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FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1933.

special administration to apply a

Convention, regulate the drug WORLD'S MOST CANDID

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 [latter; so long as she refused to ratify there was little prospect that the Conventian would ever come into force, but the latest action on her part gives new hope to those engaged in the campaign.

DIARIST

By R. M. FREEMAN

Last month we celebrated thes and immediate success a success tercentenary of the birth of which, with the fuller editions that Samuel Pepys. To remark to-day the since followed, culminating in that the famous diarist is now cript published during the 1890's. Wheatley's almost complete trans- securely catablished among the in- still continues to grow and spread.

mortals of history would be super- fluous indeed. But it was not al-

Let's Be Conventional wiya so.

cere.

every.

DIARY IN SHORTHAND.

that was about as much as would be generally known of him.

The Very Idea!

BIDDING OUR TIME By Eddie Kelly, Auctioneer. /. X7E want to warn our Great and Admiring Public to-day about attend- ing auction sales.

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hold of you, can become as The craving, once it gets As a diary of universal appeal or drugs. A will stronger strong as those for drink

on

when death overtook him he still hovering.

that?

was

the

So we went. The room was full

An old clock fetched a bid of $2. We found ourself thinking that the thing was cheap at $2,

"Thank you, sir," said the auctioneer, "32.50 I'm bid."

We blushed. We didn't want the clock.

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But it was no use. The first bidder turned round and hated us. $10 we bid behind two fat women, We hated him. He said $4. At

but we coughed and the clock was knocked to us for $11.

it stands alone. Why is 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 undoubtedly being Pepya's un-hold of you. Such as ours, for gathering in Britain concludes of the 19th, practieaily no one (ex-man who has ever dared to put him-

exampled candour. He is the only instance. 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 nowed 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.

It happened that the headache even perhaps thought they were needed a kitchen chair to replace 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. Hongkong the practice is just ians who wrote during that period, quite succeeded in bringing it off. They can be purchased at the as religiously observed. with the Hunie and others, so much is men- The taint of self-consciousness has sentiment attached to the gestiona him.

spoilt their efforts. Pepys, being $2.50, but Pete suggested that we Average furniture dealer's for ture probably a little more sin-

the least introspective of mortals, try and pick up a bargain at the Evidence for this is found

and having no reader in his mind's auction sales. in the regular letters which This was natural enough. For eye, never attempted to explain appear in the local press de- Pepys, though a person of some himself; he simply recorded him of silent people, standing tense, are attractively precating the lack of respect of distinction in his own day, never self. grouped and indirectly illuminat-ten shown by certain classes achieved that sort of notability

watching each other furtively. A turn of the switch key of the Chinese community when spotlight of history. To the ma- strictly secret, was, I believe, writ- sneeze or the waggle of an eye-

which brings a man under the which he was studious

The Diary, the very existence of We held our breath and watched starts the engine. "Free Wheel the National Anthem is played jority of his contemporaries he ten entirely for his own reference brow have been interpreted by

Scene to keep had warned us that a nod, a nervously.. 'Someone' ing control is located on the facia in the cinemas and other public would be well enough known as a and satisfaction. Why, then, did auctioneers as bids. at left of panel

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 fie people, as Fellow (afterwarda documents which discretion coun-that the buyers were making their of them has written to the Week-President) 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 uach other know they has any legal protection from the the Clothworkers Company. But Pepys hovered between these con- were bidding. pushes, shoves, and nudges with

ficting impulses all his life, and which his sitting down is greet ed by fellow playgoers who think And after his retirement to the that he ought to stand up. The leisured privacy of his country replies have not been very help-house at Clapham, he would soon

UNCONSCIOUS HUMOUR. ful. Even the more or less begin to fade out of the public. Another reason for Pepys's Diary. sympathetic ones have been eye. Indeed, it may well be pre-being so extraordinarily interest- tinged with sarcasm.

of his ing. to everybody is that he himself One an-sumed that by the time

was already was so extraordinarily interested in swer inquires, for example, whe- death, in 1703, he ther this gentleman who sits which was to be his fate for the his attention, great or small, com- verging upon that complete oblivion everything. Whatever attracted THE OPIUM TRAFFIC up, after the play is over, and

down when everyone else'stands next 120 years.

manded his whole-hearted interest. An important step forward has stands up when everyone

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 been taken by Turkey in the sits down. Perhaps no one who Magdalene College,

else under certain conditions, to teristic phrase, with child". till he question of the world fight seriously thinks about the mat- where it still remains. Among the against opium and other dan-ter would maintain that contents

were six bulky MS. Pepys's appeal is due also to the gerous drugs which the League measure of a man's patriotism, lumes comprising the testator's deliciousness of his unconscious

"Journal." It not only ran of Nations has been conducting afforded by his inclination

even in the narrowest sense, is something like half a million words void of humour.

to humour. He himself was quite de- He could never for the past twelve years. The disinclination to stand up when to which nobody knew the key has done, otherwise. And that is expectantly. That was the

or but it was written in a shorthand have given us such a diary as he Turkish Government has inform-a theatrical entertainment is And in view of the unlikelihood, as the joy of it; the perfect gravity of us. We abandoned ourself to ed the League that the Grand concluded, though that, after all, was supposed, of any particularly with which he records the big and a National Assembly has adopt seems a not unreasonable thing interesting revelations resulting, little things side by side, as of everything.

reckless orgy." and bid for ed a draft law concerning

to do. The usual method of ac- no one seems to have thought it equal importance, and yet perceives Finally a kitchen chair was put the accession by Turkey to the them, which method is the same ciphering of so formidable a bud-plicity with which he chronicles his that it was what we had come for. knowledging the National An-worth while to attempt the dene incongruity; the artless sim- up, and we dimly remembered Opium Conventions of 1912, in Hongkong as in Britain, has 1925 and 1931. The 1912 Con- long been established by con-

most glaring incompatibilities of The auctioneer tenderly enquired conduct, and yet remains quite ob if we would offer $5. We were vention, concluded before

IMMEDIATE SUCCESS. the vention. There

viously unaware ате, course,

of any incon- cunning and said three. War at The Hague, aimed only some conventions that are bad: Diary of John Evelyn, Penye's

But in 1819 the publication of thesistency.

Some lunatic made it $25 just at controlling the distribution of and there are many conventions contemporary and friend, and the at two or three things viz., that

He goes to bed one night "vexed that we had made it $22.50.

before we realised with horror prepared opium and manufac-ventions are neither the one nor the then Master of Magdalene, do; the ill state of the Kingdom's got it. But we bet he went home 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 tured drugs. A step forward the other. The majority of George Neville, that old Samuel's business; the charge which was registered in the first 1925 sensible people would agree that, journal might possibly contain Mother's death will bring on me had. Convention, which

my even more sadly to explain why ha declared in the latter cases, it is well to memoirs of equal interest. opium import and sale a Govern. observe them more or less close therefore commissioned a certain

He for mourning when all is paid.” ́ ment monopoly and provided for ly. Conventions are the gearoil of John Smith, an undergraduate of He attends church one Lord's the exchange of information and

civilization. Were is not for the St. John's and a candidate for Holy Day, at some inconvenience, co-operation against smuggling.ventions, the daily round would that occupied him for three years. in the same breath almost, records general observance of polite con- deciphering it a laborious work he had heard, was to be there, and, Orders, to undertake the task of purpose to see a pretty woman who, The second 1925 Convention pro-be full of disturbing and un- vided for the establishment of a necessary shocks through people The Diary was first given to the ing sight of Pembleon, Mr. Pepya's his righteous indignation on catch Permanent Central Board to behaving in small matters dif-public in 1825, under the editor- dancing-master, leering down at which all countries are to state ferently from what they might ship of Lord Braybrooke, George that lady from the gallery. Such their medical needs of drugs and silly, frictions would ensue that bowdlerised though that first edi- cumstances, and

be expected to do.

All sorts of Neville's brother, and, absurdly shocking behaviour under any cir their exports and imports. All in bulk would considerably holdtion was, it 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

How?

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the

upon

report if the flow into any state is too great. The 1931 Conven- How? This is an enfant ter- tion aimed at limiting manu-rible among questions. Cynics facture. Unfortunately, the fuse it to blast idealists' hopes. manufacture of opium is an ex- Practical men cannot help stick- ceedingly paying business and ing its honest

into point 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 a ious traffickers who had lost their better state of things, one fact licences in France-and were stands. The thousands. 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 confronted 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 Morse, 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 ca- can be done they are on the road timate. Each country creates alto finding out how.'

get.

H

Cambridge, saw it.

in church

"She wants me to paper the apare bedroom and pipe hot water to the bathtub, just because she's invited a girl in her

geometry class down for the week-end."

on

on

We could feel our blood cffervesc ing. We were no longer an inter- loper, occuping valuable space. We were a Buyer.

an expert interest. It consisted We appraised the next lot with of the lid of a regetable dish, and rubber boot, a book of sermons, and a dog coliar.

The auctioneer looked at 119 end

room.

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BATHROOM PERILS. Next to bed, the riost dangerous

unfortunate mortal with a passion place in our homes is the bath- Every day one reads of some

drowned, asphyxiated, or elec- for cleanliness who is either trocuted, to say nothing of those who slip and crack their skulls on the wall or on the brass taps.

Great efforts have been made in recent years to render the Hong- kong bathroom foolproof, 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,

But even then, we Виррове, A certain number of citizens will be drawn into the suction pipes and disappear without trace. Let us hope they will at least have the decency to pay their shroffs before they do so.

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 born and tried to pass us. 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 eighties 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 tire very affectionate towards. our car) ho sisp staggered out, and wiping his sweated brow, said:

"Thank God you've stopped. For the past fifteen miles my radiator cap's been caught in your bumper bars!"