The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-19
 BOOKS SPREAD
 B()LSHEvISM
Young Russian Who Is to Be Reported Talks Freely


 kanob. the 17-year-old seIf-confesse schoolhoy anarchist now on Ellis Isl and awaiting deportation to Russia as a dangerous alien, who says he obtained his education in radical. ism from books obtained at the New ork Public Library in ssIa inte1-yi ey, with representative of The Asso- { c1ated Press. indicated that a real menace to American institutions . rests upon many a free bookshelf. some rich men have unwittinely aided the spread of revolutionary doctrines" he said, referring to the millions invested in libraries all over the English-speaktng world. ''I had no trouble in obtaining the radical books desired, printed in Russian. from the 96th street and Lexington avenue branch of the New York Pub- lie Library
 The youth who, shortly after grad "a't1ng from a New York public school became the secretary of the Union Of Russia Workers Local, an anarchist organization in Brooklyn
 
 with perfect frankness the causes which had led him to his impending paE1shment from the United States The first step, he said, had been so- clallsn, a theory favored by some Of the teachers in his school. It was not radical enough. he said, and so he took up anarchy
 Buhkanob would prove a study for the psychologist. He is more than ofI1harlly intelligent and quiclk-Rit- ted. A pair of light blue eyes peer from beneath a shock of very iiebt brown hair and when he smiles he shows a fine set of we1l-kept teeth Weli-dressed and supplied with an abundance of cigarettes he expressed contentment with his lot and hoped ne would soon be sent to Kronstad or Nijni-Novgorod, in Russia, where ne said, there were ana rchistjc com fnunes. The necessity of leaving his mother and two sisters, one of whom IS a student in Brooklyn high school, and none of whom share his views, caused him few regrets he said, because lone must be wiFE&g to sacrifice himself for cause"
 The prisoner came to the United states from Volhynias in the Ukraine. or Little Russia,'' with his mother in 1912 when ten years old. His father. Russian mujik, tE dead. For five years he attended 8 New York pub lie school, graduating in 1917. He had been taught the usual branches in- eludins 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 ob- ta1ned ernployrnent at what he said was fair wages. Ills home life, he de- clared, was happy
 II was working in a machine shop for S21.60 a week and would have re- ce1ved a good raise" said Buhkanob 1aughingly as he discussed his plight, The boys manner was earnest, aI- 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. T slept last night" he went on, with a lot of murderers and rob- 1 oers but I am able to take care of 1 Here Buhkanob recounted 1 with some evidence of pride an ex- l oerience he had when he was chief 1 attacked him. T knocked out two of i hem" he chuckIed, and the others 1 peat it." 1 Buhkanob said few Of the boys and girls in school entertained the views le did. Most of them preferred to i pend their leisure time at the mo- 'ies- He liked to reaA history. phil 'sophy. sociology and economies.
 My first book of this kind was one " Toistoy, mild. good man. but a reamer, he offered no solution ex- iS@y yS T1i% T. ccept. Then I reaI3, at other times, Il <ropothn's Bread and Freedom | 'akunin's God and the State Novi i airskys What is Ana rchisr1'? Alex Il nder Berkman's Prison Memoirs of n Anarchist and Max Stirner's The individual and His Property.' They ave me my first desire to help enan- tpate the working class of an Italian narchiSt as well as Emma Gold lan's Mother Earth " The boy said he had no sympathy or Bols11evis1n because it represented
 form of government or authority pr both of which he Professesdi con- 7rnpt- He admitted. however that a 7w weeks ago he participated in arade of Russian radicals up Fifth venue which was broken up by the office amid scenes of wild disorder he paradeTs either refused to take
 
 ce permit iE When told that statistics showed lat more than 182, ,G9O. 900 Russians ou4d neither read or write BlnIya- ob said he wanted to go back to E ussia. just the same, ito help them" -e said he had no use for any gov rnment even though it protected his E fe and property, enabled him to IF arn good living and to dwell in 1 E eace and comfort. He said a police B r fire department, street cleaning ! ysten, water works, lighting system i K r any other public service would be i E cceptabfe to him if they all did hot 1 E lvolve the exercise of "authority." nd yet Bul1kanob was reputed to l ave been an orderly boy in school, E E. H. Anderson, director of the New | E ork Public Library, in a statement Buhkanobs charges that @ had obtained anarchistic literature E 'om one of the library branches, said B e had been unable to find the books S uhkan0b mentioned listed in the dialogue. Certain works by Kropotkin and ther similar writers, he said, print E iv,