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citizens, even though they were legally assessed. Of course, there were other things the matter too. Roads was another great problem. There were no roads. Persia suffered the same kind of famines that India did, because they couldn't get supplies from one end of Persia to the other.

MacCormack arrived there in the midst of a famine and he made himself famous by building a road in a Short time that the Persians thought impossible, and even the ambassadors of other countries thought that it couldn't be done. He couldn't import any labor. He had to hire the Persians and they were not accustomed to working with American methods. At any rate, he built a road and his trucks with food on them were just behind the road makers. As a stretch of road was opened, the food trucks would come up and flour, rice and other necessities were distributed to the villagers where the road had reached that week.

At any rate, it made a great impression. It made a great impression even on the nomadic tribes of South Persia - that this fellow MacCormack had been able to build roads and get food down to them in the famine time.

Then he started out on a lot of other things. He did a very brilliant job. Among other things, he went down into the nomad tribes. No European had ever done that before. He went down alone, without a body guard, only a