No.8 Carpatho-Rus, Allentown, Nj, April 26, 2002 Vol. Lxxv

NO.8 CARPATHO-RUS, ALLENTOWN, N.J., APRIL 26, 2002 VOL. LXXV measures of grain (rye and wheat) to sow for Continued from Issue #7, 2002 Translated from a 1925 Calendar is this winter growth and start farming again. This short story of a Lemko trying to predict what will was a nice gesture, and everybody plowed Another village story, which will continue in happen in the next 100 years (2025). Seventy six up as much land as he could. We didn't get serialized form in later issues of KR. years later, he appears to be on track in some much out of this, however, because we didn't things, while in others, he appears to be Wishfully know much about tilling that soil over there Nasha Hromada (Our Community) and selecting good plots of land. In addition, dreaming. that fall was very dry, and our seed didn't (History of villages Yasiunka, Kriwa and sprout well; it had been sowed by hand and In a Hundred Years Banitsa) much of it lay on top the soil where it just dried up. What did sprout grew very well, Not one of us will live to the year We had a house to live in and we had and next year we had our own harvest. In 2025. That is a long span for individuals, but something to sleep on, although conditions the spring, they also gave us some oats, a very short one for humankind. The year were terrible. But whenever we stopped to wheat, barley, and potatoes, and we sowed 2025 will soon be here, just as 1825 seems think about how we would live in the future, and planted all of that. Our spring crops all not so long ago. People who were born then we were struck with fear. We had no way of came up good, and in total we had enough are still alive today: getting out of our difficult situation, because for both ourselves and our livestock. the villages of the Chobien community were However, that period of a hundred all very poor, and there was no way to earn Those Poles who had settled there years has brought tremendous changes in anything and there was nothing to buy. What before we did, even before the Germans al\ the world. If at its beginning someone had saved us was that every family had a few left, and had grabbed up al\ the best German talked of airplanes and radios, of telephone head of cattle, or a horse, sheep, goats, properties, treated us variously. Some of and telegraph, nobody would have believed chickens, or rabbits. So we did have them were rabid chauvinists, but among them him. something to sell -- an occasional calf, milk, t~ere also were some good people who butter, eggs, and we -could then buy some helped us as much as they could. The village In the first place, population increased bread or flour. And that · was our skimpy and town authorities looked on us as the tremendously in that period. A hundred years living. Horses were used to 90 Yo!o~ f()r tq.e Iowest.et theW S\abiec\s~ --at'ill 'He '"~ ~~'\;o ago, the population of the United States was pores, bufthat-wasfor meager: p~y-: . def1r8ded and victimized. The UtiOw mi(;(fa no more than '\0 m\\\\on, now it is we" over (Administration of Public Safety) and 100 million. A hundred years ago, Russia Our animals had the best living Ormowites (Volunteer Reserve Mi\itia) Kept had no more than 30 million people, now it conditions, because the fields were just about their eyes on us, watched us at every step, has about 150 million. And so on. The abandoned, although overgrown with brush, and even crept up to our windows in the result is that the population of planet Earth so there was plenty of graze. But there was evening to hear what was being said in the has increased by a factor of 4 or 5. a real problem with winter feed, because the house and to see who was visiting. Actually, Poles had taken the meadows and cut the though, this didn't bother us, and we visited When Napoleon marched against hay. When we. did find a small piece where each other as soon as we found out who Russia with an army of half a million, that was the hay had not yet been cut, we were told lived where. The young people kept to considered an enormous mass of men that that was their's and we had to get off. We themselves, and whenever they go together in nobody but the great Napoleon could have mowed every little bit we could find and somebody's house there was always put together. A hundred years later, several managed to put up some hay. We were also someone who could play the fiddle or nations can maintain armies of 12 million able to buy some straw which we chopped for accordion and there would be singing and each, and scores of millions of people take fodder. And · so we accumulated enough dancing. We also went to weddings, part in a war. Man has mastered great forces animal feed for the winter. whenever we hearq about somebody getting of nature in that hundred years. He has married, just as we used to do in Lemkovina. invented wonderful machines, created great In the fall and with harvest gleanings We went to these affairs with great joy and benefits. In short, the man of 1925 can see our lot improved a little. We learned more we even traveled for many kilometers. These many wonders wrought by the human mind. about our extended area, and we found were very pleasant affairs, because we felt for opportunities to earn something. Everybody a short time as if we were still in our. beautifu I It would be interesting to know what found some kind of work or service in Polish and beloved Lemkovina. our grandchildren will see in 2025. The mind households. Some worked with their horses, of man will not stand still. And if worldwide others just used their own muscles. And so, Lemkos from just about every county calamities, wars, revolutions, or some higher everyone earned a little grain and potatoes, in Lemkovina were settled in this region. The forces do not retard development, our enough to keep us alive. largest groups were in the villages of grandchildren will see wonders that nobody Stodolowice, Chalupki, Barszcz (now Chelm), now on earth can even dream of, just as a We also got some help from the Maly Gawrony, Wielki Gawrony, Keb/ow, hundred years ago our grandfathers could not government - several kilograms of wheat and Brodlowicze, Bakow, Orsk, Wysoka, have dreamed of any radio, airplane, etc. corn flour, plus a few grams of sugar. Nieszczice, . Radoszyce, Chobien, Rupna However, the com flour was bitter and Gwizdanow, Rudne Miesto, and others. After In the first place, there will be many unsuitable for food, so we had to throw it out. a while, we were permitted to set up Orthodox new machines and much less need of manual But the sugar was welcome. churches in Stodolowice and Rudne Miesto. labor. And also, there will be 4-5 times more The Greek Catholic priests were compelled to pe9ple - if they don't keep on destroying Those who had generous relatives, in either choose Orthodoxy or convert to themselves. However, there is no reason to America got some help in the form of Catholicism and conduct services in Latin for sorry about shortages of food, because the clothing, footwear, and food. But many of the the Poles. Many of them chose the Latin rite, human mind - science - will find ways of packages arrived damaged or pilfered. while a few organized Orthodox services. extracting from the earth food enough that This move by the Greek Catholic priests was there will be no famine due to overpopulation. In the fall of 1947, the town council tragiC for our faith and our people, because and magistrate apportioned some land to us, and everyone could have as much as he Continued on Page 4, Column 1 Continued on Page 4, Column 1 wanted. They also gave us each a few PA~E 2 CARPATHO-RUS APRIL 26, 2002 Continued from Page 1, Column 3 mountains, such as cancer, consumption, etc. coWs, sheep, and horses. In the village, there is a small store in Marchak's rebuilt house. parishioners followed their priests. It is with a It should be noted that many people And they now have electricity. The PGR heavy heart that I must condemn our spiritual did die, some of them in their young and workers are all Poles from other villages in shepherds, because they led us into what the middle ages. Following are the names of Gorlice County. There is only one Lemko Polish chauvinistic Catholicism had tried for some who died: Mitro Khowochka, Justinia working there, a man from Pankna named centuries to do to us. Haitko, Seman Doklya, Maria Haitko, Natska Rotko, I guess. Pelesh, Mitro Perun, Jakim Wasenko, Mikhail In Stodolowice and Rudne, the priest Khowochka, Maria Pats, Ewka Shopa, Ul'ka As have already stated, the was Khiliak, who has eamed a place in Zorilo. All of these people died at the age of Yasiunkans never forgot their old village and Lemko history by strong support for his 50 or younger, Ul'ka Zorilo was only 25 years we always longed to get back there and live oppressed people.

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