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Convenien, puesto the drug WORLD'S MOST CANDID The Very Idea!
DIARIST
By R. M. FREEMAN
BIDDING OUR TIME
By Eddie Kelly, Auctioneer. TE want to warn our Great and Admiring
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trade and organise the campaign against addiction. The Conven- tion comes into force when rati- fied by twenty-five States, in cluding four of the producing (countries. Turkey is one of the flatter; so long as she refused to ratify there was little prospect
Last month we celebrated the and immediate success success that the Convention would ever tercentenary of the birth of which, with the fuller éditions that Public to-day about attend- come into force, but the latest Samuel Popys. To remark to-day have since followed, culminating in action on her part gives new that the famous diarist le now cript published during the 1890's, Wheatley's almost complete trans- hope to those engaged in the securely established among the int still continues to grow and spread. hold of you, can become as The craving, once it gets campaign.
mortals of history would be super- fluous indeed. But it was not al-
strong as those for drink As a diary of universal appeal or drugs. A will stronger Ways.80.
Let's Be Conventional
every
on
that?
ing auction sales.
it stands alone. Why a There are a variety of reasons that than the average; is needed to During the greater part of the suggest themselves, one of these resist the craving once it gets Practically
public 18th century and the first 20 years exampled candour. He is, the only instance.
undoubtedly being Pepys's un-hold of you. Such as ours, for gathering in Britain concludes of the 19th, practically no one (cxman who has ever dared to put him- with the audience standing bolt cept a few keepers of official self, his whole complete, unvarmish-first sale, and brought home This week we attended our upright for a few seconds, for it records) had ever heard of the new cd self, unreservedly is the custom to end almost every immortal Samuel. To the best of Others have tried to do this, and
paper, several trophies. ceremony and entertainment with the National Anthem. In my knowledge, none of the histor-doing it, but none of them has ever the one she heaved at us last week. even perhaps thought they were needed a kitchen chair to replace It happened that the headache Hongkong the practice is justians who wrote during that period, quite succeeded in bringing it off. They can be purchased at the as religiously observed, with the Hume and others, so much as men- The taint of self-consciousness has average furniture dealer's for sentiment attached to the ges- tions him.
spoilt their efforts. Pepys, being $2.50, but Pete suggested that we ture probably a little more sin-
the least introspective of mortals, try and pick up a bargain at the The Rockne instrument panel, cere. Evidence for this is found
and having no reader in his mind's auction sales. contains aviation" type instruin the regular letters which
ments which are attractively appear in the local press de Pepys, though a person of some himself; he simply recorded him- of silent people, standing tense,
ed.
grouped and indirectly illuminat
A turn of the switch key starts the engine. Free Wheel- ing control is located on the facia at left of panel. THE HONGKONG HOTEL
GARAGE.
Stubbe Road
Kappy Valle
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Hallifax and Miss Halifax.
March 24th.
P.P.C.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1933.
UNCONSCIOUS HUMOUR..
and
was
were bidding.
An old clock fetched a bid of $2. We found ourself thinking that the thing was cheap at $2.
At
We could feel our blood efervesc ing. We were no longer au inter- loper, occuping, valpable space. We were a Buyer,
We appraised the next lot with
ן.
DIARY IN SHORTHAND. This was natural enough. For eye, never attempted to explain
So we went. The room was full
ten shown by certain classes which brings a man under the which he was studious to precating the lack of respect of achieved that sort of notability
distinction in his own day, never self.
watching each other furtively. of the Chinese community when spotlight of history. To the ma-strictly secret, was, I believe, writanceze or the waggle of an eye-
The Diary, the very existence of
We held our breath and watched the National Anthem is played jority of his contemporaries he ten entirely for his own reference brow have been interpreted by
the acene keep
nervously. Someone in the cinemas and other public would be well enough known as & and satisfaction. Why, then, did auctioneers as bids..
had warned us that a nod, a places. Nevertheless there is a competent and industrious Civil he not destroy it before he died? small minority of people who dis- Servant who was doing important Like many another man who has bids here and there. We couldn't like standing to the strains of work at the Navy Office; to scienti- kept treasured but compromising see one ourself, until we realised The auctioneer was picking up "God Save the King," and one fit people, as Fellow (afterwards documents which discretion coun- that the buyers were making their of them has written to the Weck-resident) of the then infant Royal sels him to destroy but affection passes secretly! The pikers were End Review to ask whether he Society: in civic circles, as Master cannot bear to part with, Samuel afraid to let each other know they has any legal protection from the of the Clothworkers Company. But Pepys hovered between these con- pushes, shoves, and nudges with that was about as rauch as would be ficting impulses all his life, which his sitting down is greet- generally known of him.
when death overtook him he ed by fellow playgoers who think And after his retirement to the still hovering. that he ought to stand up. The leisured privacy of his country | replies have not been very help-house at Clapham, he would soon
"Thank you, sir," said the ful. Even the more or
auctioneer, "$2.50 I'm bid:" less begin to fade out of the public Another reason for Pepys's Diary We blushed. We didn't want sympathetic ones have been CYC. Indeed, it may well be pre-being so extraordinarily interest the clock. tinged with sarcasm. One an-
sumed that by the time of his ing to everybody is that he himself But it was no use. The first death, in 1703, he swer inquires, for example, whe-verging upon that complete oblivion everything.
Was already was so extraordinarily interested in bidder turned round and hated us. ther this gentleman who sits which was to be his fate for the his attention, great or small, com- $10 we hid behind two fat women,
Whatever attracted We hated him. He said $4. down, when everyone else stands next 120 years... up, after the play is over. and
manded his whole-hearted intereat, but we coughed and the clock was. also while the play is in progress,
Pepys had bequeathed his library, to see, he was, in his own charac-
If there was anything he wanted knocked to us for $11. stands up when everyone else
under certain conditions, to teristic phrase, with child" till he sita down. Perhaps no one who Magdalene College, Cambridge, saw it. seriously thinks about the mat- where it still remains. Among the THE OPIUM TRAFFIC ter would maintain
contents were that the volumes comprising the testator's deliciousness of his unconscious of the lid of a vegetable dish, one six bulky MS. Pepys's appeal is due also to the an expert interest. It consisted measure of a man's patriotism, "Journal." It not only ran An important step forward has even in the narrowest sense, is something like half a million words void of humour. He could never and a dog collar, been taken by Turkey in
to humour. He himself was quite de-rubber boot, a book of sermons, the afforded by his inclination or but it was written in a shorthand have given us such a diary as he question of the world fight disinclination to stand up when to which nobody knew the key. has done, otherwise. And that is expectantly. That was the against opium and other dan a theatrical entertainment is And in view of the unlikelihood, as the joy of it; the perfect gravity of us. We abandoned ourself to The auctioneer looked at us gerous drugs which the League concluded, though that, after all, was supposed, of any particularly with which he records the big and a reckless orgy and bid for of Nations has been conducting seems a not unreasonable thing interesting revelations resulting. little things side by side, as of everything. for the past twelve years. The to do. The usual method of ac- Turkish Government has informe knowledging the National An- worthwhile to attempt the
no one seems to have thought it equal importance, and yet perceives Finally a kitchen chair was put ed the League that the Grand them, which method is the same ciphering of so formidable, a budplicity with which he chronicles his that it was what we had come for. de no incongruity; the artless sim-up, and we dimly remembered National Assembly has "adopt-in Hongkong as in Britain, has
get. ed 2 draft law
most glaring incompatibilities of The auctioneer tenderly enquired the accession by Turkey to the vention. There
concerning long been established by con- IMMEDIATE SUCCESS.
conduct, and yet remains quite ob if we would offer $5. We were Opium Conventions of 1912, some conventions that are bad; Diary of John Evelyn, Ponys's
viously unaware are, course,
of any incon- cunning and said three.. But in 1819 the publication of the sistency. 1925 and 1931. The 1912 Con- and there are many conventions contemporary and friend, and the at two or three things-viz., that
Some lunatic made it $25 just vention, concluded before
He goes to bed one night "vexed that we had made it $22.50.
before we realised with horror War at The Hague, aimed only ventions are neither the one nor
the that are good. But many con- interest it excited, suggested to my wife's watch prove' so bad as it to the headache why we hadn't We went home sadly to explain at controlling the distribution of the other. The majority of George Neville, that old Samuel's do; the ill state of the Kingdom's got it. But we bet he went home the then Master of Magdalene, prepared opium and manufac-sensible people would agree that, journal might possibly contain Mother's death will bring on me had.
business; the charge which tured drugs. A step forward in the latter cases, it is well to memoirs of equal interest.
my even more sadly to explain why ho was registered in the first 1925 observe them more or less close therefore commissioned a certain
He for mourning when all is paid." Convention, which declared ly. Conventions are the gearoil of John Smith, an undergraduate of He attends church one Lord's opium import and sale a Govern- civilization. Were is not for the St. John's and a candidate for Holy Day, at some inconvenience, ment monopoly and provided for general observance of polite con-Orders, to undertake the task of purpose to see a pretty woman who, place in our homes is the batt the exchange of information and ventions, the daily round would deciphering Ita laborious work he had heard, was to be there, and, co-operation against smuggling. be full of disturbing and
that occupied him for three years. in the same breath almost, records The second 1925 Convention pro- necessary shocks through people
his righteous indignation on catch vided for the establishment of a behaving in small mattera dif-public in 1825, under the editor dancing-master, leering down
The Diary was first given to the ing sight of Fembleon, Mr. Pepya's Permanent Central Board to ferently from what they might ship of Lord Braybrooke, George that lady from the gallery. Such which all countries are to state be expected to do. All sorts of Neville's brother; and, absurdly shocking behaviour under any cir- their medical needs of drugs and silly frictions would ensue that bowdlerised though that first edi- cumstances, and in their exports and imports. All in bulk would considerably hold tion was, if proved an Immense Lord's Day of all days! factories are to be licensed and up the work of the world.
to publish returns of their out- put. The Central Board is to reduce excessive estimates and to
report if the flow into any state; is too great. The 1931 Conven-
How?
un-
How? This is an enfant ter- tion aimed at limiting manu-rible among questions, Cynics facture. Unfortunately, the use it to blast idealists' hopes. manufacture of opium is an ex-Practical men cannot help stick- ceedingly paying business and {ing its honest point
into
a
some of the less conscientious theorists' balloons. Nor can States were anxious to establish thoughtful people to-day deny an increase of manufacture in it a place in their consideration their countries for financial rea-of the many proffered remedies sons. Turkey was the worst of for the world's difficulties. For- of all offenders. In 1931 she tunately the lack of answers to took up a most extraordinary this question need be no cause position. Three factories had for dicouragement, With what- recently established themselves ever misgivings one may view. in Stamboul-one under notor-the deluge of proposals for ious traffickers who had lost their better state of things, one fact! licences in France-and were stands. The thousands upon. exporting enormous quantities thousands of hours, the tons of of morphine and heroin
ex-paper, the vast amount of hu- clusively for illegitimate pur-man energy used to bring these poses. Turkey confrouted the ideas to a world in need of them, Conference with this fact, and are proofs that men believe the refused any participation unless objectives aimed at can be reach- allowed as quota one-third of ed. Before such conviction, the the world's total production. question as to how men propose She adopted a purely obstructive to put their ideas into effect be attitude to negotiations for the comes similar to that with which Convention, and her behaviour Watts, Fulton, Arkwright, seemed likely to wreck the whole Marse, Bell, Edison, Marconi scheme. The basis of the Con-were faced. Not that organiz- vention is that the world drug ing machinery is as complicated manufacture total is established a task as organizing humanity, by a Central Supervisory Body nor that it calls for the same and no country may manufac qualities of human ability. But ture in any one year more of any when men are convinced a thing drug than was given in the escan be done they are on the road timate. Each country creates alto finding out how.
church
"She wants me to paper the spare bedroom and pipe hot water to the bathtub, just because sho's invited a girl in her.
geometry class down for the week-end."
on
at
оп
BATHROOM PERILS,
end
Next to bed, the most dangerous
room,
Every day one reads of some for cleanliness who is either unfortunate.mortal with a passion drowned, asphyxiated, or elec who slip and crack their skulls on the wail or on the brass taps. trocuted, to say nothing of those
Great efforts have been made in recent years to render the Hong- kong bathroom foolprosf, but that seems to be an impossible ideal. The bathroom of the future, we imagine, will contain no bath and resemble a padded cell, where the inmate, instead of cleansing him- self by the primitive method of applying water and soap, will be dry-cleaned by some communal suction system.
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But even then, we suppose, certain number of citizens will be drawn into the auction pipes and disappear without trace. Let us hope they will at least have the decency to pay their shroffs before they do so.
US.
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INTERDUCING MATILDA.
Have we told you about our new motor car? Cost us a thousand bucks, it did. Fifty bucks down, and the rest when they can get it. Yesterday we were out driving along the Fanling Road, giving the bus a try-out. A chap in a dirty little under-nourished two-seater konked his horn and tried to pass Were we going to allow that? We were not. So we accelerated. The sardine tin hung on to our heels and konked some more. We touched forty, fifty, sixty, seventy. and were breaking even in the cighties and still we couldn't shake him off. Marvellous cars, those babies, we thought. So we stopped to congratulate the owner. As we clambered out of Matilda (we are very affectionate towards our car) he also staggered out, and wiping his sweated brow, zaid:
"Thank God you've stopped: For the past fifteen miles my radiator cap's been caught in, your bumper baral”!