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CHEMAWA AMERICAN.
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H. L. Lovelace,
Manager,
Published Weekly by the Pupils of the
Chemawa Indian School.
Subscription Price, 25 Cents Per Year,
Cluhs of five and over 20 Cents pr year
Entered at the Postoffice at Chemawa, Or.,
as second-class mail-matter.
Address all Business Communications to
The Chemawa American,
Chemawa, Oregon.
Editorial,
Thanksgiving Day will be appropriately
observed at this school. A grand sociable
will be given Thanksgiving Eve. Reli
gious services will be held on Thanks
giving morning. An elegant turkey din
ner which cannot be surpassed anywhere
will interest and delight the pupils during
the noon hour. In the evening a rare musi
cal treat will be given the pupils by the
Chemawa Cadet Band, in a special concert.
While the people of this great country
are giving thanks next Thursday, to their
Creator for the blessings bestowed upon
them, surely the Indian youths of our land
have very great reasons to be especially
thankful for the favors extended to them
by the kind and liberal government. They
should show their true gratitude and
thankfulness for the very excellent schools
provided for them without c?st, where all
the comforts of a good home and the facili.
ties for acquiring a first class trade and
education are given to thpm, How thank
ful they should be for all this when there
are thousands of poor white children in
this couutry and others who have no home
or even a chance to go to school and get
an education. The Indian boy or girl
who is truly thankful to the United States
for a home and school will show it by
being good, obedient and diligent in, their
work and studies, so that time and money
will not be wasted on them. They will
also grow up to be good, industrious citizens
of our country,
What is an education worth? It depends
what kind of an education we have ob
tained. There are some people who
posesses an education that is worth more
than an Alaskan mine or a block of real es
tate in Seattle. There are others whose
education is not worth a dollar to them, just
because they never thoroughly understand
any particular trade or trade of learning.
They merely monk 3yed along, when at
school carelessly neglected to study their
lessons and learn a trade, more bent on
having a good time than to get an educa
tion. When that class of students leave
school they are unable to do the work re
quired of good mechanics, or educated peo
ple, hence their going to school was mere
ly a waste of time and money.
Our education and trade is worth Ave to
ten thousand dollars to any one if they will
use it to the best possibility and advantage.
Indian boys or girls who can go out and
earn $2 to$3 per day as carpenters, harness'
makers, tailors, seamstesseh, tailoresses,
cooks etc etc, possesses capital stock to the
value often thousand dollars. They may
not think it. However it is a fact. Ten
thousand dollars at interest at six percent,
will only yield an income of $000 per year
or $50 per month. If a young man or wo
man can clear $600 per year at his or lier
trade, then that trade should be as ten thou
sand dollars capital stock to them.
Are not boys foolish who waste their
golden moments when at school? If in
five years you can learn a trade and ac
quire an education worth $10,000. How
much do you earn each of these five years
of hard faithful application and study?
Your answer is $2,000 per year. How much
is that per day? Get a piece of paper and
figure it out. Then think about it, and be
more determined than ever to improve ev
ery hour and day while at school, because
it pays.