The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-19
By KENT WATSON, International News Service Staff Cor


 St. Louis, Mo, Aug. 19-Being an American newspaperman Is not quite as bad as being peasant in Russia But being a peasant in Russia is not America,
 That's the verdict of Harry Lachte- rrnan, native of Doroshowa, State Of Podolia, Ukrainia, Russia, now an assistant in the St. Louis Bureau of the International News Service.
 With his father and mother young Lachterman left Russia eight years ago and come 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 that he wanted to become a maker of newspapers,
 Cherishes Some Escapades.
 Incidents of Russia's hardships are inscribed upon his brain, and he che ades back In Bar. Ukrainia, where he resided 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 1t did on the night I first saw It." he said. Its than they were from deekboard. It's a pity that all of Russia can't learn to know the freedom for which that statue stands
 
 friends was something akin to sold iers bidding their mothers goodbye. Lachterman declares.
 Hast Looked at Grandmother" From Bar," he says, i've went to Doroshowa, the village of my birth, to spend a few weeks with relatives. | It was there that I last looked at my grandmother, who died during the l war, It was like O journey of death | when we loaded onto a two wheeled cart and started away, leaving all our | friends behind to seek new fields. | The village populaee followed the wagon down the road, bidding us | farewell. Many of our dearest of | friends were in tears" Aside from his farewell to friends | and relatives, Lachterman recalls | more wildly than anything else the story of how two Russian Cossacks | were severely beaten for molesting a | fectionery. The CossaolSs who were 1 dFunk, he relates, entered the store | of the Jewish woman and attempted | an outrage upon her, Screams for eral young Jews, who administered severe beatinss to both of the Cos sacks.
 "As an illustration of how tense is | religious feeling in Russia,'' Lachter- man states. "an anti-Sem1te gathers a crowd of his followers about h,m on 1 the public square and told them that | the Jews had killed @ Cossack for no | nyself! he cried. The Jews fell upon | the Cossacks without warning and beat them, One of them is dead 1 Let us revenge ourselves. Down with the Jewsr"
 | "Many Peasants Fled"
 "A tumult ran through the crowd | Many peasants took their wives and l children and fled. fearing a massacre A majority, however. remained. News | Of the impending massacre spread | throughout the Village. The Jews | closed their stores, and schools were | closed"
 There is something innately ar,bi- uous about this Americanized Rus sian youth. He has the ardor to dc things and he has a desire to dc | something toward transforming his native Ukrainia. into a country like | America. His is a desire to teach Russia the freedom that he enjoys ir | America.
 That the stories about the Russian | cholera plaques and famine now pre- valent In Russia" he says, ''are greatly exaggerated have no doubt There Is e. scarcity of food, an sure.
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