Show Alphabet Drive Fails Turks Go Back to Schoot j V j r Kemal Government f tJ Preparing for N New t tr nl Drive D. D r for f L' L Literacy I J J Hundreds d P Pass iS Exam Exams Exams Exams' But Newspaper Cir fl J 1 dilation n Drops vJ kf 1 I Many Could Not No Rep Repeat Repeat- tf t V VV I Performance Belief V V 1 I 1 f By PRISCILLA RING l' l lAlo Alo Associated Press Preas Correspondent 1 i ANGORA Nov SO 30 AP AP Tur Turkish I Ia a adults uHs wJ who o last year Were rounded I up il I and packed into hastily co constructed con 1 I schoolrooms to learn tho the new cw A B. B Cs Cs C's are aro now no finding o out outto t tto t to their dismay that they must b go goto go- go J. J to school all nIl over again this year l Tho he government declarer declarer- Il It dis dissatisfied with present re results SC- SC suits of ot tho timo alphabet reform During 1 the two months months' function n-i n lag Ing In o of ot the popular schools last year year- enl the government taught half a a. million nIt mil lion Illiterates ra S their A A. A B Cs C's lj time tho continued decrease In the lation of ot Turkish newspapers and Mel periodicals gives sad ad evidence that the tho million half holders of alphabet certificates haVe not become a. a half half- million new leads of ot books hooks or OL even of ot newspapers It I is Is' even hinted by a a semiofficial dally daily that many of those who passed th the A A B B. B C examination six montha montim ago aSo could not ot do 50 so 80 today jj FRESH ONSLAUGHT nt i After six months of Dr vacation dr the popular schools six months durIng dur- dur Ing In- which nothing has hus been icen done to t tol further the dissemination of tho new new- alphabet the government Is is' getting ready for fOL a a. fresh onslaught Now another million half illiterates t rf in 1 to be bo taught the thc alphabet in two months' months cour courses s to be bo reopened throughout the time land and those attended the A B B. B C schools l last year aro to bs be rounded up again for for- or obligatory attendance in a nt new OW set e of C four fOUL out months months' courses wherein they will bo va instructed in reading reading- and civics In Constantinople aJ the number of DC such popular schools will be bo These popular schools fB dare are V to be b be loUt for tor forten continued year In and year out ten years when It Jt is in belle believed belled d that Turkeys Turkey's actual 85 p per percent cent illiteracy y will be bo r reduced to 10 zero Ten years cats from now the official official- p dall daily l writes hopefully an illiterate Turk will be pointed a aone at as na natures nature's monstrosities one of or A JU JUTO u uTO TO IMPOSE PENAL PENALTIES To 10 enforce tho time existing law r re quiring all aU between tho the ages aces cs' cs of C 16 to 45 to to attend the time popular popular- r- r sch schools the tho l parliament Is s expected to pass laws inflicting heavy punishment pun pun- even En even to the point of Dr on on those who play hooky rh The rima points point out heavy penalties must also aso bo be imposed on 01 official examiners who havo have been bern delivering the thc coveted alphabet c certificates certificates r for tor a consideration tf U to those who actually dont don't know A. A A. A V from Z Baksheesh this paper per d dc- dc dares clares must be he banished from th the the realm of oC scholarship I vw IV Time The same paper points out th that t. t t the tho V new alphabet Is In a tar far rr from m happy state slate as aS far tar as ns tho the already alread literate population Is 15 who V Students of ot law it writes can now obtain copies of ot our ar var OU ous ous' legal codes only In the n new alphabet are forced to transcribe them themselves s back back into the old Arabic In order to understand what the they are aro studying Moreover Moreo In in order to facilitate the accomplish meat ment of or official formalities copi copies copies' of Dr official documents written in tho obligatory Latin alphabet ar are sent out to government bureaus with copies copies' of or the tho same sarna texts added In hi Arabic rable letters Thus during Turkeys Turkey's present d difficult difficult dif dif- t transition period government clerks peruse beneath th tIme tho outward covering o of official texts written in inthe inthe the Latin alphabet their officially wl at wiCked ked nt and likewise officially concel conceived ved ponies |