Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-26 | Page 4 | Camouflage

CAMOUFLAGE AN OLD MAN lIAN Mendel Beilis died in a hosa hospital hos hos- ios- ios a 11 AN pital in Saratoga Springs N. N Y a a few da days s 's ago death revives memory of a chapter chapter chapter chap chap- ter in ill the thc history of Russia of czarist dasIn days das In 1911 De Beilis Jis was living near the Russian city of Kiev The suburb IH had d i inhabitants inhabitants habit t tants of whom Beilis was the only Jew Since Semitism anti was rampant Beilis was not pop pop- ular One day the body of a 13 year old old ear boy bor was sas found in 1 51 cave on the edge of the suburb The rhe lad had been murdered his body was pi pierced ced by 4 47 stab wounds Beilis was arrested and charged murd murder Cr Strictly speaking there was no evidence against him But was accused of having performed a ritual murder so he might use the blood to sprinkle on the thie Passover bread Citizens of Kiev Kie shrieked for Beilis' Beilis blood The trial was not held until 1913 and the czar had to order out 1500 cossacks and 1500 infantrymen tr men to keep Beilis from l being cin 1 lynched I In Inthe Inthe Inthe the end Beilis W was acquitted Shortly afterward afterward afterward after after- ward a woman member of a band of thieves confessed the murder Beilis made his way to America where he lived Jived the rest of his life in In pe peace ce Now all nil this would hard hardly Iv be le worth recalling recalling recalling recall recall- ing except except f for r the light that it it throws on that strange phenomenon ant anti The anti- anti Semitism of R Russia was an artificial growth pumped up by the government distract to attention attention at at- tenton fr froni real troubles lo bles It betokened as as it always does docs doeva a society ready to crash from its Its' own rottenness Looking back at it we can remind ourselves that the the man or the organization tion lion that raises the banner of Semitism anti-Semitism usual usually does docs it to keep people from noticing something of infinitely greater consequence