TUESDAY, APRIL IS, 1954
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
ACT FOURTEEN
Beirut Hashish Smoker's Den May Be Disappointment
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R THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The wickedest thing you'll see in a
Beirut hashish smokers' den Is an
Esquire calendar on us wau.
Anyone expecting to see Oriental
vice at Its worst would be sadly
disappointed. Doesn't even com
pare with newspaper stories about
marijuana parties In the United
States.
Hashish Is something like mart
limna. hut comes (rom a different
plant. The plant flourishes in Leb
anon s ncu OL a wn
draws such a iat price that peas
ants are tempted to neglect wheat
and fruit growing in favor of
hashish. Regularly, the govern
ment destroys hashish plantations,
only to have them crop up again
when the government turns its
back.
Imagine you're pretending to be
drunk and almost a deaf mute in
the company of an Arab. Tho en
trance to the den has an atmos
phere of Oriental mystery. B Is lo
cated inside a walled compound in
the dark port district of Beirut. In
side, after the ""tial whispered
conversation through a tiny win
dow in the main gate, the smoke
filled den is well lighted. Around
the walls, seedy clients sit quietly
on low straw-bottomed stools. At
Intervals, a waiter makes the
rounds with a hashish pipe, giving
each man a quick puff. .
The pipe la a cup-shaped burner
set on top of a bottle of water,
through which the smoke is fil
tered. The bamboo stem is about
two feet long. After each puff, the
customers burst into fits of cough
ing. Otherwise, all is quiet and
orderly,
' Advertisements from American
magazines and Hollywood pinups
plaster the walls. The most dar
ing la the Esquire calendar, fea
turing a girl in a transparent
negligee.
Clients wore Western clothes,
with only an occasional red fez
giving the place an Oriental touch.
All were men. Almost all were
from the lowest level of life.
By American standards,, the
hashish smoke was cheap roughly
SO cents a puff. For s dollar, an
experienced addlot could have a
big evening, But a dollar repre
' sents a big part of a month's
wages to these men. One blind fel
low spent his days begging on
street corners so he could enjoy
hashish at night. The other Clients
iwere mostly porters, beggars,
lickpockets and. unemployed hood
ums. Instead of stimulating these
people to violence or excess, the
blue smoke of the hashish pipe
led them into a dream world far
from the sordid lite of Beirut's
slums. The more they smoked, the
quieter they became. My guide ex
plained that most of them were. "If these people were not dream- guide explained. "Remember this:
having dream romances with the ins from hashish, they would be no hashish addict ever goes Com
Esquire girl on the wall. I making trouble on the atrcets," the munist." .
PLOT
SEOUL On The Defense Ministry
said yesterday South Korean army
Intelligence men blocked a plot
to blow Un railroads and bridges
with the arrest, of 15 Communist
agents.
The Reds slipped out of their re
treat In the Chlrl Mountains o
southwest Korea last week to
set up underground cells for sabo
tage, They were arrested In Haong,
west of Pusan.
Il V f" It
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