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Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1983.

SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1933,

DAY-DREAMS

By E. L. ALLEN

BULLS AND INNERS

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From the Office Butts

Now that it has been noticed that

to obtain supplies from the tube- packing plant of the Straits Settlements monopoly have had disastrous consequences. The smoker objects to the quality of the new brand and on the score

Some years ago, I had a hospital ward. Probably some- thing had gone wrong in that of wastage also to the tubes in which it is packed. He will not occasion to visit a ward in a man's life, a mistake or worse prickly pear is spreading in the have Government oplum if he mental hospital. It was a of which he had been guilty, or New Territories, it is anticipated

Instead of working to put the one by the Nudist Society. can obtain other brands, pre- sunny day and a number of an injury, he had suffered. And that a strong protest will be lodged

ᄆ ferably the well-known Red Lion the patients were sitting out right or to rise in courage above brand from Macao. With what in the sunshine. A loud, the other, he took refuge in a world

where such things did not happen, Edward Kelly had a bad `night- resulta? Government sales of strong voice came from the where he was a person of great mare last week. He dreamt he was oplum have been eut by garden: a man was sittingents had regular dealings with married to his wife. Screaming

Importance and Kings and Pro- half. An Immense stimulus there and talking volubly |himi. has been given to smuggling to himself, or rather, to an Raiding the divans merely filla

loudly, he woke up and found it was true..

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This man had fled from life to the gaols. The Government imaginary typist seated by day-dreams. We all of us have day-dreams. As children, we had

It is a pity that the proposed so much spare energy that it was says it is pledged to keep opium his side. smoking within bounds and the He was dictating correspond-just as well some of it did find New Territories Beer Garden has motive of the Government is ence at great length, and in employment in this way. Our been banned. Presumably eminently to be respected. But what he presumably thought parents were thankful we did not authorities fear that it might go the methods adopted are de- was a precise and business-like use it all on smashing the crockery to motor-hoga henta

fashion. It ran something like or teasing the cat! And if we are artists by calling or as a hobby, finitely prejudicial, to the effec-this: His Majesty King Geor day-dreams will be very valuable,

All this chattor about rabies tive pursuit of the policy and the go comma Buckingham Palace for muafe and paintings and poc-. Government will get a grip upon comma London comma England try can come out of them. But ralses the question-Should a dog- the opium problem once again full-stop next line Your Royal for the ordinary business of life watch bo muzzled? only if and when the needs of Highness comma next line We they can be perilous stuff Indeed. the connoisseur-habituo are met. have the honour to inform you NATIONS HAVE DAY-DREAMS, that we are in the position, to

And did you hear about the Precautions against the dis- supply our world-famous air-

Nations have day-dreams. The semination of illicit opium have ships' and so on. The letter Armistice produced a whole crop Licensing Justices who were quite of them. One nation had a day- prepared to grant a licence to a merely offended this man of gave the specifications of the dream in which it saw a huge local cabaret as long as they didn't taste, and his number is legion, airships in question, with details stream of reparation-payments sell drinks on the premises? and given a tremendous impetus as to price, and closed with the pouring into its exchequer, thus to the illicit traffic. There is hope that His Majesty would saving it from the necessity of ace his way to placing an order high taxation to foot the bill for

Water restrictions may be lifted another social aspect of the with the firm. Then he went on the war! Another had a day- abnormal increase in oplum con- to the next letter, addressed to dream of a country fit for heroes soon. Say when, mon. victions which may very well be the President of the United to live in' as a substitute for tack- discussed in conjunction with States, and so on all through the ling the housing problem! There

are nations to-day which find it It's all touch and go with Ed- day!

more pleasant to dream about the problem of the unlicenced hawker. Many of the opium

their rights than to get on with ward Kelly. All touch and very the job of practical reform. offenders

are mere coolies, employed as carriers and paid small sums for the service by those who direct the traffic, The majority accept the dangers of the "profession" merely be cause they must eat to live. They are compelled by poverty just as are many men and wo men who choose the alternative of hawking. Whether the Government realises it or not,

cannot,

WAY OF ESCAPE.

little go.

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Ono did not know whether to be

It is the same with ourselves. sorry for him or not. It was cer- tainly much more pleasant to be When a man says if I had my doing imaginary trade with royal-life over again, I would do this ty than to face the hard fact that or that, he is day-dreaming. He loon the owner expressed surprise one was cooped up in that ward has only one life and the task is and said it had never bitten any- and under constant surveillance. to realise as much as possible of one before. Still, before is not Poor fellow one could not really his ideal here and now in that, where dogs usually bite people. grudge him his escape from such | When a man says If we only had surroundings! Exactly! he was a decent social order, I should be finding a way of escape, and that ready to do my best, but as it is from something much bigger than he is finding the same way of

"Cheap Blasting" reads a news- escape. For surely the more rot paper headline. Explosive explo- ten society is in any case, the tives? more call there is for each man to

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fidence enough.

One of the first rules of life if Sell your day-dreams and buy ideals with the proceeds. Censo thinking of what you would Jiko to see happen and work at what up building

Among the week's "Lost"

ad-

One thing in favour of dealing in rubber is that it will usually stretch a point.

W O California-the land of perpetual

each other.

.O Hongkong dollar touched 1/4%- Edward Kelly wishes to meet this 1/47/8

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"Abigail” says that bright tints will be all the rage next season. Women will frock to the colours.

THE COLONY'S SOCIAL STIGMA

Hongkong has not escaped the to be grateful for. Our private opinion has always been that its The Government's explanation world-wide depression and there eccentricities are more apparent And if he answers, Better let the vertisements appeared one refer for the acute congestion in the is considerable unemployment than real, puckish geatures in- thing go to pieces, it's not worth Colony's gaols adds little to in the Colony. As usual, the vented for the edification of the saving, isn't this picture of a ring to an umbrella with an ivory

who just social order emerging out of tip and a bunch of rose. Hard! common knowledge. More than hardest hit are those with latest mathematician-alienists,

口 most dangerous of daydreams? half the inmates of Tetoria opportunity for providing for would be gravely disappointed a revolutionary orgy about. the

A RULE OF LIFE. Gaol are imprisoned for opium the rainy day, those who at the to find their theories disproved by the facts. So it does not offences and another group, beat of times live at the bare or surprise us in the least that Day-dreams

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will-o'-the- exceeding three figures in num-

below what is considered to be Professor E. A. Milne has found wisps, ideals are guiding stars. ber, represents individualà con-

the bare subsistence level. the Universe perfectly amenable The one procedure drains off the victed for trivial offences such Social welfare in this Colony is to treatment on old-fashioned energy of life to make what ap- as that of hawking without a conspicuous largely for its inabi Euclidean lines. This in itself pears a beautiful lake with an

is comforting. Old Euclid was island-Paradise in the centre, but sunshine. Iceland--the land of licence. Every day a fresh lity to touch even at the fringes a blunt, dependable sort of turns out soon to be just a stag perpetual snow. New Zealand-the batch is sent in to swell the total clines to accept any responsibili- allowed to get up to any monkey-and-populous cities to the mea

of the problem. Government de fellow. The Cosmos was not noting through cultivated lands land of perpetual foreste!

pool. The other sets a current

and further releases before ty. Practically nothing is done tricks in his day. Is it too One gives you a view of Utopia, sentences have expired are to aid the distressed. They much to hope that somebody will a delightful land, but no one In this mad pursuit for fashion inevitable. The effort to tem- may starve. Some of them do. still further improve upon Pro- knows where it is and it has no in bathing costumes, a lot of Hong- per the seriousness of this state Others try hawking and hope to fessor Milne's work and succeed port where a ship may put in. kong women are trying to outstrip of affairs by claiming that excape the eyes of the Indian in Inducing all these suns, The other gives you a plan of this those selected are under orders policeman. Others carry opium. nebulae, and what not to aban- common earth as it might become of deportation fails in the face Some choose the straight don their ultra-modern habit of if one only had courage and con- forward path of stealing. running away from us? We do of the facts revealed in the Ultimately, they all tread the not blame them. Twentieth Magistracy day by day. Con- same path, towards the gates of Century scientists are a for stantly before the Court come the gaol, which, for some of bidding-looking crowd. But men charged with returning them, almost amounts to a their telescopes, though they from banishment and the sentencial service. Stealing and bear a strong resemblance to you can do. Givo ences imposed are, often enough, course, be condoned, but, except taken too seriously..

opium-carrying

of heavy artillery, ought not to be castles in the air and sweep out

the room in which you live! longer in term than those usual-for our famous police case-book ly imposed for the offences system, something might be finally productive of deportation done in the way of slackening orders. A vicious circle is set the demand upon gaol accom- up with the result that amodation by the hawker fra- goodly proportion of the inmates nuisance. His number has al ternity. The hawker is a of Hongkong prisons are almost ready exceeded the oficial quota in the category of permanent and no further licences should, residents occasionally, allowed strictly, be issued. But when out for brief holidays. The distress Is prevalent tho remedy is, of course, almost-de-Government cannot humanly fiant of discovery and, in any above the wits of authority to ignore it and it is surely not event, it is not vitally material provide a system whereby, In to the question of the dangerous the absence of a better plan, free overcrowding now existent. licences would be issued for These are men who will be there short periods only to proved in any event, whether roomage it would be foolish to ask for needy cases. In this Colony, is plentiful or otherwise. Their more. But if the Government case is quoted merely to illust-really desires to tackle one im- rate that releases cannot be the portant factor in its gaol. pro- solution of the gaol problem, blem, can it grant anything. that it must be sought else-icss? where. Two features are con- spicuous in the Government's analysis, the abnormal growth of oplum offendors and the fact that the number of hawkers sent to prison in the month of May of recent years is reputed to was treble that of the same have tied itself up in the most month last year. The official alarming knots may take heart explanation of the one admits of grace. The latest bulletin the criticisms levelled at the suggests that the patient is be Government's oplum policy in coming a trifle more reasonable, It is still blowing itself out at a these columns quite recently prodigious speed, but it is not The closing down of the Govern- trying to bite its own tail at the ment Factory and the decision same time-which is something

A Saner Cosmos

Those laymen who have been anxious about the extremely odd bohaviour of the Cosmos-which

"Please, darling, stop skipping. We don't want to

· tract ́attention.

She was only a shoo-maker's : daughter, but she never Bald "Shoo"

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"Serious communal riots in In- dia." Standing up for their riots.

Lane, Crawford's, according to a contemporary, rendered invaluable assistance during the water famine fifty years ago. Nineteen, thirty- thres is, of course, the dry-cen- tenary.

Japan boycotta Indian cotton.

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The Japuneso seem to be cottoning

on to this boycott idea.

Edward Kelly' always paya? shrolls with a smile. Troublé they expect cash,"

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Hongkong is not represented at the Economic Conference, which, la rather a pity.". We can think o quite a number of possible gates, and there is always the sibility that they would not come, back!!

Even gold bars are not alwa