Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 1, 1925, Page 10

Flight iam Enjoyed By Aviators By LOWELL THOMAS By the Chicago une Clure From S$ gon to Bangkok colorful leg of the entire journey round’ the world. Here can airmen. were nearer the equator that at any the Amer r point along their route. tropical skies over the regions Below them were jungle stretches where Fortunately. 4 | from the we: whites had ever been Asia—Co China, an Newspaper Syndicate.) Over - Newspaper S&S; te afd the Mc- was the most romantic and They were flying through eldom visited by travelers ing ‘on the’ planes few minor repairs. were necessary. This gave us an excuse to remain apital of Slam e flying on across the Malay nsula to the Bay of Bengal. So some of us spent the night on Che- Casper ;Dailp Cribunc’: © BARNEY:GOOGLE AND SPARK ’PLUG* in WMAT 22 You \ IM BRoxks avo THAD TURNED SPARKY Te DO'T— KES GOT OUER To SULLIVAN) SPARKY ENTERED IN. FoR & week t HE DONT Kilow BEANS ABOUT “TRAINING A RACE HORSE .- AND You GAVE 44 FULL Change’? / 1 aint scared Hime Im on My A BiG RACE SAT- ROMY = “THE ONLY TUNG THAT Gets ME SORE 15 THAT WE. WON'T LET ME HANG® AROUND HIS STABLE = SANS TM BUTT IN ON HIS BUSINESS = oF way OVER THERE NOW es 1 KNOW HOW To Cumé Fexces Gosh! 2 Hear SOMEONE COMING q.. THURSDAY, JANUARY. 1, 1925 By Billey De Beck Cambodia gn Siam, “the king GASOLINE ALLEY—-PLATO STARTS’ ‘THE ‘NEW YEAR IN WRONG the white elephant.” the destroyer, while the others, : : —— == hundred miles an | tempted by of nice beds, 5 = si ‘ re marvelous | ins 1 electric fans, WHO, ME? sure. created bs hotel of Bang: a Si LAS RESOLVED S| ation of the oriental r mosquitoes | 3 WAS YOu. TO OIVE OP PicKLEs & | ANY, . . % r, these six aerial n troyers that take| Retonistis ANY ROUGE ANS 5 1 AIN'T SPENIDIN' . NO MONEY ON) THE LADIES THIS YEAR AN) GIVIN OP LICKRISH AN’ FONERAILS, EDT ON MY DAY.OFFK = ie | DENVIN MNSELE SOMETHIN'? { MOS! CERTAINLY tors froin America were fly Marco Polo's far off i Golden Chersonese." Over Tropical Jungies. As wo left the sle of ancient ittle known arm of the China sea was a glassy sheet of sapphire blue. adds Commander Lowell , “as though to prevent the from becoming monotonous eator of this fascinating world, which we were flying, has ed the Gulf of Siam with a hun. ed magic isles, fringed with tall panut palms and white sandy hes. The jungle beyond the re line of many of these tropical would take a day to hack one’s way through a mile of it. Some, however, were nearly devoid of jungle and covered with long, waving elephant grass that made them look as smooth as well kept av up where we were. “lying lower to get a better view of them, we explored them with w to coming here on our hovey- moons, that is, if any of the rest of US are ever going to be as fortunate as Erik and Jack in winning favor in the eyes of the fatrer sex. Erik's Sweetheart flew right along with him on the instrument board. Printed om celluloid, to protect it from the ealt spray, from the bitz- gards of the north and from the typhoons nd monsoons of the tropics, her picture was his mascot and tnspiration all the way around the world. “After landing on the Menam river at Bangkok, and . dodging about between junks, sampans, and houseboats, and nearly colliding with banyan trees and carcasses of ani- mals. floating toward the sea, we spent the rest of the afternoon work- around us canoes naked people, the afrplanes introduced by King on. every river morning while making our on the cruisers, ‘Les’ hap- pened to be looking down and eaw/ the body of a baby bobbing past with the current. Much agitated he called the attention of some Eng- Ish people who had. come out tn a neh to look over the planes. They d and replied that they were ised because we had been 9k sO many hours without seeing more human bodies floating down stream. Tt seemed to be an everyday occurence, merely, a little tolch of local color to which they had become so accustomed they no longer paid any attention. “We wero delighted. with the Silamere, and particularly tmpressed by the intelligence, courtesy, and charm of the upper classes. We liked them the instant we met them. In fact the welcome: of Bangkok was so warm that once again our planes were in danger of being crushed by hundreds of sampans. But the Stamese officers string circles of police boats around each cruiser for protection. Good Siamese Air Force. “Just before we started ashore with Mr. Dickinson, the American planes appeared over the cocoanut palms and banyans. Right down the Menam river they flew in for- mation. When directly above us they dipped and gave us the salute of the Siamese royal air force. Siam is indeed a land of contrasts. 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First they took us to the internationally famous palace of: the monarch of the golden tlephants at the outer this tropic realm. As ‘we passed | portal» the’ troops. of the king of| Siam were there to welcome us. Up the garble staircase, and through great carved doors of teak We entérad a vestibule with a forty foot ceiling whose teak walls wero hung with the ‘coats. of mail ‘of ancient Siam. From there we were ushered into the council room where the kings, of Slam recline on. a golden’ couch to receive advisers and envoys. \ Behind» this combination throne and divan hangs a portrait of a half*naked Buddhist pontiff who, with “shaven head and half closed eyes, ldoks down, upon the as- semblage. ‘ i “Although we pass Javanese, Bur- mese, Cambodians, Malays, Chinese, Shans, Was, Karens, and Japanese on the canals and tamarisk lined streets of. Bangkok, the ‘state re- ligion of the Siamese is Buddhism. Every youth in’ Siam {s obliged to become a monk for a ‘time just as the ‘boys in European countries are compelled to serve in the army. Of the. 8,000,000 people in the coun try more than 80,000 are Buddhist 20,000 ‘Buddhist «temples, golden mohks. In fact, there are nourly spired pagodas, and fantastic teak monastertes, Palace Impressive Sight. ‘irom the council roorn the r chuimber, where und exe 3 marched us ith its lofty frescoed W covered agnificenc fact thg hero the Ara a ad {flowr > through tl , made us feel like modern Aiud, We had to pinch eath other were awake, though the King bus to be one of the m nd havardous jobs in the wor ps only a trifle less dangero n a job in the United States, a'r at Dayton, be-| 2 its compensa. } For 7 every womun | n the coun belongs to him, ac cording to the stom of the coun In fact, all of his subjects are But {n reality Siam {s Thai,’ which, translated nd of the Free.” The si ¢ modest, however, and do their country. ‘the’ home of © brave. White Elepharts Too Costly. “From the king's palace with its rold ike the are Wx \ | | his ‘slaves Muang means ‘L ables of the royal wh! matter of fact, we were | | ed in seeing the king's white elephants as anything But this wes our one ckly pinkish. albino pachydernis, “The white stephant is still the royal animal of the country, but ever since the present Oxonian mon- arch ascended the throne, took unto himself only one wife instead of 80, introducing typewriters, phon graphs, American automobiles, air. planes, and expert advisors from the United States and Wurepa, the white clephanty uf Wiam buve been In other words, TAXICABS. attended with less and less pomp and panoply and circumstances. “Whereas it was only a few.yeara ago that whenever a so-cglled white elephant was located in the jungle, he was captured, tied with silken ropes, assigned a group of Siamese counts, barons, and marquises to serve as his valets, bathed with per- fumed water, given tender shoots of grass, cane, and bamboo, and trays of wheat cakes and sirup to ext, water scented with tlie’ ‘fra- &rance’of jessamine to: drink, elevat: ed to a peerage at court, baptized by the Buddhist priests, and assigned a corps of uniformed attendants with palm leaf fans to keep the files and gnats away from’ the-royal face, ‘Those were surely palmy days for the white elephants of Slam.In fact the cost of maintaining these pink- {gh pachyderms in royal fashion was enough to bankrupt many a Siamese nobleman. And {t was thus that the expression ‘to have a white elephant on your hands’ came. into existence, “But times are not what they uged to be in S'am, according to‘the brief conversation we held with the few scrawny-looking* white ele- phants in the royalrstables. For in- stgnce. we visited . ‘one. . Buddhist temple where we saw aistatue of St. Peter at one of the gates’ and a statue of a Dutchman smeking a pipe at anocher. But there is one quaint little custom that we were glad to discover was as popular’ to: day as {t ever was.; I‘refer°to tis] custom of beheading... The king ‘s an.abeoluta monarch, one of the few left.on eArth. And)gs a special syhonor a, beheading bee. was arrapged for ‘us. Thies gay event ,was to have taken pjace a fortpight later,. but was moved up just for our benefit. However, we-sent our.regrets at not being able to visit, the.playgroung’ ‘where: these: frolicg are always helt 'n Bangkok. We, explajned._ that we never attended beheadings yn less, we were given thé right to edy ~who was to be behéaded. “Before concluding, this one day Jaunt around. Bangkok, the longest sight-seeing tour that we had time to make from thé time we left Aimer- fea until our return,’ we stopped to pay our respects 'to the ranking St- amese prince who happened to be In the city. When’we were ushered into his drawing room, to our astén- ishment we saw a picture of our Gen.‘ Mitchell; assistant chief of’ air service, occupying: the place of-hon- or-ontthe prince's: table. «Gen.: Mit- ‘CHell had Weeti thereon a esr Hunt only) a few) weeks before and every- one in Slam, was loud: inv praise of the man who.has fought so bard to make the people of, America appre- clate the fact, that the world has at last reached the era of travel by “That night we slept on the de- stroyer in) order to\he ready for our long flight across;Malaya'to Burma Reg. U.S. Pat. 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