Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-09
YOUNG IOOOLEVITCH
Rv DR.. Frank Crane

The other day I met an eighteen-year-old
boy. He is a Russian Jew and his name IS
Iogolevitch (accent on the gol).
He was not collecting actress photographs
nor Looping down Broadway nor begging Mann
ma for pocket money nor otherwise playing
or lOafing or trying to see how much OF an
ass he could be before settling down to work:
No. He is the accredited representative
of the anti-BOlshevk government of Siberia,
and is in this country trying to interest CAPT
81 to invest in Siberia.
His story is one Of brilliant adventure the
sid miraCIe-pay of Douth. is as amazing
a tale as has grown out OF the war. Paul
Iogolevitch, then not yet thirteen years DID,
was studying the violin under Leopold Auer
when the war broke out One day something
happened that made music a dead issue for
Paul for long time to cOmc-he heard the
accusation, made the length and breadth OF
Russia, that the Jews were not doing their
patriotic duty in the war. The violin was
put aside. Paul went to his father who was
then a surgeon in the Cars army, with the
rank Of colonel, and demanded that he too
be taken into the army. And he was! The
elder IogOlevitChs idea, when his son be-
came insstent, was to let the boy have
q taste of that would give him enough
oi it once for all, and send him home. Paul
- admitted to the army as reSimental mes
'~" >" with the rank OF corporal in his faith
-. t,ctaGhmcnt
IGt THE Young Russian COrporal' was
net sent home. The pet Of the regiment at
first, he was treated more or less as a mas
cot. Then the grim pressure of war cut out
all the playing in the arran cement. He
was entrusted with the delivery of important
dispatches under fire, and made good. He
was sent on perilous missions through the
German lines, and had many taste of real
fighting in hand-t0-hand sllirmishes of Ger
man OutpOSts. Honor after honor was heap
ed upon this young Jewish lad, until THE
Young Russian Corporal" was subject of al
most daily mention in the newspapers of
Russia, and of admiration that approached
superstitious awe among the mouiiks.
When the Russian debacle came, THE
Young Russian Corporal" came to America
laden with medals and honOrs. His serv-
ices were at once enlisted by the American
government, and it under the auspices
OF the Emergency Fleet Corporation that he
coke before war workers here.
Young IogOlovitCh on his last stay in ST.
b0ria was commissioned by one of the great
est banking firms of the world to open
branches in Harbin and other cities-a some
what unusual assignment for a seventeen
yoar-old lad. He has an even more unusual
one noW-as the representative to America
OF the 2nti-BOlshevik forces in Siberia with
tDe rank Of Cantain, bearing with him per-
sonal credentials from General Semenoff
But young Iogolevitch has set himself an
other task which he regards as even more
impOrtant-that of talking to American
school children and telling them the wonders
OF free America they appear to a lad
fresh from dark Russia. He is bitterly anti
BolsheVik, and he declares that much of the
radical freedom of speech" is freedom of
lying freedom to SANDER America. He
plans to become American citizen as soon
that can be accomplished.
He ha84Mritten book, with literary as