The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 14, 1938, Page 4

PAGE FOUR SSSCSSSCOS SOOO SSSESOSSSSOSSSSSOOSSSOSSOSSSESSOOSOSD SYNOPSIS: A widespread re- volt of savage Dyak tribes makes it impossible for my uncle, James "Clyde, to run guns to the be- Sieged rajah, his client. A further “eomplication is the presence of the Forresters’ yawl, the Avon, in tropical..Balingong bay. Chris- {tine and “her brother, Robert, Viankly refuse to leave because they ‘ere completing a “plan” of ; their dead father. Unwilling to quit the island with the young English girl in danger, we are attempting to reach Rajah Man- tusen up-river. Chapter Six Up The Siderong y=. first slow, unearthly ap- proach into the mouth of the Siderong was like nothing in my past .xperience in the islands. Since I had been with James Clyde we had felt a few breaths of action. There had been a couple of ‘dark nights in uncertair anchor- ‘age, when I waited on watch, sus- pecting every shadow on the water —with good reason. There can be & great tensity in that, while you ‘Wait, trying to make your eyes do ‘more than they were able to do in * FUTURE CUT AND DRIED FOR FRENCH BOY OF FOURTEEN ‘ By HENRY C. CASSIDY AP Foreign Service oto defend ourselvesiftheDyaks PARIS, Feb. 14—Dark, curly- should close upon us. In actual ef- haired Pierre Yvron, more mature fect our weapons could not accom- at 14 than an American school plish much. At stern and’ bow, ov of the same age, knows that where Clyde and I could reach z a them, lay Gee rifles apiece, muz- he never will be president of of the chiefs. There were also a couple double-barreled ‘sho with enough lead to blow them upf? yah and eight pairs of thenew cap-and- ball six-shooters, slotted in racks f- 2 e under the thwarts su as not to dis- than $1,50 ‘But it turb the caps. Most of the Dyaks énough to keep Pierre in were getting used to firearms by after this time, but a lot of their first dread of them remained, and some of them could be counted on to break and flee before the explosion be had finished the eight years of primary school required of all French boys. Three Paths Open : of the guns. With this background, Pierre If they did not break and flee. already sees that he is destined to then we were through. A hundred the life of a worker. There is no suddenly swarming with 100 war tadition in France of a boy’s ris- praus. Each of our men had be- ing from a log cabin to the Elysee tween his feet a pararig, or a hang- er, or a kris, but these were on for that queer comfort which comes from feeling that at least ’ the finish comes. If the Dy: praus H iit of snibriosss 4. ~ foid -strorias igitien ba: _ Against those Dyak spears our blades would be as useless asa bunch of mops. the heavy hot dark. A few random shots had come of those nights, fol- pater by a great flurry of deft ee Se ws it of proportion? e never knew how many ene- ties there had been; or how easily they Bet have taken the Link- ang. Mever before anything Out here at the anchorage the ‘water was deep and blue, with the living, electric blue that you never See anywhere except in the tropics. But the mouth of the Siderong—it slid brown and heavy into the bay, faintly discoloring the water ali about it. It was like the river laid lishes teak. first reach was broad and lake-like, ending in a blank turn. After that the river belonged to the jungle. There was something terribly still and empty—some- ‘thing weirdly bleak and unwhole- Some, like the sad, empty ante- room to a tomb, about that vast first reach. 2 We moved with a steady, even rhythm, workmanlike and unhur- ried. Nondescript scum though bef might be called, , a urm deep grip‘tipén tia Went was not watching my course, my eyes were upon Gad, Sag i Se ee > ars, our blades rwinid We meraace: use than a bunch of mops. ‘ Something Queer And Wrong T= first open réach was three- juarters of a mile, though it | csemall much more. We reached | slowly through the deep turn. After the first bend, the river twisted continuously; and in its second winding we made our first actual contact with the Dyaks. A 20 paddle about three- peddle pran, thre quarters was drifting along about half way out from Shore. They must have known of our approach while we were a long way off; but they aposeaet to have ed pre At sight of us they turned and shot the canoe against the bar- ricading roots of the pagatpat, where they hung on, watching sullenly. I studied the prau, for it had a iqueer type of re-head, never seen in the river Siderong; ob- viously that prau had come many days away. As I saw that, I was over- e] was whelmed by an awful sense of the itude of this revolt I was jas®beginning to realize why the towering«jungle held so many di re was a ak con- spiracy more wi tharran: of us would have conceived pass ble. Nothing short of a mi can ‘bring even two or three Dyak pan- girans together; yet here . were | fighting men from all the nofth coast of Sumantang. you are not completely helpless as ‘TY James Clyde's face. He was looking; Once more it was forced in upon’ at the Avon. I wantec to turn that/ me that something was queer and ‘way too; but I stiffened, and would | wrong about this whole situation. not permit it. Watching my tncle’s| It was all very well for Clyde to palace, the French White House. There is no tradition of bootblacks growing to be captains of indus- Pierre started to school at 6, in the public primary school. That education ended with his “certifi- cate‘of 3 From A ee were open: A 1. He ‘might We gone to the public high schoop where rigid examinations would him for his elementary and stiperior cer- tificates. That would carry him through to 16, and qualify him to go to the polytechnic schools, studying to become an engineer, or a government technician. 2. He might go to a “Lycee,” or classical school, and study for his baccalaureats, which he would re- ceive when about 18. Then, he could go to a university, win his doctorate, and become a doctor, lawyer, or professor. 3. He could enter a professional school, take practical studies and prepare to enter his trade em- mediately. He's Not Dissatisfied Pierre did the latter, and in one year has studied designing, paint- ing and carpentry. He could stay at this school without paying un- til he became 16, but he has al- ready found his. apprenticeship, | where he will now get three INENGLAND, BIRTH STILL COUNTS}: ODDS ARE AGAINST AVERAGE francs (12 cents) a day as appren- tice to an interior painted. Later, he might become a painter’s help- er, at double his original pay. and finally a regular painter at about 1,500 francs (60). a month. ite the limits of his future, is-content with his lot He an } that would Pierre is conscious of political movements in his country. There is no political regimentation of the boys, they don’t have to join youth movements or wear uni- forms. But they hear the speeches, read the proclamations and see the demonstrations of the govern- ing People’s Front of Socialists, Radical-socialists and Commun- ists. s Likes U. S. And England “I am a Socialist because I like what the government does for the workers,” Pierre says. “If taxes go up, I would like it less, but I would still be a Socialist." * Similarly, -Pierre favors countries his country favors. “I like ;the: United States and England,<because they are like us,” he, says.,“I. don’t like,_Ger- many and.:Italy, because. we don’t have, their,.ideas. Pierre expects to go on with his present life, working more and more, for some time. He does not intend to marry until he is 25 He knows many girls in his neighbor- hood, walks and jokes with them, but he is more serious about earning his living first, before marrying. Meantime, there’s one sure thing ahead for Pierre—he must “pass to the regiment” at 20 and remain two years. Compulsory military service is a tie that unites all boys im this country where traces of the old aristocracy still mark some youths the “We go to the regiment because we have to,” Pierre says, “but we i don’t mind. We don't want. much. to be soldiers—ut.it mught help " 2 woot (By Associated Press) Jack Hawkins, 14, typical English boy, returns to school this fall fith the chances 1,000-to-1 against his getting to the top in life. Jack (that’s as good a name as | any) probably doesn’t know that, but those are odds against him given by Professor John Hilton of Cambridge, who says attain- ment of the “reserved stalls of life” in England is an dlmost ex- clusive privilege df public school - graduates. And Jack, son of a lowed mid- ‘dle class English family, doesn’t go to public school. For England’s public schools are not public at all, but high-tuition private insti- tutions attended by few but young | aristocrats. Backing up his odds against Jack, Professor Hilton says public school men in “resérved stalls” in clude 52 to 56 ‘bidtiops, 19 to 24 {deans, 122 tool66*tednty court | judges’ and reébr@@rso152 to 210 civil servants paid more than $5,000 annually and 20 to 21 cab- ‘inet ministers. To get to the top, he tells Jack: “You must have been at the | the end of it at last, and wheeled LONDON, Feb. 14—Tow-headed | there always is available the full \time, part-time and ‘night “voca- tional schools Jack is at cross reads. By this’ time he has been in school nine years, and the educational system of examinations has determined his degree of intelligence. If he follows the majority he soon will quit school and go to work at what ever offers. Al- though the compulsory school age is 5 to 14, many leave earlier with Knows U. S. Through Movies England's traditional middie course in foreign relations is re- flected in the average Jack's out- look on other countries. He regards the world with a comparatively unbiased eye. By training; fiewever, he would soon- er take up’a‘catter at home or in some British colony than in a for- eign country, and then probably will an@A@ié in England or ‘on/ land overwhich"the Union Jack waves. Jack géts his ideas of the Uniteg asa “Sit areal *gratulations, Quota Buster Ball.! tion, Tam you KEY ! | From The Files Herbert Hoover will reach Key | West on the early train tomorrow morning. Yesterday, Mr. Hoover, “asked the bureau of fisheries to jhope for the, most suscess.” Last jnight he and several other mem- ‘bers of his partyfeft tile Nation- H.| al Capital for ‘this city. The sec- retary, of. commerce is leaving Washington at this time, news. \ dispatches state, to escape the |storm of political discussion brought out by his announcement "as 1 presidential candidate. Sup- \er.itendent Demeritt, of the lighthouse department, of which | Mr. Hoover is chief, has nothing . “It is not a matter I am | Manager Schutt, of the Casa Ma- ; Tine Hotel, was equally uncom- municetive. “I am not in a posi- jtion to either confirm or deny | that statement. Despite this, there ATTAINS HONORS }is mo uncertainty about Mr. FORMER KEY WESTER DIS-/ Hoover's destination.” |. .MANSHIP mate and a aré’ dlways"a few men who wind | sengers arriving at No Name Key up.at the top of the ladder of suc-| at 11:40 last night. cess, and this place of distinction | has been attained by Egbert P. Ball, former resident, who, with | workouts at the Cuban Club yes- his father, the late James Thom- Key West Advertiser. ‘ Mr. Ball, with his wife, now Hoge A 2 pg resides at 2313 Tower Grove, St |prenat As eonees. 0 ae Louis, Mo., and has been com- route to New York. He is a con- mended by officials of an electric | tender for the lightweight cham- over the situation in New York. [ i fis g j i i it & i 4 : i i i I z i i of the refrigerator department of i iid in makes Pleasure to say—Con- : i i ‘ i E l A) heal i i 4 i e the Mr. ged IN DAYS GONE BY Bappenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken Imevery-field of endeavor there te seh 10 eS x. States from the movies and the bered to all his former penny press. He sees that country |@94 acquaintances in Key West. as a land of cowboys, Indians, face, I could all but sense the mo-} ment when Christine Forrester) came to the rail of the Avon. I} could not entirely read the veiling} of James Clyde's eyes, and the! quick droop of one corner of his/ mouth; but I knew that she was) there. So did the rest: every oar in the boat was inevitably very much aware of her. They stroked more cleanly —— harder because they knew t a girl was looking: en. Clyde said, “Keep to the middle! of thestream, Mr. Thorne. No man will ee on a weapon unless I give word, Cut down your Stroke; I want no hurry.” | We pulled across Siderong bar, | end up that first long lake-like reach; and gradually, as we did ‘this, the it clamor of the agongs died away. We saw no one yet, but we knew that hundreds of T™ust be watching us never- less. Tkept calculating what we could say that what was wrong was that Tight school and be entitled the Avon did not know its business. |through life to wear the right There was something else. | school tie.” There was something else—and Others take the view, however, the people of the Avon wiwhat th5t there are re public school it was. Perhaps they did not know : their tebe perha} boys in high places than others ps | did not even understand what they because the public school boys knew. Yet the conviction was firm j tural smarter in my mind that Christine aero ae ee ao Forres- — some all-important It is also pointed out that boys inf ition that we did not. - F P on sHold it,” my uncle said. like Jack, in rare instances, can | _ The eight oars lifted clear of the _go through public schools on free preelt <A bung there, while he istened. e uncanny silence that had come over the jungle contin- ee Clyde said, “Pull on a Wittle comes to. the masses.in smalice |""ine oars dipped, and the Beddeeite teams TRE he cars Ps > . Teistae solace APN Mn ei ta se on tentati ; 7 Pa «2 (Coperiadt, 1092, 42e0 Laltey} i come of more than BSS eeusly Will the silence of the Jengle be . scholarship:sons to public schools: pos nyc’ Jack's father doesn’t. tnod scholarships. Today’s Horoscope oeee ‘Today indicates an intellectual person, with a scientific mind eager to experiment, and with fluency of expression. Under Some aspects it may develop a malicious disposition, which should be curbed to avoid danger of frenzy, since unrestrained it might lead to mania. /900-FOOT LINE For Jack there is reserved the State supported schools and the smaller private schools where (Re Actectated Press) in the “public” schools. DULUTH, Minn, Feb. 14— _ By far the majority of boys like Charles E. Pearson of Chicago Jack are shunted-off into state had to make a big “play” for his Schools which prepare them for fish, but he got it. mechanieal and clerical jobs, eith- Anging in Lake Superior he ¢f professional or semi-profession- had to play out 900 feet of copper al in character. line before landing a 27-pound Or May Quit School trout. Others are apprenticed to Fish "em deep” is his advice. shel dai and te# hours manufacturers or crafismen, and ‘ gangsters, G-men, beautiful wo- men and millionaires. Today In History Seceesseese-seeesesecses 1770—James -Bruce, African traveler, the first Englishman in 150 years to enter Gondar, capital of Abyssinia. Cured royal family of smallpox and given royal wel- come. 185%:— Oregon admitted to Statehood. 1976—Dr. Elisha Gray of Chi- 3 cago filed advance notice of in- tention to-patent — telephone on before A Graham Beil filed his te Patent. “Fought bitterly for years in court with Beil the winner. 1912—Arizona admitted to Statehood—legal holiday in State. mings broadcasts plea for Presi- dent's court plan. “broster”. / Prof. F. Earl Ward of the Mac- | THE BEST when it comes fo your “Your ‘teisiness literally 3 - = primt- | ed:forms you present. Be we heve ihe crtizen Bupc. PHONE Si lif MONDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 1938 JUDGE THOMAS SEEKS SEAT IN SUPREME COURT Of The Citizen ‘public is invited. There will be no admission charge. . 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