White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-09-24


prepared by the National Geographic
Society. Washington. D. C.)
II NSTALLMENT buying has invaded
Java, according to United States
trade reports. The Javanese like
American-made products. Ameri-
can exports to the island annually
amount to more than $3O,OOO,O0O.
Picturesque, horse drawn carts with
wheels from six to seven feet in d.
ameter now must compete with speed
Ter 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
network of good roads and railroads.
While travelling on either, the Ameri-
can tourist is seldom out of eyeshot of
American products or products of
American machinery. A traveller may
engage an Italian. British, Spanish or
French automobile for tour, but
portion of the road he traverses is apt
to be the product Of American road
building machinery.
Should blowout occur on the high
way, 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 for
eign make. And the new tire may con-
tain some of the rubber which short
time before flowed from one of the
trees on a vast rubber plantation near
by.
The traveller who prefers to see the
island from train window is unaware
that machinery and tools bearing fa-4
miliar trade marks help to keep his
train running on schedule.
Rice farmers whose watery farms
rise like series of silvery lakes up
the sides OF Java hills, cling to anti
quated wood implements, but here and
there the blades of plows and harrowc
from American factories and water
works in agricultural regions reveal
American-made machinery.
With more than 700 inhabitants to
the square mile, the natives must be
efficient farmers to feed the popula-
ton. American fertilizer is the farm
ers' crop insurance, and when crops
contract disease, American chemists
furnish the medicine to bring them
back to healthful state.
Situated but few hundred miles
below the Equator, Java is hot, but
the traveller 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 rule the hotels in Java are
clean and well designed to meet the
needs Of tropical climate. Usually,
they consist of main building openly
constructed So that there is no him
drance to the slightest breeze. The
service, complete in every detail, is
enjoyed by foreigners. One takes his
seat in spacious pavilion and is
brought soup by an army of betur-
baned Malays. Then large, deep plates
are brought. on each of which is
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 variety of vegetables, curries.
dried fish, eggs, fowls and meat fla
vored with peprery condiments. After
eight Of the dishes are deposited on the
rice, the diners appetite, if he is a
novice, usually calls halt and the
remaining half of the sixteen varieties
of rice coverings" are allowed to pass
untouched No wonder the great ma
iority 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-
tomobiles and bicycles, have their orr
entail bazaars where gay array of
goods ranging from cheap trinkets to
fine metalware and fabrics are on sale,
but there are also modern shops In
which American cement machinery had
a CONSTITUTIONAL part. There, too,
American-made flashlights, batteries,
spark plugs, and other automobile &C.
cessories, are displayed under the rays
of American-made electric light bulbs
Sometimes the same ships that take
American products to Java return with
many native products which are popu.
lar In this country. Many head colds
and cases Of malaria are treated with
Quinine extracted from the bark of the
lava cinchona trees. The rubber heels