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No. 10 JERSEY CITY, CITY, N. J., SATORDAY, MARCH - 6, 1Ш VOL. XI THE GREATEST MOTHER Know Him Somewhere, on some distant battle· I Somewhere, today, an American field, an American soldier will be j serviceman needs help. He may be RECENTLY we conducted a private poll of our own among some of our wounded in action today. He may¡ at distant domestic camp or base, on young Ukrainian Americans as to their opinion of Taras Shevchenko, be your son. Or the laughing, tow- a ship at sea, in an unfriendly prison the great Ukrainian poet and patriot whose anniversary is observed an­ headed kid that only yesterday lived camp. He may be almost anywhere. nually at about this time. In the course of it we discovered, somewhat to in a house down the street. Remem­ Wherever he is, there also is the our surprise, that although all of them spoke in highly laudatory terms ber? American Red Cross, offering him its about Shevchenko, yet quite a number of them know very little about him. Strong but tender hands will car­ many resources. Whether his prob­ Of course, his name and picture are very familiar to them, for in their ry him back to an Army dressing lem is personal, physical, mental or homes and communal life they encounter both at every turn. They have station. A blood transfusion may be financial, the Red Cross stands ready also heard, sang, read, and even recited a few of his poetic works. And required to save his life—blood con­ to assist him and his family. Even perhaps the chief events of his life are vaguely known to them. But that tributed to the American Red Cross the barbed wire enclosures of prison appears, to be the sum-total of their knowledge of him. . by thousands of Americans back camps are no barrier to Red Cross. Such young people deserve to be strongly criticized. There would be home. Through its affiliation with the In­ some excuse for them if they lacked source material about this great man. He will be brought to a base hos­ ternational Red "Cross Committee, it But such is not the case. For those who can read Ukrainian, there is pital where Army nurses, recruited breaches all hatreds to bring food, easily available a wealth of material on the subject. And for those who by the American Red Cross, will dress articles of comfort, and to re-estab­ cannot, there has always been The Ukrainian Weekly, plus several brochures his wounds. Sympathetic Red Cross lish the line of communication be­ and booklets. It appears, however, that either through sheer mental lazi­ workers will advise his family of his tween the military prisoner and his ness or some other reason, these young people have hardly tapped any of progress, and, as he convalesces, loved ones at home. these sources. Evidently they have preferred to rest blissfully content in other Red Cross workers will help At the disposal of every Ameri­ the knowledge that Shevchenko was a great man, and let it go at that. speed his recovery. |can serviceman are Red Cross field Such an easy-going attitude does justice neither to Shevchenko nor # # # ! directors in the war front, home serv· to them. The qualities that constitute a man's greatness are usually of Somewhere tonight an American j ice workers in the local chapteds and little consequence if they do not affect others, if they do not inspire a boy is longing for home. He may be millions of volunteers, desire to emulate or be guided by them. Of what use Shevchenko's noble in bomb-scarred London—in far-off j Thus, the Red Cross serves the teachings, his great courage, and his lofty patriotism, if they do not Australia, in a Pacific island jungle, serviceman! kindle one's heart and mind. Why wax rhapsodical over the beauty of or on a North African desert. « * ** his poetry, when actually you have read very little, if any, of it. And But his heart and his mind will be Somewhere, sometime, disaster will why arrange elaborate programs on the anniversary of his birth or death, back in States, at the home fireside. strike some community. It may be when throughout the rest of the year you will hardly ever give him a He will long-to pat the head of your town, ravaged by storm and thought, much less open his "Kobzar" collection, or even obtain one. that frisky pup; to laugh again with flood—or enemy action. In a word, let's not insult Shevchenko's memory with any such sham the girl who awaits his return; to When that disaster strikes, the and hypocrisy. He is too great a man for that. Either give him his just live the life of a civilized man. ¡Red Cross -your Red Cross—the one dues, by really getting to know him, his works, and his significance to the If he can, he will go to the Ameri­ to which you always have contributed Ukrainian people, or leave him alone entirely. There are enough others can Red Cross club. It won't be the ¡—will be on the job. It will feed and who will pay proper respect to him. And even if there were not, he will home for which h% longs. It will be |shelter the suffering. If necessary, it continue to spiritually dominate the course of Ukrainian life. For, in the only a substitute — an antidote for j will help to rebuild their town, their words of an American scholar, Taras Shevchenko is the outstanding in­ loneliness. But there he will find a | homes. carnation of the national genius of the Ukrainian people; he sums up alt warm welcome, an American style The Red Cross will be there be­ their past and stands out like a guide to their future. meal, a comfortable bed. He may ¡cause it is part of the community, sit down to write a letter to the folks Let us, therefore, on this occasion of the 129th anniversary of his ¦made up of people representative of back home. . He will find entertain­ birth, resolve to learn a bit more than we now know about Shevchenko. ¡the community. When the period of ment to relieve his mind of the Let us also resolve to read, carefully, at least a few of the works that |emergency ends, it will still be there thoughts that pass through the minds have made him one of the masters of world poetry. —on the job. of homesick men. If we do, we will find our senses opened to hidden beauty of a won­ ¾ # ·» He may be at some distant out­ drous quality. Likewise we will find ourselves inspired to greater efforts to post, far removed from that Red | Somewhere, every minute of the help our country win this war against autocracy, oppression and servitude, Cross club. But tonight, or the next hour, every hour of the day, every against which Shevchenko waged almost single-handed such a highly cour­ night, the Red Cross will come to day of the yar, the ^ Red Cross is ageous and inspiring fight—a fight which is being continued today and him, bringing with it relief from the 'helping someone. which eventually is bound to bring about national freedom for the people boredom and horror of war. ' Won't you help, too? he loved and suffered for so much.

It seemed as if the sun shone forth, Selections From Taras Shevchenko's "Koh^|^^S¿.'^u'SJ: 'As if the world and all there was, The fields and woods, were mine to _— j jje reap tnee wn. keep... THE TESTAMENT Water your new liberty Serf and landlord And we, with merriment, went forth With blood for rain. Great and small; To water someone else's sheep. Dig my grave raise my barrow Then, in the mighty family Friendless wandering singer,—all, (Trans, by W. Semenyna) By the Dnieper-side |Of all men that are free. All shall swell the sheaves that grow In Ukraina, my land. ¦ Maybe sometimes, very softly to mountains; UKRAINE AFLAME A fair land and wide. You will speak of me? Even the Tsar shall go. . . . The people die — I will lie and" watch the cornfields. (Trans, by E. L. Voynich) Within their prisons they are slaught­ And me too the scythe shall find Listen through the years ered; Cowering alone behind To the river voices roaring, Children without a God or friend THE REAPER Bars of iron; swift and blind, Roaring in my ears. The Kozak children—and the daugh­ Strike, and pass, and leave me, stark Through the fields the reaper goes ters, When I hear the call And forgotten in the dark. Piling sheaves on sheavens in row; The beauty of the native land, Of the racing flood, Hills, not sheaves, are these. (Trans, by E. L. Voynich) Are held in bondage... Loud with hated blood Where he passes howls the earth, * * * I will leave them all. Howl the echoeing seas. Fields and hills; and force my way AT THE ROADSIDE Ukraine is flaming to sky: Right up to the Throne All the night the reaper reaps, Through villages the naked children І. . . At the roadside Where God sits alone; Never stays his hand nor sleeps Weep for their fathers. I Not far from where I stood Clasp His feet and pray. . . Reaping endlessly; Faded leaves A girl was picking hemp. Are rustling o'er the lifeless meadows, But till that day Whets his blade and passes on ... She heard my sighs and sobs The clouds are drowsing, sun's asleep, What> is God to me? —. Hush, and let him be. And came the cause to seek, And villages draw howling shadows Bury me, be done with me, Hush, he cares not bow men writhe Then wiped my rolling tears. Which scent the corpse... Rise and break your chain, With naked hands against the scythe. And kissed me on the cheek. (Trans, by W. Semen j naj cient customs, which you \ know % best. Judge and punish, and'*I shall not hinder you." HORNA RADA" **Well, if that's the case," spoke up one of · *m ~~ш~* mm ~m mm ^ mm mm mm ~m~m mm ттж-> mm mm the elders, a bewhiskere d and scarred veteran (BL·ACK COUNCIL·) ^ of many a foray and council meeting, "then why wait any longer. To the post and rod with A Historical Romance of Turbulent Kozak Times him." The Hetman mot*ioned with his bulawa, as After Death of,Hetman Bohdan Khmelnitsk\ a si>gn that the verdict of the elders be carried out, and the council broke up. Ail streamed to By PANTELEYMON KULISH (1819-97) the post imbedded in the ground nearby. (Continued) (Translated by S. Sbumeyko) (20) The rascal Kyrylo Tur was quickly bound and led to the post. The poor fellow was tied HPHK Story So Far: One Spring day in 1663 is more concerned with Kyrylo's wounds than to it in such a manner that he was free to turn in Ukraine, near Kiev, two weary horsemen with the attempted kidnapping of her—but that in any diColonel Shraam. an old friend of his, a very upon a little hut wherein Kyrylo is being nursed and basket of rolls were placed alongside the devout priest нnd at the same time a doughty back to health by an aged mother and sister, post: first to becloud his head and dull his warrior; the young Kozak with him is Petro, his both of whom adore him, and of whom despite senses and thus enable him to bear his punish­ son. The twos as Shraam be 1 Is· % the greatest of' all allay his mother's fears, however, he· pretends "such was the cursed custom in those days," Ukrainian hetmans, who had liberated Ukraine he is being called to the Sitch on some routine as oldsters are wont to recall, "that seven such from the Poles, entered into a disastrous alliance matter. Her fears nevertheless aroused, the blows and the culprit was rarely able to drink with Muscovy, and then died prematurely, leav­ mother, after Kyrylo has been taken away by or eat anymore." It was the finish of him. ing the new Kozak State in a unsettled state, Puhach, pleads with Petro to follow her son and soon made worse by Moscow's machinations see what fate befalls him and then return to Although Kyrylo Tur was popular among and by the strife among Kozak leaders aspiring her and tell her of it. his comrades, his crime under the Kozak code, to succeed Khmelnitsk>·. however, was one of the most odious that one And now we resume the story. The scene could commit, that of abducting a girl. Thus To his dismay, Shraam learns at Cherevan's ¡ now is the huge encampment of the Zaporozhians while his comrades secretly felt sorry for that beside Somko and Теtera, still another under Brukhovetsky. It is called Romanovsky him, yet as an example to young Kozaks who Hetman had but recently appeared, the sly, un­ Kut, and it lies within the confluence of a small might be ¾empted sometime to a similar at­ scrupulous and demagogic Brukhovetsky, whom stream flowing into the Oster river (a tributary tempt, they hastened to partake of the mead the Zaporozhian Kozaks in the lower stretches r of Desna, flowing into the Dnieper near Kiev). and bread and, then use the stick. And yet of the Dnieper had elected as their Hetman and Attracted by Brukhovetsky's demagogic calls, of such stuff was a Kozak made that the sight who with their aid was now trying to extend і riff-raff by the thousands have gathered within of Kyrylo Tur, bound and helpless, quietly his sway over the domains of Somko and Te- its confines, drinking and brawling and loafing; awaiting the blow, would soften . his pitiless tera. Despite this new complication Shraam ! only in its center is there any order and neat­ heart. Perhaps his memory would flash back and Petro depart on their mission, but not ness, for it is here that the Zaporozhians and to some adventure the two of them had ex­ before the latter becomes enamoured with Che­ other Kozaks are quartered. And it is here perienced together, or the time when death revan's daughter Lesya, for whom, however, that Petro finds that the trial of Kyrylo Tur stared both of them in the face, or some kind­ her ambitious mother has different plane, mar­ by the Sitch elders, led by 'father* Puhach, is ness on Tur*s part. At any rate his hand riage with Hetman Somko himself; already she about to begin. would involuntarily drop the rod and unob­ has arranged their engagement. trusively he would withdraw without striking On their way to Somko in Kiev, accompanied ; a blow. by Cherevan, hie wife, and Lesya, Shraam and , The Zaporozhian Trial of Kyrylo Tur This was exactly what Kyrylo's friend, Petro have an opportunity to observe among The trial of Kyrylo Tur was opened by Chornohor, was hoping for. Hovering around the people they encounter the antagonism 'father' Puhach. Stepping forward from the the post he would ward off one Kozak with a against the landed Kozaks, who are charged massed circle of the Kozak Rada· (Council), he word of entreaty, another with some reminder with putting on airs and exploiting the ordin­ bowed low to all four sides, adding extra bows of Kyrylo's services, and still another with ary Kozaks and the townspeople as much as to the Otamans and Hetman Brukhovetsky. even a sharp word and a scowl; and such was did the Polish lords in pre-Khmelnitsky times. Then, clearing his throat stentoriously, the old Chornohor's reputation that the latter would draw away from him like a cat from fat, even Arriving in Kiev, the travellers find Somko , warrior spoke, loud and clear: though he would fain have a drink of the in­ scornful of Tetera and Brukhovetsky and the "Sir Hetman, elders, otamans, brothers and viting mead. At one time, |begging an Otaman others who are challenging his authority and comrades! Wherein does the power of the Za- to refrain from punishing Kyrylo, young Chor­ who are even trying to enlist the aid of Mos­ porozhe lie if not in the maintenance of our nohor even resorted to copious tears, and this cow against him. Likewise he is scornful of ancestral customs. No one knows exactly when display of emotion was so touching that the the threats emanating from the Zaporozhian Kozak knighthood began. But we can trace it Otaman withdrew. Such friendship was most Sitch that under the instigation of Brukhovet­ back to the ancient times, to the Varangians, highly respected in those days. sky a Black Council would be held for the pur­ who on field and sea won undying fame for pose of deposing him as Hetman and putting themselves. And since then no one has sullied Ah, but here comes *father* Puhach himself, Brukhovetsky in his place. this golden Kozak fame; neither Bayda, hung before his advance Chornohor gives way like a puppy before a mastiff. There is no use even by the Turks on an iron hook on the walls of Meanwhile Petro's romantic difficulties be« attempting to dissuade him, eve¤ if he dared Constantinople, nor Samiyla Kishka, tortured come even more complicated. Although Lesya to. The pitiless elder heads straight for the for two score and fourteen hours in a Turkish is Somko's fiancee, Petro's love for her shows post. With one gulp he downs a tumbler of dungeon. No one has, except one man, one no signs of abating. Still he keeps it secret, out mead. ¾ of loyalty to the Hetman and also because of scoundrel, this loafer, this ruffian who stands his injured pride resulting from the rebuff he here before you now!" "This is fine mead, indeed,'' he grunts, smacking his lips in satisfaction, and ignoring received when at Cherevan *s home he asked for Seizing the powerful figure of Kyrylo Tur 'u?r hand. the hapless Chornohor. Dipping into the basket by the shoulders, old Puhach swung him around he pulls out a chunk of bread, eats it, then The romantic interest in the story, however, roughly, so that all could view him. reaches for a stick, the heaviest and stoutest takes on a new turn with the appearance on "Look well, knave," he roared, "into the of them all. the scene of Kyrylo Tur, a Zaporozhian Kozak, eyes of these good people, and be an example "Turn around, you scoundrel!"' he orders. rough and tough and unscrupulous, bold in to all!" Kyrylo quietly turns around. A swish through speech and manners, yet withal a great fighter, the air, and he receives a blow so heavy and highly courageous, contemptuous of death, and "What has this wretch done?" he continued, sharp that his very bones crackle. But he shows one who for a friend or cause would give his addressing the silent throng. "He has done himself to be a good Zaporozhian, for he neither life. Although a special friend of Somko, whose that upon which we can only spit. He has tried groans nor winces. life he once saved on a battlefield. Kyrylo to abduct a maiden. Tchfu! He has shamed the Tur does not allow that fact to stand in his* Kozak brotherhood for all times. Sir Hetman, "Remember well from now on. you wretch, way when he becomes enamoured with Lesya. and you elders, and you brothers, think well. how Kozak honor to uphold!" says 'father' Pu­ With forthright directness he and his friend. What should we do to wipe off the stain of hach and goes his way. Chornohor, kidnap Lesya one night right from this dishonor laid upon us? What punishment Gazing at the scene from a distance, young under the Hetman's roof and make o£f by horse­ for_ this good-for-nothing loafer do you decree?" | Petro, whose sweetheart Kyrylo had attempted back for the Chornohor (Black) mountains. No one replied. All awaited to hear what to kidnap, realized that a few more of such Petro gives chase and finally catches up with the Hetman had to say. *The elders urged him blows, and that would be the last of Kyrylo them. Kyrylo Tur turns to give battle. To get on: Tur. His sympathies aroused, he walked over to Tur, wishing to find out whether he had any at him Petro has to leap over a deep and wide "Speak, *father' Hetman. Your word is law." chasm, in which attempt he slips and nearly gets last message for his mother and sister. Finally, ingratiatingly the sly Brukhovetsky і Killed, but in the nick of tuna. Kyrylo saves Chornohor, however, misconstrued Petro's said: him. In the terrible duel that then ensues with intentions. He thought the latter, too, wanted swords and knives both combatants are severe­ "My dear elders. In your gray heads lies to try out his strength on Kyrylo. Drawing his ly wounded. It is then that Lesya discovers ¦ all wisdom, not in mine. My duty here is but sword, he leaped in front of Petro. 'hat she loves not Hetman Somko,- for whom , to wave this bulawa to see that your decrees "Sometimes I doubt whether you have any she just bore a girlhood infatuation and who . are obeyed. Decide in accordance with the an· j sense in that head of yours!" spoke up Kyrylo Naymychka, Kavkaz, Poslaniye,. Kho¯ і· ··t' SHEVCHENKOL AS- AW ARTIST-POET lodniy Yar, masterful poetical ver· Full Moon By HONORE EWACH that Shevchenko loved all that was beautiful more through his heart, as Who knows the magic a poet, than through his eyes. He Of a moon-lit night npARAS Shevchenko's original de*l of drawing and painting by a guild had an intense love for beautiful Black> fringed limbs of trees sire was to become an artist¯! painter, a Mr. Lamp¡, at Warsaw. But landscapes and human features. But * Silhouetted against a brilliant sky ' painter. With that puro¢>se in mind ¦ as the Poles were then preparing for Enchantme,lt imit his genius was not in the power 0f! enfolds the heart he applied, when yet a boy of thir |a rebellion against Russia, Warsaw the artist*s visualisation and the'1114118 3oit **Щ*** of rapture teen, to several local painters of ikons |became a dangerous spot to live in ¡ 80 .physical ability to reproduce the| ~*&* for training. But as a serf he first j for Engelhardt So he moved in 1830 Tha one almQ8t ¦visualized pictures with paint and * Ч*¯ º«r God had to obtain his master's perm is· to St. Petersburg. Ail hi~ servants ' Walkin*тг_it_: g abou_I t. iгn_ Hie*ТІ_ , —univers * e brush, His genius lay in the power s¿on. The latter ^s overseer ignored І went there, too. Like others Shev· JUt by moonbeams lo make perfect wc the ambitious boy's request and feet| «*mko had to walk most of the P«*«* word-picturesof the Who can describe s s recorded m Ins The delicate color· mind· There, is no other Ukrainian Soon the cook made a complaint that Petersburg due,to the extraordinary Of a night-time sky? poet or novelist who could make more Taras spent more of his time in the stinginess of Engelhardt. There, at perfect word-pictures of the beauty Theodo*da Boresky secret* nooks of the orchard, dabbling St. Petersburg. Shevchenko was ap- of Ukraine. Shevchenko painted mas- there with paint and brush, than in prenticed to a petty painter, by the, its the kitchen. In fact, Taras proved UT^S of Ukraine and Naymychka, Kavkaz, Poslaniye, Kho- to Joe even less interested in¦1838, when his freedom was bought'***º1"6 m his ~ºe-~*· lodniy Yar, masterful poetical ver­ the art of cookery than in his own і for the price of 2,500 rubles. The Shevchenko was a profoundly emo· sions of ten psalms, and ended up previous attempt to become a shep¯1 money was raised by his friends from tional man, As a friend and com· that long period of inspiration by herd. Still the boy looked so intel-lthe sale of a portrait of Zhukovsky, pan ion he was a very generous and writing his memorable "Last Win.." і і gent and even refined that the over· | a prominent Russian poet, done by kind-hearted man, though moody and It is no wonder that this lengthy sear presented him to the landlord as Bryulov, a noted painter and profes- taciturn at times. That is how Shev·]period of poetic inspiration used up a page. From time to time the land· sor of fine arts, both of whom were chenkb is described by one of his j so much of his spiritual and physical lord would catch Taras lost in his ¦ Shevchenko's friends. From then on best friends and admirers—Princess j power that he was lefts seriously fll day-dreaming. But more often he Shevchenko studied painting at the Varvara Repnin. He had not the man. Shevchenko was so exhausted caught Taras at his favorite occupa· {St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, calmness of an epic poet. He was one ¡ then that he did not touch his pen tion—drawing or studying pictures. ¦He graduated in 1845 as a free artist, of the greatest lyric poets of the ¡again during the next seven months Sometimes the capricious rich man ¦with a gold medal. During the next world. His greatness as such lay in |till July 25, 1846, when he wrote his would box the boy's ears. But now |two years he travelled all over Uk· the fact that he wrote most of his ¡poem **Lileya." and then he would ask his page tO|raine as a member of the southern j poetry only when he was really in·¡ At the height of his creative power paint a picture of one of his many |branch of Imperial Geographical So· |spired. At times be was inspired just j Shevchenko was a master artist with mistresses. Some of the drawings ¦ ciety, making drawings and oil paint· j for a few days. By studying the j the power to express his visualized were so good that finally this rich j ings of all the noted historical objects dates under his poems of 1845 we pictures and ideas best~ through landlord, Engelhardt, decided that | in Ukraine. He also painted many, notice that he wrote to some very fine words. In sho«t, Taras Shevchenko his talented page should get some ¡ portraits of his friends and casual Р«игу during seventy-three days- was at the height of his genius when

training in drawing and painting. He¦ftcqueintance8 4 from October 4 to December 25. It was his soul was rhythmically pulsating wanted to have his own private his longest period of poetical inspire· with the simple but powerful words artist-painter. - ¾1 general Shevchenko's paintings tion. In that space of time Shevchen· of his poems. Then he was a poet- For over a year Shevchenko was¡*¤<* portraits are good, but devoid of|ko wrote the following masterpieces: artist of the first,magnitude, trained as an apprentice in the art I any mark of a genius. The truth is' Ivan Hus, Nevolnyk, Velykiy Lyokh, Winnipeg, Canada

Tur to the glaring Chornohor. "Let Petro go. Tur's back. Another in his place would have They undressed Kyrylo Tur. The condition He is a good lad. He is such that would not been felled to the ground like a stricken ox by of his back made Petro's blood run cold. The push you further into the quicksand, but pull the first blow, but Kyrylo managed to suffer white shirt was all bloody, and stuck tightly you out," "Hello, comrade!" turning to Petro. the four of them without even wincing; in fact, to the raw flesh. When it came to pulling it "See, how warmly guests are treated among when they were through he even joked as they off, Tur had, to clench his teeth to keep a groan us.here. Come, let's have a drink together." were leaving: from escaping his lips. Father Puhach himself "Drink yourself, brother," said Petro, "for "They certainly laundered me well, there is applied the healing salves to the raw, bleeding if I were to drink then I am afraid that your no denying to that!" he exclaimed, humorously. flesh, and then applied large leaves over it. He elders might force me to show my appreciation "After such laundering I believe I won't ever then gave bim a fresh shirt to don. 4 of it by beating you." feel any pain. '*Well, now," he said at length, "you are all "Well, here's to your health, comrades!" said "What shall I tell your mother?" Petro asked right now. But don't get into similar trouble Kyrylo Tur. "I shall have to drink alone." once more. again, for if you do, that will be the end of "What message do you want me to give to you..." "And what could you tell?" replied Kyrylo your mother and sister?" asked Petro. after the Tur, snorting. "Teil her that her Kozak perished The Kozaks then, with shouts and laughter, latter had drank. for such a noble cause as a billy-goat's soul, led Kyrylo Tur to dinner. The mention of his mother and sister caused and no more—so there! And as for the division The younger Kozaks ate their meal under the Kyrylo Tur to lower his head. Obviously he was of my spoils, my comrade Chornohor will attend spreading. branches of the oaks nearby, each moved. Then at length he raised his head and to that. One third of it he shall give to my command separate from the other, under its gave his message, in song: mother and sister, and the second third he shall own Otaman. The elders ate in the Hetman's ..ОЙ которий, козаченьки, буде л вас у місті take to Kiev, to the Mohyla Brotherhood. There quarters; all but one. For father Puhach came Поклоніться старій ненці, нещасній нечисті: Нехай плаче, нехай плаче, а вже не виплаче. sin tempted me, so there let them pray for my over to the group where Kyrylo was eating. Бо нал сином, над Кирилом, чорний ворон крячс!" soul. And the third part let him take to the This was indeed a high honor. Kyrylo quickly **That is just exactly what is going to hap­ Black Mountain for the good mountaineers to jumped from his Otaman*s place and gave it t· pen to you, you scoundrel!" interrupted one of buy themselves lead and powder, so that they the elder, himself sitting down alongside of him. will have something to remember Kyrylo Tur's the elders, approaching him. He was followed Soon the tinkling of the kobzas broke into soul by at the Kozak herts dances." by three others. "Don't place too much hope the talking and laughter. Everybody grew quiet_ on the fact that young Kozaks pass you by "A bit more endurance, comrade," cheered to better listen to the two old kobzars who, sit­ without giving you what you richly deserve ; Bohdan Chornohor. "No one will dare to lift a ting near them, sang, to the accompaniment of we elders ourselves shall give you a full meas­ finger against you from now on. Soon the din­ their instruments, poignant dumi of Kozak life ure. But first let us have a drink.'' ner gong will sound. They will then let you and knightly fame, of Netchay, Moroz, the Brok­ loose, and you will be a free Kozak once more, And taking the tumbler he filled it dripping en-Nose-One, and other immortal Kozak heroes. as free as the wind in the steppe." full, drank it down, smacked his lips in satisfac­ They sang about the Kozak wars and forays, bf tion, then picking up a stick, said:. Although impatient to leave for home, Petro the wide steppe, turbulent Black Sea, sufferings "What do you say, *fathers'? My opinion is decided to wait until noon. Perhaps Kyrylo in the Turkish galleys, of captivity, fame of Ko- that I knock him one over the head and let bim would survive. Then he could depart with a zakdom,—of all they sang, so that the Kozak more cheerful message than the one given him. perish, the wretch!" soul woud be inspired. 'No, brother," replied gravely the other Sauntering through the Sitch grounds he noted Father Puhach blessed the food, and all fell eider, " 'tis not a custom among us to beat a that Kyrylo Tur had not only Chornohor for a to eating, the kobzari continuing their play­ miscreant over the head. The head is made in defender, but many others. Kozaks would pass ing and singing. Each Kozak pulled out a s¡>oon the image of God, and it would be a grievous one another near the post, each one with his from his pocket. For a. Kozak to be without a sin to lift a stick against it. The head is not hand menacingly on the hilt of his sword, as spoon or his pipe was unthinkable. w to blame; tis from the heart that wrongdoing if to say: "Just try to covet that mead, and see and wanton passion flow." what you'll get from me!" Very little meat was eaten, mostly fish. "Very true, brother." interjected the third At last the dinner gong sounded! Kozaks The good lads, like monks, disliked meat. All elder. "But you cannot reach his cursed heart swarmed around Kyrylo Tur. Quickly he was eating utensils were wooden, and they mad¼ by beating him with a stick, nor can you fell untied. Congratulations, embraces.. ~ enough clatter. Eating, the Kozaks took lon[g this ox by beating him over the shoulders even "Let me loose, you loafers!" roared Kyrylo draughts upon the mead, and beer, but no one wit:: an ax head. It would indeed be a shame Tur, seeking to free himself of their embraces. got drunk, for they knew how to hold then- to.let loose such a sinner." "Were you tied to that post you would soon liquor. Listen to my counsel, fathers," spoke up lose all inclination to embrace." Kyrylo Tur drank more than any of them. the fourth elder. "If Kyrylo Tur can last out "Well, what have you to say now, you devil's No doubt the poor fellow was trying to forget this drubbing, then let him live: such a Kozak offspring!" said *father' Puhach, elbowing his his pain, but apparently this did not help. He will be useful." way through the crowd. "Were the sticks tasty ? grew light-hearted and animated, and when "Useful?" exploded *father' Puhach, approach­ Do your shoulders hurt much—as much as those at the conclusion of the meal they all arose and ing. '*For what? Beat the scoundrel! It's only of that devil who had to carry a monk on his began dancing to the throbbing strains of the too bad I can't swing the stick once again. I shoulders through the streets of Jerusalem? kobza, he leaped up with a wild yell and broke would keep on drubbing him until all the mead Here, you good for nothing ne'er-do-well, take into a furious dance, the likes of it never seep was gone. Beat him father, beat the rogue!" this salve and these leaves and apply them to before, turning, twisting, whirling, leaping high One by one the elders took a drink, picked your back. Tomorrow, you wpn't even have a into the air. One would never have imagined up a stick, and belabored Tur heavily over his bit of pain. We used to get good drubbings that but a short time ago he had been so terribly shoulders. There was enough strength in their in our youth, too, so we knew what*s good for beaten at the punishment post hoary arms to make the bones fairly crackle on It." (To be continued) t ate under the disadvantage of want THE STORY OF THE RED CROSS Why Can't It Have of funds, want of space and want of — objects, so our museum has operated ¶ЧІЕ true story of the Red Cross is people looking after patients should National Support thus far. told not in words but in the lives be safe from attack. It is almost *a prerequisite to suc­ of those who have known its help. The Red Cross left off being a move- Recently we have been made mu­ cess that every new museum move­ The theme is neither records nor re­ mea^t and began as a working unit¦ seum-conscious. We have been read­ ment make its first public appear­ ports, though these have a tale 4 to in І864, following the Geneva Con« ¡ ing articles and hearing speeches ance under the leadership of some­ tell. The theme is service, and it is vention. Of the twenty-six delegates about the Ukrainian Museum in Stam­ one who would be free from pecun­ written in the hearts of all those who ¡ representing sixteen governments, | ford, Conn., appealing for a sufficient iary interest in the plan, and be re­ faithfully work for the Red Cross and none signed then and there; but, be¯' funds to enable this institution¢ to cognized as such. The Ukrainian Mu­ support it in order to help others. A fore the year was out, nine adopted develop. seum has been fortunate in having chart will show you the complex or­ ¦ the· articles of the Convention of Finance is the major problem in such a person, Bishop Bohachevsky,

ganization ; a disaster worker will tell Geneva, and in t the next year five the promotion of any museum. With­ its founder and chief supporter thus you that to understand it you must others. The ten articles are still the ¦ out funds a museum cannot be oper­ far. be on duty at the scene. What the principles of the Red Cross. The ori­ ated properly. As a start it is Bishop Bohachevsky, however, Red Cross means to average human ginal charter of the Red Cross, signed usually necessary for one or a few does not consider the Ukrainian Ми¯ f being is what gives life and breath to and sealed, still lies at Berne, in the! people to give generously to it of seum in Stamford as his own institu­ the Red Cross. charge of the Swiss Federal Govern· money as well as time and thought. tion or that of the people of his ment. It was this ·which gave the After that, after a few years have diocese alone. On the contrary, he re­ The Red Cross Movement Red Cross legal status and formal elapsed, the burden may be dis­ gards it as an institution of and for standing. Dunant was a member of tributed more widely upon those in­ ¦all Ukrainian Americans. According¯ The great humanitarian movement the International Committee which ¦ terested in the institution, upon those | ly he is looking to them to come to had a long past, though the organ­ drew up the treaty, and in honor to! for whom it was founded and whom ¦the support of the museum, and to ized work began only eighty years his country the Swiss flag with colors! it is to serve. develop it into the kind of an in­ ago. Henri Dun ant, a young Swiss ·reversed was taken for an emblem, і stitution that would truly reflect their noncombatant, visited the battlefield The story of the Ukrainian Mu­ The International Committee which 1 life and culture, and be a credit to of Solferino in 1859, and did what seum in Stamford, is the story of a began with five Swiss citizens, though them. he could to help both the Austrians larger now, is still neutral. It has modest venture, starting from The Ukrainian Museum in Stam­ and the Allies, France and Italy. Af­ four main functions: to see that the scratch, in a community of diverse ford, is a national institution. Why terward he went home and wrote a basic Red Cross principles are kept views, and striving in all good faith can't it have national support? book of its horrors, Un Souvenir de and, when new societies are formed, to make itself useful to all. Just as Solferino, and by the force of his re­ to give them recognition and place in all newly-established museums oper­ EVA PIDDUBCHESHEN v» ·.lsion brought the Red Cross into the group; to see that all civilized! br·ing. Victor Hugo said that he states adhere to the Geneva Conven­ dropped their work in time of peace. from Paris to Geneva to preserve its 'V.rmed humanity and served liberty." tion; to see that this international neutral character and to cooperate Dunant persuaded European govern­ Henceforward, the Red Cross would public law is observed, if necessary'; ¡with the International Red Cross ments to carry forward his idea of undertake a continuous program of ~by means of legislation and military¡ ¦Committee. The League today still reducing what the battlefield costs in activity, aiming at the relief of all regulation by governments; to create ¦ ¦works to encourage and promote turture and in tears. The work was kinds of suffering and distress/ Be­ international agencies in wartime for| voluntary national Red Cross organ­ hard: some thought him seeking a yond battlefields Dunant had seen the relief of sufferers, especially¦ this other work for the Red Cross. izations; to collaborate with these in Utopia, some thought him prolong­ ¦ prisoners of war, providing informa¯ ¡ improving health, preventing disease, ing wars by aiding victims of war, The idea was never incorporated in tion and means of communication be¯| and. mitigating suffering; to place but some believed in his idea. the treaty of Geneva, but the germ tween prisoners and their families,; of it lay in the 4hird edition of his within the reach of all peoples the visiting prisoners' camps, and the like. book: "these Societies could even benefits of known facts and new con­ The International Red Cross The Committee also acts as a volun­ give great service during periods of tributions to science and medical tary medium in time of peace, war»| epidemics or in disasters such as knowledge, and the application of The original purpose of the Red or armed conflict between govern­ floods and fires..." Some of the for­ them; and to furnish a medium for Cross was to care for the wounded ments, peoples, and groups of differ­ eign societies were in sympathy with cooperating with national Red Cross 3n battle. It had no other function at ent nationalities, giving help and re­ this idea. But it waited a long time societies in carrying on relief work in nrst. The idea of the Red Cross pres­ lief for victims of distress. to come alive, and then the American case of national or international ented a new code. The change was Red Cross proposed and promoted it. calamities. Each of the international revolutionary, but the code was very The League of Red Cross Societies bodies has its own field of activity: simple. It called for two things: that , More than fifty years after this The League, which was formed of roughly speaking, the League is most e ck and wounded men should be meeting at Geneva, the national so­ five nations in 1919, now unites more active in time of peace; the Interna­ cired for, whatever their national­ cieties were welded into a league. than sixty. During the present war, ity; that hospitals, ambulances, and tional Committee in time of war. Until then, many of the societies had League headquarters have been moved (To be continued)

| from office, set up a new cabinet un­ tive expeditions into Kraljevo killed THE UNITED NATIONS der General Simovitch, and gave an estimated 7,000 men and boys— young King Peter, now seventeen entire classes of high-school students, years old, full regal powers. Belgrade the first shells of the war ¡their teachers, and other townsmen. XV Yugoslavia which was to wreck the Austro¯Hun¯ So the nation, poor in the instru­ |The Government of Yugoslavia in "Rise, О Serbians, swift arise, garian empire and fulfill the na­ ments of war, fought desperately ¦London reports that henchmen of Lift your banners to the skies, tional aspirations of the South Slav against tremendous odds, attacked the traitorous Ante Pavelich and For your country needs her children, people. On December 1, 1918, the not only by Germans, Bulgarians, and ¡Axis invaders murdered more than Fight to make her free. Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slo­ Italians but also by Hungarians who a j 300,000 persons in the Bosnia region; Rise, О rise, and crush our enemy. venes, later named Yugoslavia (Land few weeks before had signed a pact of ¦ in Nazi-occupied zones hundreds of Rise and fight for liberty. of the South Slavs), was born from "perpetual friendship" with their ¡thousands of Slovenes, including chil· Free the Sav and Duna flow, the voluntary union of Serbia, Bos­ Yugoslav neighbors. On the battlefield I dren separated from their parents, L?t us too unfettered go. nia, Slovenia, Croatia, Dalmatia, and barehanded soldiers attacked armored |were driven from their homes in O'er the wild Moravian mountains, Montenegro. Its capital is Belgrade, tanks, but the enemy rolled relent­ ¡freezing weather and became wander­ Swift shall flow sweet Freedom's its area 95,558 square miles, and its lessly into hills and valleys. After the ¡ing refugees. Thousands more were fountains. population 16.000,04)0. Axis occupation came partition. No forcibly sent to Germany and Axis¯ Down shall sink the foe. other European state has become 1 occupied portions of Poland and the In this country, about the size of , Soviet Union. (.О, Serbia—Yugoslav National Song) the British Isles, large, rich valleys spoil for so many aggressors. Hitler of the north change gradually into reserved the most important portion Whole forests have been burned I OVE of freedom as expressed in snowy mountains covered with forests. for himself; the rest was given to ¦down by German command to force in its national anthem is the Nearly a third of the land is forests Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, and a pup­ the Chetniks into the open; death force that makes Yugoslavia's story and through them flow many rivers, pet Croatian ruler, Ante Pavelich. ¦is often the penalty for women and t children who give so much as a drink one of alternate submergence and including the famous Danube and But these new oppressors won on­ of water to these soldiers. revival. Slavic tribes coming to Sava, which make the soil fertile. ly the physical outline of a country make new homes on the southern More than half of it is cultivated by whose people, for the most part, are Yet the terror does not stop the part Ш the Balkan Peninsula in the a predominantly peasant population. today united in support of their King fighting. From mountains and forests 5th and 6th centuries enjoyed first Cattle raising, forestry, and farming and Government, now in London. new sorties go out daily to harass prosperity under independent sover­ combined occupy 85 percent of the |Three months after the debacle the the several divisions of Axis troops eigns, then years of eclipse and for­ people. army was reorganized by General|¦ which the Axis has found it necessary eign domination. Their heroes fought I When his father was assassinated Draja Mikhailovitch from troops who,' to keep in Yugoslavia. Mikhail·.vitch the Byzantines, Turks, Magyars, Ital­ in 1934, 11¯year-old Peter П of Yugo­ like himself, had fled to the hills and his men are not too busy to make ians, and Germans: their exploits are slavia became Europe's youngest king. j rather than surrender. Mikhailo¯ fun of the Germans. Once a group preserved in rich folk sagas. A three-man regency council handled | vitch's men are modem Chetniks who of Nazis were captured by Chetniks In the 17th and 18th centuries affairs of state. Great national pro­ fight where they can, destroying in an abandoned factory and. sent bands of Balkan peasants called Haj- gress was being made when the Yu­ troop concentrations, burning store­ back to German lines with a large duks fought foreign oppressors goslavs began to see despotic powers houses, wrecking transportation and red "V" painted on the seats of their in guerrilla fashion. Later, as na­ overrunning the world and Nazi supplies. Their women and children; trousers. There is always trouble for tionalistic feelings were roused, such hordes massing at their very door. and old people assist in countless the puppet ruler, Pavelich; he із try­ peasant rebels adopted definite politi­ Though they had scant military ways, particularly by keeping com· I ing to dominate not only the hostile cal aims, central headquarters, and protection, the Yugoslavs' traditional munications moving between groups Creation Peasant Party but also some a new name—Chetniks. They were spirit of resistance to oppression rose of Chetniks. 2 million rebellious Serbs. guerrillas in the Balkan War of 1912 ¦ against the enemy' cruelly persuasive The bold thoroughness of Yugoslav While plundering Axis soldiers keep and were very active throughout ¦arguments for submission. The re­ resistance has brought great suf­ ¦themselves well supplied, citizens and World War I which began on Serbian ¦gency faltered and a weak cabinet fering. A wave of executions by the - their Chetaiks in the hills do without soil. ¦even signed a pact with Hitler, but Nazi followed the invasion and a sec­ 1 many things. But their ability to get The Archduke Ferdinand was as­ |the people themselves rose swiftly ond wave came in reply to the escape along on practically nothing and their sassinated June 28, 1914, on a street during the night of March 27, 1941, of Yugoslav naval units through the fighting spirit are the two things in-Sarajevo by a young student. One to stage a bloodless revolution which Strait of Ot i*an to. (These units now which make the Yugoslav trier, wo­ month later Austrian guns fired on |swept the Axis-controlled government fight with the British.) German puni­ men, and children such good so".tiers. No, 10 I иШШ-AN WE.-KLY, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1943

Gets Ensign's Stripe All You Do Is Jump THE DREAM ОиГ By TARAS SHEVC^HENKO Graduating in a record-breaking class of 1,270 new ensigns, Walter Chimiak, age 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. The following let¯ter was received (The Dream is one of Shevchenko's And what a dream. from Sergeant Charles Locke, a mem­ long poems. The part that is given An tin Chimiak, 1605 Church street, Oh what a dream ber of Branch 426 of the Ukrainian below in translation is about one I had! Curtis Bay, Maryland, and a mem­ third of the whole. The poem was ber of U.N.A. Branch 290, received National Association, located in Cen- The soberest of men tralia, Pa., and one of the former written in 1844, when the poet was Would get drunk, his commision in the Naval Reserve thirty years of age. Being a brilliant players of Centralia'8 U.N.A. Base­ A stingy fellow February 17 last, after completing a satire on the existing order of things, ball Team. Charles played with the it was not published at the time. It Give a coin team from the day it was organized, served later as one of the causes for To see all that! and was an active player for four Shevchenko's arrest and ten year I 2ook— consecutive seasons. banishment to distant parts of Rus­ And there it seems I see sia. The most significant trends in An owl on wing. ** "Dear Friends: Shevchenko's writings are revealed "I imagine my old friends will be 1 Over the meadows, here—his love for his land, Ukraine, Along hedges, surprised to hear from Charlie, their his compassion for the underprivil­ And the ravines deep. old pal and team mate. eged, his witty scorn of the "meek brethren.'' his denunciation of . the Across wide steppes "I spent most Of my time in Ala­ brutal, the stupid and the unjust.) And the barrows steep. bama, but always tried to get to see While I, right back of her, some action. The Company Command­ To everyone his own fate. On wing am L er would never give me a chance to And his own wide way, And to the world go with some of the boys we trained. This one builds, I bid good-bye: The only way I could leave was to That one destroys, volunteer for the parachute troops. While another seeks Farewell, о world, I volunteered, and now I am stationed With greedy eyes Farewell о earth. in Montana. Unfriendly land below. If there be a land "I am enjoying the life of a para­ That he might take with him Among the clouds Г11 hide my lot, trooper. There is nothing like it. Into the grave. All you do is jump out of the plane I'll take my bag of woe. This one cracks r*** when the jump master says go. A whistling whip To you, unhappy ENSIGN WAL·TER <^¡ШМІАК "Just imagine, I was never in & Over neighbor's back. Land of mine, Back from the clouds I'll fly. plane before. The first time I went up And *still another 15-week V-7 training course at the In plane I jumped. Yes, and the first Quietly in corner At midnight hour, With morning dew, New York U.S.N.R. Midshipmen's time I went up I was certainly scared. Sharpens edge of steel School. My heart was doing a jitterbug! Against bis brother. I'll leave the darkened sky. In the Navy's history this is be­ "We have been up in the mountains And over there A quiet talk, lieved to be the largest group of of­ skiing for three weeks. That is A meek and sober fellow, A grieving word, ficers ever sworn in at one time. worse than parachute jumping. It Pious and God-fearing, Our meeting below was a tough task learning how to On catlike paws Until daybreak Ensign Chimiak and his classmates ski, going at it from 7:30 A. M., to Creeps and waits When your children received their single shoulder stripes 6 P. M. In the morning we would For dire hour Shall rise against foe! at ceremonies held in New York's ¦ learn the different positions in skiing To sink his claws Guard your children,, famed Riverside Church. and in the afternoon we would go In your entrails. Little Mother, Prior to attending the Midshipmen's cross-country. Sometimes we traveled Plead not, Guide them to accord, School in New York City, Ensign l_iving truth > as many as thirty miles in four Neither wife nor child Chimiak attended Lloyola University, Is with the Lord! hours. Will avail you aught. and before that Technical High School at Curtis Bay. "We trained four days in para­ This one generous and grand, On wing am I, on edge of sky chute jumping and made our first Ever building temples, The dawn is _flame. jump on the fifth day. As you can The song of nightingale is heard l_oves his fellowmen, "Whenever I'm in the dumps, I see, no time" is wasted in fooling Pities them for slaughter In the darkened lane. get myself another hat." around! In our outfit, the first of its And drains their blood Gentle breezes greet the sun. kind, there are Canadian and U. S. As though 't were water! The steppes wrapped in dream, "I wondered where you got them." soldiers, In the valleys by the ponds, While the brethren "Closing now, an¢ wishing you peo­ The birches in green. ple the best of everything. Silently agree, Heavy laden orchards bent, With her bastard child, Their eyes like And the poplars tall, Mother, father have "Sincerely, Those of sheep, Standing free as though on guard, Disowned her, "Sgt. Charles Locke." "Perhaps it is Of the quiet krall. E¯ven beggars shun her. Those of Charlie's friends who As-it should be!" And all this, all this While the master, >would like to write to him are in­ Wrapped in lovely hue, The vile chitterling, As it should be! Because vited to do so, as there is nothing Decked in green, meets the sun, Has beguiled the twentieth There is no God in Heaven! a soldier likes better than letters Washed in early dew. To drown their souls And ye in chains await from his friends. Charlie's address is In drink. A paradise on earth... Oh soul of mine! as follows: Sgt. Charles Locke, 5th There is none! None! Why do you grieve ? Does God from beyond the clou_s Co. 1st Regt., 1st Special Service All your labors My poor heart, See our tears, our woes? Force, Ft. Wm. H. Harrison, Helena, Wasted, gone! Why do you weep? Perhaps He does Montana. But take heed: Why do you mourn? But helps like those Ageless mountains For all upon this earth, Do you not see Drenched in human blood! Both tsar's children Do you not hear the cries of men ? And the little ragged ones Then look! And I shall fly Oh, my poor heart, Are Adam's kin! High, high beyond the clouds, Woe unto you! This one... and that... Where neither reign of mighty is, Let us drain U.S.WAR.ONDS And what am I? Nor punishment, nor tears, The deadly brew Why just this, my good folk! Nor laughter of the crow_s, And lie to rest, Two ill dressed women have just I dance and dine. But look: In that p_ra_ise you leave Send our song escaped across the Norwegian frontier. On Sundays and A patched shirt is taken To God Himself Off a beggar's back. "Why do you take such terrible On weekdays too. To ask: chances to come to Sweden?" a While you complain And that with hide, Whether long upon Stockholm correspondent asked the That you are bored. For master's little kin This earth women who had walked 100 miles So help me Lord To deck himself in The hangmen Shall reign? I hear you not! And over there Don't shout or spout! A widow crucified, Fly away my Muse I drink my own Because she failed to pay My dire agony!' Not brother's blood. Her rent. Take with you Her son in chains, Alt evil and all woe Her only ray of hope All your wicked company! Walking thus one night, Into the barracks sent, Coming back from banquet drunk, For he.. .you see... Reared with them, I mused and made my way And there— Of them enamored, Their heavy hands to the bor_er which was patrolled Until I reached my.hut. Beside the hedge by Nazi troopers. Have wrapped you And in my hut A swollen child starv_e "We have left our homes and While mother cuts the whea*t: Lovingly. oar possessions knowing we are No children's cries, leaving our old life for a crowded No _tu_gging wife, , On master's field. Let dismal darkness come, refugee camp," the older woman A seeming paradise. Let flames blow red, answered. "Life is not worth liv­ And there—do you not see? ing in Norway today. Our home­ My hut at peace, Let spew of se¯rpent cover ^ ..й« Eyes, oh, eyes of mine, land has been turned into an in­ My hea¯rt at ease! The earth with dead. ·o**r* ferno." t What good are ye?! ___«І so I lay me down to sleep, Ill find a home to hide Your home has been scarcely Why have they not gone dry scathed by the present war here in And when a drank does that, My heart from care,— In childhood years? America. Do your pa¯rt to keep ac­ You n_ay _hoot cannons o'er the sot, And in the meanwhile seek tual combat from our shores. Why __r*«¯e they not been drowned Hell he_r them not. A paradise somewhere. Do your work. Buy War Bonds lie will not stir, .„ In all these te_ars? and Stamps. Not even twitch a whisker. A _nether trudging by the hedge Transl. by Mary S. G__ob_i W8S 741J U.S. Trra¿n.-y Dept. The Sporting Way Rochester Group Aids PhilJy U·N·A· Noses NURSE'S AIDE By DIETRIC SLOBOGIN War Effort put St Basil¾ College Fully realizing the grave need for relieving the shortage of graduate One year has gone by since a small; Charity Begins At Home With g seconds rernainmg in the nurses in our hospitals, many young ^ ¶ TJ. group of young men of the St Jo- ball THE PHILADE PHIA girls are< enlisting their services in If you are a good American—and saphats parish in Rochester, N Y., N A 3^^, TEAM TM^LTN D the war effort by becoming Nurse's who isn't—you have donated to vari­ turnedt their thoughts towards doing¦one mt Che8ter HaJchuk J¿¿ Aides. With the help of Nurse's ous and sundry charities, and you their bit to help America attam vic-¦UNA icked a loose Ш1 щ Aides, one graduate nurse is enabled have saved to save America in the tory. As a result, all Ukrainian;^ scramble under the UNA to do the work of six who have left form of War Bond and War Stamp American societies ш Rochester were¡ ket and ш d it th h the cords to staff hospital bases of our armed purchases. But during these trying asked to send delegates to an organ to give the U.N.A. club a thrilling forces. To keep hospitals at home days let us not forget our own in­ rzational meeting which was held 38-37 triumph over St. Basil*s Col­ functioning normally, the Red Cross stitutions as well. March 14, 1942 at the Parish Hall. lege at the Collegiate's gym in Stam­ is hoping to have 100,000 of them on Russians and Germans have practi­ Activity plans were drawn up by the cally torn the entire Ukraine up by ford, Conn., on February 28. active duty by the end of 1943. delegates, and elections of officers - . - advances and retreats in that area. held. Michael Wasilyshyn was elected The Quakers made an impressive One of the first Ukrainian girls to Perhaps all symbols of Ukrainian cul­ president, Wil·liam Hussar—secretary, start, taking an 11-4 lead in the first enlist as a Nurse's Aide is B registered a like total. Skrincosky of . seated by the· treasurer, John Yanus,

Seminary must have your contnbu-! wfeo Q¾inined the aims of the organ. St. Basil's and Specks Bukata of Phi· tions. We are sure that whether your ¡^j^ to the public through the | ladelphia each scored 10 points

contribution is a volume, an ¿rttique, і dkv ^ January 16th a mr 9 9 9—38 or of a monetary nature, ft. у il·l go flmavies was J¾¢ from which a ^¦Philadelphia " long way to preserve that which profit of $35.00 was had. |St. Basils College.. 4 5 21 7—37 Axis murderers are unmercifully de­ ·stroying over there. Plans are now being drawn to hold д distinguished audience attended| a Taras Shevchenko concert, March the game, including His Excellency,' Sports at the Seminar> 14, at the St: Josaphat's Parish Hall. The Most Reverend% Bishop Ambrose

AH roceeds from 11118 con¢ert Sports are to an institution of P JffP Senyshyn and other member» ©f the 1 be turned over to the war effort. At clergy. AIT the boys (and girls> were higher learning what butter· is to bread. St. Basil's College, **M'*¦¦¦^ **** to a dinner after the game, THIS the Seminary, must follow a planned ¦^S^T^¡^^·^^^ A a thf¯*e ¾emma G*P* ***Й« a * C¤emiJ of

sports program. Here again -'funds S¾*L*. £?± ¿tS ^ !? J~¦¦* ¯*¯"л ~ood -musJ£·St >JRJLbe raise¿d iІn« ~·*»rorder. t*^«IR>o equi p FBthOe *n¯**¯ groups. When this com¾et speech m which he mentioned that is over we can be organized to^ tend St. Basil's had been looking forward MISS MARY ANN WAGNER; teams. Stamford cannot cover teams' a helping hand to restore a free Uk- to this game for some tine, an« that expenses through sales of tickets to strongly urged our girls to volunteer mine. | he- was ¢ad* ttr- see such cooperation patrons.' They do not have a stadium A MEMBER j AMONG THE YOUNGER GENERATION OF as "assistant nurse." She gave" the to draw 50,000 to 75,000 people at following qualifications and duties for ' "- · , Ukrainian Americans made possible a football game. Neither can they a Nurse's Aide: . 1 .. ,...... by THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION yet book games with first-crass eoI- tion І1Г MEABERA of BOTH TEAMS. OTHER "Any woman between 16 and 50, ·leges. Their revenue must be chiefly Philadelphia¾^2, 13,50ЙЙ-І8ЙЙЙ^0 wfth room for¾ ^ speakers were coaches of both squads, with a high school education, in good derived from the donations of Uk- an additional 1500 on the stage, rainian people. Let us build up St managers of both teams, captains of health, may register at the local Red 1 Basil's Prep and St Basil's College TaH-Talcs Dept. ! the quints, and the referee; Th» meet­ Cross Chapter. If accepted, she is ing was closed with a prayer. * given an 85-hour course in leetures to the level'of other schools. Send, George Susce, veteran coach of ¦and actual training at the^ le¾al hos· ,your contributions ttoo Ukrainian Cleveland Indians, is being given DIETRIC SLOBOGIN the j pital in her spare time. She learns to Seminary, Stamford, Conn. a big hand by many baseball observ­ >^^^^^^^^^^-^^.^.^>¾,^^ і perform certain duties which are es- ers for the fine work he did with the Phils' Shakeup Ш senlial to the patient's welfare, but Tribe's rookies... Which brings to AT L·ONG LAST! ¦do not require long training; thus . You probably read about the sale George when mind a story told ori freeing the graduate nurses for. the of the Phils to the Cox syndicate minors~and one of 3 new sensational he was in the skilled tasks. The completed course, from the National League and of the he most aggressive, fighting players t POLKA {"which includes hard work in the signing of Bucky Harris, former in the final inning of in the game RECORDS BY ¦wards on Saturdays and Sundays, Washington pilot, as manager. There important contest, with the s¢ore an earns the girl the right' to wear the doesn't seem to be much comment tied, George banged out a double— |attractive blue AND white uniform, that we can make on these transac· f ц ¿. . The exposing —the hottest since ***Beer Barrel,'^ and е vcry good tnd the kind, once you hear ihemj cap ther did General Abner Doubleday¦ »ОП| Georgie, look what I've got!" 79c Each Record of the Western Electric Company. take out a patent on the baseball ich Susce replied with a bel- Ask for ¾hem at your recor< To wn M. M. game he devised.. ·Joe Haynes, able j dealer*s or write 24- ow: iflMfa^µ«» i»l*l · m m young relief pitcher for th· Chicago »Listen, you little string bean—if SONART RECORD CORP. White Sox, was born in Washington, with that ball ГИ ram you touch me 251 WEST 42nd STREET EVERYBODY SAVING IN Georgia, and now makes his home in ¡¿ v~ your throat!" do NEW YORK CJTY b WAR BONDS Washington, D. C.... Ted Williams | And iegend ^ it'that the short- E¥ERY PAYDAY of Boston, now in the Navy, hit best stop gulped~ then tossed the ball in 1942 night games with a lusty meekly in to the pitcher. .485. Detroit took the owl team slug¯ ... - ШШшШ¯ШШШ

ging honors... St. Louis was! the only There.s onlv Gne nlace vou can A. L. club to keep with Boston in ^ ºL£I*. £ ^ - . . . . , find success without work—m· the л 0 : sponsored BY : — ::— 1942 season series, winning and drop> І d;cti0narv ping 11. Joe Cronin's team edged out the Yanks 12-10. зн«ннпш»шнншшп'шшішшш»»штйіншж KEYSTONE CLUB OF NEW JERSEY Question and'Answer Dept. | W ANTE D at Wr*rtfao Center· T«O· 186 William Sttllewar»¿· f#J. What are the seating capacities of¦| Madison Square Garden, N. Y., At-.'.¾. В 0 0 K K EEPER—T YP1 ST SAFORDAY.Маг¢Ігв^ APPL»Y 9 A *T to· 4 M. lantic City Convention Hall, and | MA·TTY AMBSF¾ HIS ORQHESTRA Philadelphia Convention. Hall? | 15 WHITEHALL STREET ADMISSION 65c UNIFORMED. SERVICE MN 30^ 3 Madison Square Garden, I*s,903; § Room 210, near South Ferry, ..·4 main auditorium of Atlantic City'я . Manhattan. DANCING 9 Р.ІМ. TO І AT*M. Convention Hall, 41,000; over 66,000 Salary upon agreement. can be seated in the entire Conven-