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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (May 12, 1920)
j t I Vol. X X II W ednesday, M ay 12, 1920 EDUCATION—ITS V A LU E “ K now th y se lf!” If our y o u n g read ers (m ay h ap old, too) will take th e tro u b le to g et really acquainted w ith them selves they will have accom plished som ething w hich should prove of inestim able value to them as lo n g as they live. T o be on sp eak in g term s w ith one s real self is to know all of o n e ’s weak points as well as those q u alities of greatest force and stre n g th . T o be able fully to know o n e ’s self it is necessary to have a good base for operations and th is base is called ed u ca No. 31 be your div id en d . Do not be led astray by false gods and become an "e d u c a te d fo o l,” a d e spicable cad for whom nobody has any use or re g ard and w ho will be despised by all tru e ladies an g en tlem en. Be the real t h i n g - a m an or w om an w ith tru e vision and noble im pulses and desires. Be of the elect, the nobility of e a rth . If you so will it m u st come to pass th a t you shall ex alt yourselves. N ow , see th a t it shall be so. Before m any m ore days th e final exam inations of the school year will have been given m any of you here at C h e m a w a -a u d o th er in stitu tio n s of learn in g tio n . . , , f W ith o u t a fair education life in th is day and age ot th ro u g h o u t th e la n d — and some of you we fear, th e w orld will not prove very fru itfu l in the way of may fail. If you fail, any of you, it will be w holly th in g s valuable, be they m ental or m aterial. N o ig for lack of education. Is th is not true? W ell, it will n o ra n t m an th in k s he is ig n o ran t, b u t the educated be th e sam e w hen you go hence and en ter th e larg er m an sizes u p th e ig n o ran t fellow and sees clearly his school of life w hich will engulf you later on. For s ta tu s from every angle. G ood breeding will keep lack of education you may again fail. Can you n o t 't h e educated m an from any display of superiority on grasp our m eaning? Can you n o t see th e value of h is p a rt, but ju st th e sam e th ere is a chasm betw een education from w hat w e ’ve w ritten? T h at it is a n e illiteracy and m ental c u ltu re th a t can be bridged by cessity w ith you? If you fail to see it we have w asted education only. O ceans of ink could be expended in o u r tim e in attem p tin g to m ake your need d e a r to vain in attem p tin g d escrip tio n s of the various form s of you an d may as well quit. T ak e stock of yourself th ese chasm s. ‘‘know th y s e lf.” O rder is a good sign of an education, because e u- TOLD IN P A R A G R A PH S cation should m ean m ental o rd er— not disorder. A D u rin g the m id n ig h t m ass service in th e R ussian few w ords of conversation, p erh ap s in a chance m eet C atholic ch u rch in New Y ork a pickpocket was found in g on the roadside, will discover to the educated person the cu ltu ra l sta tu s of the man who accosted, am ong the w orshipers, w ho in te rru p te d th eir prayers greeted or directed him . T h ere are m any m odes long enough to p u t a rope around his neck and drag him out for th e purpose of ly n ch in g him . T he m an of estim atin g a stran g er, b u t chief am ong them are was rescued by two policem en. H e was accused by one th e evidences of e d u c a ti o n - o r lack of any evidence w h atev er of this n a tu re . E d u catio n need not n ec of th e angry men of having stolen $960 from Ins pock essarily be of a bookish cn aracter, b u t it m ust em brace et, w hile another said he had taken $65 from him . “ th a t so m e th in g ” w hich throw s forth a radiation of T h e w ar d ep artm en t has given out statistics to th e m ental o rd er—cu ltu re, intelligence, com petency, m as effect th a t th e U nited S tates has spent 106 years of its te ry , or some qu ality com bining them w holly or in 145 years of existence in a state of w ar. T h is s ta te p a rt. . . N ow , stu d e n ts of C hem aw a, for your own good get an ed u catio n ; g et th e best w itlnn your pow er. Lay a good fo u n d atio n for all of th e days w hich m ay be g ran te d y o u . Q ualify yourselves for an en joym ent of th e good th in g s w hich will com e to you w hen you let dow n the bars for ed u catio n . N o th in g can pay you a g reater div id en d as an in v estm en t than an education — the finer and better th e education th e greater will m ent is not so bad as it sounds, how ever, since m ost of the w ars were sm all ones long draw n out w ith I n dian tribes. T h e longest was th e Sioux w ar w hich lasted 25 vears, ending in 1890. N ex t in length of tim e cam e th e K ickapoo and S nake w ars, w hich lasted 13 years. W e w ere also at war w ith T ripoli for four years. Y et th e U nited States has the rep u tatio n of being th e ‘‘m ost peaceful re p u b lic .’
