TH E CHEMAWA AMERICAN
HAGE 4
ACADEMIC NOTES
The teachers met in room 4 of the academic building
at 7:30 a. m. Wednesday. Miss Gunn had carefully
outlined on the blackboard chapter VII, Classroom
Methods and Management, and gave an able discussion
of the chapter. Miss Lamb discussed chapter V III.
A lively general discussion followed.
Miss Southworth, who has had special training in
penmanship, has consented to meet a class of teachers
for a fifteen minute period of practice in writing each
school day at 8 a. m. A number of the teachers are
anxious to take up this course of instruction and prac
tice since it will equip them for better teaching.
A letter recently received from Clarence Edwards
states that he will graduate from one of the high schools
of Seattle in June. Clarence has made good in ath
letics; he made the first team in football, and was
elected captain of the track team this year. Reports
like this from our former students are gratifying.
Clarence graduated at Chemawa in ’21.
In assembly Wednesday morning Louise Gardipe
asked questions in current events and Mrs. Blackwood
read a pleasing little story to the B division. In the
afternoon Carrie Anderson quizzed the A division on
happenings of importance and Miss Southworth sang
two beautiful solos, the second in response to an en
core. The afternoon assembly was just a little more
enjoyable than any other this year because Supt. and
Mrs. Hall were with us. Mr. Hall brought with him
a little surprise, concerning which he delivered a brief
message. The surprise was the mid-year examination
questions, which we dare not open; no, not even for
one little peep.
The time of day I do not tell
As some do, by the clock:
Or by the distant chiming bell,
Set on some distant rock;
But by the progress that 1 see
In what 1 have to do;
It’s either D one o’clock to me.
Or only H alf - past through.
—Two- Bits
ITEM S FROM TH E TR A D E S
Mr. Swoboda, our shoe and harness maker, has
been quite ill. We are hoping for his speedy recovery.
Recently a lad in one of the departments heard about
a leak in a roof. He had sufficient interest in his
work to find that leak and fix it. By this sign we
know that lad is headed toward success.
Plastering at the Small Boys’ Home has been repaired
by the masons. The coping around the roof of the
plumbing shop has been repaired by the masons and
the carpenters are laying a new roof on the building.
There has been a decided improvement in the
promptness of the boys in reporting to work during the
past week. Let us continue to improve along this
line. You will find that a small amount of effort on
your part will get you to your place of work before
the whistle blows, instead of after it has sounded.
The work of repairing boilers at the power plant
required a double shift for the masons and engineers.
Let it be said that they did not stop until the job was
done and the plant operating again. The possibility
of keeping steam on the buildings was due to the
prompt and efficient work of the plumbers in placing
the large reducing valve on the line at the power plant.
L IB R A R Y NOTES
During good book week one of the Salem papers
printed a list of books for boys which was being used
by the Salem library. This list had been selected by
a club of 70 boys as books which no boy should miss
reading. Nearly all of these books are to be found in
our school library. One of the most popular was
“ Treasure Island,” which received 53 votes. The
“ Call of the Wild” received 48 votes. “ Bob, Son of
Battle.” was chosen by 42 boys; and “ Captains Cour
ageous” by 39 boys.
Other book* listed, which may be obtained at the
library were: Wild Animals I have Known, Black
Beauty, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Arabian Nights,
A Christmas Carol, The Deerslayer, Hans Brinker,
Huckleberry Finn, Ivanhoe, The Prince and Pauper,
Robinson Crusoe, Rolf in the Woods, The Story of a
Bad Boy, Swiss Family Robinson, Tanglewood Tales,
The Three Musketeers, Tom Brown’s School Days,
Tour of the World in Eighty Days, Two Years Before
the Mast, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Westward Ho, Kid
napped, King Arthur and His Knights, Last of the
Mohicans, Little Men, Little Women, Lorna Doone,
The Man Without a Country, Men of Iron, The Mer
chant of Venice, The Merry Adventures of Robin
Hood, Oliver Twist, Life of Theodore Roosevelt.
W H Y TH E BIR CH TREES H A V E W H IT E M ARKS
A Legend by Clara Hamilton
Long ago, before the birch trees had marks on them,
an old Indian, whose name was Sokskasina sat wail
ing before his tepee. His supply of food was at an
end and it was no mere child’s play to ^obtain more.
The only thing left to do was to look for berries. So,
after a few moments’ thought, Sokskasina jumped up
and went berry-hunting.
He walked and ran at intervals until he came to the
top of a high ridge. He happened to glance down
and saw in the lake directly beneath the ridge a small
bush of berries. In his delight he jumped right into
the lake after the berries. He swam all around hunt
ing for the berries, until glancing up he saw the ber
ries on the side of the ridge. He climoed up and
started looking for them up there, but met with a great
disappointment, for on looking down he saw the
berries in the lake a second time. Sokskasina jumped
in again only to find that the berries has again disap
peared. Looking up he beheld the berries in the same
place as before. Becoming enraged he climbed the
ridge, whipped out his knife and struck the trees
that bore the berries until there was nothing but tiny
white marks all over the tree.
This is the story of why the birch trees have white
marks on them.