The Chemawa American, January 17, 1941, Page 4, Image 4

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Chemawa American
Published every third Friday during the school year by
the Chemawa Indian School. Address all communications
to the CHEMAWA AMERICAN, Chemawa, Oregon.
Published in accordance with the Interior Department
appropriation Act, 1940, approved May 10, 1939.
Subscription 50 cents a year.
PAUL, T. JACKSON
Superintendent
ROBAIR THOMAS
ROSALIND E. CRUISE
Printer and Manager
Journalism Instructor
REPORTERS—Joe Hayward, Stanley Williams, Marjorie Skahan,
Margaret Skahan, Lena Davis
Editorial
As we near the end of the first semester, we
can look back and think of all the things that
we have or should have accomplished. Are you
among those who are quite well satisfied with
the advance of your work and studies? If you
are, then we congratulate you and wish you much
success and happiness in achieving everything
that Chemawa has in store for you this coming se­
mester and to the end of this school term. But
maybe you are among those who are sometimes
failing, or just getting by, or find the way hard
or trying. If you are, stop and think of the
men who had to fight their way from the bottom
to the top to make this country what it is today.
Take Abraham Lincoln, for instance. He never
quit when the going got “ tough.” Many times
he failed but he always strived to do greater things
until he became one of our best loved and best
known Presidents. You too, can some day be­
come outstanding, if you start now to do your work
right and with the thought in mind that some
day you will make use of everything that you
have learned here. Set yourself some goals, and
when these are reached, set some greater one,
always striving to do greater things. W ith this,
and the ambition to do them, you are sure to go
far in this world.—S tanley W illiams
Why surely there is a value of failure! Where
would men and women be today if there were no
failures—no value of failure? It is one of the best
things that could happen to people—just like us.
Let us say, for example, that we have failed in
some of our subjects this last quarter. As we look
back and think about why we failed, we see where
we have fallen in our trail. We know the reason
for our failure. Then, because we know what our
trouble has been, we are filled with the determi­
nation to overcome this obstacle,to go on and suc-
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ceed where we have failed before. A good example
of there being a value in failure, is that one of
Edison’s invention of the incandescent lamp or
the light globe. His first experiment was a failure,
as was his second, and third. But, he did not
give up or become discouraged. Each time he
failed, he was filled with that much more determi­
nation to succeed—to make the lamp a success.
Each time he was unsuccessful, he knew what
had caused his failure and he benefited by it. So
it is that we benefit by our failures.
—M arjo rie S kahan
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Telephone-Radio T rain in g
Begins a t Chem aw a
On January 13, classes opened for telephone
and radio construction, conducted by the Indian
Division of the CCC, for the purpose of provid­
ing basic knowledge of electricity as related to
telephone and radio communication. The train­
ing will include practical experiences under qual­
ified instructors in systems which are found on
the Indian Reservations. At present, there are
between 25 or 30 enrollees, of Indian blood, from
all reservations of the Northwest.
Mr. Ray Rice, of the Yakima Agency, and Mr.
W .T. Wilson, fire dispatcher, Tahola Agency,
have been detailed as instructors. Mr. Jack Abra­
hams, a graduate of Chemawa, from Umatilla,
will act as the boys’ adviser in Brewer hall. Mr.
E.E. Pillsbury, Supervisor of Telephone Con­
struction, will be in charge of the classes, which
will end about April 10.
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U m a tilla Representatives
a t Chem aw a
The chapel Monday, evening, January 6, hon­
ored Superintendent RoeCloud and delegates of
the Tribal Council of the Umatilla Indian Res­
ervation. The Umatilla Homeroom group were
seated on the stage throughout the meeting and
later presented questions which were answered by
the delegates or Mr. LaVatta,
Dr. RoeCloud introduced the Indians of the
delegation who spoke in their own language
about the Indians who lived long ago, while Gil­
bert Conner, a graduate of Chemawa, interpreted
for them.
Mr. Sheldon, the Financial Clerk, told of the
financial standing of the Umatilla reservation.
Mr. Gilbert Conner contrived the subject by tell­
ing of their economic problems, their self gov­
ernment, hunting and fishing laws, timber rights,
and farming on the Umatilla reservation.
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