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Supplement to the SVOBODA, Ukrainian Daily Published by the Junior Department of the .Ukrainian National Association

-r- No. 16 JERSEY CITY, N. J., SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1936 VGL.'tV

"UKRAINIAN VILLAGE" AT YOUTH TODAY GREAT LAKES EXPOSITION INQUIRIES ABOUT UKRAINE IN CLEVELAND PRESIDENT ON YOUTH The Svoboda and the Ukrainian Weekly constantly According to advance announce- receive inquiries about Ukraine, the Ukrainian people,- ments, one of the most interest- In a speech before a cheering their aspirations, history, culture, etc. Many of these ing and colorful areas of the. Great audience of 15,000 persons gath- inquiries come from non-, but most of them, Lakes Exposition to be held In ered in the old Fifth Regiment Cleveland from June 27 to Octo- Armpry in Baltimore, Maryland, and this is encouraging too, come from our young Ameri- on April 13, President Roosevelt ber 4, 1936, will be a group of pictured the administration's so- can-Ukrainians. foreign villages to be known as . cial program as the only satis- Naturally, all these inquiries are attended to as ably "Streets of the World." factory answer to the questions and promptly as our facilities allow,, gratis—of course, The local .Ukrainian committee asked by young people of .America although we do draw a line when it comes to writing working in con junction'! with, the in reference to the economic fu- ч Exposition committee is laying fure of the country. special essays or theses on topics Ukrainian. plans for a very elaborate U- "The world in which the mil- There is no denying that were Ukraine better known krainian Village, to be included lions of you who have come of most of these requests for information could be directed in the "Streets of the World" age," the President said in the Here it is. hoped to transplant introduction of his speech, "is not along more regular channels, other than that of a news- the life, color,‚and gay activity of the set old world of your fathers. paper office such as ours. A person seeking information the Ukrainian village in the old Some of the yesterday's certain- in the English language about the Ukrainians could go ties have vanished; many of yes- country, and visitors to the Ex- terday's certainties are questioned. to the nearest public library or book mart and obtain it poeition will mid ample - oppor- Why have some vanished and there. tunity here for refreshment, en- many been questioned? Because The fact remains, however, that—barring.,some un- tertainnient and purchase of im- the facts and needs of civiliza- ported Ukrainian-made goods of tion have changed more greatly in usual event—as long as Ukraine remains.enslaved, as all kinds. this generation than in the cen- long as she remains submerged in the flood of enemy tury that preceded us." UKRAINIAN GIRL REPRESEN- propaganda, so long will she be powerless to arouse suf- TATIVE AT Y.W.C.A. NATIONAL "I need not press this point to ficient curiosity about herself to warrant leading pub- you," he went on. "You are CONVENTION measuring the present state of lishing companies to stock bookstores and libraries with Miss Mary Ann Bodnar, U- the world out of your own ex- books of information about her. It' is a fact that all krainian, of New York City, will periences. You have felt the rough of us must realize- and do everything in our power to represent the International In- hand of the depression. You have amend. - stitute of New York City at the walked the streets looking for jobs National Convention of the Young that never turned up. Out of this Nevertheless, this state of affairs should not serve Women's Christian Association at has come physical hardship and, as anekcuse for any of our young Атегісап-Щгаіпіапз. Colorado Springs, Colorado, April more serious, the scars of dis- 29th to ‚May 5th, І936, inclusive. illusionment." in failing to utilize the sources, of information about Ukraine that are easily within their reach, for such: She is also scheduled to deliver a ‚talk on. the "Problems of the Sec- sources are more than adequate for their primitive needs. ond. .Generation',' at the Round Among these sources, for example, there is the Un Table Discussion, on the opening HELP FLOOD SUFFERERS! krainian press, such as the Svoboda and the Ukrainian eye of the convention. Weekly, If one is interested, let us say, in present-day In extending to. Miss Bodnar The extent of the damages and the invitation, Mrs. Marie Chase suffering among Ukrainians in the happenings in Ukraine, or in the various political, social,' and economic aspects of the Ukrainian movement,, he Cole, Executive Secretary of,, the flood devasted regions is only now International Institute, wrote.: becoming clearly apparent from can find good reports and stimulating discussions upon "We shall feel greatly honored - the letters and telegrams pouring them on the pages of the daily, with occasional treat- to have a Ukrainian girl represent into the Ukrainian National As- ments of them in the weekly too. If one desires at our membership at this. important sociation and the Obyednanye, all least a rudimentary knowledge in the English language Convention, where .hundreds of asking for immediate help. The of his Ukrainian background, we pardonably recommend people from all parts of the Svoboda daily prints graphic re- United .States will come together ports of the misery and suffering these pages. For what other reason have we been printing to discuss dome of. the.most im- left in the wake of the flood here all these articles and editorials on Ukrainian history, portant qliestions of the.day." among our people. Various na- social and political life, literature^ language, art, music, Mrs. Cole, incidentally, is. well tional and local relief agencies do as well as translations of typical Ukrainian literary known to some of our youth Cor their best to help these flood the inspiring talk . she .delivered victims, but the help that they works, than to help pur youth gain such rudimentary knowledge, than to awaken in them a desire to delve at the Second Ukrainian Youth's . are able to extend is, at best, Congress of America held,..under scanty. That is why they wel- deeper into what we but scratch? Or for what other the auspices of the Ukrainian come such relief movements as reason have we been constantly urging our readers, to Youth's League of . that of the Obyednanye (United save their copies of the Ukrainian Weekly? at the International Institute dur- Ukrainian Organizations of Amer- ing the Labor Day weekend in ica) which seeks to help Ukrain- I Besides these two organs of the Ukrainian National 1934. sufferers, irrespective of their Association, however, there are many .other sources .as religious or political. convictions. well, easily available to our youth. LEAGUE TO MAIL SURVEY йЃ Our American-Ukrainian youth If you are interested in those in English, need we UKRAINIAN LITERATURE can be of considerable afd in rais- mention Spirit of Ukraine, The Story of Ukraine, The; TO VOUTH CLUBS ing cash contributions . for the . Due to a delay in printing the flood relief fund. Clubs can spon- Ukrainian Question, Peasant , Russia (MJrsky^s),' Brief .Survey, of Ukrainian Lit- sor dances, basketball, games, card or Immigrant Gifts to American life? erature by Dr. . P. Cole- parties, and various other suit- If you are interested in those ` sources that appear man of Columbia University,,pub- able affairs for the benefit of the in the , you have,a veritable bonanza lished by the,. ‚Ukrainian .Univer- flood sufferers. Contributions sity Society m New York City, from individual members, aug- of such works within easy reach. A postcard to the was not mailed out last month, mented by a contribution from Svoboda will bring you a catalogue of them. We can- as scheduled, to its member clubs the club treasury, sent to the not forbear, however, from especially recommending the by the Ukrainian Cultural Center Obyednanye (P. O. Box 122, Hud- three-volume Ukrainian Encyclopaedia, recently publish- of the Ukrainian Youth's League son Terminal, New York City), of North America. The printing will help to set some Ukrainian ed. Here is e- work no one of Ukrainian origin should be of. this booklet, however, is ‚now on, its feet. without. Its 4,000 abundantly illustrated pages treat about completed, and it will be Ukrainian life and personalities in a manner no similar mailed to the clubs near the close Some such Ukrainian clubs have p{ next week. already begun a drive in their work has ever done before. It is a sound investment locality. For example, the Ukraih- and a wonderful gift, either for an individual or a club. . We , urge once more that this ian Folk Ballet and Chorus 6f . There can be no conscionable complaint, then, that and other literature sent by the Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., there is a dearth of source material about the Uk rain- UCC be read and discussed at thfe has forwarded to the Obyednanye Jan, people. For our American-Ukrainian youth there club meetings. Thje will help the the sum of $10.00 towards the members gain a better knowledge flood relif chest. No doubt there is plenty of it, and for any of them to fail to take of, their Ukrainian background will be many more clubs which advantage of it now, is nothing but sheer—procrastina- Ukrainian Cultural Center will do the same, and better! tion! of the UYL-NA UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1986 No. 16

and each time it seems that when ing oar, while I held on to the it sets someone closes the gates one in the stern. Near noon we THORN IN THE FOOT before me. It looks like death reached Yasenov and tied up near (A Tale of Hutzul' Life) refuses to take me. Tell me, my the tavern. By IVAN FRANKO dear neighbors, is there anyone On the bank, as usual, there among you whom I have wronged (Translated by S. S.) was a crowd of children, playing, and have forgotten about it? romping about, throwing stones (1) Maybe you still carry that wrong into the river, swimming, and al- in your heart." Old Mikola Kucheraniuk was mountain peaks winked at him; together making a great din. No about to die. їй'ќѓ deep shadowy valleys hid their The neighbors glanced inquir- sooner had we moored the raft, Two weeks bad already psnnrirl secrets from him. The Cheremosh ingly at one another, and then then a whole bunch of them leap- since he had ateMsd, for the last with its mighty windings, Its one of them spoke for all: - ed aboard, and proceeded to make time, his raft down the- Chere- sibilantly restless waters, its foam- ' "No, Mikola, nobody has any merry on it, running and jumping ! mosh river to the town of- Kut ing rapids looked immovable grievance against you. After all, about, seesawing on logs, and div- and from thence returned home from above,4 as if poured out of all of us are sinners, and if we ing off them into the water. This afoot: There seemed nothing the glass. Along its banks 'here and don't forgive -one another then was not the' first occurence of its ma$fear with him then, except that there could be seen red, white and; surely God - won't forgive us kinoS and so we paid little atten- mTwfcs white as a corpse, All black bugs—those were the' peo- either." j ^jr'^' tion to it We went ashore and ag he sat silently -outside his ple. From the fiat boarded roofs ""Notwithstanding that," Mikola stepped into the tavern, where we juse, built high on the mountain- little billows of white smoke remarked sadly, "someone -must bad a little bracer, and then re- top, pulling oh his stubby, pipe curled lazily upwards. But Mi- have, consciously or unconscibus- turned immediately, for we Were and staring down into the vilage kola looked at all this like one ly, made a complaint about me anxious to be off. Paying no at- below, at the serpentine windings from another world, it touched to .God. For look, my hair has tention to the boys we unmoored of the swashy Cheremosh, and at him not. He felt no longing to become white as-snow during the the raft and punted it offshore. the dark, forest-covered mountains get going, to wander through his past two weeks. Although I am With shouts and laughter the looming before- him. But the beloved highlands; the horizon no racked with pain and suffering, boys began leaping off the moving next morning he awoke complain- longer, beckoned to him, AH seem- yet I can't die. Every night some- raft %оте into the still shallow ing of a sharp pain in his side, ed strange and foreign to 'him, body calls me, and yet when I water, others unto the rocks, and began to cough violently, his and he felt that, he no- longer be- strive to go, something, like a while Peter and I took our places .body shivering aa from ague. longed to this earth. pair of pliers, holds me fast to at both oars jn to steer, the He called his three sons, and tell- this earth. Oftentimes at night raft into midstream. For about ing them of hie approaching death The further the-sun dipped her I hear a trumpet blowing,- yet a -minute I busied myself with the bade them summon to him his hind the horizon, the more dis- when I struggle to go to it I steering, when suddenly, glancing oldest and closest neighbors, to quieted old Mikola grew. Gather' simply cant!" up, I perceived, seated at the ex- bear witness to his but will and ing- all his. strength and leaning "Maybe you are sorry to leave treme end of the raft, the figure testament The sons received this heavily on his richly carved this earth, these highlands, the of a boy. He looked to be about news' with restraint, although they hatchet-cane he climbed to the Cheremosh, your children and dear 14 or 15 years old, dressed poor- top of the mountain peak, in ly, with a soiled shirt of home- loved their ‚aged father very whose shadow his home stood. Sit- ones?" ventured old Yura, an old % much. Only their wives and chil- crony of Mikola. ' made material, and a battered ting down wearily on a rock he black felt bat on bis head—just dren began weeping and wailing, let hie glance speed swiftly to- "No, Yura, I feel^no such sor- bat were quickly silenced by the' row. I feel I have lived long like any other herdsboy. He. sat wards - distant mountaintops, to- there quietly, on the end of a log, }Id- man. wards the woodlands, the valleys enough. My children, thank God, are well protected. Neither the leaning slightly forward and gaz- "Be quiet!" be growled, half- and gorges. It sped swiftly, too, ing raptly at the swirling green- angrily and half-kindly.. - "I'm although somewhat fearfully, after highlands nor Cheremosh need me, nor can they, give me any- ish-gray water left in the wake going to die, is that. anything the setting sun. He.watched every of the raft I stood by my oar strange ? I've lived a long while. little cloud that-appeared in the thing now either." "Hmm, what can be the matter only about five paces away from Do you want me to -live forever? west and turning naming red him, but since bis back was turn- Move along now, and get every- gently, drift, after the sun. With With you? Maybe you have some old sin on ўойѓ' conscience, a sin ed towards me I could not see his thing ready for my funeral." searching eyes he scanned every face. kOne of his daughter-in-laws column of smoke, every billowing that you had hid from all people mentioned something' about call- cloud of vapor,, that rose from the and which now pleads for its re-. "Hey, you!" I called out "What ing a doctor. This made the old lowlands below. And when, final- . lease through confession. Think are you doing here?" man thoroughly angry. ly, the sun sank behind the bloody- hard, Mikola." He made no reply, but merely "Stop talking nonsense! I've red horizon, like a red-hot can" "Well, I can't-^say positively, raised his left arm and pointed lived sixty years without the aid non ball pranging into water, he Yura, but it seems to me that - at the bank. I noticed that his of a doctor, and I can well do sighed deeply and shivered, and maybe that's the1 case, after all, outstretched arm, bare to the el- I "Without him now, when Fm dying. raising himself with some difficul- only..,.You see, there was an oc- bow, was unusually white, such 'What can a doctor do in the face ty slowly and silently wended his curence in my life—long ago, very as I had never seen on any poor of death,' anyway? Go back to way home. much long ago!...the spectre of herdsboy. - your tasks, all of you, and don't which troubles . me to this day. "Do you want to get ashore?" worry about me!" Two weeks passed. Mikola was And although I never mentioned I asked. After dinner the neighbors constantly "at death's doorstep," this incident to you,' still I didn't He only nodded, without turn- - gathered, and the local scrivener and still he did not die. One keep it a secret for I confessed ing around or saying anything. was called in to take down the time he would feel better, and the it at three different times before 'Tell me where do you want to old man's last "estament" When . next worse. There were times, a priest. And yet, never has it get off!" I called out once more. that task was done'the old man too, when for several days he ceased to trouble my conscience." ."You can see yourself that the sighed hi relief, be fejt much bet- . would lie in bed sorely stricken, banks here are too steep and the when suddenly the cough and the . "Then confess it once more, ter. He conversed animatedly here, before us and before the current swift, so that it's hn- with, bis old, bosom cronies, and pain in his side would disappear, possible for you to get ashore and once more.he would be able just sun," Yura urged. "Maybe directed his youngest sen to go the that'll help you." here." following day for the priest The to rise from bed, climb laboriously Without turning around or say- neighbors praised himf for this, to the mountain top and from there "Well, there is. not much to tell. contemplate the setting sun. His It happened when I was a young ing a word the boy waved his .and did not even in the least try man—about forty years ago. I snow-white arm vaguely down- to shake his conviction that he anxiety grew apace with each stream, as if he was loath to in- was about to die. passing day. He ate hardly any think you well remember, Yura, food'.^only a glass of warm milk that I was then the best fighter terrupt even for a moment his The following day his condi- now and then.'. His body grew in this entire district and the best musings and contemplation of the tion grew worse, with the fever very thin and and his hair be- . pilot on the Cheremosh. One Sun- rushing, hissing waters. I shrug- running high and the constant came- white as snow, while his day there-was a big fight in the ged my shoulders; after all, the coughing nearly choking him. eyes, shone, with some unearthly tavern; many of the boys,—in- kid probably knows these waters gp;p -Overnight his cheeks bad sunk are. He could not sleep, neither cluding yourself, Yura, I think,— well, and will tell me where he deeply in, and his face became during the day or night, and went home that day with bloody wants to get ashore. We were black as the earth itself. And whenever he did doze off he heads, and one of them, my worst passing ‚just then through a thus wben the reverend father ar- would toss about restlessly, moan enemy, Oleksa Kohut, I beat up stretch made doubly dangerous rived to- give him the last spirit- and cry out fitfully, and wake up so properly that several weeks by outjutting rocks that sprawled ual consolation, old Mikola cer- bathed in cold sweat He neither later he was buried.4 And all that themselves in midstream like a tainly looked fit for the grave. prayed nor spoke to anyone, for I received as momentos of that herd of sheep bathing; and so we Shaking their heads sorrowfully nothing interested him any longer. battle were a couple of bumps had our hands fu.. in avoiding the sons whispered among them- Even bis children and grandchil- and scratches, so that the next them. Above the roar of the selves that their '"dyejo" wouldn't dren felt repelled by his strange- day, Monday, I went to work on angry waters, I called out to the last another night through. ness towards them, and as a re- the raft as usual, as if nothing boy: During the night, however, his suit they now avoided him as had happened. "When we get near the place much as possible. you want to get off, let me know, condition improved. And the fol- I and my deaf raft-mate, Peter, lowing day he grew so much bet- so that we can steer the raft Another Sunday arrived. Once fastened together a large raft of closer inshore. Do you hear?" ter that in the afternoon be was logs before the'morning was over, able to totter outside. It was a again .old Mikola bade his sons The boy again nodded his head, to summon his neighbors. Before and when the flood came down and continued to sit, crouched, in radiantly quiet September day. we were carried on it down 'the The sun did not burn, but only the day was over they all arrived. the same place. "My dear neighbors," he said, Cheremosh. It was a beautiful warmed. The mountain air was summer day. The smell of the Soon we passed the dangerous clear and redolent, while tils after they had found seats, while waters and swiftly sped down a he half-reclined hi bed, "help me haycocks in the valleys, of the gurgling of a stream below rose wild flowers and berries hanging wider and shallower stretch of the up like some sweet, melody, like hi my distress. I simply cannot river. I kept a tight grip on the die. - It seems that there is some- down over the steep river banks, some never-ending greeting of life made the air so fragrant that one steering oar, although I didn't itself. The old Hutzul sat down thing on my heart, something have to manipulate it now. Still that weighs me down and refuses could not breathe enough of it on a chdpping-block and silently My heart felt carefree and happy, I couldn't keep my eyes off the gazed at the vast panorama. High to let my soul quit the body. I've boy. There was something strange gazed at the setting sun many as rarely ever before. "Hutzul"—Ukrainian Mountaineer times during the past few weeks, Peter stood at the front steer- (Continued p. 4) RAMBLINGS OF A WORD-HUNTER A SHORT HISTORY OF UKRAINIAN LITERATURE By BEV. M. KINASH The troublesome "sharecropper" ska-Efimenko, the renowned U- (A free translation by S. S.) '4Ш Mr. Ralph Thompson writes in krainian historian and socialogist, і (Concluded) writes about it in her work en- "Books of the Times," of the New (108) York Times, April 11: titled "The Common Law of the "The word 'sharecropper' is a Ukrainian People," in volume П. Vaslie Atameniuk the native Ukrainian tongue. queer one. Most dictionaries, even of "The Ukrainian People in Their Vasile Atameniuk's collection of # # # Р'-'`^Ш$іІі -the latest, pass it completely by. Past and Present," edited by Mi- war poems Yak surmi zahrall do The above can be regarded as The-Great Oxford Dictionary, in chael Hrushevsky and Th. Vovk. boyu appeared in the early days the leading Ukrainian Soviet a supplementary volume, finds The "sharecropper" was called in of the recent war. Although a .writers. .There is a whole flock of' that not until 1929 was it used Ukrainian скіпщик, the share in native of Galicia, he wrote mostly others, but practically all of them in respectable circles. Offhand, crops he paid the landowner in Greater Ukraine. . Most of his are nothing more than official I-can think of no-parallel con-. _ скіплина,' or скіпщина, the in- writings, however, are. an .imita- trumpeters of the "glories" of. straction in English; we have stitution itself was' also 'called tion, and a poor one at;that, of communism. рЩр! ^доІяШРІ; 'boatbuilder,' not 'buildboater'; скіпщина, скопщина. It .'seems Hrmchenko, Franko, and! Others.. t From this brief review of the9 'cardplayer,' not 'playcarder.'" to me that the origin of this word His language and themes are poor : literature finder the Sovits we can To me, who started to learn is due to the habit of giving the too." ! .$?^Jf- s-i^s easily see that it is in its infant English after I had acquired the- landowner a share out Of every stack, копа: (давати) з копи. Yohansen stages, for most of it consists of ' habit of thinking, in Ukrainian, і Michael Yohansen (born 1899) poetry, which is easier to write: this "sharecropper" offers one "Fasces" an old-timer In Ukrainian is a poet, novelist, and linguist. than good prose. Another char-? difficulty: There is an English Soviet critics highly regard his acteristic of it is its extreme word "cropper," which denotes .a The Fascist symbol, that bundle of writing. In 1924 there modernistic style, which dis- person - who raises crops on of' rods,' bound together by a appeared a complete collection of regards even elementary rules of shares. What is the use then of thSng, 'dates back to ancient his poetry, entitled Dorobok. rhythm and form, as, for example, another word to denote the same Rome. It was called then FAS- the following: уЩр thing? This, however, is no CES. The so-called Iictors bore Dosvitny џЩШ' Розцвітайте, ігугп†- 'ушГ'ІОІ great difficulty as my native them before kings, consuls, pre- Alexander Dosvitny (born 1891) я йду — день — tongue knows many words of this tors, and emperors, as the insig- is the author of- the novel based Пасіться, отарні— kind, that is many synonyms nia of the dignitary's power. on Japanese life Tunhuy, as well до своєї любої — день— with no clear-cut distinctions be- The word was probably pro- as of Amerkantsi, based on life in Колисково, колоски! — tween each other. nounced by ancient Romans as America, which he visited. When удень. РРІ To my "sense of the English "fae-tses," while Italians pro- the revolution broke out, he went language it appears quite natural nounce "sc" as English pronounce to Ukraine. In 1926, together або другий: that out of the phrase "to share "sh". with several others he toured Я —нічий. Я — ніхто. Мене не знає The word has long been adopted Western Europe with lectures on crops" should be formed a com- 9 Мій дсвнз — несталість і несподіва- pound noun "sharecropper," just into the Ukrainian language as Soviet Ukraine. fa-shy-na, to denote a bundle of 'іьШ%- -t ШяШ Іність'. as it appears to me a natural Wasilchenko Хочете? Я зриную зараз: істерія. thing that out of the phrase withes bound together and used in construction of dams and levees .Stephen Wasilchenko. (1878- Я остроїв поезію в стрій ні разу не "лист паде" should be formed 1932) wrote under the pen- (надіваний. the name of the autumn month for the purpose of flood control. And finally, one more character- The word was probably imported of Stephen Panasenko. He was ^ листопад, that a person who of peasant origin and a .teacher istic of Soviet literature. Up tp likes to lick his lips, лизати ry- to Western Ukraine during the this time Ukrainian literature dip- time when the country was, under by profession, who, holding him- би, should be called лизогуб, .self aloof of politics, began his ped deeply into village life as it that a person who comes to the the control of the Austrian gov- existed before the revolution. With ernment, which used to import literary career back "in 1910. In church when the sexton blows 1929 there appeared in the Der- the coming of the Soviets, how- out the candles to go home should Italian workers to build railroads, ever,. the worker, the machinal canals, dams and levees. zhavnlm Vldavnltstvi Ukraini a be called свічкогас. The English, ` whole. collection of his works, and the factory seem to haSft however, look evidently first which The most popular American plant .Won pre-eminence over the "coua. stories, and plays,—the latter ter-revolutionary village" in the" word is more important and treat in Ukraine % which .even today enjoy popular this as the main, that is final, field of. literature, and from this In one of my previous article I favor, such as Na` Pershi Hull time dates the letter's urbaniza- noun, and shape other words in- (which appeared in early issues to supplementary prefixes. In the wrote that the two most common tion. The city is rhapsodized over, for POTATO are амери- of the Ukrainian Weekly under hymns are dedicated to machines, word "cardplayer" the main word the heading of "Stepping Out," is felt to be "player," as there канка, a-me-ry-kan-ka, and ман- and the factory is. the central дибурка, man-de-bur-ka, the translated by Waidimir Semeny- character, nay, even the hero of might be: piano-player, violin- na). Wasilchenko is a fine crafts- player, baseball-player, football- former being equivalent to the countless plots—precisely at the "American plant," the latter to man of miniatures. His short time when the factories are clos- player, and other players. The stories portray for the. most part newly formed word has simply to the "plant of Magdeburg." ing down. Nevertheless, the So- In this manner the Ukrainian peasant life and the psychology of viets regard all this as—literature. distinguish the new player from children. He has a native U- other players. language, as it -were, has com- memorated two important facts in krainian humor, which he handles A LETTEB OF THANKS TO The "value" of the strange word the history of this peculiar plant unusually well, even in tragic THE U. N. A. "But this is no time for lexico- First, its origin. It 'comes from scenes, as in the following works: Ukrainian National Association, graphical musings," — continues the American continent. "It is to Muzhitska Arikhmetika, Roman, Gentlemen:. Mr. Ralph Thomson. "The word the Spaniards," says the Encyclo- Svekor, Bozhestvena Halya, Za I thank you for your letter 'sharecropper,' strange as it may paedia Britannica, "that we owe ' Mnrami, V temryavi, and Na Roe- that you. sent to-our local chapter be, has a variety of definite mean- this valuable esculent. The Span- koshi. Of his children stories the which contained.a check for sixty^lga ings. To the Southern landowner lards met with it in the neigh- following are among the. best: five dollars ($65.00) made pay- ' it conveys the idea of a shiftless borhood of Qmto, where it was Voloshka, Oksana, Osiniy Eskez, able to me `" '-щи cultivated by the natives. In the and Cyhanka: Wasilchenko did The amount 'will aid me im- Negro or a lazy white man work- mensely. in solving my financial ing a plot of ground and paying CRONICA DE PERU of Pedro not go the way of most Soviet Cieca (Seville, 15S3), as well as writers but remained an old problemj that had arisen while I . his rent, if at all, in produce. To was atfending.'tne School of Com- Howard Kester, author of a 100- in other Spanish books of about' fashioned' romantic, wno refused merse, Accounts, and Finance.at page pamphlet entitled 'Revolt the same date, the potato is men- to permit Soviet industrialization New York University.' It will en- Among the Share-croppers' (Co- tloned under the name 'battata' or affect his writings. The- language able me to complete my fourth vici-Friede,' 60 cents), it means 'papa.' Hieronymus Cardan, a in His works is a good example of and final year at this institution. 1 "the most exploited agricultural monk, is supposed to have been I will do all in my power to prove the first to introduce it from Peru to you that your graciousness '" ( worker in America.' To Professor develops its underground leafless ) Howard W. Odum, author of the to Spain from which country it me shall, not be futile. passed into Italy and thence into. shoots. „ - ' , .' I am very happy to find ' 665-page tome just published for . The of бульба are: the Southern Regional Committee Belgium." quality of helpfulness in the . бульбочка, буля, булінька, krainian people, a quality they of the Social Science Research The second Ukrainian name, always had and always will have Council—'Southern Regions of the бульбиця, the augmentative— мандибурка, commemorates the бульдега, бульбище. among their other fine qualities. I United States' (University of fact that to Ukraine it was would like to see very much, all North Carolina Press, $4)—it brought over from Northern Ger- Other names of the same plant of the young Ukrainian men and means apparently little or noth- many. The same it attested by used more or less dialectically are: women join your great organiza- ing. Professor Odum prefers the another popular variant of the картоха, картохля, картошка; tion as I did. They will see, in more inclusive phrase 'tenant name of this plant, namely кар- бандурка, бандурята, балабур- time, the benefits accruing to farmer.'" them by being a part of your тофля, kar-tof-la, and кар- ка, бурка, буришка, буришеч- organization. As -so, though this is supposed топля, kar-top-la, which is noth- ка; ріпа, ріпка; Ѓруля; бандз; If. I .am in a position, in the to be an escape from lexicographi- ing but ..the German Kartoffel in near future, to remit to you the Ukrainian garb. That KARTOF- бульбан; балабурќа, землян- cal musings it is after all another ка. земняк, бараболя. sum that you.so graciously gave treatise on the meaning of the FEL comes from Italian TARTU- me, I will do so, since I know the word, and a treatise much deep- FOLO, which means TRUFFLE, ' The Ukrainians distinguish sev- amount will be used to aid other er at that as it does not skim and this .TRUFFLE comes from erai species: б ўльон, балабанќа, ! d^erving Ukrainian students, who the surface only, but goes much Latin TUBER, ^ ячмінка, кармазинќа, шампан- will at.temDt to reap the benefits deeper, namely to the emotional ' Бульба, bul-ba, another com-: ка, полнвяна, and so on. `'боте a good education offers to them. of these names come from the I thank you agam.vvery hearti- connotations which the word con- mon name of the potato in U- ly. for your helpfulness. "I will veys to the reader. krainian, is of course nothing but names of countries, other names І from the names of men, who always remain a true and loyal flie Ukrainianized form of the 4 Ukrainian pnd 'try to aid our "Sharecropplng" in Ukraine Latin word BULBUS, or the probably were instrumental n people in every nossible manner. As to the institution of "share- Greek BOLBOS, which means a spreading the particular sort, still Wasyl TeodT. 7JM:her^wch cropping" itself, it is known also.! bulbous root,—a good description others from the color of the tuber. 10 S'-th S'.rart J. in Ukraine. Stavrov Щ of the tuber Into which the potato er. Derby, Connt 4 UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1936

: -THORN IN THE FOOT CHESTER UKRAINIANS PHILLY UKRAINIANS TAKE PART ARNOLD UKRAINIAN JUNIORS (Continued {fem p. 2) ; about him, something' that an- IN TWO CIVIC PROGRAMS noyed me a trifle. Suddenly he T ' S PIAV-OFFS CHAMPIONS rose to his feet and began rolling -..The i"Chester Ukrainians" bas- Two widely-advertised civic The Junior Gold Tourna- up his tattered trousers to his events, presented on succesive knees. ketball team, co-champions with ment, sponsored by the Polish the "Wilmington Ukrainians" in Thursdays, March 12th and 19th, Falcons of New Kensington, Pa., "Do you want to get off now ?" . the Tri-City League, has been in Philadelphia's massive conven- was easily captqred by the U- I asked. But again he didn't re- selected to represent Area No. 3 tion Hall (site of the coming Na- krainian Junior Basketball Team ply. .Instead he walked over to in the Eastern Half play-offs, con- tional Democratic Convention), of Arnold, Pa. the very edge of the raft and ducted by the Basketball Depart- provided the Ukrainians with op- The Ukelets, not picked as fav- there. sat down on the very end ment.of the U. Y. L. of N. A. portunities to demonstrate their orites before the event started, of a log. Calmly he gripped hold (We have learned that the strong cultural wares and propagate their played good, clean, fast and "Yonkers Ukrainians" five, stand- song and dance before respective scrappy ball, which carried them ' of the log with his hands, shifted outs in Area No. 2, will oppose us throngs of ten and twelve thou- - his body around and turned so through the entire tournament, in the semi-finals in a single sand spectators. They took part undefeated! Although several of .that he. lay on his' stomach, rest- game at Yonkers on April 19th!) in both events and came through the games were closely contested, .ing on his elbows, and then slow- Perhaps a brie? insight into the with flying colors. the Ukrainians always managed ly began lowering himself into the Chester team personnel and ac- The first affair, an elaborate to come out on top. In the final water. It was then that I saw his tivities should be of interest to and colorful four-hour pageant, splurge, the Ukrainians toppled face—a totally unfamiliar one. It our foes, so here goes! After "Philadelphia," given by The 100 the Valley Heights team, 41-35, to seemed to me then that a strange, failing to book the "Newark Club, included practically every- win first place. - ' half-malicious smile flitted across Sitch" for our final game, we thing... .The Mayor, tableaus, mu- When the time came to dis- closed our books, showing victories sical selections, gymnastics, bugle his face. And before I .had a in over 70% of the 40 games tribute the tournament , I chance to think, to cry out, to corps, string bands, U. S. Olym- the Arnold Ukrainian Juniors re- played with formidable teams! .move, the boy without a sound pic representatives and compe- ceived most of them! Thelteam disappeared into the swirling Unlike last year, when the titors, and ONE nationality group received a championship trqphy; Chester Ukrainians competed in —the Ukrainians, upon special in- each player an and their waters. A deadly panic seized I vitation, which indicates their manager, a medal. The first three me. In one leap I was at the the professional Eastern League, and had outside players to bolster growing popularity in Philadel- listed regulars also received spe- edge of the raft. I knew that it the team, this year we decided to phia. To the Ukrainians this^ was cial awards for their, outstanding was very dangerous to jump off stay out of this major league, a great honor, considering the playing during the Junior Gold the end of a raft, especially in dropped the outsiders, and built fact that tens of nationalities are Medal Tournament. Here is the these dangerous shallows, where a strictly Ukrainian amateur team, represented in this great city. team line-up:: even the strongest Hutziil couldn't consisting of local talent only, Briefly told, here is the part . First Team: Walter Kowal, F; keep his footing. I thought that which makes us eligible for the played by the Ukrainians: Fol- Edward Humeniuk, F; Peter Lo- maybe the boy would come to the Ukrainian championship play-offs. lowing the amplified introduction bur, Capt, G; John Vaverchak, surface again and start swimming We have our own home-floor, and of the Ukrainians, a cast of -400 G; Mike Podolski, G. - have three teams, completely - uni- singers and dancers, garbed in Reserves: Walter L. Lobur, G; towards shore, or at least splash Walter Tymoczko, G; Mike Soro- around wildly, which would give formed. our strikingly beautiful costumes, Much credit for the success of marched upon the huge stage, ka, G; John Zarichnak, F; Walter r jne a chance to jump in after him our team is due to the tireless where they assembled end sang Lobur, C. Harry Makara, Coach; and save. him. But no, there efforts of Manager "Bill" Haschak three fine Ukrainian selections. Anthony Wardoclip, Mgr. wasn't even a sight of the boy. and "Coach" Milt Linaka, stand- Their efforts were reciprocated ш # # The waverlets cheerfully surged bys from last year's outfit. The with hearty applause by the In addition to the brilliant show- over the edge of the raft, which players who played such a pro- throng. ing in the tournament, the Arnold with a rush and a roar swiftly minent part in retaining our re- Immediately threafter, the en- Ukrainian Juniors set up a great sped downstream, and not a sign pu tat inn in this locality are: tire cast jambored off the stage record this season. They started of the boy anywheres. Stricken Manager and Captain "Bill" and formed a huge human circle winning at the very start and dumb and immovable by this sud- Haschak, a guard, standing 5'11" with clasped hands in the middle were not stopped until they had in his stocking feet, and consider- of the auditorium, surrounded by twenty-three victories to their den tragedy, my flesh a'prickle credit. A few setbacks, and sev- from fear, I stood at the edge of ed one of the beet guards in this the audience, which sat like in a vicinity. When under fire, "Bill" Roman Colosseum. . The unique eral more triumphs, gave them a the raft, staring wildly into the is one of the coolest men on floor. Village Orchestra, consisting of grand total of 41 victories and swirling waters—in vain! Although young in years, he is cymbals, resheto and a violin, only 4 defeats, for a winning per- "Mikola!" the angry shout of a veteran of the courts. played by the Cherkass Brothers centage of .911, which is excellent Peter at the front steering oar under a spotlight, started with in any league of sport,! Coach Milton Linaka, forward, the Hopak song. Here the tiny caused me to start. "What, the retained from last year's team. In All of the boys are to be com- devil are you doing,there? Can't Rutecky twins, Sigmung" and Elsie, mended for their fine cooperative- the Eastern League last year, performed a solo Hopak Kolom, ness and tenacious fighting spirit, you see that the raft is turning "Milt" was fourth in the league's to the merriment and admira- which made possible this success- broadwise into the current? Grab scoring. Only Keating from At- tion of the spectators. ful basketball season! hold of that oar before both of lantic City, Warmer from Wil- mington, and Beron from our own Twelve pretty and celerious PEARL ZORENA. us go to the hundred devils!" dancers then dashed forward with (To be continued) club were ahead of him. Such stars as Clancy from Passaic and their whirlwind Girls' Kozachok, their part again, to the, reverbera- Camden, Taylor from German- displaying unusual vim, vigor, tions of hearty applause. і BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT town, . and Masick from Trenton, unison, precision, with astound- This dual Ukrainian presenta- . . FLASHES trailed "Milt" in the individual ing perfection, dancing as they tion was made possible by the fine Rochester has accepted the in- scoring. Linaka stands 5'10", and never danced before! The cooperation of the Koshetz Choir vitation to participate in the (this for women only) is one of throng's repeated outbursts- of from the St. Vladimir's. Ukrainian Eastern Half play-offs for the U- the most handsome men on the approval exemplified their ap- Orthodox Cathedral, under the krainian championship, and by team. preciation of this colorful spec- direction of Rev. Sawchuk, and virtue of its victories over New tacle. Whether it was the girls the Avramenko Ukrainian Folk- York State teams in 41ve straight Michael Bartish, the other for- or the dance they liked, I do not ward, a remnant from last year's Ballet group, under the direction games, will represent Area No. 4. know. of Michael Kwasinsky. Indeed it .. .Chester, co-champs with Wil- team, is the hardest worker on the team. The game is only a The "climaxing Zaporogian was a true Ukrainian representa- mington in the rTri-City confer- sword-dance, executed with train- tion, participated in by both the ence, has been designated as the few minutes old, when "Mike" is all Wet from perspiration. He ed perfection, concluded the U- Orthodox and Catholic youth. Re- representative of Area No. 3, while krainian contribution for the eve- ligious discrimination was side- Yonkers will carry the colors of stands an even 6', and can stand up under any kind of punishment. ning. A Peasant Retreat marked tracked, as it always should be in Area No. 2 The New England He is considered the roughest -their exit, with the audience such civic demonstrations demand- situation is muddled... .Negotia- man on the team. clamoring for more dancing. But ing cooperation and best talents. tionS are under way to have a the program had to' go on! May such unison continue! two-day round-robin tournament Charles Morenko, a tall and To give the spectators a closer in an Eastern city, bringing to- well-built center, reaching 6' 4" view of our beautiful costumes, As for advertising—favorable gether the four area champs.... skyward, is one of the leading the announcer informed them that newspaper comments, thousands Monessen, Pa. was picked from scorers of the team. He is a new- the Ukrainian girls would sell of programs, and pictures of the Area No.' 5, and Detroit from comer in the Ukrainian fold, but roses and souvenir programs dancers in costume which appear- among the Area 6, 7 and 8 a veteran campaigner in basket- throughout the hall, which they ed in the press, contributed great- teams{.. .Detroit meets Monessen Joall. did all evening, being constantly ly in disseminating Ukrainian in Cleveland on April 19th for the Steve Morenko, brother of before the eyes of the seated fame and popularity throughout Western Ukrainian championship, Charles, is the other guard. Steve audience. I'll bet many went the city during the period. while in the East, the semi-final has been with the Ukrainians home that night dreaming of our Due credit must be given to battle will be fought between three seasons now, and is one of costumes! the members of the Koshetz Choir, Chester and Yonkers for the right the best defensive guards in this The second affair was an all- who devoted their personal time to engage with the Rochester Area locality. He is tall, 6'2", and week exposition conducted by the on both occasions, and to the No. 1 game winner.... If you are also stands well up there in this United Campaign Committee, re- dancers who have won the high- near any of these cities, inquire seasons's scoring. presenting 144 institutions, offer- est rank among nationality danc- about these games and make a If big "Tom" Bringlewicz, a 6'5" ing entertainments, medical lec- ers in the city. The performing strong effort to see these stand- center could have been used re- tures and surgical demonstrations, dancers were: Misses Kish, Юар- but teams in action Each team ko, Kushina, Kwasinska,. Hawry- gularly, our club might have prior to a city-wide drive for luk, Sagala, Sywulak, Huczko, De- has expressed its confidence in been unbeatable. Shift-work kept voluntary contribution of fund putat, Zatonska, Zadorozna, Za- copping the laurels, and be the him out of most games. Last for their financial up-keep. This yats, and Messrs. Smylsky, Paw- first team to truly win the na- year he was the team's mainstay. second Ukrainian representation liwsky, Sawchuk and Kwasinsky! tional championship in Ukrainian He tips the scales at 230. was made possible through con- May they carry on to greater history.... AL YARR. tact with the "Ukrainian Cultural Other players who saw plenty Centre" of Philadelphia, which prominance and conquest! of action are: Miron and Lewis AL YAREMKO. NEW YORK CITY. Sawicki, forward and guard res- gathers each Sunday afternoon CARD A GAME PARTY for the at the International Institute, 645 pectively; Nick Luzak, center, and North 15th Street. benefit of Ukrainian Flood Victims, Blahitka, who later retired. NEW YORK CITY. sponsored by the Ukrainian Сітіс Once again the Ukrainians GRAND BALL sponsored by the Center on TUESDAY, APRIL 21st at We think this outfit can give Chornomoraka Sitch Br. 1, SUNDAY, the International Institute, 341 E. any Ukrainian team quite a tussle, thrilled the audience with song APRIL 19, 1936 at the Ukrainian 17th St. Admission 35 cts. Com- and are anxiously awaiting to and dance. The program was National Home, 217-219 E. 6th St. mencement at 8:00 P. M. Prizes, prove this in the play-offs. similar, but. all on the stage, and Commencement at 7:00 P. M. Ad- surprises, refreshments. All proceeds before a different audience. Pol- mission 50 e. First Class Music. to be turned over to Ukrainian Flood LUZAK, lowing three musical selections All proceeds will be. turned over to ' Belief. 84,90 Publicity Manager. by the choir, the dancers did Ukrainian causes.