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.