The Chemawa American, October 16, 1918, Image 1

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The ChemawaAmerican
P r in t e d a t C h e m a w a , O re g o n , a n d D e v o te d to th e In t e r e s t s o f In d ia n E d u c a tio n
Vol. X X I
W ednesday, October 16, 1918
TH E I. W. W . AT CH EM AW A
No. 2
as he liked, so we started out across the field and
took the air. The take off was fine and we rapidly
went up and up, until we reached 5,000 feet and he
threw his hands in the air and yelled, "you take
h e r,” so "tak e h er” I did. I did a number of
spirals and figure 8s and then he took the ship and
sailed to the west, climbing again, and finally at
5,500 feet he shut off and started for the ground in
a close figure 8 and then changed it into a close
spiral and the way we did shoot earthward wasn’t so
very slow. W hen I thought I was wound up as
tight as I could get, he "gave her the g u n ” and we
flattened out again and started up, and at an altitude
of 4,000 feet we looped the loop several times and
did several turns.
If one has never been in a ship it is pretty hard to
describe a person’s feelings when he is flying on his
back, head down, and the safety belt the only thing
holding him in the machine. The force of gravity is the
only thing pulling on you, but it pulls hard. After
he got through with the stunt stuff, he turned the
ship over to me and I shut off and nosed her down
for the ground and when at the proper distance
"flattened o u t,” or leveled off, for the landing. The
wheels touched the ground and as we lost speed the
tail skid came in contact and we finally came to a
stop. It certainly is a great life and some day we
can do our bit "over th ere .”
I. W . W .—these notorious initials are not so bad
as they look in this case. They don’t mean “ I won’t
w ork.” They mean "In d ian War W orkers.”
Quite early this summer the papers of the country
began to urge all people to help harvest the crops.
The farmers had succeeded in growing the foods, but
there would be a shameful waste unless the crops
could be harvested and there was not enough labor in
the country to do so.
Then our Chemawa students got busy. First a
few went out to help with the neighbors’ strawberries.
That started a great movement. All summer long
the boys and girls went out every day, often more than
half of the pupils on the grounds, and worked in all
sorts of crops. One group of girls, averaging
twenty-five a day, took entire care of the picking of a
nine-acre loganberry yard. O ther groups handled
cherries and raspberries and black caps. Later came
the call for help with the hops and again the students
turned out early in the mornings and came back late
in the evenings after days of good hard work.
The girls looked odd and felt conscious at first in
their "b lu e overall uniform s,” but before many days
they felt quite at home and attracted no notice w hat­
ever.
The boys worked with equal earnestness and went
farther from home than th e girls did, helping with
the harder farm work.
CARLISLE
Reports from the work of the Chemawa Indian
W ar W orkers have been excellent and many of our
For some time we of " T h e Service” have heard
neighbors have asked to engage them for next year. periodically that Carlisle was to be abolished. We
We are glad to have done our bit in this way as well were always sorry to hear the report, even when ex ­
as in sending men "over th ere.”
cellent argum ents were advanced for such a procedure.
We would wish that there could be some other way
A T R IP I N TH E A IR
of meeting conditions. Now we are glad indeed
Supt. Hall is in receipt of a letter from Mr. Daly, that the "o th er way” was found. The hospital for
formerly teacher of agriculture at Chemawa but now our heroes is a most fitting monument to the great
a flying cadet located at Lonoke, Arkansas. The school which has so long been a power in Indian
letter was dated Sept. 20, and is as follows:
education. Carlisle is not abolished but transformed.
When I climbed into the ship today, for some work
in close ins and figure 8s the lieutenant who is in­
Paul L iphart has been home recently ou furlough.
structing me in some of the fine points of flying He is in service at the University of W ashington is a
asked me if I wanted to play around over a strip of departm ent of the navy and he reports himself in love
woods to the West of us and I told him to go as far witn the life.
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