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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1923)
T H E CHEM AW A A M ERICA N PA G E 4 THE RIGHT, A N D THE WAY, TO BE H A P P Y (C o n tin u ed from pag e 1) th a t we enjoy, friendships, love and affection— all of these are sim ple th in g s, yet w ithin them lies h ap p i ness, as nearly as we can come to finding it. H a p p i ness is som ething we m ust take as we go along, w hen it is fresh like new ly cut flowers. T here are a considerable num ber of th in g s, such as im pulses, which are good for today but not tom orrow . T oday is the day to say the kind w ords and to obey the generous im pulses th a t stir your h eart. H elp yourself today to grow larg er, broader, hap p ier, m ore useful, for “ put-off” happiness and “ p u t-o ff” good deeds do not k eep—the good in ten tio n s w hich are in tended to be p u t into effect at some fu tu re tim e usually spoil. W e should be happy as we go along, w ith a full u n derstan d in g or pledge w ith ourselves alone th a t w h e th er we are successful or unsuccessful in any p articu lar und ertak in g we will at least be happy as we go along, th at we will not allow a n y th in g to rob us of our rig h t— our inalienable rig h t— to be happy each day. W e should resolve th a t we will not allow any accident or incident or condition, how ever try in g , to in te rru p t the natu ral flow of our sense of well being, com fort and happiness. Rem em ber th a t yesterday is dead; to m o r row is not born; the only tim e w hich belongs to you is the passing m om ent. If we are to get the good th in g s th at belong to us here we m ust ex tract the sw eetness of each passing m inute w hile it is w ithin o u r reach. CHEM AW A H ISTO R Y In 1895, M r. T . W . P o tte r, th en su p e rin ten d en t at Chem aw a, purchased th e first black bear th a t called ChemawTa his hom e. Mr. P otter got the cub from a man at Siletz, O r., paying $8.00 for it. T h e cub could not go w ith o u t a nam e so he was dubbed “ J a c k .” N ot long after th is the Chem aw a baseball team was on a trip to S co tt’s Mills, .northeast of here, and there they secured another cub, called “ J o e .” T hey were kept tied to a tree all the tim e and they became very cross and Jack nearly killed one of th e boys. B o th cubs were killed. T h u s ended our first black bear pets. In 1898 Mr. P o tter again gave his atten tio n to the bru in problem and secured three cubs from som eplace south of Salem — Maggie and Jean ette m ak in g two- th ird s of th e bear fam ily. T h e other bear, w hen three or four years old, crawled out of the pit (a t th at tim e located on the site of our present tennis co u rt) by th e aid of a ladder someone had left in th e pit when cleaning it. N early all the boys at school gave chase in the woods ju st east of the au d ito riu m . T h e bear was very fat and in the excitem ent of the chase it be I cam e overheated and died shortly after. T h is left the two bears, M aggie and Jeanette, alone. “ S am pson” was th e n ex t to join our bear fam ily. H e was secured in E u re k a, C alif., by A ssist. S u p t. Cam pbell in 1905. So, alto g eth er, Chem aw a has o w n ed six bears. I t is figured th a t M aggie and Je an ette are each 26 years old and th a t Sam pson is aged 19 years. [T h e above ta lk was m ad e in assem b ly la st w eek by G e o rg e P h in n e y , and it m ay be co rrect, b u t th e w rite r of th is believes th a t S u p t. C h alcraft, w ho succeeded M r. P o tte r as s u p e rin te n d e n t a t C hem aw a, to ld him th a t h e (S u p t. C h alcraft) p u rch ased one of th e bears from a m an n ear S ilv erto n , O r. Of course we m ay be m is ta k e n .—E d .] OUR ST A N D IN G C om paring our school w ith others, as to the p e r cent of failures, Mrs. Iliff, our P rin cip al, presents some data on th e P ortland high schools w hich gives th e percent of those stu d e n ts m aking the passing grades. F o r the year 1920-21 th e pupils of our n in th and te n th grades, earn in g passing grades, was 82 percent, w hile those of th e Benson P olytechnic was 86 percent; F ra n k lin H ig h School 84 percent; H igh School of Com m erce, 81 percent. T h e report on C hem aw a covers the n in th and te n th grades only, w hich corresponds to the first two years h igh school. M ore failures occur in these two grades th an in the eleventh and the tw elfth, because poor stu d en ts become discouraged and drop out w ith o u t en terin g the higher grades. T h ere are com paratively few failures in th e tw elfth grade, for a pupil is keen to finish w ith his class when he once enters the senior grade. T h u s, it will be seen th at C hem aw a com pares very well w ith the P o rtlan d schools. I t is said, how ever, th a t the Jam es John H igh School passes 92 p e r cent of its stu d e n ts w’ho take the finals, and th e L incoln H ig h passes 91 percent. ITEM S FROM THE TRADES P ain ters are again at the Small Boys’ H om e w o rk ing on the stairw ay. T hey prom ise us more ex terio r p ain tin g if the w eather holds good A t present th e carpenters are building a nice lot of lockers at the Small B ovs’ H om e. T hey have received some new b itts for th e surfacer at the shop and are doing some nice w ork at sm oothing lum ber at present. Since the 5th of F eb ru ary the boys have repaired over 80 pairs of shoes in the shoe shop. It is dem o n strated that even though they have no in stru cto r th e detail is g ettin g out the w ork. W e com m end those boys. T he m asons have been studying concrete, excavating and form s in class the past week. T h ey are quite in terested . T hey are still at w ork on p lastering in the various buildings and expect to get the most of the re pairing done soon. Good news has arrived for the boys of the tailo rin g d ep artm ent w ho have been w ithout an in stru c to r for some tim e and who have continued to w ork on th e uniform s and clothing in general. T he good news is th a t M r. Jam es is to re tu rn to th e d epartm ent on the first of M arch. T h e boys are glad to hear it and all em ployees join in th eir joy at th e news.
