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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1917)
PAGE 4 T H E CHEM AW A AM ERICAN A R E YOU DOING MORE WORK T H A N YOU H A V E TO DO? “ D oing what yon arc told to do and no more is what keeps business people 'average people' all their days." Do what you have to do first, then do what you d o n ’t have to do. This is the sure road to advance ment. Be faithful, prompt, willing, and you will probably get the usual increase in salary. Then do something outside the routine, take responsibility, show initiative, and you will get the unusual increase. But, as mere faithfulness does not bring great re wards, neither does mere initiative. Speed without accuracy has less commercial value than accuracy without speed. Initiative in itself is likely to have little value un less it is backed by judgm ent. Mere brilliance is often dangerous. Become perfect in fundamentals first, and then branch out from them. Doing what one has to do marks a man cr woman for promotion; but taking the initiative is of little value unless the regular duties are properly attended to. The average employee works by the clock. He per forms his tasks satisfactorily. That is all. He sees nothing else to do. He puts nothing of himself into his work. He does what he is told and no more. That is why he remains average. LOCALS Miss Gertrude Brewer has charge of the vocal and piano classes this year. Agnes Swanson and Katherine W ilder, seniors, are acting as teachers in the lower grade. It is learned that Mrs. Risser has received rein statement at Chemawa and will arrive soon. Miss Ida R. Wooten, of Lawrence, Kansas, is the latest addition to our class-room force. She is a good teacher, willing and pleasant. Study hour on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, with church on Thursday evenings. On Friday evenings movies and societies alternate. GOOD N A T U R E The painters are giving the interior of Brewer Hall a generous coat of paint, thus freshening it up and making it a much more cheerful place in which to live. All of the dormitories will be gone over. During vacation moving pictures were shown in the school auditorium on every Wednesday night. Now that work has commenced in all departments movies will be had on each alternate Friday night. Mr. Westley, orchardist and gardener, has been having a severe time lately, being troubled with rheu matism in his limbs. He has managed, however, to direct the many activities of his departm ent and to be on the job. One of the biggest hotel men in the world has long since come to the conclusion that good nature pays and that a man or woman with a grouch is a hin drance rather than a help. This appears from a letter which he issued some time ago to all his managers, in which he says: “ From this date you are instructed to employ only good-natured people, cheerful and pleasant, who smile easily and often. This ought to go for every job in the house but, for the present, I ’ll insist on it only for people who come in contact with guests. It does go, from this day, for all department heads, front of fice people, cashiers, captains, elevator-men, porters, telephone operators, and other employees who have to deal directly with patrons. Get rid of the grouches. H ire pleasant, cheerful people, and reject everyone who isn’t . ” Observation and experience covering a period of many years, led this prominent hotel man to make this decision. A cheerful, optimistic disposition pays, not only in terms of general contentm ent, but also in terms of hard, cold, cash. No one likes to have unhappy people around him. The healthy, nor mal, man likes the sunshine rather than cloudy weath er. It is the part of wisdom to be good-natured and to cultivate the cheerful disposition. The younger boys were pretty busy the fore part of vacation picking loganberries, strawberries,black berries and raspberries for neighbors, thus securing an outing besides earning money. The boys also did much work in the onion fields outside. Chemawa has had a number of changes in its fa culty. Mr. Hammond was promoted to the the super intendency of Cushman School at Tacoma, W ashing ton; Mrs. Culbertson was transferred to the same school as boys’ matron; Mrs. Rosenberger has gone to Tongue River as teacher; Mrs. Estabrook as field ma tron at Colville; Mrs. Brown resigned from the ser vice and returned to her home in Iowa; Miss Hodgson transferred to Sisseton school, South Dakota. The vacation months at Chemawa, which ended on September 15th, were busy ones for students as well as employes. The number of girls present was quite large and they were indeed busy caring for the fruit and vegetables, and throughout the summer a happier, more cheerful and willing lot would be difficult to find. The boys, too, did their part well, looking after the farm and garden and other necessary work at school. The American takes pleasure in complimenting a loy al crowd of students who by remaining through the vacation period and doing their share in conserving food proved themselves the “ backbone of the school.”
