The Chemawa American, January 01, 1916, Page 31, Image 31

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F ath e r G regory of Mt. Angel was a recent visitor at Chem aw a.
It is not often th at people in th is section of the country are enabled
to indulge in ice skating, but th is year our pupils were enabled to e n ­
joy the sport for a day or two d u rin g the holiday season.
Mr. G illett and Mr. Mitchell represented Chem awa at the F arm ers’
Short Course recently com m enced at the O regon A gricultural College,
Corvallis. Both men speak well of this in stitu tio n and its splendid
w o rk .
Mrs. S chillerstrom , one of our academ ic teachers, passed her C h rist­
mas at her home in P oint T errace, O regon, w hile Mrs. McCrosson,
another teacher, utilized the holidays to advantage by m aking a trip to
Tacom a, W ash.
W e are in receipt of an in terestin g article relative to the status of
liquor traffic at the F o rt Y um a School and choose to run the following
p ertinent paragraph: “ Since Jan u ary 1, 191 5, the au thorities on the
reservation have not know n of one Indian d ru n k or d rin k in g upon the
reservation, w hile d u rin g the year ending December 3 1 , 19 1 4 , 109 I n ­
dians wet e arrested for being d ru n k on the reservation and in most
cases d istu rb in g the peace in no quiet way. T here was no doubt about
those arrested being d ru n k as tw o or three or as many policemen as
was necessary b ro u g h t them directly to S uperintendent Odle, who was
called out at all tim es of the n ig h t.”
A copy of “ New Y ea r’s G reetin g s” from Dr. Chas. M. Buchanan,
superintenden t at T ulalip, W ash ., to his em ployees has reached us and
it was a splendidly w ritten article in every way. We would have liked
to p rin t it in its en tirety had space perm itted; as it is we are ru n n in g
the following fine paragraph: “ T he old year is about to d ie —let it die
and with it let us bury those th in g s w hich should be buried. T h e new
year is about to be b o r n —let us welcome it, together, you and I, one
fam ily, united! L et us forget any of the sorrow ful or h u rtfu l things
we may have tho u g h t or said or did. Let us resurrect and th in k only
of the pleasant and helpful th in g s th at we may th in k , say and do! W e
are, we should be one, in sp irit as well as in fact. We are one family
and we m ust work as one, together, co-operative, and m utually helpful.
W e have one task and we m ust accom plish it as one, but in order to do
so we m ust work together as one, w ithout antagonism and w ithout
cross purposes. If we have not been doing so, let us now begin to do
so. If we have been doing so let us continue to do so, even w ith re ­
doubled purpose. A house divided against itself cannot stand and
should not stand! Let us put unselfishness above selfishness. Let us
put devotion to d u ty above dodging duty. Let us th in k of the other
fellow ’s “ rig h ts” as well as of our own “ r ig h ts ,” vou and I!