Show Modern Iraq Adams Adam's Home Has ev Garden of Ellen Eden Babel Dabel Tower Once Found In Country Prepared by National Society Washington I t 8 D D. D C G rs Service IM The death of King Chart the First of Iraq on April 4 4 resulting from an automobile crash placed his small son on the throne under the guidance guidance guid guld ance of a regent Little King Feisal II II four years old now Is sovereign I over the newest government in one I of the oldest t lands of history for forI I Iraq Is the traditional homeland of Adam and Eve The rich Mesopotamian region which was set up after alter the World war as Iraq was one of the first lands to see the dawn of civilization Scholars of ot ancient history designate a region in this country as the Garden Garden Gar Gar- den of Eden point out where the Tower of Babel Dabel rose and crumbled with the fall faU of Babylon and identify Identity the ruined city from which Father Abraham set forth for the Land ot of Canaan Biblical and Persian eras were supplanted by the later times of the Arabian Nights when Sinbad Sin Sin- bad the Sailor sailed from Basra and All Baba Daba caught his Forty Thieves In Baghdad Now Produces Produce Oil OR The strip of Asia so 10 familiar under under un der its old names has been making a new name for Itself as 81 an Increasingly increasingly important producer of oil to meet the machine ages age's rising petroleum petroleum pe pe- pe I thirst Since 1933 Iraq's output of petroleum has quadrupled Two pipe lines have been built to carry oil over miles miltS from Kir Kir- kuk in northeastern Iraq to the ports ot of Tripoli and Haifa on the Mediterranean Much of the oil production production pro pro- Is under the control of An glo glo interests Ruled now by kings who trace their ancestry to Mohammed Iraq Irac IraqIs Is an speaking Arabic-speaking Mohammedan country liberated by the World war from Turkey In size it ranks between between be be- tween New Mexico and Arizona buit but bu it has seven or eight times the population pop pop- ula illation tion of ot either t ti i t I i iL L Here it is Ills Majesty King Feisal II dlo it i. is four years old oM lie He sue suc succeeded to the throne of Iraq on the death of his father King teas rm killed in an on automobile automobile auto auto- mobile motile accident Iraq has discovered In recent years such uch accessories of ot the machine machine ma ma- I chine age aee as airplanes radios and electric clocks movies air condi condi and motor transport At Baghdad ancient capital of Iraq converge three air routes whose modern Magic Carpet brings passengers and mall mail from the West American Busses Used Where old caravan trails trail led made American-made busses with air air- cooled motors now chug In la the Garden of Eden is heard the whistle whistle whis whis- tle tie of passing railway trains Though Germanys Germany's dream of ot a Berlin Baghdad railway was never realized transportation by rail and bus takes travelers from western Europe across Iraq to the nations nation's No 1 I port of Basra near the Persian gulf gull Modern Irrigation Irrigation tion projects are bringing life giving moisture to land made desert by Mongol destruction of early irrigation irrigation tion works m |