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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1925)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN PAGE 4 RESOURCEFUL PEOPLE WANTED I have ever recieved and have worked hard for it. Others have done the same, and I want to say to you boys and girls that if you ever get anything worth of the authorities down in California and will be sent while you will have to work for it.” It is astonishing how many young people are trying to a reform school. They had every opportunity to to get along without hard work. Everywhere we see make good here, but would not obey—threw their men and women looking for easy places, short hours, opportunity away—and you see where they are today.” and the least possible work for the greatest possible The men and women who have done things have salary. It is a pinching, narrowing, contracting been prodigious workers, particularly during the time policy, this trying to get something for nothing. It when they were struggling to get an education and to narrows the individual, stunts his growth and is de moralizing—this going through life without doing establish themselves in life. Students, young readers, one’s part. when it seems impossible to get ahead, when argu It is the determination to take a manly part, to do ment, influence, logic, pull, have done their best and one’s share in the world, to amount to something, the you are about to give up, then is the time to marshal willingness to struggle for advancement—the pushing your grit and persistency, your bulldog tenacity, lo out, the strong upward heave—that makes the excep tional man or woman. No matter how hard the times, step in and by sheer force and “stick-to-it-iveness ’ how many millions are out of employment, the excep win out. tional man or woman remains in demand. So students Do you realize that many people remain in so-called and readers in general, now is your time to commence lowly positions for a life time with practically no ad to amount to something, if you do not already. Start vancement in salary or prospects? Such people lack out every morning with a grim determination to make that a red letter day in your advancement. enterprise; they work mechanically and insist upon short hours, and are not the kind of material which INDUSTRIAL ITEMS secures promotion. They do not appear to show the The painters are at work on the doors of the new slightest interest in affairs in general, or in their par shops’ addition. ticular department of the concern on whose success The blacksmiths have started some problems in they depend for their bread and butter; they are sim wrought iron for demonstration. ply a cog in a wheel, working mechanically so many The fine crop of baby chicks recently hatched from hours a day and who are always glad when the day’s our school incubators are keeping the poultry depart ment busy. We expect a fine lot of pullets this fall. work is done. This lack of interest is fatal to growth and the fact The tailors are, progressing nicely with the gradu ation suits for the class of ’25. These suits are of is that stagnation has set in and they are mere auto matons. The principle of advancement, of growth, fine material and show the usual excellent workman ship so common to this department. of progress, is the same whether it is a boy or girl in The new metal covered tables for the students’ school or a man or woman employed. kitchen have been made by the carpenters, covered by Promotion requires the same pushing, vigorous, the plumbers, and painted by the painters, and as alert methods. If you wish to be something more than soon as they are dry will be delivered to the kitchen. just an average worker you must do something better The machinists are at work on demonstration prob, than average work. If you envy people their free lems that are to be of lasting value to the department. dom from restraint, their independence, their financial Each problem chosen is of distinct value in that it is for condition, it will pay you to inquire into the methods the addition of shop equipment. Much expense has by which such persons rose to such enviable positions. been eliminated by making tools needed by this de partment in their own shop. You will find that they worked many years for a comparatively small salary, that they seldom took a DETAIL FOR WEEK vacation, and that they put every ounce of energy Sunday escort for girls, April 12 McBride Hall Winona Hall which they possessed into their jobs. At least such Supt. of Ind. Teacher No. 9 is generally the case. Principal Baker Let us again quote Supt. Hall briefly on his exper Escort for girls to Salem, April 11 ience as a worker to illustrate what it means to “stick Teacher No. 5 and dig,” he said: “1 started 40 years ago as a super Visitors to societies April 10 intendent in the Indian service at a salary of $75 per Nonpareil—Superintendent —Asst. Farmer month. After years there came various promotions Winona Reliance—Plumber with increases of both responsibility and salary until Excelsior—Teacher No. 15 you see me here at Chemawa doing fairly well, I hope. No. 1—Asst. Disc, and Bandmaster 2—Teacher No. 10 This, as you will observe, was not accomplished over No. No. 3—H. M. McNary night; I have earned, I think, every dollar that No. 4—Teacher No. 11 (Continued from page 1)
