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The CHEM AW A A M ERICAN
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A m ericans
A bi-weekly paper devoted to Indian education. Published and printed on alternate
Friday’s during the school year by the students of the Chemawa Vocational School,
Chemawa, Oregon.
EDITORIAL STAFF
H arry W ilder, H enry Sijohn, W illiam Settler, Agnes H all, M ildred McCrory, W ilm a M esplie
REPORTERS
H azel Charles, Ju n e Courville, D orothy H ayw ard, Josephine Juneau, Vivian McCleod.CZena^
-^o'gSgcf^Dilliaii-M orin, M artha Bingham ,-Naom i Mesplie, Josephine Reynolds, Florence W olf tail,
Agnes Thorpe, George Bostwick, George Christian, V ernon Jackson, Noble Sanderville.
P aul T. J ackson
R osalind B. C ruise
Superintendent
Journalism Class
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R obert T homas
H arry W ilder
Manager and Printer
Student Foreman
— E d ito ria l—
Good sportsmanship'should be shown at anytime and any place by being a good
winner and a good loser. To be a good sportsman, a person must keep up his
spirit whether he loses or wins. He must not go into this work sulking because he
has lost in a game of any kind nor should he shout at the top of his voice when
he is the winner.
It is harder to be a good loser than to be a good winner. In the pâst election
it might have been a very hard thing to face the people after one has been defeated
but Mr. Landon has faced his people again, still the same man. Mr. Roosevelt has
taken the honor of being President again by taking over the duties without boast
ing to everyone hbout it.
We can all be a good sportsman if we only try. We shotrid keep our heads up
if we are losers or winners. We mu^t not find excuses for losing when another
defeats us.— ZENA HOGSE
Have you really ever stopped to think how far we get by giving an alibi? Many
do not consider that giving an alibi “ just once” may change a person’s whole char
acter. When once we have a good alibi to give and get by with it, there will
always be a second time. In that way we form the habit of thinking up a good
excuse for why we were late or didn’t report. An alibi is one of the first things
that show the difference between good and poor sportsmanship. A person may
easily be judged by seeing if he “ can take it” or if he has an alibi to show why
the game was lost.
z. Some of the alibis we hear are, “ I forgot” and “ I couldn’t do it. ” The truth
is that such excuses show, you haven’t tried to do the thing. Instead you have
depended on an alibi to keep you in good standing. We may get by, but we are
only fooling ourselves, and we ourselves are to blame. Alibis are never accepted
in the business world, so we therefore should not get into the habit of offering them
as excuses for our own failures.—HAZEL CHARLES
A smile costs nothing, but gives much. It enriches those who receive, without
making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it some
times last forever. None is so rich and mighty that he can get along without it, none
is sa poor but that he can be made rich by it. A smile creates happiness in the
home, fosters Good Will in business, and is the countersign of friendship. It brings
rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad; and it is Nature’s
best antidote for trouble. Yet, it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen,
for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people
are too tired to give you a smile. Give, them one of yours, as none needs a smile so
much as he who has no more to give. —AUTHOR UNKNOWN
MR. CHARLES E. LARSEN
GIVES IMPROMPTU TALK
"Loyalty0 Is Subject Of Staunch
Supporter Of Chemawa
OnSunday night, November 29, Harry
Wilder, student chairman, introduced
Mr. Larsen, Senior Clerk of -the Che
mawa Office as speaker for the evening.
Mr. Larsen is a former student and
graduate of the Salem Indian School.
He has been connected with this school
for many years and is very much inter
ested in the progress and development of
this institution. The topic of his speech
was “ Loyalty. ’’ Mr. Larsen has set a
good example of what being loyal to a
school really means and every student
will benefit by taking heed to what he
said.
Mr. Larsen emphasized bis desire to
have the students do their best in their
work and studies so that they will be up
to standard when Mr. Jackson comes
back. He said that they owe that much
to the Superintendent, to be loyal to him.
Students and employees both should work
to w a rd th is e n d , th a t w h en th e school
year is over Mr. Jackson can say, “ Well
done, I want to thank you all for sup
porting me in my work.”
Before closing his talk Mr. Larsen
read several letters that had been received
from former graduates that had gone in
to the world and made good.
In these letters they expressed their
love and loyalty for the school that had
done so much for them.
Mr. Larsen said he read the letters to
give the students an idea of how old stu
dents felt.
He wished that his talk on loyalty and
appreciation to Mr. Jackson would be
heeded and that they would do every
thing in their power to make the name
Chemawa what it really means, “ Happy
Home. ’ ’
On the night of December 1, four 100-
yard free-style swimmers' vied for the
first place honors at the trial races held
i n t h e down town Y.M .C.A. pool.
Among t h e four contestants was, the
Salem High representative, an Indian
youth, Willard Pepion, who proved too
much for his rivals andemerged a victor,
finishing fully the whole length o f the
tank ahead of the rest.