The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-12-18
RED" MENACE Turks
ON LIBRARY SHELVES
Self Confessed Schoolboy Anarchist in
New York Tells How He Obtained
His Education" in Radicahsm
at New York Public Library

New York, Dec Is, Thomas Buhka
mob, the l7-year-old self.confessed
schoolboy anarchist now on Ellis Island
awaiting deportation to Russia rs d
dangerous alien, who says he obtained
his education" in radicalism from
books obtained at the New York public
| library, in an interview with repre-
sentative of the Associated Press, in
dicated that real menace to American
institutions rests upon many a free
bookshelf
Some rich men have unwittingly
aided the spread of revolutionary doe
trines," he said, referring to the mil
lions invested in libraries all over the
English-speaking world. IL had no
trouble in obtaining the radical books |
desired, printed in Russian, from the
Goth street and Lexington avenue
branch of the NeV York public library.
The youth who, shortly after grad
uating from a New York public school,
became the secretary of the Union of
Russia Workers local, an anarchist or
ganization in Brooklyn with a member
ship of l50 discussed with perfect
frankness the causes which had led him
to his impending Punishment from the
United States. The first step, he said,
had been Socialism, theory favored
by some of the teachers in his school.
II was not radical enough, he said, and
so he took up anarchy.
Buhkanob would prove a study for
the psychologist. He is more than or
dinarily intelligent and quick. witted.
A pair of light blue eyes peer from be-
meath a shock of very light brown hair
and when he smiles he shows fine set
of we'll kept teeth Well dressed and
supplied with an abundance of cigar
cites he expressed contentment with
his lot and hoped he would soon be sent
to Kronstad or Mini Novgorod, in Rus
STA, where, he said, there were anarchis-
tic communes. The necessity of leav-
ing 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,
because zone must be willing to sacri-
flee himself for cause
The prisoner came to the United
States from Volhynia, in the Ukraine,
or Little Russia" with his mother in
1912 when 10 years old. His father, a
Russian mujik, is dead. For five years
he attended New York public school,
graduating in 1917 He had been
taught the usual branches, including a
knowledge of the United States consti-
tuition. He said he had no use for gov
ernments of any kind because they
were all dishonest" Upon leaving
school Buhkanob obtained employment
at what he said was fair wages. His
home life, he declared was happy.
II was working in machine shop
for $2l60 week and would have re-
ceived good raise" said Buhkanob
laughingly, as he discussed his plight,
The boys manner was earnest, almost
eager, to answer questions His par
ents, he said, had been members Of the
Greek Catholic church but he had never
been very religious. He could not UNI
derstand, he said, if there was God
why there was so much evil in the
world
81 slept last night" he went on, with
LOT of murderers and robbers, but /
am able to take care of myself" Here
Buhkanob recounted with some evil
dence of pride an experience he had had
when he was chief monitor in school.
Five or six boys attacked hjm. u