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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
A HIGH PUBPOSE
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next step up. If a vocational farmer, be an expert.
If you are a machinist, try as soon as possible to know
as much as your instructor. If in school, go to the
head of your class and stay there. All of this is easy
when the habit of conquering takes possession of one.
Young readers, let us emphasize for your good that
it is “mind” work that differentiates you from the
common herd. Mental study, or culture, calls for
work carefully planned—regular and persistent. To
abuse your time, have no system, chance everything,
do your work poorly, growl if you are asked to do too
much, hunt for the easy details, change often, dodge
obstacles—always fall a little short of the standard.
Fritter away on foolish things the moments left for
self-culture. Then, young men and young women,
you will not crowd anybody very hard.
One year the Yale University boat crew beat the
Harvard crew. Some one asked the stroke oar man of
the Yale crew “how it had been done?’ ’ He answered:
“It was easy enough. All we had to do was to take
the ‘get-there stroke’ and stick to it.” After all is
said and done, the young man or young woman who
has the get-there’ stroke is certain to succeed.
DOMESTIC SCIENCE NOTES
Now that we have finished with the football boys’
dinner we have been making cookies and tarts for
different parties being given.
Vina Smith has been on the sick list this week on
account of rheumatism in her ankle. Martha Kinni-
nook is having her experience as the sixth grade lead
er this week.
Beulah Ray is back with us again after being in the
hospital for many weeks. We are glad to have her
with us.
THE CHBISTMAS SEAL
Christmas Seal Time is here again, and you are al
ready doubtless familiar with the design of the 1925
Seal. It shows two candles set in the traditional holly
and mistletoe of the holiday season below a red barred
cross, the official emblem of the anti-tuberculosis cru
sade throughout the world.
About 300 years ago Shakespeare wrote in the Mer
chant of Venice about a candle throwing its beams like
a “good deed in a naughty world!” Many are the
conditions that have changed since Shakespeare wrote
in 1598. Three hundred years ago even good deeds
meant less than they do now for people lived shorter
lives to profit by them. The average human life then
was only 33 1-2 years. Scarcely long enough to be
come well grown up, certainly not long enough for
that rare enjoyment of being a grandparent. Disease
then raged in many forms and decimated humanity
with terrifying epidemics. Modern medical science
was unknown.
Since that time more than 21 years have been added
to the duration of the average man’s life. Think of
it, twenty-one years more to enjoy the increasing mar
vels of these modern days! Seven of these extended
years, about one-third of the whole gain in human
existence since Shakespeare’s time, have been added
since the development of the Christmas Seal only 18
years ago.
CHARITY
There will always be need of charity in the world.
Everywhere one goes there are people who need help
in some way. If no one needed help there would be
no cause for giving, helping or rendering deeds of
mercy.
We all know that ever since the world began there
has been beggars and sick people who need help. In
the Bible the word charity means the same as the word
love, and love for human beings is what prompts the
acts of giving and helping others. The people of the
world will never be the same in wealth and health, so
this alone should prove that some will need charity.
The most prominent business men of today give to
charity. In deeds of charity we find true love for our
fellow men.
BOOKS AND BOOKS
The books a person reads uplifts him or pulls him
down. If one fills his mind with trashy stories from
trashy magazines it will do him no good and the ma
jority of the readers try to imitate them and it makes
them unfit to live and associate with people that are
worth while. These heroes who always reform in the
last line of the story—never or seldom reform in life—
and the boy or girl will find that the time spent in liv
ing such a life is lost and too frequently their lives are
ruined.
Good books enlarge and strengthen your intellectual
powers, help you to strive to do better, nobler things.
They make you want to be like people worth while.
Reading a good book leaves you stronger and better
for having read it, while a trashy book leaves you
weaker and more suceptible to being like the weak
characters in it.
Only good books should be read. Each one read is
a step upward on that great ladder that leads to
success.
Mr. and Mrs. Woodard returned recently from a
motoring trip which took them as far south as Santa
Cruz, California. Mr. Woodard knew that section of
the country quite well some years ago and he states
that the general appearance of the country had changed
so much that he hardly knew it.