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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
M a rik 28, 1928
asset to the community in which they worked.
help, she has Sunday afternoon off.
Wages
ranged from $16to $50 a month and to
Through the years our young people have
married, many have settled in our community, taled $27,180.35 for the year.
Because we outfit the school vacation work
are rearing their children and sending them to
public school—two are finishing high school this ers with necessary clothing, in the interest of
year. These homes have helped greatly to provide th rift we do not permit them to have more than
for happy, (healthy social life.
The Phoenix a dollar a week of their Wages; the rest of their
school, while three miles away, has street car ser earnings is placed to each girl’s credit in the
vice so band concerts and entertaining and in school office at the end of the working perio<j, to
structive programs attract our attendance: Also be drawn on during the year or to take with her
the Ccfok Bible School in the same vicinity makes a when she leaves the school.
The girls who are permanently out of school
center of social activity. Two afternoons a month
are planned for in cooperation with the outing are urged to start bank accounts and advised
matron. Chorus singing is conducted once a week about careful spending, but they handle their -own
by the head of one of our Indian families in town, funds and almost without exception help their
a partner in a good printing business and a people. Homes have been built, repaired and en
trained musician. In May we have a picnic in larged; horses, wagons and fences furnished by
these, good daughters, besides clothes and pro
one of our parks to which all are invited.
While our girls marry and go forth to make visions. Now they are helping to buy autos, and
their own homes and many are kept as employees as against home needs a bank account seems a
in the schools where they are trained, the number rather useless asset. However, girls, have acquired
of girls employed in Phoenix has steadily grown. bank accounts in various sums up to several hun
Last year 280 were on the outing list, 118 of them
school girls that worked through the summer va dred dollars, the highest between thirteen and
cation, most of them a real credit to the education fourteen hundred was augmented by w ar insur
al system under which they were trained, and an ance.—Amanda, M. Chingren, Outing Matron.
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jTIURING the school year the Phoenix Indian
Jt* School sends out an average of 100 boys on the
Outing every Saturday. Their work varies from
house work, yard work and ranch work to some
of the skilled trades such as painting, carpentry
arid m asonry.: For ordinary work our boys re
ceive from twenty-five Cents to thirty-five cents
an hour and for skilled work they receive forty
cents to fifty cents an hour depending on the boy’s
ability.
During the summer we have a greater demand
for boys than we are able to supply for some of
the trades as well as yard, ranch and dairy work.
Long ago the public learned that Phoenix school
is a satisfactory place to secure help. They find
that our boys who have been trained and disci
plined are more dependable and trustworthy.
We have many calls all year for boys and men
for various kinds of work and a number are given
steady employment.
Our experience is that the Outing is splendid
training for our boys, they meet the better class
of White people as they are sent to the best homes
in' the city. We believe the Outing furnishes a
form of education that the school is unable to give.
The boys who work regularly as a rule talk better
English and make a better appearance than the
boys who do not care to go but .prefer to stay at
the school.
As a result of the Outing our boys are better
dressed, for with their earnings they are buying
hats, shirts, Shoes and clothing. When they come
to us as ri rule they are hot very presentable but
when they return to their homes they are a credit
to the school for they are well dressed and there
is great improvement in their general appearance.
The money invested by the students is a great sav
ing to the school.
Phoenix school only gives part time , to the
Outing which is handled by the Superintendent of
Industries. Much is being left undone for lack
of time, we have a large field and a great oppor
tunity to help place and supervise our ex-students
which would require the full time of an Outing
officer. The one in charge of this work should
be energetic, polite and at the same time firm with
both Outing boys arid patrons, always having the
interests of the students and school at heart.—
Harlan W. Grattan, Superintendent of Industries.