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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1931)
Page 3 The CHEM AWA AMERICAN LOCAL It is gratifying to all of us to note the progress be ing made in the construction of our new gymnasium. It seems like the weather and other things have acted to block our progress, but, we are marching on. (F rom the Q uiver of de M ontaigne ) Harold Ivanoff, Karl Ivanoff, Charles Kumersn, w * Henry Shelton, Andrew Frankson and Hullman Jacob Is it reasonable that the lite of a wise man should arrived at Chemawa during the latter part of last week depend upon the judgment of the fools? from the State of Washington and have enrolled at the school. Plutarch says somewhere, that he does not find so Supt. Lipps arrived home last Monday morning great a difference betwixt beast and beast as he does from a trip to the Umatilla country in Eastern Oregon betwixt man and man. on government business. He was away from home »» - >• since the middle of last week. During his absence he There are so many ways to avoid hazarding a man’s visited the Coeur d’Alene Indian Agency and he re own person that we have deceived the world a thou ports all well so far as his business and government sand times before we come to be engaged in a real matters are concerned. Sixteen inches of snow at danger. Coeur d’Alene when he left. While in Pendleton WMB------------->- Supt. Lipps, on invitation from the Women’s Club, He that stands firm in an open trench, what does addressed a large and enthusiastic meeting of promi he in that do more than fifty pioneers, who open him nent women. the way, and cover it with their own bodies for five Word has reached us of the marriage of Alex J. pence a day pay, have done before him? Beauvais and Miss Dorothy Ellis, of Portland, about a There is another sort of glory, which is the having month ago. Alex is one of our graduates, and on too good opinion of our own worth. ’Tis an incon leaving Chemawa he began at the bottom and worked siderate affection with which we flatter ourselves, and up in the employ of the Crown Mills in Portland. He that represents us to ourselves other than we truly are. owns a good home and an auto, free from debt, paid for by savings from his salary at the mills. He is still There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit with the same company with which he started some as there are cubits betwixt this and heaven. But as years ago and the manager of the company says of touch the estimate of men, ’tis strange that, ourselves him: “He is dependable and takes care of his money.” excepted, no other creature is esteemed beyond its Here is a lesson for our young people. Alice Slater, Marie LaFrance, Eleanor Sanderson, proper qualities. Grace Marshall, Katie Gartleman and Raymond Hal t — r > Of so many thousands of valiant men that have died dane were the group of Chemawa people who provided within these fifteen years in France, with their swords a delightful musical program in the Sunnyside Meth The in their hands, not a hundred have come to our know odist church in Portland on Sunday evening. ledge. The memory, not of commanders only, but girls sang two three-part numbers, “Softly the Silent Night,” by Winn, and “Great is Thy Love” by Bohm. of battles and victories, is buried and gone. Raymond Haldane sang “The Blind Plowman. ” Two Methinks philosophy has never so fair a game to Indian numbers, “By the Waters of Minnetonka” play as when it falls upon our vanity and presumption; sung by Alice Slater, and “Pueblo Love Song” sung when it most lays open their irresolution, weakness, by Alice Slater and Marie LaFrance, completed the and ignorance. I look upon the too good opinion program. A very appreciative audience filled the that man has of himself to be the nursing mother of large church and the Chemawa group were the recip ients of a host of compliments on their program. The all the most false, both public and private, opinions. Edwards League, composed of some fifty high school students, entertained the Chemawa students with a I care not so much what I am in the opinion of pleasing social hour and supper before the evening others, as what I am in my own. Strangers see noth program. Mr. and Mrs. Mason and Mr. and Mrs. ing but events and outward appearances. I would be Downie took the girls to Portland in their cars. The rich of myself and not be borrowing. Everbody can trip and the program rendered resulted from a request set a good face on the matter, when they have trem and our young people owe their delightful experience to Misses Eakin and Judd, who had the affair in hand bling and terror within. They do not see my heart, and who took special pains in the production of the they see but my countenance. musical numbers offered.
