THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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HAVE A PURPOSE
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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.