The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-01-02
Boy Anarchist Says
Public Libraries
Supplied Literature

uepOIIdllOu W huSSld dS Il uunSeIOuS
alien, who says he obtained his "edu-
cation" in radicalism from books OBJ
tanned at the New York Public Lib
rary, in an interview with a represen-
tative of The Associated Press, indi-
Gates that a real menace to American
institutions rests upon many a free
bookshelf.
Some rich men have unwittingly
aided the spread of revolutionary doc
t%rines," he said, referring to the mill
ions invested in libraries all over the
English-speaking world. Il had no
trouble in obtaining the radical books
l desired, printed in Russian, from the
96th street and Lexington avenue
branch of the New York Public Lib
rary."
The youth who, shortly after gradu-
ating from a New York public school
became the secretary of the Union of
Russia Workers Local, an anarchist
organization in Brooklyn with a mem
bership of $50, 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, a theory
favored by some of the teachers in
his school. 1t was not radical enough,
he said, and so he took up anarchy.
Buhkanob would prove a study for
the psychologist. He is more than
Ordinarily intelligent and quick-witted.
la pair of light blue eyes peer from
beneath a shock of very light brown
,hair and when he smiles he shows a
fine set of well-kept teeth. Well
Idressed and supplied with an abund-
,ance of cigarettes he expressed con-
.tentment with his LOT and hoped he
would soon be sent to Kronstad or
acknowledgement, in Russia, where, he
Isaid, there. were anarchistic COM
Amunes. The necessity Of leaving his
Hmother 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 'one 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
l. t4NzI n kIory Vnrl DIlhlip
school, graduating in 1917. He had
been taught the usual branches in
Guiding 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 sat what he said
was fair wages. His home life, he
declared, was happy.
81 was working in a machine shop
for S21.60 a week and would have re
ceived 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.
az slept last night" he went on
with a lot of murderers and robbers
but l am able to take care of myself
Here Buhkanob recounted with some
evidence yof pride an experience he
had had when he was chief monitor
in school. Five or six boys attacked
him. II knocked out two of them
= he chuckled "and the others beat it"
Buhkanob said few of the boys ant
girls in school e4-.srtaihvd the views
he did. Most of them preferred Il
spend their leisure time at the movies
He liked to read history, philosophy
sociology and economics.
my first book of this kind was ont
. by Tolstoy, a mild, good man, but
dreamer, he offered no solution ex
cept Christianity and that I do not &C
cept. Then l read, at other times
Kropotkin's Bread and Freedom,
Bakunin's God and the State Now
mirsky's What is A~narchismT Alex
ander Berkman's Prison Memoirs o
I an Anarchist and Max Stirner's 'Th'
Individual and His Property The,
gave me my first desire to help eman
cipate the working class by educating
it to realize its own interest. l alsI
7 read the works of an Italian anarchis
, as well as Emma Goldman's 'Mothe
, Earth"
The boy said he had no sympath,
|, for Bolshevism because it represents
a form of government or authorit
for both OF which he professed COZ
tempt. He admitted, however, that