www.ukrweekly.com '¾v·.. ·¾»H^ - *L*·.V. .· · * SVOBODA Український Щоденник Ukrainian Daily РІК LL Ч. 114. VOL. LL No. 114. SECTION II rainian Dedicated to the needs and interest of young Americans of Ukrainian descent. No. 24 JERSEY CITY, N. J., SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1943 VOL. XI THE MARXIAN SHASHKEVICH Treasury Department Commends U·N·A, CENTENNIAL A letter of flmmendation of the standing demonstration of democr?.cy- Ukrainian National Association and at-work-for-Victory. Gr.e hundred years ago last Monday, June 7, 1843 there its members for their part in the Sec­ "You will see that in this report the died a young Ukrainian priest, Markian Shashkevich. who in ond War Loan drive was received by Treasury's emphasis is particularly Mr. Nicholas Muraszko, U.N.A. presi­ on the loyal support of the whole the brief span of his life (born November 6, 1811) and in the dent, from Edward B. Hitchcock, American people. This is a People's face of bitter opposition of the reactionary elements of his Chief of the Foreign Origin Section War and it must continue to be fi­ day, including some of hie ecclesiastical superiors, managed of the War Savings Staff of the nanced through the buying of the to revolutionize Western Ukrainian literature and set it on United States Treasury. People's Bonds by the whole Ameri­ An excerpt of the letter reads: its present course by introducing and popularizing as its medium can people. The continued efforts of of expression the Ukrainian language spoken then only by "The Secretary of Treasury has asked me to present to you his re­ your organization and all its branches the .common masses of people but ignored and scorned by the port on the result of the Second War will help insure the ultimate victory intelligentsia, which favored the then fashionable but hodge> Loan drive, in appreciation of what and the final triumph of Democracy in podgish combination of Church-Slavonic and Polish-Ukrainian. you and members of your organiza­ this global struggle with the organ­ In thus giving Western Ukrainian literature its true and tion did to make that effort an out­ ized powers of evil..." natural means of expression, young Shashkevich gave it the power and beauty hardly possible to it up to then. At the same time he helped to reawaken Ukrainian national conscious­ SOLDIERS INJURED IN RAID Ukrainian Flier Sinks ness which was quite dormant then as a result of centuries of In the course of a German air raid on a southeastern coast town in Eng­ U-Boat oppression and denationalization of the Ukrainian people by land, on Sunday, May 23, when a the foreign occupants of their native land. bomb smashed a hotel, killing six A Ukrainian American flier, Lieu­ For this great service Shashkevich is honored and revered United States soldiers, two Ukrainian tenant Thomas Kinaszuk of 141 Court by his countrymen. This year there will no doubt be observances American soldiers were injured. Street, Elizabeth, N. J. sent an enemy ¦submarine to the bottom of the At­ of the 100th anniversary of his death. What promises to be They are Private John Tworyczuk ¡lantic by shattering it with depth of 1317 Avy Street, Hillside.' N. J. a very notable one, is the Markian Shashkevich Centennial charges from his Naval patrol plane and Moosic, Pa., and Private Paul Concert to be held at New York City's famous Town Hall which he piloted, after a short en­ Zayatz of 207 East Fourth Street, gagement in which shells from the on October 3, under the auspices of St. George's Ukrainian New York City." U-boat's guns riddled one wing of the Catholic Church of that city. The Americans were spending a plane. In order that our readers may have some idea of Shash· period of leave in the town. kevich's stature in Western Ukramian literary and national | A report of the sinking, released An .AP dispatch says that Private by the Navy, appeared in last Mon­ Tworyszczuk snatched a woman out life, we shall publish on these pages next week a fuller account day's papers, together with a picture of danger from falling debris and took of his life and works than is possible here. In the meanwhile ¦of the U-boat tossing her bow into his machine-gunned comrade to a we publish below an admirably succinct sketch of this great ¡the air just before lunging to her hospital before discovering that he ¡doom. The sinking, the Navy said, Ukrainian by Dr. Arthur Prudden Coleman of Columbia Uni­ himself had been injured by a falling took place in April. versity, being a portion of his "Brief Survey of Ukrainian wall. Lieut.-Col. William Perry of | Piloted by Lieutenant Kinaszcuk, Literature." Baltimore, battalion commander, re­ commended Tworyszczuk for a Sol­ ¡ the plane sighted the submarine oa nnHUS. In the '30s, during the very ¦ toms of Ukraine, published after dier's Medal. |the surface and dived at it from a year¿ when the University of great difficulty in Budapest under the distance of several miles. Kiev was was being established, soon | name Rusalka Dniestrovaya brought "The submarine commander elected to become under Kostomariw's guid· j him under the censor's ban. Persecu· WOUNDED SAVING ТВАШ to fight it out," the Navy reported. anc·e a nourishing ground for Uk- tion followed him like an implacable "The submarine deck guns opened rainiar. scholarship, there appeared Javert all the rest of his brief life A Ukrainian Canadian railway sec­ fire on Ventura, riddling one wing. in Lviw a herald of Ukrainian awak· I and he died of want and misery at tion worker, Andrew Kosliuk, was Undeterred, Lieutenant Kinaszcuk ening in the person of Markian ¡the age of thirty-three, a,martyr to shot and wounded in what was be¯ pushed the rugged warplane through Shashkevich (1811-43). Born in the his faith in the Ukrainian race. Dur· lived to have been an attempt of the shell-fire. saboteurs to wreck the Canadian Zolcchiw (Zloczow on present day і ing his lifetime Shashkevich was "Then the submarine attempted to ¦ Pacific Railway's Montreal· Vancouver maµs¡ district of Galicia, on the high greatly supported in his work as crash-dive. Whistling along virtual flier on May 30 near Fort William, plateau region that overlooks a shim· ¦ folklorist and publicist by tyro friends, ly on the surface of the water, the Ontario, according to an AP press merng blue and gold ocean of billow-, Yakiw Holovatsky and Ivan Vahile· patrol bomber went in over the near­ dispatch. ing grainfields, Shashkevich early be· ¦ vich, but after his death the two sur· ly submerged conning tower and four carre alive to the fact that some· viving members of the so-called Uk- A half hour before the train was depth bombs were released, three thir.g was wrong with nis people.' rainian Trinity did not long carry due, Kosliuk found spikes removed creating an in-line pattern just ahead Then, ha \ing studied in the gymna· і on the work their leader had inspired, from the outer rail where the track of the submarine's course and the sium of Lviw philosophy and history, j But a century later Shashkevich's curves around the seventy-five foot fourth striking just forward of the and having read with eagerness the; memory is still green and his life and embankment above the Kaministiquia conning tower. wor·cs of such scholars as Dobrov·, works are remembered with an almost River. Shots from the woods struck The plane was then pulled up skv and Kopitar, and of folklorists personal poignancy. His Spring Song, him in the shoulder as he started to sharply so that results could be ob­ like CeLakovsky, and having felt re->ung by thousands of youth of Uk- replace the spikes. Despite his wounds served by Lieutenant Robert J. ver^erations of the great general Slav rainian origin who have never seen he made his way down the tracks and Slagle, Jonesboro, Ark., the second awakening. Shashkevich realized that ¡ the land of their forefathers, has be- helped to flag the flier short of,the pilot The Navy added: c the fate of Ukraine was identical with ¡ ºme a cherished racial possession, a impaired stretch. 'The sub was blown to the surface, the universal Slav plight. Thinking fragment affectionately repeated from then settled beneath the waves. A through the problem to a solution, generation to generation: moment later, the bow of the under, Shashkevich came to the conclusion Let me press tightly seas craft suddenly broke about Spring Song that no one could save the Ukrainian ¡ All earth to myself." twenty-five feet out of the water, at race but itself, that light, as always. Wee flow'ret lone. "Dear little pigeon, a steep angle. The submarine slow­ must come from within. He turned, Is praying its mother, Could I but help ly staggered forward in this attitude. at once from Polish, the language Spring, lovely Mother, My poor little sad one! More and more of the bow emerged, he and; most other Galician Ukrain· "Hearken, my own, Winds shall whine shrilly, and in a few moments the conning ians used in polite speech and in, One wish I ask thee, Frost shall grip chilly, tower and forward gun broke the writing, and began to preach and to¡ One desire, grant me: Hurricanes groan. surface. All forward motion of the write in the native spoken Ukrainian. ¦ Let me but flower. Beauty will darken, submarine ceased. The bow raised His sermons and his writings served¡ Let me once shower Pale flow'rets blacken, sharply until it was almost perpendi-.