Supplement to the SVOBODA, Ukrainian Daily Published by the Junior Department of the Ukrainian National Association

No. 49 JERSEY CITY, N. J., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1936 ЛЮЬ. IV

her economic independence." YOUTH TODAY Miss di Carpenetto .says -she THE MOST ABSURD NONSENSE - bases her,remarks on her obser- One of our readers from Passaic, New Jersey, MARRIAGE MOBf! ECONOMIC? vations made during an American recently sent us for examination a book printed jn Married students at the 'Unive-r- tour. R would be interesting to sity of Oregon, Eugene, Ore., compare these remarks with the English and apparently published in Passaic (for there decided to form an organization observations of American girls is no mention of the publisher in it) bearing the title who live the typical life of an to be known as the T. C. L. A. American girl. "The Most Useful Knowledge For The Orthodox Russian- C. A. the initials standing for . - "Two Can Lave As Cheaply WHAT VALUE HIGH American Young People." It is "compiled by: V. Rev. Association." SCHOOL STUBYT Peter G. Kohanik," of Passaic, "for the enlightenment of The members of the organ- American high school education all Russian-American Orthodox Young People in their ization determined to prove co- is softening .and degenerating, social and religious training," and contains "concise operatively the old saying quoted 'Dr. John L. Tildsley. Assistant in the name of the Association. Superintendent of New York City discussions . . . about the origin of 'Ruthenianism' and The club will ' promote social Schools, told the annual conven- 'Ukrainism'." The compiler assures the reader that, affairs for young married couples, tion of the Middle States Assocla- "Equipped with such useful knowledge, the Ruseian- appoint committees to study tion .of Colleges and Secondary individual problems, and work out Schools, held in Atlantic City, American Orthodox Young People can face any Religious plans for cooperative purchasing New Jersey, on November 26. or Political adversary with a ready answer . . ." of commodities. Young boys and girls receive freedom to .choose .their course of Glancing through the book, which contains close study before they have so disci- to eight hundred pages, one does not know whether to A TRUE PICTURE OF plined their powers as to be truly laugh or cry at the lengths a human mind will go to AMERICAN PARENTS? free. Some 20 to 40 per cent pervert, distort and falsify facts, for those sections In her article in а `Коте, Italy, of pupils entering high schools newspaper, Miss Daisy di Carpe- have lying credentials saying that dealing with the Ukrainian people (we did not read the netto, Italian novelist, says: the pupils have satisfactorily others) are packed with the most absurd and muddled "It is strange and sad for us completed the work of the lower nonsense it has ever been our misfortune to lay eyes Italians to observe how the schools. These pupils are in- happiness of children counts for capable of doing, or at least not upon. less than the egoism of the prepared to do, any work that The compiler of this book, for example, reproduces mother and father." has been thought of as secondary some excerpts from the Svoboda (of which the Ukrainian She also says: school' work. "The freedom granted her (the "So the principal finds it Weekly is the supplement) as "documentary evidence" American woman), which we have necessary to emasculate the eub- of the "historical development of the senseless .'Ukrainian' sometimes considered excessive, is jects," Dr. Tildsley aaid, "to. separatism in America . . ." coloring this "evidence" in a necessity arising from her reduce the contents, simplify the training. Every girl of 18 years teaching, lessen the educational a manner to suit his ends. In another section he is free to live in the most absolute value—and then finds the pupils declares that " 'Ukrainism' is a senseless political inven- and fullest sense of the word. cannot grasp even this mere tion imposed upon the Little Russians of Galicia by the She knows no restraints or shadow of the once honored sub- prohibitions and admits no con- jects. So he introduces new sub- Austro-Polish-German politician's in cooperation with the trol. Her spiritual independence jects and free electives for every- Archbishop Shepticky, Metropolitan of the Uniat results, in a large measure, from body." Church in Galicia." Ukrainian history for this compiler is "unexisting." The Ukrainian language is a "jargon," which "Hrushevsky compiled" as a-"linguistic scheme . . . Herbert Adams Gibbons, deplore the attempts to becloud to denationalize the four million Little Russians of Ukrainian identity and aspirations; when such an out- Galicia." Furthermore, "In 1863, 'Ukrainism' existed standing Russian-American historian as Prof. George only on paper, in some political documents, but when Vernadsky of Yale devotes a goodly portion of hie Shepticky took charge of the 'Ukrainisation', after 1890, recently-published "Political and Diplomatic History of in became a fanatical political force." Then too: Russia" to a sympathetic treatment of the Ukrainian " 'Ukrainism' was originated by the Poles." And so on, national movement; when even the American Govern- and so on. Need we quote any more? ment has recognized the Ukrainian nationality in its To attempt to answer the above and the other census reports; and when, finally, but only a few years nonsense contained in these sections dealing with the ago this same Government granted to the Ukrainians Ukrainian people, would be nothing short of folly. We the right to have their national exhibit at the Chicago feel quite inclined to drop into the parlance of prize World's Fair Exhibition, thereby making the Ukrainians fighters and say to this compiler: "Get a reputation the only exception to its enforced rule that only those before we take you on," before we deign to refute your nationalities were to be allowed to exhibit there that absurdities. had their own sovereign state. And Rev. Kohanik has Really, though, we are uncertain as to which should the temerity to call Ukrainianism "a senseless political surprise us more: whether it be the compiler's ignorance invention"! on the matters he writes concerning the Ukrainian To deviate for a moment. Since the World War we people, or whether it be his boldness in attempting to all have been bombarded with various explanations why impart to the "Orthodox Russian-American young America entered the war. Among those that gained people" all this twaddle and falsehood about the nation most popularity were: "to fight for democracy," and of which are descended those to whom his book is "those 'Wall Street Bankers' drove us in." Well, dear addressed. readers, perish all such thoughts now, for at last we What is more amazing is that this book was have the real reason,—as set out on page 761 of this published in 1934, at a time when Moscow itself, the "Knowledge" book, where it is stated that " 'Ukrainism' most implacable enemy of Ukrainianism and the and its promoters deserve no assistance, neither moving force behind all Russophilism, has long sympathy in their senseless work from the real spirited ago been forced to recognize the Ukrainian people as Americans." Why do you ask? Because those villains, a distinct nationality, with their own national traditions, those "Ukrainian politicans during the World War . . . culture and language. And we do not even bother to signed an odious and separate peace with them (the go into the various pronouncements of leading Russian Austro-Germans), betraying the Entente and Russia" institutions before the war, such as that of the Russian and that— Imperial Academy of Sciences at Petrograd in 1905, to "This betrayal on the part of the Ukrainian politi- the effect that Ukrainian is a language independent of cians FORCED THE UNITED STATES to enter the Russian, a pronouncement that denounced "the myth of war (compiler's caps), on the AUies'side, and lose the "Pan-Russian" language of which Ukrainian had over 80,000 of its best sons and billions in money." been declared a dialect. Just a reminder to V. Rev. Peter G. Kohanik:—The It is all the more amazing in view of the fact that Ukrainian National Republic, its diplomatic ties esta- the world wide press, including American, constantly blished with France, England, and Japan, concluded this _refers, to the Ukrainians as an independent nationality; "odious" treaty of peace with Germany in February, When" American historians, such as the recently-deceased 1918. America entered the war on April 6, 1917. UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1936 No. 49

to enjoy life and its pleasures. frwt"flfl of roses, so that it Is of Yet for. awhile he is capable of no use to value life. Despite a feeling of hatred towards every- this Budhist-Uke reasoning, how- VAN FRANKO thing pertaining to life, although ever, he cannot bring himself to By S. 8. this hatred borders very closely live in this manner, for he is on resignation. 0 (29) a poet! ' `ї.: .`І`.-'` Ненавиджу я нині вас .(зері)^ (Кожна пісня мояѓ ' Third Cluster of "Withered Leaves" Лиш біль і це страшенне: бам, бам, : Ненавиджу іфоеу і силу` `^ ; v. Віку мого день, `Вона умерла; Слухай! Бані Бам-бам! бам, І світло й пісню Г життя, " Протерпів її `я, Це в моїм серці дзвін посмертний А сліз нема, ні ќрови, ані поту. Ненавиджу любов, чутті, =-'.-. Не зложив лишень!) - дзвонить. І меркне світ довкола, і я сам Одно люблю' лиш m забуття', Вона умерла! Мов тяжезннй трам. . Лечу кудись - в бездонну стужу й Спокій, безпамятну могилу. і That means that his suffering 5 '- Мене `цілого щось додолу клонить. слоту. and sorrow must therefore find .Щось горло душить. Чи моїй очам Ридать! Кричать! — та горло біль gut then comes resignations expression in poetry, must calif out c. Хтось видер світло?... Хто це люто запер. within him a reaction against:the ` гонить ^^ Вона умерла! — Ні, це я умер. Даремно биться, працювати- buffetings of life and thereby % Думки з душі, що в собі біль за- She has died!—No, tie I who I сподіватись і бажатиЃ. І prevent him from falling Into _. перла? have- died. ^ЩщШ^-- Пропала сила вся моя.. complete apathy and denying lift f : Сам біль? Вона умерла! Вмерла! In this оце line lies the very Лиш чорних мар. гуляє зграя itself. 2Г jr 5 i, - essence of the third cluster' of 1-резиґнація безкрая Вмерла! Franco's lyric drama v "Withered Засіла в серці як змия. Щ^ЯаІ.в терці мойому pooej як це я ще досі не в дурів? Leaves" (Zivyale Lysfya). The %ўвіўється, плаче, IQJB дитя..: ; І як це я гляджу і не осліпну? poet's beloved has given herself The poet is now- quite close to f '-Для нього ти` краса" життя,' ` і як це досі все те я стерпів to some one else, arid this he a state of complete apathy—a Струя чуття, пісень йора —к У петлю не кинувся коніпну? regards as the very death blow refuge to all earthly sorrows; In Аджеж найкращий мій вогонь згорівЃ to his spirit. fact, he is very close to a .state For the poet within.him rebels ^ і Аджеж тепер по-вік я не окріпну! ! Where .the first cluster of this of Nirvana, where ah desire of against the destruction of the collection was a cry of pain, existence and wordly good is ideals of life and love, against По-вік каліка! Серце гадь npfMwpirn and the second cluster was the extinguished, where lies the :salva- Сточила думи всі! Вона умерла. the. death of all emodon^Jiopes.^ cult of pain, this third cluster tion from the evils of existence. sufferings, against the indifftrence^r-v - Лиш біль страшний, пекучий е`серці Is freedom from pain—of - pain For he feels that all his strivings там begotten of unrequited love. and labors merely hasten his to life's manifestations, "^ijgpfe Все заповнив, усю мою істоту. І In it the poet loses all desire earthly end and bring him thorns (To be Continued)

know herself why, that he is will you wait for a handsomer going a-courting. The maiden's one?" -rr^saSSr:1 ORISJA heart is softer, than wax; it Would she say at least a word, By Pantaleon A. Kulish melts under cossack's eyes,' like or even raise her eyes? No,-she ' 5 under the sun ... Translated by Helene Kinash Sigler (2) stands still, the poor one,' with her head lowered. (Concluded) "What of it" says Paraska, "that he is going a-courting? Her sire-father sees that .'he The girls are listening and be- came out of the water to warm You cannot ride around your cannot expect an answer from come sad: Orisia listens, and is up his old bones in the sun? fated-one even with a horse!" her1—for where in the .world afraid to look at the stones, which Once again the cossack looks at would a girl tell what is in her have spread out in a heap across the grey-haired old man, once VL thoughts? Her eyes perhaps, will the river. Already it seems to again he looks at the girls: their tell, but not she herself. Sire- her that it Is not really stones, sleeves -. are rolled up to the The girls washed the shirts, father took that in consideration, and that the water murmurs some; elbows, their skirts and red-and- put them on the wagon, covered and says: "How is it possible not - how, not quite like water .'$ЗЌ$ blue embroidered aprons are. them with green, fresh smelling to fancy such a cossack? Embrace , Old Hriva made the girls tucked in at- the waist-line ... grass, got in themselves, and rode and kiss each other, and may God entirely sad. They do not know Gold does not shine so in costly home, fresh and jolly; they bless you!" twittered like swallows. The whether to wash the clothes, or rings, айі'their white feet shine The cossack embraced. Orisia, in the water and over the water. wagon had not yet reached return home: only they are "sotnik's" homestead, when it was and kissed those Прі^%ШсЬ are, ashamed of old Hriva :.^fprJh^fjfThe cossack stares,' and himself already known that they were as if made of very honey, and glances at them and smiles.'They stands motionless; when old used to like to wash in deep returning. they both bowed, low to the sire- Hriva shouts at him: "Hey! Hey, father. waters, placing a board across cossack! What has ever brought "Orisia, our mistress!" shouted from stone to stone,. but now,' you to this cliff? Perhaps you the girls as soon as this gates Whether many guests came to they moved away from the cliff want to rinse out your crimsons were opened. "Whose grey horse the wedding, whether they were to where the litter has not quite in the Trubailo?" is standing in the grounds? He lavishly entertained, whether Jthey reached the stones and is calm As soon as he spoke, he seemed, belongs to that cossack that we danced till the wee hours, that and clear like the surface of a at once, to have' broken- Some ` saw, to your prince, to your is not our affair to relate. mirror. And, indeed, just like in magic spell. The girls, ashamed fated-one!" I saw Orisia just before the the mirror, one sees in the water, of themselves, began to beat wedding; she was as beautiful as the sky. and the cliff with the clothes with their paddles. Orisia looks and her heart burns like fire. Whether she .was a flower. I saw her again in a gnarly roots interwined with hops, The cossack answers the old year's time, in Mirhorod—she be- і and curly hawthorne, which grow frightened or glad, she did not man: ''Thank God for that, that herself know. came even more beautiful after — over the very edge and spread ' I even came as far as the cliff. marriage, and she has a baby like out its green paws over the river. Tell me, kindly, grandpa, how The young cossack looked out a -God's star! Many times have Orisia looks into the water; will I reach Witovtsi from here?" of the window of the main-room: I thought, loking at her; :."She and it seems that something "What takes you.to Witovtsi?" a wagon drawn by old horses with is God's glory and not a woman! appeared in the^ water; as if "Through Witovtsi" he says an old grey-haired driver rolls What if some genius would paint someone rode over the thicket on "lies my destination." into the grounds; green grass.is her just as she is, with a. tiny a grey steed and stood amidst the "My 'road—to someone's door- ' slipping down at the sides and is baby in her arms! What a Ш hawthorne. She is afraid to look step, my path—to someone's whipped by the wheels; and picture it would be!" up for fear that someone might heart." beyond the grey beard of old (Written September 7, 1844, ,lB:V really be there; she is afraid to "I see," says old Hriva, "may Hriva, beyond white winter, Khudorkov, at the home of Svidzln- look at the stones too.i it seems God help you in your good deed. summer blushes—a wagon, full of sky, having reid the sixth ode ор`"^ to her- that In. the twinkling of Here is the way you should go. girls in flowers and beads—Orisia Odyssey.) an eye, the enchanted bisons will Take the lower course along the like the sun among them! He roar and push on across the river. bank, and there, a bit lower will looked out and clapped his hands. She pulled at the sleeve of an- be your road; by that little road "It is she, it is she!" Then he ALIENS --' other girl and pointed to the you will reach a small river. began directly to speak forth to water. The girls look down and There is even a little foot-bridge "sotnik," who he is, and why be You seed, of a scattered race, - lo, a prince on a grey steed over that river, you cannot cross came. Who he is, that "sotnik" Flung into this whirling space; stands on top of Tor's Cliff. it in a wagon, but with a horse, knew already long ago, a young Struggling against its' maddening They became speechless. For a skilled cossack, will fly through." commander of Cossacks from pace, who could say that it was not a The cossack thanked him for Mirhorod, a scion of a fine and From native heath, unwillingly prince, all in crimson, and gold the directions, turned his horse wealthy family. Why. he came? torn; even drips from his sash? and disappeared among the trees. He came to see for himself what From your deserved inheritance, When he was out of sight, then the famed Orisia looked like, . cruelly shorn. It seemed that the cossack was and only then, did the girls be- 'not less surprised, he sits on bis what sort of lb-daughter "sotnik" Living in a shell apart from each come alive; they drew the Tavolha Ьлд$Ш?ло was known horse, motionless. For who cossack as on a piece of paper: other. wouldn't be stupified, having through UM^whole Zaporozhe Nourished by prejudice that keeps landed on such a cliff? Down what eyes, and what eye-brows, (Cossack's State) for her beauty; one from another; below, water flows over the and how he talks, and how he and having seen and shown hira- Unable to see each other as stones,' and by it sits, motion- smiles. One says: "That's your ielf, to find out whether she has brother. less, on a stone, an Old grey- fated-one" and the other: "That's stored away embroidered towels A tree, when young is easy to V haired man,' and there stand yours." And another one added: in the chest . . . Whatever bend, "motionless girls with washing- "Do not quarrel girls, in vain; "sotnik" had wished for, and what Swayed, by false differences, it paddles and wet clothes in their is such a handsome prince your ie had worried about, that came will wither in the end." equal? He Is fated to our miss." to him but of a clear sky. Not ‚hands. Are they girls, or per- Lift your branches- to the. sum. Йк$'Ь?Р8 mermaids who have swum Orisia blushed. "You must be contemplating long, he called Ynu aliens, in alien land -^born; tmt 'to wash shirts for their out of your mind, Paraska," she Orisia to himself. She entered, F or your old life do not mourn. onder-water king, who lives in a says "Did. you not hear what he red as a cherry. Stretch new roots Шо ѓеЧ"'Іг` бг^т crystal palace, under the water? said to grandpa?" "Here, Orisia, is a suitor for Grow whole again in united toil. Ш%Ті is perhaps, he -himself, who She felt sorry, and does not you! Is he acceptable to you or WALTER MICHAELSON. No. 49 UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1936 Ж 8 f ч - WHO CONTROLS YOUR RUSSIAN... RUTHENIAN... POTPOURRI ARCHIPENKO HAILS THE INSURANCE MONEY UKRAINIAN...? W# By Burma-Capelin Шпига (Con tinned) The 'oldest method of organizing Special Note to the Readers of an insurance enterprise was to 1 -Among our people in the old : Ukrainian Weekly 'Art Just Coasts on the East Coast' -make the insured contribute the .country, there is not one folksong It has been a source of great By Alfred Frankenstein funds necessary to manage the .in which the terminus' " is used. pleasure to me to coq#uet the - business and to pay the obliga- That, is the best proof how "Potpouri" column for the readers .Alexander Archipenko believes tions as they fall due. popular the. termt'TJkraina" be- of the Ukrainian Weekly. My in the West Coast The famous зќ?: -WHetti the corporate form of. , came and to what-degree it over- hope is that my thoughts, my Ukrainian sculptor, who is in San. doing business became popular, - shadowed the old term "Rus'." observations have been ..of some Francisco to give two lectures at - .with the development of сарі-', profit, particularly to Srjirmfotpit- the San Francisco Museum of Art,. talism, this form was applied to Muscovy Appropriates the Name youth. Many of the ideas cx: declares there is more artistic - :the organization of life insurance. "Bosnia" pressed have been perhaps some- what unorthodox or novel; the creativeness on the Pacific slope :Life insurance then became like than in New York, and that it any other kind of business: the There was also another reason, reason for that lay in^jthe fact why the term "Ruff "disappeared that I have tried to mince no works faster and to better effect ` .entrepreneurs would collect money so rapidly in theil8ttr.and 10th jnecessary to start the business words on subjects about which, Jjbtf^tjKftt^pbwe from a sum-j ; ;aria to^carry it on until the in- centuries.. If has so "do-with the though close study and^pbserva- policy of the TsarfPeter I (called ' "tidns, it was possible }fjjfc me to? . mer's Reaching latі the University' . .sured paid in enough to carry on "the Great"). After the battle ‚OtfcWasWngton^'he said. There,; the" business. After the business arrive at definite conclusions. ^4 was established, whatever remain- . at Poltava (1709s in which the have ever . keptj in . njdnd -the оЙк, class of Ф0..students, there- ed above the carrying expenses Hetman of Ukrain$, Ivan Mazep- struggles, the- difficulties, the weep?' та 1еаз$гЗД5 outstanding 1 pa, and his ally Charles ХП, king perplexing problems of Ukrainian talents^^Ju^.^ weeks these! and provisions for reserves, was 4 considered an income oi the stock- of Sweden, were ^defeated, Tsar youth, and if by holdnessі I have. students did as much as the aver- holders, to be distributed among Peter accepted the very peculiar given expression to some of these; age New York class will do ia -title of the "Emperor and Tsar I have, I feel, spoken for those three years. Perhaps it is be- them as dividends. of all the Russlas" (Imperator inarticulate thousands who, more Gradually it dawned upon the і Tsar Vsyekh Russyei). It means or less helpless and silent, are cause the rush and bustle of the people that the surplus in a life —he proclaimed himself to be the mowed down by grim central metropolis defeats' natural self insurance company was not like a ' successor of the Empire of the forces beyond their control, at expression. At any rate, I find surplus in a commercial—or— —окМЗЇиввіа" (Rus') of Kiev. least as individuals. I reiterate myself coming closer to nature industrial enterprise: it became His idea was to incorporate the my conviction that the problems since taking up my residence in known that the surplus was really Ukraine into his Tsardom and to of Ukrainian boys and girls are California; and I shall not go back an overcharge. It came to be assimilate her with Muscovy into serious and verv real, that the permanently to New York^' considered not fair to distribute one whole. A common religion, only real problems arc those such, overcharges among the church rite, calendar and alphabet which enter the - experience of The artist one of the leaders stockholders. The surplus was as well as the old Slavonic church entf Ukrainian youth—boy or of the modern movement that considered the property of the language was to help the process girl. The way to get at these began 25 years ago in Paris, be- insured, and if it should be re- of blending both nationalities into problems, at just.what they are, turned to anybody, it should be is to patiently get the stories'of lieves America is now 'the art returned to the insured and not one. To the same' end was to these young people! The supreme center of the world.. "Paris is to the stockholders. serve the common state name fact which will come out is that, now played out" he said. "Europe In time companies came to be ^"Rossia" (Россія), introduced by added to those difficulties which lives in the fear of war, and its - organised based upon this princi- Peter the Great, with the adject- face American youth generally, civilization has become too arti- ple that the surplus should be ive "russkyi." Under this arti- the second generation Ukrainian ficial. It is in this country that turned over to the policyholders. ficial term "Rossia" both Muscovy boy or girl has to bear an the future of art lies. But Lon- Such a company is called a mutual and the old "Rus"' (Ukraine) additional strain, a difficulty don remains a bright spot on the life insurance company. The were to become amalgamated. arising out of his or her' being a sort of a "marginal individual." European horizon. England is management of such a company It is highly significant that beginning to awaken to modern- is in the hands of a board of Tsar Peter I did not call his an individual between two directors, but those directors are Empire by the old name 'Пив'." - cultures—the Ukrainian and the ism, after many years of extreme not elected by the stock-holders, He felt quite clearly that it American—with the' consequent conservatism in criticism and. as in a regular joint-stock com- would be impossible to convince conflict of loyalties, allegiances- practice.". pany, but by the policyholders. his people (the Muscovites) as more especially conflicts between Archipenko, who does not be- well as the outside world that variant modes of behavior, variant lieve in copying - nature because Under the usual procedure in Muscovy is "Rus'." Toi everybody definitions of situations. -such mutual life insurance com- "Rus'" was situated to the south copying nature is too easy, panies, every policyholder may compares the art of the sculptor of Muscovy and was identical with My one supreme regret at the, attend the general meeting of the the Ukraine. But an entirely new to that of the musician in re- company, and vote there. He may moment is that, due to -reasons' name—Rossia—that was another of. health, my articles may con- quiring constant technical practice vote in person or by proxy, thing! So a "Rossia" was pro- to keep in trim. He may often occasionally also by mail. tinue to appear only sporadically. mulgated. The foreigners at first Of this fact I wanted to acquaint have as many as a dozen sep- Though in principle this looks wondered, some of them (e. g. the readers of the Ukrainian arate works in progress at the like an organization based upon France) even protested in a Weekly, My health has not been same moment, he remarked. In broad democratic principles, in diplomatic way. Finally, however in any too good a state for some the.past 30 years he has produced practice this works in such a way they became used to that term time; it fluctuates and it may ` that only a very small section of and started to use it themselves, over 1000 pieces of sculpture, and be that it shall not go below its has recently invented a machine, the mass of policyholders attend for Muscovy now united with norm now, in which case the such meetings or vote at them. Ukraine ("Rus'" of old) in one articles will continue regulary. called the "Archipehtura," , to As a rule a handful of them Empire. They used it in the form Faithfully. illustrate movement in painting attend such meetings and pass "Russia"—the more that the old and the plastic media upon the business, including the' "Russia" (Rus') of South was Burma-Capelin. election of the board of directors. incorporated in that Empire. (San Francisco Chronicle, Gradually Western Europeans October . 7th, 1088.) The organization of fraternal (and with them Americans) lost POSSIBLY A NEW FAMINE benefit orders, such as the Ukra- the distinction between "Russia" IN UKRAINE inian rational Association, con- of old and "Russia" (Rossia) of stitutes further improvement upon the new pattern as well as between 'In claiming that everything THE TEST this scheme of organization. The "Russia" proper and Muscovy. points to U. S. S. R. being faced A mighty Ukrainian Prince once fraternal benefit order is composed They started to consider both ` with a famine as calamitous as not of'loose disconnected members, saw many beggars on a pilgrimage countries (Muscovy and Ukraine) that experienced in 1933, "Svenska and ordered -them to be called but of members organized into as one—just one big, large im- Preseen" states that "growing branches, i. e. local groups, each into his presence. He -saw that mense Russia ... A complete bitterness is being displayed by among them were old and young, with a governing body of its own, political mix-up was thus ac- the peasantry, against the Govern- charged with the duty of collect- complished. sick, crippled and healthy, and ing the dues and forwarding them ment's policy of storing enormous he thought to himself: "Just wait to the central organization. Such ' quantities of cereals against a and I shall test you." a branch elects for the general The Origin of the Term "Rossia" possible outbreak of hostilities in He told his servants to dig convention of such a central the Far Easf in the meadow a ditch six feet organization, a delegate to. re- Here is the place to explain the The harvest in certain .districts etymological origin of the term deep end six feet wide, and then present the local, to decide the has fallen as much as fifty per he said to the beggars: policies of the central organization, "Rossia." It is nothing else than cent below the estimated figure. and to elect the central board of one more variety of the old root The crops in the Volga' regions "Listen, beggars! You must directors. "Rue' "; a Byzantine—Greek form all,! one after .another, і jump used by the Chancery of the are said to have suffered from a severe drought. Deprived of across this ditch. And remember: Thanks to this organization of Patriarchs of Constantinople for whoever jumps across it receives branches and to its representative the designation of old "Rus'." cereals, the peosants have been a ducat (gold coin) and whoever system, the members nave a real After the complete destruction indiscriminately slaughtering their falls in the ditch receives twenty- and effective voice in the manage- of. Kiev by -the Tartars (1240 cattle, and thereby causing an five strokes." ment of the organization. The. A. D.) the province of the unprecedented shortage of meat." Of course, every beggar tried control of the .insurance funds Metropolitans of Kiev split in two his hardest Well, naturally, those is here actually in the hands of .—one in the South with the see the dues-paying members. who were weak and crippled feu ` at Halich (in Galicia), later again the former Empire of "Rus'." into the d'tch and those who in Kiev, and another- one with Finally the boundaries cf their were able-bodied idlers jumped the 'see at Moscow. This meant metropolitan provinces were across. Then the Prince, gave to JOBLESS that, the religious or^an'-ation established in accordance with each . one ўі' ?those who fell in, followed the political division of the boundaries between the Grand-. a ducat: duchy of М'""чпг? and tbe.Grmd- ,ѓ the old Empire of "Rus'" to the Уои," said he, "evidently.'are ЧИЌЙ Without a job, but hopeful ; North (Muscovy) and to the South duchy .of Lithuania and "Rus'." to Roaming ' through the streets The Chancery o? tho І?кМгг"ђч ЧМяЧ and unable work." Looking -for work everywhere - ("Rus'" properju As however both But to tbose who successfully metropolitans derivrd their title о? Constantinople recognised this jumped across, he said:- But treading hopeless beats. from the- first metropolitans in division as well as the right of -both metropolitans to use 'he c^Snt you, rascals, parasites, Kiev, so both of them retained : r are -ЙЙе to junp mm not to Worn-out, tired, blue, disheartened -- the --traditional title of "Metropo- title'- of th^ ?'теігороІЧ"П o Days of -search gone by -litane `-of oRtw'-" ^- {Metropolyt ` "Rue'," whichjy;last. ;'WOwL.,- .ft?. work. . Boys, give.^^Bbwpa ‚„еасд We sink at last and give up hope Chancery ue^wMts'Oreefc'TdHir. Rusy). "They' d4 it the more ; ; f ^ tv. -i 'r, f'-'^frvest field and And no more do we try. since every one of them claimed. —"Rossia." tt 0 e MARY SARABUN. the supremacy over the whole of I (To be Continued)' ' put them to work." UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 5. 1936

WANTED: VOLUNTEERS THE DANGE: ANCIENT AND RESOLUTION PASSED BY -mm ж mm The Sports Division of the UKRAINIANS IN POLAND CON- By IVM Franko Ukrainian Youth's League of North America is interested in MODEM CERNING COMMUNIST DANGER EXCERPTS Once upon a time there was a hearing from all Ukrainian basket- (Continued) (3) cat Murko and a dog Burko, who ball fans so that definite plans can' be made for the coming lived in adjoining village homes. The Archbishop of Trier at- The Central Committee of the Although cats and dogs usually season. In the November 7th Ukrainian National Democratic hate the very sight of each other, issue of .the Ukrainian Weekly tends, for the Germans, and the there appeared an article entitled Bishop of Luxumburgh comes to Organization passed a resolution yet.Murko and Burko were the on October 10th, concerning the best of friends for a long, long "Attention Basketball Fans," represent the Grand Duchy. The time. written by John S. Billy, Basket- religious procession, carrying situation in Ukraine under Soviet One day, during harvest time ball Director of the League, which crosses and banners .and attended and the destructive work which whan everyone was out in the stressed the importance of co- by three hundred singers, comes the Commintern is doing to the fields, Murko was wandering operation and asked all interested first, chanting St. Willibrod's Ukrainian population outside the about the yard and yowling most to volunteer to help. Although hyms. Next comes a band of mis- boundaries of the Soviet Union. dismally, because he was very some teams and volunteers re- oeilaneous instruments playing, as The resolution stated that: hungry. For early that morning sponded, the results are not what they should have been. More a rule, the old German air, 1. From the beginning of the when his mistress had left for the "Adam Had Seven Sons." Then fields she had forgotten to leave teams and volunteers are want- military occupation up to the ed . . . particularly those in the follow the dancers. " Many of present day the policy of Red him food,—that meant that he them are young and full of life had suffer until evening, the poor Eastern Division. Moscow aims directly and- cat . . . The forest with its prey There must be many basketball and health, and they dance for systematicaly at the complete was too distant, and from the teams in the country. Surely, amusement, but many are old and political, economical and straw-thatched roof of the house the greater majority of them feeble, or broken in health, and would be interested in playing cultural subjugation and no chirpings of birds came forth; dance in hope of recovery or of denationalisation of the Ukra- so what was he^to do? teams of different cities. Many escaping some trouble. But they teams will win beautiful trophies. dance all alike. There three inian Nation. "Eh,"" he thought, "yonder in All teams are requested to get the neighbor's yard there stands steps front, and two steps back, 2. The Bolsheviks have caused, in touch with John S. Billy, 110 five steps are thus taken to make by their economic policy and a little storehouse on whose roof West 7th Street, N. W., Barber- some pigeons have their nests. ton, Ohio. Also, all interested one in advance. This becomes especially by the enforcement I remember casting my eye there persons who are willing to help. especially trying at the flight of of rural collectivisation, an once before and seeing two nests, For more detailed information steps mounting the little church acute state of famine in containing a flock of the cutest refer to the November 7th isue where the procession ends in front Ukraine. As a result of this little dovelings you eVer saw, so of the Weekly. of the shrine of the great saint. policy millions of peasants fat and smooth like little pillows. THEODORE LUTWINIAK, There are sixty steps leading to have perished, and hundreds My, but one of' these dovelings the church, but it takes three of thousands have been deport - would certainly hit the spot now! Publicity Manager, Basket- hundred eteps to reach the top ed to the Arctic regions, to But as ill luck would have it, ball Division, U. Y. L. of N. A. Burko keeps watch. over that for the final time. It is said that Turkistan or to Siberia, under storehouse. Even though we are those who fall from weariness or the pretext of their opposition friends, yet I'm sure that he old age, must be dragged out of to collectivisation. According won't let me get near it. There's THE LOAD the way of the coming waves of to recent information, mass no use of even talking to him A peasant, driving to a fair, dancers, or they would be trampled reprisals against the peasants about it. He's too faithful a noticed a burdened woman to death. The procession although in Ukraine under Soviet are hound!" trudging by. covering less than a mile, is said being conducted, and the But as the day passed by, "Have a seat, mother," said the to take more than five hours to danger of a new famine is Murko's hunger grew worse. So driver. "Let me take you to the pass. Some critics see in the danc- again probable. he began to think how he could fair as that's where I am bound." ing procession of Schternach mere- manage to get Burko leave his The gentle woman took her seat ly the survival of the Spring dance 3. By the mass deportation of yard, for at least a short while. in the wagon - and the driver of the heathen races, but at any Ukrainian peasants, the Soviet And since an empty stomach, as noticed that although there was a Government is conducting a you know, makes the brain work rate, it invests an importance that lot of room inside the wagon the would otherwise be lacking. policy of denationalization of very fast, a few minutes later woman kept holding the bundle the Ukrainian territory, be- found Murko speeding towards Burko,. as if carrying some very in her lap. In America, the Washington cause it is being colonized by good news. "Why don't you place the Post, and several forms of the foreign elements introduced bundle inside the wagon, mother?" by the Government. Such a "Listen, Burko," he called out Barn Dance became fashionable yet from afar. "I've got some asked the driver. towards the end of the 18th cen- policy of diluting the popula- very good news for you. I was" "God bless you, my kind man," tury. These constitute our only tion aims at the unification just sitting outside the village on answered the elderly woman, "but national dances. of the Red Empire by I don't think it is right to burden Russification. The Soviet a high linden tree—right at the Today, in countries south of the crossroads by the cross, you know the horse any more." Authorities are still conduct- where—when suddenly I see a Equator, savages, with the sweat ing a systematic extermination dog running towards me from the glistening on their chocolate of the nationally conscious neighboring village, and carrying bodies, gather in the steaming elements in order to stamp forests, to perform ceremonial in his mouth the longest piece of any freshly-turned earth nor out the independence move- sausage you ever saw, so long stone, not to speak of the sausage dances under the delirious leader- ment of the population; but that both its end were trailing itself. And so the poor dog had ship of grotesquely masked and behind him in the dust. He as can be seen, the Ukrainian to return home, downcast. Passing painted witch doctors. Not un- national spirit is not lessened dashed up to the linden on which Murko's yard he turned into it frequently, in spite of the in- I was waiting to catch some prey, in this way but rather its to reproach his friend for fooling tervention of the government resistance is hardened. looked around him carefully to him so. In turning the corner troops these ceremonial dances see if anyone was looking, and of the house he suddenly saw then quickly dug a hole in the are climaxed by human sacrifices. 4. The Seventh Congress of the Murko licking his chops and In Tibre, the Abysinians, dance ground, shoved the sausage into talking to himself: Commintern, which took place ІЦ covered it up with earth, the Chestee step in a circle, keep- in Moscow in July and August pushed a stone over it to mark "What a fool this Burko! Most ing time with the music by shrug- 1935, put forward new tactics the spot, and then sped away. likely he's running around that ging their shoulders and working for Communists who are work- Can you beat such luck! I could linden tree, his tongue hanging out, sniffing furiously for the their elbows back and forward. ing outside the U. S. S. R. barely wait until that dog dis- Immediately after the Seventh appeared from sight, so appetizing sausage, not knowing what a tine The Gonds, a hill tribe of Hin- a smell did that sausage give out dinner I am about to have of this dustan, dance generally in pairs Congress of the Commintern But what of it. I could not get luscious little doveling." with a shuffling step, the eyes on a new wave of Soviet apta- at it because the stone was too A sudden pain clawed upon the ground, and the arms close tion appeared in Ukraine under heavy. So maybe, you would, my Burko's heart when he heard how to the body. They are also very Poland. Its purpose is to comrade . . ." false a friend Murko was to hiit. disintegrate the Ukrainian He decided to get his revenge. fond of dancing the Bison hunt, with one of the dancers wearing national organism and make But Murko had not yet finished Setting his chops into a smile he it less resistant to Bolshevik speaking when Burko leaped to approached the straw-roof beneath the .`'кіп and horns of the animal. his fee.t and like a whirlwind ideas. The Bolsheviks push Murko and said: Among the Zulus, the grand their men into the Ukrainian dashed out of the village to get "Murko," Murko! You think dances are merely accompani- that sausage beneath the linden that you fooled me, that I be- political, economical, cultural ments to the colloquial war and and sporting institutions, and tree. He too, the poor fellow, lieved your fairly-tale about that hunting songs. never had much to eat; meat he sausage? Well, you were fooled, even into . their religious rarely even smelled; while a for I was sitting Behind the fence The Bushmen dance in their bodies, where their agents sausage was something that all the time and saw how you low-roofed homes, supporting conduct disintegrating work. appeared only in his dreams. And stole the dovelings from your themselves by sticks, one foot re- Where Bolshevik influence is here was a sausage right near storehouse. But why did you have maining motionless, and the other strong. Communist elements by, like a godsend, buried and to do it stealthily? Why didn't you covered with a rock no less. No dancing in a wild and irregular come out into the open and tell me what you wanted? Do manner, while their hands are oc- conduct anti-religiouB propa- wonder the ground fairly flew I have to watch over the dovelings beneath his flashing feet. This was yet? That's not my job. Really, cupied with sticks. ganda and organize Communist just what Murko has hoped for. there's many a time I felt like The Australians and Tasmanians cells. The most violent cases Without wasting a moment's time tasting some doveling meat my- in their dances called "Carrobor- occured in the villages and he climbed upon the storehouse, self. In fact, I feel like that ies," imitate the frog and kan- towns (here were enumerated picked out the plumpest doveling, right now. Be a good fellow and names of places where Com- seized it in his teeth, and then garoo. The hunt of the Emu is get me one too, and you can take also performed, with a number of munist attacks took place) quickly bore it away to his yard. another one for yourself also." which resulted in sanguinary There he climbed upon the straw- men passing slowly around the covered roof of the house, gloat - Murko became very happy when fire and throwing their arrows conflicts. ingly put the doveling down be- he heard these words, for, as it about so as to imitate the move- is well known, an evu one is Taking all these points into fore him, and began to purr ments of this animal's head while consideration the Central Com- happily. always glad when he learns that one whom he has regarded as feeding. mittee warns the Ukrainian Meanwhile Burko had reached honorable is as much a thief as In Madagascar, when the hus- people of the Bolshevik danger the linden and was searching for himself. So off he leaped to greet bands are absent on war, their and calls upon them to the sausage, sniffing, scratching Burko, and in flash Burko seized УЛУЄЗ` dance for a great portion organize an effective resistance the ground, dashing back and him and tore him to bits. of the day, believing that this against the destructive work - forth—but not even a trace of Translated by S S. inspires the men with courage. of Communism.