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(•.•І. -Л -J .r""..iu цд •.'•- g • No. 52 JERSEY CITY, N. J., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1935 VOL. Ш

YOUTH'S LEAGUE TO ISSt'E UKRAINIAN WEEKLY XO AP­ BOOKS ABOUT UKRAINE WHAT TO GIVE? PEAR ON SATURDAYS Beginning with January, 1936, If you ao not receive next F71- j the Ukrainian Youth's League of The approach of the Ukrainian Christmas Holidays day your issue of th.e Ukrainian 3 North America will issue periodi­ and New Year brings once more to the mind the per­ Weekly, dp not bealarmed. You j cally (through the medium of its plexing question—what to give? will receive it the following day •; Ukrainian Cultural Center) to ita It is a question that is most coaducive to head­ —чіп Saturday. For, beginning ' member clubs a series of publica­ with the first issue of 1036, the, • tions in the English language aches, yet its happy solution leaves one with a most delightful feeling of satisfaction. There are few pleas- Ukrainian Weekly will be publish­ dealing with Ukraine. ed every Saturday, instead of j$ri- : The first will be THE UKRAIN­ urea as keen ao those evoked by the knowledge that, days as heretofore. IAN QUESTION by Lancelot Law- your gift was a pleasant and welcome surprise to the The main purpose of this change ton (reviewed in Oct. 18, 1935 is­ recipient. It is therefore well worthwhile to consider Js to allow more apace in the sue of Ukrainian Weekly). Svoboda for the Ukrainian JVeek- J Only one such booklet or book the question very carefully. Anyone who has the tiniest spark of originality ly, space which the Friday issue . will be sent to a club. There will with its many adverthiementsj Ще* I be no charge for it. The only within himself will not he content to give something not permit. Besides the usual 5 obligation that each club will that every store window and show case is displaying, overflow from the Ukrajn|an ' incur in receiving such publica­ that thousands upon thousands of others are giving» On Weekly, there will aiso appear ;ex- ; tion will be to have it read and discussed at its meetings. Where the contrary, he will strive to make his gift distinctive, pressely fox the youth a special j possible, the book will be sent one that will bear the щагк of his individuality and at section in the Ukrainian language, jj in care of the delegate represent­ the same time be a source of pleasure to the object of The ідаш p'Urpqse of tffls. latter in- ing the club at the last Ukrain­ novation will be to encourage our . his beneficence. young people to read in (he U- ian Youth's Congress held in De­ Still, in this period of mass production the average troit under the auspices of the кгаДпіап. language. League. person armed with only a slim pocketbook finds it a . » In taking this step, the execu­ very difficult task to exceroise any real originality in tive board of the League wants the purchasing of his Christmas gifts. SOMETHING ЩТОШ^.-РОІК to better propagate knowledge Yet for us, Americans of Ukrainian descent, tjhe "м.тас P#)WES among the American-Ukrainian matter is not at all so difficult. For we have what might -The. present tr^al of. twejve youth of their background through aptly be called a virgin field of possible Christmas gifts ypung Ukjrainiah students» ^elud­ the medium of works published ing twjo girls, in \ytyraaw, Ppia#d by authorities and experienced —embracing the various aspects of Ukrainian eulturey on the charges of complicity m writers. such as Ukrainian embroidery and handiwork, paintings, the aas^ssinatiofl" last yi Watch for your copy of THE etchings, Ukrainian song books, and finally, publications tb*. FoliSb Minister Pjerai UKRAINIAN QUESTION! in both the Ukrainian and E&gUsb languages аЬриЛ the evoked a great' deal of анодний r Ukrainian people, their life, culture, and aspirations. from aU>par^s'pf EJujope. ', A -rather unusual , jpotg ap­ YOUTH TODAY Most of these articles can be obtained very easily peared recently concerning - this and at reasonable prices. Others, however, Цке paint­ trial Ід the jpoteh-press. Tjhe INTERESTED IN CIVICS? ings and etchings, are more difficult to obtain; but won't organ of the Polish radical na­ In order to make Jersey City be if there is a large demand for them. tionalists, "Prosto z laosta,". .re- : public-health conscious, a mock cent ly published an article "Tho j There is no difficulty, however, in buying books : trial of its citizens and officials moat important of imp^rb&atf^f- was staged, at which citizens and about Ukraine, for not only are they plentiful but cheap fairs," concerning the ^riaj( epd ' officials alike' were to be arraign­ as well. At the present time when the efforts of our the Ukrainian cause, declaring . ed for laxity hi public health progressive American-Ukrainian youth are ^directed to­ that the just settlement of .the matters. To advertise properly latter is not possible by means the trial the school authorities wards the gaining of better knowledge of their Ukrain­ were asked to distribute tickets ian background and heritage and acquainting Americans of assimilation or colonization. for the trial among school chil­ •"We, Polish nationalists," .*he dren with instructions to turn with the same, a Christmas gift of these books will be article runs, "are duty-bo.ujkl to them over to their parents. The a particularly timely one. Those written in Ukrainian recognize that there is a Ukrain- j children did not turn the tickets language range from short stories and poetry to the іай people an.d that they live., and j to their parents, but used them recently published three volume икгаіпіад 'Encyclopaedia fight for their freedom. We ntyst • themselves. An hour before the understand and value the heroic . trial was to begin they had taken —a set which no Ukrainian home should be without .one, strivings of the Ukrainian people '•_ over 1,700 or more of the 2,200 Those in the English language, though comparatively who for himchieds of years h^ve '. .seats in the school. The officials tried to 9eod the children home, few in number, embrace a wide selection. A. postcard no free country of their own, . but the children refused. The' to the Svoboda bookstore will quickly* bring a list of who although russified, polonized, teachers tried to make the chil­ them and their prices. In fact, the bookstore is even and rent apart, exist neverthelees." dren leave, but the children re- action! • fused. When older men and wo­ willing to send, postpaid, a package of these hooks wrap­ No^le sentiments, indeed, but men came to the hall, there were ped as a Christmas gift to anyone the buyer directs. if they wece only translated, into no seats. The trial was then ad-, Furthermore, in view of the present extraordinary action." journed. interest among our youth in Ukrainian songs, both choral " Some people admired the chil­ and instrumental, a gift of a Ukrainian song hook would: dren for their interest in civics, JUBILEE PRESENTATION OF but an inquiry revealed that the prove not only distinctive but a welcome gift as well. children had told their parents A Christmas gift that any young lady would ap­ UKRAINIAN OPERETTA they themselves were going to the. LVTW (Western Ukraine under trial—in order to get out of home­ preciate is some piece of wearing apparel, such as a Poland )^-Repprts received b«re work. blouse, designed in the Ukrainian motif and decorated " from Stanislaviw indicate that the with Ukrainian embroidery. Formerly such a gift was jubttee (WOQth) presentation, of WHEN DOES EDUCATION not yery practicable because it did not conform to. pre­ the modern revised operetta "Za- porozbets za Duoayem" (J5apo- END? vailing fashions. Today, however, Ukrainian styles and Writing on Hartley Kemball rozhian Beyond the Danube) in Cook's article "Adult Education embroidery have been modernized and are ao stylish and that city was a success, both at Sea: A Difficult Problem." beautiful that leading stores are selling them. artistically and. financially. The published in "The International These are but few of the suggestions that ifright operetta had been scheduled to Quarterly of Adult Education," be presented in Lviw but at the London, Mr. Allan Monkhouse. help our young American-Ukrainian in determining— last moment the local Polish au­ says (in "The Manchester Guard­ what to give? j thorities interfered, and it was ian Weekly"): By following them we will not only show to a good therefore transferred to Stanis­ "You may take it as a platitude-, laviw. Leading operatic artists that education should be a life­ advantage our sense of fine discrimination and' original^ .. long process, but platitudes may ity but we will, also aid materially in spreading knowl­ appeared in it, including • Maria be endowed with vitality. You. edge. aOQttfc. Ukraine her^ № America, and, аер<тсЦу;: щ • Sokil "in the role of Odarka, Mi­ cannot crowd all you need Cor chael Holynsky as Andriy, and the world's battle into the years, introducing^, into American life some of the finier.-awects і Martini as the Sultan. The new of childhood and youth." of' Ukrainian culture, thought and ideals. -. - . ^v - scene in the Sultan's palace, ar- ' Here, then, is a concrete method of putting m&> ranged by Roman Kupchinsky, won (Today's Ubralnlfiii' Weekly Including actual life some of our fine and oft-repeated resolutions. high praise from the critics, as Feu Pel Column is concladed rangement by composer Ludkevich.. In the Si(i!)(.(!її) So let's see how much they are really worth. UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 37, 193& No. 52

died зо recently that scholarly journals are still recounting bis ^Шші^Зигу^ of Ukrainian Literature achievements .and lamenting his miserable fate in the closing years By ABTHUB PBUDDEN COLEMAN, M. A., PEL D. of his life. - Department of Eaet European Languages, Colombia University Educated in the University of (Concluded) )Щ~.' to the City «f Mew York Kiev, Hrushevsky began his career (в) in .1894 as a teacher in the' Uni­ Wm versity of Lviw. Since this, was 'JfltJiddreee delivered at the "Even­ Why is it'bis poor heart is swoon- censor because of his Ukrainian during the Austrian occupation,. ing ot Ukrainian Literature." held - mg 9>> sympathies. Hrushevsky was allowed to lec­ JO Scfaermerhom Hall, Colombia When ш-all the world there seems In his poetry .Franko began by^ ture to his students in the' U- 'tftuverslty, November 22, 1936.) tb be no'sorrow? imitating Pushkin and Goethe and~- kralnian language. He reorgan­ Heine, and his works, like Shev- Sg^iPanteleymon Kullsh How shall I find this out? ized among bis students a.scien­ chenko's, were filled with a burn­ tific and cultural society and de­ Ask піт..Л dare not. ing love of freedom.. He turned " The year which was marked by - Don't you see how furrowed is veloped this nucleus eventually jSthe death of Ukraine's greatest his hand to every conceivable kind into a real Academy of Ukrainian his brow? ; of writing, from spinning tales for poet saw the emergence of other What is 4t worries him? No one Learning. His activities as. a po­ Juterary figures. In 1861 there* children to translating from the can know." • litical leader, which led him.; to , began to be published in Kiev a 'great masters . of r-tne . races. the Presidency of the Ukrainian journal Osnova^ whose moving One other whom Bukovina in­ And -heL "touched nothing that. "Republic in 1917, have no place spirit Panteleymon Kulish (1819- fluenced, though she belongs, strict­ he did not adorn.". The most im-~ in this survey. His achievements 1897) belonged to. the school of . ly speaking, to the circle of Shev- portant collection of his works as as a scholar have, and it is Ukrainian leaders whose concern, chenko and-Russian Ukraine, was far as content is concerned.'is his through those that he will live. was 'the clarification of inter-Slav " Maria Markovich, who wrote un­ Moses. His tales'of Ukrainian ~ His History of Ukraine, from relations, especially _of the rela­ der the pen name Marko Vovchok. life are equally famous sis are -" prehistoric times to the end' of tions of Ukrainians • to the other Bom in 1834' of a noble family his translations from Goethe, the period of Bohdan Khmelnlt- £Uavs who were their neighbors.'.' that had lived for generations in Heine, Pushkin, Hauptmann, Su- sky, nine large volumes, and his '"They were interested, moreover,. Ukraine, she became interested in dermann, Ha v 1 і c e k> Machar, History of Ukrainian Literature . in, substantiating scientifically the the work of the Brotherhood of Vrehlicky, and numerous others. in five volumes, stand as his monu­ •«intention that the Ukrainian is Cyril and Methodius during her Today Franko is considered, after ment. The final volume of his Indeed a separate nationality. residence in- Chernivtsi. The folk Shevchenko, the greatest national History of Ukraine was written T£ulish had\ used in his Notes on -life of Ukraine fascinated her and poet of Ukraine. His stories, his: by Hrushevsky after the Great "South Bnssia (1856-7) the phonetic ;she determined to write down her historical novels, his poems, all War when he had returned from spelling of the Ukrainian popular impressions of it. Her first book, served toward the two-fold end: an exile's wanderings abroad to Speech for the first time,'a usage Folk Stories, was published in to create through art a picture' his native Kiev, at that time 4ubbed "Kulishiwka" which re­ 1858 by Kolish. The tales were of life and to arouse the Ukrain­ under the government of the So­ minds one of the "Bernolacina" j>f - so well received, even by Russian ian people to an appreciation of viet. Though at first it appeared щШйІ Kolish was ardent in. critics who judged them by Tur- their heritage and a conscious­ that the Ukrainian scholar had - his efforts to promote the eman- geniev's translation, that a second ness of their destiny. One of his composed his difficulties with the ' ~cipation of the peasantry every­ series appeared after the author's most often, .quoted poems is the strange rulers under whom he where and of whatever national­ death (Which occurred In 1907) in "Eternal Revolutionist" which we found himself,'events proved that ity, whether Russian, Polish or 1910. Two' types of stories are translate below: he had not. He found himself Ukrainian. He and his colleagues to be found In .Marko Vovchok's suddenly deported to various might have enjoyed a long period works: those that-arise from the Eternal Revolutionist parts of the Soviet realm, living of uninterrupted freedom had mrt life of the peasantry and those "A revolutionist eternally everywhere in the most pitiable the Polish Insurrection of 1863" that deal with exploits celebrated Man's spirit, driving him to fight misery. Finally, blind and ex­ projected the problem. of min­ in national- songs. The former are For progress, liberty and right. hausted with living, he was al­ orities violently into the' conscl- her besC They are such faithful It lives, it can not die. lowed to spend his last days in 'Siisness of the tsar. At once the pictures of- what the author saw Not popish, torture halls the watering place he had loved • : Imperial Government entered upon with her own- eyes that they have Nor tsarist-prison walls, * in his youth. His remains were "impolicy of suppression of. every-- earned her the right to be called Nor warlike'mustering, buried in ' Kiev..". thirig Ukrainian. This policy Nor cannon's' blustering, tbe - Harriet Beecher Stowe of U- Hrushevsky's prime concern as jreached its culmination in the kraine. 'Though Marko Vovchok Nor spies, however brave, nkase of 1876 which forbade the Have ever forced that spirit to a student was to explore the ori­ set an example of good Ukrain­ gins of Ukrainian culture and to publication of any work in U- ian prose, her influence was the grave! krainian which might react fav­ prove beyond the shadow of a neither so fruitful nor so lasting It has not died. Nay, forward doubt that the drama of the U- orably upon the Ukrainian "people. as might have been expected. After 1863, Lemberg, enjoying goes! krainlan people was not simply freedom under Austria, again be­ Though born a thousand years an episode in the greater drama came the spiritual capital of Michael Drahomaniw ago of the Russian race. He insisted Ukraine. '" If this survey were concerned "Twos not til] yesterday or so always, and adduced citations tq with the organization of the move­ It flung aside its swaddling clothes prove it, that the .Ukrainian was a separate race; that to consider, Oslp Fedkovich ment for general enlightenment And stood erect and walked alone. among the Ukrainian1 folk, the Now hast'ning toward the rising moreover, the civilization of Kiev \ 3) As the .pioneer figure in Rus- movement which Shashkevich sun, In the 11th and 12th centuries, . sian. Ukraine had been Kotlyarev- dreamed and Shevchenko pro­ With trumpet voice it cries and the civilization which derived sky and in Polish Ukraine Shash- phesied, we should be obliged to To millions, and they rise, from it, anything but unique and -kevich, so now was Osip Fedko- consider at this point the varied Those millions, follow and rejoice: truly "South Russian," never "Rus­ , vich (1834-88) the pioneer lit­ work of its foremost practical They know that spirit's voice! sian," would be an unscientific erary figure in Bukovina, Ruman­ director, Michael Drahomaniw operation. Upon this conviction ian Ukraine. Most of his lyrics You hear that spirit everywhere, was reared the edifice of Hrushev­ (1841-95). It was Drahomaniw, In smoky peasant cot, "sprang from the deep and per­ a-native of Poltava district, who sky's work. sistent longing for his homeland 'Mongst workmen, at the bench provided a program for the U- or shop, Our survey would not be com­ that possessed Fedkovich during krainlan rebirth, through his work plete without brief mention of 'the years when he served on dis­ Wherever misery and tears are as teacher and publicist not only there; those men who are still living and tant fronts in the Austrian army. within the borders of Ukraine it­ who have won for themselves a Their innate longing is hard to And when its voice rings out, self but later, after 1876, In Tears vanish, misery is put to permanent place in Ukrainian lit­ carry over into a translation, but Switzerland and in Bulgaria. erature. The two most illustrious it is just that longing, truly Slav, rout, Ivan Franbo Strength is generated, and the will of these are Bohdan Lepky and which, has made the poems of Alexander Oles. Fedkovich so beloved Of the U- To hide your own-distress, but still A study of the energetic and To wi» for those who follow you kraihian folk wherever they may prolific Drahomaniw, . however, Bohdan Lepky be found. Here is a typical one: A better fate, when they the fight would lead us too far afield. We renew. pursue the direct line of Shev­ Lepky, born in 1872, is at the Christmas Eve chenko. That line leads us to Revolutionist, the world around, present time professor of Ukrain­ the man who was not only the This spirit, never letting light and ian Literature in the Jagiellonian "Bells are ringing everywhere, most important Ukrainian poet freedom yield University in Cracow. During the * ringing, ringing, since Shevchenko but also the To darkness, nor give up the war he served as director of the All the city in a flood of light fe most significant Ukrainian poet field. society which looked out for the swimming, ever to come out of Western U- Nor suff ring that itself be bound. material needs of Ukrainian pris­ Clear to the barracks rolls the kraine. This was Ivan Franko. The evil edifice goes down, oners and for their education. A echo, Born near the town of Droho- Relentlessly the avalanche rolls good deal of his time was spent Into their dark and quiet waves blch in Eastern Galicia in 1856, on, among the Ukrainians in German of echo flow. Franko received all his funda­ And where in all the world Is prison camps, where he organ­ mental education at the philo­ there a force ized his charges in the cause of Yon soldier in a spray of light is sophical faculty in the university To stop this avalanche's course, - Ukrainian freedom. After the standing, of Lviw. From there he con­ Or drench the flaming ray war Lepky lived several years in Gloomily, against a post as if tinued his studies in Vienna, re­ That marks the dawning day?"_- Berlin, then returned to his native against a coffin. ceiving from that university his Galicia and has been in Cracow Now he lifts his tearful eye to Ph. D. Franko had dreamed of Mtchael Hrushevsky ever since. His works include Heaven, becoming a docent and eventually Ivan Franko was the founder poetry, short stories and longer Seeking the stars, to ask for help a professor of Ukrainian in Lviw, of modern Ukrainian literature,': historical novels, the latter built from them. •; but when be was not accepted Michael Hrushevsky (1866-193*4)" around the heroic exploits of the was the founder of modern U- Kozaks and of such national The stars shine down upon- his for such a position, he began hot-.>«ч яя Mazeppa. Besides these O'litir • if,' ~;;;їч ftnH ОЛГГУІТТ* ОП 1 —vninn Bpbfiiiv^bi*». And with head so brightly. v..і i>-d works ho ішм wi in'... in..ii- Behind c-.c'i !':;::::cj pane, it botes erous literary reviews and mono- so merry... into trouble frequently with the ] temporary scene, for Hrushevsky No. 52 PjgRAINIAN WEEKLY, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27,19Й5 graphs, and edited the works of Shevchenko, of Marko Vovchok and others. We have translated a sample of Lepky's poetry, one Ramblings of a word^bp^^jr that is -particularly well-known because it has been set to music by Lepky's own brother: ENGLISH WORDS IN THE use.lt as a verb. Thus came in­ і бур), and lately when, the ex­ - UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE . - to being the new verb страйку­ ports of meat from Ukraine to The Cranes вати in which probably an Eng­ England had to comply with Eng­ As English democratic institu­ lishman would not recognize the lish methods of packing the word ~ '•• "See there, brother mine, tions Were 'among the oldest in originalif he heard it Still-less bso*n (бакон) became a common Yonder, comrade mine, Europe, and served in many re­ its derivatives, e. g. застрайку­ word of the Ukrainian country- That gray, south-flying host spects models for other countries, вати, to begin a strike. Strike­ aide/ it was natural that adopting those breaker, offered still greater -dif­ Of cranes in moving line. institutions other races also help­ The English cooperative move­ ficulty because of the Ukrainian ment, too, contributed many .words ed themselves freely to the Eng­ aversion of forming composite Croo, Croo, Croo, they cry, lish political terminology. to the Ukrainian language, and' In stranger lands we die, words especially when component the average Ukrainian co-operat- elements are long, but a happy ist is conversant even with such Above yon sea before we glide, BORROWINGS PROM ENGLISH solution was discovered in leaving Our wings shall lifeless lie. terms as: Rochdale plan, Owen- : POLITICS .the strike in the English form ism, ftc (рочдельска система^©!* Into our sight, then out, and translating breaker by a' овенізи)с- il«3£ Thus the Ukrainians adopted short Ukrainian " monosyllable. As they cross those trackless the parliament (парламент) and Thus we got страйколом. a per­ Transportation by land and-Sea. lanes-,- witlr it Its derivatives, such as: fect' word, though it is evidently gave the Ukrainian language many . Fading, ^flashing,., .'til a cloud parliamentarism, s parliamentarian a strange half-breed, that .osten­ "words, "due to the high develop If Obscures the flying cranes." (парлнментарйзим, парлямен- tatiously displays its mixed U- ment of these branches of human - тарист); ЬШ (біл, біль, бнл); krainian and English parentage! '* «dtivity'in England. The Ukraltfyi; ; Alexander Oles speaker (cnjKep) and leader (лі­ ians. adopted many names for дер). From England came also'.-other various types of snipe and boats: Oles, born in 1878, lives today The Ukrainians have to thank words, of labor politics: lock-outr steamer, yacht, barge, sloop, cutV&i: in Prague, a city that has offered the Irish-English politics for home- and trade-union (льокавт, трейд- ter, dreadnaught (стімер, nxru£ffi& 'asylum to the oppressed of all rule and boycott (гомруль, бой­ юніон). *^rV баржа, шлюпа, кутер. Дред-~ім? Slavdom since the war. Oles has ко"!1),^ though they- gave those Equally natural was the -adop­ HOT). Then they took the names • > published several collections of words. lather original colorings. tion of the words denoting vari-* for various parts of the ship, such - his works, but unlike the many- Out of the noun boycott they ous peculiarities of English legal as: back-board (бекбор\п.) and formed the verb бойкотувати and administrative institutions, heel (кіль); names of storma^JHHfc* gifted Franko and Lepky, he has such as: lord-mayor, sheriff, per-. turned his hand only to poetry. and the adjectiye £ойкотовий squall -(шквал); shipping-organ^- І (e. g. бойкотова акція). mlt, city, etc. tzation: lloyd (лойд); and of '•„ The first and largest of his works The Ukrainians adopted the is Anxiety and Joy Embraced. The peculiarities of the Eng­ ranks - of sailors: . midshipman •, lish political history Sjave^Jhe U- policeman (полісмен) and with (мічмен!). The word haven (гЧЙЯда? Oles is the minstrel who sings the krainians the words: і то риси his nickname boby (бобі). Вань) has in the Ukrainian Ian- £ beauty' of Ukrainian nature and (Tories), фрі-трейдери (Free­ guage a long history, dating per* %"w who hymns the Ukrainian revival. traders) and чартистк." ..(Char- BUSINESS AND COMMUNICA­ haps baok to the Cossack days, $4 It is of interest to Americans to tlsta). TION Some nautical terms adopted refer note that he has made a trans­ English business and economics to navigation in strict sense: j enriched the Ukrainian'» language ' drift (дріфт), water-line (ватер­ lation into Ukrainian of Long* LABOR-POLUICS before all with the ward business ' fellow's niawatha. We have лінія), trail (трал) and rhumb It was from England that the itself (бізнес, бизнесХ Among (румб). The heavy substances translated a sample of the two Ukrainians received the notion of the first adoptives were/She.names in - the vessel are called баляст kinds of poetry most character­ the quitting of work'*4jyca body of various English W^gfrts and . (ballast), dangerous rocks" in the istic of Oles: of workers with the purpose to measures: inch, foot,' rod, yard; sea кліф and ріф (cliff, reef), force .their employepv'to .Comply (інч, фут, род. ярд). Then the and the ship cook is called кок! "Thou marvellous and wondrous with their demands, *nd with it names of various English coins: : night! the word strike acquired .-in the and monetary values: пені, пенс, Голювати is the Ukrainian Just yesterday a coverlet of snCw Ukrainian language a-fulLeiUzen- стерлінг, шилінг, крона (penny, derivative of the Enelish vert» was sifting down, ship, especially as its. form- makes pence, sterling, crown). Later, haul, "атн" being merely an end­ And now today a change .'..<. so it fully at home amottg!-Ukrainian various forms of-business organ­ ing .denoting the infinitive. '^S warm and bright. црипз. izations which were first tried or - The .Ukrainians have-also many The striker, however, has tr> introduced in England: pool, trust English loan-words in the.ephero 1 With here and there a pushing Опуль, ПУЛ. трест).*' upward from the frozen ground. change slightly its ending,to con­ of land-t'ranspoitelion, ihfiwhich, 1>\ form with the noun-suffixes of the With the introduction of the too, the English .were pioheersi I £ Know this: twill be the same with Ukrainian language" to denote an check system into 'hanking came tramway (трамвай.). ^tunnel OrVif .5 man... agent or doer, and so out of a the word chek, (чек). The bank­ Heflb)V?~wagonefte * (вагонейіа)', j striker became страйкар. The ing system of England introduced lorry "(льора) and, lately, tank Such miracles there be!...Upon a (танк), the last word combining certain day Ukrainian language is not so free the notion of the loan payable in forming verbs out of nouns, on call (онколь). already science of transportation Men everywhere, free and of equal and it had to dress up the nouns From English business came to with the science of war. rank, shall stand considerably before they could Ukraine the word humbug (ryu- er. And seize the visions dreamed along the way." And this one: from possible carers is "(incalcul­ TASK FACING YOUTH able. SUNSET "Make sport of us, ye wind, and Youth of today will become the -Across the garden wall I. see mock us, thunder, It was with great interest that men and women of tomorrow. The disappearing sun—a tree, Unswerving we tread a beckon­ I read the article from "Signal This cliche is however tremend­ A golden branched phantasy ing pathway. Fires" in the Ukrainian Weekly. ously significant. It is tremend­ Now robed in true regality. Our young breasts we raise to Mr. Lund is evidently one of the ously interesting from a psycho­ The soul within me yearns to tell defy the wind's power, intelligent minority who have logical standpoint what- effects Of splendor spread upon the Thunder we deafen with paeans been instrumental in stemming will be apparent from the stress dell, of victory. the tide of misfortune which has of today. As evening comes to cast its spell overwhelmed so many of our And touch the house wherein I youth. Remedies to this problem of Only he wins his goal whn. un­ youth in Its connection to chang­ dwell. moved, presses forward, It is indeed a bitter experience to many a sensitive young fellow ing conditions cannot be given The stream below Is flecked with •Щ Who burns with a passion that handily. It is a process of close gold - "122 never consumes. or girl to find themselves out of observation coupled with shrewd Brushed by a sun now growing school and out on the streets. -1.1 ' -t*^i/*; • Life's carpet spread out lures his Walking from place to place—un­ deduction and application which old. youthful steps onward. wanted. Time drags on wearily, furnish the stimulus, by which Afar the meadow grass is rolled; The crown Death shall weave him each of us can do his share. 'It worry besets the young person . may not be at all possible to In mists the shades of night immortally blooms. out of work, confidence sags. It's unfold "nothing doing." " Such is the I witness great changes quickly. More faith in our cause! Raise Thought arising from an open- Beyond is seen the rugged sky frightful common sense reply of minded, serious penetration of the Where crags and jutted peaks higher our banner! business. rise high ..^ Tears, groans and misgivings... problems of importance which The attitude which is expressed confront us is deeply needed. Above the lowly trees that lie .. begone from the fray! by the author of the article Is PerhaDs if all of us give a little Topped by the rays that soon Life rides a winged charger. one that is thought provoking! He attention to the problems of the will die. Spreading flowers on our way." realizes - the meager opportunities other fellow as expressed by Mr. Swift melts the flush above the facing youth at this time. Yet it On this note it is fitting that Lund we may find that we are rim is doubtful that the America really helping each other. Sym­ Of lofty peaks, while colors dim we bring to a close this brief which .calls Into its scope the pathy with the plight and prob­ Now Join the Mack of sky's dark, sketch of the checkered history thousands of magnates of all de- lems of our fellow men focused brim . /- of the literature of Ukraine. sdption is reckoning - in terms of by means of mass opinion con­ human costs. As night moves cross the in­ (The End) sciously expressed will bring our terim. The lack of social perspective is generation, ahead. « evidenced by the repetitions of M. D. SEMENKTW. the same old slogans; the unbend­ A future lies before us. It is To Julia P. ing apnlication of old methods to what we make it. If we realize Listen to my song's melody — new situations. our potentialities for good and WANT TO KOT ABOUT apply ourselves in-'the manner Hear its joyous exiliency. . Yet despite the difficulties which which we in *«»ur ind^dual vays Listen to it keenly— UKRAINE? appear to be insurmountable, slow see appropriate, it Ml be with a If you have any Inquiry concerning Lest other Bongs bring discord­ progress is being made. The na­ real feeling of satisfaction that the Ukrainian people, write In to "the. ancy. tional government has taken the we will hand over the reins to Ukrainian Cultural Crater (Depart­ Listen to it raptly— first steps forward. the generation yet unborn. ment of the Ukrainian Youth's League Before the last lingering notes The pity of the present situa­ of North America) In care of tt$ **»\ melt away tion is the waste in the productive What do my fellow American- retary, Мій Mary Ann Bodnar, 341 H..J r capacity of youth up to now. The Ukrainians think of these prob­ 17th Street, New York dry. АП And Л"Лчг\- pilrlKP >."• '•• ! Глг lems confronting us? C •• li lilOll. cost in terms of useful produc­ replies will be published In the Ukra* M. M. tion, mental suffering, deviation JOHN ROMANITION, inUn Weekly. • 4 UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1935 No. 52

BITS OF 1NTKREST THE JAY'S WING For every airplane pilot on the By IVANFBANKO airlines there are six persons em­ ployed on the ground to -see that (Translated_hj. ft Ifc-Wssotzky-Kuntz) (Concliuli-il) he makes his trip safely, swiftly о (5) and efficiently. Of course Svietlow won. . . who is dead.. . When Svietlov was executioner at the same time. More than a third of all the I remembered that dreadful dead, the bandits got into the' Contact with him means torture, people in the world live in three night. The storm raged, while I carriage. Who were they? An but life without him із worse still. Astatic countries, namely, China, sat alone, waiting for Volodia. unfamiliar person took the place Cruel, unsolved riddle! India' and Japan. Suddenly I heard several voices, of the driver. Next to me, wrap­ "Till we meet again!" Is it Studies made over a period of the sound of which frightened me. ped in Svietlov's fur coat, sat... possible? Is it possible for us 15 years have indicated that un­ Something must have happened! Sigmunt, who are separated by so many der the average conditions the Volodia came in and with him "We have been watching for graves, to meet again? No, I greatest amount of soil erosion •1W a giant dressed in a fur coat, you for about a month," he said cannot believe. And over those takes place during the months of ..j4th a red beard, a stout red curtly. "Thank God! At last we graves flows a great river of suf­ June, August, and September. face and a flat nose. They were have got you!" fering. Till we meet, again, my Chewing gum is made out of followed by the chief of police Counsel was held further in heart! Come, come, let whatever chicle, the sap of the Sapota апД several other people. Volodia the woods. Gpd! What faces, is left after crossing all those tree which grows principally in , approached me with tears in his figures^ and voices! They were graves, whatever remains alive in Mexico, Guatemala and British eyes. dividing the spoils. There was a our hearts among the ruins—let Honduras. "Maniuss}a!" he said ід a broken terrible fight over me. Sigmunt it live! Let it hope! But, per­ It is customary for Congress to voioA He first kused both palms tried to prove that I was his wife, haps Spring cannot come to us grant a pension, usually $5,000,00 of my hands, then slapped his but there in the Siberian woods anymore? Maybe we buried our annually, to widows of ex-pre­ face with them. his proofs we're of no avail. I was Spring and no power can bring sidents of the United States. "Maniussia, I am a scoundrel! given away to the leader. Every­ it to life again?! It is estimated that the average I loaf you in cards to this...to body called him "Sashka," but no Where are you now? Still at healthy person eats one ton of Nikanor Ferapontovitch!..." one. knew his nationality, religion, the bloody Port Arthur among food, costing about $200.00, every ,'He pointed to the giant who or anything about hum. -1 think the wounded and doomed to death, year. snjiJed and bowed to me. he was a Jew. Before leaving with your own cemetery in your The United States customarily 'Tee, I bad the honpr and фе gang, Sigm,unt whispered to heart? Or perhaps your bones consumes about a fourth of the ure!" he said me: "Don't fear!" were long since washed ashore sugar produced in the world. "What do you people want of by the stormy Yellow Sea? It It is estimated that a normal T One night two weeks later, the ще?" I asked. den of the gang was raided by a might be that you are again in adult inhales and exhales from "Щшиазіа, forget about me'I regiment of soldiers. Sashka was the marshes of Siberia or dirty 400,000 to 650,000 cubic inches of am a scoundrel!" wept Volodja, hanged there and then, while the Chinese towns, thrown out by air during 24 hours. (Its a good "I am n>t worthy of your blue others, including. Sigmunt, who fate, which plays with you like thing that air is free). finger! Spit upon me! I am not brought the soldiers, were put in wkh a discarded broken toy. . . Hamroerfest, Norway, is the yo.urs and you are not.mine!" in chains. I was taken away by My little dove! Where are you? northernmost city in the world. "You shall be very comfortable, the captain. I never saw Sig­ Let your spirit come from over It lies nearly 300 miles north of Marya Karlovna!" said» the giant. munt after that. Night had the far seas in this last hour of the Arctic Circle. "1 ami a Christian, and I like you brought us together and night the Old Year and touch me with Iceland is the country with the With all my heart" had separated us, He forever re­ its wing! Let a breath of real, oldest constitutional government "But % do not know and-do not mained in my memory as a fright­ endless, suffering life come to my in the world. In 1930 it cele­ want you!" I exclaimed indignant­ ful creation of Night. frail, useless existence! Perhaps brated the 1000th anniversary of ly. I will wake up, break my bonds the founding of its Parliament. What happened then, was the and start a new life! The door­ -."It wijl not take us long to get most dreadful, "The most terrible WALTER SKASKIW. acquainted." Then he added, "Lpt bell! At this hour! What could of all I went through in life. it be?! A telegram? I hear US not waste time. Please, pack Neither life among bandits, roam­ your belongings. My sleigh is Ivasse is opening the door. A LEAGUE SPORT MEETING ing in Siberian marshes, tramp­ sound of voices . . What is it? waiting." ing in Siberian Steppes, were as IN PHUXY Who is it ? Steps in the par­ Representatives of Ukrainian "Sir," I answered determinedly, loathsome and filthy, as the life lor... "I dp not;'| understand all this. in the Captain's house. He bad basketball teams in Philadelphia Please leave my husband and me a lawful wife who was as mean "Is that you, Ivasse?" and vicinity and officers of the - in peace!" ..-'." as a snake, but was kept in con­ "Yes, Sir." Tri-City League are hereby noti­ • "If you please,, MaryariKarlov- stant "fear by the Captain. He "Weren't you asleep?" fied and requested to be..present Jna," said SvieHoV sweftly. "'•Do drank heavily and beat both of "No, Sir, 1 was reading." at the special basketball meeting, not be angry and do not try io lis. Think of it, what a life we "Who is it?" scheduled for December 29th at oppose us. Remember that you twp had! Days and nights pass­ "A lady to see you." the Ukrainian Home, 847 North are in Siberia and not in your ed alike in mad labor. At last I "A lady? Young or old?" Franklin Street in Philadelphia, = heathen Germany. Here we live escaped.. I intended to drown, my­ "I don't know. She wears a starting at 2:3.0 o'clock! H . in fear of God and the law. My self, ' but just then I happened to veil. I asked her to come in, but Vital issues affecting the league friend, the chief of police wishes come across a train of soldiers she only slipped her fur coat off will be discussed and prior club to say a few words to you." bound for China. I went with and remained in the cold hall, differences settled, concerning the The chief of police came up to them. It did not matter to me shivering in her thin red dress nationality of players, style of me and said curtly, "You know with whom and where to... with white dots." play, amount of forfeit money Sigmunt Zembetzky, don't you? The night was terrible. The "Show her in!" and where and when games are to be played. Well, he is here in prison. If you bombardment was heavier than (The End) do not want to join him tomor­ ever before. It seems as though A Schedule and League Regula­ row, do as you are told, without the town was going to be shattered tions Committee will be put to comedies. This is my advice." to dust. Mikola Fedorovitch is work, drafting the final details Next day І was going with Sviet- dead!—He is going to be buried UKRAINIAN PLAST prior to opening of the league - lov' to the snowy plains of north­ with military honors. It is quiet The Ukrainian Plast of Amer­ season. ern Siberia... today. Both sides are burying ica, with headquarters і n New Likewise, applications for mem­ Mikola Fedorpvitch Is dying, A their dead, attending to the York City, has been organized bership of new teams will be con­ Japanese shell has just burst in wounded. If you could see all for the past one year but as yet sidered, so please get definite in­ front of my house. Half of the that these few insignificant words wc have had no response or co­ structions from your club. Repre­ roof is gone, all the windows conceal!... operation from the Ukrainian sentatives from Millville. N. J., smashed What is next? It-seems A Chinaman had told me that boys of New York City. . Trenton, N. J., Chesapeake City, to me that someone stands be­ the mail is going tonight. I am There is no reason why all of Md., and Bridgeport, Phoenixville, hind me and. whispers: "Hurry, finishing this letter. Enough. It them do not join the Ukrainian Pottstown, Coatsville, and Chester hurry! Finish up!" is impossible to tell all, but at Plast and convince our people from Penna., as well as Wilming­ ^Hif.rry,—where? To what end least you can see that I did not that they have the ability and ton, Del., arc invited to attend. does my fate chase me now? Un­ mean to conceal anything from gumption to - accomplish that ALEXANDER YARENJKO. der a bomb, to the bottom pf the ypu. which our forefathers did not (Basketball Director—Ukrainian . sea? Or to a ray of light, which Goodbye, my beloved! We shall have the opportunity to. . ,' Youth's League of'Ndrth '. .ФаД gladden my heart and to meet yet! If not here, then— America). which I must hasten?' We urge all the young Ukrain­ there... I believe, don't you? If ian boys of New York City: from і' і і • Massino, mine! The thought of I lost this faith, I could no longer ages eight to eighteen years to THE NEXT WORLD WAR you gives me courage and strength live. . Perhaps this faith is a attend the Plast nieeting on Satur­ in this hellish fife* Everything'I symptom pf insanity? FORECAST IN 1987 r day at 7 P. M.. at 30 East 7th do seems to have one aim-^-to Goodbye! I hear the bursting Street. The next world war will start come back to my native land and of shells again! A new attack, I in the spring or summer of. 1937 to see you. What will our meeting suppose. I am going to the sea, CONSTANTIN ARNOLD, when Nazi Germany attempts to be after all that has passed, all tp give this letter to the China­ Staff Captain. wrest Ukraine from Soviet Russia, that is written on these sheets of man. Once more, farewell! Till Dr. Frank Bonn predicted yester­ paper?.. But,—why think of it? we meet again! day. Hurry, hurry to the end what­ "Your Little Jay." N. Y. YOUNG DEMOCRATS Dr. Bohn is national chairman ever It might be!! WIN . v.-S of the Emergency Committee in Svietlov was very good to me. And this is the truth? No, Aid of Refugees From Nazism.- But his lack of culture and crude never! Just lies of a foolish The Young ' Ukrainian Drain- Phlla. Record, Dec. 1, 1935. nature made him loathsome to me. romantic girl, for the purpose of cratic Club opened its-, -• 1936 God, when I think of the three .. . But what is the matter with basketball season on Monday even­ months with him!... But,—what me? It is a quarter to twelve. ing, December 16th, at' ihe"Stuy- SPIRIT OF FREEDOM vesant H. S. Gymnasiuiov7.2b' de­ are my sufferings, my bloody My God! And I am still sitting 8 feating the Munulis A. C. by the She has stood thus for centuri,* . tears to you? No,—hurry, hur­ over this letter, which is now wet The fire smoldering. . .glowing.. . ry... with my tears! The New Year score of 35 to 10. .'"*3 is An entirely defensive1'first half Flaming!!! і Once, when Svietlow and I were is approaching. Is that how I planned to meet it? closed with the score tied §r6. Only to be beaten back to embers. going: to Krasnoyarsk, we were Will they die? held up by highwaymen. Jfvietlov- The Manuks five put up a-.SJirrmg Where are my expected joys? fight, but-were entirely outclassed was very strong and fought them Where are my aesthetic principles, She will never cease her struggle! for sometime. But one of the in the second half, tha-**.Djic. Let them beat her, let them starve my quiet satisfaction ? All is lost quintet scoring at will.' gang stabbed him with his knife forever! Here is life* This suf­ "her, and the giant fell exhausted. How fering, this struggle and disap­ Capt Smith of the Y.U.DCC She will never die . they tortured him and made sport pointment, tortures, and frag­ was the spectacular high scorer Never, of his sufferings! I sat in the ments of joy which pbliterate the with a total of 16 points. Never, carriage like a corpse and looked cruelest sufferings! Mr.. William Selnick was. the Never shall she die! on. with Indifferent eyes of one What is man to man? God and referee. Stephanie Sorokolit

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