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The Ukrainian Weekly 1944 { СВОБО • Український Щод SS ! НК Ukrainian Daily РІК LH. Ч. 117. VOL. 1Л. No. 117. • SECTION II. Щг Шкхйіпійп Dedicated to the needs and interest of young Americans of Ukrainian descent. • -. T-r— No. 24 NEW YORK and JERSEY CITY, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1944. VOL. ХП > CONGRESS COMMITTEE URGES PROFESSOR MANNING'S BOOK, SUPPORT OF 5th WAR LOAN Koshetz Recordings Out "UKRAINIAN LITERATURE" Full support by Americans of Uk-1 The long awaited Ukrainian choral rainian descent of the Fifth War recordings have at last made their The gradually expanding shelf of books in English on Loan drive was urged by the Uk­ appearance. They are now in the Ukraine and Ukrainians has now a brand new and very valu­ rainian Congress Committee of Amer­ process of distribution among those able addition. It is Professor Clarence A. Manning's Ukrainian ica in a message released to the press who had subscribed to them in ad­ this week. Local and state Ukrain­ vance. Entitled "Hear Ukraine Sing" Literature,* consisting of studies of leading writers of Ukraine, ian American war bond committees and highly decorative in appearance, published by the Cultural Committee of the Ukrainian National are urged to do everything in power the album consists of ten records con­ Association. to make this drive go over the top. taining twenty-seven choral songs of Written by an outstanding American authority on things They are likewise requested to keep various types. They were recorded a record of war bond purchases by last summer by the Ukrainian Chorus Ukrainian, a man who as acting executive director of the De­ Ukrainian Americans and to send it under the direction of Dr. Alexander partment of East European Languages at Columbia University to the War Bond Division of the Uk- Koshetz, and produced by the Sonart has a profound knowledge of the Slavic people and thus is able rainian Congress Committee of Amer­ Record Company (251 West 42nd St., to evaluate their individual contributions to world culture, Uk­ ica, 847 North Franklin Street, Phila­ New York City), of which John Mar- rainian Literature is a book that is bound to be of consider­ delphia. sich is president. Price of album is able benefit in making the Ukrainian contribution clear to $10. BACK HOME AFTER 57 MISSIONS The album bears on its face a those who read it. S/Sgt. Stephen Podlicke, son of colored reproduction of a painting "There is a direct and unswerving line of service," writes Mr. and Mrs. Michael Podlicke, 455 of harvest time in Ukraine, done by Prof. Manning, "to the democratic ideals of humanity and to East 89th Place, Chicago, and a mem­ the Ukrainian artist Ivan Kuchmak. the cause of the people from Kotlyarevsky through Shevchenko ber of U.N.A. Branch 415, is now Accompanying the album is a book­ and Franko and Lesya Ukrainka to the present time. It is home on a furlough from England let entitled ""Songs and Melodies of after being on 57 missions over Eu­ Ukraine" written by Stephen Shu- a line of which the Ukrainian people may well be proud and rope, according to a Chicago press meyko and bearing explanatory we can be sure that their ideals will not die but that in the clipping sent to the weekly by Jean- material concerning Ukrainian songs newer and better world after the war the goals for which net te HnatuHko, R. N. in general, Prof. Koshetz, and the they have struggled will be realized -and that Ukrainian litera­ For his daring and heroic deeds to­ recorded songs which comprise the ture and culture will play a prominent role in the development ward victory, Steve has been awarded album. The booklet also contains an two oak leaf clusters, a silver palm article in Ukrainian concerning the of the coming centuries." and the distinguished flying cross. album written by Dr. Koshetz. No doubt, as always in the past, that role will be chiefly He appears in fine health and a Action to make these recording waa in defense of the rights of the common man. That is one of great reunion at the home is now in initiated and sponsored by the Uk­ the chief qualities of Ukrainian literature. As Prof. Manning progress. rainian Congress Committee of Amerr puts it: "There is hardly a literature which is more devoted to His brother, William, is also an ica back in 1940, and made possible the cause of the common man and presents him more sym­ Army man, serving on the East cost. by advance subscriptions. pathetically in his struggles, his difficulties and his achieve­ ments and if there may be said to be anywhere a literature for Ukraine has suffered much during the last thousand years of the commoirman, it is the^Ukrainian literature." and the efforts of its people to develop an independent state In putting out this book on Ukrainian literature, the very which could give them freedom and happiness have been first of its kind, Prof. Manning has—as expressed in the book's thwarted again and again. We have the almost unique example foreword by the distinguished Canadian scholar, Prof. Watson of a nation of forty million people that has not been able in Kirkconnel—rendered "a service to international letters in the last centuries to become the master and the director of its making available, in English, a brief but comprehensive history fate, that has been doomed to undergo every form of humilia­ of Ukrainian literature. It is a timely task, courageously car­ tion and yet has held firm its resolve to try again at the ried out." first opportunity that offered any hope of success. The work contains fifteen chapters, and their titles tell "It is the task of history to explain this anamolous situa­ their contents: The Background of Ukrainian Literature, Hri- tion and historians, whether friendly or hostile, have not been hori Skovoroda, Ivan Kotlyarevsky, Hrihori Kvitka-Osnovya- slow to take advantage of their privilege. The narrators of nenko, Taras Shevchenko, Panteleimon Kulish, Marko Vovchok, the story of Ukraine have approached the subject from every Ivan Levitsky-Nechuy, Changing Conditions, Ivan Franko, conceivable angle. Some have denied stoutly that there ever Lesya Ukrainka, Mikhaylo Kotsyubinsky, Vasil Stefanyk, Oles, was a Ukraine. Others have declared that the nation met its and After 1918. There is also a bibliography. fate because of its own errors and defects. Still others have Our young people of Ukrainian descent who are alive to challenged these unfavorable views and have laid the blame their responsibility to become fully acquainted with their Uk­ on better prepared and grasping neighbors. There are many rainian cultural heritage for its own sake and in order that more of these explanations but we have little to do with them. its finest elements may be introduced into American culture, "Literature explains the results of history. It shows us have long been asking for an authoritative work in English the effects that history has had upon the masses and upon on Ukrainian authors and their writings. Such a work has the individuals. It gives us in artistic form a picture of the now appeared. Everyone of these young people should make reactions of the people to the conditins under which they are it his immediate business to get himself a copy of it and read compelled to live and even more than history, it mirrors their it. Much will be learned and much will be enjoyed. ideals and their dreams for the future. Yet it does even more Furthermore, individuals as well as societies should pur­ than this. chase .additional copies of the book and donate them to Ameri­ "The important thing in modern literature is the light can public libraries, universities, and other such institutions, which it throws upon the personalities of the authors them­ for, to quote a portion of Prof. Manning's introduction: selves, both as individuals and as representatives of their peo­ "Ukrainian literature offers perhaps the best medium for ple. No one in modern literature can produce a memorable work studying the aspirations of the Ukrainian people and their without making clear the innermost workings of his own soul mode of existence. In many ways it presents a sad picture and thoughts and feelings. When we look from this point of view at such men as Shevchenko and Franko, we realize that * Ukrainian Literature; Studies of the Leading Аийюгв, By Clarence we are dealing with real spiritual and intellectual leaders with A Manning Foreword by Watson Kirkconnel. 126 pagec. Harmon Print­ a real faith in democracy and that these men have a message ing :fcwse, Pou-^u: 'reie. N. Y. $1Л0.—Svoboda Bookstore, 81-83 Grand not only for their people and age but for the entire world." '„ Street, Jersey City 3, N. J. - И£М UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, SATURDAY* JUNE 17, 1944 No. 24 " • •• ' ' ' ' !'•• ' ' ' ' Franko's Greatness WHAT THEY SAY THE FIFTH .WAR. Millionaire. Fraternal By HOIKORK EWACH і LOANS Order І President F. D. Roosevelt, in a mes- j IjiRANKO might have been one of sage to the convention of the Inter- WHICH ISSUE ШАЦі і BUY* Out of 143 "millionaire societies** the world's greatest novelists if national Ladies' Garment Workers,; ! appearing in the annual list pub- he had written nothing but novels. held in Boston, Mass.: There It* a Fifth \yar Loan Security І Jished by the Fraternal Monitor^a Yet Franko was at his best when he 1 To Meet Kvery Investment Need ^monthly periodical "devoted to the "I need not stress the tremendous Fraternal Benefit System," the Uk- wrote poetry. : contribution of American organized There are two main types of poets, For Maximum Safety of Principal-• rainian National Association ranks labor to the preservation of our demo­ All issues.
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