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With the coming Christmas and New Year, we express our best wishes for our readers, our friends and to all people of good will. To our brothers and sisters in the Ukraine, we ex tend our greetings and our prayers. Editorial Staff and Administration of OUR LIFE magazine New York, December 1975 HOLY NIGHT ........ w. l e v y t s k y Stillness. A blessed stillness covers the earth. It is felt only there, in our native land. It is soft, almost un real. The white hand of snow quieted all sound, rubbed out all color, rounded sharp angles, distorted perspective of the land and tenderly touched my soul. I walk the snow covered paths in the orchard and I listen. In the white stillness — mysterious steps. It is He walking. Christ — Child. I remember and dream. I want, oh so desperately to relive but once more, but for a moment, that stillness of Christmas in my native land. The sled glides over the beat in snow, as a boat over the water. Horses kick up the snow with their galloping motion, and it foams around their prancing hoofs. A swinging tree will creack ocassionally, a horse may snort. In the twighling a village hugs a hill. The windows twinkle. Somewhere a gate is opened and it creaks. Behind each window shadows of people move to and fro. Around the table in each family, within the rituals of Swjata Vecherja, the Son of God is born — eternal truth, eternal love. This night, this holy night. To you, to you distant snow covered fields and villages and towns I glide on the sled of my longing. Faster, faster. The sled glides, the horses kick up the snow and I'm coming, I'm coming, but somewhat I can't make it to you — the day of my childhood, my footsteps on the white snow. "He came today from heaven to save all his people....and He was glad' Against the violet background of the Christmas night — silouettes of the wooden copulas and golden gleams from lighted windows. As if from a magic music box the sounds from the church wander into the snowy distance. God Eternal is born. I stand in the entrance, near the kiss — stained nailed feet of the Savior and touching my feverish brow to cold frame of the door I sing with you, my dears, so far away .... (translated from the Poisons o f July, selected sho rt stories by W. S ofro niv Levytsky; T o ro n to — W innipeg, Canada 1972) 50th ANNIVERSARY OF UNWLA The Ukrainian National Women's League of America was founded exactly fifty years ago in New York City. Before that time there already existed other women's groups, such as Women's Community, Women's Hospital Group, Women's Section of the Dem ocratic Club and Women's "Sicz" It was Hanna Chekalenko-Keller, who at the International Women's Congress in Washington D.C. called upon Ukrainian women of U.S.A. to form a women's national organ ization. At this point the existing women's organ izations took up the call and formed themselves into the U.N.W.L.A. During the first years the headquarters of the organization was in New York City, then moved to Phil adelphia, Pa., and now is back again in New York City. The formation of this league had a profound connotation for the Ukrainians in U.S.A. The first emigrants, majority of them uneducated, were the un skilled laborers, performing menial jobs. Longing for their built churches and schools, abandoned father land, they organized themselves, with founded theatrical and choral societies. The effort of Ukrainian women to be organized on a national level directly influenced the families in sustaining their Ukrainian heritage. Thus, these women stressed activities centered around their children, creating kindergartens and Ukrainian schools. The women-emigrants found moral support from the socially active women of Western Ukraine, such as Kobrynska and Yaroschynska, who offered pointers. In 1904, in "Svoboda" Eugenia Yaroschynska, wrote "Our dear sisters!" Remember to protect our most precious Lubow Wolynetz treasure: our Ukrainian nationality... Teach this to your children and in this way you will have the gratitude from them and from the entire nation... "These encourage ments and willingness to serve their own people prompted the Ukrainian women to organize themselves in 1925, forming thus an independent apolitical and to lerant of all religions, league. Their main ideas were: To work for the Ukrainian nation and community to sustain and keep Ukrainian identity in U.S.A. and to spread the Ukrainian culture. The UNWLA from the very beginning proved its deep patriotism and its readiness to uphold and protect the rights of Ukraine-beginning in 1925 with the first telegram to the Political Institute in Williamstown, Mass, protesting the lies that Mr. Skzynski, then the Polish Minister of Foreign affairs was spreading — up until the present-day activities in United Nations and the Inter national Women's Forum in Mexico. It is, therefore, necessary to mention the anticommunist demon stration that the league organized in 1930 in N.Y.C. against the Soviet commercial company "Amtorh" Then, in 1933 Published a pamphlet in English about the famine in Ukraine and sent it all the Senators and Re presentatives of U.S. Congress. The cultural activities, the maintenance of Ukrain ian heritage and its introduction into American community in another branch of activity of UNWLA. In 1926 in the Astor Hotel in N.E.C., the organization, in vited by the American Women's Association, held an cont. p. 32 Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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