The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-10
TIE NEW RUSSIA
Western Anti-Jew Attitude
 Is Unknown In Russia, Says Correspondent - Ritual Murder" Bubble
 Quickly Broken Under Direction of Government.

EDITORS NOT-1n Liie preced- ing installment of his instructve series on the Jewish question in Russia, Mir. Popof pointed out that Jewish po- In the appended section he explains why this is the case.)
 By GEORGES POPOFF
 International News Service Staff
 Correspondent
 Moscow, Nov. 9.-Now, what are the reasons why present-day Russia knows no Jewish pogroms, while these atro- cious excesses were the order of the day under the Czarist regime? They are chiefly two:
 Firstly, a welI-defined policy of the Soviet government, which combats all pogroms and agitation with energy and determination.
 Secondly, the fact, little realized outside of Russia before the war or even now, that there has never been in Russia an anti-Semitism in the western sense of that term.
 The farsight and consistency with which the Soviet government fights anti-Jewish propaganda is often ad- mirable. It's first principle is abso- lutely public discussion Of all ritual questions. A case which happened in Moscow shortly before last Easter il- illustrates the methods with which the Soviet government always succeeds in taking the wind out of the sails of the Jew-baiters.
 In one of the Moscow asyluns for
 
 of those institutions where grown-ups and children die daily by the dozen the son of a poor Jewish fugitive sue cumbed to consumption.
 The boys father, not willing that his sons body should be thrown into mass grave along with the other Russian and Tartar children that had died of starvation, had the body taken to the cellar of the asy- lum and requested the Jewish com munity to take charge of the boys funeral. The mayor sent an 8O-year-. old grave digger by the name of Moses Hindin to fetch the corpse. As the aged Hindin, accompanied by the Russian caretaker of the fugitive asy- 1un, entered the cellar he saw nu- merous rats swarming over the boys body. This prompted the old man to hurry and pack the body in sack. Carrying it on his back, he started by foot on the way to the Jewish ceme- tery. No one could be found to finance a more decent funeral for this poorest of the poor.
 As the aged grave digger had trotted along for some miles his feet began to hurt, and he declared to invest his last money in stpeet car ride. As he stepped on the car the sack slipped from his hands. and the little, naked, rat-bitten body fell on the tracks.
 Promptly an excited mob surround ed the old man. Threatening cries grew general: ''The Jews have slaugh-- tered a Gentle boy!' Kill the old devil!'' Lynch the damned mur- derer!" etc. Hundreds of Jew-baiters hastened to the scene, and soon the mob grew to thousands. The whole atmosphere recalled the 1ong-forgot- ten Bailiss days, with all the dubious elements of that memorable ritual murder trial.
 old Russia of the Czars of the StoIy pins, of the pogroms exactly as in those days, there were immediately many to be found who had seen with
 
 slaughtered 8 Christian child.' Wild rumors flew through Moscow. Tn one word, a sentiment was created which in former days, with the benevolent assistance of the police, would have inevitably led to a monster pogrom ot old, approved style.
 But this incident took a different course: The militia, which has ar excellent organization, summoned al those present to come along to the commissariat to assist in the taking of the protocol. Then, in the pres ence of several hundred persons, the body was examined and identified a! that of a Jewish boy. Moreover, tn, Russian orthodox priest was assigned to conduct the examination. Thu the whole bubble of sensational ''rit ual murder" burst within half an hour The immediate public investigation was the pin that pricked it.
 ment's procedure in this case may bt considered quite natural in the civil 1zed countries. In Russia it is worth, of special mention since the chic weapon of the Czarist government pogrom policy always was the sup pression of the facts and the exploita tion of dubious clements, with tn exclusion of the public.'' The cour session which dealt with the case de scribed above was attended by nor than a hundred thousand spectators and there was not the slightest difn culty in establishing the harmlessnes of the incident.