Show lt t l lr r x c 4 S 'S CI 1 t 4 I j jU Java Youths Selling Bamboo Musical Instruments Prepared r by the National Geographic Society Washington D C. C v TT buying in has lias Invaded I Java Jaya according to United States JL trade reports The Javanese like made American-made products AmerIcan Amen Ameil- can exports to the Island annually amount to more than Picturesque horse-drawn horse carts with ith I wheels from six to se en feet in dlf dIameter dl- dl f ameter now must compete with speedIer speedier speed speed- ier ler Ier made American-made auto trucks and native wheeled two carts passenger carts once the only passenger vehicles in Jaa Java cities are being crowded at ore off the thet t s streets by shIn shiny new made American-made pleasure cars J J. J The Island which Is about the size Jand and shape of Cuba Is tra traversed b by a n network of at good roads and railroads While traveling on either the American Ameri Ameri- can tourist is seldom out of e eyeshot of American merican products or products of ot I American machinery A traveler may engage an Italian British Spanish or orie orie ie French automobile for a tour but a portion of the road he traverses Is apte apt e ti to be the product of American road- road lOt b t g machinery Should a blowout occur on the hight high- high teo I t way it Is likely that one of the thousands thou- thou he sands ands of made American-made tires that are ibo 1 to the Island annually would j 1 ii be as readily available as ns one of foreign foreign for for- eign make And the new tire may conId con con- conn Id tain some of the rubber which a short aro time before flowed from one of the thel l I trees on a vast cast rubber plantation near near- tl 11 by The traveler who prefers to see the I f Island from a train window Is unaware t tc that machinery and tools bearing fat fa- fa t tf trade marks help to keep his train running on schedule tl j Rice farmers whose watery farms b f rise ise like a series of ot silvery lakes up t t he sides of ot Java hills cling to antiquated anti- anti Jl wood Implements but here and andr r there the blades of plows and harrows American factories and water water- r r r works in water water-I agricultural regions reveal n made American made American made machinery rl With more than Inhabitants to the square mile the natives must be I efficient farmers to feed the a tion American fertilizer Is the farmr farm- farm r i cers ers ers' crop Insurance and when crops disease American chemists hI furnish the medicine to bring them back to a healthful state eq eqi Situated but a few hundred miles mlles in below the Equator Java Jaa Is hot but traveler often finds his hotel room a aDado comfortable by an American electric c fan The power that runs the II fan an ma may come from one of the many electric generators Imported from It ii AmerIca fl Hotels Are Comfortable al' al i 1 1 As a rule the hotels In Java Jaa are arelean lean and well designed to meet the theu u Deeds of a n tropical climate Usually i consist of a main building openly Constructed so that there is no bin hin drance ranco to the slightest breeze The jervice complete in every detail Is ed by foreigners One takes his lt ht seat at In a spacious pavilion and is rought soup by an nn army of d 4 j paned lIala Malays s Then large deep plates j ro brought on each of which Is a supply of rice one of the favored foods t f the Island On top of the rree lee two fiches ches deep the diner Is expected to ilace i ace a variety Of vegetables curries fried rIed fish eggs fowls and meat fla- fla ored with peppery condiments After 1 of the dishes are deposited on the 1 N Ice the diners diner's appetite if It he Is a oIce once usually calls a halt and the half of ot the sixteen varieties 1 T rice coverings are allowed to pass No wonder the great ma- ma of the resident Hollanders aret are t I Inclined to corpulence when one takes J t f glance at nt the Java festive board The Tho streets of the larger Java Jaa cities lat at are often filled with American nu- nu mobIles and bicycles have their ori- ori tal ital bazaars where a pay gay array of odds run ranging ng from cheap trinkets tone to tois tone is ne and fabrics are on sale CI there are also modern shops in filch American cement machinery had S 'S 5 constructional part There here too ilia mado can mado flashlights batteries ut hark ark plugs and other automobile ac- ac nl ies are displayed under the rn rays s tb made American electric light bulbs bulus cal al the same ships that take American products to Java return with I S any native products which are Jr r in this country Many 1 head bead colds 1 d cases of ot malaria are aro treated with C nine Ine extracted from the bark of the rite we va cinchona trees The rubber heels o 1 i on ones one's shoes or the tires on ones one's 9 automobile mn may contain Java Jaa rubber Perhaps your our morning coffee and your you r afternoon tea originated on a Java cof cot coffee coffee fee or tea plantation while there Is a n abare bare possibility that some of ot the small smal 1 quantity of Java sugar Imported b by bythe bythe Y the United States may have ha been use used d to sweeten these beverages What Batavia Is Like Java ranks among the richest regions re re- gions Ions of or the Dutch East Indies There Ther c are more than native with a sprinkling of ot Europeans European s j and Chinese and other This Tub s i population requires systematic cultivation cult of the soil soli When the Dutch settled Batavia th the tho o largest city on the Island they brought brough t their love lore for the lowlands and built bull I their city of European type closed close d houses on canals which coursed abroad a abroad abroad broad swampy area But Dut as trading men and soldiers died by the thousands thousands thou thou- thousands sands from malaria and other diseases ng aggravated by the tho swamp vapors i around them the settlers eventually learned that tropical Java was not a temperate Netherlands European Batavia Batala now on higher ground Is a healthy city a great emporium emporium em em- of trade and the metropolis of ot the Island sprawling over oer a wide area The old town is almost entirely given gIen over to the Javanese Chinese Indians Arabs and lIala Malays s The new city has spacious parks made colorful by myriad rIad flowers and the luxuriant growth of at the Tropics Near one of the parks rises the Imposing Imposing ing lag facade of or the Museum of ot the Ba Ba- tavlan Society of Arts and Sciences with a copper elephant the gift of ot the king of Slam Siam In the Ule foreground The BatavIa Bata museum has one of the finest ethnological collections of ot any institution Institution In the Far East and Its publIcations publications rank well among the learned societies of Europe and America A sail of slightly more than 30 hours from Batavia brings the traveler to the most Important seaport In Java Although the busy landing u 5 Urge ID to the we streets Impress the traveler of ot the city's commercial Importance It is for tor forthe forthe the most part hot and presents few attractions at at- tractions A few hours' hours ride from the city's back door however brings the traveler traveler traveler trav trav- eler to where he may get the real flavor of ot Javas Java's Interior where the dos-a-dos dos Javas Java's curious little wheeled high-wheeled covered wagons rumble over mer the roads behind sturdy white bullocks a Pleasant Resort Nearby but reached only after hours of roughing climbing on donke donkeys s 's and afoot Is the delightful resort A walk along the villages village's single street reveals the mode of or life of or Javanese mountaineers who are quite different from their neighbors In the lower Ioner valleys val val- leys Here are tho the homes of the Teng- Teng a n hardy tribe which at the time of the Moslem Invasion of Java retreated to the mountains and successfully successfully successfully suc suc- 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 pleasant than In the torrid regions Inthe In ID Inthe the Javanese foothills Situated In the midst of the great East Cast Indian volcano region Java has Its share of or active and extinct craters In fact the island Is volcano It ItIs Itis Itis Is estimated that there are more than craters on the Island Everywhere Everywhere Every Every- where in Java In the huge crater lakes In fissures that now are river riverbeds riverbeds beds even een In ancient temples half finished when Interrupted by some fiery flery convulsion are evidences of cataclysmic forces The Tho treacherous Klot as the natives call it all but wiped out tho the town of ot In 1919 WID More recently Mount 1 situated at the extreme eastern tip of the Is 18 Island island is- is land boiled over and took the lives of ot 90 00 natives A volcano Is not always considered a calamity In Java In fact most of ot the larger towns and cities of at the Island Island island Is is- Is- Is land nestle around the base basc of or active e craters although thousands of ot InhabItants Inhabitants tants have been lost In violent Much of ot the prosperity of ot th the e Island is due to the constant enriching s of its soil by material coughed from these great reat smokestacks and from th the medicinal value of ot the hot mineral springs and highland resorts along th the e slopes |