Hello and welcome to Plus Politics. I am better qualified to rule Lagos. Lagos' SDP Guba candidate, Kunle Utman, says ahead of governorship polls. And a boot party collapses structures in Lagos' southwest Nigeria, forms alliance with Labour Party. Once again, this is Plus Politics. My name is Nyam Gul Aghaji. Kunle Utman, who is the Social Democratic Party SDP Lagos' governorship candidate, last week promised to make water transportation effective if voted into office in 2023. This is said at an interactive session with political party candidates in Lagos. He says, among all other candidates running for the position of governor in Lagos, he is better qualified. We're now joined to discuss this tonight by Kunle Utman himself, governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party. Well, thank you for joining us on the show this evening, sir. OK, a lot of people are surprised because you have said the things that you are going to do if you are elected into office as governor. In the meantime, we've heard rumors. These are still rumors until we confirm from you that your party has collapsed structures and are joining the APC. How true is this? Well, I do think it's rumor. What has happened is the APC has given this supposed rumor a robust term of the fact that it is true. And that creates a lot of problem. Because first and foremost, we have not joined the APC in this election. And we can never, ever join the APC. And the reason why we can't join them is we believe that they are failed. Because, by the way, this one we know has failed to serve the people of Lagos state in the last four years. And we believe that its failure is such that anybody who associates with that political party in the forthcoming gubernatorial election is also going to have the stain on himself as a failure. And because the Social Democratic Party will know as a fact that we have the manpower, we have the competence, and we have the cerebral personalities to do the job. And we have a manifesto that is citizen-friendly, poised for a change. So we cannot be seen to associate with a failure. And why it is a failure is this announcement that we have joined them was made on their official platform. They have this platform, they call it Girls Focus, on WhatsApp. They are all there. Every one of them is there. They're putting government down. Even the government's one, I think, is there, is being administered by a young guy. It's them, it's called fact they do. And they always speak from this platform. So it's not a rumor. They have put us in a situation where it has become obligatory, imperative, that we must tell the world that we have nothing whatsoever in common with all PC in Lagos state, and it is not an option that we have. I spoke with the chairman of the party. I spoke with the national secretary.  It is fake news. And if a political party at this stage of election will engage in fake news, we can as well also say it is a fake political party that is determined to rubbish other people, to interfere in the politics of their party, and begin to go around and say they have joined us. Now, the PC in Lagos state is obliged to show us number one. Who are the members of SDP that joined them? Number one, because I am the official leader of the Social Democratic Party in Lagos state. Nothing happens in this state without my consent and information. What, I don't have any information. My consent was never sought, and I knew all our House of Assembly candidates, Kerry, Morifu, Eseri, Mises, Oshidi, the man in Ekbe, Olatuji, everyone of us were intact as a political party, including Fashi, Abin Bola, who is in Amuradofi. I have asked everybody. Nobody was part of this road arrangement. Now, the MPC must tell us one. The people, the document that was signed. Because if two parties come together, there must either be a memorandum of understanding between the two of them, or there must be a document. If they don't bring that out, then I actually feel sorry for them. That in their desperation to get this Babatunde Saulu elected, they are actually doing everything that is wrong. They are paying the travel ticket. They are paying the religious ticket. They are casing us in Lagos state. This is a place where all of us, we are very happy. The people man is happy here. The people man is, they are also men. All of us, we are believing together, we are intermarried. So what is this nonsense? That they have simply brought him because of re-election. Why did it was time to campaign and we are debating? Babatunde Saulu was everywhere. Following his political got further to Chatham also, clap. Why he was in England? Some organization organized the debate. Who are all there? Janda was there. I was there. Drachi was there. And he, Dickson was there. And the women was organized at four points by charity. But people said they were people. He never, ever attended any debate. We don't know what he wants to do for this thing. His 21 year project is a complete failure. He cannot start the brewery. His hospital signed a mess. The road signed a mess. The traffic did go everywhere. But he said he was going to tell us what is going to do to change the narrative. All we are adding is matching with this one. It's going to this church to campaign. This election is going to complete nonsense. OK, well, because of the showing from the last election, the presidential election, SDP didn't make such a huge impact. But the story could be different now. I'm asking, if you're not having an alliance with the APC, are you having any alliance with another political party? First and foremost, let me deal with the first part of your question. SDP didn't make any showing before we had no senator. We had no representative member. We have, it was just all of us, using our resources and the support of our friends to sustain the party. Now we have senators. Now we have also representative members in the two houses. So it's not a zero level, we have made progress. Number two, we are building a political structure. We are building a party from scratch, right? And by the time we finish this election, we also believe that a couple of governors will emerge. Let's go straight to my home to us. There was once a Sarumi and Balajiobi problem with this state and an Othedela emerge. Maybe we are looking at an Othedela arrangement because the first curve that these APCs engage in shows that the chances of them winning this election is a little bit small. Now let's go to the presidential election. Yes, it's also an APC problem. They lost Wofu in Lagos state. If the elected president who says Lagos is my home, he has been saying this for a long time. And we have been saying, you know, if Balajiobi was in Lagos state and his party lost in Lagos state, then they have a problem. And that is why they are engaged in this political frenzy that at all costs, they must win. So what are they doing? They are chanting war songs everywhere. These numbers were for me, if they don't join to war song, they are chanting religious songs. No, let it be a level playing ground. For us in the APC, we are convinced beyond doubt. APCO, SDP. The Social Democratic Party, we are convinced. APC can never, ever be convinced. We are convinced beyond reasonable doubt that number one, we have selected very good people to participate in this election. We are not everywhere. We are not in the four, 40 house of assembly seats. But the ones we are going to contest, they are good people. They are nice people. They are cerebral people. This is number one. Number two, we believe they have to clean up man. You know to clean up man, right? That is me. Is a fit and proper person to govern the state. And I have displayed it. In terms of my cerebral powers and the debates, everybody says Kule, you are simply excellent. So for me, I am not desperate. Power belongs to the people. What democracy means is a government of the people, for the people, by the people.  And they will vote. At the end of the day, we have to respect the decision of the people. There is going to be mass youth participation, which will allow the electoral process to go through. So only we will not be the first governor in Lagos State to spend one time. I've talked about the fashion line, we do two times. And but one time. So only maybe you will join the one time people. And even when the political both father attempted to remove fashion line, the people came around and said no, you can't. Because it was popular. The only reason why this man is running around and lying everywhere. And he asked the media team that is putting forth wrong information is to the public is because he has performed go fully. Sangra's market, he didn't do it until I started shouting, Sangra, Sangra, they're building it now. And we got here, he didn't do anything there. Committing in Lagos is a traffic problem. And four years ago, when he was going to be sworn in as governor, he entirely preceded the debate. He promised, if I don't solve the traffic in Lagos State, I will not be justified to be governor anymore. He has not done anything. So he's asked my card to make sure that it goes back to Diabu Emushi, where it comes from, and allow us to breathe. But he would say that the rail lines have come up? No, it doesn't come up. The rail line come up means that the trains will move, my friend. It will move. Have you ever entered that train? The only train we enter is the one that belongs to National Railways Corporation. It's not a rail line, it's a mono line. And this mono line started by a fashion line, eight years. And by the four years, 12, himself four, 16, CMS, two mile two, disaster of a gold. I'm not going to explain on this project. Okay, well, you said you did well in the debate. Yes, you really did well in the debate, but it goes beyond doing well in the debate. What are the antecedents that people will look at to sequelae with man is a good person to rule Lagos. Check the profile. I don't want to be, I want to be humble, but in my humility, I'm obliged to reveal certain information. In 1995, I was in the ING government, Interim National Government of Unisonico, as the personal assistant to the Honorable Minister of Transportation. Then after I proceeded as the personal assistant to the Honorable Minister of Power and Steel, I returned to legal practice after that and I was called upon during that period to be part of a team that drew up the planning law and regulation for legal state. And the purpose of that regulation is that building should be made up. And it is interesting. I don't want to repeat it. That Mr. Babaji D'Souwulu was the vice chairman of this committee. General Rees was the chairman. General Rees was the gentleman that built Cooperative Villa. I'm sure you are there. There is a solo manager who did me a good job. Nice man, he was there. Professor Kredeli, he was there. I did, you know, was there. You are people from Ministry of Justice and we sat for almost two years looking holistically at the problem of buildings in Lego State.  Interestingly, and by way of a complete turnaround, when Babaji D'Souwulu at Minister of the State for so many years, buildings have not stopped collapsing. He is tenured as being Christian as the governor of collapsing buildings. But buildings were collapsing before he came. I'm sure you can tell me the one that collapsed. But the one I know that I'm telling you, 21-story building collapsed. It has never happened in Nigeria before, 21. And those buildings were paid for in dollars. We later discovered the buildings were never in short. Those people, it was a colossal loss. The man who was in charge, he died in the building. We don't have information. The deputy governor came out and he said to us it was 21 stories that was approved. The man who was in charge of the ASA, it was 16. So believe me, since 21 came down, seven came down in Omuru, five came down building collapsing every. And you see this man, for me, considering the amount of revenue that comes into this state, the amount of revenue, internally generated revenue. And considering what is received from the center, we don't have a business having this kind of state. Our water transportation is almost zero. When Jack O'Day was there, he did better. He had the Tafaji Ferry, which was there on the water. It will commit you, if you had a good ferry service, the commuting time of two Lagos CMS and a papa who is not more than 15 minutes, you don't have to be on the road at all. If you have a functional ferry service, you can also do the same thing with Badagri. You don't have to come through all these first tax beyond the road. You need to think outside the box. There are places in the world, more than 15 years ago, I was in Amsterdam, I entered the ferry, it's called Ulysses. It's a three-day ferry on there, it's a car park, you drive your car, you can sit down there between Dublin and London. It's, there are many ferries everywhere. I've done my investigation. My friends and I, we have looked at it because I do a lot of maritime work. And we know that there are ferries everywhere in the world we can repair, we can fix, turn around and bring it to our waterways. So that if you are moving from CMS to Equalogy, you don't have to be on the road. If you are going from Equalogy to Egeda, you don't have to be on the road. If you are going to Badagri, you don't have to be on the road. What does that, the Lagos is not a landlocked state. It's a state that is blessed with water everywhere. And that is the reason why we see the customs and everybody, we are a generating revenue state for the further government of Nigeria. At a point, the internally generated revenue of Lagos state was that of party states of Nigeria. One small state, party states combined. So we don't have any reason for us to be in this state other than the fact that we are very corrupt officials of governments. They look aside, they didn't do what they have to do. If everybody will have to end their own pay. And the existence of this company, they call Alphabeta. Alphabeta belongs to one of them that has consistently because the collective revenue of the Afro government, we don't have any business with Alphabeta. For example, executive order O1 or post-signal company, that's useless contract. Okay, well, okay. Maybe that is part of the question I'm going to ask you now. Because when you talk about corruption, it's like it's an establishment, it's something, it's an institution that no one man can abolish. How do you intend to fight this corruption that is bedeviling Lagos state? The word corruption itself has different meanings and dosages. Depends on the way you want to apply it. So I am now speaking specifically of the corruption in a range in the bureaucracy. I'm not defining corruption everywhere. I'm limiting this word in the supply times by way of juxtaposition to corruption in government. If everybody did what they ought to do. If a man who is going to approve the building plan knows that he has to approve it, you don't start building until you have your approval. If the people who are supposed to inspect floor by floor they do their job, things should be okay. My brother, if the money we are getting in the state is going to be applied for the benefit of the state, we are going to get somewhere. We have this problem with local government. Lagos state government is one of the states that is leading opposition to local government autonomy. Now what is the reason for that? The constitution is clear, we are a tripartite government. The further the state and the local government and our location should go directly to each. The further it takes its own, the state take their own, local government shall have their money directly. Why is it going through the executive? Is it an abnormality? So it has to be corrected. There are things that we are doing in this state that is not making the state grow. We are the last man, very corrupt organization, last man. How will you get these people to turn around and not be corrupt? The people that you say are corrupt are making these things the way they are because you can't be everywhere at the same time. You see, the bureaucracy does not assume that one man is going to govern everywhere. What the bureaucracy tells you is that that's a functional system. The man who has the bureaucracy in the ministry is not the commissioner as it were. It's a political appointee. It's the permanent secretary. And it is assumed that he's well grounded in the bureaucracy. He knows what to do. So what do we do? We also ensure that we have a retraining system. A retraining system. whereby each person should understand that we are paid to do a certain job. The way government works, if you are given a contract, there is already factored into that contract, your profit margin, if you did it best. But you find people, they do surely jobs, they work. In lucky, they have been removing the permanent stones on the road now for like four, five times. Who did that job initially? That didn't do it well. So we must have a corporate responsibility system. Whereby we have a sense of accountability. The bureaucracy can be more refined. We can also do a rewarding system. We can also encourage people. If you did X, Y, and Z, we are going to do so and so. We can also look at the possibility of recalibrating the salaries of the civil servants and giving them enhancement. What we have in the system now, in Lagos State and in most parts of this country, it's just a bureaucracy that is dysfunctional. UNI now will live in Nigeria. Today, I've not seen Naira for the last seven days. I've not seen it at all. I don't have cash. People are standing, they can't go to work. And that is because we have the system of a president and a civilian governor who don't understand the basic rules of macroeconomics. You don't do this. In other countries, there will be real problems. Well, not at all. You go to the bank, the bank is not open.  What kind of country is this one? So we need to actually tell ourselves that we are operating governance at the level of the subhumans. And that's where anywhere we go in the world, we are subjected to these people, these are bad people. We are not bad people. We're very good people, cerebral. We can think, we write books. We are professors, we are lawyers. We are good media people.  So we need to evolve an educational system. Do you know in this country, they don't treat history more in schools? If you don't know the history of your people, how then do you understand what your grandfather's did for the development of your country? So there's so many things that have taken place that we all must now look at it and see if we don't have hospitals. When this new president, when he went out there, he would go to Europe. People would start visiting him there. The one that has just been elected. The one that is there now, the same thing applies. Even when the vice president had issues with his health, he didn't go to general hospital. He went to one Agibota Hospital in Hedja where you enter the places as if you're in England. We must develop our health system in such a way that we are part of what we are. I have never, ever been for health treatment anywhere in the world except in Lagos. Whenever I was here, I'd go to a hospital, if I'm not there, I'd go to Air Force Hospital. If not, I'd go to Lute. I have cats of all these people. In the last few years, whatever option I have and if I become governor of Lagos State and I'm done, if anybody takes me anywhere in this country, my ghost will be chasing me all over the place. Okay, because our time is up. Let's try to round off in the shortest possible time. What are the first three things that you will do if you are elected into office? I will reform last man. I will reform last man. I will employ more people and I will make it a human traffic friendly organization. Because with that, I will be able to decongest the world.  There's some areas in Lagos that they have traffic gridlock almost the whole day. So we need to look at those areas. VGC, Ococo, Michael, Ocoro do, but there are certain areas we will need to look at and we will employ people. Most of us will develop our agriculture. You need these fish we eat. Agriculture, fish agriculture shows now that you don't have to actually go into the sea because you have a system now whereby you can have a tank system and you can actually build the fish. I will encourage our young people, our youth to engage in that agriculture. I will provide for them small, medium scale industries facilities that they can actually use to start this business and they can make money for themselves. They can be self-employed. And more importantly, I will correct the mistake that this administration has made and they are making. They have this university mentality.  That whenever it goes to school, it must go to university.  It's wrong. Because you see polytechnic education offers a different education than the university. So people can go to the polytechnic, there will be a genius, there will be accountants and they will be very, very successful. And also more importantly, this question of collapsing colleges of education into university is also something that they have not well thought out. Because the colleges of education, they're actually there to train teachers. Teachers who will serve in the schools. They are professional teachers. They get their NCE. Later they may want to get other degrees. But we don't have to make every institution university. And more importantly, like I said the education system, the schools are not, the schools are, they don't have teachers, they don't have pupils. So I will encourage our teachers and whoever does well in this country. In my state, especially the doctors, they are going to have a special scholarship scheme. During this time, we are going to ensure that we have more people in science. We are going to be training them from the hospital. And you see, if you go to the one I wrote there, there used to be a nursing hospital. A nursing hospital. They are huge. If you go there now, we will be surprised. They have allocated it to themselves. It has become their campaign office. How does any government do that? The School of Nursing is located there to feed the general hospital. The nurses, they stay there, they go to the hospital. But Saweru and his political godfather, they have turned it into campaign office. They brought it down. So me, I will again revoke that license. That's the of, oh, I paid the School of Nursing back. Okay, we've been hearing from them. Wait a minute. No, no, no. I know there is a lot more to say, but we can always only wish you good luck on Saturday. Thank you very much. When the polls are open for voting for the people of Lagos State. We've been listening to Kunle Utman, who is the Social Democratic Party, SDP Lagos Governorship Candidate. And he has promised a lot of things. Everything lies in the hands of the people. Saturday is another day for election. Go out and vote for your choice. If he's the one, then choose him. If he's someone else, let's hope for a better Lagos than what we have right now. We'd like to say thank you to you, Mr. Utman, for coming on the show. And we are, like I said, we wish you well. I reciprocate your gesture. I'm grateful for this opportunity. And like I said, the Social Democratic Party will contest this election. Let the people decide. And we'll see if that emerges. We'll shake his hands, or they will shake our hands. And we hope for a better Lagos in the next four years. Thank you very much. All right, we thank you for staying with us. We take a short break now. And when we return, we will be taking a look at the boot party and plans for Lagos ahead of the governorship elections. Stay with us.


Proudly We Hail. From New York City where the American stage begins, here is another transcribed program with a cast of outstanding players and featuring as Anne Cunningham, Patsy Campbell. Public Service Time has been made available by this station for your Army and your Air Force to bring you this story as Proudly We Hail Gallant American Women. This is the story of women who have helped to develop the American way of life. Daughters of destiny, mothers of might, co-makers of history, written large upon the honoros of our nation's great. Women courageous who have served and sacrificed, worked and dreamed, pioneered and persevered. Women whose names, deeds and claims to fame have often been forgotten. This is their story and it is your story. Three centuries of women whose deeds are rooted deep in our past and whose influence will reach far into the future. It's the story of you, the pioneer women of today, who are blazing the trails of tomorrow. After this important message, our first act curtain will rise. Before this exciting story begins, a story about courageous American women in the past. I'd like to say a few words about courageous American women of the present who are serving their country as service women alongside the men in the United States Army and United States Air Force. These women will have the gratifying knowledge that they'll be writing new pages in the history book during one of the most critical periods in our nation's history. You can join these women by volunteering in the WAC, Women's Army Corps, or in the WAC, Women in the Air Force. Visit your nearest United States Army and United States Air Force recruiting station and enlist now. Today we bring you the story of women who have made history by preserving it. Women who have dedicated themselves to the simple principle that our dead have not died in vain and that the cement of our union, the binding quality of our nation, is the patriotism of its people. This then is the story of tradition kept alive, the story of the women who saved Mount Vernon. This might have been your breakfast table three weeks ago. More coffee, John? Coffee. Would you like another cup? Oh, yes, yes, please. Darling, would you mind very much if I asked you once again not to read at the table? Please! Why not? No one's around. No. That is no one but me. What? Never mind. Will you look at this? How can I? What is it? Oh, listen, this will make your hair stand on end. Fredericksburg, Virginia, February 2nd, 1952. George Washington's boyhood home, Ferry Farm, will be sold at public auction at 11 a.m. Saturday. It was at Ferry Farm that Washington is said to have performed the legendary feats of chopping down the cherry tree and hurling a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River. Now, can you tie that? I think that's dreadful. Letting an historic place like that come up at public auction. Well, something should be done about it. You're right, absolutely, but what can be done? Well, I don't know exactly, but I think it should be preserved for future generations. Something should be done about it. Well, look at what they did to Mount Vernon. Look at what who did to Mount Vernon? Well, the government. John, dear, the government had very little to do with the saving of Mount Vernon. But I... Mount Vernon was once well on the road to the same fate as now Ferry Farm, but it was saved just at the last moment. Is that so? Who saved it? A gallant woman from South Carolina. And Pamela Cunningham. I see where the Democratic Convention in Baltimore has approved the compromise of 1850. Maybe now we'll get a little peace from the abolitionists. I've got $500 that Franklin Pierce will beat the pants off of Donald Webster. Any takers? Well, speak up, any takers. Good evening, Captain Joseph. Beautiful night, Mrs. Cunningham. Yes, it is. Oh, come now. The moon is much too bright for so sad an expression. I'm sorry, but leaving my daughter Ann Pamela sick and alone in Philadelphia was a hard thing to do. She'll be better off there under the doctor's care. She's so frail, so weak. Does the doctor think that, well, that someday she may walk again? Well, it's too soon to tell yet. I'm sure everything possible will be done for her, ma'am. Be very lonesome at our home without Ann Pamela. I suppose Ma'am will be empty. Now what's there? The passing Mount Vernon. The custom for all boats going up and down the Potomac to sound the bells at this point. Now isn't that an excellent custom? Oh, look. The moon's so bright we can see the buildings. Beautiful, aren't they? The moonlight is kind to Mount Vernon. Kind? Yes. It's not so pretty during the day. The house is shabby. The ground's almost untended. But that sounds impossible. Well, I stayed there for over a week with my two daughters at ten years ago, 1842. Everything was going well then. Times are harder now, when Mount Vernon is paying the penalty for years and years of growing a single crop. Cotton. The land is dead. Dead? That land dead?  Why, its tradition is sacred within Mount Vernon's walls. Yes. Tradition never paid a bill in Mount Vernon has many. I've talked to Mr. John Washington about it many times. He tells me that over 10,000 people visited yearly. And no great attribute could be paid to General Washington. Very true. But these visitors are offered the hospitality of the plantation. That means food, linens, money. As John Washington has said, everything is lavish at Mount Vernon, except the land. But then why doesn't the government buy it? I don't know. It's been offered both to the United States government and to the Commonwealth of Virginia. But they have not been willing to purchase it. Is there a price on it? Oh, yes. $100,000.  Captain Joseph's, there's a treasure on that land, the greatest treasure this country possesses, the body of the man who gave us our democracy, and the ground he loved so well. Why, any price would be cheap for such a hallowed spot.  There are more than you dream of, Captain Joseph's. My daughter Anne is one. We've passed Mount Vernon. Yes, we go by, but Mount Vernon stays, as it will always stay, quiet, serene, peaceful. The spirit of America is beyond that bend, Captain Joseph's. And something tells me it'll always be there, sacred to the man who built a nation and a home, and both must never doubt it. What can we do about it? I don't know, sir. I don't know, but maybe Anne will know. I'll write to her. Look pretty. Thank you. I'll take your wraps, Miss. Thank you. You're much better. Thank you. Well, for pity's sakes, you're out of bed. Yes, I am. I'm out of bed, and I intend to stay out of bed. But the doctor said... Oh, Miss Virginia, she don't care no how what the doctor said. That's right. But, Anne, dear... Oh, come, sit down beside me. Lizzie, fetch some tea. Yes, sir. I will say this. I've never seen you look so well, Anne Pamela Cunningham. What's all this about? This is about a letter. A letter I received yesterday. A letter? Mm-hmm. From who, mother? She's safe at home at Rosemount. Well, of course, that's a weight off your mind. Oh, of course. Let me read you the letter. I have it here. Oh, pull the curtains up a bit, please. Of course, dear. Oh, thank you. Now, listen. My dear Anne, here I am safe again back home. I wish you were with me, dear... Oh, and so on and so on. Oh, now listen to this. On the boat down the Potomac from the capital, we passed Mount Vernon. My dear, I'm glad you were not with me. It is not a glad sight to see. The buildings dilapidated, the grounds overgrown, all in a bad state of disrepair. And now I hear that the entire state is... is to be sold soon and may fall into the hands of speculators. Oh, dear. It is all so wrong something should be done to save this famous home where Washington lies buried. Somehow I feel that if the government cannot save it, then someone else should. I don't know who. Darling, what can be done? Who can save Mount Vernon? But Anne... Who can save Mount Vernon? I will save Mount Vernon. I will do it. Anne, dear, what are you saying? I'm gonna save Mount Vernon. But, dear, you mustn't even think of such things. You're supposed to rest, be quiet. The doctor says... Virginia, this letter marks the renaissance of Anne Pamela Cunningham. Yesterday I was lying in that bed lying and helplessly watching my life slip away, not caring much if the end would come this year or next. But now, now I have a reason for living, a reason to want to live. I have a mission, Virginia, wonderful mission. You can't do this.  No, it won't. It'll make me live. I have a task to perform now. It's a big task, but I'll do it. I'll save Mount Vernon. But how can you? I'll go back from Philadelphia to South Carolina once to begin my task. I'll call on every woman in the land to help me. And they will, too. Darling, I can't let you do it. Well, I've already written an appeal that I shall circulate through every city, town, and hamlet. I've signed it, the Southern Matron, because, as you know, no gentleman woman could allow a name to appear in the public prince. Oh, but here, let me read it to you. All right. An appeal for the purchase and future preservation of the home and grave of George Washington. Washington belongs to our whole country. Though he lies and must lie, it is what is worth of his achievement. And Pamela Cunningham's appeal swept the country. Women everywhere heard her plea. In the south, her words were read. Can a tribute never rendered before to mortal man such a tribute as we now plead for? Wipe out such a blot as this. To a woman on such a mission, no heart, no place could be closer. And in the north, her words struck home. And in all coming time, every pilgrim drew that hallowed shrine from the remotest regions of the earth. Can there learn who did this deed of love? Signed a Southern matron. And among the thousands who answered Anne Pamela Cunningham's appeal, there was one who saw in her campaign more than a mere reconstruction of a shrine. This woman was then fighting a great battle of peace to keep the north and south a united nation. She foresaw the coming conflict and looked upon Anne Cunningham's campaign to save Mount Vernon as a campaign to save the Union. Her name was Sarah Joseph Hale, editor of Godi's Ladies' Book. Is Mrs. Hale in her office? Well, yes, Mr. Godi. Thank you. Who that breathes the free air of our Republic? Oh. Good day, Mr. Godi. Mrs. Hale, I... Just a moment, please, while I finish this dictation. Who that breathes the free air of our Republic does not feel that where Washington lived and died is the holiest spot in all our land. Yes, Mr. Godi. I've just seen the proofs of the new edition of Ladies' Book. Yes. They won't do. Won't do at all. They're impossible. Really? This campaign of this, uh, what's her name, this southern matron to save Mount Vernon and all that, it's a fine idea, no doubt. But I don't think we have any place in it. Oh. Why, it's not too much of the south. In view of the circumstances, I think it's, well... Injudicious. Injudicious. Exactly. Hmm. Mr. Godi. I accepted the editorship of the Ladies' Book under the very explicit condition that I was to have complete control of the editorial policy. I know that, and you've done a superb piece of work. Thank you. I intend to keep it up. Oh, but really now, there's no earthly reason to get mixed up in the campaign of this southern matron. There is an excellent reason. Our nation is tottering on the brink of an abyss, being pushed into it by men. If anyone can save us from this horrible fate, it's the women of America. True, true. But what about our northern readers? Northern women are no different from southern women.  Oh, I don't know. Well, I do. Mr. Godi, we're going ahead with this campaign. Under the leadership of the southern matron, we are going to save Mount Vernon. And perhaps help save the Union. Well, it's a big campaign. Yes. Yes, it is. A very big campaign. Good day, Mr. Godi. Now, Mary will continue. Let's see. Oh, yes. Take this down. We want contributions from every section. We want the daughters of the north to come with rich gifts and join their sisters of the south as the brave patriots of both regions united in the glorious war of the revolution. Washington's fame belongs to the whole country. His name is the holy cement of our union. The editors of The Lady's Book hope to interest every friend of theirs in this effort of national patriotism. Patsy Campbell featured as Anne Cunningham in the proudly-we-held production of Gallant American Women will return in just a moment for the second act. Love and loyalty to one's country have never been the exclusive attributes of men. Women, too, have given concrete evidence of their devotion and courage. Now, more than ever before, the services of women are urgently needed to undertake thousands of jobs in the armed forces where a critical manpower shortage threatens the defense effort. More than ever before, the United States Army and United States Air Force need young women in its expanding forces. So go to your nearest Army and Air Force recruiting station. Have a talk with a recruiting sergeant. He will help you decide how you can best serve your country. Volunteer for service in the WAC, Women's Army Corps, or the WAC, Women in the Air Force today. You are listening too proudly, we hail. And now we present the second act of Gallant American Women. You've got to stop this. I demand it. All your friends here in Richmond demand it. You've got to rest. Oh, Lizzie, bring me that list of contributions from the women in New Jersey, and that letter from Miss Sarah Joseph-Hale. Yes, sir. Miss Cunningham, I refuse to be responsible. As your doctor, I insist that you return to bed at once. And so does your assistant, and she's just as anxious as you to save Mount Vernon. Thank you very much, my desk. Miss Cunningham, why don't you listen to Dr. McGregor? Come here, doctor. Young lady, would you stop this nonsense? Please come over here, doctor. All right. What is it? Look here. Look at these letters and messages from every state of the Union. Ever since my very first message, I've been swamped with thousands and thousands of contributions to our cause. Look here. This is all very well, but you are not up to the task. Now, why can't someone else pick up the thread? Let someone else be president of this... Mount Vernon, ladies' association of the Union. Yes, whatever it is, but you ought to stop this work at once. No, Dr. McGregor. I insist. I intend to go on.  You're wrong, doctor. It will make me live. From every state of the Union, women offered their help. Even Edward Everett, the great orator, dedicated the proceeds of his lecture on Washington to the cause, and became Miss Cunningham's eloquent champion. The campaign started slowly, gained impetus, and soon was sweeping the nation. Lordy, I'm glad to see you. What's the matter? What's happened, Miss Anne? Oh, doctor, I'm just one big lump of mush for a fact. I'm so worried about her. What's happened to Miss Anne? I had to send for you. I did my best. Lizzie, now where's Miss Anne and what's happened? Miss Anne's gone out of her mind for a fact. She's so weak, she can hardly keep her eyes open. And you know what? What? She's made up her mind to go traipsing around again. She's leaving Richmond for Mount Vernon. And I can't stop her. You've got to stop her, doctor. You just got to. Why is she? In her room upstairs. Don't you worry, Lizzie. I'll stop her. May I come in? Yes. Miss Cunningham, what is this? Please sit down, doctor. Please sit down. Oh, very well. Five years, doctor. Five years we spent planning and working in the women of America. Working to save Mount Vernon for America. Five years now. Please, Miss Cunningham. It was a grueling fight. But never heartbreaking. Because we knew our cause was a great one. For the first time, the women of our nation united together in one common campaign to save Mount Vernon. It was a tremendous undertaking. First, they said we couldn't get the money. Well, we collected it. Yes, I know. Then they said... Then they said Virginia would never let us buy the land. But the state of Virginia is willing now to incorporate us. You didn't know that, did you, doctor? No, I didn't. Everything seemed settled. Sure. But... Now what's happened? Mr. John Washington refuses to sell. You can't do that. He refuses to sell Mount Vernon to us. But why? Why? Because he somehow received the impression that the Mount Vernon Ladies Association and the General Assembly of the State of Virginia have united to reflect on him. But that's nonsense. Of course it is. But rumors have been flying around. Slanders against me personally. Against the association. Doctor. Doctor, he must sell.  But he must be told the truth. So I'm going to Mount Vernon. You are not. You're not leaving this room. I'm going. But you can't. Train ride in your condition would be fatal. I'll go by boat. No, you mustn't. But I must. Miss Cunningham, please. For the sake of your mother, listen to me. You can't go. You can't? That's a strange word to me, doctor. First, I can't gather the women of America around me. Then I can't raise enough money. Then I can't get the Commonwealth of Virginia to grant the association a charter. But I did all these things. And now you say I can't go to Mount Vernon. That's a challenge, doctor. You should know better than to challenge a woman. If you go, now mark this, Ann Pamela Cunningham. If you so much as step out of this room, you'll sign your own death certificate. Now I am serious. So am I. And I'll sign no death certificate before I sign the deed that will place Mount Vernon in the hands of the women of America. Lizzie. Yes, sir? Lizzie, start packing. We're going. You're going to your death. I warn you. Mr. Washington, as his descendant, don't you now agree that General Washington would have wished it to be this way? Miss Cunningham, you convinced me that there has been a misunderstanding. And I am sorry. Oh, but it isn't I. I'm not the one to be considered. It's the women of this country, Mr. Washington. They've worked so hard. They've given so much. Let them, let them do their part to keep Mount Vernon for the people.  A very gallant lady. No more gallant than any of the thousands who have joined me in this great mission. Or you must let me buy Mount Vernon. Well, I think, I think General Washington might have agreed with you. He would have. He would have wanted it, I know. Oh, let us have it. We'll guard it well. I'm sure you will. Well, then, then... Have the agreement drawn up, Miss Cunningham? I, I've come prepared. I've already had an agreement drawn up and I have brought it with me. Oh, may I see it, please? Oh, yes. Here it is, Mr. Washington. Thank you. Well, you seem to have overlooked nothing, Miss Cunningham. Then you, you... Yes. Yes, I've made up my mind to sign. Now, let me see, I suppose you want me to sign here at the bottom of the page? Yes, if you please. Cunningham? It's done. Now it's your turn to sign for the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. Yes, it's my turn now. May I have the pen, please? Yes, of course, here it is. This must be a great moment for you. It is not only a great moment for me, Mr. Washington. It is a great moment for the whole nation. And so Mount Vernon passed from the hands of the heirs of George Washington to the women of the country. The ladies of Mount Vernon, with vice regents in almost every state of the Union, have guarded their treasure well. Kept it as Washington would have wanted it kept. Just as it was in the day he closed his eyes in a room on the second floor of the colonial mansion that stands overlooking the Potomac. It is a shrine for all democracy, a tribute to a great statesman, and always it stands as a living memorial to a woman who cherished a great idea more than she did her health. This woman was Anne Pamela Cunningham, whose last words to the ladies of Mount Vernon were... Ladies, the home of Washington is in your charge. See to it that you keep it the home of Washington. Let no irreverent hand change it. No vandal hand desecrated with the finger of progress. Those who go to the home in which he lived and died wish to see where he lived and died. Let one spot in this grand country of ours be saved from change. Upon you, rest this duty. And this is a duty that the women of America have gallantly performed. These women who make history by preserving history. These women who keep tradition and patriotism alive by marking the landmarks of history. These women to whom work and sacrifice time and effort, money and service are gladly given in one single cause. And that cause America. Thank you, Patsy Campbell, for a very stirring portrayal. And now here is an important message to the young women of America. You have just heard an interesting story about some of America's gallant women in the past. If you're between the ages of 18 and 34, you're invited to join America's Gallant Women of the Present, who now serve in the WAC, Women's Army Corps, and the WAC, Women in the Air Force. Visit your local United States Army and United States Air Force Recruiting Station today and get all the details. This has been another program on Proudly We Hail, presented transcribed in cooperation with this station by the United States Army and United States Air Force Recruiting Service. This program featured Patsy Campbell as Ann Cunningham. This is Kenneth Banghart speaking and inviting you to tune in the same station next week for another interesting story on Proudly We Hail.


In this, in this module we will talk about the method of batch sterilization for medium sterilization. So, as concerned the methods in batch sterilization. So, the batch sterilization of the medium for the fermentation may be achieved either in a fermentation vessel or in a separate mass cooker. So, there are two strategies. Richard in 1966 considered that the relative merits of in-stew sterilization and the use of special vessel. So, the major advantages of a separate medium sterilization vessel is as follows because there are two approaches. Just in a batch sterilization we sterilize the whole system of fermentation fermenter inner vessel as well as the medium which we called as in-stew on the same place. On other hand if we are dealing with the sterilization just we will sterilize the medium apart from the fermentation vessel. Then there is a second approach. So, in this case when we sterilize the medium separately from the fermentation vessel then the one cooker may be used to serve several fermenters. And the medium may be sterilized as the fermenter are being cleaned and prepared for the next fermentation thus saving the time. So, if the one fermentation is going on during that time we can sterilize the next batch medium. So, this is the one advantage. As concerned the second the medium may be sterilized in a cooker in a more concentrated form than would be used in the fermentation. Because we can sterilize the medium in a concentrated form in a separate vessel and then we can add into the fermentation vessel and then we add the more. So, we can sterilize in a concentrated form this would allow the construction of a smaller cooker. So, in some fermentation the medium is at its most viscous during the sterilization and the power requirement for agitation is not elevated by the aeration as it would be during the fermenter properly. Thus if the requirement for the agitation during in-stitute sterilization were removed the fermenter could be equipped with less power motor. So, obviously the sterilization cattle would have to equipped with the powerful motor, but this would provide the sterile medium for several fermenters. So, as concerned the fourth the fermenter would be speared the corrosion which may occur with medium at high temperature. As concerned the major disadvantages of a separate medium sterilization vessel. So, first one is the cost of constructing the batch medium sterilizer that is much the same as the fermenter. Because if we design a separate vessel for the sterilization we need some specific material almost the equivalent and equal cost to the fermenter vessel. So, if the cooker serves a large number of fermenters the complex pipe work. So, if we are using the external vessel for a number of fermenters then we need a complex pipe work just to transport that sterilize medium to the particular fermenter. So, that is necessary and that pipe system and the transport system also need and the decontamination and with the inherent danger of the contamination. So, there is a risk. So, if we sterilize and then there is a transportation through that complex pipe system then there is a chance of contamination through those pipes and lines. So, as concerned the mechanical failure as concerned the third disadvantage the mechanical failure in the cooker supplying the medium to the several fermenters would render all the fermenters temporarily redundant. So, the provision of contingency equipment may be prohibitively costly. So, in this case the major disadvantage is the cost and the chance of contamination the risk of contamination. So, in all case the overall pressure to decrease the downtime between the fermentation has tended to over weigh the perceived disadvantages of using a separate sterilization vessel. So, thus the sterilization in dedicated vessel is the method of choice for batch sterilization.


This research combines robotic arm control, computer vision, and deep learning technology to create an automated control system. It uses a YOLOV for algorithm to recognize user hand gestures, which are then sent to the robot arm control module via a communication module. This module analyzes the gesture commands and executes them accordingly. Engineers can use hand gestures to instruct the robot arm to record trajectories or execute specific tasks, making it easier to operate in real-world environments. This article was authored by Shang Liang Qin and Li Wu Huang.