Zkc Ckemawa 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.
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PAUL T. JACKSON
Superintendent
ROBAIR THOMAS
ROSALIND E. CRUISE
Printer and Manager
Journalism Instructor
editorial
By request of some of the students who
want to make good, this editorial is being
written. It is on the subject of razzing.
At the beginning of the school, Chemawa
started out with a bang. But as the months
passed, something happened. The students
began to lose their school spirit. They did not
care whether they passed their examination or
whether the team lost or won any games. Some
of you wonder why and some of you know.
For those who don’t know why, here is the
reason. At the beginning of the year students
did not know each other well enough to razz.
So they got up before their classes and recited
their lessons. Some volunteered to lead the
student body in yells at various games.
However, this was too good to last, for some
of the older students who were here before and
knew all the ropes thought it was an "old
custom” to razz any body who got up to do
something. Therefore razzing began and the
new students followed. Here in quotation is
what a student said, "I used to get up and an
swer all the questions I was asked and recite
my lessons. Now, when I try I get a terrific
razzing from the students.”
Razzing has spread to such an extent that it
ought to stop, and some of the students are
hoping it will stop. Here is the surest way to
to stop it. Keep your mouth shut when some
one is trying to do something worthwhile. If
you cannot do what the other fellow is doing
and if you do not like it, keep it to yourself.
If you are a good sport you will give him
courage to fight harder and give him support
in what he is trying to do to improve himself.
We can have a very successful year if you
can take it upon yourself as an individual not
to razz anybody who is doing good, or is trying
to make good.—Raymond Scott
Here it is! The beginning of another New Year.
For many it will be the beginning of their last se
mester of school.
As seniors, let’s participate in all class discussions.
Let’s get to work and get the most out of class work,
for after all the things learned are going to prove of
value later on in life.
If you need advice or help on any subject, just
ask your teacher who will be only too glad to help
you. After you leave school nobody is going to take
any special interest in you, in what you have done
or in what you can do.
When you’re out on your own, people on the out
side judge you by your method of action, talking,
and the company you keep. So let’s try and pay
attention to our fellow students and what the teacher
has to say even though it may not interest you. Try
to develop an interest.
Not only to seniors, but also to underclassmen, this
semester may be their last term in school. Let’s take
advantage of all educational opportunities offered.
Instead of making New Year’s resolutions and dis
carding them, let’s stick to a few, and be better stu
dents in the classrooms to prepare ourselves for the
outside world.—June Ford
The best time to show your school spirit is when
our team is behind in a game. Try to pep them up
so that they will fight harder. This was not the way
our team was treated when they lost by an oversized
score to Mt. Angel. Instead of yelling support, they
would say unkind things about individual players.
This caused the boys to feel low and as a^result they
didn’t try to win.
There is an old saying that once an Indian is be
hind, he is licked. Our boys proved this to be very
wrong in football because they had to come from be
hind to win games. The big reason was because the
crowd was always behind them, always pushing them
onward to victory. If the Indian boys came from be
hind in football, they can do it also in basketball,
or any other sport. Just as long as the student body
is cheering them on, they will never say die.
Three years ago Chemawa had one of the pep
piest cheering sections in the state. They were al
ways behind the boys and cheering for victory. They
cheered louder when our team was behind, because
that was when they needed moral support the most.
And as a result of this Chemawa had one of the best
teams in the state.—Harvey Whitford