Show java youths selling bamboo musical instruments prepared by the national geographic society Washl neton D C buying has invaded java according to united states J trade reports the javanese ahle american made products amerl can exports to the island annually amount to more than 30 picturesque horse drawn wheels from six to seven feet in dl ameter now must compete with speed ler american made auto trucks and native two wheeled passenger carts once the only passenger vehicles in java cities are being crowded off the streets by shiny new american made pleasure cars the island which Is about the size and shape of cuba Is traversed by a network of good roads and railroads valle traveling on cither the ameri can tourist Is seldom out of eyeshot of american products or products of american machinery A traveler may engage an italian british spanish or french automobile tor a tour but a portion of the road he traverses Is apt to be the product of american road building machinery should a blowout occur on the high nay it Is likely that one of the thou sands of american made tires that are shipped to the island annually would be as readily available as one of foreign make and the new tire may contain some of the rubber which a short time before flowed from one of the trees on a vast rubber plantation near by the traveler who prefers to see the island from a train window Is unaware that machinery and tools bearing fa mallar trade marks help to keep his train running on schedule rice farmers whose watery farms rise like a series of silvery lakes up the sides of java hills cling to antl wood implements but here and there the blades 0 plows and harrows from american factories and water works in agricultural regions reveal amerian made machinery with more than inhabitants to the square mile the natives must be efficient farmers to feed the alon american fertilizer Is the farm ers crop insurance and when crops contract disease american chemists furnish the medicine to bring them back to a healthful state situated but a few hundred miles below the equator java Is hot but the traveler often finds his hotel room mado comfortable by an american tan the power that runs the fan may come from one of the anny electric generators imported from america hotels are comfortable As a rule the hotels in java are clean and well designed to meet the seeds of a tropical climate usually they consist of a main building openly constructed so that there Is no aln drance to the slightest breeze the service complete in every detail Is enjoyed by foreigners one takes his seat in a spacious pavilion and Is brought soup by an army of balays malays then large deep plates are brought on each of which Is a supply of rice one of the favored foods atthe island on top of the rice two inches deep the diner Is expected to place a variety of vegetables curries aried elsh eggs fowls and meat flavored with peppery condiments after eight of the dishes are deposited on the rice the diners appetite it he Is a novice usually calls a halt and the remaining half of the sixteen varieties of rice coverings are allowed to pass untouched no wonder the great majority of the resident hollanders are inclined to corpulence when one takes a glance at the java festive board the streets of the larger java cities that are often filled with american au and bicycles have their ori antal bazaars where a gay array of ranging from cheap trinkets to sue and fabrics are on sale ant there arc also modern shops in alch american cement machinery had a constructional part there too american made flashlights batteries rk plugs and other automobile accessories cess ories are displayed under the rays t american made electric light bulbs sometimes the same ships that take american products to java return with many native products which are ar in this country many head colds and cases of malaria are treated with extracted from the bark of the java cinchona trees the rubber heels on ones shoes or the tires on ones automobile may contain java rubber perhaps your morning coffee and your afternoon tea originated on a java cot fee or tea plantation while there Is a bare possibility that some of the small quantity of java sugar imported by the united states may have been used to sweeten these beverages what batalla Is like java ranks among the richest regions of the dutch east indies there are more than native innab stants with a sprinkling of europeans and chinese and other this population requires systematic culta of the soil when the dutch settled batalla Ba tavla the largest city on the island they brought their love for the lowlands and built choir city of european type closed houses on canals which coursed a broad swampy area but as trading men and soldiers died by tace thou from malaria and other diseases aggravated by the swamp vapors around them the settlers eventually learned that tropical java was not a temperate netherlands european batalla Ba tavla now on higher ground Is a healthy city a great cm borlum of trade and the metropolis of the island sprawling over a wide area the old town Is almost entirely given over to the javanese chinese indians arabs and balays malays the new city has spacious parks made colorful by myriad flowers and the luxuriant growth of the tropics near one of the parks rises the imps ing facade of the museum of the ba tavlan society of arts and sciences with a copper elephant the gift of the king of slam in the foreground the batalla museum has one of the finest ethnological collections of any insel gutlon in the far east and its rank well among the learned societies of europe and america A sail of slightly more than 30 hours from batalla brings the traveler to Soe the most important seaport fa java although the busy landing stage and bustling crowds in the streets impress the traveler of the cites commercial importance it Is for the most part hot and presents few attractions tr A few hours ride from the altys back door however brings the trava elar to Pasour ouan where he may get the real flavor of javas interior where the dos ados a dos javas curious little high wheeled covered wagons rumble over the roads behind sturdy white bullocks a pleasant resort nearby but reached only after hours of roughing climbing on donkeys and afoot Is the delightful resort A walk along the villages single street reveals the mode of life of javanese mountaineers who are quite different from their neighbors in the lower vat leys here are the homes of the a hardy tribe which at the time of the moslem invasion of java retreated to the mountains and sue cess fully defended themselves against the invaders Is perched on a flank of the massif 5 aso feet above sea level where invigorating air makes mountain climbing much more pleasant than in the torrid regions in the javanese foothills situated in the midst of the great east indian volcano region java has its share of active and extinct craters in tact the island Is volcano made it Is estimated that there are more than craters on the island everywhere in java in the huge crater lakes in fissures that now are river beds even la ancient tem plea halt finished when interrupted by some fiery convulsion are evidences of cataclysmic forces the treacherous klot as the natives call it all but wiped out the town of bribar in 1010 more recently mount menal situated at the extreme eastern tip of the Is land boiled over and took the lives of 00 natives A volcano Is not always considered a calamity in java in fact roost of the larger towns and cities of the Is land nestle around the base of active craters although thousands of tants have been lost in violent eruptions much of the prosperity of the island Is due to the constant enriching of its soil by material coughed from these great smokestacks smoke stacks and from the medicinal value of the hot mineral springs and highland resorts hlopff the slopes |