Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1932, Page 20

B—4 /’I‘H}F-}{ENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY. JULY 5, 1932. CANADA PUZZLED | BY DOUKHOBORS “Spirit Fighters,” Originally From Russia, Are Real Problem to Dominion. , @pecial Dispatch to The Btar, EDMONTON, Ontario, July 5 (N.A. N.A.) —One has to go back almost 200 years to Russia to-trace to its genesis that curious sect known as the Douk- hobors, whose singular demonstrations in British Columbia are as mystifying to the average newspaper reader in the United States as their odd name itself. ) in the country of the Czars there came to notice a group of . peas- ants whose descendants were in pres- ent times to constitute such a problem for the Canadian government, filling British Columbia jails with men, women and children Who march naked, Center of Imposing Spectacle in Dublin EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS DRAWS VISITORS FROM FAR AND NEAR. not for armament or dues to the community. He declared every member of the community more than 18 years was assessed $350 a year by Veregin. that he arrived in New York four ye: and well educated. | A sinister feature of the whole trou- |ble in the Doukhobor settlements in British Columbia is not so much the nudist demonstrations as sggrlmc out- bursts of burning and mbing of | schools, water flumes, railway tracks and other property, private and public. Lost $360,000 in Four Years. One official said the community had suffered a loss of $360,000 in four years from the bombing and burning of com- munity property, including the first Peter Veregin's magnificent marble and granite tomb at Brilliant. This Veregin was the father of the present leader. ‘The community, it is sald, has made no real effort to assist the police in finding the culprits. Police have heard that a band of seven or eight extrem- ists in British Columbia is responsible, but it has not yet been even proved they tain feuds, the police are not wanted in inter-Doukhobor troubles. Every Veregin testified in court recently | surround tabl s | water. signifying basic elements of life. ago, after fleeing from Russia, with only | The Doukhobors greet each other with $500, and was now worth $720,000. | w bows signifying that they acknowl- Bed‘ Numerous of the leaders among the | edg Sons of Freedom are highly intelligent |each, a fundamental of the Doukhobor | petrating & crime against humanity. | are Doukhobors. As in Kentucky moun- | | ing torn from their mothers because wars.| The nudist demonstrations are mot| teaching snd_example of Christ past He sald he would not pay further as sensational as is generally thought.| accept in a spiritual sense. They be- has been | lieve the Divine Spirit is at work in every man, and that Christ continues Han, described as a former proprietor Several hundred Doukhobors assemble | to suffer for the sins of mankind. A large orchard at Thrums the scene of most of them. for Sunday service. on which are bread and e the Divine spirit is present in religious belief. At the end of the service many of the men, women and children remove their clothing, no matter what the weather. | British Columbia Provincial Police | segregate the offenders, trucks are | requisitioned, and they are taken to| Nelson for trial. The Doukhobors are | prosecuted under a special section of | the Canadian Criminal Code. | Sons of Freedom leacers call this law unjust. In a statement after several | hundred members had been sentenced they said Canadian courts were per- | They complained that babies were bes | the latter had disrobed as a protest against brutality. There is no connection between the | Doukhobors and nudist cults of Europe. | ‘Doukhobors eschew tobacco, alcohol | and meat, and their morality is high Profanity is almost an unforgivable | sin. They belleve in an omniponent God | —— New Yorker Dies in Vienna. VIENNA, Austria, July 5 (#—R. H. | of the Hotel St. Regis in New York, They generally | (copyright. 1833, by North Amgriean News-| gieq here yesterday. liance, Inc.) -« = = = Mattresses - - - - Box Springs Make Your Mattress New Doukhobor appears to have an inherent | and acknowledge the coming of Jesus distrust of the courts. Christ in the flesh. The 5l:flering,‘ Why Smell Up The House? WITH FLYOSANI IT NEVER LEAVFS AN § ODOR TO SPOIL OUR MEALSI to the scandal of those not of their belief, and holding in general to strange tenets. re than 900 persons have been in _British Columbia as a of nudist demonstrations Doukhobor means “spirit fighter.” This name was applied in those early days in Russia by the clergy, who said the Doukhobors fought against the spirit of God. But the Doukhobors, having accepted this name, interpreted it in a different way, as fighting for or with the spirit of God. Tt tart of this strange sect may e e aa0 hutsit “was hot | Was sandy and two miles from good wa- and economic nakedness to which| war is an inexcusable crime that many e mensants who formed |ter, and the nudist demonstrations | Canadian laws had brought them. Still | refuse to pay taxes because part of e e e Pins unfavorabie at. | broadened in scope | another said it was to show the au- | taxes is used for armament or to Pay B T the o odox clergy by their| “Every Doukhobor is & potential Son | thorities that Veregin had stripped | for past wars. non-conformist bellefs. An energetic |of Freedom,” says Inspector Forbes|them of their good land and buildings| peter Anutooshikin, a director of the fight was begun against the Douk- |Cruickshank, in charge of the police and that now he might as well take| christian Community of Universal| Thobors administration in the Kootenay-Bound- | their clothes, too. Brotherhiood, gave aniAher ‘expianation | 7 - ary district, where the Doukhobors live. | It is denfed that one purpose of the|of the Doukhobors' unwillingness to Persecuted 40 Years. No fine line of demarcation can be | demonstrations is to exasperate the| pay taxes when he said: “They won't In 1800 Czar Alexander ordered all|drawn among independent, community | BOvernment autborities. pay taxes because, they said, all the Doukhobors transported to Tauris,{and Sons of Freedom Doukhobors. | Won't Pay for War. land is owned by God and everything where they endured cruel persecution|Basic beliefs are the same. To them | vVeregin issued an order that Douk- | that grows is God's ff'( 40“‘1'”5 Because of religious be- | the nude human body typifies truth| hobors should not attend religious serv “They won't send their children to| efs they defied the order of Czar|and to appear naked during religious|jces naked, but the S e Nicholas~ 0. enter ' military _service | servics is to slgnify they are StruBEng | wing says this. obder 1o in cirecs veo | sonoots Lecan”¢he Chidren, miiariemn. 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Doukhobor leaders then learned of the exemption clause in Canada’s military service act and asked to settle in Canada. In 1899 the second party, 4,- 000, arrived in Canada, and it was Jjoined a few months later by the Cyprus group. Later a third party, of 2,000, #rrived in Canada {rom the Caucasus. The Canadian government gave its co- operation, and free land was allotted sround Yorkton, Thunder Hill and| Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Idustrious and frugal, the Doukhobors became entirely self-supporting in 18 months. Many of them moved West and took up land in Alberta and British Columbia. At present the Doukhobors, or, as they prefer to be known, the Christian Community of Universal Brotherhood, are capitalized at $6,500,000, with extra provincial registration in British Co- lumbia, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Exclusive of cash, securities and other property held by Doukhobors fn their own names, the assets of the com- munity have been estimated at $10,000,000. This vast property is controlled by Peter Veregin and 13 directors. Veregin, spiritual leader of the Doukhobors, was sentenced recently to three years' im- prisonment on the charge of perjury. ‘The directors are elected every two years. Veregin holds office for life and is supreme over the entire council From time to time single families have broken away from the community and taken up land of their own. For the most part these members, known as independents, have prospered through industry and economy, end have become comparatively wealthy. MavLy own fer- tile farms and orchards and up-to-date machine: nd drive expensive cars. The Sons of Freedom. | incipal offshoot of the com- | the religious bellefs of their fathers. 40 Extra Salespeople Tomorrow! Bhuis ol But calamities were to bring them back to the discipline dictated by their re- ligion. Accept the service of one of these authorized Branch Offices—when you wish to place Star Classified Advs. introduced in the Caucasus. 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