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.** THE · SOCIAL EVIL IN
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(BY ORKIN KEITH FOR THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]
Such regulation as there is of the social evil in Canton is an inheritance, from the ilave of the Manchus It is designed to bring in revenue rather than to restrict the extent of prostitute activity. Consequently it is about as harmful as it can well be both to its victims and those who seek their favours
The plan is to graut a monopoly of the business for a period of four years to the highest bidder. The contract once. signed, the successful bidder is free to make a large returns as he can within the very wide limits prescribed by the Government. Practically the only limita tion is the requirement that be confine the business to the segregated district. Those are four in number, two in the city and wo-on-the-river. Their limits. are not strictly defined so that there is plenty of room for expansion.
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13 a rulá two, The city houses are
The three, or even fonf stories high. front part of the building is à cafe from. sidewalk to roof.. Hare meals and drinks and sing-song girls may be had amid the brilliance of electric lights, plate-glass mirrors and elaborate furniture. The larger district is at the east end of the Bund and the brilliant lighting of its long line of cafe fronts gives Canton a metropolitan aspect which is seen in no other Chinese city. With the reflection. in the river it is a dazzling sight blazoning to the world the shame that lies behind it.
More picturesque than the waterfront district, however, are the two river dis tricts There is one at each end of the Band. Here long lines af, the gorgeous *flower-boats" are the centre of the всепе. These are Juxuriously furnished scows with all the appointments of a high-class cafe. Each has in the dusky background its own kitchen-boat" and here the wealthy and prodigal sons of Canton give their bibulous feasts.
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Although Elihu Root is probably the most picturesque Bgure among the four delegates who are to represent the United States at the "Conference on the Limita
President tion of Armaments "-s
As no feast in the Orient is complete Harding recently named the Disarma- without its sing-song girls, there is a ment Conference there can be no doubt plentiful supply near at hand. Innumer that Secretary of State Charles E abla sampans, diminutive in size, com- pared with the bulky "flower-boats, but Hughes could not be bettered as leader like them gorgeously ornate, are ranged and spokesman for his nation. instreets" leading off in all directions. It is here that the aquatic daughters of shame live, move, and ply their trade.
Their services are not expensive. The usual payment is under two dollars. Even of this pittance very little stays with the girls. Most of them are bought When he speaks he uses the most perfect when they are very young, far too young language imaginable. His English is not for service na sing-song, girls. They
Mr. Hughes is a polished, suave diplo mat who might have stepped out of a novel with a plot woven round the Em bassies of Paris, London, and Rome.
must labour and wait upon their elders as only technically correct," according to they learn their trade. At fourteen or Hoyle, but his elocution is so easy and so happily strung Alteen, however, they may be sent out his sentences are
when the demand is large and their older together that it is, a joy in itself to listen sisters are all busy. Soon they become
"regulars." They do what they are told like to this grey-headed leader of a youthful dumb brutes and the idea that the money nation-meaning leader in the term they receive is theirs probably occurs to which one would apply to
a British few of them. They turn it over to their owners without question. Any refractori ness, would be nstantly punished and there would be none to protect the re fractory one,
The momentum of the ancient system of dealing with this question" carried it
Premier-while he turns out petris in the shape of political epigrams with the case of a man reading aloud from Burke or Disraeli.
Every afternoon at 3.30 Mr. Hughes:
on after the revolution. The last farm-appears in a long, high-ceilinged room ing-out contract was mude fate in 1915.
to
so that it expires next year. The new in the State Department, and has an in- Government of Canton is making a formal talk on current events with the special study of the problem with a view!
Washington correspondents. The news. the business in a more handling modern and a more scientific manner paper men stand round him in a circle bereafter. There are various angles to and fire questions off at this modern it. First, there is the vested interest. Sodrates with the speed of a machine This, however, will not weigh heavily
with men whose great ideal is to bring gun, and Mr. Hughes stands there," hands their city into line with present-day behind his back, gazing fall into the eyes thought. Then, there is the question of of each questioner in turn while ho an- medical control, of which there is none
under the present system. Then, there swers or evades their questions in irre- is the question of abolishing the shameful proachable English.. trade altogether. That brings up the eternal argument as to which is better
Mr. Hughes is bald, and his chin is
for the community a recognized segre-covered with a little grey square, cut gated district or an unhealthy dissemina beard that gives him an almost Teutonic tion of the evil, throughout the city. It aspect which is very far from the real seems impossible to stamp it out atterly, character of the man. Then, too, there is the financial. question.
He is the Lloyd George of America.
The present annual payment by the He riever speaks without having some licence holders is 3518,000. This is near- definite object in the back of his mind ly one-third of the normal revenue of the on which the words he has just spoken city today. It cannot be lightly dis will have as ultimate bearing. You may think him trivial for that very reason- pensed with...
While the youthful, city fathers are which is just what Mr. Hughes may want worrying their brains over this intricate you to think, for be in a master in the problem, it is strangely enough, in a fair art of verbal camouflage. He will as way to solve itself. The unprecedented times give a direct "No" to an equally action of the Governor of Kwangtung in direct question, but for the most part suppressing gambling has seriously affect his answers leave one guessing as to the ed the basoness of the underworld: To real meaning behind them.
When Mr. Huglica sits, or rather, the Chinese gambling scents to be what liquor is to the European or American. stands up at the first conference meeting to address the delegates, he is almost The suppression of gambling in Canton certain to lead off with a neatly strung seems to have had the same effect upon bunch of phrases which to all outward prostitution as the prohibition of liquor in America. The great white ways are purposes will seem mere banalities- shabby, morose, dead The great cafes until the next morning'a papers are, to of Canton still flaunt their brilliant hand. Then you will see those little! lights to the world. The boats of ill-statements interpreted as Mr. Hughes fame still display their wares to those meant them to be, and you will say, with who come. But the game is up. There in a few million citizens of the United Sir-Hughes knows his States, not enough patronage to make & living for one-tenth of the people who have here job all right he certainly does" tofore depended upon the business. Even the flower-boats have almost ceased to try and are growing gloomy.
Almost daily come the highest bid ders' to see the Mayor and the City Com missioners and plead to have the monthly payment lowered to meet the altered con- ditions. They pour out their troubles and their griefa-They storm and plead But the young fathers are inexorable. The highest bidders made their bed and they must be in it. Besides, the payments are included in the city budget and are highly necessary to the man tenance of the city finances.
(Vontinued ai foot of next coluyin.
There is no relief in sight for the gentlemen who have battened upon the shame of littlo girls in the past. They must continue to pay through the nose." It is more than probable, however, that before the remaining year of the contract bag run, they will throw up the whole business, and forfeit their privilege. Then the city administration will be free to deal with the problem without the com plication of a "vested interest” and also to determine their policy between million moral cleanliness and half dollars a year.
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