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of women as well as purity of character which humanity has ever produced.” Many times an editorial gave prac tical advice, as in the May 1944 issue which dealt with the responsibilities of motherhood: “A mother must raise her child, give substance to its spirit, formulate its true outlook on life and people. Even the best schools can not take the place of such an upbringing, because to do so successfully it is necessary to find a way to a child’s soul and a mother can do that quickly and easily.” Frequently the editor chastised an unwelcome social practice. In the September 1944 issue C. Olesnycky wrote: “Our young people, don’t look for many oppor tunities among us, since up to now we didn’t give them any. The philosophy that was brought over from the old world holds that an individual must lose his hair before he’s worth something or knows how to do anything — and we view our young generation as babies who must endlessly continue to learn from their elders. We push them away and hold on to those that can be dominated or that need us like helpless infants. The young people that we need, those who could do a lot for us and for Ukraine leave and become successful elsewhere.” BUSINESS OF THE ORGANIZATION The new OUR LIFE magazine brought a treasure chest of reading material to its readers. Of course, par ticular attention was paid to the business of the UNWLA since it was a publication of the organization. In its column “News from Headquarters ’^ V is ti z C e n tra li) the leadership could now reach out to Branches and mem bers on a much broader scale, with instructions, infor mation and news pertinent to the organization. In the February 1944 issue there is a directive to the Branches in this column: “News from Headquarters will be printed in every issue of OUR LIFE. This is an official communique from the Headquarters which MUST be read at every Branch meeting, the contents discussed and the results of these discussions forwarded to Headquarters. One issue of the magazine must be retained by the Branch for its offical use.” There was happy news in the column in the June 1944 issue: “We wish to share the joyous news with eve ryone that in Olyfant, Pa, a new branch of UNWLA, Branch 10, was formed, which took the name “Daugh ters of Ukraine.” In September, the powers that be at Headquarters took a critical look at the membership and said: “We need more womanly pride, we need to take more care about women’s business. Women can help our society in all kinds of matters, but about their own, women’s business, they care the least. We lack pride, especially in matters that touch women in particular.” In the October issue, finances were an important topic: “It has come to our attention that the donations to the press fund of UNWLA have somehow dwindled. Is it possible that we have so quickly lost interest in the long awaited and desired magazine OUR LIFE? From your letters we see that members wish to enlarge the maga zine, and that is nice, but can we jump into turbulent waters without seeing the safety of the opposite bank?” Another column which made a regular appearance was titled “Working for the Community” (P ry H rom ad sk y; R o b o ti). This column is equivalent to the chronicle of branch activities which appears in OUR LIFE today. In the January issue a report from Branch 16 in Detroit, Michigan stated the following “The most important thing under discussion, at our annual meeting, as was ex pected, was the new organization publication. It was unanimously upheld by the members that such a maga zine is very necessary. The Branch decided to donate $10.00 to the Press fund immediately, as well as to tax the Branch $2.00 or more every month in the future.” All Branches of the organization from all over the country reported the agenda of their annual meetings in this column, as well as their participation in community ventures, contributions to the war effort, the extent of their aid to war victims, and cultural events which Branch members sponsored or took part in. MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD... The editor of OUR LIFE used the power of her posi tion to broach a political matter, mainly the moral logis tics of post-war Polish boundaries. In the June 1944 issue of the magazine there is correspondence between Connecticut Representative to Congress, Clare Booth Luce and C. Olesnycky, concerning a speech the former made in May honoring the anniversary of Poland’s con stitution. The editor said: “from reports which appeared in newspapers it seems to me that in your speech the problem of Ukraine and its people, which is the keynote to any analysis of relations betwen Poland and the Soviet Union, has been omitted.”C. Olesnycky went on to say, "that insistence on Poland’s rights and freedom cannot be made cosignificant with Poland’s rights or special privilege to rule other people without their con sent. To oppose any changes in the boundaries of Poland as they existed prior to 1939 means to hand over to Poland several million non-Polish people, the grea test bulk of who are Ukrainian.” C. Luce expresed her thanks “for a kind and inter esting letter,” and responded: “I did not in this speech make any definite recommendation about the future of the Ukrainians, nor for the geographic site of the post war Polish boundaries. My reason for avoiding such a recommendation was my belief that these questions are far too big for any individual or any single nation to set tle or try to settle.” Annette L. Kmetz, described this corespondence in the July issue of OUR LIFE as “a fine example of how the American people and the government leaders can be constantly reminded of the fate of fory-five million Ukrainian people and their country. It is through such action that the eyes of post-war, politically ambiguous 30 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ТРАВЕНЬ 1985 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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