ИШ1ШШИ ч Supplement to the SVOBODA. Ukrainian Daily

Published by tbe Junior Department of the Ukrainian National Association. No. 22 Jersey City, N. J., Friday, May SI, 1935 Vol. Ill

SECOND CONVENTION OF THE YOUTH TODAY SOYUZ UKRAINOK OF AMERICA " IVAN FRANKO і WHEN DOES LIFE BEGIN? The Second Convention of the (August 15, 1856 —May 28, 1916) Referring to the well-Jmown Ukrainian National Women's book by Mr. Walter Pitkin, 'life. League of America (Soyuz Ukra- The World War was at its height. On all fronts Begins at Forty, Mr. Wallace J. inok) took place last week, May Ukrainian soldiers were laying down their lives for every Campbell, an associate — editor of 24 to 26 inclusive, in New York country but their own. Ukraine, rent apart by Russia Consumer's Cooperation, writing City, at the Ukrainian National and Austria-Hungary, was in a most tragic position. in the May issue of The Social Home. It was attended by 49 de­ Frontier, takes up the dilemma of legates, representing 36 branches. Brother fought against brother. Western Ukraine, par­ die college graduate at twenty- The convention was opened ticularly, was the scene of the most fearful carnage, for It four: with appropriate ceremonies by was here that the Russian armies were seeking to gain a .When life will begin at forty, Mrs. M. Lenchuk, chairman of foothold in their attempt to penetrate into Central Eu­ what is he going to do for six­ the convention committee. Mrs. teen years? A. Kmetz. retiring president of rope. A valiant part in checking their advance was be­ the organization, delivered the ing played by the famed Ukrainian Sitchowi Strilchi, ABE THESE THE YOUTH'S opening address, stressing the • who fought on behalf of Austria in the belief that in . DREAMS? need of more women's conven­ this, manner they would help free Ukraine. Already all Writing in the same issue of tions. Then followed the elec­ signs pointed that this dungeon of oppressed nationali­ the same publication, Mr. Selden tion of presiding officers: — Miss Rodman, denies the claims that S. Abrahamovsky, Chairman; ties, Russia, was about to collapse and on its ruins rise American youth want to be Com­ Mrs. J. Jarema, Vice-Chairman; an independent state of Ukraine, — when there passed munist or Fascist Their ideals he and the Mrs. P. Dembitska and S. away from this earth a great Ukrainian, Ivan Franko. describes in these words: Halychyn, Secretaries. "Youth fights from the bottom He died after a long illness, on May 28, 1918; he Greetings from various organ­ up. Youth fights with the;under-, izations, including the Ukrainian who long before the war had predicted that the time dog against tbe parasite and the National Association, were then must come when the enslaved Ukrainian nation will rise, oppressor. Youth demands a func­ read. A telegram from the U- cast off its chains of oppression, and take its rightful tional society. Youth demands krainian Youth's League of North place in the society of nations. the full release of productive America stressed the "beginning power and the destruction and of a new era in the life of U- The news of Franko's death flashed to all corners enjoyment thereof. Youth stands krainian womenhood in America." of the earth, wherever Ukrainians live. And every­ for true individualism, and against Following this, greetings and re­ the regimentation of mass adver­ where it called out the deepest sorrow, for all realized tising, tabloid culture, peon labor, ports of their branches were that Ukraine had lost one whom it would be well nigh im­ given by the delegates. Mrs. and type-molded suburbs. Youth Joanna Sluser, representing the possible to replace. And how great a loss his death was stands for the new individualism Soyuz Ukrainok of Canada, greet­ to Ukraine can be gauged by what Metropolitan Sheptit- of the 20th century: the liberty ed the delegates, and in her talk sky (at that time interned in the depths of Russia, fol­ to live and enjoy and suffer like emphasized the main goal of U- human beings in economic free­ lowing the occupation of Lviw by the Russian forces) dom. Youth condemns as suprfttte krainian women to be: self-educa­ said when he received the sad news. Writing to his tion and national consciousness. un -Americanism: exploitation ••'тЙ^ friends he expressed his deep sorrow and declared that man by man, hatred of foreigners, Saturday morning was opened even the terrible devastation suffered by Ukraine as a the regimentation of life by' Я- with services held in local Ukra­ nance capitalism." і ,.-» inian churches in memory of result of the war and its huge loss of human life was members who had died since the naught compared to the irreparable loss suffered by first convention. Returning to the Ukraine by the death of Ivan Franko. WHAT BOOKS TO READ» hall the delegates heard a series What had Franko done to merit such extraordinary Are the great Vitfctfian^novel- of talks given on subjects of im­ ists read by the young people of portance for Ukrainian women, esteem? To answer this briefly, it is enough to say that today? — such question, posits tjt} which were followed by discus­ in all probability no man in modern times has "so pro­ Bernard Darwin, the English pub; sions. Then followed the business foundly influenced, spiritually and culturally, a nation licist, tbe editor of John Q'Loa- session of the organization, which as has Ivan Franko. donls Weekly, of London, Eng­ lasted until the close of the con­ land. vention on the following day. Satur­ Franko was a man of many talents, all of which he " Or, to put the same question day evening a banquet was held devoted in service of his people. He was a writer of more provocatively, OUGHT thf for the delegates and guests in amazing fecundity, a poet whose works rank among the young people of today to, read a local hotel. finest in world literature, and a scholar of the highest them when there are so many: The new officers of the Soyuz degree. But besides all this, he was a great leader of his modern books to choose from't"l- Ukrainok of America are as fol­ Mr. Darwin argues in favor of lows: Mrs. Anastasia Wagner, people. reading of the great Victorian President; Mrs. Julia Jarema, As the spiritual and intellectual leader of the Ukra­ novelists by the young people of Miss Stephania Abrahamovsky, inian people, Franko, with rare prophetic vision, sought today. He is especially in favor and Mrs. Catherine Dilay, Vice- of Dickens. And yet it is char­ Presidents; Mrs. Pelagia Dembit- to point out to them the paths of national and cultural acteristic of this, admirer of Dick­ sky, Ukrainian Secretary, and progress. To be free physically, he stressed, one. must ens,, that instead of pointing .to Mrs. Annette Kmetz, English be free spiritually. He stood for freedom of conscience.- the author's power, he fieds turn Secretary: Mrs. Veronika Kostet- Also, he taught that happiness and well being of a per­ busy apologizing* for Dickens's sky, Treasurer; Mrs. Anastasia "sentimental parts," by, each ar­ Rybakova, Organizer, and the son or nation, are based far more on spiritual values guments as tbe following: than on materialistic gains. "And above all," he-_said, Mrs. Dr. Nellie Pelcchovich-Hay- "Nevertheless, whether or not voronsky, Katherino Schutack-Ke- "be a man, if only for a moment." some of Dickens's emotional pas­ drovsky, and Pelagia Glioma, mem­ Franko did not expect that the masses would і im­ sages suit our particular taste it bers of the Auditing Committee. is worth remembering this, that It was resolved that the Third mediately comprehend his teachings. In this he was they were written by a very great Convention of the Soyuz Ukrainok right, for he was subjected to a great deal of sharp man in utter sincerity, and what­ will be held in 1937 in Philadel­ criticism and even abuse from his own people. Never­ ever they appear to us today they phia, Pa.. theless, he never faltered, but kept true to his ideals to appeared genuine and moving to о the very last. his illustrious contemporaries." "LOST SHADOWS" PUBLISHED The statement about Dickens's . An English translation by A. Ivan Franko is well known to us,- young American- sincerity may be accepted as true Mykytlak of Osip Turiansky's well Ukrainians, if even by his battle-hymn "Ne Pora," in and yet this will still leave the known book "Lost Shadows" has which he calls us to battle for Ukraine's glory, freedom, question if the youth should be juet been released from the press and honor. We also know him as one who called himself made to read the books just be­ by the Empire Publishing Com­ cause they appeared genuine and pany, of New York City. Its price the "servant of unfortunates," one who, regarded it as moving to tbe other . generation. is $2.00. The story is based upon his solemn duty and obligation to labor unceasingly on To me it sounds like pleading with the author's experiences as a sob behalf of those ^nationally, socially, and culturally, op­ the youth not to read Dickens (her during the World War. pressed "unfortunates:" One of his last utterances gives' unless in the light of curiosity to know: what .used to appeer us a touching evidence of his deep and sincere patriotism: genuine and moving to і another (Today's Ukrainian Weekly Is '3 .care not whether my name perishes, as long ад the generation, and what do we.know concluded in the Svoboda). Ukrainian nation lives and prospers." <• .- to be different today? . •' • ._.' .1 . . .. ::.".' :.- v. Й 2 UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1935 No. 22 THE IDEOLOGY OF IVAN FRANK© By Waldimir Semenyna

"We think of the month of May week of rest at home went After his second unjust arrest pared for insult and degradation arffrlha month of blossoms and to Kolomyia with the intention of in 1880, we find Franko afire with from those to whom a common nature's rejuvination without giv­ seeing a friend of his. There he a firmly established goal; we find goal is nothing but a maniac's, ing hardly any consideration to lived through a frightful week in the spirit which drew the Ukrain­ whim. the life cycle of the things around a hotel .where he wrote a novel ian youth with such force into And at the meeting of the Isra'lltea, us; -we may pause to consider last "On the Bottom," and sent it to the ranks' of Ukraine's defenders. With honors'» paid at Baal's knee. autumn's faded leaves which ad-, Lviw with the only money he had The spell that the new spirit in The noisy Dathan managed.to obtain ded so much beauty'and charm to.. land lived for three days on three his "Eternal Revolutionist'.' had From them the following decree: a tree, but how many pause to con­ cents- which he found on the bank over the younger generation may ' "Whoever makes prophetic claims sider the roots of that tree, the of-a river, then spent a day and be seen by. the spirit of the music and then source of nourishment for that a half in a hotej room with a for that poem composed by Ly- Talks nonsense, which he deems it magnanimous organisation of cells. raging fever, resigned to meet his wise, " senko and Ludkevich: And promises the uncnlightcn'd mass In nature these nourishing roots} end, where he was saved from "Etern'I revolutionist — God's anger or some paradise; of an organisation, whether it be starvation by one of his friends. Soul that body spurs to action, "Who dares to preach rebellion and 'Vttitee or a nation, or anything _ In 1880, he reentered the Uni­ Progress, freedom, satisfaction — unrest. where life is at stake, play such versity of Lviw to finish his He's alive, he's in our midst To urge the people from their way a basic part that due to \ their studies.- From his gymnasium Neither clerics' whims or stalls And beckons them beyond unfriend­ Nor the kindly prison walls, importance the average person days, he worked incessantly ly hills Neither armies, drilled to clatter Where ruin gapes and looks for prey. takes them- for granted and throughout all his years. In the Nor the ready cannon chatter, ignores them as such. summer, of 1889 he was arrested No e'en spies' profound profession, "He, as example to the rest of them Who hare from reason been One of such main roots of for the third and last time. (Un­ trade. Have yet led him to his grave. dethroned, nourishment for the Ukrainian na­ der Austria-Hungary the province Shall be without a hearing guilty ' tion-are the-works of Ivan Fran- of Galicia had a "Seym" which He's not dead, he's living yet! found ko who died that others may live. was .controlled by Polish nobility Though since birth some years have And by us all bespat and atoned." drift. His works, although Ukrainian in and, to frighten the Ukrainian po­ Twaa but yesterday he was gifted That was the lot of Franko .origin, are universal in character, pulation from voting for the' so- With a strength to carry on. through the major portion of bis ami with their ideology place him called "radical" candidates, whole­ See him straighten, gain more force. life, and even today there are among^the outstanding figures in sale arrests were instituted among Hurry 'long the dawning course... some who cannot and will' not With a word of trumpets' power • world literature. It is an idep- the Ukrainian Students and pa- He calls millions to uncover; understand the task of our Mo­ &gy of'truth above all,. Ч(ІГ,вв|рт-; -triots).VAgain, after three months Millions answer — one and all:— ses, who cannot understand the Sacrifice, for tbe goal of truth,'щ. of detention, he, with the rest of This e'orlivlng spirit's call. supreme love of a man for his iininippil in his "Kameniari*/: )& the inherent victims, was released people: because this time the government Everywhere the call draws ears:' ' -''And thus we go ahead la body one In the peasant's humble dwelling. "O, Israel, if you but only knew У United .--' -'Лаюег» could., not even trump up a charge. Workmen's bench, the mart of sell­ What's taking place within my By that one almighty thought, that ТІМ}-«years ' 1892-1894 Franko ing. heart) .y, rinfant ~ati the brain, *•* spent In preparing for his doctor's Places full of hopeless tears. Tf you but knew, lust knew my love And wbereever that word reaches What If we are;all curat and by.the degree which-he obtained in Vien­ for you, і wor|d condemned! Griefs all fall away like leeches; A love that has no other part! We're breaking through that wall to na. In 1895, even though recom­ Qrit and strength arc born—and will free the truth we've sighted mended by the faculty of the To v. eep no more, but tight and nil You are my kin, you are my only That happiness may come—when, The children's life. If not our own. child. school,..,the ministry of education With the fate to use as yet unknown. You are my honor and my fame. none of ue remain." refused..to accept Franko to fill a In you now rests my soul, my future To appreciate better 'the sin­ faculty vacancy in the University Etern'I revolutionist — < life, cere character of the. mad' and of*Lviw, basing its refusal on his Knowledge, freedom, thought and And beauty, nation, and my aim." "political past." spirit This love for his people, for all до works, It is necessary to know Will not let tbe darkness near it. something of his life. Won't be shackled by a mist; people, is prevalent throughout his • » A The following- years Franko Evil ruins fall asunder. life and his works, although in .IvsaJPranko was born August spent in. constant literary labor, By the lava buried under; times of despair his soul, in anger, вік 1856,-4n Nahuyevchi, Gallcia, gaining more and more recogni­ Where in the world їв there such cried out declarations which, tion and popularity among his power sharpened with his keen Western Ukraine (now under Po- Which'could keep it In its bower. Iarid}£- Of humble parentage he fellow men. But in 1908 a sud­ Could extinguish, could delay. satire, made many people pro­ showed a- talent in his younger den attack of his illness began to This oncoming, dawning day? test. - Fundamentally, those peo­ show its effect, leading to the ple were at fault: it was a case years. t^JL:^te age of six he Written in 1880, the "Eternal ^ЯВгс^іо ,'acfiool when in two loss of the use of both hands. of guilty conscience, inability of Handicapped as he was, he kept Revolutionist" has fed the energy materialistic individuals to under­ 'he learned,, to read Ukra- of two generations and will be ;tPolish and^.i^erman, besides working to his very last. stand an idealist's viewpoints. It the hymn of many Ukrainian is this love for the people, for gaining a sound' knowledge of, •?vt$5rankq died May 28, 1916. generations to come. the creative living nation, that re­ -arithmetic. ' Although he did not The culmination of Franko's ex­ echoed in the ranks of the young 'like school work, he always "man­ The works of Franko are too Ukraine, out of which arose an aged to be at^the head of his voluminous to be even general­ pression is his poem "Moses," written in 1905, at an age ripe with army to sacrifice Its life on the class, ИіаиЬя to his prodigious ized here.* His interest were so altar of freedom. memory (in the lower gymnasium varied that it is hard even to try reflection. The poem depicts Mo­ grades he memorized the "Kob- to'- vest him- with any -definite ses leading his people out of bon­ Franko's message to young zar'," the' complete poetical works character. One thing is certain; dage to the Promised Land. Ukraine, the message of future, .Ц.; Shevchenko). In 1879 he en­ no matter what he did, the re­ Knowing the life of Franko, one for which the past generations of tered the University of Lviw and sults of his works are felt by tbe cannot help but visualize him as youth have fought, is well ex- in 1877 he was arrested on the Ukrainians to this day, whether it that Moses. pressed in his prologue to "Moses": * 'basis of a letter from Draho- be in literature, journalism, so­ For forty years did Moses wander maniw, Franko's inspirer who then cial science, or what not. His through But the time will come, once obstacles lived in Switzerland and who ad­ writings' have a power of mould­ Thai desert In a halting line. are hurdled, vised the Ukrainian academic ing life out of clay, of putting Before the people of his tribes came When you will shine among the near greatest nations; youth to cherish the native tongue action Into drowsing beings, and The boundary of Palestine... Will shake the Cauca's* while with in contradiction to the gaining spurring youth to a common goal Beskld* girdled. Russian influences among the el­ of- love and understanding — in For forty years their prophet spoke Black Sea will echo with your ders. The nine months he spent short, a creative power. to them liberation About that promised fatherland And you'll behold, once being your in prison were months/of torture;' . Born, of a people who at first But all the greatness, beauty of his own master, ' living among other prisoners, he failed to understand him, which words. A home of Joy and fields of Were Inst among those grains of noted on scraps of paper the ex­ led the; man to a great spiritual consolation. periences of other men and his sand... struggle, Be remained loyal to the Next to Shevchenko with his own poems, for which reason he cause touching us all; the right But Іовіпк faith, In time, the people beautifully flowing and melodious Was transferred from cell to cell. cried: to-live eL_.life worth living. This poetry, which influenced Franko Once out of prison he was os­ "It Is not true, the prophets lied! legacy of the goal for a life worth In desert we have lived and here from the moment he first read tracized by the elders and friends. living he left to the young Ukra­ must die; the Kobzar, the Ukrainian people This was a very severe blow to inians throughout the world. This How long, thvn. shall \W wall anil see in Franko the outstanding why? him, a blow which was compen- legacy is the principle for which figure in the Ukrainian literature. - sated to' a great extent by the we are striving every day. It is this doubt of the people in As the Moses who came to the sincere interest taken in his work In the field of the Ukrainian their leaders, fed by agents of borders of the promised Land and by -the Ukrainian youth in whose struggle for independence, we find discontent and ignorance, that died at the threshold of a re­ ranks rose the fiery spirit of the Franko a fighting prophet. Being brings about the materialistic re­ surrected nation, Franko's death last Ukrainian struggle for in­ the son' of the Ukrainian peas­ action in oposition to the idealism is commemorated by the Ukrain­ dependence. In March 1880, he antry (his father was a black­ of a call — ians throughout the world in the was arrested on another trumped month of May, the time when smith), which for centuries strug­ V/ords of that promised and wonder­ up charge in connection with the gled to throw off the foreign every nationally conscious U- trial of the sisters of another Uk­ ful land yokes, he .saw in that people a To them is Just a fairy tale; krainian seeks to get a breath rainian patriot, Pavlyk. After servant which he depicts in his The meat of their herds and butter of encouragement from the me­ three months detention in prison poem "Naymit" (servant or hired and cheese mory of this great Ukrainian he was acquitted and, under po­ man) written during his first uni­ Is all that favor they will hall..» poet and patriot who, with his lice escort, was led on foot to versity years (October 1876). Now Dathan and Ablrum hold the life, paved the way to the inevit­ 'his home town. This transport Franko pictured that naymit as reins able Ukrainian "government of the from prison to prison was, as men­ Through discontent. In which they people, by the people, and for a man with a song upon his lips breed, tioned in his autobiography, the and with the soul of a child; and And to the prophet's words their an­ the people." heaviest moment of his life. In that song, which «prang from swer is: ч » Drenched to the skin by the rain our nnutn are hungry nnd In need. that beloved Ukrainian soil, he sees * (.'auca's — Caucasus. While being led home, he came the power which saves the peasant Not only that, but to lead a ИРЯД with a fever and, after a * Beskld — a Carpathian Mountain from annihilation... multitude one may as well be pre­ range. No. 22 UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, FRIDAY, MAY 31. 1935 If Charles XII had won the Battle of Poltava -; By BEDWJTN SANDS Courtesy — Inn Dixie (Atlanta, Ga.— May, 1035)

A single shot, a stray shot, Scholarly, .many-sided, dashing to bring his men to the Russian has shown how this battle ^df." which shattered the os calcis of Mapeppa wanted to save his own headquarters. Knowing -that his Poltava, one. of the fifteen decisive hie foot prevented^ the King of nation. Chivalrous, wilful Charles people were not prepared for a battles. Of the world, was to decide- Sweden from winning one of the ХГІ wished' to prevent the crea­ break, he found himself lift'a the. .fate of Russia, Poland, and most decisive battles in' history. tion of a ,huge reservoir of ignor­ troublesome dilemma. •' ^. Sweden and of twd~ monarchs on • Had Charles ХП -won at Poltava, ant, irresponsible, naturally ser­ He took to his bed, pretending ' whom the eyes of the world were on July" 9, 1709, with Turkey vile manpower at the gates of to be near death, received the last fixed. More recent studies have spread back into Northwestern Sweden. sacraments in the presence of unearthed proofs that the sys­ Asia, Ukrainia was free from Mus­ Born on March 30, 1632, near Peter's envoy, and when the lat­ tematic destruction of all things ' covite clutches, the road to Mos­ Kiev, of an illustrious Ukrainian ter went off, he jumped- on his Ukrainian by Peter and his suc­ cow was clear, and Peter's dream family; Mazeppa was a distinguish­ horse and fled to 'join his men cessors had caused Voltaire" to . of a great Russia was definitely ed latinist, and a diplomat. He and Charles. ХЦ. His attempt at be,, mistaken in his conclusions a- ended. But the King of Sweden had frequented the best society arousing his countrymen failed. !/bout.Russia, Turkey, and Poland, rode out of his camp .to recon­ and the learned humanists of They had not his vision, and ''among other things. The work of noitre the enemy position, and on France, Germany, Italy, and Hol­ proved- slow to stir. . - Kostomarov, Hrushevsky, Tissot, returning he was shot. Neverthe­ Roger. Tieerand, and in this coun- land. After serving at the Po­ f< less, as the Russians were pre­ Peter had him hung in effigy, by Isaac Don Levine has brought lish Court, and successfully court­ wrecked his palace, and hastened paring to take the offensive at ing several women, he aroused the tp.r.'iteht many ghastly conse- , that time, Charles had to order in his rage to meet the enemy "he . quences of this victory of Peter' jealousy of one Pasek, who made had always suspected. He Hall an attack. Throughout the day, the "place too hot for him. Return­ over Charles. JpgJi the fate of the West hung in the this time a little surprise for ing to Kiev, he entered the service Charles, in the shape of cannon. Dead, the ЛлаЛЛ»^ Ukrainian \ balance, but when Kreuz, who of the hetman of Ukraine, almost cavalier became more dangerous - was coming to reinforce his King Terrorized, the Ukrainian, popula­ a subject nation since the failure tion dared not move, у In vain ^han alive. He had entered a with 5,000 Swedes, lost his way, of Chmelnitzky to free her. He legendary immortality. Byron, and Charles, suffering agony from Mazeppa -signed a .treaty with was sent .to Moscow, where his Charles. '• Victojr* Hugo, and many other pain and worry, could not lead intelligence excited the admiration І poets '"felt inspired by his- tragic _ one of his decisive charges that of Peter who made him hetman Long denied wjth vehemence by life. ' '"'Painters, musicians, and always proved successful, it was at the defeat of SamoiloVich by Russia apologists, this, treaty playwrights displayed their fas­ seen that Peter had won his only the conquering Turks. was lost, and has only been dis­ cination for the national hero. The genuine victory on the field. Not covered in 1G30 in the archives name of Mazeppista, thrown at being known by the Swedes as Historians have not been kind of a French cbateu. It- pledged the Ukrainians as a curse by th£ he was by his Ukrainian Cossacks, to the royal, romantic opponent Ukraine to supply Charles with Russians, became to them a title Mazeppa could not substitute. As of Peter until our day, when it is .food, ammunition, and men, while of nobility. Charles. Mazeppa, and Philip Or- at last seen that Charles' obsti- Sweden recognized both banks of lick fled into Turkey, the seed of nafcy in- trying to prevent the Dnieper to Ukraina, and promised But every subject nation has centuries of oppression, and of creation of a huge, unbalanced that no territory could be asked traitors and deluded leaders in * the Bolshevik terror were watered Asiatic empire so close to the or taken as the price of deliver­ its midst. Skoropadski, one of the m in blood on the battlefield of Scandinavian and German nations ance. No .tax or levy could be latter,' was forced upon the U- Poltava. Pate had sealed slavery was due to his foresight. Unfor­ forced upon the nation, no pro­ krainians by the Czar. Unwilling for the subject nations of the tunately, Charles- became king at tectorate claimed. Most important to accept him as hetman, those Muscovite hordes. the age of fifteen, grew very feature was the official recogni­ leaders who had followed Mazep­ headstrong, - and* resented advice tion by Sweden of the national pa in his Turkish exile, elected It would have been a very dif­ from anyone as zto the means to unit and of the sovereign power Philip Orlick. Dissensions follow­ ferent map of Europe, hence a be taken to achieve his plan of delegated to Mazeppa. '. j 1 ed. ЩШ very different history of the past blocking pie advance of Peter. On April 5, 1710, Philip Orlick, two centuries, if they had achieved The latter was more methodical Peter compelled the Orthodox who had finally been accepted by . their independence in 1709, and and ruthless, and luck was on his church to issue an order of ana­ a majority, announced that he had gravitated toward the Scandina­ side and the side of his dynasty. thema against the hetman. This negotiated another treaty with vian civilization which they would Eloquent and generous to extra­ order was enforced until the Re­ Turkey and with Charles ХП. have readily absorbed. vagance, Mazeppa dazzled Peter at volution, every Good Friday. It Peter, however, succeeded in win- is recorded that Nicholas I visit­ Sir Edward Creasy, author of Moscow, although the -suspicious ning ue Sultan over. Orlick went Czar watched for signs of rebel­ ing a church in Kiev, erected with to Sweden, Where he was treated as the classic "Fifteen Decisive the gifts made by Mazepna, once Battles, From Marathon to Water­ lion. Knowing his own uncouth a sovereign ruler. Eventually he subjects, he could not in his clear asked a puzzled parish priest: t died mysteriously.: His son be­ loo," has sinned by omission in , "So. you pray for Mazeppa?" his recitation of the historical and mind understand how a cultured came a. general in . the French national background of Poltava. man like Mazeppa could really be "Yes, Sire; he built this church.'' armies and a confidant of Louis Like Voltaire, he. had only one enjoying himself as be claimed to "And you curse him on Good XV. side of the story. Indeed, he be. Therefore, the man must have Friday, according to the law ?!'•$- Meanwhile, in 1720. Peter for­ a purpose. But to all' his prob­ makes no mention of Mazeppa, " "Yes, Sire!" bade any. literary work to" be pub­ ing questioner* the hetman replied lished in the Ukrainian tongue.- t around whose nation the battle "You pray and curse hini•,fcoth?,^' was raging. that he liked Peter and wanted to Now more, now less oppressively, Luckily, historians are begin­ see him work on Russia. His "Of course! We obey the Holy the national culture was per­ ning to unravel the evasions, sup­ reason was that he wished to Synod's orders; but we must pray secuted.and outlawed — until Le­ pressions, and deliberate untruths make sure that no adviser came for our benefectors!" nin. Stalin once more began the upon which the union of "All the to persuade the Czar to increase Peter advanced on Poltava, be­ Moscovite suppression, 'leaving the - Russias" was based. Every new his hold over fertile, happy U- sieged by Charles. The Czar had Ukrainians nothing beyond the discovery shows on what slender kraina, and to pursue a vain po­ 60.000 men, and a greatly superior free use of their own tongue. As thread both Peter and Charles licy of draining it of its resources artillery. The Ukrainians had not one Ukrainian remarked to a were holding the destinies of U- for the benefit of Muscovy. In rallied to. the call of Mazeppa, newspaperman recently, "We can't kraina in the spring of 1700- It spite of his social success a grow­ cowed as they were by the in­ eat language!" was to be a long pity that Charles ing bitterness ate at the batman's vading foreign armies, and puzzled Since 1922 no ray of hope has . did not wait until Mazeppa had heart. Made a prince of the Holy at the sudden appeal of their het­ come to relieve the sadness of the succeeded in arousing his country­ | Empire, decorated with the cross man whom they had blamed for nation who starves on the land men. One sentence, however, in of St. Andrew, he could not re­ his dallying in Moscow.«"-When of plenty that Russia may liver-- • Creasy's chapter on Poltava, main deaf to the steady stream of even Kreuz failed to arrive on the a public enemy.' should be quoted, for it is pro­ protests from Kiev, and the grow­ battlefield in time, the Czar won Today the present Ukrainian phetic, having been written in ing impoverishment of his coun­ the day, almost annihilating the republic within the Soviet union 1907. "Fear, not moderation, is trymen. Seven years he suffered allies. With, a picked body of has only an area of 451,731 square the only effective check on the in secret, then entered-into nego­ Swedish cavalry, Mazeppa Charles, miles', but there are, of course, ambition of such powers as An­ tiations with Charles of Sweden and Philip Orlick fled.into Turkey.. good slices of national lend on- . cient Rome and Modern Russia." whose victories over Peter seemed The hetman died there, on Oc­ der Poland and Czechoslovakia. to ' offer good security for the tober 2, 1709, allegedly poisoned The country's ethnographic boun­ There are always men available future. by an emissary of Peter. .... daries ' would ' include (850 009 for any undertaking,- men who square kilometers; 2.201.50O crave action, who have the ability, That impetuous monarch who Hnd the irtDetuoue K'n" о Sweden suceeded in occupying 'square miles, the U S. A. being* the power, the burning desire to showed, his contempt for demo­ 3,738,395 souare miles.'* bnng about desirable advantages cratic Institutions by sending bis Poltaia, won the day, and oc­ cupied the two banks of th/ It is unthinkable that a state of for their fellowmen. Circumstan­ ridlnt* boot to replace' him at the 0 ces, however, often foil them. Let debates of the Swedish Chamber. Dnleoer. Ti"*«v WP" send'n : цв> this size between Russia and Eu­ us remove for a moment from the lost a chance of marching on Mos­ army to reinforce him, and the rope- from 1709 would not have cow after his victory "of Mohilev Ukrainians would have organised affected the whole growth of drawer of history three of the Christendom, if we consider that puppets of destiny who faced tre­ on.- July 4, 1708. Instead of as­ and sprung out of their lethargy. suring himself a solid base in the A strong republic* of Ukraina Ukrainians are as democratic as mendous odds at the same time would have been constituted un­ Russians are servile. When their and place, and upon whose - suc­ Baltic provinces, heTsUddenly de­ cided to enter Ukraine, and Join der the guidance of Scandinavians, present emphasis on parties is re­ cess and failure that day the fate and the whole history of the nine­ placed by-an equal h-Шбепсе of three nations depended. 304)00 Cossacks whom he sum­ moned:-Mazeppa to Dflng out at teenth century would have proyM .upon able, fearless leaders, Ukra­ - Peter, the brute of genius, want­ very different. inians may sing a different tune ed to carve an Empire and give onle.'-Not only ttaplietman was notj reAdy to breajf/ with Moscow, In his otherwise admirable "His­ to' the accompaniment - of theie his people the culture he himself . bandu ras. lacked. but' he was- summoned • by Peter tory of Pater the Great." Voltaire tJKUAIKIA.V WEEKLY, гаїПЛУ, МЛУ .4 1. ІО.ЧГ OSTAP and METRO DIDN'T KNOW GOING TO COLLEGE? . By MICILAEL HOMVK that if all the buildings which (2) — o— were destroyed by fire in the Hunter College United Stales last year could be The Prologue ment and the heat raced about the [This is the second in the series placed side hy . side they would of articles being presented by the Ostap slowed his horse and atmosphere more terrifically than line both sides of a street reach­ Ukrainian University Society fur before... ing from New "York to San Fran­ looked about the flat, wind-blown cisco. the benefit of those contemplating steppe.. .mother of his tears. The And then, as though by accident entering a higher institution of - steppe whose grasses were washed or too much friction, the yellow that the home is as dangerous a learning. For any further infor­ with the rue and madness and moon tore through the belly of spot as up in an airplane, in a mation, write to Miss Mary Mu- the cloud. powder factory, or down in the rasko, Secretary. 1422 Stebbins the blood-clot of the strife and coal mine. This sound almost Avenue, Bronx, N. Y. ] battle of the day before. 4 The Wakefulness too silly to be true, but it is — To enter Hunter College (an in­ In the distance, he could see as the records of the» insurance stitution suported by New York the steppe's careless but unbroken Stillness and peace. Everything companies prove. was still. The heat retreated im­ City) a student must be an actual progressions murmuring in in­ that our nation is now paying at legal and bona fide resident of finite resignation to the lances mediately, and in its place, a slow New York City. Each applicant refreshing rain came down upon the rate of $5,000,000 a month and swords and dead bodies of for the Civil War which closed must present a diploma of gradu­ both man and horse, scattered a- the steppe; washing Ostap's lips 70 years ago. ation from a four-year academic bout him. and kissing Ostap's hands. high school course covering 15 that in seven states any child old units of work with an average • Ostap was seeking the body of A breeze came through the enough to operate a kiddy car has grade of 75 per cent or better in his brother Metro, whom he be­ coarse, steppe grasses and opened the state's full permission to the Regents or College Entrance lieved to be dead. Again and a- Ostap's eyes. He rose, shook him­ drive a motor vehicle. Board examinations on the follow­ gain, he had hurried among the self and remembered all that had that it has been proven con­ ing subjects: lifeless forms, turning them this occurred. He looked for the lean clusively by economists that one Four years of English; inter­ way and that, but in none could and lonely cloud.. .it was not there of the safest places in the world mediate or advanced algebra; he recognise the face of his ...it was no where... he saw only is on a railroad train. plane geometry; three years of brother. a tired, weary moon and nothing foreign language; one subject that surveys have shown that a chosen from any one-year course It seemed, to him, useless to else. The steppe was as before, driver traveling from New. York, covered with the remains of in History or Science or two years seek further. Distracted and in to San Francisco will violate a of a second foreign language, or desperation he returned to - his yesterday's war, and his horse was hundred provisions of the motor- the fourth year of the first for­ horse and began to rub him down grazing on the tall grasses in the vehicle laws and ordinances, no eign language. and stroke his bristling mane. new, cool light of the peaceful matter how conservative a driver he may be. (So you see, chances No scholarships are available moon. except the State Scholarship which The Sleep for a pleasant motor trip are 100 The Revelation to none.) were described in last week's • High above him, he heard the article. Inquire of your principal sound of vultures circling about In the light of the moon's face, that in* 1934 everybody in the as to any scholarships which might a lean and lonely cloud. It re­ as in an illuminated fortress, United States ate on the average be offered by your secondary school. minded him that his stomach was Ostap seemed to see the peaceful 153 pounds of meat, the highest figures in twenty-seven years. But bent with.hunger, and he shivered image of his brother. There would (Next «celt — ГнІІеце of the Cltjr be no more baneful, lean and lone­ 1935 is going to be different, huh! of New York) at the thought of his brother and STEPHEN M. BAKALIK. those gloomy, ragged birds. It ly clouds... No more.. . made him hold ids breath to see Ostap dropped on his knees and - them. grayed; then turning his eyes і And as he watched, a black- to the steppe he said: THE SPOBT WHIRL green curtain seemed to descend, PHILIP DUBAS MAKES DEBUT "Aye, my wild steppe, my slowly blotting out the vultures, ATTENTION G1KLS brother was a Cossack that U- and then, the yellowed steppe Shades of Ysaye — Paganint — kraine shall never forget. He did This is the season for sports of grasses. Ostap realized that he all kinds: mushball, tennis, swim­ Kreisler. well. His wars are over and his ming, especially. Why must the was suddenly in the midst of a memory shall live in my heart." Thus, somewhat, may be de­ black night.. .a black night and boys have all the fun? What do scribed the debut recital of dead bodies. Soon his eyelids be­ And • there he knelt till dawn, you say to this: Let us have Ukraine's virtuoso of the violin, came heavy and he felt an area his head bowed and his arms some of that fine enjoyment! Just as Philip Dubas, Wednesday eve­ imagine — contests, a girls.' mush­ ning. May 22, in the Ukrainian of sleep push he extensive sur- crossed, with the coarse, tall ball league, tournaments! We can grasses.. .the garden-lilies of the Hall, in Philadelphia, playing to face about him. - - have all of those things and more a highly appreciative audience of steppe. :. surrounding him' like if enough of you become en­ The Vision home-town folk, musically gave angels. thusiastic and get to work organ­ account of his two year sojourn - In his hazy way, he was aston­ izing your teams. at the academies at Leipsig and ished at feeling the presence of Cards have been sent to vari­ Paris. With perfect bowmanship, a lean and lonely cloud. He was ous clubs in this district urging excellent rhythmic balance, Dubas certain that he was looking at it; the girls to organize their teams trickled through the gamut of the black-green curtain had not LOVE immediately. In case your club I sharps and flats, rhythmically re­ has been missed, or if you have lating tales of sleepless nights, erased it as it had everything no organized club and wish to else. It seemed to have become hours of nerve racking, patient Love is a flower in bloom, join> our league, please communi­ toil and study. That he had greatly magnified and yet gave So sweet, so fragrant, so divine, cate with me as soon as possible. finally emerged triumphant, con­ the illusion of being at such an Its rapture akes the heart immune, PEARL ZORENA, quering the hearts of music-lovers, ' unredeemable distance, that Ostap A thrill of joy and sublime. District Sports Leader of was in plain evidence. ' -marvelled. And contrasting a- Women's Athletics, V. Y. Although programmed for only gainst the hugeness of its whole Love is so sweet, much joy doe3 L. of N. A. three selections, Dubas' rendering the milk-white turnings of its it lend, 1919 Leishman Ave. of Glazunov's Concerto for Violin numberless and hungry convolu­ To the young and the old alike, Arnold, Pa. (Op. 82), d'Ambroaro's Caiuonetta о tions looked lonelier .and leaner Love is a thing on which we de­ (Op. 6), and "Where Are You than before. pend. Going, My Cossack" brought forth PHILLY UKRAINIANS IN solvos of applause, that insistenlly The moon began to show itself To create happiness and sun­ "FESTIVAL OF NATIONS shine in life. demanded encores, to which Dubas ...a bright, yellow ball, but PROGRAM" graciously acceded, playing two opaque as the yolk of a boiled Love is so fragrant, so fine and On May 11, 1935, on the "Fest­ selections. egg. , so pure, ival of Nations Program" our lo­ I will risk any adverse criticism Ostap looked first at the moon cal Ukrainians presented" a spec­ in venturing to predict, that the A scent which we all adore, tacular program before an audi­ future holds much for thie brilliant and then at the cloud. The lean Love is a grace which we try to ence of 12,000 persons in the Con­ young artist; we will some day and lonely cloud crept stealthily luxe, vention Hall at Spruce Street, see him as a shining light on the Upon the moon and wrapped its- To. hold in our hearts, for-ever- Philadelphia. concert stage. lean, hungry, milk-white , form more. A group of dancers from the Perhaps somewhat overshadowed ' like an octopus about the defense­ MARY FIEGEL STADNER Vasile Avramenko Ballet School by the brilliance of Philip less, yellow ball.. .drowning out of Ukrainian Dances, presented a Dubas' playing, the assisting art­ its bland light And the night 1210 Foster Street selection of our well known Ukra­ ists none the less proved a de­ inian dances. Our little Ukrainian light. D. Sokolow, pianist, dis­ grew blacker than can be fully Scranton, Pa. . described. • . darlings, the five and six year old played unusual versatility with Doranowaka Sisters, danced a duet the keyboard, playing compositions Ostap became frightened at this that filled the great auditorium by Ornstein and Liszt. Miss Olga paradox: that he could see this OZONE PARK, N. Y. with deafening applause.. The Tymkevich, soprano, showed evi­ weird, unsightly cloud without dancers that participated were as dence of the highest promise with , the presence of any light PLAY an J DANCE sponsored by the follows: Mary Zenezt, Kay Ku- a voice of pleasing lyric quality. Ukrainian Coinki of Oxone Park to be Drawing itself into a long held at Lion's Hill, 9014 — 95th Ave., shlna, Kay Zatonska, Euginia Za- She sang selections by Shevchen- cylindrical form and tapering at Ozone Parle, N. V., on SUNDAY Eve.. dorozny, Olga Klapko, MaryJtWa- ko-Nizankovsky and Lepky-Sichyn- both ends, the cloud began, in JUNE 2, 1935. Music by Pat's_ Blue sinsky, Stephen Sawchuk, Joseph sky. Rhythm Boys. Admission 5o c.' Pawlusky, Joseph Sunylsky,--Mi­ JOHN MITZ. ' some abnormal fasion, to knock 120,5 chael Kwasinsky (director). hack and forth like a shuttlecock The vocal selections Were off­ across the black of the sky. The NEW YORK CITY. heat it created was unbearable ered by the well know stage and JERSEY CITY, N. J. radio stars, "Shy Sisters" (Gloria SPRING DANCE sponsored by Ant- and Ostap felt himself grow weak. & Natalie). Their singing was so rob Club. .MaruWUn. Knight», St. Breathing came hard. His sto­ FIRST SPRING DANCE and PLAY enjoyable that a second appear- Vladimir'a Ukrainian S. A. C„ Ame­ mach ebbed like a tide to a torrid sponsored by the Ukrainian Athletic ance was demanded. rican Ukrainian Jr. Knowledge Society, Ai»'n (Choriiomorska Sitch) it the SATURDAY. JUNE lat 193S, at Web­ sea and his throat choked like a Ukrainian Center, 181-18? Fleet St. The applause the Ukrainians fountain clogged with rubbish. ster Hall, 119 E. Ilth St., New York (near Five Comers), Jersey City, N. performers received proved that City. Subscription 50 c. Entertain­ - The . rabid, implacable cloud J., Saturday Evening, June lit. І935. the Ukrainian culture is well liked ment, prizes. Music by John Seman Admission 50 c. with hat check. Two by the American public. continued its mad erratic move> and bis Blue Falcons and the Royal Orchestras. MICHAEL ELPO. Commanders. t20,"5 'i •/