The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 19, 1938, Page 3

SYNOPSIS: A revolt of savage Dyck tribes against the Malays makes it impossible for my uncle, James Clyde, to run guns to his besieged client, Rajah Mantusen, Anchored beside our ship, the Linkang, in tropical Balingong bay, is the Forresters’ yawl, the Avon. Unable to persuade the young English girl, Christine. to leave the danger spot, Clyde and myself (Paul Thorne) take a des- perate chance in reaching the tajah. On seeing Mantusen the mystery of the Forresters is ex- plained. They are supplying the Dyak guns, and WE are held re- sponsible. Chapter 11 A Hopeless Council I REMEMS8ER reaching out through al] that, exactly as a man overboard night reach for a fycarns fear to cling to; and what I found, without any shock of sur- prise, was the clear-cut image of Christine Forrester. It was as if she had always been there—a dark-eyed girl waiting to steady a man so that he could meet without dishonor just such an hour as this. Curiously, I could not hold it against her that she was the cause of all this; I could only be afraid of what would happen to her'now. She could not _ forget my own danger, or * or the fate of the Linkang, bi could add something more- was because something seemed out of me, trying to reach b= the sultry darkness of the je- rong, and speak tp her aboard the yawl—speak to her so insistently : _ that she .vould have to understand ‘ww Gata as the S me through the hammering of nat. A and the whicper of the reef . . Go away, Christine, go away Catch the ebb tide through Balin- gon, Get your helpless little ‘awl into the open sea, somehow. fore it's too late. In God’s name get gone, Christine. . . . Clyde was finishing his speech mow, bearing dewn with set face at every turn of the Malay phrases. Whatever he was saying, Mantu- sen seemed to disregard it. “You have made me very happy. Tuan,” the Rajah said- “When i learned you had filled the jungle with these guns, | knew that this not mind that. But I was think ‘that my kris would never taste your flesh. Now you e that God is good.” My uncle turned his eyes toward and we exchanged a long “He spoke to me softly. “I a fool.” “Now that we understand each ; sure I would enjoy it pomne s LFS : So we sat down. It was only a we coyl! string out fajah felt social, and not any longer. I did not know poring about what kind of cere- mony lay rajahs go through when they put away an enemy of oe distinction who is helpless their hands. But we had no rea- son to think that there would be much postponement attached to ot lineage other _ vga? enter- t poses. And the one thing I hall never heard of was a Malay rajah wh> could be talked out of anything in any such cir- cumstances as this. With the threat of superior power eliminated, you have aueingly few points of contact with a Malay. And there we were. Nothing is more difficult for a white man in dealing with Malays than the in- terminable slowness which im- pedes conversation of any weight. Here we had to do with what represented the hobility of the breed—the proudest and most Tegal blood the arc! os had developed; and this tiplied t! deliberation surroundingsthe = nountement of any e any real account. Mantusen. in at once showing the rifle head, had exposed our fon. with what amounted to a savage abruptness. This in itself, coming from a chief who vould have taken four days to discuss a hunting trip up a river, showed what an ex- pong pinch we had got ourselves to. ‘Too Much Gunpowder’ 'N THE end we could, of course, get ourselves killed trying to} escape. But the attempt meant, to begin with, the out and out aban- donment of our boat. All Clyde could do, afd what he now went ahead with, was to attempt the im- possible job of talking our way out. And this meant that we had to sit stonily cross-iegged on the mats} for hour after hour, without any motion, not even fatigue permitted } to show in our faces. An awkward, trivia! thing en- ters into a conference of that kind, between a white mar. anc an Ori ental on the Oriental’s ground. and this thing has distorted the entire history of the East. It is that when a white man sits cross-legged on a mat for a long time he gets a ter. Tible backache. Heaven knows how many wars have been started be- cause an envoy Jeveloped such a . | was to Liked 40-0, 4p si ion{ backache that he concluded in his Teport that the quickest way out would be to shoot the rajah. Early in the first hour, my back began to ache. Later I computed that we sat there between four and five hours; but by this time I did not understand why day- light did not come before we were through. It seemed to me that we sat there for weeks. Yet, considering all this, the exact facts behind Mantusen's dis- pleasure came out surprisingly clear and soon. * “] did not start this war,” Clyde said. | knew that he stated this less in hope of convincing Mantu- sen than of ‘inding out what was in Mantusen’s nind. “I did not plan any war.” “I believe you,” Mantusen said. “Then just what do you think I have done?” “You have distrusted me too much,” said Mantusen. “You have tried to be t6o safe. You have played with too much gunpowder.” At the moment | did not under- stand this. but as they talked on it became very plain. Clyde had undertaken to run guns to Mantusen in return for certain trade monopolies. Natu- rally, Clyde had considerable rea- son to fear that Mantusen. once armed. would repudiate his agree- ments. What the. typical white @ case, reat of bis own, to sustain his rigpts in the matter. + Mantusefi ‘‘tonceived 'tha€ this wWas'exactly wttat Clyde tiadfione. He thought that it was‘Clydé who had caused the Dyaks to gpther. | The. excelent: guns..with f&hich , the Dyaks were. naw armed gave very strong evidence in support of this theory- In fact. if one threw cut the possibility—as Mantusen did—that the two white ships were working against each other. the theory that Clyde had armed the Dyaks became inevitable.‘ “I still would have been a fool to attack Balingong.” Clyde main- tained. “You and I were in perfect understanding. No disagreement had come up. Why should I attack you?” “I do not think you meant to at- tack me—yet.” Mantusen said. “You should have knc wn that vou could not keep your Dyaks in hand. lonly say you caused this. I do not say you control it now.” Mantusen’s Legic ‘O THE .:ature ot the trap we had walked .nto was clearly de- fined. Mantusen thought Clyde had gathered the Dyaks as a threat. an ace-in-the-hole. The guns the Dyaks had were — of it He assumed that the Dyaks had then got out of hand while Clyde was away. It was so sinple and inevitable, 1 Saw now, that there was no Other view Mantusen could have taken. We should have foreseen it our- selves; we had guessed the Avon Trifles. But Dyaks have so little to trade that it never occurred to us that the rifles were not for the Malays—and we walked in like sheep. The hopeless council went on. Clyde was feeling his way over all the possibilities of the situation as it existed in Mantusen’s mind, just as he had felt his way up the Side- rong river. It was not the fault of his diplomacy if everything he found out was unfavorable. He was covering the ground. and in five hours he probably covered more of it than anyone ever had gone over with Mantusen in as many days, before. But, his fault or not, it was true that every card he turned seemed to lie against us Mantusen’s view of the situation was so logical. in all ways so probable, that it left no opening for attack. The only flaw in Mantusen’s whole conce; tion was that it was not true. In many ways we, uid have been better off Vf at been-true, for then at least we could have looked to theg Dyk: ur allies. e Wil Ble wast showing Marftu> how '° white ships cout be working at ‘OSS, hurposes. , For, white fen had teen thaceae Y e'island peoples that white men always | work together. To a great number of the archipelago peoples. Europe Means everything beyond Singa- pore, and different breeds of white jmen are not distinguishable one | from another. Mantusen was well | beyond this limited type of theory; | but he had it definitely fixed in his mind that only one rajah laut was in control of gun-running in this } part of the islands. and that no | other could nave intruded except | by James Clyde's will nm Sumantang, liecting Dyak trinkets o value. It was impossible for tusen to conceive of Forrester as am of war. If Forrester’s running to Suman- was because Clyde had or perhaps seized it. as unshakably fixed ¢ Rajah Mantusen. 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Reward Plan is now operating,- itis’ cal-} culated, will pay net diability pre- j miums lower than those previous- ly in effect although rates, based on accident and loss experience, j went up February 1 in nearly half . the territories. Rates were lower- ed or unchanged in the rest of: the territories. { This is shown in a survey of new basic liability rates issued by the National Bureau of Casual-! ty and Surety Underwriters in conjunction with the Safe Driver: Reward Plan. This new program was instituted February 1 in 27 states and the District of Colum-j bia by 32 stock companies, mem- | bers of the bureau, and provides: a return of 15 percent of the pre-, mium if no losses occur under} of experience alone. “This method of penalizing mo- torists who have accidents that result in losses and rewarding those who take the time and cau-; tion to drive safely has been ad- vocated for some time by motor vehicle commissioners, safety of- ficials and others”, said Mr. Les- lie. “We hope that even more than the 88 percent of our insured ; motorists expected to win the re- ward will do so. In that event rates can be made even lower; than is now possible under this plan”. Of the 107 territories rates were increased in 46, lowered in 31 and unchanged in 30. Reductions were widespread in| three states. Rates went down in! | humble spirit. By knowing that anything he-may say, be it read by one. person ora million. is going, in some measure, to in+ fluence the reader, will show him how preposterous it is to pretend that he writes the view points of any other than himself. No man can know precisely what another thinks, and no man is able to feel exactly as another. He is able to tell only his own opinions and re- action. Write only what he per- sonally sees and feels. But :nost people who write attempt to let their ideas become the ideas cf the people as a whole or of a large group of the people, and in so doing they are wrong. I know only how I, think and feel, and really not that very well. 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Once each year the bureau re- vises rates on a basis of accident experience in the 300 territories into which the country is divided for this purpose. Determined by cost, size, horsepower, etc., cars* are placed in one of three classi- fications. for rating. The great majority of insured cars are of the low- and medium-priced type and the rate on each is either the same or different only by a dol- lar or so. These base rates apply to the $5,000-$10,000 bodily injury {pd $5,000 property damage policy. Typical areas in which the rate went up, was unchanged and was lowered were cited as examples’ of how the reward plan works. In Salt Lake City the premium prior to February 1 was $33 for the standard policy on the low- priced type car. The new prem- ium is $37. Based on experience alone and minus the factor of 4.8 percent, the premium would be approximately $35.30. The motot- ist who earns the 15 percent re- ward, however, will receive $5.55, making his net premium $31.45. This is $1.55 less than the old pre- mium while the driver whose ac- cidents produce losses pays the entire new premium of $37. In Omaha, Nebraska, the pre- mium remains unchanged at $42. On the basis of experience alone, and minus the factor of 48 per- cent, the premium would be ap- proximately $40.10. The 15 per- ent reward, however, is $6.30, king the net premium for .the fé driver $35.70which is $4.40 lower than it could have been otherwise. The premium in St. Louis prior to February | was $62 and is now $57. Minus the factor of 4.8 per- cent, it would have dropped to $54.40. The safe driver’s 15 per- cent reward will be $8.55, making repeated oe ~ six out of seven in Tennessee and four out of five in Maryland. They were unchanged in Arkan-! sas, Montana, Nevada gnd Ne- raska. i The plan is now operating in? Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, | Florida, Georgia, Idaho. Maine,' Maryland, Michigan, Missouri,} Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New! Jersey, North Dakota, Rhode Is-| land, South Carolina, South Da-; kota, Tennessee, Utah. Vermont, | Wyoming and the District of Co-| lumbia.. Since February 1 the plan has been suspended in Min-| nesota and Kentucky, pending | further discussion with state au-/| thorities. : In all other states except Mas-} sachusetts, the plan has been or! will be submitted for examination | by state insurance authorities and ; will become effective when their approval is obtained. "THE LOW DOWN _| FROM HICKORY GROVE | LN The bosses of this country, it is the women and it is O.K., and has} worked for hundreds of years. But there is a million fellers who think they are the boss in their household, but the Mrs., she does not bother about that—she lets em think so. And to find out how many men} ruled their roost, a commercial club down south, it made a re- search. And they got some chick- ens and some horses for prizes, | and a committee started callin’ at places and they gave a chicken to each feller who was bossed by his wife, and a horse to a feller who was the big Chief. And at the end of the day, they were about out of chickens and had given away no horses. And then they run into a feller who; out the ages footpower is the old- lest; and if used properly it can, advantageous | a interesting. The fact that the entirely personal piffle and don't become the most entire world, or at least the greater part of it, :s accustomed to rapid transportation and luxur- ous vehicles for such transporta- tion is tending to make people forget that they were given feet with which to walk. Walking for exercise, health, and to cover the ground is really fun. And to me it doesn’t make a great lot of dif- ference whether the distance be a mile or thirty. I've coverel all of this country and some several others afoot, and enjoyed every bit of it. But, since by walking I make myself akin to those other creatures that crawl over the sur- face of the earth and it is neces- sary to look up to see anything at all, I call anything I set down on paper in the nature of an ob- servation the Worm’s Eye View. You who fly or ride or sail have your viewpoint, and I do not be- lieve they differ somewhat from mine and you can call them any- thing you like from the Bird's Eye View to Looking through the Windshield. These little items are almost TEXACO FIRE CHIEF GASOLINE PAUL’S TIRE SHOP Cor. Fleming and White Sts. —Courteous Service—- claimed he was boss, so they said, | you win a horse. And they asked him to pick one out—he could choose a white one or a black one. And the feller hesitated and scratched his head, and he said, wait here just a minute—I, will ask my wife. So they gave him a chicken. Yours, with the low down, JO SERRA. Rear Admiral Stirling urges a fleet and air force at least twice the size of Japan's. 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