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
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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
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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.”
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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.