The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-12-18
LEARNED ANARCHY
|NiPUbL|C LIBRARY
SOCIALISM, TAUGHT IN SCHOOL,
MAKE WAY EASY TO AC-
CEPT RADICALISM


dangerous alien, who say he obtained
his Education in radicaliSm from
books obtained at thesNew York Pub
lie Library, in an interview with a
representative of The Associated
Press, indicated that a real menace
to American institutions rests upon
many a free bookshelf.
"Some rich men have unwittingly
aided the spread of revolutionary doc
trines," he said, referring to the mil
lions invested in libraries all over
the English-speaking world. 81 had no
trouble in obtaining the radical books
| desired, printed in Russian, from the
S6th street and Lexington avenue
Z branch of the New York Public Lib
rary."
The youth who, shortly after grad
uating from a New YOr public school,
became the secretary of the Union OF
Russia Workers Local, an anarchlstlc
organization in Brooklyn with a mem
bership Of $50, discussed with perfect
frankness the auses which had led
him to his impending Punishment
from it the United States. The first
step, he said, had been socialism, a
theory favored by some of the teachers
in his school. 1t was not radical
enough, he said, and.s he took up an
arGhby.
yuhkanob would prove a study for
the psychologist. He is more than
ordinarily intelligent and quick
witted. A pair of light blue Eyes
peer from benath a shock of very
light brown hair and when he smiles
he shows a fine set of we'll kept teeth.
Well dressed and supplied with an
abundance of cigaretts he expressed
contentment with his lot and hoped
he would soon be sent to Kronstad
or Nijni-Novgorod, in Russia, where,
he said, there were a~narchistic COM
munes The necessity of leaving his
mother and two sisters, one of whom
is a student in a Brooklyn high school
and none of whom share his views,
caused him few regrets, he said, be-
cause n must be willing to sacrifice
himself for a cause.
The prisoner came to the United
States from Volhynia, in the Ukraine,
or "Little Russia" with his mother
in 1912 when ten years old. His
father, a Russian mujik, is dead. For
five years he attended a New York
public school, graduating in 1917. He
had been taught the usual branches
including a knowledge of the United
States constitution. He said he had
no use for governments of any kind
because they were all dishonest"
Upon leaving school Buhkanob OBJ
tanned employment at what he said
was fair wages. His home life, he
declared, was happy.
81 was working in a machine shop
for $21.60 a week and would have
received a good raise" said Buhkanob
laughingly as he discussed his plight.
The boys manner was earnest, al
most eager, to answer questions. His
parents he said had been members OF
the Greek Catholic church but he had /.
never been very religious. He could
not understand, he said, if there was
a God why there was so much evil
in the world.
81 slept last night he went on,
with a lot of murderers and robbers
but | am able to take care of myself"
Here Buhkanob recounted with some
evidence of pride an experience he
had had when he was chief monitor
in school. Five or six boys attacked
him. 81 knocked two of them out"
he chuckled land the others beat it,"
Buhkanob said few of the boys and
girls in school entertained the views
he did. Most of them preferred to
spend their leisure time at the NOV
les. He liked to read history, phil
osophy, sociology and economics.
my first book of this kind was
one by Tolstoy, a mild, good man, but
a dreamer, he offered no solution
except Christianity and that | do
accept. Then | read, at other
times, Kropotkin's Bread and Free
DOM Bakunin's God and the State,'
Novimirsky's What is Anarchism,
Berkman's Prison Mem
oirs of an Anarchist and Max Stirn-
er's The Individual and His Proper
ty.'' They gave me my first desire
to help emancipate the working claBs
by educating it to realize it's own
interest. II also read the works of an
Italian anarchist as well as Emma
Mother Earth,
The boy said he had no sympathy
for Bolshevism because it represent
ed a form of government or authority
for both of which he professed con
He admitted, however, that
few weeks ago he participated in a
parade of Russian radicals up Fifth
which was. broken up by the
police amid Genes of wild disorder.
The p~araders either refused to take
ut or did not possess a necessary
,olice permit.
When told that statistics showed
hat more than 1884, 900 Russians
ould neither read or write, Buhkanob
aid he wanted to go back to Russia,
lst the same, "to help them" He
aid he had no use for any govern
nent even though it protected his life
property, enabled him to earn a
God living and to dwell in peace and
omfort. He said a police or fire de-
artment, street cleaning system,
yater works, lighting system or any
public service would be accept
to him if they all did not involve
le exercise Of Authority" And yet
uhkanob was reputed to have been
n orderly boy in school.
E. H. Anderson, director of the
York public library, in a state
tent regarding Buhkanob's charges
at he had obtained anarchistic lit
azure from one of the library
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