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Show MAX COWAN AUGUST 18, 1972 RD: Oh, I see. MC: But my maternal grandfather, he left his wife there, and he came to Denver, and he got a job. He was making about twelve dollars a week in a rag shop, cutting up rags, like Manny Pepper, you know, for wiping rags and such. He worked for about a year, and he saved up a little money because my mother did not charge him anything for staying there. Then he went back to Europe, and he was caught in that war. Then communication stopped and everything, and you did not hear from anybody for a couple of years. He was caught in that. He was a man of about fifty-five. Of course, when they were fifty-five then, they looked real old. He went back there. I have an aunt in New York that witnessed these things. Sure enough, when they had to change during the Russian Revolution in 1917, was it? RD: Right. MC: Or 1918. 1917, the revolution, all the government changed hands and everything went to pot. There really was not any government. There was just roving bands of bandits, of soldiers that had guns. They just roamed around. They robbed people. There was no government. You did not vote. There was not even any money changing hands. So being a Jew, they all thought, you know, "Jews have money." They have always been alleged to have money, regardless. You can't make them think they did not have money. so , you 36 |
