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No. 40 JERSEY CITY, N. J., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1942 VOL. X
Commended* By Treasury "IPkdgeAUegiaMeTo The Flag... 'ра^ШЕК KILLED ; Department An inspiring feature of our grammar school days, which і the years have not dimmed ІП OUr memory, was the pledging Second Lieutenant Jerome Seniw, г The Ukrainian Savings Company - f, , .. л .. . і . ,° °, 22, of Ukrainian descent, who rose in Cleveland, Ohio, which to date has of allegiance to the flag at the opening of every assembly m j through the rankg after еп1іаіш& m sold approximately $200,000.00 worth of War Bonds, purchased mostly by thhaed schootakenl auditoriumtheir places. Afte, thre alpianl thoe childreplayer nwoul and dthei strikr teachere up as | the Army Air Corps four years ago, Ukrainians of that city, and has march and stepping briskly down the aisle would come the was killed October 3 "in Africa as the bought $60,000 worth itself, recently result of an airplane accident," ac received in care of its secretary, Mr. color bearers, three honor pupils, the one in the center bear cording to a War Department tele John Tarnaveky, a letter of commen ing the stars and stripes. Mounting the stage, they would gram received by his mother recent dation from the Treasury Depart face the assembly, and then one of them, or the school principal, ly, a Philadelphia daily reports. ment, which reads as follows: would lead the entire assemblage in the brief and simple but Mrs. Tillie Seniw, of 863 North 4th "The records of the Honor Roll street, a widow since 1928, said her inspiring pledge of allegiance to the flag: only son "had always been crazy published in the Federal Home Loan a out ег 8 се Ье was Bank Review reveal that your insti "I pledge allegiance to the flag (of the United States of I ^ ?}*?**•" ІРУ ї ,^ /,' tution, as of July 31, 1942, has sold - • • JJ j J \ л x 4.1. •» t.11 л t_- г. -j. she said, he had been building model War Bonds and Stamps of a value America—is added nowadays) and to the Republic for which it jaircraft and that enthusiasm led in excess of 10% of your assets. Stands; ОПЄ nation, indivisible, With liberty and justice for all." j him to enlist immediately after gradu- 'Please accept the sincere thanks Upon its Conclusion the assembly WOUld 8ing the Star j *tmg {r°™ Central High School in splendi^^rJ^^T^^^ttoT^^P^Sledd support. Banner, and at the phrase "Oh say, does that star-1Philadelphia in June, 1938. of "Itht e isTreasur most yencouragin Departmeng t tofo rkno th-^Pw ^ ^^ ^^ the flag-bearer WOUld wave the flag. L ™J -or^ng mother is reported that we have institutions such as It occurs to us that in these war times it would be highly Ь^ЧКЙ SS he^sTf yours so energetically behind our appropriate to start all our Ukrainian American meetings, con- j month ago, when he wrote: "I'm see- campaign. certs, dedication of service flag exercises, and other similar af- j ing action now." He had entered the (signed) "Eugene W. Sloan, fairs, with this simple but inspiring patriotic ceremony—the-servicand "aftee asr alot grouns of dhar cred wwork, member" re. Executive Director pledging of allegiance to our flag. ceived his commision as a bomb War Savings Staff." ardier, last March. Stationed at the time in New National Coordination Needed Mexico, Lieutenant Seniw married Unveil Plaque at shortly after he won his gold bars. Our Ukrainian-American war effort, though more than ц^ ^е the former Ellen Neydean, Jersey City Church appreciable and Steadily increasing, COUld ІП OUr opinion bejof Albuquerque, N. M., remained easily doubled if it were coordinated on a national * scale by | there after her husband was ordered Honoring the 350 men of the some representative council established for such purpose. | overseas last August. parish in the armed forces, a plaque Throughout the land our people are engaged in all sorts was unveiled last Sunday afternoon of war activities. They, are buying War Bonds and Defense' HERMAN'S DANCING CLUB in front of SS. Peter's and Paul's Stamps, contributing to the Red Cross, the United Service Ukrainian Catholic Church, Greene The Sunday, October 11, 1942 is- street and Sussex, the Jersey Journal Organization, the Army Emergency Relief and other kindred reported. age^iesT miiBgtoe r'ecordsTn war Ш^^/^^ ^Z^-SL^t^S^ Prior to the ceremony, a religious ing their spare time m various civilian defense activities, ar- pictures of folk dancing at the com- service was held in the church. Rev. I ranging morale-building affairs such -as dedication of service j munity Folk Dance Club, directed by # Anthony Lotowicz of Brooklyn, dean j flag exercises, an d finally, and most important of all, giving the! Michael Herman, well known in Uk- of the Ukrainian clergymen in the І floWer 0f their young generation to the armed fОГСЄ8. rainian American folk dancing circles, metsppolitan area, presided а АЦ ^ ^ уегу fine R ghowg ^ QUr ^^ ftre wd] Captioned «Folk Dancing's a Good serife. He was assisted by Rev. • Maxim Markiw, O.S.B.M., pastor of aware Of the Stakes ІП this world war and that they are de-і Wartime Builder-Upper," a reporter's . St George's Ukrainian Catholic termined to doeverything within their power to secure victory j 2* -o-p^n^ they pic*™ Church in New York; Rev. Dr. Gulyn, for their country, its allies and cause. It shows, too, that m: ^ evening is to visit a folk dance of Brooklyn, and Rev. Wladimir Loto- their war effort they are, in proportion to their numbers, way і group. The cost is low, the atmo- wicz, pastor of the Jersey City church. up in front of the various nationality groups, Americans all, j sphere friendly and informal. And Following the religious service— which help comprise this great nation. У°и hate calisthenics, this the Jersey Journal reports — the smart way to get your exercise. plaque was unveiled by Mrs. Mary All this, however, does not belie the fact that the Ukrainian Many must agree with me, for at Cheloc, who has three sons in service, American war effort could be much greater if it were nationally tendance at the group I visited—the and Andrew Zimowsky, whose four planned, coordinated, and directed. As it is now, it is depend- largest in the city—has doubled since sons are in the armed forces. The in the war, and is still growing. This v^catTon a^btesaJng tf the pTaquejent largely on the initiative and resources of each particular group meets Fridays, 8:30 to 11:30 were pronounced by Father wladimir j community engaged in it. Its great potentialities are circum- p. m., at Arlington Hall, 19 St. Mark's Lotowicz. 'scribed by the limits of each such community. As a further PL, Manhattan. Admission is 50 Guest speakers were former City j consequence, much of it is sometimes not apparent, so that a cents for several hours of dancing -' true estimate of the extent of the Ukrainian American contri apd instruction.—Olga." , Judge John Flaherty, Jr.; Assembly One of the dances portrayed is the man Marcel Wagner, Mrs. William bution to our countrys' war effort is not possible; and such an estimate is useful, especially now when Ukrainian Americans Ukrainian Hopak, which "calls for Wagner, and Dr. Luke Myshuha, youthful spirits and great agility. It's editor of "Svoboda." are being vilified and smeared by various un-American and un particularly tough on the men." Near the close of the ceremony, a democratic forces. resolution of commendation was pres Such national planning and coordinating would require, of ented to the pastor of the Jersey City Gela, director of the church's Lysen- v course, some directing and representative council, which would Ukrainian church, and to Nicholas ko Choir, and a Democratic member Miiraszko, president of the Ukrain be charged also with the task of keeping a permanent and ac of the Election Board in his district. ian National Association, by Stephen cessible record of our contribution to our country's war effort. The resolution of commendation to J. Magura of the Jersey City Ukrain The establishment of such a Ukrainian American War Mr. Muraszko cited him for his ef ian War Bond Committee, for their Effort National Council, as it may aptly be called, should not forts as president of U.N.A. in con f efforts in promoting the sale of war nection with its purchase of War • war bonds among Ukrainian societies. prove to be too difficult a task. The experience gained before the Bonds totalling $150,000, the limit Master of ceremonies was William war in coordinating help for the old country should now serve permitted by the Treasury Depart (Concluded last eoinmn) *b good stead. But the job must be done immediatelyv ment for purchases of this series.
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IHI^BB UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1Ш No 40 I ''i. , і J LELAND STOWE DESCRIBESf RATERNAl SOCIETIES AID.IHE WAR PROGRAM
| JUNE PRACTICAL WAYS in which | ity loyalty and war activity Let us AN interview he had with Lieuten He snailed: "That's righ|. S»t ЖW [ Ф» for" of thegjgtojpj kmfoartm I have, our lodge officers assure the ant Colonel Polevoi, a Ukrainian made fortifications. We dug trenches*? , ^%ИЕГЇЙ5?$ЬГЙТ32 Kovemment that in every particulaparti r and improved them. Do you know Red Army hero on the Rzhev Front, r"*»T~o»f th.» e «•Woodme» * n *_of* .»th_ e «жг^-»Worldл іLif «*e iI_n І лігweа unitedllinifrAHlyv anafaisustain anопdл supporaimnnr t it. was described by Leland Stowe, proV, there's one spot where our most ad surance Society. The article U sponsored 4. We should urge members to rainent American newspaper corres vanced trenches are only 17 yards by the Committee on Public Relations volunteer for any kind of service con pondent, in a radio dispatch from from the enemy. And in another of the National Fraternal Congress of America. nected with the Office of Civilian De that front to the New York Post I place the Nazis are less than 50 fense and should, of course, render (October 15, 1942). j yards away ? But that's an advantage. It is well known to all of us that one hundred per cent co-operation The scene of the interview was at! When you get really close to Fritz fraternal societies flourish only in with such agencies as the American he can't bomb you without bombing democracies, and are harassed, if Hell's Elbow, one of the short hair- Red Cross, the U. S. O. and other pin twists of the Volga river near his own troops. And you know, the permitted at all, in totalitarian lands. | kin
і No. 40 UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1942 American Archeological АНйЛ Wurtf OftUkrairtelReviewed rUpRy's МЩШ Journal Digests Reports In English Historical Journal On Excavations In Ukraine By HONORE EWACH HE leading book review in the j ^viewer says ід conclusion, "is reJR0HPAN ЬерЬУ was a genuine The January-March, 1942 issue 6t T 4_*lAprill , ІОІ194О2 issu;^o,,e^ £oйf thтКeп eminenaminonft fmarkabl] тягкяЬЬe foІлтr thГЬeА lengtlontrth nof the tfru\*\\"-(foot) lyrical poet, but he Wrote ПО> the American Journal of Archeology English Historical Review (London) j notes— placed at the end of each chap-! masterpiece in verse. There is more quarterly contained quite an exten is that of W. E. D. Allen's 'The Uk- ter and covering a very wide range of і literary virility in his monumental sive digest in its "Archeological News raine, A History" (Cambridge, 1940), subjects—jsome of which run to the•}historical romance on Hetman Ma and Discussion" section of ten papers ny £. H. Sumner. ' І - \ length of appendices; e.g. the ex zeppa than in all the rest of his published in Culture Tripolienne (vol. cursus (pp. 370-7) on the Soviet Uk- literary works. Even the titles of 1, pp. 1-594, with plates and maps), Compared With Doroshenko's Work raine; that on the Ukrainians in Po- the six volumes of his Mazeppa tri published by the Institute of Ukrain 1 0 06 logy are significant. The first two ian Academy of Sciences in K|ev фіг-, The reviewer considers Allen's work і * ^™ H*^S****i*+ 83 "7 gre bodies (pp. 339-43); the note on are named after Motrya, who was ing 1940, and edited by M. L Achme-I'ШпЖмКш> Щ& remarkable compendiumй the Jews in South Russia (p. 263) or!Hetman Maxeppa'a fiancee. In therm J , on e nev. These articles are devoted to ex і £#л«и L» Viiin^ru/lt™,^ rvo Kcro c /iS»xi/hir>7h \ t£««ic mi r * development of New Russia inlLepky gives us glimpses of the old cayations Tripolje (Tripillia) since to be welcomed as giving the Bng- nineteentn century (pp. 261.2), hetman's lady of the heart. But the since 1928, some of them critical re IS Z£S£?S& Ш- ***** ** 8 Л9Л SI*** - -ates in them of her visions, the remainder first publica " - , .. . '1iПn praispraise oOfI Potemkin.FOtemKin,. whwno iIsS totOoO |I resolutrcaoiuuee anouud- ambitiouншшиииьs motheriiiuuici,, Colv>u-r rainian question and of its place m . f 7Г jwwej"*. ,."•, ioneл„оі»e- ir^knU'. ™f~ ;„ for к-t^^ tion of new materials. •ьл шлм ^f T?QOton« Tr,.^.rv» Tt frequently written off as a little more * Kochubey s wife, is far better. thai the las on of s ; 'The results of excavations at Ko- inevitablthe history ychallenge of Easters comparison Europen .wit Iht <£*u ?~ CatherinCatherinee H»sH»s An Andd aass fofor r ththee ololdd hetmanhetman, , he-ihe-iss lomiyshchina," the American Journal the.Ш^Шшґ^^^^Ш^. English- abridgements of Hru^ P»ramours^ . The Wbliog^hi^bibliographical note^s і PresentePanted aass aa welwelll broughbroughtt uupp anandd of Archeology says concerning these Й^Ж^Ї^Ж^^1» Particularly full, 2nd well up to educated gentleman, more of a clever reports, "discovered in 1934 near s ШШ* *Ш%Ш^£Шт* m-Ukrainian and Russian, but! Politician than of a man of action, a Khalip'e in Obukhov, raion, Kiev ob- Ukraine (Yale University Press Polish works are scanty. The book isl ladies' man, warm-hearted, resource- iast' form the introductory section. 1941) and of Doroshenko's History the result of the collaboration of Mr. \ ful» patriotic, but certainly not an According to T. T. Passek, who sum of the Ukraine, published in 1939 in Allen with 'three or four scholars, iron-fisted Oliver Cromwell or Boh- Edmonton, Alberta, the work of an- ! dan marizes the results obtained during Russian and Ukrainian', who desired Khmelnitsky. 1934-1938 by the Tripolje Epedition, \ «£* *****»? historical scholar to remain anonymous, assisted by The names of the two volumes of *vthii s area waI„s thickl*.vt-wiy„ _~„i«Tpopulate^d A„~dur і which has solid merits, though the Professor E. H. Minns. Unfinished the second part of trilogy are "Thou translation makes heavy reading. Mr. when the war began, it had to be shall not kill" and "Baturyn." Some- ing the second and third millennia Allen, unlike Professor Doroshenko, В. C, and the land was extensively completed in the absence of the au-1 how the name of the third volume, devotes considerable space to the last thor. It is part at least due to these'"Thou shall not kill," jars on one's cultivated and grazed. They also twenty years: on the other hand, he raised cattle, sheep, and swine, and difficulties that the book makes dif- j ears. The old hetman was forced by is much less full on the eighteenth ficult reading, despite the vigour andj awkward circumstances to give up hunted elk, roe and beaver. Valuable century, and he virtually omits Slo- information was assembled on the zest of the author. It is over- і two of his colonels, Kochubey and bodskaya Ukraina. Professor Doro weighted with detail and lacks that; Iskra, to the executioner, as men who character of the dwellings and it was shenko's maps are inferior to Mr. proved conclusively that the Tripolje final process of digestion which both j denounced him to Tsar Peter I as Allen's, but he has the advantage of clarifies and curtails. The impression; a traitor. Of course, the two colonels platforms were remains of unbaked- printing one of the Dnieper rapids brick dwellings. The outline of the is .given that, despite the wealth of!were right in what they said about showing the Cossack strongholds. His bibliographical references, the author j their superior's intentions, but the ground plan of the settlement con history reflects і the attitude of an sisted of two concentric circles, the is not himself fully at home with the і Tsar still had more faith in Mazeppa Ukrainian nationalist, while in con first-hand sources for any particular j than in their denunciation. It was outer 200 m. in diameter with thirty- trast Mr. Allen is at pains to em the tsar who in his turn denounced one dwellings, the inner 60 m. dia- phasise the harm done by attempts portion of Ukrainian history, and a meter with eight buildings and a,,...... - much fuller discussion of these would them to Mazeppa. So the hetman had a tl have been welcome. While great em no choice. He had to treat Kochubey small plaza, serving either as a cattle ІЙ39distant £pasЙt %from* ™th e ^L™point o"f vie*±w phasis is laid on social developments and Iskra as traitors. That is why enclosure or ceremonial grounds in of the emotions and aims of political and the process of colonization in the the reader wonders why Lepky the center. The largest houses aver groups of the present day.'... aged 140 sq. m.; medium 90 sq. m.; Ukraine, these are not, in the treat wanted to remind him of tne fifth and the small 30 sq. m. The rec "Ukraine—the Graveyard of Bzecz ment of the seventeenth and eight commandment. "The Deserved Re ward" would have been a more suit tangular dwellings, divided by par Pospolita" eenth centuries, well combined with titions, contained numerous ovens or the political and military history which able title for the volume. stoves. Several oaken props, support "Mr. Allen, however, is by no means occupies the main space. It is curi- The fourth volume, "Baturyn" is ing the roof, were found. unsympathetic to the Ukrainians, 1 ous that, although the author else- really the very heart of Lepky'a "Extensive inventories included I and his strictures are mainly reserved I where shows a keen eye for things trilogy. It describes in a masterly flint implements (knives, scrapers, j for the Poles, who let slip 'the great-j military, he does not give any ade- way the heroic defense of Baturyn„ points nuclei), stone querns, slate and est opportunity in the history of! quate account of the military organ- Mazeppa's capital. There Motrya. gneiss hoes, bone and horn imple-• their race', when in the century ofter izatjon, equipment, or tactics of the emerges for the first time as a real ments (perforators, wedges, hoes) I the Treaty of Lublin (1569) they j Cossacks. (The Zaporozhian Cossacks heroine, with bravery not less thai* and a quantity of sherds. Unpainted failed to bring about 'a racial fusion; were only rivalled by the Vikings in At her charming beauty. pottery predominated. with the heterogeneous and uncul*- \ thei---*-r combinatio«-»—-.» n o-f seamanshi. . p and The two volumes of the third and "In many cases it was possible to tured population of the Ukrainian j horsemanship; like them, they ex- last part of the trilogy, under the determine the functional role of vari new lands'. Thanks mainly to the re celled as mounted infantry, while as title "Poltava," describe the events* ous types of vessels in a Tripolje ligious rivalries envenomed by the cavalry, except in pursuit of an al- і that took place between the burning- household. Other pottery objects in-! Uniate policy after the Unior\ of Brest ready beaten enemy or as scouts, down of Baturyn and the tragic eluded male and female figurines, un (1596), and to 'the incorrigible class they were inferior to the Polish caval-j Battle of Poltava. They have here doubtedly of ritual significanse, spin instincts of the Polish gentry, the ry. In lager, behind the stockade of and there very fine artistic scenes,, dle whorls, miniature pots, and frag future of the Polish nation was their transport waggons, they were but on the whole the third part of" ments of burned clay bearing finger wrecked. The Promised Land of the extremely formidable.) Another fea- the trilogy lacks literary concentra- impressions. From impressions in the Ukraine became the graveyard of ture of these two centuries, which is tion. They are certainly not on the baked clay used for plastering Rzecz Pospolita' (p. 76). In the cen- unsatisfactorily treated, is the reli-, par with "Baturin." houses, wheat, barley, rye, and acorns turv of struggle between Poland, gious and cultural, after the Union of Lepky's trilogy is a great work,, Russia and have been identified. Many types 0f' ' Sweden, from 1553 to Brest itself and its immediate con- even though some parts of it sound fauna were represented. 1667» which for Eastern Europe was equences. Thus, Peter Mohila, the too pretentious, not as thoroughly "Reports by T. S. Passek, E. IU. the ^uivalent and in part the pro- Kiev Academy, and its cultural in- sincere and genuine as most of the jeCt, n f the CoUnter Reformatlon fluence on Moscow are barely men-. author's short stories and lyrical Krichevski and N. L. Kordysh of the and °th' e °Thirty Years' War, the Uk tioned save in a note on page 127; і poems. It is, however, certainly a» excavations of nine platforms and of raine played the major role in the while in the eighteenth century the good as the best historical romances chemico-technical analyses by D. A. calamitous period remembered in Po- name of Skovoroda does not appear. 0f Sir Walter Scott. Kulshaia and N. D. Dubitskaia on Little interest also is shown in insti- lish history as 'the deluge', which Winnipeg, Can. pottery and building materials were opened with the great rising of the j tutional history, to which in contrast prepared..." A - • * 4.u А т і Cossacks under-Bohdan Khmelnitsky, Hrushevsky and Doroshenko Dav ЧПР- *^ео01'Щ^'вЗ ІЙЙ*£« Until 1667 ^Ь1 attentfon- ^spite Гье^аЖ or Arcneoiogy uigest, tne second the treaty of Andrusevo partitioned j Mr. Allen's work remains a very ON HUMAN FATE section of the reports on the excava the Ukraine, leaving the left bank of] spirited treatment of a very large (Fragment from "Natalka Poltavka tions in Ukraine is devoted to the re the Dnieper and the city of Kiev to»subject, which becomes even more by Ivan Kotlyarevsky) sults of excavations at Gorodosk Russia. 'Few Polish historians', Mr.! complex within the last century to О human fate—fate is blind! during 1936-1937 and at Belyi Ka- Allen sums up, 'will deny that "the which over a third of the book (and Serving often men of evil and un men during 1928. The digest de Ukrainian problem" proved fatal to in some ways the most valuable third) worthy mind. scribes some of the findings. the old Polish state' (p. 383). is devoted. It will certainly prove a Letting good men suffer, knock about., "The third section, also by Kri- "Mr. Allen also considers it to have storehouse of varied information and Luckless in whate'er they venture out_ chevskiy, is devoted to the problems been almost as fatal to the Polish of suggestive pointers " But whosoever 'scapes false fortune'si of dwelling construction in the light Republic set up in 1919, which finally "В. H. SUMNER" frown, of recent researches. He describes included Eastern Galicia and Vo- the building type of Kolomiyshchina, lhynia..." Lives on, like cheese in butter, sleeves- and therefrom proposes a classifica Smoke Up rolled down. tion of Tripolje sites on the basis of A,,en ^ot Familiar With First-Hand Salesman: "Dicj you like that cigar Without a trace of intellect lives I gave you? For 500 coupons of that Sources 4 pleasantly, their structural peculiarities." brand you get a banjo." While brilliant but unlucky men watcrjt In addition to the above, the Ameri The reviewer then continues with Clerk: "If I smoke 5oo of those a discussion of Ukrainian history in cigars, I'd need a harp." life pass fruitlessly. can Journal of Archeology parti О human fate, why ean't you play аф cularizes in considerable length some the light of Mr. Allen's work. It is Not So Dumb quite evident that like Mr. Allen him Kemmerer: "Why is your car painted open game with us, f\ of the objects uncovered by the ex self, Mr. Sumner has certain miscon blue on one side and red on the other?" Always so kind to others and to OS- cavations, as set forth in the reports ceptions concerning Ukrainian history. Hulen: "It's a great scheme. You contemptuous. - f/L і of the Institute of the Ukrainian should hear the witnesses contradict Academy of Sciences. 'The construction of the book," the I each other." (Trans. Ly Marlon Moore ColemAnJ UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1942 No. 40
"Eh. there, sire Hetman, our Zaporozbians down in the Sitch daily perform such great "CHORNA RADA" deeds that they have no time for story-telling. Yet I bet even they'll be wonderstruck at the (BLACK COUNCIL) feat I'm going to perform today." "What kind of a feat will that be?" A Historical Romance of Turbulent Kozak Times "Oh, nothing much; I'll just seize this young princess here among us, and be gone with her After Death of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnitsky like the wind. With my comrade guiding me, By PANTELEYMON KULISH (1819*97) I'll head straight for the Chornohora. My, but she certainly is beautiful!" he exclaimed, casting (Continued) (Translated by S. Shumeyko) (9) a wolfish glance at Lesya. This was too much for Lesya. She managed » CHAPTER VH "There, there, you fool!" laughed Somko. thus far to conceal the fear that Kurylo Tur "That's my fiancee." had aroused in her. Now it welled up. Clapping ЦОМКО began seating his guests behind the "That she is your fiancee troubles me not," her hands to her face she stifled a scream that ^ long table. Shraam and Cherevan he seated broke out from her. Without a word her mother in the place of honor—"pokutya," in the corner, replied the, Zaporozhian, sighing. "What troubles me is that she has enchanted me so much!" quickly rose and led the now tearful girl out While he himself sat down at the head of the of the room. Everyone laughed at this. table, with Mrs. Cherevan and Lesya on his Their exit was followed by laughter from side. The Zaporozhian, Kyrylo Tur, sat down "Bravo!" exclaimed Somko. "The bear has the Kozaks. at the other end, together with his Comrade, at last become entangled In a net. What now?" , "You stinging insect!" said Shraam. "Look Chornohor. "What do you suppose? The bear will go what you've done. You've really scared the poor Much to his discomfort, Petro found him into his den, pulling the net after him." child." self seated next to Lesya. "What do you mean by the den, the Sitch?" Neither daughter nor mother returned, and "Tell me Ataman," said Somko turning to "Why the Sitch ? Is the world no larger than yet no one even thought of inquiring thether Kyrylo Tur, "what winds blew you here to Kiev." what you see through the window?" Lesya had perhaps become ill from her fright "The holy wind itself," replied the Zaporo "What a Kozak you are, and a Ataman at of the Zaporozhian. In those days woman's zhian, "we were escorting a candidate for re troubles and tears had little effect upon a Ko- that, for the sake of a woman ready to forsake nunciation to the Mizhirsky Spas Monastery." zak's stout heart. you r comrades!'' "Well, why aren't you with your crowd Rising from the table, Kyrylo thanked for now?" "And why not? For such a princess it's the repast in his own inimitable manner. "I "Just bide your time, sire Hetman, and I worth forsaking not only comrades but the thank God, and myself, but not my-host, for shall tell you the whole story just as soon as whole world as well." if he doesn't feed me someone else will; ist any I wet my whistle a little. And that takes a "Well, where then would you drag your rate I won't die of hunger." And with these little time, for your drinking cups are so small! net?" words he left the room, together without much Our drinking goblets down in the Sitch—ah! Kyrylo Tur laughed at this. as bidding farewell to anyone, whistling a care the're made really for drinking! In fact, you "You would like, sire Hetman, to know every free tune. can just about drown a Pole in one of them." thing, and all at once too. Really, though, I'd "That's just like him," said Hetman Somko "It's the thwuth, bwother, it's the twuth!" rather not tell you everything, nor lie to you." to Colonel Shraam. "No one can fathom him un spoke up Cherevan. "I always said that only "Because, as you're likely to say, you've less he choses to reveal himself. I am con down in the Sitch do people know how to live never told a lie before?" Somko said in a ban vinced that there is really something in that like human beings. By God, if it weren't for tering tone. Kyrylo Tur. He makes believe he is just a Г" • wife and daughter, I would give up every "And I won't lie now either," replied Kl- rascal, but I've already the opportunity of per thing I have here and hie myself to the Zapo- rylo. "Now before I talk some more give me ceiving that he is not. In fact, I think that rche!" first another drink to wet my throat." he is quite a God-fearing man." "H-m!" said Tur, examining Chcrevan's ex Downing his drink, he glanced around the "Well, he has a peculiar way of showing it," pansive figure. "It would take some to drown guests, brushed back his moustaches, and con said Shraam. you in one of our goblets." tinued : "Whatever way he has chosen, it is his Never Everybody laughed, especially Cherevan, "You should know, sirs, that the Black Moun theless, what I say is true. In a sense he is a even though the jibe was aimed at his stout tain is just as good as the Sitch; except that in scoundrel, yet I well remember the night I found ness. the former they do not renounce womenhood. him praying so ardently to God that tears rolled "I like that Tur very much," the Hetman re There, too, they've got a system like ours down down his cheeks; in fact, his prayer was even marked in a low voice to Shraam. "Sometimes in the Sitch, except in place of the 'kuren' they more ardent than that of most religious men. , he does what he shouldn't do, yet, devil take have their 'brotherhood, and each brotherhood Hearing him thus, I myself... well, what's the him, he will laugh in such a taking manner that is headed by an Ataman. And they're always use of my talking about such matters. They are you really cannot remain angry at him." scrapping with the moslems. And how they do the works of God. Now I shall disclose to you "The only trouble, however," replied Shraam. scrap! When my comrade here Chornohor be the reason why I am here in Kiev. Matchmaking "is tnat such as he will buy a man with a gins telling me about it, my very soul rises in is not it. The only time when you can marry lr gh and sell him with a laugh." happiness. He, you know, has been here in me,. reverend-father, is when Poles have been "What is the truth is the truth, father. Ac Ukraine for quite some time, and now is long driven beyond the Slutch, when I become ab cording to their Sitch way of thinking, there is ing to return to the Black Mountain, and he in solute ruler over all our lands. And now, on the hcrdly anything in this world that bears any vited me to be his guest long ago. And so, eve of war, we must begin preparing for it real value to them. They're very philosophic, why shouldn't a Kozak play a little in the here in Kiev. We must gather enough food murrain take them. They look out upon the outside world, why shouldn't he see how people stuffs, powder, and arms, and then take care world from a barrel, not an empty one like who speak a different language live?" of one more matter yet Let us go, therefore, the one which housed Diogenes, however, but to see the archimandrite, our counsellor. Hizel one filled with whiskey, into which they stick Everybody listened in silence, wondering to Innokentiy has as wise a head as Mohela had. their heads up to very neck." what the Zaporozhian was leading. We shall consult with him in the matter of the "So you would like to know why I am not " 'Good, I said to my comrade, I'll show your Hadiatch Articles. Vyhovsky was no fool in with my friends now," the subject of their con countrymen our Kozak valor; let it become drawing them up 4mt he was a fool in ally versation interrupted them, having downed his known even there.' And so I entered into this ing himself with the Poles, Between the drink. "Well, here's how it happened. You brother's pact with him, sharing with him Poles and the Kozaks there will never be peace hnve probably heard of the 'brotherly pact.' everything I have and he likewise with me; each and order. Whether we want to or not I think Who hasn't! That is one of our Sitch customs. of us helping the other; the younger being we should live together with Russians. We sim Ko matter how little a man may care for servant to the older, and the older one being ply must!" earthly things, yet somehow he always leans a father to the younger. Everything was all "Oh, my son," replied Shraam, shaking his towards companionship; so if he hasn't a real in order, when suddenly I ran across this prin head forebodingly, "we've had good opportunity; brother, he looks about to adopt one. They cess. So I says to my comrade: 'Whether you of seeing what sort of people are these Rus make this /brotherly pact' and live together like it or not, but I shall not leave Ukraine sians, especially their boyars and other lead thereafter like fish with water. Well, that's what without this girl!' To which he replied: 'And ers." I did. 'What do you say, Chornohor,' I said one why not! Among us, if one takes a liking to "Nevertheless, the Russians are closer to day to him, 'let's make a brother's pact/ He some girl, he just seizes her and off to the us than the Poles," persisted Somko. agreed. And so we went to the monastery and priest he goes!' " "God knows whether that is so," saicfShraam, asked the reverend-father there to read for us *^"Yes, that's what my comrade Chornohor sighing. "Well, maybe what you recommend will from the Apostles, that we were born not of said to me," repeated Kyrylo Tur, "that like a be better after all." the human body but of the Holy Word; and falcon seizes a lapwing, I should seize my "In any case, it can't be any worse. For thus we became brothers." heart's desire and bear her off to the nearest among the Russians there is but one ruler and "And so what?" priest." all obey him, while among the Poles every lord "Well, what happened is what always hapens "That's too much like the Rage of the Sa- is a king, and everyone of them wants to grind when a man does some good deed. Satan loses bines," laughed Somko. "But suppose that that us Kozaks out of existence." no time in placing in his way some kind of lapwing has brother-eagles, or parent-falcons "They'll never live to see such a day!" de temptation. That's what he did to me. And in to protect her?" claimed Shraam heatedly, seizing his moustache. my case this temptation is a princess, and is she "That will be well taken care of, rest as 'That's it exactly, reverend-father, if they a beauty!" sured about that. All a man has to do is to are not to live to see such a day then we must "Is that anything so strange. It's not the gather ten stalwarts to aid him, and kid hold hands tightly with the Russians. After all, first time a Zaporozhian has been troubled by nap the girl; and just as sure as I am sitting when we manage to bring about order and peace a woman." here at this table no one will ever get her out here in our country, the same will come for the "Oh, my Hetman, and how! And it's noth of their hands again; they'll die first before let Russians in their country. Just as soon as with ing to be wondered at either. After all, look ting anything like that happen. Yes sir! Such God's help we succeeded in uniting both banks of a* Adam himself, and his experience with Eve!" is the custom among us, and it certainly suits Dnieper, we will establish everywhere regular "Who is this princes you speak of, and me! I would not be Kozak, if I could not do the law courts, schools, academies, printing-shops, .where is she from?" same." and thus raise high the name of Ukraine, and "Ask her yourself, if you want to know; I "We certainly have a good tall-story teller gladden the souls of her ancient rulers, Yaro- f ill not dare to take up the time of such a among us, haven't we," smiled Somko, turning slav. and Monomakh." I ?h personage as she." to the others. "More than likely things are so And thus conversing, the two made their way And with these words Kyrylo Tur glanced dead down in the*Sitch that they have to in on foot to Abbot Innokentiy, while the others inoaningly at Lesya. vent such tall tales to amuse themserres." went sightseeing about the monastery. No. ЗО UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1942 »1
ian administration fled from Kiev plays and bazaars. The Englishman's and approached Austria and Germany pub or club is not visibly dominated Ukrainian- Canadians with a proposal of peace. In Feb by religion or politics. The Ukrain ruary 1918, a separate peace between By J. F. C. WRIGHT ian's hall in urban centres is close- the Ukraine Government in exile ly linked with his church or ideo (Courtesy, Canadian Geographical Journal, August, 1942) from Kiev, and Germany and Austria, logy. In every Canadian city and (3) was concluded at Brest Litovsk. In larger town where they are living accordance with the treaty Germany George Michalenko, 16, third young- justly. As one Ukrainian put it: in sufficient numbers to acord it, and Austria sent troops into Kiev the Ukrainian-Canadians have built eat, picks up his mandolin and "Yes we learned to steal in Galicia. and drove,out the Bolshevik forces. their various halls. In cities like plays a lively dance, Kozachok. Be We had to steal back from the land But breaking their agreement in the Toronto, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Ed-* lord at night what he stole from us hind him on the wail is a 1942 cal spring of 1918 they forcibly removed monton and Vancouver there are as endar picturing a dashing Cossack on in the daytime." the re-instated Ukrainian Government many as five and six different types a spirited horse. The Cossack, round and set up the Ukrainian reactionary of halls. fur hat pushed back on his head, "Two Characteristics" in Ukrainian Skoropadsky as puppet ruler. When Community Centers sabre held high, looks free and happy History Germany and Austria collapsed in as his horse prances over a map of Because of the importance of ha Ha" Two characteristics stand out in November 1918, a popular revolt in the Ukraine. Ukrainian Cossacks like the Ukraine led by Simon Petlura, ! in the lives of Ukrainian-Canadians, these kept the Ukraine free many Ukrainian history. They can be ; and because of the confusion in the* gleaned from both Doroshenko's expelled the remaining German troops. years. George, who has not read Skoropadsky fled to Germany. The minds-of some other Canadians сопч much history, seems to sense some (somewhat Rightist) History of the jcerning these institutions, an attempt Ukraine, and Hrushevsky's (some Petlura Government, similarly" to the thing of his background in his music, original Ukrainian provisional gov I to clarify the situation is worthwhile* but as if to show he is a North what Leftist) History of Ukraine. | The order in which they are here dis* They are a love of the land, and of ernment, continued the struggle American, his guitar now plays "You 'against the Bolsheviks for another cussed must not be taken to indicate Are My Sunshine." freedom and democracy, jn practice, ; the chronological order of their ap* often captured in poetry, song and •year, collapsing in November, 1919, Though the early years of freedom | pearance or of their relative worth 5 dance; also a tendency to split into [due in part to a severe outbreak of and developing democracy on the <1)< Ukrainian Greek-Catholic factions and look to other nations spotted fever and lack of munitions. open steppe were ended 275 years for national and political salvation, Church halls are those owned by the ago when the Ukraine was partitioned In the meantime, in November, church members who look to the Pope rather than consolidating their own ; 1918, at the collapse of the Austrian between Russia and Poland, and state. Ukrainians have turned for ; in Rome as their head. They are while the Ukrainians who came to Empire, the Ukrainians of Galicia Roman Catholics in fact who are al* help to Moscovy, Poland, Lithuania, j Province proclaimed an independent Canada mainly from the Austro- Sweden, Turkey, and even the Tar (lowed .to use Greek-Slavic ritual, Hungary dominated province of Ga- jWeet Ukrainian Republic. The Poles J sometimes called Eastern ritual, ІЦ tars by turns. Had the Ukrainians who had historical claims to this licia knew little of their early back і І place of regulation Roman CatholiQ : with their originally larger popula territory declared war on the new ground, the* Canadian prairie gave tion, richer land and culture, stuck I ritual. Also the priests are allowed West Ukrainian Republic, defeating rising generations opportunity to ex together, it is reasonable to assume I to marry. These concessions go bacfc it in nine months. The Poles were press the democratic ways latent in that a Ukrainian culture might to I years to Ukrainian areas of Central the people. The vast majority of Uk day extend from Eastern Europe to supported by a Polish legion of 50,- I Europe that were dominated by Ro* rainian immigrants could neither Pacific. Of the various aspiring and 000 men under General Haller; an j man Catholic nations anxious to read nor write in any language when expanding states adjacent to the army equipped in the United States Catholicize their Ukrainian subjects. they came to Canada. An exploited Ukraine, Moscovy was the one which and Canada and originally intended (2) Ukrainian Greek Orthodox; peasantry'in Galicia, they lived a out-pushed them all. Moscovy be to fight the Germans. Church hall are those owned by the cramped and depressive existence in came Russia, the Empire of the Tsars And so the Ukrainian land was members of the church who look toj dirt-floored huts. They suffered spreading eastward across the Urals mainly divided between a Poland Archbishop Theodorovich in Phila* pioneer hardships without having to the Bering Sea and Vladivostok. created by the Treaty of Versailles I delphia, Pennsylvania, as their head* pioneer freedom. In Canada, pioneer and a Soviet Russia thrown up by the j This church has its roots In begin* hardships and pioneer freedom were In 1917 when the Tsarist regime revolution. I nings of Christianity in the Ukraine* one. At first the older folk in general collapsed and the provisional Russian I Between 1925 and 1929, due to a і For years this church looked to the" did not understand this. Too long Government assumed office under hesitant revival of earlier Canadian і Patriarch of Constantinople. In 1685 had they been overworked, over Kerensky and Prince Lvov, Ukrainian immigration policy, immigrant men j Moscovite domination resulted in the taxed, undernourished, beset by of independence came to a head in Kiev, were allowed in from Europe. Among I transference of religious direction to! ficialdom, and conscripted into armies the ancient capital of the Ukraine. them came Ukrainians who had been the Patriarch of Moscow. Subset in which they had little interest. Thus The Ukrainian Provisional Govern through one or more of the national quently, the Russian Tsar became the "Galicians," in their years of ad ment with the liberal-socialist Pro and civil wars, and have since played head of both Church and State. justment to Western Canada, became fessor Hrushevsky at the helm con some part in Ukrainian-Canadian Besides cultural activities and en* unfairly known as thieves, liars, and sisting chiefly of social democrats and factions. Factionalism in Canada ex tertainment, concerts and meetings sweaty foreigners who got drunk on social revolutionaries, prepared to presses itself in religious and ideolo are held in both church halls to as their own homebrew and fought with co-operate with the Kerensky Gov gical differences, and various group sist the church proper in operation neck yokes and pitchforks at their ernment on condition that the Uk ings are inclined to make headquar and finance. three-day weddings and funerals. raine become a federated republic ters in halls built or acquired by their (3) Non-denominational halls, varl* While some individuals indulged in within the Russian union. In October supporters. ously called reading halls, people 4| * these activities, their names and 1917 the Bolsheviks led by Lenin Englishmen gather in their public j homes, national homes, wherein edu* stories appeared prominently in lo came to power and removed the Ke pubs and private clubs where they ' cational work, including the teaching cal gossip and the newspapers. And rensky regime. In January 1918 the play darts and bridge. Ukrainians in of Ukrainian language and history, other Canadians, unaware of the op Ukrainian Government proclaimed Canada gather in their respective і is carried on. These halls are largely} pressed background of the "Gali Ukrainian national independence and halls where they play their stringed j supported by members of the tw Much of what Skovoroda taught could not be printed then, as the* The Story of Ukrainian LiteratureTsaris t Russian government consid* ered it inimical to its policy of Rus* ш . (26)# sianizing the Ukrainians. ( JT is true, as pointed out here last movement was Gregory Skovoroda, studies and travels clashed constant From village to village he jouN * week, that quite a number of the philosopher, teacher and writer. ly with the hidebound traditions of neyed, ever teaching the common the said university. So in the end Ukrainian intellectuals, in the face Skovoroda was born in 1722 (died people, ever pointing out to them the he was forced to give up teaching at of the flattering attentions and favors 1794) in the region of Poltava, Uk that institution. From then on he truth, hitherto obscured by ignorance showered upon them, forsook their raine. After studying in Kiev he and oppression, and thereby uncover journeyed to countries of Western Eu never again taught at any formal Ukrainian nationality and went over institution of learning. Instead he ing to them new paths of progress to the Poles and the Russians. But rope, to continue there his studies and development. He taught every and in search of new ideas. dedicated his life to teaching the this was only for a time. The birth common, ordinary people, the under where, no place was too humble foi» of a new spirit of liberalism that was Besides being an ardent student, him, in the shadow of churches, ia Skovoroda was also very fond of privileged, those who did not have sweeping through Europe at that time the opportunity of attending school or market-places, humble peasant huts, had its effect upon the Ukrainian in travelling by foot and observing at any place where he could find a few; first hand the life of the different university. In this manner he be tellectuals also. who would listen to him. And thue classes of society. And thus he tra came what can aptly be described as Ї Circles characterized by liberal velled through Ukraine, Poland, Hun teacher-at-large. he became greatly beloved among the thought began to appear among the gary and Italy. And everywhere he Often amidst great hardships and people, and in time became known аз Ukrainian educated classes. Distinct went what impressed him most of all danger, penniless more often than the "Socrates of Ukraine." As such' trends of reaction against the existing was the new spirit of liberalism not, Skovoroda traveled throughout he paved the way for Ivan Kotlyarev* political and social order appeared sweeping through Europe. his native land Ukraine, even to its sky, the "Father of Modern Ukra> among them. This reaction against Upon completing his studies, Sko furthermost corners, and everywhere inian Literature." he preached his message of a new the oppressive Russian and Polish voroda settled down as an instruc (To be continued) 1 rule exhibited itself at first in form tor at the Pereyaslav Monastery, but order of things. But what he stressed! soon he found out he did not care most of all, was the vital necessity of satirical and humorous poems and of establishing universal education. pamphlets on political and social for this sort of teaching and so be Famous Last Worth: gave it up and entered the service This idea was then without precedent problems. This was the earliest stage He has a head tike t doorknob—any* of a wealthy Ukrainian as a private in Ukraine, yet it readily found root body can turn it. of the revival of Ukrainian literature, tutor. Subsequently he received an in many thinking people. Disgruntled schoolboy: It's not thti the beginning of a truly national Uk appointment to the faculty of the school I don't like; it's the principal rainian literature. The Socrates of Ukraine of the thing. leading universities of Цаі period, in Alimony is a roan's cash surrendef Kharkiv. Gregory Skovoroda Contemporaries of Skovoroda used value. v Here, tod, Skovoroda did not re to call him the "traveling academy," My morning-after headache was bui|( One of the earliest figures con main long. He discovered that the and . placed higher value upon his for a hippo. liberal philosophy of life he had Men are like corks—some wiH po( nected with the revival of Ukrainian teachings than upon what could be the quest-Ion-, others have to be drai "literature and the Ukrainian rational worked out for iiimself daring; his learned at the univeraitiee. oat. ; V .**>« ^^я^н^^^н t^B^^^H і J 6 UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1942 No. 40 • •••• •• ——•#*—• n яшттттшттштттт SERVICE FUG EXERCISES IN WHIPPANY, N. J 'HI ll • я -— On Sunday, October 11th. 1942, the The committee in charge of the St. John's Ukrainian Greek Catholic J arrangements was headed by Chair- Church of Whippany. New Jersey, l man Michael Pasecznyk. Mrs. Michael held Service Flag Exercises. The j Boychuk, Mrs. Michael Pasecznyk, ceremonies were begun with an invo-; Mr. Michael Kocak, Mrs. Peter Kar- ROAD TO VICTORY! ! cation by Rev. John J. Dorohovich, \ lak, Mr. John Bobeck, Mr. John Yu- pastor of the church, followed by a! rick, were the other members of the By MARGARET SCHERF salute to the flag and singing of the і committee. Star Spangled Banner. The Service In his talk at the banquet Rev. I don't want to tell anyone else what to do with his money. This is - Flag was raised by Rev. Dorohovich. a note to myself: Toastmaster at the banquet was Mr.Keen e declared that, Vietor Woodruff, Supervising Prin- "The ideal foreign-born American What do you mean, ; cipal of the Whippany Public Schools. doesn't lose his national identity, for Walking around in Nylons without runs, : Principal speakers were Owen J. s get his old country customs;instead he When MacArthur needs guns? Steele, chairman of Hanover Town retains them proudly and absorbs the ship Committee; Rev. William Gaiv good of' tfee American way of life. You've killed a lot of people, Scherf, i nette Kenne, professor of St. Eliza- American culture it is still in pro But what have you done | beta's College, Elizabeth, New Jersey; To hustle Adolph under the turf? and John Romanition, Newark attor cess of formation. AH nationality ney. groups here contribute their bit to Oh! you bought some 10-cent stamps? it. Eventually America will consist of Well, well. The Service Flag bore forty-five stars, representing the boys from the the best of all the nationalities that An occasional dime parish who have entered the, armed came to our shored/' Isn't going to reconstruct a griddle forces. John Romanition For Goering's middle. Paid PoHtictl Ad. Paid Political Ad. You'd better fork over to your Uncle Sam, Or you'll be sitting in the Nazi stables Writing publicity for Goebbels. IN WARTIME | The State of New York Needs an Efficient, Energetic] arid Progressive Administration • YOUTH AND THE ILN.A. 9 SUCH AN ADMINISTRATION THE VOTERS CAN OBTAIN BY VOTING THE STRAIGHT REPUBLICAN TICKET: PROMOTE FRATERNALISM contribute toward each other's wel THOMAS E. DEWEY BY MAKING FRIENbS fare. U.N.A. branches offer much in addition to f ratemalization; they FOR GOVERNOR Before the war many young Uk- sponsor- affairs and hold meetings; о rainian-Americans living in small they give the members the opportun- ТНЬМАВ W* WALLACE towns were attracted to big cities by і jty to become officers of the branch FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR the prospect of employment and op- antj delegates to quadrennial tJ. N. A. о portunity. Since this country entered « conventions; they give special bene- PRANK • Шіаіі;: