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·   [ti .-   had to register else they could not enter middle school. It is now proposed that ‘
  ’- cI; ' school, travel from city to city, get a job. the questions be sent Iout from Teheran,
‘       _ or even be buried. However, we find it as are the certificates for all who pass the
 ` . F i . l   _ difficult not to sympathize with the lack regular examinations, We have Just this
· ; , I of patriotism when only 70 cents a month week received certificates for the boys
Z _ i 3     is paid in addition to poor clothes and food who passed the examinations 18 months
I * P I I _   for two of the best years of a young man’s ago. Such is the efficiency of strong cen-
i s t I F , ti life. This is the third draft that has been tralization!
- · , ·   · , i _ taken from Hamadan. Students are Minority groups like the Armenians and
 ` S { l V I l €X€n1Pt, S0 W9 a1`€ b0th€1`€d with S0m€ nn- Assyrians are strongly opposed to the reg-
. ~   I.   I   _ desirables who would use the school as an nlation that demands all schools to teach
 V     I excuse for exemption. OthersIa1‘e eXeH1pt only the Persian language through the  ·
I ‘ .   I I I ~ IIJQI because of dependents but excitement and nrgt four grades Yet the government is
. I _ ill. V   gig   bltt€1`n€SS have largely dlSali>li>€al’€€l as the insistent and the minorities are beginning
1 . l it . iis 3 Z.! people have come to realize that their to see that in Persia their success or fail-
nd i   =l   _ protests a1`€ of no avail. ure depends more and more on whether
V ‘ i I `     One of the chief efects of such a change they know the Persian language or not, `
3 I I l I _; ‘ is that the peope begin to realize that As yet the language has not been changed I
Y i t ·l _ l Q they have a government, that their own from Arabic script to Latin, as in Turkey,
‘ g l ,l`‘ * _ A will is not the highest will, and that they however, there has been considerable dis-
‘ = f ;   Q ' are part of a larger whole. Under such a cussion of the matter and such agitation,
A S i_ I , 1 · regime compulsory vaccination becomes though less than two years ago, still
 , I- ‘ . '   more feasible, especially when applied to stands a chance of being heard.
 _ ,; I students. AAS yet lJh€1`€ 3.1`€   l'1'l3,1'1y Sl'lO1“lj AnOthg1· Stop in the right dirggtion is
I I   comings ELS when all OLl1' StLl an atttttltla that already elapsed since the registration be-
¤§ would appreciate the motive even though gan in Hemedsn, less than 15% of the
  ;;' I the method may he defective. property has been registered. The people
`I. ` _l , Nor has education been left untouched still fail to realize that an order must be _
  a · by the forces of the new age. We are obeyed. They still believe that something
  . now asked to show our registration papers can happen, and they devoutly hope that
It , _ by a Department of Education that was something will happen if only they can a
il . ? not in existence 50 years ago when our hold out long enough.
il i I first schools were organized and our regu- In these days of financial depression it
ll I - lar program must give way to that which does seem that something might happen
ll. I has been drawn up by the Department. too. Persia’s coinage is on a silver basis
V I j An inspector has just visited the school and the slump in the price of silver has hit
 s I   I i and informed me that our Primary Pe- her hard. To this must be added the ef- i
I I r riods must be lengthened from 30 minutes fect of the general business depression,
it I , Il to one full hour and that drawing must the drop in the demand for Persian car-
I I l I be omitted since it is not in the regular pets, and the effect of having to buy a
‘l I I I government program! At least we can lot of foreign exchange to pay for the con-
°     - I say that Persia now has an educational struction of a railroad with foreign ma-
, ‘   program. It is based directly on the terials and foreign engineers, to which
I  ` i ` French system and all students must pass must be added the bills of four or five hun- .
3 I I regular government examinations at the dred students whom the government has
{ t end of their sixth year in the Primary sent abroad with the determination to
¤   AME school and at the end of the first and sec- catch up with the procession of progress.
·   ;   ond cycles, 9th and 12th grades of the A new law plans to place the coinage on a -
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