IfEDFOTCD MATL TOTBTTNTC, ftrEPFORD, OREGON', FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5. 1931
PAGE SEVEN
EVIL OF OPIUM
TO
'Smoke Joints' Still Easy To
Find Despite Government
Ban Scribe Tells of Ex
perience With Poppy
Corn Popi on Stalk in Fall
CON.NKAUT. O. (UP) During mod
erate early fall weather here, popcorn
popped on the etalk at c. C. Ben
nett's farm. Farmers puzzled over
where the heat came from, finally
reasoned it was stored from eummer.
Huge state Lake Went Dry
JAMESTOWN, Kan. (UP) -The bltf
state lake, which formerly covered a
large area In the Oreat Salt Marsh
near here, has gone dry and thousands
of fish with which It was stocked have
perished.
Sleeping Sickness Toll 13
TOLEDO, O. (UP) Toledo's sleep
ing sickness toll has mounted to 13
deaths of two more victims on suc
cessive, days. Forty-five cases of the
disease have been reported here since
Aug, 1.
Woman Burned In Can Blast
CADIZ, o. (UP) Her supply or
cans exhausted, Mrs. Charles Dicker
son turned to a molasses can for pre
serving some tomatoes. The contain
er blew up, burning her severely with
the hot fruit.
Would Not Be Constables
8TONINQTON. Conn. (UP) cer
tain Jobs have no appeal to the un
employed. During the textile strlite
the warden and burgesses appoint
40 special constables for duty at the
mills. All refused to serve,
Married In Morgue
OLYMPIA, Wash. (UP) Not ex
actly the most cheerful place for
wedding, but O. H. Mlttelstadt, mor
tician, and Miss Dorothy Thomson,
both of Seattle, were married in a
local morgue.
Left Case of Whisky
VANCOUVER, Wash. (UP) Candi
date for the year's moss forgetful
man the Portlander who bought a
case of high-priced Scotch whisxy,
then forgot to take it with him whoa
he left the state liquor store.
By Earl H. Leaf
United Press Staff Correspondent
SHANGHAI (UP) The Chinese
government Is trying to eradicate the !
opium evil In old Cathay, but it's still I
about as easy to una a "smoke joint"
In any Chinese city today as it was
to find a speakeasy In any American 1
city during prohibition.
The Chinese populace is taking the
opium eradication campaign Just
about as seriously as Americans took
the Federal Government's efforts to '
stamp out needled beer and bathtub J
gin.
Having, in days of yore, tasted of
the "stolen sweets" of a well-stocked ;
cellflr in the United States, we decid
ed to forget our trials and tribxilatlons I
with China's favorite Illicit pastime
and Indulge in a few fanciful poppy
dreams.
Sing Song House
We selected for the scene of our
experiment a sing-song house in "Wei
Loh Li," the most celebrated passage
way of Its kind in the world, off Foo-
chow Road, the great pleasure boult- j
rard of the Chinese In Shanghai. 1
MWei Loh Li" boasts of probably a
hundred sing-song houses within Its
narrow confines and is the goal of
every ambitious sing-song girl in the
Flower Kingdom.
Presenting our letters of Introduc
tion to the master of the "Small Two
Pearls," a sing-song house of some i
fame Itself, we explained our wishes
in our best Shanghai dialect and were
admitted into the sacred precinct.,
Three of four Chinese clients wer I
playing man Jongg, stuffing them
selves with everything from bean
curds to shark's fins, making walU-
walla and listening enraptured to the j
high screeching, the wild barbaric ;
aongs of the sing-song girls.
Opium Room
At the far end of the dim-lit.
moke-flUed, extravagantly-furnished
room could be seen several couches
on which opium lamps were burning
and trays of smoking paraphernalia
were ready for use. After concluding
a ritual of polite palaver with the
master, we were at last Introduced to
Miss Koo Ah-kong, slender, exotic,
sole-eyed, parchment-skinned Chinese
beauty who was to preside over the
opium lamp and aid the slay foreign
er in ascending the ladder to the sev
enth heaven of poppy-land.
She commenced to work Immedia
tely, with a long silver instrument
she picked up a bit of the opium
thick, black syrupy stuff "black
rice" the Chinese fondly call It
twisting and turning and splrnling It
over the thin steady flame of the
opium lamp until it was In her opin
ion properly cooked, then inserted
the sticky mass Into the tiny aperture
Of the pipe bowl, whim we sucked on
the Jeweled tip of the stem.
First Attempt a Flop
The first pipeful was a flop, Ah-
kong said, because I didn't inhale j
deeply enough. On our second and
third pipes we Inhaled from the bot- j
torn of our detestable toes with
the force and violence our lungs could
muster. The opium spluttered and
congealed, spluttered and melted.
burst into flame, smouldered acted i
up generally. Ah-kong worked tire
lessly, diligently, end was as concen
trated on her task as a great surgeon
performing some momentous operation.
Th.- fourth pipe gave us a sensa
tion of relaxation, as If the muscles '
In our body had been tensed for life
and were now for the first time find
ing complete relaxation. But It was
only a passing sensation, perhaps even
a product of Imagination, and we de
cided we would never emulate De
Qulncy's "Confessions of an Opium
Eater." In fact, this story is about the
best we could do.
FARMS FOR CITY SAYS
I3NDON (UP) British farm work
ers are going "off the land."
The latest returns published by the
Department of Agriculture show that j
31,500 less regular and casual ma.e j
workers were employed on farms dur
ing the 1933-34 period, while women
end (flrl workers dropped by 0.400.
Agriculture in this country has not
yet been put Into a position where It
could assist materially in the reduc
tion of unemployment. Actually, un
employment figures are raised by
nearly 23,000, due to the decrease In
farm workers, which Is not Included J
In the ordinary unemployment total.
Critics of present government meas
ures to aid the agricultural Industry
claim that If Britain assisted her
farmers to only one-qusrter the ex
tent that Italy does, there might be
J.OOO.000 on the land Instead of the j
present total of 887.700 In Britain nrl ' I
Wales.
While some quarters place the
blame for the reduction of workers,
upon Increased mechanization oi
farms which were mechanized a ew
years wo, now are employing many
more hands in some cases doubic
and treble the former number.
Vnll;ie.e I'opnliil Ion Now 11
POTOSI. Wis. ( UP) Or.; boastlne
ft large population, the village of
British Hollow, two miles north of
here, now is mha-blted by scarcely
more than a doen persons. A tavern,
a store and filling tatlon are the
only business places In the town, once
ft noisy prosperous mining center.
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