The Ukrainian Weekly 1936
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Supplement to the' SVOBOftA, Ukrainian Dally Wm: - Published by the Junior Department of the Ukrainian National .Association No. 41 JERSEY CITY, N. J.( SATURDAY, 'OCTOBER Ї0, 1936 vbL-IV ONE FOE ALL, ALL FOE ONE ."WUJT WMU GET OUT Ш її?" YOUTH TODAY Life insurance is a product of Quite often when we attempt to persuade some advancing civilization. The cave man knew nothing about it. How- young person of Ukrainian descent to learn something NEW SUBJECTS TN SCHOOLS. ever, even today, with the cave of his Ukrainian heritage, history, traditions, and сШ- - It was disclosed at a recent annual food ' conference of the period far behind our backs, there ture, to get into the habit of devoting at least a email New York City High School Dieti- are many people who know noth- portion of his time to the study of the'Ukrainian lan- eians Association that school offi- ing about It, and do not care to guage, we are met with the disconcerting reply: "Yes, cials hope to educate the high hear about it. If you were to tell school .pupils in better table man- them that life insurance as any what you say is'all very nice; but, putting the matter ners and to teadh them proper kind of insurance is an important practically, what will I get out of it?" `- respect' for food, -considering its matter, they might answer you, That is indeed a poser, one that, figuratively speak- cost and the -work tha4 fcoes m- with a wave of hand, that the in g, usually sets us back on our heels for the moment: to ite production. only insurance or protection they What possible answer can we give to this self-assured need is in themselves. v- Щ modern young person, when be has long settled to bis NYA FACING 'CUTS''-" Though expressing the senti- satisfaction what is worthwhile in this world and what ? Schoor official in New'York City ments of the cave man, such peo- is not, when in his conception only hard material values are confronted with the necessity ple would at the same time make : : of chopping' -off :5,0в0 `от "more us, perhaps, realize how much the rule this earth, and When be thinks that anybhe -wha names from a list of 15,000 high man has advanced since the days reasons differently is hardly more than a fool. Sentiment school and parochial school stu- of cave dwellers. Indeed, in those and ideals—they are only claptrap to him, empty words dents applying for National "Youth days, and for many centuries af- that orators wax eloquent about, that he himself spouts Administration aid in the city. ter that, the man's only protection about if he sees any gain in it, but which no one with was himself. His risks were his YOUTH'S ATTITUDE risks. His losses, no matter of any sense takes seriously, for they are nothing more than hindrances in the path of any person who wants to "get REVERSED? what kind, were his losses. He "The American press, with other had to stand them. There was no ahead" in life. And so, in the face of such a "material- ` publicity media, has been a 'rdo- way of getting away from them, istic" attitude, what possible answer can we hope to minant factor" in arresting crime no way of circumventing them, no venture without incurring the risk of his derision. among youth, Hugh. Clegg, as- way of sharing them with others. sistant director of the Federal Bu- Perhaps we could touch some responsive chord with- теаи of Investigation, told the atj- Only gradually, by slow steps, in him by reminding him of his duty to his forbears, nual newspaper institute of New. a hew idea developed. The begin- Jersey Press Association at Rut- ning was made in the sphere^ of who sacrificed a great deal, often their lives, in order gers University, ` held at New marine travel. The ancient Greeks ` that their descendants, that persons like himself, should Brunswick, N. J., on Octdber 5. were the originators. Seafarers, be proud of their Ukrainian origin. Perhaps, too, we The tendency fostered in recent as they were, they came upon the could cite a similar duty to his parents, who likewise years by the newspapers, motion idea, to loan money on ship car- sacrificed a great deal for his sake, and whom nothing pictures, and the radio to lionize goes with a provision that, if there "G-men" and other law-enforce- was to be a wreck, the loan was would make happier today than the sight of their chil- ment agents instead of lawbreak- dren taking a greater interest in those phases of their ers, Mr. Olegg said, has spurred not to be "paid. The new idea is youth to emulate "soldiers of evident at the very first glance: Ukrainian heritage that have been the very core of their peace" rather than the criminals. here the loss of the ship did not life-long strivings and aspirations. Ah, but no. All this fall upon the owner of the ship is beginning to border too closely upon sentiment, and alone, but both upon him and upon the man who loaned him that is something that his "materialism" finds qlrite hard MILITARY TRAINING TJPHELD money. Out of this idea there to stomach. .-`` ч The Board of Superintendents grew gradually a great develop- We could, maybe, call to the attention of this young of the school system of New York ment: marine insurance, under "realist" the declaration often reiterated in the old coun- City ruled, on October 5, that which all 'ihe owners of ships maintenance of Student R.O.T.C. combine together to pay losses tft try press that any one who fails to take an active in- and naval reserve units "was whol- those of _them who fall victims terest in his nationality, in its past and present life and ly legal provided that attendance was voluntary and did hot con- of a maritime accident. They say endeavors, is unworthy to be regarded as a member of flict with regular class hours. No that the first marine policy, which it, for by his indifference he brings nothing but dishonor academic credit is given for the is a contract, was written in Bel- upon it. But we are afraid that this might be a little military drill. gium in the year 1300. That is over his head; especially if he has fallen under the "real- The superintendents expressed r it took a dozen centuries to make 1 their opposition to the establish- the second step. istic ' influence of those internationally-minded "intellec- ment by principals of student tuals," of those spineless "pinks" who ignore all the "spy" committees, but said that Another step was made again they could find no evidence to some five centuries later, in the many Splendid and truly noble deeds that nationalism indicate that such -committees sphere of fire losses. Again the has accomplished and yet who constantly prate about were in existence. same principle was found useful: that which its perversions have brought into being. The rulings were made in res- the people menaced by the loss Or taking a new tack, we could ask this young modern ponse to requests by the United from fire banded together, with an Parents Association. -understanding to pay the loss, to what concrete benefits does he derive from those various -that man from among them who cultural coursee he took up in school and college, which . YOUTH HAS BETER OPPOR- should actually suffer a loss from today are of little or no use to him in earning his daily TUNITIKS fire. bread. and" keep. But it is very likely that he will run The Museum of Modern Art, in And then another step was made true to form here too, and reply expressing his regret New York City, announced, on October 6, that it has acquired when the same principle was ар- that he did take them up. The thought that these cul- nine water-color paintingB by chil- `plied to life. The idea seems now tural courses can be of help to him even today in broaden- dren from its current exhibition, simple enough. Death of the fam- ing the scope of his outlook and capabilities and in en- "New Horizons In American Art," ily's bread-winner is a loss to the which comprises the outstanding family. Why then not to apply riching his personality will most likely escape him. work done by artists all over the to this loss the same principle as And so at length we fall back upon an argument country on the Federal Art Pro- to the loss of the ship on the that might stir a Little interest in him, namely: that by ject of the Works Progress Admi- ‚sea, or. to" the loss of a house nistration. by fife? Yet, though simple, it studying his Ukrainian background, history, culture 'and took the people many years to laguage, he thereby awakens within himself those long One of the Federal Art Pro- appljt; this principle, to the new ject enterprises represented in the sphere. The old idea of "every dormant qualities that have been inbred within him by show is the teaching of art to thousands of children. In New man for himself" still prevailed, a long line of Ukrainian ancestors; qualities that have York City alone some 30,000 chil- and the new idea took hold of been .dormant .simply because in his burried efforts to dren receive instruction from Fed- the people's - minds only slowly.