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No. 24 JERSEY CITY, N. J., SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1943 VOL. XI
THE MARXIAN SHASHKEVICH Treasury Department Commends U·N·A, CENTENNIAL A letter of flmmendation of the standing demonstration of democr?.cy- Ukrainian National Association and at-work-for-Victory. Gr.e hundred years ago last Monday, June 7, 1843 there its members for their part in the Sec "You will see that in this report the died a young Ukrainian priest, Markian Shashkevich. who in ond War Loan drive was received by Treasury's emphasis is particularly Mr. Nicholas Muraszko, U.N.A. presi on the loyal support of the whole the brief span of his life (born November 6, 1811) and in the dent, from Edward B. Hitchcock, American people. This is a People's face of bitter opposition of the reactionary elements of his Chief of the Foreign Origin Section War and it must continue to be fi day, including some of hie ecclesiastical superiors, managed of the War Savings Staff of the nanced through the buying of the to revolutionize Western Ukrainian literature and set it on United States Treasury. People's Bonds by the whole Ameri An excerpt of the letter reads: its present course by introducing and popularizing as its medium can people. The continued efforts of of expression the Ukrainian language spoken then only by "The Secretary of Treasury has asked me to present to you his re your organization and all its branches the .common masses of people but ignored and scorned by the port on the result of the Second War will help insure the ultimate victory intelligentsia, which favored the then fashionable but hodge> Loan drive, in appreciation of what and the final triumph of Democracy in podgish combination of Church-Slavonic and Polish-Ukrainian. you and members of your organiza this global struggle with the organ In thus giving Western Ukrainian literature its true and tion did to make that effort an out ized powers of evil..." natural means of expression, young Shashkevich gave it the power and beauty hardly possible to it up to then. At the same time he helped to reawaken Ukrainian national conscious SOLDIERS INJURED IN RAID Ukrainian Flier Sinks ness which was quite dormant then as a result of centuries of In the course of a German air raid on a southeastern coast town in Eng U-Boat oppression and denationalization of the Ukrainian people by land, on Sunday, May 23, when a the foreign occupants of their native land. bomb smashed a hotel, killing six A Ukrainian American flier, Lieu For this great service Shashkevich is honored and revered United States soldiers, two Ukrainian tenant Thomas Kinaszuk of 141 Court by his countrymen. This year there will no doubt be observances American soldiers were injured. Street, Elizabeth, N. J. sent an enemy ¦submarine to the bottom of the At of the 100th anniversary of his death. What promises to be They are Private John Tworyczuk ¡lantic by shattering it with depth of 1317 Avy Street, Hillside.' N. J. a very notable one, is the Markian Shashkevich Centennial charges from his Naval patrol plane and Moosic, Pa., and Private Paul Concert to be held at New York City's famous Town Hall which he piloted, after a short en Zayatz of 207 East Fourth Street, gagement in which shells from the on October 3, under the auspices of St. George's Ukrainian New York City." U-boat's guns riddled one wing of the Catholic Church of that city. The Americans were spending a plane. In order that our readers may have some idea of Shash· period of leave in the town. kevich's stature in Western Ukramian literary and national | A report of the sinking, released An .AP dispatch says that Private by the Navy, appeared in last Mon Tworyszczuk snatched a woman out life, we shall publish on these pages next week a fuller account day's papers, together with a picture of danger from falling debris and took of his life and works than is possible here. In the meanwhile ¦of the U-boat tossing her bow into his machine-gunned comrade to a we publish below an admirably succinct sketch of this great ¡the air just before lunging to her hospital before discovering that he ¡doom. The sinking, the Navy said, Ukrainian by Dr. Arthur Prudden Coleman of Columbia Uni himself had been injured by a falling took place in April. versity, being a portion of his "Brief Survey of Ukrainian wall. Lieut.-Col. William Perry of | Piloted by Lieutenant Kinaszcuk, Literature." Baltimore, battalion commander, re commended Tworyszczuk for a Sol ¡ the plane sighted the submarine oa nnHUS. In the '30s, during the very ¦ toms of Ukraine, published after dier's Medal. |the surface and dived at it from a year¿ when the University of great difficulty in Budapest under the distance of several miles. Kiev was was being established, soon | name Rusalka Dniestrovaya brought "The submarine commander elected to become under Kostomariw's guid· j him under the censor's ban. Persecu· WOUNDED SAVING ТВАШ to fight it out," the Navy reported. anc·e a nourishing ground for Uk- tion followed him like an implacable "The submarine deck guns opened rainiar. scholarship, there appeared Javert all the rest of his brief life A Ukrainian Canadian railway sec fire on Ventura, riddling one wing. in Lviw a herald of Ukrainian awak· I and he died of want and misery at tion worker, Andrew Kosliuk, was Undeterred, Lieutenant Kinaszcuk ening in the person of Markian ¡the age of thirty-three, a,martyr to shot and wounded in what was be¯ pushed the rugged warplane through Shashkevich (1811-43). Born in the his faith in the Ukrainian race. Dur· lived to have been an attempt of the shell-fire. saboteurs to wreck the Canadian Zolcchiw (Zloczow on present day і ing his lifetime Shashkevich was "Then the submarine attempted to ¦ Pacific Railway's Montreal· Vancouver maµs¡ district of Galicia, on the high greatly supported in his work as crash-dive. Whistling along virtual flier on May 30 near Fort William, plateau region that overlooks a shim· ¦ folklorist and publicist by tyro friends, ly on the surface of the water, the Ontario, according to an AP press merng blue and gold ocean of billow-, Yakiw Holovatsky and Ivan Vahile· patrol bomber went in over the near dispatch. ing grainfields, Shashkevich early be· ¦ vich, but after his death the two sur· ly submerged conning tower and four carre alive to the fact that some· viving members of the so-called Uk- A half hour before the train was depth bombs were released, three thir.g was wrong with nis people.' rainian Trinity did not long carry due, Kosliuk found spikes removed creating an in-line pattern just ahead Then, ha \ing studied in the gymna· і on the work their leader had inspired, from the outer rail where the track of the submarine's course and the sium of Lviw philosophy and history, j But a century later Shashkevich's curves around the seventy-five foot fourth striking just forward of the and having read with eagerness the; memory is still green and his life and embankment above the Kaministiquia conning tower. wor·cs of such scholars as Dobrov·, works are remembered with an almost River. Shots from the woods struck The plane was then pulled up skv and Kopitar, and of folklorists personal poignancy. His Spring Song, him in the shoulder as he started to sharply so that results could be ob like CeLakovsky, and having felt re->ung by thousands of youth of Uk- replace the spikes. Despite his wounds served by Lieutenant Robert J. ver^erations of the great general Slav rainian origin who have never seen he made his way down the tracks and Slagle, Jonesboro, Ark., the second awakening. Shashkevich realized that ¡ the land of their forefathers, has be- helped to flag the flier short of,the pilot The Navy added: c the fate of Ukraine was identical with ¡ ºme a cherished racial possession, a impaired stretch. 'The sub was blown to the surface, the universal Slav plight. Thinking fragment affectionately repeated from then settled beneath the waves. A through the problem to a solution, generation to generation: moment later, the bow of the under, Shashkevich came to the conclusion Let me press tightly seas craft suddenly broke about Spring Song that no one could save the Ukrainian ¡ All earth to myself." twenty-five feet out of the water, at race but itself, that light, as always. Wee flow'ret lone. "Dear little pigeon, a steep angle. The submarine slow must come from within. He turned, Is praying its mother, Could I but help ly staggered forward in this attitude. at once from Polish, the language Spring, lovely Mother, My poor little sad one! More and more of the bow emerged, he and; most other Galician Ukrain· "Hearken, my own, Winds shall whine shrilly, and in a few moments the conning ians used in polite speech and in, One wish I ask thee, Frost shall grip chilly, tower and forward gun broke the writing, and began to preach and to¡ One desire, grant me: Hurricanes groan. surface. All forward motion of the write in the native spoken Ukrainian. ¦ Let me but flower. Beauty will darken, submarine ceased. The bow raised His sermons and his writings served¡ Let me once shower Pale flow'rets blacken, sharply until it was almost perpendi-. to arouse the Ukrainian people from, The meadows with beauty. Small heads will "languish, cular; then the submarine slid beneath their deep spiritual lethargy. His col· Like sunlight, with brilliance. Tiny leaves vanish, the surface, leaving a 100-foot wide
lections of songs and stories and cue¯ і Like starlight, with radiance¿ Blossom buds moan." гч¿£ A oil slick." __¿ і¡ і'ц;j n Ttr -r» 1 — ид_—IT Why Hetman Bohdan Was Interested A Review< of %he News V in Moldavia By HONORE EWACH ' THE WAR IN .TUK PACIFIC then<> we had been wondering where the enemy would hit us; but at Mid V·*i¾e Tokyo propagandists are now way the Japanese Navy lost the ini WHOEVER has studied the history Kozaks Annihilate Polish Army complaining that the garrison tiative and has never yet got it back. ' " of Ukraine knows that Hetman on Attu was outnumbered. Of course When at Batih the Polish and Uk- Bohdan Khmelnitsky fought two it was — though not so heavily as The Japanese occupation of Attu rainian forces collided, Kalinowski wars in order to marry his son Tokyo says—which is all to the |and Kiska was part of the price we found to his surprise that there were Timosh to the beautiful princess of | credit of our commanders. The ob paid for the victory of Midway: they |more than four regiments of Kozaks. Moldavia, Rosanda. As Rosanda's ject of war is to win, and to win as sent a relatively small force to the |Hetman Bohdan himself had arrived father, Hospodar Basil Lupul, was ! cheaply as you can; and the way. to ¡Aleutians, hoping that our command in the wake of his son. Suddenly the more of a dependent of Poland than , do that is to get there first with the ers would divert our forces from the 'Poles found themselves surrounded of Turkey, he dared not to ally him {most men. The Jape will have to ¦real objective of the attack, Midway і on all sides by the Kozaks and their r self with Hetman Bohdan, though it complain more and more of being and Hawaii. Our leaders knew better, ¡Tartar allies. There was no escape was Timosh with his Kozaks that outnumbered, as the war goes on. knew that these small islands at the helped to overcome Lupul's rivals in for them. The Battle of Batih, fought tip of the Aleutians were of lesser But just exactly a year ago there 1649. So the following year Timosh on July 2, 1652, was more than a
¦And snatch her by the hand, and пні · ¦ so· fast. ·Life and Works of Ivan Franko ¦Hell soon be left behind. Don't be | afraid, ¡And don't you dare to cry! It's not By PERCTVAL CUNDY so far, і Continued) « (4) And we are well provided for the way. Гт sure that when w·* sea her, the To transfix the pierced hands, prince»s ^No Longer They took bands of twisted wheat- Idyll Will give us anything we care to ask. straw, He пора ІДИЛЛЯ Say, what will you ask for? And thus bound Him to the cross. The little chap No longer, no longer, no longer, So, devout but narrow bigots, Long years, ago this was. Two chil ·|L·aid finger to his lip, then looked Nor the Russ nor the Pole will we Seeing how, in these our days, dren small ; at her, serve! , That from Calvary's tree of suffering, j Were trudging bravely, hand in hand, And s In the fields, beside the roadside, ¦In whom hope heals all wounds, Or shed a single tear! Give heed, or^„^"8^^^ more giorioue. Stands an ancient crucifix, ¡Whom battle doth allure, And thereon the Crucified One uWho weeps for other's woe. mi¡¦¡ke you howl! And then>when:So on they fare, along the great high· 8 Hung through all the years that, Rejoices in their good. c mes way, A º ' . , That humankind still traces, meeting passed, , |He only, is a man An d_^S Fathe_tr Sun comes home to spend . · But, with time, the nails grew rusty, ¦ . the night, pain 11 throi And disillusion harsh, yet in their Blasts of wind the cross tore loose, l£ «gh thy life, perhaps, And at the great gate knocks, as It may not be thy lot breasts, And the Chnst that hung upon it, quietly і A man like this to be. They guard their chiefest treasure,. From the cross, fell to the ground. As mice, behind him we'll just tiptoe JYet.be thou such, e'en though childlike hearts. in. Straightway, then, the friendly But for a single hour. The fool with pride inflated, rushes gl*asses, And you remember what our grand And then, when ill days come, by. ¦ That the cross' foot o'ergrew, ma said? |With grief and sadness fraught, And mocks at them. The haughty; Joyfully in their embraces He has a daughter, oh, so beautiful. ·When hope doth fade away, ' magnate deigns Gave the Christ a welcome soft: One never saw the like! bhe keeps і When passion glows no more, Thom Rot a g]ance But wl>en g0me And the columbines and violets the gate, le soul ¡When from the broad highways humb Blooming there amid the grass, And let* her father ш and out each Mcetg them he slakes tneir thirst Wound themselves, a loving chaplet, ·Of love and keen contest, У- with water cool All about the fallen head. Thy way through bypaths leads, And she loves children, just like us. Qr if|t8 them out'some easier path, So, on nature's living bosom, ¡Deserted, narrow, steep. . · more than or ¢Ise Blood and wounds all washed away. When cares wither the heart, The whole wide world! But stern old ш ^ bids th¢m to epend Hid beneath the fragrant flowers, ¦And thorns pierce wearied feet,— ¤ There the Christ in peace reposed. ¦Then shalt thou life's springtime vxr.f**'T w · , < .u . the night. Will neer let any m, for fear that , , .... . But some pious eyes observed it, With gratitude recall: . ¦ And so, still clasping each the ot¾er в Pious hands disturbed His rest, And those bright dreams shall shed sne With them might run away from him. hand, Who, with crossings, from the flowers A light o'er thy dark path, But we |Without nor care nor fear they* on·« lifted Him on high again. Forget not, ne'er forget Will creep in after· him as still as! ward march And because new nails they had not The days of youth, of spring. mice, In quiet joy towards the setting1 mm» DETROIT VIOLINIST HONORED Appointment of Taras Hubicki, Uk rainian Canadian violinist and teach er now residing in Detroit, as honor ary representatve of the Royal Aca demy of Music in London, England, was confirmed in a letter recently re ceived by him, the Detroit press re ports. Hubicki is a member of the ¦ faculty of the Detroit Conservatory of Music, a member of the Detroit Chamber Orchestra, the Detroit Music Guild, the Bohemians' Club and the Siegl String Quartet He holds the 'degree of L.R.S.M. (Licenciate of the Royal School of Music) and former ly played with the Detroit Symphony, the Winnipeg Symphony, and per formed with ·outstanding Canadian orchestras over the Canadian Broad casting Corp. networks. Satan: What are you laughing at? Junior Devil: I just locked a wo man in a room with a thousand hats ¡and no mirrors. There are 1,412,000 French speak ing people in the United States, and 39 French language newspapers. J There are 272,000 Lithuanian speak THE: IDEAL GRADUATION G_\rT ing people in the United States, and 26 Lithuanian language newspapers. were born abroad. Thus actually 10,- There are 658,000 Norwegian speak I OUR FOREIGN LANGUAGE PRESS 000,000 people born in the United ing people and 38 Norwegian lan 1 AND THE WAR States were boro- in homes where En guage newspapers. glish was not spoken. This vividly There are 273,000 Greek speaking demonstrates how foreign languages people in the United States, and 27 Address by ALLAN CRANSTON, Chief, Foreign Language Division. Office thrive in the United States long after Greek language newspapers. of War Information, Before the Advertising Club of Boston. the people who speak them have There are 178,000 Slovene speak entered this country. (Concluded) = (3) ing people in the United States, and \\IE suggested that Italian Ameri·! These papers represent a total cir· The Foreign Language Groups 13 Slovene language newspapers. ^ can editors play upon these basic' culation of 4,¢Ю0,000. It is safe to According to the Bureau of the There are 126,900 Japanese speak themes in their newspapers: say that the combined circulation and Census, the German speaking group ing people in the United States, and 1. Italian Americans should unite readership of the entire foreign lan is the largest in the United States. 3 Japanese language newspapers. FOR American victory. Italian Ameri guage press is at least 10,000,000. The *There are 4,949.000 German Ameri There are 77,500 Chinese speaking cans are full-fledged Americans, and figure may actually be several million cans bom and raised in homes people in the United States, and 12 thousands upon thousands of them more. where German, not English, was the (Chinese language newspapers. ¾re contributing as Americans in the These figures demonstrate that a spoken language. The OWI reaches There are 65,000 Rumanian speak ч<аг plants and on the fighting fronts, huge segment of our population can ¡this group through 149 German lan ing people in the United States, and 2. Mussolini is not Italy, Italy not be reached effectively through the is guage newspapers printed in all parts 5 Rumanian language newspapers. |not Mussolini. The Fascists enslaved English language. A vital portion of |of the country. our There are 215,000 Portuguese Italy - smashed unions, wiped out Population is practically macces- isible ехс ¢ speaking people in the United States, vouth, lowered living standards. Then *Р through foreign lang· The second language group is the and 17 Portuguese language news Fascism betrayed Italy to the Nazis. fu^& newspapers and other foreign Italian American. There are 114 papers. [Italians will never be free from Nazi·1 language media. Italian American newspapers, serv Fascist domination until the United The foreign language press is much ing 3,766,000 Italian speaking people. There are 226,000 Danish speaking '>Nations win. I more than a mere medium of com· Third comes the Polish group, con people in the United States, and 18 Danish language newspapers. 3. The United Nations are fighting' munication. The foreign language sisting of 2,416,000 people, served by |Nazis and Fascists, not Italians. ¦ Pre9s of America, publishing as it 75 Polish language newspapers. There are 267,000 Dutch speaking 9 in і people in the United States, and 15 4. To assure fair treatment of Itel-*º* 0 German. Italian, Japanese You may be interested in a break £an.Americans and a fair peace for'*n<* 32 other languages the Ian- down of the other foreign language Dutch language newspapers. u C3 of fnen d Italy, Italian Americans must sup· S fS u ·, ^ and neutral groups in the United States. Let me There are 68,000 Armenian speaking ,lke 18 a of the ve free |oil the American war effort. If they' * · A J7 " emphasize that the population fig people in the United States, and 16 ¦refuse, they build up dangerous hos- dom for wh,ch we are fighting. It ures given are not the total figures Armenian language newspapers. itllities і is a common ground for all who for that nationality group in the There are 107,000 Arabic speak _ ' ... . , _ . , . I struggle for the defeat of tyranny. United States. For example, there ing people in the United States, and 5. The overwhelming industrial and are many more than 2,416,000 Polish 12 Arabic language newspapers. ¡military strength of the United Na-, The great role played in the Ameri- Americans. But only that many fcions assures us of eventual victory, can war effort by the millions of Polish Americans are listed by the Real Newspapers „ __ , . _ . Americans who read the foreign lan- A Bureau of the of the Census as born The 1,402 foreign language news 6. The United States government; ^ . cannot overestimated and raised in homes where Polish papers they publish are real news~ «opposes all discrimination, in employ· The fon?ign ^ and the was spoken instead of English. native born і papers, in every sense of the word. There are 1,861.000 Spanish speak 110 of them are dailies, most |ment and otherwise, against loyal wno stu, speak foreign languages in ing people in the United States, and of the rest are tri·weeklies, bi iftahan Americans. ¦ New alone do much to make 7. The other United Nations are ¡ this one of the great arsenals of the 140 Spanish language newspapers. weeklies or weeklies. Some run to imaking vast contributions to the wa r United Nations. In these seven states There are 585,080 Russian speak 30 or 40 pages every day, and have effort. Great Britain, Soviet Russia, the hands of more than a million New ing people in the United States, and staffs equal to those of any modest |China and all the rest are our gal· Americans are molding the arms for 17 Russian language newspapers. metropolitan daily. They subscribe «to the regular wire and photo serv· ¾ant allies, and should be treated as democracy. The minds of skilled There are 453,000 Hungarian speak ; ices, and turn out papers as up to ¢such. ¡draftsmen, many of them born and ing people in the United States, and . ^ . _, _ _ , raised abroad, are here sketching the minute in news content and as government Needs Foreign Language ¿ 58 Hungarian language newspapers. plans for new weaponSt tne blueprin modern in format as any English Ttss for victor>'. Without the New England There are 1,751,100 Yiddish speak language publications. The American government devotes foreign language newspapers — ing people in the United States, and In many towns and cities across |this special care and attention to the brought together in a strong, loyal 193 Yiddish language newspapers. ¿foreign language press because it association under the leadership of America they compete with the Eng There are 830.000 Swedish people considers it one of the nation's vital that well-known Italian American, lish language papers on a real give in the United States, and 42 Swedish and take basis. They compete not channels of communication. It knows Joe Borgatti—these vital workers in language newspapers. ¡that without the foreign language the arsenal of the United Nations only for readers, but for advertising. fc>ress, millions of Americans would would find it difficult to keep posted There are 83,600 Ukrainian speak I sincerely hope that you, the leaders be unable fully to understand and on the progress of the war. Without ing people in the United States, and of the advertising field in New Eng 14 Ukrainian language newspapers. contribute to the winning of the these papers the wives, sisters, land, will give them their full share. жаг. Thus the attitude of the gov- sweethearts and mothers of the New There are 153,000 Serbo-Croation They deserve it, for two sound crnment is far from one of mere tol- ¦ England foreign born who are bear- speaking people in the United States, reasons. trance of the foreign language press. ing arms on more than a score of and 16 Serbo-Croation language They are loyally contributing to the iff a foreign language press did not battlefronts where American armies newspapers. winning of the war, and the vast «exist, the government would virtual· are fighting would find it far more There are 520,000 Chechoslovak majority of them have won the right ly be compelled to invent one: | difficult to understand the war their speaking people in the United States, to alt the support they can get from There are no completely accurate'loved one3 are "*GI¤G. and 59 Czechoslovak ian newspapers. the American community in keeping figures on the circulation of the for· ¦ Of the 22,000,000 people in this There are 484,000 Slovak speaking open their vital channels of communi WASHINGTON.—The full use of The May issue of 'The National YOUNG U.N.A. MEMBER DIES all aliens in the United States, ir Legionnaire" magazine, published by The burial took place at St. John's Baptist Greek Catholic Cemetery. respective of national origin or citi the American Legion, reported the The Ukrainian National Association zenship, in war plants was urged in following: was recently informed of the death of BRANCH SECRETARY JOINS ' a joint statement issued this week by "A great number of Legion posts Michael Wasylik of Pittsburgh, Pa., WAAC the War, Navy and Justice depart have erected memorial monuments, who was very active in U.N.A. youth On June 2nd, Miss Stephania Bo- ments and the Maritime Commission. but East side Post of New York affairs for several years in the Pitts bersky, secretary of Branch 333 of City had the unusual experience of burgh area. Suffering from a brain The announcement also shortens the Ukrainian National Association, having a monument erected in me tumor, young Wasylik expired and simplifies the procedure whereby which is located in Berwick, Pa., re mory of its deceased members by an on May 27th at the Camp Lee Sta holders of government airplane and ported for duty in the Women's Army "classified" contracts may obtain per interested, but not affiliated, group. tion Hospital. The Ukrainian Production Unit of the Auxiliary Corp. Stephania was ant mission for hiring aliens within two Michael was an active member and active U·NA, member, and repres weeks or less. New York Chapter, American Red officer of a Pittsburgh youth branch Cross, erected a monument on a plot ented Branch 333 as a delegate at the "Even on aeronautical and classi of the Ukrainian National Associa U.N.A. convention held in Harrisburg, fied contracts, if a qualified applicant opposite the post home, fronting a tion which eventually merged into fifty-foot flag pole, and then made the Pa., in May, 1941. whose services contractor needs is an Branch 96, an older group. He gradu Miss Bobersky is the third branch; alien whose loyalty to the United presentation with appropriate cere ated from South High School and also monies. secretary of her sex to enter the States the contractor has no reason Robert Morris School. After four service. Miss Katherine Bodnyk, sec·· , "East Side Post is known as "The to doubt, the contractor is obliged to years of training in accounting he retary of Branch 442 of Northamp League of Nations Post"; 33 na cooperate with the applicant in ap was engaged by an architectural com ton, Pa., and Miss Sue Hentosh, sec<< tionalities are re resented in its mem ]\·ing for consent to his employment," pany. retary of Branch 436 of Delano, Pa. bership. Above (a large picture taken t the joint statement said. On October 15, 1941, Michael en have joined the WAVES. in front of the monument): Mrs. The statement, sighed by Secretary tered the United States Army. After Katerina Georgia, chairwoman of the of War Stimson, Attorney General training in Camp Blanding, Florida, NEW BRANCH IN NEW YORK " Biddle, Secretary of Navy Knox and Ukrainian Production Unit, presenting he was transferred to Camp Lee, The Zydacziw Society of New Yorkt Maritime Commissioner Chairman the monument to Commander Phil Virginia. He became a candidate for City, which is composed of people» Land, further stated that failure by Reuling." officer's training, and had been get from the town of that name in Uk a. contractor to employ such an alien The presentation was made on last ting along remarkably well in his raine, has been in existence for many; is a breach of the contract anti-dis Armistice Day, November 11, 1942. studies up to the time of his illness. years. The members of this organiza* crimination clause and contrary to His rank was Technical Sergeant tion recently decided to join the Uk national policy... Our eyes are placed in front because fourth grade. rainian National Association as a Furthermore, the statement em it is more important to look ahead than The deceased is survived by his to l·ook back. group, and to form a U.N.A. branch, phasizes that an employer is not sub wife, Lucille, his parents, Eva and under their original name, Zydacziw·j· ject to penalty resulting from loss or ' ·. * * The man who is a good listener not Metro Wasylik, his brothers, Anthony Society. The new branch, numbe¾r damage if he has obtained in good only is popular, but after a while he J., John, and William C. Wasylik, S. 393, was formed with 22 chapter*- faith, the permission of the govern learns something. K. 3/C, and his sisters, Mary Wasylik, # # ·* members; its officers—John Dubeck¿| ment department involved before per Pauline Popovich, Anna Wasylik, and president, Michael Litwin, secretary¿ mitting an alien to have access to "Queer looking socks, Pat. one red ¡and the other green." Julia Wasylik. and Evhen Balanda, treasurer—hope- the work, plans or trial under aero j "Yep, and 1 have another pair at home The body was delivered to Michael's to admit many additional new mem·* nautical or classified contracts. just like 'em." parent's home with an Army escort. bers during the coming months. several of the gentry's houses, and were justj begining to help themselves to what they¡ HORNA RADA" found there, when all of a sudden tbe 'Zapo* rozhians appeared and began to drive them out! (BL·ACK COUNCIL) with clubs. 'Get the devil out of here, you un washed rustics!' they ordered them. Our com A Historical Romance of Turbulent Kozak Times rades protested that, 'We are all equal now!4 To this the Zaporozhians merely told them After ·Death of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnitsky to shut up, 'Otherwise і we will equalize yout By PANTELEYMON KULISH (181997) with clubs and whips! Go on now, beat it! Else> (Continued) (Translated by S. Shumeyko) you'll rue this day!" "So, that's the kind of people they are!"! one of the leaders of the crowd yelled. "Stan<¿ CHAPTER XV j "Let's get moving! The town is full of gentry! fast, comrades! If we knew how to iielp some r Let's start dividing up their belongings! one to mount the Hetman's table, we know just TJAVING managed to extricate himself from "Eh, we've got time for that!" others re as well how to pull him off it. Stand fast, what for a moment appeared like a certain me¤t plied. "Look yonder! The Kozaks are plunder We'll have a council of our own, and free Som thrashing at the hands of the Zaporozhians, ing Somko's camp. Those Somko fools brought ko and Vasiuta! They'll stand up for us!" and still breathing heavily from his exertions, with them whole wagonloads of red coats and Some began to obey this order, but others; stout Cherevan turned to his body servant: other fine things! Let's go there first!" more level-headed, began to dissuade them from! "Bwother Vasile, get me a horse right away!" "Well, then, everyone off t6 wherever he any such rash action: "Once you've taken the he ordered. "The devil with this council! It likes. There's plenty for all of us, no matter dough out of the oven, it's no use trying to kneadr was an ill hour that brought me together with where we turn!" it over again. Once it's in the oven, you can't that crazy Shraam,!" The mob began to stream off the fields, some change it. Let's be satisfied that we had а¿ Vasile went off looking for their horses. But going this way and others that way, some into good time here for two days with the Zaporo there was no sight of them anywhere. Even town, others into Somko*s camp. All that were zhians." if they were near, they could not be seen, on left on the fields were small groups cavorting "Yes, that's the more sensible thing to do!4 account of the dense throngs through which to the strains of folk music. others chimed in. "The Kozaks will now forget¡ he had to push his way. Like a chip in an eddy Cherevan and Petro gazed with astonish their differences and re-unite. If we start any. he was jostled and shoved about by the milling ment at the dancers. How could anyone, they trouble for them, we'll be lucky to get home» crowds of Kozaks, peasants and townsmen. wondered, be happy enough to dance on such with our lives!" . Cherevan waited impatiently for Vasile's re a tragic day. Suddenly they noticed that the There were others who had even a better> turn. "Where the devil is he?" he finally ex crowds hurrying to town and those hurrying to reason to leave for home immediately: claimed to Petro. "You'd better stick by me, Somko's camp where now beginning to turn "It's not so bad after all. Do you know/ Petro, until I get out of this mob and start back and go in the>, opposite direction. Soon what I did? I managed to load on my wagoa on my way as fast as I can back home, back the van of each was within hailing distance a lot of fat. It'll last my wife and children^ to my Khmarische." of the other. until Advent!" Looking around for Vasile, the two noticed "Where're you headed for?" "And I got a whole bag of flour. All I need[ that the turbulence of the throngs around "And where are you going?" is someone to help me carry it to my home them was abating somewhat. Now that Bru "We're going to Somko's camp." stead." khovetsky was definitely Hetman, some were "And we're going to town. They say there's "What's your fat or flour. Look at what І already dispersing. First to leave the council plenty of booty there." got!" exclaimed a third one, pointing at his grounds was Gvintovka with his adjutants. They "The devil there is!" bloodied hand. "I was about to get me a coat' were soon followed by other former Somko¯ "What do you mean?" worth two oxen at least, when a Kozak ар·' ites. Only the Zaporozhians kept swarming "You can't get into town. The Muscovian peared and struck me sucm a blow over the around the Hetman's table, like wasps around troops are standing guard around it." hand with his poleax that I shall never be ablev their nest, while the common people from vil "Can you beat that! And it's the same with to use it again not even to earn myself a glass of lages and towns idled about them like drones. Somko's camp. You can't get anywheres near whiskey!" it either! The Kozaks are plundering it them "Come, let's get moving! Let's get home For over a half hour these peasants and selves, but won't let us, their brothers, help before they break our legs like they do to> townsmen had no idea of what was happening ourselves to anything!" pigs | o-*idering into the garden. There¾ ne~ within the council grounds, so thickly was it "So! It looks like the Kozaks have hood use o\ ooling ourselves. We made a terrible packed by the Kozaks, but when finally they winked us!" mistake. We should never have listened tot saw Brukhovetsky with the Muscovian. prince **Yeah, just about like Wyhovsky hood those Zaporozhians. Now we'll be ashamed td proceed with their retinues to church to take winked Moscow." show our faces back home. Our neighbors will the bath of office, they began to cheer: "Glory Just then another crowd of peasants and never cease digging us about this black council Vi unto God! Glory unto God! Our side has won! townsmen came running up. "More trouble!", The peasants and townsmen began to scatter, Now well have neither nobles nor serfs among they shouted· "Our cause is lost! Did you homeward bound. Even the strains of dance us, neither poor nor rich! Hurrah! Well all be hear what the Zaporozhians are now saying?" of music became stilled, for by now no one -eqnal!" "What?" felt like dancing any more. *· "Come, brothers " others were* shouting. "Some of our men managed to sidle into (To be continued) І UK^··TNT.\N WEEKLY. SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1943 No. 24 "Sowing Wild Oats" Пів Sporting Way *The Hour" Folds Up Mutiny Side Чір By DIETRIC SLOBOGIN Have you ever heard an indulgent "The New Leader." Socialist party mother excusing the antics of a organ published in New York City, Ball Players Are Not Purposely "zoot-suit" son or a "rug-cutting" contained in its June 5th issue the Deferred "THE SAME OLD STORi" daughter by exclaiming, "Let them following brief notice: Once upon a time a voung man have **»еіг fun, they're just sowing We have heard and participated in| "*The Hoar\" fellow-travelernewe- and a sweet young thing got married! their *»w oats· and ІП*У ***111 settle conversations concerning the war's ef- letter edited by Albert Kahn and It was the same old storv. They down!"? I have. It has made me feet on major league baseball players. Michael Sayres, has folded." suited out to be good friends and wonder just how sane such a parent A fan will go out to the ball park,; ·The Hour.· as of our read. can then changed their minds. The fol· be. see a, healthy slugger swing for the er3 reca]lt continually vilified and ]owing is the way it all started: ºf c¤urse there is a lot of this fences, and instantly make a remark ¾д¢[ out this assault is being committed chief· last 100 years, answered the call. ¦ publishers of "Sabotage>" made da *· * * ly by teen·age. boys. Every district tno Ted Lyons, at 38, enlisted in the! complete and unequivocal retraction around Marines. Hank Greenberg-batted De-)of *¤*3 misstetements in that book HE: You know, vou have che most L· f£¾¡ <*amps or ¾,^ · basehnouso know1 - PI АЧ·s · thг Ііe л menacМовплeп oAf F thfhea "Vic"v/ir»_ · engaging smile. troit to that surprise pennant and і libeling the "SvobodavV Dr. Luke tory Girls, "-youngsters some of them е SH£: Oh, thank you. left. Hugh Мцісапу, carrying Gerry ]МувЬиЬ* **w* ** Ukrainian National only twelve or thirteen years of age HE? Then how about announcing' Nugent's 50,000-dollar price tag on | Association. Text of the retraction, who are willing to give themselves him, dropped His glove and reported '· appeared on these pages last week, U t t ,t for or A a proposal in to Camp Edwards in New England. photostatic copy of it appeared in º SmEfT^kritThfeJ just f , *"to "chee5 r u_p º»«**a poor soldie « *»r or of marriage. Johnny Rigney, married, and one of ¦ J««« 4th issue of "Svoboda." sailor." Robberies, assaults, destruc HE: Darling, I want you as I've the finest Chisox righthanders, en-l Sin¢e "The Hottr" contained much tion of property and a serious pro- listed in the Navy. Joe and Don% ©i-|the iibeious stuff printed to "Sabot> never wanted a woman before. Ma g alon . portion of sex crimes can not be ex- f i? *¦£IF* ^„^^ f;age" and now retracted by its au- SHE: You know , the man Ir marry ... . ,. , with Ted Williams. We have named t__ ., . , , ., , ._* , r cused by shrugging our shoulders and ors !t 13 qui e underStandaoJe wh must be a gentleman of leisure but a few who switched uiforms. Many r^ ; * ^ saying, "It's all right; the kids are HE: Marry me then. That's always also secured jobs in war plants, n¾<¦ t¾at "newsheet" had to fold up. fust sowing wild oats and they will mediately after the 42 season and = been ·my ambition: If you don t mar· ^ttl¢ down later..· ry me П1 hang myself -in your yard. у<ш¢п ·s w¢ak ^ mi¾led refused to go back to baseball this· year, although sacrificing a tremend?— SINGS AT FORT DIX SHE: Oh come now.Michaeh you ^ hfa weaknesses excused· or ous difference in wages. Yes, ball Following up her grand perforance know Pa dont want you hanging condoned by his eldeis he is en_ players are human. They are Ameri- reported in the Ukrainian Weekly of around. couraged to go ahead with his wrong· HE: It would be easy for us to get do The ^ q{ h ¾ when cans and, as such, they do things the і June 5, Miss Anne Matkowski, mez- marriedapnoH . AX\·My pop'rvnn sа aі mmifltoministerp ...... - , American way—the sporting way. |zo¯soprano vocalist of the Philadel« SHE: Well, let's give it a trv. chamcter is built, just as a founda A Word From Pvt. Peter F¢«in¾n*y І Ukrai^ian <^аоііс Cathedral Mine's a lawyer! tion is the beginning of a house. I Choir, sang for the boys at Fort Dix, Build the foundation carelessly and Typical of some letters we have IN. J. on June 3rd. Miss Matkowski, the finished house will totter and col- been receiving is one from.. lets say |applauded heartily by the soldiers, HE: (to her pop) Sir. I want your j someday, apse Pvt. Peter Peckinsky. Briefly, he sang seven numbers. She already is daughter for my wife! The youth who begins his life by says "I would much rather see Di- booked for a return engagement *t POP: And It sir. am not willing to Sl>wing wild oats Will regret his folly, Maggio. Greenberg. or Lyons in a[jy>rt EHX the latter part of this trade І ·*Аз you sow, so shal·l you reap." baseball uniform than in one½onth, and will nndoubte¢Hy visit HE; You don't understand. I want As]< any 0f tne men m prisons to- of Uncle Sams and for the simple other camps and bases in the vicinity your daughter's hand. dav why they are there. If they an- reason that any of those men and-of metropolitan New York and Phils- POP: Might as well, they're always swei· \ч>и truthfully you will learn hundreds of other great athletes delphia. D. S. in my pocket anyway! that an undisciplined youth, the lack would do much more on the hom»i HE: Oh, thank you sir! of parental supervision and correction, front, i. e., sustaining and building: POP: Then you're really serious ¾ad companions and the gradual morale. But we were sorry to write teams can easily make it a triple about wanting to become my son-in· buiidmg up of bad ha bits-sowing his back to Pvt. Peter and tell him that tea party. Babe. Dahlgren,' «t the law. oh? wild oats when he was young, started although these athletes may realize present time leading both leagues to. HE: To be strictly correct, I don't him on his downward path. this, they do not and will not "dodge." batting, will eater the service shortly, 'But if I marry your.daughter, I don't Ukrainian American youth! take Our monthly or bi-monthly statistics and this will be a big· blow to those quite see how I can avoid it! serious care that you make a good in this column bear out this fact< hustiin': Phils. POP: I hope yon realize that if you beginning of your lffe. Build your A Swing Around the Loops marry my daughter, you'll need.lots will power and self-control so that Miscellanea *-o* of money! |when you find you must make a de- The American League is still a red- Ted Williams, before entering the HE: Then I'm just the^ man for cision or choice between what is right hot battle, with all eight clubs Navy, had a four-year batting ma rk shooting for first place. The A's, who her! ' and what is wrong you will have of .356 exceeded Only by- thr»e finished last in '42 can go into first POP: You certainly couldn't mar· courage and strength enough to fbl- other stars in their first %full four place this weekend. Washington^ is ry my daughter for her money? low the Commandments of God. years in the majors—-Willie Keeter, still 'hot. The National League pen НБ: Certainly not I But you don't The vast *eld of your life lies be Jackson, and Al Simmon«... Speaking nant chase is settling down to an think I would have the heart to let |fore you. You are the farmer. What of Simmons, he is still a good handy· other Brooklyn-St. Louis affair, with her became an old maid just because ¦ will you plant~wild oats that will be andy to have around as Joe Croniii she happens to have money, do you? iess to you in the future; or good the other six clubs battling for th¢ luse will tell you. . . substantial crops that will yield an third and fourth slots, although a victory run by any of th¢ other six PARSON: Do you take her for bet· Abundant harvest in this life and in What Do You Want To Know. ter or worse? ¡the next? HE: Do you have to know the an-| Get over the habit of excusing Although the Sporting Way is al swer Immediately? j = yourself for your mistakes or your most a y¢ar old, we have not soli PARSON: Naturally. Do you¦take¦ SUE :-You beast. When you *ar- sins. Maybe you are a soMh¢r away cited your suggestions or opinions as from home, lonely, with plenty off thte woman to be your lawful wedded )rie