Show aliff 0 3 V aa java youths selling bamboo musical instruments prepared by the national geographic society Eo clety washington D a NT buying has invaded strade installment java according to united states trade reports the javanese like american made products american exports to the island annually amount to more than picturesque horse borse drawn carts with wheels from six to seven feet in diameter now must compete with speedier american made auto trucks und and native two wheeled passenger carts once the only passenger vehicles in java cities are being crowded off the lie streets by shiny new american made pleasure cars the island which la Is about the size and shape of cuba Is traversed by a network of good roads and railroads while traveling on either the american 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 for 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 highway it Is likely that one of the thousands of american made tires that are shipped to the island annually would bo 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 a vast rubber plantation nearby the traveler who prefers to see the island from a train window Is unaware that machinery and tools bearing familiar 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 antiquated wood implements but here and there the blades of plows and harrows from american factories and water works in agricultural regions reveal american made machinery with more than inhabitants to the square mile tho the natives must be efficient farmers to feed the tion american fertilizer Is the farmers crop insurance and when crops contract disease american chemists furnish the medicine to bring them back to a healthful estate state situated but a few hundred miles below the equator java Is hot but the traveler often finds his hotel room made c comfortable by an american elect electric we fan the power that runs the fan may come from one of the thany many electric generators imported from america hotels are Comfor comfortable tible As aa a rule the hotels in java are clean and well designed to meet the needs of a tropical climate usually they consist of a main but budding ding openly constructed so BO that there Is no hindrance to the slightest breeze the service complete in every detail Is enjoyed by foreigners one takes his seat in i a spacious pavilion and to la brought soup by an army of malaya then large larg deep plates are brought on each of which Is a supply of rice one of the favored foods of the island on top of the rice two inches deep the diner Is expected to place a variety of vegetables curries dried osh eggs fowls and meat flavored with peppery condiments after eight of the dishes are deposited on the rice the diners appetite if li 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 ITol landera 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 automobiles to and bicycles have their oriental bazaars where a gay array of goods ranging from cheap trinkets to fine and fabrics are on sale but there are also modern shops in which american cement machinery had a constructional part there too american made flashlights batteries spark plugs pings and other automobile accessories cess ories are displayed under the rays raya of american made electric light bulbs sometimes the same ships that take american products to java return with many native products which are popular in this country many head bead colds and cases of malaria are treated with quinine extracted from the bark of the tha java cinchona ireca alia rubber heels on ones shoes or the tires on ones i automobile may contain java rubber perhaps your morning coffee and your afternoon tea originated on a java coffee 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 batavia Is like java ranks among the richest regions of the dutch east indies there are more than native inhabitants with a sprinkling of europeans and chinese and other As latles this population requires systematic cultivation of the soil when the dutch settled batavia Ca tavla the largest city on the island they brought their love for the lowlands and built their city of european type closed houses on canals which coursed a broad swampy area but as trading men and soldiers died by the thousands 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 batavia Ba tavla now on higher ground Is a healthy city a great emporium 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 indiana arabs and malays balays the now new city has spacious parks made colorful by myriad flowers and the luxuriant growth of the tropics near one of the parks rises the imposing facade of the museum of the ca ba tavlan society of arts and sciences with a copper elephant the gift of the king of slam in the foreground the batavia museum has ono one of the finest ethnological collections of any institution in the V far ar E east ast and its publications rank well among the learned societies of europe and america A sall sail of slightly more than SO 30 hours from batavia brings the traveler to Soe Soc the most important seaport in java although the busy landing stage and bustling crowds in the streets impress the traveler of tb the 0 cites commercial importance it Is tor for the most part hot and presents few attractions tr A few hours ride from the cites back door however brings the traveler to Pasour ouan where he be may get the real flavor of javas interior where the dos u dos javas curious little high wheeled covered wagons rumble over the tha 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 roode of life of javanese mountaineers who are quite different from their neighbors la in the lower valleys here are the homes of the a hardy tribe which at the tha time of the moslem invasion of java retreated to the mountains and successfully cess fully defended themselves against the invaders Is perched on a flank of the massif feet above sea level where invigorating air makes mountain climbing much more plea pleasant snut 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 fact the island is volcano made it is estimated that there are more than craters on the island everywhere in java in the huge crater takes lakes in n fissures assures that now are river beds even in ancient temples halt half finished when interrupted by some flery fiery convulsion are evidences of cataclysmic forces the treacherous klot as tho the natives call it all but wiped out cut the town of bribar in 1010 more recently mount situated situate at the extreme eastern tip of the island bolted boiled over and took the lives of 90 natives A volcano is not always considered a calamity in java in fact most of the larger towns and cities of the laland nestle around the base of active craters although thousands of inhabitants have been lost in violent eruptions much of the prosperity of the island ts Is due to the constant enriching of its sell boll by material coughed from these great smoke smokestacks stacks and from the medicinal value of the hot mineral springs and highland resorts along alone the th slopes |