New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 7, 1929, Page 11

SIAM PROGRESSING AT ARAPID PACE Has Air Mail and Most Otber Nodern World Devioes ‘Washington, D. C., June 7.—The head of the Sia: postal aystem, FPhya Prakit Kol ra, who has been inspecting tMe United States postal system, reports communica- tion systems well advanced in his pative land. Siam's air mgil system has oper- ated succesafully for six vears. Tele- graph offices number 472, and 556 offices serve every city and rural center. Wireleas service handles messages to foreign countries. Siam, one of the last nations on earth where a king is an absolute monarch, outsteps some KEuropean colonies that are her neighbors in the march of progress, according to 8 summary of recent geographic changes in the land of the white elephant, prepared by the National Geographic Society. Good and Bad American Visitors Two kinds of American visitors, one good, one bad, figure promi- nently in the kingdom's new pros- perity. Francis Bowes Sayre, the late President Wilson's son-in-lav, and Dr. Hugh M. Smith, former Commissioner of the U. 8. Bureau of Fisheries, are staunch aids to Siam. The former headed a commission which secured treaties from foreign nations that removed extraterrito- rial and lifted tariff restrictions; Dr. Emith now directs the development of Biam's fishery resources. The unwelcome American visitor s the lovely but malicious “Florida weed.” The blue water hyacinth of JFlorida, brought to the East Indies os a flower, has become a curse. Recause the Queen of Siam brought the first specimens for her garden from Java it is called Java weed, but out in the country where it creates a national problem by clog- ging the irrigation canals it has earned the name, “blue devil.” Biam, jungles, heavy rainfall, are three ideas closely associated. Why, then, must Siam build irrigation dams and canals? The answer is that the jungles are in the moun- tainous borderlands; the central delta plain receives an Illinois rain- fall. Because the Siamese grow rice, they must have a wealth of water; hence, irrigation. The Pra- sak project, with a barrage type dam, completed in 1924, serves 488, 000 acres. ‘The 8ubhan project, scheduled for early completion, will have three times the Prasak capa- city. Other vast works are under way or have been planned. Railroads show equal promise. 8iam, by its position, 1s a natural railroad center of the world's den- sest population area. Bangkok, the capital, and Siamese metropolis, is the inevitable major railroad junc- tion for all south and east Asia. Karachi, India, to Viadivostok, 8i- beria, is a 6,000-mile railroad dream for which Biam prepares. About two-thirds of the trackage is com- plete. The vital branch line, Bang- kok to Singagore, 1188 miles long, Bbas been finished and puts Siam within three days travel of the great port. Eastern Siamese’ lines reach the 1nda-Chinese border at two points. The northeast line is within eas reach io of Burma, Siam waits for these next door colonies to catch up with her progress. A hint of the importance to Siam of her railroads, all built since1893, s contained in the recent report of an American agricultural expert. “I was told.” he writes, “that a train- load of rice goes south daily for ex- port to Malava and the Dutch East Indies.” @ Come Live in a Palace in Siam “Come live in a pala ? Siam Invites the torrist. The state rail- way sy§§em operates hotels as well as trains. The royal suites of its Phya Thai hotel at Bangkok are, in- déed, réyal suites, having been oc- cupied by royalty before the palace was given to the railroad system by the king. And there is a royal price attached. Royal suite No. 2, excluding food. can be engaged for 120 ticals (1 tical is equivalant to 44 cents) per day. AR error! It should be 120 bahts, not ticals. In awiftly changing Riam, there are no more ticals. The tical was convicted of being a for- eign word of 8iam. Baht is pure Blamese. One silver baht supplants one banished tical. American Outhoars! Motors Popular L allmee —— = - —-—ao ] One sure way to { t moths and keep them stopped orns are ne longer ssasenal 'roul» Winter in modern steam- eated homes is the sa. s summer goar all g u-’:d«.l.: Telax o prrs "k ror the procas. &1 took & week moth, ly—kills them vkb:t‘;:l‘fhxn" a can of it . Bahts or ticals, they are one and the same when they get to Detroit. Of 310 new automobiles delivered in Bangkok one recent month many were American. Siam has discov- ered the American outboard motor, too. Canals that make Bangkok a tropical Amsterdam and the coun- tryside an oriental Holland, prompt Siam to become the United States’ ninth best customer for detachable motors and second best customer for other types of boat engines. 'The Minister of Agviculture at the Plow The month of May marks the be- ginning of the all-important rice planting. King and court and thou- sands of subjects turn out for. the Rak Na of ploughing ceremony. Be- fore the vast crowd the Minister of Agriculture, dignified with a hat like a spire and gorgeous gown, guides a huge gilded wooden plough drawn by two gaily decked bullocks. After the ploughing various seeds and grains are spread before the bul- locks. It is an anxious moment for the milling populace. Whatever grass or grain the oxen eat most will be scarce during the coming season; at least the Siamese think s0 Modern Occidental Appointments Oriental still in spirit, Siam ac- quires modern occidental appoint- ments of great variety. The gov- ernment runs on a budget and Siam, too, has been pasging through an econmy program. The king, by way of example, cut his royal allowance by 3,000,000 bahts. The metric sys- tem has replaced the ancient mea: ~ Misses’ Clothing is so Dainty and Inexpensive at GR Thrift Teaches That Quality jCross has‘been organized. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, uring units and become compulsory in 1930. Civil and Commercial Codes have been are 38000 Boy the Red Chula- longkorn University, named for the monarch who, during his reign of 42 years, began the regeneration of the kingdom, enters its twelfth year, strong and growing. There is an Economic Museum; a National Library has usurped the former Na- tional Institute of Literature, Ar- chitecture, and Fine Arts has been promulgated. The present king, Prajadjipok, has progressed to one wifg, from the century-ago normal |of royal Slamese supply of four tolof eight thousand wives COSHETT, SFLLING Scouts; Jo let! ha: pel ex; ne: an, Super-Salesmen Bring Asia Into| World's Beauty Parade Washington, D. C., June 7—"Thou shalt find thy happiness on earth through prayer love and perfume.” Thus commands the Koran to all true believers. 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