The Chemawa American, January 09, 1929, Page 4, Image 4

The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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THE WEALTHIEST NAVAJO
(Continued from page 1)
with expensive furniture, even to brass beds with silk
comforts, etc., but for real life it does not seem to
appeal to him and his family. This fine house with
its modern furniture is used only when white yisitors
are around. Otherwise it is life in the open. In this
fine house he has entertained many polite society
people with most pleasing service.
His cattle and sheep number away up in the thou­
sands. They roam over a large territory. Many of
his herders are peons who possibly are not capable of
making as good a living elsewhere as Chee can furnish
them through this means of employment, although
their pay isn o t a union wage by any means.
! Chee does not seem to have favqred Indian schools,
for he has two handsome sons and a daughter, whom
he sent to a boarding school in Salt Take City. He
says they would not have learned to speak proper Eng­
lish at an Indian School on the Navajo reservation.
He knows that his people are yet primitive. All have
not been touched by school advantages. He wishes
his children to have a good education and be well equip­
ped to carry on his good work after he goes to the
life of the “ Hereafter” or “ The Happy Hunting
Grounds.” His one son is now a successful lawyer in
one of the largest cities of New Mexico,
Chee was once heard to remark that he would never
he bothered with an automobile, although now his
latest extravagance is three of the vehicles. He at one
time said if a person ever started out in one he was
never sure to get there. The latest is, that Chee has
a Buick six and a Cadillac, and last he bought a Ford
to use while the other two are on the repair list.
Among Chee’s visitors are artists who paint not
only the beautiful scenery of the Rockies around his
home but his family also. He is personally acquainted
with Assistant Commissioner E. B. M erittk and trav­
eled with him for a time while Mr. Meritt was making
a tour of the Southwest to further acquaint himself with
the needs of the Indians and their mode of living in
that part or section of the country.
THOSE RESOLUTIONS
It seems that the custom of making New Year’s
resolutions is nationwide ip its practice. There also
seems to exist as great facility for breaking the reso­
lutions as for making them . A good resolution should
not be treated lightly and broken with impunity; a
good resolution represents a desire to attain something
worth while in the cultural realm or the material world
and it should not be ‘ ‘resolved’ ’ just to be broken. We
should keep faith with ourselves.
We do not consider it necessary or wise to await the
dawning of New Years to make a good resolution.
Pass good resolutions at all seasons of the year and ad­
here to them with persevering devotion. The writer
is eternally passing good resolutions—now and then
getting one to stick like a wax plaster—but in the
main he forgets his resolves.
On good resolutions, especially of the New Year’s
variety, we fear that we are developing into a nation
of “ backsliders.” The following little poem which
appeared in The Pathfinder exactly tells the story:
1. Not to smoke any more. '
“ Well this one, won’t hurt!”
2. Not to eat sweets.
“ Oh, I forgot!”
3. To save money.
“ I ’ll start next yeart#*,"'
4. To stay home nights.
‘ ‘Sorry I have to go to club! ’ ’
5. Not to flirt.
“ Oh well, hubby does!”
6. To work harder.
“ What’s the use?”
7. Not to tell fibs.
“ But this one’s necessary!”
8. To study harder.
“ Ma, may I go out tonight?”
9. To respect neighbors.
“ They would borrow your last button.”
10. To drive with more courtesy,
“ I ’ll show that guy something!”
IN TER ESTIN G DATA
Gleaned by BLANCHE VASSAR, Chemawa Student
Do you know that—
The state that is known as the Etnpire state of the
south is Georgia, the largest and last to be founded of
the thirteen original colonies?
The Englishman who served in the British army and
in parliament was James Edward Oglethorpe, who ar­
rived in America in 1733 with 120 colonists, settled
where Savannah now stands?
Our sun is not the only one in the universe? Any
heavenly body which forms the center of a system is
called a sun.
Galileo was an Italian astronomer, one of the found­
ers of modern experimental science? He was the first
one to discover the secret of the pendulum and its
application to the clock. The first clock built on these
principles was not made until 1650—after his death.
The Rhodes scholarship was founded by Cecil John
Rhodes, by which selected students from the British
Colonies, Germany and the United States are entitled
to three years’ study at the various colleges of Oxford
University, England? Rhodes died afi 1902, before
peace was restored in the South-African war and
was buried on his estate in the Matopo Hills.
The little Princes of the Tower of London were Ed­
ward the V; his brother, Richard, Duke of York; the
sons of Edward the IV of England? Their uncle, the
Duke of Gloucester, wished to sieze the throne. In
1483 he hired an assassin tô kill the two boys and
their bodies were vaulted up in the Chamber in which
they were slain.