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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1938)
T he 4 (Clw (illtgmitnnt AnuTtnut Published every third Friday during the school year by the Salem Indian School Press, Address all communi cations to the “Chemawa American," Salem Indian school, Chemawa, Oregon. Published in Accordance w ith th e Interior Appropriation Act, 1939, Approved May 9, 1938. ' SUBSCRIPTION, FIFTY-CENTS A YEAR PA U L T. JACKSON t ROSALIND E. CRUISE ROBAIR THOMAS - S u p erin te n d en t E ditor P rinter and M anager Editorial T N a recent m eeting of the employees, one of the topics discussed was a campaign for good English about the fcampus. T he A m e r ic a n agrees wholeheartedly w ith this program and hope that students will ponder the subject. Diction is the choice of words for the expres sion of ideas. Since diction is the starting point of all w riting, and since it is clearly indicative of w hat we are and what we wish to express, all people, especially the student, m ust Zkeep in m ind the regular effort to improve in the use and choice of words. All good w riting depends upon good diction; just as a good builder selects the material for the construction of a house, so m ust the w riter make an earnest effort to choose painstakingly the basic materials which he uses. < - Diction reveals the man even more clearly than dress or m anners. A person's choice of words is not accidental, but it is an organic part of him. Listen to someone for a few m inutes, or read some th in g he has w ritten, and you will learn much about the kind of person' he is. T hus, we fre quently say of som eone,“ H e talks like a lawyer, or a physician, or a sailor.” A novelist will make each of his characters use words that are suitable, ‘ ‘in character.” T he literary societies will do m uch toward de veloping your vocabulary and that literary charm th at is hidden in all of you. If you haven’t al ready joined one these organizations, do so. C h em a w a A m e r ic a n Official Visitors Mrs. B ertha Ellinger, Supervisor of Elem en tary Education, has been helping to organize the class-room work in the Grade School classes. She observes and has conferences w ith teachers m ak ing suggestions as to the best methods of teach ing. Mr. Allan H ulsizer^ Supervisor of Secondary Education, paid us a visit recently m aking sug gestions on thp im provem ent of instruction in several of the classes in our H igh School. H e plans to make a study of the library and has promised to get us some additional m ater ial on current economic problems on various I n dian Jurisdictions!. H e complemented the stu d ents on their Student Governm ent, saying that it is a practical experience in social science, mainly governm ent. H e promises to return in the spring for another short visit with us. L ocal N e w s Have you developed your web-feet yet? If not, continue your pending exercise. G raduate of ‘37, Agnes Tljorpe, now attending Kium an Business College, visited friends on the campus on the 13, 14, and the 15th. A nother visitor and former student, Claude Jones, is finding the school very different from what it was, but has made no other comment. F ather Reedey, and a committee of Catholip boys met in the office of Brewer Hall last T ues day and drew up a constitution for the CYO. The date of the first meeting will be announced later. Last week the faculty members met at the m u sic room and discussed their opinion on the pro posed step that the students are attem pting to take regarding the change of the social hour time. EX TR A ! About 40 boys were called out of their shops last week on a very im portant detail job. The boys picked “ S puds” for the school. It was a severe task as 4 average sized men couldn’t have finished the work in one hour. On October 19, a class of children from W ash ington school in E ugene came to visit Chemawa. T hey visited the trophy room in Brewer hall, T he way most of us look at it, work is a fine and the G rade school, being entertained with thing if it does'nt make too serious inroads on A rt, Indian songs, war dancing, the Owl dance, our spare time. How would it be for us to reverse G uitar playing, and singing. T hey wanted to see the usual order of affairs and pay more attention to business and less to frivolity during the com some real W ild Indians so their Half-breed guide took them to the dining hall. ing year? Do we hear a second to the motion?
