Show ung ax it all at lie early greatest the aled the bald the a rely say d i dignity to brae is aw P 9 V java youths selling bamboo musical instruments afO by tte th nations nul 0 celety atty D 0 01 installment buying has in 1 evaded jain according to united states trade reports the jav jay enese like american made prod products acts american exports to the mand wand nn fin dually amount to more than 30 picturesque horse drawn carte carts with wheels from fix six to seven feet lo 10 dia diameter now must compete with speeding american made auto trucks uno native two wheeled pas carts once tho only pas en eer ger vehicles in java cities are being crowded off the streets bv shiny new dew american male maie pleasure cars cam the island which Is about the size and shape 0 cuba Is traversed by a network of good roads and railroads U bile 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 e been british spanish or french autographic ablie mi bile for a tour but a portion of south the tte road he traverses traverse Is apt to be 0 fix the the product of Am american ellean road build civilize ing machinery ed this should a blowout occur on oi the the tree lilg highway hway it Is likely that one of the ibers of thousands of american made tires its work that are shipped to the island an date abc dually would be as readily available d highly as one of foreign make male and the ico can new mew tire inay contain some of the N billage rubber which a short time before it dwell flowed from one of the trees on a ent urles sest rubber plantation bearby foot 1 I the traveler who prefers to see ta of a the island from a train window Is hose of unaware that macenery and tools ture of bearing familiar trademarks trade marks leip ay anen to keep his train running on brought schedule 0 year rice farmers whose watery farms rise like a series of silvery lakes takes ya by tp 19 the sides of the java hills ell cling 9 is of the t ti antiquated wood implements but ut red and here bere and there the blades of plows vicinity and barros from american factories ry acau and waterworks in agricultural regions reveal american amerlean made ma me chinery N ith aare than inhabitants may be to the square mile the nathies must at times be efficient farmers to feed the pope agh and lation american fertilizer Is the united farmers crop ir insurance aurance and when crops contract disease american i south chemists furnish the medicine to bile the bring them back to a healthful dountain loun tain state situated but a few hundred miles below the equator java Is hot but the traveler often finds his hotel t Is my room made comfortable by an amer lean ican electric fan the power t that hat runs the fan may come from one of the many electric generators genira gentra tors tm ire the ported from america here hotl hotels are comfortable As a role rule the hotels in jaa jaia are clean arid ALI well designed to meet the seeds deeds of a tropical climate andler ally they consist of a m min ain build means ing openly constructed so that there Is no hindrance to the slightest I 1 meada breeze the service complete in path every detail Is enjoyed by forel fogelen n era one takes ha seat in a spa clous pavilion and Is brought soup by an army of alai balays malays flys then large deep plates are brought on each of which Is a supply of rice one of the favored ts fods of the island on top of the rice two laches inches deep the ainer diner Is expected to place a variety of vegetables cur ries dried fish eggs fowls anil end meat flavored with peppery condiments after eight of the dishes are deposited on the rice the diners appetite if it he Is a novice call a 1 halt lind the remaining half halt of the sixteen varieties of rice cover ings are alloi allotted ed to pass untouched no wonder the great majority of the resident hollanders are inclined to corpulence when one takes a glance lance at the java jain festive baird ity the streets of the larger jaff jav cities that are often filled with yin american automobiles and bicycles have their oriental bazaars where boned a gay guy array of goods ranging from a blida and cheap trinkets to fine metal wire berls ind and fabrics are on sale but there ire also modern hops shops in which Ameri uin cement had a i E constructional part parl there therel too american made flashlights bat west I 1 mg spark plugs and other automobile Q are displayed under the rays ot of american made electric bulbs what batavia it Is like java ranks among the richest regions of 0 tho the dutch east indies there are more than na tire tive inhabitants with a sprinkling of europeans and chinese and other this population requires cult hatlon of the boll soll ft finhen hen the dutch settled batavia Ba tavla the largest city on the island they brought their love for the lowlands and built their city of Fur european type closed houses on canals which coursed courted a broad swampy area but as trading men and soldiers died by the thousands from malaria and other diseases aggravated by the swamp vapors surround 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 of the island sprawling over a wide area the old town Is s almost entirely given over to the javanese chinese indians arabs and malays balays the new city has spacious parks parts made colorful by myriad flowers and the luxuriant growth of the tropics isear inear one of the parks rises the imposing facade of the museum of the Ba tavlan society of arts and sciences with a copper elephant the gift of the king of blam in the tile foreground the ba tavia tavla museum has one of the finest ethnological collections of any insel aution ili the far east and its publication publications licati li ons rank well among the learned societies of europe and america A sail sall of slightly more than 30 hours frona catavia batavia brings the traveler to Soe the most important seaport in java although the busy landing lending stase stage and bustling crowds la to the streets impress the traveler of the commercial importance it Is for the most part hot and pie pi events Rents few attractions A few hours ride from the back door however brings the traveler to Pasour ouan where he may get the real flavor of javas interior where the dos a dos javas curious carious little high wheeled covered wagons rumble ramble over he the roads behind sturdy white bullocks a pleasant resort fearby nearby but reached only after hours of rough ng climbing on don keys and afoot Is the delightful resort of A walk along the villages single street reveals the mode of 0 life of javanese moun tal tai who are quite different from their neighbors in n the lower valleys here arc are the homes of the a hardy tribe which at the time of the moslem invasion of java jarn retreated to the mountains and successfully defended them selves against the invaders bosart Is perched on a tank fank of the teng ten ger catalf feet fc et above sea level where invigorate air makes mo moun tin tain climbing much more pleasant than in it ie e torrid regions in the javanese foothills situated in the midst of the great fast indian volcano region java has its share of active and extinct craters in fact the island Is vol cane cano made it Is estimated that there are tire more than craters on the nand everywhere in java ID in the huge crater lakes in fissures that now dow are river beds even in an dent clent temples half halt finished when interrupted by some fiery flery convulsion are evidences of tie tue klot riot AS the na lives tires call IL it all but aped out the town of 0 gretar in 1919 more recently mount Ner arill situated at the extreme eastern tip of the Is land latia boiled over and took the lives of po 00 natives A volcano Is not dot always consad ered a calamity in java in fact most of the larger towns and cities of the island nestle around the base of acthen craters although thou sands of 0 inhabitants have been lost in violent eruptions most of the prosperity of the island Is due to the constant enriching of its soil by material couched from these thee great stacks and fro from the na medicinal value of the hot mineral springs and highland resorts along the sl opeal |