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www.ukrweekly.com СВОБОДА SVOBODA Український Щоденник Ukrainian Daily! ИК Ш. Ч. 157. VOL. ІЛО. No. so. SECTION II. Щг ШЬхжш ШееМр Dedicated to the needs and interest of young Americans of Ukrainian descent

No. 30 NEW YORK and Ji^lSEY CITY, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1945 VOL. ЦП

Soviet Declaration of War On Japan Meets Kievan Plane Hit by Lightning Professor "Give me a B-29 anytime. Those Naturally we are glad that at Raymond Daniell, veteran New ships will get you through," was the long last the rulers of Soviet Union York Times correspondent, writing enthusiastic comment of Cpt. George from Berlin the other day reports .have seen fit to declare war upon S/Sgt. Alex Dydyk, son of Mr. and George A. Linko, Ukrainian by de­ Japan. We are glad because it may the reactions among the GIs in Ber­ scent, 921 Washington street, Throop, Mrs. Michael Dydyk 525 Stafford mean the shortening of our war with lin to the Soviet declaration of war Pa., following a harrowing flight re­ Japan and a sooner return home of on Japan as follows: Avenue, Syracuse, New York recent­ cently in which his big bomber was struck several times by lightning and our brothers, sons, cousins and 4*The American troops showed little ly had the rare opportunity of meet- friends from the Pacific war theatre. pitched about like a feather in a interest. These men of the occupation storm over the Gulf of Mexico which The general tone of the Soviet de­ forces said that whatever happened extended well above the 37,000 feet claration of war, however, does not in the Pacific probably would not get the Super Fortress attained on only sound forthright and positive enough them home any sooner and most of three motors. Captain Linko Is sta­ in our opinion. It is rather apologetic them had no very clear idea what tioned at Barksdale Field, La. for it states that in declaring war the Soviet Union's action would mean The Flight 1 airplane commander, upon Japan the Soviet "have accepted in a strategic sense. One enlisted a former B-24 pilot with thirty five the proposal of the Allies of July man said it did not sound so hot missions over Europe to his credit, 26" to do so. to him. Ctpt. took off with his crew for a It is interesting to speculate upon 3,000-mile training jaunt, but on pro­ " 'We should have finished it alone,' ceeding at 20,000 feet about a mile how our servicemen feel about the he said, 'and this way it means that out of Tampa, Fla. they encountered Soviet entrance into our war with ! will have to be cut in on the bad weather. Capt. Linko flew by Japan at this time, especially after instrument for another hour when he our use of the world-shaking atomic , peace. It seems that the Russians encountered snow over the middle bomb. have got too much power already'." of the gulf which turned into a severe turbulence with howling winds. With the aid of his copilot, Lieut. To Our Servicemen's Relatives and Friends David W. Parrish, he was able to continue on his course. He had just Judging by press reports alone a! paper carries an item about some! started to climb in an effort to get steadily increasing number of our Ukrainian American servicemen, cut! S/SGT. ALEX DYDYK out of the storm when suddenly a bolt of lightning crashed into the servicemen of Ukrainian descent are' it* out immediately and mail it to us, ship, sending flashes of fire from distinguishing themselves on the! together with any additional infor-' ing a Ukrainian professor from Uk­ raine. He was Professor Maxim Ar- the radio transmitter and receiver Pacific fighting fronts. Some of them mation you deem suitable. datjen, a specialist in Agriculture of and the engineer's panel. are being wounded, some have been: If no such press report appears Kiev University. His wife Olga, who Linko looked out to see the giant taken prisoner, and many have made in your local paper but you person-! is with him, is a lecturer in chemistry. wings flapping from four to five feet the supreme sacrifice for their coun­ ally know of someone who has dis-| from center and snow piled up on the 1 The American soldier and the Uk­ try. More and more Ukrainian- tinguished himself in service, then rainian professor met in Frankfurt, nacelle fronts like huge white col­ sounding names appear on the vari­ make it your duty to send us a re­ Germany where S/Sgt. Dydyk is sta­ lars. ous official honor or casualty lists. port of it. -H the serviceman is home tioned with the Signal Service Group At 25,000 feet the number one en­ Yet. only a driblet of such names —and there are a large number of of the SHAEF (which, incidentally gine began oscillating, lost its out­ put, but the plane went to more than them now on furlough—then make has recently been dissolved and re­ appears on these pages. Why? Sim­ 37,000 feet. Here number four engine ply because very few of our readers it your business to interview him for placed by USFET, United States Forces, European Theatre. lost power and the big ship started trouble themselves to send ta us at the Ukrainian Weekly. Also, if you to descend. Nursing the ailing motor least a bare report concerning such learn of any Ukrainian American war S/Sgt. Didyk has met several into action again, Linko climbed back Ukrainian American servicemen whom casualty, send us a report of it at other Ukrainians there who had been to the "ceiling," but after thirty min­ they personally know. once, so that the many thousands of evacuated by the Germans into labor utes had elapsed all the motors began camps there. He relates how one of to quiver. The ship built up elec­ The situation need remedying. The our readers in this country, Canada the Ukrainian DP's (displaced per­ trical charges which sent flashes least we can do for our friends or and in the war zones may know o£ it. And do all this now. sons) became attached so completely through it at five minute intervals. relatives in service who distinguish, to him that he wouldn't let him out "It looked bad for a while and 1 themselves in one way or another is of his sight and finally passed the called the crew to have their emer­ to publicize them on these pages. word around that there was an gency equipment strapped on, Linko Thereby we give them their just due. Soldier Dies in China American who could talk Ukrainian. said later. Likewise we inspire others in serv­ This resulted in his being invited in­ 'needing back to the coast, Linko ice who read this weekly to greater Pfc. William Torhan, 19, son of to their homes where he told them nosed the ship down and at 19,000 efforts and sacrifices. Last but not Mrs. Mary Torhan, 647 East Grant about the Ukrainians in America and feet he broke into the clear where least, we create a permanent record! street, Olyphant, Pa. died in China on they told him about the devastation the crew could see violent thunder­ which had befallen their beloved of the Ukrainian American contribu-j an undisclosed date while with an storms alL around them. Ukraine. One 23-year-old fellow told tion to the war effort of our coun-j infantry unit in the Chinese Service The Throop pilot expressed con­ Command, according to a War De­ him that the last time he-had heard fidence thajt the big ship would try- Such a-record will be of especial. partment message received by his from his parents, who were left be­ importance at the cloee of the war easily go to 40,000 feet. mother, the Uke-View bulletin of hind in Ukraine, they had but one Ф. ij and the period of peace making, when! Olyphant reports. pair of shoes between seven of them. we Americans of Ukrainian descent! DONETS RECAPTURE EXHIBITS Pfc. Torhan, who went overseas in Professor Ardatjen and his wife, IN KIEV shall urge our government to exert September, 1944 to the China-Burma- who were among the evacuees, wrote its influence to help our kinsmen in! India Theatre, is believed to have S/Sgt. Dydyk's parents asking ig An exhibition of pictures devoted tieir native and long oppressed and succumbed while on patrol duty. "they couldn't help him locate hfs to the recapture of the Donets Basin iwar-torn Ukraine to gain at least j A graduate of Olyphant High father who was living in Saskatoon, from the Germans and its rehabilita­ dome measure of benefits of those j School, he was employed as an air­ Saskatchewan, Canada. His father, tion has opened in Kiev. Over 300 principles over which this war ha*j plane mechanic at the Middletown air Maik Ardatjen, is 81 years old. works by the artist of Kiev, Kharkiv, T)epot before entering service in Jan­ and Voroshilograd are on display. been fought. Perhaps if someone happens to There has been marked interest in We urge all pur readers Who have uary. 1944. He received basic train­ know the whereabout of Professor ing at Fort Rijey, Nan. three canvases by Yablonskaya, Bez- relatives, sweethearts, friends an Ardatjen's father they could com­ ugly, and Otroshenko.4'. \ Besides his 'toother, Pfc. Torhan municate with him and tell him so. acquaintances in service to keep u is survived by ;two brothers, Lieut. • ; ' Ц " I ! щ His address is: Germany,.(16) Cron- constantly posted concerning any Michael TOrhan,"with an infantry unit WOULD YOU GIVE $100 TO BRINO thing about them that is note­ unit in the Philippines, and Water- berg in Taunus, Garten Str. 5, Pro­ VICTORY NEARER?—YOUR PUR­ worthy. tender (lc) Stephen, somewhere in fessor Ardatjen. CHASE OF A $100 WAR BOND When, for example, your local the Atlantic area. A. N. MAY TURN THE TRICK! UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1945. No. 3$

terested apparently in continuing the policy of the Russian Empire but Pan-Slauism9 Its Use and Abuse tremenudously earnest about bring- ing all possible peoples into their new Ey Prof. CLARENCE A. BANNING—Cohwnbia University Communist Inutemational. Hence it (Concluded) 1 (2) it came about that they regarded all . * «_ ^ * x-_ ^m reflected in the Slavophile movement,ceiv e iheir freedom. Tljey saw West­ the succession states whkh were not rTHIS was recognised by the father «fvg the campaigns for securing con- ern Europe protecting the Turks. under Communist government as counter-revolutionary. They were as Pan-Slavism, the Croat Dominican. t,^ 0f tne straits and Central Asia, They received gifts of money from monk, Yury Krizhanich, who jour- in the efforts to secure a foot-hold Russia. Many of their young men and interested in creating a Communist neved to Moscow through Ukraine j on the American continent in Alaska. their ecclesiastical leaders were government in Germany or Hungary and Poland in the seventeenth cen-j Poets, writers, and thinkers spoke educated there. Uncle Ivan as he as they were in Ukraine or Lithuania tnry in an endeavor to persuade Tsar of Russia and the Slavs; they talked appeared in Balkan thought was far or Finland or Pcland, bu; Lie sup­ port which the great powers arbi­ Alexey Mikhailovich to accept the of their Slavonic heritage but at the more the powerful rich uncle од trarily gave to some states and re­ Reman Catholic Church. He had same time they looked askance at/ whom they could materially depend than he was to the Western Slavs fused to others that were less well worked out a plan of unifying the the other Slavs. They valued the known and the mutual rivalries of the Slavs bv making the Tsar the politi-1 Orthodox of the Balkans as more or who could not fail to become suspi­ cious of Russian policy. They viewed new states allowed them to recover cal head of all and of securing reli-jless poor relations whom they were and organize as Soviet republics a gious leadership for the Pope. He | supposed to aid and assist but they Pan-Slavism as a practical means of securing aid and liberation and not large part of what had been the clearly saw that it would be neces­ looked down upon the Roman Cath­ Russian empire. Once this done, sary as a preliminary step to heal olic Slavs as people who needed to as a theoretical source of a better world. they were able to brand as counter­ the religious disputes as a possible be subjected to the beneficent cul- revolutionary any movement which basis for making peace between Po-1 ture which they were destined to fur- Thus the three ideas, the ideal was in opposition to the Communist * land and Russia, between the Ortho­ nish them. Pan-Slavism, the Russian desire for pattern. The practical result, how­ dox and the Roman Catholics of the It was this form of idea that im­ domination, and the desire for Rus­ ever theoreticians and legalists may Balkans. His idea seemed fantastic pressed Western Europe with the sian aid in trouble coexisted through­ argue, was the reestablishment of a at the time and he paid for it by menace of Pan-Slavism. It seemed out the century. They were really in Russian Communist hegemony over exile to Siberia. Modern thinkers may to the people who came into contact conflict with one another and also the entire area of the Soviet Union have varied in their estimation of with the Russians whether in Europe with the anti-Russian feelings that on such terms as the leaders desired. the primary feuds that were to be or Asia that Pan-Slavism was but an­ were held by many Slavs and other The populations of such area as Uk­ abolished, but the real nature of of other name for Pan-Russianism. races included within the Russian raine which claimed local rights and the obstacles have not varied, and It was this aspect which aroused the Empire. It is to this fact that must peculiarities were severely punished, cannot be removed by the simple hostility of the other European coun­ be attributed much of the confusion as were those groups that tried to expedient of declaring the unity of tries to Russia. Undoubtedly there as to the meaning of Pan-Slavism maintain old Russian points of" view throughout the world. the Slavonic against the Germanic |was in the country a great deal of th£t were displeasing to the new world. I unselfish love and respect for their Effect of World War I regime. Gradually populations were moved around, boundaries were Buss*--> u * жLif :*e л Attitud* *«*..лe . DMerenYbtffoMtnt t ГSlavoniХ ^ c brotherЩ. ^s but the writer ^ s prob)em Qf The first World War brought about changed at will and there was coordi­ The mission of Krizhanich was a j mission of the Russian Empire un- the downfall of the three empires of nations were moved around, boun- failure for he found at Moscow an j doubtedly though only of Russia Germany, Austria;Hungary and Rus­ radies were changed at will, and there attitude that was completely at vari when they spoke of of the Slavs. sia. Thanks to the principle of self- was a coordination of all institutions ance with his own. The development Thus by the middle of the nine- determination all the groups which and a process of centralization that of the Russian people had been very j teenth century there was extant a had been included in these Empires was in sharp contrast to the methods different from that of the other Slav- j political Russian Pan-Slavism, in- declared their independence and adopted for the acquisition of the onic peoples. From the time when;spired and aided by the German strove against overwhelming odds to territory. The result was, however, they had definitely reached their j aristocracy of the Baltic area which maintain it. All this could not fail the creation of a powerful state present present habitations, their his-1 had been taken by Russia. This was to affect directly and immediately which was to defend itself when Ger­ tory had largely been one of readjust in sharp contrast to that ideal Slav­ the various Slavonic movements. many which had previously overrun ment to conditions; prevailing among onic brotherhood which had been For the first time in centuries Rus­ and crushed all the lesser Slavonic groups of approximately the same preached by Kollar. The contrast be­ sia was no longer the powerful Slav­ states attacked in 1941. state of civilization. The object of tween the two conceptions was re­ onic state. It is hard today to realize both Kiev and Moscow was to ex- sponsible for the stern treatment the vacuum that that produced in Eu­ The resulting situation again pand their territory and dominion given to the members of the Society rope and Asia. Where but a few years changed entirely the appearance of over non-Slavonic tribes. They had of Saints Cyril and Methodhis and to before there had been a strong coun­ the Slavonic world. The governments both to pus^ their boundaries into Shevchenko. try sure of itself and its policy, its of the states which had been Over­ the steppes and the forests. Suc­ voice was now confined to a hand­ run while Germany and the Soviet cessful as Kiev had been in this, it L^e Between Two Slav Movements ful of White leders who alone pre­ Union were still maintaining their did not have the opportunities which it is extremely difficult to draw a sumed to speak for the unity of the nonTaggression pact had been forced later fell to Moscow of conquering sharp line in all cases between the[ country, the maintenance of the to take refuge in Great Britain. and absorbing the less developed two Slavonic movements. The ex- • ideas of the past, and they were con­ Those groups that were affiliated with Finnic tribes. Later, Kiev passed in- periences of the Poles and of the Uk- fronted with the need of foreign the Communists had made their way to the Polish-Lithuanian state and rainians under Russian rule tended support against their Communist to the Soviet Union and there soon Moscow fell for some centuries under toward the elimination of all feel- і rivals a%4 against the new govern­ after the outbreak of hostilities be­ tween Germany and the Soviet the power of the Mongol Empire and mgs for either tendency. The trend і ments which were formed by demo­ the Golden Horde. The princes mar- toward russification was so obvious cratic principles out of the old Em­ Union, the Slavonic Congress was ried the daughters of the Asiatic that the population and the intellec- pire. The world was quite unable to organized. conquerors and there can be little tual leaders alike were suspicious of formulate any policy in this crisis. The Recent Slavonic Congress The great powers almost simultane­ doubt that the eastern influences and anything that was done or said. Na- It definitely appeared as a formal the imperial traditions which flour- tional existence and the preservation { ously recognized the Whites and the new governments. і expression of the concepts of the ished in the east affected the thought • of the language seemed to depend I -ideal Slavonic brotherhood. The of the Russians. Scholars may differ, Upon the assertion of national separ-1 At the same time there was no Slavonic world seemed united as as to details but it is certain that the! atism, the magnifying of even the j agreement among these new govern­ •the prey of the Nazi war machine Russians developed an attitude to-! slightest differences to keep from ab- ments and for precious months dur­ (and all nations were equal in their ward life which was different from' sorption in the great mass which was j ing which the new Europe was be­ ; misery. It is small wonder that this that of the Slavs. Then with the | daily transforming into Russians a ing formed, the succession states і Congress seemed the definite ex- liberation of the country and the j larger and larger proportion of non- fought Whites, Communists and one I pression of all the hopes of the ideal­ marriage of Ivan HI to Sofia Paleo- j Russian speaking and even non-Slav \another , all in the name of self-de­ ists. It did not seem possible that logue in the fifteenth century, the j populations. termination, the restoration of the j any force could resist Nazi Germany idea of the Third Rome became! On the other hand, the Czechs liv-i old, and the creation of the new. land the Congress early secured a deeply implanted in Russian thought j ing entirely within the Hapsburg Em- The hope of the the peaceable found­ wide approval from all except the and the proud traditions of Con- pire tended to cherish intellectual con- j ation of a new series of states gradu­ bitter and determined anti-Com­ - stantinople were transferred to the j fidence in Russia. They might at jall y disapeared and there came munists. northern capital. The position of (times hope for assistance but event clashes between Poland and Ukraine, From the beginning, however, it the Tsar was such that by the time j when the Russian armies invaded the Poland and Czechoslovakia, Poland avoided contact with the govern­ of Alexey Mikhailovich, the Tsar j Hapsburg lands to put down the!an d Lithuania, and so on. History ments in exile. It naturally carried felt himself definitely superior to his j Hungarian revolt of 1849, they served to prevent a settlement and out the policy of the Soviet govern­ subjects. His will was law and he | brought ло real aid to the Slavs of when peace was finally restored, it ment which now found it expedient did not feel inclined to bind himself I Austria-Hungary and did not make was on lines quite different from to emphasize its Slavonic affiliations. in any way toward any one on earth. I any important efforts to induce the what was planned or seemed likely. It encouraged its own partisan forces The success of the country in secur-j Hapsburgs to improve their lot. The result was shown in the forms and as the Soviet armies advanced *ing control of Ukraine, of dividing j Throughout the nineteenth century it of action. The ideal4 theories of a the power of the Communists in­ Poland in the next century, the op- j is fair to say that the Western non- Slavonic brotherhood as outlined by creased. More and more the old portunity of acting as the big brother | Orthodox Slavs, when they thought Kollar, Shevchenko, and the men of Communist definitions of counter­ and protector to the Christians in the of Russia, emphasized in their minds that period seemed to be the only revolutionary and fascist were Ottoman Empire, and the growing the ideal Slavonic brotherhood and basis for continued work. Hence, as brought to the fore and as one Slav- power of the country after the re- {could not hope for any intervention we have seen, this was favored and onlfrstate after another was liberated, forms of Peter all combined to give I that would be of real assistance. hence came the movements for Slav­ it tended more anU more to assume the country the feeling that it was The Southern Slavs, the Serbs and onic reciprocity and friendship. The the Communist form in its internal the supreme factor among the Slavs the Bulgarians, in their subjection to Balkan states which had looked to organization and actions. For its and at the same time increased its the Turks, looked for the actual mil­ Russia for assistance opened their part the Soviet Union was able to belief in its power as the Orthodox itary assistance that Russia as the arms to the Whites and declined to decentralize formally, always under country. great Orthodox nation, protecting recognize the Communists. the strict control of the Communist By the time of Pushkin this belief her lesser Orthodox brethren could The Communist situation was more Party which still remains supreme in had grown even stronger. The poet give them. The Russian-Turkish wars complex. They were a militant ideology and in system. Hence too it was able to declare that all the Slav­ which proceeded intermittently for group of internationalists, largely is that a Commissariat for Foreign onic rivers had to run into the Rus­ two centuries gave the Serbs and the Russian in origin and Russian-speak­ Affairs can be set up in any Soviet sian sea. This gave rise to another Bulgarians the hope that it would be ing, who desired to head an interna- Republic exactly as there is'a Com­ type of Pan-Slavic feeling, which was through Russia that they would re-і tonal moyement. They were not in­ missariat for* Health or for Internal

. . No. .30 UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11. 1945.

THE !$» EALJNA SHE WHQ MARRIED THE DEVIL (Ukrainian Folk Tate) •• TNM. G.'s translation of Stefanyk's бузина, бзина, бзик, вязовина, _—_ 78 "Земля," a part of which appeared хобза ). CE upon a time there lived a roar the peasant arrived and asked in No. 27 of Ukrainian Weekly, the The Encyclopaedia Britannica ex­ mwido w who wanted to remarry to be put up for the night. footnote explains "red kalina" in plains guelder rose only as Vibur­ very much. But no man wanted her,' "How can I take any lodgers when, the text as an elder tree." num Opuhis (Ukrainian "калина"),! for she was very shrewish, with a as you can see for yourself, this place The word "калина" iavery common while "" is exclusively re-j very, very bad temper. One day, in is beset by evil spirits.'" the fright- in Ukrainian folklore and literature. served for of Vaccinium exasperatioh at her plight, she ex.- eaed tavern-keeper exclaimed. .One would suppose that because of (Ukrainian: черниця, журавина, claimed, "I would marry the devil "Pay me well, and I guarantee you this a correct English synonym for лохина, брусниця78). Mr. Ander-i himself if he appeared!" As luck ГЦ drive them out and restore peace it should have been found a long' son ,;) gives for Opulus L. | would have it, the devil did appear, and quiet to your place," the peasant time ago. ~Bu t such is not the case. these common names: high-bush so she married him. They set up .^i. In many translations from Ukrainian cranberry, arrowwood, mooseberry housekeeping. Every morning the "How much do you want?" it is rendered erroneously as "cran­ and then hastens to explain: "This is woman sent the devil into the forest "Three hundred dollars." berry/' and in the above mentioned pose."Thorndike's Century Senior Die- to chop kindling wood. Came the 'That's dirt cheap if you get rid one still worse, as an "elder." Trans­ not really a cranberry as the first morning when he failed to bring ot them. Here take the money and lators can hardly be blamed for this, English name would lead one to sup- back enough wood for the oven. 8et to work," said the tavern-owner, because it is often next to impossible tionary (one of the middle sized dic­ "You lazy, good for nothing loaf- £"* g*v» **• Vе****1 *¥ **** hun- to find a correct English equivalent tionaries) explains "cranberry" as a dre l dollare er!" the woman, shrilled at the hap- f * r . . of a Ukrainian word, especially if it "small that grows in marshes less devil. "Whydidn't you bring' Xo make the ceremony of chasmg pertains to nomenclature. It would or bogs," and "guelder rose" as aj enough wood?" And she began to out *f e^ 8Pints fs ^saive as be necessary to look up special die- j "cultivated shrub bearing large berate him as only a shrew can. , Pfsible, the peasant gathered a lot tionaries or books and very few white round ; snowball (tree)." _, . ., ж . , " ... of refuse from beneath the benches even well educated Ukrainians are Muret-Sanders' English-German Dic­ The devil tried to remonstrate with and иЬ1е made a torch jgg £ aware of the existence of such litera­ tionary, which is supposed to be one her, to promise her he would do bet- Hghted £ and theQ rauttering atrange tur_e. in ¥Ukrainian_ . ,of the best, gives for "guelder rose" ter the next tune to plead with her, hocus-pocus words proceeded to smoke The Ukrainian word "калина" is—Schneeball (Ukrainian "калина") but to no avaiL She kept on yelling out ^ evU g iritfi botamcally Viburnum Opulus L-jand for "cranberry" — Moosbeere! at him. Seeing that it was of no use, A few moments later> when the which according to different sources,IPreiszemeere (Ukrainian журавина). that he would never be able to live ^ ^ ^ mentioned below, may be rendered in | The word "high-bush cranberry" is was done the found m peace with his wife, the poor devil devi, awaitin him at the English, more or^less correctly, by I hardly more appropriate for the Uk- ran awav crossroads, the following synonyms: guelder rainian "калина" (Viburnum Opu- 134 5 _ .. , , "Well, you've got your three hun- rose ), snowball ),Europeancran-lius L) than any other "cranberry" Runmng down the road he encoun- , ^ the devil to him, berry bush2), cranberry tree4), high j name as it is botanically really a dred dollar8/ tered a peasant walkin_,. g along hur- „ии.-лі. чди ativt лині . bush cranberry 5 «) water elder3), ar- *), that is, another and Fve decMed to щ you keep whernedlye. waSos hhe goinaskegd whThoe hpeasane wast anexd- for ^,f x intend t0 , ove ^r ^to thatg rowwood«), mooseberry*). !species of Viburnum. And so are ar- them and start tfe plained to him that recently he had Ял„^ ^;11 ЇГЛ„^Л ^ „*„.. *i L rx The word "elder" must be rejected 1 rowwood and, possibly, mooseberry. omarrief her devi al widotempew rbu hte thahadt beeon naccoun forcedt looks like a nice place to haunt and completely as it is used in English »Калина" is regarded in the Uk- її. ^T J ., iL »"*W* scare people. There s plenty of food only for genus Sambucus-^-Ukrainian: [ ^ personificaUon of rainian folklore to leave her. The devil then revealed _ j u r n.- і т»и u 'virgin beauty. Rendering the word in w ca • *y * * "c CI*C *« caicu around here, too, so I ihmk Г11 be n C Cl ae ia rU n ca to him that he, too, was in the same i *. ^ T-. I J 2 L , Zi S? H D? / i ' И*. WWon. English as "cranberry" makes such A Staudaraized Names. American «%,«__«,_ ля ІІШІ шві «, t^"» "ao w« олхілс nappy B t mind you, Joint Committee on Horticultural No-!phra8eS м. Д1ВЧИІЮ ЯК калина, or v ш lte nere< U menclature, Salem. Mass. 1923. | СЯДЄМО вкупочці ПІД калиНОЮ, etc. ! don't let anyone persuade you to come • Johns, Rev. C. A. Ftowers of the: absolutely ridiculous or a sort of "Let's travel together," the devil Dack here for tne pUrp0se of driving Fiei1;,^nd

In the Orthopedic Ward with Your Wounded— Friendly Relations Between Ancient Plaster Casts and Grins! Ukraine and Lithuania By HONORE EWACH Bv 2nd LT. HELJENE METHOT • (1) T WANT to tell you about your boy. Soon all hardships will be forgotten;! fROM times immemorial Ukrainians capital of Lithuania, but by culture *I want to tell mothers, wives,! they will beat home with their have had many neighbors. Most of j It was a very signtfcant fact that sweethearts, and loved ones about | loved ones, and life will take up them were hostile and rapacious, like (center of the Wmte Ruthenians. their men whose bones have been j again where it left off. These things | the Scythians, Sarmatians, Avars, і It das a ver>'significant fact that shatered in the course of their duty I talk of now will be—a vacuum. I Pechenehs. Polovtsians, Tartars, Rus- a» the Lithuanian nobles who came in the service of our great country. If their bones are broken—and we sians, and Poles. But there were to Volhynia and became thoroughly These lines are written with a feel­ have some very, very difficult cases— | also good neighbors, like White Ru-jUkrainianized in a generation or ing of awe, but with an inspiration vou who read this can be sure that j thenians (known also as White Rus- two were the staunch defenders of such as I never dreamed a girl the skill of our medical officers is be-і sians) and Lithuanians. Ukrain, Ukrainian autonomy and church after could experience. I am an Army yond words, and no matter how long I »ans, White Ruthenians, and Lithuan- j 1438. For the next hundred and fifty nurse in a ward with scores of men— your service man has to remain under ians lived together in one federated years Volhynia became the bastion our care he will return to you as State for over two hundred years—.of Ukrainian national, religious, and actually they are boys, but a year ! of hardship has made them men.. whole as medical science and devo- till 1569—and never had any reason (cultural life. Even when L4thuania They learned to fight and they fought tion can make him—ves medical to quarrel. The Ukraine-Lithuanian; was forced in 1569 into a political well. But thev have learned some-і science and devotion to service J federated state of the time proved j union with Poland there were still thing else, which I admire more than! I am glad to say that I do not j to be a political and cultural success, many Ukrainian and Ukrainized their heroism—the abilitv to "take" І think there is a ward in any hos- \ Present day statesmen concerned j Lithuanian nobles m Volhynia who pital which is more cheerful than the with the post-war outlines of Europe! manly defended their country's au- the long, slow-healing process. orthopedic ward. Nothing is wrong j would do well to bear that in mind tonomy. It was the. Academy of Os- As a "Charge" nurse, I know in­ with the minds of our patients, or For over three hundred years, from trih in Volhynia, founded in 1580 by timately the characteristics of their Prince Constantine of Ostrih, that wounds, the progress of their* healing, with their sense of humor. If one j about 900 to about 1240, the Ukrain- ushered in a new educational im­ the magnificent effort of our medical poor lad seems a bit blue, twenty jian Kievan State managed to defend officers, the extreme devotion of my gang up on him and snap him out | itself more or less successfully against petus in Ukraine. co-workers, and the sublime help of of it. In my ward is a gang which I the attacks of the many Tartar and Lithuanian Princes Came as Defenders I call my "rescue squad." It com- Mongolian warlike tribes that came those little cadet nurses and Wacs in The main feature of the Ukraino- who have come to the rescue of our prises those who can hobble about never ending invasions from Cen- Lithuanian political cooperation dur­ overburdened personnel. The heroism on crutches, with canes, in wheel tral Asia through the wide gap be-ing the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries of your boys, the skill of our sur­ chairs and what-not. They spend tween the Ural mountains and thewa s the fact that the Lithuanian geons, the devotion of the nurses; all their spare time going from bed to Caspian Sea. In 1240 a powerful Mon- princes came to Ukraine as defend- these things you know about already. bed, cheering those who still have; Sol-Tartar horde of Batu plowed> and not M conquerors. They But what you don't know is the su­weeks and months of lying in casts roughshod through the wholeі length !helped the Ukrajnians in their strug- preme effort and extraordinary cour­ or tied up in what they call "gadgets of Ukraine, plundering and destroy- ,e against the Tartars. The Ukrain- and contrivances," but what in reality; «* all its cities, on its way to Hun-; fa ^ fa ^^ ^ defend tage shown by those men who arear e vital >u» oxtu c.u, instruments to the processes pry- It was a very huge and warlike Lithuania against the Teutonic subjected to weeks, months, and even of a year of endurance and' patience. rebuilding and rehabilitating life. I horde, and in its strategy and swift- Rg of ^ Сгозд The ^ of ff „^? Tb- Almost every bed m a traction! nesa of movement it proved to be; ^ „ Thev displav a degree of grit I haveW! Aimpst every oea m a traction—^ ««,-«.«=«,..„ ^v^ w ^: relationwlfttionsa existeйхія1d betweeMw n n ththAe twtwro> ward is ri s never seen ш the course of my ex- eged up with a weird ar-i superior to the European heavily; £",£ ^UthuSkS liked the perience as a private duty nurse in rangement of ropes, pulleys, weights, | f™edJ^ c^life The ^^a wil to co- and "hor^ehoes" that keep their, legs th.s swiftly movmg army of the c Th ' a]so act^ „ ^ о a e hat often brings Tgasp of a"d a™s »» °"d angles. These de- Mongolian Khans overwhelmed ah uSatafam culture. es are not ainful in U3e won lenient from our medialstaff. ™ P -°ut they I the armed forces of liueeovy Uk- The Lithuanians who came to тд. wonuennem irom our mtuiuai au^ii. ь thnnedir ward lool-s raine, Poland, and Hungary. Batu s „• •.. л^і. «*„,«. # н „ *. And as a result of all this I see the ao maтя*рe aяпn ororthopedic *ard look . oracticallv annihilated th гаш nе *^П ІПЄ1Г Pnnces felлt flrtmteifn eat dailv imorovement that is their re-1 somewhat like a petrified forest. They invasion Practical у annihilated thPe Though they spoke a different aaii\ improvement шаі із uieu ^ serve in manv wavs but orimarilv eastern half of Ukraine. Ukrainian h .„ „ Jl„ ™ ,««„««„„^1 •ь** ward -I see them move one toe, five ffne in man> wavs. Dut primarily , > tinued to lanІ0Г10&ua&0e' Л thef y sooQn discovered that the v are f Ht llicai indeDendenc< con toes a foot a lee Weeks pass and - designed to keep the limb j P° » independence continued to th Ukrainfan language was in many I^ see them я?5^Tta7rtS_ - ta Proper 'Position to_ insure new! exist after this, ^^owj,^,^,^ j^ Not only are 1 new bone dred years, only m Western Ukraine.; there- ma 8ІЮІ1аг words ш Шпц. chair :Tsee"them"go"home for week formation is developing Ш bcalled Kin dom of Gahcia ends, and I see them come back with. correctl>'< Preventing deformities and я v 1? & anian and Ukrainian: they have also more vigor and zest, ready to goshortene d limbs. Sometimes thev are and volhynia. similar grammatical rules. Both lan- used to e Є ив ,, ІЛ ь through any ordeal to the end that ^medy bones that have . wu 1 ^ ^ ? і , ї! guages are inflectional as Latin or they may wal" k again, work again, Jjfaleu^.«l„dJ i:n_ wron.... • .. g.і , positio_»_:І;_n_ an__dJ ^\^^^^^!&уI_ Л G™k' *** ** УЄІУ ^ ta **** be whole again. 5 thesbeene surgicallerrors. y rebroken to correct j KingdomSff^j"*/і of™^J Galic„ m _?anJd 1V?.u Volhynia. _•_ - nymssive .an Botd ,^^„„6h are ^ver^ yform3 fon%d oьf caresother- These men come into our ward Ь from everywhere - from your city,::ity, , "f^jltog goes on from morning|Kjng ^^»°-^^ J^ ^jw^Tl^naal^ fotaid to Uk- і ne аШІаг ol thinkin your town, your village. It is not tin-1 1J? 4 *™-.» » >™«tuted in the rojitfae. 11***^™™ ZJZFZl^F^l-'l ™ **У* 8 "d ^sual for neighbor* in civilian life ' * invisible. _ Through the wisdom I ^[byrua^ and gahcia tavited_ Prince. Uvtag. They aUo found the икій„г usuai tor ueig"L»""» »« tivnuMi шс Lubart a Lithuanian who had mar- • л * * л * • x«_ tn t here d to become en- of our Medical Department, every- . °ari'a blinuanian wno nao mar ^ ^e mPP an 11 is devised in such a a mn8 to te M fond of smgmg SJSSin mJSZL™ of^4b^utN ^ ^У that!"edu Ukrainian pnnces in Volhynia,, Lithuanians. On the other hand, it thralled m an exchange of talk about^ ^^ fcake Ш[ rf ^ rebuUd.| to be their new king. As the new,wag a8 natural for Ukrainian8 to ^a home and the home toik. mg ^^ ^ Q joke Nevertheless .king of the purely Ukrainian King- likeable qualities in the Uthu- dom of Right here in my ward I can read evefy instant of an orthopedic pa-: Gahcia and Volhynia, Lubart anians you the war story fromі the beginning UonVs Ufe ш an Al^v hogpital ward | lived in the citv of Volodimir in Thou n the ^ of jjthuaniana ! to this very day, for there are under is utffized constructively toward his Volhynia . In 1349 King Casimir the and Ukrainians parted in 1569 on ac our care representatives from al- rostoration. For ІП8Іапсе, here is a| Great of Poland took advantage count of the Htica, unlon ^^^ of most every battle .front-Anno, man whose name i8 Bill. In the last lubart s war agmnst the Tartars Poland and uthuania Ukrainians, 1 Africa France, Belgium, Germany, few days he has refused to walk. We:" **£** and invaded and an-;uthuani and wwte Athenians and the Pacific, my most recent ad- ^ him with an Qrder to thp ,ab; nexed Gahcia. Later Lubart fought» іШк кШІ of eftcn ^^ hard to re ai missions numbenng two boys from for something we have no need of. & " gahcia, but had no;Such are the „^ of a Htical Okinawa And each one of the oc- or something w know they haven4 success against the alliance of Po-, cooperation between congenQ end cupante of this ward has contributed got He wa!ks a mHe and ft ha,f of land and Hungary. He ruled the [^ di d nationg ^ ^

much to the service and is so worth> two miles or ю it ^^ to him : Kingdom of Volhynia asrjts rightful; The йи^иШшшіап political ofa cure! then comes back griping about the;king tll] hisd^ath.,n 13f4' J,he УкІ \ cooperation was beneficial to both Emil Army's inefficiency. But he doesn't raimans of Volhynia and Kholm had Шгаіпіап8 and Lithuanians. On the There is one boy here whom we'll ^ he ^ **** bis own ™*~ ВвїГУв o^ing Лп°ІПЄГ hand' the P°,ish П°Ш* ftnd kingS a,WayS acted tOWard the Uk call Emil. WllfcaU^-fc*^,^^^^*^ ^ ІЯЖ"Ue^^nVf шГи ,te ' of the leg and a bleeding wound, he' » "'"« ^ "^"^LT? Mta"p^;ii~™wli"li^d^MiS^,n^ Ruthenians, and Г0 ивП a routl e ln Llthuanlans as haughty aggressors lay for six hours in the snow in zerzero '., , , , " " the hos- * ^ „ nothine but! weather, with a live grenade in one Pjjita,tail wwa.a»s tw0 b oee •toppesioppeda aati aa certai certaini ик^аіпГЛпгі he w^s оГіЬе sar^e and °PPre830rs- ***" "** "*« not hourur fof r ronnee hourhour anandd wwee пnuraes Ukra,n,an he was of the same to handhonri, in readinesго»Ніт,е„s to defenHd himselfhimvlf . Wer^ e ' 'a3ke° d° tt 0 '' thatf ever"га«y >a 77,'Г"""йfa thash,sUklamia" 7,Г —n "—"8ub ct3* """Т'H,s k" і cooperate with the peoples within «ЕМі£^П. t£STtoato •* P " ! I . Jf ; VI - the Poltafc CommonwealTh, but to ex- Ou^~ r 'eorp s men a*t th*ue cfron ^t+ ШшПл«„іі.у. tientjenwerte whaskeo courd dt omovmov seee ta tetha теп1t everinto yth pae raima- n name was Km King 0тDmytro1 . HisHis. ,,oit them ший . Thvume 8amu e has „^ true SSefhto w He spent th™e months Щ"** ^ ^ "» l^fjTt "*" ^ >' ™- , г Ploi uut t ж to. ite same has Ьееп tme ріскеа mm up. ne spent шгее monins gym„,,т anп„d лt +0л ллл 4tha1 4t 4thoS1 e wht_o ,_bajd икгяітиkra,n,anп пятnamеe waаn8 temtr г>«іі'»і-л І . . in one hosnital lvine on hto tack ' •* " I!, ^ K>ng Dmytro., of tne Ru8sian8. Sinee 1654< wnen without X' tn^eeVonths in an f° remai"J" bed spent this one hour »•,#£ Fed.r^ruled^as w,sely over, ^SSK! an alliance with . іukrajn unioiuec umviuucu tut аіішнсе witn wiioouimoymg; шгее momna in an- ^ ^^ form of 8cribed exercise Volhynia till 143Д. During t,he next Russia, aed from which time datea ei ftt other hospital, just barely able to iItseemed аШу to stop the procedure S J*** Volhynia was valiantly Ru3aian-g gradual absorption of Uk- d fend movebrough; t thehin ma nbac Armk tyo hospitathis countrl shipjy of bandageSi medical attention and f ^by Prince Svitnhailo, knownUjne, the jfc,88ian8 have aiways a 3 as p and into our ward. I read his medical recasting — all those things that go ' ° rince Lev. | acted toward the Ukrainians in an history on his cast. Concealing as 0 on at this hour in the ward—and і ™er Ukrainian provinces, such aut0cratic and arrogant manner, just 8 Kiev and P< a were also ru,ed best I could the emotions his pathetic have the boys seemingly all upset. | J abou , t ^°Ji360 ' by .Lithuan i n!a s the Foles. history stirred within me as a wo­But it is one of the beat things^"we ^__ A . . . ? The Ukrainians still like to reflect have in the routine now. princes who intermarried- with Uk on the times when Ukraine and man, I said, "Emil, what did you rainians,'learned their language and think about when you were lying in (To be concluded) Lithuania worked hand in hand, as the snow, waiting for that sniper customs, and administered феіг. Uk- j equals, in the Ukraine-Uthuanisin rainian dukedoms as Ukrainians, state from 1340 to 1569> to kill you if you moved?" Said he, BOHDAN,HLTMAN The same was true of the other Lithu- b*++*+m+**—0*s***+***~***++* "Ma'am," believe it or not, for six anians, including officials, oilicers, | solid hours I wondered if I would OF UKRAINE A SMALL ГЧХЖЕТ SIZE land boyars wffcHsettled on Ukr^juan blCTIONA R Y ever play golf again." And grown by - - lands. They * learned, to identify i> quite valuable. We Ьеее і ...... «. into manhood, these men still cling GEORGE VERNADSKY themselves with UkWiinians and tneir T to much of their boyishness. We on band in the English-Ukrainian иад

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штшшя^ятт^яяат No, ЗО UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1945. THE STORY OF OLD GLORY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Weekly Banter Walking the body. There's the middle of the f|TOS story of the orignal of our Na- immortal task of making our first Walking is a form of exercise in sidewalk addict.who makes it herd •* tional Flag parallels the story of Star-Spangled Banner. which one foot is placed in front of for a person to pass; and always the origin of our country. As our It was unfortunate that the above the other and the process repeated there's a group of ladies who hold a country received its birtright from incident surrounding the work of an indefinite number of times. Com­ conference on the sidewalk—usually the peoples of many lands who gath- Betsy Ross occurred at a time when petent authorities have declared it flanked by baby carriages and shop­ eired on these shores to found a new | the passions of rebellion and Inde- is one of the best forms of muscle ping bags. Yet, walking is good, nation, so did the pattern of stars j pendence were foremost in the minds utilization—especially for those who wholesome, salutary exercise. Some­ and stripes rise from divers origins! of the colonists and thus the chro have come within hailing distance of time we must try it. back in the mists of antiquity to be nicies of the day failed to record the middle age. * ! come emblazoned on the standard of details surrounding the origin of the However, as with many definitions, More Uses Than One our infant republic. flag. the description does not cover the Woman (sitting on suitcase in lug- The star, a symbol of the heavens The efforts of Betsy Ross finally total situation. There are many sub-; Haven't you something and the divine goal to which man: culminated in official recognition by species, variations and individual; has aspired from time immemorial, the Continenal Congress which on differences among walkers. There's! a httle more comfortable? Im plan- and the stripe, symbolic of the rays June 14, 1777, the first birthday of the man who carries his back like a! ninS a long trip. j l of light emanating from the sun, Old Glory, adopted a resolution: ramrod; there's the man who at-! * have long been represented on the j "That the flag of the thirteen United tempts to balance a protruding front! standards of nations, from the ban- States be thirteen stripes, alternate by leaning backward. Some, anxious In the Good Old Days < ners of the astral worshippers of an- red and white; that the union be to arrive at the store for possible The "white collar" man has come cient Egypt and Babylon and the; thirteen stars, white in a blue field, cigarettes or a bit of hamburg, lean a long way since the days of hie 12-starred flag of the Spanish Con- Representing a new constellation."^ far forward, with their legs and feet; grandfather, as witness the following quistadors under Cortez, downj An interesting sidelight of history trying desperately to catch up with j instructions to employes issued by a through the striped standards of is revealed by this resolution in that * і store proprietor in 1870: Holland and the East India Company' it was one presented by', £he Marine "! "Store will open at 7 a. m. and in the 18th century to the present | Committee of the Second Continental mighty symbol of sovereignty and the" close at 8 p. m., except on Saturday, patterns of stars and stripes on the Congress on the subject of the Navy. homage paid that banner is best ex- І when it closes at 9 p. m. Employes flags of several nations of Europe, This is explained by the fact, that pressed by what the gifted men of j will sweep floors, dust furniture, Asia, and the Americas. unlike land troops, it is necessary that future generations wrote concerning shelves and show case; remember The first flags adapted by our Col­ all men-of-war must carry the same І ^ j 'Cleanliness is next to Godliness/ onial forefathers were symbolic of flag as a means of identification and J The brilliant Henry Ward Beecher I Trim wicks, fill lamps, clean chim- ! their struggles with the wilderness recognition. Following the Declare- g^: "A thoughtful mind when it пеув. Make your pens carefully (you та of a new land. Anchors, beavers, tion of Independence colonial vessels j sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag,! У whittle the quills to suit your rattlesnakes, pine trees and various were putting to sea in an effort to Dut the nation itself. And whatever individual taste). Open windows, for resn a r like insignia with mottoes of "Hope," hamper enemy communications and mav ^ ц3 symbols, its insignia, he [ * * - Each clerk shall bring in a "Liberty," "Appeal to Heaven," or for the purpose of preying on enemy reads chiefly in the flag, the govern- bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the "Don't Tread on Me," were affixed to commerce. Many of these vessels j mentf tne principles, the truths, the I day'* business, the different banners of Colonial flew the flags of the particular colonies; history that belong to the nation that \ "Any employe who smokes Spanish America. to which they belonged. j g^g ц forth. The American flag has cigars, uses liquor in any form, gets The first flag of the colonists to It is uncertain as to where our \#еп a symbol of Libery, and men' shaved at the barber shop, or fre- have any resemblance to the present first Old Glory was flown following | rejoiced in it. і quents pool halls or public dance Old Glory was.the Grand Union Flag, its adaption by the Congress, It isj "The stars upon it were like the halls, will give his employer every; oft termed the "Congress Colors." known, however, that John Paul bright morning stars of God, and j reason to suspicion his integrity, This flag consisted of thirteen stripes, Jones, preparing to sail on the ^he stripes upon it were beams of < worthy intentions and all around alternately red and white, represent­ RANGER from Portsmouth on July j morning light. As at early dawn the j honesty. ing thirteen colonies, with a blue field 4, 1777, was presented with a Star- gtars shine forth even while it grows I "Each employe is expected to pay; In the upper left hand corner bearing Spangled Banner by the ladies of ]ight| an(j then as the sun advances | his tithing to the church, that is the crosses of St. George^ and St. An­ Portsmouth, which flag was forth- tnat light breaks into* banks and j 10% of his annual income; no matter drew, signifying union with the mother with raised to the RANG IR'S staff.\streaming lines of color, the glowing] what your income might be, you: country. This banner was first flown It is also recorded that an August red and intense white striving toge­ should not contribute less than $25. at the staffs of the Colonial Fleet in 3, 1777, the" patriot defenders of Fort ther, and ribbing the horizon with per year to the church. Each em­ the Delaware River in December, Stanwix, New York, raised a hastily bars effulgent, so, on the American ploye will attend sacrament meeting 1775. made and crudely fashioned ^tar- flag, stars an$ beams of many-cojored and adequate time will be given to Although never formally acknowl­ Spangled Banner over the fort's light shine out together..." attend Fast meeting on Thursday. blockhouse. Also, on February 14, Also you are expected to attend your edged by the Continental Congress, What Wilson Said About Our Flag the Grand Union Flag was the 1778 when the RANGER hove to in Sunday Schoo] standard of th eContinental Army Quiberon Bay, France, bearing news More than a score of years ago "Men employes will be given one of Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga, when the latter came into being in President Wilson said: "This flag, (evening off each week for courting January, 1776, and was also carried the Stars and Stripes received its which we honor and under which we, purposes, or two evenings each week by Marines and American Bluejackets first salute from a foreign power. serve, is the emblem of our power, j if they go regularly to church and comprising an expeditionary force in General Washington, when the our thought and purpose as a nation. | attend to church duties. After any; the West Indies during that year. Star-Spangled Banner was first flown It has no other character than that і employe has spent his thirteen hours at the head of the Continental Army, which we give it from generation to of labor in the store, he should then described its symbolism as follows: First Made by Betsy Rose generation. The choices are ours. It spend his leisure time in reading "We take the stars from heaven, the floats in majestic silence above thejgood books, and contemplating the During the previous year a field of red from our mother country, separ­ hosts that execute those choices, glories and building up the Kingdom thirteen stripes appeared on the yel­ ating it by white stripes, thus show­ whether in peace or in war. And yet, j 0f God." low silk standard of the Philadelphia ing that we have separated from though silent, it speaks to us—speaks troop of Light Horse when the latter her, and the white stripes shall go to us of the past, of the men and M served as an escort to General Wash­ down to posterity representing liber­ women who went before us, and of Country Philosopher ington who was journeying to Cam­ ty." the records they wrote upon—it. Herman Peterson, author of Coun­ bridge to assume command of the Following the cessation of hostili­ - "We celebrate the day of its birth; try Chronicle, moved on a farm in Continental Army. ties and the organization of the and from its birth until now it has upper New York state because he Thus we find that the symbols United States under the Constitu- witnessed a great history, has floated thought it would be a good place to which became the stars and stripes j tion, the flag continued to be modi- on high the symbol of great events, write. When an inquiring neighbor of Old Glory were long in use as em-1 fled by the addition of a star and a or a great plan of life worked out by asked, between spurts of tobacco blematic of the aspirations and stripe for each state coming into the a great people. . . juice, what crops the stranger in­ struggles- of many people and na­ Union. After the admission of Ken­ "Woe to the man or group of men, tended to raise, Peterson was mo­ tions. It remained, however, for the tucky and Vermont, a resolution was that seek to stand in our way in mentarily stumped. Then he hap­ dark days which followed the Decla-»adopted in January, 1794, making the this day of high resolution, when pened to recall what his wife had ration of Independence and the ef- flag one of fifteen stars and fifteen every principle we hold dearest is to said about the city being no place to forte to create some semblance of! stripes, be vindicated and made secure for bring up children. unity and resistance, to form the| Realizing that the flag would soon the salvation of the nation. We are Tm going to raise children," hej background for the dramatic incident become unwieldy with the addition ready to plead at the bar of history, said brightly. enacted in the modest shop of a of a stripe for each state, Captain and our flag shall wear a new luster. The farmer spat meditatively. Philadelphia needlewoman named Mrs. Samuel C. Reid, U.S. Navy, corn- Once more we shall make good "Around here," he said, "we look on Betsy Ross. To her shop in the sum- mander of the armed brig GENERAL with our lives and fortunes the great that as a side line."—Reading & Writ­ of 1776 came a distinguished j ARMSTRONG during the War of faith to which we were born, and a mer ing. AJU 1812, presented to the Congress the new glory shall shine in the face of ' * J group of patriots headed by General suggestion that the stripes remain our people.'* Washington. They bore with them a O! O! thirteen in number as representing Thus Old Glory came into being; Jt> certain official whose employ­ rough sketch for a flag, a banner the colonies which struggled to found born amid the strife of battle it be­ ment in the various alphabetical behind which they hoped to unite the the nation, and that a star be added came the standard around which a efforts of the thirteen colonies. This to the blue field for each additional free people struggled to form a great agencies of the government had sketch resembled the Grand Union state coming into the Union. This nation From the Atlantic seaboard been long and constant discovered •Flag and differed from the latter on­ suggestion became the .text of a re­ to the great prairies of * the West, 1 ly in that the union of the crosses during a journey that in packing solution $ty Congress, effective on south to the bayous of Louisiana, his suitcase he had omitted to include o$ "St Andrew and St. George had July і 1818. been replaced by a union of thirteen north toxland of the Dakotas, and a certain very necessary item of wear­ Following the War of 1812, a great beyond the watery reaches of the stars placed in a circle on a bine ing apparel. Whereupon he wired 4ai& After some discussion as to wave of nationalistic spirit spread Atlantic and the Pacific, Old Glory whether or not the stars should. be throughout the country; the infant carried the struggle and fight of a home: jfiM n appointed <*eJfoFe-pqJnted. a die- republic had successfully defied the democratic nation extending its "SOS BVDs COD PDQ. - • - І winch Mrs. ROM prevailed, might Of an empire. As this spirit of birthright to the endless regions of this yet herself - tothejnaHctfiafam apread, Old Glory began} the great beyond. FOE УІСЯКЙІТ SUY BONDtf j 6 UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1945. Ku. 2І) 3!!!

•.. • • What Tliey Say Pvt Nicholas Minue і U. S. Attorney General Tom C. Clark,' Post No. 1260 I ДРІБНІ ОГОЛОШЕННЯ-WANT ADS speaking over the NBC network: — •The American people and the in- ^*£2ЙЛ У^™ Ч?' £ •?** telligen? і t leaden, of American buataeaa. іі numberin""JlTg Tfive, establishe?hTwd a Uk^- want to preserve ш our country notj . . * ' on?anization r. or am2atlon only the principle but the fact of AAJ^JWH^t tnat there Swere ve, " War Manpower Commission Employment Regulations trJL „f^««o. о«я *к; «^ ««, .J tiro* f T few tree aenterprise and this0 meane s an, Шл-и ххт~- тт .. *. л г: 5 , x і* v * *j £ 4V. World War П veterans discharged IlftatUi Worken aetl Itita- end to selfish protection of the en- ' annAd .,„ . e ХХТ^ЛА W«- T -* га посвідку, що ммш в до ро»- 4 Vj J*J*.« J still less World War I veterans it *l Availability. U trtflifar- •оряднмоста. Пра переношенню trenched. ,-* a.n end- t,o. dominatio... n and; o-f rtw-Lalil-Ukrainian, ~.«^«rescent* . *«.;This . 3smal Vll fll| to lesi tmotial. aeei U. S. до менше сущнмх робіт мусять extermination of the small to pro- grou__,,_ ил„,л„л» „^„ „л*. ^«,i. л- •JBployment Service coaieot !• юті крім цього моду ^Юнайтжд tect the advantages of the laree an P» bowever, was not easily die- Спік Емадоймеят Сервіс". „Крк- A 4 tv uSTST ГА „ . VT couraged, and with the help of sev- •ttfitloi. Critical worker • also ткиГробіїшпш потребують теж end to the 'right of dollars to stifle eral Шгаіпіап businessmen it gradu- •мі sottk. обох посвідок. brams, incentive and inventive genius, ^ expandedf шШ ^ere ^Щ an end to "super-national" cartel con veterans enrolled. The group then spiracies. It also means freedom of applied for a charter to become a post ПОТРІБНО МУЖЧИ* ПОТРІБНО ЖЕНЩИН opportunity for all people to engage in the American Legion. It was ac­ in legitimate business on an equal cepted as a closed post, open only for Шірман, досвідчений, у джонк ярді, Кухарки (шорт ордер) footing... It means reversing the Veterans of Ukrainian descent. в Ithaca, N. Y. Дуже добра платня. -trend—given impetus by the haste Запевн. добрі життєві обставини. Пи­ у віці 35 до 40 літ On December 9, 1944, the charter Постійна праця, добра платня to produce the tools of war—of big шіть, телеграф, або телефон, на натп from the American Legion was for­ кошт: Wallace Scrap Iron Metal Co., Уніформ і харчі business getting bigger at the ex­ Box 2 30, Ithaca. N. Y. Тел. 2 620. Sears Roebuck eV Co. pense, if indeed not the extirpation, mally presented. All the New York 32 St. & Hudson Blvd., Union City, NJ of small businss. We won't accom­ County American Legion officers at­ Суперінтендента tended the ceremony installing the Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, N. Y. plish all this overnight; we may never accomplish all of it. But I officers of the post. There were ЗІ-фамілШний дім ДЛЯ КРАЩОГО ЗАВТРА... many prominent people in attendance, кімнати, ґаз, електр. і $75 місячно state categorically that there will ичте по 6. год.: Beechview 2-1545 КУПУЙТЕ ВОЄННІ БОНДИ be no relaxation of our efforts to including the mother of the late Pvt. і accomplish it." Nicholas Minue of Carteret, H. J. in whose honor the post was named, 1 UKRAINIAN HONEY CAKE HOUSEHOLD HINTS —* he being the first Ukrainian hero to _ ( Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, president ! 4 eggs Guard against loss of vitamins and receive the Congressional Medal of j 1 pt. honey minerals in cooking by the following of the—Federal Council of the Honor. 1 yeast cake six rules: Churches of Christ in America: Our first full year in the American/ ' 1 tsp. soda Do not peel or cut up vegetables Legion will draw to a close hi Octo­ "I believe that a majority so large ber. Our membership has recently in­ і Уг lb. butter or and then let them stand jas to approach unanimity within the ] 4 C pastry flour before cooking. If possible cook them creased 50% Under the able leader­ : churches desires the earliest possible ship of Commander William Ciiosnyk 1 y% tsp. cinamon whole with skins on. • ratification of the (United Nations) I % tsp. cloves In cooking vegetables and fruits the Post has grown in strength and ) 1 C nuts (any kind preferred) use as little water as possible and • Charter by the Senate and the full has taken an active part to various ; participation of our nation in the or-1 community affairs. cook them as quickly as possible. Beat the whole eggs slightly and Never add soda to vegetables. ganization therein established. Ourj The Post members have been meet- add the honey which has been melted. isons have fought to destroy totalitar­ ing during the past ten months at Whenever possible steam foods Then add the yeast cake wfiich has ian tyranny and have given their lives Hotel Imperial, 32nd and BroadwayV been dissolved in a little warm water; rather than boil or stew them. j gladly that future generations may New York City, every third Tuesday also add soda which has been dis­ Never fry foods if it can be avoided. і be free. It is for us to create a world of each month at 8:30 P. M. Attend- solved in a little warm water. Mix Do not chop or crush fresh vege­ I order that will guarantee that our ance has been very good. tables or fruits and allow them to well. Measure and sift the flour with sons' sons shall not march a gen­ Elections will take place in Octo­ stand before serving. cinamon, cloves and mix the whole eration hence. We believe the Char­ ber. Nomination for officers wffl take mixture well. Add the nuts which Frozen foods should be put into ter is a first and major step toward, place at our September meeting. We have been floured and put in a loaf cook while they are still frozen. If this high end." aim to make this post the largest tin. The oven should be at 350 c F. used raw they should be eaten im­ Basil O'Connor, national chairman of single post in the Metropolitan Ш- ' and the heat increased after fifteen mediately after thawing. the American Red Cross: trict. We invite all veterans of Uk­ minutes. Bake for one hour. Lemon juice or vinegar in the "There can be no peace without rainian descent to come down to out ' water cauliflower is cooked in makes understanding, - and unless it starts meetings at Hotel Imperial every ~' it keep its snowy white ccflor. \% SAVED with ourselves and compels us to re­ third Tuesday of each month. This When making mayonaise, add the cognize those things which make for post accepts all Ukrainians with the WOR10O55 white of the egg to the mixture after peace and do not destroy it, we shall exception of those who are against' « the vinegar is added. This will pre­ TAKEN BY THE not have peace." the Democratic American govern­ vent curdling. AXIS UTERI • ment and seek to overthrow it. Hacolm Ross, Chairman of the Fair All Ukrainian Veterans who desire YOUR BEST INVESTMENT IN A Employment Practice Committee: further information as to member­ BUY WAR tONOS 1 CENTURY...A $100 WAR BOND "Here's the question: Will we oon- ship jn this Ukrainian post, please / contact Vice-Commande— —~...... «ч«r, Mш. JKI . Popeіиіл;, tinue in the change-over period to .1551 Unionport Road, New York 62, make good just as democratically as **. Y. He will be happy to give any _-_w_ e* di_*# Лd durinJ*__ _• g*_ A%th_ іe *_two-fron_ ^ ^_- ^лt . war ! ІГІГЛІЧЧАйІІ/чinformationп aлт At L2his. disposalJ2.. 1 . against Germany and Japan. We of Pvt. Nicholas Minne Poet No. Щ0 August FUR the Fair Employment Committee ... M. J.* POPE ' ' know that it requires patience, per­ , —* suasion and, most of all, a strong CHARACTER "ANAtV&S" determination to overcome race pre­ AT A GLANC& judice. But we also know that it When the whites of the efes are can be done. We have seen thou­ T і • Великий вибір. sands of Negroes making airplanes naturally tinged with red, yoti n&$r in a plant which at first said 'impos­ count on. a suspicious nature, and A • Найновіші моди. sible*. .. In its attempt to uphold quick, bad temper. c People with vertical furrows dn I the accepted national policy of equal • Футра найвищо! якости. job opportunity, the FEPC has raised their foreheads are intellectual fight- • H up powerful enemies. The fight to ers and enjoy arguing. Horizontal • Найдешевші ціни. -* furrows indicate the worrier. establish this right has become more л A than an attack on a little group of A man with long, slim finger- • Вже готові зроблені футра. Government people. It has widened nails is artistic, but he's never "a E to include all the people of the good provider. Uttle round nails • Також виробляється „на ордер". show honesty coupled with A hdt L temper. A person with strong moons v \ • Найбільший вибір футер з PERSIAN LAMB will rise high in his world. ST. MARY'S VILLA ACADEMY To tell good people from bad: TJf • Також на складі tfuSKRAt, SILVER FOX, SKUNK, OF ТА В LE ROCK a smile improves a man's face, he is1' located a good man; if a smile disfigures his in the Heart el R*m«t»o fSb faee, he is a bad man1. Sloataburg, N. Y. HUDSON SEAL, BEAVER, MINK { т. д. . A Select Modemly Equipped Aca­ demy for Girl* offering Cour*e»: Pre­ With Clocklike Precision paratory High School, Commercial & A Irindnearted old іЦу noticed' Home Economics, Music—Vocal & 1 Instrument*!, Ukrainian Creative Art, that the night watchman's dog was' ТУТ КУПУЄТЬСЯ scratching himself all tie time and,v! History and Literature. л Beautiful Location affords splendid taking pity on the animal, compJainect recreational facilities: Boating, Swim­ to his master, "Can't you see tne ticks ming, Horseback Riding, Supervised are running that poor o!pjjj 'craa&Z а ДОВІРЯМ Athletics in Tennis etc. Why don't you help him to getrtcl Conducted by Sisters Servants of,. of them?" Mary Immaculate. Fof further particu­ lars write tO: "Tain't possible," rejoined &e '* watchman. SISTER SUPERIOR 350 Seventh Ave. New York City St. Mary'a VOU Academy "Why not?" demanded the woman. "Cause," reasoned tne whtoisica%' \ Between 29 * 30 St*. of TaUe Rock. Sloatsburg, N. Y. easy-going old man, 'We a watch 16th Floor dog—and has new ticks every minute." СТВОРЕНО ЩОДНЯ І В СУБОТ*

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