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P.T.A. and a businessman I buy iwument* for chcMAY FARQUHARSONDevoted to betterment of young and oldBy• Vivian Durhamlay Farquharson was bom 1894. at the site on Oxford Road. Halfway Tree, now occupied by The Christian Boy’s home. A Social Worker. Economist and Lecturer: Co-founder and Hon. Sec retary and Treasurer of the Jamaica Family Plan ning League; aof the Executive mittcc of various Organizations, of'the Panel. RentApart from her ocher civic activities, most of her life had been accing as Secretary co her late father. Sir Arthur Farquharson Kt. Bach. F.R.. S.A.. J.P.. Law-yer. Planter. Economist. Founder and Chairman of the then Jamaica Imperial Association now named after this illustrious Jamaican and currently known as the Farquharson Sir Arthur was also man of the Jamaica Producers Associatio 1929 over several when king banana in Jamaica was known as trreen gold in the island'silar to those in some European countries, notably Britain. Switzerland and the. - (Cont’d on Page 17)May---------------i-HISS MAY FA KQ III ARSONmem Board.; Kingston and St. Andrew (1944). She is the daughter of the late Venerable Sir • Arthur Farquharson. that great and legendary Jamaican character, and Lillian May (nee Stone)_ his wife..Miss Farquharson was possibly the- earliest and only pioneer of an Old Age Insurance Scheme jet up by Govern ment on lines similar to those then existing in the countries of the in the thirties, in Jamaica. Amer ; it*.'; and Jersey Channel Isfcnds.. then Cheltenham Indies College in England. F University London of Economics, she cr attached to the Staff. Voluntary Military Cross -Royal Woolwich, the 1914-’ successfully com-d a Course in Sociology the. accent on Social are work at The Lon-School of Economics 1-50).Farquharson was of trc, ndous heip co her father for some years on his sugar Estates in Vere. and later in the multifarious voluntary-public work in which he was interested.In that bitter pre-Bustamante era. which was the turning point in our awakened pub lie conscience Miss Farqu harson became acutely aware of the stress and of the poor problems of starvation s and a precarious exist in their slums and hov This awareness was from about the age of five, partly as a con-. sequence of being distressed by the sight of shabby boys and men running after a Cab in London, competing for chc few pennies they might earn in carrying lug gage The problems of poverty affected her to the core, as did that of existing cruelty to dumb creatures.Objectively. Miss Farquharson .had been acquainted in Britain with Lord Beveridge and his plan lor social security which incorporated provisions for an Old Age Insurance Scheme calculated to make happier the lot of old people .in the twilight of their days.After a meticulous and analyt ical study of the problem as an Economist cum Sociologist. she began in 1957 under the pen-name FEDALIA. a campaign through the newspapers. Conferences, talks at Church functions, and Citizens Associations. She kept - knocking incessantly at the door of Government to inaugurate an Old Age Insurance Scheme on lines sim-—/W, I® mmUnscramble these four Jumbles, on* letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.\ KEREC |1t 1I HISFY f1 1 1This is the plan—he comes before me!GLEMITITTICENTIEINow arrange the circled letters. to form the surprise answer, a* suggested by the above cartoon.MOtSBWISHDgWBHm | “CO“CO“COYadndayitomorrow)JjumWc-PANIC RANCH SLEIGH FIESTA| A or-- The kind of performance you miqhl expert from a hoothtark turned aelor- -SHINING'ANECDOTEIn 1917 I was one of a contingent of volunteers comprised of West Indian-working in the U S.A. who joined up in Now York tc do their bit in the first world war.We were transported tc. Canada and after a few weeks' training there wc left for England. At thcra ilway station we were met by an officer of the Grenadier Guards and to the martial strains of the band ol that Regimant we marched to Wellington Barracks in l.oridson where wc were billeted over the week end.On Sunday we saw the Grenadier Guards on Church parade. It was a most impressive sight. How ever, the display of military movement and precision convinced me that 1 had made a mistake in joining the Coldstream Guards as 1 did not think after watching that performance that I could make the grade. (Incidcntially. . I was the only one of the contingem that had enlisted in tht Guards).. So I decided tc for a transfer to ar regiment.We were escorted tc Whitehall on Monday morning to get our leavt tickets and pay and I took the opportunity of asking the Major in charge if ) could get a transfer Hlt; said the matter had to blt; referred to the War Office and that I must return tin next day for the answer This I did. only to be told that a transfer was not pos sible and that the reason would be explained when I had settled in at my Regimental Depot.After two weeks fur-, lough in London with some of the friends I had madt on board, ship. 1 off to Caicrham, the then Dopot for recruits.About ten days or twe weeks latei. the latest recruits, myself included, were summoned to a lecture by the Commandant who spoke in glowing term* of the history of the Brigade of Guards and of the bravery of individualFinally, he said:- “you rs of the fin • in the world and while you can get a transfer from an ordinary Line Regiment to the Guards. ■ the position can not be reversed, besides which you. get a penny a day more.’’ H. 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