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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN PAGE 4 OBIT, GO A N D GUMPTION ( Continued from page 1 ) Grit, to be effective, must have motive pòwer MS hiud it—must be able to go. Grit without ^ is Only alatent force at best. I t may manifest itself as obsti- nacy or stubborness. l t is inert power and can ac complish nothing of value without the go behind it to put it in motion. It is like a gas engine without gas, a steam engine without steam, or an electric motor without current. It requires g r itto epdpre the stings ajad pangs of outraged fortup£, J>ut put go bdtin& gfit and you cease to endure—you achieve. You conquer. You overcome the obstacles in the way. You break loose the chains and manacles that bind you and step forth into the light qf day untrammeled and unafraid. Therefore, mix a goodly portion of go with,your gr//. - You may possess plenty of grit and lots of go to put it into action, but unless you also possess gumption you will find ypjirself in trouble continually. You will be; come a veritable “ but-in-ski.’ ’ Gumption is simply ¿common sense, and this we acquire largely through ex perience. Lord Lytton says, “ One does not have gumption till one has been properly cheated.” That is to say, w.e learn through making mistakes. Some one has said that the person who never made a mistake never made anything else. Our failures, if we profit by them, may prove just (as^ljiable¡ as our success. The failure to make sincere effort is the only failure that may be entirely without justification^ Tlje fellow who refuses or neglects to make an honest effort de serves to fail. , _• I give you then this forumla: To make success, mix grit, go and gumption, these three in equal parts, and lake well before snaking. LOCAL The Seniors especially extend their deepest sympa thy to classs-qiat£, t^ucy Baughman. , who left oij Oct. 30 , for her home because of the sudden death of her mother. McNary Hall has four .new black walnpt tables, in the reading room. The McNary Hall boys. are con- Uibuting, toward a doypnpoyt, Jfhe donations ¿re coming in fast, too. The high school students are al lowed to study in the reading room until ten o’clock in the evening. GET Y O U R TICKETS NOW We are very fortunate in having à Lyceum number from the Ellison-White Bureau on Nov. 14th at This Company is headed by Mr. William Frye, well known magician and illusionist, who has been delighting audiences in all parts of the U. S. for the past tenOye’ais. Assisting . Mr. Frye will be Miss Leah Miles1 pianist, saxophonist and soprano. Thè musical features of the program ^are an attractive addition to Mr. Frye’s unusual entertainment. The admission to this performance is 25c for all students and 50c for adults. Tickets should be pur chased before Nov. 14 from Victor Smith, Wilma Ripp or Mrs. Reid. A N O T H E R GONE The Grim Reaper is no respecter of persons and We regret the necessity of chronicling the passing of an other good and able man to that“ bourne from whence no traveler e’er returns” —Supt L. M. Compton of the Tomah [Wis.] school. Few men have given such ef ficient service, as had Supt, Compton., For something like thirty years he had been the superintendent at the Tomah school. This is perhaps,i a greater period, of confi ntlous service as superintendent at one schòol than any other màn in thè Indian Service has to his credit. It is a remarkable record. , ,. ,,-,Supt. Compton, sarv Tomah grow from a^scimob °f little importance to a school of considerable magnitude and value—in fact, he was a vital force in Tomah’s growth. This school is now WeH equipped to care for 350 students and it has an especially fine farm to,draw on for partial support. During life Supt. Compton yìàionjpd the importance and possibilities of dairying and he had managed to stock the fine farm with à splen did herd of Holstein cattle. During the trying years of the late; war the .stock and dairy industries of Tomah practically supported that institution. A,, . ■ Lindley Murray Compton was born August 27* 1868, on a farm near Dayton, Ohio. A few years later his parents moved to Spicèland, Indiana, where he grew to manhood and graduated from the»; Spiceland, Acad emy in 1887« If was here that he met-the young fady wfio was Jatervto he. hjs wife, . Elva Elliot, and who finished at fhe. Academy in 1888^, w J In 1891 fie entered thè Ihdian Setvice at Anadarko, Okla., where he was both teacher and disciplinarian. Receiving- ah appointment as .superintendent at Neah Bay,.Wash., the same year, he returned, to. Spiceland i[nd hej-nd ,Mussz i married. From Neah Bay they were transferred a year and a-half later to Fort Belknap, Montana. In the early part of 1897 these good people moved to Tomah* _ Since 1891 to the present is a long time anfi h(s continuous service from that date until his death was only broken by one year in the law department of the University of Michigan. Mr? Còmpton was always active In .ci vic ,affairs and all of his contacts wore those of an inspiring character.. He was at the time of his death a member of many different orders of a benevo lentcharacter^ . w f ile is survived by; a widow, two sobs ana a daughter, and a host of friends in and out of the séryi’cé who feel most keenly the. passing of so noble am an and who extend sincere sympathy to the sorrowing one’s whose home has lost a father. Malarial fever followed by pleurisy was the cause of death.
