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ШroinioENGLISH-LANGUAGEn WEEKLY EDITION VOL. LXXXVI. No. 188 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1979 25 GENTS Three Ukrainian Helsinki group members arrested NEW YORK, N.Y. - Three mem­ searches were conducted across the bers of the Ukrainian Public Group to oblast. Promote the Implementation of the The Sichkos have been charged under Helsinki Accords have been arrested in Article 187-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine recent weeks, reported the the Ukrainian SSR — anti-Soviet press service of the Ukrainian Supreme agitation. The investigation is being Liberation. Council (abroad) and the conducted by a KGB investigator from "Smoloskyp" Ukrainian Information Lviv called Ivanov. Service. The older Sichko was born on August Yuriy Lytvyn, the newest member of 18, 1926, in the village of Vytvytsia. the group, was arrested by the KGB in During the second world war he served Kiev on Monday, August 6. In mid-July as a officer in the Ukrainian Insurgent Petro Sichko and his. son Vasyl were Army. arrested during a major KGB crack­ In 1947 he was arrested for allegedly down in the Ivano-Frankivske oblast in attempting to form on organization of western Ukraine. fighters for an independent Ukraine, Lytvyn, born in 1934, already spent a which was to have drawn its members total of 13 years of imprisonment. In from the universities and institutes in 1955-65 he was incarcerated for his western Ukraine. involvement in the Ukrainian national Sichko was originally sentenced to movement, according to "Smoloskyp." death but the sentence was commuted In March 1975 he was sentenced to to 25 years imprisonment. He was three years for collecting and distri­ pardoned in 1957 under a general buting poems with a Ukrainian national amnesty. character and the article "Tragic Gal­ Since his release Sichko had been lery." He was released in 1977. faced with contiuous persecution and Vasyl Sichko Petro Sichko Lytvyn became a member of the Kiev harassment from the KQB. The secret group this year. police has been demanding that he write In 1977 Sichko wrote the following to citizen of the Soviet Union. I have The Sichkos were arrested in the an article for publication in a newspaper the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet: "I accepted that in the belief that my town of Dolyna. The press service of the and that he recant his views. As a result have lived in Ukraine for 20 years since children will be given the opportunity to Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council of KGB harassment, Sichko was not my release and during that period of take advantage of the rights given to a reported that other persons were also able to maintain employment for any time I only have been able to take full citizen of the Soviet Union as is arrested at the time and that numerous period of time. advantage of rights given to a semi- (Continued on page 2)

Annual Barnesville festival John Diefenbaker, noted supporter marks UNA "85th" of Ukrainian causes, dies at 83 Served as Canadian prime minister in 1957-63 OTTAWA, Ont. - John George Diefenbaker, prime minister of Canada from June 21, 1957, to April 8, 1963, and the highest-ranking government official in the West to publicly support the independence of Ukraine, died in his Rockcliffe Park home at 7 a.m. on Thursday, August 16. He was 83 years old. Mr. Diefenbaker died as a result of an apparent heart attack, announced Kieth Martin, who was the late statesman's private secretary and executive assis­ tant. Mr. Diefenbaker was found dead in his study by Archie McQueen, who was his volunteer worker. The former prime minister got up early as usual that The Marunchak Dancers from Montreal, Que., perform during the annual day and was found dead in his chair. Ukrainian Festival in Barnesville. Mr. Diefenbaker's close association BARNESVILLE, Pa. - The annual ville, 85 years ago. The festival was with the Ukrainian people has won for Ukrainian Festival here at Lakewood sponsored by the Shamokin deanery of him the admiration, devotion and Park, July 27-29, which is one of the the Ukrainian Catholic Church and it respect of the entire Ukrainian com­ most popular spectacles in the anthra­ was run by a committee headed by munity for his understanding of its cite region of the Keystone State, was Stephan Postupack. aspirations, as well as for his valuable this year dedicated to the 85th A program dubbed "Evening in counsel and participation in Ukrainian John G. Diefenbaker anniversary of the Ukrainian National Ukraine" marked the official opening of affairs. liberty for the Ukrainian people in Association. the festival Friday evening. The festival Not only was he interested in the Ukraine. Addressing the General As­ The UNA was founded in Shamokin, goers had the opportunity to enjoy a advancement of Ukrainians in Canada, sembly of the United Nations in I960, Pa., just a few miles away from Barnes­ but he also championed the cause of (Continued on page 4) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1979 No. 188 Renouncement of Soviet citizenship is sign of schizophrenia, according to Soviet psychiatrist NEW YORK, N.Y. - A Soviet citizenship is considered to be a sign of tempted to enlist the services of the his third semester at the university and psychiatrist told Petro Sichko, a former schizophrenia, and when the person older Sichko as a guarantee that the son his path to a higher education would be political prisoner and member of the re-accepts Soviet citizenship, the condi­ will complete the course. Sichko wrote closed forever, no matter where we Ukrainian Helsinki group who was tion disappears; he recommended that I that the harassment stemmed from the would seek assistance," wrote Sichko. arrested recently, that according to convince my son to accept the citizen­ fact that both he and his wife were Sichko said that the KGB carried out current Soviet psychiatry, the re­ ship," wrote Sichko. "Similar advice political prisoners. its threat. On July 20, 1977, his son was nouncement of Soviet citizenship is was given to me by the Ministry of "I categorically refused to cooperate expelled from the university on what he considered to be a sign of schizo­ Health of the Ukrainian SSR." with the KGB and as a result I was told called "fabricated charges of academic phrenia, reported the press service of Sichko's letter to the United Nations by them that my son would never begin (Continued on page 11) the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation focused on his family's attempts to be Council (abroad). I issued a Soviet exit visa and permission In a letter written in April 1978 to the to imigrate to the United States. He Three Ukrainian Helsinki... United Nations, Sichko said that on said that because his son was not (Continued from page 1) became a member of the Ukrainian January 31, 1978, Dr. Chukhrin, chief allowed to leave the Soviet Union alone guaranteed by the Soviet Constitution." group. psychiatrist of the Ministry of Health, on the grounds that he was suffering Later that year Sichko renounced his The latest arrests bring the number told him that his son Vasyl would be from schizophrenia, he had requested Soviet citizenship. of incarcerated members of the Ukraini- ; considered as suffering from schizo­ the Soviet government to allow the On April 30i 1978, he joined the an group to 11. phrenia until he withdraws his re­ entire fiye-member family to emigrate Ukrainian Helsinki group. Those who have served or are serving nouncement of Soviet citizenship. from the USSR, Vasyl Sichko' born on December 22, prison sentences on charges stemming j The younger Sichko had renounced His family consists of his wife Ste- 1956, in Magadan, is the youngest from their involvment with the group , his Soviet citizenship and requested pania Petrash, born on April 1,1925, in member of the Kiev group to be arrest­ are: Mykola Rudenko, head of the an exist visa to trie United States in the the village of Zalukva, Halych region, ed. group, Oleksa Tykhy, Mykola Matuse- wake of his unfounded expulsion from Ivano-Frankivske oblast; sons Vasyl, He completed the secondary school vych, Myroslav Marynovych, Oles the Kiev State University. He then fell born December 22, 1956, in Magadan, in Dolyna and then worked in a factory. Berdnyk, Lev Lukianenko, Petro Vins, into trouble with the secret police, the Kolyma region, and Volodymyr, born In 1975 he enrolled in the journalism Vasyl Striltsiv, and Vasyl Ovisenko. militia and the military, Sichko was July 26, 1960, in Dolyna, Ivano-Fran- department at the Kiev University. Vins and Gen. Petro Grigorenko, arrested and on January 17, 1978, he kivsk^ region; and daughter Oksana, When the KQB learned of this, it began who previously was incarcerated in a was confined for two weeks in the Ivan- born April 10, 1963, in Dolyna, Ivano- to threaten him to become an informer. psychiatric asylum for his other human Frankivske psychiatric asylum. Frankivske region. The youth refused and he was expelled rights activites are currently residing in His father had protested the con­ Sichko and his wife are former from the University. the United States. Striltsiv was released finement to various Soviet authorities political prisoners who spent 10 years in As a result Jof his expulsion, the young and is in Ukraine. before talking with Chukhrin. concentration camps during Stalin's Sichko renounced his Soviet citizen­ The members of the group remaining "On January 31, 1978, the chief rule. ; ship, returned his "Komsomol" mem­ in freedom are Oksana Meshko, Ivan psychiatrist of the Ministry of Health of He wrote in the letter that as soon as bership card and demanded permission Kandyba, Vitaliy Kalynychenko, V.: the USSR Chukhrin listened to me and his son Vasyl became a student of to emigrate to the United States. Striltsiv and Nina Strokatova. then told me that according to Soviet journalsim at the Taras Shevchenko , On February 28, 1978, two months Olha Heyko resigned from the psychiatry, the renouncement of Soviet Kiev State University, the KGB at­ before his father, the young Sichko group in early 1978. "No authority has the right to stifle human thinking," wrote Kyrychenko to Brezhnev HELSINKI, Finland. - The wife of Party is that "each person, I repeat, each sed to the highest organs of the Soviet gain assurances of improvement from a recent Ukrainian political prisoner person feels that he or she is an active government is considered by that them," she wrote. warned Leonid Brezhnev that "no participant in government affairs, and government to be a state crime," wrote Still, KGB agents asked witnesses authority has the right to stifle human that each person feels certain that his or Kyrychenko-Badzio. "But Yuriy Bad­ where Badzio had sent his articles, she thinking," according to the "Smolo- her thoughts, his or her voice will be zio acted in full accordance with the said. skyp" Ukrainian Information Service. heard arid taken into account in the basis of your program." Kyrychenko-Badzio protested these In a letter to the head of the. Com­ formulation of large and small deci­ questions saying that the secret police munist Party of the Soviet Union, sion," Kyrychenko-Badzio charged that Loyal citizen had no right to make such assumptions, Svitlana Kyrychenko-Badzio, the wife the Soviet government has not lived up "especially when the nature of my of Yuriy Badzio, came to the defense of to those words by arresting her hus­ Kyrychenko-Badzio defended her husband's activity up until now did not her husband by questioning the sin­ band. husband as being a loyal member of the give it any reason to make such assump­ cerity of certain remarks by Brezhnev Kyrychenko-Badzio said that on Soviet society, who often felt it was his tions." during his election campaign speech February 3 Soviet authorities had duty to offer his suggestions to the She said that it was imperative to earlier this year. She stressed that confiscated from her husband his un­ government on important social ques­ reduce to a minimum "unpleasant and citizens of the Soviet Union should be finished research paper on Soviet tions. She wrote that he began doing so downgrading" appeals by Soviet citi­ allowed to criticize and analyze Soviet socialism, which he intended to submit in 1965 and in 1977 he participated in zens to Western governments, organi­ policies rather than accept them blindly. to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. the open discussion on the proposed zations or individuals. She said that the Some six weeks later, continued Kyry­ constitution, taking a stand on such government could eliminate this prac­ Reminds campaign speech chenko-Badzio, when voters were cast­ issues as a single federated state, politi­ tice if it allowed an open discussion of ing their ballots for the new constitu­ cal freedoms and state treason. government shortcomings in the Soviet Reminding Brezhnev that on March tion, Badzio was arrested on charges of "Yuriy Badzio did all of that as a Union. 2 he said in a campaign speech that the committing a state crime. citizen of his country addressing his "Allow the opportunity in your "basic program" of the Communist "The mere writing of a paper addres- government. He did not publicize his country for a free and open discussion community work and many of his of state, political and social problems of closest friends did not even know about the highest order," wrote Kyrychenko- it. He was only concerned with focusing Badzio. "Allow the opportunity — as Close Ukrainian school in Kiev the attention of the addressees on the the first step on this path — to freely matters at hand and then, hoping to HELSINKI, Finland. - Ivan building of the Ukrainian Writers' (Continued on page 10) Franko High School No. 92 in Kiev, Union, and many children of Ukrainian Ukraine, was recently closed down, authors studied there. The wife of according to information received here imprisoned Ukrainian composer Va- by the "Smoloskyp" Ukrainian Infor­ dym Smohytel taught at the school for CBOEOAAASVOBODA mation Service. The high school was some time. УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЩОДЕННИК 1ЧИЕГ UKRAINIAN D AILS one of the few in which classes were In late 1976 a fire broke out in a room conducted in the Ukrainian language. of the upperclassmen. Firemen did not FOUNDED 1893 High school No. 92 is a historic respond to the alarm, and children were Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association, Inc., at 30 Montgomery school, the former collegium of Pavlo forced to flee through the windows. Street Jersey City, NJ. 07302, daily except Mondays and holidays. Halahan, which was founded by Ukrai­ According to information by "Smolo­ TELEPHONES: Svoboda UNA nian patron of the arts Hryhoriy Hala­ skyp," there were three victims of the (201) 451-2200 han in 1871 in memory of his deceased blaze. (201) 434-0237 (201) 434-0807 son. No official explanation for the clos­ from New York (212) 227-5250 The school was known for the fact ing of the Ivan Franko High School has from New York (212) 227-4125 (212) 227-5251 that many members of the nationally been received. However, Kiev sources conscious Ukrainian intelligentsia stu­ say that the closing of this Ukrainian- Subscription rates for THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY S6.00 per year died there. language school and the transfer of its UNA Members 52.50 per year In order to commemorate Ivan students jto various Russian-language THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Editors: Zenon Snylyk (Managing) Franko's stay at the school in 1885-86 schools are further evidence of the P.O. Box 346, Jersey Gity, NJ. 07303 Ihor Dlaboha its name was Changed to honor Franko. Russifісдіібп policies of the Soviet r , Roma SochafbHadzewycz The high school was located near the authorities in Ukraine. No. U THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1979 Press resolution on religious persecution in Ukraine (UNIS) Imagine Ambassador the USSR in light of the UN Charter feelings on this important matter to the the charges of religious persecution in Andrew Young on the floor of the and the Declaration of Human Rights." Soviet Union." Ukraine had some substance. Both were United Nations accusing the Soviet The resolution names Ukrainian, The two Congressmen also wrote to assured that the charges were true, Mr. Union of religious persecution in Orthodox,. Catholic, Jewish, Baptist Rep. Donald Baker, chairman of the Denysyk said. Ukraine and demanding freedom of and Pentecostal. Churches as well as House Subcommittee on International He said that the credit for original worship for all religious denominations. "others in the largest non-Russian Organizations, and to Rep. Lee H. sponsorship of this resolution in the It could happen as early as next year nation both from within the Soviet Hamilton, who chairs the House Sub­ House belongs to Dr. Lev E. Dobri- if a certain resolution were to pass in Union and in Eastern Europe." committee on Europe and the Middle ansky who has been pushing it for years both Houses of Congress, according to "Representatives Pepper and Broom- East, asking them to consider hearings and to the Ukrainian communities in Bohdan Denysyk, deputy director for field have gone to bat for the Ukrainian and to proceed with legislative action on Detroit and in Miami, Fla., especially to public relations at UNIS, the Ukrainian community," Mr. Denysyk said, ex­ the resolution, which was referred to Bohdan Fedorak and Mr. Mazurak, Congress. Committee of America's plaining that they have sent a "dear both committees. respectively. Ukrainian National Information Ser­ colleague" letter to the entire House of In a statement issued earlier this year, "Unlike past resolutions which have vice in Washington, D.C. Representatives urging support for Sen. Goldwater said that his resolution, died when Congress adjourned, this one At the very least, "we could get House Concurrent Resolution 103. In co-sponsored by seven other senators, has a real chance of passing, particular­ Congressional hearings and be able to addition, he said, they have sent a letter "is intended to reaffirm the U.S. govern­ ly because for the first time it names all have our religious leaders and recently to the chairmen of two House sub­ ment's basic principle of religious religious groups in Ukraine," Mr. released dissidents verify the truth of the committees asking for hearings. freedom amidst the talk of detente and Denysyk said. persecutions," Mr. Denysyk said. In their letter to fellow House mem­ within the spirit of the Helsinki accord. He said the atmosphere in which the The UCCA, he said, will be contact­ bers, the two congressmen wrote that Before the resolutions were intro­ resolution is being received, both in ing various Ukrainian organizations, "following the Second World War, the duced in the House, both congressmen Congress and in the Ukrainian com- notably the Churches, urging them to Russians forced a merger between contacted the State Department to see if (Continued on page 8) inspire their members to send tele­ Russian Orthodox and Catholic Chur­ grams, write letters and personally ches in Ukraine and proceeded to lobby their congressional representa­ disperse, imprison, exile, and liquidate tives for support of the proposed Catholic clergy and confiscate church Lemko federation holds congress, declaration, House Concurrent Resolu­ property...followers of the Jewish faith tion 103. (in Ukraine) have been similarly treat­ re-elects Dr. John Hvozda Introduced in the House on April 9 ed... moreover, Seventh Day Advent- NEW YORK, N.Y. - Dr. John by Representatives Claude Pepper (D- ists, Pentecostals, Baptists and other Hvozda, a noted Ukrainian activist who Fla.) and Willim S. Broomfield (R- Evangelical denominations are outlaw­ teaches political science at Auburn Mich.) and in the Senate in March by ed and must worship in secret." Community College, was re-elected Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), the resolu­ "For example," the letter said, "Pas­ president of the World Lemko Federa­ tion seeks "the resurrection of Churches tor Georgi Vins, who recently left the tion at the organization's 3rd regular and religious freedom in Ukraine," and Soviet Union, was educated in an congress held here Saturday, July 28, in calls upon the U.S. government to underground seminary and served years its own headquarters on the premises of "raise in the General Assembly of the in prison for being a clergyman... in a bi­ the Ukrainian Liberation Front build­ United Nations the issue of Stalin's partisan effort we are pleased to intro­ ing. liquidation of these churches and its duce H.. Con. Resolution 103 calling Joining Dr. Hvozda on the executive , perpetuated effect upon the posture of upon the President to communicate our board are: Mykola Hryckowian, Theo­ dore Gulych, Maksym Masley and Myron Mycio, vice presidents, Mykola Duplak, secretary, Ivan Lyko, trea­ Credit unions hold conference surer, Judge John Gonas, legal advisor, by A.J. Serafyn In the first lecture, Dr. Melnyk spoke Julian Kotlar and Mykajlo . Czeresz- about sources and cost of capital, niowskyj, members. Stepan Barna, WARREN, Mich. - A regional financial leverage and the principal Theodore Kolos and Bohdan Chaykiw- conference of the Ukrainian National aspects of long-term financial planning sky comprise the auditing board. Credit Union Association (UNCUA) in general. In the second lecture, Dr. The delegates heard reports of the was held here on July 14-15. It was Melnyk explained the "musts" of ra­ outgoing officers on the activity of the hosted by the local Ukrainian Self- tional investment and its immediate and organization since the last congress. Reliance Federal. Credit Union. The future consequences. Present capital The keynote address on the "Struc­ Ukrainian National Credit Union As­ planning will determine the future of ture and Tasks of the World Lemko sociation represents over 30 Ukrainian any business enterprise. In the discus­ Federation" was delivered by Mr. I. Dr. John Hvozda credit unions in the United States with sion period that followed the theoretical Lyko. The discussion centered mainly budget committees which worked dur­ total assets of about SI35 million. aspects of Dr. Melnyk's presentations on the present-day thrust of the Lem- ing the congress. The first day's business session was were linked to practical applications in kian movement and the most immediate .Conducting the business sessions was held in the newly constructed Ukrainian the credit union business, particularly in tasks at hand. a presidium composed of B. Chaykiw- Community Center and it was attended granting larger business loans. Reports were also rendred by the sky, chairman^ M. Hryckowian, vice by about 45 delegates and guests. The The first business session followed by nominating, resolutions, by-laws and chairman, and M. Duplak, secretary. participants were welcomed by L. cocktails and dinner served by the Lypecky, president of the Ukrainian Ukrainian Community Center kitchens Self-Reliance Federal Credit Union in to a group of about 60 persons. The Detroit, who underscored the main dinner speaker was O. Pleshkewych, American authors protest purposes of this conference, which was president of the Ukrainian World definition of the most common pro­ Cooperative Council. He spoke about blems and their solution. The confer­ the potential of the Ukrainian "financial suppression of Soviet writers ence was welcomed in turn by Dr. A. power" that is dormant at present. This NEW YORK, N.Y. -Five American The message noted that the contri­ Zukowsky, president of the UCCA potential can be developed by the grass- authors have sent a sharply worded butors had been subjected to official Metropolitan Detroit Branch. The next root movement of all Ukrainians in protest to the head of the Soviet Writers sanctions since seeking approval to speaker was R. Mycyk, UNCUA cooperation with the Ukrainian credit Union, denouncing the suppression of a publish the anthology without censor­ chairman. Mr. Mycyk spoke of the unions. literary anthology that had been plan­ ship. The request was denied and two of needs and benefits of such regional Following the morning Liturgy, the ned by 23 Soviet writers and the union's the contributors, Yevgny Popov and conferences. second day's session was devoted to the suspension of two of the contributors, Viktor Yerofeyev, were suspended from Following this generally procedural practical aspects of credit union opera­ reported The New York Times of the union. part of the conference, D. Hryhorchuk, tions. It was held in the new Ukrainian August 12. UNCUA president and conference Self-Reliance Federal Credit Union Signed by the playwrights Edward "We protest these suspensions," the chairman, introduced the first principal branch in Warren. In addition to the Albee and Arthur Miller and the nove­ Americans wrote, "and we express our admiration and support for four well- speaker, the Rev. S. Sabol, OSBM, who credit union office, this new structure lists William Styron, John Updike and known writers — Vasily Aksyonov, spoke about the cooperation of the houses the Self-Reliance Association Kurt Vonnegut, the message, a cable­ and provides store and office space to Fazil Iskander, Andrei Bitov and Bella Ukrainian Churches and the credit gram, was sent Wednesday, August 8, Akhmadulina - who at present are union movement in Carpatho-Ukraine. Ukrainian business and profes­ to Feliks Kuznetsov, first secretary of sionals. The main topics of the session risking their own careers after having Father Sabol underscored the pio­ the Union of Soviet Writers, according stated that they will resign from the neering work of the Ukrainian clergy in were: insurance, membership in the to Mr. Styron, who said there had been American credit union leagues, joint union unless their colleagues are rein­ the cooperative movement in that part no immediate response. stated." of Ukraine and the influence of credit advertising and computer programs. The Americans, terming the effort unions on its economic and political Some of these common needs among last winter to publish the anthology, Since preparing the protest, Mr. growth. the Ukrainian credit unions can best be known as "Metropol," a courageous Styron said, he has learned that two Dr. Z.L. Melnyk, professor and served by UNCUA. The solution of move that would have marked a "his­ more contributors have threatened to chairman of the Department of Finance common problems can also be found toric moment in the struggle for literary resign. He said the protest originated at the University of Cincinnati, deliver­ among the existing UNCUA member­ freedom in the Soviet Union" ex­ with one of the Soviet contributors, ed two lectures, "Capital Structure and ship. pressed solidarity with the contributors who managed to send word to friends in Financial Strategy of Enterprises" and The conference concluded with a and voiced the hope that they would the United States requesting that the "Capital Investment Decisions:. Crite­ luncheon and а^ощ of the Credit Uiijon "receive treatment consonant with Americans, all of whom are well known ria, Methods and Procedures." and the Community Center buildings. t standards of justice and dignity.'' in the Soviet Union, speak out. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1979 No. H John Diefenbaker... Gen. M. Krat dies in Detroit (Continued from page 1) landmark of Ukrainian. Canadians in DETROIT, Mich. -Gen. Mykhajlo National Army during World War II this country. He was the guest of honor Krat, former officer in the Army of the and served as a staff officer. After the he called upon the rulers of the Soviet and the principle speaker at the consti­ Ukrainian National Republic and in the war he was commanding officer of a Union to grant self-determinnation to tuent assembly of the World Congress 1st Division of the Ukrainian National POW camp in Bellaria near Rimini, the peoples under Soviet domination. of Free Ukrainians held in New York Army, died here Wednesday, August 8, Italy. During his visit to Kiev, he raised the City in 1967. He was also a speaker at at the age of 87. question of establishing a. Canadian the Second WCFU in Toronto, Ont. Gen. Krat was born August 6, 1892, A highly decorated leader, Gen. Krat authored many articles on military General Consulate in Ukraine's capital. In the history of the Ukrainians in in the city of Hadiach, Ukraine. During the war of national liberation he served topics and the history of the Ukrainian Mr. Diefenbaker was the first prime Canada, and indeed among Ukrainians armed forces. minister of Canada who gave a cabinet throughout the world, Mr. Diefenbaker as general in the Army of the Ukrainian appointment to a member of Parlia­ held a special place of high esteem and National Republic and headed the staff Funeral services were held Monday, ment of Ukrainian origin. He also honor. of the Zaporozhian Division during the August 13, and the remains were in­ appointed two Ukrainian Canadians to On June 10, 1957, the Conservative First Winter Campaign. After World terred at St. Andrew's Ukrainian Or­ the Senate and included Ukrainian Party won the largest number of seats in War I Gen. Krat lived in Poland. He thodox Cemetery in South Bound leaders in the Canadian delegations to the 23rd parliament and Mr. Diefen­ joined the 1st Division of the Ukrainian Brook, N.J. the United Nations and to NATO baker became prime minister of Canada Conferences in Europe. on June 21, 1957. His government was Party reverted to the role of Opposition 1895, in Grey. Country, Ont., served During his tenure of office the first re-elected on March 31, 1958, and again and Mr. Diefenbaker assumed the overseas in the. Canadian army as a Ukrainian Canadian was appointed to on June 18, 1962. office of Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal lieutenant. He is the honorary colonel the Board of Directors of the Canada Several Ukrainian. Canadian Mem­ Opposition in the House of Commons, of the North Saskatchewan Regiment, Council. bers of Parliament successfully fol­ from which position he resigned on Royal Canadian Infantry Corps. In 1961, as the prime minister of lowed Mr. Diefenbaker in these elec­ September 25, 1967. Mr. Diefenbaker is survived by Olive Canada, he unveiled the Taras Shev- tions. In the general election of April 8, During World War I, Mr. Diefen­ E. (Freeman) Palmer, daughter of the chenko Monument in Winnipeg, a 1963, the Progressive Conservative baker, who was born on September 18, late Dr. and Mrs. C.B. Freeman.

Annual Barnesville festival... (Continued from page 1) traditional Ukrainian meal before being entertained by the dancing ensemble from the Ukrainian Catholic parish in McAdoo, Pa. Mykola Boychuk of Philadelphia, Pa., is the choreographer of the ensemble and the Rev. Bohdan Lewycky is pastor of the Church. The evening concluded with a dance to the tunes of the "Soniashnyk" band directed by Oleksa Martynovych. As festival goers were arriving at the 130-acre Lakewood Park on the second day, they were greeted with Ukrainian flags and a large "Vitayemo" banner. The festival parade began at the en­ trance to the park. Youths dressed in Ukrainian national costumes, followed by local Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian dignitaries, lead the guests to the park's concert hall. The march was escorted by j ці і і і їм 111 ' 111 111111 її 11 її і і і iii 'і і ні тії і ні і її nun ти in iimi IIII IIIIII hi iiii ІІІ'І її її її її hiii ui PHI її іііііііііііііііііііііішшццт kozaks riding on horses. Award recipients pose with UNA activists. Left to right are Adolf Slovik, Stefan Hawrysz, Peggy Hentosh, Helen Slovik, The Rev. Dr. John Bilanych and the the Rev. Wroblewsky, Roman Tenetylo, Steve Postupack, John Petruncio, Joseph Chaban, Dr. John O. Flis and Rev. John Stevensky of the Ukrainian Tymko Butrey. Catholic. Church and the Very Rev. Mitrat Hilary Wrublewsky, a Ukraini­ tacts have been made with other poten­ an orthodox priest, celebrated a Mo- tial members. leben. At noon the Marunchak Ukrai­ The UNA booth at the festival was nian Dancers of Montreal, Que., the opened for the duration of the festival. featured attraction at the festival, made Many persons received information their first of many appearances at the about the UNA and some 4,000 copies concerts. of The Ukrainian Weekly were distri­ The UNA program began immedi­ buted. ately following the performances of the The jubilee lottery for a free weekend Marunchak dancers. Tymko Butrey, at Soyuzivka was won by Ann Henglik chairman of the Anthracite Region and Joseph Hornyka. District. Committee, opened the pro­ Special exhibits were held in many gram and greeted all the guests present. booths around the park's concert hail. UNA Supreme President Dr. John O. Ceramics, embroidery, sculpture and Flis delivered the keynote address. paintings were just some of the items on UNA Senior Field Representative display. An exhibit dedicated to the Stefan Hawrysz then introduced Anna Year of the Ukrainian Child was pre­ Haras, chairman of the Lehigh Valley pared by Victor Kapliy of Irvington, District Committee and Supreme Advi­ N.J., and the Rev. Lewycky prepared a sor. display of religious artificates. Maria The program marking the UNA's Hapko displayed an embroidered anniversary focused its attention on the Ukrainian blouse that was made in Soyuz pioneers. Dr. Flis and Messrs. Ukraine 85 years ago. Hawrysz and Butrey distributed awards In the afternoon hours the audience to the Very Rev. Mitrat Wroblewsky, was entertained by a battery of youth secretary of Branch 429; Helen Slovik, dancing ensembles — the groups came secretary of Branch 7; Roman Tenetylo, from Ukrainian. Catholic parishes in secretary of Branch 201; John Petrun- McAdoo, directed by Mr. Boychuk; cio, secretary of Branch 87; Agnes Frackville, directed by Lubomyr Hen­ Hentosh, the widow of the late district tosh; and Minersville by Roma Postu­ Officers of the Anthracite District Committee stand before the Soyuz booth on the chairman Michael Hentosh; and pack. festival grounds. Left to right are John Petruncio, Peggy Hentosh, Joseph Chaban, Tymko Butrey, secretary of Branch 164 Two dance orchestras provided mu­ Supreme Advisor Anna Haras, Adolf Slovik, Helen Slovik, Senior Field and district chairman. sic for dancing that evening — the Representative Stefan Hawrysz and chairman Tymko Butrey. Other UNA'ers present during the Mykola Huba band of Minersville and ceremony were Peggy Hentosh, secre­ Melody Nights of Rochester. The delphia Archeparchy of the Ukrainian offered by the Revs. Bilanych, David tary of Branch 305; Adolf Slovik, Marunchak dancers rounded out the Catholic Church. He was assisted by the Chabin, Stevensky and Marian district committee treasurer; and Jo­ day's activities with another perfor­ Rev. Stevensky. Singing the responses Kawola, seph Chaban^ secretary of Rr^nch 242. mance. was the church choir from McAdoo, /A festive atmosphere continued Messrs. Butrey and Hawrysz pre­ Sunday's Divine Liturgy was cele-, Pa.,tunder, the ,direction of the Rev/ throughout the day with performances sented to Dr. Flis some 30 new member­ brated by Msgr. Stephan Chehansky^J Lewycky. ' ' " ' . . ' '\\ . by the dance gfoiips, dances irid rhany ? ; ship Іа^КсайЖ IrpoІ sixfiifrаШШ istrator^of ЧйР^гі rla^ In the afternoon 'a mol'eben was attractions fdr'ther children.' 'V No, 188 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1979 5 CN Week observed at Statue of Liberty NEW YORK, N.Y. - A rally oi cow's imperialism and the subversive various nationalities representing the role played by Communist Vietnam in non-Russian nations took place at 1:30 Asia with Moscow's aid. p.m. on Sunday afternoon, July 22, at Also addressing the rally was Dr. the Statue of Liberty here to mark the M.Z. Sasz, vice president of the Na­ 20th anniversary of the proclamation of tional Conference of American Ethnic the Captive Nations Week by the U.S. Groups, from Washington, D.C. government. The rally was organized by Americans to Free. Captive Nations Jozef Plonski, chairman of the Jersey (AFCN), with support and financial City branch of the Polish-American assistance by the Association for the Congress, called upon the nation's Liberation of Ukraine and in coopera­ ethnics groups to organize into a politi­ tion of the Central Office of the Ukrai­ cal bloc and exert their power in elec­ nian Congress Committee of America tions. He also urged stronger imple­ and the Ukrainian Hetman Union. mentation of the human rights provi­ sions of the Helsinki Accords. Every 30 minutes ferry boats bring tourists from all over the world to the Dr. Joseph Shaeftik, president of the Liberty Island. There are thousands of Freedom Leadership Foundation them. Shortly after 12 noon people which has its headquarters in Washing­ began to assemble with flags and post­ ton, called upon the free world to unite ers. The square at the Statue of Liberty in the struggle against marxism. was filled with people. Viktor Borovsky, recently released At 1:30 p.m., Dr. Valentyna Kalynyk, dissident from by a new dissident head of the Americans to Free Captive Ukraine, delivered the principal address Nations, opened the official part of the which was translated into English by rally which began with the pledge of Mr. Mykula. allegiance to the American flag, led by "In the world today there is an axiom W. Bodnar, representative of the that there are no more colonial empires, UCC A in New Jersey and of the Ukrai­ but the greatest colonial empire still nian American Veterans. The American exists today and its name is the Soviet national anthem was rendered by Joan Union," said Mr. Borovsky. Nordahl, deputy chairman of the Na­ "In the so-called USSR, there are tional. Confederation of American over 100 non-Russian nationalities and Ethnic Groups in New Jersey. the Kremlin wants to integrate them all The Rev. I. Tkachuk, pastor of the into a single Soviet nationality. But All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church Moscow is having trouble because the in New York, read the invocation. various peoples want to retain their In her opening address entitled. "For unique national identities. Ukraine, the Dissolution of the Russian Empire," with over 50 million people, is one of the largest countries in Europe," Mr. Dr. Kalynyk pointed out that the USSR Viktor Borovsky addresses the Captive Nations Week rally at the foot of the Statue consists of the so-called 15 "union" Borovsky said, "but it is not indepen­ of Liberty. republics and 20 "autonomous" repub­ dent. It is a sort of appendage of the lics. Apart from that the Russian SFSR Soviet Union." contains 16 more autonomous units. In his remarks. Charles Andrean- All these republics are inhabited by szky, director of the American Hungari­ Harvard announces program of non-Russians who make up more than an Federation, called for unity of all the half of the population of the USSR, but ethnic groups and for their cooperation Moscow forces the Russian language against tyranny and imperialism. Ukrainian studies for new year upon the enslaved nations starting from the cradle. To unmask the Communist After the conclusion of the official CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A series of A full-year seminar, to be held every Russian colonialism and imperialism part, Miss Nordahl opened the enter­ five one and two-semester courses and Thursday, will be attended by pro­ means at the same time to counteract tainment part with a song about the four seminars in Ukrainian studies will fessors, doctoral candidates, research the Russification of Ukraine, Byelorus­ Statue of Liberty. be offered by Harvard University in the associates of the Harvard Ukrainian sia, the Baltic and other nations, pre­ The Chinese Dance Study Associa­ new academic year, announced the Research Institute and invited scholars vent the deportation and forced reset­ tion, led by Mrs. Vivien Shioi, per­ Ukrainian Studies Fund. from other universities. tlement as a means of eradicating formed several Chinese dances. There were about 400 participants at Beginning Ukrainian will be offered Another seminar will concentrate on national identities of the various peo­ ancient historical chronicles for the ples. She said that the enslaved nations the rally, as well as over 300 tourists as a full-year course, as will two courses who watched it. in Ukrainian history focusing on the preparation of appropriate publica­ must be granted the right to indepen­ tions. dent existence and that the Moscow More than 30 organizations were Kievan Rus'-Ukraine period, the Po­ empire must be dismembered. represented. lish-Lithuanian period, intellectual As in previous years, a scholarly Among Ukrainians present were: history of 19th century Ukraine and conference is being planned. A three- In concluding her address, Dr. Kaly­ writer Dokia Humenna; the Rev. V. contemporary Ukrainian history. Also, day meeting of the Permanent. Confer­ nyk cited the names of tens of political lYSghchuk, pastor of the St. Sophia there will be a course on Ukrainian ence of Ukrainian Studies will also be prisoners of different nationalities who Ukrainian Orthodox . Church in bibliography. held in the course of the academic year. are languishing in prisons and concen­ Bayonne, N.J.; Dr. P.oman Huhlewych, tration camps, and called for their honorary chairman of the United immediate release. Ukrainian American Organizations of After the address, Myron, Leskiw New York (UCCA Branch); Prof. Yuriy Eight-month program offered at Manor read the Captive Nations Week pro­ Bobrovsky, editor of The Orthodox JENK1NTOWN, Pa. - Recent high clamation signed by President Jimmy Herald; Dr. Ivan Marchenko, chairman programs may also be applied toward a school gradustes, as well as women Carter. Wolodymyr Mykula, who of the executive committee of the Manor Junior College associate in hoping to return to the work force, can science degree or to degree programs at served as master of ceremonies, read the Association for the Liberation of gain confidence and expertise through other colleges. Captive Nations Week proclamations Ukraine; Stepan Zenetsky, editor of the Manor Junior College's Certificate . Contact the admissions office for issued by Mayor Edward Koch of New newspaper "Voice of Lemkivshchyna." program in executive stenography, legal more information or to arrange an York, Governor Hugh. Carey of New The rally ended with a wreath-laying stenography, or medical stenography. interview to discuss your career plan­ York and Governor Brendan T. Byrne ceremony at the foot of the Statue of These eight-month courses at Manor ning at (215) 885-2360 ext. 18. of New Jersey as well as telegrams from Liberty in memory of the victims of the are developed and paced to teach many senators and congressmen. struggle for the liberation of the enslav­ students occupational competency as Manor Junior College, at Fox Chase Senator Jacob Javits of New York ed nations. Olha Bobrovska, represent­ professionals in their chosen field and Forrest Road, also offers associate wrote: "Greetings to you at the time ing Ukrainians, and Dr. Sasz carried the within a relatively short period of time. degrees in allied health, science, busi­ when you are gathering to mark the wreath at the head of the procession, Many employers acknowledge this ness and liberal arts. Applications are Captive Nations Week at the Statue of surrounded by flag-bearers and people training as the extra effort most seek in now being considered for fall day and Liberty. We stand with you devoted to carrying posters. The rally ended with their applicants. evening programs as resident or com­ the ideals of freedom and human rights joint singing of "God Bless America." . Credits earned in these certificate muting students. and pray that the day would come soon Over 3,000 leaflets were distributed in when no person, no nation would suffer New York, on the Liberty Island and on from despotism and tyranny." ferry boats near the Statue of Liberty. In his remarks H.D.Wu, deputy An extensive account about the mark­ director of the. Coordinating. Council ing of the Captive Nations Week was | Read The Ukrainian Weekly | for North American Affairs of the published "The News World" and in Republic of China, denounced Mos­ various ethnic newspapers. "--И.М— МЦ-"^-""" -им " MM MM bW MM—--MM—i| ЯІ'

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THE І СВОБОДА^^УОВОрА I I Prof. Ru d пуску j airs views Ukrainian Week! on new Canadian Constitution у At the annual convention of the tion in Quebec, I have serious doubts Canadian. Citizenship Federation in whether the new constitution would Ottawa last spring, Prof. J.B. Rudny- solve the problem if it would establish Onslaught continues ckyj, former member of the Royal Com­ "provincial legislatures with equally mission on Bilingualism in Canada, was The already decimated ranks of the Ukrainian Helsinki monitoring group real powers within their respective elected chairman of the Special Com­ territories" (p. 21). Quebec being a received yet another blow as three of its newest members have been arrested in mittee on Constitutional Changes of the province "pas comme les autres" should what appears to be a stealthily methodical crackdown on Ukrainian rights BNA Act. In this capacity he published have different powers as the other activists. recently his views in the "Sociolingu- provinces "within their respective terri­ With the arrests of Petro Sichko and his 22-year-old son Vasyl and Yuriy istics Newsletter" of the International tories" and within Canada as a whole. Lytvyn, only five members of the Helsinki group remain in so-called freedom Sociological Association (Vol. 10, No. In my opinion, Canada of the future though not without fear of also being arrested by the KGB. They were aware 1 for 1979), outlining a series of should form a federal union in which of it when they joined the group and since most of them had been incarcerated recommendations as shown below: nine federated provinces would be con­ before they knew what consequences awaited them. This fact doubly attests to In view of the present situation in federated with Quebec. And this should their valor and their belief in the ideals they espoused. Canada, I would like to raise three find its clear manifestation in the new Painful as it is, the news was not unexpected considering the most recent points, which in my opinion should be constitution. considered if the planned changes have documentation from Ukraine and the information brought back by the 3. Amendments to the Official to stand the test of time: tourists as well as through the mail. The Soviet regime is brazen in its Languages Act 1. Patriation of the Constitution On several previous occasions I had ^determination to deal a death-knell to the Helsinki watch groups that There is no doubt that the patriation the privilege to raise repeatedly the spawned in the wake of the signing of the Helsinki Accords. Moreover, of the BNA Act should precede all necessity of improvements and adjust­ President Carter's initial outspokenness on the question of human rights changes connected with amendments of ments of the Official Languages Act of buffeted the movement in the various republics of the USSR, perhaps most the constitution. The patriation would 1969. In connection with the projected strongly in Ukraine with the Kiev group taking an increasingly stronger stand give the "green light" to all intended "charter of fundamental rights and on the question of national rights. More than anything else this seems to have constitutional innovations and more­ freedoms and the statement of language aroused the ire of the KGB which persists in its highhandedness and cruelty. over, would eliminate discussions as to rights" (p.24), I would like to recom­ But there is another side to the coin, again reaffirmed by the Helsinki the legality or illegality of procedures as mend as strongly as possible the follow­ well as the changes themselves. I do not watchers themselves, and that is that following new arrests, new people join ing: go into details how to patriate the the group thus continuously replenishing its ranks and ensuring its viability Recommendation 1 constitution; you have clearly outlined Whereas the Official Languages Act despitje perilous dangers. This, in turn, reflects the magnitude of the rights it in the above document and in the in its Section 38 provides for a very movement in Ukraine and elsewhere in the Soviet Union. previous statement, particularly in the general ("anti-linguicidal") protection The growth of that movement should find a commensurate intensity in our Victoria Charter of 1971. of the "other ethnic languages" of actions here. We must not be satisfied with the release of a few political 2.. Canadian Federal Union Canada and as such does not offer any prisoners or scattered instances of reunification of families. We must persist According to the preamble to the affirmative provisions for the legal in pressing for the release of others and work to loosen the shakles that bind BNA Act, the Canadian provinces are status of those languages, in particular our people. This is the least we can do for them. to be-"federally united.'' There exists a of the major ones, e.g. Ukrainian, fairly wide agreement among specialists German, Eskimo-Indian, etc., and on the two main forms of the federal Whereas after the extensive work of systems: federation and confederation. the Royal Commission on Bilingualism Undeserved silence This distinction involves various de­ and Biculturalsim, the awareness of the It seems that the warm balmy days of summer have put our Ukrainian grees of the repartition of powers of the Canadian society with regard to langu­ community in a daze. A period of rest is good for the body and the soul, but central government and the govern­ ages other than English and French ments of the member states (pro­ there have been several events in Ukraine, which seem to have gone unnoticed considerably increased, and vinces). And here, knowing the situa- Ukrainians in the West except for accounts in our press. (Continued on page 13) The first event was the killing of Volodymyr Ivasiuk, the imaginative and talented young Ukrainian musician. While not a rights activists in the cate­ Letter to the Editors gory of Chornovil or Rudenko, Ivasiuk did make an important contribution to the current national revival in Ukraine and his death attest to Moscow's total onslaught on Ukrainianism. Lack of reporting on Ivasiuk was well known in the United States and Canada as well and his compositions —"Chervona Ruta," "Dva Persteni" and others —have been Ivasiuk's death decried on the lips of many Ukrainians for several years now. Yet, when word of his (The letter below was written to The found hanging in a restricted forest near death first leaked out from Ukraine in late June, not a word of protest was Winnipeg Free Press regarding the lack Lviv on May 18, 1979. His body had of reporting on Volodymyr Ivasiuk's raised in the community, not even from his professional colleagues. been severly mutilated, showing marks death last May. The writer urges that of severe beatings and his eyes gouged It is a sad state of affairs in our community if the summer season is being other concerned Ukrainians, especially out, his fingers were broken and there used solely for a respite. It is even more sad when viewed in the light of reports people involved in music, raise their were deep wounds in his chest into emanating from Ukraine that youths, students, intellectuals, professionals voices in protest against both the which sprigs of kalyna (high-bush and artists in Ukraine continue to hold cultural rallies at Ivasiuk's gravesite in apparent murder of Ivasiuk and the cranberry) had been stuck. Ivasiuk had tribute to his work. incomprehensible silence in the West. disappeared without a trace after being - Ed.) One of the most important duties of Ukrainians in the West is to aid our pushed into a car by two unidentified brethren in Ukraine, and in line with that it is our obligation to react Dear Sir: assailants. He had been under close immediately to any attack by the Kremlin on Ukrainians or Ukrainian The headline reads "Music Often KGB surveillance during the first sev­ eral months of this year and had made a culture. In the case of Ivasiuk our community has been remiss in drawing the Political Target" (Free Press, July 25, point of never leaving home without attention of the media and the public opinion to this criminal act of the Soviet 1979, p. 49). I am looking forward to an article entitled "Musician Political telling his parents of his destination and regime. We feel that his memory deserves that we do. Murder Target in the Soviet Union." when he would return. After his disap­ Eastern Europe, especially the non- pearance, when the parents requested Russian republics of the Soviet Union, an investigation by the militia, they is not high on the priority list for the were mockingly told that their son Youth reader raises money Western world's news interest. (Why would "soon be found." After the body this is so is a separate question). Very was found, the cause of death was given for Multiple Sclerosis Society seldom is any news from Eastern Eu­ as suicide by the coroners. However, rope reported in the media; if it is, it is since no rope burns were present suicide would have to be ruled out. ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Amy J. Monroe and Carbon counties, recently given little prominence. Possibly the Hrycko, 9Vi, of Breinigsville, Pa., won presented Amy with a portable televi­ blame lies with the news services which Ivasiuk's crime? He was a composer two major categories during the 1978-79 sion and an AM-FM radio with an do not consider such news important of popular music, who gained popu­ school year in a read-a-thon sponsored eight-track player. enought; maybe the blame lies with larity in Ukraine and abroad with such by the Multiple Sclerosis Society of individual newspapers which do not songs as "Chervona Ruta" and "Dva Lehigh Valley, according to the Evening The read-a-thon was open to boys select such items. Persteni" (Red Rue and Two Rings). He Chronicle of July 30. and girls in grades 1-8. Children read as The "Smoloskyp" Ukrainian Infor­ had persistently refused to compose Amy, a daughter of Andrew and Julie many books as they could during a four- mation Service of Baltimore, Md., and music for non-Ukrainian lyrics and to Hrycko, read 50 books, raised S482.80 week period, and solicited sponsors to the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation enter his compositions in non-Ukraini­ and obtained 243 sponsors. pledge an amount of money toward Council (abroad) press service, after an song contests. It is reported he was A fourth grader at Fogelsville Ele­ each book. receiving information from Ukraine, working on an opera about the Kozak mentary School, she raised the most Amy's favorite hobbies are reading, informed the media of the following period of Ukrainian history at the time money and had the highest number of playing saxophone and ballet. She quite newsworthy item. Very few, if any, of his death. paid sponsors in the event. enjoyed reading Tolkien's "Lord of the of the media reported it Ivasiuk's funeral at the Lychakiv The society, which ran the contest in Rings" series best, and aspires to be a Volodymyr Ivasiuk, a 30-year-old cemetery on May 22 turned into a 91 schools in Lehigh, Northampton, writer, Ukrainian physician and composer, was (Continued on page 13) No. 1XX THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1979

Eye on books Coiffure

by Roman J. Lysniak

bv Dr. Alek sander Sokolvs/vn In our annual family budget I always include a position entitled "Coiffure." Mind you, not "hair" or "haircuts," not even "hair dressing." Why? Although our family expenses for Guardians of Ukraine: Historical Doc­ Part II deals with the "Persecution of hair management include four persons: my wife, myself and umentary and Memoirs by My kola P. Ukrainians in their own Homeland," our two sons, it's the wife's coiffure ("the style in which a Novak. Published by the Novak Family citing the famine of 1933, the Polish woman's hair is cut, arranged and worn") which is the costliest. in І Los Angeles, Call., 1978. terror in western Ukraine, the Soviet I must admist, though, that if my sons continue to insist on! and the Nazi invasions; the struggle for getting "hair styling," and if the current fad doesn't fade soon, This unique autobiographical histori­ human rights, the status of religion in our family budget will sustain a further dent. cal documentary of Mykola P. Novak is Ukraine and the saga of. Carpatho- Now, as I said, it's the wife's hair that's the most expensive to interesting not only to Ukrainians, but Ukraine. The book also has a section manage. And, you know, it isn't just the expense alone. But to non-Ukrainians as well. The author is entitled "From behind the Iron . Cur­ listen. a veteran Ukrainian American activist, tain," with pictures of Ukrainian dissi­ After almost 20 years of marriage I've got most of the differences between my not only a researcher and collector of dents Leonid Plyushch, Valentyn wife and myself ironed out to the point where I can live with them. But women's Ukrainian American historical docu­ Moroz, both now in the free world, hair? - ments for the past half century, but also Yuriy Shukhevych, Alia Horska, My­ With me hair — what's left of it — is just something to get cut off when I begin to is a participant and intitiator of some of kola Rudenko, Lev Lukianenko, Myro- notice a peculiar, uncomfortable nuzzling feeling at the back of my neck every time the events he included in his book. I look up from my desk in the office. I step out in the morning, look around for the slav Marynovych, Mykola Matuse- The material is divided into seven cheapest barbershop, get into a barber's chair, say, "regular, please. Take off on the vych, and others. On p. 51, in "Ukraini­ sides and in the back (there's almost nothing left on the top, anyway)," pick up the parts dealing with various aspects of an Intelectuals in Shackles," the victims Ukrainian American life, such as his magazine with the "best" centerfold, read an article, pay S2 plus tip and get back to of Soviet tyranny are listed with pic­ slaving to put a roof over the family's heads. biography "I am Ukrainian"; a short tures of Kateryna Zarytska, Sviatoslav article about "Ukrainians abroad" a With my wife hair isn't an "aggregate of cylinrical filaments growing from the Y. Karavansky and Vyacheslav Chor- skin," it's a situation. A permament crisis. At this very moment there isn't a woman shqrt list of English books about novil, with a map of concentration Ukraine; an article "Who are Ukraini­ who is not just getting over a permanent, just waiting for a permanent or to have her camps in the USSR. A documentary hair done, undone or piled on top. It's a series of recurring assaults, with, in ans?" with a map; some poetry in pictorial section documents the perse­ English from Vasyl Symonenko and V. between, periods of research, discussion, consultation, reaseembly of confederates cution of the Orthodox, Catholic and and elaborate planning. Sosiura (his "Love Ukraine") with Baptist faithful in Ukraine. quotations from T. Shevchenko. Also a When my wife gets ready for a coiffure she starts by announcing: "I'm going to reprint of A.A. Granovsky's "Ukraine: The third part is devoted to the have my hair done a week from Saturday. You'll have to look after your sons." Battleground for Freedom" is included, activities leading to the "Freedom for (always an emphasis on "your" sons). and W. Trembicky's "The Legality of Ukraine." Well, I can face anything in a week. I say okay. My wife starts looking in the the National Insignia," with reproduc­ It contains vignettes on such aspects mirror. She holds her hair up as if she is trying to pick herself off the floor, sticks tions of tridents, flags and churches. of activity as, the World. Congress of pins into it, frowns, lifts up strands, and, in the end, looks undecided. The; text of the Ukrainian declaration of Free Ukrainians, the convocations of The big Saturday arrives. I'm left alone with some potatoes, borshch and a list of independence of January 22, 1918, in UCCA congresses, the observances of instructions about keeping the boys on their toes. I think of my wife out there, the English language is on p. 21, fol­ Ukrainian Independence Days and alone, facing the situation. I'm a bit uneasy. She left at one. Ї lowed by a memorandum titled "The Captive Nations Weeks, profiles of At five she comes in. There's a warning look in her eyes as she goes straight to the Independence of Ukraine," issued by outstanding Ukrainians in the West and bedroom mirror. I keep my fingers crossed. I know better than t0 go in. She comes the; Ukrainian American Congress on the like. out into the living room and looks me right in the eye. "Well, how do you like it?" May 24, 1940, in Washington, D.C. (Continued on page 13) (Continued on page 13) Midsummer Moondance and the Pioneer by Orest P. Kopanycia congregation of youths heartily drank Molson ale imaginary battle, the imaginary Russian firing the and unharmoniously rendered their version of imaginary bullet. An arm lying in a field. A lifeless "Old man look at my life, "Oi khmeliu zh, miy khmeliu." arm. Гт a lot like you are../' "Oh really! Whom do you know?' I pursued, taking "But aren't festivals of this sort meant to rekindle interest. those very fading hopes?" I debated. Neil Young "It really doesn't make any difference," the man "Festivals of this sort are wonderful for the songs hedged leaving me to change the subject. they bring, the enthusiastic dances, the fattening When I first noticed him, he was staring unflin­ "It's been a wonderful festival, don't you think?" foods. But they offer that same Ukraine the world is chingly into the glare of the setting Canadian sun and "It is obvious that you are from a city that does not accustomed to — a beautiful but shallow Ukraine. arduously picking his sunburned nose with an have many festivals. This one is like all the others. Everything is judged on how good ;or bad a pysanka awkwardly poking left hand. He wore thick woolen Nothing really changes." looks or a 'pyrih' tastes. You can even have a tableful trousers and a long-sleeved red shirt with its empty I tried to discern what the man was saying. of people enjoying everything but unders:anding right sleeve carefully folded and pinned at the "I suppose you're right. Still, it's nice to have a new nothing. But no, do not let me spoil your five-h iindred- shoulder. As the man adjusted his apparently tired festival with such a tremendous concert and so many mile vacation. It is as wonderful as it can be in this body in the misplaced kitchen chair, he turned his gaze people!" space and time. Let us hope it gets better and that you over the gathered crowds filling the fields, ignoring "If you think this is amazing, then imagine, if you and I meet each other next time. No doubt in the same them, it appeared, with an indifference I wished I can, how much more amazing this 'new' festival would place!" could possess at times. Being alone, I felt that we had be were it being held this very night in Kyiv or Lviv, It was I who shifted in my chair. The conversation something to share, even if it was only loneliness, and under a native sky, with native beer, and native food!" had reached an end and so I tried to think of a tactful, - so I approached him and gently tapped the safety pin The man fixed the fold in the empty sleeve and amiable way of concluding. As is typical of me, I used holding the sleeve. swatted away an invisible mosquito. I wondered what the wrong approach. "Yes, who is there?" he said in broken Canadian- to say to him. I knew that I agreed, but so very much "Well. Was it in battle that you -lost your arm," I English, but unstartled. had changed over the years, so much had been lost, queried, thoughtlessly. I introduced myself and added, "I'm a visitor here at that agreeing would only be a sentimental act of The man in the red shirt and woolen trousers rose the festival. I'm from the United States!" sympathy to an old pioneer. Yet, I could not hurt what and straightened himself to almos;t massive size. It I said the last words as if I were expecting the man to I sensed to be a very vulnerable person. seemed that a proud moment was at hand! offer me his chair or something. He did not do so. "It is unimaginable to me how wonderful such a "No. No battle. A car accident in Maple, outside of Switching to Ukrainian I observed, "You look as festival would be. I guess all Ukrainians dream of it. Toronto. Lost my son and wife there. Nc battle, though you could use some company." Some more than others. I would like to be one of the though." The man in the red shirt turned his bullish head ever first ones there." Sounding sincere was difficult when "Oh, I see," I said, chiding myself for ever touching so slightly, as if silently questioning my use of the speaking to this man. the subject. The band began playing a remembered native :ongue. "That is most noble, young one." The fading sun folk song and the man began moving his only hand to "Are you from Ukraina?" he inquired skeptically, played shadow tricks with his engraved features and a the beat of the waltz as he sat down again. disregarding my comment about his solitude. line of dark light made a vertical equator across his "No. from Trenton, New Jersey." I answered, head. "Go. dance, enjoy the moment for what it's worth. wondering why I was boasting. "I, too, thought like you once," he began. "My Someday there might not be any festivals at all. You The man's face brightened to a semi-smile. greatest hope once had been to make enough money to could look at it that way. Leave this old Canadian to "Oh, Trenton! There is a Trenton not far from here. go to Ukraina. I truly believed that the government reminiscing about the moondancesof the years past." I know much of Trenton, New Jersey. I have friends would change in no time. But as the years passed I I left with only a nod of assent and made my way there." became more and more rooted here. Ukraine became a into the huddling crowd. Throughout the evening the Again the man readjusted his torso in the chrome- mirage, more a matter of doubt than hope. My wife music resounded loudly and echoed off the face of the skeletoned seat. I could see that a common interest had was born here, my son was born here. How could I starry Canadian sky. The man in the red shirt sat been established and that a conversation wouldensue.' leave. I could not go back." quietly in the chair he had sat in all day. The moon- In the background, the orchestra prepared itself for I misunderstood his last sentence, and sorrowfully glo;w had sedated what little motion he made, and the the night's'festivities'. A little to the left of the man. a looked at his armless shirt. MY mind invented the empty sleeve rested peacefully at his side. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1979 No. 188 Burdeny's pottery reflects Ukrainian heritage (The article below, written by Dot the talented students are inspired to do Both pieces "must be centred on the overfiring and underfiring of the kiln From, appeared in the August 4 edition another portrait, this time without the wheel" so that they relate properly to that cause undesirable glassy and mat of The Tribune, a Winnipeg, Man., aid. of a photograph. each other. finishes, respectively. Even the humi­ daily. Photos of Larry Bur deny and one The subtly-colored ring-shaped "ku­ The surfaces of the "kumanets," like dity in the studio has a bearing on the of his artifacts were taken by Ron manets" in its many forms projects a those of most other Burdeny finished product. Dobson). feeling of old country ways that just creations are carved. He uses various The first "kumanets" ever made by naturally invites inquiry. wood carver's tools, some with tiny, Mr. Burdeny appears more like a Once students learn to see properly Readily recognized in many Ukrai­ scoop blades, to create design resembl­ successful archeologist's dig than a the rest is easy, enthuses Larry Burdeny, nian circles, the containers have not in­ ing geometric shapes or wheat stalks potter's firing, and it typlifies the an art teacher and potter whose summer spired local potters up to now only that all hint of traditional symbols and craftsman's investigations. The piece holidays have revolved around getting a few imported pieces are available. practises. was first covered in white stoneware ready for Dauphin's annual Ukrainian Information about the once common glaze and fired at earthenware temper­ Festival. The colorful celebration began and functional vessels remains scanty. Admitting that he has "almost a atures. However rather than "coming Thursday, August 2, and continued One source explains that the ring or compulsion to carve," the tireless potter out dull" as anticipated the glaze looked until Sunday, August 5. doughnut shape facilitated carrying says round shapes are the best forms for patchy "and didn't catch onto the clay." carving. Such uncomplicated pieces One of the main attractions was the food to the farmers in fields. Bread As much of the glaze as possible was native son who grew up in nearby loaves were round and fit snugly "in the eliminate conflicts between surface scraped off. The piece was then coated Ethelbert. That weekend Mr. Burdeny hole of the doughnut form." The latter designs and actual forms. in an earthenware glaze containing iron was "back home" demonstrating, dis­ with a corked opening where the indivi­ There's no doubt that the quiet, oxide and re-fired. Now dull brown playing and selling his intriguing stone­ dual drinks from held liquids such as earthy-toned stoneware glazes and tones occasionally spill into carmels and ware, much of which aptly reflects the butter-milk, water or wine. traditional forms combine to create whites on the roughly fashioned con­ Ukrainian heritage. Another fragmented bit of informa­ seemingly warm, old pieces even though versational piece. Some of his unusual earthy-looking tion discusses how we cloths for cool­ they are fresh out of the kiln. Colors His pleasant little folk people are pieces include: the rarely-seen ring- ing purposes were more easily wrapped fades in and out, browns turn green on primarily wheel thrown. Basic forms shaped liquid containers pronounced around the ring than a solid shape. the second coat of glaze; greens and comprising heads and midriffs that flow "kumanets" in both very old and newer Replicas of the very old original blues intermingle with light carmel into billowing skirts are then finished traditional styles that are comple­ "kumanets" vary in size but are the tones; matt greys are some times speck­ with handbuilt head scarves and arms mented by Mr. Burdeny's own elegant smallest pieces. These were meant to be led. holding the traditional sheaves of wheat variations; folk figures, cream jugs or individual flasks and are simplistically There are many variables including or baking bowl. "hladushchyk" and special bowls designed/Most rest flat on the bottom, Ukrainians used for grinding their but some sit on a base. Some are poppy seeds. He also exhibited and sold grasped with both hands on either side a generous sampling of mugs, vases, of the ring, others are easily held with Derwinski hosts Ku Cheng-kang in D.C. wine goblets and cannister sets, all the aid of tiny supports, curving up fashioned in his home studio. from the sides. The latter, which grew out of mush­ A traditional update that also origi­ rooming requests last February, in­ nated centuries ago displays a ring with cludes a storage area for clay; wedging a spout, base and stoneware lid as board, electric wheel and kiln; shelving opposed to the earlier cork. It's size and for drying pieces and a display area of features suggest it may have been the the family recreation room. main vessel, holding perhaps two to After five years of teaching elemen­ three cups to replenish individual tary school aged children and being containers. actively involved in both music and art It is this shape that inspired the worlds, Mr. Burdeny decided "to major sophisticated Burdeny adaptation. in one."Art won out. A large ring rises out of a pot-shaped Now 10 years later St. John's High container that acts as a base and storage students, Grades 7 to 12 plus night area for more liquid. The large piece is school participants, are on the receiving enhanced with scroll-like handles and a end of the energetic artist who doesn't round-necked opening at the top of the always agree with abstract presen­ ring fitted with a stoneware lid. An tations. ambition of Mr. Burdeny's is to throw Perhaps in time an abstract piece with several matching "kumanets" to serve as three brush strokes on the canvas will wine goblets with a matching large reveal some inner emotions for the contemporary variation making an viewer. But art comes in many forms ornate decanter that would enhance any and "you must be careful not to dis­ dinner table. courage beginners" by asking them to The potter's skill becomes apparent do something they don't even under­ in the fashioning of the wheel-thrown "kumanets." First two walls are thrown stand, says the fine arts graduate Rep. Edward J. Derwinski (R-III.), a noted supporter of captive nations, hosted Dr. recalling such early misgivings. on the wheel, one inside the other and Ku Cheng-kang, honorary chairman of the World Anti-Communist League, at a , Contrary to many teachers, Mr. then the nimble lingered Mr. Burdeny reception in his office on Monday, July 16. Over two dozen legislators attended. Burdeny assigns self portrait projects to swiftly and smoothly pulls and molds Photo above shows, left to right, Dr. Lev E. Dobriansky, president of the the walls, transforming them into one Grade 10 students at the outset of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America; Dr. Ku, Rep. Samuel S. Stratton (D- hollow ring within a few exciting year. N.Y.) and Rep. Derwinski. He says it's been his experience that seconds. students invited to do landscapes for instance at this stage in their art studies will acknowledge criticism by counter­ Press resolution... ing that they want the tree to look (Continued from page 3) Frank Horton (R-N.Y.) Eldon Rudd (R -Ariz.) somewhac deformed and poorly shad­ munity, is "healthier for passage." For James L. Oberstar (D-Minn.) Bill Frenzel (R -Minn.) ed. example, in thier "dear colleague" Joe Moakley (D -Mass.) William H. Gray III (D -Pa.) However self portraits are another letter, Reps. Pepper and Broomfield Parren J. Mitchell (D -Md.) Herbert E. Harris II (D -Va.) matter. Quickly students discipline stated that "as the recent visit of Pope Baltasar. Corrada (D-Puerto Rico) ^ Robert Garcia (D-N.Y.) themselves, striving to perfect the John Paul II (to Poland) has demon­ Howard Wolpe (D -Mich.) Edward J. Stack (D-Fla.) masterpieces that will look like their strated, the proud Polish people desire Henry A. Waxman (D -Calif.) Charles Wilson (D -Tex.) own images. Mr. Burdeny says "if they religious freedom. There are also many Robert J. Lagomarsino (R-Calif.) Vic Fazio (D -Calif.) overshoot the nose" or change the cheek others within the Soviet sphere whose Allen E. Ertel (D -Pa.) Dan Glickman (D -Kan.) line, the students openly discuss their needs are great, including the Ukrainian John H. Rousselot (R -Calif.) Senators backing Senate Concurrent work. They ask what can be done "so it people." Daniel J. Flood (D -Pa.) Resolution 9: looks like me." And the atmosphere among Ukraini­ Martin Frost (D -Tex.) Birch Bayh (D -Ind.) And it "doesn't hurt to copy — you an Americans has been super-charged Donald L. Ritter (R -Pa.) Dennis DeConcini (D -Ariz.) have to start somewhere," emphasizes ever since dissidents Valentyn Moroz Dan Marriott (R -Utah) Mark D. Hatfield (R -Ore.) the teacher, keen to adapt traditional and Georgi Vins came to the United William J. Hughes (D -N.J.) John Heinz (R -Pa.) designs to his own innovative ideas. States, Mr. Denysyk said. "We can get Norman Y. Mineta (D-Calif.) Richard Stone (D -Fla.) "I've copied the old pieces out of Congressional hearings and perhaps Daniel E. Lungren (R.-Calif.) Harrison A. Williams (D -N.J.) which come new ideas. even move the. Congress to pass the Melvin Evans (R.-Calif.) ^ Richard G, Lugar (R -Ind.) Accordingly students bring photo­ resolution, but we're not going to get it Louis Stokes (D -O.) Edward Zorinsky (D -Neb.) graphs of themselves which they project sitting on our hands," he added. Thomas J. Downey (D -N.Y.) Robert Dole (R -Kan.) onto canvas boards by means of an Below is a complete list of co-spon­ Robert F. Drinan (D -Mass.) Malcolm Wallop (R -Wy.) opaque projector. They trace the out­ sors to date: Matthew F. McHugh (D -NY.) Gordon Humphrey (R -N.H.) line and the lesson becomes one of . Congressmen: James H. Scheuer (D -N.Y.) "learning how to apply oils." Invariably Les AuCoin (D-Ore.) Robert K. Dornan (R -Calif.) ^non-voting delegates No. 188 THE UKRAIN'IAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1979 9 Ukrainian Villages shine at Brantford festival by Helen Perozak Smindak included p3intings of Ukrainian scenes by Irene Dyczkowsky of St. George. BRANTFORD, Ont. - This in- Natalka Pylyp of Burlington demon­ dusirial city of 70,000, located in the strated embroidery stitches and Maru- heart of southern Ontario's beef, dairy sia Neprily of St.. Catharines showed and tobacco-farming country, has visitors how to decorate pysanky. several claims to fame. Its historic landmarks include the Bell Homestead where Alexander Graham Bell first laid Ukraina Village out his plans for the invention of the At Ukraina Village on nearby Ter­ telephone, the former home of the race Hill, dancers in native costumes beloved Indian poetess Pauline John­ put on a rousing performance that son, the only Royal Indian chapel in the included a Kozak dance, a "rushnyky" world, the sole remaining three-storied, dance and a graceful star-patterned eight-sided house in Canada, and the number choreographed by the group's Six Nations Indian Reserve. director, Lidia Skrypuch. Since 1975, it has also been the site of the increasingly-popular International During the eight-day festival, the Villages Festival. First held in 1974 to "Yevshan" dance group from Kitchner commemorate the invention of the gave several performances. The en­ telephone, the colorful festival supports semble is directed by Luke Charkowsky all ethnic cultures in the city and helps and Marusia Klid and accompanied by to promote their traditions and culture. musicians Jerry Rusyn and Myron Fedorczuk. Each year in mid-July, thousands of visitors from..Canada and the United The show was opened by Miss States flock to Brantford to partake of Ukraina, 16-year-old Natalka Shebec, ethnic foods, dancing, music and dis­ who spoke in Ukrainian and English as Ukraina Village officials and dancers look on as Bill Teslak shows them how he plays arranged by volunteer workers in she proferred the traditional bread and holds the bandura. Left to right are Dr. John Skrypuch, chairman; Lydia their church halls and community salt to village guests. Dr. John Skry­ Skrypuch, director of the Ukaina dancers; Joe Banko, dance group assistant; and centres. puch, chairman of the Ukraina Village Lesia Kowalchuk and Len Puhacz, dancers. . Considered by many to be the most committee, served as emcee. popular villages are those sponsored by On display at the village were native the city's two Ukrainian church pa­ costumes from southwestern regions of rishes. Ukraine, loaned by Peter Orshirisky of From July 14 to 21 this summer, Kiev Fenwick. Unique fine-line paintings Village, sponsored by St. Michael's and drawings by Adele Kereliuk of Ukrainian Orthodox Church, attracted Hamilton, egg-decorating by Lub Pich, over 12,000 festival-goers to the new, a display of embroidered pieces and modern St. Michael's Centre. Ukraina kilims and a well-stocked gift shop vied Village, held at St. John's Ukrainian for visitors' attention. Catholic Church hall, hosted between 8,000 to 10,000 visitors in its bright, Village foods included borshch, varenyky, holubtsi, sauerkraut and spacious quarters. sausage, and "patychky" (meat-on-a- stick). The dessert table was laden with Kiev Village tortes and pastries, while offerings at the bar included a drink called "Ko- At Kiev Village, Patricia Anne Za- zak's Delight," a cool lightly-spiked walsky extended a traditional welcome refreshment which this reporter found with bread and salt at the start of each delightful indeed. entertainment program (there were three shows on weekdays and up to five Both villages received publicity in the on weekends). Miss Zawalsky, 17, also media. The day before the festival performed as a member of the Kiev opened, the Brantford Expositor's front Younger members of the Kiev Village Dancers take a turn at showing off their Dance Ensemble. page carried a photo of Donnie Pancoe, prowess in Ukrainian folk dancing. 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. Boris Pancoe of The 60-member dance troupe, direct­ St. George, leaping high in the air. The ed by Nick Worobec of Toronto, burst issue was accompanied by a special made up of the chairman and co- Manor to conduct on stage in a blaze of color and motion International Villages Festival edition chairman from each ethnic group. The that won continuing applause from the describing all the pavilions and showing Ukrainian delegation included Kiev orientation for persons audience. The dancers, whose "Hopak" pictures of the village hostesses. Stories Village chairman Adam Dembinski and brought down the house, ranged in age and pictures appeared in the weekly co-chairman Elie Danyluk, and returning to college from five to 20 years and came from the Brant News, and interviews with Ukrai­ Ukraina Village chairman Dr. John city and area as well as from Oshawa nian Villages officials were carried by Skrypuch and co-chairman Peter Wiw- JENKINTOWN, Pa. - Manor Ju­ and Hamilton. lcoal radio and TV stations. czarchuk. nior College here will offer an orienta^ Vocal numbers by a girls' chorus and Festival visitors take an international tion session for persons thinking of solos by nine-year-old Oksana Sushko The International villages are set up jaunt by buying a S3 passport allowing returning to college. The informal added variety to the half-hour program. by the ethnic groups with overall access to all і 7 villages and free trans­ gathering will be held Tuesday, August 28, from 10 a.m. to noon in the seminar Providing accompaniment on the ac­ planning and arrangements coordinat­ portation on special buses servicing the room of Manor library. cordion and drums were Jerry Pancoe ed by Jack Mann of the Brantford villages. As each "tourists" enters a and Terry Paul. Regional Chamber of Commerce, Mr. village, his passport is stamped with the The following topics will be dis­ Mann heads the Villages. Committee, village's special trademark. Irene Sushko of Hamilton was mis­ cussed: questions and concerns about tress of ceremonies for each show, what college can really offer you — inviting the audience to join the per­ skills, enrichment, new career, self- formers in the spirit of the exuberant esteem, etc.; some of the problems "vechernytsi" celebrations. continuing-education women might face in the transition to college; how the Male members of the parish, sporting Manor environment meets the need's of red tunics with embroidered trim, the returning adult student; the courses waited on patrons at the bar and Manor will offer this fall and what a ushered visitors to their seats at the good starter course might be; the many large round tables placed throughout ways you can attend college — part time the air-conditioned auditorium. The (I, 2, 3 courses), full time, day, evening ladies, wearing embroidered blouses — and how you can work out a com­ and long black skirts, served the long bination that suits your schedule. lines of visitors waiting at the steam A tour of Manor's facilities will also tables for holubtsi, varenyky, sausages be conducted. and sauerkraut. For more information, registration, Kiev Village tourists stopped first in directions, please contact: Marylou the centre's lobby to look at displays of Delizia of the admissions office, Manor embroidery, wood carvings, Easter eggs Photo by Bruce Wright Junior College, Fox Chase Road and and ceramics, and to purchase sou­ A senior member of the Kiev Village Dancers does his thing as the girls in the group Forrest Avenue, Jenkintown, Pa. venirs in the gift shop. The exhibit keep time by clapping their hands. 19046; (215) 885-2360, Ext. 8. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19. 1979 No. 188 Dr. J.R. Malko is noted speaker Canon Joseph Moerman: on energy economics Friend of children PALO ALTO, Calif. - Dr. J. Robert by-Helen S. Prociuk Malko, the son of veteran UNA activist We are in the middle of the Interna­ John Malko of Baltimore, Md., is tional Year of the Child. Each and every among the country's noted experts on nation, every community, is involved in public utility economics and micro­ some sort of activity. economics. Few of us, however, know the man Recently Dr. Malko participated in who is responsible for the Year and who persevered with a conviction for a the annual Regulatory Studies Program special year of the child and saw it which was held at Michigan State through many difficulties. The ideas University in East Lansing, Mich., July and activities promulgated by Canon 30-August 16. Joseph Moerman involve half a billion On June 18, Dr. Malko spoke on little children throughout the world. "Developments in Electric Rate De­ sign" at the 1979 Nation Conference of Belgian Priest the American Public Power Associa­ tion in Seattle, Wash. Canon Moerman is a Belgian Cath­ Dr. Malko is currently project man­ olic priest, a former teacher of Latin, ager of the "Electric Utility Rate Design Greek and Dutch and a missionary Study" at the Electric Power Research educator in Africa for 11 years. He is the institute in Palo Alto, Calif. secretary-general of the Catholic Child This national study is being con­ Bureau. ducted in response to a request by the Dr. J. Robert Malko We first met Canon Moerman when National Association of Regulatory he was visiting UNICEF in New York. Canon Joseph Moerman Utility. Commissioners (NARUC) to witness'on electricity pricing issues at A modest and gentle man, he greeted us examine alternative ways of controlling state regulatory commissions including with a smile and a quip, and told us he ditions than the children of the Third the growth in system peak demand for Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Wis­ knew of our legendary existence from World. electricity and shifting various types of consin, і Irene Mancaux, president of the World Along with the plight of children, electricity usage from peak to off-peak Dr. Malko has taught public utility Movement of Mothers. Canon Moerman is also concerned with economics at the University of Wiscon­ problems of young families and the periods of the day. However, behind this unassuming preparation of young men and women The sponsors of the Rate Design sin at Madison and applied micro­ facade is a man of iron will, an organizer economics at Purdue University and for married life. The World Movement Study include the Edison Electric who has been active in the preparation of Mothers, of which the World Feder­ Illinois State University. He has made Institute (EEI), the American Public of many international conferences, ation of Ukrainian Women's Organi­ Power Association (APPA), the Na­ presentations concerning electricity among them the World Population zations is a member, conducts research tional Rural Electric Cooperative Asso­ pricing at several national energy Conference in Rome and the Interna­ on this subjects. Many of our young ciation (NRECA) and the Electric conferences and presented guest lec­ tional Women's Year Conference in women have already filled out ques­ Power Research Institute (EPRI). tures on energy issues at various univer­ Mexico. These two conferences made tionnaires distributed by the Movement sities including Michigan State Univer­ him see an urgency for a special year of These organizations have encouraged last year. sity, Stanford University and the Uni­ the child. Six years ago the idea of the We hope that Ukrainian communi­ and obtained the direct and active versity of California at Berkeley. He has International Year of the. Child was participation of their representatives in ties throughout the world will continue written articles on the pricing of public born. their work for and with children over this nationwide research study con­ utility services in journals such as The and beyond the 1979 International Year cerning time-of-use pricing and direct Today, Canon Moerman is the chair­ Journal of Energy and Development, man of the Non-Governmental Organi­ of the Child. There is much work to be load controls for electricity usage. The the Wisconsin Law Review and the zation (NGO) Committee for the IYC done for our children here, in Brazil, in Rate Design Study has produced Public Utilities Fortnightly. and remains in contact with various Argentina and — in Ukraine. We hope approximately 65 research reports on Dr. Malko received his B.S. degree, organizations often of diverse interests. the "Year of the Ukrainian Child," various aspects of electricity load cum laude, in economics and mathe­ He is pleased with their interest in initiated by the World Federation of management, and over 110,000 copies matics in 1966 from Loyola College in children as they now "see that their Ukrainian Women's Organizations, will of these reports have been distributed. Baltimore, Md. and received his M.S. activities are related to children." not end in 1979, and that our communi­ Prior to joining the Rate Design degree in 1968 and Ph.D. degree in ties will develop a deep awareness of the children in their midst, an awareness Study, Dr. Malko was chief economist 1972 in economics from Purdue Uni­ Varied concerns that is not confined to spectacular festi­ at the Public Service Commission of versity. ;He has taken additional course When speaking of the children's lot in vals, but reaches their and their parent's Wisconsin and chairman of the staff work in accounting at Illinois State the Third Wrold countries and in souls. Only then our motto "Children subcommittee on economics of University. industrialized countries, like Europe are the wealth of a nation" will have a NARUC. He has carried out consultant Dr. Malko and his wife Sandra are and the United States, Canon Moerman meaning. assignments concerning microeco- members of UNA Branch 320. His worries about children who are becom­ ^ Based on "Canon Joseph Moer­ nomic problems for several state and father is secretary of Branch 320 and has ing victims of fast paced industrial and man: Father to the Year of the Child" by local governments, including Ohio and been active in UNA and Ukrainian urban life, and he sees them living often Joan Martin, IYC Newsletter, June Illinois, and has appeared as an expert community affairs for many years. in poorer economic and spiritual con- 1979. "No authority has the right." (Continued from page 2) doctrines from above, he felt that no members of the Presidium of the Su­ literature and where she was the direc­ appeal to your government and to authority has the right to stifle human preme Soviet and to take a stand on the tor of a secondary school. She gradu­ receive a reply from it — without the thinking," wrote Kyrychenko-Badzio. "state crime" of Badzio in accordance ated from the Kiev University in 1958. intermediacy of the KGB, without its She said that his points could have with his campaign speech. She subsequently began work at the immediate repressive sanctions." been moot, but "how, after declaring In a post-script to her letter, Kyry­ Literary Institute of the Academy of the involvement of every, I repeat, every chenko-Badzio told of another disillu­ Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. She Open discussion Soviet citizen in government affairs, can sionment that she felt when she read in later worked at the Philosophical Insti­ you say with the lips of the same the Criminal Code that the penalty for tute and the editorial offices of "Filo- government that a person is a state Kyrychenko-Badzio urged Brezhnev undermining a Soviet citizen's belief in sofska Dumka." criminal, after merely musing about to implement his program about the the policies of the CPSU and the Soviet She first experienced repression from such matters on paper." participation of each Soviet citizen in government is imprisonment of up to the authorities after she wrote a letter to the governmental process. She said that Kyrychenko-Badzio wrote that ever seven years and exile of up to five years. Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, head of the the participation should not merely since she was a child she was taught Protesting against the word "belief," Communist Rarty of Ukraine, in de­ entail "rubber-stamping" decisions about the corrupt election campaigns in fense of if adia Svitlychan's son made by high government officials, but capitalistic countries. She said she Kyrychenko-Badzio said that "'belief in the polices' is not objective knowledge, Yarema, who was taken from his mo­ ani open discussion of all policies. imagined that gullible voters cast their ther after her arrest. Kyrychenko- "Yuriy Badzio, in his research, con­ votes for candidates who later betray it is not a scholarly analysis, it is not critical thinking and as a result — the Badzio was fired from her job and she ducted a detailed scholarly discussion their trust. was unable to find suitable employ­ about the ideal and practical conditions "How am I supposed to accept your only conscious appraisal of this policy is faith, and this is supposed to be the ment. She finally found employment at of the life of the Ukrainian nation in the remarks and statements on internal and a drug store. USSR," she said. external policies of the CPSU and its cornerstone of "politically conscious' In his analysis, Kyrychenko-Badzio peaceful democratic goals? Maybe they Soviet people." Badzio was arrested on April 23 in wrote that her husband studied the all have the same value," asked Kyry­ Upon arriving at such a conclusion, Kiev and is currently confined in an development of communism in theory chenko-Badzio. Kyrychenko-Badzio said that that only investigative cell. Born on April 24, and practice, he analyzed the nationali­ remaining thing to do is to ask: "What 1936, Badzio graduated from the ties policies of the CPSU and party and Urges stand century is it now?" Uzhhorod University in 1958. ideological .^bojutis-m, A. ,( . - . . . ,, \ Kypychenko-vBa4?io, - fro.rn- ^in- '19-35? - - ' ^ T-he eoup4e 'h-as-two c-hildnen, Serhiy. "He spoke out against dogmatism ''She! req,uesterf,-3xe:Ahne\ tojpake j і \ eel in K іел wijs re; her. m.ot her was, ^ t bprfr. in^ 4961: and Bohdanna^ bpisn in and,i against forcing upon society any 'k'riowVfier husband V Works' і о all teacher of iHtfaimari language4arrcT '

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Obituaries Renouncement of SoWef citizenship... (Continued from page 2) He refused and he was arrested on John Popowich, UNA, failure." He sought assistance from November 6, 1977. Sichko was kept as a many university officials and he even hostage until November 9, 1977. community activist wrote to the secretary of the central Sichko wrote that his son returned committee of the Soviet Communist home after November 7, 1977. The CLEVELAND, O. - John Popo­ Party. youth rejected all efforts to have him wich, noted UNA and Ukrainian com­ "He did not receive any replies from inducted into the army on the grounds munity activist, died here Tuesday, anyone and as a consequence my son that he had renounced his citizenship, July 31. He was 78 years old. Vasyl renounced his Soviet citizenship said the older Sichko. Born in Ukraine, Mr. Popowich on September 18, 1977, and requested "Then on January 17, 1978, the served in the Ukrainian Galician Army the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet during the war of national liberation in organs of the government arrested my of the USSR to grant him permission to son and confined the healthy and 1917-21. In subsequent years he was a immigrate to the United States in order member of the Ukrainian Military normal youth in the Ivano-Frankivske to find refuge in that country," wrote oblast psychiatric hospital," Sichko Organization and of the Organization Sichko. of Ukrainian Nationalists. He came to said. The father continued that the Presi­ Sichko protested what he called the the United States in 1923 after living in dium did not reply to any of young Cuba for one year and settled in Cleve­ "illegal acts committed against my son" Sichko's requests and that subordinate to various government agencies in land. agencies conducted a campaign of Mr. Popowich was co-founder of the Moscow, Kiev and in his oblast. He said harassment against him. that none of them cooperated with him. local branch of the Organization for the When young Sichko returned home Rebirth of Ukraine and an honorary from Kiev, said the father, the militia On the day when Sichko was told by member of the organization's national came to his apartment under the pre­ Chukhrin that the renouncement of executive committee. A co-founder of Society citizenship is a sign of schizo­ the United Ukrainian Organizations of John Popowich tense of checking documents. The officers told Sichko's son that since he phrenia, his son was released from the Greater. Cleveland, over 50 years ago, parish council of Ss. Peter and Paul does not have any documents to live in asylum. The security organs again tried Mr. Popowich was honored by that Ukrainian Catholic Church. to force Sichko to convince his son to organization recently as Man of the During and after World War II, Mr. that city he must return to the city where he surrendered his documents. The re-accept Soviet citizenship, but both Year. He was ulso co-founder of the Popowich helped many Ukrainian the older and younger Sichko refused. Ukrainian Gold Cross. refugees settle in the United States and youth left home immediately, wrote He was secretary and, until his start a fresh life. Sichko, and the secret police lost track "Now my son Vasyl is threatened by retirement, president of Ss. Peter and Surviving are his wife Katherine, son of him. the organs of repression because of his Paul UNA Branch 102, the oldest Soyuz Steven, daughter Mary, one brother According to the father, the KGB and — an absolutely healthy person — Branch in Ohio. He was a delegate to and two sisters, as well as distant other security organs declared a major confinement in a psychiatric hospital the 25th, 27th and 28th UNA conven­ relatives in the United States and in search for the youth on the grounds that on the basis of his political, social and tions and had an outstanding record as Ukraine. The funeral was held Friday, he was ordered to appear before his moral convictions. And his fate, welfare an organizer. He also served on the August 3. local draft board for immediate induc­ and life are in constant danger," Sichko tion into the army. Sichko also said that told the United Nations. "As a result of the KGB then began circulating rumors this, that my son is persecuted and not George Koval, 67 that his son was insane and that he given permission to immigrate to the wanted to immolate himself in the mid­ United States, we are requesting per­ SUN. CITY, Ariz. - A long-time Georgia of New York City, Virginia of dle of Khreshchatyk Boulevard during mission for an exit visa for the entire member of the Ukrainian National Mill Valley, Calif, and Kathryn of the parade marking the 60th anni­ family and we request you to place us Association and an active participant in Mesa, Ariz. versary of the October Revoslution. under international care and to assist Ukrainian youth activities in the 1930s At the time of his demise Mr. Koval The KGB ordered Sichko to go to our family in immigrating to the United and 1940s, died Tuesday, July 17, at his was a member of UNA Branches 130 Kiev to search for his son. States." home in Sun City, Ariz. He was 67 years and 435. old. Mr. Koval died in his sleep. Memorial services were held Satur­ ^^^0^5"5SSSSJ4H^SSS5^A!^^^^J!H^^^^^^^^^g^g^!^ Mr. Koval was born in New York day, July 21, at St. Clement of Rome where he worked as a city fireman after Catholic Church here. I 1979 Tennis Tournaments at Soyuzivka he graduated from the College of the The tennis committee of the Association of Ukrainian Sports Clubs 3tfC ЗОС City of New York. He continued his 3CIC—a| in North America (USCAK), headed by Roman Rakotchyj, Sr.f met at studies at Rutgers University where he FARLEY MONUMENTS II Soyuzivka Saturday, April 7, and, after consulting with the estate's earned his master's degree in physical manager Walter Kwas, set the following dates for the 1979 tour­ "NOW SERVING" У education. x naments: -^ In 1968 he retired from the Fire THE HOLY SPIRIT ^ August 31-September 3 — USCAK Nationals in all age groups, Depanment, and in 1975 moved to Sun Advance registration by August 22 City to enjoy his retirement. UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC ^ September 15-16 — UNA Invitational, 16 men, 8 senior men In his earlier years he was active in the CEMETERY October 6-7 - KLK Club tournament Ukrainian Youth League of North for information and Appointment America and sang for a number of years JOHN R. FARLEY 555SESSSi59B5 in the Metropolitan Youth Chorus CAMPBELL HALL, N.Y. 10916 x under the direction of Stephen Maruse- Telephone: (914) 294-5381 vich. There's no place like Soyuzivka He is survived by his three daughters, L SOYUZIVKA 1 The Ukrainian I would like to send The Ukrainian Weekly as a gift to a friend. National Subscription rates: S6.00 for non-UNA members; S2.50 for UNA members. Association I am a member of UNA Branch . RESORT in the Catskill Mountains, П Check or money order for S. Js enclosed. near Kerhonkson, N.Y. П Bill me. EACH FRIDAY, a DANCE to the tunes of the "SOYUZIVKA" orchestra My address is: Name Accordion, ALEC CHUDOLIJ. Vocalist - 0KSANA TR0MSA Address. SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 3:00 p.m. City UNWLA DAY ("Den Soyuzianky") State .Zip Code. Art exhibit - LIUBOSLAV HUTSALIUK, Souyzivka Library

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22 TALENT NIGHT Send The Weekly to: Name. Featuring guest artist WILLIAM MELNYCHYN - tenor Address. City The large air conditioned Dance Hall "Veselka" State. .Zip Code. TeL (914) 626-5641 t - J j , j The management of "Soyuzivka" guarantees for THE WEEKLY GUESTS | і READ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY і enough GASOLINE tor their мР home. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1979 No. 188 Ukrainian National Association JUNE 1979 RECORDING DEPARTMENT DISBURSEMENTS FOR JUNE 1979: Paid to or for members: Juv. Adults ADD Totals Cash surrenders 19,871.21 TOTALS AS OF MAY, 1979: 22,158 57,589 6,776 86,523 Death benefits 59,602.00 Matured endowment certificates 89,000.00 GAINS IN JUNE, 1979: Payor death benefits 186.04 New members 68 127 33 228 Dividends to members 526,835.22 Reinstated 16 48 7 71 Convention expenses 540.00 Transferred in 3 20 1 24 Benefits paid out from Fraternal Funds - 1,920.00 Change class in 5 5 Benefits released from Orphan's Fund 4,209.45 Transferred from Juv. Dept. 1 1 Reinsurance premiums -. 594.01 TOTAL GAINS: 87 201 41 329 Total: S 702,757.93

LOSSES IN JUNE, 1979: Operating expenses: "Soyuzivka" Resort 52,661.32 Suspended 39 36 25 100 "Svoboda" operation 79,700.96 Transferred out 4 18 22 Change of class out 1 5 6 Organizing expenses: Transferred to adults 1 1 Advertising 1,414.25 Died 61 61 Medical inspections 217.00 Cash surrender 24 44 68 Traveling expenses special organizers 2,816.54 Endowment matured 39 30 69 Reward to special organizers 4,506.33 Fully paid-up 39 49 88 Field conferences 61.00 Reduced paid-up 2 2 Reward to Branch Secretaries 10.20 Extended insurance 3 3 Reward to Branch organizers 15,795.25 Cert terminated 2 4 Reward to chief medical examiner 750.00 TOTAL LOSSES: 147 250 27 424 Total: S 25,570.57 INACTIVE MEMBERSHIP: ^. Payroll, Insurance u Taxes: GAINS IN JUNE, 1979: Canadian P.P. u Ul employee 3.90 Paid up 39 49 - 88 Employee Hospitalization Plan 1,077.64 Extended insurance , 18 25 43. Employee Pension Plan 604.93 Salaries - executive officers 8,000.01 TOTAL GAINS: 57 74 - 131 Salaries - office employees 29,140.72 LOSSES IN JUNE, 1979: Taxes - Federal, State u City employees wages 10,256.97 Insurance - Workmen's compensation 6,852.00 Died .... . 21 21 Cash surrender 13 16 29 Total: 5 55,936.17 Reinstated ...... 3 9 - 12 Lapsed .. — — . 5 5 10 Official publication "Svoboda" 48,600.00

TOTAL LOSSES: 21 51 - 72 General administrative expenses: 760.00 TOTAL UNA MEMBERSHIP Insurance Dept. fees ...... 2,603.80 AS OF JUNE 30, 1979 22,134 57,563 6,790 86,487 General office maintenance ... 2,575.44 Postage . 1,548.13 WALTER SOCHAN, Rental of equipment 1,283.34 Supreme Secretary Telephone 3,147.63 Traveling expenses - general 3,639.94 Printing 8L stationery 1,612.50 Annual session expenses FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT 8,596,90 Actuarial u statistical exp. . 5,456.14 INCOME FOR JUNE 1979 Custodian bank fee Dues from members ...... 5 239,669.34 Operating expenses Canadian office 100.00 Dues to Fraternal Congresses .... 60.00 Interest from: Total: 5 31,383.82 Bonds ....,.... — — 131,989.69 Mortgage Joans .... 13,463.46 Miscellaneous: Certificate loans ...... 1,737.09 Taxes held in escrow paid ,. 49.84 Banks .... v...... 5,451.05 Accrued interest on purchased bonds 2,695.89 Total: 5 152,641.29 Donation - support , 5,550.00 Youth - sport activities ... 1,500.00 Transfer to Orphans Fund 2ДЮ0.00 Scholarships 1,700.00 Income of "Soyuzivka" Resort 40,939.45 Total: S 11,495.73 Income of "Svoboda" operation ... 76,073.39 Investments: Refund: Capital improvements at "Soyuzivka" 3,766.83 Telephone and printing costs .. ., 7.80 Certificate loans granted 10,116.49 Taxes held in escrow paid ...... 1,920.36 Bonds purchased 101,875.00 Taxes - Federal, State u City on employee wages 9,951.04 EDP Equipment purchased 15,567.10 Taxes - Can. With u pension plan on employee wages .. 38.33 Mortgage Loans Granted 24,000.00 Bank collection charges ... 3.00 General office main 150.00 Total: S 155,325.42 Employee hospitalization plan premiums .. . 238.72 Disbursements for June 1979: Group Insurance premiums ...... 135.34 51,163,431.92 Investment expenses ...... - 50.00 Scholarships .... 500.00 Travelling expenses g'en'l...... — 50.00 Total: 5 13,044.59 BALANCE: Miscellaneous: ASSETS: LIABILITIES: Donation to Joseph Wolk Scholarship Fund — 1,000.00 Sale of Encyclopaedia ... 1,335.00 Cash S 275,690.00 Fund: Reinsurance recovered ... .. 1,000.00 Bonds 31,212,585.89 Life insurance 542,637,347.35 Total: 5 3,335.00 Stocks 546,286.40 Mortgage loans ...... 2,384,926.42 Fraternal 113,053.79 Investment: Certificate loans 532,982.30 Orphan's 234,275.33 Bonds matured .... —. — 469,030.11 Real estate 701,064.84 Old Age Home 285,896.67 Mortgages repaid ...... 53,656.33 Printing plant b EDPequipment 177,984.90 Certificate loans repaid . — . 4,257.63 Loan to UNURC 7,500,000.00 Emergency Fund 60,947.61 Printing plant equipment sold 7,009.33 Total: 543,331,520.75 Total: 543,331,520.75 Total: 5 533,953.40 ULANA M. DIACHUK, Income for June 1979: 51,061,656.46 Supreme Treasurer No. 188 THE UKRAIN'IAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1979 13

Coiffure Lack of reporting... (Continued from page 7) (Cntinued from page 6) strations at his grave continued for Although her hair was cut too short for my taste, I say, "it looks nice. Sort of spontaneous demonstration. According three weeks, with people from all over fuzzy." to reports, 10,000 people attended the Ukraine visiting the cemetery. Poems My wife burst out crying. "I'll never go to that place again," she says. funeral, singing his songs and reciting written about the murder by university She goes back to the mirror and stands there sobbing and holding the strands out Ukrainian poems. Among the mourners and high schools students are being one by one like spaghetti. were many composers, writers and recited and posted on the walls and trees I've tried to get over to a woman's point of view, but I find that I don't even speak singers. According to "Smoloskyp," throughout Lviv. The essence of the the language. The whole business seems to be full of secret meanings only women Lviv residents are convinced that the poems is, "You can't hang and defeat all understand. It's a sort of universal, but rigidly exclusive, club in which the KGB murdered Ivasiuk in order to of us." Because of the rallies at his grave, membership requirements are that you must be a woman and have hair. frighten the nationally conscious pop­ efforts are being made to transfer Our next door neighbor, Olha, will come in to see my wife, her head done up in ulation, especially the young people, Ivasiuk's body to a cemetery in Cher- curlers like a pineapple. My wife says: "Oh, Olha, it just suits you." who have been speaking out more nivtsi where he was born. I expect Olha to walk out livid with rage, but she smiles and looks pleased. openly in defense of Ukrainian national This may be a longer than usual letter Next time Olha comes in with her hair looking the way I think a woman's hair rights. However, the murder appears to to the editor, but surely such informa­ should look — soft, loose,„fluffy, without curlers. My wife says: "Oh, well, it will have failed to produce the effect, in fact tion should warrant space, especially grow again. But I'd never go back to that place." it has produced the opposite effect. when one considers some of the items When Olha is gone I say: "What's the matter? I thought it looked kind of nice." Despite threats of repression, demon­ making news. "Looked nice?!" my wife says. "That's how much you know. For how long? They've cut off all the ends. The poor girl!" Another day Olha will come home from a hair job and my wife will rush out in front of the house to have look. This time everybody seems happy. My wife says it Eye on books looks lovely. Olha thinks it looks lovely. I think it looks lovely. I smile and relax. (Continued from page 7) documentation about the author's fami­ Everything seems settled. Olha says, "I'll see you later," and after supper comes in Part IV describes in pictures Ukraini­ ly, and friends with pictures, reproduc­ with her hair all up in curlers. tions of diplomas, letters, and tele­ an cultural life in the free world, such as Later, when I mention it to my wife, she says: "You didn't expect it to stay that grams. The material in this book is America's Bicentennial observances way without being set, did you?" reproduced from major Ukrainian and the Ukrainian participation in Maybe someday I'll figure it out. I made a try last night. Yesterday my wife went periodicals appearing in the U.S., them, the Taras Shevchenko Monu­ to the hairdresser. When she came home she said, "well, I'll go to the hairdresser Canada and other countries in the free ment in Washington, D.C., and the next Saturday." world. I sat there thinking: am I going nuts or is there realy something about this I don't Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Mr. Novak deserves commendation understand I said slowly, "look, weren't you at the hairdresser's today?" It depicts Oleksander Koshetz, the for this compilation because it consti­ "I didn't get a permanent. I just got a finger wave," she said, (what's a "finger founder and conductor of the Ukraini­ tutes an interesting chronicle on the wave"? don't ask me.) an National Chorus, gives the history of development of the Ukrainian com­ "Why didn't you get a permanent?" M. Leontovych's Ukrainian carol tt ,, munity in the free world. "It's too short." Shchedryk .(Carol of the Bells), "How did it get that short?" profiles the world famous Ukrainian This book could be a source of "I just had it cut," my wife said as if I'm getting more sense. sculptor Oleksander Archipenko with inspiration for our future generations, "Why?" I asked, fighting all the way. some reproductions of his sculptures, in their quest for the fulfillment of the "To get some curl into it," she said. Roman Prydatkevych, violinist, Vasile Ukrainian people's aspirations for 1 walked away to my library and tried not to think about it any more. Oh, but that Avramenko, the ballet master, Ukraini­ - liberty. coiffure position in our family budget! an films such as "Nalaka Poltavka," "Marusia," "Zaporozhets za Dunaiem" and others with the author's part in REAL ESTATE them as actor, director and sponsor.. Prof, Ru d пуску j airs views... This part concludes with the unveiling (Continued from page 6) ages other than English and French, of the Olzhych statue and information OLD FARM HOUSE Whereas there is a general trend in the and about Harvard Ukrainian Research Barns and 100 choice acres, 5 minutes from modern world to grant a legal status to Whereas this Act as well as the Institute. quickway, Wurtsboro area. Excellentterms. Also PRIVATE HOME in Ellenville, N.Y.' various minority languages in the Commissioner of Official Languages The fifth part deals with Ukrainians respective countries, shall be concerned with all the langu­ in Los Angelesy Calif., the Ukrainian Phone - (914) 647-6198, (914) 888-2273 ages of the country (official, regional, Cultural. Center there, activities and I recommend that the present Section nonofficial, etc.), and demonstrations agains persecution in 38 of the Official Languages Act be Whereas the present designation of Soviet Ukraine and accounts of major extended by addition of a subsection the Act and the Commissioner might be community events that reflect its vita­ INVESTMENT which would precede it as Subsection 38 interpreted as implying a discrimina­ lity. (3), namely: tory attitude toward the very title of the Part VI describes some Ukrainians in Notwithstanding anything in this Act and by the designation of the Hollywood, notably: Mike Mazurki, | 9 Nunda Avenue, Jersey City, N.J. 07304 f I LICENSED ROOMING HOUSE | Act, any language other than English Commissioner, John Hodiak, Jack Palance, Nick І S20.000. annual gross with 16 units, 6 room | and French should be "regional" with I recommend that both the Official Adams, Anna Sten, Dimitri Tiomkin, I owner's residence, 1100 sq. ft basement, | special privileges concerned as may be Languages Act and the Commissioner Irene Zmurkevych, the Kuban . Cos­ 2,000 sq. ft. yard. j specified and approved in response to sacks and the Miss World-USA Anne- of Official Languages be renamed l(201) 434-7282 public demand. "Canadian Languages Act" and "Com­ lise Ilschenko. 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Branches: -- Members: 1 432 Toronto, Ont, secretary B. Zorych 31 Ukrainian National Association, Inc. 2 347 Millville, Pa,, secretary Daria Zapar ;... 24 3 83 Philadelphia, Pa., secretary A. Kushnir v. 23 P.O. Box 17 A - 30 Montgomery Street 4 94 Hamtramck, Mich., secretary R. Tatarsky 23 Jersey City, N.J. 07302 5 164 Berwick, Pa.f secretary T. Butrey 23 GENTLEMEN: Please send information on UNA insurance. District Organisers: _____^___^^. Members: 1 R. Tatarsky, Branch 94 23 Name 2 T. Butrey, Branch 164 23 3 M. Kihichak, Branch 240 20 Address 4 J. Chabon, Branch 242 v 20 5 J. Fedynyshyn, Branch 155 ...... - - 17 City ... State Zip Code Total number of new members in June, 1979 228 MY DATE OF BIRTH IS: Total amount of life insurance in 1979 S3,470,000

day ?!uHf:wc- м WfiJ.i WASYL ORICHOWSKY, month '" """"" yeajrre-, Supreme Organizer "н^чи^чввйРЧрч^чи^НвЙ^Ц^^^^ 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1979 No. \l

The titmouse and the sea (A Ukrainian Folk Tale) Illustration by M. Dmytrenko The Kozak's underwater boats

by P. Shkurat

Never had the Sitch seen such a against Turkey. All right, we'll fight the stormy Kozak council as the one in Turk first!" June 1600. Gongs rang out loudly and "We will fight the Turks!" rang the incessantly, calling the Kozak host to a square, and thousands of hats flew into Once there lived a Titmouse and it them above the marshes, and at last one meeting. The noise on the square was the air as a sign of agreement. came into her head to build a nest on a came a little closer. like that over the Dnipro Rapids. From "Tomorrow we will begin our pre­ bush on a high cliff right by the Sea. Dear brother, Will-of-the-Wisp! - all sides, Kozaks wearing furry black parations for the sea journey," con­ cried the Titmouse. — Tarry a-while! I caps with red tops streamed into the tinued the chief. "Remember, that All was well when the Sea was calm. want to ask you something. square. It looked like a wind-swept field starting tomorrow war conditions are in The Titmouse laid a few eggs and began I have no time to stop — cried the thickly dotted with will poppies. effect and God forbid that I should see to hatch them. But one day the storm Will-of-the-Wisp. — If you have to say The council was called to decide an anyone"even slightly drunk. I'll order a came, the wind blew, the Sea became something, say it from where you are important matter — against whom the double portion of caning for him." rough and it washed the little bush from and I'll hear you. Host was to go to war. Two groups of On the following day, the Zaporo- the cliff together with the Titmouse's The Titmouse told him her sad story opinion had formed. One group wanted zhian Sitch hummed with activity. nest. The Titmouse narrowly escaped and added: to go to war against the Polish lords, to Some dragged the boats out on land to death but her eggs perished in the . Come, help me burn that bad Sea! tame their high-handedness over their dry, and stuffed up any cracks between waves of the Sea. I cannot, little Titmouse — answered serfs. The other group demanded an the borads with hemp so that water The Titmouse was furious. She sat on the Will-of-the-Wisp. — I am born here, attack on Turkey across the sea, in would not leak through. Others cooked the cliff and began to scold the Sea. on these marshes, and I have to live and order to free Christians taken into tar in large couldrons. Bare-chested Oh, you worthless Sea! How did you to die here. Besides that, I am not slavery. Kozaks tarred the boats using huge dare to ruin my home, to take away my allowed to rest even a second, so that no At last the Kozak's chief, who so far brushes. nest and eggs! I'll sue you in court! I'll one can light a candle from me. Ask the had listened to the debate with an A little further out, in a cove among put you to shame before the whole Rook! I've heard he has burnt the whole indifferent air, raised his mace, and the thick reeds, a group of experienced world. I'll not let you rese day and night nation of owls in their cave. Maybe he'll turbulent company quieted down. craftsmen worked under the direction but bother you until you make up my help you. "Gentlemen and companions!" he of the Kozak chief. loss! So the Titmouse flew to the Rook and said. "I see that the majority of the Something unusual was being made And the Sea only continued to: told him his story. Kozak council favors a sea campaign (Continued on page 16) Splash-splash, splash-splash. I am sorry, little Titmouse — said the That made the Titmouse still more Rook solemnly, bowing his head. — angry and she screamed: The fire I've burnt the nation of owls HOW TO READ AND WRITE IN UKRAINIAN How dare you! How dare you laugh with is the one that humans use. It will BY I. KORYTSKY at me? Give me back my eggs at once for not burn the water. The water puts such I will have revenge on you! fire out. The only fire hat might have But the Sea only said: some power over the Sea is the fire from Splash-splash, splash-splash. Heaven. Ask the Eagle. He flies so high, You think I cannot get revenge? — so maybe he has some friends in those yelled the Titmouse. — You think that high places and will help with your just because you are great and I am plight. small, that I have no power? And did The Titmouse thanked the Rook and you ever see a small spark burn a huge flew to the Eagle. After telling her story, forest? I'll set a fire on you too, if you she bowed low and implored him: don't return my loss! Your Highness, do not scorn my Гусінь And the Sea: plight! Get me the heavenly fire to burn Splash-splash, splash-splash. that worthless Sea and revenge my Full of rage the Titmouse swore to Маленька Орися wrong. have no rest till she burned the Sea. Пішла по ожину, But the Eagle, after listening to her, With that she flew to a glow-worm and sprang to his feet, flapped his wings in Надибала в лісі said: wrath and cried: Dear Glow-worm, you have some Страшную тварину: You bad Titmouse! Who told you to light. Come with me and help me to set build your nest on the cliff by the Sea? Очі витріщені, the fire on the Sea. Who told you to argue with the Sea? Роги випрямлені, I cannot, little Titmouse — said the Because of your foolishness, I have to Борода мотається, Glow-worm. The light I have glows at steal the fire from Heaven? Go away at Гляне хто night but it gives no warmth and it once! Build a new nest in a thornbush cannot burn. Fly to the Will-of-the up on a hillock, lay your eggs and hatch — злякається! Wisp and maybe he'll help you. them, understand? А воно тільки й біди So off flew the Titmouse to the These words calmed the Titmouse. In marshes, sat down on a bush and waited a few weeks, she had a new nest and new — гусінь з лободи! patiently for the Will-of-the-Wisp to eggs in it but not on а сІШ by the Sea but appear before her. There were a lot of L ммюмхавдь^ in a thornbush upon a hillock. No. 188 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1979 15

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The spoiled child learns Once there was a man and his wife So she did. When all came to dinner who had an only daughter. As she was the father-in-law kissed the bride for gay and lovely and they were rich, they working so hard. taught her no work but spoiled her. As the days went by the young bride When a young man came to woo her, learned to do all the housework happily her parents said, and cheerfully. "We will give her an abundant dowry, Many weeks went by. The young WORD JUMBLE but pray, do not force her to do any bride's parents decided that her father work." should visit her. Ukrainian translators The young man went away on hear­ The father found his daughter busy ing this and so did many others. But one with cooking and baking. She greeted Submitted by t)r. Andrij Hornjatkevych ' day the girl's father met an old friend him happily. who had a young son. He sat watching her, and asked: The jumbled words below represent the names of scholars and authors who "How is it, my dear, that you can translated an important work into Ukrainian. Their names are spelled according to the "So I have a son and you have a system employed in Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia. They can be identified by daughter. It would be fine if they got cook and bake?" rearranging the letters. Letters underlined with a double line form the mystery words. married." "Well, dear father, I learned. In this "Why not?' said the girl's father. "But home he who does not work, doesn't my daughter does not know how to eat." j IOKHOINE work." "Is that so? You must have starved at the beginning!" i"And what if she learns? asked the KOKNOHEM bpy's father. "Oh no! They teach slowly and kindly "Let her learn, but don't force her." here." ; So the young girl and the young man "So, so," said her father. "A different HULSKI Were married. Next day, after the home a different custom." wedding celebrations, everyone arose As he said this, he looked out the STELYVKY early at the groom's house and his window and saw his old friend coming father commanded every member of the into the house, so he snatched up his family to do some work. Only the old coat and began to brush off the dirt. ULUPIY mother and the young bride were left at The bride's father-in-law, who had home. seen his friend come in, had not rushed BYCKASHYN When dinner time came, the family to greet him at once, wanting father and assembled at the table and the father daughter to have a hearty talk. Now, asked each one in turn what work he thinking that they had enough time for The Ukrainian title of this work: had done during the day. talking, he lentered the house, noticed "I plowed the field" said one son. his guest brushing his coat. "I went to town," said another. "Iі weeded the vegetables," said a "Dear friend, what are you doing?" daughter-in-law. "Well, old friend," answered the One of the old man's daughters kept bride's father, "I had no dinner today, silent. so I have to do some work if I want to Answers to previous word jumble: Tymoshenko, Dobush, Kodak, Krychevsky, Zuk, Poustenko, Osadca, Jastremsky, Zukovsky, Sichynsky. "What did you do today?" asked her eat." father. "Nothing," answered the girl. "Yes, dear friend," answered the host, Mystery words: Kozak-Baroque. "If you did nothing, you eat nothing," such is the custom of this home." said the old man. "It is a fine custom indeed, and there's HAVE AN INTERESTING JUMBLE? SEND IT IN. The girl got up from the table and no sense in changing it." went and sat down on! a stool by the door. No one asked the young bride any questions and she ate her dinner in peace. The next day another daughter went without supper and the young Bohuta The Hero bride asked, Story: Roman Zawadowycz Illustrations: Petro Cholodny "Is it always like this at this house?" "Yes, indeed, if you don't work — you go without food." "And why does no one ask me any­ thing?" "Because you are still a guest?" On the third day the young bride asked: "Perhaps I could do some work?" "Yes dear," said her mother-in-law, "take the broom and sweep the floor." When they all gathered together for dinner, the old father asked them what each has done. The bride, seeing that no one asked her a question, said, "I swept the floor, dear father." І за три дні, мов з-під землі, ви­ Спасибі, добродію наш! — 3 каміння, що на ньому за- "My dear child," said her father-in- росли могутні мури-вежі. Нема за що! Живіть у гаразді сохла кров героїв моєї батьківщи- і громіть ворогів! ни, збудую в Києві церкву, яка law. "I don't ask you anything, for I простоїть тисячоліття. know you are a child of wise and respectable parents and would not And in three days, as though Thank you, our benefactor! From the stones, upon which there from under the ground, there grew Don't mention it! Live well and waste your day doing nothing." dried up the blood of the heroes strong walls-towers. destroy the enemy! of my Fatherland, I will build in The next day the young bride again Kiev a church which will stand up asked her mother-in-law what to do. for a thousand years. ? "Go and bring some water from the (Кінець розділу 9-го) Well."^ ь n,.,v, Л^ль./.' . (,- ? ІТШ жвпА M sfemtm Й4 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1979 No. 188

their way into the fortress. At the same Taking the free slaves with them and The Kozak's underwater boats time a group of Kozaks found a dun­ ioading the Turkish galleys with cap­ (Continued from page 14) the waves, slowly approached the geon in which slaves from Ukraine and tured booty, the victors boarded their boats. The Zaporozhian fleet left Sinop here: craftsmen were rebuilding the fortress with its tall towers and thick other lands were kept imprisoned. and moved into the open ocean, head­ boats, providing them with a double walls. Taken by surprise, the Turks could ing north, toward Ukraine. bottom with flaps. They also built tops Suddenly the guard stared. He not defend themselves and were taken for the boats and covered the oarlock rubbed his eyes: was he dreaming, or captive. The battle on the galleys lasted The event described in this story is holes with leather. A pipe rose above the were the logs beginning to grow and somewhat longer. Turkish troops based on historical facts. In 1600 the deck through which air passed inside. rise? Now two strange, oblong trunks fought fiercely. But hosts of Kozaks, Zaporozhian Kozaks decided to occupy Sand was put between the two bottoms. emerged from the water. In a flash their approaching from the sea in their boats, the Turkish city of Sinop, where Ukrai­ Under this weight, the boat sank under flaps were opened, and the frightened clambered onto the Turkish ships like nian captives worked under horrible water. When the flaps were opened, and guard saw the Kozaks. ants and climbed up on the decks using conditions of slavery. In order to take the boats became lighter and rose above "Attack!" he screamed in a frenzy, their bare hands, for they did not have the fortress, the Kozaks built under­ the water. and attempted to run, but before he had any ladders. After a few hours of fierce water boats (probably the first in the gone a step, strong arms caught him at When all preparations for the attack fighting, the Kozaks broke the ranks of world) and thus approached the enemy the throat. had been completed, the Zaporozhian the enemy and freed the slaves who were harbor unnoticed. The element of Host prayed to the Blessed Virgin Mary The surging Kozaks rushed to the sitting in long rows at the oars, bound in surprise in their assault assured the in their Sitch chapel and, boarding their gates, disarmed the guard and forced chains. Kozaks of victory. boats, sailed down the Dnipro River to the Black Sea. Without any adventures they came to the mouth of the river, THE CARPATHIAN SKI CLUB OF NEW YORK where many huge waves began to rock under the auspices of the the boats. ASSOCIATION OF UKRAINIAN SPORTS CLUBS IN NORTH AMERICA (USCAK) In view of the gentle July weather, the will hold chief decided to cross the Black Sea to Sinop instead of sailing all around the THE ANNUAL dangerous coast of the Caucasus. The command was given from the chiefs TENNIS AND SWIMMING COMPETITION boat: Enter the open sea and sail directly south! at SOYUZIVKA The Zaporozhian fleet headed out to IN OBSER VANCE OF THE 85th ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNA sea. Only the sky above and the endless dark expanse of water were visible. At AUGUST 31 and SEPTEMBER 1, 2,3, 1979 (Labor Day Weekend) night it seemed as if somewhere in the depths stars twinkled from time to time. After sailing a long time, the Kozak TENNIS TOURNAMENT SWIMMING COMPETITION flotilla neared the coast of Asia Minor for individual CHAMPIONSHIPS of USCAK SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1979 under cover of darkness. The chief and trophies of the for INDIVIDUAL and TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS commanded: Halt! UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SOYUZIVKA, UNA MEDALS SL TROPHIES SVOBODA, THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, and the At the same time, the crews of the in the following events for males and females sportsmanship Trophy of Mrs. MARY DUSHNYCK underwater boats were commanded to 8-Ю years of age appraoch the shore carefully. Qualifications: This competition is open to any player 25 m. free-style yi- The short night was almost over. A whose club is a member of USCAK. — Singles matches are 50 m. free-style thick, milky fog enveloped the minarets scheduled in the following division: Men, Women, Junior Vets 11-12 years of age of Sinop, its harbor, and the sea itself. (35-44), Senior Men (45- and 55), Junior (Boys and Girls). It was quiet all around - the city Juniors are persons aged 18 and under, while seniors are 25 m. free-style those over 45 years of age. 50 m. free-style slept. A sleepy Turk on guard peered Registration for tennis matches, including name, age, 25 m. breast-stroke into the fog but could not see anything division and the fee of S5.00 should be sent to: on the sea. All was still, only some logs 4 X 25 m. free-style relay swam upright, disappearing and then SOYUZIVKA 13-14 years of age rising again in the water. c/o Miss Anya Dydyk 50 m. free-style Kerhonkson, N. Y. 12446 "Strange!...What can this be?" 100 m. free-style thought the guard. "Should I sound the Registrations should be sent not later than August 22, 50'mXbreast-stroke alarm? No, there's no danger. They 1979. No additional applications will be accepted before the 100 m.nndividual medley would only laugh at me for sounding a competition, since the schedule or matches will be worked out 4 X 50 m. free-style relay false alarm, maybe even punish me." ahead of time. 15 and over - In the meantime the logs, swaying on 50 m. free-style SCHEDULE OF MATCHES: 100 m. free-style 100 m. breast-stroke HELP WANTED FRIDAY, August 31, - Soyuzivka, 1:00 p.m. Men's pre­ liminary^ round. Players who must compete in this round 100 m. individual medley will"^ be notified by the tournament committee by 4 X 50 m. medley relay HI R Wednesday, August 29. SOCIAL WORKER - f SATURDAY, September 1 - Soyuzivka, 8:30 a.m. First There will be no limit on the number of competitors in each round junior girls (all age groups), junior vets, senior men Caseworker Bilingual Ukrainian. j event. Swimmers can compete in no more than three individual first round, Soyuzivka, 10:30 a.m. Juniors (all age groups), events and one relay. 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