Abe Cohen: 50 years of July 4s By JOANN UNDERCOFFLER Stadt Writer “actly S0.yeazs ago, July 4, Abe Coren arrived in New York Cy, © young refugee from the revoutior-torn city af Buschawitz ia the White Russian state of Minsk, SpHREWORKS wore oxpleding, the bolls were clanging, horns were toting, and 1 thought, “Have I lef eae revoluticn io come to atothe:?" he laugh. ‘Back in those days, firecrackers were sold ce every street comer and the traditional noisy Independence Day celebration was it fal ewing, ‘The retired Ossining. butcher reminisced the ofter day on his 50 years In the United Biates. ehere's a crisis in the government today,” fe commented, “with trouble in high places, If not the fist time, though." “He recalled the Texpot Don» evant; ants semis ofthe 1880's, with Faiier Coughlin’ hatedilled broadcasts; the German Bund ac tivities, when a. Jew couldn't valk through the streets of New York's Yorkville section without fear: the MoCarthy days of and fear in the 1950s. “BACIL "TIME, the comtry hse com: ‘trogen these periods stronger than before and I believe ft wil work Itseit eut, ence the facts are broaght to tke surface,” Cohende clared. ‘Porkans Abe Caen conld be celled an optimist, but then he hag fo overcome Teal Gifficultes betore that exeting day when he tarrived in New York. "The Bolstevist revslution was sweeping Russia, and te young Cohen, now of military ‘age, hed no intention of submitting to corse ription. He made Interding to corge tothe United States, oaly to dina that a quct sestor had just been inauz yotod limiting the entry of cetiaie otfnis mous “it was 1 Dow fo Russian Jews," Cohen recalled, explaining that; thousands of them Iiad been fleeing the revolution, and the quota had blocked thelr road to safety. Ho waited several months befare receiving his vise, but finally came to the U-S,, landing fn Boston on July 1 after day trats-Adlan tle voyage: Thee days Jaler, after a long immigration hassle, ke came to New Yerk. Here’s what I think » and Abe Cohen relax at home _