last perdnium goes, The child's

Riverston

Are more and more confined to

hearth and home.

faggie and Dert And early darkness

aurel

For courting up and down the crowded

strert,

*

So many "shopping days to Christ

PRAN are there- Or son will be.

Goes up

The bill for gan

The radio breathes to the ear of Pa

there,

Asleep and treating of his boyhood'a

pup.

Winter ahead! With Ernie's cold for

Afather

To deal with us she's depit with, many

another.

Indeed to Sweetness! NOW that it is so widely known that Mr. Lloyd George has won three prizea for honey, the realdent bersifa lain bouet will have some difficulty in keeping strangers out.

Already a snail beg, named Hitler, las crept £11..

Husbands to Tone

THE Buhop of Winchester bas sald

that "tite unhappy unions from which retense in sought in court ro few in triber compared to the vast majorly which are thoroughly happy In their married lives."

Lady Angela Pubilelty admits this fuct, but thinks it is too agonisingly old-fashioned.

While modes and innke-up chuge no rapidly," she said, "It is absolutely casential for the well-dressed woman ta find husbands who will harmonise with them."

i

rison.

There is nothing "red- tape" about Dr. Rickards. She has a very human job to do and she is doing it in a human way,

First she thinks of the patients In the London hospitals as stek people, not cases. Then, like any good housewife, she tries to give them the things sick people need.

Bhe is determined to make Lon- don hospitals under the L.O.C. control among the happy places of the earth.

one of

This woman, placed In the most important jobs in Civic administration, is proving that when a woman is picked for her brains, her sense of fatrplay and good generalship, she has nothing to fear from the pubile or her male colleagues.

she

11 could. Dr. Rickards, wanted, be one of the well-known Harley Street specialists who get fancy prices for consultations (she speciales in women's complainisi.

She told me that when she be- came a doctor she had a greal am- bition, and it was to make people well and happy.

She said to me, "If you want to cure people you have to consider housing, nutrition and ware, and that is not strictly a doctor's bust- ness. That is polities.

"Our I realised that my con- selence was uneasy. I knew there was a bigger job than doctoring. namely, that of fighting conditions that cause disense,"

* *

Mrs. L'Estrange Malone, vivid, dark-halted, slim, with an excel- Jent taste in frocks, has also got the job she loves to do.

Mr. Morrison, leader of the Lou-

don County Counell, seemed to know intuitively that she was the one woman to put in high com- mand of Public Assistance.

I found, when I met her, that she has been around all the Pub- lle Assistance Institutions in her capacity oľ Vice - Chairman.

Assistance Public

Committee, poking her umbrella into cracka in the floors, complaining about dirty walls. small windowa, un-" comfortable beds and small rooms. cracked crockery imoky ceilings.

**

and

complained,

"It was disgraceful that these places should be in the state I found them," she "and I have enjoyed telling the councillors who used to be in charge of this job during Con- servative rule at the County Hall. Just what I think of the matter."

Mrs. Malone, explaining just exactly what her job means, told

MRS. L'ESTRANCE MALONE "In high command of Public

Assistance

DR. RICKARDS Vice-Chairman of the LC.C.

Hospital Committac

me:"The work on which I am en- caged is among the most human of all the services of the Counell. We come into close touch with some of the most pitiable of those whom the Council serves-the destitute poor."

During August, when conditions are at their best owing to casual labour in elds and housing pro- viding a fow week's work, there are more than 50,000 cases, made up of 90,000 persons, receiving outdoor relier in the administrative arca- of London alone. There are about 10,000 cases received each week. and in addition the P.A.C. is re- sponsible for the management of a number of institutions with a total accommodation for nearly 12,000 persons.

**

That's a big job for any com- mittee, and any woman. Mrs. Malone is also Chairman of the General Purposes Committee of the LC.C., which deals with large questions of policy, the Institu- tions Sub-Committee and the Staff Sub-Committee, which controls a staff of more than 3,000 offers, and the Special Branches Sub- Commitice, to which is delegated, among other matters, the Council's power to exercise the rights of parents over destitute and felend- less children and the important

by Mary FERGUSON

work of protecting child-life in London.

In her capacity of Chairman of the Planning and Development Section of the P.A.O., she is taking a survey of all the institutions (they used to be called general mixed workhouses, but since they have been transferred to 'the P.A.C. the stigma of the name workhouse has been abolished), with a view to overhauling them and bringing them up to modern standard of decency.

Mrs. Malone plans to clasally these institutions so that each can be adapted to serve their inmates in the best possible way.

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you about the next bit of progres in her own words: We have not i been popular with the opposition at County Hall for what we are doing to make P.AC. Institutions Pres. Harrison more like, homes and leas. like Pres. Hayer

Pres. Wilson pinces of torture.

"I am working on an experiment Pres. Monre! for the provision of a small hostel Pres. Van Buren for able-bodied women. They ar at present housed in the most cheerless blocks of the institutions. engaged in scrubbing the dark corridors.

**

"I want to rehabilitate these women as we are already rehabl!- I plan tating many of the men.

to give them light outdoor occu- pation, such as gardening, and 1 hope to give them domestle train- ing as well.

"They will be given their chance In a bright, cheerful and homely atmosphere.

"It is my belief that there is no greater test of the culture of n community than the way in which it treats the helpless and destitute members. I am determined, an is the whole Labour Council County Hall, to provide P.A.C. Institution Rccommodation flot will not shame even the Public Assistance Committee of the Largest municipality in the world."

At

Now you can see for yourself why Mr. Herbert Morrison, the man who belleves in giving plenty of im- portant work to women, ls getting things done.

More power to Mrs. Malone's elbow,"

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.DR. SALAZAR

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