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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1925)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN PAGE 2 The CHEMAWA AMERICAN Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School Chemawa, Oregon, HARWOOD HALL, Superintendent Address all communications to Ruthyn Turney, Manager 50 Cts PER ANNUM SUBSCRIPTION ATHLETIC NOTES Last Wednesday evening our basketball team defeated the Oregon Normal School 33 to 14. Our team had a right to ex pect a hard game, as the Normals were leading the Willamette Valley Non-Conference League, so they started with all the speed they had. Many believe the team has not played a faster game this season. The fact that they were playing the lead ers of the league made them somewhat nervous at the start and was mainly the cause of many bad passes, but it was all soon overcome. The first half ended 12 to 5 in our favor. Dewey Matt and William Brendible, forwards; Reginald DePoe. center; Dandro George and Charlie George, guards, displayed a brand of ball from the start of the second half that was too fast for the normals and by the quick, accurate basket shooting and close checking they gradually increased their lead over the teachers that kept them out of danger. John Milne got into the game early in the second half when Dandro George was taken out on account of an injury. John has not had many chances on the varsity, but in every instance he has played good ball. Tonight our team plays the fast City of Portland team here. This game and the one tomorrow night in Portland against South Parkway will certainly put our boys to a test. Both of these teams have made splendid records so far this season. The City of Portland five defeated the fastest teams in and around Portland while South Parkway has won over such teams as Gonzaga University by comfortable scores. However, past records are not worrying our boys and they are determined to do what no other team has done, and that is to defeat South Parkway on their own floor. Our girls team lost to Stayton high school last week by a 13 to 9 score. Not long ago our team defeated this same team 23 to 4. The cross-country runners have been training faithfully of late under the instructions of Coach Sanders in preparation for the race that is to be held here early next month. When the weather permits our baseball candidates can be seen out limbering up. To date Jake Atkins and Leander Wil son are the only battery men of last year’s team that have been out. Those on the basketball squad will not be out till the basketball season is over. Our second team will play a preliminary to the game Wednes day evening against a team from Salem. LOCAL The special class and society annual socials have all been scheduled for the balance of the school year. There is not a vacant Saturday evening dated from now until commencement. The next social is to be given by the Juniors the coming Saturday evening. We are going to publish each week the standing of the companies as regards to their discipline, order in line in marching to meals, school, and other school activities. This will reflect on the command and its officers. The girls’ companies will be included, so watch your step and see where your company stands each week. The excessive rains the past few months have raised the water in the lake below the power house and barns to such an extent as to cover the road leading to Salem. It is fordable, but has such a menacing ap pearance as to influence the traffic to and from Che mawa to use the road leading out to the highway by way of the hospital. The officers of the boys’ battalion are still giving instructions in the Manual of Arms to the new re cruits, and are doing it well, too. Each officer has a squad to drill. “We learn to do by doing.” If an officer cheats from the officers’ meetings and the drill periods he is not fit to be an officer. One of the desirable things that has been emphasized at Chemawa, is to keep our smaller boys within bounds, that is, away from the depot, the railroad track, or across the track. It is expected that these little fellows remain on the ample playground furnished near their quarters. It is noticeable that much prog ress has been made in this regard. An excess of ten thousand pounds of splendid Yellow Dan ver onions over our needs are available for sale. The market price is 3 cents per pound. We just shipped $700 worth of oats to Portland the other day. All of this together with hay, straw, hogs and other farm products brings in some thousands of dollarsand is a great help in defraying the expense of operating our school each year. “American Day,” the day our weekly newspaper is issued, is always looked foiward to by our students. Instead of giving the paper to the pupils in the class rooms, as formerly done, they are now given to the discilinarians and house mothers in the quarters for issue upon request. In this way only those who care for the paper receive it, and it is astonishing to see how this little weekly is appreciated, read and forward ed to friends and relatives at home. A boy who enters Chemawa and fails to appreciate the splendid advantages furnished by the Government free of charge at big non-reservation schools, like Chemawa, and deserts, nearly in every instance at some time or other drifts back desiring to re-enter for a soft place to stay for awhile or until he is ready to go again and take some other boy with him, other times to have the social privilege only. At Chemawa we have a rule that such characters are not welcome nor desirable. It seems difficult to put this across to the individual boys of this type. Our girls are now given the privilege of remodeling, making over, and planning their spring wardrobe, under the direction of Miss Vesper, sewing teacher, who takes great interest in assisting the girls in ar ranging their personal wardrobe. This is much needed at Chemawa and is appreciated by our fine lot of girls who have natural good taste and ability. It is re markable how much ingenuity our more advanced girls show in keeping themselves neatly and appropri ately dressed. They are also planning to make their own spring hats. The Washington Birthday entertainment handled by Mrs. Satterlee and Miss Thornhill with students from the fifth and sixth grades was given on Friday even ing last. The program consisted of a tableau in which the Goddess of Liberty, Army, Navy and Uncle Sam were represented as the first number, followed with a recitation by Carmen Chamberlin, a chorus “The U. S. A. Will Find a Way;” a play, “Mr. Feb ruary Thaw,” in which fourteen pupils look part; Hawaiian selections and a dialogue, “Waiting for the 2:40 Train, ’ ’ completed the entertainment. The whole program was very entertaining and creditably rendered.
