The Ukrainian Weekly 1942-08

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UKRAINIAN ! , TUESDAY, ^ .2 4 , 1942 . 11

Ukrainians And Russians Com pared^r: r ^ : : ! \ r r j

~ In religion the sam e difference?Differences Between the Two Races to g ive i t substance. In poU ft^ - , ^ ^ poet ic imaginat ion . Thei r ' ^ not iced be tween a na tur

creation. It is her purity, her spiritu* , . tha t , a fcrac t a#d ( laa jivate the

^ ^ Wi gl ou s

..jrfering with theuplppetry is inseparable from nature, more to the m aterial and externaland learned essay on the differences i m m u t a b l e right of personal freedom, which is represented a s full of life side of life. The Ukrainian , being a the charac ter of the Kuss ian anc i; T he R u s s i a n S | o n t h e con t r a^ , ^ e d L ^ p ^ r t i e i p ^ i n g i n man 's hap pines s more spi ri tua l and mys ti ca l ly -di s-L^ramian people entitled Dvi Ruski a t a s t r o n g communal body on the nd S U st eS /T h e grass, the trees, posed character, is s tronger in his re-Narodno sti To his day

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^ [bas is of , ^ %nd unif ica tion , the $rd s , the b e ^ j & e s tars , morn- , J jg ious fee l ings and not so l iab le tois often referred t . o n t h ^ e _ ^ ^ ^ u s indifference as the Russian ,

Accord ing to this ackn owled ged ilput cou^d no t real ize it prop$r$y;. tfceauthority, there is in the Russian a second attained unity and ereatidragreater sense of the Sta te, of the stron g State. "The Ukrainian tribe,"interests of society as a whole than says Kostoraariv, "repeatedly showedin the Ukrainian who "is more in- itseil incapable of a-jnonarcfcical farm.dividual is tic and personal." In the jef s ta te . In the ancient days i t was in poet ic images , and m ' it s re la t ion ^ and r ites on the Rus

to n a iu r o, ^m f is rich in d e i u c t u V f P ' ^he dom inating , tribe in the land ofRus;: but when | a*d . * * 1 of *>ul. * ^ U o n ' o f ^ h f u k ^rived to perish or to unite forces, it The Ru ssian, being chiefly p ractical ê

had to yield the first place to thej or materialistic, can rise to poetryinian also contrasts very favorably

nature of the Ukrainian, said Kosto-mariv, "there is nothing of a violatingforce, nothing of a leyeler; there isno politician, nothing of the cool cal-..culaJW, of tê detexminaUpn to pur- Great ., f r ,f lp J ^â r, j o n l y ? * & * ^ 9 * & & ^ ^ & & * & ^ "sue one's purpose." j there is som ething colossal, creative; [daily-, life. poetry. is therefore

Ukrainians FreedonvLoving and c j ^ s cnac wh ich knows how, t o go .hi s to r ic a l remin is cence -becomes . aH^*8- Ha ying deeper communal in-

In original Slav society. Kosto-jthrough hard t imes; to ciipx>se êjfairx- ^ wmariv wrote, love for personal free-1 time for action, an d to m ake use of jukrain ian, produces in a poetic fo rm..*8 family ties in greater respect,dom was the distinguishing feature [favorable circustances. 1%is is -J the very reali ty. The feehng-of ?]^ ^ they may have l i t tle love f6rin the character of the Ukrainians, and jing in our Ukrainian tribe. Its love jjn Russian s ong s is rarely lifted above (Superiors or' parents. Th e Ukrainian,communaUsm the feature of the Rus.-jof unrestraint brought i t ei ther to ait he materialist ic side. On. the P^.^ te &-. l jand, being . more, in?sian tribe. The cardinal concep tion)sta te of disintegration of com mu nalitrary , in the son gs ofl e UJ^-ainians

!a spirit of the a rchitectonic, a sense m ore in the domains, of imm ensity or- The Ru ssians, have a m u^h high er of Unity; the domination of a prac ti- of simple play and amu sement. A conception of duty than the Ukrain-

a)l ^ s ^ bre*têy t^nit , feel in ^^ wiô. if educated, easily becomeswith man, and all resound "in. a atheistic.charming voice of symp athy or hope _ .or condemnation. The Russian poetry, . . * * * 18 e-* ** a g r e a t ^ m

on the other, hand, isce x tr em e >T p < 2r ^ ^ S : w hi ch ar e c on ce rn ed m o r e

of the Ukrainians was that the t iebetw een! men sho uld be founded by which turned the historic life of the spirituality, purity, nobility otmo tive *con sent and sundered on grounds, ofmutual disagreement. The Russians1) that once a t ie was established,it should be pexmaneiit. Tey considered" it t he will of God, an d there-for enp t l iable to human cri t icism. Inpublic institutions the former recognized only the spirit, the latter tried

ties, or to a whirlpool of m otiv es.it reaches .highest degree of-,

nation mto. a squirrels wheel." Such and gracefulness of imagination. In

clfoed, t o perso na l, f , h as, ,respect for anything that tends torestrict him. He is therefore an unruly- being , as . a m ember, of a>f am -ly and not a staunch supporter of.a sta,te where he does not possessfull freedom.

.ar e the Pvussian and Ukrainia n tribes !the Russian son gs a, woma n's, beautyas, represented in, the past. |is. yexyr rarely ra^sedâjtpve, fcei; ma t-

u a t. . n.L n erial form: it is the form of * tb e b w r it u al ,T h a n R u ss ia n s |w o ma n 's ' body and her yoibe \ Such, in brief outlines, according

According to the same writer, theJ charm and captivate. The Ukrainian to . Kostomariv, are the chief char-Russians are more materialist ic, thejwoman , on the contrary, abuoetjacteriatics of the Russians and th eUkrain ians more spiritual. Th e latter lacks bod ily form she ia a H &ftuffr &

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WEBH&Y , TUE SDA Y, FSBBRUARY 2 4 *2 ' , " * * * . _

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^Jb ^ repa ired, overh aul ed, an d fittedwit h gnna. Liners have been turnedinto, transports to carry- troops to out-posts and to bring British flyingcadets to our training fields*

Meantime, impressive numb ers ofour own ships were also being overhauled and converted for more effective .wartime use. TheyvWere strengthened . in prot ective. devices .and pro?viêd with increased fire power. Mineprotection equipment and sky look-out stations w ere installed. To giv e anexam ple from a smgTe class: Twenty-three-old destroyers were modernizedand Decommissioned. Forty-one otherswere converted for important uses.

in accounts of battles at sea, but es- [Private ship yar ds sharedin- the work,sential if the men-of-war are to gointo action.

Where were they being built? Atshipyards up and down both coastsand as far inland as the Great Lakes,where even submarines are born. At it has the grea test battle of its life

gaining valuable experience for thebig job ahead.

A N aval ProbJem Without .Parallel

The Navy's task-today is twofold

south into the Tropics.Our supply lines must reach from

our own industrial arsenals over these.ee t o $ $ : fronts of the wholeworld. The Maritime Comm ission isnow launching ships at the rate of 1every 24 hours. In the next 6 months,or, before, it expects to be launching2 a day. Present sched ules call forthe building of about 2,000 oceangoing vessels. Eighteen hundred ofthese are to be reajtjy by the end of1943, in accordance with the expandedschedules announced, by the President.

Today's program dwarfs our îrst

World War building of the bridge ofwooden ships. At th e. time of thearmistice peak employment in American shipyards was about 350,000 men.We had at least equaled and possiblyexceeded that total before our entryinto this war. At least 750,060 menwill be at work building ships inAmerica for ourselves and other nations fighting th e Ax is when' the pre-

methods of prefabrication and weldinghave drastically cut the time it takesto build shops.

Up to the beginning of December1941 contracts had been signed for

the begumm g of t he year 72 privateyards were building ships for theNavy . By November there were 133yardsnot including the Navy's own86 yards.

The air is important to the Navy

on its hands, and it also has a tremendous defensive patrolling job tocarry out. The Navy, like the restof us, is at war with Germany inthe Atlantic, with Japan in the Pacific, with Italy in the Mediterranean.

at t he sea. The N avy's plane co m-! At the same time, it must police withplement of 15,000 has been increased, j Britain, the sea lanes from Iceland toBefore the war entered the shooting | the bulge of South America and, withstage the Nav y and the Marine Corps; the British, Dutch, and Australian

had more than 5,000 pilots. Thou- j Navies, the vast Pacific as far assand s mo re were in training. It i s I Singapore. Figh ting ship s which might

interesting to note, here that last July 1 otherwise be used to attack the Jap-the rate of enlistment for na va lâ ese Navy must serve as two greataviat ion training was 8 t imes the mobile arcs of steel guarding all ourrate in May 1940. A greater rush was continental coastline. They m ust seeto come. that German ships do not menace the

The Navy alone has 34 air stations.> routes to and from the eastern portsIn Jacksonville and at Pensacola the of South and*Central America. TheyNa vy ha s in operation 2 of its great- must keep Ja panese ships clear ofest new training; station s. A third is the Western Hemisphere from thein Corpus Christi, Tex. The Corpus Straits of Magellan to the NorthernC&risti Station shows what Ameri- Berin g Sea. Th is is a naval problemcans can do when they decide to put without parallel in history,their back s into an effort. In just Long before Pearl Harbor, the10 month a flat, desert area of sandj Navy's ability to #give and takeand scrub was turned into a modern j severe blows had been shown in thecity, a city with m iles of st reets and waters between America and Europe, a c i ty of permanent bui ld- in the months when i t was obeyingings with lea gues of water., mains- andj the President's command to shootpower tones, a city with one purpose| first. to.h elp build an ai* fleet for our! /The Hiv y and the Marine CorpsNavy . entered the war with an unpreced-

earth, the shortage was aggravated.Since the beginning of the war, theCommission has permitted the transfer of 227 shipsvessels of 1,000gross tons and overto foreign flags.These ships total approximately 1,-100,000 gross tons. They consisted'ofvessels con sidered obsolete -fsom a aeconomic standpoint. Many had notbeen in use for several years.

Ano ther 200 vessels, totaling aboutIfOOOOO gross tons, have been trans*ferred to Army and Navy use sincethe fall of 1939.

Moreover, the President directedthe Commission in April 1941 to assemble a pool of 2,000,000 tons ofshipping-to be allotted to the nationsresisting aggression.

All these transfers and allocationsaccount for more than 4,000,000 gro sston of shipping, 50 percent, of th e 8,-000,000 tons of oceangoing.merchantshipping available to this countrywhen we went to war.

Meantime, wh|Ie the ships were being transferred or allocated, the .volume of goods to be transported grew.

sen t program is in full operation. New 1938, our sea-borne foreign tradecalled for the transportation of 75,-000,000 cargo tons. American sljipemoved about 26 percept of this trade.Now, preliminary estim ates indicatethat the total movement of our ex-

999 ships; keels for 272-had been laid; p orts and imports for 1941 ex ceeded154 had been launchedan d 123 of f0,000,000 cargo tons an d thatthese had been delivered and sent into active service.

According to the schedule set before President Roosevelt orderedfurther increases in 1942 and 1943production, 79 new merchant shipswere to be launched in the first quarter of this year, 131 in the secondquarter, 107 in Ah e third, and 140in the fourth. For the first quarterof 1943 those plans called for 154vessels, 166 in the second quarter, 158in the third, and 173 in the fourth.Those figures are now being revisedupward to meet the goals set by thePresident.

With the Navy also carrying outthe greatest program for buildingfighting ships in our history, the capa

city of our existing yards was longago exceeded. To meet th e demand,the Maritime Commission has ordered131 new shipways. More tha n 95 percent of them are already in use andthe rest are to be in production inthe nex t 2 mon ths. Shipyard facilities have increased since the Commission began its program in 1937from 10 y ards with 46 shipwa ys cap- [able. Ab out 40,000 seamen of all ratable of turning out vessels 400 feet of| ings and 10,000 officers now are serv-

American ships accounted for 33 percent of this movement.

Under the Ship Warrants Act, approved last July, the Commission isauthorized to prescribe conditions asto ship operations and, in that way,to enforce priorities, in all merchantslipping entering American ports.Britain has a similar systemso thatour two nations, between them, canexercise control over the operationsof virtually all the world's merchantshipping not under the fist of the.Axis .

To date, the Commission and ourarmed forces have acquired the services of 100 foreign vessels, aggregating m ore than 550,000 gros s to ns,which had been immobilized in Amer

ican ports. Other American republicshave similarly taken over 72 shipsamounting to more than 360,000 grosstons. These actions have helped alleviate the shortage of shops.

The Search for Seamen

The problem of getting officers andcrews for all these ships is consider-

more in length, to 40. yards with! 275ways , capable of this work. Twenty-nine of these yardswith 202 w a y s -are devoted to bmlding oceangoingmerchantmen. The 40 yards ar eStrategically located along our Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts to take

ing on 1,200 boats engaged in deep-sea, trade. With a\ program, calling, formore than double this number ofships by the end of next year, at least-,another 40 0. seamen and 10,000 of-ficers will:be needed. Some of the.new ships will carry Army and N*vy

the fullest adva ntage of existin g,facil- personnel. Some ma y -sail under ^ . 34 ^ forejga flees with fcielgi*duction. Other yards a nd plants, crews.


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UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 1942 No. 8

" Z a p o r o z h e t sZa D u n a y e m "In C h i c a g oThat very popular Ukrainian opera

"Zaporozhets Za Dunayem" (Cossacksin Exile) by Semen Artemowsky, waspresented in Chicago Sunday, January 25th at the Sokol Auditoriumunder the direction of ProfessorAntin Rudnitsky.

The performance was outstandingin every way. The overture playedbefore the first act by a string ensemble with Prof. Rudnitsky at thepiano gave the performance a professional atmosphere even before thecurtain went up. It was played witha true virtuosity. The balance andsonority of tone together with a professional precision made the small ensemble sound like a good sized orchestra. The audience, filling the hallto capacity, enjoyed this wonderfulensemble very much and sensedthat a fine show was in store forthem.

The first act was the most thrillingoperatic performance I have ever

(Witnessed. The acting and singing ofI Maria Sokil as Odarka and StefanKozakevich as Ivan Karass was reallysupreme. Miss Sokil displayed great

| dramatic talent in addition to her| beautiful voice, proving agair. that| she is our greatest prima donna of today and one of the high bracket! artists of the world. Both Miss Sokil

land Mr. Kozakevich deserve veryhigh praise for such an artistic performance. They showed great talent

|tand operatic training. Mr. Kozake-wich, whom I heard for the first timethen, has indeed a real voice and Ishall not miss a single one of his performances with the Chicago CivicOpera next season. The operatic acting of these two artists gave thewhole performance that high qualityI have neither heard not seen in anyUkrainian "predstawlynia" or opera,

It was indeed very delightful.

Olga Lepkova. as Oksana, was nextin line of im por tance .. She put great

feeling into her role and lived thepart. Althou gh not feeling very wellthat evening she did justice to hersinging. She possesses a very finevoice.

Michael Melnyk with a pleasingvoice was a dashing young Audreyand Myron Shandrowsky as the Sultan was very impressive. His accentof speech was quite befitting that of aTurk, while his voice, although somewhat lacking in maturity, was flowingand ha s great possibilities. Mr. David

Tulin made a very interesting Turkish dignitary.

This opera, which was killed hundreds of times by amateur singers,was for the first time in' Americapresented here by a cast of trainedsingers and famous opera stars. Itwas a big treat for the Ukrainianpeople of Chicago to-hear it. We takeour hats off to Prof. Rudnitsky fororganizing this fine opera companyand for making the excellent improvements in the opera itself. It is agreat contribution to the UkrainianAmerican culture and just the beginning of something which will grow

and develop into a worthwhile project I hope. We need it very badlyand the Ukrainian A merican p ublicshould respond to it and support itproperly.

Much credit goes to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Chicago forsponsoring and putting over the operawhich required plenty of effort andenergy. They made a good job of i t .

Last but not least, deserving ofmention here is the "Boyan" chorus

| of Ch icago trained by Nichola s Pa -nasiuk and the Ballet Group directedby John Sawchyn, both of which lent

I a very pleasant background and sup -jport to the cast. I want to congratulate ProfessorJAntin Rudnitsky and wish the newly formed Ukrainian Opera Compan y! success. We shall always welcome them in Chicago.H JOHN H. BARABASH

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n p w o years passed since that m oonlightnight. Notw ithstand ing all the efforts of the

police, the unfortunate mother and the villagers, the murderer of the young theologistwas never found.

Deep among the mountains, in a villagenex t to the one where the unhappy motherlived, was the abode of the murderer. He hada fine household, a good wife, and several children. Everything went smoothly, but the masterof the house had changed greatly. His hairturned prematurely gray, and his gigantic figure bent lower and lower under some hiddengrief. On clear nights, when the full moon illuminated the tops of the mountains and filledthe world with its magic silver blue light, Hryts'sleeo would leave him, grief and yearning tearhis heart asunder.. . He tossed wildly about his

bed, possessed by visions and reminiscences."The moon is a witness," rang in his soul

the voice of the boy he had killed. And so always,incessantly, until the moon disappeared."themoon is a witness" . . .

At times he spent nights sitting up in his bed.his curly head hanging low upon his breast,absorbed in bitter meditation. He thought of thepunishment due him, of the way the witness-moon would give him away. Such thoughtsdrifted through his mind night after night, depriving him of rest and sleep.. .

At times he stole out of the house, prowledabout, staring at the moon as though forced bya strange power to do so. Often insanity nearly got hold of him and he planned to hanghimself somewh ere in the wo od s.. . Only thethought of his wife and children, innocent ofhis mortal sin, kept him from suicide. Thedays passed in hard work, but when night came,when he wanted to rest ,sleep disappeared.. .He saw the body of his victim, he heard hisrattling last breath and the words: "The moonis a witness." He saw the same* full moon, thesilver shimmering of which nearly drove himmad, caused him the tortures of hell. By nowhe had sold the watch and by now God knows inwhose hands it was! The villagers' memory of theterrible deed had vanished; he alone suffered andached during moonlight nights, and could notfind any r es t. .. His hair turned gray, his healthfailed him, laughter forever left his l ips. . .Only his wife and children did not suspect anything, kept up his desire to live with their good-heartedness and love.

On one such night Hryts tossed about onhis bed without sleep, smitten by the hauntingthought of the "witness-moon." Then noiselessly he got off the bed, sat down upon a benchand shading his eyes from the shining moon,tried to sleep. Suddenly h e heard a rustlingabout and saw his wife before him.

"Again you cannot sleep !" she whisperedand sat down at his feet. "Again you are tortured by some dise ase! What is the ma tter withyou?

"Go to sleep, wife, and let me alone ! I willgo to sleep soon too," he answered quietly, sotha t the children should not hear. "Nothin g ailsme, I just cannot asleep."

"It is not tru e/' argued the wife. 'Th ere issomething in your heart , but you will not tellme."

"If I have,H is my grief, and you mostnot interfere. Yon cannot take the weight off

my soul! Go to sleep!""Perhaps, I.could take off some of it. Is it* deb t?" she asked* movin g, up closer to him.

The Full MoonBy OLGA KOBEL1ANSKA (1865)

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"A debt," he smiled bitterly."A heavy one?" she continued, glad that

he responded."A heavy one," he repeated in a choked

voise and pushed her aside. "Leave me alone,go to sleep!"

"I will not go," she replied and touched hisknees pleadingly. This movement put an end tohis patience. He thrust his wife aside angrilyand moaned savagely:

"Get aw ay! Are you too going to tortureme? Leave me in peace! Get awa y from m e!Where must I hide from you?"

The wife did not move.'4 will not go , she said. "Now I shall stay.

You have some trouble, some very heavy debt.One never knows the hour of nis death. If, Godforbid, you die,the landlord shall chase meand children out of the house. Tell me all aboutit. I have been a good, faithful wife to you,always obeyed and loved you!" And she weptsilently.

"Don't cry, wife,go to sleep! Someday Iwill tell you." Hryts said, touched by his wife'stenderness.

"No. I will not leave you until you tell me

all.",The murderer ran his fingers through histhick hair, bent down to his wife, and said:

"In that case, let us go outside. Here thechildren might hear."

They noiselessly left the house. The nightwas beautiful and clear. The sky was floodedby the silver light of the quiet moon. All wassilent. Near the h ouse ran the white villageroad, beyond it loomed a high mountain withwoods upon it; over all this hung the cupola ofthe sky, strewn with trembling sta rs. . .

Hryts looked about restlessly. "God forbid,if someone should hear us!" he whispered.

"Don't fear. The world is asleep."" am afraid," he said fixing his near-insane

eyes on the full moon. "The moon!" he whis-. pered, turning to his wife, his face a s white asa sheet.

"The moon alone sees and hears us, themoon alone. Come, tell me!"

"Yes, wife, the moon alone!" repeated thepeasant as in a trance.

They sat down in front of the house facingthe moon and he began his tale. . .

When Hryts ended, his wife sat with herfingers clasped together and pressed to her lips.Her eye s were fixed upon the moon. The m ansaid :' "The full moon threaten s me, wife. When

ever it appears in the sky with a flock of starsabout i t ,I am torn by anguish and sorrow andcannot find peace. I am lost, wife! If the moonshall disclose m y. sin, I am lost and you withme."

"You must repent, Hr yt s. . . Pray for theunfortunate victim!" she said as though wakingup from a nightmare. "Repent, then perhapsyou will be forgiven!" she sighed heavily andwent into thefcouse, followed by her husband.

He felt relieved now, after he had told ofhis terrible sin to his good wife.

Life seemed to have returned to him afterhis confession, bringing sleep and his formerhealth with it. He took to work with moreenergy than ever. He often went out to oth ervillages to earn money. At tim es he would return, slightly drunk. He would then apologize to his wife, who scolded him for spendingmoney. As time went on, his tone changed andand he often quarreled with her.

"For all my hard work, for my own earnings, I should not be free to treat myself toa drink of brandy? Do not attem pt to teachme sense! Keep your own until I teach you toknow better!"

Time went on, bringing more evil than good.The peasant's drinking-habit grew stronger.Out of h is earning s but a very sm all part wasgiven to the wife, the rest disappeared insaloons. The poor woman, who would havegiven her soul for her husband and children,was aggravated more and more.

"I must handle him in a different way,"she decided, after the drunkard beat her, andthreatened to will her.

"For my hard work, my love and devotion!"she cried to some of her neighbors.

Once on the eve of a holiday, Hryts returned drunk and without a cent in his purse.His wife fell into such a rage that he becamesober. But angered by her accusations, he beather with the cruelty of a mad beast:"that shemay remember, who is master of the house!"

"Next time," he roared, "I need not telltell what I will do to you! You know it yourself!"

Rescued by her children, the woman rosedeadly pale from pain, anger and humiliation,glanced at her husband with glaring eyes andand left the house. She returned followed byneighbors.

"The children saw!" she said with her whitelips, pointing to her husband: "The children saw.. .He swept the floor with my body, my ha ir . . .Look at my hands! They are broken, crippled.... He threatened to kill me as he had killed theyoung son of the priest's widow on account ofa gold watch. He told me that there was not asoul about, and the unfortunate murdered boycalled the moon as his witness. Good people, I,his wife, am calling you to be my witness!.. ."

Fourteen days later two gendarmes appeared at ^h e house of the murderer. T hey put

him in chains and dragged him away with them.He denied nothing of the charge against him.When he was leaving his house forever, his

wife crawled after him on her knees and weptbitterly.

"Take me too," she pleaded. "I am a s guil-. ty a s he is! Take me, let me perish with himtogether!"

The murderer stopped. Pale as a ghos t hestabbed her with his eyes and answered:

"I am sorry for the children, not for you!You are worse than I!"

To the crying children, he said:"Pray for me! On clear nights, when the

full moon shines,pray for me! Perhaps, Godwill listen to you r prayers and forgive m e. Noone saw me committing my terrible sin. Godalone looked at me through the full moon. Praythat he may hear you! I shall never return toyou aga in! The moon has separated us forever!"

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UKRAINIAN WEEKLY. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1942 .. - - - - - -~^^*^mm^^**^. J ^ B ^^^^^mmm^M ;: - ^mt M=mLU C ^.^ I I T I

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U.N A. SPORTblGffl 1

PHILLV AND MCLLVHJLE DEFEATOZONE PARK

Keeping a dean smte together withMillville, P^ladelpfrfa's LT.ttA teamromped to a 51-24 win over th e viar*-ing Ozone Park. Long Maud, qumton Feb. 15th -in a Mettopofttato roVKsion Ukrainian National Association 1

Basketball Leafctfe game, report*

Dletric Slobogin.Ozone Park took a 9-4'advantageat the -end of the As* quarter Trit thislead was changed W ld-i5 defeeitat half time. With Jerry JttzwAa* and"Squally" Siitkowski leading the attack. Philly scored 21 markers in the3rd period to assume a comfortablele-txrfnt margin. Phfcty net ted 11

PROMOTED TO LIEUTENANTCOLONEL

According t* recent reports, MajorTheeddre Kalfekuka of Scranton, Pfe,of Ukrainian descent, n e # servingunder -General McArthur '^ ippmes. w as recently preinotee tothe rank of lieutenant cdfcnel.

Colonel Kalakuka was born andraised in thi s toutftry. tte'lsiaj^radu-ate of West Point, Class of ItJ^.' E8r-!y last yea* he was & >the- Paulines, where th e presentwarâaght'him,

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'WHAT CtofMtJNIST "

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Voted Against Draft

Mr.' Mareatftbnlo vote*! againstmore points in th e "fins? 1 Selective Service. ^ *tothus recorded th ei^ e^c oii se ^ti wi r^ pea i th e act,' substituting orie^caB-victdry. Parpan an d Wor^ ! s taV*^| i n 'g ^nty f 0r Vohxntary enilslafeeWatfor Ozone Park with '8 Ixfchts 'eeAv a mlhimuin pay of $150 fcftnttf) 1

Very conspicuous was the \< ^ W e 1 0 4 l J a A s o h fM*-~s*eech,wo years from now the Ukrainian' ian National Association representsNatienal Association will celebrate 4S years of hard work. during all -^rl' Tootih ^îts Ctolden Anmyereary ; ^ha^hbej;whifeh it sucjeeeded'in uî ng; m a n y ^ ^

against the Communists,-Nazi agehtsAfter the-game, the feminine fcneeHj

come 48 years old on Washington's thousands of Ukrainian people a nd; u.N .A. sport emblem s attaVmed.Birthday. ' their children into a powerful and

Todav, the United States of America influential group.is fifchting to keep the freedom won bymen such as George Wasmôn more a ^ find U R f o r g e t t a b t e Kth in 150 years ago The Spirit ol ^ . - *h*n :the *M-selves at a social. Durln*he part?,S 2 * J L ? S J n 6 W . a ? l l "^"representative government in Amer-1 Stephen Slobocfiah, a SuTpfceme A d-WAshtogton^s tune. No one;**** i c a m e t a t j a * ^ ^ . w h i c h ^ visor of the t ^ U g a v e a spSech I nthat America will emergo " " " ; e e t e b l W r t d , m . i m , . a s a n E n g i i s h i w hich he urged the groub * o >bb~per-;

JZ ^n^ Throughoufthe centuries ate closely with the U.N.A. in all^ ^ e n O < 5 e o r ^ W a s ^ ^ t o w 4 h i f r Q m of the world it s activities, arid to askho^mem-ffi4 T b n t ^ ^ ^ * AmericTto establish per- bers to ^ ' '

t a b l e m e n and therefore cannot | ^ J ^ ^lose.

! ers became hostesses at the FranklinThe United States of America has I St. Ukrainian Haft.*' Phifty, where'

1 members of Both 'teams enjoyed therir-

est nation. The < customs; t raditkms, Bacon School Gym; The foHowmg-religions-, languages , cultures and ajfternoen New York "will bl ay at Our

During the 48 years of its exist - L ^ , , . n a t t o n a l i t y , chartcterteties * of Lady of Metcy Oiureh -Susaue-ence, the Ukrainian National ASso- t t e immk&em,-. helped enrich theciation. it s thousands of members, itft euHure of 'America.bnftiiAes^ and it s official organ. Svb-boda, have consistently demonstrated.

by word and deed, that it is onehundred per cent American. True,the members of the fraternal or

Lead ings lfcrrffffe American

an^' defeat ists who "are -stHl >r ach ,-

th 'peadeffeace*" in the'lftmafe '\r&'WdeVtf caft T qaote *!..l o tMaVcantdnio called that {speetih v "aproclamation of self asser^d ' die*-ta'torSMp;. . marked wTCh ? ffti*^ and*deermen4mperiaHemV.. Victoryfor one side or the other will mot heYp

American peopie." vto&A ^*^ 4

war-- June 20i- Ml^ * *switehed overnight alongTwtth ' theCeAmuftistei- Althoi^^^pBesseo^^hyth e aewroaf>ers,- he* ke^ sjt^xpfeftattoôf 4iis abotft-tdrtt fo r

3__24Jfottr months: The**he> &**&& *& &^tion on Americanization and natural- formation, growth and development of !ization. Th e Svoboda arid tthe Uk- the Ukrainian National Association.rahdaft Weekly, based o n .American the oldest and largest Ukrainian or-ftttoMlpteB of joarnAlisttb hav e alw ays ganization in the Uriited States. Th ereported the news completely arid ae- 48-year history of the fraternal order*ux*tt#y, an d have always sutwttrted i 8 also a history of the Ukrainmn peo

ple in America, for the organizationplayed ^ - in their unification arid development.

Like th e Government of the UnitedStates, the government of the Ukrainian National Association is basedon th e democratic system.

Lflce the people of the United States

American ideals.

Modest Beginning

Tbe Ukrainian National Association had a "very modest beginning.When a handful of Ukrainian immigrants gathered together in Sha-mokin, Pennsylvania, on February22nd, 1894, and formed a group forthe purpose of issuing life insurance ; th ? / A * * and members of tlie Uk--protection to their own kind, it :** 1 National Association honorseemed insigmncant aad unimportant!^ ^pect Febmary 22nd, th e birth-then. T h e w h o l e e n t e r p r i s e w a s w o r t h i ^ ^ ^ first American president,otftra few hundred dollars 48 years ^f 01 *^ Washington. Ukrainians and

Ukrainian miners and farmers Uk l * a&l t e t l Americans have another

near Shamokin. however.reason f o r

celebrating February 22nd

MAKUSIASAi^George Washington Al i e

age.in townsheard about this first Ukrainian fraternal order to be formed in America,and hastened to support it by becoming members. The movement hit Pennsylvania like a tidal wave and thousands of people were enrolled as members , which made branches necessaryso that the business could be properlyhandled. Soon there were branches

for it is alsd'the 1 birthday of theUkrainian National Association.

TfifcODOfcE LUTWtNlAk

A CURE FOR TL6VB~Tike twelve ounces of dislike, one

pound of resolution, two grains of common sense, two ounces of experience,

fa 4*rfc sprig of time; and three bu*rtsIn nearby sta tes . Like a snowbal l rolfc; of cooling water of 'cOnsfdefatkJTi Seting dawn hill, the - fraternal ; order | fJ le m.b \e r J ffjjjfe ^ of JoVe. * sweeteffkept growing larger and 4arger, Today it has 475 branches located in21 states and two Canadian provinces.It has 40,000 members and resourcesamounting to six *Ithas 4>aM lout mors 4haft *t fe 'tnHiion

dollars in benefits. It haS'eome'to'bettrecognized as the very basis of Uk

it wiHi sugar offorg-etfulHess, ! itwith a spoon of melancholy; ptfVU "uv"the bdttohi of yor 1eitt,"cork i t Vith^the cork of. clean consclencf.'! Let 'it 'rlem*ln''artrvo*- jwfl1 feoba rftf* ea*e rrd

f be res4o W' o' tyo t eYes allrt; , These,thWg.ca be hatrof-Hbe* apt5fa ^

sutteVKNiwwvwmM^ - & & ^ 4 ' ' / afKr^wiBnSs^sces/

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