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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1925)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN PAGE 4 HAVE A PURPOSE (Continued from page 1 ) Money has many very interesting things to say to different people, because money and manhood and womanhood are closely linked together. Every piece of money represents the stored-up life of the person who earned it, and because of this fact money should be considered a sacred thing. The whole world of action is controlled by the way we spend money. If spent for useful and constructive purposes it creates more good things: if used for destructive purposes it will shipwreck the hopes and lives of others. There are four relationships that all young people should have toward money: First, you must earn it honestly and beware of short cuts. Stealing time is just as bad as stealing money. No young fellow will ever amount to much if he gambles and cheats for the sake of gettingalong in life. Second, spend it wisely. When expended for any purpose we should get a 100- percent return and not a 25-percent return. Third, invest it prudently: laying something aside for a “rainy day” is absolutely necessary and more of our people would be independent if during their younger days they had been a little more careful about saving and investing in good securities. Fourth, subscribe to proper causes. No-one has much use for a tightwad, and the giving of money is just as much of an occupa tion as the science of earning it. Finally, in regard to money, we wish to impress upon each of our boys and girls whatever money you may have, either earned or inherited, your character will be made or marred, and your success shaped largely by the way you spend it. In conclusion let us again say that all of you can be what you want to be. We all stand aside for the determined boy or girl. We never concern ourselves very much about a boy or girl, with low aims, except ing to get them out of the way. Have a high purpose and lose no time in adopting it. Commence at once to put your high purpose in action. Con quer every obstacle that may confront you here at Chemawa. This year get into the habit of conquering. If you are determined to progress and go through this year with out surrendering in any particular, and keep up the “conquering habit,” you will take your places finally with that splendid number of men and women who are the backbone of America, no matter who you are or whence you came. INDUSTRIAL ITEMS The tractor is about ready to leave the shops where the machinists and auto mechanics have been over hauling it. The painters are giving the dairy barn and milk house a thorough painting. Recently they finished the roof of the machine and blacksmith shops. The lake land has been seeded and plowing is going forward rapily in the west fields for the winter grain. The harness for the Indian Service, which is made on contract for the Indian Office, is progressing nicely. The shoe business continues to be excellent and the work is well done. The work of resetting and retubing the watertube boilers at the power plant is progressing. The engi neers are a busy detail at the present time, maintain ing service and boiler work also. The plumbers are busy with roofs and gutters, and drains from steam tunnels, and a number of other projects on the outside. They have done some very- much needed work in sheet metal recently also. One of the finest calves ever sold from Chemawa was marketed last week by the dairy department. We hear that more cows are to be added to our herd, which will greatly increase the production of milk. Five thousand bushels of potatoes to dig next week. Sixty sacks of green beans have been harvested and taken in for canning during the past three days. Many bushels of ripe tomatoes will be harvested and put away to ripen soon. The tailors are busy fitting new uniforms to the boys who are arriving: also keeping fit the lads who had uniforms, and making the boys presentable. It is no small job to keep 450 healthy boys in clean, neat and well-pressed uniforms. The carpenters are trying with might and main to get the outside work done before the rains begin. Work at the Senior Domestic Science addition is progressing nicely now, and also at the two cottages on the east side of the campus. The shortage of pre-vocational boys at Chemawa has made necessary the drawing of boys from the 7th and 8th grades for one detail of fatigue duty during the year. If you do not get vocational work to start with, don’t get discouraged, your turn will come. DOMESTIC ART NOTES We are back again at real work after a week of vacation while Miss Vesper was at the fair attending our exhibit. The Domestic Art department had quite a show at the fair of the things that were made during the last year. Two of our best sewers, Helen Peratrovich and Mary Hoskins, went to the fair to demonstrate. Leave it to the “Freshies” to look after the boys. Just now we are on the problem of making night gowns, which after we get done will be turned over to the boys.
