Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1931, Page 34

= c—+4 SIAM OUTSTEPPING ASIATIC NEIGHBORS Visit of Absolute Monarch i Recalls Progress His Nation 1s Making. The arrival of King Prajadhipok of Siam and his court here marked the first visit of a reigning absolute monarch to the United States. While the King will spend most of his time here incognito, official calls will be made in Washington. “Siam, one of the new nations where & King is absolute monarch—others are Afghanistan and Ethiopia — outsteps some European colonies that are its Asiatic neighbors in the march of rogress,” says a bulletin from the Na- nal Geographic Soclety. Americans Are Advisers. “Although the white elephant is still revered in Siam, and is used in state ceremonies, the country’s airmail sys- tem has operated successfully for more than eight years. Telegraph offices number more than 400, and the num- ber of inland telegrams exceed the foreign; while 455 post offices serve every city and rural center. Three high-powered wireless stations are in operation, “Two kinds of American wisitors, one good, ofie bad, figure prominently in the kingdom’s new properity. Prancis Bowes Ssyre, the late President Wil- son's son-in-law, and Dr. Hugh M. Smith, former con.missioner of the United States Bureau cf Fisheries, are staunch aides to Siam. The former headed a commission which obtained treaties from foreign nations that re- moved extraterritorial rights and lifted tariff restrictions; Dr. Smith directs the development of Siam’s fishery resources. “The unwelcome American visitor is the lovely but malicious ‘Florida weed.’ The blue water hyacinth of Florida, brought to the East Indies as a flower, has become a curse. Because the Queen of Siam brought the first specimens for her garden from Java, it is often called the Java weed, but out in the country ‘where it creates a national problem by clogging the irrigation canals it has earned the name ‘blue devil.” Irrigation and Railways. “Siam, jungles, and heavy rainfall are three ideas closely associated. Why, then, must Siam build irrigation dams &nd canals? The answer is that almost all the rain falls at once, and must be regulated to keep it from sveeplnl away the central delta plain, Also be- cause the Siamese grow rice they must have a wealth of water; hence Iirriga- tion. The Prasak project, with a bar- rage type dam, completed in 1924, serves m 000 acres. The Subhan project, scheduled for early completion, will have three times the Prasak capacity. Other vast works are under way or have been 2 “Railways show equal promise. Siam, by its position, is a natural railroad center of the world’s densest Dopuhtlon mrea. Bangkok, the caj metropolis, is the mevrhble major nn- road junction for ;’1.] south and east Asia. Karachl, India, to Vladivostok, Siberia, is a 6,000-mile railroad which Siam awaits. About two-thirds of the trackage is complete. “The vital brlnch line, Bangkok to Singapore, 1,118 miles long, has been finished, and puts Siam within three days’ travel of the great port. Eastern Siamese lines reach the Indo-Chinese border at two points. The north line extends nearly to the Burma border. Siam waits for these next door colonies to catch up with her 1,749 miles of state railways. ‘A hint of the importance to Siam of railroads, all t since 1803, 1-l floe goes south d.l.lly for export to Mlllyl China, Japan and the Dutch Indies’ Rice is to Siam what mecn {l: '(am:l‘;e ?um Shmh\:u with apan for Pplace among the largest producers of rice in the world. * ‘Come live in A’rnhce Siam in- vites the tourist. state rallway system operates hotels as well as trains, ‘The royal suites of its Phya Th-ll Hotel at Bangkok are, indeed, royal suites, having been oo:uplzd by the late xlng before the palace was given to the rail- road system. American Motors Popular. “Ticals, or the "Siames bahts, the monetary units of Siam, are one and the same when they get to Detroit. Of 310 new automobiles delivered in Bangkok in one recent month & ma- jority were American. Siam has dis- covered the American outboard motor, t0o. Canals that make Bangkok a tropical Amsterdam and the country- side an Oriental Holland prompt Siam 1o become the United States’ ninth best customer for detachable motors and second best customer for other types of boat_engines. “The month of May marks the be- inning of the all-important rice plant- g. King and court and thousands of subjects turn out for the Rak Na, or ploughing, ceremony. Before the vast crowd the minister of agriculture, digni- fied, with a hat like a spire ln".m wooden plow drawn by two gayly- decked bullocks. After the mmmmm before the bullocks. moment Scouts and Red cm-. "Oriental in spirit, Siam acquires modern Western appointments of great variety. The government runs on a budget and Siam, 0o, has been passing through an economy pi im. ‘The King, by way of enmple, cut his royal allowance by 3,000,000 bahts. “The metric uym has replaced an- cient measu ‘units and became com- Civil and commercial ha 38,000 Boy Scouts; been organized. Chulalongkorn Uni- versity, nmed for the monarch who, during his reign of 42 years, began the regeneration of the kingdom, enters its fourtenth year, strong and growing, There is an economic museum; & na- tional library has usurped the former national cremation ceremonial galler- ies, and a royal institute of literature, architecture and fine arts occuples a royal palace.” N S, The World's People. ‘The total population of the world is now estimated at 1,550,000,000; at the beginning of the eighteenth oentury the estimate was 600,000,000 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, =25 (RISIS THREATENS ON CUSTOMS PACT French and British Appar- ently Intend to Test Ger- man-Austrian Union. By Oable to The Star. BY EDGAR ANSELL MOWRER. BERLIN, April 30.— Somebody in Europe seems to be riding for a fall. The invifation to the smaller Euro- pean states which are no longer mem- bers of the League of Nations Cecuncll, but which signed the Geneva protocol in 1922, to come to the May council meetu' to discuss the problems raised by the projected Austro-German cus- toms union, would seem to mean the French and British intend to proceed with the legal testing of this plan. But, meanwhile, the French press, the Czech press and various statesmen of the former entente continue to fill the world with statements that the planned union is iliegal, impossible, inconceiv- able, harmful to Austria and Germany | and and intolerable for France and the little entente. ‘The of this can only be that -s0m some way, the French and Ozechs min to prevent the tmion. The ‘Germans, however, are going quietly about their preparations and announce they do not have the slight- est intention of abandoning the plan. meet the various arguments quietly with the wealth of material at their disposal. Thus, against the charge that a cus- toms union leads inevitably to a po- litical union, they note that Luxemburg for almost 70 years was within- the German customs union without being annexed; that Sweden and Norway had a customs union for a long fod and did not amalgamate; that tensteln, Monaco and Andorra, the world's dwarf states, are all within the customs area of some larger state, without being swallowed politically. Must Abide by Ruling. But if \he French and Czechs insist the union shall not be, and the Ger- mans insist it shall be, and then it goes to the legal experts, it is obvious the states must stand by the legal decision or become a joke. ‘Therefore, as matters now stand, it looks as though either the customs union will be permitted and the French and Czechs, except by the threat of war, cannot stop it, or the union will be declared illegal and the Austrians WWWWQ Selecte Gm-flllunth!.nneo! Nations and sulk by themsel mlnyule,mammmk!ormewm- disarmamen fi 3 it oonference is not {Oopyrignt, 1081) WOMAN IS ACCUSED OF FLOURISHING GUN|" Charged With Threatening Hotel b¥ Clerk When Requested to Leave. Mrs. Ruth Bedell, 27, arrested in the Cavaller Hotel after she is said to have flourished a pistol in the face of the night clerk, pleaded not guilty in Police Court yesterday to & charge of carry« ing a deadly weapon. She demanded a Jury trial. ‘The woman, according to the infor- mation given police by Joseph L. Tall, the clerk, was requested to leave the hotel after becoming disorderly. He sald she waved the pistol in his face and said if he didn't leave the room she would shoot him. Tenth precinct police were called and subsequently arrested the woman. An unloaded re- volver was found in a linen closet. Mrs. Bedell, released under $500 bond, gave her ad as Mnunchusem avenue near Sixteenth stree! APRIL! 80, 193I. 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