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VOL. LXXXV No. 68 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 26,1978 25 CENTS piDtK ""ПІ ^e Khrystos Voskres — Christ Is Risen ^

"Greatest Tenet of Our Faith" Hierarchs of "Pomisna" Church (Easter Greetings of Archbishop-Metropolitan Joseph Schmondiuk) Issue 1978 Easter Pastoral "Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, hut has arisen!" ROME,Italy.-The hierarchs of the (Luke 24, 5-6). ''Pomisna'' Ukrainian Catholic Church have released the 1978 Easter Beloved in Christ: Pastoral letter in which they underlined Khrystos Voskres! Christ has Risen! the need for suffering in God's name, This truth resounds today through­ love of neighbors, unity in the Ukraini­ out the world: "Christ rose from the an community, and the establishment dead, by His death He conquered of the Patriarchate. death, and granted life to those who The letter, dated February 7, 1978, were in the graves/' Have we ever was signed by Patriarch Josyf Cardinal meditated upon this great truth? Have Slipyj and the hierarchs of the "Pomis­ we ever sounded the depths of meaning na" Church. of this event and the meaning it has for The yearly message said that Christ's the whole of mankind and each one of resurrection was a "shining victory of us? truth over untruth, love over hate,.life There is no doubt that Jesus Christ over death." It is a "holiday of holi­ arose from the grave. All the evangel­ days, feast of feasts," because Christ ists mention this fact; Paul, the "attained God's plan to save man­ Apostle of the Gentiles, writes at kind." length about it and underscores the Stressing that suffering is an impor­ consequences of the Resurrection on tant aspect of Christ's Church, the pas­ all men; the enemies of Christ — the toral said that it is a sign of love for Sanhedrin, the Pharisees, Saducees, God and neighbor. the Roman government, were forced to admit that Christ had risen; the past "Suffering) is a part of life, and it two thousand years despite many cannot be avoided. Since it was Christ denials of rationalists of the seven­ Our Lord, who suffered" the members teenth and eighteenth centuries and the of his Church must also accept suf­ modernists of our age, proved the truth fering. of this Christian belief. And Ukraini­ "Suffering becomes beneficial to us an ^ accepted this as a historical icict when we accept It as proof of our kwe vV\\ ±w\ deceive '-eaffu-mation: n^JJfl for God." SP3 The pastors1 points out thar ' ^?, i- ІЩЙ su/fem^ zoh.C evoke -- t;^ ^ їГПлП iJ lO'\ ZW:

KHRYSTOS VOSKRES! . шіІь-Sovkf uelh'liy. Caose iekUvos ! John Chrysostom, in his resu'.rec- | of file defendants were banted /гота ; iio'^Hy, writer "Come you 'JA: ' attending ?AefnaL ; -J 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 26,1978 No. 68 Osadchy Asks Kiev Group President Liwycki Calls for New Rada MUNICH, West Germany.-Mykola Citing his and the government's Liwycki, President of the Ukrainian Na­ decision, the Bulletin said that the To Investigate Death of Brother tional Republic-iri-exile, by a decree of Rada was composed of six political NEW YORK, N.Y.—Mykhaylo his brother was interrogated by the March 7, 1978, disbanded the Ukrainian parties with 36 mandates, but Osadchy, a Ukrainian political pri­ KGB and was offered a job with them. National Council (Rada) and called for a that three more parties have agreed to soner confined in the Svoboda concen­ He refused and that instigated KGB new composition in accordance with join the body since the seventh session, tration camp in the Mordovian ASSR, harassment against him, wrote the decision of the Council adopted upping the total to 48 mandates. If asked the Kiev Public Group to Pro­ Osadchy. at its seventh session three years ago. three more political parties were to join the Rada, it would result in the total of mote the Implementation of the Hel­ Osadchy's brother was born in 1941. The decision at that time called for sinki Accords to investigate the death He is a botanist and was involved with 112 representatives from the political the admission of representatives of the and 112 from the community sector. of his brother, Volodymyr, on April 5, the Sumy oblast consumer's cooper­ community at large on par with those 1975, reported the press service of the ative. Osadchy said that his brother de­ representing the political parties within Considering such a number to be too Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council fended his innocence at every corner, the Rada. large, said the government's decree, (abroad). and added that his only connection in the number of representatives is being Osadchy feels that his brother was what could be "dissidentism" was re­ Mr. Liwycki, in making his an­ lowered to three for each member killed, allegedly on orders by the KGB. writing the files of the cooperative in nouncement as reported in the Coun­ party. He wrote in his letter to the Kiev the Ukrainian language. cil's Bulletin of March 8, 1978, cited The announcement did not set a group on November 20, 1977, that the After Volodymyr refused to cooper­ Article 18, paragraph 8 of the Temp­ specific date for the elections of com­ first medical examiner's report on his ate with the KGB, some unknown per­ orary Law, giving him the power to munity representatives and the convo­ brother's death disappeared. People son acquainted him with a group of disband the Council and call the com­ cation of the new Council. The current who saw the first reports said that it convicts, wrote Osadchy. These con­ position of a new one. term of the Rada expires in 1979. differed from the second one, which victs in March 1975 robbed his apart­ listed the cause of death as alcohol ment , and on April 2 Osadchy's bro­ and heart failure, said Osadchy. ther was called before a judge and Urges Firmness in Dealing with USSR Osadchy said that he learned of his afterwards relieved of complicity with brother's death one month after it hap­ the crime. He was to be a witness dur­ ST. LOUIS, Mo.-The United Archbishop Elko, former spiritual pened. He said that his investigation up ing the trial. States should stand up more often to head of the Byzantine Diocese of Pitts­ to now points to KGB involvement in Osadchy wrote that he learned that the Soviet Union, Archbishop Nicholas burgh and currently Auxiliary Bishop the incident. on April 5 the group of convicts threw T. Elko told members of the Cardinal of Cincinnati, said that the Helsinki The incarcerated Ukrainian writer his brother's body out of a passing car Mindzenty Foundation at the organiza­ pact is irritating the USSR "more than said that about three months after his in Sumy. tion's leadership conference here, re­ many people realize," and that he was brother was killed, the KGB implied Since learning of his brother's death, ported the Religious News Service. encouraged by recent U.S. charges that that something may happen to him. Osadchy held 39 hunger strikes and The Cardinal Mindzenty Foundation the USSR is failing to live up to the Osadchy said that he was transferred wrote numerous appeals for an irP was founded 20 years ago to fight com­ Helsinki agreement. from Sosnovka to a KGB prison in the quest. All of them have been turned munism. It is named after the late Car­ He urged that boycotts and other fall of 1974 and was asked by Lts. Shu- down on the basis of the second medi­ dinal Joseph Mindzenty, primate of economic sanctions be used against the meyko and Yermolenko for a favor. If cal examiner's report. Hungary. Soviet Union. he complies, they promised to have his "I sincerely ask you (members of the sentence reduced to time served. Kiev group) to investigate this matter "I angrily refused - and as a person or attain an official inquest," he Rep. Fenwick Aids Gen. Grigorenko illegally persecuted and as a citizen asked. who condemned the repressions in Uk­ Osadchy told the Ukrainian Helsinki SOMERVILLE, N.J,-Rep. МІ1И- not speak out, he did not hold press raine in 1972," he wrote. watchers that prior to his brother's cent Fenwick (R-N.J.) asked the Soviet conferences and he did not vilify his Osadchy said that he was threatened, death, he was the target of frequent government to restore Soviet citizen­ country," said Rep. Fenwick. "It is a his 70-year-old mother was beaten, and KGB harassments. Many people were ship to Gen. Pyotr Grigorenko, the mystery why the Soviets decided on finally Yermolenko told him to prepare interrogated in connection with his Ukrainian human rights advocate, re­ this random cruelty.'' his brother for "an incident that will case, said Osadchy. In addition, KGB ported George Wirt in the Friday, The Somerset County legislator said shock you." officers were present during the funeral March 10 edition of The Newark that the action contradicts everything of Osadchy's brother and wrote down Star-Ledger. agreed to at the Conference on Security In the concentration camp, Osadchy and Cooperation in Europe in 1975. told of several attempts by inmates to the names of all persons persent. Rep. Fenwick described the Soviet decision as a "cruel and vicious slap" "I have written to Soviet Ambassa­ rape and beat him. Osadchy said that he also requested dor Dobrynin and asked his govern­ He wrote a letter to his brother war­ the Moscow group, International As­ at the former Soviet military leader. "Gen. Grigorenko came to this ment to reconsider Gen. Grigorenko's ning him that the KGB is planning to sociation of Jurists, and the PEN Club case," she said. kill him, but the correspondence was for help. He said that the Rev. Vasyl country for medical reasons. He did confiscated by the camp censor. Romaniuk supports his attempts. Osadchy also wrote to the Lviv oblast He also asked that the Kiev group prosecutor that someone in his family seek support for his mother, and asked USSR Census to Be Conducted in 1979 may be killed. that concerned individuals send letters MOSCOW, USSR.—"Pravda," the schools, institutions and factories. In Osadchy said that in December 1974 of comfort to her. official organ of the Central Commit­ the Ukrainian SSR there are 17,000 tee of the Communist Party of the So­ census commissions, totalling 104,000 viet Union, announced that in January persons. Apprise Minnesota Legislators 1979 a census will be conducted in the The census will be conducted from USSR. January 17-24, 1979. Newspapers in the 15 republics carried Of Nobel Nominations, Kiev Exhibit similar notifications. The population of the Ukrainian The questionnaire will consist of 16 SSR as of January 1, 1967, according MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.-Andrij plight of Ukrainians living under So­ to the February 26 edition of "Radi- Karkoc and Susan Ebner, representing viet domination, especially the Ukrai­ questions and is to be filled out by every adult citizen of the Soviet anska Ukrayina" (Soviet Ukraine), the Helsinki Guarantees for Ukraine nian dissidents. Rep. Fraser stressed was 46 million. Committee, had an official visit with the necessity of constituents to keep Union. Congressman Don Fraser to discuss a their legislators informed of these con­ The census will be conducted by lo­ This number included 32 million Uk­ number of human rights issues. cerns. He also explained that legisla­ cal councils and specially created com­ rainians (76.8 percent), 7 million Rep. Fraser was asked to send a no­ tors can be more effective in these missions, which will work through Russians, and 840,000 Jews. minating or seconding letter to the areas with active constituent support, Nobel Prize Commission in support of such as letters, telegrams, phone calls the Helsinki monitoring groups in the and personal visits. CBOFOAA^SVOBODA Soviet Union. He agreed to do this and УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЩОАІННМК UKRAINIAN DAILY Mr. Fraser was given a complimen­ expressed his support for the Fascell FOUNDED 1893 Commission's nomination of the So­ tary copy of the publication "Invin­ cible Spirit," along with several other Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association, Inc., at 30 Montgomery viet monitoring groups. Street. Jersey City, N.J. 07302, daily except Mondays and holidays. Mr. Karkoc also discussed with Mr. English-language texts by or about Uk­ rainian dissidents. TELEPHONES: Fraser the USIA exhibit, "Agriculture U.N.A. in America," to be shown in Kiev this Mr. Karkoc and Miss Ebner also (201)434-0237 (201)451-2200 April. Mr. Fraser agreed to contact visited Dick McCall, foreign affairs ad­ (201)434-0807 from New York (212) 227-5250 John Reinhardt at the USIA and raise visor to Senator Muriel Humphrey from New York (212) 227-4125 (212)227-5251 the question of the use of Russian- (D-Minn.). Mr. McCall agreed to discuss speaking guides and Russian-language with Sen. Humphrey the nomination let­ Subscription rates for THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY S6.00 per year brochures in non-Russian republics, ter request and the USIA exhibit request, UNA Members - S2.50 per year particularly in Ukraine. He did so with explaining that Sen. Humphrey would a letter dated February 27. most likely be willing to comply with THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Editor: Zenon Snylyk Mr. Karkoc and Miss Ebner dis­ both requests. Sen. Humphrey was PO. Box346, Jersey City, N.J. 07303 Ass't Editor: Ihor Dlaboha cussed in general the deep concern of also given a copy of "Invincible Editorial Ass't: RomaSochan Ukrainian Americans regarding the Spirit," along with other publications. No. 68 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 26,1978 Dr. Stern Credits West Canadian Prime Minister Is Evasive For Release from Prison On Reunification of Families CHICAGO, I11.—Dr. Mikhail Stern, prosecutor admitted to him that he is By Stephen Zaverucha the Jewish Ukrainian physician who innocent. came to the United States in September "Doctor, I know you're innocent, TORONTO, Ont.—The Canadian various ethnic groups, including Ukrai­ 1977, feels that the public campaign con­ but I have to do this — I have children Ukrainian Immigrant Aid Society said nian, Polish, Latvian, Estonian and ducted on his behalf in the free world — I have to prosecute you," relat­ that it has had little success in its at­ Jewish groups, urging the government resulted in his release from a Soviet ed Dr. Stern. tempt to have Prime Minister Pierre to make representations to the govern­ concentration camp. He also said that his two Trudeau make a direct appeal to ment of the Soviet Union to permit im­ In an interview with Robert Welt- sons, Viktor and Avgust, were warned Leonid Brezhnev for the settlement of migration of Soviet citizens who have man published in the February 27 edi­ by the secret police at the time of their outstanding family reunification cases. committed no crime and wish to leave tion of the American Medical News, emigration from the Soviet Union in The Canadian government readily that country, especially citizens of the Dr. Stern said, "I'm free because 1975 that if they speak out on behalf of takes extraordinary measures on behalf Soviet Union who have relatives in my children, with the help of the free their father the "KGB will destroy of other minorities, but there is a Canada. world, raised such a strong campaign him." strange reluctance to act on behalf of Since whatever representations were and carried it through." "If my children had followed that East Europeans, especially Ukrainians made on this matter at the Belgrade During the interview, Dr. Stern re­ advice, I would have died in that con­ and Baltics, said a society spokesman. conference have failed, would the peated his gratitude to the Ukrainians centration camp and would not have been For example, in 1977 Immigration Prime Minister now make public repre­ of his native city of Chernivtsi for free," he said. Department officials visited Hanoi and sentations to the Soviet president, Mr. saving his life. He said that, "2,000 Dr. Stern said he was confined in Saigon in connection with reunifica­ Brezhnev, urging him to facilitate the Ukrainians refused to testify against camp no. 12 in the area of Kharkiv. tion applications. They also interview­ movement of such Soviet citizens to me and saved me." The camp, he said, was built in 1956. ed 297 Chilean political prisoners in 27 Canada? "The Ukrainian people are not an "That's the same year that Khrush­ prisons, with the result that these pri­ Right Hon. P.E. Trudeau: Mr. anti-Semitic people," he declared. chev told the world that we would put soners and their dependents are now Speaker, I am surprised that the hon. Dr. Stern's interpreter for the inter­ the last lock on the last concentration starting to arrive in Canada. member asks the question in this way. view was provided by the Ukrainian camp in the Soviet Union. He said one In 1973, during his visit to China, He knows the government has made Congress Committee of America. thing but he was doing other things. Mr. Trudeau personally approached many representations to Soviet autho­ The former political prisoner told That's the way of the Communist the heads of state and reached an rities to this effect. I have reported to Mr. Weltman that during his trial, a system," said Dr. Stern. understanding on family reunification. the House that I have raised the ques­ Similarly Don Jamieson, Minister for tion twice, personally, in meetings with External Affairs, pressed for a the prime minister of the Soviet Union stepped-up family reunification plan and again with the ambassador. I be­ Chicago Women Meet in Parley during his January 1978 visit. As a re­ lieve it is a matter of record that there sult of these actions more than 2,800 has been substantial improvement in CHICAGO, 111.—A conference for She introduced each of the guest Chinese citizens have rejoined families the movement of Jewish Soviet citizens women sponsored by Illinois State Re­ speakers and conducted the question- in Canada. out of the Soviet Union. Indeed, in the presentative Boris R. Antonovych on and-answer period after the three pre­ David Orlikow, M.P. for Winnipeg area of reunification of families, there Sunday, March 12, at the SUMA hall sentations. North, raised the Ukrainian issue on has been substantial progress. I do not was attended by over 50 women from A great deal of interest was shown Thursday, March 2. His exchange with have the statistics at hand, I am sur­ the community. by those attending the conference. Mr. Trudeau went as follows: prised the hon. member implies by his The guest speakers were Illinois From Rep. Catania they found out Mr. David Orlikow: Mr. Speaker, I question that we have not obtained re­ State Representative Susan Catania what legislation has been passed for the should like to direct a question to the sults. We have, and so have other Wes­ who spoke on "Status of Women in protection of women's rights and what Prime Minister. Some time ago repre­ tern countries. America," Mathilda Jakubowski, is still pending. sentations were made to the Prime Mr. Orlikow: Mr. Speaker, my Director of the Chicago Transit Mrs. Jakubowski's talk stirred Minister and the Secretary of State for supplementary question is directed to Authority, whose topic was the "1980 External Affairs by representatives of (Continued on page 8) Federal Census, " and Dr. Daria (Continued on page 11) Markus, educator, who spoke on "Women's Rights in Ethnic Communi­ ties." UCCA Presidium, National Council Meet The conference was opened by Vira Bodnaruk, co-chairwoman of the cul­ NEW YORK, N.Y. (UCCA Spe­ decided that the final text will be 1978. The format of the congress will tural affairs committee of the UNWLA cials—On Saturday, March 18, the worked out with the UNIS director. include plenary sessions, work of vari­ Regional Council. She warmly wel­ presidium of the UCCA Executive The convocation of the 3rd World ous committees, a representative con­ comed the assembled guests on behalf Board held its monthly meeting, at­ Congress of Free Ukrainians was dis­ cert and a manifestation. All details of Rep. Antonovych and informed tended by several members. The meet­ cussed by three members of the will be worked out by the organiza­ them that he was unable to greet them ing was opened by Executive Vice-Pre- UCCA, who are members of the tional committee. personally because he was in transit sident Ivan Oleksyn, who presided over WCFU secretariat. Dr. Bohdan Hnatiuk spoke about from Europe. He had been attending the meeting. Joseph Lesawyer said that the con­ the May fund-raising drive for the the Conference on Security and Administrative Director Ivan Bazar- gress will be held at New York's Ame­ WCFU and the need to enlist as many Cooperation in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, ko asked the assembled to rise and pay ricana Hotel on November 23^26, (Continued on page 8) and also the United Nations Confer­ tribute to three members of the UCCA ence on Human Rights in Geneva, ruling organs, who died recently: Dr. Switzerland. Wolodymyr Nesterczuk and Dr. Illia Luba Klymkowych, member of Karapinka, members of the UCCA au­ UNA Supreme Comptrollers UNWLA, was mistress of ceremonies. diting board, and Mrs. Oksana Gen- galo, member of the UCCA National Council. Complete Pre-Convention Audit Ukrainians Seek Aid Mr. Bazarko also reported that the Ukrainian American Association of From Rep. McHugh University Professors has recalled Prof. Volodymyr Stojko as its repre­ In USIA Matter sentative in the UCCA Executive Board and appointed Prof. Peter Ster- BINGHAMTON, N.Y.—The Triple cho in his place. Cities Branch of the Ukrainian Con­ Proposed and accepted as members gress Committee of America asked of the UCCA National Council were Rep. Matthew F. McHugh (D-N.Y.) to Mrs. Stefania Saldan and Mykola Cho- intervene with the United States Infor­ manczuk, representing the Committee mation Agency, the Department of of United Ukrainian American Organi­ Agriculture, and President Jimmy Car­ zations of New York, a UCCA Branch. ter regarding the USIA's decision to Auditing committee chairman Iwan distribute Russian-language brochures Wynnyk reported that the audit of all at an agricultural exhibit in Ukraine. bookkeeping of the UCCA for 1977 The five-member Supreme Auditing Committee of the Ukrainian National Asso­ Five members of the UCCA branch: was made on March 11, 1978, and ciation completed the pre-convention audit of UNA assets and operations Friday, V. Victor Halich, branch chairman, stated that all UCCA operations were March 24, at the Soyuz Main Office in Jersey City. The audit, held in accordance Zenon Wasyliw, Myron Krajnyk, conducted within the framework of its with the Association's by-laws, ended with a joint meeting with the Executive Wolodymyr Zalucky and Lubomyr budgetary provisions. Committee. The official report of the auditing committee will be published in a Zobniw, made an appeal to the con­ In turn, Ignatius M. Billinsky, subsequent edition of The Weekly. Photo above shows, left to right, Dr. Ivan gressman during a town meeting UCCA Secretary, read the by-laws of Skalczuk, who reviews the Organizing Department; the Rev. Iwan Waszczuk, hosted by him Sunday, March 12, in (the Ukrainian National Information Svoboda Press; John Hewryk, Recording Department and chairman of the com­ Johnson City. Rep. McHugh agreed to Service) UNIS, as well as an outline of mittee; Iwan Wynnyk, Financial Department; and Prof. Bohdan Hnatiuk, look into the matter. its organization and activities. It was Soyuzivka. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 26,1978 No. 68 UWM Students Seek Continuation Of Ukrainian Courses Under Separate Listing MILWAUKEE, Wisc.-Members of gistered for Hebrew first, then for Rus­ delegation of students interested in this on the official registration lists, she the Ukrainian Students' Organization sian. Others have been told that the matter. You can be assured that we at said. of the University of Wisconsin - Mil­ university does not even offer a Ukrai­ UWM will give these courses every In December 1977 Mrs. Downey, waukee met with university Chancellor nian language course, the Journal's chance to survive. I would hope that was informed that she was being reliev­ Werner A. Baum here Tuesday, March account said. we could rely on the support of the ed of her position and would be replac­ 7, and demanded that Ukrainian lan­ Miss Pawlak apprised UCCA Presi­ Milwaukee Ukrainian community to ed by another instructor, whom the guage courses be assigned their own dent Lev E. Dobriansky of the sit­ encourage students to enroll in these Ukrainian students and community curricular number, instead of using the uation at the University of Wisconsin. courses," he concluded. found unacceptable. Miss Pawlak said same number as Russian courses, re­ Dr. Dobriansky then wrote to the Mrs. Irusha Downey, instructor of that her efforts to reverse the dismissal ported the university's newspaper, The university's chancellor expressing his the Ukrainian courses told The Mil­ of Mrs. Downey probably would not Post. hope that the university would not waukee Journal ethnic reporter, Alice have been successful if not for a similar Polish and Serbo-Croatian language abolish Ukrainian courses for which Anne Conner, that she has well over 30 situation which developed concerning courses have separate curriculum list­ there is a "grave need," and in which students in her two classes combined, Polish courses offered by the Slavic ings in the schedule of classes, while the students have demonstrated an in­ and that there have been at least as department. the Ukrainian courses do not. All are terest. many enrolled each semester during the The university had attempted to dis­ offered by the Slavic department. "What has appeared in The Milwau­ two years the courses have been of­ continue Polish language courses, but When the courses were first offered kee Journal recently is most disquiet­ fered. The problem is that when stu­ a strong protest by the local chapter of in September 1976 they were not listed І ing. If the reports are accurate, it dents enroll through the continuing the Polish American Congress forced in the schedule of classes and the only would seem that poor judgment is be­ education program they are not listed the university to back down. way people heard about them was by ing shown at the lower levels of your word of mouth, Vera Pawlak, presi­ school," wrote the UCCA President. dent of the Ukrainian Students' Or­ "Moreover, as the reports suggest, ganization told the university paper. considerations of heritage study and Sen. Kennedy Introduces Bill on Refugees At that time Roger Phillips, associ­ possible discrimination would also WASHINGTON, D.C.—Sen. Ed­ on refugees for many years, said the ate professor and chairman of the Sla­ emerge should these courses be elimi­ ward Kennedy (D-Mass.) introduced a bill would accomplish four objectives: vic department, promised that if en­ nated." bill that would raise the annual limita­ ^ It would repeal the current dis­ rollment was successful after a one- In response, Chancellor Braum tion on refugee admissions from year trial period Ukrainian language criminatory treatment of refugees and wrote that "the future of these Ukrai­ 17,400 to 40,000 and would allow the displaced persons by providing anew courses would be assigned a separate nian courses is dependent on their en­ granting of permanent resident status curriculum number, said Miss Pawlak. definition which recognizes the plight rollments. I presume that the depart­ to visitors who claim refugee or dis­ of homeless people all over the world In April 1977, the Slavic department ment will continue to offer these cour­ placed person status while on temp­ faculty reviewed the situation and and by according refugee admissions ses as long as there is a reasonable stu­ orary visits in the U.S. the same status as all other immigrants; voted the proposed curricular number dent demand. However, this university In introducing the bill in the Senate down, although, according to Miss is under extreme budgetary pressure. Wednesday, March 15, Sen. Kennedy " It would raise the annual limita­ Pawlak, enrollment in the courses has Courses with low enrollments through­ said: "The bill I am introducing today tion on admissions from 17,400 to increased by about 40 percent since out this university are constantly being represents a reasonable consensus on 40,000; they were first offered. examined with great care to determine needed reform, which not only reflects ^ It would provide for an orderly Because Ukrainian courses do not whether we will be able to commit any a traditional concern of the American but flexible procedure to meet "emer­ have their own curricular number further resources to them.'' people for refugees, but also adds new gent" refugee situations and any other many students are finding it difficult to "I am very aware of the Milwaukee substance to the humanitarian and hu­ situation of special interest to the U.S.; register for them. The Milwaukee Ukrainian community's interest in man rights dimensions of our nation's ф It would allow students, visitors Journal reported on several such cases, seeing these language courses flourish. foreign policy." and other non-immigrant aliens to including one woman who spent Members of my staff have been meet­ The Senator, who is the ranking claim refugee or displaced person status several weeks just trying to get her re­ ing with community representatives. I member of the Judiciary Committee - while temporarily present in the U.S. and gistration card corrected. She was re­ shall shortly be talking directly with a and was chairman of its subcommittee be granted permanent resident status.

To Hold Historical Conference Ukrainian Named Dean LONDON, Ont.-The Canadian In­ the Russian Revolution, Role of the stitute of Ukrainian Studies is being City in Ukrainian History, Problems Of Arts and Science joined by the Harvard Ukrainian Re­ of Terminology and Periodization in search Institute and the Ukrainian His­ the Teaching of Ukrainian History, torical Association in staging a scholar­ and others. At Winnipeg University ly conference at the University of Wes­ tern Ontario here Monday through The principal speaker at the banquet WINNIPEG, Man.-Dr. Donald an electrical engineer for two years and will be Dr. George Shevelov of Colum­ W. Kydon, a physicist and an admin­ taught physics at Fairleigh Dickinson Wednesday, May 29-31. The confer­ bia University, who will share his "Re­ ence will be held within the framework istrator at the University of Winnipeg, University in New Jersey for six years. flections of a Linguist on Ukrainian will take up the post of dean of arts He spent two years at Oxford as a na­ of the annual meeting of the Canadian History" with the conferees. Association of Slavists. and science at the institution in Sep­ tional research council post-doctorate For further information interested tember. fellow. Individual sessions of the conference persons should write to: The Canadian Dr. Kydon, who joined Winnipeg's will deal with such topics as Historio­ Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 335 staff in 1970, has been appointed for a Dr. Kydon has written numerous pa­ graphy, the Historical Legacy of Kie- Athabasca Hall, University of Alberta, five-year term. He is now an assistant pers on solid state physics and, in 1973, van Rus', Ukraine and the Muslim Edmonton, Alta., Canada T6G 2E8; dean of arts and science with respon­ won the university's Clifford J. Robson World, Ukrainian Elites, Ukraine and tel.: (403)432-2972. sibility for budget and planning - a Award for Excellence in Teaching. post he has held since 1975. He will succeed Dr. John Clake who A specialist in solid state physics, he has held the dean's position since studied at Johns Hopkins, McMaster 1968. Dr. Clake, also vice-president of Columbia U. to Have Ukrainian Exhibit and Oxford universities. After receiv­ undergraduate programs, will return to NEW YORK, N.Y.—The "Night of at Columbia University. The Ukraini­ ing his bachelor's degree, he worked as teaching at the university. Nations/' an annual international fair an Student Club at Columbia and resi­ will be held here at the International dents of International House of vari­ House, 500 Riverside Drive at 123rd ous ethnic backgrounds are cooperating Street, Saturday, April 1, beginning at in this event. To Hold "Sviachene" at Manor 6 p.m. International House is a coed pro­ For the first time a Ukrainian booth gram center and residence for over 500 JENKINTOWN, Pa.-The annual blessed by the college chaplain on that will be included in the event. The booth graduate students from 80 countries. Easter buffet "Sviachene" will day. will be modeled after a Ukrainian vil­ be held on Sunday, April 9, at 3 p.m., ^ Tickets at S5 per person for adults The Easter egg demonstration will.be in the college dining hall of Manor And S2.50 for children under 12 years lage house complete with a stork on the given by Mrs. Lona Hoshovskyj. The chimney. Ukrainian food will be Junior College. 'of age, may be obtained by writing to: booth is supported by donations from Manor Junior College, Easter Buffet, served, and the craft of making "py- Surma, Hladun Family Catering, and the sanky" will be demonstrated. The ad nistration, faculty and stu­ Jenkintown, Pa. 19046. Kurowycky, Sian, and Baczynsky dents of Manor invite the parents, Make checks payable to Manor The Ukrainian booth is being or­ meat markets. benefactors and friends of Manor to Junior College. Tickets will be mailed ganized by Dr. Roman Kuc, a resident All proceeds from the "Night of Na­ join them in the celebration of the upon receipt of the reservation, which of International House who is conduct­ tions" will go to the student scholar­ Feast of trre Risen Christ and enjoy the should bc- sent in no later than March ing research in biomedical engineering ship fund of International House. traditional Easter foods; which wffl?be 27;. " : No. 68 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 26,1978 5

Dr. Kuropas Stresses Wolodymyr Rak Named V.P. Importance of Ethnicity At Chase Manhattan Bank NEW YORK, N.Y.—Wolodymyr Rak, a banking official at Chase Man­ hattan Bank for 22 years, has been pro­ moted to vice-president of this, the world's third largest bank. Born in Ukraine, Mr. Rak, 52, acquired his higher education in Munich, West Germany, and in the United States. He holds a Master's de­ gree in economics which he obtained in 1956 at New York University. With Chase Manhattan since his graduation, Mr. Rak was appointed the bank's accounting officer in 1970 and served in that post until December 20, 1972, when he was named second vice-president. Active in the Ukrainian American Wolodymyr Rak community, Mr. Rak has been for A segment of the "Vesna" youth choir. Seated behind the dais, first left, is Dr. years associated with Plast. He is the American Accounting Association, Myron Kuropas. former "stanychnyi" of the New York Tax Society of New York University, SASKATOON, Sask.-Dr. Myron Plast branch, one-time member of the New York University Alumni Feder­ Dr. Kuropas also told the audience organization's national council, and ation and other organizations. Kuropas, former special assistant to that the U.S. government is still trying President Gerald Ford for ethnic now serves on the National Plast Mr. Rak and his wife, Anna, who to maintain the "melting pot" idea, Council and the Supreme Plast Coun­ heads UNWLA branch 83, are the pa­ affairs and former legislative assistant which is a bankrupt position and one to Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.), said here cil. rents of two sons, Ihor and Andrew. that never really existed. Mr. Rak's other activity in the Uk­ Ihor, married to the former Susanna that ethnicity, and the lack of official "At least the Canadian government recognition of it, plays an important part rainian community includes member­ Cehelsky, will graduate this year from has kept records of the ethnic origin of ship in the Ukrainian Cooperative As­ Columbia Medical School and will be­ in determining U.S. foreign policy. its citizens. The United States did not, sociation and the Society of Ukrainian gin internship at a Philadelphia chil­ Dr. Kuropas, who is also a and now ethnic communities have dif­ Engineers of America, and chairman­ UNA Supreme Advisor, was in town to ficulty proving their numbers when try­ dren's hospital. Andrew will also grad­ address a dinner and dance of the Uk­ ing to raise funds from the government ship of the Parents Committee of the uate from Columbia University and be­ rainian Professional and Business Club for ethnic projects," he said. Saturday School of Ukrainian Sub­ gin law school. Both brothers are also jects. active in Plast. | Saturday, February 4, at the Bessbo- Dr. Kuropas explained the work­ rough Hotel. In addition, Mr. Rak also belongs to The entire family belongs to UNA ings of the U.S. government, especially the Bank Administration Institute, The Ukrainian American educator efforts concerning the reunification of Branch 194. told some 300 persons that Canada is families separated by the Iron Curtain far ahead of the United States in re­ and attempts to make human rights cognizing and dealing with ethnicity. violations in the Soviet Union known Gen. Jaskilka to Retire He said that since he lost his position in the free world. with the administration because of "A free Ukraine is possible. There is Ford's defeat, American ethnic a chance because the national process From U.S. Marine Corps groups have not had official recogni­ is still alive. But this will only be pos­ tion. Dr. Kuropas said that ethnic sible if the USSR starts to fall apart WASHINGTON, D.C.— Gen. groups in Canada have more influence from the inside. The freedom move­ Samuel Jaskilka, assistant comman­ on government affairs. ment in Ukraine could be part of this dant of the United States Marine Appearing in the course of the pro­ process," he said. Corps, is expected to retire from the gram was the "Vesna" youth choir. News of the dinner and Dr. Kuro­ corps next July, reported the Associ­ Atty. T. Chernesky, a city alderman pas' presence was reported in the Feb­ ated Press. and vice-president of the club, was ruary 6 edition of the Saskatoon He will be replaced by Lt. Gen. master of ceremonies. Star-Phoenix. Robert H. Barrow, 56, of Baton Rouge, La., Lt. Gen. Barrow is now commanding general of the Atlantic Fleet Marine Force based in Norfolk, Passaic Mayor Proclaims Va. Gen. Jaskilka, who is the highest "Taras Shevchenko Day" ranking Ukrainian American officer in the armed forces, was the principal PASSAIC, N.J.—In line with the tively, of the UCCA branch, apprised speaker during this year's Ukrainian local Ukrainian community's Taras the audience of the USIA Russian-lan­ Independence Day program in Detroit, Shevchenko observances, Passaic guage farm brochure. Mich. Mayor Robert C. Hare proclaimed They urged the people to send letters to "In my career I have traveled to Sunday, March 12, a day of tribute the agency, protesting its decision not many lands and fought in three wars. for the Ukrainian poet laureate. to use the Ukrainian language. Despite the different languages, cul­ Gen. Samuel Jaskilka Shevchenko was described in the tures, and histories, it has been my ex­ fact, I sincerely believe that somewhere proclamation as a person "regarded perience that people the world over in the course of time - somehow - throughout the world as a champion of Rep. Delaney Cites treasure freedom and independence as full human rights, freedom and inde­ liberty and human rights, much as life itself," said Gen. Jaskilka pendence will surely be restored to the "Although Ukraine is presently at that time. "Because of this basic (Continued on page 8) under forcible occupation by Com­ Shevchenko In munist Russia, the love of freedom lives on in the hearts of the Ukrainian House AddreSS Obituaries people, whose heroic resistance WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. to oppression continues unabated," James J. Delaney (D-N.Y.) memorial­ the proclamation went on to say. ized Taras Shevchenko in a statement Dr. Nicholas Wacyk, Literary Scholar Mayor Hare attended the Taras on the floor of the House of Represen­ Shevchenko program here Sunday, tatives Monday, March 13. NEW YORK, N.Y.—Dr. Nicholas an hour of emergency treatment. March 12, at the Ukrainian Center. The The New York congressman said Wacyk, a noted Ukrainian literary A week before his death, Dr. Wacyk program was sponsored by the Passaic- that Shevchenko "dedicated his life to scholar and member of the Shevchenko addressed the scientific society's Bergen Counties UCCA branch and the emancipation of men and women Scientific Society, died here Friday, Shevchenko session in New York. prepared by local UNWLA branches. from the bondage of Russian imperial­ March 17, of an apparent heart failure. Surviving are a daughter, Orysia Appearing in the program were ism and totalitarian tyranny." He was 74 years old. Panasiuk, granddaughter, Oksana Semen Chernenko, the Newark Ban- "It was Shevchenko who called Dr. Wacyk was attending a meeting Panasiuk, and near and distant durist Capella, Eugenia Turiansky and upon Ukrainians to hope for and ex­ of the program commission of the Uk­ relatives. the Lidia Krushelnytska Drama Studio, pect a 'George Washington' of their rainian Institute of America, during The funeral was held Friday, March A montage prepared by Mrs. Iryna own to lead theirj country to freedom. which he became ill. Immediate medi­ 24, at Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Shramenko rounded out the program. And it was he whp strongly decried the cal assistance was provided by Dr. My­ Church in Brooklyn, N. Y. The remains At the end of the program, Attys. denial of civil rights to women and ron Zarycky, who later drove Wacyk were interred at the Ukrainian Ortho­ Kenneth Wanio and Ihor Rakowsky, Jews in the Empire of the white tsars," to a nearby hospital. dox cemetery in South Bound Brook, president and vice-president, respec­ said Rep. Delaney. He was pronounced dead there after N.J. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 26,1978 No. 68

THE І СВОБОДА 4,SVOBODA I An Attempt to Defend A Ukrainian Political Prisoner Ukroinion Weel (3) (The article below, by Atty. Burton Hall appeared in the Winter-Spring 1978 Indeed He Is Risen issue of "New Politics." Mr. Hall an American attorney, traveled to Kiev last year in an attempt to present a brief in defense of Oleksander Serhiyenko). Christ's resurrection, while intertwined with other singular events during His brief sojourn on earth, stands out as the most important occurrence be­ My draft - brief was not ment could not allow such dangerous fore the completion of His mission forty days later when He ascended to finished by the time I left for Kiev. But materials into the country. I demanded heaven. I brought a copy along anyway (in that, if the documents couldn't be re­ Apart from confirming all that He taught, as well as that which His English), with the thought that I would turned to me in Kiev, they be mailed to work on it while I was there and check my office address in New York. He Father had imparted to mankind through the prophets, Christ's resurrec­ out some of the facts. On its cover, it tion constitutes man's victory over death and the guarantee of his eternal said impossible. was addressed to the President of the Finally, I wrote, in the space he had life. Hence the boundless joy that permeates all of Christendom on Easter Supreme Soviet of the USSR, to the pointed to, "Under protest I have read Sunday, quite aptly expressed in our own greeting: Khrystos Voskres- President of the same of the Ukrainian the above." I signed my name directly Voistynu Voskres! Christ is Risen - Indeed He is Risen. For while the first SSR, to the presiding judges of the Su­ underneath. He was pleased. Then I part is spoken with joy, the second confirms this ''miracle of miracles" with preme Courts of the USSR and the Uk­ drew a line through the blank space be­ awe and faith. rainian SSR, to the general procurators tween what he had written and what I Yet it is ironic that even today, nearly two thousand years after this great of the USSR and of the Ukrainian had written. He looked hurt. An aide event, man is at pains to grasp the nature and the veracity of God's work­ SSR, and the Ukrainian Ministry of suggested that they draw up another ing. For He manifested His love for man, first of all, by creating him in His Justice. One would suppose that copy of the form. I asked, "You didn't those addresses were badges of respect­ own image, then sent His only Son to extricate him from the clutches of intend to write in anything else over my ability. I learned later that they made signature, did you?" They looked at death, thus granting him eternal salvation. the draft brief subversive in the eyes of me blankly. I asked again. The KGB On this very day, when the bells proclaim that Christ has risen from the the KGB. officer suddenly (and all in a matter of dead, latter-day herods strive to stifle the light that leads to ultimate resur­ When I arrived at Kiev airport at seconds) handed me my passport and rection. This is the reality in Ukraine today, where Christ is banned by small about 3:30 p.m. on September 30, my Soviet visa, shook my hand, wished me and evil men, but where faith survives and sustains the downtrodden with draft brief was in my briefcase. Inevit­ (somewhat stiltedly) a pleasant visit to the hope of renewed victory over death. ably, the customs inspector came the Soviet Union, stood up and, if my Let us celebrate this Easter with this hope that we share with our brothers across it. memory serves me right, clicked his and sisters and with the conviction that That led to a series of discussions heels. Then he turned and walked out KHRYSTOS VOSKRES - VOISTYNU VOSKRES! and interrogations that lasted until of the room. A half hour later a taxi 3:30 a.m. Saturday morning, though arrived to take me to my hotel in down­ most of my time was spent waiting town Kiev. A^Good Response alone in a room for my interrogators to (On Tuesday morning, when I arriv­ According to USIA's own count last week, it received some 840 letters from reappear. My chief interrogator was a ed at the airport on my way out of the concerned Ukrainian Americans and their legislators regarding the Russian- heavy-set, humorless man in a careful­ country, the same KGB officer was in language brochure for the agricultural exhibit in Kiev and elsewhere in the ly starched uniform with a blue band charge of the examination of my bag­ gage. I remarked to him that we had USSR. This resulted in the agency's decision to publish a 5,000-word - on his cap which, I am told, signifies KGB (ordinary police have red bands met before. He denied it. He had never and not 50,000 as reported in our papers on the basis of information suppli­ on their caps). Although the officer seen me before.) ed by an official of the agency - in the Ukrainian language, the inclusion spoke only Russian, he seemed alter­ The telephone in my room rang of two Ukrainian-speaking guides and Ukrainian-language markings at the nately surprised that I did not under­ about 1 p.m. that (Saturday) after­ entrance and on the articles displayed. stand completely and puzzled that I noon, waking me up. I was instructed Obviously, the Ukrainian community stands to be applauded for its re­ should ever have tried to learn Russian. by the caller to go to room such-and- sponse to what was an unconscionable, if not downright insulting, decision He demanded proof that I was a such for a conference with the deputy on the part of the State Department and the USIA. The incident also de­ lawyer. He demanded to know what something-or-other of Intourist, the monstrates that the American government is not insensitive to intelligent "Institut Prava" I had graduated Soviet travel agency. I did and for most of the afternoon had a pk asant discus­ and concerted action by our community in matters that are of deep concern from. I wrote out the name of my law school but he could make nothing of sion with Mr. Bakushin, the deputy to us. that, nor of my professional card pro­ whatever-it-was. An Intourist repre­ But, looking in retrospect, at least two important corollaries can be claiming me as an "Attorney and sentative served as translator so we drawn from this case. First, that the USIA and the officials in charge of the Counselor at Law." I interrupted his had no difficulty in conversing. Mr. cultural program with the USSR made in fact a minimal concession in efforts by demanding that he return my Bakushin's interest in me was substan­ agreeing to print a 5,000-word insert to a 57-page brochure in Russian. The draft brief to me immediately. He tially the same as that of the KGB offi­ explanation that the brochure could not be printed in native languages be­ angrily refused, declaring that the cer at the airport, but on a much more cause of financial considerations - 50,000 bucks? - is hardly plausible. brief, addressed to all those Soviet sophisticated level. And he wanted to Second, it appears that it has been a "policy" of the U.S. government to dignitaries, was "grubiy" (obscene), caution me not to visit or attempt to printjonly Russian-language material for such programs. This means that plus a string of further epithets that I talk with any politically disreputable persons. Sidling toward the point, he many American programs and exhibits in the USSR in the past were in fact couldn't catch. Sometime after 3 a.m. and nearer lectured me about unscrupulous repor­ insults to the non-Russian peoples. Well, perhaps this latest case should ters from the West who, instead of ad­ serve for us and for the U.S. government as a precedent reversing that 3:30, the KGB officer came into the room carrying an official-looking miring the pretty buildings in the center policy. And our community should follow up on that. mimeographed form. He sat down and of the cities, took photographs of the laboriously filled in the blanks, copy­ old buildings and badly dressed people in the outskirts. I pointed out that I ^^^^^^^v^^^^^^^ ing from notes in someone else's hand­ writing. He wrote down, in Russian, didn't have a camera. Sad to say, I didn't have a tape recorder, either. News Quiz і the titles of the three documents that he had taken from me: my draft brief; a Mr. Bakushin asked, what was my (The quiz covers the two previous issues of The Ukrainian Weekly. \ copy (in English) of a brief submitted a attitude toward the revolution? I was Answers to questions will appear with the next quiz). і few months earlier by Ramsey Clark for it. And my attitude toward the So­ ) on behalf of two other Soviet dissi­ viet State? I was against oppression 1. Which member of the Kiev Helsinki monitoring group recently re- \ dents; and an English translation of the and persecution. What oppression? nounced his Soviet citizenship? testimony given by Leonid Plyushch, a The imprisonment of Serhiyenko, for 2. Which member of the Kiev group wants to emigrate to England? few days earlier, to a Congressional example. Why was I "interfering" in 3. Where did the SUSTA Council of Presidents meet? Committee investigating implementa­ something that was the Soviet govern­ 4. Who was cited by The New York Times as one of the talented new per­ tion of the Helsinki Accords. When he ment's business? Didn't I have enough formers in New York City? had finished, he told me that I was to to do at home? I told him that I was 5. Which dissident now in the West was stripped of his Soviet citizen- sign my name and acknowledge that he seeking to assist the Soviet courts in I ship? had explained to me that it had been correcting an erroneous decision, and 6. Whose telephone was recently disconnected by Soviet authorities? necessary for the Soviet authorities to by doing so to improve the Soviet legal 7. Which UNA committee recently met here at the UNA headquarters? take possession of the documents. I system. I considered it my business to 8. Who is the author of "The Kiev Encounter?" said I would write "I Protest." He said help in that way. 9. Who is the wife of a Soviet dissident who recently addressed students that was forbidden. I demanded, once By way of explanation, I told Mr. j at New York University? more, that the documents be returned Bakushin about a suit pending in New 10. What Ukrainian community was recently profiled by an Albany, to me. He said, in one of his few sen­ York, in which I represent a member ш N.Y., newspaper? tences that I actually understood from expelled from the Machinists' Union for start fo finish, that in view of the forth­ "advocating Communist ideas." \ Answers to previous quiz: Roman Biletski; William Shust; "Iskra;" Memorandum No. 18; coming conference in Belgrade (he was "Sounds crazy, doesn't it," I said, 1 Sen. Paul Yuzyk; Ukrainian Student Organization ofMichnowsky (TUSM); Denver; April 23, referring to the international confer­ "expelling someone for advocating I 1978; a microscopic painting; United States Information Agency. ence concerning implementation of the Communist ideas? С^^^^^Ча^^ 4^^^^^^^^^^ ^A Helsinki Accords) the Soviet govern­ (To be continued) No. 68 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 26,1978 7 New Canadian Constitution Senior Citizens And the Rights of Ethnics Outline of brief to the Task Force on Canadian Unity, presented on March 2, Corner 1978, at the Canadian Conference Centre by Sen. Paul Yuzyk . by Marion Kushnir Burbella (2) After having studied the report of I speak German, Ukrainian, Italian and "Christ has Risen!" - "Khrystos Voskres!" the Royal Commission on Bilingualism smaller numbers who speak many and Biculturalism and the Official other tongues, particularly in the Prai­ Spring has arrived...and soon it will be Conference IV Languages Act of 1969 as well as the rie Provinces where some of these lan­ time. reactions of the public, the committee guages are spoken more than French, The record-breaking winter slowed down or completely recommends that English and French the committee in majority approved cancelled out activities for our seniors but April will soon be be constitutionally entrenched as the constitutional recognition for these here with sunshine to spur activities in preparation for the two official languages of Canada. Four languages. These ethnic groups of the June 4-9 week at Soyuzivka. other recommendations deal with the third element (non-British, non- The winter's blizzards were not deterrent to a young lady as right of any person to use either offi­ French) have "made a great contribu­ she traveled to the offices of The Weekly to prepare a surprise cial language in the federal and provin­ tion to the development of Canada in for the Corner's readers. How nice that she chose Valentine's cial legislatures and the territorial the years since confederation and it month in which to introduce her surprise. councils, in dealing with judicial or would be fitting to recognize it in the On behalf of all of our readers, the Corner extends to quasi-judicial federal bodies or with constitution." One way of recognizing to Motrya Chodnowska-Rakoczy, a very talented young Ukrainian artist, a most courts in New Brunswick, Ontario, this contribution is to regard their lan­ sincere expression of thanks for the beautifully appropriate sketch for the Quebec and the Territories and recog­ guages not as foreign but give them the Corner: the husband reads the Corner to his wife as she sips her coffee at the nition of the parents' right to choose status of Canadian languages as an in­ breakfast table. Isn't that beautiful senior togetherness! One can almost savor the the language of instruction in public tegral part of the Canadian linguistic aroma of the coffee and hear the spoken words. supported schools where a sufficient fact. Mrs. Chodnowska-Rakoczy is congratulated not only for her art work, but number of persons could justify the even more so for a keenly discerning depiction of a scene so appropos to our provision of necessary facilities. Since Language Rights of Ethnic Groups readers. The artist is a resident of Livingston, N. J. French is in an inferior position, fed­ (Continued on page 10) eral and provincial governments are Realizing that there are inherent urged to upgrade French and try to limitations of constitutional provisions achieve linguistic equality throughout respecting languages, the committee Canada. has decided that since the languages of the third element ethnic groups are Nоn-British, Non-French Groups "regional rather than national" in the Entering New Business context of Canada it would therefore be appropriate that specific recognition by Roman J. Lysniak To the non-French, non-British .5 ethno-cultural groups who are interest­ be given to them at the provincial level. ed in preserving and perpetuating their This recommendation would confer no cultures as part of the Canadian mo­ additional rights upon the provinces, John Subota, our Ukrainian American hero and hustling saic the key recommendations are for by section 92 (1) of the B.N.A. Act, dealer in art business, thought he saw a magnificent opening numbers 27 and 28. Giving recognition they already possess the power to to buy a large art collection and by a quick turnover among to the multicultural reality of Canada amend their own constitutions and by his customers to realize a handsome profit. He succeeded in the committee states that: section 93 they have the power to make convincing his bank to let him have a SI00,000 loan in order The constitution should explicitly laws in relation to education. Several to swing the deal. recognize the right of provincial legis­ of these languages are already taught in The deal was swung, but for some reason the enterprising lature to confer equivalent status with the elementary and secondary public speculator was not able to move his newly acquired art stock the English and French languages on schools and at the universities of some as rapidly as he figured. other languages. Federal financial as­ of the provinces. The committee One morning the president of the bank sent word to the sistance to support the teaching or use advises that: borrower that he wanted to see him immediately regarding his of other languages would be appropri­ The constitution should therefore loan and the latter promptly answered the summons. ate. provide in its section on language "Look here, Mr. Subota," said the banker, "I will have to call your loan and I In the text explaining these recom­ rights that provincial legislatures may will have to call it immediately." mendations, the report refers to the confer rights on other language groups "But Mr. Palmer," protested John Subota, "you not can do that. I am ail tied population statistics of Canada. It is with respect to use in the legislatures up with them paintings and I must have more time.'' noted that during the period 1871 to themselves, or in government adminis­ "I am sorry if you are going to be embarrassed," said Mr. Palmer, "but I can 1961 the British element has declined tration, the courts, and education in not help myself. The state bank examiners were in here yesterday going over our proportionally from 60.55 percent to publicly supported schools. loan portfolio and they told me we must clean up a lot of our accounts. Now, 43.85 percent, the French element nas The obvious conclusion is that where your note for S100,000 is a demand note, as you will recall, and not a time note, remained almost constant declining it would now be impractical to make so I must ask you to be able to take up that note not later than Tuesday, the 15th of the month." only from 31.07 percent to 30.38 per­ official other languages besides English 4 cent, while the other ethnic groups and French, the^re is nothing in the con­ "Vella," said John Subota, 4hat is the vay things go. Vot has to be has to be, I have rapidly increased percentage-wise stitution to prevent them from achiev­ guess." Then he thought for a moment. from 8.38 in 1871 to 25.77 in 1961. "It ing official status in the provinces and "Mr. Palmer," he addressed the banker, "maybe you have yourself looked is expected that the 1971 census will this is even encouraged. It is made clear into the ins and outs of art, eh?" show a further increase in the per­ that the officiality of English and "Mr. Subota," said the bank president, "I am not interested in art business," centage of Canadians who are neither French "does not confer any priority "Vella," said John Subota softly, "you should be. Because Tuesday, the British nor French, largely at the ex­ with respect to culture." 15th, you are going to be in it." pense of the British proportion." In Since the new constitution would re­ 1971 the proportion rose to 26.7per- cognize bilinguaiism and multicul- cent. turalism it is logical that this fact be Recognizing in the preamble of the appropriately reflected also in the poli­ new constitution that Canada is multi­ cies of the provincial governments, in­ Denim Continues Its Success Story cultural rather than bicultural or uni- cluding educational policies (see Chap­ cultural, which seems to be an obvious ter 99 oil education). This means that From the desk of Pat M. Lutwiniak-Englebrecht, Home Economist fact, the committee considers neverthe­ the federal government I must have cer­ less that this "needs formal empha­ tain obligations in this respect to the sis." There neither is nor should there provincial governments. The Ireport Denim has successfully made the Cowboys and prospectors found be any official culture in Canada. It is therefore concludes thus: Moreover, transition from the dust of the Cali­ denim ideal protection against sage­ further stated that: where a province confers a particular fornia gold mines to the shops on Fifth brush and cactus. These westerners One of the deepest aspects of our na­ public right upon a language group, it Avenue. j could make their jeans fit skin-tight by tional character has been its cultural would be appropriate for the federal The durable and highly popular sitting in the nearest water-trough, tolerance towards minority groups. government' to provide a measure of denim is worn today by people of jail which helped to prevent saddle sores financial assistance. By doing so, it Canadians do not feel the need to im­ ages and all social groups. And manu­ from a long day of riding. pose a common culture nor to divorce would help the provinces to provide a facturers and consumers alike consider people from their cultural roots. All valuable public service to a group of it to be the universal fabric. j World War II gave denim another democracies allow their citizens free­ citizens. Denim began its success story I in boost in popularity when sailors and dom under the law, but many do not America as far back as Columbus' Coast Guardsmen were issued jeans as go so far as to allow cultural freedom. New Constitution Needed journey, when the sails of the Saita standard dress. Fabric shortages led Canada must continue to do so, but Maria were made of the sturdy cloth. civilians to seek durable denimwear, more consciously and more effectively. Regardless of how we identify And during the pioneer days, the fabric also. Taking into consideration that there Canada — whether in terms of was used for tents and covered wagons And the demand for this sturdy, are large groups of Canadians who (Continued on page 16) enroute to the Gold Rush. j (Continued on page 13) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 1978 No. 68 Gen. Jaskilka to Retire... (Continued from page 5) and District Headquarters Recruiting peditionary Brigade. Following his re­ and was assigned as deputy chief of people of Ukraine and to the several Station in Philadelphia, Pa. turn to the United States, he assumed Staff for Manpower at Headquarters other peoples of the world who long He completed the Amphibious War­ duty as joint staff officer in the Office Marine Corps. He remained in that for it/' fare School, Junior Course, Marine of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and earned position until he assumed his current Gen. S. Jaskilka became assistant Corps Schools, Quantico, in January the Joint Service Commendation assignment. commandant of the Marine Corps on 1948, and became Commanding Offi­ Medal. He was promoted to colonel in Gen. Jaskilka was advanced to the July 1,1975. cer, Marine Detachment, U.S. Naval July 1964. He was reassigned to Head­ grade of general, to rank from March Gen. Jaskilka was born December Air Activities, Port Lyautey, French quarters Marine Corps in August 1966 4,1976. 15, 1919, in Ansonia, Conn. He com­ Morocco. In September 1949, he where he served consecutively as The general holds the following per­ pleted high school there and graduated joined the 1st Marine Division and deputy manpower coordinator for Re­ sonal decorations: the Distinguished from the University of Connecticut later embarked with the division for search and Information Systems, G-l Service Medal, the Silver Star Medal where he received a B.S. in business ad­ Korea serving successively as battalion Division; as director, Data Systems with one gold star in lieu of a second ministration in May 1942. executive officer and commanding of­ Division; and as director, Management award, the Legion of Merit, the Bronze He accepted an appointment as a ficer of Company E, 2nd Battalion, Analysis Group. He earned the Legion Star Medal with Combat "V," the second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Fifth Marines. For heroism in combat of Merit for his service during the latter Joint Service Commendation Medal, Corps Reserve on September 26, 1942, in Korea, he received two awards of the two assignments, and was promoted to the National Order of Vietnam, and and was assigned to active duty. He Silver Star Medal and a Bronze Star. brigadier general October 18, 1968. the Army Distinguished Service Order, completed the Reserve Officers' Class, Medal with Combat "V." Ordered to the Republic of Vietnam 1st Class. Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Va., He was promoted to major in Jan­ in February 1969, Gen. Jaskilka served Gen. Jaskilka, and his wife, the in 1942, and Sea School at Ports­ uary 1951 and returned to the United as assistant division commander, 1st former Norma Blick, of Stafford mouth, Va., in 1943. He accepted an States the following February and Marine Division, and CG, Task Force Springs, Connecticut, have four chil­ appointment in the regular Marine served as monitor, Detail Branch, Per­ Yankee. In August 1969, he was reas­ dren: Michael C, Diane, Ann, and Corps in March 1943. sonnel Department, Headquarters Ma­ signed duty as J-3, Operations, Mili­ Samuel M. During World War II, Gen. Jaskilka rine Corps. In July 1954, he was trans­ tary Assistance Command, Vietnam served aboard the USS Princeton and ferred to Marine Corps Base, Camp (MACV). He was awarded the Dis­ participated in the Tarawa Island raid, Pendleton, Calif., for duty as oper­ tinguished Service Medal for his Viet­ Donate Scholarships the Gilbert Islands Operation, the Mar­ ations officer, Marine Corps Test Unit nam service. DETROIT, Mich.-The Ukrainian shall Islands Operation, Palau, Yap, no. 1. He was promoted to lieutenant Gen. Jaskilka returned to the United Graduates of Detroit and Windsor will Ulithi, Wolei raids, Marianas Oper­ colonel in December 1955. States in August 1970, and reported to hold their 39th annual dinner-dance at ation, Western Caroline Island Oper­ Upon completion of the Amphibious Quantico, where he served as director, the Lochmoore Club in Grosse Pointe ation, and the Leyte Operation. He Warfare School, Senior Course, Ma­ Command and Staff College, then as Woods, Mich., on Saturday, October was promoted to first lieutenant on rine Corps Schools, Quantico, in June deputy for Development/Director, 28. In addition to the usual 10 June 22, 1943. 1957, Gen. Jaskilka saw a three-year Development Center, Marine Corps scholarships, the organization will pre­ Upon his return to the United tour of duty as assistant G-3 operations Development and Education Com­ sent a special S700 scholarship to a Uk­ States, he was assigned duty as instruc­ and plans officer with Fleet Marine mand. Following his promotion to ma­ rainian high school graduate who in­ tor, Headquarters Company, Troop Force, Pacific. He returned to Quanti­ jor general in August 1972, he became tends to major in engineering. This Leaders Battalion, Camp Pendleton, co in July 1960, and served as an in­ assistant chief of staff, G-l, Headquar­ S700 was donated by Mrs. Joseph Calif., until August 1945. He was pro­ structor at the Senior School. ters Marine Corps. He served in this (Mary) Gurski, Dr. Richard and Mrs. moted to captain in January 1945. He reported to the 3rd Marine Divi­ capacity until his transfer in July 1973, Harriet Gurski, and Mr. and Mrs. From September 1945 until May 1947, sion, Fleet Marine Force in July 1963, to Camp Lejeune, N.C., where he Roberto and Patricia (Gurski) Citta- Gen. Jaskilka saw tours of indepen­ and was assigned duty as executive of­ served as commanding general, 2nd dini in memory of their husband and dent duty with District Headquarters ficer, Third Marines, and later, assis­ Marine Division. He was promoted to father, Joseph Gurski, who died on Recruiting Station, Manchester, N.H., tant chief of staff, G-3, SEATO Ex- lieutenant general on January 2, 1974, March 3,1977.

UCCA Presidium ... (Continued from page 3) mitted by national organizations: Prof. ^ January 22nd observances in Con­ thering was a failure inasmuch as the people as possible to ensunTthe success Stercho from the Ukrainian American gress went off well even though there U.S. and other Western groups failed of the WCFU congress. Association of University Professors to was no prayer by a Ukrainian priest. even to obtain some measure of Mr. Billinsky, in charge of the or­ replace Prof. V. Stojko on the Execu­ This practice of having a Ukrainian security for the Helsinki monitoring ganizational committee, further ex­ tive Board; Mrs. S. Saldan and Mr. clergyman will be resumed next Jan­ groups behind the Iron Curtain. panded on the format of the congress, Chomanczuk were accepted as mem­ uary. This coming July there will be Other points raised by the UCCA stating that there will be only two prin­ bers of the National Council from the prayers by Ukrainian priests in both President related to the Congressional cipal addresses dealing with Ukrainian Committee of United Ukrainian Ame­ Houses in connection with the 20th an­ resolution on the resurrection of the life in the free world and the efforts of rican Organizations of New York. nual observance of the "Captive Na­ Ukrainian churches in Ukraine, the the Ukrainian community to help in Mr. Wynnyk, reported in detail on tions Week." forthcoming WACL conference in the struggle of the Ukrainian people the audit of all UCCA bookkeeping ^ He has been in extensive corres­ Washington, to which the UCCA for their freedom and independence. and assets, stating that financial dis­ pondence with The New York Times should send an observer, and the need Dr. Michael Snihurowych reported bursements of the UCCA were in line on the subject of the article by Craig for a brochure on the captive nations. on his recent visit to the UCCA branch with the budget. He said that the Uk­ Whitney on Ukrainian anti-Semi­ Reporting on their respective activi­ in Phoenix, Ariz., where he discussed a rainian National Fund brought in a tism, and it was suggested he shorten ties were the following: Mr. Oleksyn, variety of problems of local nature, total of SI54,609 in 1977, the highest his reply to 300 words, which he re­ who reported on his participation in and acquainted officers of the branch amount in the history of the Fund. fused to do; the matter is still being various UCCA meetings; Dr. Askold with activities and plans of the UCCA Other income derived from the sale of negotiated. Lozynskyj reported on the meeting central office. Likewise, Mrs. Stefania books, subscriptions, a special cam­ ^ His activities as president of the with Sen. Paul Yuzyk after his return Bukshowahy and Michael Shashke- paign for the World Congress of Free ACWF (American Council for World from Belgrade, which meeting was vych, both of whom had visited Ukrainians, money bequeathed by in­ Freedom) includes writing a column sponsored by the UCCA Youth Con­ Miami, Fla., recently, and met with of­ dividual citizens, and so forth. He twice on U.S.-Soviet relations, trade, ference. ficers of that branch, reported on the stated that total UCCA assets, includ­ and so forth, which is being sent to Dr. Walter Dushnyck, in reporting status of the branch and the establish­ ing its share in the building, amount to some 600 American newspapers. He on the status of "The Ukrainian Herit­ ment of another branch in Hollywood, S311,178. He said that bookeeping and also leads a "task force" in defense of age in America" book, stated that to Fla. management of the UCCA are being the Jackson-Vanik amendment. date 66 articles have been submitted, Mr. Bazarko also reported that conducted properly. ^ He wrote a letter to USIA Director 50 articles have been edited and re­ accommodations are being provided Mrs. Ulana Diachuk analyzed the John E. Reinhardt regarding the U.S. typed, 10 are in the state of being for the Information Bureau of the sources of UCCA revenue, stating that agricultural exhibit in Kiev and the edited and retyped, and six must still be World Congress of Free Ukrainians in contributions to the Ukrainian Na­ brochure in the Russian language. The obtained. He also suggested that the the UCCA-UNWLA building. tional Fund are increasing. She said reaction of Ukrainians was quite section on Ukrainian settlements that the new and virtually untapped strong which resulted in additional should be published in a separate vo­ National Council sources are Ukrainian businessmen's printing of pertinent literature on the lume. associations and pointed to such a subject in the Ukrainian lan­ Mr. Bazarko reported on the meet­ The meeting was opened at 2:30 group in Chicago, who contributed guage. ing of UCCA and UNIS personnel in p.m. by Mr. Oleksyn. Mr. Bazarko substantial sums to the UNIS budget; ^ Dr. Dobriansky was also inter­ Washington, as well as on a number of again asked members to rise in silence also, Ukrainian cooperatives and viewed by the "National Catholic other matters currently being expedited and pay tribute to four members of the savings associations had been contri­ Observer/' and had correspondence with by the UCCA Central Office, especi­ National Council, who passed away re­ buting more than any other group the president of the University of Wis­ ally summer camp programs for Ukrai­ cently: Evhen Lozynskyj, Mrs. Gen- collectively. consin on the subject of a Ukrainian nian youth, and the USIA's Russian gaio, Dr. I. Karapinka and Dr. W. course. pamphlet. Nesterczuk. Minutes of the last session President's Report ^ He is in constant touch with UNIS Finally, Mr. Lesawyer, 'Dr. Hnatiuk were read by Ihor Dlaboha, secretary UCCA President Prof. Lev E. and provides suggestions and guidance and Mr. Billinsky reported in detail on of the National Council. Dobriansky dwelt on a number of mat­ for its operations. preparations for the 3rd congress of Mr. Bazarko proposed that the ters relating to his activities in Wash­ ^ As regards the Belgrade confer­ the WCFU. Council vote on new candidates sub- ington: ence, Dr. Dobriansky said that the ga- Discussion followed the reports. No. 68 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 1978 9 To Hold Fourth Annual 'Pysanka' - Ukrainian Culture's Ukrainian Night at St. Peter's Prep Ambassador to the World The intricate "pysanka," Ukrainian appeared with the article, The Shop-in- culture's unequalled ambassador to the the-Flats, where Mr. Kuhlman teaches world, continues to be a popular topic workshops on "pysanka"-making, of feature articles in newspapers and Dnister Co., Bazar Gift Shop and Ba­ magazines, especially before Easter- zar Gift and Parcel Service were men­ time. tioned as "pysanky" suppliers. Below are descriptions of some of ' NEW YORK, N.Y.—The Trlb this season's articles clipped and sent here printed an article by Jaclyn Fier- to The Ukrainian Weekly by readers. man entitled "Message of a Decorated ^ ADDISON, 111.—The Addison Egg," in its Tuesday, March 14 edi­ Leader here published an article head­ tion. The story included instructions lined "Woman's Ukrainian 'Pysanka' on how to make "pysanky," an ex­ Brightens Addison's Easter." The planation of the meanings of designs article by Marilyn J. Parbs focused on and symbols, and interviews with My­ Stephanie Troy, a Ukrainian woman ron Surmach and Irene Kmetyk. A who makes "pysanky" and gave a de­ photo of Mrs. Kmetyk making "py­ monstration of the art at the Addison sanky" also appeared in the paper. The Public Library. The meaning of the story mentioned that demonstrations symbols used in making "pysanky" of the art would be held at Surma and Representatives of the Ukrainian students and the Ukrainian Night Committee of and description of how the Ukrainian that supplies are available there. "Py- St. Peter's Prep during their visit to Svoboda editorial offices. Left to right are: Easter eggs are made were also includ­ sanky"-making classes at the Ukraini­ Zenon Snylyk, editor of The Ukrainian Weekly, Walter Szczuplak, co-chairmen ed. A photo of Mrs. Troy holding two an Museum were also cited. Taras Sochan and Adrian Krawczeniuk, Walter Shevchuk and Roman Telyczka. "pysanky" appeared alongside the " WINNIPEG, Man.-The Winni­ article. JERSEY CITY, N . J.—The Ukraini­ Admission is S10 for adults, S5 for peg Tribune here carried a story head­ an students of St. Peter's Preparatory students. Students' admission for the і BINGHAMTON, N.Y.—The lined "Symbols Reveal Ukrainian School here will stage their fourth an­ dance only is S2. Wednesday, March 15 edition of the Heritage; 'Pysanky' Aren't Just Pretty nual Ukrainian Night at the school's The Ukrainian Night is held yearly Sun-Bulletin here carried a story on Eggs" by Dot From in its Saturday, Burke Hall Cafeteria, 144 Grand St., by the Ukrainian students' subunit of how to make "pysanky," and the March 11 edition. Through an inter­ Saturday, April 8, beginning at 7 p.m. the St. Peter's Prep Slavic Club. There traditions and beliefs associated view with Orysia Paszczak-Tracz, the Entertainment will be provided by are currently 11 Ukrainian students at with them. Reporter Bruce Estes article explained the meaning of the the "Kobza" girls' vocal ensemble Prep. Co-chairmen of this year's Uk­ interviewed Olga Hallick, owner of symbols used on "pysanky," and gave from Passaic and dancers from New rainian Night Committee are Taras Kalyna Enterprise, and mentioned instructions on how to make them. York under the direction of Mrs. Daria Sochan and Adrian Krawczeniuk. that "pysanky" were on display at Ro- Photos of "pysanky" and Mrs. Pa­ Genza. All proceeds are donated to the Prep berson Center and Bartoo Gallery. szczak-Tracz decortaing an egg The Ukrainian Night will also in­ scholarship fund. Last year, the Ukrai­ Eight photos of "pysanky" lined the appeared with the story. The Ukraini­ clude a buffet supper and a dance to nian students were able to contribute article entitled "Eggs, The Colorful an Voice and Kalyna Ukrainian.Co-op the tunes of the ' 'Tempo" orchestra. about S700 to the fund. Way to Wish Fortune, Health, Ferti­ Ltd. were mentioned as sources of lity," which appeared on a full page of "pysanka"-making supplies. the paper's Midweek section. xHe Conquered Death for Us All' 5,5 CLEVELAND, Ohio.-Barbara (Continued from page 1) rious irom the dead! You...gave...re­ Weiss wrote an article entitled "Cus­ New Haven UNWLA surrection to those who had fallen." tom is Eggs-tra Special" for The Cleve­ enter into the joy of your Lord. You land Press here. The story appeared on Holds Easter Exhibit the first and you the last, receive alike Christ's death has crushed our death; Christ's resurrection guarantees our Saturday, March 4, and included infor­ NEW HAVEN, СОШ1.--Ukrainian your reward; you rich and you poor, mation on the making of "pysanky," dance together; you sober and vou resurrection. National Women's League of America With His resurrection, Our Savior as well as background material. It fo­ Branch 108 here prepared an exhibit of weaklings, celebrate the day; you who cused on George Kuhlman, an Ameri­ have kept the fast and you who have has bestowed life upon us, and Ukrainian Easter items, including has shown us that there exists another can of Irish and German descent who "pysanky" and "paska," and other not rejoice today," "adopted" the Ukrainian folk art. So crucial an event is the resurrec­ life after death. He has shown us that folk artifacts. death is not an end to our existence, Three photos - Mr. Kuhlman decorat­ The exhibit was held at the New tion for us Christains, that the Apostle ing an egg, a close-up showing how the Paul could state unequivocally: ''If but only a transition — a birth to a new Haven Information Center through and never-ending life. "kistka" is used to draw on an egg, March 24. News of the display was Christ has not risen, vain then is our and a completed ''pysanka" — printed in The New Haven Register. preaching, vain too is your faith." The gloriously resurrected body of The resurrection is the keystone of Jesus Christ, who by His perfect "obe­ our faith because it reflects the two ba­ dience until death upon the cross" sic victories of Jesus Christ. Revealing merited for Himself glorious resurrec­ Himself as true God, He was able to tion, became the source of immortality Hierarchs of "Pomisna" Church conquer death and to guarantee us the for all men. As He himself declared: same. As St. John Chrysostom so elo­ "He who eats my flesh and drinks my (Continued from page 1) free Christian world - with all this we quently phrased it: "Christ is risen and blood, abides in me and I in him. As "Among today's persecuted, our are searching for God's kingdom. We life is freed, Christ is risen and the the living Father has sent me, and as I Ukrainian Catholic Church occupies a want, we strive and we fight that God's tomb is emptied of the dead: for live because of the Father, so he who special place. Possibly no other Church kingdom may be renewed in our Uk­ Christ, being risen from the dead, has eats me, he shall also live because of displayed as much loyalty to Christ, raine," said the letter. become the Leader and Reviver of me" (Jn 6, 57f). For "He who eats my made as many sacrifices, or shed as The letter went on to say that the those who had fallen asleep.", flesh and drinks my blood has life much blood as did our Ukrainian same principle of love of neighbor By His glorious resurrection Jesus everlasting, and I will raise him up on Church. It seems that Christ wants its should prevail in community relations. proved, first of all, this truth: that He the last day" (Jn 6,55). By His glorious Way of the Cross to be similar to his "This same love of God and neigh­ is no simple man, but Almighty God resurrection Jesus proves the necessity own path. If this is so, then its glory, to bor should be used to revive our efforts Himself. There isn't a human being of leading a God-fearing life, for — re­ which today's Way of the Cross leads, for the completion of the organiza­ who, after having died, could resurrect gardless of whether we want it or not will be commensurate with its suf­ tional structure of our Church through Himself. True, there were prophets — there awaits each of us an eternity fering," said the pastoral. our own Ukrainian Patriarchate. It is who revived those who had died; beyond the grave. And how we will The letter singled out the late Arch­ time for us to end the divisiveness, the even the Apostles Peter and Paul spend eternity depends solely upon bishop-Metropolitan Andrew Shep- fighting and the hate, which emerged brought some deceased back to life: how well we have lived our life here on tytsky as an example of a person who in connection with these efforts, in our but no one of them came back to walk earth. could teach others how to face suf­ families, parishes, communities, dio­ this earth. Jesus Christ alone was able Let us therefore sing joyfully the vic­ fering. ceses, and exarchates," said the letter. to resurrect Himself — as He had pre­ tory song of Jesus Christ over sin and The pastoral said that it is important The pastoral said that this lack of dicted: "Destroy this temple, and in death: "Christ is risen!" Because not to lead life, with all its suffering, in unity "weakens our Church and causes three days, I will raise it up," (Jn 2, 19) only did He himself rise gloriously, but accordance with the commandments. damage to our Ukrainian people." and "For this reason the Father loves by His resurrection, He conquered Among the top two commandments, "The Risen Christ will bless with vic­ me, because I lay down my life that I death for us and bestowed life eternal the hierarchs cited love of God and tory those efforts which are imbued may take U up again.. .1 have the upon us all. love of neighbor. with His first and foremost command­ power to lay it down, and I have the May the blessings of our Lord Jesus "Through prayer, fulfilling obliga­ ment, and that is love of God and love power to шке it lie again." (Jn 10, 17f) Christ and the love of God the Father tions, love, demanding that. of neighbor/' said the pastoral In the Kontakion of Easter Sunday we and the communion with the Holy God's rights and God's truth be re­ In concludes by saying that Easter is sing "When You went down in the Spirit be with you? Amen. spected and implemented, fighting for a "God-given opportunity for us to. re­ tomb, You overthrew the power of Basil God-given human rights and human new our family, church, community, Hades. О Christ God, You rose victo­ Eparch of Stamford dignity, appealing to the slumbering political and cultural lives." THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 26,1978 No. 68 The 1977-78 Ukrainian Pro Hockey Yearbook by Ihor Stelmach

For all of you hockey fanatics and make throughout the season. So that Leagues have disbanded, while the new The Minor League Scene: even those who only have a remote in­ you may do this with greater ease, we Pacific Hockey League was formed terest in the sport, we present a handy give you a detailed roster below. in December of 1977. The result of American Hockey League listing of this year's Ukrainian pro these actions in the minor leagues is LW Steve Andrascik Hershey hockey stars. We trust that while fol­ In addition, we take a look at the a lesser number of teams and an over­ D Mike Busniuk Maine lowing your favorite teams, you also minor league circuit. Note that the abundance of unemployed hockey LW Ron Garwasiuk Rochester note the progress Ukrainian players North American and Southern Hockey players. LW Joe Kowal Hershey D Chuck Luksa Nova Scotia GT BillOleschuk Colorado C MikePolich Nova Scotia RW Larry Romanchych Maine National Hockey League D Larry Sacharuk New Haven LW Gene Sobchuk Cincinnati No. Player Team Ht. Born Place GT NormTesluck Philadelphia D Pete Scamurra Hershey 4 Bolonchuk, Larry Washington Capitals D 5-Ю 185 2-26-52 Winnipeg, Man. 9 Bucyk, Johnny Boston Bruins LW 6-0 210 5-12-35 Edmonton, Alt. 24 Federko, Bernie St. Louis Blues C 6-0 172 5-12-56 Foam Lake, Sask. 8 Hoyda, Dave Philadelphia Flyers RW 6-0 210 5-20-57 Edmonton, Alt. Pacific Hockey League 26 Kindrachuk, Orest Philadelphia Flyers C 5-Ю 175 9-14-50 Hanton, Alt. San Diego 20 Koroll, Cliff Chicago Black Hawks RW 6-0 185 10-01-46 Canora, Sask. Randy Andreachuk Long Beach 27 Kowal, Joe Buffalo Sabres LW 6-5 212 2-03-56 Toronto, Ont. MikeGaba San Diego 24 Kozak, Don Los Angeles Kings RW 5-11 190 2-02-52 Saskatoon, Sask. Steve Pankiw San Francisco 17 Kuzyk,Ken Cleveland Barons RW 6-1 195 8-11-56 Randy Wyrozub 12 Lysiak, Tom Atlanta Flames . C 6-0 185 4-22-53 High Prairie, Alt. 21 Maruk, Dennis Cleveland Barons c 5-8 165 11-17-55 Toronto, Ont. 25 Owchar, Dennis D 190 3-28-53 Colorado Rockies 5-11 Dryden, Ont. Central Hockey League 20 Pelyk, Mike Toronto Maple Leafs D 6-0 195 9-29-47 Toronto, Ont. 20 Polis, Greg New York Rangers LW 5-11 180 8-08-50 Westlock, Alt. D JeffBandura Tulsa 8 Polonich, Dennis Detroit Red Wings RW 5-6 166 12-04-53 Foam Lake, Sask. D Dwight Bialowas Fort Worth 6 Suzor, Mark Colorado Rockies D 6-0 210 11-05-56 Windsor, Ont. LW Terry Bucyk Tulsa 18 Tkaczuk, Walt New York Rangers C 6-0 190 9-29-47 Emstedetten, Germ. D Gordon Buynak Salt Lake City 10 Venasky, Vic Los Angeles Kings C 5-11 185 6-03-51 Thunder Bay, Ont. RW MikeHordy Fort Worth 23 Zaharko, Miles Atlanta Flames D 6-1 196 4-30-57 Mannville, Alt. 22 Bossy, Mike RW 4 6-0 186 1-22-57 Montreal, Que. RW Dave Hrechkosy Salt Lake City New York Islanders RW Greg Hubick Dallas D Larry Huras Salt Lake City RW Rocky Saganiuk Dallas C Greg Vaydik Dallas World Hockey Association International Hockey League 8 Busniuk, Ron Edmonton Oilers D 6-0 190 9-22-47 Ft. William, Ont. C Danny Bonar Fort Wayne 17 Lesuk, Billy Winnipeg Jets LW 5-9 187 11-01-46 Moose Jaw, Sask. LW Rick Cabalka Flint 12 Lukowich, Morris Houston Aeros LW 5-8 165 6-01-56 Speers, Sask. D Terry Ewasiuk Fort Wayne Semenko, Dave Edmonton Oilers LW 6-3 200 7-12-57 Winnipeg, Man. D Mike Federko Flint 19 Shmyr, Paul Edmonton Oilers D 5-11 175 1-28-46 Cudworth, Sask. LW Neil Hawryliw Muskegon 14 Sobchuk, Dennis Edmonton Oilers C 6-2 180 1-12-54 Lang, Sask. RW Randy Rudnyk Saginaw 2 Turkiewicz, Jim Birmingham Bulls D 5-Ю 185 4-13-54 Hamilton, Ont. RW Mike Wanchuk Kalamazoo Zuke, Mike Edmonton Oilers C 5-11 17^ 4-16-54 Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.

Senior Citizens Corner (Continued from page 7) If husband is a member but wife has not as yet reached the age of tO, it is under­ March brought membership surprises. Dr. Anna Chopek, Supreme Advisor of standable that both are welcome to Conference IV. the UNA, wrote from her new home in Los Alamos where she resides with her mother, who will be 90 in April, requesting admission into the Association of For the benefit of those readers who do not read Svoboda, we would like to Senior Citizens of the UNA. Dr. Chopek is making plans to attend Conference acknowledge in this column Chicago's triumph, namely, the acquisition of a senior citizens building for Ukrainians and the implementation of daily "Meals- IV. on-Wheels." Space does not permit the translation of the long article written by March also heralded a surprise that merits a special citation: S. Kuropas in the February 17 issue of Svoboda, covering the impressive cere­ monies of the opening of the building that included senators, congressmen and 5 Stars For Baltimore UNA Branch 337 state, county and municipal dignitaries. Space does, however, permit the expres­ sion of congratulations that are due UNA Branches in Chicago, the churches, the Active and energetic Michael Zacharkiw conducted a membership drive in Bal­ UCCA and, most importantly, the Ukrainian financial institutions for their timore which resulted in 14 new members for Soyuz. Their dues have been paid unified effort in bringing to fruition this much needed facility for Chicago's Uk­ and they have announced that all 14 will attend Conference IV. The group con­ rainian senior citizens. sists of: Maria Charchalis, Michael Chomichak, Oleksa Duda, Stefa Duda, Semen Mychajlyshyn, Sophia Mychajlyshyn, Helen Pisetzky, Semen Poliszchuk, Executive Staff Meeting Anna Poliszchuk, Emanuel Prytula, Anna Prytula, Walter Stelmach, Michael Zacharkiw and Ann Zacharkiw. The regular meeting of the executive staff of the Association of UNA Senior Citizens was called to order by Dr. Volodymyr Sawchak, president, at 2:45 p.m. on In addition to the Baltimore group, seniors from other parts of the country March 11, 1978, at the Plast Headquarters in New York City. In attendance were who have mailed in their membership dues include: Peter Czap, Mary Czap, also Dr. Halyna Hirniak, Ivan Zayac and Marion Burbella. Stephen Cymbala, Taras Durbak, Maria A. Durbak, Dr. Peter Gulick, attorney and counselor at law, Tekla Kameniuk, Nicholas Kitt, Wolodymyr Kruchowy, The minutes of the previous meeting were read by Dr. Hirniak and approved as Anastasia Krychowy, Hryhorij Lozynsky, Antin Yarowskyj, Lukyn Zaleski and read. Tekyna Zaleski. Dr. Sawchak reported that he wrote letters (in Ukrainian) to all seniors who ex­ pressed their interest in purchasing a condominium unit in the proposed Soyu- Many readers have written to the Corner requesting room reservations for the zivka complex. Highlights of said letter in English will appear in the April June 4-9 Cnference. Since the writer of this column is treasurer of the Associ­ Corner. ation, she is responsible for membership dues only. Architect Zayac reported that he visited the site of the proposed project on Seniors who have paid their dues for June '77-June '78 and who are UNA December 26, 1977. Concluding his inspection of the area, he requested a map to members are asked to forward their room requests directly to: Mr. Walter Kwas, enable him to prepare a detailed report. He has not as yet received the map. In the Manager, Ukrainian National Association Estate, Kerhonkson, N.Y. 12446; absence of the map, he informed the officers that he was able to prepare only a telephone (914) 626-5641. theoretical plan rather than a master plan which involved drainage, roads, loca­ tion of buildings, sewerage and configuration of the slopes/Under the circum­ As in past years, enclose a check for S10.00 when writing for room reserva­ stances, it is impossible to give true estimate of cost at the present time. Due to tions. the length of Mr. Zayac's report, it will be presented to the readers in the April As of November 30, 1977, Mr, Kwas confirmed the following rates with Corner. Stephen Kuropas, chairman of the UNA Senior Citizens Committee: S65 (per person for the five-day conference, S14 (per person) for one day. Registration In the course of the meeting, groundwork was laid for the upcoming June 4-9 will commence at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, June 4. conference and the June 8 banquet. One month remains in which to fulfill dues requirements. The meeting was adjourned at 6:35 p.m. Membership is open to those UNA members who have attained the age of 60. HAPPY EASTER HOLIDAYS! No. 68 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 26,1978 Soviet Government Exploits Pecherska llavra For Anti-Religious Propaganda KIEV, Ukraine.-Chipped, cracked a very wealthy monastery) must have organized around feudalism and the was a young girl, I came here as a tour­ and crumbling, the skulls had been served as a reassuring reminder of monastery owned thousands of acris ist, and the monks were still running soaking in the murky solution for cen­ God's splendor and majesty. Dozens of farmland, several towns, 130 vil­ the place," she said. "It was terrible. turies. of gold leafed onion domes sparkled in lages, paper mills, brickworks, taverns There was no electricity, so one of the "These were the skulls of so-called the sunlit sky and encouraged believers and more than 56,000 serfs. monks led the way with a candle trying holy people/' the guide explained, her to gaze heavenward, beyond the suffer­ After the Bolshevik Revolution, to make it seem very mysterious. A lot voice dripping with scorn for the out­ ings of the day-to-day world. much of the monastery's wealth wis of people were fooled by it all, and rages of the Orthodox past. "The However, in the Soviet Union today, confiscated and used to buy foreign people kept kissing coffins and putting monks claimed that holiness seeped the government is actively trying to de­ grain. In 1929 it was closed to religious money in the charity boxes. Even so from the skulls into the liquid. They bunk all religious beliefs as myths. The worship, but was permitted to reopen many years after the revolution, there called it 'miracle liquid' and said it practice of religion is still permitted, during World War II when Stalin was were still religious fanatics." could cure illnesses. but any form of proselytizing is enlisting the aid of the Church againfst At the end of the tunnel she pointed "When the believers came to the punishable by imprisonment. Anti-reli­ the invading Germans. to a sign over a doorway and announc­ monastery on pilgrimages, the monks gious propaganda, though, is specifi­ In 1961 it was shut down again, arid ed. "Now this is the most important sold them 'miracle liquid' along with cally approved of by the Soviet Consti­ the 133 monks still living there were ex­ point." The sign read: "Religion is the holy water and blessed bread. You see tution, and the Communist Party is pelled. It is now a state museum. opiate of the masses.'' how they exploited the religious fanati­ committed to the spread of atheism as Recently, however, the remaining A visitor wondered whether a second cism of the people? I am certain that the official non-religion. monks sent a petition to Soviet Presi­ epitaph wouldn't also be appropriate: nobody was ever cured by this non­ The ancient Monastery of the Caves dent Leonid Brezhnev asking permis­ "The more things change, the more sense, but it helped the monks as­ serves this new dogmatism. sion to resume their religious dutips they remain the same." semble a great fortune." "How could anyone continue to be­ there. No one expects the request to granted. (The article above, written by Jim The guide, a handsome womah in lieve in God after visiting a place like this?" the guide asked. News of the petition drew a heattd Gallagher, appeared in the January her 30's, was escorting a visitor on a response from the tour guide. "When I 12th edition of the Chicago Tribune.) tour of the Kiev Pegcherska Lavra, Of the two subsurface structures, only popularly known as the Monastery of one, the so-called "Far Cave" is open to the Caves because it was first situated tourists. The tunnel closer to the main "Greatest Teuet of Our Faith' in two twisting subterranean passages gates, like many of the above-ground when it was founded in the 11th cen­ buildings, is undergoing renovation. (Continued from page 1) that death is not the end of all. Death is tury. You enter the cave through a deep, Risen. This is the greatest tenet of oi followed by the resurrection. St. Paul In the centuries that followed, the dark stairway, hunched forward to faith. says: "As Christ has risen, so shall we tunnels were used as hideaways for reli­ keep bumping your head. The tunnel is What do we glean from this grejat rise from the dead." This is the joy of gious recluses, and people paid great said to be 280 meters long, and much truth of faith? Joy, hope, strength. We this Resurrection Sunday. The Chris­ sums to be buried in the open crypts. of that space is occupied by coffins, rejoice with Christ's conquest pf' tian fears death no more; death is but a "This was believed to be one of the some of them open. But it is impossible death, man's greatest enemy. Man was passage from this mortal life to resur­ holiest places in Russia," th^ guide in­ to say who — or what is inside because created to live. Divine wisdom coup rection and union with Christ. structed. "It was considered a great the contents are wrapped in cloth. not have it otherwise. Thus it is man For this reason also the resurrection privilege to be buried here. You know, Small, glass-covered cubicles in the greatest desire to live - and to live of Christ is the source of our hope. closer to the church, closer to paradise. walls contain thousands of bleached always on earth or in another order. With the resurrection God the Father But of course only the very rich could and broken bones, the oldest of which Every movement that man makes fro|m confirmed the truth of Christ's tea­ afford the privilege. are supposed to date to the earliest morning to night is directed to living chings and of His divinity. This is the "The nature of the climate down here years of the monastery. and happier living — avoiding death, greatest guarantee for our Christian — very dry with a constant temper­ "The monks used to say that even his greatest enemy. It was sin that life; we can now be absolutely certain ature - caused some of the bodies to Nestor the Chronicler was buried caused death, for the Lord decreed that Christ's doctrine is God's doc­ become mummified, which the be­ here," the guide said laughing. "But I death as a consequence of sin, first trine, that Christ's institution of His lievers took to mean that these people think that even God — if he existed — spiritual death — the loss of divipe Church is God's will, that the Sacra­ wouldn't know where Nestor's body is ments instituted by Christ are veritable had become saints in the afterlife. Rich grace which is the life of the soul , people who had sinned all their lives now." and later bodily death, i.e. the separa­ sources of sanctification and salvation, thought they could buy a place in para­ There are also some small cells where tion of the body from the soul, the that Christ's sanctions are God's sanc­ dise if their bodies were buried here." the original monks slept and three body returning to the earth, frd tions, that all the words of Christ, all handsome chapels adorned with gold which it came, and the soul returning His teachings, commands and counsels For more than 850 years, the Ortho­ icons and colorful frescos. to its Creator, whence it came, to gi|ve are authentic and heaven-approved. dox monks at the monastery preached Archeologists have determined that account of its life on earth. This is the hope that comes to us from religious doctrines. the two tunnels, as well as dozens of The resurrection of Christ pro\|( the Resurrection. Here is the truth Today, in one of those chafing similar cavelike structures discovered which the once doubting, now believ­ ironies that result from revoution, this nearby, were first dug and used as ing Thomas implied when he ex­ country's Communist rulers are using dwellings in prehistoric times. claimed: "(O Christ), My Lord and my the monastery as a pulpit for the pro­ More recently, Viking traders from Chicago Women... God!" pagation of anti-religious propaganda. Scandinavia, who traveled the Dnieper (Continued from page 3) The Resurrection of Christ is our "The state maintains this monastery River to Constantinople via the Black a great deal of interest when she men­ strength. All our actions, all our suf­ now to show how religion was used to Sea, used the tunnels as warehouses tioned the fact that the 1980 feddral ferings undergone in the spirit of keep the people down," the guide ex­ and trans-shipment points for their census does not provide a listing of all Christ and in His grace assume a pounded. "Religion is a terrible thing. merchandise. the minority groups. This is detri­ heavenly value and give meaning to It makes you afraid to think for your­ The first monks moved in sometime mental to the ethnic communities since life; without Christ's rising from the self; to do anything of your own free after the conversion of Kiev to Chris­ federal and state funds allocated to dead, there is no meaning to life, there will. You only do what the religious tianity in 988. Nestor the Chronicler, given community are based on the cen­ is no reason to struggle, there is no va­ leaders tell you, and they are only in­ who lived in the 12th century, pin­ sus figures. lue to suffering. St. Paul expressed this terested in maintaining their superior pointed the date at 1051, but there is no Dr. Markus stressed in her talk the eloquently when he said: "If Christ has position in society. concrete evidence for this. need to recognize basic human rights not risen, our preaching is in vain and "Look over here," she said, point­ By 1080, though, stone buildings for all and not dwell too much on your faith too is vain.'' ing to a cramped hollow in one of the were being erected on the hill above the separate women' s rights. For this reason let us rejoice, let us walls just big enough for a man to caves, including the Cathedral of the There was a general feeling that tftiis have hope, let us contend with life in crawl into and lie down in. "The Assumption, which remained until the conference was worthwhile and that Christ's resurrection. Death is no more monks used to say that very holy peo­ Germans destroyed it during World similar conferences should be held adain an enigma, as it was and still is today ple had themselves bricked up in these War II. Several churches of that era are in the near future. for the unbeliever. Behold, our joy, small spaces. Only tiny openings were still standing, as are others built later. The conference was over at 5:30 put our hope and our strength in life! most of the participants stayed on to left for food to be passed through. During the invasion of the Tatar Let us proclaim this truth; let us They said these holy men lived there meet Rep. Antonovych who, after greet each other with this truth as our Mongols in the 13th century, the many delays in Europe, finally arrived for years, constantly praying to God. monastery was besieged and plundered, beautiful Ukrainian custom has taught in Chicago by Swissair at 5 p.m. He us;Tet us live by this truth and by the "Personally I don't believe that any­ but eventually it was permitted to re­ was met at О'Hare airport by news­ body was ever stupid enough to do it, sume its activities by the conquering full doctrine olthe Risen Christ, for paper reporters and TV cameras and this is the pledge of the reasonableness but you see how the monks tried to Khans, who sought to strengthen their some 50 well-wishers. After the inter­ trick the people into being blindly obe­ hold on their new subjects by making of life on earth and the pledge of our views at the airport Rep. Antonovych future resurrection. Khrystos Voskres! dient. They told them that these her­ concessions to the churches. came directly to the SUMA hall wliere mits were so obedient, they even gave Voistynu Voskres! Christ has Risen! In the 16th century, after much of he was given a standing ovation by Truly He has Risen! their bodies to the church." Ukraine had fallen to Poland, the over 120 persons who joined the wo­ Throughout the centuries when monastery was active in the resistance men after the conference. Rep. Anto­ Joseph M. Schmondiuk Christianity held sway here the beauti­ struggle. novych related to the audience the hap­ Metropolitan ful Kiev Pecherska Lavra (lavra means By the 18th century, a society was penings in Belgrade. Archbishop of Philadelphia THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 26,1978 No. 68

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Q -1 recently heard that the IRS ruled that water bills are tax deductible. Are J. Report and discussion. „ my other utility bills also deductible? 2. Election of District Committee Officers. A -What you are referring to is an oversimplification of a ruling the IRS issued 3. Address by Supreme Vice-Presidentess MARY DUSHNYCK. last year. Water bills are not deductible. However, if part of the fees your local 4. Adoption of District Program for 1978. water board collected from you are for maintenance purposes then you may de­ duct that amount only. The IRS cannot advise you of how much to deduct (if Meeting will be attended by any), since all local municipal authorities operate differently and many do not MARY DUSHNYCK, UNA Supreme Vice-Presidentess collect such maintenance fees. You should check with your municipal water and sewerage authority. UNA DISTRICT COMMITTEE

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OF UNA BRANCHES Officers, Convention Delegates and Representatives will be held of the following UNA Branches are invited to attend: Saturday, April 1, 1978 at 7:30 p.m. Berwick, 164, 333 McAdoo, 7 Ukrainian Civic Center, 731 Joseph Avc, Rochester, N.Y. . Centralia, 90 Minersville, 78, 265 All members of the District Committe, Convention Delegates and Branch Officers I Coaldale, 201 Ml. Carmel, 2 Frackville, 242, 382 and Delegates of the folloving Branches are requested to attend: В Freeland, 429 Northumberland, 357 32, 66. 89, 217, 285, 289, 316, 343, 367 and 367 9 Hazleton, 85 Shamokin, 1 Mahanoy City, 305 Shenandoah, 98 PROGRAM: f Mahanoy Plains, 365 St. Clair, 9, 31,228 1. Report and discussion. g 2. Address by Supreme Vice-President JOHN 0. FLIS. PROGRAM: 3. Election of District Committe Officers. 1. Reports of District Committee Officers and discussion. 4. Adoption of District Program for 1978. 2. Election of new Officers. Meeting will be attendded by 3. Adoption of Districf s Program for 1978. Wolodymyr Zaparanillk, Supreme Advisor Wasyl OrichoWSky , UNA Field Organizer Meeting will be attended by: After the Meeting REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED. JOSEPH LESAWYER, UNA Supreme President All members and non-members are welcome. All UNA members,.and all Ukrainians of the Anthracite Area are William B. Hussar Walter Hawrylak invited to attend this meeting. President Secretary Konstantine Shewchuk Peter Dziuba A. Slovik H. Slovik Vice-President Treasurer В Treasurer Secretary No. 68 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 26,1978 Canadian Prime Minister... Denim... (Continued from page 3) (Continued from page 7) the Prime Minister. No one questions economical fabric shows no sign of that there has been some progress. At decline. the same time, there are still many Last year, 675 million yards of Jewish dissidents who have not been denim were produced in the United permitted to leave. The Ukrainian Im­ States. And there is currently a short­ migrant Aid Society of Toronto has a age of some 100 million square yards list of some 400 families who are still of the fabric. attempting to get relatives out of the A large part of the growth in denim Soviet Union. Despite the progress production has occurred in the men- which has been made, they are the ones swear market. Retail sales of men's who would like the Prime Minister to jeans have climbed between 12 and 18 make another public appeal, and not percent each year since 1972. And the just the usual diplomatic appeal; they number of men's jeans sold increased feel that is not enough and what is re­ from 102 million in 1972 to 126 million quired is an open, public appeal to the in 1975. president of the Soviet Union. Will the Denim manufacturers have been in Prime Minister give consideration to the comfortable position for many making the type of public appeal which years of not having enough yardage to these groups are requesting? adequately supply the demand. Mr. Trudeau: Mr. Speaker, I under­ The denim market has enjoyed the stand that a public appeal is all they most consistent growth of any apparel can get out of the opposition parties. category. And although the question of Out of the government, they have got how long the denim boom can last re­ results - which is preferable. mains on manufacturer's minds, most feel confident that present rates of de­ mand will hold firm through the ba­ UAVets Add New Post lance of the decade. BUFFALO, N.Y.— The Ukrainian American Veterans are organizing a REAL ESTATE new post in the Niagara Frontier area between Buffalo and Niagara Falls, GLASSES! GLASSES! GLASSES! N.Y. Eligible for membership are all WITH AINIAN DESIGN Ukrainian veterans who served in the FRESH AIR ft BLUE SKY PACK OF 6 or 1?I2 N A BOX. WE SEND BY MAIL. 10 to 150 acres rolling, wooded land for (Can be obtained in\ all Ukrainian stores in USA) U.S. Armed Forces from World War I sale, some fields, views, two streams, state through Vietnam joad, power wires, 390 ft. frontage. 3 DELTO EUROPA CORP Interested persons should contact miles south of Gore Mt. Ski Area. RoiTtf|n Iwanyckyj William Drabyk, 91 Heritage Rd., Call: 1-518-792-0996 136 and 146 First Avenue New York, N.Y. 10009 Buffalo, N.Y. 14221; tel.: (716) 0. Stromberg, North Creek, N.Y. 12853 (Bet. 8th and 9th Sts) Tel. (212)228-2266

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John Evans Ihor Bardyn President President University of Toronto Ukrainian Professional 4c Business Club of Toronto

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flffllWtWWWIttHttMiitttWWHttl"WWMttiЙШіЙй ^ tainly has not become easier. There are very old (close to 100-year-old) women only a few very good pysanka makers regarding the "pysanka" - "as a holy ШШ in Canada, and few of these are willing ^object, a helpful one, and it brings to part with their work, even for a good luck, wealth, health and protects шшш good price. And if one considers the a person from all harm...but...one amount of painstaking time involved in must know how to write fit), how to creating a ''pysanka," no price is too give the right colors, how to write it at great. The collector must know if he the given time, how to pray over it, and Pysanky wants a "pysanka" with just a pretty to give it to the right person." design, or a true "pysanka" - one On Velykden' "pysanky" were ex­ by Orysia Paszczak-Tracz whose ornament and color have tradi­ changed between family, friends young tional meaning. and old, couples (by giving her young Take an egg - a plain, white, raw, - and you have a "pysanka," a Uk- The egg has always been the univer­ man a "pysanka," a girl indicated that perfect egg. Add patience, skill, a rainian Easter egg. sal symbol of fertility, potential, re­ she would welcome matchmakers), and steady hand, millenia of tradition, Collecting "pysanky" has become birth, but these are secondary. For an- were given to the village priest. But the simple tools, time, and more patience quite popular in recent years, but it cer- cient civilizations, the sun was the pri­ mary force, a god. The egg symbolized HOW TO READ AND WRITE IN UKRAINIAN the sun, its rebirth (in spring) and therefore nature's rebirth. The egg was ByLKORYTSKY the source of life, and of all creation. There are numerous legends of the egg Христос Воскрес as embryo of the earth and the uni­ verse. Indian, Egyptian, Mesopotami- an, Greek, Roman, Polynesian, Scan­ "pysanka's" powers were not only sea­ Христос воскрес! Радійте, діти, dinavian, Slavic, and other legends all sonal. Depending upon its ornament біжіть у поле, у садок, have the egg as the central point of and colors, the "pysanka" protected creation. The bird which carried the people from various specific illnesses, збирайте зіллячко і квіти, and safeguarded the house and other несіть на Божий хрест вінок. egg was also revered as the egg's bearer and as^harbinger of spring. buildings from lightning. It could re­ turn lost love, and make a childless wo­ In prehistoric times, the people inha­ man fertile. It was buried into the soil На вас погляне Божа Мати, biting the territory of present-day Uk­ to insure a good harvest, was placed радіючи, з святих небес. raine also believed in the sun. Theirs into nests and mangers so that farm was an agricultural society, and its god fowl and animals would multiply, and Збирайтесь, діти! Нум співати: was the sun, Dazhboh (the god who — Христос воскрес! Христос воскрес! was left under the main beehive for a gives). The whole calendar year re­ good honey crop. "Pysanky" were volved around the cult of the sun, its buried with those adults who died departure and returns. The most during the Velykden' period, and with important festivals centered around the children who died throughout the spring and autumnal equinoxes, and whole year. This practice, carried into the summer and winter solstices. The the beginning of this century, can be festival of the spring equinox was hap­ traced to its origin in prehistory, when piest, celebrating the sun's return and eggs were placed into burial mounds as nature's rebirth. The Ukrainian word talismans to insure the dead one's re­ for Easter, the Christians feast, is birth. One week after Velykden', Velykden' (Great Day). This name has during "Provody" (Velykden' for the not changed from those ancient pre- dead), "pysanky" and special foods Весна Christian times when Velykden', as the were left on the graves in the ceme­ feast of the spring equinox, celebrated teries, so that the living could be in Встала весна, чорну землю the lengthening day. Celebrations in­ communion with their ancestors. Сонну розбудила, cluded ceremonial songs and dances, special foods, rituals surrounding fire The beliefs surrounding the powers Уквітчала її рястом, and water — and eggs. of the "pysanka" are endless. But all its powers stemmed from the image of Барвінком укрила. There were two different types of the ultimate power, the sun, illustrated І на полі жайворонок, eggs for Velykden'. The "krashanka" in its many variations and representa­ was cooked, dyed one color (usually Соловейко в гаї, red for joy), and was meant to be eaten Землю, убрану весною, as the first food breaking the fast the Вранці зустрічають. morning of the Great Day; games were played with the "krashanky." The "pysanka" was decorated with special Веснянка symbols. It remained raw, was not meant to be eaten or played with, and — Весна прийшла! had a most important ritual signifi­ Тепло знайшла! — cance. It was permissible to cook the кричать дівчатка й хлопчики. "krashanka," which was meant as a — Цвірінь! Цвірінь! sacrifice, but it certainly was not pos­ sible to cook a "pysanka." That would tions on the surface of the egg. The Журбу покинь! — mean sacrificing the embryo within, basic solar ornaments were the swa­ проказують горобчики. killing the potential lifegiving force of stika, triquetrum, and the rosette-star. nature. The designs upon the surface The swastika, which has its origin in of the shell symbolized the lifegiving Приліз дідок, the Sanskrit "to bring good luck," is a force of the sun, reinforcing the power universal symbol of the solar wheel, зліз на горбок: of what was within the shell. the movement and power of the sun. In у хаті буть не хочеться. The egg itself and the designs written Ukraine, the swastika ornament on upon it were good, therefore they the "pysanka" was known as the Все ожило, could bring good fortune, and turn broken cross, the hooked cross, or the away evil. The "pysanka" was be­ windmill. "Sorok klyntsiv" (40 or 48' все розцвіло, lieved to have extremely powerful ma­ triangles) is a composite of triangles і рій дітей привітненьких gical properties. Stepan Kylymnyk, a forming "windmills," covering the на той горбок prominent Ukrainian^ ethnographer, whole surface of the "pysanka." wrote that as a young child at the be­ Each triangle was an incantation for a несе вінок ginning of this century he remembered з фіялочок блакитненьких. (Continued on page 15) No. 68 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 26,1978

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(Continued from page 14) crees prohibiting such heathen prac­ particular wish. Some forms of the tri- tices as "pysanky" and carolling. But quetrum, for example "troiachok" (a seeing that it was a losing battle, the ЕШІШЩЩЦі three-legged form, actually a swastika Church gradually absorbed and Chris­ with only three curved appendages) are tianized the customs it could not identical to those on pottery of the destroy. A dualism developed which is Trypillian culture (Neolithic period, still reflected in today's Ukrainian WORD JUMBLE 5,000-2,500 B.C.) which covered a Christmas and Easter customs. large area of present-day Ukraine. The How does one make a "pysanka?" The jumbled words below represent the \es of past Ukrainian sports clubs in rosette or star was usually eight-sided, „ Ukraine. They can be identified by rearranging the letters. Letters underlined with a The process is batik, but, on an egg in­ double line form the mystery word. infrequently six-sided. The design pos­ stead of on fabric. The tools are sibilities of each of these three basic or­ simple: the "kistka," a copper funnel- Past Ukrainian Sport^ Clubs in Ukraine naments are endless. Each could stylus attached to a wooden handle; appear as a geometric, floral, or pure beeswax; a candle; and dyes (na­ ALAKS animal motif, depending upon the tural, made from bark, roots, berries, curve or angle, the embellishment and dried flowers). The "kistka" is heated sequence. Closely related solar orna­ over the candleflame, its point dipped DVUBSOH ments were the cock (heralder of the into the beeswax, and a line drawn with sun), other birds as the swallow, and the melted beeswax flowing from the point of the "kistka" onto a clean, AHARAZV U raw, room-temperature egg. The line does come out straight (with practice, NERSTID - - of course), but the secret is to rotate at the wrist the hand holding the egg, and to keep the hand holding the "kistka" ATARV still. This is how the ornament is "writ­ ten" on the egg. Whatever lines are dried flowers). The "kistka" is heated RYUBZT white, because beeswax is impervious and seals whatever it covers. The egg is NISA the horse (he pulled the sun across the then lowered by spoon into a jar of the sky). These were not necessarily realis­ lightest dye, yellow. When removed, tic representations, but appeared often the egg will be yellow except for the MROLOP - - as parts of the given creature's preserved white lines beneath the bees­ anatomy, for example a cock's comb wax. Lines in beeswax are then written or swallow's tail. on the yellow surface. These will re­ KLARSUA - - Another motif from the Neolithic main yellow. The process is repeated as period is the meander or "bezko the "pysanka" progresses from the nechnyk" (endless line). This also lightest to the darkest dye (from yel­ IPLODLIA - - appears on Trypillian pottery and "py- low, orange, red, to maroon or black). sanky." The ornament represents eter­ Blue and green, cool colors, are ap­ ANURKAI nity, the annual, monthly and daily plied with a toothpick to the white and cycles of the sun and planets, and the yellow surface respectively, because eternal thread of life. Also originating their dye would adversely affect suc­ The only team that flew to its makches was based in this city: in this period is the very infrequent hu­ cessive dyes. After the egg has been re­ man female figure, the "panianka" moved from the darkest dye and dried, (lady) or "bohynia" (goddess), the re­ the beeswax is melted (by candleflame presentation of the earth-mother ferti­ or in a slow oven) and wiped off with Answers to last week's jumble: ТигсІїЦ|, Plyushch, Litvinov, Medvedev, Alek- lity goddess. The remaining types of soft cloth or tissue. The cooled "py­ seyeva, Bukovsky, Grigorenko, Radygin, ^ i, Chalidze. "pysanka" ornaments could be classed sanka" is then varnished or shellacked Mystery word: Samvydav. as geometric (lines, grates or sieves, both for a glossy effect and to protect ladders, rakes, crosses, curves); floral HAVE AN INTERESTING JtJMBLE? SEND IT IN. -- graphic, seldom realistic Opine and (Continued on page 16) other tree branches, leaves, fruit, peri­ winkle, sunflowers, the tree of life); ani­ mal (various birds, rams, deer); and a few others (boots, little barrels). Bohuta The Hero Story: Roman Zawadowycz Illustrations: Myron Leyytsky, Petro Cholodny

Not only ornament, but its coloring had meaning: red-joy, life, love, the sun; yellow—moon and stars, good harvest; blue—the skies, air, health; green—spring, nature; brown—mother earth; black with white-respect of the dead ancestors. Combinations of colors had their own meaning. The original "pysanky" were bi- and tri- colored. Younger persons received "pysanky" with lighter, brighter colors, the old re­ ceived those with dark backgrounds. Each region, even each village, had its own designs and colors. Tradition is a very powerful force, In the capital city the shining knights "Greetings, К: my native city," shouts ІІ am Bohuta the Hero, please, Your pride of Kiev's defense. out Bohuta. Highness, accept me as a knight in your and even the official acceptance of ;e," he asks Prince Volodymyr. Christianity in 988 could not eradicate the pre-Christian beliefs and practices А в столиці залізне військо, ,,Вітай, Києве, землі моєї рід­ , Я, Богута-Багатир, прошу те- of the population. For the first few батьківщини горда оборона. ної столице!" князю: прийми мене на ли­ centuries, church authorities issued de­ царську службу". THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 1978 No. 68 Pysanky (Continued from page 15) ornaments they use. Some also employ There is even a Trypillian "pysanka" "pysanka" (usually the first-place win­ x dyes from smearing. The process such inappropriate colors as pink or now —Neolithic motifs in the original ner) is not necessarih the m )st tradi­ -"'d take s^u Ї 4cr ^ne "pysanka rqaoise, and untraditional realistic black, ferra-cotta and white or cream tional nor the most cг I" J ^:a ^\ r anerts, wc; as poppies o" pussv colors. tU - л "lo VK v, in Canada ;re is z Jias^es are helu ^n r^csl ^^i^cii ГС"Є pc^uicj " „ , . ' і 4.; -1 '^''sanka^-maK s vnr cities Jenng sprngime ^'n, л ,с"м- . e\pcr boib ' j, ет^.ь^ i^ - ;j ^:ііьі^1 polemic c\; uie .--w AJ, C.

cvi^r -asiij opsfardizea b: petsora who ГУП10С! 01 l. J'Jj ;. - . t- r A jertai ,, o^x- лі' ^e^izeu. :^e rui'he ^ev. iiirosiaw Elyjiw, t v\alk- know The technique but not ht; His­ able, delicate, nrag. c, ^ юь є иЛ9 , , remaining unchanged ingrediems 'ng encyclopedia on "pysanky."' tory? Already, zodiac signs, flowers of attractive, the Ukrainian Easier eg^ is z c the egg itself and the beeswax. But Among younger Ukrainian Canadi­ the month, and other kitsch and totally perhaps the only maierial manifesta­ the "kistka" can be either the old-fa­ ans today there is a great revival of in­ inappropriate designs have appeared. tion of Ukrainian folk culture that con­ shioned one (but store-bought), or an terest in the pre-Christian roots of Uk­ The "pysanka" then becomes just a tinues to be a productive form in its electric model, which makes the candle rainian folk art and folklore. These decorated egg. It is not only technique, new Canadian environment. And here, unnecessary, since the electric current have survived practically intact but that plus meaning as a unit, which in contrast to its earlier talismanic heats the point and melts the beeswax. through centuries of cultural and poli­ make a "pysanka." "Pysanka" writ­ significance, it has become a valid Points are available in various sizes, tical persecution, and are a thread con­ ing contests are held annually in a few passport to ethnic recognition and an from extra-fine to thick. Dyes do not necting the extremely distant rich past Canadian cities, and are very popular. effective antidote for the dissolution of have to be made from scratch. There of a people to its ultra-modern present. But the judges, not to mention the en­ group pride and consciousness," wrote are special commercially produced ani­ The archaic, magical, possibly not as trants, are not always knowledgeable Dr. Robert B. Klymasz of the National line powders, ready to be mixed with ''pretty" ornaments are being written in the art and history of their subject. Museum of Man , Ottawa, in his boiling water and vinegar. Paper again on '"pysanky," specifically be­ Categories are often vague and inac­ pamphlet "The Ukrainian Easter Egg towels and tissues make the mess that cause of their special cultural value. curately defined. The most intricate in Canada." much easier to clean. Spray shellac and varnish have replaced beaten egg yolk or animal grease as the finishing touch. In the last 30-40 years, the "pysan- ka" has lost much of its archaic, ritualistic meaning, and the trend has been to create as pretty and as intricate a design as possible. Some of these de­ signs, based upon the Hutsul (Ukraini­ an Carpathian mountaineers) orna­ ment are almost unbelievable in their intricacy. Most of the professional ' 'pysanka"-makers who sell to the shops, and who learned the art from mothers and grandmothers, are techni­ cally perfect, but are not aware of the deep pre-Christian meaning behind the

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