The frontiersman., 1957-09-05
Visiting Iranian Offers Ideas
 For World Peace

Chamber of Commerce mem bers this week enjoyed a very interesting talk at their noon meeting where Issa and Abdul lah Ommidvar of Iran visited the Chamber meeting.
 Abdullah Ommidvar spoke to the group on his and his broth CTS travels the past three and one half years which have talk en them to many lands, includ- ing China, Japan, Europe, several states in United States, and of their three-month visit in Alas ka. The brothers are on a world tour that will require 10 years for completion and visits to all countries possible during that time. During the past three and one half years they have visited A countries where they have taken movies and slides of the varied cultures of the lands visit ed.
 In Alaska, Abdullah said, we have filmed the general life in the Territory, especially that of the Eskimos- We came here to make completesmovie of Alas ka. We hope that by showing this film to other countries, we can introduce Alaska as it is, not as the ice-box land so commonly thought of"
 Within the next six years the brothers plan to drive their En- glish motorcycles through Cen tral America to South America, across the Atlantic to Europe, spend three months visiting in Iran, and then two years in Africa where they will film and study the African Native.
 During their travels they spend nearly eight months in Australia among the famed bushnen. We feel, he said, that the best way to promote peace in the world is for each country to know and understand the cultures of each country ... there will be a bet ter understanding, if we can get to know one another. A good way to achieve this is to make pictures of each country .- and show them to the next :. we are collecting Native artifacts for an art exhibit planned for 1863 :. we plan to publish books on our travels and experiences and let the people of other lands know what we have learned" I Before leaving their homeland the Ommidvar brothers prepar- ed for their trip for six years by making special studies of photo graphy, geography, journalism, and problems that might be met, During their trip they have writ ten many articles which have been published in magazines, particularly in Iran. LIFE mag azine has made arrangements with the brothers for a series of articles on their travels Tele- vision and radio stations have used their movies they have lectured in many countries. Although the Ommidvar broth CTS are travelling through many lands, they speak only Persian and English and little Indian. Abdullah stated they find they can get along pretty well by us- ing English. He pointed out that more and more countries are showing interest in the English language. Especially the Jap anese youth they show a keen interest in English the farm people of course keep with their Native languages, but in the cities there is more and more En- glish being used throughout the world if only we could have one language throughout the world, how much better we could understand one another we could give and get ideas with a oneness of language"
 Questioned regarding the pos abilities of world peace, or world war, Abdullah stated that " each individual the world ever loves peace we must find some way of making a mutual understanding, instead of mu- tual fear the Russians and Americans can't talk to one an other because of the language barrier they can't discuss things, So they fear
 America is in great condition, with it's modern age .- every one the world over is watching Americas every move coun- tries need morev pencils and paper than guns and bullets !.