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£ w » « W m I OREGON COLLECT«« «tete Libran V q 1Q The Chemawa American P r i n 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 t h e In t e r e s t s o f I n d i a n E d u c a tio n Vol. X X I W ednesday, April 23, 1919 LO Y A LTY During a recent chapel service S upt.H all addressed the sudents on the subject of “ Royalty” andhisrq*; marks seemed so pertinent to us that we are glad to be allowed to publish them. The fabric of “ Loyalty” begins at the cradle and ends with the grave. With out “ Loyalty” there is no real friendship, no family love and pride, no national patriotism, and life itself would he lacking one o fth e noblest sentiments of hu manity. Among other things Supt. Hall said:i?i ! It is well for our students to become so thoroughly saturated with the understanding of loyalty to the best that is in themselves, as wcU as to their school, that they not only show it in their actions but live it. An institution, can be likened to a big business or cor poration, for without evfery cog fitting in its plaice there is more or less inharmony and a consequent les sening of efficiency, and without efficiency in all de partments the students are not securing that for which; the school stands. If you are hired by a man or com pany you are expected to put forth your best efforts and work for his or.their best interests and stand by him or them. Just so in your school work. This great government will have invested in each student by the time he graduates something like ; $3,000 in money, actually paid ¡out for current expenses. Don’t you think each student should have sufficient self- respect and loyalty to show his appreciation, by doing his very best toward earning this money—in striving to get all he can of the wonderful advantage? offered here? I think if I was hired by a man and accepted his money, I would work for him loyally, I would giyq every bit of my service working for his interests. T h is is what this great IL S. Government expects of the students of this school, to do efficient work, to se cure an education which is handed them an d , thereby make the investment a profitable one for .the Govern ment, as well as'for the student, to make good citizens* which cannot be done without an education. When ever you hear a student speak disparagingly of his school, of which he is a part, put it down then and there that he is speaking against himself,.- §o long as you are a part of a school, a firm er eorpwationy stand No. 28 up for its interests, for its ideals; one can hardly ima- gine apersoïispeaking disloyally of ari- institution or concern to which they belong and from which they secure so much. I think no one would do this if they realized that they are one of the little cogs which make the institution. So if the school or institution is wrong they are wrong. Loyalty, all things consid er e d ,is o fm o re valuethan any other quality toward the success of any concern; it cannot harm and always strengthens the institution, as well as the ¿individual. My thought in this little “ sermonette” is that the propensity o f: people to ; condemn or criticize that which gives them bread and butter n e e d s /-to be! edu cated out of itself' and that we can reasonably demand honest, efficient, loyal application from every one con nected with our school. A sth eattitu d e of the stu dent is today toward his school, it will be tomorrow to w a rd his Government. T H E S A N D W IC H Lord Sandwich, who died, and the ham sandwich, and the sandwich inen on the street, and Sandwich, Mass., are all bound tip together; observes the Boston Transcript. The papers already have told how tf(e sandwich, an article of food, got „jja.uamc from the fourth Earl Sandwich, because he was such an invet erate card player that he could not take time to eat his meals and when at the card table had bread brought tp him with meat between théslicès. But Lord Sand wich was called Lord Sandwich because the first Earl Sandwich,back in 1660, chose to take his title from the ancient town pf Sandwich, in Kent. When somepeople came to New England; in. 1639 and started a village down on the cape near the sea, they bethought themselves of Saridwich in old Eng land which lay jUSt that way and called their village Sandwich. That accounts for Sandwich and Lord Sandwich and the sandwiches. And the sandwich man is just a poor wretch with an advertising board hung on each side of him, the human meat (or bone) in the middle, just as it was in Lord Sandwich’s hasty meal at the card table. So all the sandwiches are present and ac count for. ;
