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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN PAGE 4 CULTIVATING CHEERFULNESS (Continued from page 1) organization, if not put right in regard to their status, and kept right. Boy Scouts are not expected to lie in wait for a chance to perform some deed of heroism. They are not to dream their youth awray while awaiting the grand opportunity to rescue some one from a peril ous position where life and death dance on a hair. There are better things in life than are ever rewarded by medals. Our idea of the Boy Scout who is really worth w’hile is of the young fellow who goes to school regularly and on time, who studies his lessons, who gives heed to all that is explained to him, who is dependable in every trust, who tries to do something commendable every day in his shop or place of work, a boy who is never a hoodlum but is ever a gentleman. We may be a little out of tune with the “jazz” of the times, but we shall continue in our idea regarding our choice of a Boy Scout as set forth above. It requires more worth-w’hile qualities to be our kind of a Scout than it does to be one who impulsively drags some one out of a hole of water when going down for the third time. Think this over, Scouts. dash of sunshine. It costs nothing to give a smile and to make people feel that you have a warm heart and good will. It is really the small change in life. Give it out freely. The more you give the richer you will grow. No matter what else you may accomplish in your career, if you do not keep sweet your disposition, if you allow yourself to become pessimistic, your life will be largely unproductive and you will be a comparative failure. Everywhere we see doleful people going through the world—people who have ruined their capacity for enjoyment because they have allowed their sorrows, their fears, their failures, to take all the sweetness out of their lives. Our greatest men and women in all history were notable successes in nobility and balance of character, cleanliness of life, mental stability of purpose and sweetness of disposition. So we ask all of you, our readers, to resolve right now that whatever comes or does not come to you, whether you succeed in any undertaking or fail, you will keep sweet, cheerful, hopeful, helpful, optimistic, for every day you travel a new road. Distribute your DOMESTIC ABT NOTES encouragement, your good cheer, your good will, Howdy, folks! your smiles, as you go. You will never go over the It’s just the merry Juniors again. Yes, we’ve same road twice. You cannot afford to leave stum completed our gray uniforms with the green collars, bling blocks and discouragement to hinder the progress cuffs, and set-in pockets. of others. We even had a fashion show. Odessa Johnson and Vernita Burland did exceedingly well, for the first DETAIL FOB WEEK Sunday escort for girls November 23 time, although Anna Fagerstrom and Anna Nerguson McBride Hall Winona Hall being models in Chemawa’s annual fashion show’ Music Teacher Superintendent proved to be the best. Printer Mrs. Hall Our show cases have been remodeled with new pieces Chaperone Girls to Salem Nov. 22 of embroidery and fancy work. Teacher No. 10 Visitors to Literary Societies Nov. 21 Hurrah for the fun, the costumes are done; w’hich Nonpareil—Com. Society No. 1 you’ll see at the Thanksgiving program. Winona—Com. Society No. 2 Hate to leave you, folks, but duty calls us until Reliance—Com. Society No. 3 next w’eek. Excelsior—Com. Society No. 4 No. No. No. No. 1—Com. 2—Com. 3—Com. 4—Com. To Junior Societies Nonpareil Winona Reliance Excelsior OUB BOY SCOUTS Quite a number of years ago the Boy Scout organi zation came into existence and it has flourished and grown beyond the hopes of its founders. Today it is a great organization and has as backing the moral support of the vast majority of our people. All of this is very well, but “pretty is as pretty does” and Boy Scouts are, after all, but boys. They are likely to get all sorts of false ideas, even regarding their own T he J uniors . LOCAL Mr. Gibson, who has charge of the piggery here has some job, for “pigs is pigs” and they have to eat, holi days, Sundays and Saturdays. Just now they are get ting a little extra. We wonder why? Are they to take the place of the turkey? Little John Countryman has been on Mr. Gibson’s detail for ten weeks and in all that time he has never been absent or tardy, excepting three days that he was confined to his bed in the hospital. He has set quite a pace for many of our older students. Really, he is “Johnny on the spot.”
