Zke Ckewawa 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
Editorial
Responsibility! How much that word means
to every student in a school such as ours! Are
you a good student? Do you know and carry out
your responsibilities as you should? What are
your responsibilities?
It would be difficult to try to list all the duties
we, as students of Chemawa, have to attend to
but one of the important ones is our CONDUCT!
Whether we are in a class, on the campus, in
the dormitory, or in any kind of an assembly,
we should always show by our actions that we
know the right kind from the wrong kind and.
of course, always show the right kind as we know
we should. Besides our conduct, we also are re
sponsible for getting our lessons done and turned
in on time; and we must get to our line-ups when
we should; and we must realize our many other
responsibilities and always do them to the best
of our ability.
We have shown considerable improvement since
the first of the school year but we can still improve
a lot more! What do you say, students, let’s
show the members of our faculty what we stu
dents can do when we really get down to “brass
tacks.”
Today more than ever patriotism stands above
everything else. The United States is now fac
ing a world crisis. The American people and the
United States government can not evade this dev
astating monster which attempts to annihilate us.
The freedom loving people of the United States
can not tolerate this “fifth column” subversive or
any other form of foreign elements now busily
engaged in destructive propaganda. These for
eign agents do everything in their power to dis
rupt industry, and cripple the national defense
program.
Every American individual must come to the
aid of his country so as to win the economic
struggle we are now going through with countries
now trying to rule the entire world. We can not
visualize a Nazi victory over all the freedom-lov
ing people of the world. The democracies must
not be put in control of the hands of the dictators.
A victory for these opponents of freedom would
bring us back to the dark days of barbarism.
—F loyd T yler
Football, basketball, baseball and other kinds
of sports have their physical and mental require
ments of the participant. These are all immater
ial, however, as far as the actual value of the
sport is concerned.
Participation in any athletic game requires alert
men and women. A person has to think “ahead,”
try and out guess his opponent and do the unex
pected. All these manuevers lead up to the coor
dination of the mind and body. Let’s take a game
of football for an example. After the starting
whistle the coach is no longer by your side to
help you and correct your mistakes. Situations
arise that have to be dealt with and handled by
yourself. This is the sort of practice that renders
training in doing the right thing at the right
time. Your mind commands and your body ex
cutes to the best of its ability.
After you have graduated from high school
you will realize that athletics have helped you
in more ways than the glory it may have bathed
you in. From the heartbreaking losses, you will
learn to steel yourself against the hardships and
the unpleasantness you may encounter in life.
From the joyous wins, you will take more con
fidence in yourself.
All in all, play the game for what it is, and
you will gain the experience of playing the game
of life for what it is.—L loyd C olfax
School Band
The Chemawa Band this year is made up of
twelve members. They practice every day and
have improved a great deal since last year. Al
though five of the twelve are on the football team
the remaining members furnish the music that
adds pep to the football team
Alumnus Writes
In a recent letter from Frank Dumont, *33, he
stated that he recently passed a civil service
examination for general mechanic and was ap
pointed to a position at Bend, Oregon. While
attending school here, Fank was a student of
Mr. Berry.