PAGE FOURTEEN The Fastov Pogrom (Reprinted from "The Nation") THE following account of pogroms been told by people worthy of belief couunifted by the soldiers of Beal that they saw people forces! to net fire teal lienikin was written by a pro. to their own homes and then driven Weir In the Jewish school of Fast ,v with rifle butts into the flames. The and sent by him as a report to we names 01 some 05 Mese 'amities were Petrograd Museum of the Revolution. Volkenstein, \'olodarsky. Zaviroucha, the translation below wen made trout alms, riberg, Bend:ashy. I have seen the original manuscript In the files people who dropped in the streets, eying of exhaustion brought on by of the Museum. Before beginning my recital of the hunger anti exposure. 11 ben an at- pogroms made by the Benlkinists I tempt was :nude to move their bodies believe It necessary to give a short it was found that they had become Introduction. Faster was a rich cone frozen to the ground and could not be seemed Mestichka with a population (atom away without digging them out of 16,000, besides several thousand of the Ice. Those that were not re- refugees from other cities who had moved remained as they were in the been driven to Fast()); by bandits. streeta until they were devoured by Nuke, factories, libraries. coopera. pigs and dogs. I have seen children Urns, apothecaries, schools, phy. who died of hunger sucking at their alcians. theaters, and a Jewish agrh dead [nuttiest,' breasts, children whose cortutal colony where there still were flesh was rolling in the Hight of all la existence several leather factories, the world and whose bones were stick- made of Fostov one of the most highly ing out through the decaying, (stinking civilized and cultured centers In our flesh, which spread Infection. 1 have country. And now behold this little seen a little child stretch nut its hand tanner of ititssitt, like so many others, for a bit of bread and then, when it transformed in a few days into a vend had the bread its Its hand. not be able table cemetery, It Is terrible to walk to eat, but she of exhaustion. I have down these empty streets with their seen the bodies of citizens, respected reined hotline, windows broken, doors by all the world tor the honorable part smashed, through which you can see they in the town's life, lie rat- tle broken furniture inside, the whole butted in the streets for weeks he Interior wrecked. And tills was all the cause means e ere not at hand to bury more terrible because It all came so Fitch a quentaty of corpses. I have Unexpectedly, since most of the Jews Seen the sick In hospitals and homes awaited Benlkin with hope. Many deserted and encased tor, cold and Jews thought they were going to have starving. because the doctors and again the right of private property and nurses were either (lead or had fled oportunity to carry on comnieice Ire, Iron" fright and fear of epidemics. And ly, In short all the advantages of a among thole sick people lentained the bourgeois republic. rotting deed, from which crawled From the first moment of sojourn of white worms onto the limbs of the Ile the BenikinIsts commenced wholesale big. During the night through the robbery, which continued fur almoat eindo•s smutted by the Cossacks two weeks uninterruptedly. And In came dogs and attacked the corpses. every house, no matter who inhabited I cannot repeat all the terrible It, every day there came Cossacks, rob- things I Haw during thlf, period. For Wag and plundering and murdering Instance, there is the use of a little and raping. I am speaking of the see- baby that cries to be put on the toilet and (lose the Cossacks occupied the Its mother has died the same morning town. The first time they contented alter being violated and beaten by the themselves with robbery without max- Cossacks. Its father was killed by the nacre or rape. After top weeks In the Cossacks became) he ',toweled. In town' they had, howeves to cede the the same room lies is young girl dazed Mestichka to the liolsheviki for a day. and indifferent, unwilling to help the (The Denikiniete entered the town at child or move, thinking only that she the end of August.) The Bolshevik' will he with child moon and that she entered -Sunday and lett Monday at- hos been Infected wills a loathsome Irrnoon. And from Lille time on began dies se. The child finally has to Ile the massacres find terrible crimes of in its ows filth, too weak to get up, We Denlkiniets. A story was invented and rotting alive, dies amidst the that a young Jewleth girl had brought crawling worms. la the Boisheviki and that the impala. I have Been the following in the ,ion had received them with flowers synagogue during Yam Kippur. The and songs. This wax an absolute Ile. congregation was praying God for re- After the departure of the liolehe. lief from the pogroms. Just et the vikl the Cossacks came back, and then moment when absolute silence reigned began the torture of the Jest's, terrible and the rabbi alone was audible, a attacks, robbery and maimacres. In crowd of Cossacks broke into the many houses they made the children church, crying: "Money money." sing while they beat the pe.ri-o-C1---olth-eo parents t Naturally, it being the (lay of repent- death. Boring the whole I unto, not a single Jew had brought guns with him any money, as this would massacres the rattle of Machine could be heard front across the creek have been a deadly sin. Even to touch which runs near the town, for the awn , ett a day like this would be a two anni" was cardinal sin. TIM, Is expialned to the lighting between the sot far away. Even the Christian! c esaae a„, and they are asked to wait population cannot remember without , till ey refuse and then evening. But they shuddering those long nights filled) „ ornateness, a t err ibl e beating of all with the cries of women and the whimpering of children and the sound same the Jews In the Hynagogiie. At the time another crowd td Cossacks of gunfire. I breaks Into the other entrance and lu the streets there were many into the wornene, side of the syna. coipses which nobody dared bury or ; ensue. In the balcony. The women, even take Into the !rouses away from especially the young women, panic- desecration by scavenging pigs and stricken, throw themselves out of the dugs. The Cossacks shot down every.; balcony onto the lower floor of the body who tried to go out and take up' auditorium and many break their the bodies. People hid themselves In arms and legs and ribs. Amidst cries cellar), end stables, without food or of terror. the Cossack), seize several water, for as much as five days. young women tool rape M•m.. Malty even the Jeers who had taken, During the holiday), the Cossacks refuge in the cellars, garrets and came frequently at evening into the stables of Christians were chased out, synagogues and did the same thinge. because the Cossacks threatened to' How many times I have e'en Cos- shoot anyone hiding a Jew. sacks dragging voting girls, often al. Very soon It became plain that tile most children, through the streets and Cossacks, though going about In small lido the empty houses. groups of three or four, were really, What woo the part played by the acting according to a well-conceived' officers, the lower officers, and those plan. A group of Cossacks would in higher command? In the first place, break into a Jewieh house and cry: many officers took part In all these 'Money." If they had already been excesses. The higher officers did nut preceded by some other Cossack)), who take part personally, Inn they demand- had taken all the money hi the house, ed bribes In return tor promises of then this group of Cossacks would call protection. But afterwaida they did for the head of the family, put a noose not keep their promises to protect. around his neck, and half strangle Some Jews invited °Meese to their him. If any of the family now began homes and gave them everything, to cry or ask that the torture emote, their whole fortunes, thinking thus to the Cossacks beat him or her nearly guard themselves and lamillex filen to death. Naturally the family would outrage. This helped very little, be- give everything It possessed, even to cause when the °Meer was gone for a the last kopek. If, however, thero was few days on service the faintly which so money, the Cossacks loosened the had bought podection was treated mime and the unhappy wretch fell very much the same way as those who half-dead to the ground. They brought had not. him back to consclousnext, with the A WMIlatt teacher. well known in the bolt end)) of their rifles and a bucket city, tells how she heard a colonel tell- of cold water. The tortures then re. ing his officers and soldiers that "this commenced, and if the poor man would not give any money after the process sort ot thing is not right, not because had been repealed live or six times in it Is shameful in Itself. but because , will be hurt in the eyes of sails, the Cossack), would take every. our mist thing In the house of use to them, Europe, which is matching us." One smash everything else, make the of his aides answered: "But, colonel. whole IIMISO uninhabitable by smash. you say that now, but don't you se- ine doors, windows, stoves, and so member what you told its at the faith. and then leave the family to the bent?" The colonel blushed, mount- ed hiss horse, and rode off without tender mercies of the next lot of Cos- answering. I, myself, have talked with sacks, who would (aline slung, genes a lecturer, a member of the depart- ally very soon, and repeat the terrible ment for education of Denikin's forces, tortures. The men not too old were who told me quite !rankly that con- killed, and PV 4/1 the old num some- tinuous]) there had been conducted in times tortured to death. The women Denikkes army to propaganda of pog- were not uHually killed directly, but died of hunger, fright and abuse. Of i roma. After the secant! pogrom (the first families of eleven there remain only 5 had commenced. or Petlura had wax the that Cossack), three. Sometimes the Cossarks forced I and pr o „ a d e d f ro. the parents to kill their own children.' '' a This was the case of Meyer Zabarock.' :I nple robbery to rape and physical ulenre ending with ninnies, I went If the parents refused, the Cossacks' v I l best them, struck them with bayonets, Io the battalion commander, explained dragged them about by the hair, anti to him the situation with all Its ter. riblo sensibilities, and begged hint otherwiae tortured them. If there were Able • make an end of the fearful business . any young girls In the family, the Cos. At any rate, 1 said, the soldiers might sacks shut up the other members of take the money but stop the atroci- the family in one room, which was ties. Ile answered: "As an educated then guarded by a soldier, and then mon I nm against pogroms. But In violated the women, one after the the present instance I am powerless. other. The least protest brought down the most terrible consequences 1 cannot make headway against such on the ()unity. In some eases the Cos. primitive forces. I cannot stop a tempest." And Immediately to demon- sacks took the young girls out into the O S, and after the most strafe that he wasn't • "pogroinchik" gardens or •M he gave me an order torbirldine elm- bestial humiliations finally murdered .. them. Many of the girl', who survived cutely 'n.`-' au violence against peaceful received venereal Infections caught Mums, whether Jews or Christians, c and let us print this order and post It rrem the Cossacks, In the streets the Cossacks went up all over. I then told him this order and down robbing whomever they met was not worth anything because it of shoes and clothes, despite the rata set no penalty for anyone who did not and cold weather, and without sparing obey It Thereupon he told nie to go women, children or old men. To the to the commandant of the brigade, who alone could undertake sterner tears and lamentations of people who , had gone out of their minds with mea.ur,..When I went to the banger end grief, the Cossacks only pole commandant, after my first few answered with the butt ends of their words, he Interrupted me with the riles and bayonets. I saw Cossacks categoric statement that the severest typhus patients out of their measures had already been taken to throw and onto the cold floor. The suppress the disordere and that more beds, over orders had been Riven to send Cossacks meanwhile looked between ov medicines and provisions and general the blankets and feather-beds for bid-i MP but to den money. They would then takeSsupplies. Nothing was left leave. But the raping and violence everything from the sick people. They went on with ten times greater fury. took the last piece of bread from evenI had the oppottunity of making the the poorest. acquaintance of many DenikinIsts k now a young woman who was They told me quite frankly that Were rayed by • Cossack in the same room were two groups in the army. One wkere her murdered father and bus- held that it was necessary to kill all bud were lying and while her little the Jew. In Russia in order to extini baby was crying in its crib. I have gulch bolshevism, for bolshevism weal iffEDETKOIIAWItifiekKUNICLE based on the Jews. The others were of the name Ides, but held it inexpede eat to masoaere all the Jews because of public opinion in Europe. They thought it better to kill off the adult supporters of the fernlike and leave the rest to die off by starvation and diaease. . . If you should ask me what the att• tude of the peasants In this whole al- ien wan. I should answer as follow - s: The peasants formerly harbored no enmity toward the Jews. There had never been any pogroms in Fastov be- lots. In tact, there had never even been any enmity of any kind between the Jews and the Christians, many of whom net only hid Jewish Mullins during the pogrom, but actually gave these refugees everything they need. ed. It Is true that there were certain incident s. For instance, the peasants took things they needed out of the abandoned Jewish houses. But this was not done because of hatred but became. the things had been aban- doned. Tim peasant' would have (lone the same males similar circumstances in Christian trainee. In fact, they did jest that in a number of Russian households. The general conclusion therelore must be that the peasant has not t•ally any animosity toward the Jew. In conclusion, I wish merely to ac- knowledge the fact that the attitude of the Soviet authorities has been most correct and that the Soviet au- thorities have been most generous in the help they have given: the Mod, the medicines, and the money and mean), fur the burial of the (anima,. REACTION AND THE JEW From "The Nation." A ways «f anti-Semitism is once more sweeping the world. The Poles in their nationalistic frenzy are trying to exterminate the three million Jews within their boundaries; Ilse loans in the festering powerless- ness of their defeat are furbishing the old weapons of reaction; a virulent British pamphlet, 'The Jewish l'eril," has been ins:nuatingly presented in what passes for the mind of Henry Foisl, his paper, the Dearborn Inde- pendent, which has dilated it in a series of articles; open letters of an anti-Semitic tinge are beginning to appear in our conservative press; pub- lic anti-Jewish meetings have been held in she streets of Brooklyn, and clergynsen of the hectic and sensa- tional type are at their old game of finding an .kuti-Christ, and are lousily identifying the godless Bolshevik with the Jew. The chic( responsibility fur the re- vival of this hoary shams- among us in America attaches to Henry Ford. His mane • like his car, reaches the CO111111011 man who reasons that the multimillionaire mechanic cannot he st holly wrong. Vet it IS all,: latest exploit Oust, once and for all, con- firms and stamps the ethical and in- tellectual character of the Detroit manufacturer. He pretended to be a pacifist; he fitted out and set sail in a "peace ship." Today he hit rays the very spirit of peace and dings another torch into an already blazing world. For beneath every accidental and temporary follSe Of human dis- tant] lurks the most lasting and ma- lignant of 'all--the blind and bloody hatred of tribe for tribe, race for race, the denial of that universal and purely human solidarity which is the one ultimate hope of peace and civiliza- tion among Men. Whoever stirs up these ancient and barbarous hatreds of rare or erred or color, whoever sets Iii•ntile against Jew, white against black, the races of the \Vest against those of the East, approaches mankind is Oh the kiss of the betrayer and the dagger of the assassin. There can be no compromise, no shadow of wavering 011 this supreme issue. We are itopr:•onell upon this little earth: the universal forces are careless of our welfare: earthquakes and storms tumble down our frail shelters and disease gnaws at our perishable leelies. How shall we tight slur way out of the darkness if not as brothers? How shall we build a humane civili- zation if, Su the maze of ghastly fig- meet S and cruel superstitions, IAT per- secute and wound :mil darken each other's souls? Lt iontiar Notes } Miss Hattie Nctzorg attended a din nee party, Sunday, Dec. 5, given in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Al. Bing of Hazelwood Ave., Detroit. At Decided Savings Mrs. Harold Vats ilaalen, of Detroit is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Benj. Netzorg. House Coats Lounging Robes Bathrobes Miss Dorothy Barnett left for Flint to attend the Channukals ball given under the auspices of the Ladies Aid Society. During her stay she will be the guest of her sisters. Mrs. Samuel Magdisolin and Mrs. Ed. Rosenberg Mrs. Benj. Netzorg and daughter,' liattie, spent Saturday in Detroit. The Temple Beth El Club of Pon. 6:se gave an entertainment and dance Sunday, Dec. 5, at the Irnai lirith Club rooms. Helen Thum delighted the audience with a dance. A vocal solo by Miss liessalyn Samuelson, accompanied isy Ruth Samuelson on the piano and Ruth Fine on the vio- lin. Several vocal solos by Milton Orman, accompanied by Mrs. J. Fink The proceeds will be used for char- ity, part of it to be spent for Chan- nukah gifts to be distributed among the children of the Detroit Orphan House. -y(iff U A House Coat, Lounging Hobe or a Bathrobe is the praetical of Christmas (lifts fur men! Anil here is your opportunity to obtain one at minimally low 'wives! There are ninny distinetive designs in wool, silk most and velvet. Our prices are reduced and they start al $7.50. 1-1 laws aoi-2o3 Woodward &rout. Refreshments were served later in the evening. Mrs. Joseph Barnett and Mrs. Beni. Goldstein were on the re- ception committee. Mrs. Benj. Netzorg entertained 20 ladies at a luncheon , and card party Tuesday. Dec. 7, in honor of het daughter, Hattie. whose marriage to Mr. I. Meyer of Detroit will take Chace shortly. The Largest and Fittest Jewelry Store on the East Si71: ----1 1 LOOK US OVER, BUT DON'T OVERLOOK S Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Netzorg spent Saturday in Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jacobson and son, Jay, and Air. and Airs. Sidney Netzorg attended a dinner party Sun- day, Dec. 6, given by Mr. and Mrs. Julius Bing, Atkinson street, Detroit Moe Ehrlich prices and Moe Ehrlich plan Not a dollar down and a dollar the rest of your natural life—no, sir!—an honest-to-good- ness-face-to-face, friend-to-friend accomoda- tion. The !Vital Brills Club will hold their regular bi-monthly meeting at then club rooms IVednesday, Dec. 8. The children of the Pontiac branch, - rrmph. Beth El Salsabth School, at- tended the Channuka festival at the Temple Beth El of Detroit. The children were accompanied by their parents, Miss liessalyn Samuels of Pontiac delighted the audience with vocal solos. A "BAND OF HAPPINESS" For the Only Girl Georgeous solitaire Blue White Diamonds set in the newest ideas in exquisite Platinum Mountings, The sent of $109 has been collect- ed among the Jewish women of Pon- tiac and donated to the European Jewish Welfare Organization of De- troit. Mr. and Airs. Saul Orman and Messrs. Harry and Abe Orman spent Sunday as guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. I.. Orman of Detroit. ----- 1 City- Children Present Biblical Play Bay A Buy Back Bond With Every Diamond Sold For the benefit of the man who figures "The sky's the limit" when he "rings" his girl—my rings range in price. 1 r. Platinum Engagement Rings $250 to $2500 An event well worthy of mention was given 'by the children of the Sabbath school of the congregation Anshe Cheeed on Ise. 13, commens riding the festival of Chanekeh. Seldom has such a beautitul and inspiring portrayal of biblical tubleaux been witnessed as were these given by the seventy little children who took part. The Jetting scone shcwed 8 little ones. e ac h holding a candle to be lighted. by a little messenger of poetic symbols, who lighted every candle utter c'os'h save it tilting verse to petal() the event. There wore sixteen scenes. with Stereopticon descriptions. and tae cos- tumes, coloring awl poses made it resplendent with glamour. Mrs It. (Millard put Myth great effort In making this even , such a sofa sssful one. She WM, ably assist- ed by coa•orkera of the Sabbath 'white) of elfish she I' superintendent. Mr. Siterhall, who officiates at the (Sugar) Creamer) synagogue every two weeks, hits done The contusion source of Nils, Ford's much to give a deeper meaning to the propaganda, of lit- pamphlet "The Jewish Peril." and of "The Cause of remises. Many thank,' are due him. World ruire•t," published with sinis- ler anonymity by G. I'. rutnam's Sons, is an old and absurd forgery that is sfoliciently . and. We hope, fili- ally rxpo, - sl by Mr. Lucien \Vali in this London Spectaior..at every great Before the buyer of an automobile revolution in human affairs since the makes up his mind as to the money - N. days of the Protestant Reformation, this fable of a world-oxide Jewish Raving to Min in advertised price cuts k- conspiracy against the safety of civil- In motor cars he should analyze the . rayon and the vested interests of the smealled "slash" in comparison with i age has been an easy weapon in the pre-war price!, says A. W. Scott, Gen- hands of the reactionaries. The oral Menages of the Holmes Detroit Established 1847 Puritan Resislation in England was Automobile co.. (Mehra In Holmes attributed to "Quakers, freethinkers, Improved Air-Cooled cars and godless Jews." and numerous At the outset of the now waning French writers from 1797 to 1883 highs price period, most automobiles sought to father the French keVo wore fairly priced and represented a Itition itself on Masonic and Jewish Nei value to the purchaser. con•piracies. The old forgery known Prise had to take Into consideration as "The Protocols of the Learned •hlers of Zion" was revamped by a material costs, labor costs. feted over. Prus•ian postal clerk who was him- head, discounts and profits. The increase moat largely affecting self discharged from the service for forgery is 184. Bill a Russian edi• retail prices during the past three ion of his work, attributed to a "I'ro• years was In labor costs. And labor lessor Sergyei Vitus," was used as a represents a large percentage of the pogrom weapon during the Russian total cost of producing a motor ear. Revolution of 1905 and a French ver- Measured Ly pre-war price figures, sion of the latter was published in the advance among the seventeen 1911. It is the work of this entirely leading manufacturers of motor ears mythical Niles which forms the im- mediate basis for "The Jewish Peril," In the country during the past three the articles in Mr. Ford's paper. and years has averaged 69 per rent. she more recent "The Cause of World The advance In the price of the Unrest." Holmes car was, 31 per cent although The motive for the emergence of 'the advance In labor costs alone was these old forgeries and slanders at mere than this figure. this moment in history is clear Now. taking into consideration the enough. The industrial revolution of present sea-tiled reduced prices, the today is attributed to Jewish con- Holmes price still remains as a 31 spirators precisely as was the Puritan inn cell Increase whit', the manu- Revolution in England, the French facturer naming the largest cut in Revolution, and the Russian Revolu- prices still shows a 33 per cent ad- tion of 1905. The technique of reaction, whether economic or politi- vance over the pre war prices. It Is only fair that these figures be cal, has not changed with the ages. Its essence has always been to divert given and that they be considered the attention of the masses from real carefully by the man buying a car. to fancied dangers, and to blind them to their true interests by playing upon GALICIAN JEWS DEMAND their simerstitious fears and their SPECIAL RESTRICTIONS tribal preudices. The Czars veiled their iniquities by staging pogroms; g OVerMiletit and Zionist WARSAW—Dr. Dausner, Acker- engineers, but the l'olish imperialists seek to stifle such decision will be rendered only WILL ADJUST DIFFERENCES the consciousness of typhus, hunger, man and Emmen arrived in this city after representatives of both sides BETWEEN ALL ZIONISTS and needless warfare by setting the from Lemberg as a special delegation LONDON—The question of the have actually gone over the ground L 0 N D 0 N—Vladimir JabotinskYs people against their Jewish corn- in behalf of official Jewish employes Palestine frontiers has been satisfac- together. In the event that no agree- patriots; international finance having in Galicia. The delegation obtained torily adjusted by the French and . the chief director of the Keres Hayes. is arrived at the matter will be the full sown the wind and reaped the whirl- an audience with Premier Winos and British governments, says a statement ; meat referred to the two governments con- sod, stated that after reading wind, finds it easy and useful to point Minister Dashinski before whom they issued by the Zionist organization , report of the American Zionist Con - rented. vention at to Eisner, Trotzky, and even to Mor- laid the complaint that there exist spe- here. Buffalo, he finds the dif- I The statement says it is understood ferences between American and Ea- ris Ibilquitt, not as to thinkers and cially restrictive regulations against Final settlement of the Yarmuk the French government has revolutionaries, but as to members of Jewish employes in Galicia. The re- promised river and its tributarses, as well as the to deal liberally in the matter, and ropean Zionists to be slight and fern a conspiracy undertaken by an alien, ply of the government representatives upper Jordan, has been kit to the de-; that in any event Palestine's water certain that when Dr. Weizmann dangerous, and mysterious folk. is unknown. reaches America he will easily adjust cision of representatives of the French supply is guaranteed. these differences. The stones are perfect and blue white—the beauty and quality of them must be seen to be appreciated. They're the kind you'll slip on her finger with joy and she'll wear with pride—They're the "Hands Off" sign for the "Other Fellow"—You won't wait in suspense for your answer if you produce an Ehrlich Diamond, I'm going to give you a Real Gift Give It To You Outright A cut glass creamer and sugar to every one whose purchase is $10 or more--they retail for $2.50—you get them FREE, and with each set goes my best wishes—"may you always have a seat at the table when Fortune passes the cream." Your Credit's Good Holmes Dealer Discusses Cuts EHRLICH BUILDING, Adams and Hastings Not in the "High-Rent" District. Have It Charged t jthlK 3 to_p___z1,./fl, &L e _ DROP - J B - FORGINGS Boilers etrC,tt Tanks 74 Years of Knowing How Office and Works 24th Street and M. C. R. R. Detroit PALESTINE FRONTIERS.