The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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LOCAL
Mr. Larsen and Mr. Downie were both in Portland
on school business one day last week.
Mrs. Brickell had as week-end guests her son, Eldon,
and daughter, Miss Virginia, and a sister, Miss Free
land, all of Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E. Larsen entertained Mr. La
Vatta at a dinner one evening last week. The affair
was most pleasant in every way.
Kola Tepee (our guest home) is now about ready
for occupancy. We understand that Miss White, sen
ior teacher, will be in charge of this building.
Two of our graduates, who are now attending Oregon
State College at Corvallis, visited friends heie last
Sunday—Coquille Thompson, a junior, and Karl Mul
ler, a freshman. Both of these young men are getting
along nicely.
Word has just reached us to the effect that on March
18th a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. William
Johnson. Mr. Johnson was a member of our grad
uating class of 1928 and at present is employed in the
Indian Service at Whiterock, Utah.
Supt. Lipps and Mr. Larsen left for Siletz yesterday.
They went over to hold what are known as “heirship
hearings,” to determine the heirs of deceased Indians.
These hearings will be held today and our officials
will probably be home this evening.
Mr. Bent and Victor Smith picked Mr. LaVatta up
in Portland last Sunday morning and took him up
over the wonderful Columbia highway as far as Celilo,
where the Indians congregate to fish. Our party met
and had a conference with a number of Indian people
and Mr. LaVatta gave them some splendid advice.
He told them that unless they took an active part in
solving their own problems, in matters of industry
and sanitation, etc., they would lose out. He advised
them to get together and appoint committeemen to
meet and take up the matter with Supt. Lipps. Mr.
Bent reports that Mr. LaVatta seemed to have im
pressed the Indians at Celilo that their salvation lies
in cleanliness. Despite the inclemency of the weather
it proved a wonderful trip and Mr. LaVatta said that
he would not have missed it for anything.
The baseball season is upon us. We play our first
game here on April 4th against Silverton high.
This is a league game and will count in our standing.
Just yet we do not have a line on a single man. The
next issue will have some information on the candi
dates and the season’s outlook.
Miss Lundquist requests us to voice her thanks and
gratitude to friends who gave her lovely floral offerings
and expressions of sympathy in the loss of her father.
She appreciated these kindnesses more than she could
tell. At a time such as she has just passed through
human sympathy seems doubly dear and braces up our
flagging courage.
The “Club News” put out at Pine Ridge Agency,
S. Dak., has reached our desk—it is the February is
sue. In more ways than one it is unusually interest
ing: The contents show plainly that there is a serious
purpose back of this school publication and it is easy
for us to believe that the “Club News” is just the
thing needed for its field; the editing is good and the
illustrations are clever; part of the journal is printed
in the Indian language as well as the English. There
are no two ways about it, such an undertaking is cer
tain to arouse an interest that will eventually demand
better printing facilities than Pine Ridge at present
has at hand. We compliment all who have labored
in the making of this issue of the “Club News.”
Theirs is a work well done.
During chapel last Sunday evening Supt. Lipps
told of several instances where Indian labor had more
than made good—discrediting the theory that an In
dian will not work. He gave in detail some most
interesting first hand experiences of his own along this
line, and then turned his attention to a consideration
of affairs at Chemawa. No parent ever spoke more
seriously to his child, or gave better advice, than did
Supt. Lipps to our young people on this occasion and
from their attention and response we feel certain
that his counsel will not be amiss. It was a splendid
talk. In addition to Mr. Lipps’ address the choir
sang a pleasing number and the orchestra played a
selection from “The Chocolate Soldier” by Straus.
It was a good chapel session.
It seems a pity that so many of us should be so slow
in developing a sense of the true proportion of things.
Why should so many of us fail of a true perception of
the affairs of life, with its manifold opportunities,
until age has slowed us up to some degree? Why is
it that many of us are slow in grasping, mentally, the
meaning of life? Why is it that some never sense the
meaning of it all? We wonder? Is there, can there
be an All-Wise plan back of all this on the part of the
Creator? Every age of the world has given its promise
to young people who will try to measure up to the de
mands of their day. It is a worth while plan on the
part of youths to take stock of themselves early in life
and shape their destinies on a course that promises
results. Read “boxed” article, “It I Were Young,”
and see if you agree to respond to the course sug
gested.