East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-08-22
UNITED STATES SETS
GOOD EXAMPLE FOR
RUSSIA SAYS IMMIGRANT
Finds America is Real Land of
Opportunity; Recalls Incl
dents of His Fatherland.
BY KENT WATSON,
International News Service Staff
CorresnnnQent.

Correspondent
ST LOUIS, Aug. 22.-Being an
American newspaperman is not quite
as bad as being a peasant in Russia,
But being q peasant in Russia is not
half as nice as being a peasant" in
America.
That's the version of Harry Lach
Herman. native of Doroshowa. state of
Podolia, Ulrainia. Russia, now an as
sistant in the st Louis bureau of the
international News Service.
With his father and mother young
Lachterman left Russia eight years
ago and came TO st, Louis. The boy,
nine years old at that time, was sent
to school here. He had a mania for
reading newspapers. he declares, and
decided he wanted to become a maker
of newspapers.
Cherishes Some Escapades.
Incidents of Russia's hardships are
inscribed upon his brain, and he cher
ishes some of his childhood escapades
back in Bar, Ukrainia, where he re-
sided after reaching the age of five
years.
Foremost among his impressions is
the memory of New York harbor on
the day he arrived in America.
THE Statue of Liberty means more
to me now than it did on the night l
first saw it, he said. Its lights are
brighter from here now than they
were from deckboard. It's pity that
all of Russia can't learn to know the
freedom for which that statue sands.
Leaving Russia and his boyhood
friends was something akin to soldiers
bidding their mothers good-by, Lach-
terman declares.
Last Looked at Grandmother"
From Bar" he says. we went to
lDoroshowa, the village of my birth,
to spend a few weeks with relatives.
lit was there that 1 last looked at my
grandmother. who died during the
war. 1t was like a journey of death
when we loaded onto a twO-wheeled
Icart and started away, leaving all oar
friends behind to seek new fields. The
Village populace followed the wagon
down the road, bidding us farewell.
Many of our dearest friends We're in
tears
Aside from his farewell to friends
and relatives, Lachterman recalls
more wildly than anything else
story of how two Russian Cossacks
lwere severely beaten for molesting a
Jewish woman. owner of a small con-
Ifectionery. The Cossaeks, who were
drunk, he relates. entered the store of
1.-THE Jewish woman and attempted an
outrage upon her. Screams for help,
ILachterman says, brought several
Iyoung Jews, who administered severe
beatings to both of the Cossacks.
"As an illustration of how tense is
religious feeling in Russia Lachter-
man states. an anti-Semite gathered a
crowd of his followers about him on
the public square and told them that
the Jews had killed a Cossack for no
treason at all. L witnessed the killing
myself he cried. The Jews fell upon
the Cossacks without warning and
beat them. One of them is dead. Let
us revenge ourselves. Down with the
Jews! .
MANY Peasants Fled"
"A tumult ran through the crowd.
Many peasants took their wives and
children and fled, fearing a massacre.
A majority, however, remained. News
of the impending massacre spread
Throughout the village. The Jews clos
ed their stores, and schools were clos
led"
] There is something innately ambi-
tious about this Americanized Russian
YOUTH He has the ardOr to do things,
and he has desire to do something
toward transforming his native Tx
rainia into a country like America. His
is desire to teach Russia the free
/ dom that he enjoys in America.
THAT the stories about the Russian
! cholera plague and famine now preva-
lent in Russia he says. are greatly