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No. 33 NEW YORK and JERSEY CITY, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1946 Vol. LIV.
TO FOLK DANCE OR TO JITTERBUG Crash Kills Elizabeth D.F.C. Flyer certainly are not an authority on dancing of any sort, still we can-; Capt. Lubomir P. Shyshka, 26 pharmacy student at the University, not help but observe that for truly recreational purposes what this years old, Ukrainian by descent, son of Iowa before enlisting as an air country needs is more folk dancing and less of "jiving," "jitterbugging," j of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Shyshka, of cadet in April 1942. and "rug-cutting." Aside from their crudeness and oftimes vulgarity, the \ 923 Kenneth avenue, Elizabeth, N. J.J Receiving his wings and a second latter type of dancing appears to*1 J and a veteran of sixty-six combat lieutenant's commission at the La- arouse in many young people a cer-!merely based on the fact that this, missions as an Army Air Forces| Junta, Colo., Army Air Base in July, tain type of exhibitionism that bor-j dancing is Ukrainian; it is based j bomber pilot, was killed in an air 11943, Shyshka was assigned to fur- ders on the unwholesome, to say the mainly on the intrinsic worth of the \crash while on a routine training ther training in the United States least. Folk dancing, on the other і dances themselves. That is why Uk- J*" Iа81 Wednesday the Elizabeth j until November, 1943, when he pilot- . л . .*„ ,* 4л к« л«« л*і • І r її. л ui i-i 'Daily Journal reports. Relatives were ed a B-25 bomber to Europe, via hand, has proven itself to be one ofjrainian folk dances are so highly І ..І , . *^ .. ... - .. \zr ., j Jrz ... .*: ^ 6 *~ * _^ *\ . , ш ..... ж! . .. . ., , 'notified by army authorities of his Brazil and Dakar, Africa. Assigned the most wholesome and satisfying І popular among the folk dancers of|death m a crackup flix miles north J to a medium bombmg group on the fonnsof recreation that one can pos-; other nationalities as well. | west of his base at WUliams Field,' Island of Corsica, he compiled a iribly have. , Still greater proof of the potential- chandler, Ariz., the Journal reports meritorious combat record in his year J That many young people like to ly greater popularity of folk danc-j (clipping forwarded to the Weekly overseas. He was shipped back to "jive" ів nothing strange.; it is most ing over "jiving" and company, is by Miss Helen Slobodian). I the United States in October, 1944. natural For when young people і offered by the rising popularity of Police in Western States are keep-; Before returning home, however, dance they really like to dance The I folk dancing schools and centers.1 "^ a cl°se check on highway traffic he had participated in sixty-six mis- orthodox forms of ball-room danc- Very few persons stop attending | *"ІІІ „the intention of notifying Cap-sions against enemy strong points in orthodox forms ot oau room oanc у F» а10,^ .Л tain Shyshka's parents, who left San the European and Mediterranean in* though fine in themselves, are in them once they have started. And . J , . \„ , ' . . . < ;r . *^ ^^ mg, tnougn ппе ш uiciuacivco, «ic "» . . і Francisco last Wednesday to drive theaters. the long run too tame, too languid the atmosphere in them is certain-j home They had gQne to the West Noteworthy ^ the mi8sionfl m to sop up the energy of growing ІУ most wholesome. Finally everyone( ^^ city after a ^ ^^ the Air'which he participated as a pilot were youth, and of eiders too. So having of the dancers enjoys himself so Force officer, and there had wit- the bombing of the Abbey of Monte fcpthing better to pick from, the hugely that it is a pleasure to be-jessed the marriage last Sunday of Cassino, the first raid on the Anario stung people go in for "jitterbug- j hold them. their younger son, Eugene, recently beachhead, innumerable forays feine" just as preceding generations ; ; • 'discharged from the navy, and Miss against Rome and the invasion of L.» IwW'Ai* "ЛІЙГІЙЙОП" or the n і • ж ті • • T j Dorothy Birkland, of San Francisco. Southern France. He took part in ^k Attorn" o7 wSer other ROOKie Ukrainian Lead; Captain Shyshka was born in six amphibious attacks, wherein his ytsiacjc tsoi ' *ил„ жт і TT«jj І New York and had resided nineteen unit was given close support missions, dance happened to be to* craze then.; Yank НІІІЄГБ , years in Elizabeth. He was a com- Captain Shyshka was awarded the f Had any real effort been made to! j municant of St. Vladimir's Church Distinguished Flying Cross with one and a popularize folk dancing, we think ( A new Ukrainian sports personal- graduate in 1938 of Thomas cluster, the Air Medal with three that by now most young people ity has emerged in the baseball world I Jefferson High School. After his high blusters, and wore the Distinguished would have preferred it to "jiving." j He is Steve Souchok, the sensational school graduation he attended St. Unit Citation awarded by Presiden- * rhythmiFor folkc thadancen "jiving.s are "certainl At thye same'veryj! delphirookiea first basema,•n of< Ne• оw Yor,k Basil's Preparatory School, Stamford, tial decree to his unit. He had six energetic. What is equally important-j Yankees in the American League, іConn- and 8P«nt two years as a campaign stars, *L they *ve the young^LS-^^'T^.SK ant they are far mor8e graceful and і writes Alexander Yaremko of Phila- а е thewe,T 1 ^VJLT» tcX theirц tr^l^iftLrNoit;^- г ьТ-Ukrainian Churcгт ^h™ On Golgoth« «a ье *_« mg пе їа й hands, and to let out an occasiona-•'l ^ , л. V * season wow ne. AmencUndear _th Catholie abovec arrestinreview g otitle,f th ae froingm oaf studthey tragi of cthem. situatio" n of the hearty yell. They are also very so is the leading hitter on the YankjWeek f th week f AugU8t 10th< j^ . number one te a Ietter roster, with a batting averag e that іа8,a81t аеdeDictІСІЯa mm movin
Americans. The great popularit tnemy Occident she had the other day when sia for having "succeeded in creating twenty-five years in a country where Ukrainian folk dancing among fher oar got on the wrong side of a union of totally different types of j demagogy is the only Hterary form, has been too evident for the pa8tjtne highway and crashed head-on people. Each group is an independ- j Among the other documents cited decade or so for us to elaborate mto another. ent republic..." in the article are the proclamation upon it here. And that popularity, j Ш explaining how the accident hap- Surely, Mrs. Roosevelt knows bet- j of the Committee of Initiative to the itr should be borne in mind, is hot pened, Mrs. Roosevelt said it nap-ter than that j Ukrainian Catholics, dated May %
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-> Щ&ІФ mufch these srleiidid productions % sbtiw/«e«Wy.; a* ^ti# ^f*?ter noDe г*8 ff.,know LESYA ШШАЕЧКІА 7 7 ^^Ttfthougtant which hther shoe war undee a fer wwha detailt despers ex.* (Courtesy "Ukrainian Quarterly") (1) ate conditions they were put on pa O national literature has* ever had to that point, he continued rl fepeeav pagandist of his progressive and per. They were mainly accomplished N to struggle against greater odda after reading the spineless* aad "westernizing^ ideas. far spasms of supreme creative activ to survive and win recognition than* ftebby compositions of our canteen- j It is possible to form ай idea of the" ity* followed by periods of visible has the Ukrainian. Literature is porary young Ukrainian poets and child's environment so favorable for mental and physical prostration. the expression of life, but when a comparing them with these^teoM aKdj the development of a talent of the first Some things she wrote came com nation's life is cribbed, cabined, and vigorous, and at the same time so! rank, namely: a quiet, small provin- paratively smoothly, written at one and confined, it takes heroic efforts simple and straightforward messages | cial town in the lovely woodlands, of stretch in a single night or in the for its literature to persist and break of Lesya Ukrainka, one cannot re-; Volhynia, a cultured home, *e *tfiae space of two, three, or four consecu the shackles which fetter its man**' slat the theughfc that this fragile, ів-! guidance of ainother who was Her* tive days. Others demanded many festation and development. Ukrahv {'valid girl w almost the only man in-1 self a tfisttngtiished autfcorees^ 4is- periods of work with lengthy inter ian literature possesses some names all our present-day Ukraine." \ cussions of the elders in which the missions. After a month of feverish of universal significance, but com-1 Lesya Ukrainka was not the 'children-themselves took part and by 'literary activity would follow months pared to Russian writers who a**; poetess* actual name but the one j which they became acquainted wftfc of exhaustion and inertia, "dead well known through translation*, Uk> by which she is universally known. | Ukrainian history, ideals,-am* aspira days," which harassed the poetess rainian authors are preetiealry un* She was born Larysa Petrivna Ko-jtionsv br ad*tionr besya studied- ***** mghtmares^of the possible corn- known to American readers. "When sacheva, February 29, 1871, in the [otner languages and their literatures plete failure of her creative pow we read the work of such-mew as-prnvince (tfг' Ybilrvm^ Bfcssiatf usJeo-'thet bytmr-time she'TOeRhefr ers in > abetter to s close friend in Shevchenko, and Franko we realize raine, into a family which provided maturity she had a first class mas 1912, she gave instructions what to that we are dealing with reel spirit- a meet favorable environment for tery of Russian; German, F*reech, do with her papers in such an event ual and intellectual leaders with a the development of a nationally-con- and English, as well as a familiarity uality. She wrote: "Who can tell real faith in democracy, and that! scious poetic talent. Her father was with Latin and Greek. Ali this-gave how long my powers may still serve these men have a message not only.Petro Antonyoh Kosach, a fairly well- her exceptional advantages from the me. I am burning myself out bit by for their own people but for the to-do landowner, a man of culture point of view of wide erudition com bit. Someday I must go out for good whole world."* and prominent in local and provincial pared to other Ukrainian poets, who, —no candle lasts for ever, but let my To these two names must be added; public affairs. While not a native generally speaking, enjoyed no such friends continue to cherish the il third, that Of a woman, Lesya j Ukrainian, being of White Russian | intellectual equipment. lusion that there is no end to this Ukrainka, a poetess of rare erudi- stock, be was a staunch supporter of candle." The inevitable end came, lifelong Handicap however. Not long after her last re tion. with an expert's knowledge of.. Ukrainian independence. Aa a young However, this idyllic picture was poetic technique, familiar with the > man in his university years «he be- turn from Egypt to attend a public soon clouded by the onset of as im assembly in Kiev, Lesya Ukrainka languages and literatures of Western | came a close friend of Mykhaylo placable disease, tuberculosis, which Europe (including English), with an Drahomaniv, the great Ukrainian died, August Г, 1913, at Surama, a never left her until it laid her in resort near Tiflis in the Caucasus. unbounded imagination, keen psycho-, scholar and democrat, and married the grave. The remaining thirty logical insight, and an emotional the letter's sister, Olha Petrivna, who Within a week her body was interred years of her life are largely a in a cemetary in Kiev, and all that power and vigor of expression not, was one of the leaders in Ukrainian, surpassed by any poetess who haa. literary life of the past generation chronology of the various places remained were the throbbing me- abroad to which she was sent to*mories of her relatjves and friends made a name for herself in any up to World War L While the father's modern literature. Surpassing Fran,-, influence is not clearly discernable, recover her health if possible: In and her vibrant lyrics, her splendid ko, she is inferior only to Shevcheflr, that of the mother is written large 1897 she underwent an operation in dramatic poems, and some fine prose Berlin which halted die progress of ko in poetical achievement. This ia ш her daughter's literary career. It stories, novelettes, and* sketches. not fulsome praise, but sober fact; was she who discovered the child's the disease for the time being, but Early Certainty of Her'Goal hence she is worthy of study by aU literary bent, carefully cultivated her it soon reappeared in another part of who take an interest in the literary- talent, and sent her daughter's first her body. In 1907, in a period of In marked contrast to the vicis comparative relief from suffering she situdes of her physical life, the art accomplishments of another race, suitable efforts to be printed in the married Klyment B. Kvitka, but istic life of Lesya Ukrainka was one especially when its literature mani- Ukrainian press in Galicia beyond, J^tty thereafter she ~had~lo "go of steady and constant advance, and tests in general a keen sense of the the Russian border. Lesya's first *uth agam Another trip to ^^ development. Prom her earliest years values of personal and social justice printed poem appeared when she was | frustrated ail hope8 of improvement with an invincible faith in freedom twelve years of age. It was written j . specialists she was fully conscious of her vo by an operaUon A11 the cation as a Creative writer; she fol and democracy as does the Цклшь..шміег the deep- impression made on,cou!d ^ ^g to adviae ^dence ш her b the new8 f h€r А ш lowed the goal set before her all **• л . >' * ї * ^У**'*; Egypt with it* miM winters as the through her life and- literally died After reading some of her work, banishment to Siberia for "subver-1, пс0}иж for prolonging life. It with pen in hand. It is clear from one would intenfflbiy imagine the sive activity." She entitled it "Hope." | [s mamfest that g^ a life ^ро^ poetess to have been a strong and ^ j ^ , the testimony of her friends and mm с{ш Qwn intolerable conditions upon her as a from her correspondence that, as wbust person physically as well as r^,s ht pemain8 tQ me ^ writer: "Many a time she used to spiritually and intellectually. Actu- ^ l few other writers have been, she was nope on say," wrote a friend in her remin convinced from childhood of her call allv nothings could be farther from __,. •/ . ' . , . m iscences of Lesya Ukrainka, "that ing as a poetess and, under her rr* " " * ,, e ., ThUkrainee hope t, o see oirce more my loved she no longer had t^e strength to ther's guidance, diligently studied woman, delicate as a child, and from mo the fact. She was a small, frail To¥m eom_. e back in my native land live the life of a hothouse plant torn to perfect herself in the art of poetic the age of twelve or- thirteen until again. away from its native soil, and yet expression. Her productiveness in- her death thirty years later, wasa Dnieper's azure ь though living far away from herjcreaseci in growing power and skill hopeless- invalids domned to зреш, home and family, her thoughts were (with very few lapses or deviations. months at a time in bed compelled .. ' . , „««„л care n l continually fiying baek to her coun- j The first influences exercised upon . . _І c u Uf *lu '* °t * alive or in the grave,— try." When one takes into account her were those of Shevchenko and for the-greater part of her hfe to live steDoe. iU ancient fu- abroad from her beloveds homeland, , , vv^ that every thought to which she his successors, such as Kulish and ... . 1 . fc.1_ _ . . neral mounds, managed to give expression was only travellmanother gin frosearcm hone of healthealthh witresorh comt to- _ ., , , ... Starytsky. This was followed by a r t Tother sense eabounds the arden. t power which accomplished by a mighty effort of jaratively brief periods of ordinary study of Russian poetry and next will and at the expense of a small by various European poets. Of the activity. Unlike other writers who ^ ,_ U4 »_ ~л _л u... ^\. *' T^" , •> ik., „,•«. There's naught remains to me but stock of physical strength, one can, iatter she clearly shows the influence e rightly estimate the heroic note| f Heine, but more and more she ocoulf workd tur, nsh eou wat as regulaoniy ablr daile toy writstmte; ,hoji e alone. . Q spasmodically, often in great paAa! As the poem could not be signed which rings in so much of her poetry, і worked out her own independent and aad with a high temperature which with theJ author's true name owing as this for example, with its person- j origins* style. However, »etee with left her physicatiy and mentally ex- to conditions then, the mother in- al reference to her own state, but his radical romanticism and sardonic bausted after, the stram. Yet these vented the pen-name, "Lesya," a di- with a larger and pointed applica- irony seems to have been most con- circumstances are rarely reflected 1n minutive of Larysa, and "Ukrainka," tion to the weakness of so many of, genial to her cast of mind. She a designation or origin. The name her too-yielding fellow-countrymen: studied and translated his Each der her work. Yet none the le8s га continued to be used and so has . У thoughts fly LJeder and, in so doing acheived » Heroic -¥viumpfr Over Dlness remained.' back to thee, a similar mastery of aphoristic irony My sorely tried, despoiled, and hap so frequently met with in her work The attentive reader can oc Famous Uncle's influence casionally perceive the effects of her less land! and of which the following lines ai-e Alness in what she wrote, but in Another who greatly influenced her Grief gets the upper hand a good example: •eality, few have ever won so great I literary development was her uncle, And fills my soul with tears and The peasant's hut stands on damp a triumph of the spirit over physical | Mykhaylo Drahomaniv. Although he misery. earth, nw to disability as did Lesya Ukrainka. їй. * leave- Russia to continue his In many a land I've witnessed vio The master's house is built on a review of the first two volumes І activity abroad when Lesya was only lence, stones, of her early poems by Ivan Franko five years- old, his personality and Yet ne'er have seen a lot that's worse J "Tie doubtless true, as регітіе say, in 1898, there is a passage which has activity were kept very much- alive than thine. f The gentry have the" whiter bones. in the familyy anob-wben^Leayabwas ttecome a classic quotation in estim Fd weep that fate malign, The ating: her work. "Since Shevchenko's a few years older a correspondence | But ahame on ияг9 which flow from! Peasant's hands are hard and 'Bury me and then arise, break your, between uncle and niece began which impotence. black, ehains assunder," Ukraine has not;lasted until the time of his death in The lady's have a softer hue. 1895 at 9ofla in We've wept and shed such tears in fceard so strong and vibrant a mes- Bulgaria while Lesya Tis doubtless true, as people say. twas makin copius flood; sage as comes from the lips of this S her ftrst and only visit The gentry's blood indeed is blue. fragile, invalid girl. It is true that, *° him- &* ** ^t»re Drahomaniv The land . entire could sing and in tjfe successors of Shevchenko have^'WTote to ne«* abotrt? political condi- them drown. The peasant, curious to learn if many a time* "broken the chains" anb*1tion* ія Gaiician Ukraine; dkeeseed Enough have trickled down — Those bones are white in every heralded coming liberation, but their Р,аш» for foture -publication* sent What uso are tears where there's so part, verses were generally mere phrase*- n0r vo>*me*, ** the IiBteet **" **»* little, blood? To see if that blue blood would show. xeaking, a re-masticaUon not somuch^rt>P*astllt^,ateileB^4l^slwrt' b* help- It was during the final years of Might stab the master to the heart! «tf the thought as of the tropes and °* to widen her intellectual horizon "sanguinary struggle wMr death," Versatile Talent v:j-teiages
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the еагф Ufarmnian period of his* "Bobber of a-Nasfce* tory. And that the early . Russian Kiev fell. The power of the North .*>. peiiotf 6* history lay«f the North, grew.' The town' of- Moskva which - in then development of power in the had been -a small insignificant town J&D towns of Suzdal, Volodimir, and later while Kiev was at it& peak- became in- 'Moscow. the eenter of the rapid -growing The differences between the two northern state. By the end* of the languages, that of the North? and 15th century the northenri tribes ,. RUSSIA that of the South, even in those were united under the sceptre of ^earliest days; the fact that for aevv the MuSQOvie ruler. The people be ВД'-ШЯІЕ & GAMBAL eral centuries before the founding of gan calling themselves Muscovites. _,_ (1) the Rue State the two peoples, separ- With the old Rue State preetteally* **The Ukraine- has always as* per and the middle course of the ated by forests and marshes, had non-existent, the Moscow rulers iden pired to be free, but being wedged(Vistula. There the anoestore of the lived separate lives; a different folkr tified themselves with the dynastic in between Muscovy, the states of. Slavs, that is of the Ukrainians, RUB- lore, songs and customs; the fact Ito Grand'-Senear- ancV ******<*, j ^ Russians, Poles; €i»chs,'that the northern East tribes came traditions of the- old Kiev. Turning an& White to the old name of Rus they began it baa always had to seek a pro Serbs lived since immemorial times, in direct contact with the Finnish tector, and consequently, & master, calling theirnew State "Rossis;" The і among these three states. First Whether these ancestral groups dif- tribes living in the North and uv son of Ivan the Terrible, Feodbr 1» : they put themselves under the fered one from the other is not termingled with them, are. good who ruled from I58£l598 began protection of Poland, which treated known. In their original crib- they proof that the ancestors of the Rus- combining the two names, calling them too much as a subject state, probably appeared more or less alike, sians and the ancestors of the Uls- himself the Tsar of Moskva-Rossia. then they handed' themselves over Dnring the migration of the Slavs I rainians were two different peoples r The Ukrainians, to quote a~ writer Ш tfie Muscovite* who governed which began in the 4ta-5th centuries in the earliest days of history, on the subject, "were robbed Of their *" them as- slaves, as much as he the tribes left their ancestral homes, Of course, the conception of na- old name of Rue and Rusy." These could." and ventured into other territories. | tionality as we understand it today became identified with the growing Voltaire; "Histoire de Charles ХШ' In time they settled on the lands they was not the same in those far-off Empire of the North, made encroach inhabit today. (times. But there are sufficient data ments on the national identity of Sidelights on the Evolution of a The migration took a three-fold to make the Ukrainian historians' the people of Kiev, Galicia and Vblyn, Name direction. The ancestors of the I viewpoint appear the true one. and contributed for many years to fSouthern Slavs, the Croats, Serbs, l Prof.' Led Wiener touched upon to come to the general confusion Vi WHEN at the time of the World^ Slovenes and).Bulgarians found their і this subject when he wrote in his with regard to the histories of the Wa* the Ukrainians organized f йоте in southern Europe. The tribes "Anthology of Russian Literature," East Slav peoples. tfceir Republics on the territories that that were to give rise to the group, published as far back as 1902: were under Russia and' Austria-Hun- Whatever scholarly word one may known as the Western Slavs, the' "Some assert that all the Russians apply to the change of names on the •A garyj and when the two* Republics j Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Lusatians,' of Kiev be longed.to the Great- part of the Muscovites, the fact re united into one Ukrateian National|settled to the West. And the ances- j Ru s si a n division, and that the mains that Russia, as we understand 'Bfcpubttc on January 2», 1919» many tors of the Eastern Slavs, to which Tartar invasion destroyed moat the term today, is of recent origin, to otherwise well-informed reader of the Russians, Ukrainians and White j of them, and caused the rest to mig- and that originally it was called European news spoke of a new na-j Russians belong, traveled in an east-! rate to the north, whither they car- Muscovy and, its people, ^the Mus tien appearing: out of*fche turmoil of, ward direction, і ried their poetry. The Little rtus- covites. war. Thto "newness" was- partly duel A group of these East Slav tribes j sians that now occupy the south of to the fact that the Ukrainians have | wandered into the fertile region of {Russia are supposed by these scholars Ukraine and Ukrainian been known br history under several] the South." The city of*Kiev became! to nave come from Galicia to re-peo- names. They had been called Rusy.^the region of the South. The city of pie the abandoned places. The Little- The people of the Dnieper-Dnies Rusiny, Rusniaks, Ruthenians; South. Kiev became the center around which! Russians themselves claim with par- ter regions, whose descendants now flussians, Little Russians-, and so on.! their activities grew. ! donable pride, to be the direct de- find themselves under the rule of the Union of Soviet Socialist Re Other people have had in the j Another group made its way seendants of the race that gave Rus- publics centered at Moscow, found eourse of centuries more than one northward. The center of their life; sia its Nestor and the bard of the themselves "without a name." When ваше. In the case of the Ukrainians j was around the-towns of Volodimir Word of .Igor's Armament. There are later the names Russia and Russian the many-name confusion continues; and Suzdal, and later Moscow. ! weighty arguments on both sides! came into wide use they turned to to persist to a certain extent to this ^ and both the Great-Russians with і Tne w0 eilter8 another which is almost as old as •**.'.day . ** *^ whom we are concerned, and the Lit-1 the name of Rue. This is the name " ' Thie is. awkward, to say the least, I x0 what extent did, the two groups tie-Russians or Ruthenians, who Ukraine. tor barring a few insignifleant groups 0f Eastern Slavs, that of the North have developed a literature in their that have not rid themselves of Rus Ukraina or the Anglicized Uk r and that of the South, differ one own dialect, claim that oM literature raine was first mentioned in the Ipa- ворШят and the few who still cling from the other in the early days of as their own." tiev Chronicle under the year 1187. to the old names of Rusin and Ru- the Rus period of history? Were In "Russia, a Social History," Prof. The chronicler reports that when fbenianv the Ukrainians, numbering the two groups unlike each other D. S. Mirsky refers to the two view- Prince Volodimir Hlibovich of Pere- more than forty million people, prefer even in those distant days? Or were points in the following words: vaslad died "all Ukraina wept after fobs known by the name Ukrainians. they one and the same people as "The thesis of the Great Russian him." Vks better proof of this than the faet many Russian historians have claim- historians has always been that the that when they did have an oppor ed? Eastern Slavs formed a preeStablish- The name continues to be men- tunity to organise their own free and , /j ., , . . tioned under the years 1213. 1268 'tedfependent State they did not call of Wa"als l thRussiae latenr idepeoples,a of " thaes unitsomye Thed eunit thesiy fros omf ththee begummUkrainiagn ofhisto tone.r | and TO on „, chicle of Galicia- ft Ruthenian or Rusin or Rusinsky writers call the Russians, Ukrainians ians is that the eastern Slavs had Volyn under the year 1213 refers to an expedition of Danilo Rontano- or Little Russian or South Russian, and White Russians, actual ? Or was two centres of gravity—one in the or by any other derivate of the old vich who took away from king I/osh- it built up by explediency and in ac- north and one in the south, and that ko Bily the towns of "Berest, Uhro- ваше Rue. cordance with the empire building the southern group was originally They called their State Ukrainian, vesk, Vereshchin, Stolp, and alb Uk interests and ambitions of the Mus- not much more closely related to the raina." and the territory of southeastern Eu covite and later Russian tsars ? : northern than it was to other groups rope on which they constitute a The name, which means land or in the Balkans or in Central Europe. as some claim borderland, is applied ttajority, Ukraine. Roseau, an* Ukrainian Viewpoints The 8um of evident seems to be in- at first to certain districts. There is Moreover, Ukraine today, though Russian historians have usually creasingiy favorable to a view that mention of Ukraina "Ruska, Kyiv- under foreign' domination, is a mem maintained that the two groups, the is closer to the Ukrainian than to the ska, Volinska, Podolska," and so on. ber of United Nations, under her northern and the southern, were one Great Russian thesis." The people who live in those "Uk- own name-^Ukraine. and the same, and that the Rus State Deelme of Kiev rainas" are called Ukrainiany. Names Derived from Bus which during the peak of its develop- Toward the end of the 16th and , . ment extended northward including The decline of Kiev's prestige be- the beginning of the 17th centuries, The many names that sound so mucb Suzdal gan with the 12th century. Conti- alike and appear so alike are derived the tQWnQ Q{ Volodimir and at the time of the rise of the Ko- was inhabited by one and the same ( nuoue warfare among the princes zak power, the name assumes a de from a common root—Rus. This was people. і and the foreign invasions finally put the name first applied to Kiev and the finite geographical meaning for the Ukrainian historians steadily main і an end to the Rus State. One of the central part of the Dnieper region. neighboring territory at the time tained that the two groups of East first steps in the brilliant city's down the Rus State wan organized. Some During Khmelnitaky's wars against ern Slavs differed one from the other, fall occured in the year 1169 when Poland the name extended westward scholars claim that the name was and that the Rus period which cen Andrey of Suzdal of the North Scandinavian in origin. Others main toward the territories of old Rus tered around*Kiev is the early Uk sacked the city, robbed it of ite which had come under the rule of tain that it was local in origin, de rainian period of history. treasures, taking away with him pre- p"j* \j rived from a- river in the Dnieper an During recent years a change has cious books, icons, church bells, vest region. Still others are of the opin An interesting point with regard to been noted in the opinions of writers ments and so on. ion- that the name made its way into the early maps and the name Uk on this controversial subject. Recent Di 1240 the Tartars invaded the raine has been brought out by the Kiev territory from wuthern Prance tudies fof імЬш теет to show city and put an end to the Rue State -However it may be; the historical, ^ th Ukrainian scholar He. V. Sichinsky. R u doubtful whetb€r e Rus around Kiev. It continued to exist On a map dating from the lTth4*cen feet i* and onlhis wntere are^pret-|State ^ the 9tgtm^ kmt ро1кіСаі for another hundred years or so in ty well agreed, that m the> 10th cen- ^ ^ ^ tury (coming from Holland) he has |t wag to faave An(J the western provinces of Galicia and found two names — "Ukrainie'v and fury the-name Rue applied only toithat it й more bable that Ruk Volyn, until these also lost their the territory centering around Юеу,, ^^ ^^^g "Okraina." The name "Ukraine'' de- a collection of prestige and independence, coming sieignates the territory extending ap Rr was adopted by the Slav tribes continuous warfare with one an- first under the rule of Lithuania proximately from Tamopil ~ fEast Ifeim?гШе«,8ргеао^ there, spreadin«g later to norui-north :other ^ very 1<у>8е1у bonnd and later under Poland. fci ens and-western territories, aM of.by ^ auth5rity of у,е p^ce of The two provinces were sometimestf^ *> to*-the river BenetsrJ*The which came to be known as the Rus Kiev. There has also been some referred to aa Little Rue or Western pkame "Ukraina,'' applied to»*>that State. f change of views on the part of Rus Rue to differentiate them from the part of land, on another maty the • Who- were the- Slav tribes that sian writere with regard to the* one Great Rus of Kiev. Toward the one by-1 «-a88ai dating from thfcwear termed the buwark of the nneleus ness of the two groups of Eastern middle of the 13th century the Шге лао* Rus State ^ And where did they come Slavs even in those" early days. Rus- peoples of the Nortto and South be»flG^' from originally? sian writers have ventured toe say come definitely separated with BOS BUT U. S: SAVWGS B€M«)S! •» Ancestors Of All Slavs that perhaps the Ukrainian historians even the Prince of Kiev binding then* BUY ALL THE BONDS YOU CAN . The so-called cradle of the Slavs "have not been far wrong when they {more or less closely- by. means of the M * *^Ь**в*е4ге£йт егТ}пІеЦп$гіп*аіп^ Ru#*S&te. ' « * < f4UHH АГХ-*ТМ^ ШйїШУПВЧтЬ I UKRAINIAN WEEKLY. SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1946 >. 33
THE BLACK SEA * CALLING ALL VETERANS Youth artd the Ш&Ь The Ukrainian people have always TO ALL UKRAINIAN CANADIANS WHO HAVE SERVED AN OPEN LETTER • been closely associated with the Black IN H. M. CANADIAN FORCES Dear Reader: t Sea, though at various periods in By F/LT. B. PANCHUK, &LB.E. Are you a member of the Ukraia-r- their history they were driven away ian National, Association? Many from it. Their spiritual connection with it was really never broken up,, Dear Comrades: journal we, nope to make цМ*-іф|І{.^^Й^Й^Ш^ЙЙШ will, with your active assistance. We the. Juvenile Department, do not as the innumerable legends and songe І т am addressing this letter to all know that they are members of an attest. The consciousness of its sig- Ukrainian Canadian Veterans in Can- must, however, have your member ship, your subscription, your literary $8,500,000 fraternal benefit society nificance is well borne out by the|ada, although I would particularly contribution to its columns, and we 'boasting of a membership exceeding. unwritten traditions of the Ukrain like to reach those veterans who must have your assistance in getting '46,000 members. This is because ians. were members of the Ukrainian Can- advertisements for it from your dis they became members through their The Black Sea is comparatively | adian Servicemen's Association (Ac trict and your help in selling sub parents, who neglected to inform small. It receives a great deal of;tive Service Overseas) and who at scriptions. them when they became older. - fresh water from many large rivers: j ^e time or another visited our Serv- If you are in doubt as to whether Our membership has grown quite ; or n hence its salt content is much small- ice club in London. I mention those' ропм^"тїї""іГ"ЇГяШІ ii'ir from °t У™ are a member, ask your er than that of the ocean, or even|in particular because, although ail ?Дt X*tlfand Wbe It £'Parents. If you find you are one of the 00 of the Mediterranean Sea of which !of ^ have ver>. much m comm0n ^tUnated tiiat well over 40 000 Uk-i ^'O Ukrainians who enjoy .the of the Black Sea could be considered a to draw and bind us together, those j ^^^ Canadians served in H. MJ1*1"^ U.N.A. membership, then part. The surface water contains on who partook in the get-togethers and porces Qu,. aim jg to unite all of become U.NA.--conscioue and take the other hand a great deal of air; an a ro,e ш the activities of U.C.S.A. overseas, ^е veterans into one strong veter- °tive matters concerning for this reason the surface water Є 1 1 18 a cannot sink far, which accounts for ^' i^LL^l-?^ ^ " ^^ a* ' team. We-ere-aiming-at 10,000 ^organi^o^ Join ^ЬаНчнг and memories that I feel certain; membere before the first Dominion softball team and go in for other the fact that below the depth of 756 thev can never forget convention which we hope to hold UJ4.A. sports. If there is no U Я A.. feet the water is poisoned wit. h. sul-, !. You will recall how often we used in th#» ПЙАГ future* Ynuwui hpln bv athletic club nx. your locality, there f^S^^"^',1: 2T"»hta Гь 7adre'3 ^llfc^^-^SSS •» -о -son why you cannot fona • *nV_°r?a.mC.„ Г,88"."?;,.., u,..„ chats at the c,u.b' d"™>g.our get- s ^ one. Its water are of beautiful blue- togethers, at our formal and informal evtrict\haw veteralt wl e tamigh yent r contactown to rШт**ог K vou are a member and have green color and great transparency. meetings, the future of our club and hpr rjon't wait' Send the names in talent for writing, then write articles. for tlie The surface temperature is subject our organization. I don't think there to^_, You send them hi—we'll do Ukrainian Weekly. Send in to many fluctuations. In severe win- was ever a difference of opinion t^e rest ^ • . ^ро,^ on иьгащіап activities in vour ters the sea is frozen over the Bay among us. All of us without excep- It ^ ^ooed that the veterans with' town. If you draw, submit some of vour work for of Odessa for a short time; the limans tion felt most strongly, that the the aid £ the civilian population the consideration and the Sea of f Azov from two to history and the spirit that had been at jaree ^ц ^ abie tx) erect me_ of the editors. If you can compose three months. It has been known as buUt through the evolution of time morials honoring our dead Instead P°etry, send poems to the Weekly. \ If vou a stormy, dangerous sea. It has no in the forces overSeas, and through of erecting monuments we hope to ***** business abiUty, write noticeable tides Marked changes of the sweat and effort of practically establish institutions that will an- to *te U.NA. and learn how you can nel its level, sometimes almost ot two every serviceman who ever spent awer tne needs of the disabled vet- - P the organization in its feet, are produced by the action of anv time at the clubf mU3t not and erans as ^ ад ^^ м ^„^д^ latest membership campaign. .. As a the wind, sometimes by the seasons. would not die or go to waste. Not centers for the youth It may seem member of the U.N.A., you a 08 011 The surface layers of the Black oniy that. We, each and everyone, like a dream but it certainly is pos- »**you *are aP colleg*** e toor receivuniversite aiy d stuif EnormouSea possess sshoal a rics ho f floraall kind ands ofaunaf fish. festronit moag ant dstrongl permaneny that t neetherd e fowar sou ar aible ^th your help dent. " -'—-"- "- І. іілі-яллііа аЬлпІа r>T oil Iriri.Ho s\f Hairy І І . »»«»»•»W, e ...... hop. e j to be.. _ abl5- e in theT'near approach the coasts and limans. organization after demobilization and . -, . , . . . *u But, if you are not a U.N.A. mem- futurc e to offer scholarships to those . ~, ,, . , £TT- il 'LA Hence fishing is an important indus- return to civilian life, and we were . .. . . ,. . ber, you should take immediate steps ofc our veterans or their immediate . . . -. r. try. So is mining of salt from the reSolved that anything that we each U next-of-kin (son or daughter) who £J^ ."„££,. of |te£ ., limans and salt lakes. Before the in- cou]d do as individuals to promote traduction of railroads, salt and fish the spirit that we had become to feel wish to go to, school. We hope to be join the one ta , tf able to assist them in obtaining bv- •* oee - - _ /,л „ • ./' ^-.' ., war, trucked by a special class of so yjtai for the good and welfare of caravan merchants, the so-called f n servicemen and later our J *• An *u ncessary, form one yourself. Youth OLir e ow ,fund^rCs„°r an,d„ 0da f„largt^e- HSZLXr™membership . branches enjoy many advantage.. Chumaks. who bartered for salt and fel>ow veterans, would be done, which ordinary social and athletic fish the grain of Ukraine. That time has come. Most of us Already a fair number of our;clubs neVfir e^ual. Write to the U. merabers have Of "the Coast of the Black Sea only are all back in Canada now and "most received employment j N> A> and ask for informatiott re- tnrou h a section lies within the Ukrainian of us are veterans. A small group £ the medium of our RQ. garding membership. Become a V. ж territory. This begins at the delta of fore-runners who returned-before Tm8 field alone can te much de~ і N. A. worker in the full sense of the velo ed of the Danube and ends at the west- ^ m keeping with that same kindred P - і word. Watch the Ukrainian Weekly em spurs of the Caucasus. From the spirit that was and still is so dear Among our members are doctors,'for news regarding the activities of m northern Kilian arm of the Danube to U8 formed an Initiative Commit- dentists, lawyers and various trades-»U.N.A. youth branches, clubs, teams, delta as far as the Dniester delta, tee of the Ukrainian Canadian Vet- men and businessmen who are willing j groups, and individuals, and send in and the steppe approaches the sea with erans' Association. Led and inspired would be only too glad to giveU.N.A. news items yourself. steep declivity. There are few in- Dv their first president, Capt. John special attention and services to | Read the U.N.A. Jubilee Book or dentation; even the port of Odessa Karasivich. an ex-Winnipeg Rifle- their fellow members in U.C.V.A. We j any of the other books and periodi- can is an artificial harbor. man ^d a veteran who saw action arrange the introductions and cals published by the U.N.A. Write At a point where a river enters РПСЇ ^8 W0Unded in the early days establish the contact provided we for these books if you do not have' the sea, the steep incline of steppe- of Normandy and who has been men- know your need and provided we them. , plateau is broken; behind a land-bar, tioned in dispatches, they have set up are all members. Remember, the U.N.A. is your or- kossa, peresip, which looks like a an organization that has much to be There is just no limit to what we ganization. Help it as much as yon flat dam. there appears a big body proud Gf. But much as has been done can do for ourselves and for each; can, and give it an opportunity to of water, an enormous pond, the so- through the efforts of these fore- other. But the prerequisite to every- help you. Do not hesitate to ask called Bman. Little streamlets are ^пе^ ]іке johnny Karasivich, like thing is a large membership and loyal for information, as the U.N.A. is unable to break the dam, and they j0hnny Yuzyk who has gone out and support and co-operation from the anxious to serve you without any have no outlets into the sea. The organized branches and gathered members themselves. We cannot j obligation on your part, waters and the mud of the latter funds to establish our H.Q. office and hope or expect somebody else to do ] The U.NJV. has many letters in its limans possess healing powers (the keep it gomg( through the efforts anything for us if we don't put our ] files from people,.young and old, who liman of Kuyalnik and Khadshibe of aH otner volunteers who happen I own -shoulder to the wheel first. And j thanked the organization for the near Odessa, e.g.). Being submerged to ^ in Winnipeg, like Peter Saw- so I am taking this opportunity to'numerous benefits they received eroded valleys of steppe rivers, these chuk Johnny Dawybida, Johnny speak to all of you. Sooner or later j from it. There are letters from col- limans are too shallow to serve as r^nko, peter Wach, Val Eleniak,' Johnny Yuzyk or some other repre-jlege students, ill and disabled per- good harbors for deep-sea going Tony Yaremovich, Dr. Grenkow, sentative from U.C.V.A. E.Q. will .sons who have received aid, writers vessels. Only systematic dredging Messrs Wm. Hrymaliuk, J. Choma, visit your town or district. But that j who have had material published,' could make the limans serve as har- Okrainec. Melnyk, J. Gadgoza and; may not be possible for some time. | artists, poets; there are letters £f* , . . , . . . tens of others too numerable to list. The job is very big. The field is just | from individuals who have re- ! Beginning with the liman of the|The organi2ation has started to feel limitless and the number of workers ceived dividends, and more from Dnieper, the coast is strongly in-|it8 foundation. But it is far from is very, very few, Your help in I young men who have participated in dented but the indentations агеЧЬове dream8 and ideals tho3e gathering fees and donations and in the sports program. All -this proves closed off by long bars. At the Alma h and уШаав that we ^ supporting the News Letter and the that it is worth while being а иЛЛ, delta the coast becomes steep and to plan and talk over overseas. We ! work U.C.V.A. is out to do, will be I member, forms two excellent harbors, Sevas have just barely reached the stage more than appreciated and will be As space is limited, we cannot go topol and Balaklava. The steep de where we are beginning to realize of inestimable value to some other into great detail where the benefits scent of the Yaila Mountains form | and appreciate what a big job there | veteran who may be more needy, and and advantages of U.N.A. member- a beautiful Riviera for consumptives still is ahead of us. It's a much, in the long run yourself. Let's get ehip are concerned, but send us a and health-seekers. Beginning at the bigger job than any group of ten or. in and back U.C.V.A card • and we will see to it that bay of Feodosia, the coast again be even a hundred or a few hundred can you get detailed information with comes lower, forming many lagoons accomplish. But, it Is not too big for out delay. Write today ... a post- nnd bars. all of us. And so this appeal to all ! ponement may result in your for- our veterans. We need your mem A FINE UKRAINIAN G ! getting it entirely. We can assure и bership. We need your active sup PRESENT x і you that will not regret being a port. We need your help and co M t member, so why not become one of PROF. MANNING'S X operation in carrying through allj И us? \ those plans we have for our vet Newly Published Book: И N Trusting that we shall have tits erans. TARAS -SHEVCaENKO, M ! pleasure of hearing from you in the You have seen the.first and second M-І very near future, we are, 1 Poet of Ukraine X issue of the News Letter. You will M j Fraternally yours, *- admit that the faews Letter Is a suc- Price S2J50 м и Ukrainian National. Авег*а*-Івс* <*ess~ and- worthy of support. But even Svobod&r Bookstore . 81-83 -Grand Street- good as it is, it is far from the H Jersey City a, N. J. ХЖХЩІХХХЖХХГХТЖІІЖЇХЖИХ^ •і*5ілззт.л^. •т-g---- ШШіїШШШЇї- • Щ^-ЗШ І ід 'і... і на ін > ГйїГіійііиііііІ'Пчгі'іііі •г. :.:х і mmmmmkwнині mill піиіі'ЧШііїШіііїїіуГіГі ІГш пніТ• і• -• ^ЇШ С5шймІаг-шіі1 We Are Canadians" .. J S OBTAINABLE &&&reea Delivered by Ike Honorable Paul Martin, Secretary of State, In the pn cess of recommending folk-literature of Ukraine, whicrTow- at i&e Second Congress of Ukrainian^СапаДіаш? held at Toronto, Out., various recen Xy published works ining to the persecutions of the written Suae 4, 1946. 1!4.M)U1English. o**«n. TTUkrain1 !«»e ~an — dJ XTt.—.l..iUkrainians ~ , HTTUkrainiaI 1-і n llliteraturx л e .»ha s »bee n callei» d* we* have of necessity been unable to upon to play the role the like no It is indeed a pleasure and an "parents, who in the old country have stress the merits of a book which ap other folk-literature has played. honor to be with you tonight; for'been deprived of an education sent peared some years ago, 1935 to be Ukrainian folk-music is closely when I am among you I feel, not as their sons and daughters to univer- exact, and yet which is as timely to connected with Ukrainian folk-litera a stranger among an alien people but sities. As a result, in almost every day as it was then. Moreover, it is ture. Like literature it has its his very readable and engrossing. Like as a Ganadian among Canadians. You university in Canada you will find ._,,«tory. , correspondin. g„ to the expert„_r.__* and your sons have shown very clear-' Ukrainians in the graduating classes.' practically all of the books in Eng-enceg 0f the Ukrainian people. The fy that you love this land of ours, 'You are proud of being Canadians ®" on Ukraine, this book too was modern Ukrainian music has already feat you cherish all that it stands1 and Canada is proud that you are sponsored by the Ukrainian National produced a line of great composers, lor and that you are willing to sacri-' her citizens. Association. which are quickly winning recogni zee much, even all, to defend our. What now of the future? What1 Ц Щ entitled "Spirit of Ukraine: tion not only in Ukraine, but abroad Canada. does Canada want of you? Ukrainian Contributions to World до wejj 1m the recent war you gave the! Canada wants your contribution Culture," sponsored by the U.NA Md The Ukrainian folk-dance, the Uk equivalent of about two divisions tothe} from your national heritage to the published by the "Obyednanye" rainian national costume and the Canadian Armed Forces even though Canadian cultural life. Your folk j of pre-war times. . Ukrainian home-crafts, have already it is only 55 years ago that the first dances, and your songs, your color-! As can be seen from its title, the won for themselves a wide ac- Ukrainian immigrant came to this/ful national costumes and your ap-|book endeavors to give a picture of ^m *£ j^eTic^™We are proud country. You have contributed much petizing dishes are something which і Ukrainian contributions to world sof them ftnd we Цке to ^ of t» the development of this country, you should never forget. Although j culture. It does this in three sec- their ^^ But where is their gen- Ш the early and the dark days occasionally you may hear the re-jt3ons. The first of them furnishes enl human appeal? Even those ШШ:Ш your boys fought along- ference "foreigners" it is the voicejthe reply to the question: What is who Q^ Qf ft 8eMom ^^ The side those of English and French j of a very small minority. You are! the service done by the^Ukraiman ЬбЛ ^^^^ to ' analyze these | extraction. The Ukrainian Canadians Good Canadians. ! people, by their very existence, to ^^ elementa of ^ a m&Uer Were in the front line on D-Day as| Canada wants Canadians to be the .cause of humanity? The second of t j^^^ for ^^ who wen: Those of you who were not in іоуаі and devoted citizens at all section gives an answer to the ques- j .ht Ше ^ ufle Ukrainian folk. n the service made noteworthy contri- times. There cannot be divided loyal-! £° ' what .contributions have the arte for thejr Qm огіипа, creation84 b^tionbyyourla^in^ An especially wide treatment in wona § donations to the Red Cross and the o^y ш times of stress but also mi f cuiiure. me tnira sec- J^ * ттіггоіпіап ; purchase of Victory Bonds, and. War; the community life. It has been very I ^n gives an answer to the question. ^ .*** Jl^^vTrJem^fhToS laW Stamps. Your contribution; ably demonstrated last April by Peter I Who.« *» «en who represent gtmg^wl*& ugrtj^ £ & m evel 0t . cannot be overlooked in the fields of Kramarchuk during the prairie to | Ukraine m the most typical way and P*f Jttmed lf **blo! flofl ** І p^uctio* of food, £*-*£* Hft*-? .Manitoba. "Canada J what do they stand for. fiSSt-& SokhFeJE
j 311 •tnfemroitioa wpnt tn laboratories and n, J „ ^л*,-л« Section I gives an outlme of his-,* pamung m ine aays or sucn men umyersities went to іасюгатопев ana Canada is a very young nation. the Ukrainian settlement ** Dmytro Levitsky, Volodymyr Bo- to the provmg grounds. Canadians ^ щ postwar turbulence is *ver S f ^^^ and БИав Repin of Ukrainian descent were active in „^ ^^ «т*м «т*п к* окь f «.o« ^ tne uarainian nauonai organize-, •" . and the wprld wUl bejable ton reap dori , Short &nd ^^^ the outline; The peCuliar Spirit of Ukraine every phase of the war. By your fi tb See l y actions you have shown that you ^ ^^ ^ ^ 1^M У^ omits details, laying stress upon the' manifests itself also in . the moral, Nations, canaoa wui De ame ш en- ^ Ukrainian people legal and religious conceptions and ar% courageous, hardy and co-opera geryice which е tive-^and above all, you have shown ^Lr^^oi"the worid OuTmi^'have Performed in the development attitudes of the Ukrainians. What that you are worthy of being called(^Гпаиопаї and roliSouslro^s of human race- We see before 6ur" !S ^а1 "?*?> fsa} ."* "?#»» JCa«Ln« - j •!? • « 7 w-?S «ift/*« : selves how three Ukrainian states heritage of th Te Ukrainian people con- %І^ І ««. tn ^ was^i0011^116 t0 To t^tb?^^ ^se. The most powerful and last- tributed in these spheres of thought men inmiigratron to ^ada w^.gether The war has taugM^us to, £ old Ukrainian and feeling?- asks the thoughtful wide open prior to the First World j tolerate one another. All are Can-І ? . ... ? . , , т-^оя^*- «я k« v „# „ о„«~Г— * Щг - л « ««« «rifu і», ! J- _аі t *v-s ««•«« т« і principality, centering around Kievv , reader, anа d boonk offerа s answers toл War, many Europeans cameл with the.adiansл , regardless of the name. In;r Л \l% і * т^ • ., *и ,ц ^і г ,^H . ". ;Г^'. Т^Г, „«••;„„ ;„ fi»o "~" ' в ... _ Лпп.^о*, - was the bulwark of European civil- thesлеeл vita+ l і;Meл mquestionsA11 . tatenbonof eventually. «**^ Pj*f|*be end we -will и-%%have a Caned.ab. ^ , Umted States or returnmg .borne.; nattan. . I n&madjc ^es of Asia. The Kozak Who Represents Ukraine? IThetJkrainians came in search of During the war it was an honor' *.^ «J«*I «« *л «««,,. « «*r»or»d«o'* republic of the seventeenth century When you speak of America, you freedom. They wanted to make Can and privilege to wear a_ ^^a < the recoci g0 to cham think of Q^ Washington, Abra- ada their home. And so the first дКЛРР"ІИ9: ^^ Т Г^\^^А-^^'^Ґ7і^'ш^^\^ of ^e' republican• prmciple in ham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Ukrainian settlement^spranп п g .^ (^^Gto* Ac^as at last absolutism and monarch- Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roose- the West. Soon they had turned j made it* jJbssible for a person to say ies. The Ukrainian National Repub- Velt, Henry ^ord, Thomas Olva ^kii- what was once the wild open prairie. "і адд Canadian!" So, in peace- a lic was the champion of democracy son, Jane Adams. They are repre- into the best grain producing lands j time let us work and strive together and self-determination of national- sentative Americans. Of whom would in the world. ! to make Canada a happy and pros- ities. you speak, if you were asked to The Ukrainian people have shown' perous country to live in; so that in enumerate representative Ukrain- that pioneering spirit which char-1 the times to come we can say with Ukrainian Culture ContribotJons ians? ^ whom do the tendenCie8 of acterized the early French and Eng- dignity so that the whole world may Section П treats specifically of the the Ukrainians find their most typi- hsh settlers who first came to this | know our Jove and our pridejn our 8 hases of Ukrainian cul ral cal country. Your people have overcome wuntrP'Tto Ca^dV^and We Are)™™" P ^ expression? 1 contribution. і Well, did you hear of the tend- s almost unbelievable hardships. The' Canadians." .*- r First, the general questions of the encies of the Ukrainians in the days j Ukrainian cultural ability are dis- of princes? Do you know they were LESYA UKRAINKA Thou'lt be a better sword 'gainst j cussed. Facts are given illustrating expressed in the epic poem 'The (Continued from page 2) brutal foes. !the great Ukrainian intellectual curi-' Word of Ihor's Legion"? Do you F • it Th losity, keen cultural alertness, which know how a simple folk-philosopher tfavome теше made them, Ukrainians, observe and і Skovoroda expressed the philosophy 1892, foUowed by Thoughts andj Love of соцд^ ^ a theme which Dreams, 1896, and Echoes, 1902, eachi through all her absorb the cultures surrounding outlook of the Ukrainian masses? nmfl more or less them, and also cultural originality j You heard, of course, of Taras Shev- marking an advance in imaginative j ^^ dramatic as well as lyrical, which made them transform those chenko, but do you know in what power and technical strength^ An gut the expression of this love is foreign contributions into a specific j respect he was a representative Uk- analysis of these volumes contam mingled with - pain, first because of creation of their own. rainian? And can you think of the ing 180 pieces in all, shows that her separation from her homeland, and Secondly, the cultural infiuences oi name of the representative Ukrain themes can be clasified in six main second, because on returning to it the Ukrainian > people among the ian woman, the woman who re categories; love, nature, personal ex from a freer atmosphere in other; neighbors, the Russians, Poles and presents the fortitude of the perience, the poet's consciousness lands she felt all the more the weight Southern Slavs are depicted. As companion of the sturdy Ukrainian and mission, love of country, and so of the oppression exercised by the these are often denied by the bene man who for a dozen centuries stood cial humanitarian problems. The Tsarist government determined to ficiaries, the words of great cultural guard on the eastern frontiers of theme of love occupies the smallest blot out her people's national con leaders of these peoples are often European culture ? place among these divisions. Her sciousness, and furthermore -because quoted, here and throughout the It has upwards of thirty illustra circumstances probably shut her outs o many were ready to yield to the book, to throw into proper relief tions and almost all of them are il from many experiences in this field pressure. It was feelings such as the chauvinistic claims of the nalustrations which are not known to that could be reflected in .poetry, but these which inspired the biting lines tional enemies of Ukraine. you. There is a map of Ukraine, ЦІІдпу case she was very reserved in her "Reminder to a Friend": Following this, a detailed picture dating from the seventeenth century. in д expressing her. private feelings. is given of the various facets of Uk And there is an index so that the Among those dealing with nature Yes, we are slaves, none worse are rainian culture. there on earth! reader may find at once a name or tljere is one poem, "Autumn," which First, the Ukrainian literary con a fact he is looking for. is .strikingly original and forceful. The Fellahs, pariahs, know no fate tribution is studied. What has the Such are the contents of the book, As to the poetic consciousness, there so dire, Ukrainian literature contributed to are several places in which L«sya For they have common sense, keep which the Ukrainian National Asso the general store of world's litera ciation offers to the youth of Uk expresses a sense of the physical their thoughts close, ture? What values are found in it weakness which made her. feel in While in us burns unquenched the rainian origin. Evidently, its purpose by those who undertake the labor is to prevent that youth from squan adequate to the task laid upon her, Titans' fire. to delve into tt? What made the as -lor example, in the lines: dering their rich heritage of Ukrain Yes, we are paralytics with bright various enemies of Ukraine persecute ian culture. eyes, [it? What loss to humanity has been О'Speech,--'then art my only arma- In spirit rich,, but in strength caused by'these persecutions? What CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND SPORT y ment, • there's dearth, -. is tfce promise of a freely develop- And 4jotfc of us should not be vainly Behind our shoulders we fe«el eagle's ing UJcrainian; literature?- Such are ACTIVITY OF YOUNG U. N, A>"f у*- JJ^ejht,. wingS) 'the questions (which the book tries MEMBERS IS REVIVING. 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