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The
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1983,
OVER THE OPIUM PIPE
AH LO DISCUSSES HIS PET
PROBLEM.
(By C. V.-L. for the Telegraph)
A
The Very Idea!
REACHING OUR GAOL By Eddie Kelly, Bing-Singer.
WE see that over two hun- dred prisoners have been
generation of addicts disappear, oplum smoking will have been made so prohibitiva that it can- not be indulged in by the ma- jority of the class now addicted to it, but this is an ideal pursued in disregard of ugly realitics. We have contiguous to VA A
When I first met Ah Lo these opium, its quality, its prices. As released from Hongkong's ces to the contrary, extensivo
In de- can be easily imagined, the sub prisons in the past three many years now, he was poppy cultivation is carried on cidedly prosperous circumstances.ject touched him deeply. When cultivation has been sups You could tell that by the affable metallic tube from which he had weeks, because there is no pressed in one province, it is smlic and nod he had for every-just squeezed sufficient of the stuff accommodation for them. taken up in a
more intensive body, by the swish of his immacu- to make a pill, arrested my atten- form in another, so that for all late gown as he swept gracefully to tion, because it was so very differ- practical purposes, the output your desk to take up with you the ent from the earthen or hern pots I had seon Hongkong and facilities for the masses re-hundred-and-one matters connected in which main the same. An allied pro- with harbour transport. Stevedoro, Monopoly opium packed. More in- and teresting was the information that ahip-chandior, coal merchant blem is the absence of proper re-junk contractor, there seemed to it was oplum now being imported
Despite protests by carres- creative pursuits for the lower have been nothing connected with by the Hongkong Government from classes, to whom an evening harbour transport that he did not Singapore following upon its recent pondents in the nowspapers the spent at an oplum divan has know. There were times when his decision to close down the local prison authorities remain ada- about the same object and utility knowledge extended beyond his factory and dispense with the. ex-mant.
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strictly business ken and he saw pert services of the bolling staff. much that lay beneath the surface
the waterfront undercurrents not WE SHARE A
JUSTIFIABLE PRIDE. always percaptible to you or me.
of busincea
my ears up.
It seems that the gnols are Ho overcrowded that whenover anyone takes a deep breath, all the rest have to breathe out,.
It seems, nevertheless, a cruel
In these days of financial as an evening spent by others
stringency, prisoners cannot ex- at a club. Addiction to the in-
pact to enjoy the hospitality of the sidious drug is acquired with
Hongkong government any longer. continued practice until the
Fortune changed with the times, My friend Ah Lo had always
Too many shroffs are on the victim is so completely in its and when I renowed his friendship shared with our City Fathars a
brend ne-
-talpans can. grip, he is not able to help him- the other night, it was obvious that justifiable pride on the score of our hardly make ends meet, and the crimes in in the interim he had had more turning out the best oplum in the Treasury officiala are also going self. How many local Police records have been than his fair share
Far East, and he now deplored the committed by victinis driven to reverses, confessing to many dis-stop as cutting local smokers from about with patches on their pants. I could a cherished supply. Ah Lo's ren- These people must receive frat desperation by the great craving appointments in which
tho sons for his proference were not consideration, so It has been de- -crimes which they would not easily sympathise. He had
sharp acumen and patient perset out too clearly to a non-smoker, cided that in future prisoners have thought of in their normal severance of the native business but it is enfe deduction that his must fend for themselves. senses? But this is not to be man, and I predicted for him an arguments covered much the same cured by action tending to the early return to his former prosgrounds as those relating the use of poor quality opium and perity, for which he thanked me respective qualities of different it is seriously suggested that exceedingly and invited me to con-alcoholic vintages. Connoisseur in hoax to play on our convicts, whose Government policy is in danger tinue the talk over the opium pipe. his own particular line, he is there only crime, after all, is the fact.
Now, his friends will concede. fora of being defeated by the mea there is nothing fundamentally nouncement that Singapore opium
to be trusted for the pro- that they are criminals. sure of false economy recently wrong with Ah Lo, except for this does not tasto quite so nice as our taken. We do not propose to weakness-if it could be so regard-former Monopoly brand. In short, Many of them entered Lalchikok deal with this matter further ed-for the pipe that soothes. it does not confer on Ah Lo and on the distinct understanding that except to point to
equal they would be allowed to remain possible With the privilege of an old crony, company, bon viveura, an
there for at least twelve months. broader scope for Government I had taken him to task for it on satisfaction.
The revelation made me prick What do we find? A heartless activity in the removal of some more than one occasion, but always he had grinned disarmingly, closed of the causes for the habit. his ears to counsels irrespective of tion, I thought, of a
Here is informa-government repudiates ita pro- sort upon mines, and these poor, poor men This is only to be secured by these being advanced on psycho-which his expert knowledge could are suddenly thrown out on the education and propaganda in logical or on pathological grounds. be sollelted. While he was busy cruel, cold world. Boreft of home THE OPIUM EVIL
which the co-operation of Chin- and steadfastly refused to believe with his pipe I had time to summon and sustenance, they wander the The Government's decision to eas members of the medical pro- there was anything unmoral in the up the probabilities, and when he streets of the city, not knowing
fession may well be enlisted. It indulgence. He had seen the sai hnd finished his second (or was it what to do. import a new brand of prepared is assumed that hitherto no van get beautifully incbrinted on his third smoke, inquired us to
high-powered liquors. His own
Of what use is it to commit opium to replace the Monopoly known effective cure has been preference as he put it, was the possible reaction in a lowering of
Government sales with n corres-crime when this in all the thanks product discontinued when the found, except in a few rare in- quiet and dignified ritual of the ponding increase in smuggling of they get? The downward path local factory was closed down, stances when the process has opium pipe. In times of pros cheaper products."
opens before them. Discouraged, His exposition of the new situn- they enter business. suggested an important change been long and laborious and perity (and he heaved a regretful
Some of them will reach the viewed against the long and un-has depended for its eventualai yak here) it had stimulated his tion was not free from the intru-
on the determination outlook on life—was an incentive to sion of his scholastic make-up, but lowest depths of dopravity by be- eventful history of the Monopo- and self-control of the patient. further ondeavours. In times of briefly it bears a close analogy to coming taipans. Others, legs ly. Enquiries, however, show The small percentage of success depression like the present, it was our saying that in the effort to save fortunate, may sink so
hio solace, although because of a few pennies, pounds were being that it amounted to
they ultimately become shroffe. .no more however should not discourage present necessitous circumstances, thrown away. A few thousand
And have you than a measure of economy; the further efforts in the research he agreed it was not to be indulged dollars at the outset may have
ever seen any- been retained by savings in thing as woobegone as an ex- wisdom of which is to be ques for a 100 per cent. curative in to the former extent.
factory salaries, but against this prisoner who has become a talpan tioned. It appears that the sub-agent, and while that is being
attempted, clinics, or more pro- MY FRIEND IN A
ho act off the big, drop ke or a shroff? stitute now being supplied from
predicted for Government sales, perly speaking, sanatoria for NEW LIGHT. Singapore in pursuance of an cases might be usefully establi-
Full well I remember those mo- as smokers, not relishing the newly- arrangement with the Monopoly shed, not only for the purpose of ments of intimacy established over inported Monopoly stuff, began to there, does not appeal to the assisting in research work but the opium pipe. Then his usually exercise their preference for other "refined"
and the also offering some assurance for business-like but sometimes insou-and undoubtedly much cheaper
those in the early stages of ciant exterior dropped away like a
Bolf HE SAYS IT IS smoker's preference is about to addiction. Something will then mask, and the subconscious be, if not already, freely exercis- have been attempted which will that is the scholar and philosopher FALSE ECONOMY. ed by discrimination in favour of be far more useful than reliance peeped out in many scintillating facets, refreshing and instructive other brands. Of these, there only on price-increase or on the
smoker,
success
are variety: "foreign re-futile war against traffickers.-
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cognized" ones like "Red Lion,"
hitherto occupying a favour
second only to Hongkong's, and
Our Prison Problem
kinda,
+
for that
It is easier for a rich mari to
wriggle through the eye of a needle than for a coolie to enter
Franks's Hotel.
Who wins?
• · •
THOSE. SOLICITORS.
We have been thinking, a habit we have when we have nothing botter to do, and we have boon thinking about the little list of costs attached to the lust writ we managed to keep out of court.
We are only waiting now for the time when a solicitor wants a note taken of an important case he is Interested In. Something like this:
To taking note
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A LITTLE PROBLEM A coolie snatches a roll of cloth, My friend made it clear that ho to the beholder. No affair of had all the respect in the world for feeling tired of working for his public or pational import could have the long experience to which our living, and forthwith la told he taken place
without it being present Superintendent of Imports must spent three months as the brought within the capacity of his and Exports could lay claim to, but guest of the Government.
After six weeks, he is told his genius for the rhetoric, and a most it seemed to him that the Govern- learned dissertation on present-day ment had been ill-advised on a cell is required for his pal Hoo trends in social and political out-measure which he was sure would Flung Wat, and with many mutter- others without benefit of official Prisons filled to overflowing, looks would be liberally inters turn out to be one of fales economy.ings and hard words, he is banish-, blessing, but nevertheless ex- and convicts turned away! persed with Truths from the Clas- He pointed to an intensive raiding ed for ten years.
In four days, he is back and tensively consumed on account What a subject for a Gilbert and sica of kvhich, true scholar that he being undertaken of divans sa a
necessity impelled by
the new arrested. Over the oplum pipe that night change, and to the discovery of
Arraigned on this of their comparative cheapness. a Sullivan to exploit. Not even is, he has an ample stock.
terrible We may take into account the their delightful "Trial By Jury" we forsook the usual inquisition of contraband opium in almost every charge, he is sentenced to twelve
commands such scope for
Chiang Kai-shek and other military instance as vindication of his views,
montiis. efforts of our Preventative satirical libretto as Hongkong's and political busybodies to inquire "You may find Red Lion oplum,' Officers against these "com- prison "comedy". But it is into the matter nearer home of he remarked, somewhat pompously, petitive" brands, but it is a comedy of errore, not of wit. a problem generally conceded fact that Behind it all lies despite intensive campaigning second only in importance to that of the annual water short- against smuggling, illegal opium
This situation of having age. continues to make its way into twice as many prisoners as ac- the Colony. From all accounts commodation is not new. It has indeed, it has been coming in not risen overnight. For a very in increasingly large quantities (considerable time, the -Govern- within recent weeks; and this is ment has been confronted with Baid to be mainly due to the the urgent need of increased officials have space. Prison introduction of the unpopular made significant observations Singapore product which, while from time to time. It has even offered at the former high affected the police, revenue price, has not the former ex-officers and other officials con- cellence to commend it. The cerned with preserving law and position is one extremely favour- order in the Colony. They com- plain that it is little use making able to smugglers, who are tak-arreats and securing convictions. ing full advantage of the situn-They "get their man" only to seo tion as demonstrated by recent him turned loose after serving seizures. Failing to secure the but part of his sentence. Ma bulk of the illicit drug in transit, gistrates aro 'overworked, daily the authorities have fallen back sending offenders to gaol, only to Beo them ovado justice to extensive raiding and closing through past shortsightedness. of divans as the only known Quito apart from letting looso. means of cutting off the demand, undesirables on the public, cogni- and in almost every case the de-sance has to bo taken of the de- pressing discovery has been plorable conditions to which made of "Red Lion," or ono or prisoners are subjected as a of overcrowding. The several of other debased mix-result tures that generally manage to position is an acute one, fraught with unhappy possibilities. More find their way into these out-of-than once have prison officials the-way places. If Government been faced with threatened re- policy (as has been declared) is volt by inmates. For a long to put down amoking by a time all has not been well :: at Overcrowding gradual raising of prices,, we Victorin gaol,
There merely aggravates the position. fear a disappointment. ls, of course, some logic for the It is a problem requiring early supposition that as the present attention or consequences of
serious nature may result.
"We've finally reached an agreement. He'll let us go this ovoning, If we give him half of anything we win at bridgo."
To time spent taking nato $18.50 To professional services. $95 To use of typewriter...... $10 To research work, visiting witnesses and verifying accuracy of note
To travelling expenses, ro
same matter
To services of typist
Total
Say, $250 to cover all,
$20
$10
$231.50
Wait! We have forgotten one to havo itom. We
forgotten charge for the interview arrang ing to take the note.
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"In the lat they have seized. Maybe Red Lion is not so good, but is certainly cheaper and con rank with this Singapore oplum fr refinement. Itetainment of an in- forior substitute at the same high price without the former excel- lonce to command it means simply the holding out of a big induce ment to smuggling, and you may be sure that traffickors will be taking the fullest advantage of the pos!- Hon."