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HELEN MURAL, Junior Vice-President UNWLA, Contributing Editor, OUR LIFE Something more than social activities We American Ukrainian youth join a Ukrainian organization, for the most part, because our friends belong and everyone seems to have a wonderful time at the meetings and social functions. We join for fun and fun we have singing “Mala ya mooza peyaka,” and dancing Kolomeyka with “nashee” girls and boys. Consciously or unconsciously we Jr. League girls fulfill the first aim of the Ukr. Nat’t Women's League when we join togeth er in social groups. As the constitution of our League points out “the aim of the U'NJWLA shall be to organize women of Ukrainian birth and descent, living in the United States of Amer ica, for SOCIAL ACTIVITIES.” But just as our affiliation with the UNWLA doesn’t begin and end with singing and dancing, neither does the purpose of the League begin and end with SOCIAL ACTIVITIES. If we read a little further into the constitution we find that we unite and organize for “social, educational, civic and humanitarian cooperation and activities, for mutual aid, fo.r cultur-* al and humanitarian assistance to Ukrainians outside the United States and for organized participation in American, Ukrainian and international women's actions.” As the saying goes, that includes a lot of territory! Naturally we all recognize that it is through social channels of organizational activities than an individual can be directed mo,re easily to th^ more serious problems, purposes and deals of a given group. It is understood that at first new members (and I am guilty along with many others) will find interest only in the socializing element of the Women’s League. This does not mean that these girls lack depth in thei.r thinking, nor does it mean that those of us who see more to the League than a good place to meet and to- gossip once a month should lose patience. Nor does this fact relieve us, however, from our oibligaition to show and to teach these new comers the real significance of membership in our organization. Gradually we must indoctrinate these uninformed girls with the historical development of Ukrainian women organizations which dates as far back as 1884. We must tell the inspiring story of the circumstances that led to the organization of Soyuz Ukrainok in May, 1925 in New York City after the International Council of Wo men met in Washington, D. C. By explaining the scope of the Na tional Women’s League, its achievements and what it hopes to achieve we must invariably instil a sense of pride and understand ing, and with this pride and understanding will come the desire for something more than a gossip session once or twice a month. Hand in hand with this “recognition,” comes the matter of sup port of the National League. “In unity there is strength.” The Na tional League is as strong as your J,r. Branch, my Jr. Branch and all memiber branches will allow it to be. As Jr. members of the UNWLA that does not infer that we are not old enough, mature enough to assume our share of the re sponsibility for the well-being of our organization. It is up to us, as well as the older branches, to help support our newspaper, to help in such a worthy enterprise as the publishing in English of the works of our Ukrainian writers, and to cooperate generally in all of the undertakings of the League. At present the League needs financial aid for “Our Life.” As with all non-profit newspapers, “Our Life” runs in the red and must rely on outside contributions for its existence. If your treasury is small and your branch is struggling throug the period of infancy, your national organization does not expect you to jeopardize the running efficiency of your group by draining your treasury. But there are many branches who*se bank balance runs into hundreds of dollars who seem to be unaware of the great need that exists. Is your branch or your mother’s branch guilty? We have asked and now we want to announce a “give.” (And incidentally, it appears that it is just as difficult to give something as it is to receive). The UNWLA offers three scholarships of $100.00 each in the field of Medicine, Music and Journalism. Strive to find among your members of the Junior League worthy candidates for any of these scholarships. Send in the names of your candidates along with qualifications to Mrs. Maria Holowaty, Chairman of the Scholarship Committee, 866 N. 7t,h St., Philadelphia 23, Penna. P Y S A N K Y With ilie observance of Lent and Easter just around the cor ner, Ukrainian, women and girls are busy making successful or futile attempts at designing py- sanky. Those who tried to make the traditional Easter egg for the first time know only too well that perfection comes only after much loss of sleep and a do or die constitution. For those of you who wish to take your first plunge (and our sincere good wishes for good will be a slightly darker shade, till the last background color is purple or black.” “Now for the actual execu tion of the design—don’t be scared, it’s really simple, if you start by standing the egg on a small whiskey glass and draw a line around the rim. There is line no. 1—now just make it double. Line no. 2 is just parallel, but one quarter inch toward the top. Double that too. Turn the egg over on the glass and re luck go out to you), we print herewith Miss Mildred Milano - wicz’s directions for that “spec ial Easter gift.” “First you go to the corner drugstore and buy a cake of beeswax, dark. At the station er’s you buy some pen-holders and several Speedball pens, no. 5 and 6. You buy dyes (or do you prefer making your own by pouring hot water over colored crepe paiper and adding a jigger of vinegar?) Now you are all set with your lighted candle (to heat your pen-point before you stick it into the beeswax), your tray of glasses of different dyes is before you, you have old spoons on hand, some old cloths and, oh yes, EGGS—dozens.” “You have heard all about waxing outlines and solid white parts of the designs first on the nice clean egg, and you are first going to dye it yellow. Then, when you wax in- the yellow parts of the design, you’ll dye it red, and each successive color Diagr. 3* peat. Easy! Line no. 3 is. easy too. There are four of them— equidistant. Calipers, sure. Put a string around the middle, divid ed imto four, will measure off the quarter spaces too. A real Uk rainian, however, has a good eye that just makes the lines geome trically perfect—it’s practice, just practice.” “And you’ve resigned yourself to a Lenten diet of hard-boiled e g g *—those on which the wax was smudged by your tight ner vous grip—those which you cracked right at the finish when you were rubbing off the melted wax. You would hold it too close to the candle.” In-as-much as we have now overcome the initial struggle of making our firs
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