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Supplement to the SVOBOPA, Ukrainian: Paily
Published by flic Junior Department of the Ukrainian National Association
at Pratt Institute, New York City, And there are some of the younger generation,-toojr
ansnuoced that a Park Avenue who enter politics not merely out of self-interest 5>r FOE WAE AT ANY; PRICE?
bntcher would visit the Institute's .. Ilaey thousande of .> American
School of Household Science and
vain-glory, but of a sincere desire inspired by youthful etudente took part, last Friday, in
demonstrate common errors in idealism to be of-real service to their country. j - i j t t p i r e e e j v e "mobilization for
meat buying. His talk will be It is this last «lass that America stands in-greatest peace." . At many of those .meet
given to what is known as the ings resolutions vfere. passed in
"bride's class." need of. And yet we find, curiously enough, .that the which youth promised Ihey "would
Mrs. Mayer believes that the older generation gives very little encouragement to rts really refuse to support' tlWGor-
auerage debutante-bride's knowl youth seeking to take an active part in politics. College etnment of the United States ki '
edge of meat is limited to "squab, any war it might undertake."
students especially, are the chief sufferers in this jseepect. By this, a first wholesale пойое І
lamb chops and filet mignon."
They buy lamb ohope to out up It is argued that because of their youthf times s and was served upon its elders by ЛЬв і-
for stew and their purchases are their being away from the sheltering' influences o f home, young generation that it will not I
invariably confined to extravagant college students can easily be enlisted in crusades of voluntarily cooperate in war as a "
cuts of meat or higheet priced means of settling ioternaUonal '••
seafood» and poultry. "We wiah," every kind by interested and unscrupulous parties, bthera difficulties.
she said, "to help young wives say that it is the function of the student to study, лікі But the old.generation inquires :
and prospective hrides to avoid whenever political participation геріасев study the uni now how many 0І those parti- •:
these nristakee." «ipants -in the peace йетопагга- ;.
versity disentegrates or is closed, as so often happens tioaa WOBM really refuse "to sup- ••
NEW IDEALS OR OLD? in Europe- port the Government of the U- і
It is hard for us to perceive the wisdom of such nited States in airy -war it might
A student of Bennington Col undertake. <^ ;j
lege, a member of a Brookline, reasoning. Is college youth any more naive in political .-' The old generation know ISOJ-A&- і
Mass., family, married a young matters than that -great mass of aduit vomers that;-sees thing about that. They well re- •
night watchman at the college. nothing deeper in politics than the struggle of personali member the.days when In the be-
Ткав ie quite a step from the ". ginning of the WorM War they |
old ideal to marry tbe young • ties and extravagant election promises? Is this 'vatmtefl sang lustily, -"l did not raise my •
boss. home atmosphere so truly protective? Or is it not very son to b e » soldleiv*' aind aoon af
often the very'.hotbed of political prejudices and.misoon- t e r s a n g ' just as hietfly, ЙТ not
CHILDREN EXHIBIT. move, " T h e Yank» are ooming
oeptionB? : Furihermore, would not a reasonable amount ^veiywheiB." ' --•«.'.-J
In the Mezzanine Galleries of of political activity on the part of stadjents bring *.
the RCA Building, in New York TOUTH IN FACE OF CRISIS
City, en exhibition has been ar
greater sense of reality and more benefit t o the class
room? And^^naBy, have not European universities been м American youth, although faced
ranges of the works by children with unemployment and uncertain
from 5 to 10 years old. closed mainly, because their students ?,ould no longer ty, "neither understands nor de
The. exhibition is for the benefit stand the eight of oppression and cormption ~aRrabout ~-, sires"' sympathy from an older
of . tbe Associated Experimental
•Schools, and is to continue till fiieinand revolted against it? ївпЧ the gs&twertii ihe j> gesieration and-to better able to
meet -.present1 'Conditions than ite
November 23. P.riee? :-- . . ' . , " * ? • " elders. Such to the opinion of
Take _ Ukrainian students in their enslayed>bo»ie- Henry P. Van. ..Oueenv dean 4Si
students at Union TJieak>gic»l
* FIGHT DEAFNESS. land, for example. Has not their struggle waged in and Seminary, as. expressed at th»
th efforts to safeguard the out the. classroom been greatly responsible for the ©mer- - closing session of the ninth an
health of school ohildrep, -officials. gence of Ukraine from obscurity? Have not they suffer nual meeting of the New York
of 'the Board of Education in >Iew State Aseooatioh of Peans.
York City recognize a growing. ed .- imprisonment, tortures, and even death in their "Positively, it la my impres- .
need for a more extensive pro- -. defense of UkVainian liberties? And finally., where would віоп," be said, "that t h e youth of
g r a n r t o remedy hearing defects. the Ukrainian movement be today, if these students bad the present- generation, by and
fiarents who have looked to been content to blissfully devote themselves solely to large, are facing their (fate, the -
the- school as a place where their ;realistic outlook for their future,
children were sent for Ihe train- Z their; aeademie studies: while bell raged' outside their; with extraordinary honesty, poise
ing"of the mind only are now tak dowrt^red wuHe? -r-- ^ - I і f |-'. and .unruffled determination. They
ing; lessons from • then?: chfftbren •are certainly far mare prepared
4n<i following health a rules to :. | Y<rtt«i activity in politics has often b e & o r ^ c t h * $ (than .their, elders) to confront
which more attention 1s beingspaid $ ^ ^betiar'conditions. ' Our Anierican-Uk^ujfeiljyoqrtb r - ;: •the gravity: and profundity of their
today - than ever before:
ІПя the r teas: gaiticular reason to bear this m ,тШа>^ *^Ш^ц*? Society's crisis with realism, forth
School «ystem. J H right and unafraid."
its "inspiration from its fellow kinsmen ftF^TkrifSie, ' # ? £ \ t" '
should play a greater and more constructive role- in
American pontics. CEodaj'g Ukrainian TVeukly Including
(Concluded test column) in tbe Hvoboaa)
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UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1935 No. 46
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constantly-' working and trans nucleus similarly, to the planets been reported of using short radio
meaning that he was born in
forming the order of things. The rotating around the sun. There waves in the treatment of certain Kiev, when that city was under
solidification, of the celestial is also a prevailing opinion that types of paralysis and the exter J Russian occupation. In that
bodies,, the erosion of mountains matter and -energy are one and mination of insect pests. I meaning, however. Masaryk could
and rockS, the. formation of воіі- the same thing, which makes Pure science has. been constant I be spoken of as an Austrian,
and river beds, and' the arisal of matter immaterial. These new ly extending the - boundaries of I Ramon de Valera as a Britisher,
man, are. only a few.- examples of conceptions in physics have shat our knowledge .while applied I Pilsudsky as a Russian, and many
Vt the everchanging forces of "na- tered the stable foundations of science has been at the service ( Armenians who fought against
. t a r e at work. It is neither science. It is fortunate that this of human needs. In chemistry, I Turkey as Turks.
did not occur before the 18th Haber has accomplished the fixa Perhaps, even the writer who
possible' nor desirable -to oppose uses his words so loosely would
century; otherwise science would tion of the atmosphere, thus as
these inevitable changes. Rous- not have attained its complete see the whole nonsense of such a
seaus* going back to nature, and ness, and', present progress might suring humanity of an inexhaust- nomenclature. At any rate, if
. Tolstoi's idea of reverting social have been precluded. able supply of food by separating he had given a serious thought to
progress back to the peasant nitrogen from air. Synthetic pe the term "Russian" at all, h'e would
stoge, were only dreams and Il The combined use of the re troleum has been made In Ger have expected his readers to un
lusions of. the actual realities of cently built 200 inch telescope and many to provide us with a plenti derstand this term to mean: pe
life. Humanity can only direct the electron tube known as the' ful supply of fuel as the coal culiar to the Russian race or Rus
fields and natural petroleum are sian culture. A "Russian sculp
some of the changes along the' '•electric eye" -with 131,000 fila tor" means, therefore, something
; y channels necessary for its pro ments in- it to' take the place of becoming depleted at a rapid rate. like a "Muscovite sculptor." He
gress, by Increasing human knowl- cones in 'the human eye, which The application of mechanics even speaks of Archipenko's "Mus
: edge through constant research has 33,000 of them, will take us and thermodynamics has produced covite eyes."
and discovery. Into space millions of light years automobiles that have attained a And those "Muscovite eyes" of
Human knowledge has been a away from the earth. Panorama speed of 300 miles per hour while the "Russian sculptor" are the
gaining momentum. Mon> has of 1930 could be seen on' the only 30 years ago an auto could writer's undoing. The Russian
been added to it from 1900 to nearest star, while a man on the do no better than 12 miles an character of Archipenko's sculp
1925 than:, in any other century. great Andromeda nebula conld hour. Airplanes of which I>eo- ture or the Muscovite appearance
- -We have gone from the infinite see Chicago as it was a million nardo De Vlncl left us a sketch of his eyes can be proved only as
much as the suggestion that if
to Ute infinitesimal. In Kepler's years ago. Historical events in his Bcrapboiik as early as 1505 you smoke a certain brnnd of
could be seen reenacted, providing did not really come into use un
time the ^determination of the cigarettes you will beconii as ir
we could overtake the speed of til 1914. The first time the aero
orbits of the celestial bodies was light rays and go sufficiently far resistible to the opposite sex as
• n.great achievement hi astronomy. into space. So many conditions, plane was up in the air for one the movie actor who tells you to
' «Sbday we have been able to de- however, would have to be satis hour was In 1908. In a short smoke it.
' tennlne even the- orbits of the fied before such a thing was made period of 20 years thereafter the In all probability, to call by
• electrons in the atoms of the possible that further elaboration Hunter bothers stayed In the ah* the term "Russian" an artist who
-tttars and,' study the chemical of this theory would take us to for 23 days: Wiley Post made a is not a Russian is a misguided
trip around the earth, and Lind effort to utilize the popular fad
f composition of them by a spec the door of a pseudo-scientific for Russian things, a fad that
troscopic method, something for fiction. bergh made a non - тир trip
across the ocean. It would not is already decidedly on the de
'Which 'A. Compfce held no hope cline even among the least think
less than a hundred years ago. An ingenious use of the spec be at all surprising if in the ing and the most suggestible
v МНУ recently we adhered to the trograph to break up the light future an aeroplane was making a classes of Americans. er.
conception that positive nuclei of rays from stars into ultra-violet trip without a pilot but controlled
atoms-were ail akin to the nucleus and infrarjed rays, and the re by relays and electrtm tubes which tlie machine making the flight. An
of the hydrogen atom, with ne cording of heat waves on a photo would be receiving their nirssnfres attempt Ivis already been made in
gative electrons rotating around graphic plate, which has to be hundreds of miles away from this direction. (Ти V f'nnrluih-il).
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No. 46 _UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1935
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matchless leadership of Prof. Ko- ІЛ the strict sense of the word. ly of the "perils of the big dty."
shetz. Yet how little do we realize that
UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1935 No. 46
• etampe, Ukrainian handicraft and to any branch of mechanics as a have an entirely different mean- (their elders m death) with the
- s o forth. S o If any -of you -have hobby and are^in need of help, I ing attached 4o it. Pra»Ung a last- meekness with which a dogs laps
hobbies on things Ukrainian don't would be more than willing to be nrroute attack againit the exe- food from one's hand.
hesitate in writing about them. Of service. Thank you. cutive body of a loading youth's « « »
:. Strangely enough no articles ' ; . ' • _ • -» » league by a well кпу-wn Ukrain However, the American-Ukra
on s t a m p s collecting:' have been . We now have an article from ian newspaper in America ;and dis inian youth will conquer all such
. «lArdlHjM -oe l u t .,T jrnf>W f o r а Hlae Kathryu g u n of Waldo tributing .copies of -ithis paper obstacles, natural and artificial,
m a n y stamp Ave.. Greerivale, N. Y. Kathryn's among the youth gathered at the that are placed in its pathway
. . t h e Ukrain article is a s follows: league's •congress bv the chief towards the attainment of its
ian Weekly and I cannot under- representatives of th^t organ is goals. 11 Is blazing its own trail,
• s t a n d . w a y somebody hasn't writ- CROCHETING unwarranted and demoralizing seeking abundant self-realization
. ten about the subject long be My hobby is crocheting. This meddling with the yooth. for itself and freedom af thought
fore this. Well, perhaps the next hobby or pastime occupies my and aotion for Its kinsmen across
- mail will bring an article on stamp time after school or in the eve Misguiding Elements Among
Youth the seas in Ukraine. It is bound
collecting. Remember, however, ning. I selected crocheting from to make miBtakee, for youth is
. that we are interested in receiv- other hobbies because it appealed And yet, this is not the only inexperienced, often therefore, the
. ing articles o n all sorts of hob- to m e most. danger to our youth! movement. pawn of the willy, the deceitful.
. bies, ю irregardless of what your I crochet such things as pot- We have among the youth itself Youth knows neither its strength
. hobby-, may be, write about it holders, doilies, collars, laces and certain misguided elements, hap nor weaknesses. And yet, I can
and submit your article to this many other things. I enjoy cro pily in a distinct minority, who offer to this and all our youth,
column. Your cooperation will be cheting. One's spare time isn't would fain wear the,, purple of no toetter advice than that as ex
greatly; appreciated. wasted when one crochets. leadership among t l » і youtfh and pressed by one student of youth,
And now we'll get to an article Crocheting is a profitable hob yet who by their coriduot, their paraphrased as follows:
submitted by Michael Swanioki of by, a l s o . . .that is to say that I public utterances, and by their American j Ukramian youth! You
- 522 West 4Dxfoed Street, Philadel- can crochet many different things baseless attacks upon constructive face new tasks and new respon
• phia. Pa. Michael's contribution to use as gifts or presents. Cro youth activities bring only harm sibilities. New opportunities and
< reads as follows: cheting is simple when one be to the youth and shame upon the
Ukrainian eause they profess to new temptations are yours also.
MECHANICS . comes used to it. Uife'8 Highway Btretches out be
Every ояе I know who crochets support. Because of personal,
petty ambitions they have the gall fore you with its constant hazard
T h e field which, is interesting "says that they lik-e it because it ous, challenging climb. Now and
to m e a s a hobby is mechanics. is of advantage to t h e m . . . and to attack and call; і "bluffers"
From this source there are many those who are neglecting their then you will be tempted t o take
that i s Why I crochet, too. some short cut in this Highway,
- subjects to please any m a n or N » » » personal well being ( and their
boy. There із, for instance, craft future in the cause of American- only to find out that instead of
work; which is one of m y likings. All coqtributione to The Hobby Ukrainian e»utb progress. They leading you to a glorioue summit
Column should be addressed to publicly propagate sue* startling view, it leads by devious ways In
. There are many abounding' in- to a blind alley that ends even
i terests held under this beading THEODORE XUTWINJAK. and demoralizing theo*ne4 as the
one follows: .'-It i s giheralry a- - tually in a rubbish heap." If this
, - which are apt t o please those in- „ «1-88 Grand Street, should happen t o you,.-'as- it has
• tereated in mechanics. cepted that # . one w i n t s to do
Jersey City, N. J. something, фвг,.саП, and will jdo lit, to a host of other yoiith, d o not
The creative period . i n w h t e h be too ashamed or t o o proud bo
one's interests .and energy -is . :
^"." і' -i • , • . ~ •providing fcete-want Is powerful
i-nough. If «ne wants to have a right-about face and come back
.--turned- towards making things NBw" ТГОЙК CITT to the main -Highway. You Jieed
- ". never ends because of the sn- million doHats he mtjy have it
•4- j.tersst one Win absorb f r o m i t FALL t>XNCE sponsored try Young providing ,#tet he earnestly*- ійп- have no reason to be permanettbly
Ukrainian Democratic Club M Inter cerely wants It. "With a sincere ashamed of getting into a blind
Jjj- \ Every: iboy is susceptible t o sng- national Institute, 3-1-1 East 17th St., desire in obtaining this amount, alley; but if you. are еопіеді to
. gestion. The desire to build and New York CHy, SATURDAY, NOVEM
.<- j . construct - objects usually results BER K , 1ЙЗВБ. Commencement «t 8:30
having enough intellectual re remain there, you will soon : be
p: M. Admission 50 cts. 261,7 sources, the person wfll, without ashamed of youraeH, .and . your
•• in one's career o r profession. A t h e slightest -of slight -doubts,
\1 modem boy is bound to be m-- friends ashamed of you, because
•іші і "i " I " aa = conceive of a method ф c&tainkig that will mean that ybu; enjoy the
' terested i n m a n y t h i n g s . . .hob- it- -even If. He must?' s+eal ttoe
• bics o f different kinds, i t may be JERSEY CTTY, N. J. "rubhiah heaps" ої Bfe.
money5" .What m dto ree T of So wake up, American-Ukrain
• calisthenics, stamp collecting), an- HRST FALL DANCE sponsored by reasoning is this! -ВайЧ the
• tique 'collecting and s e forth. «be Ukrainian Athletic A»»'n (Chorno- ian youth! The future beckons
moiak» Sitch) at tho Ukrainian Center, writer of UJtese nhef a n y : con
Getting back to mechanics, ception of t r y rrrepajjabfe ;harm to you in form of a^glerious, fall-
18V-183 Fleet St. (near Five Corners), life here in America; as well a s
- however, w e come to a beading Jeney City, N. J„ SATURDAY Evening, to' the youtb" to all ;bur people
• which is appealing to nearly American eyes,* to the' Ukrainian for our -kinsmen in -our -dear
NOVEMBER leth, 1955. Admission native land—in a free, and in
• every one who has ingenuity to it) c. wKh hat check. Music by Gene cause, suchtjublic prd^agjdtion of
• construct things. One o f . m y hob- Saks and Ills Orchestra. 267 dishonest ta«ties may have. 2 dependent Ukraine. - r
' bies in the line of mechanics is (The End)
• model ship building. This is cre- I h o s e who^so baselijsly attack ,1 jj. д aj '' g
7". stive work which requires a great £ ; CARTERET, N. J. the American - икгаійальг: South
•deal of patience. When one of " T*e list'-iotthe series! FALL DANCE 1
movement, who pSopaj a t g aemo- .. BAVONNE.rL І . Г „
« .' these model boats is completed §resented by the Ukrainian Social Club ranzlng teaching* sf сЬіз "people DANCE sponsored hv-'Uki-ainiiur Ath
^ it makes an excellent ornament UNDAY Evening, NOVEMBER 17th, are enemies of t f e ja utS move letic Club (Basketball Team) •» Uk-
' for any mantlepiecej . Although at tho Greenwich G»rdcni, Wheeler ment, whether they realise :it- or тпілп Hr.ll, 33-55 W.^lUth.St, ita-
Avtmi-.. Music will be. famished by yonrte, N. J., SUNDAY Evening, NO
. a t the moment I am a,novice at the Hollywood Dance Orchestra. Ad- not. They may be young in years, VEMBER 17th, 1935. Music will be
model ship building, I have in mission 2.5 cts. An enjoyable evening! but certainly very edd in spiriL furnished by Ed Wells & his Top Hat
tentions of doing more detailed Is assured everyone. 267 They must realize that some Orchestra, Tickets 2 5 cts. 267
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