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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1925)
MAKING A N EFFORT (Continued from page 1 ) . The auto Mechanics division have entered into their work with a great deal of zest and when the base for the motor , is finished they will take it down and re assemble it and make it run. Our shops this year are crowded as never before. More boys are clamoring to get in, and though added space has improved our capacity, there are more ap plicants than we can conveniently accommodate. Students will do well to keep this fact in mind and make every effort to get all possible from the trades instruction. Students, it is the resolute young person whom you cannot keep from doing what he undertakes that gets the big averages in school. Have you noticed that the weaklings are always armed with excuses; how they allow themselves to be pushed out of the way, and are practically sent to the rear as nonentities? They have no backbone, no fight in them; no definite purpose, no goal in view, and they get nowhere. het us reiterate that a person who is afrai<| to tackle DOMESTIC ART NOTES things, big or little, never develops his largest possi bilities. Nearly everything of importance that in the School days, school days; vacation days over and history of the world has been accomplished at one time now the fun. appeared impossible. Every invention, every pro Our clothing work is Started, but really folks, gressive idea that has helped mankind to go forward, we’re going to work so very hard this year that every met with the word “ impossible. ” moment is going to count with us. We develop only through self-effort. Nobody drifts W e’re bound to learn a lot if we just keep our think into anything desirable. To get the thing worth ing caps in use, and our fingers busy with the needle while you must make straight for it, having a definite every day. plan in view, with the energy and will to attain it. To Well it just amounts to this if we consider ourselves succeed in your effort to prepare for a life career while loyal Freshmen, and are a member of the clothing at Chemawa we all urge you to fling yourselves into class, it’s up to us to do our veiy best each day. the task of securing an education with an unflinching determination to lift yourselves through your own DOMESTIC SCIENCE NOTES efforts above commonness, weakness, indifference, to Well, here we are, already well started on our new' surmount all obstacles. Never give up striving until your efforts shall be year’s work. This summer, the girls who stayed here, painted the crowned with success through and by the ablity to furniture and made new drapes for the dining-room. stand by your own purpose through thick and thin; We also found two sets of dishes had been purchased. through dark days and all sorts of discouragements. The tenth grade girls are studying a new phase of In a word, young people, use your stayiflg powers; cooking this year, dietetics. It deals with balánced “ stick.” ___ menus and the food requirements of different types of people. We are also planning and serving meals in IN DUSTRIAL ITEMS preparation for our demonstration dinners. Hear the busy hum of the ensilage cutter. | The ninth grade girls are canning, preserving, and Forms are being placed for the Senior Domestic pickling. Both classes are preparing for the fair, when we ex Science addition. pect to put on an even better demonstration than we The masons are hauling brick to the power plant for did last year. setting the water tube boilers. NEW BANDMASTER The machinists are re-babbiting bearings and lining Mr. N. A. Norris is now bandmaster at Chemawa. up lathes ready for the year’s work. He is a very fine clarinetist and for many years has The engineers are placing forms for the Vent shaft been playing professionally in various musical organi from the heating tunnel to the stack at the power house. zations in Portland. He has a family of a wife and three sons, and all are domiciled at Chemawa except The new floor at the dairy barn is progressing. The ing one son who is employed in Portland. carpenters are interested in other jobs as well and will Things in band circles are now looking up and the be ready for the proposed addition to the dining hall boys are showing great interest. Many of our musi cal enthusiasts are beginners and are at present the au very soon. thors of many strange noises, but in time many of The farm and dairy forces are making fine progress them will be worth hearing. It takes time to develop with the ensilage. “ More ensilage in less time” has a fine band, and much patience and industry. Mr. been the slogan for the past week and they have Norris will meet all requirements and the boys will do the rest. lived up to it.
