CHEMAWA
AMERICAN
Printed at Chemawa, Oregon, and Devoted to the Interests of Indian Education
Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1929
Vol. XXXI
No. 10
HEALTH SURVEY AT CHEMAWA
By MISS L. GRACE HOLMES
Oregon Tuberculosis Association
(From the Quiver of Trader Horn)
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The first thing education teaches us is to walk alone.
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When man has destroyed Nature then its his turn
to go.
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Looked at from the distance the Past is often as
good as fiction.
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You forget the animosities of religion when you’re
living a life close to Nature.
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There’s no softness about Nature.
driven from the herd it’s for good.
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When you’re
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Man is the flower of all creation. But he is only
a flower when he ceases to be an animal.
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The Quakers I’ve always held above par, whether
in trade or in religion or in ordinary life.
I often think it is a happy fad o’ Nature to throw
a bright light on boyhood days as you’re getting old.
Some get away for the soul is necessary and that
can be found only in the open, whether air or water.
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My old animal nature says stay and eat in the sty,
but my human nature says walk out into the blue and
have faith.
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The constant nudging of the Almighty is a great
mistake. Homo sapiens with a spear go far, and with
less trouble to the great Onlooker.
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When we cry “savage!” we’re forgetting the stone
of sacrifice still standing on the hills of England on
which white men and yellow-haired women were killed
by white men for the benefit of religion.
This fall Chemawa is taking its place with the most
forward looking schools in its health care of its stu
dents. All over the United States these days the
conviction is growing that nothing that a school can
teach its students could possibly be of greater import
ance to them than teaching them and helping them to
live vigorous, healthy lives; and so with “Health and
Hygiene’ ’ taking its place beside the three Rs in every
day class work educators and health-workers are go
ing a step farther—a long step farther—and asking,
“Can this child live a vigorous, happy, healthy life?
Has he any physical handicaps that might hold him
back? We will get a good doctor to examine his
health, just as we got a good school teacher to exam
ine his English and his mathematics and to help him if
English is hard fo^ him, or arithmetic is hard for him.
So we will find out what may make it hard for him to
keep well, and we will help him to overcome that, so
that his health may always be an asset to him and
never a handicap.”
The writer of this little story is a visitor at Chemawa,
and, as a member of the staff of a state-wide health
organization, is looking in from the outside so to speak,
is greatly impressed with the excellence of the daily
health care that is given to students here, and with the
immaculate cleanliness of the whole place and the
bright, keen faces of the students, and would really
like to say a good deal more about it all if there were
only time.
The subject at hand just now, however, is the im
portant one of special health examinations for chil
dren as they are being done in schools pretty much all
over our country today. We have the report of a
recent study made of 25,000 children in the rural
schools in Indiana, and some very interesting ones made
in New York City, and in Minnesota.
There have been literally hundreds of “clinics” for
school children—and babies, too—in Oregon in the last
few years. Marion County—in which Chemawa is
located—has reached all of her grade school children
with clinics since the beginning of the “Child Health
Demonstration” five years ago, and this fall every high
school student in the city of Salem is having a physical
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