Fage 3
The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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(F rom
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Q uiver of the P hilistine )
Do unto others as though you were the others.
The best preparation for tomorrow’s work is to do
good work today.
The public school is life, the private school is a
preparation for life.
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or
diplomas, but for scars.
—MB----------------- >-
Get your happiness out of your work or you will
never know what happiness is.
If you want work well done, select a busy man—the
other kind has no time.
Folks who never do any more than they are paid for,
never get paid for any more than they do.
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Don’t sit down in the meadow and wait for the cow
to come up and be milked—go after the cow.
When you see a tomcat with his whiskers full of
feathers, do not say “canary”!—he’ll take offense.
—WB-----------------
there is no hope. They will not listen, they will not
reason, they scorn advice—they think they know it
all. For them there is no hope—they rush on in their
mad stampede, ever jazzy themselves and beckoning
others to get in the parade.
Who can foresee the end of this era of abandon?
We know that we are not alone in viewing the situa
tion with alarm. The condition has grown to such
proportions that no serious-minded person can longer
ignore it. We publish the following from an able
Eastern exchange.
“In the older days it was artists who painted pic
tures, poets who wrote poetry, singers who sang songs,
musicians who played the violin or other instruments,
and so down the line. Performers not only had to
have talent for their particular lines but long hard
training as well.
“But now look at us! Anybody can shut his eyes
and slap a brush across a canvas and call it futuristic
painting. Even a child can jumble a lot of words to
gether and get magazines to publish it as (free verse).
All movie actors sing now, and a fellow can join the
jazz band with a saw or a couple of tin cans. Women
qualify as members of Congress merely by becoming
widows. Baseball pitchers and prize fighters become
our highest-paid writers overnight. Babies become
screen stars and millionaires, and even our pulpits are
sometimes filled with little girls who are cheating the
graded schools.
“If this be progress then it is time to back up
a while. ”
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you
first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
LOCAL
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can
shoulder them; power flows to the man who knows how.
Mr. F. W. Boyd, agriculturist, and Mr. Chas. E.
Larsen spent a day or two of last week in a tour of
inspection of the Siletz country.
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I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot
have, than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
The poor and the ignorant will continue to lie and
steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.
—MB----------------- >-
If college education were made compulsory, and
one-half of the curriculum consisted of actual, useful,
manual labor, most of our social ills would be solved.
The hum of the lawn mowers sounds good to our
ears for many reasons—the grass is growing, the
flowers are beginning to bloom, the birds are arriving,
and spring is just around the corner.
Our flag has been at half-mast for the past few days,
honoring the memory of ex-President Taft, who died
last Saturday at his home in Washington, D. C.
All of our Scout committeemen went to Salem last
monday evening to attend the anniversary of the
founding of the Boy Scout movement. A banquet on
an immense scale was given at the large Salem City
Market, and from reports to reach us it was in every
sense a most enjoyable occasion. There is no denying
the fact that Boy Scouts and all that they stand for
should receive the hearty support that is being ac
corded them. The country as a whole seems to be
back of the boys and for the work and interest of the
present there will be returned untold blessings in the
future. Let the good work go on.