THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School
Chemawa, Oregon.
Please address all communications to
Ruthyn Turney, Manager.
JAS. H. McGREGOR
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Superintendent
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ATHLETIC NOTES
After the first week of basketball our squad has been
cut in half. Twenty-five candidates stood the first
test and will be held throughout this week, when the
final try-out will be held, and then the practice season
will start in earnest.
In the first games Reginald DePoe, veteran center;
Dewey Matt, forward; Peter Rassmussen and Roy
Peratrovich, guards; showed much of their usual form,
and judging from first appearances, there is but little
chance of any-one ousting them from their positions.
Yet, in the finals they may not look so good, for they
are sure to meet keener and more experienced competi
tion. The striking thing about the first week of play
is the number of youngsters who will be the making
of our varsity in another year or two. Right now they
are too young and light, but in another season they
will be competing with the best of them on even terms.
Leonard Paul, Peter Cemino, Harold Matt and Fred
Motschman will be among those who will be the chief
source of worry to the regulars.
To find a man to fill a forward position is our chief
worry just at present. Forwards are scarce, good or
even fair basket-shooters are sometimes hard to find.
We play what is known as the five-man defense, and
often break into the five-man offense, when every man
must be a basket-shooter. So forthat reason we place
a premium on basket-throwers.
Coquille Thompson is our first casualty.
He
turned his ankle at practice the other evening which
resulted in a broken bone and a severe sprain. While
the break is not severe, yet both are bad enough to
keep him out of the game for some time and probably
he will be lost for the season. “Tommie” was our
utility man last year and alternated in all three posi
tions.
The holiday season is near and the class teams are
being organized in preparation for the games that are
played during that vacation period. These games are
always exciting and are looked forward to with a lot
of interest.
The shop basketball league that was just beginning
to take on a little action has dropped back into its shell
on account of the girls taking the four o’clock hour for
their gym work.
Manager Bent is busy with the schedule and an
nounces that several good teams are being lined-up to
appear here. A series of three games are already ar
ranged for the seventh, eighth and ninth of January
with Franklin, Hood River and The Dalles, respec
tively, which our team will play away. Another trip
is being planned with the first game in Portland, then
Centralia, Washington, and four or five other games
around the Sound country in Washington.
EATING FRUIT IS BENEFICIAL
The benefits derived from eating fruits are undoubt
ed. Fruits are a natural and healthy stimulant. They
act upon the digestive organs somewhat like green
vegetables, but they have the additional advantages of
containing acids and of appealing to the aesthetic
sense. Some people look on fruit as a luxury, but
there are very good reasons why we should eat fruit
daily. All fruits contain certain salts or organic acids
which have a more or less stimulating action on the
kidneys, and some of them, such as pears, figs and
prunes, have a laxative effect. In addition to this,
fruit furnishes a certain indigestible bulk, or rough
age, which tends to retain water in the intestines and
thus helps to regulate the bowels.
Children’s physicians recommend that all babies of
the age of six months should be given a small amount
of mild fruit juice or tomato juice daily. This is par
ticularly necessary in cases of infants fed on cows’
milk or prepared milk foods. Unless some of these
juices are given, a disease known as scurvy will de
velop. The mild form of this disease often stands
unrecognized for a time, being noted only in the slow
ing up of the growth of the child later on.
Fruit is one of the so-called protective foods and it
should be used in some form daily. Fresh fruits, be
cause of their large content of water, are always cool
ing, refreshing, and appetizing. Fruit that is not
thoroughly ripe, oris decomposed should not be eaten.
Apples are a staple fruit, low in price and easy to pre
pare. They are the most abundant market fruit.
Their many and varied uses are too well known to
require comment.
When we chew fibrous food, such as raw fruit, it is
said that we exert a pressure of 100 to 150 pounds on
the teeth. This insures a good ventilation of the lungs,
and in children, particularly, tends to develop better
teeth and jaws. Raw fruit, again, leaves the teeth
freer from adhering matter than do soft foods. It al
so stimulates the secretion of a strongly alkaline saliva
which coats the teeth and counteracts the action of
particles of food which would otherwise remain. It
is wise, therefore, to end a meal with raw fruit, since
it not only adds to the cleansing of the teeth, but it
also helps to preserve them. Fruit juices are invalu
able as restoratives to health, since they tax the diges
tive organs very little and are quickly assimilated.