THEMliMIIMJIEEILY Ueglish supplement of SVOBODA, Ukrainian daily, founded 1893. Dedicated to the needs and interests of young American» of Ukrainian descent No. 18. JERSEY CITY/EEIDAY, MAY 2, 1941 VOL. DC
UYL*NA SUBSCRIBES TO REDS FEAR NAZr tNVASION mMLARGING miS WEEKLY RECORDS FUND OF UKRAINE At a recent meeting of the Ex- Reports from Berne, Switzer One . prtfblem the earning U.N:A. convention at ! eciitiye1 Board of' the Ukrainian land, declare that the Russians Harrisburg will have to faee will be that of enlarging this Youth's League -of Worth America, are concentrating huge forces in weekly. it was decided that the League sub Ukraine*-mcluding' its western part scribe tO' ten advance orders, at which the Soviets occupied follow In its present-4-page form the Weekly has been ap- $10 per order, of the phonograph ing the downfall of: Poland late I pearing since fie establishment close to eight- years ago. recordings to be made by the Com in 1939. Despite Its limited isize it has achiewd^mach emcerthen. mittee for ike Recording «f< Uk It appears that the'Russian TEfigh It has, for one thing, won; for itself the reputation ttff rainian Songs. A cheek for $1©0 Command' fears • that" the 'Nazis being the finest EngMeh-Ianguage supplement of any was sent to the committee. will employ 'the famous "Hoffman Plan" used so successfully by foreign4anguage newspaper in the «ountry. More= im Generals Hoffman and von Maek- portant from .the Ukrainian-American viewpoint, how MUCH OBLIGED! ensen in: 1917 against the Rus- ever, it has.played .the dominant, role in the progress of "We believe that the finest sians. The plan envisaged an en our younger generation. This it'has done merely fey (1) writing each week- in the Eng veloping operation of the Russian giving our progressive young: people a. sound knowledge lish language that is of par armies hi TJkrai'ne' by -skftultaneous ticular interest to Ukrainian- pushes from the north and south and appreciation of their Ukrainian cultural heritage, American youth is the front and, only if, these operations pro E' together with an ^understanding of how .its fittest elements page editorial of the Ukrainian gressed, a direct frontal attack can be introduced into.^heir American way of^.Rving; - Weekly. When viewed OWM; a from the west. period of eight years without (2) helping to solve their problems of adjustment -as one solitary issue missing,-it-re I AmerieaMs of Ukrainian-descent; and (3) 1еа£іЯ|**йіет veals itself as a colossal achieve MANITOBA ASSEMBLY HAS ment which truly was inspired Щ toward the goal of better American citizenship as well SEVEN UKRAINIANS as greater service to the Ukrainian national cause. and which certainly serves as an inspiration to the readers." As a result of the elections held Besides these noteworthy achievements, the Ukra- ("The Ukrainian Trend," of on April 22, the Legislative As ficial organ of the Ukrainian inian Weekly has also played a leading part unmaking Youth's League of North Amer sembly of the-Manitoba province our younger generation- U.N.A.-conseious, to the extent ica. March, 1941) ТАЇ of Canada has now seven members I* where more and more of them are- steadily becoming who are of Ukrainian descent. Previously it had only three of I useful members of it. ALL UKRAINIANS BEHIND them. Accuracy and f airnese-*-these have always been BRITAIN, M. P.'S AVOWAL The Ukramian members of the | among the ehief aims of the "Weekly, as well as a vigor- Manitoba legislature are as fol ous and able defense of the Ukrainian name and identity No matter what happens in Eu lows: Stephen Krawchuk, and rope ..during these trying і and Walter Kardash of Winnipeg,. John | againstjthe stupidity, ignorance or downright malevolence troublesome days, Ще ! Ukrainian Solomon of Emerson, M. Hryhor- L of various anti-Ukrainian and un-American forces. people in Canada will continue to chuk,. Joseph Wavrikiw," Nicholas All this, it should be borne in mind, is not Only our stand by Britain and help her in J. Struck, and Nicholas Bachmsky?. opinion but the І opinion of many impartial persons, in evtry way possible, Anthony H. Hlynka, Ukrainian member in the: cluding promment non-Ukrainian educators arid social Canadian House of Commons, teld SEMEN-YNA SPEAKS AT «workers, some of whose testimonials we have on file, a large audience gathered recent PROFESSIONAL- МЕЕТШ& jrine time has now arrived, however, whett the* Ufera- ly in the Ukrainian National Fede ration Hall at 300 Bathurst Street Waldimir Semenyna, mechanical; inian Weekly has to be enlarged, if it is to keep up with engineer and well-known translator the times and with the rising demands being made upon in Toronto, «reports the Toronto :• Evening Telegram. of Ukrainian poetry, was the Hp&Feur tabl©id«size • pages *are no: longer sufficient to 1 guest ^speaker at a dinner-meetiihg ! Mr. 'Hlynka, who represents Ve- of the •Ukramiain. І Prof essionalist | enable-it -to' keep up its-work. It needs more space,, if 5 grevil-le;- Alberta, stated that due Association of the New York Me I onh/ for the reason-that itsr readers want-more"varied to their democratic spirit, the fate tropolitan Area,- held in- the private I material and a greater amount of it. of all Ukrainians is closely con (lining room of a mid-town restau They want/ fer instance, moreiiftterpretative'-wiiting nected with «that of the British rant in New York City last Fri , peoples. He eaid that at the close day evening. on the various burning issues of thedey,-T!Hore cfub news, !•• of -the І war Ще Ukrainian people more sport news,-more articles about their; Ukrainian ' The speaker -chose as his' topic will predominate in Eastern- Eu the subject of Ukraine's chaases I heritage and its- -relation to the American scene, more rope. of emerging a free and independ EdiffeussKm of their varied problems, especlftgy in these The most immediate aims of: the ent nation at the close of the times of grave international ei&argeney. They want, Ukrainian people, he said, are to present • war. He stressed the furthermore, more translated Ukrainian stories, but in as help win the war and to establish danger to Ukraine'in the event of few a number of• instalments as possible. Then there an independent Ukrainian state. an Axis victory, declaring that the He stressed' the fact that a large tyranny the Nazis would impose are the school children, our so-called kid brothers and percentage of Ukrainian people upon her: would equal tbat-rtf the sisters, who claim that the material in the Weekly is on have enlisted in the Canadian present Soviet regime. "Only upon the whole'too* mature for them, sathey ask*lbr the kind army, more in proportJenV'tiaai the -victory of the democracies: xan that is more suited to .their age and outlook. any other nationality ia'Canada. We base our hopes for the libera He lamented the fact that there tion of Ukraine," he" declared. AH these demands are natural. They represent the were so few Ukrainian people em The meeting was presided over |'great strides our younger generation .has made since ployed in the "civil -service in by Stephen Shumeyko, president of 1933 when the "Weekly.-first appeared. Then the youth Canada. the association. Another such din ; -movement was. ".just* beginning to swing into action, the More -than 800 persons attended ner-meeting will-- be held on May p^pttth leagues were-jttst beginning to become established, the meeting. 28rd. and the youth membership of the Ш&Г.А, was still a very passive element. Great «hanges have occurred since the». For that matter* there is one way in which1 the Today our younger;generation,: quite mature, experienced, Weekly can be- mcreased:in size without any extra cost to and with many achievements-t» its-credit» is working side the U.N.A. at all. It involves, however, a certain sacri by side with the older generation, with its parents, in fice oo the>part*«f the readers of the "Svoboda,'' namely, l&IJffing Ukrainian^Ainerican life, and with it the!. TO? JL one issue a week. Щ&Ще'••"•• And so it needs.and expects to get from the Ukrainian Briefly this is the proposition: Вьй\ * print* the Weekly as much or nearly as muchas the older genera- "Svobeda" on. Fridays (or Saturdays) but print i» its tion is receiving from-the ' daily ' "Svoboda". In other place a "UkraioiMi-Weekly" having eight pages, whiteh words, the young people now find the Weekly entirely too would be double the Weekly's present size and equal to j; small for their needs. They-want it enlarged. tirtf^Svotooda" in space. This means, that the **Ssuboda'' • ^Someone may remark here that if the young people would appear five times a week and not six times» as now. '$ want a larger Weekly they should go ahead and get On the sixth day •tae^Wrekly^would appear, having eight enough ^subscriptions to cover the cost involved. That's pages,-not four as now. a fair • argument, but in. these times of emergency,- when Іїйів is one way of increasing the size and" facilities every week counts, it would be bestfor the U.N A. to take the initiative in increasing, the Weekly's faciligles now, of the Weekly. Undoubtedly there-are other good ways and then get after the youngffoiks, to give it the proper as well. Itwilfrbe up to the coming U.N.A. Convention to -support. 2 "-- г ^^^ indicate which is the best. 2 UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1941 No. 18 Peresopnitsky Evangelium. It was undertaken and carried through during the time of the Archiman- • Who Is An Alien? Early Ukrainian Literature drite Gregory, "for the better edu cation of the Christian common і By DR. ARTHUR P. COLEMAN people." The language that was ' We Americans are great label j»H ; (An excerpt from a lecture" delivered at Columbia University, on March 21, growing up on the ..borderland, makers.- Unless we can tack a : by Dr. Coleman of the university's Department of East European Languages. based as it was on ;aialects of label on to everything, soup or [Tie lecture was one of the series on Ukraine presented by that department- White Russian, Polish and Rus soap or cigarettes, we are not com- • beaded by Prof. Clarence A. Manning—in conjunction with the Ukrainian sian, strongly affected the Church fortable. Maybe we can't tell-the National Association) Slavonic basic language of this difference between any two brands, ^3| Gospel text. Ukrainian was fast I but we know the label by heart. '_ becoming a written, as ..well as We do the same with people. We 1 Kiev—Source of Ukrainian THE RENAISSANCE a spoken, language. may not know what they are all - Culture From the 13th century with its about, yet we label them and tuck M heroic chronicles to the 16th there Flood of Writing^ them away in pigeonholes. And ~ ПрНЕ source from which UkraJn- is a wide gap in Ukrainian litera right there we make a big mistake. - ... ian culture takes its origin is, ture. . When, moreover, after three The final years of the 16th cen as we have said, the ancient city hundred years there did occur a' tury witnessed a veritable flood of Now, in a time of national ten of Kiev, the first capital, at least renaissance, the language of the writings in Ukraine. Arising out sion and danger, we are indulging in Щ in a commercial and spiritual new period was as different from of the battle of the faiths and out this bad habit more than ever. We gjtaae,-of Rus. From the stock of the language of the Tale of Dior's of the need for school books, these feel jittery and it makes us feel Rurik, a Norse explorer who was Legion as the language of The writing were of a two-fold charac- secure to call people names'. One Я made ruler of Novhorod, there Canterbury Tales was from the . ter. They consisted of polemical- of the worst of these tags we at- • sprang a line of princes who, with language of King Alfred. writings on religious and theo tach to people is the word "alien." | Kiev as the seat of their power, logical subjects, and philosophy We use it for people who don't to some extent consolidated the This renaissance of Ukrainian cul- - look like us. And we use it for . ture took place around Ostrih a and belles lettres, in the latter, eastern Slav lands and tamed class mostly dramas. It is interests people whom we feel "don't be I somewhat the barbarism of the town in Voihynia, at the confluence long." of the rivers Vilya and Horin.By the ing to the Slavonicist to note that I Slay tribes east and west of the a good deal of the polemical litera "Well, just who is an "Alien"? I Dnieper. As one Grand Prince time this awakening began, that is, Let's look at the record. by the late 16th century, Ostrih ture at the beginning of the 17th [after another sat upon the in century was an attempt to answer We've got about 131,500,000 pedrii'l creasingly shaky throne of Kiev,; had behind it a long tradition of cultural achievements. The emer the Sermons of Peter Skarha. The pie in this country. According to this much was accomplisred: the most important philological work the Census of 1930, close to 40,- - trade route to Constantinople was gence of Ostrih into a position of singular importance in the late that came out of this first Ukrain 000,0.00 of us were either foreign- Щ kept open and active with com- ian renaissance was the Slavonic born or children of one or both | merce; the fierce barbarians of the 1500's was the result of two fac tors. Grammar of Meletiy Smotritsky foreign-born parents. And about"' Black Sea coast we're most of the (1619). This Work was used for 8,000,000 potential voters, or one time held within bounds; and the Religious Struggle a long, long time in Ukraine, and" in every eight of the total voting^ rudiments of Christian civilization even Lomonosov studied it. Then. population, were foreign-born. - and culture were brought, in the In the first place, Ostrih,. being too there was the Slaveno-Russian late 10th century, to the rinland the capital city of a pravoslavny, Lexicon of Pamva Berinda (1627-W-- We call ourselves, proudly, '.'melt-" Slavs of the east. Priests of the or Orthodox, bishopric, was the a work that was -often reprinted**' ing pot." Well, we are. And the eastern faith were the bearers of center of a long religious struggle. and that has a good deal of Hi's- ' first man to throw a stone at an this culture, and its conservators Throughout the 16th century the toric Value as thevfirs't attempt;at-. alien is throwing a stone at him were the monks who served faith- pravoslavny church of Ukraine was a dictionary of the Ukrainian self. i fully year in and year out in the waging a losing fight with Roman tongue. Whatever poetry Аощ*" What makes us different from monasteries, writing down in Cyril Catholicism and the people of Uk ished in the schools was under the Europe most of us' hark back lic letters the event of Rus tur raine were being weaned away Polish influence and inspired usual to? Just thjls. We, have proved!-- bulent history and the tales of her from it into the church of com ly by the advent of: a>-new hetman that people of all races and religi great men. promise which з has since become or a new metropolitan. Drama too ons can live together for centuries' jj the national church of Western was strongly influenced by the Po in peace, going about their busi Tale of Dior's Legion . Ukraine, the Greek Catholic or lish fashion of play writing. It con- ] ness, getting things done, and not Uniate Church. In 1596 the Union sisted mostly of short „interludes getting in each other's hair, Frdhi the lay literature which of Brest set the seal of confirma to be played between the courses whether it's blond or brunette, sprang up along with the priestly tion upon the Uniate .Church. But 1 the prelude-to the Union had been of a banquet or f o'?_- the -entertain , kinked or red. ; chronicles and which were the a long series Of wrenchings as the ment of an important rguest. The.se... : The Red Indian- can - sit on his work of individuals from the mil | shift was made from the old pravo-. littie plays were"very popular. They reservation and say he isn't alien. are important, too, for t-hey were The rest of us can't. Arid we can't itary aristocracy which grouped slavny faith inherited from Kiev to I written in the vernacular." and they around each princeling^ comes the the new faith whose Holy Father be so sure about the Indian either..,. depicted scenes from the life of Didn't his ancestors—wag backer;я first great monument of Ukrain sat in Rome* yet whose forms were those of the old, familiar church. the Ukrainian folk, making use of come over from Asia? ian" as well as of Russian literature, Ostrih's position as capital of a really living and typical figures. C. C. This is the famous Tale of Dior's bishopric made it a focal point in Legion (Igor, in Russian). This ac this struggle. Petro Mohila ture, for he took from the west a count, coming from the troublous і First Slavonic Printing of About the beginning of the 17th year 1185, is more than-a mere century the center of Ukrainian culture that was moribund if not the Bible defunct, the culture we know in history of a disastrous expedition culture shifted again from Ostrih back to Kiev, and again the reason the west as scholasticsm. However, . against the Pblovtsi (Cumans). It In the second place, during the latter half of the 16th century, for the shift; lay at the door of a dead or dying as western culture is so filled with imagery and fire Ostrih was blessed by having great personality. This was the was in the early 17th century, and vivid, photographic descrip among her princely citizens, a real Metropolitan of Kiev, Petro Mohila there was still life enough in it to tion that it is a genuinely fine patron of learning. This was the (1597-1647). Mohila came, of a invigorate the emerging culture of Kiev and to inspire a considerable poem. For its sheer poetic worth rich and powerful noble, Constan- noble Wallachian family. Having studied for a time in Paris in his body of writings adorned by the it stands as Ukraine's earliest tine of Ostrih (died 1608). Con- stantine founded in Ostrih the first youth, he returned to Kiev to en popular Ukrainian speech. Those literary contribution. Ukrainian Classical Academy ter a monastery. Mohila's greatest writing constituted a step forward and the first Church Slavonic service to the Church and to his in the steady march toward a ge nuine Ukrainian literary language. Chronicle of Halich printing shop in Ukraine. Here, race lay in his work with the in 1581, was printed the first com Brotherhood of Cyril and Metho From Halich; the second capital plete text of the Bible in Church dius. The monastery of the Bro Effects of Russificatioh I of Ukrainian -culture, comes the Slavonic (this Bible was reprinted therhood in Kiev ' he greatly im We come now to the times of; J second great monument of Ukrain in Moscow in 1663). In the preface proved. Before Mohila's time Greek those two strong Russian mon- ian literature. Halich, heir of to the Ostrih Bible Constantine had been the language of the Bro archs, Peter the Great and Cath | Kiev, had a dynasty of its own himself confessed that he had been. therhood schools and Greek the in erine. In accordance with the po extending north to the River Pri- led to the; undertaking of its print strument through which the "cul licy of Russification which both pyaf(Pripet, as is spelled on most ing by the deplorable state of the ture of the ages had been handed these monarchs pursued, Kievari current maps) and southward, Church, "in the grip of wolves." down. Mohila now gave the pre culture lost its originality and even through the agency of those im ference to western learning, re its identity. In 1720 Peter the migrants who filtered down into Three Leading Cultural Centers placing the Greek tradition with Great decreed /that henceforth no j Hungary, even south of the Car Ou£ of the war of the faiths the Latin. Students were sent by books were to be- printed in pathians. It flourished for a brief there arose all over Ukraine and him to study in the universities Of Slavonic except in early edi moment as the conservator of old contiguous White Russia schools Paris, of Italy, of Germany and tions and that these were to be Kieyan culture, especially during founded by the Orthodox monas of Poland. adapted to conform to the church the 12th and 13th centuries when teries. In order to differentiate Mohila's innovations were not books of Great Russia so that no Kiev was being ravaged.by suc their schools from those of the" well received. His cultivation of dialectic differences should crop up cessive hordes of barbarians. rapidly encroaching Jesuits, the the west brought him into dis in them. The Ukrainian language The literary monument which monks taught not only religion but favor, as a matter of fact, with was driven out of the schools, even comes out of Halich is the so- philosophy and history and geo ' the devotees of all the three faiths out of the Academy of Kiev, and called Chronicle of Halich, a eu graphy as well, offering a liberal that were warring in his domain. by 1775 Russian had completely logy composed after the death of and semi-secular curriculum. Three The Orthodox priests thought he superseded Ukrainian in all these Roman the Brave, prince -of Ha centers of learning stand out in was a traitor to his inherited faith, schools. Ukrainians of aristicratie lich and founder of the ephemeral this transitional period, Old Kiev the Greek Catholics accused him of families went abroad to study, first state of "Red Rus" on the Dniester itself, with its Academy, Lviw too western leanings, while the . to. Gottingen, then, after Peter had. which was an object of desire in and Ostrih. Roman Catholics were convinced founded his own university, to St. its time.to the princes of Lithu that Mohila was teaching Calvin- Petersburg. In this period the none ania and the kings of Poland. The The Renaissance Language istic and« heretical doctrines in clerical schools of Great Russia in- Chronicle recites, in the heroic What now of the language of his school. Finally all.united in an terested young Ukrainians more manner of the Tale of Dior's Le this 16th century awakening? The effort to . destroy the school, kill than their own out-of-date, de gion, the exploits of Roman, how literary language of tradition was, Mohila, and undo his work, root cidedly clerical, even Jesuitical, - the "brave Duke Roman, monarch of course, Church Slavonic. But and branch. Mohila's school in schools did. By the middle of the of all.Rus, vanquishes all the pagan that language had by this time be Kiev was, however, the first insti 18th eentury Great Russian had peoples. Living in accordance with come tremendously influenced by tution in Ukraine that was really become the official language of Uk the wisdom of God, he strikes the slipping in of words from the up to western standards and if be raine and the vernacular was used them down like a lion, wily is he vernacular, even in the religious came, in spite of all opposition, the in writing only in humorous or as a lynx, wiping them out as books, so that a real Ukrainian seed-ground for the whole of Or satirical verses or in the traditional though they had been crocodiles, language was emerging. The first thodox Slavdom, the "law-giver of interludes. In 1818, Pavlovsky£ii| he swoops down on their lands translation of the Gospels into Uk literary forms and tendencies.". his Ukrainian grammar, - stated like the eagle. Courage he has rainian was during this, time, be Mohila's misfortune was that he that he considered Ukrainian a like the bison;" tween the years 1556 and 1561. came a little too late as a wor dying language. Thus spoke the This translation is the so-called shipper at the altar of Latin cul- Ukrainian Dobrovsky. j-Дб.. 18. UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1941 U. N. A. DATA EMPLOYMENT The Hobbs Alien Bill -The Legislative Powers of the Щ: (Concluded) І .—= U.N.A. are vested in a Convention DISCRIMINATION — (2) of representatives of the members "VALIDATING ENTRY moral character and "attached to composed of delegates from An increasing tendency on the branches. . The Convention has ...-•'Another portion of the bill seeks the principles of the Constitution, part of employers 'to insist upon Щ to solve the problem of the tens of (4) that he is not subject to de authority and jurisdiction in- pass citizenship as a prerequisite to em • thousands of non-citizens whom portation і except for having re ing all the laws necessary for the ployment—to the point wnere it -Alien Registration has shown to be mained longer than the period for government of the Association,' in may easily interfere with, our which he was admitted or per cluding the adoption, revision,- national defense program—is re •Reportable for "having entered'or mitted to remain, (5) that he has remained here illegally but who amendment and supplement of the vealed in a recent report issued complied, with- the requirements of by the Bureau of Employment •Save proved themselves useful and the Alien Registration Act, and Constitution and By-Laws. Such I loyal residents, along lines long conventions 'are" held every four- Security of the Social Security •rarged by) the Common Council and (6) "tha€ there is substantial Board. The report states in part: reason to believe that he would be years. "Throughout NeW England, in other organizations. In his letter subject to '-political, racial, or re All Executive Powers are vested the tier of industrialized States to Hatton Sumners, Attorney Gen- ligious persecution, were he to re in the Supreme Assembly, which is from New York and New Jersey Ш eral Jackson recommended legal- turn to the country of his nativity, west through Wisconsin, and on fr ration of their status in this coun- citizenship, or last permanent re comp6sed of 21 Supreme Officers, elected at each convention. the Pacific coast, citizenship is -' try as an important move toward. sidence?! Aliens registered as le generally specified in both defense №>brmging--our. alien policy into line gally .admitted for' permanent re and non-defense industries. In f "With present eonditions and in- sidence under this title would be able? Too often decision would other words, the restrictions are pcreasing, national unity. "Under charged to the quota of their na be in the hands of a consul com operating- precisely in those ..areas the present state of world condi- tive land "for the year in which pletely isolated in some far corner Which have the greatest propor L-ftons, unless some authority can they entered, for the first - avail of the World. No one can object tion of aliens and naturalized citi I regularize the admission of those able year thereafter if that year's to- keeping enemies away from our zens .and which are experiencing ИВ established «haracter, it will be quota Was filled, or against not shores. But it is beyond the 'hu the greatest demand for labor, and many years before the cases of •more than 50% of the present or man powers of consuls to investi I such aliens can be finally closed," the first available future quota if gate and review all the facts re . where the' supply of labor in cer 1 fie'-.wrote. "So long as they remain past quotas were filled. lating to the background of an tain occupations is approaching ex pbpen they will constitute a source applicant for admission to the U. haustion .,. The consequence of such a practice... is to make dif- Ь o£~ uncertainty and discontent POLITIC^- ALIENS S., especially at this time when among our alien population and many aliens, driven from their- : ficult the recruitment of workers their' citizen relations." SUPERVISED homes , are applying to consuls by those industries and firms in far from their native countries. It which citizenship is a legal or •'. .'Jh~_ response to this suggestion, The provisions of the bill- r'elat- | necessary requirement Employ I the fell extends the Attorney Ge'n- ing to exclusion or deportation of would seem wise to vest, powers of review and appeal in a board ers' specifications extend far be- p.'eral's discretion to suspend depor aliens on political grounds are like- | yond the requirement of citizen s located in the U. S.—possibly the tation, to include any alien—with ly to encounter considerable cri ship. In some instances, it does r certain exceptions — not racially ticism. They propose the exclusion; same Board provided for in this, bill—which could more adequately not * suffice that the worker him в ineligible who can prove good or deportation of any alien (except self was born in the United States, I-moral character for the preceding for acredited officials, etc.) who pass on what is "deleterious to the national- safety of the U. S." than-' but 'both parents must be Ameri p^five -years, if he has resided in the seeks to enter the U. S. to act in can-born.' There are even instances U.S. for .seven consecutive years. behalf of, or Who acts here in be could a single and often isolated. consular official. Such a procedure, where the grandparents as well At present discretion is limited to half of "any foreign' government or must be American^born." -aliens whose deportation would re- foreign political party or group, or is already followed in connection Bait in serious economic detriment without limiting the foregoing, with applications of political re The report points out that the .to a citizen or legally resident alien the Communist Party of the fugees from totalitarian countries Government restricts the employ who is the spouse,"parent, or minor in danger abroad by the Inter-De- United States of America, the Par- partamental Committee which is ment of aliens only where the em child of the alien. Further, this tito Nazionale Fascista, the Na- ployer is engaged- in work .under title gives the Attorney General composed of representatives of the zionalsozialistische Deutsche Ar- Justice, State, War and Navy De "secret, confidential, or restricted '.authority to grant a change of beiter Partei, the; Kyffhaeuser status from that of a visitor to partments. The vesting of such Government contracts." In such Bund, the German-American Bund, powers in the Board, which should that of an immigrant for per or any organization successor to circumstances, the law provides manent residence to any alien who also review orders of deportation that no aliens "shall be permitted any one of them," unless there is issued on these groundSjuwould be. applies for such change of status substantial reason to believe that to have access to the plans or Within two years and who. shows insurance that the law -'would at such activities are not deleterious all times be administered in a Way specifications, or the work under (1) that he was-admitted to the to the national safety of the' U. S. - U.S. as a non-immigrant prior to consistent with bur policy of aid such, contracts, or to participate in ; What is a "foreign political to democracies as expressed in the і the: contract: trials unless the writ January f, "1941, and, Thas resided party or group" ? What constitutes here since such- entry і (2) that he lease-lend bill, and with our tradi ten consent of the head Of the action "in its behalf"? Would this tion of political asylum. bis/racially eligible to naturalization, make a Benes or a Paderewski in Government department concerned (3) that he is a person of good eligible for admission, or deport- Common. Council' New-Letter has been obtained.
rolled Up yellow trousers above the knees. The was now flowing over the shore-road, very near blue wave's rolled and splashed against the shore the bags of salt. The Tartars had to jump' j at the feet of the onlooking Tartars, the foam back in order to avoid being drenched by the BY THE SEA as white as milk, then spattered hissingly and tide. "Memet! Nurla! help along, for the salt By MICHAEL KOTSIUBINSKY rushed back to the sea. will get wet! Ali, go ahead!" pleaded the Greek, (1) "Are you ready, AH?" shouted the Greek to hoarsely. ' The Tartars all lent their aid and, his servant. In answer to that Ali swung his While the Greek in his boat was. tossed about • T^HE blueness of the sea endlessly continued long bare legs over the edge of the boat and by the waves, gazing despairingly at the sea," by the azure of the sky filled the open doors?! jumped into the water. With a quick move the_salt was transferred to a safe place. windows and long pillared veranda of the only ment he snatched a bag of salt from.the Greek, In the meantime the sea was heaving. The coffee-house in the Tartar village. Even the hot threw it over his shoulder, and ran to the • air. of the summer day acquired soft, bluish monotonous, rhythmic murmur of the waves shore. His slender figure in tight yellow trous turned into loud pounding. At first it was in tones, through which glimmered indistinctly the ers and" blue blouse, his ruddy, sunburnt face, outlines of distant mountains. distinct like heavy breathing, then powerful and the red -kerchief on his head showed ef and short like the distant bursting of shells.. The cool balmy sea-breeze. attracted many fectively against the background—the blue sea. Gray clouds hung over the sky like heavy spider guests, who, having ordered coffee, sat at the Ali threw his burden on the sand, and again webs.. The turbulent sea waves now dark and4 I windows Or on the veranda. Even the prop jumped into the sea, bathing his wet sturdy murky, dashing against the shores, ran down rietor of "the coffee-house, the lame Memet, who • calves, first in the crbamy foam then in the the rocks'in streams of dirty foamy water. _.. diligently watched the orders -of his guests, clear blue waves. He would run to the boat, would shout "to his younger brother, "Japar, watch for the moment when it came to the "The storm is near! shouted Memet to the one coffee two coffees!"—then go to the door glevel of his shoulder, so that he might con Greek. "Pull your boat out on the shore!" and snatch- a breath of refreshing air,-and for veniently catch the bag. The boat rocked on "Eh, what do you say ?" called the hoarse the waves and pulled on the anchor like a dog a moment relieve his shaved head of the round ! voice of the Greek, trying to overcome the sound Tartar cap.- While Japar, red from the heat and tugging at his chain, while Ali continued run of the waves.' the fire in the stove, shook the pot in order ning back and forth from shore to vessel. The waves would overtake him and spout heaps of "The boat on the shore!" yelled Nurla with to get a rich foam on the coffee,- Memet scrutin all his might. ized the- sea. "A storm is coming," said he, frothy foam under his feet. At times Ali would lose the proper moment. Then he would hold The .Greek started to disentangle the chain without turning around. ."The wind is getting oh to the side of the boat and be thrown up and tie the rope. Ali helped""him. The Tartars stronger. They are taking the sails off that together with it, like- an enormous crab. took off their slippers, rolled up their trousers, boat." All heads turned towards the sea. I and went to the aid of the Greek. At. last the From a big black boat, which seemed to More Tartars gathered on the shore. Even anchor was lifted and the black boat, caught head towards the shore, the sails really were! the. Tartar women ignored the extreme heat by a turbid wave, which soaked the Tartars being removed. Inflated by the wind they flut of.thesun and sat in; picturesque groups on the from head to foot, moved to the shore. The tered in the air, like huge white birds. fldft&roofs ofL the village-houses watching curU group of bent; wet Tartars noisily dragged the "Turning towards us!" said Japar. "I even oiiisly. -••'• 1 black boat, which looked like a sea-monster. recognize the boat. The Greek has brought ."-The sea was growing more and more restless.:. Npw it lay on the sand tied to pole. The Tar salt.?' .-:• The sea-gulls abandoned the solitary rocks along tars were drying their clothes and helping the This news was of importance to Memet, for' the shore, circled above the effervescent waves, Greek weigh the salt. Ali was helping them, besides being the proprietor of the coffee-house; cawing mournfully. The sea darkened and but often when his master was busily engaged he was the;butcher,' also the owner of the only, changed. Small waves like masses of green glass, in conversation with his customers, he stealthily store in the^-vHlage, and, of course, needed salt. Щ stole unnoticed to the shore, fell upon the sand, looked around at the strange village. The sun When the boat drew near, Memet left the and broke into snow-white froth. The water was high above the mountains. Along the bare coffee-house for the shore. His guests hurriedly under the boat was tempestuous. The vessel gray projections of the rocks were nestling emptied-their cups and followed him. They-, leaped and fell as though borne by white-maned beasts -to some unknown destination. The Greek_i little tartar "shacks, built of stones, with flat crossed a narrow steep street, turned around.; earthern roofs, one near the other like toy the mosque and descended to the sea along щ often turned to the sea and looked at it with uneasiness. Ali, all wet from the splashing houses. No fences, no' gates, no streets. Ir stony path. The blue sea was billowy and foaniyj regular paths .ran along the stony surface, dis at the shore. The boat bobbed цр and down, foam, ran swiftly from the boat to the shore. The water at the shore turned yellow and mud appearing at steep inclines and appearing again splashing the water like a fish, not able to reach somewhere lower. . All was black and bare. the shore. The old gray-headed Greek and his dy. The waves cast heaps of sand and stones i.on ..the,.jSho.re,. and rushing back dragged them Only on one *oof by sheer miracle, a tree has young. Turkish servant, a -tall graceful iad,, grown, and it...seemed,.ІRQffl down below that rowed to exhaustion, but did hot succeed in driv along with" a "grating' sound that seemed like the r gnashing of teeth and groaning of some mon this tree was spreading a dark mantle on the ing the boat out on the sand'. Then the Greek azure of the sky. threw the anchor into the water, while the Turk ster at the bottom of the sea. The tide during quickly took off his shoes and stockings and і the last half-hour had heached the stones and (To be continued) a UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, НЕГОЖУ, MAY 2, 1941 No. 18 AND CHRONICLE The 1941 UNA. Baseball and Softball Season Buffaio Daacefs Triumph SMALL BEER *&! Greek Relief "Program 1. In order to cultivate good- 6. Only members of the U.N.A. * By ETAION SHRLDU fellowship .and fraternal attitude in good standing, who have their certificates (policies), wfll "he per Aniidst the- splendor .^Buffalo's among its members, the Ukrain (N.Y.) new three million dollar ian National Association sponsors mitted to- register and рїау on the YE SADDE TALE 'Memorial Auditorium, the Ukrata» щ baseball and softball teams. Each U.N.A. teams. "Every- player must * sign his own name in ink on the lane triumphed again with their In days of .oldde, when knights new team will be given financial as colorful display 6f folk dances. sistance after two copies of the Certificate of "Team Entry, giving^ were boldde all other information as called for. Tbkrtimeit was at the Greek "War And draggons roamed ye landde, "Certificate of Team'Entry" have Relief Program, "bfelft «ffApril 22, 7. Players under the age of 21 A warrior gaye out one daye been properly signed and mailed to mid paTtidgftte^rta by various на- ; must obtain their parents' consent And killed him a draggon grandde | the U.N.A. Athletic Director. ttoaaWy'Tjprtraps in thar^aty, -who to play on a U.N:A,- team. Those 2. At least fifteen players must presented an international goodwill And from ye ehase with right good register for the team in order to who have previously submitted grace pageant. receive recognition. their parents' signatures, need not : The Ukrainian -portion of the a He^rode him backe to towne; 3. Teams are obligated to. play furnish another. He rode along aand sang ye song, program was very colorful, made under the name of U.N.A. If a 8. Players of one team may be ; .all the more so-by ft»spotlight And towed ye draggon down e. team has another name, that name members of several ' U. N. A. •playing on the Ukrainian сгапсепґ ' may be combined with *U*;W.A." branches, but no branch will have But in ye roadde a villain bolde costumes. The pnbhc applauded -more than one team. Cried, "I&fltr* and raised his 4. All teams will play 4n the them with much enthusiasm. ?| U.N.A. Baseball or Softball League 9. Registration of teams closes hartdde; Concluding the program was a ; except when a team is located too on May 31, 1941. Teams. may re - М Те knight made pause to learn ye .grand-processieir led by ШЕ»-'0*><І -far from other U.N.A. teams. gister additional players until July cause lumbia,"" flanked by two Ukrainian 15, 1941. | This- knave should so commandde. 5. "Teams will be grouped in Dis young men in costumes bearing an I tricts, consisting of not less than • Write -for registration blanks to: American flag and a Greek flag. It "Ho, varlet, scram, because'I am three teams, under the manage GREGORY HERMAN, proceeded to the front of the or- ment of District Athletic Directors. "To see my lady faire U.N.A. Athletic Director, i chestra stand where it Was met by J "I killed ye toeaste, now at ye A banner will be awarded to the 7 261 Madison Street, : Sammy Kaye "arid his ever popular | feaste District champion, and a trophy to radio orchestra, whereupon he led 1 ^^ІЯВсез-Вагї*, ^5**K" "I'll have ye honored chaire. the Tnter-District. champion. the entire assemblage in the sing "Then stand aside and let me ride- ing of the '"Star Spangled Banner." I '"Else I shall drive my sword in." Among- the Ukrainian-American But ye villain spoke and said, YOUTH AND THE U.N.A. Mazeppa Opera To Be Dancers who took part in this pro • 'Thou, bloke gram were: Walter Kinal, Peter "I am ye King's- Game Warden. Presented In Newark Makohon, John Good, John Jab- A Note to Youth lonsky, Irene Bielak, Raymond "For killing draggons not in From John Demkowiez, Pro Good, Mildred Tymkowicz, Helen season » vidence College, Providence, R. I., Tchaikowsky's opera "Mazeppa," Tymkowicz, Stephanie Melish, Irene I "Thou'lt answer to ye state." came the following inspiring. ar to be presented in Newark by-the Branieky, -Sophia Ciopyk, Maryfj For lack of baile ye knight's in ticle regarding the Ukrainian Na Musical Artists of America at the Czeehowiez, Mary -Branieky, -Pearl І gaol, tional -Association: •MosqUe Theatre, this Sunday eve Wayda, •• Julia Wayda,. Ann Kowal- і дав draggon confiscate. "Since a chain is as strong as ning, May 4th, is based upon his er, Mary Wolodka, Mary Tar- its weakest -link, it is time for the torical fact. "The opera- concerns chanin. American -youth of Ukrainian de itself with "the political situation The music was furnished by. Ste A8K-ME-ANOTHER DEFT. scent to pause long enough to con created by that compelling person phen Bodnar, Leo Kinal, -Paul What is the chief cause of sider and. analyze its: contributions, ality, Ivan Магерра, -who was Kinal, Paul .Kinal,