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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1933.

NOTES OF THE DAY OVER THE OPIUM PIPE

POVERTY IN USA.

How long can the United States continue to stand out against the growing.demand for a pational sys-

AH LO IN PROPHETIC MOOD

By C. V.-L. for the Telegraph

BEFORE

tem of maintenance for the un- THEN, on a previous occasion,; leaving one kind of oplum they do YOU

smployed? The grent American W you shared in the pleasure of not want, becauso it la dearer and cities have handled the problem an introduction to my loquacious Inferior, for anothor that is cheu- DECIDE

magnificently all things considered but wholly admirable friend Ah Lo, per and better. It also means they on your

NEW CAR but it in too much to expect then you will recall how we found him in are able to get that other without to go through a third winter ou the midst of a big moan' uttered apparent difficulty, despite this you should try out the funds voted by the Municipalities over the poor quality of the new "Intensive campaign" about which Monopoly oplum which he, an ir- you have spoken and have wearled and secured from private aubretrievable addict, has now been me by the repetition. NEW VAUXHALL scriptions. Many cities are al-asked to "adopt". Short of an "You say it is incredible? Go

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1933.

MONETARY POLICY

The Very Idea!

•

OUR ANNUAL MEETING.

By Eddie Kelly, President.

Tuis is the time of the year

when all the local associationes 'hold their annual meetings. By now Hon. Treasurers will be bit- ing their finger nails, Hon. Secretaries will be wondering morbidly whether they will be re-elected, and Hon. Presidents will wonder if their speeches will le reported verbatim in the

I'rena.

As we know our own..speech won't be printed in any local newspapers, mainly through pro- fessional jealousy, we're going to. allck it in this column while the Editor's away for the week-end.

ready, on the verge of bankruptcy. illegal partiality for other stuff, then, Into the native boarding Yot America, despite budgetary he had no other course but to achousos, the Chinese clubs, into un difficulties, has immense reserves cept the new ruling, oven though licensed premises, evon into pri- ho doubted its wisdom. The vate homes, and there you will of taxable capacity still untouched, lugubrious prognostications he find the answer to this riddle of and among its population highly made on that occasion, regarding a Colony-wide consumption of ta inflammable elements not likely to amongst other things a phenomenal boo opium. But it will still leave bo indefinitely patient under adver-drop in Government revenues re- you marvelling as to how almost HE annual meeting, of the

Incentivo everyone who wants it is able to sity or to show respect for the sulting from the now

Society for the Prevention of law. It looks as if the next month unwittingly offered to smuggling, smoke it with comparativo facility.

wo had then thought to have "What does it not suggest to Kindness to Shroffs was held in or two will bring' with them an sprung from the natural disap-you but the obvious? Oficial the Snack Bar of the Hongkong irresistible demand for more ade-pointment of a man thwarted of short-sightedness and incompetence Hotel yesterday afternoon. There his life's desire. So beyond con- and/or laxity in preventive work? were present: Mr. Edward Kelly, quate help.

soling and humouring him in his Ornbhorent thought-ean it be 0.B.E. (Old Bills Excluded) 1.0.U weakness, we had paid scant regard possible the natural ingenuity of

THE BREADLINES

THE

for his remarics, dismissing them the opium smuggler has outstrip-In the chair, Messrs. Pete Watkins, merely the querulous quaver-ped the wits of those responsible "Wacco" Mulligan, "Ginger" Col- inge of a drug-sodden fool. for the protection of our revenues? lius, "Stiff McTavish and re-

Despite the claims made regard. ing the amount of re-employment obtained through the Recovery Act, It is admitted that at least eleven taillions will be out of work during the winter, with a prospect of grea- ter hurdships than ever. Unless the Federal Government steps in, willy ailly, to prevent a gigantic WE MAKE tragedy. It will require more than AMENDS. e million dollars a day merely to

Prida walked before a fall. We, Of what avail these continuous presentatives of the Amalgamated who had shared with Civil Ser-raids on divans and the resultant Union of Talpains, the Wash vanta a prideful regard for our filling up of an already congested fancied knowledge of these world- Prison with poisoned smokers and Amahs Federation, the Kowloon ly matters, wore destined for a sad potential candidates for tuberculos- Residents' Association and lead- ing mombers of the Hongkong fall. Alas, the substance was only

18? too real in what our friend had "Rathor should you look for the Police force and the local Press, said, as by now you all will have fundamental cause in opium quali-

The Chairman, amidst applause, ty differences: the one unentisfy- agreed.

ing despite its high cost, the other announced that the newly opened gratifying with the additional ad-China Emporium would sell goods vantage of cheapness. You ask me on credit. Pass books had been to define those nice differences in

leed people who would otherwise friend Ah Lo with all the humility discharge for a non-amoker if con- members of the Executive upon To-day we returned to our old quality, and it is difficult task to issued and could be received from. have nothing to cat. President of one anxious to offer full refined to words alone. Since you payment of a round of drinks. Roosevelt now indicates readinessparation for an injustice dons: of have so Armly declined my invita- to assume full responsibility by one who, having heard the Oracle, tion, a demonstration may assist.

ordering the Relief Administrator and been gratified by events oc- Watch then.""

A

to supply food, clothing and fuel to carring exactly as they were pre-

|dicted, is desirous of further enligh- | THE FATEFUL Events in the United States in the destitute. But this means tenment and instruction. Both of DEMONSTRATION. the last few days have made it perpetuation of the bread lines, a which we found he was ready to abundantly clear that a defini-degrading business at its best. tion of the country's currency. is needed to put certainty in the place of the present uncertainty. Any value originally to be deri- ved from consciously keeping people in the dark has definitely ceased to be important. In the early days, it was perhaps use

SHIPPING SUBSIDY

Great difficulty had been ex-- perienced in procuring these. special privileges for members of the Association, said Mr. Kelly. It was not until the Chairman of

books.

"I was greatly touched, when I first heard the news," he said,

give in generous measure. And From the much maligned metal Directors of the China Emporium without even a trace of that lie tubo in which the new Govern-had been convinced that members' told you so" pose detestable curae ment product is imported from chit accounts had been stopped at and affliction of mankind which Singapore, he extracted sufficient every other place in Hongkong has spoiled many a promising pro- to make a tiny pollet, and held it that he consented to issue the pass phet, but from which we can hap over the peanut oil-fed flame of the lamp. If the drug were ex- What is the underlying ex-pily aver our friend is free. planation of the South African

callent, full of a resiliency and a The Chairman also reported. Over the oplum this day his native goodness, it should instant- Covernment's subsidy of £150,000 nimble mind was again stimulatedly respond by a crackle and bub- that the well known shroff. Sze a year to two Italian shipping and it explored the position relent ble till the air of the room was Tat-chit had fallen down the stops companies for the provision of lessly. "You say" he, sententious- charged with an acrid, but decid- of the Hongkong Telegraph Offico. regular services in order to openly, rapped out, "that sales of edly not unpleasant odour. Suggestions, doubtless engendered. ful. It aided the policy of for-up new markets"? Great Britain Monopoly oplum are nearing van- But this opium did not crackleby jealousy, had been mado that cing prices up. When people do has no right to complain if South ishing point? You say that from or bubble to any noticeable degree. the shroff had in the first place not know what their money will Afrien chooses to subsidise $1,250,000 in six months, the be worth to-morrow, they are foreign companies. But, on the revenue has now dropped to less After a preliminary swelling, it been kicked by Mr. Kelly.

shrank back on the point of the face of it, this is a distinct blow than $700,000, and you are sur-needle, and no amount of kneading. "I wish to nail that lio" enld the apt to spend it. Prices are thus to British shipping prestige. It prised?

or massaging thereafter against chairman. "Sze Tat-chit was not encouraged to rise. Unfortun- would be interesting to know "Surprised. at what? At the the surface of the bowl could re-kicked down the stairs. He was Government resuscitato it to life and activity. taken by the collar and the seat ately, the only prices that have whether in the first place the probable loss to really risen sharply are retail South African Government made venues expanding to a tremendoua

The next stage of the operation of his trousers and thrown down any proposals to any British line extent by the time the next Colonf-was the insertion of the cooked the stairs." (Applause). prices. Commodity values after and, if so, what was the reply. al Budget will have made the posit-pellet into the suction hole in the Amid scenes of great enthus- a preliminary spurt have drop- British shipping certainly cannot lon eveu tragically clearer? bowl. With an air as much as to fasm, the representative of the ped away again, the index show-alford to let opportunities pass. "This financial question does not proclaim that he was not in the Taipains Association praised the On the contrary, now, if ever, is interest me in the least (we can highest expectations of the out- Hongkong Government for its ing them to be seventy per cent. the time to create opportunities. forgive him the utterance). It is come, my friend began to smoke, recent Moneylenders Ordinance. of pre-war levels, while manu-

for those who conduct the Colony's or what is more correct to say, tó factured products are sixteen per

finances to worry over."

pull at the open end of the pipe. cent. above pre-war prices. The IRELAND

Here again, if the optum were full day has come, moreover, when

of what connoisseurs in another sphere would term "body", a sus the Administration is

that was not unlike the purring of tained sound should be emitted As pendent upon investors to invest

a contented cat. But the pill dis It is upon consumers to buy. 'As a condition of lending, in- vestors require a reasonable as surance that money lent to-day will be the same thing when it is repaid. That, after all, was the aim expressly stated by President Roosevelt at the time of the world economic conferen-applied. Both are struggling for ce, the necessity of creating a to avold the onus of provocation. tactical advantage and attempting dollar that will not change in Following the banning of the value or in buying power. He handled the highly charged altun

Blue Shirts, Mr. de Valera has contemplates, it is now believed, tlon shrewdly. Though he has are-definition of the gold con-evoked many protests by the es tent of the dollar, coupled withbunal, he has largely avoided the tablishment of a military tri- stabilisation and a promise of a accusation of partisanship by the return to the gold standard, at appointment of the five members the lower level, and although the who served on a similar court în announcement of such a policy circumstances, his escape of a vote 1933 under Cosgrave, In tho carries dangers of wild specula-of censure at the reassembly of the tion on the stock exchanges, it Dall was hardly surprising. seems the only way by which

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He leaned forward, and resumed, Impressively. "I shall tell you what i ne gonninely interested in. I am interested in what that enor Political tension has ranched, a lela pitch is the Emerald Isle.mous drop in salve implies."

It would be unconscious humour

I

The Chairman: So were the moneylenders, (Prolonged laughter and applause.)

to overemphasise the peaceful as- NOT A·

Two members of the Kowloon appointed by an almost total in-Residents' Association reported pects of the situation in Ireland JOKE.

ability to full the strict require that their names had now ap- the lenders of both factions are to-day. But the fact remains that

ment. Finally, pulling a wry face, peared on the honour board of the "Decreased consumption?

Ah Lo threw down the pipo. seriously attempting to prevent can't agree to your being humorous

K.C.C, for two months. The figure There was that in the gesture $110 stood against the name of one the dispute going too far. None when for others the question has which reminded me of a technician and $120 against the name of the knows better than Mr. de Valera become of auch tragical moment. having been called to perform, re- other. Coincident with this, they Irish rivalries can turn into a and Gen. O'Duffy how rapidly It simply means that people are luctantly, with inadequate tools, reported, further credit had been

refused them, conflagration once the match is

a fresh impetus can be given to SUPER-MILK-MAN

the prosperity drive. That the

danger has not been overlooked One of the practical cortainties is shown by the report that the of the creation in England of the Milk Marketing Board to control

GUARANTEED President is considering the the entire production and distri-

FIRE & BURGLAR PROOF

Outside door is fitted with a Combination Lock capable of

100,000,000 changes.

Prices on application.

SOLE AGENTS:

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appointment of an Advisorybution, is that it will raise the Board with a view to exercising. price of milk. But, whatever view close supervision on the opera- may be held of the character and tlons of the New York Stock body, it has begun well in the functions of the new organising Exchange and It seems impro-selection of Mr. Sidney Foster as bable that he will commit him- its first manngor. The career of self until his arrangements in Mr. Foster has that air of romance this direction have been com- Dr. Smiles. Mr. Foster received which inspired the enthusiasm of pleted.. One mad scramble play- his education at an elementary ed havoc with the commodity school. At the age of 18 he was markets and undid the slow earning five shillings a week. At 47 he is appointed to manage a building-up process started by gigantic public concern at a start- Administration. Another ing salary of £5,000 a year. " Hệ wild gamble with its inevitable already won his spurs as general reaction. would wreck any chan-manager of the London Cooper- ativo Society; ho knows BOMO- ce of success for the recovery thing, therefore, of the con- programme.

sumers'.case.

the

"Let's not fuss, dear. We'. Il food hor what your mother says one week and what my mother says the next."

On the motion of the chairman, a vole of condolenco was passed to the two members, their re- latives and friends. Members stood in silence_for_two_minutes_ as a mark of sympathy.

An alarming suggestion that drinks would not be free at the next St. Patrick's Ball was referr- ed to by the chairman. To deat with this rumour, he had brought Mr. "Wocco" Mulligan along.

There was tense siloneo as Mr. Mulligan rose to speak. "Gentle- men" he said, "There is no truth in the rumour."

When the applause had sub- sided, Mr. Mulligan continued: "At first it was thought that some such move might have to be made. Then came the water shortage and our duty was clear. We could not allow our guests to drink water. Wo saw our duty to the Govern- mont and we have done our best to full it."

The Hon. Treasurer reported that he had failed to make the accounts balance. Receipts had boon nil, for no members had paid thoir subscriptions, and. accounts amounted to $1,500.

"This is a happy state of affairs," said the Chairman, who moved a vote of confidence in the Hon. Treasuror,

"Any man who can get away.. with what ho has got away with deserves our most supreme con- fidence," he said.

The meeting was stopped by the police at 2 a.mi.