The Ukrainian Weekly 1935

Supplement to the SVOBODA, Ukrainian Daily

Published by thu Junior Department of the Ukrainian Notional Associatio—n

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No. 48 JERSEY CITY. N. J.( FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1935 VOL. itttf Ui EVENING of UKRAINIAN YOUTH TODAY LITERATURE at COLUMBIA WHO'S ON TRIAL? -RratfcfeE А ТОИТЙ MOVE- І lUBNI IN AMEBfCA? • •;_,.£. UNIVERSITY a SUCCESS Twelve young Ukrainian students, including two ' 'There is and has• been for ft Before її gathering of 125 girls, are on trial in Warsaw, Poland, on the charges of decade ft youth moveriient Ш? America;" writes Hfeywooct Broun. • younger and older persons, in complicity in the assassination last year of the Polish cluding leading representatives In his daily column in the "New drawn from various walk:; of Minister Pieracki. Before it is over, it may be that tork World-Telegram," American-Ukrainian life, a pro not they but Poland herself will be on trial—before the "All venerable persona stand gram called "Evening of Ukrain accused of. being responsible fdr ian Literature" was presented last forum of civilized world opinion. the; maladjustment. of the world. Friday. November 22nd, under The trial, entering ирои its second week, iflân un They axe chtirged with the critrib the auspices' of the Columbia Uni 6f -having fomented me wart in versity Ukrainian Club in Scher- usually tense human drama, replete with mystery and which the young men died. IB- merhorn Hall, Columbia Univer suspense, and surcharged with unusual significance to Seed, by a curious paradox the - 1 sity, New York City. the seven million Ukrainians under Polish misrule. Far elders have been- identified .as = The program was opened by 1 fierce and effective fabricators QX_ more is involved in it than the ultimate fate of these evil and. impotent warriors for Stephen Shumeyko, who acted as 1 chairman. In his introductory twelve young Ukrainian students. liberty and justice, ' ••'•••g&± remarks he stressed the impor WiELt тнів EDUCATE ТНЕИГН tance of readings in foreign litera And yet, glance at the American newspaper and you ]_ Writing about the rectfit еіесд^ ture as an aid towards the de will be -lucky to find a bare item concerning the trial- tions in England, a liberal journal velopment of American literature tucked in some out-of-the-way corner. Sordid murder said: (see p. 4). . "So., far, Conservatives havfej,. [j The chairman then read a and the vilest of other crimes — that is news, in big ' one tb Condervitivfe meetings, , і message to the sponsoring club of letters too; but inost certainly not the struggle of a; Eiberahl to Liberal», and Ш^игв^, !l the evening's program from Prof. nation striving to free itself of the cruel and rapacious: lb Labour. They would ho more John Dynelen Prince, founder au$ •think -of crossing any other portal present head of the Department rule of its oppressbrs. No, such news is only "a^ handy than-a Roman Catholic of going • of East European Languages apace filler! І .: , stq;. ft-.Baptist. chapel." at Columbia University and for a The journal appears to favor >j mer Envoy Extraordinary and Be. as it may, however, there is no doubt but? that a different custom, when it writes Minister Plenipotentiary of the the preeent trial of the twelve ybung Ukrainian students 5thatîtl. would be a. autpriae tb. . United States'of America to Den in Warsaw id an event of dutstattding political eigbi- 'most JgeoiHe, tb find what ifrbwi mark aiid Jugoslavia. Tht mes ficance in. the struggle of the Ukrainian people, to Wrfes| :argêits can r}e pht dh toe sage read as follows: other. siSe. Tfciw - "For me It is a real delight to their national freedom frdm Poland. ' -Which might Bo just the reason, welcome Ukrainian studies to the It is interesting to note that hone of the abfcUseU , which Scares many people from Department of East European 1 • viiitingj the^ meetings of .tjljjfr^ Languages at Columbia Uai ver twelve are charged with direct participatroh in tHe is "parties tbut their own: - *** sify. Since my earliest yoiith I sassiriation. What the Polish prosecuting attbrnpyb r TO HELP TflEM MAKE UP | have had a deep admiration for seek to prove i£ that tbe accused had solue, as fet flni .". - сХВВШ. BONDS ? .-•f»*- the Ukrainian people wHo for A, group of 45 and. 16-year-pld thousand years and more have knbwn, manned of cbnnectibn with the assassination. To-do studente at Pieldston School, high . been able to maintain their lan this, they are depending upon the testimony of over one school unit Of, the :Ethical Culture ' guage and general culture almost Schools, iE New Ydrk ГДгу, "пав- intact in spite of the fact that hundred witnesses, most of then*' Polieh police officers) their geographical habitat has spies and agents provocateurs. ' Bfodght but ft hatidbook: abbjlt been an undefended plain and war, entitled "the. Student ISjols-^ that during almost the whole We do' not know of course who killed Minister Pie at War." ^ 'u. • period of their history they have racki. But we do know, however, that numerous at The handbook urges Ubys> SfljcT' been surrounded by foes or at girte of their ftge to make up. best by hostile influences. The tempts in the past have been made by Poles themselves theiT-Jiunde "whether .they wantP Ukrainian character, however, was to assassinate leading Polish figures. The very first to grow up to be useful citizens strong enough to resist all these president of the present Polish state, frarutowic*, was or cannon fodder." "'tS hindrances and there can be rib EDUCATION OB RACKET? doubt that they will be able tb assassinated by a Pole, Niewiadomski, a,member bf con Archbishop John T. McNicholas I of . jghcinnatii. told the, National maintain themselves perpetually servative Polieh circles no less. Therefore, it is not г as a race. СошіЛ of CatholicTwbnlea Шк beyond the' bounds of possibility that Pieracki could FoH Wayiie. Indiana, that "«ftca- "It is, therefore, the earnest have been killed by some Pole too. ,ч . tion is ft business and even a hope of this Department that the racket Ш many Ioeallties.*' present cdurses in Ukrainian However, it is also possible that Рдегаскі fell, victim "Parents should know," he said, constitute merely the beginning to Ukrainian vengeance, perhaps in retaliation for the •'that a majority of our young- of a mor-p expansive development prominent part he played back in 1931 in (.he notorious people cannot prdflt .by a college . щ the near £utur£. •гЛигее nor even by fdur years hi "Ukrainian History, language, Polish "paJriificstion" bf Eastern Galicia that evoked such «.high school" - and literatures together with its ; a strong &drld wide protest. Its barbarism $nd vandaU beautiful musie, are well Worth ——*. . ,:5 the attention of the.western world ism is too deeplêrigraved upon the consciousness of and- I can assure Mr. Stetkewicz Western- UJiraihlans to allbw itself to be erased by tho ihinn lit'oratufo within one even arid "Ilia auditors that nothing will passage of a few years. Many of its victims that sur ing's lecture without leaving out jf be lWt Undohe by us to aid him in anything of importance (see ,p. ;' furthering, the intellectual cauee vived are crippled permanently or bear marks that they 2). The fine tnmsiations of the will carry-to Qaeir dying day. various poems . and passages that of bis people. i.ppear within it were the products 1 (Signed) "John Dyneley Prince." And then too, it is possible that the assassination of the joint .effbrts of Hariba Ail address on Tarae Shevchen- Moore Cdlemati arid riimself. kp, leading Ukrainian poet, was was", committed by some Ukraihisra studeiit wild dferiired : the concluding speaker was then delivered by Augustus C. by this act to call the- civilized world^ attentibh *p Йхе Joseph D; Stetkewica, SK, In Manning, Assistant-Professor of structor of the course in advanced East European Languages at misrule of Polish authorities over the Ukrainians. Either I Tcraihian ip . tiixf.Universit y Ex- . Columbia University. The speaker or both" of these motives were possible, as > weli as tension. Speaking in Ukrainian ' її dwelt mainly on Shevchenko's others. and reviewihg the adorerises 6f great epic poem "Hdydairiaki," de the two preceding speakers, Яе : claring-It to be one of the finest Standing by themselves, perbaps to many .pedple : : stressed the importance bf their Uterery, products of the 19th cen - these possible motives may not appear important enough interest in Ukrainian literature tury-. Gbnsideringi the almost un to: rfcake understandable the assassination! But. if they і nd called upon American-Ukra translatable qualities of. some inians to give them further in parts of the poem, Prof. Manning would step bac6_and regard the entire canvas df the centive to Continue .such, studies must be "highly commended fdr .sufferings of tUEhlJkrainian people under Polish yttkfe, df І у .morally and materially sup recapturing tb a large degree the "the breaking by Poland of international treaties і guaran porting the course in advanced original,- lyric quality of the poem Ukrainian and Other manifesta in bis translation. teeing UkraiiiieiJ. autonomy, of Ukrainians being d&- tion в of this interest in Ukrainian Then" followed an address, "A pavjed-of tfaei* Mtural right of cultivating their national culture at Columbia University. Brief Snrtfey of Ukrainian Litera .afidK euftural ?. heritage, of many Ukrainian students . The program held the close at ture,'' by. Dr. Arthur P. Cole- tention bf the audience through- . ri riftm, Lecturer In East European denied the right to higher education, then perhaps* the - out its entire length. Many ex Languages at Columbia Univer assassination and present trial of the accused would pressions of opinion were heard sity. He was singularly success appear in a clearer light;—but in such a case, however, - •at its Conclusion regarding its *ЛЦ ful in succinctly compressing the success and the advisability of . entire vast panorama of the Poland may find herself in a most embarrassing position holding- others of the same land growth and vicissitudes of Ukra- of being oh trial herself, and not the Ukrainian students. in the future.

\ • UKRAINIAN WEEKLY. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 29. 1935 No. 48

Living in accordance with the wis dom of God, he strikes them down like a lion, wily is he as a lynx, A Brief Survey of Ukrainian Literature wiping them out as though they By ARTHUR PRUDDEN COLEMAN, M. A., PH. D. had been crocodiles, he swoops Department of East European Languages, Columbia University down on their lands like the eagle. in the City of Now York (1) Courage he had like the bison."

• [Address delivered at the "Even ness of their waters are gloomily ing, out of the' natural singing ing of Ukrainian Literature," held embraced within the dark green ability of the Ukrainian people From the 13th century with c"<~4n Schermerhorn Hell, Columbia walls of the gardens.. Virgin and out of their everyday experi its heroic chronicles to the 16th Ûniversity, November 22, 1935.] thickets of birdcherry add wild ences, a rich body of popular there is a wide gap in Ukrainian cherry timorously stretch their FOEEWOED ' І " poetry that constitutes a genuine literature. When, moreover, after roots into the coolness of the contribution to the world's literary three hundred years there did *||;%І- have always had the deepest water 'and now and then mur treasury. ::• ? sympathy for the Ukrainian- peo- occur a renaissance, the language mur among their leaves, feeling of the new "period was аз different Ir^ple who .have preserved their na- mayhap sudden energy and swift The source from which Ukrain T45ionality in the face of enormous from the language of the Tale of resentment when a tender little ian culture takes its origin is, Dior's Legion as the language of ir^bdda. This Is all the more xe- breeze — the night wind — steals as we have said, the ancient city £КЯфагкаЬІ е because, they have been of Kiev, the first capital', at least The Canterbury Tales was. from up suddenly and kisses them. All in a commercial and spiritual the language of King Alfred. j^fiable' to maintain themselves- and the 'landscape is asleep. But over '"'theitf indomitable spirit although sense, of Rus'. From the stock of This renaissance of Ukrainian head the .firmament is breathless, Rurik, a Norse explorer who was - living; on an exposed plain sur wondrous, charged with triumph. culture took place around Ostrih rounded by enemies. There are made ruler of Novhorod, there (now Ostrog, in Poland), a town One's soul too is caught up into sprang a line of princes who, with in Volhynia, at the confluence of few parallels in history to such the immensity of it, is rapt with «Ideational conservation. " Kiev as the seat of their power, the rivers Vilya and Horin. By awe, and crowds of silvery visions to some extent consolidated the the time this awakening began, f.fl: 1 am,. therefore, delighted to arise in melodious numbers from endorse this survey of Ukrainian eastern Slav lands and- tamed that is, by the late 16th .century, its depths. О night divine! Then somewhat- the barbarism of the ' Ostrih had behind it a long tradi ^Bterature and trust that.it will suddenly it all springs into life, "of use in acquainting the Slav tribes east and west of the tion of cultural achievements. The the woods, the pools, and the Dnieper. :' As one Grand Prince emergence of Ostrih into a posi dean public with the cultural, meadows. The magnificent thun ^treasures of a remarkable people. after another sat Upon the in tion of singular importance in the der of the Ukrainian nightingale creasingly shaky throne of Kiev, late 1500's was the result of two ^ffi^ --'JOHN DYNEaJEnrhfTCtNCE. is scattered abroad, so that even this much was accomplished: the factors. ^r^,«. '• (Head of Department of East the moon in mid-heaven. must trade route to Constantinople was -T&% • European Languages. Ed;) pause to listen to It. As if under kept open and active with busi In the first place, Ostrih, being a spell the village on yonder ness; the -fierce barbarians of the the capital city of a pravoslavny, hillock still drowses. Whiter Black Sea coast were most of our or Orthodox, bishopric, was the $£1 P* Wvey'ef Ukrainian lit-- arid whiter gleam its clustered the time held within bounds; and center of a long religious struggle. >j£#erature we shall at no time take huts in the moonlight. Each the rudiments of Christian civil Throughout the 16th century the sides with political movements moment their low walls stand out ization and culture were brought. pravoslavny church of Ukraine among the Ukrainian people nor more dazzlingly from the creep In the late 10th century, to the 'engage in "nationalistic controver ing blackness. Now the* songs inlard Slavs of the east. Priests was waging a losing fight with ted, files. We shall - give a straight have ceased. All is quiet. Only cf the eastern faith were the Roman Catholicism and the peo forward account of the ups and here and there a light glimmers bearers of this culture, and its ple of Ukraine were being weaned • (jlpwns. of a culture that sprang in some narrow window. Here conservators were the monks who away from it into the church of i..'c: eriginalr/ into being in the' neigh and _ there before the threshold served faithfully year in and year compromise which ,has since be borhood of Kiev on the- River of--" a but some belated family is . out in the monasteries,- writing come the national church of West Щ Dnieper and was carried west finishing its evening meal."; (From down in Cyrillic letters the events ern Ukraine, the Greek Catholic ward by priests and:-immigrants Gogol's '"A May Night*" опед-of of Rus-' turbulent history and the or.Uniat Church. In 1596 the « St 16 he preserved in the Principal- the stories in his Even|ngs on "a.-r tales of her great men. Union of Brest set the seal of C ity.of Halich and among the softs Farm- near Dlkanka. Translation and. daughters on the., northern confirmation upon the Uniat : of. A: P. and M. M. Coleman). From the lay literature which Church. But the prelude to the side- of ?the Carpathians. It _is sprang up along .with the priest ; well known , how deeply graven Such, a countryside as tne lush ly chronicles and which were the Union had been a long series of з was the influence of that early depths of 'Ukraine prpvjde^'is, work of individuals from the mil wrenchings as the shift was made V-3^.; culture on the heritage of Russia, more than any other, the* native itary aristocracy which grouped from the old pravoslavny faith І*ж!хЬе> state which grew"-into im homeland of the Slav soul: For/ around each princeling, comes the Inherited from Kiev to the new portance around Moscow in the as Thomas.. Masaryk, himself a first great monument of Ukrain faith whose Holy Father sal in î^bnefojT Kiev's decline. It is not so Slav and a keen student of Slav ian as well as of Russian litera Rome, yet whose forms were Vjjiell known how great Was the psychology, observes, the Slav is ture. This is the famous Tale of those of the old, familiar church. rpenetration of that Kievan cul- a lover of the plain, the moun Dior's Legion (Igor, in Russian). tains do not speak to his imagina Ostrih's position as capital of a ture among the tribes to the west This account, coming from, the bishopric made it a focal point in tion, as the vast rolling plain troublous year 1185, is more than Ш j of Kiev, "add to what extedt the epeaks. this struggle. Kievan tradition lived ^ on among a mere history of a disastrous the children of Old Kiev as a Not only- is it the rich land expedition against the Polovtai In the second place, during the haunting memory, never complete- scape of Ukraine that sets the (Cumans). It is so filled with 1 imagery and fire and vivid, photo latter half of the 16th century ly to die, intermittently to. serve Slavic heart throbbing and makes Ostrih was blessed by having ! as a focus for culture resurgence. the - Slavic harp give forth song. graphic description that it is a genuinely fine poem. For its sheer among her princely citizens a real As we turn from the political It is the* bitter, blood-stained patron of learning. This was the . •connotations of the'word Ukraine, history of Ukraine, the woeful poetic worth it stands as Ukraine's !which in itself is a beautifully part It played as the scene of end- earliest literary contribution. rich and powerful noble, Con stantino of Ostrih (died 1608). euphonious word meaning simply leas warfare between the Cross From Halich, the second capital "borderland," we. invite you to and the Crescent, it is this too Constantino founded in Ostrih the of Ukrainian culture, comes the first Ukrainian Classical Academy 'Consider certain., other connota tl.at л awakens in the Slav soul second" great Montiment'dTUkrain- tions Which in the course of the that; truly Slav emotion which ian literature. Halich, heir of and the first!» Church Slavonic centuries the 'word has gathered we can express in English by no Kiev, had a dynasty of its own printing shop in Ukraine. Here, about itself. single word, and which they call and a sphere of influence of its in 1581, was printed the first in Ukrainian tubs. It is a sense In the first place,' the word own extending north"?to' the River complete text of the Bible in of longing for things that might Pripyat (Prlpet, ai is spelled on Church Slavonic (this Bible was Ukraine has become a symbol of have, been, a "sense of grief and all the. enchantment which .poets most current maps-) and south reprinted in Moscow in 1663). In melancholy, united with the past ward, through the agency of those have found m the.rolling steppe memory of things on which the the preface to the Ostrih Bible lands of this- south. Hear the immigrants who filtered down Constantino himself confessed that heart dotes and which are no into Hungary, eveS south of the words of Gogol (llohol, he is more! an .unappeasable, perpetual he had been led to the undertak called in Ukrainian) as he lets Carpathians. It flourished for a ing of its printing by the deplor yearning which gnaws at the soul, brief moment as the Conservator Us 'memory evoke a May night a perpetual enforced memory of able state of the Church, "in the in his native, Ukraine: of old Kievan culture, especially something unattainable, a hope during the 12th and 13th cen grip of wolves." •r "Do you know .the' Ukrainian less dreaming of a distant home turies when Kiev was being rav night ? Oh, you- do not know the which shall never again be seen, aged by successive hordes of bar Out of the war of the faiths Ukrainian night? Just consider of people who never again will barians. there arose all over Ukraine nnd one: from the centre of the sky be met, a brooding over sunken contiguous White Russia schools looks out the moon; 'the limitless splendor, over vanished beauty, of The literary monument which founded by the Orthodox monas arch of heaven stretches afar, happiness and joy which glad comes out of Halich is the so- teries. In order to differentiate immeasurable and ever more im dened life in bygone days." All called Chronicle of Halich, a eu this Ukraine has meant to the their schools from those of the measurable; the moon glows and logy composed after the death of rapidly encroaching Jesuits, the breathes; the whole earth lies Slav soul. Roman the Brave, prince^bf lialich bathed in silvery light; and the and founder of the-.-ephemeral monks taught not only religion but philosophy and history and air, refreshing, sensuous, is vi This "sense of tears in mortal state of "Red RUB""-' on" the brant with delicate sounds and things" which the landscape and Dniester which waS. an object of geography as well, offering a there stirs an ocean of exquisite the history of Ukraine evokes is desire in its time to the princes liberal and semi-secular curricu . fragrance. Divine night! En the essence of pure poetry. It of Lithuania and the" kings of lum. Three centers of learning chanting night! Motionless, sigh has made the Ukrainian people a Poland. The СпгопкЧе" Teciteu, in stand out in this transitional ing, stand the forests, dark with race of natural poets. And when, the heroic manner of^'the Tale of period. Old Kiev itself, with its shadow themselves and casting in this paper, we make mention Ihor's Legion, . the exploits of Academy, I.viw (now Lwow, in about them vast patches of cnly of so-called "polite" litera Roman, how the "brave Duke Pol iwi) and Ostrih. shadow. Quiet and calm lie the ture "-e 'nil':! never r -it-jje! that Г.о::.а:і. monaivh ..if ..!1 Ru:='. \-лл- pools. The chill and the black all the time there was accumulat qiiishett all the jiiiîui peoples. 0'u be i-unliniii-d) No. 48 UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1935 В THE J AY'S WING Ramblings of a Word-hunter By IVANFRANKO . "THE COMMON HOBSE SENSE" (Translated by R. L. Wlssotzky-Kunt») (Continued) (2) The pronunciamento of Isaiah The letter is open... that I conjure them with my jest. It did not work, for your soul Bowman, too president of Johns It is a letter and not a cor whistle and laughter, that I am a Hopkins University, against the respondence. Who could have was shielded by patience. Then I conjurer, a witch, and you better employed other methods: hearti use of common sense. to oppose written it? It left Port Arthur take care... Ha, ha, ha.' Do in September, juat three months ness and generosity: and finally any theories which are not evident, you remember? It «as I... the strongest, the. last—my love. brings tack to me that the com- ago. But who writes? It is Do you remember me? Oh, I signed "Your little Jay." What This you could not withstand,— - mon sense ' for some reason is know that you I remember me! and I conquered! Yon felt your often called "common horse sense." fj does it mean ? My God! And there ôu must remember! You could weakness against me, and ail that is a jay's wing In the letter... not forget me.'] I. concentrated was masculine in your nature re I was not able yet to find an la it possible ?... Could it be she, by entire will, кімг^ге of my volted, and you were vexed and explanation of this phrase.- The . whom I have counted among the . passion, all tfee( charm», of my peeved. You scolded me, bat .''corresponding phrase in the U- dead for the last three years ? She, j body and soul In order to im drifted on with the tide. krainian language is "здоровий whose mysterious and impudent print myself la jburf'lnerapry for хлопський розум." The idea, disappearance brought her father Do you remember all this, my ever. I called everything to my Маззіпо? behind this phrase seems to be to his grave, and threw me from aid: — the sun fend^; forest, the the dashing stream of social life But do sot be angry with me that the/'common)" that is not purple sunrise, Ihe enchantment now, after three years of separa schooled,, not learned people are into this 'quiet, isolated landing. of midday, and-the melancholy of ... During the last days of our tion. Do not accuse me x>f fals endowed with a certain amount of night: the tales jf my' father and ity, do not blame me for playing intelligence which enables them friendship she used to call her the sounds of ;the woods; the self "Little Jay" and tease me a part. Could I have done other to grasp certain problems. raging of the storms and the wise? about the jay, which made her quiet whisper of friends. All that Is 'there anything of the kind nest above my window. Then she You love flowers, don't -you? behind the English phrase? was only the scenery for my part But did' yon ever try to conceive killed the bird... Could it be the which I wanted to play before In this connection, it comes to wing of that jay ?... their psychology? You are an in you, in order to leave in your telligent thoughtful шиї, and my mind' that the Шгаішапа • My hand trembles, my heart soul an eternal powerful impres you should have done so. Do often use the saying, "з UbOrp'JpfS beats and my head is dizzy. Be sion, where Illusion would not you not know that blossoms are кінь сміявсяб." (Even a horse Still; foolish heart! Have you not differ from reality. Ha, ha, ha! the coquetry of vegetation? That would laugh at tide). . buried her and mourned over her My artist, are you thankful to me all roses, chrysanthemums, and grave? Can a few words scrib for my part?" tuberoses, show off and play a part "THE PLACE IN THE SUN*^ bled by her hand and a dried wing Enough! What is this raven with just one aim,— you know ' AGAIN killed years ago, disturb your like repetition ?—"Do you remem it... They attract our vision with peace? ber? Do you remember?" You their rich colors: their tender In reply to a question by .a There is a remedy: - -1 shall know well that I do. '• But. prob petals are caressing, their frag reader, of what gender are the throw this letter into the fire! I ably, you do not know what me rance, which is above description words mentioned in that item, I want no correspondence with the mories those are. I collected all and classification, produces a will add that "осонь" is of dead. Poor fool! You blabber memories of you, as one gathers pleasing effect. They penetrate feminine gender, and "осоння" Of things you shall never do! the bones of a cremated corpse, to our very souls and touch our of neuter gender. Both have the ac Could you burn this letter, writ put them into an artistic urn aesthetic feelings with the rich ten by her, without having read est and variety of contour, grace cent on the "сон", which evident which I hid away in a far corner ly is connected with the SUN. it? Fate! I shall-read this let of my heart. Let it stay there as and mysteriousness of their move ter even if my heart bursts from a stimulant, not a hindrance to ments. Heliotropes always turn "Угрівок" has the accent, on anger, excitement, or grief! life. in the direction of the sun. Other' the syllable "грі." The word > "Do you remember me? Ha, You stretch your hand of a flowers timidly close in the day- . comes from "гріти," to.warm. . ha, ha.' Ив. ha. ha! Do you demon from a distant land, you time, lest the sun should drink of . In this connection, may I also remember my laughter? You raise your voice of a raven and their fragrance. Study their add that there is. another word loved to listen to it. You would drag that Urn out of the depths psychology, Massino, and accuse - them of playing a role, showing "печище" (accent on "ne") come to me from afar, drawn by of my soul. You picked the bones which denotes the place where the sound of it. Can you hear one after another, Wrapping them it now, oyer the ocean, steppes. I off in a false light Ca& they : the sun beats with such'a force flesh and blood, akin and be otherwise? ' that grass has been burnt out. It and mountains? Does it tremble nerves; you breathed your fiery, Can a woman -act differently? і Is connected with tie words "піч,™ in your ear together with the hellish spirit into them "and laugh :J j What to men, Who are harder and FURNACE; "пекти," to bake. ~ wind? Does it mingle with the and tease me now with them: less keen, seems mere coquetry, rays of the setting-sun? Ha,-ha, "Do you remember me? It was display, that forms the most in The Ukrainian-Russian Diction ha! Ha.-ha, ha! I..." timate manifestation of woman's ary, by Borys Hriichehko, knows Do you remember me? Do you Woman! Demon! What do you nature. It is to them as simple , no equivalents, in the . Russian remember that Spring with its want of me? . Why do you tor and Inevitable as • breathing With language, of any of these words. purple sunrise, its warmth and ture me ? Have I ever done any their lungs and walking with their At each of these words, .it haa ' blue skies? The storms, which harm to you? I gave you all, legs. to resort to a description of the were like the quarrels of lovers, all that was beautiful and pure in Do not be angry with me, my words by a foil sentence. and the thunder, which sounded my soul, while you played with my Massino! It is not my fault that . like shouts of jolly chldren in all feelings. My entire life, дпу heart you came into my life like the empty house ? It was I and soul were in every word I hot sun, which forces the flowers AND "LOAN SHARKS". AGAIN Do you remember me? spoke to you, while you only aimed to open into full bloom and pour Do you remember the dwelling to leave an "artistic impression" My attention was also called- to forth their precious fragrance. the fact that the word SHARK in that forest ? All the paths led upon me! False woman! May Confess to yourself,—were you to it, as arteries lead to the heart. the Devil take you!!! All your not happy then? Was I not a in the meaning "a grasping' and From that dwelling a strong will words, laughter and tears are colorful oasis in your life? Was tricky rogue, a sharper," could be issued orders to all parts of the і but a comedy, a part! not the summer in the woods the translated into the Ukrainian by woods. In that house flowed the ' Enough!! I am now "expertus most beautiful time in your life? the word "глитай," which ia quiet, secluded life of an old ' robertus." In vain are your ef You told me so then. But, now connected with the verb "глита father and his adolescent daugh- : forts to play a role before me after three years of separation, ти," to swallow voraciously. ter. A loud voice, coming from now, I have learned its value and —what do you say? And here we come upon an.in the golden heart of a man, was price. I am strongly shielded Do you have courage to resent often heard there: and still loud against your arVows. I wear a teresting fact: "глитати," of that summer, merely because it course, will remind you of the er, ringing songs and laughter of visor.. which rc,pels all bullets or has passed? What would you a pampered girl. Do you re false words, tears, and laughter have? That your happiness should English verb GLTJ I\ which just member her ? It was I. . . liko cut steel. Speak and write be the only exception in this life, corresponds in meaning to the Do you remember me ? Do you what you may! I look at every where nothing lasts forever? Do Ukrainian word "глитати*" Drop remember the Meadow, where we thing with the eye of an aesthet. you have the courage to throw ping the infinitive ending "ати>" first met? I wore a green hunt who sees everything false in a stones at me because I left you ? My you will have the root of - tbisc;. er's coat, had a game-pouch with play. And when you will laugh dear Massino, in that case those | verb "глит," a true pendant. .f$fV a fresh-killed grouse in it over I shall indifferently shrug my stones would strike only yon. I the English GLUT. You can see І shoulders; when you will weep. I did not leave you,—you did not my shoulder, and a whistle in my | shall laugh and say: "No, my from this that such a combination lips. Do you recollect how і know how to hold me. Yoo. had of sounds -denotes quick swallow- - surprised you looked? I laugh- І child! You miss such and such six months during which you did points to make the illusion look nothing to bfnd me to yon. Is ing with a gulping sound of air ed at your aatonshment. You tike reality." And if you shall :—-in more than one language of .wore a blouse with a leather belt j it my fault that somebody else fall into pathos. I shall frown and became master over me in less the world. and a straw hat. Your emaciated і say: "It is bad taste!" .face still bore the marks of prison ] than six weeks? Really, Massino, life. You took off your hat and | However, I shall read further. you are to blame. Admit it to OUR STORY yourself. You did not trust me, begged to be forgiven for walk- | "Do not be angry with me, my Last week we started in the big in the woods without per Massino! Do you remember how you had no faith in the sincerity I changed your Ukrainian name of my love. Yon accepted my Ukrainian Weekly the story by mission, but the doctors told you Ivan Franko entitled 'The Jay's to.. and you had only arrived Toma into the Italian Tomasso, caresses, all the tokens of my yesterday.. . You really intended then transformed it into Tomas- young, awakened feeling with the Wing." "to introduce yourself to my fath sino, which I shortened into Mas passivity of a sybarite,—tenderly, The title of the story in Ukra sino. Ob, how you scolded me appreciatively, but remaining inian is "Сойчине крило" "Сой er. . . You know my mother and within the limits of your egoism. remembered me when I was a then, when among three series of ка," the European jay, common klssqs I christened you thrice. I felt it. No one knows how that in Ukraine, has on the lower child.. And begged pardon for hurt me. You did not know it looking at me with astonishment, YbU were 'always angry with either, nor shall you ever know ends of its wings bright blue but you never expected to find me.i:Your love always found out and understand. But I took bars. Youths use jay's wings to me looking as 1 did . I gave come in' anger, as though this revenge! And if you have a adore their hats. er. you my hand. You kissed it, and love was an unwanted, forced con fragment of human heart left, I felt- how your lips trembled cession for your prophetic, apos you must have felt that revenge, under your dark mustache. I tolic- Hgnity. Ha, ha! ha! Do and you shall feel it more acutely! To Elaine S. asked you to take me home. . you "remember what an apostle But with all that, Massino, do You wondered that there were and prophet you have been ? You not scorn me! Having punlehed When I saw you Sunday last \«X. grouse in this forest, for you did not speak, -you preached; you. I suffered much more, a My heart sprang up for joy hed spent your entire youth here yotftild not • bow. — you conde thousand times more than you, And beat in rhythm fast and had never heard or seen scended. It provoked me, and I and for mv sufferings..." Like the feet of a dancing negm one. I answered laughingly I hat decided to drag you off your (Continued p. 4) boy. they are here only for my sake. pedestal with irony, laughter, and M M. j UKRAINIAN WKKKLY. ККШАУ, NOVKMBKR 29. Пі.'іГі 48

VALUE OF READINGS IN FOREIGN LITERATURE THE JAY'S WING і [An excerpt from the opening (Continued fronl p. 8) self in his readings to the litera (Concluded from p. 1) remarks of S. Shumeyko, Chair ture of; only one nation, he is in The end of this sentence is man of the "Evening of Ukrain the danger of either overemphaa- THIS WORLD TODAY blurred. Was it water or tears'' ian Literature,'' held in Schermer- iiing or minimizing the values of The world today was described Perhaps it is true? Perhaps born Hall, Columbia University, his surroundings and of the vari as a congested road in which forced by her temperament, her Nov. 22, 1935.] ous factors that condition his each nation drives according to blood, she acted as she did, and It is the purpose of tonight'в life. Lacking a sound sense of its own rules, unwilling to make could not do otherwise'' program to present to уоц a bird's perspective — which reading of traffic rules f>or the good of all, eye 'view of Ukrainian literature, ."oreign literature would help give by the Rev. George Arthur But- Ha, ha, ha! la civilized man, Which despite its richness of style, —his puddle around which he trick, of New York City, in -his в materialist and determinist -ask wealth of thought, and emotion- sermon the other Sunday. such n question'. I believe thai centers his existence becomes every atom is moved by an eter stirring qualities, is little known either a heaven or hell itself. "War breeds war and the virus • Here in America. nal power. Then how can 1 doubt All of „this, of course, has been of war," he said. that a human being can act not as \ Affairs like that of tonight are realized in America for quite some "War breeds war forever, and . It Is forced to7 We are too fool important America, as we know, time. And yet, although leading so does preparedness. ish and stupid to understand this is very young. Ihf existence up works of foreign literatures have "Another war would sweep our ' complicated parallelogram; too to within recent times; similar to already influenced American litera capitalistic system into the limbo blind to see its power. Hence, our that of every people settled upon ture in the past, in the field of of things lost. I prefer that our j idle talk about free will and self- a virgin soili has been character poetry, drama and the novel, still capitalists devise their own con will of the individual. She claims ized by- a fierce struggle td master they have evoked more slavish trol. My radical friends tell me і to have suffered much . She its physical and social environ imitation than inspiration. That that this is impossible, because blames me for not being able to ment. In the process, America should be guarded against. capitalists have never given up bind her to me. She says I expended most Of its energy and The present period of Ameri anything except under compul- j wrapped her in a cradle Of sybar creative faculties, leaving but can life strikes me as being a sion." itism and egoism, while she show little of them left for the pursuit very appropriate time of starting "But the Marxists are wrong, I ered upon me the priceless of those spiritual values upon this movement here in America too. Persecution is the worst ' fragrance of her first love. Which rests the finest of humari of- taking greater interest in the form of war. There was recently ] progress; in form of advancement literary treasures of the various a famine in the Ukraine worse j This, h-m, this Is... something, ef knowledge, refinement, and the nationalities that inhabit these than any we have ever known." I should hut think of today. This arts. shores. For the immigrant etock, "Nationalistic bombast is an- j could poison not only a celebra It is only within recent times in most cases, whether it be the other threat to peace." tion of New Years Eve. but even that a more balanceu American older or younger generation, Is the heavenly luxuries of Paradise. life has come into being, one still sufficiently self-conscious to WHY TO THINK OF WAR? No, 1 shall not think of it any be of help in the study of its H. M. Tomlinson In his book I more, bet us read further, per " whose energy and creative quali haps, wo shall find something ties is spent more evenly. And cultural gifts. Furthermore, Ameri "Mars His Idiot" Writes of young can literature itself is in the stage people, і more cheerful. although the presentTday economic (To lie continued) crisis has again distorted this life where it is still ripe for revolu "Though I shall pot share much someWhat, still there is good tionary .changes and development. of the future with- them. It is reason to believe that with the Although it has made consider somehow important, to me that mending of the flaws in our eco able progress, still it has not the their gaiety should go on. . . WANT TO KNOW ABOUT nomic structure, American life hoary traditions to hinder its the idea tlmt innocence should ; will regain its balance and devote progress, and it has not any parti again be caught unaware, caught UKRAINE? "Jtself considerably towards the cularly great men ana women to and lost in the insensate grind of development of its inherent cul overawe and cramp the arisal, another such mechanical and style and development of aspiring universal horror, gets between ue | The Ukrainian Cultural Center tural values. writer». and the sunlight." has received the following ques The specific form that the,de tions from Alex W. Gina of New velopment of the cultural values . Imagine, therefore, the future Thiji is just the> reason why : Haven, Conn.: What is the dif takes to any particular section of American- literature — one that others so easily advocate war. ference between a Ukrainian and . the globe is dependent upon two ..would combine the best elements of NEW' dCCUfJA*IONS a Russian ? What are the dis main factors: (1) traditions, aha " the refined Subtlety of the Latins, More than І.О0 Students at the tinguishing characteristics of a (2) type of society of that paK the heavy powbr.of the TeutortB, University of Michigan are 'train Ukrainian? Why are Ukrainians tlcular. section. " - "the starkgese of the Scandinavians, ing for the profession of radio culled "little Russians"? Are there - In the case of America, its cul afad~ the. Ivigorvand deep emotion broadcasting.' any Russian Cossacks \ Were tural development is mainly de of the Slave, The PresbyteriaH Hospital any Russian Cossack» in the limfe pendent upon the second factor— Bearing this in mind, I think School of Nuraint has Become of Napoleon's battle with Russia? the type of society; for because that we oan' all perceive the value the Department if Nursing In Inasmuch- aS the answers to the to? the country's ybuthfulness of the present studies made into Columbia University College or above questions would make too There are, really no traditions the literatures of the various im Physicians and Surgeotis. lengthy an article of material that -worth speaking of. ., Л migrant Stocks- that help com These items will recall to many hks already appeared In the U- • Now^ smc$ American society pose American society, by vision youths the hard times they had krainiiui Weekly, we are listing. has such a large element of im ary individuals as well as groups, With their parents when trying Instead, a few references. It ів migrant stock within itself, it is as exemplified here in Columbia to convince them that there are always Well to substantial one's only natural, therefore, that the University. And we too can per in America a few hundred honor statements about Ukraine by a American cultural development ceive the value of such a program able professions outside the law good reference, and we suggest has, is, and will be greatly to- as that»of tonight. For ns, and medicine. to Mr. Gina that he show thfe iluenced by this immigrant stock. Americana of Ukrainian descent, following books to his questioning Already It їв said, and Correctly it.- to particularly gratifying that WHAT PRICE BEAUTY? teacher if possible: so, that American culture is more even Ukrainian literature is being An inquest into*:the death of Spirit 6f Ukraine. D. Snowyd. -than anything else a combination delved into; here at Columbia Miss Ida Ramos, who died in Pages, 33, 40-44, 48, 110-121. •of European traditions and Ameri University. Gratifying—because Birmingham, England, revealed Peasant Europe. H. H. Tiltman. can environment. And yet,- it is Ukrainian literature is so very that she died Of a] streptococcus Paged, 193-224, 270, also correct to. believe that with little known here in America. infection which rtesuited from Russia: A Social flistbry, D. S. the passage. of time this dual Centuries-" of oppression and de plucking her eyebroWB. Mlrsky, Pages 27. 50. 59-67. 71- character of American culture Will nationalization of the Ukrainian "Eyebrow plucking Is very 90, 121. 133-4, 173-185, 191-3, 217- .gradually "disappear, and in its place nation by its foreign rulers have dangerous," Dr. T. B. Rose 278. there will arise the real Ameri dven obscured its very existence, testified. 'This case" is the second Ukraine the ІАші and Its Peo can culture, distinct, well ground? im culture, and its- service tb I have hkd this year." ple, S. Rudnitsky. - ed, and well finished; in a form, Western European civilization as He said the flrocees was Usual Ukrainian Weekly (Ukraine ih -perhaps, that the world has never a barrier against the attacks of ly done under unsanitary condi the American Press) Volutftfe 1, seen; ;1 z - . the wild Asiatic hordes for- many tion*, and that even if ^he for No. 2, 3. 6. centuries: Bdt times have changed. • We can readily see, therefore, ceps and skin were sterilized, the Address your questions to the There is a revival of interest in operatlbrt still Would be urisaFe. the importance of study of the Ukraine. The Ukrainian problem Ukrainian Cultural Center, Mary immigrant cultural gifts to Ameri Ann Bodnar, Secretary, 341 East is one of the most vexing in Eu LIKE FATHERS LIKE SONS l?th Street, New York City. can life, with an eye -towards ropean chancelleries. Thomas Watkins» 42-year-old, their adaptability to the American And concurrently with all this, former prizefighter, was sen iscerie. tenced by the cburt in Los An And of these studies, what to America too- has perceived that 4 it has within its midst Americans geles, California, to serve thirty ШІІІ UKRAINIAN'S me are tiie most important, are days in jail for perpetrating a those in ' the field of - literature. of Ukrainian descent, has learned something of their aspirations, and kidnapping hoax on Victor Jory, Tkisk of course, does not neces motion-pictUre. actor. In the hope At the meeting of the Ukrain- sarily mean, the literature that has perceived the value to itself of same of their cultural traits. of getting a job. , ian Plast, Thursday evening, .Nov. /these inijhigrants may or had In Yonkers, NeW York, Patricia 7th, І935, Mr. Michael Tacft, produced • themselves, but the li All of this has its reflection here at, Columbia University In Powers, five years old, was severe second class seaman radio operator terature of their nationality, ir ly burned in her home when cur United States Navy, spoke oh respective, whether it be produced form of the newly founded course in advanced Ukrainian, as well tains, which she had draped over "My Seven Years in the Navy." •in its native habitat or Here to her head dUrirtg a mode -mar His talk described his experiences ''America. And why literature? as in a previous and tonight's lecture dn' Ukrainian literature.. . riage ceremony, canght fire from in Central American jungle:; send —Because literature is the elear- a stove. also included adventures In Alaska, .est mirror of the power-giving "•)••-. - . teaa Hawaii, Phillipine Islands, and and inspiring elements of any na- IS HISTORY STILL TAUGHTl? above all the fight with -Chinese •.іЦиі;в life, Wit» Apologies. Commenting on the controversy bandits. One consolation he had, 0y reading the literature of You are skinny not Sveldt my on the question why had America was receiving the Ukrainian other nations, in its original and dear. during the world war abandoned Weekly in every port he visited. not translated form, one becomes Your "ebmplextoh is drear not neutrality, who threw us into it, Mr. Tack is going to be in the more sensitive, and consequently exotically pale. and who might have kept us out East for the next three years. At ran better portray even his' own Your demeanour is grouchy with of it, "The New York Times'^asks the present time, he is working tlifs. New. vistas open before" him. , a- stupid leer. the question, Do they still teach' ' for a promotion. New thoughts, emotions aha* con And your nose is expressive of American history in the schools; Wish you luck, Mr. Tack. ceptions assail him. • He gains a - a Windy gale. and colleges? . , .,' "J. more discriminating intellect, MICHAEL- ELKO, Indeed, if they do;' bow 'чйо? 4 which helps hihj to obtain a ,more" I searched for the perfect She, they solvfe the controversy? What" Br. 375 U. S. A. penetrating view of life's" values, - an oddity I find effect has the teaching upon the Philadelphia, P|. consequently, the products of his And to love?—yea. Love must be youth, who hear of the interesting creative spirit become much more more than blind. і controversy raging on the ques (Today's Ukrainian Weekly con .vahiaMe. But, if he limits him- M. 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