"SVOBODA" AS AN AID TO HEALTH

In a certain sanatorium out West, a former Ukrainian "striletz" of the Ukrainian Galician Army, who had been very ill and getting worse every day, received recently a batch of old newspapers for a local aid society, among which was a month-old copy of the "Svoboda." The sight of a Ukrainian newspaper, which he had not seen for a long time, gave this former Ukrainian soldier a new interest in life.

This fact quickly came to the attention of the doctors and Sisters-of-Mercy in attendance, who upon seeing that where medicines and mountain air had failed, a Ukrainian newspaper had succeeded in giving a new lease on life for their patient, immediately arranged with an aid society to furnish further copies of the "Svoboda."

According to the latest reports the "striletz" is on the road to recovery. He reads the Ukrainian part of the "Svoboda" by himself, while the English sections are read to him by the sanatorium staff and other patients. In this manner, the "Svoboda" besides helping a former Ukrainian soldier to health, acquaints Americans with the news of Ukrainian affairs.

Copyright © Svoboda, October 6, 1933, No. 1, Vol. I

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