Show k 0 ri java youths selling bamboo MUS cat cal instruments prepared by the national geographic soc ety wash nato D C buying has invaded strade I 1 java according to united baates trade reports the javanese like american made products ameri amer can exports to the island annually amount to more than picturesque horse drawn carts with wheels from six to seven feet I 1 in n dl di ameter now must compete with speed ter american made auto trucks and native two wheeled pis 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 net network Nork of good roads and railroads while travel ng on either the ameri amerl can tourist is seldom out of eyeshot of kine american rican products or products of american machileo ma chineo A traveler may engage an italian latish sp spanish anish or french automobile for a tour but a portion of the road he be traverses is apt to be the product of american road building machinery should a blowout occur on the high way it is I 1 kely that one of the thou sands of american made tires that are shipped to the island annually would be as read ly available as one of for eign make and the new tire may con tain 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 ta fa elliar trade marks help to keep his train running on eche schedule dule rice farmers whose watery farms rise like a series of silvery lakes up the sides of java hills cling to anti equated 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 00 inhabitants to the square mile the natives must be efficient farmers to feed the tion 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 made comfortable by an american electric fan the power that runs the fan may come from one of the many electric generators imported from america hotels are comfortable As 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 building openly constructed so that is no hin hill drance to the slightest breeze the service complete in every detail Is enjoyed by foreigners one tikes his seat reat in a spacious pavilion and Is brought soup by an army of batur bained malays then large deep plates are brought on each of which is a supply of rice one of the fan ored foods of the island on top of tl e rice two inches deep the d ner Is expected to place a variety of vegetables curries dried fish eggs fowls and meat fla bored with peppery condiments aftel eight of the d ashes are deposited on the rice the diner s appetite if he Is a novice assally calls a halt and the iB half of the sixteen varieties of are allowed to pass untouched no wonder the great ma jonty of the res dent hollanders are inclined to corpulence when one takes tales a glance at the java festive board the streets of the larger java cities that are often filled with american au all to mobiles and bicycles have their ori bazaars where a pay gay array of goods rang ng 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 and other automobile ac ces are displayed under the rays of american made electric light bulbs sometimes the same ships that take american products to java return with alth many native products which are lar in this country many head colds and cases of malaria are treated with quinine extracted aiom the bark of the jav a cinchona trees tl TI e rubber heels on one ones s shoes or the tires on one ones s automobile may contain java rubber perhaps your our morning coffee and your afternoon tea originated on a java col cof fee or tea plantation while there Is a bare possibility that some of the small quantity of java sugar ugar imported by the united states may ha han e been used to sweeten these beverages what batavia Is like java ranks among the richest re glons alons of the dutch east ind es there are moi mole e than 30 native innab stants with a sprinkling of europeans and chinese and other As latles this population requires systematic auld of the soil 11 hen the dutch settled batavia the largest city on the I land island they bi ought their love for the lowlands and bu it their city of european type closed houses on canals which coursed a broad swampy area but as trading men and soldiers died by the thou sands from malaria and other diseases aggravated by the swamp vapors around them the settlers sett leis eventually learned that tropical java was not a temperate netherlands european batavia now on higher ground Is a healthy city a great em ein borlum of trade and the metropolis of the island sprawl ng over a wide area the old town is almost entirely given avei to the javanese chinese indians arabs and malays the new city has spi spacious clous parks made colorful by myriad flowers and the 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 siam slam in the foreground the batavia museum has one of the finest ethnological collections of any insel gutlon in the far east and Us its bubli rank well among the learned societies of europe and america A sail of slightly more than SO 30 hours from batavia brings the traveler to Soe the most important seaport in java although the busy landing stage and bustling crowds in the streets impress the traveler of the city s commercial importance it Is tor for the most part hot and presents few at tractions A few hours ride from the city cites s back door however brings the trav eler to Pasour ouan where he may get the real flavor of javas interior where the dos a dos java javas s 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 village villages s single street reveals the mode of life of javanese mountaineers who are quite different from their neighbors in the lower val leys here are the homes of the teng berese 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 climb ng much moie 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 fact the island Is volcano made it Is estimated that there are more than craters on the island every where in java in the huge crater lakes in fissures that now are river beds even in ancient temples halt half fin shed 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 1919 more recently mount merail situated at the extreme eastern tip up of the Is land boiled over and took the lives of 90 nath bathes es A volcano is not always considered a calamity in java in tact fact most of the larger towns and cities of the ls ib land nestle around the base of active craters although thousands of inhabit tants have been lost in violent arup dons much of the prosperity of the island is due to the constant enriching of its soil by material coughed from these great smokestacks smoke and from the medicinal value of the hot mineral springs and highland resorts along the slopes |