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Published by the Junior Department of the Ukrainian National Association.
No. 1. Jersey City, N. J., Friday, October 6, 1933. Vol. I.
TO OUR YOUTH. OPPORTUNITY.
With this number wo begin the publication of a regular For. the past thirty-nine years Ukrainian immigrants in weekly supplement to the "Svoboda,,: to be known as the ..Ukra America have been building up the Ukrainian National Associa inian Weekly/' and to be devoted exclusively to the benefit of the tion, together with its organ, "Svoboda"—the. first newspaper American-Ukrainian youth. edited in the Ukrainian language in America. The Ukrainian National Association has undertaken to bear From a humble beginning the Ukrainian National Associa the extra cost of this publication, in order to give our youth the tion has grown during these years into a nationwide three million opportunity of having an exclusive organ of its own; written in its ^dollar fraternal organization, with thirty-five thousand members; own style and language; wherein it can meet, exchange its and the "Svoboda," from a weekly issue to the largest Ukrainian thoughts and ideas, come to a better understanding of each other, daily in America. and perhaps point out those paths of endeavor which shall lead to Coincident with this growth of the Ukrainian National As a newer and better life. sociation and its "Svoboda," has been the growth of the younger The "Ukrainian Weekly" is for the youth. The youth alone generation of American-Ukrainians. shall be its master. Its voice alone shall be heeded here. And Today, the paths of these twV) elements, the'Association and all that we desire from our readers, іц order to continue this organ the American-Ukrainian youth, have met. The time has come as such, is just a little good will .атРбо^бреration. It is neces when this youth must begin to take over the reins of the Associa sary that' the youth read it. It.(is necessary, furtber, that the tion from its builders. It niust begin to assume the burdens as youth become interested in it and (give it their, support, so that it well as the benefits of its parents. shall grow and flourish to the point wherein it will embrace That is the principal problem before us today—the problem every phase of-the life of our American-I/krainian youth. of our youth taking over and continuing the tasks of the older The Ukrainian National Association is prepared to cheerfully generation. make even further expenditures in order to enlarge this organ in' For a long time we have been calling and are still urging the scope and size, provided however, that the youth desires it. And youth to take a greater interest in the association, to become more in order to achieve this goal, the youth must not only read this active in it. to gradually take over the reins not only of the supr weekly, it must also contribute articles to it. Gut youth must strive reme executive assembly but of all local branches as well. to become members of the Ukrainian National Association and Our organization is so constructed that it is run solely by. as such, endeavor to make tins organization, which with the pas its members. In order to take a hand in the running of thise sage of-lime shall pass into its bands, bigger and better. organization, one must be a member of it. In any organization This is not the first venture of its kind made by the Ukrainian whatsoever, membership coupled with activity«can build the National Association to do something for our youth. 4 .During the organization to greater and better heights. This is what young forty years of its. existence the Association has contributed Vast American-Ukrainians should realize before they can take over the sums of money for the upbringing of our youth, both in America yeins of our. or for that matter, any other organization. and-in Ukraine. The Association published booklets and news And yet. despite.mir callings and urgings. tin* youth declarer papers for our youth in the Ukrainian language, and also in the that it is not given a "chance'.' to do its part. That is wrong, Ukrainian and English languages: and during the last seven years for the "chance" is already there for the taking. It only re published 'The Ukrainian luvehile Magazine.*' v In addition, the quires some personal initiative and hard work. V Association inaugurated English contributions to our daily, the' Again, a chance or opportunity is not a guarantee oft suc 'Svoboda."' which proved to be of great benefit to our youth. cess. - Opportunity plus "unstinted work spells success. Оту All of this indicates that the .Ukrainian National Association, hard work and unceasing efforts lead Ho^recognition, not only in an effort to help our youth, has gone more than half way to among our people, but other peoples as wfell.. Therefore, be meet. it. If is true, of course, that perhaps the metlmd^.of ap fore our youth can take over the reins of our institutions, it must proach by the older generation was not the proper one at times: firet show proof of its ability to do so. but at any/ate. it was sincere and inspired by idealism. If any Therefore, to give this long sought for "chance" to every young mistakes were made. Ihero is still time to remedy them; if any Ukrainian in America, the Ukrainian National Association, with gains were made. let us retain them. To study this problem, the cooperation and help of its Junior Department, is sponsoring will be one of .the tasks of. this organ. ' the "Ukrainian Weekly," edited in the English language. This In youth one dreams and hopes; that is what we need. paper shall serve as a medium through which the American-Ukra We want the youth that dreams, and then goes lo work and makes inian youth can buihl up not only the Ukrainian National Associa the dreams come true. We need the fresh ideas of youth, and tion, but also institutions of commercial, industrial and cultural that unconquerable fighting spirit. Of our Cossack ancestors. nature. We 'are living in a mighty country which was built upon I am sincerely convinced that with the highest cooperation (beams and ideals; a country where'nothing is impossible: where and interest of the young American-Ukrainians, the "Ukrainian air castles are succeeded by concrete achievements; and where the Weekly" shall grow and flourish. I, as the president of the dreams of yesterday are the realities of today. Such is the spirit Ukrainian National Association, wish the paper the best of suc that we. the American-Ukrainian youth, need. Such is the spirit cess. - which shall raise high our Ukrainian name and our culture "here N. Murashkd, President in America. of the Ukrainian National Association.
SI op}} on Shiimcyho. PROGRESS OF UKRAINIANS IN AMERICA.
Approximately 85",', of all the of gold in 1810. and of the sub day Ukrainian emigration to near the very close of the last Ukrainians in America come sequent so-called "gold rush.'* America negligible. Indeed, inr Century,' and reached its peak from Eastern Сїаіісіа. more pro- The real Ukrainian immigra sofar as the Soviet Russia is con just prior to the War. From nrriv known as' Western Ukra tion to America however, did not cerned, і I; is practically impos UaJjcia the emigration, fever ine*. which4*prior to the World ^ begin until 1870. , and did not sible for any Ukrainian to IcaVe travelled swiftly to Bukowina. War belonged to that conglom issume all у appreciable propor- thai land of unrestrained Bol Podilye. and Volhyn districts. eration of alien nationalities tii ns until 1899. Beginning with shevik tyranny. Л comparatively few Ukrainian kiirwn ;is Ausrria-Ilurigary. and that year Ukrainians began to The earliest Ukrainian im immigrants came from the Kiev district, but practically none. і<німу lo its more modern coun arrive in this country in ever migrants from WeStrCrh I kraine terpart Poland. increasing number, which at were those Iron; the western "T?nm the eastern part of Ukra Ami yd. tin* earliest Ukrainian times""reached the 100.000 mark fooflfflTs of ilc (l-trn-lhi.iu-. Jhen ine, commonly know n as the immigrants to America wefc per voar. ender'Ilunviiy. They Were fol "left bank.*'-^ iio-" from Ukraine under the The outbreak of the World lowed, dirriui? the fatter part of The cause which piomnled the? former "•Russian umpire, who. War." how ever, pill a slop lo this lit * last cenlury.'bv their eastern Ukrainian immigrants to leave traveling across Siberia, across rising Ukrainian immigration. neighbors, the LeniKi I la у t! ir dear ones and homes in tie* Bering Sea. down the) west Seine have eome since the World k і.;• inian Highlander! The la! Western Ukraine, areas fdMbyvS; ern coast of Canada, settled in War. but the. present strin ter formed in ij'.e America n-TJ- I First:—the terrible' economic California in I860. What mo gent Immigration Laws together kryiniau settlements a strictly 1 ci n.lilions at home caused bv tives prompted these early ini-" with the difficulties placed in the. conservative element. They., in t the fact that practically all of the migrants to make this long jour \vay of prospective Ukrainian turn were followed by the Ukra valuable lands, which rightfully ney, is unknown. Possibly, il emigrants by Poland and So inians from Eastern («аіісіа pro belonged to the Ukrainians, 'were \\;t> the news of the discovery viet JUissia, make Ihe present per. Tnis latter wave began in I lie hands of the Polish UKRAINIAN WEEKLY', FRIDAY, OCTOBER % і$33. No. I.
"schJachta" (nobility). The U- Polish" demands .for independ ities <»f the various traveling As for the emigration from U- krainian peasant, although freed ence gave % the Poles full rein agencies. kraine under Russia, it is need from serfdom by the .Reform of to exercise their domination And lastly:—because the U- less to say that the conditions 1842, was still in all respects a over the Ukrainians. The Poles krainians bCgan to learn that there were in some respects serf, living under conditions thereupon continued their cen America offered them a haven, a worse than Щ Western Ukraine; which rivalled those of the Neg turies-old oppressive tactics over place of refuge from these ter- but this emigration tended to ro slave in America prior to the the Ukrainians, robbing them of riblq conditions, in the form of How mostly into southern Sibe Emancipation Proclamation. freedom and unequalled oppor all political, economic, and ria, as far east as the Pacific Secondly:—because of the! in cultural rights, and destroying tunity. Ocean, and around the Volga tolerable political conditions. everything which pertained to These four factors were the and the Turkestan. The Austro*Hungarian gov Ukrainianism. principal causes of the emigra ernment in order to jpacify 4he Thirdly:—because of the activ tion of Ukrainians to America. (End of first installment).
Stephen Shumeyko. UKRAINE IN THE AMERICAN PRESS. 1915 to 1933.
PREFACE. stating that thfc "Ukrainian at of Hindenburgh and -Macken- dinal principles of nationalism. Tt is the purpose- of this series titude today is one of undivided sen revealed to the astonished He says: of articles, which shall appear loyalty to , Russia." To refute world all of the age-long defects "This is the essential meaning in this and subsequent issues this the "Digest" publishes^ a which Russia had throughout of. nationalism: the conquest of of the UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, to pastoral letter of the "then Ukra- centuries been trying, more or all the strata of life, from the present to its readers a digest inan Catholic Bishop of the less successfully, to cover np. soil up, by a homogeneous popu of Jfce leading American press United States^—Mgr. Ortynsky: Instead of the seemingly one lation. Russianizing, Poloniz- comments upon the Ukrainian "These letters are solely an mighty Russian nation composed ing... are tendencies that masque people and their affairs, from expression of grief and repug of one homogeneous Russian rade under the lofty ideal of cre 1915 to the present time. nance to the Russian Church dnd people, the world now observed ating homogeneity in vast' em pires. In their antagonism to The motive which has inspired Government, who are heralding that Russia was composed of separatist nationalism the cen- me to prepare these articles is to to thejworld Oiat they are saviors many subjugated races, all striv tralizers are animated by much make the young American-Ukra of the Slavonic nations and thai ing for freedom or at least auto less respectable motives. They inians realize that the Ukrainian they alone\ cherish a sincere love nomy. wish to reserve for the ruling people and their never ceasing for every Slav. We say openly Thd December 11, 1915, issue race the high places, (he posts of struggles for freedom are not before the world: Lord! Spare of the "New Republic" (Vol. 5: ease. They are anti-democratic unknown among the American us from such a love as like the p. 146) contained an article en much more than ant і-national people, as some of our pessimists Russians showed to the Slavonic titled 'RUSSIA'S IRELAND," by istic. And with the progress of are inclined to believe аД times. Ruthenians (Ukrainians) * people Alvin S. Johnson. Allow me to democracy• which neither war On the contrary, the Ukrainian in the Ukraine, and lately in Ga quote his very, pertinent re nor reaction can 'wholly check,. cause has many sympathizers licia, Bukowina, and Hungary!" marks: the oppressed nations must even particularly among the so-called —o— .V'To the medieval Turk, in "his bigotry, and benightedness. tually win the essentials of free- Intelligentsia. This class—of Meanwhile, the impetus of the all Western Europeans ' were dom." " то— Americans is of great benefit to events in Europe served to Franks. English, French, Spa The above article provoked an the Ukrainian people, for through stimulate the Ukrainan immi nish, and Italian seemed.*U>. him irritated reply by one Alexander the medium of their writings grants in the United States to one language and a barbarous S. Kaun which appeared in the and oral comments, they help fresh endeavors in the field of one... Let us not scoff at same periodical (Jan. 8, 1916— to sway public opinion, un Ukrainian patriotic labors. Some antique Turkish misconceptions, p. 250). This correspondent wittingly at times perhaps, in a of this work found its echo on for we cherish similar miscon was manifestly a rabid follower way that is advantageous to our the pages of American period people. f ceptions ourselves. To us all of /the pan-Russian doctrine, icals. The November 6, 1915. and in his communication to the The young American-Ukra Slavs are One, Great Russians, issue of the "Survey"- (vol. 35. "New Republic" condemns it for inians can aid in the forming Poles, Ruthenians (Ukrainians). p. 121) contained an article en giving place to such "absurd in of American opinion concerning Chechs, Slovaks, Craots, and titled "FIRST CONGRESS OF terpretation? as he calls it. of Ukraine by becoming acquainted Serbs... Buf the. current of Slavic A SUBMERGED PEOPLE" which the Ukrainian problem. He then .with these thoughts and opinions immigration to. the United States describes the Ukrainian conven goes into a exposition of the old on the subject of Ukraine of ' promises to dispel our ignorance tion of 507 delegates representing and moth-eaten propaganda com these pro-Ukrainian Americans of the inner problems of Slav 410 societies.' the purpose * of mon to-all Russians. and. at the proper time and place, dom."/ which was "To demand the es Naturally enough, such an ob by spreading these (minions and He then goes on to mention a tablishment of an independent U- viously prejudiced, and antagon comments among other Amer book which then appeared— krainian stale which should com istic letter had to have a reply. icans. In order to aid such "Ukraine's Claim To Freedom" promise the Ukrainians now in The same issue contained an young American-Ukrainians who which was published in 1915 habiting the countries of eastern answer by A. S. Johnson; parts would desire to do this, these in English by the UKRAINAN Europe" The convention was of which I shall quote: І "tides have been prepared. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION and held in Cooper Union — New "What Mr. Kaun offers is the • ' —o— the Ruthenian National Union, York City. The balance of the characteristic doctrine of the As some of ithe readers mav and with which most of us are article is і a general description Great ftussiqn and the Russified recall from reading my "Short familiar. After distinguishing of the congress, its speakers and ruling and middle classes of the History of Ukraine," the year the Ukrainians from the Poles their sayings. Ukraine... Mf. Kaun informs us 1915 was one of the darkest for and Russians andl citing the U- —о—. that the words for "land" and the Ukrainian people in their krainian demands, the writer "song"^a?&_fthe same or nearly entire history. They were sub The tremendous defeats suf attacks the exploitation, the Rus- the same tor Great Russian and jected on all sides to the most fered by the Russians during the sification and Polonization of our "Little Russian" (Ukrainian). inhuman prosecution, oppression, second half of 1915 at the hands people as being against the car- The words "land" and "song" and to the most rigorous Rus are also nearly -the same for sifying program ever attempted German and English... Mr. Kaun bv Russia. quibbles, loo, when he pro 'The August 21, 1915,'issue of THE ROARING DNIEPER: duces isolated words, elementary the "Literary Digest" (Vol. 51, By Tar as Shevchenko. proof of kinship of languages, as p. 344) contained an article en proof of identity of language. titled THE FUTURE OF THE Roaring, the groaning Dnieper the majority of the people do not He is gambling on the chance RUTHENIANS," which reviewed stretches, know is the introduction to that the reader will be inexpert the comments of other periodi The whining wind with anger "Prychynna" (Bewitched). This in philological method... cals concerning the determined raves song in reality is an introduc The real question at issue, efforts of the Ukrainian people to And lofty willows that it catches" tion to Shevchenko's "Kobzar" however, is not ling.uistical but cast, off their; bondage. To quote Bow to the mounting rolling in that it is, a part of the first 4 political and sociological. Is it the opening sentence: waves. of his poetic works, and what is more interesting, it is part of the desirable that the minority lan "Opprest nations have a habit The pallid moon with mystic only poem printed before the po guages be obliterated, leaving a of becoming inconveniently ob- motion I et's liberation from serfdom few gxeat languages to divide the f і fsive, says a writer in the Was peeking from behind* its which occurred on April 22. world among them? Bureaucratic London 'British Review' and a shrouds 1838 (Julian Calendar), wten imperialists are always inclined lime comes when their claims can And like a skiff out,on the ocean Shevchenko was 24 years old; toward homogeneity of language. no longer he ignored. Such mo Came up and sank behind the Although physically Shevchen So also are the commercialized vent, he thinks', has dawned for clo\idg^/ ko was not a free man at the liberals, who see. in diversity of IheCRuthenians or Ukrainians as time, the freedom and breadth in speech only obstacles to trade. then should be termed." The morning heralds were yet his words make him from the Men who believe in democracy, The article then refers to the resting very beginning of his writing oyirthe other hand, recognize in recommendation of that writer And quiet everywhere did reign; career, the lord of his masters. dislinst languages, thoroughly to form ah independent Ukraine But in the grove the owls were In his description of nature In* dominant upon their natural soil, V-mJer Russia's protection and the calling was nature itself and as such a defense against encroachment &fm@njis of the Ukrainian leaders While ash trees creaked and he wfas taken to heart by the on the part of greater alien a< set out by Prof. Vofkov. creaked again. Ukrainians who, being toilers peoples. Men who regard the ^eiking of the Russian oc- of the soil, are the children of world's cultural stock as more e«nation of Eastern Galicia and nature and therefore it seems iiHjiortant than its stock of ex the attempt to Russify the U- One of the most popular songs natural that we call Shevchenko changeable wealth are also in krainians living there, the article among the Ukrainians, a song the Father of Ukraine. clined toward the preservation of quotes the "British Review" as whose origin, it is safe to say. Waldimir Semenyna. minority languages" UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 193'3T p3.
UKRAINIANS PROTEST DELIBERATE STARVATION OF UKRAINE BY THE BOLSHEVIKS.
A series of mass meetings are liberate carrying out of Ukraine cently expressed his deepest sym Practically, all of the leading being bold by the Ukrainians practically all of the grain and pathy and art offer to help. press of England and the Contin throughout America and Cana ....other foodstuffs, with the result Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of ent has- been filled for the last da, protesting against the bar that over five million Ukrainians Vienna, issued on August 19th a four or five months with descrip baric attempts of: the Bolshevik have died during the past year protest against the Bolshevik tions of the pitiful .scenes regime lo deliberately starve out from starvation. barbarity and an appeal for help throughout Ukraine. and depopulate the 'Ukrainian The Bolsheviks are trying to for the Ukrainians to the Inter people in Ukraine. screen this deliberate starving national Red Cross. The head Appeals are being made to the The purpose of this intentional by declaring that poor crops are of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. Red Cross to establish a base in starvation by the Bolsheviks is responsible for this great famine. Metropolitan Andrew Sheptitsky. Ukraine in order that all Ukra to forever quell the Ukrainian This excuse is rather a grim together with Ukrainian Arch inians can send their aid through struggle for freedom. jest when we consider that Ukra bishops and Bishops has issued a this base. At the present Since the. overthrow of the ine, the home of the famed protest against this persecution time such aid is impossible, as Ukrainian National Republic by "chornozem," is one of the most of unprecedented and inhuman the Bolsheviks will not permit it. the Bolsheviks fifteen years ago. fertile lands on this earth. character. Further appeals are being the latter have used- every con ccivable terroristic weapon to Scenes of * extreme horror are At the present time the Bolshe made to the U.S. Government not stamp out the Ukrainian attempts described by ' eye-witnesses. viks have forbidden Ralph B. to recognize this Communistic to free themselves. Thousands Tliere is absolutely nothing to Barnes of the Herald Tribune, dictatorship,* as it is founded eat. Even the rodents have all of Ukrainians have bceri sum W. If. Chamberlain of the Chris upon principles that are contra been eaten up. People die in tian-Science Monitor, the corres marily shot for the slightest ry to all rules of humanity and political offence;.other thousands their tracks, and are left to rot. pondent of the Manchester Guar were sent to certain death to Sibe Many instances of cannibalism dian, and 'many other leading civilization. Appeals are also be ria and the notorious Solovotskv have been reported. correspondents, to~~enter- -Ukra ing made to the Government to prison Islands. But to no avail. Dr. Ewald Amende. Secretary ine. Only a few extreme Bolshe send a~~Special Mission to Ukra The Ukrainian spirit of indepen of the Congress of National vik sympathizers such as Wal ine in order to study the condi dence still burned on. Minorities at Bern. Switzerland ter Duranty of the New York tions under which the Ukrainian The Reds therefore finally hit Times are permitted to do so. has recently described this fam people are living under this upon the most inhuman plan ever ine in Ukraine as the. ''shame Even Duranty has admitted that conceived, in order to achieve of the twentieth century." His the famine has decimated the tyrannical and oppresive Bolshe their end: and that is the de- I Holiness Pope Pius XX has re Ukrainian populatian. vik dictatorship.
\ HOW KULCHITSKY, A UKRAINIAN, SAVED VIENNA FROM DESTRUCTION IN 1683.
September the 12th of this language so vividly described the tion of Vienna an incident took dangerous t&sk. a Ukrainian year marked the anniversary of life of the, Cossacks. place at that time which is well trader and former Cossack, who one of the greatest events in the Acting in conjunction with the worth relating. at that time happened, to be in entire history of Europe, and beleaguered Viennese, the Cos As previously mentioned, when Vienna, was chosen. His name that is—.the repulse of a vast sacks together with the Austrian the Cossacks came to the aid of was George Kulchitsky. He Turkish horde before the very and Polish troops fell upon the Vienna the Turkish horde was was chosen chiefly because he . walls of Mienna. Turks from the outside. . The already around the city. The could easily pass for a Turk The whole civilized world Turks, caught between two fires, Cossacks joined forces with the since he had previously spent knows how, in 1683. a combined after fighting* desperately, broke Austrian and Polish troops, whe ten years in Turkey as a prisoner Austrian and Polish Army of and fled. Yet, their power was were also outside the city, and of war. where he ran a coffee 50.000 teen, under the leader not broken and still remained a together they waited for an op house. ship оГ the Duke of Lor menace even in retreat. portune time to attack. But be Stealing out of the city .walls raine and Jan Sobieski, a Po To destroy this power. and fore such an attack could be on August 13th. Kulchitsky bold- lish king, defeated a huge horde menace once and for all. the made, an "understanding as to. Iv slatted .to walk through the of Turks consisting of over Cossacks were intrusted with the time of the attack had to be huge Turkish camp, consisting 200.000 men under the leadership the task: Pursuing the retreat made between the allied forces of over 2'i.000 tents, singing vari of Kara Mustapha. before the ing Turks the Cossacks caught and the besieged Viennese. The ous Turkish ditties and songs very walls of Vienna, and thus up with them at a little low u attack had to be simultaneous with which he was well as- saved the Western Christian know as Parkany—near Buda from will.in the cily and from quainted. This impudence nearly Europe from the menace of the pest. I lei'', after some terrible without if it was to succed at proved to be his undoing, for his Mohammedans. fighting, tlie Cossacks by force all. singing attracted the attention of And yet. but. a small portion of their bravery and their pecu Some oiie from the city had a high Turkish officer, who. lik of this world knows that the liar Cossack tactics completely to steal .through the Turkish en ing Kulchitsky's singing, asked him to step into his tent and en decisive role in this great battle shattered the Turkish horde and campment, get to the allied forces tertain him further. After treat was played not by the Auslrians thus removed forever the menace and notify them when the joint ing him with some coJTee.^the nor by the Poles, but by those of an Asiatic invasion of Central at lack was lo be made. Turkish officer asked Kulchitsky. specialists in Turkish and Tar and Western EuroocY; Of the few who volunteered who he was. Kulchitsky. with tar warfare—the Ukrainian Cos In connection with the libera to undertake this exceedingly sacks. out losing any of his equanimity replied that he was a Turkish The reason for this lack of buyer; who had joined the Tur knowledge of the Ukrainian par kish forces in order to perhaps ticipation in this battle, as well VOLUNTEER FOR UKRAINE. run across some good business as in other important events, lies He convinced the Turk so Well in the dense ignorance which that the latter even advised him pervaded Western Europe re A call for loyal soldiers Lovingly she calls you how to get some business. garding the history of Eastern Comes to one and all: With a heart most kind. In this manner did Kulchits Europe, which ignorance was Soldiers from. Ukraina. She whose hear) was broken. ky; principally because of hi? reflected in, the writings oi Will you heed the call? Broken b'y mankind: coolness and courage in the face chronicles which have served as Will you answer quickly Now Ukraina calls you of danger and because of his sources of modern historiography With a ready cheer. Calls in. acents clear. br.r/en effrontery, manage to concerning this part of Europe. Will you be enlisted 'Come and be enlisted reach the Ukrainian Cossacks Yet, in connection with this As a volunteer? As a volunteer!" and their allies, deliver his mes battle before Vienna the fact re sage, and then return the same mains clear and is supported by And when the war is over, wav and in the same manner, careful research, that when Ukraina calls for soldiers \nd victory is won. back to Vienna on the 17th of the situation became acute, as Who are filled with powV, When the truly faithful August. The rest is a matter of the Turkish horde approached Sordiers who will aid her Gather one by one. common knowledge. closer and closer, a call for aid Every day and hour; She'll be crowned in glory As a reward for uis bravery was sent to the Ukrainian Cos You must not forsake her: That will not disappear: Kulchitsky was awarded the sacks—who were well known Be forever near, For her we all enisled huge stores of coffee which the throughout all 'of Europe foi As a. volunteer. Turks in their hurry had left ' their special adaptability in fight Go and be enlisted As a volunteer. nosolic .V. ПаШа. Th ! Christians did not want it ing the Turks and the Tartars. • 'iKT чі those »vs very few of The Cossacks quickly responded. them drank coffee. Л number ol Cossack-; "nolks" Willi tjiis Coffee Kulchitsky !»о'Пец consisting of 1.000 to Heavenly relief. Sam (grinning) "Boss. I siifc was &кеяг.еН to death you a MM o;>ci»'l up Не» (\r$[ coffee house ? 000 men) soon came lo the aid мі і'пг'н». \\ЬИ> with the pas of Vienna, under the leadership Judge—"You've stolen ПО say ducks." ehikens?" sage of lime grew to be Very t>t such famous "polkow niks"* as Wc-fh shouting for. ^ rum*'lar wilh the Viennese, and Semen Paliy. Iskra, Samush. Sam—"No sab.*' U;\ Europe a- we I. Today, this Abazin. and Hohol. The last Judge—"No geese?" 'The next person who in пммцаї coffee bouse of Kul named "polkbwnik" was the an- \ Sam—"No sab." terrupts the proceedings will DC sent home," declared the irate j chitsky s sti!! stands on the same cestoid xof the later world famous Judge—"No turkeys?" snot in Vienna. Sam—"No sab." judge. Ukrainian writer Nicholas Gogol Stephen Sfiumeyko. whose wtitings in the Russian Judge—"Discharged." \ 'Hurrah!'' yelled the prisoner, j UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, FRIDAY, CXITPHl-K o. >• UKRAINIANS FORM OPERA PETLURA'S ASSASSIN CLEVELAND UKRAINIAN CAN AVRAMENKO IN HOLLY TROUPE. DIDATES FOR CITY POST. WOOD. IN HOLLYWOOD. Another Contribution to Amer It is reprinted that Schwa rtz- The Ukrainians of Cleveland, Onj' wjell known master of ican culture, following the Ko- Ohio, may soon see one of their the Ukrainian folk-dance. Vasile harl, the man who assassinated shetz (morns and A\ ramenko's 0\vhj nationality occupying an 1 Avralnonko, is at present in the former bead of the Ukrainian dance exhibitions, will be the administrative post in the gov Hollywood, the center of the forces during the days of tin4 Ukrainian operatic troupe which ernment of their eity^in the per moving picture; industry, where, is being formed at the present Ukrainian Republic, Simon Pet- son of John T. Bilinsky, a young it is reported, he may take part in time in New York City. Its pur Ukrainian lawyer and an active several productions which may lura, on the streets- olj Paris in pose will be to popularize the figure in American and Ukrainian feature Ukrainian dances. 1026. and who is now touring Ukrainian operas and operettas, public affairs, who at the present It is hoped that Avramenko in America, has been brought to by "travelling throughout the timo is eandidating for the post w ill be able to give Hollywood a Hollywood whore he may take country and presenting the best of City Councilman, at the clearer conception of the Ukra of Ukrainian operatic hits to ing municipal elections. eoni- inian people than it has had to a role in a film which will in American and Ukrainian audi clude a scene portraying the as -0- date. ences. sassination. It will be con»posed oX well UKRAINIANS TO TAKE PART The exact motive for the in kn6wn singers, together with an orchestra and a chorus,, all un A UKRAINIAN DRAMATIC IN EUROPEAN WORLD FAIR. famous slaying has never been determined. Declarations that der the direction of Paul Ouh- TROUPE FORMED. The Ukrainian colony of Rrus- litzky," former professor in the sels. capital of Belgium, together the assassination was an act of Imperial Conservatory in Petro- A Ukrainian dramatic troupe with the Ukrainian Union of revenge for the anti-Jewish po grad and well know to American- named after the recently de European Immigrants, are plan groms in Ukraine supposedly in Ukrainians for his part in the ceased famous Ukrainian dra ning to have a Ukrainian ex stituted by Pet 1 ura are false. production of the Ukrainian matist and actor. Mikola Sadow- hibit in the European world fair, Simon Petlura at all times was opera "Mazeppa."' It is prob sky. has been recently formed which will take place in 1935 able that well known operatic in New York City. Composed opposed to the pogroms, and did in Brussels. stars will take part, in the pro of many of the