Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-23
TURKEY DRAF TING
| AMERICAN EXPERTS
Several Washingtonians Are
Among Group Giving New
r. Deal to Republic.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE,

Ole Turkey plans a new deal To
bring i. about. the republic which rose
from the ruins of the one-time mighty
Ottoman empire is drafting American
brains in half a dozen different fields
of industry, transportation, agriculture
and education.
The Turks desire, In effect, to formu-
late for themselves comprehensive
program OF economic modernization
based on the best American experience
that can be applied to Turkish condi-
tions. The plan Is primarily the project
of Mustafa Renal, President of the re-
public, who, since his election to Office
in 1928, has instituted so many internal
reforms designed to bring Turkey up to
date in various branches of national
life.
To lay the foundations Of the plan.
President Renal has now called into
counsel leading American authorities in
such fields as railroads, cotton produc-
ton. gold and copper mining. tariffs,
public schools and grape-growing.
walker d. Hines Engaged.
For the purpose Of completing a gen.
eral survey of the necessities and posi-
bilities of the situation. the Turkish
government, acting through its Ambas-
Walker D. Hines, famous director gen.
eral of the wartime United States
railroad administration and since then
a practicing lawyer in New York. Mr..
Hines has had long experience in rail-
road affairs In 1925 he was commits
stoned by the League of Nations to in
vestigate and report on matters con-
! nected with navigation on the Rhine
and Danube Rivers During the period
between election and Inauguration. Mr.
Hines was called into conference by
| Franklin d. Roosevelt, and there were
reports that the New York lawyer and
| transportation expert would be of1ereo
a place in the cabinet.
Several other men well known In
| Washington have contracted to go to
Turkey and cooperate in the compre-
hensiye economic program to be under
taken there. One is Matthew Van Sic
len. mining engineer, former assistant
chief mining engineer of the United
| States Bureau of Mines and later en-
gineer in charge of the Division Of Min
! ing Research. Mr.. Van Siclen is re-
garded as an outstanding expert in the
| field of gold mining, and one OF his
principal duties will be to explore the
possibilities of locating that precious
! metal somewhere in Turkey. There have
been reports that gold exists at Mount
! Ararat, the famous mountain IN Ar
menia which is the traditional resting
place of Noah's Ark. Mr.. Van Siclen
| has surveyed mines in Mexico and Ne"
Brunswick and inspected numerous
mines and mining methods in Europe.
U. S. Geologist Employed.
Sidney Paige Of Washington is going
| into the Turkish governments service as
| a geologist and metallurgical expert. He
has had many years Of service with the
! United States Geological Survey as a
geologist and as a geologiSt on the Pan
anna and Nicaragua Canal Commissions.
| He is a recognized authority on strait
graphy structure, ore deposits and pc
| troleum.
Still a third Washingtonian. who is
an acknowledged specialist in his field
has lust arrived at Angora, Mustafa
KemaTs capital to become adviser to
the Turkish railroad administration. He
| is Charles E. Bell traffic analyst who
| has been assigned the task of making a
nationwide survey of the Turkish rail-
Way situation. Mr.. Bell has had nearly
40 years of transportation experience
He is a former traffic official OF the
Southern Railway and was one OF Her
bert Hoover's assistants in the United
States Food Administration. During the
war he also served as assistant to the
triffc director Of railroads.
| As adviser to the Turkish customs
administration at Angora. Robert H
| Vorfeld formerly of the international
relations division Of the United States
Tariff Commission. is already on duty
Mr. Vorfeld, Californian. has been an
outstanding specialist in tariff matters
beginning with such service in the
Philippines shortly after they came into
American possession. Following his tour
of duty at Manila, Mr.. Vorfeld was In
, the Dominican Republic and eventually
wrote its tariff laws. He rendered SIM
! liar service subsequently, for the govern
ments of Paraguay, Ecuador and BOLIVIA
| Heads Farm Station
| In charge of Turkeys new agricul-
| tural experimental station at Adana
an American named Clark. who Is
Californian, is entrusted with the spe'
cial job of advising the Turks in tnt
| field of cotton production. Yet an
other son of Uncle Sam. named Nou'
| garet. has been engaged to superin'
| tend Turkish viticulture, the art Of
grape growing 1t is possible that a
some time in the future the Turk!
| will look to this country for experts
in still other fields. DR.. Beryl Parker
of New York, we'll known American
authority on child education, is al
ready in Turkey, directing the estab'
lishment and development of sys'
tenn of kindergarten schools. She wa!
sent under the auspices OF the Turkish
embassy in Washington and the
/ American Friends of Turkey, Inc" Of
| New York City.
To Gen. Charles H. Sheriff.. who ha!
Just left Istanbul as American Am
bassador, having resigned as result o.
| the change in administrations at Wash
| ington, is assigned much Of the credit
| for Turkeys decision to engage Ameri'
can specialists to reorganize the country
| industrially. During his period Of Of
| flee at Istanbul, Gen. Sheriff. induced
! the government to depart from tn
policy of strictly limiting imports from
| the United States and to substitute fol
it the policy of admitting American
products equal in value to Turkish ex
ports to the United States. So far, THU
privilege has been accorded to only ont
other country, Spain.
The pro-American sentiment Musta
ia Renal Is exhibiting in commission
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