Evening star., 1924-08-03

who constituted a deputatton sent by
the Board of Foreign Missions of the
Presbyterian Church in the United
States to visit the Persian mission
fields two years ago, found that in
| the Teheran field there are 10 cities
| Of over 10000 population each, with
a total population of 100000. of
| whom about ESQ, 900 are in Teheran
The population of all Persia is between
eight and ten million.
| AS Swemer has said. Persia is the
keystone of the Moslem arch-and
this keystone is cracking, the mis-
| sionaries say.
At Teheran there are six evangeli-
| cal missionaries, eleven educational
and four medical, while in the north
Persian field the Presbyterian Church
in the United States supports 3S evan
gelical, 80 educational and 81 medical
missiona ries.
1t was two years ago that Persia
turned to the United States for a
| second time for aid in administering
and reorganizing her financial and
economic affairs. Arthur Chester
Millspaugh, foreign trade adviser for
the State Department, was engaged
by the Persian government to assume
duties as administrator general un-
der a five-year contract. DR.. Mills
paugh took with him a staff of ex-
perts from this country. and they are
| the nucleus of an American quarter
| In the Persian capital where the
government has supplied them with
picturesque villas in one of the best
| gardens in Teheran.
Besides DR.. Millspaugh and his
bride. who followed him to Teheran,
this mission includes Charles I. Nc
Caskey, who had previously been with
Morgan Shuster on a somewhat SIM
liar mission to Persia. 1sl1-1s12:
Frank H. Gore, Col. D. w. MaeCor-
mack, Capt. Joel r. Moore, T. c..
Mitchell, a Washingtonian; Melvin
Adams Hall. Capt. A. Pearson and Ed
mund H. James.
Mrs. Millspaugh has as fellow
countrywomen and companions the
wife Of Col MacCormack, who is a
Smith College graduate and daughter
fof DR.. Seymour of Northampton.
Mass. and the wives of Messrs. Nc
Caskey, Jones and Hall. The last
named married an American girl in
Paris. There is also John Dunna way
with the mission. who is a statistician.
DR.. Millspaugh is responsible di-
rectly to the minister of finance and
has exclusive charge of the Persian
budget. He has instituted financial
reforms and acts as judge and arbiter
on all matters relating to finance
and concessions.
DR.. Millspaugh was considered one
Of the most dependable advisers of
the State Department. and was as
signed to an important mission to
London when the Persian govern
ment offered him the post. He was
especially valuable to the State De-
partment during the Mexican oil
land squabbles and drafted practi-
cally all of the United States Govern
ment's notes on that subject. He
has been attached to the State De-
partment since 1918.
Prior to entering the service of the
United States Government, DR.. Mills
paugh, who is a native of Michigan
and had graduated from Albion Col
lege. University Of Illinois and
Johns Hopkins, taught political sci
ence at the latter institution. He
is the author Of several text books
and treatises on economic subjects.
THE American Minister at Teheran
is DR.. Joseph Kornfeld. but he
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leave there in September. His sue
cessor has not yet been appointed.
The last resident consul from the
United States in Teheran was Bernard
Gotlieb, who was relieved by Vice Con-
sui Imbrie on his way to Tabriz just
two months before the latters tragic
death. Mr.. Gotlieb has been called into
conference at the State Department
during the last week.
Wallace S. Murray is secretary of
the legation and has taken charge of
the consulate since the staying OF
Vice Consul Imbrie. Mr.. Murray was
born at Bardstown, KY, and claims
Cleveland, Ohio, as his home. He
received an AN. degree from Harvard
in 1913 and took the interpreters
course at Columbia University. He
was an officer student at the Sor-
bonne and a professor of languages
at several American colleges. He
was first lieutenant lin the World
War. Then he was stationed at
Budapest, and on January z, 1922,
was assigned as secretary of legation
at Teheran.
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secently negotiated by the Sinclair
interests, while one of unprecedented
magnitude, does not mark any sud-
den discovery Of oil, for from the
most remote times Persia Is known
to have produced petroleum. We
know that the great Persian prophet
Zoroaster, whose religion is closely