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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1923)
7 PAGE 4 T H E CHEMAW A AM ERICAN BE A STRONG CHARACTER ■ : (Continued from page 1 *) , they will ever amount to much. Young people, if indecision runs in your blood, arouse yourselves and strangle this insidious foe to your achievement before it saps your energy and ruins your life chance. Do not wait until tomorrow—begin today. Compel your self to deyelqp the opposite quality by constant pi^Cr tice of firm decision. No matter how simple the thing you are called upon to decide do not vacillate. Throw all the light possible on whatever you have in hand for decision; weigh and consider it from evqry.,P9in$ of view; call your common“ sense and best judgment to your aid-before reaching a conclusion, and then, when you have made your decision let it be final. Let there be no going back, no reconsidering, no opening up of the matter for further discussion,. Be firm and positive, tgggi » ¡/J m ô ¡HK h X4^ Persist in this course, until the habit of firm decision becomes fixed and yoii will be surprised to see. what it will do for you, both in increasing your confidence in yourself and th a t of others/inyou. You may make mistakes, but the strength and reliance you will gain in 'yôüi-own judgment will more than compensate for them. The power to decide firmlÿgoeé to th e1 very rnârrow of ability. - If yoù’féandot décide firmly you will always drift—you will never be anchored solidl$M On the other hand we see young people succeeding appàrantly out of all proportion-totheir ability and we do not understand it at all. We câunot understand why a boy or girl who was always at the foot of his class in School has distanced us in thebigschool outside, for he did not seem to have half the ability we pos sessed. We really laughed at them in school, but somehow they focused their energies upon one thing and kept; plodding along until they were among those at.the head of the big class in life outside; The very, consciousness of being dull and stupid ,has > spurred many a boy and girl on to make the most of iwhat Abil ity they h ad . The humiliation of being told by teachers and others that they are not bright Often makes them determined to b e somebody .-or ; Discovering, or having impressed upon them; how limited their abilities are, aroused them oftentimeXo make efforts, and not being versatile they do not have the tempt ation to dissipate! heirenergies on a score of things, but simply develop their one talent and make thé ihost of it.; Deciding things on their own judg ment, they are SnCcessful. We hear a great deal of talk about genius, talent, luck,, chance, fClevdmess atid fine manners playing a large part in one’s success. Leaving out luck and chance, we grant that these elements are very import ant factors in life. Yet the possession of any or all of them , unless"accompanied by a definite aim, a de termined purpose, will not insure success, The success of a dull, or4 é^èd an average student, and the failure of a brilliant one is a.cohstant surprise. But if the cases are closely analyzed we shall find that the explanation lies in the staying powers of the seemr. ingly dull boy, the ability to decide things, to stand as firm as a rock under all c i r c u m s ta n c e s ,a llo w nothing to divert him | from his purpose^ while the brilliant but erratic boy, ladling the’ rudder of firm purpose, neutralizes his powers and wastes his energies by dissipating them in several directions. ' Students, no-one save yourselves can solve your riddles. You stand or fall on your own judgment. Your happiness, your well being, your success, your destiny is in ybû'rêelfi'1- ACADEMIC NOTES Miss Southworth is again a member of the school faculty and on dûty in room 4. The pupils of the fourth grade are fortunate in having a Jeachqr, with Miss Southworth’s training and ability. The academic teachers are concerned now in deter mining the number of hours the duties of, ¿heir posi- tiqns require and in giving a detailed statement fôr the benefit of the Reclassification Board of just what those duties are. W riting out a detailed statement of each duty and assigning it the percent of time to which it is entitled makés üs feel the need of more hours in the day. ’ p ’-<’17 '1 - *' ‘ N p! , ? j j i «. j . j b s I Miss Gunn discussed chapter X X I of Classroom Methods and Management in teachers’ meeting W ed nesday morning. 'Miss Gunn presented her. subject matter in a manner that showed thorough preparation and a logical arrangement of the topics for discussion. Miss Davis discussed chapter X X II and applied the principles as- developed in her subject to the ^Actual practice of teaching in Indian schools. S Joe W hite and Allan Shepard have entered a num ber of clever*posters in the Annual Essay, and Poster Contest of the American Humane Association. Joe entered posters in three of the four groups to which he is/eligible as a contestant and Allan entered posters iti two groups.- Sirtce Chemawa has been • so . well r. «rep»-! resented by these two young artists we are hoping to have the honor of winning a prize. Responsibility/'' The young man who deserted ’ the oil pumps a t the siding recently, ‘ And left them to flood tlie storage tank, either does not know the mean ing of the word or else was wilfully negligent. No one who, pays so little attention to duty and instruc tion can expect to make any success in life* unless his viewpoint is changed and he can realize the seriousness of such negligence, Industry can tolerate a lack d f brilliance, small knowledge of fluent and correct lan guage, and some of the other accomplishments of life, but there is no place for the man who consistently fails in the fesponsfbilty plàced upon him . T hink it over. - M Ww p ’d n hhs H H H
