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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1919)
PA G E 4 T H E C H E M A W A A M E R IC A N A SOLILOQUY • 4 • • • « .4» W ere I a stu d en t here at Chem aw a it seem s to me th at I would take stock of m yself, my school and the o p p o rtu n ities offered me, about as follows: W hat did I come to the C hem aw a In d ian School for? I cam e to get such educational p rep aratio n as shall give me th e capacity necessarv to care for m yself in th e proper m anner and make it possible for me to tak e my place am ong th e men and w om en of t h e world in respectability. Does C hem aw a offer w hat I came to get? Yes— and more! T h ere is more to be had here th an J „ t any stu d e n t ever got or ever will get. let me see— w hat are som e of these th in g s w hich I may secure here? I get a good hom e and the care necessary to preserve my h ealth and com fort. I am fed and clothed in health and nu rsed in sickness. I am given an aca dem ic course of in stru ctio n w hich is su p erio r to th a t aff rded by the public school system of th e lan d .an d in addition I am in stru cted in some m anual or vocational course th a t I may leave the school fully prepared for th e b attle of life. ' , W h at else does th e school have to offer? T h ere is ev ery th in g at Chem aw a th a t will cu ltiv ate the social in stin cts w hich are a p art of me. My i n terest in athletics is fully satisfied in every featu re of th is w ork, from both the pastim e and physical c u ltu re stan d p o in ts. If I am inclined to devote my leisure tim e to reading and stu d y , as I sho u ld , th ere is a li brary here w hich will afford me m aterial of th e w o rld ’s best sufficient to last me all of my life were I to spend it here. All of the above being tru e, how am I to benefit m y self m ost— to profit by and take ad v an tag e of w hat is offered me absolutely free, for the tdking? T h ere is but one way in w hich I can acquire a n y th in g ; it is th ro u g h w ork, either m ental or physical. If I am to g et an y th in g at Chem aw a or any other place I m ust w ork for it, consequently th e m ore I w ant the m ore I shall have to w ork. My am bition is indexed by th e w ork I do. In personal achievem ent no-one on earth can m ake me an educated or a u th o r itative person— I m ust do the w orking and th e sacri ficin g —b u t teachers and place afford me an o p p o rtu n ity to develop the best in me. .F in ally , as good teachers and the place will afford an o p p o rtu n ity to me, to any stu d en t, I m u st conclude th a t C hem aw a offers more than I dared hope for, as every vital need of student days is am ply provided for — and m ore. I t is for me to get it—to w ork. I m ust g e t in to th e c o lla r—get busy and stay busy, early aud late. * . . Now, NO R E G U L A R POSITION H e y , y o u ! y e lle d aT ieu ten an t to a colored d o u g h boy who, at th e screech of an approaching shell, had jum ped from his shell-hole and run over to ano th er, w hat do you mean by m oving w ithout orders? Do you w ant to give aw ay our position?” Position?” replied th e doughboy, scornfully, when dat shell come over dere, m ah position am ovali here, a n . if a shell come heTe m ah position am som ew hah else. A h a in ’t got no reg u lar p o sitio n .” THE D EEPE ST W ELL W ithin th e past tw o years a P ittsb u rg h n atu ral gas com pany has drilled tw o wells, both deeper th an any previously sunk into the earth . T h e first, nine miles from C larksburg, W . V a., had to be abandoned syhen it had reached a d ep th of 7386 feet because th e cable broke and th e tools could not be. .‘‘fished” o u t.' T he second well, also in W est V irg in ia ,; was \ s n n k to a depth of 7579 feet when the tools got stu ck and the hole had to be abandoned. T h e deepest previous boring was to a depth of 7340 feet in U pper ' Sifesia, .G erm any. T h e P ittsb u rg h com pany had hoped -to p en etrate to th e rich gas and oil-bearing sand w hich underlies a large p art of Ohio and is supposed to e x ten d so u th -in to W est V irginia. V aluable fossils and geological data were obtained. A tem p eratu re of 172 degrees F . was recorded at a depth of 7000 feet. .The tem p eratu re rose one degree for each 51 feet below th at dep th and geologists estim ate th a t at a d ep th of 10,000 feet th e e a rth ’s crust is at the boiling-point; TH E TERM “H U N ” In m any w ays th e recent war has had a beneficial effect upon m an k in d . E specially is th is tru e in an educational way. It has caused those of an in q u irin g tu rn of m ind to be on the alert in order to keep abreast of the tim es, b u t m any of us ponder certain every-dav term s even yet. F or instance, how m any people have a clear u n d erstan d in g of the m eaning of th e term “ H u n ?” T he T eutons are term ed H u n s when they act in a H u n n ish w ay. ..Kaiser W ilhelm years ago urged his soldiers to em ulate A ttila the H u n , who had his own b ro ther m urdered and w ha-spread terro r w herever his nam e w as heard. W hen the T eu to n s started th is war and began to act as th e K aiser had advised them , th e nam e of H u n s ” at once attached itself to them . T his nam e has th e sam e significance as the term “ v an dal, ” w hich w asoriginall-v the nam e of a ra c e .o f c6Vf- querors b u t w hich is now applied to anyone who causes reckless d estru ctio n . T h e nam e “ G erm an ” attaches to the G erm an race and n atio n ality in th e general sense, w hile tiie term “ f t u n ” attach es to th e P russian kaiserists and th eir allies in connection w ith this w ar and the m ethods they adopted. 1 I
